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State Sen. Elbert Lee Guillory Explains Why He Ditched Dems for GOP in Poignant YouTube Video
Citing the "illusion" of the Democratic Party that its agenda is the best path for uplifting blacks in America, Louisiana State Senator Elbert Lee Guillory explained on Sunday why he quit the Democratic Party for the GOP and encouraged African-Americans to join him in the move.
His explanation came via an approximately four-minute YouTube video that is already attracting high praises online.
"I wanted to take a moment to explain why I became a Republican, and also to explain why I don't think it was a bold decision at all. It is the right decision — not only for me — but for all my brothers and sisters in the black community," says Guillory in his opening statement in the video.
"You see, in recent history the Democratic Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people. Somehow it's been forgotten that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man," he explains, delving into the historical background of the GOP while highlighting that the Democratic Party "were the Party of Jim Crow."
"You see, at the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing — control," says Guillory.
"And they disguise this control as charity. Programs such as welfare, food stamps, these programs aren't designed to lift black Americans out of poverty, they were always intended as a mechanism for politicians to control the black community," he notes.
"The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they've always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them," he adds.
Touching on privacy concerns that alluded to the ongoing NSA scandal he notes: "The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It's the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It's the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it's the idea that the emails and phone records of Americans should remain free from government search and seizure. It's the idea that parents must be the decision makers in regards to their children's education — not some government bureaucrat."
He then urged African-American voters to join him in "abandoning the government plantation and Party of disappointment."
Viewers of the video on YouTube had high praises for the Louisiana Senator's moving speech.
"GUILLORY FOR PRESIDENT! This made me cry. Amen, Mr. Guillory. Amen," wrote Dawn Millikan in the comments section of the video.
"FINALLY!! Someone had the guts enough to come out and speak TRUTH! I applaud you sir, and I have the utmost respect for those who can think for themselves and tell everyone, no matter what nationality or skin color they are. Finally something positive in such a horrible time!" wrote another commenter Lindsay Fields.
"I'm not a Republican," wrote commenter Brandan Bonds. "But Senator Guillory's remarks seem very well thought out, genuine and honest. Extremely refreshing for a politician, regardless of political party."


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We Chat With: Top Chef's Dale Talde of Talde
"I'm not doing this to be recognized, but to be recognized is an honor. When you realize how much your parents have sacrificed for you, it's not hard to bust your ass."
When we walk into Talde in Park Slope, Boyz II Men plays loudly in the speakers and partners Chef Dale Talde, David Massoni and John Bush are swaying, smiling and singing. A few times while we speak we have to stop to take in a lyric or harmony. This is what happens when you're in your thirties and own it while you work.
Talde—the restaurant—fits the Park Slope crowd well. The atmosphere is stylish but relaxed. The menu is both modern "fusion" and just plain delicious food. The cocktails are mighty tasty. Talde—the chef—is calm, clear, and articulate in his conversation, and gets a touch emotional when describing how hard his parents worked to give him the opportunities that brought him to his first restaurant.
So how does this all come together? We does it mean to be a first-generation Asian-American in the second generation of Asian-American chefs in NYC? We had a chat to find out.
Where did your first strong memory of food come from? I was eight or nine and we went to Chinatown in San Francisco. It was everything you would think of for that perfect San Francisco element—foggy streets, kinda cold, bums everywhere. We went to a congee house and my parents said, "you can get anything you want." And I said, "anything?!" There were a hundred menu items there! And I ended up getting Peking duck congee. I thought it was amazing that my parents weren't going to tell me, "you're not going to like that." They were like, "just eat whatever you want." That was a very strong moment. I don't remember the food being that great, but I remember the experience was great.
Going along with strong memories, what's your strongest memory of your first kitchen job? My first job out of culinary school was at Outback Steakhouse. I was the grill and I was terrible. I was terrible! Undercooked chicken, missing tickets. I was like, "man, I don't even know what I'm doing right now."
What did you learn from that job? That I would never want to do something like that ever again. Every day I smoked a joint in my car and walked right into the restaurant. I was pathetic—I was a terrible cook there. But shit happens.
I heard that you were really nervous opening up Talde—that you wouldn't be taken seriously by the crowd or critics. What was the concern? A lot of my concern is that people have an idea of what I am from watching Top Chef. And sometimes a lot of the people on that show get a bad rap—that we're not serious chefs, that we just wanted to be on T.V., that we're fame whores etc. But there's a lot of us just using it as a springboard to help our businesses and open our restaurants.
And when you come from a Stephen Starr restaurant, I think the perception people have about you is that you don't cook. And nothing could have been further from the truth at Buddakan. Stephen Starr was one of those people who would say, "I need a monk fish dish by Friday. There's eight chefs, I want eight dishes." And so on top of having to serve 900 people you're forced to make a dish in front of others that has to fit and get criticized. It created a competitiveness between chefs and I loved it. People in that arena of restaurants get pegged, "you weren't in a hard-core restaurant owned by an individual chef." No, I wasn't. Actually it was an enormous corporation and it was a lot of pressure.
What did you learn about yourself as a chef in that period? You have to sift through a lot of your own bullshit when you have to make food and sit there and eat it with the person you're making it for. It's intense. Because this guy is your boss. Forget about the fact that you can get kicked off a show—this is the person who writes your paychecks. Who's critical because he's your employer. And ultimately what he says is the law.
What kind of bullshit did you wade through? Well, when I started out I would look at the dish and say, "I want it to look like this," instead of, "I want it to taste like this." There I did that total flip: don't make aesthetic the primary focus—it has to taste good. You're not making works of art, you're making things people have to consume. If you're going to use a technique—cool—but keep it to yourself. Who are you trying to impress, yourself or your guests? I owe Stephen a lot for that. He would say, "Stop cooking to impress me. Cook me something that I just want to eat."
Your dishes sort of span traditional Asian and American influences, but in loose ways. Is there a dish specific to a memory, that you crafted to recreate something personal to you? The green mango salad. I'm from Chicago and my grandmother used to take care of us. She was really old—like 85—and she would roll her own cigars and sometimes she'd just chew them for the buzz. When we would go to sit there and watch a Cubs game, she would sit there with green mangoes—totally unripe sour mangoes—and shrimp paste. And we would just eat it like that. And I had kinda forgotten about it until I went to Malaysia and we had a green mango salad and it reminded me of just sitting in the living room with my grandmother, her in a rocking chair smoking a blunt. I was like, "holy shit, dude." It just took me right back there, so I knew I had to do that dish at this restaurant.
There's been so much written about second-generation Asian-American chefs lately. Where do you see yourself amongst that? I'm so proud and honored to be mentioned in those. I think Danny [Bowien] said it best, that David Chang was our champion. He grabbed that torch and ran with it and we're all just like, "if he can do it, we can do it." I'm happy to be a part of it.
A lot of this is just a matter of time, you know what I mean? My parents came here like a lot of parents did in the late sixties / early seventies. Their role coming to America was to survive and do better for their children. Our role is to thrive. It's up to you—whoever you are in whatever you're doing—to thrive and be recognized. I'm not doing this to be recognized, but to be recognized is an honor. When you realize how much your parents have sacrificed for you it's not hard to bust your ass. My mom worked 16 hours a day until just a few years ago. It's just our time. We're just old enough to really kind of put our stamp on what we do.
Is NYC home now? Do you plan to stay? I intend on being in Brooklyn for as long as I can. I want to make my roots here. I want to start a family here. Hopefully we can continue to find places in Brooklyn because we know there are people out there that need places. You need to go where there's a need.
If you could pick a restaurant in New York City that you could eat at every day for the rest of your life—and budget and borough were not inhibitors—what calls to you? What Harold [Dieterle] is doing at Kin Shop—that Crispy Duck Laab with mustard greens and a side of sticky rice—wow, when I first ate it, it really reminded me of home. Eating something spicy, and something sour and sweet, and then some rice... if I could eat lunch there every day I'd eat it. Kin Shop, for sure.
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Front Row asks the question "Do we publish too many books?" In front of a live audience,the panel discuss some of the pressing issues that face the publsihing industry today: has the emergence of digital books diluted the quality and undermined the value of books? Is self publishing a route to new and exciting authors or a path to derivative mediocrity? With Philip Jones editor of The Bookseller, Crystal Mahey-Morgan of Zed Books, Alexandra Pringle, group editor in chief of Bloomsbury and Ali Sparks author of 41 books for children.
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It's Monday and all of the excitement of the Hay Festival is a memory. I didn't write any blogs for the final few events that I attended but thought that it might be interesting to some of you if I give a quick summary before I sign off for good.
On the 29th May I joined a packed audience to listen to the talented dynamic acoustic folk/rock singer/guitarist Frank Turner. Being of a certain age, his performance transported me to my past, to the days of Dylan, the Doors and the many other anti-establishment protest artists of that era. I was surrounded by fans of Frank who were able to sing every word and I think that it is fair to say that the evening performance gave us all a real treat of an extraordinary talent.
Debborah Moggach is a prolific writer who is able to position her stories in locations that are not familiar to her because she understands her characters so well that they can drive the story rather than the place. A luxurious flat is a luxurious flat, wherever it is. She finds smug marrieds hard to tolerate, an opinion that made the front page of the paper on the following day.
Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian born campaigner for the rights of women, spoke passionately about confronting oppressive regimes throughout the world. She pointed out that women's liberties and rights are compromised in many western cultures in addition to the better known areas of the Middle East and northern Africa. Divulging some of her most intimate experiences gave weight to the evidence of the suppression that women encounter on a daily basis. Her book 'Headscarves and Hymens:Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution' is a plea to confront the toxic mix of culture and religion that affects the daily lives of the women in those areas.
I finished off my Hay experience this year with a delightful session from the Call the Midwife team. Virginai Nicholson lead the discussion where the screenwriter, producer and star (Jenny Agutter) gave insight to the research and story development for the series. As an ex-midwife, this series intrigues me and it can move me to tears as I remember some of my own experiences delivering babies. The attention to detail is remarkable even to ensuring they have the correct size of fake umbilical cord for the size of the baby.
Now I have returned to my home, inspired to return to my second novel, and thankful for the opportunity to experience the wonderful Hay Festival.
The Final Day at Hay
Today I visited The Hay Festival for the second time. I went last year to get a feel of it, and to visit the town.
Last year, I remember the festival being busy. It was a nice May day, and it was great to be surrounded by people interested in literature.
Today, I went on the last day of the festival and found it quiet. The mood was sombre, as if people were getting over a hangover. I think this was because the festival was coming to an end.
It wasn't all doom and gloom. The rain held off, although it was a bit windy, and when we were walking around everyone seemed in their element.
It was a book lovers dream. I found it interesting visiting the book stores and seeing people queue up, ready to meet their chosen authors. The town was wonderful, and I'm always amazed with how extravagant the book stores are in this town of books.
I would have liked to attend the festival on a warmer day, when more was going on. But nestled in the country, mountains surrounding it, its feels like a writers home.
Alex Salmond Talks to Helena Kennedy
On the final day of the 2015 Hay Festival, Alex Salmond the former leader of the SNP and newly elected Westminster MP talks to Helena Kennedy QC the barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. Salmond is here to discuss the inside story of the campaign for Scottish independence, in his diary, 'The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days That Changed Scotland Forever'.
Kennedy asks how he became a campaigning Scottish Nationalist. At St Andrews university he had girlfriend who was secretary of the Labour Club and they used to fight about politics. One day she said; "if you feel like that go and join the bloody SNP" and he did the very next day. In those days you couldn't join on a website. Salmond hitchhiked to Dundee to join the party, only to be given an address in St Andrews where he had just come from.
Salmond managed to get the referendum phrased with 'Yes' for leaving the UK and he acknowledges that this was in his favour. He also managed to get Cameron to agree to his agenda on the timing. How did he persuade Cameron asks Kennedy. "Well, he's not very bright, you see."
In the Scottish referendum people got drawn into the political process and it made them better people says Salmond, 98% of the population registered to vote. He tells a story of people registering to vote for the first time since they opposed the poll tax. "Hundreds of thousands of people who had never given a stuff about politics or politicians were determined to exercise their democratic franchise. That's what happened to lots of people in the referendum campaign and that's what dictated the result of the general election campaign in Scotland.
Meera Syal Talks to Sarfraz Manzoor
Meera Syal is in Hay to talk about her third novel and her first book in 16 years, 'The House of Hidden Mothers'. She just didn't have a book that she wanted to write during that time and until she was watching a documentary about surrogacy in India. It was as if one of her favourite books, Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' had crossed the line from fiction into fact.
The surrogacy industry in India is now worth $4.5 billion a year, and often poor girls from rural areas carry babies for wealthy foreign couples.
In Meera's new novel, Shyama, at 48 (in the first draft she was 44) has fallen for a younger man, Toby, and they want a child. She already has a 19 year-old daughter and has been told that she can't have another child. Her friend Priya tells her about ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology. At the same time in a rural village in India, young Mala is trapped in an oppressive marriage and needs money to escape from her situation..
Manzoor says asks whether the novel about a relationship between two people is also about the relationship between England and India and Syal agrees. This isn't too far from call centres,"effectively we've outsourced fertility". The West has rich infertile women and the East has poor fertile women and trade has stepped in.
The discussion covered issues of culture and diversity and how Meera had played with these issues in a mischievous and irreverent way in her work. "There's a difference between Bernard Manning telling a Jewish joke and Woody Allen telling a Jewish joke." The subject of age is also at the fore in this discussion and particularly in the impact it has on women. "However much botox you have your ovaries are still the age your ovaries are."
The Unthanks: Live with Magpie
"It hits you in your soul rather than your head. I love them" says Adrian Edmondson. On Wednesday night The Unthanks did just that with an astounding set in the Telegraph tent. From the very first song, Hawthorn, they were mesmerising. Both Rachel and Becky Unthank have pure haunting, soulful voices which blended with the exquisite trumpet playing of Victoria Rule of The Amadè Players.
The music is sweet but also dark. "You had the choice tonight between the misery of Jack Dee, or the deep, deep misery of The Unthanks" said pianist and the group's manager Adrian McNally, "you people need to take a long hard look at yourselves." The songs are powerful and the exceptional voices are coupled with fine musicianship including Niopha Keegan on violin and backing vocals with Chris Price on bass.
The new album 'Mount the Air' is available now – you can order it here.
And Lo it Hath Ended
After seven wonderful days and nights in Hay, we have returned to our Kentish seaside abode, awash with good food and drink and many inspiring memories. There really cannot be any literary festival anywhere in the world that can hold a candle to the joy that is Hay. Personal highlight of the week was the evening with Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, as they discussed "The Lady in the Van", and at the end of which the former was presented with the Hay Medal for Drama. It was a very moving moment and an absolute privilege to be witness to. The hills and vales of Wales are now far behind us. The process of longing for Hay 2016 has begun.


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PRETORIA, South Africa (CNN) — A beloved model is dead, those who knew her are in mourning, and one of the world's most admired Olympians is charged with her murder after a Valentine's Day shooting in South Africa.
Oscar Pistorius, a Paralympic runner who blazed new terrain by competing in last summer's Olympics, is accused of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A shooting took place inside his upscale home in Pretoria, South Africa, early Thursday, and only the two of them were there at the time, police said.
Shock waves from the incident quickly reverberated across the world, casting a shadow over the man known as the "Blade Runner" for his achievements on prosthetic limbs.
Pistorius will be named officially as the suspect when he appears in court Friday, in keeping with South African law. Authorities have already announced that the suspect is Pistorius' age.
Investigators gave no motive for the alleged killing.
"Previous incidents" at the home, police say
A police spokeswoman said there had been "previous incidents" at the home, including "allegations of a domestic nature."
Police were alerted to the shooting by neighbors, and residents had "heard things earlier," spokeswoman Denise Beukes said.
Some South African media outlets said the woman was mistaken for an intruder. South Africa has a high crime rate, and many homeowners keep weapons to ward off intruders.
Beukes said those reports did not come from police. There did not appear to be signs of forced entry at the home, she added.
"This is a very quiet area and this is a secure estate," Beukes said.
A pistol was recovered at the scene, police said.
Pistorius cooperating with police
Pistorius made no public statement. His spokeswoman Kate Silvers said the athlete is "assisting the police with their investigation but there will be no further comment until matters become clearer later today." Police also said Pistorius is cooperating.
He arrived Thursday at a police station in Pretoria.
Beukes said the state will oppose bail. So the 26-year-old, who was among the men featured in People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue, could be behind bars, at least temporarily.
Pistorius is not being brought to court Thursday because the public prosecutor needs more time to prepare the case, police spokeswoman Katlego Mogale told CNN.
A model's life violently cut short
Steenkamp, 29, had been looking forward to Valentine's Day, encouraging her Twitter followers to "get excited" for the holiday.
"She was the kindest, sweetest human being; an angel on earth and will be sorely missed," Capacity Relations, the agency that represented her, wrote on Twitter.
She was "just a great, fun presence of a person," said Hagen Engler, former editor of the magazine FHM. He described her as "a bikini model, beautiful, gorgeous girl" with a "wicked" sense of humor. She understood the industry and was intelligent and fun to work with, he said.
Pistorius' father, Henke, told the South African Broadcasting Corp. his son was "sad at the moment."
"I don't know nothing. It will be extremely obnoxious and rude to speculate," the father said. "I don't know the facts."
As Olympian, Pistorius faced controversy
Pistorius, a double amputee, competed against able-bodied runners during the London Olympics, triggering controversy as some said the prosthetic limbs gave him an advantage. His legs were amputated below the knee when he was a toddler because of a bone defect. He runs on special carbon fiber blades.
Pistorius was initially refused permission to enter the Olympics, but he hired a legal team to prove that his artificial limbs did not give him an unfair advantage — and was allowed to compete.
While he did not win a medal, his presence on the track was lauded by many people around the world as an example of victory over adversity and dedication to a goal.
He smashed a Paralympic record to win the men's 400m T44 in the final athletics event of the 2012 Games.
In an October interview with CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," Pistorius discussed the "massive blessing" of inspiring people around the world. "Being an international sportsman, there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, so having to toggle that and remembering, you know, that there are kids out there, especially, that look up to you — it's definitely something that you need to keep at the back of your mind."
CNN's Nkepile Mabuse reported from Pretoria; CNN's Josh Levs and Faith Karimi reported from Atlanta. CNN's Richard Allen Greene and Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report.
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"Certainly any school bus running a red light, that's a very, very serious infraction," said Orange County School Board Chairman Bill Sublette.
Local 6 showed the disturbing video to Sublette, which included images of another bus that blew through the intersection of Oak Ridge Road and Texas Avenue.
"I have three children in public school myself and they ride school busses on occasion and again, we take student safety very, very seriously," said Sublette.
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From coast to coast by night and day, hear the clickin' of the wheels
The hummin' of the diesel, of her ribbons of steel
Carryin' the memories of a nation built by hand
See the Indian Pacific span the land
She's the pride of all the railway men 'cross country where she flies
From blue Pacific waters to where the mountains rise
By lakes and wide brown rivers, through desert country dry
See the Indian Pacific passin' by
Oh the Indian Pacific she goes rollin' down the track
Five thousand miles to travel before she's there and back
Beside the line, a drover waves his battered old grey hat
And kids are catchin' yabbies down by the river flat
And a woman hangs her washing in a backyard near the line
As the Indian Pacific's rollin' by
Hear the whistle blowin' lonely 'neath the Nullabor star light
Saluting those who walk across the track she romps tonight
Callin' to the railway camp and the fitters on the line
I'm the Indian Pacific, right on time
From the silver of the Broken Hill to old Kalgoorlie gold
She mirrors all the colours of the land so hot and old
Then the western clouds are blooming and the air is just like wine
And the Indian Pacific's makin' time
Oh the Indian Pacific she goes rollin' down the track
Five thousand miles to travel before she's there and back
From the waters of the western sea to the eastern ocean sand
The Indian Pacific spans the land
Oh the Indian Pacific spans the land
Original Map
A logical extension for all the train enthusiasts to addition to Rail USA and Rail Europe.
Rather than use the linear train journeys for this map, i broke with that and divided the rails into State Rails.
This provides a more "classic" continent setup, rather than the linear setup of previous rail maps.
Small rail networks in smaller states provide good opportunity to gain continents early in the game, and there will be extra bonuses for connecting mineral towns marked 'M' to their ports marked 'P'.
The very simple design of the stations has the standard army box plus a boomerang over the top of the station.
The outline for the Australian continent is a form of aboriginal artwork, taken from aboriginal drawings...the large dot clusters represent a meeting place and the three line connecting these clusters represent the travels and journeys of the poeple in the meeting places....quite appropriate i think!
No of Territories
7 continents
QRail (15 terts)
NSWRail (13 terts)
VicRail (6 terts)
TasRail (2 Terts)
SA Rail (9 terts)
WARail (15 terts)
AsuRail (4 terts)
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Answer the following: You heard Beck's last album, Guero, (a) online as an unfinished mix that was leaked in late 2004; (b) as the official 2005 Interscope CD release, which contained most of the tracks on the leaked version plus a few new songs; (c) as the deluxe CD/DVD edition, complete with seven bonus tracks, a surround sound mix, and interactive video art to accompany every song; (d) in one of the many unauthorized fan mashups floating around the Net; (e) not as Guero at all, but as Guerolito, a commercially released companion piece featuring remixes by Diplo, Adrock, and Boards of Canada.
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Whatever your answer – and, yes, you can choose more than one – Guero represented a new way to think about the album. Because there was no album, no static list of 13 songs. Instead, there was a project that drew on Beck's Latin leanings and the Dust Brothers' eclectic production to create a portrait of the artist circa 2003-2005 (a Guero Cycle, if you will). Such is the future of the album, as envisioned by Beck; it's something to be heard, seen, and reconstituted by artist and audience alike. As the Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper's almost four decades ago, Beck has expanded the range and potential of the form.
The repercussions here aren't just creative. The very logistics and economics of the music industry are at stake, as one album becomes a long shelf of songs and products, each carrying its own release date, distribution path, and price tag. In the end, fans can create their own versions of the album, stringing fave songs and remixes into one ideal playlist.
Now Beck is doing it again. The multiple versions, the audience interactions, the multimedia experiments – they're all back in Guero's yet-to-be-titled follow-up, due out this fall. Wired caught up with the iconic singer-songwriter in Los Angeles to discuss mashups, YouTube, and the future of the album.
Guero, with all its various versions and releases, seems to have heralded the end of the album as we know it. There are so many dimensions to what a record can be these days. Artists can and should approach making an album as an opportunity to do a series of releases – one that's visual, one that has alternate versions, and one that's something the listener can participate in or arrange and change. It's time for the album to embrace the technology.
Isn't all that repackaging just about making ways to sell more product? I guess that's part of it, but for me it's more about giving the music legs, giving people new ways to experience it. There are so many ways to integrate technology into music; I can't wait to see how the opportunities end up being put to use.
What sort of things do you envision? Even though the mashup sensibility has become something of a cliché, I'd love to put out an album that you could edit and mix and layer directly in iTunes. We did a remix project on a Web site a few years back where we put up the tracks to a song and let people make their own versions. There was something really inspiring about the variety and quality of the music that people gave back. In an ideal world, I'd find a way to let people truly interact with the records I put out – not just remix the songs, but maybe play them like a videogame.
Any other ideas? Well, cover art and all the paraphernalia that come with albums have always been really important to me. I'm one of those people who needs a visual crutch for music. But that stuff is being devalued, since so many people listen on their computers. I've been toying with the idea of replacing album art with moving graphics that would pop up on your computer when you played songs from the album.
Do you ever get nostalgic for the albums of old, the LP and all that? Sure. I'm something of a traditionalist, so I have a soft spot for a record with just a standard side A and side B. But there's simply more room for information with digital media, and it would be ridiculous not to take advantage of that. It's sort of like the difference between a wire recording and a piano roll and a cassette tape. They're different formats, and they inspire different approaches.
So what are you doing with these ideas on the new album? I haven't figured it all out yet, but one cool thing is that the CD cover is going to be designed so no two copies are the same. The artwork is going to be customizable. The album will come with all these little stickers – each copy of the disc will have a different set – and you'll use them to create your own version of the cover. The idea is to provide something that calls for interactivity and that's totally different from what you'll have if you just download the album.
Anything else in the works? Well, we're going to put out a version of the record that people will be able to watch on sites like YouTube.
Whoa. What's that all about? We filmed a series of very low-budget, homemade videos for all the songs on the record. We got a bunch of cameras and a $100 video mixer off eBay and shot 15 silly, impromptu videos against a greenscreen. We even invited our friends and family into the studio to be a part of the action – my mother-in-law did the lighting, and my son and nieces and nephews are running around acting crazy. It was just a complete free-for-all, done on the fly. We're putting all the videos together right now with the idea of having a visual version of the record that we'll put on the Internet. I'm totally curious to see how the videos will add to the experience of listening to the album. Or maybe they'll actually detract from the experience. That would be funny.
So you don't mind people sharing videos on the Web? Not at all. The whole idea behind making videos is to get them out there for people to see. They don't really play videos on TV anymore, so I have no problem with people putting them online.
Do you personally come up with these projects? Yeah, most of them. I have a pretty strong art background, and getting to create all these extensions of the music is how I bring my appreciation for that world into what I do.
Does your label, Interscope, ever balk at your ideas? Actually they've been great about everything. The labels are trying to figure all this stuff out just like everyone else, and I feel fortunate that I've been able to do so much experimenting to see what works. I've also been lucky because I signed a unique record deal back when I started that allowed me to try out a lot of weird things and even record different types of albums for different labels. I think that set me up nicely for where things are currently headed.
So do you think the music industry is moving toward a model where artists will license individual projects to labels instead of signing long-term contracts? I'd be surprised if artists didn't do a lot more of that type of stuff in the next few years. I'm excited about being able to take totally different approaches to creating and distributing different types of projects. I like the idea that I can quickly record a few acoustic songs that I've been working on and immediately put them online for people to download. And then I can record songs with a producer in a big studio for a big label and put them out as a CD, a DVD, and a remix project and let people experience that music in very different ways.
Couldn't you do all that stuff on your own? Do you really even need a label anymore? It's hard to say what will happen with all that. Record labels definitely aren't going to go away, but it'll be really interesting to see how their role changes. Some of the guys in my band recently started a side band just for fun. At their first show, kind of as a joke, they told everyone to check out their MySpace page – which they hadn't even set up yet. As soon as they got offstage they signed up for an account and put some live recordings online. A couple of days later, they checked back, and a bunch of people had visited and heard their music. Obviously, this was all without a label – without even an album out. It kind of blew my mind.
Are you surprised by how quickly things are changing? A little. It used to take 5 to 10 years for something new to get through and really make an impact, but that's changing. I had been playing music for a long time when "Loser" became a hit on the radio. It seemed to most people like my success came overnight, but it took years of building and playing tiny shows. We didn't play the 1,000-seat venues for years. Now I see groups come out who have a few cool MP3s online, and they're selling out theaters across the country.


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Jefferson G. Dawes came to Pine River about 1899 for business reasons. He was a flour salesman. He ended up staying in Pine River and helping Amarilla manage her store and other businesses. He also got involved with the murder investigation for George A. Barclay's death by testifying at the grand jury trial. Apparently J.G. made a move to try to get Pine River made the county seat in 1901. We know that George Barclay was not happy with Walker being selected. An article appeared in the Saint Paul Globe:
New County, Maybe. Cass Lake to be the prospective Seat of Government
Cass Lake, Minn, April 9, 1901, First Edition, page 3 – During the past week, the plans of a number of the residents of the southern portion of Cass county to move the county seat from Walker to Pine River, the southern residents in return to assist in creating a new county with Cass Lake as the county seat, have been made public. J.G. Dawes, a resident of Pine River, was here for several days and broached the subject to a number of prominent citizens.
He appears with Amarilla in the 1900 U.S. Federal Census as store clerk. In 1902 and they married in Minneapolis. He became mayor of Pine River and he and Amarilla platted the city of Pine River. He built the house in 1904 for Amarilla which still exists. He ventured out to Longville, about this time, and platted that town and built a hotel there.
Source: Jefferson was listed with Amarilla in the 1905 Minnesota State Census, in Pine River, Walden Twp., Cass Co., Minnesota, enumerated 1-2 June, 1905 by Daniel Kline, Line 11, Dawes Jefferson G, Pine River, Male, 56, W, born New York, parents born in England, 29, 1, 9, 4, Retired. Dawes, Ammarilla, Pine River, F, 46, W, born Iowa, parents born Ohio, 28, 3, 28, 3, Retired.
After 1905, I have not been able to show that Amarilla or J.G. were together. So what happened to J.G. Dawes from about 1905 to 1919 when I pick up his trail again. Well J.G. Dawes, being the salesman he was, got a long just fine. Here are some articles about J.G. from the newspapers that I found very interesting.
The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Friday, March 20, 1908, page 3, J.G. Dawes Back From Mexico, J.G. Dawes, of Pine River, in Brainerd on His Way Home from a Two Month's Visit in Southwest. J.G. Dawes, for many years a prominent business man of Pine River, is in Brainerd on his way home from a two months' visit to New Mexico. He also visited Mexico while there…He also visited Texas…
The Brainerd Dispatch on Tuesday, May 19, 1914, page 5 J.G. Dawes impresses visitors from Duluth, B.J. Madden and J.D. Campbell, large stockholders in the Cuyuna-Mille Lacs mine – In the city they met J.G. Dawes former mayor of Pine River, who now makes his headquarters in Brainerd and who is selling agricultural lands and stirring up immigration for Crow Wing county. He has some of the best kind of land for stock raising.
The Brainerd Dispatch on Friday, May 14, 1915 page 23 had an advertisement for the Dawes Farm Land Company, J.G. Dawes, Manager.
The Brainerd Dispatch on Monday Nov. 6, 1916, page 5 – Value of Farms Lands Increase, J.G. Dawes of the Dawes Farm Land Agency, Gives Reasons Why an Advance is Due. Now is the Best time to Buy, Prices for Farm Products are the Highest Since the Civil War, Land at Bottom Price. This is a long article with J.G. giving his opinion about agricultural lands and it is quite interesting, here is a little bit: "In an interview accorded the Dispatch, J.G. Dawes, head of the Dawes Farm Land Agency, stated that now was the time to buy land, as in his opinion the bottom had been reached in prices, etc…But now the fear of war has vanished, and the political campaign will be over in a few days. With the prices of farm products still at such a high notch and stocks of all kinds of farm products so far below normal it will take at least three good average crops to replace our stocks to a normal condition….He goes on to encourage people to buy.
The Brainerd Dispatch presents another article on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1919, page 5 with J.G. Dawes' Plan Selling Farms, In These Days of Over Inflation of Land Values, Mr. Dawes has the Sanest Selling Plan. No Options are Allowed, Substantial First Payments are required on Land, Owner Continues Tenancy for Period….J.G. Dawes of the Dawes Land Co. of Brainerd has a plan which is conservative and just alike to buyer and seller, protecting especially the farmer wishing to sell his land." The article is very detailed and went on about how the plan works.
The Brainerd Dispatch reports on in another very detailed article on Tuesday, August 25, 1925, page 1 that J.G. interacts with Chicago Big Capitalists. These men were taking options at Rocky Point on Gull Lake with an additional 400 acres adjacent. "As stated by J.G. Dawes, the difficulty of securing the options was negotiated by Wrigley's agent hinges on acquiring additional land so as to get an acreage of 800 acres. The eventual price, it is claimed is between $50,000 and $60,000. Cottages are to be built for fifty Chicago millionaires, says Mr. Dawes…"
So we see from the above that J.G. Dawes was making his way in the world and doing well.
Stepping back in time a little we review that on 18 August, 1909 Amarilla was granted a divorce from J.G. Dawes. J.G. didn't contest it even though he felt it was unfair. The terms of the divorce was divorce by cruel and inhuman manner which is a catch-all for just about any reason to get a divorce back then. In today's world we have some form of no fault divorce.
I could not find J.G. in the 1910 census but he is tracked down by the Special Examiner for Civil War Pensions. This man found J.G. Dawes living in Brainerd in 1919 which is confirmed by the above articles from the newspaper. This places J.G. Dawes in the 1920 U.S. Federal Census there and he has not remarried.
Source: Jefferson G. Dawes, 1920 U.S. Federal Census, City of Brainerd, Crow Wing. Co., Minnesota, Vol. 15, ED 122, Sheet 18, Line 93, M1569, Roll #31, D200.
Jefferson G. Dawes, white, age 71, divorced, birth place New York, living on 6th street, in-house 2215, living alone, father born in Ohio, mother in England. Occupation: Sales, [real estate].
J.G. Dawes is still in Brainerd in 1930 but he is now 83 years old.
Source: J.G. Dawes, 1930 U.S. Census, Brainerd, Crow Wing Co., Minnesota, ED#18-1, SD#5, Sht#5A, enumerated on April 4, 1930 by a Mrs. Margaret I. Henderson.
Line 35, 30, 62, Dawes, Jefferson G, Head, R, 5, No, M, W, 83, S, No, Yes, born New York, father born Ohio, mother Canada English, yes, no occupation.
Jefferson G. Dawes died on October 4, 1933 in Brainerd, Crow Wing Co., Minnesota. He was 86 years old.
Source: Jefferson G. Dawes (Daws), Certificate of Death, #3082 – Oct 4, 1933, FHL#2242330.
Died in Brainerd, Crow Co., Minnesota. Residence 404 4th Ave NE., died on Oct. 4, 1933. Male, white, single. Born Mar 7, 1847 (1874 crossed out), 86 yrs, 6 mos. 27 days, occupation laborer, born in New York, father was James Daws and mother was Mary Ann Sooderhaus (spelling unclear). Birthplaces of both parents unknown. Information was a Mrs. M. Hall B…….Place of burial Brainerd on Oct. 6, 1933, signed by undertaker D.E. Whitney, filed 10/10/1933. He died of Cardiac Insufficiency and other complications.
A brief obituary appeared in the Crow Wing County Review about J.G. Dawes:
Aged Resident of City Succumbs, October 6, 1933, page 1.
J. G. Dawes, aged resident of Pine River and Brainerd died after a long illness Tuesday evening at the Brainerd City home. Funeral services were not announced yesterday. Mr. Dawes was well known resident of the area, having lived in Pine River for many years since, in fact, the early lumber days in this vicinity, and was involved in some of the early events of the community. He had been residing for some time in Brainerd, and for several years had made his home in the municipal home in Northeast Brainerd.
Another brief article appears in the Brainerd Dispatch on 4 Oct. 1933 pg. 8, c.3
Funeral arrangements were being completed today for Jefferson G. Dawes, 86, who died in the city home early today. The deceased was born in New York, March 7, 1847.
Brainerd Journal Press, front page 1.
On October 6, 1933 this appears: Jefferson Dawes Dead, Jefferson Dawes, 86 year old, a familiar figure in Brainerd for the past few years, formerly being in the real estate business here, passed away Wednesday and the funeral was held today. Mr. Dawes was born in New York, March 7, 1847.
After searching, I was unable to locate a probate or estate record in the Crow Wing Court records for J.G. Dawes, which I find as odd. I now feel that I would like to do deed search on J.G. Dawes to see where it lead him. I was focusing on the Barclay's so I had not really sought out J.G. Dawes.
On one of my trips to Minnesota, I visited the Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd and sought out J.G. Dawes' burial location and tombstone. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a tombstone for J.G. but he is buried there. The picture below is the approximate location of his grave. This cemetery is well-kept but even with the best care a stone can disappear. Whether he had one originally it is hard to say.
There is a Find A Grave memorial for Jefferson Dawes with some links.
He is in Sec NWC L17 B31 – Evergreens Directory of the Dead: http://www.brainerd.net/~evergreencem/dotdnames_d.html
A PAGE at the top of this blog had a table of contents of the posts written about Amarilla and J.G. Dawes is listed as well. You will have to scroll down to find his section but remember you might need to read about Amarilla from about 1898 on so that you can understand how J.G. fits into the events of the town of Pine River.
I wish I could have learned more about his background, parents and family. I suspect that he had a sister in living in Brainerd, maybe that is the Mrs. Hall in the death certificate? If his parents came from England this means he is a newer line of the Dawes Family.


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Understanding The 'Milk Cliff'
You've heard of the "fiscal cliff," but have you heard of the milk cliff"?
If Congress doesn't take action in the next four days, milk prices could shoot up dramatically.
Here's why:
The farm bill contains something called the Dairy Product Price Support Program. It's designed to help farmers by guaranteeing a minimum price for milk.
Basically, the government buys things made from milk — cheese, butter and dry milk. (It doesn't want to have to actually store milk, which can quickly go bad.) Buy up enough of this stuff, and you drive up the price of milk.
The government hasn't had to buy a significant amount of this stuff in the past decade because the price of milk has been high enough on its own.
Here's where the cliff comes:
The minimum price for milk, called the "support price," is set in the farm bill. The farm bill is set to expire on Jan. 1, and here's the catch: If that happens, the minimum price reverts to the price set more than 60 years ago in the Agricultural Act of 1949. That price is a parity price, which means it was calculated based on how much it cost farmers to make milk during the "golden age of agriculture" 1910 -1914. Things have changed a lot since then, and costs for farmers today (equipment, labor, feed, cows) are radically different.
The parity price set in 1949 is $39.53 per 100 pounds — right now, farmers are getting half that, $19.50 per 100 pounds of milk.
If Congress doesn't do something, the government will find itself buying a lot of cheese, butter and dry milk come Jan. 1, and even worse, it will essentially be paying double the price. Those higher prices will then trickle down to the grocery store where the rest of us could see milk prices go from around $4 a gallon to something more like $6 a gallon.
Will it happen?
Probably not. Dramatically higher milk prices won't help Congress' reputation for political gridlock. Farmers wouldn't like it either. Although higher prices would be a short-term boost for them, agricultural economics professor Joseph Balagtas, of Purdue University, says it would "draw a lot of attention to dairy policy that farmers wouldn't want." The USDA, the folks who would be in charge of buying all that cheese and butter, say returning to permanent law would be a "bad outcome" that no one should want.
Want something else to worry about?
Balagtas says there is another outcome here that could be equally bad — passing the 2012 farm bill in its current form.
Balagtas is concerned about a specific part of the 2012 farm bill that deals with dairy — the Dairy Market Stabilization Program. The program is designed to keep milk prices high by taxing farmers for producing more milk than the government wants them to.
Balagtas says the program would be bad for successful dairy farmers because it "would explicitly penalize growth" — essentially punish them for being more efficient and producing more milk. Large, profitable dairy farmers share his concern about the program.
Discouraging farmers from producing more milk means less milk on shelves for sale, which once again, means higher prices for the rest of us.


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Maldives authorities have called on the country's Islamic ministry and judiciary to stop the public flogging of a teenaged girl for having sex outside marriage, a government official said Friday.
A court in the tiny island of Feydhoo last week sentenced the 15-year-old to 100 lashes after she admitted to having consensual sex, a court official said on condition of anonymity because he had no formal approval to speak to the media.
The official said details of the consensual sex emerged when police investigated her complaint against her stepfather and another man of sexually abusing her.
He said the sentence includes an option for the flogging to be carried out when the girl turns 18.
Her partner has not been identified and it was not clear how hard the police tried to identify him, he said.
Government spokesman Masood Imad said the government considered her a victim of sexual abuse and wants the sentence revoked.
He said President Mohammed Waheed Hassan has started talks with the Islamic ministry, judiciary, attorney general, human rights commission and gender ministry in order to stop "victims becoming victims of the law."
"The government fully understands she is a victim. Since this is an Islamic affair we don't want to unilaterally say things," Imad said.
The practice of flogging for sex outside marriage has been widely condemned and it is often the woman who is singled out for punishment.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in 2011 urged Maldives to end the "degrading" practice.
"This practice constitutes one of the most inhumane and degrading forms of violence against women, and should have no place in the legal framework of a democratic country," she said speaking at the Maldives Parliament.
She urged the authorities to change the law that allows flogging.
Maldives is an Indian Ocean archipelago of 300,000 people, all of whom are Sunni Muslims. Practicing or preaching any other religion is illegal.


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Although summarizing the plot is an important component of a book report, it does not lend itself to student creativity. By mimicking popular websites that relate the plot of movies, television shows, and real life events in reverse, students have the opportunity to review the plot in a more creative and challenging fashion. Using a snowclone (a verbal formula that is changed for reuse), students complete the phrase If you read ____ backwards, it's about ____ to comment on the plots of novels.
- Plot PowerPoint Presentation: This will be used to introduce the students to Freytags Pyramid for mapping plot development.
- Plot Diagram: Students will use this online tool to map the plots of their novels.
- What Will I Read Next?: Students will use this printout as they listen to each others reports to keep track of books they wish to remember for reading later.
Carol Jago believes that teaching plot structure often gets overlooked because on the surface the literary term plot seems so straightforward and uncomplicated. After all, every story has a beginning, middle, and end. However, Jago encourages educators to devise lessons that make the language of literature useful and allows students the opportunity to practice using such vocabulary (51). Even though a traditional book report might provide such opportunity for practice, as Voukon points out, the tried and true one-size-fits-all conflict-action-climax book report does not create excitement for reading; alternative methods that engage todays students are necessary.
Jago, Carol. "Stop Pretending and Think about Plot." Voices from the Middle 11.4 (May 2004): 50-51.
Voukon, Michael. Alternative Book Reports. English Journal 94.4 (March 2005): 117-119.


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Yikes! I just looked back at my 2012 To Do List and realized that my 2013 list will look just about the same. I started to get a bit down on myself, but then I realized, maybe I didn't tackle that list, but I did do a bunch of other things. I guess I made up a new list along the way and didn't know it.
And sure, I didn't really conquer my word for the year either. MAINTAIN. Hmmm. Nope, not so much. But whatever. You know what, I gained something else instead. Looking back at last year, the word really should have been AWARENESS. I definitely became more AWARE of my actions, so that is progress. And really, that's the point. Moving forward and making progress.
This year, I've decided not to bother including organization, exercise or eating healthy as a part of my "word" because it's always there hovering over me. Haunting me. I know it. I'm messy and need to exercise more. It's my weakness. I don't really think I need to write it down to remind myself. So my word for 2013 is…
Okay, so that's three words, but they all encompass the same kind of thing. To be in the moment, enjoy it to the fullest. Last year, there were several things that continually reminded me to zone in on the little things. Some things were happening to me personally, some to close friends and some to people I don't even know in the world around me.
It was like someone constantly tapping on my shoulder saying, "Hello…life is too short and too quick. Look around and be present in the present." And within this last month, our entire nation was feeling this way. As cliché as it is, my kids are growing so fast, it's wacko, crazy and scary and that also means I'm only getting older (big 4-0 coming up) and my parents are too. I want to eat up every moment.
Do you have a word for 2013?
PS – I was going to do a top ten posts of 2012, but they are listed on the right side bar all year round. If you haven't before, I'd love it if you took a peek!


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The Brave New Workshop has been crafting audacious, hilarious, and thought-provoking original comedy, improv and satire in Minneapolis since 1958 – longer than any other theatre in the U.S. Founded by the legendary Dudley Riggs, the Brave New Workshop is a truly unique place to laugh, learn, think, and play. Alongside our own theatrical productions, the BNW hosts a variety of performances in our ETC theatre, and also provides video production, live event entertainment, emcee services and venue rentals. Our Creative Outreach division offers speaking and training for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Hilton, General Mills, and Target. The BNW's school, the Student Union, boasts the most comprehensive improv training curriculum in the country. With a commitment to sustainability and a unique business model, the BNW operates as a self-funding arts organization.
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The friends I have made, the skills I have learned… and learning improv by different instructors that I could also watch on stage! That really fostered a confidence and respect in me for them.
If the Guthrie is the aircraft carrier on the waters of local theater, BNW is its resilient tugboat—with a pirate flag bearing a defiantly raised middle finger.
John Sweeney and the BNW team deliver results, pushing teams to learn techniques to approach problems in new innovative ways long after the meeting is over. Their entertaining and engaging approach produces hoots and hollers but also delivers integrated messages on strategy and innovation. Their presence has produced some of the highest rated meeting sessions ever at Target.com. I highly recommend John and his team.
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The United States. . .and France. . .are embarking on a bold, exciting, and pioneering joint scientific endeavor to bring to Earth selected samples of the planet Mars. . .Mars Sample Return is not just first-of-a-kind, but it is in fact a mission of truly historic significance like Sputnik and Apollo since this will be the first time material from another planet has been brought to Earth.
Thus declared William O'Neil and Christian Cazaux in October 1999 as they described U.S. and French plans for a joint robotic Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. O'Neil was MSR Project Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, while Cazaux was his counterpart at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Toulouse, France. They spoke before a crowd of aerospace engineers and planetary scientists at the 50th International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress in Amsterdam.
JPL and CNES had begun to work together toward an MSR mission in mid-1998, as it became increasingly obvious that JPL's planned Mars Sample Return mission design was too massive and thus would need a large launch vehicle that would cost more than NASA could readily afford. The decision to add a second MSR lander, Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) and rover to help to ensure mission success through redundancy compounded the problem. By contributing one large launch vehicle and the MSR Earth-return vehicle, CNES could save NASA hundreds of millions of dollars and permit JPL to fly the hefty rovers it saw as central to its MSR mission. For CNES, the payoff was in large part prestige; its spacecraft would, in addition to delivering to Mars the first European Mars landers, transport to Earth's vicinity the first samples collected from the surface of Mars.
O'Neil and Cazaux told their IAF audience that the MSR mission, the planned culmination of NASA's on-going Mars Surveyor Program, would start in May 2003 with the launch of a U.S. Delta III or Atlas III rocket bearing a saucer-shaped aeroshell containing a flat-topped, three-legged Mars Surveyor-type lander similar to the Mars Polar Lander, which was on its way to Mars as they presented their paper. The lander would carry an Athena-type rover similar to the one then under development for the Mars Surveyor 2001 mission, and a solid-propellant MAV. The MAV would lay horizontally atop the lander, and the six-wheeled rover would straddle the MAV. Lander, rover, and MAV would together have a mass of about 1830 kilograms.
Solar cells on a cruise stage attached to the aeroshell would provide "keep-alive" electricity during the seven-month flight to Mars. The aeroshell would reach Mars in December 2003, cast off the cruise stage, and enter Mars's atmosphere directly. After a fiery atmosphere entry, the lower aeroshell would separate and a parachute atop the upper aeroshell would open. During terminal descent, the lander would drop free of the upper aeroshell and parachute, fire landing rockets, and unfold three landing legs. After touchdown, twin ten-sided solar arrays would unfold to make electricity.
Between December 2003 and March 2004, controllers on Earth would extend a ramp from the lander's 2.6-meter-wide top deck and drive the Athena rover down it onto the martian surface. Solar-powered Athena would have a mass of 80 kilograms – nearly eight times greater than Sojourner, the "minirover" deployed during the Mars Pathfinder Discovery mission in July 1997.
Scientists would use images from Athena's boom-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) to select a nearby sampling site, then controllers would remotely drive the rover to the site and examine it using spectrometers and a microscope imager. If the science team judged the site to be worth sampling, then controllers would deploy the mini-corer device. This would drill down up to half a meter to collect a core sample eight millimeters wide by 25 millimeters long. As many as 60 samples – a total of 250 carefully selected grams of Mars – might be collected at as many as 20 sites over 90 martian days (known as Sols). A drill on the lander, meanwhile, would collect an equal amount of Mars sample material at the site where it happened to touch down. This less discriminate "grab sample" would help to ensure that martian material could reach Earth even if the Athena rover failed.
In March 2004, the rover would climb back onto the lander's broad top deck, straddle the MAV, and transfer its cargo of Mars cores into the spherical, grapefruit-sized Orbiting Sample (OS) canister. After the transfer was complete, controllers would drive Athena off the lander and park it some distance away. The 120-kilogram MAV would then tip upright to point its streamlined nose at the butterscotch-colored martian sky.
O'Neil and Cazaux wrote that "the concept of a very simple, spinning, unguided, solid propellant" MAV, introduced by JPL engineer Brian Wilcox at JPL-sponsored Mars Sample Return Architecture Workshops in mid-1998, was "adopted by [the] MSR Project as most robust and simple enough to [design and build] in time for the 2003 mission." (Other engineers, mainly outside JPL, expressed skepticism, for they felt that the proposed MAV system was too bare-bones to be workable; this opinion was in fact the basis for the decision to fly two lander/Rover/MAV combinations.) First-stage ignition would launch the MAV skyward (image at top of post) and spin it about its long axis to create gyroscopic stability.
After the first stage exhausted its solid propellant and fell away, the second stage would boost the OS canister into a 600-kilometer-high near-circular orbit tipped 45° relative to Mars's equator. The OS canister would then separate from the second stage and activate its solar-powered radio beacon so that controllers on Earth could track it to determine its orbit.
In August 2005, an uprated CNES Ariane 5 rocket – at the time the largest planned for the Ariane family – would lift off from Kourou in French Guiana, South America, bearing a lander/Athena/MAV payload nearly identical to that flown in 2003, plus a French-built Earth-return vehicle with a cruise stage bearing four CNES/European Space Agency Netlander rough-landing probes. The 2700-kilogram Earth-return vehicle would include two NASA-built Earth Entry Vehicles (EEVs) with bowl-shaped, 0.75-meter-diameter heat shields. The 2005 NASA lander would ride above the CNES Earth-return vehicle on an adapter in the Ariane 5's large streamlined launch shroud.
In Earth orbit, the Ariane 5's L9 upper stage would ignite to place French Earth-return vehicle and U.S. lander on course for Mars. After L9 stage shutdown, the Earth-return vehicle and lander would separate from the stage and from each other and coast to Mars independently.
In July 2006, the U.S. lander would descend through Mars's atmosphere and land in much the same way as its Mars Surveyor 1999, 2001, and 2003 predecesssors would have done. The French Earth-return vehicle, meanwhile, would release its cruise stage. The Netlanders would separate from the discarded cruise stage, enter the martian atmosphere, and rough-land at widely scattered sites. The cruise stage would be destroyed. The Earth-return vehicle would then dive deep into Mars's atmosphere. This maneuver, called aerocapture, would allow it to slow down and enter Mars orbit while using only minimal braking propulsion. O'Neil and Cazaux estimated that propellants for slowing the Earth-return vehicle so that Mars's gravity could capture it might have a mass of more than 1000 kilograms; the bowl-shaped aerocapture heat shield, on the other hand, would have a mass of only about 400 kilograms. After aerocapture, the CNES Earth-return vehicle would unfold twin solar arrays that would take over for those discarded with the cruise stage.
The 2005 Athena rover would collect samples on Mars between July and October 2006. The Earth-return vehicle, meanwhile, would begin tracking the 2003 OS canister's radio beacon. Over six months controllers on Earth would guide the Earth-return vehicle to within two kilometers of the spherical canister, then an onboard lidar rendezvous system would take over. A U.S.-built "capture basket" would then "swallow" the 2003 OS canister and transfer it to one of the EEVs attached to the Earth-return vehicle.
In October 2006, after 90 martian days, the 2005 MAV would launch its OS canister into Mars orbit. The French Earth-return vehicle would set out in slow pursuit, swallow the 2005 canister, and transfer it to the second EEV. It would then loiter in Mars orbit until Earth and Mars became aligned to permit a minimum-energy transfer nine months later (July 2007). The Earth-return vehicle would first fire its rockets to move into a highly elliptical Mars orbit. At the proper time, as it reached periapsis (the point in its orbit nearest the planet), it would fire its rockets again to escape Mars and put itself on course for Earth.
The Earth-return vehicle would fly past Earth in April 2008 so that its gravity could bend the spacecraft's course. O'Neil and Cazaux explained that the minimum-energy Mars-Earth transfer trajectory selected for the 2003-2005 joint mission meant that the Earth-return vehicle would pass over Earth's southern hemisphere during its first Earth encounter. The April 2008 flyby would bend the spacecraft's course to ensure that the EEVs would land on U.S. soil when the Earth-return vehicle again encountered Earth in October 2008.
As Earth loomed large a second time, the EEVs would separate and the Earth-return vehicle would fire its rockets so that it would either miss Earth or reenter over uninhabited, little-trafficked ocean. The EEVs would enter Earth's atmosphere directly and lower to the ground on parachutes. During descent, they would activate radio beacons so that their precious cargoes could be found and recovered quickly.
A month before O'Neil and Cazaux presented their paper, JPL and its contractor, Lockheed Martin, had accidentally destroyed Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), the second spacecraft of the Mars Surveyor Program. Through an almost comical failure of communication, the two organizations had used different units of measurement when guiding MCO to Mars, so that when it arrived at the planet it entered Mars's atmosphere and burned up.
Two months after the Amsterdam IAF Congress, the third Mars Surveyor Program spacecraft, Mars Polar Lander, disappeared without a trace during descent to a landing in Mars's south polar region. The failure was traced to a software error that caused the lander to turn off its descent rocket engines about 40 meters above Mars's surface.
With embarrassment piled upon embarrassment, NASA created the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team to review the Mars Surveyor Program. In March 2000, the Team found fault with the Mars Surveyor Program's aggressive pace. In October 2000, while the Acta Astronautica issue containing O'Neil and Cazaux's conference paper was still current, NASA cancelled the Mars Surveyor Program and announced that no NASA MSR mission would launch before 2011.
Not surprisingly, the unilateral U.S. decision to abandon the 2003-2005 MSR project frustrated the French. For a time, NASA held out hope for a NASA/CNES MSR mission starting in 2011, and CNES also considered flying its MSR Earth-return vehicle to Mars alone in 2007 to drop off the Netlanders and test aerocapture and rendezvous technologies. The French determined, however, that an 11-year wait was unacceptable given the apparent instability of the U.S. Mars program, and that flying the Earth-return vehicle/Netlander combination alone would not yield scientific results commensurate with its cost.
"The Mars Sample Return Project," William J. O'Neil and Christian Cazaux, Acta Astronautica, Vol. 47, Nos. 2-9, July-November 2000, pp. 453-465; paper presented at the 50th International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 4-8 October 1999.
This post is the fifth (and last) in a series. Below are listed the posts in this series in chronological order.
Martian Weight Problem: Mars Sample Return Version 0.7 (1998) – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/mars-sample-return-version-0-7-1998/
Model Rockets on Mars (1998) – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/model-rockets-on-mars-1998/
Model Rockets on Mars Redux (1998) – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/model-rockets-on-mars-redux-1998/
Robot Rendezvous in Mars Orbit (1999) – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/robot-rendezvous-in-mars-orbit-1999/
Mars Sample Return: Vive le retour des échantillons martiens! (1999) – this postGo Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Blood Brothers
A compelling story of friendship, loyalty and fate, Blood Brothers is one of the longest-running and most successful ever West End musicals, as well as one of the most moving.
Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both; one of them is given away to a wealthy woman, the other remains with his mother. They become friends and swear to be blood brothers, all the time unaware of their true fraternity. But as they grow older, the two brothers find they can no longer ignore the class difference that divides them, and the love triangle that has dominated their lives erupts into a quarrel. The staggeringly emotional climax of the play questions whether it was destiny, or the inevitable difference of class, that led to the fatal conflict of two brothers who were once so close. Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983.


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While politics as usual prattles on, the nation is heading rapidly for the dreaded fiscal cliff.
Unless President Obama and Republican congressional leaders reach a deal on taxes and spending, a series of automatic spending cuts and tax increases will go into effect in less than three weeks. Analysts contend that going over this �fiscal cliff� very likely will hurl the economy back into recession.
Americans contemplating the consequences of the fiscal cliff surely are wondering: Are there any responsible adults left in Washington?
Good question.
The answer isn�t clear yet. But we do know that, more than a month after Election Day, President Obama is still out there campaigning for tax hikes on Americans who make more than $250,000 a year, most Republicans are still opposing income tax rate increases and Congress seems no closer to reaching a major deal on reducing the deficit than it was a month ago or a year ago.
We seem to be in a permanent election cycle, with unending gridlock and endless repetition of the same partisan talking points. Meanwhile, the nation is wallowing in debt and our leaders are still arguing over �economic stimulus� and modest reductions in the growth of spending.
Obama took to the hustings in Pennsylvania recently, trying to ramp up pressure on Republicans to agree to tax �the rich� � defined by Obama as people making over $250,000 a year. Obama spent most of the past year campaigning against wealthy investors and for tax hikes on the wealthy.
Obama�s recent �offer� to Republicans was a nonstarter because it contained new spending supposedly designed to stimulate the economy. The nation is $16 trillion in debt and the federal government is running a deficit that exceeds $1 trillion a year. Obama and the Democrats need to take any new spending programs off the table � now.
As for the Republicans, they need to come to terms with Obama�s re-election. Some GOP leaders already have said they�re willing to swallow hard and accept an increase in the top tax rate. Republicans have legitimate reservations about any tax hike, but they may need to accept some increase in rates for the wealthy � but only in exchange for reform of entitlements and a meaningful reduction in the growth of federal spending.
Raising taxes on a small number of taxpayers � even the wealthiest taxpayers � will not come close to solving the nation�s fiscal problems unless the tax hike is part of a package of serious spending reductions and changes in entitlements.
The president and Republican leaders don�t have to resolve every issue related to taxes and spending before the looming deadline for avoiding the fiscal cliff. They�ve been over this ground before, and they understand what needs to be done.
The question is whether we have leaders who can negotiate for the sake of achieving a larger goal. If we have only political hacks � not leaders � the nation is facing a long fall, and not just the one brought on by the fiscal cliff.


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