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It's been a while, hasn't it?
You may have noticed how I haven't exactly been keeping you up to date this summer. (At least I left you on a killer track though!) BUT I have a very good reason… I got my first proper real life job! At Sony Music Belgium no less! I'm having the time of my life being able to make a living out of my passion. *sound the cliché claxon* On the downside however, I have next to no time left to blog… (You can thank a total of 3,5 hours of daily commute for that) However, since I notice you guys keep coming back to delve into the Charley says POP! archives, I want to keep this blog around, even if just to post every once in a blue moon.
Like today, when a truckers' strike shut down the country, allowing me to work from home. Why is this benefitting Charley says POP? Because not only did I get to revisit some great albums in peace while working, I actually have the time to tell you about it, not spending half of my evening stuck in traffic!
So without further ado, here's… the soundtrack to my day working from home
Artist: Hunter Parrish
Album: Guessing Games (EP)
About: The Weeds' actor's debut EP is properly very good. Honestly, even without a music video to ogle Hunter delivers a brand of honest singer/songwriter-y pop/rock that's both catchy and beautif- … HOLD THE PHONE THERE IS A MUSIC VIDEO AFTER ALL. I WAS NOT AWARE. WHY WAS I NOT AWARE?!
Artist: Frida Amundsen
Album: September Blue
About: I first heard of EMI Norway's Frida Amundsen when she duetted on EMI Denmark's Christopher's album. Who in turn was featured on the most recent release by EMI Sweden's Molly Sandén. That's some proper EMI Scandi-crosspromotion for you! Anyway, on "Closer" Frida manages to be endearing rather than the oh-aren't-I-kooky kind of annoying these singer-songwriters sometimes end up as being. Or if you want to take no risks whatsoever can just check out her Robyn cover "Be Mine".
Artist: Christopher
Album: Colours
About: With "Against The Odds", "Nothing In Common" and "Mine, Mine, Mine" Danish guitar strumming popstar Christopher has managed to release a run of singles that are increasingly undeniable music-wise and increasingly adorable video-wise. Or if you want to take no risks whatsoever you can just check out his Robyn cover "Call Your Girlfriend".
Artist: Kreayshawn
Album: Somethin 'Bout Kreay
About: This album is way better than it ever had any right to be. Some viral hits are better left at that, but getting the "Gucci Gucci" lady in a studio with the likes of Diplo resulted in what can only be described as a SICK album. (Yes, I'm using the word sick now) Honestly, there's some delicious production on these tracks , some, er… interesting lyrics ("Bout to burn this fucking house down like I'm Left Eye") and a musical ride in general that mercilessly stampedes along. And while it's far from my favourite on the album, I've seen "Luv Haus" being described as Ke$ha remixed by Ladytron, so that might tickle your fancy.
Artist: Various
Album: PBR&B: The Next R&B Generation (Playlist)
About: A couple of days ago I compiled this PBR&B playlist for the Sony Music Belgium Spotify channel, but when I sent it to my co-workers I was met by a giant #no1curr. Woe is me. My evening tweaking the 20 track choices and running order to perfectly showcase how this reincarnation of R&B brilliantly incorporates elements of electronic and ïndie music hasn't been in vain though, I listened to it twice all the way through today and I can confirm that it is VERY GOOD INDEED.


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from Vogue (US) / by Joan Juliet Buck
complete article will be added when the printed magazine is available
With a new film out this month, French siren and Oscar winner Marion Cotillard reveals to Joan Juliet Buck her passion for music and Modigliani—and her true bohemian spirit.
Friday, 11:00 A.M. A private recording studio in the 3ème.
Marion Cotillard's little black hat grazes the low ceiling of a music studio as she stands, eating a banana, before a full day of recording two songs for Yodelice. Wearing a turquoise bubble T-shirt, a black jacket, black-and-white striped leggings, and heavy motorcycle boots, she's an elegant clown in the style of Yodelice, a thrilling Expressionist-Surrealist band fronted by composer Maxim Nucci, who performs with eye makeup and a bowler hat, a Cubist tear on his cheek.
"I play the bass guitar, keyboard, and tambourine—I'm their one-woman band and all-purpose maid," Cotillard explains. She's taken to appearing with Yodelice on tour, dressed as a man, under "Simone," the name of her maternal grandmother. "It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else," she says.
She's a rare kind of star, only the third actor who's ever won the Oscar in a foreign-language film, for her tour de force as Edith Piaf in 2007's La Vie en Rose. The "little sparrow" was four feet eight, drug-addled, fragile, a wreck by adulthood and dead at 47. Cotillard at 34 is long-limbed and luminous. She's got the flawless skin, transparent eyes, and turned-up nose of a child, a generous, connected energy, and a steely capacity for concentration.
Since Piaf, she's starred (and sung) as Daniel Day-Lewis's wife, Luisa, in Nine and opposite Johnny Depp in Michael Mann's Public Enemies, as the half-French, half-Menominee Indian Billie Frechette. She's the only French actress ever to master an American accent, through intense work, though she admits, "I still have problems with A's and L's—especially at the end of a word."
"She can do anything; she's a true artist," says Mann. "If it's someone she connects to, she can summon within herself the deepest urgings, the patterns, the rhythms of that character, that life. Her preparation is ferocious, her commitment and concentration are total, and she goes all the way."
The lyricist for Yodelice, theater director Marianne Groves, says, "All Marion's channels are open."
The word Marion Cotillard uses most often is connection. You can practically see her antennae, and she seems to operate in remarkably clean, open sympathy with her tribe. Her appetite for self-expression is contagious. Friends gather in the studio as the day goes on, piling onto the sofa upstairs like the Marx Brothers into a stateroom. Bastien Duval, artistic director for Yodelice and her PR for fifteen years, comes in from taking pictures with a pinhole camera to announce, "Marion, your banker is here."
Lunch comes from an organic takeout called Cococook. Marion checks up on her sick cat while planning tomorrow night's birthday dinner party for her boyfriend, the actor and director Guillaume Canet. Her last track is a raucous rock solo titled "Happy Crowd."
8:30 P.M. One of the private rooms at Lapérouse, Left Bank of the Seine.
Sidney Toledano, the president of Christian Dior, is giving a small dinner for David Lynch, who just directed a short Web film in Shanghai. The convincing little thriller stars Marion, who is Dior's "couture muse," along with a blue Lady Dior handbag. Marion and Guillaume Canet; Lynch and his wife, Emily; Melita Toscan du Plantier, Marrakech Film Festival director; Toledano; and Dior dignitaries eat at a long table strafed by the lights of passing bateaux-mouches.
Canet, slight and bearded, nurses a bandaged thumb that he injured while flying that day on a motorized paraglider. Once a show jumper, he switched to acting because of injuries, directed an excellent thriller, Tell No One, and when not flying is editing his new film, Little White Lies, in which Marion also stars.
Marion has changed into a sparkly white T-shirt dress—from Zadig & Voltaire, not Dior. She's taken off the striped leggings but kept the motorcycle boots. "Marion," says David Lynch, "is beautiful, very talented, and thinks good like a rebel."
Saturday, 10:00 A.M. Organic street market, Batignolles.
No one recognizes Cotillard behind her sunglasses. She's wearing another little man's hat, blue striped leggings, and another (white) bubble T-shirt. It's just the two of us, and now I can feel the shyness behind the warmth. She wants to find choux romanesco "that looks like fractals," rejects melons from Morocco—"Fragile fruit has to travel by air; too big a carbon footprint." An eco-warrior who works with Tristan Lecomte and his Alter Eco reforestation project, she's a locavore who knows her greens. And her fish. Marion and her two brothers, twins Guillaume and Quentin, learned to cook defensively when their mother took up macrobiotics.
She was born in Paris to Jean-Claude Cotillard and Monique (now known as Niseema) Theillaud, actors and teachers who moved to a multicultural tower block and then to the country when Marion was a teenager. Both sets of grandparents lived close to the land, with kitchen gardens; her father's mother is 101. Three years ago, Marion bought an old farm with white lilacs, fig trees, cherry trees, almond trees, pear trees, and quince trees, dumped the contents of her old apartment there in boxes, and took off to collect her Oscar and make films in other countries.
When she's in Paris, she lives with Guillaume Canet—who travels as much as she does for his films—but also keeps a room of her own. What she calls "my shack" is a wide, ancient garret that overlooks a park. She's been back for only two and a half months. Awards are crowded into a corner like dolls in a child's room. The refrigerator is jammed with her hoard of film for her Polaroid cameras. In the tiny bedroom, 37 small men's hats are piled on a chair, next to shelves of immaculately folded garments.
She makes me lunch—asparagus, quinoa, zucchini with fresh thyme, white radishes, sliced beets, watercress, crevettes grises—while explaining how to season a cast-iron pan—something to do with potato skins at high heat—and telling me about the time she saved up to buy herself a white truffle. "It cost 500 francs; I brought it home like I was carrying the Grail, cut open an avocado, and added some mozzarella di bufala. I was celebrating being able to buy my first white truffle by eating something that without it would have been—nothing!" She throws a tablecloth on the table, sets down the food, and says, "Welcome to my place. Bon appétit."
Brought up surrounded by theater, she studied acting at the Orléans Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. "As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
Her first part, at seventeen, was in the TV series Highlander, directed by Dennis Berry. He was knocked out. "You often feel about an actress that there are limits, but she was 'Let's go for it!'—she wants to always explore further," says Berry. "She didn't want to protect herself; she took all the risks, with this incredible, active emotional openness."
She went on to a series of comedies called Taxi (I, II, and III) but wanted more depth: "The directors I dreamed of were Coppola, Scorsese, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Spielberg because of E.T. I wasn't considered an actress. I didn't want to get bitter while waiting for something to happen, so when I was 27, I told my agent I was stopping and going to work for Greenpeace. He said, 'Please just have this one meeting.' It was with Tim Burton, for Big Fish, and I got the part." In her next American movie, A Good Year, she played Russell Crowe's abrasive Provençal love interest.
Then she got to go far deeper. Olivier Dahan wrote a script for her about Edith Piaf.
"There was one little problem: The finance people didn't want me." But Dahan was determined. She gave her all to Piaf: "I learned how to make the space inside me for her to come in." Along with hard work and intense research, there was mystical surrender and some mimicry—her brothers saw that she had copied their great-uncle's walk for Piaf's later years.
When the film was over, she couldn't shake Piaf. Her hairline and her eyebrows were still shaved. She fled with Canet to Peru and the Amazon; she went to Bora Bora with her best friend, Geraldine. "It was there that I found myself articulating why Piaf was still living inside me. She had been abandoned as a child; her greatest fear was to be alone. Now I didn't want to abandon her. I finally was able to say, 'She's been dead for 40 years; it's OK.' "
She goes into every character as deeply: lived on the Menominee reservation for Billie Frechette, spent four months learning to dance for Luisa in Nine. Her inspirations for the cuckolded director's wife included Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, and Eleanor Coppola's documentary Hearts of Darkness, about the shooting of Apocalypse Now. Photos of Audrey Hepburn gave her "the hairdo with the big personality, the thick bangs and the ponytail. You paint your character with colors you have taken from everywhere."
I ask about Inception, the Christopher Nolan film she stars in with Leonardo DiCaprio, due out this month but surrounded with secrecy. Marion won't even describe the character she plays; she changes the subject to her hero, Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner whose work is the reforestation of Africa. In a later phone call, Nolan tells me this much: "The most magical thing about who Marion plays is just to sit there and watch the mystery of the character unfold."
4:00 P.M. The Pompidou museum.
Marion likes thick impastos, rough, complex surfaces, early Dubuffet, Giacometti. Her knowledge of painting is layered with emotion. She was in love with Modigliani. "I spent half my time here, and the rest on his grave at the Père Lachaise," she says in front of one of his portraits of his wife, Jeanne. Her obsession led her to do some strange things. "In 1996, when the big Crédit Lyonnais bank was burning on the TV news, I saw a man in a green jacket panicking because he had a Modigliani in a vault. I jumped on the Métro to find him, so he could show me the Modigliani if it survived. I asked all the firemen if they'd seen the man in a green jacket. They thought I was nuts."
6:00 P.M. Merci, Boulevard Beaumarchais.
Somewhat oblivious to the fact that she is giving the party for 60 in two hours, Cotillard takes me to Merci, a concept store. All profits from the clothes, furniture, and books it sells go to a charity for children and young women in Madagascar. "People love to come here because it's useful," she says. Down in the café, over chocolate cake and coffee, she admits she misses Los Angeles, where she's lived in a series of rented houses. Her next film is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, where the president's wife, Carla Bruni, will be putting in a cameo. The glasses are off; girls and women keep streaming toward Marion for autographs and pictures; she says yes to all of them. This is a star who writes a thank-you letter for every bouquet she receives.
Sunday, 3:00 A.M. A building near the Madeleine.
Sixty people are dancing and singing in an apartment/party space that Marion found after rejecting a better-known venue because "last time I gave a party there, they told us we could stay till 3:00 A.M., but they threw us out at one-thirty." It's a fully furnished hedge-fund lair given over to a joyous bohemian jamboree.
There's a loud karaoke band in the middle of the sleek, white, double-height living room: two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer. Matthieu Chedid, a famous French composer and singer who goes by the name M and who holds happenings called "Labo M" (or La Bohème), is playing with them. Guillaume Canet's parents and Marion's mother, a delicate woman with long, perfectly cut gray hair, are dancing with assorted music types. In the dining room, tiny cornets of little multicolored mousses are lined up next to bottles of champagne.
Marion is in black tights, suede wedges, yet another white T-shirt dress, and yet another little hat. She organizes the transfer of Canet's presents from a bedroom to a low sofa in the main room.
And then she goes back to the center of the room, grabs the mike, and belts out a song while Canet happily and slowly opens each of his presents. Next Saturday night, the Oscar winner that every director wants to work with will be singing backup in Brussels as the anonymous Simone, and she's practicing.

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BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday will hold marches around the country and in cities around the world in protest against his hard-line tactics.
Critics say Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is trying to suppress dissent.
The demonstrations, which comes as the leader has become his most outspoken against critics, are reminiscent of mass marches against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in February 2008. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in cities around the world against the guerrilla group.
Like the marches against the FARC, the anti-Chavez marches has spread through social networking Web site like Facebook.
Chavez, who came to power in 1998, has become a polarizing figure at home and abroad for his unapologetic policies aimed at creating a socialist state.
His use of Venezuela's oil wealth to fund social programs has won him the admiration and support of the poor and working classes who make up a majority of the country's population.
But to critics, the policies are not sustainable. To them, Chavez is an overbearing populist whose hard-line stances against political opponents and private media has created an atmosphere were dissent is not tolerated. There have been some instances where Chavez supporters have attacked protesters and journalists, creating uncertainty about freedom of expression in the country.
Indeed, the idea for Friday's marches didn't come from Venezuela.
The idea came from a group of youths in Colombia who say they are tired of the strong adjectives that Chavez has lobbed against Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
"This is an issue of interference that has affected Colombians in many ways," march organizer Felipe Rojas told CNN en Español. "For this reason we decided to unite and demonstrate our "no" to Chavez, leaving no doubt that...we are against his 'Chavismo.'"
Tension between the two countries heightened in recent weeks after Colombia accused Venezuela of supplying Colombian guerrillas with shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons.
Chavez has said he was preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases.
"The agreement of the seven bases is a declaration of war against the Bolivarian Revolution," Chavez said last month, referring to his socialist political movement, which he named after 19th-century Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar.
Organization for Friday's marches started on a Facebook group and then grew into its own Web site, Alejandro Gutierrez, another organizer, told CNN en Español.
According to the Web site, more than a dozen marches are slated in both Venezuela and Colombia, and in places like Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rome, Italy, and Paris, France. In the United States, marches are scheduled in Chicago, Illinois; Austin, Texas; and Los Angeles, California, among others.
There are some who are skeptical of the success of the protest, organizers admit, but many think that the turn-out will be similar to the demonstration against the guerrillas.
As of Thursday night, the group's Facebook page had more than 124,000 fans. But matching the feat of last year's FARC protests could be difficult. The anti-FARC group page had almost four times as many followers.
Journalist Fernando Ramos contributed to this report for CNN.
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Is Sugar More Addictive Than Cocaine?
The new dietary guidelines are out and one of the recommendations by the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is to limit added sugars to only 10 percent of ones daily calorie intake.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans consume on average 156 pounds of sugar a year. Only about 29 pounds of it comes from traditional sugar, according to the Sugar Association. The rest comes from food.
James Nicolantonio, a cardiovascular research scientist at St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, was on today's Here & Now to discuss his review of dozens of studies showing that "sugar is more dangerous than salt when it comes to risk for heart disease." He also shares his revelation that sugar is more addictive than cocaine.
"When you look at animal studies comparing sugar to cocaine even when you get the rats hooked on IV cocaine once you introduce sugar almost all of them switch to the sugar," Nicolantonio told Here & Now's Lisa Mullins.
Nicolantonio is far from the only health professional that has been touting the dangers of sugar. American physician Dr. Mark Hyman explains in this Big Think interview how "sugar in industrial processed food stimulates the same award centers in the brain as cocaine or heroine."
Watch below as Hyman explains why the impacts from sugar are no longer up for debate and how people "can overcome food addiction and food cravings by learning how to work with their biology."
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A New Hybrid Fungus Found in Hospitals Is Linked to Lung Disease
By Jacob L. Steenwyk and Antonis Rokas
From the mythical minotaur to the mule, creatures created from merging two or more distinct organisms – hybrids – have played defining roles in human history and culture. However, not all hybrids are as fantastic as the minotaur or as dependable as the mule; in fact, some of them cause human diseases.
When Looking Through a Microscope Isn't Close Enough.
For the last few years, our team at Vanderbilt University, Gustavo Goldman's team at São Paulo University in Brazil and many other collaborators around the world have been collecting samples of fungi from patients infected with different species of Aspergillus molds. One of the species we are particularly interested in is Aspergillus nidulans, a relatively common and generally harmless fungus. Clinical laboratories typically identify the species of Aspergillus causing the infection by examining cultures of the fungi under the microscope. The problem with this approach is that very closely related species of Aspergillus tend to look very similar in their broad morphology or physical appearance when viewing them through a microscope.

Interested in examining the varying abilities of different A. nidulans strains to cause disease, we decided to analyze their total genetic content, or genomes. What we saw came as a total surprise. We had not collected A. nidulans but Aspergillus latus, a close relative of A. nidulans and, as we were to soon find out, a hybrid species that evolved through the fusion of the genomes of two other Aspergillus species: Aspergillus spinulosporus and an unknown close relative of Aspergillus quadrilineatus. Thus, we realized not only that these patients harbored infections from an entirely different species than we thought they were, but also that this species was the first ever Aspergillus hybrid known to cause human infections.

Several Different Fungal Hybrids Cause Human Disease.
Hybrid fungi that can cause infections in humans are well known to occur in several different lineages of single-celled fungi known as yeasts. Notable examples include multiple different species of yeast hybrids that cause the human diseases cryptococcosis and candidiasis. Although pathogenic yeast hybrids are well known, our discovery that the A. latus pathogen is a hybrid is a first for molds that cause disease in humans.

(Left) Candida yeasts live on parts of the human body. Imbalance of microbes on the body can allow these yeasts, some of which are hybrids, to grow and cause infection. (Right) Cryptococcus yeasts, including ones that are hybrids, can cause life-threatening infections in primarily immunocompromised people. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Why certain Aspergillus species are so deadly while others are harmless remains unknown. This may in part be because combinations of traits, rather than individual traits, underlie organisms' ability to cause disease. So why then are hybrids frequently associated with human disease? Hybrids inherit genetic material from both parents, which may result in new combinations of traits. This may make them more similar to one parent in some of their characteristics, reflect both parents in others or may differ from both in the rest. It is precisely this mix and match of traits that hybrids have inherited from their parental species that facilitates their evolutionary success, including their ability to cause disease.

The Evolutionary Origin of an Aspergillus Hybrid.
Multiple evolutionary paths can lead to the emergence of hybrids. One path is through mating, just as the horse and donkey mate to create a mule. Another path is through the merging or fusion of genetic material from cells of different species.

It is this second path that appears to have been taken by our fungus. A. latus appears to have two of almost everything compared to its parental species: twice the genome size, twice the total number of genes and so on. But unlike other hybrids, which are often sterile like the mule, we found that A. latus is capable of reproducing both asexually and sexually.

But how distinct were the parents of A. latus? By comparing the parts contributed by each parent in the A. latus genome, we estimate that its parents are approximately 93% genetically similar, which is about as related as we humans are with lemurs. In other words, A. latus, an agent of infectious disease, is the fungal equivalent of a human-lemur hybrid.

How A. Latus Differs From its Parents.
Elucidating the identity of closely related fungal pathogens and how they differ from each other in infection-relevant characteristics is a key step toward reducing the burden of fungal disease. For example, we found that A. latus was three times more resistant than A. nidulans, the species it was originally identified as using microscopy-based methods, to one of the most common antifungal drugs, caspofungin. This result provides a clear example of the potential importance of accurate identification of the Aspergillus pathogen causing an infection.

We also examined how A. latus and A. nidulans interact with cells from our immune system. We found that immune cells were less efficient at combating A. latus compared to A. nidulans, suggesting the hybrid fungus may be trickier for our immune systems to identify and destroy.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our quest to understand Aspergillus pathogens is becoming more urgent. Growing evidence suggests that a fraction of COVID-19 patients are also infected with Aspergillus. More worrying is that these secondary Aspergillus infections can worsen the clinical outcomes for those infected with the novel coronavirus. That being said, we stress that little is known about Aspergillus infections in COVID-19 patients due to a lack of systematic testing, and none of the infections identified so far appear to have been caused by hybrids.

So, when it comes to hybrids, some are fantastic (the minotaur), some are helpful (the mule) and some are dangerous (Aspergillus latus). Understanding more about the biology of Aspergillus latus may help in our understanding of how microbial pathogens arise and how to best prevent and combat their infections.

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$550,000 cut to proposed East Lyme school budget stands
East Lyme - A $550,000 cut to the proposed 2014-15 education budget will remain in place, even after several parents spoke against the cut at a public hearing Monday that was attended by more than 75 residents.
After the hearing, the Board of Finance twice voted 3-3 to defeat two motions to restore $200,000 or $150,000 to the $42,792,767 education budget, which is 2 percent more than the current budget. With the board also trimming some town spending, the budget now stands at $65,113,598, a slightly more than 3 percent increase.
At the hearing, about a dozen residents favored restoring the $550,000 to the education budget and raised concerns on how the district would maintain its tradition of excellence with less money and cuts to afterschool activities.
Resident John Arnold said East Lyme schools spend less per pupil than neighboring districts. While he said the district has been doing remarkably well with the funds, that has come at a cost of maintaining its buildings. He said he understood how challenging the economy is, but pointed to the school system as a driver for real estate values and economic development:
"The reason why most people move to East Lyme is for the schools," he said.
Superintendent of Schools James Lombardo received a round of applause when he asked the board of finance to reinstate the $550,000.
"We have run out of places to save money in order to not cut programs," he said.
But several other residents wanted to reduce the overall budgetary increase. Karen Rak said the town has had budget increases since the recession of 2008. While the budget this year is more than a 3 percent increase, people haven't had a corresponding increase in wages, she said.
"I just don't feel I could push an increase onto my neighbor," she said.
In deliberations, board of finance members discussed the need to strike a balance for its constituents. Board of Finance Chairman Steve Kelley also called this budget cycle the "toughest year."
At a Board of Education meeting Monday before the hearing, residents filled two rooms to hear discussions about potential cuts. Lombardo presented potential reductions that would cut 4.5 teaching positions by eliminating two high school teachers, one teacher from Flanders Elementary School, one from Lillie B. Haynes and a half position for middle school activities. The proposal would further reduce $47,000 in high school activities, $29,000 for middle school athletics, $37,000 in technology resources, $50,000 in instructional resources per pupil and about $40,000 in maintenance projects. It would also eliminate a proposed technology consultant.
Lombardo said administrators had explored two alternatives to the cuts but did not feel those ideas were ultimately appropriate. The two options were closing Niantic Center School to save about $500,000 or removing several positions to support the new teacher evaluation systems that would cost $300,000.
Many parents have expressed concerns about the idea of closing Niantic Center School next year as the district decides what to do with its aging elementary schools. The Board of Education will continue to discuss the cuts next Monday at 7 p.m.
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About Barth's Home Auto Sales & Service
Barth's Home Auto Sales is family owned and operated, since 1977! We believe our passion and strong expertise of the ever changing automotive industry has helped families deciding on their next vehicle one of the easiest decisions. For decades, each and every individual we have had the opportunity to share our passion of the auto industry with has grown the Home Auto Sales family a little larger. Each vehicle on our lot has been carefully hand selected by our family and thoroughly checked to make sure you get the best quality vehicle on the market. To accommodate your busy schedule, we offer after hour & weekend appointments to meet your needs! Shop our virtual showroom of pre-owned cars, trucks, and suvs online and stop by, even if it's just to say hello! Give us a call today @ 301-729-1122 so we can share our passion with you!
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My passion in the auto industry started in 1977, when I personally started our business from the ground up in Cumberland, MD in a repair van making house calls for all types of mechanical repairs. Before my customers would make their next vehicle decision, they would always ask me for my advice. I started locating vehicles for my customers then decided to start a car dealership that offered quality vehicles & hard to find, unique custom rides. In 1992, I expanded our business so you get one on one time with our family to help meet your automotive needs by covering every detail in the sale. Today, like yesterday & always, our family is here to give you the attention you deserve!
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To the Editor:
I'm back on my bandwagon, but this time to benefit the RVC retailers. I was in town on Saturday and out shopping between 9 a.m. and noon.
The free parking — if taken by shoppers — would be wonderful. But instead what I saw was dress shop employees parking in front of the Village Framer and three real estate people on different blocks taking up different parking spots.
If you really want to help the retailer, you certainly can offer free parking and you should for the whole week — or even all of December. But make it an hour or two hours. What this system has done is tied up certain spots for more than six hours on all of South and North Village Avenue.
I should also mention that I visited Rockville Hardware and he had the same problems. Because I walk, I stayed in town. But if I were in my car, I might have shopped elsewhere.
Just a thought for what might work to everyone's benefit — the shoppers and the retailers — in the future. It's embarrassing that so many employees and owners abuse this system. This is nothing new, but to the conscientious retailer, it's a make-or-break situation, especially at the holidays.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.
Sue Roth
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Ryan Howard took a mighty cut, dropped his bat and admired the shot.
The big slugger didn't go down looking in a clutch spot this time, Roy Halladay overcame a shaky start and the Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-6 Saturday night in the opener of their NL division series.
Howard shook off his season-ending strikeout last October in the championship series to hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in a five-run sixth inning, sending Citizens Bank Park into a frenzy.
"I left last year in the past," Howard said. "You can't let what happened last year affect this year. It's a fresh start."
Halladay retired his last 21 batters, and the NL East champions began their all-or-nothing postseason run with a comeback win.
Halladay allowed three runs and three hits, striking out eight in eight innings. He didn't allow a runner after Skip Schumaker led off the second with a single.
"That's why he's the best in the game," Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols said. "We wanted to keep adding on it, but we just never put that inning together again."
Game 2 is Sunday night, with Cliff Lee pitching for Philadelphia against Chris Carpenter, who is starting on three days' rest.
Raul Ibanez hit a two-run shot off Kyle Lohse to cap the Phillies' burst in the sixth, and Shane Victorino had three hits and two RBIs.
Last year, in his first career playoff start, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in postseason history in Philadelphia's 4-0 victory over Cincinnati.
His bid for an encore in the first round didn't last one batter, and Lance Berkman hit the first three-run homer off Halladay in three years to put the wild-card Cardinals up 3-0 in the first.
But the offense bailed out Doc.
"I couldn't think of a worse start and putting your team in a hole like that," Halladay said. "But you get to this point, you're not going to pack it in."
Lohse retired the first 10 batters before Chase Utley hit a double off the right-field fence in the fourth. The righty, who was 14-8 this season, ran out of gas in the sixth.
Down 3-1, Jimmy Rollins singled to start the inning. After Utley struck out, Hunter Pence grounded a single up the middle. That brought up Howard, who heard a lot of criticism for taking that called third strike last year in the NLCS with the tying run on second base to end the Phillies' season against San Francisco.
Howard worked a full count before launching a towering drive into the second deck in right-center to give the Phillies a 4-3 lead.
The towel-waving crowd went wild, and Howard came out for a curtain call.
"In that situation, I knew he wasn't really going to throw a fastball, so I just sat on the changeup," Howard said. "Trying to get me to chase, but he just kind of left one up there hanging for me."
Victorino followed with a single. Ibanez then lined a two-run homer to right to end Lohse's night.
Lohse allowed six runs - five earned - and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings.
The Phillies cruised to their fifth straight division title, winning a franchise-record and major league-best 102 games. Anything less than a second World Series title in four years will be considered a failure by players, management and fans.
A crowd of 46,480 was the 218th straight sellout at Citizens Bank Park, including postseason play. The stadium resembled an apple orchard with all the red-clad fans.
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Updates from ThesePeopleSaturday, May 9th, 2009
It's a lazy Saturday around these(People) parts. Hopefully where ever you are you're taking advantage of the afternoon.
Thursday this week our first ever DVD went on sale right here on the site. If you were at our live show you already got one (or three) for yourself, but now everyone else (in the United States, for now) has a chance. Here are the details and order information! Support your indie sketch comedians, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. At the very least you'd be helping us pay for that human-sized turtle costume.
In other post-live show news, Matt held up our end of the bargain and delivered the proceeds of our 50/50 raffle to the Michigan Humane Society. The woman at the office was extremely happy with the donation and seemed very interested in our work. Hopefully she never watches the end of Help Keep Cats Off The Streets.
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Finally, this week ThesePeople received one of the Internet's highest honors… being remixed by a random YouTube user. It's weird and wonderful, see for yourself…


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Life, 9/11, and the Interstate
Yesterday, I turned 25. I am now a quarter-century old, and closer to 30 than I am to 20. As depressing as that is, I got some good news. I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance.
Which is well-timed, considering I got into my first accident a few days ago. It wasn't my fault. Someone swerved ahead of me, I stopped to avoid him, and the guy behind me was too close and hit me at about 30 MPH. My neck still hurts, and the inside of my trunk is a bit crumpled, but the guy's insurance is going to take care of it all. He's been 25 for quite some time now.
This is the last birthday that people look forward to, except perhaps 65 because then everything gets cheaper. So is it downhill from here? I hope not. Because if I'm going really fast downhill, I may hit someone else.
I've written about having a 9/11 birthday before – I use the day as a time of contemplation rather than celebration. This year, in addition to contemplating life in general, I'm contemplating getting older. Odd that I didn't do that before, since I have been getting older almost every single year of my life.
I did a few 9/11 benefit shows this weekend. I teamed up with Billy Bingo, a retired firefighter and comedian who does a lot of work for the Thomas Elsasser fund, which raises money for NYC firefighters killed outside the line of duty. I try to devote as much of my birthday as I can to helping anything related to 9/11. The rest of it is devoted to being annoyed when people call and don't remember to wish me a happy birthday. I'm kidding. No one ever calls.
Actually, the past few years, my friends have been wonderful about calling me to see how I'm doing. And the answer is that I'm doing great. Even if my neck hurts a little.
The shows were great as well. The folks at Worcester Polytechnic and Anna Maria College in Paxton (as if knowing it's in Paxton is going to help you know where the school is) were very friendly. After the Anna Maria show, there was a vigil for September 11th. The kids thanked me for coming – which was silly, since they were the ones extending themselves to me. I thanked them for having me. And demanded some cake.
Okay, so I didn't demand cake. But I was offered plenty of food afterwards, when we visited the firehouse in Auburn, Massachusetts. Billy knew a friend of a friend, and they offered us dinner and hospitality. I'd never been in a firehouse before, let alone stayed there. The guys were great and they were very happy to meet a New York firefighter, trading stories about people they saved and people they didn't. I was silent through it; I was both fascinated, and feeling ridiculous for ever complaining about my job.
When I stay at a friend's house and he gets a call at 6AM, I am allowed to complain. But not Friday night. At 6AM, I was woken up by a report of an 80-year-old woman with congestive heart failure that needed medical attention. She lived. Just like I did on the highway last week, and several thousand people did a few years ago when they were evacuated from the World Trade Center before it went down.
There's a lot that I wanted to accomplish by the time I was 25 that I haven't. Mainly because when I set those goals, I was 20 and had a very different view of the life I'm actually leading. But I'm fine with that. I am closer to 30 now. But I have the next five years before that actually happens, and I can use them to keep contemplating and set new goals and find the guy that swerved in front of me and whap him in the back of the head with a wet sock.
I am thankful I made it through that accident pretty okay. There was a fourth car that almost nailed me from the side. So I'm thankful I made it to 25 at all. And I am also thankful that, if that 4th car had hit me, there are people who spend their lives saving ours.
If you'd like to help the Thomas Elsasser fund, you can click on "merchandise" at www.billybingo.net and pick up an FDNY comedy t-shirt.
I just did. I can afford to now that my car insurance payments have gone down.


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It's that time again, folks. Time to update another password. Popular matchmaking site eHarmony announced last night that it too has suffered a breach, confirming that the passwords of a "small fraction" of its user base have been compromised.
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The eHarmony hack was reportedly perpetrated by the same Russian hacker who uploaded 6.46 million LinkedIn stolen password hashes Wednesday, June 6. According to Ars Technica, the hacker, who uses the name "dwdm", also posted the list of compromised eHarmony accounts.
According to their blog, affected eHarmony members have had their password reset, and will receive an email with additional instructions on updating their account. Of the leaked list, we can confirm that 1,229,054 hashes were already cracked, and we predict that they'll be cracked in their entirety soon.
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South Korea's manager does not expect Chu-Young Park to play for Watford again this season - with the striker currently in Seoul receiving treatment.
Park joined the Hornets on loan from Arsenal on January 31 but has only played for just over an hour during one start and one substitute appearance.
The 28-year-old has been out injured since the beginning of March and reportedly arrived in Seoul for treatment on April 3, suffering with the skin infection Cellulitis.
Park scored in his last outing for South Korea on March 5, when he came off at half-time against Greece, and is trying to regain fitness for the World Cup in Brazil.
"Park is quickly regaining his form. But it will be difficult for him to go back to England for Watford's final match," South Korea manager Hong Myung-bo said on Monday.
"It would be better for Park to comment on whether he will go back to Watford. He will make a decision after discussing the matter with his team."
The striker, who is also referred to as Ju-Young Park by some, had a good goal scoring record at his previous clubs Monaco and FC Seoul before he joined Arsenal in 2011.
But he has failed to break into the Gunners side in the past three years and his career has suffered, making just seven appearances and scoring one goal. He spent last season on loan at Celta Vigo.


text: Marie Eltzroth, 97, of rural Wabash, died Feb. 6, at her home. She was born Nov. 19, 1915 in Grant County, to John Stanley and Callie Leota (Thomas) Carey. Marie was a graduate of Fairmount High School. She married Roy L. Eltzroth in LaFontaine, on Oct. 17, 1937; he died July 31, 1991. She was a sales clerk at the Marion Ball Store, retiring in 1980. Marie attended the Wabash Friends Church She was a life member of the Eastern Star Fairmount Chapter #277 since the 1940s. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting, reading, the Friends Church, and especially loved her grandkids. She is survived by two children, a son and her daughter, Sondra Lee Martin, Wabash; four granddaughters, Cindy (Paul) Pattee, Wabash, Pam (Terry) Short, Florida, Debbie (Mark) McCoart, Somerset, and Jennifer (Jr.) Smith, Wabash; eight great grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her parents, and sister Pauline Pence. Funeral services were held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service on Feb. 9, with David Phillips officiating. Burial will be in Grant Memorial Park, Marion. Preferred memorial is Wabash-Miami Home Healthcare and Hospice. The memorial guest book for Marie may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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Xenophon (435-354 B.C.) was historian, philosopher, and military commander, born at Athens, son of an Athenian of good position; was a pupil and friend of Socrates; joined the expedition of Cyrus against his brother Artaxerxes, and on the failure of it conducted the ten thousand Greeks—"the Retreat of the Ten Thousand"—who went up with him back to the Bosphorus, served afterwards in several military adventures, brought himself under the ban of his fellow-citizens in Athens, and retired to Elis, where he spent 20 years of his life in the pursuits of country life and in the prosecution of literature; the principal of his literary works, which it appears have all come down to us, are the "Anabasis," being an account in seven books of the expedition of Cyrus and his own conduct of the retreat; the "Memorabilia," in four books, being an account of the life and teaching and in defense of his master Socrates; the "Helenica," in seven books, being an account of 49 years of Grecian history in continuation of Thucydides to the battle of Mantinea; and "Cyropædeia," in eight books, being an ideal account of the education of Cyrus the Elder. Xenophon wrote pure Greek in a plain, perspicuous, and unaffected style, had an eye to the practical in his estimate of things, and professed a sincere belief in a divine government of the world .[1]
Xenophon was the primary historian of the last days of Greece's freedom. His Memorabilia depicts Socrates as a teacher of virtue who balanced reason and faith in order to attain the truth.[2] He wrote a detailed account Hellenica which picked up where Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War left off.
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by Lisa Dolbear
One of the unique things about triathlon is that it's made up of three separate sports. Triathletes typically come from a strong background in one of swimming, biking or running, and draw from that experience while adapting to, and perfecting, techniques within the other two disciplines.
But what about all the other sports out there? 2010 IRONMAN world champion Chris "Macca" McCormack believes this is one of the ways he has separated himself from his competition. In his book, "I'm Here to Win," he writes: "Because an IRONMAN is the most difficult one-day sporting event on the planet, many athletes and coaches have a superiority about it. They don't even consider that boxers, cyclists, or pros in other sports might have secrets that they could use to perform better on race day."
As triathletes, we're plenty familiar with stepping out of our comfort zones, but it doesn't always occur to us that we could get out of the pool or out of the aerobars to tap into other secrets to success. True to the name "multisport," here is advice from some unlikely sources to help take you farther in tri.
Get creative to stay consistent
The most decorated athlete in X Games history, Dave Mirra, is no stranger to handling two wheels. The 24-time medalist is a legendary BMX biker who has been professionally competing for nearly 20 years, and recently completed his fourth 70.3 this year. For BMX, Mirra was challenged with maintaining fresh, interesting moves. "Staying creative after all the years I've ridden is one of the hardest things about this sport," he says of BMX. While triathlon doesn't require the artistry that freestyle biking does, the ability to be creative can help athletes find the consistency that's needed to be successful. Slogging through hours of swimming, biking and running can easily get boring and lead to burn out. Mirra draws on his creativity to keep mentally engaged in training. "To be physically ready for any sport requires consistency," he says. Sometimes the creativity isn't in how we stay motivated to train, but in how we handle obstacles along the way. "In BMX, I've competed around problems and didn't let little things affect the outcome. In tri, you need that same mental toughness to succeed."
Hit the gym for pre-hab
For most triathletes, strength training usually includes a focus on strengthening the core or building muscle in the legs. But for ultimate frisbee athlete Darren Kupinsky, whose team won the 2013 Grandmasters National Championship in Denver, Colo., the gym is a place to improve his odds—not just his quads.
Kupinsky's weekly routine gets him to the gym twice a week for prehabilitiation work—to help prevent injury when he's on the field. "In ultimate frisbee, you can play up to four games in a row in one day. You're in constant motion on the field," he says. Jumping, sprinting and twisting for hours at a time can take its toll on the body, something the 40-year-old Setauket, NY native keeps in mind as he considers future success. Triathletes too could benefit from protecting parts of the body that experience the most wear and tear from training—specifically the knees for running, and the rotator cuffs for swimming.
Dial in your diet
For ultramarathoner turned figure competitor Erica Liberatore, the biggest adjustment from running to strength training was realizing the way her diet impacted her performance. "I spend hours each week prepping meals, labeling them so I eat things in the right order, counting out proteins, carbs and fat," says the 33-year old Watertown, Conn. native. Liberatore is also a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)-certified personal trainer who recently won the "first-time figure competitor" class at the New York State Bodybuilding Figure and Bikini Championships for the Natural Muscle Association. This kind of planning is essential when training for bodybuilding competitions, as diet becomes just as important (if not more so) as the workouts. A triathlete can burn nearly 10,000 calories in an IRONMAN, leading some to believe they can eat whatever they want. However, it's important to remember that when it comes to calories, quality counts just as much as quantity. Says Liberatore, "It's not about depriving yourself, it's about making the right choices. I eat what I want, but I eat clean. I'm not stuffing my face with pastas, breads and desserts."
What other sports and activities do you love? Take a page out of another book and see how it applies to triathlon. You never know, you might just find a new, inspiring connection.
Lisa Dolbear is a three-time IRONMAN and USAT Level 1 coach. Visit her blog on mental skills training at trimojo.com


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text: News RINGO STARR: AN EVENING IN CONVERSATION news 0 0 To celebrate the publication of Ringo Starr's PHOTOGRAPH memoir, on September 25 at 8:00pm, Ringo Starr will appear on stage at LA's historic El Rey Theatre. During the course of a moderated conversation, the audience will be invited to join Ringo Starr looking through rare and unseen photographs drawn from his personal archives. In the words of Ringo Starr: 'These are shots that no one else could have. I just had the camera with me a lot of the time. There's a lot of shots of "the boys" that only I could have taken. Together they chart the story of four lads from Liverpool trying to live normal lives amidst the frenzy that surrounded them.' – RINGO STARR For details visit http://www.theelrey.com Tickets go on sale Steptember 3rd HERE. Read more Paul will reissue the classic solo albums 'Pipes of Peace' and 'Tug of War' on 2nd October 2015 as part of his Archive Collection. news 0 2 Paul will reissue the classic solo albums 'Pipes of Peace' and 'Tug of War' on 2nd October 2015 as part of his Archive Collection. Free download of Paul McCartney 'Take It Away [Single Edit] (2015 Remaster)' HERE: http://www.paulmccartney.com/downloads Pre-order your copy today: http://mpl.pm/ToW_PoP_KingsRoad Pre-order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/PMPoPiTunes Read more LENNON: the first collection of John Lennon's solo albums to be released on vinyl news 3 1 John Lennon's eight remastered solo albums are gathered for Lennon, the 8LP boxed collection on heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl with authentically replicated original artwork. Preorder now and find out more at http://johnlennonmusic.com. Also available for pre-order in the official Beatles stores Read more The Beatles Singles Lithograph Collection news 0 1 We are proud to announce the launch of The Beatles' Singles Lithograph Collection, a curated collection of single sleeves from around the world. Limited to a worldwide edition size of only 400 per print, each print will measure 20" x 20", and available only at TheBeatles.com. Each print will feature one of the band's classic single sleeves drawn from the many international versions, some of which have not been seen since their original release in the '60's. UK / EU | USA | Canada | All Beatles Stores Read more Watch Ringo's "Postcards From Paradise" lyric video and Hear Two More Songs news 1 2 Take a look at Ringo's lyric video for new song "Postcards From Paradise," featuring fan photos, now on Yahoo Music! Get the song plus two more tracks when you pre-order the album on iTunes Listen to more songs off of Ringo's new album 'Postcards From Paradise' now on his VEVO Channel Right Side Of The Road | Not Looking Back Read more Congratulations to Ringo on his induction at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! news 0 1 "As all the other drummers say, he just is something so special. When he's playing behind you, you see these other bands, they're looking around at the drummer, like, is he going to speed up, is he going to slow down? You don't have to look with Ringo. It's a great honour for me to be able to induct him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland tonight!" Read Ringo and Paul's speeches at his induction. See photos and exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the induction on ringostarr.com Read more Get Your Questions Ready! Ringo @TwitterMusic Q&A news 0 1 Have a question for @ringostarrmusic? Ringo will be doing a @TwitterMusic Q&A with @Billboard & @WildAboutMusic on March 31 at 12:45pm PST. Read more 30th March 1967 news 0 5 A behind-the-scenes glimpse at the cover-shot 'could-have-beens', and the people (and paint pots) it took to make the Sgt. Pepper cover. http://gnikn.us/peppershoot #BeatlesArchive #SgtPepper Read more Paul McCartney to bring his 'Out There' tour to Europe in 2015 news 1 3 Paul McCartney to bring his 'Out There' tour to Europe in 2015. In the first 18 months since its launch, Paul's incredible 'Out There' tour has been seen by almost two million people around the world. So far, this tour has seen Paul and his band perform a total of 64 shows in 12 different countries in venues of all different shapes and sizes. "I'm looking forward to taking the 'Out There' tour back to Europe this summer. It's been a little while since I've performed in some of these places so we know it's going to be a fun tour. I hope the audiences enjoy this tour as much as we've been enjoying it ourselves all over the world." Check paulmccartney.com for latest ticket information Read more Albert Maysles news 0 0 "Albert Maysles was a beautiful human being. The many times I hung out with him it was always a pleasure. He was a pioneer of his time, even for a short man. He will be missed. God bless him. Peace & Love, Ringo" Albert Maysles, legendary documentary filmmaker, has died. Albert chronicled the Beatles first visit to the USA in 1964 in the unique candid style that he had pioneered with his brother. It was to become the inspiration for their film "A Hard Days Night". http://mayslesfilms.com http://www.thebeatles.com/film/first-us-visit Read more Happy Birthday George! news 0 0 25th February 2015 On this day we are remembering George. Here is a special announcement from http://georgeharrison.com "HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE! On this day 25 February 1943 George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England. Actually, George himself once said that his actual birthday was the 24th February! So to celebrate both days, here's a never before seen clip of George singing 'Congratulations'. It was filmed during the shoot for the 'All Things Must Pass' 30th Anniversary Edition in 2000 at Friar Park. It's a Traveling Wilburys tune, sung by Bob Dylan on their first album: 'Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.' Watch George sing 'Congratulations' Read more POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE news 0 1 Ringo Starr's 18th studio release, POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE (out March 31 through Universal Music Enterprises) is now available for to order on Amazon! The solo album, with 11 original tracks, is the first to include a song written and recorded by Ringo Starr and his current All Starr Band – Steve Lukather, Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie, Richard Page, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette. POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE was produced by Ringo and recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles and, as always, features friends and family. As Ringo often says, "If I am recording and you're in town and drop by, you're going to be on the record!" Read more Happy Birthday to the LOVE Show's Eleanor Rigby, Silvia Aderne! news 0 0 January 30th marks the 80th birthday of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil 's very own Eleanor Rigby, Silvia Aderne. Watch the birthday greetings from Paul and Ringo! Read more "A MUSICARES TRIBUTE TO PAUL MCCARTNEY" - ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY PERFORMER ON BLU-RAY AND DVD 24th MARCH 2015 news 0 1 'A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney' will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD on 24th March. The film features performances of Paul's music by artists including Dave Grohl [Foo Fighters/Nirvana], Joe Walsh, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Norah Jones, Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Alison Krauss, James Taylor, Diana Krall, Duane Eddy and Sergio Mendes. Full details HERE: http://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/musicares-tribute-to-paul-mccartney Read more The Beatles on iTunes news 0 3 The Beatles catalog is available at a great price on iTunes for a limited time this holiday season. Check out all the band's music and film available at the iTunes Store. Read more George honoured with Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award news 2 9 Many congratulations to George who is honoured with The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. From The Recording Academy: "Multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter George Harrison achieved international fame as a member of the Beatles, one of the most influential groups of all time. The 12-time GRAMMY winner's embrace of Indian music is often credited with helping introduce world music to the West. As a solo artist, Harrison achieved success with projects such as his GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® inducted album All Things Must Pass and The Concert For Bangladesh, the latter of which garnered an Album Of The Year GRAMMY." Recording Academy Press Release Read more Ringo is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame news 1 6 Congratulations Ringo on today's announcement and Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the Award for Music Excellence! "As we mark 30 years of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions, we're proud to honor these artists," said Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation President Joel Peresman. "These Inductees epitomize rock and roll's impact over the past 50 years and continuing through today." Read the full story at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website Read more Sing with John and #IMAGINE a better world for children. news 2 0 http://imagine.unicef.org Lend your voice and be a part of history. Download the free TouchCast app, sing your version of Imagine with John Lennon and share with friends. Your voice will be part of a new 'world version' of Imagine for UNICEF, to be released in time for New Year's Eve 2014. #IMAGINE is a UNICEF initiative uniting millions of people to raise awareness and funds for children's rights globally. In collaboration with Yoko Ono, UNICEF is bringing the world together to create the largest sing-along ever. Every child counts. #EVERYVOICECOUNTS Read more #ImagineNoHunger news 0 0 Join Yoko Ono, WhyHunger and Hard Rock International to kick off the #ImagineNoHunger campaign to ensure every child has the right to sustainable, nutritious food. Read more Wings' Classic Albums 'Venus and Mars' & 'At The Speed Of Sound' - Remastered, Out Now news 0 0 Venus and Mars and At The Speed Of Sound - the remastered Wings classic albums and latest instalment of the GRAMMY award-winning Paul McCartney Archive Collection – are out now! Wings are one of the most successful acts the UK has ever produced, achieving no less than 14 US Top 10 hits and 12 Top 10 hits in the UK. Paul has personally supervised all aspects of the reissues. The remastering work was done at Abbey Road by the same team who have worked on all the reissues as well as The Beatles' catalogue. Read the full story here. Read more "Long Tall Sally" is re-released for Record Store Day news 0 1 The four track EP "Long Tall Sally" is to be released in Mono for Record Store Day's Black Friday in a very limited quantity. The EP complements the recent release of The Beatles in Mono vinyl box and individual vinyl reissues (http://gnikn.us/thebeatlesmonovinyl) Side One 1. Long Tall Sally 2. I Call Your Name Side Two 3. Slow Down 4. Matchbox Original release date: June 19, 1964 Click for more details of where to order your copy Read more Get Back To Mono: Beatles' Recording Engineer Ken Scott On The Best Way To Hear The Fab Four news 0 1 by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh) An Excerpt from VH1.com The Beatles In Mono is perhaps the most crucial Beatles release for those who were not privileged to live in a time when the four Fabs roamed the Earth. For a start, just use your ears. Far from a relic, the sound is more alive, full, and frightfully contemporary than ever before. And that's not just our opinion- it's also the opinion of Ken Scott, the music industry great who got his start as the Beatles' recording engineer. Prior to his groundbreaking work with a list of legends including David Bowie, Elton John, Jeff Beck and Supertramp, Scott was in the room when some of the Beatles' classic recordings were being made, and had his hand on the fader when the original masters were created. Who better to say how these records are meant to sound? Read the full article at VH1 Read more Celebrating John's Birthday: Streaming, HD and More news 1 0 To celebrate John Lennon's birthday on October 9th, Yoko Ono Lennon and Universal Music Group are proud to announce John's music is now available for you to listen on streaming services, as HD audio downloads and more. You can also get his Greatest Hits album 'Power To The People' including a digital booklet at a special low price: iTunes http://bit.ly/PTTP-iTunes (Mastered for iTunes) Amazon http://bit.ly/PTTPAmazon Google Play http://bit.ly/PTTP-Google STREAMING Spotify http://bit.ly/JLennon-Spotify Rdio http://bit.ly/JLennon-Rdio Deezer http://bit.ly/JLennon-Deezer Beats Music http://www.beatsmusic.com/ DOWNLOAD MP3 iTunes http://bit.ly/PTTP-iTunes (Mastered for iTunes) Amazon http://bit.ly/PTTPAmazon Google Play http://bit.ly/PTTP-Google DOWNLOAD HD 24/96 HD Tracks http://bit.ly/HDLennon-HDTracks Quobuz http://bit.ly/HDLennon-Qobuz 7 Digital http://bit.ly/HDLennon-7Digital Read more Beatles Hit Facebook Milestone news 0 1 We've reached 40 million fans on Facebook. Thank you all for your continued support and love of the band and their music. Read more An Urgent Call to Action from Paul McCartney news 0 0 Paul McCartney calls on people to back #MFMclimatepledge ahead of the UN Climate Summit on Tuesday 23rd September 2014. With just days to go until the UN Climate Summit in New York, Paul McCartney has called on people to back the Meat Free Monday Climate Pledge campaign. As well as being responsible for a huge chunk of global greenhouse gas emissions, meat production requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources – land, water and energy – and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation. #MFMclimatepledge aims to get people to commit to a weekly meat free day so that global leaders can see the magnitude of support and enable them to take the idea forward. Please take a couple of minutes to visit http://pledge.meatfreemondays.com, pledge to go meat free for one day a week and share the idea with others. Read more OUT NOW! THE MONO VINYL COLLECTION IS RELEASED news 0 1 The Beatles' nine U.K. albums, the American-compiled Magical Mystery Tour, and the Mono Masters collection of non-album tracks have been released in mono on 180-gram vinyl LPs with faithfully replicated artwork. Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes, each album is available both individually and within a lavish, limited 14-LP boxed edition, The Beatles In Mono, which also includes a 108-page hardbound book. ORDER THE BEATLES ON MONO AT THE OFFICIAL STORES OR AT YOUR LOCAL RETAILER: EUROPE | USA | JAPAN | BRAZIL LOCAL RETAILER Playback the vinyl and find out about the release at thebeatles.com/monovinyl #beatlesmonovinyl AND SHARE YOUR LOVE OF THE BEATLES ON VINYL! 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Read the full story and pre-order at georgeharrison.com Read more "The Beatles: The Night That Changed America - A GRAMMY® Salute" Receives an Emmy® Award news 1 1 The CBS special celebrating The Beatles' 50th anniversary of their first appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show has received an Emmy award for Outstanding Music Direction. Read more Did you see The Beatles at Candlestick Park in 1966? news 0 4 Did you see The Beatles at Candlestick Park in 1966? Are you going back to see Sir Paul McCartney at Candlestick's final concert? White Horse Pictures, who are producing the recently announced film with Ron Howard about the band's touring years, would love to hear your story! Please contact the team at firstname.lastname@example.com Paul is to play "Farewell to Candlestick: The Final Concert" August 14th, the last event at the stadium before it closes, and where The Beatles played their final tour performance on August 29th 1966." 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Any job search worth its weight includes venues for you to showcase your strengths and accomplishments.
Any job search worth its weight includes venues for you to showcase your strengths and accomplishments.
This isn't about your resume. This is about the kind of digital and hard-copy "footprint" you leave on those who could hire you. You can agonize about your resume all you want, but the pieces you create that support it are even more critical.
I wrote "Job Search Marketing" as a book when I realized that most people are not professionally trained or experienced marketers, but would benefit from expertise in that area. It became apparent that many needed schooling in branding and marketing themselves if they had any serious intention of building a successful career.
There are several kinds of marketing collateral that you as a job candidate should consider. Here are the ones that top my list:
-- Digital collateral. How you nurture and grow your digital footprint is critical. Whether it's a Facebook page, professional Web page, blog or your LinkedIn profile, you need to ensure that you are positioning yourself in light of your strengths and accomplishments. Google yourself and see just what kind of digital footprint you are leaving for others to discover.
Our digital world is a two-edged sword. One side gives you the ability to position and broadcast your career strengths and skills easily. The other allows people to judge you based on what they see (or don't see) — and you don't even know they were looking at you digitally. Tread carefully and with thought.
-- Your business card. I meet people all the time in career transition, and when I do, I ask them for their business card. Nine out of 10 will not have one. I know it sounds old-fashioned, but having a card is an important "leave behind" piece of marketing collateral. Never leave home without one.
Most people feel awkward trying to figure out what to put on the card. My recommendation is name, title (or career field of interest for college grads), phone, email and perhaps your LinkedIn profile address. Keep it simple and professional.
-- Your marketing brochure. Yes, a professionally designed, four-color, 8�-by-11 three-fold brochure that highlights your professional background, experience and accomplishments would knock the socks off most employers. Why? Primarily because few if any have the courage to create a tastefully designed graphic and a carefully wordsmithed representation of their candidacy. Warning: Get this professionally done or don't bother. A poorly designed, cheap-looking marketing piece will blow your candidacy up.
The key to marketing anything successfully is to focus on ways of differentiating it from the competition in a positive light. Marketing yourself successfully demands that same kind focus. It sets the tone for what your professional brand stands for. Create both digital and hard copy marketing collateral that highlights and answers the question: Why should I hire you?
-- David Dirks is the author of "Job Search Marketing: Finding Job Opportunities in Any Economy." You can find more information on his job search strategies at jobsearchmarketing.net and by listening to his podcasts at blogtalkradio.com/jobsearchmarketing.


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Warren Buffett is a genius. Everybody knows that. The Omaha, Nebraska—based investor built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most successful companies and in the process made Buffett one of the richest men in the world. In the company's most recent annual report, which is closely scrutinized in investment banking and Wall Street circles, Buffett took the blame for a $3.7 billion decline in the firm's net worth, citing losses in its insurance operations and his own miscalculations. It was the firm's first loss in net value in 37 years.
In the report, he also trained his sights on another issue: stock options. He said that, in the first place, stock options often do not subject executives to the same risk as stockholders, who will suffer if the company's stock price declines. Buffett said that reduced risk is magnified by the common corporate practice of "repricing" or simply issuing new executive stock options when the company's stock price falls.
About the same time the Berkshire report was released, General Electric, a blue-chip stock, provided a prime example of the practice. GE issued new stock options to its executives shortly after 9/11, when the market and GE's stock price fell, even though it had just started a new stock option plan in July. Now some executives have two sets of options and an opportunity to benefit twice if the stock price rises above the price of the first set of pre-9/11 options.
"Though Enron has become the symbol for shareholder abuse, there is no shortage of egregious conduct elsewhere in corporate America," Buffet said in the annual report. Using the example of a company that Berkshire acquired last year, MiTek, Buffett cited a more equitable and appropriate type of plan. Fifty-five employees of the manufacturer of construction material bought 10 percent of the company as part of Berkshire's acquisition deal. They each put up $100,000; some borrowed to get the money. "As they would not be if they had options, all of these managers are true owners," the report said. "They face the downside of decisions as well as the upside. They incur a cost of capital. And, they can't 'reprice' their stakes: What they paid is what they live with."
Living with the consequences of their decisions seems to be a lost concept among CEOs and senior executives of American corporations. They cruise along believing that no matter what they do, they will always reap profits from their stock option plans. Screw up, and the board will reprice their shares. Even without repricing, options offer a veritable gold mine to be exploited—as was the case with Enron. The temptation is overwhelming to manipulate earnings and thus the stock market's perception of the company, to drive up the stock price. Decisions are not made on the basis of good business practice, or what's good for the company, but what's good for an individual's stock options. It's one of the oldest scams in the world, only this time, the victims are not only individual stockholders but the credibility of our entire capitalist economy.
Instead, the system should reward positive business results based over a longer period, say five years. But now, each year we read about CEOs earning big bonuses and exercising huge stock options grants even though the company's earnings and stock prices are declining. That's about as un-American and anticapitalistic as you can get. It's cheating the stockholder and rewarding failure. It's time for a change. Thank you, Warren.


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Panthers rise to top four
THE Penrith Panthers have broken their win-loss cycle in style by defeating the Canberra Raiders 26-20 at the weekend.
It was the team's first consecutive win of the season and propels the Panthers inside the top four heading into their first bye of the season.
Coach Ivan Cleary said that to get consecutive wins on the road was a morale boost for the team.
"To win at Newcastle and at Canberra in consecutive week is a fair achievement," Cleary said.
"It definitely gives us a bit of confidence to win on the road and we're looking forward to getting back at home to play Parramatta after the bye."
The Panthers are on third place on the ladder with six wins and four losses.
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I was browsing the CDC website today and discovered a checklist of developmental milestones for "Middle Childhood," which they define as 6–8 years. I don't typically spend much time with developmental checklists. In fact, I pretty much stopped looking at them when Bud was an infant - he was already doing his own thing in his own way, and I discovered that even a cursory glance through What to Expect the First Year made my blood pressure start to climb.
But today I threw caution to the wind and took a look at what the fine folks at the CDC had to offer. They write (italics and embedded links my own):
Middle childhood brings many changes to a child's life. (True enough.) By this time, children can dress themselves (Pretty much, except for the snapping and buttoning, but I'll call that a check), catch a ball more easily with only their hands (More easily – yes, sure. Check.), and tie their shoes (Nope - but, in fairness to Bud, we usually go with Velcro.). Developing independence from family becomes more important now (Check). Events such as starting school bring children this age into regular contact with the larger world. Friendships become more and more important. Physical, social, and mental skills develop rapidly at this time. This is a critical time for children to develop confidence in all areas of life, such as through friends, schoolwork, and sports. (Check, check, check.)
I have to say: for a child with developmental delays, Bud seems to be startlingly on target.
His quest for independence is especially striking. And for Bud, it's not just about doing things without assistance. It's also about doing things on his own – about striking out as a free agent – about establishing himself as an individual person, unique and separate from his parents.
Last Friday was "Wacky Hair Day" at Bud's school. It was Wacky Hair Day, that is, for the other children at Bud's school. Bud made his needs quite clear in the days leading up to the event: For Bud, Friday would be Brown Hair Day.
Dark Brown Hair Day.
Regular Dark Brown Hair Day.
At the end of Wacky Or Regular Dark Brown Hair Day, Bud's class was scheduled to gather for a rousing rendition of the Chicken Dance. When I dropped Bud off in the morning, Ms. Parker invited me to join them for the Chicken Dancing. She said she'd watch out the window for me and would open the back door when they were ready to begin.
I arrived on time, fifteen minutes before the end of the school day, but the back door to the classroom remained closed. I sat in my car and waited as the minutes ticked by and, eventually, dismissal time arrived. Ms. Parker emerged with Bud, and explained that he'd decided not to have me join them for the Chicken Dance. Bud himself offered no explanation, but hugged me when he saw me, then happily climbed into the car.
I didn't bring it up again with him, but on Sunday, privately, at home, when the two of us were on our own, Bud invited me to do the Chicken Dance with him. We stood together in front of the full-sized bathroom mirror, clucking with our chicken-beak hands, flapping our chicken-wing arms, shaking our tails feathers down to the floor, and laughing, laughing, laughing. Bud didn't talk about it directly, but I understood his meaning: "It's not you, Mom; it's me. I love you, Mom. I have fun with you. But there are some things I need to do on my own."
It was good preparation for me, actually, because it eased me into the conversation that Bud and I had this week when he came home with a flyer about an upcoming first-grade field trip to see a children's play. Parents are welcome, the flyer said, but get your tickets soon!
I read the flyer out loud to Bud and asked if he'd like to have me come along on the field trip.
"Just me and the other kids," he answered quickly. "And Ms. Parker."
"Some of the other moms and dads will be there, Bud."
"So maybe I could come, too?"
"No. You can wait in the car. At school. You can wait and pick me up when it's over. Okay?"
"Okay, Bud."
And it is okay, Bud. You're growing up. You're stepping out. You're moving on.
It's hard for me. But it's good.
It's really good.
And we hold that truth to be self-evident.