BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After leading the Southeastern Conference in scoring throughout the regular season, Kentucky guard Malik Monk was honored as the Freshman of the Year by the league’s coaches on Tuesday to highlight the annual SEC honors for the Wildcats.
Monk and backcourt mate De’Aaron Fox were both selected to the All-SEC First Team, while classmate Bam Adebayo earned second-team honors. All three were named to the All-SEC Freshman Team. Kentucky is the only school with three players on either the first or the second teams.
All 14 conference head coaches voted on the eight-man first- and second-team All-SEC squads. Ties were not broken.
Fox and Monk are joined on the first team by KeVaughn Allen (Florida), Georgia’s J.J. Frazier and Yante Maten, Sebastian Saiz (Ole Miss), Sindarius Thornwell (South Carolina) and Luke Kornet (Vanderbilt).
Adebayo was a second-team member alongside of Moses Kingsley (Arkansas), Kasey Hill (Florida), Antonio Blakeney (LSU), Quinndary Weatherspoon (Mississippi State), Robert Hubbs III (Tennessee) and Tyler Davis and Robert Williams of Texas A&M.
Monk is the eighth Wildcat to win SEC Freshman of the Year as voted on by the league’s coaches in Kentucky’s storied history. He is the seventh player in the last eight seasons under John Calipari’s direction to claim the distinction. With the freshman trio capturing league honors, Calipari has now coached 21 players who have earned All-SEC accolades. At least one player has been named to the All-SEC Freshman Team, including 22 total, in all eight seasons under Calipari, and in seven of the eight seasons multiple players have been tabbed to the squad.
In addition to UK’s three freshmen, Braxton Key (Alabama), Mustapha Heron (Auburn), Lamar Peters (Mississippi State), Grant Williams (Tennessee) and Robert Williams (Texas A&M) made up the All-SEC Freshman Team.
Together, UK’s three star freshmen comprised the top-scoring freshman trio in the nation at 50.0 points per game. They are one of the most decorated classes in program history. Monk and Fox have already hauled in All-America honors, and together the three combined for nine of the possible 17 weekly SEC Freshman of the Week award – more than any other team in the conference.
All three rank among the top 20 scorers for a freshman season in program history. Monk is third with 656 points scored on the year, Fox is 16th with 450 points and Adebayo is ranked 20th with 411.
Monk averaged 21.2 points per game, edging Thornwell by .001 of a point for the regular-season scoring title. His points per game ranks in the top 20 nationally. No Calipari-coached player has ever averaged more than 21.2 points for an entire season (Dajuan Wagner at Memphis in 2002). He’s scored in double figures in all but one game this season and has 17 games of 20 points or more, including a Kentucky freshman record 47 points vs. North Carolina in December. Furthermore, Monk already ranks in the top 15 of all-time scorers in a single season in Kentucky annals. The freshman from Lepanto, Arkansas, is the only freshman in program history with four 30-point games, and six times this season he has scored at least 20 points in a half.
Fox led the league in assists per game at 5.0 per outing. He also ranked in the top 10 in scoring at 15.5 points per game. He is one of three freshmen in the country to average at least 15.5 points and 5.0 assists per game. Markelle Fultz from Washington and NC State’s Dennis Smith Jr., are the others. He made history in November, becoming just the second player in Kentucky history to register a triple-double. Fox had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the historic game vs. Arizona State. It marked the first triple-double since Chris Mills’ had 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists on Dec. 27, 1988. Against Stephen F. Austin, in the season opener, Fox dished out 12 assists to set two program records. The 12 dimes were the most by any Wildcat in his debut, and the most of any player in a season-opening game since assists began being kept during the 1971-72 season.
Adebayo consistently improved as the season went along. He became an inside force for UK’s guard-centric lineup. The Little Washington, North Carolina, native scored in double figures in 24 of his last 28 games and averaged 13.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game during league competition. He has a team-high five double-doubles on the year with three coming among his last six games to conclude the regular season. En route to winning his first SEC Freshman of the Week honor of the season, Adebayo made history along the way. With back-to-back double-doubles against Missouri and Florida, Adebayo hauled in 15 rebounds in both games. He became the first Wildcat to register consecutive games with 15 or more rebounds since Jared Prickett on Feb. 6 and Feb. 9, 1994. It was the first time a UK player had consecutive games with 15 or more boards in league play since Sam Bowie on March 1 and March 3, 1984.
The three freshmen led the Wildcats in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks for the season in and helped guide UK to its 48th SEC regular-season title.
Kentucky returns to action in the opening round of the SEC Tournament on Friday. UK will take on the winner of Thursday’s Georgia-Tennessee game on Friday at 1 p.m. ET. The game is set to air live on the SEC Network.
For the latest on the Kentucky men’s basketball team, follow @KentuckyMBB on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, and on the web at UKathletics.com.
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Champions of the biodiesel tax credit are calling on the IRS to quickly process ’18-’19 claims for the tax credit
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), a relentless advocate for Iowa’s biofuels producers, and her colleague Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), fought hard to include the biodiesel tax credit in the year-end funding package last year. Now, the two Iowa senators are calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to promptly process 2018-2019 biodiesel tax credit claims.
In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Ernst and Grassley write: “With our strong support, Congress took action and renewed the tax incentive for five years in order to support this important industry and provide a positive market signal. Timely payment of claims for 2018 and 2019 is necessary for the recovery of the entire biodiesel industry, including producers, blenders and farmers.”
To read the letter in full, click here.
The Iowa Biodiesel Board, other Iowa farmers and producers, and the National Biodiesel Board are applauding the senator’s strong support for the biodiesel community.
Grant Kimberley, Iowa Biodiesel Board: “There are no better friends to the biodiesel industry than Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst. We appreciate their initiative on our industry’s behalf with this letter to IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig, urging his agency to process claims for 2018 and 2019 tax credits quickly. While interest will be paid on claims that take longer, our senators understand that our industry needs immediate action to help offset the impacts of uncertainty of recent years…We are optimistic the IRS will heed the plea of Senators Ernst and Grassley and process these claims quickly. We have every confidence in the industry’s ability to recover and thrive.”
Dave Walton, owner of Walton Farms and Walton Farms Custom Ag: “Renewal of the biodiesel tax incentive will help sustain and build an important market for Iowa’s soybean growers, who faced a very tough season last year. We appreciate that Senators Ernst and Grassley stood with Iowa’s farmers and biodiesel producers throughout the challenges.” Walton is also an executive director and treasurer of the Iowa Soybean Association and a member of NBB’s governing board.
Tom Brooks, general manager of Western Dubuque Biodiesel: “Last year, several of Iowa’s biofuel producers were forced to close their doors due to the lapse of the biodiesel tax credit and the EPA’s efforts to undermine the Renewable Fuel Standard. Senators Ernst and Grassley have been vocal and effective champions for the industry on both issues.”
Kurt Kovarik, National Biodiesel Board: “On behalf of NBB’s members and biodiesel producers across the United States, I thank Senators Ernst and Grassley for their constant and strong support of the biodiesel industry. The Senators stood with our industry to urge their colleagues to renew the credit, issued last-minute appeals to ensure its passage, and have now followed through to see that the credit provides a much-needed economic lifeline to biodiesel producers and farmers. We look forward to continuing to work with them as strong champions for the industry.”


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I watched in shock a live TV report over TV3 this morning. The TV station was covering relief effort in Segamat High School in Segamat, Johor.
There were about 300-400 people huddled together in what possibly is the school hall. They were made to stay there as their homes are no longer safe to be in as a result of the ongoing flood.
From the interviews, all the victims voiced their discontentment over the slow or no help at all from the state or local authorities. One male victim complained of the lack of aid and food in their shelter, no diapers for the babies, no blanket and proper place to sleep. An Indian lady who was clinging on to her 2 month old baby was chocked in sorrow, please help us she said.
These live pictures are not from Aceh or Pakistan or Sri Lanka or any African country. Here we are, watching our own fellow Malaysians crying out for help, which we are always the first ones to come forward to if the victims are in countries such as was mentioned.
No doubt as reported in the papers more than 50,000 have to be relocated in Johor alone. Yes the number looks big, but dont tell me we have no capacity to organaise help for such a number of people!?
Here we are boasting to be a developed country by 2020 and there is even a state in Malaysia that already claims itself as developed, yet we have no means and ability to provide assistance to our very own people who are in distress.
We can spend billions on building new township and mega structures (a RM30 million Ferris wheel is being constructed in Tasik Titiwangsa to be called Eye on Malaysia, supposedly as a new tourist attraction) yet we cant even provide help to our on subjects when they are really in need.
Already Johor has recorded 6 deaths, two of which were senior citizens who could not be rescued from their submerged homes in time.
I believe we have to seriously look into our disaster relief effort, in the case of Johor there were total mayhem and chaos. I called a friend, a medical doctor who is in Segamat assisting an NGO there, and according to him as at this morning there are some kampungs that are totally cut off from the rest as a result of the flood, and to date no relief effort whatsoever has reached them, imagine these people have been cut off from the rest since the last 2-3 days!
(go to WTV8 Ulasan Akhbar Hari Ini to listen to Dr Abd Rani Osman of Yayasan Amal http://wtv8.tv/ )
And on top of all this, our beloved Prime Minister is happily on a two week vacation overseas!
I am sure if such disaster occurs in other countries, their respective head of state would surely be hands on in providing leadership and assistance, but here in Malaysia ist TAK APALAH, PAK LAH.

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Star of reality TV show Bride and Prejudice Milly Johnson has posted a heartbreaking message about the death of Micah Downey who appeared on the program with her.
In a post on Instagram, Milly told her followers that Micah had passed away on Saturday.
The pair allowed cameras to document their journey as they tried to convince Milly's mother to support their relationship.
"I am struggling to put into words how sad and heartbreaking this, I just hope he is at peace wherever he is and that he will always be watching over his babies," Johnson wrote.
During filming, the couple decided to part ways.
The Seven Network released a statement saying that "the team at Bride & Prejudice is devastated by the news of the loss of Micah Downey. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.'
The cause of death is unknown.
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With quarterback Carson Palmer’s limited work in the offseason, it has raised questions for Arizona Cardinals fans and more about his arm strength. He appeared to be missing a little something early last season and he is 37 years old.
Coach Bruce Arians has had nothing but praise about how Palmer has looked in the offseason. Running back David Johnson also is now a believer.
He told reporters a story on Friday at training camp after completing the conditioning test.
“I ended up having to get stitches in my finger because he was throwing some heat,” he said, “so he is definitely feeling good, I would say.”
Perhaps this lighter offseason load is doing what it should. And perhaps he should try not to injure the team’s best offensive player.


An American tourist in Ireland said he was robbed while rescuing a man from drowning.
Joe Sheehan, 20, from Nebraska, told the Irish Independent that when he saw a man in trouble in the river, he emptied his pockets and went to the man's aid.
"I was just standing on the bridge and watching. His head started to go under so I ran around to the side and took everything out of my pockets, took my trousers and shirt off," Sheehan told the paper .
Sheehan, a trained lifeguard, was able to pull the man from the river, but when he returned to shore, his wallet and cellphone were gone.
"I'm standing there in my underwear, just soaking wet, and I literally have nothing now," he said.
A spokeswoman for police said the theft is under investigation.
More details can be found on the Irish Independent website here: http://bit.ly/1u7ZyBm
Greeks flock to Bitcoin as economy flounders
In the face of another financial crisis, Greek citizens are looking for alternative places to store their wealth — including digital currencies.
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- Happy Anniver5ary, St. Boniface!
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- Travelogue will explore Colorado River this Saturday
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- Everyone wins at the Souper Bowl
- Grammy-winning Brits to rock The Main in Ephrata
- Taste of the Town: Happy Holidays from Miner’s Club and Iron Valley Tubing
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- Not a silent night…East Cocalico supervisors field questions in lively last meeting before holiday
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Inspired to help others
Making The World A Better Place
By Michelle Brenner
Three years ago, Nancy Bachman saw a church sign advertising a clothing give away. It reminded her of a time when she was struggling to afford clothing for her own growing family. She remembered what it was like trying to make ends meet during difficult economic times and she was inspired to do something to help others in similar circumstances. "I knew my church couldn’t do something that cost a lot of money," she said," but I thought this was something we could do."
At first, Bachman was uncertain that a clothing ministry would work at her own church, Bible Fellowship of Ephrata. "I wondered if people would come out of town so far," she said. In spite of her doubts, she decided to undertake the challenge. With the generous support of her church and family, Bachman started "The Community Closet," a place where local residents can get clothing for free.
On the first day of the clothing give away, Bachman’s doubts were dispelled when the church’s parking lot filled up with cars and people were lined up at the door an hour before opening. Since then, crowds have continued to gather, on the second Saturday of each month at Bible Fellowship’s door.
Although people come to the "Community Closet" for needed clothing assistance, they receive much more while they shop. Customers are invited to sit down at tables and enjoy complimentary coffee and doughnuts. Children are given crayons and paper to entertain them while their parents shop. The ministry also gives away household supplies and church volunteers are readily available to offer support to interested customers.
Bachman is clear about the intent of the clothing give away. "This is God’s ministry," she emphasized, "He pressed it upon my heart. Its purpose is for people to see the love of Christ. It’s a way for our members to help others. We’re just trying to be there for people."
Bachman and her team of volunteers try to demonstrate their love by generously giving their time to the ministry.
Running the Community Closet is an arduous task that requires lengthy preparation. In the weeks prior to the giveaway, as many as 300 items of clothing are collected and sorted by a team of church volunteers. On the day of the giveaway, volunteers are especially busy setting up tables, arranging clothing and waiting on customers.
In spite of the time commitment required to run the Community Closet, Bachman is enthusiastic about the impact it’s having. She is encouraged by its success and by the positive feedback of the patrons. "People are very grateful," said Bachman, "They even send us thank you cards."
Although Bachman appreciates the positive response to the Community Closet, she is not driven by the affirmation. She is a woman who serves as a lifestyle. In addition to managing the clothing ministry, she helps with her church’s youth program, does the bookkeeping for an international ministry and hosts a church home group.
In spite of all of her ministry demands, Bachman still finds time to work full-time and serve 28 family members holiday dinners in her home. Her ability to fulfill all of these endeavors seems to be nothing short of supernatural and perhaps it is. Bachman is a Christian woman who puts her faith into action, as she devotes herself to others and succeeds in making the world a much better place.
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Reese Witherspoon may have endured a SHOCKING arrest with hubby Jim Toth early Friday morning — one that planted them IN JAIL for disorderly conduct and suspicion of a DUI — but she made sure to take her sweet, Southern ass all the way up to NYC for work on Sunday!
It was absolute MEDIA MAYHEM at Moma!!
Reese hit the Mud red carpet premiere with determination (and without prison clothes), strutting alongside co-star Matthew McConaughey in all black as she greeted the photographers but answered no questions.
The indie film is due in theaters April 26, but Reese and Jim are due in Atlanta Municipal Court at 8am Monday morning. And something tells us the sassy 'tude she demonstrated with the cop might take a backseat in front of the judge!
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Though the 2013 Grammy Awards in the folk, roots, and Americana categories were handed out during a pre-telecast (broadcast live from Grammy.com), the 2013 Grammy Awards prime time telecast had no shortage of folk and roots-infused music. There was a tribute to Levon Helm featuring favorites like Brittany Howard (of Alabama Shakes), Zac Brown, Mavis Staples, Mumford & Sons, and Elton John. The Lumineers vied for Best New Artist and, in a moment of particular buzz and coup, Mumford walked away with the trophy for Album of the Year. It was actually quite an eventful night for the roots, folk, and Americana communities, in addition to the fact that the Woody Guthrie archive scored a trophy for Woody at 100 and Bruce Springsteen was honored earlier in the week by an all-star rootsy crowd for being chosen as the MusiCares Person of the Year.
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Students and community members under 18 are encouraged to submit a design for the upcoming Queer, Trans, and Allied Student Virtual Summit of the Central Coast — Fall 2020. The design contest is open to all currently enrolled high school and middle school students located in Santa Cruz, San Benito, or Monterey county. All entries must be original creations and designs which incorporate the summit theme “Self-Care and Sustainable Activism.”
Objective: The objective is to call local artists, community members, and students to participate in a creative and dynamic process and showcase their artwork.
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- Include a design for the front and back of the t-shirt
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- Must incorporate the theme title “Self-Care and Sustainable Activism”
- Must include the name of the conference “Queer, Trans, and Allied Student Virtual Summit of the Central Coast — Fall 2020”
- Must include the date of the event “October 10, 2020”
- The design will be printed in white ink on a black t-shirt
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Diabetes: 4 vegetables that are good for your health if you are suffering from high blood sugar
Broccoli is high in proteins which helps to improve the blood sugar levels by slowing down the absorption of carbs. Also, it nourishes the good bacteria in the stomach which helps to keep the gut healthy. (Picture courtesy: Pexels)
- Lettuce: This green-leafy vegetable is rich in Vitamin K which can help to improve insulin regulation, thereby, improving blood sugar levels. The Vitamin K present in lettuce also helps in blood clotting.
- Eggplant or brinjal: This vegetable is rich in fibres and proteins which slows down the process of absorption of carbs into the blood, thereby, keeping blood sugar under control.
- Broccoli: This vegetable too is high in proteins which helps to improve the blood sugar levels by slowing down the absorption of carbs. Also, it nourishes the good bacteria in the stomach which helps to keep the gut healthy.
- Cauliflower: Like broccoli, this vegetable too belongs to the family of cruciferous vegetables which are high in fibre content. These fibres also help to keep the stomach full for longer along with maintaining blood sugar levels.
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Joe Biden: A legacy of failure after only eight months (and 47 years)
FLORIDA: The fiscal health of a nation can reasonably be predicted by looking at the Producer Price Index (PPI.) The PPI program measures the average change over selected periods of time in the selling prices of goods received by domestic producers, for their sale to the consumer. Think about inflation, it is first knowable through the PPI.So a look at the PPI for the excruciatingly long eight months of Joe Biden should reveal the monetary health of our nation since he began directing fiscal policy.
But the economy is not the only item Joe has messed up in eight months in office. (Joe Biden Has Spent 47 Years in Washington With Almost Nothing to Show For It)
On an unadjusted basis, the final PPI index moved up 7.3 percent, for the 12 months ending in June. This is the largest advance since 12-month data were first calculated in November 2010. Under Trump, even during the financial shutdown due to the Chinese flu pandemic, the PPI didn’t come close to this much of a disaster.
Inflation is now set to continue for a few more months at least, and possibly into next year, and beyond
All due to Ole Joe’s Marxist policies that are breaking small businesses and wreaking havoc on consumers. Everything from food, to building materials, to medical supplies is costing more because Biden hasn’t got a clue how business works.
Worse, he doesn’t care.
Food companies are saying that they will be raising prices even higher soon, and that will not be reversed.
Import prices are up due to COVID, floods in China, and the closing of a major export port.
Shipping is still a major issue, driven by higher oil costs. Joe drove those prices up by forcing closures of oil exploration and pumping, on national lands. One of his many executive orders that no one knows about.
Trucking in the US is causing massive delays in the transportation of consumer goods.
This is caused, in part, by a shortage of drivers. There are no truck drivers because they earn just as much staying home with their families as going to work. With all of the extended payments now available under unemployment benefits and COVID relief, supported by Biden and Democrats, there is little incentive to spend weeks away from families delivering consumer goods.
Republicans don’t get off of the hook here, as too many RINOs have helped pass these massive handouts.
But it is all on Ole Joe that the independent drivers are all but a memory. Only a few years ago, under the business-friendly Trump administration, these small business owners flourished. But with the flood of regulations, most passed by executive order, being an independent truck driver is no longer viable.
Part of the reason is the cost of gas. That rise in gas costs affects consumers, you and me, at the pump, at the grocery store, and at WallMart.
Everything shipped by truck, train, or airplane cost more to ship due to Biden’s extraordinarily stupid policies.
Gas prices are up and not likely to go down anytime soon as Biden continues to ramp up regulations while closing US oil drilling.
Amazingly, Joe’s answer to our gas problems, and those of our allies, is to ask OPEC and Russia to produce more crude oil. That will certainly help the environment as the Middle East and Russian oil won’t hurt the ecology, only American oil causes global warming.
While Russia and OPEC countries hire more workers due to Biden policies, 10,000 American workers have lost their good-paying jobs.
Consumer prices are going to continue to rise and inflation is not going away anytime soon.
Americans are facing increased food and gas prices every day, and now they are beginning to notice them in earnest, and realizing, in spite of the mass media cover-up of rising inflation, that this problem is caused by Biden and Democrats.
It is showing up in polls and will get worse for Democrats each month as the problems get worse. There is a very good possibility that as Dems go home for a break, they will get slammed by consumers, and more importantly, by campaign donors, about the $5.5 Trillion bills.
It will be a resurrection of the Tea Party movement when soccer moms and dads had enough of Democrat foolishness.
We will see.
Republicans and Republican PACs need to put out strong ads as soon as possible because Congress is home now, meeting with constituents.
This is the way to stop what is happening in Congress. Whatever you can do to push this is critical now. Contact your congressman/woman and let them know that you oppose the $5.5 Trillion package. That alone will ensure that inflation skyrockets.
Most readers are too young to remember the Carter presidency, but he was as big a buffoon as is Biden.
He instituted anti-capitalist policies, too. Those resulted in double-digit inflation and interest rates. Buying a house under Carter was the same as using a credit card, interest was so high. And every month under Carter inflation rose.
A pound of ground beef rose almost 50 percent in a year. Chicken cost as much as steak did prior to Carter. Biden is about to outdo Carter in both interest and inflationary rates. The PPI indicates this.
By the way, as you let your congressman/woman know your feelings about the $5 Trillion bill, don’t forget to tell them how you feel about teaching Critical Race Theory and the 1619 nonsense to our young people.
Both of those need to be stopped, too.
The debacle now unfolding in Afghanistan may just be the tipping point for many Americans.
Some MSM outlets are turning on Biden for mishandling this withdrawal. Even the New York Times could not resist attacking Biden on this disastrous action. His total cluelessness about the military has caused many people to begin to take note of all of his other shortcomings of leadership.
And even if not affected by Afghanistan, every time they go grocery shopping or fill up their car, his leadership style is causing people to turn on him. They fully realize his inability to lead this nation. (Obama Defense Sec. says Biden as VP was wrong on nearly every big foreign policy issue)
On one of the talk radio programs, there was a man who expressed his remorse for having voted for Biden.
He said that Trump’s tweets were not as bad as Biden’s lack of leadership. How many others now wish they could change their votes? Trump may have not sounded polished like a politician, but he was a natural leader.
Everything Biden has done in office has resulted in chaos.
His border policy has not only caused mayhem at the border, but it is also turning into a Chinese flu super-spreader event. It is estimated that upwards of 20 percent of illegal aliens entering are positive for the virus. And what is Joe’s response? To send busloads of infected into red cities in the dead of the night, The COVID hot spots in Texas and Florida can be attributed to those illegal aliens.
Speaking of COVID, through Joe and Democrats we are beginning to shut down the economy once again and reinstating mask mandates.
People are tired of mask mandates and are starting to resist them. Along with the mask mandates, Biden and the company are closing in on vaccine passes. Traveling from state to state will require a vaccine passport. The federal government is already forcing workers to take the vaccine, or else.
Investigations are now showing that China got WHO to skewer the investigation report to cover up the Wuhan lab leaking the COVID-19 virus. This is on top of the Republican COVID source report that Fauci lied, Facebook lied, the media lied, and Biden lied, and that the COVID-19 virus actually originated from the Wuhan laboratory.
Crime is out of control across the nation, police are being shot in record numbers, and Ole Joe’s answer is to defund the police.
Biden wants to unconstitutionally upend voting laws, to ensure that Democrats never again lose an election. And, like Obama, he has stated that he wants to “transform America,” into a socialist left-wing country.
Harris is a complete incompetent who, ever since she was appointed to take over the border, has been in hiding. Possibly in Joe’s basement. However, never fear, Biden knows who to turn to in a pinch. He has called New York Governor Cuomo a success. He is sure to turn to him, once Cuomo leaves office in shame, for advice.
Biden is now knowingly defying SCOTUS and has extended the no the eviction order. He is grossly and unlawfully defying the order of the court. Without a peep out of the MSM.
Biden can’t even recall the name of the governor of Michigan, let alone where he is half of the time.
His cognitive disabilities are becoming more apparent every time he is on television, which is less all the time.
And to add salt to the open wound that Biden is to this country, China is moving troops, ships, and airplanes into position to invade Taiwan.
This after their state-run newspaper noted that after his actions in Afghanistan that if China takes Taiwan by force that Ole Joe will do nothing.
We all knew Biden was stupid going into the 2020 election.
But just how stupid we didn’t understand.
Ole Joe’s legacy after only eight months was best expressed by none other than Bill Gates. He said Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for over 47 years. The last eight months have only reinforced more than 40 years of incompetence.
About the author:
Political Staff Writer Joseph Ragonese is a veteran of the United States Air Force, a retired police officer, has a degree in Criminal Justice, a businessman, journalist, editor, publisher, and fiction author. His last book, “The Sword of Mohammad,” can be purchased at Amazon.com in paperback or kindle edition.
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“Paul Ryan is not going to be the speaker of the House in January,” Hannity said.
“He’s not going to be speaker.”
The comments from Hannity came as it seemed ever more likely that Trump would capture the White House, accomplishing one of the most stunning political upsets in history.
Ryan and Trump have clashed throughout the campaign cycle. The Wisconsin Republican initially refused to endorse Trump before later offering tepid support. He routinely denounced Trump for the real-estate mogul’s controversial comments.


Development of the British Blues and Rhythm--- show 18 --- 11-12-2014
Mayall with Mick Taylor 1967Jimmy Page Yardbirds 1967
Chicken Shack 1967
This being the third show in a row to feature John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, we will be putting our focus on Mick Taylor and the time he spent with John. Mick was born January 17th 1948 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and began learning the guitar by the time he was eleven. He had an uncle who turned him on to 50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll after he had been to a Bill Haley concert, and Mick was well on his way by 1962 with his first band, the Strangers. With his next group, the Juniors, a single was recorded in 1964 for Columbia, There’s a Pretty Girl with the flip side Pocket Size. Taylor was a member of the Gods (along with future Euriah Heep keyboardist Ken Hensley) in 1965 and 1966, by which time he was starting to listen to the Blues.
Already versed in Mayall’s material by the time he attended a concert in 1966 when Eric Clapton failed to show up, Mick asked if he could sit in in his stead. With nothing to lose, Mayall allowed him the opportunity and he impressed enough that John put an ad in the Melody Maker to locate him when he needed to replace Peter Green. The nineteen year old Taylor responded and was installed as one of the newest Bluesbreakers. At the same time, Mayall recruited guitarist Terry Edmonds (who quickly left to join Ferris Wheel) and saxophonists Rip Kant and Chris Mercer.
Along with Mayall and McVie, the three joined drummer Keef Hartley in the studio on July 11th and 12th and recorded the Crusade album. I may have already expressed my opinion that the album is a smoother listen than the two preceding LPs which are considered by many to be among the finest of their time, but the musical press mostly did not agree. Rolling Stone wrote, “You can find better Blues groups, white and black, by the dozens; and if you dig the material, the originals are still around. And, in the case of Muddy Waters or Albert King, the originals are very much better in terms of musicianship.” Still, the album climbed to #8 in the UK and #136 US.
In September of 1967, John McVie finally left to join Fleetwood Mac (possibly because of Mayall’s Jazzier leanings at the time but more likely because Mac was growing in its appeal so it was no longer a financial risk), being replaced by Zoot Money’s bassist Paul Williams. Around the same time, Rip Kant’s departure brought about the arrival of Dick Heckstall-Smith, most recently with Graham Bond. Quickly showing up in the studio on September 14th and 15th, the revised band recorded the single Suspicions parts 1 & 2.
I’ll take the time to explain that I usually play the albums pretty true to the order the band (or record company) originally placed them, but for Crusade I deconstructed the LP and reassembled it in a way that sounds best to my ear. I also opted for part two of Suspicions as the strong opener of our second set because there was a little more instrumental and a little less of Mayall’s vocals. I must admit that through the first three albums his voice was not yet noticeably getting on my nerves.
The album immediately following Crusade was an interesting adventure called The Blues Alone and, as its name implies, Mayall played all the instruments with the exception of Keef Hartley adding drums or percussion to some of the tracks. Interesting in its attempt, not so much its results, although I haven’t listened to the album in decades.
The Bluesbreakers spent the waning months of 1967 touring Britain and the continent while Mayall carried around a reel-to-reel recorder to collect over 60 hours of live samplings. These were sorted and submitted to Decca in January with the caveat that the sound quality was not of studio caliber but that the tapes were a true representation of his working band. The Diary of a Band was issued in two volumes in 1968 in Britain but took an extra two years to reach the American market, and while the sound quality is not up to studio standards I found the CDs much better listening than I recalled. It was during this period that Paul Williams left and Keith Tillman took over the bass duties.
In his book Blowing the Blues, saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith recalled his time spent as a Bluesbreaker, regarding Mayall as “a nice easygoing bloke … Where he got his hard taskmaster image I have no idea whatsoever” and that “His modus operandi seemed to be: get the right players and leave them to it. The only musical instruction I ever got from him was that ‘Right then, on you go.’ look … And to cap it all, John paid noticeably better than the GBO (Graham Bond ORGANization).”
January 1968 saw the Bluesbreakers first American tour, beginning with a two week stay at New York’s Café au GoGo and culminating in San Francisco for four night gigs each of the tour’s last two weeks. As I mentioned in last show’s commentary, Bill Graham had booked Mayall with Albert King and Jimi Hendrix (possibly for the second week only) and I was fortunate enough to have attended one of these shows but Mick Taylor’s amp was messed up and therefore found that portion disappointing.
Once back in England, Paul Williams dropped out and the 15-year-old Andy Fraser, recommended by Alexis Korner whose daughter he was dating, joined for about six weeks on his way to becoming bassist for the band Free. Soon afterward, Mayall added Henry Lowther on trumpet and violin and, when Keef Hartley was sacked, Heckstall-Smith was reunited with his former drummer from the GBO, Jon Hiseman. When Fraser left, Hiseman himself had a reunion with bass player Tony Reeves, a fellow graduate of the New Jazz Orchestra.
All these changes having occurred in the first two months of 1968, the new seven-man lineup went into the studio in April and came out with the album Bare Wires. Heckstall-Smith gives us some insight on one portion of the Bare Wires Suite, subtitled Fire. Included on the tapes Mayall did over the last two months of 1967 were anything he found interesting on stage or off and one of those segments was of a sexual encounter that was supposed to have been highly energetic. After editing it into a seven minute tidbit, he played it for Hiseman and asked him to interpret whatever he heard through his drum kit, later to be overdubbed. It was an excellent example of Hiseman’s style but the entire suite was an undivided 22 minutes with little else to make it worthy of about one-eighth of today’s show. All in all, the album received the best chart ranking so far with #3 in the UK and #59 in the US.
Of the three songs we did take from the LP, two were the handiwork of Mick Taylor. His instrumental Hartley Quits is inappropriately titled as you will hear the conversation between Mayall and Hartley on the first track of his first album which clearly shows the decision was not Keef’s, but that is down the road a few months. No Reply was co-written with Mayall and John decides to tell us about his possibly pedophilic tendencies when he speaks of a romance: “very soon she’ll be seventeen” in She’s Too Young. No kidding! The 35-year-old Mayall romancing a 16-year-old? The music is good so it gets included here, unlike a song from his next LP Blues from Laurel Canyon where he sings about the Medicine Man who cured him of VD on his California vacation. Apparently his standards for what is appropriate and entertaining vary greatly from mine.
Again, notes from DHS’ book expand upon what is generally available regarding the paring down of the band. Late in July of 1968, Mayall told the band that for the next tour he was planning to cut back down to a four-piece and tone down the volume. He got Dick and Mick together to say he would decide in a week whether he would go with a saxophone or the more accepted Blues guitar lead. One evening when he found Dick warming up alone he told him, “Hullo Dick – it’s bad news, I’m afraid.”
DHS and Hiseman had been talking about putting together a new band, so Dick contacted Jon, but Hiseman wanted to stick with Mayall for the American tour after which they could get together, but three months was too long for Dick to stay stagnant; he likely would have moved into another commitment by then. Bottom line for that saga is Hiseman did opt out of the Mayall tour and the two, along with Reeves put together Colosseum, but that is a tale for another day.
So Mayall was left with only Mick Taylor for his toned-down quartet, recruiting drummer Colin Allen, whom we heard previously with Zoot Money and Georgie Fame, and bassist Stephen Thompson. In August 1968, they went into the studio and laid down tracks for Blues from Laurel Canyon, the last album for Decca and the first under just John Mayall with no mention of the old band name Bluesbreakers, also the last Mayall session for Mick Taylor. 33 UK and 68 US were the album chartings.
In September, Mayall took the band to America on a ten week tour, then flew back to London to headline the three-day Blues Scene ’68, also featuring Muddy Waters, Champion Jack Dupree and the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation in November. All of the recent work had taken its toll as John was sidelined in late January with a diagnosis of “influenza and physical exhaustion”, causing the rearrangement of bookings until mid-February. After some British touring, the band was off again to the states. Upon their return in May, the band was disassembled once more, keeping only bassist Thompson for his new drummerless project with guitarist Jon Mark and the return of saxophonist Johnny Almond, fulfilling Mayall’s idea of a sax-centric unit although the theory was that all musicians receive equal time.
The result was the live album Turning Point, and that is when we will be next visiting the Mayall epic. As for Mick Taylor, Mayall did not forget him when Mick Jagger came around soliciting suggestions regarding a replacement for Brian Jones and Taylor became the next Rolling Stone on June 13th 1969.
*************************I had a write-up started about Chicken Shack but ran out of time to finish it properly so will include a full bio of the band when we do our second edition some time in the future.
Surprise! I do have standards I must live up to. Probably hard to tell, though!
*************************We gave a pretty good rundown of the Yardbirds through the departure of Eric Clapton, and it was so long ago that I opted to copy it to this posting immediately following the playlist in case anyone wanted to locate it easily. That said, when Clapton gave notice in March 1965, the band had to find a replacement and their first choice was Jimmy Page. Page was certainly a guitar virtuoso if by no other standard than the fact that he was probably the most sought out and active studio Rock guitarist in the UK. He kept himself so busy, in fact, that when the Yardbirds first extended the invitation he knew he was better off continuing what he was doing than to join a band that had finally come up with their first successful selling single in For Your Love Instead, Jimmy suggested his friend Jeff Beck, who had been playing with the Tridents since late 1963.
Beck went to the Marquee to audition for Giorgio Gomelsky, owner of the club and manager of the Yardbirds. The band had found their man and Beck played on the three track EP Five Yardbirds, released in April. Later that month they appeared on the BBC’s TV show Top of the Pops to promote their earlier single, For Your Love. They went on a package tour headlined by the Kinks the first three weeks of May. Initially, Beck was not received particularly well, leading to one time when he took the microphone to express, “Don’t be so fucking rude. Don’t you read the papers? Eric’s left.”, but rather quickly he won over the audiences with his own style.
For Jeff’s first single with the band, he convinced them to resurrect a song they had tried with a sitar player who couldn’t quite get the timing down. Heart Full of Soul featured Beck’s guitar emulating the instrument and was released with the B-side Steeled Blues, derived from a Chuck Berry instrumental. With Paul Samwell-Smith on the engineering side of the recording, Ron Prentice provided the bass. The 45 got into single digits on both sides of the pond, #2 UK and #9 US.
Epic, the Yardbirds’ American distributor, patched together the album For Your Love with both sides of each of Clapton’s three singles and a couple of outtakes alongside Beck’s three EP tracks. The album cover featured Beck even though Clapton provided the lion’s share. Their two week September tour of the states to promote the album wound up being a disaster as the group was not allowed to perform on the TV show Shindig and the taping for Where the Action Is was never aired, all due to union and work visa problems, but they did manage an appearance on Hullabaloo. They also were not allowed to check into their Los Angeles hotel and were unable to get into Disneyland, presumably because of their long hair.
Limited regarding broadcast and play for pay as they were, the group still tried to accomplish something on their trip so they went to a couple of the legendary American recording studios: Sam Phillips’ Sun Records in Memphis, where they recorded Train Kept A-rollin’ and Mister You’re a Better Man Than I, and the Chess brothers’ studio in Chicago, putting the studio version of I’m a Man to tape. While there, they were also able to catch Muddy Waters band and Jeff was even invited on stage. Appropriately, New York City Blues was done at that city’s CBS studio.
Once they were back home, the band released a 45 that got equal airplay on both sides of the record, Evil Hearted You and Still I’m Sad, the latter resembling a Gregorian chant. In America, Still I’m Sad backed I’m a Man. Both were put out in October and went #3 UK and #17 US. In late December, the Yardbirds began another US tour and they needed an album in support. They only had a little over half an album’s worth of material so that is likely the reason they took four songs from the Five Live Yardbirds date to fill the back half of the LP. That is strictly my conjecture but, no matter, the resulting Having a Rave Up was far better than the previous and one of the best of the entire British Blues genre. Still, the album only reached #53, but the band did take the opportunity on December 21st to again stop by the Chess studio, this time recording Shapes of Things, which would climb to #3 UK and #11 US after releases in February and March.
Individually, the readers of Beat Instrumental voted Beck a close second behind the Shadows Hank Marvin as the nation’s top guitarists; Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty were working on “an abstract comedy”; Paul Samwell-Smith wished to take lead vocal on Green Trees; Keith Relf was putting together Mr. Zero with orchestral backing; and Beck was planning on an instrumental version of Summertime. As Relf put it, “All the members of the other leading groups are known individually to the fans – but not us. So it seemed a good idea to try some solo discs.” Relf’s project was the only one to come to fruition and it made #50 on the Brit charts.
April saw Gomelsky ousted in favor of Simon Napier-Bell and Beck coming down with meningitis, but they were back in the studio in May to lay down the tracks for their first UK album. First release from the session was the single with Over Under Sideways Down (later the album’s American title) and Jeff’s Boogie which hit #10 UK and #13 US. The feel of the LP was not dissimilar to the Beck side of Rave Up with some more innovative ideas. One of my favorite songs (because of the way Beck bends one extended note in the instrumental), The Nazz Are Blue, was omitted from the US album but appeared late in the year as the flipside of Happenings Ten Years Ago, which only reached #30 while the album hit #20 UK and #52 US. Why are these American numbers so low? I and most of my friends bought the albums and, against my nature, I even bought that 45.
Before the album even came out, Samwell-Smith dropped out from the group. Although he was beginning to play less and less in the studio his musical directorship made a strong mark on the group, and production was the direction in which he wished to go. After the announcement, the plan was for Dreja to take over the bass duties but until he properly learned the instrument Jimmy Page would handle it. As it turned out, Page decided to stay on and make it a two guitar attack.
As we have already read, Page was an integral part of the Dave Berry and Them recordings and he participated in releases by the Kinks and numerous other groups in the early to mid-sixties, but now he was ready to get back to stage work, as he brought up with Hit Parader, “I was drying up as a guitarist. I played a lot of rhythm guitar, which was very dull and left me no time to practice.”
The point of no return, so to speak, came during their third American tour in August of 1966 when Beck came down with tonsillitis. Fortunately, Dreja was close enough to ready to take over on bass as Page switched to lead guitar. As Relf observed, “Jimmy has been doing great … It’s the first time I have seen him really blow out on stage.” With the idea of Jeff and Jimmy both as leads, Jimmy told Beat Instrumental “I think it will move more to free-form. Mind you, it will be highly organized. The whole thing must be done tastefully otherwise the Yardbirds’ sound would be ruined.
”Happenings Ten Years Time Ago was recorded with the twin guitar leads but its flipside, recorded at the same session, had Page back on bass. The Yardbirds’ Stroll On was the only other recorded piece of Beck and Page both on lead that has come to light and it was a double surprise. First, producer Michelangelo Antonioni wanted the Who for his movie Blow-Up, but when they were unavailable he went with the Yardbirds. And second, it was intended that they would play The Train Kept A-rollin’ but the royalties were too high so the band just changed the lyrics.
When things were good they were very, very good and when they were bad … well, as critic Norrie Drummond put it in the New Music Express, it was “outrageous cacophony which completely drowned out Keith Relf’s voice. Perhaps if Jeff Beck cut out the gymnastics with his guitar, the group might find some semblance of music!”
One night in Texas during a four week US tour, Beck got angry and threw down his Les Paul guitar, smashing it and quitting the band. The group finished out the tour as a four-piece and when the it was over there was plenty of speculation regarding the makeup of the band. Napier-Bell stated that Jeff left due to health issues, and that “There is no question of his being sacked”. Beck responded to Disc and Music Echo, “It’s not true. I’m still with the group” and Relf replied to the same magazine, “Jeff has left. There won’t be a replacement. We find we are working better as four – with Jimmy on lead guitar”.
One of the reasons for Napier-Bell’s replacement of Gomelsky was in hopes he would bring in more revenue to the band members and, when that did not happen, they again changed managers to a former road manger and pro wrestler, Harry Grant. The Yardbirds were disappointed with the low ratings for the Happenings single and Grant sought out producer Mickie Most to keep that from recurring. Most had had success with pop groups like Herman’s Hermits, Lulu and Donovan, but while he was picking music for the Animals they felt that what he handed them to record did not reflect the true nature of the band which was what they played on stage.
Most’s first attempt was Little Games backed by Glimpses but it fell short at #51.US and failed to even chart at home. Coincidentally, Most was also responsible at the same time for Jeff Beck’s first solo release, a trivial little song Hi Ho Silver Lining which I must confess is a guilty pleasure of mine and reached a much more respectable #14 in the UK. About the same time, the Greatest Hits LP was released stateside and by far outdid their previous albums at #28.
Most even had the bad taste to put session players backing Relf on their next release, Ha Ha Said the Clown, which had already been recorded by Manfred Mann and thus not released in the UK. Its B-side Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor featured Page using a violin bow on his guitar during the solo. Little Games had the worst American showing of any Yardbirds single ever, but Clown was a close second worst at #45 and was stylistically definitely the bottom of the barrel.
The band was given a mere three days to record the rest of the Little Games album,, which was again deemed inferior and not released in the UK. Page’s complaint, as told to Trouser Press in 1977, was that “It was just so bloody rushed. Everything was done in one take because Mickie Most was basically interested in singles and didn’t believe it was worth the time to do the tracks right on the album.” The album ranked a dismal #80 in the US.
Most’s next attempt was Ten Little Indians, backed by a standard Blues tune, Drinking Muddy Water. I wonder if the release was a success would I still be crediting it to Most? Needless to say, it was not and hit the American charts at #94. The next release, Goodnight Sweet Josephine fared even worse with a high point of #126 US
So in the tenure of this supposedly masterful pop producer from early 1967 until the breakup of the band in mid-1968, the Yardbirds only released the one single in their home country. Brilliant. Page explained it to Hit Parader: “We had done Happenings Ten Years Time Ago on our own and then our manager decided to turn us over to a producer. We thought it was a great idea because the producer just had tremendous success with Sunshine Superman. We had tremendous confidence in him. So we did Little Games and it didn’t do very well, but that was all right. It was a reasonable number to do. Then he gave us Ha Ha Said the Clown, which we didn’t like, but we still had confidence in him. Over a period of time, his ideas started to kill us off.”
Early in their 1968 tour, an attempt to record their March 30th appearance at New York’s Anderson Theater was made with the idea of a live album release, but sound quality issues made the band decide to trash the idea. Still, after Page’s success with Led Zepelin, Epic overdubbed some applause and issued it in 1971 as Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page. A displeased Page saw to it that the LP was taken off the market so it has kinda become a collector’s item.
There was a schism in the group with Relf and McCarty wanting to do more of a folk-oriented repertoire while Page and Dreja wished to remain solid rockers. The last concert with these four was at Luton Technical College on July 7th 1968, following which Relf and McCarty formed the band Together while Page and Dreja tried to carry on some semblance of the Yardbirds. I’m not sure how Dreja got out of the group but, ultimately, Page put together what would become Led Zepelin and fulfilled some Scandanavian contractual obligations. But when they returned home to England, Dreja sued to keep them from using the name Yardbirds, and thus another band was born. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Man of Stone
My Time After a While
Stand Back, Baby
The Death of J.B. Lenoir
Oh, Pretty Woman
I Can’t Quit You Baby
Checkin’ Up on My Baby
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor
It’s Okay with Me BabyLonesome Whistle
When My Left Eye Jumps
When the Train Comes Back
The Right Way is My Way
King of the World
Little GamesDrinking Muddy Water
Smile on Me
The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page
Suspicions Part 2Your Funeral and My Trial
Please Don’t Tell
Knockers Step Forward
She’s Too Young
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor
What You Did Last NightBaby’s Got Me Crying
Get Back Like You Used to Be
Worried Aout My Woman
I Wanna See My Baby
See See Baby
I’d Rather Go Blind
VacationWalking on Sunset
Long Gone Midnight
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor
*************************By the time Clapton joined the Yardbirds, they had pretty much completed their formational phase. The earliest assemblage would have been in the late fifties when the rhythm section of drummer Jim McCarty and bassist Paul Samwell-Smith, then playing guitar, joined some schoolmates in the Strollers. After adding Paul’s brother, Brian Smith, the band renamed themselves after his Gretsch guitar, becoming the Country Gentlemen and playing copies of basic American Rock ‘n’ Roll such as the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and Ricky Nelson plus the English chart toppers Cliff Richard and the Shadows, performing at high school dances and pubs until the individuals graduated in early 1962.
Later in 1962, Chris Dreja and Anthony “Top” Topham were getting together listening to and learning tunes by Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed, among others, while in attendance at Hollyfield Road School in Surbiton, coincidentally simultaneously being attended by Eric Clapton. They put together an R&B group that stayed together until merging with the Metropolis Blues Quartet in May 1963.
The MBQ was an acoustic Blues group including Samwell-Smith, now on bass, and Keith Relf as its harmonica playing singer. At the same time that McCarty rejoined Samwell-Smith, Topham and Dreja came into the fold. Relf came up with the name Yardbirds (meaning hoboes who hung out around train yards) and the boys began to put together a repertoire based on American Blues such as Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters.
After a couple of weeks, they convinced Cyril Davies to put them in the intermission set at his Eel Pie Island Hotel gig and did well enough that they joined them similarly at his gig the next week at the Railway Hotel in Harrow. This second showing earned them a Friday night residency and they soon picked up a regular spot at Ken Colyer’s 51 Club. As a new band with a limited set of material combined with the fact that Colyer’s club was often an all-night affair, the songs had to often be extended well past their original three minutes or less to as long as twenty minutes while the band learned to improvise and progressively build up the dynamics into what would become their trademark “rave-ups”.
When the Rolling Stones deserted their manager Giorgio Gomelsky in favor of Andrew Loog Oldham and gave up their engagement at Gomelsky’s Crawdaddy Club, Giorgio chose the Yardbirds as the new house band for his Sunday night shows starting September 29th, 1963, seamlessly replacing the Stones one week after their last appearance. Having been brought up in France and Switzerland, upon immigrating to England in the mid-50s Giorgio’s endeavors would make him an important character on London’s Blues and Jazz scenes. He had filmed the Chris Barber Band’s performance at the First Richmond Jazz Festival in August of 1961 and by mid-1962 took over occupancy of the back room of the Station Hotel every Sunday evening to promote Trad Jazz with an appreciation also for Blues. After taking on the Stones in February, Giorgio moved to the larger Richmond Athletic Club and continued to sell out each week. Following the release of the Stones’ first single, the band needed an even larger venue and the door opened for the Yardbirds. Having been burned by the Stones, Gomelsky put the Yardbirds on a salary and made sure they signed a managerial contract. A few weeks into their new gig, the 16-year-old Topham was convinced by his parents that his schoolwork was more important than his musical avocation, and that is where our story goes full circle back to Clapton, playing for the first time at the Crawdaddy on October 20th, 1963. Keith Relf had been a schoolmate at Kingston Art College and, being familiar with his recent musical talents, invited Eric to consider joining the band.
Meantime, Gomelsky’s friendship with Horst Lippman and Fritz Rau, producers of the American Folk Blues Festival series of shows, often gave him first opportunity to promote the visiting musicians in the UK. While in the country, Lippman and Sonny Boy Williamson attended a Yardbirds show in Croyden and were impressed so much with Clapton that they determined to come back after the festival tour and record shows with the band. Giorgio convinced them his Crawdaddy Club would be the ideal venue and the shows happened on December 7th and 8th, 1963, but were not released until mid-1966, and then only in the US and with the picture of Jeff Beck rather than Clapton on the album cover. The opening set of the band finally made it to vinyl much later, in 1981 on a German label. We lead off our first Yardbirds set with two tracks from these opening sets, Let It Rock and You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover..
The Yardbirds also had a regular Saturday night slot at Croyden’s Star Club and began a Thursday residency on January 23rd, 1964 at the Marquee. When the club moved to a larger venue, the band played the opening night of Friday March 13th (coincidentally the last of Sonny Boy’s concerts in the UK), and continued on Fridays rather than their previous Thursday shows. The group also played at Birmingham’s town hall for the First Rhythm and Blues Festival in February, once again backing Sonny Boy. Also on the lineup were Steampacket, the Spencer Davis Rhythm and Blues Quartet and Long John Baldry’s Hoochie Coochie Men (including Rod Stewart).
The Yardbirds were in the studio in December and January making three demo tracks that enabled Gomelsky to get the group signed with EMI. They then put together I Wish You Would and A Certain Girl for their first single, released in May 1964.
The band was booked for the August 9th Fourth National Jazz and Blues Festival in Richmond but, the evening before, Relf suffered a collapsed lung and nearly died. Being the most important gig of their career thus far, the band went on to close the Festival utilizing Mick O’Neill, whose band Clapton would consider joining after his departure from the Yardbirds, as substitute vocalist. The band’s finale was a jam session with Georgie Fame, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker and Mike Vernon joining them on stage. With Relf’s health (he was a chronic asthmatic) putting the status of the band in limbo, they decided to go into the studio and lay down the instrumental foundation for their next single, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Contradicting his doctor’s recommendations for three months recovery time and against pleas from the band, Relf left the hospital after only two weeks and added the vocals and joined the band in recording the flip side, I Ain’t Got You. The A-side was banned by the BBC but still reached #44 on the strength of their popularity on the club scene. Much of the rest of the year was spent on package tours where Relf felt their portion of each show would be much less stressful than their normal full-night shows.
Realizing the minimal success of their first two singles, especially compared to the vitality of the live performances, the band decided their debut album should be a live recording. The natural choice for a venue would be the Marquee so in March of 1964, everything was set up for the resulting Five Live Yardbirds album, released in its entirety in the UK in December and only partially in the US as one side of the Rave Up album. Rolling Stone writer Lester Banks later considered it “without a doubt one of the four or five most exciting rock concerts ever recorded. The early Yardbirds were loose and raw and played with a breathtaking natural energy that has never been matched by any of their progeny.” I would like to know the others he has in mind to consider adding to my collection. In spite of having half of it already on the American Rave Up LP, I purchased the import around 1968 along with Graham Bond’s Sounds of ’65 to listen to some pre-Cream material and I have never come close to regretting either purchase. Because I consider it that good, the whole Five Live album is used to close today’s show.
In May of 1964, Clapton had the opportunity to share guitar duties with Muddy Waters on a session for his longtime piano player, Otis Spann. Apparently two tracks featuring Clapton were released but I have only one in my collection, Pretty Girls Everywhere, a song that I have heard done by many artists since and seemingly always done well, but this is my favorite version. Because it was not with the Yardbirds, I have opted to include the track in an upcoming show. For the Yardbirds next 45, Clapton wanted to do an Otis Redding tune, but Samwell-Smith had more sway over the rest of the band and he wanted to go with a more commercially viable song they been asked to record by the teenage songwriter, Graham Gouldman, titled For Your Love. Clapton disapproved vehemently and refused to take part in the recording, agreeing at the last minute to put a lead in the instrumental break. Along with Relf’s vocal, the song utilized an outside bongo player and bass player (Samwell-Smith instead was on the production end) and Brian Auger playing harpsichord. As it turned out, by totally dropping their R&B roots for Pop drivel, the Yardbirds finally achieved the success they were hoping for when the March UK release climbed to the number three spot while its May US debut reached #6. Got to Hurry was a Clapton-penned R&B instrumental that was the flip side and Eric’s first recorded composition. It was Samwell-Smith’s opinion that “the R&B sound is a bit dated now” and Relf confided that, regarding the public’s musical appetite, “If they want more pop numbers, we’ll play them.”
Disillusioned, Clapton gave public notice in March 1965 that the Yardbirds no longer had his services. Where would he find a home and be allowed to develop his Blues skills? And who could possibly replace Clapton and keep the Yardbirds whole? Hint: it wouldn’t be Brian Auger or any other harpsichord player.


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The transition between heaven and hell at the Playa de Muro in the north of Mallorca is located at "La Santa. La Santa means "The Saint. She is a young woman with big eyes, shiny lips and long dark hair.
L inks of La Santa is heaven: fine light sand of Playa de Muro, turquoise water and a picturesque view of the Bay of Alcudia. Five and a half kilometers measures the Playa de Muro. Many consider it one of the most beautiful beaches of Mallorca. To the right of La Santa it becomes less beautiful, if one does not direct the view straight to the sea. Here at the beach one hotel is lined up to the next one. Welcome to Can Picafort in Mallorca, Spain.
Playa de Muro on Mallorca
The saint watches over the beach bar of the same name as an image. On the shady terrace you can escape the midday sun and have an excellent lunch. From the sea you can hear the sound of the waves. From loudspeakers come with discreet volume relaxed summer hits. The white furniture is made of wood and spreads a typical Spanish vacation flair. You can hardly get more Mallorca vacation feeling than here.
The wind is strong at Playa de Muro. He shakes the straw decoration attached to the roof, plays in a man's hair and throws himself against the waves. The view of Alcudia is as fantastic as the weather. Far behind on the horizon mountains stand out. On the left you can see very small the marina of Alcudia. The green spot on the right is the golf course. In the north of Mallorca there are two big bays. On the one hand the described bay of Alcudia with the Playa de Muro (also: Platja de Muro) and behind it the smaller bay of Pollenca.
The beach towards Can Picafort
We pay our bill and I am reminded of Charon the ferryman. The ancient Greeks had the idea that Charon would carry the souls of the dead to the afterlife. That is why they put a coin on the tongue of the deceased. When I pay La Santa, I remember this story. She gets not only a coin, but even a few bills, so it must actually work with the transition to the other section of the beach.
Well strengthened we set off and leave the Playa de Muro. It quickly becomes clear: No, this is certainly not a hell, which opens up in front of us. At the most a bed castle hell. The many hotels are disturbing and are built too close to each other. But the sandy beach itself is also very beautiful here.
Again and again we pass surf schools where you can rent equipment. A sign reads:
The prices are as salty as the sea: adults 35 €, children 17.50 €. Duration: about 3 hours. A map explains the tour – or at least tries to do so. It goes to the Llevant Nature Park – and hopefully back again.
How to save yourself in undercurrents?
At Playa de Muro wind and waves are extremely strong. That's why there are safety signs on the beach. In short: bathing is forbidden when the flag is red, allowed when the flag is yellow, if you are careful. There is a dangerous current here: the undercurrent. If you are caught by it, you should not fight against the current. Rather, one should "swim out of the current and toward the beach".
The sign goes on to say: "If you can't escape the current, you'll be treading water. In case of emergency call for help or draw attention to yourself with arm movements."The worst thing that can happen is that you are caught by the current and drifted out to sea. Just in case, there are lifeguards at eight vantage points along the beach. And from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Especially in the high season in August the red flag appears more often. You can hardly miss these signs.
Conclusion about Playa de Muro
All in all, the long sandy beach is wonderful to have a relaxing vacation here. Water sports enthusiasts get their money's worth. And even non-swimmers who just want to sit in one of the beach bars and enjoy the view will find nice, quiet places here.
Insider tips and hints for Playa de Muro
- On the beach there are free public toilets, which are in a good condition.
- There is a large parking lot in front of the beach (free of charge).
- Along the beach there are volleyball courts and beach ball fields.
- The Playa de Muro is barrier-free for wheelchair users.
- The busiest months are July, August (high season) and September. In June and October the flow of visitors flattens out a bit.
- Livecam or. Webcam from Playa de Muro is available here: Livecam
- You can check out the current weather and weather forecast for Playa de Muro here: Weather
- The current water temperature is displayed here: Water temperature
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In the new Blu-ray/DVD release Planes: Fire & Rescue, out today, world famous air-racer Dusty has discovered that his failing engine could terminate his career, so he turns to the firefighters at the historical Piston Peak National Park to train him in aerial fire fighting. The sudden change in heart and lifestyle comes after Dusty accidently starts a fire that the safety trucks cannot handle. Aging fire truck Mayday stresses that the Propwash Junction needs to update their fire protection.
At Piston Peak, Dusty joins the veteran group with hopes of becoming a Single Engine Air Tanker (SEAT). Dusty trains under Blade, a tough helicopter. As a result, Dusty feels compelled to hide the faults in his engine. He also catches the attention of Dipper, a water-scooping plane on the team. Smokejumpers Blade Ranger and Dipper teach him how to navigate dangerous wildfires and become a true hero, no longer paralyzed by his fear of heights.
Bound to captivate audiences young and old, the star-studded cast includes Dane Cook as Dusty, Ed Harris as Blade, Julie Bowen as Dipper, Teri Hatcher as Dottie and Regina King as Dynamite. With a cast of comedians, it’s no doubt that the film is laced with adult humor that keep parents content while their kids enjoy the plot.
The sequel to the widely successful Planes took four years to produce, with many of the animated scenes completed prior to the first installment. Dane Cook, who is best known for his stand-up comedy, raves about the evolution of his character, besotted with the idea of Dusty undergoing emotional and physical changes from his time in the first film.
The Blu-ray features extended clips; deleted scenes; an exclusive animated short titled Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular; a virtual tour of Piston Peak and a music video for Spencer Lee’s “Still I Fly.” Adults will also enjoy the extensive research commentary that goes into describing the inspiration and techniques that go into making the characters come alive. Also available for home release today are: Maleficent, Hercules, Step Up All In, A Most Wanted Man and White Collar: The Complete Fifth Season. For a full list of DVDs, click here. ~Nadira Chand


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Vegas water plan gives critics déjà vu
Includes Utah sources: They fear the city will share L.A.'s insatiable 20th-century thirst
Officials from a large, well-financed and hugely influential government agency propose a massive water project in a sparsely populated desert valley. They promise to be good neighbors while taking only what they need to quench the thirst of their rapidly growing urban population. And they warn, in the most dire terms, that a water crisis looms if their plan isn't implemented.
That represents the guts of the case being made by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to tap groundwater resources in eastern Nevada's arid valleys - including some that sit underneath Utah's west desert - and ship it 200 miles south to Las Vegas via a pipeline network.
But James, an attorney from eastern California's Owens Valley, and the former water department director for Inyo County, warned area residents and visiting legislators here last week to be skeptical of such claims.
The Southern Nevada proposal, he says, has been taken from the same basic sales blueprint Los Angeles officials used nearly a century ago to wrest water from his community, with disastrous consequences.
"There are a lot of parallels here," James said. "In the '20s and '30s, William Mulholland [the Los Angeles water superintendent] was also saying 'Don't worry.' Los Angeles assured Owens Valley residents that there was plenty of water.
"They came to take only a little," he continued. "But as the city continued to grow, they couldn't stop themselves."
Los Angeles originally sought only surface water from the Owens Valley - primarily in the form of snowmelt from the adjacent Sierra Nevada range. And the city's original proposal called for taking water only from half of the valley. But as Los Angeles grew, so did the scope of the water grab. The city began buying up more property and water rights, and by the 1930s owned nearly all of the valley's farm and ranch lands.
Environmentally, Owens Valley has never been the same. Fifty miles of the lower Owens River dried up in 1924, about a decade after the construction of the first aquifer in 1913. Water diversions killed off Owens Lake in the ensuing years. And the construction of a second aqueduct and groundwater pumping parched the valley's springs, seeps and meadows by the 1970s. Only the passage of California environmental laws and lawsuits that took decades to resolve halted the pillaging.
Today, the county and Los Angeles have a joint water-management agreement. Some water resources have been restored and groundwater supplies have been stabilized. But what was once a largely agricultural valley is now known more for its dust problems.
There's a lesson here, says James, a 30-year resident of Owens Valley, especially now with the Southern Nevada Water Authority buying up ranch properties in the region in a bid to expand its hold on water rights. The water authority began staking claims in 1989.
"Las Vegas is telling you to trust them," he told residents of the Snake Valley, which straddles the Utah-Nevada border. "But when you go to Owens Valley, you can see what happens when big cities own ranches. There's not much ranching going on."
While not disputing what occurred in Owens Valley, Southern Nevada officials dismiss attempts to link their proposed groundwater project to what Los Angeles did decades ago.
"In 1913 there wasn't a [National Environmental and Policy Act] and there wasn't an [Endangered Species Act] and there weren't any water laws in California that offered any protection," said Kay Brothers, the water authority's deputy general manager. "The Owens Valley mantra is those dry river and lake beds and what happens when surface water is taken out. But we're not taking any surface water. This is apples and oranges."
The Southern Nevada Water Authority proposal calls for the removal of about 180,000 acre-feet of groundwater annually. About 91,000 acre-feet would come from Spring Valley, where the LDS Church owns a large cattle ranch and has expressed concerns about the project. Another 25,000 acre-feet would come from Snake Valley. The project is vitally necessary, water authority officials argue, because Las Vegas is less than a decade away from reaching the limits of its current water resources.
Because 70 percent of the Snake Valley aquifer lies on the Utah side of the line - Nevada accounts for about 60 percent of the groundwater recharge - Utah water officials must sign off on the Southern Nevada project before it is approved.
The two states are close to finalizing a water-sharing agreement. But that deal will precede the completion of a U.S. Geological Survey study of the region's groundwater resources. And that is where much of the contention lies. Area ranchers and environmental groups want the Nevada state engineer to withhold approval of the project until after the USGS study is complete.
The state engineer will begin hearings on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's permit application next week.
"If they build that pipeline, they'll take the water, and they'll keep on taking more and more water because they have the money," said Cecil Garland, a rancher from Callao, on the Utah side of the line. "And if that happens, you're going to have a bunch of dead valleys."
Brothers, the water authority's deputy general manager, insists that won't happen. Continual monitoring of groundwater wells, and regular rotations of the wells, she maintains, will prevent the groundwater tables from becoming depleted.
"To say we're going to dry everything up is just not true. That's just not what's going to occur," Brothers said.
James, however, urged area residents and political leaders to be vigilant. Don't wait until it's too late.
"You have a lot of challenges," he said. "Use the power of that Utah-Nevada agreement. Get the studies done. Demand automatic triggers [stopping water withdrawals] so you're not arguing while water is being drawn down. Define what you'll accept. You can't afford to be unsure about this."
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Vegas Water Plan Gives Critics Deja Vu (The Salt Lake Tribune 090606)
BAKER, Nev. - Greg James knows a little bit about the politics of water. And he says he has heard this pitch before:
Having lived in the Owens Valley I got to see first hand how Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Turned the Upper Owens Valley into a Desert Community first. The Ground water used to feed the grass in some of the Pasture Lands and in the Winter all the way to the middle of June then by Sept. they would get wet or moist again, however the ground water pumping that DWP did Pulled that Water down to a level below that which there was a varying height each year. The Pasture would stay dry all year instead of feeding the reeds that we used to make our forts with, and Ironically that is what the Indians of the area used to make their huts to live in was the same type reed witch needs moist almost muddy ground to grow in. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is and Has changed the Valley forever!!

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The kitchen is the pivotal gathering place in most homes. We start the day with nourishment and meaningful conversation in the kitchen….and we reconnect at the end of a busy day in the kitchen, too. Kitchens have become much larger spaces, opening into the family room for entertainment value. But unfortunately, we’ve lost the natural kitchen designs we fondly recall from our grandmother’s homes.
In our efforts to streamline the preparation of meals and create more efficiency in the kitchen has led to the creation of more clinical, cold spaces. This is largely due to the surfaces. These days stainless steel, marble and tile are the dominant materials. White, gray and neutral tones have become the color palette.
To bring more warmth back into your design, you must learn to think of your kitchen in a more holistic context.


text: The site, located 4 blocks, or 0.4 miles, from the Mount Vernon metro station stop, and 6 blocks from Union Station, has major visibility in the neighborhood, with its long frontage along I-395, as well as its K Street frontage. This innovative development consists of two components: 1) the Grandfamilies Component which provides 50 – two and three bedroom units of housing for grandparents raising grandchildren, serving families with income levels between 30% – 50% AMI; and 2) the Affordable Component providing 173 units providing studio, junior one, one, one plus den, and two bedroom units of housing serving individuals and families with income levels at or below 60% of AMI. Each Component has its own distinct entrance and amenity spaces; with shared parking. The Grandfamilies Component has a significant support service program, targeting both the children and the seniors, including a Grandparents Library, a Fitness Room, a Kid’s Room, and a Social Service Staff area. Each lobby has 24-hour concierge service. Amenity space for each Component (Grandfamily and Affordable) is included. To the north of the Grandfamily entrance, residents can enjoy an over 9,500 square foot landscaped area, including a basketball court, garden, and courtyard. Additionally, a large flexible community room for the Grandfamilies is located on the 12th floor, with expansive City views. A Grandfamily laundry room and lounge is located on each residential floor. The Affordable Component of the building includes a fitness room on the ground floor, a business center, courtyard, and community room on the second floor, and a roof deck with laundry rooms located on each floor. The project is designed to meet Enterprise Green Communities 2011 criteria, with a focus on healthy homes and indoor air quality. Construction completion August, 2018.