This unknown teenage guitarist was given an unprecedented opportunity to display his talent when Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine released Never Look Back on their new label Guitar Recordings. The editors certainly heard something that they liked, banking on Blues Saraceno to capture the attention of their large readership: rock musicians eager to compare their chops with the hottest young guitarists going. With his pure tone and precise technique, the flashy shredder emphasized smart phrasing and rhythm and avoided overplaying -- an indulgence many young guitar hopefuls could not stop themselves from partaking in. Highlight cuts include the upbeat boogie number "Full Tank," the fine echo management of "Before the Storm," and the most melodic of his Satriani-like tracks, "Frazin'." A much more mature player than his post-Vai and -Satriani competitors, Saraceno lacked the elder guitarist's melodic vision and personality. But considering Saraceno's age and experience, Never Look Back is an impressive debut.
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Crock pot creamy chicken breast and potatoes. Chicken Crock pot Dinner: Main Course Dishes. Crock Pot Creamy Ranch Chicken and Potatoes. This extremely easy recipe for Crock Pot Creamy Ranch Chicken and Potatoes is the best comfort food meal, easy enough to cook for dinner guests, and will leave your house smelling.
I already had in mind that I wanted to make a main dish for dinner with the sweet potatoes instead of a typical side dish that you would see at the holidays when most of us, I dare say, eat sweet potatoes. Keywords crockpot chicken breast, italian chicken breast, slow cooker chicken and potatoes, slow cooker chicken breast. Chicken is plentiful here and affordable. You can have Crock pot creamy chicken breast and potatoes using 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Crock pot creamy chicken breast and potatoes
- You need 6 of chicken breast bs.
- It’s 1 can of cream of chicken.
- You need 1 of onion.
- Prepare 1 of salt and pepper to taste.
- You need 6 medium of sized potatoes.
The combination of chicken and potatoes, carrots, and onions is delicious any time of the year, but If the chicken is whole, cut into serving pieces such as breasts, wings, and legs. This Creamy Chicken Stew recipe is simple to make and tastes great with biscuits or dumplings. See recipe card at bottom of post for quantities and full instructions. Chicken Broth- For Instant Pot version only.
Crock pot creamy chicken breast and potatoes step by step
- Cut potatoes into medium size chunks place in crock pot with cut up onion and season taste. Add seasoned chicken breast to crock pot along with your can of cream of chicken. Add half a can of water and turn on high for 4-6 hours..
- After 2hours stir in cream of chicken then continue cooking..
See recipe card below for Crock Pot. This crock pot chicken stew is so quick and easy with pantry staples and your slow cooker! Seriously delicious comfort food your family will love! Tender chicken, potatoes and carrots in a rich and savory, creamy, tomato-based sauce. Seriously delicious comfort food your whole family will love! ~ This Crock Pot Cheesy Potatoes and Chicken is super simple, while still being delicious!

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Is a Bigger Tax Refund Better?
Call me crazy, but about this time every year an image pops into my head of Paul Revere riding a horse, swinging a lantern, and screaming, “Your refund is coming!
Your refund is coming!” OK, so I know it’s greenbacks, not the British on their way, but what can I say? That’s just how my brain works. What about you, though? Does tax season fill you with anxiety or anticipation?
Because it’s tax time again you’ll most likely be confronted with one of these scenarios:
- You didn’t have enough withheld so you’ve got to write a check to Uncle Sam.
- You had just the right amount withheld and this tax season will be a non-event.
- You had too much withheld and you’re getting a check.
As it turns out, the vast majority of us, including Team Halliwell this year, are in camp No. 3. According to the IRS website, for the past few years about 77% of tax filers received a refund of just about $3,000 on average. So I guess the natural question that follows this is pretty clear, “Is this a good thing?”
My answer: Maybe. Really Scott? Isn’t getting a big refund supposed to be a bad idea?
OK, let me address this point right up front. Yes, from a purely financial perspective, getting a big refund is a bad idea. And if you’re getting one, the most prudent course of action is to adjust your withholdings so that you receive very little or nothing back next time you file your taxes. After all, any money you get back when you file your taxes (except for refundable credits) is simply a return of the money you had withheld over the course of the year that exceeded the amount of your tax bill — without interest.
For example, if the tax bill calculated on your tax return is $7,600 but you had $10,000 withheld, you’ll get a $2,400 refund of your own money — not $2,400 plus interest. If instead, you had adjusted your withholdings so that you received that $200 per month in your paychecks, you could have saved this money on your own and earned some interest along the way (though admittedly very little in our current interest rate environment). The bottom line here is that financially speaking, it typically doesn’t make much sense to give the IRS an interest-free loan.
So, why then would I answer “maybe” to the question of whether or not a big tax refund is a good thing? Well, the answer is, there’s theory, and then there’s reality. And the reality is that for some people, the forced saving inherent in a larger-than-advisable refund is their best (if not only) real chance to actually get some money in the bank. Many people simply don’t have the discipline to save the money on their own or their life circumstances would make it very difficult to do so. In such cases, forced saving in the form of over-withholding on one’s taxes may just be a different way to achieve a good outcome.
Also, there may be non-financial reasons to set yourself up to get a refund. I’ll personally be getting one this year but it’s not for forced saving purposes. It’s because years ago there were several times when I had the unfortunate experience of having to write large checks at tax time. It felt awful and the feeling has never left me. So now I intentionally avoid that anxiety by making sure I get some back each year. For me, the missed interest is worth the trade.
However, if you’re one of the people in the forced saving camp, I have an important message for you: DON’T SPEND THE MONEY! (Or at least not all of it.) Keep some of it in the bank for life’s unexpected financial emergencies. Emergencies are going to happen, you’re going to need money when they do, and now you’ve got some put away to deal with them. Who knows? It may even work out that next year you’re not so eagerly awaiting that guy on the horse!


text: Celebrate the valiant life of Yar with this pin depicting her in uniform. From Fansets comes a set of highly collectable pins that includes all your favorite characters from the Star Trek Universe. Collect Yar and all your other favorite characters in pin form (sold separately)! These pins are the perfect addition for anyone's collection or outfit. This Star Trek Yar Pin measures approximately 2-inches tall.

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The Italian automaker Fiat's just as confused as we are as to why shares in the company surged skyward as high as 10% today. In fact, that was so high, it actually triggered the automatic suspension of trading in the maker of the cinquecento (and we've heard they even make other cars, too!) on the Milan stock exchange. We're assuming the speculation flooding the trading pits this morning that the company might be preparing to announce the sale of its truck unit Iveco may have had something to do with it. In fact, it caused the automaker to issue a strongly worded release this afternoon shooting down those rumors:
"In particular, with regard to rumors on possible divestitures, no significant assets are being sold nor are expected to be sold, except for those activities that have already been disclosed to the market."
Why do we feel like with Fiat's luck they're gonna drop like a rock tomorrow and cause an automatic suspension the other direction?
Size Apparently Not Important: Fiat 500 Tops Sexy Car List [internal]

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“The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers. Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen. (1 Pet. 4:7-11 NLT).
My friend’s godmother taught him a prayer to say each day: “Perhaps today”. We know His return is soon and it may be today so she kept these words in her mind to remind her to be prepared.
How would you live life differently if you truly believed Jesus would return today? Peter gave us the answer to that question in the opening text.
Firstly, we would be earnest and disciplined in our prayers.
Secondly, we would be caring of others.
Thirdly, we would be hospitable to others.
Fourthly, we would be zealous in working for God.
Fifthly, we would be speaking boldly in His name.
Lastly, we would do everything to bring God glory.
“Perhaps today.” We need to be reminded that Jesus’ return is very near and it may indeed be today that Jesus will come. We need to live every day in the light of Jesus’ return.
“Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again” (I Thess. 5:23 NLT).

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Friday, March 30, 2012
On the Public Discourse website, here is a good commentary by Teresa Collett (University of St. Thomas law professor and president of University Faculty for Life) on CIANA (the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act). CIANA is designed to prevent the transportation of minors across state lines to obtain abortions without complying with the parental involvement laws of the minor's home state. (Some years ago, I testified on some of the constitutional issues raised by CIANA. See.) Teresa's commentary and her congressional testimony focus on why parental involvement laws promote the health of young women.


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It is sports theme week here in the Homeschooler household, and while I haven’t managed to get any pictures (yet) to post about sight word ball and subtraction bowling, I thought I’d post about a little sporty craft we did last month: PVC and dowel rod archery set.
This project is ridiculously easy, you do not need a crafty bone in your body to put it together. Also it is cheap. We’re talking you can make three of these for under $10 cheap. Great craft for a playdate.
I read several online tutorials before we made ours, the tutorial I found with the best pictures is over at SkipToMyLou, so if you are interested in making your own be sure to check out her instructional photos.
We started with a 1/2 inch pvc pipe, lucky for us the hardware store had them pre-cut to about the length we needed!
I wrapped the entire pipe in blue duct tape then cut a notch on each end to hold the string. Cut, knotted, and slid the string into the notches (with the aid of Marmaduke). You may notice our pipe isn’t bent. I’ve seen some tutorials where they are bent, some where they aren’t, both ways seem to shoot just fine.
Once the string was in place I added a strip of tie-dyed duct tape to both ends to secure it, then another strip to the middle to remind LittleMan where to keep his hand.
The arrows are made out of pencil-thick dowel rods I picked up a pack of 10 for a dollar at JoAnns. On one end we cut a notch for the string and added decorative duct tape feathering. On the other end we glued a pencil top eraser.
To hold the arrows, I fashioned a quiver out of an empty paper towel roll and some duct tape.
Just flatten one end of the paper towel roll and secure closed with duct tape. Then make a strap by placing two pieces of duct tape sticky-sides together. Tape the strap to the top of the paper towel roll.
I also wrote out LittleMan’s name on his quiver because we are in a name-writing phase in our home. Everything has someone’s name written on it just for the sake of name recognition and practice.
Finally, whats the point of having a bow and arrow set if you have nothing to shoot at? We made our target by filling an old empty plastic jar with heavy rocks to weight it down. Then for no other reason than we wanted it to match the rest of the set, we covered it in blue duct tape and used clear packaging tape to secure a bulls-eye to the front.
Remember, SkipToMyLou has a lovely picture tutorial if you want to make this.
Other sites with great tutorials include:
Craft Interrupted, You Craft Me Up,and ImALazyMom
This is such an easy craft, anyone could make it, but if you really aren’t comfortable (or just don’t have the time) to make it yourself then simply search for “pvc bow and arrow” on Etsy and you will find plenty of options for purchase.

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The Princess of Wales Fountain was developed like a memorial to Princess Diana. The fountain is situated in the south west corner of London's Hyde Park. It can be south of your Serpentine Lake and east in the Serpentine Gallery. The fountain was designed with the most effective resources and point out of the art engineering. The base of was the fountain was laid in 2003, but your entire structure was finished and opened on July 6, 2004. Queen Elizabeth II was the keynote speaker and spoke about Princess Diana's lifestyle lengthy devotion to small children and charitable works.
The memorial was designed by Kathryn Gustafson, that is a well-known American landscape artist. The fountain is a sizable oval stream bed constructed from 545 pieces of Cornish granite. The entire fountain is surrounded by a grassy expanse of land wherever website visitors are inspired to sit down and reflect. It's 165 ft by 260 feet extensive and very shallow. The Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain was initially intended to be applied just like a wading pond. The depth on the stream bed varies in between ten to 20 ft. The pieces of granite are organized in sloping ways website which permit the drinking water to circulation gently downhill through the fountain. The oval fountain is split into two sections.
Just one 50 percent in the fountain little by little descends more than Carefully sloping granite techniques. The water falls softly and evenly making a nice rippling result. This half of your fountain represents the pleased and tranquil instances of Princess Diana's life. The opposite fifty percent of your fountain is characterized by variety of techniques, curves, and rills, which the water promptly crashes above. This 50 % in the fountain signifies the turmoil that often plagued Princess Diana's daily life. H2o flows from both sides and fulfills in the serene pool at The underside of the fountain. The drinking water is consistently recycled and filtered via London's drinking water procedure. The Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain embodies Diana's openness. It has three bridges which stretch about the stream mattress having guests into the center of your fountain. The Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is Diana's last gift to the globe. Her legacy life on from the hearts and minds of each human being she touched in her brief lifetime.


The Millipore Guava EasyCyte system is the first and only blue laser-based multiparameter cytometer with built-in 96-well microplate sampling (with tube options). Screen plates of cells and compounds quickly and easily, without the hassle of manipulating multiple tubes or having the carryover issues found with other detachable microplate methods. In addition, Guava EasyCyte system has simplified and streamlined fluorescent cell-based assays by integrating instrument, software, and reagents into a turnkey solution.
Key features of the Millipore EasyCyte system include:
• Functionality of a high-throughput instrument in a smaller, more affordable format.
• 3 fluorescent parameters allow simultaneous, multicolor detection.
• Forward and side scatter help you determine relative cell size and granularity with fourth-color
The key to the Millipore EasyCyte system is a patented self-aligning, user-replaceable microcapillary flow cell that requires no sheath fluid. This feature allows for absolute, direct cell counts without the use of reference beads. The EasyCyte system also requires fewer cells (< 20 uL) and less reagents to perform cell-based assays, and eliminates sheath fluid costs. Waste in the system is minimized with <50 mL waste generated in 8 hours. Courtesy of the removable flow cell, cleaning and maintenance are a snap. The shealthless fluidics system also allows for a small footprint that fits into the tightest laboratory spaces.


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Those who aren’t great friends with the internet as yet will have a chance to get better acquainted with the mysterious entity, as today is the first day of Get Online Week 2011.
Freshly launched in Brussels, on the 24th of February, with EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, being a supporter of the project, Get Online Week has already helped getting roughly 70,000 people clicking away and surfing the web.
Ms Kroes said:
“We have to match that figure (68,000) every single week for the next five years to meet my target of halving the number of Europeans who have never been online.”
The aim of the project is to encourage people to bring anyone they know, who is not confident with using the internet or hasn’t even tried, for tutorials on various virtual issues, among those:
- Helping citizens who were yet to type their first URL address
- Assisting on finding careers online
- Sharing knowledge about government services online
- Internet for all ages, helping elder people to get online
- Discussing women and the online world
People wishing to participate in Get Online Week 2011 can do so by visiting one of UK’s Online Centres and getting more information on the project.

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Title: Failed It!
Author: Erik Kessels
Publishing Date: May, 2016
No. of pages: 167
Designed by: Julia Hasting
Reviewed by: Heather Angell, Prov. RGD
Failed It! by Erik Kessels was the inaugural book of the RGD Book Club and appropriately so our inaugural review as well.
From the absolute beginning (literally the beginning, the title is printed on the back cover) Failed It! is a clever, quirky and overall fun read for designers and non-designers alike. As the book points out, we've all failed, so the universality of its subject matter is inherent.
Using examples from his extensive photo collection and other artists' pieces, Kessels sheds new light on situations that would otherwise be considered as failures by presenting them from the perspective of playful possibility.
He sets this tone and begins to assuage our fears of failure in the introduction by writing, "Perhaps the mistakes and circumstances that join forces to create failure are not your mortal enemy but are, in fact, the key elements in producing something new and exciting". Here, Kessels is giving us license to fail and to see these failures as moments in which to find opportunity.
There were many great examples and anecdotes throughout the book, such as artist Kent Rogowski’s puzzle mash-ups made with pieces from different puzzles cut from the same die, a billboard that was installed incorrectly that got more attention than it ever would have if it were done right, and happenstance photos taken in cityscapes like a blue dumpster positioned just right in front of a Harry Winston ad with a peacock to look like its body. A favourite though of the Book Club was that of an amateur photographer who for years could just not take a good of photo of their family dog. Try after try, the dog was always a dark silhouette in every photo. Until one day, a photo was over exposed and revealed the details of the dog's face and body. For Kessels, this had the result of removing the mystery and spark of imagination that the dog provided in the former shots as a silhouette. It's a good reminder that imperfection is not always a bad thing and to leave room for imagination.
I would highly recommend Failed It! to anyone. I found it to be a call to action to everyone to slow down, lighten up, don't be obsessed with perfection and look for humour and inspiration in unexpected places. As a designer, I see this is a valuable tool that can make my work relatable and in-turn unique and more successful.
To practice Kessels' advice would not just be for the betterment of our work, but our lives as well. Life isn't perfect, so why not find some humour in that imperfection?
As Kessels declares in his last sentences, "Failure isn't fatal – quite the contrary. It's downright fabulous". And frankly, who doesn't want to be fabulous?
About the Reviewer
Heather Angell, Prov. RGD
As founder of the book club, Heather is happy that the RGD Book Club is a thing, and more than just a thing, but a thing that people enjoy and are benefiting from. She is grateful to the RGD for giving her and fellow designers a place and reason to dust off all those design books on our shelves and read, discuss and learn together as a community. Heather currently works as a graphic designer at Forge Media + Design where she and their team work to impart thoughtful boldness into every project.
Photographs by Deanne Cameron

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As employees return to work following the COVID-19 lockdown, certain offices may find it hard to implement social distancing possibly resulting in businesses having to buy extra office space to keep workers two metres apart.
This is the opinion of Protecting.co.uk, a health and safety software company that predicts a rise in business owners looking to open additional offices to allow all staff to return to work. Research has found that 60 per cent of employees are unable to return to work due to social distancing requirements. Resulting in only 40 per cent of the workforce being able to return to the office at any one time.
Mark Hall, company spokesman for Protecting.co.uk said:
Many staff members have been working from home for the last couple of months, but many bosses are keen to get everybody back to their desks. But with the need to spread everyone out, larger workspaces are needed to keep them all safe.
An IT company boss in the Midlands said:
I’m hoping the Government will support us, and won’t charge us business rates on these essential second offices. Otherwise, I’ll have to keep my staff on furlough, which is costly for the taxpayer.
Protecting.co.uk believes that this leaves business owners in a dangerous position as landlords may decide to increase prices to take advantage of the situation. As Mr Hall said:
A lot of businesses are wanting to get their staff back, but don’t want to be stung with hiked-up rents in order to get their businesses back up and running.
It is believed that the second premise, employers may be forced to buy will only be temporary and not long-term as businesses are looking for a way to get their teams fully up and running again. If a vaccine is created, this could end the need for additional work spaces.
Protecting.co.uk say that measures staff can expect to see include:
- One-way systems around the workplace
- Markings on the floor to indicate spacings
- Cubicles and partitions to allow for barriers between workers
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use such as masks and gloves if necessary
- More handwashing stations available
- More cleaning of equipment


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Join UI/UX Designer Jermaine-Louise Boca on Adobe Live as she designs and prototypes a scavenger hunt mobile app in Adobe XD. This week Jermaine will flex her graphic design skills as she designs assets in Photoshop CC and brings them into XD!
Jermaine is a graphic and UI/UX designer based in Philadelphia.
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We’re still waiting to hear whatever became of Dr. Dre’s Apple series with Sam Rockwell and Ian McShane, but in the meantime, Apple is preparing to launch its first reality show with Planet of the Apps. It’s basically Shark Tank, but for app developers, with bonus Gwyneth Paltrow!
Of course, the real joke of 'Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon's adoration for translating current rap and hip hop songs into Broadway versions is simple, it's in the text. It's current songs made into Broadway versions. Easy! But the difference between an okay "Broadway covers" sketch and a great one is how much Fallon and his chosen guest sell it.
Although the trailer doesn't sell any of the plot of 'Mortdecai,' it does sell Johnny Depp's newest weird character: a snobby art dealer who appears debonair but is actually a bit of a bumbling oaf. Depp doesn't wear any silly hats this time around, but he does have a silly mustache and a wacky accent, so everything balances out in the end.


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- Molly is believed to have set a new record for the longest-frozen embryo to have resulted in a birth, breaking a record set by her older sister, Emma.
When Molly Gibson was born in October of this year, it was 27 years in the making.
Her embryo was frozen in October 1992, and stayed that way until February 2020, when Tina and Ben Gibson of Tennessee adopted it.
Molly is believed to have set a new record for the longest-frozen embryo to have resulted in a birth, breaking a record set by her older sister, Emma.
“We’re over the moon,” Ms Gibson said. “I still get choked up.”
“If you would have asked me five years ago if I would have not just one girl, but two, I would have said you were crazy,” she said.
The family struggled with infertility for nearly five years before Ms Gibson’s parents saw a story about embryo adoption on a local news station.
“That’s the only reason that we share our story. If my parents hadn’t seen this on the news then we wouldn’t be here,” Ms Gibson, 29, said. “I feel like it should come full-circle.”
Ms Gibson, an elementary school teacher and her husband, a 36-year-old cyber security analyst, connected with the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), a Christian non-profit in Knoxville that stores frozen embryos that in vitro fertilisation patients decided not to use and chose to donate instead.
Families like the Gibsons can then adopt one of the unused embryos and give birth to a child that is not genetically related to them. There are an estimated one million frozen human embryos stored in the US right now, according to the NEDC.


Driven by bitter partisanship and lockstep Republican loyalty to a President and his failed politics, Congress is about to make torture of the law of the land.
The House Wednesday approved George W. Bush’s plan to codify "harsh interrogation techniques" for detainees along with expanded powers for the President to determine just what can and cannot be done to them while they are in custody.
The Senate is expected to approve their modified version today and both Houses of Congress expect to work out any differences and have the bill on the President’s desk by the end of the week.
And we can expect Republicans to spin the approval of torture as a political positive in the rapidly-approaching November mid-term elections, claiming anyone who opposes their barbarianism is "weak" on national security.
As The Associated Press reports:
Congress is on track to approve a White House plan for detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects — legislation Republicans likely will use on the campaign trail to assert that Democrats want to coddle terrorists.
Barring any last-minute hiccups, a Senate vote Thursday would send the legislation to the president’s desk by week’s end. The House approved a nearly identical measure Wednesday on a 253-168 vote.
Senate Republicans agreed on the measure with the exception of whether to allow terrorists the right to protest their detentions in court. Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, contends the ability to file a "habeas corpus" petition is considered a fundamental legal right and necessary to uncover abuse.
Other Republicans contend that providing terror suspects the right to unlimited appeals would weigh down the federal court system.
Four Democrats and Specter were being given opportunities to offer amendments Thursday, but all were expected to be rejected along party lines.
Democrats have said the legislation would give the president too much latitude when deciding whether aggressive interrogations cross the line and violate international standards of prisoner treatment.
The legislation would establish a military court system to prosecute terror suspects, a response to the Supreme Court ruling in June that Congress’ blessing was necessary. While the bill would grant defendants more legal rights than they had under the administration’s old system, it nevertheless would not include rights usually granted in civilian and military courts.
The measure also provides extensive definitions of war crimes such as torture, rape and biological experiments, but gives the president broad authority to decide which other techniques U.S. interrogators may use legally. The provisions are intended to protect CIA interrogators from being prosecuted for war crimes.
For nearly two weeks the White House and rebellious Republican senators have fought publicly over whether President Bush’s plan would give a president too much authority. But they struck a compromise last Thursday, and Republicans are hoping approval will bolster their effort to cast themselves as strong on national security, a marquee issue this election year.
Democrats’ opposition to the bill likely will fuel political attack ads from their Republican challengers as lawmakers go into the Nov. 7 elections.
After Wednesday’s mostly party-line vote in the Republican-run House, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a statement that Democrats who voted against the measure "voted today in favor of more rights for terrorists."
He added, "So the same terrorists who plan to harm innocent Americans and their freedom worldwide would be coddled, if we followed the Democrat plan."
In response, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats feared the House-passed measure could endanger U.S. soldiers by encouraging other countries to limit the rights of captured American troops, and be vulnerable to being overturned by the Supreme Court.
"Speaker Hastert’s false and inflammatory rhetoric is yet another desperate attempt to mislead the American people and provoke fear," she said, adding that Democrats "have an unshakable commitment to catching, convicting and punishing terrorists who attack Americans."
Pelosi and other Democrats said the bill would give the president too much power to decide whether interrogation standards go too far.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said, "This bill is everything we don’t believe in."
Overall in the House, 219 Republicans and 34 Democrats voted for the legislation, while 160 Democrats, seven Republicans and one independent voted against it.
Bush, who planned to meet with GOP senators Thursday morning, has urged the Senate to approve the measure and in a statement issued after the vote congratulated the House for its "commitment to strengthening our national security."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wanted to add language to improve congressional oversight of the CIA program, while Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., wanted the bill to expire after a limited time so Congress could revisit the matter.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., offered an amendment to add to the list of forbidden interrogation techniques and warn other nations that the United States would not tolerate abusive treatment of its citizens living abroad. Kennedy’s says the GOP bill opens the door to retaliation from other nations.
"The bill that has reached the floor would diminish the security and safety of Americans everywhere," he said.
The House resolution is HR 6166. The Senate bill is S 3930.
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WERLEMAN’S WORLDVIEWThe Groups Promoting Hindutva and Human Slavery in the US
CJ Werleman explores another aspect of the extreme Hindu-nationalist project persecuting religious minorities in India
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Between 15,000 and 17,000 people are lured into the United States each year by false promises of decent paying jobs and better lives, according to the US State Department. Only to learn upon their arrival that they are unwitting victims of human trafficking or what is often described as modern slavery.
While the criminal practice is particularly rife in industries that lack government regulation or oversight, it also exists in the unlikeliest of places – including those of religious worship.
This was revealed last November when US federal authorities raided the temple of a prominent Hindu sect in New Jersey. It did so after learning that it was luring low-caste laborers from India to conduct work on the temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, and other temples in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles. It paid them as little as $1.20 per hour in a state that demands a minimum wage of $12 per hour.
Lawyers for the trafficked labourers said in a lawsuit that Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha – a Hindu sect known as BAPS – had exploited possibly hundreds of low-caste men for temple-related construction projects, which required each man to perform 13 hours a day of labour, including lifting large stones, operating heavy machinery, digging ditches, shovelling snow, and building roads and storm drains.
The lawsuit stated that their passports were confiscated and that they were also subjected to forced confinement, threats and other forms of abuse.
“At the Robbinsville temple, and elsewhere, the defendants intentionally caused the workers to reasonably believe that if they tried to leave their work and the temple compounds, they would suffer physical restraint and serious harm,” the lawsuit said.
What makes this case particularly interesting is the close relationship BAPS enjoys with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the far-right, ultra-nationalist party he leads – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
BAPS, which now has more than five million devotees worldwide, was founded and based in Modi’s home state of Gujarat – the site of an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002, when Modi was the state’s then chief minister. For these reasons, Gujarat has been called a “laboratory for Hindutva” – a Hindu nationalist ideology that aims to transform India into a Hindu-only nation by expelling 300 million Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. The state is also BJP’s electoral stronghold.
BAPS has more than eight temples and 1,000 members in the US and Canada.
Martha C Nussbaum, an Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, has accused it of “inculcating militant Hindu nationalist ideology among its followers”, in her book The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future.
In 2018, Modi entrusted BAPS to build a temple in the United Arab Emirates, saying in front of 1,700 dignitaries at its launch in Abu Dhabi that it “will act as a catalyst for the flourishment of humanitarian values and harmony between the two countries” and “become a medium for India’s identity”.
According to The New York Times, BAPS also donated the equivalent of $290,000 towards Modi’s promise to build a Hindu temple atop the ruins of the ancient Babri Mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu nationalists in 1992, setting off a wave of communal violence – the embers of which still burn fiercely today. When India’s Supreme Court granted permission for the construction of a temple on the site last year, Modi proclaimed: “The wait of centuries is coming to an end.”
His words symbolised his “total domination over India”, observed Arati Jerath, an Indian pollical commentator, at the time.
These ties explain why India’s right-wing ecosystem has leapt to the defence of BAPS by falsely claiming that a US-based construction company is responsible for the human trafficking taking place at half a dozen of its temples in America.
But the allegations laid bare against BAPS in the lawsuit could not be clearer. It has been charged under several US federal and state laws, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and wage laws.
The lawsuit also brings into view the relationship between BAPS and prominent right-wing Hindu organisations in the United States – including the Hindu American Foundation, the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, and the Vishva Hindu Parishad America.
Last year, Byline Times revealed how some of these organisations – particularly those promoting vicious Islamophobia – are lobbying US law-makers to adopting pro-Indian Government policies and talking points related to Kashmir and the Citizenship Amendment Act, a discriminatory law targeted at Muslims.
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In 2015, Hindu American Foundation executive director Suhag Shukla delivered the keynote speech at a BAPS women’s conference – and then paid it $5,500 to host a Diwali celebration in Washington’s Capitol Hill in 2019, according to the foundation’s US financial statements.
Notably, the Hindu American Foundation’s founding board member, Dr Mihir Meghani, authored the ideological manifesto Hindutva – the Great Nationalist Ideology, which serves as a guiding light for Narendra Modi and the BJP. It calls India the “land of Hindus”, while arguing that the Muslim presence in the country is an outcome of “Islamic invasions” and “forced conversions” – despite both claims being ahistorical and rooted in hate.
In recent weeks, the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (the US affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing, all-male, Hindu-nationalist paramilitary outfit), and the Vishva Hindu Parishad America (which the CIA identifies as a “religious militant organisation”) partnered with BAPS to promote Hinduism at an exhibition in New Jersey titled ‘Darshana: A Glimpse into the Hindu Civilisation’. This is despite the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh and RSS openly declaring that Hindu nationalism – or Hindutva – is not the same thing as the religion of Hinduism.
Thus, Hindu nationalist organisations are not only operating largely under the radar in the US, but are also mischievously promoting Hindu nationalism under the guise of the Hindu faith.
Revelations that BAPS is profiting from the trafficked labour of low-caste Indian migrants is yet another layer in the extreme Hindu-nationalist project persecuting religious minorities in the world’s largest democracy.
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Yes, they actually had to hold a press conference to make this statement.
I understand that in today's world there are some people that have a big issue with people wearing masks or not wearing masks, it's an extremely hot button to push for some folks. I'm not necessarily one of those people, I believe that you can choose to wear one or not, just please stay six feet away from each other and we will get through this, right?
Some people have got so upset that others aren't wearing masks that they've called 911 to report them and according to ABC News 10 the sheriffs office had to release a statement to warn folks to not call them to report non mask wearers.
The Darke County Sheriffs Office in Ohio announced on Facebook that "We are receiving calls about the mandatory mask wear issued by the Governor!.. We are NOT the mask police! Please DO NOT call us or 911 reporting someone not wearing a mask!!… Come on people, a little common sense goes a long way!!... Thank You!" Most law enforcement agencies in Ohio have encouraged people to call their local health department to report people not wearing masks or not compiling with state orders.
This isn't the first Sheriff office that has had to make a public statement about wearing masks as a few weeks ago the Butler County Sheriff, Richard Jones shared a similar view saying, "I want to make everybody understand, I am not the mask police. I am not going to enforce any mask wearing. That is not my responsibility. That is not my job. People should be able to make that choice themselves."
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Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s efforts to block China from buying up farmland in her state were thwarted this week when a supermajority of state Senators rejected her proposal.
As Breitbart News previously reported, Noem had proposed a bill that would “create a state-level version of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)” in order to curtail foreign Chinese entities from buying agricultural land in her state:
Currently, CFIUS is a federal board that approves or disapproves of foreign entities engaging in major U.S. transactions. Noem’s proposal would establish a CFIUS-South Dakota, or CFIUS-SD, which would review proposed transactions in the state where foreign entities including but not limited to Chinese entities seek to purchase land. The board, if established — which would require the legislature to pass Noem’s proposal — could block such land sales as it sees fit.
Essentially, Senate Bill 185 would have granted the South Dakota governor the power to unilaterally veto any purchase reviewed by the panel. The state senate rejected the bill on Tuesday with an 11-23 vote.
“The bill faced opposition from nearly every agriculture industry group in committee testimony. But the proposal’s supporters on the Senate floor said any flaws would be rectified before it becomes law,” reported South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB).
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The bill’s opponents, such as Republican State Sen. David Wheeler, feared that it would give too much power to the executive branch.
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If you’re having a lazy Sunday in bed or know you’ll have a few spare hours this week why not spend it binge watching our Netflix pick of the week Black Mirror.
Label Culture Editor, Jamie Hutton, gives us the lowdown on the Stage Society’s ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ – read this quick, then go and see for yourselves!
Label Culture reviews The Girl with All the Gifts – can it stand up against other films in the dystopian genre?
It’s hard to think of any films from the 21st Century that have been quite as influential as the Jason Bourne films.
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Label went along to the launch of the new cinema and interviewed Cineworld’s Phil Jones and Justin Skinner. The brand new Cineworld opens to the public today.
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text: Air Force releases “Red Tailed Angels” docuseries Published Nov. 11, 2020 By Staff Sgt. Jeremy L. Mosier Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of World War II, the U.S. Air Force video production team produced a video series to highlight the Tuskegee Airmen and their impact on the war, and society as a whole. “The Red Tailed Angels” documentary series showcases the hardships, struggles and ultimately the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen. “The Tuskegee Airmen represent a part of American history, which for far too many years languished in obscurity after WWII,” said Anthony Young, Air Force Television senior producer. “This documentary is an attempt to tell their story through the words of those who lived it, highlighting not only the obstacles they faced, but the perseverance they exhibited in overcoming it. Though they have been revered for their exploits during the war, I think their legacy is evident not only throughout the U.S. armed forces, but within society as a whole, given the many doors their success has led to the opening of.” The first of the three-part series is available on the Air Force Blue Tube Channel at www.youtube.com/c/AFBlueTube. The second and third segments will soon follow.


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The letter claims that indoor cannabis cultivation accounts for 10% of overall energy consumption in Massachusetts and cannabis grow emissions in Colorado are on par with trash collection and coal mining.
Republican Reps. Earl Carter of Georgia and Doug Lamborn of Colorado urged Senate Democrats to conduct research into the environmental impact of their proposed cannabis legalization bill.
“The American people must have a better understanding of the environmental costs of this rapidly growing industry,” wrote the lawmakers, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“As Congress debates whether to advance marijuana legalization, the American people must have a better understanding of the environmental costs of this rapidly growing industry. If the Administration seeks to reduce emissions and protect our environment as aggressively as it has previously committed, we must have a comprehensive view of where emissions and other pollution occurs, as they will likely only grow,” wrote Carter and Lamborn.
Citing studies of the energy usage of the industry, the letter claims that indoor cannabis cultivation accounts for 10% of overall energy consumption in Massachusetts and cannabis grow emissions in Colorado are on par with trash collection and coal mining.
Carter and Lamborn asked the four agencies for “detailed responses” to these questions by Nov. 30:
- How does current marijuana legalization impact state energy consumption and emission levels?
- How would federal legalization of marijuana affect national energy consumption and emission levels?
- What is the anticipated growth of energy usage and emissions from the marijuana industry?
- How will growing energy demands from the marijuana industry affect the reliability of our electric grid?
- What impact do illegal marijuana growing operations have on the country’s water supply?
- What harms do illegal marijuana growers’ use of various fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides pose to wildlife, habitats, and humans in the United States?
The letter was addressed to the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Departments of Energy, Interior, and Power in response to the bill released by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), entitled Cannabis Administration And Opportunity Act (CAOA) and presented in the Senate in July.
The bill includes plans to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, expunge prior convictions and allow people who are serving time for applicable crimes to petition for resentencing, which also promotes social equity.
Schumer said that the proposal will “ensure restorative justice, public health and implement responsible taxes and regulations.” “The overwhelming evidence from the states that have legalized cannabis is there has not been an increase in crime and has not been an increase in drug use,” Schumer recently told reporters. “I think it makes a great deal of sense to legalize it.”
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Hannah Brown says she can’t get on Raya. The Bachelorette star posted a hilarious clip on her Instagram story to reveal that the membership-based dating and social networking app has her on a long waitlist, despite her reality TV fame.
In her story, Hannah said her friend, a pastor, was able to get on Raya but she is still waiting.
“You guys, I don’t know if you know this, but, I was the Bachelorette, and I can’t get on Raya,” Hannah said, per Entertainment Tonight. “I’ve been on the waiting list for months now. … I’m done, Christian Mingle here I come.”
Hannah also referenced last season’s Bachelorette drama.
“I might not be allowed on Christian Mingle at this point, but if not, they don’t know the gospel… Jesus still loves me.”
Fans of the ABC dating franchise know that Hannah said the “Jesus still loves me” phrase after she was shamed by Bachelorette suitor Luke Parker for having premarital sex. She went on to have sex in a Netherland’s windmill with current Bachelor star Peter Weber — four times. Hannah’s iconic phrase became the theme for her entire Bachelorette season.
Hannah struck out with love on Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor and her own season of The Bachelorette, but she shouldn’t be so hard on herself when it comes to Raya. Only eight percent of Raya’s applicants are approved to join the private app for “dating, networking, and making new friends,” and there are 100,000 people on the waiting list to get into the site’s elite community of 10,000 members, according to Business Insider. An anonymous global committee and a secret algorithm determine who can join Raya based on a referral-based application process.
Celebrities who use or have used Raya include Channing Tatum, Cara Delevigne, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, John Mayer, and more.
As for Christian Mingle, Hannah has all the requirements needed for that site — she’s Christian, single, and ready to mingle. Or is she?
Dating app drama aside, Hannah recently joked that it’s “sisters before misters” for her. The former pageant queen spent Valentine’s Day at Disneyland with her pastor pal.
Fans have been following Hannah’s post-Bachelorette journey following her split from her final pick, Jed Wyatt, last spring. After Hannah headed to Dancing with the Stars, many fans thought she made a great match with her pro partner, Alan Bersten, but the two reportedly kept things in the friend zone as they focused on their mirrorball trophy win.

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Newcastle United owners make important step forward on wages at the club
Back in February (2022), the Newcastle United owners released an important official announcement on wages at the club.
What the announcement (see below) revealed was that the club had made an application to the Living Wage Foundation to become a Living Wage Employer.
Known as the ‘real Living Wage’, the scheme independently calculates a minimum rate of pay in line with the cost of living and accordingly sets a benchmark for employers that wish to ensure their staff earn a fair wage. Having made that voluntary application, it meant that retroactive from 1st February 2022, all employees at the club would now receive a minimum hourly rate of £9.90 per hour – a higher rate than the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
Now this has been followed up by the Newcastle United owners with further improved pay moves for many of the club’s non-playing staff.
The Times revealing that after the Newcastle United owners ordered an independent review over salaries, many non-playing staff in April (2022) received their first pay rise in several years.
Indeed, The Times say that their information is that under Mike Ashley, some of these non-playing staff had received only one pay rise in the last decade!
The newspaper says that the new Newcastle United owners ‘interviewed non-playing staff following the takeover and were shocked at the salary levels in place and the lack of regular pay reviews. They felt then a full review would have to be undertaken.’
The report adding that ‘As of April, a new wage structure has been in place that is now said to be nationally competitive and staff have been given rises to match market values for the jobs they do in line with other Premier League clubs. Understandably, staff at the club are said to be ‘very pleased’ with the changes, according to a source.’
Quite amazing how for almost a full decade and a half almost the entire media, with only the odd notable exception, were happy to turn a blind eye to just how shamefully Mike Ashley ran our football club. Total disinterest from almost every journalist in how Mike Ashley treated fans, certain managers (Kevin Keegan the worst / best example), certain players (Jonas Gutierrez especially) and of course now we find out also the people he employed in normal level jobs. This latest revelation surely not a surprise to anybody, considering the widespread reporting of how he treats so many people in his retail empire.
Great to see staff at the club now being treated properly and paid a fair wage.
As you may have read somewhere…the general public are currently being hit on all sides with energy prices going through the roof, interest rates on the rise, rampant inflation hitting prices all over the place.
Fair play to the new Newcastle United owners for implementing these changes.
Official announcement from the new Newcastle United owners – 6 February 2022:
‘Newcastle United has made an application to the Living Wage Foundation to become a Living Wage Employer.
Known as the ‘real Living Wage’, the scheme independently calculates a minimum rate of pay in line with the cost of living and accordingly sets a benchmark for employers that wish to ensure their staff earn a fair wage.
Following the club’s voluntary application, retroactive from 1st February 2022, all employees at the club will receive a minimum hourly rate of £9.90 per hour – a higher rate than the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
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We recognise that our people, including staff – the majority of whom live in our local community – and our fans, are at the heart of everything we do.
We appreciate the contribution of all employees and acknowledge that the everyday operations of the club, including matchdays, could not happen without their hard work and dedication.
Newcastle United is fully committed to supporting them, including through wages that reflect their value and meet the everyday needs of individuals and their families – not just the government minimum.
Newcastle United co-owner, Amanda Staveley, said: “This is an important part of our people strategy as we work together to deliver our new vision.”
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Olivia Jean has a silent songwriting partner. If you live in Nashville, you may already know this. You may have even spotted them around town, working on music together. If you blink, you’ll miss them—they move pretty fast. Olivia’s songwriting partner is her black Volkswagen Beetle. It’s named Beetlejuice, and she drives it around the city, singing along to her own music.
It helps her to write songs, to sort out the layers of melodies playing in her head. Sometimes, she gets lucky. While she was working on songs for her new record, Night Owl, the 30-year-old musician would play the instrumental demos in her car and let loose, vocalizing different ideas for an audience of one—that’s how the unexpected B52s-esque burst of “Ba Ba Ba Ba’s” made it onto the verses of “Rhinestone,” a song that ended up being one of Olivia Jean’s favorites. “I love playing it live,” she says enthusiastically. “I love all the moving parts.”
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Today, though, driving to the offices of her label,Third Man Records, located just south of downtown Nashville, Olivia Jean was feeling a bit more basic. “I love ‘90s pop a lot. I listen to ‘Drinking in L.A.’, that song by Bran Van 3000. I was listening to “Naked Eye” by Luscious Jackson on the way here,” she says.
‘Here’ is the Blue Room at Third Man Records, so named for the walls, which are painted in the same saturated hue that adorns the label’s 7-inch series. The cavernous performance space, which is supervised by a large taxidermal elephant head that’s mounted to one of the walls, is one of the less overtly strange rooms at Third Man’s Nashville HQ—which is sort of like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, if Willy Wonka were Jack White. The space hasn’t been designed so much as art directed, every architectural flourish and piece of decor reflecting the eccentric tastes of the founder. The interior of the windowless warehouse, where they prepare items for shipping, has been made to look like the exterior part of an old motel; the walls in the label offices are painted a cartoon-bird yellow; the coffee table in the waiting area is decorated with two giant horned skulls—it’s the kind of stuff that could set off warning signals reading “Not Punk” in the casual observer. But next to the coffee table is a Third Man-branded stereo system, and a pile of records left out for workday listening, with albums by the Cocteau Twins, Prince, and Shabazz Palaces in the front. Underneath all the aesthetic is something real. And because everything—from the label offices to the photo studio to the distribution center to a direct-to-acetate recording facility—is all under one roof, the self-contained Third Man Records are, actually, very DIY.
“I always think of it as Andy Warhol’s factory, almost,” says Olivia, who has been with Third Man her entire career. “They have their art department, a videographer, they have an archivist. Everything is all in-house. It’s awesome, it’s like a family unit.”
Olivia has shown up today dressed like she’s still in the Black Belles, the all-girl “goth garage” group she was part of when she first moved to Nashville: black dress and tights, her long black hair and bangs ironed pin straight, and topped with a black brimmed hat. Like her label, Olivia Jean has no fear of thoughtful aesthetics. She worked as a hairstylist and make-up artist before she was able to make music full-time, and used to sew her own ‘60s-inspired outfits to wear to garage rock shows back home in Detroit. As a kid, Olivia Jean once dressed like a member of the Hives to go see them play (she didn’t tell the band this when she opened for them.) She has a sense of humor about it all, though. When I ask Olivia Jean if she has a casual mode, she says that this is her casual mode. (A quick look at her Instagram leads me to believe this is true.) “I don’t even own sneakers right now,” she says, pointing to the lace-up, black-heeled booties on her feet.
But her outfit serves a strategic purpose, as well. Later, Olivia Jean will be previewing Night Owl to press and fans at Laser Quest in downtown Nashville—during a game. The all-black outfit means she’ll be harder to spot under the black lights. This is a good thing, as Olivia Jean fully expects Third Man fans to corner her in the maze and shoot her with lasers while her own record plays over the speakers.
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Olivia Jean is essentially inseparable from Third Man. You won’t find her name on the inserts for underground tapes or on punk flyers circa Detroit in the mid ‘00s. Olivia Jean never played in bands before the Black Belles—she was a teenage loner who recorded herself playing guitar in her suburban bedroom. Her family isn’t musical. She hasn’t released music on any other label. Her professional career started with a bang after famously giving Jack White a home-recorded demo tape after a Dead Weather Show, and he actually listened to it. While her association with Third Man instantly gave Olivia Jean a level of visibility it takes most musicians years to reach, it’s also meant that she’s had to figure out what kind of musician she is in public.
That hasn’t been without its challenges. Initially, Olivia Jean was a session player, contributing guitar and bass to records by Wanda Jackson and Karen Elson. She moved to Nashville permanently around seven years ago and joined the Black Belles, who were given a healthy media roll out, which included things like recording a 7-inch with Stephen Colbert. It would’ve been an overwhelming experience for any group of non-media trained young women, but the Black Belles also had to deal with having their music, their existence, dismissed as vanity project: Jack White’s very own all-girl Monkees, except make it goth and put it on late night. Which was far from the reality.
“Those chicks and I had so much chemistry, we would’ve started that band anyway,” says Olivia. “We were all musicians in our own right. It was not ‘put together’ because of an aesthetic that we had. We worked really, really hard. We weren’t being told what to do. People had the assumption that it was put together, but really, we all just met in Nashville, and it worked out. I would never have allowed myself to be part of something that was put together. I appreciate music and my songs too much to give them away to something like that.”
“It actually took quite a toll on all of us, because we were really new to everything and we had been put onto a huge platform,” she continues. “We were really lucky—super lucky—to have had that experience, but it was a lot.” And it wasn’t just online—she remembers how the band used to attract snide comments from Nashville locals when they’d walk down the street as a pack in their matching black outfits. The Black Belles released one full-length, toured the world, and dissolved in 2012, although a reunion isn’t out of the question. “We’re all still friends now that we’ve grown up and learned the music business,” says Olivia Jean. “That chemistry, I really miss it. I hope we get back together. Every male musician I’ve worked with is super cool and has never treated anyone differently ever, but it is nice to be with other females and be a unit and be ready to fight anyone who says anything to you.”
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Olivia Jean put out her first solo record, Bathtub Love Killings, back in 2014. While the Black Belles were a rock band, the moody Bathtub Love Killings tended more towards coquettish ‘60s pop. White produced the album, an aspect many music critics focused on in their reviews, despite the fact that Olivia wrote all the songs, and it was her name and face on the cover. Olivia was also subject to more sexist commentary on social media, calling her talent into question and speculating about her relationship with White. It became so toxic that she lashed out publicly on Instagram, something she regrets doing and says she’s learned from. But it still took its toll. How could it not?
“When you work so hard it’s absolutely heartbreaking and uninspiring,” she says, her voice a little shaky. “That’s kind of why I took a break after my last record to be honest, ‘I was like if people aren’t even going to listen to the music, and insult me before listening to it, why am I pouring my soul into something?’ I was bummed out for a long time.”
Olivia Jean has poured her soul into Night Owl. It is, she thinks, a truer expression of the kind of music she really loves—which is surf music. Which is somewhat ironic; although Third Man carries the torch for almost every genre of rock imaginable, you won’t find any Surfaris 7-inches tucked in with copies of Jack White’s collaboration with Muppet band The Electric Mayhem in Third Man’s Novelty Lounge (a.k.a. gift store). But surf is the music Olivia Jean always wanted to make. Remember that tape she gave to White, the one that launched her career? It was full of original surf instrumentals, mostly. It’s her native musical tongue. “What I love about surf is, whatever the vocal melody would be, that’s what the guitar is playing. That’s still how I write music, and that’s why I layer so many things. I just hear melodies that build and build,” she says. “With my last [record], I tried to sneak in as much surf as I could, but it didn’t end up translating in those songs.”
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Though you can subtly hear the surf in Bathtub Love Killings, most tellingly in the winding melody lines, Night Owl fearlessly brings those elements to the forefront, with added pick slides, washes of reverb, and lots of twang. The record isn’t 100% surf—Olivia Jean’s musical tastes are un-snobby, like her label’s, and she has an appreciation for pop stars whose musical adventurousness is matched by their aesthetic adventurousness. “When I was recording, I had a bulletin board with Siouxsie Sioux, a big picture of the B-52s, a big picture of Missing Persons, a big picture of Adam Ant, and Frida Khalo quotes,” she says.
The result is a record that growls like a garage, glistens like new wave, and is packaged like a piece of bubblegum. But at its heart, it’s in love with just two things: melody and electric guitar. Olivia Jean’s favorite tracks on Night Owl are the surf ones. She plays all the instruments herself on three of them: lead single “Garage Bat,” “Siren Call,” and “Tsunami Sue.” There’s also a raucous cover of ‘60s Indian rock number “Jaan Pehechaan Ho,” famous for inclusion in Ghost World. “Surf is what I really love,” says Olivia simply.
One of the reasons Olivia Jean was able to bring surf into the mix more prominently is because this time it was she, not White, who was in the producer’s chair. It felt important to take full ownership of the record. Olivia Jean is a musician in the most literal definition of the word, something that’s consistently overlooked in judgments people have made about her work. Whether or not you enjoy Olivia Jean’s music, it is and always has been hers.
“I don’t play everything on the album, but I wrote all the instrumental parts, so Third Man thought giving me control over the entire project would be really cool,” she says of the decision.
There are some remnants of White’s production quirks on Night Owl, notably the panning of sound to give the music a three-dimensional feel. “It’s cool, because if you’re sitting in front of a huge speaker system it’s, like, interactive. You can feel the music, which is really neat,” she explains. Mostly, Olivia Jean learned the importance of keeping things simple and “of making quick decisions and sticking to them.”
“There’s the luxury now of plug-ins and digital effects, and that’s a wormhole,” she says. “You could go through those plug-ins for days. But going through analog, you can get it in first take, and it’s done. I really learned to truly, truly appreciate how important analog equipment is, and doing things live in the room.”
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And Night Owl does have interesting production choices, especially on the back half. With its handclaps and layered call-and-response vocal harmonies, “Siren Call” has the punky feel of early Go-Gos, another band who occasionally splashed around with surf tropes. There’s also proto-metal-meets-power-pop “Perfume,” which starts out with a spoken-word sample that may or may not be a subtle dig at her haters. But those are the exceptions, not the rule.
“You should be able to play a song on an acoustic guitar and that’s it,” Olivia Jean says of what she ultimately learned through producing Night Owl. “You shouldn’t need to have 20 people onstage playing it with you.”
Olivia Jean only has three people onstage with her the following night, when she opens for the Raconteurs at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. It’s the kind of big, balling professional rock show that reminds me why people pay a lot of money to attend music events that aren’t held in illegal basements. Olivia’s only going to be doing limited touring for Night Owl, so this is a big deal for her. It’s the first of three sold-out shows at the historic venue, and the crowd, all of whom have had their phones stowed away at entry, is bristling with energy. Olivia’s two-guitars-bass-and-drums set up is far more punk than the Raconteurs’, but she sounds nearly as big as they will, tearing through tracks on Night Owl and flawlessly executing the lead on “Jaan Pehechaan Ho.” She also looks extremely cool, dressed in a hot pink jacket and black leather pants, shredding out for an audience primed for rock and roll.
But it’s not her audience. Back at Third Man, I ask who typically attends Olivia Jean shows. “It’s a lot of Third Man fans, who are very dedicated to Third Man,” she says. “And a lot of little kids like my stuff! Which is so weird, because I thought I was scary. But I’m like a cartoon character to them. I love when little kids come to the shows. Maybe someday I’ll be able to write some stuff for Disney Channel. That would be cool!”
Olivia Jean is a bit like a cartoon character, dressed all in black and sitting pretty in the magical rock and roll playhouse that is Third Man Records, itself a simulated world not unlike Disneyland. This impression is doubled at Laser Quest, where Night Owl makes the perfect soundtrack for a playful event that occasionally feels like a child’s birthday party, with hot pink balloons, pizza, and gift bags for everyone. It’s also just fun: hearing the chiming, cheerful riffs of “Can You Help Me?” play out over the speakers as I attempt to hide from Third Man employees—all of whom are shockingly very good at Laser Quest, Olivia included—in a maze is surreal and funny and cool. That people play Laser Quest in silence is a shame. A bunch of Third Man Vault Subscribers have been invited to play a game with Olivia, and she poses with them for a group photo at the end, her smile wide and genuine.
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There’s a lot of that genuine joy in Olivia’s music, and an innocence that probably appeals to developing tastes, since there’s no condescension in her songs, no danger of “not getting it.” I describe it as “building block rock” to a friend, which sounds like a dis but really I just mean that it’s non-abstract. The reference points are clear, the songs are straightforward. Genres aren’t blended as much as stacked. This is the garage progression. This is the surf beat. This is the Beatles guitar tone. What’s wrong with that? You want people to like it. It’s as if current wisdom dictates that the appearance of complexity automatically confers depth, that knowingly pretending to be something you’re not is a more respectable act than just being what you are, as if favoring broad strokes and primary colors in your work makes for less serious art (in which case, I invite you to listen to a band called the White Stripes.) Olivia Jean does take artistic risks—huge ones, every day, the biggest being continuing to make records, even though she knows there are people who will dismiss her as a phony before she can even open her mouth.
Writing lyrics has always been the most difficult part of the songwriting process her so perhaps that’s also why Night Owl is most transcendent when Olivia says nothing at all. Take dreamy closer “Tsunami Sue,” as elegant and faithful an instrumental surf track as you’ll hear in 2019. There are no vocals, aside from a gentle count down and Olivia’s guitar sounding like velvet, the whole thing introduced with the instantly recognizable sound of waves washing on the shore—one of those accents that’s as hokey as a lava lamp, but sounds just right when delivered with the kind of deep affection it is here. “Tsunami Sue” is a glimpse at the real Olivia Jean, the artist she is when removed from the context of Third Man and her career up to this point. This is who Olivia Jean really is inside: a weird girl from the shores of Lake Huron who cut class to play surf guitar alone in her room. The closer her music gets to that girl, the more natural it feels and the realer it becomes. If there is any fair standard by which to judge the “authenticity” of Olivia Jean’s music, it should be this.
I ask Olivia if she’d ever consider doing a full-on surf cover record, like an Olivia Jean Plays the Ventures EP, maybe for Christmas or Record Store Day. It seems exactly the sort of thing Third Man Records would do well, and that people would really like. She loves the idea. “Consider it done,” she says, then adds: “Be in my band! It’s so hard to find other people who like instrumental surf.”
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It seems like it would be hard to do in Nashville, which brands itself as the home of country music. And Olivia Jean? She doesn’t really care for country, although she makes sure to stress that she truly appreciates the skill and talent it takes to create good country music. She shouts out her labelmate, Lillie Mae, as an exception: “She has a great twist on country that’s awesome, I really respect her,” she says.
I hang around town for a few days following the interview and, by the end of it, I agree with Olivia Jean. The longer I’m in Nashville, surrounded by rhinestone dresses, cowboy boots, and reminders that I am on “hallowed ground” and must “show respect,” the less I care about country music. To be fair, most of the people milling around Broadway this Saturday morning, dressed in matching red University of Georgia jerseys while drinking vodka out of plastic cups on the street, also don’t seem to care about country music. Starved for some rock and roll, I seek refuge in the Musicians Hall of Fame—nominally a tribute to the session players behind all our favorite oldies, but in reality a sort of try-hard exhibit of mostly consisting of instruments used on popular recordings from the past 60 years, heavy on the hagiography. One of Hendrix’s guitars is there, as is a pair of Roy Orbison’s sunglasses. There’s a lot of stuff about Johnny Cash. It’s pretty cool.
The last room in the museum is filled with radios and record players from over the decades. It’s fun to see how the designs mutated over time, becoming especially whimsical in the mid-twentieth century. There are turntables decorated with bright characters and radios made to look like toys, remnants from an era when the intersection of art and commerce was a more colorful place. One record player has an album propped up against the lid. It’s the epitome of mid ‘60s design, with an orange and white color palette, the cover art showing a pretty blonde woman in a ponytail and gold bikini posing on her side, looking sideways at the camera with a tiny half-smile. The LP spins silently on the platter. It’s Golden Greats by the Ventures.


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Miss World 2011 - Ethiopia - Melkam ENDALE
Name : Melkam ENDALE
Age : 21
Height : 173
Languages : English
Melkam is currently a university student hoping to change the image of her home country. Melkam’s favourite books are the Harry Potter series and she enjoys writing poems and playing football in her spare time. Melkam’s personal motto is: ‘Everything happens for a reason.’
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Herald your audience with the sonorous sounds of Alphorns. The 12' long, straight horns made of spruce will add a dramatic flare to your next event.
Alphorn Grüezie can configure the group to offer soloists, trios and combinations consisting of up to 6 Alphorns, depending on venue, budget and availability.
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved additional funding of $42.8 million for the Urban Sanitation Program IV in Uruguay’s capital of Montevideo, which will improve the quality of life of some 40,000 people.The program also will enhance environmental quality in the Bay of Montevideo and the beaches west of the city and protect the quality of restored beaches in the eastern zone.
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The Transom, Ben Domenech, September 15, 2017
Yesterday former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell resigned as Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy school over hiring of Chelsea Manning. http://vlt.tc/3091 “Morell, a CBS News senior national security contributor, wrote in a letter to Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, that he can’t remain at an organization “that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information, Ms. Chelsea Manning.” Manning responded in a tweet featuring the trademark series of emojis.
Mary Katharine Ham, herself a fellow at the Kennedy school, on the controversy and what happened next. http://vlt.tc/309m “Harvard’s Institute of Politics announced late last night convicted felon Chelsea Manning will not be a Visiting Fellow at the university this fall after two pillars of the national security community protested the convicted felon’s inclusion.
“Manning, who was found guilty in 2010 on 20 of 22 counts in the biggest leak of classified records in history, was announced Wednesday as a member of a class of about ten public figures who would spend a day or more on campus speaking to students and taking questions. Others in the class include Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezenski, Sean Spicer, Robby Mook, and myself.
“Manning indiscriminately downloaded and leaked some 250,000 government documents as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq. Seven years into a 35-year sentence, Manning received a commutation from President Obama. During the trial and sentencing, Manning’s lawyers blamed Manning’s gender dysphoria for leading to his crimes, and in 2016 then-Bradley Manning declared in a commutation application, “I am Chelsea Manning, a proud woman who is transgender and who, through this application, is respectfully requesting a first chance at life.”
“Since then, Manning has been feted by elite society as a symbol of trans heroism and overcoming hardship. The announcement of Manning’s Harvard fellowship came on the heels of an Annie Liebovitz photoshoot for the September issue of Vogue.
“A former CIA director, Michael Morell resigned the day after Manning was named a Fellow at Harvard, saying he couldn’t be part of a program “that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information.” Current CIA Director Mike Pompeo also canceled a speaking appearance at Harvard’s Kennedy School this week in protest.
“[A]fter much deliberation,” Pompeo wrote, “My conscience and duty to the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency will not permit me to betray their trust by appearing to support Harvard’s decision (to hire Manning) with my appearance at tonight’s event.”
“Douglas Elmendorf, who runs the Harvard Institute of Politics, called the title of fellow for Manning a “mistake,” saying it was not intended to convey honor or endorsement of Manning’s actions or views.”

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