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Jeff Beck Discusses Gear, Technique and Hendrix in 1985 Guitar World Interview
By Gene Santoro
First Published 31 August 2011
Here's part one of our interview with Jeff Beck from the January 1985 issue of Guitar World. The original story by Gene Santoro ran with the headline "Jeff Beck, The Interview: Twenty Years of Rock and Roll Power," and the story started on page 34.
Click here to see the cover of the Jeff Beck issue -- and all the Guitar World covers from 1985.
It's been a long time since anybody's heard from Jeff Beck. With the exception of the ten-date ARMS tour of 1984, his last time on the road was in 1981, in support of his album There and Back; and it was on that album and tour that the preeminent guitar-explorer bade farewell to his latest incarnation as a fusionmaster.
Nearly three years of silence followed, and as his old Yardbirds mate and longtime friend Jim McCarty put it, "We thought he needed a bit of shaking up." The immediate result was Beck's stunning reappearance as a badass rocker on four tracks of Box of Frogs, the album McCarty and the other surviving Yardbirds put out earlier this year.
Longer term, McCarty's phone call to Beck was only the opening shot from a fusillade of guest-spot offers that had Beck appearing on cuts with the Vanilla Fudge, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger and, of course, Rod Stewart.
As you probably recall, Beck even toured with briefly with Stewart but bowed out after only a few dates. Then there's Get Workin', Beck's own upcoming LP that, at the time of this writing, stands about seventy percent completed. It's currently scheduled for an early 1985 release date.
Given all this activity by one of the acknowledged guitar heroes of an entire generation -- Beck's been recording, after all, for twenty years now, and managed to invent psychedelia, heavy metal and shriekback guitar along the way -- it seemed to us at GW that the fitting and obvious thing to do was to have a shot at putting Beck's career, achievements and musicianship into some kind of perspective.
Hence this two-part article. Part I is an exclusive interview with Beck speaking candidly and humorously -- so much for his reputation as the press' bad boy -- about a wide variety of topics: his re-entry into the music scene, the background for his various guest appearances, the new musical direction he's taking with Get Workin', his current equipment and new techniques, his own guitar heroes, his reactions to the crop of new electronic toys for guitarists and his thoughts on the current music scene.
Part II continues the discussion with Beck as he talks about his career as a superstar guitarist and its problems, how he thinks about his own playing, his perfectionism and his possible future musical directions. In addition, GW has talked with a number of musicians that have worked closely with Beck over the course of his career, people like Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja, Max Middleton, Jan Hammer, Stanley Clarke, Seymour Duncan. Their reminiscences and comments about Beck the musician and Beck the man -- how he works, what it's like working with him, the unique elements of his sound as a musician -- will make next issue's Jeff Beck Scrapbook an appropriate marker for this twentieth year of Beck's career.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, Jeff Beck.
GUITAR WORLD: You've resurfaced with a vengeance this last year or so.
That wasn't intentional, it just happened that way. The first thing was the Box of Frogs; they asked me last Christmas if I'd go down there and have a drink with them. So I went down there and had a drink with them and wound up playing on the record. Of course, they'd kinda said, "If you feel like it you can put a solo on here or there." I'd heard the demo beforehand and I quite liked it, and I couldn't see the harm of getting involved with old friends again.
What was it like getting back together with those guys after fifteen years?
Well, I was a bit afraid of what they'd sound like at first, because I don't think they had been near the music business, apart from the bass player, Samwell-Smith. But he kept his ear right to the ground the whole time: he's been producing a lot. So when I heard those tracks, I thought, "Wow, they're not bad at all; I've heard a lot worse." So I just went ahead and did my best for an afternoon. I say an afternoon, but I set up at three [p.m.] and we were working until about eleven at night. And [laughs] half an hour off for a drink!
How did you and Stewart hook up again?
I bumped into Rod the summer of '82, a: and I kept bumping into him in different places in Los Angeles. He was always friendly and saying, Well, when are we going to do something together? So I said, "Put your money where your mouth is." So then he organized the studio and we went in and did a thing called "People Get Ready." That turned out really well, and Warner Bros. and everybody just went crazy -- they loved it and all that.
Then they said, "All right, never mind your album, get something with Beck." So there was some talk about reforming [a group] with him, but that only happened on the three tracks with him on Camouflage. And it went from there: Rod rang up and said he loved what I had done on it, would I think about touring with him? What was spoken about was a very attractive offer financially, and also I wouldn't have to bear the brunt of headlining a tour, which after not touring for three years -- well, it's quite dicey out there, isn't it?
So I thought, "People are going to love this; if it turns out anything like what we're discussing it's going to be great." But, needless to say, it didn't, and I just got out of it as soon as possible, which was a shame, really. But he wasn't very forthcoming with any ideas which involved me, and I was just slotted in to about fifteen minutes. I just couldn't see the sense of touring the US, widespread, y'know, in that context. When my fans turned up they'd be thinking I'd gone mad or [pauses emphatically] moody.
Your own music has been evolving pretty constantly over the last twenty years. What kind of feel does have?
Well, what I've had to do is back off from the Blow by Blow and Wired kind of thing, get completely away from a "guitar hero" kind of record, which I was a bit shaky about doing at first. I don't mind, though, because that's not what's going on any more, and so it would be rather like challenging the world: trying to put out another all-guitar instrumental album is the kiss of death, in my opinion. Even though it might be a great album, I think it would miss by a mile what's going on in the world today.
I used Nile [Rodgers, producer of Get Workin') to get him to frame me in another way. He wrote four songs to start me off, and we just carried on from there. So far we've got seven tracks, with three outstanding-those will take care of the guitar-freak side of it. They'll be completely original instrumentals, and plus the solos I've played on Nile's songs, they should keep everybody happy.
Are you using drum machines or a drummer?
We used this guy called Jimmy Braylower, who's one of the top session drummers in New York, and he finds he's mostly in demand as a programmer rather than as a drummer. So he has the knack of actually playing more like a drummer on a machine than most people. Young kids would tend to just let the machine do all the work; they'd set up a simple figure and let it play over and over again. But it's a whole lot of work programming drum fills, so it would take unlimited time in the studio, which we didn't want to do.
We wanted to think of a drum fill or a drum lick and put it down in memory in seconds, instead of going over the track again, trying to get the bass and drums all together at the same time. So he used a very modern approach, and it worked pretty well. What we've turned up with is a challenge to a drummer; my next drummer will be hard-pressed to play what's on there. [Laughs) They're very feasible drum licks if your name is Simon Phillips, for example, so I guess I'll have to use him.
Who are some of the other players you used?
Jamaaladeen Tacuma is on there -- we did two tracks with him. And [keyboardist] Rob Sabino played some bass lines. See, it's a little like custom-built music, really, a bit of this and a bit of that. It helped me get off that thing I was on before, which is that high-speed jazz-rock.
Do you do any vocals?
I sang a couple of things: they're kind of tongue-in-cheek, to start me off a bit. But they taught me how it works. Nile's incredible about encouraging non-vocalists to become vocalists. He's very sympathetic, and without that I wouldn't have even attempted it. They're not bad, y'know; they'll get panned in the papers, but it's a start. If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really. [Ed. Note: Aside from a couple of early Yardbirds tunes, the only other Beck vocals on record can be found on the recent Media Home Entertainment video cassette of the ARMS Concerts, 2 vols.] [Ed. Note from 2011: He also sings on his first solo single, "Hi-Ho Silver Lining."]
Yeah. Do you enjoy one more than the other, for instance?
It's equal. When you get guys coming up to you in clubs or restaurants or somewhere, and they say how much they've enjoyed your playing on records, then that pays off dividends every day; every time they say it, you think, I'm glad I did that. But the parallel for that is that the live stuff is the best in the world, once you've really satisfied an audience in person. There really can't be any comparison. There's the event, the human event, the rising to the occasion every night -- there's no way you can beat that. It's like a sport, almost, where it's no good talking about football, you've got to play it.
What was it like playing in the ARMS tour with Clapton and Page?
The whole thing was so un-starlike, nobody played the big star, and we just loved being on the road because A) it was a good cause and B) it was a short tour, a one-time special thing, so we just got in and enjoyed the hell out of it. I think it should have gone on for another month, but see, initially we didn't know how well it would be received. Because it was Jimmy, Eric and myself for Ronnie Lane, the whole thing seemed to really mean something. It was an amazing experience all over.
What do you think of the whole Van Halen school of guitar?
I love it, I think it's the greatest. I've been there, y'know, but he lives and dies for that whereas I don't -- I'm not really a heavy metal boy, through and through. I'd love to go and see him but I probably wouldn't stay for the whole concert: I'd just get a flash of brilliance and then I'd go, saying to myself, "That guy is really great." I wouldn't want to get bored with it, which I could easily do with that style of music. I like rock concerts, concerts in general, to go through different moods, but there aren't too many concerts like that now. I mean, those guys like Van Halen are so great, but they seem to be stuck in that kind of stuff. Still, he's got the most amazing technique, you've got to take your hat off to him for that -- the speed and the frantic element. I could do well to learn from him some of those tricks he pulls.
Speaking of incredible technique, when did you first become aware of Hendrix?
I was in a guitar shop in London. It was probably the last time I've been in a guitar shop, actually [laughs). I'd just dropped in to see one of the guys who worked there, and he said, "Have you seen Jimi Hendrix?" And I said "No." So he said, "I just happened to be at a club last night where he was, and you have to see this guy." Well, coming from him, who liked nobody except these dusty old jazz guys, I figured I'd better go down and see this guy. So I went, and he'd understated it a lot -- Hendrix was a lot better than he made out. I was embarrassed because I thought, "God, that should be me up there" [Iaughs] -- I just hadn't had the guts to come out and do it so flamboyantly, really. He just looked like an animal, played like an animal, and everybody went crazy.
I'm just too withdrawn a character to do that. I mean, his upbringing was totally different from mine: He had so much impetus to get out there and do it, coming from where he did. I remember reading once about him eating a candy bar with little cockroach bites out of it. Still, I bitterly regret not having exploited my style a bit more, because there was a lot of stuff he did actually get from me, which he admitted -- the Yardbirds stuff, with the freaking out and feedback and all. Then there was that sensual element, the power of the sound he got from those heavy, heavy strings he used: I think his first string was like a normal third. You had to have his hands to play them.
Did you ever have the chance to jam with him?
Oh yeah. Talk to anybody who was around New York in '68. He was hot then, one of the biggest things ever, like Prince is now. We used to play in this place called the Scene. We jammed several nights, and it was the best time I can ever remember, for that kind of impromptu jamming.
What kind of stuff were you doing?
It was really a jam, we wouldn't have anything at all worked out. He'd start playing "Beck's Bolero," so I'd play rhythm guitar for that, and then I'd play "Purple Haze" and he'd play rhythm. We'd just mess around and give people a good laugh, and of course the mandatory twelve-bar blues would come into it somewhere.
Was there anything that he did that made you say, "God, I wish I'd thought of that?"
Oh, sure. I don't mean to be blowing my own trumpet, it's just that some of the little licks he did came from the Yardbirds records. That was a compliment; I could never thank him enough for doing that. But what really amazed me about him was that he lived for playing, and I didn't: he was a playaholic [laughs). I have to have a daily shot of it, but I wouldn't do it all day like he did.
Were there any tunes of his that stick in your mind?
His version of "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Stone Free." "Stone Free" is the main thing -- it's amazing, simply amazing. But there was also some bad stuff that he did. That "Star-Spangled Banner" on the Isle of Wight album, that business where I think his mind was gone a bit because of the intense pressure on him. That shook me. I said to myself, Jimi, c'mon, go back into the studio and start some new stuff, because playing live to people expecting miracles every night was just too much for him, really. I could see him going down as a result of it, his playing suffering, and then unfortunately the worst happened.
It's a bloody shame there was nobody around to make sure it didn't. He just never went to sleep -- like the early Rolling Stones, I don't think they ever went to sleep either. But he was just riding on a high, constantly, and that can't go on forever. You have to back off and take it easy. Bloody hell, it's one of the saddest losses in rock and roll guitar history, really, because who knows what he'd be doing now?
Who were some of the people you listened to that when they played you'd say, God, that guy just took the top of my head off?
Well, for that you'd have to go back to when I first started, when I started getting interested in blues. The same people that Eric, Eric Clapton, got inspired by, basically Otis Rush and people that just took your face off, like Buddy Guy and all the Chicago blues guys. I wouldn't say I got off on the bottleneck-scratching kind of stuff -- I don't really have any ear for that Jimmy Reed-kind of stuff, because it wasn't really [pauses] useful enough. It was kind of old downtrodden blues, which I don't really care for. I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.
Cliff Gallup is one of my heroes; I'd dearly love to meet him. And of course Les Paul I've met, and that's just a triumph in every sense of the word, just to see him playing again. But I like listening to anybody who's saying something, that's alI. I haven't been listening to that much new stuff: most of the time my radio is off, anyway, because I can't stand that barrage of Top Forty all the time. In fact, I've been listening to the classical station. But sometimes I'll play the radio and if I'm in an extra good mood or there's good company, a record that I would normally think stinks will come over as pretty good. Y'know what I mean?
If they're enjoying it you might see something in it you wouldn't otherwise. But I look at the records going around now and think, Would I be able to play on it? How would I treat this if I were playing it? And lots of times there'll be a great drum sound with a terrific groove going, and no guitar. And I think, "God, why the hell can't I put something out like that with my style on it?" But that brings us back to Nile, because I hope that he's enabled me to do just that: put my guitar all over something with a little bit of savagery to it.
Talking about scratchy slide, how did you pick up on slide? You use it in some of the oddest places.
Yes, well, I turn to the slide when I'm flummoxed. Sometimes I'll just use it in short bursts, and kids don't really know if I'm playing slide or with my fingers, because it keeps coming in and out. Most slide players I've heard start out with a set tuning and that song will have that all the way through it, so if you're a guitarist you know exactly what he's doing. But I don't like that; I like to playa rapid finger-style solo and then zoom off with some slide.
So you just leave the guitar in standard tuning.
Oh yeah. I've tried horsing around with different major and minor tunings, but I'm not used to that, because I never started that way. In the Yardbirds I used to just grab a piece of steel, stick it on my finger, and make a load of noise with it. And then I began to pick out triads and so on, and it went from there.
Do you practice at all?
About two hours a day. I just sit there and mess with it. Sometimes I'll set up my Linn drum and work with that. I use the Linn more as a metronome, and do some scales and such; and then if something comes out good that day I'll remember it and use it somewhere. That is, I'll put it on tape, put the tape in a box, and put the box somewhere and lose it [laughs]. But that happens all the time. But the thing about working with the Linn drum is that it makes you play, and you tend to overshoot the paint. You might write something that is so self-indulgent that you're back to. the jazz-rock thing again. But I prefer not to get too hooked on my own stuff; I intend to form a band, and just be the lead guitarist in the band, but without actually hogging center stage all the time. So I'll use a vocalist this time.
Do you have a tentative lineup for the tour band?
I've got half a dozen names I'm playing about with.
What guitars are you favoring these days?
I've got a nice guitar that somebody found for me in Memphis, a '55 [Gretsch] Duo-Jet, which I've been falling in lave with. It's the same guitar that Cliff Gallup used to use; that stuff still sends me up the wall every time I hear it. I'm still using Strats, and I've also got a Grover Jackson which is pretty nice -- it's a bit heavy metal looking but it's bloody good. It goes up to high C, which you can scream and it sounds almost like a whistle. That's on Tina's record, the thing called "Steel Claw" -- it's almost beyond human hearing.
Have you chucked the Les Pauls?
They're thick with dust at the moment, and I think that's the way they're going to stay. They're too heavy, and I don't seem to play that well on them any more -- just been around the Strats too long, I suppose. The Strat is part of me, really, when I put it on. It doesn't feel like an instrument, it feels like another arm.
And it's got that wang bar that you take such advantage of.
Well, that's it, that's what it's there for [laughs].
Do you have it customized?
No, it's standard.
Do you find it going in and out of tune?
Yeah, you'll hear that going out of tune, all right [laughs]. It's a constant source of annoyance, actually, but I love the Strat and what more can you do? I've lived with it for long enough, it can stay.
Where did you develop your fingerpicking technique from? I hear you almost never use a pick any more.
I used to listen to Chet Atkins and copy him, but it was a dead-end street, really, because after all that labor and heartbreak trying to learn what he did, everybody would go, "Yeah, great, great copy of Chet Atkins." I just definitely put the foot on that straightaway. I can play country-style within reason, Merle Travis kind of stuff, but that isn't really the way I play now without the pick. It's more like bluegrass style with rock and roll in mind. If I break a fingernail, then I have to use a pick, but otherwise I never touch one.
What are the advantages to using your fingers? Speed?
If you use a pick, you've got several fingers which are just redundant, they're not doing anything. But with five fingers you can do all kinds of stuff you can't properly get at with a pick. You can do railing figures like bluegrass, you can pick out notes of a chord and twang them, push them, bend them, anything you want. I think the more people drop out the pick the better because [pauses) you've got all these fingers hanging out in the breeze. You want to use them. But people don't; they pick up the guitar when they're kids and they've got thumb and first finger and a pick and that's it, and they stay with that… I mean, if you start playing guitar when you're ten years old with all your fingers, you're going to be incredible by the time you're forty. Obviously, there are some very fast guitarists like McLaughlin who use a pick, and I can't even get anywhere near the speed he gets. But that's not what I'm looking far: I'm looking to use as many notes, chordal things, bends, whatever, that you can't really do that easily, with the same articulation, that you get with all separate fingers.
How about effects?
I'm trying to stay away from them as much as possible. You can't keep up with them-you can spend all your money on effects that you wind up chucking in the dustbin. And especially for live playing, you have to play as loud and as clear as you can, without being too loud; and if you put an effect on that sounds amazing to the player but not to the people out front you're wasting your time. The effects are best left to the guy on the deck [mixing board). Obviously you can use distortion and sustain, but these things have been around for years. I don't use anything much more than that, really.
Like a Colorsound Tonebender?
Yeah, that kind of thing. And I've got a couple of Roland Choruses in stereo, which sound great. But there again, when you walk twenty paces into the audience you wouldn't know it's in stereo. You'd have to talk to the sound guy out front to know what it sounds like, because I never know: I'm up there playing [laughs]. Y'know, if the tune is fairly soft, you can use your boxes with more effect; but if you're playing wild flat-out stuff you're better off dry, really. Just turn up the wick and go.
How about your amps?
I've got a Seymour Duncan which is amazing. That will probably be the one that we mike up, a pair of these, each with one twelve [-inch speaker]. Then the rest will be my standard two Marshalls, that's all. They never go wrong, really. If you use the monitor system properly you shouldn't have to overdrive them to the paint where they're going to blow up.
You've lived and toured through several generations of electronic advances. Do you find that today's more sophisticated PAs make life easier than when everybody just plugged in and bashed away?
Well, there was same fun in that. I still prefer to do all I can do on one guitar, for instance. I hate to see those bands with rows and rows of guitars on stands that never seem to get played [laughs]. I like kids to see you get different sounds out of one guitar -- it gives them something to get excited about. If they've got a Strat and you've just made same sounds come out of it that they can't get, then that's one of the best parts, isn't it - the beauty of going home and learning what some guy's just shown you.
Stay tuned for Part 2 of this interview, which ran in the following issue (March 1985) of Guitar World.
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Happy Exploding Whale Day. It's time to watch that great video again.
By Bay Area News Group |
We're a day late in getting to this, but it's never the wrong time to watch the classic video — one of the first to go viral — of the misguided explosion of a whale on an Oregon beach.
It was Nov. 12, 1970, when an Oregon highway engineer got a call to remove a sperm whale — 45 feet long and an estimated 8 tons — that had washed up near Florence and had started to stink. (At the time, the state Highway Division had jurisdiction over beaches.)
The engineer, George Thornton, reasoned that they couldn't haul the whale out to sea because it would wash back up. They couldn't bury it on the beach, because the waves would uncover it. And they couldn't burn it.
So Thornton and his crew loaded up the whale with a half-ton of dynamite.
In the KATU television report, Thornton explains to reporter Paul Linnman that the plan is to blow the whale into little pieces that can be consumed by gulls and crabs.
About 75 spectators and news reporters draw back to a sand dune a quarter mile away. When the blast erupts, it is greeted with cries of wonder that are soon replaced by sounds of revulsion as bits of whale covered people in goo.
"The humor of the entire situation suddenly gave way to a run for survival as huge chunks of whale blubber fell everywhere," Linnman says in the video. One big chunk flattened the roof of a car.
Some 20 years later, humor writer Dave Barry wrote about the exploding whale as one of his "I'm not making this up" stories, said Ed Shoaps, then a public relations officer for the highway department. Someone posted it on a bulletin board in the early days of the Internet, and outraged people started calling the highway agency to complain, not understanding it had happened 20 years before.
"I consider it the first story to go viral on the Internet," said Shoaps. "The story persists because it is interesting."
Not funny, CHP says after 'high-risk' stop of mom's car
Photos: 19th Annual "No Pants" BART Ride Day
Conservative 'Moms' group slams Burger King for using 'the d-word' in a commercial
Video: Florida mobilizes to rid Everglades of Burmese pythons
Photos: Skunk gets stuck in Marin dryer vent
Thornton died six years ago, just days before the event's anniversary. He had refused for years to talk about the exploding whale for many years, once remarking that every time he did, "it blew up in my face."
What Lori Loughlin knew: New details of alleged complicity
A Honda Accord traveled the wrong way from Coleman Avenue to Campbell before hitting a Toyota head-on, CHP said.
San Jose: Man killed in Highway 101 crash that split car in half
The vehicle veered off the roadway, hit a sign pole and split in half before bursting into flames, CHP said.
Teen killed while trying to help friend on Sacramento freeway
A teenage girl was fatally struck by a car as she tried to coax a distraught friend off a Sacramento freeway, the California Highway Patrol said.
Pacifica: One dead, two injured in Highway 1 wrong-way crash
A portion of southbound Highway 1 was closed for several hours near Manor Drive after the early-morning collision.

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According to Microsoft, Windows 10 has "B," "C," and "D" updates—but never "A" updates! These updates are released at different times, contain different things, and are offered to different people. Let's break all this down.
What Is a Cumulative Quality Update?
Microsoft calls these "quality updates," and each is released once per month. This distinguishes them from the big "feature updates" like the October 2018 Update and 19H1 that are released once every six months, usually in the Spring and Fall.
Quality updates are cumulative, which means they contain all the fixes from previous updates. So, when you install the December cumulative update, you get the new security fixes from December as well as everything that was in the November and October updates, even if you haven't installed those previous updates.
And, if you're updating a new PC, you only have one big cumulative update package to install. You don't have to install updates one by one and reboot in between each.
The big updates most people are familiar with come out on "Patch Tuesday," the second Tuesday of the month. These are called "B" updates because they're released in the second week of the month. That explains why there are no "A" updates, as Microsoft doesn't generally release updates in the first week of the month.
B updates are the most important updates, featuring new security fixes. They also contain previously released security fixes from prior B updates and previously released bug fixes from prior C and D updates.
They're the main, most important type of Windows Update. They're also predictable for system administrators, who know when to expect them.
"C" and "D" updates are released in the third and fourth weeks of the month, respectively. These do not include any new security updates.
These updates just include new bug fixes and improvements for other non-security issues. Microsoft says C and D updates are "optional," and Windows Update won't automatically install them on your PC.
According to Microsoft, "D" updates typically include the majority of non-security updates. This gives people a few weeks to test them before those non-security fixes are released to everyone in the next B update. Microsoft sometimes releases "C" updates in the third week of the month for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and older versions of Windows 10, which gives people more time to test them.
Here's where it gets ugly: Windows Update doesn't automatically install C and D updates on most PCs. However, it does install C and D updates when you head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click "Check for Updates." In Microsoft's world, this makes you a "seeker" who wants to test these updates before most Windows users get them. Microsoft disclosed this in a recent blog post.
So, if you click "Check for Updates" in the third, fourth, or first week of a month before the next B update has been released, you'll probably get a C or D update installed on your system. If you never click "Check for Updates," you'll stick with the better-tested B updates.
After these updates have been "tested" by being unwittingly installed on Windows 10 PCs and Microsoft has confirmed they're stable with Windows 10's telemetry, the bug fixes in these updates appear in the next B update. The C and D updates are basically a beta testing program for B updates taking place on stable PCs.
In other words, Microsoft is using people who click the "Check for Updates" button as beta testers for quality fixes rather than relying on the Windows Insider program and its Release Preview ring. It's bizarre, and it's the same bad decision that made Microsoft roll out the unstable October 2018 Update to many Windows 10 users who didn't want it.
It's not just a theoretical concern. Microsoft recently had to put a block on KB4467682, a "D" update that was causing blue screen crashes on its Surface Book 2 devices. People who never clicked "Check for Updates" and stuck with the B updates wouldn't have encountered this problem.
Microsoft has repeatedly said only "advanced users" should click the "Check for Updates" button, but that warning only appears in blog posts that only advanced users will read. The standard Windows Update screen in Windows 10 provides no such warnings. It's ridiculous, but that's the way Windows 10 works right now.
Microsoft also occasionally releases "out-of-band" updates. These are urgent patches that don't follow the normal release schedule.
For example, if there's a big new security bug that has to be fixed immediately or a problem that's causing some Windows 10 PCs to blue screen, Microsoft may fix it with an immediate patch. That means everyone gets the fix as soon as possible.
Fixes in out-of-band updates will also appear in the next cumulative update. So, if there's an out-of-band update released in late December, it will also appear in January's B update on Patch Tuesday.
There are also "feature updates," which are big upgrades to Windows 10 and are released every six months. These are separate from the monthly "quality updates." They're basically entire new versions of Windows 10, and Microsoft gradually rolls them out to PCs.
The most recent big update was Windows 10's October 2018 Update, which skipped the Release Preview ring and wasn't properly tested by Windows Insiders before Microsoft released it to people who clicked "Check for Updates." Microsoft loves abusing that "Check for Updates" button.
Microsoft had to pull the update for deleting some people's files and is still fixing bugs in it over two months later, although it's technically considered stable and is slowly rolling out to a small number of Windows 10 users.
This would all make a lot more sense if Windows Update provided a better interface that told people exactly what they were getting into. Users shouldn't accidentally become testers just because they habitually click the "Check for Updates" button. And, if that's how the Check for Updates button is going to work, Microsoft needs to put a big warning about it in the Settings app—not just in blog posts.


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What Is A Scribe
A scribe is a person planning to attend medical school or PA school who is looking to work in a clinical environment that will expose them to the world of medicine. The principle duties of a scribe include:
Note writing: The scribe accompanies the physician into examining rooms for all patient visits. While the doctor interviews the patient, the scribe listens and transcribes the information into a proper medical note. Physical exam findings are also included in these notes.
Follow-ups: As laboratory results and radiology reports return on patients, the scribe updates the notes to include this information. All procedures are documented by the scribe, interactions with consultant physicians are recorded, and changes in the patients' course/response to treatments are also entered.
Efficiency: Our emergency department is similar to a very busy restaurant in that we are simultaneously caring for many people. The scribes assist the physician with the challenges of multi-tasking, allowing our patients to be treated and managed with greater efficiency. This also allows providers to spend more time face-to-face with patients and family members.
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This position is for those who are motivated, dependable, flexible and committed to a career in medicine. It is a challenging job, and we are very careful in our selection process. We hire those planning to attend medical school. The most important thing we take into consideration during the hiring process is character: being able to work in a team-based environment under stressful conditions requires an upbeat attitude, a willingness to be challenged, a hunger to achieve, and the ability to work well with others. You will encounter patients from all walks of life here, and a non-judgmental attitude is essential.
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Expertly shot using high definition cameras, and overseen by producer Sam Dichiera, this DVD gives you a feel of what it is like to be Joe Avati and perform in front of 1000 fans as the camera follows his every move – getting ready in the dressing room, preparing for and performing his show – the camera staying with him until he steps off stage. The DVD has been produced, using multiple cameras and interesting angles, to give the viewer a 'fly on the wall' perspective of what it is like to be an entertainer – the backstage antics, the nerves, the last minute requests and what happens just minutes and seconds before Joe steps onto the stage from behind the curtain.
The show is over 80 minutes of pure Joe Avati, uninterrupted and at his finest, weaving his inimitable magic recounting the stories that have become anthems, cementing him as part of the lexicon of the world wide Italian community. The production of the DVD also commemorates Joe Avati's tenth year anniversary in showbiz.


My grandfather had one last wish before passing on to the Great Beyond. My mama's chicken pot pie. You are going to love how easy this chicken pot pie is to make. Plus, as you're cooking it, the scent in your home will be so intoxicating your neighbors will be stopping by asking to have dinner with you. LOL!
It doesn't get any better than this, folks. Well, maybe it does, like, if you were handed over a check for one million dollars.
Steam carrots, celery, potato pieces until al dente. Drain and add frozen peas. Set aside to cool.
In a medium saucepan, add chicken broth, cornstarch and poultry seasoning. Whisk to combine. Cook over medium heat until thickened. Remove from heat and cool.
Roll out 1 pie crust to fit a deep dish 9″ pie dish. Brush with beaten egg.
In a bowl combine chicken, veggies and chicken broth mixture. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour into pie shell.
Roll out 2nd shell and cover pie. Crimp edges. Combine remain egg yolk with 1 teas. water and brush top crust. Cover edges of pie with foil to prevent burning.
Bake pie for 15 minutes. Lower heat to 350 degrees and bake for 45 minutes.
Quick Tip: Serve this hillbilly chicken pot pie with homemade applesauce. Yum!


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Home Destination of the Month Savour the 10 Must-Try Sri Lankan Foods!
Sri Lanka has a distinct cuisine, which reflects the country's rich cultural and culinary heritage. Sri Lankan food is heavily influenced by Indonesian and Indian culinary elements, along with highlights from Portuguese, Dutch, Malayan, Arabian and British cuisines. Local ingredients of rice, coconut, spices, and herbs form the base of a typical Sri Lankan food platter. Sri Lankan cuisine is generally spicy, aromatic, and unbelievably flavoursome.
Any visit to Sri Lanka is incomplete without tasting the delicious culinary specialities of this amazing Indian Ocean island. Holidayme presents 10 delicious and must-try foods of Sri Lanka!
The classic sour fish curry of Sri Lanka is a fiery combo of fish cut into cubes, sautéed in a blend of spices (black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, garlic and curry leaves) and infused with dried goraka, a small fruit that adds the sour flavour. Fish lovers must try this delicious Sri Lankan food.
Sri Lanka's favourite fast food, Kottu, is a delightful dish comprising of shredded roti cooked with finely chopped vegetables, egg and/or meat, and spices, served with curry sauce. One of the best dishes of Sri Lankan cuisine, Kottu is widely available across the length and breadth of the country.
Kukul Mas Curry is the good old Sri Lankan chicken curry, prepared using coconut milk as the base of the curry. The chicken is cooked with fennel seeds, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon sticks and infused with spices like chilli powder, curry powder, turmeric, pandan leaves, lemongrass and curry leaves. The delicious tomato and coconut gravy are added and stewed for an hour to settle the flavours. Sri Lankan food experience is incomplete with tasting Kukul Mas Curry.
Parippu is also known as dal curry and is commonly available across the length and breadth of the country. This dish can be cooked using Masoor dal (red lentils), split chana dal or Toor dal, which is boiled and later sautéed with onions, tomatoes, chillies, cumin seeds, turmeric, fenugreek, mustard seeds, chilli powder, and curry leaves. Coconut milk is added to increase the creaminess and thickness of the dal. Parippu is an all-time classic Sri Lankan food meal.
Lamprais is a Dutch culinary legacy that combines meat, rice and sambol chilli sauce, wrapped in a banana leaf parcel, and steamed till fully cooked. The rice can be cooked with different meats like beef, lamb, chicken and eggs, infused with plenty of spices like cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon. One of the cultural heritage of Sri Lankan food, Lamprais is a delightful culinary speciality.
Hoppers are the Sri Lankan version of pancakes. The batter is made of fermented rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, fired in a small wok, and served with lunu miris (a sambol of onion), chillies, lemon juice and salt.
Polos is Sri Lankan curry prepared with green jackfruit. The fruit is sliced into small chunks and boiled till it becomes soft. It is then cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, mustard seeds, turmeric, chilli powder, curry powder, pandan leaves and curry leaves. Coconut milk is added and simmered well before serving.
Wambatu Moju is a delightful eggplant pickle mostly served with rice. Eggplants are cut into small sizes and deep fried, further caramelised with sugar, vinegar, red onions, green chillies, mustard seeds, chilli powder and turmeric powder. The pickle is soft, juicy, and sweet in taste.
Pol Sambol is a Sri Lankan side dish made of fresh coconut grated with red onions, dried whole chillies, lime juice, and salt. The ingredients are diced or grounded and served as accompaniments to rice, roti and other gravies. Pol Sambol is one of the most popular side dishes of Sri Lankan food.
Gotu Kola, also known as 'Asiatic pennywort', a medicinal herb which is finely shredded and combined with shallots, tomatoes, onions, grated coconut and chili. This mixture is then seasoned with a dressing of salt, pepper, and lemon juice, to create a delightful sambol, which is best savoured with rice, roti and curries.


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Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage (~サムライスピリッツ新章~剣客異聞録 甦りし蒼紅の刃 ~Samurai Supirittsu Shinshō~ Kenkaku Ibunroku: Yomigaerishi Sōkō no Yaiba) est un jeu vidéo de combat développé et édité par SNK. Il est sorti sur PlayStation en 1999.

Système de jeu
La première modification apportée par rapport aux jeux précédents concernait la liste des personnages tous sont nouveaux à l'exception de Haohmaru et de Hanzo Hattori (bien que Hattori ne soit pas réellement le même homme que dans les versions précédentes du jeu). En effet dans les versions précédentes, Hattori était le fils de Hanzo, Shinzo, qui prit son nom. Notons que Nicotine, Gaira, Nakoruru et Rimururu (personnages du jeu précédent) jouent non seulement un rôle dans l'histoire, mais sont également présentés comme des options jouables.
Bien que le jeu contienne toujours de la 3D, SNK a cherché à diminuer encore le rôle de la troisième dimension, sans aucun mouvement le long de l'axe Z au-delà d'une esquive de base. Deux boutons permettent de contrôler les barres obliques faibles et fortes, un troisième contrôle l'attaque des coups de pied et le quatrième sert aux dodges.
Le jeu introduit un nouveau système de barres de vie, qui est divisé en trois sections. Le premier "round" du combat dure jusqu'à ce que l'une des trois sections d'un des combattants soit vidée de son contenu, cette barre de vie disparait et les deux autres se remplissent alors et ainsi de suite. Le match est terminé lorsqu'un joueur a été vidé de cette dernière barre de vie.

Synopsis
Samurai Shodown: Warrior's Rage se déroule 20 ans après les événements des jeux originaux. Le joueur joue le rôle d'un guerrier qui doit arrêter un gang diabolique et sauver Rimururu.

Personnages

Personnages de retour:
Haohmaru
Hanzo Hattori
Nakoruru (personnage Koropokkuru non jouable)
Rimururu (non jouable)

Nouveau personnages:
 Seishiro Kuki - protagoniste à qui le gouvernement a ordonné d'arrêter son frère, Tohma.
 Jin-Emon Hanafusa - partenaire de Seishiro, également envoyé par le gouvernement pour capturer Jushiro.
 Jushiro Sakaki - le chef du groupe anti-gouvernement "Atom Rebels".
 Rinka Yoshino - une membre des "Rebels Atom" qui veut rétablir son nom de famille.
 Saya - le dernier membre des "Rebels Atom" qui veut venger la mort de sa famille.
 Haito Kanakura - un garde du corps indépendant de Ritenkyo qui se bat pour gagner sa liberté.
 Yaci Izanagi - un homme de Ritenkyo qui se bat pour sauver son amant, Namino.
 Garyo the Whirlwind - un chef bandit qui veut se venger de ses camarades et désire aussi la main de Mikoto.
 Ran Po - un jeune orphelin à la recherche de sa sœur cadette, Minto.
 Mikoto - la fille d'Asura qui se joint à Oboro. Elle se bat parce qu'elle veut être autonome.
 Tohma Kuki - frère adoptif de Seishiro qui veut l'épée de son frère pour plus de pouvoir.
 Oboro - le dernier boss du jeu. Il est le chef des "Trois lames de la domination".
 Tashon Mao - un guerrier chinois qui "protège" Nakoruru des étrangers.
 Daruma - un épéiste vétéran errant qui veut arrêter Oboro.
 Minto - une jeune fille qui veut retrouver son ami, Mario.
 Mugenji - un meurtrier en série qui veut renaître en tant que papillon.
 Yuda - le produit de la fusion entre les deux Asuras apparu dans  Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage .
 Samurai - un épéiste commun qui aspire à retourner chez lui.
 Iga ninjas - guerriers loyaux sous le commandement de Hanzo.
 Les amazones d'Oboro - servantes qui se battent pour Oboro.
 Brute - un grognement rebelle qui ne se soucie que de l'argent.

Version
SNK a attribué au jeu un titre anglais extrêmement similaire à celui de son prédécesseur: Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage. Cela a suscité une grande confusion et conduit beaucoup à penser qu'il s'agissait du port du deuxième jeu Hyper Neo Geo 64. Ce jeu est également sorti en nombre relativement limité en dehors du Japon, alors que le marché des jeux se préparait pour la sortie de la PlayStation 2. Cela signifiait que peu de gens avaient réellement vu l'un ou l'autre jeu, le titre était donc le seul facteur dont ils étaient conscients. Pour aider à éliminer la confusion, Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage est fréquemment appelé Warriors Rage 2 ou SSWR2 (surtout dans les cercles anglophones).

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Q: Keep string between start and end pattern I have a text file containing this kind of content :
d__Affenpinscher|c__Abyssinian|h__Kathiawari|
a__Gold|y__Slix|c__Kathiawari|c__Cact

And I would like to obtain all the occurence that start with "c__" and end with "|" so that the final result is :
c__Abyssinian
c__Cact

I'm not that good with regular expression, so thanks for your help in advance.
edit : I'm looking for a bash command so grep/sed/awk are available
I tried to start from a basic example like :
sed -n "/<PRE>/,/<\/PRE>/p" input.html

with < PRE > and < /PRE > beeing the start and the end of the pattern
to
sed -n "/c__/,/|/p" breedList.txt > breedC.txt

But I didn't obtained the wanted output
Edit 2 : I tried to adapt this answer from a similar thread How to use sed/grep to extract text between two words? but I must be doing something wrong since my output is juste empty.
Here is the command I tried :
echo "d__Affenpinscher|c__Abyssinian|h__Kathiawari|" | grep -o -P '(?<=c__).*?(?=|)'

A: The answer from  rkta did the trick, thanks :) :
echo "d__Affenpinscher|c__Abyssinian|h__Kathiawari|" | grep -o -P '(?<=c__).*?(?=\|)' The vertical bar | is a special character and needs to be escaped.

You say: start with "c__" and end with "|", but c__Cact doesn't end with |

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The Club officially launched NEFirst Credit Union as its new main sponsor last Saturday.
The Credit Union invited figures from around the region to attend the launch, including the Bishop of Durham Paul Butler, who was among those who attended the event to show his support for the sponsorship.
One of the driving forces behind the deal was the opportunity for the two organisations that share the same core values to collaborate. Both organisations are community focussed and this is something that has brought them together. NEFirst is a not for profit organisation owned and run by its members.
The Club's Commercial Director Dave Mills is very enthusiastic about the deal and said: "This partnership is the flagship and most prestigious sponsorship, advertising and marketing product at Bishop Auckland Football Club.
NEFirst is committed to stamping out loan sharks. The England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) – a national team that investigate and prosecute loan sharks – has contributed £5,000 of proceeds of crime money to use towards this deal, that helps raise awareness of the dangers of loan sharks to local residents and football fans. The team will share sponsorship with the Credit U nion, as they try to get fans to turn away from loan sharks and start saving and borrowing with the credit union instead. As well as sponsorship, IMLT will have information in match programmes, announcements at games, and will work with the club on social media campaigns throughout the season.
This funding has come from proceeds of crime money; cash confiscated from convicted loan sharks, following successful prosecutions. A loan shark is someone who lends money without the correct authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
For more information about NEFirst visit www.nefirstcu.co.uk.


"Hotel Villa Otero | Nice"
This is amazing, your photos look great!!!!
Oh man your photos are so gorgeous they really make me want to travel!
Such pretty photos! I've never been to Monaco before and now I totally want to go there! Did you do any shopping there? Those GUCCI shoes were beautiful! Please tell me you bought those!
This is why I love seeing every traveler's pictures – everyone of us might go to the same place and yet experience it in a total unique way which translates into our photography. Haven't seen this side of Monaco and your photographs are just so enticing! Never really cared to visit Monaco, but after your post from Nice and now this one, I think you are changing my mind, Anouk!
Monaco looks incredible and so luxurious! Your photos are making me want to jump on a plane and go there NOW!
Wonderful photos. Monaco is so beautiful and full of wealthy people. I enjoyed visiting the country too.
Such beautiful pics! I would love to go to Monaco!
Oh wow, these photos are amazing…looks like it was such a beautiful visit! I definitely want to visit Monaco someday!
Goodness, Monaco is definitely one one of my must travel places. Plus my boyfriend's head would explode from the car culture. Beautiful shots!!
Such a gorgeous place! Monaco looks stunning through your lens!
I am already back home. Was nice to discover this part of France though.
Monaco through your lens looks soo cool. Lovely pics.. now I have to visit Monaco at the earliest.
These photos are like… a fairytale!
I go there a lot and I think it's a really nice place.
wow, wow, wow! these images are GORGEOUs. want to visit!
All of these images are beyond stunning! It looks like heaven!!!
This place looks like a luxury heaven! Give me those palm trees, sea breeze and sunshine and I'll love you forever!
Bahahahaha! Geez Monaco is flash. What was with the Rolls stampede happening on your Snapchat? Seriously does everyone drive one over there?
Love that purple car! Great pics!
What gorgeous photos! I'd love to visit Monaco someday, it's so pretty and glam!
Gorgeous photos! I feel like I've been transported to Monaco.
OMG. These pictures are all wonderful.
I had never known that Monaco is such a wonderful place, now I want to go there!
Amazing!! I want to come back there!!!
These photos are mindblowing! Monaco is stunning!
That purple car is stunning – nice to see that you had a great sunset for your visit too!
Perfect! Your pictures are so beautiful!
Gorgeous pictures! Monaco is such an amazing destination, I always enjoy it!
Flott Fotoen. Si gin de Flair vun Monaco gutt erëm.
Such a beautiful and luxurious city!
Great photography!! Such a lovely post.
Beautiful images, I loved all your snaps too and thanks for sharing!


A MOD of mine for phpBB2, Categories Hierarchy MOD and phpBB3 (Olympus). recoding it for 3.1/3.2.
Currently only the mini-profile in viewtopic and the Online users have been taken into consideration as a proof of concept. Default IP Country Avatars for those users who posted and don't have one already.
Thanks to Puchahawa (Randy) and Rogerio24 for the intensive live tests done with bleeding betas' code.
That will be a sort of Country Flags invasion. Images and Avatars are shipped with the package.
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Ok, new version BETA installed on my Board.
* You're allowed up to 10,000 queries per hour by default.
* HTTP 403, forbidden, until your quota is cleared.
It is basically an RFC (Request For Comments).
I managed to re-code one of my Best Seller MOD (my first love in coding for phpBB - served phpBB2, phpBB3 and Categories Hierarchy MOD too) as an extension for phpBB 3.1/3.2.
This free for non commercial uses API works against up to 150 different requests per minute, once this limit has been reached your server IP will be banned (can be easily un-banned though, going to PRO instead gives you an unlimited power and many more).
A part of this details, I started coding it to work for the Online List and View Topic things, based on the session IP of users, if users are not online nothing happens.
I think I will keep this as minimalistic as possible for the first release, until validated.
Calling voters, should I spend my spare time on this again or not?
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Interesting, mmm.. any kind of Json response will do, it doesn't matter to me.
I will do a deeper search then about these out there, in the meanwhile the main question is to know if I should go ahead and release this one, improving it .. or not.
Depends on how many "+1" and maybe feature requests I will get.
good ext !!! but cloudflare gives to my members another ip !! so will not help me much !!
Re reading this, I checked your extension and I saw you are using also cUrl, interesting.. what's the benefit?
I am actually using "file get contents" against the jSon response, atm.. only.
I do have a suggestion about you ext, but I am a little bit of tired right now and I need a rest, tomorrow I will expand it. What about the 250 lookups? Care to expand? Thx.
It is also interesting the PHP thinghy "geoip_country_code_by_name", I am still trying to realise how to use it though. It relies on the maxmind site services (well known) as far as I understood after a quick read, today.
Yup. I have already coded a lot on this ext today and I am using the cache wherever I can, good point.
What does exactly do that crap? Gives a static IP, always the same, for every user or what?
If I have more infos I could try to cook something.
For those they know this MOD and used it.. and for the new ones.
3Di wrote: What does exactly do that crap? Gives a static IP, always the same, for every user or what?
I will investigate, there are options in that Object that could be used on purpose, like Reverse and Proxy.
At the present time, without having more infos in my basket, I am swimming in the dark though.
3Di wrote: I saw you are using also cUrl, interesting.. what's the benefit?
3Di wrote: hat about the 250 lookups?
I should probably code some cases for that, not all of the Boards over there are hosted on servers that make it available cUrl to their customers. Not to mention that in some cases also the file_get_contents one could be not fully available. I will for sure use some of your already available code if you do not mind.
About the suggestions to your already validated extension I will send you a PM once I get some spare time after this WE, nothing so relevant..
I've found also some interesting code into the Rich's National Flags extension..
I guess that once the core IP engine has been coded for good it will be easy to change the source of this response, let's see. In the meantime, as an exercise, it does the trick.
There are a lot of things to study before to be sure what's the best approach this time, open to read/understand all of the further hints and suggestions that could be posted.
First post updated with the download link of the very first version and the GitHub repository.
Extension updated, see first post for details.
Uhmmm, your flag shows you are from the US on your test forum when I go there.


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Video Surveillance – Parents turn in sons, Police go on Joy Ride, Elevator Shooting
Video surveillance is so prevalent that almost everything that one does in public, is recorded in some way or another. It may not quite be the dystopian future in George Orwell's book 1984, but video surveillance is certainly a part of life. This week, the parents of two teens saw their teenage sons commit a robbery, and then turned them in, and another story shows NYPD on video surveillance joy riding on the hood of a car. Surveillance video also shows a police officer accidentally shoot himself in an elevator. Luckily, the injuries were non-life threatening.
Parents turn sons in after seeing store burglary video
The parents of two teens involved in a Fayetteville store burglary have turned their sons in to police after seeing the surveillance footage on the news. Police said Thursday that the parents of 14- and 16-year-old brothers returned home from Watch Night Service, had recorded the evening news, and recognized their sons in the surveillance.
"I'm just glad the parents decided to do the right thing," said Jesse Hill, the co-owner of Tech Boyz, who provided the surveillance video to ABC11. Read Article
Surveillance Video Shows NYPD Riding on Hood of Car, Possibly Joy Riding, Before Falling and Hitting Head
Now that New York City police officers have made it clear they are no longer going to be making petty arrests, they apparently needed to find other ways to fill their shifts, including riding on the hoods of patrol cars.
Unfortunately, that left one cop seriously injured Monday morning when the patrol car he was riding on came to a sudden stop, flinging the cop to the street where he hit his head. So much for officer safety. Read Article.
Video released of officer's accidental shooting in OTR elevator
An off-duty police officer accidentally shot himself Saturday night.
Dispatchers said the shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. at the Mercer Garage, near the corner of Mercer and Vine streets, in Over-the-Rhine.
Paramedics responded to the scene and took Officer Darryl Jouett to UC Medical Center, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. He was listed in stable condition.
Investigators said it appeared the Jouett's gun accidentally went off while he was in an elevator.
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The Weill Cornell Class of 2007 take the Hippocratic Oath during Commencement at Carnegie Hall, May 30.
Backstage, students were abuzz with excitement.
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Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences held commencement exercises at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, May 30. The graduating class included 12 M.S. degrees, 49 Ph.D. and 95 M.D. degrees. The ceremonies were presided by Dr. Charles Walcott, dean of the Cornell University Faculty; Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of Weill Cornell Medical College; Cornell President Dr. David J. Skorton; and macebearer Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan Jr., preceded by an invocation by Rabbi Mark Popovsky.
Dr. Skorton, in addition to his role as president of Cornell University, is a cardiologist, researcher and musician. "This is a thrilling time to be entering science and medicine," he said in his address to the Class of 2007, referring to advances in genetics and biomedical research. "You are among the most qualified medical scientists in the world."
Dr. Skorton encouraged the graduating class to think not only of national health issues—citing disparities like racial gaps in life expectancy, infant mortality, certain cancers, and the skyrocketing cost of health-care coverage—but of global health crises as well. He referred to the collaborative work between Cornell and other institutions, such as HIV and syphilis treatment programs in Haiti and the establishment of a medical center in Tanzania, at which several of the graduating students had worked in recent years helping to treat malaria and tuberculosis, as one way the new doctors can put their knowledge to use. "You have the capacity to change individual lives and society," Dr. Skorton told them, "both in the United States and around the world."
Dean Gotto echoed Dr. Skorton's comments. "You are there to serve the patient," he said, "and your patient could be the person next door or the person from halfway around the world who needs your help."
Dr. David P. Hajjar, dean of Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, introduced student speaker Peter Jordan, who urged his classmates to take with them three important lessons. "First, we must always do justice to the facts," Jordan said. "My second point is that all of our master narratives and scientific theories are provisional; be flexible enough to accommodate new discoveries." And thirdly, "Always be wary of people with agendas, both inside and outside of science." His theme to the graduating class was to check their egos at the door and to keep their new pedigrees from leading them to the age-old flaw of hubris. "We must be aware of our intellectual blind spots," he said.
Terry Magnuson, Ph.D. '78, received the Graduate School of Medical Sciences Alumni Award, presented by Dr. Francesca Domenech Wuttke. "My time here was exceptional. It set the tone for the rest of my career," said Dr. Magnuson, a leader in genetics and developmental biology. "You are entering your fields at an exciting time," he said. "You now have the tools. Next you need the imagination."
As Medical College student speaker, Anuj Mehta brought an air of levity to the occasion. "Most people who know me know that I talk a lot," he said to knowing laughter from his classmates. An adept and lively speaker, Mehta compared the medical profession to a "Where's Waldo" poster. "One must peel away the distractions," he said—referring to regulatory issues, malpractice concerns and increasing public fears of physician-pharaceutical fraud—to find that the nobility of medicine is still there. "The very nature of doctor-patient relationships is older than even Hippocrates," he said. "I think that's where the nobility comes from—we all have an equal stake in what we do there. When both doctor and patient are placed in the same room," he concluded, "something greater is created."
The final speaker was internationally recognized heart specialist Jay N. Cohn, M.D. '56, who was given the Medical College Alumni Award. "When I was a medical student, we operated on the principle that half of what we learned was wrong, but we didn't know which half," he said to a round of laughter. "I suspect that is still true!" Dr. Cohn stressed his message in more serious terms: "Don't just accept what you've been taught, but pursue medicine with a thirst for new knowledge. The establishment can tell you what to do, but not what to think."
Written by Jeffrey Stanley. Photography by Amelia Panico.


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The president should relocate U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
By Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), Opinion Contributor — 06/09/17 05:00 PM EDT
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There is no greater friend, ally, and strategic partner to the United States than Israel. It is so important that we do everything in our power to ensure that this historically sacred relationship is not only preserved, but strengthened in the months, years and decades ahead. As part of this effort, the United States should move our embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In 1948, Israel declared its independence and became a sovereign state. The nation immediately declared Jerusalem as its capital; yet, other nations, including the United States, rejected this notion and chose to place their embassies elsewhere. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and locating embassies elsewhere de-legitimizes and undercuts Israel.
The effort to relocate our embassy is not new, and Congress has long sought to see this critical mission through. In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act to make this move happen. Though law, the Jerusalem Embassy Act was never implemented. Despite this, President Clinton, as well as President Bush, agreed that this relocation was the right move.
Jerusalem is the unquestionable capital of Israel and should be fully recognized as such. In addition to its religious importance, Jerusalem is also the location of the Israeli Knesset and offices and residences of the Israeli prime minister and president. Moving our embassy to Israel's capital is an important step to protect Israel's sovereignty and security and strengthen the bond between our two nations. In light of the recent rise of anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israeli sentiments and actions, achieving this goal is more important now than ever before.
Moving our embassy is not only the right thing to do, it sets an important precedent for other nations to follow. It would advance Israel's diplomatic status while also serving as a symbol of American strength and leadership. Israel is surrounded by terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and ISIS that would like nothing more than to wipe Israel off the map. Palestinian terrorists murder innocent Israelis and Americans, and then are celebrated as martyrs by the Palestinians and given state funerals, all while receiving financial rewards from the Palestinian Authority as payment for their terror. To make matters worse, Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, has consistently threatened Israel's existence. There must be zero tolerance for any of these detractions, and as Americans, we must do everything possible to support Israel and her people. Now is the time to show that our nation will not indulge these actions which threaten or demean our friends.
While Jerusalem is already home to a U.S. consulate, Israelis are unable to utilize it, and must travel to Tel Aviv to make use of these services. Moving the embassy would dispel the diplomatic fiction that Jerusalem isn't the capital of Israel, while sending a clear message to the Palestinians that Israel will not be bullied into relinquishing its capital and will not be destroyed as the independent, democratic Jewish state. Israel is the only nation where the U.S. embassy is not in the host-identified capital. Israel is a sovereign state, and it absolutely deserves to be respected as such by all nations, especially its strongest friends and ally.
It is critical that the administration follows through on this pledge. As the center of the Israeli government, as well as the nation's unquestionable capital, it is absolutely imperative that this move is initiated and completed in earnest. America stands by Israel, our greatest ally, in firm solidarity.
Congressman Lee Zeldin represents the 1st District of New York. In Congress, Rep. Zeldin serves as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Co-Chairman of the House Republican Israel Caucus. He is one of only two Jewish Republicans in Congress.
The views expressed by this author are their own and are not the views of The Hill.


These Frosted Carrot Cake Cookies are so simple, and delicious. They make a perfect Easter snack or dessert, that your whole family is sure to love.
I hope that you are having a wonderful and relaxing Sunday. Today we are getting together with all the sisters and their families for family dinner and an Easter egg hunt.
It will be anything but relaxing, but that's how we roll.
We only have a couple more weeks of being together because Kristen and her family will soon be moving to Indiana and Steph and her husband are headed to California.
We have felt so blessed to have been lucky enough to all be in Utah for the last two years, so having these sisters be far away will be hard.
So, what do I do when I am feeling sad? I eat my feelings. And these carrot cake cookies are perfect for that. Soft, chewy, and covered in cream cheese frosting. They definitely help.
These are perfect for spring, but honestly, I'd eat them all year long.
what other frosting could I make if i don't like cream cheese?
Cream cheese is my love language. If it has cream cheese in it, I need to eat it. However, I know it is not for everyone, which is totally understandable.
If you are in need of a different frosting recipe, we highly recommend making our Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. It is so delicious, and just as easy to make, if not easier.
We put it on just about everything, and these cookies will still taste absolutely amazing with a little buttercream frosting instead of cream cheese, on them.
In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, and vanilla. Add egg and mix well.
Add flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, salt and mix until completely combined. Fold in carrots (and raisins and walnuts if you are using them). Place spoonfuls of dough on ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 9-12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and let cool, then frost with cream cheese frosting. Garnish with chopped walnuts if you want.
Cream butter, cream cheese, and vanilla together, then add powdered sugar. Add more or less powdered sugar, depending on how thick you want the frosting to be.
Recipe inspired by Cupboard to Cupboard.
Thanks, Camille! It was a fantastic day! I hope your Easter was wonderful as well!


If you aren't currently worried about Mercury being retrograde then it's likely you have yet to be introduced to the sprawling, meme-filled universe of astrology. It's indisputably having a cultural resurgence in our zeitgeist. Social media has fostered the rise of a very specific breed of astrology buffs — they're self-deprecating, funny as hell, and exceedingly millennial in their tastes and references. And while astrology has been relegated to the corners of newspapers for the last few decades, the Internet age has given star-charting and cosmic predictions a hilarious new edge.
Instagram accounts like @notallgeminis and @aaronjakesastrology have more than 100,000 followers, posting memes that'll tell you which zodiac sign corresponds to which Sailor Moon character, cartoon dog, or lyric from Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy. Twitter favorites @poetastrologers write weekly forecasts that are comfortingly vague and always beautiful.
For example, my horoscope for the third week of March is: "Week of 3/17 in Capricorn: You will be hoping that it all goes exactly as it should. Of course you've done everything to ensure that it will. Still, what is the point of going if it's not the mildest moon. Just be sure you know exactly what you're getting into." What does this mean? I have no idea, but reading it feels like a soft, warm blanket. Suffice it to say, other people feel this way, too, since the account has more than 400,000 followers.
Online publications are seeing an uptick in the number of page visits to their daily, weekly, and monthly horoscope updates, and zodiac apps are using real-time NASA data to predict just how likely it is that your girlfriend will break up with you. Newsletters, social justice-themed horoscope readings, and literary zodiac posts are making the rounds on the Internet, as astrology is becoming more hip and mainstream than it has been since the 70s.
This is not your weird aunt reading out your horoscope about how you should be careful with money and travel, from the last couple of pages of Femina. While Indian astrology shows on channels like Aastha wax poetic about the Vedic astrological significance of Rahu and Ketu, people are out here dragging Rahul Gandhi for being a two-faced Gemini. Astrology has been reclaimed and revamped by millennials and the new, shiny packaging only makes it cooler.
Let's be clear, though: There is zero science behind this trend. Our zodiac signs are calculated based on the planetary positions at the time of our birth. Most people will probably know their sun sign, the most famous zodiac sign, and the corresponding character traits, like Cancerians being over-sensitive or Librans being indecisive. But for the real deal, you have to calculate your birth chart, which can be done pretty easily, if you know the details of the time and place of your birth.
With the exact location of each of the planets at the moment of your birth, your astrological chart offers a more complex narrative of your specific characteristics, weaknesses, strengths, and what the future might hold. Of course, science will tell you that this is all bogus, which is true. But despite the clear lack of evidence that astrology works, there's something about being told things about yourself that has captured this generation's attention. Not unlike the self-care industry, which sells us healing crystals and sound baths, this trend seems very much like a shallow attempt at self-realization. But maybe that's a more cynical take on it.
Yet while astrology may seem like a whole lot of navel-gazing, in this new form, it might actually be a bit more complex than we allow. For millennials, the crucial part of this trend is not really whether you believe in astrology or not, but whether you can relate to it, and find comfort in what it's telling you about yourself. This generation is pretty okay with living in the limbo between fact and fiction — growing up with the Internet can mold you that way.
It makes more sense when we look at this sudden resurgence of astrology in the context of our world today. Studies have found that people turn to astrology in response to stressors in their lives. "Under conditions of high stress, the individual is prepared to use astrology as a coping device even though under low-stress conditions he does not believe in it," said the study author, Graham Tyson. And this generation's increased levels of stress and anxiety has been fairly well documented.
It's comforting, in times of pain or trouble, to think 'Oh, this is all because my moon sign is in the seventh house.' And the memes that point out our weaknesses based on sun signs? They're an exercise in self-awareness and reflection. Maybe, as a Capricorn, I do shut people out. Maybe I should make myself more emotionally available to the ones I love. There's really nothing to fault with that advice. In our current moment of geopolitical (and possibly personal) turmoil, when climate change is now beyond our control, India and Pakistan could go to war any moment and you just got fired from your job, astrology becomes a solace. Eventually, the planets must realign, Mercury retrograde will end, and maybe things will turn out better in the future.


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Greece 20th Century history
The early 20th century finds Greece weak after many bankruptcies and the lost Greco-Turkish war of 1897. In 1881, Thessaly had already been attached to the Greek state. Many volunteers from all over the country go to Macedonia to fight against the Turks and the Bulgarians that occupy the region. This period from 1904 to 1908 is called the Macedonian Struggle.
In 1912, after the first Balkan Wars, Macedonia and Epirus are attached to the Greek State and in 1913, it was the turn of Crete to be united to the rest of Greece. These were the results of the political efforts of Eleftherios Venizelos, an inspired Cretan leader that became prime minister of Greece. Venizelos worked hard for the reunification of all Greece, he established constitutional amendments and social laws and re-equipped the army. He managed to stabilize the country to a great extent.
When World War I erupted, King Constantine believed in maintaining a neutral position but Prime Minister Venizelos was passionately pro-Entente. The Entente reinforced his position by promising to award Asia Minor to Greece. Venizelos wanted to make "Magna Grecia", that is to unite the country as per its ancient territories. He set up an allied revolutionary government in Thessaloniki and the Greek army invaded the city of Smyrna, a town with a large Greek population, in 1919. The Greek army was marching, regaining the territory of Asia Minor where Greek populations were residing since the 8th century BC. However, when Venizelos lost the elections in Greece, the Greek army started to lose the fights and was finally severely defeated.
The treaty that followed provoked a population exchange. 400,000 Turkish Muslims were traded against one million Orthodox Greeks. The Asia Minor destruction of 1922 was a large wound for the country: immigrants who had lost their homes were coming in the mainland, which could do very little to comfort them. A new wave of economic difficulties followed and the next decade was filled with internal political turmoils.
The German Occupation
Greece endured a succession of monarchies, a military rule, and brief democracies. In 1936, General Metaxas was appointed Prime Minister by King George II and inaugurated an oppressive fascist dictatorship. On October 28th, 1940, Metaxas was opposed to German and Italian domination and refused Mussolini's demand to occupy the country during World War II. This day is celebrated as the "Ohi Day" in Greece.
Greece fell to the Nazi troops in April 1941, which resulted to the mass destruction of ancient sites, large-scale executions and the extermination of the largest part of the Jewish community who were residing in many Greek towns, such as Athens, Thessaloniki, and Rhodes. Resistance movements sprang up but they were divided between a royalist and communist movement.
In October 1944, Greece was set free by the Germans but a couple of months later a civil war started between the royalist and communists. The royalist had great financial help from America in order to prevent a communist Greece. The American implemented the "Certificate of Political Reliability". This document declared that the holder didn't have left-wing sympathies. It was somehow obligatory to have this certificate otherwise Greek people could not find any type of work. The war lasted until 1949 when the royalists claimed victory.
The Military Junta
The years that followed were unstable from a political and financial aspect. A large immigration wave spread towards Athens and also abroad, mostly in the USA, Germany, Australia and South Africa. In April 21st, 1967, a group of army colonels staged a military junta which was characterized by repression, brutality upon, censorship and political incompetence. The Junta enjoyed US support and investment.
Many social rebellions would take place during the seven years of the junta, from 1967 till 1974. The most important rebellion was the Polytechnic Uprise on November 17th, 1973, when university students had locked themselves in the Polytechnic School and were asking for the fall of the junta.
The Junta eventually fell in July 1974, after the government attempted to assassinate the leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, in order to unite Cyprus with Greece, which led to the Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus. After the fall of the Greek Junta, Konstantinos Karamanlis, the former prime minister, came back to power organizing parliamentary elections and a referendum for the fate of monarchy in Greece. The monarchy was defeated by a two-thirds vote and a new constitution was established in 1975. A parliamentary republic was organized, with a president at the head of the state, appointed by the legislature. In 1981, Greece became a member of the European Community.
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There seems to be a trend happening on the blog lately… I guess when it's this time of year I'm just naturally drawn to all the cozy meals!
This gluten free caramelized onion smothered pork chop with herb whipped parsnips and kale definitely fits that criteria.
This dish, probably more than any other dish that I've made, reminds me of my grandmother's dinners.
This version has no canned soups, no grains, and is totally dairy free. Sounds pretty phenomenol, right?
Cashews! Cashew cream to be more exact.
Aka the miracle ingredient that makes you feel like you're eating dairy when you're totally not.
And guys. The flavor of this sauce is reaaally something special.
By slowly caramelizing thinly sliced onions + garlic (hello dream team!), and adding a few flavor bombs like nutritional yeast, coconut sugar and paprika you get something so complex and inviting it tastes like it has been cooking all day long. When in reality it comes together in less than 30 minutes, and most of the cooking time is hands off so you can be working on other parts of the meal!
The herb whipped parsnips are a fluffy, herb flecked dream. They stand in as a more nutritionally beneficial starch than potatoes/rice/etc. They're best made in your food processor to really acheive the whipped quality, but you could also use your stand mixer or a traditional hand held potato masher.
I used ghee as my fat in the parsnips, but it could so easily be swapped out for olive oil or another fat.
As for the pork – I have only made this recipe with thinly sliced + bone in pork chops. I personally love using bone in pork chops because of how moist they stay throughout the cooking process, but you could try using boneless pork chops if that's what you prefer.
And the kale? Well the kale is there for every reason we ever add kale to any meal – it's delicious, something green and bright to lighten up the plate, and squeezes in your daily dose of greens in. It could easily be swapped out for whatever cruciferous // green veggie you have on hand.
Happy cozy mid-week, babes! Enjoy this satisfying and midwest inspired meal made with wholesome ingredients and lots of love!
Caramelized onion smothered pork chops with herb whipped parsnips and kale are here to take your gluten free // paleo dinner to the next level of comfort + satisfaction! Nestled in a creamy dairy free sauce these pork chops pair perfectly with dreamy whipped parsnips and bright and nourishing kale for the perfect comfort food meal.
Wash pork chops well with cold water and dry thoroughly with paper towel. Season quite liberally with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Re-wrap in deli paper or wrap in a paper towel and place on a plate to store in the refrigerator for at least 2-4 hours before cooking, but as long as over night. This step (along with the fact that you'll be using bone-in pork chops) ensures a moist and tender cooked chop!
Soak cashews in boiling water for at least one hour.
Drain cashews and put in high-speed blender with just enough water to ALMOST cover cashews. Blend on high for about 30 seconds, or until cashew cream is completely smooth. It should be about the consistency of yogurt. Move to a storage container and set aside.
Peel and cut parsnips into 1 1/2 inch pieces, place in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and then lower to a simmer. Cook until very tender, about 14-16 min.
Drain parsnips very well (the less liquid that remains in them the richer your whipped parsnips will be).
Add parsnips to food processor (this step can also be done in a kitchenaid stand mixer, or with an old-fashioned potato masher) with ghee and about 1/3 cup cashew cream, 1/2 tsp salt and a little black pepper. And process on high for a minute or two, until no lumps remain. You may need to add more cashew cream, a little at a time to reach desired consistency. Once parsnips are whipped, add in a tiny squeeze of lemon juice (to mimic the flavor of sour cream or yogurt) and a few tbsp of chopped fresh herbs, I used chives and dill. Process again until combined.
Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add about 1 tbsp oil. Once almost smoking hot, add 2 pork chops.
Cook about 3 minutes on each side, in two batches, until nicely browned. Remove to a plate.
Add thinly sliced onions to pan used for pork chops along with a big pinch of salt and lower heat to medium. Cook, stirring occasionally until very soft and brown. About 6-8 minutes.
Add coconut sugar, paprika, nutritional yeast. Stir and cook for another minute or so.
Stir in broth, scraping up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan.
Lower to a simmer and cover, cooking for about 10 minutes.
Stir in cashew cream (adjusting amount according to how creamy you want your sauce to be), taste for salt and pepper and add pork chops, spooning some of the sauce over the top. Cover and cook another 8 minutes.
While sauce and chops are cooking add a steamer basket to the pot used to cook parsnips and bring a couple inches of water to a boil.
Wash and chop one bunch of kale, and steam while sauce is cooking. This should take about 6 minutes. While hot, toss with a little ghee or olive oil, and salt to taste.
Spoon some parsnip puree onto a plate, topping with a pork chop + some sauce, and nestle in the cooked kale on the side.
This entry was posted in dinner and tagged cashews, easy, gluten free, grain free, healthy, kale, paleo, pork, quick on February 1, 2017 by Nyssa Tanner.