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Murraymania: Suddenly there's something for the fans to cheer as Andy flies the flag at Wimbledon
By Malcolm Folley, Mail on Sunday Chief Sports Reporter Updated: 15:07 EDT, 28 June 2008
Andy Murray lifted the British summer by storming into the second week of Wimbledon and keeping alive dreams of a first home triumph for more than 30 years.
In front of a passionate Centre Court crowd, which included a number of Britain's sporting greats, Murray produced another impressive display to defeat former world No2 Tommy Haas, of Germany, in four sets.
Thousands of fans queued for hours just to sit on the grass verge which has been renamed Murray's Mount since the retirement of Tim Henman and they went home happy following the 21-year-old Scot's 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory.
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Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton and England's 1966 World Cup winners, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Geoff Hurst, were looking on as Murray continued his bid to give British fans something to cheer about in a year in which none of the home nations qualified for Euro 2008, which reaches its climax in Vienna tonight.
Olympic gold medallists Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes and Lord Coe were also inside Centre Court and Murray said: 'Maybe I should have won in straight sets but apart from the last few games of the second set I played really well.I didn't play a very good tie-break and a few years ago that might have affected me. This time that didn't happen. Now I have to keep that up.'
Murray now faces Frenchman Richard Gasquet, a semi-final loser to eventual champion Roger Federer last year, in a fourth-round match tomorrow, knowing that victory will probably set up a mouthwatering quarter-final clash with the Beast of Barcelona, world No2 Rafael Nadal.
Despite his young age, Murray claims he is now mature enough to cope with burden of replacing Tim Henman as the country's brightest hope to bring the first success in the singles since Virginia Wade's victory in 1977.
Murray said: 'I just think that the older you get, the more you get used to everything. When I played here when I was younger, I struggled to deal with all the expectation and pressure that was on me. I've got people around me who are very supportive.'
Davis Cup captain John Lloyd also heaped praise on the young Briton. He said: 'Andy has shown in this first week that, like Tim Henman, he is going to be a man who relishes playing at Wimbledon. The tournament can inspire, or overwhelm you when you are carrying the expectation of the nation. Murray is rising to the challenge. Those who persist with the notion that Henman lacked a hard edge at Wimbledon are talking nonsense.
'Considering all the pressure he played under his record of making the semi-finals on four occasions is outstanding. But he could never be faulted for his attitude.'
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Matthijs de Ligt gives the thumbs up as he arrives in Turin ahead of £63m move to Juventus, where he will be the second highest-paid player behind Cristiano Ronaldo


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Zalesie – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim, w powiecie nidzickim, w gminie Kozłowo.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa olsztyńskiego.

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Spur Ridge Equestrian Community is located in Laramie, Wyoming. Laramie is an eclectic town full of Western charm, outdoor adventure and college town vibrancy. Laramie was named as one of the top cities to retire by Money Magazine. This town is home to the University of Wyoming, the American Heritage Center, numerous historical sites and so much more. Laramie has attractions to keep the entire family entertained and is very popular with outdoor enthusiasts offering a wide range of outdoor activities including fishing, camping, skiing, snowmobiling, biking and mountain ranges. The downtown area is equally charming with award-winning microbreweries and many popular restaurants to explore.


Hanggai is a Mongolian folk-fusion band from Beijing. They remind me of a less flashy Gogol Bordello. Mongol Bordello? Check out the amazing moment around 3:05 and following. Music like this is pretty much my favorite thing. Everyone knows nothing is more punk rock than flowers. Also rockin' the left handed guitar!


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Hello! I am Dr. Daniel Domsch, but please call me Dr. Dan. I grew up in Shawnee, KS and attended Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. I graduated from Kansas State University, earning a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in business management. Following graduation, I attended UMKC School of Dentistry where I graduated in 2016. I am an avid sports fan and enjoy rooting for all of the hometown Kansas City teams, as well as the KSU Wildcats. Having played competitive baseball growing up, I still participate in a men's league. I also enjoy snow skiing, going to movies, and playing trivia, but mostly I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. My interest in dentistry stems from my own dental problems I had as a child. I developed a great appreciation for the difference a good dentist can make in a person's life. I am excited to be a part of the Pendleton team, providing quality dental care in the comfortable environment Dr. Steve and his staff have created.
Welcome, I am Dr. Steven D. Pendleton. Most patients refer to me as "Dr. Steve". I grew up in the Argentine district of Kansas City, Kansas, where I graduated from J.C. Harmon High school. I received my Associates degree in Biology from Kansas City, Kansas Community College. Always being interested in the medical fields I decided to continue my education in science and attended UMKC where I received my bachelors degree in Biology. With my education well under way I decided to pursue a career in dentistry. I graduated from UMKC Dental School in 1998 with my Doctorate degree in Dental Surgery. Here is a little bit of information about me. I am a pretty laid back guy and enjoy having fun at work. I enjoy treating all patients but especially love my kids! I call them "my kids" because I have seen so many grow up through the years and it is such a treat being able to have a part in their lives. Plus, I am definitely a kid at heart, just ask my wife! I take pride in giving back to the community. Throughout dental school I was involved in many community activities. I have gone on several outreach trips to Venezuela, where they provide Dental care to children in orphanages. I do presentations at schools in the community to teach proper oral hygiene. I have also been involved in many programs that offer free dental screenings throughout the area. I am currently a member of the American Dental Association and Kansas Dental Association. I always bring my energy to the office and try to enjoy myself. I hope that you enjoy your time with us as well. I have many exceptional Doctors working with me, check out their bios, as well as a great staff. I am so proud to have such great people working with me and hope to continue practicing in the field of dentistry in this community for many years to come, thanks to all of you!


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Alliance United Futbol Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Markham and Scarborough, Ontario. The club was founded in 2017 to compete in League1 Ontario.  The club was formed as a partnership between two youth clubs - Markham FC and Wexford SC. It fields teams in both the men's and women's divisions of League1 Ontario.

Founders
The club was founded in 2017 as a joint partnership between clubs Markham FC and Wexford SC with the team playing out of Centennial College. The name Alliance United was initially meant to be a temporary with a 'name the team' initiative planned, but it ultimately remained the official name.

Markham FC

Markham FC is a youth soccer club in Markham, Ontario. It was founded in 1971 as the Markham Minor Soccer Club, before changing its name to the Markham Youth Soccer Club.

Wexford SC
Wexford SC is a youth soccer club in Scarborough in Toronto. It was founded in 1967 as the Buchanan Soccer Club and is the longest running club in Scarborough.

History
Alliance United joined the men's division of League1 Ontario for the 2018 season. They played their inaugural match on April 29, 2018 against North Mississauga SC at home, which they lost by a score of 1–0. They finished in 7th place in their debut season.  They improved to a 3rd-place finish in the 2019 season, but had a very poor showing in the playoffs where they lost 15–0 to FC London on aggregate in the semi-finals over the two-game series, due to being unable to field many of their best players, who missed the series due to college and university commitments, thereby having to rely on many youth players instead.

In 2019, the club added a team in the League1 Ontario women's division. In their debut season, they finished in a three-way tie for fifth, but did not play in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In their return in 2022, they finished 6th in the regular season, but advanced to the Championship Final in the playoffs, where they were defeated by NDC Ontario. In addition, they advanced to the League1 Canada Women's Interprovincial Championship for 2022, as NDC Ontario was unable to compete due to player unavailability, where they finished in 3rd place, following a defeat to PLSQ side AS Laval in a penalty shootout in the semi-finals, before defeating League1 British Columbia side Varsity FC in the third-place match in another penalty shootout.

Seasons
Men

Women

Notable former players
The following players have either played at the professional or international level, either before or after playing for the League1 Ontario team:

Men

Women

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Association football clubs established in 2017
League1 Ontario teams
2017 establishments in Ontario
Scarborough, Toronto
Soccer clubs in Toronto
Sport in Markham, Ontario


The Retailers Association of India (RAI) congregates Indian retail industry stalwarts and global retail experts at the Retail Leadership Summit 2019 (RLS 2019), presented by Reliance Retail and powered by the Future Group, to have a stimulating exchange of ideas on shaping the future of retailing in India.
The tone of the summit was set by an opening speech by Kumar Rajagopalan – Chief Executive Officer, Retailers Association of India, who accentuated on the central theme of the summit 'Customer Experience - Key to Mindshare and Marketshare'.
The first day of the summit also included a thought-provoking special address by Ashwin Khasgiwala, CFO, Reliance Retail Limited & Director, Boards of Reliance Brands Limited, and a special address by Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange).
The highlight of the first day was a free-wheeling one-on-one conversation between Menaka Doshi - Managing Editor, BloombergQuint and Kishore Biyani - Group CEO, Future Group, that left the audience captivated. Prof. Dr. Michael Feindt - Founder, Blue Yonder GmbH, JDA, enlightened the audience on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can automate complex decisions across the entire value chain in retail business.
The second day of the summit kept the audience captivated with one-on-one interaction with Hari Menon – Co-founder & CEO BigBasket.com and special addresses by Pei Liang – CCFA (China Chain Stores and Franchise Associations), Veronique Morelle Lunven – Deputy Executive Director IGDS, David French – SVP, Government Relations and Executive Director, NCCR (NRF) among others.
The eclectic mix of retail professionals from all factions of the industry makes this summit the perfect platform for release of knowledge reports. While Boston Consulting Group released 'Going for the Gold: By Creating Customers Who Create Customers', Deloitte launched and 'Unravelling the Indian Consumer' respectively. Anarock Property Consultants too launched a report titled 'Customer Experience (CX): The Epicenter of Retailing'.
Riveting panel discussions and round-table discussions throughout the day touched upon various aspects of the central theme. The discussions saw participation of retail leaders such as BS Nagesh, Chairman RAI & Founder TRRAIN; James Munson, MD, Marks and Spencer Reliance India Pvt. Ltd.; Rajiv Suri, MD & CEO, Shoppers Stop Limited; Rakesh Biyani, Joint Managing Director, Future Retail Limited; Arjun Aggarwal, MD, Bhartiya City Developers Pvt. Ltd; Mohit Khattar, CEO, Baskin Robbins (Graviss Foods Pvt. Ltd.); Rajesh Jain, Managing Director & CEO, Lacoste India; Shibu Philips, Business Head, Lulu Mall; Lavanya Nalli, Vice Chairperson, Nalli Silks; Damodar Mall, CEO Grocery Retail, Reliance Retail Limited; K Venkataramani, MD, Health & Glow Pvt. Ltd.; Manish Mandhana, CEO, Being Human (Mandhana Retail Ventures Ltd.); Mohit Dhanjal, Director-Retail, Raymond Ltd.; and Sagar Daryani, Co-Founder & CEO, Wow! Momo Foods Pvt. Ltd.
Over the years, 'Retail Leadership Summit' has proven to be the premier platform for retail professionals to gain knowledge, network with peers, potential partners and industry leaders.
The crème de la crème of the retail industry gathered to recognise the India's Retail Champions Award and the Retail Start-up Award, which lauds the best emerging retail companies. A panel of eminent personalities from the industry form the Jury, who thoroughly evaluate the entries shortlisted by a reputed audit agency to select the winners.
Instituted by Retailers Association of India, the Retail Leadership Summit (better known as RLS) is India's largest gathering of retail leaders, service providers and other stakeholders from the industry. Every year, RLS attracts more than 1,000 retail heads and professionals, not just from India but also from other countries. It aims to bring the best brains of the industry together for deliberating and discussing on the ways to take modern retail in India to the next level. Every year, the Summit revolves around a theme based on the most relevant issues facing the industry at the point. A hallmark of RLS is the release of reports by globally-known consultancies. Due to its focus on insights and ideas, over the years, RLS has earned the reputation of being the ultimate knowledge-sharing platform, where those in attendance learn about the best practices and trends that they can apply for improving business efficiency. RLS is the only official Summit of its kind, an initiative by the industry, for the industry.


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Eine Affäre in Paris (Originaltitel: Le Divorce) ist eine französisch-US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von James Ivory aus dem Jahr 2003. Sie beruht auf einem Roman von Diane Johnson.

Handlung
Die Amerikanerin Isabel Walker besucht in Paris ihre schwangere Schwester, die Dichterin Roxeanne de Persand. Der Ehemann von Roxeanne, Charles-Henri de Persand, verließ sie für Magda Tellman. Roxeanne erhebt Besitzanspruch auf ein wertvolles Gemälde, "Die Heilige Ursula" von Georges de La Tour, obwohl das Bild ursprünglich zum Familienbesitz des Ehemanns gehört hat. Der Louvre hält das Bild zwar für eine Kopie oder eine Fälschung, das Getty Museum bekundete aber Interesse am Erwerb des Bildes.
Isabel und ihre Schwester treffen die Autorin Olivia Pace, die Roxeanne fragt, ob sie für sie arbeiten will. Roxeanne lehnt das Angebot ab, preist aber die akademische Ausbildung ihrer Schwester. Pace fasst es mit "sie kann lesen und schreiben" zusammen und stellt Isabel ein.

Isabel geht ein Verhältnis mit dem jungen Künstler Yves ein. Sie beginnt auch eine Affäre mit dem verheirateten Politiker Edgar Cosset, einem Onkel von Charles-Henri, der sie direkt fragt, ob sie seine Mätresse werden will. Er schenkt ihr eine rote Handtasche von Hermès, für seine Schwester ein sicherer Hinweis, dass die beiden eine Affäre miteinander haben. Charles-Henris Schwester ruft nach dem Besuch von Isabel und Roxeanne ihre Verwandten an und bittet sie, ihrem Bruder die Affäre auszureden.

Die niedergeschlagene Roxeanne unternimmt einen Selbstmordversuch. Ihre und Isabels Eltern kommen nach Paris. Währenddessen versucht Suzanne de Persand, die Mutter von Charles-Henri, für ihre Familie das Georges de La Tour-Bild zu sichern. Charles-Henri de Persand wird von dem betrogenen Ehemann Magdas getötet. Der Mann verfolgt Isabel bis auf den Eiffelturm, wo er seine Pistole abgibt. Isabel steckt sie in die von Cosset erhaltene Handtasche und wirft sie vom Turm. Der Mann wird zu 20 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt. Isabel macht Schluss mit Cosset. Roxeanne und der sie vertretende Anwalt werden ein Paar. Das Gemälde wird von den Walkers auf einer Auktion verkauft.

Hintergrund
Der für Merchant Ivory Productions in Paris gedrehte Film spielte in den Kinos der USA rund 9 Millionen US-Dollar ein.

Kritiken
James Berardinelli schrieb auf ReelViews.net, dass er nicht vermuten würde, dass den Film Merchant Ivory Productions produzierte, ein für Wiedersehen in Howards End und Was vom Tage übrig blieb bekanntes Unternehmen. Die Charaktere seien kaum entwickelt. Die Darstellungen von Kate Hudson und Naomi Watts bezeichnete Berardinelli als "solide", aber nicht herausragend.

Roger Ebert schrieb in der Chicago Sun-Times vom 8. August 2003, dass es im Film zu viele Charaktere gebe und er wie eine Ansammlung der Sketche wirke. Ebert lobte die "wundervolle" Darstellung von Stockard Channing.

Die Prisma-Redaktion schrieb, dass der Film zu den "langweiligsten Werken aller Zeiten" gehöre. Nichts sei romantisch oder witzig.

Das Lexikon des internationalen Films meinte: "Adaption eines aktuellen Bestsellers, die die zeitgenössischen Bezüge bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verkürzt. Der Reiz, aber auch eine gewisse Konturlosigkeit der exquisit ausgestatteten Komödie liegt in der flanierenden Bewegung, die durch Filmzitate, kulturelle Klischees und das Spiel der hervorragenden Darsteller geleitet wird, ohne dass sich die in mehrere Strängen verästelnde Handlung auf einen Nenner herunterbrechen ließe."

Auszeichnungen
James Ivory und Naomi Watts wurden 2003 auf den Internationalen Filmfestspielen von Venedig ausgezeichnet.

Die Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung FBW in Wiesbaden verlieh dem Film das Prädikat besonders wertvoll.

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James Ivory


It has been a big week for women in the wide world of business. We've taken some of the highlights, including some great Ted Talks, a designer brand that refuses to use Photoshop, and a list of this year's inductees to the Businesswomen's Hall of Fame, and put them all together especially for you! 1.


Question:What are the recommendations of the Holy Quran with respect to parents?
Answer: Respecting parents and showing the proper behavior towards them are issues that are considered very important to Allah (SWT). As a result, a considerable number of verses in the Holy Quran and narrations from Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP) and his progeny are dedicated about parents. In browsing these verses and narrations, one may find that many of the explanations and expressions about respect to parents are very astonishing, and are not said about other topics.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP): Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein; Allah loves him who loves Hussein.


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Der Selige Edmund Ignatius Rice ( Éamann Iognáid Rís; * 1. Juni 1762 in Callan, Irland; † 29. August 1844 in Waterford, Irland) war ein irischer römisch-katholischer Missionar, Pädagoge, Laienbruder und Gründer der Laienbrüderschaft Christian Brothers. Er begann zunächst eine erfolgreiche Karriere in der Wirtschaft. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau widmete er sich und sein Leben der Erziehung und dem Dienst an armen Menschen.

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Kindheit, Jugend und Ehejahre
Edmund Rice wurde als vierter Sohn von sieben Söhnen der Eheleute Robert Rice und Margarete Rice (geb. Tierney) geboren. Die ersten Jahre wuchs er in der ländlichen Umgebung von Callan im County Kilkenny auf. In der "Moate Lane School", einer so genannten Heckenschule, erhielt er seine erste Schulausbildung. Später gründete er ebenfalls Heckenschulen für mittellose Iren. Edmund Rice wurde in die schwierige Zeit der anti-katholischen "Penal Laws" in Irland hineingeboren und schon in jungen Jahren mit der Unterdrückung der Katholiken konfrontiert. Patrick Grace, ein Augustinermönch, übernahm die häusliche Weiterbildung von Edmund und seinen Brüdern. Seinen Schulabschluss erhielt er auf einer Schule in Kilkenny. Hiernach übernahm ihn 1779 sein Onkel, ein Kaufmann, in die Lehre. Nach dem erfolgreichen Lehrabschluss war er im Geschäft seines Onkels Michael Rice für die Aufsicht über die Verladung und Verschiffung von Lebensmittel zuständig, die in die britischen Kolonien transportiert wurden.

Nach dem Tode seines Onkels übernahm Edmund Rice 1785 das Geschäft, im gleichen Jahr heiratete er eine junge Frau, deren Name mit Mary Elliott angegeben wird. Über die Zeit der Ehe ist nicht viel bekannt. Im Januar 1789 starb seine Ehefrau bei oder kurz nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter. Die näheren Umstände sind nicht bekannt, möglicherweise hatte ein zuvor erlittener Reit- oder Kutschenunfall eine Rolle gespielt. Edmund Rice blieb Witwer und lebte zusammen mit seiner zarten, kränklichen und behinderten Tochter. Seit diesem Geschehen widmete er sich dem Gebet und der karitativen Arbeit, wobei er sich besonders um die Armen und die Randgruppen in Waterford kümmerte.

Berufung
Im Jahre 1802 errichtete Rice die erste Schule in Waterford. Er erkannte alsbald, dass er den zum Teil misshandelten Kindern nicht im vollen Umfang helfen konnte. Deshalb entschloss er sich, sein Geschäft zu verkaufen. Vom Verkaufserlös bezahlte er die Lehrer, und die Kinder erhielten kostenlosen Unterricht. Schon bald fand die Schule in Waterford große Beachtung. Aufgrund der vermehrten Nachfrage wurde eine weitere provisorische Schule in der New Street in Waterford errichtet.

Der Wendepunkt im Leben des Edmund Rice's erfolgte mit der Ankunft von Thomas Grosvenor und Patrick Finn, die den Wunsch äußerten, in einer geistlichen Gemeinschaft mit Edmund Rice zu leben. Am 1. Juni 1802 begann der Aus- und Neubau der Schule in der New Street und am 7. Juni 1803 wurde die Schule auf den Namen "Berg Sion" gesegnet. Der angebaute Wohntrakt wurde am 1. Mai 1804 fertiggestellt und durch den Bischof von Waterford gesegnet. Alle diese baulichen und pädagogischen Maßnahmen waren nach Ansicht der britisch-irischen Behörden illegal, deshalb erhielt Rice zunächst auch keine finanzielle Unterstützung für seine Schulen. Erst dank der Fürsprache einflussreicher Freunde und des Bischofs von Waterford erlange er schließlich die Lizenz zur Fortführung der Schulen.

Ordensgründung
Im Jahr 1808 bestand die Gemeinschaft aus sieben Mitarbeitern, die unter dem Patronat des Diözesanbischofs standen. 1809 legten Edmund Rice und seine inzwischen acht Gefährten die Ordensgelübde ab. Somit wurde in Irland die erste männliche Laienbrüderschaft bischöflichen Rechtes ins Leben gerufen. Nach dem Vorbild von Nano Nagle, der Gründerin der "Presentation Sisters", nannten sie sich zunächst "Presentation Brothers". Durch ihre vorbildliche Ausbildung und Jugendhilfe gewann die Brüderschaft weithin Anerkennung. Auch andere Diözesanbischöfe sandten nun religiöse Männer nach Waterford. Die Ausweitung über das Bistum Waterford hinaus auf ganz Irland erforderte eine Bestätigung als Gemeinschaft päpstlichen Rechtes, die Papst Pius VII. im Jahre 1820 gewährte. Edmund Rice wurde zum ersten Generaloberen gewählt. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt nannte sich die Laienbruderschaft "Christian Brothers" (Christliche Brüder).

Lebensabend
Im Alter von sechsundsiebzig Jahren kehrte Rice von Dublin nach Waterford, in das Wohngebäude an der Schule Berg Sion, zurück. Er stellte sein Amt als Generalsuperior zur Verfügung. Am 24. Juli 1838 folgte ihm Bruder Michael Paul Riordan. Sein sich verschlechternder Gesundheitszustand fesselte Edmund Rice alsbald an den Rollstuhl, seine Krankheit schritt voran und er glaubte Weihnachten 1841 nicht mehr zu überleben. Er lag nun ständig auf dem Krankenlager und wurde bis zu seinem Tod am 29. August 1844 durch eine Krankenpflegerin betreut.

Seligsprechung
Im Jahre 1911 erhoben sich die ersten Wünsche zur Heiligsprechung. Aber erst 1957 wurde durch die Fürsprache von Kardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, dem späteren Papst Paul VI., in Dublin der Prozess zur Seligsprechung eingeleitet. 1976 empfahl die erzbischöfliche Kommission von Dublin die Seligsprechung von Edmund Rice und sandte die zusammengetragenen Unterlagen nach Rom.

Am 2. April 1993 erklärte Papst Johannes Paul II. Rice als ehrwürdigen Diener Gottes und anerkannte die vorgetragenen Ereignisse aus dem Jahr 1976 als Wunder. Dieses Wunder war eine Krankenheilung: Ein schwer erkrankter Mann, der im Sterben lag, soll durch die Auflegung einer Reliquie von Edmund Rice geheilt worden sein. Am 6. Oktober 1996 wurde Edmund Ignatius Rice seliggesprochen.

Ehrungen

Zu Ehren des Ordensgründers, aber in besonderer Weise in Erinnerung an seine karitative Tätigkeit, wurden nach ihm  Schulen und Hochschulen in Irland und anderen Ländern benannt. Die irische Schulstiftung Edmund Rice Schools Trust umfasst 96 Schulen.

Es wurden auch öffentliche Gebäude mit seinem Namen versehen:
 Die Brücke, die in Waterford über den Fluss Suir führt, trägt den Namen "Brother Edmund Ignatius Rice Bridge"
 In Callan, seinem Geburtsort, wurde 1951 eine Gedenkstätte errichtet und eine Straße trägt den Namen "Edmund Ignatius Rice Street".
 In Waterford, an der Schule Berg Sion, wurde die Rice-Kapelle errichtet.

Literatur
 Desmond Rushe: Edmund Ignatius Rice: Biography. Verlag Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1982, ISBN 9780717111619

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Edmund Ignatius, Rice
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Pädagoge (18. Jahrhundert)
Pädagoge (19. Jahrhundert)
Katholischer Missionar
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Violence, protest mar APC congresses in Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, others
The Editor August 01, 2021 POLITICS,
Despite the Riot Act read Friday to all its chieftains in all the states across the country, violence, protests and boycotts marred Saturday's ward congresses in several state chapters of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Against the directive of the party leadership, parallel congresses were also held in many of the states. Some of the states where chaos was recorded include Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, and Imo.
In Ekiti State, violence in Ikere-Ekiti allegedly led to the death of a party member, while several others were allegedly injured when supporters of Governor Kayode Fayemi and those of the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, reportedly clashed.
The APC national leadership had, in a preemptive move Friday, read the Riot Act to its chieftains against the conduct of parallel congresses in the states, threatening to sanction members who do.
Secretary of the National Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, in a notice, said the party would invoke necessary disciplinary measures against those who hold parallel congresses.
He reminded party members of the National Executive Committee's resolution of December 8, 2020, which directed members not to take the party to court unless they have exhausted "the internal mechanisms for conflict resolution, as enshrined in the party's constitution."
Akpanudoedohe said, "For the purpose of clarity, may I restate the relevant point in the resolution to wit: All pending litigations instituted by members against the party should be withdrawn forthwith, and going forward, no member should institute matters against the party, without exhausting the internal mechanism for conflict resolution, as enshrined in the party's constitution.
"Consequent upon the above, party members should please note that all activities that may be carried out by persons to put the party and its officers in a bad light, before, during and after the congresses should be jettisoned; all activities or processes leading up to the congresses and thereafter, which do not have the approval of the CECPC are exercises in futility. This is to say that any purported parallel congress, parallel party organ and or parallel party office, is, to say the least, a nullity. These divisive activities will not be tolerated."
He added, "For the avoidance of doubt, the party shall deploy the full weight of the law as stipulated in section 21(D) of our party's Constitution on anyone who perpetrates such unlawful Act(s) and also on their sponsors."
However, several state chapters of the party Saturday defied the party's directives, conducting parallel congresses marred by violence and boycott.
By The Editor at August 01, 2021

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Mardanshin (masculine), or Mardanshinа (feminine) is a Tatar surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Rafael Mardanshin (born 1961), Russian politician
 Rinat Mardanshin (1963–2005), Russian motorcycle speedway rider

Tatar-language surnames


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Our multi-disciplinary teams provide care for up to 97 male and female service users, working collaboratively with their commissioners, across our 5 wards and our nearby community house. We deliver recovery and rehabilitation services which include a specialist female Personality Disorder service and we will open two new purpose built PICU units (one male one female) early in 2019. Our focus is on the delivery of excellent care, empowering service users to progress towards the least restrictive setting and towards independence. Our vision is to place our Service Users at the heart of our service provision, working closely with them and their carers to support their recovery and rehabilitation.
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Two Great Rock'n'Roll Movies: The World's Greatest Sinner/Wild Guitar
Timothy Carey invents a new religion, and rocks his way to hell.
You wouldn't particularly think of 1962 as a great year for movies, but oddly enough it was the year the two greatest rock'n'roll flicks ever made were released. First came The World's Greatest Sinner (1962), written, directed and starring Timothy Carey (1929-1994) who began his career in Billy Wilder's incredible Ace In The Hole (which also inspired on of the best Simpsons episodes ever the one were all the rock stars gather to record the "we're sending our love down the well" song), and can be seen in Kubrick's Path's Of Glory and The Killing (written by Jim Thompson), Brando's One Eyed Jacks, many Beach Party flicks (always as the character South Dakota Slim), even in the Wild One, as well as dozens of TV shows. He was one of the greatest and most memorable character actors of all time. The theme song, done by Frank Zappa & the Mothers' under the name Baby Ray & the Ferns was issued on Donna (a subsidiary of Del-Fi, the label that gave us Ritchie Valens, Chan Romero, The Bobby Fuller Four, and lots of great surf 45's) in a different version than the one heard in the flick (with the great How's Your Bird on the flip, it remains Zappa's finest moment and best Johnny "Guitar" Watson impersonation). Although it's never been officially released on DVD, The World's Greatest Sinner is easy to find, several companies have been selling bootleg copies taken off the TCM broadcast last year (a beautiful print I might add, much better than the old VHS copies that were making the rounds). A Pirate Bay bit torrent rip can be found here. There's not much point in me describing the plot, as it really is a work of art beyond my powers of description, but do try and see it, it can change your life.
Trailer for Wild Guitar (1962).
Arch Hall Jr. – Actor, rocker, heart-throb.
The second greatest rock'n'roll flick ever made is Ray Dennis Steckler's directorial debut Wild Guitar (1962). Steckler aka Cash Flagg would go on to direct such mind blowing low budget films as Rat Fink and Boo Boo (1966, co-written by Chicago rocker and paperback author extraordinaire Ron Haydock) and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies (1964), Steckler's story deserves a book of it's own. Oddly enough he was the cinematographer on The World's Greatest Sinner. Both films look great, especially considering their minuscule budgets. Wild Guitar stars the always cool in that "aw shucks" way– Arch Hall Jr. as Bud Eagle, a naive kid who just wants to rock and ends up getting run through the music industry meat grinder by a sleazy small label owner played by his real life father (who also produced the film), Arch Hall Sr. It's got a great soundtrack (all the tunes in the flick can be found on the Norton Records Arch Hall Jr. CD– Wild Guitar, they also have the film on DVD for a mere $10, not to mention a must have complete Ron Haydock & the Boppers collection). I think I can safely say that Wild Guitar is the sort of masterpiece we shall not see in this century. Here's the theme song by Arch if you need any further prompting to buy the CD and DVD.
Arch Hall Jr. is still around and plays the occasional gig. Ray Dennis Steckler sadly passed away in January of 2009, no mention of his passing was made during the Academy Awards yearly "remember those who died this year" segment. Fuck them, Wild Guitar is better than almost any movie that ever won an Academy Award, which, in fact, if you ever want to see a list of some of the worst movies ever made, look at the ones that won Oscars–Dances With Wolves, The Titanic, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Rocky, The Sound Of Music, cripes!, I'll take an episode of The Abbott & Costello Show (oddly enough, their TV show was way better than their movies) any day. Rock'n'roll is very hard to translate to celluloid and most attempts over the years have been laughable, but The World's Greatest Sinner and Wild Guitar remain two gems,
and they deserve to be seen by anyone who cares about rock'n'roll.
ADDENDUM: Interesting post on Robert Quine (the sixth anniversary of his death was last week) by his cousin Tim can be found here.
Categories UncategorizedTags Arch Hall Jr., Baby Ray and the Ferns, Ray Dennis Steckler, The World's Greatest Sinnner, Timothy Carey, Wild Guitar
Dennis Hopper 1936-2010
Dennis Hopper, John Ford, John Huston sent in by reader Paul Duane.
Tuesday Weld photographed by Dennis Hopper.
Trailer for Out Of The Blue, his best picture."Subvert normality man…."
From the incredible documentary: Dennis Hopper- The American Dreamer by L.M. Kit Carson & Lawrence Schiller (1971)
From The Last Movie, best unwatchable movie ever?
He was a nut, but he was our nut. From Rebel Without A Cause to Key Witness to Apocalypse Now to Out Of The Blue, he livened up more movies than any other actor of his generation. He was on the best episode of Naked City, basically playing himself, a delinquent brat. He seemed to speak for all of us who can't help fucking up, everyone who has ever spent years of their life drunk, high or both, out of control, and unable to bear the straight world. Dennis Hopper was our man. Actor, photographer, director, art collector, goof ball. See some of Dennis Hopper's incredible photographs here. I have a giant print of one of his Ike and Tina Turner shots over my desk. I, for one will miss him. Obituaries can be found here, here, and here.
Categories UncategorizedTags Dennis Hopper
This week's found photo is a bit beat up, but it's such a great picture we had to run it anyway.
The young lady in the shiny dress seems to be in mid-song, and judging by the setting, I'd say she's entertaining at a party, perhaps even a rent party, and old and important tradition rhythm & blues history, where folks would push their furniture against the wall, hire a piano player, guitarist and/or singer and charge their friends to get in (usually the price was .25. 0r .50 cents), food and booze was included in the admission price. Many important musicians, from James P. Johnson to John Lee Hooker started their career playing rent parties. As for the budding Esther Phillips above, perhaps her career never got past singing for her friends, but her face looks a bit familiar, anyone out there have any ideas who she may be?
Categories UncategorizedTags Gillian's Found Photo #49
Buck Owens, pre- phffyyytt you were gone.
Buck Owens & his Buckaroos squinting for the camera.
First UK EP (notice the resemblence to Mike Hurtt of the Royal Pendeltons).
Found this pic sleeve 45 at the Waterlooplein flea market in Amsterdam, 1 gilder.
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos at their peak.
Buck and musical alter ego Don Rich. Rich died in a motorcycle accident in '74.
Buck playing the late Don Rich's Tele, near the end of his life.
I've probably published a couple of hundred articles in several dozen magazines and newspapers in my life, the most pleasurable stint being as music columnist at High Times for nine years simply because they let me do whatever the fuck I wanted (until a sub-moron named Steve Bloom stepped in and began ruining my copy which is pretty much why I left), but in all those years, the only person I ever wrote about who ever took it upon themselves to call me at home and thank me was Buck Owens. We got to be friends for a bit, Buck was a helluva guy, and something of a hero of mine, and his story is so unique and atypical it's worth retelling.
Buck was born Alvis Edgar Owens Junior, Aug. 12, 1929 on a farm in Sherman, Texas (the stretch of Highway 82 that runs through Sherman is now named The Buck Owens Freeway), the eldest of three children born to Alvis Sr. and Mary Owens. When Buck was eight the family relocated to another farm in Mesa, Arizona, fleeing the dust storms and foreclosures chronicled in Steinbeck's (and John Ford's) The Grapes Of Wrath. Around the same time Alvis Jr. renamed himself Buck, after the family mule, whose asshole became a most familiar sight of his childhood. The Owens family were sharecroppers, raising mostly potatoes and cotton ("Man, you ever pick potatoes? Hard, dirty, sweaty work…..I hated every second of it" he told me in one of our first conversations). This hand to mouth, dusk to dawn, tough on the lower back dotage left a huge impression on him. He knew from a very early age that he would have to find some other way to get along. The Owens' were a musical family, and his dad played a mean harmonica, his two uncles played guitar and mom sang in church. Buck left school after the
eight grade at age thirteen and went to work as a Western Union messenger, unloaded and drove trucks, washed cars and at age sixteen he hooked up with a nineteen year old guitar picker named Ray Britten, and as Buck & Britt they talked their way onto a local radio station KTYL out of Mesa where they were given a fifteen minute radio show which was broadcast from a drive in restaurant. They eventually worked their way to Phoenix where they took up residence at a local honky tonk. Around this time Buck started playing electric guitar and would soon become an impressive guitar player who would soon have little trouble finding work as a studio musician. Lou Whitney of the Morells/Skeletons fame, who was raised in Arizona remembers the scene of Buck playing in those Arizona honky tonks as "Nothing but bee-hives chasin' hard ons".
It was in Mesa, Arizona in 1948 Buck met and married an up and coming country singer named Bonnie Cambell, and they would have two sons Buddy (who would record some good country sides under Buck's aegis under the nome du disque Buddy Allen) born in 1948 and Michael, born in 1950. Bonnie would later marry Merle Haggard (although she kept the name Owens for the rest of her days) and become an integral part of his band the Strangers until her passing in 2006. Having gone as far as they could in Phoenix, in 1951 Buck took Bonnie and the kids to Bakersfield, California, which was just then starting to develop a reputation as ground zero for west coast country music, being the home turf of the wild hillbilly boogie blasters The Maddox Brothers & Rose, and the up and coming Capitol artist Ferlin Husky. Bakersfield was a town full of transplanted Okies, Arkies and Texans driven west by the depression, and was close to the oil fields and many large farms which provided them work, so there was plenty of money to keep a good country singer working. It would sire such talent as Tommy Collins, Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard, and of course, our subject for today. Buck's first job in Bakersfield was playing guitar in steel player Dusty Rhodes' band, but soon found a better paying job with Bill Woods' Orange County Playboys who were a Bob Wills' Playboys inspired outfit then considered California's top country dance band as well as the house band at the Blackboard, Bakersfield's largest night club. Hired as a lead guitarist, much to Buck's surprise, Woods also made him the featured vocalist, and it was at the Blackboard, a large, loud, place with no monitors that Buck really learned to project his voice and get a song across. Another major influence on Buck's musical development happened around this time when he acquired his first Fender Telecaster, which would become the trademark of his sound. "It's got one sound and it goes right between your eyes" he once proclaimed to me with a big grin on his face.
By 1953 things were heating up in Bakersfield and Capitol Records signed Tommy Collins who would be the first in a line of country artists to purvey what became known as "the Bakersfield Sound", basically, electrified honky tonk music with a pronounced beat and none of the schmaltzy backing singers, strings, tinkling piano, and smoothing out that Nashville was starting to incorporate into country recordings. Collins' producer Ken Nelson, who had worked with Gene Vincent and Esquerita (and would go on to produce all the major Bakersfield singers) hired Buck to play on Tommy Collins' sessions, and soon was using Buck as lead guitarist on discs by Wanda Jackson, Gene Vincent, Del Reeves, Tommy Sands, Faron Young, even Stan Fredberg's rock'n'roll parody records. Buck also worked for other producers, most notably Lewis Talley, playing on Terry Fell's classic two sided hit Don't Drop It b/w Truck Drivin' Man issued on RCA's X subsidiary in 1954. Talley tried to interest RCA in Buck but they didn't bite, but he did get him a deal with the local Pep label which issued five singles, four under Buck's name (posted yesterday over at Uncle Gil's Rockin' Archives if you want to hear 'em), and one, a whacked out double sided rockabilly blowout under the pseudonym Corky Jones– Hot Dog b/w Rhythm & Booze. Buck always loved rock and roll and made no bones about it, citing Chuck Berry and Little Richard as two of his biggest musical influences. The Pep singles didn't sell, but around this time Buck encountered a young Harlan Howard who was passing through Bakersfield, striking up a friendship which would lead to some great songs the two would write together, not to mention a publishing company– Blue Book Music which would eventually earn Buck a fortune. After a season in Buck's guest room sleeping on a concrete block, Harlan would soon move to Nashville where he became one of the most successful tunesmiths of the era. Buck also met and married his second wife (he and Bonnie were by now divorced) in 1956 and this union soon begat his third son Johnny.
In 1957 Buck caught the ear of Columbia Records A&R man Don Law who had produced everyone from Robert Johnson to Johnny Cash. He offered Buck a deal, and it was this impetus that forced Ken Nelson to finally step up to the plate (he originally thought Buck lacked a unique vocal style) and while Law was en route to Bakersfield, Nelson pulled out a standard Capitol Records recording contract which Buck signed in 1957, and his first Capitol single Come Back b/w I Know What It Means was issued in October of that year. Two more singles followed in 1958– Sweet Thing b/w I Only Know That I Love You, released in April, followed by I'll Take A Chance On Loving You b/w Walk The Floor, which came out in November. These discs, solid but somewhat pedestrian affairs sold naught, and Buck who had briefly relocated to Tacoma, Washington where he played in a band with Nookie Edwards, later of the Ventures, and appeared on his own radio show on KTNT-AM offered to let Nelson rip up his recording contract.
Although Buck Owens' unique sound hadn't quite crystallized yet, Nelson believed in Buck and called him back to California for his fourth session at the Capitol Tower in Hollywood in October of 1958. That day, with the great Ralph Mooney on steel guitar, Buck cut his first hit– an original tune called Second Fiddle, it would rise to #24 on Billboard's country charts, and it would set Buck on his path to greatness. Another session was called for in June of '59, it sired Buck's first top ten country hit, another original tune, Under Your Spell Again, a honky tonk weeper, it's lyrics were inspired by Johnny Otis' current hit Castin' My Spell. By July it had peaked at #4.
Back in Tacoma, where he now had the first of what would be many of his own TV shows, Buck encountered the catalyst that would be the final ingredient in his sound– then college student Donald Eugene Ulrich aka Don Rich who Buck originally hired as a fiddler but would soon master Buck's unique guitar style and they quickly developed into one of those great musical duos like Bird & Diz, Don & Dewey, Howlin' Wolf and Huebert Sumlin, that seemed to be able to communicate with each other through musical telepathy.
And the hits kept a comin'. Above And Beyond (Rich's vinyl debut, playing fiddle) rose to #3
in February of 1960, followed in August by Excuse Me I Think I've Got A Heartache (co-written with Harlan Howard) hit #2, as did another co-write with Howard– Foolin' Around which peaked in January of '61. Buck's next record, a two sided masterpiece was a duet with Rose Maddox who had fronted the hell bent for Dexedrine proto-rockabilly family band The Maddox Brothers & Rose– Loose Talk b/w Mental Cruelty, both sides would hit the C&W top ten while Foolin' Around was still topping the charts, giving Buck three of the top ten positions in one week. To celebrate my second birthday, Buck recorded another tune he'd written with Harlan Howard– Under The Influence Of Love, another #2 in the summer of '61, and from the same session Nobody's Fool But Yours (which he'd originally recorded in '59) hit #11. These discs had made Buck a hot property and he and Rich hit the road, originally using local musicians where ever they played, they kept a gruelling schedule, often playing over 300 shows a year.
A seasoned pro by now who didn't drink much and had no use for drugs, Buck still made time for various business investments on the side including Blue Book Music (he'd bought out Harlan Howard's half early on). By 1963 he'd put together his own band, named by their moody bass player, a recent parolee from San Quentin with a spider web tattooed across his back– Merle Haggard came up with the name The Buckaroos. Many musicians would pass through the Buckaroos, Rich being the only constant, but the classic line-up–Buck, Don, Doyle Holly on rhythm guitar, Tom Brumley on steel guitar, Willie Cantu on drums and Bob Morris on bass would come together around 1964. Ken Nelson as a producer took a 180 degree opposite approach to what was then happening in Nashville, preferring that his singers use their own bands to give them some type of uniqueness, although occasionally outside players like James Burton who played on Open Up Your Heart, and Ventures drummer Mel Taylor who gave the big beat to My Heart Skips A Beat were brought in.
Buck's first #1 (on the C&W charts) record and most identifiable record– Act Naturally was recorded in February of '63, and was covered by the Beatles a year later with Ringo singing lead. Oddly enough, Buck and the Beatles had already formed a mutual admiration society before they recorded Act Naturally. Buck & the Buckaroos had added the Beatles arrangement of Twist & Shout to their act soon after the Beatles first landed in the U.S., while Ken Nelson remembers that four copies of every Buck Owens album had to be sent to the Beatles office at NEMS in London upon release. Act Naturally was followed up by two more chart toppers– Love's Gonna Live Here, and the aforementioned My Heart Skips A Beat, while it's flipside Together Again would reach #2 and become a country standard recorded by everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis to Ray Charles. When Don Rich switched his main instrument from fiddle to guitar in 1963, the stinging sound of double Telecasters coupled with a 2/4 shuffle rhythm became the basis for what became known in the biz as "the freight train sound", which, if it isn't self explanatory means that Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, road hardened and electrified, now sounded like a train barreling down the tracks. Capitol released eight LP's in three and a half years, all excellent (and all currently available from Sundazed), but his seventh LP– Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat is what I think is one of the greatest country LP's of all time,
it includes such all time classic Buck Owens tracks like Close Up The Honky Tonks, his version of Truck Drivin' Man, Act Naturally, and A-11. Not one tune is less than superb.
Buck ended off 1964 with another two sided winner--I've Got A Tiger By The Tail b/w Cryin' Time (which Ray Charles would take to the top of the R&B and Pop charts), he was white hot shit at this point, even putting an instrumental, the superlative Buckaroo in the top ten. He began hosting his own TV show– Buck Owens' Ranch Party, while touring the world, taking country music to places it had rarely been including Japan and Carnegie Hall (and releasing live LP's from both of those places). But Buck was a funny guy, ha ha funny and the other kind of funny. In March of '65 he took out a full page ad in a trade paper called The Music City News,
having been criticized for using a heavy rock'n'roll drum beat, playing Chuck Berry and Beatles songs onstage, etc. he printed The Pledge: I Shall Sing No Song That Is Not A Country Song, I Shall Make No Record That Is Not A Country Record, I Refuse To Be Known As Anything But A Country Singer, etc. it went. A week later he issued a rockin' version of Chuck Berry's Memphis as his next single. When later asked about it, Buck explained– "I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly". Ever topical, he started out 1966 with Waitin' In Your Welfare Line, and followed it up with Open Up Your Heart which featured James Burton's chickin' pickin' guitar.
In 1967, with Merle Haggard singing about how proud he was to be an Okie from Musgokee and the Ballad Of the Green Beret topping the charts, Buck took the Buckaroos into the Filmore West, where their spangled suits and sparkle finished Telecasters blew everyone's minds. The money was pouring in and Buck bought two radio stations and a tv station (in the mid-80's he admitted to me that country radio had gotten so bad he couldn't listen to his own stations). Capitol issued roughly four albums a year, usually two by Buck, an instrumental album by the Buckaroos, and then a gospel, Christmas, or some other type of change up. They all sold well, because Buck and his band were able to keep to an amazingly high standard (only the Herb Alpert inspired Bakersfield Brass LP was truly wretched).
In 1968, CBS canceled the very popular Smothers Brothers television show due to their anti-Viet Nam war stance, and in it's place came Hee Haw, a rip-0ff of NBC's ground breaking Laugh-In, only instead of a cast of mod hipsters, it had ultra corny country humor (which was almost never funny) and lots of country music (much of it excellent). It was a huge hit, and Buck was the co-host along with Roy Clark (another former session musician who had played with Wanda Jackson). CBS kept the show for three years, canceling only after someone at a party in the Hamptons made a snide joke about it that upset Babe Paley, CBS prexy William Paley's wife. It went into syndication where it remained for decades, eventually becoming the longest running syndicated show in history. Buck also kept his own Ranch Party show until 1973 and stayed with Hee Haw until 1986, making piles of money and becoming a household name. Sears marketed a Buck Owens brand red white and blue guitar (Pat Smear can be seen playing one on the Nirvana MTV Unplugged musical wake). Unfortunately (doesn't it seem like that's the most used word on this blog?), Hee Haw became what Buck was most known for, overshadowing his music, and eventually the overexposure hurt his credibility as a serious artist. From Hee Haw's debut there was a noticeable drop in quality of his discs, although he still made a few gems like Big In Vegas (1969) I Wouldn't Live In New York City (If They Gave Me The Whole Dang Town) (1970) and Streets Of Bakersfield (1972). Still, Buck Owens had realized fame and fortune that, for a kid who started out picking pototatoes was a nearly inconcievable feat. It all began going south on July 17, 1974 when Don Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident. His closest friend and confident, and musical alter ego, Rich's death sent Buck first into shock, then an extended depression. Musicially, he never recovered.
Although he had everything he'd ever wanted, including a record deal that gave him ownership of his own masters (something only Ray Charles had previously gotten), from Rich's death on, Buck's recording career was a half hearted affair, he cut down his touring dates, eventually retiring from the road for good in 1980, and basically hung around Bakersfield tending to his business affairs, watching his fortune grow, by the mid-80's he had even let his own recording catolog go out of print. He signed with Warner Brothers making a few lackluster discs that he told me "He couldn't give away". CD's replaced LP's and Buck's Capitol output was noticably missing from the shelves in record stores. In the late 80's I wrote an article about him in High Times, much of it poking fun at the caricature of a figure he'd allowed himself to become via Hee Haw, the rest of it praising his old records. Then one morning, from across the room, a voice on the answering machine (anyone who knows me, knows I rarely answer the phone, and have always screened my calls, long before the invention of caller ID) came a familar sounding voice. "Hi Jim, this is Buck Owens", I dove for the phone and we had a nice but rather short conversation. He told me he'd be in NYC in a month doing a guest slot during Dwight Yokham's sold out Carnagie Hall show. We made plans to meet.
Buck picked me up in a stretch limo a few hours before the show. When I got in he seemed shocked that I lived in a mostly Hispanic ghetto with wide open drug markets on both sides of the street, homeless men and crack addicts huddled in the doorways and girls with green hair and spandex tights, drunken Ukranian men, and all manner of street flotsam wandering about.
My building was an old tenemant in the middle of the block, and my apartment (where I lived for over twenty years) was a three room railroad with a bathtub in the kitchen and a watercloset with an old fashion box and chain toilet (like the one Michael Corleone gets the hidden gun out of in The Godfather). The Tompkin Square riots had just happned and having been blamed for starting them by that idiot Mike Tiabi on the CBS TV News ("…strange voices on the radio, urging people to rise up….", it reminded me of the William Burroughs routine "We don't report the news….we write it".) I was under surveillance by the 9th Precinct and an unmarked cop car was soon following our limo up to Carnagie Hall. Buck asked me why I lived where I did, and when I explained that I originally moved there because it was cheap (the rent was $225 a month, when I left in 2003 it had risen to $395) but that I loved the neighborhood and knew and got along with everyone from the dope spotters to the bartenders, there wasn't a soul east of Ave. A I didn't know. I felt safe and comfortable there. Buck shook his head and said "You're crazier than me". That night he stole the show with a fifteen minute guest spot in the middle of Yokham's set that featured Buck wailing away on Don Rich's champagne spangled Telecaster.
It was guys like Yokham and the other "new traditionalists" of the era that brought Buck out of his depression. In fact his last two hit records were duets with younger artists who were greatly inspired by his earlier work. The first came in 1979 when he cut Play Together Again with Emmylou Harris which rose to #12 C&W (Harris, who began her career as a member of Gram Parsons' Fallen Angels often name checked Buck in interviews) and in 1988 he re-cut Streets Of Bakersfield with the aforementioned Dwight Yokham, it went to #1 C&W. It didn't pass Buck's notice that Yokham's career was launched not out of Nashville, but on the punk rock circuit, opening for bands like the Blasters and X. Anyways, after the show Buck taped an interview for my WFMU radio show along with a station ID. I tried to drag him with me to see Iggy Pop who was playing on the west side Pier that night but he begged off saying he was a bit tired. Over the years I'd get a card or note from Buck, or a hello through mutual friends. Every once in awhile he'd call just to chat or say hi, or to ask my opinion on a record label like Sundazed (who did beautiful re-issues of his best Capitol sides with bonus tracks and excellent sound quality) and Rhino. In 1997 his assistant and piano player Jim Shaw called and told me Buck wanted me to help write his autobiography. His timing couldn't have been worse. I'd just opened a bar and was in the process of opening a second one, I was also managing an all girl band and was close to getting them a record and publishing deal, and I had just begun a new relationship with a women that I'd later marry. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to leave New York and sit around Bakersfield for six months banging on a typer. I reccomended a few other writers and told him if they didn't work out I'd might be free in three years. It was the last time I heard from him. He never wrote his story. Soon his health began failing: he had a stroke, then a heart attack, followed by a bout with oral cancer which resulted in a piece of his tongue being amputated. He opened an upscale nightclub in Bakersfield called Buck's Crystal Palace and took to performing there regularly, but I never made it out there. He cut another album for Capitol which featured good but not great remakes of Hot Dog (the title track), Act Naturally (in a duet with Ringo, the album's best track), A-11, and a few new but forgettable tunes. It didn't sell many copies. But thanks to the new generation, and Buck leasing his vintage Capitol sides to Rhino, Sundazed and later Bear Family, the kudos were starting to come in. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 (the most overdue C.M.H.O.F. entry in the history of that organization) and the Nashville Songwriter's Hall Of Fame, he hosted a re-union of the Buckaroos who were still alive at the Crystal Palace in '99, and kept a regular schedule of performing there. He sold one of his radio stations (KNIX in Pheonix) to the evil Clear Channel empire, but he kept KUZZ in Bakersfield until the end. On March 25, 2006, he finished his set at the Crystal Palace, walked back into his dressing room and died of a heart attack.
Buck Owens, he created a style of country music so simple and perfect, his formula– take a common expression, and add a shuffle or waltz time beat and three chords or four chords, and then sing and play 'em like you mean it, was absurdly effective, and he left a body of work that is as solid and enduring as the Telecasters used to make it. I miss the hell out of him.
ESSENTIAL BUCK OWENS ALBUMS: Bear Family has a 7 CD box set of the complete Capitol years, Rhino has a scaled down three CD box, but if you want to pick and choose, Sundazed has
re-issued all his best LP's, I'd say the best are: My Heart Skips A Beat/Together Again, Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos- On The Bandstand, The Best Of Buck Owens, I Don't Care, I've Got A Tiger By The Tail, The Instrumental Hits Of Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, Roll Out The Red Carpet, Dust On Mother's Bible, Carnegie Hall Concert, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos In Japan, The Best Of Buck Owens Vol. 2, Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins, Buck Owens (aka Under Your Spell Again), and Before You Go/Nobody But You.
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Did Keith Richards Invent Kraut Rock?
Don"t feel much like blogging these days since in that never ending game of bumper cars played by those of us who travel around NYC on bicycle against those in SUV's (who are always looking at their blackberries or Iphone and not the road), flesh and bone is sure to be the loser. Hence, my right hand has been in a hard cast and the rest of my body is awfully sore from the SUV the ran into me at 30 MPH at the intersection of 10th and B. last week. But since the Stones are out there promoting the re-issue of Exile On Mainstreet (originally released the day I turned a teenager, May 23, 1972), I thought I'd post this peculiar clip of Keith exploring Krautrock territory before the Krauts themselves got around to it. I'll be back soon as I can type with both hands…..
Never saw this one before.
Thanks to Donna Lethal for sending the clip and Brendan O'Reilly for the BBC4 Kraut Rock documentry (and the Scott Walker, Hank Williams, etc. stuff). Ich fange an, die Deutsch klingt.
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This week's found photo is like a Gidget movie or Beach Boys tune come to life. It's amazing, there really was a time like that. When all a kid had to care about was the sun, the beach, mating rituals and rock'n'roll. These days you can get shot trying to surf the wrong beach in Southern California, and you won't find Dick Dale and his Del-Tones or Eddie & the Showmen at the Rendezvous Ballroom. Where did it all go wrong? And do you think any of these kids ended up at the Spahn Ranch a few years later?
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, with some sharp creased trousers.
Early publicity shots from Peacock Records.
Dueting with Freddie King on the local Nashville R&B TV show The Beat.
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, born April 18, 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana, was raised in Orange, Texas and had a long and varied career. His main instruments were guitar and violin (although he started his career as a drummer in San Antonio), played and sang in blues and R&B bands, led a large swing group, cut country records (including some with Roy Clark), jazz sides which ranged from swinging Basie like charts to setting himself against the fusion of the Dixie Dregs type later in his career, even recorded some traditional Cajun styled things, playing his fiddle in the style of a west Louisiana Frenchman. The most interesting and influential part of his recorded body of work were his earliest sides done for the Houston based Peacock Records, owned by "Diamond" Don Robey, a Black-Jewish gangster who's story shall be a subject of a later blog.
Brown was influenced by T-Bone Walker, the first recorded electric blues guitarist, and taking Walker's fluid, jazz like, single string riffs as a template created an explosive style that would influence and become the bridge between Walker's more urbane style and the more primitive, violent style of players like Guitar Slim (who used Brown's Boogie Rambler as his theme song),
Johnny Guitar Watson, Albert Collins, Earl King, and dozens of others, known and unknown.
Having started out as a fiddle player, he played in an unusual style, rarely using his first finger,
instead using a capo and fingering like a violin player, which made his style nearly impossible to duplicate exactly. It was incredibly effective and his earliest Peacock sides which find him set against a swinging horn based R&B band were jukebox hits across the south and still sound great today. He recorded for Robey from 1949-1959, and although he had no national hits, he had some good local sellers and was a huge club draw throughout the south. Some of my favorites are the aforementioned Boogie Rambler, Boogie Uproar, Gatemouth Boogie, Midnight Hour, That's Your Daddy Yaddy Yo, Dirty Work At The Crossroads, Atomic Energy, Gate Walks The Board, Okie Dokie Stomp, My Time's Expensive, She Walks Right In, the extremely rare two sided beer commercial Pale Dry Boogie pts 1 and 2, and, the only of his Peacock sides to feature his bluesy violin playing– Just Before Dawn. The influence of these discs cannot be understated, nor can the fact that nothing about these discs sound dated, his guitar playing was never cliched or dull. He captured the jolting sound of the joy of discovering the capabilities of the electric instrument like few other guitarists ever have. His playing had convulsive bursts of energy alternating with jazzy, urbane phrases that keep the listener constantly on edge. They must have sounded great on those old 78 jukeboxes in the bars and roadhouses of the Gulf Coast.
Gatemouth Brown left Peacock in 1959 and spent some time in Nashville, leading the house band on the local TV show The Beat for famed R&B/Gopel DJ Hoss Allen (DVD's of that incredible show are available from Bear Family and can be seen all over Youtube), appeared on Hee Haw, cut records in all the aforementioned styles for a dozen labels, and at one point in the late 60's gave up music to become the sheriff of some town in New Mexico where he had resettled.
The way of the badge was not for Brown however and he returned to music, eventually rebuilding his career as an international blues and jazz star (his audience was mostly in Europe and Japan of course, although he maintained a steady schedule of blues festival and club appearances coast to coast), and played incredible guitar and fiddle no matter what the setting. The last few times I saw him live, the best part of the set was when he'd send the band offstage and play incredibly wild solo guitar numbers that sound like nothing he ever put on wax. I wish I could find the interview I read with him in some guitar magazine in the early 90's where he talks about why he hates modern blues guitar players so I could get the quote right, but Brown had little use for the cliched blues bores that emerged like a bad outbreak of acne across the face of the music world from the late 60's on. Some folks like his later recordings for Rounder, Alligator and Hi-Tone, and while I admit, he always played great, these discs are not nearly as interesting to me as his first, seminal sides for Peacock. These later discs (and re-issues of his Peacock years) are easy enough to find, and are usually inexpensive, every record store with a used blues bin will have a good selection of them. In his final three decades he toured the world continuously, and eventually, as a life long smoker who suffered from emphysema and a couple of heart attacks, he died of lung cancer in 2005. His final days were not good, he had settled in Slidell, a suburb of New Orleans (whose cheerleaders' slutty uniforms always liven up the Mardis Gras parade), and had his home destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Evacuated back to Orange, Texas where he had started out, he died there a week and a half later (September 10, 2005) and that's were his body is buried today. I'm not going to feel guilty about posting a few tunes, Don Robey never paid anyone a nickel in royalties, and he put his name as songwriter on most of the discs he released. I've got to get to work on that story, just the things Andre Williams told me about Robey could fill a book. But Clarence Gatemouth Brown, now there was a hell of a guitar player.
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Amos Milburn & Moon Mullican
Despite the crummy sound quality, this is a nice clip of Amos Milburn pounding it out.
Milburn's amazing version of Down The Road Apiece.
Moon Mullican, doesn't sound all that different than Amos Milburn.
Moon's Rock'n'Roll Bullfrog in living color.
Two pre-rock'n'roll barrel house boogie woogie piano players, both from Texas, one black, one white. One considered an R&B pioneer, the other a C&W star. Despite the different settings, they're basically playing the same thing. Especially similar is their piano playing. When watching these clips the first thought that came to my mind was Paul Newman's great line in The Hustler while he's watching Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats playing pool– "look those chubby little fingers…..". Amos Milburn, who had a good run as an R&B hit maker from 1947-53, would record Chicken Shack Boogie twice, the second version (Aladdin 3332) is the better of the two, recorded in New Orleans, it's one of the greatest records ever made. After the hits dried up at Aladdin he cut some sides for King and a very rare LP for Motown (partially produced by Andre Williams).
Moon Mullican cut tons of records for King, most of them great, my favorite is Seven Nights To Rock. He was also pals with Hank Williams with whom he co-wrote Jambalaya. He later recorded for Coral, Starday, and Spur but his King sides are the best. Black or white, this is what it sounded like in Texas roadhouses in the late 40's and early 50's. For a fascinating look at one of the sleaziest strips of Texas nightlife ever, see Josh Alan Friedman's piece on Jacksboro Highway nightspots from his Black Cracker Online blog. I'm not sure if Amos Milburn or Moon Mullican ever played The Jax, but I'll bet my socks they were both on the jukeboxes in a lot of them joints.
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What do you make of this bunch and their snazzy headgear? Myself? I'm at something of a loss for words. Could this be the humble beginnings of the very creepy Plushie movement? The launching of a new cartoon character that never made it to the TV screen? A satanic cult with a sense of humor? Hugh Hefner's household staff before their yearly Easter Egg hunt? Your guess is as good, well, actually, probably better, than mine. But it really is a great, if somewhat creepy photo. They should do an episode of Mad Men with the whole cast dressed in those hats.
ADDENDUM: A reader has identified the hats as the cartoon character Crusader Rabbit, Jay Ward's pre-Rocky & Bullwinkle, made for TV animation show, which I must admit, I have no memories of, although I must have seen it at some point as a tyke having been born in 1959.
It sure makes the photo seem less creepy, it's probably a party full of Jay Ward's staff.
There are links in the comments section if you care to investigate more background on Crusader Rabbit.
Phil Karlson
Walking Tall (1973) with Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser.
From The Phenix City Story (1955)
from the Brothers Rico with the great Richard Conte
From Kid Galahad with Elvis (1962)
Phil Karlson, real name Phil Karlstein, (b. July 2, 1908, d. December 12, 1985) began his career as a prop man at Universal studio, then worked his way up the ladder doing virtually every job
on the set, eventually working his way up to assistant director on Abott and Costello films by suggesting gags directly to Lou Costello. He made his best films for tiny "poverty row" studios like Eagle/Lion and Monogram, and today is best remembered for a string of excellent, low budget, film noir and crime pictures made in the 50's– Scandal Sheet (1952) (written by Sam Fuller), Kansas City Confidential (1952), 99 River Street (1953), Hell's Island (1955), 5 Against The House (1955), The Phenix City Story (1955), The Brothers Rico (1957), and Key Witness (with Dennis Hopper, 1960). These all show up on TV, especially TCM late at night and are all worth watching. The 60's were not kind to Karlson and he was stuck directing awful Elvis (Kid Galahad), and Dean Martin (The Silencers, The Wrecking Crew)
formula drek, he was obviously hired because he was known to be able to work on a small budget. He made a comeback witht the self produced drive in hit– Walking Tall (1973) with Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser, a former wrestler turned sherrif who attempts to clean up his corrupt backwater hometown (it was remade in naughts with The Rock). Walking Tall is a masterpiece and stands with Monte Hellman's Cockfighter and Richard Compton's Macon County Line (written by Max "Jethro Bodine" Baer Jr.), as the best of that peculiar early 70's genre "country noir". Where the original 40's film noir genre exposed the corruption and sleaze behind the enticing bright lights of the big city, country noir showed that the same corruption was found back home in the small towns the city folks left behind. This genre lived and died in fairly short time period and was even touched upon by a-list directors like John Boorman whose 1972 classic Deliverance horrified middle America. Phil Karlson was right at home with this genre, and his final movie– Framed (1975) which also starred Baker is almost as good as Walking Tall, and worth another look. Interviewed by Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn for their excellent, groundbreaking book Kings Of The Bs (E.P. Dutton, 1975) he was quoted: "Every successful films I've made has been based on fact". This is especially true of his two best– The Phenix City Story and Walking Tall, both of which were taken from then current news stories. Although I originally saw Walking Tall at a seven screen drive in (Florida still has one, there were five when I was growing up), it still looks great on TV and the remake is something of a travesty.Joe Don Baker, who usually plays a bad guy (Charley Varick being one of his most memorable roles) makes the transition to hillbilly hero admirably. Phil Karlson's movies not only show up on TV from time to time, they are easy to find on Netflix. I'd recommend them especially for fans of Sam Fuller, Anthony Mann, Don Siegal, and other straight shootin' types of studio b-list, contract directors of the era. They make great late night viewing.
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For over 40 long years since joining the European Union all governments have systematically joined forces to sell off all British businesses, re-location of businesses to Europe, sell off state owned properties to foreign shady rich business men and the list goes on.
So the question is simple, Do you trust your government to do what's best for the country they are responsible for?
– Responsible for massive Muslim immigration to U.K.
– Turning British towns, Bradford, Tower Hamlets into Muslim no go areas.
– 5 million more homes in British countryside.
– Middle East wars on the streets of the U.K.
– Albanian mafia drug wars on the streets of the UK.
– Implementation of (Common Purpose) cultural subversion in British society.
– Common purpose, diversity in British schools, requirement to visit mosques.
– Financed by the establishment bankers.
– Complicit in massive Muslim immigration, open U.K. borders.
– Complicit in Middle East Wars on the streets of the U.K.
– Complicit with 1400 British children rap drugged By Pakistani Muslims Paid for by Embedded globalist, Freemasons.
– Conservatives, Labour parties, are the same.
– Paid for by the same establishment bankers.
– Embedded Zionist globalist, common purpose, graduates.
– Embedded common purpose graduates and Freemasons.
– Controlled by Germany, EU, USA, embedded Zionist's.
– Seeking ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT to control world resources.
– Financed with Zionist's money.
– Embedded fifth columnists with a Zionist agenda.
– 95% owned by Zionist's.
– Complicit in protecting corporate bodies.
– No approved budgets for the last 19 years.
– In the pockets of George Soros, Zionist.
– Implement Copyright laws internet control of information.
– Complicit in Massive Muslim third world immigration.
– Complicit on Immigration of Eastern European criminal gangs.


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Chhupa Rustam actor Vijyanth is on the streets with his scientific experiment. And the subject of this experiment is you. You can't help but be puzzled when he thrusts his binoculars at you and jots down some stats in his file. Look ahead for your daily dose of laughter.


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THE POLISH DETECTIVE . . . Between the covers
FICTIONAL SCOTTISH COPPERS – rather like single malt whiskies – are spread the length and breadth of that fine country. Highlands, Lowlands, islands, stately university cities, gritty oil and gas ports, mistily romantic glens and litter-strewn council estates where hope goes to die. Chris Longmuir has set her DS Bill Murphy novels in Dundee, but she has by no means cornered the Tayside market, for now comes Hania Allen with the first in a series set in Dundee and featuring Polish-born DS Dania Gorska.
Dania Gorska has come to work in Dundee after starting her career in London with the Met. A divorce from husband Tony (watch out for the clever twist) has left her footloose and fancy free. Her exemplary record has meant she has enjoyed a swift and welcome transfer to Police Scotland. She lodges with her brother Marek, who is an investigative journalist.
The discovery, in a farmer's field, of the body of a female academic displayed in the manner of a scarecrow sets in train a murder enquiry which takes Gorska and her colleagues down a twisty and circuitous road where they come across Druids, an eccentric Laird, two missing schoolgirls – and another girl obsessed with studying how dead creatures decay. As you might expect, the killer hasn't finished and more corpses end up on the pathologist's cutting table. Early on in the narrative, one of the characters comes across as a definite 'wrong 'un', but Allen weaves the threads of the plot into a cunning riddle with a surprising and satisfying solution.
The Polish Detective is in some ways a standard police procedural which chugs along nicely on its accustomed rails. All the usual characters are present and correct; no such story would be complete without a dyspeptic senior officer, the obligatory post mortem scene with a sarcastic medical professor wielding the bone saw, the male junior detective who thinks he's Jack – or perhaps Jock – the Lad, and the mind numbing tedium of the door knocking and CCTV scanning that sits behind every brilliant solution to a murder mystery. What lifts this book above the average is the character of Dania Gorska herself, and in particular her musical passion for, naturally, her great countryman Frédéric François Chopin and his sublime piano music. Hania Allen (right) describes herself as a pianist who makes up in enthusiasm what she lacks in talent, but under the fingers of DS Gorska, the great man's preludes and nocturnes shimmer and sparkle throughout the pages, and the darker notes of the Polish soul are never far away.
The events in The Polish Detective take place on the eve of the June 2016 EU referendum, the result of which I suspect Hania Allen disapproves, as she has her heroine declaring at one point, that Chopin was " also a European, as we all are.." I live in a town full of lovely Polskie people who have come to Britain in the last fifteen years or so, and those that I know well are intensely proud – in the best way possible – of their nation and its culture. Dania Gorska's claim, therefore, may be something of a leap of faith, but Hania Allen makes a serious point about the debt this country owes to Polish men and women stretching back to the dark days of WW2.
Politics aside, Hania Allen may be allowed self deprecation of her skills as a pianist, but on this evidence there is do doubt whatsoever about her skills as a crime novelist. The Polish Detective is tautly plotted, full of intriguing characters and settings, with a thoroughly engaging new central character. It is published by Constable and is out in paperback on 9th August.
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Discussion in 'Landscapes, Architecture, and Cityscapes' started by Form, Sep 24, 2008.
This was taken at the Yagal Allon museam. It is located at kibbutz Ginosar near the Sea of Galilee. The mountians in the distance are the Golan Heights.
I think your horizon is a little tilted to the right, but otherwise, this photo really does work for me - I like it a lot.
Thanks Lyndee I think you are right. I will have to fix that when I get home.
A very good shot. I like the illumination of the foreground, and nicely composed.


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