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For a detailed history and current status of the Music Project, please click here.
Since 2011, SCEH has conducted a music program in Deschapelles that:
Provides musical instruments, sheet music, music books and instrument stands.
Provides an opportunity for US musicians to play with Haitian musicians promoting cultural understanding through music as a common language.
Sponsored musicians from Deschapelles to attend the Ste. Trinitè Music Camp in the north of Haiti.
Inspired the Deschapelles Fanfare band to create their own Beginner Band.
Many towns in Haiti have local Fanfare bands. They are hired to play at celebrations, funerals and a variety of occasions. Deschapelles has such a band consisting of approximately 30 men and women. In April 2011, members of the band submitted an application to Sister Cities Essex Haiti and ODES for a musical exchange and support for their band.
Trumpet held together by tape and glue
The first challenge was to improve the quality of the instruments. Many of the band's instruments were old or damaged, held together with tape and glue, lacking appropriate valve buttons or badly dented.
Karen Birch Blundell and Dr. Liana Valente, Sigma Alpha Iota members (2nd and 3rd from left), Stu Ingersoll, a donor of several instruments (2nd from right), and SCEH members
Several Essex residents donated their well-cared for trumpets and trombones. Sigma Alpha Iota, a national musical fraternity in the US, helped to purchase instruments, music stands, and music books. Face Arts Music in Deep River, Connecticut arranged for the purchase of instruments at very affordable prices. Since 2011, SCEH has been able to provide the Deschapelles Fanfare band many instruments including trombones, an alto sax, trumpets, clarinets, flutes, a bass drum, a snare drum and a baritone.
Tandemeer loading supplies
Transporting the instruments is always a challenge. Many were carried down by volunteers, others were allowed by the airlines to go at no extra charge. Still others were transported via sailboat on Tandemeer, part of the International Rescue Group's fleet of boats.
Musicians from Deschapelles and US in a musical exchange
In June 2011 and April 2015, several musicians from the US traveled to Deschapelles for a week of music lessons, collaboration and performances. Paddy Hurley, a founder of the Essex Community Music School and life-long music teacher served as the Maestra.
With the new instruments, music and skills, the Deschapelles Fanfare band has created a Beginner Band. Since 2013, the Fanfare band has taught music to over 30 students ranging in age from seven to mid-20s. One of those students, Castillo Saint Armand, had such a passion for the clarinet, that he quickly outgrew the skills of the Fanfare musicians and continued to study on his own with music provide by SCEH. SCEH was able to send him to Ste Trinitè Music Camp in Port au Prince and to study with the first clarinetist in the Ste. Trinitè Philharmonic. He is now a member of the Ste. Trinitè Philharmonic! Since then, there have been workshops and performances between Ste. Trinitè Music School and the Fanfare band in Deschapelles.
Castillo St. Armand
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(Miami, FL — February 11, 2019) — On Saturday, February 9, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) welcomed nearly 500 guests for the sixth annual Art + Soul Celebration, which supports and celebrates the museum's Fund for African American Art and ensures that PAMM represents the diversity of the community it serves, while elevating the appreciation of African diaspora art and culture.
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Notable guests included actress and arts advocate CCH Pounder, New York Times editorial writer Charles Blow, former model, designer and fitness instructor, Barbara Becker, Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, City of Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon, WPLG/Local 10 Anchor Neki Mohan, Miami Herald Editorial Page editor Nancy Ancrum, noted blogger and cultural critic Kimberly Drew, poet, writer and activist Tom Healy, artists William Córdova, Alex Arrechea, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Charo Oquet, former director of the Brooklyn Museum Arnold Lehman, former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, former Aetna CEO Ronald Williams, Miami physician Dr. Hansel Tookes, County Commission candidate Marlon Hill and TV personality Carla Hill, Ambassador Kirk Wagar, lifestyle blogger Jacqueline Nickelberry, gallerist and TV personality Jumaane N'Namdi, president of Florida Memorial University Dr. Jaffus Hardrick, and author, writer and historian Dr. Robert G. O'Meally.
Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, welcomed art supporters and reaffirmed that Knight Foundation would match every dollar raised this year in an effort to support the growth of PAMM's powerful collection of African American Art, up to $1,000,000. Throughout the evening, more than $500,000 was raised towards the match—resulting in more than $1,000,000 raised total, ensuring that works by African American artists will always be represented in PAMM's permanent collection for generations to come.
Left: Curb Gardner & Deryl McKissack. Right: Jorge & Darlene Pérez. Photos by WorldRedEye.com.
PAMM has a 35 year history of presenting modern and contemporary art from underrepresented communities and diasporas, from Africa and Latin America, to the Caribbean. PAMM's Fund for African American Art allows the museum to purchase and showcase contemporary art by African American artists for its permanent collection. In December 2018, PAMM received a $1 million matching grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the Fund. Through PAMM's Fund for African American Art, the museum has acquired works by artists Terry Adkins, Romare Bearden, Kevin Beasley, Ed Clark, Leonardo Drew, Sam Gilliam, Leslie Hewitt, Rashid Johnson, Al Loving, Lorraine O'Grady, Ebony G. Patterson, Faith Ringgold, Tschabalala Self, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Marine Syms, James Van Der Zee, Juana Valdes, Carrie Mae Weems, Nari Ward, Kehinde Wiley and Purvis Young.
Left: Jillionaire. Right: Art + Soul Celebration. Photos by WorldRedEye.com.


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Evolution of a Definitional Construct
ARCHIE B. CARROLL
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The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has a long and varied history. It is possible to trace evidences of the business...
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A judge may discharge a juror at any time before a verdict is reached if the juror is incapable of continuing as a juror or is disqualified, or if a relative of the juror is ill or has died, or if the juror is personally involved in the facts of the case or closely connected with one of the parties or witnesses.
If you are summonsed for jury duty you may apply in writing to the Registrar of the court to excuse you on the grounds of your occupation, business, state of health, physical disability, family commitments or other personal circumstances. You have to satisfy the Registrar that you or some other person would be caused undue hardship or serious inconvenience if you were not excused. Further, the Registrar must excuse you if you are 65 or over, if your religious beliefs are incompatible with jury service, or if you have attended for jury service or served as a juror in the last two years.
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SGA Members at GCC to Join CCSU Rally Against Tuition Increase
The Gateway Community College (GCC) Student Government Association (SGA) voted to collectively raise their voices against a proposed 5.23 percent tuition increase, endorsing a resolution urging the Board of Regents not to pass the measure and planning to join a rally at Central Connecticut State University on March 11.
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Symphany Joseph, GCC SGA president, and Kyle Rogers, GCC's SGA vice president, recently attended a Board of Regents' Student Advisory Committee meeting in Hartford, where a student representative from Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) presented a resolution asking that the funding be maintained at the state universities. At that meeting the Student Advisory Committee voted to endorse Central's resolution. The Student Advisory Committee members, representing all 17 ConnSCU schools, agreed they would ask their respective student governments to join in as well.
Mario Fasano, a GCC student member of the DARC club, said students should join together to speak out against cuts and to clearly explain the ramifications of the cuts on their ability to attain a degree. "I love this school," he said. "Gateway Community College gave me my life back and I'm willing to do whatever it takes. This is forcing students to have to lean on student loans more. We need to speak out."


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Stis to lead sales at Del Monte Foods
David Stis, new senior vice president and chief customer officer of Del Monte Foods
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By Sam Danley
WALNUT CREEK, CALIF. — David Stis has been named senior vice president and chief customer officer at Del Monte Foods Inc.
He joins the company from Dean Foods, where he was vice president of sales. Before that, he was senior vice president of field sales at Glanbia Performance Nutrition, one of the largest sports nutrition companies in North America. He also spent more than 20 years at PepsiCo – Frito Lay, in several sales leadership positions.
In his new role, Mr. Stis will oversee Del Monte's sales in all channels, including retail grocery and foodservice.
"We're excited to have David on board to drive top-line sales growth and help lead the execution of our key commercial strategies," said Greg Longstreet, president and chief executive officer at Del Monte Foods. "David's initial focus will be to strengthen the sales of our core products and expand sales of our new products within traditional categories, new categories and emerging sales channels."
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Do you wish you could have been in the village attending the teaching program this forerunner summer?
The 2016 Forerunner summer was one of restoring, reforming and refreshing the village. It was also a time of reflection and study. For our Holden family who were not in the village this year, our teaching staff invite you to a fireside chat about their summer in the village and to explore all of their sessions.
Never before heard stories of some of the earliest days of Holden Village told by Mark Thompson to Larry Howard and Josh Post in December, 2015. Mark and his uncle Reuben Thompson came to the village in May, 1961 as year-round residents having never been to the village before!
We have chosen a selection of recordings about life during Holden's mining days. Enjoy!
Holden Village has been fortunate to receive several visits from South African minister and teacher Alan Storey. Many were moved and challenged by these sessions, which are among the most requested.
All of Alan's sessions are available on the audio archive. For a complete bio and list of sessions click here.


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StarShipSofa No 462 Douglas Smith
November 30, 2016 by Jeremy Szal
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Fact: Science News by J J Campanella
Main Fiction: "Scream Angel" by Douglas Smith
Originally published in Low Port
Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." His work has appeared in twenty-five languages and over thirty countries. His fiction includes the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World, and the collections Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits. His non-fiction guide for writers, Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction, is a must read for any short story writer.
Doug is a three-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, and has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane. A short film based on Doug's story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" won several awards at film festivals around the world.
His website is www.smithwriter.com and he tweets at twitter.com/smithwritr
Narrated by: Brian Rollins
Brian Rollins was born in California and grew up in and around the Western US. He currently resides in Highlands Ranch, CO where he works as a voice artist primarily focused on audiobooks. He is probably best known for being the voice of the Glen and Tyler series of audiobooks, written by JB Sanders. If you're in the Denver area in March, you can find him on stage with Magic Moments, a non-profit theater group that brings theater professionals and people with special needs together to create an original show every year. You can hire Brian to narrate your next audiobook at TheVoicesInMyHead.com
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Categories: Podcast | Tags: aliens, award winning sf, brian rollins, canadian author, douglas smith, drugs
StarShipSofa No 451 Tony Pi and Costi Gurgu
Main Fiction: "Cosmobotica" by Tony Pi and Costi Gurgu
Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
Tony Pi is a Chinese–Canadian writer in Toronto with a Ph.D. in Linguistics. He is the winner of the 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song, a multiple past finalist in the category of Best English Short Fiction, and finalist for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His work appears in many anthologies and magazines, including Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and The Time Traveller's Almanac.
Costi Gurgu was born in Constanta, the 2600-year-old Greek city on the Black Sea shore, and lives in Toronto with his wife, on the Ontario Lake shore. Large bodies of water help Costi glimpse into other realms. That and some Dacian magic. His fiction has appeared in Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Hungary and Romania. He has sold three books and over fifty stories for which he has won twenty-four awards. His latest sales include the anthologies "Ages of Wonder", "The Third Science Fiction Megapack", "Tesseracts 17", "The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk", "Street Magick-Tales of Urban Fantasy" and "Dark Horizons". His novel "RecipeArium" will be published in 2016 by White Cat Publications.
Narrated by: Paul Cram
Paul Cram's young-with-a-touch-of-gravel voice is a bit newer to the world of audio than it is to other acting forms. Listening fans will hopefully be excited by several upcoming audio book titles in the next year being voiced by him. You can listen to his audio books that are currently available right now through Amazon, iTunes, and Audible.
Cram was most recently seen on set for the feature film WILSON opposite Woody Harrelson, and the indie film ANNIVERSARY shot in Maine, USA by movie director Jim Cole.
When not on a movie set or in a recording booth, Paul can be found deep-frying chicken wings with his sister in her kitchen, or quarreling about pop-culture with his little brother around one the 10,000 lakes of Minnesota. You can find his website Paul Cram Actor or IMDB.
Also, be sure to sign up for Paul's monthly newsletter loaded with contest prizes, movie releases, and of course audio book narration details as they become available.
Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis
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Categories: Podcast | Tags: actor narrator, canadian author, costi gurgu, dieselpunk, mammoth book of dieselpunk, paul cram, paul cram actor, tony pi, WOTF winner


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package picard.pedigree;

import picard.PicardException;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

/**
 * Represents the sex of an individual.
 */
public enum Sex {
    Male("M", 1), Female("F", 2), Unknown("U",-9), NotReported("N",-9);

    /** The integer code used when reading/writing ped files. */
    private final int code;

    /** The single-character symbol used when reading/writing VCF files */
    private final String symbol;

    /** Private constructor that takes the pedigree code for sex. */
    Sex(final String symbol, final int code) {
        this.code = code;
        this.symbol = symbol;
    }

    /** Returns the code used to encode this sex in a ped/fam file. */
    public int toCode() { return this.code;}

    /** Decodes the Sex from a numeric code. Note that any value other than 1 or 2 will return Unknown. */
    public static Sex fromCode(final int code) {
        if (code == Male.code) return Male;
        else if (code == Female.code) return Female;
        else return Unknown;
    }

    /** Returns the single-character symbol used to encode sex in a VCF file */
    public String toSymbol() {
        return this.symbol;
    }

    /** Decodes the Sex from a String. This can be the full string or a single-character symbol representation */
    public static Sex fromString(final String sexString) {
        final Predicate<Sex> match =
                g -> sexString.equalsIgnoreCase(g.symbol)
                        ||   sexString.equalsIgnoreCase(g.name());
        final List<Sex> genders = Stream.of(Sex.values()).filter(match).collect(Collectors.toList());
        if (genders.size() == 1) return genders.get(0);
        throw new PicardException("Unrecognized Sex string: " + sexString);
    }
}

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I just got a new drive for my MacBook (MacBook2,1 – black) and am quite pleased with the simplicity of the process. First up, I didn't need to add a jumper to throttle the SATA II drive down to SATA I speed. I put it in, it was recognised OK. The drive is a Seagate ST9320421ASG.
Secondly, the restore from Time Machine was pretty damn simple and effective. It's always the same question with backups – if you don't test them, do you know they'll work? I've grabbed individual files from Time Machine and that seemed fine, but I had no way of knowing, without having a new drive with which to test, if a system restore would work. It did. Just boot with the DVD (or a copy of it on an external drive, if your DVD drive doesn't work, like mine) and choose to restore from Time Machine. Just pick which backup to use, pick where to restore it to and wait. I suppose it took about an hour.
Once that's done, reboot with the new system.
The only things I noticed awry were that my hosts file wasn't there and that my Downloads directory wasn't either! Seems a bit odd… Anyway, copy old hosts file to new location, copy old Downloads directory to home dir and sorted. I need to look into the missing directory issue, but all in all, not too bad an experience.


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Academic journal article Environmental Health Perspectives
Global Climate Change and Children's Health: Threats and Strategies for Prevention
By Sheffield, Perry E.; Landrigan, Philip J.
BACKGROUND: Global climate change will have multiple effects on human health. Vulnerable populations--children, the elderly, and the poor--will be disproportionately affected.
OBJECTIVE: We reviewed projected impacts of climate change on children's health, the pathways involved in these effects, and prevention strategies.
DATA SOURCES: We assessed primary studies, review articles, and organizational reports.
DATA SYNTHESIS: Climate change is increasing the global burden of disease and in the year 2000 was responsible for > 150,000 deaths worldwide. Of this disease burden, 88% fell upon children. Documented health effects include changing ranges of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue; increased diarrheal and respiratory disease; increased morbidity and mortality from extreme weather; changed exposures to toxic chemicals; worsened poverty; food and physical insecurity; and threats to human habitation. Heat-related health effects for which research is emerging include diminished school performance, increased rates of pregnancy complications, and renal effects. Stark variation in these outcomes is evident by geographic region and socioeconomic status, and these impacts will exacerbate health disparities. Prevention strategies to reduce health impacts of climate change include reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation through multiple public hearth interventions.
CONCLUSIONS: Further quantification of the effects of climate change on children's health is needed globally and also at regional and local levels through enhanced monitoring of children's environmental health and by tracking selected indicators. Climate change preparedness strategies need to be incorporated into public health programs.
KEY WORDS: environmental justice, global burden of disease, global warming, pediatric environmental health, vulnerable populations, weather. Environ Health Perspect 119:291-298 (2011). doi:10.1289/ehp.l002233 [Online 14 October 2010]
Global climate change is anticipated to increase the average global temperature and the frequency of extreme weather events. Regional projections, however, show substantial variation in amount and timing of precipitation, increasing in some places and decreasing in others, and they indicate an overall increase in variability of weather patterns (Bernstein et al. 2007). Sea level rise, another consequence of climate change, will lead to flooding especially in island nations and low-lying delta regions (Bindoff et al. 2007). These diverse changes will have varied and numerous health impacts. Few of the many publications describing health impacts of climate change focus on effects among children or other vulnerable subpopulations [Balbus and Malina 2009; World Health Organization (WHO) 2009b]. Table 1 summarizes the outcomes most commonly examined (Akachi et al. 2009; Bunyavanich et al. 2003; Canadian Institute of Child Health 2001; Ebi and Paulson 2007; Shea et al 2007; United Nations Children's Fund 2007; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2009).
Table 1. Child-specific, climate-sensitive health risks and effects
(a) through the lens of global climate change as a risk factor and
resulting epidemiologic challenges. (b)
Child-specific,    Climate-health       Current           Models of
climate-sensitive      response         preventable      future burden
health risks and       function      climate-sensitive    of disease
effects          determinants     disease burden
Infectious         Vector control    More than 80,000    No
disease            programs, water   annual deaths due   age-stratified
and sanitation    to malaria and      projections
infrastructure,   diarrheal disease   exist by
immunization      in children < 15    disease
status            years of age;       category
DALYs not
quantified by
Food, water,       Food and water    Almost 4,000
toxics             availability,     deaths from
access, and       protein-energy
quality           malnutrition in
children < 15
years of age;
Air contaminants   Particulate       Unquantified
ground-level
ozone, and other
levels; air
quality alerts;
pollen timing
and intensity
Extreme weather    Early warning     Almost 1,000
systems,          annual deaths from
emergency         unintentional
preparedness      injury associated
plans, baseline   with extreme
infrastructure    weather
Population         Political         Unquantified
displacement       stability,
(a) Adapted from Akachi et al. …
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives
Volume/issue: Vol. 119, No. 3
Sheffield, Perry E.
Landrigan, Philip J.
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A food truck continues to shine it's lights despite of other buildings blocking. Perhaps the ferris wheel is to set off for the truck. Let the time witnesses this.
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NetCredit Blog
Are Faxed Legal Documents Legal for Court and Finances?
Posted on July 28, 2016 by Briana Fabbri
A faxed copy of a document is not the original and, obviously, neither is a copy of an original document. The original is the original, and anything else is, well, not the original.
But does a faxed document have the same legal authority, particularly when it comes to financial and business issues? In other words, is a contract still legally binding if the only signatures on record are faxed copies?
The short answer is that it depends. It depends on the state, the matter, the jurisdiction and, most importantly, the parties involved.
The Origins of Faxes
The term fax is short for facsimile, used in this case to mean an electronically reproduced image of an original document that is transmitted over phone lines from a sender to the recipient. Fax machines were first introduced to the business world in 1964 by the Xerox Corporation. But the popularity of the fax machine didn't take hold until the 1970s when fax machines became more affordable. An original document was scanned by an optical scanner then transmitted to another fax machine where a copy of the original document appeared. But the emergence of email and digital files has resulted in the gradual decline of fax machine usage, especially in the past decade.
Faxed copies of the original document were then considered simply copies and not the original document. Now with the fax machine nearly extinct and replaced by scanned and emailed versions of original documents, are scanned copies of an original document legal for court and financial transactions?
Wet Signature Versus Dry Signature
In legal and financial documents that require a signature, there are terms called a "wet signature" and a "dry signature." A wet signature is the original signature, so-called because it was once, albeit briefly, wet from the ink on the document. A dry signature is a copy or a faxed version of a wet signature. Do dry and wet signatures carry the same legal weight?
Usually yes. But a lender can have its own internal guidelines.
For example, a borrower is buying a home and he is asked to review, sign and return (via fax) the signed documents to the lender. The lender will proceed with processing the loan application, but the original "wet signature" documents must be included with the final loan file as a condition of issuing funds to the borrower. If the borrower no longer has the original (signed) documents that were faxed to the lender, the borrower will need to re-sign a new set of identical documents at the mortgage loan closing table.
The Final Answer: Yes and No
Lenders have increasingly begun to accept signed and faxed documents as sufficient to complete a contract. However, the age of faxed documents may soon be nearing its end as many businesses are now turning to digital signatures to finalize documents. Digital signatures can allow borrowers to review and sign documents online – without having to print and add a "wet signature" (unless specifically desired by one of the parties involved). If there is any doubt as to whether or not faxed agreements between one party and another are legal, it is addressed by both parties agreeing beforehand that a faxed copy serves the same purpose and is just as legal as an original document. Today, many electronic agreements between a business and a consumer have similar language when entering into an agreement.
But if there are any questions ahead of time regarding the legality of a faxed or scanned document, get those questions answered upfront before getting into a binding arrangement with any business or individual.
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The South Pennines area is very photogenic and we are lucky to have nice views from the house in all directions. At 1000 feet above sea level, we are regularly above the mist which lingers in the valley. We can be basking in sunshine while the houses half a mile away are in dense fog.
We get quite a lot of snow and when the sun shines as well it can look very beautiful.
The snow generally lingers on the hills. The Pennine Way will still be under snow on this day.


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My Life as a 90s Teenage Rapper in the Maritimes
By Reggie Tan
In Journal
As a quick disclaimer: I wrote this 3-part article titled "My Name Was Ruckus" back in 2010-ish, and never had a chance to republish it after my blog went self-destruct on me. I've made a few choice edits, mostly to improve on amateur writing, but also because I have a lot more foresight on what should or shouldn't be published online. Nonetheless, I've packaged up this series into one massive, eternally long narrative, in hopes that—
Actually, I'm not really sure what's to gain from this. It's not like I'm hoping to drop a new mixtape or drop a few bars on stage again. RAMONE is meant to be a memory dump of sorts, so I'm looking at this as a re-release of a very unique teenage story. Music has always been a hugely important aspect of my life, and while my early years were consumed by hip hop, grunge, the occasional top 40 classic, and whatever my dad would jam to on his guitar, rap was my necessary creative vehicle.
And it was challenging too. The story begins in the late 90s, when small towns in the Maritimes weren't friendly with hip hop. Before gluttonous topics of money-cash-hoes and WAP went full berserk; before SoundCloud and social media made bedroom produced music accessible; before we even had a rap section in the local record store. I've always invited a good challenge, and rap at the time, was no different.
I'd like to credit Madaline, Bif, and Phakt for inspiring me to bring this story back to light.
Here's a historical rundown of my past life as a teenage rapper in the 90s.
This article was originally published in 2010-ish (with revisions).
Man, oh man. If I could only remember half of what I did in high school, I'd be publishing books right now.
In an effort to unearth past gems and shed light on things that've been well buried in the back of my skeletal closet, I've decided my next story for the Book of Ramone would be on my troublesome and occasionally malevolent past. I'll start with high school, since well, everything before that is a huge blur and far less exciting to read. None of this is in chronological order, and slightly ADHD, although it isn't hard to figure it out time frames based on my lack of maturity.
My high school was a big brick box in my home town of Saint John, New Brunswick. Saint John High School to be exact (-10 points for predictability).
I was a skinny little runt. As one of only a handful of Asian kids in the school, I wore thick eye glasses, went overboard on hair gel and frosted tips, wore oversized South Pole jeans and XL size tees. I was absolutely petrified of the opposite sex. I used to wear a lot of Randy River; with their powerful blue and yellow colour palettes and aggressively designed dragons. At one point I used to casually wear a pair of ski goggles on my forehead, in a sad attempt to look like a Filipino Method Man.
Speaking of the Wu, my favourite shirt was a Wu-Tang Clan jersey that my best friend had picked up for me during his travels in Malaysia. I never wore it in fear that I'd somehow destroy it. The first website I ever built was a Wu-Tang Clan fan site on Geocities in Grade 10. I spent months building this site, using only Notepad, Paint Shop Pro 4, and HTMLGoodies.com. I remember taking video screen captures of The Mystery of Chessboxing to create the animated enter button.
I used to rock a big-ass pager from CanTel, which I would never answer when my parents paged me. I did a lot of underage drinking in the backwoods with the crappiest alcohol a young teenager could scavenge: Peach Schnapps, Colt 45, St. Ides, and room-temperature Smirnoff (shiver). I didn't really hit a lot of the high school parties that the cool kids in my school threw – for the most part, I hung out with a tight group of miscreants, and other friends from different high schools.
My most intriguing teacher was Mr. Hodgins. I say intriguing because during class he kept the curtains shut and stayed out of view from the windows because he believed there were snipers were across the street aiming to take him out. Plus he looked like Mr. Bean. Don't believe me? Read it here. He gave me an A in Economics, which compelled me to take it in university for some easy credits. I failed. Twice.
I was only suspended from school once. I helped steal a broken speaker from my history teacher with this shady dude who just got out of juvenile hall. Someone in our class ratted; as an accomplice, I was suspended for three days, he was expelled and sent back to juvie.
Two years later, he got out and sucker punched me at a pool hall and booted my face until two teeth popped out. To this day he still thinks I ratted him out.
Actually, it kind of got kind of worse than that. He had goons who would hunt me down every lunch hour. He put a mark on my head for $100, but nobody bit. The good thing about being in a small city is that all of his friends were also my friends.
In Grade 12 I was suspended from the computer labs for jokingly – and I stress the word jokingly – looking up a website that combined sexual intercourse with human waste. I thought it was funny; my computer teacher didn't.
Occasionally I grabbed lunch at my friend's house who lived across the street from school. He called it the ghetto sandwich. Two thick slices of bologna with ketchup in the middle – no bread. Who knew that 10 years later, popular carb diets would make this sandwich look somewhat less pathetic.
My first job was a volunteer gig at a nearby hospital that my mom worked at. I was 14 and highly addicted to the cafeteria's subpar chicken fingers. Enough that my friends and I snuck in the volunteer office late one night and swiped a handful of meal tickets and forged my boss' signature. I ate so many subpar chicken fingers that summer. I was fired after my volunteer work term ended, which I still don't understand to this day. And yes, I was fired from a volunteer job. #failtastic
My first paid job was at the Sobey's grocery store deli counter when I was 15. I made the worst pizzas ever. People would cautiously spend $3 on a stale, expired pizza that barely had cheese and sauce on it. It was a $3 triangularly shaped piece of orange cardboard. Making pizzas just ain't my thing. The pizzas were so bad that they eventually just stopped putting me on the schedule. Without a formal notice of termination, I spent the next 15 years dreaming of being summoned back to Sobey's to make another crappy pizza.
I was probably the only kid in high school with a CD burner, so I did what most business-minded individuals would've done: I monetized. I designed the artwork, sold burnt CDs at $20 a pop, and called them Big Fat Booty Mixes Vol. 1-5. Disgustingly cliche, I know.
My early Paint Shop Pro skills were essential growing up. I once lost my bus pass, and in an act of desperation, I designed a fake copy of it and used it for a few days until I was caught. In hindsight, I probably should have just bought another one considering it only cost the price of a Big Fat Booty Mix CD.
One of the things I wished I was able to do in high school was learn how to breakdance. When hip hop was on, I'd tear the dance floor up – but there were always two b-boys who would always step it up a notch. I constantly hassled them for a copy of the breakdance DVD that they learned from, but they didn't want to share it. You see, that DVD would've been the only way for me to learn how to breakdance. We didn't have YouTube, BET, or urban dance schools to work with. All I could work with was taped re-runs of Usher's "You Make Me Wanna".
Inevitably, the question always ends up as: What was my favourite part about high school?
It's a story I never brought with me since moving to Toronto.
I used to be part of a rap group. The Sworn Allies.
We were six teenagers deep, all extremely talented rappers.
And my name was Ruckus.
I don't know where to start. So I'll just say it.
The Sworn Allies were dope as fuck.
It started with four members in 1998: Armz, Tempoetic, Odd Rock, and Ruckus (yours truly). We originally had individualized duos: Armz and I were Infliktion; Tempoetic and Odd Rock were Subliminal Criminals. Later, Jelusy and Napz, two brothers fittingly known as the Blood Brothers, joined us to make six of the most talked about, down and dirty group of dudes across the city.
The Sworn Allies started off as six guys who liked rap, but we had a massive crew that we rolled with, from MCs to hustlers, from bboys to baby mamas. Off the bat, we wrote verses and spit them anywhere we could: from our bedrooms to street corners, from house parties to make-shift block parties. The rural Canadian, anti-rap law enforcement sure didn't seem to like those block parties; imagine seeing 50 coloured kids setting up DJ speakers, microphones, cardboard for b-boys, and well, 50 coloured kids doing anything for that matter would sound an alarm. The whole crew went by the Rope Squad. Tight like chain links.
The Rope Squad had a ton of dope folks in it. JP, Samsonite, Bub, McKey, Sparky, Mastermind, Lust, …the list was endless. I don't like including real names on my blog, but for the most part, I don't really remember everyone's nickname anyway.
Eventually we stepped it up to high school dances and assemblies. At one point, during our first show in front of the school, the entire Rope Squad bumrushed the stage like a hip hop awards show. Fifty colour kids rushing the stage and cussing on the mic at the entire school? Notoriety.
For the most part, our performance songs were just shit we threw together. Our next step was to put something on wax. And by wax, I mean on CD. None of us could afford decent turntables anyway.
By 1999, we were moving on from our archaic ways: We needed our own beats. Relooping tracks using cassette tapes was becoming a pain in the ass (hell, you try recording a 3 second instrumental loop from one cassette to another 80 times consecutively). Odd Rock built a studio in his mom's basement, which was essentially a closet covered in ratty old blankets. Armz used a program called Hip hop eJay to create the beats. After months of writing, we recorded, we stayed up until 7am every night for three days. That month was painful: rewriting verses, making cardboard pizzas for studio cash at Sobey's, and finishing up the school year.
After 72 hours, our first album was completed. Vocal Point was distributed to friends and family, fans and record labels. Sixteen tracks of fire. In contrast to today's internet rappers, I'd say we did pretty damn good for a couple kids in the predominantly anti-rap Maritimes with a Pentium 100, a closet covered in blankets, and studio equipment. You rappers these days have it good.
Vocal Point was our first single – we performed it almost everywhere, and if we didn't perform it, the bars (we snuck into) would be playing it.
swornallies · Sworn Allies – Vocal Point
In order of appearance: Armz, Odd Rock, Jelusy, Ruckus, Napz, Tempoetic.
I have my favourites on the album of course. SAGA (Six Deep) was a six verse track that had an emphasis on short bursts of comprehensive lyrical content. Kind of like showing up, bangin' em in the head with some killer rhymes, then walking out. Rated R Sound Squad was an ode to the Rope Squad. And most of all, we got to be ourselves.
swornallies · Sworn Allies – S A G A (Six Deep)
swornallies · Sworn Allies – Rated R Sound Squad
Applying the tricks of the trade from my days monetizing Big Fat Booty Mix, we sold Vocal Point CDs at $20 a pop. Through word of mouth, we sold dozens of copies and pocketed the revenue to cover recording debts and future studio equipment.
Our most embarrassing thing about the album, well my most embarrassing thing, were the album photos. I don't plan on posting all the photos, cause really, I'd sleep better at night knowing all these photos were destroyed. Yeah.
From there we stepped it up to bigger things; we toured a few venues across New Brunswick and did a couple shows in Halifax.
We had interest from Universal Music after we sent in our demo. They loved it. However, they only had one request: they wanted a video from one of our live performances.
But like all good things, they eventually come to an end.
My first year in university was exactly what you would expect from a typical Asian kid in computer science.
I kicked ass at Counter-Strike.
I sold cameras and cell phones at Future Shop. This photo sums up what I was doing when 9/11 happened. While pointing at the crumbling Twin Towers on the big screen TV behind them, I asked the shoppers, "Don't you see what's going on?" They didn't care.
I started a small hacking crew and did things that may never surface in writing.
I started a local Asian gang that spewed hate against the racially insensitive and the ignorant. This is not a real photo of us, but I feel like it perfectly exemplifies the right amount of try-hardness. You can read about my experiences with systemic racism here.
I was bestowed on a new nickname: The Angry Mexican, or in short, the AMEX, born from my red hot temper that seemed to spiral out of control when I hit the bottle too hard. Also, people thought I looked Mexican for some reason.
And of course, I had my rap group. The Sworn Allies.
By 2000, the Universal Music opportunity came and passed without a word. I don't think we were ready for that kind of shine. Either that or we were just too stupid to realize how much of a pivotal, life-changing moment that was. You know, that old wish we always dreamed about: If I only knew then, what I know now.
But hey. At least we got better at this rap shit.
Scriptchaz (previously known as Armz and my other half in Infliktion) and I were first to follow up with a sophomore release, Arc Angels. I decided that Ruckus was way too common of a word, so I started going by rX, while the rest of the crew called me Demestik. I still hate that name. What was I, a stay-at-home dad? A domestic import? Did I give tell-tale signs of domestic abuse? Whatever. My name was still Ruckus.
Knowledge is still my favourite track on the album. I still don't know how I, at 18 years of age, was able to write something this deep. I must have caught the Holy Ghost or something.
swornallies · 13 – Infliktion – Knowledge
Around that time, Prosody (previously known as Odd Rock, and yes, we love having multiple personalities) dropped his solo album, Daily Topics, which he still pretends doesn't exist. I don't know, I thought it was pretty dope.
Another crew emerged during our come up in '99: Vet Cru. We respected their music a LOT. Their rhymes were tight, beats weren't from Hip Hop eJay (they had an actual producer – whoa!), and they even had a rapper/DJ who could scratch really well. We were kind of embarrassed of our album when they dropped theirs, but we were extremely stoked to have another group of good rappers in the city that we could work with.
2001 came, and Scriptchaz and I had been a few years into DJing on the side. We started in high school at dances and parties, playing music under the title, "Beat Fusion". I found these two gems last week while digging in my collection. Check the legendary Paint Shop Pro 4 skills.
We had a radio show on 107.3FM campus radio at UNBSJ: the Sickly-Ill Cypha. We surfaced the hottest underground hip hop music, hosted live rap battles with the Sworn Allies, Vet Cru, and other Rope Squad rappers, and basically did and said anything we could to get our show taken off the air. Inmates at a local prison would call in their weekly requests for 2Pac and DMX. We created a strong following of listeners, and it allowed us to seed Sworn Allies tracks to people across the city. We lasted for an awesome nine months before the station booted us, and the only other rap show, off the air. Presumably to Make 107.3FM Great Again with no more rap.
The Allies hosted a ton of rap shows across the Maritimes: from Saint John to Fredericton, Moncton to Halifax, and even the smallest of towns in-between. We opened for Swollen Members, Thrust, and other Canadian rappers and rap groups that currently escape me.
By the end of 2001, the Sworn Allies began to split into different directions. Words were spread. Sides were taken. Fists were thrown. For most of us, it's something we never bring up much, other than the odd, "Hey, remember them days?". Although we all live mostly in different places in Canada on very different life paths, we're all very much cool with each other. Maybe not tight as chain links, but we're forever connected none the less.
That year, Scriptchaz, now going by the name Anubis, dropped his solo album: Symbolik Intervention. The Book of the Dead was the finale to a saga of what-could've-been.
swornallies · Anubis – The Book of the Dead
2002 came, and as we struggled to mend our friendships, some of us continued to rap. Tempoetic who, on a road trip to Halifax for the DJ Olympics, decided his new rap name would be Phakt. We were joined by DJ Loc Dog and Philintheblank from Vet Cru, where Phakt tore everyone apart in the MC battle.
I managed to safeguard an audio copy of the battles, with cuts and beats provided by Scratch Bastid.
swornallies · Phakt Freestyle
swornallies · Phakt vs. Mic-Al
Phakt later signed with Halifax-based CTG Records for a period of time and put out this dope video.
The same year, Prosody teamed up with Expedyte (a Rope Squad vet that previously went by Mastermind) as Piece of Mind. Their content was more political in nature, featuring quotations from Herman & Chomsky and corporate corruption in Organized Crime.
swornallies · Piece of Mind – 02 – Organized Crime
swornallies · Piece of Mind – 05 – The Renaisance
I recorded a few tracks with Piece of Mind, both unmastered.
Still Underground was featured on an online Okayplayer Mixtape, the same label that hosted The Roots, Talib Kewli, etc. As hype as that may sound, it didn't really mean anything, and you can't find the mixtape anywhere online anymore. But the song was chosen to be on it, which is kind of rad.
swornallies · 04 – rX, Young P, Expodite – Still Underground
Philintheblank added a few cuts on Naturally Graphic, but it remained unfinished.
swornallies · 01 – rX, Young P, Expodite – Naturally Graphic
Napz and I began forming together this unnamed track, which I believe was produced by Cess from the Vet Cru. It was never finished, but still goes down as one of my favourite beats I've ever purchased. It's also one of the best verses I ever dropped.
swornallies · rX and Napz
Expedyte was later signed by Man Bites Dog Records, a label based in Virginia, and put out an insanely good album featuring underground rappers Killer Priest, Louis Logic, and C-rayz Walz. Later, he started an incredibly talented band called Three Sheet and toured the planet. But I'll always be a fan of this never-released track & video.
While some of the boys had went official, we still liked making magic in the lab: putting together tracks that were never meant to go anywhere. There's a certain clarity involved in the process of writing lyrics and executing them in poetic form.
Ignoring beats and content for a short moment: when you break down the science of rap (and well, all types of music) to its linguistic level, it's impossibly beautiful. Rap as an art form has so many unseen variables. I loved writing lyrics that combined penmanship and distinct word play. The challenge of choosing words and phrases with an exact number of syllables to orchestrate a memorable flow into each bar. Writing with finite purpose. Exploring dictionaries and learning new words to include. Adjusting sentence structure to facilitate gaps of air to breathe between lines. Mastering the art of delivery.
While I have always preferred writing over rapping, I will say this:
There's nothing more empowering in life than holding a microphone in front of an audience and unleashing your creative freedom.
By 2003, the Sworn Allies recorded their last track. By then, Anubis had moved out west and the remaining five members of the team got back together for one last song. Anubis recorded his verse remotely and sent it over – the best he had ever recorded – but it unfortunately never made into the track. To some, a choice of career can divide even the most simple opportunities.
Unofficially named Da Allies, a unit that was less sworn to each other but still very much allied, our final track was never mastered nor released. I do recall Prosody trying to delete it, but I was able to make a surviving copy. Ignore the shifting audio levels near the end. That's us fighting over the soundboard to preserve it.
The comparison between our humble and amateur beginnings to the final recording was substantial. It was a tale of growth from troublemaking kids to creative maturity. And in the Port City, we'd say this shit was dope as hell.
We were Ruthless.
swornallies · 06 – Da Allies – Ruthless
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A Brief History of Farmington And Farmington Hills
Farmington and Farmington Hills are located at the southern border of Oakland County, a suburb of Metropolitan Detroit. Though they are really two separate cities, they are often associated with each other and sometimes even thought of as one because aside from a small area in the south, Farmington is completely landlocked by Farmington Hills. Farmington was founded in 1824 by Arthur Power who like many other early Oakland County pioneers hailed from the state of New York. Power was a Quaker, as were the settlers who joined him, and the town was first known as Quakertown. In 1826, the name Farmington was officially chosen because it was the name of Power's hometown, Farmington, New York. As the town grew larger and more people began to settle, the area expanded north into present day Farmington Hills, which at the time was called the Village of North Farmington. It wasn't until 1972 that a vote was held that declared the two separate townships.
The current day city of Farmington is made up of 2.66 square miles and as of the 2010 census is home to 10,372 residents. Even though it's nearing 200 years of existence filled with periods of massive expansion and change, Farmington has still maintained its quaint, small town vibe. It is still laid out in a rather older fashion with a "main street" style downtown that remains the heart of the city. The downtown area includes a number of wonderful small businesses, is home to a thriving farmers market, and is surrounded by Victorian style houses and a number of historic landmarks that earned parts of the city a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
Farmington Hills, on the other hand, is a much larger city that consists of 33.31 square miles and as of the 2010 census home to a whopping population of 79,740 residents. Farmington Hills is a much more suburban style city cut up into individual square miles filled mostly with subdivisions and businesses. Farmington Hills is consistently ranked as one of the safest cities in the nation, in 2010 coming in at number 30 on the list.
The two cities both experienced a rapid change in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Before the World War II the area was largely made up of farms, but after the war ended and people began moving away from the city and into the suburbs the Farmington area began to prosper. Populations skyrocketed and the areas urbanized quickly. Soon enough, Farmington and Farmington Hills became some of the wealthiest cities in the nation in addition to sharing one of the best public school systems in the state, Farmington Public Schools.
This is the oldest known photograph of Downtown Farmington, believed to have been taken in the early 1870s.
Canterbury Commons History
Originally, in medieval England, the commons system was developed where manor lords held ownership and certain subjects or classes of individuals had limited rights for communal usage. With the industrial revolution and urbanization, the commons concept developed into a system of shared gardens or parklands in more affluent areas. When Canterbury Commons was developed in the mid-1960's by the Thompson-Brown Company it was one of the first premier residential communities in Michigan to have commons areas belonging equally to each homeowner and featured heavily in the sales documents provided to potential buyers. During construction, Canterbury Commons offered 17 different models with various options and elevations that were built by seven different luxury homebuilders. At the time of initial sale, base prices including the lot ranged from $29,950 for the "Burlington" model to $41,950 for the "Provincial" model.
Source: http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/farmington-hills/


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#define SQLPP11_PORTABLE_STATIC_ASSERT_H

#include <sqlpp11/consistent.h>
#include <sqlpp11/inconsistent.h>

namespace sqlpp
{
#define SQLPP_PORTABLE_STATIC_ASSERT(name, message) \
  struct name : std::false_type                     \
  {                                                 \
    template <typename... T>                        \
    explicit name(T&&...)                           \
    {                                               \
      static_assert(wrong_t<T...>::value, message); \
    }                                               \
    auto begin() const -> void;                     \
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  namespace detail
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    template <typename Assert>
    struct static_check_impl<true, Assert>
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      using type = consistent_t;
    };
  }  // namespace detail

  template <bool Consistent, typename Assert>
  using static_check_t = typename detail::static_check_impl<Consistent, Assert>::type;

  namespace detail
  {
    template <typename... StaticChecks>
    struct static_combined_check_impl;

    template <typename StaticCheck, typename... Rest>
    struct static_combined_check_impl<StaticCheck, Rest...>
    {
      using type = StaticCheck;
    };

    template <typename... Rest>
    struct static_combined_check_impl<consistent_t, Rest...>
    {
      using type = typename static_combined_check_impl<Rest...>::type;
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    template <>
    struct static_combined_check_impl<>
    {
      using type = consistent_t;
    };
  }  // namespace detail

  template <typename... StaticChecks>
  using static_combined_check_t = typename detail::static_combined_check_impl<StaticChecks...>::type;
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#endif


The Jaroslav Fragner Gallery (GJF) is located in the historic centre of Prague, and is one of the few galleries in the Czech Republic devoted solely to the presentation of architecture. With a tradition going back more than fifty years, the GJF regularly exhibits works by Czech, European and global architects, especially those representing progressive middle and new generation studios. The gallery also boasts a long tradition of cooperation with a number of European architectural art galleries, centres and educational institutions. The GJF cooperates closely with artistic and technical universities, organizes international conferences and field trips, publishes expert literature, and organizes and hosts lectures and master classes related to the world of architecture. It also presents Czech works abroad and has organized several major exhibitions of contemporary Czech architectural design. Exhibitions highlight the work of renowned personalities, reflect contemporary issues, and present an overview of the architectural history of the 20th century. In recent years, the gallery has also organised exhibitions and festivals focused on public spaces, sustainable architecture, and the conversion and transformation of industrial heritage sites.
Since 2006, the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery has been operated by the Architectura association.