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The Disdain of American Business for Military Personnel and their Benefits
"What are you going to trade off — a rich entitlements program, or boots and bullets for the troops?" Richard Spencer Defense Business Review Board (quoted in the Navy Times 2 May 2011 print and internet edition)
The Federal Government is looking for ways to slash funding any way that it can. In light of the seriousness of the nation's financial crisis previously sacrosanct areas are probably going to be cut. Military pay and pension portion of the Defense Department budget continues to increase. For the active force due to inflation and medical care costs are the culprits and due to the fact that the pesky retirees just aren't dying off fast enough. Obviously something needs to be done otherwise we won't be able to afford the "bullets" or rather the weapons systems that we use to fight our wars with.
But for a man who has made his money on Wall Street using other people's money including government bailouts every time our financial, banking and real estate industries due their best to destroy the economy to call military retirement a "rich entitlements program" is simply obscene. If there is anything that has broken the back of the military budgets it is a series of wars that won't end that somehow make contractors and defense industries rich. Every day they find new ways to overbill the military for weapons systems that they cannot field on time, or are such money pits that the Defense Department tries to cancel them while our fiscally minded Congress makes the military buy them anyway.
Billions of dollars have been paid to defense contractors that employ a wide scope of companies many foreign owned to provide basic services at overseas bases such as food, transportation and even security supposedly because they can do it more efficiently than the military. The truth is that over the past 20 years the military personnel that would have performed these missions were cut from the force so much so that when we went into Iraq we didn't have the forces to do all that was needed. Yes we could slap the snot out of the Iraqi or any other military that got in our way but we couldn't sustain the force without employing and enriching companies like Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and dare I say Blackwater. Additionally our defense contractors have ensured that nearly major weapons system produced in the past 20 years is plagued with problems and cannot be produced on time, are horribly over budget and due to their cost cannot be produced in the numbers needed by the military. Then there are some projects that are so Rube Goldbergish that the technology needed to make them work isn't attainable so compromises are made just to keep the programs alive. Money is spent and weapons are produced that never meet the hype of their supporters in Congress, the defense industries and the army of lobbyists which I think number more than the actual Army. Then there are the weapons systems that are not only money pits but also never are deployed. Congress and successive Presidential Administrations have made these countries wealthy while killing the defense budget and adding to the massive Federal Debt, which before the wars was actually shrinking, God bless you Bill Clinton.
But now we have a crisis and it is not the corporate welfare queens of the defense industry or the contracting vampires like Halliburton who will feel the pinch it is those who serve. Yes my friends rather than these blood suckers it is the Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman who since 1990 have been deployed who if more that any generation of our military for a great length of time than any force in the history of our country. Count the places Panama, Desert Storm, Lebanon, Somalia, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo just to name a few. Then through in things like Operation Southern Watch, no-fly zones, humanitarian missions around the world that we have conducted over the same period. By the way since these things are expensive and there is not enough money we are told to "work smarter not harder" and "leverage our synergies" so we can cut the force and still do the mission. We look where that got us. We decided the get involved in massive ground combat operations without the manpower to do them effectively resulting in longer campaigns costing more lives and more money that the wise "smarter synergy" people ever estimated.
And now we have one of these barons of modern American-Global Capitalism which if I can remind you are the same people that have created the financial crises that enveloped the world that had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. By the way most of these barons of business received exorbitant and obscene bonuses sometimes with the taxpayer's bail-out money, the very people who brought the house financial house down now call military retirement a "rich entitlements program" while embracing tax cuts for themselves.
Well doesn't that beat all? Is there anyone but me that has a problem with this? But let's look at some facts.
Let's see. If someone retires at 20 years they get 50% of their high-three or basically the average of their last three years pay, not 50% of their highest pay but the last three years of pay. That was changed back in the late 1970s to save money by pretending to say that you got 50% of your base pay but really a bit less. If you serve 30 years you get 75% of you high three, of course by then you better be set for retirement because most military personnel with skills that are not directly transferrable to the civilian world will not be hired by anyone because they are too old. Mind you the retirement percentage is just from the base pay of the individual, not the housing allowance or other pays that you get for deployments or hazardous duty. Likewise all those little perks from active duty disappear like state tax breaks for being in the military and by the way the health care costs they go up too. Military retirement is taxable and the Feds, the States and local taxing authorities are quite good at making sure they get their "fare share" of something that they never earned.
Speaking of healthcare what really interesting is that military personnel also pay into Social Security and Medicare. In fact when we are 65 our TRICARE health insurance is supposed to be secondary to Medicare or other insurance that we might have. Since most of us currently serving are under 55 year old cut off that Congressman Paul Ryan has proposed in ending Medicare we lose that too. So much for Medical Care unless a veteran is qualified to receive treatment in a Veteran's Administration hospital. But those hospitals face an increasing number of patients and a decreasing budget. Who knows maybe they just give us the Soylent Green option.
Look out if Congressman Ryan and his band have their way as Social Security will go by the wayside too. That is really a good deal isn't it? Spend 20-30 years getting busted up for your country and put your family through hell as you constantly deploy to combat zones or on regular operational deployments or training exercises and then get told that the benefits that you worked hard to get are simply a "rich entitlement." Then to top it all off find out all the money that you have paid into other people's retirement and health care won't be there for you.
But let's take a look at why some of the cost of these "entitlements" is rising. It's the wars stupid. A lot of money is now being paid to combat-wounded veterans that are medically retired from the service. No one begrudges them this and I certainly don't because they have paid their pound of flesh for it. They deserve it and most go through a lot of shit in the medical board and with the Veteran's Administration to get that. However, if you add up the tens of thousands of these pensions provided to these men and women that might have only served one or two tours it is a lot of money. This is an increase because in normal times many would have left the military without retirement benefits after they were done with their enlistments. Then there is the cost of paying the survivor pensions to the wives, husbands, children or parents of those that gave the last full measure and died while on active duty.
Some entitlement program huh? An entitlement program that often involves multiple tours in combat zones, separation from family, injuries that build-up simply because we are expected to stay physically active in physically and emotionally environments that wear people down. Yet Mr. Spencer who served as a Marine Corps Aviator from 1976-1981 a period when we were not at war has the nerve to call this a "rich entitlement program." However a one term Congressman gets a retirement and benefits for life. We grind it out for 20 or more years and get told that we are leaches in so many words. Mr. Spencer didn't use that word but that is exactly what he meant. In the great World War Two film The Caine Mutiny LT Barney Greenwald played by Jose Ferrer chastised the members of the Caine's Wardroom following the acquittal of the Executive Officer on the charge of mutiny.
"You know something… When I was studying law, and Mr. Keefer here was writing his stories, and you, Willie, were tearing up the playing fields of dear old Princeton, who was standing guard over this fat, dumb, happy country of ours, eh? Not us. Oh, no, we knew you couldn't make any money in the service. So who did the dirty work for us? Queeg did! And a lot of other guys. Tough, sharp guys who didn't crack up like Queeg."
I don't want to question the honor of Mr. Spencer but I will. Wait maybe I really want to question his honor so what the hell here it goes. According to his bio on the DOD website Mr. Spencer graduated from private college with a business degree in the middle of a really nasty economy. Gerald Ford was President and since the Vietnam War was over and a strong anti-war feeling lingered there was not much chance of seeing action. So Mr. Spencer took his business degree and went in the Marines, not the grunts but as a Naval Aviator. As soon as he finished his obligation and the Reagan boom began he left the service. After all he knew that you couldn't make any money in the military. I enlisted in 1981 and when I was commissioned as an Army officer in 1983 I had a base pay of $900.00 a month. I didn't do it for the money I did it because of what had happened in Iran and the Soviet moves all over the world. Back then there was no GI Bill and limited tuition assistance or money for college when you got out of the service. I was not alone there were thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands that joined for similar reasons despite the low pay and benefits. We did it out of good old fashioned patriotism.
I resent the term "Entitlement program." It is pejorative. It is a wonderful big business and fiscal conservative code word for "unearned and undeserving welfare program." Now there are programs that could legitimate targets of such a pejorative term especially corporate welfare but for Mr. Spencer and others of his ilk to lump the retirement pay of career military men and women is reprehensible.
How many military personnel and their families lose money every few years due to moving costs, changing the kid's schools having spouse have to quit work to move to new locations? Let me see, almost all of us who serve a full career that's who. But to Mr. Spencer we are the welfare queens and leaches. Again those are my words not his even though that is exactly what Mr. Spencer meant. We who serve and go into harm's way so Mr. Spencer's cronies on Wall Street can make the big bucks are the problem. When a military officer fails his or her career is over and he or she suffers scorn, when the executives that Mr. Spencer rubs shoulders with destroy a company or defraud the public they get big bonuses multi-million dollar buyouts and move on to new hunting grounds.
So now we are on the chopping block. All the services are shedding personnel even as the mission demands have not gone down in order to save money. In the Navy as we speak there are boards being held at almost every rank to send people home, including junior enlisted personnel.
It is a shame that we have come to this. A nation at war for 10 years and engaged all over the world in war and peacekeeping operations the 10 years prior to this using a smaller force percentage wise than we have had than at any time since the 1920s and 1930s. Less than 1% closer to half a percent of Americans currently serve in the active or reserve components of the military and many have served one or more combat tours. Meanwhile nearly 90% of people military age cannot meet entry standards to join.
This, my friends makes military personnel an easy target for bean counters. We don't have a lot of votes and if people like Mr. Spencer and some in Congress have their way we will be thrown under the budget bus. They will throw us into wars that are unwinnable because we don't have the resources to successfully prosecute them or the strategy and goals don't match the forces that are there to accomplish them. Meanwhile the defense industries and the big war contractors like Halliburton will continue to make money hand over fist. The late Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler was absolutely correct when he said "War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
In the past month another 50 or so American military personnel have died in Afghanistan nine in the latest attack on advisors to the Afghan Air Force just this week. The total losses in Iraq and Afghanistan combined are now over 6000 dead and almost 43,000 wounded not counting those suffering from mild to moderate Traumatic Brain Injury and the tens of thousands of others that suffer from PTSD. Of course this does not count those that have died on their return to the United States due to suicide risky behaviors caused by their experience in combat. Neither do the numbers count those that succumbed to their wounds after their return to civilian life or in the Veteran's Administration system. God knows how many of these uncounted casualties of war there are but remember this is just another "entitlement program" according to Mr. Spencer.
Meanwhile as Rome burns the Legions continue to serve while the world that the politicians, diplomats and business leaders put together falls apart. Wars and crises abounding into which they will gladly send us. The Middle East is threatening to explode and Mr. Spencer and those like him would call us parasites leaches and welfare queens, again my words not theirs even though that is exactly what they mean and call the benefits that we have sacrificed for over 20 or more years of service a "rich entitlement program."
In fact as this drumbeat from the business leaders advising the Pentagon continues people will begin to believe it. Already polls are showing the American people think that the military budget needs to be slashed in order to pay for their entitlements. We know that the defense industry, the lobbyists and the contracting Giants will suffer the least in this, as always it will be the men and women that have volunteered to do the job that no one else wants to do that will feel the brunt of the cuts.
We have been at war for 10 years with an 11 year lead up to it. In a sense we have been at war or heavily engaged in peacekeeping, humanitarian or actual war for 20 years. Your Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen are remarkable. In spite of an unending war, deployments that never seem to end and being forgotten by a population more caught up in the problems of Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Sheen, their own financial worries or trying to demonize their political opponents in our perpetual election cycle. Even so they serve selflessly and with distinction. They don't deserve to have their retirement called a "rich entitlement program."
When I see the son's of the wealthy that inhabit Wall Street and other financial centers say this I become incensed. Many were born into wealth and all make themselves wealthy on other people's money usually while exporting the industrial base of the United States overseas because they say that American workers are overpaid. Many simply see the military as the government arm which guards their overseas operations but really hold us in contempt and for the past 40 years have thrown the servicemen and women of the country under the bus if there is a possibility of them having to pay more taxes.
To read about such comments from businessmen and politicians I am reminded of a quote of General John Buford played by Sam Elliott from the movie Gettysburg:
"Meade will finally attack… Straight up the hillside, out in the open, in that gorgeous field of fire. We will charge valiantly, and be butchered, valiantly! And afterwards men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chest and say what a brave charge it was…I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this."
Yes we will continue to serve and many will continue to die as the vampires of Wall Street consider those of us who serve as leaches and characterize military retirement programs as a "rich entitlement program." They will thump their chests and say how much they support the troops but such words will only come from their marketing departments hoping to gain the military market share.
The attitude of Mr. Spencer and those like him needs to be confronted and challenged at every turn or they will dishonor those that serve so selflessly. We need more men like Smedley Butler.
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YOSSY AREFI is a food photographer, food stylist, former professional baker, and the creator of the award-winning blog Apt. 2B Baking Co. She also runs the Project Dessert column on Food52. Her work has been featured in T Magazine, Bon Appétit,Saveur, Modern Farmer, and Pure Green Magazine, among others.
Blackberries grow like weeds in the Pacific Northwest, and when I was a kid, my family picked the blackberries from the bushes behind an elementary school near our house every summer. My parents taught my brother and me to only pick the berries that slid easily from their stems to collect in our little plastic containers, and I'm pretty sure we ate all of the berries that we picked, staining our fingers and faces while leaving the majority of the actual collecting to the adults. When we got home, my mom would make a simple jam in our largest pot, with just blackberries and sugar.
My parents also loved to garden, and when we moved into a house with a yard, my dad built garden beds out of old railroad ties and filled them with fruit and vegetable plants. My mom planted an entire bed full of raspberry canes that looked like dried-up sticks; when they grew up tall and strong, they produced the most gorgeous berries. We picked them by the fistful every July and we turned our harvest into preserves and pies—and snacks, of course. I would stand in the kitchen and help my mom fill pies with mounds of fresh berries, sugar, and a bit of spice; we rarely measured, but the results were always delicious. She would bake up little scraps of pie crust sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar for me to snack on while the pies took what seemed like an eternity to cool on the counter.
The kitchen in our home was always busy and warm, and my dad cooked just as often, mostly savory dishes from his homeland of Iran. He introduced me to the flavors of Middle Eastern cooking that have become so comforting to me as an adult. But maybe more importantly, his cooking taught me how important it is to balance flavors in both sweet and savory food. In Iranian cooking, rich meat stews are tempered with cool, tart yogurt mixed with cucumbers and mint, and all sorts of pickled vegetables. Bitter tea is served with sweet dates and saffron candy.
When I moved to New York from Seattle, I thought I might go to culinary school to hone my home-cooking skills into professional ones, but after graduating college with a mountain of debt, taking on more to go to culinary school seemed like the wrong choice. Instead, I decided to get a job at a restaurant and figure out a way to get myself into the kitchen. I quickly found myself a job as a reservationist for a busy chain of teahouses, where I spent most of my time consoling frustrated customers who couldn't get the brunch reservation they wanted. It wasn't exactly the professional restaurant experience I was looking for.
I still baked at home for fun and leisure, and every once in a while I'd bring in the treats I made to share with my coworkers and boss. When a position in the bakery of the restaurant opened up, I convinced my boss that I could handle the kitchen (anything was better than answering the phone all day!) and pick up the skills I needed on the job. He gave me a chance.
That chance turned into many years of apron- and clog-clad early mornings making scones and icing cakes, and of coming home from work smelling sweet and floury. I had burns all over my arms from the broken oven doors that swung closed unexpectedly, but I was strong from lugging around fifty-pound bags of sugar and cases of butter. I learned how to make the best buttery pie crusts and tall, frosting-covered layer cakes. I loved the work. Sometimes I miss those early morning walks across a quiet Central Park to bake hundreds of scones before the city even woke up. There was magic in those hours, and even though I don't work as a baker anymore, I have returned to baking at home for fun, and I share it all on my blog, Apt. 2B Baking Co., which celebrates seasonal desserts and preserves.
Although my current life in Brooklyn involves a "garden" of a few potted tomato plants and herbs on my fire escape, I make sure to embrace the seasons at my local farmers' market. I'm always looking for new, interesting dishes to cook and bake, but what I love most is reflecting seasonality through the ingredients I use, all while keeping the idea of balanced flavors in mind. I eagerly anticipate rhubarb in the spring, berries and stone fruit in the summer, apples and squash in the fall, and glorious citrus to brighten up cold East Coast winters. Then I celebrate the seasons' finest produce by tucking it into pies, cakes, and whatever else I can dream up and I also preserve the season with my own homemade jams. This book is filled with just those types of recipes.
We start in the spring, when everything is fresh and new. Fruit is slow to emerge, but there is plenty to do with strawberries and rhubarb. The bright flavors of spring's first green herbs are perfect for infusing into ice cream and panna cotta. In the summer, the variety and abundance of fruit can be almost overwhelming; in that section of the book, you will find pages of baked desserts, as well as cooling treats like granitas and sorbets, and jams to save the season. Fall highlights crisp apples and pears topped with oaty crumble and tucked into tarts. Musky Concord grapes will be turned into pie and roasted squash spun into ice cream or folded into nutty cake batter. In the winter, we move to warm, comforting recipes that will keep homes and bellies warm, and sunny citrus recipes that can brighten up the darkest January days.
but some recipes straddle the seasons as spring turns to summer, summer to fall, and so on. So while this book is organized seasonally, it's best to think of the year as a continuum. Some years we are lucky and there are fresh figs at the market while the berries are still flourishing and the first grapes of fall are being pulled from their vines. Raspberries hit their peak at the height of summer, but often reappear in fall for a brief moment, perfectly timed to combine with the first tart red cranberries. Apples are plucked from their branches starting in late summer, but storage apples are available year-round. While winter is prime citrus season, when we have the biggest variety of lemons, oranges, and grapefruits, you will still find citrus zest and juice in recipes throughout the book. We are lucky in New York to have beautiful and bountiful farmers' markets, and I do my best to source my produce from local farmers. I encourage you to keep a close eye on what is available at the markets where you live and do the same.
The recipes in this book range from simple, five-ingredient affairs to more complex and involved baking endeavors like laminated pastry dough and composed tarts. My hope is that you'll find something that's just your speed, and that these recipes show the wide range of desserts you can make that highlight fresh, seasonal fruit all year. At the end of the book, you'll find a section full of basic recipes like oaty crisp topping, buttery pie crusts made with both whole grain and all purpose flours, pastry cream, and homemade vanilla extract and crème fraîche, among others. These recipes serve as the basis of many recipes throughout the book, and once you get the hang of them, I hope you'll feel free to freestyle some fruit desserts of your own.
…a vividly photographed paean to fruit and baking throughout the year. Organized by season and by ingredient, it offers appealing desserts brimming with fresh ideas. A large part of what makes the book sing is how Ms. Arefi…combines flavors in a way that is utterly modern and often intriguing.
"Sometimes a cookbook comes along that seems designed specifically for the Instagram generation, a book that conjures a world of handsome ceramic platters, rustic linens and food that dances around the world, drawing inspiration from the flavors of the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Mexico. The dishes are perfectly imperfect, an edible "I woke up like this," and easy to picture cropped square in your feed. [...] A large part of what makes the book sing is how Ms. Arefi, who lives in Brooklyn but who grew up in Seattle, combines flavors in a way that is utterly modern and often intriguing."
"Both thoughtful and balanced, Arefi's fruit-focused desserts are the perfect way to show off your favorite summer fruits. Make her Cherry and Chocolate Turnovers, Roasted Apricot and Buttermilk Sherbet or Coconut Cream Fool with Raspberries to make a good summer even better."
"Arefi does a notable job showcasing the best of nature's bounty in this original collection, which is enhanced by vibrant, eye-catching full-color photos that will earn her a new following."
"Sweeter Off the Vine fulfills all of our fruity dessert cravings."
Sweeter off the Vine: Fruit Desserts for Every Season 5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 2 reviews.
Title:	Sweeter off the Vine - Fruit Desserts For Every Season	Author:	Yossy Arefi	Published: 3-22-16	Publisher: Ten Speed Press	Pages: 256	Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine	Sub Genre: Fruit; Desserts	ISBN: 9781607748588	ASIN: B010K2B8SU	Reviewer: DelAnne	Reviewed For: NetGalley	My Rating: 5 Stars	. I eat fruit for almost every meal. I grew up in Florida and fruit comes in a great variety of available fruits year round. We often went out to pick berries, blackberries, gooseberries, mulberries and blueberries and strawberries that grew wild around the Glades. Add to that Oranges, Peaches, Pears, Apples, Lemons and Limes, Melons not to mention Cumquats, Bananas, Cherries and you get the idea. I have many dessert cookbooks, but none of the others specialize in fruits except those that have jam and jelly recipes. Sweeter off the Vine - Fruit Desserts For Every Season is perfect for me and my household who like myself love fruit. If you have never tried the combination of cranberries and pears you definitely need to try the pear & cranberry pandowdy. Wine-roasted figs with whipped honeyed ricotta. Then there is the Cranberry Bread Pudding and the Black Tart. All of the recipes sounded delicious but these are some of my favorites that I have actually made. Next to salads, fruits are my favorite food. Sometimes I get luck and can combine the two and have the perfect meal. But I favor desserts as well and Yossy Arefi has provided me with an outstanding Cookbook to inspire me. There are also substitutions offered if a certain fruit is not available, allergy restrictions or taste preferences. The time has come to embrace our love of fruit and indulge in the many easy to understand and reproduce recipes offered in Sweeter off the Vine - Fruit Desserts For Every Season. In my book this is a definite 5 out of 5 stars and will hold a place of honor among my cookbooks.


2. Cook up some diced chicken in the pan with the oil.
3. Once the chicken is cooked add the frozen veggies and a small amount of water. I usually cover them so they steam a bit.
4. When veggies are cooked through its time to make your sauce. Drain extra liquid from stir-fry and turn down your heat to low.
5. Add around 1/4 cup Soy sauce, 1/4 cup Peanut Butter, 1 teaspoon Garlic, 1 teaspoon Splenda and mix well.
6. Make sure to keep stirring as the peanut butter can burn. When all he veggies seem coated cover the pan and let sit for a minute or two still on low heat.
If you like your stir fry salty, add a little more soy sauce.
If you like it Peanuty, add more peanut butter.
If you want it sweeter, add a little bit more Splenda.
wonderful and easy recipe! I modded it a bit. used teaspoon of Thai Roasted Red Chili Paste and added 1/8 cup chopped of cashews. Also, cooked the chicken and veggies with a tablespoon of coconut oil and a dash of sesame oil for asian flavor and used the low sodium soy sauce. family loved it. Sprinkled some flake red pepper over the final dish to spice it up a bit.


It's not every day that you'll see a bar with a playful spin on catholicism. That is, unless you live in Long Beach. Congregation Ale House is that place—a lively spot for craft beers in downtown Long Beach, with the servers dressed up as schoolgirls and a large stained glass window as decoration behind the bar.
"Monday Mass" boasts all day happy hour, but if you miss it, catch happy hour during the week from 3-7 for "Midday Mass" and late night specials Sunday-Thursday for "Midnight Mass".
I am not a beer master by any means, but I enjoy a craft beer and this is definitely the spot in Long Beach to find some. It offers a wide selection of beers both draft and bottled and hosts a full bar as well.
Congregation occasionally has what they call "tap takeovers" where for a specific amount of time they will have a number of their taps taken over by one brewer. I was lucky enough to show up during an event with Deschutes Brewery, which happens to brew one of my favorite beers, Chainbreaker White IPA. They had about nine different Deschutes beers on draft.
The food menu has gourmet, quality items such as the duck bacon sausage sandwich or their grilled rib eye and white cheddar burger. However, if you're not looking for a meal, fun snack items like pretzels and tater tots with an endless list of dipping sauces are an option. If you want plain ketchup or mustard you are out of luck, but people rave about these specialty condiments which include beer mustard, curry ketchup, Sriracha ketchup and rosemary garlic mayo.
Congregation's salads are surprisingly good, I recommend their grilled chicken salad which comes topped with delicious artichokes and grilled tomatoes.
All orders are placed at the counter, which some people may find to be an inconvenience, but it definitely makes things easier when dining with a large group. The service is always friendly but don't expect a lot of attention, especially on busy weekend nights. The bartenders at the counter appear to be trying to move the line as quickly as possible and the servers are busy running food from the kitchen to the tables.
Nevertheless, for all the beer lovers out there, Congregation Ale House is definitely spot in Long Beach worth checking out.


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Q: Android: Optimize Design for different Screen Sizes I designed a .xml file, with a relative Layout where the distance between the elements is definied by the use of "dp". I thought this would work well, until I got a new Smartphone, with a much bigger screen than my old one had.
At the Top there is a TextView which should use 12% of the screen, than there is a ScrollView which should use 84% of the screen, and the last 4% should be empty.
This is the .xml file:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.96"
android:background="@drawable/hintergrund"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="35dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
    android:text="Prüfung"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:textColor="#000000" />

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="437dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="58dp">

<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView5"
    android:layout_width="293dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:textSize="16dp" />

<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    >
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <TextView
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/sf"
            android:textColor="#000000" />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <Spinner
            android:id="@+id/spinner1"
            android:text="@string/sf"
            android:prompt="@string/sf"
            android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
            />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <TextView
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/odf"
            android:textColor="#000000" />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <Spinner
            android:id="@+id/spinner2"
            android:layout_width="237dp"
            android:text="@string/odf"
            android:prompt="@string/odf"
            android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
            />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <TextView
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/ps"
            android:textColor="#000000" />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <Spinner
            android:id="@+id/spinner3"
            android:text="@string/ps"
            android:prompt="@string/ps"
            android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
            />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
<ProgressBar
    style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
    android:layout_width="109dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
    android:id="@+id/progressBar1" />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView14"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:textSize="12sp" />

<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    >
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        >
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn5"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Vorherige" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn6"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Nächste" />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

</RelativeLayout>

A: I changed your RelativeLayout with LinearLayout and i set weightSum to LinearLayout as 100. Last step is share it for its child as you want:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:weightSum="100"
android:background="@drawable/hintergrund"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="35dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
    android:text="Prüfung"
    android:layout_weight="12"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:textColor="#000000" />

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
       android:layout_weight="84"
    android:layout_marginTop="58dp" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView5"
            android:layout_width="293dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textSize="16dp" />

        <TableLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_marginTop="30dp" >

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <TextView
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="@string/sf"
                    android:textColor="#000000" />
            </TableRow>

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <Spinner
                    android:id="@+id/spinner1"
                    android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
                    android:prompt="@string/sf"
                    android:text="@string/sf" />
            </TableRow>

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <TextView
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="@string/odf"
                    android:textColor="#000000" />
            </TableRow>

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <Spinner
                    android:id="@+id/spinner2"
                    android:layout_width="237dp"
                    android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
                    android:prompt="@string/odf"
                    android:text="@string/odf" />
            </TableRow>

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <TextView
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="@string/ps"
                    android:textColor="#000000" />
            </TableRow>

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <Spinner
                    android:id="@+id/spinner3"
                    android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
                    android:prompt="@string/ps"
                    android:text="@string/ps" />
            </TableRow>
        </TableLayout>

        <ProgressBar
            android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
            style="@android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
            android:layout_width="109dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_marginTop="30dp" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView14"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textSize="12sp" />

        <TableLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp" >

            <TableRow
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" >

                <Button
                    android:id="@+id/btn5"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Vorherige" />

                <Button
                    android:id="@+id/btn6"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Nächste" />
            </TableRow>
        </TableLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

A: Using this textview as an example
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView5"
android:layout_width="293dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="16dp" />

the problem is you have hard width's ie. android:layout_width="293dp"
instead it should read android:layout_width="match_parent"
then add a margin to the right or where ever: android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
so this will make the width of you textview go all the way to the other side of the screen but indent the right margin 20dp so you would see the space you want

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2018-19Top 16Round 1
Local time: 20:15 RATIOPHARM ARENA
Ulm continues win streak, holds off depleted Skyliners
ratiopharm Ulm opened the Top 16 with a hard-fought 70-63 win in an all-German League showdown against the visiting Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt in Group F on Thursday night. It was the third consecutive victory for Ulm, which won its last two regular season games. Javonte Green paced the winners with 20 points and Patrick Miller had 15 points and 8 assists. Skyliners, which were without six players for this game, saw Jason Clark net 18 points, on 4-for-6 three-point shooting plus 7 rebounds and Quantez Robertson scored 13 with 8 rebounds in defeat.
Ulm got the first advantage, using threes from David Kraemer and Green to open a 10-4 lead, but the visitors replied with a 0-9 run, during which Clark hit a two and a three to put the visitors in front. The Skyliners held a 14-15 edge after the first quarter, and a low-scoring battle continued into the second as a three-pointer from Robertson and a transition three from Ulm's Ismet Akpinar were the only baskets in almost 4 minutes to open the second quarter. Miller had a three-point play that tied it at 20-20 and the teams kept trading blows. The Skyliners took slim leads through Clark and Erik Murphy, but Miller scored 6 points before halftime, including a last-second floater to make it 33-33 at the break. Ulm went in front early in the third behind a pair of triples from Kraemer for a 45-37 lead. However, Robertson answered with back-to-back triples before Clark and Shawn Huff followed with a triple apiece and the visitors went back ahead 49-50. Gavin Schilling helped the hosts take a 53-50 edge into the fourth quarter. Green strung together 7 points, including two big dunks, helping open a 62-54 lead midway through the fourth. Clark's triple gave the visitors hope and Huff's 3 free throws got them within 64-62. However, Miller drove for a tough runner and Green forced a turnover with 42 seconds remaining and Ulm up 66-63. Ryan Thompson made 2 free throws on the ensuing possession to put the game away as Ulm prevailed.
Pivotal performer
Javonte Green scored 9 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, including 7 consecutive to start the final quarter and help Ulm open an 8-point lead. In the final minute, with Ulm clinging to a 66-63 lead, Green forced a turnover from Quantez Robertson to all but seal the deal.
Tight contest
Neither team had a lead bigger than 8 points in this contest, with Ulm's 62-54 margin midway through the final quarter being the largest margin of the night.
Something about all-German affairs
Ulm has not held opponents below 75 points during any regular season game this season, and the last time Ulm allowed fewer than 70 points was exactly two seasons ago, in its 2016-17 Top 16 opener, a home loss against fellow German side FC Bayern Munich. The 70 points scored was Ulm's second-fewest point total in a EuroCup victory and the lowest since beating Paris Levallois 56-48 in December 2013.
Visitors depleted
Skyliners had an eight-man rotation due to injuries to six players: Akeem Vargas, Trae Bell-Haynes, Leon Kratzer and Brady Heslip, Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann and Niklas Kiel.
In Round 2, the Skyliners will be at home and welcome Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar while Ulm goes on the road to visit LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne.
Referees: CORTES, CARLOS; VOJINOVIC, MILIJA; BAUMANIS, INGUS
ratiopharm Ulm 14 19 20 17
Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt 15 18 17 13
ratiopharm Ulm
1 REINHARDT, KATIN 8:14 3 1/3 1 2
2 MILLER, PATRICK 28:03 15 6/10 0/1 3/4 1 1 8 1 1 1 6 23
3 EVANS, DWAYNE 24:26 4 1/2 0/2 2/2 7 7 2 2 2 2 12
5 GREEN, JAVONTE 29:01 20 6/8 1/5 5/5 5 5 1 2 3 19
6 GUENTHER, PER 10:07 0/1 0/3 3 2 1 -2
7 THOMPSON, RYAN 13:59 2 0/1 0/1 2/2 1 1 1 4 2
8 AKPINAR, ISMET 17:45 5 1/1 1/4 2 2 1 1 3 2 2 3
12 RADOSAVLJEVIC, BOGDAN 1:07 1 1 1 2 -2
30 UGRAI, MAXIMILIAN 24:28 3 3 1 1 1 1 3
34 SCHILLING, GAVIN 13:45 6 3/4 1 2 3 3 2 1 3 1 4
42 FOTU, ISAAC 16:14 6 2/4 0/1 2/2 4 2 6 1 2 3 9
44 KRAEMER, DAVID 12:51 9 0/2 3/5 1 1 1 1 1 3
Head coach: LEIBENATH, THORSTEN
Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt
0 MURPHY, ERIK 23:19 10 4/6 0/3 2/2 2 1 3 3 4
1 CLARANCE, ELIJAH 14:00 6 2/3 0/3 2/3 1 1 1 1 1 2 3
3 ZEEB, GARAI 23:26 4 0/1 0/4 4/4 4 4 7 1 2 1 5 3 6
5 CLARK, JASON 33:53 18 3/8 4/6 7 7 2 5 3 2 14
7 HUFF, SHAWN 28:51 10 1/2 1/1 5/5 1 3 4 1 1 2 2 2 13
9 FREUDENBERG, RICHARD 21:41 0/2 0/1 2 4 6 2 1 1 3 4 4
14 KAYSER, AARON DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 TRTOVAC, ARMIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23 ROBERTSON, QUANTEZ 34:07 13 0/1 3/9 4/6 1 7 8 1 2 3 1 1 3 5 14
33 VOELLER, MARCO 20:43 2 1/3 0/1 1 1 2 1 3 3
42.3% 28.6% 85%
Head coach: HERBERT, GORDON
LEIBENATH, THORSTEN
"If you have Gordon Herbert as head coach on the bench and Quanez Robertson on the court, you can expect nothing else than a hard-fought match. I felt that they came out ready, we came out ready. We had a nice early run, but this is where my team probably felt it's going to be easy tonight. We settled for too many outside shots, we did not attack the basket enough, we did not get to the foul line enough in the first half and that's why they stayed in there. That opened up opportunities for Frankfurt when we did not use our opportunities. In the second half, I felt our defensive pressure improved, and our physicality and our attack mode on offense improved. And that's what got us the win. We got more stops, we got to the foul line more, and we did not settle for early unnecessary threes. We attacked way more and I felt overall our victory is deserved."
HERBERT, GORDON
"I think we got the tempo we wanted, for the most part we got them in a half-court game. We just got beat with too much penetration in the second half, getting to the rim. We had some tough turnovers in the fourth quarter, which hurt us but, overall, considering our situation, I thought the effort was really really good. We competed and played hard."
GREEN, JAVONTE
"The Skyliners are a tough team. We just played them this weekend, so it is hard to beat a team twice in a row. They came out shorthanded, but they have a good team and a good coach. I tried to stay focused and tried to give my team an extra push we needed in the fourth quarter. This win is huge for us. It is a goal that we had coming into this season and to accomplish this is a good feeling, to win our first Top 16 game."
MURPHY, ERIK
"They made some good plays down the stretch. They are a tough team, athletic, get out in transition. We had a couple of turnovers late that hurt us. It was just a tough game."
Patrick Miller - ratiopharm Ulm (photo Ulm - Florian Achberger)
Per Guenther - ratiopharm Ulm (photo Ulm - Florian Achberger)
Richard Freudenberg - Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt (photo Ulm - Florian Achberger)
Gavin Schilling - ratiopharm Ulm (photo Ulm - Florian Achberger)
Javonte Green - ratiopharm Ulm (photo Ulm - Florian Achberger)
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Columbus junior Colby Martinez wins state title with grandfather watching for 1st time
Colby Martinez hits PR on final State B attempt
Late last Friday, Columbus' Colby Martinez was getting ready for his final attempt in the State B long jump competition. What happened on that jump is something he nor his cheering section that day will ever forget.
By: Casey Conlon
LAUREL — The last few years have been some of the longest of Leif Torgerson's life.
"He was always with her, every day, all the time," said Leif's grandson Colby Martinez. "He couldn't leave her."
"She lived in assisted living in Great Falls, so he never wanted to be more than ear shot away," echoed Leif's daughter Lorie Martinez.
Leif's wife Sheila got sick before Colby started high school, so the grandparents were never able to see Colby compete in person.
"We'd send lots of video and pictures and see them when we weren't in the busy sports season," Lorie said, "but it's been extremely hard on all of us not being able to have my mom and dad here."
Sheila passed away April 14. As hard as the previous years were, these last six weeks have been even tougher for Lorie. A necklace she wears reads, 'My mother taught me everything, just not how to live without her.'
But family has always helped this group get through the toughest things in life, so Leif decided it was time to see his. That just so happened to coincide with the Class B state track and field meet in Laurel last week.
"The fact that everything allowed me to come down and spend it with my daughter and grandson is very, very important to me," Leif said.
"When he told us he'd be able to make it -- this is the first trip he's had in at least four years -- it meant everything to all of us," Lorie added.
"I thought, 'I have to do it for him,'" Colby said before Leif's visit. "That gave me extra motivation."
Photo courtesy Lorie Martinez
Colby Martinez sprints down the runway during the State B long jump competition.
Colby had five events on his weekend schedule, but his focus all season had been on long jump, much to his mom's dismay.
"My mom said, 'You can't do it. I don't want you to get hurt,'" Colby said. "And I was like, 'I'm doing it this year if you like it or not.'"
"He's had troubling knee problems for a long time, and the first week of track practice, he's over at the long jump pit, and I'm like, 'You're not jumping,'" Lorie said. "He says, 'I am jumping.' We had a discussion about it and I lost. Now I'm glad he didn't listen to me for once."
Colby clearly had a natural talent for it, coming into state with the fourth-best mark in Class B. But on his final jump of the season -- with Grandpa looking on -- something gave him a little more.
"Usually I don't hit the board," Colby admitted. "My marks are always bad -- I'm usually like a foot behind -- so I knew once I hit the board, 'Oh, this is good.'"
It was -- a personal record 21 feet, 4 inches to put Colby into the lead. But there were still two jumpers left.
"That was brutal. I had major anxiety," Lorie said. "Before he did his jump, I said a prayer and felt my mom was with him. I truly think she helped him pull it off."
Neither of the final two jumpers could catch Colby. When he realized he'd won, he did his best high jump audition, almost scaling the fence to celebrate with the ones he loves most.
Colby Martinez almost jumped over the fence to celebrate with his mom Lorie after winning the State B long jump competition.
"Big emotions for me too," Leif said afterward, "because I could see how much it meant to Colby. He performed so well."
"We were able to have a good friend of ours take pictures of it all, and when I saw the picture last night I started bawling all over again," said Lorie.
Colby's jump was the culmination of months of hard work, of the melding of all that natural talent and proper technique. But was it also something else?
"We were talking about that last night at the house with everyone," Colby said. "What are the odds that would happen when (Grandpa) was here? All of us said, 'Exactly.' It was a great feeling to have him there for it."
"It's been such a tough year, with COVID and my mom," Lorie said, "and for him to have that moment, it's just a moment none of us will forget."
Colby Martinez poses for a picture with his grandfather Leif Torgerson after winning the State B long jump title. It was the first time Torgerson had been able to see Martinez compete in person in his high school career.


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Tagged: Elvis Presley
1960s, Folk
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Written and first recorded (as a demo) by Danny O'Keefe (1967, released 1972).
First released by The Bards (1968).
Also recorded by Danny O'Keefe (1971), Elvis Presley (1973).
Hit versions by Danny O'Keefe (US #9/MOR #5/C&W #63 1972), Red Steagall (C&W #41 1979), Leon Russell (C&W #63 1984).
From the wiki: "'Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues' was written by Danny O'Keefe ('The Road') and first recorded by him in 1967 for the Jerden record label, owned by Jerry Denton who didn't release the record but claimed the credits. It was covered by a Seattle band, The Bards, and released in 1968 as the B-side to the song 'Tunesmith' on Parrot Records. Luckily for O'Keefe, his contract was bought by Atlantic boss Ahmed Ertegun, who returned him half of the publishing credit without obligation. That's when Danny re-recorded 'Goodtime Charlie' under better conditions for Cotillion Records, in 1971, produced by Ahmed. One year later, the song was recut for the Signpost label under the supervision of Arif Mardin and released on the album O'Keefe. When that version hit, Denton released the original demo version on the semi-bootleg The Seattle Tapes."
1920s, Blues
C.C. Rider (See See Rider)
First recorded (as 'See See Rider Blues') by Ma Rainey (US #12 1925).
Popular versions by Wee Bea Booze (R&B #1 1943), Chuck Willis (US #12/R&B #1 1957), LaVern Baker (US #34/R&B #9 1963), Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (US #10 1965), The Animals (US #10/CAN #1/AUS #8 1966).
Also recorded by The Orioles (1952), Elvis Presley (1970 |1973).
From the wiki: "The song is generally regarded as being traditional in origin. Ma Rainey's version (recorded as 'See See Rider Blues') became popular during 1925, telling the story of an unfaithful lover, commonly called 'easy riders' ('See See rider, see what you have done'), making a play on the word 'see' and the sound of 'easy'. The song has since become one of the most famous of all Blues songs, with well over 100 versions.
1960s, R&B
Girls! Girls! Girls!
First recorded by The Coasters (US #96 1961).
Hit versions by Elvis Presley (1962), The Fourmost (UK #33 1968).
From the wiki: "Changing popular tastes and a couple of line-up changes contributed to a lack of hits in the 1960s for The Coasters ('Yakety Yak', 'Poison Ivy'). In 1961, the group barely made it into the Billboard Hot 100 with the Lieber-Stoller-composed 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' (not be confused with the Motley Crue hit).
"The song found wider popular when repurposed as the lead song and title for the 1962 Elvis Presley movie Girls! Girls! Girls!, but was not issued as a single. In 1968, the group The Fourmost released the song and their version did chart on the UK Singles Chart."
1920s, Pop
First released by Charles Hart (1927).
Also recorded by Vaughn DeLeath (1927), Henry Burr (1927), The Carter Family (1936), Al Jolson (1950).
Hit versions by Blue Barron Orchestra (US #19 1950), Jaye P. Morgan (US #65 1959), Elvis Presley (US #1/C&W #22/R&B #3 1960).
From the wiki: "'Are You Lonesome Tonight?' was written by Lou Handman and Roy Turk in 1926, and first published in 1927. A number of artists first recorded the song in 1927, most notably by Ned Jakobs on May 8 but the first released recording belongs to Charles Hart whose production was released on May 9, 1927. (Jakobs' version was released on May 17.) Vaughn De Leath (also known as 'The Original Radio Girl') recorded two versions of the song in 1927, the second as vocalist for The Colonial Club Orchestra. Another version was released later that year by famed tenor Henry Burr. The Carter Family also recorded a version in 1936 but with a different melody.
Inspired by "Dreaming Blues" Roy Brown (1950).
First recorded (as a demo) by Glenn Reeves (1955).
Hit version by Elvis Presley (US #1/C&W #1/UK #2 1956).
From the wiki: "'Heartbreak Hotel' was written in 1955 by Mae Boren Axton, a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Jacksonville based singer–songwriter Tommy Durden. The lyrics were based on a report in The Miami Herald about a man who had destroyed all his identity papers and jumped to his death from a hotel window, leaving a suicide note with the single line, 'I walk a lonely street.' Axton and Durden give different accounts of how the song was written: Durden's account is that he had already written the song and performed it with his band the Swing Billys before he presented it to Axton; Axton's account is that Durden had only penned a few lines of the song, and asked her to help him finish it.
Written by Junior Parker and first recorded by Little Junior's Blue Flames (1953).
Hit version (as a B-side) by Elvis Presley (C&W #10 1955).
Also recorded by Junior Wells (1967), The Band (1973), Neil Young (1983).
From the wiki: "The original recording of 'Mystery Train' was written by Herman 'Junior' Parker and recorded by him (billed as Little Junior's Blue Flames) at Sun Studios in 1953. And, of the many groundbreaking songs recorded by Elvis Presley during his storied career, 'Mystery Train' has come to be regarded key to understanding his unique place in the Rock and Roll canon, with Sam Phillips, as producer of both the Parker and Presley recordings, serving as mid-wife.
1950s, R&B, Rock 'n Roll
First recorded by "Big Mama" Thorton (R&B #1 1953).
Also recorded by Jack Turner & His Granger County Gang (1953), Eddie Hazelwood (1953), Betsy Gay (1953), Tommy Duncan & the Miller Brothers (1953), Freddie Bell & The Bell Boys (1955).
Hit version by Elvis Presley (US #1/C&W #1/R&B #1 1956).
From the wiki: "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote 'Hound Dog' as a 12-bar Blues song. It was first recorded in Los Angeles by Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton in August 1952, and became her only hit record. Credited with contributing to the evolution of R&B into Rock and Roll, Thornton's recording of 'Hound Dog' is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013.
1950s, Country
Crying in the Chapel
First recorded by Darrell Glenn & The Rhythm Riders (US #6/C&W #4 1953).
Hit versions by The Orioles (US #11/R&B #1 1953), Rex Allen (US #8/C&W #4 1953), Ella Fitzgerald (US #15 1953), Art Lund (US #23 1953), June Valli (US #4 1953), Elvis Presley (1960 |US #3/MOR #1/UK #1 1965).
Also recorded (as "Selassie Is the Chapel") by Bob Marley & The Wailers (1968).
From the wiki: "'Crying in the Chapel' was written by Artie Glenn for his son, Darrell, to sing. Darrell recorded it while still in high school in 1953, along with Artie's band the Rhythm Riders, and the record went Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song went on to become one of the most-covered of 1953, with additional charted versions recorded by The Orioles ('C.C. Rider'), Rex Allen, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Lund, and June Valli. (The Orioles' recording would be used two decades later in the soundtrack of American Graffiti.)
First recorded (as "Lover") by Tommy Hunt (1961).
Hit versions by (as "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)") by Chuck Jackson (US #23/R&B #2 1962), Elvis Presley (B-side US #4 1969), Ronnie Milsap (US #14/C&W #1/CAN #1 1982), Luther Vandross (2001).
Also recorded by Alan Price (1965), Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (1966).
From the wiki: "'Any Day Now' was written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard in 1961. Co-writer Bacharach ('Alfie','Make It Easy On Yourself','Message to Michael') had orchestrated and recorded the song's backing track a year before presenting it to Chuck Jackson, formerly of the Del Vikings ('Come Go With Me'). In the interim, producer Luther Dixon made use of the same backing track to record the first released version of the song with Tommy Hunt ('I Only Have Eyes For You', The Flamingos), titled 'Lover', using completely different lyrics. Hunt's recording was a commercial flop. But, parts of Hunt's original singing are still audible at the end of Chuck Jackson's hit version. (Hunt is the only person to have his photograph framed twice in the Apollo foyer, both with the Flamingos and as a solo artist.)
That's All Right
Written and first recorded (as "That's All Right, Mama") by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (1946).
Hit versions by Marty Robbins (C&W #7 1955), Elvis Presley (UK #3 2004).
From the wiki: "The song was written by Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, and originally recorded by him in Chicago in September 1946. Some of the lyrics are traditional blues verses first recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1926. It was less successful than some of Crudup's previous recordings, but was rereleased under the title 'That's All Right, Mama' and issued as RCA's first Rhythm & Blues record on their new 45 rpm single format, on bright orange vinyl.
First recorded by Brenda Lee (C&W #45/CAN #40 1972).
Hit versions by Elvis Presley (C&W #16/UK #9 1972), John Wesley Ryles (C&W #20 1979), Willie Nelson (US #5/C&W #1 1982), Pet Shop Boys (US #4/UK #1/CAN #1 1988).
From the wiki: "'Always on My Mind' is an American country music song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James ('Suspicious Minds', 'Hooked On a Feeling') and Wayne Carson, recorded first by Brenda Lee in 1972.
"Wayne Carson says that he wrote the song in 10 minutes at his home in Springfield at his kitchen table and completed the song in studio with the assistance of Johnny Christopher and Mark James. Brenda Lee would be the first singer to record and release a version of 'Always On My Mind'. Her single, however, would stall at #45 on the US Country Singles chart.
I Just Can't Help Believing
Co-written and first recorded by Barry Mann (1968).
Also recorded by Bobbby Vee (1969), Leonard Nimoy (1969).
Hit versions by B.J. Thomas (US #9/MOR #1/CAN #18 1970), Elvis Presley (UK #6 1971).
From the wiki: "'I Just Can't Help Believing' is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The song was most successful after it was recorded by B.J. Thomas and released by him as a single in 1970. It went to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and spent one week at #1 on the Easy Listening (adult contemporary) chart. The first recording and single release was by the song's co-writer, Barry Mann, in 1968 (with no apparent chart success), and as album tracks in 1969 by Bobby Vee, and Leonard Nimoy.
"The song was also recorded by Elvis Presley in 1970 for the documentary Elvis: That's the Way It Is. The film captures Presley's Summer Festival in Las Vegas at the International Hotel during August 1970. It is considered one of Elvis' best live performances as both orchestra and vocals are virtually flawless (even if he does start the performance reading from a lyric sheet). That's the Way It Is was Presley's first non-dramatic film since the beginning of his film career in 1956, giving a clear view of Presley's return to live performances after years of making films. His performance in the film of 'I Just Can't Help Believing' was released as a single in the UK in November 1971, peaking at #6."
1960s, Rock 'n Roll
First recorded by Elvis Presley (1962 |UK #9 1976).
Hit version by Terry Stafford (US #2/UK #31 1964).
From the wiki: "'Suspicion' is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, one of 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Elvis Presley.
Little Darlin'
First recorded by The Gladiolas (R&B #11 1957).
Other hit version by The Diamonds (US #2 1957).
Also recorded by Sha Na Na (1969), Elvis Presley (1977).
From the wiki: "'Little Darlin" was written by Maurice Williams and recorded as a rhythm-and-blues song by Williams's R&B group, The Gladiolas, and quickly released in January 1957 by Excello Records.The Gladiolas, featuring Williams, were from Lancaster, South Carolina, where they had been together since high school. Their original version of the song peaked at #11 on the R&B charts in April 1957, but barely dented the Billboard Hot 100. (By 1959, Williams' group became 'Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs' ('Stay').)
First recorded by Smiley Lewis (R&B #11 1956).
Also recorded by Elvis Presley (1957, released 1983).
Other hit version by Elvis Presley (US #4/R&B #10 1958).
From the wiki: "The song was written by Dave Bartholomew, Earl King (under the pseudonym 'Pearl King') and Anita Steiman, and was originally recorded by Smiley Lewis in 1956. His recording charted R&B Top-15 in 1956.
"Elvis Presley recorded a cover of the song with its original lyrics on January 18, 1957, but that version would not be released until 1983. Both Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and his record company (RCA) had reservations about the suggestive lyrics. Elvis did not give up on the song. He continued to play with it during his spare time on the movie set of Loving You, finally rewriting the lyrics that he felt were holding the song captive.
Solitaire (The Carpenters)
Written and first recorded by Neil Sedaka (1972).
Also recorded by Petula Clark (1972), The Searchers (1973).
Hit versions by Andy Williams (MOR #23/UK #4 1974), The Carpenters (US #17/MOR #1/UK #32 1975), Elvis Presley (1976 |C&W #10 1979).
From the wiki: "Neil Sedaka recorded 'Solitaire' as the title cut for a UK-only 1972 album recorded at Strawberry Studios, Manchester. Members of the band 10cc – Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman – accompanied Sedaka while Eric Stewart, also of 10cc, engineered the session.
"Appearing on 1972 album releases by both Tony Christie and Petula Clark, 'Solitaire' had its first evident single release in February 1973 with a recording by The Searchers. However, it was the autumn 1973 single by Andy Williams which would reach #4 UK. In 1974, Sedaka's original 1972 recording of 'Solitaire' was included on his comeback album Sedaka's Back. Later in 1975, a live-in-concert version recorded by him at the Royal Festival Hall was issued as the B-side of 'The Queen of 1964'.
Written and first recorded by Kris Kristofferson (1970).
Hit versions by Sammi Smith (US #8/C&W #1 1971), Joe Simon (US #69/R&B #13 1971), Gladys Knight & The Pips (US #33/R&B #13/UK #11 1972).
Also recorded by Elvis Presley (1971), Joan Baez (1971), Jerry Lee Lewis (1971), Dottie West (1971), Bryan Ferry (1974).
From the wiki: "Kris Kristofferson wrote 'Help Me Make It' while sweeping floors and emptying ashtrays at Columbia Records studios in Nashville, and said that he got the inspiration for the song from an Esquire magazine interview with Frank Sinatra. When asked what he believed in, Frank replied, 'Booze, broads, or a Bible…whatever helps me make it through the night.'
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
First performances (as "Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)") by Pino Donaggio (ITA #1 1965) and Jody Miller (1965).
First (English-language) recording by Willeke Alberti (1965).
Hit versions by Dusty Springfield (US #4/UK #1 1966), Elvis Presley (US #11/UK #9 1970), Guys & Dolls (UK #5 1976), The Floaters (US #28 1977).
From the wiki: "'Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)' was introduced at the 1965 Sanremo Festival by Pino Donaggio – who'd co-written the song with Vito Pallavicini – and his team partner Jody Miller ('He's So Fine', 'Never Let Her Go'): the song took seventh place at San Remo and, as recorded by Donaggio, reached #1 in Italy in March 1965.
"Willeke Alberti was a Dutch singer and actress, starting her career at the early age of eleven in the musical Duel om Barbara, recording her first single in 1958 together with her entertainer father, Willy Alberti. Willeke and her father had a television show between 1965 and 1969. Her singing career from 1970 onwards was less active. In 1994, she returned to the state to representd the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Waar is de zon?' ('Where is the sun?').
1960s, Rock
March 23, 2013 • 3 Comments
Written and first recorded by Mark James (1968).
Hit versions by Elvis Presley (US #1 1969), Dee Dee Warwick (US #80/R&B #24 1971), Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter (C&W #2 1976), Gareth Gates (UK #1 2002).
From the wiki: "'Suspicious Minds' was written by Mark James in 1968, and first recorded and released by James on Scepter Records in 1968. but Scepter did not have the money to promote new artists, and the song did not make the charts. After Mark James' recording failed commercially, the song was suggested to Elvis Presley by James' producer, Chips Moman. Even though James's recording initially had not been commercially successful, Elvis decided, upon reviewing the song, he could turn it into a hit. Presley's 'Suspicious Minds' would go on to become a #1 hit and one of the top songs of 1969, and one of the most notable hits of Presley's career.
1970s, Soul
Originally recorded by Arthur Alexander (1972).
Hit version by Elvis Presley (US #2 1972).
From the wiki: "'Burning Love' is a song written by Dennis Linde and originally recorded by Country Soul artist Arthur Alexander, who included it on his 1972 self-titled album. It was soon covered and brought to fame by Elvis Presley, becoming his biggest hit single in the United States since 'Suspicious Minds' in 1969 and his last Top 10 hit in the American Hot 100 or pop charts. 'Burning Love' was kept from becoming #1 by Chuck Berry's novelty song 'My Ding-a-Ling'.
Good Rockin' Tonight
Written and first recorded (as "Good Rocking Tonight") by Roy Brown (R&B #13 1947).
Other hit versions by Wynonie Harris (R&B #1 1948), Elvis Presley (1954).
From the wiki: ""Good Rocking Tonight" was originally a jump blues song first recorded and released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown, and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the memorable refrain, 'Well I heard the news, there's good rocking tonight!' The song anticipated elements of rock and roll music. Brown had first offered his song to Wynonie Harris, who turned it down. He then approached Cecil Gant later that night, but after hearing Brown sing, Gant made a 2 a.m. phone call to Jules Braun, the president of DeLuxe Records. After Roy Brown sang his song over the phone, Braun asked Brown to sing it a second time. Braun then told Gant, 'Give him fifty dollars and don't let him out of your sight.'
"Five weeks later, Brown recorded the song for DeLuxe Records. Only after Brown's record had gained traction in New Orleans did Harris change his mind and decide to cover it. Harris's version was even more energetic than Brown's original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the composition's greater success on the national R&B chart. Brown's original recording hit #13 of the Billboard R&B chart while Harris' record became a #1 R&B hit and remained on the chart for half a year.
Bossa Nova Baby
First recorded by Tippie & The Clovers (1962).
Hit version by Elvis Presley (US #8/R&B #20/UK #13 1963).
From the wiki: "'Bossa Nova Baby' was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ('Kansas City', 'Hound Dog', 'Ruby Baby', 'Jailhouse Rock'). Even though the song would go on to become a huge promotional hit for the Elvis Presley movie, Fun in Acapulco, its origin had nothing to do with 'fun' or with 'Acapulco'. It was initially given by Leiber-Stoller to The Clovers, who had had past success with the songwriters ('Love Potion No. 9'), to record.
First recorded by Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra (1934).
Based on 'The Bad in Every Man' by Shirley Ross (1934).
Also recorded by Coleman Hawkins with the Michel Warlop Orchestra (1935), Elvis Presley (1954), Sam Cooke (1959).
Hit versions by Connee Boswell (US #1 1935), Mel Tormé (US #20 1947), The Marcels (US #1/R&B #1/UK #1 1961).
From the wiki: "The melody to 'Blue Moon' goes back further than the first recorded version of the song by The Casa Loma Orchestra. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 1933. They were soon commissioned to write the songs for Hollywood Party. 'Prayer (Oh Lord, make me a movie star)' was written for the movie but never recorded.
"Hart wrote new lyrics for the melody to create a title song for the 1934 film Manhattan Melodrama, but it was cut from the film before release. (Manhattan Melodrama wasn't so much famous for having left what would become 'Blue Moon' on the edit room floor but for being the film John Dillinger went to see in the Chicago movie theater where he was gunned down by police bullets at the exit.) Rodgers still liked the melody so Hart wrote a third lyric, 'The Bad in Every Man,' which was sung by Shirley Ross. The song, which was also released as sheet music, was not a hit.
"Jack Robbins, the head of MGM studio's publishing company, decided that the tune was suited to commercial release but needed more romantic lyrics and a punchier title. Hart was initially reluctant to write yet another lyric but was persuaded and the result was 'Blue moon/you saw me standing alone/without a dream in my heart/without a love of my own'."
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Nebraska Gold Star Families Memorial Monument
A new monument in honor of Gold Star Families was unveiled on Sunday, September 24 at 1 pm at Antelope Park, 1650 Memorial Dr., in Lincoln. The monument was a gift to Nebraska in its Sesquicentennial year, honoring all families who have lost loved ones in the U.S. Armed Forces in the past 150 years.
Hershel "Woody" Williams, who helps to make these monuments possible, is the last living medal of honor recipient for his service at Iwo Jima. His foundation's mission is to have a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in every state. The Nebraska monument was the 23rd to be dedicated. Williams spoke at the dedication.
"No one has sacrificed more for Nebraska in the past 150 years than our fallen military," said Barbara Bartle, President of the Lincoln Community Foundation. "This monument is a beautiful tribute to honor the Gold Star Families who continue to endure their loss."
The Nebraska Gold Star Families Memorial Monument was funded by Lincoln Community Foundation, Hershel "Woody" Williams Medal of Honor Foundation, The City of Lincoln, The Clark Enersen Partners, Nebraska Gold Star Wives – Omaha Chapter, Rixstine Recognition and Sampson Construction Company, Inc.
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Farrah Abraham Slammed For Video of Daughter Crying Over Dead Puppy
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Farrah Abraham shared a video of her daughter weeping over the dead body of their Pomeranian inside a veterinary clinic Thursday.
The pet died unexpectedly after "going potty" outside on the balcony of their Los Angeles home.
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In the video Farrah described how she lost her dog while her daughter Sophia, nine, wept uncontrollably. The child can also be seen comforting her mother, who is also crying.
Some followers on Instagram, however, criticized the former "Teen Mom" star for sharing the private moment. One wrote: "Why would you post this ? Your insane. Your poor daughter."
Another commented: "Why post that .. find it private." A fellow commenter echoed the same sentiment, writing: "Why film this. This is a private moment a lot of children and adults have had to go through."
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Meanwhile, Farrah revealed she will have her dog stuffed and mounted in her home. "I always said if he ever passed I would stuff him and put him on my shelf," she wrote, "so I hope for our memory of our best friend BLUE to be brought back home soon again thanks to pet taxidermy."
The death of her puppy comes after Farrah shared on Snapchat just the day before tasteless prank to publicize her daughter's upcoming web show "Kids Dare."
In the video, which has since been deleted, she said: "First we're going to ding dong ditch. Then we're going to come back and we're going to be like, 'Oh my God, your dog died!' It's crazy, right?"
Previously, the surgically-enhanced star described the series as a mix between "Punk'd" and "America's Funniest Home Videos."
On Thursday, Sophia's Instagram account also shared a message mourning the loss of the dog.
"I miss blue super super much," the child, whose father Derek Underwood died in an accident before she was born, wrote, "but he is in good hands now in doggy heaven, he went in to shock and then 30 seconds later he past away the emergency room note said the little doggy was found with no heart beat. I miss him so so so much and he was my favorite dog and I always played tag with him and I'd always give him love and his kong and he'd go crazy over it. I miss you blue very very much!"
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We undertake routine servicing and fault-finding/repair on any make and model of boiler but when it comes to new and replacement boilers we generally only fit boilers from two manufacturers, Vaillant and Ideal. Concentrating on a limited number of models ensures that we can better focus on fully understanding all the requirements of the manufacturer. This helps ensure that the appliance is installed and commissioned efficiently and correctly every time.
Being a German company, Vaillant have the usual penchant for solid reliable engineering. But its more than robust construction, a look inside the boiler gives the impression that serious thought has been given to ensuring the layout is perfect for the engineer to perform trouble free maintenance and servicing. But what else would you expect from a company whose motto is "Because Vaillant thinks ahead".
Why not watch our quick guide to the ecoTEC domestic boiler range for an overview of our full range.
Thanks to unrivalled levels of reliability, the Logic+ range of boilers comes with a 7 year warranty* and supported by the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2013, Good Housekeeping Reader Recommendation and being voted Product of the Year for 2014. The Logic+ range has been designed to ensure a quick and hassle-free installation. Benefiting from concealed connections and comprehensive controls, all models also feature a translucent condensate siphon to allow any debris to be spotted quickly and easily.
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Like any sensible girl in the 1970s and beyond, Cait Brennan grew up having night terrors about "Little House On The Prairie"'s own Nellie Oleson, the meanest mean girl in all of the meangirliverse. On Friday, July 7, Cait squares off for a no holds barred con kickoff Q&A with the mighty Alison Arngrim, the actress who brought Nellie to life, at O Comic Con at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs. Cait will be playing two concerts, hosting the unofficial kickoff session and leading a screenwriting panel on creating great characters!


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