Michael Rubin started his business career at age 13, running a ski-tuning shop out of his parents' basement. He went on to open several retail ski shops in New York and Pennsylvania by the time he graduated from high school.
Now 34, Rubin is chief executive of GSI Commerce, a King of Prussia (Pa.)-based e-commerce company with $524.6 million in revenue in the 12 months ended Sept. 30.
Meet the new boss, younger than the old boss. Rubin is one of approximately 140 executives age 40 or younger who are chief executive officers of publicly traded companies around the world, according to data compiled by Capital IQ. Of these, nearly 100 are located within the U.S., while another 40 or so lead companies headquartered in other countries. The youngest, Harry Vafias, CEO of StealthGas in Athens, Greece, is only 28.
For generations, the corner office has been the domain of experience, occupied in literature and film by crusty old-timers like Ebenezer Scrooge or It's a Wonderful Life's Mr. Potter. In more recent decades, investors grew accustomed to fresher faces, as such young visionaries as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs helped lead the 1980s personal-computing revolution.
Now, a new generation of 40-and-under CEOs offers proof that today's young entrepreneurs can scale the corporate ladder, too.
The tech sector may still be the quickest road to the top. More public-company CEOs age 40 and under lead organizations involved in technology products or services than work in any other industry. These companies range from online travel publisher Travelzoo to semiconductor materials provider Cree and software maker Borland.
A tech background can also help executives in related businesses, such as retail. Michael Soenen, 36-year-old chief of flower seller FTD, recalls becoming CEO of his company's Web division in 1999. "Internet CEOs were young by nature, and the success we were having made me a logical choice," Soenen explains.
"Having run that business successfully, becoming CEO of FTD Inc. was a natural extension for me."
Many of the youngest CEOs achieved their position by launching their own companies from scratch. "If you really want to be a CEO at a young age, start a company and call yourself a CEO," says David Liu, who recently turned 41 but has been CEO of wedding information Web site The Knot since age 30.
Sometimes the hardest part may just be getting started. "You can't wait until you know all the answers," says 36-year-old Taser International CEO Rick Smith, who started his stun-gun operation in a garage at age 23. "You never will. When your gut tells you there's an opportunity there, you have to take it."
Others suggest seeking out a broad range of experiences en route to the corner office. Jonathan Huberman, now 41, became CEO of Zip-disk storage device maker Iomega earlier this year at age 40, following stints in tech, management consulting, venture capital, and hedge funds. "Look for diversity of experiences, because to be a CEO you need to be able to understand and set strategy for every facet of the business," Huberman says.
While it's never easy to be a CEO, for those 40 and under it can be even more challenging. "It changes your life top to bottom," says Jordan Greenhall, 35-year-old chief of digital video compression software maker DivX. "Not as much as having children, but in that same zone."
And like having children, CEOs typically say the job is worth any sleepless nights. "I have to say I really love it," says Michael Chasen, 35-year-old head of school software developer Blackboard. "I thrive on the fast pace and excitement in running a fast-growth, successful company."
The people who become CEO at a young age are increasingly unafraid to take risks, notes Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "They're willing to look for opportunities to stand out," Cappelli explains. Still, he cautions that bigger appetites for risk may have unwanted consequences, citing the Enron scandal.
Today's young CEOs are likely to have a better understanding of technology and globalization than did the bright up-and-comers of decades past, adds Michael Feiner, a management professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and author of The Feiner Points of Leadership. "The biggest challenge is the leading-people piece," Feiner says. "It takes a while for even really smart CEOs to understand it's people first, strategy second. That comes from experience and mistakes, and I don't think there's a shortcut."
Meanwhile, new CEOs are taking on the mantle at a time of unprecedented turnover. Corner-office job changes this year are on pace to top last year's record 1,322 departures, according to Chicago consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Such big-name companies as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford and Viacom were among those making CEO switches in 2006.
Ultimately, a CEO of any age needs to have a passion for the job. "You can have all the products and packaging and scale that you need to perform, but really none of that takes you any place if you don't have the right attitude about the business," says Mariner Kemper, 34-year-old head of Kansas City (Mo.)-based financial services company UMB Financial.
The best CEOs grow into the position because they followed what excited them, not because they set out to become CEOs, adds Mark Vadon, 36-year-old chief of online jewelry retailer Blue Nile.
"Do something that you really love doing," Vadon advises. "If you're not doing something that you really like, you're not going to be that successful at it."


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Gli US Open 2013 sono un torneo di tennis giocato su campi di cemento DecoTurf all'aperto. Si tratta della 133ª edizione degli US Open, quarta e ultima prova del Grande Slam nell'ambito dell'ATP World Tour 2013 e del WTA Tour 2013. Il torneo si è disputato all'USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center di Flushing Meadows a New York. I campioni uscenti dei singolari maschile e femminile erano Andy Murray e Serena Williams, la statunitense è riuscita a difenderlo mentre nel maschile ha avuto la meglio Rafael Nadal.

Sommario

Programma del torneo
Il torneo si è svolto in 16 giornate divise in due settimane. A causa delle condizioni meteorologiche avverse che hanno caratterizzato le ultime edizioni e hanno costretto gli organizzatori a posticipare la fine del torneo al terzo lunedì di gare per cinque anni di fila, si è deciso di fissare la fine dell'evento proprio per il terzo lunedì, invece che la tradizionale domenica, dando ai giocatori un giorno in più per prepararsi alla finale.

Qualificazioni, wildcard e sorteggio
Le qualificazioni assegnano 16 posti per ciascuno dei due tornei di singolare, e si disputano fra il 20 e il 23 agosto 2013.

 Per il singolare maschile: Michail Kukuškin, Ivo Karlović, Florent Serra, Philipp Petzschner, Rogério Dutra da Silva, Somdev Devvarman, Thomas Fabbiano, Donald Young, Nick Kyrgios, Frank Dancevic, Peter Gojowczyk, Gō Soeda, Daniel Evans, Máximo González, Stéphane Robert, Albano Olivetti.
 Per il singolare femminile: Casey Dellacqua, Sharon Fichman, Grace Min, Victoria Duval, Coco Vandeweghe, Duan Yingying, Kurumi Nara, Maria João Koehler, Vera Duševina, Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Chanel Simmonds, Michelle Larcher de Brito, Julia Glushko, Ajla Tomljanović, Aleksandra Krunić, Camila Giorgi.

Le wildcard sono state assegnate a:

 Per il singolare maschile: Collin Altamirano, Brian Baker, James Duckworth, Ryan Harrison, Bradley Klahn, Guillaume Rufin, Tim Smyczek, Rhyne Williams
 Per il singolare femminile: Ashleigh Barty, Nicole Gibbs, Vania King, Virginie Razzano, Alison Riske, Shelby Rogers, Maria Sanchez, Sachia Vickery
 Per il doppio maschile: James Blake / Jack Sock, Jarmere Jenkins / Mac Styslinger, Steve Johnson / Michael Russell, Bradley Klahn / Sam Querrey, Austin Krajicek / Denis Kudla, Alex Kuznetsov /  Bobby Reynolds, Paul Oosterbaan / Ronnie Schneider
 Per il doppio femminile: Mallory Burdette /  Taylor Townsend, Jill Craybas / Coco Vandeweghe, Lauren Davis / Grace Min, Daniela Hantuchová / Martina Hingis, Allie Kiick / Sachia Vickery, Melanie Oudin / Alison Riske, Shelby Rogers / Maria Sanchez
 Per il doppio misto: Kaitlyn Christian / Dennis Novikov, Victoria Duval / Donald Young, Martina Hingis / Mahesh Bhupathi, Megan Moulton-Levy / Eric Butorac, Melanie Oudin / Austin Krajicek, Sabrina Santamaria / Jarmere Jenkins, Yasmin Schnack / Eric Roberson, Sloane Stephens / Jack Sock

Il sorteggio dei tabelloni principali è stato effettuato il 22 agosto 2013.

Tennisti partecipanti ai singolari

Singolare maschile
 Singolare maschile

Singolare femminile
 Singolare femminile

Calendario

26 agosto (1º giorno)
Nella 1ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del primo turno dei singolari maschili e femminili in base al programma della giornata

La prima giornata è stata caratterizzata dalla pioggia che è arrivata su New York durante la sessione serale e ha fatto posticipare di un giorno l'inizio di alcuni incontri.

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Kei Nishikori [11],  Fernando Verdasco [27],  Ernests Gulbis [30].
 Singolare femminile:  Kirsten Flipkens [12],  Magdaléna Rybáriková [29].

27 agosto (2º giorno)
Nella 2ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del primo turno dei singolari maschili, femminili e del doppio maschile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Jerzy Janowicz [14],  Grigor Dimitrov [25].
 Singolare femminile:  Samantha Stosur [11], Dominika Cibulková (17),  Nadia Petrova [20],  Klára Zakopalová [31].

28 agosto (3º giorno)
Nella 3ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del primo turno del singolare maschile, doppio maschile, doppio femminile e doppio misto e del secondo turno del singolare femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Fabio Fognini [16],  Benoît Paire [24],  Jürgen Melzer [29].
 Singolare femminile:nessuna
 Doppio maschile:  Maks Mirny /  Horia Tecău [13],  František Čermák /  Filip Polášek [15].
 Doppio femminile: nessuna
 Doppio misto: nessuna

29 agosto (4º giorno)
Nella 4ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del secondo turno del singolare maschile e femminile, e del primo turno del doppio maschile e femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Sam Querrey [26]
 Singolare femminile:  Sara Errani [4],  Sorana Cîrstea [19],  Elena Vesnina [22],  Mona Barthel [28]
 Doppio maschile:  Mariusz Fyrstenberg /  Marcin Matkowski [8],  David Marrero /  Fernando Verdasco [9],  Santiago González /  Scott Lipsky [11]
 Doppio femminile: nessuna
 Doppio misto: nessuna

30 agosto (5º giorno)
Nella 5ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del secondo turno del singolare maschile e femminile, e del primo turno del doppio maschile e femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Juan Martín del Potro (6),   Kevin Anderson (17)
 Singolare femminile: Sabine Lisicki (16),  Jamie Hampton (23),  Kaia Kanepi (25), Laura Robson (30),  Anastasija Pavljučenkova (32).
 Doppio maschile: nessuna
 Doppio femminile: Nessuna
 Doppio misto: Anna-Lena Grönefeld /  Alexander Peya (1),  Julia Görges /  Rohan Bopanna (3).

31 agosto (6º giorno)
Nella 6ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del terzo turno del singolare maschile e femminile, e del secondo turno del doppio maschile e femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  John Isner [13],  Feliciano López [23],  Dmitrij Tursunov [32]
 Singolare femminile:  Caroline Wozniacki [6],  Petra Kvitová [7],  Marija Kirilenko [14],  Alizé Cornet [26],  Svetlana Kuznecova [27]
 Doppio maschile:  Julien Benneteau /  Nenad Zimonjić [7]
 Doppio femminile:  Raquel Kops-Jones /  Abigail Spears [7],  Julia Görges /  Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová [12]
 Doppio misto:  Katarina Srebotnik /  Nenad Zimonjić [2]

1º settembre (7º giorno)
Nella 7ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del quarto turno del singolare femminile, il terzo turno del singolare maschile, e del terzo turno del doppio maschile e femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Tommy Haas [12],  Andreas Seppi [20],  Julien Benneteau [31]
 Singolare femminile:  Agnieszka Radwańska [3],  Angelique Kerber [8],  Jelena Janković [9],  Sloane Stephens [15]
 Doppio maschile:  Rohan Bopanna /  Édouard Roger-Vasselin [6],  Michaël Llodra /  Nicolas Mahut [14]
 Doppio femminile:  Anna-Lena Grönefeld /  Květa Peschke [6],  Liezel Huber /  Nuria Llagostera Vives [9],  Kristina Mladenovic /  Galina Voskoboeva [14]
 Doppio misto:  Lisa Raymond /  Jean-Julien Rojer [6]

2 settembre (8º giorno)
Nella 8ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del quarto turno del singolare maschile e femminile, del terzo turno del doppio maschile e femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Roger Federer [7],  Milos Raonic [10]  Janko Tipsarević [18],  Philipp Kohlschreiber [22],
 Singolare femminile:  Simona Halep [21]
 Doppio maschile:  Marcel Granollers /  Marc López [3],  Colin Fleming /  Jonathan Marray [12]
 Doppio femminile:
 Doppio misto:

3 settembre (9º giorno)
Nella 9ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri del quarto turno del singolare maschile, i quarti di finale del singolare femminile, del doppio maschile femminile e misto in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Tomáš Berdych [5]
 Singolare femminile:  Ana Ivanović [13],  Carla Suárez Navarro [18],  Ekaterina Makarova [24]
 Doppio maschile:  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi  /  Jean-Julien Rojer [5]
 Doppio femminile:  Cara Black [13] /  Marina Eraković [13],  Jelena Janković /  Mirjana Lučić-Baroni [15],  Anabel Medina Garrigues /  Flavia Pennetta [16]
 Doppio misto:  Květa Peschke /  Marcin Matkowski [4],  Liezel Huber /  Marcelo Melo [8]

4 settembre (10º giorno)
Nella 9ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri dei quarti di finale del singolare maschile, singolare femminile, doppio maschile, doppio femminile e le semifinali del doppio misto in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  David Ferrer [4],  Tommy Robredo [19]
 Singolare femminile:  Roberta Vinci [10]
 Doppio maschile:  Treat Huey /  Dominic Inglot [16]
 Doppio femminile:  Ekaterina Makarova /  Elena Vesnina [2],  Nadia Petrova /  Katarina Srebotnik [3],  Hsieh Su-wei /  Peng Shuai [4],  Anastasija Pavljučenkova /  Lucie Šafářová [11]
 Doppio misto:  Anabel Medina Garrigues / Bruno Soares [5]

5 settembre (11º giorno)
Nella 11ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri dei quarti di finale del singolare maschile e singolare femminile, le semifinali del doppio maschile e doppio femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Andy Murray [3],  Michail Južnyj [21]
 Doppio maschile:  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan [1],  Ivan Dodig /  Marcelo Melo [10]
 Doppio femminile:  Sara Errani /  Roberta Vinci [1],  Sania Mirza /  Jie Zheng [10]

6 settembre (12º giorno)
Nella 12ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri delle semifinale nel singolare femminile e doppio femminile oltre alla finale del doppio misto in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare femminile:  Li Na [5]
 Doppio femminile: nessuna

7 settembre (13º giorno)
Nella 13ª giornata si sono giocati gli incontri delle semifinale nel singolare maschile e la finale del doppio femminile in base al programma della giornata

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Richard Gasquet [8],   Stanislas Wawrinka [9]
 Doppio femminile:  Ashleigh Barty /  Casey Dellacqua [8]

8 settembre (14º giorno)
Nella 14ª giornata si sono giocate le finali del singolare femminile e del doppio maschile in base al programma della giornata

Statistiche della finale femminile

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare femminile:  Viktoryja Azaranka [2]
 Doppio maschile:  Alexander Peya /  Bruno Soares [2]

9 settembre (15º giorno)
Nella 15ª giornata si è giocata la finale del singolare maschile in base al programma della giornata

Statistiche della finale maschile

 Teste di serie eliminate:
 Singolare maschile:  Novak Đoković [1]

Seniors

Singolare maschile

 Rafael Nadal ha sconfitto in finale  Novak Đoković per 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
È il tredicesimo titolo dello Slam in carriera per Nadal e il secondo del 2013.

Singolare femminile

 Serena Williams ha sconfitto in finale  Viktoryja Azaranka per 7-5, 66-7, 6-1.
È il diciassettesimo Slam in carriera per la Williams, il secondo dell'anno e la quinta vittoria a New York.

Doppio maschile

 Leander Paes /  Radek Štěpánek hanno sconfitto in finale  Alexander Peya /  Bruno Soares per 6-1, 6-3.
 È il secondo slam per Paes e Štěpánek, primo titolo dell'anno per la coppia.

Doppio femminile

 Andrea Hlaváčková /  Lucie Hradecká hanno sconfitto in finale  Ashleigh Barty /  Casey Dellacqua per 64-7, 6-1, 6-4.
 È il secondo slam per Hlaváčková e Hradecká, secondo titolo dell'anno per la coppia.

Doppio misto

 Andrea Hlaváčková /  Maks Mirny hanno sconfitto in finale  Abigail Spears /  Santiago González per 7-65, 6-3.
 È il primo titolo di misto per la Hlaváčková, quarto per Mirny.

Junior

Singolare ragazzi

 Borna Ćorić ha sconfitto in finale  Thanasi Kokkinakis per 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Singolare ragazze

 Ana Konjuh ha sconfitto in finale  Tornado Alicia Black per 3-6, 6-4, 7-66.

Doppio ragazzi

 Kamil Majchrzak /  Martin Redlicki hanno sconfitto in finale  Quentin Halys /  Frederico Ferreira Silva per 6-3, 6-4.

Doppio ragazze

 Barbora Krejčíková /  Kateřina Siniaková hanno sconfitto in finale  Belinda Bencic /  Sara Sorribes Tormo per 6-3, 6-4.

Tennisti in carrozzina

Singolare maschile carrozzina

 Stéphane Houdet ha sconfitto in finale  Shingo Kunieda per 6-2, 6-4.

Singolare femminile carrozzina

 Aniek van Koot ha sconfitto in finale  Sabine Ellerbrock per 3-6, 6-2, 7-65.

Quad singolare

 Lucas Sithole ha sconfitto in finale  David Wagner per 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Doppio maschile carrozzina

 Michael Jeremiasz /  Maikel Scheffers hanno sconfitto in finale  Gustavo Fernandez /  Joachim Gérard per 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.

Doppio femminile carrozzina

 Jiske Griffioen /  Aniek van Koot hanno sconfitto in finale  Sabine Ellerbrock /  Yui Kamiji per 6-3, 6-4.

Quad doppio

 David Wagner /  Nick Taylor hanno sconfitto in finale  Andy Lapthorne /  Lucas Sithole per 6-0, 2-6, 6-3.

Leggende

Doppio leggende maschile

 John McEnroe /  Patrick McEnroe hanno sconfitto in finale  Michael Chang /  Todd Martin per 6-4, 6-0.

Doppio leggende femminile

 Martina Navrátilová /  Rennae Stubbs hanno sconfitto in finale  Chanda Rubin /  Iva Majoli per 6-2, 6-4.

Doppio leggende misto

 Chris Evert /  Monica Seles hanno sconfitto in finale  Jason Biggs /  Rainn Wilson per 3-27.

Teste di serie nel singolare
Le seguenti tabelle illustrano i giocatori e le giocatrici che non hanno partecipato al torneo, quelli che sono stati eliminati, e i loro nuovi punteggi nelle classifiche ATP e WTA. Le teste di serie sono assegnate in base ai ranking ATP e WTA del 20 agosto 2013.

Classifica singolare maschile

Classifica singolare femminile

Assegnazione punteggi
I punteggi delle classifiche ATP e WTA vengono assegnati come illustrato.

Premi in denaro
Tutti i premi sono in dollari americani, e il montepremi complessivo è di 34,25 milioni. Nel doppio il premio è assegnato alla coppia.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

ATP World Tour 2013
WTA Tour 2013

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Honeywell Shutters Uranium Plant, Lays Off More Than 200 Workers
Mike Elk July 20, 2012
Honeywell announced on Thursday that it will temporarily lay off 228 workers at its Metropolis, Ill., uranium conversion plant as the facility undergoes NRC-required safety upgrades. (Photo by Flickr user CaZaTo Ma)
In another sad twist in the long story of workers' struggles at the Honeywell uranium conversion plant in Metropolis, Ill., Honeywell announced Thursday that it will temporarily lay off 228 people — 125 union hourly workers and 103 non-union salary workers— while it shuts down the plant to perform safety upgrades. A skeleton workforce of 106 employees — union and non-union — will continue working at the plant. The union expects Honeywell to shut down the plant for approximately 12 – 15 months while it makes the upgrades.
The shutdown comes after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found several problems concerning the lack of safety measures in place to prevent the release of toxic UF6 gas in the case of a natural disaster. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the NRC is requiring that plants have adequate seismic protection against tornados and earthquakes; currently, the NRC feels that the Metropolis plant is not up to par, and has ordered that the plant be shut down until the NRC feels it is safe to be operated.
"Honeywell takes its commitment to safety seriously," plant manager Larry Smith told the Southern in a statement. "We are continuing to discuss the necessary upgrades with the NRC, and we hope to quickly establish a definitive timetable."
The layoffs could have a devastating effect on the union, especially since many union members were laid off indefinitely back in May, when Honeywell temporarily shut down the plant to investigate claims of sabotage by union workers. While the workers laid off this week retain the right to recall once the plant reopens, many of them are beginning to look for jobs at other plants and several have already been successful. If these workers choose not to return to the Honeywell plant when it reopens, the union may ultimately be weakened.
Some workers fear that the possibility of a weakened union, as well as the opportunity to wait out a market that has seen uranium prices plummet 23% since February 2011, may give Honeywell some incentive to keep the workers out for longer than necessary. Furthermore, by stopping their supply of uranium, Honeywell may be able to create a shortage and drive up the price of uranium.
"It's a win-win for Honeywell," says Honeywell union worker John Paul Smith. "They cut their workforce in half and wait out the free fall of uranium prices."
The union is currently in talks with Honeywell about how the layoffs will affect workers and which workers will be laid off. Pay will continue for the Honeywell workers through September 21 and health care will end on September 30. Some employees may have the opportunity to transfer to other facilities. For the union workers at Metropolis facility, these layoffs are yet another obstacle that they will have to overcome in their efforts to keep their union alive.
Mike Elk wrote for In These Times and its labor blog, Working In These Times, from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a labor reporter at Politico.
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The Only One Direction boys have performed to over half a million people throughout the UK, Europe, Asia, the UAE and London's West End, establishing themselves as one of the most popular tribute acts in the industry.
Only One Direction capture the charisma, energy and enthusiasm of the originals with a show that features songs from all of One Directions smash hit albums, including What Makes You Beautiful, Story Of My Life, Best Song Ever, Steal My Girl, Drag Me Down and many more.
Described as a "Super Tribute", this group is suitable for all ages and perform to audiences ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands with their full scale production show.


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Then There Was You
by Miranda Liasson
Used Mass Market
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Fresh from her residency, Serafina Langdon returns to her hometown to join her father's general medical practice a year after her fiance jilted her. More than anything, Sara just wants to move on, but that becomes impossible once she discovers that the man who was responsible for her broken engagement, and who is also her ex-fiance's best friend, is now the Angel Falls chief of police.
As police chief, Colton Walker is devoted to his small town, and he's equally determined to avoid its newest resident. He and Sara have always gotten along like oil and water, and since the bachelor party incident, he's her Enemy #1. But after sharing an unexpected--and unexpectedly hot--kiss, avoiding Sara becomes the last thing he wants to do. She's not the woman he used to know, and he's falling for her. But when her ex-fiance returns to Angel Falls, Colton will have to decide if the woman he's always fighting with is also worth fighting for.
Welcome to Angel Falls, a town so delightful even enemies can't help falling in love
Angel Falls is the last place Sara Langdon wants to be. Her hometown may be charming, but it's also filled with memories of her "wedding-that-never-was." Yet Sara's grandmother needs her, and joining her dad at his medical practice gives Sara time to figure out what she wants for her future. But when her first patient turns out to be Colton Walker, the man who sabotaged her wedding, Sara starts to wonder if she'll ever be able to escape her past.
As police chief, Colton Walker is devoted to his small town, and he's equally determined to avoid its newest resident. He and Sara have always gotten along like oil and water, and since the bachelor party incident, he's her Enemy #1. But after sharing an unexpected--and unexpectedly hot--kiss, Colton starts to wonder if the woman he's always fighting with is the one he should be fighting for.
"Emotional, heartwarming romance you can't put down."-- Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author
Praise for Miranda Liasson: "Liasson will make you laugh and melt your heart in this can't miss read."-- Marina Adair, #1 bestselling author of Summer in Napa
"Liasson (The Baby Project) ably tugs at the heartstrings with this poignant contemporary"--Publisher's Weekly
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Unfortunate Religious Connotations
On the name "Joyful Noise" (musings from the label's founder):
"When I began Joyful Noise Recordings in 2003 I was a freshman in college. The label was created solely for the purpose of putting a pseudo-label name on the back of my then-bands CD (Melk The G6-49). I had very little aspirations for growing the label into something legitimate. The name was chosen mostly because I thought it would be an appropriate name for a noise label, and it seemed to embody the idea of making noise that was passionate and enlightened. The music of my band was meditative, noisy, and impulse driven. We attempted to make noise beautiful – a stark contrast to the many musically nihilistic noise bands out there. To this day I feel like the name holds up: as a label we strive to release music that lies somewhere between pop and noise. Not harsh noise, nor traditional indie rock, but music that is an inventive expression existing in between the two sides of the spectrum.
However, as the label has grown so have the "humm, is that some sort of Christian thing?" comments.
So, here is the deal: we are not a Christian label. To my knowledge none of the bands currently on the label are comprised entirely of religious believers of any one persuasion. Some bands may have religious believers among their members, but this is not something we are particularly aware of or interested in (unless it's somehow essential to understanding their art). Religion is not something we factor in when deciding to work with a band.
However, I do love confusing people and challenging their ideas about religion as it relates to culture/art. Though religion is in no way a stipulation of ours, we do acknowledge that it can be a valuable catalyst for honest and sincere art. I would not shy away from working with a religious band, provided that they were artistically honest and aesthetically on par. Even though religion has been responsible for as much bad music as it has historic atrocities, good music should never have to carry a stigma simply because some other dude wrote a shitty song on the same topic. That's like stigmatizing Neil Young because Toby Keith also wrote songs inspired by war.
For those who were raised in the evangelical Christian traditions, "Joyful Noise" seems to activate this same stigma. (BTW: this is because of a phrase in Psalms, which is ahem, a JEWISH text – why doesn't everyone think we are a Jewish label?). As bothersome as it is at times, we try to combat the stigma and challenge people's ideas on the topic. It is an unfortunate religious connotation (wah.. wah..) but it is also an irrational stigma which thoughtful people should overcome. And in the end, it's an appropriate name for what we do.
As a person, I simply strive to be honest with my religious beliefs. Which basically means I'm agnostic. As a label, we are happy to release inventive religious-inspired music alongside of Montreal's genital draining fuckfests. We see no conflict."
Love, Karl
President / Curator, Joyful Noise Recordings


If you do not currently own a house or a condo, you are probably renting a home or an apartment.
As a first time homebuyer, it is very important to consider timing before jumping into the housing market. As a renter, you need to take into account the end-date of your lease or rental agreement. If not, you may find yourself paying rent on top of a new mortgage.
For example, suppose you currently have two months left before your lease is up. You find a realtor, get approved by a lender, and make an offer on a property. The seller agrees to close in sixty days. Then, like clock-work, after two months your lease is up and you close on a new house in the same day. That is an ideal situation.
Unfortunately, things can't always run that smoothly. Take the opposite circumstance: you have two months left on your lease, the seller wants to close in thirty days, and the landlord won't let you out of your contract early.
Talk to an attorney. An attorney will explain your lease obligations and possibly give you other options that you might not have otherwise known about.
Plan to search for a new home towards the end of your lease date.
Talk to your landlord. Your landlord may be willing to terminate the contract early or they might even know of another tenant who would move in.
Planning and timing is "key" in real estate. Don't get frustrated if you feel you're missing out on a good home due to bad timing. There will be another wonderful house that is perfect for you when the timing is right.


Traveling with a baby can seem daunting. Will the baby cry on the redeye? What about getting sick in a foreign country? While some things are not fully in your control, you can at least be prepared by packing the right gear.
And, as it turns out, you don't need half the stuff you think you do. Packing up and moving along every few days is way easier with less stuff.
We took our 3 week old baby from Oregon to New England, where we traveled around for a while. When he turned 9 weeks old, we left for Europe and traveled for a month. If we can do 8 countries, 86 restaurants, 5 flights, and over 35 different beds in just 2.5 months, so can you! This list is not mean to be exhaustive or final, just a guide. In the end, you know your baby best.
For our full packing list scroll to the bottom of this article.
A car seat bag is an awkward piece of luggage that is no fun to carry anywhere. It is meant to take your carseat and base and airlines will check it for free. Turns out, they'll also let you fill it with "baby gear" – anything and everything related to the baby. So, pretty much just fill it with as much as you think you can get away with.


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REVIEW: 'Sing 2' takes its all-star cast of singing animals on the road for more family-friendly movie fun
Ash (Scarlett Johansson) performs on stage in SING 2 from Universal Pictures and Illumination Studios.
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BY ANDY FARNSWORTH, KSL TV & KSL NEWSRADIO
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Five years ago, the original Sing movie from Illumination Studios and Universal Pictures surprised me by how much I enjoyed the tale of the dapper Koala bear Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) saving his old theater from being torn down, while saving a bunch of different characters through their music. But I wasn't sure it could surprise me again.
It did not.
However, that does not mean the movie is without enjoyable moments or strong points.
In Sing 2, Buster and his crew of Meena the elephant (Tori Kelly), pigs Rosita (Reese Witherspoon) and Gunter (Nick Kroll), Johnny the gorilla (Taron Egerton) and porcupine rocker Ash (Scarlett Johansson) prepare for a bigger stage and a brighter spotlight as they leave the Moon Theater to try and make it in the big time.
"Sing 2" from Universal Pictures and Illumination Studios opens in theaters on Dec. 22, 2021.
That would be the Crystal Tower Theater in Redshore City, sort of a combination of Las Vegas and Atlantic City. They manage to beat out several other acts and get the greenlight for a new show from big-time producer wolf Jimmy Crystal (Bobby Canavale doing his best Al Pacino impression)—on the condition they get reclusive legendary rocker Clay Calloway, who hasn't done anything in public for years, to participate (U2's Bono, in his first animated voiceover role).
So Buster has to invent a show from scratch, navigate the treacherous waters of big-time entertainment, get his team ready for a bigger stage than they've ever had, and get a famous rock star to join them. No problem, right?
THINGS I LIKED
Because this is from the team at Illumination, the creators of Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets, it's quickly evident once again that they know their way around a family-friendly animated movie. This new chapter in the series brings back original writer/director Garth Jennings and along with the original voice cast, and this time they add in the talents of Letitia Wright, Chelsea Peretti, Seth MacFarlane, Canavale, Nick Offerman, and singers Pharrell Williams, Halsey and Bono.
The voice cast of "Sing 2" alongside their animated characters.
The story was fine, even coming up with a bit of an emotional punch at the end. Kids will get a kick out some silly moments and some parents will feel old when they realize how long some of these songs have been in pop culture.
But it's really the music that's the star of a movie called "Sing". You'll hear hits from Prince, Elton John, Billie Eilish, Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, and of course, U2, among many, most of them remixed or shortened to fit inside a two-hour animated kids film. There will likely be songs that parents recognize that kids are hearing for the first time, and vice versa.
Sing 2 is completely family-friendly. It's rated PG for some rude material and mild animated violence and peril. There's no language in the film that parents should be worried about. The run time is 1 hour and 52 minutes.
SING 2 is exactly what it looks like, a bunch of silly fun for the family, with a lot of toe-tapping pop songs throughout. The music is the real star of the show and there's stuff that everyone in the family will recognize and enjoy.
I give Sing 2 TWO AND A HALF out of FOUR stars
There are lots of funny moments, as well as some that are kind of poignant. It's not a bad way to spend a couple of hours together as a family. I enjoyed it and I'm sure your kids will love it.
(L-R) Gunter (Nick Kroll), Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) and Ash (Scarlett Johansson) in SING 2 from Universal Pictures and Illumination Studios
Sing 2 is playing only in theaters. It is not available on any streaming services as of yet, and when it does (likely in March or April), it will be on Universal's Peacock service, per their licensing agreement.
Hopefully you & your family found this review helpful! Andy Farnsworth does a weekly "What To Watch" segment for the KSL 5 Today morning news show and also hosts the Fan Effect podcast for KSL NewsRadio. Check out his other in-depth reviews of movies and streaming TV series on KSLTV.com.
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REVIEW: Stallone's 'Samaritan' stops short of superhero movie success
Sylvester Stallone's latest movie SAMARITAN sees him as a garbage man that a teenage neighbor believes to be a superhero in hiding. KSL's Andy Farnsworth says there are some cool moments that action and superhero movie fans will enjoy, but overall thinks it's good that the movie is only streaming on Prime Video and not in theaters.
REVIEW: 'Thirteen Lives' movie dramatically tells real rescue story of Thai soccer team from flooded cave
In THIRTEEN LIVES, a true story-based movie on Amazon Prime about the rescue of a teenage soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand, director Ron Howard manages to pull off the feat of balancing truth with drama without turning it into a documentary. KSL's Andy Farnsworth says it was an emotionally-engaging movie that showcases the triumph of human effort and spirit when we work together to solve a problem.
REVIEW: Dark comedy 'Vengeance' goes deeper than easy stereotypes for laughs in murder mystery movie
The death of a one-time fling draws B.J. Novak's writer/podcaster character Ben to West Texas to investigate and hopefully turn the story into a career-making podcast in Focus Features' VENGEANCE. KSL's Andy Farnsworth says this dark comedy has some great twists and very funny moments, while also going beyond stereotypes to create real characters.
REVIEW: 'Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank' remakes an adult comedy classic into an animated movie for modern-day kids
A kids animated movie based on the irreverent 1970's film BLAZING SADDLES? That's exactly what PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK is, right down to having Mel Brooks voice a character. A friendly dog ventures to the land of cats to become a samurai, and finds himself protecting a village that doesn't even want him there. KSL's Andy Farnsworth says its got a great voice cast but keeping your expectations for the movie in check will help you enjoy it more.
REVIEW: 'The Gray Man' is a violent but fast-paced throwback to action/spy movies of the past, with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling chasing each other around the globe
The new action thriller movie THE GRAY MAN, from AVENGERS ENDGAME directors Joe and Anthony Russo, sees Chris Evans' sadistic mercenary chasing Ryan Gosling's on-the-run CIA agent all around the globe to get back some stolen information. KSL's Andy Farnsworth says it's a love letter to spy and action movies of the past, and is very entertaining at times, though it is also quite violent.


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Only Child is the debut album from critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Sasha Sloan. Only Child showcases Sasha's bravery and willingness to put her vulnerabilities on display, with tracks like "Lie'", and "House With No Mirrors." Sasha continues to deliver music that weaves her powerful words and beautifully crafted melodies.
After emerging in 2017, Sasha Sloan has established herself as a true wordsmith, an artist's artist, who crafts potent melodies filled with poignant lyrics. In 2018 Sasha released her first two EPs, Sad Girl and Loser. Her track "Normal" has been heralded by Billboard as a "catchy introvert anthem." These emotionally-rich, left-of-center releases lead to her late night debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2019 with a performance of "Older." That year, Sasha completed her first North American and European headline tours and released her 3rd and final EP Self Portrait, which had her single "Dancing With Your Ghost" as Idolator's 6th "75 Best Pop Songs Of 2019."
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Ohio Funds Creation of Two Regional Training and Knowledge Labs in Smart Building Technologies
December 25, 2018 Smart Cities Connect Community Engagement, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Operations
The University of Cincinnati (UC), its community colleges, Cincinnati State, and the Great Oaks vocational school district in Ohio have received funding from the state of Ohio to collaborate on the creation of two regional training and knowledge labs in "smart building" technologies. The state funding – totaling $370,925 – will be used to establish labs at UC and Cincinnati State for training, research, and professional certification.
The 1,500 square foot (~ 140 sq. meter) lab at UC will be housed in the university's department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management. A 1,400 square foot (~ 139 sq. meter) building automation systems lab at Cincinnati State will have a capacity for 12 students and will be used for hands-on training for certificate and associate degree students, workers in the facilities management field, students enrolled in Great Oaks' HVAC programs, as well as other high school students in the region who have an interest in energy management and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
"Buildings represent 40 percent of energy consumption in the U.S.," says James Manning, Cincinnati branch manager for Siemens building technologies division. "It's critical that we continue to recruit qualified employees to meet the growing demand for energy efficiency."
The grants are part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education's Regionally Aligned Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS) program which funds the purchase of equipment in the fields of information technology, advanced manufacturing, health care, additive manufacturing, cloud manufacturing, smart business automation, and cybersecurity.
ODHE Chancellor John Carey said the RAPIDS program has helped different regions in Ohio address their most pressing workforce needs while preparing traditional and nontraditional students for successful careers.
"When our schools collaborate to secure funding through the RAPIDS program, it gives students more opportunities to succeed while strengthening regional businesses and Ohio's economy. It's a win-win," chancellor Carey said.
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Coloring books as Gospel teaching tools
by | May 13, 2019 | News
International (MNN) – Over the years, World Missionary Press (WMP) has created different children's coloring books. The coloring books have made a deep impact in kids' lives around the world, and now, WMP is revising their books so they can produce and send more to children.
The coloring books have pictures that kids can color and Bible verses in their native language which speak God's words of truth, hope, and life. So far, WMP offers books in more than ten languages.
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The coloring books have been used as teaching tools.
WMP's Helen Williams says one partner in Liberia takes a coloring page and a passage to teach children the principles behind the verse and picture.
"He just goes from page to page, and as he read[s] it, the Lord brings other things to mind, and he just uses this tremendously."
The books have also been major tools of encouragement for hurting and broken youths.
Williams says when the Chernobyl accident happened in Ukraine, there were many affected children in hospitals.
There was a request for coloring books and WMP sent many in Russian.
"We had stories of children that that was their only possession, and as they went from hospital to hospital, they clung to those coloring books as their only possession," Williams says.
"And the pictures and the words in them were life at that time, and for the children to receive something that was for them for their minds and their hearts as well as their physical needs," was very special and encouraging.
WMP has also sent books in native languages to Africa and South America.
WMP received stories from people in South America. After coloring pictures, families placed the pages on the walls as a reminder of who God is and how much He loves them.
Williams says the verses and pictures were on the walls for both children and parents to see them at all times and it created opportunities to reach families' hearts.
"This is why we are revising them so we can do more because we believe that they are effective," Williams says.
Revising for more impact
WMP's previous coloring books were large and expensive to print.
"We had to produce them out of house because they didn't sit on our press setup was not for that size in that particular book," Williams says.
"So, the decision was made to revise them down to a smaller piece… and to redo them and make them more available so that we could print them here. So, instead of paying 22 cents a copy, we can print them for less than 10 cents a copy. We can print more. We can print them here, and get more out."
(Photo courtesy of World Missionary Press)
By changing the size of their coloring books, they're able to print more and send more to impact even more children worldwide.
Williams says she knows many people liked the larger books, but having these smaller coloring books will, in the long run, be more effective.
The books offer new pictures and Bible verses in native languages, and WMP hopes to have them released in May.
Pray the revised coloring books will continue sharing God's truth, life, and hope with children worldwide. Pray the books will make a deep impact and transform the lives of both children and parents.
Help provide WMP's revised coloring books to kids around the world by donating here.
Header photo courtesy of World Missionary Press via Facebook.


It takes a criminal defense lawyer with considerable experience and a passion for criminal defense to handle your case and bring it to the best possible conclusion. Trust Baltimore's Attorney for all your legal defense needs.
When you face serious criminal charges in Baltimore, it takes a criminal defense lawyer with considerable experience and a passion for criminal defense to handle your case and bring it to the best possible conclusion. Powers & Powers is that attorney. For more than five decades, Baltimore's Attorney has advocated on behalf of those accused of crimes in the Baltimore area. He has represented thousands of defendants and has handled scores of trial cases, from drug crimes, violent crimes and theft crimes, to domestic violence crimes and more.
You have a constitutional right to defend yourself against any claims made by the State that you violated the law. The State then has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you are guilty. You have the right to challenge the State's evidence and witnesses, present your own evidence or witnesses, and can elect to testify or not testify as part of your case. Your election not to testify cannot be considered as an admission of your guilt. Depending on the potential penalty, you can have the case heard by a Judge, in District or Circuit Court, or by a Jury in Circuit Court. There must be a finding of guilt before any penalty can be imposed, and unless there is a mandatory sentence involved, a Judge has discretion in the proper disposition of the charge. There are post-conviction rights which can involve modification of sentence and/or probation, a new trial, or appeal.
DUI charges are not only very serious, they can be extremely stressful, upsetting, and even humiliating. If you have been arrested for drunk driving, you are probably wondering what will happen to your car, your license, your driving privileges, and your record.
It's important to select the right attorney to help schedule your hearing and represent you in court. Does your potential attorney have experience challenging chemical tests, how the test was administered, or even if the initial stop was lawful? As Baltimore's Attorney, Powers & Powers, Attorney At Law understands what it takes to win these cases, and fight for your rights in a courtroom. Don't settle for just anyone! Choose the law firm that will work with you to develop a plan of action that best suits your needs.
With more than 40 years of experience and hundreds of cases tried, our lawyers know what it takes to lessen, or even dismiss the charges against you entirely. We work closely with experts well versed in how these tests are conducted and use this knowledge to put you in the best situation to succeed.
We prepare every case for trial because a case cannot be won if it is not contested. In addition to numerous not guilty verdicts, hung juries and dismissals in DUI cases, we have obtained these outcomes in a wide variety of criminal cases as well as favorable outcomes in DMV hearings, civil cases, writs and appeals.
From a simple traffic violation involving points to serious misdemeanor and felony charges, in both the Maryland District and Circuit Court levels, Powers & Powers has been Baltimore's Attorney for over five decades. This includes but is not limited to; cases involving drug charges, gun cases, domestic violence, rapes or other sexual offenses, assault and battery, theft, DWI/DUI, Violation of Probation or other criminal charges.


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Member of: John McLaughlin, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, Pat Metheny Group, Jaco Pastorius Big Band, Biréli Lagrène & Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Bruce Ditmas & Paul Bley, Weather Report, Trio of Doom, Jaco Pastorious (band), Joni Mitchell (band)
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From the Pastorius family website. A complete rundown of all of Jaco's rig. ... more
From the Pastorius family website. A complete rundown of all of Jaco's rig.
Jaco's Bass Of Doom FINALLY found and reclaimed! Thanks to the help of Robert Trujillo.
Check the link out! http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/05/31/robert-trujillo-helps-pastorius-family-reclaim-jacos-bass-of-doom/
1960 Fender Jazz Bass
"A bass owned by classically trained bassist and concert promoter Rod Glaubma... more
"A bass owned by classically trained bassist and concert promoter Rod Glaubman and played by Jaco Pastorius is being offered up at auction. We're not sure we buy the whole story, but from what we've gathered, Jaco borrowed this bass frequently, and possibly modified it. As the story goes, Glaubman allowed some modifications, but stopped short of letting Jaco de-fret the bass.
The bass is a 1960 Fender Jazz bass, purchased by Glaubman for $300 in 1970."
http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2009/04/24/bass-played-by-jaco-pastorius-at-auction/
In this [photo](http://maxonemillion.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06... more
In this photo, Jaco Pastorius can be seen playing with his Fender Jazz Bass 62' Sunburst. Rick Suchow's 2008 article for Bass Guitar Magazine specifies the year, make, and model of his bass.
Fender Jazz Bass Fretless
Can be seen on almost every photo with his fretless jazz bass. more
Can be seen on almost every photo with his fretless jazz bass.
1967 Fender Jazz
Quoting from an article that originally appeared in the January 2002 issue of... more
Quoting from an article that originally appeared in the January 2002 issue of BassPlayer .
1967 Fender Jazz Fifteen-year-old Jaco got his first electric bass, a new sunburst Fender Jazz with binding and pearl blocks, in 1967. He strung it with La Bella flatwounds and played it through a Sunn amp in Las Olas Brass, and with the organ trio Woodchuck. It was his main electric until 1971.
1974 Larry Breslin Acoustic Bass Guitar
1974 acoustic bass guitar Jaco and luthier Larry Breslin co-designed a fretl... more
1974 acoustic bass guitar Jaco and luthier Larry Breslin co-designed a fretless, 5-string acoustic bass guitar with a high C string; upon completion, Jaco paid Breslin $500. It featured a 34"-scale neck with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with maple veneer fretmarkers, Brazilian rosewood back and sides and a spruce top. Jaco strung it with Rotosound roundwounds. In later years, the headstock broke off and Jaco brought the bass to Kaufman. He still has it.
"Bass of Doom" Jazz Bass
1962 Fender Jazz, a.k.a. the "Bass of Doom," SN 64437 Like the fate of a m... more
1962 Fender Jazz, a.k.a. the "Bass of Doom," SN 64437 Like the fate of a mythic hero's mighty weapon, the original condition and final resting place of the world's most famous fretless are shrouded in mystery. Its legendary tone was well documented through every era of Jaco's career, and he himself told several versions of the tale. According to Bill Milkowski's August '84 Guitar Player cover story, the '62 Jazz was already fretless when Jaco bought it in Florida for $90. Upon meeting Kaufman in 1978, Jaco told him he removed the frets himself with a butter knife and filled in the slots and missing fingerboard chunks with Plastic Wood, followed by several brushed-on coats of Petite's Poly-Poxy. Kaufman's first job for Jaco was to replace the peeling epoxy, which he did by using his own method of pouring on the epoxy in one treatment and shaping it with a rasp. According to Kaufman, Jaco left it in New York's Central Park shortly before his death.
The bass went missing for some 20 yrs, and has since been recovered by the family with the help of Robert Trujillo>>>http://www2.fender.com/experience/artists/metallicas-trujillo-rescues-jaco-pastorius-bass-of-doom/
1960 Fender Jazz Bass sunburst Fretted AKA ¨Shado...
1960 Fender Jazz, SN 57308 Jaco's main fretted Jazz Bass, a two-tone sunburs... more
1960 Fender Jazz, SN 57308 Jaco's main fretted Jazz Bass, a two-tone sunburst, of average weight and "very resonant" according to Kaufman. This was Jaco's main bass on tour with Joni Mitchell; it can be seen and heard on her Shadows and Light album and DVD. Its whereabouts are unknown.
1960 Fender Jazz Bass sunburst Fretted AKA ¨Shadows & Light BAss¨
1962 Fender Jazz ¨Bass of Doom¨ Restored
rebuilding the bass of doom... by Rick Suchow (This is the unedited si... more
rebuilding the bass of doom...
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(This is the unedited sidebar piece I wrote for my Jaco feature published in Bass Guitar Magazine in late 2008. The main piece, "Pastorius Kids Seek Jaco's Bass Of Doom", can be found in my View From The Bottom section)
Jaco Pastorius' basses of choice were a pair of well-worn Fender Jazz models, a 1960 blond fretted and 1962 sunburst fretless. Both were manufactured as fretted basses, as Fender did not begin to market fretless basses until 1970. Jaco reportedly bought each instrument second-hand for under a hundred dollars, and it was the '62, later converted to a fretless, that would become the trademark bass Jaco was noted for.
How the frets actually came to be removed is not as clear however, with Jaco himself giving varying accounts. Although he generally claimed that he removed the frets himself with a butter knife, he gave a different and more detailed version of the bass's evolution to writer Bill Milkowski in 1984 for Guitar Player magazine. "When I got the bass," explained Jaco, "the cat who had it had taken the frets out himself, and he did a really bad job of it-- left all kinds of nicks and chunks taken out of the fretboard. So I really had to fix it up. I filled in the chunks with Plastic Wood." He told Milkowski that he used Petite's Poly-Poxy, a boat epoxy, on the fretboard. "You can find it in any boating supply store in Florida," remarked Jaco. "I used about six coats on my fretless, and it took about a day for each coat to dry."
It was Kevin Kaufman however, Jaco's bass technician from the late seventies on, who perfected the epoxy technique used on Jaco's fretboard. "I explained to him that how I surfaced the board was a bit different than what he had done," says Kaufman."He used a very thin epoxy paint and had applied many coats. I used a more viscous epoxy and cast the fingerboard with a single application. I told Jaco that in my opinion it would transfer sound better and wouldn't wear out in the same way, and that there are many different epoxies and all of them sound completely different." Jaco was happy with Kaufman's work and would continue to use his services for the rest of his life.
Kaufman did his most significant repair in early 1986 after Jaco rang him from New York to say that he was having trouble getting his bass to play well and laughed. "A few days later I got the instrument in a box slightly larger than a shoebox," explains Kevin, who worked in Florida. "It was in 10 or more fundamental pieces and many splinters beyond that. It was obvious why Jaco had chuckled." The instrument had reportedly been thrown down a concrete stairwell by Jaco in the heat of an argument. Although he told Kaufman that he didn't have high expectations, Jaco asked the accomplished luthier to do his best. "I can't find another axe that even comes close," said Jaco.
Working with luthier Jim Hamilton, Kaufman spent over 150 painstaking hours repairing the bass. "Because there were so many fragments missing we decided that we would have to carefully glue everything together and then inlay any pieces that were missing. I took each part of the instrument and attached it to homemade jigs to hold these parts to a milling machine, which is typically a metal working machine." After weeks of cutting wood and removing fragments, Kaufman and Hamilton finally had the bass assembled. "The hope was that in the end all the parts would transfer sound and resonate as before. We also wanted to be absolutely certain there was structural integrity, realizing that the instrument was of no real use if it was fragile once it was done." An eight inch overlay was laminated to the top and back of the body, but because of the overlay's thickness Kaufman had to use a sander to maintain the body's size. The same process was used for the headstock, and was reinforced with pearwood. In addition, the neck pocket, pickup cavities, control cluster and machine holes all needed to be re-cut.
Kaufman personally delivered the completely rebuilt Bass Of Doom to Jaco in New York, who was ecstatic to see his friend Kevin and his miraculous work. "Jaco immediately restrung it with a new set of Rotosounds. After playing it for a few minutes he gave me his 'who loves ya'. The bass was back as far as Jaco was concerned and he was now eager to get going to pay some bills and make a session later that night," says Kaufman. That session turned out to be with Mike Stern to record "Moodswings" for Stern's new album "Upside Downside".
It was about a year later when Kaufman heard that the Bass Of Doom had disappeared. "Gregory Pastorius (Jaco's brother) called me and said that Jaco's bass had been stolen, and asked if I had any pictures of the bass after it was rebuilt," explains Kaufman. "I didn't actually talk to Jaco about the instrument until he moved back to Florida in December of 1986. Jaco told me that the bass had been stolen when he left it temporarily unattended on a park bench. I think his exact words were, "I only walked away for a few seconds!"
Looking back, Kaufman is happy to be a part of the legendary history of the Bass Of Doom. "The instrument was great, special to some extent," he says. "It was a bunch of variables that when combined had kind of an exponential effect. That instrument, in Jaco's hands-- his facility and touch, his sense of melody... the whole amalgam was unique." Perhaps Jaco's friend Bob Bobbing says it best: "There is no denying that this fretless instrument is the one that changed music. In Jaco's hands, the Bass Of Doom's fretless voice made it's way onto some of the most beautiful music ever played and in the process brought into style the use of the fretless bass as a melodic voice, arguably Jaco's biggest influence on the instrument to this day." BGM Issue 40
"Hiroshima Bass"
Early '60s Fender Jazz, SN 82429 During his 1982 Word of Mouth tour of Japan... more
Early '60s Fender Jazz, SN 82429 During his 1982 Word of Mouth tour of Japan, Jaco threw this bass into Hiroshima Bay; Ibanez Guitars then refinished it natural. Shigeru Uchiyama's photographs of Jaco and this bass appear in promotional material for the live Twins and Invitation albums, on the back cover of Invitation , and on BP 's Jan/Feb '91 cover. According to Kaufman, Jaco didn't like this bass as much as the others. Its whereabouts are unknown.
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1963 Fender Jazz, SN L14769 The opening shot of Jaco's DCI instructional video, Modern Electric Bass , shows Jaco slotting the nut on this bass. The original neck was being repaired at the time, so Jaco installed a '70s Fender Precision neck on the Jazz body. This bass wound up at Albert Molinaro's Guitars R Us shop in Los Angeles and was sold to a collector with the original and the P-Bass necks.
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1960 Fender Jazz Longtime Buddy Guy bassist Greg Rzab bought one of Jaco's final Jazz Basses from the Pastorius family ** in 1994. Rzab played the bass, apparently used by Jaco during a six-month stretch of intense practicing in 1986, on Guy's 1994 album Slippin' In . "I used it on 'Lover with a Feeling,' and it was really alive in the studio-the notes and harmonics jumped out of that bass." Greg eventually sold it to a good friend-a famous bassist who chooses to remain anonymous. "It's in good hands and being kept safe."
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Pastorius played a Framus-S-380 bass when he visited bassist and producer Jan Jankeye in Stuttgart in the spring of 1986. He used that bass to record the CD entitled "Broadway Blues". When he came to Germany that time - he stayed at Jankeye´s place for 6 months -, he apparently brought no instrument with him, so he had to play with what was available. The recording engineer had a Framus bass that was modified as a fretless lying around in the studio - and Jaco was impressed. Jan Jankeje remembers: "I was the producer of those recording sessions. Jaco wrote the tune "Teresa" on an Ibanez® Jazz Bass copy, but in the studio he used the Framus bass for everything." Jan Jankeje found that bass again on eBay about two years ago, being sold by his former recording engineer. The bass then changed owners for a moderate price because the Pastorius story was arguably only mentioned in fine print. Even that is possible. The new Framus museum make it possible to admire this bass up-close!
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Clive James: 'I've done a mental survey of TV arts presenters and can't find any I hate'
It was a miracle on the scale of Lucy Worsley not dressing up as Queen Elizabeth I
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Andrew Graham-Dixon, presenter of The Art Of France. Photograph: BBC/Jake Robinson
Were I a would-be TV presenter in search of a role model, Andrew Graham-Dixon would fit the frame. As well as wielding copious explanatory powers about art, he comes over as quite butch, with such non-effete features as a vigorously sane hairstyle and powers of elocution not even half as crazy as some other arty presenters we could name. In the opening chapter of his BBC mega-series, The Art Of France, he was not afraid of the bold statement: "Like every great country, France has always been a mongrel nation."
This was especially bold because it suggested that Japan, for example, had never existed. Even today, it is almost impossible for a foreign artist, or indeed a foreign anything, to take up residence in Japan, whose intellectuals will tell you unblushingly that the true secret of their cultural coherence is that the nation is "homogeneous", meaning they don't let the buggers in.
But Graham-Dixon was on about France, not Japan, so the sweeping statement fitted. He lounged unobtrusively around Sainte-Chapelle as if it were possible, even mandatory, to stay sane in the brilliant light of so much beauty. When you consider that the BBC has had several wildly gesturing presenters who could not have lounged around Sainte-Chapelle without taking off through the roof, this was a miracle on the scale of Lucy Worsley wearing an ordinary skirt instead of dressing up as the first Queen Elizabeth. I love Lucy, but stylewise there can be no doubt she is a fever for which Andrew is the cure. Nevertheless, she makes me watch.
Clive James: 'Gérard Depardieu is not light on his feet. But I've always wanted to be him'
As does Waldemar Januszczak, for all his extravagant physical gymnastics when combining the twin tasks of walking and speaking. The master of the tricky Triple Forward Handspring While Explaining Michelangelo might put you off himself, but he won't put you off Michelangelo. (Imagine our Queen's nervousness as the day approaches when she or someone near her must say "Arise, Sir Waldemar Thing.") In fact, I've just done a mental survey of the arts presenters and can't find any I hate, except the occasional poltroon who thinks his theories have deep political significance.
Art might have that, but theories about art can't. I have a theory about why not, but I'm running out of time. In Japan, at the start of the year, the bells of the Buddhist temples are rung 108 times as a reminder of the 108 sins. The poet Jokun wrote: "I intended/Never to grow old,/But the temple bell sounds." Great poem, and I'd love to learn it by heart, just as soon as I figure out why the bell-ringers think there are so few sins.


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Donald Trump signs executive orders to revive US economy
Washington | Published: April 22, 2017 2:59:49 PM
Key among the three executive orders was a six-month review of certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank law, a measure passed by predecessor Barack Obama in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis which Wall Street believed had made their job difficult
President Donald Trump. (Reuters)
President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders, including on tax simplification, aimed at reviving the economy and bring jobs back to the US, fast tracking the implementation of his election promises before the first 100 days in office. Key among the three executive orders was a six-month review of certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank law, a measure passed by predecessor Barack Obama in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis which Wall Street believed had made their job difficult.
Trump walked down street across the White House to the Treasury Department to sign the executive orders which he said is part of his effort to revive the American economy and bring jobs back to the US.
"We're now in the process of rebuilding America, and there's a new optimism sweeping across our country like people have not seen in many, many decades. We're here today to continue this great economic revival," he said as he signed three presidential directives to further protect American workers and taxpayers.
The first executive action instructs the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to begin the process of tax simplification.
"Such a big thing. People can't do their returns. They have no idea what they're doing. They're too complicated," he said.
"This regulatory reduction is the first step toward a tax reform that reduces rates, provides relief to our middle class, and lowers our business tax, which is one of the highest in the world and has stopped us from so much wealth and productivity," he added.
In the other two executive orders, Trump instructed Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to review the damaging Dodd-Frank regulations that failed to hold Wall Street firms accountable. "I mean, they've done really, in many cases, the opposite of what they were supposed to. These regulations enshrine 'too big to fail' and encourage risky behaviour," he said.
"We're taking steps to make our economy more fair and prosperous for all. As part of our broader financial strategy, we're working to open up lending to small businesses and entrepreneurs, including our incredible women entrepreneurs who are doing better and better and better. We want opportunity for everyone and in every single part of our country," Trump said.
Earlier, Mnuchin said under the previous administration, the tax code became extremely expensive and burdensome. "Individuals and business spend over 6.1 billion hours; the cost is over USD 230 billion. I think everybody would agree that the tax system is way too complicated and burdensome," he said.


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INVESTIGATION CLEARS HRS
DONNA O'NEAL The Orlando SentinelSUN-SENTINEL
An 11-month investigation by Gov. Lawton Chiles' office has dismissed allegations that his social services agency improperly diverted federal money earmarked for AIDS programs.
Investigators found that the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services is complying with federal rules, although they were disturbed that the agency misrepresented how it spent money originally intended to hire 42 AIDS counselors.
Flexible federal guidelines allowed HRS to spend the money on other social services programs and to cover shortfalls in existing AIDS programs. But the agency nonetheless listed the counseling positions in its operating budgets in 1990 and 1991, although the workers were never hired.
"Although no money was illegally diverted, the listing of the [42) AIDS workers in HRS operating budgets two successive years was misleading," Janet Ferris, the governor's chief inspector general, wrote in a letter to Chiles.
"It isn't a whitewash," Ferris said. "There really was a tremendous effort to explain and accommodate the whistleblowers. It's just very clear they're not satisfied."
The whistleblowers accused HRS officials Pamela Petersen and Teresa Goens of misspending millions of dollars worth of federal grants designated for hiring and training AIDS counselors and providing AIDS treatment programs.


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Intel Reportedly Entering Crypto Mining Market with New 'Bonanza Mine' Chip – BeInCrypto
Microchip giant Intel could be about to enter the crypto and Bitcoin mining hardware market in a big way as it readies a presentation on a new revolutionary mining chip.
The multinational technology giant is set to unveil its "Bonanza Mine" processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) commencing on Feb. 20.
Intel's presentation has been scheduled in the "Highlighted Chip Releases" category where it will detail the new chip which has been described as an "ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient Bitcoin mining ASIC."
ASIC refers to application-specific integrated circuits, which is particularly suited to the number-crunching involved in crypto mining.
Intel jumping into crypto mining fray
Intel's foray into crypto mining means that it could soon be competing with the likes of Bitmain. Speaking to tech news outlet Tom's Hardware, an Intel spokesperson said:
"Intel has done design work around SHA-256 optimized ASICs for several years beginning with pathfinding work done in Intel Labs. We will share more details in the future."
In a late December live stream, graphics processor head Raja Koduri stated that the company was working on specialized crypto-mining hardware and technologies. Koduri confirmed that the new chip would be completely separate from graphics processors (GPUs) which "will do graphics, gaming, and all those wonderful things."
The company is already a long way along its development path for new mining-specific processors. In 2018, Intel patented a specialized processing system that uses an optimized SHA-256 cryptographic data path for high-performance Bitcoin mining, Tom's reported.
Gamers are already suffering at the hands of crypto miners as a global shortage of graphics cards, which has also been partially induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has pushed prices sky-high. A second-hand market for GPUs has emerged in many countries where the prices of three-year-old graphics cards are now more than what they were new.
Intel, which revealed a $780,000 stake in Coinbase stock last year, will release its first line of discrete gaming graphics cards, dubbed Intel Arc Alchemist, at some stage this year as it goes up against rivals Nvidia and AMD in a market that badly needs more players.
Bitcoin mining ecosystem outlook
China's loss in banning Bitcoin mining operations has been America's gain. The exodus is over and hash rates have fully recovered to hit a new average all-time high of 207.2 EH/s (exahashes per second) on Jan 15.
According to Cambridge University's global mining map (which hasn't been updated since August) the United Stated dominates in hash power with 35.4% of the total. A large portion of this will be using renewable energy and China, meanwhile, has fallen off the map.
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Younus Qanooni (, born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, Qanooni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween (New Afghanistan) political party and former Speaker of the House of the People (the lower house of parliament or Wolesi Jirga).

Biography

Following the Soviet Intervention of Afghanistan in 1979, Qanooni joined with the mujahideen force led by Ahmad Shah Massoud based in his native Panjshir Valley. A protégé of Massoud, he was involved in the creation of the Afghan Northern Alliance and served as Interior Minister in Burhanuddin Rabbani's government. After the assassination of Massoud in 2001, a trio consisting of Qanooni, Defence Minister Mohammed Fahim and Foreign Minister Dr Abdullah took de facto control of the Northern Alliance and its financial resources.

Political career

The United States backed the Northern Alliance with air support in Afghanistan in 2001. In 2001, Qanuni served as chief negotiator for the Afghan Northern Alliance delegation to the Bonn conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany.

Immediately after the fall of the Taliban government, Qanuni was interior minister in an interim administration. He was eventually made the education minister in the Afghan Transitional Administration (established in June 2002), and served as a security advisor to interim President Hamid Karzai. Along with Fahim and Abdullah, Qanuni was seen as one of the dominant figures of the Transitional Administration

Elections for a permanent government were scheduled for 2004. When Qanuni's ally Mohammed Fahim was passed over as vice-presidential running mate of Karzai, Qanuni entered the race for the presidency himself. On October 5, 2004, Qanuni's campaign supporter, Abdul Aziz, was assassinated while in Shindand, Afghanistan.

In the election, held October 9, 2004, he placed second to Karzai. On December 23, 2004, the newly inaugurated Karzai announced his administration, and both Qanuni and Fahim were dropped from their Ministerial posts.

Qanuni was elected in the 2005 Afghan Parliamentary elections, placing second in the Kabul province. Since the Presidential election he has generally been seen as the spokesman of the formerly powerful Tajik ethnic group, which dominated the Northern Alliance and the Transitional Afghan Administration, but was largely sidelined after the 2004 Presidential Election. As well as his own party, Qanuni has formed an alliance of several parties called the Jabahai Tafahim Millie or National

On December 21, Qanuni was chosen to lead the 249-seat lower house of parliament with 122 votes against 117 for his closest challenger, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

In August 2021, he was part of an Afghan delegation to Pakistan, after the Taliban took control of the country again.

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External sources

Biography: Mohammad Yunis Qanuni
Profile: Yunus Qanuni; BBC; 9/10/2004

See Also
Hasib qoway markaz
Din mohammad jurat
Ahmad massoud

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Vice presidents of Afghanistan
1957 births
Afghan Tajik people
Living people
New Afghanistan Party politicians
People from Panjshir Province
Speakers of the House of the People (Afghanistan)


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"I'm not wearing a veil"
LORELAI: I'm not wearing a veil at the wedding.
SOOKIE: You're not? I love veils!
LORELAI: Nah, we're going cas, Sook.
Lorelai seems to have taken her mother's advice not to wear a veil at the wedding, although as she says it's going to be more casual, it suggests that she hasn't gone with the tiara either.
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"You'll get used to it"
RORY: Aren't you happy?
LORELAI: Yes. I'm happy.
RORY: Well, then it'll be fine. You'll get used to it, having Max there.
LORELAI: I know. You're right. I will. I will get used to it.
Lorelai has a freak out once Max is actually in her bed, in her house, and fears that she will completely lose the life she currently has. More importantly, she fears losing the "me and you secret special clubhouse no boys allowed" relationship she has with Rory.
Rory refuses to participate in Lorelai's worries about how their life might change, and insists that she likes Max, and Lorelai will be fine about it too once she calms down. It is not clear whether she really has no concerns about adding Max to their household, or she refuses to be used as an excuse by Lorelai to end her relationship with Max.
Lorelai cannot return to bed with Max, and ends up sleeping in Rory's bed for at least part of the night. This is a callback to how Lorelai and Rory shared a bed for a year or two when Rory was a baby/toddler, showing Lorelai's need for bodily comfort from Rory, and a return to the complete physical closeness they had at the beginning of their relationship in Stars Hollow.
"Billy Jack" Movie
This is the movie that Lorelai and Rory watch with Max. It is one of their favourites: they have it on home video, and have watched it more than ten times; Rory says you cannot watch a Billy Jack movie too many times.
The movie they are watching is The Born Losers, the first of the "Billy Jack" films. It is a 1967 action film which was directed and produced by Tom Laughlin, who also stars in the title role. The film introduces the character of Billy Jack, a mysterious Green Beret Vietnam veteran who is of partial Navajo Indian descent.
The plot involves Billy Jack coming down from his peaceful abode in the Californian mountains to a small town, where he gets into several violent confrontations with the Born Losers motorcycle gang, and must protect others. It is loosely based on a real incident in 1964, when members of the Hells Angels were arrested for raping five teenage girls in Monterey, California.
(Incidentally, this was also the impetus for Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thomson, his first book, published in 1966. Could this have been the book that the motorcycle-loving Dean lent to Rory?)
Made on a shoestring budget, the film was a commercial success, and led to several Billy Jack sequels being made. It received generally negative reviews, mostly because of the violence, of which the show gives us a little taste.
The way that Lorelai and Rory watch The Born Losers with Max is a callback to them watching The Donna Reed Show with Dean.
In both cases, the male guest had to provide the food (Max cooked, Dean brought pizza), doesn't get any choice in what show or movie is watched, and isn't allowed to comment or voice an opinion on it. He can't even hear it properly because the Gilmore girls talk all the way through it, which drowns out what they are watching. Any attempt by the male guest to assert his opinions, or even ask what is happening onscreen, is roundly attacked by Lorelai and Rory.
Just as watching The Donna Reed Show led to Rory and Dean having a major argument, watching The Born Losers prefaces a fight between Lorelai and Max.
It demonstrates to us how Lorelai and Rory watch their favourite movies and TV shows – they have a love-hate relationship with the medium, are celebratory and critical at the same time, and both focused on what they are watching, and easily distracted from it. Their viewing style is deeply ironic, taking a pleasure in bad taste which is considered "camp". They are also highly participatory, giving a running commentatory on the show while adding their own dialogue to it.
You can tell that Lorelai and Rory are used to watching things together, and their viewing habits seem to have been formed as a way to exclude others. They both seem to take a malicious pleasure in forcing Dean and Max into the role of clueless outsider.
Quotes for the Wedding Invitations
Rory selects three quotes for Lorelai to choose from, one of which will be printed on the wedding invitations.
The first one is: "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star." – Sinclair Lewis
This is a quote from Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel Elmer Gantry, a scathing satire on fundamentalist religion. The title character is a religious hypocrite and a fraud. Lorelai obviously knows very little about Sinclair Lewis, who she describes as "sappy". In fact the Nobel Prize Winner was known for his biting wit and critical eye on American culture and materialism. The quote itself is from the title character, who is being entirely insincere. Rory may have read Elmer Gantry partly on Richard's recommendation – Sinclair Lewis was a favourite author of H.L. Mencken, and he attended Yale, Richard's own alma mater.
The second one is: "And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! Hark! A deep sound strikes like a rising knell!" – Lord Byron
This is from Lord Byron's 1818 long narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Semi-autobiographical, it describes a world-weary young man, looking for distraction by travelling through foreign lands. It made its author immediately famous. This section of the poem is about a grand party in Brussels, which is brought to a disastrous and sinister end by the Battle of Waterloo.
Lorelai's comment is, "Byron and Lewis, together again". She may be referring to Matthew Gregory ("M.G.") Lewis, the author of the 1796 Gothic romance The Monk. He and Lord Byron were friends, and travelled together. Rory may have read Byron's poem because it is mentioned in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. It seems like Rory to want to follow up on a literary work that is referenced in another.
The last quote is: "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty." – Benito Mussolini
The whole quote is, "The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep." It comes from Writings and Discourses of Mussolini, a twelve-volume work published between 1934 and 1940.
The choice of Mussolini seems to be a callback to Lorelai calling Headmaster Charleston "Il Duce", the title of Fascist dictator Mussolini. She said this to Max during an argument they were having about Rory's education in The Deer Hunters. Amazingly, this is the quote which Lorelai chooses, an apparent acknowledgement that her freedom is now at an end.
As you can see, all the quotes are completely inappropriate for wedding invitations. The first one is an insincere summing-up of love by a hypocrite and fraud, the second one is about a celebration which ends in disaster, and the third one equates marriage with the death of Lorelai's liberty, said by a fascist dictator, and referencing a fight between Lorelai and Max.
What message is Rory trying to send with her choice of these quotes? They suggest a deep cynicism in her about marriage in general, and Lorelai and Max's wedding in particular.
A.O.	S2Ep3: Red Light on the Wedding Night	1 Comment August 3, 2018 June 5, 2018
Weston Bakery
The episode opens with Rory and Lorelai sampling cakes in Weston Bakery, owned by the elderly Fran Weston (Linda Porter). Although this is the first time we've seen inside it, the bakery featured in the Pilot episode; it was the bakery that Rory recommended to Dean when they first met as making "really good cakes" that were "very round".
Fran tells Rory and Lorelai that her family have been selling baked goods for 112 years, so since 1889.
"Your head is much too big for a veil"
EMILY: Your head is much too big for a veil. You might consider a tiara.
LORELAI: Um, a tiara?
EMILY: That's what I wore.
A callback to Emily believing that Lorelai had a head that was too big for her body when she was a child, with Lorelai's first sentence supposedly being, "Big head want dolly". Apparently Lorelai's head is still "much too big" to wear a wedding veil.
Emily suggests a tiara instead, and says that's what she wore as a bride, perhaps indicating that she also thinks of her own head as "too big", and may be projecting that onto Lorelai. While neither Emily nor Lorelai have enormous heads, they both would look good in a tiara, so Emily's taste may simply be correct.
Emily does not overtly indicate that she understood or forgave Lorelai after her apology, but answering her original question is a tacit admission that their fight is over. Emily is even worse at talking about her emotions than Lorelai is, but both women are trying to connect in their own ways. Lorelai smiles at her mother's response, as if this tiny effort was the best she was hoping for.
"No more sugar for you"
JACKSON: I understand. I'm hip, okay? We've hit that point in our relationship where the little hints are starting. Which means that'll be followed by the "where are we going" talk, and that'll only end in a big ultimatum. Suddenly all hell breaks loose.
SOOKIE: Okay, no more sugar for you.
In the Pilot episode, Sookie said that wearing her new Chilton uniform made Rory "look smart", to which Rory replied, "Okay, no more wine for you".
Sookie must have decided this cheeky comeback was worth remembering, because she uses it against Jackson when he starts freaking out, convinced that Sookie wants them to get married. She calms him down by saying, "Okay, no more sugar for you".


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I printed out the image on my Epson wide-format printer, reducing it in size to 3.5 x 3. 5 inches, then I colored it with Copics.
Since this was a nighttime scene, I had to put a little light under the door!
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