Please check out the article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal by Leslie Joy Ickowitz! The article talks about how the art murals bring business to our area. Here is Scout asleep in front of one of my art murals! Take a look at all the photos and captions in the article! Very nice press for the local artists! Thank you to Leslie Joy Ickowitz!
Leslie owns and operates Vertical Magazine... click here and look through the magazine to find my illustrations from the Fall 2012 edition!


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Are you excited for the Southwest Chinese New Year Parade of San Francisco and don't want to wait all day for the fun to begin? Get your Chinese New festivities started early with the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum as they host a special pre-parade, all-day event to welcome the Year of the Ram. Beginning at 12:00 PM with a special dragon dance performance, enjoy a day full of family activities including live music, gallery tours, new exhibits and much more.
The CHSA Museum also brings to you the talented artist Frank Wong to speak about his collection, "Living In Chinatown: Memories in Miniature," that is on permanent display at the museum. Hear Frank Wong speak about his inspiration for his miniature creations and immerse yourself in the Chinatown culture through his memories depicted in his miniature scene's from San Francisco's bustling Chinatown.
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Barbara Brandt (born 1936) is an American spinto soprano, known especially for her association with contemporary opera.

Brand won both the local and regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 1966. Active at Minnesota Opera since 1967, she appeared in a number of world premieres with the company during her career. These include:

Lady With a Cake Box in Postcard from Morocco by Dominick Argento (1971)
Witch/Anne Sexton in Transformations by Conrad Susa (1973)
Pauline l'Allemand in Black River, a Wisconsin Idyll by Conrad Susa (1975)
Mrs. Poe in The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe by Dominick Argento (1976)
title role in Claudia Legare by Robert Ward (1978)

She also created the role of the Bird Woman in The Wanderer by Paul and Martha Boesing for Houston Grand Opera in 1970. Brandt sang with the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Kansas City Philharmonic during her career, and performed a wide variety of roles on stage; among these were Pamina in The Magic Flute, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and Elle in La voix humaine.

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1942 births
Living people
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20th-century American women opera singers
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This week saw the arrival of the snow! And we certainly had quite a fall! This was just taken last night when I went out to clear some of it from the driveway. It is great to be able to admire it from the comfort of inside – nothing better than sitting in front of the log burning stove with a nice hot drink and a book!
I don't think we are due to get any further snowfalls in Pitmedden – the sun is now shining so hopefully that will continue! No matter the weather, our resident robin is still busy in the Bothy garden and always likes to come out to see what I am doing!
If you have snow then stay safe and hopefully the sun will be shining where you are.
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During the past couple of months, the player has seen limited game time under the new boss and the situation has gotten so bad that the German has not even made it to the matchday squads during the past couple of matches. I am thinking about how he can help us.
"Today the normality is working with him", Emery said. "We had two or three meetings together and we are working normally".


A global confidential technology client wanted to consolidate and refresh its existing high tech environment in Culver City, California. By reconfiguring the open-plan office and using new workstation standards to match those at the company's headquarters, private offices were decreased by five percent to achieve a space reduction of 1 ½ floors and still realize a user-focused experience that supports change management. Adhering to corporate guidelines for design and construction with creativity and enhancing the standard palette added to the challenge.
With the increased density, maintaining a level of comfort was imperative. A residential feel combined with an industrial look was the solution, with finishes based on recent work completed at the headquarters. Work areas, divided into neighborhoods and color coded, are transitioned by changes in the open ceiling treatment that visually breaks up large open office areas. The plentiful use of wood adds warmth and contributes to the residential vibe.
The design includes an increase in conference, huddle, and phone rooms to make up for the reduction in private offices. Strategically placed environmental graphics that reference the Culver City local are used throughout and particularly in the welcoming pantry. Well received by staff, the game room is a new feature as is a secret room, accessed through a fake janitor closet and slated for team building activities.
The lobby design includes a wood trellis and paneling that is carried into the breakroom for consistency. A unique feature, a raised floor of concrete panels throughout the building, presented an additional layer of complexity, and introducing new laminate wood flooring required a layer of magnetic backing for ease of implementation. This successful project is one of many completed for a long-time IA client.


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The world is more connected than ever, and all this has been made possible by the advent of the internet, and its proliferation on a massive scale. Businesses were quite rapid to guess the advantages that the internet held for their operations, and they were able to capitalize on them soon enough.
By the turn of the millennium, internet-based commerce had taken off, and businesses were faced with a weird conundrum regarding the market they were catering to, their target audience, their services, etc. The problem lay in the fact that they needed reliable data sources that would supply them with the answers to these questions, and this is where cookies came into the picture. These cookies would call for cookie consent management, but that is something that we will see later on.
Cookies were created to address this issue, and more. To put it simply, these are text files that hold small sets of data that are used to attach them to your specific computer, thereby creating a specific identity for your system in the overall network. HTTP cookies can be used to track these data sets, thereby improving the overall user experience.
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For developers, businesses, and individuals alike, the cookies serve a specific set of uses, some of which are as follows.
Session management is a critical role that cookies play. They help the computer remember the user's preferences and login details from a previous session once they have logged out and are logging in for the second time. This helps us save time as we don't have to reset our preferences while enjoying an improved user experience.
For businesses, personalization plays an important role, and cookies help do just that. Since they collect specific data sets regarding a particular user in the entire network, they can be used to improve the personal computing experience of that person like never before.
Shopping websites use cookies to track previous orders, search preferences, patterns, and more such data to gauge the customer, thereby helping to tailor the shopping experience to suit their needs and necessities, which in turn helps boost sales and revenues.
Even a decade ago, no one cared much about the negatives of such tracking. Still, as they were brought to light one step at a time, people started to become skeptical regarding the same. Several legislations worldwide started to roll out newer and more stringent laws that can help protect an individual's data privacy like never before.
Nowadays, several software systems help businesses tune their cookies to suit these specific legislations while also ensuring that they protect their client's data privacy.
One of the most essential tools that are available to businesses to do just this is cookie consent management software. But what does this actually refer to? Well, these are tools that can be used to manage a website's consent regarding the collection and storage of user data through cookies. This is a critical tool necessary to ensure transparency while helping businesses and websites adhere to the legislations being gradually rolled out by countries all around the world, like the GDPR, CCPA, etc.
This helps individuals learn about the data that are being collected by the website and the manner in which they would be used. This makes the overall process quite transparent and boosts user confidence in the website or the business as well. On the other hand, by automating the overall cookie and data collection process, businesses can help save on critical resources like time and costs.
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Cookie consent banner
How many times have you visited a website, and encountered a pop-up message that asks for your permission to collect cookies from your device? Well, almost always. A cookie consent banner is a notice that is placed on websites for people who would be visiting it, and their main purpose is to inform the users about the exact data that the cookies would be collecting from their devices, how they would be used, and the rights which that particular user possesses about the data that is being collected about them. Moreover, this is the banner that is used to collect consent from the users to collect their cookies. A cookie consent manager must be easy to read and comprehend while being easily spottable as well.
According to the regulations that are in place, these forms can vary slightly from one another, but their overall design and purpose remain quite constant.
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The internet has posed a unique set of challenges for individuals and businesses alike, and regulations like the GDPR and CCPA are there to protect the interests of both parties while enforcing data privacy.
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This weekend I was checking the comic news to see if any of the publishers were taking part in Black Friday or Cyber Monday, big discount shopping days surrounding Thanksgiving in the United States.
I came across Digital Dark Horse cyber Monday deal: 50% off all books from their digital store for the first 500 customers. Getting in the small print it had to be a minimum $20 before discount and you had to apply a coupon code on checkout, meaning it wouldn't work from their IOS apps.
I'm an iPhone and iPad user and enjoy the apps. Future Shop in Canada frequently offers Apple Store gift cards at 20% off so I load up my account at a discount and buy away. To this point I've been reading digital copies of comics I already own but wanted to start getting new-to-me material. Yes I have CBR/CBZ copies of most of my comics so I can enjoy them when I travel without lugging heavy trades along, but that's a topic for another day.
Perusing Dark Horse's digital store through a web browser I came across the perfect material for my entry into digital reading: the works of Koike and Kojima. Dark Horse had printed Lone Wolf & Cub, Samurai Executioner and Path Of The Assassin in these tiny volumes that literally fit in the palm of my hand. The digital volumes were each over three hundred pages and I was getting them for $3 each. The best part was that they were a wonderful large size on my iPad screen.
Picking manga that's read right to left probably wasn't a good choice for first experiences but for some reason that's only Path Of The Assassin: the other two read left to right. Hmm.
After reading through several hundred pages I can report that comic reading on an iPad is a wonderful experience: bright, clean pages well displayed. No worries of how the material will show based on paper, ink and printing.
I can really see myself moving to digital comic reading for most regular sized material, instead of buying standard comic sized trades and hardcovers. Digital gives the material in a convenient and easily digestible format.
What it won't replace is the oversized special material that I love so much: Absolute editions, full sized comic strip reprints, Artist Editions. Just this month I'm engrossed in Prince Valiant Volume 4, Parker Martini Edition and The Definitive Flash Gordon And Jungle Jim Volume 1.


It might seem that there is no connection between data analysis and animal science, but the work Kate Farquharson produces shows how the intersection of these fields is vital for conservation efforts.
Kate was first introduced to the deceivingly adorable Tasmanian Devil while still in high school. She was taught about the Devil facial tumour disease and the possible link to genetic variation. From there she was hooked.
She started her education at the University of Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Veterinary and Animal Bioscience degree. She is currently working towards a PhD in Animal Science at the University of Sydney where she works as a data analyst and studies the data collected on captive bred animals and tries to identify patterns that can help conservationists.
In high school, Kate would volunteer at local zoos but never saw herself in the scientific field.
She grew up with a fascination with animals and through that passion she found her way to her current role as an animal science student and data analyst.
There is a plethora of information that is collected by zookeepers and conservationists but, more often than not, it just isn't used to its full potential.
However, when she was in high school, she didn't have the same feeling towards maths as she does now.
To her surprise, she wound up loving it, which is what led her to data analysis.
Kate was able to carve her path to a PhD in animal science through statistics. Through her skills in statistics she found data analysis and subsequently, her place within animal science and conservation.
She says that although she doesn't deal with animals directly on a day to day basis, in the past she has volunteered at local zoos and even at a koala hospital.
These experiences were vital to her role now as they gave her a better understanding of the bigger picture issues facing the animals she is currently studying.
Kate wants others to understand that her role is more than just sitting behind a screen staring at numbers; the analysis that she provides goes towards building a better future for both animals and humans.
I think the article was very interesting. The connection between data anaylis and animal science is one that is not nearly as recognized as it should be.


A former and current Baltimore police officer received suspended jail sentences yesterday in a case in which a Morgan State University office manager and two young women were assaulted outside a Federal Hill pizza shop in 2005, according to city prosecutors.
The victim, Akhenaton R. Bonaparte IV, has said the two officers, who are white, harassed him and called him a racist as he and his two young female friends talked about African-American history in Maria D's shop on Light Street.
Jack H. Odom, who resigned from the force after the incident, was sentenced to a 10-day suspended jail sentence and a year of probation. He entered an Alford plea, in which he does not admit guilt but concedes the state has enough evidence to convict. A guilty verdict of three counts of second-degree assault were entered.
Officer Michael D. Brassell, who remains suspended, also entered an Alford plea to one count of second-degree assault and was sentenced to a 60-day suspended sentence. Judge Robert Kershaw also ordered that the officer serve a year's probation and attend a course in anger management.
Bonaparte had asked the judge to send Brassell and Odom to jail.
"When a black male cries that 'I'm a victim' and I do everything that I'm supposed to do, it's not taken seriously," Bonaparte said in an interview yesterday. "It's taken lightly. In this case, I'm not at fault. The state had an open-and-shut case.
"This is why I'm disgusted," Bonaparte said. "The system has failed the people in the community. The Police Department is suffering from a lack of oversight and a lack of character. Today was a victory, no doubt, and it shows that an average lay citizen can bring charges and follow through it with limited resources and still bring a guilty verdict."
Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman, declined to comment.
Bonaparte said the officers, who were in plainclothes with their badges and guns hidden, interrupted his conversation in the restaurant and that the argument continued outside. He said Brassell and Odom did not identify themselves as police officers.
Bonaparte said one of the officers poked his fingers in his chest and that he punched the man in the face. The two officers then tackled Bonaparte onto the hood of a car. Bonaparte flagged down a passing police officer and filed a complaint.


There are no limits to the number of times you can use the immediate deduction assuming your cash flow supports the purchases.
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Did I pull my brakes to making cookies? Notably, I didn't because after making Nyonya Pineapple Tarts and Chinese Peanut Cookies, I was in full force. What a force for a fact. The force which keep motivating me, moreover, since my other half-half is travelling, I didn't have to cook our regular meals and time of course was fully in my hand. But the question returned again. Which cookies should I be making? And because I am more of a spicy queen compared to sweetie pie, I ventured to making Cayenne Chocolate Cookies for which I had to buy a box of cocoa powder and thank god for the stock of cayenne pepper. In fact the bottle of cayenne pepper, wonder why I bought in the first place few months ago, like shouting and calling for the outcome of these eggless chocolaty, spicy sweet melting-me, melting you in the heart and mouth Cayenne Chocolate Cookies.
Cream/beat butter, sugar and essence till light and fluffy.
Sift cocoa, rice flour and plain flour, soda and chili flakes.
Leave in fridge for about 1 hour.
Bring out and roll into small balls.
Place on baking tray, lined with baking paper.
Dip fork into flour and press over the rolled balls.
Bake for 20-25 minutes at 160C or till cookies are nice and brown.
You're such a genius to come up with something like that. Would love to have some!
Mexican cooking has this awesome combo dishes, from sauces to sweets. Love your version.
I wonder how it taste with chilli?
Totally delicious, so you have taken up baking this year!
I never heard such combination. But very eager to taste the choco chilli combination.. its looks crunchy and yummy..
I always love the combination of chocolate and chillies.
Will try some thing ..
These cookies look delish.. Loved the combo of chocolate and chili.
Love the combo....... Looks inviting!
Love the photos, You are my inspiration for baking.
Sounds interesting combo cookies..delicious !!
that's brilliant to use chocolate chili to make cookies!
I wish I could have one now with my coffee delicious also makes a great homemade gift for the holidays.
Such a nice combo of chocolate and chilli!!


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Services at Hidden Valley Funeral Homes, Kearney, Missouri, on Friday, December 27, 2019
Visitation: 1-2:30p
Memorial Service: 2:30p
Edward Jude Cook, 72, of Holt, passed away Monday, December 16, 2019, at home in Holt.
Visitation will be Friday, December 27, 2019, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, A memorial service will be held 2:30 pm on Friday, December 27, at Hidden Valley Funeral Homes, 925 E 92 Hwy, Kearney, MO. Burial Lawson Cemetery, Lawson, MO.
Edward was born August 29, 1947, in St Louis, MO. He is the son of the late Edward Erith and the late Marion Francis (Schutzbach) Cook. He married Lynda Heck on November 28, 1970.
Ed was a loving husband, father, brother, son, grandfather, co-worker, and friend. He was a Navy veteran and served during the Vietnam War as an electrician on the U.S.S. Ranger. After his discharge from the military, he married Lynda Heck and they had two children, daughter Kara and son Kristopher. Ed and Lynda recently celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary in November. His career consisted 30 years in the waste management industry serving multiple roles during that time. While working full-time he went back to college and graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, with a degree in economics. He was transferred to Omaha, NE ,and then again to Kansas City, MO, as his career grew. For the last 15 years he worked at Lowe's in Liberty, MO, where his co-workers were considered nothing less than an extended family. He was blessed to have so many wonderful people in his life over the years. He bragged about you all! He has been a sports lover his whole life. He played baseball from childhood through college and even spent some time behind the plate as an umpire. He had the ability to fix anything. Among his many talents include mechanic, electrician, woodworker, builder, and giver of excellent advice. However, anyone who knew Ed knew about his love of fishing. He was an avid fisherman and participated in many tournaments over the years. Ed was truly the epitome of the phrase "I'd rather be fishing." He would give anyone the shirt off his back but don't borrow a pen, he'll watch you like a hawk. And even though he loved spending time with his family he always knew how to let us know it was time to leave. "Alright, get out!" Eddie and I always had this saying "I love you with all my heart…and I mean it! He would reply, I mean it too.
He is survived by his wife: Lynda Cook, one daughter: Kara Hamberlin, and one son: Kristopher Cook, sister: Nancy Cook and brother: James Cook. Grandchildren: Kylee, Gracee, Kristopher, and Andrew. Mother-In-Law: Jane V. Lee.


In the later case I received a Skype message telling me what happened followed by her asking what to do. Unfortunately going into the AT&T store to get a temporary replacement phone (i.e. a burner) led to her being "sold" a new phone with a pre-paid plan. All she needed was a phone as the SIM card was still perfectly able to function. Net result was a waste of $65 for the unlimited whatever, as her existing plan and number were still usable.
The second person had their phone die also. She sent me a message via Facebook Messenger. In this situation, she did that from her home computer and now will be out of touch. With all of these modes you can still stay in touch, but the beauty of a Google Voice number is it would move from device to device and still function as the mode of staying in touch with a breaking of habit.
Basically, the last two places I expected to hear from either of my friends was via Skype or Facebook Messenger, and in the case of the Messenger person, I was actually concerned about her when I hadn't heard back from a text sent earlier in the day.
Now, had I had Skype running on all my devices as I used to but have abandoned sometime back, I would have seen the first message and call. In the second case if I was living inside Messenger 24/7 I would have seen that instantly to. But I'm not.
With GoogleVoice the messages come into their app and to my email so nothing is missed. I get desktop notifications inside the Chrome browser, so it's almost impossible, except when I'm sleeping, to miss a GV call or message, so in both cases, if the phone losers had GV they would still be connected to everyone, not miss messages or calls.
When Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet launched GoogleVoice as GrandCentral in 2006, the idea was "one number for life" and in more ways than just words it still is.


BEAST BOY and CYBORG are having a totally awesome afternoon playing video games, when they realize something is missing…food! But these BFFs just can't agree on the best food ever created! Is it the Burger? Or is it the Burrito? Will the TEEN TITANS have to agree to disagree? Or will one cuisine reign supreme?
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Jamrich doesn't live up to expectations
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The opening of New Jamrich, means that some issues had to arise. (NW File Photo)
The newly constructed Jamrich building is a fixture on campus and a place where students will attend class for a long time to come; however, student and faculty concerns have already appeared about the building's functionality.
The previous Jamrich Hall was built in 1968 and was originally called the I.F. Building, or Instructional Facility. The building was, and still is, named after John Jamrich who was president of NMU from 1968-83.
The school made the decision to replace Jamrich Hall in 2009, according to the Engineering and Planning page on NMU's website. Constructing a new building was as expensive as retro-fitting.
Junior computer science major Cody Hewitt said he is unhappy with the current furniture arrangements.
Hewitt said the classrooms aren't geared toward the standard lecture-and-take-notes style of teaching, but rather they are geared toward students working in groups to accomplish tasks.
"I like the round tables when they're being used correctly," said Hewitt, in reference to the active-based learning rooms, "But a lot of my professors are trying to lecture in those classrooms, and we always have to turn to face the person who's speaking."
In some classrooms students seated at the trapezoid-shaped desks have to twist their bodies away from their desks to see the professor while he or she is at the lectern or standing in front of a marker board.
Carol Steinhaus, Ph.D., an associate professor of management, periodically rearranges the furniture in her classroom to better suit instruction, but this constant shuffling leaves the desk pattern influx depending on the class and the professor.
"In the rooms designed as active based learning, students don't have enough table space and their legs are hitting each other; students aren't comfortable," Steinhaus said.
Alex Hawke, a senior accounting major, is irritated with the classroom conditions.
"The furniture is uncomfortable," Hawke said. "It's also freezing in there." Hawke said he often wears long sleeve shirts to keep warm, but then when he leaves the Jamrich building, as he did on Wednesday, "it was hot outside and I was sweating."
Steinhaus emphasized the problem of student discomfort and the impracticality of lecturing in the active-learning classrooms. She also expressed difficulty in moving the furniture to make accommodations.
"This furniture was made to allow for many configurations, but we don't want to injure someone or rip up the carpet while we do it," Steinhaus said.
The total cost of the new Jamrich construction was $33.4 million and a total of $25.05 million was appropriated by the state of Michigan.
"I see the new Jamrich as a great improvement," Steinhaus said, comparing the new building to the old. "It's brighter, more up-to-date in terms of wiring and technology, and once the furniture issues are solved, I think we'll be very happy with it."
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In terms of sheer acreage, farmland is the kind of land that is most directly affected by sprawl and population growth. About 1 million acres of land per year are lost to development, according to the American Farmland Trust, and much of this land is prime agricultural land that can never be replaced. But like so many other constituencies harmed by sprawl, farmers are not likely to protect their interests unless they can find new ways to collaborate with new allies on a regional basis. For their part, smart growth advocates in the city and suburbs have their own self-interests in joining farmers to help preserve their land.
The federal government has played a relatively minor role in promoting farmland protection. Yes, there are federal farm subsidy and loan programs, which help farmers maintain a living income, but these are not directly coordinated with farmland protection policy. And the Farmland Protection Policy Act of 1981, while a welcome advance that has raised consciousness about the costs of farmland conversion, is limited in its effectiveness.
States, then, play a pivotal role in helping preserve farms. Their powers can be felt in four key areas: regulation (land-use planning, zoning), spending (roads, schools, sewers), taxation and the acquisition of land. In each of their realms, policy must protect prime soils from development; minimize land use conflicts in agricultural areas; and protect enough farmland so that a sufficient market remains for agricultural support services. Below, a review of the most promising tactics.
Land Use and Zoning Strategies. Many states allow localities to formally designate lands as protected agricultural districts. Farmers in these areas acquire special protections: A town cannot take farmland through eminent domain takings (to build new roads and sewers for development, for example). Neighbors cannot sue the farmer for normal farming activities, such as early-morning chores, spreading manure or running noisy farm machinery -- activities protected under the state's "right to farm" law. Finally, land in agricultural districts is assessed for tax purposes for agricultural uses only, and not for the market value reflecting development pressures.
In Pennsylvania, agricultural zoning imposes even stricter protections. Even low-density residential development is not allowed, and any new landowners are warned that agriculture is the primary economic activity of the area, which may cause disruptions for other uses.
Tax Reforms That Help Preserve Farmland. In many cases, tax policies -- especially property and inheritance taxes -- contribute significantly to farmland loss. In an excellent book, Zoning for Farming, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania advocates property taxation of farms based on agricultural uses, not on the fair market value of the land (which includes the land's value for development).
Federal tax legislation in 1997 offers another tax opportunity for farmers to keep their land intact. Under a new provision in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, landowners who commit their lands to conservation easements rather than residential or commercial development can obtain a 40 percent estate tax exemption. The bill applies only to lands within 25 miles of a federally designated metropolitan statistical area, (which covers most land in East Coast states), and sets a $500,000 cap on tax benefits, which will be phased in by the year 2002. Despite these limitations, the amendment should help many farm families avoid having to sell their land to pay inheritance taxes.
Purchase of Development Rights. A number of states have created aggressive programs to purchase the development rights of agricultural lands, thereby keeping them as open spaces in perpetuity. Under such arrangements, a farmer sells the rights to develop the land to a local trust or estate agency while retaining title to the land, the right to farm on it, and all other rights and responsibilities of private landowners -- except the right to develop it. If a farm is worth $6,000 per acre on the open market, but its value if restricted to agricultural production is $4,000, the state will pay the farmer the difference of $2,000 an acre. The farmer agrees to a perpetual easement to keep farming the land or preserve it for open space uses -- provisions that are binding on any future owners as well.
This farmland preservation technique can work, but it is difficult to establish because it also requires that the community have a comprehensive land-use plan with designated development areas. But the concept has the advantage of making private developers compensate private landowners for easements and open spaces. It also works to channel development into the pre-selected areas that already have the needed infrastructure. Daniels and Bowers examine the transfer of development rights in their book, Holding Our Ground.
Land Trusts as Agents of Preservation. As described in the preceding section, private land trusts can play an invaluable role in helping to preserve endangered land. When no government funds are available, or a farm is not within a protected agricultural district, land trusts can step in to help craft a feasible private transaction.
Research to Clarify Problems and Solutions. The American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group at the forefront of farmland preservation, has produced a number of valuable reports documenting the loss of farmlands to sprawl. But there is a great need for state governments and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make official inventories of farmlands and develop policies that pro-actively help to preserve farmland. It would be useful for state governments to identify and evaluate the specific parcels that are most valuable and most at risk of development. With such data, government can track the fate of farmlands and intervene with appropriate policies and programs.
Federal agencies should also document the environmental consequences of farmlands being converted into development. Developed land is more likely to lose topsoil to wind and water erosion, carrying with it the nutrients and chemicals (nonpoint pollution) that degrades waterways. Developed land is also more likely to destroy wildlife habitats and impose a greater fiscal burden on municipalities than farming does. Farmers could benefit from research examining how state and federal policies are driving up land values at the perimeter of specific metro areas, to the detriment of both farmers and inner-city residents. The American Farmland Trust recently released such a study to show how public expenditures and policy affects farmers in the metro Atlanta area.
1 Daniels, Tom and Deborah Bowers, Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmland (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997), p. 75-76.
2 Ken Buelt, "Land Use Planning: A Farmer's Perspective," in Land Use in America, pp 237-243.
3 Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Zoning for Farming: A Guidebook for Pennsylvania Municipalities on How to Protect Valuable Agricultural Lands (September 1995), p.5.
4 See National Trust for Historic Preservation, Smart Cities, Better Communities, "Farmland Preservation in Pennsylvania," pp. 165-171.
5 The New York Times, December 29, 1996.
6 Daniels and Bower, Holding Our Ground, p. 146.
7 Diamond and Noonan, Land Use in America, p.40.
8 "With True Grit and Donations, A Ranch is Saved," The New York Times, November 23, 1997, p. A1, A11.


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Comprising over 28 paintings and works on paper, spanning from 1955 to 1994, Sam Francis: From Dusk to Dawn includes works from the Sam Francis Foundation, and Kaare Berntsen Collection, among others. Featuring 18 paintings completed shortly before the artist's death in 1994 placed alongside more than 20 seminal works from 1955 through 1986, the exhibition chronicles how Francis's lifelong dedication to exploring the many different ways color, space, and light can convey emotion and meaning advanced the standing of abstract painting both here and abroad.Standouts on view include Untitled, 1961-62, from his prominent Blue Balls series, which he first began in Paris during the early 1960's, and A Whirling Square, 1975, a monumental oil on canvas from the collection of Francis's daughter, Kayo Francis Malik, on view for the first time in over 20 years.
Samuel Lewis Francis (1923 – 1994) was one of the first post-World War II California painters to develop an international reputation as a leading interpreter of light and color.
In 1941, Francis enrolled at the University of California, Berkley, and then enlisted in the army in 1943. While serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW II, Francis contracted spinal tuberculosis. He was hospitalized for many years and in 1945, he began painting while confined to a hospital cot, and in a full-body cast. Returning to Berkley in 1948, he studied painting while earning his Masters. In 1950, Francis moved to Paris and attended the Atelier Fernand Léger, where he was exposed to the work of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. In 1956, 7 paintings by Francis were included in Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, led to critical success. A visit to Japan in 1957 inspired a series of paintings featuring light-filled centers. In 1961, Francis experienced a recurrence of tuberculosis, and wa s hospitalized for almost a year in Switzerland during which time he created hundreds of small Blue Balls works on paper.
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Credited with helping secure international recognition for post-war American painting, Francis maintained studios in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Bern, and Tokyo. His paintings and works on paper are part of major museum permanent collections, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where he was a founding Trustee; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum Basel; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among many others.
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Mario Vs. The Moonbase is quite a long episode, Golden Shrooms has 5 worlds, Hidden Land has 15 stars to collect.
The collab lead by qig in 2011 has finally made its way onto the SMBX Classics Collection line, featuring a wide range of notable SMBX users, all working together to bring the community a 50+ star adventure!
were the levels in this monster episode even of good quality?
Do they have to be of good quality to warrant revival?
I would imagine most o the levels in the collection would of somewhat poor quality if compared to the levels of today.
It is actually something I was hoping to play out of everything you had.
There are currently no plans for the aforementioned episode coming to the classics collection range. Any other recommendations?
Sorry for the double post, but I wanna know something from you guys. I'm currently testing a japanese SMBX episode (Not the one mentioned previously) and was wondering if you guys would prefer to have the episode as it is or translated?
considering the fact that it is hard to have Japanese in SMBX without lua.
Then I think a screenshot would help better. I actually want the graphics it uses though since I am learning the language. Then again, different people are different.
I cleared Mario vs. The Moon Base. Really loved it.
What I remembered is that Return to Yoshi's Island is supposed to be part of the SMBX Classics Collection, is it going to happen?
We had some issues with that one (various bugs, dead exits and graphical errors, which I am currently working on) but yes it's coming. Likely volume 15.
I ditched it a long time ago after killing my progress through erratic copy-pasting ... are you using the sheet I provided?
Nah, I'm going through it myself. However if you still have the sheet it might help!
After being unplayable for many years, Cedur and I have worked together to restore Zephyr's collab classic and the first known SMBX community project - Return To Yoshi's Island! Featuring a brand new interview with Zephyr himself!


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IGN has a new interview with CW's Dave Filoni where they discuss Season Two, Lucas's ideas, and what to expect the rest of the season. Oh and he also claims it's TOTALLY coincidental that Obi-Wan's old gal pal Satine just so happens to share the same name as Ewan McGregor's love interest played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge.
starwars.com has a short preview of Karen Miller's Clone Wars Gambit: Siege, due out this summer.
Part one of the duology will hit bookstores and e-tailers on Feb. 23.
I posted this short piece on my LiveJournal page about Clone Wars Season Two at the halfway point. Read 'n enjoy!
First, Buy CW Toys by March 20, Get Three Free Figures!
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This preview video from Friday's "The Mandalore Plot" features guest voice Jon Favreau, actor and director of the Iron Man flicks.
Originally, MTV News' movie blog hosted this exclusive clip from Friday's Clone Wars episode, but for some reason, I can't get it to work anywhere it has been posted.
My brother posted on his Facebook that he was going to do a SW marathon, which I marked as Liked. Later he updates that he's watching ROTS and had to stop what he was doing because, even though he has seen the movie before there was a lot of stuff he didn't remember.
Then one of his "friends" hauls out the "true Star Wars" fans don't like that movie, TPM, AOTC made him sick, blah, blah, blah.
I had to step in and defend my fandom because, obviously, this person wasn't a true Star Wars fan, at least to my definition. My response was fairly civil, I think. "True Star Wars fans know that there are SEVEN movies, and love them all like family.' Yeah, a little snarky there, maybe, but that's my stance and I'm sticking to it.
Don't Forget: New Clone Wars Tonight!
Don't forget there's a brand-spankin' new episode of Clone Wars tonight at 9. As far as I know, it won't be pre-empted for George Clooney's multi-network telethon.


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The National Guard held a special drill Friday that struck a chord with current events.The training was meant to prepare soldiers and airmen if a massive tornado strikes in the heart of a major city. In the simulation, the damage is also caused by a chemical explosion.-- Video: Guard members train for national disastersThe team is trained for chemical, biological, even nuclear and high-yield explosive responses. The team is one of 17 units available for deployment around the country. They are trained to decontaminate as many as 225 victims in an hour."If it goes off, we send them back to be washed to get rid of that chemical contamination," said Spc. Justin Beinlich.During the drill, KETV NewsWatch 7 mounted a camera on a first responder, giving a firsthand view as they climbed through debris, searching for victims."Climbing over cars, collapsed concrete, jumping up to high obstacles, just to get to the mission and get the job done," said Spc. Ashton Henderson.Guard members set up a system to rappel down to rescue a victim. Other soldiers searched through concrete slabs to free a survivor buried by the rubble.The urgency and chaos was all part of the drill."It's kind of a shocker to hear a guy say his arm was cut off. The more stressful the better, even if the life event isn't going to be that stressful, it's going to help us in the long run," said Sgt Justin Pritchard."It's an eye-opener, especially what tornadoes can do and how people need help," said Henderson.There are about 200 members on the Enhanced Response Force. They are based in Lincoln, Omaha, Wahoo, Norfolk and O'Neill.
MEAD, Neb. —
The National Guard held a special drill Friday that struck a chord with current events.
The training was meant to prepare soldiers and airmen if a massive tornado strikes in the heart of a major city. In the simulation, the damage is also caused by a chemical explosion.
-- Video: Guard members train for national disasters
The team is trained for chemical, biological, even nuclear and high-yield explosive responses. The team is one of 17 units available for deployment around the country. They are trained to decontaminate as many as 225 victims in an hour.
"If it goes off, we send them back to be washed to get rid of that chemical contamination," said Spc. Justin Beinlich.
During the drill, KETV NewsWatch 7 mounted a camera on a first responder, giving a firsthand view as they climbed through debris, searching for victims.
"Climbing over cars, collapsed concrete, jumping up to high obstacles, just to get to the mission and get the job done," said Spc. Ashton Henderson.
Guard members set up a system to rappel down to rescue a victim. Other soldiers searched through concrete slabs to free a survivor buried by the rubble.
The urgency and chaos was all part of the drill.
"It's kind of a shocker to hear a guy say his arm was cut off. The more stressful the better, even if the life event isn't going to be that stressful, it's going to help us in the long run," said Sgt Justin Pritchard.
"It's an eye-opener, especially what tornadoes can do and how people need help," said Henderson.
There are about 200 members on the Enhanced Response Force. They are based in Lincoln, Omaha, Wahoo, Norfolk and O'Neill.
KETV Omaha
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"The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you."
Confessions of a Recycled Secret Keeper
Written by John Howard Prin, LADC
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From age eleven to fifty-one I lived two parallel existences. Based solely on outward appearances, I looked normal, made a good impression, and was a high-functioning teenager as well as adult. The volcanic drama of my hidden addictive life, however, and the ways it gained control over me, made me a Secret Keeper. It also made me ill.
In time I learned the simple truth: We are as sick as our secrets.
My double life flourished long before I took my first mood-altering drug and it persisted well after I'd established a life of recovery based on abstinence. My experience in the sordid, ugly, slippery domain of double-mindedness was a detour, but I've discovered I was hardly alone. Indeed, I was among the 24 million Americans who are secretly addicted and still function in their jobs, in their homes, and with their families.
At the root of double-mindedness—the constant shifting back and forth between two opposing mindsets, "normal-on-the-outside" and "abnormal-on-the-inside"—is addiction. For me, daily life became a burdensome struggle that led to a breakdown, to bottoming out. For forty years I lived in two worlds, ricocheting between public respectability and private delinquency. They were years I would never choose to repeat, although they taught me invaluable lessons that eventually led me to the joys of whole-mindedness.
Today, as an addictions counselor, I often sit in my office or in group sessions and hear stories from clients who tell of their double lives. Unlike those who practice their addictions openly—such as heroin or crack addicts on the streets—the clients I counsel are sabotaged by their hidden double lives. They have ended up hating their split reality and doing harm to themselves or others.
Consider the hard-working mother with three kids who hides bottles of vodka in the laundry room, then binges when the kids are at school. Or the successful defense attorney who litigates high-profile cases in court by day but devours pornography alone at night to settle his nerves. Occasionally these sufferers show up at a counselor's office, deep into medicating the agony of splintered lives and highly opposing realities within their torn bodies, minds, and souls.
Keeping secrets can make us neurotic. Secrets can be so toxic that a person is driven to self-destructive and insane acts. Then come the addictions, the violence, the lying and alibis…even suicide. Everyone keeps secrets to one degree or another, often starting with fairly innocuous ones. A young student sneaks a peek at her classmate's test answers and gets a better grade—but tells nobody. An under-age driver takes his dad's car out for a joy ride and returns it home safely—but never tells anybody. Only the Secret Keeper knows what happened. Nobody's harmed. Not really. But keeping secrets creates a guilt pocket, a place where dark knowings accumulate.
Secrets are harmful when they blur our judgment to the point where we start living a double life. Over time, a double life severs us from those we love. It splits us into two personalities: a public, acceptable person and a private, unworthy one. Ultimately, it isolates "me" from "myself." It commonly means acting one way (smiling or cooperating) while feeling another (angry or frustrated). An entrenched double life, resulting from a pattern of secret choices an individual makes for long periods of time, inevitably makes even the best person sick. Numerous normal-appearing people are card-carrying Secret Keepers.
One of these was my normal-appearing mother. An attractive and ambitious lady, Ellen Prin made sure her social graces radiated in public. Anyone meeting her could never have guessed she would be anything but charming. In private, though, she was hyper and anxious. Over the years, she went crazy from taking too many prescription drugs. Because my dad was a popular entertainer in the days of black-and-white television, it meant he was away from home day and night, six days a week, 50 weeks a year. Dad's absences wore her down. The lonelier she became, the more her pill bottles filled up the medicine cabinet.
When I was eleven, she made an announcement that changed my life. My twin brother, Dave, and I had just crawled under the covers and turned out the lights. Mom came into our bedroom and sat quietly on the edge of our bed. "Boys, I have exciting news. We're moving to a big, new house!" She told us how her dream house would be nestled on the shore of beautiful lake shore property for all the world to see. Both Dave and I pleaded to stay where we belonged, not go to some unfamiliar suburb, but it became obvious that we were helpless to prevent an already adult-made decision.
Days later we all visited the natural wild beauty of the lake property. Before Dave and I, and our older brother Tommy, could run off and start playing, Mom ordered us to move a grove of birch trees 500 yards to the lake shore, where she would enjoy viewing them someday through the then-imaginary picture window. At ten in the morning we started.
The sunny day became hot and we sweated in our T-shirts as we hauled the heavy, sloshing pails of lake water, uprooted dozens of the younger trees, put them in wheelbarrows, dug deep holes, and replanted them—all because "Mom said so." We lifted, we carried, we worked until dark. At last we dropped into our beds in our "real" home and gazed at one another with sunken eyes. Our doubts about the move had materialized and we nursed our misery.
From that day on my double-mindedness became a pattern—outwardly I showed respect for Mom; inwardly I seethed with smoldering anger toward her. I held this secret inside me and began doing what came to be a habit, acting one way while feeling another. My insides slowly stopped matching my outsides.
In due time our family settled into the new house, a sprawling edifice on a grand scale more than twice the size of our first home. Mom's projects for us boys multiplied, accompanied by her increasingly bossy orders, and we realized to our chagrin that the house came before anything. Dad's health, meanwhile, deteriorated from his long hours of work on TV and his unceasing efforts to make Mom happy. He suffered blackouts from low blood sugar and was hospitalized with severe diabetes. A parade of doctors' offices, hospitalizations, erratic employment, and the eventual amputation of his right leg, all ended in permanent disability.
Did Mom's demands diminish? Not a bit. Her relentless decorating and land-scaping projects increased, as did her treatment of us as "slaves." Our free time for homework from school classes took a back seat to working for her: tiling floors, painting bedrooms, building shelves, planting flowerbeds. After school. Weekends. Holidays. Even meals hardly mattered; we boys fixed our own while she often pouted. As I saw it, she believed she was entitled to our efforts above all else, and she pouted or sulked whenever we chafed at meeting her needs before our own.
Her obsessions kindled hatred in me, deep hatred. Life became warped, upside-down. Our needs were neglected and subordinated to meet hers. School became a refuge, a safe place where the bells announced a sane, predictable world. Tommy, Dave, and I kept the secrets of our home life to ourselves.
Those years of upside-down priorities overwhelmed my ability to cope and led to escapist—secret-keeping—behaviors. I was fourteen, dejected and hurt. Dave and I tired of complaining to one another and started playing a new game called "Getting Lost." Evading Mom before she could trap us after school, we ran from the house and stayed out for hours, sometimes until dark. We knew we'd face her wrath when we got home, but soon we became numb to her shrill scoldings.
I struggled to reconcile my love for her with the intense, clashing tensions I harbored toward her in my private world. By my sophomore year in high school, I had to keep buried the biggest secret of all: my thoughts of killing Mom.
For the next several years, I operated at an even deeper level of duality that took great amounts of energy and led eventually to a stomach ulcer, nail-biting, high blood pressure, paralyzing headaches, and alcohol/drug abuse. Dad contracted gangrene from his worsening diabetes and endured weeks in the hospital, then died a slow, costly death.
Dear reader, as you read this, does the story sound familiar? Does it ring similar to your own? If so, you may wish to revisit your childhood and look for certain clues. As I learned, a secret life can start long before addiction to mood-altering chemicals or activities. Look for signs such as these:
Secret-Keeping depends on acting one way while feeling another – your insides gradually no longer match your outsides.
Skewed priorities imposed on children set up the conditions for secret lives to fester and grow, at times leading to grossly distorted emotions like hatred or homicidal urges.
A secret life demands high levels of calculation and hair-splitting between two worlds, especially escaping from the source of pain.
Secret lives are learned and may take the form of stealing hours away from "reality" by isolating oneself geographically or psychologically from persons we are meant to connect with.
Are you one of these people, too? There are ways to unlearn Secret-Keeping habits and to free oneself of the resulting dysfunctions. A great way to start is by attending a good 12-Step group and meeting folks like yourself. Plainly put, double-mindedness can be a compulsion everyone battles at some time or to some extent during his or her mortal journey.
The simple truth? We are as sick as our secrets…but there's hope.
You are invited to send your comments, questions, or insights to John Prin at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call him at 952/941-1870 (if you use your real name, your confidentiality will be protected). He is currently writing and researching a non-fiction book, Secret Keepers Living Secret Lives. Its broad theme will show the kind of tightrope between two worlds millions walk every day—and the many kinds of hope that are available. John works as a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor at a treatment center in the Twin cities. Five years into his own recovery, John assists others to find and live out the benefits of whole-mindedness.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: We originally, meant to share a short vision from the Lord to Brother Glenn regarding the eternal destiny of (his) Brother Glenn's mother who died during the month of August 2016. However, due to the equal importance of both pieces of information from the Lord, and since we promised during midweek that we would share regarding the Lord's choice of leader in the recent U.S elections, we would share that message (about Brother Glenn's mother) during next week's article, God willing!
Fellow brethren in Christ, since we shared with the Lord's permission in our last two articles about the U.S elections, it would only be fitting to reveal the full prophecy this week. Why we are sharing this is that there are people who were very critical of our visions and messages labelling us as false and as a ministry, we have a duty to defend our message so that the faith of the brethren may not be undermined (1 Peter 3:15-16). This vision was first revealed to me on the 1 November 2015. We have been reluctant to share the prophecy upfront as the Lord cautioned us not to draw attention to ourselves and that He would guide us on how to share this major prophecy. As a ministry, it is our humble intention to obey the Lord unconditionally in whichever way He directs us. While it is easy to make claims of prophecy fulfilment after the actual events took place, the Lord did guide and allowed us to share this prophecy with some close brethren from which you will be able to see the dates below. Indeed, Mr Trump's election did cause widespread surprise and shock around the world as you may have read on the newspapers and seen on television.
This was the first original message that I shared with brethren on the 15 November 2015.
This was the second message that I shared on the 8 October 2016.
By this, we are not claiming or setting ourselves up as prophets, we are simple folk who are just grateful to share whatever message the Lord reveals to us with you. Additionally, the Lord did reveal to us that there are many Christians who doubt and undermines the prophetic messages of this ministry, and the Lord further encouraged us to be faithful as witnesses and only those who hears and recognises His voice will be attracted to the messages He gives through this ministry. The bible says, that if someone speaks or proclaims a prophetic word in the name of the Lord and if that word fails to be true, he or she did not hear from the Lord, but if it the word he or she proclaimed proved truthful and since the name of the Lord was associated with it, the Lord provided and gave fulfilment to that message (Deuteronomy 18:20-22; Isaiah 44:26).
Now, being evident from this website, we have shared countless prophetic messages here with some messages being given in the form of a word of knowledge (1 Corinthians 12:8), (Supernatural Knowledge from God about demonic activities and revelations about people) and some messages being given in the form of a word of wisdom (Supernatural Knowledge from God about coming and future happenings). Thus, in humble obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, our delight is to obey him do His will as according to His directives.
From the vision itself, the Lord did not give us much information regarding the role of the new President and how he fits into God's plan. There can be no doubt that Mr Trump fits into God's plan and purposes since the Lord chose him for this hour (Romans 13:1-3; Daniel 2:21) and the Lord would not have revealed this to us and others. As a ministry, we would like to encourage our fellow brethren around the world to pray for the peace and safety of America and for its citizens to pray and submit to the authority of its leadership. Our approach to this matter is apolitical and our calling is just to share God's message in whichever respect He chose to reveal it (Romans 12:6).
We would also like to mention that since the Lord revealed this to us, He will not fail to reveal to us how the work of the new president unfolds in fulfilment of His (God's) purpose. In addition, and with respect to Mr Trump, what we know is that the new president would be weak politically since he was dressed in woman attire in the vision. Biblically, woman are regarded as weaker than men physically (1 Peter 3:7) but equal to men in respect of salvation and leadership activities (Galatians 3:28; Judges 4:4-9). Also, we have no doubt that the new president will play a significant role in God's end-time plan which we believe He would reveal as time unfolds.
In conclusion, since this is a global ministry with readership around the world and most notably well received in the U.S we would like to encourage the brother's hood to take of advantage of the grace period and let us pray for our individual Countries (1 Timothy 2:1-4) and proclaim the gospel message of peace (2 Timothy 4:2).


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'Opiate': Tool Look Back on "Raw" Debut EP, "Exciting" Early Days
Danny Carey, Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan recall when they were young, "pissed-off, relatively talented musicians"
photograph by Lindsay Brice/Getty Images
text Jon Wiederhorn
This feature was originally published in 2008.
Primitive by Tool standards, 1991's Opiate is still more developed and expressive than most alt-metal records of the era. Driven by youthful aggression and contempt, the songs lunge and hammer in repetitive, staccato bursts, but beneath the raw savagery is a tension that builds through clench-and-release rhythms, textural guitar waves, and vocals as pained as they are pissed. In his lyrics, Maynard James Keenan sings about religion ("Opiate"), retribution ("Jerk-Off"), and reactionary hostility ("Hush") in raw, unrefined phrases. Despite its simplicity, Opiate features some clever arrangements that hint at the progressive path the band would later take. In the midsection of "Sweat," fast, double-bass drumming clashes with abrupt guitar blasts and an angular hook before the players latch back into the main riff, and on the title track, the band tempers its hostility with chiming, atmospheric guitar and eerily echoing vocals. The 27-minute EP features two live recordings sandwiched between four studio cuts but hardly suffers for its unconventional construction. There's also a goofy, psychedelic hidden track, "The Gaping Lotus Experience," that reflects the band's bizarre sense of humor.
Video of TOOL - Opiate (Audio)
DANNY CAREY The vibe of the band was different at that point. We hadn't really defined the parameters between us or the way we interacted, and that made our sound more raw. There were a lot of boundaries being leapt over and lots more learning experiences happening at the same time, which was really exciting. Musically, we were just trying to find out what our personality was as a band. Sometimes I listen to my drumming from back then and it sounds like I'm overplaying, but that was the fun of it and that's sort of what turned us into the band that we are.
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN I was flying by the seat of my pants. My musical approach came from a lot of the frustration of living in L.A., busting ass on video sets trying to survive. The music was all about emoting and releasing that primal scream. I was a big fan of Joni Mitchell and the Swans, so I related more to that close-to-the-heart, personal lyric style. To me, songs really are all about the story, and that's why people respond to them. The music gets under your skin, for sure, but it's the story that puts the hook in and keeps you there.
CAREY At the time there were all these hack musicians playing crap that any garage band could write. And when they made a video, they had no choice but to show somebody's pretty face or make them look cool and dance around like a monkey, which seemed so embarrassing. So we made a conscious effort to put our art first and make it about the music and not the musicians. And because our faces weren't plastered over everything, people went, "Oh, there's this mystique about Tool." That continues to this day, but I think it's great that I can still go to the grocery store and not get noticed.
KEENAN It wasn't hard for us to get signed. We were four pretty pissed-off, relatively talented musicians, so we got a record deal after about seven shows. Of course, Nirvana helped open the door because after they hit, most music guys around town were chasing their tails trying to find the next big thing. And here we come along, and we don't sound like most of the other stuff going on, so for them, they don't really get it, but they knew that it was different and that Nirvana was selling lots of records, so they knew they had to grab whatever it was, just in case.
ADAM JONES The most important thing for us at that point was to have creative control. When we got signed, we went, "OK, if we take less money can we have control of the music?" And the label went, "Yeah, no problem!" And we said, "If we take even less money can we have final say over the videos?" And so on. But there was still a lot of banging heads with the record company, because they still wanted to do things in the traditional way. They'd go, "Well, if you're not gonna be in your video, we're not gonna pay for it." And we'd say, "What do you mean? We're supposed to have control." We signed a three-album deal with them and the first thing we wanted to do was an EP. And they went, "Yeah, do an EP. That'd be great!" And we kind of got burned from it, because it wasn't a full album so it didn't count on our contract, which is why they were so agreeable when we first suggested it.
CAREY We were broke at that time, and we knew that even if the record company was willing to pay for studio time, we were going to have to pay it all back. So we recorded Opiate in, like, four days because we knew if we were there longer it was gonna get expensive. But we also had a live recording and we were happy with the way it sounded. So we thought, Well, let's just mix the live tracks and add them to the record. We had been playing those songs live for a year, which is a luxury we don't have anymore. Now we have to keep everything secret, because we don't want to have people hearing our songs on bootlegs all over the Internet. I wish we could still go out and play our songs live before we track them, but those days are gone.
Video of Hush - Tool
KEENAN What I remember most about Opiate was just being in a space where other people had done things. I would look at the walls and see all the platinum records and that was inspiring, but it was also depressing, because you're taking this very first step in this life you're about to embark on, and you're looking at the wall going, Well, wait a minute. Where are these guys now? What happened to them? So seeing these gold records on the wall from people we hadn't heard of, we kind of formed — unconsciously and in an unspoken way — a modus operandi for how we were gonna be, assuming that any second this thing was gonna end and we were gonna have to go back to our day jobs. And that modus operandi was to pursue our art and not be enamored or intoxicated by the unimportant stuff.
JONES A lot of the songs for Undertow were already written when we did Opiate, but we felt like no one would take us seriously unless we recorded only our most aggressive, in-your-face songs and put them out there at one time. And I think that got us typecast as a metal band. It's kind of funny, because the song I thought was the least aggressive, "Opiate," was the more popular one on the record.
KEENAN After the record came out, we'd find ourselves in someplace like Akron, Ohio, playing a club that could hold about 500 people, but there are only five people there and those are the guys that are gonna play after you. That was awkward, but it didn't really matter to us because we were still getting to know each other. And in a way, not having any pressure to perform to anybody, you can just kind of explore your space right there. And as time went on it became more about how we connected onstage and less and less about how anyone in the audience was reacting.
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