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Nigel John Taylor
20 June 1960, Birmingham, England. (age 60)
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John Taylor (born Nigel John Taylor on June 20, 1960 in Birmingham, England) is a British bass guitarist and co-founder of the New Romantic band Duran Duran. Duran Duran were one of the most popular groups in the world during the 1980s, thanks to revolutionary music videos that played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV, and Taylor was one of Duran Duran's most popular members.
Taylor played with Duran Duran and its changing lineups from its founding in 1978 until 1997, when he left to pursue a solo recording and film career. He made a dozen solo releases (albums, EPs, and video projects) through his company "Trust The Process" in the next four years, had a lead role in the movie Sugar Town, and made appearances in half a dozen other film projects. He rejoined Duran Duran for a full reunion of the original five members of the group in 2001 and has remained with the group to this day.[1]
Taylor also founded two supergroup side projects: The Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders.
1.1 1978-1997: Duran Duran and The Power Station
1.2 1997-2001: Solo career
1.3 2001-2007: Duran Duran reunited
2 Guest appearances
3 Basses
7 Books:
8 Film & TV credits
10 Art exhibitions
Taylor grew up in Hollywood, a suburb of Birmingham, England. As a child he was a shy boy who attended Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic primary school and Abbey High School, Redditch, wore glasses (due to severe myopia, over -10 dioptres), enjoyed James Bond-movies and the hobby of wargaming with hand-painted model soldiers. In his early teen years he discovered music, choosing Roxy Music as his favourite band, and before long was collecting records and teaching himself to play guitar. His first band was called Shock Treatment.
1978-1997: Duran Duran and The Power Station[edit | edit source]
In 1978, Taylor and school friend Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran. Soon after Taylor underwent an "ugly duckling" transformation -- ditching the glasses for contact lenses, adopting the ruffles and sashes of the fashion that would become known as the New Romantic style, and learning to wear eyeliner and lip color. He stopped using the name "Nigel", and was known throughout his professional career as John Taylor.
Taylor played guitar when Duran Duran was founded, but switched to bass guitar after discovering the funky rhythms of Chic, and learned to enjoy playing in the rhythm section with Duran's newly recruited drummer Roger Taylor. He has frequently cited Chic's Bernard Edwards and The Clash's Joe Strummer as his strongest influences, in addition to Paul McCartney, James Jamerson, and Roxy Music players Graham Simpson and John Porter.
Duran Duran released its first album in 1981, and went on to worldwide success in the early 1980s.[2]
Duran Duran's early music tended to feature prominent, almost melodic bass lines, following the model of funk and disco songs like "Good Times". Although it was occasionally plain in the beginning that Taylor's playing was naïve and self-taught, he developed a unique undulating style that has since inspired many imitators. It was John Taylor who played bass on the Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
As Duran Duran became famous in the early 1980s, Taylor's individual celebrity grew. His picture was a staple of teen magazines, and he won numerous popularity polls, including appearances on People Magazine's annual list of "Sexiest People". He lived a lavish lifestyle with homes in London and Paris, and owned several cars, which he rarely had a chance to drive, including the Bond-style Aston Martin of which he had always dreamed. He dated fashion models, such as Bond girl Janine Andrews and "Face of the '80s" Renee Simonsen, was welcome at parties all over the world, and developed the cocaine addiction to go with the rest of his high living.
In 1985, after recording "A View to a Kill" for the Bond-movie of the same name, Duran Duran split into two side projects called Arcadia and The Power Station. This led to a short Cameo in Arcadia's "The Flame". John Taylor and Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor joined forces with singer Robert Palmer and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson to form the band The Power Station. With the guidance of producer Bernard Edwards, they
Taylor's first solo recording was a hit single for the 9½ Weeks movie soundtrack
, released one album, The Power Station, which produced the hit singles "Some Like It Hot" and the T.Rex cover song "Get It On (Bang a Gong)".
That year, Taylor also launched his first solo effort, recording the single "I Do What I Do" for the soundtrack to the movie 9½ Weeks. He also wrote some instrumental music for the movie's score with collaborator Jonathan Elias.
Although Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor left the band, the three remaining Duran Duran members reformed for the 1986 Notorious album, and continued to record and tour throughout the 1990s with new guitarist Warren Cuccurullo. Taylor recorded a fair amount of unreleased solo material on the side, including several tracks used on the soundtrack of the Allison Anders movie Mi Vida Loca.
In 1991, Taylor married 19-year-old actress and party girl Amanda De Cadenet, who was already pregnant with his daughter, Atlanta. He moved from England to Los Angeles, California to help further his wife's acting career, which exacerbated tensions within Duran Duran. Taylor's marriage declined even as Duran Duran's star rose with the success of 1993's The Wedding Album. In late 1994, Taylor sought treatment for his cocaine and alcohol addictions, and has remained sober since.
Duran Duran's success rapidly waned with the widely derided 1995 covers album Thank You. Following that album's supporting tour, Duran Duran spent part of the summer of 1995 in London working on the album Medazzaland. Concurrently, Taylor devoted time to the side project Neurotic Outsiders, recording and touring with that band from the end of 1995 through the start of 1996.
1997-2001: Solo career[edit | edit source]
In 1996, Taylor co-founded the independent record label B5 Records in California with producer Hein Hoven. B5 Records originally recorded from Hoven's Lake Hollywood home but eventually built a state of the art studio in Santa Monica, California dubbed "B5 by the Sea." The label had a cutting-edge website created by Kapil Mathur which featured a virtual journey through the B5 studios, and which allowed visitors to "interact" with Taylor and Hoven using mobile avatars in a virtual environment.
At B5, Taylor sang and played guitar and bass on his first solo album, "Feelings Are Good and Other Lies", working with collaborator Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. The home-grown album was marketed by mail order, and capitalized on the Internet savvy of the Duran Duran fanbase by selling its CDs directly via the website. The music and vocals were generally rough and raw, much more akin to punk music than to Duran Duran, while the lyrics reflected Taylor's chaotic personal life and his ongoing divorce from De Cadenet. He made an attempt to reunite The Power Station in late 1996, but his problems forced him to withdraw from the project, which went on to record and tour with Bernard Edwards in his stead.
The increasing dissension within Duran Duran, the wreckage of his failed marriage and the challenge of maintaining his sobriety led Taylor to a breaking point. In January of 1997 he announced at a Duran Duran fan convention that he was leaving the band.[3] (Afterward Duran Duran toured with Wes Wehmiller as bassist.)
He was soon recording more of his own material on B5 Records, releasing the EP Autodidact even as Feelings Are Good was re-released on the larger Canadian label DERock Records. B5 then issued a tribute album called "Dream Home Heartaches....Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music, featuring Roxy Music covers by Taylor and many other local Los Angeles artists. The label also produced the album Sub Acid Sweet Songs for L.A. quartet Three Alarm Fire before Hein Hoven decided to leave the company. After that, the B5 Records company and the much-simplified website were renamed "Trust The Process", and focused on promoting Taylor's solo work rather than developing other acts.
During 1997 and 1998, Taylor built and toured with a band called "John Taylor Terroristen" (Gerry Laffy on guitar, Michael Railton / Tio Banks on keyboard, Larry Aberman on drums, John Amato on sax and flute) which played numerous shows in Southern California before touring the East and West Coasts of the United States. Terroristen released a live EP 5.30.98 and the accompanying video Better Off Alive through the Trust The Process website.
Taylor also began making forays into acting. His long friendship with Allison Anders led to a starring role in her independent film Sugar Town in 1998. He also appeared in small roles in several other movies and TV programmes over the next couple of years.
In 1999, Taylor released two albums of earlier material. The first, Resumé, was made up of unreleased music that he and Jonathan Elias had worked on together during the 1985 sessions for the 9½ Weeks movie soundtrack. The second, Meltdown, was a collection of tracks Taylor had laid down in 1992, during the extensive delays in Duran Duran's recording of The Wedding Album. Described by Taylor as "upbeat dance electronica with a hip hop influence", some of the lyrics reveal his disaffection with the Duran Duran lifestyle; he has said he came very near to leaving the band during that time, but was held back by the sudden success of "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" in 1993."
Later in 1999 Taylor signed a recording contract with the Japanese record label Avex Trax, and released an album labeled simply John Taylor on the cover, but listed in his official discography as The Japan Album. John Taylor Terroristen did more touring in Japan, Germany and the United States. The Trust The Process website released an accompanying limited edition The Japan EP followed by the bootleg album Live Cuts featuring unretouched recordings of Taylor's live performances from that year.
He continued recording for Avex in 2000, and early in 2001 released Techno For Two, a decidedly non-techno album filled with very personal songs. Shortly after, as talks began for a potential Duran Duran reunion, Taylor decided to create a retrospective package called Retreat Into Art demonstrating his development over the previous five years; about half of the songs had not been previously released.[4] A limited edition of 999 signed boxes contained two CDs, a poster, postcards, and more. After the signed boxes were sold out, the two-CD set was marketed on its own.
Taylor's final solo release, completed after the Duran Duran reunion was under way, was the collection MetaFour released in 2002. The album is divided into four thematic sections. The first contains instrumental music created for the 1992 film Mi Vida Loca. The second consists of previously unreleased live perfomances from various points in Taylor's early solo career, while the third contains a handful of acoustic performances and demos. The last section is a 17-minute question and answer session Taylor took part in at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood in 1998.
2001-2007: Duran Duran reunited[edit | edit source]
In 2000, Taylor was approached at his home in Los Angeles by singer Simon Le Bon about a possible reunion with Duran Duran, and he was enthusiastic about the idea as long as the other two Taylors (Roger and Andy, who had left the band in 1986) were willing to rejoin as well. An agreement was soon reached, and Taylor demonstrated his renewed commitment to the band by inking an enormous linked-D's tattoo on his upper arm.
After a highly successful tour of Japan in 2003, the reunited band was signed with Epic Records, and released the album Astronaut in October 2004. They toured throughout the first half of 2005 before returning to the studio to work on their next new album. Guitarist Andy Taylor left the band again in October 2006, and recordings from this session (with the working title "Reportage") were set aside when the band got a chance to work with famed producer Timbaland. The resulting album, "Red Carpet Massacre", was released in November 2007. To celebrate its release the band took the unprecedented step of performing the album in its entirety for 10 special performances on Broadway in New York City, with a world tour in 2008.
In 2006 John and Nick Rhodes collaborate on the compilation album entitled "Only After Dark".
In December 2010, the band released its 13th studio album, All You Need is Now, on its own record label, Tapemodern. Initially, an abbreviated version was offered to iTunes, but the physical album arrived in stores in March 2011. To date, All You Need is Now has generated positive reviews for the band.
Guest appearances[edit | edit source]
Over the years, Taylor has worked on projects with several other performers. He has performed with James Angell (Private Player In Concert), and played bass on the Deadsy song "She Likes Big Words" (Commencement). He co-wrote and played bass on the Mindi Abair song "It Just Happens That Way" (It Just Happens That Way), and did backing vocals on her cover of "Save Tonight".
He remixed the song, "Like A Hard Rain" (ID:2) for Japanese artist Nanase, and played on two songs for the Japanese band Slut Banks.
Taylor's side project Neurotic Outsiders has re-convened for an occasional live show or two since a surprise four-show stint at the Viper Room in 1999.[5]
John Taylor made his first film appearance outside of Duran Duran as "The Hacker" (alongside then-girlfriend Virginia Hey) in the pilot episode of Timeslip, a 1985 TV programme that was not further developed. He later made a guest appearance in the 1985 Miami Vice episode titled Whatever Works. In the episode, he, along with Tony Thompson, Andy Taylor, and Michael Des Barres played The Power Station's 1985 hit "Get It On (Bang a Gong) ". John was the only band member who had spoken lines, introducing character Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) to new lead singer Michael Des Barres.
Taylor also made cameo appearances in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher in 2000, and That '80's Show: Sophia's Depressed in 2002. He also appeared on BBC Two comedy panel game Never Mind The Buzzcocks as a panellist in April 2001.
He makes a cameo appearance in the Bloodhound Gang's music video for the song "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe". He was "playing rock with himself... and losing" as described by Evil Jared Hasselhoff in the commentary for the the band's DVD One Fierce Beer Run.
Basses[edit | edit source]
The bass guitar most commonly associated with John Taylor is the Japanese Aria Pro II SB1000, which he used during the height of Duran Duran's fame; he also promoted the instrument in a series of magazine advertisements. In the mid-1980s, John tried other basses such as Steinberger and Wal (interestingly, although the Wal is considered by many to be one of the world's finest basses, Taylor was unimpressed with his). Taylor eventually settled on Phillip Kubicki's Factor bass with a unique drop-D latch on the head. Taylor also inherited the Music Man Sting Ray belonging to his idol Bernard Edwards.[1]
As of 2007, Taylor still plays the Aria and the Stingray, but has also been seen playing a 1962 reissue Fender Precision Bass, a bass version of the Gibson Les Paul, a Warwick Thumb 5 and a Peavey Cirrus 5 and 4 string.
Noting Taylor's loyalty to the same Peavey bass guitar onstage with Duran Duran for several years, in early 2006, Peavey Guitars asked Taylor to create a signature 4-string bass guitar. With his design partner Patty Palazzo, and designer Ted McCann, Taylor created the limited-edition 'Peavey Liberator J-84', which featured a detachable amplifier built into a custom-built case. The amp could be expanded into an external speaker or amplifier to increase volume and flexibility. Taylor went on to design a six-string guitar, the 'Peavey Liberator A435' (named for the highway that led from his childhood home into the city of Birmingham, England), as well. Only 100 each of the numbered-and-signed basses and guitars were made available to the public, in October 2006.
Personal[edit | edit source]
Taylor remarried in 1999 to Gela Nash, co-owner of the popular 2000s fashion line, Juicy Couture. He is a passionate football fan, who supports Aston Villa FC and performed at the club during the MENCAP Concert in 1983.
Is the main backing vocalist on most of the group's songs.
Discography[edit | edit source]
1981 - Duran Duran, Duran Duran
1982 - Duran Duran, Rio
1983 - Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger
1984 - Duran Duran, Arena
1985 - Power Station, The Power Station
1986 - John Taylor, "I Do What I Do" single
1986 - Duran Duran, Notorious
1987 - Masami Tsuchiya, Life In Mirrors (bass)
1988 - Duran Duran, Big Thing
1988 - Christopher Max, More Than Physical (bass)
1989 - Duran Duran, Decade: Greatest Hits
1989 - Compilation, Requiem For The Americas (bass)
1990 - Duran Duran, Liberty
1990 - Gerry Laffy, Money And The Magic (bass)
1993 - Duran Duran, The Wedding Album
1995 - Duran Duran, Thank You
1996 - John Taylor, Feelings Are Good and Other Lies
1996 - Power Station, Living In Fear
1996 - Neurotic Outsiders, Neurotic Outsiders
1997 - John Taylor, Autodidact (EP)
1997 - Various, Radioactive Waste ("And There Are Lots And Lots of Ants")
1997 - Various, Dream Home Heartaches....Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music
1997 - Duran Duran, Medazzaland (4 tracks)
1998 - Duran Duran, Greatest
1998 - John Taylor Terroristen, 5.30.98 (EP)
1999 - John Taylor Juicy Jeans Promo EP
1999 - John Taylor/Jonathan Elias, Resumé
1999 - John Taylor, Meltdown
1999 - John Taylor, The Japan Album
1999 - Favorite Blue, Solitude (bass)
2000 - John Taylor, The Japan EP
2000 - John Taylor, Live Cuts
2000 - John Taylor, "Mr.J"
2001 - John Taylor, Terroristen - Live at the Roxy
2001 - John Taylor, Techno For Two
2001 - John Taylor, Retreat Into Art
2002 - John Taylor, MetaFour
2002 - John Taylor, John Taylor Sampler
2002 - Deadsy, Commencement (bass)
2003 - Chris Catena, Freak Out (bass)
2003 - Aikawa Nanase, ID:2 (arranger, bass)
2003 - Mindi Abair, It Just Happens That Way (co-writer, bass)
2004 - Duran Duran, Astronaut
2006 - Compilation with Nick Rhodes, Only After Dark
2006 - Stimulator, Stimulator (cover design)
2007 - Duran Duran, Red Carpet Massacre
2008 - Dominic Brown, Between The Lines
2010 - Danimals, "Fox" (co-writer)
2010 - Swahili Blonde, Man Meat (writer)
2010 - New Roads School, New Roads School (bass)
2010 - Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now
2013 - Koishii & Hush, "C'est Tout Est Noir" (vocals, lyrics)
2013 - Halo Circus, "Something Special" (co-written)
2013 - Diane Birch, Speak a Little Louder (bass on "All The Love You Got")
2015 - Duran Duran, Paper Gods
2016 - Jilann with Mike Garson, Not Alone (vocals, co-produced)
2016 - John Taylor, Roger Taylor and Road Recovery's Youth "No Rewind" (co-produced)
Books:[edit | edit source]
2012 - In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran
Film & TV credits[edit | edit source]
1993 - Blue Flame (music)
1994 - Mi Vida Loca (music)
1999 - Sugar Town: Clive
1999 - Drowning On Dry Land: cast member
2000 - Four Dogs Playing Poker: Dick
2000 - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas: Keith Richrock
2000 - A Diva's Christmas Carol: Ghost of Christmas Present (VH1)
2001 - Strange Frequency: Jimmy Blitz (VH1)
2001 - She-Bat: Patrick
2001 - Strange Frequency: Room Service: Jimmy Blitz
2001 - Vegas, City of Dreams: Byron Llord
2009 - Samantha Who?: The Rock Star: Tommy Wylder
2000 - John Taylor, Better Off Alive
2003 - Bloodhound Gang, One Fierce Beer Run (commentary)
2004 - James Angell, Private Player In Concert (bass)
Art exhibitions[edit | edit source]
Abstract Cabinet Show (held at the Eastside Projects in Birmingham during 2009) with Laureana Toledo
Correspondencia (held in Mexico City during 2011) with Laureana Toledo
↑ 1.0 1.1 Trust The Process, Taylor's official website
↑ Duran Duran's official website
↑ "Duran Duran Comes Undone", Rolling Stone, January 23, 1997.
↑ Retreat Into Art interview with John Taylor, Trust The Process website
↑ The Duran Duran Timeline - band and personal history
Taylor's IMDb listing
Interview with John Taylor, iProng Radio, 2006-10-11
duranplanet.com Unofficial Italian Duran Duran site (Italian and English)
Simon Le Bon • Nick Rhodes • John Taylor • Roger Taylor
Andy Taylor • Warren Cuccurullo • Sterling Campbell
Duran Duran • Rio • Seven and the Ragged Tiger • Arena • Notorious • Big Thing • Liberty • Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) • Thank You • Medazzaland • Pop Trash • Astronaut • Red Carpet Massacre • All You Need Is Now • Paper Gods
COMPILATIONS and EPs
Carnival • Decade: Greatest Hits • Greatest • Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran • Strange Behaviour • Singles Box Set 1981-1985 • Singles Box Set 1986-1995 • From Mediterranea With Love
"Planet Earth" • "Careless Memories" • "Girls on Film" • "My Own Way" • "Hungry Like the Wolf" • "Save a Prayer" • "Rio"• "Is There Something I Should Know?" • "Union of the Snake" • "New Moon on Monday" • "The Reflex" • "The Wild Boys" • "A View to a Kill" • "Notorious" • "Skin Trade" • "Meet El Presidente" • "I Don't Want Your Love" • "All She Wants Is" • "Do You Believe in Shame?" • "Burning the Ground" • "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)" • "Serious" • "Ordinary World" • "Come Undone" • "Too Much Information" • "Perfect Day" • "White Lines" • "Out of My Mind" • "Electric Barbarella" • "Someone Else Not Me" • "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" • "What Happens Tomorrow" • "Nice" • "Falling Down • "All You Need Is Now • "Girl Panic! • "Leave A Light On • "Pressure Off"
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Arcadia • Power Station • Neurotic Outsiders • The Devils
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Knitting for tonight- kitchener a baby sock toe, then cast on for another pair, a size bigger, my babies grow fast... Oh, and write down the pattern this time, silly designer. Then start the knitting math for new Spud & Chloe design... Knitting math, I love it, once I finally got over the 'sit down and do it' hump. There are times when it takes me way too long to get over that hump. I am easily distracted. Big family = many distractions, but when they look like this, I don't mind so much.
This particular child is fortunate to be so cute, because she can be a little, um, 'high maintenance' at times, my biggest motherhood challenge so far. And then she smiles and bats her baby blues at me, and it's all good.
Okay, the moment has come- time to announce the yarny goodness winner. I was mighty impressed with the response- there were a lot of new names/faces for me, which is only logical considering the many thousands of knitters there are in this great big world we all share. I've been having fun stopping by so many new blogs, getting a glimpse of your interests and talents- what a super group of people!
with your address- congrats & enjoy!
In garden news, it was a rather cool morning, which was nice for the hefty work of pounding in about a 100 stakes in the laying out of all the rows. There is much more work to be done yet this week and we will have some friends out to plant their own little plot as well. They have a small city lot and are looking forward to bringing their kids out to see how green their thumbs are. I can't wait! Fun stuff!
In knitting news, I've been swatching with another new Spud & Chloe yarn, their bulky weight aptly named "Outer". It is so very, very, soft. The cotten content simply begs petting, and I don't mind complying, not one little bit. My notebook is filling up with sketches of design ideas, now if only my days could fill up with several (dozen) more hours.
Kid Funny- As my youngest girls were settling in to bed tonight, I could hear the sing-song-y question "Can I get a napkin, please?", which is ten times funnier than it might seem at first glance, if you're a fan of musicals at all, and the Food Court Musical, in particular. Too cute. Oh stink, now it's stuck in my head, I'll probably drift off singing it too.
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I am now the owner of 2 very nice and very expensive pairs of lovely Dansko shoes. Why is this important? Well, it seems that wearing crummy shoes (crummy being defined as 'having little to no arch support) when one has extremely high arches can really catch up with a person, and make it quite difficult to do ordinary daily things, like walk. It would also seem that increasing inflammation in one's hip can actually cause said hip to go 'out of joint'.
A morning of crutches, an emergency chiropractor appointment or two, an ice pack, and new shoes... yeah, fun stuff. Sheesh!
The limping is much less now and the pain even lesser (except maybe the pain in the checkbook). I'm pretty sure that last pre-parenthetical phrase was nowhere near grammatically correct. I can't even blame it on heavy pain killers, as, due to nursing Baby J, I'm not taking anything other than an occasional ibuprofen.
Enough about my aches and pains already! Onto the knitting... or at least the new yarn giveaway! I've got 3 skeins of the new 'Sweater' yarn from Spud & Chloe that can be yours for the asking, or more blog-appropriately, the commenting. Comment here by midnight Memorial Day (or whenever I wake up on Tuesday...) for your chance to win! Post a link on your blog (and come back to leave the link here- it just makes it easier for me,...) for another chance. Tell me who's blog you link-hopped from and you'll both get another chance. Okay, I'd better get to work on the spreadsheet to keep track of it all.
PS- After commenting here, hop on over to Susan B. Anderson's blog (by Friday!) for another chance to win some of this fabulous yarn and a copy of her Sweet Pea Hat pattern!
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We took a midday break yesterday and hit the bowling lanes with some homeschooling friends. If you've never bowled with people who can barely carry a 6 lb. ball, well, that's one thing to add to the list of things you're missing out on.
In other news- our seedlings are all still alive and well; so far, so good. The garden bed has had its first tilling, with another scheduled ASAP. The planting of cold hearty plants should begin next week, with the tender ones waiting, as is necessary in central Minnesota, until Memorial Day weekend or shortly thereafter. We're planning on doing some competitive gardening this year- boys' beans vs. girls' beans, etc... in hopes that the kids will really want to help keep up with it all once the heat moves in, along with the mosquitoes... It could get interesting.
I did manage to finish up a set of wrist and leg warmers for one of my girls, using the newer than new 'Sweater' from Spud and Chloe (dunno how to get the dots above the e, but don't let that stop you from clicking over and checking out their website- the interactive brochure is so cute!), the fabulous new line of yarns, which are about to be introduced at TNNA, from the folks at Blue Sky Alpacas. I absolutely love this new yarn, and the color palette is just amazing- but who would expect anything less? BSA's color lines have always impressed me.
I'm hoping to get some cute pics soon and then I'll get that pattern up as soon as the yarn is introduced at TNNA- this one will be another freebie!
In the meantime, I've got a couple skeins on the way, for a giveaway- so watch for it next week!
eta: Oh, and we spotted the first hummingbird last night!
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I'm a cold wimp. My kids are little heaters, but cool spring air is still a problem in little ears. I knew, as winter ended, that I was going to want a hat on my little guy while we're outside this time of year, but I also knew that the warmth of wool and/or alpaca would be a bit much for one of my kiddos (and me!) A cotton hat, with ear flaps, was in order, and given my love of stripes, this is what I ended up with.
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A girly, bright, toddler sized, cotton one is in order for Little M as well!


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Over the 18th and 19th century, United States' presidents were as not influential as they are today. The presidents did not have the role of being the world leader. However, after the United States emerged as the powerful entity in the Spanish American war, things started to change and so did the role of the president. By the time the world was fighting the cold war, the president of the United States had become the Leader of the free world. Compared to the limited roles the president had in the early 19th century, today the president has assumed many roles and at the same time becoming more powerful (Howard, Tom). Many changes have taken place leading to increased power for the president. The paper will highlight some of these significant changes resulting to increased power of the presidency.
Up until the 1930s, the Congress was the branch that dominated among all other national government branches. Although the president had the military power, he was only named the commander in chief as the founders of the country saw the importance of having a strong military for protecting the nation and its citizens. The president was also granted the diplomatic power where he could make treaties with foreign countries as long as the Senate consented. The Senate decided whether the agreement was valid, if they saw otherwise, the president would not sign it. The constitution also dictated the powers of the president as a representative of the country to other nations. Other than this the president had the power to appoint various people to work hand in hand with him in the executive branch. Among those that he could nominate were ambassadors, judges of the supreme court, and other Ministers and Consuls of the government. However, even with this, the Senate had to be consulted where they would vote (Milner, Jonathan).
Finally, the president had been granted the legislative power. All the bills that passed in both houses of Congress had to be submitted to the president for the final approval. The Congress could, however, navigate around this in various ways. The firsts one is that if the president does not sign the bill within ten days, it automatically became law even without the president's signature. The other way is by Congress vote of two-thirds in each house which automatically overrides the presidential signature (Milner, Jonathan). By considering all this, it is evident that the president's powers were limited.
Change and increase of power came with new presidents occupying the seat and the most memorable being Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt. The four paved the way for the evolution that came during the tenure of Franklin Roosevelt. President Jackson asserted the national power where he used the veto to nullify the South Carolina federal traffic law. Lincoln ignored the Congress and expanded the size of the army. He also ordered blockades for the southern ports all without the advice or consent of the Congress. Theodore Roosevelt in his tenure expanded the power of the presidency by working closely with the Congress and defining his role as the president to the Congress. Due to the world war I, Wilson got an opportunity to take the lead in the international affairs hence rendering more power to the presidency (ushistory.org). By the time Franklin Roosevelt was getting to power, a lot of changes had started taking place and therefore enabling him to strengthen the power.
Franklin Roosevelt saw the country through the great depression that saw an increase in federal bureaucracy with the president himself being the bureaucrat in chief. It is also at this time that the president gained a lot of power due to his influence in recovering the country from the depression. Franklins New Deal programs and the world war II increased his power as the president and ultimately the presidency (Milner, Jonathan). In can only be concluded that the ability of a president to take the country through a difficult situation and coming out victorious makes the presidency more powerful. Finally, other factors like media coverage, globalization, and technology have seen the modern presidency increase its powers.