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The Southern California classical music scene with Bob Thomas
Tag Archives: James Levine
CLEANING OUT THE INBOX
Posted on September 28, 2013 by Robert D. Thomas
By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News
The following items come the hundreds of emails that land in my inbox each week … along with material from other Blogs and stories.
• CALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION DECLARES BANKRUPTCY; ORCHESTRA TO BE OWNED AND RUN BY FOR-PROFIT COMPANY
The Cal Phil has struggled financially for several years, so the CalPhil Foundation has declared bankruptcy. The orchestra will now be owned and run by Pasadena Entertainment, a local, for-profit company headed by André Vener, who has been President and CEO of the Foundation for 10 years and is the son of Music Director Victor Vener.
Among the highlights of the announcement:
• Pasadena Entertainment has paid all back wages owed to the musicians and a new collective bargaining agreement has been signed. Presumably all other debts incurred by the orchestra will be handled through the CalPhil Foundation bankruptcy.
• The 2014 season has been set, with outdoor concerts continuing at Santa Anita Racetrack and the indoor season taking place at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
• According to the release "close to 20,000 people" attended the five "Festival on the Green" concerts at Santa Anita this past summer and "10,000 fans" attended the five "sold out" Disney Hall concerts.
(The complete media release is at the bottom of this post.)
• PASADENA SYMPHONY AND POPS TO PRESENT FREE "MUSIC UNDER THE STARS" CONCERT OCT. 5 AT PASADENA CITY HALL PLAZA
Larry Blank will conduct the orchestra in this annual concert with soloists Susan Egan, Vicki Lewis and David Burnham and the JPL Chorus singing. The free program begins at 7:30 p.m. DETAILS
• CARL ST.CLAIR TO HEAD COSTA RICAN ORCHESTRA FOR ONE YEAR
Carl St.Clair, music director of the Pacific Symphony in Costa Mesa for 25 years, will become music director of the National Symphony of Costa Rica for one year beginning in 2014. He will continue with his Pacific Symphony post. Read the Los Angeles Times story HERE.
• THREE NAMED DUDAMEL FELLOWS FOR 2013-2014
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has named the latest class of young conductors who will work with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and the orchestra during the upcoming season: David Cohen, Ben Gernon and Antonio Méndez. DETAILS
• JAMES LEVINE RETURNS TO CONDUCTING DUTIES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
Many of us thought that the day would never come given the serious of Maestro Levine's health issues, but by the press accounts his return as conductor of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte was triumphant.
• New York Times (Anthony Tommasini)
• Financial Times (Martin Bernheimer)
• Los Angeles Times (James C. Taylor)
• Washington Post (Anne Midgette)
• FASTNOTES: A great L.A. Phil tradition continues
I got the first edition of "FastNotes" for the upcoming season in my inbox this week and once again I highly recommend them to any classical music lover. "FastNotes" are an email glimpse at each upcoming concert with an overview of the program, notes about each of the composers, links to ticket purchasing options, and links to the programs notes and excerpts of the pieces to be played (or, as is the case this week, when a piece is a premiere, excerpts from the composer's other works — there may be a fee for the excepts). You can sign up for this through the Phil's E-Newsletter section HERE. Even if you're not going to attend a concert, I find them very informative.
(From the post above, here's the complete Cal Phil media release)
CALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC ENDS 2013 SUMMER SEASON ON A HIGH NOTE;
SANTA ANITA RACE TRACK AND WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL SET FOR EXCITING 2014 SUMMER SEASON
Local 47 Musicians Union Issues Statement Of Support As California Philharmonic Moves Forward With New Ownership And Operations Under Pasadena Entertainment
Pasadena – With the dynamic conclusion of California Philharmonic's 2013 summer season comes exciting news for the world class orchestra. And, as it begins the next phase of its legacy, now owned and operated by Pasadena Entertainment, California Philharmonic is moving full steam ahead with the announcement that both of its summer homes, iconic venues Santa Anita Race Track and Walt Disney Concert Hall, are on board for 2014 and beyond.
"It's been our pleasure to work with Pasadena Entertainment since 2009," says Sharon Stewart, Director of Scheduling and Events for the Music Center of Los Angeles County. "We look forward to working with them in future summers, and to another successful summer classical music series."
Pasadena Entertainment has served as the production and marketing firm for the California Philharmonic and its concert series for the past four years.
"We value the professionalism of Pasadena Entertainment as part of our marketing and production team," said Pete Siberell, Director of Special Projects for Los Angeles Turf Club. "Teaming up with California Philharmonic has been a great opportunity to develop Santa Anita Race Track as a premier concert venue."
And the close to 20,000 people who attended California Philharmonic's 2013 Festival on the Green at Santa Anita Race Track couldn't agree more. Equally enthusiastic, are the 10,000 fans who filled last season's sold out concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and showed their appreciation of the revered orchestra with an unprecedented five standing ovations during the final performance of the season.
The transition of California Philharmonic to Pasadena Entertainment from the non-profit CalPhil Foundation began earlier this year. CalPhil Foundation (not the California Philharmonic), will phase out through bankruptcy.
Under its new organization, all past and present professional obligations with California Philharmonic musicians have been met. A new collective bargaining agreement has been set and California Philharmonic is moving forward with the Musicians Union and its members in good standing.
"AFM, Local 47 is pleased to announce that all back wages owed to California Philharmonic musicians for services rendered have been paid," comments John Acosta, Vice President of Local 47. "Pasadena Entertainment has stepped up to take on the proud tradition of California Philharmonic, providing summer concerts in Los Angeles County. Local 47 and its new partner Pasadena Entertainment look forward to a long and successful relationship!"
The musicians echo the excitement for the future of California Philharmonic along with the Union, the orchestra's ever-growing loyal fan base and the venues.
"Maestro Vener and California Philharmonic create the kind of energy that John Mauceri, Arthur Fiedler and Leonard Bernstein brought to the concert stage," says Dennis Karmazyn, California Philharmonic's principal cellist. "California Philharmonic takes the audience on a musical journey."
Subscriptions and tickets are available for the 2014 summer season.
(c) Copyright 2013, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved. Portions may be quoted with attribution.
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NEWS AND LINK: James Levine cancels Metropolitan Opera conducting assignments through 2012-2013
Posted on December 12, 2011 by Robert D. Thomas
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
The Metropolitan Opera's convoluted music director situation
became a little clearer Friday — or did it? The Met announced that its
long-time music director, James Levine, will not conduct again at the famed New
York City opera at least until the 2013-14 season as he recovers from a serious
fall, the latest in a series of health setbacks for the 68-year-old Levine who
has been at the Met's helm since 1976.
In a statement attached to the Met's media release (LINK),
Levine said, "I do not want to risk having to withdraw from performances after
the [2012-2013] season has been announced and tickets sold. With that in mind,
I have reluctantly decided not to schedule performances until I am certain I
can fulfill such obligations. The Met's 2012-13 season needs to be finalized,
and the best conductors available must be contracted now. As my condition
improves, I feel confident I will be ready to conduct again soon, but I cannot
risk a premature announcement."
Fabio Luisi, the Met's principal conductor, will take over
all of Levine's remaining assignments for the current season except for
performances of Siegfried on May 9
and Gtterdmerung on May 12.
Conductors for those performances and for a concert by the Met Orchestra on May
20 at Carnegie Hall will be announced shortly.
"As Levine continues his recovery," the Met release says,
"it is anticipated that he will gradually resumes his other duties as Music
Director including coaching and planning, and artistic leadership of the
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program."
Is that enough for a music director? Apparently the Met
thinks so in the case of Levine. It seems obvious that the company doesn't feel
comfortable enough with Luisi to make him the permanent music director and
letting Levine assume some sort of "laureate" relationship. Is Luisi — who seems to have done well in his
conducting assignments — merely caretaker while the Met searches for a
long-term solution?
Perhaps Levine will fully recover, although based on the
announced timetable, he will be age 70 when he conducts again. Last Friday's
announcement seems to bring short-term clarity without answering any long-term
(c) Copyright 2011, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved.
Portions may be quoted with attribution.
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NEWS AND LINK: James Levine injured in fall, withdraws from fall Met assignments
Posted on September 6, 2011 by Robert D. Thomas
Hard to tell whether this is, as one media outlet put it,
the end of an era but James Levine has withdrawn from his fall concerts at the
Metropolitan Opera and the company has elevated Principal Guest Conductor Fabio
Luisi to the title of Principal Conductor.
Levine, now 68, has headed the Met since 1986. He fell while
on vacation Vermont where he was recovering from a series of back operations.
Earlier this year he ended his tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony
due to his ongoing health issues.
Luisi will conduct most of Levine's fall assignments,
including a new production of Mozart's Don
Giovanni, which is scheduled to open Oct. 13, and a new production of
Wagner's Siegfried 0opening on Oct.
27. As a result of these changes, Luisi has withdrawn from assignments leading
orchestras in Rome, Vienna and San Francisco (he was supposed to lead
performances of Verdi's Requiem in San Francisco beginning Oct. 13; the SFO has
not announced a replacement conductor as of this morning).
More from the New York Times HERE.
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Top 10 Fashion Movies To Watch
Fustany Team
1. The Devil Wears Prada
Not only is Meryl Streep's performance outstanding, the clothes are impeccable. While watching The Devil Wears Prada we witnessed the transformation of Andy (Anne Hathaway) her assistant, as she rocks the Chanel boots, Prada, a collection of Hermes scarves and so much more. This movie is rated #1 on our list of Top 10 Fashion Movies to watch, we simply can't get enough of the fabulous fashion styles.
2. Coco Before Chanel
Audrey Tatou stars as the creator of the design that until this day has proven to be the perfect little black dress. We see Audrey Tatou rise to success while wearing her classic pearls. Coco before Chanel is a must see fashion movie for all fashion enthusiasts out there.
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
The first scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's speaks for itself, the moment Audrey Hepburn appears in her signature look staring at the Tiffany's window. You know this was bound to be on the list of Top 10 Fashion Movies to watch from her statement pieces of jewelry and her gorgeous black dresses, not to mention accessories.
4. Confessions of a Shopaholic
The title of this fashion movie practically says it all; the movie involves a lot of shopping and clothes. Rebecca Bloomwood's closet is filled with designer clothes; throughout the movie she proves her love for fashion willing to practically give up food to look good.
5. Sex and the City
Four best friends dressed from head to toe in couture. A photo-shoot with vogue, a vast amount of designer wedding dresses and of course shoes. This fashion movie sparkles with designers like Zac Posen and Monolo Blahnik.
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Two words: Anna Wintour! That's enough to define this fashion movie. We witness the making of Vogue and check out the best-dressed characters from the big screen.
7. Casino Royale
Sure this movie isn't the first thing you think of when the name James Bond comes to mind. But, have you seen the gorgeous Eva Green in her fabulous gowns? The Roberto Cavalli purple dress, the Versace black dress and the Sophie Harley jewelry; exquisite. This movie and its clothes are a considered a timeless classic.
Not only does this movie star two of the greatest actors of all time singing and dancing, but they were dressed in the most creative '20s dresses. Collen Atwood walked away with an Oscar for best costume design, portraying the jazz age at its best.
9. Funny Face
Fashion shows, clothes, modeling, photography and how to be lovely define this fashion movie. It might be an old movie, but it's what we call a collectable vintage.
10. Pretty Woman
The red dress and the white gloves are the first thing anyone can remember when they think of this movie. Julia Roberts' classic style is one for the books! We see the transformation of Julia Roberts from an escort to lady like and elegant.
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Home WAR ON EVERYONE
A jet-black comedy about two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path.
British comedy written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. The story follows frustrated Albuquerque cops Terry (Alexander Skarsgård) and Bob (Michael Peña) as they attempt to take the law into their own hands. When the rogue duo discover a group of shady individuals are gathering in town for a big heist, they decide to keep the information from their under-pressure police chief and work the case for their own benefit. Having to fraternise with the kind of characters they're more used to locking up, they come across a host of ex-cons and lowlifes more than eager to help them reach their goal. But as the pair delve deeper into the New Mexico underworld, they soon realise they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
A Kreo Films FZ-LLC project
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Writer: John Michael McDonagh
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Romans 11:36  For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 8:26-27 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Spirit or No Spirit? That Is the Question!


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DAISY ALDAN
BOOKS AND THE LIVING HAND
Daisy Aldan is a Poet, Publisher, and Teacher. Her books include: Seven:Seven, Destruction of Cathedrals and Other Poems, Breakthrough, Love Poems by Daisy Aldan. She has published the works of poets, artists, and musicians in her many Folder Editions and translated the work of poets, such as Stephen Mallarmé's Un Coup de Dés and Albert Steffen's Selected Poems.
In stature she is small and sturdy, possessed of dignity and energy. She wears an elegant velvet vest with silk appliqué, which she bought from one of the weekenders, Sas Colby. She stands before us near a table overflowing with books that she had brought out, the scope of which suddenly seems to surprise her as her talk unfolds. She has two voices, one of practicality, the other of poetic drama. As she speaks, she fairly dances!
DAISY ALDAN: One of my aims is to encourage and teach people to work with imagination through the living hand, because there is something pretty wonderful that emanates from the work that the living hand has touched. Often IBM machines are being used to reproduce mass quantities of books and I know that I for one can always tell when an IBM machine has set the type. I'm not against the machine. I don't feel we should go backwards to the ancient methods, but we have to control the machine and use it when it is appropriate. When you want distribution in wide circles, use an IBM machine. But creative work is a different matter. So it is one of my missions to do as much as possible to bring back hand quality to the work.
For eighteen years I've been involved with designing, publishing, distributing, writing invoices, reading, walking into bookstores with books and so forth. I began as editor of my literary magazine in college. After college in 1946, when I was teaching and had a girl in my class who was good with calligraphy, I thought it would be nice to put my poems in calligraphy. Frances Steloff was the first one to take this book. (She demonstrates how it was made from wallpaper and pasted laundry cardboard sheets. Throughout her talk she shows samples of her books.) I did about 500 of these. You must always remember that the more copies you do, the cheaper it becomes. A few years ago I had all the extras in a friend's attic and she said, "What shall I do with them?"
I said, "Throw them out."
That week I received a telephone call from Boston from a book dealer, Henry Wenning, who asked, "Where can I get a few copies of your first book? There are some people who are collecting your books."
And I thought, "My God, I've just thrown away thousands of dollars." You never know. Big business, disgusting as it is, is now commercializing manuscripts.
As I look back, I can see that at that particular time a literary life began which changed the course of my life. I was working on a doctorate thesis on The Influence of French Surrealism on American Literature. I didn't know destiny would bring me here with three people that affected my life then. One is Frances Steloff, who encouraged my first book, the other is Anna Balakian who agreed to be on my doctorate committee at NYU when I was told by other people at the school that it was too early to write about Surrealism. And here is Anaïs. Three people who really, at certain turning points in my life appeared. They are all here. I can't believe that this is coincidence!
I came into contact with many poets through that dissertation topic. You know, you ray out something that starts moving things in your direction which weren't moving before. I found that continuously. I came into contact with young unknown poets who since became major poets in America and painters who were unable to get their work exhibited. One was Grace Hartigan, who was at the time calling herself George Hartigan so she could get her work exhibited. She ultimately became one of the most important Abstract Expressionist painters. Others were Frank O'Hara, Cohn Ashbery, Kenneth Koch. These were all young unpublished poets. The so-called academic poets were in the saddle, and if you had written anything that was different in style or form, you could not get your work published. At the time there were 40 literary magazines in America and now there must be 400,000 from what I see in the Gotham Book Mart. And View, which had been publishing the older surrealist poets, was discontinued, so I said to myself, that I'd like to publish a magazine for the works of these friends of mine.
I also was writing in that style. In fact, at the time I didn't know that people would call my work 'surrealist' because I was not influenced by the Surrealists. I thought, 'Well, I'll steal paper from school and make a little magazine.' When I got to work, I found that my taste in paper was too fine. I chose the most expensive laid paper that you could find, because I loved the way it felt. The visual is part of the poetic experience and a beautiful book is just as important as the contents. To hold a book, to see it – the paper it is on – the way the type is arranged on the page – is really a total experience.
I perhaps was influenced by Mallaré who also thought the visual aspect of a poem was important. I had translated the Coup de Dés, because I was terribly interested in avant garde poetry. I found out later that Gide had called this the most untranslatable poem in any language! One of Mallarmé's precepts was that the appearance of the poem on the pages was an integral part of the experience because there is the heard poem and there is the written poem. When you see the written poem and hear it with an inner ear, these are two different experiences. The heard poem is not the written poem. I felt that way too and wanted the whole book to be a beautiful artistic work.
That was my downfall. I had paper but when I searched for a cheap printer, I did not realize that the printer's union pays high school graduates $350 a week.
I said, "Oh, my God, that's too much for me." My teaching salary was quite low. Yet, I ended up paying for this and subsequent books myself. Somebody asked yesterday (this morning seems like days ago!) — if Bill Claire had an income? He said, "No," and I had to smile because I'm often asked that question, and I never have either. I'm a slave of the classroom because I've never had an independent income. But I've used the money the same way people buy fur coats. But I want to urge you not to feel that you are depriving yourself of other things because it will bring you back untold wealth in other ways.
I found that I could not afford to have my work done by a professional printer, so as Anaïs did, I looked through a catalogue that sold presses and ordered a press to be sent to me through the mail with type. I never took a course in book production but through necessity I learned. I looked through books of type and decided on Vogue type because of its new quality. I have since become more traditional in the type I use. But this I wanted to be avant garde, you know, sans serif type. It was interesting that later when I sent Anaïs Folder 1 she wrote back and said that because I was using the same type she had, she wondered if I had bought her type. It was one of those strange coincidences!
I had a big case of letters, which I started putting together in a chase. I made many errors and I went through a lot of pain – everything was filthy with printer's ink. Folder 1 is now a collector's item which I can't afford to buy back because every one in it is well known and it was done by hand.
So in the process of making the Folders, first I had to get manuscripts, then I had to figure out how it was going to be bound. Bindings are much more expensive than printers. I couldn't afford it, so I started designing how to do it so the pages wouldn't fall out, and I conceived, after many trials and errors, a folder form. And then I thought, "How wonderful! Now I can give each poet four pages for him/herself." I tried to think of a title. The first was going to be, "Any Minute Now, Somebody's Going to Do It." That was too long and pretentious. So were the names of other magazines, like "Kaleidoscope", "Spectrum", "Rainbow", "Prism". I said, "No, if I'm going to do it this way, let's simply call it Folder." And that's how we got the name.
I spent hours cutting out the forms, scoring and folding, because I didn't know that you could go to somebody who could make a mold and chop all the sheets into shape in one operation. Then there was the printing, after which the poets and I collated everything on a big table. At the same time I had been puttering around with making a silk screened Christmas card, which technique I eventually used in my crowning glory of publishing. My idea was to include painters' work in the Folders too. I always really wanted to bring the whole media together — painting, poetry, and music. I had musicians like Ned Rorem and Ben Weber, who took poems of people like Frank O'Hara's and put them to music. I was very ambitious without being commercially ambitious.
I got a little loft known as The Studio, where I brought my printing press and papers, which became the center for all these young poets and painters. These avant gardists were starting what was later to become the Abstract Expressionist school. At that time DeKooning was selling paintings for $50, which today are worth $50,000. I really intended to buy one but didn't find the time. If I had, I probably now could retire and publish books!
Adele: How many were in your first editions?
DAISY: Five hundred in Folder 1. They are hard to find now but at that time I had a hard time selling them for 50c.
Things find their way into the world. The quality of the writers received attention from the literary world. If you publish a book or a magazine, the first thing to do is to bring a bunch to the Gotham Book Mart, of course! There were reviews in "The New York Times" and so forth. Once a book is started — if it has any worth — it will find its way. Don't ever be afraid to start something. Don't think that it's vanity publishing. Anaïs, Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Proust, Rimbaud, all published their work first. If it's good, it's not vanity. It's only vanity publishing if it's bad. Besides, commercial publishers do terrible things to your work.
When I came to doing Folder II, I knew that I could not possibly set type again, letter by letter, so I learned about Linotype. Linotype is arranging lines of type on a page instead of words. You still create by putting lines and spaces where you want them. Someone warned me not to let anyone know I was doing this because women were not allowed in the Printers' Union and I could get a fine. I think I was the only female Linotype setter in New York at the time. I secretly put my Folder together.
I used photography and serigraphs by painters. In Folder III I used a more elaborate cover done by Grace Hartigan. I published translations from different poets. I think I was the first one to publish George Seferis in this country. I had a whole group of Greek, Haitian and Italian poets. I was the first one to publish Peir Paolo Pasolini here, who has subsequently become known as a filmmaker also. The Folder's name was spreading out I got to know Alice B. Toklas and Princess Marguerite Caetani. One day I visited Anaïs and there was Caresse Crosby. I considered her Black Sun Press fantastic. Here was a woman who blished beautiful books by writers no one ever heard of. I'm sure Anna Balakian had known about these people long before I did. But, do you see how one person inspires another? That's why we have to work together and inspire each other. It is very important for the world today that we do this.
Chapter Eight, part 2 | Table of Contents


There is a tendency these days for people to say things like, "I'm just being real," or "That's just how I am." That tendency is a lie. No one is just a certain way, and none of the ways we see presented with these excuses are actually necessary for the purpose being described. You can be honest without being mean. You can be strong without preying on the weak. You can be real without knocking down someone else's dream. Real strength allows the world to co-exist because real strength is not afraid of differences. Be strong, for real.


Functions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere discusses the studies of the different functions served by the right hemisphere in light of knowledge as well as normal and clinical studies on the subject. The book covers topics such as the visuospatial abilities of the right hemisphere; the analysis of basic perceptual properties; its creation and operation on representations; studies on the function of the right hemisphere in relation to music; and the language capabilities of the right hemisphere. Also covered in the book are the methods for studying cerebral hemispheric function; the development of right hemispheric abilities; and the relation of the right hemisphere to reading disorders. The text is recommended for neurologists who would like to know more or make a study on the right hemisphere and its functions.


BATON ROUGE – Students on University of Louisiana System campuses are hosting service projects and sponsoring drives over the next two weeks in support of nonprofit organizations in their communities.
Each year the new Student Government Association Presidents who make up the UL System's Student Advisory Council commit to a service-learning project. This year, leaders identified the weeks of September 21 and September 28 as Collections Weeks.
September 28- Oct. 2 – Collection of school supplies (notebooks, pencils and other basic school supplies) in partnership with the University of Belize in Belmopan. They will be directed to current students who are in need, as well as students in the university's college prep programs.
Collecting items for local Ouachita Parish Animal Shelter.
September 24 – "Cool" Collection – collect blankets, jackets, and jeans from campus organizations.


The American Association of Meat Processors is North America's largest meat trade organization.
The California League of Food Processors represents the business interests of California's dynamic food processing industry.
Food Northwest (formerly the Northwest Food Processors Association) represents the interests of food processors in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
NPFDA's Mission Statement: "To promote the Poultry and Food Distributors, Processors, and Allied industries by bringing them together and providing a forum to foster long term business relationships."
NAMI is a national trade association that represents companies that process 95 percent of red meat and 70 percent of turkey products in the US and their suppliers throughout America. Aspen Systems is proud to serve a broad range of customers across the NAMI membership.


Synthelectro: The Wichit Sirichote Z80 MICROPROCESSOR KIT.
I bought recently this kit from the eBay store of Wichit Sirichote (http://www.ebay.fr/sch/kswichit/).
I 'talked' here about the serie of different kind of kit that Wichit currently sells, based of several vintage processors.
I juste have to report that only the R7 resistor were missing, a 680 Ohms. A common value that my personnal stock provided... The PCB is of professionnal quality with some 'funny' weird things like holes (for the LCD display) under ICs : not matter!
To populate the PCB I did't need the construction manual because all is very simple and well identified onto the PCB and the part list (even the direction of the TVS diode), exept the resistor placed between the Z80 and U4 which is a 10K Ohms.
I began to place the little componants and specially those that provide the 5V. A rapid voltage test confirmed the présence of the power on all the ICs footprints.
I continued with the ICs with/without their sockets. I placed only the RAM/ROM/PLD/AT89 and MAX232 on sockets. The others ICs were directly mounted to the PCB, like the processor. Then, I placed all the others components.
The Z80 provided with the kit was a Toshiba version. I have nothing against Toshiba, but, for a vintage Z80 computer, I prefered to place an original Zilog Z80. The one used has a date code of April 1983 : perfect.
Better with the red filter.
One other component heats up a little, it's the GAL, but just around 30 °C.
It should be noted that the temperature of the regulator, in this case, is generated by a power supply of 12V and not 9V as recommended. It should be significantly lower with a 9V power supply.
Conclusion : I bought this kit 'to be built '. It took me juste a couple of hours to do that.
I did not encounter any problems and it worked as soon as power was plugged in.
The keyboard is not the 'better possible' with the plastic printed layer in place but still very usable.
Now, I have to do some programs for it and, of course, make usefull extensions with the extension port!
A very good kit for the price, even better if you buy it not builded!
07/04/2017 update : I made some improvements and modifications to get this board easier to play with.
First, I replaced the MAX232 converter IC with a USB to serial bus micro-module converter. The solution is not intended to stay in place but just when the board is in the 'developpement mode'.
To get this solution very fine, and not to have to plug this module and load the programm every time I power up the CPU80 board, I also replaced the static RAM with a non-volatile one.
11/29/2017 update : upgrade the kit to the popular uPF1 version with new PAL and EPROM, burned with a Minipro TL866A (in french).


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The California Experiment
The Great California Prison Experiment
Crime is up. The mystery is why.
Filed 6:00 a.m. 12.20.2018
Shattered glass from a vehicle near the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in December. Carlos Chavarría for The Marshall Project
By Abbie VanSickle and Manuel Villa
Graphics by JON SCHLEUSS and Yolanda Martinez
Over the past decade, California has led the nation in reducing its prison population. After the Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that conditions in the state's overcrowded penitentiaries had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements," lawmakers and voters enacted a series of measures to reduce sentences for many crimes and divert offenders to the authority of the counties.
This story was published in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times.
From the outset, critics have warned that putting fewer offenders in prison would lead to a crime wave. Now the first serious attempt is underway to roll back the reforms, backed by law enforcement groups and already planted on the 2020 ballot. Sponsors claim the prison downsizing has "threatened the public safety of Californians and their children from violent criminals."
In fact, violent crime has increased in the years since 2011, when California embarked on its campaign—called "realignment," beginning with Assembly Bill 109—to make the state's prisons more humane.
Related: How One County Became a Lab for California's Prison Reform.
The mystery is why.
An analysis by The Marshall Project and the Los Angeles Times found:
Crime spiked in both 2012 and 2015, the years that immediately followed two major statewide measures aimed at decreasing the number of people in prison. Those temporary jumps were mainly driven by increases in property crimes, particularly thefts from motor vehicles.
Property crimes per 100,000 people
Source: FBI
Note: U.S. rate excludes California
After decades of mirroring national trends in violent crime, California saw a 12 percent increase from 2014 to 2017, led by aggravated assaults and robberies, while the violent crime rate in the other 49 states together increased only 3 percent. 2014 was the year voters approved Proposition 47, which reduced sentences for many low-level drug and property crimes.
Violent crimes per 100,000 people
Note: Excludes rape. U.S. rate excludes California
Crime trends vary dramatically from county to county. Thirty-one of the state's 58 counties saw an increase in violent crime last year, while 22 saw an increase in property crimes.
As Congress and many other states look for ways to reform their criminal justice practices, California's prison downsizing experiment holds lessons for lawmakers.
The prison downsizing plan went into effect during a long, steady decline in crime, both in California and nationally. Overall, the state's crime levels remain at historic lows, comparable to rates seen in the 1960s.
Dubbed "the great American crime decline" by Franklin Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley criminologist and law professor, the trend doesn't have a single, clear explanation. Some of it—experts dispute how much—was the result of so many criminally inclined people being locked up. Researchers also have credited everything from the obvious (the hiring of more police, a booming economy) to the more obscure (legalized abortion resulting in fewer unwanted children, limits on lead in gasoline reducing cognitive damage).
California's experience during the years of prison downsizing is similarly confounding. Advocates and critics—along with the leading researchers on the state's crime and corrections—agree there is no simple explanation for California's numbers. What single factor can explain the fact that violent crime went up 6 percent last year in Los Angeles, but fell 6 percent in Sacramento? What explains the fact that homicides in the state fell 6 percent while robberies increased 3 percent?
One factor influencing the crime trends may be major differences in how counties invested the billions in state money appropriated to implement the new measures. Some jurisdictions focused on building jails, others focused on recruiting and deploying police, and still others experimented with collaborative courts and reentry programs. (Another story in this series will examine the role of counties in carrying out the prison downsizing.)
Prisoners in the North Block at California's San Quentin State Prison.
Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times
To complicate matters, specific crimes come with their own caveats. Reports of rape have increased nationally since 2013, for example, but sexual assaults have traditionally been under-reported and in recent years there has been a concerted effort to encourage survivors of rape to come forward. (Part of the increase stems from the FBI's decision to broaden the definition of rape in 2013, and our analysis takes this into account by omitting rape reports.)
"Causation is very, very difficult," said Michele Hanisee, head of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County and a leader in the campaign to roll back some of the reductions in the prison population. "The question that I think would be better to ask is 'Is Prop 47 successful?' Did it accomplish what it set out to accomplish?"
But proponents of the rollback assert that Assembly Bill 109, Proposition 47 and other recent laws have created a permissive climate that makes policing harder and weakens the deterrent effect of a possible prison sentence.
"There's no accountability," said Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove. "People know they can get away with things. That's contributed to it. That's really been a big source of frustration. No one's going to jail anymore."
Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove, supports a statewide initiative that would toughen supervision of parolees and disqualify some prisoners from early release.
Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
Cooper, a retired Sacramento sheriff's captain, has been a leading voice in a coalition of prosecutors and law enforcement groups pushing back against realignment and Proposition 47.
The forthcoming ballot measure would reverse some provisions of Proposition 47. It would also toughen supervision of parolees and disqualify some prisoners from early release.
Backers of the proposed rollback claim the state's drug courts, intended as an alternative to criminal courts, are seeing fewer people because prosecutors can no longer force someone into treatment with the threat of a felony. (No statewide database exists to track the number of people who participate in drug courts, but some counties, including San Diego, have reported decreases in participation since Prop 47.)
Those who favor toughening the law also claim counties are struggling to supervise offenders with violent criminal records.
After a recent mass shooting in Bakersfield, the Kern County seat, some local leaders blamed California's prison downsizing for the county's increase in murders. Kern County has one of the state's highest homicide rates.
The shooting suspect, 54-year-old Javier Casarez, who killed himself as law enforcement tried to apprehend him, had never been in prison, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and had not benefited from realignment or Proposition 47.
Kern County Sheriff's Lt. Mark King said that there was no direct link between the measures and the shooting, but said he was concerned that the new laws are a type of "social engineering" that has removed the consequences for low-level crimes.
"Younger people are growing up making poorer decisions," King said. "They lack respect for property and life...When you change laws, you change things down the road."
Supporters of the prison downsizing measures strenuously dispute any link between the new laws and an increase in crime. They point out that the recent rise in crime is exaggerated when the baseline is 2014, the year with the fewest crimes reported in the state since the 1960s.
"To look at it from a year-to-year basis is very short-sighted," said Michael Romano, the director of the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law, who helped write Proposition 47. "We really have had a sustained downward trend over the past decade or two."
He said that it's unlikely any single factor led to an increase in crime, but rather a combination of issues like poverty and unemployment in different counties throughout the state.
Californians for Safety and Justice, a group that co-authored Prop 47, points out that several other states saw larger increases in violent crime than California from 2016 to 2017. (An analysis by the Marshall Project found 20 states with larger increases in violent crime rates.) They note that none of the recent laws changed penalties for violent crimes, focusing instead on non-violent offenders and low-level drug and property crimes.
"There's no link between reform and violent crime," said Lenore Anderson, founder and executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice. "What we have seen repeatedly are wide variations at the local level, and wide variations at the local level point to the importance of local practices."
Several academic studies have examined the question of whether or not the new laws led to crime increases. None has so far found a link between increases in violent crime and the prison downsizing measures.
In 2013, the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California found that the first major law, realignment, had no impact on violent crime but had led to an increase in auto thefts. In 2016, a prestigious social science journal reached a similar conclusion.
Under realignment, people convicted of auto theft, a nonviolent felony, serve sentences in their local jails and are released under local supervision.
PPIC researcher Magnus Lofstrom said that people convicted of auto theft have a high rate of new crimes after release, perhaps because auto theft requires skills, tools and a network of associates, making it more like a career than most crimes.
Two studies published this summer—one by a University of California, Irvine criminologist and another by PPIC—found no link between Prop 47 and increases in violent crime. Both noted a possible link between the initiative and increases in larceny, although the Irvine study found those links too tenuous to conclude Prop 47 was to blame.
The fatal shooting of a Whittier police officer in February 2017 galvanized law enforcement groups to support a ballot measure to roll back some of the state's new laws aimed at prison-downsizing. The suspect in the shooting, Michael Christopher Mejia, had served time in state prison but had not been released early because of the new laws.
Brian Feinzimer
After national crime data for 2017 released this fall showed California departed from the national trend—violent crime in California ticked up slightly while it fell slightly across the other 49 states—researchers said they planned revisit the question of a link between Prop 47 and violent crime, particularly robberies.
"It is troubling and deserves more attention," Lofstrom said.
Several counties have reported outbreaks of car break-ins in the last few years, but one county accounted for much of the increase: San Francisco. Thefts from vehicles nearly tripled in the city from 2011 to 2017, when they hit 29,851.
It's become common for San Francisco residents to feel the crunch of car window glass underfoot and to see cars with signs alerting thieves that there's nothing valuable inside. Stickers throughout the city warn, "Park smart. If you love it, don't leave it!"
Shattered glass on a San Francisco street this month.
Carlos Chavarría for The Marshall Project
About a year ago, Bob Hinckley and his wife, Tina, moved into a home near the top of the city's famously curvy Lombard Street. Since then, they estimate they've seen dozens of break-ins, mainly of unsuspecting tourists who leave valuables in full view.
Hinckley said he once saw police try to stop a suspect, who simply drove onto the sidewalk to avoid capture.
"He would have killed anyone on the sidewalk," he said. "Why do they come over here to break into cars? Because that's where the tourists are with their bags."
The Hinckleys said they sense a lack of political will in San Francisco to focus more on policing.
An analysis of break-ins confirmed that these thefts were concentrated near tourist hotspots—a stretch of road near museums in Golden Gate Park, a viewpoint overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a street near the Palace of Fine Arts—or in large, public parking garages.
San Francisco Police Lt. Michael Nevin, who until November oversaw car break-in investigations in a district that includes many of the tourist hot spots, said he had noticed a sharp spike in auto burglaries in 2013, before Prop 47. Nevin said break-ins are often charged as "auto burglary," which was unaffected by the ballot measure. (Auto burglary is a "wobbler," which means it can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony.) He said the break-ins are typically committed by organized theft rings that work in groups of two or three.
"I think it's important to point out that an auto break-in was a felony before [Prop 47], and it's a felony now," he said.
When asked whether new criminal justice measures have hampered his daily policing work, he said, "Absolutely not."
Car owners placed notes in their vehicles to try to prevent break-ins in the Alamo Square neighborhood of San Francisco in December. Carlos Chavarría for The Marshall Project
Car break-ins have been concentrated near tourist hotspots Carlos Chavarría for The Marshall Project
The break-ins have become a hot-button issue in San Francisco, particularly because District Attorney George Gascón co-authored Prop 47.
In September, Suzy Loftus, a former prosecutor who now works as a lawyer for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, announced she would challenge Gascón with a focus on the car break-ins. Shortly after, Gascón announced he would not seek reelection.
Loftus doesn't blame Prop 47 or other prison downsizing laws for the crime increase. She said, if anything, it shows a failure by San Francisco leaders to adapt to needed criminal justice changes.
"I think the idea that when these crimes stopped being felonies—There's nothing you can do? There's plenty you can do," she said. "It's easy to say the changes in our system are causing this. It's harder to say, 'Hey, we needed those changes, and we've got to work together better locally.'"
Another crime that has become central to the backlash against the new criminal justice measures is shoplifting.
Proposition 47 raised the value of stolen goods necessary to charge a felony from $400 to $950. Retailers complained that organized theft rings were taking advantage of the reduced punishments to steal misdemeanor levels of merchandise from store after store.
"It's gotten far worse in the last few years—there are no consequences," Rudy Ruiz, owner of World 1-1 Games, a video game store in a mall about an hour north of Santa Barbara. "Whatever numbers you're using, I can guarantee they're much, much higher."
At first, he would call police, but they would take three or four hours to respond, Ruiz said.
Essays by people in prison and others who have experience with the criminal justice system
So Ruiz tried to run down shoplifters himself and to shame suspects on social media. A few months ago, a group of thieves stole a video game controller. He started chasing after them, and they dropped it. Another time, he caught a woman slipping an item into her baby stroller.
"I'll personally go after people," he said. "I'm not a million-dollar corporation. If somebody steals $100, that's a lot for me."
Shoplifting rates soared in many counties in 2015, with Los Angeles and San Bernardino seeing the most dramatic increases in the total number of shoplifting reports. But then they dropped statewide over the next two years, falling to their lowest level in more than a decade.
To head off a frontal assault on Proposition 47, legislators created a new category of crime, "organized retail theft." That new law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown in September, gives prosecutors discretion to charge shoplifting as a felony if two or more people are acting together to steal.
The bill's author, Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, said the bill's aim was to crack down on organized shoplifting rings without retreating from the reforms or criminalizing people who are stealing because they are hungry, homeless or addicted.
Cooper, the Prop 47 critic, said it would do little to curb shoplifting because it places too high a burden on prosecutors to prove a conspiracy.
In San Joaquin County, which has long had one of the state's highest crimes rates, property crimes have fallen by 25 percent since 2011. In 2017, it saw the lowest number of shoplifting reports in 15 years.
When Eric Jones, chief of police in Stockton, the San Joaquin County seat, first saw the local crime numbers, he worried that perhaps the drop in crime meant fewer people were reporting to police. The department double-checked the figures by looking at auto thefts—a crime that's nearly always reported—to verify their data.
He said he'd been skeptical when realignment and Proposition 47 went into effect.
"I was concerned when those passed about the impact those were going to have on my community," Jones said. "Would crime go up? And it's just not that simple. I mean, look at our county—we've seen some success."
How We Computed the Crime Metrics
For our joint investigation with the Los Angeles Times, we used crime data from two sources: The Open Justice portal from the California Department of Justice, which provides crime data for the Golden State alone, and the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, which provides data for all 50 states.
To compute crime rates—defined as number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitants—we needed population figures. The UCR includes population numbers in its crime data, but the California Department of Justice does not, so we obtained the state's population and that of its 58 counties from the U.S. Census' annual population estimates.
The crime data on California obtained from the UCR should, in theory, be the same as those provided by that state's Department of Justice, since it is this agency that submits crime data to the FBI in the first place. There are always minor differences, however, likely generated by the standardizing of the data by the FBI to make it consistent across the 50 states.
We confirmed these differences are not significant enough to alter the conclusions of the analysis. To be consistent, however, we use UCR data when we draw comparisons between the Golden State and the rest of the country, and data from the California Department of Justice when we analyze what has happened inside California alone.
All of the data and code used for our analysis can be found in this GitHub repository.
The Marshall Project receives funding from the California Endowment and other organizations that favor efforts to reform California's criminal justice system. Under terms of its funding, the Marshall Project has sole editorial control of its news reporting.
Tags: →California →Realignment →AB 109 →Proposition 47 →Violent Crime


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David Hinckley , Contributor
Entertainment and pop culture writer
Don't Look Now, But America May Be Running Dangerously Low On Sweethearts
02/01/2017 11:43 am ET Updated Feb 02, 2017
I was listening to Doris Day singing "Sentimental Journey" last night when a chilling thought blew over me: What if America ran out of sweethearts?
It's no mystery why that fear would surface now, and not just because Doris Day turns 93 this April.
Not, we hope, the last waltz.
It's also because just over the last few weeks we've lost both Debbie Reynolds and Mary Tyler Moore.
When Reynolds died, we will all recall, there was universal agreement we had lost America's sweetheart. Then Moore died and wouldn't you know it, we lost America's sweetheart again.
When it comes to sweethearts, the casual observer of recent news might think America is well-stocked. One in every port.
America, you rascal.
But in fact, America has always had a small, finite supply of sweethearts. Doris Day won't be around forever, sadly, and the bench has a lot of question marks.
I fear for an America that wakes up in 2040 to discover its only option for a sweetheart is Madonna.
Or wakes up in 2067 and discover we're down to Miley Cyrus.
Nothing against Madonna or Miley. But calling them America's Sweetheart would be like calling Colonel Sanders King of the American Hamburger.
Wrong number.
Parenthetically, I suspect neither Madonna nor Miley would want anything to do with the designation anyhow, since part of their life plan has always been the precise opposite of mass endearment. They have chosen, and rather gleefully, options that make millions of Americans clutch their chests and hide the children.
I'd also bet that no one, including Debbie Reynolds and Mary Tyler Moore, ever set out to become America's Sweetheart, any more than a kid would go to school aiming to become the teacher's pet.
It's more a matter of falling into characters like Kathy Selden from Singing in the Rain, or Mary Richards from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, who strike some intangible chord that makes them likeable to everyone in an irresistibly winsome sort of way.
Finding that serendipity is trickier than it sounds, because you can look back a hundred years and almost name every one of America's consensus sweethearts.
Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish made the cut in silent films. Shirley Temple got there for being America's cutest plucky kid in the 1930s. Whitney Houston qualified in the 1980s and 1990s, before all the other stuff happened.
More instructive, perhaps, is who didn't qualify.
We loved Lucille Ball. She was not America's sweetheart. Neither was Elizabeth Taylor, though she may have been almost everyone else's.
Jean Harlow or Carole Lombard, maybe. Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, no. Loved their work, not our sweethearts.
Neither were Lauren Bacall and Lena Horne. Same situation. Dorothy Dandridge could have been there if so many doors hadn't been closed to her.
Marilyn Monroe is a tough call. She might qualify except so much of her story feels sad. No one wants to think of their sweetheart and feel sad.
Audrey Hepburn was winsome enough, but like Julie Andrews or Ingrid Bergman, she didn't quite feel American. Grace Kelly forfeited the girl-next-door requirement when she became royalty in Monaco.
So no, we do not have one in every port, and the pool gets smaller as popular culture fragments into narrow niches and develops fewer broad-appeal personalities.
Also, Hollywood bailed 25 years ago on America's Sweetheart movies. An Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Sigourney Weaver or Annette Bening is more likely to play a tough broad than Kathy Selden.
Julia Roberts? Maybe, though she sometimes seems a little distant. Anne Hathaway needs a signature tour de force. Meg Ryan was on the America's Sweetheart fast track earlier and now it's hard to tell where she is.
Zoey Deschanel could get there. Heck, Carrie Underwood could get there. Maybe as we become more of a rainbow, we'll get a couple of sweethearts who aren't pretty white women.
It would just be nice if we get somebody. Call it a sentimental journey, but an America without a sweetheart, darn it, is an America where a little bit of the dream has died.
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"I'm Trying To Break Your Heart" by Kid Wave
Following the release of their reverb-soaked debut album Wonderlust this past June on Heavenly Recordings, Kid Wave have shared a music video for track 'I'm Trying To Break your Heart.'
'I'm Trying To Break Your Heart' is taken from Kid Wave's recently debuted album Wonderlust that was recorded at Eve Studio in Stockport with producer Dan Austin (Doves, Cherry Ghost). The track itself is swirling with resounding guitar work and front woman Lea Emmery's lush vocals offering self-aware musings about heartbreak. The wistful landscapes and narrative in this video prove an apt (and lovely) compliment to this, eloquently basking in the nuanced moments and overlap of young love and deep friendships.
The band has also announced details of a UK headline tour in the autumn of this year.
Kid Wave craft slacker indie rock and transcendental dream-laden pop of a distinctly early '90s bent. We hear shades of Lush and Dinosaur Jr. in their sonic sunshine, though other ears might recall PJ Harvey, The Lemonheads, The Breeders, Pavement or Teenage Fanclub. The one thing that perhaps unites this music of the past with Kid Wave is an infatuation with melody; this quartet never sacrifice the song for volume or let the feedback do the work. Because at the center, beneath the shoe-gazing dynamics and the dark lyrical undercurrents that speak of existential quandaries and the confusions of young life in the 21st century, is a heart that beats for pop music.
The international quartet's debut album Wonderlust is a crafted set of pop songs that bathe in the golden, restorative rays more commonly associated with life on the Californian coast rather than London, where Kid Wave reside. This is music that's delivered with an uplifting sense of youthful, wild abandon, yet it also projects undercurrents of wistful melancholy. Occasionally dark clouds obscure their sonic sunshine and there's a nagging sense that no summer lasts forever.
Nevertheless it's an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that 22 year old singer/songwriter Lea Emmery and guitarist Mattias Bhatt hail from the south-east coast of Sweden where sub-zero Baltic winds blow in to freeze the land for several months of the year, and that this debut was recorded in Stockport during the darker days and crepuscular nights of an English winter.
Kid Wave sing escapist songs of struggle, desire and yearning: songs born out of Lea's lonely years as a teenager adrift in a foreign country, where the hope of musical success and a superhuman level of stubbornness were the only things stopping her from returning to the safety of the family home.
These are timeless songs that sing of life-defining moments. Wonderlust is sure to soundtrack many a young romantic fumbling or infatuation, wild party or sun-rise revelation. Kid Wave are the sound of liberation – of the very essence of life itself.
Kid Wave are: Lea Emmery (vocals & guitar), Harry Deacon (bass), Serra Petale (drums) & Mattias Bhatt (guitar).
Wonderlust Tracklisting:
1. Wonderlust
2. Gloom
4. Best Friend
5. Walk On Fire
6. Baby Tiger
7. All I Want
8. Sway
9. Freeride
10. I'm Trying To Break Your Heart
11. Dreaming On
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Birth Place: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Jitendra Pratap Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (born 12 June 1971) is the Minister of State (Home) in the central government Indian Member of Parliament representing the Alwar constituency of Rajasthan. Jitendra Singh is the grandson of Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar, the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Alwar. In the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971,
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Ashok Chaturvedi
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Viraf Phiroz Patel' (12 June 1980) is a Indian model and actor. He is most noted for his role as 'shiv' in the romantic-comedy serial Mahi Way. He was a merchant navy sailor before he became a model. In 2005, he won a male personality pageant called "Grasim Mr India". In 2007, he made his film debut in the Bollywood film Mummyji. He was born and brought up in Pune. he has two elder brothers.
Birth Place: Pune, Maharashtra, India
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H. M. Reddy
H. M. Reddy (12 June 1892 - 14 January 1960) produced the first south talkie movie, Bhakta Prahlada. His full name was Hanumappa Muniappa Reddy and he was also referred as HM Reddy. Before making his own productions, he worked as assistant to Ardeshir Irani, creator of the first Indian talkie Alam Ara. He produced successful Telugu movies such as Tenali Ramakrishna, Kalidas and Gruha Lakshmi.
Birth Place: Andhra Pradesh, India
Saba Anjum Karim
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Pasupuleti Balaraju ( born 12 June 1961 ) is an Indian politician and a legislator from Andhra Pradesh, India. He belongs to Indian National Congress party. Pasupuleti Balaraju was born in Gudem Kotha Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. He earned a Master degree in Arts from Amravati University in 2009.
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Rajinder Ghai
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Jameel Jalibi
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ACLU Press Release: DHS Ends Three-Year Charade on S-Comm
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Three years after Department of Homeland Security first rolled out the "Secure Communities Program" which sent fingerprints of those accused of a crime at the moment of arrest from the jails to ICE, DHS reveals they never needed state consent to participate in the program anyway. Immigrant rights organizations are angry, yet are not surprised by DHS's latest move — which many feel is just part of their business-as-usual tactic to skirt transparency and ultimately deport undocumented immigrants at all costs.
CONTACT: Cynthia Bell, (202) 675-2312; media@dcaclu.org
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been able to cite only one statutory provision to support its position: 8 U.S.C. § 1722, part of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act (EBSA). But EBSA does not authorize the federal government to commandeer states' resources to screen individuals in state and local custody.
"Three years after introducing Secure Communities, DHS changed the rules of the game by setting aside all the agreements that states negotiated in good faith. Today's announcement is the latest in a long line of deceptive DHS theatrics and is an insult to governors and state leaders who signed these agreements, which now amount to nothing more than the paper they're printed on. DHS has recklessly inflicted S-Comm on states and localities across the country without any legal justification for the program," said Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
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The Menuhin Competition has announced its 2016 competitors
The world's premier violin competition for young people has announced its list of finalists ahead of the event at London's South Bank Centre.
In the centenary year of violinist and pioneering teacher Yehudi Menuhin, the competition boasts an international line-up of finalists.
The competition is made up of two main categories with 22 finalists in each. In the junior category (under-16s) there are only 7 male competitors, while in the seniors (under-22s) there is just one.
Juror and previous winner Tasmin Little OBE commented on the makeup of the list: I celebrate the fact that gender is no longer an issue in the world of violinists."
"I know my mentor Menuhin would also be delighted as, for him, the most important thing was always the music and the musician, and never their gender, colour, creed or nationality."
The youngest competitor has already made a name for himself thanks to his previous performances. Samuel Tan, 10, from Singapore, has already won international competitions.
Three British finalists have been selected, Louisa Staples (15), Juliette Roos (20) and Mathilde Milwidsky (21).
The competition will run from April 7th - April 17th 2016. See the full list of competitors here.


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E-newsletter: Making democracy more representative, transparency for public records and more news from Olympia
Before jumping into my newsletter this week, I would like to highlight the fact that TVW now has a mobile app for Android and iPhone phones! TVW provides unedited coverage of Washington state government. With TVW, you can watch committee hearings, floor sessions, and many other events of importance to our government, politics and public policy. You can tune in on television, through the web and now straight from their mobile app. Find the new app by searching TVW in your respective app stores. For more information, please click this link, which takes you to the tvw.org announcement of the TVW mobile app. Now, onto what is happening this week in Olympia!
The Washington Voting Rights Act
I am excited to share that The WA Voting Rights Act (SB 6002) passed out of the House this week. This landmark piece of legislation is an important step to ensure democracy exists within our state. I am the prime sponsor of the House version of this bill (HB 1800). My January E-Newsletter goes into further detail on the Washington Voting Rights Act – feel free to give it a read!
We all know that voting is a fundamental American right. However, far too often, we find unnecessary barriers getting in the way of citizens who want to cast their ballot. The more engaged and educated our fellow citizens are, the better the outcomes for our democracy – that is why The WA Voting Rights Act is so important. We will not be reducing what is required of people to cast their vote. You still have to be 18 years of age, a resident of Washington, and a citizen of the United States. We are simply removing barriers that prevent the adequate representation of communities and their residents.
Below are updates on other bills that ensure an enriched democracy in Washington State by increasing voter participation.
Youth Voter Registration
Young people are more likely to become engaged voters when they get involved early in their life. That's why I am proud to be supporting House Bill 1513 to allow 16 and 17 year olds to pre-register to vote when they get their driver's license or permit.
Studies show that preregistration increases youth turnout by 2-13%. In 2012, in Washington, about 80% of registered youth turned out and actually went to the polls. HB 1513 will reach young people early to help create lifelong voters.
Automatic Voter Registration
The biggest predictor of whether someone will vote or not is if they are even registered in the first place. With House Bill 2595, people would be registered to vote automatically if they have accessed certain services at the Department of Licensing and the Health Benefits Exchange. The bill also funds a study to look into other ways to increase registration.
Analysis shows automatic voter registration boosts numbers of registered voters as well as turnout in elections. HB 2595 would take Washington from being an opt-in system to an opt-out system, which will make voter registration more secure and cost effective. To be clear, no one is being forced to vote or return a ballot and eligibility requirements remain the same. Automatic voter registration has already passed in nine states (including the rest of the West Coast, Colorado, Georgia and West Virginia) and is being considered in 32 other states around the nation.
Same-day Registration
As it gets closer to election day, people tend to be more engaged and interested in voting. But under our current law, the deadline to register to vote is 29 days before the election, leaving many people unable to vote because they miss the deadline. Under SB 6021, a person can register in person up to 8:00 pm on the day of the election. Many states that have enacted same day voter registration have seen significant increases in voter turnout.
Removing barriers to voting helps increase participation in our democracy and ultimately creates a more robust and representative government.
Bringing more transparency to state government
As many of you have heard, last week the legislature passed a bill related to public records. Washington state has made great strides over the years to improve public transparency of the legislative process.
TVW covers legislative activity in Olympia.
The Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) keeps a close eye on political campaign financing.
And members of the public are free to observe official committee meetings and floor debates in-person.
Over the last few years, we have heard the concerns of reporters, editorial boards, and open government advocates that the legislature is not transparent enough. These concerns have led to a court case, and in order to avoid further costly litigation, lawmakers have approved a bipartisan measure to address many of the concerns regarding a need for additional transparency from the legislature.
The measure we approved last week (SB 6617) is the largest expansion of legislative records being opened to the public in over two decades. Once the bill goes into effect on July 1, 2018, more legislative records will be subject to public disclosure, including:
Legislators' calendars, including the names and dates of individuals and organizations with whom they've met;
Legislators' correspondence on legislative business to and from lobbyists and other people who are paid to influence legislation;
Final dispositions of investigations and disciplinary proceedings by administrative committees that oversee the House and Senate; and
Any other records lawmakers choose to disclose.
Lawmakers are striving to be more transparent, but there are still aspects of our work that must remain private, which we have protected in this legislation:
Constituent privacy: Our first job is to work on behalf of our constituents. If they do not have confidence that their private correspondence will remain private, we cannot do our jobs.
Protect the legislative process: The open flow of ideas and advice is crucial to the legislative environment. Legislators shouldn't have to worry about asking dumb questions, or having bad ideas, if these never see the light of day. Likewise, staff should feel free sharing advice.
Political fishing expeditions: The legislature is a political place by nature. There is a real concern about using disclosure laws as weapons, either legislatively or in an election.
This is a first step, and I believe it strikes a fair balance between protecting constituent privacy and striving for a more open government. While I don't support the quick manner in which this bill was passed, I do support making our legislature more transparent. The bill is far from perfect, but it's an excellent step in the right direction. I am open to continue looking at how we can ensure the legislature operates in a way that is more transparent.
Thanks for coming to our town hall
I'm excited to share that the 33rd LD Town Hall was a success! A big thanks to our community for the incredible turnout – over 70 constituents showed up to meet with myself, Representative Orwall and Senator Keiser in-district to discuss the important legislative issues impacting our community. I feel incredibly fortunate to represent and be a part of such a wonderful district! It was an honor to connect at our event.
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Written by Staff Writer on 11 April 2019 .
Iranian officials and state-run media have reacted with shock and anger at the US decision to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
Amir-Ali Abolfath, a regime analyst, said that this would bring all IRGC forces, basis, and infrastructure, including those in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and elsewhere, under threat from the US. This is true because the objective is to wipe out terrorist entities, especially when they have wormed their way into a foreign war.
But why are the mullahs so upset by the extremely warranted designation?
Well some, like former Iranian regime envoy to China Ali Khorram, feel that the designation will increase the chances of social unrest in Iran, especially after the overwhelming nationwide protests that Iran has seen over the past year because of the dire economic state, including inflation, unemployment, and shortage of goods and services. These protests quickly became about political demands and the mullahs fear this could easily happen again and lead to regime change.
Given the sheer amount of the economy controlled by the IRGC, this is not surprising. It could well damage the economy and cause protests. Of course, economic problems are far from the only reason that the Iranian people have issue with the Regime.
Indeed, the Iranian people have spent over three weeks besieged by floods with the mullahs doing little if anything to help. The IRGC arrived to save their business interests and suppress protests rather than distribute aid or save lives. This has spurred understandable protest and the Regime responded with violence, even having the IRGC shoot dead one protester and wound several others for the sole crime of trying to prevent the IRGC removing flood barriers erected by the people.
Of course, the real reason that the Regime is terrified on the IRGC designation is because the suppressive security force is an essential tool for the mullahs' twin campaigns of internal repression and export of terrorism.


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