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GUESS To Partner With Tiesto
GUESS, the denim-based lifestyle brand, announces that the company is embarking on a comprehensive collaboration with legendary DJ and producer Tiesto that will include a limited-edition capsule collection and branded performances around the world.
"When I first met Tiesto, I was really so impressed," said Paul Marciano, CEO and Creative Director for GUESS? Inc. "We connected right away on both a personal and professional level. He is more than just a DJ – he is very multi-faceted and truly understands what it takes to build a brand. There is no better choice in music today to represent the free-spirited, adventurous and sexy GUESS lifestyle."
"GUESS has been a pioneer in fashion for 30 years," said Tiesto. "I've been a fan of the brand for a long time. It's really an honor to have been selected to partner with them in such a global way. The opportunity to work with Paul Marciano and his company is truly invaluable as I continue to build my clothing brand, CLVB LIFE."
Beginning in August, the Limited Edition Tiesto watch by GUESS, a new multi-functional style, will be available worldwide in GUESS stores and at department and specialty stores. The apparel collection will follow in October for women and men. The 22 piece line is inspired by the growing power of electronic music and lifestyle surrounding it in today's pop culture. Included in the offering are skinny-fit jeans for men and women in black and indigo treatments with zipper detailing, graphic print T-shirts reminiscent of the digital light shows and video projections during a Tiesto performance, and leather jackets and coated twill jackets that add an edgy sexiness using moto-jacket details. This all comes detailed and trimmed with the custom GUESS/Tiesto logo in black and electric blue.
Tiesto's performances will span the globe beginning July 23rd in Ibiza continuing through 2013 and will include locations such as Paris, Milan, Las Vegas, Dubai and Sydney, among others.
A dedicated microsite, with the URL of tiesto.guess.com, will include product details, performance schedules, ecommerce and a global sweepstakes. Fans can join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #guesstiesto.
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Phonolite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Phonolitic rocks, with felsics comprising 10-60% foids and alkali feldspar/total feldspar >0.9.
The extrusive or fine grained equivalent of nepheline syenite. The principal mineral is anorthoclase or sanidine. Other major minerals may be nepheline, aegirine and diopside, usually with other feldspathoidal minerals such as sodalite or hauyne. Accessories include apatite and sphene.
[Tinguaite] Gilligan, L.B., Brownlow, J.W., Cameron, R.G., Henley, H.F. (1992) Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets: Dorrigo-Coffs Harbour 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map SH/56-10, SH/56-11. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, 509 pages.
[Peralkaline phonolite] Wheeler, S., Spigarelli, S., Stoppa, F., & Rinaldi, R. (1996). Secondary minerals from the igneous complex of Colle Fabbri, Spoleto (PG). Plinius, 16(2), 1.
[Tinguaite] Solovova, I. P., Girnis, A. V., Ryabchikov, I. D., & Simakin, S. G. (2006, October). High-temperature carbonatite melt and its interrelations with alkaline magmas of the Dunkel'dyk complex, southeastern Pamirs. In Doklady earth sciences (Vol. 410, No. 1, pp. 1148-1151). MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica.
U.S. Geological Survey, (2005) Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.
McLemore, Virginia T. and James R. Guilinger (1993): Geology and mineral resources in the Cornudas Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico and Hudspeth County, Texas pp. 145-153 in Carlsbad Region (New Mexico and West Texas), Love, D. W.; Hawley, J. W.; Kues, B. S.; Austin, G. S.; Lucas, S. G.; [eds.], New Mexico Geological Society 44th Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook, 357 p.


A 24-page sticker and activity book featuring Orchard Toys characters. Featuring familiar characters from Orchard Toys' much-loved games and jigsaws, this fun sticker activity book will challenge children to pair, match and solve puzzles! Offers levels of increasing difficulty for progressive learning.
WARNING: Not suitable for children under 3. Colour and design may vary.


This ruin is a good opportumity to build a house of your life.It has 9000sqm of plot, and 180sqm building, It is a quiet place surrounded by olive trees and beautiful views ideal for nature lovers. Access to the property is via a dirt road in good condition. Vva de Algaida is a big village with medical center, lots of shops and restaurants. The city is only 20 min from Antequera and about 45 min away from Málaga airport.


Today we are in the middle of an historic change moment in our country, our cities and our role in the field of the arts. Not since the 1950's when highways connected and crisscrossed our land have we seen such a massive influx of population in our cities and immigration nationally and internationally. At a time when racial equity and social and environmental justice is being challenged at a national level we affirm our commitment to this work and stand in solidarity with our communities.
Seattle is a progressive utopia, but even here in a bastion of liberalism we have work to do to foster a creative community that benefits all people. Therefore, the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) collectively created a Racial Equity Statement, affirming our commitment to an anti-racist work practice and a mechanism to hold us accountable in all the work we do.
Racial equity is the defining issue of our time. How we deal with our past and our shared future will determine not only the health of our field, but of our communities. This is not a unique issue or conversation; every national cultural membership organization is also at the table and defining their commitment to racial equity and goals for the future.
The arts hold the power to capture, nourish and move us. They serve as a vehicle for radical social change, and are an effective strategy to address the pressing issues of our time. We believe that we need to center the arts in our strategy, but look beyond our field to affect change structurally–in partnership with the community, City departments, other institutions and jurisdictions–so we can help build racial equity in housing, criminal justice, education, jobs, the environment and more.
We approach equity and justice for all people through the lens of race because we know that across all measures and all of our complex social positions, one's race is a salient and consistent indicator of life outcomes. For example, lived experience and research have shown that when it comes to jobs, housing, arts education and many other areas, women of color fare worse than white women, LGBTQ folks of color fare worse than LGBTQ white folks, and poor people of color fare worse than poor white people.
How will we as local funders be accountable to communities past and present?
How will be accountable to each other as funders and in our field?
Our programs centering racial equity and social justice began in 2004 when the City also adopted the first ever Race and Social Justice Initiative in government. In conjunction with Office for Civil Rights (OCR), ARTS has increased our resources and commitment applying a racial equity lens to our work. From commissioning racial equity trainings (White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo and Centering People of Color in the Racial Equity Movement by Carmen Morgan), equitable access to arts education in public schools (The Creative Advantage), a shared staff position with OCR, focus groups specifically for artists of color (Artists Up), to a learning cohort for arts organizations to expand their own understanding and commitment to racial equity (Turning Commitment into Action). We have consistently sought to increase our capacity and that of our community.
Creating a racial equity statement is a result of this work and provides a path into our future; holding our office and our field accountable to our community.
Registration opens April 13 at 9 a.m.; closes April 21 at 5 p.m.
The Office of Arts & Culture in conjunction with the Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) is offering arts and cultural organizations the tools they need to turn their commitments to building racial equity – both within their organizations and through their work in and with community – into actions for tangible change. Part of the Community Institute for Racial Equity, this cohort will include intensive training on skills to address perceived and actual barriers to racial equity within arts and cultural organizations and the sector as a whole.
Read the registration requirements carefully.
Select and confirm which two – three individuals from your group will participate before completing the registration form. Make sure each person is able to attend all hours of each of the first two training dates and the follow-up session six weeks later. If someone is not able to attend all the sessions, we ask that you select another person or wait to participate in a future cohort. Additional cohort dates will be announced soon.
Who: Representatives of arts and cultural organizations. No previous training is required. Groups must meet all of the registration requirements. Each participant must complete their own registration form. Only 12 – 15 organizations will be able to participate. For a full list of requirements visit Turning Commitment into Action.
At least one organizational decision-maker in a leadership position who is able to authorize implementation of planned changes and hold accountable all levels of the organization.
One-to-two others who are situated in different areas of the organization with access to complementary resources and levers to make change.
Organizations must complete an Organizational Commitment Form. This states that the organization will fully participate in the training sessions and develop, implement and track progress on the racial equity plan created through this learning cohort.
Participants must be able to meet together for a total of 3 – 4 hours (not necessarily consecutive) during the two weeks between the first and second training sessions.
What: During the training participants will build their analysis of racism and racial equity, learn how to use a racial equity assessment to identify personal and organizational power, and develop targeted strategies to achieve racial equity. They will then create a plan to build racial equity within their organizations and through their work with artists, audiences, partners and communities.
A check-in session to explore tools and learn from peers' successes and challenges: Wednesday, July 15, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
A final session to assess progress and plan adjustments to strategies and tactics: 4 hours, fall 2015, TBD.


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Parlamento (Országház)
Parliament (Országház)
The parliament is an extraordinary as well as enormous neo-gothic building adorned with towers and pinaccles, next to the river Danube. Building work started in the year 1884 and finished in 1904. Imre Steindl, the architect responsible for building it, won an architecture competition in 1883 which gave him the chance to design the parliament building. It turned out that he was the only participant who chose a neo-gothic design for the building, inspired partly from the British Houses of Parliament.
The building is a real symbol of Hungarian national independence, and is the headquarters for the main political institutions of the country. It is home to almost seven hundred rooms that include the Presidency of the Republic, the National Assembly and an enormously rich library. It is also the world's second largest parliament building.
Even though we have already said that it is a neo-gothic style building, it should also be said that a wide variety of other styles can be found in it. Above all, take note of its grand, central cupola and the two large pavilions on each side which house the ´Sessions Hall` and ´Congress Hall`. This impressive cupola has a clear renaissance look, while the pavilions are more in the baroque style.
You will also see that the main entrance is located in ´Lajos-Kossuth Square` at the end of a staircase flanked by two lions. This principal façade, dominated by a balcony, is decorated with statues that represent Hungarian kings and illustrious military figures.
If you choose to, you can go on one of the guided tours that take place throughout the day and enter inside the parliament. Take into account though that you will only be able to see three of the rooms and the northern wing of the building.
Among the many treasures on offer here you will find especially interesting the main flight of steps and grand cupola. The ´Staircase of Honour` combines gothic, Byzantium and baroque styles and is noted for its marble, okra granite and multi-coloured stain glass windows. The cupola measures exactly ninety-six metres in height and commemorates the conquest of Hungary by the Magyars in the year 896. It is star-shaped and made up of marble from different countries. In addition, the cupola lays on a series of pillars showing effigies of saints and kings surrounded by statues of pageboys.
In the hall of the cupola is also the ´Crown of Saint Stephan`, Hungary's most important national symbol, together with a ceremonial sword, sphere and 10th century sceptre made in Persia.
The only problem connected to this elaborate building is that its outside was at one stage recovered with very porous limestone that does not stand up well to pollution. This has caused it to need constant restoration work since the year 1925. So if you come here, do not be surprised to see one of its facades covered by scaffolding.


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Bless Me Now With Your Fierce Tears XI
Yes, I was referring to mainstream Orthodox, not the Haredi sects I encounter just south of here. What makes me saddest about the latter is how their children are denied an education and now supposedly "homeschooled", when in general the Jewish community has always respected learning, both secular and religious. But I feel just the same about extreme sects in any religion or belief system.
People here can express their condolences and thoughts for Cohen and his familly (biological and chosen) at la Grande bibliothèque today and tomorrow. http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/leonard-cohen-montrealers-can...
Note that people who can't make it or who live elsewhere can sign the online register here:
http://protocole.gouv.qc.ca/registre
By the way, he's buried at the family plot at the cemetery founded by their historic synagogue, on Mont-Royal.
Some lovely photos of Cohen's Montréal, from Westmount to the old harbour and sailors' church, to the little Parc du Portugal and rue Vallières just east of the Main, with his old and dear friend, the sculptor Armand Vaillancourt - a force of nature, five years older than Cohen and still fighting fit.
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/484556/une-presti...
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Evocative imagery lagatta - thanks!
This afternoon, despite the chill, I cycled down to Parc du Portugal to visit the memorial. Not surprisingly, I met several friends and acquaintances. I even ran into the sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, a very old friend of Cohen's (Suzanne Verdal of the song Suzanne was his wife, this must have been 50 years ago). Vaillancourt, whom I do know slightly from groups such as Les Artistes pour la paix, is a force of nature: 5 years older than Cohen was and still going strong. He had just finished and dedicated a very large-scale sculpture, La Force ouvrière, in honour of the late left-wing union leader Michel Chartrand (whom I also knew). There was also an Israeli friend who had moved here, fed up with what Israeli society had become, and some other progressive Israeli emigrants, chatting in Hebrew as well as French and English. The mourners also included Portuguese neighbours who congregate in the park, and a couple of semi-itinerants well known in the area.
Flowers, including a large bouquet of white lilies from le Gouvernement du Québec and offerings from florist creations to the tough remnants of peoples' gardens, Chinese tea in tins along with plates and bags of oranges, song lyrics, drawings etc. People could paint squares like the cobblestones of Parc du Portugal to be hung on a nearby wall, but I really didn't feel like kneeling on cobblestones and undoing all all the good my day's cycling had done for arthritic joints. "Take this waltz" was echoing from a speaker. Some visitors had left full bottles of beer and at least one of red wine, and a mostly empty bottle of Scotch.
Leonard Cohen was also a visual artist of sorts ... a bit of a scribbler, if you will. Not unlike John Lennon that way.
A few years back while in Montreal for a few days, I discovered that there was an exhibition of a selection of his drawings, - in the gallery above the offices of the Montreal Jazz Festival, if I am not mistaken. I spent a lovely afternoon there. Here is my favourite of his many self-portraits:
A collection of his sketches can be found online here: http://www.hambletongalleries.com/dynamic/artists/Leonard_Cohen_CC_GOQ.asp
And a major exhibition dedicated to his creative life ("There is a crack in everything") will be held at Montreal's Museum of Contemporary Art next Fall, to coincide with the city's 375th anniversary. http://www.macm.org/en/expositions/leonard-cohen/
I do wish that Leonard and Joni Mitchell had had a kid...just because she'd have rebelled by becoming an office manager.
I took my sister and brother-in-law to see his show in Portland on the last tour. It was amazing and I know now how very lucky we were to experience that.
And while some raised issues about Dylan getting the Nobel instead of Leonard, I think it was incredibly gracious of ol' Bob to spend much of the last few months paying tribute to Leonard in various interviews.
Beautiful posts, everyone!
Sorry I couldn't make it there, lagatta. Anyway, I know "don't mourn, organize!", but I'm still in mourning. Plenty of time to organize later.
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In My Secret Life - Leonard Cohen
A post from Outremont writer Mary Soderstrom, with a lovely photo of the gates to Shaar Hashomayim cemetery:
http://marysoderstrom.blogspot.ca/2016/11/saturday-photo-after-very-dark...
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Sorry to be picky, lagatta, but that's a different cemetery - Shearith Israel - established by the oldest Sephardic synagogue in town (Spanish and Portuguese synagogue). Shaar Hashomayim is Ashkenazi.
Here's a view of the Cohen family plot at Shaar Hashomayim - I imagine he's buried in one of the as yet unmarked areas:
Yes, that was her mistake, not mine. She wrote the correct name but got the photo wrong, I guess (I couldn't see the name on my monitor). Are those two cemeteries next to one another? Yes, of course I knew Shaar Hashomayim was Ashkenazi, like Cohen's ancestors.
Here are other interviews, with Christiane Charette, a Radio-Canada host, the sculptor Armand Vaillancourt (Suzanne's companion way back when) and Martha Wainright
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/medium_large/2016-2017/chronique.as...
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2016/11/11/cet-homme-la-sest-donne-a-lhumanit... Armand Vaillancourt is 87 years old (!) and has just completed and dedicated a monumental sculpture in honour of the leftwing union leader Michel Chartrand, La Force ouvrière.
Yes, that was her mistake, not mine. She wrote the correct name but got the photo wrong, I guess (I couldn't see the name on my monitor). Are those two cemeteries next to one another?
Yes - in fact, there are three cemeteries in a row on Chemin de la Forêt - first Shaar Hashomayim, then Spanish and Portuguese, then Cimetière Mont-Royal. I know it was her mistake - I just wanted to note the correction.
The amount of coverage of Leonard Cohen in the local media is amazing and so gratifying. Haven't heard a negative (or barely even an unenthusiastic) word from anyone. Even those who criticize his singing voice seem to love him.
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Robert Vaughn, last of The Magnificent Seven.
The "Man From UNCLE" says "uncle'.
OK, bad joke.
Leon Russell, age 74.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/arts/music/leon-russell-hit-maker-and-...
Elton John found him, late in life, barely eking out a living touring small towns in the South and Midwest. Recorded a duet album with Russell called "The Union".
A musical and instrumental voice that was always there, now stilled.
Mr. Magoo
We recently watched Corner Gas: The Movie, and in it Wright's character, Emma, was using a scooter (which she did not during the run of the show). No explanation was offered for this, which was kind of cool. But it also suggested declining health of some sort.
I liked her on that show.
Missed this news somehow in the past week ... Gwen Ifill died on Monday. Ground breaking journalist who was my Friday night companion for a decade or more, working through the mysteries and absurdities of US politics on PBS's Washington Week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/business/media/gwen-ifill-dies.html?_r=0
Unfortunately, I'd never heard Gwen Ifill when she was alive. Dommage.
An interview with Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, of the Shaar Hashomayim congregation, on Leonard Cohen and making the "Darker" album: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/leonard-cohen-remembered-his-r...
He has a splendid voice.
There is a downloadable album of the Cantor and choir, for those of you who enjoy liturgical music: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cantorgideonzelermyerthe Funny, I really do, and I'm not remotely religious, in any faith.
People are still singing and lighting candles at little Parc du Portugal. I was riding my bicycle yesterday down to that area (the nearby charity shop Le Chaînon, which supports a refuge for women in crisis - drat, I still didn't find a winter coat, and may wind up buying new from the after-Christmas sales) and two young men from France in a car stopped to ask me for directions to "la maison de Leonard Cohen". I explained them (one-way streets, so they had to go to St-Urbain and then turn on Marie-Anne). I guess I look like a boho of a certain age who'd know that...
Armand Vaillancourt was there again.
No doubt. I suspect my two young guys from France might have been continuing down there afterwards. I haven't had time. The house is just a short bicycle ride from my place, and an easy walk, but it takes me a while to get all the way down there and ESPECIALLY to ride uphill back to here.
Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours is also known as "the Sailors' Church" and there are lamp fixtures that are miniature ships made by sailors, probably in thanks to being saved from a storm.
Have people been making pilgrimages to Notre Dame de Bon-Secours, the church Leonard referred to as "Our Lady Of The Harbour" in the song?
Fidel Castro Ruiz. His brother, and comrade, Raul Castro, speaks on his brother's death ...
We salute you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fidel Castro, a true legend, has passed away. He is one of the few people to have taken on the US empire, and won. His life has inspired and will continue to inspire revolutions around the world...
This passing probably deserves its own thread as a historic event. It is late at night here; probably someone will open an appropriate thread when it is morning in Canadian time zones.
Ron Glass.
Shepherd Book, from Firefly, and some other stuff too.
He was great as the detective and would-be crime novelist "Ron Harris" on Barney Miller, back in the 70s. That show had a lived-in humanity you don't see much on television now.
Andrew Sachs
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-al...
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Sister Susan Moran.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?pid=183150614
lagatta4
More on Sister Moran:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/susan-moran-death-1.3906423 Visitation today for any interested people in the GTA.
https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/01/25/true_sister_of_mercy_to_homeless... This article, almost a decade old, also cites Rabble contributor, street nurse Cathy Crowe.
Somehow we neglected to mention Alan Thicke.
I never really watched Growing Pains, but I always enjoyed Thicke of the Night.
Seems he died following an aortic dissection. :0
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I hated Growing Pains and can't say I was ever a big fan of Thicke's but thought he was all right. Then there was his son, Robin Thicke, who put out that rapey hit single, which Alan defended. My estimation of him fell significantly.
That said, though, I like to think the idea of watching his kid grow up would have trumped any feeling that this was a good way to go.
Well, it's true that something he loved precipitated his death, but he evidently died about three hours after the dissection began, so he probably died on a gurney, with an IV in his arm and some cardiac monitor wires stuck to his chest, and probably about when the pain was starting to subside and it was looking like just one of those things.
You're right. I'll delete the post. It was meant to be comforting and failed in the attempt. Sorry.
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It does seem odd, given that the doctors knew it was a serious cardiac event, that they didn't rush him into surgery. As you had occasion to learn, Magoo, seconds count in a situation like that, let alone minutes.
I read a piece somewhere that suggests that he had been diagnosed and was in or on his way to surgery, but then I've also read articles that say he died of a "heart attack", so who knows? If I recall correctly, John Ritter died in surgery, but after having had a whole day wasted by a misdiagnosis, and a doctor dropping some pills on him and sending him home (leading to the development and publication of what are now called "Ritter Rules" for differentiating this from a heart attack or other more common heart stuffs.)
I also read something recently suggesting that the target wait time for emergency surgeries in Ontario is two hours, but it seems Thicke waited three (not in ON, and I don't know the whole story, but still). I waited approximately seven. Go figure.
Every individual case has impossible variables to predict. The overall outcomes dictate the policy. You were very lucky, Magoo, and I'm glad you dodged that bullet!
I was just thinking how hard this must be on Thicke's 17yr old son. It would be so hard not to wonder if you had something to do with it.
Very sad news for Russians and music lovers everywhere. A plane carrying the Russian military's official choir, the Alexandrov Ensemble (the famous Red Army Choir in Soviet days) and dancers, musicians and journalists, has crashed into the Black Sea near Sochi:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/25/russian-military-plane-mis...
I put this sad story here, but it can be moved to international news if babblers and mods prefer...
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That is terrible news
And terrible how many musicians wind up going that way, en route to a gig.
The Duran: The tragic loss of the Alexandrov Choir
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All but three members of Russia's most beloved vocal ensemble have died in the tragic plane crash.
Today's news of the Tupolev-154 crash is personally devastating. Of the 92 souls on board, the vast majority were members of the Alexandrov Choir, colloquially known as the Red Army Choir. The rest were civilian journalists and charity workers, including Elizaveta Glinka who has worked tirelessly to help the children of Donbass whilst the west lets them starve.
The Alexandrov Choir were en route to Syria to perform for the troops and civilians as they have done in every major conflict abroad since Alexander Alexandov formed the ensemble in 1926. The choir's music helped comfort civilians and entertain soldiers during The Great Patriotic War. They provided the soundtrack for the most harrowing years in all of Russian history. Many of the most beloved songs composed during the war were by Alexander Alexandrov, including my personal favourite The Sacred War.
Perhaps most enduring was Alexandrov's composition of the Soviet Anthem whose music is used as the current anthem of the Russian Federation. Few people in the world have not heard the basses, baritones and tenors of the choir. The signature sound was unlike anything in the world. The instrumentalists of the ensemble were equally talented playing a mixture of orchestral instruments, folk instruments and modern pop instruments....
Today's loss is a colossal blow for Russian culture. The choir will continue, it will have to be re-built from the ground up, but the voices silenced in the plane crash will continue to haunt many.
May God rest the souls of all those lost in this terrible tragedy.
The Duran story has a link to a YouTube video of the choir.
A great loss.
It would be good if we could find some representative concerts, tributes etc. Thrilling voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfvkmJ7AR0
George Michael, age 53....
What a brutal year.
*sob*
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It would be good if we could find some representative concerts, tributes etc.
Try YouTube or Google with "АЛЕКСАНДРОВ хор". You'll find lots.
Today, December 26, is a National Day of Mourning in Russia for the victims of the Tu-154 passenger jet tragedy.
See "Russia mourns victims," etc.
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Russia is observing on Dec. 26 a nationwide day of mourning in remembrance of 92 people, who died in a passenger aircraft crash near the resort city of Sochi in the early hours of Dec. 25.
The CBC radio coverage regarding the Sochi plane crash had a very creepy, voyeuristic feeling to it. I could almost hear the lip-smacking pleasure of the reporter. It was quite obscene. Breathless narration. Blechh. Emphasis on Orthodox services, prayer, the military aircraft (that transported the musicians, ballerinas, humanitarian workers, journalists and crew), and, oh yes, the National Day of Mourning, mentioned almost casually, at the very end of the "report" ...
Thanks CBC. Fuck you and die.
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Priyanka Chopra Wants You To Know That Pageants Can Be Empowering
"I feel like in an evolved world, where we are today, as long as a woman understands that that's not [her] only option. And then chooses to do it. Who is anyone to judge her?"
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This is the gorgeous Priyanka Chopra, up close and wonderfully up in your space, donning only moisturizer and lip gloss for the cover of Allure. Before she became a Bollywood star and kicked ass on the ABC series Quantico, Priyanka was crowned Miss India and Miss World in 2000 — at age 18, no big deal — and has a few important insights about the pageant world that propelled her towards worldwide fame.
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Contrary to conventional stereotypes and criticisms associated with pageants, Priyanka's experience went beyond a focus on physical appearances. The India- and UK-based competitions put an emphasis on young women who were "fun, outgoing, progressive, [and] bold."
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Pageants should amplify contestants' feelings of confidence and self-worth, which is then showcased to the world and hopefully changes individual and collective mindsets on beauty standards. TLDR; we don't need unrealistic standards for how women should look or present themselves.
P.S. The photo on the right was taken when Priyanka was 17 — her mom later submitted photos to the Miss India competition without her knowledge, and the rest is history!
Pageants are evolving — slowly, but surely — and that change is being recognized. Miss America, for instance, underwent a recent (and long-overdue) elimination of their swimsuit competition.
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Gretchen Carlson, who is the current chair of the board of trustees for the Miss America Organization and was named Miss America in 1989, announced on Good Morning America, "We will no longer judge candidates on their outward physical appearance."
The evening gown section has also been updated so contestants can wear whatever makes them feel most comfortable, rather than limiting outfits to the scope of traditional eveningwear.
Though Priyanka's pageant wins initially got her offers in film and television, they eventually became the driving point for her involvement as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and with female-empowering causes like the Girl Up United Nations Foundation.
As someone who's been all around the world, Priyanka gives her own spin on a familiar saying: "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. And everyone doesn't look the same way, so the world needs to be trained to see beauty differently."
Priyanka's opinion about pageants today is that women know they can choose to do anything, and not have to depend on their looks, or "be OK with being objectified or being made to feel stupid" to succeed.
She goes on to say: "I feel like in an evolved world, where we are today, as long as a woman understands that [pageants are] not [her] only option. And then chooses to do it. Who is anyone to judge her?" As with Priyanka, Oprah, Vanessa Williams, and Diane Sawyer, pageants can be a legitimate stepping stone for women to make their voices heard.
Priyanka's first dream was to be an engineer — and the thing to take away from that is both paths (entertainment vs. engineer) are equally awesome, attainable, valid, and necessary.
Whether it's pageants and big stages or something else, finding success and confidence simply boils down to "whatever you need to be fabulous."
If it's not evident that pageant contestants never deserve to be labeled or boxed in, the average (and not-so-average) woman does not either. Priyanka confidently declares, "It's the mindset that needs to change, of society, of men, of people — that view where a woman in a plus size should not be a check in the box. Or a woman of color should not be a check in the box. Or a woman shouldn't be a check in the box."
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There shouldn't be "congratulations" in order every time public-facing industries include the diversity we already see every day out in the world — and that includes pageants, even Miss World.
Keep slaying and inspiring, Priyanka!
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Be sure to read the full story on Allure!


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AISF activists lay siege at Minister's quarters
Hyderabad: The activists of AISF today lay siege around the office of State Education Minister Sabita Indra Reddy in Basheerbagh.
Speaking on the occasion, the Activists said that the state government should take up the responsibilities for the Suicides of Intermediate students Jahnavi from Nalgonda district and Dhanush from Bhupalapalle district .
Speaking on the occasion, the state president of the federation Ashok Stalin alleged that the state government was playing with the lives of the Intermediate students of the state.
He alleged that the authorities of the Intermediate board had retracted from their promise of passing all the students by keeping in view of Covid virus. He said that 51 percent of the total intermediate Students failed in the intermediate first year exams due to the failure of the authorities to keep their promise . He alleged that the majority of the students could not clear the exams as the state government did not provide proper teaching to them.
He demanded the state government to take action against the officials who are responsible for the failure of the students. He said that of the total 2.25 lakh failed students, 1.75 lakh studied in the government colleges. He recalled that 27 Intermediate students committed suicides due to the failure of the officials of the board.
He demanded the authorities concerned to pass all the failed students by keeping in view of their future . The activists tried to barge into the office of the minister. However , they were prevented from entering the office by police present at the minister's office .
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The benefit of being an active member of the neighborhood San Marin Improvement Association; we are always invited in the discussion of local developments.
As a follow-up to the meeting, and as development on the project advances, we are also invited to another neighborhood meeting hosted by Mr. John Chamberlain, CEO of the American Assets.
Please make sure you attend the meeting to find out what progress has been made and what the future plans are for the site.
I have appreciated everyone's comments and input with regards to the redevelopment project at the Fireman's Fund property, now known as The Commons at Mount Burdell. The name was selected from the meaning "commons" which translates to a tract of land belonging to a whole community. In addition it defines the landmark proximity of Mount Burdell. I also want to share some exciting updates from our journey towards creating one of the nation's largest completely sustainable, carbon-neutral mixed use developments.
Our application submittal to the city in June 2008 initiated an approximate 12-month process where we're engaging the city, community stakeholders and the project's immediate neighbors in an ongoing outreach and design consultation process prior to the Design Review Committee, Planning Commission and City Council review in 2009.
While the feedback from the many consultants working on the project has taken longer than originally anticipated, we are exceedingly pleased with the positive input coming in…including word from our sustainability engineers, Timmons Design Engineers, in July that our plans show that carbon-neutrality could be achieved in less than 10 years; exceeding the performance targets of the 2030 Challenge.
The first calendared meeting to review the project will be held at The Novato Unified School District, 1015 7th Street, on Thursday, December 4th at 7:00pm. This will be a public outreach meeting, which is a statutory requirement. Many of you will receive public notice of the meeting due to your proximity to the project. If you are not on that notice list, we hope you will mark your calendar and attend as your continued input is important to us.
I look forward to sharing the continued progress of this development with you and, again, we appreciate your support and feedback.
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Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia by Sandy Troy
Captain Trips- A biography of Jerry Garcia by Sandy Troy gives a full, complete lifeline of Jerry Garcia. Troy has this ability, that captivates her reader. It almost sucks you into a vortex, spitting you out right in the midst of the 70s. In comparison to Garcia: An American Life by Blair Jackson, Captain Trips leaves it dead in the water. Garcia: An American Life is a good outline of Jerrys existence, but Captain Trips gives you a overload on every Garcia. Throughout this book, you will be taken to a variety of stages in Jerrys life. Some areas will nearly bring a tear to your eye, others will make you laugh and want to dance. While reading this book, I had to take a break and listen to a classic Dead riff, such as Sugar Magnolia or Touch of Grey, only to relieve the overload.
Jerry Garcia is name that goes hand-in-hand with rock n roll. He was there when Dylan went electric, or when a generation danced naked at Woodstock. Although Garcias life was mainly lived on the road. Drug use was always mentioned in each segment of the book. Jerry started at age 13 smoking Marijuana, when Ken Kesey started experimenting with Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), Garcia was sucked into the drug use lifestyle. Because of Jerrys obsession for Marijuana, LSD, and other harmful drugs, he was appropriately nicknamed Captain Trips. Troy definitely carries out the use of drugs throughout the book. I understand that drugs were the foundation for the 70s and 80s, but I noticed that she continuously brought it up. Towards the end of the book it almost got annoying to hear about the same LSD tests repetitively. Theres no two ways around it, I really like this book. It really took into perspective the craze of the Grateful Dead. The book buried itself into Jerrys life. Captain Trips gave full detail, almost too much detail. Troy really emphasized parts of the book that I feel didnt have to be highlighted.
Four stars is a fair rating for this book. Sandy Troy knew what she was talking about, especially when she used exact quotes of Jerry. But she definitely talked about Jerrys early ages way more than needed. The book is about 300 pages, but It wasnt until the last 175 pages that she talked about the Grateful Dead being a major impact to Rock n Roll. I want to hear the Grateful Dead being a heavy-impact band. In the beginning, all she talked about was their road to success. The focus just wasnt there.
However, If you have any interest in classic rock, if you wish to learn about this historical time period, or even if you just like music, you have to read Captain Trips: A biography of Jerry Garcia. This book explains thoroughly how Jerry Garcia was a talented and gifted musician. If it wasnt for him, our society wouldnt the same!
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Stephen's Church, and that a public ceremony was in the planning the stages. He said no decision had yet been made about the band's future in the wake of the loss of its founder and patriarch to legions of fans -- the Deadheads. Garcia died of a heart attack Wednesday at a residential substance abuse clinic, where he had gone to try once again to kick a nearly three-decade heroin habit. He was The rock legend's family has asked fans to make donations in Garcia's name to the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which works with the poor, homeless and addicted. Katie Culimo, a spokeswoman for the clinic, said money has already started to pour in from all over the country. In Washington, President Clinton called Garcia 'a genius' and said he discussed the death at length with his teenage daughter Chelsea, both of whom are fans of the band.
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One of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire year career — He was well known for his distinctive guitar playing, and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone ' s " Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story in Garcia was also renowned for his musical and technical ability, particularly his ability to play a variety of instruments, and his ability to sustain long improvisations with The Grateful Dead. Garcia believed that improvisation took stress away from his playing and allowed him to make spur of the moment decisions that he would not have made intentionally. In an interview with Rolling Stone , Garcia noted that "my own preferences are for improvisation, for making it up as I go along. The idea of picking , of eliminating possibilities by deciding, that's difficult for me" [6].
On Aug. He was But it was the continuing battle to end his heroin addiction that brought Garcia to Serenity Knolls less than two days before his death. He was found in bed by a counselor at the center; subsequently a staff nurse and Marin County paramedics administered CPR but failed to revive him. A long-term drug problem had debilitated Garcia, who also suffered from diabetes and heart problems in recent years.
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After Jerry Garcia died at age 53 on Aug. 9, , a private funeral was held two days later for family and friends. Bandmate Bob Weir and Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, took Jerry's ashes to India to distribute half of them in the Ganges River, an incident that angered his.


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The former defense chief was arrested for treason
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Close to the former president, he was expelled from his activities when repression in this country of the former Soviet camp fell.
The former head of Kazakhstan's national security organization was arrested on charges of treason after being fired following unrest in the country, the agency said on Saturday.
Read moreIn Kazakhstan, power promises to restore order
Kareem Massimov, the former director of the National Security Council (KNB), said he had been detained on Thursday after launching a high-profile treason investigation.
An investigation has been launched into the crime of treason
⁇On January 6 this year, the National Security Council launched its initial investigation into high-profile treason", It was mentioned in a press release."On the same day, KK Massimov, a former director of the KNB, is suspected of committing the crime, and he was arrested and placed in a pre-trial center with other persons.", Continues the press release.
Read moreKazakhstan: "Post-Soviet Domino"
Kareem Kazimganouli Massimov, a close ally of former Kazakh President Narsultan Nazarbayev, the former prime minister, was ousted as KNB chairman this week following the riots. Triggered by rising gas prices.
See also – Kazakhstan: President rejects talks, "shoots to kill" armed forces
Kazakhstan is the largest country in Central Asia. The provinces were rocked by the outbreak of protests on Sunday Before spreading to other cities, especially the economic capital, Almaty, the protests turned violent and deadly.
Read moreWashington allows non-essential embassy staff to leave Kazakhstan
State President Qasim-Jomar Tokayev allowed Security forces "shoot to kill" on Friday It refused to hold talks with the protesters, with Russian support, to quell any insurgency. A group of Russian troops and other Moscow allies has arrived Thursday to support power in Kazakhstan by protecting strategic buildings and supporting the police.
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Return to Model Fleet
Completed: USS Mertz – 1/700th Scale Skywave Kit
Posted by Don Murphy on September 9, 2014, 14:35:49
A guy at the local model club came in one night to the monthly meeting and announced that he was giving up plastic model building to concentrate on train building. He therefore was giving away kits and had two huge boxfuls. Being one of only a handful of ship builders, I easily picked up the two kits he had. One of the kits was the Skywave "Dry Dock" kit which includes one Fletcher Class destroyer in the kit. I got home, opened the kit and inside were no less than four kits worth of parts! Dang! Not really helping me thin my stash out, is it?! Well they build rather quickly as you can imagine, but after Fletcher number two, burnout sets in. What to do? Well, I did the third one as a World War Two "what-if." Well, not actually a "what-if" but we'll get to that later. For the last one, I decided to do a real "what-if." A Cold War Fletcher.
The Skywave Fletcher kits come with virtually every weapon known to man, let alone every weapon a Fletcher ever carried. Post-war, the Cold War Fletcher's carried pretty standard weapons. The last commissioned one was USS Mertz who lasted until 1977. So my what-if centers around President Carter getting re-elected and keeping the old Fletcher Class destroyers around. The funny thing is that the Fletchers were already in the fleet in large numbers so there were a ton of spare parts around. The ships could be used as weapon test beds (which is what they occassionally did) prior to flooding the fleet with new technology. Aft, we'll remove the tried and tested (but obscelete) depth charge racks and all guns. We'll replace the rear-most gun with a "new" (for the day) MK-45 five inch gun and aft of that, two SLCM Tomahawk launchers (four missiles per launcher).
Behind the gun mount, we'll place a MK-29 Sea Sparrow launcher with no reload capability (just like the rest of the Navy). Behind that we have some comms gear that the US Navy was testing in the mid-1970's including the familiar WSC-3 satelite communication antenna. Mid-ships, we'll remove the two AA gun installations. The US Navy removed the two quintuple torpedo tube banks in the 1950's and replaced them with twin three inch rapid fire guns and their associated fire control equipment. We're going to put quadruple Harpoon launcher tubes, Phalynx close in weapon system 20mm guns and and ASROC launcher in the area. The large air-surface search radar is the old SPS type that was mounted on the gun cruisers in the late 1960's. Although obscelete by 1970's standards, it would be sufficient for a Cold War Fletcher.
A lot of the weapons like Sea Sparrow, Tomahawk and Harpoon are fire-and-forget weapons. So a Fletcher operating alongside a capable ship like a Spruance Destroyer could launch it's weapons and have the other, more capable ship, control them. This was done a lot in the Cold War US Navy and was the key reason for the NTPU upgrades of the 1980's. Forward we have another of the new MK-45 rapid fire five inch guns and behind it in the old five inch gun location, we have another MK-29 Sea Sparrow launcher. Behind the Sea Sparrows, the Hedgehog launchers were removed and in their place are two MK-32 triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes. The ships are actually quite clean and organized when you remove the ton of World War Two weaponry (20mm and 40mm guns plus their associated fire control equipment.
The long whale boats have also been removed and two RIBs put in their place. President Carter's rationale was "work smarter not harder." Why build a fleet of ships just for the sake of building them? Carter's goal was heavy destroyers and no cruisers. So the Ticonderoga Class of cruisers (which are essentially stretched Spruance Class destroyers) would have made up the bulk of the fleet defense. The obscelete destroyer fleet would have been decommissioned. What Reagan did instead was carry forward Carter's building schedule but also keep the ships they were replacing. While this left the US Navy with way more ships than it could have had during normal means, it also put a strain on the supply chain as Storekeepers struggled to stock spares for 1940's and 1950's era shipping. The 1950's/1960's era cruisers were parts intensive/cramped and crowded for suitable modification.
Like most Skywaves, this kit has few parts and builds quickly. In 700th scale the guns are grossly overscale and improved with after market. There is no dedicated after market photo etch set for these ships but the generic GMM USN WW2 Destroyers And Cruisers set can be used. I therefore used my scraps from that set to do up the ship. Honestly, not much is needed other than the obligatory ladders, stairs, hatches and rails. In Second World War configuration, you'll obviously want the MK-37 radar gear and the depth charge racks. Skywave's molding is really accurate and even in this small scale you appreciate the workmanship that Skywave have achieved. I forgot to include the ruler in the photo but the ship is little shorter than a dollar bill. For my colors I used the Tamiya rattle car US Navy World War Two Haze Grey as the ships pretty much retained their post-war colors.
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What's the big idea?
Published October 16, 2011 October 3, 2019 By martynperks
Consider the new committee charged with making parliament more accessible to the masses. A specially designed website, chaired by once-radical MP Peter Hain, asks three questions: 'How could the Palace of Westminster be made more visitor-friendly? How could proceedings in parliament be made easier to follow? Does parliament adequately reflect the concerns of ordinary people?' (1) This looks less like an attempt to address the growing gap between parliament and the people, than a patronising exercise that assumes we don't really get politics.
Perhaps another question might be: 'Which bus do I catch to get there…?' 'The Modernisation Committee would like to hear your opinion.' You too can join the debate and post your answers on the website. Instead of reposing parliament as an important space for vociferous, democratic debate, the committee's proposals treat it like some kind of museum. It is true that parliament doesn't mean much to many people – but that is not surprising when ministers themselves seem to view it as a theme park.
What politicians seem to require from us today is reassurance that we are listening to them, regardless of what they are saying. And some of them hope that the internet will be a channel through which to do that. Instead, internet initiatives point to an elite that is more adept at making excuses than inspiring us with a far-reaching ideas.
Those on the outside calling for politics to be made more accountable don't always help matters. A new website, DowningStreetSays, is dedicated to publishing Downing Street press briefings and allowing anyone to comment on them. While the project all too easily taps into the anti-government Hutton Inquiry fallout, Tom Steinberg, who launched the site, believes it 'should help to bring more transparency to the political process' (2).
If you were really interested in what Downing Street was saying you might go to its official website or even read the papers a bit more. But Steinberg isn't interested in using the usual channels, because he plainly mistrusts them – the journalists charged with reporting and disseminating fact from fluff; and we the voters, apparently incapable of making up our own minds about Downing Street pronouncements. As Steinberg says: '[E]very day we will publish what the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman actually said in response to the lobby's questioning, rather than what he was reported as saying. (3)
Like Hain, Steinberg is interested in breaking down the barriers to the political process – which in itself is not a bad thing. But it is problematic when nothing else is on offer except greater degrees of transparency.
'Politics-by-blogging often produces uninformed, unmediated ideas'
Steinberg says, '[W]e give the PM an unmediated platform. In return, you get to have your say' (4). Both Steinberg and Hain agree that the solution to the problems of political engagement lies in placing participation above debates about ideas and substance. How this will cure our boredom with politics is anyone's guess. The use of the internet in this way – no matter how innovative it sounds on paper – will surely make matters worse.
If Tony Blair does get a weblog for the next general election it will likely be a reflection on his isolation, rather than a tool for talking about real political change with a with a wider audience. Interviewed in the Guardian, New Labour's election coordinator Douglas Alexander wants an 'engaging dialogue with the British people' and would be 'interested to consider all means to communicate with the voters directly' (5). In fact Blair won't be the first member of parliament to have a weblog. In 2003, Labour MP Tom Watson set one up, closely followed by fellow Labour MP Clive Soley, with Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs following not far behind.
There is nothing new about MPs having websites – but weblogs are websites with a difference. A typical MP's website contain speeches, articles and information about issues they think are important. The new clique of MPs dabbling with weblogs is a different breed; they realise the potential in blogging, and how it makes publishing and soliciting feedback relatively simple, without needing technical knowledge of web publishing. In reality, however, politics-by-blogging often means selling ideas to us that are uninformed, parochial and unmediated.
Since November 2003, the government has been conducting a nationwide focus group called 'A Big Conversation'. Through its website or at various caucuses around the country, New Labour is outlining important issues on which we are invited to comment and feedback on. As to be expected, some issues for 'group discussion' have included how to combat 'antisocial' activities such as binge-drinking. Lo and behold, the results of the Big Conversation are already finding their way into New Labour's focus for its next term in office.
One thing is clear: by evoking a sense of participation, asking voters for ideas becomes an excuse for not thinking big and forging forward with political direction. Instead, policy is formed on the hoof and based on a knee-jerk response to the world around us.
Some estimate that there are over 600,000 weblogs in existence. Many of these are rarely updated, and that may be just as well. What would be gained from trawling through the personal diaries of politicians, including Tony Blair, day after day? A conversation is worth having when there is something worthwhile to talk about. We deserve more than just chat.
(1) Public consultation website for the Committee's inquiry into the modernisation of the House of Commons
(2) The blog from the heart of Downing St, Giles Wilson, BBC News Online Magazine, 1 March 2004
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(5) 'Blair may blog the next election', Tom Happold, Guardian, 6 February 2004
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Mama Cass passed away 47 years ago, now her best friend confirms the rumors
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Mama Cass Elliot took the world by storm with her magical voice. As the singer of the pop-folk-rock group The Mamas and the Papas, she, together with her bandmates, defined an entire era of music, paving the way for other musicians and women in particular.
But the circumstances of her passing have long been a mystery. Now, her good friend Sue Cameron has explained what really happened.
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The Mamas and the Papas went on to not just become a famous band. Rather, the wonderful pop-folk-rock group defined an entire era of music with their hippie clothes, sweet songs and special group of characters.
Their success was enormous, with the band selling millions of albums, spending weeks and weeks at the top of the charts, and later getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Mamas and the Papas
With songs like California Dreamin', Monday Monday, Snowqueen of Texas and Dream A Little Dream of Me, The Mamas and the Papas will forever have a special place in music. But the group ended on a low note, their image slightly tarnished by drugs and other problems.
The group might have only spent three years together, but in that time they managed to do something pretty unique. Someone who definitely stood out was wonderful singer Elliot Cass, more famously known as Mama Cass.
She was one of the most talented singers of her generation and found success both with the group – thanks to her wonderful harmonies that made The Mamas and the Papas into the great band they were – and also as a solo artist. However, Mama Cass tragically passed away aged just 32, with the early reports suggesting that she had died after choking on a sandwich.
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But now, following an interview with her good friend Sue Cameron, it's been clarified that choking wasn't her actual cause of death.
Ellen Naomi Cohen – Mama Cass
Ellen Naomi Cohen, more famously known as Mama Cass, was born September 11, 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland. It didn't take long before her family realized she was a very special little girl who was destined for biggr things. Even they, however, didn't know she would go on to achieve such legendary status.
By age four, Cass could already speak five languages. Her parents, who originated in Poland and had moved to the U.S. as refugees, often times took in refugees themselves arriving from Poland, Germany, Russia and Italy. This Cass herself confirmed, according to the book Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. The young Cass learned how they spoke, and also the songs they brought with them.
Mama Cass had always been a big girl. However, it didn't affect her.
"I've always been different," Cass said in the early 1970s. "I've been fat since I was seven. Being fat sets you apart, but luckily I was bright with it; I had an IQ of 165. I got into the habit of being independent and the habit became a design for living."
Cass didn't enjoy playing with toys like the other kids her age. At age nine, she was instead interested in politics. She grew up fast and developed into maturity well before her peers.
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She even asked a doctor friend her family: "What's the world situation like?"
"It bowled him over I'll tell you that," Cass's 94-year-old aunt Lil Finn said. "But we were always discussing politics in our house and she would listen in and was a very astute little girl."
Mama Cass – name
In high school, Mama Cass grew into her new name. She decided to change her first name to "Cass" due to then-popular TV comedian Peggy Cass, and chose a new surname "Elliot" in tribute to an old friend who'd recently passed away.
Ellen Cohen was now Cass Elliot. Later on, she'd end up with the now legendary name "Mama Cass", but we'll get to that in a moment!
So, how did Mama Cass even get into music, one might ask?
First of all, she left her home for New York at age 17. She pursued a career in acting, though upon arriving in New York, she didn't even have an high school diploma! She toured with the musical The Music Man for a short while, and also spent time working in the cloakroom of The Showplace in the West Village.
At this time, Mama Cass was all-in regarding the pursuit of a career in the entertainment industry. She performed at late-night "open mics" at area bars and, in 1962, she auditioned for a part in the Broadway production of I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Another young woman named Barbra Streisand got the part and, at 22, Cass decided to move to Washington to study at the American University.
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This would be the big turning point for Cass, who at that point mostly saw herself as an actress more than a singer. That was about to change.
Starting her first band
Shortly after her move to Washington D.C., Mama Cass got involved with her first band. Together with singers Tim Rose and John Brown, she formed a trio called The Triumvirate. They enjoyed success, playing both popular and country genres, and soon they emerged on the folk music scene, which was on the rise.
Cass also produced an off-Broadway play at the time, which was played at Café La Mama in New York. Maybe this also was an influential factor in her choice of adopting her future moniker "Mama Cass".
The next year, in 1963, James Hendricks replaced John Brown and the band changed its name to The Big Three. On posters, it often times also advertised "Featuring Mama Cass Elliot", and soon Mama Cass would be a married woman. She married new band member James, who then couldn't be drafted into the Vietnam War.
Birth of The Mamas and the Papas
Rose eventually left left the group and Hendricks moved to Los Angeles, with he and Cass filing for divorce in 1968.
However, before that, Mama Cass would meet some people that would pave her way to the top of the charts. First, Denny Doherty joined her new band before joining The New Journeymen, a group that included John Phillips. Doherty convinced John and his new wife Michelle that Mama Cass was just what the group wanted. Her commanding voice with a beautiful harmony would suit them perfectly.
John, Michelle, Denny and Mama Cass formed the group that would go on to make music that would spread all over the world.
The Mamas and the Papas was born in 1965, and it didn't take long before they started making a name for themselves. Their first single? California Dreamin'.
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It all started in 1963, with John and Michelle Phillips spending time in New York City. Michelle hailed from Long Beach, California, and the winter in "The Big Apple" wasn't great.
"We were staying at the Albert Hotel, near Washington Square. It was a fleabag. I had never seen snow before, I had never been to the East Coast. I was miserable," she told the LA Times in 2008.
The two went for a walk and Michelle entered the St. Patrick's Cathedral, which weeks later would become an important detail. John woke Michelle in the middle of the night with a guitar in his hand.
They started working on the lyrics that same night.
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
On such a winter's day…
"He had the lyrics for those first eight bars that night," Michelle recalled.
"I added the next few lines about the church. He hated it. Just hated it. But he didn't have anything better." That portion of the song — 'Stopped in to church / I passed along the way / Well, I got down on my knees / And I began to pray' — has an interesting history. Not everyone hears the same lyrics, and that includes the people who sang it."
Mama Cass – career
A few years later, when Mama Cass was on the road with the rest of the band, she heard it for the first time, and the rest is history.
California Dreamin' was released in December of 1965 with a full-page advertisement in Billboard Magazine. The smash-hit peaked at No. 4 in the US and reached No. 23 in the UK. But the song wouldn't just fade away. Instead, it became more and more popular over the years.
In 2001, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Also, Rolling Stone Magazine has placed the song on No. 89 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
The Mamas and The Papas continued to make music, releasing a total of five albums that included hit songs like Monday Monday, Creeque Alley and Snowqueen of Texas.
Mama Cass became very important to Michelle. She'd dated John Phillips since high school and she felt insecure of herself.
"She would always encourage me to go for the note [when we sang]: 'Go for it! You can do it! I know you're gonna make it! I'll be there for you!' She was also very protective of me and assertive for me where John was concerned." Michelle recalled.
"She said, 'Don't let him boss you around like that! You are Michelle! You cannot be afraid of him!' I felt very insecure because I met and married him when I was in high school. [But John] could be belittling. Cass helped me with my self-esteem, forcefully."
Mama Cass – daughter
On April 26, 1967, Cass gave birth to daughter Owen Vanessa Elliot, and raised her by herself. She managed to keep both the pregnancy and the identity of the father a secret – it wasn't until later the father turned out to be guitarist Charles Wayne Day.
The Mamas and the Papas rose to stardom very quickly, but, just as quickly as they had flown to the top, they fell.
After just three years together, Mama Cass decided to leave the band to pursue a solo career.
"Well, having the baby changed my life a lot," Cass told Rolling Stone in October of 1968. "I don't want to go on the road, you see. It's actually a matter of economics, much like the Vietnamese war, I guess. I didn't want to go on the road and I wanted to stay home with my baby.
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Mama Cass continued explaining that she wanted to pursue her solo career, but also try television and movies.
Start of solo career
At least the breakup from the group wasn't dramatic. She explains that it was a unwritten agreement that whenever anybody wanted to quit, they could just leave.
"So I went to John and said 'Look, it's been two and a half years and I'm really tired and I want to do seem stuff on my own," Cass said. "He said 'Well, perhaps it wouldn't be proper for you to do that as a member of the group, so if you want to leave, we'll understand."
Mama Cass continued with her solo career, delivering several performances in Las Vegas, touring the country and guest starring on several shows including The Andy Williams Show and The Johnny Cash Show.
One of her most famous and most played solo songs was the cover of Make Your Own Kind of Music, which reached No. 36. She was actually trying to get rid of her stage name from her time with The Mamas and the Papas. To that end, her last album, released in 1973, was titled Don't Call Me Mama Any More.
"I never created the Big Mama image," she said. "The public does it for you."
Mama Cass – cause of death
However, Mama Cass's life was to end in tragedy. In 1974, she played two shows at The Palladium in London, UK. Her good friend Sue Cameron recalled in an interview with People Magazine earlier in 2020 just how happy Cass was.
"After she had played two nights there, she called crying with joy telling me that she had got a standing ovation both nights and she had sold out both nights, she was just as happy as I'd ever seen her or heard her," she says.
The next day, Sue Cameron heard the tragic news. Cass "Mama Cass" Elliot, had passed away at 32.
At first, the public heard that the female music icon with the beautiful voice had died after choking. However, the truth was something else: Mama Cass passed away due to a heart attack.
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Sue Cameron, who was working as a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter at the time, got the call from Cass's manager Allan Carr.
"[He] picked up the phone and he was hysterical. Allan said, 'You've got to tell them that she died choking on a ham sandwich," Sue recalls.
"You must go to your typewriter and write that. There's a half of a ham sandwich on her nightstand.' I didn't ask any questions," says Cameron.
Cass Elliot's daughter, Owen Elliot-Kugell, said that her mom experimented with dangerous diets before her death.
"She would go on starvation diets—she would drink only water for five days and then have steak for two days. She told Esquire magazine that she'd gone from 250 pounds down to a 170. One ramification of losing all that weight so fast is you lose muscle mass," she told Nexttribe.
Female icon and role model
Around 400 people, including her mother and Michelle Phillips, attended the funeral in the Hollywood Memorial Park. She was buried in the Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.
In 1998, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Mama Cass was a female icon, delivering wonderful music to the world. She was a proud single mother, but also broke barriers in other areas. Cass broke the weight-shaming stigma and paved the way for other women to accept themselves for who they were.
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Her daughter, Owen Vanessa Elliot – now Owen Elliot Kugell – is 53 years old and married to record producer Jack Kugell. They have two children, Zoe, 19, and Noah, 16.
"She was a one-woman triumph against adversity; she was ahead of her time; women now are finally doing what she did 50 years ago," Owen said in June of 2020.
"I look back on her and realize that, just by example, she taught me, and others, not to accept it when someone says you can't do something."
Mama Cass Elliot truly did something special and set an example for future generations. We will always have her music, charisma and lovely voice close to our hearts.
Please, share this story with friends and family to honor Mama Cass!
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Q: Open set in irrationals $A$ is the set of all irrationals in $\mathbb R$. Is there a non empty open set subset of $A$?
My hunch is that the irrationals can not contain an open set because rationals are dense in $\mathbb R$? But I am not able to reconcile to the fact that the rationals are countable and hence are contained in an open set of small radius. Please get me out of the muddled thinking.

A: Let $\Bbb P=\Bbb R\setminus\Bbb Q$ be the set of irrationals. Let $U$ be a non-empty open set in $\Bbb R$; then there are $a,b\in\Bbb R$ such that $a<b$ and $(a,b)\subseteq U$. As you say, the rationals are dense in $\Bbb R$, so there is a rational $q\in(a,b)$, and it follows that $$q\in(a,b)\setminus\Bbb P\subseteq U\setminus\Bbb P$$ and hence that $U\nsubseteq\Bbb P$. Thus, as you suspected, the irrationals do not contain any non-empty open subset of $\Bbb R$.
The fact that $\Bbb Q$ is countable and therefore can be covered by an open set of small radius is simply irrelevant: there is no reason to think that in general an open set covering a dense set should cover the whole space. A dense set can even be open. For a very simple example, consider the subspace
$$X=\{0\}\cup\left\{\frac1n:n\in\Bbb Z^+\right\}$$
of $\Bbb R$: the set $X\setminus\{0\}$ is a dense, open subset of $X$, so it is an open cover of itself that covers only itself, not all of $X$.

A: Suppose a subset $B$ of $A$ is open. Then all interior points are contained in $B$. So for any point in $B$ , there is a neighborhood of that point which is contained in $B$.
But neighborhood is an open interval and by denseness property it must contain rational numbers which is not possible since $B$ contains only irrational numbers. So $B$ cannot be open.

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Rafael Nadal made it 16 slams, 3 behind Roger Federer, with an easy straight sets win over Kevin Anderson, 6-3 6-3 6-4. It wasn't really all that competitive although Anderson played tough to ensure he did not embarrass himself in his first grand slam final.
Nadal applied pressure from the beginning, taking Anderson to deuce in 2 of the first 3 service games before eventually breaking for a 4-3 lead. It was all he needed for the first set, but he did close out the set with another break to allow him to serve first in the second set. Chasing Nadal from the get go left Anderson under pressure each time while Nadal was holding with ease. A single break in each of the final 2 sets was enough for Nadal to ease to victory as Anderson was getting nothing on return.
Alongside the 0 break points faced on serve and 79% of points won on it, Nadal also put up a impressive 30 winners to just 11 unforced errors – the +19 ratio besting Anderson's -18 by some distance. After a slow start at the tournament, Nadal played himself into some incredible form in the second week. The loss of just 1 set to Del Potro, Rublev and Anderson was backed by him almost being almost unbreakable alongside some great returning.
it's definitely a few emotions and experiences I'm going to take from this whole two weeks. I mean, obviously very pleased of making my way through to the finals and having that experience. I mean, a few players, you know, get that chance. It's very tough. To step out on court against Rafa tonight, you know, I learned a lot of lessons. It was a difficult match, up against somebody who has been on that stage over 20 times before." Anderson said afterwards. The South African had never made a quarter final of a slam previously so to make it this far is an achievement in itself. While his draw was not a murderers row, it's fair to say he has achieved what many fail to do by competently navigating a broken down draw to make the final.
"There is no better way to finish the Grand Slam season for me after a very emotional season in all aspects." Nadal said post-match. When Federer extended his lead back to 4 slams at Wimbledon and was favourite to win in New York, it seemed like Federer's 19 would be hard to match. A few months later and Nadal is 3 behind once more. It's still unlikely he'll match or beat the current record but Nadal continues to astound. If he was successful in Melbourne to start 2018, it would make things interesting although one would expect that Murray and Djokovic will not have disaster years like they have done in 2017.
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