I'm actually glad I got Piano Man. It seems pretty manageable compared to some of the others on here. And being that I just finished a much harder Billy Joel song, this should be a cinch in comparison. After checking to make sure nobody did it, I think Johnny D's spirit has possessed me to try an Ahnold-themed parody of it, called "Girly Man."
Man...I really feel sorry for poor Jeff. If I was to do that monster, I probably would have done something along the lines of "Like Fast Talkers," since that pretty much gives you license to write a parody consisting entirely of nonsense.
Hmmmmmm.....first reaction; relief, as I know (and like) the song. second reaction; it doesn't give me a hell of a lot to work with....oh well!
First reaction: I DKTOS, and the title seems to have limited subs. Second reaction: I really feel bad for Jeff, whose song is harder than any of the "Big 7".
That's pretty much what I would have done with it ("Damn Rap Lyrics"), though I did have the title "My Boy Boulders" floating around in my head. Don't ask!
Hey Red Ant, I have the OS if you want it. And I kind of wanted that one actually, the title I had in mind was "Mocked Mobster," i.e. a Mafia guy with some rather unconventional practices, and everyone makes fun of him for that.
Oh, and even though I know my OS pretty well, a song file would be much appreciated!!
Wow, "Rock Lobster" is a 6.4 Mb file at a 128 bitrate. :o That's a long song.
Don't forget your rhyming dictionary!
Glad you listened to it, because lyrics sheets on the 'net for that song aren't too good, especially for the 'prayer' part.
And don't worry about the ears, I was deaf for two days after seeing them in Tampa in '94. You'll recover.
Jack... That's a good one.......... Man.... I have something thinking to do now!
These three picks got me the most interested. Cat because she got off easy, me, because I've NEVER heard the OS (by the way, I'll need an mp3...badly), and Jeff because...oh, man, he's in for it! He can partly blame me because I put that in the draw hat, and partly blame Cat for telling me to submit a complex rap song. Remember Jeff, I left an OS on the original thread. Just cuz I'm so nice and all that.
These three picks got me the most interested. Cat because she got off easy, me, because I've NEVER heard the OS (by the way, I'll need an mp3...badly), and Jeff because...oh, man, he's in for it! He can partly blame me because I put that in the draw hat, and partly blame Cat for telling me to submit a complex rap song. Remember Jeff, I left an OS on the original thread. Just cuz I'm so noce and all that.
I'll dig you up an mp3 sharpish, conqueror. It may be not your usual style of OS, but man, are you going to have fun with it!
It's Kharma. I haven't done any of the big three so I get to do this. Not sure about the big seven...what are songs 4-7? Have to find that thread.
Damn! I meant to enter this, it sounds like a BLAST!!! I went away for the weekend and forgot all about it.
Kudos to Tomario for this splendid idea for a contest.
I guess I'll have to stay tuned for the results of this round and hope for another to follow.
I got Breakaway. Who is that by again? Kelly Clakson? That means I'll have to buy the CD, this is the fourth time I've had to buy a CD for a contest.
BTW, which album is it on?
Edit: Just checked: It's the same as the song's name.
Thanks! Now I can say I'm 0 for 7 with confidence!
For some reason I felt that there was a stronge chance I was going to get that song too(Breakaway), I don't know why. Maybe I have alittle bit of psychic powers(I guessed that one of Howard's potential Rising signs was Aries, and it turned out to be just that).
I won't be here tomorrow. Vacation in Arizona.
So I'm posting my song today. I however probably won't have time to move it to this forum before I leave tomorrow, plane leaves at 9 in the morning.
Here ya go, cuz I'm nice: Piano Man.
Oh, and hurry up, will ya Kristof? I really need that mp3. I always use a song file to use for my parodies. It helps to nail the pacing that a simple lyrics sheet can't provide. So GET ON WITH IT!! I can't find one myself. So...GIVE!
It's there for 3 days!
Thanks Pieman, but I was able to find one on Altavista so yeah.
I'm pretty sure, according to the other thread, that the deadline is July 18th.
Two weeks from when the song is allocated, which would be two weeks from July 4th, which would be the 18th.
Oh, yeah! Tomario, when I submit parodies, I go by my real name, Stephen Harrington. Just so there isn't any confusion when I submit mine.
Finally, I have an mp3 of "Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat". Thanks a lot, Kristof! I shall work on my parody and submit it very soon. My current working title is "Shaddup, And Wait For Your Turn!" I have no idea what that means, but here's hoping it's a good one!
Shaddup, And Wait For Your Turn!
"Paradise By The Dashboard Light" is turning into a chronicle of a bad camping trip...a work in progress... ???
Durr, I'm still working on mine, but at least now I have time to finish it. It might very well come up on the site when I'm away (I leave on the 16th) so if that's the case, could someone put mine up as well?
"No Paradise At the Old Campsite".
Well, mine is finally done! Writing to 7 minutes' worth of wholly nonsensical, and, for the most part, misrhymed lyrics about candy has proven both frustrating and fun. Thankfully this song has a cool beat to it.
I'll check out the rest of y'alls come contest time.
hello everyone sorry i havent posted for a while been having my dodgy shoulders sorted.
i must admit this was a lot harder than i thought it would be this was more like work than the usual care free approach that i take.i started it before i went to hospital but i have finished it without listening to the song so i am not very pleased(who chose the dead-line anyway? ::) ) i will post the voting thread on wednesday mid - morning ish.
did anyone else find it different to their normal parody writing ?
Not really, I'm the most experienced Nirvana parody author(69 entries), but I've done other bands. This is the first time I had to buy a Kelly Clarkson CD, I don't know if I'm going to keep it.
Oh, definitely. Usually I do rap songs, or rock songs, or occasionally pop songs that I KNOW. The OS I had to do this time...I was completely lost. I had never heard of the OS...I hadn't even heard of the OA. So I have to thank Kristof for getting me that mp3. Otherwise I would've been screwed.
I've been out of town, but don't worry, it's coming :) Song will be called The Cold Shoulder...and will be posted tomorrow or Wednesday (since toMario's posting the voting thread mid-morning Wednesday) at the absolute latest.
As I stated before, I go by my real name when submitting parodies.
Fortunatly for me, I didn't get a rap song...... I have no experience with those.
it is going to be very difficult to pick a top 5 let alone a 5 pointer.
Okay, it's submitted. Song's called "The Dog Walkers", and was an attempt at a freeform narrative parody, with mixed results. I'll put the link here at some point, but it should be posted on the front page for tomorrow's update.
I had some difficulty coming up with a useable idea, but nothing occurred that I haven't encountered before. The parody started out as "Pair of Flies On A Fresh Turd Fight", but I couldn't think of any good reason for 2 flies to fight on a fresh turd!
I was very hesitant about using some verbatim original lyrics (the first 2 lines) and repeating the "Sleep on it" lines, but I'm proud of it.
Only in one respect: I had never heard of Rock Lobster, let alone heard the song before the contest. Usually I know TOS fairly well and get an idea for it (or from it), so this one was different in that respect.
It's a good thing I'm not new to working with nonsensical, misrhymed lyrics, and, most importantly for "Rock Lobster", songs that have a substantial amount of background vocals not found on lyrics from the 'net.
I must admit I was relieved to get Penny Lane, as I would have been struggling with "Like Tin Soldiers"
It took me a while to get a title (threw out about thirty because they didn't have enough legs to carry a story) but then I found it just like writing a regular parody.
As I said before, I think Johnny D possessed me to write what I did! Seriously, "Guhlee Mahn" was just the first idea that popped into my head and I ran with it. But at one point I got stuck, and I was worried that it would seem too dated in 2006, so at one point I considered ditching it...but since I already had it half-written, I found the willpower to finish it. And I was quite impressed with its reception, I must say!


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May 2016 movie releases: Captain America Civil War, X-Men Apocalypse, The Nice Guys and more
By Jigmey Bhutia
Captain America: Civil War will be the most anticipated film to hit threatres in the US, but there are many more movies that will release in May in North America. Films like X-Men: Apocalypse, Neighbors 2 and Nice Guys will also be premiering this month.
Did Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice\'s Instagram account just hint at Robin\'s identity?
Will Ferrell for president? Funny man to play Ronald Reagan in new political comedy
Batman v Superman encouraged Marvel to make Captain America: Civil War, say directors
Check out the movies that will release in May
Captain America Civil War: Release date 6 May
The Joe and Anthony Russo-directed film will see Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson in action. The Avengers will be divided in two teams – Team Captain America and Team Iron Man – over the government's decision to take control of the superheroes.
Other movies releasing on 6 May include Mothers And Daughters, Being Charlie and Elstree 1976.
Money Monster: Release date 13 May
The movie has been directed by Jodie Foster. The cast includes George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O'Connell. After losing his money on stocks, an investor played by Jack O'Connell holds a Wall Street guru (George Clooney) and producer (Julia Roberts) hostage on live television.
Other films releasing on 13 May include:
The Darkness:
The Greg McLean-directed movie starring Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Morrison and Lucy Fry will see a family return from vacation to Grand Canyon only to find themselves terrorised by supernatural forces.
High-Rise:
The Ben Wheatley-directed movie's cast includes Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons and Luke Evans. A doctor, played by Tom Hiddleston, moves into a skyscraper where residents run out of control following rise in tensions.
A Bigger Splash:
The movie has been directed by Luca Guadagnino. The cast includes Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson. While on vacation a famous rock star and a filmmaker receives an unexpected visit from an old friend (Ralph Fiennes) and his seductive daughter.
May 13 also sees The Lobster, Love & Friendship, Last Days in the Desert, Search Party, Dheepan, Sunset Song and What We Become hit theatres in the US.
20 May:
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising:
Nicholas Stoller-directed movie's cast includes Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Chloe Moretz. In the movie, Mac (Seth Rogen) and pregnant wife Kelly (Rose Byrne) ask former enemy Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) for help after a sorority moves in next door.
The Nice Guys:
The movie has been directed by Shane Black. The cast includes Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling and Kim Basinger. A private eye (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer (Russell Crowe) investigate the disappearance of a girl and a death of a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncover a conspiracy.
Angry Birds:
Clay Kaytis-directed movie stars Peter Dinklage, Jason Sudeikis and Kate McKinnon. The birds' island is visited by mysterious green piggies. It will be up to three outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure the piggies plans.
The movies Maggie's Plan and Holy Hell will also be releasing on the same day.
X-Men: Apocalypse has been directed by Bryan Singe. The cast of the movie includes Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. Young X-Men recruits led by Mystique will be fighting the world's first mutant Apocalypse and his four horsemen, who are looking to cleanse the world of humans so they can rule instead.
The movies Chevalier and Alice Through the Looking Glass will also be releasing on the same day.
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I believe newer IC's also incorporate MOSFETs, those compounds are also requested.
In modern CMOS integrated circuits, what are the most common base and doping compounds or elements used to achieve the best performance?

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MAE JONES MEDIA
ABOUT MAE JONES
Mae Jones is a media and production company dedicated to creating digital and print content that radically refocuses the narrative of "luxury" and presents it through a more diverse lens. Representation for the underrepresented. Mae Jones embodies fashion, beauty, art, travel, and culture. Serving as a source of inspiration, creativity, and discovery, Mae Jones builds community and amplifies the voices of the Black creatives and tastemakers shaping these industries.
Founded by creative director Kristen Turner and supported by a team of wonderfully diverse photographers, videographers, models, hair and makeup artists, writers, producers, and other creatives, the work of Mae Jones has been acknowledged by the Los Angeles Times, the CFDA, and Business of Fashion.
ABOUT KRISTEN TURNER
Kristen Turner is a Los Angeles-based creative director that began her fashion career as a celebrity wardrobe stylist. She's worked in the fashion industry for over a decade and has produced content for Nordstrom Rack, Swarovski Crystal, and other fashion brands. In early 2020, Kristen founded Mae Jones on a mission to diversify the fashion and beauty industries.
Mae Jones is named to honor her Grandmothers and is a combination of their names.


My entrepreneurial 15 year old daughter has opened up an Etsy shop, Blue and Beyond, to sell her paintings!
To celebrate she is offering one of her paintings to you my lucky readers!
One lucky winner will win this 6 X 6 X 1 1/4" painting.
This painting would be perfect as part of a gallery wall or just hung on it's own!
She uses high quality Stevenston Acrylic paints, made in Canada. The painting is signed and dated on the back.
1. Hop on over to Blue and Beyond to see her other paintings and leave a comment telling which one is a favourite.
2. Add her shop to your Etsy favourites or circle.
3. Write a post or add a link to your sidebar.
Make sure you leave a comment for each entry!
I will choose a winner via Random.org on Monday, August 15!
Fabulous! I love pink peony and autumn sunset. You must be super proud of your talented girl!!!
Love the name. I also love that gorgeous pink peony painting. It is so bright and pretty.
I like "Lost in the Storm". Please pass on my congratulations to your daughter.
Just tweeted re: giveaway of Juli's artwork. Best of luck on your artistic endeavours!
I have also added blue and beyond to my favorites in etsy. By the way, how did she come up with that cool name? Awesome title.
I have written about blue and beyond on my blog. Hope you get lots of visitors and sales. Tell Juli to say hi on etsy. Congratulations again.
Not only do I love her work, and the fact that she is such an entrepreneur go getter at such a young age, I bought one of her paintings! Her first sale, and to the US to boot! Can't wait to see it in person. You must be one proud momma! I know I would be.
Love the foxglove painting. I grow them on my hill.
I've added Blue and Beyond to my favorites.
Fabulous giveaway from your talented daughter. I love both Blue flower and Pink Fox Glove.
I've also added her to my favourites on Etsy.
And I've tweeted it as well! Enjoy your holiday!
Love Autumn Sunset! Tweeted this too!
I adore Autumn sunset!! What a lovely combination of colors! Talent obviously runs in the family Barbara, congrats to her for starting up!
Congrats to J on her shop! My favorite is definitely "Summer Swirl". I love all the green!
...and just added her shop as one of my favorites on my Etsy account.
Hope you are enjoying your vacation (again!!!).
I added to my favorite using my afarmer25@ account.
I am with Nancy, talent clearly runs in the family! Way to go girlie!
Blue flower is my personal favorite.
Added to Etsy circle. I think I did it right... I might even have done it twice!
I LOVE her work - what a talented girl!
I see your daughter has inherited your talent!! I love the blue flower and autumn sunset. They're all gorgeous pieces. I hope she has a ton of success with her store.
I love that your daughter is using her creativity! And I love flowers. Crossing my fingers!
Oops! Forgot to tell you which painting I like the most. As I said, I love flowers on anything but have to say that the country apple is my fave on her site.


REDONDO BEACH –– The Redondo girls basketball team wasn't going to feel sorry for itself following Tuesday's four-point loss to Palos Verdes.
Instead, the Sea Hawks came out Friday and used Tuesday's defeat as pure motivation against Peninsula.
Redondo jumped out to a 17-point lead after the opening quarter before earning a 69-22 Bay League victory at Redondo High.
Redondo (14-4, 3-1) jumped out to a 4-1 lead early before Veronica Rojas made it a one-point game. That was as close as Peninsula got, as the Sea Hawks answered with a 16-0 run to end the opening quarter.
Peninsula (9-10, 2-2) didn't score its second field goal of the game, Samantha Inana's 3-pointer, until 48 seconds remained in the second quarter. Inana finished with five points.
The Panthers began the third quarter on a 9-2 run, capped by Kristin Hanaoka's 3-pointer, but Redondo closed the period on a 16-5 run to open up a 55-21 lead heading into the fourth. Hanaoka finished with seven points.
Lauren Chao led Redondo with 13 points, four rebounds and a block, while Megan Ngo added 12 points, three rebounds and three steals. Calli Stokes had eight points and two blocks and Ashlynn Autrey added seven points and six rebounds for Redondo.
MIRA COSTA 77, INGLEWOOD 39 – Haley Herdman had 25 points and Christine Garrison and Kira Escovar each added 10 for Mira Costa (10-9, 3-1) in a Bay League win.


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Sarah Aronson - Just Like Rube Goldberg
Meet the Author, Sarah Aronson, and enjoy a reading of Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines.
Location will either be at the Bethlehem Area Public Library (BAPL) or Let's Play Books Bookstore. BAPL is the sponsor of this free event - you won't want to miss it! Sarah says "there will be shenanigans!"
Click the event link to pre-order a copy of the book to be signed at the event.
Details & directions - visit: https://www.bapl.org/events/meet-author-sarah-aronson/
Discover how Rube Goldberg followed his dreams to become an award-winning cartoonist, inventor, and even an adjective in the dictionary in this inspiring and funny biographical picture book.
Want to become an award-winning cartoonist and inventor? Follow your dreams, just like Rube Goldberg! From a young age, Rube Goldberg had a talent for art. But his father, a German immigrant, wanted Rube to have a secure job. So, Rube went to college and became an engineer.
But Rube didn't want to spend his life mapping sewer pipes. He wanted to follow his passion, so Rube got a low-level job at a newspaper, and from there, he worked his way up, creating cartoons that made people laugh and tickled the imagination. He became known for his fantastic Rube Goldberg machines—complicated contraptions with many parts that performed a simple task in an elaborate and farfetched way. Eventually, his cartoons earned him a Pulitzer Prize and his own adjective in the dictionary. This moving biography is sure to encourage young artists and inventors to pursue their passions.
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 4:00pm to 4:45pm
Bethlehem Area Public Library - Main Branch
11 West Church Street
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines (Hardcover)
By Sarah Aronson, Robert Neubecker (Illustrator)
Published: Beach Lane Books - March 12th, 2019
The Worst Fairy Godmother Ever! (The Wish List #1) (Hardcover)
By Sarah Aronson
Published: Scholastic Press - May 30th, 2017
Keep Calm and Sparkle On! (The Wish List #2) (Hardcover)
Published: Scholastic Press - December 26th, 2017
Halfway to Happily Ever After (The Wish List #3) (Hardcover)
Survival of the Sparkliest! (The Wish List #4) (Hardcover)
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Greek PM drops trousers again
I feel like writing about the Greek crisis. I discover that I wrote about the last one, so I've nicked my witty headline from then.
The situation as it is now, or at least my reading of it: the Greeks have caved in. After lots of posturing, the reality of two weeks of banks shut and no other way out than leaving the Euro has left then against the fundamental political reality of their present: they want to stay in the Euro.
Numerous people have argued that Greece should leave the Euro, including some who believe that the Euro is in principle a good idea. However, that's not what the Greek people want. They want to stay in, by a margin significantly larger than voted "no" in the referendum. Quite why is open to speculation; its doubtful that even a small minority understand the economics. My guess is that they very definitely want to stay in the EU, and fear that exit from the Euro might be a slippery slope to leaving the EU1; or being second-class members like us; or they're just mixing up the concepts. But it hardly matters: what matters is that they wanted to stay in.
Despite that, Greeks like free money, early retirement and a life on the beach as much as anyone else, so last January they voted in Syriza on a platform that yes there really are fairies at the bottom of the garden who will hand out free money with no strings attached and no hard work required. No, it never works out in the fairy stories either; there is always a catch. This was a shame, as the government voted out was finally starting to do some sensible things; so it goes. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Syriza, I think, genuinely wanted to deliver an end to austerity, but are fundamentally incompetent, so couldn't. The only way out was to leave the Euro, which would have been risky, but the only way to get there would have been to believe it and prepare the people for it; they weren't going to do that. So we were treated to the spectacle of five months of incompetent negotiations. International diplomacy is tricky, I think. Especially dealing with new people. People get taken on trust, to some extent. Its taken quite a while for everyone to realise how useless Syriza are.
There's a lesson here, also available from Syria or Mogadishu: incompetent government is the worst thing. The proposals Syriza are putting forward, now, are about the same as what they could have put forward five months ago. All this time has been wasted. I've seen numerous people write, gleefully, about how marvellous the Greeks are for sticking up to the capitalists, or similar phrases. These people are idiots, and their words just empty sloganeering.
Or as Kipling put it (noting of course that "Gods of the Market" needs to be interpreted):
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
Enough useless carping. What should they do?
If it was up to me, they shouldn't have elected Syriza. But, lets say what should they do starting now; we're not allowed to go back and change the past. Then I think they really need the restructuring. They should be doing that anyway, starting now, not using it as a bargaining chip.
Addendum: Yes to the Euro?
As I've commented, the std.econ case for Greece leaving (indeed, never having joined) the Euro appears to be strong (disclaimer: I'm not an economist, so I'm going with the flow of people I trust). But as I've also commented, this isn't a pure econ decision. Nor are we able to rewind time and have them not join; nor can we give them the option of leaving at a time of their own choosing when things are otherwise smooth. Leaving now would be an emergency decision in a time of crisis, and quite likely a bad idea even from an econ perspective. Like mt, I'm not terribly convinced that std.econ covers dynamic situations well.
So its interesting to read Yes to the Euro! by "30 internationally recognized Greek economists issued a clear declaration in favor of YES in the referendum of July 5, 2015 (published on the front page in Kathimerini, 30.6.15)". As you can tell from that, while the core argument is over the Euro, it merges both sides into EU too; so the two are always linked. Para 2 is a about the short-term chaotic consequences, which (I agree) Greece isn't well prepared to handle. Para 3 is more interesting though, and provides a long-term reason for staying in:
Modern, prosperous economies in Europe and the world are based on the market and on healthy competition… an efficient public sector, which operates independently of the current government… Greece's participation in the core of Europe fosters long-term convergence to European institutions. By contrast, a Greek exit from the euro would strengthen the tendency to clientelist structures and aggravate the timeless pathologies of the Greek economy. This inevitably leads to a closed and impoverished economy with high corruption levels.
I agree that's a good argument: Greece needs the discipline of the Euro; without it, it will sink back into the problems that have got it where it is. Whether its stronger than the std.econ argument that the-Euro-is-not-an-optimal-currency-area, blah, I can't tell.
BTW, in case it wasn't obvious, my made-up headline is a reference to the 2011 "Greek PM drops euro referendum plan". Not to anything rude.
Addendum: trust?
A thought I meant to add earlier. Any number of articles (example) note that the EU has lost trust in the Greek government. But they're being asked to trust the Greeks again: here's another set of proposals, late, clearly rushed. Do we believe that you've even thought them through? Unlikely, in the time available. Have we got time to think them through, carefully? Can we talk through them, so we can trust that you really understand them and will indeed implement them? There's no time. Do your statements outside these meetings indicate that you're committed to seeing these reforms through? No, quite the reverse: outside the meetings the Greek govt presents fiery rhetoric and accuses the Germans of terrorism. There is every reason to think that they aren't committed to these proposals. So how do the EU tide them over the current crisis, and yet keep the Greek feet to the fire?
Some answers, for example from the Graun. I think the language they're using there is deliberately inflammatory – this is irresponsible of them – but the (deserved) lack of trust in the Greeks is plain.
Addendum: projection
A feature of this crisis has been a variety of people – mostly the Left -going "ra ra! Go Greece, stick it to the Capitalists!" These people are idiots. In their defence, they aren't thinking at all: they're simply projecting what they want onto the current crisis, which happens to be this one. They know nothing about what is going on, but that doesn't bother them, because they aren't even trying to talk about what is going on.
Addendum: popularity
[Added 2015/07/23] As this story in the Australian says, Alexis Tsipras remains popular despite chaos. So although I think he's a twat, he's probably the best person to stay as PM, at least for the moment. As long as he leaves the economics up to someone competent, and sticks to keeping everyone happy with a very unhappy deal. At the moment, stability is good -W]
* Greece debt crisis: Greek MPs to debate controversial reforms plan
* Greeks facing day of judgment in struggle to stay in eurozone
* Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward by Olivier Blanchard
* The end of the lifeline – plumbum. You should probably read this too; though it was written two weeks ago. I agree with much of it, but not the "chicken" bit: the Greeks have been playing it as a game, yes, but the EU haven't been; and the Greeks are now discovering that their chicken is going to smash into an oncoming tank.
* JJuly 13, 2015 4:11 pm: Alexis Tsipras faces showdown with his own party – FT
* The Economist explains:
What Greece must do to receive a new bail-out – Jul 14th 2015, 15:33
* IMF stuns Europe with call for massive Greek debt relief – Torygraph.
* AN UPDATE OF IMF STAFF'S PRELIMINARY PUBLIC DEBT SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS: Greece's public debt has become highly unsustainable. This is due to the easing of policies during the last year, with the recent deterioration in the domestic macroeconomic and financial environment because of the closure of the banking system adding significantly to the adverse dynamics.
* More fuckwittery, this time from Reuters, July 17, 2015.
1. For example Now a deal has been done, what lies ahead for the Greek economy? from the Graun, with "Our entry to the EC was the second most important date in Greek history after the war of independence," says Thanos Veremis, emeritus professor of political history at Athens University. "If we left the eurozone, we would have to adopt policies that would lead very quickly to the country leaving the EU – and that would be a national catastrophe." Its not clear to me why he believes this – I mean, the "we would have to adopt policies that would lead very quickly to the country leaving the EU" bit – but he clearly does.
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They should bail. As you say the Greek voters don't seem to think that's desirable, which put Syriza between a rock and a hard place, but a few more years of German-inflicted pain may make an end to that thinking. The Germans should try to come up with a plan with at least a glimmer of hope at the far end, but their own voters seem to be dwelling in economic fantasyland as well.
[I'm convinced by Timmy's analysis of the Krauts: they're answerable to their own electorate, who don't want to give the Greeks any more money. Nor, indeed, do several other countries who are poorer per head than the Greeks are -W]
turboblocke says:
Umm, so how is this going to play out in the long-term with respect to the citizens in the rest of the EU? We've now got a country with initimate access to EU markets and with a population that will probably work for rock bottom wages. Enjoy.
[I'm not sure how you get that. Greeks aren't obviously keen to work for low wages -W]
Dracmaize. The Euro is a poor idea as you Brits realized from the start.
This from a friend who hails from the Big Olive:
http://takimag.com/article/demagogue_days_taki#axzz3fWc8oBNR
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Thomas Fuller says:
Well, I wouldn't start from where they are, but the sensible thing is have elections, get rid of Syriza, go to the markets and beg for mercy. Raise pension age to 67, start to tax shipping companies and other rich people, encourage the young to emigrate to Germany and Britain and learn enough skills to benefit them upon their return.
Andy Skuce says:
I suspect that the Greek in the street likes being in the Eurozone because, however incompetent and heartless the Eurocrats are, they are better than the venal and corrupt oligarchs who would take over if the Greeks withdrew from the Euro or the EU.
The best commentary I have read on the fiasco is this blogpost from a week or so ago. http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5965.html
Eric Lund says:
I have a feeling that lots of people in both Greece and Germany haven't thought this through. Being in the Eurozone gives Greece all the disadvantages of gold-backed currency (e.g., devaluation is between difficult and impossible) without the advantages (e.g., actually having gold). It's not a sustainable situation.
Among the various bad outcomes here is that Golden Dawn will form the next Greek government and get the credit for improving the situation, whether by luck or by abandoning the euro, as Syriza should have done. Parties of that stripe have already had some success in Europe, thanks to a combination of high unemployment and latent anti-immigrant sentiment. Merkel's country was on the other side of a similar situation about 90 years ago, so she should know this better than most.
John Brookes says:
I know almost nothing of this. I do know that the Greek finance minister resigned, because the other nations couldn't work with him. And I suspect that was because he probably pointed to the simple maths that showed the Greeks would owe more every year, and that there was no chance of this working.
When is it ok to repudiate a debt?
[The Greek ex-finance minister was an useless incompetent idiot; they are well rid of him. As to your last question, you may find Timmy instructive -W]
[I'm not sure how you get that. Greeks aren't obviously keen to work for low wages -W] And you base that assertion on…?
[I base it on all their whinging about having to actually work -W]
And it doesn't matter if they're keen or not, what choice will they have?
They're also being obliged to privatise their infrastructure to, obviously, foreign investors. We all know how that works out in tax revenues don't we? So that's going to lead to more government cuts, reduced services, so more pressure to accept any job…
[The Greeks clearly need their clientist state shaken up. If privatisation helps to do that, then good. Once upon a time we thought it was a sensible thing for government to run car factories. The idea now seems ludicrous. Why should they run docks? -W]
Raymond Arritt says:
Monetary union without strong political union has a lot of things going against it.
The Euro is overvalued from the point of view of Greece and the other laggards but undervalued from the point of view of Germany and the other strong economies. Suppose they had separate currencies (let's call them the drachma and the mark). The drachma would decline in value and stimulate Greece's economy by making Greece's exports cheaper among other things.
Instead a single currency is pro-cyclical, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. It might work with careful management and political will but I haven't seen much evidence of the former in particular.
[This is standard economic theory. However, what's striking is that the Greek public clearly don't believe it. They strongly want to stay in the Euro. One possibility is that they're simply wrong: this wouldn't be strange. Another is that they expect other benefits to flow from being in the Euro, less subject to std.econ analysis -W]
[I base it on all their whinging about having to actually work -W] Spoken to a lot of Greeks have you? A representative sample? Pardon my scepticism.
[Very few; only my line manager. He works hard; but of course, he does so in England, for a UK company; not in Greece -W]
And you ignored my point that the privatisations will be to foreign investors, as the Greeks don't have the money. In addition, these are forced sales, so the Greeks are in a weak bargaining position.
[The Greek state doesn't have the money; but there's plenty of money in Greece outside the state. Failing to collect taxes has been one of their problems. You, however, ignored my point: The Greeks clearly need their clientist state shaken up. If privatisation helps to do that, then good -W]
Attaboy WC, this was your best posting yet. Looks like the thin wedge of reality is beginning to mug you unbeknownst. I look forward to the Scrooge-like cur that you will become, an honest man at last.
It is a sad day for Europe and Greece is the Greek government has indeed caved in and agreed to the Troika's austerity program (which includes cuts to pensions [average ~800$] instead of tax increases to the wealthier Greeks, which were considered unacceptable by the Troika).
From Krugman's blog at the NY Times, we learn that austerity will make it more difficult to pay off the debt, as it depresses the GDP. And:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/29/opinion/paul-krugman-greece-over-the-brink.html tells us:
"To understand why I say this, you need to realize that most — not all, but most — of what you've heard about Greek profligacy and irresponsibility is false. Yes, the Greek government was spending beyond its means in the late 2000s. But since then it has repeatedly slashed spending and raised taxes. Government employment has fallen more than 25 percent, and pensions (which were indeed much too generous) have been cut sharply. If you add up all the austerity measures, they have been more than enough to eliminate the original deficit and turn it into a large surplus."
[but didn't, as the economy tanked].
Also, which country has the more generous welfare state, Greece or Germany?
[I think your quote, and possibly K, is so one-sided as to be misleading. Try http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/06/greek-pensions for more useful detail:
Yet there was a crucial hole in the reforms: they largely sheltered older workers, so that they could retire on broadly the same terms as before. As an example, Platon Tinios, a pensions expert at Piraeus University, highlights the reform limiting the list of arduous occupations. This no longer included new hairdressers from 2012 but all those with more than ten years' experience retained their previous right to retire five years early. The new accrual rates applied to years worked from 2011; previous years worked still benefited from the earlier more generous formula (although the resulting benefits are then subjected to the cuts applied to pensions in payment). According to Professor Tinios, "the vast majority of those planning to retire this decade are grandfathered" (shielded) from the reforms. The result has been a wave of early retirements as people take advantage of the old rules at a time of high unemployment. That has pushed up spending while contributions fell away leaving the pension system more and more reliant on huge transfers from the taxpayer…
As to the reference in Comment 9 Timmy, who points out that Greek debt is held by [taxpayers], that is the result of Greece's previous bailout, which transferred private holdings of Greek debt (which were so enthusiastically sold by Goldman-Sachs and friends, until they decided to short-sell them) to the ECB and other non-private funds, transferring risk from private to public, just as the AIG bailout in the U.S.
Greece's economy has many problems, among them, that their wealthy people – just like ours in the U.S. – don't like to pay taxes. (Wealthy Greeks avoid taxes by corruption, U.S. ones by getting Congress critters to write favorable tax laws and many deductions [oil depletion allowance, 'carried interest',…]; both use foreign tax shelters).
Eric Lund in Comment #8 makes two important points; pushing the Greek people further may lead to bad consequences, like a Golden Dawn government;
the underlying reason of Greece's problem is that it is stuck with the Euro, like with a Gold standard, making foreign exchange adjustment impossible.
And there is the historical point, Germany's debt had also been forgiven after WW II (and in the late 1920ies, after WW I, otherwise Germany would still be paying), as Thomas Picketty recently pointed out.
[Debt forgiveness is a complex thing. Arguing "A happened, therefore B must happen" but making no attempt to relate the two is pointless -W]
Mal Adapted says:
NZ Willy:
Attaboy WC, this was your best posting yet.
Heh. You'll testify for our host, and climate science by association, against charges of leftism then 8^D?
crandles says:
>"But, lets say what should they do starting now; we're not allowed to go back and change the past. Then I think they really need the restructuring. They should be doing that anyway, starting now, not using it as a bargaining chip."
"Secondly, Greek banks need additional capital of up to €25bn to absorb losses from the implosion of the economy – caused by forced bank closures. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-33497309
20:20 'Bonkers' item.
25bn in 2 weeks not a bad rate of value destruction….
It isn't caving in, it is a clever plan to make creditors realise the money previously lent is now worth a lot less 😉
#12 William, so your claim that the Greeks are lazy is not founded on any evidence. How about taking a look at the average annual hours worked here: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS
Greeks over 2,000 hours/ year Germans less than 1,500.
[You're missing the point. Its not the ones in work and doing something useful that's the problem. Its the ones out of work, or the ones in work but doing pointless-or-actively-harmful govt bureaucracy, that are the problem -W]
@turboblocke, two points:
First, the data say nothing about the country as a whole, as they give average hours worked per worker. Taken to an extreme this could be one guy working 2042 hours and the rest of the country just groovin'.
Secondly, the source itself states that the data are not useful for comparison between countries: "The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources."
I have no idea (and don't particularly care) whether Greeks work more/less/not at all/about the same compared to other people. I just get worked up at misuse of data…
"the ones in work but doing pointless-or-actively-harmful govt bureaucracy".
Of course, the ones that work in pointless or actively harmful private businesses are never a problem. Oh never.
[Not in economic terms, no. Because companies that employ sufficient numbers of useless people go bust. Its self-correcting. That Darwiniian aspect that keeps business "honest" (errm, within a certain meaning of the term; perhaps "on its toes would be better) doesn't apply to govt -W]
#18 Good point, in that case maybe our host could supply a source for his whinging about having to work claim.
In any case it's all moot. We've seen the beginning of the end for the Euro. Only a real basket case wouldl want to join now… And who would have them?
Not useless people, not what I said. I said useless or harmful businesses.
On the lighter side of useless:
http://xkcd.com/1021/
Under the useless to harmful category: pimping, tobacco sellers, heroin sellers, many multi-level marketing companies, various frauds and scams, and on and on. All profitable.
Saying "in economic terms" is making the assumption that anything profitable is good. Many things that not good are clearly profitable.
>"Saying "in economic terms" is making the assumption that anything profitable is good. Many things that not good are clearly profitable."
To me saying "Not in economic terms, no." seems like an admission there may be non economic ways in which activities might be bad. So I don't follow your 'not what I said' complaint.
I would certainly put pressurised sales tactics people on the list of harmful but profitable activities. Not quite sure what you are referring to with "multi-level marketing companies". If they boost sales for their clients or even if they don't but the clients think the money spent was worth it, does this boost gdp? If the product is harmful or the marketing is to persuade politicians to pass favourable laws or the marketing is pressurising people into bad choices then it can be bad in those ways. If those sorts of things are not present when is marketing good or bad? Is it simply a matter of whether it boosts gdp? Maybe boosting gdp through marketing almost always a bad thing in that people think spending money will make them happier but it generally doesn't and a simpler cheaper lifestyle should be preferred? If people really want to buy some item, they can do their own research of what they want and buy it easily and people avoid all the marketing messages being pushed down their throat. If this is the sensible view then governments should progressively implement a ban on all marketing. I think that would be very bad for government finances though and is therefore unlikely to happen.
If you are trying to express some form of the above view, then I really don't get the 'multi level' marketing bad (single level presumably ok?).
[quote=BBC]In a TV address on Tuesday, Mr Tspiras called the proposals "irrational" but said he was willing to implement them to "avoid disaster for the country" and the collapse of the banks.
He presumably is saying he thinks he is rational to accept the terms but the creditors are irrational to demand such humiliating terms.
When is it sensible for creditors to throw more good money after bad? Demanding some evidence that the profligate ways are gone and won't return seems like the most obvious starting point and he cannot fail to have understood this.
To international creditors the demands seem inevitably necessary not irrational. Saying the terms are irrational seems like he hasn't realised he has to portray an image that reforms have to follow; instead it looks more like why not just drag out negotiations like this time and next time it will be even more obvious that Greece cannot repay all its debts and needs more debt relief.
A guess the more charitable view is that this was solely for a domestic audience saying this isn't my fault it is those crazy creditors with their crazy demands and they should have agreed to what I was proposing. That he didn't come up with much in the way of credible proposals is a slight problem with that position, but maybe he can get away with that.
[I think its for domestic consumption only. He has a difficult task ahead – which is worrying, because he's not competent – which amounts to selling austerity to people who voted against it, as a person specifically elected on a platform of no austerity.
Being optimistic, this could be made to work: the weary Greek electorate may well say "ah well. We tried our best to vote for fairies and free money and no hard choices, but even the people who promised them couldn't deliver. So, having had a glimpse of the abyss, we'll back off". And perhaps you could argue that with a different govt, they'd still be lusting after the fairies -W]
@cradles: What I said was "the ones that work in pointless or actively harmful private businesses"
The reply was "companies that employ sufficient numbers of useless people"
The reply was a change in topic, from "companies that do harm" to "companies that hire worthless employees". Clearly a company that does harm can hire competent employees, and not all employees of a company doing evil need to be directly participating in the evil. I assert that the market has no inherent feedbacks to correct companies that are both profitable and harmful or useless.
To clarify, my comment wasn't about Greece, as a partly worthless government (to say the least) is indeed a large part of the problems that Greece is facing. There are worthless and harmful governments as well as companies.
RE: "multi-level marketing companies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
[I assert that the market has no inherent feedbacks to correct companies that are both profitable and harmful or useless – I wouldn't be quite so definite, but its not an unreasonable thing to say -W]
>"[I assert that the market has no inherent feedbacks to correct companies that are both profitable and harmful or useless – I wouldn't be quite so definite, but its not an unreasonable thing to say -W]"
Not sure I see much difference between what we are each saying.
Not quite sure why William doesn't want to be so definite, but maybe he has a point which I am not seeing:
I would at first suggest it has to mainly be the role of government to tax/inhibit/outlaw profitable but harmful business activities. While on first thought the market may not appear to have any inherent feedback. However, in some situations there may be a role for some combined govt and business feedback: eg Financial Statements rules to require the company to gather and publish info that possibly reveals some harmful effects and this might cause a good business to close down a harmful segment of its business rather than publish the info and damage the whole company while a wholly bad business might suffer adverse publicity. Is that a market mechanism? Perhaps but it is difficult to say it is an 'inherent market feedback' mechanism as such rules are not necessarily required by a market. So this looks more like a govt inhibit mechanism according to the terms you used.
So it is beginning to look like you managed to exclude many of the feedbacks by the form of words you used. "market has no inherent feedbacks" excludes government actions and also business mechanisms that exist but are not inherent to markets. So according to the wording you may be able to defend that position but it seems like a bit of an irrelevance because your wording excluded so much.
Is it possible to envisage a good Multi Level Marketing scheme (i.e. beneficial to all involved or at least large majority of people in each class of involvement such as customers, employees, general public, people living near activities)? Is your beef just with the often attendant problems like pyramid selling, exploitation of employees, cult-like indoctrination, pressure selling tactics, and so on rather than MLM itself? Should MLM marketing be banned even if it is possible to imagine isolated cases where it might be good?
Michael 2 says:
You were there? 😉
afeman says:
Looks like those squishes at the IMF are siding with the faeries.
[If you're referring to the report they released, I disagree (I added it to the refs, BTW, if you want to see the actual thing rather than the press take). They are pointing out, correctly, that the Greek debt isn't repayable or sustainable on any plausible timescale. But that's not an offer of free money. Note the end: The choice between the various options is for Greece and its European partners to decide -W]
Note the sentences before:
There are several options. If Europe prefers to again provide debt relief through maturity extension, there would have to be a very dramatic extension with grace periods of, say, 30 years on the entire stock of European debt, including new assistance. … Other options include explicit annual transfers to the Greek budget or deep upfront haircuts.
What are you calling "free money"?
[Because they're politely avoiding mentioning the default-and-leave-the-Euro option explicitly. That is "free money", in the sense of the default, but comes with certain consequences. That was, and is, always an option -W]
Let us not forget that Greece was lent this money by private sector banks. Yes, it was those ultra high paid, genius level turbo capitalists who thought that lending to Greece – a country with a history of bad governance and default, and no evidence of reform – was a good idea.
But instead of the private sector banks taking the hit when Greece noticed that it was bankrupt (which would have crashed many of them, but that's your good ol' creative destruction), the debt was taken on, stupidly, by governments – Germany, France, Italy et. al.
[You're wrong. The private sector took a 50% "haircut" on the Greek debt back in 2011 (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greek-bondholders-to-take-50-haircut-2011-10-26). Timmy's http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/07/08/the-single-simple-greek-debt-problem-theres-no-bankers-or-capitalists-to-expropriate/ is also helpful -W]
So. Greece is bankrupt – as in there is no realistic way it can ever repay it's debt on commercial terms, given that it does not have it's own currency. That is a statement of fact. However, the other Eurozone governments cannot admit this, because the implication is that the huge chunks of Greek debt they have taken on is mostly worthless. So we have perma-austerity imposed on Greece, under the pretense that somehow this will help. It won't – shrinking the economy just makes the debt worse – but it sounds good, and fits the political narrative of 'lazy shiftless greeks', which is a much better narrative for the German government than 'we just lost 100 billion euros of taxpayer money'.
So. If we treat this as a bankruptcy.. then either we have a large scale debt write off – something like 70% – combined with full reforms in Greece, or Greece exits the Eurozone, dosen't reform, and the debts are re denominated in Drachma. Which means they'll lose 70% of their value, plus or minus. Those are the two options for bringing the crisis to a close. No amount of whining about 'other people's money', 'shiftless greeks', 'neoliberal troika' or whatever will change this. Stupid lenders + stupid borrowers, = bankruptcy.
The current process – in which quite selective but aggressive austerity and reforms are demanded in return for 'extend and pretend' bailouts – means continuous pain for the Greeks and no end to the crisis. It's a living example of why bankruptcy law exists. Why should the Greeks agree to this? They've lost a quarter of their GDP and seen 60% youth unemployment, but are back at square 1. The crisis needs to end.
[Why should the Greeks agree to this? – because, as I've patiently explained in the blog posting, they want to stay in the Euro. They have decided to prioritise that above all else. Having made that choice, they don't get a free choice in all other matters -W]
Andrew Dodds says "No amount of whining about 'other people's money'… Stupid lenders + stupid borrowers, = bankruptcy."
Good analysis for the most part. The problem is that lenders don't lend their "own" money; they are lending deposits, namely, "other people's money". And, as you say, that's a fact. It isn't even money. It is a promise of future labor to be paid largely by Germans that had no say in the matter. A similar situation has taken place in Iceland but, not being in the Eurozone, can default and effectively did just that. The bank that so many Europeans deposited into failed. All three Iceland banks failed in the same week and there was no "bailout".
But you are right; there's almost certainly no bringing that money back. But, keep the debt on the books and maybe some of those investments will repay.
Very educative and informative article.
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Yesterday I met with some of the staff and members of the flower workers union, Uganda Horticultural and Allied Workers. There are 9,000 workers in the flower industry in Uganda on 21 farms mostly in the Entebbe area on the shores of Lake Victoria. 3,000 are covered by union contracts, though not all those pay dues. The union was formed in 2006 mainly through the efforts of Steven Barasa, a long-time flower industry employee who worked his way up into a management position. He was fired by his long time employer because his boss noticed he was too often a workers advocaterequently took the workers' side in implementing company labor policies. Barasa thought his firing was illegal and threatened to sue. They settled out of court for 7 million shillings. Barasa took the money and paid his rent and kids' school fees for two years, then appointed himself the full-time union organizer for the flower workers of Uganda.
Non-union workers earn between 80,000 to 100,000 shillings a month…about $50-$60. Age discrimination, arbitrary discipline, forced overtime…all the typical practices of non-union employers the world over are found in abundance in the industry.
The union has managed to push up the rates to between 100,000 and 120,000 shillings and at the same time build job security, a steward system, and raise job safety issues on the farms.
Protective clothing and equipment for workers handling pesticides has been a big issue. So has age discrimination, as employers try to rid themselves of older workers.
The union operates out of a tiny office in Entebbe. Barasa travels around by taxi and boda-boda to meet with workers and negotiate with managers. The union is making a big effort right now to train rank and file leadership in labor history, grievance, handling, negotiations, organizing and other union skills. I visited one of the classes last week in Entebbe. As I walked into the hall, I heard the 28 rank and file leaders singing Solidarity Forever. I felt right at home. I gave a little speech and explained the horses on my Teamsters hat and that it was my Teamster pension that enabled me to volunteer my time in Uganda. Later, Barasa took me to one of the nearby farms where the union has developed a mutually respectful relationship with management. I had a chance to chat briefly with some of the workers, and the manager of the farm and to learn a little about flower growing. Everything was coming up roses at this farm. Cute little roses about an inch in diameter with 18" stems…about 7 hectares under cultivation and shipments of thousands of stems each week to Holland.
This struggling union gets advice and support from NOTU, the National Trade Union Federation and from the German labor unions which have a support and training NGO in Kampala.
After we toured the farm, Barasa headed to Kampala where he was putting final touches on a grant proposal he was sending off that day to potential donors in Germany. The proposal, for $120,000 would let the fledgling organization buy an automobile, some office equipment, allow them to hire an office worker and put two full-time organizers in the field for the next two years.
It was deeply moving and inspiring to see this baby union intensely engaged in the work of protecting workers on a daily basis and in building an organization that can improve the lives of thousands of workers and their families for years and years to come.


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A widespread assumption, although not one that Chetty brings up, is that white political oppression is what's keeping the black man down economically. For example, Chetty's tenth worst county is Coahoma County in Mississippi's cotton-growing Delta. The county seat is Clarksdale, home of bluesman Robert Johnson's legendary crossroads where Highway 49 intersects Bob Dylan's Highway 61. A couple of years ago, much of the national press became obsessed with implying that the murder of "€œMississippi's first openly gay mayoral candidate"€ was the work of Clarksdale's KKK-ridden White Male Power Structure cops, even though the black killer had already confessed to the black sheriff in a town with a black mayor.
So, black political power doesn"€™t seem to build much of a basis for prosperity for the next generation.
An extremely curious aspect of Chetty's list is that many of the supposedly Worst Places in America to Raise Children had fast-growing populations between 2000 and 2010, often due to a mix of black, Hispanic, and white newcomers pouring in. For example, the third most economically depressing county according to Chetty, behind only two Indian reservations, was Forsyth County, North Carolina, whose county seat is Winston-Salem. Yet, Forsyth's population has grown 19% since 2000, much of that black and Latino newcomers.
If Forsyth County, and the Carolinas in general according to Chetty's results, are such hellholes, why did so many families move there? What does Chetty know that all these families didn"€™t know?
Well, he knows what happened in 2008. Chetty's hindsight is 20-20.
Let's look at the whitest county among his Worst 25, Horry County, South Carolina, which is on the Atlantic just south of the North Carolina state line. We modern Americans can think more objectively about relatively white places like this Golf Capital of the World. Horry is home to the immense Myrtle Beach resort that features at least 91 golf courses on its Grand Strand. Despite Chetty's assertion of its awfulness, Horry has grown 52 percent in population since 2000.
So, what was it about Myrtle Beach that made it bad for the next generation? Does golf undermine the moral fiber of youth?
Nah. The example of Myrtle Beach's ups and downs just makes clear a recurrent problem with Chetty's methodology: even though he's claiming to find long-term verities about how best to organize communities, his findings are extremely susceptible to temporary local booms and busts. Chetty's 1996-2000 baseline era represented a historic golf resort construction boom in Horry County, with unemployment dropping as low as 2.5 percent in 1998-99. In contrast, Chetty's 2011-2012 measurement era was part of the collapse of golf course construction, with unemployment never dropping below 10 percent in Horry County from 2009-2013.
Not surprisingly, Myrtle Beach's endless growth and low cost of living brought in large numbers of people in the 1990s for construction and tourism jobs. They did well in 1996-2000, but their kids wound up getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop in 2011-2012. But, lately, rich Chinese looking to buy American golf courses to launder their ill-gotten gains have discovered Myrtle Beach, so the future looks brighter than the recent past.
To sum up, blue collar Americans were doing well building golf condos in Myrtle Beach in the 1990s. But then golf went out of fashion, so the construction boom collapsed. But now Myrtle Beach is coming back because Chinese Communist Party white-collar criminals are really getting into golf.
In other words, one of Chetty's big lessons is that if you are a blue collar worker, you should move to a county that will be booming a decade and a half from now for reasons you can"€™t possibly anticipate.
To illustrate that, take a look at Chetty's 25 Best Counties for the lower half of the income scale. The top county, the positive doppelganger to Oglala Lakota County, is Sioux County, Iowa, where kids grew up to make 35 percent more than the national average would predict. Ironically, while Oglala Lakota County is almost all Sioux, Sioux County is 97 percent white.
Sioux County is an impressive place, sort of the Palo Alto of the recent Midwestern farm boom that drove land prices up steadily from 2004 through 2013 (before dropping in 2014). It has fantastic soil for growing corn, and climate change has been making the local weather more beneficent over the last three decades. In late 2011, some farmland in Sioux County sold for a Midwestern record of $20,000 per acre, which would be $3.2 million for a typical 160-acre farm. Sioux County also has some cultural advantages, such as ethnic homogeneity (in 1980 it was found to be the most Dutch place in America). It's also quite socially conservative, with 80 percent of the population belonging to churches.
While growers in California demand more illegal immigrants, Sioux County voters prefer to use productivity-expanding technology to do the work themselves. Republican Congressman Steve King, an outspoken immigration restrictionist, earned 83 percent of Sioux County's votes in 2012.
Chetty's 25 Best Counties for the working class look an awful lot like Sioux County. There are five more in Iowa, six in Nebraska, four in North Dakota (with its energy boom), three in South Dakota, two in Utah, one in Kansas, one in Colorado, one in Montana, and one in Wyoming.
Despite their prosperity due to recent booms in farm produce and energy, these rural counties aren"€™t attracting many new residents. While halcyon Sioux County, with its biotechnology industry, grew seven percent in population from 2000 to 2010, Chetty's second best, Cedar County, Nebraska, has lost population in every Census after 1930. Productivity goes up constantly, so the most successful farmers buy out their rivals. It's a healthy economic system, but not one that can absorb this country's ever-growing population caused by immigration.
One lesson that Chetty is reluctant to draw from his data is that large-scale immigration appears to be bad for the American working class. His Top 25 counties are closer to the Canadian than the Mexican border.
A repeated theme that runs through Chetty's latest paper is that white bread places like Minneapolis and Salt Lake City have more beneficial cultures than vibrant, diverse ones such as Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans:
For females in below-median income families, New Orleans has the lowest causal effect on family income; every additional year spent in New Orleans lowers their incomes by -0.285 (s.e. 0.098) percentiles, a reduction of 0.932%. In contrast, we find that Salt Lake City, Utah has the highest causal effect on the family incomes of females. Every year spent growing up in Salt Lake City increases a female child's income from a below-median income family by 0.234 percentiles, or roughly 0.767%.
Put differently, these suggest that 20 years of exposure to Bucks County, PA as opposed to Baltimore, MD for males in below-median income families would increase their income by 44.7%.
Bucks County is a traditional bucolic escape for Manhattan literati. It's where Oscar Hammerstein II taught his foster son Stephen Sondheim how to compose Broadway musicals. Freddie Gray would not have felt at home in Bucks County.
The highest-ranking large county on the list is DuPage County, Illinois, a set of leafy Chicago suburbs west of O"€™Hare Airport. DuPage is a convenient place to live and work if you are a corporate frequent flier. DuPage has everything you"€™d expect in an upscale county: I almost bought a house there a few times and played golf there many times.
But a close inspection of Chetty's tables suggests DuPage just stumbled into the top ranking due to fortuitous economic cycles rather than underlying permanent cultural or policy differences. Telling evidence is that DuPage's own Western suburb, Kane County, which is to DuPage County as DuPage is to Chicago's Cook County, did miserably, ranking 2239th out of 2478 counties.
DuPage is a mature suburb with a vast number of stable corporate jobs, but little population growth (up only one percent from 2000 to 2010) due to zoning and high home prices. In contrast McHenry County was a fast growing exurb (up 28 percent in population from 2000 to 2010). But, like most exurbs in 2008, McHenry got hammered by the mortgage mess and the rise in gasoline prices, drying up construction and realtor income. McHenry's unemployment rate had dropped as low as 3 percent in 2008, but was running close to 10 percent in 2011-2012 when Chetty measured incomes.
Most of the other high-performing large counties are upscale suburban ones like Snohomish, Washington (Seattle suburbs); Bergen, New Jersey (across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan); Bucks, Pennsylvania (a famously artsy exurb of New York City); Contra Costa, California (San Francisco Bay area); and Fairfax, Virginia (Washington D.C.).
On Chetty's list of the best counties for the Upper Half of the population, Fairfax is, by far, the highest ranked large county. Fairfax has always been prosperous, but lately it's started to look like The Capitol in The Hunger Games.
Because of 9/11. The War on Terror poured hundreds of billions upon the Beltway Bandits, many of whom live in Fairfax County to conveniently serve the CIA and Pentagon.
In other words, when choosing where to move your family when looking for blue-collar work, you should attempt to accurately forecast bizarre world-shaking historical events that will direct colossal economic windfalls upon some places while squeezing others dry. Try to anticipate what supervillains lurking in caves are plotting.
The example of Fairfax points out that Chetty's lists are driven by post-hoc reasoning. Back in 1996, both Myrtle Beach and Fairfax County looked liked they"€™d have pretty good futures, but the South Carolina golf resort was unexpectedly cratered by Baby Boomers aging out of their Golf Phase, while the CIA headquarters"€™ home county was lavishly rewarded for failing to anticipate what Osama bin Laden was up to.
Post-hoc reasoning isn"€™t useless. For instance, Pine Ridge will probably continue to remain a messed-up place until somebody discovers natural gas on it or somebody else figures out a biochemical solution for Native Americans"€™ propensity toward alcoholism.
The worst places for the upper half of the income range are, by Chetty's calculations, a mixture of Indian reservations, black counties, exurban counties that got slammed by 2008 before they could mature (e.g., Orange, North Carolina, home of the U. of North Carolina), and, most interestingly, huge multicultural immigrant-heavy cities like D.C., New York, and the more multicultural counties of the Southern California megalopolis.
Some of this is just an artifact of Chetty's repeated refusal to adjust for cost of living differences. Many Angelenos, for instance, moved inland to San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, accepting a lower salary to get a lower mortgage, while natives of the Inland Empire in turn moved to even cheaper places such as Texas.
But, just eyeballing his rankings suggests that mass immigration isn"€™t doing Americans much good overall.
In summary, Chetty's data still suffers from crippling problems with:
–	Regression toward the mean (especially among races)
–	Temporary booms and busts
–	Cost of living differences.
Yet, these should not be impossible challenges for him to overcome in future iterations.


Tonight's debate will have six bullies and one persecuted nerd: Marco Rubio.
Rubio might try to deflect criticism with charm. But if you watch him enough, it's clear he's not quite as charming as you expect him to be, despite being young and handsome. He sounds a bit too rehersed (here's an amusing supercut of Rubio's stump speeches). His voice rises toward a yelp for emphasis, and his voice sometimes has a sing-songy quality. Even if you were never a bully, you kind of want to pick on him.
I honestly think if all the candidates gang up on Marco Rubio at the debate tonight, they might get him to cry.
Trump, the chief GOP bully, will be back in the debate tonight, fresh after skipping the last one. He'll be at center stage, flanked by Rubio and Ted Cruz. Trump will likely attack Cruz for, he claims, cheating in the Iowa caucuses. But he'll also probably have a nice insult prepared for Rubio. Trump's insults tend to stick, because they're often just a tiny bit true, so maybe he'll pick on Rubio's student council president demeanor.


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Q: How to change the globale variables to local variables in C? I am done with my assignment and everything works as I want but the thing is I am not allowed to have globale variables in this project therefor every thing should be in functions. Since I am new to C i don't really know how to get this work I mean How to change my global variables into local ones.
Appreciate Your help!
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

int tal[99] = { -1 };
int bubbles, byte, c, d, val;

/* Function for number gen*/
int talserie() {
    srand(time(NULL));
    for (c = 0; c < 100; c++) {

        tal[c] = rand() % 901;
        printf(" %d ", tal[c]);

        if ((c + 1) % 10 == 0)
            printf("\n");
    }
}
/* Funktion för bubble sort*/
int bubbel() {
    for (c = 0; c < (99); c++)
    {
        for (d = 0; d < 99 - c; d++)
        {
            if (tal[d] > tal[d + 1])
            {
                byte = tal[d];
                tal[d] = tal[d + 1];
                tal[d + 1] = byte;
            }
        }
    }

    for (c = 0; c < 100; c++) {
        printf(" %d ", tal[c]);
        if ((c + 1) % 10 == 0)
            printf("\n");
    }
}

/* Funktion för median-, max/min- och medelvärde*/
int varde() {
    printf("\nMaxvärdet är: %d", tal[99]);
    printf("\nMinvärdet är: %d", tal[0]);

    int total = 0;
    for (c = 0; c < 100; c++) {
        total = total + tal[c];
    }

    printf("\nMedelvärdet är: %d", total / 100);
    printf("\nMedianvärdet är: %d", ((tal[49] + tal[50]) / 2));
}

/*Funktion leta siffra*/
int siffra() {
    printf("\nSkriv in en siffra: ");
    scanf("%d", &val);
    d = 0;
    for (c = 0; c < 100; c++) {
        if (tal[c] == val) {
            d = 1;
            printf("\nFinns i talföljden på plats: ");
            if (c <= 9)
                printf(" Rad 1 och Kolumn %d\n", c + 1);
            else if (c > 9 && c <= 19)
                printf(" Rad 2 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 10);
            else if (c > 19 && c <= 29)
                printf(" Rad 3 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 20);
            else if (c > 29 && c <= 39)
                printf(" Rad 4 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 30);
            else if (c > 39 && c <= 49)
                printf(" Rad 5 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 40);
            else if (c > 49 && c <= 59)
                printf(" Rad 6 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 50);
            else if (c > 59 && c <= 69)
                printf(" Rad 7 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 60);
            else if (c > 69 && c <= 79)
                printf(" Rad 8 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 70);
            else if (c > 79 && c <= 89)
                printf(" Rad 9 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 80);
            else if (c > 89 && c <= 99)
                printf(" Rad 10 och Kolumn %d\n", (c + 1) - 90);
            break;
        }
    }
    if (d == 0);
    {
        printf("\n%d Finns inte i talföljden", val);
    }
}
/* Main funktion med switch meny*/
int main()
{
    while (val != 5) {
        printf("\n1. Generera en talföljd med 100 tal mellan 0-900.");
        printf("\n2. Sortera talföljden i storleksordning.");
        printf("\n3. Räkna ut medelvärde, median och maxvärde.");
        printf("\n4. Sök efter valfritt tal.");
        printf("\n5. För att avsluta\n");
        printf("Skriv in ett val (1-5): ");

        scanf("%d", &val);

        switch (val) {

        case 1:
            talserie();
            break;

        case 2:
            if (tal[0] == -1)
                printf("\nFel! Generera en talföljd först!\n");
            else
                bubbel();
            break;

        case 3:
            if (tal[0] == -1) /* Arrayen innehåller -1 i [0] innan talföljden genereras"*/
                printf("\nFel! Generera en talföljd först!\n");
            else if (tal[0] <= tal[1] && tal[1] <= tal[2] && tal[2] <= tal[3])

                varde();
            else
                printf("\nFel! Sortera talföljden i storleksordning först!\n");
            break;

        case 4:
            if (tal[0] == -1)
                printf("\nFel! Generera en talföljd först!\n");
            else if (tal[0] <= tal[1] && tal[1] <= tal[2] && tal[2] <= tal[3])
                siffra();
            else
                printf("\nFel! Sortera talföljden i storleksordning först!\n");
            break;

        }
    }
    return 0;
}

A: I speak in general, then you'll make the particular changes in your program.
Let's say that you use one of your global variables in the function foo(). If you want your variable to not being global anymore, then you need to pass it to foo() as one of its arguments.
So you would declare the variable as a local variable in the function that will call foo()
void caller( void )
{
    int local;

    foo( local );
}

void foo( int var )
{
...Some code...
}

That was a pass by value, if you need foo() to modify the variable then you need to pass by reference
void caller( void )
{
    int local;

    foo( &local );
}

void foo( int *pointerToVar )
{
...Some code...
}

EDIT: here an example to answer your comment. In main you will have
int main()
{
    int tal[99], c;

    talserie(tal, c);
    ...
}

And your function will be
talserie(int tal[99], int c)
{
    ...
}

But if you don't need to use c in main, you can declare it directly into talserie and you pass only tal


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LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ANNOUNCES SPECTACULAR 36TH ANNIVERSARY 2016-17 SEASON
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LEHMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
ANNOUNCES SPECTACULAR 36TH ANNIVERSARY 2016-17 SEASON
Featuring Latin and Popular Music Concerts
EDDIE PALMIERI, LA INDIA, WILLIE COLON, TITO ROJAS,
THE HABANA BOYS, JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" & SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO,
EL DEBARGE, TANK & TROOP, THE PURPLE XPERIENCE, FOREVER FREESTYLE 11,
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET IN "DRACULA"
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts proudly announces the lineup for its 36th ANNIVERSARY 2016-17 SEASON, which continues its tradition of bringing world-class entertainment to the Bronx. To kick off the new season, EDDIE PALMIERI and his SALSA ORCHESTRA present a sizzling evening of salsa; WILLIE COLON returns to La Casa De La Salsa to present a special Christmas concert celebration ASALTO NAVIDEÑO; the classically trained tenors from Cuba, the HABANA BOYS, four classically trained tenors from Cuba will make their debut appearance at Lehman Center; and a tribute to the Los Compadres: JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" and SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO, will perform together for the first time at Lehman Center since their joint LATIN GRAMMY® win. Audiences will be mesmerized by Canada's ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET's performance of DRACULA; thrilled with 80's hit singers EL DEBARGE, TANK & TROOP who will get everyone on their feet; won't want to miss the return of the popular Lehman Center favorite FOREVER FREESTYLE 11; and will celebrate the music and life of PRINCE while experiencing the performance of THE PURPLE XPERIENCE. Lehman Center's exciting 36th Anniversary Season promises an exceptional array of talent to please all audiences. (Highlights of Lehman Center's 2016-2017 Latin and Popular music schedule included below.)
Welcome to Lehman Center for the Performing Arts 36th Season. Lehman Center is one of New York's finest and most exciting not-for-profit performing arts centers – a home to international performers reaching thousands of your friends and neighbors each year.. Eva Bornstein, who is beginning her eleventh season as Executive Director of Lehman Center, says, "I would like to share this season's highlights: In addition to our outstanding Latino series featuring such great artists as Eddie Palmieri, La India, Willie Colon, Ismael Miranda, Tito Rojas, and numerous others, we will be presenting for the first time Canada's Winnipeg Ballet in "Dracula", Taj Express in the Bollywood Musical Revue, The National Symphony of Ukraine, Bale Folclorico da Bahia, Jose Alberto "El Canario" and Septeto Santiaguero, Five Irish Tenors and Habana Boys from Cuba. Our new season has something for everyone." *New This Season: HAVANA CAFÉ and Lehman Center special VIP pre-concert wine & hors d'oeuvres reception starting at 6:30pm. VIP tickets include the reception and the best seats in the house. At the reception, meet the artists (whenever possible), other patrons and the staff of Lehman Center. Sponsored by Havana Café Restaurant and Havana Club Puerto Rican Rum.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468. Tickets for all events can be purchased by calling the Lehman Center box office at 718-960-8833 (Monday through Friday, 10am–5pm, and beginning at 12 noon on the day of the concert), or through online access at www.LehmanCenter.org. Lehman Center is accessible by #4 or D train to Bedford Park Blvd. and is off the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway. Low cost on-site parking available for $5.
Special discounts are built into Lehman's concert series. "Create your own Series" offers a 10% discount on a minimum of three shows, or a 20% discount for six or more shows, or buy five family shows and receive a 15% discount. (All shows must be purchased at the same time at either the box office or by phone at
718-960-8833.) Plus special $10 tickets for any seat are available for selected shows for children 12 and under, made possible by a grant from Con Edison. Students, Senior Citizens, Lehman College Alumni, CUNY Staff and Faculty receive $5 discounts on selected events. Call the box office at 718-960-8833 for more details. Becoming a 36th Season Friend of Lehman Center by making a tax-deductible donation you will receive advance notice of events, obtain priority seating at the box office, receive special discounts and free tickets for select shows (based on your donation levels) while helping the Center bring in major artists at affordable ticket prices.
VISIT www.LehmanCenter.org. FOR COMPLETE 36th SEASON SCHEDULE AND MORE INFORMATION.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. The 2016-2017 Season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by Con Edison, the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund, the Rudin Foundation, the Hyde and Watson Foundation, and the friends of Lehman Center.
Lehman Center 2016-17 Latin and Popular Music Concerts schedule:
EDDIE PALMIERI & FRIENDS
A Sizzling Evening of Salsa!
Produced by Lehman Center and Robert Sancho
Saturday, September 17th, 2016 – 7:30pm
Tickets: $60, $55, $50
A sizzling evening featuring salsa legend and nine-time Grammy ® Award winner EDDIE PALMIERI and his SALSA ORCHESTRA. Also appearing: DEL CARIBE LATIN JAZZ ALL STARS, led by master arranger and composer EMILIO MORALES, musical director NELSON GONZALEZ with musicians JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ, RUBEN RODRIGUEZ, BOBBY ALLENDE, RICARDO PONS, MARC QUIÑONES, and NICKY MARRERO.
THE KINGDOM OF LA INDIA
Special Appearance: Eddie Palmieri & Ray De La Paz
Produced by Lehman Center and Leo Tizol
Saturday, October 15th, 2016 – 8pm
Tickets: $100*VIP, $85, $75, $65
A special evening with the multi Grammy Award nominated singer LA INDIA, "La Princescade la Salsa". Special guest appearance by pianist EDDIE PALMIERI and singer RAY DE LA PAZ.
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Score by GUSTAV MAHLER
Sunday, November 13th, 2016 – 6pm
Tickets: $75*VIP, $45, $40, $25 | Children 12 & under, $10 any seat
Canada's premier ballet company and one of the oldest ballet companies in North America, the ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET brings the classic gothic novel, the fascinating legend of DRACULA to life complete with flying bats, dancing gargoyles and mysterious transformations set to a glorious score by GUSTAV MAHLER, with opulent sets and costumes.
EL DEBARGE, TANK & TROOP
Produced by Mark Green
Saturday, November 19th, 2016 – 8pm
Grammy-nominated and leading male singer EL DEBARGE ("Rhythm of the Night", "All This Love", "Stay with Me") joins with R&B singer, songwriter and producer TANK ("Please Don't Go", "Maybe I Deserve") and the group TROUP ("All I Do is Think of You", "Mamacita", "Sweet November", "Spread My Wings") for an evening of 1980's hits.
Asalto Navideño
WILLIE COLON
The Legendary 50
Produced by Lehman Center and José Raposo
Saturday, December 10th, 2016 – 8pm
With 50 years of experience, composer, musician and singer – trombonist "Son of the Bronx," WILLIE COLON returns to La Casa De La Salsa to present a special Christmas concert celebration ASALTO NAVIDEÑO.
LARRY HARLOW & ISMAEL MIRANDA
"Abran Paso" – Historic Reunion of Salsa
Saturday, January 21st, 2017 – 8pm
After five decades of success, salsa salseros, LARRY HARLOW & ISMAEL MIRANDA will delight the audience with a performance that will include many of their hits like "Abran Paso", "Señor Sereno", "Fue Abandonada", and "Se Casa La Rumba" among many others.
TITO ROJAS, MAELO RUIZ, GIRO LOPEZ & NINO SEGARRA
Love In Salsa
Saturday, February 11th, 2017 – 8pm
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a romantic evening of salsa featuring TITO ROJAS ("Sensual"), MAELO RUIZ ("El Cantante del Amor"), GIRO LOPEZ ("Amor Lunatico") and NINO SEGARRA ("Enamorado").
THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY of the UKRAINE
Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
Sunday, February 12th, 2017 – 4pm
Tickets: $35, $30, $25 | Children 12 & under, $10 any seat
Considered to be one of the finest symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe, NATIONAL SYMPHONY of the UKRAINE, will perform Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto featuring Violin Soloist Dima Tkachenko, and Stravinsky's Suite from the Ballet "The Firebird".
Fever Records and Sal Abbatiello Presents
FOREVER FREESTYLE 11
A Lehman Center Favorite!
The Latin-flavored '80s Dance Music Sensation!
Produced by Lehman Center and Sal Abbatiello
Saturday, March 4th, 2017 – 8pm
A musical evening of the freestyle phenomenon of the late 80's, performed live on stage. Artists to be announced.
THE HABANA BOYS
Direct from Havana
Saturday, March 11th, 2017 – 8pm
The HABANA BOYS, four classically trained tenors from Cuba: ERNESTO CABRERA, SAEED MOHAMMED, REY REYES and IAN SANCHEZ will present a memorable debut evening at Lehman Center of arias and popular songs.
Tributo a Los Compadres
JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" & SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO
Plus a Special Tribute to Juan Formell of Los Van Van
Saturday, April 15th, 2017 – 8pm (Postponed from September 10th, 2016.)
A special tribute concert featuring The Showman JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO" and SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO, together for the first time at Lehman Center since their joint LATIN GRAMMY® win for the Best Traditional Tropical Album Tributo A Los Compadres: No Quiero Llanto. With special guests, former Los Van Van singers MAYITO RIVERA and PEDRITO CALVO.
THE PURPLE XPERIENCE
A Concert Celebration of the Music of PRINCE
Saturday, May 20th, 2017 – 8pm
Unmistakably the most authentic act of its kind, THE PURPLE XPERIENCE, led by DOCTOR FINK (former member of Prince and The Revolution), is appearing at Lehman Center for the first time bringing the memories and music of PRINCE and The Revolution to the stage.
15th Anniversary Concert
Saturday, June 3rd, 2017 – 8pm
The two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning salsa and Latin jazz band, SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA, will perform a special 15th Anniversary concert. Special guests to be announced.
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