It's easy to forget how much happened last year in WordPress until you actually sift through the hundreds of articles that were published (and that's only during the past fortnight!). WP Tavern explores the past 12 months (and almost lists their 2014 archive) in a couple of comprehensive posts (here and here) that look at last year in WordPress news.
Post Status' Brian Krogsgard has left design and development agency Range to focus on consulting – and re-launching his WordPress news site with a membership model. The site will offer individual and corporate yearly membership and is expected to launch on January 21. For more background, check out Brian's post from back in September where he talked about the future of Post Status.
New rules around VAT on digital goods kicked in on January 1 in EU countries. The new rules affect all companies (EU and non-EU) that sell to consumers inside the EU. To find out more, check out WooCommerce's post on their new Taxamo extension.
ManageWP have teased users with a preview of the next version of their WordPress management service, dubbed ManageWP Orion. It promises improved performance, async actions, better usability, a clone wizard, optimized scheduled backups and in-depth client reports.
WordPress tweaking service Elto, formerly known as Tweaky, have suspended their services. According to the company's blog, the company is working on a new product experience. No date has been publicly set for when the company will re-launch.
Envato have published a list of their top 50 new WordPress themes of 2014, as well as their top 50 new WordPress plugins.
WordPress.com VIP has grown. During the past year, the service has surpassed 28 billion page views, added 350 new sites to the VIP network and hired 13 new staff members.
Who do you follow in the WordPress community? Torque caused a stir with their round-up of 100 WordPress influencers, most notably leaving out Matt Mullenweg (he only co-created WordPress but, you know, whatevs).
The Envato Market Blog wraps up 2014 with a look at the versions of WordPress released over the past 12 months.
And the folks at Torque look back at their favorite posts of 2014.
Easy Digital Downloads create Pippin Williamson also looks back on 2014 in arevealing post detailing his revenue (EDD reached gross earnings of ~$475,000).
Following on from his 2014 review, Pippin writes about giving up control is important if you want to grow your business, and why he is no longer the sole lead developer for Easy Digital Downloads.
For all the WordPress businesses out there, CodeInWP looks at seven mistakes to avoid when promoting your wares.
Will 2015 be the year more focus is placed on accessibility? In our first post for the year, we take a look at the best themes and plugins for making your site accessible.
If you run a WordPress business and ignore social media you're missing out on potential customers. The folks at Elegant Themes check out social media trends to look out for in 2015.
Elegant Themes' Joyce Grace has put together a huge post on typography in web design.
Over at WP Tavern, Sarah Gooding takes a look at the most popular free themes released in 2014.
There were dozens of tutorials published over the Christmas break so instead of listing them all, here are WP Beginner's favorites of 2014.
And here's an overview of what the folks at tuts+ have been up to over the past 12 months.
A new year usually means new resolutions (that you'll probably forget by February). Here are 14 tips to help you make this year your most productive yet.
All the best for a fantastic year ahead.
P.S. This is our first edition of The WhiP for 2015. Thanks for sticking around. We're keen to get your feedback on what you think of our little newsletter so we'll be sending out a survey this week. Stay tuned.
In sad news, WordPress contributor Kim Parsell has died. Kim was affectionately known to many as #wpmom. Over the past few years she worked on improving documentation in WordPress as a member of the Documentation team. Tributes have begun to flow from fellow Docs team members (Siobhan McKeown and Drew Jaynes), at WP Tavern, and this beautiful post by developer Carrie Dils.
Long-time WordPress Theme Review Team member Emil Uzelac has launched the community's first theme review service, Theme Review. The aptly titled service aims to help themers produce a better quality themes for client work, commercial and free themes. The service will cover things like efficiency, performance, sanity, and the overall code quality.
In a departure from its usual beginner tutorials, WP Beginner has questioned whether Jetpack is misleading users to promote WordPress.com on Facebook.
CodeInWP have compiled a mammoth list of their top 101 WordPress blogs along with their most popular and engaging posts. A great read if you like to keep on top of WordPress news and resources.
iThemes is celebrating its seventh birthday this month with a 35% off everything sale.
On the latest episode of WP Watercooler, host Jason Tuckers and guests discuss why and how you should optimize your WordPress sites.
Don't run the risk of losing all your hard work. Check out our list of top premium and freemium backup plugins.
ManageWP offers a peak at the design decisions behind Orion, the next version of its product.
Landing pages have become a staple amongst marketers and product developers who create everything from eBooks to mobile apps. The Envato Market Blog takes a look at WordPress landing page theme design trends.
Speaking of trends, here are 14 web designs trends to look out for in 2015 at Torque.
A collection of WordPress tools and resources (plugins, themes, places to find help, managed hosting, books etc) over at BeginWP).
WP Mayor reviews CSS Hero, a plugin that allows you to easily make themes customizations.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to get fit, check out WP Lift's collection of free weight loss and fitness plugins.
What the Heck Are WordPress Frameworks? (WP Kube).
Control the Visibility of WordPress Widgets Based on Time and Date (WP Tavern).
Creative Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your Website (Elegant Themes).
How To Sell Online When You Don't Have A Product (WooThemes).
Using The TinyMCE Editor In WordPress [Guide] (Hongkiat).
Using Google Two-Factor Authentication With WordPress (tuts+).
Add Discussion Forums To Your WordPress Website With bbPress (Pagely).
"…Facebook's core business of selling ads into the News Feed is the same combination of incredibly vulnerable and apocalypse-proof as AOL's dial-up business: it will continue minting money for as long as the parents and grandparents of the world start their day with Facebook, and it will stop growing the second all of their kids move on to something better." Facebook is the new AOL, writes The Verge.
All the best for a wonderful and productive Tuesday.
Thousands more WordPress tweakers and developers joined WordPress Development StackExchange last year – 15,000, in fact, bringing the total to 45,000. Stats for 2014 posted on the site last week reveal the question and answer site go 17 million page views last year. Users submitted 14,000 new questions and 13,000 new answers. WP Tavern's Sarah Gooding interviewed WPSE moderator Andrey Savchenko on the site's culture and ethos.
And more stats! WordPress.com's year in review reveals some impressive numbers. There were 18,300,771 new blog last year (up 12.5% from 2013), and 555,782,547 total posts – that's 1.5 millions posts a day.
As we mentioned earlier in the week, WordPress tweaking service Elto has suspended its services. Post Status takes another look at where the company is headed.
WP Engine has announced password protection for sites in development so you can control who previews you site before it goes live.
Webloggerz has teamed up with EngineThemes for a special offer on the theme shop's theme package.
With more than 20,000 sales worldwide, Visual Composer is easily CodeCanyon's best selling plugin. In our latest review, we put the drag and drop product to the test.
Find great images for your posts, and get tips on how to use images effectively, at Elegant Themes.
If you work from home in your pajamas (or even no pants at all), this post is for you. WebDevStudios offers some tips on how to stay healthy while working from home.
Have you developed a mobile strategy for your business? AppPresser offers some advice on what you should consider and then, of course, suggests getting a mobile app for your site.
WP Beginner picks its favorite (and must-have) plugins for 2015.
Easy Footnotes, Single Background and Idea Factory are just some of the latest plugins to join the WordPress Plugin Repository. WebDesignerDepot looks at some other highlights for this month.
Herschel is a new Builder theme by the folks at iThemes that's aimed a photographer and artists.
WP Explorer rounds up 30 new premium themes from December.
Hack your functions.php file with these simple WordPress snippets at Hongkiatthat let you do things like change the length of excerpts and disable links from user comments.
How To: Increase Your Mailing List with Premium Opt-in WordPress Plugins(WP Lift).
Why and How to Use Class Autoloading and Namespacing to Improve WordPress Development (Torque).
Options for 301 Redirects in WordPress (tuts+).
How To Check if a WordPress Term Has a Child (Tom McFarlin).
Programmatically Assign Menus To Theme Locations In WordPress (Paul Underwood).
Vox took some of 2014's biggest news stories and translated them… into emoji. See how many can you translate back into English.
Finally, here's a Buzzfeed video (of all things) to help put your existence into perspective.
All the best for a cool Wednesday.
"The goal with the new Post Status is to provide useful and informative free content for everyone, but go above and beyond for members." Brian Krogsgard has relaunched Post Status with a new design ahead of plans to add a new members area to his WordPress news site.
WordPress for Android 3.5 has been released with updates to the app design, and smaller improvements like mentions auto completion in comments and a redesigned the media grid on tablets.
iThemes has announced updates to iThemes Security, including new file permission checks and the ability to allow multiple two-factor authentication app passwords.
If you're still not on top of the EU VAT legislation and how it affects you, Torque have a fantastic rundown on how the changes to selling digital products affects WordPress users.
The Theme Foundry has a new Community Manager. Former WPMU DEV writer Melissa Hill is hanging out in the site's held center and looking after social media.
Happy Joe will hold its first WP Boot Camp in San Antonio, TX on January 23. The non-profit organization helps US military veterans re-enter the workforce through training in WordPress and web technology.
Envato has made seven UX predictions for the year ahead, including the proliferation of testing, that we'll pay less attention to time-on-site, and that consumer mobile use will ultimately takeover desktop web usage. Oh, and hamburgers. Menus, that is.
Show your support for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris with theJe suis Charlie plugin, which places a black ribbon with the words "#JeSuisCharlie"on the top right corner of your website. It links to the hashtag.
Better Search Replace is a new plugin for updating URLs and text in WordPress databases. WP Tavern gives it a test run.
Beckett is a new, elegant content-focused theme by the guys at Theme Trust.
WooThemes checks out six free tools for building eCommerce landing pages.
And WP Kube looks at how to use the Nelio A/B Testing plugin for conversion rate optimization and creating heatmaps specifically designed for WordPress.
A Quick (and in-Depth) Guide to WordPress Hooks (WPMU DEV).
How to Add Custom After Post Widgets in WordPress (WP Beginner).
How To Monetize Your WordPress Website Using Adsense (Elegant Themes).
Adding Deposits & Partial Payments to a WooCommerce Site (WP Mayor).
Check To See if a WordPress Post Has a Term (Tom McFarlin).
"Unfortunately, when the last leap second was added back in 2012, more than a few sites had trouble keeping pace. As reported by Phys.org, Foursquare, Reddit, LinkedIn, and StumbledUpon all crashed when the leap second ticked unexpectedly into place." On June 30th at precisely 23:59:59, the world's atomic clocks will pause for a single second. The phenomenon is forcing web engineers to create workarounds, as The Verge explains.
Lastly, Noel Tock from Human Made has published his 2015 predictions for WordPress and writes that we'll see a diversity of custom dashboards, front-end editing will become the norm, and that it's time for the community to become decentralized (shock horror!). Food for thought.
All the best for an inspiring Thursday.
P.S. Thank you to everyone who filled out our survey. You gave us so many great ideas and we'll be making small changes (nothing too dramatic!) to The WhiP in the coming weeks. Stay tuned. If you haven't had your say, it's not too late. You can complete the survey here.


Citation: Am. Mus. Novit., 1283: 3.
Type Locality: Indonesia: Peleng Isl.
Distribution: Peleng and Sula Isls (Indonesia).
Status: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Unknown.
Comments: For status see Groves (1987). Flannery et al. (1987) doubted that pelengensis really belongs to Phalanger, and Flannery (1994a) placed it in Strigocuscus.


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Jubilee Singers
Fisk University was founded in January 1866 to educate newly freed blacks. Between 1871 and 1880, the Fisk Jubilee Singers staged a series of fundraising concerts that introduced slave songs to the world.
From Fisk University History:
The tradition of excellence at Fisk has developed out of a history marked by struggle and uncertainty. Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers originated as a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville on October 6, 1871, taking the entire contents of the University treasury with them for travel expenses, praying that through their music they could somehow raise enough money to keep open the doors of their debt-ridden school.
The singers struggled at first, but before long, their performances so electrified audiences that they traveled throughout the United States and Europe, moving to tears audiences that included William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ulysses S. Grant, William Gladstone, Mark Twain, Johann Strauss, and Queen Victoria.
On November 19, 2019, American Experience PBS will air "Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory."
Posted at 09:34 PM in 400 Years of African American History, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Music, Race, Slavery | Permalink
An Opry Salute to Ray Charles
Ken Burns' latest film, "Country Music," makes clear that African American music is at the root of the genre. Long before Lil Nas X, there was DeFord Bailey, Rufus "Tee Top" Payne, Charley Pride – and Ray Charles. Brother Ray's 1962 album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, topped the charts in the U.S. and Britain. The album and its lead single, "I Can't Stop Loving You," were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Country Music Hall of Famer Willie Nelson observed:
When Ray did "I Can't Stop Loving You," that was probably the time when country music was heard by more people than ever before. He kicked country music forward 50 years. Before him, a lot of people had probably never heard of songs by Don Gibson or Hank Williams.
In his autobiography, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, the country music pioneer wrote:
I just wanted to try my hand at hillbilly music. After all, the Grand Ole Opry had been performing inside my head since I was a kid in the country.
The Grand Ole Opry "celebrates the songs of Ray Charles and the influence the revolutionary artist had on country music" in a television special, "An Opry Salute to Ray Charles."
Hosted by Opry member Darius Rucker, the star-studded salute features Boyz II Men, Cam, Brett Eldredge, Leela James, Jessie Key, Ronnie Milsap, Lukas Nelson, LeAnn Rimes, Allen Stone, Travis Tritt, Charlie Wilson, Trisha Yearwood and Chris Young. The program will air on PBS stations nationwide so check your local listings.
Posted at 04:23 PM in 400 Years of African American History, All That Philly Jazz, Blues, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Music | Permalink
Black Music Month 2019
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Black Music Month, the brainchild of music mogul and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Kenny Gamble and broadcast executive Ed Wright. Radio personality Dyana Williams, the "Mother of Black Music Month," breaks down the origin of the celebration.
2019 also marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in British North America. Music helped the ancestors survive the dehumanization and barbarity of slavery. This mandolin was crafted by a slave circa 1800s. It is on display at the National Constitution Center.
The ancestors used music to express their grief and sorrow. In 25 Black Gospel Songs that Have their Roots in Slavery, BlackExcellence.com wrote:
This traditional Negro spiritual dates back to the slavery era. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child expresses despair and pain. Furthermore, it conveys the lack of hope of a child who's been torn from the parents. The word sometimes is repeated several times, which can be interpreted as a measure of hope, as it suggests that occasionally this child doesn't feel motherless. This child can represent a slave who, in the trafficking process, has been separated from something dear to his or her heart (such as a spouse, home country, parents, children, siblings, and so on) and is yearning for it.
Music was a form of resistance. Again, from BlackExcellence.com:
Wade in the Water is a Negro spiritual song that teaches slaves to hide and make it through by getting into the water. It's a perfect map song example with lyrics that offer precious coded directions.
Posted at 08:42 AM in 400 Years of African American History, Abolition Hall Deserves Better, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Music, Race, Slavery | Permalink
2019 NEA Jazz Masters
Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Jazz Masters Fellowships, the nation's highest honor in jazz, to individuals who have made significant contributions to America's classical music.
The 2019 NEA Jazz Masters are:
Bob Dorough -- vocalist, composer, arranger, pianist
Abdullah Ibrahim – pianist, composer
Maria Schneider -- composer, arranger, bandleader
Stanley Crouch -- jazz historian, author, critic, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center
NEA Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter said:
The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to celebrate jazz, an art form born in the United States that has since been embraced worldwide. These four new NEA Jazz Masters have been key players in jazz throughout their lives and careers, ensuring that the music will continue to grow and reach new audiences.
The NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday April 15, 2019 at 8:00pm ET. Hosted by Kennedy Center Artistic Director Jason Moran, the concert will include remarks by 2019 NEA Jazz Masters and feature performances by, among others, Terence Blanchard, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kurt Elling, Bill Goodwin, Cleave Guyton, Noah Jackson, Sheila Jordan, Grace Kelly and Christian McBride.
The concert will be livestreamed on the National Endowment for the Arts and Kennedy Center websites. For more information, go here.
Posted at 09:56 AM in All That Philly Jazz, Civic Engagement, Jazz, Music | Permalink

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Hoopsters still hoping for first win
Adia Waldburger, of the Record staff
The road for the Park City High School girls' basketball team just got a little rougher.
The team, which was hoping to finally get its first win of the season against the Waterford Ravens Wednesday, fell just short, losing 36-31 in a game full of scoring struggles and miscues for both teams.
"We though we could pull it together," said frustrated Park City head coach Sam White.
The problems started early for Park City, which scored only two points in the first quarter, both from free throw shots, while the Ravens scored eight points. Things looked up a little for Park City in the second quarter, as the Miners were able to outscore the Ravens to pull within two points at 15-13 before halftime.
The Park City girls came out with more energy in the second half and shots immediately started falling. With two minutes left in the third quarter, Park City was able to get its first lead of the game and held on to finish the quarter ahead 25-21.
"They picked it up in the second half," White said. "They played a lot harder."
The two teams continued to battle back and forth but cold shooting from the floor and at the line kept the Miners from getting the elusive first win.
"I am really frustrated," said senior Emily Gordon. "I think we came out expecting to win."
Scoring was a definite problem for the Miners. Park City's usual leading scorer Laurel Kasl, had a tough night and went only 5 for 11 at the free throw line. Gordon, who led the Miners with 12 points, said that she focused on the little things to do as well as she did.
"I haven't played my best before," Gordon said. "My goal was to get the most steals and rebounds that I could."
With a long road in region ahead of them, The Miners need to figure out how to get a win. Gordon thinks that if everyone comes out focused on the small things and with a winning attitude, they might be able to turn things around before it's too late.
"We need work together as a team," she said.
The Miners will get another opportunity when they face Uintah next Tuesday at 5:15 p.m.
Summit County focuses on 'shovel-ready' watershed, fire projects over legislative push for public lands
Opting against what could be a decade-long effort for federal legislation, Summit County directed staff to pursue projects with greater short-term impacts.
Park City envisions Old Town housing project, continuing aggressiveness
Court Report: Indiana man sentenced to 199 days in jail for sexual battery
Sustainable living isn't just about the environment, it's about smart consumerism
July 14, 2019sponsored
Park City-held Empire Pass condo remains unsold at $1 million
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What plugins do I need for a small business website in WordPress?
When I set up a new installation of WordPress, there are a lots and lots of plugins about that offer a whole myriad of features and functionality. Thats what makes WordPress so flexible and offers many opportunities for web development.
But with all these choices – how do you know which ones to use?
First of all, you must use plugins that are regularly updated and widely used. This way you can ensure the likelihood of them being compatible with most themes and other plugins. And if they are premium (paid for) plugins then you should get good support as well. Always keep the plugins, as well as the core WordPress files, up to date. And don't add lots just for the sake of it. Conduct your research and find those that are most appropriate for your needs.
This will allow you to re-direct your website from an old domain address to a new one, or if you have installed a SSL and changed from http to https, then you'll need to be able to redirect your old page addresses to new ones and this plugin will take care of that easily for you.
VELVET BLUES UPDATE URLS – Similarly, once you've changed domains, or if you've been working on a development url, you'll need to re-assign all the unique page addresses from the old to the new and this plugin will take care of that for you.
NEXTGEN GALLERY – this is the most widely used Gallery plugin. I find that sometimes its a bit limited in its styling and you have to pay for add-ons to get the visual look I'm after.
VISUAL COMPOSER– this is a very popular plugin to allow greater flexibility for page layouts and often ships as part of a lot of larger themes.
And as I wrote this there were lots more I have used but I'll save that for another article in the future! If you have any questions about the above or would like to add some more functionality to your WordPress website then talk to me!


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C&I Studios in Fort Lauderdale's FAT Village: Video, Photography, and Community Barbecues
Falyn Freyman March 28, 2013 4:00AM
There is nothing like the desperation of: Either you get a job and make money or your family won't eat," says Joshua Miller, founding director at C&I Studios, a 7-year-old media company and "idea agency" based in the up-and-coming FAT Village Arts District in Fort Lauderdale.
In March 2009, balancing a full-time job at an Apple store with C&I jobs on the side — and in the midst of having his first child — Miller, then 25, finally took the leap and went full-time with his company.
When Miller had first started his business out of his hometown bedroom in 2006 in Washington, D.C., it was purely about doing something that he loved: filmmaking. He had picked up a friend's video camera and started shooting at age 13, then went to film school and began C&I (what the initials stand for "is a secret"), producing creative short films out of his home using borrowed equipment.
Realizing how difficult it would be to support himself through his art, Miller took on commercial work: VHS-to-DVD transfers, editing, shooting anything in his field.
"I thought, 'If I could just make good money with these corporate jobs, they could pay for the films and creative stuff I wanted to do.' We all know making films isn't easy or cheap. So I just started to hustle more and more."
He brought on two friends, photographer Justin Mein and graphic designer Sarah Dreyer, who now make up two of the company's four leading directors.
"I remember the first paid gig we got was editing a news reporter's TV reel," Miller, who is now 30, says of those early days. "She came with four DVDs and eight VHS tapes and wanted me to cut the reel. I got the job on Craigslist, and it took me 11 hours to do. The job paid $45, and I was so mad... I knew editing inside and out. I had been to film school, and here I was taking a $45 job. Her name was Kate, and we have her name in the current studio. Kate is the reason we say, 'Life is more than money.' It's all about relationships. Six months later, she went to work for the Congressional Media Group, the people that make videos for Congress, and they needed a video team. Kate brought me in, and to this day, they are one of our largest clients."
By 2008, Miller decided to relocate to South Florida, where he was offered a temporary job editing video for Sun Sports. Fort Lauderdale also happened to be his wife's hometown.
"The idea behind C&I Studios is that it's not about me," he says, which is promising coming from someone in the so-called millennial generation, known for its narcissism and for constantly publishing self-obsessed streams of social media updates.
The team opened its first office in a 500-square-foot space in the Progresso Building (the same building as Fort Lauderdale's hipster watering hole Laser Wolf).
"At that time, we were making pretty good strides," says Miller. They were taking on more commercial photo, video, and design work, bringing in bigger-name clients like Sun Sports, ASCAP, and Maxim magazine.
Soon, they were able to move into an office space double the size in North Fort Lauderdale — a necessary move to accommodate C&I's growing staff, which then included a photographer and interns. "We were crazy busy," remembers Miller.
Miller had always envisioned himself moving back to D.C. or to New York, Boston, or Austin, where the creative scenes were much stronger, but in 2011, he did the opposite and moved C&I into its current 4,000-square-foot warehouse studio in the FAT Village. Financially, it was a sink-or-swim move.
"I honestly didn't think we could afford it," Miller says. "I had a family and a staff that relied on us, and I was weary of Fort Lauderdale, to be honest... Then I thought, 'Well, if nothing creative is happening here, it's because everyone keeps leaving, and it's also our fault.' "
His team — a lot of whom he trained and don't have degrees — focused on building a community, one that would encourage growth and eventually become self-sustaining. At the studio, the office takes up just a small loft area built on top of crates. The entire 4,000 square feet of the ground floor — which includes a recording studio, wardrobe and makeup area, cycloramic wall, a lounge area, and even a fully stocked and liquor-licensed bar — is for the community. As many as 2,500 people have packed inside the space during events like Night Owl Market, an independent craft bazaar featuring local vendors.
"This is our town, and it is creative," Miller says. "People just didn't know where to go. Now they do."
In addition to doing corporate jobs for clients, C&I began hosting events that draw eclectic crowds of old and young people — anyone looking for "something real," Miller says. The studio participates in the monthly FAT Village Art Walk that takes place on the last Saturday of each month, a free concert series called "Live at C&I," $1 movie nights, and a new BYOB event called Barbecue Fridays, with burgers and dogs (they even have vegan options) and the "largest game of beer pong ever" outside the studio.
Dollar movie nights have been popular, with past screenings including Back to the Future, Rushmore, and Exit Through the Gift Shop. The next will take place on Saturday, April 13, and this time they're changing things up: The movie — appropriately, the animated feature Up — will be projected onto the ceiling, and viewers will lie on the floor to watch.
"We just wanted to also make C&I a way where people can connect," says Miller. "That's what really matters. Behind it all, it's relationships. That's the main thing for us."
C&I now has 13 employees who travel among three studios — the Fort Lauderdale headquarters and satellite offices in D.C. and North Carolina — including Corey Bost, C&I's event manager and a local musician who performs and records there.
For this month's Art Walk, taking place March 30, C&I is putting on "French Quarter at C&I," a New Orleans-themed event complete with Cajun foods like jambalaya and gumbo, a live jazz band sourced from C&I's crew of in-house musicians, street performers, fireworks, a pop-up coffee shop, cigars, and plenty of cheap craft booze provided by nearby Riverside Market. But more than just a place to drink, hang, and share ideas with other local creative types, C&I's events are designed to rally support and nurture artists in a tangible way.
Take the "Live at C&I" concert series. Not only are the artists given the opportunity to play in front of a big crowd but C&I also shoots HD videos of their performances for free. Why? "Simple," says Miller. "We love music. Period. I love to help out artists that are really talented. Sometimes, artists just need that simple media push to help them get noticed. We love that we can do that."
As far as their own work goes, the team at C&I keeps busy with clients from all over the country in anything from politics to magazines, from ESPN and Sony to IKEA and Sea World. Currently, they're working on shooting a Miami-based reality-TV show, Top Recruiter, that follows some of the nation's most sought-after job recruiters, as well some commercials with national clients like Head & Shoulders and Blinc Mascara.
And even amid all the chaos of its commercial work and community events, the team has been working on shooting its own original films, including a web series called The Distance, based in New York and Fort Lauderdale. Currently in its fifth episode, the drama series focuses on long-distance relationships and stars Miller's brother Josiah Sampson as Sam and Brigitte Kali as September. You can watch The Distance, along with other C&I short and feature-length projects, at films.c-istudios.com.
"We are constantly pushing ourselves; we are never satisfied; there is always something more we can do," Miller says. "The future of C&I is to continue to build relationships and make great content. If we do those two things, we will be in a great place."
Their FAT Village neighbors, boutique design agency Helium Creative and planning and landscape architect firm Cadence, are also doing well in the blossoming Fort Lauderdale arts district and bringing attention to the area while building an audience for the work being done there.
"As long as we continue to create awesome media and awesome events, FAT Village will grow," Miller says. "If we all realized that life is more than money, we would be doing better. Relationships are everything, and that is the best thing about FAT Village... Fort Lauderdale is a town that people outside of Florida will start hearing about a lot more."
Falyn Freyman is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Miami. She previously produced videos for Univision and edited music content for New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Her work has been featured in Vice, Bustle, Broadly, Time Out, and other publications. She has a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
Contact: Falyn Freyman
Twitter: @falynrose
Ten Reasons Hollywood Beach Is the Best Beach in Broward


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Eggs, tomatoes and stones: Protesters clash with police in Bulgaria amid energy bill rallies
17 Feb, 2013 19:13
People shout slogans in front of riot police during a protest against high electricity bills in Sofia February 17, 2013.(Reuters / Tsvetelina Belutova) © Reuters
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Bulgarian cities protesting against energy monopolies and high electricity prices. Protesters throwing eggs and stones clashed with police in Sofia as they approached the HQ of the regional power supplier.
Electricity bills have recently skyrocketed in Bulgaria, prompting thousands to join the wave of protests that have been sweeping the country since last week.Sunday demonstrations saw people marching in more than 20 Bulgarian cities. Thousands of protesters demanded the country's government to either re-nationalize power distribution companies, or resign.Protests turned violent in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where police blocked the way to the headquarters of Chech-owned power supplier CEZ as the angry crowd of people armed with eggs, tomatoes and bottles approached. Protesters claim the police had stopped and beaten several people, including a young man and an elderly woman, according to the local media. Officials say the police were forced to retaliate after protesters started using pepper spray and tossing broken asphalt at them.
Government buildings were also pelted with various objects in Sofia, as the demonstrators demanded to stop the energy monopolies, chanted "mafia," "monopolists out" and "resign" and carried banners reading "electricity + unemployment = genocide.""We cannot stand it anymore. My pension is 155 levs ($110) and my December bill was 175 levs. What should I do?" a protester told Reuters.
The offices of power firms were attacked in several other Bulgarian cities during mass demonstrations. The seaside resort of Varna saw more than 5,000 people marching behind a coffin for electricity, heating and water monopolies, while burning their electricity bills. Thousands of others blocked the highway to Greece near the town of Dupnitsa.The Sunday protests made one of the energy companies, CEZ, release statements offering their clients compensation. But speaking to the local Kanal 3 TV channel, CEZ chief Petr Baran only promised to make corrections "if there are mistakes" found in calculations.
Such offers did not please Bulgarian protesters, who promised to return to the streets "every day" until their goals are met. But the government is not likely to give in, after the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has already ruled out the re-nationalization of power firms, telling the state channel BNT "There is no such possibility and I don't think any European Union member can afford to talk about nationalization."
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There are countless good reasons to live here, but we and a large majority of expats have decided to make this sunny isle our home mainly because of many stunning beaches in Gran Canaria.
There are 82 beaches in Gran Canaria and, depending on taste, there is something for everyone. Gran Canaria's beaches are as varied as they are beautiful. From the golden sand beaches of the resorts and the capital, to the more rugged black sand beaches of the north coast. Whether you like deserted or jam-packed, sunbathing naked or leaving a little more to the imagination, Gran Canaria has a beach for even the fussiest expat.
One thing that all of Gran Canaria's beaches have in common is that they are all clean and safe. No worries here about shark attacks or your bag being snatched while you have your afternoon siesta on the warm sand!
Having lived on the island myself for nearly ten years, I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't even visited half of the beaches in Gran Canaria. That's not to say I haven't had a good go!
Out of all of the beaches here, my favourite is twenty metres from my front door; Las Canteras beach. Las Canteras is a three-kilometre stretch of sand ranging from the black volcanic to almost white depending on which end you're at. Because of the offshore reef, Las Canteras is a nature reserve and excellent for snorkelling. You can learn to surf in one of the number of surf schools near the auditorium, or if you have children and prefer calmer waters like me, you can swim safely at the north end of the beach.
There is a promenade the entire length of the beach, with bars and restaurants the whole way. What better way to spend a Sunday than a day on the beach followed by a plate of hot calamares and a glass of cold beer brewed on the island?
The beaches in Gran Canaria are the reason why most people come and why many people stay. You can enjoy the beaches here throughout the whole year, even in midwinter, thanks to the island's exceptional weather. With an average of three thousand hours of sunshine a year, what better reason is there to make somewhere your home!


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(-) Seacoast Science Center (1)
Chugach School District (1)
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (1)
Michigan Sea Grant (1)
Museum of Science Boston (1)
Ocean Discovery Institute (1)
University of Colorado Boulder / Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) (1)
University of the Virgin Islands / Center for Marine and Environmental Studies (1)
2018: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards (1)
CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology, and Engagement
CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to 1) improve environmental hazards literacy, and 2) increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. CREATE Resilience is designed to increase community knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while co-creating a vision for community resilience.
CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to 1) improve environmental hazards literacy, and 2) increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. CREATE Resilience is designed to increase community knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while co-creating a vision for community resilience. Developed by Nurture Nature Center (NNC) in Easton, PA, the four-year project will work with local, state and federal partners in three hazard-prone communities in the Lehigh Valley (Easton, Bangor and Wilson areas). Hazards, particularly weather-related hazards including flooding, have had major impacts in these communities historically and recently, causing extensive damage to property and disruption to community services. Damaging river flooding along the Delaware River in 2004, 2005 and 2006 highlighted major planning and safety challenges for many municipalities in the area with high flood risk, and a recently updated regional Hazard Mitigation plan highlighted other hazards – as well as the need for public education about hazards and mitigation. CREATE Resilience's advisory board will work with NNC to bring education and engagement events to teach the science of these hazards, as well the household and community-level strategies and tools available for resilience. Partners include the National Weather Service (NWS) Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center and Mt. Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office, and Weather Prediction Center, as well as LV Planning Commission, Northampton County Emergency Management Agency, LV Community Foundation, Lafayette College, and FEMA Region 3 Mitigation Division. In years 1 and 2, the project will form CREATE Youth Ambassador teams, in which student interns from area high schools will meet NWS meteorologists, engage in community storytelling events, develop local hazard and resilience tours, and learn from climate and other scientists about hazards and strategies for resilience. Ambassadors will also develop and lead programming for community residents. Simultaneously, residents will participate in active-learning education events, dialogue forums, arts-based activities, technology-based programs using NOAA assets, and hands-on preparedness activities. Each community will build a collective understanding of local hazards and mitigation strategies, and co-create a vision for resilience, represented in traveling visual artist-designed murals in the third year of the project. This education and shared vision will build community support for planning and resilience and help households in making better preparedness decisions. Dissemination through Science on a Sphere® and guidebooks will share the replicable model with other organizations and communities, extending the reach of the project. Close cooperation with NWS offices helps the project meet key goals of NOAA's Education Strategic Plan, related to safety/preparedness and a science-informed society. Through public events and print materials, the project will showcase and interpret NOAA-related science and data with area residents, while creating collaborative learning opportunities for youth and community to interact with NOAA scientists. CREATE Resilience also engages youth and adults in preparing for hazards, and in multi-generational learning to improve community awareness and involvement in preparedness and mitigation.
Competition: 2018: ELG for Community Resilience to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Hazards
PI: Rachel Carr
Partners: NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction · NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) · Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Mount Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) State College, Pennsylvania Forecast Office · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (RFC) · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Lafayette College / Civil and Environmental Engineering · Easton Area School District · Wilson Area School District · Northampton County Emergency Management Services · Lehigh Valley Planning Commission · Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency · Bangor Area School District · American Society of Civil Engineers / Lehigh Valley Section · Northampton County Conservation District · Northampton County Parks & Recreation Division · City of Easton · Martins-Jacoby Watershed Association · Borough of Wilson · PAZA, Tree of Life ·
Families by the Seaside: Building Community-based Outdoor Ocean Science Learning Experiences
Seacoast Science Center offsite link · Rye, New Hampshire
This 2-year program will advance the way informal ocean science education institutions reach underserved/underrepresented families by facilitating and formalizing relationships between informal science education centers and community based organizations. Project teams in five New England communities will collaborate to create a practicable, outdoor ocean-science learning experience specifically designed for families in their shared service area.
This 2-year program will advance the way informal ocean science education institutions reach underserved/underrepresented families by facilitating and formalizing relationships between informal science education centers and community based organizations. Project teams in five New England communities will collaborate to create a practicable, outdoor ocean-science learning experience specifically designed for families in their shared service area. Building on a needs assessment produced through target-audience focus groups, the program will combine coastal field experiences with web-based interactive and participatory learning activities developed and tested by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL; www.eol.org/) and the Northeast Regional Association for Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) to support in-field and ongoing learning. Science content will be informed and vetted by NOAA research scientists and work between the science centers and community organizations will be professionally facilitated. Formats and effectiveness will be evaluated by external evaluators and revised throughout the project.
PI: Wendy Lull
State: New Hampshire County: Rockingham District: NH01
Partners: New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq) · Sea Research Foundation / Mystic Aquarium · BOAT CAMP, Inc. · Girls Incorporated of Lynn · JumpStart Youth Connection · U.S. Navy / Naval Submarine Base / New London · Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) · Portsmouth Housing Authority · Center for Teen Empowerment · Harvard University / Encyclopedia of Life · Northeastern University (NU) / Marine Science Center (MSC) ·


All classes will have a maximum of 15 participants and a minimum of 3 participants. Cost of the classes includes all materials (easels, brushes, paints, canvas, etc.) and a large pitcher of drinks (margs, wine, tea, punch or soda) and the instruction. Participants are asked to bring an appetizer to share.
Contact Tom Segura for any questions regarding the classes at 970.590.3793 or tsdesigns@hotmail.com.


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Spectacular Jubilee issue error set to stamp its authority on Spink's auction
The unique block was created by a pre-printing paper fold, and will sell alongside a Penny Black block
Spink is starting their new season at the beginning, with a grand sale of Great British stamps dating back to the start of stamp issues with just under 600 lots going under the hammer.
The natural place to start is with an excellent Penny Black block. Penny Black stamps are not necessarily valuable as so many were issued, but blocks of them in good condition usually are.
In this case there is a Plate V block of eight running from II-JL positions. There are clear to large margins all round and with very light red Maltese Cross cancellations. The IJ and Il positions have pinholes and the IJ has a thin.
Of fine appearance, it is a rare and desirable multiple and listed at 12,000-14,000 ($22,400).
Collectors of the earlier stamp issues will also be excited to learn that a very rare sheet of 12 test stamps made for the 1840 1d Rainbow Trials has recently come onto the private markets.
From the stamps issued in Queen Victoria's early reign we move to the last phase of her rule with a spectacular error on a block from 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue.
A design unlikely to catch on: The Jubilee issue error block
This is a 3d. purple on yellow lower right corner block of six, the corner with diagonal pre-printing paper fold resulting in four stamps with partial or no printing on face and appearing on the gummed side.
In fresh, unmounted mint condition, this is a unique error which surely rates as one of the best of the Jubilee issue. It is listed at 12,000-15,000 ($24,000).
Spink's sale takes place on September 20 in London. Watch this space for more details of this exciting auction.
as so many were issued, but blocks of them in good condition usually are.


A lot can happen in three weeks!
Three weeks have gone by since we achieved the amazing target we set for our Kickstarter campaign, raising £2500 towards the cost of putting on The New Immortals exhibition. Since then it has been a period of full-on planning – getting together with the artists who are making new installation work for the show, meeting with the team at Phoenix, drawing up plans for the gallery build, defining the size and proportions of individual artists' spaces, talking to the technicians who will do the build, costing materials and drawing up the final plans. It's been great to be able to finalise these plans at last, now that I know that there are sufficient funds to pay for all the materials we will need to construct the gallery lay-out that we want. So I've got a bumper shopping list of £1000 worth of timber, MDF sheets, paint and screws all ready to order next week!
It has also been a period of intense activity putting arrangements in place for the events programme which will accompany the exhibition. We've got a great range of events planned including a symposium in partnership with Brighton & Sussex Medical School, an artists' talk and networking event with Blue Monkey Network and artist Anna Dumitriu, a book launch for Murray Ballard who is one of the artists taking part in the exhibition, and events in the gallery every Saturday throughout the show including a drawing workshop with artist Angela Smith and some really interesting guests dropping in to our informal Saturday Lab gallery events. The first two Saturdays, the 20th and 27th of February are going to be run in partnership with scientists from The Centre for Regenerative Medicine, part of the University of Brighton, as part of Brighton Science Festival, and I'll be meeting with them next week to talk about the sort of things we'll be doing in the gallery for those two Saturdays.
It was exciting today to get the first drafts for the exhibition flyers and posters which are looking great and will be going to print next week!.Details of the gallery events are already appearing on the Phoenix website too at http://www.phoenixbrighton.org/events/the-new-immortals/ so do have a look there for more details and put some dates in your diary for a visit if you can!
This week I'm hoping to put some finishing touches to my new video, In Praise of Renewal, working with film-maker Sam Sharples on Monday to complete the final edit. After that I'm looking forward to freeing up a bit of time to concentrate on developing the installation parts of the show. Time is going very quickly now! Watch this space for another update later in the month.
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Monday, December 3
Life intervenes again. I've been sidelined by a nasty eye infection that has made it impossible to go out and talk to people and difficult to read and write. It should clear up in about ten days, says the doctor. Ten days? An election can be lost in far less time than that!
Still, I've been heartened by very generous donations totaling over $2,000 already, and this has come just from my email list and website. This is a sign, I believe, that many citizens have been energized by the last year of life under Trump, and are eager to fight back at every level of politics. Just as I've been galvanized into taking on this seemingly impossible task of running as a progressive candidate for the Colorado House of Representatives in a conservative district, others have been unusually supportive of me. In a typical year, a longshot bid like mine would not gain much traction. I sense that this year we all understand the wisdom that we need to transform our politics from the grass roots up. We all get it that there is in fact a direct if modest link between capturing the 58th House District for progressives and our essential project of saving the world from Trumpism. We understand that the most profound change, the most authentic and lasting change, must come from precisely the precincts and districts where it seems most out of reach.
This, then, is the challenge of this early phase of the campaign: How can I best hear from and speak to voters captured by Trumpism, voters who have long since tuned Democrats out, or have become disengaged from politics generally? This is a twofold challenge: first is the messaging (what to say and how to say it) and second is tactics (how to identify and reach the voters most likely to vote for me.)
Here is my current thinking on these two challenges: I have purchased (thank you, donors!) and will master a complex piece of software from the Democratic Party, called VoteBuilder. This database includes records of all the registered voters in the 58th House District, along with algorithmic ratings of how likely they may be to vote Democratic. Using this data, it is theoretically possible to calculate how many votes are needed to win the election, and where those votes might be found. There are approximately 10,000 registered Democrats in the district, 15,000 registered Independents, and 20,000 registered Republicans. Ah, you think, no wonder this seat has not been seriously contested by a Democrat in several generations. But this information is not discouraging, because it is reality that must be recognized and accepted: to win, I truly will have to win conservative-leaning voters.
Which brings me to the second part of the challenge: What can I possibly say to Republican-leaning Independents – and even registered Republicans who are not so hard core that they would never vote Democratic – to win their votes? It is obvious that I can't criticize their past voting choices. I certainly don't want to get into a debate about Trump. A lot of the language that seems compelling to me ("opportunity," "equality," "public lands") might be heard as code words instantly tagging me to Fox news viewers as a liberal foe. I don't yet know the answer to the question of how to speak as a progressive to conservative voters in the 58th, so I am undertaking a series of meetings with folks across the district to try to figure it out. I'll be traveling to Cortez and Montrose to meet with Democrats and ask them what they think their conservative friends and neighbors might be most receptive to. I've got a few meetings scheduled with small groups of voters where I can pose the same question.
This path to victory is exceedingly narrow: I must be authentically myself, a progressive, because there's no value in running to the center, even if it were possible to con anyone into believing that I'm a centrist. And I must, at the same time, find a way to win the confidence of voters disinclined to support a progressive.
Sounds impossible, right?
Well, maybe not, because although the demographics of the district are daunting it's easy to forget that the objective is to capture just 50 percent plus one of the votes cast. Of course, there are plenty of strong conservatives who will never consider voting for me. But there are also plenty of people who have voted for conservatives in the past who might swing over to my side. They are the target.
In the last election, about 62 percent of the roughly 45,000 registered voters in the district cast a ballot for the office for State Representative. We can assume turnout this year may be both higher and more Democratic — higher because in 2016 Representative Don Coram ran unopposed and because halfway through Trump's first term Democratic voters will be unusually energized. Given these factors, turnout next year could reach as much as 70 percent, or 31,500 voters. That means I would need about 15,750 votes to win. So, let's assume I get 80 percent of Dems for about 8,000 votes. That means I would need to pick up another 8,000 votes from the pool of 15,000 Independents plus 25,000 Republicans in the district.
Can a Democrat win roughly 20 percent from the pool of registered Independents and Republicans in the district?
The answer, I think, is yes, if:
(1) In the next month or two I find a message that will resonate with potential swing voters;
(2) I follow a disciplined strategy to identify and reach out to enough of the Republican-leaning voters likeliest to swing Democratic to win over at least 8,000 of them.
(3) I am able to fire up the Democratic base and motivate potential donors and volunteers to help with the effort;
(4) I give it all I've got for the next 11 months; and
(5) I can build a campaign with the resources to mount an effective get-out-the vote effort by November.
And, yes, in addition to all of that, it will take a Democratic wave. Then again, a wave won't happen by itself. A wave is formed by precisely the sort of effort I'm envisioning, replicated by thousands of other progressive candidates across the country who have been propelled into action much as I have been. If I do my part in HD 58, that should help a Democrat win the race for Congress in the Third Congressional District, replacing the deeply regressive back-bencher Scott Tipton, and help a Democrat win the Colorado governor's race, too.
It won't be easy to turn the tide of American politics back to sanity, but we have no alternative but to try.
My eyes are only just now starting to get better. Ophthalmologist (my fourth appointment in just over two weeks) says it's the worst eye infection he's seen this season. Every couple of years, an adenovirus goes around. He's seen a few this year, but mine was the worst. Pain is gone, but vision is still very bad.
But what's that compared to Doug Jones's miraculous win in Alabama! Combined with what happened in Virginia, the path to victory becomes clearer. The Democratic wave is building, no doubt about it. Doug Jones proved that the candidate can and must be his authentic self, namely a progressive Democrat, in even the most conservative areas. I embrace Jones's strategy: let's find the common ground by focusing on the kitchen-table issues of good jobs at good wages, access to properly funded education and access to affordable healthcare, and let's stop demonizing the political opposition. Let's put the wedge issues that divide us on the back burner because we can't keep beating each other up over them. In my district, outreach to the Latino and Native American communities is essential. A coalition of invigorated base Democrats plus carefully identified swing voters can be built.
My first campaign events start tomorrow with attendance at a Montrose County Democratic Party meet and greet for me and gubernatorial candidate Noel Ginsburg. That evening, my friends Gus and Torie Jarvis are hosting a house party for me in Montrose. On Monday, the Montezuma County Democrats are hosting a meet and greet for me in Cortez.
I feel like I'm being belted into a roller coaster and we are just starting to inch up the first huge hill.
My feet are wet. I've now had three meetings with Democrats in Montrose and Cortez, following up on my first meeting with Indivisible activists in Ridgway back on Dec. 5. It's been a steep learning curve, but I feel good about where I am. I'm more comfortable talking about who I am, why I'm running for office, tying the national political climate to local issues, explaining how I think a blue victory in the bright red HD 58 is possible, and asking for help.
Some of the people I've just met already went online to my website and donated money by way of Act Blue. I'm up to $4000 raised, which is incredible considering I haven't begun any serious fundraising. (If I can raise enough, we can fund a legitimate ground game operation!) Others have offered to help me by hosting a house party so I can expand the network. I've got one set up in Montrose for Jan. 13. (Thank you, Anne and Greg!)
I also did an interview with reporter Jim Mimiaga of The Cortez Journal, and he put me through my paces on issues. I was pleased that I felt very comfortable talking about local issues, even if I sometimes had to say, "That's something I need to learn more about." But generally, my years as a reporter in this district have prepared me for talking coherently about public lands management, for example, and Colorado tax policy.
I'm polishing some good "stump" lines: "Southwestern Colorado is as far from Denver as you can get and still be in the state, which is why we don't think about state government very much and they don't think much about us. That makes political sense because the vast majority of voters are in the Denver metro area. But we can't let Denver continue to ignore rural and small-town Colorado. It's not good for them or for us for the state to be divided into prosperous counties and counties left behind."
And, "There's no reason you should be paying two or three times more for the same exact health insurance policy that you could buy affordably if you lived in Denver."
And, "Democrats have been ignoring rural and small-town America, and we haven't seriously campaigned in rural counties in a generation or two. We've just let the Republicans have rural voters by appealing to cultural conservatism on social issues. But we can win a bunch of these rural voters back if we talk to them about Democratic policies and values, because our policies and values will be so much better for them economically."
And the well-worn but indispensable: "We have to find the common ground with our conservative-leaning friends and neighbors and move forward on the big issues we agree on: affordable health care, adequate funding for education, and good jobs at good wages; state investment in struggling counties, and collaborative management by all of the stakeholders of public lands. On the areas where we disagree we need to find compromise where we can, and where it's not possible to compromise, we need to respect each other's principles and agree to live with our differences instead of going to political war over them."
I need to become crisper in my presentation, more succinct, and save a bunch of what I have to say for my answers to questions instead of trying to fit it all in in my opening remarks. I'm working hard to master this subtle art of political persuasion.
I've been thinking that for most people, most of the time, politics is background music. It's always there, and it affects our daily lives and our mood. We don't always recognize how completely the music envelopes us, but if it is upbeat and harmonious we feel better than we do when it is somber or dissonant. Sometimes, the music is so obnoxious that a bunch of us can't ignore it, and that's where we are today. Trump political chaos makes it difficult for us to focus on what we really care about: our families, our friends, our jobs, our environment, our culture. So, we are rising up to push back, hard.
There is a blue tsunami forming under the sea. I am determined to ensure it sweeps over even remote, achingly beautiful, deeply distressed Southwestern Colorado.
Happy holidays everyone. See you in the New Year!


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← Cal Haines | John Rangel | Michael Glynn | Tribute Trio | Dedications Vol. I
Tribute Trio →
Cal Haines | John Rangel | Michael Glynn | Tribute Trio | Dedications Vol. II
John Rangel – piano | Michael Glynn – bass | Cal Haines – drums
Tracklist: https://m-etropolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/01-Time.mp3 1. Time -John Rangel 2. Horace-Play – Michael Glynn 3. Not So Easy – Cal Haines & John Rangel 4. V – John Rangel 5. Chance – John Rangel 6. Priorities – John Rangel 7. Waltz – John Rangel 8. Heptagon – Cal Haines & John Rangel 9. This Is The Place Of Parting – Michael Glynn
Recorded: March 2 &3 2012 at Free to Earth Music in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Produced by: John Rangel. Graphics/packaging design by: Cal Haines and Victoria Rogers
Time is the canvas where musicians paint aural pictures to delight, inspire, reflect. There is no other way in but investing time for listening to hear these impressions. The changes for this tune are based on the standard "Just In Time". Creating a new melody from a standard was a common practice amongst bebop musicians of the 1940s and '50s to simplify the need for rehearsal with a rhythm section. The inspiration for the melody in "Time" came from Charlie Parker. Horace-Play was written with the works of Horace Silver in mind. Silver's ability to combine a deceptively simple bluesy melody with rapidly changing harmonies, as well as his focus on creating fully realized arrangements, have set a high standard in jazz and were the inspiration for this composition. Not So Easy is a tribute to Bobby Timmons co-written by John Rangel and Cal Haines. At a rehearsal Cal played this modified Jimmy Cobb groove that was on "Easy Does It". That rhythm was the source of what became an uptempo soulful swing. V is dedicated to Victoria Rogers, the honorary fourth member of the group. Without her we wouldn't have been able to sustain the effort we have for the Tribute Trio. She is complex, thoughtful, passionate, unusual, and a talented artist. Victoria has worked tirelessly to present the Tribute Trio and we will always be grateful to her. Chance is dedicated to Herbie Hancock. Herbie has always been a masterful arranger. His arrangements in the '60s were unpredictable and swinging. Some favorite recordings that still inspire John are "Takin' Off", "Empyrean Isles", "Speak Like a Child", "The Prisoner" and "Maiden Voyage". "Chance" comes from a quote from Ansel Adams: "Chance favors the prepared mind…" Priorities is dedicated to Joe Zawinul and a tune called "The Fifth Canto" on his recording "The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream". Paul Moyer said we are "entertaining ourselves to death" as a culture. A life dedicated to music is a personal choice and a matter of priorities. This is a tribute to Free Jazz Improvisation. Waltz is inspired by the beautiful chord progressions and lyrical melodies of Frederick Chopin. John improvised on one of the waltzes, changed the meter of the first section and replaced the melody with a bass solo. Although waltzes have lost their popularity among dancers, the jazz waltz provides listeners with a tender romantic mood. Heptagon co-written by John Rangel and Cal Haines is a tribute to Bobby Timmons. Not known for writing in odd meters, Mr. Timmons wrote "Cut Me Loose Charlie" in 5/4. Cal created a 7/4 second line New Orleans feel and "Heptagon" took shape. This Is The Place Of Parting consists of several short composed sections separated by areas of open improvisation. The concept behind the performance of this piece was to sustain a tranquil mood and let the energy ebb and flow as a trio instead of showcasing individual soloists. While not written in the style of Chick Corea per se, elements were influenced by him. Cal plays the cajon, bringing in the change in timbre.
Original compositions by John Rangel, Michael Glynn and Cal Haines. Inspired by jazz legends and other creative people.
"BEST JAZZ CD" 2013 NEW MEXICO MUSIC AWARDS
The outcome of two years of concert performances and a sequel to the historically focused straight-ahead swinging tunes of Volume I, the new CD is perhaps more forward-looking in its theme of tributing the ideas of jazz. The original compositions are by each of the trio members, some in collaboration. They reflect both the further gelling of the trio in their dynamics and the conceptual growth of the group. Songs such as "Not So Easy" and "Horace-Play" have clear ties to styles heard in the music of Bobby Timmons and Horace Silver, but "Time" is a tribute to the flow in the changes of the great song, "Just In Time." There is a worldly jazz concept in "A Time for Parting". Volume II accurately displays the Tribute Trio musicians' personal compositional styles, while still incorporating learnings from the legends. The range includes swing, ballads and some unique odd-meter tunes.
IF IT GOT ANY BETTER THAN THIS IT WOULD HAVE TO COME WITH A DAY OFF
This record smokes from top to bottom
It smokes while taking a bath
It smokes while walking your giraffe
It smokes in the middle of the night
It smokes in the broad daylight
It smokes while smoking your cigar
It smokes while the cops chase you in your car
Because they think your smoking a giant spliff
Or maybe they just want a hit?
And while they're smoking on the side of the road
They'll hear this groovy Tribute Trio record
And want to get it as a gift
For their precinct drug czar
Because Michael, John, and Cal
Are smoking pure elegance
(and that doesn't come in a cigar)
–mARK wEber | KUNM Thursday jazz host | Albuquerque USA
The Tribute Trio
John Rangel, piano; Michael Glynn, bass; Cal Haines, drums—was formed in 2010 to do exactly that: pay tribute to some of the legendary pianists who have helped create and enrich the history of jazz. The trio's two albums to date, Dedications, Vols 1 and 2 (Self Produced) have earned "Best Jazz CD" honors (2012, 2013) in the New Mexico Music Awards competition. Whereas Vol. 1 was devoted largely to pianists from the swing and bebop eras, Vol. 2 has expanded the trio's horizons to include genres ranging from world music to classical, with several stops in between.
The dedicatees on Vol. 2 extend from Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons to Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Frederic Chopin ("Waltz") and even Victoria Rogers, the trio's music director and "honorary fourth member." The album opens, however, with "Time" (based on the song "Just in Time"), described as "the canvas where musicians paint aural pictures to delight, inspire, reflect." The inspiration for its melody, we are told in the liner notes, came from one of the foremost jazz icons of them all, Charlie Parker. That may have proven difficult even for someone of Bird's immense stature, as Bells Are Ringing, the musical in which "Just in Time" was introduced, opened on Broadway in November 1956, more than a year after Parker died. Be that as it may, the trio gives the fast-paced romp a splendid reading on which Rangel, who relocated from Los Angeles to New Mexico several years ago and teaches at Northern New Mexico College, unveils his impressive chops while Glynn and Haines provide a spacious comfort zone.
"Horace-Play" is a blues written in the Silver Style, and "Not So Easy" a soulful throwback to the bop era co-written by Rangel and Haines with Timmons in mind (as was "Heptagon," which could have been imported straight from New Orleans). To verify that Rangel is at ease in any setting, the trio salutes Hancock with the tasteful "Chance," Zawinul with the quasi-free "Priorities," and Chopin with the even- tempered, classically inspired "Waltz," on each of which Rangel changes colors as readily as a chameleon. The same can be said for the trio as a whole, whose close interplay is exemplary on every number. Rogers, the trio's right-hand person, is described as "complex, thoughtful, passionate" and "unusual," words that may also be used to clarify her own "tribute," the gossamer ballad "V," superbly performed by the trio. The album closes with "This Is the Place of Parting," summarized in the notes as "several short composed sections separated by areas of open improvisation." While "not written in the style of Chick Corea per se," we are told, "elements were influenced by him." So one more "tribute" can be added to a session whose concept is admirable and execution first-rate. — Jack Bowers
"… What the new release says more than anything is that the trio is its own man, with compositional skills and musicianship worthy of wider attention." — Mel Minter, April 26-May 2, 2012, Alibi, Albuquerque
"… This splendid, engaging disc is the second album of recordings composed by group members inpired by those immersions [11 tribute concerts 2010-2011]. The musicians are so 'on' that they start into the opener 'Time' sounding as if they're in the middle of a song. Rangel flies along in bebop mode, Glynn walks in a steady eighth-note rhythm, and Haines keeps it fresh with fine work on cymbals and drums. Rangel and Haines co-wrote the Bobby Timmons tribute 'Not So Easy,' a cool composition anchored by a catchy, slightly spooky bass part. 'V' is a lovely piece, reminiscent of Eric Satie, dedicated to the group's artistic director, Victoria Rogers. 'Priorities,' dedicated to Joe Zawinul, is a tribute to free improvisation. Glynn bows mysteriously in the darkish intro and there's a drum break played against discordant figures by Rangel and Glynn, but it's all perhaps a bit tame for the free-improv reference. 'This Is The Place Of Parting,' alternating composed and improv playing, is a fine end."– Paul Weideman, April 27-May 3, 2012, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe
For upcoming concert events please contact the Tribute Trio web page here… For bookings please contact Cal Haines via cal.haines@comcast.net
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News & Media GA market flat, but faces change
GA market flat, but faces change
February 23, 2012 By Thomas B Haines
A generation ago, the top piston-aircraft producers were as predictable as the top auto manufacturers. Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, and Mooney were the GM, Ford, Chrysler, and everybody else of the auto world. Today, the world looks quite different. As has happened in the auto market in the past 20 years, foreign aircraft manufacturers have made great inroads into the U.S. markets. The top manufacturers of piston airplanes are Cessna (413 piston airplanes), Cirrus (255), Diamond (185), Piper ( 102 ), and Hawker Beechcraft (28), although Hawker Beechcraft has not yet released its fourth quarter shipments. Mooney produced no airplanes in 2011.
Some of the names are not the only things that have changed in the past 20 years. So have the corporate ownerships. Cirrus is owned by the Chinese. Diamond is Canadian-owned. The Sultan of Brunei owns Piper, and Hawker Beechcraft's primary owner is a Canadian company. Only Cessna, which is owned by conglomerate Textron, is still primarily U.S.-held.
Furthermore, it is worth noting that not all piston-powered aircraft are airplanes. Family-owned Robinson Helicopter, based in California, produced 268 piston-powered helicopters (and another 88 turbine-powered ones).
While the number of piston-powered airplanes delivered was down 1.5 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, some manufacturers see some reasons to be optimistic.
Piper President and CEO Simon Caldecott said his company increased its revenue from aircraft sales by 9 percent in 2011 over the previous year, mostly thanks to greater emphasis and deliveries on its M-series airplanes—the piston-powered Matrix and Mirage and turboprop Meridian.
Cirrus claims the best-selling model again in 2011, a position its SR22/SR22T has held for a decade. Cirrus also claims to have sold more certificated single-engine piston airplanes than any other manufacturer, which is correct if you discount the 168 Skycatcher light sport aircraft that Cessna sold. LSAs are technically not certificated airplanes; they are built to an ASTM standard. Cirrus sold more airplanes in the fourth quarter than it has in any quarter since the end of 2008, a potential sign of an improving market, or a validation of the importance of the federal government's 100 percent depreciation program that ended with 2011. GAMA and others in the industry are urging the government to renew the program for 2012.
Additional details about 2011 delivers are available on the GAMA website.
Thomas B Haines
AOPA Editor in Chief Tom Haines joined AOPA in 1988. He owns and flies a Beechcraft A36 Bonanza. Since soloing at 16 and earning a private pilot certificate at 17, he has flown more than 100 models of general aviation airplanes.
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Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall es una película del músico británico Eric Clapton que incluye una selección de canciones tocadas el 21 de mayo de 2015 en el Royal Albert Hall de Londres durante la gira 70th Birthday Celebration. Durante la gira en Londres, Clapton superó el récord del concierto número 200 en el Royal Albert Hall, convirtiéndose en el músico que más veces ha tocado en ese escenario.

La película fue estrenada el 14 de septiembre de 2015 en numerosas salas de cine de diversos países. La publicación también incluyó un documental sobre la historia de Clapton en el Royal Albert Hall. Su lanzamiento en DVD, Blu Ray, CD y LP tuvo lugar el 13 de noviembre de 2015.

Grabación
Clapton grabó dos conciertos para una posible publicación en video y audio en 2015. El primero tuvo lugar el 20 de mayo de 2015, con una lista de canciones de diecisiete temas, que servirían, si fuese necesario, para sustituir malas grabaciones de otro concierto. Un segundo concierto fue grabado el día siguiente, también con diecisiete canciones interpretadas. En el concierto aparecieron carteles donde se leía: «El concierto fue filmado y grabado para una posible publicación». Solo el material grabado durante el segundo concierto fue usado en la edición final del largometraje.

El teclista Paul Carrack comentó en una entrevista con National Post: «Creo que el concierto fue increíble. A Eric no le importa mucho el hecho de que fuese el 70º aniversario, así que en ese sentido fue como cualquier otro concierto, pero había una especial atmósfera en la sala. Cuando nos encontramos fuera del escenario la primera noche, Eric dijo que no iba a dejar que continuase. Creo que la segunda noche debió de estar mucho mejor. Con Eric, tocar en el Albert Hall... es realmente solo sobre la música. Se siente casi como si estuvieras tocando en un pequeño club. Especialmente cuando has estado tocando para esos grandes auditorios que no fueron construidos para la música. Pero el Albert Hall tiene ese ambiente maravilloso e íntimo».

Publicación
Un tráiler y un comunicado oficial fueron publicados por la agencia de representación de Eric Clapton el 19 de agosto de 2015 en internet y redes sociales. La película, con una selección de temas interpretados por Clapton en el Royal Albert Hall el 21 de mayo de 2015 durante su gira de celebración de su 70º cumpleaños, fue estrenada el 14 de septiembre a nivel global por Arts Alliance, Warner Bros. Records y Eagle Rock Entertainment, y fue producida por la compañía Examination Productions en colaboración con Eagle Rock Entertainment. El 1 de septiembre fue publicado un adelanto de la canción «Cocaine» interpretada en el concierto. El 16 de septiembre se puso en preventa la edición en DVD y en triple disco de vinilo a través de Amazon. El 13 de noviembre, Live at the Royal Albert Hall fue publicado en varios formatos: doble DVD y CD, disco de vinilo, doble CD, DVD, Blu-ray y triple vinilo con DVD.

Lista de canciones

Personal
Músicos
 Eric Clapton – voz, guitarra acústica y guitarra eléctrica.
 Chris Stainton – teclados.
 Paul Carrack – órgano Hammond, teclado y coros.
 Andy Fairweather Low - guitarra y voz en «High Time We Went».
 Nathan East – bajo y coros.
 Steve Gadd – batería.
 Michelle John – coros.
 Sharon White – coros.

Personal técnico

 Paul Gambaccini – entrevistador.
 Blue Leach – director.
 Simon Climie – mezclas y productor.
 Alan Douglas – ingeniero de sonido.
 Audrey Davenport – productor.
 Luca Ciuti – director de fotografía.
 Bob Ludwig – masterización.
 George Chin – fotografía.
 Stuart Green – diseño de embalaje.
 Michael Eaton – productor ejecutivo.
 Martin Dacre – productor ejecutivo.

 Peter Worsley – supervisor de producción.
 Simon Hosken – productor ejecutivo.
 Melissa Morton-Hicks – representante de producción.
 Rebecca Bradshaw – representante legal.
 Charlotte Godfrey – representante legal.
 Paul Bullock – asistente de producción.
 Mark Fossitt – coordinador de producción.
 Claire Higgins – corrdinador de producción.
 Rosie Holley – representante de producción.
 Terry Shand – productor ejecutivo.
 Geoff Kempin – productor ejecutivo.

Referencias

Películas de 2015
Películas de Reino Unido
Álbumes de Eric Clapton
Álbumes de 2015
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de Warner Bros. Records
Álbumes de Universal Music Group
Películas musicales
Videoálbumes de 2015

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