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Student Protests Spur Irvine City Council To Discuss Rent And Housing Options
JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
The Irvine City Council on March 11, 2020 meeting.
By Noah Biesiada | June 4, 2020
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Amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic, UC Irvine students are asking the Irvine Co. and Irvine City Council to potentially suspend rent and remove costly lease break fees.
Many students have moved back home. Others are out of work and struggling to pay rent.
They are demanding some sort of rent relief or help getting out of their leases.
To date, the Irvine Company and city council members have largely ignored their pleas.
In a previous article, Voice of OC reported that students have been speaking up about the costly fees since March, asking for the city council to intercede on their behalf with the Irvine Co. who continues to be largely unresponsive to student complaints.
At the University Town Center, one of the primary private student housing facilities located near UCI, the average lease break costs between six and eight thousand dollars in a one time payment, according to the Irvine Company Resident Handbook. Some students have reported the costs to be as high as $15,000.
The Irvine Company declined to comment.
Students frustrations with city leadership culminated last week, with a protest outside of Mayor Christina Shea's home.
The protest was organized by a UCI student group called UCI For Cost of Living Adjustment, also known as UCI4Cola.
Their primary focus is to have the city council declare a rent suspension for the duration of the pandemic, but also called for the Irvine Co. to house homeless in empty apartments and remove the lease break fees.
"The Irvine Co. began charging students extortion lease break fees that exceed the cost of tuition," said Courtney Echols, a spokesperson for UCI4Cola and a PhD student at UCI working towards her law degree. "The landlords and corporations are continuing to profit while the people continue to suffer."
Shea and Mark Newgent, a candidate for the Irvine Unified School District board, watched the protest from Shea's balcony while a row of cars and protestors filed down the narrow street in a video posted to Newgent's Facebook page.
In the video, which Newgent live streamed on his page, Shea said that the protestors were scaring children in her neighborhood and her dog, who just recently had surgery, while asking for free rent.
"They're not children anymore, and when you become an adult you work. They're obviously not working because they're out driving around threatening people," Shea said in the video.
Shea also followed up on the video with a statement on her Facebook page, saying she could not support any money coming from the general fund to help students with rent payments and that she had "little compassion" for the protestors.
"Healthy young people can get work they can find their way and should. When they are growing up yes their parents have the responsibility to provide a roof over their head and three meals a day and clothes," Shea wrote. "When they become adults it's then their responsibility to find their path in life, and not stay childlike still wanting everyone to care for them."
Shea recommended that students seek work at Amazon and said that there are plenty of open jobs to go to, also saying that previous generations had faced greater difficulties, citing both World Wars and the Vietnam War.
According to presentations by city staff, over 11,000 people have been furloughed or laid off in Irvine since the start of the COVID-19 shutdown. Restaurants and retail positions, traditional jobs for many college students, accounted for nearly 2,800 of those positions.
According to a survey published by the UCI student government that received almost 800 responses, nearly 80% of student respondents reported they had lost their jobs over the last three months due to COVID, and over 78% said they were struggling to pay rent.
Shea's post received over 300 comments, some from residents who supported Shea's position and on the other side students arguing that not all students were calling for free rent, but that many needed help with their lease break payments.
"They are just lazy kids and want to get support from the society so they don't need to contribute," said commenter Elva Chao.
The majority of comments from students called Shea out of touch, and said that she wasn't connected with the student population.
"Your people are scared of a pandemic, unemployment crisis, housing crisis, of straight up DYING, all at the SAME TIME. And your response to boost people's morale is to tell them to get over it?" said commenter Woo Jin Kim.
"You say you spend countless hours talking to students, but you've driven such a hard line between yourself and them, it's hard to believe you have."
Some commenters asked what Shea's opinion on the lease breaks were, but Voice of OC did not see a response from Shea to any of those comments.
"That's what most students are asking for, and you don't seem to be addressing this," commenter Chloe Cuberly said. "I've had a job since I was 15 and now have 3, I am taking over the maximum number of units in school, and I still can't afford to live in Irvine and pay UCI."
"I was lucky enough to not live in Irvine Company apartments and was able to cancel my lease. But my peers are struggling just like the rest of the world because there is a situation nobody saw coming."
Shea engaged several times with commenters praising her post and calling her response appropriate, but Voice of OC could not find any signs of engagement with students under her post.
Two nights ago, Shea posted that while she was still not in support of paying rent for students, that the council would discuss the item at their upcoming meeting.
"I believe it's time for our City Council to weigh in," Shea wrote. "Silence from members of our Council creates distrust."
In a phone call with Voice of OC, Shea said that she agendized the item because she wanted to give them a public forum to express their concerns. She also said she felt that it was UCI's responsibility to expand on campus housing to help students, and that students should not direct their anger at the Irvine Co.
"I support free speech and people's right to protest, but I find it inappropriate that they come to my personal residence," Shea said. "I think it's important to bring down the rhetoric, the noise and have a discussion, I'm very open to do that."
Shea said that while the request of a rent suspension "would bankrupt the city in less than six months," she wanted to have a discussion with the rest of the council on what their options were.
"This is a collaborative discussion, I should not be the focal point, I'm just one vote," Shea said. "It's a very complicated and difficult conversation to have, because there's no easy answer to this.But I'm very sensitive to these students."
"There has to be a fine line where we show empathy and try to work toward reasonable solutions."
Shea said she believed the protest was orchestrated by political opponents in an effort to hurt her chances in the upcoming November election.
"I've become the focus. I know there's a political movement at UCI, who were part of this recall against me, so I understand what's happening. It's a political attack on me moving forward if I were to run for reelection," Shea said. "They're not focusing their anger on anyone else on the council just me."
Echols denied any association with a political party, stating the protest was made up of "students and residents who are broke, hungry, fed up, and tired of being exploited."
The council has taken several votes regarding renter protections and an eviction moratorium amid COVID-19, but have voted against passing an ordinance, with the vote breaking down along party lines in a 3-2 vote at their last meeting.
Shea has said from the dais there is no need to pass an ordinance compelling landlords to follow those rules because the pandemic is coming to an end soon and that they've seen compliance from the city's primary landowner, the Irvine Co.
"We hear that it's being followed," Shea said at the city council meeting last week. "Now that we're starting to come out of the COVID-19 anyway, I'm not sure why we'd want to get into such a punitive position with landlords."
The city's current resolution "strongly encourages" landlords not to evict any residents, but does not hold legal enforcement power, according to city attorney Jeff Melching.
Echols also said that while UCI4Cola has submitted multiple comments to the city council regarding a potential rent suspension, none have been read in full during the meeting.
"The city clerk will just summarize our message, at most a one sentence summary. It's not even the equivalent of a Tweet," Echols said. "They were accepting comments as emails, and in an email you're not limited to 500 characters. The city clerk read other emails in full regarding the cemetery. We sent emails and they didn't read one of them."
She said that the lack of their comments has led to Shea manipulating their narrative without the ability to respond.
"The mayor has been very dismissive to mischaracterize our issues and make a mockery out of our request," Echols said.
Councilmember Melissa Fox, the sole vote against the resolution, said that residents need protection from more than just the Irvine Company, and that she's heard from many residents who are under the threat of eviction or a rent hike.
"We can give peace of mind to a large part of our residency," Fox said at the meeting. "This is not a punitive measure, it's protective."
"Our residents are begging us for support."
Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC Reporting Fellow. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter @NBiesiada.
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Santa Ana's New, Younger Council Will Get To Decide What The City Looks Like When It Grows Up
The city's general plan outlines the city's official stance on what kinds of land uses are allowed throughout the city for decades into the future.
UC Irvine Students Wrestle With Lease Break Payments
College students living in the University Town Center managed by the Irvine Company are trying to return home after the university was shut down, but can't afford the payments to break their leases early.


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'UNNECESSARY RISK' BY OFFICIALS IN POLAR BEAR'S DEATH: Lack of equipment and failure to assess animal's health among faults by governor and science experts, report states
By Mark Sabbatini on June 18, 2020
Sharp criticism of the death of a polar bear tranquilized by officials in January near Longyearbyen is being expressed by The Norwegian Food Safety Authority, noting among other problems a lack of necessary equipment and failing to adequately assess the condition of the bear to determine if it could withstand the anesthesia, according to a report obtained by Svalbardposten.
The 62-kilogram female bear was tranquilized across the bay from Longyearbyen because of the danger it posed to nearby cabins as well as the city, following repeated visits by it and at least one other bear near or in town in prior weeks. Police loaded it aboard one of The Governor of Svalbard's rescue helicopters with the intent of flying it far to the north, but the bear died in transit.
The decision to tranquilize and remove the bear was based on recommendations from experts at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and both the governor and institute received the assessment from the food safety authority citing numerous flaws in the decision and its execution.
"The condition of the polar bear was not sufficiently emphasized until a decision was made on whether the polar bear could withstand full anesthesia," the assessment notes. "Absence of necessary equipment – i.e. oxygen, emergency medical equipment and the like during immobilization – pose an unnecessary risk to the animal."
More generally, "there is no knowledge-based catching procedure about polar bears," the food safety authority notes.
It was the second death of a bear seen in/near Longyearbyen in January, following a highly controversial shooting of a bear on New Year's Day after it made repeated visits into town, with the governor stating there was no practical alternative since personnel qualified to tranquillize the bear were unavailable due to the holidays.
Such help was on-call when capturing the second bear and has been relied on many times in previous years. But Jon Aars, an expert at the institute who did not participate in the Jan. 30 incident, said immediately after the bear's death the drug-and-remove approach isn't a certainty.
"It will always be a risk to be mobilized, but it usually works out well," he said. "Stunning and moving polar bears is a risk in itself, and then unforeseen things can happen."
Aars also provided an official response for the polar institute in a compilation of response statements by involved agencies published this week by Svalbardposten. While he noted it's possible, but very unlikely, the anesthesia drug might have been expired and that certain supplies lacking then such as extra oxygen have since been obtained, ultimately such situations typically require quick thinking and responses.
"It's a difficult assessment that must be taken on short notice under quite special conditions," he told the newspaper.
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Cách tắt "Video đã tạm dừng Tiếp tục xem?" YouTube
YouTube added this reminder about two years ago. It was sporadic at the time and not all users saw it. It only seems to appear if you're logged into
Video is meant to be viewed which means that if you are watching YouTube, the site expects that you must watch without listening to YouTube. The site allows you to create playlists, and if it's a playlist of music you're listening to, the tab doesn't actually have to be loaded. You can play background it minimizes the open YouTube window.
YouTube added this reminder about two years ago. It was sporadic at the time and not all users saw it. It only seems to appear if you're logged into YouTube and have been 'watching' for too long.
This feature is intended to save data and possibly battery life if you are viewing on a laptop that is not plugged in. If the video continues to play, it will consume more data, especially if you have autoplay enabled. The prompt is not without purpose but there should be an option to turn it off.
YouTube can't tell if it's in the background, but it can tell if you haven't interacted with the site in a while, and that's when it will pause the video playing. You will see the message 'Video paused. Continue watching?'. You must click Yes to continue viewing.
How to turn off "Video paused. Resume watching?" on Youtube
To disable the "Video paused. Keep Watching", you have to use an extension called YouTube NonStop. This is a Chrome extension so this solution only applies to Chrome.
Install YouTube NonStop from the Chrome Web Store and it will configure everything on its own. You can leave YouTube running in the background and the extension won't stop playing videos when you haven't interacted with the site for a long time.
You cannot enable or disable this extension. You can disable this feature if you want it to work again (or uninstall) but there is no disable button.
If you prefer Firefox to Chrome, there seems to be no add-on that can remove this feature.


Although every business or organization is likely to have a fair amount of paperwork, the truth about colleges and universities is that their success relies almost completely on a strong print environment. Even when students take classes online, professors and assistants still need to communicate between departments, create learning materials, and distribute syllabi--which means that the print environment needs to be effective, secure, and streamlined. That's where managed print services comes in.
Working with mobile devices. A print environment that can't interact with phones or tablets is severely behind-the-times, which can result in a loss of productivity. Managed print helps modernize these print environments by improving connectivity and introducing mobile-friendly solutions.
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Acquisition of Reno's CIS Brings Relationship Full Circle
By Rob Sabo
A relationship that began in 1979 has come full circle for Ken Hurst.
Hurst, president of Valley Communications Incorporated of Sacramento, last month completed purchase of Communications Installation Services, A Reno company run since 1989 by Phil Holland.
Hurst worked for Holland 34 years ago in Silicon Valley as a fresh-faced 19-year-old just beginning his career. The two had remained in touch over the years, and as Holland, 72, began exploring an exit strategy from CIS, Hurst saw the business as a natural extension of Valley Communications.
Valley purchased CIS using personal financing, Hurst says. Holland will work with Hurst through the transition period for an additional 12 months before moving into a part-time role.
Hurst says he's still determining whether he'll rebrand CIS as a division of Valley Communications or leave the well-established brand intact. The staff and management of CIS will remain in place, he says. CIS employs 16, while Valley Communications employs 85.
CIS focuses on primarily on voice and data cabling and fiber optic work. Valley's work, meanwhile, covers a whole range of cabling and low-voltage systems, including security systems, audio/video cabling and access control.
"We term ourselves as network infrastructure guys," Hurst says. "That requires cabling of all types, copper, fiber, coaxial, etc. Whereas Phil is providing the cabling, we are providing the parts and smarts for all those same systems.
Valley Communications also provides complete design/build services, another area in which it hopes to increase market share in Reno-Sparks.
"In our market we are the leader, and in this market Phil is the leader," Hurst says. "We are hoping that combining those synergies brings some economies of scale and that some of the areas we work in that Phil isn't we can bring to the market and provide more value to the customer."
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AUDIO: 'Idol' Contestant Ashley Sullivan Reflects on TV Marriage, New Judges
To say it's been a whirlwind of a couple months for Ashley Sullivan would be a gross understatement.
The Massachusetts-born singer auditioned for and landed on "American Idol" – falling just short of making the Top 24 cut. But Sullivan made "Idol"-history. She became the first ever contestant to get hitched on the show.
"Oh yeah, we got married," Sullivan, legal name Saraiva, confirmed in a phone interview on "The Ralphie Radio Show." "That was one of the coolest parts (of being on the show). That was really awesome."
Sullivan tied the knot in Vegas, headed back to California, and was eliminated from "Idol." Her and the new hubby flew to Massachusetts for a family reception, and then drove 3,000 miles back to Hollywood. Despite this all just unfolding on TV last week, the episodes were taped back in December.
"When we got here, we had nowhere to live, so we lived in a tent for about a month," Sullivan revealed. "About a week ago, we got a place, so that's where I am right now."
The New Englander doesn't know which direction she'll move forward in, but has no regrets in looking back.
"I'm not going to say that ('Idol' producers) editing anything to be devious or misleading. I really did have a breakdown," admitted Sullivan. "I really did want to go home. Everything where you see me crying happened in one night. It's not like I'm hysterical over the course of days and days."
Sullivan estimates that she slept no more than three hours over a three day span leading up to her "breakdown." But despite that episode, along with an instance where she forgot the lyrics to a song, the aspiring songstress thought she had a chance.
"I still had a feeling they were going to keep me because I'm so weird," Sullivan said. "Nobody else was weird."
Maybe it was her "uniqueness" that cost Sullivan in the end. She admits that her style is an "acquired taste" – one that judge Randy Jackson never seemed to acquire. Still, she had nothing but kind words for him as well as the two new judges to "Idol" this season.
"Jennifer Lopez is a superstar. She's like barely a real human being," Sullivan gushed. "She's just so awesome and so untouchable. She's so beautiful in person! She looks like a Barbie doll!"
As great of an impression as Lopez left on her, Steven Tyler left an even bigger one.
"I don't even have words," said Sullivan. "I was really hoping I'd be able to come away from that being like, 'I met a rock legend and he was so down-to-earth,' and I totally got what I wanted."
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Relax. Get comfortable. Take a deep slow breath, (through your nose). Let it out slowly (through your mouth).
Long ago and far away, I was where you likely are at, (figuratively speaking). I was just a regular guy (person) with a few ideas. Six ideas, to be exact, and I felt strongly that each of these ideas had great potential (FYI: you only need one good idea). My friends were telling me for the most part, that my ideas were great and I was going to be rich for sure. Every day, (when I wasn't working a day job to pay the bills) I would have new insights, bouncing from one idea to the next. I was good with my hands and with tools, so I would build crude prototypes, test them, and feel accomplished.
I was convinced that I was making progress, especially when the prototypes worked as I had envisioned.
But there was a problem – As time went on and on, and I kept struggling to pay the bills, I realized I wasn't getting anywhere – I wasn't really getting closer to my goal. Sure, my prototypes got better, my ideas became more refined, but in regards to making money from my ideas, no, I was stuck! I didn't know what to do, beyond refining my ideas, (and I could do that forever), I didn't have the resources (money) to file a patent, and even if I did scrape the money together for the patent, I didn't have the knowledge or business experience to turn that patent (technically it would be a patent pending) into money.
Seriously, who do you trust, with what may be a million or billion-dollar idea… the answer is, you don't have to trust anyone. You can move forward and cover your bases as you go, and here's the best part: you're going to do make it all happen on your own (pretty much).
This guide will walk you through the steps, one by one, as well as identify most of the landmines you need to avoid stepping on, in order to get where you want to be, which is making money from your idea.
If you don't yet have an idea, or you determine after reading Chapter 5, that your idea doesn't have a viable market, this guide will help you think like an inventor. You'll learn (I'll show you) how to look at the world around you in a different way, a creative and entertaining way, but don't blame me when you start waking up in the middle of the night with ideas (hopefully good ideas) and if you do wake up with ideas, defiantly don't go back to sleep without writing them down. No matter how good they are, you will not likely, remember them in the morning.
Here's what I do when inspiration strikes (night or day), I immediately open notes on my phone and dictate, or type the idea, with a reference of what caused the inspiration, close the app, and get back to what I was doing. Often, I'll be talking to someone, and they'll say something that sparks an idea. For example, I was having a conversation with a friend, Brandy Gillmore, about the writing of this book, and she said, the best written books are sticky, in that they draw you in and make you feel connected, in a personal way to the author. I completely agree with her on that, but when she used the word sticky, in reference to my book, my brain visualized a book cover made out of Velcro, the stickiest material I know of that's not actually glue (*Idea of the Day). Imagine being in a book store, and coming across a book about inventing, or for that matter, a book on any subject, with a cover made of Velcro… That may be an interesting marketing ploy, for my book, who knows, but point is, this is what happens when you encourage your brain to daydream.
I don't analyze, the idea beyond the creative moment that spawned it, because that requires switching from divergent thinking (creative, open-minded, anything is possible thinking) to convergent thinking (analytical). Yes, there's a time and a place for analytical thinking, but nothing shuts down creativity faster than a convergent mindset. Later on, convergent thinking will rule the day, when you start reviewing your growing list of ideas, and it's time to make some hard decisions.


£3.75 More info & buy	Inspired by Château de Valois, Baron Ferdinand employed Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur to build him his own French-style country house, with magnificent towers and external staircases such as he had seen while in Touraine. Destailleur submitted elaborate plans to Baron Ferdinand for a vast mansion, nearly twice the length of the house as built, with a ballroom and a winter garden. Although the architect warned him that 'one always builds too small'; Ferdinand wanted the scale reduced and a new design was approved, a mistake Ferdinand later rued. In 1883 the completion of the house was celebrated with the first of many house parties.


The spiritual orphan began life as a newborn Christian probably in his early to mid teens. If he was lucky, then he had an opportunity to be quasi-mentored by a youth leader, who, depending on the size of the youth group, was probably too busy to truly disciple the youth. I don't mean to intentionally degrade youth ministry. I know at least two of my friends from the military who have been involved in youth ministry. Be that as it may, the church doesn't do a very good job of transitioning kids from youth groups to adulthood. I know it's true because of the sheer number of sailors I've met who "used to be" in youth groups.
If the transition from youth to adulthood was effective, then those who "used to be" in church would still be there. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. I personally believe the transition period should be from the 16-18 year time period. During that time, a mentor would be assigned from the church. I use the word assigned loosely. It would be better for the mentor to simply choose a protégé than for one to be assigned.
So now that the youth, who is now 18 and probably about five years old as far as spiritual age is concerned, is on his own, he is now left essentially to his own devices. Maybe he will get involved in Campus Crusade for Christ, or Baptist Student Union, or Navigators, or a local church. Who knows? Maybe he will barely make it through his studies while playing video games. That's an option too.
Then he'll get a job, having been orphaned at (spiritually speaking) a very young age. If he's unlucky, he might never have a mentor guide him. If he is lucky, then God brings along someone who will lead him into a measure of greatness. It's not all about luck, but until there are more mentors available, it might as well be.
I was a spiritual orphan for about 18 months after leaving High school. Then Jojo Vicencio, a senior chief in the Navy, took me under his wing and guided me on the USS Mobile Bay. I'll forever be indebted to him, and count him one of my greatest supporters to this day. I have had several mentors since those days on the Mighty Mobile Bay, but I will also be eternally grateful for EMCS. Thank you, Jojo.
Have you been a spiritual orphan? Have you been rescued? Please tell your story!
I agree with all you say and even the sad portrait of the church mentoring programs or lack there of. We do have to take in the lure of the world and all it offers to a young man as part of the problem--a church can't mentor him who will not be mentored! I see so many young people get saved as a result of a young group/bus ministry then drop out when they get a car! Also, sadly even young people from Christian homes walk away from God at an early age; maybe parents who are not walking as close as they should? How we need to reach these young people!!! Churches need to do more but that involves staff, etc--in other words: US! The church is us. So happy you were mentored and are mentoring!
You and I are on the same page. It is true that one cannot mentor the one who does not want to follow. I don't think we'll actually get to them all. However, I do think that a little power will go a long way in saving many of them. My own track record in mentoring isn't spotless, despite years of doing it with several men. I have some who are doing well, like the guy who is studying to be a chaplain right now and the other who is working for the Navigators. Then I have some who are not even walking with the faith anymore. It's a mixed bag, yet we strive hard to find a way. The nice thing about mentoring is that it can (should) be possible to do without putting a strain on the church's budget, which is nice. After all, we are the church. If we in the pew do it of our own will, then it will cost very little.


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Chrysopogon tenuiculmis är en gräsart som beskrevs av Johannes Jan Theodoor Henrard. Chrysopogon tenuiculmis ingår i släktet Chrysopogon och familjen gräs. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Moto X4 finally comes to India!
Lenovo brings Moto X4 in India, it was unveiled in IFA 2017. The smartphone has 5.2-inch FHD LTPS IPS display with Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It is powered by Octa core Snapdragon 630 processor. It has 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage which is expandable.
The highlight of Moto X4 is the dual rear camera with a 12MP primary camera with Dual Autofocus Pixel sensor, PDAF, f/2.0 aperture, 1.4um pixel size, 8MP ultra-wide angle secondary camera with a 120-degree field of view, f/2.2 aperture, 1.12um pixel size, dual-tone LED flash, 4K video recording. The front camera is 16MP with LED Flash. It runs on Android 7.1 Nougat and supports dual SIM. The smartphone is water and dust resistance with IP68 rating. It packs with 3000mAH battery capacity with Turbo charging. It comes with Bluetooth 5.0 which lets the smartphone to connect with 4 devices with the range of 250 mtrs.
The Moto X4 comes in Super Black and Sterling Blue colours. The 3GB and 32GB storage variant costs Rs. 20,999 and the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage priced Rs. 23,999. It will be exclusive to Flipkart and Moto Hub.


Very pleased with the tablet. Of course, the pictures on the seller's pictures are brighter) But everything is smooth, an excellent tablet for drawing and writing. He lives on the fridge. Nice toy. There are strong magnets - can be installed on the refrigerator. The workmanship is high. Lines and thin and thick work well. 12 inches is quite a large format. Recommend!


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Q: comparing id field with string field in soql query I am new to Apex. I have a SOQL query like SELECT  Session_Id__c FROM Device__c WHERE User_Id__c = :userid. In this User_id__c is custom field defined datatype as Text and userid is id of user. Is that qury works or do i need to do anything else? I believe it is not working as expected.I will appreciate help.

A: Yes, it should work just fine, assuming you're using 18-character ID values exclusively. Since queries are case insensitive, if you're only using the 15-character ID values in your text field, you'll get invalid results. I know I've seen a lot of questions where people intentionally remove the "extra" three characters from the end of ID values for some reason or another, but that will mess up queries like this one.

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Q: FBDialog Photo Sharing issue I am sharing photo usingFBDI presentShareDialogWithPhotoParams /presentShareDialogWithPhotos method in FBDialogs. This method shares photo successfully on my wall but always returns an error, meaning that it posts photos with an NSError.
Error is like....
Error Domain=com.facebook.Facebook.platform Code=103 "The operation couldn't be completed.
 (com.facebook.Facebook.platform error 103.)"
UserInfo=0x16d874f0 {error_code=103, error_description=An unknown error occurred., app_id=593434950703264, error_reason=( { result = 1; } )}

Why this happen?

A: I believe this answer will get deleted like my previous one, but anywho...
The issue have been fixed!!!,
just update your Facebook app to v20,
released on December 8th.
See:
Code=103 "The operation couldn't be completed ..." in Share Photo
note:
I want to add comment to the question but I don't have the privilege to do that,
so I add an answer instead.

A: Yesterday, I came across the same issue, the strange thing was that is even after this error comes, just check your Facebook (for which you've shared a content), and yes you'll feel awesome, the content is already uploaded (shared) on Facebook. I'm also looking forward for this issue, in my checks this problem will only occurring if you're using this method + (FBAppCall *)presentShareDialogWithPhotoParams:(FBPhotoParams *)params clientState:(NSDictionary *)clientState handler:(FBDialogAppCallCompletionHandler)handler; from FBDialogs.h means, using of Facebook application dialog for sharing.


Abstract: The NERF and Heads projects bring Linux back to the cloud servers' boot ROMs by replacing nearly all of the vendor firmware with a reproducible built Linux runtime that acts as a fast, flexible, and measured boot loader. It has been years since any modern servers have supported Free Firmware options like LinuxBIOS or coreboot, and as a result server and cloud security has been dependent on unreviewable, closed source, proprietary vendor firmware of questionable quality. With Heads on NERF, we are making it possible to take back control of our systems with Open Source Software from very early in the boot process, helping build a more trustworthy and secure cloud.


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In terms of analysing the listenability of different styles of metal, I find it helps to think of a solar system. At the centre, making up the sun, would be universally recognisable giants such as Iron Maiden or Metallica. If you head out in one direction you may come across gas giants like Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death, head off in the other direction you meet Mastodon, Opeth, and Gojira. But the further you head out in any direction the weirder the music gets. This extremity is not defined by sheer unadulterated noise, but measured by how much it resembles music. Out in the cold, beyond the far reaches of Pluto, beyond the noise fanatics, one trick grind fans, and post black metal (urgh), lie artists like Mordor and VON.
Switzerland's Mordor, formed of black metal pedigree Arog back in 1987, revamped into Mordor in 1990, and shifted musical direction away from guitar based music to what could broadly be described as dark ambient on their first EP 'Odes' (1991). Aesthetically similar to black metal in many ways, this music holds the same broad appeal as black metal of the time, but through different musical components. Follow up 'Csejthe' (1992) is both a different beast entirely yet the exact same thing. To understand the music of Mordor it is not enough to say that it sits somewhere between dark ambient and lo-fi black metal. This is true in the sense that it is daaark music…devoid of structure, and built more of a tapestry of contrasting moods. But the actual building blocks borrow from industrial, post-punk, and avant-garde as much as they do anything remotely 'metal'.
'Csejthe' is divided into tracks that make up roughly a full albums worth of material. But 'tracks' are hardly the fitting demarcations to analyse this album. Through the use of minimal synths, sparing guitars reminiscent of early gothic rock, a drum machine, and distant growls and chants, Mordor take us on a journey of disconnected but unsettlingly compelling experiences. It's like navigating a large deserted castle, or a set of underground passageways without any bearing or notion of where you're heading. Behind each door is a new horror, an unknown torture. We become accustomed to this only to move on to the next chamber and the new terror it may hold.
The drum machine works its way through simple yet weirdly groovy rhythms. Guitars occasionally find themselves getting carried along with this, and the music picks up into a creepy death march, only to conclude in stagnation, complemented by discord, usually played on a synth, offset by repeated lyrics uttered like an incantation. One can feel the frustration of the music building this tension, only to take it all away and move on to the next idea as if nothing that's gone before even mattered. This leads me back to the inescapable idea that this is like a highly disorientating nocturnal journey without end or resolution. This will appeal to black metal, dark ambient, and funeral doom fans alike, and indeed the basic building blocks that make up the music borrow from all three styles, but 'Csejthe' does not fit comfortably into any such category, nor indeed into one's mind for that matter. The closest anyone has come to such an unsettlingly creepy sound is Beherit on their ambient/electronica works.
San Francisco was not really known for its black metal back in the early 1990s. And had it not been for Varg Vikernes donning a VON t-shirt in court during his trial for arson, VON may have festered in the obscure annuls of history. As it is, recent revival aside, their sole EP 'Satanic Blood' (1992) became a cult classic. I say classic…these days one is granted more creds for hating on it these days than for simply being aware of it. In this day and age 'Satanic Blood' is hyped up as the last word in obscure black metal from all the way back in 1992, way before black metal rose to infamy. Yet more recently it has been hyped-down as a crock of shit that would have been forgotten were it not for all counter-hype *sigh*.
So what to make of 'Satanic Blood'? I actually really love it. For anyone familiar with Ildjarn or early Profanatica the production will strike one as not entirely terrible. It's raw certainly, but serviceable for simple, trancelike black metal. Drums are a thin yet relentless pulse that underpins simple tremolo-picked riffs of simple minor chord progressions with the occasional lead guitar, working through complementary harmonies and melodies. Vocals are a very simple, staccato bark, with so much delay it's impossible to discern what little lyrics there are.
Where VON really shine is riffs and sequences with some repeatability. I used 'trancelike' earlier because this music (pretty much) works one into a trance; it makes one amenable to subduing higher cognitive functions in preparation for ritual. Indeed, ritual black metal is the closest one comes to a label for this obscure music. A simple repeated slogan barked out over and over again will often accompany these loops which only adds to the subtle mania of this music. And that's really the crux of the matter. The appeal of 'Satanic Blood' is not in the rawness of the music, but the simple yet elegant looped riffs that burrow into one's mind. For that reason, this is one of the few releases where I feel that it could have done with being a bit longer (runtime's about twenty five minutes) to really hammer home this pure black energy. The rebooted VON release 'Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves' (2013) addressed some of this, but I'll get deeper into that another time.
So VON's cult classic is not nearly as bad as the naysayers would have you believe, and I feel it necessary to redress the balance somewhat. It is not a mind blowing release by any stretch. But it is an essential piece of history and a curiosity in its own right for any budding guardian of black metal culture. But pitting it against Mordor's 'Csjethes' was a bit unfair, because this latter release is simply too weird not to be pick of the week.
Mordor sits well beyond the shadow of Pluto on the very edge of the sun's orbit, not through blast beats and unrelenting distortion, but through being nightmarishly creepy. Enough familiar features of music are dangled before the listener only to be distorted, disfigured, mutilated. Like rewriting a child's dreams and fantasies, turning them into something beyond fear. Maybe I didn't talk it up enough in the above analysis, because as music it seems to rearrange your psyche at the sub-atomic level. I'll let you decide if that's a recommendation or not.
A return to an older school: Church of Misery and Acid King


If you are a regular reader of our blog, then you know we love to do and see as much as possible when on a cruise. Our stop in Belfast, Northern Ireland on our Celebrity Eclipse cruise was no different. As a huge fan of the Game of Thrones HBO series, I was voting for one of the tours that visited several of the filming locations. After spending a full day with our guide, we can honestly say that even non-viewers like the Princess will have a great time on this tour.
After contacting a few different tour operators during our planning process, we decided to book a private tour with Taxi Tours Belfast. With a private tour, our group of four would get to see and do everything that we wanted. This would allow us to visit Game of Thrones locations in addition to other landmarks like the Giant's Causeway.
Booking online was simple. Norman, the owner of the company, was responsive to our emails and questions. With a small deposit, our tour was booked a few months in advance of our cruise. The remainder of the balance was paid directly to our driver on the day of the excursion.
The email instructions indicated that we would meet our tour guide next to the ship within 30 minutes of the ship docking at the port. For this port of call, our ship was scheduled to dock at 7 am. As prudent cruisers, we were ready and packed, room service consumed, and met our family right around 7 am. As we were walking towards the gangway to lineup, the announcement was made that the ship was already cleared.
We walked right off the ship by about 7:15 am to be greeted by a tall gentleman in a black coat holding a sign with our name. Meeting our driver Cyd for the first time, we let him know that we wanted to do and see as much as possible in the 8 hours before we had to get back to the ship.
We set off on a tour that encompassed everything we asked to see and more! Cyd was informative, honest, and we would certainly recommend him as a tour guide.
Given we were among the first passengers off the ship, Cyd suggested we alter the order of the tour slightly to stay ahead of the other tours and buses. So, we took an hour or so ride along the Antrim Coast on the Coastal Causeway route.
It was a cloudy and overcast day with intermittent rain and some gusty winds.
Arriving at our first stop before 8:30 am, we were able to take pictures of the Dunluce Castle. For fans of the Game of Thrones series, you might recognize this 15th-century castle as the House of Greyjoy, ruler of the Iron Islands.
After our five-minute photo op, we headed toward the Giant's Causeway about 15 minutes or so down the road.
This popular tourist attraction wasn't even officially open when we arrived. So, we just headed straight down the steep hill to snag photos of this natural wonder with few other visitors around. We walked the area for about thirty minutes, taking plenty of photos along the way, when a shuttle bus arrived. We opted to pay the minimal fee to have the bus drive us back up the hill. With a quick stop in the visitor's center at the top, we were successfully the first people to see this magnificent natural attraction for the day!
During our travels to the next stop, we hopped out of the van for a quick photo of the remains of Dunseverick castle, which is also featured in Game of Thrones.
At several of the more popular stops, there were signs that explained how the area was featured in Game of Thrones, but we had to trust Cyd when he mentioned a particular scene was shot at certain lesser known locations.
During the next 15 minutes, we photographed additional scenic shots of the coastline. Our next official stop was the Carrick-a-Rede bridge, a 66 foot long rope bridge that links the mainland to the tiny island of Carrickarede.
We did take the walk from the parking lot to the bridge, but we were not able to cross the bridge due to weather conditions. This national park offers some lovely walking trails if you have extra time or the weather is more agreeable. For us, we had other locations to see during our brief visit to Belfast.
Between the walk to the bridge and back as well as a quick stop in the cafe, we spent close to an hour at this location.
Down the road is an overflow parking lot. Normally, this is not very interesting, but this former stone quarry is the home to several scenes from Game of Thrones. Known as Larrybane, this is the location of Renley's camp. In a battle scene at this location, the character Brienne of Tarth is introduced in the series.
The next stop on our Game of Thrones tour in Belfast was Ballintoy Harbor which was about 5 minutes away. At this point, it was mid-morning, and there were more tourists beginning to descend on these landmarks.
This location is well known as the main area set for the Iron Islands, with several scenes throughout the series shot here and along the small beach off to the side. Comparing the actual landmark to the scenes from the television show, you certainly gain a greater appreciation for the "movie magic" that goes into creating the series.
Making great time so far, Cyd recommended that we take a slight detour to visit the Bushmills Distillery. How could I say no to testing out some whiskey?
Doing an abbreviated whiskey tasting and purchasing a bottle, we arrived at our next stop on the tour around noon. The Dark Hedges might have been the most impressive sight of them all. Even before the Game of Thrones series, this public road was a popular tourist photo-op.
With these eerie trees also doubling for the Kings Road in the series, this road has become even more popular. Still, we were able to get a few good photos without anyone in them.
We walked from our drop off point up the road to meet our guide at the other end. It was raining pretty steadily at this point so we were starting to get a little wet and chilly.
Leaving the Dark Hedges, we made another quick stop at the Cushenden Caves. These caves and adjacent waterway is the location of one of the pivotal scenes of Season Two.
Having seen all of the sights we requested, it was only 1:15 pm. We still had over two hours left to see more of Northern Ireland. We took a scenic 1.5 hour drive along the coast, giving us just enough time to visit Shankhill Road, Falls Road, and the Peace Wall in downtown Belfast.
Throughout the drive, Cyd gave us some history of the area and country.
At some point during the ride, we slowed down so he could point out Cairncastle, essentially a hill where the first scene of the first episode of Game of Thrones was filmed. After everything we had seen today, it was a bit anti-climatic!
Returning to the city, our guide drove us around Shankill Road in the Protestant area and Falls Road in the Catholic area so we could see some of the prominent murals, as well as part of the Peace Wall. Though a brief stop, it was humbling to hear some of the firsthand stories of the Troubles.
By now, it was a bit after 3:30 pm, so we cut through a few side streets to avoid the traffic and were back at the ship in no time.
Our Game of Thrones tour had taken us to all of the well-known sights, as well as several other popular attractions in Northern Ireland. It was really like three tours in one! Even our aunt who was traveling with us said that we really know how to plan a shore excursion.
Have you visited Belfast, Northern Ireland on a cruise? Have you taken a Game of Thrones tour? Drop us an anchor below with your experiences visiting this memorable port of call.


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(12855) Tewksbury est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à Socorro (Nouveau-Mexique) par le projet LINEAR. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,56 UA, une excentricité de 0,18 et une inclinaison de 2,2° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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On Wednesday, February 2, the Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 1501 by a unanimous 98 to 0 vote. After crossover on February 8, the bill will be sent to the Senate and assigned to the Senate Privileges & Elections Committee. House Bill 1501, sponsored by Delegate Lacey Putney (I-19), provides that the State Board of Elections, in cooperation with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, would make mail-in voter registration forms available where hunting and fishing licenses are sold.
The NRA will continue to update you on this bill as well as other bills as they progress through the Virginia General Assembly. Please continue to check your e-mail and www.NRAILA.org for updates.


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Guppy-Volckman, Agnes (1838-1917)
Formerly Miss Agnes Nichol and the second wife of Spiritualist Samuel Guppy. She was originally discovered to be a powerful medium by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the house of his sister, a Mrs. Sim, about a year after he started his investigation into Spiritualism in 1865. The young girl, a professional mesmerist, produced movements without contact. The power was strongest if she and Sim were alone. Remarkable phenomena were observed after a séance in an empty room. The famous naturalist learned that Nichol saw phantoms as a child and, in carefully watching her mediumistic development, had strange experiences. Raps and table movement were followed by levitations.
Nichol was a heavily built woman. In the darkness, while holding the sitters' hands, she was several times lifted on top of the table in her chair. Independent music and apport phenomena came next. On many occasions flowers and fruits, sometimes in large quantities, fell onto the séance table from an unknown source.
The requests of the sitters were often honored. When a friend of Wallace asked for a sunflower, one six feet high with a mass of earth around the roots fell upon the table. In the house of E. W. Cox a mass of snow and hothouse flowers was precipitated. It was sufficient to make a mental request. Princess Marguerite of Naples desired specimens of a prickly cactus. More than 20 dropped on the table and had to be removed with tongs. Stinging nettles and ill-smelling white flowers that had to be burned arrived on other occasions. The duchess d'Arpino wished for sea sand. It soon splashed down with sea-water and live starfishes. The sea was about a hundred yards from the house. Not infrequently live eels and lobsters appeared.
Nichol married Samuel Guppy in 1867. For some time afterward they resided on the Continent. More marvels were witnessed on their return. The first spirit photograph of Frederick A. Hudson was obtained in March 1872, through Agnes's mediumship (see also spirit photography ). In the same year she produced materializations.
Catherine Berry, in Experiences in Spiritualism (1876), writes of many strange happenings. A white cat and a Maltese dog belonging to Guppy appeared in a séance in Berry's house where Guppy sat. Three ducks prepared for cooking were brought into the circle in Guppy's home. Showers of butterflies descended from the ceiling. On another occasion a shower of feathers fell to the depth of several inches. In a mischievous spirit Guppy asked for tar, whereupon Berry, looking like a magpie in her black dress, rushed out. She became estranged for years from Guppy.
The most incredible incident in Guppy-Volckman's career was her claimed transportation from her house at Highbury, London, to 61 Lamb's Conduit St., a distance of three miles. The most humorous occurred when Frank Herne and Charles Williams, with eight sitters, were holding a séance. On the half-humorous request of a Mr. Harrison to transport Guppy to the room, she was precipitated to the room. Unfortunately, she was half dressed, with her shoes off, and in a state of deep trance.
Samuel Guppy was a very rich man. The complete absence of financial motives in Agnes Guppy's case greatly puzzled Frank Podmore, the skeptical author of Modern Spiritualism (2 vols., 1902), who considered most mediums frauds out for financial gain. Not understanding the equal appeal of power and fame, he ponders, "But Mrs. Guppy, even during the few months in which, as Miss Nichol, she practised as a professional Mesmerist, can scarcely have found her main incentive in the hope of gain. On the assumption of fraud, the mere cost of the flowers lavished on her sitters must have swallowed up any probable profit from her increased mesmeric clientele. And even such a motive would have ceased with her marriage."
After Samuel Guppy's death, his widow married again and was afterward known as Mrs. Guppy-Volckman. She died in December 1917.
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Guppy, Mary Jane (ca. 1860)
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Pain can come in many different forms. It is vitally important that the underlying source of the back, neck or joint pain be identified and corrected. A Licensed Chiropractor has several years of education and hands-on training to diagnose and treat many types of conditions including Back Pain, Whiplash, Headaches, Carpal Tunnel and Arthritis. Each of these conditions is unique, yet nonetheless painful. At Caron Chiropractic Clinic, P.A. in St. Paul, MN we utilize a Holistic Approach to Pain Management.
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Home › Entertainment › 'Blue Bloods' Star Sami Gayle Matches to Her 'Surroundings' in Eye-Catching New Pics
'Blue Bloods' Star Sami Gayle Matches to Her 'Surroundings' in Eye-Catching New Pics
by Thad Mitchell June 28, 2021
written by Thad Mitchell June 28, 2021 10:33 am
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Sami Gayle, who plays a starring role in the CBS series "Blue Bloods" has a lot on her plate these days but still makes time for fun.
The "Blue Bloods" star was out and about over the weekend to enjoy the wonderful weather and soak up the sun. As always, Gayle was rocking her own style as she is known to do and shared a few pics with her social media followers. She points to Mother Nature as an inspiration to her own style, matching up with her surroundings.
Gayle was in New York over the weekend and took some time to enjoy herself and the beautiful scenery.
A post shared by Sami Gayle (@samigayle)
"Some match their bags to their outfits…I match mine to my surroundings," the "Blue Bloods" actress writes in the weekend Instagram post. "I love you, New York! Sincerely Sami."
Fans of the young actress were quick to respond to her most recent social media post with many saying they adore her outfit.
It is nothing new for the "Blue Bloods" star to use social media to interact and engage her growing fan base. With a deep love for fashion, she often uses social media to offer up helpful wardrobe tips. The 25-year-old actress has a fan base that takes her fashion advice to heart.
'Blue Bloods' Star Offers Fashion Advice
Earlier this weekend, she again took to social media to share her love of all things fashion. Gayle says fashion is the ultimate expression of individuality and encourages her fans and followers to search out their own identity through fashion. She says she lives by a single rule when it comes to clothing selections, but "to each their own."
"If the shoe fits," she says to begin the social media post. "Something that I am sure you notice is that I love fashion. For me, it's a way to express our individuality."
Wise words from the Hollywood starlet that joined "Blue Bloods" in 2010. She continues the social media post by defining her style and the impact of her grandmother on her clothing choices.
"Many of you ask how I'd describe my style. Personally, I follow one rule (but to each their own — the point is to differ!)" she says.
She then reveals her single fashion rule, which is quiet hilarious but also very true.
"Don't wear anything my grandmother would not approve of," she writes.
In "Blue Bloods," Gayle plays Nicky Reagan, a young and ambitious girl who wants to follow in her family's footsteps and become a cop. Gayle shows up in only one episode of the show's first season but eventually becomes a regular on the show. In a later season, she accepts a new job in San Francisco. As a result, Gayle only appears in one episode of season 11.


The island of Cyprus has been attempting to resolve its internal and external political associations for the past 52 years.
It is now exactly 1,327 days, or three years, seven months and 17 days, since the referendum on the Annan plan, held on April 24, 2004, and still there is no peace on the island nor a sustainable solution to the Cyprus issue due to the 75 percent majority of "No" votes from the Greek Cypriots.
Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos — irrespective of his assurances to EU officials of the "Yes" votes of Greek Cypriots to open up the gates for the annexation to the EU prior to the referendum — unexpectedly changed the direction of the vote by addressing Greek Cypriots on local TV stations a few days before the referendum, oppos-ing the Annan plan and urging Greek Cypriots to vote "No" on the refe-rendum while reinforcing this with genuine tears in his eyes.
Either UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon himself took the new initiative on the Cyprus issue into his own hands, or somebody dropped it there.
The developments that took place this week regarding the Cyprus issue were all quite unexpected. Ban's report, the Babacan-Bakoyannis agreement and British Minister of State for Europe Jim Murphy's statements all hint at the new policy of the world's political giants on the Cyprus issue. If you happen to know the political alphabet and understand political language, then you can easily understand what is cooking in the kitchen of politics.
The contents of Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos' speech to the UN Gen-eral Assembly on Dec. 18, 2005, and an interview published in the weekly French magazine L'Express dated May 4, 2006 clearly reveal the real target and vision of the Greek Cypriot leader.
For some time Greek Cyprus President Tassos Papadopulos and his team have been conducting a campaign of blame against Turkey. They criticize Turkey for not supporting the Gambari agreement, which was brokered by UN Undersecretary-General Ibrahim Gambari and signed by Papadopulos and Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat in July of 2006, in all of their official or unofficial speeches and statements. There is some truth in this censure.


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by George_g888 » Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:11 am
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For bassist Ross Valory, the Journey never ends. It goes on and on and on and on.
He and guitarist Neal Schon date to Journey's 1973 inception in San Francisco. Other than a decade-long departure spanning the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s — at one point, future "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson took his place on bass — Valory has remained a steadfast, unflappable presence.
In keeping with that demeanor, he's staying out of the current kerfuffle involving Schon and Jonathan Cain, Journey's keyboardist since 1980. Schon recently took to social media to remind Cain who's in charge. Cain's sideline as a Christian musician married to televangelist Paula White apparently doesn't sit well with Schon, who believes overt expressions of religion and politics are bad for the Journey brand.
Intra-band drama aside, Journey will return to the Smoothie King Center on Friday for the fourth time in eight years, the latest chapter in a long-running relationship with New Orleans and local promoter Don Fox's Beaver Productions. Among other highlights, that relationship has involved headlining City Park's Tad Gormley Stadium during the 1983 "Frontiers" tour and shooting a video for that album's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" on a wharf along the New Orleans riverfront.
In addition to "Separate Ways," Friday's show will likely feature "Who's Crying Now" and "Stone in Love," radio favorites from Journey's massively popular 1981 album "Escape." The bass lines of each are essential to the songs' architecture, but Valory didn't write them. Cain developed the "Who's Crying Now" bass part. Schon, who plays bass in addition to guitar, wrote the "Stone In Love" part.
That said, "there's a difference between who wrote the part, and who owns it," Valory said during a phone interview this week. "I own it."
In that regard, he sees a parallel between himself and Arnel Pineda, the Philippines-born singer who has fronted Journey since 2007. Pineda's airy tenor is eerily similar to that of Steve Perry, the now-retired vocalist who co-wrote and originally sang most of Journey's hits.
"Arnel owns it," Valory said of the frontman role. "It's not only by his talent, but by where his heart is. As an entertainer, he invites everyone in the hall to enjoy the evening with us."
Pineda wasn't inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April alongside the more senior members of Journey. They included drummer Steve Smith, who first joined Journey in 1978 and powered the band through its commercial heyday.
Smith returned to the fold last year after drummer Deen Castronovo was dismissed following a 2015 domestic abuse arrest attributed to a "drug-induced psychosis level of intoxication." (Castronovo subsequently apologized, went to rehab and accepted a plea deal that gave him probation.)
Drummer Omar Hakim, a highly respected hired gun for the likes of David Bowie, Madonna, Sting and Dire Straits, stepped in as Castronovo's last-minute replacement for a 2015 tour. Hakim turned out to be the perfect transition between Castronovo's straight-ahead, hard rock approach and Smith's more jazz-influenced style, Valory said.
"Omar plays with more intensity, not unlike Deen, but he's got the musicality, the ears, and the technique in common with Steve Smith. I really enjoyed playing with Omar. It was like shifting gears."
Being reunited with Smith "has been fabulous," Valory continued. "He recorded 80 percent of the songs we're doing, so it's organic. It's back to the fundamentals of how the song was created, how we put our parts to it, how it was recorded. It is refreshingly new."
Smith has restored "a swing to compositions that were created that way. He's also very dynamic. When he plays softly, he plays softly. When he plays loud, it's only to the limit of what sounds good. He's not a banger. He plays with the intensity on the drum head up to the point where it loses its good sound. There is a dynamic range which we have not experienced in quite some time."
As the rhythm section, "Steve and I drive the bus. It's very comfortable. For the singer, the soloists, the other instrumentation, we're the wind under the wings. Without being too glib about it, it's a very ideal situation."
So, too, is being in Journey in general; business is very, very good. They opened 2017 with an Asian tour that visited Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. After a run of "secondary," i.e. smaller, markets in the United States, they notched their second nine-show residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas; it included performances of the entire "Escape" and "Frontiers" albums.
The current summer tour concludes July 30 at Citi Field in New York for the Classic West concert alongside Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers and Earth Wind & Fire. The same all-star line-up plays Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles two weeks prior.
They'll take a break from August until next May. Plans are afoot for a 2018 world tour with Def Leppard, another arena stalwart with a slew of hits of which fans never seem to tire.
For Journey, the "dirty dozen" of setlist staples includes "Don't Stop Believin'" — which Valory, in Weird Al Yankovic mode, jokingly refers to as "Don't Stop Breathin'" — "Wheel in the Sky," "Any Way You Want It," "Faithfully," "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin" and "Lights."
"We've played most of our hits many, many times — we're in our 20th year of consistently touring, so we kind of know the songs pretty good," Valory said. "People want to hear those songs that way, and they do.
"And they keep coming back. They just love the music, and they are so happy when we come through town. That's pretty hard to beat. I am appreciative and thankful for what opportunity I have had, and what the band has. I don't know what to do, except just keep playing."
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Re: Ross Interview
According to this article Journey will tour with Def Leppard again next summer.
by perryfan61 » Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:10 pm
Maybe having 9 months away from each other will allow this drama to settle down.
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. Steve Perry
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by annpea » Sun Jun 11, 2017 1:11 am
perryfan61 wrote: Maybe having 9 months away from each other will allow this drama to settle down.
A break from each other could be just the thing they need, too much time together, and just plain tired from being on the road all the time. the older one gets the harder it is to maintain the hectic schedule of younger years, and it would indeed give them a chance to look at the big picture with clearer eyes.
Dancing between the raindrops.
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by bellairepark73 » Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:29 pm
annpea wrote:
All the best to them with that. This stuff has been brewing for awhile, ever since Neal openly talked about wanting to create new music (2011 was the last album and not too much was new) and Jon didn't want to. Now its bigger and deeper. This isn't just a simple misunderstanding...now we see the big picture of what Neal was trying to tell us without giving too much away.
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by SF-Dano » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:51 am
George_g888 wrote: According to this article Journey will tour with Def Leppard again next summer.
"Plans afoot", as the article states, is not exactly the same as "will" tour with DL. These issues may very well sideline or dismiss the "plans" for the tour.
I think they should take the next year off to decide if they even want to continue or work on an amicable break up/reformation.
by FamilyMan » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:22 am
They have little or no choice. As Jon says, "Journey is our job. Journey pays the bills." They're stuck with each other.
"I'd love to hear his voice again." - Neal Schon 2008
by Journey/Survivor » Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:59 am
Unless Journey were to record a new album, I'd prefer Neal to do the "Neal Schon's JRNY" thing with Gregg Rolie and some other great musicians and record an album with Journey-like music, but heavier than most Journey albums.
I'm done with the Journey Greatest Hits shows.
by scarab » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:58 am
Only a Rolie/Schon reunion would be a remotely reason for Journey to tour again.
Anything Cain involved, no way. Would love to see even Faithfully dropped from the setlist, but give him credit for writing it for his former porn star wife and than dedicate to his faith bilking wife.
by lparn » Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:50 pm
Unless they're going to do revelation songs im done with greatest hits shows
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by bellairepark73 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:12 pm
lparn wrote: Unless they're going to do revelation songs im done with greatest hits shows
Well we here say that but when a mistake was made that JRNY was going to have a show November 11, on Facebook, in a heartbeat over 100 people responded to it and were about ready to buy tickets! It didn't matter the lineup. Personally, I'm done unless its Gregg and Steve onstage again doing something OTHER than 12 GH. There are way more than 12 GH hits. Has anyone seen Neal's Twitter and Facebook lately? He seems to be promoting his beautiful Lady M guitar and his solo album Universe. Nothing about the blues project with John Waite or any collaboration with Gregg either. Am I missing anything?
by JourneyHard » Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:25 am
If Journey is going to tour with Def Leppard again, Journey needs to rock out with this set list.
1. Separate Ways
2. One More
3. Chain Reaction
4. Keep On Runnin'
5. La Do Da
6. Where Were You
7. Dixie Highway
8. Escape
9. Line Of Fire
10. Lay It Down
11. Edge Of The Blade
12. Stone In Love
13. Wheel In The Sky
14. Any Way You Want It
15. Don't Stop Believin'
I know they won't do this, but they have become a One Hit Wonder to the young people now. As long as they do Don't Stop Believ'n, the other 14 songs are filler to millenials.
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