Dance under the stars on a dining cruise, unwind from a busy day with live music on a waterfront restaurant patio, or learn some salsa moves at a class – you can do it all in Marina del Rey.
This Marina del Rey mainstay features steak, seafood, and American food in a Polynesian-themed waterfront atmosphere. Come on a Wednesday and get treated to live acoustic music from Uncle Monkey in the bar, 3-7 p.m. Salsa dancing is on deck for Fridays, starting at 9 p.m. Join in on the free class before the floor opens to all at 10. 4499 Admiralty Way; 310-823-5451.
Choose from a selection of fun, themed dining cruises that sail in the calm Marina del Rey harbor, including a Margarita Shakedown, Jammin' Reggae, Taste of Brazil, Taste of Greece, and more. Each event is designed to deliver a different theme of food, drinks, and music for a unique experience.
A jazz musician entertains patrons on Hornblower's popular champagne brunch cruises offered year-round on Saturdays and Sundays. Relax with a mimosa on the open-air top deck and soak up views of passing sailboats. Weekly dinner cruises offer DJ entertainment and dancing under the stars. 13755 Fiji Way; 310-301-6000.
Live bands play on Saturday and Sunday afternoons year-round at Fisherman's Village. We post the current lineup in our events calendar – click below. The scene is a festive one, with neighbors and strangers alike joining in on the Electric Slide, a spicy tango, and sultry salsa moves. 13737 Fiji Way.
On Fridays and Saturdays, enjoy live jazz guitar 6-9 p.m. in Cafe del Rey's spacious bar area. A cellist entertains during Sunday brunch, 11 a.m–2 p.m. 4451 Admiralty Way; 310-823-6395.
A flamenco guitar duo adds to the relaxing Sunday brunch scene at this sophisticated waterfront restaurant located at The Ritz-Carlton-Marina del Rey, 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. 4375 Admiralty Way; 310-574-4333.
Summertime offers a lot of fun opportunities on the Los Angeles Westside, and one undoubtable favorite is the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series. Free admission! Grab your family, a picnic dinner, and a blanket or low-back beach chairs and make your way to Burton Chace Park for this popular event series in July and August.
A variety of bands with a beachy vibe entertain from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at this fun summer series, offered on Thursdays, May–September, at Marina "Mother's" Beach. Bring your own camping chair and enjoy the free show! Food trucks serve up tasty fare from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Marina del Rey Hotel annually offers a series of Sunday pool parties (open to the public), Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends. Come for DJ entertainment, themed events, and poolside bites and libations. No cover charge!


The Bank of Canada increased the interest rate from 0.5% to 0.75%, a move that shows confidence in steady economic expansion for the country. This decision was highly anticipated and we may see the start of an upward correction that will confirm the rule "buy on rumor, sell on fact".
In this case the closest targets will be at 1.2800 and 1.2900 after which overcoming we may see price growth to the psychologically important mark of 1.3000. In case of further decline, the immediate objective will be at 1.2665. Additional stimulus for the price growth of the pair may come from the fall of crude oil quotations. Today a spike of volatility is expected after the release of the consumer price index in the US at 12:30 GMT.
Accelerating the pace of inflation growth will lead to the increased possibility of another rate hike by the Fed in 2017. The focus will also remain on Janet Yellen's speech in Congress. Yesterday Mrs. Yellen stressed the intention to start reducing the Fed's balance sheet till the end of the current year in case of consistent economic expansion in the US, strong labor data and inflation growth towards the target level of 2.0%.


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Q: Select username everywhere with selector I'm using selectable() from jQuery it works just the way i want it.
But i want to go to the next step, i want it to select the message too inside the main chat.
So the text of the selected nickname will highlight too in the main chat.
JsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/56SkH/13/
UPDATE
What i wanna to do is that when Nickname is selected from users that the channelmessage automaticly is being selected from the users.

A: You can force the selection on the element by adding the class ui-selected and using the selected event:
$(function () {
    $('#users').selectable({
        selected: function (event, ui) {
            $(".channelmessage span.nickname.ui-selected").removeClass("ui-selected");
            $(".channelmessage span.nickname:contains('" + ui.selected.id + "')").addClass("ui-selected");
        }
    });
});

In the example I use the span content as contains selctor, by I have modified a bit the HTML markup like:

 Nickname2:
    Message

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/IrvinDominin/LnnLT/

A: Try this  - On click of each name corresponding message also selected using 'stop' property of selectable().
$(function () {
            $("#users").selectable({
                stop: function () {
                    $("#users li").each(function (key) {
                       $("#Nickname" +(key+1)+ "_message").css({"background":"white","color":"black"});
                    });
                    $(".ui-selected", this).each(function (key) {

                       var index = $( "#users li" ).index( this );

                        $("#Nickname" +(index + 1)+ "_message").css({"background":"#F39814","color":"white"});

                    });
                }
            });
        });

A: It's easy to add a dummy class to each chat message, and the selector will be more efficient than searching for a name string.
$(function() {
    $( '#users').selectable({
        filter: "li",
        selecting: function( event, ui ) {
            $(".ui-selected").removeClass("ui-selected");
            $('.channelmessage span.message.' + ui.selecting.id).addClass("ui-selected");
        }
    });
});

Here you have a working JSFiddle sample:
http://jsfiddle.net/56SkH/21/

A: $(function() {
    $('#users').selectable({
        selected: function(event, ui) {
            var user = ui.selected.id.toLowerCase();
            $('.channelmessage.'+user).addClass('ui-selected');
        },
        unselected: function(event, ui) {
            $('.channelmessage').removeClass('ui-selected');
        },
    });
});

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/56SkH/23/

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Q: Does anyone have an idea how to make this so that it will use yield? (python) def MultiplicationTable():
    on = True
    while on:
        print("\nType 101 to exit application.")
        number = int(input("What table is to be printed out (1-10)? "))
        if 0 < number < 11:
            print("Multiplication table of: ", number)
            for mul in range(1, 11):
                print("{0} * {1} = {2}".format(number, mul, (number * mul)))
        elif number < 0:
            print("Your Input is a negative number!")
        elif number == 0:
            print("Your input is zero, any number multiplied to zero is also zero.")
        elif number == 101:
            print("Quitting application...")
            on = False
        else:
            print("Your Input is greater than 10!")

MultiplicationTable()

I've tried putting yield, but I cannot make it work.
The output should be like this:
What table is to be printed out (1-10)? 1
Multiplication table of:  1
1 * 1 = 1
1 * 2 = 2
1 * 3 = 3
1 * 4 = 4
1 * 5 = 5
1 * 6 = 6
1 * 7 = 7
1 * 8 = 8
1 * 9 = 9
1 * 10 = 10

A: Like this? If you have to use yield in this program. But seem no meaning.
 def MultiplicationTable():
     on = True
     while on:
         print("\nType 101 to exit application.")
         number = int(input("What table is to be printed out (1-10)? "))
         if 0 < number < 11:
             print("Multiplication table of: ", number)
             for line in gen_multi_table(number):
                 print(line)
         elif number < 0:
             print("Your Input is a negative number!")
         elif number == 0:
             print("Your input is zero, any number multiplied to zero is also zero.")
         elif number == 101:
             print("Quitting application...")
             on = False
         else:
             print("Your Input is greater than 10!")

 def gen_multi_table(number):
     for mul in range(1, 11):
         yield "{0} * {1} = {2}".format(number, mul, (number * mul))

 MultiplicationTable()

A: The yield statement just suspends function's execution and sends a value back to the caller, but retains enough state to enable function to resume where it is left off. When resumed, the function continues execution immediately after the last yield run.
def MultiplicationTable():
    on = True
    while on:
        yield("\nType 101 to exit application.")
        number = int(input("What table is to be printed out (1-10)? "))
        if 0 < number < 11:
            yield "Multiplication table of: "+str(number)
            for mul in range(1, 11):
                yield("{0} * {1} = {2}".format(number, mul, (number * mul)))
            break
        elif number < 0:
            yield("Your Input is a negative number!")
        elif number == 0:
            yield("Your input is zero, any number multiplied to zero is also zero.")
        elif number == 101:
            yield("Quitting application...")
            on = False
        else:
            yield("Your Input is greater than 10!")

for i in MultiplicationTable():
    print(i)

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Eat healthy, spend less
January 17, 2021 by admin·0 Comments
Shop for groceries lastIf you're running several errands, make the grocery store yourlast stop, she said, since cold foods must stay cold. When youget home, quickly put away the foods that need to be refrigeratedor frozen.To encourage little eaters to reach for fresh fruits and veggies,put them at kid's-eye-level in your refrigerator."This will encourage them to eat them," Hanula said. "The samegoes for raw vegetables. Have them ready-to-eat and clearlyvisible in the refrigerator. Making nutritional food choicesaccessible for children is really a good idea at snack time." Buy quick fixes, tooDon't forget convenience foods for quick family meals. "Choosefoods you can prepare quickly for days when you're on the run,"she said. "A dozen eggs, canned soup, frozen pizza, a jar ofspaghetti sauce and pasta are just a few items that can betransformed into quick meals for your family." When you have your list in hand and you're ready to head to thesupermarket, Hanula said, leave your kids with a sitter. Anddon't headout hungry."Shopping on an empty stomach can ruin your budget plan," shesaid. "And little helpers tossing in items they'd like cansabotage your plan, too."Reducing the number of times you shop will keep your food billdown, too. "If you try to make just one trip to the grocery storeeach week, you'll also save on fuel costs," Hanula said. "Nowthat gasoline prices are so high, it can make a real differencein your budget." Don't waste food"Up to 25 percent of all edible food goes to waste," Hanula said."That's just like throwing money away, so you should definitelyplan how you'll use those leftovers."Hanula says planning your household menus ahead of time is a goodidea nutritionally. She recommends setting aside 30 minutes toplan your family's weekly meals. Once you've completed one week'smenu list, she said, save it and use it again in three or fourweeks."Most of us don't vary the foods we eat from month to month," shesaid. "Of course, there are some seasonal differences to accountfor."When planning menus, she said, remember fruits and vegetables.Buy them fresh to eat first, and stock up on canned and frozenones to eat later in the week. By Sharon OmahenUniversity of GeorgiaA grocery list and a little preplanning can lead to a lower foodbill and a healthier diet, a University of Georgia expert says."You're more likely to include a variety of foods and to includefruits and vegetables if you shop from a list," said Gail Hanula,a nutrition specialist with the UGA Extension Service. "This canlead to your family eating a healthier diet while you savemoney."Save money? Shopping lists help food shoppers take advantage ofweekly store specials, she said. They also help you make wise useof leftovers. read more
Relationship Enrichment
Engaged couples in Forsyth County are being sought for the pre-marital preparation and relationship enhancement program provided by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Couples can enroll for a series of six one-on-one sessions with a trained counselor or attend an all-day workshop. One-on-one sessions will be determined by the schedules of the participants and counselors. A day-long program, limited to 12 couples, is scheduled for March 20 at the Sharon Springs Community Building located at Sharon Springs Park. Registration for either option is $60, but couples who complete the program will qualify for a $35 discount on their marriage license. For more information, visit www.gamarriages.com or contact Michele Melton, Forsyth County FACS extension agent, at 770-887-2418 or msmelton@uga.edu. read more
Red Cross Highlights Latin America's Active Role in Cooperation for Haiti
December 20, 2020 by admin·0 Comments
"In Haiti there are resources now from all of Latin America; it's south-south cooperation, which is a kind of help that no one thought about ten or fifteen years ago and that is now coming to the fore in Latin America," Casanova told reporters in Lima. The International Federation's representative recalled that the earthquake in Haiti "has had a very significant impact" on the aid that humanitarian organizations usually offer in emergencies of this kind, and as a result, it will be necessary to make use of resources that might have been dedicated to other disasters. The representative welcomed Peruvian president Alan García's offer to finance the rebuilding of Haitian schools with ten million dollars, as part of a hundred-million-dollar fund announced yesterday in Quito by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). Casanova added that "the initiative that the governments of South America have taken in creating a fund and directing their support toward Haiti strikes me as an excellent example of a new model of cooperation." The Andean regional representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Fernando Casanova, speaking in Lima, highlighted Latin America's economic and humanitarian cooperation for Haitian recovery, because this kind of south-south aid did not exist ten or fifteen years ago. By Dialogo February 12, 2010 read more
Jacksonville firm offers incentive to become certified
December 15, 2000 Jan Pudlow Associate Editor Regular News Jacksonville firm offers incentive to become certified Jacksonville firm offers incentive to become certified Associate Editor At the Rogers Towers law firm in Jacksonville, a $1,000 incentive is offered to anyone in its 70-member firm who takes the board certification plunge."We recognized there's an effort involved and time involved, and we pay for any expenses. This is a small way that the firm can go on record to say, `This is a good thing,'"said managing partner Doug Ward."We decided that it was a worthwhile thing for our partners to aspire to, not only with the process to sharpen their skills, but obviously the perception that they had attained a level of speciality and expertise that would be heightened."But even though Ward is a booster of board certification, he admits he is not board certified himself."I'm embarrassed to say I went to a real estate certification course, which I found to be very good and of high quality," Ward said. "And then I was signed up to take the exam, had a conflict and thought, `I'll get back to it.'"That was five years ago — and he never did.And that epitomizes the challenge faced by The Florida Bar's Board of Legal Specialization and Education that has been brainstorming ideas for increasing the numbers of board certified lawyers.Sure, being a board certified lawyer sounds impressive. Yes, it's a good thing for bolstering a lawyer's skills in an area of specialization, as well as an important refocusing on ethics. No doubt it instills even more confidence in the client who hires that lawyer and improves the public's perception of lawyers.Yet only about 3,600 of more than 60,000 Florida lawyers are actually board certified.BLSE Chair Elizabeth Russo said she appreciates any efforts made by firms or government agencies to encourage their lawyers to become certified — whether it's offering financial incentives or by setting a personal example."We hope there comes a time when passing the bar exam is the first goal, and automatically the next goal is to become board certified," Russo said.But she knows that will take time.The Florida Bar's board certification program is only 18 years old, compared to the medical profession that began its board certification program in 1917.And it is still a tough sell to seasoned lawyers, Russo said."Lawyers who are very successful think two things: Why do I need it? I've been without it all these years and I'm doing fine. And then there's the fear of failing the exam," said Russo, who is board certified in appellate practice.Ward, at Rogers Towers, agrees."Those seasoned lawyers are so far away from taking exams that the thought of it is not pleasant," Ward said. "And their practices are pretty well settled. They may not see the real advantage to them in going through the rigors of it. There are both psychological and practical factors in their consideration."The youngest members of the firm are still learning the ropes and building confidence. It's the mid-level lawyers of the firm that have taken him up on the $1,000 offer to become board certified, he said, though he didn't have an exact tally of how many lawyers in his firm are board certified since the incentive program began six years ago.Elliot Zisser, a member of BLSE, brought the Rogers Towers financial incentive example to the attention of the group."I am delighted with the encouragement of certification by any and all law firms and any incentive to boost the certification process," Zisser said."I think it's a benefit not only to the public, by getting more certified lawyers, but to the law firms by elevating the status of its own members."The Attorney General's office is another workplace that offers financial incentives of up to $1,500 for its lawyers to become board certified.Of the agency's 390 licensed attorneys, 32 are board certified, said Executive Deputy Attorney General Bruce Meeks."Attorney General Bob Butterworth does encourage attorneys to strive for board certification. He feels it is evidence of special knowledge, skills and proficiency in areas of practice," said Meeks, who admitted he is not board certified, but was quick to add: "But I am rated by Martindale Hubbell."The BLSE's primary aim has been to promote certification to the 45-and-under crowd, as well as stressing its importance to young lawyers coming out of law school, Russo said.Besides passing a rigorous exam in an area of competency, lawyers go through a peer review, in which lawyers and judges are called to comment on the lawyer's skills and ethics.The BLSE wants to encourage veteran lawyers to set an example to the lawyers who come behind them."If I'm an appellate lawyer and some of the top appellate lawyers don't bother, it sends mixed signals to younger lawyers," Russo said. "They think, `Wait a minute, Lawyer X, who is well known as one of the best appellate lawyers, isn't board certified.' All we can do is encourage them to try."Because the certification process also focuses on ethics, Russo said, it can help diminish problems with the public's negative perception of lawyers."Where we'd like to end up is being board certified is a badge of honor," Russo said, "but not having it is a badge of shame."
Waited for the bowler to make a mistake: Rohit Sharma
September 20, 2020 by admin·0 Comments
Hamilton: Rohit Sharma hit two sixes off the last two balls of the Super Over to take India to a series win over New Zealand in Hamilton. India needed 10 to win off the last two balls and Rohit sent Tim Southee over long-on and long-off to get India over the line.This was India's first Super Over contest and Rohit said he did not really know what to expect and looked to stay calm at the crease."I didn't know what to expect, whether to go from the first ball or just take a single, try and put pressure on the last three or four balls of the over. I just wanted to stay still and was waiting for the bowler to make a mistake," he pointed.Rohit was the top scorer for India in their innings too. He had scored 65 off 40 balls as part of a whirlwind opening partnership with K.L. Rahul before falling to Hamish Bennett."The pitch was good and I was trying to stay still, see what I could do. Good performance with the bat, little disappointed at having thrown my wicket away though, should have carried on for a while."I wanted to bat normally, I hadn't got runs in the first two games, wanted to do well today. We knew we would win the series today if we win the match – in important games, the important players need to step up and get counted." (IANS)Also Read: Rohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami shine as India beat New Zealand in Super OverAlso Watch: AASU and AAGSU reaction on Government of India signing Bodoland Accord with NDFB read more
Enmore CCCC anniversary T20 Cricket Festival set for Sunday
THE Enmore Community Centre Cricket Club (Enmore CCCC) will be hosting several T20 cricket matches as part of its anniversary celebration on Sunday at the Enmore Community Centre Ground, East Coast Demerara.Several past and present national players are expected to showcase their T20 skills in what promises to be an action-packed day.For the first time at the former first-class venue, hardball cricket will be played under artificial lights with 2016 T20 champions- Strathavon SC, along with Helena Number One and Two and Enmore CCCC competing for the Lakeram Ramkelawan Memorial Cup and cash prizes.In the supporting games, Everest CC will take on Enmore Masters while Upper East Coast will battle Lower East Coast for bragging rights.The first game will commence at 09:30hrs, with the final being played under floodlights. Popular music system, food and drink bars will also be available, along with games for children and a raffle.This event is sponsored by Rajin Auto Paint, Nexa Autocolor, R.Kissoon Construction Service, Motor Trend Auto Spares and Repairs, Radesh Furniture Est. D&E Tent Rental, Navindra Latchman, Cone Island, Banks DIH, SE Auto Sales and Auto Spares, Cricket Zone USA and Young Takers Sound System.All funds will go towards the Enmore CCCC cricket programme and cricket tour to Trinidad and Tobago. Admission to the venue is free.See team lists below.Enmore CCCC: Bheemraj Ramkelawan, Rudolph Singh, Gavin Moriah, Satesh Jainarine, Imran Hassan, Ranjeet Heeralall, Navindra Gobin, Chris Surat, Yuvraj Dyal, C. Mars, J. Persaud and C. Balgobin.Helena Number One and Two: K. Seedyal, D. Singh, T. Singh, R. Ramkissoon, S. Sattaur, Q. Holder, G. Gopaul, N. Persaud, A. Ramsarran, J. Persaud and T. Seedyal.Strathavon SC: Gobinraj Hemraj, Mohan Ronald, Richard Chatura, Ganesh Sugrim, Seechand Budhu, Zaki Salim, Qaiaram Hemraj, Kevin Latiff, Rovin Hemraj, Naresh Samaroo, Jermain Tyndall, Aditya Ramnarain and Chatterpaul Hemraj.Everest Masters: Rajesh Singh, Sahadeo Hardaiow, Basil Persaud, Hemraj Garbarran, Saheen Mohamed, Imtiaz Sadik, Rohan Sarjoo, David Harper, Johnny Azeez, Rakesh Gangaram, Ronald Jaisingh, Satyendra Khemraj, Ramesh Narine and Anil Beharry.Enmore Masters: Shameer Shahib, Anil Persaud, Chaitram Ramlall, Winston London, Ganeshram Diaram, Wystan Luke, Seemangal Yadram, Chatterpaul Singh, Bashur Khan, Vishwanauth Gobin, Deonarine Mangal, Latchman Yadram, Bheemraj Ramkelawan and Adrian Persaud.Lower East Coast: Suresh Boodhoo, Randy Dhanraj, Ravi Singh, Assad Mohamed, Bharrat Samaroo, Kevin Kowlessar, Floyd James, Sewchand Sanichar, Sherwin Hassanah, Jermaine Martins, Anthony Ifill, Shekdar Seopaul and Cordel Mars.Upper East Coast: Mortimer King, Kishan DaSilva, Arif Samad, Keon Roberts, Suresh Chamandat, Shailendra Singh, Hemraj Garbarran, Narindra Singh, Darshan Persaud, Gavin Moriah, Anthony Fraser and Suresh Jainarine. read more
Bendel Insurance: Mission Accomplished for Obaseki
NPFL…NPFL…NPFL….After gaining promotion to the Nigerian Premier League after 11 years in the lower division, Bendel Insurance will begin life in the topflight on Sunday in Sagamu against Remo Stars. DURO IKHAZUAGBE takes a look at the team's journey back to the topThe excitement generated by the promotion of Bendel Insurance FC back to the top flight of Nigerian club football is still resonating around Edo State and beyond. Gov. Obaseki flanked on the left by Deputy Gov Phillip Shaibu, officials and players of Bendel Insurance The faithful of the Benin Arsenal will be in Cloud Nine when their darling team takes on another newly promoted team, Remo Stars, in Sagamu on Match-day 3 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) on Sunday. It will be the beginning of another era in the history of the club which started as Vipers FC and was a powerful brand along with traditional teams like IICC (Shooting Stars), Enugu Rangers, Mighty Jets, Stationery Stores and others.Was Insurance's return to the top flight after 11 years in the wilderness of the country's club an easy task? It certainly wasn't. The credit for the new lease of life must go to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, who made the team's promotion to the NPFL a priority. As someone with private sector background, Obaseki saddled his deputy Phillip Shaibu with the mandate of getting the job done. He was not ready for excuses of any kind. It therefore was not a surprise to see a serving deputy governor of a state joining the football club at training and even attending and playing some of their matches when time permits as a registered member of Insurance. Of course, critics who didn't understand the scenario playing out at Insurance took it for granted and called Shaibu's involvement with the team as a huge joke. Now they all know better. Obaseki has fulfilled his promise to get Insurance amongst the country's top clubs again.However, those familiar with the club cannot forget in a hurry the circumstance that led to the relegation of the team that is the pride of the Edo people.The team's woes started in its first month of the 2007–08 season which was delayed because of a management dispute over who controlled the team. There was ownership tussle between the Chairman of the club Igbinowanhia Ekhosuehi and the then Edo State Commissioner for Sports Brown Ebewele.While Ekhosuehi claimed he had the right to run the club the way he wanted because he funded it solely when previous administrations in the state left the team to die, Ebewele insisted that as a government agency, the chairman must be accountable to his ministry. There indeed, was a deadlock. While the state refused to fund the team, Ekhosuehi soldiered on with the little he could muster from his poultry business. The team eventually hit a cul de sac when the Sports Council under Ebewele decided to have another Insurance. Then began the shenanigans of having two Insurance teams file out at Ogbe Stadium for the same match. The then Premier league board led by Chief Oyuki Obaseki tried to resolve the matter to no avail. With Insurance missing crucial away matches and forfeiting points at home due to the matter of having two home teams for one game, it was inevitable that relegation was bound to be the final solution to deny Edo fans Premier League actions at the Ogbe Stadium. It was the first relegation to be witnessed in the life of the club since its days as Vipers FC. That broke the heart of passionate football followers who remember the 1970s and 1980s with nostalgia. It was more painful because the other teams in the state like New Nigeria Bank FC and Flash Flamingoes had gone into extinction. Attempts to bring back Flash as Bendel United failed to fly. And so, for 11 years, without good funding to attract quality players, Insurance wallowed in self-pity in the lower rung of the country's club football.According to a former Media Officer of the club, Ben Ogbemudia, Bendel Insurance's ill-fortune in the 11 locust years as underdogs, was occasioned by a mix of a lack of governance structure; lack of transparency in the management of the finances of the club; low players' morale and disenchantment, a weak technical crew and management team that had no vision for the club, which ranked as one of Nigeria's best teams for decades, winning the 1978 FA Cup."The players used to wear tattered jerseys, no provision was made for a serviceable vehicle to transport players and officials to and from match venues."The team used to travel on match days and players usually were exhausted by the stress before matches. The players did not have a camp that was conducive for training," Ogbemudia recalled in a chat with THISDAY.It was in this state of all-time low Obaseki met the team and went to work to restore the lost glory."Obaseki took Bendel Insurance from an all-time low period in which salaries and allowances were not paid and when paid, the salaries were irregular, to a truly rebranded Bendel Insurance FC with a knack for winning matches as we have seen in their promotion to the elite NPFL."The players have demonstrated their appreciation to the Edo State Government for investing resources and faith in them."With the revamp, the players welfare is now top priority as their entitlements are paid immediately after matches. They now have a conducive camp with good beds, good food, water, a new technical team and all the things they need to excel. In fact, the players are ready to sacrifice their legs in matches now," Ogbemudia said.Speaking in the same vein, the Special Adviser to Governor Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said the governor's vision for the sports sector, particularly, football encompasses players' welfare, infrastructure such as stadium, and a sound management for the club, amongst others.According to him, "On assumption of office, Governor Obaseki declared his resolve to turn around the fortunes of the state in sports. He entrusted the task to his deputy, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, a sports enthusiast and footballer, to execute."You will recall that right from our days as Bendel State, we were number one in sports. The governor was clear about his vision and it was to return our profile in sports to what we were as Bendel State and surpass those achievements."The short, medium and long-term plans were designed to attend to all the issues that blighted the growth of Bendel Insurance Football Club."The quick wins included an intervention in the welfare of the players, a new technical team, provision of kits and a bus to move the players to match venues amongst others."He added: "I must admit that the direct involvement of the deputy governor brought in fresh air into the team as the players saw that the Obaseki administration meant business."In the medium to long-term, the revamp of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, the institutionalisation of reforms and the governor's vision with constitution of a Sports Commission while the development of 20 mini-stadium in all the 18 local government areas of the state featured prominently."The point must be made that the successful campaign of Insurance FC to the elite football league in two years, after an 11 flip-flop performance, was not a fluke. It was the outcome of a deliberate plan, anchored on best practice."Interesting as the Insurance story reads, the deputy governor who executed Obaseki's mandate of getting insurance back to the top without failing had explained his role shortly after the team won its final NNL Super 8 Playoff match against Shooting Stars in Aba penultimate weekend."In 2017, the state governor gave me a marching order to rebrand Bendel Insurance FC and other sporting activities in the state."We did a lot of rebranding in the club and we commend the governor for ensuring prompt release of the budget of the club and the payment of salaries."At the moment, Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium is being rebuilt. It will be ready for use in April. We cannot spend taxpayers' money in rebuilding the stadium without attracting continental football to it."So between now and April, it would be ready for use. And not just that, we are building 20 mini stadia in the local governments of the state."Speaking on the long-term plan for the club, Shaibu who was registered with jersey number 40 in Insurance this past season said: "We want to make Bendel Insurance the apex football team in the state by creating feeder teams in the 18 local government areas of Edo State."We don't want to be buying players for Bendel Insurance. Instead, we want to create a chain of supply of football talent for the team. We want to localise and internalise Bendel Insurance by using our own home-grown players," he said.Shaibu said his participation in the club as a player does not conflict with his role as deputy governor of the state, instead he disclosed that his involvement with the club as an on-field player has served as extra motivation to the team."I was a player even before I was elected as deputy governor of Edo State. When I decided to join the team's players' rank, it was aimed at boosting their morale."My presence in their training sessions and matches has a way of encouraging them. The most important thing is that Mr. Governor gave us a mandate to re-brand Bendel Insurance last year which we did."The purpose of that was to bring them back to the NPFL and that mandate has now been accomplished," he gushed with enthusiasm.The governor, who could not hide his happiness at the return of Bendel Insurance to the Premier League promotion, said it was another fulfilment of his administration's promise to Edo people and residents."My joy knows no bound because of what you (Insurance) have done. I congratulate you and congratulate myself. I say this because it is another promise kept. We promised Edo people that we would bring Bendel Insurance to its lofty status which we all will be proud of and make sure they go on to play in the Premier league," the governor noted at the welcome ceremony for the team at the Government House in Benin.He described the deputy governor of the state who led the team to gain promotion as the father of the New Bendel Insurance FC and commended him for the giant strides he made in rebranding the club."We have built a team and have a machinery that will win the Premier League and I urge you to go beyond the NPFL and bring home continental trophies for the state," Obaseki charged the new improved Insurance.How that mandate will be fulfilled begins with the first outing against equally well funded Remo Stars on Sunday at the Sagamu Stadium.With eight teams to be relegated at the end of this abridged season to return the NPFL to its original format of 20 teams, the players and officials of Insurance cannot afford to led down Obaseki and his deputy in the drive to reposition football in the state. Coaches Monday Odigie and Baldwin Bazuaye will certainly need to go beyond what they did in the lower league to stay afloat at this level.Share this:FacebookRedditTwitterPrintPinterestEmailWhatsAppSkypeLinkedInTumblrPocketTelegram read more
FB : Cooper: With fall into last place in Big East, SU's season a failure
Time flies. It wasn't so long ago when Doug Marrone stood at the podium on Ernie Davis Legends Field, first revealing the holy grail for his 2011 Syracuse team.The goal was to 'compete for a Big East championship.' That's what Marrone said at SU's media day Aug. 5 and repeatedly after that. Players concurred.'That's what we're expected to do,' he said at media day.Friday's obliteration at the hands of South Florida ended the Orange's campaign to compete for the Big East title. Not only did the Syracuse team on the field fail to compete with a USF team on a four-game losing skid, but the loss also gave SU a 1-4 last-place record in conference play.At this point, the season is a failure.AdvertisementThis is placeholder textThe Orange is eliminated from Big East title contention. Three straight losses have SU in last place in the Big East, a conference weaker than Conference USA this year. Based on the goals put forth verbally by the team itself, even if Syracuse makes a bowl game, it doesn't make this year successful.To make matters worse, an anxious, uncomfortable press conference following SU's 37-17 defeat made the Orange out to be a broken team.'I think a lot of it has to do with leadership on this team,' quarterback Ryan Nassib said. 'We really have to have some guys step up. Not accepting any little failure. Not waiting on a route in practice, dropping a pass in practice or missing a tackle in practice. All those little things we can't have anymore. It has to be unacceptable.'Is Nassib saying those things have been let go in recent weeks? Who knows.But just three weeks ago, the last time the Orange played in the Carrier Dome, the team was on cloud nine after whooping West Virginia to move to 5-2.Time flies.Marrone, like he has in each of SU's losses, took full responsibility for the Orange's failure. But he stepped it up a notch on Friday. No matter who the question was about or what play it was in the game, the third-year head coach said everything was a personal shortcoming.If a wide receiver ran a route, was delivered the ball and flat out dropped it? Marrone's fault. A USF player comes in unblocked because the offensive line has a miscommunication? That's on Marrone.His players think otherwise.'Of course he's going to take the blame, he's the head coach of the football team,' center Macky MacPherson said. 'But I think as a player, we all know it's on us.'Echoing Marrone's preseason thoughts, MacPherson said after Friday's game the objective this season wasn't to make another bowl. In Marrone's first year, the Orange made progress off the field. Last season, it was on the field, culminating in a feel-good Pinstripe Bowl win to close out his second season.This year, the plan was to take it a step higher. That didn't happen.And stumbles against a two-loss Cincinnati team and at Pittsburgh in a December game to close out the season would make this year a true step backward.On Friday, though USF quarterback B.J. Daniels made smart decisions on his zone reads, leading to a solid running game between he and running back Demetris Murray, Syracuse's composure dissipated. Facebook Twitter Google+ Comments Published on November 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm Contact Mark: mcooperj@syr.edu | @mark_cooperjr A Shane Raupers kickoff went out of bounds, and Jeremiah Kobena hit kick returner Lindsey Lamar anyway, resulting in a penalty. Those two penalties put USF in Syracuse territory before the offense jogged on the field. Phillip Thomas and USF receiver Andre Davis got in a spat away from the ball on a punt.It's the 'flashes of immaturity' Nassib mentioned in an ill-at-ease press conference.Yet the Orange didn't pack up early. Down 23-10, SU moved the ball to the Bulls' 7-yard line on the final play of the third quarter.In between quarters, the Dome speakers played Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin',' with the volume sliding down when the chorus came on. The 41,582 in attendance took over for Steve Perry, singing and living those words, transitioning into a charged ovation when SU returned to the field.The pieces were in place for an epic fourth quarter. But SU was stopped on four plays inside the 10.Once South Florida scored another touchdown, to make the score 30-10, that once-buoyant crowd hustled home. The final five minutes felt like a spring game.And Marrone, 100 days after making his proclamation that the goal was to compete for the Big East championship, admitted SU was not successful in its endeavor.Time flies.'I definitely feel that we are not succeeding in those goals,' Marrone said, 'and I feel that it is my fault.'Mark Cooper is an asst. sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at mcooperj@syr.edu or on Twitter at @M_Coops_Cuse. read more
Shafer says Palmer's status uncertain for Villanova on Friday
Facebook Twitter Google+ Published on August 27, 2014 at 11:51 am Contact Phil: pmdabbra@syr.edu | @PhilDAbb The status of junior Omari Palmer for Friday's season opener against Villanova is uncertain, head coach Scott Shafer said during the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches' teleconference on Wednesday."Well, I don't know yet," Shafer said when asked if Palmer was good to go. "We're going to figure that out when we kick it off."The reporter asking the question referred to a "minor knee issue" as the injury.Syracuse is already without senior guard Nick Robinson, a starter last season, due to a sprained foot. In the event Palmer can't play, Shafer said that starting center John Miller can also play guard and guards Rob Trudo and Alex Hayes can line up at center.Said Shafer: "Just looking forward to getting them on the field and seeing where we're at. But Omari had a real good camp."AdvertisementThis is placeholder text Comments read more

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import * as utils from "base/utils";
import Component from "base/component";
import Dialog from "components/dialogs/_dialog";

import draggablelist from "components/draggablelist/draggablelist";

/*
 * stack dialog
 */

const Stack = Dialog.extend("stack", {

  /**
     * Initializes the dialog component
     * @param config component configuration
     * @param context component context (parent)
     */
  init(config, parent) {
    this.name = "stack";
    const _this = this;

    // in dialog, this.model_expects = ["state", "ui", "locale"];

    this.components = [{
      component: draggablelist,
      placeholder: ".vzb-dialog-draggablelist",
      model: ["state.marker.group", "state.marker.color", "locale", "ui.chart"],
      groupID: "manualSorting",
      isEnabled: "manualSortingEnabled",
      dataArrFn: _this.manualSorting.bind(_this),
      lang: ""
    }];

    this.model_binds = {
      "change:state.marker.group": function(evt) {
        //console.log("group change " + evt);
        if (!_this._ready) return;
        _this.updateView();
      }
    };

    this._super(config, parent);
  },

  readyOnce() {
    this._super();

    const _this = this;
    this.group = this.model.state.marker.group;
    this.stack = this.model.state.marker.stack;

    this.howToStackEl = this.element.select(".vzb-howtostack").selectAll("input")
      .on("change", function() {
        _this.setModel("stack", d3.select(this).node().value);
      });
    this.howToMergeEl = this.element.select(".vzb-howtomerge").selectAll("input")
      .on("change", function() {
        _this.setModel("merge", d3.select(this).node().value);
      });

    this.updateView();
  },

  ready() {
    this._super();
    if (!this.model.state.marker.color.isDiscrete()) {
      if (this.stack.use == "property") {
        this.setModel("stack", "none");
        return;
      }
      else if (this.group.merge) {
        this.setModel("merge", "none");
        return;
      }
    }
    this.updateView();
  },

  updateView() {
    const _this = this;

    this.howToStackEl
      .property("checked", function() {
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "none") return _this.stack.which === "none";
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "bycolor") return _this.stack.which === _this.model.state.marker.color.which;
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "all") return _this.stack.which === "all";
      })
      .attr("disabled", function() {
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "none") return null; // always enabled
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "all") return null; // always enabled
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "bycolor") return _this.model.state.marker.color.use !== "property" ? true : null;
      });

    _this.model.ui.chart.manualSortingEnabled = _this.stack.which == "all";

    this.howToMergeEl
      .property("checked", function() {
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "none") return !_this.group.merge && !_this.stack.merge;
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "grouped") return _this.group.merge;
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "stacked") return _this.stack.merge;
      })
      .attr("disabled", function() {
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "none") return null; // always enabled
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "grouped") return _this.stack.which === "none" || _this.model.state.marker.color.use !== "property" ? true : null;
        if (d3.select(this).node().value === "stacked") return _this.stack.which === "all" ? null : true;
      });

  },

  manualSorting(value, persistent = false) {
    if (arguments.length === 0) return this.model.state.marker.group.manualSorting;
    this.model.state.marker.group.set({ manualSorting: value }, false, persistent);
  },

  setModel(what, value) {

    const obj = { stack: {}, group: {} };

    if (what === "merge") {
      switch (value) {
        case "none":
          obj.group.merge = false;
          obj.stack.merge = false;
          break;
        case "grouped":
          obj.group.merge = true;
          obj.stack.merge = false;
          break;
        case "stacked":
          obj.group.merge = false;
          obj.stack.merge = true;
          break;
      }
    }
    if (what === "stack") {

      switch (value) {
        case "all":
          obj.stack.use = "constant";
          obj.stack.which = "all";
          break;
        case "none":
          obj.stack.use = "constant";
          obj.stack.which = "none";
          break;
        case "bycolor":
          obj.stack.use = "property";
          obj.stack.which = this.model.state.marker.color.which;
          obj.stack.spaceRef = this.model.state.marker.color.spaceRef;
          break;
      }

      //validate possible merge values in group and stack hooks
      if (value === "none" && this.group.merge) obj.group.merge = false;
      if (value !== "all" && this.stack.merge) obj.stack.merge = false;
    }

    this.model.state.marker.set(obj);
  }
});

export default Stack;

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Lord Summerisle
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About Lord Summerisle
The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
Inspired by Gibson ES-335
Lord Summerisle replied to mbberry's topic in Epiphone Electrics
Is that new Epi Firebird a through neck?
Life in the South
Lord Summerisle replied to sparquelito's topic in The Gibson Lounge
Greetings from the Shenandoah. I had the air con running over the weekend (only for a while, but still)... The weird thing is, we'll probably get a heavy snowfall in mid-April.
Advice selling an amp. Suggestions than Craigslist?
Lord Summerisle replied to saturn's topic in The Gibson Lounge
I've given up on Craigslist. The cashier check scams are one thing. What made me despair was when I was selling a really nice US Strat, reluctantly, to help pay for a transmission repair. A man showed up at my house, played it, put it in its case, agreed to buy it, then when it came time to give me the cash wandered out to his truck (I made him leave the guitar in my house), reappeared with a huge, beat-up looking tube stack of some sort, and began arguing for a straight swap. He got very angry when I said, "The mechanic doesn't take old amps, just dollars." He got back in his truck cursing about idiots who don't know what a great deal they're getting. It got quite nasty for a minute, because he really wanted that Strat. In the end a friend bought the Strat, and all was well. When I sell gear now (rarely, thankfully), I give a photo and details to my wife who sells it on some sort of Facebook market thing. Not sure how it works, because I don't "Facebook." But I've found sensible and serious buyers that way, for a couple of things - some guitar related, others not.
12 days and a wake up.
Lord Summerisle replied to Navy Vet.'s topic in The Gibson Lounge
Good luck in your new home in your new state. I have traveled through the Tri-Cities frequently (I live further up the 81 in Virginia), but have never stopped there for long - but I've always meant to. It looks like a nice area. When you fancy a truly spectacular drive one day, take the 26 South to Asheville. It's practically America's emptiest piece of interstate, and the mountains are spectacular. Good luck with your new Tele. Best guitar Leo ever made - like you, the only Fender I have...although I could be tempted towards a Jaguar, too, one day.
The Who are the first
Organisers plan to lay more than 400 stones in the next 20 years, with 20 in the works for 2020. Acts including Madness, The Clash. All Londoners. Not saying this thing (whatever it is) is going to be restricted to Londoners, but perhaps it's reasonable for them to start that way? The Stones weren't a true London band, in terms of where the individual members came from, originally. More the Home Counties (the counties that surround the City of London), with the exception of Brian Jones who came from even further away - Gloucestershire. Perhaps that explains why the Who were the first, and the Beatles have yet to be even mentioned? If it is London-centric, the Kinks belong in there, too, ASAP. A proper Norf Laandan band. In a way, I hope it is regional (to London). There's already the Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, all of the North John Street area of Liverpool (my home town) is devoted to Beatles' memorabilia... I'd say, all these years later, half a century after his death, what difference does it really make laying a paving stone as a memorial to someone like Hendrix, his legacy long-since secured, in a city thousands of miles away from his home in Seattle? But in a way Hendrix has a pretty strong connection to London, too. By that logic, if he's included, I'm sure Stones' fans won't have long to wait. But with 400 stones to lay, I'm guessing this will end up looking like a classic rock radio station's playlist, embedded in cement.
I love Japanese guitars
The Japanese Jazzmasters and Jaguars were as close as you could get to the real deal without dropping the serious money on a US made reissue. They rattled and buzzed just like a Jazzmaster or Jaguar should. The Mexican made ones are nice, too, but they fixed the problems, and lost some of the character in the process.
I hate Chinese guitars
Probably the "SG" I've had that I liked the most was a 2006 G-400 made by DaeWon (China). Wish I'd never traded it. I know it wasn't a "proper" SG. But guitars are guitars, they have their individual merits, and their own idiosyncrasies, for good or ill. It was the best SG-shaped guitar I've ever owned, or, at least, the one I preferred...
Best cheap-o tires?
Lord Summerisle replied to Lord Summerisle's topic in The Gibson Lounge
I doubt that! 😄 Sorry for bringing tires to a guitar forum. Online car forums are...intimidating. I want to drive my old Buick to work, not drop it 3 inches and take it to the track. Thanks for all the advice, here, by the way. Hankook tires have found a new fan. The car handles much better, and is very quiet on the road.
Thanks for the good wishes N'hawkChris. Yeah, I decided there's cheap and there's too cheap. The ones I listed reflect the mid-range; I'm not interested in the really cheap stuff. My old man always told me "Don't buy cheap tires." I don't do a ton of miles (about 10,000 a year), so it's been a little while since I bought tires. Seeing the $750 prices for 4 brand name tires with an alignment on top sent me looking to see what's available lower down the price range, without really clambering into the bargain basement. I suppose I was thinking I wanted the higher speed rated tires (H) for a big 3.8 litre Buick. But let's face it, it's a Buick and I'm not Steve McQueen. The T rated Hankooks are probably perfectly adequate for the job. With tax and everything, he promises I'll be out of his shop only parting with 5 Benjamins. Looking online, Hankooks seem to be a brand people seem to like. I think for a while Hyundai put Hankooks on all their new cars - which may mean something, or not.
Don't Believe The Hype
Lord Summerisle replied to Fred0's topic in The Gibson Lounge
I don't have anything negative to say about buying online as a concept. For those of us in very rural areas, the likes of Sweetwater brings an entire range of instruments to our front doorstep, and that's far more appealing than driving 4 hours to Guitar Center in the DC metro area to see what's hanging on the wall. That raises the question of what is the consumer paying Sweetwater for? It sure as hell isn't to take a box off one truck and put it on another. I expect the dealer to inspect the merchandise and ensure all is well before supplying it to the customer. That's what they're being paid for - customer service. I guess that's why Sweetwater touts its inspection of instruments before shipping them. *I am aware that we don't know this guy bought from Sweetwater, I know that Sweetwater has several big online competitors; I used them as an example because that's who I buy from - and dealing with them, I've never had a negative online guitar buying experience, in the sense I've never ended up stuck with a guitar I didn't want.
I think this goes back to the complaint that is sometimes heard in the brave new world of online retail; the retailer is abdicating responsibility. Yes, if the guitar isn't up to par, you can be disappointed with Gibson, but your real beef is with the dealer. Why won't they take it back, or address the problem? You've just made a very substantial purchase and you're very unhappy with the product they supplied. Make their sales manager's phone ring, 24/7. If you bought used or from a non-authorized dealer, then it's caveat emptor. Under those circumstances, are you, um, quite sure that the guitar is what it purports itself to be? If you bought from a dealer, though, well the high cost of these guitars also includes the dealer's cut - so why pay for a service you're not receiving? Badger the dealer.
Lord Summerisle posted a topic in The Gibson Lounge
I know it's a guitar forum, but I get the impression there's a fair few car guys, here, too. Long story short: to get through its Virginia inspection, my car's going to need new rubber. It's a Buick LaCrosse (basically a Chevy Impala in a prettier dress). Owing to some recent medical bills for my wife, I'm fairly broke. Normally I'd be thinking Goodyear or Michelin or Bridgestone or Continental. But, as with the man who wants a Gibson and is then very pleased to discover Epiphone exists, I'm now looking for bang for buck, without spending many bucks. So, for roughly $450 - $475 plus pocket change one way or the other, fitted, balanced, front of the car aligned, and out the door, the big tire joint in town is offering me: Kelly Edge/AS. 55,000 miles. H rated. Falken Sincera. 65,000 miles or 75,000 miles. H rated. (65k are $450, 75k are $500). Dunlop Signature II. 65,000 miles. T rated. Hankook Kinergy. 70,000 miles. T rated. I don't know these brands (although I think I once had a car with Hankooks, briefly, and understand they are a good brand). The car currently has General tires on it, which were nice but a touch too pricey to replace. Any insight into cheap-*** tires, especially those by the brands mentioned, would be very much appreciated. Thank you! * People reviewing tires tend to review them straight after they've been fitted. Of course they're awesome, they've got 350 miles on them. Hence asking around!
Gibson Guitars are Back
Lord Summerisle replied to SG Sydney's topic in The Gibson Lounge
I'm glad you like your SG. Congrats and may it give you countless hours of playing enjoyment. Gibson knows that a guitar in that range, of that price, should come with a hard shell case. There is no argument to the contrary.
Would the Beatles still be the Beatles
This actually is quite relevant. When people thing about musicians and conscription (being "drafted") in the '60s, they understandably think of stories like the one about whatever it was Jim Morrison did to dodge the draft. I also read Jim Croce's biography - as I recall he ended up in the National Guard in Pennsylvania. Because conscription ended in the UK in early '60s, it had less of an effect on the music scene of that decade. But to someone born in 1940, it was certainly very much a thing on your mind. My Dad was born (coincidentally, in Liverpool) in February 1940, and fully expected to be conscripted, pretty much right up until the time he discovered he wasn't going to be. Because he didn't want to be a National Serviceman in the Army, he had already begun the process of enlisting in the Royal Navy. His bother, born in 1937, had joined the Merchant Navy and trained as a Radio Officer, and so was exempt from conscription. For men born in the UK in 1940, the prospect of being conscripted was most definitely something that hung over you. Reading about the Beatles' backgrounds, perhaps Ringo would have been exempted on medical grounds. John Lennon was lucky Parliament repealed the Act, otherwise he may well have been "Private Gripeweed" in real life.
New/old Firebird
Lord Summerisle replied to SteveFord's topic in The Gibson Lounge
You have to admire guitar manufacturers' marketing shtick. The made a copy of Bonamassa's 1963 Firebird I, stuck an Epiphone TRC on it, and sold it for what - $900? They make a guitar based on a 1964 Firebird I of the same vintage that Clapton used to own 50 years ago, but no longer has, throw in some case candy, and sell it for $8000.


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In Transit: Is O'Hare's noisy new flight path irreversible?
Jolanta Gorniak and husband, Chester, can't get used to the din of planes over their heads on Hillside Drive in Bensenville. Marni Pyke | Staff Photographer
Some O'Hare planes are too close for comfort in Rosemont. George LeClaire | Staff Photographer, August 2014
Jets are a constant presence on Hillside Drive in Bensenville. Residents say landings are even louder than departures from O'Hare International Airport. Marni Pyke | Staff Photographer
Updated 7/13/2015 5:17 PM
"Noise from planes is driving me mad -- can you help?"
That will be a question many bring to upcoming FAA forums on a new runway at O'Hare International Airport.
But those expected to flood the Federal Aviation Administration meetings Aug. 10 to 13 should know quick fixes won't be on the agenda.
O'Hare's shift from diagonal runways to a parallel system with an east/west flow of planes in fall 2013 created a din in neighborhoods across the city and suburbs.
Some residents who say they are deafened by jet noise are campaigning to stop the retirement of two diagonal runways, hoping that keeping them open would distribute noise more equally.
The resulting political pressure has produced results: proposed laws to keep the diagonals open and a campaign pledge from Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be flexible on runway use.
Such momentum, however, faces a roadblock -- the immensely heavy lift it would take to undo the parallel runway system.
Shifting to the east-west flow in 2013 wasn't just flipping a switch; it took years of reconfiguring the national air space, training controllers and calibrating plane approaches.
With an east-west flow, the busiest airport in the nation has increased numbers of planes landing in bad weather by about 50 percent and under good conditions by 11 percent, FAA officials said.
Pivoting to the diagonal runways is not a simple feat and would require more spacing between airplanes, thus reducing O'Hare's capacity, officials said. That means a less efficient airport with more delays -- and it's hard to imagine Chicago embracing that scenario.
Using the diagonals also bucks recent FAA rules restricting movements on intersecting runways.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on Runway 14 Left/32 Right, a diagonal being eased out in mid-August.
Jac Charlier, co-founder of the anti-noise group FAIR, believes a solution is coming.
"Nothing is set in stone. Nothing," Charlier said of the east/west scenario. He noted that after months of trying, FAIR, with an assist from state lawmakers, persuaded Chicago to engage in face-to-face meetings about the diagonals and noise issues.
FAIR's next sit-down with Chicago Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans is July 20.
"Commissioner Evans has been open to discussing the issue of airport noise since her appointment (in May)," airport spokesman Gregg Cunningham said. "All potential steps to address these issues are on the table."
Meanwhile, over on Hillside Drive in Bensenville, it's been bedlam since Runway 10 Center/28-Center opened in 2013.
"They should have soundproofed our yard," said Jolanta Gorniak as a 747 thundered above. "We've been here 26 years and put so much into our home and garden. It would break my heart to leave ... but last night a plane woke me at 1:30 a.m. The whole house shook."
"It's been awful," neighbor Cindy Byrne commented. "There's no relief. Sometimes you can almost see the people in the planes."
But head north to Arlington Heights and resident and pilot Carl Wagner's neighborhood "gets less noise now than in years past," he said. That's "because the airplanes take off from an east-west runway, and have to fly further to get here, and are therefore at a higher altitude."
"The airlines and the manufacturers are buying and making airplanes that are quieter, and the number of people impacted by O'Hare noise has never been lower," Wagner said.
So what can be gained by attending the FAA forums if the parallel system is entrenched?
For starters, those in the jets' shadows can learn how the new runway will affect their lives. Runway 10-Right/28-Left will open at the south end of O'Hare in mid-October. The flight path to the west is over Fenton High School in Bensenville and along Montrose Avenue, according to city of Chicago plans.
Updated specifics won't be available until the FAA releases its re-evaluation of the original environmental impact statement for O'Hare modernization.
That document will be available online soon and at upcoming forums. along with multiple maps, PowerPoints and wonks to answer questions.
Don't bring your bullhorn, however. There's no podium to pound, although written comments will be accepted and a court reporter will take statements.
Also -- the FAA's re-evaluation is temporary. Another new runway and runway extension are planned for 2020 and 2021 that will alter flight patterns again.
Bensenville Mayor Frank Soto said the forums will be useful, but he and the Suburban O'Hare Commission are also anticipating what a full-build out of the airport will mean and how small tweaks to flights might reduce noise.
Reverting to the diagonals is not necessarily a slam-dunk fix as it could drive jets south over Bensenville and nearby towns, he added.
"There should be some kind of balance," Soto said.
The FAA forums run from 1 to 9 p.m. on: Aug. 10 at White Eagle Banquets, 6839 N. Milwaukee Ave., Niles; Aug. 11 at Taft High School, 6530 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago; Aug. 12 at Monty's Banquets, 703 S. York Road, Bensenville; Aug. 13 at Belvedere Banquets, 1170 W. Devon Ave., Elk Grove Village.
Got thoughts about O'Hare? Drop me an email at mpyke@dailyherald.com.
• You can give your opinion about upcoming changes to Pace bus routes in the Fox Valley at a hearing from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, at Aurora City Hall, 4 East Downer Place.
• Hang out with traffic engineers and learn about improvements to the Route 47 (Sugar Grove Parkway) interchange with the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88) at an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. July 29.
It's at Waubonsee Community College, Route 47 and Waubonsee Drive, Sugar Grove.
Gridlock alerts
Ouch. Give yourself extra time if you're driving around Irving Park (Route 19) and York roads in Bensenville as of today.
Expect lane closures and delays as IDOT rebuilds the intersection in the final stage of a grade separation project at the Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks. The fun lasts until fall 2017.
Watch for another I-90 ramp closure, this time in Hoffman Estates
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Woody Guthrie. Bob Dylan. Rickie Lee Jones?
By Oscar Garza
Oscar Garza is deputy editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
If someone asked you to listen to a song called "Tell Somebody (Repeal the Patriot Act NOW)," you'd probably cringe at the possibility--indeed, the likelihood--of a preachy message being delivered over the relentless strumming of an acoustic guitar and the incessant banging of a tambourine. Has the Kingston Trio been revived? Maybe it's an outtake from "A Mighty Wind," Christopher Guest's film parody about a reunion of time-warped '60s folkies. You read the lyrics for a clue:
Now they want us to just get in line
behind a president,
when you know they spent millions of dollars
condemning and accusing
the last one from the other side.
Tell somebody, tell somebody,
tell somebody
what's happening in the USA.
I want to know how far you will go
to protect our right of free speech?
Because it only took a moment
before it faded out of reach.
So you brace yourself to withstand the song and . . . hey, what's this? A thumping bass line, a funky guitar riff--and then a familiar voice chimes in. Could it be? No way . . . yes! It's that unmistakable drawl, hailing from the far side of coolsville--Rickie Lee Jones!? Carefree jazzbo, green-eyed soulstress, incurable romantic, bard of the bittersweet lullaby, the terminal hipster whose rendering of "I Won't Grow Up" sounded as if she meant it--Rickie Lee Jones has become a protest singer.
Her new album, "The Evening of My Best Day," comes out Tuesday, and many critics likely will describe it as "vintage Rickie Lee." Her signature sound is all there--the finger-snappin' rhythms, the aching ballads, the poetic lyrics. It's clearly her strongest new work in a decade. But in making this record, Jones had an awakening. It was no longer enough just to create, or to entertain, or, as she puts it, to "heal."
Jones' evolution is revealed on the album's first cut--a brooding jazz groove. You think she's about to channel Betty Carter with a throaty lament about a lost love. But the song is titled "Ugly Man," and it's about the President of the United States of America:
He's an ugly man
he always was an ugly man.
He grew up to be just like his father
an ugly man.
And he'll tell you lies.
He'll look at you and tell you lies.
ugly inside.
"I have never cared about politics," says Jones, sitting on the back patio of her home in West Los Angeles. "I have stayed away from it as far as I could. I felt my job was to play music, that if I waved any flags it would drive people away, and I didn't want to do that. But I definitely changed my mind the year that George Bush got elec- . . ."--she pauses to choose other words--". . . took the election."
Unlikely as it may seem, Jones has found and unleashed her inner radical. Her new stance doesn't dominate the album--only three of the 12 songs have overt political references. But those three numbers will define this record, which arrives just as the nation's political tension is rising over the war on terrorism and the 2004 presidential campaign looms. In "Little Mysteries," Jones recounts what led to this juncture: the pivotal 2000 presidential election. Again, she manages to marry pointed lyrics with seductive sound, this time slithery R&B;:
A trail of lies leads us to Orlando
but we are days too late
And when the boys came over from Texas
they said, We'll take everything we can take.
And while everybody's looking up
in a race too close to call
the election quietly slips into
the third door down the hall.
So here we go again--another artist has decided to enter the political fray. There is a long tradition of social commentary in pop music, but that road is also littered with good intentions, bad decisions and bleeding naivete. At the very least, Jones may be accused of preaching to the converted.
"Well, then, let's get them galvanized," she says. "I'd be happy to know that there's any converted out there. 'Hello . . . anybody still there?' I'm not trying to provoke, I'm just trying to say, 'Hey, where's our community? Where's our ethical nature? You're on the right, we're on the left, but we both know that being a bully and suppressing free speech is wrong, don't we? There must be some places that we as Americans agree . . . don't let this moment in time sweep that away.' "
Jones' album undoubtedly will resonate with her fans, and not only because they will recognize the comforting sound of her music. Her work has matured, and Jones acknowledges that she has too. She's in a better place musically and personally, having endured a journey familiar to the fortysomething crowd that comprises her core audience. She's landed securely, empowered by her growth and rejuvenated by her new embrace of L.A.--the city where she found fame and all of its consequences, both good and bad.
Still, the possibility of an ugly backlash exists. For all of her bona fides as a true artist, Jones invariably will be lumped as someone taking advantage of her celebrity, and she'll need all of her newfound strength to withstand becoming a fresh lamb for the lions at Fox News Channel. Could this be Dixie Chicks redux?
"I don't think so," Jones says, laughing. "I don't sell 10 million records, and my audience isn't a bunch of rednecks that are gonna turn against me."
It's been almost a quarter-century since she burst on the scene, announcing her arrival with an album that was essentially the soundtrack to her boho L.A. life. "Rickie Lee Jones" was jazzy and brassy--unlike anything then on the pop charts. The up-tempo songs were joyful--lyrically dense and populated by a cast of raffish fellow travelers. The ballads were heartbreakingly sad, and if you were prone to blues in the night, you couldn't stop listening to them.
The album, however, was defined by its massive hit single, "Chuck E's In Love," which provided the kind of double-edged success that can forever mark an artist. That song wasn't a fluke, but it was an aberration for the young songwriter whose eclectic style didn't fit any Top 10 formula. Instead Jones embarked on a path that has produced 10 more albums, virtually all of them earning critical acclaim.
But it has been six years since her last recording of all-original work. Even that effort, 1997's "Ghostyhead," with its trip-hop textures, had some critics and fans complaining that she'd abandoned her familiar sound and was pandering to pop's flavor-of-the-moment. Three years later, she followed with "It's Like This," an album of cover songs that reflected her diverse and idiosyncratic taste--with everything from Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" to the Gershwins' "Someone to Watch Over Me." That record was made during Jones' three-year sojourn to Tacoma, Wash., where she moved in 1997, in part to raise her daughter, Charlotte, in a calmer environment. Jones had lived in Tacoma for part of high school and much of her family had settled there. But when she sat down to record an album for the Artemis label, there was one little problem.
"I had nothing to say," Jones says. "There was not a drop of song coming out of me. I'd sit at the piano--nothing. So I thought, 'Well, I can still sing. I like these songs,' " she says, referring to her decision to do a cover album. "It was so humbling, [but] the great part about 'It's Like This' is the song 'Cycles.' I won't repeat the lyric because it'll make me teary, but it was right exactly where I was. It was a reckoning."
(Listen to Jones sing these lines and you too will have trouble keeping a dry eye: "Things can't get worse than now / but I'll keep on trying to sing / please just don't ask me how.")
"So then comes human motivation. I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' " Jones cackles at the memory. "So I'm down at the bottom of the spiral . . ."--she suddenly gets quietly serious--"and what I wanted was redemption, to be healed from the sorrow of my life. For whatever reason, it was so sorrowful. And not just my life--my mother's life, my ancestors, the family sorrow that I carry around and my part in it. I had been praying a lot and looking for the right prayer. The right prayer is, 'You take me where I need to go, please, because I am ready.' You can't say, 'I want to go there,' because that may not be where you need to go."
Apparently, where Jones needed to go--at least geographically--was back to L.A. The charm of Tacoma had worn off: "It rained and rained and rained." So she returned to the place that she has come to call home. "You leave L.A. to get away from this lifestyle, and then you get away from it and you miss it," Jones says.
By then, however, Jones was without a record deal. She had completed her contractual obligation to Artemis with "Live at Red Rocks," her second live album in six years. Critics started to wonder when she would write new music. Jones didn't realize it at the time, but she was also now on the road to where she needed to go artistically and spiritually. After the 2000 election, she started posting social commentary on her personal Web site, which quickly became a magnet for gadflies of all political stripes. As an offshoot, she started a new Web site, www.furnitureforthepeople.com, as a place for discussion, advocacy, and even for unsigned musicians to showcase their work.
David Kalish, an old friend who had collaborated on her 1981 album "Pirates," was working on some songs for the site and asked her to help. But then, a funny thing happened. "I was having so much fun," Jones says, "that we ended up making my record."
Jones took the risky step of financing the recording herself, which could not have been cheap, given her propensity to use a lot of musicians and to spend an eternity in the studio.
"I said, 'I'm betting everything that I'm gonna do this right and that I'm gonna succeed. It's all or nothing. Why save this money and then it'll be gone and I will have not tried my best?'
"I didn't want the psychological hindrance of [a record label's] expectations. The feeling that somebody at the label doesn't know my work and they're signing me 'cause of 'Chuck E's in Love'--24 years later. Just shoot me! That's how I felt.
"I wanted them to want it. And it was so much cleaner, so much better to have a thing and say, 'You like this? You want to sell it?' It's better than [hearing], 'We've signed you, and we might not like what you do, but we're obliged to put it out.' "
Jones' new managers, Kevin Gasser and John Dee of Benchmark Entertainment, had taken on a client who was at a career crossroads. Jones was struggling to find a place in an industry dominated by a handful of conglomerates obsessed with the bottom line. "We didn't go to most of the major labels," Gasser says. "We weren't looking for a [traditional] situation." Jones settled on the independent V2 label, which was started by Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and is run by veteran music executive Andy Gershon.
"She's an incredibly important artist," Gershon says. "I look at her in terms of the greats--Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen. Maybe not in a commercial sense, but her importance as an artist is immeasurable. I didn't have to justify her [signing] because we don't have to sell a million records and contribute to the P&L; of a corporation.
"You work with her because she's an important artist and she's made an important record, not just in the industry, but for what's going on in the world at large."
But there would have been no new Rickie Lee Jones record had the songs not started coming again. They were built on snippets she'd been carrying around for years, variations on tried-and-true themes, and the fresh blessings that come to an artist who has remained faithful to her vision. There are joyful songs again, and sorrowful ones--from the gently rollicking "A Second Chance" to the bluesy "Lap Dog," a folky "Sailor Song" and the thrash of "A Face in the Crowd." And then there are those three barbs she felt compelled to write.
"The [2000] election was taken in very dubious circumstances," Jones says. "A righteous man would not have said, 'Thanks, I'll take it. You just step back.' And I didn't understand why the Democrats just went, 'OK, you can have it.' It felt to me, from the very beginning, like people were being threatened or forced to accept this corporation taking over the presidency--everybody get out of their way 'cause they had business they were gonna take care of. In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
"These are people who need money, while these people--these George Bushes and the banker-grandfather--these people swim in money. My fury about their policies isn't even as horrible as my damnation of their way of life, and their arrogance, and the way they view this country as their corporation. They'll take any state, any park--it's theirs if they want to drill. I just became filled with How could this be happening in my lifetime?
"And then the Patriot Act started to bring in something new altogether. After the bombing of the World Trade Center, I felt they tried to use it as an opportunity--and to me that was blasphemous. To use the grief and sorrow and fear of a nation as an economic opportunity, as a political opportunity--it was all I could write about."
Jones was reminded that, in this country, people often don't like artists and celebrities to be political.
"Too bad," she says. "It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart. It's like artists have less right to speak out, but I'm a citizen too. It can seem suspect to the audience--'We don't want you to use this important thing to promote your career.' Probably that happens once in a while, but that's not usually what's going on. People are just saying what they feel."
Well, then, Ms. Jones, are you prepared for the day when Bill O'Reilly berates you on the Fox News Channel?
"As long as I'm not watching it," she laughs. "You know, if I find my way to Bill O'Reilly, that would be fabulous." Jones then affects the lilting accent she would use in defense: " 'But Bill, I'm an Irish Catholic like you. What are you thinking, lad?'
"I don't know if I'm prepared," she says, her laughter dissolving to wariness. "I know that I feel absolutely right in my point of view, so I guess that's as prepared as I can be."
Rickie Lee Jones has lived in Los Angeles off and on for many years and in many places. She was a longtime Hollywood denizen, but, by the mid-'90s, what had once seemed funky and hip to her was now undeniably seedy. "It was so decayed, and people were drinking and smoking and taking drugs, and there were Angelyne ads on the way to take Charlotte to school and it was just horrible to me."
At one time, she says, "I couldn't imagine living at the beach--it just seemed so white." But when Jones returned from Washington, she knew it was time to change her L.A. surroundings as well.
"I was in Hollywood again, in the same part of town. I was looking to rent a house, and I came to the beach and I rented a terribly expensive house, just 'cause that's what I wanted to do, and I thought, This is the life. I want to look at the things that are L.A., I want to see them all the time--surfers and cars." Jones says the change of scenery "was really healing."
Rickie Lee sightings once added to the cachet of Eastside cool, so veteran Hollywood hipsters may be distressed to learn that she has settled on the Westside, on a block where the ocean can be smelled, if not seen. She has purchased a charming, modest house--a significant first for a woman with wanderlust in her veins. French doors on one side of the patio lead to her music room, where a couple of guitar cases and an electric piano await her next musical stirrings. It's all perfectly pleasant, yet she constantly tugs at her shirt, trying to get comfortable in her chair and perhaps with the notion that--at 48 and the single parent of a now-teenage daughter--she has grown up.
On this sunny, late summer day, she walks through her lush yard, showing off the plantings she's added. There's a creek beyond her property, and Jones says that in the quiet of evening she can hear running water and a chorus of frogs. On one side of the yard is a wooden swinging bench, and one can imagine her there, strumming a guitar and singing the last lines to "The Evening of My Best Day":
And it's a good life
When I look back at you.
A good life,
the sky is almost blue.
"I'm so positive," says Jones, somewhat disbelieving, but plainly grateful for her fortune. "I feel very up. . . . It's about time."
As reflected in her trilogy of Bush-bashing, Jones may feel that it's twilight in America, but she wanted the album's title--which comes from a song on the collection--to reflect her sense of optimism.
"This record is the culmination of a great deal of spiritual energy, of me wanting to have this rest of my life be a good life--and write a great record that cannot be denied," she says. "As I went to make it, I was aware that records can heal--they do a good work. That's what I wanted to do--to make a good work."


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Wild turkeys, long known for their presence in Staten Island, have been rounded up by USDA Wildlife Services and slaughtered. The contract between USDA Wildlife Services and South Beach Psychiatric Center cost taxpayers $16,000 to kill approximately 120 turkeys, but nothing has been accomplished! Dozens if not hundreds of turkeys still roam the area.
In 2013, nearly 30 turkeys were successfully relocated to Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties, NY and in 2014 an additional 100 turkeys were successfully relocated to And-Hof Sanctuary for Farm Animals in Hudson, NY, where they are currently residing peacefully. However, just as slaughtering turkeys will not provide a meaningful long-term solution to addressing the complaints and concerns of certain Staten Island residents, neither will the repeated relocation of turkeys upstate. A long term, sustainable way of addressing the issue is needed.
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