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SpaceX Leads The Way To Mars Exploration
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A critical step in manned space exploration was achieved today. On May 1, 2017, SpaceX, the innovative private space launch company founded by famed Tesla visionary Elon Musk. In a highly secret launch mission performed for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the Falcon 9 successfully launched and landed at Cape Canaveral.
Because of the secrecy of the mission, SpaceX was unable to provide their usual minute-by-minute video of the event. But, they were able to provide video footage of the rocket fuel tanks separating from the payload-bearing part of the ship, and a burst of emission as the rockets fired to reorient the ship for its eventual landing on its target.
The Falcon 9 had managed a landing before, but that was on a barge in the middle of the ocean. This is the first landing on terra firma. It provides another piece of the puzzle that will be critical to manned exploration. It facilitates migration into space, including Mars and other planets.
With the success of SpaceX and the Falcon 9, the next phase of space exploration is upon us, as plans to put humans onto other planets may soon become a reality.
Earthlike Planets Await SpaceX Mission
NASA, along with its partners around the globe, has found seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star more than 40 light-years away. Three of those planets are said to be within the habitable zone, capable of providing water and enough sunlight to sustain life.
As calls to explore these planets intensifies, land closer to home must be conquered first. Therefore manned missions to Mars are set to launch within the next 15 years.
Before leaving office, President Obama reaffirmed a pledge from his first term to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Following his lead, President Trump took over this baton as soon as he came into office. Quickly signing off $19 billion of funding for NASA spaceflights to Mars, Trump said that achieving a manned Mars mission by 2030 is a reality. Tests are underway on Mars and here on planet earth to prepare on-ground teams and astronauts for their missions.
According to The Telegraph, space exploration could bring together nations. Many share the same goal of making new discoveries and visiting new planets. "It won't be a case of rival superpowers vying for the lead, but a genuine collaboration between governments and corporations. With the best minds of the public and private sectors working together, humankind's greatest achievement could be a few decades away," the newspaper writes.
Nations Express Interest in Space Exploration
"Several nations and entities have expressed an ambition to send humans to Mars, including the United States, Russia, China and the European Space Agency. Private initiatives have also captured plenty of headlines, with schemes that have ranged from the plausible to the hopelessly impractical. NASA's current plans rely heavily on the co-operation of partners from the commercial aerospace industry, including Boeing," the newspaper adds.
President Obama spoke of the importance of co-operation between NASA and the private sector. He believed in moving space exploration forward and speeding up the space race.
"Several nations and entities have expressed an ambition to send humans to Mars. These nclude the United States, Russia, China and the European Space Agency"
Boeing is one private sector agency working alongside NASA to deliver viable space projects. They aim to launch an unmanned test in June 2018. They pledge to put a NASA astronaut into space by September of the same year. Boeing works alongside NASA on their Mars project.
According to The Telegraph, John Elbon, vice-president and general manager of Boeing Space Exploration, said putting a man on Mars is achievable. "I like to use this analogy: imagine Earth as a 12in globe. The orbit of the International Space Station would be three-eighths of an inch above the surface of that globe, and the moon would be about 30ft away. On that scale, Mars would be between one and 10 miles away, as Earth and Mars are different distances apart depending on their relative orbits," he said.
Manned Space Exploration
Man has already witnessed the surface of Mars, but as we all know has not made that giant leap, yet. Space orbiters, rovers, and landers have beamed back images to Earth. The United States, Russia, the European Space Agency and India conducted mission. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter even found water flows in some areas of the planet. Therefore, these explorations helped scientists understand the planet's terrain to prepare astronauts for their upcoming missions.
According to The Telegraph, understanding how the human body reacts to long-term spaceflight, testing critical systems for Mars missions, and conducting tests on the International Space Station, are all crucial steps to mastering deep space exploration – they believe the 2030 target for man on Mars is achievable.
Even so, it remains to be seen if NASA, achieves a manned mission to Mars by the year 2030. But one thing is certain, the race is on.
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Up till now we did it not so very good. I played this scenario already several times and normally there comes always an interesting transport service. Of course, we can continue with the passenger's services, but this takes a long time before the earnings really increases.
The good point is that now the villages are growing by their own, they don't need to be stimulated by bus transport.
For example our Head Quarter village, Dinsoft.
It has are now already 310 inhabitants and 25 passengers per month.
There are still new buildings under construction.
Very soon we can borrow a $100,000 more. With this money we can setup a train service between Dinsoft and Lendhead.
The railway station in Lendhead is already prepared for two trains. We have to build a station in Dinsoft and to construct the railroad. To get a bit more money we sell the bus, which ran the same service. On February 26 bus 2 was sold for $3,316. It gives some more money for the train.
We use the same cheap locomotive as for the other train, one passengers can and a mail van.
The income graph show an up going line.
The competition is still trying to make a railroad between the gold mine in Slindwood and the bank in Drontburg.
May 12 a new forest in the mountain near Ledinghattan. July 1 is an historical date. Enough money was earned to pay off $20,000 of the loan.
It means that there is now $80,000 available for new investments.
The best we can do is to setup a new transport service, that's our job, isn't it?
OK, after looking around on the map, a good place was found. First I looked to Tatfield, which is already quite big, but then a new company started to operate there. It's better to look at another place. Here it is, Tindhall with 637 inhabitants. The Railroad Station has a connection to the neighbor village Carfingley, 177 inhabitants.
Our loan is now the maximum of $300,000 and there is only $9,500 cash left. It will be an exiting time in the future.
The year 1961 ended negative. But the train earnings were around $50,000 If we don't invest any more money, then the earnings for this year will be good.
The cash increased already to $11,040, so there seems to be some progress.
At the end of January we bought a second passenger car for the Tindhall train, always too many passengers left on the station. June 22the first money repaid after the new loan, $20,000 on the bank for new investments.
We have to look to the bus, remember, there is only one left. It's already 10 years and within two years more it becomes old and the reliability decreases a lot. Then it is time to replace it.
A new bus is about $25,000 (1962).
No money to spend, so these messages are always given some frustrations.
The time goes fast. the earnings for 1962 were $26,010, the company's all time high.
On January 19, we brought another $20,000 back to the bank.
In April we received the long expected message, about our bus, it is getting old.
We have no money to buy a new one.
The company League Table shows that WWW Transport is not (yet) at the top. The number one is Green Transport. They have a gold transport line.
In the mean time our old bus had a collision with an UFO. I'm really sorry that there is no picture from this accident. These UFO collisions are frustrating things with busses. We are just lucky that it is an old bus.
Once an UFO comes, you can not stop it. It's maybe better now to set up a train service to replace the bus. Here on the right you can see the effect of a collision between a bus and a UFO.
Since busses are not so good, we go to replace the disappeared bus by a train.
First a picture from Slindwood with the to be changed bus station.
At the right side you can just see a part of the gold mine.
The train station and the railroad are ready but now there is only about $20,000 left. Too less to buy a train, we have to wait.
We made a two-platform station. With the other rail maybe a gold transport can be setup. To avoid building houses, a few rails are placed.
The earnings in 1963 are about a $10,000 less then last year.
We received our first subsidy offer. It is for the gold service from the Profingly Gold mine to the already well known bank in Drontburg.
WWW transport is now on the first place. Our level is still "Traffic Manager"
Only waiting is not so good, we must stimulate the transport. In October we get an offer to test a new bus. This bus goes faster and can carry more passengers then the old busses. We bought one new bus for $30,384 and put it on the line form Kendhattan to Slindwood.
In fact this line is still waiting for a train, but we have no money for it. Now the new bus replaces the old destroyed one. Hopefully will this new one last for a few years.
Our service rating for passengers in Slindwood was about 5%, now it goes quickly up to 25%.
Normal values are 50 to 80 percent.
As you can see, there is a lot of gold waiting for transport. We have not enough money to setup a gold transport service.
In 1964 we bought a new bus for $ 29,308. Further there were some construction costs. All earnings are about $51k.
Bank account has only $1,542.
This means that in 1965we can not do anything, but watching our mini world.
It is also not my favorite model, it's expensive and slow.
It's August 1965. In the Company League table we moved down to "Engineer and we are now on the second place after "Green transport", the company with the gold transport.
We still wait until we earn enough money for a train between Slindwood and Kendhattan. If we don't spend any money this new year, then somewhere half way we can buy our new train.
Our biggest competitor is lucke today, there gold mine increases the production.
The very short after the previous one, there is another message, but now about a decrease of the produntion of a gold mine.
As you can see, nothing was done last year.
We did only drink some coffee and watched the game. It is very important to look always to the bus(ses) and to save the game regularly. If a bus is destroyed by a UFO, then we close the game and take the previous savegame. Sometimes we can avoid the collision with the UFO, but in most cases we have to sell the bus before the collision.
In March a new locomotive is announced. This is one of my favorite types. It is not so very expensive and it can go a lot faster then the already existing ones.
Begin of May it is so far. We earned enough to replace the bus by a train. First we sell the bus, gives us about $22k. Then we can buy (again) the smallest locomotive ($56k) with one passengers car.
End of May our money increased already so much that we could ad a Mail Van to the train. On the picture you see the new train, the cheapest and slowest locomotive, with one passengers car and one Mail Van.
Our strongest competitor, Green Transport started a new gold service form the New Profingly Gold Mine to the bank in Drontburg.
They uses armored cars. These cars will take a very long time before they arrive. at the bank. Let's watch them to see if they really arrive there and what money they earn.
After a long time the first car arrived at the truck station near the bank The brute earnings are $1,888, the net earning we can see in the information window of the vehicle is $1,366. In fact we have to look to this amount when the vehicle is back at the gold mine.
The year 1967 brought some stabilization in our company, the earnings seems to go upward now. We bought a new train and even our earnings are positive.
Also now we can borrow again $100,000 more, the maximum loan is now $400,000.
The transport ratings on the railway station of our Head Quarter village are not so very good, 35% for both passengers and mail. Also the village grows a lot. It would be good to start a train service to the neighbor village "Chanville" at the other side of the river.
The train has again the cheapest locomotive with one passengers car and a mail van.
In Dinsoft we demolished the simple station and replaced it by a two-platform one. in Chanville we built also a two-platform station.
The train runs, $34,495 left.
After some time watching the trains suddenly was found that in Lendhead on the railway station are a few hundred passengers waiting.
This is really bad, with a few more passenger cars we can earn much more money.
Business is booming, we earn more and more money. Some money was left over to improve our Head Quarter. Look at the picture, doesn't it become a nice building?
You can compare it with the picture at the top of this page, taken in 1960.
Half December we have enough money to setup another train service. We go to make a railroad between Overingway and Chanville. Overingway is quite a large village with good transport opportunities. We make there a two-platform railroad station, then there is one rail free to connect later to a new station in Lendhead.
In the previous year our train income was already more than $180,000. At the end it's negative, this because everything was invested in new railroads, stations and trains.
Our load at the bank is still at it's maximum, $400,000 This does not matter, as long as we earn enough to pay the loan interest.
Also the train from Chanville to Overingway is in operation. After this line was established, only a little cash was left. But we have now six trains and they all make money. We have only to wait only a short time to see our bank account increasing.
Train 1 is already 13 years old. It has quite a long line. The best is now to replace the locomotive by a new and faster model. My favorite locomotive can reach 112 km/h and cost only $121.000. This locomotive is a very good choice for a flat railroad, it's engine is not strong enough to go fast in the mountains.
It looks that we did it quite well in this decenium. In the beginning it was really a bit hard, but now the WWW Transport Company owns already 6 trains. All trains are making money.
Our next goal is to replace the train 2 from Lendhead to Dinsoft by a new fast one and the we go to make the next step; expansion, try to grow the company. as much as possible.


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Second place for Jock and Kirsty
STEWARTRY rally crew Jock Armstrong and Kirsty Riddick overcame a puncture to take second place in the Gleaner Oil and Gas Speyside Stages on Saturday.
Stuart Gillespie
Unfortunately for the pair, the winner was defending champion and championship rival David Bogie, meaning they lost further ground in the race for this year's Hankook MSA Scottish Rally Championship.
The Elgin based event – the sixth round of the championship – started with two runs through a spectator stage at Cooper Park before heading for the forests.
Armstrong, from Castle Douglas and Haugh of Urr co-driver Riddick were just two seconds short of Bogie's time on the three mile Taucher's Wood stage in their Group N Subaru Impreza and were again second fastest, six seconds adrift of the Dumfries driver, on the eight miles of the fourth stage, Longtown.
However Bogie started to increase his advantage in his Mitsubishi Evo 9 and was 20 seconds up on the Castle Douglas duo after the fifth stage.
They then lost further time on the following stage, the five-mile Gartly Moor, when their car sustained a front-left puncture while negotiating a series of tight bends.
Despite the set-back, Armstrong was satisfied with his second overall and first in Group N – especially after the first stage off on the RSAC Scottish Rally in June and the frustration of being excluded from last year's Speyside results because of a technical infringement.
He said: "After the puncture I thought is the day going to go right, but it all came together in the afternoon and we kept a level head.
"The penultimate stage – the 15 miles through Clashindarroch went perfectly and it saw us through. One or two of the other front runners fell by the wayside, but that's rallying."
Kirsty's sister Mairi was reading notes for Thornhill's James Robertson and they took first in Class four in a Citroen C2R2.
One of the top local successes of the day was earned by Thornhill's James Robertson, who with Mairi Riddick of Haugh of Urr on the notes, secured first in the ultra-competitive Class 4 in his Citroen C2 R2. Castle Douglas' Michael Baird co-drove for Charlie Munro of Dingwall and their Ford Escort Mk2 finished 57th.
There were mixed fortunes for other drivers from Dumfries and Galloway.
Mike Faulkner of Kirtlebridge finished sixth overall in his Evo 6 after a broken driveshaft and is now third in the championship.
Dumfries father and son Richard and Peter Stewart finished 38th and 46th respectively. Peter was third in class in a Ford Fiesta ST and was faster than his dad's Subaru Impreza on one stage.
Newton Stewart's Craig McMiken, co-driven by Christine Sanderson, struggled to 39th overall in his Mitsubishi Evo 9.
The penultimate stage of the championship, the Newton Stewart based Hankook Merrick Stages, takes place on Saturday, September 4.

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810 Point Spgs is a single family residence located in San Antonio, TX 78253. Built in 2007, this property features 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 9,293 sq ft lot, and 1,976 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 810 Point Spgs is $221,000.
For the surrounding community of San Antonio, TX 78253, the average sale price for similar homes to 810 Point Spgs is $191,690. The nearby schools are excellent and include Luna Middle, Ott El and Brennan H S. The overall crime risk for this area is moderately high. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 810 Point Spgs
Parcel Number: 043674110190
Subdivision: HIGHPOINT WESTCREEK SUB UT
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Located at 810 Point Spgs, San Antonio, TX 78253, this is a Single Family Residence with 3 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms. It has 1,976 square feet of living space and a 9,293 square foot lot. The property was built in 2007 and is in the neighborhood of Bexar County, Texas.
During the month of 12/2019, a total of 11 properties had foreclosure filings in the 78253 zip code surrounding 810 Point Spgs, with one in every 1,204 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing. In Bexar County, where 810 Point Spgs, San Antonio, TX 78253 is located, there were 284 properties with foreclosure filings documented during the month of 12/2019, a foreclosure rate of one in every 2,408 housing units. In Texas, one in every 3,645 housing units had a foreclosure filing in 12/2019, while one in every 2,541 housing units had a foreclosure filing nationwide.


JACKSON, Miss. — House Bill 1710 garnered little attention, and as coffee shop talk would have it, the bill wouldn't make it out committee. However, some of the most important pieces of Mississippi legislation weren't supposed to make it out of committee either. On Feb. 21, the bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee; on Feb. 23 it passed the House vote; and on Feb. 24 the bill went to the Senate.
With dozens, if not hundreds of bills facing a March 1 deadline to live or die, HB 1710 was again expected to go away and many of the people potentially affected by the bill rested on their laurels and waited for the Senate to kill the bill—only that didn't happen either. The bill was referred to the Senate Finance Committee, where it remains.
House Bill 1710 would remove the exemption for sales of certain agricultural products to those other than "bona fide" farmers. To date farmers have been exempt from the sales tax.
Simply stated, the bill would result in agricultural retailers and suppliers having to charge sales tax on seed, feed, fertilizer and other inputs to some people and not to others. The wording in the bill doesn't define the criteria for a "bona fide" farmer or outline criteria for who would pay sales tax and who wouldn't.
The bill also fails to guess how much money the recalled exemption might bring to the state in sales taxes.
The bill was first introduced in the House by Rep. Percy Watson of Forrest, Miss., who, according to the House roster, does not serve on the House Agriculture Committee. In fact, the bill has not passed through either the Senate or House agriculture committees.
According to Celena Fraider, a spokesperson for state Sen. Nickey Browning, who serves on the Finance Committee, the bill was not discussed on the March 1 docket, but because HB 1710 is now classified as a revenue bill it was given a deadline extension for debate and vote.
Janet Trotter, committee assistant for the Senate Finance Committee, said the bill has until March 15 to be discussed by the committee and make it back to the Senate floor for a vote.
The legislature, rather than enter into the debate over who should and shouldn't pay sales tax, wrote into the bill that the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service (more commonly known as MSU-Extension) would be the agency charged with issuing permits to "bona fide" farmers only after that organization decides who falls into that category.
The MCES, long-established by legislation as an educational agency with no regulatory authority, by the wording of the bill would be thrust into just that—a regulatory role. The wording of the bill would allow MCES personnel (county agricultural agents) access to farmers' income tax and other related personal documents.
While no one within MCES is eager to put his neck out and question the legislature at a time when budget cuts are imminent, unnamed sources of authority did express their concern that their agency was not structured for such a responsibility and more than a little concerned at the possibility of having to be the bad guys who decide who continues to be exempt and who doesn't.
Roger Campbell, a large-scale row crop and poultry farmer with operations in Lee, Prentiss and Itawamba counties, spent a good deal of Feb. 28 and March 1 on the telephone asking state senators that the bill be killed. In his own operation, he could see the legislation costing him $15,000 to $20,000 a year. Even if he qualified for an exemption, he believes applying for the exemption would be a paperwork-intensive process and the permit would carry with it an annual fee that he would be required to pay.
Keylon Gholston, current president of the Mississippi Seedsmen Association and first vice president of the Mississippi Agricultural Industry Council, opposes the bill and spent the first days of this week letting his voice be heard by senators and representatives.
Joe Camp, president of the Mississippi Ag Industry Council and manager of the Agriliance store in Baldwyn, Miss., expressed multiple concerns over the legislation. One, the legislation does not set the criteria for who remains exempt from sales tax and who doesn't, and two, as a retailer, he will be forced to pay someone to keep up with the paperwork on sales tax collected from non-exempt customers and to verify exemptions of others.
"No farmer or anyone producing food and fiber for this country at a time when that production is tied so closely to our future and to our national security should be forced to pay additional taxes. The margin of profit is already slim in most years and non-existent in others," said Camp.
Campbell, Gholston and Camp also are concerned that adjoining states do not charge sales tax on these farm inputs and that regulating purchases by Mississippi farmers who might consider going to other states for their purchases would only be an added expense to the regulatory agency that ends up enforcing the legislation.
According to the legislation, once it is determined that an applicant is a bona fide farmer, the MCES issues the applicant a numbered farmer's permit. The tax levied would not apply to gross proceeds of sales to a bona fide farmer of lint cotton, seed cotton, baled cotton, whether compressed or not, cottonseed and soybeans in their original condition, seeds, livestock feed, poultry feed, fish feed, fertilizers, defoliants, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, baby chicks used in growing agricultural products for market, bagging and ties for baling cotton, hay baling wire and twine, boxes, bags and cans used in growing or preparing agricultural products, ice to commercial fishermen purchased for use in the preservation of seafood or to producers for use in the refrigeration of vegetables for market.
Also exempt by bona fide farmers would be the gross proceeds of sales by producers of livestock, poultry, fish or other products of farm, grove or garden when the products are sold in the original state or condition of preparation for sale before the products are subjected to any other process within a class of business or sold by a producer through an established store and the sales of mules, horses and other livestock.
The gross proceeds of sales or income derived from grading, excavating, ditching, dredging or landscaping activities performed for a farmer on a farm for agricultural or soil erosion purposes will be exempt only if the person receiving the services has a permit.
The gross proceeds of sales of all antibiotics, hormones and hormone preparations, drugs, medicines and other medications including serums and vaccines, vitamins, minerals or other nutrients for use in the production and growing of fish, livestock and poultry by whomever sold will be subject to sales tax, again, unless the person buying has been determined to be a bona fide farmer.
The most noticeable documentation lacking from the bill as it was sent from the Senate body to the Senate Finance Committee is a lack of projections as to how much revenue such a change might bring to the state. And, until the criteria for who pays sales tax and who doesn't are established, there is no way to predict that income.
House Bill 1710 and its path through the Mississippi Legislature is documented and regularly updated on the Mississippi Legislative Web page at: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2005/html/mainmenu.htm.
Other information on the bill and the response from the agricultural sector may also be found at www.maicms.org.


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Mining the Past in Bulgaria
As part of what seems to be a series of articles dealing with the looting of Bulgaria's cultural heritage in the Sofia Echo of Fri, Oct 30 2009, Gabriel Hershman wrote an article ("Risky business") discussing the Australian documentary Plundering the Past presented by David O'Shea discussed earlier here. The collectors who buy dugups produced by treasure hunting claim it is not their fault because the people who dig up the items which they buy have no jobs – so go out digging up old stuff to sell. But the film poses the question of morals, is poverty an excuse for robbing a nation's heritage?
The documentary focuses on just one site affected by the recent plague of looting, the site of Ratiaria - a former Roman settlement near Archar in north-west Bulgaria. Here the state authorities - the police, lawmakers and the courts – have for a number of reasons failed to crack down on activities. O'Shea interviewed Todor Chobanov Deputy Minister of Culture who talks of the problems caused by the "very willing buyers who will give huge amounts of money for artifacts and goods" and adds: "the profits are comparable to those of the drugs trade".
In an earlier post I give a link to where readers can access this video. In it O'Shea went out in the field with some treasure hunters. They claim they have no choice but to do what they do, saying that "work that existed for them during communism has disappeared". A recurrent theme throughout the film is that since the collapse of communism a kind of Wild West capitalism has prospered in Bulgaria. The excavators themselves are poor and desperate, pawns of greedy organised crime gangs for whom valuable Roman Thracian remains – pottery and glass from graves, stone and bronze figurines, artefacts of all types and especially coins - provide rich pickings. "Everyone digs here, by hand or with a pickaxe. Most diggers make very little money. A few people make big money, but not us - the diggers," one villager tells presenter David O'Shea. They do not take kindly to closer interest being shown in their illicit activities. O'Shea notes that even filming the treasure hunters he received death threats. "These guys are poor", he was warned by a local archaeologist, "but sometimes they carry guns and might even shoot".
After talking to these people, O'Shea gave an interview and notes that instead of taking avantage of the new conditions offered by the xpanding post-Communist economy "those people are sitting around, complaining that they've got no money, and that they are forced to go hunting for treasure, and the state appears to be doing very little about it, and the police are clearly not serious about it."
We saw earlier that the collectors that finance this digging by buying the artefacts it produces say that the sites should in some way be guarded to prevent people going onto them, this is of course an entirely impractical proposition to place armed guards on every single archaeological site in every country where the archaeological heritage is being looted to feed foreign markets.
Surely the most important step in stopping the looting would be to come down hard on all those buying the products. Make the stuff unsaleable by cutting off the producers from the consumers. That would include more aggressively pursuing those abroad who knowingly handle material coming from this disreputable process. An even more direct means to achieve this would be for concerned consumers (if there are any in reality) to play their role, by boycotting antiquity sellers who offer dugup material without any proof that it does NOT come from this looting.
Labels: Balkans, Collecting, portable antiquity collecting, preservation
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Dixie Chicks ignited the Girl Power era of country music in 1998 with the release of their major label debut Wide Open Spaces. In less than a year after their major label debut, the hot country act was being presented platinum albums, featured in fashion spreads, and given critical acclaim with the added benefit of industry recognition through numerous music award nominations and honors, only to have the backlash from country's conservative element threaten their careers.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Seidel were multi-instrumentalists from a young age and began playing bluegrass music in a Dallas band. With Laura Lynch and Robin Macy, the sisters began playing for tips on a downtown Dallas street corner in 1989. What started as a lark became serious business when they earned about $375 in one hour. Passersby asked how they could hire the group, and they soon began performing at private parties and conventions. They became one of the region's favorite country acts. Early fans included high-profile businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot, and President George W. Bush.
The first incarnation of the Dixie Chicks was a caricature of an old-time western band. They donned
rhinestone studded cowgirl drag and played bluegrasstinged country, and country swing. When not opening for such established country acts as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and EmmyLou Harris, they recorded commercials for McDonald's and Justin Boots. The group released three independent recordings between 1990 and 1994, which were sold at their shows. Sales of the three recordings totaled around 60,000.
"We've always known how to market ourselves," said Seidel to Southwest Airlines Spirit 's Eric Celeste. "Even in the beginning we would milk the novelty of our act. That's how we made our living. We were the 'Texas hometown girls,' and that's what they wanted to see at these conventions where we would play. We could play all the clubs we loved, but that's not where we made our money. We made it playing for the folks at IBM."
Maines Changed Their Style
Natalie Maines, daughter of acclaimed steel guitarist/producer Lloyd Maines, joined the group in 1995. Maines had been awarded a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music and changed her major four times. About the same time, Lloyd Maines had been regularly playing with the Dixie Chicks on their self-produced recordings. When the sisters sought a singer to front the band after Lynch's departure, he just happened to have Natalie's Berklee audition tape with him.
Maines's arrival marked the group's transformation into a mainstream country group with rock-drenched panache. "Natalie is sensitive to the fact that there was a long history of the Dixie Chicks before she got there," Seidel told Celeste. "We played so many gigs for so many years where we were just there to look at, just musical wallpaper … [Maines] deserves a lot of the credit, too. It's not like she is a newcomer. She's carrying on a third generation of Maines musicians." The group sites diverse musical influences including musicians from rock, country, and bluegrass: Bela Fleck, Bob Wills, Sam Bush, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Dolly Parton, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt.
Members include Laura Lynch (left group, 1995), bass, vocals; Robin Macy (left group, 1992), guitar, vocals; Martie MacGuire (born on October 12, 1969, in York, PA; married; children: twins), vocals, fiddle, mandolin; Natalie Maines (joined group, 1995; born on October 14, 1974, in Lubbock, TX; married; children: two), lead vocals, guitar; Emily Robison (born on August 16, 1972, in Pittsfield, MA; married; children: Gus), vocals, banjo, dobro, guitar.
Group formed in Dallas, 1989; recorded three independent CDs for Crystal Clear including Little Ol' Cowgirl, 1992, Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, 1992, Shouldn't a Told You That, 1993; Maines joined group, 1995; toured extensively before signing with Monument/Sony; released major label debut, Wide Open Spaces, 1998; released Fly, 1999; released the multi-platinum selling Home, 2002; released their first live album, Top of the World Tour: Live, 2003.
Awards: Academy of Country Music Awards, Album of the Year, Top Vocal Group, Top New Vocal Duo/Group, 1998; Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, Horizon Award for Best Newcomer, Vocal Group of the Year, 1998; National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), Best Country Album, Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, 1998; Academy of Country Music Awards, Album of the Year and Top Vocal Duo/Group, 1999; American Music Award, Favorite New Artist (Country), 1999; CMA Awards, Vocal Group of the Year, Single of the Year, Music Video of the Year, 1999; NARAS, Best Country Album, Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, 1999; American Music Awards, Favorite New Artist (Country), 1999; Academy of Country Music, Album of the Year, Top Vocal Duo or Group, 1999; Academy of Country Music, Album of the Year, Top Vocal Duo or Group, 2000; CMA Awards, Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, Music Video of the Year, 2001; American Music Awards, Favorite Band, Duo or Group (Country), 2001; Grammy Award, Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Country Instrumental Performance, Best Country Album, 2003; CMA Award, International Artist Achievement Award, 2003.
Addresses: Record company—Monument/Sony Nashville, 34 Music Sq. E., Nashville, TN 37203. Website—Dixie Chicks Official Website: http://www.dixiechicks. launch.yahoo.com.
Dixie Chicks continued as an opening act for country music's elite, performed on the Grand Ole Opry, and on various country-oriented television shows. The group also reportedly showed up in the lobby of talk show host David Letterman's office building for an unsolicited audition, and was promptly kicked out of the building. The trio toured Europe and Japan in addition to performing throughout the Southern and Southwestern United States at venues including Dollywood and the Kerrville Folk Festival. They even played at a Presidential Inaugural Gala. All of this occurred before they had signed a contract with a major label.
Became Stars with Monument Records
The group started 1998 with three professional goals timed with the release of Wide Open Spaces in January: to have a number one record, to earn a gold album, and to get a Country Music Association award nomination. They met all three goals by August.
Wide Open Spaces, their Monument/Sony debut, eventually became a multiplatinum record, selling over 12 million copies. The hit "There's Your Trouble" was widely acclaimed by critics as a saucy antidote to country's syrupy sweet sound, "making Garth Brooks look like a wheezing old man." Dislodging country's "boring pop-wannabes" from the charts was seemingly easy. Wide Open Spaces was the fastest entry into the country top 10 in the SoundScan chart's history.
Critics liked them, too. Rolling Stone called the group "country's finest proponents of high-spirited thrills." In 1999, with the success of the single "Tonight the Heartache's On Me," Billboard asked the rhetorical question "Can these girls do anything wrong? It seems not. Every single has shown impressive chart activity, and their Country Music Association and Grammy Award wins just continue to slather icing on the trio's sweet-tasting cake of success." USA Today selected both "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces" as country singles of the year in 1998 and credited Dixie Chicks with "single-handedly returning the sound of banjo to country radio."
Widened Country's Fan Base
Much of the trio's success can be attributed to their ability to infuse the rootsy sound of traditional country music—a shockingly alternative idea in the modern commercial climate—with the youth-oriented aesthetics of the 1990s Girl Power movement. Subsequently, at a time when country's radio demographics were skewing heavily towards young women, the Dixie Chicks became the voice of a new generation of music buyers. That said, their sudden mainstream popularity—while good for country music—was largely misunderstood. The trio endured cutesy quips likening them to "a country Wilson Phillips," and Rolling Stone's pronouncement as "the redneck answer to the Spice Girls."
Shirley Jinkins of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram took the trio to task, too, calling them "Shania-ized," referring to country-pop star Shania Twain. She wrote that girls were "dressing lean and trendy, showing a little skin and sporting uniformly platinum locks. It's a cohesive, if mainstream, look. The downside is a loss of distinctiveness that the former All-Cowgirl Band had in abundance." Responded Maines, "We might as well look twenty-something as long as we can."
Their cute looks, though helpful in gaining media attention, had a decided downside. "When you're three blond women in this industry, you're at a disadvantage as far as perceptions go," Seidel told Seventeen. In that same article, Robison said some critics and fans might be curious as to who's playing on the CD. "A lot of people in Nashville sing over tracks laid down by studio musicians. I may not be the best banjo player in Nashville, but I can re-create our sound in a live show." She told Country America that fans attending their live shows clearly see that Dixie Chicks are the real deal.
Controversial and Award Winning
In 1999, Dixie Chicks released Fly. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number one, making chart history. It was the first chart-topping album by a country group in the history of the Billboard album chart. Fly featured "Cowboy Take Me Away," a song Seidel cowrote; she and Maines sang it at Robison's wedding. Besides that love song, the Chicks ruffled a few feathers with "Goodbye Earl," a Dennis Linde song—penned in the 1970s—that tells how two friends, one with an abusive husband, put poison in his black-eyed peas and dump his body in a lake. They included a liner note that read, "The Dixie Chicks do not advocate premeditated murder, but love getting even." The group had recorded the song as a funny romp, but some radio listeners, programmers, and critics blanched at the song's violent notions. However, many other people were in their corner. Renee Revett of KXKC Lafayette, Louisiana, as quoted in Billboard, said, "The message in 'Earl,' while certainly more bawdy and satirical, is nothing new to country music." Billboard 's Phyllis Stark pointed out, "Martina McBride's 'Independence Day' went to number 12 on the singles chart in 1994 with a virtually identical theme, albeit without the humor. Two of Garth Brooks's early hits, 'The Thunder Rolls,' and 'Papa Loved Mama,' deal with murderous spouses…." The video for the song featured appearances by actors Dennis Franz, Lauren Holly, and Jane Krakowski. Richard Corliss in Time noted that the album "has strong song selection, including five co-written by the Chicks, and a wide range of musical moods; the trio is at home in Appalachian mountain music or trailer-park rock 'n' roll."
The group won recognition from many music organizations for their work on Fly. The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences gave the Dixie Chicks Grammy awards for Best Country Album and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Ready to Run," from the soundtrack for the Julia Roberts movie Runaway Bride They were given Country Music Association awards for Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, and Music Video of the Year for "Goodbye Earl." The Academy of Country Music also honored them with Album of the Year and Top Vocal Duo or Group awards. The Dixie Chicks were named Favorite Band, Duo or Group (Country Music) at the 2001 American Music Awards.
Finished in Country?
Consolidating their alternative and crossover appeal, the Dixie Chicks joined the all-female Lilith Fair tour in the summer of 1999. They were the first country act ever to play on Lilith's main stage. In 2000, they embarked on a 70-city tour, the trio's first as a headliner. Maines had a son, Jackson Slade, in early 2001, and Robison struggled to become pregnant at that time. Eventually, with the help of a fertility specialist, Robison and her husband became the proud parents of son Charles Augustus ("Gus") in late 2002. Seidel married for a second time, to Irish-born Gareth MacGuire, taking his last name after the marriage.
After renegotiating their recording contracts, the Dixie Chicks returned to recording in 2002, releasing the album Home on their own Sony vanity label, Open Wide. The album was a huge success, earning the group three more Grammy Awards, including one for Best Country Album. Soon after their Grammy wins, however, the group hit a rough spot when at a time when the United States and much of the world were at odds over how to deal with the Iraqi crisis, Maines criticized President of the United States George W. Bush, saying that she was ashamed that he was from her home state of Texas. Several conservative radio stations run by Cumulus Media pulled the trio's discs off their playlists, with many Clear Channel outlets following suit. By way of simultaneously fanning the flames of the controversy and commenting on it, many other stations played the group's singles back to back with Toby Keith's, another top country seller whose pro-war sentiments drew critical comments from Maines. In due course, Maines apologized, but stood by her right to speak her mind, releasing a press statement that read in part, "My comments were made in frustration and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view." Many fans were still outraged by her remarks, however, and radio stations continued to boycott the Dixie Chicks. Yet the group's appeal reached far beyond the country playlists and their 2003 live disc Top of the World became a major seller in conjunction with an extremely profitable tour.
As of early 2004, the aftershocks of the incident were still being felt. Country's hardcore conservative base still hadn't forgiven them and few fellow country singers have come to their defense. "A few weeks ago, Merle Haggard said a couple of nice words about us, but that was it," Maguire told Germany's Spiegel magazine in late 2003. "The support we got came from others like [rock icon] Bruce Springsteen." Commenting on the lack of attention from radio and country award shows, the group's co-founder added, "Instead, we won three Grammy awards against much stronger competition.
So now we consider ourselves part of the big rock 'n' roll family."
"There's Your Trouble," 1998
"Wide Open Spaces," 1998.
"I Can Love You Better," 1998.
"Ready to Run," 1999.
"Tonight the Heartache's on Me," 1999.
"You Were Mine," 1999.
"Cowboy Take Me Away," 2000.
"Goodbye Earl," 2000.
"If I Fall You're Going Down With Me," 2001.
"Without You," 2001.
"Some Days You Gotta Dance," 2002.
"Long Time Gone," 2002.
"Travelin'Soldier," 2003.
"Landslide," 2003.
"Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)," 2003.
Little Ol' Cowgirl, Crystal Clear, 1992.
Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, Crystal Clear, 1992.
Shouldn't a Told You That, Crystal Clear, 1993.
Wide Open Spaces, Sony, 1998.
(Contributor) Runaway Bride (soundtrack), Sony/Columbia, 1999.
Fly, Sony/Monument, 1999.
Home, Open Wide/Sony, 2002.
Top of the World: Live, Open Wide/Sony, 2003.
Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, OR), July 10, 1998.
Atlanta Constitution, January 15, 1998.
Billboard, January 17, 1998; May 2, 1998; April 10, 1999; April 1, 2000.
Country America, September 1998.
Country Weekly, January 20, 1998.
Entertainment Weekly, December 25, 1998.
Harper's Bazaar, March 1999.
Music Row, July 8, 1998.
People, February 9, 1998; September 28, 1998; October 12, 1998; December 28, 1998; February 3, 2003.
Rolling Stone, December 10, 1998; December 24, 1998.
Seventeen, April 1999.
Tennessean (Nashville, TN), January 26, 1998; February 7, 1998; August 5, 1998.
Time, September 20, 1999.
TV Guide, February 20, 1999.
USA Today, January 27, 1998; September 23, 1998; September 24, 1998; December 29, 1998.
USA Weekend, November 27, 1998.
Washington Times, January 25, 1998.
"Dixie Chicks," Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com (February 18, 2004).
Additional information provided by Monument/Sony Records publicity materials, 1999.
—Linda Dailey Paulson and
Ken Burke
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Dixie Chicks hatched a new age of country music in 1998 with the release of their major label debut Wide Open Spaces. In less than a year, the hot country act was being presented gold albums, featured in fashion spreads, and given critical acclaim with the added benefit of industry recognition through numerous music award nominations and honors.
Sisters Emily Erwin and Martie Seidel were multi-instrumentalists from a young age. Encouraged by their parents, the girls began playing bluegrass music in a Dallas band. With Laura Lynch and Robin Macy, the sisters decided to play for tips on a downtown Dallas street corner in 1989. What started as a lark became serious business when they earned about $375 in one hour. Passersby asked how they could hire the group, which was soon performing at private parties and conventions. They became one of the region's favorite country groups. Early fans included high-profile businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot, and Texas politician George W. Bush.
Members include Emily Erwin , (born August 16, 1972, Pittsfield, MA; daughter of Barbara and Paul; parents divorced in 1989; married Charlie Robison May of 1999), vocals, banjo, dobro, and guitar; Laura Lynch (left group 1995), bass and vocals; Robin Macy (left group 1992), guitar and vocals; Natalie Maines (born October 14, 1974, Lubbock, TX; married to Michael Tarabay; Education: attended Berklee School of Music; joined, 1995), lead vocals and guitar; Martie Seidel (born October 12, 1969, York, PA; daughter of Barbara and Paul; married to Ted Siedel; Education: attended Southern Methodist University); vocals, fiddle and mandolin.
Group formed in Dallas by sisters Emily Erwin and Martie Seidel with Robin Macy and Laura Lynch; began playing street corners, conventions and private parties; recorded three independent CDs for Crystal Clearfrom 1990-94 including, Little'ol Cowgirl, 1992, Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, 1992, Shouldn't a Told You That, 1993; Maines joined group, 1995; toured extensively before signing with Monument/Sony; released major label debut, Wide Open Spaces, 1998; Wide Open Spaces reached number one and achieved gold certification, 1998; Wide Open Spaces achieves quadruple platinum certification, 1999.
Awards: 32nd Annual Country Music Association Awards—Horizon Award for best newcomer and Vocal Group of the Year; 34th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards for Duet or Group, New Group or Duet, and Album.
Addresses: Record company —Monument/Sony Nashville, 34 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203; Fan club—Dixie Chicks Fan Club, P.O. Box 670444, Dallas, Texas 75637-0444; E-mail— [email protected]
But the group didn't yet have a name. There exist several published variations recounting the origins of "Dixie Chicks." The official record company position is that the group heard Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" on the radio, "only Martie didn't want to be a chicken … so the name was shortened to Dixie Chicks."
The first incarnation of the Dixie Chicks tended toward rhinestone studded cowgirl drag, bluegrass-tinged country, and country swing. The group gained additional notice by opening for national country acts such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Emmylou Harris; they also recorded commercials for McDonald's and Justin Boots. The group released three independent recordings between 1990 and 1994, which were sold at their shows. Sales of the three recordings totaled around 60,000.
"We've always known how to market ourselves," said Seidel to Southwest Airlines Spirit's Eric Celeste. "Even in the beginning we would milk the novelty of our act. That's how we made our living. We were the Texas hometown girls,' and that's what they wanted to see at these conventions where we would play. We could play all the clubs we loved, but that's not where we made our money. We made it playing for the folks at IBM."
Natalie Maines, daughter of acclaimed steel guitarist Lloyd Maines, joined the group in 1995. Maines had been awarded a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music and changed her major four times. About the same time, Lloyd Maines had been regularly playing with the Dixie Chicks on their self-produced recordings. When the sisters sought a singer to front the band after Lynch's departure, he just happened to have Natalie's Berklee audition tape with him.
Maines' arrival marked the group's transformation into a mainstream country group with panache. "Natalie is sensitive to the fact that there was a long history of the Dixie Chicks before she got there," Seidel told Celeste. We played so many gigs for so many years where we were just there to look at, just musical wallpaper … [Maines] deserves a lot of the credit, too. It's not like she is a newcomer. She's carrying on a third generation of Maines musicians." The group sites diverse musical influences including musicians from rock, country, and bluegrass: Bela Fleck, Bob Wills, Sam Bush, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Dolly Parton, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt.
Dixie Chicks continued as an opening act for country music's elite, performed on the Grand Ole Opry, and on various country-oriented television shows. The group also reportedly showed up in the lobby of talk show host David Letterman's office building for an unsolicited audition, and was promptly kicked out of the building. The trio toured Europe and Japan in addition to performing throughout the Southern and Southwestern United States at venues including Dollywood and the Kerrville Folk Festival. They even played at a Presidential Inaugural Gala. All this before they had signed a contract with a major label.
Wide Open Spaces, their Monument/Sony debut, was a quadruple platinum selling record. The hit "There's Your Trouble" was widely acclaimed by critics as a saucy antidote to country's syrupy sweet sound, "making Garth Brooks look like a wheezing old man." Dislodging country's "boring pop-wannabes" from the charts was seemingly easy. Wide Open Spaces was the fastest entry into the country top 10 in the SoundScan chart's history.
Critics liked them, too. Rolling Stone called the group "country's finest proponents of high-spirited thrills." In 1999, with the success of the single "Tonight the Heartache's On Me," Billboard asked the rhetorical question "Can these girls do anything wrong? It seems not. Every single has shown impressive chart activity, and their Country Music Association and Grammy Award wins just continue to slather icing on the trio's sweet-tasting cake of success." USA Today selected both "There's YourTrouble" and "Wide Open Spaces" as country singles of the year in 1998 and credited Dixie Chicks with "single-handedly returning the sound of banjo to country radio."
It was initially felt that Maines' voice needed to be country-fied because she was said to sound too much like alternative rock diva Alanis Morrisette. The gals held their ground both in their musical direction and style choices. Dixie Chicks have been compared to country acts The Forester Sisters and Lee Ann Womack as well as to pop artist Lisa Loeb. The trio endured cutesy quips likening them to "a country Wilson Phillips," and Rolling Stones pronouncement as "the redneck answer to the Spice Girls."
Shirley Jinkins of the Fort Worth Star-Telegramtook the trio to task, too, calling them "Shania-ized," referring to country-pop star ShaniaTwain. She wrote that girls were "dressing lean and trendy, showing a little skin and sporting uniformly platinum locks. It's a cohesive, if mainstream, look. The downside is a loss of distinctiveness thattheformer All-Cowgirl Band had in abundance." Responded Maines, "We might as well look twenty-something as long as we can."
Their cute looks, though helpful in gaining media attention, had a decided downside. "When you're three blond women in this industry, you're at a disadvantage as far as perceptions go," Seidel told Seventeen. In that same article, Erwin said some critics and fans might be curious as to who's playing on the CD. "A lot of people in Nashville sing over tracks laid down by studio musicians. I may not be the best banjo player in Nashville, but I can re-create our sound in a live show." She told Country America that fans attending their live shows clearly see that Dixie Chicks are the real deal.
Little Ol' Cowgirl, Crystal Clear, 1992.
Shouldn't a Told You That, Crystal Clear, 1993.
Albany (Oregon) Democrat-Herald, July 10, 1998.
Billboard, January 17, 1998; May 2, 1998; April 10, 1999.
Harper's Bazaar, March 1999.
People, February 9, 1998; September 28, 1998; October 12, 1998; December 28, 1998.
Pollstar, March 30, 1998.
Sophisticate's Hairstyleguide, October 1998.
Southwest Airlines Spirit, October 1998.
—Linda Dailey Paulson
"Dixie Chicks." Contemporary Musicians. . Encyclopedia.com. (July 18, 2019). https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/dixie-chicks
"Dixie Chicks." Contemporary Musicians. . Retrieved July 18, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/dixie-chicks
Formed: 1989, Dallas, Texas
Members: Natalie Maines (born Lubbock, Texas, 14 October 1974); Emily Erwin Robison (born Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 16 August 1972); Martie Erwin Seidel (born York, Pennsylvania, 12 October 1969). Former members: Laura Lynch (born Dell City, Texas, 18 November 1958); Robin Lynn Macy (born Sunnyvale, California, 27 November 1958).
Genre: Country
Best-selling album since 1990: Home (2002)
Hit songs since 1990: "Wide Open Spaces," "Goodbye Earl," "Travelin' Soldier"
The Dixie Chicks helped redefine country music in the late 1990s and early 2000s, crafting a hip new image for female performers while earning both critical acclaim and popular acceptance. Founded in the late 1980s as a bluegrass band, the group eventually gained mainstream recognition by modifying its sound to better fit the slick pop guidelines of 1990s country radio. At the same time, the group refused to completely abandon its roots, using traditional instruments such as banjo and fiddle to enrich both pop ballads and up-tempo dance songs. As their popularity grew the Dixie Chicks became more comfortable with this dichotomy, returning to a roots-based sound while releasing songs and public statements that challenged country's politically conservative ethos. With close-cropped blonde hair and a chic designer wardrobe, the group also promoted a sex appeal rare in country music. By 2003, after enduring an angry public backlash over its antiwar stance, the band had proven its talent and resilience.
Bluegrass Beginnings
Formed in Dallas, Texas, the group originally consisted of sisters Emily and Martie Erwin, who played the banjo
and fiddle, respectively, as well as bass player Laura Lynch and guitarist Robin Lynn Macy. In 1989 the group began perfecting its unique brand of bluegrass (a traditional country music style characterized by acoustic guitar playing and banjo picking) on Dallas street corners, reportedly earning $100 during its first hour. Hearing rock group Little Feat's song, "Dixie Chicken," on the radio, the young women named themselves the "Dixie Chicks" and began dressing in cowgirl attire. While the group's first album, Thank Heavens for Dale Evans (1990), was recorded in a bluegrass style, successive albums, such as Little Ol' Cowgirl (1992), incorporate more of a modern country sound. Unhappy with this change in direction, Macy left the group in 1992. Three years later, thirty-seven-year-old Lynch also left, amid rumors that her age did not fit in with the youthful image the Erwin sisters—then in their twenties—were trying to promote for the group. Lynch's replacement was Natalie Maines, the daughter of noted country guitarist Lloyd Maines. Twenty-one years old in 1995, the powerful-voiced Maines—who spent her childhood singing songs from classic Broadway musicals such as West Side Story —perfectly embodied the youthful sensuality the Erwin sisters wanted for the group.
Country and Pop Stardom
The revised lineup now in place, the Dixie Chicks achieved crossover stardom with Wide Open Spaces (1998), the band's debut album for a major label. Bearing a sleek, streamlined sound, the album is marked by intelligent song selection and Maines's supple vocals. Exuberant hits such as "I Can Love You Better" and "There's Your Trouble" contribute to the band's confident, likable image, while the expressive title track—detailing the experiences of a girl who leaves home to strike out on her own—speaks to a modern sense of female independence. Although smooth and radio-friendly, the album leaves room for the group's bluegrass roots; "There's Your Trouble," for example, is enlivened by rapid banjo picking, while "Tonight the Heartache's on Me" is a rousing swing number sporting traditional instrumentation of fiddles, drums, and bass guitar.
Winning a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Country Album, Wide Open Spaces paved the way for the Dixie Chicks' second major-label release, Fly (1999). Many critics considered the album stronger than its predecessor, noting the new assurance and potency of Maines's vocals and pointing to the boldness of the material. "Goodbye Earl," a song that gave the group its first taste of controversy when it was banned by several male disc jockeys, tells the story of a much-abused wife who, with the help of her best friend, kills her husband. Ironically set against a cheerful backing chorus, the song rails against spousal abuse with an off-kilter sense of humor: "It didn't take 'em long to decide / That Earl had to die." The power and bravado of "Goodbye Earl" are emphasized by Maines's aggressively full-throttle vocal approach. "Sin Wagon," an unrepentant ode to hedonism, likewise breaks new ground for country lyrics, with Maines attesting, "Feel like Delilah lookin' for Samson / Do a little mattress dancing." Then, just in case the listener misses the point, Maines adds humorously, "That's right, I said mattress dancing."
Success and Controversy
By 2000 the Dixie Chicks were engaged in a battle with their record company, Sony, over royalties. Although the legal wrangling kept the group out of the studio for nearly two years, its popularity remained strong. Having settled the case, the group returned in 2002 with Home, judged by critics to be its strongest album to date. Inspired perhaps by the surprise commercial success of the film soundtrack, O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)—an album composed entirely of traditional country music—the Dixie Chicks strip down their sound on Home, dispensing with drums to achieve a restrained, gentle feel that recalls the roots-based approach of their early work. The songs, including "Travelin' Soldier"—the moving account of a woman in love with a soldier who does not return from the Vietnam War—remain tuneful and accessible, qualities that helped the album reach the number one positions on both the pop and country charts.
Riding the crest of their popularity, the Dixie Chicks risked losing it all in March 2003, when Maines made statements at a concert in England protesting President George Bush and the impending Iraq war: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." When news of the comment reached American shores, country radio largely banned the group's music, with several stations setting up trash receptacles in which listeners could dispense of Home. Although the Dixie Chicks apologized, stressing that they had meant no disrespect to American troops, the public outcry continued, with rock star Bruce Springsteen and other celebrities eventually coming to the group's defense. By May the fracas, which suggested how conservative the country audience remains at its core, had subsided to an extent, allowing the group to kick off an American tour without major incident. That month Home returned to the top of the country album charts.
Combining traditional instrumentation with a fashionable image and sharp, progressive songs, the Dixie Chicks brought a new sensibility to country music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Aided by the rich lead vocals of Maines, the group displayed the talent and vision to hold onto its success in the midst of controversy.
Thank Heavens for Dale Evans (Crystal Clear, 1990); Little Ol' Cowgirl (Crystal Clear, 1992); Wide Open Spaces (Sony/Monument, 1998); Fly (Monument, 1999); Home (Open Wide/Sony, 2002).
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Here's where I'll keep a record of my Conference National, North and South match and antepost bets for fellow Betnodders to laugh at.
Staked to date: 366 units, all unsettled.
225 units on Dartford to be bottom 4 with BetVic. They only escaped the drop last time because Salisbury and Hereford were demoted, and even our manager openly said they weren't very good. I can't see much in their signings to suggest they won't be there or thereabouts this time. They're as low as 4/6 with Sky; BetVic have them at 5/4.
Oops, forgot to put in my losing Barnet Bet, of 33 units.
Forgot to add my weekend bets, although both are irrelevant as I got my stake back.
Ebbsfleet have struggled so far they're six points off the pace already - although of course there's a lot of time to make up the difference. I'm hedging with a multiple of FGR (6/1), Barrow (9/4), Bromley (10/3) for 102 units at BetVic's 97.57/1.
I keep forgetting to enter these, so a day late.
To date, I've staked 442 units on match bets and had 310 returned, so they're 132 down.
My more substantial anteposts total 808 units and my expectation is that they'll show a profit and wipe out the losses on matchday bets.
Torquay 6/1, Barrow 5/4, Ebbsfleet 5/2, 182 units, 54.12/1, Bet365 to return 10,032 units.
Good shout with your anytime scorer, TC. He's been banging them in hasn't he. Nice price really, good spot!
Barnet 7/4, Barrow 13/8, Basingstoke 6/1, 198 units at Sky's 49.53/1 to win 10,005 units.


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Knowle War Memorial
Knowle Hospital was open in 1852 as the Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum. The asylum was renamed Knowle Mental Hospital in c.1923 and following the 1948 introduction of the National Health Service Act, became Knowle Hospital.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Knowle Hospital was home to over 1000 patients and staff and was a self contained 'village' with gardeners, carpenters, upholsterers, blacksmiths as well as those who undertook various duties caring for the hospital patients.
As with many villages, members of the staff and estate residents answered the call of the country. By the end of August 1916, over seventy staff had joined the military and naval service: some did not return.
A memorial to honour the employees and residents on the Knowle estate who lost their lives in the war was unveiled on 17th January 1920 by Major-General Sir J.H. Davidson, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., and M.P. for Fareham.
The monument is of a polished Balmoral red granite obelisk standing on a York stone base, with a moulded York stone cap and was mostly subscribed for by the staff of the hospital.
The following are the names of those who fell during the First World War:
J.Andrews Gunner R.G.A. W.A.Molineux Pte. K.R.R.C.
H. Bedford Gunner R.M.A. J.New Sergt. Hants. Regt.
W.F.Crumplin Pte. Hants. Regt. E.E.Pharoah Gunner R.G.A.
E.W.C.Day Pte. R.M.L.I. C.W.Waring Pte. Ox & Bucks L.I.
J.Dobson Sergt. Hants Regt. A.C.Webb Pte. Sussex Regt.
G.C.Edney Lc-Corp, Sherwood Foresters G.R.Winsor Pt. Dorset Regt.
N.H.Edney Pte. Inniskilling Fusiliers T.W.Britton Pte. Dragoon Guards
Two further names were added after the Second World War.
R.W. Clarke Cpl. R.E. H.W.C. Page Ldg. Sto. R.N.
Following the closure of the hospital in 1995, the memorial was moved to the churchyard of St Nicholas in nearby Wickham.
This move was a temporary arrangement to protect the memorial during the development of Knowle Village.
On 7th March 2007 the memorial was moved back to Knowle where it now sits in the garden next to the Chapel.