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Senate Passes Credit Card Reform
By ANNE FLAHERTY	• Published May 20, 2009 • Updated on May 20, 2009 at 1:30 am
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to rein in credit card rate increases and excessive fees, hoping to give voters some breathing room amid a recession that has left hundreds of thousands of Americans jobless or facing foreclosure.
The House was on track to pass the measure as early as Wednesday, paving the way for President Barack Obama to see the bill on his desk by week's end.
"This is a victory for every American consumer who has ever suffered at the hands of a credit card company," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Banking Committee. The bill passed the Senate 90-5.
If enacted into law as expected, the bill would give the credit card industry nine months to change the way it does business: Lenders would have to post their credit card agreements on the Internet and let customers pay their bills online or by phone without an added fee. They'd also have to give consumers a chance to spare themselves from over-the-limit fees and provide 45 days notice and an explanation before interest rates are increased.
Some of these changes are already on track to take effect in July 2010, under new rules being imposed by the Federal Reserve. But the Senate bill would put these changes into law and go further in restricting the types of bank fees and who can get a card.
The legislation would not cap interest rates as some lawmakers had hoped. It also wouldn't prevent lenders from finding new ways to drain customers' bank accounts or keep consumers from spending money they don't have.
But it would give spenders more flexibility and outlaw many of the surprise costs associated with credit cards at a time when money is tight in most households. For example, under the bill, a cardholder would have to opt to be allowed to go over a credit limit. If customers don't agree and the bank authorizes a charge that would push them over their limit, the lender couldn't levy an over-limit fee.
Another boon for consumers is limiting a practice known as "universal default," when a lender sharply increases a cardholder's interest rate on an existing balance because the customer is late paying that bill or other, unrelated bills. Under the new legislation, a customer would have to be more than 60 days behind on a payment before seeing a rate increase on an existing balance.
Even then, the credit card company would be required to restore the previous, lower rate after six months if the cardholder pays the minimum balance on time.

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Nearly half a million Americans, who have not been convicted of a crime, are incarcerated in jail on any given day, many because they cannot afford cash bail.
The criminal justice system fails to release people who have been rehabilitated and are ready to return home from prison.
Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly people of color, are serving unfairly long prison sentences, often driven by mandatory minimums that tie the hands of judges.
Tens of millions of Americans living with a criminal record face nearly 50,000 legal restrictions upon release from prison, preventing them from starting their lives over.
Prosecutors across the country are fueling a mass incarceration crisis by focusing solely on incarceration, not on justice and rehabilitation.
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Watson's Way
Who wouldn't love to learn from this gentle teacher? Kids spend a lot of time wondering about how to be a good friend, how to communicate effectively, and what it means to be successful in life. Truth is, even a lot of adults wonder these things. What if you could learn all this from a dog? Well, you can. Discover why the world's canine guru has so many fans around the world.
Award-winning author JOEL LUND grew up in the Seattle area, where he frequently crashed his bicycle flying over jumps he built with friends. In between his sophomore and junior year of college, he traveled around the country in a band. Later, he earned his Master's degree from Regent College, in Vancouver BC, and worked 15 years in youth ministry. His second career was in the financial services industry. He was awarded "Top 10 Idaho Author" for his first book, "The Ultimate Survival Guide For Youth Ministers" His second book, "Watson's Way; Life Lessons We Earned From Our Brilliant Dog," won a "Top 3 Idaho Book" award. He's won numerous North American Book Awards. He also writes young adult fantasy fiction ["The Gargoyle Chronicles" series], under his pen name, Brandon King. He is a galleried artist, musician and person to too many pets. He has spoken to more than 100,000. With his wife, he is the co-founder and CEO of Prepare For Rain, a business dedicated to helping others transform their lives into who they know they can be: fulfilled, whole and making a difference. Find out more at: http://www.prepareforrainpress.com/
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An important life lesson we learned from our dog, Watson, is that ultimate fitness isn't just about being in great physical shape. It actually has more to do with our interpersonal "fitness." Have you noticed the world seems to be getting more angry and self-focused? Well, to make sure you're not becoming one of those angry people, get a dog into your life. Volunteer at the local shelter. Visit a friend with a dog and see how sociable it is. And if you have the ability (space, time, commitment), adopt a pup of your own. Soon, you'll have ultimate fitness, with a passion for playing ball...and with a passion for others, even an elevated patience for the angry ones. #dogs #fitness #passion #people #wagmore #barkless
PEOPLE WOULD BE IN BETTER SHAPE if they modeled their lives after dogs. Well, mostly anyway. If given a chance to run, chase, pursue, leap, or sprint, most dogs will go for it with a level of commitment that is quite dazzling. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean they'll do so with much grace, style, or even skill. But they will go for it.
Chasing balls was, without a doubt, one of Watson's favorite passions. There were times when the look on his face told the story: "This is so great! I'm going to play until I cough up my spleen! Then, I'll probably stop." On one occasion, it wasn't his spleen that gave him pause, but a toenail that he'd torn. Badly. Off to the veterinarian.
With his paw solidly wrapped up, it was obvious that Watson was more than willing to go full bore again. But we wouldn't let him; we had our orders from his vet, after all. During his recovery, he settled for chasing rubber bones around the soft carpet. It seemed like he could tell from our body language that, while we certainly wanted him to play, we wanted him to do so carefully. Clearly, it wasn't quite the same.
Watson's passion for pleasing his persons was greater than his passion for playing ball.


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Konichiwa everyone! This is my first time to open a blog, so please forgive me that I had do something wrong here >< and I had broken english sometimes. I always love Japan Anime a lot, I doubt some of you was same too right? Because nowdays we can download animes from some websites for free, but everytime when I had finished one of the anime I would hope to own a figure from the anime I watched, but each of them was really expensive to me because I doesn't got much money for own.
But now this wasn't a matter to me anymore! Once I had starting to learn about how to mold basic clay figures since 2010, Now I finally can mold out my own anime clay figures, although they wasn't waterproof.
I would like to post more of my figure creations but it seems the conection today was low, I would try to post some more tomorrow, Goodnight guys!


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The Mystics Press Kit
Withstanding The Test of Time
Presenting The MYSTICS
Our Photo Store
Videos - Live Concerts
Reviews/Comments pg 1
Review/Comments pg 2
The Mystics (Originals)
Mystics History
Mystics Discography
Overons/Mystics
The Mystics/The Videls
Reunion of The Original Mystics
HUSHABYE:The MYSTICS, The Music & The Mob
HUSHABYE: The Book Review!
Book Signing - Hushabye: The Mystics,, The Music & The Mob
Our Favorite Snacks
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Record Collector's Monthly--Feb./March 1993 issue 52 --By Bob Diskin
I guess it's my Brooklyn upbringing. I've always had a strong affinity for stories about vocal groups that were born in candy stores, pool rooms, bowling alleys, and schoolyards. The streets of Bensonhurst, mainly inhabited by Italians were fertile ground for formation of vocal groups in the 1950's and early 1960's. I've already reported on the Passions and the Montereys from this area, but this time around we're going to visit with the group who recorded "Hushabye", one of the biggest doo-wop hit records to come out of 1950s Brooklyn. Our tale begins in a candy store where we encounter the first threads of the story behind Brooklyn's Mystics
It was late 1956, in Pops Candy store on 16th Avenue and 77th Street –just across from New Utrecht High School. That's when Allie Contrera walked in and asked to buy something. In the store at the time was a local youth – Tony Amato. Upon hearing Allie's deep talking voice, Tony approached him and asked him if he could sing. Allie replied that he knew nothing about singing, but Tony brushed this answer aside. He was sure Allie's voice would have no problem handling bass. What's more, Tony was determined to put Allie in a vocal group! While "You'll Never Know" by the Platters played on the store's jukebox, Allie, realizing he had nothing to lose by joining a group, started to sing along
All this time Armato already had his own vocal group, the Overons, who, in addition to himself, consisted of Joe Strobel, Bob Ferrante, Albie Cracolici, and Paul Campano. It wasn't Armato's intention to put Contrera in the Overons, but place him with another local group trying to get started and in need if a bass voice. This unnamed group consisted of Jim Hudson, Ralphie Galione, someone remembered as "Conig", and someone else whose name is not recalled. (Ralph Galione's brother Albie would later become the founding member of the Passions.) Allie Contrera joined this group, but despite much practice, they didn't really know what they were doing. Meanwhile, the Overons were already pretty polished and beginning to develop original material. Contrera often hung around and listened as the Overons sang
At some point in 1957 the Overons were asked to sing at the Lowe's Oriental Movie Theater on 18th Avenue and 86th Street. The theater management was then showcasing local talent before running the movie. For some reason, Paul Campano, the Overons' bass didn't want to do the show and dropped out of the group. Tony Armato then approached Allie Contrera and asked him to step in. Though knowing all the Overons' material, Contrera had reservations. He was still committed to sing with the other group, despite their ineptness, to resolve this problem, a meeting was held between the two groups at Mitchells Drive In at 86th Street and 7th Avenue. Mitchells was a local establishment with a reputation as the "in" place to meet for teens and a slightly older crowd in the 1950s Brooklyn. Tony Armato describes the scene as much like Arnold's in the TV show Happy Days except that waitresses delivered food in the parking lot without roller skates. Mitchells also attracted a lot of motorcycle gangs. At this meeting it was decided to let Contrera join the Overons as the other group wasn't going anywhere
Overons: re-formed; ripped off
By early 1958 Tony Armato and Joe Strobel had also left the Overons, though all remained close as friends. (For more details about the early days of the Overons and about Tony Armato forming the Passions, see RCM #50 Jan/Feb 1991.) The three remaining Overons decided to recruit Albie Cracolici's brother Phil as their new lead, replacing Joe Strobel, and draft George Galfo (Albie and Phil's nephew) to replace Tony Armato. Now the Overons lineup consisted of Phil Cracolici (who had just returned from a stint in the Navy) as lead singer, Bob Ferrante as first tenor, George Galfo as second tenor, Albie Cracolici as baritone and Allie Contreras as bass
The Overons hung out and sang in the Loews Oriental's alleyway, Kelly's Pool Room, and Frankie and Johnnie's Bowling Alley all on 86th Street. They would also frequent a park located at Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue as well as nearby Brighton and Manhattan Beach. One of their more interesting hangouts was a bar called the Bop House located under the boardwalk at Bay 15 on the Coney Island beach. The Bop House attracted groups and teenagers from all over Brooklyn and was a pretty rough place with motorcycle gangs dropping by and fights breaking out all the time, Groups such as Lonnie/Carollons from the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn would come down to Coney Island to get tattooed and then immediately head for the Bop House. (It's too bad no one took pictures of the happenings at this place, but as Allie Contrera recalls –"If someone did they probably would've gotten the hell beaten out of them.")
The re-formed Overons practiced the original tunes that Joe Strobel had written (with the help of the original Overons). The group knew that they were good and went into Manhattan looking for a record contract. On their first audition they were offered a contract by George Golden. After speaking to Golden they went home and ripped up the deal he offered. Feeling that Golden was not the right person for them
The Overons would often go into nearby Borough Park to hear the Neon's sing and get advice. The Neon's had already achieved success with "Angel Face" in 1956 and were the first white doo–wop group to have a hit record. Besides giving pointers on singing, the Neon's told the Overons to cut some demo recordings for audition purposes. Soon a local older fellow who said he had "connections" told the Overons that if they could come with$1000, he would get them into a recording studio and on their way. The Overons took out a loan and in mid–1958 they went into the Broadway Recording Studio at 1650 Broadway in Manhattan. They recorded, with musical backing, four original tunes: "The Bells Are Ringing," "Prayer To An Angel", "Why Do You Pretend", and "Big Brown Eyes". At the end of the session the Overons realized they were being ripped off because $1000 was way too much to pay for what they had just done. The entrepreneur with "connections" was soon on his way. But after seeing what happened, the studio owner tried to console the Overons telling them they were good and offering some free recording time should they decide to come back
Undaunted by the financial setback, the Overons returned to the studio and cut the same four original tunes, but this time acapella, In the studio this day was Jim Gribble a friend of the owner. Gribble was a successful lawyer and talent agent down south until his marriage broke up and he landed in Manhattan, destitute. It took awhile for Gribble to land on his feet, but when he did, he opened up an office in what is now the Ed Sullivan Building on Broadway and started to manage vocal talent. Gribble immediately took a liking to the Overons and told them to stop by his office as he would be glad to help them get started as a singing group.
Overons to Mystics
Gribble liked the Overons' sound and felt he would have no trouble getting this good-looking group signed to a recording contract. But the name "Overons" had to go. To find a new tag, all five members wrote one new name they liked on a slip of paper, and all the papers were put into a hat. Allie Contrera remembers finding "Mystics" by going through a dictionary. When his piece if paper was drawn out of the hat, the Overons became the Mystics.
In late 1958, Gribble secured a recording contract with Laurie Records for the Mystics using the demo tunes the group had cut. Upon finding out that they were going to record for Laurie, the group was ecstatic as this label was the home of Dion/Belmont's. Word spread quickly in Bensonhurst about the Mystics' good fortune. It wasn't long before the local fellow who had ripped off the group was at Jim Gribble's office contract in hand stating that he was their manager. A closed – door meeting ensued with the Mystics waiting outside nervously. When the meeting ended, Gribble said he had taken care of the problem and the Mystics were free of the previous contract
The Mystics soon recorded two songs for Laurie, "Adam and Eve", and the old Weavers' tune, "Wimoweh". (When members of the original Overons and later the Passions used to hang out at Bay 3 on Brighton Beach, they would sing "Wimoweh". This definitely influenced the Tokens who were from Brighton Beach and who were persuaded to record this song as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1961 by producer Bob Feldman. Feldman was also from Brighton Beach.)
The Mystics first efforts were arranged and produced by Elliot Greenberg. But Laurie was not happy with the results and commissioned Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman to write an original tune for this group. Mort Shuman was friends with the Mystics, as he knew them from Bensonhurst where he also lived, Soon the Pomus and Shuman team came up with "A Teenager In Love" for the group, but the Mystics were quickly disappointed. Laurie decided to give the material to the already successful Dion/Belmonts. Laurie execs felt that a song more in the style of the Elegants' "Little Star" would be better suited for the Mystics and told Pomus and Shuman to come up with something else. The next day, Pomus and Shuman came up with "Hushabye
Prior to recording "Hushabye", and up to the time that this record became a huge hit, the Mystics did vocal backup work in several recordings at the request of Laurie Records and Jim Gribble, The group was very happy doing these backup vocals, figuring that even if they never did anything else, at least their voices were now in records and they were getting paid for it.
For Laurie Records, the Mystics backed up Judy Allen on "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" b/w/ "Sentimental Me", Scott Garrett on "Love Story", b/w "Graduation Souvenirs", Rusty Lane (real name Karl Zeeb, Jr.) on "Karen" b/w "Comes The Day", and Don Press on "More Than Ever" b/w/ "Ask The Robin". These four Laurie releases came out in 1959
Connie Francis' manager worked on the same floor as Jim Gribble and the Mystics wound up doing vocal back up along with some girls) on one song cut by Connie Francis. Recorded in 1959 this side, "Tommy," was released in 1964 on the MGM label, Also at the bequest of Gribble, the Mystics backed up Rocky Hart on "Come Go With Me" released in 1959 on the Cub label. (The flip side of this record "Everyday", features vocal backup by the Passions who were good friends with the Mystics.) What's more, the group backed up Rocky Hart on two unreleased tunes that no one now remembers the titles of, (Rocky Hart's release of "I Played The Part Of A Fool," on Glo Records features neither the Passions nor the Mystics.) But once "Hushabye" took off Gribble would not allow the Mystics to do any more vocal backups.
Hushabye hits big
In May of 1959 Laurie released "Hushabye" b/w/ "Adam and Eve" and within a few weeks the record was a smash. Peter Tripp on WMGM radio was the first to play it. Soon Alan Freed started featuring "Hushabye" as the closing tune on his televised Saturday night Big Beat Show. In fact, one night Freed played "Hushabye" four times in a row! At it's peak, "Hushabye" was Top Ten in most of the tri-state area, and nationally it climbed to around #20.
The Mystics made an appearance on Clay Cole's TV show which, at the time, was located in Providence Rhode Island. This appearance had much significance later on, The Mystics became very good friends with Clay Cole and they also became close friends with the Tradewinds who also appeared on the Providence show. The Tradewinds vocal group would soon change their name to the Videls. The Mystics also appeared in Jim Gallant's Bandstand in Connecticut, did record hops in Philadelphia, made Palisades Park appearance hosted by Cousin Brucie Morrow, did Ted Steele record hops, appeared on American Bandstand on an Alan Freed stage show at the Brooklyn Fox. They went on a Cavalcade of Stars tour run by the General Artists Corporation. This was a follow-up tour to the ill-fated one that claimed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens. It ran from June 12m 1959 to July 5, 1959, Beside the Mystics, this tour featured Johnny/Hurricanes, Freddy Cannon, Frankie Ford, Barbara Evans, and Carl Dobkins, Jr
While on the road doing a string of shows on the strength of "Hushabye", the Mystics started pressuring Laurie Records for studio time to record a follow-up release, Never interested in recording the four tunes written by the original Overons, Laurie came up with "So Tenderly" (the supposed "A" side) and "Don't Take The Stars". Around this time, the Mystics also wanted to record an album of old standards. Laurie liked this idea, but unfortunately for the Mystics, the project was given to Dion/Belmonts
In late summer of 1959, Laurie released the Mystics second single with "Don't Take The Stars" doing very well locally and in the tri- state area. Nationally, the record made the top 60. However, at the recording session, the Mystics started getting disillusioned with Elliot Greenberg's arrangements. The group made another TV appearance with Clay Cole. His show was now on Channel 13 in New York. Around this time, the Mystics recorded "Red Red Robin", which remains unreleased to this day, and "Paper Moon" which was released in 1980 in the Crystal Ball LP Laurie Records – A Full House.
Who will sing lead?
In the fall of 1959, Phil Cracolici exited the Mystics, leaving them with no lead singer, At Jim Gribble's suggestion, Paul Simon (aka Jerry Landis), who frequently hung around Gribble's office, became the Mystics' new lead. In January 1960, "All Through The Night" (with five voices singing together with no distinct lead), "I Began To Think Of You", and "Let Me Steal Your Heart Away" were recorded. The Mystics were now more upset than ever with Elliot Greenberg's arrangements, "All Through The Night" b/w " I Began To Think Of You" received some local air play, but soon Paul Simon left the group to pursue other writing and production projects. Eventually "Let Me Steal Your Heart Away," with Paul Simon on lead, was released on the Crystal Ball LP previously mentioned.
A look at the Mystics' schedule for January, 1960 shows they were a very active group:
01/08/60 – Cotillion Terrace – Brooklyn, NY
01/09/60 – Clay Cole Hop – New Jersey
01/15/60 – Clay Cole Show – Commack Arena – Long Island
01/16/60 – Telethon – Albany, NY
01/18/60 – Rehearsal – Laurie records
01/20/60 – Telethon – Newark, NJ
01/21/60 – Radio Show
01/26/60 – Bell Sound Studios – recording session
01/27/60 – George Tucker TV Show
01/28/60 – Boulevard Show
On March 9, 1960,the Mystics appeared in the American Bandstand afternoon show singing "All Through The Night". On April 16, 1960, the group began a road trip with Alan Freed's Midwest tour. The other acts were: Teddy Radisson, Freddy Cannon, Bobby Freeman, the Fireflies, the Singing Belles, Sony Till/Orioles, and Eddie Quinteros. The tour only lasted a couple of weeks and went bust. No one got paid.
With Paul Simon gone, the Mystics started looking for a new lead voice and had gone through about 15 auditions when they chose Jay Traynor. It was very east for the group to audition singers because Jim Gribble and a good reputation as "Manager of the Stars" that attracted vocal talent to his office. On May 11, 1950, the mystics with Jay Traynor on lead recorded "White Cliffs of Dover", "Blue Star" and "Over The Rainbow" at RCA studios. This was the first time that Laurie allowed the group to pick and record a song they liked. Inspired by the Dell Vikings' version, they chose " White Cliffs of Dover". (The Mystics sang this song often at live shows long before recording it.) Backed with "Blue Star", "White Cliffs of Dover" received (at best) local play. "Over The Rainbow" remained unreleased until the late 1980s when Ace Records (England) issued a Mystics album
On June 23, 1960, the Mystics went into Central Park on a photo shoot for an album that Laurie was planning. Unfortunately, the album never came to be and the group never saw the photos. Jay Traynor was soon disillusioned with his job as lead singer, feeling he was never really part if the Mystics. He believed the other four members were just putting up with him, hoping their original lead Phil Cracolici would return – and he was right. When Traynor decided to leave the Mystics, he met with Kenny Vance and Sandy Pagoda who were members of another Gribble act, the Harborlites. Soon Jay, Kenny, Sandy and Howe Kirshenbaum went on to form the original Jay/Americans based in Flatbush
In 1961 the Mystics, once again needing a lead singer, were introduced to Eddie "Shots" Falcone by Lou Rotunda of the Passions. Eddie has previously sung in Lou Rotunda's unrecorded street group, the Delray's from South Brooklyn. Laurie felt that "teen tragedy" songs were doing well at this tune, so they recorded the Mystics with Falconer in lead singing "Star Crossed Lovers", b/w "Goodbye Mister Blues". Since the Mystics were having no luck with Elliot Greenberg's arrangements, the label brought in Stan Vincent to produce this session, Laurie believed that the younger Vincent might be better able to connect with the teenage market. It was Vincent who gave "Goodbye Mister Blues" to the Mystics. This song was also recorded by Billy Demarco/Renditions on the Up label – probably before the Mystics' version, The Mystics did a few record hops off this release - but the record didn't even dent the charts. Shortly thereafter, Eddie Falcone was out of the group
The Mystics often hung out and sang at Frankie & Johnnys bowling alley on 86th Street and 16th Avenue. It was there that the group was approached by a young Ralph Lizano with " Darling I Know Now", a song he wrote and wanted them to sing. The Mystics liked it, and asked Ralph to sing lead with them on it. The group went into the studio and cut "Sunday Kind of Love," "Darling I Know Now", and "Again". All these songs featured Ralph Lizano on lead. Laurie released "Sunday Kind Of Love" b/w "Darling I Know Now", but this disc received absolutely no airplay. "Again" remained unreleased until the aforementioned Crystal Ball LP. By mid-1961, Bob Ferrante and Albie Cracolici decided to call it quits and the Mystics stopped recording and performing
Doubling UP
Late in 1960, the Mystics were approached by Pete Andreoli and Vinny Poncia whom they had met in Providence, Rhode Island in 1959(Tradewinds) and were asked to record an original tune, "Mr. Lonely", which Andreoli and Poncia had written for the Mystics. The Mystics declined, so Andreoli and Poncia recorded it with their own group, now called the Videls. Of course, the Videls had a big hit with this release on JDS Records. But by late 1961, the Videls had broken up, so Allie Contrera and George Galfo of the Mystics and Pete Andreoli and Vinny Poncia of the Videls joined forces and performed as both the Mystics and the Videls. Albie Cracaolici also sang with this group for a short time. At one point they added a girl named Rosie to help them emulate the sound of the Skyliners.
To help with personal appearances, Pete and Vinny borrowed brown suits from two of the inactive Mystics, and the group appeared on Clay Cole's show as the Mystics singing "Darling I Know Now". The next week they returned to Cole's show in the same brown suits as the Videls singing "A Letter From Ann". (This Videls' tune was recorded for Kapp Records with Pete and Vinny overdubbing their voices
In late 1963, Pete Andreoli and Vinny Poncia released "Hand Clappin" Time Part I and Part 2" on Big Top Records. There was a vocal group on this release made up of Phil, Albie, Allie and George of the Mystics. Pete and Vinny also recorded some singles under their original name, the Tradewinds, on Red Bird records in 1965 and had a hit with "New York Lonely Town". Red Bird also released "The Party Starts At Nine", a collector favorite. It's no wonder that thus us a very collectible record because the group backing up Pete and Vinny up here are the same Mystics members that backed them up on their Big Top release.
Around this same time, the Mystics recorded "In My Faithful Heart" and "Save A Dream". The first song remains unreleased to this day, but in 1980 Crystal Ball Records released a Videls album that mistakenly included "Save A Dream". This song was in a master tape that came from a box with "Videls" written on it.
Revival Years
The Mystics were completely inactive from the mid- 1960s until the rock-and-roll revival hit in 1969-70. For awhile, the original five members did the revival circuit. But when George Galfo and Bob Ferrante moved to Florida and Arizona respectively, the group needed new members. For awhile the replacements were Joe Esposito, Bruce Sudano, and Eddie Hockinson. They sang and played musical instruments.
During the early 1970s, Allie Contrera received a call from Andreoli and Poncia who had relocated to California. They wanted Allie to come out west for a big project they were working on. Allie declined the invite, but in his place he sent Joe Esposito, soon followed by Bruce Sudano and Eddie Hockinson. These three were known as "Brooklyn Dreams" and wound up being Donna Summers' backup group. Bruce Sudano eventually married Donna Summers. Kenny Vance used Brooklyn Dreams as the "Planatones" in the movie American Hot Wax and they are still performing as Kenny Vance/Planatones
From the mid 1970s to 1990, the main replacement singers in the Mystics were John Tarangelo, Joey Napoli, and Emil Stuccio. (Emil being the original lead singer of the Classics) In 1982, the Mystics cut an album called Crazy For You for the Ambient Sound Lable. For these recordings, the group consisted of Phil Cracolici, Albie Cracolici, Allie Contrera, John Tarangelo, and also original member Bob Ferrante who happened to be in town when the album was cut. On this album the Mystics recut three of the Overons original tunes: "Prayer To An Angel", "Why Do You Pretend" and "The Bells Are Ringing
In 1989 an album that yours truly and Ed Engel produced entitled They Sang in Brooklyn was released. This album featured all unreleased sides from the 1950s and early 1960s by dome of the old Brooklyn groups. The Overons' 1958 acappella version of "The Bells Are Ringing" is the lead song in this LP. This cut, in this writer's opinion, epitomized what a white Brooklyn streetcorner group should have sounded like in the late '50s/early '60s. In 1992 I released three They Sang In Brooklyn EPS (Volumes 1, 2, and 3). The Overons' acappella version of "Big Brown Eyes" can be found on Volume 2.
After many years in the revival circuit, the Mystics decided to become inactive around 1990. Emil Stucco along with Allie Contrera then put the Classics back together, But as of this writing (November 1992) Phil Cracolici is re-forming the Mystics. Also Phil and George recently did some recordings with the Bowery Boys down in Florida that should be released soon. And at my suggestion there is the remote possibility that, with advance word, Bob Ferrante and George Galfo could arrange to be in New York so that there could be a reunion performance of the five original members. The Mystics career has touched five different decades and Brooklyn would be proud to hear them sing again
Past Performances of The Overons - The Mystics
Courtesy of Bob Ferrante - Original founding Mystics member
The OVERONS Performances
12/7/1956......................Lowe' Oriental Theatre Talent Show
12/12/1956 ....................Most Precious Blood Confraternity Dance
12/16/1956....................Midwood Terrace Show
12/28/1956....................The Banner Club (JoJo's Birthday Party)
The MYSTICS Performances
03/09/1959.........................Record Hop - Livingston, NJ
05/02/1959........................Record Hop - West Orange, NJ
05/09/1959........................Albermarle Towers - Brooklyn, NY
05/16/1959........................Alan Freed TV Show - NYC
05/22/1959........................Alan Fredricks Radio Show - WHOM - NYC
05/23/1959.........................Temple Beth Emeth - Brooklyn, NY
05/29/1959.........................Hy Litt Record Hop - Quakertown, NJ
05/30/1959.........................Joe Niagra DJ Show - NJ
05/31/1959.........................Dodge City Show - Long Island, NY
06/06/1959.........................Clay Cole Rate The Record TV Show - NYC
06/09/1959........................,,,,Alan Freed TV Show - NYC.
06/10/1959.......................Hy Litt DJ Show - WHAT - Philadelphia, PA
06/12 TO 07/05...................GAC Midwest Tour -- 24 shows in 24 cities
06/18/1959........................Taped Dick Clark American Bandstand TV
show - Philadelphia, PA
07/07/1959...........................WJAR - TV 10th Anniversary Block Party -
07/10 to 07/28......................GAC Eastern Tour......15 shows - 14 cities
08/01/1959..........................Alan Fredericks Radio Show...WHOM NYC
08/04/1959...........................Clay Cole Rate the Record TV Show--NYC
08/05/1959......................Shrewsbury Amusement Park - White City, MA
08/06/1959.................... .......Bob Clayton Radio Show - Boston, MA
08/13/1959…………………….Lake Lawn Lodge,- Delevan, WI
08/14/1959…………………….DeVines Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI
08/21/1959……………………Revere Beach – Revere, MA
08/29/1959……………………Holy Cross Chuh—Springfield, MA
09/02/1959…………………….DJ Show – LAmbertville, MA
09/04-13/1959………………...Alan Freed Show—Fox Theater—NY
09/17/1959……………………Clay Cole Rate the Record TV Show-NYC
09/19/1959…………………….Jack Spector DJ Show –WPRO—
09/20/1959……………………..DJ Show---Bellville, NJ
09/22/1959………………… ....Alan Freed TV Show—NYC
09/24/1959……………………Brad Davis TV Show—WTIC-TV—
09/24/1959…………………….Sunnyside Gardens Show—
09/26/1959………………………St Thomas Aquinas Show
10/01/1959…………………… .Alan Fredricks Radio Show—WHOM—
10/07/1959………………………Tom Vader TV Show—WHCT-TV
10/09/1959………………………Jack Rchards DJ Show—WEIN
10/10/1959………………………..Gene Kaye DJ Show—WAEB,
10/11/1959…………………………Gene Kye Record Hop
10/17/1959…………………………Record Hop Show—Newburg, NY
10/25/1959……………………… ..Scott Muni Show at Coliseum—NYC
10/31/1959……………………… .Clay Cole Rate the Record TV Show
11/14/1959…………………………Warren Duffy DJ Show—York, PA
11/15/1959………………………….New Terrace Garden Show
11/18/1959…………………………George Tucker DJ Show—WNTA-
11/21/1959…………………………Cottilion Terrace—Muscular Dystrophy Charity Show—NYC
11/21/1959………………….Clay Cole Rate The Record TV Show
11/29/1959………………………… ..Passaic Ballroom Show—
12/01959……………………………..Tom Vader TV Show—WHCT-TV
12/12/1959…………………………….Civic Opera House Show
01/08/1960.....................................Cottillion Terrace - Brooklyn, NY
01/09/1960.....................................Clay Cole Record Hop - NJ
01/15/1960....................................Clay Cole Show - Commack
Arena, Long Island
01/19/1960.....................................Clay Cole TV Show - NYC
02/03/1960......................................George Tucker Radio Show -
02/05/1960....................................Clay Cole Show - Philadelphia, PA
02/12/1960......................................Paul Sherman WINS Record Hop
02/19/1960.....................................Tom Vader TV Show - WHCT-TV
02/20/1960......................................Brad Davis TV Show - WTIV-TV -
02/24/1960.....................................Stan Z Burns Record Hop
02/27/1960......................................Jack Spector Show - WPRO -
03/06/1960......................................George Hudson Show
03/09/1960....................................Dick Clark American Bandstand
03/12/1960.....................................Bruce Morrow DJ Show - NYC
03/13/1960.....................................Dodge City Clay Cole Show -
03/17/1960.....................................DJ Show - Hightstown, NJ
03/18/1960.....................................DJ Show - Bulter, PA
03/19/1960.................................. Gene Kaye WAEB Record Hop -
Allentown,PA
03/20/1960...................................Gene Kaye WAEB Record Hop -
03/26/1960...................................Record Hop Show
03/27/1960.................................. George Tucker Record Hop
St. Nicholas Arena, - NYC
04/16/1960...................................Alan Freed Tour - Philadlephia, PA
04/17/1960..................................Alan Freed Tour - Philadlephia, PA
04/18/1960...................................Alan Freed Tour - Johnston City, NY
04/19/1960...................................Alan Freed Tour - Scranton, PA
04/20/1960..................................Alan Freed Tour
***Sunnyside Gardens - NYC ***
04/23/1960.................................Record Hop Show - Nprwalk, CT
04/24/1960.................................Record Hop Show - Ansonia, NY
05/05/1960..................................Record Hop- Trenton, NJ
05/07/1960..................................Nite Club/Restaurant Show
05/14/1960...................................Clay Cole Record Hop - Brooklyn, NY
05/21/1960...................................George Tucker WNTA Record Hop-
05/30/1960................................... George Tucker Show - Newark, NJ
06/11/1960...................................Brad Davis TV Show - WTIC=TV -
06/17/1960.............................. .....Record Hop - Bridgeport, CT
06/24/1960...................................High School Prom show
06/25/1960..................................Clay Cole TV Show -
06/27/1960..................................George Tucker Show
Paisades Park, NJ
07/02/1960..................................Gene Kaye WAEB Radio Show -
07/03/1960..................................Gene Kaye Record Hop - Allentown, PA
07/21/1960..................................Show - Huntington, NY
07/30/1960................................. .Bruce Morrow Raven Hall Show -
08/12/1960.................................. Show - Monticello, NY
08/25 to 31/1960...........................Dick Randall's Aquarama Show,
Flushing Meadows, NY
09/01/1960....................................Monaco Surf Club - Lido Beach, NY
09/16/1960....................................Bruce Morrow Record Hop -
09/23/1960....................................CYO Show -Yonkers, NY
09/24/1960....................................St. Thomas Aquinas Show -
09/27/1960.....................................Murray the K DJ Show
St. George Hotel - NYC
*** Remainder of Alan Freed Tour was Cancelled
Copyright 2013. The Mystics. All rights reserved.


The Great British Spring Clean event is taking place 3rd-5th March and we would like you to get involved. Organise your own community event to give your local area and spring clean.
Friday March 3rd 10am to 12 noon, working in Newchurch, meet the Boars Head Pub car park alongside Rossendale Council's Operations Team.
Saturday March 4th 10am to 1pm, working in Waterfoot, Warth Old Road, off Bacup Road. Meet at main car part behind the bus station.
If you can't help out at either of these events then take them as inspiration and organise your own. There's lots of budding volunteers out there ready to be a local community hero.
Maintaining clean communities is a real issue for the Council's budget, every year we spend £290kpa cleaning the borough. Many costs for waste removal could have been easily prevented by people disposing of litter properly. We also spend extra moment on top of this dealing with dog fouling chewing gum removal. As such, picking up discarded litter is a huge cost to the Council, and the support from Civic Pride groups is a huge benefit to our overstretched resources.
Rossendale boasts a wide variety of dedicated community volunteers who work tirelessly cleaning up our town streets from litter. The Council has a long standing and successful relationship with Civic Pride and we support them in the work they do like they vitally support us.
It was encouraging to read comments in our recent resident survey that appreciated the strong volunteering nature of Rossendale and how this could be harnessed to help support local services.
Council resources are tighter than ever and funds are diminishing, we would encourage everyone to take some personal responsibility and look after the place they live by not discarding litter, dropping chewing gum, fly tipping or leaving dog mess behind.
Last year's Clean for the Queen activities saw a whopping 231 bags of litter collected by patriotic litter pickers over the 2 day event.


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Q: Scoping a flow target of repository workspace in RTC Command line Interface I have a repository workspace which has a default flow target. I want to edit the flow target and make it scoped only for few components. This is possible from RTC Eclipse Client. How can I achieve the same from RTC command line Interface. Please tell with reference to RTC 3.0.1.3.

A: I am not sure if that API works for 3.x, or only for 4.x, but this sequence of lscm commands seems to produced a scoped flow target:
# Set a component as the flow target
$ lscm workspace flowtarget TestWorkspace1 TestStream1 -C TestComp2  -r lo
Successfully updated the flow target.

# View workspace flow target that was scoped to specific components
$ lscm workspace flowtarget TestWorkspace1 TestStream1 -r <repo>
(1352) "TestStream1" (scoped) (current)
The following components flow from/to this flow target:
  (1351) "TestComp2"

You can see that command introduced in the Rational Team Concert 4.0.1 M4 Milestone, so it is possible isn't available in RTC3.x.

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The column of Leonardo Burgueño: The debt with Iniesta and Xavi is paid with Modric
By Leonardo Burgeño, @leoburgueno
Luka Modric was 6 years old when the war broke out in Croatia. At that time, the child born on the Adriatic Sea already had an inseparable friend: the ball.
Bombs and bullets forced his family to leave their place of origin and begin to retrace their steps in different places. Until the horror knocked on his door when his grandfather was executed in December 1991 by the Serbian rebels, in Jesenice.
"Luka saw with his own eyes how they killed his grandfather, and his family had no choice but to flee to Zadar so as not to be killed through the forests and the mountains," said Josip Bajlo, former coach and sports director of the NK Zadar, just the team that welcomed him to start his career.
"The war made me stronger, so now I'm ready for anything"Modric remarked when he was already playing in England.
The commitment to football
His parents supported him to dedicate himself to soccer. The teenager who looked frail came to Dinamo from Zagreb, however, the cast of the Croatian capital twice sent him on loan.
In the first season he went to HŠK Zrinjski Mostar of Bosnia Herzegovina, where he was chosen the best player in the league, with 19 years. He then went through Inter Zapresic to return more mature to Dinamo Zagreb.
Until a key person in his life appeared: the Spanish coach Juande Ramos, who recommended him for Tottenham.
The London team fought him with Barcelona until he put 21 million euros and stayed with the player a decade ago. "I decided on him after seeing him only twice, because it is clear that he is an extraordinary class player, who will improve the performance of the whole team when it adapts to the new reality, "said the coach of the" Spurs "at that moment.
But the Premier League started with problems: a knee injury, the dismissal of the Spanish coach and the criticism of the English press that was too "light" for that competition (measures 1.72 and weight 66 kilos).
The quality jump
In 2012 he came to Real Madrid in exchange for 30 million euros. "It's the happiest day of my life," said that day. The little Modric reached the top.
"Since the retirement of Xavi, Modric has become the best midfielder in the world," says Santiago Segurola, the most influential Spanish columnist on football issues.
The "Bird", as they say, clearly he grew his performance as a right inside midfield that makes up with Casemiro (midfielder) and Toni Kroos (left inside).
Modric style has things of his favorite players: the accuracy in the deliveries of Xavi and filtered pass of Iniesta.
This year, the Croatian came to win his fourth Champions League and guided his team to the World Cup final to be chosen the most prominent of the two appointments.
Now he goes for the jackpot: to be the best of all. An award that the story was due to his two models of midfielders.
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Last days to report to Rafael Manzano Martos Prize for Classical Architecture and Restoration of Monuments 2014
Tuesday, 20 de May de 2014
The Rafael Manzano Martos Classical Architecture Prize and Restoration of Monuments 2014, organized by The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust and University of Notre Dame School of Architecture (Indiana, USA) with the collaboration of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid) and Fundación Mapfre, registration closes on Friday 23 May.
The main objective, the Award aims to disseminate the value of classical and traditional architecture with proven validity as a reference to the architecture of our time, both in the restoration of monuments and urban sets of historical and artistic value and performing new works plant, based on local traditions are able to integrate harmoniously in these sets.
The Award winner will receive a prize of € 50,000, plus a commemorative plaque.
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Summary: Stakeouts are boring; a lot of waiting around, usually for nothing.
Written For: My own prompt 'FAKE, Dee/Ryo, Stakeout in the snow,' at fic_promptly.
Dee doesn't enjoy stakeouts at the best of times; they're boring and he can think of way better uses for his valuable time than sitting in a car, or in this case, an almost empty room in an abandoned tenement, watching to see who comes and goes from the building across the street.
It's the middle of the night, when he should be at home, snug in his warm bed and fast asleep, preferably with Ryo beside him; nights like this, he can't help but wonder why he decided to be a cop instead of getting a cushy, nine to five office job, with every weekend off. Must've taken leave of his senses; Dee Laytner, glutton for punishment.
Might not be so bad if there was anything going on out there, but he's been sat here for five long hours and seen damn all. The fancy cameras are unused and the only thing he's spotted through the high-powered night-vision binoculars was a rat scurrying along the gutter just after he and Ryo took over from Ted and Marty.
Now, to cap it all, it's snowing again, fat, lazy flakes drifting down and obscuring the view. He's barely able to see the doorway they're supposed to be watching, and it's doubtful they'd be able to identify anyone, let alone photograph them.
"This is a gigantic waste of time," he grumbles as Ryo hands him a steaming cup of coffee from one of the flasks he brought with him. Dee accepts it gratefully, wrapping cold hands around it; the room they're in only has a tiny electric heater for warmth, and it's not doing a very good job.
"It's beautiful though." Ryo leans on the window ledge beside him, sipping coffee, and Dee smiles. One thing he can't complain about is the company.


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Cleon (; , ; died 422 BC) was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War. He was the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, although he was an aristocrat himself. He strongly advocated for an offensive war strategy and is remembered for being ruthless in carrying out his policies. He was often depicted in a negative way, predominantly by Thucydides and the comedic playwright Aristophanes, who both represent him as an unscrupulous, warmongering demagogue.

Cleon was the son of Cleaenetus.

Public service

Opposition to Pericles
Cleon came to notice as an opponent of Pericles in the late 430s BC through his opposition to Pericles' strategy of refusing battle against the Peloponnesian League invaders in 431 BC.  As a result, he found himself acting in concert with the Athenian aristocratic parties, who stood against the "leaders of the demos", which included Isagoras, Miltiades, Thucydides, Nicias, Theramenes, and Pericles. During 430 BC, after the unsuccessful expedition by Pericles to the Peloponnesus, and when the city was devastated by the plague, Cleon headed the opposition to Pericles' rule. At this time, Pericles was accused by Cleon of maladministration of public money, with the result of Pericles being found guilty and removed from office. However, Pericles' setback was temporary and he was soon reinstated.

Rise in popularity
The death of Pericles from the plague in 429 BC left the field clear for new leadership in Athens. Hitherto Cleon had only been a vigorous opposition speaker, a trenchant critic and accuser of state officials, but he  came forward as the professed champion and leader of the democracy and rapidly came to dominate Athenian politics.  Although rough and unpolished, he was charismatic, with natural eloquence and a powerful voice, and he knew how to work upon the emotions of the Athenian populace. He strengthened his support amongst the poorer citizens by increasing the pay for jury work, which provided a livelihood for many of the poorer Athenians.

The fondness of the Athenians for litigation increased his power; and the practice of "sycophancy" (raking up material for false charges) enabled him to remove those who were likely to endanger his ascendancy. In 426 BC, Cleon brought an unsuccessful prosecution against Laches based on his generalship in the unsuccessful first Sicilian expedition.  This is one of the very few times that an Athenian general escaped civil punishment for a defeat. Having no further use for his former aristocratic associates, he broke off all connection with them, and thus felt at liberty to attack the secret combinations for political purposes, the oligarchical clubs to which they mostly belonged. He was elected one of the ten strategos for 424–423 BC. Whether he also introduced a property-tax for military purposes, and even held a high position connected with the treasury, is uncertain.

War against Sparta, subsequent death
Cleon's ruling principles were an inveterate hatred of the nobility, and an equal hatred of Sparta. It was mainly through him that the opportunity of concluding an honourable peace (in 425 BC) was lost, and in his determination to see Sparta defeated, often spoke of dazzling future benefits. He insisted upon Athenian security via strategic possession of territories rather than by Spartan goodwill.

In 427 BC, Cleon urged his Athenian countrymen to put to death the whole adult male population of Mytilene, which had put itself at the head of a revolt. His proposal, though at first accepted, was soon rescinded due to a protracted rebuttal by Diodotus. Nonetheless approximately one thousand chief leaders and prominent men of Mytilene were executed. In 425 BC, Cleon reached the summit of his fame by capturing and transporting to Athens the Spartans who had been blockaded at the Battle of Sphacteria. Much of the credit was probably due to the military skill of his colleague Demosthenes (not the orator); but it was due to Cleon's determination that the Ecclesia sent out the additional force that was needed.

It was almost certainly due to Cleon that the tribute of the "allies" was doubled in 425 BC. He was not reelected as strategos for 423–22 BC after his strategy suffered a setback when Sparta invaded Amphipolis. In 422 BC he was sent to recapture Amphipolis. This development came with the resurgence of Athenian aggressive policy toward Sparta after the revolt of Scione, an Athenian allied city. During his campaign, however, Cleon was outmaneuvered by the Spartan general Brasidas. He was killed by a peltast when his army was routed at the Battle of Amphipolis. Brasidas also died at Amphipolis and their deaths removed the chief obstacle to peace. Thus, in 421 BC the peace of Nicias was signed.

Aristophanes and Thucydides on Cleon
The character of Cleon is represented by Aristophanes and Thucydides in a very unfavourable light. Their portrayals may be justified considering he instilled a feeling of mistrust within Athens through a kind of Athenian "McCarthyism", caused by the excessive number of informants he employed to keep watch on the city. Yet, both have been suspected of being prejudiced witnesses: The playwright Aristophanes had a grudge against Cleon, who may have accused him before the Council of having ridiculed (in his lost play Babylonians) the policy and institutions of his city in the presence of foreigners and at the time of a great national danger. Thucydides, believing in the shortcomings of democratic government, had also been prosecuted (unjustly, his ships arriving two days after a town was occupied by Spartan forces) for military incapacity and exiled by a decree proposed by Cleon. Indeed, of all the persons who appear in Thucydides' History, Cleon is treated with the least impartiality. It is therefore possible that Cleon has had injustice done to him in the portraits handed down by these two writers.

His influence lay in his forceful and bullying style of oratory, anti-intellectual and anti-aristocratic in tone, and his populism. This might have brought him many enemies. He seems to have aimed at short-term goals, but Athens' poor stood to benefit by his policies, at the expense of heavy taxes levied onto her allies.

Authorities
For the literature on Cleon see Karl Friedrich Hermann, Lehrbuch der griechischen Antiquitäten, i. pt. 2 (6th ed. by V. Thumser, 1892), p. 709, and Georg Busolt, Griechische Geschichte, iii. pt. 2 (1904), p. 988, note 3.

The following are the chief authorities:
Favorable to Cleon
C. F. Ranke, De Aristophanis Vita Commentatio (Leipzig, 1845)
J. G. Droysen, Aristophanes, ii., Introd. to the Knights (Berlin, 1837)
G. Grote, History of Greece. chs. 50, 54
W. Oncken, Athen und Hellas, ii. p. 204 (Leipzig, 1866)
H. Müller-Strübing, Aristophanes und die historische Kritik (Leipzig, 1873)
J. B. Bury, Hist, of Greece, i. (1902)
Unfavorable
J. F. Kortüm, Geschichtliche Forschungen (Leipzig, 1863), and Zur Geschichte hellenichen Statsverfassungen (Heidelberg, 1821)
F. Passow, Vermischte Schriften (Leipzig, 1843)
C Thirlwall, History of Greece, ch. 21
E. Curtius, History of Greece (Eng. tr. iii. p. 112)
J. Schvarcz, Die Demokratie (Leipzig, 1882)
H. Delbrück, Die Strategie des Perikles (Berlin, 1890)
E. Meyer, Forschungen zur alten Geschichte, ii. p. 333 (Halle, 1899)
Balance between the two extreme views:
K. J. Beloch, Die attische Politik seit Perikles (Leipzig, 1884), and Griechische Geschichte, i. p. 537
A. Holm, History of Greece, ii. (Eng. tr.), ch. 23, with the notes.
H. Bengtson, History of Greece: From the Beginnings to the Byzantine Era, Cleon p. 140

In popular culture

Cleon is featured as a major antagonist in the video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey. He appears as a political adversary to Pericles, and later becomes the ruler of Athens after Pericles' death, using his new position to prolong the Peloponnesian War against Sparta. It is later revealed that this is in service to the goals of the Cult of Kosmos, a secret society of which Cleon is a member that seeks to control all of Greece. The player character, together with an inner circle of allies, including Aristophanes and Thucydides, works to discredit Cleon, prompting him to personally lead the Athenian forces during the Battle of Amphipolis in order to restore his reputation, only to be killed by the protagonist in the effort.

Notes

References

External links
 Livius.org: Cleon

422 BC deaths
5th-century BC Athenians
Sicilian Greeks
Athenians of the Peloponnesian War
Ancient Greeks killed in battle
Ancient Greek merchants
Year of birth unknown

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Visualization, meant as the "The display of data with the aim of maximizing comprehension rather than photographic realism. "  , has had a great expansion over the last years thanks to the availability of more and more powerful computers at low cost. The discipline of Information Visualization (IV) (Spence, 2001; Card et al., 1999) was originated in late '80 with the intent to explore the use of computers to generate interactive, visual representation to explain and understand specific features of data. The basic principle of IV is to present data in a visual form and use human perceptual abilities for their interpretation.
As in many other fields, several people have tried to give a rigorous, scientific definition of the discipline of IV. The definition that received most consensus from the community of the researchers seems to be the one given by Card et al. in their "bible" of IV: the readings (Card et al., 1999). According to them, IV is: "The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition ". By this definition, four terms are the key to understand this domain: visual representation , interaction , abstract data and cognitive amplification . We will try to analyze each of them with the purpose of clearly describe the field and their applications.
Some graphical representations of data.
There are several situations in the real world where we try to understand some phenomena, data, and events using graphics. Some aspects, such as when people need to find a route in a city, the stock market trends during a certain period, the weather forecast, may be understood better using graphics rather than text. Graphical representation of data, compared to the textual or tabular (in case of numbers) one, takes advantage of the human visual perception which is very powerful as they instantly convey large amounts of information to our mind, and allow us to recognize essential features and to make important inferential processes. This is possible thanks to the fact that there's a series of identification and recognition operations that our brain performs in an "automatic" way without the need to focus our attention or even be conscious of them. Perceptual tasks that can be performed in a very short time lapse (typically between 200 and 250 milliseconds or less) are called pre-attentive , since they occur without the intervention of consciousness (Ware, 1999).
Computers may facilitate the visualization process with some visualization tools. This is especially true in the latest years with the use of more and more powerful computers at low cost. However, the above definition is independent from computers: although computers can facilitate visualization, it still remains an activity that happens in the mind.
Recently there has been great progress in high-performance, affordable computer graphics. Common personal computer has reached a graphic power that only 10 years ago was possible only with very expensive graphic workstations specifically built for the graphic process. At the same time, there has been a rapid expansion in information that people have to process for their daily activities. This need lead scientists to explore new ways to represent huge amount of data with computers, taking advantage of the possibility of users to interact with the algorithms that create the graphical representation. Interactivity takes advantage of people's ability to also identify interesting facts when the visual display changes, and allows them to manipulate the visualization or the underlying data to explore such changes.
IV definitions introduce the term "abstract data", for which some clarification is needed. The data itself can have a wide variety of forms, but we can distinguish between data that have a physical correspondence and is closely related to mathematical structures and models (e.g. the airflow around the wing of an airplane, or the density of the Ozone layer surrounding earth), and data that is more abstract in nature (e.g. the stock market fluctuations, or the effects of temperature on the Napoleon's army movements in the Russian campaign). The former is known as Scientific Visualization , and the latter as Information Visualization . (Spence, 2001; Uther, 2001; Hermann et al., 2000). Scientific Visualization was developed in response to the needs of scientists and engineers to view experimental or phenomenal data in graphical formats (examples are given in Figure 1 ), while IV is dealing with unstructured data sets as a distinct flavor (Hermann et al., 2000).
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Graphics aid thinking and reasoning in several ways. Graphics use the visual representations that help to amplify cognition. They convey information to our minds that allows us to search for patterns, recognize relationship between data and perform some inferences more easily.
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May 7, 2009 - Southern Metropolis Daily signed a contract with the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (GAGOC) yesterday and became the exclusive online merchandiser of the 16th Asiad's licensed products. Executives of both sides attended the signing ceremony, including Liu Jiangnan, Deputy Secretary General of GAGOC, Fang Da'er, Director of GAGOC's Marketing Department and Zhang Dongming, Deputy Chief Editor of Nanfang Media Group.
Southern Metropolis Daily signs a contract with GAGOC and becomes the exclusive online merchandiser of the 16th Asiad's licensed products
Online shopping has become an important part of people's everyday life, said Liu. He indicated that since there is a lack of franchised stores for the licensed products in some regions, it would be a good idea to sell them online - an unprecedented move in the Asian Games' history.
Southern Metropolis Daily Operation Company, under Nanfang Media Group, was authorised as a franchised merchandiser by GAGOC in November last year, after public solicitation and evaluation procedures. Yesterday it became the exclusive online merchandiser of the Games' licensed products.
The company is currently building an online platform for the display and sale of the licensed products and the online ordering service will soon be available.
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€86,656 has been raised for Focus Ireland during Radio Nova's 2019 'Help Our Homeless Radiothon'.
The on-air pledge drive took place over two days – March 13th & 14th – and saw the station raising funds to fight homelessness from listener donations and pledges from local businesses and organisations.
It's the 5th year of Nova's annual Homeless Radiothon, with the station raising almost €300,000 to date. Last year, Focus Ireland supported over 400 families in moving out of homelessness. However, the latest figures show that there are now a record total of 9987 men, women and children homeless and that the homeless crisis is worse than ever.
The Radiothon saw a host of well know faces offer their support to Radio Nova including, broadcaster and comedian Simon Delaney, Irish band Aslan and The Riptide Movement, TV host Dermot Bannon, musician Bressie, and comedians Jason Byrne and Kevin McGahern, with the station broadcasting live from Dawson St. for the duration of the event.
Nova set up a Radiothon Call Centre in the radio station, which was manned by Focus Ireland personnel for the duration of the two days.
In addition to donations from listeners, the Radiothon was once again supported by Applegreen taking part by placing donation units across the stores for the two days and, for the first time, the Radiothon featured the 'Friends of Radio Nova', an initiative that saw more than 40 local businesses, organisations and individuals taking part by organising collections and events to support the Radiothon by hosting coffee mornings, cake sales, running marathons and placing donation boxes in their companies to raise funds for the Radiothon.
Nova's CEO, Kevin Branigan, told RadioToday: "We're blown away by the support we've received from our listeners in raising even more funds for such an important cause as homelessness. Media operations have a huge role to play in helping organisations like Focus Ireland raise funds to tackle the plight of homelessness in our country and we're very committed to playing our part".


The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has warned that any further delays by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in effecting payment of the remaining NHIS claims to service providers would result in cessation of health services to NHIS clients.
Dr. Emmanuel Tinkorang, Western Regional Health Director, said about 95 percent of their clients were NHIS card holders therefore failure by the NHIA to immediately reimburse claims of service providers would pose serious challenge to healthcare services in the Region.
He made this known at the Annual Performance Review of the Ghana Health Service in Takoradi to take stock of the year under review as well as assess their challenges and achievements and chart the way forward.
The event, which was held on the theme, "Improving data to facilitate the achievement of health related Millennium Development Goals" brought together health professionals and key stakeholders in the health sector from the 22 metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in the Region.
Dr. Tinkorang indicated that the NHIA had paid claims of health service providers in the Region up to June 2014, and warned that if the NHIA did not pay the remaining amount in earnest, it would ground health services to a halt.
He appealed to the NHIA to urgently resolve the issue with dispatch to avoid any eventualities.
Dr. Tinkorang said last year was a challenging year for the health service in view of the outbreak of cholera as well as a threat of Ebola outbreak following reported cases in Guinea, Liberia and other West African countries.
He said maternal and newborn mortality rate also went high and still remained a major public health challenge with the Region recording 93 maternal mortality last year, compared to 87 cases recorded in 2013.
Dr Tinkorang said the health directorate had resolved to strengthen the maternal health audit team as well as continue the Life Saving Skills training of health workers and introduce half-year review conference to assess the situation.
He expressed regret that the performance of tuberculosis control in the Region was far below expectation, saying the TB cure rate was declining, especially in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis and called for reactivation of the TB control activities in order to improve case detection, reduce defaulter rate and increase treatment success rate.
The Regional Health Director said although the Region performed well in the Expanded Programme of Immunization and Integrated Disease Surveillance, the number of polio cases detected increased from 22 in 2013 to 47 in 2014.
He commended health professionals and all stakeholders for contributing towards the eradication of guinea worm infestation in the country, saying Ghana had been certified as guinea worm free country following assessment by the World Health Organisation last year.
Mr. Alfred Ekow Gyan, the Deputy Western Regional Minister, pledged government's commitment to provide financial and logistical support to the Ghana Health Service to ensure quality health delivery.
He said the government had put mechanisms in place to ensure payment of arrears of the NHIS claims and subsequently effect payments of monthly claims without any more delays.
The minister advised health service providers to do due diligence by ensuring that claims were submitted in time to afford the NHIA the opportunity to vet them and effect payment on time.
He said the Region experienced improvements in some health indicators, especially with community-based health post services and out- patient attendance.
He therefore commended health workers for their hard work in curbing the cholera outbreak last year and maintaining Ebola free status and urged them not to rest on their oars.


I've thought about taking a break. A break from Facebook and Instagram. A break from seeing the photos of your adorable children playing together…brother and sister. A break from the reality that we should be posting our own photos in between reminding our almost 2 year old and almost 3 year old to share on a daily basis. A break from the heart ache of knowing that instead I have to point at photos to teach Madeline about her big brother.
But the truth is that I can't take a break from this reality. I can't turn off the realization that February is here, and I should be getting ready for Joshua's third birthday party, but instead I'm trying to figure out how we get through another birthday without him.
I keep thinking that at some point this will get easier. Honestly, in some ways and on some days it does feel easier, well, maybe not easier rather lighter at least. The weight of the grief three years out feels like something I can easily carry most days. Like putting on an old backpack. It's there. I feel it, but I can still move through my day mostly unhindered by the weight of it. Then there's those other days. Those days that bag feels like it is loaded down like my college back pack always was. Pulling me down. Slowing me down. Weighing me down. February is the two ton of bricks loaded on top of the already too heavy books.
While my instinct is to hide away and shut everything off, I'm choosing to instead make an effort to use this blog more again. I'm going to grieve out loud with the hope that others who are going through a similar feeling of loss will know that it is okay to feel the pain and to speak it out loud.