MAN! Check the photos below, the Riders Against The Storm just sent me this great Trae video, where they roll with him through Houston. It's a real cool look at the man in his city.
Real talk.
Friday, April 30, 2010
More Student Journalism Honors
North Kansas City High SchoolEleven students from North Kansas City High School traveled to Portland, OR, for the National Scholastic Press Assn. convention and competition. More than 4,000 students attend the convention representing 800+ schools from all across the country. Northtown brought home four awards!
The following received NSPA national journalism awards:
Senior Kelsey Brown – Excellent for Yearbook Layout
Senior Emily Geiman – Honorable Mention, Yearbook Sports Caption/Copy Writing
Senior Katelyn Kreszyn – Honorable Mention, Yearbook Student Life Caption/Copy Writing
Sophomore Delaney Hall – Honorable Mention, Yearbook Academics Caption/Copy Writing
North Kansas City High School students also were winners at the Missouri Interscholastic Press Awards for yearbook design and reporting. Students won awards for 14 of the 15 photos they entered, with all being awarded the two top award ratings of Show Me (highest rating) and Superior. In total, Northtown students won 27 state awards, more than doubling their total from last year.
State winners in newspaper were:
Sophomore Andrea Johnson, Show Me Award for New Writing
Sophomore Analyssa Lopez, Superior for News Writing
Senior Christian Abke, Superior for Single Page Design
Sophomore Andrea Johnson, Superior for Single Page Design
Senior Sawyer Hawkins, Superior for Sports Writing
Junior Taylor Shipman, Superior for Sports Writing
Overall Newspaper state rating - Excellent
Yearbook state winners:
Juniors Lacey Brewer and Jeff Brown, Show Me for Academic Section Design
Senior Travis Stewart, Show Me for Overall Theme/Concept
Senior Kathleen Stuart and Adrianne Calumpong, Show Me for Student Life Reporting
Junior Sam Williams, Show Me for Sports Design
Senior Dillon Brewer and Junior Katie Manning, Superior for Academic Section Reporting
Senior Courtney Woodward, Superior for Clubs/Organizations Design
Photography state winners:
Senior Kelsey Brown, Show Me for Academic Coverage (photo titled "Steady Hands")
Junior Shannon Coronado, Show Me for Color Photography (photo titled "Green Light")
Senior KayLynn Howard, Show Me for Sports Feature (photo titled "Pinned")
Junior Shannon Coronado, Superior for Color Photography (photo titled "Mini Mascot")
Junior Shannon Coronado, Superior for Color Photography (photo titled "Blue Eyes")
Senior Kelsey Brown, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Shoo Fly")
Senior Kelsey Brown, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Sandy")
Senior Kelsey Brown, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Splash")
Senior Ida Thoresen, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Creation")
Senior Ida Thoresen, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Betrayal")
Senior Ida Thoresen, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Trapped")
Senior Ida Thoresen, Superior for Creative/Artistic (photo titled "Jola")
Senior KayLynn Howard, Superior for Sports Action (photo titled "Game Face")
Senior KayLynn Howard, Superior for Sports Action (photo titled "Head Over Heels")
Editors are Thao Le and KayLynn Howard for yearbook and Christian Abke for newspaper.
Oak Park
Oak Park Senior Wins Dow Jones ScholarshipLate last week, the Oak Park journalism department held a senior-level writing competition. Senior Alexander Mallin earned the $500 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund scholarship to help him pursue a journalism major at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The contest, sponsor by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, was available to Oak Park seniors as part of the awards package attached to journalism adviser Christina Geabhart's honor as a 2009 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser of the Year.
Oak Park Student Journalist Ranks in the Top 10% Internationally
Senior Alex Mallin is ranked in the top 10 percent of entries in the 2010 International Writing and Photo Contest, sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society for High School Journalists. He earned this distinction on two contest entries.
The contest named Mallin a Sweepstakes Winner in the news story division for his work on a story covering the hacking of the district's mini-notes and the district's quick response to the event. He was chosen the top winner, from 19 national winners in a field of 225 competitors. Only one student in each of the 12 categories can be named as a Sweepstakes Winner. To put this in perspective, Mallin was one of only 12 students named as a Sweepstakes Winner in a competition of 2,585 entries.
He also earned National Winner status in sports story for his work on a story comparing summer band camp to football practice. His embedded journalistic piece earned him a spot among the 27 winners in a field of 285 competitors.
Sweepstakes Winners will receive a plaque noting their honor. National Winners receive a Gold Key award, and may compete for a $500 Edward J. Nell Memorial or a $1,500 George and Ophelia Gallup scholarship in journalism. A list of winners is available at: www.uiowa.edu/~quill-sc.
Oak Park Journalists Have Big Night at Spring Awards NightOak Park scholastic journalists brought home three first places and $750 in scholarship monies, plus other awards from the 2010 Spring Awards Night, sponsored by the Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas City (JEMKC).
In the newspaper competition:
- Senior Mandy Nichols earned honorable mention for regular column writing for a series of reviews on the entertainment page.
- Sophomore Johnna Hensley earned honorable mention for an editorial cartoon featuring the mini-notes.
- Senior Alex Mallin took first place in informative feature for his story about the mini-note hacker and the district’s response.
In the broadcast competition:
- Seniors Kelsey Kaelin and Mark Wopata, and junior Kyle Quatrochi took second place in news feature story featuring the fall musical, "Cinderella."
In the yearbook competition:
- Sophomore Courtney Light and junior Mikayla Sheppard earned honorable mention for a clubs story about Student Council.
- Senior Kim Shields earned honorable mention for activities photography for a parkour image.
- Senior Brittany Parker earned honorable mention for secondary coverage design for a photo essay featuring the Welcome Back assembly.
- Sophomore Chelsie Yokum earned honorable mention for a student life story about movie night and warball.
- Sophomore Jordan Cook took third place in sports photography for a football image.
- Junior Derek Byrne took first place in portrait story for a story about a student who jam skates.
- Junior Molly Mendenhall took first place in portrait design for a spread covering seniors' school photos and a senior theater lighting manager.
Junior Derek Byrne also won the Sarah Ellen Campbell Media Workshop Scholarship for juniors on a yearbook staff. His $150 award will be applied to the summer media camp of his choice.
Senior Samantha Colhour won the Opal Heatherly Writing Award for seniors on a yearbook staff. She earned a $150 scholarship, sponsored by The Kansas City Star.
Senior Alex Mallin wrapped up his night by winning two scholarships. The first was the $150 Opal Heatherly Writing Award for seniors on a newspaper staff, also sponsored by The Kansas City Star. The second was the top scholarship honor given by JEMKC -- the $300 Excellence in Journalism Scholarship for seniors, sponsored by JEMKC.
For the fifth consecutive year, Oak Park students earned the Spirit Bag 'O Fun for their school and districtwide spirit during the awards ceremony.
Maple Park Students Earn Scholastic Achievement Award
The Missouri State High School Activities Assn. (MSHSAA) recently announced that Maple Park Middle School received the Scholastic Achievement Award for:8th Grade Boys Basketball with a team GPA of 3.33
8th Grade Girls Basketball with a team GPA of 3.58
Two individual students received Most Improved Scholastic Achievement awards:
8th grade boy – Aaron Mends
8th grade girl – Rylee Bayless
State Results from Future Business Leaders of America Competition
Ten Oak Park students competed at Missouri State Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) last week in Columbia. Students representing Oak Park were: Morgan Barling, senior; Joe Crimi, senior; Nick Deason, junior; Anthony Hand, senior; Neal Jacobson, senior; Kaitlyn Lewis, junior; Kyle Quatrochi, junior; Katelynn Stull, sophomore; Courtney Turnbull, junior; and Mark Wopata, senior.
Top 10 Oak Park Finishers
Business Ethics team: Mark Wopata, Kaitlyn Lewis, and Nick Deason, 8th place
Business Calculations: Neal Jacobson, 4th place
Business Law: Katelynn Stull, 4th place
Business Procedures: Morgan Barling, 3rd place
Accounting II: Morgan Barling, 2nd place
Qualifying for National FBLA competition, this July in Nashville, are Neal Jacobson in Business Calculations; and Morgan Barling in both Business Procedures and Accounting II. Katelynn Stull is an alternate in Business Law.
Staley High School’s Carson Sanford placed 7th in Economics. This was Staley's first year to compete at the state level.
Top 10 Oak Park Finishers
Business Ethics team: Mark Wopata, Kaitlyn Lewis, and Nick Deason, 8th place
Business Calculations: Neal Jacobson, 4th place
Business Law: Katelynn Stull, 4th place
Business Procedures: Morgan Barling, 3rd place
Accounting II: Morgan Barling, 2nd place
Qualifying for National FBLA competition, this July in Nashville, are Neal Jacobson in Business Calculations; and Morgan Barling in both Business Procedures and Accounting II. Katelynn Stull is an alternate in Business Law.
Staley High School’s Carson Sanford placed 7th in Economics. This was Staley's first year to compete at the state level.
From Our Readers
Clardy Students Win at State PTA Reflections ContestHolland Gugler, a 4th grader at Clardy, won 2nd place at State Reflections Contest, in Musical Composition Category. Her song was titled "Beauty is the Sound of Spring".
Sierra Hermsen, a 2nd grader at Clardy, won 5th place for her poem in the Literature Category.
All 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners at the local level had the option to have their entries advanced to judging in statewide competition.
*Submitted by: Cindy Gugler
From Our Community
Summer Fun Camps at North Kansas City Community CenterGet Connected to Summer Fun in North Kansas City with the North Kansas City Community Center’s (NKCCC) weekly Summer Fun Camp. This year campers, ages 5-14, will enjoy participating in daily activities that are designed to encourage creativity and use of imagination. These activities range from arts and crafts, team-building events, swimming, rock climbing (ages 8+), kid fitness, field trips, special guests and other indoor/outdoor activities.
This year’s camp runs from June 7, 2010-August 13, 2010, and you can pick and choose which weeks that you would like to attend. Fees range from $125-$140 per week.
NKCCC also will be offering Teen Camps for ages 12–15. Camps to choose from are Art/Media, Music, Sports, and Culinary. Teens will have an opportunity for hands on experience while on field trips and participating in many indoor/outdoor activities. Fees range from $140-$160 per week.
For dates, themes, and field trip information, please visit our Web site at http://www.nkccc.org/, or stop by the facility located at 1999 Iron St., North Kansas City, MO 64116.
Registration has begun so sign up today!
*Submitted by: North Kansas City Community Center
Gladstone Farmers Market Opens Saturday, May 1
This Saturday, May 1, the Gladstone Farmers Market will open for business at the corner of 70th Street and N. Locust. Plan to attend the ribbon cutting and opening ceremonies beginning at 9 a.m. Ceremonies will take place, rain or shine. Attendees will hear from Mayor Les Smith and other Gladstone area dignitaries.
The Farmers Market will be open Saturday mornings from 7 a.m. to Noon, as well as Wednesdays from 3-7 p.m.
*Submitted by: Gladstone Area Chamber of Commerce
Arizona: Hezbollah Using Drug Routes to Infiltrate US
AzBiz.com: Now Arizona Has More Than One War in Its Backyard: Hezbollah Using Drug Routes to Infiltrate US
By Lionel Waxman
Inside Tucson Business
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
... Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese group, is on its way to involving Tubac, Tucson, Phoenix and other parts of Arizona in the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the drug trade. Where are our NIMBYs?
For at least four years, the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research has been keeping an eye on a Hezbollah militia that has taken root in South America in the what’s known as the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. According to reports, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials say Hezbollah is relying on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels.”
The drug war is here. It’s real and very personal to Southern Arizonans. It was especially personal to Robert Krentz, the Cochise County rancher who was killed on his own land March 27, most likely by a drug runner. It is not surprising that crime is rife along the border, and when I say along the border, I mean within 150 miles of the border. Can you really sit comfortably in your living room in Tubac and believe the war isn’t “here” yet? ...
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By Lionel Waxman
Inside Tucson Business
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
... Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese group, is on its way to involving Tubac, Tucson, Phoenix and other parts of Arizona in the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the drug trade. Where are our NIMBYs?
For at least four years, the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research has been keeping an eye on a Hezbollah militia that has taken root in South America in the what’s known as the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. According to reports, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials say Hezbollah is relying on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels.”
The drug war is here. It’s real and very personal to Southern Arizonans. It was especially personal to Robert Krentz, the Cochise County rancher who was killed on his own land March 27, most likely by a drug runner. It is not surprising that crime is rife along the border, and when I say along the border, I mean within 150 miles of the border. Can you really sit comfortably in your living room in Tubac and believe the war isn’t “here” yet? ...
READ IT ALL
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Arizona Products and Gifts
Here some listings of "Top Picks" for various categories of Arizona products and gifts. You'll find books, collectibles, food products and more.
Here some listings of "Top Picks" for various categories of Arizona products and gifts. You'll find books, collectibles, food products and more.
Ralph Peters: Border disorder
In DC, it's about politics. In Arizona, it's about survival.
Mexico: the real war next door
nypost.com
April 29, 2010
South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000.
The rate of killing accelerates each month. And Washington covers its eyes like a kid at a scary movie. Well, the Mexican narco-insurgency, in which well-armed guerrilla forces confront the authority and presence of the state, is our No. 1 security challenge.
The chaos in northern Mexico has far deeper implications for our country than Islamist terror or even an Iranian nuclear capability (as grim as those threats are).
The rule of law has collapsed from Tijuana on the Pacific's edge to Matamoros and the Gulf of Mexico. Major cities are now "ungoverned spaces," as our diplomats refer tidily to distant trouble spots.
More people now die violently on our southern border than in Somalia, Yemen or even Afghanistan. But Washington doesn't know what to do about Mexico. So Washington does nothing much.
Our ruling class simply doesn't feel the pain. So the DC elite demonizes Arizona's desperate effort to shove the narco-revolution's disorder back across the border. Murdered ranchers, overwhelmed emergency rooms and soaring crime rates in our border states mean less to the White House than a terrorist detainee's claims of abuse. Our governing elite pretends that illegal immigration, torrential crime where illegals cluster, overcrowded prisons, Mexico's narco-insurgency, legal cross-border commerce and the drug trade are separate issues, to be addressed discreetly.
But these issues are all interwoven with the Mexican government's existential crisis. Drug wealth fuels criminal empires. Those narco-empires are now so powerful that they've risen against the state. Human trafficking is a useful sideline for drug lords. And illegal immigration drives crime rates in bankruptcy-threatened US cities and states.
Cross-border trade's the next target. Narco-insurgents now feel sufficiently confident to attack Mexican army installations and US consulates. The maquiladoras, those thousands of assembly plants along the border, won't escape the mayhem. Given their enormous contribution to Mexico's fiscal stability and employment rates, those plants are obvious targets as the narco-challenge to the state intensifies.
Mexican journalists, too, have been killed by the hundreds. Their torture and execution doesn't generate much excitement north of the border, though. It's their bad luck to be butchered by Mexican narcos. Had they been killed accidentally by US forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, they'd be famous martyrs.
And Arizona's "discriminatory" new state law empowering police to pursue criminal aliens? Should Phoenix let the rule of law collapse because Washington prefers political correctness to public safety? In DC, it's about politics. In Arizona, it's about survival.
It bewilders me that my fellow citizens don't take the disintegration of government authority in northern Mexico seriously. As I've written repeatedly, no country is more important to us socially, economically and security-wise than Mexico. Afghanistan's fluff by comparison.
Precisely 100 years ago, in 1910, the Mexican Revolution erupted in northern Mexico -- already the most prosperous and industrially developed portion of the country. That revolution lasted a bloody, destructive decade.
It wasn't the bandido affair beloved of Hollywood knuckleheads, but a complex contest for power with large armies, strategic campaigns, major battles, trench warfare, barbed wire and machine guns. In 1915, the military vision of the self-taught Gen. Alvaro Obregon -- destined to become Mexico's president -- was more sophisticated than that of the US Army. Mexico pioneered the 20th century's revolutions.
Since then, northern Mexico -- from the border cities southward through the industrial powerhouse of Monterrey -- has continued to be the country's primary agent of change. Influenced by its proximity to America, the north long has been a different country from the impoverished states south of the capital.
Now a new Mexican revolution is underway in the vital north. In 1910, idealists struggled to change an autocratic regime. In 2010, criminal syndicates fight to wrest power from a democratic government and to grab market share from each other.
(In an eerie parallel, a bloody strike in the northern mining center of Cananea helped ignite the 1910 revolution; today, a three-year-long strike in Cananea by mining and metal workers signals a new generation's impatience with the status quo -- and we're just not paying attention.)
During that earlier revolution, the citizens of El Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, gathered to watch the battles just across the border as Pancho Villa's troops drove out the Federals, then as the Constitutionalists defeated Villa. Those spectators were confident in their immunity as American citizens.
We're no longer immune.
Ralph Peters' latest book is "Endless War."
Mexico: the real war next door
nypost.com
April 29, 2010
South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000.
The rate of killing accelerates each month. And Washington covers its eyes like a kid at a scary movie. Well, the Mexican narco-insurgency, in which well-armed guerrilla forces confront the authority and presence of the state, is our No. 1 security challenge.
The chaos in northern Mexico has far deeper implications for our country than Islamist terror or even an Iranian nuclear capability (as grim as those threats are).
The rule of law has collapsed from Tijuana on the Pacific's edge to Matamoros and the Gulf of Mexico. Major cities are now "ungoverned spaces," as our diplomats refer tidily to distant trouble spots.
More people now die violently on our southern border than in Somalia, Yemen or even Afghanistan. But Washington doesn't know what to do about Mexico. So Washington does nothing much.
Our ruling class simply doesn't feel the pain. So the DC elite demonizes Arizona's desperate effort to shove the narco-revolution's disorder back across the border. Murdered ranchers, overwhelmed emergency rooms and soaring crime rates in our border states mean less to the White House than a terrorist detainee's claims of abuse. Our governing elite pretends that illegal immigration, torrential crime where illegals cluster, overcrowded prisons, Mexico's narco-insurgency, legal cross-border commerce and the drug trade are separate issues, to be addressed discreetly.
But these issues are all interwoven with the Mexican government's existential crisis. Drug wealth fuels criminal empires. Those narco-empires are now so powerful that they've risen against the state. Human trafficking is a useful sideline for drug lords. And illegal immigration drives crime rates in bankruptcy-threatened US cities and states.
Cross-border trade's the next target. Narco-insurgents now feel sufficiently confident to attack Mexican army installations and US consulates. The maquiladoras, those thousands of assembly plants along the border, won't escape the mayhem. Given their enormous contribution to Mexico's fiscal stability and employment rates, those plants are obvious targets as the narco-challenge to the state intensifies.
Mexican journalists, too, have been killed by the hundreds. Their torture and execution doesn't generate much excitement north of the border, though. It's their bad luck to be butchered by Mexican narcos. Had they been killed accidentally by US forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, they'd be famous martyrs.
And Arizona's "discriminatory" new state law empowering police to pursue criminal aliens? Should Phoenix let the rule of law collapse because Washington prefers political correctness to public safety? In DC, it's about politics. In Arizona, it's about survival.
It bewilders me that my fellow citizens don't take the disintegration of government authority in northern Mexico seriously. As I've written repeatedly, no country is more important to us socially, economically and security-wise than Mexico. Afghanistan's fluff by comparison.
Precisely 100 years ago, in 1910, the Mexican Revolution erupted in northern Mexico -- already the most prosperous and industrially developed portion of the country. That revolution lasted a bloody, destructive decade.
It wasn't the bandido affair beloved of Hollywood knuckleheads, but a complex contest for power with large armies, strategic campaigns, major battles, trench warfare, barbed wire and machine guns. In 1915, the military vision of the self-taught Gen. Alvaro Obregon -- destined to become Mexico's president -- was more sophisticated than that of the US Army. Mexico pioneered the 20th century's revolutions.
Since then, northern Mexico -- from the border cities southward through the industrial powerhouse of Monterrey -- has continued to be the country's primary agent of change. Influenced by its proximity to America, the north long has been a different country from the impoverished states south of the capital.
Now a new Mexican revolution is underway in the vital north. In 1910, idealists struggled to change an autocratic regime. In 2010, criminal syndicates fight to wrest power from a democratic government and to grab market share from each other.
(In an eerie parallel, a bloody strike in the northern mining center of Cananea helped ignite the 1910 revolution; today, a three-year-long strike in Cananea by mining and metal workers signals a new generation's impatience with the status quo -- and we're just not paying attention.)
During that earlier revolution, the citizens of El Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, gathered to watch the battles just across the border as Pancho Villa's troops drove out the Federals, then as the Constitutionalists defeated Villa. Those spectators were confident in their immunity as American citizens.
We're no longer immune.
Ralph Peters' latest book is "Endless War."
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Delete a file that unable to delete
Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.Close all open programs.
Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
Leave Task Manager open.
Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.
At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.
Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
Close Task Manager.
Or you can try this
Open Notepad.exe
Click File>Save As..>
locate the folder where ur undeletable file is
Choose ‘All files’ from the file type box
click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the ‘filename’ box
put a ” at the start and end of the filename
(the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
click save,
It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normal
Duke Ellington: begin 1930 - het crisisjaar
Duke Ellington early 1930: the Year of the Depression (English) Duke Ellington: begin 1930 - het crisisjaar. (Nederlands)Duke Ellington en het scheermesincident.
DUKE ELLINGTON: BEGIN 1930 - HET CRISISJAAR
Hans Koert
Deze week is het 111 jaar geleden dat één van de grootste bandleiders, pianisten en componisten geboren werd in Washington DC : Edward Kennedy Ellington, beter bekend als de Duke. Tachtig jaar geleden trad hij op in de Cotton Club in Harlem ( NYC) en kreeg hij met zijn orkest, The Cotton Club Orchestra, steeds meer bekendheid. In dat 12-mans orkest zaten musici als Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Juan Tizol, Harry Carney en Barney Bigard, die naam zouden maken in het orkest.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Er waren in die tijd heel wat bands in Harlem, maar dat van de Duke was ongetwijfeld het beste - zelfs "beter" dan dat van Fletcher Henderson ( maar dat mocht er ook zijn !!). De populariteit van dit orkest was vooral terug te voeren op het feit dat de Duke een geweldig goede componist was, die zijn arrangementen schreef voor de musici in zijn band persoonlijk en geen nummers componeerde, die door elk orkest gespeeld zouden kunnen worden. Elk lid van het orkest kon zich zo ontwikkelen tot vakkundige solisten. De CD Harlem Jazz 1925-1937 op het Audio Park label geeft een fraai tijdsbeeld van deze periode met de orkesten van Ellington en Henderson.
Luister maar eens naar een fragment uit de film Black and Tan, gemaakt in augustus 1929 en uitgebracht in december van dat jaar, dat begint met een duo van Duke aan de piano, die Arthur Whetsol een nieuw thema aanleert, gespeeld in de zgn. "jungle style". Het tweede deel komt uit de film Check and Double Check uit 1930. Het nummer heet Old Man Blues. Wat een geweldige muziek !!
Duke Ellington - piano, composer - Fred Guy - banjo - Wellman Braud - bas - Sonny Greer - slagwerk - Arthur Whetsol, Cootie Williams, Freddy Jenkins - trompet - Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton - trombone, Juan Tizol - ventieltrombone - Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Barney Bigard - rieten
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra In 1927 werd Irving Mills zijn manager en impressario; hij zou Duke Ellington op de kaart zetten als internationaal beroemd artiest. Hij werd een vermogend man o.a. dankzij de vele composities, die hij kocht en op zijn naam kon zetten. Ook organiseerde hij honderden opnamesessies voor radio en plaat en daardoor kon het orkest van Duke Ellington begin jaren dertig blijven groeien in populariteit waar andere bands de broekriem moesten aanhalen vanwege de crisis. Helaas (!) zong Mills ook zo nu en dan tijdens deze opnamesessies. In 1930 verhuisde Duke Ellington definitief van Washington naar New York City, the place to be in die dagen. Hij ging wonen aan de 381 Edgecombe Ave., apt. 142, samen met zijn moeder Daisy ( die hier geen last van haar astma meer had (!)), zijn zus Ruth en zijn zoon Mercer. Zijn huwelijk met Edna was op een scheiding uitgelopen en Duke scharrelde met de knappe actrice Fredi Washington. Tijdens één van hun ruzies had Edna Duke met een scheermes gesneden. Edna cut him ..... ( = Edna sneed hem .....). He was living on Seventh Avenue somewhere around there, in one of those apartment buildings ...( = Hij woonde toen ergens in de buurt van de 7th Avenue, in één van die appartementengebouwen.). That big scar on the side of his face? His wife did that to him .... (= Dat litteken op zijn gezicht? Dat heeft zijn vrouw gedaan!) vertelt Barney Bigard. Zijn zoon Mercer herinnert zich over dit incident: He probably hadn't come home for two or three days and he and mother got into a tremendous fight, in the course of which she got hold of this knife and slashed across the face ( = Hij zal wel weer een paar nachten weggebleven zijn en dat mondde uit in een geweldig gevecht, waarbij zij dat mes te pakken kreeg en uithaalde over zijn wang) ( Reminiscing in Tempo (Stuart Nicholson) p.101).
Duke Ellington's band - 1930De band van Ellington werd beroemd door de zgn. jungle style, a type of jazz that incorporated pseudo-African musical effects - especially pounding tom-toms, unusual harmonies, "primitive" scales ( usually pentatonic and whole-tone), and muted, growling bass lines ( = een jazzstijl, dat pseudo-Afrikaanse muzikale effecten toevoegde, zoals tom-toms,ongebruikelijke harmonieën, "primitieve" toonsoorten ( meestal pentatonische toonladders em hele tonen) en gestopte, growling baslijnen) ( Mark Tucker in de New Grove Dictionary of Jazz). Het volgende fragment is de afsluiting van de film Black and Tan, waarin je de growling jungle style mooi kunt herkennen.
Foto uit de film: Black and Tan (1929) In 1930 maakte hij tientallen opnamen, dankzij Irving Mills, die hen soms tweemaal per week de opnamestudio in trok voor opnamen op gerenomeerde labels als Victor, Okeh ( Harlem Footwarmers), Brunswick (Jungle Band), maar ook, onder verschilende schuilnamen, op budgetplaten als Hit of the Week ( Harlem Hot Chocolates), Conqueror ( Ten Black Berries), Diva en Clarion ( Mills' Ten Black Berries). Het eerstgenoemde label, Hit of the Week, bracht twee 78-toeren platen uit, op karton, die als "Hits" van de week in de krantenkiosken verkocht werden. Het zijn nu gezochte verzamelaarsobjecten en binnenkort krijgen ze een plaatsje in het zgn. Durium80 project op de Hit of the Week blog. Mis het niet !!
Sing You Sinners - Harlem Hot Chocolates ( Hit of the Week 1045) ( Verzameling Hans Koert )Je kunt luisteren naar Sing You Sinners door het orkest van Duke Ellington, hier verscholen achter de naam Harlem Hot Chocolates. De zanger is Irving Mills zelf.
Hans Koert
Duke Ellington's populariteit was 80 jaar geleden nog steeds groeiende .... Hoewel de Depresssie meedogenloos om zich heen sloeg en heel wat orkesten gereorganiseerd moesten worden of alles moesten aannemen om maar aan werk te komen, lijkt het de Duke tamelijk voor de wind te gaan, maar op het persoonlijk vlak was het niet allemaal rozengeur en maneschijn, gezien het litteken op Duke's wang. Keep Swinging belicht deze eerste maanden van 1930 op de dag nadat de Duke 111 jaar oud geworden zou zijn .... Mis het niet - vraag de wekelijkse nieuwbrief.
( tekening Early Jazz Greats: R. Crumb)
Retrospect
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DoS ATTACK
Lets get started Denial of Service or (DoS) attacks
have matured from mere annoyances to severe
high-profile attacks to e-commerce sites.
When performing DoS attacks there are alot of
approached techniques, including the famous
but old "Ping of Death" which will be covered in
this tutorial. DoS has been raging on since the 90's,
getting more advanced and more serious.
This tutorial is going to explain the jist of it to you.
We will start at the beginning and I will start by saying that if you plan to bring down a
site with DoS its probably going to take more than 1 computer. The rage which has hit with DoS
is DDoS (distributed denial of service) which is a DoS attack, but not done by one user, done
by many users or a bot armie. A famous DDoS attack is the one done to GNR.com the attack
completely took up all the sites bandwith within seconds. There site was recorded to have been
attack by 456 Windows users.Now that you understand the god like power of this raging and more
feared attack. Lets move on to the different types of DoS attacks.
---Fragmentation overlap
By forcing the OS to deal with overlapping TCP/IP packet fragments, this attack caused many
OSs to suffer crashes and resource starvation. Exploit code was realeased with names such as
bong,boink, and teardrop.
---Oversized Packets
This is called the "Ping of Death" (ping -1 65510 192.168.2.3) an a Windows system (where
192.168.2.3 is the IP adress of the intended victim). What is happening is the attacker is
pinging every port on the victims computer causing it to echo back 65510 requests. Another
example is a jolt attack a simple C program for OSs whose ping commands wont generate
oversized packets. The main goals of the "Ping of Death" is to generate a packet size that
exceeds 65,535 bytes. Which can abrubtly cause the victim computer to crash. This technique
is old!
---Nukers
Yet another old form of attack this is related to a Windows vunlnerablity of some years ago
that sent out-of-band(OOB) packets. To the consenting computer causing it to crash.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .---SYN floodsA newer technique of DoS is SYN floods, basically this is done through a 3 step processbetter known as the three way handshake. When a TCP connection is initiated this occurs. Under some normal circumstances, a SYN packet is sent from a specific port on system 1 to a specific port on system 2 that is in the LISTEN state. Then the potential connection on system 2 is in a SYN_RECV state. At this stage system 2 will attempt to send back a SYN/ACK packet to system 1.If all works out, system 1 will send back an ACK packet, and the connectionwill move to an ESTABLISHED state. Now thats what happens most of the time, but a SYN flood is different it creates a half open connection. Most systems can sustain hundreds of connections on a specific port, but it will only take a few half open connections to exhaust all the resources on the computer.---Smurf AttacksThe smurf attack was one of the first to demonstrate the use of unwitting DoS amplifiers on the Internet. A smurf takes advantage of directed broadcasts and requires a minimum of three actors: the attacker, the amplifying network, and the victim. What happens is the attacker sends out spoofed ICMP ECHO packets to the broadcast address of the amplifying network. The source address of packets is forged to make it appear as if the victim system has initiated the request. Then all hell breaks loose!!! Because the ECHO packet was sent to the broadcast address, all systems on the amplifying network will respond to the victim. Now take a thought if the attacker sends just a single ICMP packet to an amplifying network which contains 500 systems that will respond to a broadcast ping, the attacker has now succeeded in multiplying the DoS attack by a magnitude of 500!---Fraggle AttackA fraggle attack is the same as a smurf attack, but it uses UDP ports instead.---DDoS AttackThis is a much harder to block kind of attack, it has been used against big sites such as E-Trade, Ebay, and countless others. The problem with these attacks there very hard to trace. Most traces can link back to @Home users! The new DDoS attacks are termed Zombies or Bots. These bots rely heavily on remote automation techniques borrowed from Internet Relay Chat (IRC) scripts of the same name. A group of zombies under the control of a single person is called a zombie network or a bot army. The master of these armys or networks can do full fledged DDoS attacks or SYN floods. The basic estimate size of zombie networks are from a few systems to 150,000 systems. Even a few hundred machines could prove very dangerous.
The Fun Parts of My Past Week
Not that riding on the enemy isn't fun, but I mean, yeah, I do things other than go all "drama queen" on boys. Or girls. or Wimmin. Whoever.
Anyway, in a post below I ask why it's gotta go down so hard on a Friday night in Austin. Well, realistically, that's how it goes down in Austin. So much music, every night, I need to try and catch way more of it.
Here's some pics and a brief report on what I have seen in the past week.
Cuz it really went down.
Firstly last Wednesday I went down ta the Beauty Bar to check out a show presented in part by my family at TheSouthernShift. It was a live band hip-hop explosion featuring...
Queen Deelah who recently moved to Austin from Oakland (I assume recently, not sure) and she RIPPED IT!
All three groups had full bands on this particular night.
And also kept it positive.
Second group of the night was a husband and wife duo called RAS - Riders Against The Storm - who also recently moved to Austin, from I think Rhode Island. Man, they call themselves Hip-Hop Healers and well...
I can't even lie, they really do do the healing thing.
Their show actually reminded me of my yoga class, as I mean, it's kind of hard to explain, but they started out with an intro that would have been a little long, were it not so interesting and engaging.
Kind of like the first breathing exercise in Bikram yoga where you breathe deep, throw your head back, and well, whatever, just try it sometime you'll know what I mean. But they started the show off with this move they encouraged the audience to do. It was designed to shake off all the tension and the stress, and well I don't remember exactly how they worded it, but I highly recommend that you check them out and see how they get down. It's a truly unique and jammin' hip-hop experience.
In fact I almost made her repeat their entire intro into my lil recorder thing so I could transcribe it all for you, cuz you as well as I, need it. But I chickened out. I may have been hizzy.
Headliners Blacklisted Individuals were one MC short, and DaShade Moonbeam had a DaShade Moonbeam shirt on, what's up with that?
Shit was dynamic as always. Blacklisted Individual(s) are one of my favorite hip-hop groups at the moment hands down. Not just in Austin. They jam and have a DYNAMIC live show.
Live band, all that, of course.
It's Austin!
Word to the RIDERS AGAINST THE STORM and ANN DEL LLANO for getting me out on that particular night. I needed some hip-hop healing, and well, $2 drafts.
The next night Orgone played Flamingo Cantina. The crowd was not huge, but I hear it's because TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission) had planned to check out a bunch of clubs on that particular block on that particular night and well, word leaked, and I don't think the Flamingo regulars felt like being hassled by the man.
I don't think anyone felt like being hassled by the man, I sure didn't, and didn't, but whatever, had to see Orgone.
What an incredible band of players.
Fanny ain't even trippin'.
They just RIPPED it like they were at a packed Carnegie Hall or some shit, and we all thanked them for it.
Only shit part of the night was my dumb ass walked in just as Tuh-Nie aka Martin from Grimy Styles solo/duo act, stepped off the stage. A pisser as they'd say in Londontown.
THEN! This past weekend was Art City. My wife works with the Art Alliance, so I DJed the kids stage at 10:30 in the morning. First song was "Young Folks" and not even 20 seconds into it and old man artist type with a booth came up complaining. Telling me that the artists had to be able to communicate with the patrons in order to sell their work, and this music... and I cut him off and says to the guy, "But we are talking right now in a normal tone of voice, what's the problem??
He threw his hands up, and walked away. Which was my goal. I then played a bunch of music about robots and bird flu and robot rock and said whatever for the next couple hours as kids painted rocks in my vicinity. Nice way to start the day.
And of course I was rolling with my lil ladies the whole time.
And this lil lady Grace London, a student at the ASPVA, came on after me and actually did a White Stripes cover. That Hotel song everybody loves. And it was so good. Again, what a way to start a weekend!
Later in the day, on the grown up stage, two of my favorite Austin bands played back to back.
Rattletree came out and straight wrecked their marimba styles for what I suspect was quite the unsuspecting crowd. But man, did they rope em in!
All handmade instruments, and steeped in tradition.
They bring quite a show and don't hesitate to educate.
I said it on this blog a couple years ago when I saw them for the first time opening for Extra Golden, if these cats were from New York, they'd be HUGE!
I mean Antibalas huge. Whatever. They are amazing to watch. Eva was way into it.
The solar powered steps of our City Hall.
Amy's Ice Cream break. Another fine things about Austin...
Amy's Ice Cream (Also their chicken sandwiches)
Directly after Rattletree, Grimy Styles hit the stage. Now if you know me, you know THIS MY GROUP!
And man I have not seen them enough in the past year. Confounded work/reality/family/sleep life. Shit. I need to see them more often.
Grimy Styles gives me energy and hope for the universe.
And they made some 2x shirts so I done got one from Erin, right after this pic was snapped.
Wore it three times this week already.
MY GROUP! THEY GOTTA EAT!
Then on Sunday, the Austin Ballet surprised the crowd with a 3 minute dance, a flash mob of sorts, where close to 100 members of the Austin Ballet broke into dance and just ripped it.
Yes, this is Austin.
America.
Hit the family stage again after the mob thang, and caught some kids from the Austin School of Rock jammin' on down.
I fully endorse this whole concept.
She put that iCarly girl to SHAME!
ANYWAY! If you really know me, you know that what I really like to jam, besides extreme gangsta rap, is some avant garde jazz. Stuff that can't be predicted or defined. And well, two kingpins came together at the Victory Grill last night and I had the privilege of witnessing it all.
Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake.
Hanging out behind the Victory Grill having a chat.
So I of course distracted them by taking some photos.
This building is legendary.
I took this photo during the first set. I was sitting in one of the booths and well, you probably can't see what I see in this photo.
Which is fine. This is a shot I took during the break between sets outside. Hamid Drake, man, I used to see him monthly in Chicago if not more. He's one of those dudes that indirectly helped shape my musical palette, just by KILLING IT EVERYTIME. A percussive genius to say the least.
Seen here with Pedro Moreno, who put this, and every crazy ass free jazz show on in Austin in the past however many years, he is a true soldier and thank GOD for him. Also in the pic, Brannen Temple and his wife. Now, Brannen is also an incredible drummer. I saw him like 10 years ago playing with Charles Gayle during SXSW at the Elephant Room. I'll have to tell you that story one day, wow.
Big time writer chick.
I didn't take a lot of photos, and I didn't use my flash as I hate interupting shows like this with photos and flashes.
As it's all coming right there and then from the musicians hearts, minds and souls in total syncopation with the universe and possibly the full moon outside and well, it has nothing to do with me other than I am receiving it and on this particular night, I read it loud and clear in the nether regions of my mindstate, and shit.
Hamid Drakes' hands on that drum...
Making sounds I didn't even know existed. Seen here in the mirror.
Why I take photos the way I do, I have no idea. See you out and about this weekend Austin? NIPSEY HUSSLE! JAMES DEAN! ZEALE! FAT PIMP! What else?
Anyway, in a post below I ask why it's gotta go down so hard on a Friday night in Austin. Well, realistically, that's how it goes down in Austin. So much music, every night, I need to try and catch way more of it.
Here's some pics and a brief report on what I have seen in the past week.
Cuz it really went down.
Firstly last Wednesday I went down ta the Beauty Bar to check out a show presented in part by my family at TheSouthernShift. It was a live band hip-hop explosion featuring...
Queen Deelah who recently moved to Austin from Oakland (I assume recently, not sure) and she RIPPED IT!
All three groups had full bands on this particular night.
And also kept it positive.
Second group of the night was a husband and wife duo called RAS - Riders Against The Storm - who also recently moved to Austin, from I think Rhode Island. Man, they call themselves Hip-Hop Healers and well...
I can't even lie, they really do do the healing thing.
Their show actually reminded me of my yoga class, as I mean, it's kind of hard to explain, but they started out with an intro that would have been a little long, were it not so interesting and engaging.
Kind of like the first breathing exercise in Bikram yoga where you breathe deep, throw your head back, and well, whatever, just try it sometime you'll know what I mean. But they started the show off with this move they encouraged the audience to do. It was designed to shake off all the tension and the stress, and well I don't remember exactly how they worded it, but I highly recommend that you check them out and see how they get down. It's a truly unique and jammin' hip-hop experience.
In fact I almost made her repeat their entire intro into my lil recorder thing so I could transcribe it all for you, cuz you as well as I, need it. But I chickened out. I may have been hizzy.
Headliners Blacklisted Individuals were one MC short, and DaShade Moonbeam had a DaShade Moonbeam shirt on, what's up with that?
Shit was dynamic as always. Blacklisted Individual(s) are one of my favorite hip-hop groups at the moment hands down. Not just in Austin. They jam and have a DYNAMIC live show.
Live band, all that, of course.
It's Austin!
Word to the RIDERS AGAINST THE STORM and ANN DEL LLANO for getting me out on that particular night. I needed some hip-hop healing, and well, $2 drafts.
The next night Orgone played Flamingo Cantina. The crowd was not huge, but I hear it's because TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission) had planned to check out a bunch of clubs on that particular block on that particular night and well, word leaked, and I don't think the Flamingo regulars felt like being hassled by the man.
I don't think anyone felt like being hassled by the man, I sure didn't, and didn't, but whatever, had to see Orgone.
What an incredible band of players.
Fanny ain't even trippin'.
They just RIPPED it like they were at a packed Carnegie Hall or some shit, and we all thanked them for it.
Only shit part of the night was my dumb ass walked in just as Tuh-Nie aka Martin from Grimy Styles solo/duo act, stepped off the stage. A pisser as they'd say in Londontown.
THEN! This past weekend was Art City. My wife works with the Art Alliance, so I DJed the kids stage at 10:30 in the morning. First song was "Young Folks" and not even 20 seconds into it and old man artist type with a booth came up complaining. Telling me that the artists had to be able to communicate with the patrons in order to sell their work, and this music... and I cut him off and says to the guy, "But we are talking right now in a normal tone of voice, what's the problem??
He threw his hands up, and walked away. Which was my goal. I then played a bunch of music about robots and bird flu and robot rock and said whatever for the next couple hours as kids painted rocks in my vicinity. Nice way to start the day.
And of course I was rolling with my lil ladies the whole time.
And this lil lady Grace London, a student at the ASPVA, came on after me and actually did a White Stripes cover. That Hotel song everybody loves. And it was so good. Again, what a way to start a weekend!
Later in the day, on the grown up stage, two of my favorite Austin bands played back to back.
Rattletree came out and straight wrecked their marimba styles for what I suspect was quite the unsuspecting crowd. But man, did they rope em in!
All handmade instruments, and steeped in tradition.
They bring quite a show and don't hesitate to educate.
I said it on this blog a couple years ago when I saw them for the first time opening for Extra Golden, if these cats were from New York, they'd be HUGE!
I mean Antibalas huge. Whatever. They are amazing to watch. Eva was way into it.
The solar powered steps of our City Hall.
Amy's Ice Cream break. Another fine things about Austin...
Amy's Ice Cream (Also their chicken sandwiches)
Directly after Rattletree, Grimy Styles hit the stage. Now if you know me, you know THIS MY GROUP!
And man I have not seen them enough in the past year. Confounded work/reality/family/sleep life. Shit. I need to see them more often.
Grimy Styles gives me energy and hope for the universe.
And they made some 2x shirts so I done got one from Erin, right after this pic was snapped.
Wore it three times this week already.
MY GROUP! THEY GOTTA EAT!
Then on Sunday, the Austin Ballet surprised the crowd with a 3 minute dance, a flash mob of sorts, where close to 100 members of the Austin Ballet broke into dance and just ripped it.
Yes, this is Austin.
America.
Hit the family stage again after the mob thang, and caught some kids from the Austin School of Rock jammin' on down.
I fully endorse this whole concept.
She put that iCarly girl to SHAME!
ANYWAY! If you really know me, you know that what I really like to jam, besides extreme gangsta rap, is some avant garde jazz. Stuff that can't be predicted or defined. And well, two kingpins came together at the Victory Grill last night and I had the privilege of witnessing it all.
Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake.
Hanging out behind the Victory Grill having a chat.
So I of course distracted them by taking some photos.
This building is legendary.
I took this photo during the first set. I was sitting in one of the booths and well, you probably can't see what I see in this photo.
Which is fine. This is a shot I took during the break between sets outside. Hamid Drake, man, I used to see him monthly in Chicago if not more. He's one of those dudes that indirectly helped shape my musical palette, just by KILLING IT EVERYTIME. A percussive genius to say the least.
Seen here with Pedro Moreno, who put this, and every crazy ass free jazz show on in Austin in the past however many years, he is a true soldier and thank GOD for him. Also in the pic, Brannen Temple and his wife. Now, Brannen is also an incredible drummer. I saw him like 10 years ago playing with Charles Gayle during SXSW at the Elephant Room. I'll have to tell you that story one day, wow.
Big time writer chick.
I didn't take a lot of photos, and I didn't use my flash as I hate interupting shows like this with photos and flashes.
As it's all coming right there and then from the musicians hearts, minds and souls in total syncopation with the universe and possibly the full moon outside and well, it has nothing to do with me other than I am receiving it and on this particular night, I read it loud and clear in the nether regions of my mindstate, and shit.
Hamid Drakes' hands on that drum...
Making sounds I didn't even know existed. Seen here in the mirror.
Why I take photos the way I do, I have no idea. See you out and about this weekend Austin? NIPSEY HUSSLE! JAMES DEAN! ZEALE! FAT PIMP! What else?
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