Arnold is currently the publisher and editorial director of Media Play News, one of five Hollywood trades and the only one dedicated to the home entertainment sector.

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From the latest industry trends to product news and market intelligence, we tell you what's important and what it means to your business.

Media Play News delivers your message to all segments involved in getting entertainment into the hands of the consumer – through a 24/7 website, a daily e-newsletter, breaking news alerts, and a monthly magazine that is available both in print and in digital editions.

We reach major studios, independent suppliers, technology companies such as Microsoft and Roku and a growing number of distributors of digital content.

Each year, our print publication reaches further outside our industry as well as to consumers through bonus distribution at such major conventions as the International CES in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles Entertainment Summit (LAES) and the American Film Market (AFM) conference.

Media Play News stories and research are cited in top consumer publications such as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal and in reports from some of Wall Street's top financial analysts.

We get picked up by leading news services, websites and bloggers, and many of our stories appear simultaneously in Media Play News and Variety.

Thomas K. Arnold, Publisher and Editorial Director, Media Play News:

Thomas K. Arnold has been covering the home entertainment industry for nearly three decades.

For more than 12 years he was the Publisher and Editorial Director of Home Media Magazine, the home entertainment industry's weekly trade publication.

He joined Video Store Magazine, Home Media's predecessor, in 1991.

Arnold is a frequent contributor to Variety and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, summits and other events, including CES and Digital Hollywood.

He has written for The Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, and appeared on television to talk about home entertainment issues on CNN's "Showbiz Tonight," "Entertainment Tonight," and the G4 network's "Attack of the Show."

Arnold also served as the executive producer of The Home Entertainment Summit, a key annual gathering of studio executives and other industry leaders, and has given speeches and presentations at a variety of other events, including Home Media Expo and the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy.

Arnold is an alumnus of San Diego State University, where he majored in Business Management and minored in Journalism.

Stephanie Prange, Associate Publisher and Editor in Chief, Media Play News:

Stephanie Prange since 2007 has been Editor in Chief of Home Media Magazine.

The Yale University graduate joined what was then Video Store Magazine in 1993 and was instrumental in transitioning the publication into a tabloid newsweekly.

She spearheaded the publication's reviews section, as well as aggressive coverage of the home video sales market.

She also helped launch the magazine's Web site in 1996.

In her position as editor-in-chief since 2006, she has spearheaded the launch of such projects as the daily blast, transmitted via email each day to readers, and Agent DVD, a consumer publication aimed at genre enthusiasts who attend Comic-Con International in San Diego.

She has freelanced for The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times and several different parenting publications.

She has an Master of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California.

John Boezinger, Associate Publisher and Advertising Director, Media Play News:

John Boezinger has been the Associate Publisher of Home Media Magazine since 2010, managing the print and digital sales teams and magazine circulation.

Before joining Home Media Magazine in September 2007 as an Account Executive, Boezinger worked for Advanstar Communications, Home Media Magazine's former parent company, for 10 years.

He worked in sales management as well as in inside and outside sales for three different vertical industry groups: Automotive, Powersports and CRM.

Boezinger graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has an MBA from California State University at Long Beach.

John Latchem, Executive Editor, Media Play News:

A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, John Latchem worked as a newspaper editor and did freelance work for such publications as The Hollywood Reporter before joining Home Media Magazine in 2005.

As Executive Editor he oversees editorial production of our monthly print and digital editions and also has oversight of the market research department.

In addition, Latchem manages and edits our reviews.

While at Home Media Magazine Latchem was responsible for the launch of Agent DVD, a consumer publication published during the annual Comic-Con International trade show and convention in San Diego.

Erik Gruenwedel, Senior Editor, Media Play News:

Erik Gruenwedel for more than a decade was Senior Editor at Home Media Magazine, serving as the publication's key news reporter.

He continues to hold this role today, spearheading our news coverage and also writing news features.

Before joining Home Media Magazine in 2003, Gruenwedel was a reporter at music industry trade publication Billboard, focusing on the legal issues.

During his 15-year print career, Gruenwedel has written for trade publications covering the bicycling, homecare, advertising (Adweek), and spa and pool industries.

He has a degree in journalism from California State University at Northridge, as well as an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Mike Clark, Contributor, Media Play News:

Mike Clark is our veteran classic movie buff, contributing reviews on a regular basis of newly issued Blu-ray Discs and DVDs of celebrated theatrical blockbusters as well as more obscure movies from the golden days of Hollywood and before.

From 1985 to 2009, Clark was senior film critic and home entertainment columnist for USA Today.

Before that, Clark programmed approximately 150 film series and 5,000 individual titles over eight years as program planner, and eventually director, of the American Film Institute Theater (then located in Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).

He also spent a year as film critic for the Detroit Free Press.

A contributing editor to Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide since 1973, Clark also is an elected member of the National Society of Film Critics.

Allison Gritton, Creative Director, Media Play News:

Allison Gritton joined Media Play News in time to produce our first print issue in January 2018.

She has spent most of her career self-employed, working as creative director, art director/graphic designer and web developer.

She has served clients throughout the United States in multiple industries producing corporate identity packages, marketing and advertising materials, large format and point-of-sale packaging and display, publications and catalogs.

Gritton and her team have worked on projects for colleges and universities, hospitals and clinics, medical device inventors, not-for-profit organizations, food service corporations, retailers, multi-national corporations and entertainment companies.

Julia Donnelly, Social Media Marketing Manager, Media Play News:

Julia Donnelly is the newest member of our team, joining us in July 2019 as a Social Media Marketing Manager.

She is currently studying psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She has completed coursework in communications with an emphasis on the different types of media, English composition, and film history.

She also has experience interning in the field of Occupational Therapy and plans to graduate in June 2022.

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In his early years, Hedgecock was an entrepreneur and worked in music concert promotions. One notable co-production of his was the 1969 Mother's Day concert at Aztec Bowl (now the site of Viejas Arena, San Diego State University). Performers included Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, and Santana.
 In the months before the infamous Altamont Free Concert, security was provided by the local Hells' Angels motorcycle club to whom Hedgecock paid a signing bonus of a case of Jack Daniel's.
 In 1986 he formed a band with well-known San Diego journalist Thomas K. Arnold called The Arnold-Hedgecock Experience. Arnold was a writer for the "Reader", "San Diego Magazine", the "Los Angeles Times" and numerous other publications; in the early 1980s he also engineered 1960s pop star Gary Puckett's comeback. They recorded a cover of "Louie, Louie" and donated proceeds to St. Vincent de Paul, a local charity; they played several concerts around town, including opening for The Kingsmen in Oceanside in front of 10,000 people.


The Tozzer library itself holds over 260,000 volumes, including the first book acquired by the Peabody Museum Library.

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The mission of the Peabody Museum is to serve Yale University by advancing our understanding of earth's history through geological, biological, and anthropological research, and by communicating the results of this research to the widest possible audience through publication, exhibition, and educational programs.

Fundamental to this mission is stewardship of the Museum's rich collections, which provide a remarkable record of the history of the earth, its life, and its cultures.

Conservation, augmentation and use of these collections become increasingly urgent as modern threats to the diversity of life and culture continue to intensify.

## A short history of the Yale Peabody Museum

Click here to read A Museum of Ideas: Evolution Education at the Peabody Museum during the 1920s.

Yale University's earliest museum collection, begun in the 18th century, was a miscellaneous assortment of "natural and artificial curiosities" from around the world typical of college collections of the time.

Systematic collecting of specimens for teaching and research began in 1802 with the appointment of Benjamin Silliman as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History.

The outstanding mineral collection Silliman built for Yale, which he used in his pioneering teaching of geology and mineralogy, became an important source of public entertainment and one of the principal attractions for visitors to New Haven.

Silliman's activities helped to establish Yale as a major center of scientific education in the first half of the 19th century.

Among the undergraduates attracted to the University by its scientific reputation was Othniel Charles Marsh.

Marsh's education and his postgraduate studies abroad were funded by his uncle, the wealthy international financier George Peabody.

When toward the end of his life Peabody began to distribute his vast fortune to, among others, institutions concerned with education, Marsh persuaded his uncle to include Yale in his philanthropies.

In 1866 the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University was founded with a gift of $150,000 for the construction of a museum building and the care and increase of the museum and its collections.

O.C. Marsh was appointed Professor of Paleontology at Yale in 1866, the first such professorship in the United States, and only the second in the world.

In addition to serving as director of the Peabody Museum, Marsh, with George Jarvis Brush (Mineralogy) and Addison Emery Verrill (Zoology), was also one of the Peabody Museum's first three curators.

Using his inheritance from his uncle, who died in 1869, Marsh proceeded to amass large collections vertebrate skeletons, vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, fossil footprints, and archaeological and ethnological artifacts.

The first Peabody Museum building opened to the public in 1876, but its capacity was soon strained by the huge dinosaur bones that Marsh's collectors were sending in to the rapidly growing collections.

In 1917 it was demolished to make way for a major dormitory complex, the Harkness Quadrangle.

Construction of a new building was delayed by World War I, and the collections were in nearly inaccessible storage for seven years, until the current Peabody Museum building became ready for occupancy in 1924.

Dedicated in December 1925, the new building's two-story Great Hall was specifically designed to accommodate some of O.C. Marsh's dinosaurs, such the mounting of the giant Brontosaurus, completed in 1931 after six years of labor.

In 1947 Rudolph F. Zallinger finished the fresco secco painting that is probably the Yale Peabody Museum's best known feature, the 110-foot mural The Age of Reptiles on the south wall of the Great Hall.

The new building, like the old one, quickly filled with growing collections and the people studying them.

Bingham Laboratory, completed in 1959, and the Kline Geology Laboratory (1963), each connected to the Museum and helped to relieve the need for storage, work, and classroom space.

Museum collections and staff are also housed in parts of three additional buildings, and a field station a few miles away on Long Island Sound provides varied research opportunities.

In recognition of the importance of conserving the collections and of enabling scientists and scholars to study them properly, the University constructed the new Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center to house approximately half of the Museum's collections and to provide space for collections-based teaching and research.

Current efforts are addressing the conservation, education and research needs of the collections that make up the remaining portion of the Yale Peabody Museum's approximately 13 million specimens and objects requiring upgraded storage, lab and classroom facilities.

Until 1922, the directorship was unofficially assumed by the Curator of Geology.

The title was first used officially in 1922.

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Pre-1984 article indexing was included in several G. K. Hall publications of the catalog of the Peabody Museum Library (renamed the Tozzer Library in 1974 in honor of noted archaeologist Alfred Marston Tozzer). These consist of 53 volumes from 1963, four supplements totaling 31 volumes in 1970, 1971, 1975, and 1979, and a second edition in 1988 of 1122 microfiche, following the closing of the card catalog.  There were also two editions of the Tozzer Library Subject Headings, in 1971 and 1981; these remain of value as article records created before Tozzer Library’s adoption of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in 1986 retain the older local forms of subject headings.
 AL currently indexes more than 700 journals and series in more than fifty, mostly European and Slavic, languages. The database includes articles from journals and series that have ceased publication or are no longer indexed, as well as older articles of some journals not chosen for current indexing. There are some 4,370 sources represented in the database. Approximately 10,000 citations are added annually, in monthly updates. As of 2008, AL contained some 570,000 citations that cover articles published from the early 19th century to the present.


He appeared in the 2016 Grammy-nominated documentary film about American DJ and producer Steve Aoki, titled "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead".

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The Steve Aoki documentary, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, is available worldwide on Netflix

Fans of Grammy-nominated electronic music superstar, Steve Aoki, can now fully submerge themselves into the world of one of electronic music's most traveled and best-known artists as his own documentary, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", became available world-wide on August 19 via Netflix, the world's leading internet TV network.

Aoki's story can now be seen in homes in over 190 countries world-wide, followed by a live Q&A at 12:30pm ET on Wednesday, August 24 moderated by iconic journalist Katie Couric at steveaoki.is/Facebook.

Steve Aoki is a Grammy-nominated international producer/DJ, electronic dance music entrepreneur, and founder of the trendsetting record label, events/lifestyle company and apparel line Dim Mak.

Since launching in 1996, Dim Mak has broken bands such as Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots, Klaxons, and The Gossip through deftly marketed single and full-length releases and now has nearly 500 releases to date.

As a solo artist, Aoki has become one of the most traveled artists to date, averaging over 250 tour dates per year.

Aoki's second artist album, Neon Future I, was released September 30, 2014 via Dim Mak/Ultra Music and features his Gold certified single "Delirious (Boneless)" with Chris Lake and Tujamo featuring Kid Ink, "Born To Get Wild" featuring will.i.am and "Rage The Night Away" featuring Waka Flocka Flame.

The second part of his Neon Future album, Neon Future II, was released on May 12, 2015 and features collaborations with Linkin Park, Matthew Koma, Snoop Lion, Rivers Cuomo and NERVO, plus a very special appearance by creative genius, J.J. Abrams, who voices the outro to close the album.

Aoki's other current tracks include "How Else" featuring Rich The Kid and iLoveMakonnen, "Back 2 U" with Boehm featuring WALK THE MOON–which has racked up over a million Spotify plays per week since its release in May and has been added to many Top 40 radio stations including Y100 in Miami-plus "Can't Go Home" with Felix Jaehn featuring Adam Lambert.

The film, which premiered to a sold-out audience at the Tribeca Film Festival this past spring, gives an inside look at the life of the international sensation, Steve Aoki, who stands as one of pop music's most tireless multi-hyphenates: founder of the taste-making record label Dim Mak and a chart-topping producer/remixer/DJ with his finger pressed firmly to the pulse of cutting-edge youth culture.

Vulnerable and often bittersweet, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" was shot over the course of three years, during the making of his Neon Future double album (Dim Mak/Ultra Music, 2014/15).

It follows his journey to play the biggest show of his career and centers around the complex yet loving relationship with his father, the Benihana restaurant tycoon, daredevil athlete, and former Olympian, Rocky Aoki.

From the main stage of Tomorrowland in Belgium to intimate gatherings at his family home in Japan, it's an inside look at one of music's most outstanding characters.

The story is complimented by interviews with Aoki's beloved mother, sister/supermodel Devon Aoki, along with multiple big-name musicians and contemporaries including Diplo, Tiesto, Afrojack, Laidback Luke, Travis Barker, Pete Tong, will.i.am, and more.

Be sure to catch Steve Aoki at one of his many upcoming international tour dates this fall and winter, which can be found at steveaoki.com.

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On July 1, 2016, Blink released their seventh studio album "California" to critical and commercial success. To complete the project, Blink members Hoppus and Barker were forced to replace Blink co-founder Tom DeLonge with vocalist/guitarist Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio. Barker has joined Hoppus in citing DeLonge as the principal cause of the replacement. Citing DeLonge's alleged unwillingness to commit to working on new Blink projects, Barker revealed,
 “We always covered up for [DeLonge] before. It was always, 'We're going to record an album,' then 'Tom refuses to get into the studio without a record deal.' So everyone does hella amounts of work to get a record deal and now Tom isn't part of Blink-182. It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful… Everyone should know what the story is with him and it's been years with it.”
 He is currently producing his second solo album. Barker has written a memoir entitled "Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums", which was released on October 20, 2015.


This further decreased to 41.3 % in 2016 , mainly due to the conversion of "Hindus into Christian" by the Christian missionaries.

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# Behind the God-swapping in the South African Indian community [part 2]

P. Pratap Kumar, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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A Hindu devotee prepares to participate in a fire-walking ceremony to honour the goddess Draupadi in Durban, 2011.

The first group of Indian indentured labourers arrived in South Africa in 1860.

The majority settled in Natal because they were originally requested by local farmers.

Most of them were Hindus, although not exclusively so.

The 19th century immigration of Indian labourers brought two types of immigrants – "indentured" workers and "passenger" Indians.

The latter group came at their own expense.

They were largely traders and over time became an economic force to reckon with.

South Africa's Indian population currently stands at 1,286,930 (2.5% of the overall population).

The Indian community can be culturally divided into four broad groups along linguistic lines: Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Gujarati.

They are divided along the following major religions: Hindu (41.3%), Muslim (24.6%) and Christian (24.4%).

The interplay between Hinduism and Christianity in the predominantly Hindu Indian community, and in particular the contentious issue of conversion, has been the subject of great debate and intense research.

In this second article of a two part-series, Professor Pratap Kumar, of South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, assesses whether the mainly Pentecostal conversions of South Africa's Indian community provided a new social identity to the converts.

It isn't just the doctrines of South Africa's mainstream and Pentecostal churches that differ.

The way they have been trying to convert members of the South African Indian community to Christianity since the early 20th century has contrasted widely.

Back then, the mainstream Christian churches provided clinics, hospitals and schools.

Yet these material benefits yielded hardly any converts, as is evident from the low percentage of Christians (4% of the total Indian community) in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries.

The Pentecostals had a different approach.

Instead of being involved in community service, they placed emphasis on critiquing Hindu belief systems and caste practices.

They also focused on healing and exorcism.

Between 1925 and 1980 the Indian membership of the Pentecostal churches grew larger than all the other Christian denominations put together.

There were three main Pentecostal groups active in the Indian community in the earlier part of the 20th century:

In response, Hindu reform organisations worked hard to make Hinduism more attractive to their own followers.

Many of these organisations, such as the Arya Samaj, the Ramakrishna Centre and the Divine Life Society, have emphasised the departure from old ritual belief systems to a more philosophical understanding of Hinduism.

These neo-Hindu movements believed that ordinary Hindus lacked the more enlightened understanding of Hinduism – an understanding, they maintained, that was present only in the sacred texts of Hindu philosophy.

These texts emphasised the oneness of divinity.

They also dismissed worship of multiple gods in temples, saying it was based on ignorance.

In research conducted by JH Hofmeyr and GC Oosthuizen in 1981, a shift towards a more philosophical approach to Hinduism was visible.

More than 88% of Hindus affirmed a monotheistic understanding of God in Hinduism as opposed to only about 11% admitting to polytheistic notions.

Despite the Hindu reform efforts, the Indian Christian number grew from 4% in 1925 to 24.4% in 2011, with the Pentecostals making the most significant inroads.

For a comparative perspective on the different dogmas' performance, let's take three churches from each of the two different persuasions as per South Africa's 2011 national census.

There were 8,520 Indian members of three mainstream churches, the Anglican Church, the Lutheran Church and the Methodists, together.

It is a different story on the thriving Pentecostal side of the pew.

Indians in the Full Gospel Church, the Apostolic Church and the International Fellowship of Christian Churches (an umbrella body of charismatic churches, including the prominent Rhema church) together constituted 36,371 members.

The penetration of the Pentecostal movements into Hindu society is felt especially in the KwaZulu-Natal Indian townships.

According to the Hofmeyr and Oosthuizen survey, the majority of Hindus in the Durban township of Chatsworth seemed to acknowledge that "Jesus was the only son of God."

In other words, they seemed to know the claim by Christians that Jesus is the only son of God and hence the path to salvation.

The authors tempered their analysis by suggesting that "assent to the belief did not imply consent to the exclusivist claim of Christianity".

Still, the Hindu religious life based on rituals in temples and shrines continued to flourish.

It continues to be evident during the festivals of fire-walking rituals at which some Hindus illustrate affirmation of their faith in their deities.

In more recent times the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, now the official organ under which all Hindu associations in the country fall, has held conferences on Hinduism to educate the faith's youth.

In South Africa, Indians who were Christian largely came from the barracks and mill stations during the colonial period.

It is commonly perceived that they belonged to a lower order of society.

In the case of Indian Anglicans in Natal, Arun Andrew John in his doctoral thesis argued that the converts were more interested in a change of social identity.

They hoped that the conversion would bring them from being lower-caste groups to social equality.

However, it must be noted that neither in India nor in South Africa was a significant change in social identity visible as a result of conversion to Christianity.

It is important to note that a new social identity, which the converts to Christianity sought through conversion to escape social discrimination, did not seem to have come to fruition.

Old social disparities continue to plague the local Indian community, despite the absence of caste as an organising social unit.

The discrimination now seems based on religious distinctions as well as class.

Within the Indian community it is difficult to separate religious and class distinctions, as most Christians happen to be from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Therefore, Christian identity implicitly follows the status of a lower rung.

Conversely, not all Hindus may be economically better off.

But there seems to be a sense inherent in the Indian society that those who became Christian through conversion were not only poor but also socially inferior.

And this perhaps has to do with the remnants of caste consciousness that prevails even after its formal demise as a social unit.

In addition to this, Christians feel that the majority Hindu community has hijacked the linguistic identity.

The result is that they keep Christians of the same linguistic background on the periphery.

For example, the Andhra Maha Sabha in South Africa is an organisation of the Telugu-speaking community.

Yet it is solely Hindu in its orientation, notwithstanding its linguistic signification.

Likewise, the Tamil Federation of South Africa is Tamil only in name, and is Hindu inherently.

All of this points to cultural alienation of one group, as Gerald Pillay writes.

It offers ample opportunity to the alienated party to find social identity elsewhere, which is to affirm a Christian identity.

For as long as this tendency to monopolise linguistic identity by the Hindu majority persists in the Indian community in South Africa, the issue of conversion will remain a thorny one both for the Hindu and the Christian communities.

A Hindu devotee prepares to participate in a fire-walking ceremony to honour the goddess Draupadi in Durban in 2011.

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Almost all South African Indians are either Hindu, Muslim, or Christian. There are also small groups of Parsis, Sikhs, and Buddhists. The majority of South African Muslims are Indian or belong to the multi-ethnic community in the Western Cape.
 The proportion of Indian South Africans following Hinduism has decreased from 50% in 1996 to 47.27% in 2001.


The band's third album, "Emotive", was released on November 2, 2004 – the actual U.S Presidential Election Day.

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# A Perfect Circle Album Preview: Politics? They've Got It Covered

Band puts its own spin on other songwriters' protests with eMOTIVe.

In light of the current political climate, A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan couldn't keep to himself any longer.

But instead of expressing his outrage by writing a new album, the famously reclusive singer opted to put his stamp on other songwriters' sentiments.

Ten of the 12 songs on APC's third album, eMOTIVe, are covers, and they range from recognizable to relatively obscure.

The familiarity that resonates in John Lennon's "Imagine," Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" allows the listener to forgo concentrating too hard on the lyrics.

Instead, the words they already know by heart take on updated meanings when juxtaposed with new, and oftentimes harrowing, backdrops.

"Imagine," which serves as the album's first single, is hardly the delicate, happy-faced ode to utopia the former Beatle envisioned in 1971.

Instead, eerie piano chords plod along dirgelike until a stark violin is abruptly introduced to emphasize the desperation inherent in having hope whittled down to its last thread.

"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," an angry pop-punk rave-up as performed most popularly by Elvis Costello, instead comes across as a helpless plea thanks to guitarist Billy Howerdel's high-pitched delivery.

"What's Going On," which features layered synths and an angelic Keenan-Howerdel harmony, is another pleading call for help that seems to be sung from a disembodied, third-person standpoint instead of the vital wake-up call that was Gaye's original.

Soaring, whining rock guitars, offset by a low-end fuzz, provide anthemic lift to Devo's "Freedom of Choice," which comes off as a pro-vote rally cry.

Tolerance is preached through Depeche Mode's "People Are People," where the teetering sound of an alarm stresses its urgency.

Black Flag's "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" tackles the topic of greed from the standpoint of an insatiable beast that doesn't know why it wants more, it just does.

And should anyone or anything stand in its way ... we have bombs for that.

"Let's Have a War," a 1982 Fear song, seemingly takes a cynical view of the Iraq conflict.

"Let's have a war/ So you can go and die/ ...

We can all use the money," Keenan deadpans above a skittering techno beat.

And in "When the Levee Breaks," Led Zeppelin's famous cover of a Memphis Minnie blues song, a soft, piano-and-bass entwinement renders Keenan's ethereal vocals nearly indecipherable, save for the chorus: "When the levee breaks, you'll have no place to hide."

It comes off less as a threat than an omen.

Prefacing it all is a whispered recitation of "Annihilation" by early '80s punk band Crucifix, setting the tone for what follows with frightening effect:

"Reject the system dictating the norms/ From dehumanization to arms production to hasten this nation towards its destruction," Keenan says in a hushed tone.

"It's your choice: peace or annihilation."

The two new songs on eMOTIVe, "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" and "Passive," both extol the dangers of complacency.

Where the former is an a industrial-rock march backed by an ominous bass line sung from the standpoint of a heartless dictator; in the latter Keenan expresses his angry disappointment at those who sit idly by and let the bad guys win.

eMOTIVe hits stores on Election Day, November 2.

Keenan emphasized that, despite his personal feelings on Bush, the album was less of an "anti-Bush" album, and more of a "anti-political apathy" – encouraging people to research things and become more involved.
 The band rushed to complete the album in time to release it prior to the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections in November, just barely a year after their prior release. Recording sessions ran from late June to early September. The sessions, largely the work of Howerdel, Keenan, and Freese, contained contributions from past and present members of the band, including Lenchantin, Lohner, White, and Iha. Keenan, aware of the time constraints and Howerdel's future intentions on doing solo albums, also encouraged Howerdel to contribute lead vocals to about a third of the album. A wide variety of different songs were chosen to be recorded, from Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" to Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks". Most songs were radical reinterpretations of the original, sometimes unrecognizable compared to the originals. Howerdel explained that it was done on purpose, to make the song's their own, and conceded that he, as of 2010, still had not even once ever heard the original version of Crucifix's "Annihilation", another song re-recorded for the album. He also stated that some songs had started as original A Perfect Circle songs musically, until the band decided to use the lyrics of other songs over the compositions, in turn converting them into cover songs.


The couple married in New York in December 2012, and their son, Bear, was born the next year.

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# Kate Winslet marries Ned RocknRoll in private New York ceremony

The pair are said to have met on Necker Island, the luxury retreat owned by Sir Richard Branson

Actress Kate Winslet has married her partner Ned RocknRoll in a secret ceremony in New York, it has been confirmed.

A representative for Winslet said the private ceremony, held earlier this month, was attended by her two children and "a very few friends and family".

The Oscar-winner has been engaged to Ned Rocknroll, the nephew of Sir Richard Branson, since the summer.

Winslet has previously been married to Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes.

She has a daughter, Mia, with Threapleton, to whom she was married to for three years until 2001, and a son, Joe, with director Mendes, from whom she split in 2010.

Details of the New York wedding have been kept private, but People magazine reported actor Leonardo DiCaprio attended.

DiCaprio and Winslet starred together in the hugely successful Titanic movie, and teamed up again for Revolutionary Road, a grim inspection of married life in suburbia, which was directed by Mendes.

Winslet and RocknRoll were at Sir Richard's Caribbean retreat Necker Island in 2011 when a fire devastated the Virgin boss's luxury home.

Sir Richard praised Winslet for helping his elderly mother to safety.

Rocknroll, who changed his name from Abel Smith, works for his uncle's space flight company, Virgin Galactic.

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# Kate Winslet explains her son's name, Bear Blaze, on 'Ellen'

Kate Winslet appears on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Kate Winslet is finally explaining her son's unusual baby name: Bear Blaze Winslet, whom she welcomed in December 2013.

The "Divergent" star was appearing on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to plug the film when the host brought up her 14-week-old's unusual moniker.

It turns out the name was selected by Winslet's other children, Mia, 13, and Joe, 10, whom she had from her previous marriages to director Sam Mendes and Jim Threapleton.

"We were thinking about names during the pregnancy and actually I had never -- when I was pregnant with Mia, when I was pregnant with Joe -- I didn't name them before they came out because I always felt like I had to see them and see who they're going to be," the Oscar-winning actress told DeGeneres in an interview airing Tuesday.

"Of course this time around, there's Mia and Joe and the whole pregnancy is about what are we going to call the baby."

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The 38-year-old said it was lovely to include her older children in the naming process.

"We settled on Bear quite early on," Winslet said.

"A friend of mine when I was younger was nicknamed Bear, and I just had always really loved it and he was very much a bear -- he was everyone's shoulder to cry on, he was a big bear hug, he was just this great figure in my life -- and I just always remembered him and that's where it came from."

As for Bear's middle name, Blaze, that comes from the fact that Winslet met her third husband and Bear's dad, Ned Rocknroll, after a fire.

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"And then Bear's second name is Blaze because my husband and I met in a house fire basically ... and the house burned down and we survived.

But we wanted something of the fire," she said.

Winslet wed Rocknroll, the nephew of Virgin honcho Richard Branson, in December 2012.

Rocknroll, who legally changed his name from Abel Smith in 2008 prior to meeting Winslet, reportedly met her in 2011 when the actress was vacationing on Branson's Necker Island (a private paradise in the British Virgin Islands).

As the story goes, lightning set the island's main house ablaze, making a hero of the English actress for evacuating Branson's 90-year-old mother, Eve.

Controversially, Winslet, who's been married twice before, decided to give her son her own last name rather than Rocknroll.

When Degeneres asked why, Winslet replied: "Why do you think, Ellen?"

"So you wouldn't have encouraged [Ned] to change it to Rocknroll is what you're saying."

In other Winslet news, the "Titanic" actress was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.

"I am completely overwhelmed by the number of people that there are here today," she said (via CBS News).

I honestly had no idea that this was going to be quite such a well-attended event, especially after the earthquake this morning -- which frightened me quite a lot actually, I made for a door frame with my breast pump in my hand.

"I feel very honored, 20 years into my own career, to be standing in such a poignant place, and being celebrated in such a spectacular fashion.

Thank you very much for my star, and thank you very much for having me," Winslet added.

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Soon after separating from Threapleton, Winslet met the director Sam Mendes when he offered her a part in a play. She refused the offer but began dating him. Disillusioned by the way the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet moved to New York. She wed Mendes in May 2003 on the island of Anguilla. Their son, Joe, was born later that year. The family divided their time in New York with frequent visits to their estate in the Cotswolds in England. Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and the actress Rebecca Hall, the couple announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later. Winslet admitted to being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital breakups.
 While holidaying at Richard Branson's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met her third husband, Edward Abel Smith (he is the nephew of Branson and works for Virgin Galactic), during a house fire.


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Wellington was chosen for its central location, with Parliament officially sitting there for the first time in 1865.

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 New Zealand, still part of the colony of New South Wales, became a separate Colony of New Zealand on 1 July 1841. Armed conflict began between the Colonial government and
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 The colony gained a representative government in 1852 and the first Parliament met in 1854. In 1856 the colony effectively became self-governing, gaining responsibility over all domestic matters other than native policy. (Control over native policy was granted in the mid-1860s.) Following concerns that the South Island might form a separate colony, premier Alfred Domett moved a resolution to transfer the capital from Auckland to a locality near Cook Strait.


The company announced that its first store would be on located on the shores of the world-famous Doctor's Cave Beach, offering views of the Caribbean Sea.

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Tourism is booming, and so chief executive officer of Montego Bay-based Express Catering, Ian Dear, is not too surprised that the boom was so evident in the company's initial public offering (IPO) on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on July 12.

The offer, which sought to raise $490 million from the purchase of 327.5 million ordinary shares, opened at 9:00 am and was oversubscribed after a minute.

Dear told Wednesday night's gathering at the Monthly Investors Forum, hosted by the company's financial advisers Mayberry Investments Limited (MIL) at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, that he was not only happy with the overwhelming support, but also the fact that the Jamaica Stock Exchange gave the second city its first taste of the activity courtesy of his company.

"The future is extremely bright," he told the guests in Kingston, many of whom were getting a first-hand report of the investment climate for companies like Express Catering from Montego Bay and who shared in the celebration of the successful event.

He said that while Express Catering currently operates within the "captive space" of the Sangster International Airport (SIA), based on all the available information, it will continue to grow.

Tourism is the company's focus; customers are primarily US visitors spending US dollars, allowing Express Catering to be able to pay dividends to its shareholders.

This has boosted its confidence immensely in a situation in which Jamaica generated US$1.46 billion in tourism earnings during the first six months of the 2017 calendar year.

But Dear says that despite Express Catering's safe investment environment, it is constantly evaluating the needs of its customers to identify their changing needs and to meet them.

"We have a tremendous opportunity in the airport facilities at Sangster International, which is growing by leaps and bounds, because the tourism industry is literally on fire.

It's growing by leaps and bounds," Dear told guests.

He said that with a tremendous amount of new hotel rooms coming on-board and with cruise visits growing, despite hiccups in Falmouth, there is confidence in tremendous growth in Express Catering's offering at SIA.

He also noted that Express Catering will be opening three Starbucks shops at SIA this year at a cost of some US$1.4 million.

This follows the announcement in May this year that world-famous Starbucks Coffee Company had entered a geographic licensing agreement with Caribbean Coffee Traders Ltd, a consortium led by Margaritaville Caribbean Group, a leading restaurant management and franchise operator in the Caribbean.

The agreement grants Caribbean Coffee Traders the exclusive rights to own and operate Starbucks stores in the country.

Jamaica will be Starbucks 17th market in the Latin America and Caribbean region, with the first store slated to open in Montego Bay.

Starbucks stores in Jamaica will be operated by Caribbean Coffee Traders, a joint venture between Ian Dear, chief executive officer of Margaritaville Caribbean Group and Adam Stewart, who is deputy chairman and chief executive officer of Sandals Resorts International.

Margaritaville Caribbean Group currently operates restaurant, entertainment and tour concepts throughout the Caribbean, and provides complete, multi-branded food and beverage experiences for major Caribbean tourism hubs.

Margaritaville Caribbean Group's brand portfolio includes a diverse collection of proprietary brands, international franchises, casual dining concepts, themed bars, and popular quick-service restaurants.

The group employs over 1,000 people throughout the region.

Under the offer being brokered by Mayberry Investments Ltd, Express Catering floated 327.5 million units — representing 20 per cent of its 1.63 billion shares.

A tenth of the shares, 32.6 million units, were available for general public subscription at $1.50.

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The company runs a series of eateries at Sangster Airport, including Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Starbucks, Quiznos, Dairy Queen, Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs, Domino's Pizza, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Wendy's, Cinnabon, Moe's South Western Grill, Island Deli, Viva Fresh Market Grab & Go, Cricket Sports Bar, Connections Bar, Air Margaritaville Arrivals Bar, Jamaican Bobsled Cafe, The Groovy Grouper, and The Bar.

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 The first Starbucks store in Slovakia opened in Aupark Shopping Center in Bratislava on May 31, 2016, with two more stores confirmed to open in Bratislava by the end of 2016.
 In February 2016, Howard Schultz announced the opening of stores in Italy. The first Italian Starbucks store was inaugurated in Milan on September 6, 2018.
 After Taste Holdings acquired outlet licensing for South African stores, Starbucks opened its first store in South Africa in Rosebank, Johannesburg on Thursday, April 21, 2016, and its second in the country at the end of April in Mall of Africa.
 In May 2017, Starbucks announced it was commencing operations in Jamaica, where the first store is to open in the resort city of Montego Bay.


This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in "Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India" in which the Supreme Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex".

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# Campaigners celebrate as India decriminalises homosexuality

Colonial-era law is struck down by country's highest court after decades of uncertainty

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Celebrations have erupted in India after the supreme court unanimously ruled to decriminalise homosexual sex in a landmark judgment for gay rights.

A five-judge bench at the country's highest court ruled that a 160-year-old law banning sex "against the order of nature" amounted to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and was unconstitutional.

## 'Our lives should be lived in the sun': the couple fighting to legalise gay sex in India

The judgment, after 24 years of legal challenges, triggered elation among LBGT Indians and their allies across the country and plans for all-night parties in nightclubs in major cities.

In Mumbai, people marched carrying a giant rainbow banner; in Bangalore they draped themselves in the LBGT flag and let off scores of balloons.

In Delhi's luxury Lalit hotel, run by one of the activists who fought Thursday's case, and home to one of the city's furtively gay-friendly nightclubs, staff danced in the lobby.

"Criminalising carnal intercourse under section 377 Indian penal code is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary," said the chief justice, Dipak Misra, in his decision, announced at about 11.30am on Thursday.

Misra's was one of four written judgments agreeing to scrap the ban.

The rulings quoted Lord Alfred Douglas ("The love that dare not speak its name"), Leonard Cohen ("From the ashes of the gay/ democracy is coming"), William Shakespeare ("What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet") and the German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("I am what I am, so take me as I am").

Misra said: "Social exclusion, identity seclusion and isolation from the social mainstream are still the stark realities faced by individuals today, and it is only when each and every individual is liberated from the shackles of such bondage … that we can call ourselves a truly free society."

Another judge on the bench, Indu Malhotra, said: "History owes an apology to members of the community for the delay in ensuring their rights."

The judges accepted estimates that up to 8% of India's population – 104 million people – might be LGBT, one of the largest Tsuch populations in the world.

The announcement of the decision drew loud cheers from a crowd gathered on a lawn outside the supreme court.

"It's in our favour," Smriti, 19, who did not give her last name, shouted as she embraced three others before they were mobbed by television cameras.

"There's so much work to be done, but it's a great first step.

We're not criminals in our own country."

Ritu Dalmia, one of the five LGBT campaigners who put their names to the legal petition that succeeded on Thursday, said the verdict made her feel hopeful.

"I was turning into a cynical human being with very little belief in the system, but honestly this has really shown once again that we are a functional democracy where freedom of choice, speech and rights still exist," she said.

"Today is a historic day," said Anand Grover, one of the lawyers who led the case.

"The future is for everybody to be included, to realise their fundamental rights of equality, privacy, dignity et cetera.

That is what the court has stated and given directions that this be made available and known to everybody."

The decision appears to mark the end of a fraught path to legalising homosexuality in modern India.

Cases filed in 1994 and 2001 bounced back and forth for years between courts reluctant to rule on the issue.

The Delhi high court ruled against the ban in 2009 but was that overturned four years later by the supreme court.

Critics of the law say that although prosecutions under section 377 are rare, it was frequently used to blackmail gay and lesbian Indians and contributed to their marginalisation, while also inhibiting efforts to fight diseases such as HIV/Aids.

One LGBT group, the Humsafar Trust, said its crisis response team in Mumbai had attended to 18 cases in the past two years of gay men who were being blackmailed by the police or by people threatening to report them to authorities.

It said it had received at least 52 reports of LGBT people experiencing harassment or discrimination in the workplace who were unable to report it because of the ban on homosexuality.

Lawyers working to overturn the supreme court's 2013 decision had a breakthrough last year.

"What changed everything was last year's privacy judgment," said Gautam Bhatia, a Delhi-based lawyer and legal scholar.

"In August 2017 the supreme court held there was a fundamental right to privacy, and as part of that, five judges said the 2013 decision was wrong.

The judges commented on a completely unconnected case to say it was wrong.

But once they said it, with the imprimatur of a full bench behind it, section 377 was gone, implicitly if not formally."

When the petition was heard by the supreme court over four days in July, supporters were encouraged when India's Hindu nationalist government, which had previously expressed support for section 377, chose not to file a submission.

Swami Agnivesh, a Hindu cleric who supported the abolition of section 377, said the Vedas, the scriptures that undergird many Hindu beliefs, contained nothing that barred same-sex relationships.

## Celebrations in India as court legalises gay sex – in pictures

"According to the Vedas, all human beings constitute one family, irrespective of what country they belong to or their skin colour," he said outside the supreme court.

"If two adults decide to have according to their sexual orientation, to have a relationship in private, why should anyone have an objection?"

The decision legalises behaviour that many Indians say was accepted in their culture before the imposition of conservative Victorian mores during the British imperial era.

The anti-sodomy law was imposed in the Indian colony as part of a raft of laws against public vice and immorality instituted across the British empire.

"I'm elated," said Harish Iyer, a veteran gay activist and writer.

"We have thrown out the British once again."

But he cast forward to future battles for India's LGBT community, including marriage, surrogacy and basic acceptance in more conservative regions of the country.

"This is the end of the beginning," Iyer said.

 Aman Nath (born 1951) is an Indian writer, hotelier, and architectural restorer. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of the Neemrana Hotels chain, along with Francis Wacziarg. Both are today credited for pioneering the heritage hotels movement in India. They started in 1991. Since then, they have acquired over 25 heritage properties and converted them into heritage hotels after restoration. Nath has published several illustrated books on Rajasthan and Indian arts.
 In June 2016, Nath and five others, all members of the LGBT community themselves, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.


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(Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The block U above the University of Utah.

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Members of a white nationalist group hiked the hill to the University of Utah's block U on Saturday, carrying red, white and blue smoke flares and laying down a banner that declared, "End immigration!"

Identity Evropa, which is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, took credit for the message on Twitter with one of its Virginia members posting pictures of the rally.

He claimed the act was in retaliation for the university condemning the organization earlier this year after it posted stickers on campus to recruit members.

Patrick Casey, who identifies himself as the executive director of Identity Evropa, said members wanted "to let the university — and the world — know that we will NOT be stopped."

"Our goals in Utah are no different than in other chapters: recruitment and spreading the message," he told The Salt Lake Tribune.

He also replied to criticism on Twitter with messages such as "America is ours" and "Feel free to keep whining."

He said the outrage has inspired him to "ramp things up in Utah."

University spokesman Chris Nelson confirmed the group of about 11 men was on campus Saturday afternoon around 1:45 p.m.

By the time police arrived at the block U, a concrete letter on Mount Van Cott above the school, the members were gone and had taken their banner down.

That property is private, but the U. has an easement to allow access.

The most they could have been charged with, Nelson said, is trespassing.

"It's certainly nothing the university condones," he added.

"We encourage anyone who feels in any way threatened to come talk to the administration."

Identity Evropa is based in Virginia and was founded in 2016 with the new alt-right movement.

The group promotes white European identity.

It helped to plan the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, a march of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in August where a young woman was killed when a car plowed through a crowd of protesters.

The group recruits primarily on college campuses.

"Identity Evropa's main goal is to advocate for European Americans," Casey said.

"We do activism to spread awareness of our organization and issues that concern us: mass immigration, anti-white discrimination, left-wing brainwashing in academia, etc."

He has previously helped post stickers and flyers at the U. that included the group's name and website.

U. President Ruth Watkins released a statement in January denouncing the action.

"These cowardly, faceless and non-university sanctioned tactics are designed to disrupt and frighten individuals and communities, and to garner attention for an insidious ideology that has no place on our campus or in our community," Watkins said at the time.

Identity Evropa, while recruiting in Utah over the weekend, also hiked to Ensign Peak with a banner that played on President Donald Trump's campaign slogan and said, "Make America beautiful again."

And they gathered at This is the Place monument with another sign, "Defend the Rockies.

That monument sits in Emigration Canyon, known for the trail that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley seeking refuge from religious persecution.

Largely because of that past, the state has a long history of supporting immigrants and refugees.

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 A news source that has interviewed him states that "Damigo has made these rallies a key driver for recruiting new members of the group". Additionally, Peter Cvjetanovic, one of the members of Identity Evropa, was dubbed as the "angry torch guy" in the Unite the Right rally.
 On July 28, 2018, around 45 members of Identity Evropa, some dressed as construction workers, demonstrated outside the Mexican consulate in Manhattan, New York City, holding large letters that spelled out "Build the Wall".   The government of Mexico said it had written a diplomatic note to the U.S. State Department protesting the incident. Later that day, a group of several dozen Identity Evropa members hung a banner in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan. The banner, which said "Stop the invasion, end immigration", overlooked the Henry Hudson Parkway. The response of the Washington Heights and Inwood communities was to hold a "vigil against hate" at the same site on July 31. On February 9, 2019, eleven Identity Evropa members went to the University of Utah’s Block U carrying colored smoke flares and a banner that read, "End immigration!" Patrick Casey stated that the action was in response to the University's condemning of the organization earlier in the year, after it had posted stickers around the campus.


Instead of attending his local school Teaneck High School, Lecque decided to enroll at Monsignor Scanlan High School in The Bronx because of its superior basketball program.

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This season, after years of being in the A & B divisions of the New York City Catholic League, the Monsignor Scanlan Crusaders gained a step up in competition by moving up to the AA division.

It would prove to be a tough season, as the Crusaders finished 10-17 overall and 7-10 in the ultra-competitive Bronx/Westchester division.

Although the Crusaders had a rough season, they still remained competitive and had plenty of close losses.

But one of their bright spots was a guard with great leaping ability by the name of Jalen Lecque.

The 6-foot-4 guard was a very integral part of the Crusaders' offense, as he averaged 11 points a game this season.

When he is on the court, Lecque is known for his athleticism, but can also score in bunches.

What motivates him to be successful in basketball is, "To try to be the best in the country, not trying to shortchange myself.

I want to show everybody that I can compete with the best in the world."

Lecque plans to make a move against Team Takeover.

Lecque hails from Teaneck, New Jersey, which is right across the George Washington Bridge from the Bronx.

When asked about being from there, he said, "Being from Teaneck, New Jersey, it's a small town.

Eveybody knows me, everybody loves me over there now.

Teaneck High School, the local public school is the two-time defending state champions in basketball and one of the best programs in North Jersey.

Although Lecque could have chosen to attend there, he decided to make the commute to Scanlan every day, which is on the Hutchinson River Parkway.

When asked what made him go to Scanlan, Lecque says, "You know Scanlan was a good school.

They have a great coach, good players, it was such a good time."

Lecque at the free-throw line as a sophomore at Monsignor Scanlan.

After his sophomore year, Lecque became one of the city's top secrets and started to make a huge buzz playing with the New York Lightning.

But then a knee injury sustained in a summer league game in New York sidelined him for months.

But on January 3rd, against Bishop Loughlin, Lecque came back fully healed.

"I actually thought it was over, but when they carried on, it was just a great feeling that I came back and I'm stronger than ever," says Lecque about coming back strong.

He then went on a tear during the season and his one crowning moment came on February 19th in the CHSAA Bronx/Westchester Archdiocesan playoffs against St. Raymond, which had beaten the Crusaders twice before.

With just a few seconds to go, Lecque let off a three-pointer which went in and stunned the St. Raymond's crowned as Scanlan won 58-57.

Lecque attempts to drive through the lane during Session 1 of the 2017 Nike EYBL in Hampton, Virginia.

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Then in the spring, he chose to play with Southern Stampede, a Nike EYBL program based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lecque has made a name for himself on the premier sneaker circuit in the country, averaging 17 points and 3.8 rebounds per game.

As of late, his offers have started to pile up.

He has now been offered by New Mexico, Auburn, Texas Tech, Minnesota, Houston, Georgia, Wake Forest, Kansas State, St. John's, Rhode Island, Iona, Seton Hall, Colorado State, St. Louis, TCU, Florida, Georgia Tech & Tennessee.

"Southern Stampede was a great opportunity, it gave me a chance to showcase my talents and that was the choice I made," says Lecque about his spring season.

For his amazing performances, he was named Breakout Performer for Session 1 of the EYBL in Hampton, Virginia and All-Honorable Mention by D-1 Circuit.

Lecque with the windmill dunk at the Frankie Williams Charity Classic.

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As for his next move, Lecque has decided to reclassify to the Class of 2019, and will do his remaining two years of high school at the Christ School in Arden, North Carolina.

"The Christ School is a really good school, you know, it's more about the education within.

It's about more than basketball for me," says Lecque about his decision to transfer, "I have to just play basketball and get my education."

Now that Lecque has improved his stock and has decided to reclassify, the high school scene has two more years to see him throw down dunks, but also improve.

Once high school is over and a Division I scholarship is in his hands, everyone will see another great performance on the college level from the kid they call, "Rook."

But for now, his plans are simple: "Just showcase that I can play with the best in the world and to just be the best 2019 player in the country."

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As a result, Horodecki went slightly mad and built this gloomy house in his daughter's memory.

In 1901-1903 popular and spectacular Kiev architect Vladislav Gorodezhkii put up a private house that is known as a House with Chimeras.

Inside and outside the building is decorated with quaint and sometimes even freakish sculptures, including maidens on fantastic fishes, elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, frogs, lizards, eagles, snakes and even a little crocodile.

The sculptures are made of cement, and there is a legend saying that architect Gorodezhkii together with companies producing cement intended to construct a house that would be kind of advertisement for new building material.

Modern historians consider this legend to be close to reality, because Gorodezhkii was one of the owners of cement producing plants.

So orders for the materials that followed after the House with Chimeras construction would be very profitable for him.

Gorodezhkii built the House with Chimeras for his family.

He was very ambitious architect and did not want any other building to stand next to his house, so he decided to purchase two plots of land.

One plot was intended for the house and another one was empty, but still the architect reached his goal, as nobody could buy that land and put up a building there.

Nowadays this plot of land is occupied by stairs leading to Ivan Franko Theater.

Immediately after the construction works of the House with Chimeras were completed, it became surrounded with numerous legends.

One of them says that the architect planned to construct the house after the death of his daughter who drowned in Dnepr or committed suicide because of unrequited love.

According to this legend, the architect went crazy and decided to decorate the house with Dnepr inhabitants, such as fishes and weird maidens, who, as he thought, surrounded his daughter after her tragic death.

It explains a very unprofitable location of the House with Chimeras from strategical point of view.

The thing is that the house is situated on steep slope of Pecherskie Hills, which made the building construction a real challenge.

Gorodezhkii, who was famous for his adventurism, betted with his friends architects that he would complete such a difficult task.

He really managed to put up the House on the edge of dangerous precipice and won the bet.

However, modern architects confirm that the House with Chimeras is in poor condition today, as its facade is covered with cracks, and according to the results of specialists' investigation works, the whole building sinks down the slope.

Still once there was an idea to make the House with Chimeras the new residence of Ukrainian President.

His present residence is located in front of the Gorodezhkii's house.

The question of the residence transformation is still being discussed, but it is obvious that the House with Chimeras needs a thorough repair.

There is one more legend about the house.

It says that Gorodezhkii, who was a talented architect and passionate hunter, also was a sorcerer.

Some people believe that he put a paternoster on his house, so that only his descendants could happily live in the House with Chimeras.

According to the legend, the house will bring misfortune to any stranger who would try to live in it.

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Throughout the years, the unusual nature of the House with Chimaeras has given rise to a number of stories occasionally repeated in guide-books or newspapers, which are however either untrue or lacking any verifiable source.
 According to the first legend, Władysław Horodecki's daughter had committed suicide jumping into Dnieper River  either because of some unfortunate love affair or because of a family feud.


Late the following year, Harris left the band and Dennis Whitted took over from Davidson on drums.

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For many children of the late '70s and '80s, our first exposure to the blues came when Chicagoans Dan Akroyd and John Belushi donned ill-fitting suits and Ray-Bans and sang like shit.

But "Jake and Elwood Blues" (the comedy teams Noms-de-guerre) were diehard music fans, and they channeled their popularity into giving some mighty fine original artists a platform to reach us kids about good tuneage.

Paul Butterfield was one of the legends that directly influenced the Blues Brothers' schtick.

The harmonica player and bandleader's street smarts and love for the blues landed him on hardscrabble South Side blues stages in the early 1960s, places like Smitty's and Pepper's where players had to kick out the jams or get booed off the stage.

Butterfield's band was interracial — bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay from Howlin' Wolf's band were in the original lineup — which now is par for the course but at the time was a radical idea.

Original guitarist Mike Bloomfield, better known as the guitarist on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, was also foundational to hits like "Born in Chicago."

This double LP, recorded in 1970 as Butterfield's star was mostly dimmed, features a later-model Butterfield Blues Band lineup in which only the bandleader was left from the debut.

It follows last year's CD release of this concert, which was recorded for The Singer Sewing Machine Company, who for a time sold records in their New York stores as it struggled to reach a new generation of home haberdashers.

Four sides, only nine tracks, from the same tour that produced 1970's Paul Butterfield Live, another double-live set.

Although blues purists at the time felt "Butter," as he was called, had leaned too far away from blues and into jazz and soul, almost five decades on, you can hear what he was doing: Adding a tight horn section like the soul and blues bands of the day, and showcasing gifted guitarist Ralph Walsh, whose playing evokes equal parts dirty Chicago blues and Duane Allman simmer.

Saxman David Sanborn — later a member of the SNL house band in 1975 when Belushi was on the cast — anchors the horn section.

The blues was a bit less frantic than the early records, and more suited for the post-Woodstock era of classic rock.

It's also a bit more urbane: This band at times throws down funk-blues a la B.B. King and Albert King's 1970s material, with a few right turns into jam-band land.

Clearly, they weren't doing three-minute renditions of Butter's earlier hits.

In context, what the Butterfield Blues Band had evolved into makes perfect sense; at the time, Bloomfield's Electric Flag, Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago all were finding success with horns and incorporating jazz influence to electric rock and blues.

Fans of the crazy-awesome, acid-inspired "East-West," the title cut of the 1966 second Butterfield Blues Band album that jams to Indian raga, will dig this set — especially the Middle-Eastern tinged "So Far So Good," the set's climax featuring Sanborn jamming with more speed and energy than anyone who's heard some of his more mellow radio tunes would imagine him capable.

This Butterfield Blues Band incarnation was likely a stone in the Blues Brothers foundation — blues at its heart, with large ladles of soul stirred in.

The band stretches out Big Walter's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" past eight minutes and Charles Brown's "Driftin' Blues" almost 15.

Then there's the rendition of "The Boxer," which takes a left turn into Allmans territory with drummer Dennis Whitted taking an extended solo for the ages that probably furrowed brows of the audience members coming to hear "Born in Chicago" and instead getting a pretty good Jaimoe.

"Stuck In The Countryside" is in-your-face funk right out of the Ike Turner playbook.

The sound is fantastic, which isn't always easy to come by in this vinyl renaissance where a thousand tiny labels will release rotted live tape of pretty much any formerly popular musician, whether it sucks or not (witness John Mayall's recent issue of two double-LPs from the short-lived Bluesbreakers lineup including Peter Green), but the sonics on this record, will make you feel like you're sitting in the front row witnessing Butterfield in his prime, commanding both his harp and his eight-man band.

It's also different enough from Paul Butterfield Live that if you happen to know that double record and like it, Live New York 1970 will give you wonderful chills of finding an undiscovered treasure.

Butterfield was a monster on the harmonica who, despite his best efforts to evolve Chicago blues and his own art, got passed by and eventually dumped by Elektra.

For the night this concert was recorded, however, he and his band threw down straight fire, shedding the kind light even fancy Ray Bans can hardly dim.

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B.B.King was highly influential at this time – far more successful than Muddy Waters – and his use of horns was a guiding light for any musicians that could afford a horn section.

Big bands were impressive, suggesting superior musicianship – that is the only reason I can see for the configs of Blood Sweat and Tears and Electric Flag – for me part, I like the small combo Butterfield best.

There is a collection called "Strawberry Jam" – very raw, but .. wow!

In any case, Butterfield was truly dedicated, and nearly always improving.

Thanks for this review of the Singer Sewing sessions, which I look forward to checking out.

I saw probably the same band in Nov. '69 — Santana opened for them and Humble Pie was on the bill, too!

They had left behind guitar hero Mike Bloomfield and it was very much early Blue Brothers R&Bish.

Butterfield was magnificent on harp, just mesmerizing.

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The group recorded and released its second album "East-West" in 1966. In February 1967, Bloomfield left the Butterfield Blues Band and moved to San Francisco, California to form a new band called the Electric Flag. By the time the group performed at the Monterey Pop Festival, Arnold had been replaced by Charley "Bugsy" Maugh, and the group had expanded with the addition of saxophonists Gene Dinwiddie, David Sanborn and trumpeter Keith Johnson. Davenport retired shortly thereafter and was replaced by Phillip Wilson.
 The eight-piece lineup released "The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw" in 1967 and "In My Own Dream" in 1968. Bishop and Naftalin left shortly after the release of the latter, with Howard "Buzz" Feiten brought in as their replacement. Early the next year, Maugh made way for Rod Hicks and Steve Madaio joined as a second trumpeter. By the summer, the group had also added keyboardist Ted Harris and third saxophonist Trevor Lawrence. After the release of "Keep On Moving", Feiten and Wilson were replaced by Ralph Wash and George Davidson, respectively, while Johnson also left.


Brian Pendleton (13 April 1944 – 16 May 2001) was a British guitarist, and a founder member of the 1960s pop group The Pretty Things.

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The guitarist Brian Pendleton, who has died of lung cancer aged 57, was a member of the 1960s rock group, the Pretty Things.

Projected as wilder, fouler and more peculiar than the Rolling Stones - with whom they were fleetingly on terms of equality - they shared, in the spirit of the times, a communal flat in Belgravia, central London, from which spirited attempts were made to evict them.

The Pretty Things' lead guitarist, Dick Taylor, had left the Stones in 1962, and formed the new group, with singer Phil May, soon afterwards.

Pendleton, meanwhile, had started work - like father, Raymond, before him - as a trainee insurance clerk.

Born in Durham, he attended Dartford grammar school with Taylor - and Mick Jagger.

More to the point, he owned a splendid amplifier that was the deciding factor when he answered a Melody Maker small ad and auditioned as rhythm guitarist for the Pretty Things.

Brian also plucked bass whenever the usual player, John Stax, doubled on harmonica.

After the enlistment of a permanent drummer, the Pretty Things' maiden single, Rosalyn, peaked on the edge of the Top 30 in 1964, and they had a Top 10 hit with Don't Bring Me Down that autumn.

Climbing almost as high was Honey I Need, which featured a careering chord cycle from Pendleton behind May's ranted vocal, anticipating punk by 12 years.

In 1965, the Pretty Things had a bestselling LP, and chart entries with Cry To Me and Midnight To Six Man.

Ultimately, however, this edition of the group were patron saints to those also-ran provincial combos that had opted for motley sullenness rather than Beatle-esque stage suits and big smiles.

In Europe and Australasia, the Pretty Things encountered a re-run of domestic hysteria, but momentum was lost in the United States, mainly through administrative dithering.

When interest at home faded too, Pendleton was the first to quit.

The band had been on a train to Leeds, but when they arrived their rhythm guitarist had vanished.

Their next encounter was at a business meeting four years later.

By then, Pendleton had become a City insurance underwriter.

After a spell at Sun-Alliance, he moved on to the Prudential.

But he never quite lost touch with the still-functioning Pretty Things, and was even, eventually, able to cash long-awaited royalty cheques.

Brian Pendleton, musician, born April 13 1944; died May 25 2001.


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