tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28014858496102438542024-03-20T03:16:09.631-07:00Mouthpiece Notes“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
(Dick the Butcher, "Henry VI" Part II, act IV, Scene II, Line 83)Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-61544932028454281432013-10-10T23:21:00.001-07:002013-10-10T23:46:28.120-07:00Who Killed Joe Camel? Almost 15 years ago in November of 1998, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began the Clinton Administration's last assault on Joe Camel, an advertising character created and then owned by RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporation (RJR), contending that RJR was using the character to lure young smokers. The FTC was seeking to force RJR to sign an order banning the company from using Joe Camel in any future cigarette advertisements. RJR, involved in a lawsuit and under pressure from Congress and other "pubic interest" groups, had already voluntarily ended its use of Joe Camel in July of 1997. Still, the FTC continued to kick Joe Camel in the head afer he was down. Such can be the power and character of some federal agencies and bureaus. <br />
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Joe Camel, RIP, July 12, 1997 <br />
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It has been asked, "Who is next, Ronald McDonald?" Can any survive such an attack? It seemed to me at the time that consequences for freedom of speech were involved, or perhaps for freedom of choice. Yet, much can be done in the name of "protecting" the children or some other group. What might truly motivate those in positions of power? Think about it. Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-18982841539819154592013-02-12T19:13:00.000-08:002013-10-11T00:02:20.112-07:00Hawaii Bar and Bone Fish ExamBy February 2012, I'd been studying on-and-off for about 6 months to take the Hawaii Bar Exam. I'd gotten a copy of Hawaii Criminal Code, Evidence Rules, Civil Rules, Criminal Rules and down-loaded various subjects as I thought of them to review.<br />
The real effort began about Thanksgiving of 2011, when an on-line bar refresher course was available to me-- the Kaplan Bar Review (Hawaii). Wow! Things have changed since I last studied for the Arizona Bar Exam (1983), studying out of one large book. In short, there is now no limit to how much reading, watching, listening, testing, reviewing and practice an applicant can do to prepare for a bar exam. The written materials came in two or three big boxes.<br />
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The first real order of business became to thin out the materials to what I'd realistically be able to (or want to) study. More than half the volumes had to be thrown away, including practice exams. On-line practice tests were to be taken only until I understood how to answer them and obtain a better than 50% result. There would simply not be enough time to do everything. <br />
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The remaining materials had to be put into an order that would show progress-- namely, lists that could be measured, completed and checked off. The key would be to stay optimistic by seeing results. Otherwise, sitting before a computer or book for hours upon hours, day after day, week after week, would be discouraging. </div>
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In short-- step by step, page by page, paragraph by paragraph, video by video-- each goal was checked off. Finally, I would visually see that I'd completed not everything, but what I reasonably believed could be achieved. <br />
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My advice to younger, future applicants-- don't try to read and do <em>everything</em> possible. Just study and memorize enough to reach your comfortable saturation point. Beyond that, you'll only get discouraged. Treat the materials as if you're preparing one of the most important two-day jury trials you'll ever have in your career. That's workable. That's do-able.<br />
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Well, the process worked. I took the February 2012 Hawaii Bar Exam along with about 180 other applicants. About 98% of the others were younger than I. A good group of people. After two full days, the test was over. (In May I was notified that I had passed the exam, and could be admitted at a ceremony in June, which I attended in Honolulu and was sworn in). I'm thinking that, having sat and passed the Washington State Bar Exam (1974), Arizona Bar Exam (1983), and now Hawaii (2012), there probably won't be a fourth effort. This is enough.</div>
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Following the taking of the exam, I took a little time to go fly fishing for Bone Fish. While studying for the examination, I'd relaxed by studying Bone Fish and flies. It looks like I'd organized the Bone Fish subject the same way as all the Hawaii legal subjects-- </div>
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Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-21065362022953224052013-01-29T19:38:00.002-08:002013-01-29T19:52:29.922-08:00On WritingIn the February 2013 Edition of "<span style="color: red;">Arizona Attorney</span>," the official journal of the <span style="color: red;">State Bar of Arizona</span>, there is an excellent article titled <span style="color: red;">"Writing Maketh an Exact Man"</span> written by <span style="color: red;">Attorney</span> <span style="color: red;">Robert J. McWhirter</span>. Here are excerpts which I found particular good--<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">Preparation</span> before writing is important--<br />
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<em><span style="color: lime;">If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my </span><span style="color: lime;">ax</span></em><span style="color: lime;">.</span> -- Abraham Lincoln.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><em>The secret ambition of every brief should be to spare the judge the necessity of engaging in any work, mental or physical</em>.</span> -- Mortimer Levitan<br />
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<em><span style="color: lime;">Be clear, so the audience understands what is being said.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: lime;">Be interesting, so the audience will want to listen to what is being said.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: lime;">Be persuasive, so the audience will agree with what is being said.</span></em> -- Cicero<br />
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<em><span style="color: lime;">You need to give the court a reason you should win that the judge could explain in a sentence or two to a non-lawyer friend.</span></em> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner<br />
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<em><span style="color: lime;">The conclusion in a brief is not just the major thing. It's the only thing.</span></em> -- Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert. <br />
<br />Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-15479057766152453962012-10-03T12:19:00.003-07:002013-10-11T00:15:14.289-07:00Joe Hipp Update<span style="color: red;">Joe "The Boss" Hipp</span> still has it. The following excerpts are from the<em> <span style="color: yellow;">Flathead Beacon</span></em> newspaper in Kalispell, Montana. The article, entitled "UPDATE: Browning Boxing Legend Joe Hipp Returns to the Hometown Ring" by Dillon Tabish. The photo is also from the <em><span style="color: yellow;">Flathead Beacon</span></em>. The link to the entire article is below. <br />
<st1:date day="13" month="7" year="2012"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">By Dillion Tabish, <em><span style="color: yellow;">Flathead Beacon</span></em>, July 14, 2012:</span></st1:date><br />
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<span class="resize"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><!-- reader poll code used to live here --><span itemprop="articleBody">Former world champion Joe Hipp returned to the boxing ring in his hometown last weekend for the first time in seven years.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><span class="resize">Hipp won in the fifth round with a TKO against Harry Funmaker in Browning on July 14. Hipp hiked his lifetime record to 44-7 with 30 knockouts. It was his first fight since 2005. Known during his career as "The Boss," Hipp was the first Native American to fight for a world heavyweight championship and also win one. In 1995, he fought Bruce Seldon for the WBA title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="resize"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Las Vegas</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="resize"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. He won the WBF title in 1999. Hipp was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><span class="resize">"You just never get tired of boxing," he said during weigh-ins at Burton Boxing in Kalispell on July 13. "And my grandkids wanted to see me fight."</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-26480500959594100362012-02-02T17:13:00.000-08:002012-02-02T17:28:27.545-08:00Basic Fly Fishing - Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIeoIj2aUMtGEUa17VE_l3q0YypVE8a3MLwrCronqg3C3SZno1SOcqroRzxDBisqYDX2TaVX8Oll8wxhfpTYVwVQ32m00hdfnVcweU6fcCgpK8sQKBr1L8TS3D5SdgrifPYCXV67TBLk/s1600/mayfly,,.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307px" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIeoIj2aUMtGEUa17VE_l3q0YypVE8a3MLwrCronqg3C3SZno1SOcqroRzxDBisqYDX2TaVX8Oll8wxhfpTYVwVQ32m00hdfnVcweU6fcCgpK8sQKBr1L8TS3D5SdgrifPYCXV67TBLk/s320/mayfly,,.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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Last summer I decided to sign up for a "basic" fly fishing course offered through the local community college extension course catalog. It sounded simple enough-- learn about flying fishing, practice casting, catch a fish.<br />
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As soon as the class started, I knew there was far more to fly fishing than tying a hook to a line. It sounded like a college <span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0"><strong>Entomology</strong></span> class-- <em>the study of fresh-water insects, their eggs, larva, pupa, emergers, dunns, spinners-- particularly the life cycles of the May Fly, Baetis Fly, Caddis Fly and Stone Fly, plus some mosquitoes, grasshoppers, ants and crane flies. </em><br />
It was overwhelming. So, I decided to study and break it down into its basic essentials-- all to make it easy and enjoyable. Here's what I learned.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: lime;">MIDGES<span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: white;">(such as small gnats and the small mosquito and its cousins) are of interest to the fly-fisherman , as are</span> </span>OTHER </span>"fresh water flies" such as the larger dragon (damsel) fly and the crane fly. These flying insects also have lives that start as eggs in the water. <span style="color: lime;">TERRESTRIALS </span>are ants, beetles and grasshoppers (insects which live on the land, but might fall or get blown into the water by the wind). But, most of the fly-fishing talk discusses the Mayfly, Caddisfly, Stone Fly and "midges." </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: red;">(2) <em>Most of the action is under the water</em></span>. I always thought that insects grew up on land and sometimes flew over a lake or stream, and that's when the big fish noticed the flying insect and jumped out of the water to eat the insect in the air-- all the fly-fisherman had to do was dangle a line over the water with a look-a-like artificial fly tied to a hook, and the fish would jump into the air and swallow the hook. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkazZFWRflbu6f_wzY1SLAG_E4a7rVvcDXiPktBQqtku97nB-Yl1_Fi4Dns8o4Qqn7SMU6Fj-d-DGJZSa1CRT85vUvLoT2rrc5PHPpFp6HSaI34kWNSvejDtlzOyXYXwHgsez5TMPlvw/s1600/stonefly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-47377405977301986772012-01-28T19:03:00.000-08:002012-01-28T22:32:24.904-08:00"Keep A-Goin' "<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGRILQl3salxez27iwLnA3b3lCKQzLz6U-aijAgKfDgPOeD7Sf7rkbG3p_A3lQ9WbTLx9nxToJN1RQX1kxsNrdUATYh5jyiyxAWPjW6fw0d514GpgK2sK9gbL87HnzmPZUbVBkrqFe-w/s1600/Frank_Lebby_Stanton_Portrait_Magazine_of_Poetry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGRILQl3salxez27iwLnA3b3lCKQzLz6U-aijAgKfDgPOeD7Sf7rkbG3p_A3lQ9WbTLx9nxToJN1RQX1kxsNrdUATYh5jyiyxAWPjW6fw0d514GpgK2sK9gbL87HnzmPZUbVBkrqFe-w/s320/Frank_Lebby_Stanton_Portrait_Magazine_of_Poetry.jpg" width="231" /></a><em><span style="color: lime;">Keep A-Goin'</span> </em>by <span style="color: red;">Frank Lebby Stanton</span> (1857-1927) is probably my favorite poem. I read it to my children when they were young, and I read it myself when needing inspiration. If you can't remember the words to poems, or don't like to memorize, all you need here is to remember the title-- <em><span style="color: lime;">Keep A-Goin'</span>. </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: yellow;">Keep A-Goin'</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Keep a-goin'!<br />
If it hails or if it snows,<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
'Taint no use to sit an' whine<br />
When the fish ain't on your line;<br />
Bait your hook an' keep a-tryin'--<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
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When the weather kills your crop,<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
Though 'tis work to reach the top,<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
S'pose you're out o' ev'ry dime,<br />
Gittin' broke ain't any crime;<br />
Tell the world you're feelin' prime--<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
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When it looks like all is up,<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
Drain the sweetness from the cup,<br />
Keep a-goin'!<br />
See the wild birds on the wing, <br />
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,<br />
When you feel like singin', sing--<br />
Keep a-goin'!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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Remember that all the years of growing trouble between the North and South erupted in civil war on <date day="12" month="4" year="1861">April 12, 1861</date>, when Confederate artillery opened fire on Federal Fort Sumter in <place><placename>Charleston</placename> <placetype>Harbor</placetype></place>. <place><placetype>Fort</placetype> <placename>Sumter</placename></place> surrendered 34 hours later, and Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back.<br />
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Frank Stanton started his education in Savannah, Georgia, but his schooling was cut short by the Civil War (1861-1865). <br />
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</div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-30597084842747453662011-10-30T00:17:00.000-07:002011-10-30T00:17:07.986-07:00"Gaddafi" the Movie<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Muammar Gaddafi (1942 - 2011) is now gone. But, isn't it just a matter of time before Hollywood starts to cash in with "Gaddafi" the Movie? So, it got me to thinking-- What movie star should be cast to play the role of Gaddafi? Here is my nominee for a Drama- Micky Rourke.<br />
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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-24446430851657920432011-10-16T11:42:00.000-07:002011-10-16T20:26:52.128-07:00"The Old Man And The Sea" of Cortez<div align="right" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCtoQEbcTBGOQIt3RVNp7iMTAwLJX1Gkam41uhirskg34UiPIisLgdWnpBhB5frJDeUnBROBNItmnfVBDyUxWDtCFSc5XD47cC9TPOZ-DqbD48IK_KOCD69xw5PKjSwbdwL3y1Z60J9M/s320/320.jpg" width="240px" /></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">What do <span style="color: lime;">Ernest Hemingway</span> and I have in common? We are both wearing the exact same style of fishing shorts in these two pictures. <em>Check out the shorts</em>. That's Hemingway on a fishing boat some place in the Caribbean, and that's me with the captain of a small fishing boat in the Sea of Cortez, just out of <span style="color: red;">Cabo San Lucas</span>. Or, could it have been in the Arctic Ocean, looking at the way the captain is dressed for cold weather? </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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In June we went to Cabo San Lucas for a wedding. Some of the groom's family made arrangements to go fishing and invited me.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I'd long thought about going "deep sea sport fishing" but never did. This was a chance. That, plus the romantic</span> idea of joining the likes of writer and "tough guy" Ernest Hemingway. </div> <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cabo San Lucas is certainly beautiful and warm, with blue sky and water and lots of sport fishing. Cabo San Lucas is located on the southern tip of Mexico's <place><placename>Baja</placename> California <placetype>Peninsula<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">on the same latitude as </span><state><place><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Hawaii. It's approximately</span></place></state></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 1,000 miles south of </span><city><place><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">San Diego. It is now definitely a tourist destination. </place></city></span></placetype></place></span><br />
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Although the Sea of Cortez is named after Spaniard Captain Hernan Cortez, his navigator <span style="color: lime;">Fancisco de Ulloa</span> is credited with discovering Cabo San Lucas in 1537. It has a history of pirates raiding Spanish ships taking treasures back to Spain. A fort was established there and the area was opened up to further exploration. In 1730 a Jesuit mission was built. The biggest obstacle to development was lack of a steady water supply.<br />
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That's one of the things I wondered about when I got there-- Where does the fresh water come from? I have since learned that the <br />
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We were picked up on the beach by a couple of small boats and then we bought some live bait from another small boat anchored out. You could see many local residents relied upon tourists fishing, just as many worked in the tourist hotels.<br />
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After catching a few tuna, the chop was getting to us <em>gringos</em> and we decided to turn back to town. But, on the way the captain spotted a <span style="color: cyan;">marlin</span> and asked if "we" wanted to catch it. We said okay. This is the way it actually worked-- the captain got his engine running again (it had broken down and we had bobbed up and down in the waves for a while as he tried to fix it, breathing the gasoline fumes, which didn't help a whole lot), quickly got in front of the swimming marlin, got a stiff pole, and then baited a hook and threw it over in front of the marlin (while I steered the boat for him, thankful for having something to hold on to). Sure enough, the marlin grabbed the bait and was hooked-- all thanks to <em>el capitan</em>. <br />
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Sam, the other adult in our small fishing party, had caught and reeled in marlins on other trips to Cabo, so he asked if I wanted to reel in this one. Wanting to save face and act like Ernest Hemingway, I agreed. That's when I started identifying with "The Old Man and the Sea." It didn't take days to reel in the marlin, but it still seemed like a long time to this queasy, thristy (my mouth no longer had any spit in it) ol' man. I never felt like giving up-- but maybe secretly hoped the marlin would break loose and free <em>me</em>. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">"The Old Man and the Sea" centers upon Santiago, a Cuban fisherman who has had a string of bad luck. One day he goes out and finally catches a fish, hooking a monster marlin. Santiago respects the marlin and battles it for a couple of days in a test of wills, holding on while being pulled by the marlin out to sea. Santiago finally wins and the too-big-to-get-into-the-boat marlin is tied to the side of the small fishing skiff as Santiago returns to shore. Of course, sharks attack and eat the marlin, so Santiago returns to port with only the large skeleton tied to his small boat. But, at least all the townspeople see that he his luck had returned and he had caught a very large fish. He's not a "has-been" yet. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>In the Hollywood movie, Spencer Tracy at times almost looks possessed. Note that in the pictures, <em>Spencer Tracy and I are wearing almost the exact same shirt</em>. The similarities don't end there, however. While there is no picture of me, battling the marlin for probably less than 20 minutes, with the exact same possessed expression of a desparate man who had been fighting a fish for days, I'm sure it was there on my face to be seen. (Instead of a fishing line, imagine pulling on a five-mile long drinking straw with the other end in a tall, cool Diet Coke on ice. That's what I was imagining). <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Land Ho!</div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-61686326642737131742011-09-26T22:41:00.000-07:002011-09-26T22:44:22.802-07:00National Debt Made Real<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL5QHYGxZE5-RUwvseAks71oAbJCzCtCk0y5v9EVDcHhhwAJqeA0q464L-r7OeVIsiF8s07dtREjs_-uXdgmQYSLiJsySoghD5XEtKn4gMA5jLACQe0hYiiYO4wp09-m5mUQ73-4R8X64/s1600/history.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL5QHYGxZE5-RUwvseAks71oAbJCzCtCk0y5v9EVDcHhhwAJqeA0q464L-r7OeVIsiF8s07dtREjs_-uXdgmQYSLiJsySoghD5XEtKn4gMA5jLACQe0hYiiYO4wp09-m5mUQ73-4R8X64/s320/history.gif" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">A stockbroker sent me an email with a short illustration as to why the financial status of the US was recently downgraded. I imagine the following is floating around the internet. Yet, it's a perfect explanation in easily understood terms:</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">New debt: $1,650,000,000,000</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">National debt: $14,271,000,000,000</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Recent budget cut: $38,500,000,000</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Annual family income: $21,700</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Money the family spent: $38,200</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">New debt on credit card: $16,500</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Total budget cuts: $385.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br />
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That's son Scott setting up the chess board. Can you beat that arrangement? Even the moths wanted to get into the game.<br />
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This is a picture of <span style="color: cyan;">Blythe Lake</span> in Eastern Washington as the sun is coming up. <br />
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I had a free day in the middle of the week, so I decided to go fishing in the <span style="color: cyan;">“Potholes”</span> in Eastern Washington. The eastern part of the state is high desert—very stark, uncluttered and peaceful. In the summer it’s warm and sunny. At midnight I put the canoe on top of the car and drove 200 miles to Blythe Lake, arriving shortly before sunrise. <br />
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When I first got there it was still dark and the bull frogs all around the lake were croaking. It sounded like they were trying to get their cellos in tune-- very deep tones. But then a few started something that reminded me of the Australian Didgeridoo. And when I walked around the car I would hear splashing when the frogs and turtles jumped into the water. Different sounds than in the city. <br />
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About 15,000 years ago, towards the end of the last ice age, the <span style="color: cyan;">Cordilleran Ice Sheet</span> covered the northern parts of Washington, Idaho and Western Montana. The front edge of the ice sheet was about 2,000 feet high. That’s about three times the height of the <span style="color: cyan;">Seattle Space Needle</span>. <br />
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In what’s now Montana, there was a lot of water trapped behind ice dams, which were part of the ice sheet. That water is now referred to as <span style="color: cyan;">Glacial Lake Missoula</span> and may have been about half the size of Lake Michigan. Every 40 years or so during a 2000-year period, the ice dams would burst and all that water would rush across Eastern Washington at about 80 miles per hour. The water would scour the earth, pushing sediment and rocks out of the way and down into Oregon and beyond. The erosion was fierce. Enormous canyons and channels were formed in the volcanic rock almost instantly.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Dry Falls</span> is an example of the vast erosion caused by the <span style="color: cyan;">Missoula Floods</span> (sometimes called the Spokane Floods). When water was flowing over Dry Falls, it was about twice as much as <span style="color: cyan;">Niagara Falls</span>. You can get all this information on the web. <br />
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Blythe Lake is near <span style="color: cyan;">Moses Lake</span>. The Moses Lake area has many lakes, commonly known as "potholes," which were initially carved out by the floodwaters from Glacial Lake Missoula. Moses Lake feeds the <span style="color: cyan;">Potholes Reservoir</span>, which is part of the <span style="color: cyan;">Columbia Basin Irrigation Project</span>, a dam and irrigation project which raised the water table high enough to allow the potholes to become lakes. Blythe Lake is just south of the reservoir. It's one of the little dots at the top left of this photo: <br />
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I don’t know if Blythe Lake is “officially” one of the potholes, but most people refer to all the lakes in the area as “The Potholes.” So, I went fishing in “The Potholes” (although there is an actual lake with that name). You know what I mean. <br />
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Anyway, I got there before sunrise and put the canoe in and paddled around the lake. I tried dragging a spinner behind as I paddled; I anchored and tried worms, both deep and shallow, and Power Bait, both deep and shallow. Never a bite or sight of a trout. This little guy got hooked on a worm, but I threw him back (along with the pliers shown in the picture).<br />
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While I didn’t catch any trout, it was six hours on the water well spent. The surroundings were beautiful. You could hear the air going through the feathers of the birds as they flew by. You could hear your own breathing. I was the only person at the lake—all day. That’s my car shown in the photo. It was great. After six hours on the lake, I drove back home.<br />
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The canoe worked well. The wind was really up coming home, and it was blowing sideways on the canoe. But, the canoe held up. That’s a picture of the back rest I made for it—you can lean against it or sit on top. I also learned that I can stretch out and fall asleep on the bottom of the canoe. That could work in a pinch. <br />
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Today was a good day-- I took my son and grandson fishing. (Or, did they take me?). This kind of day doesn't always happen. It was time spent on the shore of the small lake which the three of us will remember forever. My grandson Logan caught one (when his line wasn't tangled in a tight mess-- a knot-tying skill we all three possess). This was a day of appreciation. What is it about fishing, in particular? <br />
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31st U.S. <span style="color: #e69138;">President Herbert Hoover</span> said it pretty well in 1947--<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">"Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egotism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men-- for all men are equal before fish."</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Izaak Walton</span> (1593-1683) was an English writer and author of <em><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">The Compleat Angler</span></em> (1653), which celebrates the art and spirit of fishing.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">"You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it." </span><br />
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Remember the 1992 movie <em><span style="color: cyan;">A River Runs Through It</span></em>? A great story-- some sadness, but also full of fishing, which seemed to forgive and make things right. The movie was based upon the semi-autobiographic short novel <em><span style="color: cyan;">A</span></em> <em><span style="color: cyan;">River Runs Through It</span></em> (1976) written by <span style="color: orange;">Norman Maclean</span> (1902-1990). Here's one of the best quotes from the film--<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."</span> <br />
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I don't pretend to be a great or regular fisherman. I've been away from it for decades, only re-discovering it the last couple of years. Just in time, it seems. <br />
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Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-1565298831418553572011-08-08T23:29:00.000-07:002016-04-23T13:33:36.698-07:00"Reno Jim" Uprichard<div style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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Reno Jim and I stay in touch as friends do, mostly out of curiosity to see how life turns for us. The guy in the Captain's hat is <span style="color: yellow;">Jack Kerouac</span>, the "beat" writer. I didn't know Kerouac, but I think he may have tried to model his life after Reno Jim. Uprichard makes Kerouac look like a Sunday School teacher. The guy with the curly hair is <span style="color: yellow;">Kurt Vonnegut</span>, whose books I saw Reno Jim reading from time to time. That's pretty much Jim's background, so far as I know. </div>
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When Jim went into the Navy he had a metallic blue '56 Chev hardtop. When he got out, he bought a purple VW bug. Over the years, he's pretty much settled on a couple of Harley Davidson motorcycles. </div>
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Reno Jim is an excellent rider. When he sees a sign that suggests using caution, he'll grab a fist full of throttle and go even faster, lest some danger catch up to him from behind. The "dangerous curve" ahead sign is biographical for Reno Jim. </div>
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Here's a picture of Reno Jim giving Senator Rand Paul a short seminar on the value of money and the dangers of the Federal Reserve this last weekend in Reno, Nevada (of course). <br />
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UPDATE: So Reno Jim was riding his bike around Florida in late summer 2012 to be a Ron Paul delegate at the GOP national convention, which he did. But, he got banged up pretty good in a bike accident and ended in the hospital. His bike got out earlier than him. The "New World Order" trying to take him out? His friends are trying to help him out. For more info about this patriot, check out<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">JJ and I road to Pendleton, Oregon, the first night and then on to Twin Falls, Idaho, by the next evening. We stopped in Salt Lake (worst highway traffic on the whole trip). The third night was in Grand Junction, Colorado, and we met Jim the next morning in Rifle, west of Denver. That's the capitol building in Denver. After resting in Denver, it was on to Boulder and Estes Park in the Rockies. </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">There were broken kickstands, cops and traffic stops, lost chaps and shirts, bugs and animals. The best story comes from riding down Granby Pass in the Rockies-- lots of herds of elk. Anyway, Jim got stopped inside the National Park for speeding (and four other potential traffic infractions and one possible crime)-- but somehow he talked his way into a "warning" and we took off. We then saw that Jim's headlamp was out. It was getting dark and we needed a place to stay, but the best chance was 100 miles down the road. So, JJ went ahead through the dark, followed by Jim without a headlamp, and then me. Part of the way there was a pickup truck in front of us which tapped its brakes whenever elk and deer ran across the road-- and there were hundreds. That was living!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>By then, Jim had been on the road about three weeks. No matter how much sun screen you apply, the road and wind will wear out your skin. That's Jim's ear. There's nothing quite like the elements to make you feel alive. We went on up to Rawlings, Wyoming. (Remind me to tell you about a murder charge I defended for Turtle Smith, who fled to Rawlings with a new notch carved in the grips of his revolver. The Wyoming State Penitentiary is in Rawlings, so maybe he was familiar with the town). <br />
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Next destination was Grand Tetons National Park and then on to Yellowstone National Park, to stay in Livingston, Montana, where Jim lived for seven years in the 1980's. (Remind his cousin to tell us how the bullet hole got in the front door of that house). That's the arch at the north exit of Yellowstone, south of Livingston. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">We stayed with a friend in Wisdom, Montana, in the "Big Hole" and saw the 1877 Big Hole Battlefield, which was actually the site of a massacre of encamped Nez Perce Indians, fleeing the Army and hoping to reach Canada. Chief Joseph led the survivors of his tribe away, but he soon surrendered and said "I fight no more forever." The site is a memorial to the slain men, women and many children. See my earlier post about Levi McCormack. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpcuz7ACohC5_hrXLGcp_L6gaZH68EZJQfi7n1axuizwzbp0YHXEnhyWEJFZEW3KsVAi5Ga7b-Rc8v2xtT4ZesDFSXseb6ER-04KjgyqP6KPZMZQKsJThZ9SRflm_lJFl9bD7kl_9h3tU/s1600/wisdom+114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpcuz7ACohC5_hrXLGcp_L6gaZH68EZJQfi7n1axuizwzbp0YHXEnhyWEJFZEW3KsVAi5Ga7b-Rc8v2xtT4ZesDFSXseb6ER-04KjgyqP6KPZMZQKsJThZ9SRflm_lJFl9bD7kl_9h3tU/s320/wisdom+114.jpg" t$="true" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXch_Hyy-A-NWnzi99VerBDjcH5qddiy3JcalAlMKOjAf5bm5Dn4_s61qkWNYd9dyxp-QxxkzDZTS5HeYR_CXWqlycIBep-egOI6_TVSYbCtaUDHk_K9ATIlvkfcfktQGBIM1sbhOaLU/s1600/untitled.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXch_Hyy-A-NWnzi99VerBDjcH5qddiy3JcalAlMKOjAf5bm5Dn4_s61qkWNYd9dyxp-QxxkzDZTS5HeYR_CXWqlycIBep-egOI6_TVSYbCtaUDHk_K9ATIlvkfcfktQGBIM1sbhOaLU/s1600/untitled.bmp" t$="true" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGXccC3WqaBJwN2piQva8XXi4OF0xiipI6a2x3oEgP1mxBCz40cGcD3ZD2yyJ7lfBIFnjaFo97NyMxA8-c72_vhXVZHyWOIiPU0GkWj-Ww8FAou3FMsW-Pej7yrEZZNQvGeNvpM-60TM/s320/wisdom+114.jpg" t$="true" width="0" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Wisdom is really small-- around 100 people-- but of those people, there was a famous guy living there named Carl Miles, who invented some Harley Davidson add-on parts, including the "Heel Guard." That's me with him after I bought one of his parts and installed it (so I could eliminate my heel shifter). I'm the one with the light beard. <br />
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It is usually served hot in a bowl or dish. Porridge is usually eaten as a breakfast dish, often with the addition of butter, sugar or milk. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAd6j445sOoeaBo3EfDvUQcieoclPKVfu9JWTHe4HulFTePU1XwfNicAaU7I4A42KEG4tPzId9aJxs_zQ1v6iotzy4w6MLBSvld_gzyKFi_Q990uIZnwTfpaodgtwuEvA69YXzGK7Z1jE/s1600/jail_1425037c.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608555195404153810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 125px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAd6j445sOoeaBo3EfDvUQcieoclPKVfu9JWTHe4HulFTePU1XwfNicAaU7I4A42KEG4tPzId9aJxs_zQ1v6iotzy4w6MLBSvld_gzyKFi_Q990uIZnwTfpaodgtwuEvA69YXzGK7Z1jE/s200/jail_1425037c.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Porridge was commonly used as prison food for inmates in England. Some call porridge "oatmeal." Oatmeal has a long history in Scottish culinary tradition because oats are better suited than wheat to Scotland's short wet growing season.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLS7mlk_mg65Jh8ePWrr3MJ08VEzgFBca3NEktU7ARyI_uw4Ygcm3AVuX-bOMo3miJZfe1UOgeFIY0ZTacocCVdx73Yltda27ujRmuAYTTmH0nl3u6-OcbTVSVryW_FMwSad9MDEYH4MU/s1600/oliver-twist-gruel530.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608634262262253954" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 162px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLS7mlk_mg65Jh8ePWrr3MJ08VEzgFBca3NEktU7ARyI_uw4Ygcm3AVuX-bOMo3miJZfe1UOgeFIY0ZTacocCVdx73Yltda27ujRmuAYTTmH0nl3u6-OcbTVSVryW_FMwSad9MDEYH4MU/s200/oliver-twist-gruel530.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1OteXbCfSnBzOEYAkiSDo7u-zpg2LNPD0hlpZ2TzYuH6Mn_uvnXDknJ8DPaOy1U0DUB_bRG34un0jNHimfwmLFW8buRqq-0Hx3pVSkAyM5TckMifLAsOPIsITFpz15IaXE23L3Qn2MU/s1600/250px-Gruel.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608554750468607570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1OteXbCfSnBzOEYAkiSDo7u-zpg2LNPD0hlpZ2TzYuH6Mn_uvnXDknJ8DPaOy1U0DUB_bRG34un0jNHimfwmLFW8buRqq-0Hx3pVSkAyM5TckMifLAsOPIsITFpz15IaXE23L3Qn2MU/s200/250px-Gruel.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ff0000;">Gruel</span> is a thinner version of porridge. It is made from some type of cereal (oats, wheat, rye flour or rice) usually boiled in water. It is similar to porridge, but more often drunk than eaten. It has a very thin consistency. Gruel consumption has traditionally been associated with poverty.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNo_s_OiqVj5kV2qMO1cj6D5onHFBoHwgoVUJ50Nh7D1Hv-hNmsQi_lJF4RWIBan_YyOxbyoXqH2vSkv9cj8Zku4e9ZqA_K5s1b77aH_rQTJugVDDoiqrOrHXVxrJ6-P1sEjMXHKPyT-w/s1600/jodies_grits.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608555198341107826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNo_s_OiqVj5kV2qMO1cj6D5onHFBoHwgoVUJ50Nh7D1Hv-hNmsQi_lJF4RWIBan_YyOxbyoXqH2vSkv9cj8Zku4e9ZqA_K5s1b77aH_rQTJugVDDoiqrOrHXVxrJ6-P1sEjMXHKPyT-w/s200/jodies_grits.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="color:#ff0000;">Grits</span> consists of coarsely ground corn, usually prepared by adding one part grits to two-to-three parts boiling water and seasoned with salt, sugar or butter. Grits is common in the Southern United States, mainly eaten at breakfast. Grits can also be fried in a pan with vegetable oil, butter, or bacon grease.<br /><br />Porridge can be found in popular literature. The <span style="color:#ffff00;">Grimm Brothers</span>,Wilhelm (1786 – 1859) and Jacob (1785 – 1863), were German linguists and researchers who collected old folk tales and published several collections of fairy tales, called <span style="color:#ffff00;">Grimm's Fairy Tales</span>. Jacob Grimm was also a lawyer.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBVast-x4NgvMSLMAwsbTRjwqmj_VavxYsF8n75YS7MILGnKDaaIJ2W49-b7_GgdCwPwG_yeGbvwreQkNFod-ozIUaVDbai586ixd_RIZiNVtdMd6y_r1ekkEeykZyUJg334hIf0luZI/s1600/brothers+grimm.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608570170761551954" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 184px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBVast-x4NgvMSLMAwsbTRjwqmj_VavxYsF8n75YS7MILGnKDaaIJ2W49-b7_GgdCwPwG_yeGbvwreQkNFod-ozIUaVDbai586ixd_RIZiNVtdMd6y_r1ekkEeykZyUJg334hIf0luZI/s200/brothers+grimm.bmp" border="0" /></a>There's a short story called <span style="color:#ffffcc;">"Sweet Porridge"</span> by the Brothers Grimm:</div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffffcc;">There was a poor little girl who lived with her mother and they had nothing to eat. The girl went into the forest and met an old woman who gave her a little pot. When the little girl said "Cook, little pot, cook," the pot would cook sweet porridge. The pot stopped cooking porridge when the girl said "Stop, little pot." The girl took the pot home to her mother and now they were free to eat sweet porridge as often as they chose. One time when the girl went out, and her mother said "Cook, little pot, cook." The mom ate until she was satisfied but did not know the words to stop the pot from cooking. The pot kept on cooking until the little pot overflowed and the kitchen and whole house were full. The porridge overflowed into the street and into the other houses. The little girl finally came home and said "Stop, little pot," and the pot stopped cooking porridge, but whoever wished to return to the town had to eat his way back.</span></div><br /><div>Just about everybody probably knows the story of <span style="color:#ffffcc;">"Goldilocks and The Three Bears."</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmoJNEzvSuNdDNszx3lZFy8-sv_K8hqxjPYWwhRG_JarWQ35Z4jQlBG-PrmFd40e-VfVHqib-uGkkqe1YK8-j3XRXM-pe-ezf7fGydApiKLlzsvLX3KY8bcCFaS1nBo-0PKRfQndgPAJo/s1600/goldilocks.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608554761356593042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmoJNEzvSuNdDNszx3lZFy8-sv_K8hqxjPYWwhRG_JarWQ35Z4jQlBG-PrmFd40e-VfVHqib-uGkkqe1YK8-j3XRXM-pe-ezf7fGydApiKLlzsvLX3KY8bcCFaS1nBo-0PKRfQndgPAJo/s200/goldilocks.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ffffcc;">There was a little girl named Goldilocks who went for a walk in the forest. She came upon a house owned by the Three Bears (Papa, Mama and Baby Bear) and walked right in. On the kitchen table there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry and tasted the porridge from the first bowl, which was too hot. The second bowl was too cold, but the last bowl of porridge was “just right.” She also tested the three chairs (breaking the smallest) and the three beds (falling asleep in Baby Bear’s bed, which was “just right”). The Three Bears came home and started investigating. Goldilocks woke up, saw the Three Bears and screamed "Help!" Goldilocks jumped up, ran out of the house and ran away into the forest. She never returned to the home of the three bears.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVLqzOVZE2sukQMd4ckbU22hMAKch_9nqgAO30VtZr81KlNWpsh9JhVsRaGt0bZP8OEH4zoHC_pa1JngmX7oMifX2hOGy8tHyxBFhtvnHlZgWHuFkNGpsxNLs-ifAShasc5ZY3yOufvQ/s1600/huge_2_14923.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608555187086550162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 128px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVLqzOVZE2sukQMd4ckbU22hMAKch_9nqgAO30VtZr81KlNWpsh9JhVsRaGt0bZP8OEH4zoHC_pa1JngmX7oMifX2hOGy8tHyxBFhtvnHlZgWHuFkNGpsxNLs-ifAShasc5ZY3yOufvQ/s200/huge_2_14923.jpg" border="0" /></a> These stories are unusual, even for a lawyer-- Were they told to keep one's mind off of hunger? Why were little girls frequently wandering off into the forrest? Were these cereal meals always related to stories of hunger, poverty and subtle danger? Why are the endings so abrupt? What ever became of the little girls?<br /><br />Yet, more recent popular "literature" continues to deal with these cereals and related themes.</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608635530707201490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFj8AlMUVZpmIe-sfSAH_gJ-TQkKu3vC9j5nrdRlT1b403_nCYw8X3iYHFLbqslyXNAn6lB9PHT_W2lPCsgOMZjsysCi6_mdHIX3KBd5feCMCW95HIZV9RqdEJiOzm5KwN5UBFFecDYA/s200/vinny.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>Recall the 1992 movie titled "My Cousin Vinny," in which grits showed up. Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Gambini</span> (played by Joe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Pesci</span>) was an inexperienced, loudmouth New York lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners, who went to Alabama to defend two young men wrongly accused of murder while on their way back to college--<br /></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Gambini</span>:</span> You <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">tesitfied</span> earlier that you saw the boys go into the store, and you had just begun to cook your breakfast and you were just getting ready to eat when you heard the shot. </span><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Witness</span>: That's right. </span><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Gambini</span></span>: You remember what you had?</span> <span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Witness</span>: Eggs and grits.</span><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Gambini</span></span>: Eggs and grits. I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">al</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">dente</span></em>? Instant grits?</span> <span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Witness</span>: No self <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">respectin</span>' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits. </span><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Gambini</span></span>: So, how could it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?</span> <span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Witness</span>: I don't know, I'm a fast cook I guess.</span> <span style="color:#33ff33;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Vinny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Gambini</span></span>: Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth? The laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove? Were these magic grits? Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk </span><span style="color:#33ff33;">beans?</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ffffff;">Such is the reasonable connection between porridge, gruel, grits, danger, crimes, p<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhtKIZeaKw1GwO6yItbKSqUgRVJcsGJHx1YqetZ04DqEBgk734_EbKLGEpUERE9zRKR2s93kstbaKuzrPnQc5LzfsadGoFG1yUlqZFZ8oaSP3b_G5khWAkA-byKiCjnv07Rn5D9JIE7Q/s1600/instant+grits.jpg"><span style="color:#ffffff;"></span></a>rison and lawyers. </span></div></div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-73691587728580025142011-02-15T02:28:00.000-08:002011-02-15T02:55:12.067-08:00"Walter the Penniless" and "Peter the Hermit"<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCLObOiNusT1SPzV-h_f75PBmYqWh1de1r2RwN9s_zS2E7VOn4E7_vJkNPG7awYd8rNT8Fm1ZezbLZJUKCaS91JwF_VQSNwEIsAf5bYqP6ZewiQQrQL7Gqf2OL89NYzWU-Bfho8fLNoA0/s1600/peter_the_hermit.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573861895355550258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 312px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCLObOiNusT1SPzV-h_f75PBmYqWh1de1r2RwN9s_zS2E7VOn4E7_vJkNPG7awYd8rNT8Fm1ZezbLZJUKCaS91JwF_VQSNwEIsAf5bYqP6ZewiQQrQL7Gqf2OL89NYzWU-Bfho8fLNoA0/s320/peter_the_hermit.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_CnCWUd66o7TFnwayl_82DZgpI2ukt93ABML6QJb01XSM_xR76vdyVh-AEa1WyHAYUG0zdyvyahMj6cehaZMVYg1xU7Ln1PDI1ghfXHLVpaArr8sur9of6dZ9aF2zzMtDZweviP6Hd8/s1600/4041527525_15a95d8634.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573861909241255634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 215px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_CnCWUd66o7TFnwayl_82DZgpI2ukt93ABML6QJb01XSM_xR76vdyVh-AEa1WyHAYUG0zdyvyahMj6cehaZMVYg1xU7Ln1PDI1ghfXHLVpaArr8sur9of6dZ9aF2zzMtDZweviP6Hd8/s320/4041527525_15a95d8634.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#33ff33;">Walter the Penniless</span> was lieutenant to <span style="color:#33ff33;">Peter the Hermit</span> and co-led the <span style="color:#ffff00;">People's Crusade</span> at the beginning of the First Crusade (1095-1099). </p><p><span style="color:#ffff00;">The Crusades</span> were undertaken by European Christians between the 11th and 14th centuries to recover the Holy Land, particularly Jerusalem, from Islam. The movement began in France when Pope Urban II exhorted Christendom to war, promising that the journey would count as penance. </p><p><span style="color:#ffff00;">The First Crusade</span> (1095-1099) began with the march of several undisciplined hordes of French and German peasants (approximately 12,000 people, of whom only eight were knights), led by Walter the Penniless and Peter the Hermit. </p><p>Leaving well before the main army of knights and their followers, Walter led his band, traveling separately from Peter. They started out by massacring the Jews in the Rhineland (i.e., West Germany) and incensed the Bulgarians and Hungarians, who attacked and dispersed them. They reached Constantinople in shreds. Walter and Peter joined forces at Constantinople and crossed over the Asia Minor, and were promptly defeated by the Turks.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RujlKtFYWoc3i69BWVWQ6GBrMwFbFq3hR9qJZwNWgtcrgi0O4DGYoTkR5xsrLbe2ff8hmGDvupFO7vPqUdNhJ2jP95NdRDMI7zURfAg_vFrffEj7mKt9Th0DB8-xXpsxqHplTfkaMRc/s1600/peterhermit.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573861889370120498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RujlKtFYWoc3i69BWVWQ6GBrMwFbFq3hR9qJZwNWgtcrgi0O4DGYoTkR5xsrLbe2ff8hmGDvupFO7vPqUdNhJ2jP95NdRDMI7zURfAg_vFrffEj7mKt9Th0DB8-xXpsxqHplTfkaMRc/s320/peterhermit.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ffffff;">Peter the Hermit</span> had returned to Constantinople, either for reinforcements or to protect himself. But Walter was killed, allegedly pierced by seven arrows. Peter returned to France and joined an Augustinian monastery.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p></p><p><br /><br /></p><p>There were nine crusades, plus the <span style="color:#ffff00;">Children’ Crusade</span> of 1212. Thousands of French children set out for the Holy land but were instead sold into slavery by unscrupulous skippers. Another group of German children made their way by land but perished of hunger and disease.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHnsuLteQt_m7sa6e_Mp2x-0QMArcgWEpNXjFm9BpgBxieEo0iTneCfi56IWHH0rEUxLQfwZjYSQGURt0NpPZlhRdegfD1xSpqXsivuKJ8kJ8WikpQT7fhHEdFDmkwJAg_rqDfbbgfm0/s1600/ChildrensCrusade02-l.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573861903645554898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 221px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHnsuLteQt_m7sa6e_Mp2x-0QMArcgWEpNXjFm9BpgBxieEo0iTneCfi56IWHH0rEUxLQfwZjYSQGURt0NpPZlhRdegfD1xSpqXsivuKJ8kJ8WikpQT7fhHEdFDmkwJAg_rqDfbbgfm0/s320/ChildrensCrusade02-l.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><span style="color:#ffcc33;"></span><p><span style="color:#ffcc33;">Sources: Will Durant, <em>The Age of Faith</em>; Wikipedia; Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia; Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia.<br /></span></p><p><span style="color:#ffcc33;"></p></span>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-58028149998872270512011-01-29T13:35:00.000-08:002011-01-29T16:16:18.973-08:00Trumpet Study Methods<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><span style="font-family:arial;">It seems that trumpet players are always concerned about playing lots of notes quickly and correctly (i.e., "technique") and playing high notes (i.e. “screaming”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Where does that come from? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Perhaps it is because all the great trumpet players do both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Where to begin? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>All amateur and aspiring trumpet students start out with <span style="color:#ffff33;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Arban</span>’s </span>or <span style="color:#ffff33;">Saint-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Jacome's</span></span> method books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567725646821111746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggX9FbUupWK3oyuQcXs2LxKu7sntUZL3peT2m9CybsAMtdqvjKomxIBOHYanzCd8-CPvGS5q49r4TVKPeRa9D-7pxbdPEQiry1utwvLQQSXF9o9Rm6uw5jnyzwnkI5hW9mjEYFTVzR208/s320/5420.jpg" border="0" /><span style="color:#33ff33;">Joseph Jean Baptiste Laurent <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Arban</span></span> (1825 – 1889) was probably </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">the first famous trumpet (cornet) soloist. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Born in France, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">he entered the Paris Conservatory at an early age, taking up the study of valved cornet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was in the French Navy and became a professor at the Military School in 1857.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Arban</span> was then elected professor of cornet at the Conservatory in 1869.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was also a cornet soloist throughout </span><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> and authored <em><span style="color:#ffff33;">Method for the Cornet</span></em> (1870), which was endorsed and adopted for instruction at the Conservatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is still in print. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span>This method of studying the cornet, which is often referred to as the "Trumpeter's Bible," is still studied by modern brass players. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">It contains hundreds of exercises. The method begins with fairly basic exercises and progresses to very advanced </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">compositions. </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">It focuses on trumpet technique. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>I started with an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Arban</span>’s in the </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><span style="font-family:arial;">1960s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It seems all the other trumpet students also studied out of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Arban</span>’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567725652964292786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 239px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UE0UOBt9T7ERSA9SVUqRSm7lfIZxkp8hB76Av_Ba9JA0nzm9TIUnXlKlvz4YaC6VOGrN6rok4SsUrzA2jG663MSGzHOa_jLrGd0kCgxUe8PMem4hx1yHckeeuQ3bwHeBCdRDCWFetQo/s320/449px-Arbans_page_22_chromatic_study.jpg" border="0" /> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><span style="color:#33ff33;">Louis A. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Staint</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Jacome</span></span> (1830 – 1898) was born in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> and died in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>Louis began his musical training at the age of seven on the piano and violin, taking lessons from his stepfather, a bandmaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He later studied the cornet at the Paris Conservatory from which he graduated in 1850, winning first prize on the instrument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He must have personally known, or surely at least been familiar with Joseph <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Arban</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>In 1870 he became musical arranger for a publishing company <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>and during his tenure with that company he wrote his famous <i><span style="color:#ffff33;">Grand Method</span></i> for cornet.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlBkzT_d3k3U8eGPYBF0rNULQiL1Gqg5ZXYTEw4kEAURk7TQG7JApeH8Hr4UHTHsYkVEU1C9Oq-GEGGrp_BhCqGx-qdU8YicpHIfceay8q16gzrLhG013xFsl2ZWSg3CE_ubEmyanF7Q/s1600/St.+Jacome+013.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567727937439884482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlBkzT_d3k3U8eGPYBF0rNULQiL1Gqg5ZXYTEw4kEAURk7TQG7JApeH8Hr4UHTHsYkVEU1C9Oq-GEGGrp_BhCqGx-qdU8YicpHIfceay8q16gzrLhG013xFsl2ZWSg3CE_ubEmyanF7Q/s320/St.+Jacome+013.jpg" border="0" /></span></a> <span style="font-family:arial;">It is considered by many players and educators as second to none, except perhaps for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Arban</span>’s. Many teachers believe that the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Arban</span>’s method and the St. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Jacome</span> method compliment each other, and that the two of them together comprise a complete education on the trumpet.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjJ6clybi_FefINC64Tf1Ux9QMdJWQhFMpRHZevNagXXYP0Vqp2BauD7_gOcgrS5t00qHybSvDTw7WW5tx8Uw9JWcrom9P49HiQnwsvPPr-dvL0KPN-vpUR8thl76eMcy5At9CFGFKRI/s1600/96527_01.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567725665963880226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjJ6clybi_FefINC64Tf1Ux9QMdJWQhFMpRHZevNagXXYP0Vqp2BauD7_gOcgrS5t00qHybSvDTw7WW5tx8Uw9JWcrom9P49HiQnwsvPPr-dvL0KPN-vpUR8thl76eMcy5At9CFGFKRI/s320/96527_01.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlBkzT_d3k3U8eGPYBF0rNULQiL1Gqg5ZXYTEw4kEAURk7TQG7JApeH8Hr4UHTHsYkVEU1C9Oq-GEGGrp_BhCqGx-qdU8YicpHIfceay8q16gzrLhG013xFsl2ZWSg3CE_ubEmyanF7Q/s1600/St.+Jacome+013.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">The French and European trumpet methods of study surely made their way to the United States and influenced American trumpet players.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-pCoapFJVwRSOHCFI8JCB_L474X5s4hsJQ0ZXYExroh1AerO2OmqAU7ghxgxHp9JkxKygKHovgzs0a1_Z-XyNSa6DMSpTxtszpOeJACaKz8iSrr6lmmKzLmNORtD3_6X6mlfMh6OaCo/s1600/5393118PywlNOdGUt_ph.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567725668264942690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 204px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-pCoapFJVwRSOHCFI8JCB_L474X5s4hsJQ0ZXYExroh1AerO2OmqAU7ghxgxHp9JkxKygKHovgzs0a1_Z-XyNSa6DMSpTxtszpOeJACaKz8iSrr6lmmKzLmNORtD3_6X6mlfMh6OaCo/s320/5393118PywlNOdGUt_ph.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;color:#33ff33;" >John Philip Sousa</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>(1854 – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>1932) was an American composer and conductor known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. He is known as "The March King." Sousa was born in Washington, D.C.,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> and </span>started his music education by playing the violin. When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band. Sousa served his apprenticeship for seven years until 1875. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>In 1880 he returned to the U.S. Marine Band and remained as its conductor until 1892. Sousa led "The President's Own" band under five presidents. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">Sousa organized his own band the year he left the Marine Band, but also served during World War I, leading the Navy Band at the Great Lakes Naval Station. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>After returning to his own band at the end of the war, he continued to wear his naval uniform for most of his concerts and other public appearances. The Sousa Band toured from 1892–1931, performing at 15,623 concerts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>It was a very popular ban</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">d.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbtDFtRT-hK4q-73fthwCAXfQwPvWnyVhRzp0MfJ3_yUc8ZQuKERiOXzplXmNA43fVA81Ix94XlulYId-xKMVo6poCkFHPgCSMEOqNcK8fboOp4atRR1HUYi0yIs3rnKNyS-YW79cgAY/s1600/clarkeformal2.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729556670032450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbtDFtRT-hK4q-73fthwCAXfQwPvWnyVhRzp0MfJ3_yUc8ZQuKERiOXzplXmNA43fVA81Ix94XlulYId-xKMVo6poCkFHPgCSMEOqNcK8fboOp4atRR1HUYi0yIs3rnKNyS-YW79cgAY/s320/clarkeformal2.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#33ff33;">Herbert L. Clarke</span> (1867 – 1945) was an American <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">cornetist</span>, composer, conductor, teacher and one of the most influential musicians at the turn of the 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">th</span> Century. In 1893, he joined Sousa and his band in the solo cornet section.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After he turned 50, he began to concentrate on conducting and teaching. He opened his own school of cornet playing in <st1:city><st1:place>Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>. Clarke died in 1945 and was buried in <st1:place><st1:city>Washington</st1:city> <st1:state>DC</st1:state></st1:place> near the grave of his lifelong friend, John Philip Sousa.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JCGnaf1w_S18b5GwuL3cc6TJnNZg_czmjqtuixVIHnQSaIvfN_1gQs5x9TWI2EJLgK895FJqOvIWVH_rELsHlI0keOYZQ8YhvR201dFiT9wa1eXI5RW8iu8_dlvh4U7qgbt_Z2JdWwg/s1600/claude-gordon-2.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567729556728348866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JCGnaf1w_S18b5GwuL3cc6TJnNZg_czmjqtuixVIHnQSaIvfN_1gQs5x9TWI2EJLgK895FJqOvIWVH_rELsHlI0keOYZQ8YhvR201dFiT9wa1eXI5RW8iu8_dlvh4U7qgbt_Z2JdWwg/s320/claude-gordon-2.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;color:#33ff33;" ></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;color:#33ff33;" ></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;color:#33ff33;" >Claude Gordon</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"> (1916 – 1996) was known as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>the "King of Brass." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>He was a trumpet soloist, band director, educator, lecturer, and author. His father was a clarinet soloist as well as an orchestral director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gordon became Herbert L. Clarke's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">protégé</span> from 1936 until Clarke died in 1945. During the era of live radio and television, Claude distinguished himself as one of the most successful studio trumpet players and gained a reputation as "the trumpet player who never misses." </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">Claude died from cancer.</span></span><br /><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">There have been a lot of “modern” trumpet players who were excellent soloists, such as <span style="color:#33ff33;">Louis Armstrong</span> (1901 – 1971), one of the first well known improvisational soloists; <span style="color:#33ff33;">Dizzy Gillespie</span> (1917 – 1993) “be bop” soloist with excellent high note range (shown with upturned trumpet bell); <span style="color:#33ff33;">Miles Davis</span> (1926 – 1991), perhaps the greatest trumpet jazz soloist (shown with sun glasses); and <span style="color:#33ff33;">Maynard Ferguson</span> (1928 – 2006), big band leader and soloist known for his high notes (shown). </span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCBrMfMAoEMXRIOowGzlrAfOxYQ4vPwkJk5vqJ1iE0K0UXwS5xU9ihNQvXlMslXVeTeMpPit0UqXJ_ObbBkeIwG5Rd4Ee8MfLvBTACt__723pk4bfEoVliQ_Pk14iBhd65RmsPQDH3js/s1600/gillespie_dizzy_450p.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567727530551448994" style="FLOAT: left; 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 205px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-DFUcWPF6VMl6fpivIRlMDBc-IQG0QUlD0hWCkgg6lKoONtAjhOrcfwjMlXeew28sWNzL4vsefw6hXHp3xqjK2ITC4N_xG14DodNEPNVqlmLt-nfpozwqAGGGfEG0JOoyYMiW2FIPHH0/s320/MaynardFerguson2009.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">There are a lot more—both classical and jazz trumpet players. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">Notable jazz trumpet players include Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Donald Byrd, Jon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Faddis</span>, Roy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Hargrove</span>, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Wynton</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Marsalis</span>, Blue Mitchell, Lee Morgan and more and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1O7gloJZhyphenhyphentR2_ntWUs6bP0myOvwFbWzY7A46JXo1v4flBuTklnmVSbtFDtjRwTgc-awF6tqerOasP_JafY_VgKz1B2OMY8Qlrf1tF65InUiFvcohFKg9vEYDrPGNEPkYC-H3YXTBqv0/s1600/Clifford%252BBrown.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567727529998055138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 219px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1O7gloJZhyphenhyphentR2_ntWUs6bP0myOvwFbWzY7A46JXo1v4flBuTklnmVSbtFDtjRwTgc-awF6tqerOasP_JafY_VgKz1B2OMY8Qlrf1tF65InUiFvcohFKg9vEYDrPGNEPkYC-H3YXTBqv0/s320/Clifford%252BBrown.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="font-family:arial;">To me, <span style="color:#33ff33;">Clifford Brown</span> seems to have been one of the most “studied” of some of these trumpet players, although I am only going on the sound of his solos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Clifford Brown (1930 – 1956), died at age 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Still, he had a considerable influence on some of those other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>jazz trumpet players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He won the 1954 <i><span style="color:#ffff33;">Down Beat</span> </i>critics' poll for the 'New Star of the Year' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>and was inducted into the <i>Down Beat</i> 'Jazz Hall of Fame' in 1972. He formed his own group with Max Roach. The Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet was a high water mark of the hard bop <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">style</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">The clean-living Brown has been cited as perhaps breaking the influence of heroin on the jazz world, a model established by Charlie Parker. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Clifford stayed away from drugs and was not fond of alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sadly, in 1956, Brown was a passenger in a car <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>and was killed with two others when the driver lost control of the car and it went off the road. </span><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuxgvH4aHgiHYL2imajsZ-E-8YeBED7OgIBLR5aWkZs4Esl42bH6erLgSBWBBE5Q0hZkpFaPki6DcbZhQHCPbi1p1R21_GMe5_9bly-1k8UHZ6lZ_PdnasSVtCb2x_bA4CKNzltX3prs/s1600/220px-Jon_Faddis.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567727941261893282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuxgvH4aHgiHYL2imajsZ-E-8YeBED7OgIBLR5aWkZs4Esl42bH6erLgSBWBBE5Q0hZkpFaPki6DcbZhQHCPbi1p1R21_GMe5_9bly-1k8UHZ6lZ_PdnasSVtCb2x_bA4CKNzltX3prs/s320/220px-Jon_Faddis.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN">But <span style="color:#33ff33;">Jon Faddis</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"> (born 1953) has got to be one of the top, if not the top American jazz trumpet player, particularly in the combined areas of technique and high note screaming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You’ve got to hear his music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At least, that’s my opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Faddis is a trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The internet states that Faddis currently teaches at The Conservatory of Music at Purchase College-SUNY, in Westchester, New York and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>he is a guest lecturer at Columbia College Chicago where he serves as the Artistic Director for the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>I’d say he’s pretty “studied.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I’d even bet he studied trumpet techniques out of Arban’s and Saint-Jacome’s at one point.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></p>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-17056881536032490412011-01-21T12:49:00.001-08:002011-01-21T16:12:10.642-08:00China Will Own Our Banks<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWfWF9bV6-rWsKpVwmZfYHZGCk6HXvrll6P9CFdjHx8eH9ta86q0Rxfy1o4GL41POeNQjLLtQzSCTmA9EnpufFwTdDZmeFVhBg8aH5MIaiSE8DdDeiZ3yiod_fZOrkdGS2ICreCpY6Fgk/s1600/real+bank.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 132px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564758261805726722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWfWF9bV6-rWsKpVwmZfYHZGCk6HXvrll6P9CFdjHx8eH9ta86q0Rxfy1o4GL41POeNQjLLtQzSCTmA9EnpufFwTdDZmeFVhBg8aH5MIaiSE8DdDeiZ3yiod_fZOrkdGS2ICreCpY6Fgk/s320/real+bank.bmp" /></a>In an earlier post I mentioned how China may end up owning Alaskan oil. In the January 21, 2011 edition of the Wall Street Journal there are two interesting articles reporting that--<br /><br /><span style="color:#ffff33;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ffff33;">Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. on Friday signed an agreement here to acquire a majority stake in Bank of East Asia Ltd.'s U.S. subsidiary, becoming the first state-owned Chinese bank to make an acquisition of a U.S. deposit-taking institution. </span><br /><br />And...<br /><br /><span style="color:#ffff33;">Industrial & Commercial Bank of China is becoming the first state-owned Chinese bank to buy a U.S. retail bank. That means Americans could soon see a wave of Chinese financial institutions on U.S. shores (assuming regulators allow the deal to go through).<br /><br /></span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/01/21/why-chinas-icbc-bank-deal-is-important/">http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/01/21/why-chinas-icbc-bank-deal-is-important/</a><br /><br />Now, imagine the future “bailout” of a failing US bank: The US bank becomes insolvent and is taken over by the Chinese bank. (Remember when giant Washington Mutual was taken over by Chase. Chase stepped up because it was big had lots of money. The Chinese bank could become as big or even bigger than Chase).<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqH_kDN6VJoM2xuzGOs45O0fPDdDHsx0aWX3bsfjJl_1c-Cnwft8MvIf8X1t8EcOPdjDQhrzlFzpDThtXwErIh3-Md4ywKb2IE9v2XtTOooTlJv9_5ThcaY0x5PIBWf3itaBnFjR9PH0w/s1600/piggy+bank.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 184px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 132px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564745659407559666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqH_kDN6VJoM2xuzGOs45O0fPDdDHsx0aWX3bsfjJl_1c-Cnwft8MvIf8X1t8EcOPdjDQhrzlFzpDThtXwErIh3-Md4ywKb2IE9v2XtTOooTlJv9_5ThcaY0x5PIBWf3itaBnFjR9PH0w/s400/piggy+bank.bmp" /></a>The US has not seen the last of failing banks:<br /><br /><br />There were 157 bank failures in 2010, the highest since 1992 and next year is expected to be worse.<br /><br />According to <span style="color:#ff0000;">Bill Zielinski <span style="color:#cccccc;">in a post on</span> “Problem Bank List”:</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnv5EqfgLPwDnrsQ3QcGxctK17tLD7BZ9RggErW2Oa4SbJqDsBXdMvbgGSi_U4DsZmKMUvm10iRqVgkr7lmHA7V15e7i7dX3scUIFtNxjGG7HG1amB-RTSnwpE6LkfLod5lgbsTYbSAxw/s1600/Problem-Banks-Increase.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564745495231373266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnv5EqfgLPwDnrsQ3QcGxctK17tLD7BZ9RggErW2Oa4SbJqDsBXdMvbgGSi_U4DsZmKMUvm10iRqVgkr7lmHA7V15e7i7dX3scUIFtNxjGG7HG1amB-RTSnwpE6LkfLod5lgbsTYbSAxw/s400/Problem-Banks-Increase.gif" /></a><span style="color:#ffff00;">Banking failures for 2010 were at the highest level since 1992 as 157 financial institutions collapsed, the victims of collapsing real estate prices, a weak economy and poor lending decisions. </span><span style="color:#ffff00;">There are many reasons why 2011 could see another wave of banking failures:</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffff00;">1- Unemployment remains stubbornly high and economic recovery remains subdued.<br /><br />2- Approximately 25% of homeowners with a mortgage are now underwater and negative equity is a major contributing factor to mortgage default. If prices continue to decline expect another wave of foreclosures resulting in major losses to bank loan portfolios. </span><br /><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br /></span><span style="color:#ffff00;"></span><span style="color:#ffff00;">3- Home purchases are expected to decline as banks maintain vigorous underwriting standards and buyers wait for prices to stabilize. Banks will also remain conservative due to the risk of recourse losses on loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. </span><br /><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br /></span><span style="color:#ffff00;"></span><span style="color:#ffff00;">4- Bank balance sheets already hold assets at values in excess of fair market. A further drop in real estate values will further increase losses for both failed and surviving banks. </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://problembanklist.com/bank-failures-in-highest-since-why-next-year-will-be-worse-0272/">http://problembanklist.com/bank-failures-in-highest-since-why-next-year-will-be-worse-0272/</a><br /><br />Imagine receiving a notice from your local bank that it is now a China-government-owned bank, and that your deposits and loans are held by it. It’s not too far-fetched to see how a Chinese bank could end up holding the mortgage or deed of trust on your home through a simple transfer of documents. Delinquency and default could result in the Chinese bank (i.e., Chinese government) owning residential real estate in the US.<br /><br />Banking regulations and practices could also change. Requests for new commercial and consumer loans would have to be approved by the new bank. A current complaint is that banks now have money to lend, but simply won’t loan it. The new bank owners could change many things about commercial and private life in America, literally deciding when, to whom and for what to loan money.<br /><br />It’s interesting but sad to watch as America is gradually indebting itself and its future generations to a foreign government. This really does put our children’s future in the control of others. China’s policies and practices may become our policies and practices. Excessive spending, borrrowing and debt do that.<br /><br />How will “the people” now complaining about domination and exploitation by “greedy American corporations” react when the US corporations are gone and even more interest payments are sent to China to benefit Chinese stockholders (i.e., the Chinese government)? Will future generations of Americans be able to some day borrow money from the "local" bank to buy their first home?<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL8qjsUm-4qhWwLXd6ey_2HvUQjAmNWPDecd2szzdrW_FwuItPGhhuLhVwBGTWlWzie2AbDY9_sodcdFvmE2OD_w7t4rnD_VWeZ8OSbgkcjCFQOTIIX7GQYA_DloG4ijVAdn2lhyCS920/s1600/PtP.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAfOI7acctMyzfW0mBwtcK52mjtzYNFJrxM5o8ZpNsbZNX7NKKEQJ7to_rutt3BKrIFWlRp88zRXoDBGUDnaMvK4_Bp8D7fevcj0-UJ1aANMz6MxBQ6iZQeJ6nzZnh7JIhRZMy3OtZHY/s1600/corp.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 268px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564744830435660386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifAfOI7acctMyzfW0mBwtcK52mjtzYNFJrxM5o8ZpNsbZNX7NKKEQJ7to_rutt3BKrIFWlRp88zRXoDBGUDnaMvK4_Bp8D7fevcj0-UJ1aANMz6MxBQ6iZQeJ6nzZnh7JIhRZMy3OtZHY/s320/corp.bmp" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpEipoq4TpaOHadIQVcrsWs14pqcq6zH_LUKqCyazRDAVFG6mRo_JR7YcgsS6CsbG4M4zjAhPMbvwLE_c-qHuaKqZA08vZddEu1DTahd7-VLXeMVZ6y95BhxRoApkw2b8h3uQX1VpX1c/s1600/PtP.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564745349050477778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpEipoq4TpaOHadIQVcrsWs14pqcq6zH_LUKqCyazRDAVFG6mRo_JR7YcgsS6CsbG4M4zjAhPMbvwLE_c-qHuaKqZA08vZddEu1DTahd7-VLXeMVZ6y95BhxRoApkw2b8h3uQX1VpX1c/s200/PtP.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-HejkotxNLhMXUHGBA-f0k3cuELK7OToFDYcmv0BR3tB5G7bLf866_0dMLtRG3fUIk4HswBHFRagRjoTW9bSfxKTnOkU3OgnAggyigdc127cI-7fDAr7iCkk6005WjmL5j-hgSYJftA/s1600/bank+of+china.bmp"></a></div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52wnOMH3bnd2zGbAzMUXnzHi1RYXu1AefaQspKvr-lbw0pVbJh6kaQUZPxvZpLUURAUyTXl9hvrhbeNpauK6592OVga5rIAmgUeZeO8X7R3h2fzF7eUGbDVE-m6_SRHdgPIOC95UD5jc/s1600/Chinese-honour-guards-reh-001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564745658237041394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52wnOMH3bnd2zGbAzMUXnzHi1RYXu1AefaQspKvr-lbw0pVbJh6kaQUZPxvZpLUURAUyTXl9hvrhbeNpauK6592OVga5rIAmgUeZeO8X7R3h2fzF7eUGbDVE-m6_SRHdgPIOC95UD5jc/s400/Chinese-honour-guards-reh-001.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL8qjsUm-4qhWwLXd6ey_2HvUQjAmNWPDecd2szzdrW_FwuItPGhhuLhVwBGTWlWzie2AbDY9_sodcdFvmE2OD_w7t4rnD_VWeZ8OSbgkcjCFQOTIIX7GQYA_DloG4ijVAdn2lhyCS920/s1600/PtP.jpg"></a>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-18835652658789551702010-07-22T23:22:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:52:23.383-07:00Hood Canal "Deadliest Catch"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmazbXZTk4VBHoISEFjrj5ZEoF8aRyJ27lzZME2qdScr8CNswuhLdeMVmm_QurzyHXAVZT8Fxq4ItDOtMISlR7kf9HD2gYMa9WUDvBzz82RMx1AETU6bVj3-zclNB6zmIfXfDALFnFDo/s1600/deadliest-catch-1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496989686054818690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmazbXZTk4VBHoISEFjrj5ZEoF8aRyJ27lzZME2qdScr8CNswuhLdeMVmm_QurzyHXAVZT8Fxq4ItDOtMISlR7kf9HD2gYMa9WUDvBzz82RMx1AETU6bVj3-zclNB6zmIfXfDALFnFDo/s320/deadliest-catch-1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#33ff33;">"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Deadliest</span> Catch"</span> might be the best show on television. Those guys are amazing. So, last May when I was invited to go <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">shrimping</span> on Hood Canal, it conjured up all sorts of thoughts-- mostly that it would be as close as I'll ever get to being like those crabbers in Alaska (which isn't very close . . . . I know).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvWnaIUYh4bnvKdo4Uq-D6LfOAseMAvWpmF9VXtU4UvsQRx4TQbpo8o0gusCGt14w3I_7yW-I2X39Uy4CIkKT7s9-yYWGY3o_aWX5yS7WPR68HXB5s_0uOWgEzdPMVkuoqWpW41O8nSc/s1600/HoodCanalMapLG.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496991343132277042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvWnaIUYh4bnvKdo4Uq-D6LfOAseMAvWpmF9VXtU4UvsQRx4TQbpo8o0gusCGt14w3I_7yW-I2X39Uy4CIkKT7s9-yYWGY3o_aWX5yS7WPR68HXB5s_0uOWgEzdPMVkuoqWpW41O8nSc/s200/HoodCanalMapLG.jpg" /></a> Hood Canal and the rest of Puget Sound were created about 13,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene by a great ice sheet. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Marmes</span> Man was probably walking around the ice sheet about that time. (Watch for a future post on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Marmes</span> Man and Dry Falls).<br /><br /><br />Hood Canal was named by the Captain George Vancouver in 1792, when he was making a detailed survey of the Coast of British Columbia. His ships were named the <span style="color:#ffcc66;"><em>Discovery</em> </span>and <em><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="color:#ffcc66;">Chatham</span></span></em>. The United States Board on Geographic Names decided on "Hood Canal" as the official name in 1932.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx5-WMYpmUu9ZoCpamaNVfBZFUnhElXNao3w0-QNraWYfLzMcnS3savyURGl3UcYiv2jk37OmSxEOdQNFY-TjVokuBIHpXAuZpRpJruqnm92mQSd-9xUBt6JWRpIil8RlLadJ3Nmmtr8/s1600/VancouverGeorge1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 132px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496997893084941314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx5-WMYpmUu9ZoCpamaNVfBZFUnhElXNao3w0-QNraWYfLzMcnS3savyURGl3UcYiv2jk37OmSxEOdQNFY-TjVokuBIHpXAuZpRpJruqnm92mQSd-9xUBt6JWRpIil8RlLadJ3Nmmtr8/s200/VancouverGeorge1.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbgz7lRrRnv9zyQz7XvP5M0n1zswdS7AL1laxHEURQjRLiZg3ihgrAhxNbrqIIccuX8FcD2lBKHy4_Wn-SijG0COJ_XqpcCh8YiP_6sX3_MAzYKH1LFHdsX3sZM_WbK0ck1VVwRhgFdE/s1600/discoverychathamopt.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 194px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496997383021654114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbgz7lRrRnv9zyQz7XvP5M0n1zswdS7AL1laxHEURQjRLiZg3ihgrAhxNbrqIIccuX8FcD2lBKHy4_Wn-SijG0COJ_XqpcCh8YiP_6sX3_MAzYKH1LFHdsX3sZM_WbK0ck1VVwRhgFdE/s200/discoverychathamopt.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal</a><br /><br />We were going to catch the "spotted" or "spot" shrimp or, officially, <em><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">pandalus</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">platyceros</span></span></em>. The spotted shrimp (or prawn) is found from Alaska to Southern California, as well as in the Sea of Japan and Korea Straight. Spot shrimp are the largest species of shrimp in Puget Sound and can reach more than nine inches in length, excluding the antennae. They are reddish-brown and deep-pink in color and are recognized by the white spots on their body. They are most commonly found 300 feet deep and below on sandy and rocky floors.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aZCSIFSr_69tehQPorvSJWdJCRRKZjKa402BCZ4MOBrEGChnUTOnwcaCBRk5ibAl-MN4C7yCZfcq0vU4mfEU6tFGeWMchVkY6SnS5nPvHokU3Jpbea_u5TP0ePtNQIVXqujh54-tL7M/s1600/Pandalus_platycerosSegment3-1sDLC2006.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496985831238545474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aZCSIFSr_69tehQPorvSJWdJCRRKZjKa402BCZ4MOBrEGChnUTOnwcaCBRk5ibAl-MN4C7yCZfcq0vU4mfEU6tFGeWMchVkY6SnS5nPvHokU3Jpbea_u5TP0ePtNQIVXqujh54-tL7M/s200/Pandalus_platycerosSegment3-1sDLC2006.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaIPbRLwRsS0s6xsCjCZopNBtXIfFIbO9DV6omX6B0CAoDS0fSJUAJfZH0cfxP9p8kdz35vEdkoDSc_V9FUXB_4QyLNeuKFNS1baGhZ8AhWtOD6Myo-sNAUX5bSfEE06Y-bXNU3WzbRGQ/s1600/AC765T30.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 246px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496986514597605026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaIPbRLwRsS0s6xsCjCZopNBtXIfFIbO9DV6omX6B0CAoDS0fSJUAJfZH0cfxP9p8kdz35vEdkoDSc_V9FUXB_4QyLNeuKFNS1baGhZ8AhWtOD6Myo-sNAUX5bSfEE06Y-bXNU3WzbRGQ/s320/AC765T30.gif" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaIPbRLwRsS0s6xsCjCZopNBtXIfFIbO9DV6omX6B0CAoDS0fSJUAJfZH0cfxP9p8kdz35vEdkoDSc_V9FUXB_4QyLNeuKFNS1baGhZ8AhWtOD6Myo-sNAUX5bSfEE06Y-bXNU3WzbRGQ/s1600/AC765T30.gif"></a><br /><br />Interestingly, spot prawns are "<span style="color:#33ff33;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">protandric</span> hermaphroditic</span>" meaning that <em>each individual initially matures as a male and then passes through a transition stage to become a female</em>. Spot prawns usually live for about 4 years, starting their lives as males and maturing at one year of age. They function as mature males for 2 years and then <em>transform into females in their final year of life</em>. Females might mate only once. <a href="http://www.bcseafoodonline.com/files/spot_prawn.html">http://www.bcseafoodonline.com/files/spot_prawn.html</a><br /><br />The season is only open a couple of days each year. Due to extremely high catch rates in 2010, the Hood Canal quota was attained in four days, so no additional days of fishing were allowed in 2010. There are a lot of technical and scientific papers about spot shrimp on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">internet</span>, particularly because they are harvested commercially, too. There are also some websites for sport shrimpers, which I suppose is what we were called that afternoon. Still, we had to have a shellfish license from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and our limit was 80 shrimp per person.<br /><br />The shrimp pots had a yellow buoy marked with a name and contact information and 250-350 feet of rope. Inside the pot is a mesh bait container. The bait can be made of different things, as shrimp are omnivores and will feed on most fishy things-- fish guts and meat sprayed with fish oil for additional scent, scented pellets, or the favored canned cat food.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPdrGc6cqa3U2hbrhyphenhyphenZA9_9rt99JG0L4OXmMzDSsmdOm7dynKvWeoDiSP-KvESww0Dj39VTlYnFeqDRBKLHa5dsWyMC6iXXMQILlpv-XZRjjsewDeFdp-XYuz3E9qduiN1DbOjgbkiMk/s1600/RVA1337HH161.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 134px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496986509321254434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPdrGc6cqa3U2hbrhyphenhyphenZA9_9rt99JG0L4OXmMzDSsmdOm7dynKvWeoDiSP-KvESww0Dj39VTlYnFeqDRBKLHa5dsWyMC6iXXMQILlpv-XZRjjsewDeFdp-XYuz3E9qduiN1DbOjgbkiMk/s320/RVA1337HH161.jpg" /></a>For many years the cat food <span style="color:#ffff33;">“Puss’n Boots”</span> was a popular and effective choice because it was soaked in fish oil. "If it isn't 'Puss <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">n'Boots</span>' cat food you're not fishing. I usually use cat food, with addition ingredients with fish scraps as hanging bait. You need the odor to draw the shrimp in and the hanging bait to keep them in."-- James Schufreider. <a href="http://www.gamefishin.com/wa/features/shirmp.htm">http://www.gamefishin.com/wa/features/shirmp.htm</a><br /><br />The company has gone out of business. It was made by Coast Fishing Co. of South California, which was bought out by Quaker Oats and later sold to Del Monte. It was later discontinued due to lack of sales. I don't know what "<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Puss'n</span> Boots" smelled like, as we always fed our dog <span style="color:#ffff33;">"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Friskies</span>."</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZvsHw_aUuHFFlEO-hEsj4XIMimHZs4imneuoueN5NPdpVj1JVOv_Q3idutkMpxzh_Al6s0RlZOeVuIXYz6y70toekLTEBXMKL23hAzctyOxoMSP8pwgsFQiOM32BjhAKd4oszcbPoK4/s1600/friskies2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 121px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496985841936709362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZvsHw_aUuHFFlEO-hEsj4XIMimHZs4imneuoueN5NPdpVj1JVOv_Q3idutkMpxzh_Al6s0RlZOeVuIXYz6y70toekLTEBXMKL23hAzctyOxoMSP8pwgsFQiOM32BjhAKd4oszcbPoK4/s200/friskies2.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPdrGc6cqa3U2hbrhyphenhyphenZA9_9rt99JG0L4OXmMzDSsmdOm7dynKvWeoDiSP-KvESww0Dj39VTlYnFeqDRBKLHa5dsWyMC6iXXMQILlpv-XZRjjsewDeFdp-XYuz3E9qduiN1DbOjgbkiMk/s1600/RVA1337HH161.jpg"></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyBcFbJcNAWNG5SX5sC1_hphmZc6QYSrbVSrZj5TDkKS2c4NRwiuuzL1G-Sw8_WHBsdqGa8kjwqixXZOdn2tukDdFkQFn-X5_dMBi67tJ1CXrO2gqAYnMdEgQ8SWAWSKxdVQzPuRxjXQ/s1600/daschund.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497006906381574274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyBcFbJcNAWNG5SX5sC1_hphmZc6QYSrbVSrZj5TDkKS2c4NRwiuuzL1G-Sw8_WHBsdqGa8kjwqixXZOdn2tukDdFkQFn-X5_dMBi67tJ1CXrO2gqAYnMdEgQ8SWAWSKxdVQzPuRxjXQ/s400/daschund.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We put the shrimp pots over the side of the boat and let them soak-- just like they do in "<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Deadliest</span> Catch." They were down about 300 feet. Gloves are good for hauling the pots, but we had a winch aboard.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrIW0x38RZ-GU_byLXWqD5lpJ1JkNL7ddC65sQxvvPuKghc94ukVVccYqDO7nLJijYNO-heW4jmajU5pDwpabY8krWp2udRGZXjbeOFJo2_PSUjOTpPWfaaPsb7kd_uC4xsw6xEcnIcQ/s1600/2010+All+Pix+053.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496988232169140770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrIW0x38RZ-GU_byLXWqD5lpJ1JkNL7ddC65sQxvvPuKghc94ukVVccYqDO7nLJijYNO-heW4jmajU5pDwpabY8krWp2udRGZXjbeOFJo2_PSUjOTpPWfaaPsb7kd_uC4xsw6xEcnIcQ/s320/2010+All+Pix+053.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXvA0Kg4usouCWG7aZqJyV584XNnR74OZUZSguDlD34YFh3hcj_sYvdpLPXmku48X1wIo7WpGXsHpxeMH5QSUhapPiKi9BmZkozh8En7CE71MUO6y3pxy8mMGQzyDWkr-RReXFZRsoSyQ/s1600/2010+All+Pix+050.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; 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CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496986537269087538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7NyA9vGNeKD6c439rsj-IeX1LKES41F9BDSK35g3NFeYY3gvwFUshCqm3eX-SQnzBrgFKo0ucNcajLqpXx0Xju2MP0fiGho7h4rsf08YJ1Mk4N7vMcQlj8YtEzAWiqXHM8l6_eHOCcQg/s320/2010+All+Pix+068.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qkTNx08vxKOKH5mqPG5-Lqxyu2hLAjWxYQ3dGnCPgE9lPdFhAygj1_Kh77mDlWonMDdc0_DGjHEfuP2HjFeul_OO_dbVZO4p6ecOBdh0h8EvrMsje2WlxzAioZN7ePslODTv-1fYI5Q/s1600/deadliest-catch-phil-harris.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496985450313777298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qkTNx08vxKOKH5mqPG5-Lqxyu2hLAjWxYQ3dGnCPgE9lPdFhAygj1_Kh77mDlWonMDdc0_DGjHEfuP2HjFeul_OO_dbVZO4p6ecOBdh0h8EvrMsje2WlxzAioZN7ePslODTv-1fYI5Q/s320/deadliest-catch-phil-harris.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><br />That was it-- shrimping on Hood Canal in the spirit of all the great fishermen. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>(Captain Phil Harris 1956-2010)</div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-73687004991672458462010-07-21T22:47:00.000-07:002010-07-22T00:26:33.113-07:00Herbs, Neon and Other Spices<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSX3py2X-usCYEWXHD0qT8VuuWNCFfvjex-0c88y4uCYMzIbjfmZovCb_YVvt3sCFuSNvCTmnwNVXydlGX7aTg9_CGAJjoAOf8ScHPqaShHPT4zdwW19X98KzaLrgsREfuwv5yVQmdR8U/s1600/NeonDinerSignConnecticut.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 210px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496603679656978594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSX3py2X-usCYEWXHD0qT8VuuWNCFfvjex-0c88y4uCYMzIbjfmZovCb_YVvt3sCFuSNvCTmnwNVXydlGX7aTg9_CGAJjoAOf8ScHPqaShHPT4zdwW19X98KzaLrgsREfuwv5yVQmdR8U/s320/NeonDinerSignConnecticut.jpg" /></a>Neon signs make food taste better, and so do candles. Herbs help, too, along with the smells of butter, melted animal fat and carbon. So, the best tasting food is seasoned with herbs and is eaten under the glow of a neon sign with a small flame flickering on the table. Mmm..... The Good Life!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYA8TCHzlWIqoWcEuA5JKiRU3D3e1lGf2HMYe7EGMKa8lraA3IJbDZCr6SOnTvWJOTACPs-mccmqGdxXu1Nsqg5E1ts6XEt1uEnTQQCN2OA7LmDAqTGt-c20NTyQtvpu_cSxvF9pp8n8/s1600/1243197_low_burned_down_pillar_33171806_std.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496612492933899106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYA8TCHzlWIqoWcEuA5JKiRU3D3e1lGf2HMYe7EGMKa8lraA3IJbDZCr6SOnTvWJOTACPs-mccmqGdxXu1Nsqg5E1ts6XEt1uEnTQQCN2OA7LmDAqTGt-c20NTyQtvpu_cSxvF9pp8n8/s320/1243197_low_burned_down_pillar_33171806_std.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><br /><br />A walk through Seattle's Pike Place Market can get a guy motivated to learn something about food. No harm in learning something new.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyiQ_KtYAnfpXLS0OBmC4NN7qykBtICOlBrY0uUuL_8qtrgnUPLYYb0Eea8OZLzyImpkaCuvgFbDvSYE1txWIqJEQjD8QJToJyb7hHluPHOGL5A59zcWg0F1uLWeAHdzJrqR-2h_BLQU/s1600/Pike-Place-Market.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 252px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496607562742522290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyiQ_KtYAnfpXLS0OBmC4NN7qykBtICOlBrY0uUuL_8qtrgnUPLYYb0Eea8OZLzyImpkaCuvgFbDvSYE1txWIqJEQjD8QJToJyb7hHluPHOGL5A59zcWg0F1uLWeAHdzJrqR-2h_BLQU/s320/Pike-Place-Market.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHErbFtV9wqAQLBC1MxHqjlDYBG7Gs6N_4y0oWn3WxcwKjPXoNv5xY9qEp8BgC6B_Y1DS0zhHkHwTX3kO1LoShuIWG8ezV6PCv9OilJ2QrqzgVJC0he-TQ1bd2spsuLh0yXdvYkrinam8/s1600/pike-place-markets.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 242px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496607854379586674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHErbFtV9wqAQLBC1MxHqjlDYBG7Gs6N_4y0oWn3WxcwKjPXoNv5xY9qEp8BgC6B_Y1DS0zhHkHwTX3kO1LoShuIWG8ezV6PCv9OilJ2QrqzgVJC0he-TQ1bd2spsuLh0yXdvYkrinam8/s320/pike-place-markets.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I decided a good way to learn about herbs was to grow some. I got some from the local hardware store between the Chevron station and McDonald's. Friends also have good suggestions.<br /><br />These are some of the planters containing the growing herbs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPes6EbIzPDf72apA3b7xXImbjSam9YBKVHU3uy8TFlxCUVnfGRw6D_Jo2JtCKMdUcRtHzO1BShQX50XOUCpxA8Z5-Y914pe3sWtWesuKgj2YvPWLIjTQ3MkR45E0k8rAMlktt4H-paQ/s1600/2010+All+Pix+072.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496619849861202770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirPes6EbIzPDf72apA3b7xXImbjSam9YBKVHU3uy8TFlxCUVnfGRw6D_Jo2JtCKMdUcRtHzO1BShQX50XOUCpxA8Z5-Y914pe3sWtWesuKgj2YvPWLIjTQ3MkR45E0k8rAMlktt4H-paQ/s320/2010+All+Pix+072.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Basically, you can just clip a few leaves and stuff them between a couple of pieces of whole wheat bread-- toasted and buttered. There's more to it than that, but it's a start.<br /><br />The herbs I'm growing this spring and summer-- <span style="color:#33ff33;">cilantro, parsley, chives</span> (onion and garlic tasting), <span style="color:#33ff33;">sage, oregano, rosemary, thyme, spearmint<span style="color:#ffffff;"> and</span> basil</span>. Some grow better than others, aphids like some and avoid others, some grow fast but others slow, etc., etc. It's a learning project.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuU3YxrQIKBBiG5cFcKepQi_KtIlUnRm8iUVoi9uoMUL_S447wYBIrn6gnabXhXiUw7g4EYmDvfVurts80YsVWUtGhbEl8lSeCuub27Y-F9I53yfrIIDGRBTsRJ7MciyL7tPBUDDnfkA/s1600/Lacock-Motels-Diners-and-Neon-Lights-3-682x1024.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496603667557026546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuU3YxrQIKBBiG5cFcKepQi_KtIlUnRm8iUVoi9uoMUL_S447wYBIrn6gnabXhXiUw7g4EYmDvfVurts80YsVWUtGhbEl8lSeCuub27Y-F9I53yfrIIDGRBTsRJ7MciyL7tPBUDDnfkA/s320/Lacock-Motels-Diners-and-Neon-Lights-3-682x1024.jpg" /></a>Here are my chives, rosemary, basil, cilantro, spearmint and sage--<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4cEfcdCub-FO5QnAbUoJfefbyvzEND4_CHH2s-W88QCaZi3oSaSOGXQhgsr170DLCLuzJS5pr9TqH66jZgI6VOl7MRpnpYMOCu87w0luPSbyujeFsTgIQghC3wRdcqMrWHF_6Kk09zmg/s1600/2010+All+Pix+084.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496604624494924194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGSvv2Lm3F1nUHgv2cw5udKyakTeRzZsSzqdCd3TjhvnbxjIweVJQG2LFTjfwtLjhTtCVhQ900-TbG_GaxYadNXc_gwcE78ci1eFSXCS8bIU2ULxfjzpkkgSiPeLrKGWDqS7S2eo3KZTg/s320/2010+All+Pix+088.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt0w0DZlI-4vPEsrHS-QSZOy1suzTi9hEM9gUNjCzuospRRoq9nr6aaksbrvUQVLoOCCH3PjK5i5MJJ52wn-gku6jBOKK3LRknA4e4ixCjIv3S-inXnYOgkLxhohscxMYTctByzMkaTE/s1600/2010+All+Pix+082.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496604621200719138" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMt0w0DZlI-4vPEsrHS-QSZOy1suzTi9hEM9gUNjCzuospRRoq9nr6aaksbrvUQVLoOCCH3PjK5i5MJJ52wn-gku6jBOKK3LRknA4e4ixCjIv3S-inXnYOgkLxhohscxMYTctByzMkaTE/s320/2010+All+Pix+082.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Before this little project, the only spices I knew were <span style="color:#ffcc66;">salt, pepper, butter, ketchup, mustard, garlic, onion, Bar-B-Q sauce, Tabasco, cinnamon, cream <span style="color:#ffffff;">and </span>sugar.</span> You can do a lot with those. Still, there's always more to learn about spices and herbs, and an easy way to do it is to plant them and water them. Plus, a guy can really begin to appreciate the knowledge and use of herbs by others.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLMfu44BRsjEbWUAXa4vrnSHTLy7wSz6kBMoHtphBq3AEJxnQyqewNVN1kig27DgOA1m7QATs-o_rLJb_w8CYyODa-iukwwip5Gp-hZAtePzs_WvvklFxe_QsFvoSeLBShqgItzGaYMw/s1600/Restaurant%2520%2520neon.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496603669486123794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLMfu44BRsjEbWUAXa4vrnSHTLy7wSz6kBMoHtphBq3AEJxnQyqewNVN1kig27DgOA1m7QATs-o_rLJb_w8CYyODa-iukwwip5Gp-hZAtePzs_WvvklFxe_QsFvoSeLBShqgItzGaYMw/s320/Restaurant%2520%2520neon.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5AWUPxuG8QA_dP_BHEegGDyWrgZzBNED7knIQrnwD9DqNztGg5pAB4sUB7XTeardS8ALANaitGVMNGHa8k8LEL3rHWo20Ulw-DwLKi_Y434gBi8q4VNHkHhp2QMFAILalMw2RTznWID0/s1600/Fruits_and_Vegetables_at_Pike_Place_Market.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496608432329780018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5AWUPxuG8QA_dP_BHEegGDyWrgZzBNED7knIQrnwD9DqNztGg5pAB4sUB7XTeardS8ALANaitGVMNGHa8k8LEL3rHWo20Ulw-DwLKi_Y434gBi8q4VNHkHhp2QMFAILalMw2RTznWID0/s320/Fruits_and_Vegetables_at_Pike_Place_Market.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLj4gAUgehCzmry1l_LCC3QcQpVfQX6LFafGadDsYtFuP9BOUFLwA8HjbsBd0QD9XJ7U9_Vt2sF37A9bErvvXS1Lhx-vZeMZajdjMZYmsnpEo7Ocdpy7aPlg0JsgNwvBYlTAfgw5uAv4I/s1600/RTM_neon.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496603662616918962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLj4gAUgehCzmry1l_LCC3QcQpVfQX6LFafGadDsYtFuP9BOUFLwA8HjbsBd0QD9XJ7U9_Vt2sF37A9bErvvXS1Lhx-vZeMZajdjMZYmsnpEo7Ocdpy7aPlg0JsgNwvBYlTAfgw5uAv4I/s320/RTM_neon.jpg" /></a>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-91230550012126449022010-07-19T23:41:00.001-07:002010-07-21T22:22:54.922-07:00Seattle to Reno<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlAVZBom7aa1B_9XEv9UckU_GDPC63QiZlpP_HKqmePbMIZ9_Y2siaOxsok0SrIujrDeOP_GKy9JFoilPlkCevh5g8W6aKauVCkRK9WSFsibwzLtFEce0Ox0qFBu7uINgrrqIkBwHlWk/s1600/karte-7-246.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 158px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495876930750860050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlAVZBom7aa1B_9XEv9UckU_GDPC63QiZlpP_HKqmePbMIZ9_Y2siaOxsok0SrIujrDeOP_GKy9JFoilPlkCevh5g8W6aKauVCkRK9WSFsibwzLtFEce0Ox0qFBu7uINgrrqIkBwHlWk/s320/karte-7-246.gif" /></a>JJ Campbell was going to ride his motorcycle to Las Vegas and on to Yuma in April, so I decided to take a long weekend and ride part way with him to Reno and then return for work.<br /><br />We watched the weather and decided to take I-5 South into Oregon. A guy I know, Marty Hayes, had ridden his motorcycle to Phoenix for a trial earlier in the week and had to lay over a full day due to snow. That's his snow-covered bike pictured below. He suggested we stay away from Eastern Washington and Oregon, which was higher and colder. So, even though it was rainy in Seattle, we headed south on I-5 and would later make a decision whether to turn east at Mount Shasta or further south at Donner Pass.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFnrxxNLcHNdFMyexiVssQKkc2V69C7bkwOrIpuoI20p0r6L0NONiqO3_XypNoUrxWUx1pB-n2T8tN9qj4u_Vp7khmv87b8qZz4Lov33s7JRaPnIsGDreTmR_WnUwBU__dPS5UoHeNk4/s1600/P4040001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496593952969820386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFnrxxNLcHNdFMyexiVssQKkc2V69C7bkwOrIpuoI20p0r6L0NONiqO3_XypNoUrxWUx1pB-n2T8tN9qj4u_Vp7khmv87b8qZz4Lov33s7JRaPnIsGDreTmR_WnUwBU__dPS5UoHeNk4/s320/P4040001.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndSpUFRJHCi1LjFL3YFeMrFnPffnXUPED9n-PuH5mPhoxmxkhZWq7GIxDXc7UNma_UQ7qW7e-xYDUVmVb-AgPXjHjIlv3TyJdIRUFcXJloUF1u0CVm4WWEyDOZP9d95rCatR5BsA_VfU/s1600/rain-highway2-290x225.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495878891629384610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndSpUFRJHCi1LjFL3YFeMrFnPffnXUPED9n-PuH5mPhoxmxkhZWq7GIxDXc7UNma_UQ7qW7e-xYDUVmVb-AgPXjHjIlv3TyJdIRUFcXJloUF1u0CVm4WWEyDOZP9d95rCatR5BsA_VfU/s320/rain-highway2-290x225.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihACxwg8B-GVNmZNaYqoYwtIhk_7f85AVkyjOz8461w-GoGMyIJhqTrNHpTpHjstqrExh_lwxHQwrR61MfWTWQ7I4vsSxqgQ2MxfQISSWWEfbGm8sX0OeCgwOj7nXZ6JsygrSvU0RZD78/s1600/2010+All+Pix+008.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495875528523711298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihACxwg8B-GVNmZNaYqoYwtIhk_7f85AVkyjOz8461w-GoGMyIJhqTrNHpTpHjstqrExh_lwxHQwrR61MfWTWQ7I4vsSxqgQ2MxfQISSWWEfbGm8sX0OeCgwOj7nXZ6JsygrSvU0RZD78/s200/2010+All+Pix+008.jpg" /></a> We stayed the first night in Oregon, and then headed into California the next morning. A California Highway Patrolman told us the road was clear around Shasta, so we headed east. It was <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYCSkslww62WilYt_rcc12aCzBhf6uYtxdVnQR9GvEUfGQtOGWcJYfTqdT1ybFxWFvHHjMEUxnP2If4iPZjOIbeB9VrDJwE98E2ZuS0AWHdVCCPjjwrtSQZVrQZD8RNikASRAjTqNOC0/s1600/2010+All+Pix+007.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495875518871096354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYCSkslww62WilYt_rcc12aCzBhf6uYtxdVnQR9GvEUfGQtOGWcJYfTqdT1ybFxWFvHHjMEUxnP2If4iPZjOIbeB9VrDJwE98E2ZuS0AWHdVCCPjjwrtSQZVrQZD8RNikASRAjTqNOC0/s200/2010+All+Pix+007.jpg" /></a>in the high 20's and low 30's, with some light rain now and then, but the road was clear and basically dry. No ice on the road, but snow on the shoulders of the road. We thought there might be loose gravel from the road crews, but it was fine.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf63T5VXKFYPTETdD3q_wxRv6cmYwQ0xLp6l_Dz4k2FMDHoO5n8QkDFFdLJN5erwWkKs7Hg6UQnh68IGHs5OAFH1J9eu3DIZ6stL2_gnT8o_Hvl2T012lDMQHMbEgN-VazndfxCTA5kLw/s1600/reno2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495877303845257074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf63T5VXKFYPTETdD3q_wxRv6cmYwQ0xLp6l_Dz4k2FMDHoO5n8QkDFFdLJN5erwWkKs7Hg6UQnh68IGHs5OAFH1J9eu3DIZ6stL2_gnT8o_Hvl2T012lDMQHMbEgN-VazndfxCTA5kLw/s320/reno2.jpg" /></a>We dropped down into Susanville and warmed up over some Kentucky Fried Chicken and then hit the road again. We got into Reno late the second afternoon. We stayed a couple of nights at the Silver Legacy. I noticed some empty buildings and felt Reno is being hurt by the economic downturn and Indian Casinos. The lack of people was noticeable since I was last there a couple of years ago, but maybe it was the time of year.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC6kfUShbaZv4rJEldMHFxayGGgypc8VEVYLjnjP_18eCjusx4dh0kP8H9Cg-Wc2_NFhoX3p9HXmQ3pJ8ZgjRj1TWc9F5Of4Idtm6orYjtdMSLWiCxobbcOk39VLybGEp4N0RamXy_jM/s1600/2010+All+Pix+014.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495877527886269314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC6kfUShbaZv4rJEldMHFxayGGgypc8VEVYLjnjP_18eCjusx4dh0kP8H9Cg-Wc2_NFhoX3p9HXmQ3pJ8ZgjRj1TWc9F5Of4Idtm6orYjtdMSLWiCxobbcOk39VLybGEp4N0RamXy_jM/s320/2010+All+Pix+014.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaBhVring863NNO9tI1BMiIeBhlrNv4GNLZ0NKY7io3AGf7jI2jhnFcUBrDz8_mfxtXVlidmxU7iuKRoaTFcG3ur8dBc5FL3iY1Xm8NLvlsjBP-hcPK4NU0dPF2H24PN2_vf4JUH-DPg/s1600/untitled.bmp"></a><br /><br /><br />When it came time to leave, the television reported that there was snow on the highway to Donner Pass, with traffic backed up. I decided to head north through the desert into Eastern Oregon and Washington, hoping to bypass the storm and stay dry, even if colder.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgv14vxajeGPR9awQkt5Q87gbRUcStWFyjMhnUXZkHv-PwqIceBE-2GAc4BPd-He3qPW9PCKWzYOIKDqZcBxNJy0-ckxlX5W0ClL-NHwn5PqNKAU-_XT8qec2ivtoBzEcgQz69lUhToqs/s1600/living_clouds.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 165px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495876939067096786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgv14vxajeGPR9awQkt5Q87gbRUcStWFyjMhnUXZkHv-PwqIceBE-2GAc4BPd-He3qPW9PCKWzYOIKDqZcBxNJy0-ckxlX5W0ClL-NHwn5PqNKAU-_XT8qec2ivtoBzEcgQz69lUhToqs/s320/living_clouds.jpg" /></a>The skies were big and I could see storm clouds coming. There were some light snow flurries in Susanville as I headed north, then a few light showers as I headed northeast, but I pretty much missed all the rain clouds and storms-- rode right between them. The scenery was beautiful. It was pretty cold. I had four layers over my legs, and nine layers over my chest-- (1) long T-shirt, (2) wool shirt, (3) leather vest, (4) light nylon shell, (5) rain pants bib, (6) sweat shirt, (7) jacket liner, (8) leather jacket and (9) rubber rain coat. That, with chemical hand-warmers in the toes of my boots, made the ride pretty comfortable. All that, and the electric seat.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImKtLRy23GvK5TYRVwev31RrrXaA_Rskke21YwqlWwCANhMTZq7X1AKd3_W3iW-J93YepymXxmHe54zdr-oHDsfwDkJ9EfjFssCtSlgBrJcIXWzhj-_re1KFJu5MUWjPbfyCOwomknvI/s1600/4205103546_9bb55b170e.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495879892001606498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImKtLRy23GvK5TYRVwev31RrrXaA_Rskke21YwqlWwCANhMTZq7X1AKd3_W3iW-J93YepymXxmHe54zdr-oHDsfwDkJ9EfjFssCtSlgBrJcIXWzhj-_re1KFJu5MUWjPbfyCOwomknvI/s200/4205103546_9bb55b170e.jpg" /></a>It was a trip I've made several times before, but always in the summer. This might have been a little early in the year. Then, again . . . . it was worth it. (JJ Campbell rode back from Yuma later in the month).Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-47023139809265103952010-07-15T21:10:00.000-07:002010-07-16T12:42:56.856-07:00Stimulating Unemployment and Inflation<span style="font-family:Arial;color:#e1e1e1;"></span>The policies of the Obama Administration are continuing to stimulate unemployment, not jobs. Moreover, rampant inflation is coming, a future result of those same policies. There are two very knowledgeable and well-respected economists who explain it quite simply—Dr. Walter Williams and Dr. Thomas Sowell.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD28eU8plGmyDFWaBM-4eC-_Hd2gUlIyGjLQeyQ8SRk5lQMvluYhsklUAi8aoaWCU4_7nG6JPOz9gkTHua8ASv6m9VBVLahz9sZmnprUcf52Tcq2mt8g5ndyXsywwE5m9vsBILKLRAHGI/s1600/Williams.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 135px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494352095451330706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD28eU8plGmyDFWaBM-4eC-_Hd2gUlIyGjLQeyQ8SRk5lQMvluYhsklUAi8aoaWCU4_7nG6JPOz9gkTHua8ASv6m9VBVLahz9sZmnprUcf52Tcq2mt8g5ndyXsywwE5m9vsBILKLRAHGI/s200/Williams.jpg" /></a>The following is condensed from Dr. Walter Williams' July 14, 2010, article “A Failed Obama Hero”—<br /><br /><span style="color:#99ffff;">Let’s look at the failed stimulus program of Obama’s hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The unemployment figures for FDR’s first eight years were: 18 percent in 1935; 14 percent in 1936; by 1938, unemployment was back to 20 percent. The stock market fell nearly 50 percent between August 1937 and March 1938. During the Roosevelt Administration, the top marginal income tax rate was raised at first to 79 percent and then later to 90 percent. In 1941, Roosevelt even proposed a whopping 99.5 percent marginal rate on all incomes over $100,000.<br /><br />Where do the trillion-plus dollars come from that Congress and President Obama are spending in an effort to stimulate the economy? The only way government can spend a dollar is to tax or borrow it.<br /><br />In the case of a tax, one should ask what would that taxpayer have done with the dollar had it not been taxed away. He would have spent it on something that would have created a job for someone. If the government hadn’t borrowed the dollar, it might have been invested in some project that would have created a job. When government taxes, borrows and spends, it shifts unemployment from one sector to another. Of course, the sector that benefits tends to be a political favorite of the shifter.<br /><br />Between 1787 and 1930, our nation has seen both mild and sever economic downturns, sometimes called panics, that have ranged from one to seven years. During that interval, no one considered it to be the business of the federal government to try to get the economy out of a depression because there was no constitutional authority to do so. It took the government to turn what might have been a three- or four-year sharp downturn into a 15-year meltdown.<br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHKQnWpw0B1hlXkLVzpvyFAt34yXO2QJBNYADr6Pr-otcMwV1hgbuVlwBVoz7MS81Dhi68KgIiL2xksTbELfaj2j5aMc3WE9ZcbahqzVrSQRYMO4ZDh5B4y4a-hMDBvIRY31f5NuBt78/s1600/sowell.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494352220883706082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHKQnWpw0B1hlXkLVzpvyFAt34yXO2QJBNYADr6Pr-otcMwV1hgbuVlwBVoz7MS81Dhi68KgIiL2xksTbELfaj2j5aMc3WE9ZcbahqzVrSQRYMO4ZDh5B4y4a-hMDBvIRY31f5NuBt78/s320/sowell.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The following is condensed from Dr. Thomas Sowell’s July 13, 2010, article “Signs of the Times”–<br /><br /><span style="color:#99ffff;">Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money just by using the magic words “stimulus” and “jobs.” It doesn’t matter that the stimulus is not actually stimulating and that the unemployment rate remains up near double-digit levels, despite all the spending and all the rhetoric about jobs.<br /><br />Not only has all the runaway spending and rapid escalation of the deficit to record levels failed to make any real headway in reducing unemployment, all this money pumped into the economy has also failed to produce inflation [so far].<br /><br />How can the government pour trillions of dollars into the economy and not even see the price level go up significantly? Economists have long known that it is not just the amount of money, but also the speed with which it circulates, that affects the price level.<br /><br />The velocity of circulation of money in the American economy has plummeted to its lowest level in half a century. Business are holding on to their money. There should not be any great mystery as to why they don’t invest it.<br /><br />With the Obama Administration being on an anti-business kick, boasting of putting their foot on some business’ neck, and the President talking about putting his foot on another part of the anatomy, with Congress coming up with more and more red tape, more mandates and more heavy-handed interventions in businesses, why would a business risk money it might not even be able to get back, much less make any money on the deal? Banks have cut back on lending, despite all the billions of dollars that were dumped into them in the name of “stimulus.” </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHKQnWpw0B1hlXkLVzpvyFAt34yXO2QJBNYADr6Pr-otcMwV1hgbuVlwBVoz7MS81Dhi68KgIiL2xksTbELfaj2j5aMc3WE9ZcbahqzVrSQRYMO4ZDh5B4y4a-hMDBvIRY31f5NuBt78/s1600/sowell.jpg"></a><span style="color:#99ffff;">Consumers have also cut back on spending.<br /><br />People don’t know what to expect next from this administration, which seldom lets a month go by without some new anti-business laws, policies or rhetoric. Businesses have no way of knowing what additional costs the politicians in Washington are going to impose, when they are constantly coming up with new bright ideas for imposing more mandates on business.<br /><br />One of the little noticed signs of what is going on has been the increase in the employment of temporary workers. Businesses have been increasingly meeting their need for labor by hiring temporary workers and working their existing employees overtime instead of hiring new people </span><span style="color:#99ffff;">because temporary workers don’t get health insurance or other benefits, and working existing employees overtime doesn’t add to the cost of their benefits.<br /><br />There is no free lunch—and the biggest price of all is paid by people who are unemployed because politicians cannot leave the economy alone to recover.<br /></span><br /><p style="MARGIN: 11.25pt 0in; BACKGROUND: #e1e1e1"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTOPSMZjWmMknGEqZq3t9ULF_VHw5kTrNIvhF5SrvWOPewC3Y84XMvRoZU1f4DyqwjN9ij5k-zl_m0KQBQXKPFk_fkS1aXRCuAsrfxcsjOkQKvF5x190dTwnaP48V5Aev8jWKw4BpZEY/s1600/walterewilliams.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 148px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494352804083617186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTOPSMZjWmMknGEqZq3t9ULF_VHw5kTrNIvhF5SrvWOPewC3Y84XMvRoZU1f4DyqwjN9ij5k-zl_m0KQBQXKPFk_fkS1aXRCuAsrfxcsjOkQKvF5x190dTwnaP48V5Aev8jWKw4BpZEY/s200/walterewilliams.jpg" /></a></span></p>Walter E. Williams was born in Philadelphia in 1936, holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a master’s degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1980, he joined the faulty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics. More than 50 of his publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review and Social Science Quarterly and popular publications such as Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He is also the author of several books.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9JVXmN6f6N6fsrTb1EYnftmtCFXGfYVpQ9znF0eKjHDzZkKSL9sD9ca7vK83rjxyhtrlPE3a2Vvyi43BDq5eliG4oSBwdaYBDv8DPKX23u95bFpE7Frbi6jDs6mdsrrU4mcpHq_2itFY/s1600/ThomasSowell.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 143px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494354778303938386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9JVXmN6f6N6fsrTb1EYnftmtCFXGfYVpQ9znF0eKjHDzZkKSL9sD9ca7vK83rjxyhtrlPE3a2Vvyi43BDq5eliG4oSBwdaYBDv8DPKX23u95bFpE7Frbi6jDs6mdsrrU4mcpHq_2itFY/s200/ThomasSowell.jpg" /></a>Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. He left home early an<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTOPSMZjWmMknGEqZq3t9ULF_VHw5kTrNIvhF5SrvWOPewC3Y84XMvRoZU1f4DyqwjN9ij5k-zl_m0KQBQXKPFk_fkS1aXRCuAsrfxcsjOkQKvF5x190dTwnaP48V5Aev8jWKw4BpZEY/s1600/walterewilliams.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTOPSMZjWmMknGEqZq3t9ULF_VHw5kTrNIvhF5SrvWOPewC3Y84XMvRoZU1f4DyqwjN9ij5k-zl_m0KQBQXKPFk_fkS1aXRCuAsrfxcsjOkQKvF5x190dTwnaP48V5Aev8jWKw4BpZEY/s1600/walterewilliams.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTOPSMZjWmMknGEqZq3t9ULF_VHw5kTrNIvhF5SrvWOPewC3Y84XMvRoZU1f4DyqwjN9ij5k-zl_m0KQBQXKPFk_fkS1aXRCuAsrfxcsjOkQKvF5x190dTwnaP48V5Aev8jWKw4BpZEY/s1600/walterewilliams.jpg"></a>d did not finish high school. Eventually, he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Thomas Sowell entered Harvard University and studied economics. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), Thomas Sowell went on to receive his master’s in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968). He has published a dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, California.Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-48074714272407848242010-07-05T15:45:00.000-07:002010-07-16T12:43:20.773-07:00Thelonious Monk<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPPHgXrhzJJefXs-0GyivQYRf721Tw1cTOTMcP4QgC8HSo3zOfWAoZ_uJ_ugclI54KPz3fKPwPy3AYtP-1h5D55y-HWYUdtR8UwtLK9e_hOz6gAObsvTMjnevGjBqVerbftOxMZq-GZA/s1600/thelonious-himself-keepnews-photo-1-lo.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490557976768593906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPPHgXrhzJJefXs-0GyivQYRf721Tw1cTOTMcP4QgC8HSo3zOfWAoZ_uJ_ugclI54KPz3fKPwPy3AYtP-1h5D55y-HWYUdtR8UwtLK9e_hOz6gAObsvTMjnevGjBqVerbftOxMZq-GZA/s320/thelonious-himself-keepnews-photo-1-lo.jpg" /></a> Our jazz quintet plays a lot of songs by Thelonious Monk-- <em><span style="color:#ff0000;">Well You Needn't</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Straight No Chaser</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Misterioso</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">In Walked Bud</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Let's Cool One</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Blue Monk</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">I Mean You</span>,</em> and <em><span style="color:#ff0000;">'Round Midnight</span>. </em>Monk's songs sound unique, and I wanted to learn more about him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#33ff33;">Thelonious Monk</span> lived 1917 through 1982, so he died at age 65. He was jazz pianist and composer, considered one of the giants of American music. Some have said he invented "bebop," but I think he's a lot bigger than that. He wrote about 70 songs.<br /><br />"His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk</a><br /><br /><a class="image" title="Thelonious Monk, foreground, performing at Expo 67 in Montreal. (Credit: Library and Archives Canada)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thelonious_Monk_1967.jpg"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvKVmygVz1W7eqOBsYl4fpl35D1YIBhQ9R45HyXON15OH3vniJlbmXI9KfCEdtaH1kT6X0jpQXurLqW9BJ4BzUfqVTsXey6u61vXnA6TiGGtOjqo7zRP7Z9pO3kBeiLc_gxZqv6ux_Ai8/s1600/51xXgvKuwUL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490571169301135650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvKVmygVz1W7eqOBsYl4fpl35D1YIBhQ9R45HyXON15OH3vniJlbmXI9KfCEdtaH1kT6X0jpQXurLqW9BJ4BzUfqVTsXey6u61vXnA6TiGGtOjqo7zRP7Z9pO3kBeiLc_gxZqv6ux_Ai8/s320/51xXgvKuwUL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a> There's an excellent biography about Thelonious Sphere Monk written by Robin D. G. Kelley titled <em><span style="color:#33cc00;">Thelonious Monk, The Life and Times of an American Original</span></em> (2009). It's hard to imagine how a book about a jazz musician can be a "page-turner," but it is, at least for this reader.<br /><br /><br />Monk's melody lines and harmonies are very distinctive, and I wondered if his song writing and improvisation came naturally or if he really had to study and think. The answer is probably "both." But, (as am amateur musician) I was relieved to learn that he practiced a lot. A lot.<br /><br />Kelley writes how Monk, working his way through "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," the theme song for Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, sounded on a recording of his practice--<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcc66;">The first take is painstaking; in five minutes, he gets through just one chorus of the melody. As he wrestles with each measure, every note in his reinterpretation of the melody is carefully placed. By the second take, played rubato (out of tempo), there are more alternations to the melody and increasingly dissonant harmonies. Toward the end of this take, Thelonious begins to integrate stride piano and improvises for the first time . . . The fourth, fifth, and sixth takes, which together add up to a little over an hour of continuous playing, are an exercise in discovery. Monk works through a wide range of improvised figures in a fairly systematic way. He repeats certain phrases, making small rhythmic and tonal alterations each time to see how they sound. . . [This] represents a fraction of what it took to transform "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" into a Monk original. </span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc66;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBaj3xPRGow5oKKnl7fDoDmOV2nUXeVS2d5wN5FGW34O2-2uxn2n2jqFi8_Rtwrm-Ofv6Wxhmche4h-qMp54h76OMJDjOQvEPdxoN4f-8lAF1P6In8tZ9xw9opdFc4mCRJYAEHDuCxp8/s1600/rol0-023.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490558633749478658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBaj3xPRGow5oKKnl7fDoDmOV2nUXeVS2d5wN5FGW34O2-2uxn2n2jqFi8_Rtwrm-Ofv6Wxhmche4h-qMp54h76OMJDjOQvEPdxoN4f-8lAF1P6In8tZ9xw9opdFc4mCRJYAEHDuCxp8/s200/rol0-023.jpg" /></a> Monk played with all the other great jazz musicians through the 1940's to 1970's-- tenor sax players Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane, trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davie, alto sax player Charlie Parker, and drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. There are many, many more.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dLfnhELK3oWPV9tTj4xSRAwHM37TgrAbPUKZuMmpX7TnqlpJIWkRVqliI-dXVrpL6f_dcoR63zbQ6WIQ8NiWCqwmIYyy5bOv0RTPYxlDQX507q8r6NjLtYqVFluDNsluBxjaYjNleWc/s1600/thelonious_monk_3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490558651976955346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dLfnhELK3oWPV9tTj4xSRAwHM37TgrAbPUKZuMmpX7TnqlpJIWkRVqliI-dXVrpL6f_dcoR63zbQ6WIQ8NiWCqwmIYyy5bOv0RTPYxlDQX507q8r6NjLtYqVFluDNsluBxjaYjNleWc/s200/thelonious_monk_3.jpg" /></a>(That's Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge and Teddy Hill outside Minton's).<br /><br />It's probably safe to say that Monk's genius was under-appreciated, and there were many times when he couldn't get gigs. He was prohibited from performing in New York for a period because of a minor drug conviction. But, some of Monk's troubles were caused by a then undefined mental illness. Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. It may have been manic depression or schizophrenia, or he may have been bipolar.<br /><br />On February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of <span style="color:#ff0000;">Time</span> magazine, and was featured in an article inside.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCVUjXJ-1EfV6bKbyVuHbBEY7p_0vwocn9-T49z9bGcIrzzrw97ncDU6-pDr6n6XrS3nS7UGtciMn72aiauqQ00I6MgTiYx_cO5ZWeqCtIAhcVi2_b7xlXcES3vATQ0bGpOIjgKnTQLqk/s1600/theloniousmonktime.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 243px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490557998406092466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCVUjXJ-1EfV6bKbyVuHbBEY7p_0vwocn9-T49z9bGcIrzzrw97ncDU6-pDr6n6XrS3nS7UGtciMn72aiauqQ00I6MgTiYx_cO5ZWeqCtIAhcVi2_b7xlXcES3vATQ0bGpOIjgKnTQLqk/s320/theloniousmonktime.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-byQHpx2CmhmmA0rwC5Za8KL3rJvO8qqyrl4WDZW9fGsRxh-LPf7wyeUqkLYkyJTa3o60j0JtEy3YKynd60gPGMC6nOalkLS7-NIC75Glmo5wYyRvHf4Nk9hvfDjisR29iO19n_HeXU/s1600/thelonious%2520monk%252007.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-byQHpx2CmhmmA0rwC5Za8KL3rJvO8qqyrl4WDZW9fGsRxh-LPf7wyeUqkLYkyJTa3o60j0JtEy3YKynd60gPGMC6nOalkLS7-NIC75Glmo5wYyRvHf4Nk9hvfDjisR29iO19n_HeXU/s1600/thelonious%2520monk%252007.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 159px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490558624770489506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix-byQHpx2CmhmmA0rwC5Za8KL3rJvO8qqyrl4WDZW9fGsRxh-LPf7wyeUqkLYkyJTa3o60j0JtEy3YKynd60gPGMC6nOalkLS7-NIC75Glmo5wYyRvHf4Nk9hvfDjisR29iO19n_HeXU/s200/thelonious%2520monk%252007.jpg" /></a> Here's some of what author Kelley writes about Monk's music--<br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcc66;">Monk's unique sound has a lot to do with how he voiced his chords. As early as 1941, he was already experimenting with "open" voicing-- i.e. sometimes playing just the root and seventh of a dominant or major seventh chord, eliminating the third and fifth. The impact on the ear is quite startling. A standard major seventh voicing with the root on the bottom- C-E-G-B -sounds consonant, but remove the E and G and suddenly you have a highly dissonant chord, because the two remaining notes are only a half-tone away from each other. Invert the chord and you have a minor second. Often he would eliminate the root altogether and just play the seventh or the ninth in the bass. </span><br /><br />Also, Monk was given <span style="color:#ffcc66;">credit for introducing the half-diminished chord, a minor seventh chord with a diminished or "flat" fifth (e.g. C-Eb-Gb-Bb). It became an essential element of Monk's harmonic language, partly because of the dissonance created by the C-Gb. That flatted fifth or "tritone" was critical to what would become his harmonic signature. </span>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-22866225228408296632009-11-21T16:20:00.001-08:002009-11-21T21:28:06.381-08:00Practicing Law<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPF3_-3sm8L5FIsPDGaucwMgGpw9AMNNCzYIYFaFlhAf_wtpwGQZHPQ6i0zxzUNp739w1VMMgZ3lqjisbXp17lq21DEf062sQSGFkkuH8NnNrkCUPRsXUvxpAQEeL60gcKB-c2ZVdp64/s1600/style_peck.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 139px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406731060181667234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPF3_-3sm8L5FIsPDGaucwMgGpw9AMNNCzYIYFaFlhAf_wtpwGQZHPQ6i0zxzUNp739w1VMMgZ3lqjisbXp17lq21DEf062sQSGFkkuH8NnNrkCUPRsXUvxpAQEeL60gcKB-c2ZVdp64/s200/style_peck.jpg" /></a> Each lawyer has a different set of dreams and goals. Mine include wanting to help the little guy, take on some cases which other lawyers may fear as too hard or impossible, solve some tricky legal questions in a novel way, and then be recognized for a tough job well done. So, I guess, I wanted to be a hero (hopefully) and help “make some new law” by having a case reported in the law books as a “case of first impression.”<br /><div><div><br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_ukvUWi3adAAVisc0ElCLt6-QdRdjbUz8vMQ58LySBg85G5_He_UHMAlu-ef2O3VsJqoJEHqpFJvTJ5ueWXncNuGiIQ2rERhZoYXheJTusqb3PRn8L_IzRRCildupfcRlpz3QRIpdcw/s1600/abraham-lincoln-625.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406718952317062626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_ukvUWi3adAAVisc0ElCLt6-QdRdjbUz8vMQ58LySBg85G5_He_UHMAlu-ef2O3VsJqoJEHqpFJvTJ5ueWXncNuGiIQ2rERhZoYXheJTusqb3PRn8L_IzRRCildupfcRlpz3QRIpdcw/s200/abraham-lincoln-625.jpg" /></a>The promise of fees has never been the determining factor. Fitting cases usually involved modest or no fees at all. I recall a quote attributed to<span style="color:#ffff00;"> Abraham Lincoln—“do a good job practicing law and the fees will take care of themselves”</span> or something like that. It’s true.<br /><br />The “hero” thing probably came from watching black-and-white television shows growing up-- guys like <span style="color:#ffff00;">Hop-a-Long Cassidy</span>, <span style="color:#ffff00;">Cisco Kid</span>, and <span style="color:#ffff00;">The Lone Ranger</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3htCp0WsMzrHD_iNtVfPlFQhFMdwNSEwMRFLMWm6f-CO0EqZL8Gqffmn4lY-HeoKj0ZzTLMumOQPby59LHiyJuNlj2hSSE1PtjlKOdU6uXt8ZCvltFePzWRiQOfxcSyDeIf9FvKj7i14/s1600/the-lone-ranger_l.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406722214224033954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3htCp0WsMzrHD_iNtVfPlFQhFMdwNSEwMRFLMWm6f-CO0EqZL8Gqffmn4lY-HeoKj0ZzTLMumOQPby59LHiyJuNlj2hSSE1PtjlKOdU6uXt8ZCvltFePzWRiQOfxcSyDeIf9FvKj7i14/s200/the-lone-ranger_l.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurarvx-He7QJfRWCuPApc9R3k47WTx8CgzXcLmxkGbsu-3F02dAESCGRb8of8unKPpcX4UqrgEvAK5lr5XSBKwYRojwYt7ghi18YsfJrEVK0Dy5yjwiY_Cf4T4j44OMl0xNBoFygH0Gs/s1600/hopalong21.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 158px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406718953858811650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurarvx-He7QJfRWCuPApc9R3k47WTx8CgzXcLmxkGbsu-3F02dAESCGRb8of8unKPpcX4UqrgEvAK5lr5XSBKwYRojwYt7ghi18YsfJrEVK0Dy5yjwiY_Cf4T4j44OMl0xNBoFygH0Gs/s200/hopalong21.jpg" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRtUN-0qvCkifhORswcXnph8MnDnVeV9QXJZ4xtUVQ0QEfykenBnNOnkPV6byLEBU-0lpEIGj-p1YAdsZkHxVQi4STUrYbwDNCxoksg-6ELwlKHT56I8aZ5pPMmd9kS-JFip-mA_RWjo/s1600/duncan_renaldo_as_cisco.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 178px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406721972492355490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRtUN-0qvCkifhORswcXnph8MnDnVeV9QXJZ4xtUVQ0QEfykenBnNOnkPV6byLEBU-0lpEIGj-p1YAdsZkHxVQi4STUrYbwDNCxoksg-6ELwlKHT56I8aZ5pPMmd9kS-JFip-mA_RWjo/s200/duncan_renaldo_as_cisco.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>That, and perhaps also learning from some of the “classic” heroes-- like Don Quixote, Attorney Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck in <span style="color:#cc66cc;"><span style="color:#33ff33;">"To Kill a Mockingbird"</span></span>), Detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood in <span style="color:#cc33cc;"><span style="color:#33ff33;">"Dirty Harry"</span> </span>), and Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper in <span style="color:#33ff33;">"High Noon"</span>). <em>Myths.</em> The only real male hero in my life who was not a myth was my Dad. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifD3FXzEyxIGOaTQ0ydV5Ly-wqkZOTIO9uUCMZpu2dyoICSNjvltxW_NdreIblSY71R0WtbeqCena_SDF98CsiYSd4ol136SlysVoxZv_tkp1DBZrYhp_uxh79myYXLK9aC1Z-nsv56Dw/s1600/don-quixote.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 165px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406718960635460306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifD3FXzEyxIGOaTQ0ydV5Ly-wqkZOTIO9uUCMZpu2dyoICSNjvltxW_NdreIblSY71R0WtbeqCena_SDF98CsiYSd4ol136SlysVoxZv_tkp1DBZrYhp_uxh79myYXLK9aC1Z-nsv56Dw/s200/don-quixote.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8G749kdyFkjLdHDsMN8k1r3jqvtAyZZAGZFR6L-FwiILBL2ZiUeryxPSNq3c-am96ijApst9OnJ1oxn4TlRwdhNCydVL3D695jLPa_k6WYS_mOjUtiiBqXVZ5jjx-KgZXIQwOyf1vm08/s1600/clint_eastwood_biography.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406717379405672242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8G749kdyFkjLdHDsMN8k1r3jqvtAyZZAGZFR6L-FwiILBL2ZiUeryxPSNq3c-am96ijApst9OnJ1oxn4TlRwdhNCydVL3D695jLPa_k6WYS_mOjUtiiBqXVZ5jjx-KgZXIQwOyf1vm08/s200/clint_eastwood_biography.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 157px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406716710716308354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLB5jVcxgGa3EgJs4n9XkXO4qmPPZgCg8Kt_v2Ui91H1g2vp5NUaU2iJmLmXWc5C6LmQg-wve7hNj_cuNqAHiUjGGYaerXYvFlR-17ZfNeIloTK5PJcXzYLRt4pEkIs-X1XEfoBEQUr0/s200/high%2520noon.jpg" /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurarvx-He7QJfRWCuPApc9R3k47WTx8CgzXcLmxkGbsu-3F02dAESCGRb8of8unKPpcX4UqrgEvAK5lr5XSBKwYRojwYt7ghi18YsfJrEVK0Dy5yjwiY_Cf4T4j44OMl0xNBoFygH0Gs/s1600/hopalong21.jpg"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgurarvx-He7QJfRWCuPApc9R3k47WTx8CgzXcLmxkGbsu-3F02dAESCGRb8of8unKPpcX4UqrgEvAK5lr5XSBKwYRojwYt7ghi18YsfJrEVK0Dy5yjwiY_Cf4T4j44OMl0xNBoFygH0Gs/s1600/hopalong21.jpg"></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZDeA9e_YLk-W7rpnY7N2Pu3jTdcok2I53WZwbYJYkD0i28SajXDTtsBTFtf3Xd77spefbr6tVqfrMd9WS6qfZWpZ6Svpe5v6t47iAK5twi68F-idVqL7llQSLJ53KkUMl0jJZ4r3r3U/s1600/6a00d83452b15969e200e54f8b23978834-800wi.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406717386637824258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigZDeA9e_YLk-W7rpnY7N2Pu3jTdcok2I53WZwbYJYkD0i28SajXDTtsBTFtf3Xd77spefbr6tVqfrMd9WS6qfZWpZ6Svpe5v6t47iAK5twi68F-idVqL7llQSLJ53KkUMl0jJZ4r3r3U/s200/6a00d83452b15969e200e54f8b23978834-800wi.jpg" /></a>The Ronda Reynolds case (posted earlier) got me to thinking about the civil cases I’ve handled that sort of fall into the category. Weird, but they all seem to involve death in some way— </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50jNg-avU5G8CQZLNKyWJz0BfeWSxpJiZgrbL6i4caV2S1eNp1X6to298Da34BcA794TJYhuhesUqNDrfCvkWxlJCi9rEEZfYrf24dlMQ7A_VJBel1dN0QnRAncFFbau2FKC6Fh9J7PY/s1600/wreck001.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406718353942123746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50jNg-avU5G8CQZLNKyWJz0BfeWSxpJiZgrbL6i4caV2S1eNp1X6to298Da34BcA794TJYhuhesUqNDrfCvkWxlJCi9rEEZfYrf24dlMQ7A_VJBel1dN0QnRAncFFbau2FKC6Fh9J7PY/s200/wreck001.jpg" /></a></div><div>1988-- <span style="color:#ff0000;">Burkhart v. Harrod</span>, 110 Wn.2d 381 (1988) involved a young man who had been killed when his motorcycle wrapped around a telephone pole after a wedding rehearsal dinner party. His blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit. He left a wife and small family. It seemed that somebody at the party could have taken his keys away or given him a ride. The cases in the State of Washington hold that surviving family members may sue a tavern owner, parents may sue those who provide booze to minors, and relatives of employees who were over-served at a company party could sue the employer. But<span style="color:#ff0000;"> <em>no liability had yet been imposed upon a “social host” who over-served an obviously intoxicated guest</em></span>. There is still no liability against social hosts, as we lost the appeal.</div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg71Vq0pg5ACos3Dwi82xMhJPotZVzlCpXeaXKDWlvpSl2-GfivDrSq-JA-UeGLQvcN43aQT3W2VUwdqPY-OZolU2L4eVqoQPDIaR54h-3flLR8-SIT8EhyNAil2hE73BvZuB24a28pELk/s1600/walla3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 136px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406717797427074834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg71Vq0pg5ACos3Dwi82xMhJPotZVzlCpXeaXKDWlvpSl2-GfivDrSq-JA-UeGLQvcN43aQT3W2VUwdqPY-OZolU2L4eVqoQPDIaR54h-3flLR8-SIT8EhyNAil2hE73BvZuB24a28pELk/s200/walla3.jpg" /></a></div><div>1989-- <span style="color:#ff0000;">Halquist v. Department of Corrections</span>, 113 Wn.2d 818 (1989) was sort of a ghoulish First Amendment type of case. I represented a journalist who wanted to video tape record the scheduled hanging of Charles Campbell, who had slit the throats of three women while he was in work release. The case was dismissed on grounds that there was <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>no right to access the visual images of the hanging</em> </span>under the state constitution. The public would have to consider the death penalty in other ways. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rodman_Campbell">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rodman_Campbell</a> </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwugrg2DMb5iClqpRqsMlMLmQUY5KdNRF2gzYK8utTqT_RIMCsG-D7RICjiF4wG6_ucgPRwBcys33BAEFv04tQqtjC9nnHnDVDpyT7bxdQ_t7_Jgsh25vrj3K5yHg0u1_ap5RO4y2cXXQ/s1600/1401900207_l.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 144px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406717793051403602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwugrg2DMb5iClqpRqsMlMLmQUY5KdNRF2gzYK8utTqT_RIMCsG-D7RICjiF4wG6_ucgPRwBcys33BAEFv04tQqtjC9nnHnDVDpyT7bxdQ_t7_Jgsh25vrj3K5yHg0u1_ap5RO4y2cXXQ/s200/1401900207_l.jpg" /></a></div><div>1991-- <span style="color:#ff0000;">Rabb v. McDermott</span>, 60 Wn.App. 334 (1991) involved a guy named McDermott who died in a car wreck, leaving two twin boys known to be his. I represented a woman who stepped forward and claimed that her young boy was also a son, although McDermott was not named on the birth certificate and paternity had never been established. We<em> <span style="color:#ff0000;">filed a claim against the estate and sought to prove paternity against the deceased</span>.</em> Going without blood tests and in face of the “dead man statute” (which means you can’t use what the deceased said when alive if you might benefit in someway from those words). We prevailed, and a trust fund was set up for the third son. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sudIxTNVIBJgNXhu0tJSNm8yKcRZqlnon_EgWIrzPQpGTEQ14jQL_rBw_oaVrgDETqHxo_NSpPxPVEbiDgsMTiXtEu_6jeICZytygkDLS-7uKEm-oh2BZ1Rj-s7EFLWeLj_oLD4-YfU/s1600/1224200862756AM-JSchubert1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 108px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406717390387957122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sudIxTNVIBJgNXhu0tJSNm8yKcRZqlnon_EgWIrzPQpGTEQ14jQL_rBw_oaVrgDETqHxo_NSpPxPVEbiDgsMTiXtEu_6jeICZytygkDLS-7uKEm-oh2BZ1Rj-s7EFLWeLj_oLD4-YfU/s200/1224200862756AM-JSchubert1.jpg" /></a></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>2000-- <span style="color:#ff0000;">Nelson v. Schubert</span>, 98 Wn.App. 754 (2000) involved extreme domestic violence. Schubert was an insurance agent and reserve police officer who once said <span style="color:#ffff00;">“Only stupid people get caught for murder.” </span>He married younger Juliana Schubert and fathered two sons. The marriage was falling apart and Juliana was leaving him. She then disappeared without a trace, not taking her purse, car keys or other belongings. Police suspected him and even arrested him, but the lead detective died from leukemia. Schubert was released and never charged. Juliana’s mother asked me to <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>file a wrongful death claim against the husband after the seven-year presumption of death kicked in.</em></span> Based primarily upon his inconsistent statements, a jury found that he was the “slayer” and awarded the sons about $1,800,000 (although the sons fought us, too). Based upon his civil trial testimony (he should have remained silent, but just couldn't resist showing how smart he was), he was later charged and convicted of murder. (One of his sons committed suicide shortly after that). <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/92009_schubert19.shtml">http://www.seattlepi.com/local/92009_schubert19.shtml</a> </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 199px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406720142292955858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4rCWAgijgE4Ud06tS3vas5nz0c9GcZhtFjzu16zYTxB8P3pteTL7u70lCDQ0ljAR97VNBpyYxJyjj4daa-q7FKs_m_VnVwzYQTYIhtbAI1L3POiVS5Fm8fNy8YWefwMz-cEJ5fcrz8A/s200/untitled.bmp" />2008-- <span style="color:#ff0000;">Thompson v. Wilson</span>, 142 Wn.App. 803 (2008) was where a husband, whose wife was leaving him the next morning, called 911 and reported that <span style="color:#ffff00;">“my wife just committed suicide”</span> by shooting herself in the back of her head. The sheriff declared the death a suicide and the husband was never prosecuted. I represented the mother of the wife, left to<em> <span style="color:#ff0000;">sue the coroner to change her daughter’s death certificate from “suicide.”</span></em> That case is still in the works. So far, so good. The jury has said the death was not a suicide and that the coroner acted arbitrarily and capriciously. The coroner has refused to change the death certificate. <a href="http://rondalives.web.officelive.com/default.aspx">http://rondalives.web.officelive.com/default.aspx</a><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2_C5YqdKm6UdY4rMS14IAPhyphenhyphen8SbF2nnIwLl-BzeKA5N7PagdGfGcAfqmd8GMEJwcQuqf_snsJSCG_aDz89exCm-0a2b7Dtyq6EyVo4UyvV6bTS-mryYd8jufYEdH7oZTatMTtGHIocU/s1600/mask35.png"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 199px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406720147267891874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip2_C5YqdKm6UdY4rMS14IAPhyphenhyphen8SbF2nnIwLl-BzeKA5N7PagdGfGcAfqmd8GMEJwcQuqf_snsJSCG_aDz89exCm-0a2b7Dtyq6EyVo4UyvV6bTS-mryYd8jufYEdH7oZTatMTtGHIocU/s200/mask35.png" /></span></a><span style="color:#ffff33;">There is something big and serious about cases involving death—perhaps because they deal with the end of life. Maybe such cases give us an opportunity to respect and honor life, examine how death may come and what it leaves, or… maybe with death in the background we get a chance to see how we act before it.<br /></span></div></div></div>Royce Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04968057952361808426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801485849610243854.post-58129906325423193742009-11-19T21:44:00.001-08:002013-02-01T11:10:04.308-08:00Parker's Ballroom<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCp_LAGAkzPOvsrMD7eR3bPvGEeicuL8ATzJXH5s6v3BhTKSyWVJ-L-V39qCZMs_jyC4yQ-wL9rgjtews0oGPBa-of5Ii1l_e6sdiOWcN4x4Plr4HTYVPi0U7bt_8QHdRaz2mO5gDUAhM/s1600/Parkers30.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406058285956465298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCp_LAGAkzPOvsrMD7eR3bPvGEeicuL8ATzJXH5s6v3BhTKSyWVJ-L-V39qCZMs_jyC4yQ-wL9rgjtews0oGPBa-of5Ii1l_e6sdiOWcN4x4Plr4HTYVPi0U7bt_8QHdRaz2mO5gDUAhM/s200/Parkers30.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 116px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshN8TrYwBd8wmMCNXnIVUqNie_lbIXDEIeRYPMeEaibjmheIZUoW-Nj_57QduZ4GKwv7ip_axkqvGykbssPZaChZTPbmCLO04u4m8vETyAzR_ikyPGuNSSG9hGs5DtGCvAP16dSXkTTQ/s1600/dynamics_parkers.jpg"></a> <span style="color: red;">Parker's Ballroom</span> on Aurora Avenue in North Seattle was already a northwest landmark when I moved to the area in the mid- 1960's. My new friends told me about it.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshN8TrYwBd8wmMCNXnIVUqNie_lbIXDEIeRYPMeEaibjmheIZUoW-Nj_57QduZ4GKwv7ip_axkqvGykbssPZaChZTPbmCLO04u4m8vETyAzR_ikyPGuNSSG9hGs5DtGCvAP16dSXkTTQ/s1600/dynamics_parkers.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406058094921033314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshN8TrYwBd8wmMCNXnIVUqNie_lbIXDEIeRYPMeEaibjmheIZUoW-Nj_57QduZ4GKwv7ip_axkqvGykbssPZaChZTPbmCLO04u4m8vETyAzR_ikyPGuNSSG9hGs5DtGCvAP16dSXkTTQ/s320/dynamics_parkers.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 260px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 260px;" /></a> An album had been recorded there by <span style="color: red;">Jimmy Hanna and "The Dynamics"</span> and was hard to find. We found one copy and shared it but now it's long gone.<br />
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A lot of big names played at Parker's over the years-- Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, BB King, Ricky Nelson, Guy Lombardo, Tina Turner, Tower of Power, Stevie Wonder, and many, many more.<br />
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The "big names" I saw there were <span style="color: red;">Van Morrison and Them</span> (when <span style="color: #33ff33;">"Gloria"</span> was their first big hit) and <span style="color: red;">Doug Kershaw</span> (<span style="color: #33ff33;">"Louisiana Man"</span>). Van Morrison had on a dark brown suit with a blue shirt which I thought was cool enough to imitate in a courtroom years later. I remember disliking Doug Kershaw because he embarrassed his bass player on stage in front of all of us-- we didn't hear the mistakes that Kershaw had to point out on stage in the middle of a song. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOx4CE9AqD40lfTV9zIPWhPfc-L1deKxUoLK9ANwErqLUVkuvySYKVQyaKDd9-HJ04_Hy6R0du-ByyNn6_x2008cDNs6w9wSagN2p12Z_ybIpCwexLg4ox_tPlRIYXTVYDBkQ5ZEZQp18/s1600/MS.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406061880781199138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOx4CE9AqD40lfTV9zIPWhPfc-L1deKxUoLK9ANwErqLUVkuvySYKVQyaKDd9-HJ04_Hy6R0du-ByyNn6_x2008cDNs6w9wSagN2p12Z_ybIpCwexLg4ox_tPlRIYXTVYDBkQ5ZEZQp18/s200/MS.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 138px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a>All the good northwest bands performed there, including-- Don & the Goodtimes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, <span style="color: red;">Merilee Rush</span>. But, I didn't see them at Parker's. Normana Hall in Everett was "our" place to go see and hear Northwest Bands, including <span style="color: red;">Tiny Tony and the Statics</span>. <a href="http://www.pnwbands.com/parkers.html">http://www.pnwbands.com/parkers.html</a> This is an excellent site for the history of all the northwest garage bands and more.<br />
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Parker's opened in 1930. <span style="color: #ffcc66;">"Like a few other local dance halls, it spanned all of the sequential musical eras from the wild jazz days of the Prohibition Era right on up through the forties swing scene, from the rise of rock ‘n’ roll in the fifties, to the psychedelic sixties, and onwards to the heavy metal, disco, and punk rock scenes of the seventies. Unlike most other historic dance halls though, Parker’s still stands."</span> <a href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3827">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3827</a><br />
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Check out <a href="http://www.pnwbands.com/dynamics.html">http://www.pnwbands.com/dynamics.html</a> for more pictures of the Dynamics and a sound clip of <span style="color: #33cc00;">JAJ</span>.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;"><u>UPDATE</u>: </span><span style="color: white;">Parker's Ballroom was demolished in December 2012. </span></strong><br />
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