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The Storied Life of A. Ann Patchett really, really wants you to read a book, Ms. Florence King no longer need suffer fools, and Ms. Mary Ellen Taylor explains how knowing the different between baking powder and baking soda can save your life. While many of her ladyship's readers no doubt spent the past few days watching Youtube clips of David Bowie performances, or seeing how many of his favorite books they had heard of or actually read her ladyship, the editor, was quietly mourning the loss of one of the South's truly original and unforgettable voices.

Florence King passed away this weekend, and the world is a quieter place without her. King was, as one of her ladyship's friends noted, "a true square peg" -- a woman with a sharp tongue backed by a sharper intelligence and a philosophy of not suffering suffering fools, gladly or otherwise. Her uncompromising eye and ruthless wit made even the steeliest of steel magnolias seem like tinsel. One would say, 'rest in peace' except for the feeling that Ms.

King would hate to spend an eternity peacefully. Here is hoping that when she went to that great front porch in the sky, she got to take her rifle with her. Pale light crept into the black stanchions of pine, the ashen ground, the red center of dying coals. The camped men rose, silent, and broke the bread of old pillage between blackened fingers. One of their number looked at his own.

Soot and powder, ash and dirt. Some of the others chewed loudly, bread dry in dry mouths. There was no coffee, not for some days. He always wanted to talk in this quiet of early morning, to speak something into the silence that assembled them into the crooked line of horse men. No colors among the trees. No badges, no uniforms. He wanted to ask what peace might be gained if they hovered here longer in the mist, did not mount and ride. But they always did. A dark and offbeat crime novel set in blue collar, post-BP oil spill Gulf Coast. The tension slowly ratchets up as it becomes clear all of the odd and sometimes nefarious characters are on a collision course with each other.

Memorable characters and setting make this a gritty and enjoyable read- think Elmore Leonard in the bayou. Ishiguro's mastery of subtlety is second to none, and he puts it to good use in The Buried Giant , creating an atmosphere so tangible and thick you could cut it with a knife. Whether you get through it in one sitting or pace yourself, Ishiguro's post-Arthurian Britain will envelop you like a thick fog, leaving you dazed and confused in the best way for a long time after you put it down.

Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake.

Ava and Callum have only each other in the world and their remarkable horse, Reiver, who carries them through the destruction that is the South. Pursued relentlessly by a murderous slave hunter, tracking dogs, and ruthless ex-partisan rangers, the couple race through a beautiful but ruined land, surviving on food they glean from abandoned farms and the occasional kindness of strangers. In the end, as they intersect with the scorching destruction of Sherman's March, the couple seek a safe haven where they can make a home and begin to rebuild their lives. Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, "Fallen Land" is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award-winning young author Taylor Brown.

When Breath Becomes Air. Paul Kalanithi was finishing his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford when he found out he had a very aggressive form of lung cancer. Florence King, a columnist, author and professional misanthrope who was a constitutional crosspatch about all manner of things -- in particular those things that smacked in the slightest of what she decried as touchy-feely-lateth-century liberalism -- dies on Wednesday at her home in Fredericksburg, VA.

Florence King was often bored. But she never bored others. On Sunday, October 16, at 2: Inductions are held every other year. Meet Mary Ellen Taylor. It may have been inevitable that Mary Ellen would take her storytelling heritage to new heights, moving beyond the oral tradition to become a published author. It didn't matter if they were found in the pages of a book, spoken in hushed tones around a campfire, or shared at an old-fashioned family reunion.

Stories created connections, and I knew that's what I wanted to do," says Mary Ellen. You need to learn the basics and respect the tools that give you the freedom to develop your story while helping you avert disaster -- much the way knowing the difference between baking powder and baking soda can be a real lifesaver. The Union Street Bakery. Suddenly without a job or a boyfriend, Daisy now lives in the attic above her family's store, the Union Street Bakery, while she learns the business.

It doesn't help that, as the only adopted daughter, her relationship with her sisters has never been easy. When an elderly customer dies, Daisy is surprised to inherit a journal from the s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family--and her own heritage--than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to "find her," she is compelled to explore the past more deeply.

What she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life. For the week ending January 3. The Great Gatsby F. Volume Two Emma Farrarons Illus. One Second After William R. Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin Illus. Carry On Rainbow Rowell, St. Nina Dockey presents A Seeker's Guide: Jeremy Taylor -Body by Darwin: Chris Offutt explains why he likes possum it's partly their opposable thumbs , a young woman promises to go to the next revival "even if it rains frogs" it thankfully doesn't , Mr.

Taylor Brown remembers his first grade teacher, and the source of Ms. Wright's cool will remain a mystery forever. Winter has, at last, arrived.

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Her ladyship, the editor, knows this because it became cool enough to put on her warm fuzzy slippers. And also because the bowl of fruit in the middle of her library table is now filled with oranges. Specifically, Cara Cara oranges. Last year her ladyship bought some by accident, thinking she was picking up regular navel oranges and not paying close attention to the bin she was standing in front of. It was a happy mistake, however, and now she looks for them every winter -- the only time they seem to appear in the grocery stores. Indeed, the first sign of spring may well be that pomegranates and cara cara oranges disappear from the supermarkets, leaving one to subsist on bananas and winter storage apples until the strawberries start to appear in late spring.

Some people mark the passing of the seasons by the sports teams they are cheering or the holidays they are shopping for. Her ladyship seems to mark them by fruit. I was spending a while with a friend, Miss Myra Rivers, a young Christian, who was quite interested in my soul. I could not see the need of a change. I held myself good enough. But I was resting upon morality, because I had not reasoned otherwise. I could not see the use of her shouting at meeting,and was quite a pest to her on the matter. However, she prayed God should make me see the need. Do you wonder at this, dear reader?

When you know I had nothing to shout for. So he led me through a beautiful passage up to a beautiful building, into a spacious room, and as I entered I heard the most melodious, inspiring songs. The very man was with me on all occasions. Then he wanted a pledge. Truthwitch by Susan Dennard. If so, the hopes of a world on the brink of war and fearful of magic's waning power will soon rest on their shoulders.

Parker is blind and has been for years. She copes by not caring what anyone thinks of her -- as long as they follow The Rules, a set of what she considers common sense guidelines for dealing with someone who's blind. Rules she enforces even more since her best friend Scott broke her heart two and a half years ago. But when Scott shows back up, Parker starts to realize that maybe she doesn't know everything she thought she did. Lindstrom has a way of getting you into his character's head, making you see things from her perspective that you wouldn't otherwise be able to.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. A rare discovery, A Mysterious Life and Calling is the autobiography of Charlotte Levy Riley, who was born into slavery but after emancipation achieved a fulfilling career as a preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolteacher, and civil servant. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered. Born in , Charlotte Riley recounts her unusual experiences growing up as a young slave girl in Charleston under the protection of her parents and the dominion of her wealthy owners.

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She was taught to read, write, and sew, despite laws forbidding black literacy, and while still a slave married a free black architect. Raised a Presbyterian, she writes in her memoir of her conversion at age fourteen to the African Methodist Episcopal AME church, embracing its ecstatic worship and led by her own spiritual visions. After the war, she separated permanently from her husband, who objected to her call to preach, and despite poor health pursued a career into the early twentieth century as a licensed minister of the AME church, a powerful preacher at multiracial revivals, and a school teacher and principal.

She contributed to the civic development of South Carolina in the post-Reconstruction era and early twentieth century, including appointment in as postmistress of Lincolnville, an all-black incorporated town in South Carolina. She published her autobiography around Lucky also places A Mysterious Life and Calling in the context of other spiritual autobiographies and slave narratives.

See the full season of NC Bookwatch here. I first saw C. Wright when I was a seventeen-year-old high-school senior enrolled in a pre-college writing program at Brown University. When I returned to Brown as a freshman that fall, I followed her around, weaseled my way into her classes, and tried to figure out the source of her cool and how to siphon something from it. I never really figured it out. None of us has ever really figured it out.

But you know it when you see it, hear it. Why Chris Offutt loves possum. They live the way I feel most of the time—a nomadic living fossil, a loner unable to tolerate company except during mating season. Fortunately for them that occurs every six months. Possum, opossum, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways! Booksellers who become librarians. I wanted to create a Tolkien-themed library to honor one of my favorite writers.

I sat down with Jon and we selected Tolkien images for three sides of the library: Smaug, The Tree of Gondor, and Rivendell. Jon beautifully painted those images based on Tolkien's original illustrations. We glued a gnome statuette on the roof to serve as Guardian of the Library. Taylor Brown on First Grade Teachers. Simons Elementary, and his bad feet as a kid.

Lafayette Reads chooses community read. Jonathan James and the Whatif? Whenever Jonathan James finds himself in a new situation, he hears his Whatif Monster asking all kind of questions to stop him trying something new: What if it's scary? What if they laugh? What if it's hard? Finally, Jonathan James has some questions of his own: What if they don't? What if it isn't? For the week ending January The Hour Day Nancy L. Bill Martin, Eric Carle Illus. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. Glenn Schaefer - Oh! Meet Author Ashley Warlick: David Burnsworth - Burning Heat: Eugenio Rothe - Vampiros: Author Celeste Fletcher McHale: Paul Lisicky likes Flannery O'Connor's sense of humor, a bookseller is baffled by the absurdity of everyday life, and Ms.

Regina Mason discovers how the past makes itself felt in the present. When her ladyship, the editor's mother comes to visit next month, she will be bringing with her a box of old family photographs her ladyship has promised to scan so that the family can begin the work of identifying the people in the pictures. It was a most unexpected and confounding discovery, because the young man is clearly from the Mennonite side of her ladyship's family -- part of the extensive clan that settled in Ohio and many of whom are still there now.

It goes without saying that while they were abolitionists, they were also quite certainly pacifists. It never occurred to any of the family that there might be ancestors who actually fought in the Civil War. So who was this young man? How did he come to defy his family and his beliefs and enlist? Did he survive the war? Who did he leave behind? It is a strange and wonderful and sometimes heartbreaking thing, how an artifact from the past can reach out and grasp us here in the present.

Regina Mason discovered so when her 5th grade teacher gave her a simple school assignment: Regina went home to ask her mother where they were from. As it turned out, they were from slaves. Regina's great-great-great-grandfather was a runaway slave named William Grimes who wrote what is now considered the first fugitive slave narrative, in That happened so long ago. Get over it,' " she says. Potted palm trees dance in the breeze.

If you enjoy a book with unexpected twists and turns, Chris Bohjalian is an author you will want to read. His latest book is about the consequences of a good family man's decision to host a bachelor party for his wilder, younger brother. The story keeps us guessing but also leads us to think about important issues. It has garnered high praise from both Charles Frazier—"Pulses quick as a page-turner, but its concerns run deep This is the best graphic novel I've read all year!

Nimona is funny, bold, irreverent, and full of surprises. Both simple and rich, I enjoyed reading it even more the second time. Suitable for teens and up and up. Quirky, dark, cute, existential, and absolutely hilarious. I laugh out loud every time I pick up this book. If you are often baffled by the absurdity of everyday life, or if a bird has ever given you the bird then this one is for you. Feathers no matter what size or shape or color are all the same, if you think about them. But the secret thing about feathers is.

In the pre-Katrina glow of New Orleans, Amanda Salassi is anxious about chaperoning her daughter's sixth grade field trip to the Big Easy during Halloween. And then her worst fears come true. Her daughter's best friend, Sarah, disappears amid the magic and revelry gone, without a trace. Unable to cope with her guilt, Amanda's daughter sinks in depression. And Amanda's husband turns destructive as he watches his family succumb to grief. Before long, Amanda's whole world has collapsed. Amanda knows she has to save herself before it's too late.

As she continues to search for Sarah, she embarks on a personal journey, seeking hope and purpose in the wake of so much tragedy and loss. Set amidst the murky parishes of rural Louisiana and told through the eyes of two women who confront the darkest corners of humanity with quiet and unbreakable faith, The Feathered Bone is Julie Cantrell's master portrait of love in a fallen world.

Hailing from the Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy Trombone Shorty Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest. Along with esteemed illustrator Bryan Collier, Andrews has created a lively picture book autobiography about how he followed his dream of becoming a musician, despite the odds, until he reached international stardom.

Ancestry search led to escaped slave. When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: That night, she went home and asked her mother where they were from. It wasn't just a few generations removed. Paul Lisicky on Flannery O'Connor. She was a writer who sounded like she was having fun. Bleak fun, to be sure. I could just picture her cracking herself up in front of the typewriter. Fallen Land is brutally poetic. I could read only one story a day; each was so disturbing, so haunting.

And the writing was tight, powerful, often poetic, always piercing. One has the same experience in the novel, but here the entire atmosphere is elemental, and the naturalistic surface finally dissolves into the mythic. Shana Thornton is an admirer of life's simplicities, but she chose to be a writer, a profession that complicates everything if you tell people. And, complications in tow, Shana has to claim her profession like anyone else. She wants to travel as often as possible with her husband and two daughters, but she reads and writes more than anything. Luckily, her daughters like books, libraries, and notebooks.

She served as Editor-in-Chief for hercircleezine. She has written artist and author interviews as well as fiction and features. Multiple Exposure was her first novel. When Robin Ballard takes a writing course in college, she goes searching for answers about her homeless father and wanders into the secret lives of her relatives as they gradually reveal their personal histories.

Based on novel events, homework assignments, old magic recipes, drunken revelries, senile remembrances, midnight songs, some tall tales, some folk tales, and the lost journals, Robin Ballard tells a "true" Tennessee family history. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound. Schoen discusses his new novel Barsk: Author event with Mary M.

Barrow author of Small Moments: Author event with Dr. Author event with C. Meet Georgia Author Nicole Castroman: Celeste Fletcher McHale remembers an lost friend in fiction, Mr. Taylor Brown discovers that he has lived in a whorehouse, and the Decatur Library brings together a hillbilly wannabe, an Arkansas Living Treasure, a CMA musician of the year, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a recovering heroin addict and puts them all in the same room. The unique exhibit features original artwork and music, inspired by and created for a work of literature.

Words, Music, Art coalescing together to become a multi-faceted experience of story. Sixteen books were put into the hands of sixteen artists and sixteen musicians, each of whom read the work and created a piece or a song inspired by the story. Bernard has opened a new manage- ment firm in Nashville, the Bernard Co. Bernard will share office space with David Skepner's Buckskin Co. Lane Cross has joined Gehl Force Management as an artist man- ager. He brings Loretta Lynn to the Gehl roster.

Rhino Records' "But Seriously: Rhjthm guitarist Don Stiemberg accompanied Bums on this collection of pop standards and set pieces. The company Li also promoting and distributing the act's current single, "Cherokee Highway". The music business program at Nashville's Behnont Univer- sity has released "Moving On," a CD album of alterna- tive, contemporary Christian, country, and instrumental music. On the in-house Acklen Records label, the album was created, performed, recorded, produced, and engi- neered by current and former music business students.

Mark your calen- dar: Topics to be discussed in- clude the current realities of radio, research, the ef- fects of the increase of country labels and artists, the tug of war over concerts, and the future of radio. Tickets are available through the foun- dation's L. She is best known for playing the role of Marcia on 'The Brady Bunch.

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Like Fan Fair, Fanfest aims to bring country stars and their fans to- gether via a series of shows and ex- hibit booths. This year's Fanfest will be held May Fanfest and ACM have established a committee to oversee the festival. Besides performances by nation- ally known country acts, the Fanfest will feature "new country" showcases; arts, crafts, and fashion displays; artist, fan club, record com- pany, and vendor booths; a chili cook-off; a custom-auto show, a kar- aoke stage; and a songwriting con- test. Event-long and single-day tickets are being sold through the Fanfest headquarters by mail and directly through Wherehouse Entertain- ment stores in California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Johnny Cash won the all-time fa- vorite artist trophy. Charley Pride, who was on hand for the ceremonies and who also performed on the minute radio show, earned a special achievement award. Randy Owen, lead singer of Alabama; Roger Sovine. Calakig number is lor cassette single, w vinyl if cassette is unavailable.

Commercial availability is not indicated on ttte recurrent chart. The self-titled album replaces "The Hits" by Garth Brooks Liberty , who held that spot for a whopping 15 consecutive weeks. After musing that "Santa will definitely come this year. Blackburn says that while every component at the label level fell into place, there's no denying that Montgomery simply cut a great record.

Blackburn also cited good luck and hard work in the song selection proc- ess, noting that Montgomery depends almost entirely on outside ma- terial. Montgomery's album debuts at No. Stone co- produced the project with James Stroud. The album's lead single, "The Keeper Of The Stars," continues to spur retail activity and moves James says Twain's single is second only to John Michael Mont- gomery's new release in request tabulations.

Twain is also No. The Nashville-based band of Texans cut a self-titled indie-label EP and has now signed to BNA, with a debut album, co-produced by Don Cook and Wally Wilson, possibly out by the fourth quarter of this year. The first band to play Nashville's Wildhorsc Saloon, Lonestar re- corded its six-song set live there in January. Under the Lonestar Rec- ords handle, manager Bill Carter re- leased the package in March, both to satisfy fan demand and to seek at- tention from major labels. Carter learned of the band via Cook, who was impressed enough by the band's live show and crowd re- sponse to want to get them in the studio.

We could sell a ton of al- bums if we had one. I started handing it around to people, and the response was unanimous: It was great stuff. With as many dates as they play, I think we'll see a nice sales pattern, not unlike what] you find with alter- native rock bands or our experience with the Dave Matthews Band, for example. His company, a major rap one-stop that services the Southwest, had scored last year with the Smoking Armadillos, a CurW Atlantic country group, which had a similar initial indie EP outing. Southwest is also working the Pacific Records album by the Tyler.

Texas, country group Perfect Stranger. Carter says, provides the foundation for sales efforts. He is also invit- ing retailers to the shows and serv- icing some stores directly from his office. At least we have something out there we're really proud of that represents the band very well. Then we hear them play live and the new stu- dio track they've put down, and we're over the top. Liberty's senior VP ot pro- motion. So I think it's very healthy to see some of the small independent labels having success at country, even on a regional basis. It helps to get us out of the chart men- tality that country programmers seem so driven by.

WNY 9 98 E V Top Country Catalog AlhuniR. All of them are upbeat, joyous franies that rotate through my mind like cards being flipped on a Rolodex. New'spaper accounts following Selena's death on March 31 annojingiy compared her shews to Madonna's performances, periiaps for the benefit of the uninformed. Nothing couW be more remote from the truth. In Selaia, Latinas in Texas, California. Seloia's successful transition to the English-language mar- ket was by no means assured.

But if Selena did hit pay dirt in the Anglo maritet it would haN'e marked one of thi? In the coming wieeks, Anglo papoM will continue to portrdy Sekina as seme type of Latin Madonna, jast as they did with Gloria Trevi when she caught fire two years ago. Meanwiiile, the Latino papers are pondering what might have been for Selena.

I prefer to mull ov'er what she accompUshed by paging through stories, looking at photos, and ranembering the beaming smile on Abrahson Quintanilla's face during that spe- cial sermade in San Anttmio. Chkago-hased entertainment ccmpany Bacchus Group Productions Ltd.

While "Fondo Profundo" has sold 36, units — good enough for gold certification — that figure falls well short of the ex- traordinary , units averaged by the band's first two records. But it used to be impossible. He asserts that the musical quaUty of "Fondo Profundo" is superior to pre- vious records. The new band, with former Identikit members Giimez, who switched to lead vocals from drums, and guitarist Prime Torres. Thursday 13 on MTV Latino.

Encouraged by a solid local follow- ing generated by consistent touring in nearby states, the group recorded an eponymous debut album for do- mestic indie Barca Records. That rec- ord yielded two hit singles, "Bye Bye" and "Un Camino Hasta Vos," and later was certified double platinum with sales of , units. Records in Argentina are certified platinum for sales of 60, units. An established regional act, Vilma Palma set out in to conquer Buenos Aires, which the band has yet to win over despite its national popu- larity. It played as an opening act for label mates Super Ratones but was given a mild reception.

The band sub- sequently played shows in Argen- tina that year, closing in Buenos Aires before a more enthusiastic crowd. Vilma Palma's increasing profile on the Argentinian music scene did not go unnoticed.

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In , the group was named best new act by Prensario maga- zine and media association ACE. In March , Vilma Palma im- proved on its catchy pop groove when it recorded " After witnessing Vilma Palma's do- mestic prosperity, Elio Barbeito, president of Barca and the band's promoter, aimed to repeat the group's domestic success in Latin America. Barbeito was able to secure licensing deals for the band in almost every country in the region as a result of the tour. Despite the band's success in Argen- tina and Latin America, the group re- mains tethered to Rosario and has yet to hit it big in Buenos Aires.

And that is what really matters and makes us proud. He would arrange the same deal in Peru. Jackson canceled his R Chilean date aflei- 5, peopk; al- reatiy had entered the National Stadium of Santiago. More than 50, people bought tkitets to the concal. Claveria says that if he continiws to i ress the suit, filed in the U. With pen in hand, salsa star Frankie Ruiz signed a new recording contract with Rodven Records in March. Looking on, from left, are Ruiz's wife. Greatest Gamer shows chart's largest unit increase.

All albums available on cassette and CD 'Asterisk indicates vinyl available. Hmdicates past or present Heatseeker tille. There's a ton of nevv product out in the Christian music marketplace this spring, hut when a title arrives with a lime-green cover, it tends to demand attention. The album boasts a collectinn of inndvative melodies and clever lyrics that the artists describe as "modem rock or artistic iwp.

The two live in the Columbus, Ohio, area, where they first began plajing music together 1 1 years ago. They'll entertain you and make you think. Isn't that what great art Ls all abcHit? Matk Fain and kej'boardist Garry Jones have resigned fixim Gold City, one of Southern gos- pels most acclaimed groufw.

Brooks, a year-old native of Little Rock, Ark. The new members made their debut on. They'll make their recording debut with the group on Gold City's upcoming album, which is slated for a. June release on Benson's RiverSong label. As for Jones, he says the decision to leave Gold City w-a-sn't easy, but he and Fain felt the time was right and "the Lord i-s leading us in new directions. Jones will continue to produce other ntorrls and also is recording solo jazz piano projects for Benson's Special Products Division.

News notes; Rex Carroll, known for his work with Whitecross and King James, just finished recording his first solo project for. Star Song, which Phil Madeira pro- duced and will be released in August. The S Gos wl Music A. Songwriter Showca-se will be hekl April 23 at 9: Well, Paul did it, and it worked. He brought a sense of pro- fessionalism and order to a band that was more inspired by adventure than discipline, and the mix worked per- fectly for quite a while. Paul w-as an e.

The band's keyboardist, Ray Man- zarek, remembers Rothehild as "the fifth Door. And [engineer Bruce] Bot- nick was the. So when we went into the recording studio, there were actually six Doors; four musicians and two technicians. And the atmos- phere that Paul created a-s producer was one of great tru.

Paul was hap- piest when he was spending infinite hours in the studio making a good thing better. A funeral service for Rothehild was held April 8 at his Hollywood home. During those times, you find other ventures until it comes back around to you. Only Elton John, after hearing the tape, decided he would do it.

That's the psy- che of this industry. But I've learned to roll with the punches. He felt his last studio record, "In My Dreams," should have been promoted more aggressively in the contemporary Christian market.

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For the moment, however, Colcy is hot. Love Fellowship Taber- nacle, which Coley believes to be a natural extension of what he does on stage. A master at gospel fiision, bridging the best of the contemporarj' and traditional genres, while experi- menting with jazz and a touch of classical, Coley adds with a smile that he intends to do even more musical stretching out with the project. The great thing is that people have gotten used to expecting the unexpected from me.

His label, Atlanta International is also putting a major promotional push behind its newest signee, Bjron Cage, whose debut album, "Dwell Among Us," is registering great response from gospel announcers. And, in an effort to expand iUs gospel raster. This marks the first recording contract for the seven-year old choir, which was founded by Wiley Dickerson and discovered a few years ago by Jantes Moore. Warner Alliance and not Gospo Centric as re- ported in my last column is the label that is negotiating with Donnie McClurkin on the release of his long- awaited solo recording.

Anyone who came into contact with Carl E. Jefferson, the founder, president, and producer of the Concord Jazz label, realized pretty quick that he was a zealot when it came to music. The year-old Jefferson died March 29 in St. Concord's signature sound was a mainstream jazz that stressed lyricism on all fronts. With more than titles in its catalog eight Grammy winners and 40 nominations among them , the label boasts a mighty canon.

A staunch community ac- tivist, he was the impetus behind the construction of the Concord Calif. Pavilion three years later; the an- nual fest is held there to this day. He also revitalized the solo piano realm with an ongoing series of dates recorded at the acoustically exquisite Maybeck Re- cital Hall. Illness deterred him only slightly: Jefferson didn't want to miss out on a single note. You thought, 'I'm on a major jazz label devoted exclusively to the music' There were no distractions of a rock'n'roll division or what- ever. He had an absolute focus, as well as a great joie de vivre.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his minions want to choke the funding to many of the publicly financed arts programs and radio stations. That would surely disturb the presence of jazz around the country and force the alleged cultural elite to fend for themselves, right? Well, let's hear it for the private sector and hope those in the know are into java. Starbucks Coffee, which is based in Seattle and has retail outlets in North America, is doing its bit to promote the music we love. The company has established a relationship with the Blue Note label that should boost the profile of jazz musicians, from seminal artistes like Thelon- ious Monk to modern funksters tike t'S3.

As part of the co-promotion, the Starbucks shops will spin sounds from the Blue Note vault. It is "won- derful exposure for a worldwide art form," Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall told a press group in New York. It shares its name, "Blue Note Blend," with a new Starbucks brew that the cof- fee purveyors have created for the occasion. A sam- pling indicated it had an distinctive edge to it.

All albums available on cassene and CO. Speaking at the Frankfurt Music Fair, he said that the member association's sales incretised to more than. Wittgen said, "The search for talent by German music publishers on the international pop music market was par- ticulai'ly successful with dance and tech- no. In the rock and pop field, German publishers have attained new stanclarrls of achievement, Wittgen claimed, argu- ing that international audiences are now more receptive to German music than ever Ixjfore.

This made exposure possible in the U. Another imjxji-tant vehicle for musi- cal creativity is sheet music. Hart, whose words were almost exclusively wedded to the music of Richai-d Rodgers for almost a quaiter of a centurj' befoi-c the lyricist's death in VMi, will be the subject of a tribute April 30 at the Players, New York's venerable theatrical club. The Rainbttw Room itself will offer Hait songs throughout the month. The City Center's "Encore! But we love it when we hear those old songs. It's nice to do some of the older stuff and give it a tK'w flavor but still let it keep some of the sound of the old song.

Evei'ywherv we go, and no matter w hat we siiii;. Interscope Music has just started its third year with a bevy of new developments, as the company basks in the sunlight of a recent No. Vance also notes that Brenda Russell has just returned from the U. She also has songs on new releases from Chaka Kahn and Oleta Adams. That song, "From This Moment On. All this led to a limited run of perfor- mances. Irving Berlin's "Call Me Mad- am.

The cast mak- ing a brief visit to the City Center stage would be by Irv Lichtman perfect for a full-scale revival. Time has brought good cheer to the proceed- ings. And cheers for stars Andrea Martin. Ken Page, and Peter Scolari. And another round for Cole Por- ter — "Where, Oh, Where," to turn to the master again in one of the show's delightful. But tributes have been paid in London, where Ian Marshall Fisher has restaged 24 Broadway shows over the jsist seven years. The following are the best-selling folios from C'heiTj' Lane Music: For example, domestic distribution of CMT and TNN remained relatively static in as few cable networks saw the ad- vantage of adding new channels to their services.

The most ac- tive regions for country video nation- wide include Atlanta, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City. San Francisco, and Birmingham. In addition, opportunities for international exposure of country video continues to improve, as CMT mines options in Europe, Latin Amer- ica, and Asia. At this point, technology holds the key to the continued growth of country music video, and label executives should increasingly turn to interactive technology' to further market their art- ists, the study concludes.

At the same time, Aristomedia re- ports that contemporary Christian video experienced a surge in activity in , as marketing departments at la- bels capitalized on new broadcast and cable opportunities cropping up on the television landscape. Since June alone, the contempo- rarj' Christian video outlet increased its distribution by f:.

Z Music Television is one of 15 na- tional, sirTidicated, or satellite outlets in the contemporary' Christian realm that Aristomedia counts today. Regional outlets, at That num- ber is up from 95 outlets in and 62 in Geographically, the South and Midwest dominate the program- ming slate, and some 44 outlets ap- pear in PI markets with viewership exceeding , households.

The remaining chunk of contemporary Christian programmers comprises seven international outlets, eight mul- timarket outlets, five specialized-use programs, and four closed-circuit programmers. Jamie Thompson directed photography on "Always," as well as the band's remake of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody. Gary Gray lensed Dr. Aaron Schnieder directed Gone Gotham.

Pictured on location in Atlanta are. Boogie Monster Yoda is on the left in front with the group's road manager Onaji. Willis produced the shoot for Digital Frames. Balan di- rected photography. Tim Maurice Jones directwi photog- raphy; Joseph Uliano produced. Filmtv'Squirrel Productions clip directed by Tryan George.

Jon- athan Bekemeier directed photogra- phy on the Iloston-based shoot; Mark Mower produced. Simon Archer di- rected photography on the shoot; Steve Willis produced. Dan Ehrenbard directed photography on the New Jersey-based shoot: Tom Case produced for Automatic Pro- ductions.

A min- ute version of the Billboard award- wirming program unspooled on the Big Apple's public access airwaves April 1. Bohemia collects proceeds at the door and uses the funds to further finance its own promotional efforts. In addition, Crawford is negotiat- ing to take "Bohemia After Dark" to broadcast in New York once 13 epi- sodes of the show have aired on pub- lic access.

The customized East Coast version of the video show airs late-night Saturdays at More fun in Manhattan: The multi- format clip show features videos by gay and lesbian artists ranging from such mainstream acts as Ellon John, Kny Genrtre,. Brad Lamm, onetime host of "Party Talk," hosts the minute video showcase, which airs every Tuesday at midnight. Executive producer Michael Muffoletto says his biggest challenge has been to fill the programming pipeline with quality clips by gay artists.

In many cases, artists without clips have sub- mitted raw footage to Muffoletto. Interviews, record reviews, and social vignettes regarding the arts and music scene will be inter- spersed with at least five videos per show, he says. A "vintage video of the week" feature will highlight clips by Queen, the New York Dolls, and others. Requests at The Box for the late Eazy-E's video "Eazy-er Said Than Dunn" multiplied in the weeks following the art- ist's untimely death, re- ports the network's music director, Eric Martinez.

Wayne Isham is now directing for Santa Monica, Ca- lif. In- dependent directors' representative K. Jive, Mercury, and Tommy Boy. The panel will be held from p. You're Sorry Now 15 Stevie Wonder. TN 1 Garth Brooks. Retried Dreams t 3 The MaverKhs. Ijfistick ProTiises 5 Tracy Byrd. The Box 10 Joa omit. Amy's Back In Aus. Summer's Comin 20 Win Berry. Black Dresses 31 DoufSlone. Didn't Have Yoj 35 Marty Stuart. Three 47 Usa Brokop. One Ot Those Nights 48 Slienandoah. Texas Tomado Continuous prof ramming Broadway. Liw Forever 21 Melnsa Elheridge. Caiilomia 23 Green Day.

Lasi Goodbye 26 Hole. White Lines 34 Da Brat. BL-ddv holly 46 Jamte Walters. Hold On 47 Stone Temple Pilots. Lipstick Promises 9 Little Teias. Oeja Blue 16 Joe Drffw. Fall in Love 22 Mjiy Chapki Carpenkr. Oh King Richard Terry Radigan. NY 1 Sheryl Crow. Strong EKxjgti 2 Melissa Etheridfe.

On Bended Knee 9 Diorme Farrit. Take A Bow 11 Des'ree. You Gotta Be 12 Tom Petty. Barji And Blame 16 John Meflencamp. Wild Night 17 Gloria Eslafan. Haw It Fees 25 Jen Secada. Mind Blowin' or Dirty Bastard. Ask Of You Mary J. Water Runs Dry Bush. Dance Of Sarasvati Martin Page. I Can't Gel Started Mwerkks. Truth Untold Colltctivc Soul. She's A River Annie Lennox. On Bended Knee EMf. Wonder Why King James. Hard Road Young DIsdples. Unrversal Hearltieat Shudder To Think. Monster Magnet, NegasodK; Teenage Fossil, Moon The Primllivtt.

CA Soul For Real. CanOy Rain Mairy J. Christie's new record company, added to the fii'enzy by releasing the group's new "Dido and Aeneas" with Veronique Jens, and its second recording of Charpentier's "Medee," a superb, complete three-plus hours rendition with Lorraine Hunt and Mark Padmorc. If the orchestra and chorus were as extraordinary in those sessions as they were in Brooklyn, it should be quite a disc: The large piece band turned in.

The member chorus provided some of the liveliest moments of the evening one standout was "Hither, this way," in which a good spirit and a wicked spirit compete for Arthur's trust. Still, it's hard to make theatrical sease of "King Arthur," which is actually a hybrid with plot-advancing text by John Diydcn for the characters, played by actors, and music for expansion and divertissement.

The fiill shows are too expensive to tour widely, and more people should get a chance to see as well as hear how exciting these 17th- and 18th- centurj. They certainly draw crowds: Even semistaged, with the text abbreviated and sptiken by two actors instead of nine, the two BAM performances of "Arthur" sold out. Angel, which has an exclusive on the Merchant-Ivory films, put out the "Jef- ferson" soundtrack, which featured a tantalizing snippet of Sacchini's opera "Dardanus. More old music will hit the screen when Toiy Palmer finishes his tercentenary salute, "Purcell," a minute film, slated for international TV and video distribution by Natwnal Vkieo Corp.

The young pianist Helene Gnmaud and conductor Kent Nagano have both joined up. Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust," out in June for the label. Erato is also plea- sed to repori that organist Marie-Claire Alain, a label stahvari for 40 years, has signed her first exclusive contract with Erato. And William Christie will be getting a chance to expand his horizons beyond the obscure Baroque with Erato: A new record label, Radio Vox, has beai foimed in Miami by four industry veterans: Tlie label recently issued its first release, a maxi-single by Fulano de Tal titled "Revolucidn.

All three songs are ctmtained on Se- laia's Oammy-nominated album "Amor Prohihido,'' wtuch tojjped Tlie BilUxxard Latin 50 this week, followed cloeely by three titles that re-entered the top Following long and delicate ne- gotiations, French record industry organization SNEP, which owns and operates the charts, and its in- die counterpart, UPFI, have fi- nally reached a one-year agree- ment with state broadcaster France Television and radio group Europe 1 Communications.

An alternative option consid- ered by the record industry was to forge a deal with a combination of the NRJ radio network and the M6 commercial television station. Videomufiic, makes its widefy expeicted shift to geieralist broadcasting in the near future Billboard, Mardi Sebastiano Mussini, responsible for MTV Europe's Italian operations, con- firms that local productions are on the agenda. Cur- rently MTV Europe Ls relayed for six hours every afternoon on a string of lo- cal TV stations in the north and center regions of the country. Six hours is the maximum allowed for syndicated re- broadcasts under Italian law.

He says, "Although we are sad at Vkleomusic's imminent de- mise, it does mean that our main com- petitor in the market has gone, and we are also exploring the possibility of a collaboration with Videorausic's ex- presktent, Marialina Marcuoci. Last week, Marcucd said she had wanted to maintain the musk profile for the net- work and commented to the Italian press that she was just two vreeksi away from selling a minority stake in the channel to MTV owner Viacom or a con- sortium of record companies including BMG, PolyGram, and Warner Music, when the Cecchi Gori deal was pushed through. Mussini says, "As the only remaining music TV outlet in the coimtry, w-e have a responsibilily to the consumer, inde- pendent producers, and the record in- dustry in Italy to promote domestic pro- ductions.

The ruling put an end to the tj-ade in concert recordings made at shows in Germany. BPW chairman Thomas Stein says X lioe and customs made sane vaftdd on the flow of imports, but he notes that the copyright law has greatly helped stem the flow at its source. The deal means that the singles and albums charts will be broad- cast on TV channel France 2 — on a weekly late-night show Fridays, with an edited version Satur- days — and on France 3, which will carry a minute chart rundown.

Radio Europe 1 will present an overview of the singles and albums charts on Saturdays the show is tentatively called "Le Top" , with mentions during the week in its general music shows. The albums chart will be featured Sundays on Europe 2. The TV shows should be on the air in May. The decision ends the long ab- sence of the charts from the broad- cast media. SNEP then took over and produced the new computerized sales charts but without getting any media expo- sure. Sources suggest that SNEP president Zelnik preferred to go with France Television under the new arrangement rather than the privately owned M6 — which al- ready has strong musical con- tent — in an attempt to rebuild bridges with the main TV chan- nels, which now carry virtually no music.

In addition, having two TV and two radio outlets broadcasting the charts adds to their impact. Rec- ord companies have complained that since Europe 1 and Canal -f stopped airing the charts in I think it is a good deal that will increase music exposure at a time when record producers are really concerned about the status of music on TV. French charts are based on sales data compiled from a representative sample of stores.

Brooks, whose Irish album sales have topped , units, picked up his best country act award in person. The Cranberries, who were seen on videotape, were named best Irish act. Whelan's "River- dance" was single of the year, and Boyzone was dubbed best new Irish act. Clapton and Crow led the fleld as most popular international art- ists. The industry award, which rec- ognizes an outstanding contribu- tion to the music business, ac- knowledged the Chieftains' year career.

The Peppers withdrew a day after tickets went on sale, citing singer Anthony Kiedis' illness that has report- edly delayed recording of their new al- bum. TTiat's not the case. Alternative Nation has a wider appeal, and I intend to present it for the next five, 10 years as a two-day festi- val. Frontier's tours this year include R. Originally to he the Australian leg of Lollapalooza until negotiations fell through.

The acts will play over four stages. Among the other issues, Gudinski and West are also at odds over whether the Australian bands appearing at Al- ternative Nation will be blacklisted from Big Day Out. To manage this new division, Alber- tini has appointed London-based Phi- lippe Desindes, who is currently vice- president of marketing, continental Eiurope, for PolyGram International. He wUl relocate to Paris by Wednesday Other labels will be added, either through acquisi- tion or licensing, to create what Alber- tini calls "a federation of labels.

The la- bel has been reasonably successful in breaking new Anglo-American acts — including British bands Jamiroquai and OasLs — but it has not been as suc- cessiiil with local acts. Squatt did, though, score two of 's best-selling singles: Desindes started in at Polydor. He was pro- moted in to general manager of Ariola France when RCA and Ariola were separated into two different structures. He moved to PolvGram in London in Oritii, 53, replaces Takeo Kasahara, who will now serve as chairman of Poly- dor K.

Orita's appointment took effect March Orita's move to Polydor brings his career full circle, since he worked for Polj'dor Here from until But like other Japanese industries, the record business here appears to be abandoning that system. Founded in by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox. While Harvey is now signed directly to Island Records, the creative edge of Too Pure has remained sharp, with a roster of compelling yet unconventional British acts such as Moon- shake, Laika, Minxus. The deal is also an example of the difficult path that British indies must sometimes follow to find a suitable partner in the U.

Too Pure previously had struck licens- ing agreements for indiridual art- ists with different labels — Seefeel through Caroline, Moonshake with Matador, and Th' Faith Healers with Elektra. So when Roberts traveled to Los Angeles last summer to discuss new opportunities for his acts, he had reservations about striking a deal for the Too Pure roster with any single company. He was won over, he says, by Geiger's enthusiasm for Too Pure, the maverick reputation of Rick Rubin and American Recordings, and the strong recommendation of mutual friends such as Robin Hur- ley in the L. Geiger acknowledges that even at a time of strength in the market for music labeled alternative rock.

Too Pure's artiste remain solidly outside the mainstream. The first step for American Recordings was to distribute 4, imported copies of a Too Pure sampler album to col- lege radio in the U. Marc still has very the U. Too Pure has tapped Nick West, who has previ- ously worked with Fiction and Ra- dioactive Records, as senior mar- keting and promotion executive for Too Pure, based in the office of American Recordings in L.

Top election officials in states where Trump alleged voter fraud have rebuked his assertions , calling them "unsubstantiated. Before the election, Trump and his surrogates openly predicted that it would be " rigged. Although Trump won the Electoral College to to beat Democrat Hillary Clinton , he trails by more than 2 million votes nationwide. For its part, Clinton's campaign said it would participate in the recount despite having found no "actionable evidence" of impropriety in the polling.

More from Business Insider: Aaron Rodgers tossed two touchdown passes as the Green Bay Packers snapped their four-game losing streak with a win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday. Rodgers hit wide receiver Davante Adams for both of his touchdown passes to resurrect the Packers' outside hopes of forcing their way into the playoff picture following a disappointing campaign.

The Eagles' defeat left them rooted to the bottom of the NFC East at although they remain in contention for a wild-card berth. The Packers had opened up a lead at half-time and were up after both teams began the second half with an exchange of field goals. However the game swung decisively Green Bay's way when Eagles lineman Fletcher Cox was penalised for roughing the passer on an incomplete third down pass.

That gave Green Bay an automatic first down and they duly rammed home the advantage to score through fullback Aaron Ripkowski on a one-yard run. A further field goal put the Packers ahead, a lead the Eagles never looked like overhauling as the clock wound down in the fourth quarter. Rodgers finished with 30 completions from 39 attempts to pass yards. Rookie counterpart Carson Wentz started brightly but faded as Green Bay took control in the second half.

Wentz completed 24 of 36 passes for yards, but threw for no touchdowns and one interception. Packers beat Eagles, end losing streak pressherald. Rodgers leads Packers past Eagles rssfeeds. Jovenel Moise apparently wins presidential vote article. Jovenel Moise Wins Presidential Vote wsj. The photograph was printed in newspapers on Tuesday and showed the memo contained the lines: May has promised to trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union by the end of March but has so far been tight-lipped about what Britain is seeking to achieve in the two-years of talks which will then follow.

Did this staffer just accidentally reveal Britain's Brexit strategy? Is this the UK's Brexit strategy? If confirmed by the Senate, Price will play a central role in Republican efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare. I am proud to nominate him as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Last year Trump said U. Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Washington raised their state minimum wages in November, and labor groups are considering campaigns in states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ SEIU in New York, said Trump won the election by promising jobs for voters who were not able to see a way toward success for themselves or their children. Protesters also are likely to criticize Trump's promise to deport up to 3 million undocumented workers with criminal records and his treatment of women and Muslims. McDonald's said in a statement that it invests in its workers by helping them to earn degrees and on-the-job skills. Franchisees, who own most U. Why 'Calexit' after Trump win probably won't happen article.

The 26th annual Independent Filmmaker Project award ceremony on Monday night is widely seen as the start of the U. Casey Affleck won Best Actor for his portrayal of Lee Chandler in "Manchester by the Sea," a janitor whose solitary life is upended when his brother dies and names him guardian of his teenage son Patrick, played by Lucas Hedges. Hedges, 19, praised screenwriter and director Kenneth Longergan for creating an accurate teenage character. The film details the life of an African-American boy as he comes to terms with adolescence and his sexuality during three defining moments of his life.

Winners of the Gotham Best Feature award have gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards for the past two years. Big night for 'Moonlight' latimes. As world leaders bent over backwards to praise Cuban president Fidel Castro — a dictator so brutal that his own people braved the sea in makeshift rafts hoping to make landfall in Florida to escape his island prison — president-elect Donald Trump showed us all why millions of Americans cast votes the way they did on November 8 th.

The president-elect followed his tweet with an extended statement posted on Facebook, unapologetically detailing the utter cruelty of the Castro regime. He concluded his statement by offering a message of hope to the oppressed Cuban people. Keeping his options open, Trump suggested that he plans on renegotiating the Cuban "deal. With a series of statements, Trump and his team sent a strong signal that the next four years will be the nothing like the last eight.

The sitting president failed to even hint at the fact that Castro was a mass murdering thug who once asked the Russians to nuke America. To his credit, Trump was more presidential in one weekend than President Obama has been for his entire tenure. He showed more moral clarity than almost every world leader combined looking at you leftist dictator-lover Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meets Wednesday to discuss output cuts, which it had provisionally agreed in September are needed to boost oil prices. Saudi Arabia, however, has sounded skeptical about the prospects of a deal being firmed up. An agreement is complicated by its rivalry with Iran, which is hesitant to limit its own output as it ramps up production following years of international sanctions.

Investors are also keeping an eye on Italy's popular vote on constitutional changes Dec. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said he will resign in case of a "no" result. New elections, if they are held, could bring to power the Five Star Movement, which has said it wants to hold a referendum on euro membership.

Worries over Italy's referendum loom. The dollar strengthened to Iraq prime minister says his country will cut oil production independent. The Syrian regime continued to pound eastern Aleppo with airstrikes overnight, as its troops tore through the territory in an operation to retake the enclave after more than four years of rebel control. It is likely that thousands more will have no choice but to flee should fighting continue to spread and intensify over the coming days.

Government forces and armed paramilitary groups loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began a renewed push toward eastern Aleppo on November 15, as regime warplanes continued to pound the area to flush out rebels and civilians. They have made rapid territorial gains since entering eastern Aleppo on ground Saturday , taking a huge portion of the northeast.

Their gains drive a wedge through the zone and splits it into two sections. An activist from the Aleppo Media Center said at least 25 people had been killed and many more injured overnight as the regime dropped parachute bombs in the Bab al-Nayreb neighborhood. The last UN rations in Aleppo were distributed on November 13, and UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland warned last week that people in the area were on the brink of starvation. Assad has vowed to take the whole of Aleppo, which has for years been divided between the largely regime-held west and rebel-held east.

The government has besieged the east a number of times, cutting off both the rebels and civilians from the outside world, leaving communities on the brink of starvation -- without sufficient food, clean water, fuel and medical supplies. Others say the rebels forced them to stay. Beginning of the end? Taking all of Aleppo would mark a turning point in the Syrian war -- the city is the last urban rebel stronghold in the country. Seizing it would put the regime back in control of all four major cities. Some observers have suggested it would be the beginning of the end of the uprising that began in A solution to the war has evaded the international community for years.

Russia and the US have both been drawn in, often standing on opposing sides of the conflict. Russia has used its veto power in the UN Security Council several times to shoot down proposed resolutions on the conflict. O'Brien also called for a political solution, saying that "the people of Syria have suffered far too much and for far too long. Westbrook was in scintillating form once more to help the Oklahoma City Thunder overpower the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, bagging his third consecutive triple-double — the 45th of his career.

Westbrook needed just 20 minutes on court to complete his latest masterclass, part of a haul that leaves him averaging triple-double numbers for the season. The year-old finished with 27 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists. Westbrook is now averaging Only one player in NBA history — Robertson in — has ever gone an entire season averaging triple-double numbers.

I like to win and compete at a high level. I do the same thing every year. For the Knicks, Derrick Rose led the scoring with 30 points, seven rebounds and four assists. Kristaps Porzingis added 21 points and Carmelo Anthony chipped in with 18 points. I thought his rebounding, getting to a couple of loose ball plays. When he does that it sends an unbelievable message to our team of his spirit and his fight and the way he competes. Westbrook fuels Thunder over Knicks pressherald. Protesters vow to stay despite evacuation order rss. In the latest twist in the case, Dylann Roof on Monday was allowed to begin representing himself in his federal death penalty trial on dozens of charges including hate crimes and obstruction of religion.

Against his attorneys' advice, Roof sought to act as his own attorney, giving no reason except the constitutional provision governing defendants' right to a speedy trial. The move came as potential jurors began reporting to Charleston's federal courthouse. So far, seven people — all of them white — have been deemed qualified to serve on the panel that will decide Roof's fate. Once 70 are qualified — a process expected to take several weeks — attorneys, and now, Roof himself, will whittle that pool down to a jury of 12, plus six alternates. Qualification initially began three weeks ago but was halted after Roof's legal team questioned his ability to understand the case against him.

After a hasty two-day competency hearing, U. District Judge Richard Gergel last week ruled Roof could stand trial. The judge said Monday that Roof filed his motion to represent himself around midnight, before Monday's court session. During juror qualification, Roof sat at the defense table occasionally conferring with death penalty attorney David Bruck, sometimes looking at papers spread out before him.

He initially registered few objections, agreeing with Gergel about a man's statements that the crime being in a church made it more worrisome to him and also saying a woman's death penalty views made her a good juror. Toward the end of Monday's session, Roof did move to strike a potential juror but gave no reasons for the decision. Roof's self-representation comes months after he offered to plead guilty in exchange for the promise of life in prison. But federal prosecutors have refused to take the death penalty off the table in the June slayings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

Until now, Roof has been represented by one of the nation's most respected capital defenders. Bruck — who kept Susan Smith off South Carolina's death row for sending her car into a lake with her two children strapped inside but couldn't keep a federal jury from sentencing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death last year — slid down one seat and let Roof take the lead chair on Monday. Roof joins a long line of high-profile defendants who acted as their own attorneys, often with poor results. Defendants who act as their own lawyers generally want to bring attention to their causes and publicize their actions.

That almost always runs counter to the advice of lawyers, who urge them not to incriminate themselves. Pro se representation can also lead to uncomfortable courtroom encounters between defendants and their victims or those victims' families if they are questioned by the very person who is accused of shattering their lives.

Nobody believes in your cause and case more than you," Frigenti said. Roof shouted racial insults at the six women and three men he is charged with killing and at the survivors, authorities said. He said he left three people unharmed so they could tell the world the shootings were because he hated black people. Just hours after his arrest, some of the victims' relatives attended Roof's initial court appearance and said they forgave him and would pray for him. If he continues as his own lawyer, Roof could end up questioning those same family members in court. On Monday, about 10 of those relatives sat behind prosecutors.

Some have said they will be in court throughout Roof's trial. Read more of her work at http: Jury qualification continues in Charleston church shooting - News9. BERLIN AP - Germany's foreign intelligence chief is warning of cyberattacks aimed at political destabilization as the country prepares for an election next year, and says evidence suggests Russian involvement in hacking during the U. Bruno Kahl, who leads the Federal Intelligence Service, told Tuesday's edition of daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that his agency knows of "cyberattacks that have no other point than causing political insecurity.

Kahl said he has "indications it comes from those quarters. Germany's election is expected next September, and votes in the Netherlands and France are scheduled earlier in the year. Kahl, whose agency is best known by its German acronym BND, said that Germany isn't alone on the list of target countries. Germany's Federal Office for Information Security said the outage was part of a world-wide attack on internet routers that exploited unsecured maintenance ports. The government's secure communications network was also targeted but protective measures prevented it from being affected, the agency said.

Copyright The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Spy chief adds to warnings of Russian cyber attacks on Germany dailymail. World leaders coming to Cuba to pay tribute to Fidel Castro miamiherald. Tens of thousands pay last respects to Cuba's Castro article. Workers at an aquarium evacuated because of wildfires around Gatlinburg, Tennessee , are concerned about the thousands of animals housed there. However, he said workers were anxious to return to check on the well-being of the 10, animals.

DeSears says the animals should be safe as long as the building has power and doesn't catch fire. When the facility is functioning properly, the animals can survive for 24 hours without human intervention. He said the animals were behaving normally when he left the building. The wildfire set 30 buildings ablaze and forced the evacuation of downtown Gatlinburg and the surrounding area. Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom had proposed holding the vote to effectively oust Zuma at a meeting of the African National Congress's ANC's governing committee over the weekend, Beeld, an Afrikaans-language daily had reported.

But the national executive committee NEC meeting ended without a formal vote, Beeld reported on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the committee had actively decided to keep Zuma through a less formal decision-making process, or if it had just dropped the matter all together. The president's office said Zuma was scheduled to travel to Cuba to attend Fidel Castro's funeral. Zuma's presidency has been plagued by accusations of corruption and the nation's anti-graft watchdog this month asked for a judge to investigate alleged influence-peddling by a wealthy family Zuma has called his friends.

The report by the Public Protector watchdog, released on Nov. Zuma and the Gupta brothers have denied any wrongdoing. The rand fell about 1 percent on Tuesday, reversing Monday's rally to near three-week highs. The currency had gained in the previous session largely after rating agencies Fitch and Moody's affirmed the country's investment-grade credit ratings on Friday and partly due to the no-confidence vote against Zuma.

Some reversal is likely today but expect some of the gains to hold," Rand Merchant Bank analyst John Cairns said in a note. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who is also a member of the NEC, declined to answer questions about the no-confidence debate on Zuma while speaking to media in Johannesburg. He said the affirmation of South Africa's investment grade by Fitch and Moody's showed that the country was doing well despite "political noise With the economy expected to grow by only half a percent this year, South Africa has been racing to avert a downgrade of its sovereign debt to sub-investment status, which would raise its borrowing costs and deter investment.

Separately, the Gupta family asked a court to force a financial regulator to give the family details concerning the closure of its business accounts, which were terminated by four major banks earlier this year. The banks refused to make public their reasons for closing the accounts. Analysts have said the banks were likely prompted by concerns about reputational risk. Africa's Zuma survives attempted ousting digitaljournal. The center, based at James Cook University in Queensland state, found during dive surveys in October and November that the swath north of Port Douglas had lost an average of 67 percent of its shallow-water corals in the past nine months.

Farther south, over the vast central and southern regions that cover most of the reef, scientists found a much lower death toll. The central region lost 6 percent of bleached coral and the southern region only 1 percent. The event was restricted to in-shore reefs around the Queensland coastal city of Townsville, while the destruction affected a much larger area, he said. Scientists expect that the northern region will take at least 10 to 15 years to regain the lost corals. They are concerned that another bleaching event could interrupt that recovery. There have been three extreme mass bleaching events in 18 years on the reef.

In each case, the areas that suffered the worst bleaching were where the water was hottest for the longest period of time. Australia's natural wonder suffers worst ever coral bleaching cnn. Paramedics have confirmed that they are treating 10 passengers for minor injuries, MyGC. Five people are being taken to the hospital for treatment, according to Ten Eyewitness News. Multiple ambulances were called to Gate 32 at the airport, where the injured passengers had gathered. The incident occurred on an international flight which landed at the airport just before 3 p.

A conflicting report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC said that three people are in need of medical attention, two of whom are elderly. There were believed to be 30 passengers on the plane. China Eastern Airlines passengers injured as plane hits turbulence while landing in Sydney scmp. Nov 29 Reuters - Oil futures slipped on Tuesday as Iran and Iraq remained at loggerheads with Saudi Arabia over an oil production cut before a long-anticipated meeting of OPEC ministers the following day.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said in September it hoped to cut oil output to Analysts' belief that the group would finalise a deal, if only to save face, has been eroded in recent days after Saudi Arabia said oil markets would balance next year even without an OPEC output cut, sparking a last-ditch attempt to clinch a deal at Wednesday's Vienna gathering.

Forecasts for oil prices now vary widely. This suggests that price risk is likely skewed to the upside heading into Wednesday. Volatility is set to be high in the oil market in the days ahead. An agreement of some sort is more likely than not to emerge this week as there are intense financial, political and credibility pressures on OPEC to strike a deal even if it is flawed. If OPEC's present production level were maintained, this would remain the case until mid The market would then be balanced only at the end of , assuming that OPEC does not further increase its output.

Yet experience in recent months shows that this is unlikely, especially since Libya and Nigeria are likely to grab every opportunity to raise their currently subdued production to a more normal level. Once the dust settles it is less the size of the cut and more the actual production level that it could imply that really matters. Do not take an announcement of a headline cut of 1 mbpd at face value. It could still imply an OPEC production level considerably in excess of 33 mbpd, depending on developments in Libya and Nigeria and the speed and rigour of compliance.

This latter volume is more or less in line with our expected annual supply growth for of , bpd but with the recent surge in October, Russia has in fact already reached this higher production level, indicating that any freeze would simply be just that - holding production steady at the recent strong level.

However, the risk of a disappointment is much bigger. Additionally, OPEC would lose jawboning power immediately and be on its way to dissolution while members are locked in a crude production arms race. But the storms also brought high winds, which toppled dead trees and could pose a threat to firefighters, authorities said.

Experts predicted that rains Tuesday from one storm system would not be enough to end the relentless drought that's spread across several states and provided fuel for the fires. The storms early Tuesday appeared to be taking aim at the nearly 28,acre Rough Ridge Fire in north Georgia and the nearly 25,acre Rock Mountain Fire that began in Georgia and then spread deep into North Carolina. In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, emergency officials said a wildfire had set 30 structures ablaze, including a story hotel, and was at the edge of the Dollywood theme park. Mandatory evacuations were underway for areas in and around Gatlinburg, including the south part of Pigeon Forge, where Dolly Parton's theme park is, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener said in a news release Monday night.

TV news broadcasts showed residents streaming out of town just as rain started to wet roads. Workers at an aquarium evacuated because of wildfires around Gatlinburg were concerned about the thousands of animals housed there. The rain forecast "puts the bull's-eye of the greatest amounts right at the bull's-eye of where we've been having our greatest activity," said Dave Martin, deputy director of operations for fire and aviation management with the southern region of the U.

The projected rainfall amounts "really lines up with where we need it," Martin said Monday. It will provide some relief but won't end the drought — or the fire threat, they said. Drought conditions will likely persist, authorities said. The problem is that rainfall amounts have been 10 to 15 inches below normal during the past three months in many parts of the South, authorities said. Yes, but we have a long ways to go. In Mississippi , trees were reported downed in nearly 20 counties across the state. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph with gusts of more than 50 mph were reported and more than 2 inches of rain fell in some areas.

Power outages peaked at more than 23, statewide in Mississippi. Powerlines downed by winds sparked grass fires in four counties, said Greg Flynn, a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. The storms moved across Alabama on Monday night and fell on Georgia during the overnight hours.

High wind warnings were issued for mountainous areas in northern parts of Georgia. In South Carolina, the stormy forecast was giving hope to firefighters battling a blaze in the northwest corner of the state. More rain was expected Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Storms take aim at large wildfires in South rssfeeds. President Maithripala Sirisena said he has already sent a message to Trump, seeking his support. Human Rights Council to investigate allegations of war crimes against government troops and the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in the civil war, which ended in But Sri Lanka, in a resolution co-sponsored with the U.

Sri Lankan soldiers are accused of deliberately targeting civilians and hospitals, blocking food and medicine for civilians trapped in the war zone. The rebels were accused of recruiting child soldiers, endangering civilians by holding them as human shields and killing those trying to flee their control. From the time the war ended, the U. Relations with the U. It is the first time the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen has allowed local and international media to visit the island and report on the joint operation since Tsai took office in May. It is also the first time an interministerial humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation has been held in waters off Taiping Island, or Itu Aba, the largest naturally formed land feature of the Spratly Archipelago, located some 1,km south of Taiwan.

The Coast Guard Administration said in a statement that the exercise would help strengthen its capabilities in medical evacuation and maritime search and rescue efforts. The joint exercise, which involved three aircraft and eight ships, simulated a fire aboard a foreign-flagged cargo ship passing by Taiping Island with injured personnel jumping overboard.

Both Tsai and her predecessor, former President Ma Ying-jeou, have vowed to transform Taiping Island into an international rescue centre. Since marines were withdrawn from Taiping and replaced by the CGA in , 70 humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions have been conducted, with about lives saved. Because the Philippines is developing closer relations with China, the United States does not react to the moves Taiwan takes in the South China Sea as strongly as it did when Ma was president, thus making Taiwan an increasingly more important strategic partner to the US and its security ally, Japan, Fan said.

Both the Ma and Tsai administrations organised trips to Taiping Island this year to mark the 70th anniversary of the takeover of Taiping by the Republic of China, the official name of Taiwan, after Japan relinquished sovereignty over the extensive Spratly and Paracel groups following the second world war. Taiwan holds rescue exercise in disputed South China Sea mynorthwest. The president-elect tweeted Saturday that he'd have won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. Not only did he present no evidence to back up those claims - there apparently isn't any.

Asked to provide supporting evidence on Monday, Trump's transition team pointed only to past charges of irregularities in voter registration. There has been no evidence of widespread tampering or hacking that would change the results of the presidential contest, and for good reason, experts said. For one, it would be highly impractical.

The nation's election system is decentralized, a patchwork of state laws whose differences would be nearly impossible to target on a large scale, said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. Doug Lewis, who headed the nonprofit Election Center for more than two decades. Interest groups, bloggers and others across the political spectrum keep anecdotal lists of instances of election fraud, he said, but "when each side is forced to come up with factual examples where that has happened, where they have to name names The AP's vote-counting operations in California, Virginia and New Hampshire used locally hired workers to gather vote totals from local jurisdictions.

In some states, the news agency also collected votes from secretaries of state or state election boards. The AP, which called Democrat Hillary Clinton the winner in all three states, said its vote count operation found no significant differences between the county-by-county vote totals and those released statewide on election night in California and Virginia. In New Hampshire, the AP's vote totals were reported directly to the news agency by town clerks and were verified by AP in most towns before the count was completed. The totals also were certified by New Hampshire's secretary of state.

Trump's charge that he actually won the popular vote if the "millions of people who voted illegally" had not been counted mimics one posted on Infowars. Trump's win in Michigan, certified by state election officials on Monday, gave the Republican an additional 16 electoral votes, bringing his total to , to Clinton's There is recount drama resulting from the election, but it's not being initiated by Trump loyalists.

Instead, Trump won all three and with them the electoral votes needed to win the White House. Clinton's campaign is supporting the Wisconsin recount. Stein, too, hasn't provided evidence of voting irregularities. She says "cyber hacking" affected the vote outcomes in those states. In Michigan, Stein's lawyer notified election officials Monday that she will file a recount petition on Wednesday. Trump would have seven days to file objections to her request. Trump won presidency but lost popular vote - News9.

Eighth graders in the United States improved their scores in math over the last four years on the global exam. Scores for science, however, were flat. In fourth grade, scores were unchanged in the math and science tests, according to results released Tuesday. The United States placed 10th in fourth-grade science and in eighth-grade math. In eighth-grade science, the U. It ranked 14th for fourth-grade math, just behind Portugal and Kazakhstan.

Globally, results from the exams showed achievement trends were up — with more countries registering increases than decreases in math and science for both grades. Gender gaps were another highlight. They have narrowed over the last 20 years, especially in science at the eighth-grade level. While the short-term trend for American students overall wasn't glowing, scores over the last 20 years have improved considerably. Math and science scores for eighth graders had sharp gains, as did scores for fourth-grade math.

Science scores for fourth graders showed more modest gains over the last two decades. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers , lauded progress by the nation's students. The study "affirms that when there is an alignment between teachers and students, instruction and standards, and resources — giving teachers the flexibility to teach what students need to know and do — we see success," said Weingarten.

More than , students around the world took part in the exams. US students lag peers in East Asia, Russia in math, science article. Single mother Chanelle Higgins, 30, was paralysed from the waist down when she and a friend were run over near Scandals nightclub in West Norwood, south-east London. Scotland Yard believes the assailant mounted the kerb and hit them while trying to flee an "altercation" further up Norwood High Street. Ms Higgins has spoken of the impact on her life in an appeal to trace the driver of the dark grey BMW 3 Series who struck at around 4.

I can't move my legs and I only have limited usage of my hands. What type of person could run someone over and leave them for dead? What kind of evil person could do that? I just can't believe that the person is just living their life while I'm going through hell. It's just not right. Her friend, who escaped with minor injuries, is seen on the footage checking on Ms Higgins seconds after they were hit. Pc Laura Travers said: These two women were simply on a night out to see friends and now their lives have changed completely. Anyone with information should contact Pc Travers on or Crimestoppers anonymously on After he came to power in , he showed a preference for Mercedes-Benz Was Fidel Castro a revolutionary leader or a tyrant?

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has said she would quit following public outrage over a Rasputin-type confidante who wielded government power. The leader's longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, who, despite having no official role in government, allegedly had a say in policy decisions and exploited her presidential ties to bully companies into giving large sums of money to her businesses and foundations.

Choi has been indicted with extortion, leakage of confidential documents and other charges, but the President cannot face prosecution while still in office. It has sparked mass public outrage in South Korea, prompting Park to say if parliament can come up with a plan for a 'safe transfer of governments', she would step down. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she'll resign in her latest attempt to fend off impeachment efforts and massive street protests amid prosecution claims that a corrupt confidante wielded government power from the shadows.

Opponents immediately called Park's conditional resignation offer a stalling tactic, and analysts said her steadfast denial that she has done anything wrong could embolden her enemies. The country's largest opposition party, the Minjoo Party, said it would not let Park's 'ploy to avoid impeachment' interfere with a planned vote on impeachment on Friday. Park, who did not take questions from reporters after her live address to the nation, said she will 'leave the matters about my fate, including the shortening of my presidential term, to be decided by the National Assembly,' referring to parliament.

But some saw Park's speech as a clear effort to avoid leaving office, despite the resignation language. One clue that she was trying to buy time, said Yul Shin, a politics professor at Seoul's Myongji University, was her comment on 'shortening' the presidential term, which he said would require a time-consuming constitutional amendment. Park is to end her single five-year term in early