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Why is it that Tamron Hall of MSNBC can't bring herself to note that these are the people who would be "Factory Workers" - the REPLACEMENT WORK after the industrial jobs left BUT THE PROGRESSIVES GAINED DOMINATE POWER IN OUR BIG CITIES are now "McJobs".
Someone please explain to me why INDUSTRIALISTS are expected to PRODUCE JOBS but the PROGRESSIVES who retain the loyalties of THE LEAST OF THESE, now controlling these MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ZONES are excused from their failure to create SKILLED JOBS commensurate with the demands for goods and services that the marketplace that they have political control over.
When You Don't Capture All Of The VALUABLES That Have Been Transacted Over Time - YOU CAN'T HELP But To Believe That Those Who GIVE "The Least Of These" A VOICE TODAY - Should Be THANKED Rather Than Have A RETRAINING ORDER Placed Upon Them For Their Previous Theft.
Long story short - YOU DON'T HAVE TO "DEVELOP PEOPLE AS PROMISED".
You only need to AFFIRM WHAT THEY BELIEVE and they will show appreciation that you gave them voice in the media.
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Toronto ? The buzz has been building for years, starting as names like Tristan Thompson, Cory Joseph, Andrew Wiggins and many more got whispered about, Tweeted about, YouTubed and ranked when they were in their early teens.
Canada is coming.
The buzz got a jolt just over a year ago when Steve Nash came on board with Canada Basketball as the general manager of men?s senior national team. The hum got louder when Anthony Bennett became the first Canadian to be taken first overall in the NBA draft last month and Wiggins became the most talked about non-NBA player in the world this past year and the leading candidate to be the No.1 pick in the NBA draft in 2014.
Sports Illustrated noticed. ESPN has noticed. The world has noticed.
?This really is the Golden Age of Canadian basketball,? said Nash on Monday as he and his hand-picked head coach Jay Triano announced the 18-man training camp roster for the first team that will compete for Canada internationally since he took charge of the senior men?s team last May. ?We?re thriving. We have talent, potential and depth at every age group.?
On Friday arguably the most gifted group of Canadian basketball players yet assembled ? true even despite a few key absences ? will begin training camp to prepare for the FIBA Americas Championship in Caracas, Venezuela August 30th ? Sept. 11th.
Canada is coming, there is no questioning that. The question of course is when and where exactly Canada will end up and how to keep the pot simmering without turning the heat up too high or too soon.
Now, finally, the hype hits the floor, and everyone will get to find out if the Golden Age will translate into an international medal of any kind ? it?s been a while, after all.
The Canadian senior men?s team won silver at the 1936 Olympics, the first time basketball was included. Fair to say the international talent pool has gotten deeper in the past 80 years.
Canada?s best result at a major global competition since is a fourth place finish at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and again at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where the field was weakened by the Eastern Bloc boycott. Canadian men last appeared in the Olympics in 2000 when Nash was still playing for the team and Triano was in his first stint as coach. Their most recent World Championship result was 22nd out of 24 teams in 2010. There is nowhere to go but up.
A top-four finish is required for Canada to qualify for the World Championships in Spain next summer ? considered a key step in getting a young Canadian team crucial international experience in advance of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Efforts are being made to keep things in perspective ? the 2018 Worlds or 2020 Olympics are better bets for a Canadian podium appearance given how young Canada?s best projected players are now ? but that will only get harder as more NBA talent comes on stream.
?We?re desperate to qualify (for the Worlds next summer) but we may not,? says Nash. ?But no matter what we have to stick to the plan and the plan is to develop our players, to form a chemistry, to give them experience at an international level and the best way to do that is to qualify and give them another experience next summer.
?But the truth is it?s going to be a real challenge (this summer),? Nash said. ?We have a very young team, a team without a lot of international experience and a team with very little experience playing together.?
Nash is right. Canada may not qualify this summer and focusing on the process and the longer term goals for the program is sound thinking.
The only problem in his logic is that Canada should qualify for the Worlds this summer and failing to do so would be a considerable sideways step, if not a backwards one for the program. Part of Nash?s job is raise private money for the program, an easier task if momentum is building. Playing next summer means more experience sooner for young players that badly need it and badly need to play together. The powerhouse USA won?t be at the tournament as they have already qualified for the Worlds. Stalwarts such as Argentina and Brazil having aging cores and won?t be sending many of their top players. The field is open.
Among the 18 players invited to training camp are four players who will be on NBA rosters in the 2013-14 season ? Thompson, the emerging power forward with the Cleveland Cavaliers; Joseph who backed up Tony Parker with the San Antonio Spurs on their run to the NBA Finals; veteran reserve big Joel Anthony of the Miami Heat and Andrew Nicholson who just finished his rookie season with the Orlando Magic. Two others ? Andy Rautins and Kris Joseph have recent NBA experience while the likes of Carl English, Levon Kendall and Jermaine Anderson are veteran pros with experience in top leagues in Europe and competing for Canada overseas.
It?s the foundation of a pretty good team, at least on paper.
?Back in 2000 we had two NBA players ? we had Steve and we had (since retired) Todd MacCulloch and we were like, ?man, these guys are great? and we built around them,? said Triano, who helped coach that group to a 5-2 record in Sydney and within a whisker of a medal. ?Now we have so many other options. The depth in our country is great.?
It would greater still if Bennett, the first overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers wasn?t recuperating from shoulder surgery, Kelly Olynyk of the Boston Celtics, taken 13th overall, wasn?t on the shelf with plantar fasciitis, Los Angeles Lakers centre Robert Sacre hadn?t declined an invitation to camp and Wiggins, the 18-year-old phenom set to attend the University of Kansas, hadn?t decided to use the summer to get ready for college and his push to justify projections that have him going first overall next season.
It should make for a competitive training camp in advance of exhibition games against Jamaica on August 8th and 10th in Toronto as Triano tries to get the roster to 12 for Caracas.
?At one point I said to Steve, man, this is not an easy job. It used to be we had a hard time convincing NBA players to play for our country and now we?re going to have to cut an NBA player,? said Triano.
?And Steve goes: ?that?s great? and I?m like ?not for me, I don?t want to be that guy? But that?s where we are, and it?s still going to be tough to find playing time for players who play in the NBA. And that?s one of the things we?re going to talk about. Some of these guys are going to have to make a sacrifice for the team and for their country and take a little bit of a different role than what they maybe expect because of who they are and where they come from.?
The buzz has been building for years and the best may yet be to come, but at last the future of Canada Basketball can get started.
Source: http://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/grange-canada-basketball-full-of-hope/
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Jenkins names Massey to position
Buy This PhotoMonticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins is shown with his girlfriend, Rochelle Massey, in 2011. He appointed her to a village trustee position Monday.DOMINICK FIORILLE/Times Herald-Record
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MONTICELLO ? Rochelle Massey was sworn in Monday as Monticello's newest trustee.
Mayor Gordon Jenkins introduced his longtime live-in girlfriend as his appointee to the seat vacated by now-convicted felon T.C. Hutchins.
Jenkins all but confirmed Friday that he planned to put Massey on the board until a special election in March.
Jenkins has been mercilessly ridiculed on Facebook since rumors emerged last week that he was contemplating appointing her to the $6,588 annual position.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion," Jenkins told a small crowd. "If anybody has an issue, question or anything, please come to my office and I will address any issue you have "? I won't bite you. Don't be afraid of me."
Reaction to the appointment on Sullivan County social media sites has been overwhelmingly negative.
Aside from their status as domestic partners, the two were arrested together at Jenkins' store on Broadway in early 2010 and were co-defendants in a felony trademark counterfeiting case.
Both ultimately admitted to selling knock-off Nike shoes and other items, pleading guilty to misdemeanors. They were fined.
At the 5 p.m. specially called meeting on Monday, reaction was subdued. Massey came forward and was sworn in by Clerk Janine Gandy.
Other board members didn't speak about the appointment. Trustee Carmen Rue, the mayor's fiercest critic, later during the meeting stood up from her seat and lambasted Jenkins over his handling of the budget process. She didn't mention Massey sitting three seats from her.
"It was the mayor's appointment," Trustee Larissa Bennett said. "We didn't have a say in the matter. It doesn't matter if I was comfortable or not. It was his appointment."
John Snowden, a contractor and the brother of the village's code enforcement officer, said, "I think it is a great idea Rochelle is in there."
Of 25 people at the meeting, only village resident Janette Williams publicly spoke against it. She addressed Massey directly, saying she doubted she could be fair and truthful, or act independently in the interests of village taxpayers.
"He is just doing what the hell he wants," Williams said of Jenkins after the meeting. "I don't think it is right. Everyone here should have questioned that appointment."
Hutchins automatically lost his seat on July 11 when he was convicted by a jury in a felony corruption case of attempting to get his friend hired on the police force.
Jenkins initially indicated that he planned to wait for a special election to fill the seat. But last week he said two other board members were blocking his ability to pay village bills.
"I just want to say I can be a fair person," Massey said in her only comment. "I am a child of God and I will be fair and honest."
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"We have obtained and completed all clearances ? technical and administrative. We are ready to supply the subsidized cooking gas and kerosene from August 1," official sources said here on Tuesday.
They also said the decision has been conveyed to the new Bhutanese government.
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay met with the Indian Ambassador to Bhutan VP Haran at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang (National Assembly Hall) on Monday during which India's decision was conveyed, sources said.
Before the elections, the Indian Oil Corporation discontinued the supply of the subsidized fuel, on technical grounds with officials here maintaining that Bhutan's 10th Plan under which India was providing such assistance expired on June 30.
India's subsidy cut to Bhutan gave rise to reports that the decision was taken in view of government's unhappiness with former prime minister and chief of ruling political party Druk Phuensum Tshogpa Jigme Thinley's proximity with China.
Meanwhile, Haran was introduced to the new Bhutanese Cabinet ministers and as per the press release from the information and media division of the office of the Prime Minister, Tobgay and the Ambassador discussed wide range of issues.
The Ambassador also conveyed government's invitation for the Prime Minister's visit to India which was accepted, and assured that he would make a visit to India at the earliest.
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) won a landslide victory in Bhutan's second national elections held on July 13. The PDP defeated Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) party by winning 32 seats out of the 47 in the National Assembly.
During the campaigning, the rival parties tried to impress upon voters that concerns like India's withdrawal of subsidy on kerosene and cooking gas would be resolved once they form the government.
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LONDON (AP) ? If opera is a dead art form, somebody forgot to tell George Benjamin.
The English composer's new opera, "Written on Skin," has taken the music world by storm, hailed by critics, embraced by audiences and sprouting up in performance seemingly everywhere.
Since its premiere last summer in Aix-en-Provence, France, it's been staged in London; Amsterdam; Toulouse, France; Vienna, and, most recently Munich, where a sell-out crowd cheered wildly after the last of three performances at the Prinzregententheater on Saturday night.
"The best opera written over the last 20 years," was the assessment of critic Renaud Machard in Le Monde last July. Wrote Alex Ross in the New Yorker magazine this spring: "Even the composer's most committed admirers are a little shocked. 'Written on Skin' feels like the work of a genius unleashed."
Curiously, for a work that many think may help point toward the future of opera, it's in some ways a deliberately backward-looking piece.
Based on the legend of a 13th century troubadour, the libretto by playwright Martin Crimp tells of a nobleman, called the Protector; his young wife, Agnes; and an artist ? known as the Boy ? whom he hires to create a book illustrating his greatness. In those days before the printing press, manuscripts were painted by applying gold and other metals to parchment made from animal skin, hence the literal meaning of the title.
The plot moves swiftly to its tragic conclusion: Agnes and the Boy become lovers; the Protector learns of the affair, murders his rival and feeds his heart to his wife. Still proclaiming her love for the Boy, she leaps from a balcony to her death.
Benjamin had collaborated with Crimp on his first opera, the chamber piece "Into the Little Hill," which premiered in 2006. He recalled how they settled on the subject for "Written on Skin," which was a commission from the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
"Bernard (Foccroulle, the festival's head) asked us to please situate it somewhere on the soil of Provence," Benjamin said. "Martin's daughter happened to be studying French medieval literature, and her professor came up with this story."
Both men found it appealing. "The strangeness is what attracted me," Benjamin said. "The strangeness and the simplicity."
Those terms could well be applied to Benjamin's score, which uses a large orchestra with some unusual instruments like glass harmonica, viola da gamba and bongos. "The idea," he said, "is to make an orchestral radiance to suggest the art of illumination."
The libretto takes a story that's already 800 years old and distances it still further by framing it as a tale told by angels who make frequent references to modern-day events. In addition, the characters speak of themselves in the third person and often utter their own stage directions.
Why use these multiple framing devices, instead of letting the plot unfold in a more traditional way?
"I couldn't have done a straightforward narrative," Benjamin said during an interview at his house in the Maida Vale neighborhood of London.
"I wanted to tell a story very directly because I think that's incredibly important in theater," he said, "but also I couldn't use naturalistic dialogue, because in the age of the movies, when I go to many new operas today I always think: 'Why are they singing?'
"Opera isn't the naturalistic medium it was in the 19th century," he continued. "Movies have done something to it. So you have to acknowledge that . and this is a terribly simple technique, just putting things at a little distance."
Perhaps counter-intuitively, Benjamin said that for him, the artificiality had a liberating effect on his composing: "It allowed me to just forget about the issue and maybe be more spontaneous than I would be."
As an example he cited a moment that comes a half-hour into the opera, which runs about 95 minutes and is performed without intermission.
"It's a pretty impassioned love scene," Benjamin said. "If it was conventional text, like a movie or a play, I believe I would cringe. It wouldn't seem right. It wouldn't seem authentic. So for me, this very simple technique opened up my music completely. Made it possible."
The result in the scene he mentioned is immensely powerful. As the voices of Agnes (soprano Barbara Hannigan) and the Boy (counter-tenor Lestyn Davies) intertwined in the Munich performance, their eerie harmonies carried a visceral erotic charge.
Benjamin, 53, said it took him just under three years to compose the score. During that time he stayed virtually locked in his second-floor study, leaving only to fulfill a few professional commitments and to walk in a nearby park.
"I'm very hermetic," he said. "I can't hear my music in my head if I'm distracted. I can't invent a world and live within it."
For now, Benjamin's life is in part taken up with the burgeoning demand for "Written on Skin." On Aug. 12, he'll conduct the opera's U.S. premiere, a concert performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts. In September, he'll attend rehearsals for a new production in Bonn, Germany. Paris follows in November, and the first U.S. staged production will come in 2015.
But sooner or later, he'll have to retreat again to his work room. He and Crimp have a new commission for a piece to premiere at London's Royal Opera House in 2018. He said they are still discussing subjects.
Such an investment of time and energy suggests that Benjamin is optimistic about the possibilities for new opera.
"There have been numerous books written about opera as a dead form, and there is a certain train of thought to say yes, it is finished," Benjamin said. "I don't believe that.
"The form will change, as it has in the past. But people will want to sing to each other and will want to tell stories through singing."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/written-skin-operas-masterpiece-124609917.html
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