3 Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Democratize Decision-Making
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Most entrepreneurs start out as solopreneurs, responsible for everything from marketing and product development to accounting. Those who choose the path of entrepreneur likely believe in themselves and their ability to wear many different hats. They're comfortable being the architect of their success.
However, every entrepreneur reaches the point where if they want to continue to scale the business, they must take on new hires and delegate certain aspects of the business. For entrepreneurs who are used to operating on their own, giving up control can be a challenging transition.
Related: 7 Rules for Entrepreneurs to Delegate Effectively
But the alternative is worse: If an entrepreneur is constantly wrapped up in the day-to-day minutiae of the business, they don't have an opportunity to fully take a step back, think about things from a macro level, and come up with new ideas and strategies to successfully move forward. Most entrepreneurs, for better or for worse, feel capable of performing many different functions. And while that confidence can be what pushes someone to go into business for themselves in the first place, it can also create blind spots.
Entrepreneurs, no matter which stage of growth their business is in, must be prepared to eventually delegate work to their employees and democratize decision-making. The arguments in favor of doing so fall into three broad areas:
1. Better outcomes
Delegating the day-to-day work to the people who are closest to the action — either those who are most knowledgeable about a given topic or those who have the most direct contact with customers or end-users — drives better-informed decisions and creates more value for the organization. Allowing employees to make decisions about the workstreams for which they are responsible frees up time for entrepreneurs to spend on strategy and other value-added business matters.
However, empowering employees isn't just about delegating decision-making authority; it's also about setting them up for success. To make the best decisions, employees need to understand the desired business outcome and the context in which decisions will be made. They also need to have the right training. Entrepreneurs, in short, need to create a culture of trust — a culture based on the idea that employees will make better decisions if they understand how value is created. Everyone within the business, not just the founder or top employees, needs to be aligned with its key value streams.
Related: How to Delegate Better and Become a Great Leader
The second benefit delegation offers is speed. The fewer people involved in reviewing and approving decisions, the less "bottlenecking" occurs and the faster an organization can move. This is especially true for businesses in the service industry, where empowering employees on the ground to deal first-hand and in real time with issues can mean the difference between a happy or disgruntled customer. But speed and agility are paramount in all industries today. Swift decisions made by those with access to the most pertinent information lead to a shorter time to market or a quicker pivot, which can mean the difference between one company's success … or a competitor's.
3. Better employee engagement
Employees who feel their leaders trust them, who are given autonomy, and who have "skin in the game" tend to be the most highly engaged. Putting the responsibility of decision-making onto individual employees and teams incentivizes them to learn, cultivate and exercise interpersonal "power skills" like empathy, communication and collaboration. It can help create a culture of accountability; as human beings, we are hardwired to want to "pull our own weight" to not let our fellow team members down. Democratizing decision-making also means giving employees permission to determine which work to prioritize and identify which work doesn't add value.
As for how to delegate, entrepreneurs can borrow a practice from Agile project management: the sprint. Agile, which has its roots in software development, consists of sprints — short periods of time during which an individual or team completes a specific task — followed by review sessions that answer the questions: What was done? What are the results? Did it work, or did it not work? What still needs to be done?
As an entrepreneur works to scale their business, they should aim to be involved in most functions on this level, focused on reviewing outputs and making sure their employees remain on the right path forward.
Related: Why Your Employees Want You to Delegate
Delegating work isn't about shirking responsibility; it's about empowering employees to have a sense of ownership over their responsibilities. This approach serves multiple business purposes — not only driving speed and better business outcomes, but also serving as a beacon to attract and retain employees. It allows entrepreneurs to work on their business, not just in their business.
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Monday 9 - Saturday 14 March 2020
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The iconic musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT is coming to The Sands Centre!
Starring Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe McFadden, PRISCILLA is the hilarious adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus bound for the Outback to put on the show of a lifetime. Their epic journey is a heart-warming story of self-discovery, sassiness and acceptance.
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Star cast to be announced.
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Acting is more important for me than fame: Janhvi Kapoor
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Not someone new to public acknowledgement, the actress feels that fame is important for all the actors but in her case, acting is more important.
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Mumbai: The Dhadak actress Janhvi Kapoor has received immense love from her fans with her debut film.
"Fame matters a lot to each and every actor but it's important for me to understand that the fact that I have got (the fame) is because of my family," says Janhvi and adds, "After my first film, I got a lot of love and I am grateful to that. I have seen fame from childhood. So, for me, I have to work hard and acting is more important."
Meanwhile, the actress also praised Madhuri Dixit after watching the Kalank trailer. It is to be noted that Janhvi's mother Sridevi was supposed to be part of Kalank. Madhuri Dixit had also mentioned how emotionally tough it was for her to play a role which was meant to be essayed by the late Sridevi.
Praising Madhuri, Janhvi says, "Who am I to welcome her but as an audience, I am so excited for this film. I am really excited about Kalank."
"She is such a great performer and we are fortunate that we are able to see her work on screen and learn from her. I only hope we get to see more work of Madhuri," she adds.
On the work front, Janhvi is working on the biopic of Gunjan Saxena, the first woman IAF pilot who evacuated injured soldiers from Kargil in 1999.
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Lana Del Rey says laptop containing her new album was stolen on Melrose Avenue
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Lana Del Rey says she was robbed of a backpack that contained her laptop, which had her new album on it.
The singer said along with the computer, multiple hard drives and a camera were also stolen.
"A few months ago, I parked my car on Melrose Place - actually Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles - and I stepped away for a minute," she said on Instagram. "And the one time I left my backpack inside my car, someone broke all the windows and took it."
Del Rey added that another project, a book she is working on, was stolen as well.
"I had to remotely wipe the computer that had my 200-page book for Simon and Schuster-which I didn't have backed up on the cloud," Del Rey said. And despite that, people are still able to remotely access my phone and leak our songs and personal photos. I loved the book that I lost with all of my heart and put a lot of passion into it."
The artist asked her fans to not to listen to any leaked music, and said she will continue to work on new music.
"I just want to mention that despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come, despite so many safety factors at so many different levels. I really want to persist and make the best record I can," she said. "Please don't listen to the music if you hear it, because it's not coming out yet," she said.
Del Rey concluded: "Obviously I won't ever leave anything in the car again, even if it's just for a moment. But we've had the same issues at the house, and it is a constant thing. And although I'm so grateful to be able to share all of the good stuff, I just also want to share that it has been a challenge."
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More New Music? Why, We've Got Some of that!
Further on from yesterday's list of new songs and artists recently added to our ever-growing playlist, we've got another parade of truly excellent melodic pop sounds that are now spinning in rotation.
Much more to come next week. Until then, here's a tasty sampling of a few choice nuggets:
Brett Harris | Up in the Air Yesterday, we proclaimed Eytan Mirsky's new album Funny Money to be one of the great albums thus far released in this young year. Here's another great one you'll want to be playing in your home and on the go. Brett Harris's second full-length is a terrific collection of 10 wonderful pop songs delivered with skill and heart.
We love these songs so much that we've added all of them to the playlist. "End of the Rope" is a catchy, infectious number that reminds us of Microdisney's "Singer's Hampstead Home," even as it echoes the classic '60s sound. "Spanish Moss" is a quite pretty song that features some beautiful harmonies and a tinge of thoughtful sadness, punctuated by an understated, effective string arrangement. And the title cut is nothing less than a bonafide toe-tapper, a righteous, delectable slice of musical joy.
Also playing in rotation from this great album: "Don't Look Back," "Lies," "Out of the Blue," "High Times," "Rumor," "Summer Nights," and "Shadetree." This is another great album for 2016, releasing on March 4. Hey, we ought to make a list of these great albums. Consider it done!
PS: Brett Harris will be Alan's guest on an upcoming, all-new edition of Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. Keep an eye on these pages for details, coming soon!
Crash and the Crapenters | "Everything is Coming My Way" Pure Pop Radio favorite Michael Carpenter and his brother Chris have teamed up to stir a steaming pot of sizzling ska-soaked punky rock and pop that made our ears stand up at attention. In just under two and a half minutes, Chris and Michael take over and demand your attention with organ and chugging electric guitar lines and plugged-in-to-the-walls vocals. Plus, it's hookariffic, it is. This song demands your attention and called out to us to add it to our playlist. Which we did. Now playing in rotation and taking no prisoners. As nature intended.
Cotton Mather | "Child Bride" and "The Book of Too Late Changes" To say that the return of Cotton Mather, the makers of the always and truly hall-of-fame album Kontiki, is welcomed with open arms is hardly telling it completely like it is. We were thrilled to hear these great songs, both of which are now playing in rotation. "Child Bride" is a mix of sixties motif (Left Banke, anyone?) that opens with a Byrds-like intro. "The Book of Too Late Changes" is a whole other thing, channeling the propulsive side of the Who with a melodic pop-rocker for the ages that closes with a quite thrilling vocal array. More please, and please, let the more come soon.
Strangely Alright | "We Still Can" Regan Lane and company's latest song is a lovely mid-tempo ballad with a gorgeous melody and a solid, hooky chorus. We're proud to be playing this group's songs on our air and look forward to the next great release.
Dermot | "My Love's a Light that Will Never Go Out" We've been playing this song since it came out last December. It's been a favorite spin since then. This really pretty, affecting number about everlasting love will absolutely resonate with you, and you too. Consider this bit of lyric: "My darling/When we sing/All the angels up in heaven are envious/Of our harmony." See what we mean? Lovely, lovely, lovely, and now playing in rotation.
There you go–more great music added to our playlist. More coming next week. While you wait, why not click on one of the listen links below so you can enjoy our continuous, original 24-hour stream of the greatest melodic pop in the universe? Enjoy!
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More New Music is Flowing on Pure Pop Radio
Hot on the heels of yesterday's list of new songs and artists added to our playlist, we've slotted in more classic sounds now being heard in rotation. Care to peruse? Go, cat…go!
Vegas With Randolph | "Three Red Hooks" This Washington, DC-area pop powerhouse's latest song, a lively ode to rocking steady and having a great night, namechecks a trio of rock 'n' roll Eddies–Van Halen, Vedder and Money–and is a mighty tasty treat. "Three Red Hooks" is a delightful, hooky bubblegum charmer with crunchy, screaming electric guitar lines that's happily reminiscent of the Sweet's "Little Willy" and the catchy sound of the Rubinoos. Kicking off with a percussion stomp that owes a debt to the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go,' "Three Red Hooks" hits the sweet spot that tingles and glows inside every fan of melodic pop. It kick starts that oh-so-wonderful feeling–the unmistakable slambang explosion of sheer joy that only the right combination of musical notes can achieve. Now playing in rotation, this may well be Vegas With Randolph's most delightful waxing yet.
Bertling Noise Laboratories | "Talking In Your Sleep" Nick Bertling is like the quintessential, shaggy-haired musical mad scientist ensconced in his secret lair stocked full of instruments that shake, rattle and roll. Just look at him, stage left. Our guess is Nick doesn't get much sleep, because here he is with a rocking cover of the Romantics' hit "Talking In Your Sleep." Hopefully he can get some shuteye while this cool cover plays in rotation!
Trip Wire | "Long Days Gone" and "Winter Song" Just out from this San Francisco band is a terrific new double A-side single pairing "Long Days Gone," a catchy, uptempo power pop number, with a pretty midtempo, string-laden ballad. These songs leave us wanting more, so you know…get to it, boys.
The Tonellis | "I Know You" We were delighted to receive an email from the Tonellis' Robert Stoppenbach, who subsequently responded to our query about any new material the band might have by sending this lovely midtempo ballad, co-written by Robert and Scott Palmiter. Sounding like the second cousin to any number of songs recorded by the group Venice, "I Know You" sports an easygoing vibe, punctuated by fiddle and mandolin parts that shine. Now playing in rotation.
That's all for today. More new songs and artists next week. Join the fun by clicking on one of the listen links below to hear nearly 8,300 songs now playing in rotation on Pure Pop Radio. Enjoy!
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We Serve Up a Quartetly Add to the Pure Pop Radio Playlist
The past few days saw us spinning some sumptuous sounds from a top-flight quartet of artists. We've added these sounds to our playlist; they're now spinning in rotation, making the world a brighter, more melodic place.
From our old friend JoDee Purkypile comes a new song that the artist describes as "a sad waltz" that features "Revolver-era McCartney harmonies." He warns that the recording "might rip your speakers." To all of which we say "Nah," although we do give the nod to at least the second pronouncement. Frankly, those Macca harmonies in the chorus absolutely slay us. Ditto for the very pop guitar solo. "Here for Love" is a triumph that you'll want to hear over and over again. At least.
From Toronto, Canada comes Anna Horvath, who records under the name Merival and used to be in a band called First Rate People. Lovers is her first-rate, first-ever solo EP. We'd call her music first-rate folk with a pop edge; whatever you'd call it, you'd have to classify it as tasty. We're playing three songs from Lovers: "Kickin' You Out," which charts a course for escape from a relationship that has slipped away; "Dream of Yourself," a wisp of a tune and a vocal showcase atop a plunking banjo; and "Calendar," a meeting of spare acoustic guitar figures and Merival's plaintive voice. Think mid-period Joni Mitchell, if you need a reference point.
The band called Sweden and not the same-named country rolls in with a sizzling slice of power pop. "Just a Kid" blazes with lots of guitar fury, a catchy melody, and a children's choir part that lifts the song's spirits high. Thanks to Caddy's Tom Dahl for bringing this one to our attention. It's a good one.
Rock photographer and guitarist Mimi Boswell and her friends, a stately group of cohorts that includes the Doughboys' Myke Scavone and Richard X. Heyman, enter our playlist with a tough-as-nails pop/rocker, exhibiting equal echoes of the Rolling Stones and the Rascals. "Torn to Pieces" was mixed and mastered to rocky perfection by Pure Pop Radio pal Kurt Reil at his House of Vibes studio.
Get cozy with these and more than 8,100 other like-minded tracks by tuning into Pure Pop Radio. Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles to the Spongetones, the Nines, Kurt Baker, the Connection and the New Trocaderos, we play the hits and a whole lot more. Tune in by clicking on one of the listen links below.
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Pop Tunes: Show Seven Rolls Tonight! Rocking, Popping and Rolling the Night Away!
Alan Haber's Pop Tunes Deejay Show catapults out of your speakers tonight at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) with the Rolling Stones' pop side, lots of songs new to the Pure Pop Radio playlist, songs about "you," the weekly Beatle Blast, and a whole lot more.
Alan gets cooking with a set of numbers that show off the Rolling Stones' pop side, including some of the band's hits from the '60s, and a cover from Pure Pop Radio favorite, the Connection. A set of songs about "you" follows, from Mister Fusty, Freiheit, and Rick Nelson, among other artists not normally heard on the air.
Of course, Alan's got a whole bunch of songs that are new to the Pure Pop Radio playlist, including the latest from Strangely Alright, Maxi Dunn, the Sunchymes, the Nines, Daniel Wylie's Cosmic Rough Riders, and lots more.
All this, plus the weekly Beatle Blast, featuring Wings' "Tomorrow" from the Wild Life album, and the traditional One and Begun and One and Done opening and closing songs are coming to you tonight at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) on Alan Haber's Pop Tunes Deejay Show. You can hear this show again this coming Thursday, September 24 at noon ET (9 am PT) and this Sunday, September 27 at 3 pm ET (noon PT). It's show number seven. Don't miss a beat!
Alan Haber's Pop Tunes is a cool deejay show playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. The show airs every Monday night at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) on Pure Pop Radio, and repeats on Thursday afternoons at noon ET (9 am PT) and Sundays at 3 pm ET (noon PT). Please like us on Facebook by clicking here.
September 21, 2015 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio	Leave a comment
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We're Playing It Cool! Guess What's Now Spinning and Brand-New at Pure Pop Radio!
This is our busy season–well, they're all busy in one way or another, but it's that time of the year, what with summer just about over and done and fall just a step ahead. Perhaps fruitful is a better word than busy; the air is ripe with good sounds coming in almost daily to the spacious Pure Pop Radio headquarters. These sounds, catchy and all decked out in just the right aural bling, are being created across the country and across the oceans by the best practitioners of melodic pop music.
Song for song, we can't remember a better year for melodic pop in just about all of the years we've been behind the microphones and nestled comfortably in front of our computers (cold, non-alcoholic beverage always at hand). Today's crop of new and new-to-you music, now playing in rotation, is just a punch of the arrow-down button away. We'll have many more adds to the playlist to share with you next week; here are four to savor now:
Kurt Baker | Play It Cool It's frankly hard to imagine this consistently home-run-hitting artist playing it any other way. Kurt's latest collection makes its play for being one of this year's best releases by delivering a strong set of pop-rockers, one after the other, while proving he's not only on form but ahead of the curve. From the rock 'n' roll swagger and pop punch of "I Can't Wait" and the melody-infused "Back for Good" to the zippy power of "Just a Little Bit" and the seventies DNA that fuels the title cut, Play It Cool delivers the goods. Kurt's voice is as powerful as ever, and the production by the always-sharp Wyatt Funderburk (who shares co-writing credit with the artist) makes these songs explode from the speakers. We're playing everything just mentioned, plus "Enough's Enough," "Monday Night," and "Talk is Talk." Another winner, as if there were any doubt.
The Bellfuries | Workingman's Bellfuries Their third long player finds this Texas-based band rolling out a mix of songs steeped in all the right influences–echoes of Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, early rock 'n' roll, and rockabilly collide with passion and heart and top-notch musicianship for a great listening experience. Certainly there is a strong Orbison and Everlys influence in the passionate "An Illusion Believed," and the Everlys touch is evident in the rocking and rolling "Beaumont Blues." Even the Beatles get the rockabilly treatment in a spirited rendition of "She's a Woman." And "Make the Mystery No More" opens with the ghost of "Be My Baby" as the familiar drum part gives way to another classic sounding tune. We're playing all of the songs from this great album in rotation–the above-mentioned numbers, and "Loving Arms," "Bad Seed Sown," "Why Do You Haunt Me," "Letter to My Maybe Baby," "Just Remembering," "Under the Light of the Moon," and "Baltimore." Great stuff that sounds great on the air.
mylittlebrother | We're All Gonna Die! Well, yeah, but what are we going to do until then? It's what we're going to do for ourselves, as the title song points out: We've got to make our time count and live! The happy, peppy Beatle-esque number, with a very Klaatu-styled ending, is sort of a call to arms and the centerpiece of this terrific EP. The lovely, country-tinged, old-style ballad "Obvious" uses pedal steel lines to enhance the gorgeous melody. "Steve," a kind of soft-shoe show tune of a song, is another highlight; "Ghost Trains" is an enticing toe-tapper with appropriately ghost-like, choral background vocals. We're playing all four of these songs in rotation, and hoping the next release from this band is a full-length. Good job.
Michael Ryther
Michael Ryther | Kids of the Earth: Songs for the Green Generation Question: When is an album for kids also an album for adults? Answer: When both groups can benefit from that album's message. Elementary school teacher and musician Michael Ryther co-wrote an album's worth of songs about keeping the planet green and alive with Pure Pop Radio favorite Willie Wisely. And so the story begins.
"I was looking for a producer and knew from the moment I heard a few bars of his pop rock masterpiece Go that I had to find a way to work with him," says Ryther. "My friend, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ali Handal introduced us and Willie took to the material immediately. He and I had so much fun collaborating and our songwriting sensibilities were similar." Michael and Willie wrote most of the songs together; Willie produced and arranged.
The album's press materials classify these songs as "eco-conscious children's music," to which we would add "for kids and kids at heart," which means all of us, short and tall and so in love with our planet that we want to find ways to help it thrive for all eternity. That these 14 songs are poppy, power poppy and catchy as catchy can be is a big bonus, and the reason we've added six songs to our playlist, all of which are now playing in rotation.
"Put It In the Compost" is like an early Beatles number put into eco-conscious service. "I Love the Dirt" is a singalong-y, poppy slice of rock 'n' roll with a great melody and, like all of these songs, built from a vital foundation. The song implores us to "…get down on our hands and knees, and wiggle around like centipedes and sing I love the dirt." Perhaps the strongest notion offered on this album is contained within the beautiful ballad, "In This Together." Michael sings: "Every single action can start a chain reaction, so choose which path to take with extra care."
Pop fans will relish Willie's musicianship; he plays a lot of instruments on these recordings. Among the guest musicians are bassist John Fields, and Probyn Gregory, who plays horns on "In This Together". We love this album, and we think you will too.
Be with us next week for more new and new-to-you music that's been added to the Pure Pop Radio playlist. Why not tune in now, while you're at work or doing errands or just taking in another beautiful day on planet Earth?
Alan H aber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles to the Spongetones, the Nines, Kurt Baker, the Connection and the New Trocaderos, we play the hits and a whole lot more. Tune in by clicking on one of the listen links below.
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These are the Words that You Want to Hear: We've Got New Music for You!
"These are the words you wish you could hear," Jules Shear sings in his current release, the quite catchy pop song called "The Words," and these are the words we are happy to pass on to you; we love you, and it's because of that love that we bring to you news of new music that's been added to the Pure Pop Radio playlist.
We've got only a smattering today as so many big projects destined for your ears are in the works and just about ready to pop out of the oven, but there is more, much more to come, all of it crafted with precision and with an eye on precise symmetry, and that's all just around the corner, and of that we are confident and sure.
Today, we present to you the following, all now playing in rotation on the air, one after the other (but not in any kind of formal formation):
Jules Shear | "The Words" After having written a string of classic songs over so many decades, a string which ties together "All Through the Night," "If She Knew What She Wants," "If We Never Meet Again," "The Trap Door" and so many others of such tall stature, this peerless songwriter and performer has begun releasing new material, some of which he says he will give away and some which he says he will sell. "The Words" is a giveaway, thank you very much, and rather a nice, warm gesture, essentially a three-chord construct with a knockout chorus that essentially functions as a master class in songwriting, so skillful it is with such a grand, satisfying payoff. A lyrical pedal steel part is icing on a very tasty cake, which we're serving in rotation.
Dana Countryman | Pop 3! Welcome to My Time Warp! Words are kind of our business, but at some times, when the music takes us away to the ubiquitous somewhere else, we can't see the forest for the trees or choose one thing, whatever it is, over another. In the case of Mr. Countryman's latest release, the third in his spun-from-gold pop music trilogy, words do not fail us, even though it's the music that takes us and, of course, you away in the end and after all is sung and done.
This outstanding collection of melodically-charged songs, set squarely in the world governed by all that is retro, actually opens up a portal that you fall into as sounds celebrating the joys of tightly-constructed audio treats take you away. Honestly, it's like the sounds of the late 1960s and early 1970s are back, baby, and there you are singing along or humming, even if you don't know the words. Echoes of the Four Seasons and the Spiral Starecase and Gilbert O'Sullivan and the Hollies and Eric Carmen and, yes, the Beatles, of whom much has been said and a lot more could and will be, run through the fabric of these songs that will be with you in the morning when you are buttering your toast and in the evening, just before bedtime, as your head hits the pillow and you drift off.
"Every Kiss Reminds Me of You," "Run Back Into My Arms," "Can't Get You Out of My Mind," "Nice Shot (Straight to the Heart)," "Don't You Know You'll Break My Heart," "All You Need to Say," "Twenty-Four Hours with You," "There Goes My Heart Again," "Shari Girl / You'll Always Be a Baby to Me," "That's When I Knew," and "Don't Wanna Lose You," pretty much all the bones of this album, are now playing in rotation (we're saving "Christmas All Over the World" for the upcoming holiday season, and the gorgeous love song "What If?" has been spinning for a while). Do we need to say that Pop 3! is one of the best albums of the year? Well, you know, or you will know, that this statement is true.
Bertling Noise Laboratories | Matilda and 12 Others and "Ram On" You've probably heard yourself say, or you've at least thought to yourself, the words "Where has he (or she) been all my life?," and therein lies the thing of it all. This is how we felt, really and truly, when we were turned onto Nick Bertling's outstanding and astounding album through which all roads lead to you thinking "Now, that really hits the spot" as you spin it again and again, as we have done and will continue to do. "Good Morning" exists as if it were an outtake from McCartney (where else could that traveling, syncopating bass come from?); "Baby Talk" plays like a long lost Motown track from deep in the vaults with all of the excitement and oomph that such a thing entails; "It's Not Funny" is nothing less than a crooner's standard (surely some Broadway production will dial this one up); "Time for Us" is straight-ahead pop; and the title song, "Matilda," is kinda sorta jazzy, like a Steely Dan-meets-not-Steely-Dan mashup, except it's not really that, but it sure is something else. We're playing all of these songs, plus "Bits and Pieces," "I'll Bet She Thinks," and "Once in a While." With this album in your hands, and you know you'll want it, once in a while will not be enough. Oh, and of "Ram On"…it's a lovely cover of the aforementioned McCartney fellow's song from Ram, and it's fabulously huggable. We're playing that too, naturally.
Tommy Lorente | "B.B. (Tu Me Plais Tant)" and "Un Certain Savoir Faire" Not being anywhere near fluent in French, although we can count to six and nod like we know what somebody is talking about, we let the words of these songs float around us as the accomplished pop-rocker Tommy Lorente lets loose the three-different-beats-heavy vibe of "B.B. (Tu Me Plais Tant)" ("I Like You So Much") which, based on the English translation of the lyrics Tommy sent our way, is a love song of sorts with a whole lot of energy that gets one moving from side to side. "Un Certain Savoir Faire," or "A Certain Savoir Faire," which is about self-confident people and rocks in a slow, steady kind of way, with stabbing guitars and strong, certain drum hits, is the flip side, or the other A-side, of this top-notch single from one of our favorite performers in this day and age. Both songs are playing in rotation, rocking and popping up the joint, as it were.
Various Artists | Lost Hits of the 80's Dan Pavelich, music critic at the Kenosha (Wisconsin) News and creator of the sweet comic strip Just Say Uncle, has quietly been producing great music for so many years, kind of slipping in under the radar with albums such as this one, a loving trip in the Wayback Machine of the mind to the 1980s, as performed by a bunch of fictitious bands that exist only in Dan's mind–bands like Atari Hand Cramp, Pest Control, and Asmatics UK (named that way to avoid confusion with Asmatics Canada, no doubt). Working with some top-flight collaborators–Pop 4's Andrea Perry, Lisa Mychols and the Well Wishers' Jeff Shelton among them–Dan turns in a fabulously fun trip. The songs range from Redd Roxx's poppy "No Regret," sung by the Waking Hours' Tom Richards, to the steady, rocking "Camera Shy" by The Vaporizers, and The Images' slowed down, impassioned take on the Romantics' "Talking in Your Sleep." Dan says he had a ball producing this record, from which we've slotted the aforementioned songs, and a couple of others–Asmatics UK's "Temptress of London," Metro Cafe's "Am I Only Dreaming of You," and The Images' "Don't Want Pretending"–into our playlist. We'll have a Q&A feature soon, in which Dan will spill all of the inner secrets of this album, but for now, listen for a stone cold trip back to the decade that still, and always will, pop and rock. Loads of fun.
That's it for today. Believe us, we've barely scratched the surface. We've added to the playlist hundreds of new and new-to-you songs from current and heritage artists over the past few weeks. We'll continue to report on these adds and others we have waiting in the wings, during the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned. You will undoubtedly dig our continually diggable scene.
September 16, 2015 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio	2 Comments
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New Music Day at Pure Pop Radio: It's a Beatles and Beach Boys Spectacular!
Today, we've got a very special group of adds to our playlist from Paul McCartney and the Beach Boys, plus Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson. Since Pure Pop Radio started broadcasting in October 2012, we've been slotting in one song every hour from the Beach Boys, and the Beatles and solo Beatles eras.
Hang on to your Rickenbackers and surfboards, 'cause we've fattened up the pot for a total of 290 tracks by the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson, and 424 by the Beatles in their group and solo years, including original songs and covers from some of your favorite artists.
Not only that, but we've added 16 songs from the awesome soundtrack of the 1970s film, All This and World War II. Let's run them down, shall we?
From All This and World War II: Ambrosia, "Magical Mystery Tour"; Elton John, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"; The Bee Gees, "Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight," "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window," and "Sun King"; Leo Sayer, "I Am the Walrus," "Let It Be," and "The Long and Winding Road"; Roy Wood, "Lovely Rita" and "Polythene Pam"; Jeff Lynne, "With a Little Help from My Friends/Nowhere Man"; The Four Seasons, "We Can Work It Out"; Frankie Valli, "A Day in the Life"; Status Quo, "Getting Better"; Henry Gross, "Help"; and Peter Gabriel, "Strawberry Fields Forever."
We've piled on a significant number of Paul McCartney classics to air as part of our Beatles and solo Beatles collection:
From Flowers in the Dirt: "My Brave Face," "We Got Married," "Put It There," "This One," "That Day is Done," "Motor of Love," "Back On My Feet," "Flying to My Home," and "Loveliest Thing."
From Ram: "3 Legs," "Dear Boy," "Eat at Home," "Heart of the Country," "Long Haired Lady," "Ram On," "Smile Away," "Too Many People," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," and the single tracks "Another Day" and "Oh Woman, Oh Why."
From Flaming Pie: "Little Willow," "Souvenir," "Young Boy," "Beautiful Night," "Calico Skies," "Flaming Pie," "Great Day," and "The World Tonight."
From McCartney: "Every Night," "Hot as Sun/Glasses," "Junk," "Man We Was Lonely," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "Singalong Junk," "Teddy Boy," and "That Would Be Something."
From McCartney II: "Coming Up," "Front Parlour," "Nobody Knows," "Bogey Music," "One of these Days," "Summer's Day Song," "Temporary Secretary," and "Waterfalls."
From Tug of War: "Ballroom Dancing," "Here Today," "Somebody Who Cares," "Take It Away," "The Pound is Sinking," "Tug of War," and "Wanderlust."
From Wings' Back to the Egg: "Baby's Request," "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," "So Glad to See You Here," and "Again and Again and Again."
From Wings' London Town: "I'm Carrying," "Name and Address," "Children Children," "I've Had Enough," "London Town," and "With a Little Luck."
From Wings' Venus and Mars: "You Gave Me the Answer," "Call Me Back Again," "Letting Go," "Listen to What the Man Said," "Magneto and Titanium Man," and "Spirits of Ancient Egypt."
From Wings' Wild Life: "Tomorrow," "I Am Your Singer," "Some People Never Know," and "Little Woman Love" and "Mama's Little Girl."
There's a whole lot more Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Beach Boys music now spinning in rotation on Pure Pop Radio, including:
From Brian Wilson's Imagination: "Your Imagination," "Keep an Eye on Summer," and "Let Him Run Wild."
From Brian Wilson's Love and Mercy CD Single: "One for the Boys" and "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move."
From Brian Wilson's "I Just Wasn't Made for these Times": "This Whole World," "Do It Again," "The Warmth of the Sun," and "Melt Away."
From Brian Wilson Presents Smile: "Cabin Essence," "Good Vibrations," "Heroes and Villains," "Surf's Up," and "Vega-Tables."
From Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Orange Crate Art: "Orange Crate Art," "Sail Away," "Summer in Monterey," "Movies is Magic," and "My Hobo Heart."
From Brian Wilson's Brian Wilson: "Love and Mercy," "Walkin' the Line," "Melt Away," "Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long," "Little Children," "Let It Shine," "Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight," and "Being With the One You Love," "Let's Go to Heaven in My Car," and "Too Much Sugar."
From Brian Wilson's Your Imagination CD Single: "Your Imagination (A Cappella)" and "Happy Days."
From Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue: "River Song," "What's Wrong," "Rainbows," "Only With You," and "School Girl."
From the Beach Boys' Rarities/Beach Boys Medley: "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," "All I Wanna Do," "Auld Lang Syne," "Beach Boys Medley (Ballad Version)," "Beach Boys Medley (Single Version)," "Beach Boys Medley (Uptempo Version)," "Cotton Fields," "Land Ahoy," "The Letter," and "With a Little Help from My Friends."
From the Beach Boys' Ten Years of Harmony: "California Saga (California)," "It's a Beautiful Day," "San Miguel," "School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)," and "Sea Cruise."
From the Beach Boys' Lost and Found 1961-1962: "Barbie (As Kenny and the Cadets)," "Beach Boy Stomp (aka "Karate")," "Judy (Candix Master)," "Lavender (Demo – 1961)," "Luau (As the Pendletones)," ""Luau (Master Take – B-side of "Surfin')," "Surfin' (As the Pendletones)," and "What is a Young Girl Made Of (As Kenny and the Cadets)."
From the Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio: "Think About the Days," "That's Why God Made the Radio," "Isn't It Time," "Shelter," "Daybreak Over the Ocean," "Beaches in Mind," and "From there to Back Again."
From the Beach Boys' In Concert: "California Girls," "Darlin'," "Don't Worry Baby," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Funky Pretty," "Good Vibrations," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Heroes and Villains," "Marcella," "Sail On Sailor," "Sloop John B," "Surfer Girl," "Surfin' USA," and "Wouldn't It Be Nice."
From the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations–Thirty Years of the Beach Boys: "4th of July," "All Summer Long (Vocals)," "Barbara Ann (45 version)," "Be True to Your School (Live 1964)," "California Girl (Vocals)," "Concert Intro-"Surfin' USA (Live 1964)," "Concert Promo-Hushabye (Live)," "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (45 version)," "Games Two Can Play," "Good Vibrations (45 version)," "Good Vibrations (Live 1966)," "H.E.L.P. Is On the Way," "Hang On to Your Ego (Alternate Version)," "Heroes and Villains (Alternate Version)," "Hushabye (Vocals)," "I Just Got My Pay," "In My Room (Demo)," "It's Over Now," "Little Surfer Girl (Demo)," "Our Team," "Punchline (Instrumental)" "Ruby Baby (Outtake)," and "The Little Girl I Once Knew (45 Version)."
Count on Pure Pop Radio to always be playing the most Beatles, solo Beatles, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson tracks on Internet radio. We're your original 24-hour-a-day home for the greatest pop music in the universe from the '60s to today! We're fab and we're surfin' USA!
Be here tomorrow for the Pure Pop Radio premiere of all of the tracks from a major new release, dropping tomorrow. Til then!
Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour-a-day Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Bill Lloyd to the Legal Matters, the New Trocaderos and the Ravines, we play the best, melodic tunes anywhere.
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Unfinished Masterpieces Can Be As Compelling As the Originals
July 16th, 2012 | Add a Comment
Works of art are often left incomplete through war or artists' death. Some are finished by other people; but most are made interesting by being abandoned.
On the April 2011 publication of David Foster Wallace's novel, The Pale King, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst wondered in Britain's Sunday Times at the attraction of unfinished works. 'You don't buy a jacket with one arm, so why seek out what amounts to a creative stump or narrative doodle?'
Wallace's book came from 200 pages left stacked on his desk when he committed suicide in 2008, intertwined with fragments from his bin. For many readers, it's a suicide note revealing the man's state of mind.
Douglas-Fairhurst also cited Henry James' short story The Middle Years about a novelist on his deathbed dreaming of the stories he might have written, as illustration that it's the might-have-been bits which appeal to readers.
Unfinished Literature
In 2010, Nabokov's The Original of Laura was published, reproducing his handwritten postcards so readers could shuffle the narrative into any order. Stieg Larsson, bestselling Swedish novelist, died of a heart attack in 2004 aged 50. He had planned 10 Millennium novels; three were published posthumously: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played With Fire (2005) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010).
He'd almost completed the fourth. A legal dispute over royalties for his long-term partner Eva Gabrielsson, (Swedish law doesn't recognise unmarried couples) attracted as much hype as the books themselves.
Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) artist, novelist, poet, illustrator, published the Gormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan, 1946; Gormenghast, 1950 and Titus Alone, 1959) to generally critical acclaim. Influenced by Dickens and Stevenson, his experiences as a Second World War artist and fighting Parkinson's Disease, his haunting imagery evoked epic fantasy worlds.
Peake had started a fourth, Titus Awakes, but was too ill to complete it. His widow, Maeve Gilmore wrote a version from fragments he'd left, Search Without End, in the 1970s, but it was not widely known about. A discovery of the fuller manuscript in 2010 in the family attic led to publication in 2011.
At his death in 1870, Charles Dickens' had published six of twelve monthly parts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Critic GK Chesterton said the book was: 'designed by Dickens, but ultimately filled up by others. The Mystery of Edwin Drood showed how little others made of Dickens' suggestions'.
Many sought to finish it. An 1870 attempt by American Robert Henry Newell was more parody. An 1873 version by Thomas James, praised by Arthur Conan Doyle, was sold as 'ghost-written' by Dickens himself.
Since then, others have attempted to second-guess Dickens. Movies in 1935 and 1993, television interpretations (2011), radio (1953) and theatre offered alternative endings. Drood (1985) was a musical comedy, still favoured by amateur companies.
Incomplete Film and Architecture
Evan Andrews published (2009) his top ten unfinished art works. Bruce Lee's Game of Death, started in 1972, was planned as the ultimate expression of the martial arts for which Lee was becoming famous. He stopped to make Enter the Dragon, intending to finish Game of Death later.
He died of cerebral edema, aged 32 in 1973, leaving Enter the Dragon Director, Robert Clouse to splice 11 minutes of classic Lee footage with new to make a movie. Not all films are finished after death, however.
Orson Welles' (1915-1985) left behind The Other Side of the Wind, which he'd been working on since the late 60s. When the Shah of Iran was ejected in the 1979 revolution, financial/legal disputes followed. It was never completed.
Andrews listed architecture, too. Moscow's Palace of the Soviets, started in the late 1930s was to have been the world's tallest edifice. War stopped it when the huge steel frame was recycled to make rail bridges and fortifications. Until about 1958 they intended to resume the project, but never did.
The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is a massive Roman Catholic cathedral under construction since 1882. It was Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece; he toiled for 40 years on it, but when he died in 1926, it remained unfinished. Since then, Spanish Civil and world wars, financial constraints, different architects and builders contributed to delays and controversies. Although incomplete, it's both tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site, consecrated as a minor basilica in November 2010.
Unfinished Poetry, Music and Art
For Andrews, a double album by Jimi Hendrix, First Rays of the New Rising Sun should feature in the top ten. Hendrix's drug overdose death in 1970 was followed by disputes about copyright and ownership. His family finally won, and hired engineers and producers to convert nearly complete tracks with rough cuts to make an album. This appeared in 1997.
Shortly before he died in 1791, Mozart was commissioned to compose a Requiem for a man's wife, which he may have come to believe was for himself. His death prevented completion, which was done by his student, Franz Sussmayr. Controversy about which parts are Mozart's has continued to the present.
Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan is different from other incomplete works, as it was recovering from an opium haze that stopped the writing. Coleridge fell asleep reading a book about the Far East while taking laudanum. When he woke from his dream/stupour, he wrote 50 lines, and was then interrupted. When he returned to the writing, the vision had faded. The poem was unfulfilled.
The US dollar portrait of George Washington, known as The Athenaeum, was painted by Gilbert Stuart who deliberately didn't finish it so he could produce copies at $100 each. He is thought to have made about seventy copies, but never finished the original before his death in 1828.
Leonardo da Vinci's horse statue was left unfinished. He unveiled a 23-foot clay model of Gran Cavallo in 1492, as war between France and Italy broke out. Metal for the statue was used for cannons, which shows how people don't always recognise artistic genius in front of them.
It also shows that creatives should finish their works, wherever possible, before death comes for them.
First published on Suite 101, 15 July 2011
Image: Sagrad Familia, Being Built Since 1882 – Bernard Gagnon
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Wrestling / December 6, 2004
Hawkeyes To Wrestle At Northern Iowa
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Iowa (1-1) will face Northern Iowa (0-1) Thursday in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Match time is 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for youth, and are available at the UNI Ticket Office at 877/216-3663 or www.unipanthers.com.
Radio – Morrie Adams and four-time Hawkeye all-American Mark Ironside will call the action live on AM-800 KXIC. To listen to the broadcast online, go to the wrestling schedule page on www.hawkeyesports.com. Broadcasts using Real One Player softward are available using the College Sports Pass, which can be purchased for $6.95 per month or $49.95 per year.
Television – Iowa Public Television, in its 29th season of televising college wrestling, will air a tape-delayed telecast of the dual with Northern Iowa at 9 p.m. Announcers will be Tim Johnson, Jim Gibbons and former Iowa Wrestling Coach Dan Gable.
HEAD COACH Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky is in his eighth season as head coach at the University of Iowa. He has a school and career record of 107-23 (.823). Named National Coach of the Year in 1998 and 1999, and Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2000, he has led the Hawkeyes to three NCAA (1998-00) and three Big Ten titles (1998, 2000, 2004). Zalesky has coached 10 NCAA Champions, 20 Big Ten Champions and 36 all-Americans at Iowa. He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in June 2004, the University of Iowa Letterman's Club Hall of Fame and the Iowa High School Athletic Association Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1994.
A three-time national champion and one of Iowa's 15 four-time all-Americans, Zalesky was an assistant coach and head recruiter at Iowa under Dan Gable for seven seasons (1991-97). He was named Assistant Coach of the Year by the N.W.C.A. in 1992 and 1997. Undefeated as a junior and senior, Zalesky ended his career on an 89-match winning streak.
Northern Iowa is 0-1 on the season with a 20-14 loss to Wisconsin in November. The Panthers also crowned five champions at the Harold Nichols Open and one winner that UNI Open. Head Coach Brad Penrith has a 40-29 record in his fifth season with the Panthers. Penrith was a NCAA Champion and three-time NCAA finalist, all-American and Big Ten champion at Iowa from 1986-88. The Panthers are led by seniors and returning all-Americans Eric Hauan (174) and Sean Stender (197). Hauan is 13-1 this season, while Stender is 12-3.
Iowa leads the series with Northern Iowa, 36-8-2. The Hawkeyes have won the last 28 meetings between the two teams, and hold a 17-5-1 advantage in Cedar Falls.
HAVEN'T WE MET?
Following are the career results of potential Iowa-Northern Iowa matchups:
133 – Gabe Ruhkala (I) is 1-0 vs. Patrick Sharp (UNI)
Ruhkala dec. Sharp, 6-5 at 2004 Kaufman Brand Open
149 – Ty Eustice (I) is 1-0 vs. Jeff Harrison (UNI)
Eustice dec. Harrision, 3-1 at 2003 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa dual
165 – Mark Perry (I) is 1-0 vs. Nick Baima (UNI)
Perry dec. Baima, 10-4 at 2004 Kaufman-Brand Open
Hwt. – Ryan Fuller (I) is 0-1 vs. Michael Shedek (UNI)
Shedek dec. Fuller, 4-2 sv at 2004 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa dual
Hawkeye Head Coach Jim Zalesky picked up his 100th career coaching victory when Iowa defeated Northern Iowa, 27-10, on December 11, 2003, in Iowa City.
Highlights for the Hawkeyes were wins by senior Cliff Moore at 141, junior Joe Johnston at 157, senior Tyler Nixt at 174 and Paul Bradley at 184. Moore started the dual with a 15-4 major decision over second-ranked Dylan Long, at 141 pounds. Moore scored all six takedowns in the match. Johnston scored nine takedowns, including five in the third period, to defeat Nick Baima, 19-9. Nixt recorded with his fifth straight career win over Eric Hauan, scoring a 6-3 decision. Hawkeye sophomore Paul Bradley fought through injury to beat Eric Pedretti, 12-4. The match was halted several times due to Bradley bleeding and he received stitiches matside during one of the injury timeouts.
Iowa 27, Northern Iowa 10
141 Cliff Moore (I) maj. dec. Dylan Long (UNI), 15-4
149 Ty Eustice (I) dec. Jon Garvin (UNI), 5-2
157 Joe Johnston (I) maj. dec. Nick Baima (UNI), 19-9
165 Hesston Johnson (UNI) dec. Cole Pape (I), 7-3
174 Tyler Nixt (I) dec. Eric Hauan (UNI), 6-3
184 Paul Bradley (I) maj. dec. Eric Pedretti (UNI), 12-4
197 Ryan Fulsaas (I) won by forfeit
Hwt. Michael Shedeck (UNI) dec. Ryan Fuller (I), 4-2 sv
125 Luke Eustice (I) dec. C. Helgeson (UNI), 10-5
133 Patrick Garcia (UNI) maj. dec. Trent Goodale (I), 14-3
The Hawkeyes lost a hard-fought match to intra-state rival Iowa State, 19-16, Sunday night in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The win marked Iowa State's first in the arena, which was built in 1983. Iowa fell to 1-1 with the loss, while Iowa State improved to 7-0. The Cyclones gained ground in the Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series, but Iowa maintains a 7-4 lead in the contest.
While each team won five matches, the difference maker was Grant Nakamura's 6:37 pin over Iowa's Lucas Magnani at 125 pounds. Iowa State jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Nick Passolano's 12-8 decision over Luke Lofthouse at 174, but Hawkeye junior Paul Bradley scored a takedown with 28 seconds left in the match to defeat Kurt Backes, 7-6, and tie the team score at 3-3. Cyclone Trevor Smith fought back with a 9-1 major decision over Dane Pape at 197, but Hawkeye freshman Matt Fields answered with a 4-2 win over Scott Coleman at heavyweight. Nakamura's pin made the team score 13-6 in favor of the Cyclones heading into the intermission. Hawkeye junior Mario Galanakis scored a 6-3 win over Jesse Sundell at 133 to make the team score 13-9. Hawkeye freshman Alex Tsirtsis put up a good fight against top-ranked Nate Gallick at 141, taking the match to the first tiebreak period, but he could not escape and lost a 2-1 decision. Hawkeye junior Ty Eustice pulled the team within striking distance with his 15-6 major decision over Aron Scott at 149, improving to 6-1 on the season. Down 5-0 in the second period to Cyclone Trent Paulson at 157, Hawkeye junior Joe Johnston scored four takedowns in the last 2:37, but came up short with a 10-8 loss, and Iowa State jumped to a 19-13 lead. Hawkeye redshirt freshman Mark Perry scored a 5-2 win over Travis Paulson to end the dual at 165, but his three team points was not enough for an Iowa win.
Iowa State 19, Iowa 16
174 Nick Passolano (ISU) dec. Luke Lofthouse (I), 12-8
184 Paul Bradley (I) dec. Kurt Backes (ISU), 7-6
197 Trevor Smith (ISU) maj. dec. Dane Pape (I), 9-1
Hwt. Matt Fields (I) dec. Scott Coleman (ISU), 4-2
125 Grant Nakamura (ISU) pinned Lucas Magnani (I), 6:37
133 Mario Galanakis (I) dec. Jesse Sundell (ISU), 6-3
141 Nate Gallick (ISU) dec. Alex Tsirtsis (I), 2-1 tb
149 Ty Eustice (I) maj. dec. Aron Scott (ISU), 15-6
157 Trent Paulson (ISU) dec. Joe Johnston (I), 10-8
165 Mark Perry (I) dec. Travis Paulson (ISU), 5-2
HAWKEYES COMPETE AT UNI OPEN
Seven Hawkeyes competed at the UNI Open last weekend at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Iowa 125-pounders Charlie Falck and Matt Morkel were the two Hawkeye placewinners. Falck, a true freshman, placed third, and Morkel, a junior, placed fifth.
IOWA WRESTLING HISTORY
Iowa's overall dual meet record is 775-198-30 (.788) in 93 seasons. The Hawkeyes have won 20 national titles, including nine of the last 14, and 31 Big Ten titles. Iowa's 47 NCAA Champions have won a total of 73 NCAA individual titles, crowning six three-time and 13 two-time champions. The Hawkeyes' 99 Big Ten Champions have won a total of 180 conference individual titles. There have been seven four-time, 18 three-time and 24 two-time Iowa winners. Iowa's 124 all-Americans have earned all-America status 254 times, including 16 four-time, 27 three-time and 28 two-time honorees.
HAWK TALK WITH Jim Zalesky
KXIC Radio (AM-800) will air nine Hawk Talk with Jim Zalesky radio shows this season. The show will be live from LaCasa Mexican Restaurant in Iowa City from 6-7 p.m. The next scheduled show date is Tuesday, December 7.
CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE
The Hawkeye wrestling staff of Jim Zalesky, Troy Steiner, Tim Hartung, Cliff Moore and Mike Zadick earned a total of seven NCAA titles, 12 Big Ten titles and 17 all-America honors. Their combined college career wrestling record is 619-88-1 (.875), including four undefeated seasons.
The 75th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships will be held March 17-19 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, MO. This will be the first time in tournament history that the meet will be held in the same venue back-to-back years. All-session tickets are $100 and are available at 877/722-1604 or www.stlsports.org/wrestling.
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Backyard Birder: After 25 years, it's time to step aside
A male monarch butterfly newly emerged from its chrysalis – and Ball jar – soon to take flight to its wintering grounds in a patch of conifers in Mexico. Photo by Francie Von Mertens
Francie Von Mertens
Backyard Birder
Published: 9/6/2019 10:52:34 AM
When people ask, "What's new?" I usually laugh and say, "You know me, nothing," sometimes feeling sheepish as though I SHOULD have news to report.
I do keep on the same track for years. This column is a good example.
Its title – appropriately – is Backyard Birder. I do venture out of the backyard to new places, but I'm content to observe all the myriad, subtle changes in the backyard through the year.
Birds were the first focus. When I began the column I was eager to learn everything about birds and their world. Our kids had left home and there was a void in my heart.
Soon I began this column. Twenty-five years ago.
I've strayed from birds over the years. To pollinators, most recently. Columns on native bees, the unsung true pollinator workhorses. Honey bees get all the attention. Both are in trouble.
Columns on the monarch butterfly's amazing fall migration to Mexico; other columns on why their numbers are falling.
I've written about neonicotinoids (I still can't spell them), the systemic neurotoxin pesticides that lawn treatments apply routinely. Some plants we buy for our gardens are treated, too, although most growers have phased them out in response to pressure from the public.
I write about "neonics" with hopes to increase that pressure. They are linked to the decline in pollinators, monarch butterflies included.
Columns on land conservation – wonderful lands to explore and wonderful people who have conserved them.
On mushrooms. Fungi, the fifth kingdom. Some species live symbiotically with trees and are essential to the health of the forest as they provide trees with soil nutrients and receive sugars in return.
I've written often about invasive plants, a threat to forest health, and to fields and waterways. In November, I've written about foraging wild cranberries with grandchildren for the annual Thanksgiving relish (recipe included).
And on and on.
Birds led me to all these places.
I write to expand the learning process. Our species is programmed to observe, to learn, to figure things out – as it is with all animals. A species' survival depends on it, actually.
I also write to share the intimacy of nature observed. I have often written here that we take better care of the familiar, of what we know. The natural world needs taking care of, the wild ones – plants and animals.
I've been at it for one-third of my life, this column. And the time has come to move on. There have been guest writers recently as part of my stepping aside.
I'll continue the column through mid-November, the 25th anniversary of my first one. I suspect I'll return now and again, and I hope that guest writers will, too, but for now, for me, it's time for a sabbatical.
I realize now that when someone asks "What's new?" I could report the coolest recent discovery out in the natural world, or while researching how that world works.
For 25 years I have shared those discoveries here.
Pictured here is the newest discovery a few days ago – this monarch butterfly recently emerged from its chrysalis, so very fresh and intensely colored as it exercised its wings before taking flight.
Monarch caterpillars are everywhere this August, reversing a steady and disturbing decline. They strip milkweed stems bare, sometimes four or even five to a stem here in our backyard. I've relocated some from stripped stems to ones with intact leaves to munch on.
Back a week or so I found a chrysalis attached to weed I'd yanked. I brought it inside.
It seemed too small to contain what would become an adult butterfly, and I didn't have high hopes. But the bejeweled, pastel green chrysalis did start to dissolve, seemingly, darkening as a black and orange pattern within became visible.
A butterfly did emerge from a fully transparent, cast aside casing, unfolding well beyond its confined chrysalis size.
I've never seen such a clean, clear black and shades of orange.
The fall hawkwatch up on Pack Monadnock will count monarchs as they flit by on their way to Mexico, and hawkwatchers will wish them well, I suspect, and marvel at their journey.
The staffed hawkwatch began Sunday for its 15th year. As I've written here probably 14 times, broad-winged hawks will be swirling by in numbers hard to believe in a couple weeks.
Be sure to join others up on the watch, always good company, hawks and humans.
Meade Cadot and I will be up on Crotched Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 15, reprising a hawkwatch we did for many years, way back when. It's part of the Harris Center's 50th anniversary year-long celebration. Check the Harris Center's online calendar for information.
A live hawk from NH Audubon will be part of that 9 a.m. 'til noon event, although if the hawks are flying we'll be there a lot longer.
As I've often written, come on along.
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This abandoned baby monkey has been adopted by a herd of goats
The best thing internet era has given us is an array of videos depicting interspecies friendships, which, of course, are the best drug-free cure for a case of the blues.
If you were woken up at 3am by a drunk singing on the street, your alarm didn't go off and you missed the bus to work... well, all your bad vibes are about to disappear. You don't believe it? Just watch:
Who could have a bad day after watching this baby monkey hugging its goat mother?
Zhong Shu, the owner of this farm in China, found the tiny animal all alone, hidden on a piece of wood. But it didn't take long for the monkey to form a bond with Mr Shu's goats.
"The little monkey has been here for five days. When I found it, it was on that piece of wood over there", he explained. "As soon as it saw me, it started to run back and forth, it was scared of me".
"After that, it climbed up onto the that goat's back". During the day, the goat goes out to graze while the little monkey clings to its back. The pair sleep together at night and never leave each other's sides.
But the heartwarming story must come to an end. The authorities will soon take the monkey to the zoo where they'll care for it until it's ready to return to its habitat.


Names of the Nineties: Emerson
09/09/2019 by James Kelly
In 1995, Middlesbrough were promoted back to England's top flight after a two-season absence. Before long, they began to make some eye-catching, and markedly uncharacteristic, foreign signings. Champions League winner Fabrizio Ravanelli arrived from Juventus, Juninho was tasked with delivering the Samba flair in attack, and highly-rated young manager Bryan Robson was at the helm. Alongside an exciting new stadium in the Cellnet Riverside, it appeared the start of a golden period for the club.
Another piece of this masterplan was the signing of Emerson Moisés Costa, a Brazilian midfield general, for £4m from Porto. Having helped that club to back-to-back league titles, and been courted by a host of top European clubs after being crowned Portuguese Player of the Year, it appeared very shrewd business.
Signing a four-year contract in May 1996, the Brazilian was unveiled next to manager Robson, both men beaming in a press conference. Meanwhile, posing outside in his new colours, the distinctively unkempt Emerson delighted crowds outside with an array of flicks and kick-ups on a clear spring day.
This brightness was to encapsulate the beginnings of Emerson's time on Teesside. Debuting on opening day of the 1996/97 Premiership season, in a 3-3 draw with Liverpool, Emerson impressed with his marshalling of the midfield. Initial optimism would prove well merited, as Boro started the season in a positive vein.
Emerson would grab his first goal in England in an early September 1996 fixture with West Ham, opening the scoring in a 4-1 victory. Receiving the ball on the outside of the box from compatriot Juninho, he would jink past one defender before rifling into the top corner from all of 25 yards.
It is for these spectacular long-range efforts that Emerson would be best remembered, with another scorcher coming in a 7-0 drubbing of Hereford United in the League Cup second round. Three weeks later came an arguably more significant goal from distance, as a cleared ball was met with a ferocious piledriver that nearly took the net off its moorings in a 2-2 draw at Sunderland.
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Then, in October 1996, came another starring League Cup performance, as Emerson scored and generally dominated from the first minute of 5-1 victory over Huddersfield. His performance was such that, following the game, Terriers manager Brian Horton walked into the post-match press conference and reportedly simply exclaimed to journalists as he took his seat, "Emerson, wow!"
Regardless of the jaw-dropping strikes, resulting Samba dance celebrations, and good performances, matters were not as positive as they may seem for Boro. Between September and December 1996, they failed to win a league game, enduring such results as a 4-0 loss at Southampton and a 5-1 drubbing by Liverpool.
Meanwhile, there were far more pressing issues concerning Emerson. Less than impressed by the impending winter weather in north-east England, and amidst rumoured interest from Bobby Robson at Barcelona, the midfielder went missing. It is this that fuels part of his legend. Back in his homeland, Emerson told media he was unable to return owing to his wife suffering from depression brought on by the prospect of living in north-east England.
Nevertheless, after Steve Gibson threatened to banish him to the reserves, Emerson returned to the fold. The Brazilian played a part in taking Boro to both the FA and League Cup finals, although the initial sparkle was gone. Both showpiece occasions were to end in defeat, whilst Middlesbrough's league form continued to plummet. For all his talent Emerson would prove unable to help the side avoiding relegation to Division One, particularly blamed for a lacklustre display at Leeds on the final day.
The prospect of away trips to Crewe, Port Vale and Stockport left it widely expected all the foreign stars would exit Teesside. Indeed Juninho was sold to Atlético Madrid, whilst Ravanelli went to Marseille, but Emerson curiously remained. Starting in the opening day win over Charlton, he would form a good understanding with new signing Paul Merson. Their partnership was well displayed in a 2-1 win away at Sunderland in late September 1997, with Merson setting up another long-range thunderbolt from Emerson.
A month later came another large element of the Emerson legend, namely concerning another person. The man in question was a compatriot called Fabio, someone of whom little is known. The most widely accepted idea was he was Emerson's cousin visiting, although others claim he was his brother-in-law. Regardless of the legitimacy of these claims, he had been at Middlesbrough for a period playing reserve team football.
In late-October 1997, an injury crisis led to Fabio being drafted in at right-back for the league match with Huddersfield. The legend goes he starred in this game, displaying incredible technique and being Man of the Match. However, bizarrely, no highlights exist of Fabio in this game, and he failed to directly contribute in a 3-0 win. His reserve appearances then dried up before he was released shortly after, vanishing without trace until reappearing some years later in the German fourth division.
Back to Emerson, things failed to get any easier. He was still struggling to fully adjust to life in the north-east, claiming he had tried to convince his parents to move to Middlesbrough, only to be "unable to convince them to even set foot on the aircraft." The persistent interest from Barcelona meant at the end of 1997 Emerson went AWOL in Brazil again. Tired of this petulance, in January 1998, the decision was taken to sell the player to La Liga side Tenerife.
Several years in Spain with Deportivo and Atlético were followed by a curious return to the UK in 2003 with Rangers. He lasted 15 games there before ending up in the admittedly warmer climes of Greece, first with Skoda Xanthi and then AEK. The former of these clubs were poetically drawn against Boro in the first round of the 2005-06 UEFA Cup, meaning Emerson returned to Teesside some seven years after going on strike. He was unable to prevent his old side winning 2-0, however.
Reflecting on his time in the north-east, the Brazilian remarks how contrary to popular opinion he was most fond of both Middlesbrough as a city and its good-natured people. He did, though, reserve less praise for the club, stating how at times they treated him "like a manual labourer." Nevertheless, with hindsight he wishes he'd done things differently. "I did cause problems for the club, but I was young and it is different now. I made a mistake and should have stayed," he told Sky Sports in 2003. A cult hero on Teesside, how Middlesbrough fans wish that were true.
By James Kelly @jkell403
Tags: emerson, middlesbrough, premier league
James Kelly 09/09/2019


Jim Crow in Palestine and The American Empire
Co-Authored with Lisa Chieco
Our fellow Americans and Earth citizens could benefit from historical perspective. The mantle of American Exceptionalism, a garb that resembles an emperor's new clothes, becomes more transparent with each passing year.
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Americans carry a lot of shame for things we've done to this planet that no other government in the world can match, such as the atomic bomb and agent orange (all of this inflicted on civilian populations, explaining it as "collateral damage").
Another 9/11, this time 1973, the assignation of duly elected president of Chile. Here a boy carries on a tradition that unites the people of Chile who were another victim: wearing Allende glasses
We have murdered peoples, starved them and spread deadly smallpox virus via "gift blankets", a virus previously unknown in the Americas. These gift blankets exposed native populations to a disease that spread like wildfire. Did you learn this in history class?
From trains passing westward millions of bison were murdered. Stacked, the bison heads rested thousands high with a deliberate goal: starve the natives and their nations. Our collective memory ascribes the slaughter to sportsmen shooting from the comfort and safety of train cars. There is a little more to that story. Those "sportsmen" disembarked from the locomotives to murder as many bison as humanly possible and thereby remove the buffalo as sustenance to Native America. We learn soundbites. "The Indians used every single part of each buffalo."
From Smithsonian.org. This is not photo-shopped. Would that it were.
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed
But connecting the dots leading to genocide is never taught. George Washington as a youth chopped down a cherry tree and owned up to it. Andrew Jackson is the president we have on the twenty-dollar bill. His nickname was "Stonewall." We store soundbites in our memory and we pass them down to our grandchildren. No mail delivery on Presidents Day, banks close but schools are in session and there are sales at Target. Congress passed a law making Presidents Day a Monday holiday…
We murdered millions of First People to get what we wanted, promises broken as greed expanded.
We witness the same dynamic in the Israel/Palestine Conflict. The misinformed think in black and white terms: Philistina does not exist. I use the name Philistine because that is what they call themselves. Bill speaks to the distinction between Philistine and Palestine here.
This is the Arabic word:
Yes, I meant Palestine. Shukran
It looks like a series of squiggly lines but evokes a familiar biblical tribe: the Philistines.
British and the United States bound by "a special relationship" snap the Israel into existence in 1948, a catastrophe for the people already living there. The world was still reeling over the disclosure of concentration camps built by a country with a genocidal dream: Third Reich Germany. We forced villagers living near the camps to march through and to bury the dead found in those camps. Israelis and Americans know little or less about the daily human rights abuses in Israel and the occupied territories. It doesn't help that the New York Times is corporate and NPR is sponsored by corporations. An independent press is our lifeblood.
There is an American camp established to house "enemies of the state" without legal recourse, or representation: Guantanamo, an American naval base from the days when Cuba was ours to manipulate.
The locus of two eras of imperial ambition on the island of Cuba
Close Guantánamo
We invaded, without provocation, the independent country of Iraq in 2003. My husband and I participated in one of many rallies in the days preceding that war, also a catastrophe. We were already in Afghanistan under the guise of chasing the terrorist responsible for the horror of 9/11 in New York City. We lost 3000 that day: it was genuine horror. We responded by murdering innocent civilian "collaterals." Those fighting back are fighting for their autonomy and the right to own their nation without the foreign interests who run their government. The British set borders in their Middle Eastern colonies to contain rival religious sects that could fight one another and leave the governance to the halls of empire. Divide and conquer.
World Wars and Empire
Lawrence in Arabia reviewed in The Guardian
And we are that remaining world power that installed the puppet Saddam Hussein! But perhaps just say "mistakes were made," accidents happen. But to the victors go the spoils.
Why border lines drawn with a ruler in WW1 still rock the Middle East
So our uninitiated young people and our more simple and hardline conservatives, tricked and lied to with a propaganda team that manipulates a language of fear alloyed with ignorance, have been at this war for 16 years! In keeping with this embarrassing situation – we also are a, so far, sole superpower gone wild in Israel. We want to make up for what started as humiliation and provocation by the Third Reich and murder of millions of Jews in Europe.
And now the shoe is on the other foot. Out of a vindictiveness, and resources available to the Earth's fourth largest military, centuries old olive groves are bulldozed to break the spirit and humanity of the Palestinian people. Using humiliation as a daily means of control, cornering them in the same kind of ghetto that the Jews endured in Poland. Install a man with the skills of Joseph Goebbels to orchestrate. Without a military and with weapons on a par with those of the former Ottoman Empire, they revolted using these meager "weapons" and couldn't gain their freedom.
With fell precision, Israel used a false-flag campaign to tell all Arabs living in ancestral homes that an attack by other Arab nations was imminent and they would be better off leaving their homes until the danger was over. 1948: 700,000 Palestinians lived out a modern incarnation of the "Trail of Tears." So, building upon a lie Israel moved in and took this land from people who were sharing THEIR land with the new state of Israel. In a word, the Palestinians (Philistines) had their land stolen, with catastrophic (Nakba) results. Israel has a 10 per cent population of Palestinians who did not leave in 1948. Their access to the polls limited similar to Jim Crow. On the very day of his reelection Netanyahu famously warned of those "swarming" voters. It's as repulsive as our Jim Crow laws in the South. Peaceful demonstrations were the beginning in our nation – because the removal of legal slave ownership should have made black people safe and equal – but let's not be foolish – it did no such thing until black people got sick and tired of it and revolted – and I would do the same.
Jim Crow in Palestine
There are no shortage of parallels between oppression of blacks in the Jim Crow South and Israel's present-day oppression of Palestinians. Issam Rimawi APA images
The Black Panthers were born into a dream denied, to paraphrase Langston Hughes. They demanded equality and freedom, and were also murdered, but the message made it to the fore and legal recourse resulted in affirmative action and enforcement of the 14th Amendment. Now, we have nazi storm troopers of a police armed with military gifted them by the Defense Department who just shoot black people like they're in target practice! I'm sickened and ashamed – and we are the nation supporting the same shameful behavior of the current governmental leaders in Israel.
I lean on God, knowing in my heart it is the Enemy we need to fight: the evil that flourishes on greed and hate.
Author Bill ZieglerPosted on December 29, 2015 July 4, 2016 Categories human rights, Nakba, Palestine, Prison, racismTags American History, black lives matter, ethnic cleansing, genocide, guantanamo, jim crow, Native America, Palestine, racism
5 thoughts on "Jim Crow in Palestine and The American Empire"
marthastephens says:
The U. S. is a grave sinner, I perfectly agree. If war and famine and refugees massed at borders they cannot cross — along with endless "development" and fossil fuels — don't destroy the planet, it won't be our fault, will it? I would only say that along with all these crimes, there have always been people in this country (and in every country) who tried to stop the tumultuous assaults on humanity and nature and make peace with all the world. We must all do the same, as best we can, in the year 2016.
Peter Schreiner says:
To say this is an excellent piece is restraint. Although the styles vary, somewhat, the clarity, the candor, the raw truth puts me to the mind of reading Howard Zinn. Splendid in its revelations.
Bill Ziegler says:
Hello Peter, I've just now discovered your comment from, well, about a year and a half ago. Howard Zinn is another of my greatest heroes, he is a favorite of my son Alan as well. So belated thanks for those kind words, my friend — my co-author Lisa, whom you have now met, thanks you profusely 🙂 Our very best to all and each, including every fellow sentient being you so ably assist! Long live Veganarchism!!
Vragensteller - Inquirer says:
The "enemy of Allah" are the people who do not want to hear what is inside their heart and not want to see what everything around them has to bring and who think the earth belongs to them.
Europeans and Asians may think "Americans carry a lot of shame for things" but they themselves are not aware of the shame they should bear. their president Even seems to think he can govern not only his own divided United States of America, but considers himself to be the rightful and righteous one to decide what Israel has to do, ignoring the history of that place in the East.
Hallo Vragensteller,
Thank you so much for reading my blog and for this kind comment. The geopolitical arrogance of this nation's power brokers literally knows no bounds, having already ethnically cleansed the indigenous peoples under the banner of Manifest Destiny, then an interest in its entire hemisphere, then a blessed-by-God inherent right to staking claim to the entire planet and staking the hearts of those with the temerity to question its authority. So the country with the most guns, nuclear weapons and ambitions to exploit every natural resource, human resource and animal resource within its 25,000 mile reach…
Alexander Haig was Secretary of "Defense" under Richard Nixon. He is attributed with calling Israel a land-based aircraft carrier that could never be sunk.
I was naive enough to think that the US might recognize a blow-back from global interference in 2001, to realize that we created the need for resistance to never ending war and never ending blessings from God. Israel is also a laboratory for testing weaponry and security systems. It's equivalent to the District of Columbia, a de facto District of Israel. The irony inherent there is enormous — racism is rampant in that country. Ethiopian Jews have no "right of return", neither do the Palestinians who lived on the incomparably beautiful Mediterranean coast. However anyone with a Northern European skin tone is most welcome. Another grand irony: 700,000 Palestinians were expelled in 1948 and driven into the West Bank and that open-air prison that is Gaza. Now 700,000 settlers literally occupy the occupied again. Imagine kids looking through a fence and seeing settler kids playing in what had been your home. Then there's that Apartheid Wall…
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