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Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there and to all the Moms that have to be a mom and dad all wrapped in one. I hope you all have a great day!

Enjoy your time with your little or grown ones and take some time for yourself…you deserve it.  ❤

If you like flash fiction and short stories…the ebook version of my book is free today. It is short, creepy, and I love it. I truly hope you enjoy it as well.

Flash fiction or short stories? I used to get confused on which is which. It is my understanding that flash fiction is a straight to the point writing that is no more than 1,000 words, while a short story can go into more depth but it can be up to 15,000 words. The word limit doesn’t mean much to me. I think as long as you enjoy the writing (and reading) then the technical part of is it flash fiction or short story doesn’t matter as much.  And since I love reading and writing both…why not take the plunge?

983707_10204282913177364_6379037062214518146_nLast summer, I published a short stories/flash fiction book STORIES AFTER DARK so when I saw a chance to enter in a flash fiction challenge…I jumped. The idea of being given a topic, a certain word or words to include in the story, and a strict deadline is so appealing. I love a good challenge.

Even if I don’t win, or even come close, the feedback I will get from my writing during this challenge will be everything to me. I am not the best writer and I hope I never am, because I always want to be better than I am. The same goes with being a teacher. I will never believe or feel or say that I am the best teacher I can be. There is always room for improvement…always.

This summer, I am working on a children’s book and I hope to be finished within a month. The timing couldn’t be more perfect! I am beyond excited to begin this new writing challenge at the end of July.

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Guilt is in everything I do. Why? I am a mother, teacher, and a writer. Anytime that takes me away from my son leaves me feeling guilty. I envy those mothers that don’t have this mom guilt. I truly do. Maybe I have so much guilt because I always wanted to be an at-home mom of over four kids and now I am a working mom of one child. I feel bad that I have to work. I feel bad that my son doesn’t have any siblings. I feel bad when I want to take time for myself to be with friends or take an exercise class or go writing because that is time that I am away from that only child. Pure guilt. Continue reading

  I love reading. Reading has been at times my escape, my companion, my teacher and my seducer (did you read Fifty Shades of Grey?!  That is all.)  However, I was raised by a mother who adores to read and a father who openly hates school and hates to read. Ironically my mother (the parent that loves reading) grew up with severe dyslexia. She taught me to never give up and to always go after your dreams.  Continue reading

As a teacher, it is bittersweet that the school year has come to an end. I absolutely adore my students and their parents. I truly do. Due to being a career changer, I (at times) feel like I don’t fit in with the “meant-to-be” teachers. They always knew they wanted to be a teacher. I love that about them. Though I am much older than some (I still can’t believe that I will be four decades old this year!), I feel like I am younger at times. Strange, but true. They know what they want to do for the rest of their life and have known since they were kids. I, on the other hand, am the opposite. I have many passions in life: teaching, writing, creating fun or pretty cakes, drooling over Johnny Iuzzini (joking..maybe!) and am always thinking what else can I do?! Continue reading

I have abandoned many blogs in my years. I have come back to wordpress and I hope to stay. Maybe I get bored; maybe I cannot find exactly what I want and refuse to settle; maybe I am a bit crazy? Who knows.

For those of you that don’t know me…I am a writer, teacher, mother, daydreamer, hopeless romantic, horror obsessed reader AND a future (if not already) cat lady.

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2018 Toyota Century (3rd gen) at the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show - Live

Oct 25, 2017 - 9:09am IST | ,  ,   | Aravind Jayachandran

In case you've never heard of the Toyota Century; yes, Toyota actually makes a super luxury limousine too. And no, not the one that has a large 'L' badge and aggressive styling. The Century is a Japanese limo that's been around since 1967, and it's just entered the third generation only.

2018 Toyota Century front three quarters left side at 2017 Tokyo Motor Show

The new Toyota Century measures 5,335 mm long,  1,930 mm wide, 1,505 mm high and has a wheelbase of 3,090 mm. Despite being the latest generation, Toyota has basically rehashed the characteristic styling, albeit with a slightly upright c-pillar. There are a few modern elements such as the three projector headlamps and LED Array AHS, the three-dimensional lens of the taillamps and the sensors for the Toyota Safety Sense package.

Inside, the new Century has all the bells and whistles you'd find in a European luxury limo. For instance, rear occupants get power articulating and massaging rear seats, integrated leg rest, multi-operational LCD panel located in the central armrest and 20-speaker premium audio system. For those of you wondering the type of upholstery used, the Century comes with wool upholstery, which may seem unorthodox. However, the Japanese consider wool as a traditional luxury touch. Leather upholstery is still an option.

2018 Toyota Century rear three quarters right side at 2017 Tokyo Motor Show

Gone is the trademark V12 engine for a new hybrid system that combines a 2UR-FSE 5.0L naturally aspirated V8 engine with an electric motor. It is claimed to offer the lowest fuel consumption in its class.

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Democrat Elizabeth Warren announces US presidency bid

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has officially launched her election campaign to become the party’s presidential candidate for the 2020 United States polls.

Warren on Saturday made the announcement at an event in Lawrence in her home state of Massachusetts, where she took a shot at the current administration and the nation’s politics, Xinhua news agency reported.

“We need to take power in Washington away from the wealthy and well-connected and put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs,” she said in her speech.

The campaign of Warren, who’s on the Democratic Party’s left flank, will focus on economic equality, government accountability and reining in big corporations.

She pledged on Saturday to “break up monopolies when they choke off competition” and “take on Wall Street banks so that the big banks can never again threaten the security of our economy.”

Warren has faced questions about her past claims of Native American ancestry. Her decision last year to release the results of a DNA test intended to prove her claims drew criticism from Native American groups.

The senator apologized earlier this week for those claims, clarifying that she is not a member of any tribe.

Brad Parscale, campaign manager for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election, accused Warren of being a “fraud.”

“Elizabeth Warren has already been exposed as a fraud by the Native Americans she impersonated and disrespected to advance her professional career, and the people of Massachusetts she deceived to get elected,” Parscale said in a statement on Saturday.

Trump has called Warren “Pocahontas” and claimed that she benefited in schools and work from minority status.

Warren, 69, has represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 2013. In November last year, she won re-election to the upper chamber for a second term.

She’s now officially joining a crowded field of Democrats seeking the party’s nomination to take on Trump next year.

Other prominent Democratic figures who have announced presidential bids include California Senator Kamala Harris, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Aboriginal, Native, or Indigenous?

The words Aboriginal, Native and Indigenous refer to the same group of people. This is in the same context as Caucasian or White.

The three groups of Indigenous people in Canada according to the Canadian Constitution Act 1982 are Indians, Métis and Inuit.

The use of the word “Indian” is considered offensive by many First Nations. The word “Aboriginal” was a replacement for “Indian” and “Native”. “Indigenous” is becoming the most accepted word.

The word “Indian” will remain ingrained in Canadian Law and History. Status Indigenous peoples are referred to in the Indian Act 1876 as Indians. The word “Indian” continued to be used in the Constitution Act 1982 and is used in many federal statutes to this day.

The term Indigenous was chosen by Indigenous leaders in the 1970s to identify and unite diverse communities and represent them in global political arenas. The term Indigenous is a relational word that highlights a peoples’ connection to traditional territories, as well as their experiences of colonization.

The term Aboriginal was introduced in the 1982 Canadian Constitution by your federal government as an ‘umbrella’ term to include First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Some people dislike the word Aboriginal for this reason and because the prefix “ab” is Latin for “away from” or “not”. Ironically, Aboriginal can be interpreted to mean “not original”.

The terms Aboriginal, Indigenous and First Peoples are generally accepted terms in Canada and are inclusive of First Nations, Métis and Inuit.

In 2016 the Congress of Aboriginal People changed their name to the Indigenous Peoples’ Assembly of Canada in part because the term is “more inclusive since it identifies peoples in similar circumstances in all countries with a colonial history.”

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Do you want to do business in Germany but see a difficulty with the communication?  INDIPA supports foreign companies with their German customers in German.

Making use of INDIPA’s German speaking customer service team spares you the hassle of renting an office in Germany, furnishing it and recruiting German staff. Moreover,the INDIPA option is likely to be simpler, more cost-effective and quicker. INDIPA has long-standing experience in undertaking the German customer service on behalf of a company, and the many successes we have achieved for our clients so far speak for themselves.

Outsourcing the customer service

When we carry out the customer service on behalf of our clients, we come to regard ourselves as an active and integral part of their company. We work as if we represent a German branch of our clients’ company. For example, we have direct online access to many of our clients’ computer systems in order to swiftly and effectively carry out any purchasing orders that we receive. It goes without saying that we at INDIPA familiarise ourselves in detail with all of our clients’ products and services so that we can provide outstanding customer care.

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Every single member of our staff has a formal commercial qualification and work according to the latest standards that we have developed together with our partner, Mercuri International, one of the world’s leading consultancys for marketing and sales. We work in a highly professional, dedicated and committed manner, and carry out every assigned task for our client as if it were our own company. This is underlined by the fact that we practice results-related renumeration with some of our clients.

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Outsourcing your German customer service to INDIPA gives you the following advantages:

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Get the perfect swimsuit for the pool parties this summer.

The swimsuit “Victoria” is both flattering and has such a gorgeous color you will be the life of the party.

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Victoria is the great queen. This one piece red swimsuit features cutouts and fringes.


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Everything Enrollment Managers Need to Know about Inbound Enrollment Marketing

A New Strategy for Student Recruitment

Today’s enrollment marketers face an array of challenges when it comes to student recruitment. In an industry that is crowded, competitive, and regularly forced to adapt to the ever-changing technological and cultural landscapes, knowing how to attract — and convert — the right students to your programs can feel overwhelming.

At DD, we’re all about helping Davids beat Goliaths. Whether you’re the director of graduate admissions responsible for marketing 100+ graduate programs, an undergraduate admissions coordinator looking for tips on marketing arts programs, or a graduate program coordinator looking to market just one program, we believe this resource will be of great value to you (and if it’s not, be sure to drop us a line).

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Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary cities, we propose to use innovative mapping and analytical tools, which allow representing the richness and complexity of the controversies that accompany the making of a common urban future. Such tools are urgently needed to understand better the conflicting processes that drive urban development and to improve planning methods and policies. Through the event of the publication of draft Mumbai Development Plan (MDP) 2014-2034 and its temporary withdrawal and revision due to an unprecedented public outcry and strong criticism, we propose to use the methodological tool of mapping controversies in the field of urban planning. This event is highly representative of the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the Global South as well as in the North. Using preliminary findings from this ongoing study this article highlights the need for new descriptive methodology that would describe better the heterogeneous characteristic of the cities. Thereby, it proposes to contribute to the international debates on the transformation of urban conflicts and more broadly on the renewal of critical urban studies.

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Lockheed Martin executive: Reported Navy hack did not impact Aegis Common Source Library

January 15, 2019 at 1:41 PM

A recently reported hack of Navy contractors did not affect Lockheed Martin's Aegis Common Source Library, according to a company executive.

Lockheed's Naval Combat & Missile Defense Systems Vice President Jim Sheridan made the remark during a media briefing with reporters Tuesday at the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium.

Lockheed bills its Aegis Common Source Library as a combat system that supports "software reuse and commonality across all modernized and new Aegis systems."

The Wall Street Journal reported in December that hackers believed to be associated with China’s government infiltrated U.S. Navy contractors.

The Navy initiated a review of its cyber security practices, according to the report, which cited American officials attributing the breaches to China.

Sheridan emphasized that combatting cyber security threats is "a continuous journey in evolution."

"The requirements continue to raise the bar on what we do and defensive posture to fend off cyberattacks," he said.


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Donate Blood Plasma. This hack come from fellow blogger Melissa Blevins, who has been making upwards of 400 dollars a month donating blood plasma.  If making a few extra dollars wasn’t good enough, donating blood plasma can save lives. Need more reason to donate, donating blood plasmas can burn 650 calories, beats the exercise bike for an hour! (420 calories)
Can someone help. I need a job or at least a hobbie to do at home, i need to make $400 in about 2 weeks. I’m 15 so i can’t work yet. If anyone has any suggestions please e-mail me! ooh & btw i can’t mow any lawns cause everyone who lives close by dosn’t have any lawn at all. So if there is any suggestions whatsoever please feel free to e-mail me. thanks!
Websites like Survey Junkie will pay you a decent chunk of change for the low-maintenance, borderline mindless task of completing surveys. Companies want to understand consumers better, and one way they do that is by compensating survey-takers (a.k.a. you). Most surveys pay between $0.50 and $1.25, and many of them take less than 5 minutes to do. You can read our full Survey Junkie review for more info.
If you want to clear some space out in your house and have a big stack of books you’ve been holding onto for too long, you can make money selling your books and textbooks online. Stores like Half Priced Books and others will give you cents on the dollar for each of your current books while you can check what your book is worth by simply entering the ISBN number on Book Scouter.
If you can find and restore items like furniture and appliances, you can make a substantial amount of money. You can acquire the items on Craigslist, or even at garage sales or estate sales, restore them, and then list them for sale on the site. You may also be able to market certain items on eBay, particularly if they are small, unusual, but high in price.
1. Firstly, call the service provider for your utility bill and talk to them. More than likely they will work with you and help you out with your situation by offering you payment arrangements or an extended due date. Also, make sure to let them know that you are low income. Ask if there are any discount programs that they know of, to lower your monthly amount due. Off the top of my head, I am familiar with two programs that discount your gas and electric bills every month. CARE Discount and FERA discount. Their websites will offer you complete details on every way to lower your monthly charges. Whatever you decide....the worst thing you can do is ignore the disconnection notice. By communicating with the biller, you are establishing a responsible attitude that will most likely help your immediate situation.
Holly told me she started writing content in 2011. At the time, she still worked a full-time job but created content online part-time to supplement her income. Over time, she was able to double and triple her rates until she could quit her full-time job to write. These days, she makes bank as a freelance writer and teaches others to do the same via her online course, Earn More Writing.


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On our 40th anniversary we are most grateful to those who have made our last four decades possible.

-Danelle Dann

Founded by Danelle Dann, 'The Interlangue Group Inc.' along with a specialised branch, "Danelle Dann International, Inc.' are referred to as 'Interlangue' on the current website. We have geared our activities toward executive search for the foreign banking community doing business in the U.S. at first, and, following the financial crisis of 2008, our attention has been re-focused on the very same banks and their respective Headquarters in the EU. The focus of our searches has become the strategy underlying sophisticated trading instruments, not only of banks, but of world-renowned Research Groups. We have concluded searches in Zuerich, Frankfurt, and Geneva during the last seven years.

With a presence in Geneva, headquartered in New York, we are able to accommodate any schedule, as ours is a relatively small community, be it in the US or anywhere in the EU.

Having placed the emphasis on Corporate Finance and Treasury from the start, we have continued a steadfast march alongside our clientele for the last thirty five years. Recently new dimensions were added to our assignments:  research for the theoretical aspects of Treasury as well as Teaching at the PhD level, quite apart from trading instruments (both of the usual nature in FX  and MM as well as in the more 'elastic' ones, such as Derivatives).

Not drawing a distinction between 'client' and 'candidate', 'Interlangue' have weathered a multitude of storms: "black Monday" of 1987, Gulf War I, September/11/2001, various corporate scandals following 9/11, Gulf War II, the 2008 near-collapse of the financial markets, and most recently the unique (for the current generation) political conditions at both European and national levels, all interspersed with some good years.

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The work on 'regime complexes' - loosely coupled regimes linked through non-hierarchical relationships - provides a lens for understanding the increasing density of international rules and institutions. However, the role of private authority in the regime complex - situations where non-state actors set rules or standards that other actors adopt - has only recently received academic attention. In this article, we 'unbundle' the concept of the regime complex in two novel ways. Firstly, we argue that an accurate depiction of any regime complex must also include private authority. Secondly, using examples from environmental governance, we carefully elaborate four specific mechanisms through which public and private authority interact, demonstrating the ways in which private authority can improve the problem-solving capacity of regime complexes. In short, a full understanding of the contributions of private authority to solving environmental problems requires examining its interactions with public rules and institutions.

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- November 1, 2017: Vol. 10, Number 10

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Exit stage left: Politics in Europe is being put to the test by the rise of populist movements. What does the political environment mean for infrastructure investment in Europe?

by John McKenna

Europe may be the cradle of democracy, but the past 18 months have rocked the cradle violently.

Most recently the continent has witnessed Spanish police beating back pro-independence supporters during Catalonia’s unofficial referendum.

It was also a referendum that began Europe’s year and a half of populist upheaval — the U.K.’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union in June 2016.

And just as Brexit campaigners promised to make Britain “Great” again, on the other side of the Atlantic Donald Trump’s push to become U.S. president was filled with populist rhetoric and promises to restore his nation’s greatness.

As President Trump began his term in office at the start of 2017, many investors looked ahead worryingly to this year’s elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany.

“It looked like we were entering a period of populist politics across the globe, and particularly in Europe,” says CenterSquare listed infrastructure por

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- April 1, 2018: Vol. 12, Number 4

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Wall of money

by Marek Handzel

Wall of money: How is the bulwark of capital waiting to be invested in core European markets coping with fierce competition and record-low yields?

It’s tough out there. Intense competition for limited supply in core markets continues to drive returns down.

Savills Investment Management has said that prime yields in European real estate are set to move lower over the next year. In a report, Savills has said that recent volatility in the bond market and stretched equity market valuations have reinforced the case for real estate investment. But investor risk aversion, together with the expectation that Europe is in no hurry to raise interest rates, has resulted in a renewed investor focus on prime real assets in core markets.

Added to the mix is a wall of capital wishing to move into those very same markets. A survey run by INREV, ANREV and PREA has found that 56 percent of global investors plan to increase their exposure to real es

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What is Aura Cleansing?

Sadhguru answers a question on aura cleansing, and explains why it could be necessary in certain situations.

Sadhguru answers a question on aura cleansing, and explains why it could be necessary in certain situations.

Sadhguru: Haven’t we spoken about this any number of times? No? So, the aura. Aura is the subtle manifestation of everything that you are. If you look at one’s aura you clearly know his physical health, his mental health, his karmic structure, in a way his past and present, if he is stupid even his future. Yes. Only if you are stupid we can tell your future, otherwise we can only tell your past. Yes. (Laughs) So aura is a certain manifestation of yourself, a subtler manifestation in the physical body. Keeping it clean is good. Is keeping your body clean good? Even if you don’t understand somebody sitting next to you understands (Laughter) that it's good. It's good to keep your body clean; it's good to keep your mind clean; it's good to keep everything that is you clean because we are not... I am not trying to teach you sanitation. What I am saying is if we want to do something with anything, first thing is we purify. If you want to take anything to a higher possibility, first thing is to purify. Without purification you cannot do anything better than the way it is right now.

So purifying your body and your mind – for this we have taught you many methods – practices, food, this, that, so many aspects to keep your body and mind clean. Aura is a manifestation, it's not a presence by itself but if you’re doing sadhana and if you’re improving your system, what you manifested yesterday or what you manifested ten years ago, may be still hanging around you and not allowing you to become what you want to be. So, that can be cleansed. Have you noticed that when you have a shower, or bath as we say in India, which is not a dip but pouring of water over your body…, when you let water go over you, you’re not just cleaning the physical self, that is you are not just cleaning the skin, something else also gets cleaned. Let's say you’re feeling very angry, agitated and all kinds of things happening within you, you just go have a shower and come out, you feel (Gestures) all the nonsense kind of washed off.

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So, a shower is not just about cleaning the skin of your body, you can cleanse the aura to some extent because what you call as body is a manifestation or a play of five elements. So you can give yourself a water bath. You can similarly give yourself a wind bath. You must see this. Suppose there is a gentle breeze blowing you just went and stood like this (Gestures), suppose you wear thin clothes and simply stand like this, after some time you feel hooooo. Have you noticed that? Have you noticed this? You feel so clean and you want to... feel like transparent and you want to fly away. Wind can do that, it should be just at the right velocity and feel and temperature and everything if it's right, you will see wind just cleanses you – wind bath. We can also give you a mud bath, (Laughs) you know if you go to the rejuvenation center they’re giving you a mud bath; similarly we can give you a fire bath. (Laughter)

So what's being done in the temple is a fire bath because you know she is Bhairavi. You… you just give yourself a fire bath, of course you can't pour it over your body, you just touch the aura of your body in a certain way. There are certain patterns running in your aura, along the tracks you run the fire, you will see suddenly you will feel bright and clear. You know this, people from Indian origin you clearly know this in your homes your grandmothers were taking off drishti for you, aura cleansing. Maybe some of your grandmothers knew how exactly do it... to do it. Some of them didn’t know, with ignorance they did simply something. If it's properly done it’ll work wonderfully well; if it's simply done somehow still works partially. Any number of times people might have noticed children are sick, if they just do little fire bath suddenly they are fine. Have you noticed this? Because it's just a fire bath, and it does things to the system.

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So what is being given in the temple as Klesha nashana Kriya, that means a process which destroys impurities is in English Aura Cleansing, is to take away the impurities from the aura so that the body breathes better and feels better in terms of health, well-being, mental balance, everything. The neem – they used only the leaf on you? I think they should have used the stick. (Laughter) The neem stick is good you know, it awakens lots of people. In India if you are acting little funny and possessed they can beat the devil out of you (Laughter) with the neem stick. (Laughs) Neem is a very cleansing thing. If you’re eating the morning ball, you know your stomach will be clean. If you... if you have any kind of infection stuff in this country they would always put you on a bed of neem leaf because it’s a great cleanser of the system and a great energizer. So the leaf has tremendous medicinal properties and very strong pranic reverberations that… and it's bitter enough to get the devil out of you. (Laughs)

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So simple an explanation, thank you Aiyya. How does one learn to do the aura cleansing for oneself and for one's familiy (dhrishti) ?

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I too want to know about the dhrishti


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Keywording is essential when licensing your photos. If your images don’t have the right keywords, people won’t find them in search, so are far less likely to buy them. That’s why they’re called keywords, not meh-words.

So what are good and bad keywords to use? How much keywording is enough for a photo?

In this article, we’ll look at some examples across a variety of images to shine a light on the most important keyword categories, and help you get your images sold.

People keywords

People tags are, unsurprisingly, among the most highly-searched. All images should have at least one people tag—even empty Alaskan landscapes (which should be tagged “no people”, in case you’re wondering).

For images that actually show distinguishable people, you should include information on the number of people, ethnicity, age, and gender. If you’re uploading images for Licensing, don’t forget to include a model release with ethnicity, age, and gender information.

Felipe by Rafael Weiland on

The keywording on this photo is a bit meagre. We could flesh it out as follows:

  • People: One person, man, 20s, [specify ethnicity], handsome, serious, facial hair
  • Location: Entertainment District, Toronto, Canada
  • Setting: indoors, studio shot
  • Technical aspects: color image, head and shoulders, portrait, black background, looking at camera, horizontal image, copy space, side lit
  • Objects and colours: shirt, brown

Hate to repeat myself, but don’t forget the model release!

eoghan elena by Patrick Carroll on

This photo was uploaded by me, the keywords and metadata person. I added no tags at all, which is ironic and shameful. To be fair, though, I wasn’t thinking of selling it.

I would recommend (to myself) adding the following tags:

  • People: Irish ethnicity, two people, man, child, 5 year old, 30s, family, red hair, brown hair
  • Location: Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: color image, square image
  • Nature: trees, summer
  • Objects and colours: monument, jacket, jeans, green, red, grey
  • Themes: humor, teasing, cute, innocence

One advantage is that I know the people in this image, so if the picture were good enough to sell, I would have no problem getting model releases stating age, gender, and ethnicity.

Model releases are a prerequisite if you want to sell images with clearly-identifiable people in them. You may think you know someone’s ethnicity, age or gender, but if you’re thinking of licensing the image, you can’t just guess. It has to be in the signed model release(s). This is particularly important when it comes to ethnicity.

Location keywords

People need to know where an image was taken. It’s pretty simple, but people do forget! I would also recommend that you do not add more than one location—or for that matter, any inapplicable tags. (They really mess up search. Please don’t mess up search.)

Unearthed by Aneta Filiciak on

So are the location tags up to scratch? Well, ‘Iceland’ is there, and I guess most people will usually search that rather than try to spell other places on the island. Nonetheless, this image was taken at Reynisfjara beach, so the tag should be added. Especially if the image were to be licensed, I would recommend adding the following tags:

  • People: no people
  • Location: Reynisfjara beach, Iceland
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: copy space, selective focus, black and white
  • Nature: landscape, scenics, mist, sea stack, sea, rocks, coast, seascape, beach, water.
  • Themes: beauty in nature

‘Copy space’ is a useful keyword for advertising designers, or anyone looking to overlay text on the image.

Hammer Town by Rebecca Weir on

This photo is from Canada, our second most popular photo location after Iceland (I just made that up but it’s not that far from the truth). It has some great keywords: Hamilton, city, graffiti, street, downtown, building, rabbit, outdoors, sky.

Problem is, Hamilton is the name of loads of different places (Wikipedia lists 40 or so). So it would be helpful to add the tag ‘Ontario’ in the format ‘Hamilton – Ontario’. Here, ‘… – Ontario’ is what keywording types call a disambiguator.

For Licensing, the following tags would be good:

  • People: Incidental people [you can just see them if you look closely]
  • Location: Hamilton – Ontario, Ontario, Canada
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: color image, horizontal image
  • Nature: clear sky, sky
  • Objects and colours: building, brick, graffiti, drawing, rabbit, orange color, blue
  • Themes: youth culture, downtown

Notice the tag ‘orange color’ rather than just ‘orange’? This is because ‘orange’ could also refer to the fruit.

Image color and image orientation

Keywords like “color image”, “black and white”, “horizontal image”, and “vertical image” are so basic that they are easy to miss when you’re tagging your image. Thing is, they are important and highly valued by the image libraries that may acquire your photo.

Bathurst station by Martin Klapetek on

Here are the image’s existing keywords: TTC, Toronto, subway, train, station, Bathurst, movement, moving, platform, wall, tiles, blur, people, waiting, window.

Not bad! But ‘Bathurst’ also refers to several places, so ‘Bathurst station’ would be better; ‘blurred motion’ is more specific than ‘blur’. TTC can also mean lots of different things, so ‘Toronto Transit Commission’ would be better. Here is how full keywording would look:

  • People: small group of people, man, woman, adult
  • Location: Canada, Toronto, Bathurst station
  • Technical aspects: color image, horizontal image, blurred motion
  • Objects and colours: train, subway, platform, window, tiles, wall, black color, white color, text
  • Themes: waiting, commuting

Animals and plants example:

Oncilla by Laura Stanley on

The existing tags on this image are pretty minimal (Ecuador, small, tiger, oncilla), although ‘oncilla’ is a nice, unambiguous one. The keyword ‘tiger’ isn’t helpful here since it generally refers to a completely different animal.

Recommended keywords:

  • People: No people
  • Location: Ecuador, Amazon rainforest, [specific location in Ecuador]
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: color image, horizontal image
  • Nature: oncilla, Leopardus tigrinus, feline, epiphyte, moss, leaf, tree
  • Objects and colours: green color, brown
  • Themes: animals in the wild, animals hunting, nature, biodiversity

Note the rather specific keywords ‘animals in the wild’ and ‘animals hunting’. These help distinguish clearly from domestic animals and from images depicting humans hunting animals.

Adding the scientific name of an animal or other lifeform is always helpful, as the scientific name (in this case Leopardus tigrinus) is rarely ambiguous and can therefore be safely translated across languages.

Objects and devices example:

Rearview Sunrise by Dave Fitzsimmons on

This image does have the tags ‘car’, ‘highway’ and ‘road’, but the tagging fails to catch some of the prominent objects: rearview mirror, electricity pylon. Location is also missing, which is a keywording no-no. There is also no information about technical aspects such as lens flare.

Recommended keywords:

  • People: No people
  • Location: [Add specific location plus country]
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: color image, horizontal image, reflection, lens flare, blurred motion
  • Nature: sky, sunset, sun, cloud
  • Objects and colours: road verge, electricity pylon, rearview mirror, car, highway, road, yellow, red, black color
  • Themes: motion, travel, on the road

Some kind of filter appears to have been applied, so I would also add this information to the ‘technical aspects’ tags.

Food and drink example:

Vegetables by Michael Tighe on

The existing tags ‘delicious’, ‘tasty’, ‘gourmet’ are subjective, which is OK. But we are missing keywords on the actual foods and utensils, as well as people, location, setting and technical aspects.

Recommended keywords:

  • People: no people
  • Location: [Add specific location plus country]
  • Setting: indoors
  • Technical aspects: color image, horizontal image, close-up, studio shot
  • Objects and colours: plate, spoon, white color, orange color, green color, yellow
  • Food and drink: food, carrot, cucumber, bell pepper, hummus, parsley, vegetable, vegetarian
  • Themes: healthy eating

The specific tag ‘healthy eating’ helps distinguish from ‘healthy living’, or healthy-looking bodies and the like.

Landscape keywords

I think it’s fair to say we have more than a few excellent landscape photos at 500px, so perhaps I should give some keywording tips for this category.

Contemplation by Camila Gargantini on

The location keywords are pretty good on this photo, although ‘Victoria’ is ambiguous and could be helpfully replaced by ‘Greater Victoria’. ‘Canada’ might also be a useful addition. ‘Black and white’ is great, but apart from ‘snow’, natural objects such as ‘tree’ and ‘lake’ are not mentioned—they are essential for nature and landscape images.

Recommended keywords:

  • People: One person
  • Location: Langford lake, Vancouver Island, Greater Victoria, Canada
  • Setting: outdoors
  • Technical aspects: black and white, horizontal image
  • Nature, objects and colors: landscape, scenics, winter, snow, tree, deciduous, lake, mist
  • Themes: solitude, contemplation, beauty in nature

Note the rather specific tag ‘beauty in nature’, which helps distinguish from images of ‘beautiful people’.

The individual keywords ‘black color’ and ‘white color’ would be unhelpful here, since the keyword ‘black and white’ is included.

Business keywords example:

Gwen Elliot by Camila Gargantini on

If you want your images to sell, you could do worse than producing some nice, non-cheesy business shots. In this case, the keyword ‘media’ is very ambiguous and could be replaced with tags like ‘advertising’, ‘digital media’ and so on.

Recommended keywords:

  • People: one person, adult, 20s, woman, [ethnicity], blonde hair, long hair, smiling, attractive
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Setting: indoors, office
  • Technical aspects: color image, vertical image, portrait, waist up, three quarter front view, low angle view
  • Objects and colours: window, wall, brick, jacket, yellow, brown
  • Business: business, businesswoman

Let’s not forget the model release, too. A property release may not be necessary in this case, as the property is not clearly identifiable—although it does look like 500px’s office! Also take care not to include any visible brands in business shots.

As you can see, a lot of the essential keywords fall into a few categories. When uploading images to Licensing, think about keywords for people, locations, setting, technical aspects, objects, and colors. If you do this, your images are more likely to sell—simple as that!


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This course is intended for those who have completed Beginners and Improvers Italian courses or lived in Italy for a while. It consolidates and develops the Italian grammar and material covered in Improvers Italian and will expand vocabulary and grammar. You will learn how to communicate in Italian in everyday situations, through written and oral exercises, role-playing and multimedia.

Course Outline: The aim of this course is to further your ability to communicate effectively in Italian and is suitable for those who have completed Improvers Italian. Classes are taught in Italian.

Learning Goals: On completion of the course learners will be able to communicate confidently in Italian in a variety of everyday situations; discuss current affairs and demonstrate an extensive vocabulary through spoken and written Italian.

Free Course Materials: All courses have free Italian course books and there are no hidden registration fees, membership fees, or contracts etc.

Duration: Each evening course is made of 8 x 1 1/2 hour classes. There are no classes on Public holidays. Courses run the same day and time of the week as its start date for 2 months.

Streams: Classes are around 10 students.

Price: $150, includes small classes, expert native Italian teachers and a free course book, all for less than $19 a class.

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In Asterun, you get to:

- Pilot your spaceship throughout an intense and merciless battlefield of asteroids!

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- Battle intelligent and amazingly hostile UFOs that really don’t like you!

- Challenge yourself in the RIDICULOUS mode, where the asteroids fly fast and the damage rises faster!

- Obsessively compete on the leaderboards to become the best in different aspects of the game!

- Get fantastically obscure achievements for tasks you didn't know you had to complete!

- Eventually crash ’n burn in a spectacular ball of flames when you’ve hit that damn asteroid that appears out of nowhere!

Sound like fun to you? Great! Download today and start flying!

What’s New

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Thank you for playing Asterun! We hope you've enjoyed it so far!

In this release, we have:
- Squashed quite a few bugs! Asterun should run even more smoothly now!

- Reduced the amount of adverts you'll see! As we continue to improve Asterun we're trying out some really nice ways of showing adverts that should be better for you. You should notice a very positive difference!

- The observant ones amongst you will be glad to hear that some menu spacing has been tweaked to look even nicer :)

- The volume sliders have been tweaked to behave more nicely.

Thank you for playing Asterun, we hope you enjoy this update!

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#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay’s novels have been praised as “compelling” (The Associated Press), “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal), and “fast-paced” (The Washington Post).

Now, Barclay returns with a thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder…

Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen.

Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon—but has not—in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered.

Thomas’s brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.

And now they are in the crosshairs…

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Jul 23, 2012 – In this tantalizing stand-alone from Canadian author Barclay (The Accident), the death of 62-year-old Adam Kilbride in a tractor accident brings his illustrator son, Ray, home to Promise Falls, N.Y., for the funeral. Ray dreads what lies ahead primarily figuring out what to do about his schizophrenic younger brother, Thomas. A map-obsessed savant, Thomas spends most of his waking hours on the Whirl360 site memorizing photographed layouts of cities around the world so that he ll be able to replicate them for the CIA in the event of some future computer-crippling catastrophe. When Thomas witnesses what he thinks is a murder online in the Whirl360 images of a street on Manhattan s Lower East Side, he insists that Ray investigate. Before they know it, the brothers hit the radar of a ruthless, politically connected ex-cop and his ice pick wielding henchwoman, who are themselves scrambling to mop up after a high-stakes screwup, and the Kilbrides find themselves in the fight of their lives. The genius of Barclay s intricately convoluted design becomes increasingly apparent, with throwaway elements later becoming significant and initially discrete story lines eventually linking with diabolic inevitability. While some of the violence escalates cartoonishly, the engaging main characters grab your heart even as the plot makes it stop.

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Home is the Sailor, Home from the Sea – and the Lady Gamecocks, Home from the Road

And so apparently Pretty and Slow’s Chicken Road Curse for the Lady Gamecocks is officially stomped out with another road victory yesterday at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Great Balls of Fire – the girls in the Lady G uniforms finished with an 81 – 62 win against a very good Florida team and three very busy refs who loved to blow their whistles more than most refs will do all season. I’m not kidding.

Hey, there – we’re the refs…

and we’ve got these shiny new whistles we like to blow

Please don’t play nice –

we can’t wait to blow our new whistles

Lady Gs warm up – Gators bonding

Coach Dawn Staley had her 200th. win at Auburn Thursday night and kept right on sizzling for number 201 Sunday afternoon. Pretty and I love our coach and have to confess we drive by her house sometimes since she lives a few blocks from Casa de Canterbury – no sightings other than seeing her jog by our house early one morning last summer. That was fun. Thanks, Coach Dawn, for keeping us all on track.

Hey, there – old lady with the white hair…

You look familiar – do I know you?

Coach Staley has a teachable moment during the game

Everybody, listen up

Associate Coach Boyer has a word with #22 A’ja Wilson who scored 23 points and had 13 rebounds

(and also scared us to death with an ankle injury in the 4th. quarter – sending good wishes for her speedy recovery)

Bianca, did you understand what she just said?

#10 Allisha Gray had a big game with 18 points –

(everybody takes plenty of notes)

The halftime entertainment was an amazing woman

who committed unnatural acts right in front of us

Never in my wildest dreams

When the game was over, Pretty and I made our way back to our dogs who had spent two hours in the car with the windows properly ventilated and were thrilled to have our company as we started the 400-mile trip home to Casa de Canterbury.

All’s well that ends well, as The Red Man was fond of saying, and we arrived home safely in time to catch Meryl Streep on the Golden Globes last night. Wouldn’t have missed her for the world – she was a wonderful reminder of the importance of our resistance to inertia in the days to come in the face of what we know is wrong. Everybody, listen up.

Finally, there is good news and bad news for us as we settle back in at Casa de Canterbury. The good news is I was able to purchase a new Road Atlas at a truck stop in Georgia yesterday on the way home  – that makes me very happy and eager for another road trip.

The bad news is Pretty has a horrible cold which puts a damper on her usual good spirits, and Charly destroyed two leashes by chewing them in pieces that can never be put back together again – much like Humpty Dumpty after his great fall.

Bless us for a safe trip, as Granny Selma used to say when she was in her right mind.

Stay tuned.

About Sheila Morris

Sheila Morris is an essayist with humorist tendencies who periodically indulges her desires to write outside her genre by trying to write fiction and poetry. In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality. She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, will be available in December, 2018. She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike and Charly. Her Texas roots are never far from her thoughts.
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3 Responses to Home is the Sailor, Home from the Sea – and the Lady Gamecocks, Home from the Road

  1. Wayside Artist says:

    Hooray for the Lady Gamecocks!

    Poor Pretty. Too much traveling in bad weather. Get well!!

    Oh Charly! You have Poppy’s little paws to fill. Two leashes is nothing but a snack. 😀

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“ROGUE WAVES” e-Book Now Available on Amazon.com!

As of March 1, 2018, my novel ‘Rogue Waves’ became available in e-Book format on Amazon.com.  You can find the direct link my novel in either e-Bbook or paperback form  on my Menu bar.

With the ship rocking back and forth and not having much to hold on to, Sienna walked as fast as she dared.  The man placed his left hand on her hip steadying her as she tried to walk.  At the first crack of gunfire Sienna stopped dead in her tracks.  “Keep going and don’t stop unless I tell you to!”  The man shouted.  At that moment, Sienna wasn’t too sure she truly agreed with the saying ‘God never gave you more than He knew you could handle’.  He must have thought walking on a slippery, moving boat deck, during a torrential downpour in the middle of the night wasn’t challenging enough, so He added sporadic gun fire to the equation.”

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Hi there and thanks for your interest in my site! I write from my home in Naples, Florida. When not reading or writing, I can be found horseback riding, cooking or baking! I live with my husband of twenty-six years, my dog, Murdoc, my cat, Gizmo, my horse, Joe, my donkey, Donk and my four parrots, D'Artagnan, Aramis, Athos and Pathos! "ROGUE WAVES" is my first Novel.


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When you’re riding a bike at its limits and your own, it’s important to have motorcycle gear that performs well both at speed and in the event of a crash. The Racer Gloves USA High Speed glove pairs comfort, protection, and fit into a perfect package.

I’ve struggled to find good race gloves for years. My Dainese Full Metal D1 gloves are some of the most expensive and supposedly nicest on the market, but they feel almost crude in their construction and they scrape and bruise my knuckles. Alpinestars have traditionally fit me weird and even REV’IT, who are my other favorite glove brand, haven’t shown me a race glove that made me want to stop looking for new options.

After hearing about the Racers from a number of people who swore by them, I decided it was time to finally check them out.

The Specs That Matter

The High Speed glove has a cowhide leather chassis, with a kangaroo leather palm. Kangaroo leather is stronger than cowhide, which means it’s able to be made thinner while offering the same protection - which give these gloves greater feeling on the bars.

In most crashes, the rider tries to catch themselves by stretching out their palms as they hit the deck. No, this never works, but yes, people continue to try it. To help protect our fragile hands from this instinct, Racer have included dual density Knox sliders on both sides of the palm. To protect the outside of the hand and wrist, the High Speeds have TPU hard inserts on the knuckle, fingers, and outside of the wrist.

The gloves use a perforated leather, so they’ll flow enough air to keep your hands from clamming up, and use a double velcro enclosure (wrist and forearm) to secure them.

The gloves are CE certified, come in white or black, sizes small to triple XL, and retail for $279.99.

I Rode With The Damn Things

I’ve been using the High Speeds now for several months for pretty much every track and sport riding outing I attend. I took them to Spain to ride on the new Monster 1200R, rode with them at Chuckwalla for the ICON Airframe Pro helmet launch, and just did two very long days in them at Pridmore’s STAR school.

As I mentioned earlier, I have a hard time finding race gloves that are comfy for a single session on a track, let alone all day use. The Racers have changed all of that. Out of the package, they were a tad stiff but fit perfectly, and it only took one day of riding to get them into “lived in” shape.

Aesthete that I am, I normally try and make sure my gear all matches or looks nice for photos for things I’m doing for stories. The only thing that takes second to physical discomfort. This may sound silly to you, but the fact that I wear the Racers, regardless of my leathers or helmet, says volumes about how much more I like them than anything else.

As with most gloves, I wear a size XL, and the fit is absolutely incredible. With slightly curved fingers and the thinner kangaroo leather, the palm never bunches or pinches like many gloves can, and the finger size and length are all spot on.

Fortunately, I haven’t had to test how they hold up in a crash, but the big TPU inserts give me plenty of confidence should that happen. Most people land on their palms or side of their wrist when they crash, and Racer has taken both into account - although neither insert ever interferes with the glove’s use.

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You should care because race gloves suck. Because they never fit well and because they always put hard inserts and claims of safety over comfort - which ends up being far less safe in the long run. Because they’re simply better gloves, because they’re an incredible company, and because if you disagree on the fit - they’ll send you your money back.

As the new emperor of Lanesplitterland, we’re only going to review the products that are newsworthy (or you’re curious about) or the ones we think are honestly worth your attention and hard earned dollar bills.

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This is NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. competing in a dirt track race in Du Quoin, Illinois. He made a charge from the back of the pack to take the win, sometimes even with half his car on the catch fence.

It’s certainly very exciting, glitter gold helmet and all.

The question is—is this single 15 second lap that Loudpedal put on Instagram more exciting than this year’s entire NASCAR season? I know which one I watched.

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We all know that the McLaren P1's design was pretty much made in the wind tunnel, instead of by either McLaren's Frank Stephenson or the engineering team.

Woking's best are now preparing an interactive 3D model for the Shanghai Auto Show that will show "how the active aerodynamic systems adjust and adapt to deliver optimum performance for differing driving conditions".

That's great news for those attending the show, but for the rest of us, the picture will have to do. Efficient enough?


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Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.

1st Gear: Trump’s Vendetta Against German Marques Continues

Shares of German luxury automakers dipped in value a bit Thursday evening following a report published in the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche, which noted how Donald Trump would like to push German automakers off of American roads, reports Reuters:

A report that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to pursue German carmakers until there are no Mercedes-Benz rolling down New York’s Fifth Avenue dented shares in the luxury car manufacturers on Thursday.

An excerpt from German magazine Wirtschaftswoche’s article, which cited several unnamed European and U.S. diplomats but did not include any direct quotes, could not be independently verified, while a United States Embassy spokesman in Berlin referred questions to Washington.

The news and current affairs magazine said Trump had told French President Emmanuel Macron in April that he aimed to push German carmakers out of the United States altogether. Macron’s administration in Paris declined to comment on the report.

While there weren’t any direct quotes in Wirtschaftswoche’s report, the idea that Trump wants to wipe Mercedes-Benzes—a marque that manufactures some of its cars in America, mind you—off NYC streets certainly isn’t out of character for the guy.

This report was also bolstered by a recent trade investigation that was opened into auto imports, Reuters notes.

Further, the Trump administration said Thursday it will indeed impose tariffs on metals, after some waffling on the issue, according to the Associated Press.

All of this falls into a larger dispute over trade between the U.S. and the European Union. Germany in particular has warned that ending this exemption could lead to a trade war.

Ze Germans are the biggest European exporters of cars to the United States, making up 90 percent of the premium market in the U.S., per Reuters. However, they also employ a large number of Americans in U.S.-based factories, where German automakers produced 804,000 cars last year.

2nd Gear: General Motors’ Autonomous Division Gets The Big Bucks

Technology investment company SoftBank Vision Fund plans to invest $2.25 billion in General Motors’ Cruise Automation division with the goal of getting those cars on the road by next year, which is responsible for GM’s autonomous driving tech, reports Bloomberg:

The fund will invest in GM Cruise Holdings LLC in two phases, with $1.35 billion being conditional on the carmaker’s autonomous-driving unit starting to deploy vehicles next year. Once Softbank has completed the entire investment, it’ll own 19.6 percent of GM Cruise, the holding company for Cruise Automation, giving the unit a valuation of $11.5 billion.

That much investment is a promising sign that they think GM can and will actually pull off getting self-driving cars on the road in a year. GM also plans on investing $1.1 billion of its own money into Cruise, bringing the unit’s total value up to $3.35 billion.

3rd Gear: Kobe Steel Could Face Criminal Charges For Bad Data

Japanese investigators plan to raid embattled auto supplier Kobe Steel’s offices as early as Thursday as part of an ongoing probe into falsified strength and durability data the company sent to hundreds of its customers, reports Automotive News:

Japanese police and prosecutors will conduct an on-site investigation at Kobe Steel Ltd.’s offices as early as Thursday, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported, opening the possibility of criminal charges being filed against the company that admitted to falsifying data last year.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police will conduct investigations at Kobe Steel’s headquarters in Kobe, its Tokyo office and several of its plants including the Mooka manufacturing unit for suspected violation of unfair competition prevention law, according to the Yomiuri and other Japanese media reports. The company currently knows nothing about the report and is looking into it, said spokesman Yoshitsugu Nishimura.

Kobe lied about how strong its materials were to clients including Toyota and Boeing, and authorities suspect that it was a systematic, company-wide issue. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the special investigative unit of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office are working together on the probe, which could lead to criminal charges being filed against the company.

4th Gear: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Could Get Into The Lending Biz

Shares of Santander dipped yesterday after Bloomberg reported that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could form its own captive lending arm. Santander is FCA’s current preferred automotive lender, but that hasn’t been going as well as either party really wants, and now FCA may bring their lending plans in-house, as Automotive News writes:

As part of its five-year strategy plan to be announced Friday, Fiat Chrysler is likely to announce the intention to form a finance unit in the U.S., Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the automaker’s plans. Shares of Dallas-based Santander plunged 6.4 percent to $17.86 on Wednesday.

Santander Consumer has struggled to reach market share targets that it set along with Fiat Chrysler as part of the 10-year financing agreement the two companies inked in 2013. The lender financed 28 percent of Fiat Chrysler’s total loans and leases as of the end of December, well short of a goal to reach 65 percent by the end of April, according to a regulatory filing.

If Chrysler Capital fails to meet origination goals within the first five years of their deal, Santander’s deal with FCA can be terminated, thus opening up FCA to do this.

Santander isn’t the only lender an in-house lending effort could siphon away today’s insane 84-month loans from. Ally Financial (which formerly GM’s own lending arm, before the auto industry bailouts) got over a quarter of its business from originating over $2.44 billion in loans and leases for FCA dealers last year.

5th Gear: Stop Sharing Your Employee Discounts, FCA People

Fiat Chrysler is also cracking down on an employee benefit they say is being abused: employee discounts. Now, eligible employees and retirees will have to register all eligible immediate family members by June 14 to keep the perk, and control numbers will be issued to keep better control of it, reports Crain’s Business Detroit. Crain’s reports that it has been widely abused up until now:

An FCA spokesman declined to comment on the change. But one Michigan FCA dealer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Automotive News that the program was widely abused in the region, damaging dealer profitability. The dealer said he had seen employees selling employee pricing control numbers for as much as $300, and alleged that some dealers maintained a network of FCA employees to access discount numbers for otherwise ineligible customers.

The program allows FCA employees, retirees and their immediate family members get a discount of up to 5 percent off the factory invoice price of an FCA vehicle.

Reverse: In Soviet Russia, Car Fords You

Neutral: Will GM Pull It Off?

Part of SoftBank’s investment in GM rides on their ability to put autonomous cars on the road by next year. Do you think they’ll be able to do it, or will it end up feeling like another scandal-ridden beta test for the road?

Correction, 10:26 a.m.: This post has been clarified to note that tariffs are being imposed on metals, not cars (yet).


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For Bill Evans, 1968 must have been a very trying year. Since emerging on the jazz scene in the mid-1950s, Evans was known for his passion for beauty; now the world around him was turning very ugly. There was literally no way to miss it. The Vietnam War appeared in all its horrors on the evening news, and the Tet offensive in late January had reinforced the power of the enemy Viet Cong. In a nationally broadcast television special, Walter Cronkite concluded that the Vietnam War could not be won by conventional means. These remarks by Cronkite, known as “the most trusted man in America”, helped convince Lyndon B. Johnson not to seek a second term as US President. While LBJ was not idle during his final year in office, he was essentially a lame-duck president when the country most needed his guidance. Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race shortly after Johnson’s announcement, running on a platform of non-aggressive foreign policy and social justice, but after winning the California Democratic primary in June, he was gunned down in the kitchen of Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel. Two months later, chaos would reign at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Two months before Kennedy’s murder, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated outside a motel room in Memphis. King’s death sparked riots throughout the country, with 46 people dead in the aftermath. On the global front, students and workers essentially shut down the city of Paris in May through a combination of protests and strikes. The hope of democracy in Eastern Europe ended when Soviet tanks plowed through the capital of Czechoslovakia, thus crushing the “Prague Spring”. In music, jazz’s dwindling audience was divided by the increasingly dissonant sounds of free jazz, and the gigantic influence of rock music, which was moving from pop-oriented songs into complex album-oriented styles.

Despite all of these concurrent events, Evans was still able to create lyrical masterpieces alone and with his trio. Yet at the same time, he seemed willing to let the ensemble sound evolve in new ways. When drummer Arnold Wise left the trio in the early months of 1968, Evans’ bassist Eddie Gomez suggested Jack DeJohnette as a replacement. DeJohnette started out as a pianist in Chicago, but was best known at the time as the powerful drummer in Charles Lloyd’s quartet. In truth, DeJohnette had always been a sensitive player—just listen to him on Lloyd’s album “Forest Flower” for abundant examples—but his brief tenure in the Evans trio gave him plenty of opportunities to express himself at reduced volume. The surviving recordings of the Evans trio show that DeJohnette could work wonders with brushes, but he could also provide active, explosive commentary rarely matched by any of Evans’ previous or consequent drummers.

It is not entirely clear how long DeJohnette remained in the Evans trio. Wise was still playing with the group during an engagement at the Village Vanguard in early February. In an interview conducted in London during the following summer, Evans told Les Tomkins that the trio with DeJohnette had played three television shows and a two-week engagement at the Top of the Gate (located above the Village Gate club in New York) before traveling to Europe. While on the Continent, they performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded a studio album in Villigen, West Germany, did a radio broadcast in Holland, and then played a month-long residency at Ronnie Scott’s in London. The trio was back in New York by mid-August where they played another gig at the Vanguard. The trio returned to the Vanguard in mid-September but with John Dentz at the drums. Five weeks later, when the trio returned to the Top of the Gate, DeJohnette’s permanent replacement, Marty Morell was in place. DeJohnette left Evans to join Miles Davis, replacing Tony Williams who had left to start his group, Lifetime. Davis reportedly heard the Evans trio at Ronnie Scott’s, but DeJohnette states that Davis only offered a job to bassist Dave Holland, who played in a group that alternated sets with the Evans trio (Interestingly, another future Davis sideman also played in that band: guitarist John McLaughlin!) DeJohnette says that he had already subbed for Williams in Davis’ group, and therefore had no need to audition for the trumpeter.

Apparently, DeJohnette’s first recordings with the Evans trio were the three TV appearances, all of which were hosted by “the jazz priest” Father Norman J. O’Connor, produced by Ethel Burns, and aired on New York City’s WCBS. Two of the shows were episodes of O’Connor’s series, “Dial M for Music”, a program designed to encourage young adults to explore jazz. The earliest of these episodes contrasted the piano styles of Evans and Teddy Wilson. No video or audio recordings of this show were available for review, but Evans’ biographer Peter Pettinger states that Evans improvised over two pre-recorded lines on “Emily” to illustrate the overdubbing technique used on Evans’ LP, “Conversations with Myself”. Internet discographer Ehsan Khoshbakht adds that the trio performed “Who Can I Turn To?” Ironically, while both Pettinger and Khoshbakht confirm DeJohnette’s presence on this recording—and it is not known whether they watched a video or listened the audio alone—the drummer has no memory of making this show! On another episode (which aired in July while the Evans trio was still in London) the trio played an electrifying version of “Stella by Starlight” where DeJohnette’s invigorating brush work inspired a finger-busting Gomez solo; when DeJohnette changed to sticks, Evans dug deep into the keyboard, engaging in sublime rhythmic counterpoint with his new drummer. DeJohnette’s stick work also enlivens the second half—basically the jazz section—of a collaboration with the CBS Orchestra on “Granados”. Finally, just before leaving for Montreux, the Evans trio appeared on a remarkable (and extremely rare) live broadcast called “Robert F. Kennedy: A Contemporary Memorial”. This show, which aired just three days after RFK’s assassination, featured a plethora of jazz legends—more details can be found here—with Evans’ trio offering an understated rendition of “Time Remembered”. Here, DeJohnette played brushes throughout but provided intriguing cross-rhythms against Evans and Gomez.

The energy only hinted at during the TV shows is further developed within the trio’s first LP, “Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival” (Verve 827 844). The trio opens with “One for Helen”, an Evans composition dedicated to his manager Helen Keane. The piece is a rhythmic obstacle course where the ground beat is hard to discern. The trio accentuates the rhythmic play by steering away from the strong beats while throwing ideas from one side of the bandstand to the other. Evans’ arrangement of Harold Arlen’s “A Sleepin’ Bee” trades the song’s peaceful reverie for a dynamic re-structuring of the song’s pulse. While DeJohnette keeps a straight tempo on the ride cymbal, he uses the rest of the drum set to take part in the intense counterpoint initiated by Evans and Gomez. Earl Zindars’ “Mother of Earl” is a calming piece, and DeJohnette’s exquisite brush work anticipates and comments upon the twists and turns of Evans’ improvisation, and his delicate strokes of the cymbals are simply breathtaking. Gomez’s bass seems to be everywhere at the same time; his solo and accompaniment style is much flashier here than in later years, but his busy playing is quite at home with the high level of musical conversation within this trio. “Nardis” is DeJohnette’s feature, but before he solos, he plays brilliant accompaniments to Gomez and Evans as he follows the intricate contours of each solo and discovers the right sounds to comment (and occasionally goad) his fellow soloists. DeJohnette’s own solo displays a masterful sense of dynamics and impressive use of the various pitches within his drum kit.

Evans had recorded “I Loves You, Porgy” several times, but the Montreux version is a classic, featuring his splendid reharmonization and a wonderfully-controlled sense of rubato. The free tempo continues in the solo opening to another Evans favorite, “The Touch of Your Lips”. When the trio enters, Evans seems to push the rhythm from the keyboard, finding little resistance from Gomez (who flutters around the bass like a hip bumblebee) and DeJohnette (who creates a fine counterpoint with just brushes on snare and cymbals). Gomez’s feature on “Embraceable You” shows the bassist’s stunning dexterity. The arrangement jumps back and forth between two keys and two tempos, and as Pettinger notes, it is very difficult to discern how the group achieved the sudden tempo changes. “Someday My Prince Will Come” expands on the rhythmic maze of “One for Helen” by blurring the lines between triple and duple meter. At times, it sounds like both meters are being played simultaneously; still the group maintains a distinct groove that works within each time signature. Evans darts around the rhythm with remarkable improvised lines, while Gomez works against the beat in his solo. When Evans and DeJohnette trade four-bar exchanges, the meter is 4/4, but DeJohnette keeps the rhythmic ambiguity going with an ongoing triplet feeling on his cymbals. This may have been the last scheduled tune of the set, but the audience wouldn’t let the group leave without an encore or two. Evans jumps into another rhythmic showpiece, “Walkin’ Up” and the performance includes intense solos by all three principals played within three minutes and 20 seconds. The final piece is an elegant solo reading of Denny Zeitlin’s “Quiet Now”. Unissued until the CD era, it is an appropriate closer for this set. Bearing none of the rhythmic interplay of what came before, it offered the audience the peaceful side of Evans’ art—a side which did not surface much during this period.

Five days after the Montreux performance, the Evans trio travelled to Villigen, Germany in the Black Forest to record at the home studio of MPS Records owner, Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. No satisfactory explanation has ever been given as to why this recording was made. Evans was under exclusive contract to Verve (and the hastily written MPS agreement states that the recordings would not be issued without the permission of Evans and/or Keane). Perhaps the enthusiasm of Brunner-Schwer caused everyone to proceed despite the legal obstacles. Or maybe Evans was eager to make a recording similar to the “Exclusively for my Friends” dates which Oscar Peterson had recorded in the MPS studio. Whatever the reason, the Evans trio recorded 94 minutes of music on June 20. At some point, Brunner-Schwer sequenced an LP and assigned it an MPS catalog number. However, any hopes of releasing it during Evans’ lifetime were dashed when Brunner-Schwer and Keane had an argument regarding a later Evans MPS album, “Symbiosis”. As late as 1982, MPS still had tentative plans to release the recording, but the album was never issued and with the deaths of Evans, Keane, and Brunner-Schwer,  the session was basically forgotten. In 2013, Zev Feldman rediscovered the recording and the entire session was recently issued on the 2-CD set “Some Other Time” (Resonance 2019). The album package includes notes by Feldman, Marc Myers and Friedhelm Schulz, along with in-depth interviews of Gomez and DeJohnette.

With no imminent release in sight, Evans was apparently feeling experimental at this session. There is an interesting mix of solo, duo and trio tracks (DeJohnette says this was Evans’ idea, although it was rather unusual for an Evans album) and Gomez notes that many of the songs were not regular parts of the group’s repertoire. There were no dips into the pop-rock songbook—those would come years later—but the opening track of the second disc was a fairly recent pop hit (written within the style of the Great American Songbook by Andre and Dory Previn) called “You’re Gonna Hear from Me”. Elsewhere, standards ruled the day, with an engaging version of “You Go to My Head” leading off the album proper. The same push-and-pull of the rhythmic flow that appeared on the Montreux stage is present in the Villigen studio, and the greater presence of the MPS recording makes it easier to hear how each member of the trio contributes to the overall sound. “Very Early” weaves between duple and triple meters like the live version of “Prince”, but the groove seems to pull apart at places. DeJohnette lays out on “What Kind of Fool Am I” and “I’ll Remember April”, and it’s hard to determine why: Evans and Gomez essentially play in the same style as they did in the trio, and there is plenty of room for the drums to enter into the conversation.

The trio version of “My Funny Valentine” will be a shock to those listeners familiar with the up-tempo duo setting recorded by Evans and guitarist Jim Hall in 1959. Here, Evans sticks to the traditional slow tempo even when his improvisations lean toward a faster pulse. There’s one spot where DeJohnette jumps into double-time, but rather than joining in, Evans continues the rhythmic dichotomy by dragging his lines against DeJohnette’s pulse. Gomez steals the show on the duo version of “Baubles, Bangles and Beads” with a stunning bass line that keeps the harmonic and rhythmic pulse intact while adding impressive filigrees between the beats. “Turn out the Stars” is a set highlight, with the trio using shifting dynamics to add intensity to this superb Evans composition. A light-hearted swinging duet version of “It Could Happen to You” provides necessary relief, as does the lilting trio setting of “In a Sentimental Mood” (even though DeJohnette’s forceful cymbals add an unexpected edge to the latter performance). “These Foolish Things” may be the best of the album’s duets, mainly because Evans and Gomez play in a sustained manner which fills the spaces, leaving no room for additional instruments. Indeed, that sustained style continues on the first disc’s closer, “Some Other Time” and DeJohnette’s contributions are limited to occasional brushes on the snare and a few well-placed cymbal rolls.

The first disc of the Resonance set represents Brunner-Schwer’s original selections for issue. However, the tracks on the second disc are all superbly played, and except for the two takes abruptly ended by Evans, any of the selections might have been included on the aborted MPS issue. The two versions of “You’re Gonna Hear from Me” each feature a unique loping swing (with superb interplay on the “master” and fine recurring descending lines on the “alternate”). Played at a slightly slower tempo than at Montreux, “Walkin’ Up” retains its compelling intensity even when opened up for an extra minute-and-a-half of solos. Gomez plays another resourceful bass line on the trio take of “Baubles” while Evans and DeJohnette seem to have their own conversation going. The usually harmonically astute Evans fumbles through a solo version of “It’s All Right with Me”, missing a turnaround and not sounding too sure of the melody. About three minutes in, his frustration starts to show as he throws in a series of Monkish dissonances before giving up altogether. The trio version of “What Kind of Fool” has very energetic swing as well as percussive lines from Evans, but apparently the pianist wasn’t too happy with the results and he closes the take with a corny (and completely unexpected) “shave and a haircut” coda. The rhythmic energy of the trio returns in a hard-swinging version of “How About You”, while the time surges and relaxes through “On Green Dolphin Street”. “Wonder Why” had turned up on Evans’ 1963 live LP from Shelly’s Manne Hole and on a Village Vanguard set from 1967, but the Villigen recording was his last recording of the tune. It’s a shame: the 1968 trio engages the tune thoroughly, jumping on the melody’s unique accents, and giving the entire performance a delightful rhythmic bounce. Before closing with the “alternate” of “You’re Gonna Hear”, the album includes another gem: a sparsely chorded solo version of “Lover Man” that reaches into the core of the song, both in the melody and the unheard lyrics.

On June 22, the trio performed a concert at the VARA Studio 8 in Hilversum, Holland for NRU  Radio. The tape's existence had been documented for years, but it was not until a few months after the release of the MPS recordings that Zev Feldman acquired them for an authorized CD/LP release. The album, "Another Time" (Resonance 2031) presents the entire 48-minute  Hilversum concert in stunning fidelity. Evans plays a superbly tuned and voiced piano, and the sounds of Gomez' bass and DeJohnette's drums are captured with close-miked presence. The mix makes the listener feel like he is in the middle of the group, with Evans to the left, Gomez to the right, and DeJohnette directly in front. The concert opens with the last tune from the MPS set, "You're Gonna Hear from Me", played at a slightly faster tempo with increased drive. Both Gomez and DeJohnette commented about the energy of the live audience, and that quality certainly translates into the music. Gomez leans into the ground beat as he walks, and DeJohnette sounds more animated than in the studio. On "Very Early", DeJohnette's brushwork is exquisite, and the groove locks in, despite the cross-rhythms from Evans and Gomez. Evans had recorded versions of  "Who Can I Turn To?" and "Alfie" with earlier versions of his trio, but the Hilversum concert tapes contain the first recordings of those songs by this trio. Evans opens "Turn" with a rubato solo introduction, and when the rest of the group enters, they allow the time to ebb and flow through the remainder of the melody chorus. Once Gomez starts soloing, DeJohnette subtly moves into straight time. Gomez' phrase lengths on this solo are more interesting than the actual noteshe doesn't create a true improvised melody, but the shapes of the phrases are astounding. Evans plays a fairly short solo, but the passage is notable for the incredible intensity generated by the trio. "Alfie" plays in a broad, slow tempo, and each member of the trio finds unique ways to sub-divide the beats. Without a explicitly stated ground beat, the various rhythmic ideas interact freely like the elements of an Alexander Caulder mobile.

In the notes to "Another Time", Gomez reveals that the Montreux version of "Embraceable You" was the first time he had played that piece with the trio, and that he wasn't particularly comfortable with having a bass feature in the first place. However, he acknowledges that both the Montreux and Hilversum recordings are good renditions. The Hilversum version is much relaxed than Montreux, with a slower tempo to start, and with the speed changes clearly designated. The version of "Emily" which follows alternates between graceful and energetic grooves, with  the two moods combining in the final chorus. "Nardis" was a piece that changed from night to night. Although the trio recorded a stunning version at Montreux a week earlier, the Hilversum version is remarkable in its own right. From the quiet opening of Gomez' unaccompanied solo through an active three-way dialogue during Evans' improvisation, to DeJohnette's powerful (yet highly inventive) drum solo, the group amazes the listener with the varied resources it brings to this Miles Davis composition. In contrast to the flowing groove the trio found two days earlier on "Turn out the Stars", the Hilversum rendition is performed in a very stiff and unyielding tempo, with Evans playing very deliberate dotted-eighth/sixteenth note patterns during his solo. "Five", the traditional Evans set closer, fulfills that obligation here, although the version here sounds like a top spinning out of control. The tempo is ridiculously fast and the three musicians don't fully coalesce until the beginning of DeJohnette's solo. There's also a quote of "Oleo" in the out-chorus, which makes me think that this piece was thoroughly rehearsed. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to create organized chaos!

During the month-long residency at Ronnie Scott’s, DeJohnette recorded a few sets with a microphone placed inside the piano. He told me that the tapes have bad balance: lots of drums and piano, but hardly any bass. And while Tomkins apparently lugged an open-reel recorder to the club to record his interview with the trio, he apparently never recorded the group in concert (This was highly unusual for Tomkins, whose live recordings of the period by Sonny Rollins, Tubby Hayes and others have been issued on CD in recent years. Perhaps Keane forbade him to record Evans?) All we know is that the group evolved by leaps and bounds during its stay in London. Tomkins’ interview has quotes by all three of the trio members talking about a more aggressive approach to the music, but the ultimate proof comes from the August Village Vanguard recordings.

The Vanguard recordings are part of the 8-CD box set “The Secret Sessions” (Milestone 4421), and as the name implies, the music was recorded surreptitiously. Evans fan and amateur pianist Mike Harris snuck a reel-to-reel recorder and a microphone into the front row of the Vanguard—on several occasions, no less!— and captured the Evans trio performances. The August 23 recordings are the only Vanguard performances with DeJohnette behind the drums. He is a primal force on these tracks and his sound dominates the recordings. It would be tempting to say that DeJohnette is playing too loud and is overbearing, but we must remember that these are amateur recordings, and drums pick up better than any other instrument on non-professional microphones. DeJohnette states unequivocally that Evans never consulted nor complained about the sound or volume of his drums. On the contrary, Evans seemed encouraged by the lively interplay. However, there is no doubt that DeJohnette plays very powerfully on these tracks. Although the tunes—“My Man’s Gone Now”, “Who Can I Turn To?”, “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” and “Emily”—could all qualify as ballads, DeJohnette uses sticks more than brushes throughout and on “My Man’s Gone Now”, he uses his mallets on the floor tom to great dramatic effect.

In closing this section of his Evans biography, “How My Heart Sings” (Yale), Peter Pettinger claims that had DeJohnette not received the call from Miles Davis, he might have stayed with Evans much longer. Perhaps so, but as it stands—with DeJohnette leaving Evans within weeks of the August Vanguard gig—this edition of the Bill Evans trio may have already accomplished a primary goal: an expansion of the basic trio sound and a genuine reflection of the troubled times. Even though Evans never aspired to this powerful style again, the 1968 trio with DeJohnette created a small but potent collection of important music.