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CAROL FRIEDMAN/COURTESY OF RANDY WESTON Pianist Randy Weston teams with saxophonist Billy Harper for a pair of shows in the Bay Area.

Music has a way of lodging in our brains and bones. You hear John Lennon shouting "Tell Me Why." You hear Marvin Gaye slip-sliding through "Ain't That Peculiar." Doors open; long-ago feelings and experiences flood in.

It feels like old friends have come calling, always welcome. But I prefer lifelong friendships, where the relationship keeps changing, deepening. That's my experience with the music of pianist Randy Weston and tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, master musicians. I never get tired of them, so when it's time to go to the well, I reach for their music: say, Weston's "Berkshire Blues," about as relaxed an expression of absolute joy as I can imagine, or Harper's "Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart," which delivers what its title suggests, an ecstatic tumult. Living without either of these musicians would be a sad thing, hard to imagine.

Also hard to imagine is the idea that they would perform together as a duo -- that's more soul per square inch than a listener can absorb. But it's happening twice this week: Thursday night at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, Sunday at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco. These performances are kind of unprecedented; Santa must be a jazz fan. Thurday's show will be Weston and Harper, nothing but. Sunday's puts them in combination -- duos, trios, maybe a solo or two -- with a younger magician, pianist Jason Moran, a kindred spirit. His music, like theirs, charts the way ahead, while sending roots way down into the soil of jazz.

Weston, 87, (and an NEA Jazz Master), is the living link to Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, his most important influences. One can hear the rumble and joie de vivre of Harlem stride piano in his playing, along with Duke's bluesy elegance and the bebop Weston played while growing up in Brooklyn, where his friends included Kenny Dorham and Max Roach. Harper, 70, is the most powerful and unique of the post-Coltrane tenor saxophonists. His sound conveys gospel urgency, a hungering that goes back to his Houston upbringing in his grandmother's African Methodist Episcopal church. Plus, his solos dance; drummers have always taken to his rhythm-charged sound. No wonder Harper spent years in bands led by Roach and Art Blakey.

Together Weston and Harper have a new duo album, "The Roots of the Blues" (on Sunnyside Records). Its title signals what links them: the cry of the blues as an expression of cultural heritage, back to Africa. That's where they met and first performed together, in 1972 at the Tangier Festival of African and Afro-American Music. A couple of Weston's albums followed with Harper as a special guest -- "Tanjah" and "Carnival" -- and the saxophonist periodically has performed with Weston's bands in the years since. They might play "Caravan," made famous by Ellington, or "The Healers," one of Weston's most shadowy-beautiful numbers.

There are always sparks when they play together. But this week's duo performances promise something more than sparks: maybe a long bluesy burn, slow and rumbling, like something ancient and something new.

Details: 7 p.m. Thursday Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz: $30 ($33 at door);; 7 p.m. Sunday (with Jason Moran), SFJazz Center, San Francisco: $25-$55; 866-920-5299,

Also recommended

Eddie Palmieri: Let the fireworks begin. The pianist, innovator and beloved patriarch of Latin jazz brings his sextet and salsa big band to the SFJazz Center for three nights. Details: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29; 7 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 30; 7 p.m., Dec. 1; $25-$65;

Festivus 2013: Also known as the "Festival-of-Us," this two-night celebration, curated by ubiquitous bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, presents eight bands from the Bay Area's creative improvisation scene. Subterranean jazz comes over-ground here with saxophonists Rent Romus and Kasey Knudsen, guitarist John Shiurba, pianist Adam Shulman and others, including Mezzacappa, whose trenchant Bait & Switch quartet plays on Night 2. Details: 7 p.m. Dec. 6-7; Center for New Music, San Francisco; $10 at the door;

Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola: What a treat, like an early Christmas present -- getting to watch seven-string guitarist Hunter and drummer Amendola going toe-to-toe, just the two of them, having as much fun as kids out in the garage, getting a new band together. Only these two kids (well, they're in their 40s) are from the advanced class, romping through the modern history of popular American music, from ragtime to Hendrix. Details: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8, Dana Street Roasting Co., Mountain View, $20,; 7 and 9 p.m. Dec. 16; Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, $23,; 8 p.m. Dec. 18, the Independent, San Francisco, $20;

Joy to the world: After all these decades, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is still having fun, still bringing crowds to their feet. And what a crackup: The band's big, dancing tuba player could heat up a hot-air balloon with his propulsive bass lines. 8 p.m. Dec. 15; Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco; $15-$75 (half price for those 17 and younger);

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Diwali, a Hindu festival of lights that celebrates the triumph of good over evil, will be celebrated at the Shreemaya Krishnadham temple at 25 Corning Ave. in Milpitas from Nov. 2 to 17.

Diwali is historically known as the homecoming of the deity Rama after a 14-year exile in the forest and his victory over the Ravana, hundreds of years ago, according to event organizer Samir Dhruva. In the legend, the people of Ayodha (the capital of his kingdom) welcomed Rama by lighting rows of lamps.

"Thus in the story of Diwali lies the significance of the victory of good over evil and brings us from darkness unto light the light that empowers us to commit ourselves to good deeds, that which brings us closer to divinity," Dhruva said.

The celebrations will begin Nov. 2 from 1 to 5 p.m. with the Rangoli competition, where decorative designs made on floors of living rooms and courtyards are meant as sacred welcoming area for Hindu deities. On Nov. 3 at the MahaLakshmi Pooja from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., priests will reconcile the financial books and spiritual books of the devotees in attendance. A New Year Celebration on Nov. 4 from 7 to 9:30 a.m. will begin with an early morning blessing from spiritual benefactor Mangla Aarti, followed with a meet and greet and light refreshments.

On Nov. 10 the Govardhan Pooja and Annakut Darshan will take place from 1 to 6:30 p.m., where devotees will worship in the presence of a cow and a mountain lifted by the deity Krishna.

Sweets are offered as tributes. On Nov. 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. there will be a ceremonial wedding between Tulsi to the Hindu Deity Vishnu; this signifies the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the wedding season.

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Ulterium Records is proud to announce the release of "Collide & Spark", an all-star charity track for sale with 100% of the income going to The Bridge Bunch, an organization dedicated to serving the homeless population of Nashville, TN, in the United States.

The song, which is almost seven minutes in length, is being released under the banner Project Aegis, and was composed by Theocracy vocalist and songwriter Matt Smith. It features vocals by Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Henrik Båth (Darkwater), Elin Redin (End of September) and Smith, as well as a guitar solo by Markus Sigfridsson (Darkwater/Harmony).

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38 news articles posted on this day.

Black Sabbath Members Remember Peter Steele

Original Black Sabbath members Terry "Geezer" Butler (bass) and drummer Bill Ward have each posted a message online, which pays tribute to Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele, who tragically passed away last wednesday from a suspected heart failure. The messages read as follows:

Geezer Butler: "I was so saddened to hear of Pete Steele passing away. He truly was one of the nicest blokes I’ve ever met. He came to the first G//Z/R gig, in New York, showing his support for us. I last saw him in Copenhagen, on the Heaven & Hell tour, where he interviewed me for a bassist to bassist piece. We had lots of fun talking together. I always maintained that the best Sabbath cover was Type O’s version of 'Black Sabbath' on the Nativity In Black album. I always looked forward to hearing what he’d come out with- he was always surprising, musically, and such a very special person. One of the truly great ones has now left the stage. R.I. P. Pete- Bog Blast yea." More...

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House Of Shakira Parts Ways With Lead Vocalist

Swedish melodic rockers House Of Shakira have announced the addition of new lead vocalist Andreas Novak (Novak/Mind’s Eye) to the band. The arrival of Andreas Novak marks the amicable departure of vocalist Andreas Eklund.

On the reasons behind the change in personnel bassist Per Schelander comments, “It’s hard for us to believe that it was thirteen years ago in 1997 that Andreas Eklund walked into our rehearsal studio and blew us away with power and high notes. Back in ‘97 we were dead sure that we would never find a singer that was able to take on those melodies that Mikael Eriksson left us with (and continued to write) but Andreas proved us wrong.”

“However, when we started to work on the songs for what will be our sixth album we all felt that these new songs called for another voice and expression. We also felt strongly that we needed to work with a singer that wrote his own lyrics. It was one of the hardest decisions we have had to make to ask Andreas Eklund to leave the band but there was no way around it but to part ways. We look back on the last 13 years and the ups and downs during these years proudly, as well as integral in shaping the band as it is today. But, life often calls for tough decisions and as all our fans know, HoS are no quitters!” More...

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Warmblood Signs To Punishment 18 Records

Italian death metallers WARMBLOOD have announced their signing with Punishment 18 Records for the release of their second full length, "TIMOR MORTIS." For more information about the band check out their MySpace page.

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Setherial Posts New Song Online

SETHERIAL has a new song streaming online called "A World In Hell." The song was taken from the forthcoming new album "Ekpyrosis," which will be released in may. Check out the song at this location.

SETHERIAL is currently on tour alongside Impiety. The remaining tour dates are as follows:

16.04-DE - Greifswald @ Juz Klex
17.04-DE - Leipzig @ Hellraiser
18.04-IT - Lonato @ Olden Live Club
20.04-AU - Vienna @ Escape Metalcorner
21.04-HU - Budapest @ Blue Hell
22.04-RO - Bucharest @ Suburbia Club
23.04-RO - Baia Mare @ Tineretului Hall
24.04-UK - Hastings @ The Gallows
25.04-UK - Nottingham @ The Central
26.04-UK - London @ Purple Turtle
27.04-UK - Bristol @ The Bierkeller
29.04-SP - Madrid @ Ritmo&Compas
30.04-SP - Coruna @ Filomatic
01.05-PT - Barroselas @ SWR Festival

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Samrt Signs To Darzamadicus Records

Serbian cult black/death metal band Samrt has announced their signing to Darzamadicus Records. The band plans to release their first full-length album(2010) later this year with the label. View the cover art for the new album here.

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Abigail Williams Working On New Album

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS has completed recording of individual performances for their still untitled second full-length. Captured at Conquistador Studios in Cleveland, Ohio, eight new songs were laid down with vocalist/guitarist Ken Sorceron and engineer Cole Martinez controlling the audio takes. The songs are currently being mixed by Peter Tagtgren (Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Celtic Frost) and are expected to be completed later this month.

Commenting briefly on the new material, Sorceron notes, "There are a lot less keyboards on the new songs. They are far more guitar-driven and have a bit more of a traditional sound in some ways but still very Abigail Williams sounding. We let ourselves have much more room with writing this album; kind of a more open, free environment than any we have employed before. The studio experience this time round was very natural to us. We recorded everything with much more ease and I think it has helped in capturing a very honest vibe." More...

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Nachtmystium Posts New Album Video Trailer Online

NACHTMYSTIUM embrace the true spirit of individuality and intolerance forming solely as an outlet to express the dark musical visions and summonings of those involved. A new video trailer based upon the album’s dark visuals can be seen below:

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Kingdom of Sorrow Posts New Song Online

KINGDOM OF SORROW has posted the first preview track, “God’s Law In The Devil’s Land,” from their new album, "Behind The Blackest Tears," online via the band’s MySpace page. "Behind The Blackest Tears" is set for a June 8th North American release date and will be available on CD, gatefold LP, and digitally.

"Behind The Blackest Tears," the follow-up album to KINGDOM OF SORROW’s self-titled debut, was recorded at Dexters Lab Recordings (Milford.., CT) with engineer Nick Bellmore and mixed and mastered by Zeuss at Planet Z Recordings (Hadley, MA). The band has recently posted a five-minute making-of video from the studio online. Watch it below:

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Resurrected Posts New Song Online

RESURRECTED has posted a new song, "Urge to murder," for streaming on their MySpace page. The track comes off their latest album "Fierce" record.

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Soil Checks In With Road Report

Soil is currently on a coast to coast North American tour as direct support to Smile Empty Soul. The band's guitarist Adam checked from the road with the following comments : “Things in the SOIL camp are in full swing again as we have begun the Smile Empty Soul/SOIL tour! We have been out on the road for about three weeks now and we are moving along nicely. The guys in all the bands are cool as hell to get along with and the shows have been great. It makes for a very cool touring situation. We have been seeing a lot of old friends which is always cool and making a lot of new ones too.

“We have also had a lot of cool opportunities to drop by some radio stations and play some acoustic sets which has been very unique and cool for us. There a lot of stations show some love to our song ‘The Lesser Man,’ so we are doing our best to show the love back and come hang with them all. Please call into your local radio station and ask them to spin the new SOIL track! I am out for now and will give ya another update soon."

The band's upcoming tour dates are as follows: More...

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Disembodied Announces Upcoming Tour Dates

Minnesota's Disembodied will be performing at the 2010 edition of the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, MA. The festival takes place on Friday, April 23rd and Saturday, April 24th. Disembodied is returning to the metal scene after a ten year hiatus with an upcoming, as-yet-untitled album to be released through Good Fight Music. The upcoming Disembodied tour dates are as follows:

4/23 South Hackensack, NJ @ School of Rock
4/24 Worcester, MA @ NEMHF DAY 2 @ Palladium
5/28 Anaheim, CA @ The Chain Reaction
5/29 Tacoma, WA @ Rain Fest Day 2 @ Viaduct

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Awake Enters The Studio

U.K. based metallers Awake have checked in with the following update about entering the recording studio:

"Hi there people! We wanted to let you know that we are now in the studio and lots of great things are about to happen in the Awake camp. There will be lots of news and updates coming up, sign up to our blogs for the first to get the news! Gigs are being sorted we could be coming to a town near you! Want to book us? Get in touch. The site is updated through out the week,come and leave us your thoughts. New album coming this summer. Cheers! Keep with us, stay AWAKE!"

Sample Awake tracks can be heard through the band's MySpace page.

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Bleeding Through Posts New Album Break Down

Bleeding Through has posted a track-by-track break down of their new self-titled album through Alt Press. An excerpt from the break down follows:

A Resurrection: This is an instrumental piece Marta [Peterson, keyboards] and Dave [Nassie, guitar] wrote. The reason behind the title is, basically, the band have been around for quite a long time, and the last few years didn't end up [going] so well. So I guess the whole concept behind the song is just a new beginning and refreshing the idea of being in a band for more than 10 years and still having fun and making a career at it.

Anti-Hero: Every single song [on this album] has to do with the past and being a band for a decade, overcoming adversity and being labeled as a trend. This song is about [younger] bands coming up to you and saying that you're an inspiration to them and they thank you for your existence. You just take a step back and look at their band and don't agree with the way they run it and it's weird that they see you as an inspiration. I just don't agree with the way a lot of bands these days run their band.

Your Abandonment: Basically, this song is sort of about the heartbreak of being in a band. There are a lot of things that go into a band and doing this and it's a heartbreaking experience. You meet new people and they say, 'Thank you,' and that they love you, and two years later, they're gone. You see people who are more into this music because of trends [than the actual music] and that's hard.

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Dark Tranquillity Changes Chile Show Venue

Swedish melodic death metallers Dark Tranquillity have issued the following update about changing the venue for their June 9th show in Chile:

"We can now confirm the following addition to the US trek: May 28: Seattle, WA - Studio seven Some Latin American updates: The venue for the June 9 show in Santiago, Chile has been changed to Teatro Teleton. Also, CYNIC unfortunately won't appear at the Venezuela show, contrary to previous reports."

The upcoming Dark Tranquillity tour dates are as follows: More...

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Fractured Insanity Enters The Recording Studio

Belgium's Fractured Insanity has issued the following announcement about entering the Hertz studio to record a new album:

"Hello Koerva's! Since this week we've entered the Hertz Studios (Behemoth, Vader, Decapitated) in Poland to record our next album, which will come out around august. At this moment the drums are recorded and almost edited. They sound already huge! We've been searching for the right guitar sound, and will record the first songs tomorrow. In a few weeks we'll do a big update bout the new vocalist, CD details, label and so on! Brutal Greetings!"

Sample Fractured Insanity tracks can be heard at this location.

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My Own Grave Parts Ways With Guitarist

Sweden's My Own Grave has issued the following announcement about parting ways with their guitarist Stefan Kihlgren:

"Before the European tour in February Stefan announced that it would be his last tour with My Own Grave, and now it's official that he has left the band. The reason for Stefan's departure is wanting to focus on his family, a decision that the rest of the band respects fully. We are trying a new guitarist at the moment and it looks very promising.

"He'll be playing session guitar on our upcoming shows and then we'll see if he wants to join as a full-time member. My Own Grave wishes Stefan the best of luck with his new life, and the band will continue as usual. Right now we are focusing on playing live and supporting Necrology, and will probably not start writing for the next album before winter."

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The Order Of Apollyon Streaming New Album

U.K. metallers The Order of Apollyon (featuring members of Cradle of Filth, Aosoth, Trigger the Bloodshed, and Akercoke) are currently streaming their debut album "The Flesh" online. The album is available for streaming via Metal Hammer. The album's track listing is as follows:

1. God Speaks
2. Ich Bin Das Licht
3. Word
4. Never
5. Fifth
6. White Dust
7. Four Beasts
8. Flesh Of Yhvh
9. Ex-Voto
10. L'orgueuil

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Paradise Lost Postpones Malta Live Show

Paradise Lost has issued the following announcement about postponing their previously scheduled Malta tour date due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland:

"It is with huge regret that we have to postpone the gig in Malta this weekend until a later date which will be announced soon. Due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and subsequent ban on planes entering UK airspace we have no option but to wait until this is over and try again. Despite both the pope initially and now mother nature doing their best to prevent us playing we are determined to make this happen.

"Nick Holmes had this comment: To all PL fans in Malta, We regret to announce due to British Aerospace ban on flights our concert tomorrow will have to be postponed to a later date. We have had a string of bad luck with shows of late, this is the third cancellation through no fault of our own, but we hope this is only a temporary hiccup, we really want to make this happen! Please don’t burn effigies’ of us in the streets just yet, and keep an eye out for the re-scheduled date!"

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Rottenness Announces U.S. Tour

Mexico's Rottenness has checked in with the following announcement about upcoming U.S. tour dates:

"Hey there people! Fukin great news! We just confirmed our next shows in June in California! its great to back again after all this years.... we want to see ya all at the shows and lets have a brutal time! Venues and more info are posted so please take a look and support the scene! Also there gonna be a extra show in Tijuana... if somebody wants to go to the Xibalba club on friday... lets start a brutal mosh pit!

"And the last new is that we got confirmed our second show in Texas too! Everybody get your asses and see ya at the GoreGrowler's ball IV at San Antonio, Texas... this fest will be sick and more bands will be announced soon. So write at your agenda that we will be blasting some tunes soon in Texas!"

The upcoming Rottenness tour dates are as follows:

4/17 2010 FUCKAHOLIC ATTACK Merida, Yucatán
5/28 2010 MARYLAND DEATHFEST VIII Baltimore, Maryland
5/29 2010 MARYLAND DEATH FEST VIII Baltimore, Maryland
5/30 2010 MARYLAND DEATH FEST VIII Baltimore, Maryland
6/24 2010 POR ANUNCIAR / T.B.A. t.b.a., California
6/25 2010 Xibalba club Tijuana, Baja California
6/26 2010 @THE.BLVD.2631 WHITTIER BLVD .BOYLE HEIGHTS Los Angeles, California
6/27 2010 @THE COBALT CAFE Los Angeles, California
7/23 2010 Central Illinois Metal Fest Urbana, Illinois
7/24 2010 Central Illinois Metal Fest Urbana, Illinois
8/27 2010 Hostile City Fest II Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/28 2010 Hostile City Fest II Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/29 2010 Hostile City Fest II Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11/12 2010 GOREGROWLER´S BALL IV San Antonio, Texas
11/13 2010 GOREGROWLER’S BALL IV San Antonio, Texas

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Shadows Fall Posts "No Label Needed" Video Clip

Shadows Fall sat down to talk about their career as a band with No Label Needed contest winners Iron Thrones. A video clip from the talk, which can be viewed below, shows the band talking about writing, recording, touring, vegetarianism, marketing, and more.

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Souldrainer Posts Studio Video Report

Souldrainer has posted footage online of their drum recording sessions at Empire Studio for their upcoming album. The video clip can be viewed below.

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The Gates Of Slumber Cancels Roadburn Appearance

Bassist Jason McCash of The Gates of Slumber has issued the following announcement about the band canceling their Roadburn appearance:

"With an extremely heavy heart, it saddens me to report that TGoS will not be able to make it to Roadburn on Saturday due to the volcano eruption in Iceland. We tried everything in our powers to try and make a flight that would get us there in time, even looking at flights to Poland, Czeck Republic, France and Germany but nothing was a go in time.

"As of right now, we have flights that will let us make our first date of our Mainland Euro tour which starts the day after Roadburn but this still depends on what happens over the next 36 hours and if they keep canceling flights into Europe or not. Again, We are extremely sorry for this as this is completely 100% out of our control but with any kind of luck, Roadburn will be the only cancellation of this tour. Please keep watching this space for further updates on what takes place."

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Verjnuarmu Streaming New Sample Track

Finland's Verjnuarmu has posted a new sample track online titled "Kuvajaenen." The new track can be heard via the band's MySpace page. Verjnuarmu also has the following upcoming tour dates:

4/17 2010 Sataman Helmi Kuopio
5/22 2010 Pub Katse Jyväskylä
5/29 2010 Osmantupa Eura
7/23 2010 Sandels Rock Iisalmi

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Decrepidemic Announces New Lineup

Portuguese death metal act Decrepidemic has issued the following announcement about the band's new lineup:

"Hey everyone! José (Malhão) is Decrepidemic’s new official vocalist! After some experiences with other session vocalists it’s time for us to present everyone our new vocalist! His name is José and he’s in the band since January. Also, he’s no beginner on the scene and he came to spread epidemics! To everyone who hasn’t seen the new line up in action, you can always catch us on the next shows!

"With José in the band, the present Decrepidemic line-up is: José 'Malhão' - Vocals, Eduardo 'P.G.' Fernandes - Guitar/Vocals, Nelson 'Banjo' Velho - Guitar, Paulo Chanoca - Bass."

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Winterfylleth Announces U.K. Tour Dates

U.K. black metallers Winterfylleth have updated their tour scheduled with the following upcoming dates:

4/23 2010 Leeds Rios Leeds, Northeast
4/25 2010 Bannermans Edinburgh, Scotland
4/26 2010 Independent Sunderland
5/29 2010 Fiddlers Elbow Camden/London
8/10 Dingwalls Camden/London, London and South East

You can also check out the band's music via their MySpace page.

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Dreadnox Streaming Another New Track

Brazilian metallers Dreadnox are currently streaming another new track online from their upcoming album "Dance of Ignorance." The song "Sinners Paradise" along with two other previously uploaded songs, can be heard through the band's official MySpace page.

The track listing for "Dance of Ignorance" will be as follows:

1. Fight With the Light
2. Survive
3. Echoes at Midnight
4. Go On
5. Miracle
6. All is Not Lost
7. Dance of Ignorance
8. Annie
9. Sinners in Paradise
10. Impromptu No. 1
11. Waiting for the Sun
12. Battle & Honor (bonus track)

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Ravenhelm Going On Hiatus

U.S. based blackened folk metal act Ravenhelm has checked in with the following update about going on hiatus:

"Ravenhelm back in 2009 and early 2010 has officially finished off the writing and recording of Runemal which took me 8/9 months of work. the release date will soon be announced, the album however will be released with Ziekte Records this summer. I also plan on re-recording a 'majority' of the debut album 'Through Pagan Mist' probably late late late 2010. Which I hope to find a label to release, most likely to go in Ziekte Records as well.Plans are underway for a split album with Appalachian Winter. The tracks for my portion of the album are.... 1.) I, Brother Wolf 2.) Mountain Cabin 3.) Forest Spirits I Speak

"None of these are yet to be written but they will be done shortly after I am finished with the upcoming demo for my Doom/Death side band, VanityVania. There are also plans for one final full length album titled, 'Raven's Caw' to be started on in 2011. Afterwards, the future for Ravenhelm is unknown to me. I have been growing more and more disgusted with the hypocritical natures and politics that govern this so called 'scene.' More...

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Status Minor Posts More Studio Footage

Finland's Status Minor is holed up in the studio recording their upcoming album "Ouroboros," which is set to be released this September. Status Minor has posted a fourth video clip online from the studio, which can be viewed below.

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Toxic Holocaust Posts New Video Online

American thrash metal outfit Toxic Holocaust has posted a new music video online for the song, "Lord Of The Wasteland." You can check it out below. The video was filmed at various shows on the bands extensive tour across North America. The song comes from the bands latest album, "An Overdose Of Death" which is available now through Relapse Records. More...

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Bullet for My Valentine Announces Secret Show

To celebrate the release of their new album, "Fever," Bullet For My Valentine will be playing a special MySpace Secret Show at an undisclosed location. The show is on April 26th in London. Details are as follows:

TIME: 9pm(GMT), 4pm (EST)

Find out how you can attend at myspace.com/secretshowsuk.

If you can't make it to the show, MySpace will be streaming the whole event live so stay tuned for details on that.

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Black Sabbath To Release "Classic Album" DVD

A new documentary from the acclaimed Classic Albums series is set to be released on June 28th in Europe and the following day in North America, which will take a look at the legendary Black Sabbath album, "Paranoid." Fans will be able to go into the studio with the band - singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward - and get a first-hand account of the making of the album featuring the iconic tracks "Paranoid," "Iron Man" and "War Pigs." The DVD also features interviews with the original engineers, demonstrations, archive videos and use of the original multi-track tapes. The album was originally released in 1970 and was produced by Roger Bain, who also worked on early albums by Judas Priest and Budgie.

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Summer Slaughter 2010 Linuep Announced

The full and final lineup for the Summer Slaughter 2010 tour has been announced. The full lineup is:

With the exception of the New York and Los Angeles dates, tickets are projected to be under $20.

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Watain Reveals New Album Cover Art

"Lawless Darkness," the fourth full-length album from Swedish black metal squadron WATAIN, will be released on June 7, 2010 through Season Of Mist.

The band returned to Necromorbus Studio (Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, Ondskapt, Nominon, Unanimated et al) in Alvik, Sweden to record the ten-track, hour-plus long album, which features strikingly detailed cover art by Zbigniew M. Bielak. Commented vocalist/bassist E. of the imagery, "The front cover is made by artist Zbigniew M. Bielak from Poland, one of the few living artists we deem worthy to work with. However elaborate on it's own, this front cover should be seen as a mere taste of the most extensive artwork ever seen in a WATAIN context, hell, even in a Black Metal context!" Check out the cover art here. More...

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Jungle Rot Premiers New Music Video

MetalSucks has premiered the new music video for "Worst Case Scenario" by Wisconsin brutal death metallers Jungle Rot. The track comes from their 2009 Naplam Records release "What Horrors Await." Watch the video here.

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Two New Steel Panther Video Interviews Online

During Steel Panther's UK Tour in March 2010, TrashHits.com got a chance to pull Satchel away from his busy schedule to interview him. Check out the video interview below.

AUX TV also ran a feature where Barry Taylor interviews Steel Panther. Check it out below.

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Hydrogyn Posts New Video Diary Update

In this video update, Hydrogyn reveals that the trackings' for the drums are now completed. Joe Migz, the drummer describes a couple of the tracks as "really heavy" reminiscent of Pantera style.

Also, Hydrogyn collectively has given their condolences to Peter Steel who has passed away April 15, at the age of 48. More...

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Soulfly Announces U.K. Tour Dates

Soulfly, the band led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, has announced a series of headlining shows in the United Kingdom, which will kick off next month. The tour is in support of the bands forthcoming seventh studio album, "Omen" which will be released on May 25th through Roadrunner Records.

The tour dates are as follows:

May 16 - Southampton - Brook
May 17 - London - Islington Academy
May 18 - Preston - 53 Degrees
May 19 - Edinburgh - Studio 24
May 20 - York - Duchess
May 21 - Wrexham - Central Station
May 22 - Northampton - Roadmenders

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Type O Negative Members Pay Tribute To Frontman

The surviving members of Type O Neative, Josh Silver, Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly, have posted a collective message online, as well as their own personal thoughts, regarding the passing of the bands frontman Peter Steele, which occured on wednesday night. The messages read as follows:

"It is with great sadness that we inform you that Type O Negative front man, bassist, and our band mate, Peter Steele passed away last night of what appears to be heart failure.

"Ironically Peter had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music for our follow up to Dead Again released in 2007.

"The official cause of death has yet to be determined pending autopsy results. The funeral services will be private and memorial services will be announced at a future date. We’d like to share our thoughts and those of Peter’s family below.

"We are truly saddened to lose our friend and appreciate the tremendous outpouring today from around the world."

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Tall cylindrical jar

Middle Kingdom–Early New Kingdom
Dynasty 11–18
ca. 2124–1504 B.C.
From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Tomb MMA 703, MMA excavations, 1912–13
H. 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
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Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1934–1935. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1935.

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'Wisconsin Death Trip' revives some troubling memories

By Richard von Busack

In roughly a million movies, amnesiac characters try desperately to remember some urgent, forgotten matter. Most recently, Kurt Russell in Vanilla Sky and Joe Pantoliano in Memento played figures trying to tease reluctant memories awake in their films' leading characters. The popularity of this kind of mystery echoes a national problem: We in the United States have a chronic case of historical amnesia.

One attempt to wake us up from it is found in Michael Lesy's fascinating 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip, which chronicles the wave of late 19th-century crimes and mortality in the vicinity of Black River Falls, a small town in Wisconsin. Reading this book could give you the impression that the hamlet was built on an 1890s version of a Hellmouth, a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The residents of Black River Falls were recent immigrants who came to mine and farm in the newly opened territory. But the land was too scrubby to live off. The banks, railroads, and mines were subject to sudden failure, inflamed by the depression of the 1890s. Even by the standards of the Norwegian immigrants, the winters were cruel. The pressure crushed the settlers through hard work and bankruptcy. Thus the local history, recorded in a small weekly newspaper, is a record of depression, suicide, disease, and murder.

James Marsh's film version of Wisconsin Death Trip is a 76-minute-long condensation of the book--and the movie is a total success.

Marsh deftly captures the mood of the threatening wilderness. His bare-bones budget complements the rawness of frontier life, which he studies with the velvety cinematic obsession of a David Lynch. Here, a nonprofessional cast silently reenact the old crimes. Marsh divides the film into seasons and connects his almanac of doom with recurring characters.

Wisconsin Death Trip finds a charismatic antiheroine in Mary Sweeney (played fiercely by Jo Vukelich), a traveling madwoman who loved to snort coke and smash windows. In the account of Mrs. Larson (Molly Anderson), who drowned her three children, the film presents a parallel to Susan Smith, sentenced in 1994 to life in prison for driving the car that contained her sleeping children into a lake. And there's even a decadent celebrity: Pauline L'Allemand (Marilyn White), a noted opera star who retreated to the wilds of Wisconsin--and then into madness.

Actor Ian Holm, most recently seen as the ring-jonesing hobbit Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, narrates the casebook. Aside from his narration, Wisconsin Death Trip is mute, accompanied by a beautifully eclectic soundtrack that ranges from Debussy to Finnish folk songs to Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean."

Marsh goes a step farther than the book by visiting Black River Falls today. He seems to wonder: How could a past so infamous be interred beneath this peaceful small town? He observes children playing, the high-school homecoming game and parade, the old people half-dead in the retirement home.

Naturally, some critics have accused Marsh of patronizing the town, especially by filming nursing home residents drowsing through a visiting glee club's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But isn't this a perfect metaphor for how Black Rock Falls' memory sleeps? And though the film doesn't mention this, Black River Falls isn't a backwater today; it's heavily touristed, visited in the summer by Chicago area hikers and mountain bikers. What we see today may look a little stodgy, but it's a triumph over a lurid, agonizing past.

In its way, Wisconsin Death Trip is an optimistic film. Today's young people are supposed to be lost, addicted to drugs and television, a generation of nihilist lawbreakers whose misdeeds testify to the lapse of family values. Marsh's film, set in a time of thoroughly religious, strong families, is alive with murders, drug abuse, and teen crime. By forgetting the trouble we once had, we exaggerate the trouble we have today.

'Wisconsin Death Trip' opens Friday, Feb. 8, at the Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. For details, see Movie Times or call 415.454.1222.

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Dave Tompkins on writing and travelling with the vocoder

Dave Tompkins has been traveling around the world during the last year to talk about his history of the vocoder, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, which is now available in paperback. An early telephone technology, the vocoder was used during World War II to guard phones from eavesdroppers and was later re-purposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, eventually becoming a ubiquitous sound in popular music.

In an essay for Pitchfork, Tompkins details his travels with the vocoder, which recently included a presentation at a National Security Agency cryptologic symposium. In a preamble to Tompkins’ essay, Pitchfork calls the book “complex and impeccably-researched history”; in New York magazine Sam Anderson called it “an intergalactic vision quest fueled by several thousand gallons of high-octane spiritual-intellectual lust.” Luc Sante called it a “secret history of our time.”

As Tompkins recounts his tour:

The vocoder has placed me in some odd situations over the past year of book touring. I’ve lectured inside a monolith near a parking deck which houses the original Trans Europe Express caboose. In Miami Beach, I played a recording of Egyptian Lover walking “Planet Rock” backwards for Arthur Baker and John Robie (news to them). In L.A., I signed someone else’s book (titled The Violence of Childbirth) but later found no proof of its existence. A man in Maastricht passed me the phone numbers of a “disease agent” and an iceberg melting in real time. In New York, a civil war submarine engineer offered to build a subwoofer from the disinterred skull of H.P. Lovecraft, which apparently now sits on a coffee table in Atlanta. In a nutshell, it was a good year.

But talking vocoders with the NSA was, how do you say, another story. Here was a federal subsector equipped with its own clown troupe, a demographic well-informed on this misapprehended creature that was once restricted to presidents, dictators, and brass jaws. Most in attendance already knew how the vocoder had guarded (and frustrated) the phone conversations of Churchill, JFK, and perhaps themselves, during World War II and the Cold War. In the hushed realm of “Secret Telephony,” the vocoder had become a bad word. As one NSA employee told me, it sounded like you were speaking from the bottom of a trashcan. The fidelity was literally garbage.

Tompkins full essay is available at Pitchfork.

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Naomi wouldn't be quite so desperate now if she hadn't spent her rent money to bury her mother. But what choice did she have? Naomi is sure her 85-year-old mother, Rosalia, could have lived longer if she'd been able to get medical attention, either in Miami or in her native Port-au-Prince. But here the clinics wanted to see money and sometimes immigration documents, neither of which Rosalia had, and in Haiti hospitals stand useless for lack of everything from antibiotics and syringes to running water and electricity.

So Rosalia died this past July 3 in her family's apartment in Port-au-Prince, and Naomi, the eldest of her seven children and the only one living in Miami, was expected to oversee funeral arrangements. She and a friend went to one of those factory-fashion outlets on NW Twentieth Street and bought Rosalia her burial dress, a shiny-blue, two-piece ensemble, the kind of modest yet festive attire women wear to church when church is their life. Rosalia had been an evangelical missionary since the age of 25 and devoted most of her time to her Pentecostal church in Port-au-Prince. The dress cost $70, but how could Naomi scrimp on her mother's last outfit?

"She asked to be buried in a blue dress," Naomi offers, smoothing her own cheap print blouse. "Blue means hope."

Naomi, despite her own strong religious convictions, is constantly on the verge of losing hope. She is a United States citizen and is involved in Little Haiti community activities, especially crime watch. But she hasn't had a steady job in more than a year, and now her landlord, who inconveniently lives next door to her two-bedroom apartment, is treating her like a criminal. She has a rent problem.

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"I owe two months now," Naomi confesses solemnly in accented English, "and my landlord said he's going to take action if I don't pay." (Naomi requested that the real names of her and her family not be published, so pseudonyms are used for this story.) She is sitting on the edge of a black, cloth-covered sofa in her living room, every wall painted a peachy pink. Occasionally she fans herself with a Rhythm magazine, no doubt the property of her twenty-year-old son Antoine, who's at vocational school. In the waning light of early evening the room is dim; to save electricity she has no lamps lit, no air conditioning running. White filigree curtains, beige with age, cover the barred windows. A ceiling fan whirs silently, barely rustling the leaves and petals of a silk poinsettia arrangement on the coffee table. Atop an ancient console TV, picture tube burned out, sits a telephone connected to an answering machine, also not working since phone service was cut off a few weeks ago. On a nearby shelf a six-year-old framed color photograph shows Antoine in slacks and sport jacket, resting his arm on Naomi's shoulder. She's smiling proudly in a dress with a lacy white collar. Mother and son are the same height in the photo; today Antoine towers over Naomi.

Outside, a red pickup truck loaded with plastic bags bulging with fruits and vegetables makes its way down the street. As the vehicle passes Naomi's house she watches the owner at the wheel, announcing in Kreyol from a PA system: "I have carrots today, I have eggplant, I have a large selection of produce you can't buy cheaper in the market." The truck and the booming voice stop every couple of houses and one or two people stroll over to inspect the wares. They seem to know what they want, haggling is brief, and they disappear back into their homes with a bag or two. As they do, spicy, meaty cooking smells occasionally escape into the humid air.

"It's true. His prices are usually less than in the markets," Naomi confirms. "But I don't buy from him. It's still a lot of money."

For someone like Naomi, who earns anywhere from zero to $900 per month working temp jobs as a homemaker (an unskilled helper for homebound patients), fresh produce is indeed a luxury. Yet in Little Haiti, one of the poorest sections of the poorest city in the nation, Naomi's plight is nothing out of the ordinary. Lying southeast of Liberty City, Little Haiti is home to about 24,000 people, most of them born in Haiti. This neighborhood is the first stop in Miami for the majority of newly arrived immigrants from that enthralling, tormented nation on the island of Hispaniola. It's a community with one of the highest unemployment rates in Miami-Dade County (19.4 percent), according to a May 2002 study by Florida International University's Metropolitan Center. More than half of Little Haiti's households subsist below the poverty line, as figured by the same study, and almost a third reported household incomes of less than $10,000. All the public schools in Little Haiti received the lowest possible rating in 2001; almost 100 percent of the elementary school students qualify for free-lunch programs, compared with 56 percent of students in the county as a whole.

New arrivals to Little Haiti work hard to save enough money to buy a house somewhere else, usually to the north, places like Miami Shores, El Portal, North Miami, and North Miami Beach. Even if a Haitian couple has to work two minimum-wage jobs apiece and enlist the help of siblings and cousins, and in spite of political and social-services systems stacked against them, they'll manage to scrape together a down payment on an American dream. But those who succeed the fastest are most often the ones with advantages such as an education, legal residency or citizenship, and family members able to lend support.

Haitians trying to establish themselves in the U.S. confront obstacles most other immigrant groups will never know, such as deliberately anti-Haitian immigration policies, social and educational services catering to Spanish-speakers and ignoring Kreyol-speakers, the ever-present subtleties of racism, and thousands of low-level jobs off-limits to Haitians because they've always been filled by Spanish-speaking immigrants. Naomi's U.S. citizenship has been no protection from or mitigation of the base poverty in which she lives.

She is hoping she'll get a call tomorrow morning from the home health-care agency she signed up with, telling her to report to work (usually to a private home) as a homemaker. Even one day a week of work now sounds good to her, even at no more than eight dollars an hour. "I never have a long job," she complains. "Sometimes I find work for three days a week. Last year I worked seven days a week -- but only for three months." If her 1986 Chevrolet station wagon isn't running, which it often isn't, she has to walk three blocks to the bus stop, wait under wilting sun or rain, and if her destination allows, hop on a jitney. Sometimes she has to take the bus and transfer, a round trip costing three dollars and taking up three hours in travel time.

This is no way to cover her $550 monthly rent, not to mention the phone and electricity bills. Naomi says she has been rejected for welfare or Medicaid benefits; she doesn't understand why. Antoine, who is studying to be an auto mechanic at the Miami Skill Center, has not been able to find a job. He is covered by Medicaid, though only until he turns 21 next year. Luckily for Naomi, so far anyway, God has granted her good health.

But she works hard at survival. To round up enough food for her and Antoine, Naomi must become a modern-day version of the hunter-gatherer. She finds free lunches, yet she pays in time, effort, and pride. Naomi has collected food donations at churches all over the county. She'll usually get nonperishable staples such as rice, oil, flour -- mainly canned foods. "A friend will call you and say, 'Can you go with me to this place to get food?'" she explains. "Sometimes people who have the same problem as me will call and invite me to go one day with them. The problem is if you go one time to a certain church you cannot go another time, per year. And they give the good things to the people in the church, not to the people on the outside."

Still she's not about to complain. She is vague about the apparently meager help she gets from her own congregation, a Church of God whose Haitian members are far from rich. Naomi was receiving food stamps this past March and April, then the stamps stopped. She doesn't know the reason, but she has another appointment scheduled for this month at the food-stamp office on NW 79th Street. "I have an interview," she clarifies. "They ask you a lot of questions, until you want to forget about food stamps."

Food vouchers, issued by the federal government and distributed through the United Way to community and charitable groups, are easier in some ways -- no third degree or endless paperwork -- but she never knows which agency is actually going to have any on hand when she needs them. Last week, after a volunteer at Sant La,a community-assistance center in Little Haiti, verified by phone that a Northwest Miami-Dade agency did have vouchers, Naomi rode out by bus only to be told the vouchers had been used up. Finally another office gave her $30 worth of food vouchers, good at Winn-Dixie. "The only problem with vouchers," Naomi says, "is they're just good at Publix or Winn-Dixie. For $60 at Publix you might come home with two bags. You can get more at a smaller market. So if you have food stamps you use them there." Just the other day, after perusing the various ad supplements stuffed in her mailbox, she drove up to North Miami and paid two dollars at President Market for a ten-pound bag of chicken legs and thighs.

One of the few things she feels deprived without is fresh juice, straight from the orange or grapefruit or pineapple. When she talks about such a luxury she seems to be inwardly licking her lips with pleasure. But the cost of even the cartons of fresh-from-concentrate juice at the supermarket is prohibitive. "Sometimes," Naomi acknowledges, "you'd like to buy real orange juice. But it costs $4 a gallon, so you buy powder and make a poor substitute for $2.50."

Naomi frowns, patting the coarse black hair that keeps trying to escape from her small ponytail. Yesterday was a depressing day. She went to several agencies to ask for help with her rent. Some of them had located food vouchers and rent assistance for her in the past. This time she got nowhere. Her eyes look reddened, as though she'd been squinting into the sun all day, which she had. "I was so tired," she recalls. "I didn't eat anything all day, and I felt weak. All week, every day, I take the jitney up to [the Center for Information and Orientation, a nonprofit agency affiliated with Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church]. I spend two dollars [for the jitney] every day. Every day they tell me to bring documents, so I keep coming back with the papers they ask for. And yesterday I got there and she says we ran out of money; they told me that in 2003 they're going to have something."

Catholic Charities told her the same thing, as did other agencies whose names she can't remember. Now, say workers at Sant La, there just isn't any rent-assistance money anywhere. The county's Community Action Agency does pay some rent in emergencies, but only after the landlord has gone to court to obtain a three-day eviction notice. Ironically the reason Naomi wasn't able to have her rent paid this time was the fault of her landlord, who refused until it was too late to sign a notarized statement the organizations required before they would assist her.

Naomi dreams of a steady job with long hours. Many of her friends have become licensed as certified nursing assistants (CNA), and she knows her prospects would greatly improve if she did the same. CNAs don't make much more money than homemakers, but they're in demand at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. "I just need to take the state [CNA licensing] test," Naomi explains. "Then I'm going to work sixteen hours a day."

She has been taking classes to prepare her for the state-administered CNA licensing exam, but that costs $87. She'll just have to wait until other expenses are taken care of. Assuming they are. "We went last November, December, and January without a phone," Naomi admits. Her telephone service was cut off again a week ago. She lifts an index finger, taps at an eyebrow. "When the electric bill comes, I have to think who can I ask to give me twenty dollars to pay it. I go to different people. I guess I'll get twenty dollars from one, another fifteen dollars. It's humiliating but I accept it because I don't know what else to do."

Not that she isn't always mindful her life may have been saved by coming here when she did, in 1993, during the violent aftermath of the military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. "When I was in my country I was [politically] involved," Naomi says. "I was a delegate for the electoral council to oversee the election, so after the coup everyone knew I was in danger. For three months I went into hiding in Jacmel, my mother's hometown. Then my family sent me and my son to Miami."

In Miami Naomi and Antoine stayed for a few weeks with a friend of the family, then moved into a Little Haiti apartment on NE Second Avenue not far from where they now live. In late 2000 her mother came to live with them, but Naomi finally sent Rosalia back to Haiti after less than a year, in July 2001. "Because I cannot support her," Naomi says. "If I could, maybe she wouldn't have died. She was nine months without medical care when we started looking for a doctor to see her. She could walk, but she was sick. Everywhere we went they ask if she has papers. They tell us we have to pay. Finally I realize it's impossible. My mother said, 'Why don't you just take me back home.'" Naomi adds: "Life is very hard for Haitians in this country."

Rosalia died almost a year later, at the same time Naomi was desperate to pay her rent for May and June. She recalled hearing Leonie Hermantin of Sant La speak at a neighborhood crime-watch meeting one night several weeks earlier, and she remembered Hermantin urging her listeners to call her if they didn't know where else to go for help. Naomi figured that described her exactly. "I could not go nowhere," says Naomi. "That's why I call Ms. Hermantin."

Sant La found enough cash for Naomi to pay a month's rent, but it went instead to buy the blue dress and two round-trip plane tickets to Port-au-Prince. Now no one can find any more rent-assistance money and she's in real trouble.

For one night almost every week Naomi steps outside her warm, dark apartment to patrol Little Haiti with other crime-watch volunteers. She speaks to the residents about how to protect themselves and their property. She tells them to look out for their neighbors, where to call if they see something suspicious. She learned all this in crime-watch classes given by the Miami Police Department, and she's proud of a certificate of appreciation awarded her for this work, back in 1996. The certificate is signed by then-police Chief Donald Warshaw, before he became Miami city manager and then went to prison for stealing money from a charity. Naomi is glad to see wrongdoing punished; she's grateful to live where even a flawed justice system exists. Nevertheless she has fallen by the wayside in the world's most powerful nation. "Give me a job and I work hard," she says. "But there's too much people looking for a job. I've looked everywhere for help. Some people try to help me, but not the people who can help."

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Bangalore: Skipper R Vinay Kumar grabbed 6-47 to bowl Ranji Trophy champions Karnataka to a sound position against Rest of India, who were all out for 201 despite a valiant 91 by Dinesh Karthik on Day One of the Irani Cup here yesterday.

Karnataka captain R Vinay Kumar (centre) celebrates a ROI wicket with teammates at the Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday. PIC/Kashif Masood

In reply, Karnataka were 35-1 at stumps after losing Robin Uthappa, who was caught in the slips while attempting a drive off Ashok Dinda in the first over of the innings. Earlier, opening the bowling after opting to field, Vinay took three wickets in 13 deliveries to leave Rest of India at 12-3. The 29-year-old later showcased his skills with the old ball as he took another three wickets in the space of five deliveries as Rest of India collapsed to 201.

Lending Vinay Kumar support was Stuart Binny, who picked up 3-35 on the back of some tight bowling. The saving grace for Rest of India was Karthik’s fighting knock of 91 (184b, 14x4) as the Tamil Nadu batsman, struggling for runs this season during which he scored just one century, held his end up with typical resoluteness to prop up his side’s innings.

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Karthik displayed a lot of patience and denied himself the freedom until he crossed the 50-run mark before opening out with a series of shots marked by good timing.

Even when the Karnataka bowlers were guilty of pitching it short or offering juicy half-volleys, Karthik batted sensibly and waited for the loose balls. However, just as he looked set for a century, he fell to a mistimed slog-sweep off Binny to be caught brilliantly by a leaping Uthappa at mid-on.

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Rest of India: 201 (D Karthik 91, A Mishra 47; Vinay Kumar 6-47, S Binny 3-35) Karnataka 35-1 (L Rahul batting 28; A Dinda 1-19)

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The AMA Racing Road Race Grand Championships are the country's premier amateur road-racing event, awarding AMA Racing National Championships in a number of road-racing classes for both expert- and novice-ranked riders.

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Splunk is a log, monitoring and reporting tool for IT system administrators with search capabilities. It crawls logs, metrics, and other data from applications, servers and network devices and indexes it in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, SQL reports and alerts. Splunk can be easily set on the AWS machine archival storage as EBS volumes and periodically syncing the archive from EBS to S3 Bucket or taking EBS snapshots for backup of the logs for the future use.

Generally its hard to track the logs from the server. We do have different monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabix, here is a new tool named Splunk, which is a kind of bigger solution for providing monitor the visibility inside all the dynamic and complex environment. For example you have an application seems to be very slow, its not because the app have some issue , its because of the lack of free memory on the server. Such kind of details can be obtained from inside the splunk server.

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Publisher’s Perspective – Volume 4, Issue 2 of Iowa History Journal

Not long ago, I received a letter from Mrs. Carol Alvis, who teaches social studies at Van Buren Middle School in Keosauqua. For those not familiar with Keosauqua, it is a city of 1,100 located in very southeastern Iowa, on the Missouri border. It is home to the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state, dating back to 1840.

Mrs. Alvis began her letter thusly: “I am writing in response to the article you wrote in the May/June issue of the Iowa History Journal magazine entitled ‘Iowa schools are flunking in history’. In that article you stated that a few years ago the Des Moines Register reported that Iowa history was being ignored in Iowa schools.

“I just want to let you know that in the Van Buren Middle School 7th grade classes, Iowa history is alive and well.”

My article also reported the fact that the Fordham Institute of Washington, D. C., gave the state of Iowa an F grade for the way it teaches its own history. It was not a good moment for Iowa pride. But the letter from Mrs. Alvis certainly helped improve my feelings on the matter when she added:

“Our curriculum allows a nine-week period to be used for Iowa history. During that time we learn about the glaciers, Native Americans, early settlers, state boundaries, state government and much more. At the end of the nine weeks the students are required to select and create a project that would illustrate what they had learned about Iowa.”

I was so impressed with the letter that I called Mrs. Alvis to learn more. I discovered that she is a dedicated and enthusiastic advocate of teaching Iowa history to young students – and that the reaction from the students in her classes is encouraging.

“Yes, they are very interested in state history,” Mrs. Alvis told me. “When I saw Iowa History Journal, it gave me the idea of maybe even starting our own magazine in class. When students see that history is basically about people, they are fascinated by the stories.”

That has always been our goal at Iowa History Journal – to make history come alive though the stories of the people who made Iowa history what it is – vibrant, intriguing, interning and, yes – fascinating.

One of her students, Sydney Atwood, wrote a song called “It’s Iowa” and Mrs. Alvis was so proud of the effort by Sydney that she sent me the lyrics to the song as well as a disk with Sydney singing it – to the tune of “Friday”, by Rebecca Black. There are two verses, a bridge verse, and three choruses.

“Sydney took most of what we covered in class and arranged that information in a very enjoyable song. I hope you enjoy it as much as her classmates.”

It was terrific! Sydney did a wonderful job of singing and the words to the song come alive with her sweet voice. My wife, Bev, and I were very impressed.

Iowa needs more teachers like Carol Alvis, who graduated from Marycrest College in Davenport and has been teaching at Van Buren schools for 18 years. Van Buren Middle School is keeping faith with the goals of the Iowa Department of Education. Though it is not mandatory that Iowa history be taught as a specific course in any Iowa schools, it is included in the content specifications for elementary schools as a part of general social studies courses.

Ironically, Carol Alvis grew up in Ottumwa – the hometown of another Carol, one who was featured in the last issue of Iowa History Journal.

Carol Morris graced the cover of the January-February issue and was the subject of a long feature by Michael Swanger. Carol Morris attended Drake University, and in 1956 was crowned Miss Universe, becoming a state icon. I sent several copies of the magazine to Carol at her home in Texas, and she wrote back to me, saying: “You do a great job and we can really tell that you love our Iowa. Thanks for all you are doing to keep Iowa history alive.”

With people like Carol Morris, Carol Alvis and Sydney Atwood helping to remind us all how special Iowa is, the future of Iowa History Journal looks bright indeed.

(Mike Chapman is the publisher of Iowa History Journal. Born and raised in Waterloo, he retired from a 35-year newspaper career in 2002. He is the author of 21 books and is a public speaker. He and his wife, Bev, live in Newton.)

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Daniel McCutchen tossed six strong innings Friday as the Trenton Thunder held on for a 3-2 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs in Game 3 of the Eastern League Northern Division Finals.

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Entering Monday's World Baseball Classic qualifier final, Panama had seen 48 of its native sons suit up for Major League clubs in the sport's long history. Brazil had only one (Yan Gomes), and that achievement didn't come until May of this year.

Put another way, Panama entered the qualifying rounds of the international tournament ranked No. 15 in the world by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). Brazil was No. 28, trailing WBC qualifier poolmates Nicaragua (14) and Colombia (19).

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In a major upset, Brazil defeated Panama, 1-0, in Monday's qualifier final at Panama City's Rod Carew Stadium. With the win, the country advances to its first-ever World Baseball Classic. The Brazilians, guided by manager and Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin, finished the tournament with a perfect 3-0 record, having defeated Panama, 3-2, in its opening game and Colombia, 7-1, in the final play-in game.

Rafael Fernandes, who has spent the last two seasons in Japan, starred on the mound, allowing only two hits and one walk over his six shutout innings to earn the win. He exited with the one-run advantage after his battery mate Gomes singled in Royals prospect Paulo Orlando in the third frame.

Astros farmhand Murilo Gouvea tossed 2 1/3 innings of no-hit ball to preserve the close lead, but he exited in the ninth after a walk and sac bunt put Isaias Velasquez on second for Panama with only one out. Thyago Vieira -- a 19-year-old right-hander who has not pitched higher than the Venezuelan Summer League for the Mariners -- gave up a hit to Carlos Ruiz before striking out Carlos Lee and Ruben Rivera to secure the historic win. It was his second save in three games.

Gomes, who was recently traded from the Blue Jays to the Indians, finished 1-for-4 at the plate with an RBI as Brazil's No. 3 hitter. Orlando went 2-for-4 from the top spot while Rays third base prospect Leonardo Reginatto was 3-for-4 to improve his tournament average to .583 (7-for-12).

Brazil becomes the fourth and final qualifier after Spain, Canada and Chinese Taipei had previously won their individual modified double elimination tournaments. The WBC kicks off in Taichung, Taiwan and Fukuoka, Japan on March 2 with games in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Phoenix to follow.

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Sue's philosophy is simple. “Achieve the highest result in the shortest possible time with the least amount of stress and always in an open and friendly manner”.
Communication and client service are Sue's great strengths that she consistently delivers at the highest levels with honest, helpful advice designed to make the experience of selling and buying a property a hassle-free success for her customers.
Refreshing and realistic, Sue is a true real estate professional. Her knowledge, understanding, negotiation skills and commitment continue to exceed expectations with vendors regularly obtaining high prices and buyers securing their home or investment property with transparency and ease.
A dedicated mother who is active in the local community, Sue is a hard-working member of Miles Real Estate and always available with informed, dependable and helpful advice.
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