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Don Alias: Heart, Soul and Lungs

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One time I made a mistake. [Miles] called me down to his room and I'm nervous and I made the mistake of asking....'Am I doing okay, Miles?' And his reply was, 'I didn't say nothin', did I?' —Don Alias
Don AliasWe have lost one of the greats.

The proverbial six-degrees-of-separation aside, Don Alias, has played with everyone. Active since the late '50s, he stands as easily the most influential percussionist in jazz and one of the few who ever transcended jazz and flamenco successfully and could by all accounts truly swing hard on congas. Alias has created or added an almost spiritual dimension to the pivotal work of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell (touring with the dream band of Mike Becker, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays), Sting, David Sanborn, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, John Scofield, George Benson, Lou Rawls, Roberta Flack, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Weather Report. The list is nearly endless. But like all great art, his music will continue to press the truth about all that is music, all that is art, all that is spiritual and human, and the apex of each.

Among musicians it's a well known fact that, beyond all other instrumentalists, percussionists and drummers tend to have an innate and immediate connection, camaraderie and simpatico with each other—that sense of being instant brothers—something the likes of Jack DeJohnette, Peter Erskine and Tony Williams could easily attest to, relative to Alias.

Though no doubt whatever Alias decided to do with his life would have benefited from his innate sensitivity and ability to listen and instantly respond, his original focus was medicine and biochemistry. But after early stints with Nina Simone as her musical director, and tours with Dizzy Gillespie, word spread fast and Alias soon became a top call percussionist.

Alias was nothing if not full of life and energy. He truly lived—completely and to the edge. He always wanted to do it—whatever "it was—"right now," and put all of himself into it, because he knew life would always intervene, and it would happen whether we're living it or not. Don knew how to do it and showed that, with every blistered finger, every knowing grin, every drop of blood and sweat he paid to do this gig he so loved, and made us love—life and music—he could make them one.

I last spoke with Alias on Sunday March 19, 2006 for close to an hour-and-a-half, and at the end, since he was tired and we'd still barely scratched the surface, we decided to set up another time to talk in the following week or two. Being in autobiographical mode, he was excited but not just about the interview—he was excited about everything, and seemed ready to jump on any and every project equally and immediately. But life intervened this time. The first week blurred into the second, and by Wednesday, March 29 there was an incredibly disturbing rumor going around that Don had passed in his apartment sometime Tuesday, March 28, just nine days after we'd talked. The worst part was that it wasn't a rumor. Don will be profoundly missed by so many. What follows is Don's final interview.

All About Jazz: Originally you were studying biochemistry. How did that get turned around, 'cause that's really a stretch isn't it?

Don Alias: Yeah, it sure was. When I was coming up the drum thing kind of started with the guys around the block, you know what I mean? Me and my brother, when we were about eight, nine, ten years old we grew up with the calypso thing, not the reggae thing. My family's from St. Maarten in the West Indies and we were surrounded with the calypso thing, you know. That's what the feel was. Harry Belafonte was out doing his thing so we were surrounded with that kind of music, so me and my brother started playing that stuff around the house and we got hanging with the guys on the block and kind of added a bit of calypso to it. And we used to actually go out in the street and down in the subway and if my mother had caught us she would've killed us [laughs]—she just didn't want us to be doing that—and we just started doing it like that.

I wasn't playing the conga drums and I had these tiny little drums and he would sing and people would throw money so we'd make a little change. We ended up abruptly getting caught [laughs] doing it! And we were asked to do a kind of audition at a famous club in Harlem called the Baby Grand so we snuck out of the house and went down there and she came downstairs and my feet were sticking out of the covers 'cause I'm kind of tall and she said, "wait a minute" and she tracked us down through the neighbors in the block and came down and busted us at the Baby Grand playin'.

They wouldn't allow us in the club so we played in front of the club. And when I say busted I mean busted. And there was this Eartha Kitt dance foundation at the Harlem YMCA and they were looking for some drummers to perform with her dance foundation. You've gotta remember, for a guy who's playing conga drums in Harlem, to play for a dance group, that was really an ultimate thing, for guys like us. Because what you do is play for half an hour or 45 minutes while they're dancing around and you get a lot of stamina and training; you learn a lot of stuff with the drummers. So I joined this Eartha Kitt Dance Foundation and one day she decided that she would come in and teach a class.

And, that was quite a deal. She was a star at the time and she had all these records but she brought in like two of her own drummers and these guys were like really pros. They were professional players, you know? I wasn't even near where they were and they started to play for the dancers and I started to play and they looked at me and they very, very consciously and judiciously, for their own satisfaction, told me, "why don't you stop playing and listen . That's what I did. I was a little embarrassed by it but I did.

So I started listening and started picking up things and different rhythms. I can give you a lot of titles...a lot of Haitian rhythms; there's one called a Yambalou. And then Eartha Kitt got invited to the Newport Jazz Festival. This is '57. And Dizzy Gillespie had gotten into Afro-Cuban music 'cause he had the great percussionist, Chaz Rebozo, who was into like the religious playing. And anyway, Chaz Rebozzo hummed some of these melodies; this is how some of those tunes came about and they turned out things like "Quantaka? and "Tin Tin Deo and all of these great tunes he recorded. But here he was with Eartha Kitt and the tunes they picked out were "Tin Tin Deo and she could've scared me with playing these tunes.

And then she turned around and at the jazz festival and said ' I want to take you' I said, "what? . And she picked me over the guy—I must've learned a lot during that period—but she picked me over the other guys and they didn't really like that too much. And my first name was Charles, my middle name is Donald and she called me Charles. She said, "Charlie, we're going to go up to Newport and I want you to go with me.

And I said, "Oh, my God " I went back in and told my mom and of course she was like, "What? You've got to be kidding me. I said, "Mom, this is like Eartha Kitt, so she said, "Okay, you can go up there. I mean, there's a picture of me in the New York Times in July at the festival on a Sunday.

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Third World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv

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Third World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv A celebration of life flows through Sketch of Tel Aviv. Third World Love, based in New York, is a quartet of three Israeli-born players (trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital, pianist Yonatan Avishai) and a New York native, drummer Daniel Freedman. Since their debut, Third World Love Songs (Fresh Sound World Jazz, 2002), their music has been labeled world fusion, embracing ideas from the Middle East, Africa and American jazz. Each musician is active as either a leader of his own band or a sideman in various music endeavors. But together as Third World Love, they have created something special.

What's convincing is not just their high level of playing, but also how they pull many global flavors together. For instance, on "A Touch of Tahini, you not only hear a Jewish influence, but also a hot Latin clave. In the title piece, "Sketch of Tel Aviv, there are swatches of Jewish, European and even American ragtime—further enhanced by a synthesized trumpet solo and a sweet, funky backbeat. That may sound wild, but it works wonderfully to yield music that is both accessible and familiar, regardless of your musical background.

The melody-filled compositions are supported by repeating phrases, interspersed with atypical jazz solos. One interesting piece is the rural-esque "Hareshut, boasting mesmerizing oud playing by Omer Avital. On the ballad "Suzanna, Cohen's synthesized trumpet evokes an affecting mood. One of my favorite pieces is "Suite African #2, which beckons the listener to dance with its steady bass/drum beat and playful trumpet/piano exchanges.

Third World Love draws inspiration from many sources, channeling them into its own sound. It is said that the band is wildly popular in Israel, performing in small venues or large arenas to enthusiastic crowds. Listening to Sketch of Tel Aviv, it's easy to understand why.

Track Listing: A Touch of Tahini; Sketch of Tel Aviv; Suite African #2; Hareshut ; S'ai N'wai; Horizon (Kav Haofek); Suzanna (aka Rock Ballad); Three Four (Not a Jazz Tune).

Personnel: Omer Avital: bass, oud, Avishai Cohen: trumpet; Yonatan Avishai:piano, fender rhodes; Daniel Freedman: drums, percussion; Eviatar Banai: vocals (6).

Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Smalls Records | Style: Modern Jazz

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Stories of Friendship and Family Ties: The Gonzalez Clan Rides Out

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The family unit of trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and his sons bassist Aaron Gonzalez and drummer Stefan Gonzalez, known as Yells At Eels, has been operating since 2000. Dennis González played and recorded with countless innovative musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, and in recent years solidified his musical bonds with Polish and Portuguese musicians. His sons, who often work independently, are half of Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes' Humanization 4tet. These two albums demonstrate how family ties and close friendships are transformed into great music.

Dennis González Yells At Eels featuring Aakash Mittal

Colorado at Clinton

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Alto saxophonist Aakash Mittal was a childhood friend of the González brothers while his family resided in Dallas. He studied music with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and percussionist Ravish Momin, visited the Indian subcontinent and developed his own East Indian-tinged musical language. This reunion with the González family was recorded over two days in late 2011 in Dallas.

It was a very intense and emotional meeting. Mittal's serpentine sax soars fits beautifully into the emphatic and powerful interplay of Yells At Eels on the Dennis González-penned "Devil's Slide." Dennis González's other compositions focus on the the expanded sonic palette and depth that Mittal introduces to the trio, often in an energetic mode with the exception of the fascinating sound poem "Constellations on the Ground."

Mittal proves himself as a varied improviser. His playing can be muscular and intense as on the "Wind Streaks in Syrtis Major," where he exchanges heated solos with Dennis González. But his two compositions, "Shadows" and "Shades of India," are the the most remarkable. Both stress the melodic and lyrical side of the quartet and emphasize his own Indian-informed playing, still filled with intense tension and characterized with arresting ability to sketch a story. Both compositions unfold patiently—a meditative introduction of the theme, a playful exchange of improvised solos on the theme till the inevitable cathartic climax and a simple, reprise of the theme; concise versions of the form of the traditional Indian raga.

Luís Lopes' Humanization 4tet

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This is the third release of the 4tet after the self-titled and Electricity (Clean Feed/Ayler, 2008/2010) and was recorded at the end of a ten-dates East Coast tour in Madison, Wisconsin. Though the 4tet is credited as guitarist Luis Lopes' project it operates as a band with no leader. This recording present the quartet in full gear, bursting with flowing energy and passion, presenting its own blend of fiery free jazz, muscular funk and bluesy hard bop.

Within this energetic and inspired performance there are variations. The only cover, Arthur Blythe's "Bush Baby," features the soulful post-bop roots of the quartet members. Lopes' "Jungle Gymnastics" features himself in an intense, uncompromising interplay with tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado that references the raw one of Peter Brötzmann and Sonny Sharrock in the seminal Last Exit. The tight, telepathic rhythm section of the González brothers propel Lopes' distorted guitar lines on "Long March For Frida Kahlo" and Amado's powerful hard-bop soloing on "Two Girls" , melting supple, funky pulse with the direct and rough playing of Lopes and the muscular one of Amado. The quartet closes with the volcanic and dark "Dehumanization Blues," a vehicle for explosive solos by all the quartet members.

Tracks and Personnel

Colorado at Clinton

Tracks: Devil's Slide; Shadows; Wind Streaks in Syrtis Major; Shades of India; Constellations on the Ground; Dokonori Shīīto.

Personnel; Dennis González: C trumpet, Bb cornet; Aakash Mittal: alto saxophone; Aaron González: double bass; Stefan González: drums.

Live in Madison

Tracks: Bush Baby; Jungle Gymnastics; Long March For Frida Kahlo; Big Love; Two Girls; Dehumanization Blues.

Personnel: Luís Lopes: electric guitar; Rodrigo Amado: tenor saxophone; Aaron González: bass; Stefan González: drums.

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Dan Pratt Organ Quartet: Toe the Line

Woodrow Wilkins By

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Dan Pratt Organ Quartet: Toe the Line Toe the Line is a phrase which signifies unwavering obedience to a doctrine, structure, or rule, but the Dan Pratt Organ Quartet defies such a rule. The group conforms to the rule of playing with flair, but little else.

Pratt, who plays tenor saxophone, was a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival High School All-Star Band, and his professional career includes work with Joe Lovano, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and the Christian McBride Big Band.

"Houdini," the first of eight Pratt originals, opens with organ and drum laying down the rhythm. Pratt leads, echoed by Alan Ferber. The tenor and trombone harmonize, and at times they overlap each other. Shortly into the piece, Pratt takes off a bouncy, freestyle solo; Ferber solos as well. Throughout, organ and drums are in grooves of their own.

"Doppelganger" is aptly named. The term refers to the double of a living person—someone who bears a strong resemblance to another. The tenor begins a phrase and is joined by the trombone. At times, it's difficult to tell which instrument is playing. Then the tenor plays the phrase at a higher tone. After the opening sequence, Alan Ferber and Pratt take turns with solos. Jared Gold's organ serves not only as the rhythm instrument but also as the bass—a function it provides on all tracks. The horns revert to the opening phrase, playing without accompaniment at first. Then Mark Ferber joins in, skillfully playing snare, toms, and cymbals as if it were his solo. The song ends with sax and trombone harmonizing on the thematic phrase.

The lone cover, "The Star-Crossed Lovers," is performed with as much vigor as Pratt's compositions. The leads are solid, and the solos are engaging. In this sense, Toe the Line does conform to one rule: the musicians play from the heart.

Track Listing: Houdini; Minor Procedure; Wanderlust; Doppelganger; The Star-Crossed Lovers; Toe the Line; Stoic; Uncle Underpants; After.

Personnel: Dan Pratt: tenor saxophone; Alan Ferber: trombone; Jared Gold: organ; Mark Ferber: drums.

Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Posi-Tone Records | Style: Modern Jazz

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T.S. Monk Speaks Out

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I'm the next generation. I'm mixed up. I'm schizophrenic. I want to do it all at the same time.
T.S. Monk is a voluble speaker. Which stands to reason since he is also an exceptionally engaged man. Not only does Monk have a new release due this August, Higher Ground , he will also launch his own label, Thelonious Records, open his father's archives, continue in his capacity as chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute, and proceed with his work on a Broadway play.

T.S. Monk has been on the scene for quite some time, working first within the straight ahead jazz environment. He then spent several years in the Funk and R & B arena before returning to jazz where he made an immediate splash with the tribute recording Monk on Monk. In addition, he has kept a touring band together for over a decade.

T.S. not only has a lot to say, he says it freely, with great humor, excitement, and joy. It is a rare treat to speak with someone as forthcoming, insightful, and exuberant. The long conversation we had via cell phone covered many topics including his current projects, his childhood, jazz history, various anecdotes, and much more. Having taken place over a week ago now, the conversation still has me thinking, smiling'and laughing.

All About Jazz: You've got a lot going on. There's the new album, the Thelonious Monk archives, the new label, and I've just heard about a Broadway play?

T.S. Monk: The Broadway thing! Well, it actually started two years ago. I've been working with some people for about two years on a musical featuring Thelonious's music and the working title is 'Brilliant Corners'. In the process of doing that we've become a little bogged down with the writer. Not the musical writer, the scriptwriter. Broadway's difficult man! And with an artist like Thelonious, it's not quite as simple as'it's not quite the Benny Goodman Story'so it's been difficult. But in the process, I ran into a gentleman by the name of Hinton Battle. If you're not familiar with him, he won a Tony for Tap Dance Kid , and Little Miss Saigon.

In fact, I think not only is he the only African-American to win three Tonys, he's the only male to win three Tonys on Broadway. The third one is for something years ago, I'm not sure which. I ran into him because he's a friend of one of my cousin's and we got to talking. He always had an interest in Thelonious's music, and we talked some more, and next thing I know we we're putting together a production. So right now we're in the early stages of a production called, 'Monk and Battles' Hinton is doing the choreography and this guy who just won a Tony himself for Swing, Harold Wheeler'he just might be the most successful musical director over the last decade in Broadway'I think he's gotten two or three in a row'he's doing the music. It's going to be a collaboration of Monk and dance'A lot of people are not familiar with early Thelonious Monk.

They don't know that Thelonious grew up in the era when if you were a young musician'it didn't matter if you were a jazz musician or not'how did you earn a living? You played dances. I think that to a great degree that is the reason that the music which came out of the Be-boppers and the modern jazz players has always been so rhythmically'swinging! It's because it was all dance music, initially, and the grooves, the general ambience of the music was centered on dance until the dance floors were closed-off in the late forties and early fifties and we all started sitting and drinking and listening to the music instead of dancing. So this has become a lot of fun. There's a great deal of interest among the dancers because they don't get an opportunity to interact with music, particularly music as stylized as Thelonious's. He's a rare artist, period. So this is a great opportunity, Hinton feels'and I feel'he's coming up with some great stuff! I think it's going to be a whole lot of fun. Father would never believe it! But then, he would never believe his face is on a stamp...[or that] he's got a star on the Hollywood walk along with Bob Hope and all those people. You know, the skies the limit for Thelonious and I'm very excited about this particular project.

AAJ: That's very interesting. Just like you said, there seem to be so many myths about Monk's career'probably many more which you could tell me about than I can image'but particularly that early period. There's always this idea that he was totally obscure and unknown until Be-bop came along, that all the music took place alone in the dark at the back of Minton's.

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Palestinian detainee in Gaza deportation deal should be released to West Bank

A deal that led to Palestinian Hana Shalabi halting her hunger strike and facing transfer to the Gaza Strip for a three year period could amount to a forcible deportation, Amnesty International said. Shalabi, 30, was arrested by Israeli troops last month in the West Bank and has been held under administrative detention. She is allegedly affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement but has never been charged with a criminal offence.She spent 43 days on hunger strike and suffers from impaired thyroid functions, weakness and dizziness, according to Physicians for Human Rights Israel. Despite halting her hunger strike, she continues to require specialised medical care.“The fact that Hana Shalabi was denied access to her independent lawyers raises serious concerns about her deportation to the Gaza Strip,” said Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.“Amnesty International fears the deal may amount to a forcible deportation given her medical condition and the denial of access to independent doctors and lawyers.”“Instead of deporting her to the Gaza Strip, where access to specialized medical care is limited, due to the Israeli blockade and the ongoing fuel crisis which threatens hospitals, she should be released along with other Palestinians held in administrative detention, or promptly charged with a recognizable criminal offence.”Israeli military orders allow the authorities to detain Palestinians from the occupied West Bank indefinitely and without trial under administrative detention if they are deemed to pose a “security threat”.Hana Shalabi is currently being held at Ramleh Prison Hospital in central Israel and the date of her move to the Gaza Strip has not been made public.Her lawyer Jameel Khatib described her deportation as “forced” and told Amnesty International:"I was not part of any negotiations; I am against these types of deals. There was no need to go through the whole hunger strike if at the end there will be deportation to Gaza. If that was our goal we could have struck a deal long time ago before Hana reaches this level of danger to her life.However, Palestinian Prisoners' Society lawyer Jawad Boulos who negotiated the deportation deal, says Hana Shalabi voluntarily accepted the agreement.More than 30 other Palestinian detainees and prisoners held in several Israeli prisons have declared open-ended hunger strikes against the policy of administrative detention, some for more than four weeks. Among them are three men who have been on hunger strike for around 30 days. Tha'er Halahleh, Bilal Diab, and Kifah Hattab have been denied access to independent lawyers and doctors. Despite their poor health, none has been granted access to independent doctors. Bilal Diab has been transferred to Assaf HaRofeh hospital in Tel Aviv after he apparently lost consciousness, where he remains under prison guard.“There is a real risk that Hana Shalabi’s deportation could mean that other administrative detainees may be pressured to agree to similar deals and be coerced into agreeing to be deported to the Gaza Strip, “ said Ann Harrison.“Once there, they would be cut off from any contact with their families in the West Bank, making their lives increasingly isolated.” While the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip are internationally recognised as a single territorial unit under the Oslo Accords and international humanitarian law, the Israeli authorities do not allow Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip access to the West Bank or vice versa. The Geneva Conventions prohibit an occupying power from forcibly transferring or deporting people from an occupied territory.

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We heard from the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou last week that there is a tablet in the works as well as wearables. Which got most of us excited. There are a couple of us here at Android Headlines that love HTC’s build quality, but don’t really like their software too much – but that was also before Sense 6. So when we heard that there is a HTC tablet coming, we all got pretty excited. Now there’s a new concept image out of the device, which yes they are fake that’s what “concepts” are. It looks a bit strange to me, it’s basically a stretched out HTC One M8, which is what the tablet is based off of anyways. Hasan Kaymak put this one together for us, and gave us some specs as well.

There’s a 8.9-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset, 3GB of RAM, with storage ranging from 32GB-128GB along with a microSD card slot, 4G LTE connectivity, 8-9mm thick, with Sense 6.5. It’s basically our dream tablet. Partially because of the specs, but also the front-facing speakers. For a while there, Samsung was putting front-facing speakers on their tablets, but for some reason they stopped, and put them on the sides. Their last tablets with front-facing speakers are the Nexus 10 and Galaxy Note 10.1. Hopefully they bring that back because front-facing speakers are pretty amazing.

In the concept images, it is keeping the same 4MP UltraPixel camera and duo-camera module, and say what you want, but on a tablet I don’t think the camera is a big deal. Not as big of a deal as it is on a smartphone. I think the bigger deal is the front-facing camera which you’d use for Hangouts, Skype, etc.

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Is Arctic Cat the Perfect Stock?

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Every investor would love to stumble upon the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that provides everything you could possibly want?

One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them. Let's discuss the ideal qualities of a perfect stock, then decide if Arctic Cat (NAS: ACAT) fits the bill.

The quest for perfection
Stocks that look great based on one factor may prove horrible elsewhere, making due diligence a crucial part of your investing research. The best stocks excel in many different areas, including these important factors:

  • Growth. Expanding businesses show healthy revenue growth. While past growth is no guarantee that revenue will keep rising, it's certainly a better sign than a stagnant top line.
  • Margins. Higher sales mean nothing if a company can't produce profits from them. Strong margins ensure that company can turn revenue into profit.
  • Balance sheet. At debt-laden companies, banks and bondholders compete with shareholders for management's attention. Companies with strong balance sheets don't have to worry about the distraction of debt.
  • Money-making opportunities. Return on equity helps measure how well a company is finding opportunities to turn its resources into profitable business endeavors.
  • Valuation. You can't afford to pay too much for even the best companies. By using normalized figures, you can see how a stock's simple earnings multiple fits into a longer-term context.
  • Dividends. For tangible proof of profits, a check to shareholders every three months can't be beat. Companies with solid dividends and strong commitments to increasing payouts treat shareholders well.

With those factors in mind, let's take a closer look at Arctic Cat.

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Pass or Fail?

Growth5-Year Annual Revenue Growth > 15%(7.1%)Fail
 1-Year Revenue Growth > 12%11.2%Fail
MarginsGross Margin > 35%22.0%Fail
 Net Margin > 15%3.7%Fail
Balance SheetDebt to Equity < 50%0%Pass
 Current Ratio > 1.32.09Pass
OpportunitiesReturn on Equity > 15%9.7%Fail
ValuationNormalized P/E < 2025.28Fail
DividendsCurrent Yield > 2%0%Fail
 5-Year Dividend Growth > 10%0%Fail
 Total Score 2 out of 10

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Total score = number of passes.

With only two points, Arctic Cat isn't going anywhere fast. But the company made a big deal with a large shareholder that should leave it freer to act independently and move forward with its business.

Arctic Cat makes snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, along with replacement parts, accessories, and clothing lines that go with them. That may sound like a business fraught with peril in a slow economy, but even though rival Polaris Industries (NYS: PII) and motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson (NYS: HOG) both weighed in with reports that disappointed investors recently, the stocks have done fairly well in a flat year for the overall market.

The trouble, though, is that some of those gains come after a long period of pain for the industry. Both Arctic Cat and Harley still haven't regained their revenue levels from five years ago, and Honda Motor (NYS: HMC) , which obviously has a much larger auto business in the picture, has struggled in the aftermath of Japan's earthquake.

But earlier this week, Arctic Cat announced that it would buy back the 33% stake that Suzuki Motor owns for the bargain price of $13 per share. With the stock already trading in the high teens even before the announcement, Arctic Cat got another big boost after the news. More importantly, though, having Suzuki out of the picture will make it easier for the company to move forward with its own business initiatives.

The Suzuki buyout may be just the catalyst that Arctic Cat needs to push back toward perfection. Just as vehicle maker Ford (NYS: F) was able to outlast the recession and recover, so too may Arctic Cat eventually thrive. But until the economy starts to cooperate fully, you shouldn't expect the stock to go too much further than it already has.

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No stock is a sure thing, but some stocks are a lot closer to perfect than others. By looking for the perfect stock, you'll go a long way toward improving your investing prowess and learning how to separate out the best investments from the rest.

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The wealth-building power of compound interest will never cease to amaze me. It's a story of patience and attention to detail, where small, short-term differences add up to massive divergence over decades. And in the end, the biggest winners don't always deliver the fattest share-price returns.

Let's take a closer look at the dividend-paying habits of diversified energy giant Chevron . The stock has crushed fellow energy titan ExxonMobil and the wider Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last decade. This is true whether or not you assume dividends were reinvested into buying more stock along the way, but the payouts sure boost your total returns by a welcome margin.

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It's hard to complain about a 275% 10-year return, which works out to an annual gain of 13.9%. The Dow's rise over the same period was a far smaller 83% jump, or 6.2% annualized.

But throw in the reinvested-dividends effect, and Chevron's return swells to a mighty 413% -- a 17.8% compound average growth rate. The Dow's average return under the same circumstances only rose to 8.8% per year.

Viewed through another lens, Chevron's payouts boosted its total returns by 50%, while the average Dow stock's payouts only added 33%. Exxon actually lags its blue-chip peers in this department, because its dividends only juiced total returns by 25%.

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JCPenney: Everyone's Talking Sales Growth, But Did You See the Margins?

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Shares of J.C. Penney Company  shot up last week after the company's first-quarter report beat estimates. Further improvements could place the company back with competitors Macy's  and Nordstrom . However, were the first-quarter results good enough to mend J.C. Penney's gross profit margin?

Source: J.C. Penney

J.C. Penney's margins had stayed inline with those of Macy's and Nordstrom as recently as mid-2011. However, the hire and quick step-down of CEO Ron Johnson left J.C. Penney with a half-finished, unpopular renovation strategy.

So returned CEO Myron "Mike" Ullman had to slash prices on straggling inventory, reorder popular private brands discontinued under Johnson, and lure back a customer base alienated by Johnson's discontinued promotional policies. Investors weren't giving Ullman a lot of time to make these changes either.

The first-quarter report mentioned a 230 basis point improvement in gross margin. Where does that put J.C. Penney in relation to its competitors?

Margin improvement
I've discussed at length why a higher gross profit margin is better as it ensures that there's enough money left from the revenue -- after subtracting cost of goods sold, or COGS -- to trickle down  net income. So how did the first quarter's results change the margin story for the three department stores?

Here's a look at their margins over the past two years -- or the period when J.C. Penney hit its roughest patch and began its recovery.

Source: Company filings

J.C. Penney's first-quarter improvements have the company's gross profit margin slanting back up -- and about to smack into Nordstrom's descending line.

What caused this change?

Revenue and COGS shifts
The full gross profit margin equation involves subtracting COGS from revenue, dividing that answer by the revenue, and multiplying that result by 100 to form a percentage. So the two key components are COGS and revenue.

Here's how those numbers changed for each store in the first quarter:

Q1 Revenue

QoQ Change

QoQ Change

Q1 COGS % to Rev

QoQ Change

J.C. Penney

$2.8 B

$1.9 B

$6.3 B

$3.8 B

$2.8 B

$1.8 B

Source: Company filings. Quarter-on-quarter numbers used to explain the shape of the margin lines, rather than year-over-year growth.

The margin lines for Macy's and Nordstrom both dipped down in the first quarter. However, Nordstrom's suffered more even though its quarter-on-quarter losses were lower than those of Macy's. That's because Macy's COGS as a percentage of revenue was lower than that of Nordstrom. This meant that Macy's costs took less of a bite out of its revenue and that helped cushion margins.

J.C. Penney has seen a smaller drop in revenue than Macy's but a larger drop than Nordstrom since the fourth quarter. However, J.C. Penney's COGS dropped by 10 percentage points more than Nordstrom's did. Penney's had the highest COGS as a percentage of revenue but also was the only company to have a drop in that metric between quarters.

So J.C. Penney now has better control over its COGS and that's a good sign. But COGS isn't the only cost cut to watch. Operating expenses including SG&A also have the ability to eat away at the bottom line-and that's a topic worthy of its own indepth focus. J.C. Penney did drop operating expenses 3% between quarters but future improvements in both COGS and operating expenses depend on J.C. Penney continuing to regain sales volume.

Foolish final thoughts
J.C. Penney's gross profit margin improved mostly because the company excelled at managing costs. Nordstrom suffered from a quarter-on-quarter revenue drop comparable to that of J.C. Penney and reported a lower drop in COGS. Macy's sheer size has cushioned it for now, but Nordstrom's margins could well drop to the bottom of the group if J.C. Penney reports another solid quarter.

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  1. Apologies if this has been posted and before and I also apologise for the fact that it is a bit lame too!

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  1. Just a rather quick one, in theory should my admin office be all over things like a tramp on chips *cough* then all I should need for claiming GYH is mortgage documents with my name on, council tax, and one other bill or would it just be the council tax and mortgage?
  2. Council tax, mortgage, utility bills.

    I'm off to kill myself.

    Are your clerks that shit? Or are you that ******* lazy?
  3. I showed Council Tax, a utility bill and (just for good measure) proof I'm on the electoral roll.

    No need for a mortgage agreement, surely? What if you're renting or not on the mortgage agreement..?
  4. Wouldn't surprise me if his clerks are shit...just look how we've got a disagreement of how people apply the regs already! ;)
  5. Mortgage or utilities have nothing to do with it - what if other sorts them out (with your cash)??

    Council tax is good enough.

  6. I've got my Civvy Clipboard and my proffed pen, and your name is on my Shit List.

    Run whilst you can. I won't be pleasant forever.
  7. B_AND_T

    B_AND_T LE Book Reviewer

    I showed my clerk (hot little thing that she is) a picture of my knob.

    I wasn't trying to claim anything but I'm rather proud of it.
  8. No it's not.
  9. I only ask because I'm on leave at the moment and its hard enough to track them (the clerks) down even when I'm in barracks.
  10. I wondered why that hot little clerk was walking up the corridor giggling away and muttering "I know it's cold out there but that's just ridiculous".
  11. So what is then ?
  12. I've already told you, cloth-head.
  13. sorry to jump in with my own problems but, i have just been posted to itc catterick a posting i didnt ask for or want however am enjoying whilst married with 3 kids unaccompanied. my wife and kids are currently lodging at a house we are planning to buy in the next six months and this is where my problem lies, where we are lodgers and share a kitchen with the landlord i am unable to get on the council tax bill by the rules of that council as the land lord is responsible for paying it as he lives there, i still have to do the journey of 600 miles round each week to see them as moving them up with me would be detrimental financially and i dont want to move the kids from the good schools they are in for a posting that may only turn out to be 12 months instead of 2 yrs. the fuel bill is crippling us even with a diesel but not as much as if the wife left her job and moved up. but due to not having a council tax bill and only a lodgers agreement and contract stating council tax is included in the rent i am being told that i cannot claim anything to help with the situation is this so or is there anything i can claim to aid with costs? . hope that makes sense and thanks in advance for any help on the matter


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Discussion in 'The Intelligence Cell' started by Queensman, Jan 5, 2010.

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  1. Sweet Pete Man-up-the-bum has graciously allowed us another day off!

    Whilst I think the idea is a good one - why the hell has it got to be this oily queer little twerp who makes the announcement?

  2. Oh Gawd, there's going to be a medal. Plenty of time to prepare the excuses for why one should have got one despite not meeting the criteria.
  3. My bold - he's hoping to be the Queen by then?
  4. So, just before announcing the date for a General Election they give us an extra holiday do they?
  5. Cutting it fine.

    From wikipedia;
    The next United Kingdom general election is due to take place on or before Thursday 3 June 2010, barring exceptional circumstances.
  6. Electoral Commission says:

    I notice they are shifting the late May date too
  7. Still,it's a day off. Huzzah!
  8. "Special commemorative medals are be issued to mark the anniversary, with recipients likely to be those who have shown "tremendous service" to the country."

    Guess we'll not see them then, limited to those in government no doubt.
  9. Yes but they are creating a bit of feel good factor and those voting will know they have an extra holiday coming up. Wont make any difference to me but I'm willing to bet it'll swing a few votes Labour's way. That's why an election after a good World Cup run will return the incumbent party, because of the feel good factor.
  10. Just so I am clear - you are grateful for the holiday, and agree with the idea, but you are upset that a gay man delivered the news because you hate puffs?

    What's the view like from your closet?
  11. I think they prefer it spelt as "poofs"

    Just so they don't get confused with the sugar coated breakfast cereal.
  12. Good grief, Rickenbacker. The man is a dishonest chancer who presumably had some interesting photos of Blair and Brown, which have ensured his rise to the nobility. His sexual tendancies are irrelevant.
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    I think it is shocking that the Government is giving the Nation a holiday when the country is in such a state.

    My feelings on this are not influenced by the fact I have now retired and Bank Holidays mean nowt to me.
  14. I might be walking into Wahistan, but have you noticed that the holiday is in 2012?
  15. Bugger! Even worse then. He's effectively stopped the next Tory Government from making any political capitol from giving us all a holiday!
    How on earth did I not notice that in 2010 she'll only have been on the throne 58 years, sprog!


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    This reminded me of the US Gi Bill that lets every vetren go to collage for free after leaving service (Yanks pay the full whack for education).

    I can't imagin a uni in this country actually trying to encourage vetrans to attend, let alone those with physical and-or mental/psycological injuries.

    How many poeple on this web site would like or would have liked the oppertunity to study for free after leaving?
  2. If they had a similar idea here I think that would not only encourage more people to join up but also to further their education and there would be more respect for veterans.

    It won't happen.
  3. i would , unfortunately marriage and mortgage get in the way thats why i am going to use my elc and ou to try and get a degree in law wish me luck!
  4. I fcuking wish. Its costing me £15 an hour to learn Gulf Arabic and its going to cost me Several Beer Rupples to get some decent formal quals in maths come exam season this may!

    Adult Learning - My arrse!
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    I think it would have made a big difference to a lot of people leaving the forces I would have gone straight away (after a spelling course)
    When we were on ex with the NY National Guard in 2003 they were advertising that if you joined the guard and kept to your commitment they would pay you through college

    By the way the Joseph Galloway who wrote the piece
    Is he the same one who was at Il Drang with the Ist Air Cav and wrote We were soldiers once and young?
  6. I believe he is. Mike Yon doesn't always agree wit hwhat he says but he does reprint alot of it as he holds Joe in high regard. I feel the same way after reading some of his stuff, he does know what he is talking about though.

    This could be a winner for one MP. It wouldn't cost much but might go some way to repaying the dept that the nation owes its armed forces.
  7. I was in the same boat, and did study via the OU for may degree, but without ELC, it is kin hard work but well worth the effort, and yes given the opportunity I would have gone straight to uni after leaving the colours.

    I think the GI bill is an amazing piece of legislation and would love to see something similar enacted here (retropsectively applied of course :D )
  8. I have written to my MP about this, I have met him a few times as he is a big supporter of the local TA Bn so I will let you know wha the says.
  9. You'd be surprised. Don't let the Daily Heil tell you that Universities are just full of sandal-wearing tofu-munchers. Quite a lot of people support the Armed Forces, even a surprising number of the sandallers.

    Besides - fees are fees, and disabled vets would really pep up those HESA stats nicely. If we could only find some wheelchair-bound black lesbian single parents to crowbar on a course, we'd be laughing.

    The main reason I don't see it succeeding is not because of any antipathy to the Forces. It's because that would be rewarding people who're prepared to work hard and shift for themselves; that's simply not in keeping with the current national philosophy.
  10. Open Uni is subsidised by the Government. My BSc(Hons) consists of five 60 point modules costing on average £560 each and two 30 point modules costing on average £330 each. I've used my SLC's for the five 60 pointers and had the two 30 pointers paid as I put in a business case that they would benefit me in my current (at the time) posting.

    Total cost to me before SLC's? £2800

    Total cost to me after SLC's? £1925

    I think £1925 for an Hons Degree is pretty good value (albeit that doesn't include 5 years of frustation, commitment and excessive time management). Don't forget that in the US it can be prohibitively expensive to go to Uni.

    I agree with Smartascarrots as well-all of my Open Uni tutors were also senior lecturers in Uni's such as Cardiff & Swansea and were extremely supportive of those of us who were HM Forces. It's a bit harsh to categorise all of them as being anti Forces.
  11. It's good that there is some help for you Matelot, and it's good that you using it. Do you still have to work while studying, providing for family etc?

    Going to uni should be about more that just getting qulifications, it can be a whole new experiance for a lot of poeple young and old. OU, dispite being very good can't offer this due to not really have a campus.

    I know the uni system in the US is differnt, more expensive etc, which is why it might work over here. It could increase the numbers of those attending higher education (of all form) keeping to HMG's new targets for higher learning, while not being to expensive. Given the background of a lot of soldiers and the govenments desire to see those from less well off backgrounds in higher education, it could be good on lots of levels.

    Smarts, I would not be surprised at all, I work for a university and got full support for my mobilising for a tour so I know that the faculty can be good. A bit of positivity from yourself might not go amiss though.
  12. Sorry, still seething about this one.

    The idea that the work-shy soap-dodger in the flat below me will get extra dosh for more or less some of the time pretending to pay lip-service to decent standards on the off-chance he can be bothered has me weighing the prices of butchers' hacksaws and baths of sulphuric acid.

    A British GI Bill would be a damned good thing and, I'm convinced, a positive thing for the nation, especially when so many squaddies are from precisely the deprived backgrounds the whole Widening Participation agenda is supposed to help.
  13. Far too much sense being spoken here. Tone it down a little.
  14. Good for you matelot annd well done. The Uni Lecturer thingy - HM the Q paid for my Masters at UMIST and the Lecturers there were very good and well supportive of the Forces. I also did an Open Uni degree and it does indeed need commitment. My only regret is that now I am divorced I didn't roger the little bint who used to sit next to me during Research Methodolgy :(
  15. Bad skills Rickshaw, report to Prof. Cernunnos for some basic man lessons.


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There are, in our view, three types of traditional theories of happiness. Which one you believe has implications for how you lead your life, raise your child, or even cast your vote.

Hedonism Theory

First, there is Hedonism. In all its variants, it holds that happiness is a matter of raw subjective feeling. A happy life maximizes feelings of pleasure and minimizes pain. A happy person smiles a lot, is ebullient, bright eyed and bushy tailed; her pleasures are intense and many, her pains are few and far between. This theory has its modern conceptual roots in Bentham's utilitarianism (Bentham, 1978), its contagion in Hollywood entertainment, its grossest manifestation in American consumerism, and one of its most sophisticated incarnations in the views of our fellow positive psychologist, Danny Kahneman, who recently won the Nobel Prize in economics. His theory must wrestle with an important question: Whose life is it anyway, the experiencer or the retrospective judge of pleasure?

Consider the following scenario: researchers beep people at random during the day, ask how much pleasure or pain a person is experiencing right now (the Experience Sampling Method, ESM), and extrapolate to an approximate total for the experienced happiness over the week. They also ask the same people afterwards "how happy was your week?" The retrospective summary judgment of happiness often differs greatly from the extrapolated total of experienced happiness. Remember your last vacation? "Yes, it was great!" you might say, even though if beeped during it, the mosquitoes, the traffic, the sunburn, and the overpriced food might gainsay your summary judgment. At the hands of an experimental psychologist, hedonism becomes a methodological commitment: your "objective happiness" for a given time period is computed by adding up your on-line hedonic assessments of all the individual moments that comprise that period. This computed aggregate of "experienced utility" becomes the criterion of truth about how genuinely happy your vacation (your childhood, your life) should be taken to be. On this view, the experiencer is always right. If the experiencer and the retrospective judge disagree, so much the worse for the judge.

One basic challenge facing a hedonist is that when we wish someone a happy life (or a happy childhood, or even a happy week), we are not merely wishing that they accumulate a tidy sum of pleasures, irrespective of how this sum is distributed across one's life-span or its meaning for the whole (Velleman, 1991). We can imagine two lives that contain the same exact amount of momentary pleasantness, but one life tells a story of gradual decline (ecstatic childhood, light-hearted youth, dysphonic adulthood, miserable old age) while another is a tale of gradual improvement (the above pattern in reverse). The difference between these lives is a matter of their global trajectories and these cannot be discerned from the standpoint of its individual moments. They can only be fathomed by a retrospective judge examining the life-pattern as a whole.

With this in mind, Authentic Happiness's principal challenge to Hedonism is Wittgenstein's last words: "Tell them it was wonderful!" uttered even after a life of negative emotion and even downright misery. Hedonism cannot handle this type of retrospective summary without tagging it as gross misjudgment ("he must have been delirious!")

Desire Theory

Desire theory can do better than Hedonism. Desire theories hold that happiness is a matter of getting what you want (Griffin, 1986), with the content of the want left up to the person who does the wanting. Desire theory subsumes hedonism when what we want is lots of pleasure and little pain. Like hedonism, desire theory can explain why an ice-cream cone is preferable to a poke in the eye. However, hedonism and desire theory often part company. Hedonism holds that the preponderance of pleasure over pain is the recipe for happiness even if this is not what one desires most. Desire theory holds that that fulfillment of a desire contributes to one's happiness regardless of the amount of pleasure (or displeasure). One obvious advantage of Desire theory is that it can make sense of Wittgenstein. He wanted truth and illumination and struggle and purity, and he did not much desire pleasure. His life was "wonderful" according to Desire theory because he achieved more of truth and illumination than most mortals, even though as a "negative affective," he experienced less pleasure and more pain than most people.

Nozick's (1974) experience machine (your lifetime is in a tank with your brain wired up to yield any experiences you want) is turned down because we desire to earn their pleasures and achievements. We want them to come about as a result of right action and good character, not as an illusion of brain chemistry. So the Desire criterion for happiness moves from Hedonism's amount of pleasure felt to the somewhat less subjective state of how well one's desires are satisfied.

Our principle objection to Desire theory is that one might desire only to collect china tea cups or orgasms or only to listen to Country and Western music or to count fallen leaves all day long. The world's largest collection of tea cups, no matter how "satisfying," does not seem to add up to much of a happy life. One move to deflect this objection is to limit the scope of Desire theory to the fulfillment of only those desires that one would have if one aimed at an objective list of what is truly worthwhile in life.

Objective List Theory

Objective List theory (Nussbaum, 1992; Sen, 1985) lodges happiness outside of feeling and onto a list of "truly valuable" things in the real world. It holds that happiness consists of a human life that achieves certain things from a list of worthwhile pursuits: such a list might include career accomplishments, friendship, freedom from disease and pain, material comforts, civic spirit, beauty, education, love, knowledge, and good conscience. Consider the thousands of abandoned children living on the streets of the Angolan capitol of Luanda. As the New York Times tells us, "dressed in rags, they spend nights in the sandy strip along the bay, and their days foraging for food through mounds of garbage." It seems conceivable that their existence, consumed with meeting momentary needs, adventurous roving in gangs, casual sex, with little thought for tomorrow, might actually be subjectively "happy" from either the Hedonism or Desire theory perspective. But we are reluctant to classify such an existence as "happy" and the Objective List theory tells us why. These children are deprived of many or most things that would go on anybody's list of what is worthwhile in life.

Although we find Objective List's shift to the objectively valuable a positive move, our principal objection to this theory is that some big part of how happy we judge a life to be must take feelings and desires (however shortsighted) into account.

Authentic Happiness

Where does our Authentic Happiness (Seligman, 2003) theory stand with respect to these three theoretical traditions? Our theory holds that there are three distinct kinds of happiness: the Pleasant Life (pleasures), the Good Life (engagement), and the Meaningful Life. The first two are subjective, but the third is at least partly objective and lodges in belonging to and serving what is larger and more worthwhile than the just the self's pleasures and desires. In this way, Authentic Happiness synthesizes all three traditions: The Pleasant Life is about happiness in Hedonism's sense. The Good Life is about happiness in Desire's sense, and the Meaningful Life is about happiness in Objective List's sense. To top it off, Authentic Happiness further allows for the "Full Life," a life that satisfies all three criteria of happiness.

For Further Reading

Bentham, J. (1978). The Principles of Morals and Legislation. Buffalo: Prometheus.

Griffin, J. (1986). Well-being: Its meaning, measurement, and moral importance. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.

Kahneman, D. (1999). Objective happiness. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology (pp. 3-25). New York: Russell Sage.

Kagan, S. (1998). Normative ethics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Mayerfeld, J. (1999). Suffering and moral responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, state, and utopia. New York: Basic Books.

Nussbaum, M. (1992). Human functioning and social justice: In defense of Aristotelian essentialism. Political Theory, 20, 202-246.

Royzman, E.B., Cassidy, K.W., Baron, J. (2003). "I know, you know": Epistemic egocentrism in children and adults. Review of General Psychology, 7, 38-65.

Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Authentic Happiness. New York: Free Press.

Sen, A. (1985). Commodities and Capabilities. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Velleman, J.D. (1991). Well-being and time. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 72, 48-77.

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During the festival, make the most of the festive atmosphere in town with special cultural and food events. The Cave and Basin Historic Site hosts ongoing activities during the SnowDays festival including film screenings, snow sculpting, an ice palace, and music. Many of the other museums and galleries also offer special winter exhibitions.

While all of the events during SnowDays are worth experiencing, there are four in particular that demand to be blocked off in your calendar. Please click on the links below for more detailed event listings and information. For more general SnowDays event listings, please see the Events Calendar at the bottom of this page.

SnowDays Kick-Off Party

Ice Magic Festival

Banff's Big Taste

The Big Bear

***Please note that event schedules are subject to change without notice.

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