The enigmatic Buckethead graced the stage at Fort Collins, CO’s Aggie Theatre last night, for a demonstration of some serious guitar shredding skills. The prolific guitarist, born Brian Patrick Carroll, donned a plain white bucket atop his head for the performance, which stayed more to the metal side of the spectrum for the greater part of the show. With only a few amps and backing tracks joining him on stage, Buckethead displayed the virtuosic skills that have hailed him as one of GuitarOne magazine’s “Top 10 Fastest Guitar Shredders of All Time”, and deservedly so.With some straight-forward metal being displayed for a good portion of the show, Buckethead also let things in the room breathe with some very melodic solos that were about as graceful as a guitar solo can get. Halfway through the performance, he took a break from the guitar to show off his robotic dance moves and some pretty impressive nunchaku skills, before handing out some goodies to fans in the front row. As the show continued, Buckethead played a tease of “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as well as a “Star Wars Medley” that brought many of us over to the Dark Side. Check out video from the show below. read more

Earlier today, Rolling Stone released a new interview with David Byrne, the iconic alt-rocker and frontman for the Talking Heads. Currently, Byrne is winding up for the release of a new solo album, American Utopia, which is due on out March 9th and marks his first solo album since 2004’s Grown Backwards. In support of the forthcoming American Utopia, the artist has announced an extensive global tour, which will see him performing across the Americas and Europe.However, in the Rolling Stone interview, Byrne reiterated why he’s avoided a Talking Heads reunion, noting:I see what happens with other people when they do their reunions – and then it turns into a second reunion and a third reunion. With someone like the Pixies, it’s different – they’re getting the audience now that they deserved ages ago. But with a lot of them, it just seems like you don’t have anything new to say, and you go, “OK, this is just some kind of nostalgia exercise.” And I’m not interested in that.Yet, on his website, Byrne writes: “We’ll be doing some new songs… and many others that will, I assume, be familiar. I’m excited. This is the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, so fingers crossed.”Byrne also explained his vision for the upcoming tour, detailing aspects of the stage set, including that the tour will feature “six drummers and percussionists” and that “the human beings become the set.” Rolling Stone summarized his vision as “a stage full of musicians in constant, choreographed motion, expanding a concept he and St. Vincent used for the horn section on their joint 2012 tour.”During the interview, in addition to discussing his new album, his recent projects, and cultural appropriation and denouncing President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party (“[Donald Trump’s] a fucking racist. … If [Republicans] don’t break rank, they’re as racist as he is. And let’s not forget that.”), David Byrne also spoke about pop music. While he rebuffed that his recent work has been poppy, he addressed Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar”, which uses samples from the Talking Heads’ iconic “Psycho Killer”, explaining, “Yeah, repurpose the stuff. That’s totally fine. And, you know, we get paid for it too. So thank you, Selena Gomez!”You can read the full interview with David Byrne on Rolling Stone here. read more

Star Files Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge will transfer to the West End. The Young Vic production, starring Mark Strong under the direction of Ivo van Hove, will play a limited engagement February 11, 2015 through April 11. Opening night is set for February 16 at the Wyndham’s Theatre.Strong (Twelfth Night, the upcoming movie The Imitation Game) will lead the company as Eddie Carbone and will be joined by fellow original cast members Emun Elliott as Marco, Phoebe Fox (As You Like It) as Catherine, Michael Gould as Alfieri, Luke Norris as Rodolpho and Olivier winner Nicola Walker (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) as Beatrice.In A View From the Bridge, described as one of Miller’s most passionate dramas, Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine. When Catherine falls in love with a newly arrived immigrant, Eddie’s jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world. The play debuted on Broadway in 1955 and was most recently seen on the Great White Way in 2010 starring Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber.The production will feature design and lighting by Jan Versweyveld with costumes designs by An D’Huys. View Comments Mark Strong read more

The bobwhite quail population has a fighting chance now tocome back strong in rural Georgia. To learn how youcan help quail survive and thrive, attend the Wolf Creek QuailManagement Field Day Oct. 5 near Ashburn, Ga.In the Wolf Creek Project (www.bugwood.caes.uga.edu/wolfcreek/),researchers study the effects of intensive farming on insect and quail populations. Theproject is a collaborative effort between two University of Georgia schools, the Collegeof Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Warnell School of Forest Resources.The field day starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. To register,or for more information or directions, call (912) 386-3416.(Quail line-art courtesy Wolf Creek Project.) read more

Parents should actively monitor the time children spend watching TV, playing video games or surfing the Internet. Too much screen time limits the time children have for activities like reading or being creative, said Diane Bales, a human development specialist with University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children under the age of two not watch any TV. “The big issue is the level of participation,” Bales said. “When children are in front of the TV, they are doing something passive and are not actively involved. They are not physically active, problem solving or engaged creatively. They are passively observing.” Carefully choose which programs children watch. According to the National Institute on Media and the Family, children as young as 14 months will imitate what they see on TV. “Parents should watch TV with their children and discuss what is going on,” Bales said. “Ask questions to help them process the content. Encourage them to talk about what is happening and why.” For toddlers, parents may simply describe what is being seen. For older children, encourage them to talk about what is happening and discuss the decision-making taking place. Starting in the preschool years, children may become interested in using computers to create and share ideas. At age three, with some help, they can be ready to start creating projects and sharing. Adults should be involved in computer time, but the child should handle the controls. Learning to navigate the computer with a mouse and how to type on a keyboard are important skills children need before they start school. Look for more than simple “drill-and-practice” computer games for children. Instead, choose programs that allow children to be creative. Video and computer games should be complex enough to be interesting and entertaining but not too complicated and frustrating. On the Internet, shy away from commercial sites advertizing food, toys or animated characters. “Kids are bombarded by advertising, but they don’t understand that someone is trying to sell them something,” she said. Go to Web sites that encourage creativity. Many allow children to work with photos, words, audio and video. Children can write and illustrate a book at tikatok.com. They can create photo slideshows and add commentary using voiceThread.com. And they can create resources to accompany school projects like posters at gloster.com, timelines at dipity.com and tests at MyStudiyo.com. A good list of kid-friendly resources is available at weewebwonders.synthasite.com. “These kinds of sites are good because children can be creative and share their own ideas,” Bales said. Sharing what they create with family members who may live far away is one way to stay connected. But, parents should monitor the information their child is sharing carefully. “There is a lot of risk when young children become exposed to the Internet,” she said. “Children don’t have the judgment to know what information to share and what not to share. Young children are trusting of people and can give out too much information. They should be monitored carefully.” read more

November 1, 2004 Regular News Ethics panel takes up title company rating disclosure Ethics panel takes up title company rating disclosure A subcommittee to examine whether attorneys must tell clients the financial rating of the title insurance company being used in their real estate transaction has been set up by the Professional Ethics Committee.The committee met October 1 in Tampa during the Bar’s rescheduled General Meeting and considered issues ranging from the use of “of counsel” to what an attorney must do when a client intends to commit perjury in court.Most of the discussion, though, came as the committee reviewed a staff opinion prepared for an attorney who inquired if he must disclose to the client and others the financial ratings of the title insurance companies the attorney would use in preparing a real estate closing.The staff opinion said the attorney should disclose the financial ratings and other relevant facts to the client. Nonclients should be told, staff concluded, if the attorney determines the information is a material fact which must be disclosed to avoid a crime or fraud on the nonclient.After extensive debate, the committee rejected 9-11 a motion to ratify the staff opinion and then voted 19-2 to refer the issue to a subcommittee, which will include a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section.Proponents of the staff opinion said attorneys have rule and ethical obligations, even when they are acting as title insurance agents, to disclose relevant facts to clients, and that attorneys also must ensure whatever company is used to underwrite the title insurance can cover any loss.But other members questioned whether requiring such a disclosure would lead to a requirement that the attorney disclose whether he or she has malpractice insurance. Some members also suggested the information was a matter of insurance law and was outside the scope of the committee. They said clients could be referred to the state Department of Insurance for such financial information.Also discussed was whether the issue should be left to an attorney’s discretion, to be disclosed to the client if the attorney believed it was relevant.On other matters, the PEC:• Sent Proposed Advisory Opinion 04-1, on candor toward a tribunal, back to a subcommittee for further work in light of comments received after the opinion was published in the July 15 Bar News. The draft opinion says that if an attorney knows a client plans to offer testimony the attorney believes or knows is false and refuses to be dissuaded, the attorney must withdraw and disclose the client’s intent to the court. Questions raised in comments included the timing of a disclosure, whether it would be made in open court or in camera and ex parte, what the court would do, and whether the subsequent counsel should be advised of the intended perjury.• Sent to a subcommittee Proposed Advisory Opinion 04-2, on whether a provision in a settlement violated Rule 4-5.6 which prohibits an attorney from being a party to a settlement agreement that restricts the attorney’s ability to practice. The opinion was published in the July 15 Bar News, and aside from comments, the inquiring attorney contacted the Bar and said a typographical error in the original question might affect the opinion’s outcome.• Affirmed a staff opinion that a lawyer could not list his retired father as of counsel on the firm letterhead, especially since the two never practiced together and the father retired before the son became a Bar member.• Agreed, with a slight modification, with a staff opinion that said a fee agreement — to charge an hourly fee in a personal injury case, but defer the payment to the end of the case and collect it only if successful — was a contingency fee and subject to Rule 4-1.5(f).• Voted to accept as final a redrafting of Proposed Advisory Opinion 00-2 as advertised in the July 15 Bar News. It says that safe haven accounts are permissible in some circumstances.• Decided to consider two questions relating to of counsel issues together and referred those for further study. One question was whether a Florida lawyer could list, with proper disclosures, a New York law firm as being of counsel on his firm letterhead. The second question, considered at earlier meetings, deals with fee division disclosures to clients when two firms want to act as of counsel to each other in various cases.The committee will meet again January 21 at the Midyear Meeting in Miami. read more

Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York Prepare to have your mind BLOWN!Though actually, that saying is kind of stupid. I can see “Prepare to have your mind BLOWN UP!” or “Prepare to have your mind BLOWN OPEN!!” but just blown, doesn’t really, truly inspire awe.Leaves get blown. Snow gets blown. Big deal.Anyway, that being said, prepare to have your mind BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS!…Curious though. Where is Smithereens? Sounds like a quaint place in Ireland maybe.“Top o’ the marnin’ to ya, where ya be goin’?“Ah, ’tis a fine marnin’ indeed! Why, I be off ta Smithereens for some tasty lemon curd!” “Dat’s greeeeat!”“Now ya soundin’ Jamaican, mon. Cyan’t ya keep ya aksents streeyt?”“Ah, shuttapa you face!”Anyway, here’s the deal. I got some stuff to do for the next few days, but I don’t want you missing out on the delicious mental goodness of The Buzz.I mean, your life is already pretty lame, I’d hate to take away what is undoubtedly one of the bright spots of your existance.So, because I’m so kind and considerate, clearly, here are six things that will BLOW YOUR MIND TO SMITHEREENS IN IRELAND FOR LEMON CURD!!!You can view one per day, or just get your fill all at once. Like Hanukkah or whatever. But either way, I demand that you enjoy and share this or when I come back, you will be so grounded!This type of sorcery is for the birds.It’s like Glee, if Glee was full of wolves.DRONES ARE BAD! (Well, except maybe this one).This is borderline demonic. LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES!More magic. Because it’s easy and awesome.Never give up. read more

Dr. Warren Weinstein, 73, an American aid worker taken hostage by al Qaeda in 2011, was killed in a US drone strike in January targeting a terrorist compound near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the White House admitted Thursday.The drone strike also killed Italian hostage Giovanni Lo Porto, who was captured by the terrorist group in 2012. The White House acknowledged conducting the operation and said it wasn’t aware the hostages were present at the time. Another American alleged to have become an al Qaeda leader, Ahmed Farouq, was also killed in the drone strike. Speaking from the White House, a grim-faced Obama took responsibility for the US drone strike and expressed his condolences to the families of the slain humanitarians. “Based on information and intelligence we have obtained, we believe a US counter-terrorism operation targeting an al Qaeda compound…accidentally killed Warren and Giovanni,” Obama said. “It is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally, and our fight against terrorist specifically, mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur,” Obama continued. The president added that the one thing that sets Americans apart from others “is our willingness to confront squarely our imperfections and to learn from our mistakes.” After US officials determined that Weinstein was killed in a US operation, Obama said he ordered details of the mission to be declassified. He also directed a full review of the fatal error. “We will do our utmost to ensure it’s not repeated,” Obama said. As president and commander-in-chief, he said he takes full responsibility. “I profoundly regret what happened,” Obama said. Weinstein, who lived in Maryland, earned his doctorate degree from Columbia University in 1970 and later worked as a tenured professor at upstate SUNY Oswego in the political science department. He left teaching to work as a contractor for a US relief organization. At the time of his capture, SUNY Oswego released a statement condemning his kidnapping and calling for his immediate return. The 72-year-old Weinstein was last seen in an al Qaeda distributed video in December 2013. In it, a disheveled-looking Weinstein pleaded to US officials for help. The video was titled “Message from Warren Weinstein to the US President (Obama), US Secretary of State (John Kerry), Media, US public and his family.” The Washington Post, which received a copy of the video, reported that al Qaeda previously suggested Weinstein would be released if the US ceased airstrikes in the region. Under US policy, officials are prohibited from negotiating with terrorists.Officials had “spent years attempting to locate” Weinstein and Lo Porto since their abductions in 2011 and 2012, respectively, the White House said in a statement released Thursday morning. Obama said he spoke to Weinstein’s wife. He also wanted the operation declassified because both families “deserve to know the truth,” he said. “The United States is a democracy committed to openness in good times and in bad,” Obama added. Weinstein, Obama said, served with the Peace Corps. and dedicated his life to helping people across Africa and South Asia. He willingly left his home to improve the lives of the Pakistani people, with the goal of helping the people there escape poverty, Obama said. “There could be no starker contrast between these two selfless men and their al Qaeda captors,” the president said. US drone operations, which are largely secret, have come under intense scrutiny in recent years because of reports of civilian casualties. Many of the strikes occur in undeclared war zones such as Pakistan and Yemen. It was a US drone strike in Yemen nearly four years ago that killed ex-Long Islander Samir Khan, who left the US and later became editor of the al Qaeda magazine Inpire. Khan was not a target of the strike. He was riding in the same car as alleged al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American, who was the intended target, and was also killed. Civil liberty advocates have questioned the legality surrounding the extrajudicial slayings of American citizens, but government lawyers deemed Al-Awlaki’s killing legal, largely due to the “public authority justification,” which allows a government official to lawfully take lethal action, and the 2001 Authorization to use Military Force Act (AUMF), enacted after Sept. 11, which gives the president sweeping powers to either detain or kill enemy combatants. The government has invoked the AUMF to justify drone strikes in countries where America isn’t actually at war. Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son Abdulrahman, also an American citizen, was killed in a separate drone strike two weeks after his father was taken out. View image | gettyimages.com Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York read more

Jamie Carragher says it’s almost impossible for defenders to move their arms out of the way when they’re running – Advertisement – Former Manchester Utd and Aston Villa goalkeeper Mark Bosnich says the current handball law is ‘leading to utter confusion’ 1:01 2:53 He wrote: “I propose to reconsider the old text of Law 12 which, in its extreme conciseness, provided almost all factors that the referees must bear in mind in order to assess whether a handball should be held intentional or not.“I believe that going back to the previous wording, perhaps reviewed and integrated by a provision which does not allow goals to be scored with a hand/arm, is an option to be taken into account.”Handball could be discussed as part of the summary of law changes made for the 2020-21 season. At IFAB’s 2020 annual general meeting in February, clarification on the 2019 changes was provided over which part of the arm represented handball, and which should not be given as handball.IFAB’s panels may propose further clarification on the handball law for the 2021-22 season. It is understood a proposal from former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger – now head of global development at FIFA – will be looked at. He proposes that a player should be onside if any part of their body that can score a goal is behind or level with the relevant defender.It is possible the panels will make a recommendation for new proposals on offside to be trialled next season.VAR itself is on the IFAB agenda, but it is understood this is to highlight to the panels that responsibility for the implementation of the technology has now passed to FIFA. – Advertisement – Wednesday 18th November 7:00pm The panels will also consider the temporary dispensation to increase the number of substitutes allowed to a maximum of five, and whether it would be helpful to further extend this beyond 2021 to assist teams and competitions managing a congested and delayed schedule as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.Proposals around the offside law will also be considered, after video assistant referee (VAR) technology inevitably led to increasingly marginal decisions. Football’s lawmakers will discuss the controversial handball rule when they gather virtually next week, Sky Sports News has confirmed.The agenda for the next meeting of the technical and football advisory panels of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) does not explicitly mention handball, but it is understood it will be talked about on November 23.- Advertisement – Kick off 7:45pm UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin wrote to his FIFA counterpart Gianni Infantino last month asking that IFAB look again at the law, which was changed in 2019 in a bid to make it less subjective.Ceferin said there was “growing frustration and discomfort” within football over the law changes and how they were being applied.He highlighted the difficulty of defining what a ‘natural’ body position was when the ball strikes the hand, or when it strikes a hand or arm above shoulder height, and also the amendment which meant even unintentional handball by an attacking team directly before a goal is scored should be penalised. – Advertisement – read more

Sep 26, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – An international group of experts that will advise the World Health Organization (WHO) on avian and pandemic influenza issues met for the first time yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland.Task force members will advise the WHO on the critical questions of when to raise the pandemic alert level, when to declare a pandemic, and how to handle the international response, according to the WHO. The panel is called the Ad Hoc Influenza Pandemic Task Force.The task force is a temporary body that will advise the agency until the new International Health Regulations take effect in June 2007, according to a WHO news release. The new regulations were approved by the World Health Assembly in May 2005. The rules, version of which have been in effect since 1951, are designed to prevent the international spread of diseases.The new rules require member countries to have or develop specific capabilities to identify and respond to public health emergencies of international concern and to take routine preventive measures at ports, airports, and border stations. The recent revision took into account lessons learned during the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak and the ongoing H5N1 avian influenza experience.At yesterday’s meeting, the task force mainly covered administrative tasks, such as setting roles and responsibilities, deciding how meetings will be run, and discussing how to hold emergency sessions via tele- or video conferencing. They also agreed to serve as an advisory group to WHO’s Global Influenza Programme.Of the 21 task force members, 16 were present at the first meeting, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. Absent were members from China, Indonesia, and Thailand.A Canadian Press report named several of the experts who are on the task force. They include Dr. Robert Webster, St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.; Albert Osterhaus, a veterinary virologist from Erasmus University in Rotterdam; Dr. Nancy Cox, director of the influenza division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Theresa Tan, director of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s respiratory infections division; Dr. Maria Zambon from Britain’s public health agency; Masato Tashiro, director of Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases; and Dmitri Lvov, a virologist from Russia.”How often we meet will be determined by the evolving avian influenza situation,” Osterhaus told the AP. “But of course we hope it’s as little as possible.”See also:Sep 26 WHO press releasehttp://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np28/en/index.htmlMay 24 CIDRAP news article “WHO updates rules to prevent spread of disease”http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/may2405regs.html read more