| Kevin Drew: Socialising Solo
Dave Newfeld was working with the Super Furry Animals and making his new studio, and preparing for Los Campesinos!, so we were just doing what we needed to do. There must be times where you don't see these people – your friends and band mates – for a long while…
It's true, I don't see some people for months on end. I mean, it's good that these people – my friends – are doing things, and there's always someone to go to a bar with here, still, but it's different. Obviously that was going to happen, and it's great – everyone's soaring past Social Scene and doing really well. These people gave up a lot of their lives focusing on Social Scene, and that can spin you around. Now they're working that out – some publicly, some privately – and I know that, under the belly of all that, when we all get back together again it'll still be fun and crazy.
Bangor-area punk bands rock out for good cause
Sometimes, the personal is political. In the case of local punk bands Clinic Bomb and USA Waste, it always is. "When I write songs, I write from personal experience," said Joanne Bolduc, vocalist for Clinic Bomb, who are based out of the Bangor area. "A song will come to me when I'm having personal problems, or my friends are, or when I'm thinking about different social issues. I try to make everything personal. Anger is a big motivating factor." Anger is also a weapon, and both Clinic Bomb and USA Waste use it to their full advantage, making straight up, hardcore-influenced political punk — the five-member Clinic Bomb since 2004, and power trio USA Waste since 1999, making the latter one of the area's longest-standing local bands. The two groups refer to each other as "brother and sister" bands, since they share most of the same politics, and at different points have shared the same musicians, like when USA Waste drummer Dub Waste joined Clinic Bomb for a year.
Extreme makeover — Bartlesville style: Idea by local dentist evolves into Hollywood-esque project for several health ...
What started as a simple idea to showcase Bartlesville's talents from the health and beauty profession has escalated into a Hollywood-esque makeover project.With a sharp awareness of the professional capabilities available in the community, local dentist Dr. Ron Hart developed the concept of promoting Bartlesville's personal care services as a package — covering everything from dental care to diet and fashion."One day I just started thinking about how many resources that are available in Bartlesville and thought about how people could utilize these places rather than driving to Owasso or Tulsa. I wanted to do something that showed what Bartlesville had to offer," says Hart, the organizer of the Bartlesville Health & Beauty Makeover project."I thought that a good way to do this was through having a personal makeover for a deserving person in the community.
Valley schools turning out more medical professionals
A medical school at UC Merced will help address these critical problems. Evidence shows that when medical professionals train in an area, they are more likely to stay in that area. About 88 percent of our nursing graduates at California State University, Stanislaus, remain in the region to practice nursing. The same is likely to be true for physicians and other medical professionals. Therefore, it is crucial that the valley has its own state-of-the-art training facilities and education programs for medicine. As dean of the college of human and health sciences at CSU Stanislaus, one of my most urgent tasks is working with our faculty, health providers and other educational institutions to increase the number of nurses in the region. As with physicians, there is an extreme nursing shortage in the valley.
Channel 4 News at 25: Lindsey Hilsum
They were shooting randomly at passers by, because they didn't want anyone to drive down the street but had not put up signs saying it was closed off. Our fixer, Mohammed, suddenly said, "I can hear crying." He went across the road to see what had happened. .
Dunham to Bush: Unindicted co-conspirator in CIA tape case?
If he gets too close to making a compelling case against administration officials Bush might demand Dunham be fired. This could lead to a mini-Saturday Night Massacre where Dunham's immediate superior, acting deputy attorney general Craig S. Morford and Attorney General Mukasey himself resigns. Assuming that the investigation moves past January 20, 2009 before indictments are handed down and trials begin, Bush won't be in a position to grant clemency as he did for Scooter Libby. I'll leave it to the legal experts to determine whether he can issue January 19th pardons to officials who haven't been indicted, let alone convicted. While we may dream of him actually being indicted and tried for this or other crimes, I don't think this is realistic. More likely is that if it can be shown he was informed of the plan to destroy the CIA tapes he'll be an unindicted co-conspirator.
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