THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 2001
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Broadband can help make 2002 a better year
This has been a hard year for the American economy. Just within the telecommunications industry, more than 265,000 workers have lost their jobs since January, and telecom capital spending has dropped 15% this year.
Brett Sayre
That spending reduction is dramatically slowing the deployment of broadband high-speed Internet access. And the lack of broadband connections is hurting the tech industry.
But there is a way Congress can help revive the tech economy — while guaranteeing high-speed Internet access for almost 850,000 more Kansans.
H. R.1542, the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, will spur major telecommunications companies to invest billions of dollars in the rapid rollout of broadband. For our state, that will mean broadband becomes available to 62 percent more Kansans — in rural regions as well as in urban areas. It will also guarantee broadband availability for almost 21,000 more businesses, 540 schools, 113 libraries, 100 hospitals, and more than 1,000 medical clinics and doctors' offices throughout the state.
Additionally, H.R. 1542 will create more equality within the rules governing broadband competitors. And fair regulation fosters real competition which means better prices, more options and new technologies for Kansas consumers like you.
More broadband, a better economy and real competition. With the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act, next year can be better.
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Helio Sequence soothes weary ears with new CD
By Andy Gassaway Jayplay writer
Everyone remembers the Huey Lewis and the News anthem, "The Heart of Rock and Rock is in Cleveland." But until the release of The Helio Sequence's Young Effectuals, their second full-length release on Cavity Search Records, Huey's words never rang so true.
Confining themselves in the music store where they work part-time, Brandon Summers (guitar, vocals) and Benjamin Weikel (drums, keyboards) wrote and produced what is quite possibly the ultimate headphone album of 2001.
tinged synthesizers, stutter-step drumming and echoing guitar riffs that sound like they're being transmitted from the surface of the moon.
Spawned of the effects-laden pop experimentation of John Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and the mind-altering atmospheres of "My Bloody Valentine's Loveless," the sound of The Helio Sequence is overwhelming, yet strangely soothing.
Every second of this record attacks the listener from all directions with bubbling, opium-
First and foremost, however, Young Effectuals is a pop record, carrying melodies that are instantly likable and percussive grooves that ebb and flow right into the listener's cortex.
The overall feel of the album has an electronic dance aftertaste, but the traditional rock elements of live drums and guitars gives it heart. Every blip and beep on the record sounds like it was crafted with tender loving care, and Weilkel's drums are more conducive to booty-shakin' than any programmed drum loop.
Summers' voice, perfectly suited for the band's young upstart aplomb, is a frantic blend of John Lennon and Johnny Rotten, leaning farther toward whichever persona happens to best fit the tune. " (Square) Bubbles" finds Summers belting out snotty shouts of defiance, while
"Give, Give, Give" sounds like the kind of gentle lullaby Mr. Spock probably heard as an infant.
Young Effectuals invites the more adventurous listener into its own private world with enough pop appeal to fall pleasingly on any ear, but enough lush experimentation to keep most of the music-buying community from venturing too deeply into its universe.
Though The Helio Sequence may never appeal to the masses, the do-it-yourself method with which Young Effectuals was produced suggests that Summers and Weikel could live comfortably on the production side of the music business for years to come.
Thom Yorke would be wise to begin schmoozing with these lads as soon as possible in anticipation of his solo career, just in case Radiohead is ever reduced to playing boat shows and birthday bashes for rock-radio DJs.
Contact Gassaway at 864-4810
FloJo's life provides inspiration for Alvin Ailey dance company
Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Judith Jamison was asked to choreograph a work about Florence Griffith Joyner, she tried to learn as much as she could about the late Olympic track star who was known as much for her flashy style as for her athleticism.
But Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, quickly decided that she could never really understand the woman nicknamed "FloJo" well enough to put together a biographical piece.
Instead, "Here ... Now" is an abstract work, inspired by Griffith Joyner's glamour, dedication and talent while also exploring the similarities between dancers and athletes.
"What we have most in common is the joy of what we do. We get through the pain to get to the joy," Jamison said. "For the athlete, the joy is winning the gold, being the fastest. For the dancer, it is being the best — being so accomplished you are at the top of your craft."
FloJo burst on the track-andfield scene with wildly painted long fingernails, flowing hair and
colorful, often one-legged, body suits. She won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash at the 1984 Olympics and gold medals at the 1988 Olympics in the 100, 200 and the 400 relay. She died in 1998 at the age of 38 after suffering an epileptic seizure.
"Here ... Now" was commissioned by the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival and was first performed by the Ailey company Dec. 7. It will be performed in repertory through Dec. 31 during the company's season at City Center.
It will also be danced during the company's 21-city tour and during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics as part of the Olympic Arts Festival.
Jamison's musical collaborator on the piece was trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, winner of nine Grammy awards and the only jazz composer to win the Pulitzer. They also worked together in 1996 on "Sweet Release."
"I see dance immediately when I hear his music," Jamison said. "It has a sense of dance within. And on top of everything else, he is very easy to work with."
"Here ... Now" is a piece chore.
ographed for three male and three female dancers. With a curving ramp as their only prop, the dancers flow through five thematic sections — strength, style, speed, pain and heaven — meant to represent the aspects of an athlete's life.
Their costumes, from tights with two bright stripes running down the side to a flirty orange skirt over a body suit, resemble track wear. And their movements are those of athletes: a fist raised triumphantly in the air; an exaggerated attitude, with the leg bent high behind the back like a runner in motion.
In one section, Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell — who resembles FloJo with her long hair and diamond earrings — slowly turns in a circle on one leg, supported by a male dancer holding her toe and her bent elbow, in the pose of an athlete in midair. Yet it is also a stunning piece of dance that demands skill, grace and control.
"Dancers and athletes share the idea of beauty," Jamison said. "It's just that they're after winning that race, and we're after winning over the audience."
Wanted man survives being run over by train
DALTON, Ga. — A freight train passed over a man lying on the railroad tracks, but he emerged with only a few scrapes, authorities said.
Lewis Greeson, 50, was lying between the rails about 1 p.m. Tuesday, police spokesman Chris Crossen said. The engineer braked after spotting him, but the train traveled several hundred yards before coming to a stop.
After several minutes of searching for a body, authorities found Greeson under a freight car.
"It looks like the train just went right over him and just caught him a little bit going by," Crossen said. He said Greeson appeared to be intoxicated.
Greeens may seem like a very lucky man, but his luck ran out when a computer search turned up an outstanding warrant for his arrest. He will be taken into custody when he is released from the hospital, Crossen said.
ODDITIES
'Peeping Tom' accused for third time this year
TAMPA, Fla. — A man on probation for looking up women's skirts with a tiny video camera hidden in his shoe has used the device to peep at women at his probation office, a state attorney said.
Daniel W. Searfoss, 43, was charged Tuesday with stalking and voyeurism, a first-degree
Searfoss was arrested in January for using a video camera in his shoe to look up women's skirts at a Wal-Mart. His sentence of 12 months probation was terminated in September.
Last month he was arrested again on voyeurism charges after police said he had filmed women at Peddlers Mall Flea Market in Brandon, Fla., 10 miles east of Tampa.
Investigators are reviewing about 45 videotapes, some four hours long, that they seized from Searfoss.
misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
Searfoss, a mechanic from Dover, Del., is accused of using a camera in his shoe to peep at more than a dozen women at his church.
"Your honor, it's worse than that," Assistant State Attorney Dean Tsourakis told a judge Tuesday. "He was doing it at the probation office. For instance, the cashier at the probation office."
Prison to deny coffee to inmates at mealtimes
Youmans said that while the
prison would not pay for prisoners to drink coffee, he would allow inmates to purchase it at the commissary, which opens one day a week.
WELLSBORO, Penn. — Inmates at a central Pennsylvania prison will no longer have the chance to drink coffee with meals, the institution's warden said.
Coffee has no nutritional value and is not worth the money, the Tioga County Prison warden, Ralph Youmans, told the prison board Tuesday.
It was unclear whether he would limit corrections officers' coffee consumption while on the job.
Eliminating coffee would save the prison an estimated $2,500 a year, compared with $250,000 in expected gross revenue this year, Youmans said.
New car may 'clean up' automotive industry
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Chrysler has given a whole new meaning to the concept of clean- running cars.
The company has taken the wraps off a version of its Town and Country van that runs on a chemical cousin of laundry soap
"It's encouraging news," said Jason Mark, transportation analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Borax is the key ingredient of the fuel that powers the so-called Natrium. An on-board chemical fuel cell converts borax to electric power that runs the van.
But it could be a while before you fill 'er up with soap. The engineers say there are quite a few technical problems to work out before a borax car is ready for the showroom.
The concept vehicle was unveiled yesterday at a meeting of the Electric Vehicle Association in Sacramento, Calif.
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