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Inexcusable deaths of children in Korea Posted : 2021-01-23 18:23 Updated : 2021-01-24 21:34 Photos of Jung-in, a 16-month-old girl who died after being abused by her adoptive parents, sit in front of her grave at a cemetery in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, Jan. 13. Yonhap By Scott Shepherd As many in Korea now know, the adoptive mother of a baby named Jung-in, who died last October, has been in court charged with murder and child abuse. The mother, identified by her surname Jang, pleaded n...

Some supermarkets to open Saturday Social Share Although this Saturday has not been declared a public holiday, it is anticipated that many businesses will not open as the country steps up efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 locally. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves announced on Monday evening that tomorrow, January 22 and Monday, January 25 have been declared public holidays for public health reasons. As at January 20, 602 cases of COVID-19 had been recorded in St Vincent and th...

Michael & Peter Formanek – Dyads (Out Of Your Head): “Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to normalize this as being an essential part of human interaction. During much of their time living in Baltimore and as Peter began to study music formally (first on guitar then on saxophones and woodwinds), it w...

Sorrento welcomes a new town clerk SORRENTO — Customers of the Sorrento town office who use the office’s walk-up window, which was set up due to the coronavirus pandemic, have been greeted by a new face since Jan. 4. Birch Harbor resident Kathi Moore is the town’s new clerk. Moore explained in a recent interview with The American that the position is a combination of clerk, treasurer and “jack of all trades.” The town does not have a town manager. Like most things these days, Moore’...

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Jake Shimabukuro While My Guitar Gently Weeps Ave Maria Wish On My Star (vocal version) Youll forget all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho, and Hawaiian-music jokes about the ukulele when you hear Gently Weeps, which leaves behind the Roaring Twenties strum and plinky-dink sound of most such music. Jake Shimabukuro sets ...   more &raquothe tone with the lead-off track from which he takes the albums title, George Harrisons "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," unfolding the vulnerable undertow of Harrisons epic...

Noisy, staggering start to 1891 New Year in Jemulpo Posted : 2021-01-02 09:50 Updated : 2021-01-03 09:41 The streets of Jemulpo decorated for a holiday in the early 20th century. Courtesy of Diane Nars Collection By Robert Neff At the end of December 1890, 25-year-old Arnold Henry Savage Landor ― an English painter and writer ― arrived in Jemulpo (modern Incheon) to get a feel for the Land of the Morning Calm. He would soon discover the kingdom ― especially at this time ― was anyth...

Husband and wife artists depict lobstering scenes in Maine two different ways Kay Stephens Cover of Finest Kind. Photo courtesy Markham Starr Fisherman’s Co-op, Corea Maine. Photo courtesy Suzanne Starr A portrait of Ethan Whitaker. Photo courtesy Suzanne Starr Photo courtesy Suzanne Starr “Lass Chance, a boat owned by Charles Haycock and Richard Melborn at the time of this drawing.” Photo courtesy Suzanne Starr Photo courtesy Suzanne Starr COREA—Markham and Suzanne Starr are two differ...

By Robert Neff On the evening of May 13, 1883, the American warship U.S.S. Monocacy arrived in Jemulpo harbor. It wasnt its first foray into Korean waters. Almost twelve years earlier ― in the same area ― it had, as one newspaper declared, "engaged in throwing shot and shell into the Corean forts." This time, however, the ships arrival was not seen as hostile act but rather one of peace. On board were Lucius Foote, the first American representative to Korea; his wife, Rose; Charles S. Scud...

Open share drawer Long a collectors’ holy grail, this 1975 session is the keyboardist and bandleader’s only known recording: a fierce half hour that pushes the limits of jazz, funk, and R&B to their breaking point. Nobody is quite sure who Roland Haynes is. As far as anyone knows, the keyboardist and bandleader played on precisely one record—his own, this one, from 1975—and then disappeared, leaving behind a half hour of ankle-snapping jazz-funk played so fast and with such ...