WheelsWhen Alison Krauss decided to take some time off from bluegrass and tour with rocker Robert Plant, Dan Tyminski was faced with some downtime. Instead of cooling his heels, Tyminski—best known as the voice of “Man of Constant Sorrow” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack—called on some old friends, including Union Station mate and bassist Barry Bales, Mountain Heart mandolin picker Adam Steffey, banjo stalwart Ron Stewart, and Blue Moon Rising’s Justin Moses, to cut a record and hit the road. Wheels, the Dan Tyminski Band’s June release, entered the Billboard Bluegrass charts at #1, and the band has been getting rave reviews for their live performances.———-BRO: How does a boy from Vermont get hooked on Appalachian music?DT: I had parents who were music enthusiasts. My parents went to a lot of fiddle contests and square dances, so any time there was live bluegrass or country music around, I got to go with them to hear it. And I spent a lot of my youth traveling from festival to festival throughout the summer. I made new friends and played music. I got to do that from the time I was six years old, and I still do it when I can now.BRO: You have been an integral member of Union Station for over a decade and now you are on the road leading your own band. How are those roles different?DT: The biggest difference is that off the stage there is a lot more responsibility with caring for band members, logistics, and making sure everyone goes to where they need to be. Once I take the stage, the roles are very similar. I want to make great music with the people I am on stage with.BRO: Compared to what you do with Union Station, are you flexing any different musical muscles with your band?DT: The stuff that this band does really focuses on the heart of what bluegrass is to us. We venture in more directions than Union Station, which has lot more pop flavor there and is not quite so centered in traditional bluegrass.BRO: Tell me about recording Wheels.DT: This record was born out of the opportunity to play with these guys. It wasn’t done with any particular theme in mind; we didn’t gather songs to express any certain views or opinions. The five of us just wanted to make music. With that in mind, we tried to find songs that suited us as a combination of players that were album worthy. If we are trying to say anything, it is that this is what we think bluegrass music is to us.BRO: I know that you are an avid golfer. What is more difficult—writing a classic bluegrass tune or sticking a five iron pin high?DT: That’s funny, because I’m at the golf course right now. I’ll be teeing off in about an hour. Both of those things are very difficult, but both are immensely rewarding as well.Catch the Dan Tyminski Band at the Three Sisters Music Festival in Chattanooga, Tenn., on October 4 and at the Richmond Folk Festival in Richmond, Va., on October 10-11.
Comment Luiz is already convinced by Arteta’s credentials (Picture: Getty)‘For me he [Arteta] will be one of the best coaches in the world,’ said Luiz.AdvertisementAdvertisement‘He is intelligent, he is clever and I think he will be one of the best. It is part of our job to help him achieve that.‘People have doubts, but I trust in his philosophy and the way he sees football.’More: Arsenal FCArsenal flop Denis Suarez delivers verdict on Thomas Partey and Lucas Torreira movesThomas Partey debut? Ian Wright picks his Arsenal starting XI vs Manchester CityArsene Wenger explains why Mikel Arteta is ‘lucky’ to be managing ArsenalArteta will be looking for his first win when Arsenal host Manchester United on New Year’s Day.Dani Ceballos and Granit Xhaka could both return after the pair missed the defeat against Chelsea.MORE: Anthony Joshua has the need for speed on jet ski as he cruises around Barbados on the holiday of dreams Mikel Arteta is yet to pick up a win as Arsenal boss (Picture: Getty)Arsenal star David Luiz has tipped Mikel Arteta to become ‘one of the best coaches in the world’ after working with the Spaniard for a week.The Gunners’ 2-1 defeat to Chelsea on Sunday means Arteta’s picked up just one point from his first two matches as Arsenal boss but there have been discernible signs of improvement.Arteta retired as a player when he was at Arsenal in 2016 in order to work under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and the Spaniard won two Premier League titles under the former Barcelona boss at the Etihad.Arteta’s appointment at Arsenal is his first move into management but Luiz says he’s already seen enough to be convinced.ADVERTISEMENT Metro Sport ReporterMonday 30 Dec 2019 10:50 amShare this article via facebookShare this article via twitterShare this article via messengerShare this with Share this article via emailShare this article via flipboardCopy link2.5kShares Mikel Arteta will be ‘one of the best coaches in the world’, predicts David Luiz Advertisement Advertisement
The trash generated by the average American household jumps by 25 percent during the holidays. ( Photo: earl53/morguefile.)INDIANAPOLIS – The end-of-year holidays aren’t just a time filled with more cheer, but also are a time filled with more trash – although some simple tips can help keep that to a minimum.Dan Goldblatt, spokesman for the Indiana Department of Environmental Health, said the best way to cut down on the garbage generated is through what’s known as “pre-cycling,” and thinking ahead before you purchase a gift.“Look to see if it’s made from material that has been recycled, and you can also see if it is recyclable,” he said. “You can also look at the packaging and find out if that is made of material that can be recycled, as well.”Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, Goldblatt said, the average household produces about 25 percent more waste than normal.When it comes to wrapping paper and greeting cards, Goldblatt said much of it can be recycled. If new electronics are on the gift list, he advised planning ahead for what to do with the old ones. By Indiana law, any retailer that sells electronics is required to accept them for recycling.“So, your Best Buys, Home Depot, Walmart, Target – all those places are going to accept old electronics for recycling,” he said. “We do encourage people to keep those out of the landfill and to get those recycled.”For those who have live Christmas trees, Goldblatt said many communities will have post-holiday recycling programs for their disposal.“They will come by and take your tree and turn that into mulch,” he said. “Some trees can be sunk into lakes and used for fish habitat, and some communities will even recycle the tree and use it in parks.”Old garlands should be donated or go into the trash, not the recycling bin, he said, and the same is true for strands of Christmas lights.Mary Kuhlman
Share3TweetShareEmail3 Shares April 17, 2014; Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn increasingly popular route for high school basketball stars into top-flight NCAA college basketball programs is to spurn public high schools and opt for private prep schools. This past year, 10 of the 12 scholarship players for Syracuse University came from private or prep schools, including senior guard C.J. Fair, who reached Syracuse from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, instead of Baltimore City High School in his hometown. The majority of the scholarship players at Duke, Florida, and Arizona also came through the prep school route. It takes only a brief glance at the list of the top-ranked 25 high school basketball teams to see how few are traditional public schools and how many are private academies or Catholic parochial schools.Is anyone surprised to discover that charter schools—privately managed, but authorized as schools in public school systems—are beginning to look like private prep schools when it comes to recruiting and training basketball stars?In Pennsylvania, Bob Lombardi, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association said that his members are voicing “loud and clear complaints” about charter schools. Charter schools have an advantage over traditional schools, being able to recruit basketball players from a wide geography while traditional high schools are limited to students playing in the districts where they live.For example, in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League, there is only one charter school playing boys’ basketball, but the school—Lincoln Park in Beaver County—won the WPIAL Class A championship this season for the second time in three years and has played for the state title three times in the past four years. This year, Lincoln Park faced off against another charter school—Math, Civics & Sciences of Philadelphia—for the Class A state title. The critics say that in Western Pennsylvania and in Philadelphia, basketball players frequently transfer to charter schools. In Philadelphia, the five top players at Philadelphia Electrical charter school were all transfers, and, no surprise, Electrical made it to the PIAA Class AAA semifinals.Typically, when charters offer sports, the sport is basketball. That means that under state law, students can play basketball for the charter school and play other sports for the high school in his or her home district. Some members of the PIAA appear to have long favored the idea that private and parochial schools have a recruiting advantage and should play in their own league as opposed to facing off against the more financially and transfer-constrained traditional public high schools. Others have decided the private and parochial schools should be allowed to compete, but held to more restrictive transfer rules. The PIAA members are now discovering that some charter schools are functioning in basketball terms like publicly subsidized private or parochial schools.{loadmodule mod_banners,Ads for Advertisers 5}Although the role of charters has been a cause célèbre for the PIAA, the issue has been encountered elsewhere. Washington, D.C.’s charter schools have been recruiting and registering a number of potential basketball stars who actually don’t live in the District. According to the Washington Post, “a few [charter schools] are seeking to use athletics to increase their enrollments and raise their profiles, and with little to no oversight, they are able to skirt residency and eligibility rules that govern other high schools in the area.”This year, Gary, Indiana was represented in the state’s high school championship by the Bowman Academy charter school, trying to win its third state title in four years—even though it only began competing in basketball six years ago. The opposition to Bowman isn’t just because Bowman is beginning to clean up on regional and state titles. “I was not going to play Bowman because I knew right away what charter schools were built for: They are built to destroy public school systems,” John Boyd, the former coach at Gary’s West Side High School said, though he eventually relented and had his team play one game against Bowman in 2009. He added, “These charter schools are taking away students from the Gary public schools. Gary is actually a case study in how charter schools can come in and absolutely take over a school corporation which means that yes, Gary will have to close schools until they only have one high school.”It may be a little hard to have too much sympathy for the complaints from regular high schools that they are having trouble retaining the future versions of C.J. Fair and Carmelo Anthony, another Baltimore high school phenom who went to a private prep school before his one year at Syracuse prior to joining the NBA. One argument for the charters, much like the prep and parochial schools, is that they might be somewhat more focused on providing the athletes with smaller classrooms and regular tutors compared to what the stars-in-waiting could get at regular high schools, particularly in getting their SAT and ACT scores up to legitimately get into college. The counterargument is that the charter school basketball recruitment process runs contrary to their purported academic emphases and is occurring primarily to raise charter school marketing profiles and, in the process, weaken public systems by attracting more pupils and subsidies out of them.Unsubtly hinting that the basketball charters aren’t being quite straightforward about their intentions, one sports commentator wrote, “[the Lincoln Park charter school in Beaver County is] a performing arts charter school. Can’t wait to see all those basketball blue-chippers in the spring musical.” While we don’t doubt the musical talents of top basketball players—the late Waymon Tisdale was a well-recognized jazz guitarist, center David Robinson played saxophone and piano, and current player Pau Gasol reportedly plays classical piano—we hope to see the YouTube of Lincoln Park’s spring musical as well.—Rick CohenShare3TweetShareEmail3 Shares