Tinker:
Well! Now I have become more fearful of this country's IRS then the terrorist trying to place secret bombs in a crowded place where I live and work.
The IRS are now a bunch of very dangerous powerful people
with the unchecked ability to destroy or ruin the salt of the earth
citizen of the United States of America whenever they want too.
The American people just looked the other way to many time, for
to long a period of time. Allowing the IRS the free rain of power
encouraged by the politicians working at Pennsylvania ave, Washington
DC.
Washington DC thirst for political power has becoming the 2013 IRS gestapo spreading terror all over America today.
Washington DC thirst for political power has becoming the 2013 IRS gestapo spreading terror all over America today.
The
next politician who tell me that they want to abolish the IRS is the
person that I am voting for. All the rest can go take a leap back into
the hell that they came from.
Have you ever heard more lying coming out of Washington DC in all of your life?
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These are quotes from the Internal Revenue Service officials who testified this week before the House and Senate. That is the authentic sound of stonewalling, and from the kind of people who run Washington in the modern age—smooth, highly credentialed and unaccountable. They're surrounded by legal and employment protections, they know how to parse a careful response, they know how to blur the essential point of a question in a blizzard of unconnected factoids. They came across as people arrogant enough to target Americans for abuse and harassment and think they'd get away with it.
So what did we learn the past week, and what are the essentials to keep in mind?
We learned the people who ran and run the IRS are not going to help Congress find out what happened in the IRS. We know we haven't gotten near the bottom of the political corruption of that agency. We do not know who ordered the targeting of conservative groups and individuals, or why, or exactly when it began. We don't know who executed the orders or directives. We do not know the full scope or extent of the scandal. We don't know, for instance, how many applicants for tax-exempt status were abused.
Bloomberg
Lois Lerner and her lawyer
We know the IRS commissioner wasn't
telling the truth in March 2012, when he testified: "There's absolutely
no targeting." We have learned that Lois Lerner lied when she claimed
she had spontaneously admitted the targeting in a Q-and-A at a
Washington meeting. It was part of a spin operation in which she'd
planted the question with a friend. We know the tax-exempt bureau Ms.
Lerner ran did not simply make mistakes because it was overwhelmed with
requests—the targeting began before a surge in applications. And Ms.
Lerner did not learn about the targeting in 2012—the IRS audit timeline
shows she was briefed in June 2011. She said the targeting was the work
of rogue agents in the Cincinnati office. But the Washington Post spoke
to an IRS worker there, who said: "Everything comes from the top."
We know that Lois Lerner this week announced she'd done nothing wrong, and then took the Fifth.
And we know Jay Leno, grown interestingly fearless, said of the new IRS commissioner, "They're called 'acting commissioner' because you have to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."
But the most important IRS story came not from the hearings but from Mike Huckabee's program on Fox News Channel. He interviewed and told the story of Catherine Engelbrecht—a nice woman, a citizen, an American. She and her husband live in Richmond, Texas. They have a small manufacturing business. In the past few years she became interested in public policy and founded two groups, King Street Patriots and True the Vote.
In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we're now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.
In December 2010 the FBI came to ask about a
person who'd attended a King Street Patriots function. In January 2011
the FBI had more questions. The same month the IRS audited her business
tax returns. In May 2011 the FBI called again for a general inquiry
about King Street Patriots. In June 2011 Engelbrecht's personal tax
returns were audited and the FBI called again. In October 2011 a round
of questions on True the Vote. In November 2011 another call from the
FBI. The next month, more questions from the FBI. In February 2012 a
third round of IRS questions on True the Vote. In February 2012 a first
round of questions on King Street Patriots. The same month the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did an unscheduled audit of her business.
(It had a license to make firearms but didn't make them.) In July 2012
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration did an unscheduled
audit. In November 2012 more IRS questions on True the Vote. In March
2013, more questions. In April 2013 a second ATF audit.
All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: "These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers."
This week Ms. Engelbrecht, who still hasn't received her exemptions, sued the IRS.
With all the talk and the hearings and the news reports, it is important to keep the essentials of this story in mind.
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on the deeper meaning of the Obama scandals. Photo: Getty Images
First, only conservative groups were targeted
in this scandal by the IRS. Liberal or progressive groups were not
targeted. The IRS leaked conservative groups' confidential applications
and donor lists to liberal groups, never the other way around.
This was a political operation. If it had not been, then the statistics tell us left-wing groups would have been harassed and abused, and seen their applications leaked to the press. There would be a left-wing equivalent to Catherine Engelbrecht.
And all of this apparently took place in the years leading up to the 2012 election. Meaning that before that election, groups that were anti-Obamacare, or pro-life, or pro-Second Amendment or constitutionalist, or had words like "tea party" or "patriot" in their name—groups that is that would support Republicans, not Democrats—were suppressed, thwarted, kept from raising money and therefore kept from fully operating.
That is some kind of coincidence. That is some kind of strangely political, strangely partisan, and strangely ideological "poor customer service."
IRS officials have complained that the law is murky, it's difficult to define what the tax exemption law really means. But they don't have any problem defining it. They defined it with a vengeance.
Second, it is important to remember that there has never been an investigation of what happened in the IRS. There was an internal IRS audit, not an investigation, carried out by an inspector general, who was careful this week to note to the House what he'd done was not an investigation. He was tasked to come to conclusions on whether there had been wrongdoing at the agency. It was not his job to find out exactly why it happened, how and when the scandal began, who was involved, and how they operated.
A dead serious investigation is needed. The IRS has colorfully demonstrated that it cannot investigate itself. The Obama administration wants the FBI—which answers to Eric Holder's Justice Department—to investigate, but that would not be credible. The investigators of the IRS must be independent of the administration, or their conclusions will not be trustworthy.
An independent counsel, with all the powers of that office, is what we need.
Again, if what happened at the IRS is not stopped now—if the internal corruption within it is not broken—it will never stop, and never be broken. The American people will never again be able to have the slightest confidence in the revenue-gathering arm of their government. And that, actually, would be tragic.
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The American town people were always a
bunch of cowards, turning their back on the brave people who had to keep
facing the music alone, as the town people hid from behind their locked
doors.
Nothing has changed from the old western town of people
who were cowards to the scary gunfighters terrorizing the town. Nothing
has change at all.
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Saturday when she said former government contractor Edward Snowden
broke the law by leaking classified documents on National Security
Agency (NSA) surveillance programs.
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A Justice Department official said authorities have been in "continual contact" with their Hong Kong counterparts since June 10, when they learned that Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency who has been charged with espionage, was there.
Hong Kong did not raise any questions about the U.S. request that Snowden be arrested for a full week, the official said. "In light of this, we find their decision to be particularly troubling," the official added.
"The U.S. is disappointed and disagrees with the determination by Hong Kong authorities not to honor the U.S. request," the Justice Department official said.
Hong Kong was a British colony until it was returned to China in 1997. Under what is known as the “Basic Law” – the territory's mini-constitution – it has a well-respected and autonomous legal system based on British common law, with far stronger protections for human rights and freedom of expression than exists on the mainland.
NBC News' Kristen Welker, Pete Williams, Anna Nemtsova, Catherine Chomiak and Albina Kovalyova, Hasani Gittens, Daniel Arkin and Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Bates had rarely spoken of his sensitive work. He reluctantly agreed to appear at the behest of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.),
who arranged the session after new disclosures that the court had
granted the government broad access to millions of Americans’ telephone and Internet communications.
The two-hour meeting on June 13 featuring Bates and two top spy agency officials — prompted by reports days earlier by The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper about the vast reach of the programs — reflects a new and uncomfortable reality for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its previously obscure members. Within the past month, lawmakers have begun to ask who the court’s judges are, what they do, why they have almost never declined a government surveillance request and why their work is so secretive.
The public is getting a peek into the little-known workings of a powerful and mostly invisible government entity. And it is seeing a court whose secret rulings have in effect created a body of law separate from the one on the books — one that gives U.S. spy agencies the authority to collect bulk information about Americans’ medical care, firearms purchases, credit card usage and other interactions with business and commerce, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
“The government can get virtually anything,” said Wyden, who as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee is allowed to read many of the court’s classified rulings. “Health, guns, credit cards — my reading is not what has been done, it’s what can be done.”
Members of Congress from both parties are pursuing legislation to force the court’s orders into the open and have stepped up demands that the Obama administration release at least summaries of the court’s
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Wall Street Journal
Noonan: A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall
The IRS's leaders refuse to account for the agency's corruption and abuse.
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By PEGGY NOONAN
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These are quotes from the Internal Revenue Service officials who testified this week before the House and Senate. That is the authentic sound of stonewalling, and from the kind of people who run Washington in the modern age—smooth, highly credentialed and unaccountable. They're surrounded by legal and employment protections, they know how to parse a careful response, they know how to blur the essential point of a question in a blizzard of unconnected factoids. They came across as people arrogant enough to target Americans for abuse and harassment and think they'd get away with it.
So what did we learn the past week, and what are the essentials to keep in mind?
We learned the people who ran and run the IRS are not going to help Congress find out what happened in the IRS. We know we haven't gotten near the bottom of the political corruption of that agency. We do not know who ordered the targeting of conservative groups and individuals, or why, or exactly when it began. We don't know who executed the orders or directives. We do not know the full scope or extent of the scandal. We don't know, for instance, how many applicants for tax-exempt status were abused.
We know that Lois Lerner this week announced she'd done nothing wrong, and then took the Fifth.
And we know Jay Leno, grown interestingly fearless, said of the new IRS commissioner, "They're called 'acting commissioner' because you have to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."
But the most important IRS story came not from the hearings but from Mike Huckabee's program on Fox News Channel. He interviewed and told the story of Catherine Engelbrecht—a nice woman, a citizen, an American. She and her husband live in Richmond, Texas. They have a small manufacturing business. In the past few years she became interested in public policy and founded two groups, King Street Patriots and True the Vote.
In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we're now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.
All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: "These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers."
This week Ms. Engelbrecht, who still hasn't received her exemptions, sued the IRS.
With all the talk and the hearings and the news reports, it is important to keep the essentials of this story in mind.
Related Video
This was a political operation. If it had not been, then the statistics tell us left-wing groups would have been harassed and abused, and seen their applications leaked to the press. There would be a left-wing equivalent to Catherine Engelbrecht.
And all of this apparently took place in the years leading up to the 2012 election. Meaning that before that election, groups that were anti-Obamacare, or pro-life, or pro-Second Amendment or constitutionalist, or had words like "tea party" or "patriot" in their name—groups that is that would support Republicans, not Democrats—were suppressed, thwarted, kept from raising money and therefore kept from fully operating.
That is some kind of coincidence. That is some kind of strangely political, strangely partisan, and strangely ideological "poor customer service."
IRS officials have complained that the law is murky, it's difficult to define what the tax exemption law really means. But they don't have any problem defining it. They defined it with a vengeance.
Second, it is important to remember that there has never been an investigation of what happened in the IRS. There was an internal IRS audit, not an investigation, carried out by an inspector general, who was careful this week to note to the House what he'd done was not an investigation. He was tasked to come to conclusions on whether there had been wrongdoing at the agency. It was not his job to find out exactly why it happened, how and when the scandal began, who was involved, and how they operated.
A dead serious investigation is needed. The IRS has colorfully demonstrated that it cannot investigate itself. The Obama administration wants the FBI—which answers to Eric Holder's Justice Department—to investigate, but that would not be credible. The investigators of the IRS must be independent of the administration, or their conclusions will not be trustworthy.
An independent counsel, with all the powers of that office, is what we need.
Again, if what happened at the IRS is not stopped now—if the internal corruption within it is not broken—it will never stop, and never be broken. The American people will never again be able to have the slightest confidence in the revenue-gathering arm of their government. And that, actually, would be tragic.
Tinker:
I saw a school teacher who taught school at Holy Trinity elementary school who was pushed out of her job because her x- husband came to the school to threaten her. Scaring the school facility, that in turned turn their back on the mother of four school children. Because of the trouble from this abusive x- husband.
And that story told me the recurring truth about the
town people who always turn their back on the brave people they live
around. I saw a school teacher who taught school at Holy Trinity elementary school who was pushed out of her job because her x- husband came to the school to threaten her. Scaring the school facility, that in turned turn their back on the mother of four school children. Because of the trouble from this abusive x- husband.
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'They've taken away my ability to care for my kids': Domestic violence victim teacher sacked from school 'because her husband is 'too dangerous'
- Carie Charlesworth has lost her job because her employer is concerned about her ex-husband's 'threatening and menacing behavior'
- The decision prevents her from working for any schools under the control of the Diocese of San Diego
- Her four children have also been barred from returning to Holy Trinity School in El Cajon
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U.S. 'disappointed' that Hong Kong let NSA leaker Edward Snowden leave
Edward
Snowden, who faces felony charges in the U.S. for allegedly revealing
secrets about government surveillance programs, fled Hong Kong for
Moscow this morning and is believed to be seeking asylum in Ecuador.
NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News
The
U.S. said Sunday it is "disappointed" that Hong Kong declined to arrest
NSA leaker Edward Snowden and warned other countries "in the Western
Hemisphere" that they should stop him in his tracks as he reportedly
heads to Ecuador via Moscow with assistance from WikiLeaks.A Justice Department official said authorities have been in "continual contact" with their Hong Kong counterparts since June 10, when they learned that Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency who has been charged with espionage, was there.
Hong Kong did not raise any questions about the U.S. request that Snowden be arrested for a full week, the official said. "In light of this, we find their decision to be particularly troubling," the official added.
"The U.S. is disappointed and disagrees with the determination by Hong Kong authorities not to honor the U.S. request," the Justice Department official said.
Hong Kong was a British colony until it was returned to China in 1997. Under what is known as the “Basic Law” – the territory's mini-constitution – it has a well-respected and autonomous legal system based on British common law, with far stronger protections for human rights and freedom of expression than exists on the mainland.
NBC News' Kristen Welker, Pete Williams, Anna Nemtsova, Catherine Chomiak and Albina Kovalyova, Hasani Gittens, Daniel Arkin and Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks
(U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia/ ) - U.S.
District Judge Reggie B. Walton is the presiding judge on the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court. He was nominated to the bench by
President George W. Bush in 2001.
By Peter Wallsten, Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites, Published: June 22 E-mail the writers
Wedged into a secure, windowless
basement room deep below the Capitol Visitors Center, U.S. District
Court Judge John Bates appeared before dozens of senators earlier this
month for a highly unusual, top-secret briefing.
The lawmakers pressed Bates, according to people familiar with the session, to discuss the inner workings of the United States’ clandestine terrorism surveillance tribunal, which Bates oversaw from 2006 until earlier this year.
The lawmakers pressed Bates, according to people familiar with the session, to discuss the inner workings of the United States’ clandestine terrorism surveillance tribunal, which Bates oversaw from 2006 until earlier this year.
Read the documents
FISA court papers show NSA warrantless surveillance rules
Classified documents spell out procedures for targeting foreigners and minimizing the collection of data from U.S. persons.
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The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court
The two-hour meeting on June 13 featuring Bates and two top spy agency officials — prompted by reports days earlier by The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper about the vast reach of the programs — reflects a new and uncomfortable reality for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its previously obscure members. Within the past month, lawmakers have begun to ask who the court’s judges are, what they do, why they have almost never declined a government surveillance request and why their work is so secretive.
The public is getting a peek into the little-known workings of a powerful and mostly invisible government entity. And it is seeing a court whose secret rulings have in effect created a body of law separate from the one on the books — one that gives U.S. spy agencies the authority to collect bulk information about Americans’ medical care, firearms purchases, credit card usage and other interactions with business and commerce, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
“The government can get virtually anything,” said Wyden, who as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee is allowed to read many of the court’s classified rulings. “Health, guns, credit cards — my reading is not what has been done, it’s what can be done.”
Members of Congress from both parties are pursuing legislation to force the court’s orders into the open and have stepped up demands that the Obama administration release at least summaries of the court’s
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Last week, a video from the Wu Tang Clan’s Bonnaroo performance lit up the Interwebs,
but not exactly because of Method Man's crew. The focus instead was on
Holly Maniatty, a 32-year-old American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter
whose moves alongside the Wu were equally if not more mind-blowing than
the guys’ rhymes and beats.
It turns out the Vermont-born Maniatty has been interpreting performances for the past decade, including six Bonnaroos, as well as a few stint with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where in 2009 Bruce Springsteen was so blown away by her skills that he lept off the stage and onto the interpreters’ platform, where she got him to sign "Dancing in the Dark." At this year's Bonnaroo, Maniatty interpreted for eight performances, including Nas, R. Kelly and the ever-dirty Bob Saget.
We wondered what kind of preparation goes into making soundless music -- and freestyle rap -- with such kickass moves, so we caught up with Holly to find out ...
Q: You move like a dancer or at least a musician -- what’s your background when it comes to performance?
Holly: I have always loved music, I am not a musician. I have no dance training, however I have studied martial arts (Tae Kwon Do) most of my life. The understanding of your body as an expressive tool is essential to the interpreting process. Using every tool at your disposal to interpret is what makes our team special, we all do it.
Q: How did you prepare for the Wu?
Holly: The Wu Tang show was a lot of preparation. Myself and my team interpreter, Jenn Abbott, probably spent about 50 hours each on researching the members of the group that we anticipated being at the show: where they come from, important events in their lives, what they have been up to professionally lately.
Then we go through their cannon of work -- be it rap or folk. There are important references in every song that need to be understood so that they can be interpreted. From there, lots and lots of listening to the music. We also watch interviews and live performances of the artists to see how they carry themselves on stage, what their gesticulation style is, so that we can incorporate that into our interpretation -- kind of like breathing Method Man into the ASL.
Q: What was the biggest challenge of interpreting for Wu Tang?
Holly: For me the biggest challenge was making sure that the intent of Wu Tang’s songs was intact. You really have to be sure that you know what the song is about, when it was written and where the writer was literally and metaphorically. Getting all that into your interpreting while preserving the grammar and structure of ASL is a challenge, not to mention the speed and rate of speech … I love a challenge.
Q: You look like you’re right on beat with them in the video, so how does it work when they start freestyling?
Holly: This is where the research comes in … As an interpreter you have to have the ability to rapidly process language on a moment to moment basis. Usually we are about one or two seconds behind the performer. When someone is freestyling and they mention 'South Side,' for example, it is essential to know which 'South Side' are they referring to: NYC, LA, Cleveland? So research is your friend as an interpreter.
What you see from me, and all the other members of the team, is a culmination of hours and hours of prep work. To be honest, the creators of Bonnaroo work really hard to make sure that the festival, as a whole, is an experience.
Q: What was your 2013 Bonnaroo highlight?
This year was a great year. So many artists recognized the interpreters that were working so hard to make their life’s work accessible to patrons. I think for me the Wu Tang show is a highlight -- when Method Man came over and gave me a little hug.
Q: Who else will you always remember interpreting for?
Holly: The other pinnacle moment for me was doing the Beastie Boys show at Bonnaroo. It turned out to be their last performance together and it was epic. I remember a moment when they were moving around on stage, transitioning from one song to the next and I thought, 'Wow, Holly. You are at Bonnaroo interpreting for the Beastie Boys, how awesome is that?' And it remains really pivotal in my mind.
[Another] interaction that sticks out in my mind was with The Avett Brothers at the Life is Good Festival in Canton, Mass 2011. Myself and another interpreter were interpreting their song ‘The Ballad of Love and Hate’ we did the song together, because it is in two voices. We didn’t realize it until the end of the song, but the Avett Brothers and their entire band had turned to watch us interpret the song.
At the end they said, 'That is exactly what that song is about and what the music looks like.' As an interpreter, you can't ask for anything more than that.
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Arizona Cardinals third-round draft pick Tyrann Mathieu was "buzzing around plays" during organized team activities, drawing comparisons to Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu for his closing speed.
After taking reps with the starters during offseason practices, Mathieu appears ticketed for nickel packages with a chance to claim the free safety job.
Asked Wednesday by Steve Wyche of NFL Network's "NFL AM" if Mathieu could step right in and make an immediate impact, coach Bruce Arians replied, "I don't think there's any doubt. ... He's getting his hands on a lot of balls. The guy's got amazing instincts and closing speed."
The Cardinals' official website projects Yeremiah Bell and Rashad Johnson as the starting safeties, but beat writer Darren Urban acknowledges
that Mathieu "is going to play in some way, shape or form, including
nickel corner sometimes. You just don't see it any other way."
One star wide receiver's pick as the "best player" in the 2013 NFL Draft, Mathieu might be a highlight-reel fixture even if he's unlikely to play enough snaps to contend for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.
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How much preparation goes into live-signing for the Wu Tang Clan? Lots ...
By Pop Spy -- Jennifer Odell Sat 11:43 AM
Last week, a video from the Wu Tang Clan’s Bonnaroo performance lit up the Interwebs,
but not exactly because of Method Man's crew. The focus instead was on
Holly Maniatty, a 32-year-old American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter
whose moves alongside the Wu were equally if not more mind-blowing than
the guys’ rhymes and beats.It turns out the Vermont-born Maniatty has been interpreting performances for the past decade, including six Bonnaroos, as well as a few stint with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where in 2009 Bruce Springsteen was so blown away by her skills that he lept off the stage and onto the interpreters’ platform, where she got him to sign "Dancing in the Dark." At this year's Bonnaroo, Maniatty interpreted for eight performances, including Nas, R. Kelly and the ever-dirty Bob Saget.
We wondered what kind of preparation goes into making soundless music -- and freestyle rap -- with such kickass moves, so we caught up with Holly to find out ...
Q: You move like a dancer or at least a musician -- what’s your background when it comes to performance?
Holly: I have always loved music, I am not a musician. I have no dance training, however I have studied martial arts (Tae Kwon Do) most of my life. The understanding of your body as an expressive tool is essential to the interpreting process. Using every tool at your disposal to interpret is what makes our team special, we all do it.
Q: How did you prepare for the Wu?
Holly: The Wu Tang show was a lot of preparation. Myself and my team interpreter, Jenn Abbott, probably spent about 50 hours each on researching the members of the group that we anticipated being at the show: where they come from, important events in their lives, what they have been up to professionally lately.
Then we go through their cannon of work -- be it rap or folk. There are important references in every song that need to be understood so that they can be interpreted. From there, lots and lots of listening to the music. We also watch interviews and live performances of the artists to see how they carry themselves on stage, what their gesticulation style is, so that we can incorporate that into our interpretation -- kind of like breathing Method Man into the ASL.
Q: What was the biggest challenge of interpreting for Wu Tang?
Holly: For me the biggest challenge was making sure that the intent of Wu Tang’s songs was intact. You really have to be sure that you know what the song is about, when it was written and where the writer was literally and metaphorically. Getting all that into your interpreting while preserving the grammar and structure of ASL is a challenge, not to mention the speed and rate of speech … I love a challenge.
Q: You look like you’re right on beat with them in the video, so how does it work when they start freestyling?
Holly: This is where the research comes in … As an interpreter you have to have the ability to rapidly process language on a moment to moment basis. Usually we are about one or two seconds behind the performer. When someone is freestyling and they mention 'South Side,' for example, it is essential to know which 'South Side' are they referring to: NYC, LA, Cleveland? So research is your friend as an interpreter.
What you see from me, and all the other members of the team, is a culmination of hours and hours of prep work. To be honest, the creators of Bonnaroo work really hard to make sure that the festival, as a whole, is an experience.
Q: What was your 2013 Bonnaroo highlight?
This year was a great year. So many artists recognized the interpreters that were working so hard to make their life’s work accessible to patrons. I think for me the Wu Tang show is a highlight -- when Method Man came over and gave me a little hug.
Q: Who else will you always remember interpreting for?
Holly: The other pinnacle moment for me was doing the Beastie Boys show at Bonnaroo. It turned out to be their last performance together and it was epic. I remember a moment when they were moving around on stage, transitioning from one song to the next and I thought, 'Wow, Holly. You are at Bonnaroo interpreting for the Beastie Boys, how awesome is that?' And it remains really pivotal in my mind.
[Another] interaction that sticks out in my mind was with The Avett Brothers at the Life is Good Festival in Canton, Mass 2011. Myself and another interpreter were interpreting their song ‘The Ballad of Love and Hate’ we did the song together, because it is in two voices. We didn’t realize it until the end of the song, but the Avett Brothers and their entire band had turned to watch us interpret the song.
At the end they said, 'That is exactly what that song is about and what the music looks like.' As an interpreter, you can't ask for anything more than that.
Masters of metal Black Sabbath back on top, more linkage
By Pop_Spy Fri 4:26 PM
Black
Sabbath's newest album, "13," is at the top of the charts -- and that's
no small feat for a group of near-pensioners. Ozzy Osbourne is 64; Tony
Iommi is 65; and the baby of the band, Terence "Geezer" Butler (quit
laughing), is 63. They ARE Iron Men!
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Tyrann Mathieu can make quick impact for Cardinals
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- By Chris Wesseling
- Around the League Writer
- Published: June 19, 2013 at 09:30 a.m.
- Updated: June 19, 2013 at 02:43 p.m.
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After taking reps with the starters during offseason practices, Mathieu appears ticketed for nickel packages with a chance to claim the free safety job.
Asked Wednesday by Steve Wyche of NFL Network's "NFL AM" if Mathieu could step right in and make an immediate impact, coach Bruce Arians replied, "I don't think there's any doubt. ... He's getting his hands on a lot of balls. The guy's got amazing instincts and closing speed."
One star wide receiver's pick as the "best player" in the 2013 NFL Draft, Mathieu might be a highlight-reel fixture even if he's unlikely to play enough snaps to contend for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.
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