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He applauds U.S. Supreme Court LGBTQ ruling, but calls lead plaintiff untruthful Sometimes bad court cases end up making good law. That’s exactly what happened in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prohibits discriminating against LGBTQ employees, says Steven Teske, who is Clayton County Juvenile Court’s chief judge. He’s also the “villain” in this proceeding. In 2013, Teske fired Gerald Bostock, the lead plaintiff in the case that swayed two conservative justices to join the Supreme Court’s liberal wing in a 6-3 decision. Bostock, who was the coordinator of Clayton’s CASA (court appointed special advocates) program, had sued in...

Hard Rock Classic from 1989's ROCK ISLAND

Sorry I meant to post this a couple of days ago, but Pani Shirmpska has been ill. Anyway, enjoy: Jethro Tull - Ring Out Solstice bells 1976 Now is the solstice of the year Winter is the glad song that you hear Seven maids move in seven time Have the lads up ready in a line Ring out these bells Ring out, ring solstice bells Ring solstice bells Join together 'neath the mistletoe, By the holy oak whereon it grows Seven druids dance in seven time Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming Ring out these bells Ring out,...

Explanation: Can you find which day is the winter solstice? Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse format as recorded by a video camera on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California. The camera recorded an image every 10 seconds from before sunrise to after sunset and from mid-2009 to mid-2010. A time stamp showing the local time of day is provided on the lower right. The videos are arranged chronologically, with July 28 shown on the upper left, and January 1 located...

A woman is fighting for her life in a German hospital after appearing to spontaneously combust while sitting on a park bench.Flames sprouted from her as a horrified passerby rushed to her and used his jacket to beat out the fire. But she was severely burned over most of her body.The incident occurred in Flensburg, in the north of Germany, on Monday evening. The victim is in her 40's and comes from Mauritius.After being rushed to the local hospital she was later flown by air ambulance to a specialist burns unit in Lubeck where she remains in a critical condition.'The...

Glenn Cornick, the original bassist for Jethro Tull, passed away August 29 at his home in Hilo, Hawaii. He was 67. Billboard reports that Cornick died of congestive heart failure and had been receiving hospice care recently. Cornick was a founding member of Jethro Tull, appearing on their first three albums before departing the group in 1970.

On April 3, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will release Thick As A Brick 2, the followup to 1972′s beloved prog opus Thick As A Brick (an album comprised of two long, interconnected songs). In this extensive interview, rock’s most famous flautist talks to American Songwriter about the sequel’s genesis, its parallels to the original, his distinctive vocal style, and whether or not he believes he can win another Grammy. With the recent Aqualung reissue and now Thick As A Brick 2, this a pretty exciting time to be a Jethro Tull fan. It’s a really exciting time for me too....

NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Perform First Space-Earth Duet. NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman, circling Earth aboard the International Space Station, and musician Ian Anderson, founder of the rock band Jethro Tull, joined together for the first space-Earth duet.

Sitting on the park bench -- eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot is running down his nose -- greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Aqualung Drying in the cold sun -- Watching as the frilly panties run. Aqualung Feeling like a dead duck -- spitting out pieces of his broken luck. Whoa, aqualung http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jethrotull/aqualung.html

We will not be pressured into cancelling our scheduled Israel concert, Ian Anderson, of the famed British rock group Jethro Tull said in a statement recently published in the band's official website, saying that the proceeds of the upcoming show would be transferred to charities advancing co-existence between Arabs, Jews, and Christians. We will not be pressured into cancelling our scheduled Israel concert, Ian Anderson, of the famed British rock group Jethro Tull said in a statement recently published in the band's official website, saying that the proceeds of the upcoming show would be transferred to charities advancing co-existence between...

Spring light in a hazy May and a man with a gun at the door Someone's crawling on the roof above --- all the media here for the show I've been waiting for our friends to come Like spiders down ropes to free-fall A thirty round clip for a visiting card --- admit one to the embassy ball Caught in the crossfire on Princes Gate Avenue In go the windows and out go the lights Call me a doctor. Fetch me a policeman I'm down on the floor in one hell of a fight I'm just a soul with an...

ethro Tull has announced an eight-city North American run in June. The band will kick off their dates on June 4th at Miami's Bayfront Park Amphitheater and wrap things up on June 20th in Highland Park, Illinois at the Martin Theatre At Ravinia. Along the way, Tull will play a two-night Canadian stop on June 18th in Toronto, and June 19th in Windsor, Ontario. Frontman Ian Anderson says that above all else Tull's shows make for a great night out: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "It's a party atmosphere; people are relaxed. You know, they...

Some people ask me, usually vehement liberal Americans, how I could count amongst my few real friends, an arch-Republican spokesman for the Bush administration. Well, Tony and I disagreed on most things political and came to robust verbal blows on the subject of climate change but that’s the charm of friendship. Life would indeed be a bore if all of your buddies agreed with everything you said and tap-danced to the same tired riff. I like to think that Tony was a professional journalist and political commentator first and White House spokesman second. He could, I rather think, have filled...

Wow. Just saw Jethro Tull in concert in Jacksonville, FL last night. Ian Anderson sounded horrible. He can still play the flute like he did in the 70's, but his singing was downright horrible. His stage antics were OK, but this is the first time I saw them in concert. I love Jethro Tull, but was disappointed that the set omitted Bungle in the Jungle and The Whistler. Any other Freepers see them in 2007? If so, any thoughts?

Jethro Tull's soloist: Show must go on Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's soloist and flutist, is still planning to come to Israel. 'I don’t think any of us should succumb to terror, I am afraid of coming to Israel but I am also afraid to cross the street' Sagie Ben Nun Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's soloist and flutist since 1967, is due to appear in Israel on October 16th, 2006 for the fifth time. Anderson will be playing in concert with the Raanana Symphony Orchestra set to take place at the city's famed amphitheatre. As of now, it doesn’t appear as...

It may be a 50 Cent, hip-hop world at most American high schools today, but Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull still rule at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County. At least they do when the school's wildly popular Classic Rock Appreciation Club convenes its weekly meetings. The club's second year began with a bang and a wheeze yesterday when, speak of the devil, a very special musical guest came calling: Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, 58, the flutist, singer and guitarist who has led the band through 21 studio albums and countless tours...

A "grieving" mother who used her dead son's casket as a soap box and a professional race-baiting huckster like Jesse Jackson. Two individuals from two different worlds, one white and one black, two "useful idiots", two tools, one willingly and one unwittingly. It is about now, as the fog of her bereavement lifts and her celebrity status wanes that Cindy Sheehan is perhaps coming to the bitter realization that she has become nothing more than a "tool" of something much more cold and cruel than she could have ever imagined. Now abandoned by all those who once loved her, Cindy...

That we would have a scale virtually unique to that flute (possibly matching some other obscure scale in some parts of the world, but not matching any known historically widespread scale in use). The problem with this non-conclusion is that since the hole-spacings discussed in this essay have only a one-in-hundreds chance to match a pattern of 4 notes in the diatonic major/minor scales, then this conclusion would require accepting a remarkable against-the-odds coincidence of spacings.

A former member of legendary Seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation and become a woman called Dee. Keyboard player David Palmer has shed the beard seen during the band's most successful years, and now has long blonde hair, along with make-up and black leggings. Palmer, 66, a former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, is now set to embark on a solo career. She said: "I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else." Her desire to change sex had been an "open secret" in...