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Cindy Blackman has been around since the ’80s. She’s released numerous albums as a solo artist, has worked with Lenny Kravitz, and, since 2015, has been an official member of Santana. And while she’s as rocking and hard-hitting as it gets behind the kit, it’s jazz that Blackman goes back to most often. When she’s not gigging with Santana, Blackman embarks on solo tours, celebrating her amalgamation of jazz and rock. To that end, Blackman has shows coming up: “My band members are Aurelien Biudynek on guitar, Emilio Modest on saxophone, and Zaccai Curtis on the keys,” she tells ClassicRockHistory.com The post Cindy Blackman of Santana: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A man inspired to become a neurosurgeon because of the hit TV hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy is now a medical consultant on the very show that convinced him to study medicine. Now 35, Stephen Bergin first watched the show in high school and instantly became a regular viewer. When he was in the fourth year […] The post He Became a Surgeon Because of Grey’s Anatomy – Now He’s a Consultant on the Show appeared first on Good News Network.

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Smiling troopers in two states performed traffic stops in recent days on a spaceship-like vehicle heading to the UFO Festival in — of course — Roswell, New Mexico, Fox News reported.A couple of close encounters of the nerd kind, one might say, to borrow from a sitcom episode from the last century.The first took place in Missouri, as the Crawford County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post last Friday about a pair of "friendly humanoids, who have come in peace."'He was also warned about our strict enforcement of warp speed on the interstate and to keep his phasers on stun only while traveling.'The sheriff's office noted that the traffic stop "was a little out of this world," but law enforcement was assured that the vehicle's occupants — as the below dashcam image indicates — were "heading west to Roswell, NM for a festival." Image source: Crawford County (Missouri) Sheriff's OfficeThe sheriff's office added in its post that "there was a brief conversation about his out of space, correction, out of state registration, but he assured us that he would take care of that issue when he returned to Krypton. He was also warned about our strict enforcement of warp speed on the interstate and to keep his phasers on stun only while traveling." Image source: Crawford County (Missouri) Sheriff's OfficeFox News, citing an email from the sheriff's office, said the vehicle's driver was observed committing a lane violation; the vehicle's Indiana tag also was expired.Considering the "wind/traffic of the interstate plus the size and aerodynamics of his vehicle, he understood that the potential for lane violations existed," a Crawford County Sheriff's Office official added in a statement to Fox News."Given the good nature of the driver and the interesting nature of the vehicle, we opted to provide a fun social media post for our community," the official added in the statement, the cable news network said. "It was a great interaction, and we wished him safe travels to his destination."There was a second close encounter with same vehicle Monday in Oklahoma, Fox News said. Image source: Oklahoma Highway Patrol"It's not every day you pull over a UFO," the Oklahoma Highway Patrol wrote Tuesday on its Facebook page. "Trooper Ryan Vanvleck #722 pulled over this vehicle on the Turner Turnpike yesterday for an obstructed tag. They were on their way to a UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico. Trooper Vanvleck let them go with a warning." Image source: Oklahoma Highway PatrolThe event to which the vehicle's occupants apparently were headed looks to be the "UFO Festival" set to take place in Roswell from July 5 through July 7. The annual gathering promises attendees that they can participate in a "cosmic extravaganza filled with out-of-this-world events, including the renowned Roswell Galacticon, family fun at the AlienFest, the gripping Roswell Incident, the captivating Roswell Film Festival, and enlightening experiences at the International UFO Museum and Research Center."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Ukraine has been jockeying for a spot in NATO since it gained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991 and has good reason to believe it has a shot. After all, NATO allies agreed at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that the country would one day become a member of the military alliance. Despite early eagerness, Ukraine pursued a non-alignment policy from 2010 to 2014; however, it jettisoned this approach around the time of Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. In 2017, the Ukrainian parliament — which has not had elections since 2019 — adopted legislation recommitting the pursuit of membership in NATO. A senior official in the U.S. State Department recently told the Telegraph that NATO will soon inform Ukraine ahead of the alliance's annual summit next week that it remains too corrupt to enter the alliance. "We have to step back and applaud everything that Ukraine has done in the name of reforms over the last two-plus years," the official told the British paper. "As they continue to make those reforms, we want to commend them, we want to talk about additional steps that need to be taken, particularly in the area of anti-corruption. It is a priority for many of us around the table." This is hardly the first time the alliance has thrown cold water on Ukraine's dreams of membership over its struggles with corruption. The NATO heads of state issued a statement at the outset of the 2023 Vilnius summit indicating that "Ukraine's future is in NATO" but that the country still had to make progress on "interoperability" as well as on democratic reforms. President Joe Biden said at the time that it was "premature" to begin onboarding Ukraine into the alliance. Biden noted not only that its entry would put the U.S. into a direct conflict with Russia, but that there were still "other qualifications that need to be met, including democratization." While a catch-all term, "democratization" is frequently used as a euphemism for corruption reform. In 2012, Ernst & Young ranked Ukraine in the top three of the most corrupt countries in its 12th Global Fraud Survey. Transparency International rated it the most corrupt country in Europe after Russia and ranked it 130th among 180 countries in its 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index. 'Ukraine's defenses against corruption have to be just as strong as its military defenses.' The country has, however, showed some signs of improvement, such that it now ranks 104th on the Corruption Perceptions Index, with a score of 36. By way of comparison, America's score is 69, with 100 signaling perfection. Nevertheless, high-profile corruption cases keep making the news. For example, earlier this year, employees from a Ukrainian weapons firm were outed for conspiring with defense ministry officials to embezzle roughly $40 million that was supposed to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war effort, reported the Associated Press. In May, the BBC reported that a member of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party was charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Such incidents are hardly exceptional and, according to Ukrainians, are commonplace. The United States Agency for International Development conducted a nationwide poll in Ukraine last year and found that 94% of respondents still considered corruption to be pervasive, with a plurality suggesting that corruption has actually worsened since the beginning of the war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently painted a clear picture for Ukraine, underscoring its need to take the "difficult steps" to strengthen and consolidate its democracy. "That means not just passing reforms, but making sure they are implemented. It means rooting out the scourge of corruption — once and for all," said Blinken. "Ukraine's defenses against corruption have to be just as strong as its military defenses. An independent judiciary; a free press; a vibrant, inclusive civil society; free and fair elections; independent, empowered anti-corruption investigators, prosecutors, and judges." The White House has detailed the specific reforms it wants to see executed in Kiev. Despite the Biden administration's encouragement and recommendations, the Telegraph indicated the U.S. government has been fighting British and European efforts to formalize an "irreversible" path toward NATO membership for Ukraine. This would be consistent in light of Biden's suggestion to Time magazine in an interview published last month that he was "not prepared to support the NATOization of Ukraine." Rather than an irreversible path, the State Department official told the Telegraph Zelenskyy is going to promised a "well-lit bridge" to NATO membership. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Battleground-state voters are abandoning President Joe Biden in droves.On Independence Day, the New York Times spoke with 80 voters in multiple swing states — Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina — who supported Biden in 2020. 'It would be ideal to have someone more coherent and involved, and there.'But times have changed. Now, more than half of those Biden supporters want the president to drop out of the 2024 presidential contest. Only one-quarter of them, on the other hand, want Biden to continue running. The rest were undecided, according to the Times."He should exit the race. The sooner the better. He doesn’t meet the criteria for having the most important job in the world," said 72-year-old Gerry Ford from Wisconsin.Ford said Biden's disastrous debate performance fulfilled "all of our suspicions about politicians that they can't be straight with voters.""It's embarrassing for the country," he added.Jeanne Winograd, a 72-year-old Democrat from Arizona, told the Times that she sent Biden a card in February praising his vigor. But the debate transformed her view of the 81-year-old commander in chief."I just love Biden, but he's frail. Pass the baton," Winograd said.Other voters told the Times:Raja Seshadri of North Carolina: "We can't agree on a way ahead, we can't agree on what to do about the current situation. ... We're going to lose."Elaine Becherer of Arizona: "It is disgraceful they've allowed him to get here and all of us to be here."Greg Holmes of Michigan: "If Biden says and does what I call the right thing, or courageous thing, and passes the baton, I will be ecstatic and fired up for the next person."Michael John of Arizona: "It would be ideal to have someone more coherent and involved, and there."Overall, the voters, according to the Times, "felt frustrated and betrayed" by the Democratic Party. That's because party leaders refused to hold an open primary — and now they're paying the price for their non-democratic system.The sentiment matches what post-debate polls have shown.Leaked Democratic internal polling, for example, showed that Biden lost about 2% of overall support in each of the four states where the New York Times conducted interviews. That is a significant drop that could easily make the difference on Election Day.Despite weary voters and worsening polling, Biden is adamant that he is staying in the race.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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