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Californian is an adjective describing something related to the American state of California.

It can also refer to:

Periodicals:

• The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California
• The Salinas Californian, Salinas, California
• The East County Californian, El Cajon, California
• The Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California at Berkeley

Ships:

• The British passenger ship SS Californian, famous for her relationship to the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912
• Californian (schooner), the "Official Tall ship Ambassador for the State of California".
• USS Californian (1900), a United States Navy cargo ship in commission in 1918

Other:

• The Californian, a coupe version of the British Hillman Imp automobile
• A font designed by Frederic Goudy for the University of California Press

See also[link]

• The Californian (disambiguation)
• Californian English, a dialect spoken in California
• List of people from California
• Californiensis (disambiguation), a word in Latin found in species names

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Bob Schneider (born October 12, 1965) is an Austin, Texas–based musician and artist. He currently resides in Bee Cave, Texas.

Early career[link]

Bob was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and raised in Munich, Germany. The son of an opera singer, he moved with his parents to Germany when he was two.^[1] He learned guitar and piano at an early age and made his first live appearances performing at his parents' parties.

He performed for years in various bands before embarking on a solo career. He dropped out of the University of Texas at El Paso where he studied art to front his first band, the funk-and-rap outfit Joe Rockhead. The band independently released three albums before disbanding immediately prior to signing with a major label.

A stint with a jamming outfit called the Ugly Americans followed, which experienced some success as an opening act for the Dave Matthews Band and H.O.R.D.E. festival.

In 1997, Schneider went on to co-found The Scabs, which later merged with the Ugly Americans. With The Scabs, Bob Schneider made a further name for himself as the front man.

None of these bands gained much national recognition, but built solid reputations on the road. They were also a fixture in the Austin live music culture.

Solo career[link]

In 1999, Schneider became a solo act, though performing at first under the band name Lonelyland (which he later dropped as a band name, but titled his first major-label album after). Schneider's musical approach as a solo artist has proven as eclectic as the diverse musical styles of his former bands: a little bit singer/songwriter, a whole lot of bits and pieces of funk, country, rock, and folk. Because of the sexual nature of some of his lyrics, Schneider's music has been labeled as "adult alternative" by some.

He went on to record the major-label solo albums Lonelyland (2001) and I'm Good Now (2004), which garnered him significantly more national attention and some critical acclaim. "Big Blue Sea" from the Lonelyland album received significant radio play, as did "Come With Me Tonight" from I'm Good Now. "Metal & Steel" from Lonelyland is, to date, Bob's most played song.^[2]

His contract with his labels (signed with Universal in 2001, and then with Vanguard in 2004) allowed him to release albums as "side projects" on his own label Shockorama Records. Among the albums that have been self-released are Galaxy Kings and I've Seen The End of the World and It Looks Like This. All of these side projects were re-released by Vanguard corresponding with the release of his 2006 album The Californian. Previously, these albums were of limited availability and only roughly 10,000 of the albums were printed. After releasing The Californian, he released Greatest Hits Live, recorded in Austin on July 17, 2006, on Shockorama Records, which was only available through his website.

Bob remains committed to playing smaller venues and thrives on the energy of the stage. He currently has a long-standing Monday night residency at the Saxon Pub, and plays the legendary Antone's in Austin, Texas, with both his band and, on occasion, the Scabs, all while maintaining a tireless touring schedule. Although he tours nationwide, he is still known best as a true Austin musician. His musical influences spread into the far reaches of musical culture—funk, soul, folk, lounge, rap, punk, even some melodic experimentalism.

He is also known for having dated Sandra Bullock. It is speculated that the breakup following their relationship became fodder for his music, although Schneider has been known to deny autobiographical content in his music.

Kirtland Records[link]

In 2009, Bob signed with Kirtland Records to release his critically praised album Lovely Creatures, released September 29, 2009. Lovely Creatures features the single "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)", which has received significant national radio play – peaking at #14 on the AAA Radio Chart.^[3] The album and also features Patty Griffin on the track "Changing Your Mind." Bob released a second album under the label entitled "A Perfect Day" on April 19, 2011, featuring the single "Let The Light In."

[edit] Soundtrack Contributions^[4]

• 2000 – "Blue Skies for Everyone" was played during the opening sequence of the movie "Gunshy," starring Liam Neeson.
• 2000 – "Bullets" was used in the movie "Miss Congeniality," starring Sandra Bullock.
• 2001 – "Bullets" also appeared on the "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" soundtrack
• 2002 – "Big Blue Sea" was used in the movie "40 Days & 40 Nights," starring Josh Hartnett
• 2002 – "The World Exploded Into Love" appeared in the movie "Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," starring Sandra Bullock
• 2006 – "The World Exploded Into Love" closed out the first episode of the television sitcom "Men in Trees," starring Anne Heche.
• 2009 – "Love Is Everywhere" is featured in the film and soundtrack of the movie "All About Steve," starring Sandra Bullock
• 2009 – "Changing Your Mind" is featured in the indie film "Harmony and Me," where he also has a role as a wedding singer

[edit] Bob Schneider's Austin Music Awards Highlights^[5]

Bob Schneider during live recording session at The Saint, May 2011

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Not counting those awarded to The Scabs, Joe Rockhead and Ugly Americans, Bob Schneider has won 24 Austin Music Awards including:

• 2009–10: Band of the Year

• 2009–10: Musician of the Year

• 2009–10: Song of the Year, "40 Dogs (Like Romeo And Juliet)"

• 2009–10: Album of the Year, Lovely Creatures

• 2009–10: Male Vocalist of the Year

• 2009–10: Songwriter of the Year

• 2009–10: Producer of the Year, Dwight Baker for Bob Schneider's Lovely Creatures

• 2008–09: Best Male Vocals

• 2008–09: Best Blue Grass Band, Bob Schneider’s Texas Bluegrass Massacre

• 2008–09: Band of the Year, Lonelyland

• 2004–05: Album of the Year, I’m Good Now

• 2004–05: Song of the Year, “Cap’n Kirk”

• 2003–04: Musician of the Year

• 2001–02: Best Male Vocals

• 2001–02: Best Singer-Songwriter

• 2001–02: Musician of the Year

• 2000–01: Album of the Year, Lonelyland

• 2000–01: Best Male Vocals

• 2000–01: Best Singer-Songwriter

• 2000–01: Best Songwriter

• 2000–01: Musician of the Year

• 1999-00: Best Male Vocals

• 1999-00: Best Songwriter

• 1999-00: Musician of the Year

Discography[link]

Bob Schneider

• Songs Sung and Played on Guitar At the Same Time (1998)
• Lonelyland (2000-Shockorama) & (2001-Universal)
• Underneath The Onion Trees (with Mitch Watkins) (2000)
• The Galaxy Kings (2002)
• I Have Seen the End of the World and It Looks Like This (2003)
• I'm Good Now (2004)
• The Californian (2006)
• Greatest Hits Live (2006)
• Songs Sung And Played On Guitar With People In The Room (2007)
• When the Sun Breaks Down On the Moon (2007)
• Love Is Everywhere EP (2009)
• Lovely Creatures (2009)
• Live At The Paramount Theatre (2009)
• Christmastime (2009)
• A Perfect Day (2011)

The Scabs

• Freebird (1998)
• Bombtracks (1998)
• More Than a Feeling (1999)
• Destroyer (2000)

Ugly Americans

• Ugly Americans (1993)
• Ugly Americans (Live) (1994)
• Stereophonic Spanish Fly (1996)
• Boom Boom Baby (1998)

Joe Rockhead

• Party Till You're Dead (1991)
• Crazy (1992)
• No Going Back (1992)

Live shows[link]

Almost every one of Bob Schneider's live show are recorded and made available (generally sold as a double-disc set) to his audiences afterwards. These recordings are released under the label "Frunk". These recordings were rarely made available to the public, although Frunk recordings (and other bootlegs) were occasionally uploaded to the Live Music Archive, however Schneider began making this content available for download on his own website in early 2009, with content dating back to September 2007.

Books[link]

• Schneider, Bob (2003). I Have Seen the End of the World and It Looks Like This. Shockorama Books. 
• Schneider, Bob (2009). The Wild Melancholy. Shockorama Books. 

See also[link]

• Music of Austin

External links[link]

• Bob Schneider's official web page
• [1] — provides streaming audio (and some video) of live performances
• Archive.org Listing — Live performances available for download through archive.org
• AMG: Bob Schneider
• Bob Schneider at the Internet Movie Database

References[link]

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Stanley Lord
Stanley Lord
Born	13 September 1877 (1877-09-13)
Died	24 January 1962 (1962-01-25) (aged 84)

Stanley Lord (13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

Early life[link]

Lord was born on 13 September 1877 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He began his training at sea when he was thirteen, aboard the barque Naiad, in March 1891. He later obtained his Second Mate’s Certificate of competency and served as Second Officer in the barque Lurlei.

In February 1901, at the age of 23, Lord obtained his Master's Certificate, and three months later, obtained his Extra Master’s Certificate. He entered the service of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company in 1897. The company was taken over by the Leyland Line in 1900, but Lord continued service with the new company, and was awarded his first command in 1906.^[1]

Lord was given full command of the SS Californian in 1911.

Before the disaster[link]

On the night of 14 April 1912, as the Californian approached a large ice field, Captain Lord decided to stop around 10:21 PM and wait out the night. Before turning in for the night, he ordered his sole wireless operator, Cyril Evans, to warn other ships in the area about the ice. When reaching the Titanic, Evans tapped out "I say old man, we are stopped and surrounded by ice." The Californian was so close to the Titanic that the message was very loud in the ears of Titanic First Wireless Operator Jack Phillips, who angrily replied "Shut up! Shut up! I am busy. I am working Cape Race." Earlier in the day the wireless equipment aboard the Titanic had broken down and Phillips, along with Second Wireless Operator Harold Bride, had spent the better part of the day trying to repair it. Now they were swamped with outgoing messages that had piled up during the day. Phillips was exhausted after such a long day. Evans listened in for a while longer as Phillips sent routine traffic through the Cape Race relaying station before finally turning in for bed after a very long day at around 11:30 PM.

During the night[link]

Over the course of the night, various officers and seamen on the deck of Leyland Liner Californian witnessed white rockets being fired into the air over a strange ship off in the distance, totaling eight in all.

Exhausted after 17 hours on duty, Captain Lord was awakened twice during the night, and told about the rockets to which he replied that they may be "company rockets", to help ships identify themselves to liners of the same company.

Meanwhile on the Titanic, for an hour after the collision, no other ships were noticed until the lights of a ship were seen in the distance and Fourth Officer Boxhall and Quartermaster Rowe tried in vain to contact the strange ship by Morse lamp. Nobody on the deck of the Californian saw these signals, however they had also tried to signal the mystery ship, but were unable to get a response.

Not able to understand any messages coming from the strange ship, Californian`s officers eventually concluded that signals were merely the masthead flickering and not signals at all.

Throughout the night, no one on board the Californian attempted to wake their wireless operator, and ask him to contact the ship to ask why they were firing rockets and trying to signal them, until 5:30 AM. By then however it was too late — the Titanic had gone down at 2:20. When she had slipped below the water, the sudden disappearance of lights was interpreted by the Californian crew that she had simply steamed on her way.

Search and recovery[link]

On Monday morning, Captain Lord was notified by the Frankfurt that the Titanic had gone down early that morning. At 5:45 that morning, the Californian pulled up alongside the Carpathia and stayed behind to search for additional bodies after the Carpathia steamed towards New York.

Lord's testimony[link]

The following is from Captain Lord's testimony in the US Inquiry on 26 April:

Reputation[link]

Lord was dismissed by the Leyland Line in August of the same year. So far as any negligence of the S.S. Californian's officers and crew was concerned, the conclusions of both the United States Inquiry and the British Inquiry seemed to disapprove of the actions of Captain Lord but stopped short of recommending charges. While both Inquiries censured the S.S. Californian, they did not directly censure the individuals who were on the ship.

Neither did they make any recommendations for an official investigation to ascertain if Captain Lord was guilty of offences under the Merchant Shipping Acts. Lord was not allowed to be represented at either the US or British inquiry — he was called to give evidence before he knew that he was to become a target for criticism, but having answered questions which were later interpreted to cast blame on him, he was denied the opportunity of speaking in his own defence.

While Lord was never tried or convicted of any offence, he was still viewed, publicly, as a pariah. In any case, the events of the night of 14–15 April 1912 would haunt him for the rest of his life and he would spend his remaining days attempting to fight for his exoneration.

In February 1913, with help from a Leyland director who believed he had been unfairly treated, Captain Lord was hired by the Nitrate Producers Steamship Co., where he remained until March 1927, resigning for health reasons. In 1955, following the release of Walter Lord's (no relation) book A Night to Remember and the subsequent film of the same name, Stanley Lord was embarrassed at his portrayal in the movie and attempted to promote his own version^{[dubious – discuss]} of events. In 1958, he contacted the Mercantile Marine Service Association in Liverpool and said "I am Lord of the Californian and I have come to clear my name." The association's general secretary, Mr. Leslie Harrison, took up the case for him and petitioned the Board of Trade on his behalf. However, as Lord had no new evidence, his petition was rejected in 1965 and was followed by a second petition in 1968, which was also rejected.

The discovery of the remains of the Titanic on the sea bed, in 1985, neither confirmed nor denied Captain Lord's culpability. While the position of the wreck makes it clear that the S.O.S position given after the iceberg collision by the Titanic's fourth officer, Joseph Boxhall, was off by 13 miles, strong undersea currents, as well as the Titanic's hydrodynamics underwater, could account for the Titanic resting far from the actual position where it slipped beneath the water.^{[dubious – discuss]} At both of the Titanic enquiries, in 1912, there had been some conflict about the true position of the ship when it sank. The conclusions of the 1912 enquiries discounted the evidence of uncertainty about the position of the Titanic. At the time, some assumed that the position which Captain Lord had given, for his ship, was incorrect and that he was actually much closer to the Titanic than he claimed to be. However, the entries in the Californian's scrap log logbook referring to the night in question had been removed, seen as overwhelming proof that Lord deliberately destroyed evidence in order to cover his crime of ignoring a distress call.^{[dubious – discuss]} While modifying a ship's log or removing pages is a serious violation of maritime law, no charges were ever brought for that breach.

A re-appraisal by the UK Government, instigated informally in 1988 and published in 1992 by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), further implicated the consequences of Lord's inaction. Among its conclusions were that the Titanic's international distress signal of three white rockets fired in sequence^{[dubious – discuss]} had indeed been sighted by the Californian's crew, and by maritime law should have been investigated. Another conclusion stated that, had Lord rushed towards the distress signals that fateful night, the ship would have arrived in time to perhaps save another 200 passengers^{[dubious – discuss]}. What has never been satisfactorily resolved was why Captain Lord did not simply wake his radio operator and listen for any distress signals.

Maritime Historian, Daniel Allen Butler, in his 2009 book The Other Side of Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the night Titanic was Lost alleges that Captain Lord's personality and temperament — his behaviour at both inquiries, his threatening of his crew, his frequent changing of his story, lying under oath at both inquiries,^{[clarification needed]} the absence of the scrap log book, and an odd remark made by Lord in Boston in a newspaper interview: "It is all foolishness for anybody to say that I, at the point of a revolver, took any man into this room and made him swear to tell any kind of story." - point to Lord's having some sort of mental illness. His lack of compassion — never once expressing grief at the loss of Titanic or sorrow for those who had lost family when she sank, is, claims Butler, a diagnosis of Sociopathy. ^[2]

Captain Lord died on 24 January 1962, aged 84, almost half a century after the sinking of the Titanic. He is buried in Wallasey Cemetery, Merseyside.

In "101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic...But Didn't" authors Tim Maltin and Eloise Aston attribute Captain Lord's belief that the nearby ship was not the Titanic to cold-water mirages.

References[link]

• Lee, Paul The Indifferent Stranger electronic book, 2008
• Maltin, Tim and Aston, Eloise 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic...But Didn't Beautiful Books (2 April 2010)

Further reading[link]

• Biography of Captain Stanley Lord - from Encyclopedia Titanica

External links[link]

• Titanic and the Mystery Ship
• Stanley Lord's testimony at the US inquiry into the Titanic sinking
• Stanley Lord's testimony at the British inquiry into the Titanic sinking
• Titanic In Lancashire Museum Project