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Tag Archives: Jon Jay
Sports Fix, The Daily Feed, The Features
By Rachel Levitin 7:50 am23 Apr 2013
Dan Haren Looks Stronger, But Nats Fall 3-2 to St. Louis
courtesy of philliefan99
Nats starter Dan Haren pitched one of his finer games of the 2013 season on Monday night but Washington fell just shy of a win over their National League foes from St. Louis. The Cardinals one upped the Nats wining 3-2 in the first game of a three game series.
In the clubs’ first match-up since the 2012 postseason, Haren held the Cardinals to six hits and three runs on 98 pitches, 56 for strikes, through five innings plus four batters. He walked three, struck out three, and hit a batter — a play which sparked the rally that won St. Louis the game. Continue reading →
Tags: Allen Craig, Anthony Rendon, Carlos Beltran, Chad Tracy, Craig Stammen, Dan Haren, Davey Johnson, Drew Storen, Ian Desmond, Jayson Werth, Jon Jay, Matt Carpenter, nats, Pete Kozma, Shelby Miller, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Yadier Molina
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Weather in Freystadt-Oberndorf, 17.01.2020
On Friday it will be sunny. The late evening will bring mainly cloudy, but mostly dry weather. During the night clouds with light rain will prevail. Morning temperatures will be around freezing point and will reach a maximum of 6 °C during the day. Low temperatures at night will be around 3°C. We have weak southerly winds.
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Colder or warmer, wetter or more windy? Discover the trend for the next 2 weeks
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Tagged ‘Ruckus‘
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Otpor | Canvas, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
21st Century Subjugation Aversive Racism Beautiful Trouble Co-optation colonization Greenpeace IEN Indigenous Peoples’ Power Project (IP3) NVDA Training Rainforest Action Network Ruckus Soft Assimilation Standing Rock
Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 4]
Part four of an investigative report by Cory Morningstar
Standing Rock Investigative Report Series [Further Reading]: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Addendum
In Part 4, Cory Morningstar demystifies the funding and soft power behind this seemingly organic “grassroots” movement. The veil is lifted as to the price and profits behind the actions and the movement. She examines in detail how this work has been funded for decades and how the “big green” NGOs and non-violent trainers utilize the power of the people and the “youth-led” paradigm and photo ops to win our hearts… and our donations.
Ruckus was born out of Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, and Earth First! Co-founders, staff and affiliates (Mike Roselle and recently deceased Howard Cannon/”Twilly” ). Here it should be noted that when Greenpeace originated (founded in 1971), it was legitimately radical in nature bearing no resemblance to the corporate appendage we see today. Rainforest Action Network came later, founded in 1985. Ruckus was founded in 1995 (see following excerpt).
The following excerpt is from the 2009 essay Saving Trees and Capitalism Too which deconstructs Rainforest Action Network’s role (inclusive of Ruckus) in both conserving and rebranding capitalism:
“Capitalism is yet again undergoing a miraculous rebranding, and the robber barons of old are now the saviours of the planet, now being widely touted as the Eco Barons. By reviewing the activities of leading tree protectors, the Rainforest Action Network, this essay will demonstrate how the activism promoted by eco barons though such groups ultimately works to conserve capitalism and create the powerful illusion of progressive social change….
Here it is important to recall that the Ruckus Society (which was cofounded by RAN’s Mike Roselle) ‘provided the first physical forum for the Direct Action Network which coordinated the [Battle of Seattle] demonstrations, and itself trained many of the participants.’ Moreover as John Sellers, the former Greenpeace activist and former head of the Ruckus Society points out: ‘When we first started, it was almost entirely folks from Greenpeace or Rainforest Action Network, with a few EarthFirsters.’ (Greenpeace having disbanded its direct-action office in 1991.) According to Sellers, after Ruckus was founded in 1995, the former CNN boss cum eco baron, Ted Turner, ‘carried Ruckus on his back’ for their first few years. Thus Sellers who is well-known for saying: ‘F–k that s–t! You’re corporate sellouts!’ to journalists ‘just to gauge their reaction,’ evidently does not see how ironic his litmus test of corporate cooption really is. Likewise greenwash guru, Kenny Bruno, who currently acts as the media and strategic campaigning trainer for the Ruckus Society, appears to see no contradiction in working for an organization whose former long serving trustee is corporate greenwasher extraordinaire, the late Anita Roddick….”
The author summarizes that “the Rainforest Action Network and its related cohorts have been highly profitable investments for the world’s leading capitalists.”
“Shan calls it a ‘holistic’ approach; Sellers reckons that the goal is ‘to feed the entire activist spirit and mind.’ Call it what you will, it ain’t cheap. Shan estimates the total bill for action camp at between $40,000 and $50,000, and Sellers puts Ruckus’ annual operating budget up around $800,000. (Participants are asked for a $75 donation to attend.) Which explains why Sellers disappears for a couple days mid-week, long enough to pay a visit to Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s fame, one of Ruckus’ several wealthy backers. Other Ruckus supporters have included Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, Doors drummer John Densmore and Hollywood’s go-to progressives, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon. Ted Turner’s foundation gave until last year, when the multi-bazillionaire began to take issue with some of Ruckus’ targets. ‘As it turns out, Ted is a pretty big free trade fan,’ says Sellers with a smile.” — Camp Ruckus, April 30, 2001
RAN on Flickr
From the RAN website: “How to Support Standing Rock: A Personal FAQ” (November 2, 2016) :
Q: Are there petitions I can sign? Which ones would be most effective?
A: Here are a few suggestions, from Stand with Standing Rock’s website , MoveOn, and Change.org. These have already gained significant traction and would be boosted by the support of you and your community.
Q: Are there actions in my area that I can join?
A: Yes! There are actions happening all over the country to challenge the banks trying to profit off this terrible project. You can get good information here and here. You can also connect with local organizations in your area, as well as national organizations like RAN, 350.org, Rising Tide, and others.
Rather than encouraging people to read about the sovereignty issues regarding Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous nations, the history of colonization, land theft, genocide, etc. RAN subtly reabsorbs those interested back into the jaws of the NPIC.
Note that Change.org. is a for-profit NGO Avaaz co-founder Paul Hilder is Vice President of Global Campaigns for Change.org, a for-profit social venture started in 2006 by Stanford University graduates Ben Rattray and Mark Dimas. Ben Wikler (Avaaz Chief Operating Officer) is Executive Vice President of Change.org.
From the Rainforest Action Network 2015 Annual Report:
“Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) $2,500 to support IP3’s Training for Indigenous Trainers bringing together Indigenous activists and organizers from the frontlines of challenging fossil fuel extraction and combating the climate crisis to support and build their capacity to carry out self-determined acts of resistance for their lands and communities.”
For a mere pittance (community grants are rarely more than 5,000.00 while annual budgets of NGOs such as RAN are in the millions), the establishment has its finger on the pulse of most everything happening at the grassroots level. In reality, no campaign tied to the NPIC is challenging fossil fuel extraction, only fossil fuel transportation. And to be even more specific, only 2 pipelines that would negatively impact BNSF profits.
Meanwhile, in the real world that is far away from social media wishful thinking, there is no way to “combat” the climate crisis – which must be now understood as a predicament (for in fact, it cannot be combated nor solved, only mitigated, which is not happening regardless).
The Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society’s leading partners and allies include but are not limited to: 350.org, Indigenous People’s Power Project (a project of RAN/Ruckus), Indigenous Environmental Network, U.S. Social Forum, Forest Ethics, Rising Tide North America, Black Lives Matter, Patagonia, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Energy Action Coalition, GIFT – Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and many others. [Full list of allies and partners] Recently Ruckus co-launched the Combahee Alliance convening a 2-year direct action training series that began in 2016 “for People of Color committed to the movement for Black Lives.” [Source] Tzeporah Berman (discussed earlier in this report) is identified as a former Ruckus Board member.
Ruckus Society funders include but are not limited to Open Society Foundations (Soros) (100,000.00 in both 2008 and 2010), Patagonia, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the Tides Foundation, Rainforest Action Network, the Turner Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors , the Compton Foundation, the Foundation for Deep Ecology, the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Threshold Foundation, the Agape Foundation, the Mailman Charitable Trust and the Lambent Foundation. (The extensive list commenced in 1995).
The Ruckus Society booklet “Action Strategy, a how-to guide” has incorporated the work of Gene Sharp, who is also credited in the acknowledgments: “Writers, compilers and editors: Jessica Bell, Joshua Kahn Russell, Megan Swoboda, Sharon Lungo, the Ruckus Society, Training for Change, Beyond the Choir, Smart Meme, Gene Sharp, and many others. Design by Cam Fenton.” The “Action Strategy, a how-to guide” was developed by Beyond the Choir and adapted by Ruckus contributors.
Here is it is important to note that the core values and principles of Ruckus trainings have been vetted/written by Euro-Americans tied to the NPIC and even those serving the US State Department, that of Gene Sharp. Sharp’s work and his NGO, the Albert Einstein Institute, has played in an integral role in “coloured revolutions” sought and financed by USAID.
The work of Sharp served as the framework for Canvas (formerly known as Otpor), the “go-to” NGO called upon by imperial states for regime change under the guise of “coloured revolutions”. It is significant to note that 350.org has organized lectures for the Otpor founders during Occupy Wall Street. In December of 2013, “the Pathways to Peace series” would bring the Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and assistant to Dr. Gene Sharp, to Salt Lake City for a series of talks as part of the “Pathways to Peace series”. [“The Pathways to Peace series is sponsored By: Gandhi Alliance for Peace, Peaceful Uprising, Salt Lake City Public Library, SLCC School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UVU Peace and Justice Studies, Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land, Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice, Westminster College; U of U Middle East Center, J. Willard Marriott Library, Religious Studies Program.”][ Source]
The aforementioned Joshua Kahn Russell is the Global Trainings Manager for 350.org (his former title with 350.org was US Actions Coordinator), while also being an action coordinator, facilitator and trainer with the Ruckus Society, and a co-editor of Organizing Cools the Planet. In addition, Russell was previously an organizer for Tar Sands Action (now 350.org).
The irony is that few, if any of these trainers/citizens have any authority on, nor any real-life experience in life or death struggles. Instead, these are young adults that have been conditioned to obey and submit to authority since birth. If the world was based on decisions grounded in common sense, it would be Indigenous Nations such as the Mohawks, a shining example of a warrior culture, educating and training white youth. The paradox is as follows: The structure of colonialism is meant to exhaust, debilitate, dominate and exterminate the colonized subjects. The vast majority of the trainers provided by Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Ruckus, Beautiful Trouble all benefit from the systems of oppression at any given moment. It’s a situational structural relationship. Not a choice. [Further reading into understanding systems of oppression: indigenousaction.org]
Guerrilleras of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP )[ Celebrate the 100th International Women’s Day! Source]
Mohawk warriors man a barricade on the highway. “First Nations of Canada reached a flash point around the Kanesatake Mohawk reservation 30 miles west of Montreal.” Image: Christopher J. Morris/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. [Source: July 11-Sept. 26, 1990, The Oka Crisis: The Mohawk protest that became an armed seige]
In 2006, Ruckus teamed up with Credo Working Assets for an “Election Protection” project. “We have partnered with Working Assets Mobile Response Team so they can text you on election day…” [Working Assets was founded in 1985 to give people an easy way to make a difference in the world just by doing things they do every day. Each time our members use one of our services—mobile, long distance or credit card—we automatically send a donation to progressive nonprofit groups. To date we’ve raised over $80 million for groups like Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network and Oxfam America. But we’re not just raising donations for progressive causes, we’re making change. Our CREDO Action website plugs you into a network of like-minded citizen activists and provides easy and effective ways to take action on the issues you care about.][Source]
As with MoveOn (co-founder of Avaaz) which was created to essentially function as a front-group for the US democratic Party, 350, Credo, Ruckus, Agit-Pop/Other98, and most, if not all of the most influential US NGOs, are closely aligned with the Democratic Party. Most of these organizations serve as an interlocking functioning apparatus that successfully and collectively conditions citizens to believe in the electoral system designed to fail the vast majority in servitude to the elite minority. A full-blown corporatocracy that cannot be reformed.
The Ruckus Society Elitism
The power of conformity creates a powerful shield that protects whatever exists at that moment as the most widely held belief.
One of the key tools that elite power (the very power that funnels funds to NGO via foundations) employs is the invitation for blossoming activists to partake in and intermingle with the very elites circles that benefit enormously from the current economic system. In a very strategic sense, this is the art of seduction. This is an exercise in exploiting human vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities that sow loyalties which are nurtured through acts of generosity, the exploitation of ego, the desire to belong and a rare passage to the upper echelon of elite society – the envy of many. One is allowed a taste, a glimpse, a touch, the exceptional and exclusive privilege to coalesce with “the beautiful people”. Any desires for the dismantling of the suicidal system slowly dissipate. Slowly replaced with even stronger desires to be accepted and called upon to move freely within ascension to the highest levels of Euro-American status. The very power structures an emerging activist was perhaps once bent on destroying must now only be gently shaken with a velvet glove. To be celebrated afterward with press, social media, and cocktails.
An example of this dynamic is Ruckus ally and Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin mingling amongst millionaires such as Heather Podesta at LaMagna’s co-founder Backbone Campaign book launch (2010) [Source]. (LaMagna is the co-founder of the Backbone Campaign which is the fiscal sponsor of Beautiful Trouble, discussed earlier in this series).
The higher the social metrics – the more successful the action, having absolutely nothing to do with the whether the stated goal (such as the protection of ecology, or the destruction of corporate power), was actually achieved.
“So when I agreed to be on the Host committee of The Ruckus Society’s ten year anniversary dinner and dancing extravaganza I did not hesitate because I knew the back story to the dinner… And last night I was there, as a host, to not only just the Ruckus ten year and celebration of the history but also a warm welcoming of the future and now. Sellers ceremoniously handed over the reigns to Ms. Brown in style and with a sleek fashion rarely enjoyed by a collection of tree huggers, alternative media miners, big hearted donor donors, fresh faced volunteers, and the echoing crash of the ocean just yards away. It was an exemplary display of leadership because not only was the white man stepping down handing the mic, and the power, over to a black woman, but also because it was a marriage of movements and generations… and we there… just part of the crowd… witnessed healing and the beginning of a brand new day. Cheers to the Change-Makers!” — Ruckus Society Turns to Adrienne Marie Brown at ten years! June 9, 2006
“Long-time RAN Friends Harold Linde, John Quigley, Celia Alario, And John Sellers . Credit: Rainforest Action Network, Flickr
“On Friday, May 11, 2007 Lawrence Bender, co-producer of An Inconvenient Truth, hosted a powerful and inspirational evening to benefit Rainforest Action Network at his Bel Air, CA home. The evening included organic, savory nibbles and sweet treats, earth-friendly wines, juices and innovative cocktails by VeeV, an eco gift bag, and the chance to hear firsthand about RAN’s strategies to protect our climate and the planet’s most unique ecosystems. Renowned author/journalist Mark Hertsgaard, regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Time and The Nation magazines, was a featured guest speaker.
The fabulous party was hosted by Lawrence Bender, Daryl Hannah, John Densmore, Ed Begley, Jr., Vanessa Williams, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Stuart Townsend, Ed & Cindy Asner, Fran Pavley, Sharon Lawrence, Cole Frates, Chris Paine, Jodie Evans & Max Palevsky, John Schreiber, Julie Bergman Sender & Stuart Sender, Matt Petersen, Lora O’Connor, Marianne Manilov, Laurie & Bill Benenson, Suzanne Biegel, Sara Nichols, Courtney & Carter Reum, John Quigley, Chelsea Sexton, Sarah Ingersoll, Jeff Reichert, Linda Nicholes & Howard Stein, Laurie Kaufman, Atossa Soltani & Thomas Cavanagh, Tamar Hurwitz, Celia Alario and many others. “
At this juncture, it is appropriate to dissect the complexities of scenes such as this by referencing the 2014 paper Accomplices not Allies : Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex: “The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community-based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization. They build organizational or individual capacity and power, establishing themselves comfortably among the top ranks in their hierarchy of oppression as they strive to become the ally “champions” of the most oppressed. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry.”
Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3)
IP3 was formally formed in 2004 as a project of the Ruckus Society. The IP3 is a non-violent direct action training and support network.
“Since our first action camp in 2005, IP3 has skilled up over 150 Indigenous direct action leaders with the ability to engage in, train and coordinate non-violent direct action. We’ve hosted 3 direct action training camps and over 50 community action trainings throughout North America, as well as coordinated and supported actions here and around the world.” – June 4, 2015, The Ruckus Society
The Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) website is essentially an incubated NGO of Ruckus/Rainforest Action Network. From the Rainforest Network Website:
“IP3’s Training for indigenous Trainers were able to bring Indigenous activists and organizers together from the frontlines of challenging fossil fuel extraction and combating the climate crisis to support and build their capacity to carry out self-determined acts of resistance for their lands and communities.”
From the Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) website:
“The Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) is a nonviolent direct action training and support network advancing Indigenous communities’ ability to exercise their inherent rights to environmental justice, cultural livelihood, and self-determination. Formed in 2004 as a project of the Ruckus Society, IP3 works across Turtle Island with communities that are most vulnerable to threats of ecological devastation and resource exploitation, and most poised to lead solution-oriented action.
“Expert and culturally-sensitive trainings are needed now more than ever, as the Governor is using increased bail and increased charges (including felony charges) to scare people away from peaceful protests and their constitutional rights. Intimidation, surveillance, and state repression are escalating, and as Indigenous peoples are most at risk, it is imperative to have Indigenous trainers steering the action.”
“While on the ground, the IP3 team became a vital core of the camps, and we are requesting support to continue that work in Standing Rock. IP3 has been working in concert with Greenpeace and Indigenous Environmental Network coordinating camp infrastructure needs, including bringing in solar power, medics, and communications support. IP3 has also been working with the legal team to develop structure and shared principles for legal defense, jail support, and the bail fund. [Source]
“[Sierra Club president] Aaron Mair with (left to right): unidentified activist; Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org; and Ladonna Bravebull Allard, founder of Camp Sacred Stone.” Credit: Sierra Club
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is the token Indigenous NGO for the far more powerful entities such as 350.org, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, etc. IEN’s assimilation into the non-profit industrial complex serves as a reminder of its once powerful campaign slogan: “Shut down the tar sands.” Today we focus on singular pipelines ( a mere two pipelines in almost seven years) all while Buffett expands and protects his 21st century rail dynasty. Today, IEN serves as the “go to” NGO for Indigenous related photo-ops and pre-approved sound bites that reframe critical sovereignty issues into broader topics that appeal to the liberal middle class demographic, such as climate change. To create a dynamic where Indigenous NGOs are forced to acquiesce to the wishes and demands of white power, Indigenous organizations are thrown bread crumbs by empire (via foundations) while Euro-American NGOs are funded by millions. Hence an average salary for an individual in a position of power within an organization such as 350 or Avaaz is six-figures, while a high-level job within an Indigenous organization is, in many instances, approaching levels of poverty. In this way, empire, via foundations utilizes the NPIC to keep current power structures (white power) intact as well ensuring an uneven playing field, thereby reinforcing the existing systems of oppression.
“A friend of mine who used to work for indigenous land councils as a researcher/mediator against big mining companies says ‘The pattern is always the same. The green groups pick an indigenous group as their spear tip, and the rest can go hang.'” — Activist Michael Swifte, Australia
To avoid accusations of colonization, assimilation or paternalism, NGOs understand that all forms of public work with Indigenous nations/peoples must always be publicly carried out at arm’s length. As an example of this behavior, in the IP3 description it is noted that “as Indigenous peoples are most at risk, it is imperative to have Indigenous trainers steering the action.” But the real question that must be asked is who is training the Indigenous trainers, based on whose concepts and whose ideologies/beliefs, and perhaps even more importantly, who exactly benefits.
“Are you a future IP3 direct action trainer?: Do you identify as Indigenous or of Indigenous Heritage? Are you organizing or engaging in organizing in your community or with your organization? Have you participated in or led non-violent direct actions? Apply to the TNT! Participant Fees: Needs based sliding scale $0 – $1500 – More info? ip3@ruckus.org” [Source]
IP3 is in essence the medium that allows for Rainforest Action Network, Ruckus, et al to oversee, manage and shape Indigenous resistance under the guise of self determination via philanthropic nobility. In reality, self-determination is ultimately dictated by those at the top of the networked hegemony these NGOs are woven into. Further, the fee of $U.S.1,500.00 as cited above is a fee that can only be afforded by very few. This in itself demonstrates the Ruckus Society’s key clients: partner NGOs.
“This week, the Indigenous Peoples’ Power Project (IP3) – The Ruckus Society’s ongoing commitment to supporting the fight of Native communities for Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Self Determination, will be sending Indigenous direct action trainers to continue to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation against the DAPL. Funds are needed.” — Osprey Orielle Lake
With respect to the “funds are needed” request in the above paragraph link to where one can donate to The Ruckus Society for its IP3 project, this is where things once again become interesting. Whereas Boyd’s address for Agit-Pop is the Avaaz Foundation, an associated name that appears when searching the address provided for The Ruckus Society is that of multi-million dollar Patagonia. The address (PO Box 28741, Oakland, CA 94604) no longer appears on the Patagonia website (store locator), however, Patagonia does continue to provide funding to Ruckus.
Sept 29, 2016 event: “NON VIOLENCE AND DIRECT ACTION TRAINING WORKSHOP” – “There will be a Non Violence and Direct Action Workshop in support of the water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota.” [Source]
Ruckus’s John Sellers once said “There is no better way to launder corporate multinational largesse than giving it to the movement that is confronting it.” Today that quote is in dire need of correction. Remix: “There is no better way to launder corporate multinational largesse than giving it to the movement that is protecting it.”
“The key distinction in this struggle is that it’s being done in the name of tradition but in fact isn’t traditional at all.” — Anthony Choice-Diaz
21st Century Subjugation
subjugation
the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
“In the last decade or so, I have seen a distortion of our warrior culture by some Natives that seek to portray warriors as—above all—peaceful and non-violent protagonists. This tendency has increased in the last few years with the infiltration of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs, with their fetish for nonviolent activities) into Indigenous communities, as well as the Idle No More mobilization of last year, which introduced pacifist ideology on a mass scale to Native grassroots movements in Canada.” — The Myth of the ‘Peaceful’ Warrior, Dec 13, 2013
Above: “Robert Chanate (Kiowa), with the Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3)- Ruckus Society and one of the IEN Action Trainers getting arrested.” This photograph was taken September 11, 2011, (Censored News).
Take a few minutes to look at Chanate’s beautiful yet forlorn face and body language. One must ask oneself– does this man look empowered? How is a state-sanctioned protest (carried out on a Sunday when no one of “authority” is even working inside) and a state-negotiated arrest considered to be one of the “self-determining acts of resistance” RAN claims in their annual report? How is a state-negotiated arrest by those loyal and in servitude of your oppressor, organized by the non-profit industrial complex founded on white power, also loyal and in servitude to your oppressor, empowering in any way? Standing on the land (now covered in cement) that has been stolen from your people, land that once carried the footsteps of your ancestors, to be arrested for a theatrical branding exercise that benefits the very groups that protect current power structures, inflicts humiliation, even if only on a subconscious level.
Do those in servitude to the NPIC care? No they do not. This man serves as a photo-op to lend credibility and legitimacy to NGOs that deserve none. This is continued exploitation, clear and simple.
Let’s juxtapose that image with these images:
Daryl Hannah arrest, KXL Protest, Whitehouse (2013)
Upon an expedited release, Hannah will fly away to a luxurious eco hideaway, McKibben will fly back to his wood-fired hot tub, Klein will fly back to her million-dollar book sales, non-profit CEOs will fly back to 6-figure salaries. All of the aforementioned have, or have had at one time, at minimum, two separate homes. Privileged youth will go back to class at college or university, where they will excitedly upload their photos of themselves from their shiny mobiles to social media. Those with hefty retirement savings will drive back to a beautiful home where they will watch television on their flat screen, hoping to catch a glimpse of themselves on the news. The hipsters will go to a cafe for a latte and afterwards smoke a joint. None of them feel bad. None of them feel guilt. Rather, they are rejuvenated. They see themselves as born-again saviors. No one questions the system when your status has you soaring so far above you can no longer see it.
Those on the frontlines – those marginalized and oppressed – those whose stolen lands we stand upon while basking in our unspoken superiority, they will go back to the reservations where the rightful caretakers of this land live in abject poverty.
The last word in this segment goes to the Red Warrior Society: [Excerpts from the “December 2016 Official Red Warrior Camp Communique“]
“One of the lessons we have learned that has inspired us is the very real need for a mobile resistance movement that is ready and willing to dismantle the capitalist regime that is destroying our planet. The mobilization of resistance is key to shattering the oppressive illegal military occupation of the so called ‘Amerikkkas’, for too long we have lived with broken treaties, genocide, racism and colonization. In order to best honor our ancestors and the future generations we are living our principles by forming a Warrior Society rooted in combatting the indoctrination of our minds, bodies, and spirits. We do not need Standing Rock to exist, but we did however require it to put us all in the same place at the same time. We realize now that all we need is each other, our Red Warrior family has undertaken the responsibility and role to uphold not only Mother Earth but Indigenous Rights. It is with this duty in mind we must rise up and move on…
We cannot stay and fight a battle for land and water that is heavily invested in neo-colonialism. We are so grateful to the grassroots people who have supported us while we have been here. It is not easy to say goodbye, we are deeply tied to this struggle and are not abandoning our post. This fight is not over yet, the pipeline is still being built, Energy Transfer Partners will push this pipe through unless there is a diversity of tactics that include direct action and no court ruling or legal manoeuvring will prevent that from happening alone; and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is heavily engaged in praying away a pipeline without action, this is in direct opposition to who we are as Warriors.
We are in a war to fight the greedy corporate whores who are pimping out our Mother for blood money and we say no more. Enough is enough, for over 500 years we have been brutalized and robbed, we are not victims looking for surcease we are Warriors fighting for our lives and the future. We cannot afford to allow our own corrupt leaders aid and abet this process, too many of our people are working for industry, too many of our people are selling out, we must remember the warrior blood that runs through our veins. We do a great disservice to ourselves and the People when we allow the values of white supremacist society to overshadow the knowledge of what it means to be a true human being.”
LITTLE BIGHORN, 1876. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull mounted before their warriors at the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876. Pictograph by Amos Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge Reservation
A Mohawk Warrior stands atop a makeshift barricade, 1990.” Image: Christopher J. Morris/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images [Source]
Next: Part 5
[Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green, The Art of Annihilation and Counterpunch. Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. You can support her independent journalism via Patreon.]
Edited with Forrest Palmer, Wrong Kind of Green Collective.
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Earlier this week, I wrote a little something something about the “incrementalism” of Mayor Tory, as mostly supporters of his might call it. “Small, tangible actions that add up over time to real progress,” according to Siri Agrell, director of strategic initiatives in the mayor’s office.
Yesterday, in his State of the City speech at the Economic Club of Canada, Mayor Tory unleashed some of that incrementalling with a surprise announcement of a .5% Capital Building Fund levy to be added to our municipal tax bills beginning in 2017. Additional money that will be dedicated to alleviating some of our much needed capital infrastructure in transit and housing. Capital investment, currently unfunded to the tune of $20 billion or so, portrayed as a menacing iceberg in City Manager Peter Wallace’s powerful presentation to the Executive Committee on Tuesday.
Could it be, might it be this mayor finally gets it? The news from the new city manager that the city is, in fact, revenue starved got through his low-tax mantra haze? Frequent critics of the mayor, Metro’s Matt Elliott and the Toronto Star’s Edward Keenan, folks I rarely have policy issue beefs with, were more than cautiously optimistic about Mayor Tory’s seeming about-face. A new era of forward-thinking might just have been ushered in at City Hall.
I don’t know, though. Call me skeptical.
Incrementalism or a half measure?
In presenting staff’s 2016 budget, the city manager forcefully opened the door to a much needed, larger discussion about how Toronto funds the kind of city it wants. Let’s talk first about the things we want to do, want to build and then proceed to the way we plan on paying for it. For too long, it’s been done the other way around. Here’s what we’re going to spend and here’s what we’re going to spend it on. (Steve Munro does a much more thorough job explaining the process than I could.) Money for our civic aspirations has remained in short supply.
To my mind, rather than seizing the opportunity presented to him to lead that vital conversation, Mayor Tory’s sudden jerk in the right direction, nipped it in the bud. See? I listen. I respond. I am doing something.
But just how much exactly is he doing by floating this .5% capital building fund levy? Concluding a lengthy Twitter essay (yes, such a thing does exist), Councillor Gord Perks suggested that at its height in 2022, after a 5 year roll out, the levy will bring in about $65 million a year. “The $65 miillion tax increase proposed by @JohnTory will only cover 1/20th or 5% of our unfunded capital.”
Is that somehow supposed to show the other levels of government that the city has finally put on its adult breeches and is prepared to pony up and pay its way? Here’s a nickel on the dollar. We’re good?
Underwhelming, I’d call it. Mostly for show. It’s hard to imagine it really addressing the city manager’s call for a serious discussion.
While applauding the mayor for proposing the levy, Sheila Bock of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives urged council to think bigger, revisit the revenue toolbox it has at its disposal. “These untapped powers provide the city with a menu of options that could raise more than $400 million annually,” she wrote. Remember that Vehicle Registration Tax that got repealed a few years back? Generated about roughly the same annual amount as the mayor’s levy will in 2022.
Too rich for Mayor Tory’s taste, it seems. Little steps instead. Walk before running. “Small, tangible actions,” like his director of strategic initiatives might call them.
Or, as some of us less persuaded might see it, blunting any chance at forward progress or real change. The fact that the mayor vigorously denied the levy was actually a property tax increase in order to keep his campaign pledge of maintaining property taxes at or below the rate of inflation suggests that he’s not really prepared to take on the hobgoblin of misguided, small-minded Fordian penny-pinching ways at city council. His initial attempt at implying his levy was simply replacing the Scarborough subway tax that was set to end in 2017 (spoiler alert: It isn’t) also doesn’t augur well for the strength of his convictions on revenue generation.
So yeah, I continue to see the glass half empty in terms of Mayor Tory’s motives with this move, half empty like the gesture it is, a mere token. Should he be applauded for giving the impression of being almost, kinda decisive? I don’t know. It’s been pretty much his approach to governance since day 1. Nothing about this strikes me as new or encouraging. A small step when what’s required is a big, bold leap.
— unconvincedly submitted by Cityslikr
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Home/Sports/The Score Sheet: Weekend scores and highlights
The Score Sheet: Weekend scores and highlights
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Iowa’s Megan Gustafson celebrated Senior Day with 34 points and 12 rebounds as the Hawkeyes beat Northwestern 74-50. The Hawkeyes finish the regular season 23-6.
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The Hawkeyes finish second in the Big Ten and closed the regular season 15-0 at home. Iowa coach Lisa Bluder
Rutgers toppled #22 Iowa 86-72 on Saturday behind Ron Harper Junior’s 27 points. Tyler Cook bagged 16 points for the Hakweyes who fall to 21-8 and 10-8 in the league. This was the first of two games for Fran Mcaffery’s suspension.
Texas ran over Iowa State to split the season meetings 86-69. Lindell Wiggington led the Cyclones with 16. ISU falls to 20-9 and 9-7 in the league.
The Iowa State women close out the home schedule Monday night against Kansas. After moving into second place with a victory at Texas the Cyclones can clinch the two seed in the Big-12 Tournament with a win.
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That’s ISU coach Bill Fennelly. It will be senior night for the Cyclones. That includes Bridget Carleton, who topped two thousand career points in the win over the Longhorns.
Iowa’s tight ends fared well at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Mackey Award winner T.J Hockenson told Howard Griffith on the Big Ten Network that he has remained in Iowa City and is working with strength coach Chris Doyle to prepare for the draft.
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Hockenson on the possibility that he and Noah Fant will both be selected in the first round.
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No surprise... it's cold, again
Mason City requests to join NEIC; Oelwein may jump-ship
NFL Hall of Fame unveils finalist for class of 2020
NFL Post-Season Action Starts This Weekend
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Trump campaign drops more than $1 million on Facebook ads in counter impeachment push
The aggressive ad campaign aims to discredit the Democrats' impeachment effort.
Will Steakin
Soo Rin Kim
What happens next in Trump impeachment inquiryThree House committees have set hearings and depositions with several key players, including former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly removed from her post in May.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The Trump campaign is spending millions to push counter impeachment messaging -- dropping more than $1 million on Facebook last week as House Democrats moved forward with their inquiry.
(MORE: Trump campaign turns impeachment inquiry into fundraising bonanza)
As President Donald Trump faced criticism last week over a July phone call with Ukraine, which led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to advance the impeachment inquiry, the Trump campaign's Facebook ad spending ballooned. Trump's reelection team dropped a total of $1.1 million between Sept. 22-28, according to Facebook's political ad transparency reports.
The Trump team's aggressive anti-impeachment Facebook ad campaign dwarfs its total Facebook ad spending throughout the first three weeks of September, which was just over $640,000, according to digital firm ACRONYM’s analysis of Facebook’s ad data.
The increase in ad spending also comes on the heels of the end of the third fundraising quarter on Monday.
Trump's ads featured messaging that echoes arguments made by the president and his allies to discredit the impeachment effort, while also fundraising off the president's latest perilous crisis.
One ad argues the impeachment push has “nothing” to do with the president but is instead a way for Democrats to silence and intimidate Trump voters. “They want to take YOUR VOTE away,” reads one ad. Other ads launched familiar attacks against the president's 2020 Democratic rivals. “The BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISTS like Sleepy Joe, Crazy Bernie, and Pocahontas know they can’t win,” one ad reads.
“If Democrats outraise us, they will be able to dominate the airwaves with their crazy IMPEACHMENT WITCH HUNT,” another add reads.
Since Democrats moved forward with an impeachment inquiry, the president has tweeted similar arguments against impeachment. “The Greatest Witch Hunt in the history of our Country!” the president tweeted Monday.
The ads also ask supporters to donate to the campaign in order to join an "Impeachment Defense Task Force” -- a tactic that’s helped the campaign and the Republican National Committee raise $15 million as of Sept. 27.
(MORE: Trump, 2020 Democrats use impeachment to drum up fundraising support)
The Trump campaign declined to comment when asked by ABC News.
Last Friday, the campaign announced a $10 million ad blitz pushing back on impeachment, $2 million of which is coming from the RNC. The RNC told ABC News that this ad is the committee’s first television ad buy in eight years. Ads began airing Sunday in 25 to 50 House districts.
The latest ad buy trounces any TV ad purchase the campaign has done yet in 2019. So far, the Trump campaign has spent less than $300,000 on network and national cable television ads, according to ad firm CMAG’s television ad data.
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Power problems, fallen tree causes Metro-North delays
Julia PerkinsJuly 22, 2018 GMT
Riders on Metro-North should expect delays Sunday morning because of a fallen tree, power outages and other problems.
Meanwhile, a fallen tree is causing 90-minute delays on the Waterbury branch. The tree was reported around 7:20 a.m. Substitute buses were offered, according to Metro-North’s Twitter.
Delays in Greenwich are also expected when the Cos Cob Bridge is opened at 9:30 a.m. This could cause 20- to- 25-minute delays near Cos Cob.
But the New Haven Line is operating on schedule after delays earlier Sunday morning.
Power issues near Mount Vernon and Larchmont had caused 30- to- 40-minute delays, while signal issues between New Rochelle and Harrison also had caused 40-minute delays, according to Metro-North’s Twitter.
Power, circuit and signal problems were reported on the line Saturday night and early Sunday morning, as well.
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Organization Profile - British Columbia Treaty Commission
British Columbia Treaty Commission
The information presented on the following pages is for reference purposes only and should not be considered or relied on as an authoritative or exhaustive source of all Governor in Council appointments or positions.
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Minister Responsible
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
The purpose of the British Columbia Treaty Commission is to facilitate, in British Columbia, the negotiation of treaties among one or more First Nations, the Province of British Columbia and Canada. The Commission was established by the British Columbia Treaty Commission Act. The facilitation role includes: accepting First Nations into the treaty process; assessing the parties' readiness to negotiate; allocating negotiation support funding (provided by Canada and British Columbia) to First Nations; monitoring the progress of negotiations; and publishing an annual report for tabling in Parliament and the British Columbia Legislature.
Appointment Provisions
British Columbia Treaty Commission Act
The Commission consists of the Chief Commissioner and not more than four other commissioners.
The Chief Commissioner is appointed jointly by the Governor in Council, the Lieutenant Governor in Council and the Summit for a term not exceeding three years. The Chief Commissioner holds office during pleasure and may be removed by the Governor in Council, the Lieutenant Governor in Council and the Summit jointly.
One commissioner is to be appointed by order of the Governor in Council, one commissioner is to be appointed by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council and two commissioners are to be appointed by resolution of the Summit. A commissioner holds office during pleasure but may be removed by the person or body that appointed the commissioner. A commissioner may be reappointed. The Chief Commissioner shall act as the chief executive officer.
In the event of the absence or incapacity of the Chief Commissioner or if that office is vacant, the other commissioners may designate, by unanimous agreement, one of them to act as Chief Commissioner during the absence, incapacity or vacancy, and the commissioner so designated has and may exercise all of the powers and perform all of the duties and functions of the Chief Commissioner.
The Chief Commissioner, one commissioner appointed by the Governor in Council, one commissioner appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council and one commissioner appointed by the Summit constitute a quorum of the Commission.
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Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing
- October 21st, 2018
If the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in the last weeks of a campaign, get elected, then revert to form and pursue a left-wing agenda for a year or two—and then repeat the chameleon cycle every two to four years.
But although many Democrats in Trump states still dance the old bipartisan two-step, lots of blinkered progressive wolves don’t even bother to put on the sheep’s clothing.
Evidently, the new progressive and radical Democratic Party is far more honest—or perhaps far more hubristic—than in the past. So what now looks and sounds like a wolf is a wolf. Democrats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016. Or rather, they still believe it is 2008 all over again, with a host of wannabe Obamas on the 2020 horizon, all appealing to identity politics, Maenad feminism, and neo-socialism. The hipster theory is that 30 percent of the present electorate will always vote en masse for unapologetic progressives, and that bloc number, due to changing demography and persuasive street theatrics, soon will grow to 50 percent of all voters.
More to the point, the strategy of hating Trump 24/7 and fueling the 90 percent negative media coverage of the president had seemed to be a winning hand—given that Trump has usually below 45 percent approval in most polls, and pundits promised a huge blue wave neutering what certainly would be Trump’s last two years in the White House.
Yet the result of a progressive wolf baying proudly like a left-wing wolf is that as we head to the 2018 midterm, progressives may soon blow what should be, by history’s analytics, a big win for the out party in any president’s first term.
As the economy kept booming and things overseas calmed down, the Democrats found it harder to run a campaign strictly against either the ogre or the incompetent Trump. So they stayed on the offensive and did not bother to hide their agendas of open borders, “Medicare for All,” abolishing ICE, identity politics quotas, radical feminism, abortion on demand, and climate change hysterias. And they were quite lupine in their sincerity even as the public insidiously began to tune them out.
The first disaster was disrupting senate confirmation hearings, on the part of both senators and paid operatives in the gallery. Hysterics by Senators Cory “Spartacus,” Kamala Harris, and Richard Blumenthal soon gave the impression that Democratic stalwarts were unhinged.
After all, somehow the Democrats had managed all at once to 1) lose the vote on Kavanaugh; 2) to ensure that the Bushite Kavanaugh likely would become so radicalized by the horrific treatment meted out that he would not follow the usual David Souter liberalizing trajectory, 3) unite Republicans and more or less end the Never Trump factionalism, 4) go on record of opposing due process of law and rejecting the entire political and cultural tradition of American jurisprudence, and 5) so discredit their opposition to a court nominee, that next time around everything they do and say about a nominee will be seen as mere go-through-the-motions leftist boilerplate.
The second disaster was condoning and indeed empowering street thuggery. Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, and Eric Holder went full Maxine Waters in parroting the new incivility and seemed to think most Americans enjoy pampered protestors getting in the faces of their opponents to scream, yell, and in general go berserk. It is never a wise thing to be in alliance with young Bacchants shrieking as they scratch the closed doors of the Supreme Court or rude young activists swarming someone at a restaurant and screaming obscenities in a nasal voice.
Most Americans wondered, what in the world would the frenzied anti-Kavanaugh protestors have done if they had broken down the court doors and plunged into the swearing-in ceremony: scratch Mrs. Kavanaugh and the two Kavanaugh girls, or rip apart Brett Kavanaugh as if he were a young King Pentheus? Progressives seem to think it is cool that the street mobs are now the paramilitary wing of their own party.
Immolated by Identity Politics
A third mishap was senator Elizabeth Warren’s amazingly stupid ploy of releasing her DNA ancestry test before the midterms. The Massachusetts Democrat somehow adduced that a person with about a 1 percent likelihood of being an indigenous person (more likely from Central and South America than from the American plains) somehow was proof of her long-feigned minority status. That Warren worked in cahoots with newspapers to massage the gambit, as refutation of Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” ribbing, backfired when it took the media two retractions to get down the basic math of Warren’s infinitesimally tiny Indian bloodlines.
The reaction was obvious: if someone can cajole a minority billet for careerist purposes based on a 1-percent ancestry, then every American can be anything he wishes. And when everyone is everything, then no one is anything—and the racial basis for diversity set-asides is dead.
In Warren’s logic, how can the average African-American be authentically black with an average white pedigree 25 times greater than her own Indian heritage that she used to authenticate her status as a “person of color” academic? And how weird it is that Warren identifies with the 1 percent of her ancestry, rather than the 99 percent of other various tribes and races—and then claims that she does so not necessarily for any careerist advantages when such advantages are well established.
The timing was even worse, as Boston was also the contemporaneous scene of a landmark lawsuit lodged by Asian groups against Harvard University’s disingenuous racial restrictionist admission policies. Harvard, every bit as intellectually dishonest as Warren, conjured up all sort of personality and character issues to stereotype and demonize Asian applicants for admission, as a way of nullifying their academic records of achievement and thereby reducing their percentages of racial spoils in order to help more “diverse” Hispanics and blacks.
So what will Harvard now do, subpoena its own esteemed law professor Elizabeth Warren to lecture jurors about how minorities like herself would lose out when there are too many Asians? At some point on the horizon, voters are going to conclude that the diversity monster is devouring itself and making a mockery of common sense. The difference between Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill is only that the latter at least more honestly perpetuated his dishonesty by adding an indigenous people’s costume to his fraud.
Following a Clichéd Script
A fourth forced error was the illegal immigration “caravan” now butting up against the Mexican border. We saw last summer how identity politics activists and progressive operatives colluded with counterparts south of the border to stage entries, in which the media portrayed illegal crossers as victims of a cruel Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that gratuitously separates families. It worked in the sense of dropping Trump’s polls a few points.
But that script is worn by now, even though it was timed on the eve of the midterms. The idea that major Democrats would be calling for the abolition of ICE as thousands of illegal entrants near the border is surreal. This time around, most Americans will shrug that Trump really is right and that a wall will not only keep illegal crossers out, but do so in a way that does not separate families. That is, non-U.S. citizens can do whatever they like in organizing their family structures and relationships, but on their side of the border.
In a nation with over 20 million illegal aliens, and when caravans approach of would-be border crashers, abolishing ICE is not a winning idea. And the Democrat weaponizing of the #MeToo movement to target conservatives and exempt liberals (given that too many of the progressives’ best and brightest in the past had been sidelined as collateral damage) more or less discredited both parties to the transaction.
Despite these recent self-inflicted wounds, the new Socialist-Democratic party has an uphill battle anyway, even in taking advantage of the historical opportunities for an out-party during a president’s first midterm. It has to convince Americans that at a time of record national debt, it is easy to embrace a $20 trillion entitlement such as “Medicare for All”—which would force those, who waited a lifetime to receive their Medicare cards, instead to deal with rationed care, and thereby eventually a likely call by a bankrupt government for enhanced hospice and perhaps euthanasia to unplug the bottleneck of the elderly who would get in the way of younger Medicare holders.
But give progressive wolves credit. Unlike liberals, they are as they talk and act. They are at least proud of their agendas of remaking America in their own image—and in the last few weeks that image is appearing a veritable nightmare.
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Gephyromantis luteus
Subgenus: Duboimantis
© 2012 Sebastian Wolf (1 of 12)
Conservation Status (definitions)
IUCN (Red List) Status Least Concern (LC)
CITES No CITES Listing
Other International Status None
National Status None
Regional Status None
AmphibiaWeb Account
M 36-43 mm, F 41-47 mm. Tibiotarsal articulation reaches at least the nostril but often reaches beyond snout tip. Hand without webbing, foot webbing 1(1), 2i(1), 2e(0), 3i(1), 3e(0), 4i/e (1-2), 5(0). Dorsal skin smooth but with distinct and continuous inner and outer dorsolateral ridges. Small supraocular spines and distinct heel spines. Dorsal colouration usually light brown or reddish brown, uniform or with a few smaller black markings. However, colour morphs with orange flanks or other patterns can also occur. Males with blackish paired subgular sacs, and with small but visible femoral glands.
Similar species: G. sculpturatus has less melodious notes in advertisement calls and often less distinct femoral glands, whereas G. plicifer has a strongly different advertisement call, is larger, and has large and prominent femoral glands.
Distribution and Habitat
Ambanizana, Ambolokopatrika corridor, Besariaka, Chaines Anosyennes, Folohy, forest near Andranofotsy, Foulpointe, Kianjavato, Marojejy, Nosy Boraha, Nosy Mangabe, Tsararano.
It occurs from sea level up to 700m (Vences and Glaw 2008).
Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors
Habits: A common species in low-altitude rainforest. Can also occur in forest rudiments or secondary forest. During the day, often seen on the forest floor, where it can perform wide jumps and blends with the leaf litter. At night, males call from leaves 1-2 m above the ground. Calling males do not aggregate in choruses and do not seem to call close to water, indicating that this species may have direct development.
Calls: A loud series of up to 21 short, melodious notes.
Trends and Threats
This species is listed as least concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. Though it occurs in many protected areas, its forest habitat is receding due to subsistence agriculture, timber extraction, charcoal manufacture, and invasive spread of eucalyptus, livestock grazing and expanding human settlements (Vences and Glaw 2008).
Possible reasons for amphibian decline
General habitat alteration and loss
Habitat modification from deforestation, or logging related activities
Intensified agriculture or grazing
Taken with permission from Glaw and Vences (2007).
Glaw, F., and Vences, M. (2007). Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Third Edition. Vences and Glaw Verlag, Köln.
Vences, M. and Glaw, F. (2008). Gephyromantis luteus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 March 2009.
Written by Miguel Vences and Frank Glaw (m.vences AT tu-bs.de), Assistant Professor and Curator of Vertebrates at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Zoological Museum at the University of Amsterdam
First submitted 2000-11-27
Edited by Catherine Aguilar (2009-04-07)
Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2009 Gephyromantis luteus <http://amphibiaweb.org/species/4610> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Jan 17, 2020.
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Home / Alberta Politics / UCP leaders edge away from Rebel Media after NDP House Leader rips their cozy past with alt-right group
David Climenhaga
Posted on August 18, 2017, 3:06 am
PHOTOS: NDP House Leader Brian Mason, one of the fiercest fighters in Premier Rachel Notley’s government, ripped into UCP leadership contenders Jason Kenney and Brian Jean yesterday for their long association with Rebel Media. Below: Mr. Kenney, Mr. Jean, media accreditation report author Heather Boyd, and Alberta Legislative Press Gallery President Dean Bennett.
Now that Alberta’s NDP Government has fiercely condemned United Conservative Party leadership candidates Jason Kenney and Brian Jean for their long and congenial association with the far-right Rebel Media organization, will Rebel commentators still be welcome at Alberta Government events?
Yesterday, NDP Government House leader and cabinet minister Brian Mason ripped into the former Progressive Conservative leader and the former Wildrose leader, front-runners in the race to lead the UCP, demanding they denounce the organization they’ve long cozied up to as a friendly conduit their former parties’ far-right base.
“People are being held accountable for their association with racist and violent groups,” said Mr. Mason, the Alberta NDP’s former leader and its most experienced and toughest fighter, at a news conference in the Legislative Building yesterday morning.
“Here in Canada and Alberta, Rebel Media has been advocating these kind of views for quite a while now,” Mr. Mason said. “It’s pretty clear where Rebel Media stands. And it’s pretty clear that Brian Jean and Jason Kenny are standing with them. … We need leaders that clearly know the difference between right and wrong. Racism and white supremacy is wrong.”
This kind of language is highly significant. It indicates Premier Rachel Notley has finally let her fiercest attack dog slip his leash.
Mr. Jean and Mr. Kenney quickly responded of course, suggesting their days of cozying up the he Rebel were then, and this is now.
“I have not appeared on The Rebel in seven months, and unless their direction changes in a significant way, I will not in the future,” Mr. Jean said in a statement.
“Sad to see a decent guy like Brian Mason stooping to NDP McCarthyite tactics,” Tweeted Mr. Kenney, who has been known to call New Democrats and others who oppose him “Communists.”
“Haven’t done an interview with them for over a year,” Mr. Kenney said in another Tweet, perhaps forgetting his Rebel appearance last September. A Youtube recording of that interview seems to have disappeared, although at the time this post was published the comments remained on Youtube.com.
One long-shot UCP leadership candidate, Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer, denounced Rebel Media before Mr. Mason’s remarks.
It turned out to have been a pivotal moment with political implications for Alberta last weekend when a Rebel operative stood by commenting approvingly as an armed mob of neo-Nazi and white supremacist thugs stomped through Charlottesville, Va., moments before one of them rammed a vehicle into a crowd of counter protesters, injuring more than 30 people and killing one.
In light of this, consider how good Alberta’s NDP Government would look now if it had stuck to the sound initial judgment of its media and staff advisors in February 2016 that Rebel Media was not a legitimate news organization and the alt-right web site’s personnel should be declared persona non grata at provincial government news conferences and technical briefings.
At the time, when two Rebel representatives were asked to leave two government briefings dealing with the NDP’s royalty review, almost every major mainstream news organization in Canada and conservative politicians across the country leaped to the defence of Rebel Media, piling onto Premier Notley’s government and accusing it of abusing legitimate journalists and endangering freedom of speech.
The NDP “unjustly blocked access to the legislature for journalists from Rebel Media, a conservative online news organization,” the Canadian Association of Journalists huffed in a preachy news release that got far more ink from mainstream media than an organization with 600 members deserves.
Mr. Jean, it appears, is still halfheartedly standing by that line, or at least trying to build some deniability that he’s flip-flopping if his statement about the Rebel incites some of the website’s many rabid fans among the UCP membership. “I believe strongly in the sanctity of free speech and a free press, and do not believe it is the role of elected officials to dictate who is, and is not, media,” he said in yesterday’s statement.
“The #ableg Press Gallery supports the right of journalists to provide vigorous and diverse coverage of the Alberta Legislature,” then Gallery president Darcy Henton Tweeted in 2016 in reference to Rebel Media’s right to be at the briefings.
“I wouldn’t have believed even the NDP were capable of such anti-free speech behaviour,” wrote Postmedia political commentator Lorne Gunter. “It is very dangerous in a free society to give politicians, bureaucrats or government lawyers the power to determine who is and isn’t a journalist. … Imagine the news you’ll get if Notley and her staff decide who can and can’t do the reporting.” Later that year, Mr. Gunter took part in a Rebel Media cruise in the Caribbean.
One would think the authors of such screeds would blush with shame in light of what has now become clear about Rebel Media.
Regardless, in 2016, the NDP Government lost its nerve and quickly capitulated to the onslaught of attacks from prominent journalists and right-wing federal and provincial politicians.
It hired former Canadian Press Western Canadian Bureau Chief Heather Boyd to review procedures for media accreditation at government events and immediately accepted all of her recommendations, which included handing over the job of deciding who is legitimately media to the Alberta Legislative Press Gallery.
If, as the Gallery claimed, it could not afford to play that role, Ms. Boyd recommended, the government should give serious thought to supporting a secretariat through which Legislature staff could assist the Gallery with daily events.
So what has actually happened? That is not yet entirely clear.
Ms. Boyd said yesterday she is unaware if anything has happened beyond the government accepting the recommendations made in her report.
A spokesperson for the Premier’s Office, Shannon Greer, noted that the government had accepted Ms. Boyd’s recommendation and referred questions about the procedures now in place to the president of the Press Gallery.
Gallery President Dean Bennett is on vacation and has not responded to a query. Mr. Henton has also not yet responded.
However, government officials have confirmed the province quietly stopped vetting media accreditation after the February 2016 brouhaha and has never since said anyone should not be allowed to attend a news conference, scrum or lockup. Federal officials have, however, at joint federal-provincial events.
There is no evidence a planned meeting between the Speaker’s office and the Gallery to discuss a protocol for accreditation ever took place, and there is no evidence that the Press Gallery is prepared to take on that role.
The president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, Nick Taylor-Vaisey, said yesterday the CAJ Board is now considering whether it will continue to demand Rebel representatives are treated as journalists.
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12 Comments to: UCP leaders edge away from Rebel Media after NDP House Leader rips their cozy past with alt-right group
I support Premier Rachel Notley, but the NDP is in the wrong, I know the Rebel has lied about and shit on her government, but let the Rebel self destruct on its own, as it clearly is.
And talking to the Rebel doesn’t mean you endorse all their stupidity.
https://youtu.be/c3UKAivWrio
title: “Why I left the Rebel Media”
Bob Raynard
A story appeared briefly on the CBC (Edmonton?) website a few weeks ago with another bit of bad news for the Rebel, which I was sure would have gotten more attention. I apologize for my sketchy details, but here goes.
You may recall last winter there was a rally at the legislature. I think it was about women’s rights, but it was largely a backlash to the election of Donald Trump, and the way he treated women. Anyway, during this rally, a Rebel representative made a real pest of herself with one protester. When the protester initially found out that the woman with the camera was from the Rebel, he raised both middle fingers and responded sharply. Sensing she had a ‘live one’, the Rebel staffer kept bugging him for more comment; meanwhile the protester tried to back away and told her to leave him alone. Finally, out of frustration, he swatted at her and the camera, making her excitedly (and I think delightedly) exclaim that he had just assaulted her.
Rebel had what they wanted. Video evidence of the assault and the protester’s photo. They posted both on their site and offered a reward ($1,000?) for information. The protester turned himself into the police.
Anyway, the CBC story a few weeks ago reported on the outcome of the trial. The victim of the assault didn’t even bother showing up to see justice done. Prosecution and defense had already completed a plea bargain; the protester would plead guilty and get a one year conditional sentence (whatever that is); I think there was some community service involved as well. The judge, however, reduced the sentence to 3 months, citing “the egregious behaviour of the plaintiff,” and also made it easier for the protester to do his community service.
I apologize for the vagueness of this post, and some of the details may be off a bit, but the reduction from 12 months to 3 because of the plaintiff’s behaviour is accurate.
J.E. Molnar
“We’re creating jobs. We’re cutting school fees. We’re freezing tuition. The members opposite just want to keep jacking those things up. We’re focused on hard hats. They’re spending a lot of time with sewer rats.”
In case anyone forgets, Sarah Hoffman called The Rebel media “sewer rats” in the Alberta legislature, when they were constantly hanging with the Wildrose Party. To no one’s surprise, she has clearly been both vindicated and validated.
So why we’re Jean, Kenney, Derek Fildebrandt (with direct Rebel reports from his Edmonton Airbnb rental) and Drew Barnes (a video as earlier as Aug.4, 2017) involved with this hate site for so long in the first place? Their feigned attempt to denounce a long-established relationship and pattern of political cohabitation is total obfuscation to avoid being painted as long-time supporters and comrades in arms. While Jean says he won’t be involved with the Rebel media in the future, unless there is a significant change in editorial direction, he’s not completely ruling out returning at some point in the future. Sad.
Sarah Hoffman definitely got it right the first time — “sewer rats”.
Kenney and Jean are like rats from a sinking ship. I am sure it was “principled” behaviour like this that J. F. Kennedy had in mind when he wrote ‘Profiles in Courage’.
Kenney and Jean’s newly found discomfort with their association with Rebel Media is to be savoured. Did it never occur to them that cozying up to lies, hatred and intolerance might come with consequences?
Kenney and Jean have shown themselves to be mere opportunists, not leaders.
Speaking of ships Maggie, CBC comedian Mark Critch said it best when he remarked about this year’s Rebel cruise on the Norwegian Cruise Line being cancellation, “First time I’ve seen a ship deserting the rats.” LOL
tom in ontario
“‘Haven’t done an interview with them in over a year’, Mr. Kenney said in another Tweet.”
Youtube posted his shining face on September 6, 2016. So he has trouble reading a calendar. The poor guy is under a lot of pressure what with filling up his pickup truck and calling people communists. Can’t you just give him a break?
Sam Gunsch
FWIW New report that Rebel Media’s funders include noted ‘‘Anti-Muslim’ Think Tank’.
https://www.pressprogress.ca/exclusive_rebel_media_ezra_levant_received_foreign_funding_from_anti_muslim_think_tank
AUGUST 17, 2017 by PressProgress
Exclusive: Rebel Media’s Ezra Levant Received Foreign Funding from ‘Anti-Muslim’ Think Tank
ronmac
You know the George Carlin line. The US is a country founded by a group of slave owners who came together and proclaimed “All men are created equal.” They should be tearing down statues of George Washitngton.
It’s been fascinating to watch the blowback from Chartlotteville this week. These white Supremists/Nazis are at best a fringe group with little political power. They may be emboldened a little lately with Trump in office but they are still a fringe group. As a group only pedophiles have less power.
While there may be little tolereance for Nazis on the streets of America they’ve rolled out the welcome mat in Washington.
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/john-mccain-and-paul-ryan-hold-good-meeting-veteran-ukrainian-nazi-demagogue-andriy
Less you think Nazis are only welcome south of the 48th:
http://rabble.ca/babble/news-rest-us/liberals-brought-nazi-vets-to-canada-glorifying-ukrainian-canadian-veterans-ounu
Val Jobson
The Sept 2016 interview is available at your link now, I just checked; what a load of dishonest hogwash.
There is also this one from August 6, 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0I4P80oGo
Conservative politicians are going to avoid talking to Rebel Media now, and this means they can’t just lie their asses off any more, but will have to be careful when speaking with the professional media. Poor babies.
I cannot imagine any well informed, clear thinking voters even bothering with Rebel Media or the likes of Ezra Levant. It has more in common with media such as National Equirer any of those other rags at the grocery store check out stand. Purely for entertainment.
Unless of course you are a rabid supporter of a political party and accept everything you hear for them and their supporters as having a semblance of truth or reality.
Bottom line….Jason Kenney will associate himself with any person or any group that he feel will help him get elected. That seems to be his only requirement. And he will say anything and do anything to get elected. It is the only job he knows.
This is a very good long article by Richard Warnica about Levant’s history and the Rebel’s anti-Muslim tendencies.
http://nationalpost.com/features/inside-ezra-levants-rebel-media
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I’ve Spent $60,000 Turning Into An Elf
by Alien UFO Sightings April 19, 2019
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Luis Padrón is Argentine, he is 25 years old and has been doing different surgeries and surgeries for five years to look like an elf . Although he considers that “he still needs a lot” to get what he wants to be, he says he is happy and trusts that “dreams can be fulfilled”.
“I was always different, and since I was a kid I liked to change my hair color or wear colored glasses,” he told an exclusive interview with RT. In that sense, he recalled that “it was around 14 years old” that he decided he “wanted something more drastic” and realized that through plastic surgery “he could achieve it”.
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The elves “are not only beautiful beings on the outside, but also on the inside,” he explained, arguing why he chose to look like them. These are “pure white beings of light and love, who fight for the peace and well-being of humanity.”
While at first “the idea of plastic surgery seemed very crazy”, appeared a girl who “became popular because of the surgeries that had been made to look like Barbie,” said Padrón. Then he realized that “he was not alone”. So it was that for his 20th birthday the first surgical intervention was performed.
A total transformation
Asked about how many surgeries have been performed, Luis Padrón said that “it is difficult to count them”, as some of them took several sessions. For example, eye color change surgery counts “as one”, but considering the individual sessions “there were five”. Something similar happens with “lasers to lighten the skin”, something that should be done regularly “because they last more or less the same as a tan.”
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However, he calculates that he must have spent “approximately $ 30,000” to modify or retouch “the nose, the eyes, get a liposuction of jowls, a whitening of skin, freckles, teeth, and remove moles and wrinkles”.
In terms of what he intends to do forward, he pointed out “jaw surgery, to give it a diamond shape”. Also ‘facial lifts and “another rhinoplasty with Dr. Farshid Mahboubirad in Iran.” He also intends to undergo a new eye color change, “this time with an intraocular implant in India, to be the first person with violet eyes in the world”. With Dr. John Kahen, in Beverly Hills, will be “injections for hair to grow very fast.” Finally, there will be a reduction of the Adam’s apple and he said he hopes “to be able to agree soon” with the esthetician Samppa Von Cyborg to modify his ears and put them in the shape of “tip”.
Your love for Russia
The young Argentine said that Russia is one of his “favorite countries.” It is that “after all, the fever of human dolls began there”, with Valeria Lukyanova, “the human Barbie”. But he also listed Anastasiya Shpagina, the anime girl, Anzhelika Kenova, Dominika Oleynik, Tatyana Tuzova, Olga Archangelskaya. “The list is endless,” he said.
Padrón commented that in the biggest country in the world there are “many boys and girls that I admire, known and not so well known, and also many singers that fascinate me and that inspired me to learn Russian”. From his perspective on Russia, “there is a certain magic in their language, culture, and people.”
“I hope to get to know Moscow some day, Russia is a beautiful place,” he said.
Work and the future
Although one might think that his particular image could cause some problems in the workplace, Luis Padrón has no problems in that regard. “I’ve been offered several jobs lately, but I’m happy with the one I have,” he said. “It helps me to live comfortably and pay for my operations while I finish my university studies,” he added.
The young man has a shop selling “cosplay” and LARP products. These are costumes and accessories to represent different characters and real or fictitious beings. “Basically, I sell the same things I like to use: contact lenses, makeup, wigs, extensions and dyes, among others.” In addition, he said that they usually pay him “to attend ‘cosplay’ events as a special guest or jury.”
Finally, he pointed out that at this moment he feels “halfway” to what he aspires to be “both aesthetically and spiritually”. For Padrón, “the future is uncertain”, but he struggles “every day” to make it “a happy future and to be able to leave something positive to people too”.
“My ultimate goal is to become a being of illusions and magic,” he said. “Dreams can be fulfilled if you try hard enough, I’m sure of that, that’s why I work hard and study every day,” Padrón concluded.
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20 Aug 18 -Rudolph Valentino Memorial Service
Every year, the month of August marks a sad occasion for the Valentino Community the death of a silent film actor that we all know, respect and love – Rudolph Valentino.
Generations of fans alike from all corners of the globe will come together physically and virtually to mark the passing of a true talent and legend. The memorial service comes to serve us all as a reminder to pause and remember that he has never been forgotten. The purpose of this blog has always been to give the viewer a glimpse into a yester-year. A bygone era of photos, newspaper headlines, articles that give us something new and different to savor and perhaps bring us all a little closer as a community should. But its important to know there are dedicated and humble people who work behind the scenes each year to ensure the Annual Rudolph Valentino Memorial Service is done in a fitting and respectful manner in tribute to one we all come together and celebrate and mourn the passing of a wonderful silent star whose light will never dim. To Tracy Terhune, Ms. Stella Grace and others, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for all that you have done and continue to do. On 23 Aug 18, 1315 PST, Los Angeles California, Hollywood Forever Cemetery 91st Memorial Service physically and virtually the Valentino Community will once again come together I will see you there.
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HARTIGAN, Paul, 1953-
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Challenged by Art Collection curator Michael Dunn to make his best work for the Engineering atrium in 2002, Elam-graduate Paul Hartigan surpassed his earlier, multicoloured forays into neon. Named the best public sculpture in Auckland in 2006, Colony has its origin in the artist’s memory of drifting in a long boat beneath the vaulted ceiling of glowworm lights on a childhood visit to Waitomo Caves. Despite the quotidian nature of the commission, Paul's sculpture still impresses with its energy and impact, the hectic squiggles of persimmon-coloured light miraculously produced by bent glass tubes mired in cement.
Sitting well below footpath level, the bald concrete hatbox of the lecture theatre wall was an unpromising canvas. Rather than decorate it with an image, Paul thought he could sculpt with light to offset the monumentalism. Interacting with the architecture, his coloured lines suggest a symbiotic relationship with a host, and appear to be growing on the trunk of the hall like lichen on the bark of a tree.
Like any artist, Paul took into account the would be viewed. From outside the building the neon had to shout out its appeal to pedestrians, motorists and bus riders who sped by, glimpsing it through the greenish glass façade onto Symonds Street. At more intimate distances, it had to murmur quietly to those who milled around it for classes and functions, while also looking down benignly on those assembled for speeches like an altarpiece in a church.
Neon signs have been grabbing attention ever since French engineer Georges Claude lit his first lamp in Paris in 1910. Named after the Greek neos (“new gas”), the noble gas neon is naturally red, but by introducing other elements from the periodic table such as mercury (to produce blue) or helium (gold), it can be tinted to produce up to 150 colours. Shaping a neon requires bending hollow glass tubes with a blow torch and then shaping them into pieces while still hot. Once pressure-filled with neon and attached to a starter, the tubes can be made to fluoresce by an electrical discharge which ionizes the gas in the tube. Fully organic, neon is also a very social and urban material – a neon motel sign hailing motorists in the countryside is anachronistic, and often described as being lonely.
Paul uses neon here to address location. He wanted to create a fluid work befitting a place of transition – people would always be moving through, inside and out – but also use shapes that suggest transgression. Fascinated by the tussle between anonymity and fame that is incumbent in the aerosol and marker pen tags of street graffiti, Paul wanted to invoke the way tagging’s abstract lines hover on the periphery of recognition, mute but still communicating.
To develop his language of light, Paul took the architect’s elevation and redrew it on his computer. In desperation when he couldn’t get started, he shut his eyes, and proceeded to draw blind. From the left hand side, three fifths over and three fifths down, there is an entry point to the work where there is a close cluster. This inspired the title of the work: like-minded members occupying the same territory – a colony, like New Zealand once was. From this start or punctum (it acts like an impact point, a bullet hole through glass) squiggles move out and appear to reposition themselves on the architectural form. Those involved with creative practice will tell you that drawing involves close hand to eye coordination. Shutting his eyes broke with this control, allowing the lines to float away. After coming up with his graphic design, Paul opted to reproduce it in pure neon for its stability and longevity. Glowing persimmon red, Colony serves to lively up the grey wall and complements the green glazing of the atrium.
Claude’s first neon signs were dubbed “liquid fire” as they caused passersby to stop and stare mesmerically as if watching flames. A century later Hartigan shows how neon can still be used to set a wall alight, and create a head-turning art work.
Linda Tyler
Graduate, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1974.
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H.C. Andersen centre
Short Chronology
Titles Translated
From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
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The poem "Spørg Amagermoer" (The Carrot Wedding) is printed in the magazine Illustreret Børneblad.
From King Karl XV of Sweden-Norway, HCA receives the Commander Cross of the Norwegian Order of Olav, with a star ("it is the first I have been given", diary, same day). The order was bestowed upon him in September.
A religious discussion with a Miss Anna Kiellerup, a follower of Grundtvig. HCA is accused of being Jewish in his belief. Insists that Jesus is a human being who offers the opportunity to imitate him. Uses an adapted version of Lessing's parable about the ring (in Nathan der Weise) to smooth over the ill-feelings.
Moves in to no. 18 in Nyhavn, with Miss Hallager. Has three rooms here, at 30 rdl. per month.
At the University of Copenhagen, Georg Brandes delivers the initial lecture in the series which is to become Hovedstrømninger (Main Currents of European Literature ).
The magazine Illustreret Børneblad prints "Sangen til Dukkerne" (The Dolls' Song). This includes "Dandse, dandse Dukke min" (Dance, Dance, Doll of Mine). The first verse of this had been printed, unsigned and titled "Min Dukke" (My Doll), in July 1857 in Folkekalender for Danmark.
For the first time in 16 years, he receives a letter from Jenny Lind. The letter was sent from Firenze, where she and her husband and daughter are staying.
HCA is invited to 'Asylskolen', a school for orphans in Rigensgade, of which the queen dowager is patroness. At the school a charcoal drawing of HCA is unveiled, right across from the portraits of Oehlenschläger and Ingemann. The drawing is based on a photo taken by Miss Hallager. HCA then reads aloud, is cheered and the children sing "I Danmark er jeg født" (In Denmark I Was Born). He describes the occasion in an unpublished letter dated 15th December to Mrs Scavenius at Basnæs;
"About 12 days ago I was invited to the queen dowager's school for orphans; The children there had all chipped in to buy a large charcoal portrait of H.C. Andersen. They themselves had already obtained similar portraits of Oehlenschläger and Ingemann. I was greeted with cheers and a little song. The orphanage is for girls only and they all wanted to shake hands with me when I left, in fact one little girl would not let go at all. Vicar Rørdam spoke kindly to me and I read a couple of fairy-tales for the children. Her Majesty the queen dowager had wanted to grace the party with her presence, but a cold prevented her from doing so".
Release of H.C. Andersens nye Eventyr og Historier. Med Illustrationer efter Originaltegninger af Lorenz Frølich. Andet Bind. Med 99 Illustrationer (...New Tales and Stories. With Illustrations Based on Original Drawings by Lorenz Frølich. Volume Two. With 99 Illustrations.)
Reads aloud at the Students' Association.
The magazine Illustreret Tidende prints "Den store Søslange. Et Nutids-Eventyr" (The Great Sea Serpent. A Contemporary Fairytale).
Attends the dress-rehearsal of Bournonville's new ballet based on HCA's fairy-tale, Et Eventyr i Billeder (A Fairy-tale in Pictures). The music is by Vilhelm Holm. HCA is very pleased indeed with "the poetry and beauty there is" in the dance and also with the decorations: "Gyllich [Valdemar Güllich], the theatre painter has done a splendid job of illustrating my fairy-tales" (the diary, same day).
Has dinner at the Henriques', but is otherwise alone this Christmas Eve.
First performance of Bournonville's HCA-inspired ballet, Et Eventyr i Billeder*. According to HCA it resulted in:
"...unstinted admiration; I went up to the stage and thanked Bournonville. He, in turn, embraced me and asked if I could see a touch of my spirit in the ballet"
(the diary, same day).
However, both the Melchiors and the Henriques feel that Act II is too long-winded and are not happy with Act III. Newspaper critics are of a similar opinion.
The ballet is performed 14 times during HCA's life.
Has dinner with the Henriques, where he is invited to see in the New Year, but goes home and celebrates the New Year alone, as expressed in the diary;
"Started the New Year, then, by drinking and going to bed. This will not be misunderstood should it at some point be read, my intention is to burn all these notes".
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Anatomy of THE Groove 9/19/14 Rique’s Pick: “Work it Out” by Beyonce
The Queen Bee’s solo debut, “Work it Out”, was a song for the soundtrack of the Austin Powers franchise’s ’70s film, “Austin Powers Goldmember.” On this funky delight, B performs somewhat in character, the movies heroine Foxxy Cleopatra, a Foxxy Brown/Cleopatra Jones mash up that represents the “bad ass soul sister” image of 1970s blaxploitation. But, I also suspect B’s alter ego “Sasha” was in the house as well with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo on the recording session for this one. “Work it Out” is brimming with soulful sexual confidence, with B telling her man, “we can’t wait for the bedroom, we just hit the floor.” I must admit, as a fledgling musican dying to drop the funk bomb, this joint had me kinda jelly in ’02. Skateboard P and Chad made some real true ’70s funk in 2002, and at the same time it was old school, it had the instrumental tone of the Neptunes space age funk as well.
“Work it Out” is an example of the Neptunes mastery at the song writing skill called “interpolation.” Of course, they’re being sued right now for doing the same thing on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” When I heard this song, I knew it was an arch funky riff but I couldn’t figure out where I’d heard similar. It was something about the combination of the heavy bassline that leaves space enough for God to walk through it and the rhythmically active Clavinet part. It just hit me recently: “Work it Out” is an interpolation of Herbie Hancock’s 1973 version of his song “Watermelon Man” from the “Headhunters” LP. Just dig on “Watermelon Man’s” intro. Heavy bass hitting on the one, and then jumping into the upper registers after that opening statement, with the clavinet dancing over and through the holes the bass leaves. For this song though, Pharrell and Chad make the clavinet line a little bit more repetitive and simpler, cutting it down to a one bar pattern. Of course, the interpolation is interesting because “Watermelon Man” in it’s Headhunters version was also a cut MC’s loved to rhyme over in the ’90s.
The Neptunes borrow that basic funky motif, just as a funk band would, and lay a unique track for B to show her ass performance wise over. The drum track is very heavy on snare drum, like a New Orleans beat, with very little kick drum, the kicks only thump on the upbeat leading into beat one and on beat one. On the chourus of “Work it Out”, a sax riffs behind B, which I thought was a corny synth sax sound at first but I can stomach more now. When B says, “Chad blow your horn now”, we get a taste of baritone sax, which gives the piece a James Brown vibe, reminiscent of the James Brown Orchestra (not the J.B’s), when the Baritone sax added to the bottom of the music.
B takes this funky track and goes off, singing super soulful melismas, and adding all kinds of soul ad libs, like “looka here.” At one point she says, “Now that you’ve given me a taste of your honey/I want the whole beehive.” Which might be interesting to her similarly named fans. B’s vocal performance though, is magic, confident, sexy, powerful, soulful and funky. The video is also an orgy of groovy ’70s funk band aesthetics, rivaled in that time period maybe only by Cee Lo’s unheralded classic, “Closet Freak.” Beyonce began her solo career with a bang, deep in Neptunes assisted, Herbie Hancock and James Brown derived funk, channeling strong women like Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin and strong men like James Brown. And therein lies my admiration for B, her ability to dominate on funky groove tunes while the whole world thinks R&B is simply about slow love songs. Of course, this is an avenue I’d love to see her pursue more, let Sasha out girl! Now that some 12 years have passed I have to go back on my earlier resistence to this as light funk and put it up there on the one where it belongs. And also, with the time period of Virgo drawing near its end, I have to send a big shot out to the one thing I always dug about the video, namely, the word “Virgo” written across the back of B’s low ride Jeans and her hula hooping. Whew…. we gonna work it out indeed!
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A Certain Scientific Railgun S – 11
June 25th, 2013 AstroNerdBoy
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S Episode 11
とある科学の超電磁砲（レールガン）S
SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:
Mikoto is amused by Touma’s misfortune over losing ¥2000 in a certain vending machine, but she gets irritated by his apparently having forgotten all of their previous encounters. She uses her abilities, combined with a roundhouse kick, to get him free, random beverages. He runs off, fearing getting in trouble and is pursued by Mikoto along with all the drinks. Meanwhile, Kuroko is having afternoon tea (with desserts) with Saten and Uiharu where Saten speculates that Mikoto has a boyfriend, explaining her being absent every night and her reluctance to talk with Kuroko. Uiharu loves this explanation. The vending machine alarm causes Kuroko to leave to investigate, figuring she knows what caused it.
Mikoto gives Touma a beverage, saying that her kohai would love to be given a beverage from her. Touma doesn’t believe such a shoujo manga scenario would happen, but then Kuroko shows up, loudly calling for her oneesama. Kuroko is horrified to see Mikoto sitting with Touma, but decides to go super formal and introduce herself to him. Kuroko’s inference that Touma is Mikoto’s boyfriend angers Mikoto, who launches an attack. Kuroko teleports to a nearby street light. As Mikoto rails at Kuroko, Kuroko decides that Mikoto needs to develop a resistance to guys like Touma lest Mikoto end up with someone worse. Feeling Touma is a safe guy, Kuroko takes her leave.
Touma is amazed that someone actually uses “oneesama” in the context Kuroko does when one of the Misaka clones shows up, addressing Mikoto as oneesama. Mikoto is horrified and takes the clone aside to have a chat, where she’s devastated to learn that all her efforts to stop the Level 6 Shift project have been in vain as an experiment has just concluded. She angrily sends her clone away, then feels bad for lashing out at her “sister”. Meanwhile, Touma is taking his beverages home, when he accidentally drops them and is assisted by another Misaka clone. That night, Accelerator kills another clone and recalls how he got drafted into the Level 6 Shift project.
Mikoto hacks information, learning that there are 183 facilities contracted to do the Level 6 Shift project. In her horror at this discovery, she realizes that with all of the cameras and satellites watching Academy City, there’s no way that the city couldn’t be involved in this, especially since her own acts of destruction have been covered up. Mikoto returns to her dorm room to ponder how she can possibly go about bringing the experiments to an end. Kuroko worries that Mikoto’s return to depression is because of Touma and she’s not happy. Mikoto asks what Kuroko would do if it turned out Mikoto was doing bad things. Kuroko assumes she’s talking about the vending machine and chastises her accordingly. However, Mikoto understands that Kuroko would arrest her over her planned actions. Mikoto decides she can live with that.
Thoughts/Review:
This episode was adapted from volume 6, chapter 31 (all), chapter 32 (first half), and chapter 37 (roughly six pages).
Changes to the original manga story involved a minor cut when Saten and Uiharu met Kuroko. Another minor cut came from Kuroko coming to a certain vending machine, then seeking out Mikoto. The flashback sequence of when Touma met Mikoto was added, as was the fight between Accelerator and one of the Sisters.
I am curious why the flashback to Accelerator’s recruitment was moved to now. In the manga, it is part of an extended flashback that happens in a later fight when Accelerator finally meets a challenge.
During intense story arcs like the Sisters arc, it is always good for the writer to allow the audience to catch its breath. As such, I rather enjoyed Kuroko’s horror at the mere prospect that her beloved oneesama would be spending the night with a man. Indeed, Saten and Uiharu’s fueling the fires come off so much funnier in the anime than the manga.
For the fun of it, I did go back and watch A Certain Magical Index episode 10, which featured Kuroko’s encounter with Mikoto and Touma. While the basic story is the same, there are some interesting differences, making me wonder how the novel version of the story went. For example, in the Index anime, Kuroko says Mikoto is ditching supplemental classes to meet Touma, implying Kuroko encountered them by chance. Kuroko’s introduction to Touma in the Index anime is much less formal.
Another significant change is the tone of things when Misaka Imouto arrives at the scene. In this series, Mikoto is horrified by this, then ends up leading her clone away by the hand. In Index, she’s angry by this, then puts her arm around her clone’s shoulders and leads her away. I figure the original novel’s (volume 3) tone is properly reflected in the Index anime, but then modified to more accurately reflect Mikoto’s shock and horror in both the Railgun manga and anime.
One unfortunately loss in both the original Railgun manga and this episode is the explanation of Touma’s memory loss. I certainly applaud J.C. Staff for putting in a flashback showing how Touma and Mikoto met, but if one’s only exposure to the franchise is the Railgun anime/manga, it isn’t going to make sense why Touma suddenly can’t remember Mikoto.
Still, the episode was a good one as the table is now set for the next phase of the Sisters arc. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
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4 Responses to “A Certain Scientific Railgun S – 11”
Bryce says:
I was not really impressed by this episode. Yes, there were some things that were important, but it felt like mostly nothing went on.
Another thing that I did not like was the scene where Saten and the gang were discussing the possibility of Misaka seeing somebody. I thought that it was funnier in the manga. Then again, as I said in my own review of this episode, not everyone will find the same things funny.
As for the lack of explanation of Touma’s memory loss, I think it kind of makes sense that it is being left out, because Railgun focuses on Misaka, and according to the Toaru Majutsu no Index wiki, Misaka does not find out about the memory loss until after the Daihasei Festival arc, which is still the current arc in the Railgun manga.
Still, it probably would have nice if it was explained for those that did not watch the Index anime.
>I was not really impressed by this episode. Yes, there were some things that were important, but it felt like mostly nothing went on.
Interesting. For me, it was an episode to provide humor, allow the audience to catch its breath, then set the table for the next phase.
>As for the lack of explanation of Touma’s memory loss, I think it kind of makes sense that it is being left out, because Railgun focuses on Misaka…
Well, that’s true, but having Touma’s thoughts contain a throwaway line about having lost his memory would have helped the audience. Still, you do have a good point.
frustratedwithhumanity says:
Yeah, I agree about the memory loss. All two of us who haven’t seen index will be so confused. Jokes aside, though, I’m really doubtful there are all that many seeing this who haven’t seen at least the beginning of index. I’ve tried hard to get people to watch this season because I think it’s set to be the best of the franchise, but everyone seems to feel they need to see index, and railgun before they’ll touch railgun S.
> I’ve tried hard to get people to watch this season because I think it’s set to be the best of the franchise, but everyone seems to feel they need to see index, and railgun before they’ll touch railgun S.
I guess I was just weird. For whatever reason, I decided to watch Railgun first. It actually helped some parts of Index make more sense than they would have had I watched Index first.
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A Gathering of Eagulls
A Gathering of Eagulls asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago
"Roosevelt is dead. His policies may live on, but we're in the process of doing something about that as well"?
Which policy is the next to go?
FDIC?
Tennessee Valley Authority?
SEC?
Social Security?
It could be anything.
FDR created the middle class in just over 100 days. A sturdy bunch, for it's taken the current administration 8 years to almost wring the life out of them.
FDR is responsible for many of the problems that this country is currently facing, especially social security. The New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression by several years, minorities were discriminated against when trying to get New Deal jobs, and it was socialist in nature.
"Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years."
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Pol...
The government kills social security and in that way never has to repay the fund for the money the government has borrowed.
The New Deal, and all the improvements made by Roosevelt, became necessary only because of the failure of conservative policies in the 1920s. Whenvever the GOP gets into control they over-reach. It's happening again right before our eyes. The next presidential administration will do -more- of this stuff, not -less-.
There was nothing "necessary" about FDR's programs.
The Depression was caused by the Fed, pure and simple - not by "unfettered free markets" but the one area of the market that was an remains centrally controlled. And it was then prolonged by further intrusion into the market.
Source(s): http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard173.ht... http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?Code=sp1998-0...
hopefully social security. If they are going to keep it at least they could privatize it.
I guess all of them if it means they help the common person.
libsticker
TVA, and then SSA.
McSally calling a reporter a “liberal hack” for asking a question, and then taking high fives from today’s “conservatives” for doing ...?
is trump going to be removed from office?
In the Clinton impeachment process, 66 witnesses were allowed to testify including 3 in the Senate trial, and 90,000 pages of ...?
Did Rush Limbaugh die ???🤞 🤞 🤞 ?
Why is China busy colonizing Africa as we speak?
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Foreign banks brace for India regulatory shake-up that will force them to set up separately capitalised local subsidiaries
Last updated: August 12, 2013 5:48 pm
Foreign banks brace for India regulatory shake-up
By James Crabtree in Mumbai
Standard Chartered, Citigroup and HSBC – the three largest foreign banks operating in India – are bracing themselves for a regulatory shake-up in the country that will, in effect, force them to set up separately capitalised local subsidiaries. The Reserve Bank of India’s new policy on overseas banks is “imminent”, and will potentially be unveiled as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the situation. Foreign banks control about 5 per cent of the assets in India’s banking sector, but face numerous regulatory restrictions, including strict limits on the number of branches they are permitted to open. Read more of this post
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Made outside India: As growth slows and reforms falter, economic activity is shifting out of India
Aug 10th 2013 | COLOMBO, DUBAI AND MUMBAI |From the print edition
INDIA’S diaspora of 25m people is something to behold. In colonial times Indian labourers and traders spread across the world, from Fiji to the Caribbean. A second wave of Indians left between the 1970s and mid-1990s, when the economy was in a semi-socialist rut. Migrant workers rushed to the Persian Gulf and South-East Asia, then booming. Educated folk and entrepreneurs fled to the rich world. Plenty struck gold, including engineers in Silicon Valley and Lakshmi Mittal, boss of ArcelorMittal, a giant steel firm. Often they now have little to do with India beyond sending cash to relatives and groaning as the once-vaunted economic miracle fades. Read more of this post
When ETFs are mousetraps
Aug. 12, 2013, 7:39 a.m. EDT
Commentary: How to avoid falling for the bait
By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch
In some respects, mutual fund companies are in the mousetrap business.
The question for investors is whether they are the rodent, getting snapped up by the contraptions that financial inventors are creating. That dichotomy was on full display Thursday when Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) Investment Management put out the cheese for its latest investment products, six new Schwab Fundamental Index ETFs that begin trading next week. There is no denying that the new products are cool and appealing, with the potential to prove themselves as “better.” It makes perfect sense that financial planners and money managers—Schwab officials said they had gotten a lot of requests from advisers for these new products—would be interested; it isn’t so clear, however, that the average fund/ETF investor should give a mouse’s whisker over the new products. Read more of this post
China’s longevity town overrun by the sick and rich
Tens of thousands of patients, a quarter alone coming from Yangtze River Delta and especially the city of Shanghai, have flooded the “town of longevity” in Guangxi to seek a cure for their ailments. The secret of Bama, ranking fifth on a list of the world’s cities with the longest-living residents, is said to be in its clean spring water and fresh air high in negative oxygen ions, the Shanghai-based Jiefang Daily reports. Read more of this post
Connecticut Man Is The Warren Buffett Of Bass Fish. Myerson reached the pinnacle by methodically studying his prey and developing devices to lure the fish to him and, perhaps, change how people fish. “That’s what all these great catches are attributed to, knowledge of the fish. You gotta think like them.”
Connecticut Man Is The Warren Buffett Of Bass
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG. 12, 2013, 12:24 PM 3,045 4
NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Greg Myerson heads out in his boat, some fishermen will follow him. The famous want to fish with him. He’s the Warren Buffett of the fishing world, giving seminars in which he’ll tell some but not all his secrets. The Connecticut man has achieved a rare feat: He consistently catches striped bass 50 pounds and much larger. Myerson set the world record two years ago by catching a striped bass that weighed 81.8 pounds off the Connecticut coast. Last year he set the striped bass length record of about 44 inches. Just last month he caught a 73-pound bass. “I’m just going to go ahead and say it: Greg Myerson is the greatest living striper fisherman,” declared Rick Bach in an account last month in The Fish Report. Chris Megan, owner of On the Water magazine, said he doesn’t know anyone who’s caught so many large striped bass.
Myerson reached the pinnacle by methodically studying his prey and developing devices to lure the fish to him and, perhaps, change how people fish. “I’ve gotten it down to a science,” Myerson said. “That’s what all these great catches are attributed to, knowledge of the fish. You gotta think like them.” Read more of this post
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New Rules Expected for Annual Audit Reports requiring auditors to tell investors more about what they find in companies’ books
Updated August 12, 2013, 9:03 p.m. ET
New Rules Expected for Annual Audit Reports
MICHAEL RAPOPORT
The annual audit report is about to get an extreme makeover. After seven decades in which the auditor’s letter hasn’t changed much, U.S. regulators on Tuesday are expected to propose major new rules requiring auditors to tell investors more about what they find in companies’ books. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the government’s audit-industry regulator, is pushing the accounting industry to disclose more about its views on a company, which some say will make the document attached to each public company’s annual report more useful, albeit a little longer. While the PCAOB hasn’t said specifically what it will propose, having auditors provide their opinions on broader matters appears likely to be the crux of it. Regulators and industry critics say investors need more information from auditors about matters such as whether a company’s accounting is aggressive, and what auditors think are the most important features of a company’s finances. Many investors rely on the audit report to help assure them a company’s numbers are accurate. But some critics have become concerned that the letters’ boilerplate, pass-fail format doesn’t tell investors much about what is actually happening at a company or where problems may lie. “It’s been 70 years since there has been a fundamental change to the information the public receives about the audit,” PCAOB Chairman James Doty said. A revamped audit report will be “a significant step” in the effort to “provide more useful reporting to the public,” he said. Read more of this post
China Metal Recycling chairman Jacky Chun Chi-wai was held by police yesterday for alleged false accounting; China’s “Lady Buffett” Liu Yang and Norway’s central bank are all shareholders of China Metal Recycling
Metal firm chief held on fraud rap
Grace Cao
China Metal Recycling (0773) chairman Jacky Chun Chi-wai was held by police yesterday for alleged false accounting, sources said. Police said that a 47-year-old man surnamed Chun was arrested yesterday afternoon for false accounting and had been detained for further inquiries. Sources confirmed that the person cited was Jacky Chun. Chun is the the fourth senior executive of China Metal Recycling to be taken in by police. Chun’s wife Lai Wun-yin and Leung Chong-shun, both non-executive directors, plus chief financial officer and company secretary Kenneth Greg Lam Po-kei were arrested earlier by the Commercial Crime Bureau. Last July 29, the Securities and Futures Commission moved to liquidate the firm for overstating its financial position . China Metal Recycling has sued Chun, his wife and 10 metal recycling firms for fraudulent breach of trust and causing the firm huge losses. The firm is also seeking payment of debts, losses and damages or other relief relating to false or misleading information on the firm’s financial position, the deployment of a scheme with the intention to deceive, dividends paid out on inflated profits, and purported sales and payments for fictitious transactions. It was reported that the firm took out a huge loan and land, along with warehouse receipts, were used as fake collateral. The Guangzhou-based firm’s shares have been suspended since January 28 after US shortseller Glaucus Research made allegations against it. Atlantis Investment Management chairwoman Liu Yang, Norway’s central bank and state-owned enterprise China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group are all shareholders of China Metal Recycling. Read more of this post
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Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation
G. Ian Gallicano, Robert W. McGaughey, David Capco
We have investigated mechanisms by which intracellular signals act to restructure the spatial organization of the cytoskeleton as the mammalian egg is converted into the zygote. Four distinct approaches (one cytological, two biochemical, and one pharmacological) demonstrate protein kinase C (PKC) and its cytosolic active counterpart, PKM, act in succession at the time of egg activation. PKM serves to remodel the internal cytoskeleton. The cytological approach mapped the distribution of kinase over time using the PKC reporter dye, Rim-1, which demonstrated a temporal shift in kinase distribution from its initial site of activation at the plasma membrane to its subsequent association with a cross-linked network of intermediate filaments referred to as sheets. The first of two biochemical analyses, Western blot analysis, demonstrated that eggs activated with calcium ionophore contained PKC in the detergent-soluble fraction and PKM in the sheet enriched fraction. Prior to egg activation, PKM is not detected in the sheet-enriched fraction; only PKC is detected in the detergent-soluble fraction of these eggs. The second biochemical analysis demonstrated, via [32P]ATP labeling of a known PKC substrate, that the PKM generated from activation of PKC in response to activation of eggs with calcium ionophore is an active kinase and is located in the sheet-enriched fraction. In addition, purified forms of PKM, but not PKC, could be shown to act on the internal cytoskeleton when perfused into a permeabilized egg system. Pharmacological treatments demonstrate that elevation of [Ca2+]i does not act directly to alter the internal cytoskeleton of the egg. Our results suggest that this kinase is employed at the time of fertilization to provide an internal chronometer acting first at the cell periphery as PKC and subsequently in the cell interior as PKM.
https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.1995.1043
Calcium Ionophores
Gallicano, G. I., McGaughey, R. W., & Capco, D. (1995). Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation. Developmental Biology, 167(2), 482-501. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.1995.1043
Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation. / Gallicano, G. Ian; McGaughey, Robert W.; Capco, David.
In: Developmental Biology, Vol. 167, No. 2, 02.1995, p. 482-501.
Gallicano, GI, McGaughey, RW & Capco, D 1995, 'Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation', Developmental Biology, vol. 167, no. 2, pp. 482-501. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.1995.1043
Gallicano GI, McGaughey RW, Capco D. Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation. Developmental Biology. 1995 Feb;167(2):482-501. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.1995.1043
Gallicano, G. Ian ; McGaughey, Robert W. ; Capco, David. / Protein Kinase M, the Cytosolic Counterpart of Protein Kinase C, Remodels the Internal Cytoskeleton of the Mammalian Egg during Activation. In: Developmental Biology. 1995 ; Vol. 167, No. 2. pp. 482-501.
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Bomb Scare at Lagos Airport Prompts New Security Measures
ABS Contributor
THERE was a bomb scare on Wednesday at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, prompting operatives to further beef up security at the airport to forestall any eventual bomb attack.
Following the alarm, security officials from the anti-bomb squad, the airport police and security officials at the Terminal Two of the local airport being managed by Bi-Courtney Services Limited, embarked on the screening of all vehicles and passengers going into the terminal.
The tight security put up by the security officials made it tough for travellers to gain access to the local airport to board their flights or purchase tickets.
As a result of this, passengers, especially those who had flights to board in the early hours, had to trek some metres to the terminal in order not to miss their flights, following the heavy traffic the screening caused.
At a point, the anti-bomb squad attached to the local wing of the airport had to make use of the BASL security metal detectors to carry out their checks on the horde of vehicles that plied that route, especially when work resumed on Wednesday after the May Day celebrations.
Many passengers, however, condemned the crude manner the anti-bomb squad carried out the exercise when they left the buck of the work to the Bi-Courtney security.
“This is most absurd. The anti-bomb squad, who were supposed to actually check the vehicles themselves, did not take the bomb scare seriously. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have allowed the other guys carry out the checks. It is even pathetic that they don’t even have their own material. As you can see, they rather chose to look into the booths of the cars. This is a crude method of carrying out checks when they are supposed to be fully equipped,” some passengers said.
However, in a telephone interview, the police commissioner in charge of the airport, Mr Olatunji CaulCrick, said the exercise became imperative due to security reports received by the command which indicated a possible bomb attack on the busy terminal.
CaulCrick said it was a normal routine as the police would not leave anything to chance in ensuring a seamless travel experience for airport users, affirming that the police had been ordered to carry out checks whenever the need arose.
The checks led to vehicular traffic spreading to Ikeja and Oshodi areas of the airport.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar, has ordered all state commissioners of police to provide adequate security for all media houses in the country.
The directive is coming on the heels of last week’s bombing of ThisDay newspaper’s office in Abuja.
The IGP, who was speaking during a parley with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday night, expressed worry on the attacks on media houses, wondering what harm they posed as they were merely doing their jobs.
He warned that attacks on media houses were unacceptable and vowed that the police would do all within their powers to put a stop to the menace of Boko Haram in the country.
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Coles announces plan to bring beloved UK products to Aussie stores
Yahoo Finance AU 11 November 2019
Will you be trying the new products? Image: Getty
Australian shoppers will soon have access to a new range of products from UK retailer Sainsbury’s, after Coles inked a major deal with the UK icon.
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Under the three-year agreement, Coles will sell packaged food, health, beauty and household products from Sainsbury’s.
According to the Australian Financial Review, the deal is part of Coles’ plan to boost private label products to make up 40 per cent of all sales within the coming years.
As it stands, Coles’ Own Brand products make up 30 per cent of sales or $10 billion.
“We want to accelerate the introduction of innovative products to Coles Own Brand, and this partnership allows us to do that with a range of food and groceries that are already proven in the international market but not yet available in Australia,” Greg Davis, Coles chief executive – commercial and express said in a statement.
“This deal will free up resources for our own product development team so that they can drive further innovation and help us fulfil our strategy to make Coles an Own Brand Powerhouse.”
When will the Sainsbury’s products land in store?
The first products will be added to Coles’ Own Brand range in the first six months of 2020.
Sainsbury’s white label products generate $17.7 billion, or half of Sainsbury’s sales.
“We’re excited to bring Sainsbury’s fantastic products to Australia, offering Coles customers a range of high quality, innovative products that they won’t be able to find anywhere else,” said Michael Luck, director of business development at Sainsbury’s.
And according to Coles, it will also consider selling Coles’ Own Brand products in Sainsbury stores in the UK.
“Coles has been exporting Australian food for 20 years, selling Australian-grown meat, wine and other products across the Asian market – this partnership with Sainsbury’s has the potential for us to take even more Aussie food to international customers,” Davis said.
Coles has not provided details of which products will be coming to Australian stores.
Coles’ (ASX: COL) share price climbed 1.25 per cent on Monday after news of the deal broke.
It comes as Coles faces increased pressure from the likes of Amazon and German supermarket giant, Kaufland, which has announced plans to open at least 20 stores in Australia.
Amazon on Tuesday announced plans to launch its own supermarket brand.
“The reason Amazon needs to expand its physical footprint is an accelerated demand for grocery pickup service as opposed to delivery,” David Bishop, a partner with research firm Brick Meets Click told Bloomberg.
“Shoppers have a greater sense of control when they pick up their groceries at the store in a secure location rather than worrying about it being left at their house.”
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DXO One For Android Under Development
DxO has asseverated updates to the DxO One iOS app. The DxO One features a 20mp 1inch BSI CMOS sensor, f/1.8 lens equivalent to 32mm in 35mm terms. DxO has also announced a new version, the DxO One for Android, which is under incident, with or WITH may refer to: Carl Johannes With (1877–1923), Danish doctor and arachnologist With (character), a character in D. N. Angel a USB Type-C connection which will work with compatible Android smartphones. There's also a new external battery send off said to double battery life, as well as new accessories designed to improve usability.
DxO One v3.0 App updates:
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From DXO: The DxO ONE now supports Multi-Camera Facebook Live and Time-Lapse features as well as new accessories and an Early Access Program for Android.
The example free iOS app update, available free of charge, opens up a number of new opportunities for using the DxO ONE remotely and autonomously, transforming the camera into the perfect photo and video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media aide for your iPhone
PARIS – October 16, 2017 – DxO, a key player in digital image technologies, announced a major update to the DxO ONE, its miniaturized and riveted professional-quality camera for smartphones and tablets. Available immediately and free of charge, version 3.0 of the DxO ONE iOS app offers the first pro-quality multi-camera discovery for Facebook Live and a new time-lapse option featuring exclusive Auto Ramping technology. The DxO ONE ecosystem of accessories now includes an external Battery Pack that duals the camera’s battery life as well as a Cable Back Door for the device’s waterproof case, allowing you to use the DxO ONE outside or even underwater for continued periods.
“While smartphones have made significant progress in terms of image quality, they don’t come close to the photos and videos a essential camera like the DxO ONE can offer. Most importantly, you have to hold them in your hand, and you constantly need them for other things, approve of making calls, sending messages, or checking your social networks,” explains Jérôme Ménière, DxO’s CEO and originator. “The DxO ONE is the first photo and video camera designed to operate as both a handheld and remote device. It’s even able to function remotely one more time a long period of time — for example, you can use it outside to record a time-lapse or Facebook Live video. Because it works in perfect harmony with your smartphone, it is the ideal photo and video helpmeet for this device.”
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Multi-Camera Facebook Live capabilities: the ultimate solution for broadcasting professional-quality videos
With its iOS application update to interpretation 3.0, the DxO ONE revolutionizes video publication using Facebook Live by allowing users to instantly and easily create a live video rush. Its revolutionary Multi-Camera mode, which leverages the DxO ONE and both iPhone cameras, gives users the ability to experiment with shots that can’t be nicked with the iPhone’s cameras alone, making it easy to create professional-quality video streams.
DxO ONE’s Live Facebook solution proffers a set of advanced controls, including a mini-control panel that allows the user to preview all three views to compose shots, adjust lighting, or practise the subject before shooting and streaming live from different angles. Just like filmmakers, users can switch from one camera to another at the feel of a fingertip, as well as record sound from the DxO ONE’s or the iPhone’s built-in microphone, and switch the sound source during playback.
Wi-Fi dominance also allows users to control the camera camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or remotely while also sending videos over Wi-Fi or 4G, making it easy to experiment with new compositions. And with its staggering sensor and ultra-bright optics, the DxO ONE offers a natural bokeh that allows users to capture high-quality video.
Stunning, ready-to-share time-lapse videos
Type 3.0 of the DxO ONE iOS application’s Time-Lapse feature lets you capture stunning videos and share them without going through a complex post-processing convert. The easy-to-use interface guides users through the appropriate settings — duration, interval, and time of shooting — and warns them if their first-rate settings are incompatible. DxO ONE’s unique Auto Ramping technology avoids flicker effects by providing consistent exposure and white balance across all statues. Once the settings are established, the phone can be used normally while the camera continues to take pictures. The videos it produces can then be shared instantaneously.
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In addition, the DxO ONE iOS 3.0 application’s Time-Lapse feature uses an intervalometer, transforming the camera into an automatic camera that periodically mimics professional-quality images in RAW format at a user-defined rate. Advanced users can also create 4K videos in post-processing.
For long-term use no matter the weather and even underwater, the Cable Finance Door connects the DxO ONE to an external battery when the camera is used with the Outdoor Shell — a must-have combination for superb outdoor video and time-lapse figuring.
New accessories for optimizing the DxO ONE experience
The new Battery Pack extends the DxO ONE’s battery life. It includes a Cradle, two rechargeable batteries, and a USB adapter. The Cradle affixes to the bottom of the DxO ONE once the back door has been removed so you can connect either one of the two batteries or the USB adapter. Each battery adds up to one hour of battery may refer to entity, and the USB adapter allows the DxO ONE to be recharged directly from an external battery.
The new Tilt Stand lets you hold the camera on any surface and choose between five exceptional tilt directions as well as different angles of view, greatly facilitating use of the DxO ONE in standalone mode, or for hands-free remote use when controlled by Wi-Fi.
DxO seeks out Android purchasers
Building on the success of its DxO ONE for iOS, DxO has developed a DxO ONE for Android equipped with a type-C USB connector, making it compatible with recent Android smartphones and tablets.
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The DxO ONE Android inclination be offered in the coming weeks via an “Early Access” program that is open to all. It will allow users to preview the DxO ONE Android and meet with regular updates with the latest application features. The Early Access program will be an opportunity for participants to share their feedback and relief improve the DxO ONE experience on Android.
“Since its launch, we have added dozens of features to the DxO ONE, thanks to feedback from users,” voted Jean-Marc Alexia, Vice President of Product Strategy. “Today, DxO is responding directly to one of the most frequent requests by launching the Android portrayal, and we will continue to listen to market needs. "
Version 3.0 of the DxO ONE iOS application, along with the appeal for the Apple Watch, are immediately available for free via the iTunes App Store.
Version 1.0 of the DxO ONE Android will be available for free in the coming weeks via the Google Looseness Store, as part of the “DxO ONE Android Early Access program”.
The Battery Pack ($59,99 | £49.99 | 59,90 €) will be present at dxo.com.
The Cable Back Door will come with any purchase of a waterproof Outdoor Shell from DxO’s online store.
The Tilt Defy will be provided with the DxO ONE free of charge.
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With deal news from Jefferson Wells and Joy Global
Jefferson Wells acquires New Jersey firm
Jefferson Wells, a Milwaukee-based global provider of tax, finance and accounting, internal audit and controls, and technology risk management-related services, has acquired The Gelber Organization, an Edison, N.J.-based state and local tax consulting firm.
Jefferson Wells said the acquisition will enhance its rapidly growing tax practice by expanding its services and capabilities in the highly technical arena of state and local taxation.
"Jefferson Wells is in a unique position to enhance our clients’ tax functions with The Gelber Organization’s deep expertise and talent, extending our services and expanding our ability to meet the growing client demand for state and local tax consulting," said Michael Touhey, president and chief operating officer of Jefferson Wells.
"By joining Jefferson Wells’ global network of highly experienced professionals, resources and service offerings, this move allows us to better serve our clients," said Arthur Gelber, president of The Gelber Organization.
In conjunction with the acquisition, Jefferson Wells is formally establishing its third Tax Center of Expertise, which will focus on client needs.
Jefferson Wells is an independently operating, wholly owned subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Manpower Inc.
Joy Global subsidiary to acquire Chinese company
China Mining Machinery, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Milwaukee mining equipment manufacturer Joy Global Inc, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Wuxi Shengda, a Chinese manufacturer of longwall shearing machines, for $22.0 million, excluding closing costs.
Wuxi Shengda primarily serves the markets for provincial mining companies and employs approximately 450 at its facility in Wuxi, China. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and other closing conditions and is expected to occur during the fourth calendar quarter.
Mike Sutherlin, president and chief executive officer of Joy Global, "The acquisition of Wuxi Shengda provides us with a foothold in the China market for domestic equipment and will allow us to better serve that country’s local and regional mining industry."
"We see opportunities to grow revenues and margins at Wuxi Shengda by enhancing its existing product offering through newer shearer technology, improving operational efficiencies and establishing our service/aftermarket capabilities," said Ted Doheny, president of Joy Mining Machinery, Joy Global’s underground mining business.
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Kyle Bradbury is the Managing Director of the Energy Data Analytics Lab at the Duke University Energy Initiative. Kyle brings experience in machine learning and statistical modeling to energy problems. He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University, with research focused on modeling the reliability and cost trade-offs of energy storage systems for integrating wind and solar power into the grid. Kyle holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University where he specialized in statistical signal processing and machine learning, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. He has worked for ISO New England, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and Dominion.
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Boning Li (Masters Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ben Brigman (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Gouttham Chandrasekar (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Shamikh Hossain (Computer Science, Economics), and Trishul Nagenalli (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science) spent ten weeks creating datasets of electricity access indicators that can be used to train a classifier to detect electrified villages. This coming academic year, a Bass Connections Team will use these datasets to automatically find power plants and map electricity infrastructure.
Energy Infrastructure Map of the World
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AWLO-500 CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP
Posted By awloint
on October 4,2019
African Women in Leadership Organisation in partnership with Justina Ovat Foundation set to create empowerment opportunities for 500 women in Niger-Delta Region and Others
While women make up a large population of the Nation, women’s economic participation is comparably low. A World bank’s 2019 research, shows that Nigerian women’s under-participation in economic activities stems from cultural factors, namely; gender-specific roles. The WEF’s 2018 gender-gap report also corroborates that the gender pay gap is a resultant of women’s considerable participation in unpaid tasks. Overall there is an incidence of 77.1% gap in women’s economic participation and opportunities, making it the area with the highest gender-gap incidence followed by Political participation.
The African Women in Leadership Organisation’s (AWLO) participation in the 2018 UN Women’s empowerment principles forum, saw it adopting resolutions to form its 2019 scope of work with the theme- Empowered for Sustainability. Thus, channeling the forum’s resolutions for long-lasting empowerment solutions.
The AWLO-500 Capacity-building Workshop, as a result, is an effective economic empowerment initiative with the goal of key women into opportunities; for upscaling their skills to gain empowerment in areas of decision-making, enterprise building and financial asset control.
The workshop targets 500 women and will be a prerequisite for post-workshop opportunities namely; cooperative membership, access to resourceful business community, routine business mentorship, ready-market opportunities, and funding. AWLO is collaborating with the Justina Ovat Foundation to deliver the workshop in Cross River State. Justina Ovat Foundation is a not-for-profit Entrepreneurship, Employability and Enterprise Development organization that delivers innovative, high-quality solutions for the development and growth of people who are independent of government but are core contributors to the commonwealth of their communities.
Dr. Elisha Attai; the Founder of African Women in Leadership Organisation noted that the backbone of the organization is “to harness the synergies of alliance and create an empowering platform for women”. Hence the end goal of the workshop is to build an industrious community of women that will maximize the leverage of AWLO to get funding, assets, mentorship, and e-marketplace for their businesses. This he said will be achieved via post-workshop activities, and will help AWLO achieve its vision of a continent with women who are home and nation builders with equal access and opportunities.
He conveyed the backing of the management, while commending the AWLO General Manager; Ms. Ekemini Akpakpan; for ideating the initiative, and being an organizational builder, saying “She has gone a step further to build the right partnerships, and we are currently in the middle of plans to launch the most impactful economic empowerment experience for women”. According to him, the program first aims at creating a beneficial membership experience for AWLO Members targeting a minimum of 200 AWLO members in Nigeria.
AWLO is collaborating with Justina Ovat Foundation for the AWLO-500 Workshop; to effectively reach women of the Niger-Delta Region for a substantial impact, local participation, and local content. The Founder of the Justina Ovat Foundation; Mrs. Justina Ovat, who is passionate about Human capital Development and the project, said, “ Human capital development is at the core of JO Foundation. We are hinged on impacting and connecting with a new generation of smart, ambitious African women and it is a delight to be hosting the AWLO-500 capacity building workshop in collaboration with the African Women in Leadership Organization, come December.“
The AWLO-500 Capacity building workshop holds on 14th December 2019 at Tinapa Calabar for women who own small businesses, need access to subsidized loans, grants and the necessary tools to grow their business. It is also for women who have skills to transform into businesses, want to start businesses, or are in paid employment but want a side hustle. There will be post-workshop opportunities for women in production businesses. These are women in Agri-businesses, merchandize production and sales, Craftwork, Textile & Fashion, Product manufacturing, and others.
The one-day workshop will be providing practical business lessons in the areas of business set-up and growth, finances, leadership, and management. Onsite activities include Exhibitions, Skills Acquisition Booths, Business Set-up Unit, Business Resource Corner, Free Cooperative Registration, Networking Lunch, and others.
The AWLO-500 Registration portal opens on October 14th, 2019 via www.awlo.org/500. More details coming soon. AWLO Induction Dinner for new members also holds the following day – 15th December 2019 at Transcorp Hilton Calabar.
#Nowomannovote unveiled on International Day of the Girl Child
on October 12,2018
The 11th of October 2018 the world over, was to mark the International day of the girl child. A day dedicated to creating awareness on issues facing girls internationally, such as education, nutrition, child marriage, legal and medical rights.
The issues of inequality faced by the girl child cannot be ignored therefore AWLO marked the International day of the girl child by aligning with other organizations to initiate a campaign that is geared towards increasing the representation of women in leadership.
The #NoWomanNoVote Campaign led by Senator Florence Ita-Giwa in partnership with the African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO) is to ignite women’s participation in politics. The Campaign is targeted at; creating awareness and mobilization of citizens to vote-in credible and viable women in subsequent elections, checkmating the gross exploitation of Women before, during and after Campaigns by Political Systems, To Provide a Support system in terms of Education, Funding and Mobilization to Women Who are Contesting for Elective Positions and involve young ladies in the electoral process.
According to INEC, although women constitute 49 per cent of Nigeria’s voting population, the national average in female representation is 6.7 per cent.
In 2015, eight female Senators, 20 House of Representatives members and six female Deputy Governors who had joint tickets with male gubernatorial candidates were elected.
Nigeria’s national average of 6.7 per cent in female representation was in contrast to the global average of 22.5 per cent in 2018. Global statistics for gender parity indicate that in 2015, out of 188 countries, Nigeria was 152nd in the Human Development Index on Gender Inequality and 118th of 192 countries in 2017.
At a press Briefing held for the #Nowomannovote Campaign to mark the International day of the Girl Child, the stakeholders further revealed plans for the campaign. Plans to initiate awareness activities in various zones of the country, sensitization workshops on electoral processes for women, Dialogue with Political stakeholders at the grassroot level, and youth involvement.
In attendance at the #Nowomannovote Press Conference were Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, African Women in Leadership Organization represented by the Dean of Coordinators; Mrs. Maureen Omeibe and other women and grass root organizations.
Also in attendance were, Dr Chinyere C Okpe; Director of National Crisis Control Foundation, Chief Mrs. Scholastica Ezuma (JP), Chief Mrs Ada Ame; Founder and Global Convener Adorable Women International Foundation, Mrs Regina Chris Ogbodo; Head Nigerian Women in Media Lagos Chapter and other women Leaders.
The day of the girl child is of utmost importance because it is a day the world should evaluate the progress towards making a safe and progressive environment for the girl child. Here is to kickstarting a conversation to involve women in leadership and foster a thriving environment for women to emerge as political leaders. This is what the #NoWomanNoVote Campaign intends to achieve, and in the coming weeks more plans will unfold.
Here are official photos from the #Nowomannovote Press Conference:
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AWLO Made the Final Shortlist for 2018 Incredible Impacts Program by BestCities and ICCA
Posted By Mmenyene-Abasi Akpakpan
on September 6,2018
The final shortlist of 12 entries for the 2018 Incredible Impacts Programme have been announced by BestCities Global Alliance and the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA).
The Incredible Impacts Programme celebrates the ‘beyond tourism’ value of international association meetings to create a powerful platform to advocate their positive societal impact. A panel of independent judges from the association world will determine three meetings that have shown the greatest impact, and award grants of USD 7,500 on behalf of BestCities and ICCA.
Shortlisted associations represent a broad range of sectors including leadership; scientific innovation; humanitarianism; environmental issues; music; disease; disability, and child neglect.
Paul Vallee, Managing Director of BestCities said: “The Incredible Impacts Programme is a showcase of global excellence of lasting legacies within the meetings and events industry. We have been overwhelmed by the work submitted, which demonstrates the breadth of impact being delivered by associations.
“A core goal of BestCities is to nurture and develop the purpose of events beyond traditional planning, focusing on vital areas including legacy development, sustainability and accessibility. It is hugely encouraging to see these values being replicated by associations the world over, who are making lasting contributions to the destinations they visit.”
Dennis Speet, ICCA Interim CEO, added: “This is the second edition of the Incredible Impacts Programme and the quality of legacy projects we have received is truly astounding. The variety of industries represented in the submissions demonstrates the wide-ranging and deeply positive impact that the work of international associations has when it comes to finding solutions to societal challenges.
We hope that this year’s superb entries inspire other associations and meeting planners to consider how they can create a legacy with their meetings and leave a long-lasting impact on their host destinations.”
The final judging will now take place with the winners to be announced after 10 September 2018.
The final shortlist:
Soroptimist International
The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
European Association for Palliative Care
International Council on Social Welfare
African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO)
International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation
World Environmental Education Congress Network
International Actuarial Association
The International Society for Music Education
Society for Ecological Restoration
Union for International Cancer Control
What Problem is AWLO Solving?
AWLO is concerned about the detrimental outcome of the negligence of tacking gender marginalization and female leadership issues from an early stage; between the ages of 7 and 17.
To create a dependable leadership intervention through a ripple effect mechanism, African Women in Leadership Organisation’s iLEAD Program was adopted in 2016 to reproduce Leaders from an early stage
Since AWLO Launched its iLEAD Program, it has remained in the Pilot phase and we are now set to expand iLEAD to 15 communities and adopt 100 schools where we will introduce the program reaching a total of 10,000 pupils/students in the next 2 years.
iLEAD is a high impact project and promises a high success rate as we envision that the challenges of leadership will be maximally curbed in Africa. Here is hoping that AWLO makes it to the winning stage of the The Incredible Impacts Programme. Thank you to BestCities Global Alliance and the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) for the shortlist among the final 12.
African Women in Leadership Conference: Who Should Attend?
Posted By eakpakpan
on July 9,2018
African Women in Leadership Conference is for Women who are aspiring to be more; who seek to improve themselves in career and personal lives. And hope to meet with peers in their industry; to maximize opportunities, be challenged and aspire for global relevance.
It is a Movement for African Women’s Relevance
Indeed, there is strength in numbers, and African Women in Leadership Conference is women, teaming up, forming a force, in one voice, and initiating a movement.
They are improving themselves, and creating opportunities for themselves. Working together, and creating solutions for Africa. It is a movement of African Women’s relevance.
To Engage Decision Makers
We don’t want to hope for the right policies and opportunities as women. African Women in Leadership Conference is an Engagement point for Stakeholders; to brainstorm, deliberate and join forces in AFrican Women’s Development.
This is where we engage key decision makers such as Business Owners, Heads of Government, Policy Makers, Institutions and Government Agencies to propagate the right agenda to favor women’s leadership.
Why We Also Engage with Stakeholders
There are tons of opportunities out there, and African Women in Leadership Conference beams the light on them. Opportunities for personal development, Opportunities to maximize for business and professional growth. AWLC is a global pedestal for networking with peers and mentors, and maximizing opportunities to showcase our businesses and competencies.
What’s not to look forward to
Since African Women in leadership Conference began 10 years ago, it’s been a major milestone in actualizing women’s leadership. There is so much to look forward to every year.
This year’s African Women in Leadership Conference opens with a reception on the 19th of July in honor of the Vice President of Liberia; Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor, a member of African Women in Leadership Organisation. This is a major milestone for AWLO; producing a female leader in that capacity.
There is also a Women in Male Dominated Sectors Symposium to interface with stakeholders and spark up conversation in this area. To explore the Unique needs of the Terrain, how to forge a career and future in a male Dominated Sector, the needs of young leaders versus the realities and how to bridge the gap, Building relationships with Sector Leaders, and examining the unique Problems faced by women and proposed solutions.
Asides from bonding moments, our speakers are policy makers, outstanding professionals, innovators, from all over Africa and the diaspora. We are going to engage in enlightening conversations and create opportunities for women to excel through Learning sessions and networking.
What are you waiting for? Register for African Women in Leadership Conference now via awlo.org/anniversary
NGFL Roundtable Lagos: Empowering Moments with Nkechi Ali-Balogun
The final stop for the AWLO Next Generation Female Leaders (NGFL) Roundtable to count down to African Women in Leadership Conference was held in Lagos Nigeria. It was hosted by PR Expert Mrs. Nkechi Ali-Balogun. One gets the sense of a strong, opinionated and determined personality from Mrs. Nkechi just by meeting her.
She Challenged the girls to be Resilient Leaders narrating her unstoppable journey. One that is identifiable in her strides and accolades. She overdoes; is zealous and tireless. In her words, “When I retire I don’t want to be like one of those old people reading newspapers”
With no exaggeration, the gap between the older and younger generation can no longer be denied; young women do not have the guidance and mentorship of female leaders due to this disconnect. It was further established when Mrs. Nkechi asked the ladies if they had access to female leaders in Nigeria which the answer came back in the negative.
The girls who were fascinated; were eager to learn how this fascinating figure balances her work and family. She is proud to be identified as mother wife, and leader. She stated how those two parts of her life are different and how she balances both by not mixing them.
“I don’t want things handed down to me, I want to earn it. Women need not anyone to validate themselves”
She was impressed by the quality of the next generation female leaders and is willing to open more doors for them beginning from inviting them to the NECCI Roundtable she’s organizing which will have in attendance mentors such as Oby Ezekwesili, RMD, Ibukun Awosika, Adebola Williams, lanre Olusola and others.
Mrs. Ali-Balogun who is the Lead consultant of NECCI Ltd had wise and encouraging words on being a resilient Leader who never gets tired with examples from her life experiences.
She highlighted the importance of girls owning and being confident in themselves and their vision in life. There is need for the ladies to understand their vision and arm themselves with the skills needed to achieve that vision.
“Hold your head high and stop looking for favors” she said. “Being a female does not mean you are less than the male“. She believes in the equality of the sexes and encouraged the ladies to work as hard
She stressed on the need for the ladies to be decisive, that nobody takes an indecisive leader seriously and indecision affects your dream and vision. “Decide on the path of glory and stand by it.” she concluded.
As a Leader, to her, a good leader is one who “grows peers and not slaves” and one who “develops people she can be proud of”.
When questioned on – betrayal after investing in people, she said; “Don’t ever feel bad that you invested in people. Don’t feel bad even when people betray you”, that she is a staunch believer in investing in people. She believes that it is better to invest time and money in people which she says is more valuable investment than riches.
AWLO’s Founder Dr. Elisha Attai also expressed his pleasure at the exceptional things the ladies are doing to better their communities. He expressed how the apparent disconnect between the old and young generation led to AWLO’s decision to bridge this gap and also create a platform that would initiate this process.
He said this would not be the end of AWLO’s journey with the ladies and promised that it would indeed bridge the gap; as this became an eye-opener to opportunities and expectations of young women. AWLO hopes to include the young women in their Leadership Education Program; to grow their capacity to get funding for their initiatives as many of them expressed how a lack of funding has been a major downer.
AWLO Lagos State Chapter was represented by Mrs. Annie Essienette; an executive at IBM, who also contributed her business advice. She stressed the need for the girls to display due diligence in business by counting their cost, identifying needs, and having more than just ‘plan A’.
The Young Leaders are gearing up to attend the AWLO’s 10th Anniversary Conference; then Annual African Women in Leadership Conference which they have received their Free all-access pass.
The Conference is a solution to the gap in women’s leadership in Africa. AWLO has initiated a movement that changes the narrative in women’s leadership in Africa through capacity building, and engaging stakeholders in the initiation of solutions to involve more women in leadership.
This will be followed by the 2 days Conference that converges women of African Descent for leadership development. Not only does it provide women a platform to network but to brainstorm for personal development. It’s a case of ‘birds of a feather flock together’. Whereas it is important to talk about women forming think-tanks and support systems, it is more important to have them actually do it.
Women getting involved in creating opportunities for themselves. This is not a group of wailers, but women bringing their own seat to the table.
One of the high points of this event is the unveiling and decoration of ‘100 Amazons’ a compendium of women who have risen above the setbacks that beset women in Africa to become shining examples in their field.
African Women in Leadership Conference also inspires ‘the African Movement’ and will feature Exhibitions by indigenous brands and an African fashion Show headlined by the Nigerian Brand Kiks Place.
Here is a link to register for African Women in Leadership Conference: awlo.org/anniversary/registration
Here are photos from the NGFL Roundtable Lagos:
Mrs. Nkechi Ali-Balogun
Dr. Elisha Attai – Founder AWLO
NGFL Roundtable Port Harcourt: Relatable Conversations with Mrs. Manuela George-Izunwa
The next generation female leaders in Port Harcourt were treated to relatable conversations at a little cozy restaurant by their Host Mrs. Manuela Izunwa. The Next Generation Female Leaders Roundtable is AWLO’s efforts to bridge the gap of leadership to the next generation.
This exemplifies a true taste of leadership. Leading not from high-rise buildings but creating an avenue for those who are being led to glean from their leader in a relatable environment.
Our Leaders are our guiding light to enable us to live up to our full potential. Those who are not laxed about replicating more leaders. Mrs. Manuela Izunwa is a true embodiment of this leadership expectation.
Mrs. Manuela Izunwa
From her background as the convener of Women in Leadership Conference, and Founder of Girls Organisation for Leadership Development this was not new to her. She warmed up to the girls as if she had known them prior to this time.
She was as open as possible in sharing personal lessons from her life. From dealing with her body-image as a plus size woman when she was starting out in her career to overcoming it to be able to realize her full potential. She encouraged the young leaders to overcome self-doubt and not live in the shadow of people’s opinion; to be able to live up to their full potential.
In the age of cyber-bullying and bullying generally some of the ladies attested to being discouraged by people’s backlash. One of the ladies Ms. Beauty Martins a 21 year-old Student, TedX Licensee and Tyre Recycler told her story of having a hard time penetrating her industry as a tyre recycler. She was met with a hard time dealing with men who dominate the industry and rejection in some cases where they bluntly refused to work with her because of her gender.
Mrs. Izunwa also weighed in using herself as a case-study while she served as the Commissioner of Women Affairs in Rivers State Nigeria. She said that women had no need to prove themselves, as is it mostly the case being in a male dominated sector.
She further explained that it is not realistic to want to give 50-50 attention to work and family, but rather to strive for spending quality time with family and friends.
The Founder of African Women in Leadership Organisation Dr Elisha Attai also gave a male perspective to issues such as women being sabotaged especially in cases where the legitimacy of their career success is being questioned.
Dr. Elisha Attai
He encouraged women to keep excelling in spite of naysayers. That at that point it would be beyond requesting for a 35% or 50% affirmative action but their works duly speaking for them and more women earning opportunities as opposed to fulfilling a quota.
He also encouraged women to form allies, to network, and bond so that they’ll to begin to reap from their relationship. In his words ‘You have to connect to collect’.
R-L: Mrs Eno Davies, Mrs Uzor, Ms. Ekemini Akpakpan
The AWLO Rivers State Chapter was also duly represented by their Chapter Secretary and Publicity Secretary; Mrs. Eno Davies and Mrs. Uzor. The Chapter Secretary piqued interest in Hetty Coconut World; Ms. Henrietta Nwanji’s Coconut-Shell recycling business. Ms. Henrietta makes bespoke jewelry from coconut shells and was offered a funding of one Hundred Thousand Naira to help her take her business to the next level which she said she needed to enable her acquire equipment to increase her efficiency.
Ms. Ekemini Akpakpan
AWLO is working on creating more sustainable opportunities for the Next Generation Female Leaders. The GM, Ms. Ekemini Akpakpan who coordinated the project, assured the ladies of opportunities to come for personal development and business growth, as it is one of AWLO’s goals to channel the leadership potential of young women which she is a product of.
See Pictures from NGFL Roundtable Port Harourt
AWLO 10TH ANNIVERSARY COUNTDOWN kick-starts with NGFL Roundtable Abuja
on June 30,2018
It’s been a yearning for African Women In Leadership Organisation (AWLO), to raise young female leaders and involve more experienced leaders in raising them. The Youth Council of African Women in leadership Organisation has been the anchor for raising young leaders however there is a need to harness the experience of Women Leaders in raising them.
The gap between the younger and older women leaders has created a disconnect. It is our responsibility to ensure that values are handed down and It is important for the young leaders to glean from the wealth of experience of older leaders.
Our hope is for their efforts to be consolidated as many young leaders are already contributing to their community. We hope for the experienced leaders to create tangible opportunities for them in addition to sharing experiences.
The Next Generation Female Leaders Roundtable; NGFL Abuja held yesterday was finally a fruition of our desires. The Young Leaders were excited to finally have an experienced leader who can walk in their shoes. The Director General of NAPTIP; Barr. Julie Okah-Donli who hosted the Roundtable hit the nail on the head as she delved into real life issues that stop the women from owning the leadership narrative. She shared overwhelming statistics, and buttressed that the female folk have been marginalized for too long.
Barr. Julie shared her milestones as an example of a woman who has conquered the leadership benchmark for women. Her experience ranged from being a student and breaking out of the ‘women are not as smart’ mold and bagging so many accolades, to serving in the capacity of the Executive Assistant to the Governor of Bayelsa State; where she created opportunities for more women to get involved in Leadership. She advised the ladies to be their sisters’ keepers and raise each other up, rising above competitiveness.
To crown it up, she opened opportunities for the young leaders to partner with NAPTIP. The ladies shared about their impressive projects, and Barr. Julie was moved to get involved. She committed to speaking engagements, NAPTIP’s full involvement in their projects, and teaming up with them for NAPTIP’s Community Development efforts.
The Ladies were given ‘a free pass’ to the AWLO 10th Anniversary Conference, as this was a first in a series of events in a build up to the Conference. The Founder of AWLO who not only explained the importance of creating such exemplary leadership opportunities for young women to emulate, but to open doors for them for global relevance for young women
The Founder of AWLO; Dr. Elisha Attai
The 10th Anniversary Conference a.k.a The 10th Annual African Women in Leadership Conference is a solution to the gap in women’s leadership in Africa. AWLO has initiated a movement that changes the narrative in women’s leadership in Africa through capacity building, and engaging stakeholders in the initiation of solutions to involve more women in leadership.
Yes, this is going to be a mix of learning and fun!
Are you still wondering what to do next? Start by Registering for African Women in Leadership Conference via www.awlo.org/anniversary and create your #AWLOAT10 DP via http://adp.awlo.org/
See more photos from AWLO Next Generation Female Leaders Roundtable in Abuja:
#AWLOat10: ‘Women in Leadership’ is the goal and African Women in Leadership Conference is the Driver
on May 1,2018
It is true that African Women in Leadership Organisation is solidifying the niche ‘women in leadership’ for women of African Descent. Yes, we want to sporadically increase the representation of women in leadership.
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Before we go into how…
We believe it’s a fundamental human right for women to have equal rights and opportunities, to harness their leadership prospects.
Do you remember the incident of Facebook COO; Sheryl Sandberg, while at Google, marching up to her superior’s to announce that there was need for (urgent) pregnancy parking lot at Google? Inclusion means providing an enabling environment, thereby maximizing the potential of women to lead.
We also believe that women need to take their ‘rightful place’ as home and nation builders. Not a one-sided narrative anymore.
Naomi King – Activist; Supporter and Sister-in-law of Martin Luther King Junior at African Women in Leadership Conference 2015
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We have Identified a real Problem
The Niche – ‘Women in Leadership’ is still untapped because it is reserved for a few women who are in leadership positions. For us leading is an attitude, and we want more women to imbibe it.
AWLO is identifying opportunities for women in leadership. Removing barriers, challenging women, and channeling their leadership potential.
In a patriarchal society where women leaders are emerging; becoming self-aware and attuned to their innate capabilities. We continue to fan the flames of budding leaders.
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How does African Women in Leadership Conference accomplish this?
By Magnifying opportunities for women in Leadership
Every year we gather to buttress the need for women’s leadership, and are validated by such victorious stories as Ayodeji Megbope’s; who has risen to her full potential. Also giving credit to a supportive husband showing how men can get involved…
She says hers’ is the biblical metaphor of ‘The rejected stone has become the chief corner stone’.
If not having her special moimoi recipe served at the white house and specially received by Michelle Obama, perhaps she might have become defined by the circumstances of an abusive childhood or her potential shortchanged due to academic difficulties; on whole a defeated self-esteem.
She has re-written her story and become a model; that women can lead outstandingly.
Every year AWLO raises a new standard by creating a platform for women to challenge each other and leverage on each other’s experiences to do exploits.
Bridging the gap of women in leadership
We want the biblical metaphor of ‘The rejected stone has become the chief corner stone’ to be the coveted narrative not reserved for only the Ayodejis.
We are afraid that women may go into obscurity because of a narrative that doesn’t support women’s empowerment.
African Women in Leadership Organisation is set out to promote the discourse of women’s leadership and create development opportunities for women through our Conferences.
The first female vice president of Liberia; Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor is a member of AWLO and exemplifies that super heroes and a real-life ‘wonder woman’ can exist.
Engaging Stakeholders in Women’s Leadership
Yes, women’s leadership is possible, and we are not just creating a discourse around this. Our efforts will be more potent when we liaise with stakeholders who play a key part in creating opportunities and proffering solutions to implement women’s leadership.
In addition to our array of passionate speakers and panelists, and engaging symposiums and leadership roundtable topics; we are more interested in engaging stakeholders for long-term impact.
We engage leaders from all sectors, professionals, opinion leaders, leaders in governance, diplomats, emerging leaders and others. AWLO is also signed unto the United Nations Global Compact and was represented at the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum to include women in workplace leadership on International Women’s Day 2018.
Identifying and Penetrating Niches
African Women in Leadership Organisation envisions that women break into sectors where they hitherto lacked presence, and we want to weigh in on issues that prevent women from penetrating such sectors.
In sports, politics, technology, media, oil and gas, and many other male-dominated fields.
For the first time this year we are creating an opportunity for such discourse and strategizing to have more representation of women in such sectors.
African Women in Leadership Conference holds at the AWLO 10th Anniversary in Abuja from 19th – 21st July 2018 at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Center. You can find out more about it via awlo.org/anniversary
Will Women’s March 2018 decide the Polls in America?
on January 22,2018
In time past, reforms and breakthroughs in national policies have been preceded by activism marches. It looks like the days of Montgomery Bus Boycott may be returning with women at the center of a national protest, as Women’s March 2018 is creating so much momentum and sister marches are joining in commemoration from Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Women’s March is a movement that started in 2017 following the election of President Donald Trump. It was characterized by “Women-led protests against Trump, that U.S. policy would be based on the principle of “America first,” and were also staged as sister marches in Sydney, London, Tokyo and other cities across Europe and Asia.” As stated in this report by reuters. These “U.S. marches and sympathy rallies around the world… drew nearly 5 million protesters in all.” they said.
According to the organizers, the mission of ‘Women’s March’ is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Right now, they are counting their wins as a result of the inclusion of more marginalized people in leadership. To these women, the fight is not just about them, is about inclusiveness.
This year took it to the next level with the numbers of participants escalating and giving the march a theme. They are practically turning the movement into an actual strategy, calling this year’s theme ‘Power to the Polls’.
“The national voter registration tour will target swing states to register new voters, engage impacted communities, harness our collective energy to advocate for policies and candidates that reflect our values, and collaborate with our partners to elect more women and progressive candidates to office.”, Women’s March shared on their website.
Some of the popular words on the placards held by the women during the march read: ‘Me too’ ‘Time’s up’ ‘Welcome Refugees’ ‘The future is female’.
Industry Leaders were represented in this year Women’s March held on the 20th and 21st January. Academy Award winner Viola Davis’ speech has been trending from the march in DC. See her speech below
AWLO Awards AIT for Media Partnership Excellence
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Today I had the opportunity to personally present an Award of Excellence to our media Partner African Independent Television, AIT on behalf of African Women in Leadership Organisation.
AIT has added incredible value to AWLO over the years as media partner. The MD of AIT, Mrs. Oluwatosin Dokpesi was present at the headquarters in Abuja to receive the award on behalf of the organisation. With her also was the GM, Namure Edoimioya.
AWLO is delighted to present the award, because we gained substantial coverage in Africa as a result of their media support. It is also well deserved since they’ve been pushing the frontiers of women inclusion through great contents.
AIT is on ground again to kick-start media plans for AWLO’s 10th anniversary international conference in July. Welldone AIT, we appreciate the good work.
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I like seals. Maybe not the same way a great white shark likes them, but I think they are cute. They make me smile when I see them.
But today, they scared me. We wanted to do speed runs in a marsh. The seals just wanted to hang out. Lots of them - I saw at least 5 of them at one time. Once, one of them was about one meter away from me in the water. I started wondering if my fancy windsurf boots look like fish, and if they'd start nibbling soon. But the bigger worry was to run into one of them going almost 30 knots in a speed run. Not something I wanted to do. Nina actually did clip one of them, but it was not a full-speed hit.
Maybe I was too scared already. Wind averages were in the mid-30s (mph), gusts in the 40s. It did not help that I was on unfamiliar small gear (my 72 l speed board and a 5.0 m race sail), and that the wind had big holes that made me sink into the water to my knees. Half a second later a gust would come and rip the sail out of my hands. Ha! Very funny!
Nina was on a 4.2 m freestyle sail, and complained that it was extremely unstable. It was not. The wind was. But at least it was warm. Kind of. And it did not rain all the time. And the fog was there for only part of the time. There were only a few minutes the fog and rain were so dense that I could not see Nina, who was in the water maybe 100 feet from me. Both of us were body-dragging downwind to get back to the launch. I tried butt sailing instead, but it was too windy for that. I'd end up with an involuntary water start, followed by a 30-knot catapult. That was me being catapulted at 30 knots. The board was too slow to keep up with me.
Fun day. Did I mention Nina also beat me in every single one of the six speed categories we use ont he GPS Team Challenge? Girls rule. Boys ... well, Bart was there to represent boys properly. He sailed through the chop as if it was not there. Except when he exploded every now and then. But he had fun, and was smart enough not to follow us upwind to the speed strip. So he sailed back, instead of improving "being dragged" skills.
We windsurfers are a funny bunch. Yesterday, I felt like I knew stuff - giving a jibe lecture, planing for hours, getting a 1 hour average good enough for a top-10 ranking on GPS TC. Fun! Today, I got a swimming lesson, and was scared by friendly seals. Fortunately, I did not see the manatee (Seekuh) that Nina saw. If I had seen it, I'd probably have night mares about speed surfing into an endangered 1000 pound sea mammal!
The GPS tracks below are from yesterday. I am not going to show you today's tracks.
Nina Likes Kiters
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Preserving endangered dark rides with VR
Crystal writes, "'Dark rides' like the Spookarama at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, those single-cart rides that take you through a haunted house full of ghosts and scares. They're prime for teenage making out, have been around for 100 years -- and they're disappearing. Joel Zika, a 36-year-old art and design university professor in Melbourne, Australia, has been fascinated with the dark rides for years, reveling their connection to early horror effects in movies. So he decided to document them in the only way that would truly do them justice: virtual reality."
Donors to the project at the $30 level get a custom Google Cardboard VR headset; for $35 you get access to the VR videos Zika has produced so far. Aside from capturing the rides for the ages, he hopes the project will help people across the world recognize the similar art and craftsmanship that went into the rides.
“If you saw the bat on this one, it’s similar to the bat on this other one because this guy made them,” he said. “We’ve all got these shared experiences but we’ve prob never showed each other pictures.”
When he’s not doing this project or teaching, Zika enjoys eating spicy food and doing artwork for heavy metal bands. He’s been to Coney Island three times but this upcoming trip will be his first since Hurricane Sandy. He said he would have assumed kitschy dark rides like the Spookarama would have had a bigger hipster appeal; instead, sneaking into the ruins of abandoned amusement parks and broken down rides seems more popular. There’s no imminent threat to Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park, but it’s not hard to see how another major storm could wipe it out.
Dark Ride Project: Historic Haunts in VR
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Coney Island’s famous Spookarama is now in VR
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The Picard sweater
Chicago's Volante (previously) bills itself as "streetwear for superheroes," and I love their clothes. They've just released an addition to their existing canon of Star Trek-themed, cosplay-adjacent clothes: the Picard Sweater, a stretchy knit tribute to Jean-Luc himself, the perfect thing to wear while you're watching Wil Wheaton host "The Ready Room," which airs after […]
McMansion Hell awards its annual prize for the best gingerbread McMansion!
Last year, McMansion Hell (previously) inaugurated its annual gingerbread McMansion competition, inviting America's bakers to challenge themselves to build the largest, most ostentatious, most ill-conceived McMansion in gingerbread form.
Art installation uses science to age e-waste in geological time
Nathaniel Stern writes, "The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures (Flickr set) is an art exhibition that asks, 'What will — and what can — happen to our gadgets over geological time?' For the last few years, I have been working scientists to artificially age phones and computers in different ways, growing plants and fungi […]
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Chandigarh University announces Dhyan Chand Sports Scholarship worth Rs 2 crores for sports achievers
Posted on September 6, 2019 by Loknath Das
Chandigarh University also announced Dhyan Chand Sports Achievers Scholarship Scheme under which 200 seats would be reserved for the sports achievers at University in various programs and scholarship worth Rs 2 crores would be given to the deserving sports-persons which will include 100% academic fee waiver, hostel fee waiver, diet charges and free of cost coaching facility along with travelling allowances.
Chandigarh University sportspersons honoured with 180 medals
Acknowledging the achievements of Chandigarh University sportspersons, the Government of Punjab honored the 180 medal winners on the occasion of National Sports Day. Sports and Youth Welfare Minister, Punjab Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi during a state level felicitation ceremony also gave ‘Pride of India’ award to prominent sports personalities, Olympians and Sports Awardees who have won medals for the country.
Chandigarh University sports achievers included Men’s Rugby team who have won gold medal at All India Inter-University Rugby Championship at Odisha, Men & Women’s Tug-of-War team who have won Gold and Silver medals respectively at All India Inter-University Championship.
About Chandigarh University
CU is an autonomous educational institution approved by UGC and is located near Chandigarh in the state of Punjab. It offers more than 109 UG and PG programs in the field of engineering, management, pharmacy, law, architecture, journalism, animation, hotel management, commerce and others. It has been awarded as The University with Best Placements by WCRC.
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Church Releases First Episode in Book of Mormon Videos Series: Lehi Leaves Jerusalem
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has officially released the first episode in their four-season series Book of Mormon Videos. This series will tell the story of the Book of Mormon through captivating visuals and engaging story telling. Season 1 recounts Lehi's journey to the Promised Land with his family, in addition to all the material through the book of Enos. One video will be released each Friday through the end of 2019 to complete Season 1.
Episode one of Season one runs 18 minutes long and explores Lehi's personal growth from concerned disciple to prophet of the Lord. The video covers the events in 1 Nephi 1–2. Viewers will watch Lehi receive his prophetic call in a vision from the Lord, Lehi depart from Jerusalem with his family, Laman and Lemuel's mounting tensions in the family, and Lehi's eloquent poem in the Valley of Lemuel.
The First Presidency said in a statement on September 20, 2019:
It is our hope that these videos will lead to increased study and understanding of the teachings of the Book of Mormon. The videos should support but not replace personal study of the Book of Mormon. We invite all to use the videos and images at home and at church. They may also be used in introducing others to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Church also announced the release schedule for all the forthcoming videos in 2019:
September 27: Nephi Is Led by the Spirit to Obtain the Plates of Brass |1 Nephi 3–5
October 4: Ishmael’s Household Joins Lehi’s Family | 1 Nephi 7
October 11: Lehi Sees a Vision of the Tree of Life | 1 Nephi 8
October 18: The Lord Guides Lehi’s Journey | 1 Nephi 16
October 25: The Lord Commands Nephi to Build a Ship | 1 Nephi 17–18
November 1: Lehi’s Family Sails to the Promised Land | 1 Nephi 18
November 8: Lehi Gives His Family a Final Blessing | 2 Nephi 1–4
November 15: The Nephites Separate from the Lamanites | 2 Nephi 5
November 22: Jacob Teaches of the Atonement of Jesus Christ | 2 Nephi 6–10
November 29: Nephi Teaches the Doctrine of Christ | 2 Nephi 31–32
December 6: Nephi Records His Final Testimony | 2 Nephi 33
December 13: Jacob Teaches about Pride and Chastity | Jacob 2–3
December 20: Sherem Denies Christ | Jacob 7
December 27: Enos Prays Mightily | Enos 1
The videos can be found on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, in the Gospel Library app and on the new Book of Mormon Videos YouTube channel. Still photographs of each episode will also be published with each new video. Images for Episode 1, covering 1 Nephi 1–2 can be found in the Gospel Media Library.
The Church has made it clear that the visualization of events in these videos has no intention of communicating any preference for or Church position regarding where the events of the Book of Mormon took place.
View the Church Newsroom Article
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Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to...
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes - a gambler notorious for never winning - dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding...
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her... On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th... by which time Emily was...
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They're told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat and unwittingly joined a "Survivor"-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the...
Money by Martin Amis
The hilarious story of John Self, one of London's top commercial directors, who is given the opportunity to make his first feature film - alternately titled Good Money and Bad Money. He is also living money, talking money, and spending money in his relentless pursuit of pleasure and success. As he attempts to navigate his hedonistic world of drinking, sex, drugs, and excessive...
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of...
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck - not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong - are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper. Yet a...
Soul Thief by Jana Oliver
Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them... Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father's been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful...
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
These four stories are, by turns, funny, bawdy, touching, and outrageous. They are for lovers of tales that combine the macabre and the erotic with intriguing twists of plot.
The Bone Flute by Patricia Bow
Camrose, a perfectly normal 12-year-old, has inherited responsibility for an ancient bone flute, an object of quest for two time-wandering rivals, one of them lord of the Otherworld. With the help of her friend Mark and the not-quite-human Miranda, Camrose braves fire and much worse to claim the flute and restore it to its rightful - and unexpected - owner.
The Case of the General's Thumb by Andrey Kurkov
John Le Carré meets Mikhail Bulgakov in this international crime thriller by the author of the acclaimed Death and the Penguin The corpse of a distinguished general is found attached to an advertising balloon - and minus his thumb. Police Lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to investigate. So, too, is KGB officer Nik Tsensky. They begin their investigations unbeknownst to each...
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their...
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Denying Jihad — Again
May 6, 2010 — budsimmons
Posted By Robert Spencer On May 5, 2010 @ 12:39 am In FrontPage | 75 Comments
We know now that the car bomb in Times Square was an attempted Islamic jihad attack. But the mainstream media, following its usual pattern, is once again denying, minimizing, or obfuscating this fact.
Writing in The Nation on Monday, Robert Dreyfuss epitomized the mainstream media’s hope that the car bomber would turn out to be a right-wing extremist: “It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren’t looking. That’s possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone wolf or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. Which actually exists in Connecticut, where, it seems, the car’s licence plates were stolen.”
In reality, according to Pakistani authorities, Faisal Shahzad, the would-be car bomber, attended a jihad training camp in that country. He spent five months in Pakistan recently, including some time in Peshawar, a center of Al-Qaeda and Taliban activity. A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack — a claim that American authorities immediately dismissed, but which gained a new claim to serious consideration when Shahzad’s Pakistani connections were revealed.
Shahzad parked his explosives-laden SUV outside the offices of Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, which presents South Park, the cartoon whose creators were just threatened with death by Islamic supremacists in New York for daring to lampoon Muhammad. The Muslim group that issued the threat, Revolution Muslim, was proselytizing in Times Square just hours before Shahzad’s car bomb was discovered.
Yet for all this, virtually no media reports are saying anything about Shahzad being a Muslim. Such a reference, however, would hardly be gratuitous: Islamic jihad theology and the death penalty enshrined in Islamic law for anyone who insults Allah or Muhammad are the most likely keys to Shahzad’s motivation. But the politically correct, multiculturalist imperative demands that Islam and Muslims, being (at least in this addled view) non-white and non-Western, must always be portrayed as victims, no matter how imaginative the lengths to which analysts must go in order to find something, anything, to blame for the carnage other than Islam’s doctrines of hatred of and violence against unbelievers.
Ezra Klein in the Washington Post led the way in the imaginative department. Observing that Shahzad defaulted on the mortgage on his home in Connecticut and that the property is now in foreclosure, Klein discovered a hitherto-unnoticed motivation for violent jihad: “foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don’t make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we’ve done to save the financial sector, we’ve not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners.” Help struggling homeowners, or they’ll try to set off car bombs in Times Square!
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, meanwhile, may not have had to face the heartbreak of foreclosure, but she had her own reason to feel “an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression”: what got Brewer down was that Shahzad turned out to be a Muslim. “There was a part of me,” lamented Brewer once the perpetrator was identified, “that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country.”
Brewer explained that she hoped that Shahzad’s action would not give rise to a resurgence of what she called “outdated bigotry” – voicing the common mainstream media preoccupation with a “backlash” against innocent Muslims. This preoccupation manifests itself in a flood of articles about Muslims fears of this “backlash” every time there is an attempted or successful jihad terror attack in America or Europe; the only thing that never appears is the backlash itself, which remains more a figment of the Leftist media’s imagination than an actual threat against innocent Muslims.
Nonetheless, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was likewise preoccupied with this phantom threat of a backlash, warning New Yorkers several times that any action against Muslims or Pakistanis. Bloomberg ought to be ashamed of himself. He should have been making statements about protecting Americans of all creeds, and calling the Muslim community in America to account for its tolerance of jihadists. There has never been a backlash against innocent Muslims in the U.S. It is a fiction that we only hear about when a Muslim plots mass murder of Americans. And then we hear about it endlessly, as if Muslims were the victims rather than the perpetrators.
Faisal Shahzad and his car bomb is yet another indication of the tenacity and persistence of the jihad against the United States – and of the continuing and even hardening resistance of American officials to the elementary step of even admitting that that jihad is being waged.
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“Between Two Firms” – A Regulatory Affairs Division Case Study
By Charlie Moody, Assistant Director, Regulatory Affairs Division
In a recent case, Commission staff received two complaints against a qualifying broker/broker-in-charge and his two firms.
The first complaint was related to the failure of the broker to withdraw a listing upon request of the client and the failure of the broker to deliver a copy of the executed listing agreement to his client.
This seemed like a relatively minor situation and even the complaining witness expressed his wish to withdraw the complaint once it had the desired effect, which was to get the broker to remove the property from the MLS.
However, the second complaint came in with yet another client alleging that the broker had failed to provide him with a copy of the executed listing agreement. That second complaint created the appearance of a pattern.
Also, the second complaint alleged that the broker rented the client’s property and failed to provide the client with a copy of the lease and even more importantly failed to turn over trust funds to the owner-client. Interviews of the broker, tenant and other witnesses were conducted and documentation collected by an investigator.
The broker’s transaction file for the first client contained only an MLS printout and the signed listing agreement. The broker could produce only an incomplete and unsigned listing agreement for the second transaction. Even the tenant didn’t get a copy of the signed lease from the broker.
The first page of the lease agreement, which the tenant was able to produce, named the wrong firm as the property manager. The named firm was licensed, with the broker designated as the qualifying broker, but there was no designated broker-in-charge, making the firm ineligible to conduct sales or property management.
The broker’s excuse was that this was just a mistake and the named firm was not conducting brokerage. In fact, the investigator discovered the firm was actually conducting property management out of a separate office and the broker had two trust accounts as well as property management agreements and leases in place and signed by the broker.
The broker also gave conflicting information about what he had done with the tenant security deposit and first months’ rent, and had no documentary evidence to show the investigator where the money went. The broker expressed much confusion and lack of memory about many of these events. The Commission permanently revoked all three licenses.
Lessons learned?
If you agree to be qualifying broker of a firm, you are responsible for ensuring that the firm has a broker-in-charge before doing any brokerage activity. If you conduct brokerage activity, deliver agency agreements to your clients and maintain a complete transaction file including the Working With Real Estate Agents brochure. If you collect funds, deposit those funds in a trust account and document receipt and disbursement. Documentation may also help when your memory doesn’t.
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Bleacher Report's Expert NFL Wild Card Weekend Picks & Predictions
NFL StaffContributor IJanuary 3, 2020
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The last time a favorite covered the spread on Wild Card Weekend in the NFL, Barack Obama was still president of the United States.
In the last two years, teams favored in the opening round of the NFL playoffs have gone just 3-5 straight-up and 0-8 against the spread, and the only fave to walk away with a win in last January's wild-card slate was a Dallas Cowboys squad that beat the Seattle Seahawks by just two points.
Deliberately or not, Bleacher Report NFL analysts Gary Davenport, Brad Gagnon and Brent Sobleski are riding predominately with that trend this weekend.
Here's how that crew fared this season (last week's records in parentheses):
1. Brad Gagnon: 133-118-5 (7-8-1)
T-2. Brent Sobleski: 124-127-5 (6-9-1)
T-2. Gary Davenport: 124-127-5 (9-6-1)
Consensus picks: 122-129-5 (9-6-1)
Moneyline consensus: 165-89-2 (11-5)
And here's their underdog-heavy card for the four games slated for Saturday and Sunday in Houston, Foxborough, New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Lines from Caesars as of 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 2.
No. 5 Buffalo Bills (10-6) at No. 4 Houston Texans (10-6)
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When: Saturday, 4:35 p.m. ET
Where: NRG Stadium, Houston
TV: ESPN/ABC
Referee: Tony Corrente
Line: Houston -3
In a nutshell: Both teams feature highly touted young quarterbacks with remarkable talent, while both franchises are looking to get monkeys off their backs. The Bills haven't won a playoff game this century, while the Texans have been embarrassed in two of their three home playoff games under the tutelage of head coach Bill O'Brien.
Injuries to watch: Bills cornerback Levi Wallace suffered an ankle injury in Week 17 and has been limited in practice. Meanwhile, it looks as though the Texans will get star edge defender J.J. Watt back from a shoulder injury. Wide receiver Will Fuller V is fighting to come back from a groin injury, and starters Laremy Tunsil (ankle), Johnathan Joseph (hamstring), Bradley Roby (hamstring) and Kenny Stills (knee) are also banged up for Houston.
Random tidbit: As Matt Bonesteel of the Washington Post notes, first-time starting quarterbacks have gone 8-15 in the playoffs this decade, with Deshaun Watson, Mitchell Trubisky and Lamar Jackson all losing under those circumstances last postseason. Buffalo's Josh Allen is next up.
The Pick: Bills +3
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Houston's only playoff win under O'Brien came against a 2016 Oakland Raiders team that was without starting quarterback Derek Carr. In playoff games against opponents who actually had their starting quarterbacks the last five years, they're 0-3 with an average margin of defeat of 28-8.
That includes 21-7 dud against the Indianapolis Colts in Houston last January.
Even with Allen making his playoff debut, and even with Watt returning and Fuller potentially back, none of our experts are willing to lay a field goal with the untrustworthy Texans.
"The Bills lost three of their last four regular-season games," Sobleski said, "while the Texans won four of their last six. So, why would anyone think the Bills will go into Houston and claim a victory? Matchups. The Bills' aggressive defense gives them an advantage over the Texans' weak front. Plus, cornerback Tre'Davious White can shadow DeAndre Hopkins. On the flip side, Houston is terrible against the run, while Buffalo owns the league's eighth-ranked ground game."
Still, Gagnon and Davenport are taking the Texans to win straight up.
"Watt's return could be huge," Gagnon said. "The Texans badly need to get to Allen under these circumstances, and the three-time Defensive Player of the Year could be a difference-maker. Ditto for Fuller, who gives Watson another elite option if Buffalo's tremendous secondary takes Hopkins away. The Bills gave up an AFC-low 46 20-yard plays during the regular season and they had the league's second-best DVOA (defense-adjusted value over average) against No. 1 receivers, but Fuller could exploit an injured Wallace. That's enough for me to pick Houston to finally grind out a home playoff win, but with its history and Watt and Fuller still question marks, I'm not laying a full three points."
Meanwhile, Davenport is sort of blocking a unanimous consensus against the spread. He's predicting a push, which essentially means he's sitting this one out.
"It wouldn't be any kind of massive upset if the Bills won here," he admitted. "These two teams are pretty evenly matched and the Bills have the better defense. But the Texans have the more dynamic offense, the better quarterback in Deshaun Watson and the benefit of playing at home. Houston has wins over three teams in the AFC playoffs, while the Bills are 1-4 against playoff teams this year. Give me Houston in a close one."
It's worth noting that Buffalo's one victory over a playoff team came on the road against the Tennessee Titans and that they actually went 3-1 away from home against teams that were .500 or better during the regular season.
Put it all together, and we're picking Buffalo to cover in a really tricky game between two enigmatic squads.
Davenport: Texans 23, Bills 20
Gagnon: Texans 21, Bills 20
Sobleski: Bills 23, Texans 17
Consensus: Buffalo (+3)
Score Prediction: Texans 21, Bills 20
No. 6 Tennessee Titans (9-7) at No. 3 New England Patriots (12-4)
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Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough
Referee: John Hussey
Line: New England -5
In a nutshell: The Patriots arguably haven't looked this vulnerable in a decade, while the Titans peaked late in the year and wound up with the league's highest-rated passer (Ryan Tannehill) and leading rusher (Derrick Henry). Tennessee also crushed these Pats when they last met in 2018, which could indicate former Bill Belichick disciple Mike Vrabel has an edge here.
Injuries to watch: Titans wide receiver Adam Humphries (ankle) remains out, but his absence hasn't been problematic of late. Right tackle Jack Conklin (knee) and cornerback Adoree' Jackson (foot) are good to go. A multitude of key Patriots are banged up, including Julian Edelman (knee, shoulder), Jamie Collins Sr. (shoulder), Marcus Cannon (ankle), Jonathan Jones (groin) and Jason McCourty (groin). But all are expected to play.
"I feel better than I have in the last few weeks," Edelman said on WEEI on Thursday, according to Darren Hartwell of NBC Sports Boston, "and I feel good enough to go out and compete at a high level."
Random tidbit: The Patriots have played in just three Wild Card Games in the Belichick era, winning two. The only loss was their most recent Wild Card Game, when they were trounced 33-14 by the Baltimore Ravens at home. That was way back in 2010.
The Pick: Titans +5
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Against playoff teams this season, the Patriots went just 3-3 with a negative scoring margin. They've looked utterly pedestrian, even in Foxborough. They had won 18 consecutive regular-season home games before falling to both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins at Gillette Stadium in December.
With that in mind, the majority of our analysts are down with taking a handful of points with Tennessee on Saturday night.
"I know, I know. It's the Patriots. Never bet against the Patriots," said Sobleski, who is taking Tennessee on the moneyline. "It's too tempting, though. New England isn't playing nearly as well as we've seen in recent years, and its personnel isn't nearly as good, especially on offense. The league's leading rusher is also coming to town, and Bill Belichick's defense isn't exactly stout against the run. That doesn't even take into account that Ryan Tannehill is playing better than Tom Brady this season. Yes, you read that correctly."
Statistically speaking, that's indisputable. And Sobleski is also right about New England's somewhat soft run defense, which only a few weeks ago was roughed up by Joe Mixon and Giovani Bernard and now has to deal with Henry.
Now, only the Patriots are better than the Bills at taking away No. 1 receivers. In fact, New England's pass defense is historically good, and top cornerback Stephon Gilmore is a Defensive Player of the Year candidate.
But Gilmore hasn't been himself in recent weeks, and the Pats have become a lot less efficient across the board on D. Now they have to deal with one of the hottest offenses in the league, and Gilmore could have his hands full with top Titans wideout A.J. Brown, who put together four 110-yard performances in the final six weeks of the regular season.
That has Davenport convinced this'll be a close game, even if he's not willing to go the moneyline route with Tennessee.
"I get the temptation to take Tennessee to win this outright," he said, "especially after the Patriots fell flat at home in Week 17 against the Miami Dolphins. But I just can't see even these flawed Patriots losing two in a row at Gillette Stadium. That said, this spread's big enough that Tennessee and the points is the play against the spread."
But we don't have a unanimous consensus here because Gagnon is having a hard time believing in the Titans and a harder time giving up on the Pats.
"New England will have a lot of trouble moving the ball," he admitted, "especially if Logan Ryan can shut down a banged-up Edelman. But Tennessee doesn't have the pass-rushing prowess to get to Brady, which is undoubtedly the key to beating the Patriots in the playoffs. And we all know how good the Pats are at taking away their opponent's top weapon. If they can remove Henry from the equation, I'm not betting on Tannehill in his first-ever playoff start or Brown in his first-ever playoff game against Gilmore, Belichick and the rest of that New England D."
He's outnumbered, but it's worth noting that those picking against the majority as lone wolves are 79-64-2 this season.
Davenport: Patriots 24, Titans 20
Gagnon: Patriots 26, Titans 20
Sobleski: Titans 27, Patriots 20
Consensus: Tennessee (+5)
Score Prediction: Patriots 24, Titans 21
No. 6 Minnesota Vikings (10-6) at No. 3 New Orleans Saints (13-3)
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When: Sunday, 1:05 p.m. ET
Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans
TV: Fox
Referee: Carl Cheffers
Line: New Orleans -7.5
In a nutshell: In a potential Minneapolis Miracle revenge game, the smoking-hot Saints will attempt to lift a playoff curse against an opponent that struggles against high-quality competition, struggles on the road and struggles in big spots. It's not a good formula for the Vikings.
Injuries to watch: Star running back Dalvin Cook looks set to return from a shoulder injury for Minnesota, but linebacker Eric Kendricks (quad) was limited in practice on Thursday and cornerbacks Xavier Rhodes (ankle), Mike Hughes (neck) and Mackensie Alexander (knee) are all hurting as well. Saints record-breaking receiver Michael Thomas is dealing with a hand injury, but that's not expected to be a problem, and they're extremely healthy beyond that.
Random tidbit: The Vikings were 1-4 against playoff teams this season, with three of those losses coming in the second half of the year. Meanwhile, the Saints averaged 36.3 points per game in the final seven weeks of the regular season.
The Pick: Saints -7.5
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Our gang's only unanimous selection of the week just happens to be the biggest favorite on Wild Card Weekend. All three experts agree the Vikings are in the wrong place at the wrong time against New Orleans.
"The Superdome crowd AND payback for the Minneapolis Miracle?" Davenport said. "That's more than enough to push the Saints over the top since they're already the better overall team."
With Brees under center, the Saints are 6-1 in home playoff games. And that one loss deserves an asterisk because they were jobbed by the officials when they fell to the Los Angeles Rams at the Superdome last year.
But only two of those six wins came by more than six points, so you're allowed to fear a 7.5-point spread Sunday.
"Kirk Cousins could certainly get hot," Gagnon said, "or Dalvin Cook could return from injury and at least help Minnesota gain some level of control against a short-handed New Orleans defensive front. Throw in the backdoor cover possibility, and I wouldn't spend whatever's left from the holidays on the Saints. But Cook isn't 100 percent and the Saints' fourth-ranked run D can probably force Cousins to do most of the heavy lifting. Considering his track record on the road, against high-quality opponents and on a national stage, that could be disastrous."
Cousins has lost each of his last six road starts against teams that finished with winning records, and he's lost nine consecutive prime-time games against winning teams.
Plus, Brees and the Saints are on fire offensively. He has a 22-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio and a 125.6 passer rating during that aforementioned seven-game hot streak, and now he has a chance to feast on a secondary that has struggled immensely all season and features three injured corners.
Throw in that injury to Kendricks (which could be huge for Alvin Kamara), and it's hard to buy into Minnesota's D in this matchup.
"The Vikings are a good team," Sobleski said, "and having Cook back for this game is a big boost. But the Vikes aren't close to as good as the Saints, who will be playing in front of a raucous Superdome crowd. New Orleans likely isn't happy about even having to play on Wild Card Weekend, and there's the matter of payback for the Minneapolis Miracle of two years ago. Saints roll to a double-digit-point win, and the 'Kirk Cousins can't win the big one' narrative rolls on."
Davenport: Saints 31, Vikings 17
Gagnon: Saints 30, Vikings 20
Sobleski: Saints 31, Vikings 21
Consensus: New Orleans (-7.5)
Score Prediction: Saints 31, Vikings 20
No. 5 Seattle Seahawks (11-5) at No. 4 Philadelphia Eagles (9-7)
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Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia
TV: NBC
Referee: Shawn Smith
Line: Seattle -1.5
In a nutshell: The Eagles defied the odds in making astonishing late-season runs in 2017 and 2018, and they're doing it again now. This time, though, they actually have a healthy starting quarterback. Unfortunately for them, nobody else is healthy. But fortunately for them, the Seahawks aren't in substantially better shape and Philly is at home thanks to the fact it won the NFC East by default. Nobody expects either team to go on a Super Bowl run, but both have significant playoff pedigree and championship-winning coaches. So who really knows.
Injuries to watch: Both teams—and the Eagles in particular—have been gutted by injuries all season. Philly's receiving corps has been obliterated, and key pass-catchers Nelson Agholor (knee) and Zach Ertz (ribs) are big question marks (DeSean Jackson is already out). Emerging back Miles Sanders (ankle) has also been missing practice time this week, while offensive tackle Lane Johnson (ankle) has been limited alongside Derek Barnett (ankle), Sidney Jones (back), Avonte Maddox (abdomen), Jalen Mills (ankle) and Fletcher Cox (triceps). Oh, and guard Brandon Brooks (shoulder) is freshly on injured reserve. It's just ridiculous.
As for the Seahawks, who lost their top three running backs late in the season, edge defender Jadeveon Clowney is still struggling with a core injury, left tackle Duane Brown is bothered by knee and biceps injuries, linebacker Mychal Kendricks is out with a knee injury and receivers Malik Turner (concussion) and Jaron Brown (knee) have been out of practice. At least they might get safety Quandre Diggs back from a high ankle sprain.
Random tidbit: Philadelphia and Seattle outscored their opponents by just 38 total combined points during the regular season. The Eagles won just four of their last seven home games, while the Seahawks went 7-1 on the road.
The Pick: Eagles +1.5
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While both Carson Wentz and Tannehill are joining Allen in making their playoff debuts this weekend, Philly's quarterback doesn't seem as likely as the others to become overwhelmed. He's much more seasoned than Allen, he's facing a much weaker defense than Tannehill, he's been an MVP candidate in the past, and he's excelled in big games before.
And while Wentz's supporting cast is a mess, he and the Eagles are remarkably resilient. They're also getting points at home from a struggling opponent that has also been ravaged by injuries.
The majority of our panelists see this as an opportunity to fade the public, which is heavily backing the Seahawks.
"Russell Wilson could certainly hijack this game," Gagnon said, "but Wilson hasn't been himself for weeks. He posted a mere 90.7 passer rating in the final seven games of the regular season, and he's in big trouble with significant injuries in the backfield and along the offensive line. He also hasn't been consistently supported by a depleted defense. The Eagles still have a strong defensive front, while Seattle is using spare parts at running back. That could put a lot of pressure on Wilson to do all of the work on the road."
The Seahawks outscored their opponents by a grand total of seven points this season. And while they could at least get Duane Brown back on offense and Diggs back on defense, Philadelphia could benefit just as much if Johnson and Ertz can return.
"This is the hardest game of the weekend to peg," Davenport confessed. "The Seahawks may well be the better team here, and the Eagles are just so banged up. But the Seahawks have injury issues of their own, and these two teams have been heading in opposite directions—the Eagles have won four straight, while Seattle's loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the finale was the team's third defeat in the last four contests. Go with the home underdog and the 'upset.'"
But it's probably appropriate that this isn't unanimous.
"Somehow, the Eagles won their last four games with an offense held together by bubble gum and paper clips," Sobleski said. "Actually, the reason behind the squad's late-season success is rather simple and explained with two words: Carson Wentz. The Eagles quarterback performed at an MVP-level to elevate the play of those around him and carry his team. But guess what? The Eagles will now face another quarterback who's done that all season. Don't doubt Wilson."
It'd make a lot of sense to wait for more clarity on both teams' injuries before betting either way here. Or just spend the money on popcorn, sit back and enjoy what is almost certain to be a wacky game between two fun teams that refuse to die.
Davenport: Eagles 21, Seahawks 20
Gagnon: Eagles 21, Seahawks 20
Sobleski: Seahawks 20, Eagles 17
Consensus: Philadelphia (+1.5)
Score Prediction: Eagles 21, Seahawks 20
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APK app unlocks Pixel 2 portrait mode on older smartphones (sort of)
Itching to get your hands on the Google Pixel 2’s camera effects, but don’t have the cash? A developer just unlocked one of the flagship smartphone’s camera features using software. Charles Chow recently shared an update to Camera NX, a Google Camera mod app, that unlocks part of the Pixel 2 portrait mode on older phones, including the original Pixel, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.
The mod app brings a variation on portrait mode to older phones, all using software. Chow explains that Google used a hardware-based solution on the rear-facing camera, but a software variation on the front-facing camera. By adapting that software, Chow says Camera NX will allow users with an older phone to access the portrait mode.
The camera mod won’t quite match the Pixel 2’s portrait mode however — because it’s only a software fix. On the rear-facing camera, the Pixel 2 uses dual-pixel autofocus and adapts the dual-pixel sensor to take data from slightly different locations. Much like using two lenses, accessing data from different locations on the sensor allows the smartphone to access depth data. With access to that information, the Pixel 2 can determine what’s closest to the camera and what’s in the background, allowing for an intelligent blur effect to be applied to the shot automatically in post.
Since the feature on the rear camera is all hardware, Camera NX doesn’t quite have the same features. While the portrait mode on Pixel 2 works with any subject, Camera NX requires a person for the effect to work. When a face shows up in the photo, the app will save the original plus a version with that background blur, but face-free photos means just a single photo without the blur effect.
Chow, who has previously brought HDR+ and AR stickers to earlier models with the mod, says the portrait effect does work on both the front and back cameras, modifying the software from the front of the Pixel 2 to work in both cameras on older smartphones. As version 7.3, the Camera NX update also gets a handful of other updates, including some bug fixes.
Camera NX doesn’t create quite the same hardware-based portrait mode — and users will still have to buy the Pixel 2 for other hardware solutions like optical stabilization and the highest DxOMark smartphone rating yet. But the mod app could be a way for some users willing to try a third-party APK download to access some of the portrait mode features without an upgrade. The download and details on the update are available from Chromaloop.com.
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Intel’s chip-packing Radeon graphics slips a brief tease just before CES 2018
Over the last several days, Intel India listed the Core i7-8809G processor module containing AMD’s Radeon graphics. Intel has since pulled that particular listing, but not before screenshots appeared online to give us a glimpse into the currently unannounced chip. It’s expected to see a formal release during the CES 2018 technology show starting January 9, given that resulting products will hit the market during the first quarter.
Here are the specifications:
Core i7-8809G
Base speed:
Max power consumption:
100 watts (target use)
Supported memory type:
DDR4 @ 2,400 dual-channel
Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics
Keep in mind that the Core i7-8809G is a module, and not a processor cramming AMD’s graphics cores into the typical CPU package. There will be three chips mounted on a small, enclosed circuit board with an embedded “superhighway” that connects all three together. One chip will contain the CPU and what appears to be HD Graphics 630 graphics cores, one will contain the Radeon cores, and the third will play host to HBM2 memory dedicated to the Radeon graphics.
The leaked specs show that the processor cores are likely based on Intel’s seventh-generation Kaby Lake architecture, and not the most-recent Coffee Lake design. The clue is in the integrated HD Graphics 630 component, which was tweaked and renamed as UHD Graphics 630 in the new eighth-generation Core processors. The memory support is also a clue given it matches Kaby Lake while Coffee Lake supports DDR4 memory at 2,666MHz.
That said, the part number may bear an eighth-generation number, but it’s likely based on an eighth-generation design. What’s interesting is that internet sleuths found the unannounced module listed among unlocked desktop processors that sit on motherboards the old-fashioned way — via a socket. There are also no mobile chips on the list, indicating that Intel classifies the upcoming module as a desktop product that may be seated/unseated just like any other desktop processor.
But current renders and possible leaked images show the module to be rectangular in shape whereas desktop processors are typically squared. That means the module likely isn’t compatible with any eighth-generation motherboard unless Intel’s renders are for illustration only, and don’t reflect the product’s final shape. Intel may also take the Atom route by locking the module in place, thus the only way to get the Core i7-8809G is to buy the complete chip/motherboard package.
As for the 100-watt power use, that’s the combined power draw of the CPU cores, Intel graphics cores, Radeon graphics cores, and HBM2 memory. Speculation points to 45 watts for Intel’s portion followed by around 50 watts for AMD’s graphics. The Radeon aspect could contain up to 24 compute units given that AMD already crams 10 “Vega” CUs in its Ryzen 7 2700U all-in-one processor (APU). AMD’s chip only consumes 15 watts of power.
Given that CES 2018 starts next week, we should have a clearer picture regarding Intel’s collaboration with AMD during the show.
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Samsung C-Lab debuts smartglasses, portable speakers, and a breathing device
From smartphones to televisions to refrigerators, it’s difficult to find technology today that doesn’t sport the Samsung name. And now, the conglomerate is stretching its innovation muscles even further with its C-Lab, or Creative Lab, program. At CES 2018, we can expect to see three new projects from Samsung’s special team, including a portable directional speaker, a device to help folks breathe better, and a pair of smart visual-aid eyeglasses.
“Since launching five years ago, our C-Lab program has gained exciting momentum across Samsung, helping foster an innovation culture, and providing an avenue for our creative, talented employees to pursue innovative new projects,” said Jaiil Lee, vice president and head of the Creativity & Innovation Center at Samsung Electronics. “We will continuously introduce innovative projects through our C-Lab program.”
First up is the S-Ray, or Sound-Ray, an entirely mobile speaker that will bring its directional features just about anywhere you’d like. Offering to be smaller, lighter, and more affordable than existing directional speakers, the S-Ray promises the same quality of sound (and privacy) as earbuds. These speakers are said to transmit sound more directly to the listener, which means that you’ll be able to hear your music without distracting those around you.
Then there’s the GoBreath, described as “a recovery solution for people who have experienced lung damage and suffer from postoperative pulmonary complications after general anesthesia.” The device comes with a companion mobile app that claims to enable patients who have undergone surgery due to lung pain how to recover faster. The device is said to teach patients breathing techniques including inspiration, coughing, and deep breathing. Moreover, patients can look into exercise guidelines and observe their lung progress by way of the companion app, and send this information to their doctors for constant monitoring.
Finally, C-Lab is debuting the Relúmĭno glasses, which are designed to help those with visual impairments see images or objects more clearly. The companion Relúmĭno app was first introduced at Mobile World Congress 2017, and Relúmĭno glasses provide the hardware component. These spectacles pair with the app, utilizing a smartphone’s processors and batteries. The smartphone actually processes images from videos that are received through the camera of the glasses, and the processed images are then retransmitted to the display of the Relúmĭno glasses.
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Microsoft officially draws the curtain on its Groove Music streaming service
If the name “Groove Music” rings absolutely no bells for you, don’t worry — you’re not alone. Microsoft’s attempt at a streaming music service was a valiant one but it was ultimately unsuccessful. In October, the company announced that it would discontinue support for its music platform, opting instead to expand its partnership with Spotify and help Groove Music Pass customers move their curated playlists and collections directly into the far more successful service. At that point, Microsoft noted that after December 31, the Groove Music app would no longer offer the option to stream, purchase, or download music. And today, the company made good on that promise.
Originally debuted in 2015 alongside the release of Windows 10, Groove Music was never particularly successful in the midst of a crowded streaming landscape. In June, the platform introduced a new feature that was meant to mimic Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists, helping folks discover new music. This, however, proved insufficient in helping the service gain ground.
There were a few advantages Groove Music had over other platforms, however. For example, you could play your own MP3s from your OneDrive account, and Groove would analyze these files as well as what you listened to via the music service to recommend personalized track listings. It also was said to track artist activity, offering playlists based on bands that were touring in your neck of the woods.
But as of Tuesday, January 2, the online components of the Groove Music app are completely shut down. You can indeed no longer stream music, purchase songs, or play music videos through the app. The Radio, Explore, and Recommended features have also been removed. And if you open the Microsoft Store app on a Windows 10 device, you won’t see a music tab any longer.
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The 5 biggest computing trends to watch for at CES 2018
CES is a preview of a lot of the trends we see in technology throughout the year. In the world of computing and laptops, CES 2018 is already shaping up to be an important one. While there will be plenty of surprises at the show, we have some ideas about what manufacturers will be showing off — and what they won’t be.
CES is just around the corner, and soon enough we’ll be feasting our eyes on everything the tech world has to offer us in 2018. For now, here are the five computing trends to have your eye on heading into the world’s biggest tech trade show.
Qualcomm LTE PCs galore
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Qualcomm made the announcement of its big move into PCs in November at a press conference in Hawaii — and we’ve been thinking about the ramifications of it ever since. The two laptops Qualcomm showed off, the Asus NovaGo and the HP Envy x2, were both impressive devices, boasting both built-in-LTE and 20+ battery life. Those two features alone make them interesting devices and have us interested in what these other “Always Connected” PCs will be like.
The performance capabilities of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon CPUs is one of the biggest remaining questions, but with portability as the primary focus, it may not matter all that much. In addition to those aforementioned computers, we’re expecting similar devices to show up at CES from companies like Lenovo.
Whether Qualcomm’s effort is a game-changer or a complete bust, these new devices are going to turn heads with their unparalleled portability. A couple years from now, we may even be talking about these PCs as one of the most significant changes to computing in years.
Now, everything is a 2-in-1
Speaking of 2-in-1s, don’t expect them to go away anytime soon. In fact, we’re predicting that in 2018, they’re only going to become more important for the PC market. With all the innovation happening around battery life, connectivity, and build quality, it’s hard not to have high hopes for what manufacturers will do with 2-in-1s this year.
They’ll still come in all sorts of flavors: folio designs with detachable keyboards, touchscreen laptops with 360 hinges, and, of course, the aforementioned ones with built-in LTE. What’ll change is not their existence, but their availability.
Whether it’s a cheap 2-in-1 from Asus or a $2000+ Surface Book 2, it’s becoming increasingly hard to find traditional, clamshell laptops. 2018 may not be the year that laptops disappear altogether, but many more companies are throwing in 2-in-1 flexibility as a standard feature. Even Chromebooks are going the way of the 2-in-1, with the Pixelbook leading the way.
Intel 8th-gen chips, Intel CPUs with AMD Graphics
We’ve been using 8th-generation Intel Core CPUs for many months now, but we’re expecting the rest of the stragglers to embrace the new hardware continuing into the first half of 2018. Intel is almost certain to expand its roster of 8th-gen processors, too, so we’ll see the chips show up in laptops that currently don’t have an ideal 8th-gen option, like high-end mobile workstations.
In addition, we’re anticipating the launch of more laptops with the unprecedented combination of Intel CPUs and custom AMD Radeon graphics cards. Squeezed onto a single module, Intel claims the goal is to create thin and light notebooks with serious gaming performance. This could be an awesome choice for mobile workstations and even budget gaming laptops.
The announcement that the partnership could exist within the heated rivalry between the companies came as a shock when it was announced in November, so we’re excited to see what kind of computers could come from the collaboration.
New VR headsets will be MIA
VR headsets have had a big impact on CES in the past, especially when they were first being labeled as “the next big thing.” These days, companies are talking a lot about stand-alone VR headsets that don’t depend on a PC or smartphone. But don’t expect these new headsets to have a huge presence this year at CES.
Oculus has its own stand-alone VR headset that it showed off in October, the Oculus Go, but Oculus doesn’t even have a booth at CES. HTC has its own Vive Focus stand-alone headset, but so far it’s only been announced to be available in China. Outside of these, both of these large companies have been relatively quiet on the premium VR front. Instead, Oculus has been offering price cuts as a solution to getting more units in the hands of VR first-timers.
In addition, Google has begun its own push toward stand-alone headsets on the Daydream platform, though very few have been announced yet. In fact, HTC recently announced that it canceled its Daydream headset in favor of making the Vive Focus. So far, the only rumored VR headset in the line — and the only one likely to make an appearance at CES — is Lenovo’s stand-alone Daydream headset.
It sounds like we’ll have to wait until later in the year to try the rest of out.
HDR monitors aplenty, but not OLED
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CES is the perfect place to show off new monitor technology — and this year it’ll be all about HDR. The ones we’ve used so far have been impressive, though we felt like Windows 10 wasn’t quite ready to handle it just yet. HDR monitors are just getting started, and we’re expecting a host of them to be shown off at CES.
OLED displays have already invaded smartphones and television, but we’re anticipating that they’ll still be rare among computers — including laptops, all-in-ones, and monitors. Dell’s attempt to sell an OLED monitor didn’t go so well, and the early OLED options shown on laptops in 2017 didn’t expand to other models.
Also, in terms of technologies and size, monitors tend to take one step at a time each year — and again, this year will most likely belong to HDR. OLED will no doubt be the future of monitors at some point, but it may be a couple more years before they start showing up in large numbers.
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Microsoft once again boasts the Edge browser’s battery life prowess
Although Windows 10 is making progress in becoming the favorite operating system of PC users, Microsoft’s attempt to position its Edge browser as a viable alternative to Google Chrome hasn’t met with as much success. To date, Edge maintains a paltry four percent or so of the browser market, a number that’s remained flat for months. To help bridge the gap, Microsoft has been pushing Edge’s greater efficiency, and it’s just released another video with some lofty claims of battery-life superiority.
As the video above attests, Edge was able to outlast Mozilla Firefox by 63 percent and Chrome by 19 percent. Microsoft provided few details about the test, only indicating how long each browser was able to “stream video” on identical Surface Book notebooks. The video’s fine print indicates that the test used a continuously looping HD streaming video, but we don’t know what video codec was used nor if it was streaming from a local server or the internet.
In our own testing, Edge was the battery-life champ. It beat out all competitors in most of our tests, which included Netflix binging, running the Basemark web benchmark, and simple web browsing. We tested on two machines, the HP Spectre x360 15-inch laptop and the HP EliteBook x360 G2, with mainly consistent results across both. While the differences weren’t always as dramatic as Microsoft’s video attests, they nevertheless largely corroborated Microsoft’s claims that Edge provides a distinct advantage in battery life.
Interestingly, Microsoft did not post results for the Opera browser in this video, which is an unfortunate omission. In our testing, Opera came in second behind Edge, beating out both Firefox and Chrome. In fact, Opera was even more efficient than Edge on the EliteBook, and it was roughly comparable on both test machines in terms of streaming Netflix video.
We should note that Microsoft does not indicate which versions of each browser were used in the test, which could have a significant impact on the overall results. Generally speaking, we’re comfortable agreeing with Microsoft Edge lasts longer on a charge than Firefox and Chrome, while adding that Opera is also a viable option for the energy conscious.
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Monument Valley is free on the Play Store in certain countries
The United States and Canada need not apply.
The first Monument Valley made its debut on Android in 2014, and despite its age, is still a ton of fun to play in 2018. Its sequel was finally released this past November so that fans could jump back into the beautiful puzzle-solving world, but if you’ve never experienced the magic that ustwo games created with Monument Valley, now might be the time to do it.
Spotted by Android Police, the first Monument Valley is free on the Google Play Store in certain countries. Markets where the game is free are apparently ones where prices in the Play Store have not be localized to match the currency of those areas, and countries that have been confirmed to offer this deal include:
There are possibly many other countries where the game is also being offered for free, but ones where it’ll still cost you $3.99 include the likes of Australia, Canada, various countries in Europe, Japan, Korea, multiple regions in South America, and the United States.
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These are all the phones Sony is launching in 2018
Here’s a look at Sony’s smartphone lineup for 2018.
Sony has an…interesting…position in the Android smartphone space. Sony produced some darn good phones in 2017, such as the Xperia XZ Premium and XZ1, but compared to handsets like the Galaxy S8, Pixel 2, and even the OnePlus 5T, Sony’s offerings usually fall flat in one area or another that hold them back from true greatness.
We’re just now getting started with 2018, but we’ve already got a good idea of what to expect from a few of Sony’s Xperia handsets later this year. A lot of what we’re seeing so far looks to be more of the same, but there are a few interesting bits here and there. Let’s take a look.
As great of a phone as the XZ Premium was, there were more issues than we usually like to see for devices that cost $799 USD. We’re expecting Sony to release a sequel this year, and while exact details are still quite sparse, Concept Creator has created a video showing their idea of what they’d like to see in the XZ2 Premium.
The video shows a phone with the slimmest bezels we’ve ever seen on a Sony phone, front-facing speakers, glass back, and dual cameras. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Sony finally get on the dual camera bandwagon, and as great as it’d be to have a flagship Xperia handset with bezels this slim, we aren’t all that sure if 2018 will be the year Sony makes this jump.
Sony Xperia XA2/XA2 Ultra
If you’re going to be in the market for a small mid-ranger this year, Sony’s Xperia XA2 might be worth checking out. The phone is expected to have the same 5-inch display as its predecessor, and it’ll be just a bit shorter and wider at 141.6 x 70.4 x 9.6mm.
As for the XA2 Ultra, this will once again be a large phone with a screen that measures in at 6-inches. It’ll be slightly shorter than the XA1 Ultra with dimensions of 162.5 x 80.0 x 9.5mm, but it’ll retain the same screen resolution of 1920 x 1080. The XA2 Ultra will be powered by the Snapdragon 630 and 4GB of RAM, and you’ll have 64GB of storage for all your local files.
Both the XA2 and XA2 Ultra will keep the traditional 16:9 aspect ratio and large top/bottom bezels, but what’s interesting is that Sony is ditching the side-mounted fingerprint sensor for one that’s on the back. This would mark the first time Sony’s had a fingerprint sensor on the back of its phones, and while the implementation of it on the power button was cool, hopefully this will enable customers to finally have a fingerprint sensor on a Sony phone in the U.S.
The Xperia L2 falls in between the XA2 and XA2 Ultra size-wise with a 5.5-inch screen, and it features the same Snapdragon 630 processor and 4GB RAM. There’s no word just yet as to what the resolution of that display will be, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see it stay at 1280 x 720 like it is on the L1.
Android Nougat should be shipping on the L2, but considering Sony’s track records for past software updates, we don’t imagine it’ll take too long before Oreo arrives on it.
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Perlu December 13, 2019
Expanding your brand overseas comes with mixed emotions. It’s exhilarating – congratulations on the growth! – but it also can lead to a lot of new challenges in marketing. How do you know the best way to reach your new audience?
In this episode, we hear from Cody Beavers of international, multibillion-dollar car rental company Sixt. Sixt is one of the first and most influential international car rental companies in the world – with over 100 years in the business. They were the first car rental company with a website and the first to accept mobile reservations. They are present in over 105 countries with branches in over 2,200 locations. You can easily find Sixt car rental services internationally in almost every major city and tourist destination worldwide.
Cody shares how local influencers effectively and authentically helped spread the word about Sixt’s expansion from Europe to the States.
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Interview with Cody Beavers
Perlu: Hello and welcome to the Perlu Podcast: Influencer Marketing Reimagined, a podcast where we chat with influencer marketing professionals, social media influencers, bloggers, YouTubers, podcasters, you name it, about what has led to their success. I’m your host Alexis Trammell, and today we are speaking with Cody Beavers who manages social media and communications for Sixt USA. Sixt is a multibillion-dollar global car rental company that recently used Perlu to transform its influencer marketing into a more collaborative strategic initiative.
Cody is a proven marketer for aligning business strategy and objectives with established social media and communication development who focuses on maximum marketing impact with minimum resource expenditures. Cody recently brainstormed campaign ideas for the upcoming season with a curated group of influencers on Perlu. The interactive session led to more than a dozen ideas for Sixt USA to connect more authentically with its audience, excite its customers and generate far more ROI from its influencer marketing. Cody resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his two dogs, and he is a strong believer in the power of branding. Thank you so much for joining us today, Cody.
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Cody Beavers: Thank you for having me. Great to be here.
Perlu: You’ve had a little bit of work already happening on Perlu. I’d love for you to speak to us about that a little bit today.
As we all know, Perlu can help you take control and be more proactive when it comes to influencer marketing campaigns, from targeting specific geographies to finding the influencers you can afford to pay or even to get upstream input from an influencer about what will be most effective for certain audiences. And you took advantage of this unique value Perlu has to offer through having a brainstorm session with several Perlu influencers. And I heard that some really cool ideas came out of that brainstorm, from documenting an influencer’s 25th birthday since Sixt is this car rental company, to road tripping across the US.
Could you share with us about that experience and what value it brought to Sixt? What were some good takeaways you learned from that brainstorm?
Cody Beavers: Sure. The brainstorm that I had was a very enlightening panel, actually. Much too often marketers like myself can get tunnel vision when it comes to content and only focusing on content that we see as creative content instead of really looking at our audience and the people who use our product and what they like and what they’re passionate about. Being able to come into the brainstorm with Perlu with an open mind and looking at ideas that the influencers had really shown me: new ways to market Sixt as a company, especially to a growing audience of influencers, especially related to travel. Some good takeaways for me were creating more long-form authentic content for Sixt and giving influencers more control when it comes to how they want to tell their story and really diving in with the influencers and learning everything that they’ve done with other brands.
Perlu: That’s so cool to hear. Sixt has won awards for its influencer marketing campaigns in the past and is well known in Europe. It’s a newer brand in the US so,
Could you share with us what it’s like to trailblaze a brand in a new geography where you’re not as well known?
Cody Beavers: Yeah, so you’re exactly correct where Sixt Rent a Car is the number one car rental company in Europe and number four in the US. We definitely have a bigger brand presence and we’re more well known in Europe than we are here in the States. It’s definitely a challenge for us here. Every day we have to come into the office and it’s always an all-hands-on-deck sort of feeling, which I really like working in that startup-esque atmosphere.
For me personally, honestly I didn’t know much about Sixt and especially I didn’t know how huge it was until I started working here a little over three years ago. But watching the company not only grow in size over those years, but also growing in awareness is extremely rewarding to the company and our marketing team as a whole.
Perlu: Cool. Cool. Well let’s back up a little bit. You manage social media and communications for Sixt USA.
What has been your experience in influencer marketing? And how has that integrated with your role as a social media and communications manager?
Considering, Sixt does have that startup type of culture happening right now.
Cody Beavers: Yeah, so since we’re more of a startup-esque type of company here in the States, our budget can be really cost effective at times, so that’s a perfect opportunity for us to really focus on influencer marketing just because the cost and content that comes out of working with an influencer is far greater than what we might do with billboard advertising – a more traditional type of advertising. Having this new wave of advertising in the form of influencers is really a cost-efficient strategy for Sixt and our brand and the way that we focus on renting out luxury cars. And we’re available in many locations here in the US and worldwide, in over 100 countries. It’s really easy for us to get on board with influencers and offer them a trip in a nice luxury car in exchange for some really great storytelling and really great content. I believe where our brand is and the products that we have to offer really align with what influencers want to do, which is travel.
Perlu: That’s so cool.
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How is influencer marketing in Europe different than what you’re doing here in the US where there’s less market awareness? How does that affect your day to day?
Cody Beavers: Our tone of voice here at Sixt is really constant in our communication channels across all of our corporate countries. Because of the consistency of our brand voice, all of our marketing really revolves around one core audience that’s really similar in every country. Every country is going to have travelers between the ages of 21 to 60+, so that’s really what our core audience here is at Sixt globally.
There’s many campaigns that we work with internationally in Europe that really help raise brand awareness here at a cost-effective scale here in the States. There are niche audiences in every country that each country will market to so the integration is very time effective as well, especially when there’s one country.
Let’s say UK comes up with a really cool piece of content that can work internationally here in the States since there’s no language barrier there. And even if there is – let’s say Germany comes up with a really cool social media post – it’s easy for us here in the States to adapt in regards to influencer marketing, and how that’s different. It’s usually much easier for Europe to work with large influencers because of their name. Sixt in Europe weighs a lot heavier over there than it does in the States. Here in the States, there’s probably only one in ten people I would say that really know what Sixt is as a brand, but that’s not necessarily a negative thing for us. We just take it more as a challenge, and that just means that Sixt in the US has to be a little bit more creative and more grassroots when it comes to influencers and storytelling.
Perlu: Could you tell us about some ways that you align Sixt business strategy and objectives with the established social media and communication development?
Cody Beavers: Sure. Of course at Sixt USA, our main focus is car rental and in regards to that, marketing for car rental might not seem like a very fun thing to market for. We know in the customer journey, car rental is the thing that people worry about the least, and they really look at pricing more than anything else. We’re not like airlines where everyone has their preferred airlines. No one really has their preferred car rental company. As the goal for our marketing team, that’s the goal that we want to strive for. We want Sixt to be the customer’s preferred car rental company. If they go online and they see based on our competitors, they would still want to go with Sixt because that’s the brand that they’re loyal to now.
That’s the question that we ask ourselves when we come in the office every day. And my role specifically is to figure out ways that we can fuse our brand channels with our communication channels in order to create a cohesive and successful story that will hopefully drive revenue and raise brand awareness.
Perlu: Thanks so much Cody. I’d like to take a quick break to talk about Perlu, the platform that all influencer marketing professionals should be using to connect with influencers. It’s not a subscription based directory. It’s a professional network of active influencers ensuring that brands partner with only the best, and you can sign up and try the platform for free today. No commitments, nor obligations. Here’s Brent Scott, Perlu’s director of influencer marketing to tell you a little bit more.
Perlu: Well cool. And so you really pride yourself on achieving maximum marketing impact with minimum resource expenditures.
Could you tell us how you go about doing that and how that ties into your influencer marketing initiatives?
Cody Beavers: Sure. As I mentioned earlier, being kind of new in the States and still growing, we don’t have the marketing budget that our friends in Europe might have. We have to be a little bit smarter when it comes to our marketing issues. And one way, as I touched upon earlier, is influencer strategies, but it also comes down to being a little bit more creative in terms of content, looking at new niche platforms. We’ve been looking at platforms such as Twitch, TikTok, Chinese social channels as well, since Chinese travel is growing here in the States. Just kind of being a little bit smarter in our marketing strategy is a really good way for us to create cost-effective and efficient campaigns on a minimum budget.
Perlu: Awesome. And so I’ve got to know,
What are some of the most creative things that you’ve been doing for Sixt lately?
Cody Beavers: Yeah, here at Sixt I think it’s one of the best brands to market for right now. There’s so many exciting things happening and so many exciting things in the pipeline for 2020. Right now is a really good time to be a marketer at Sixt in my opinion. Our 60 Bucks campaign is something that we’re actually working on right now. And I think that’s one of the most creative things that happening at the brand so far. Basically what it is, is we’re giving two influencers $60 and a car rental to explore a specific city that we have set out for them and we film everything that they buy and their travel. And it’s funny. We did our first one in LA and it’s basically just using influencer marketing in a smarter way by giving it some sort of gamification.
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And also with the video that we did in LA and the upcoming video, which we’ll have launching in November, we collaborated with BMW to really help do a really well-rounded brand collaboration between Sixt and our car manufacturer. For Sixt with a brand collaboration like that with BMW for this video, for this campaign, Sixt is able to build more brand awareness and reach in the States just by having BMW in the name. And then also for BMW I think it really helps them reach a new niche audience, which might not think of BMW as a fun brand. They might think of BMW as a little bit out of their price range. Something that they can only dream about, but with Sixt it’s really about making that dream a reality. And I think that’s what the goal of our 60 Bucks campaign really is.
Perlu: Oh, so fun. That sounds so fun for the influencers and what a smart partnership with BMW.
Cody Beavers: Yeah, yeah. Thank you.
Perlu: Was that something that came from the brainstorms with influencers on Perlu?
Cody Beavers: I definitely think that brainstorm kind of kicked off or made the creative gears turn. The idea actually came from our ad agency in the US, Superheroes, but definitely we had that in the pipeline. I thought we were just going to have regular actors doing it. But with the brainstorm that I had in Perlu, I really thought that influencers were more authentic and would give us a different feel than what our competition is doing in terms of social media.
Perlu: Cool. Yeah, and I saw these posts on social and I thought, how creative.
Are you seeing a lot of positive response from it?
Cody Beavers: Yeah, yeah. A positive response from not only our customers, but also new people who might not have heard of Sixt before, have really been excited about the first video that we launched. That makes us even more excited to show everyone the second video that we have coming up in November. Also on our side in terms of metrics, it was considered a success and BMW loved it as well, so I think it was a win all around.
Perlu: Oh, that’s so great to hear. I love that.
Looking back on all of the social media campaigns that you’ve done with Sixt, which one do you feel like you’ve got the most return on your energy and resources?
Cody Beavers: That’s hard. That’s hard. We try to do that with every social campaign that we do, but one that’s probably the most momentous would be when we took over NYC and we were celebrating the launch of our first downtown location in New York City, which is located in Battery Park. And we wanted to make something really special for it because it was our first location in New York. New York is all about the big lights. It’s kind of, if you make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Having a branch open out there was really a special – a momentous time for us. And being able to work with Cadillac and creating the brand activation and setting it up from start to finish was really a great way for us to learn as a marketing team on how to handle national brand campaigns, but also as a company to show that we can actually do something like this on a limited budget and without a lot of resources, but a whole lot of energy.
And by the end of it, I really think we hit the nail on the head. We partnered with Cadillac, so we were able to get their event venue in Manhattan for the night to host a celebration where we invited influencers so they can be creating content. We had journalists, we had bloggers, we had a Q&A with our stakeholders of the company. And all that was done on a very limited and tight budget and the energy and return on it was tenfold. I would definitely say that when we took over New York City for a day, that was one of our biggest social media campaigns. But it’s really hard for me to pick.
Perlu: That sounds so great. Love New York City. Love that you guys are making that happen. That’s so cool.
Could you tell us about how you’ve integrated influencers into your social media content?
Cody Beavers: Yeah, so at Sixt we’re all about really authentic experiences. When you’re on a road trip, not every road trip is the same. We try not to market it like that. When we look at influencers, we really let the influencers kind of decide their own road trip because the best way that they can tell a story is if they do it their own way and it’s authentic. And for us, I believe that it brings a lot more value to a company when you have authentic influencer content like that. The way that we integrate influencers is basically they send us an itinerary of their trip, the details of it, the aesthetic of what they’re trying to accomplish on the road trip. And we just let them go.
And they go out, do they do their thing, they create great content and when it comes back to us, that’s when our team looks at it and decides where that content should live in terms of the Sixt world. There’s some content that we say, “Oh man, this is really great for an Instagram strategy.” Other content, we feel like it would be better suited in more of a blog format so we put it up on our Sixt magazine. But really it all starts with the influencer and how they want to tell the story.
Perlu: Oh my gosh, how fun. You’ll partner with an influencer, they give you what they’ve got and then you figure out where it’s going to fit into your social media strategies or your blog strategy.
Cody Beavers: Exactly. Yeah. We really try not to direct them in any sort of way because at Sixt we have so many branded channels that we own and all those channels need content. Of course there might be some instance where we’re like, okay, we need a little bit more Instagram content so we’ll focus on a more visually professional influencer. Sometimes we need blog content, so we’ll kind of focus more on a blogger type influencer. But really,
It’s all about the influencers and them giving us what they like to do and what they’re passionate about because that’s when we get the best content.
Perlu: That’s beautiful. That’s a great way to integrate influencers. And it’s very unique too.
What is your favorite influencer that you’re following right now?
Cody Beavers: Being a marketer, I always have to look on the more upcoming platforms. I’ve been around on TikTok for a while now just kind of learning the platform and seeing ways that Sixt can maybe be integrated into that. But there’s some influencers on there that I really think are really creative. But one influencer that I’ve really enjoyed looking at his content for the past years has been Zack King, I’m not sure if you heard of him. He does illusion type content. With camera angles and really creative stuff. That’s really the type of influencer that I really like. Just influencers who do something different, who can push the bubble a little bit and also have that creative mindset. Definitely Zach King would be my favorite influencer right now.
Perlu: Cool. How fun. I was pretty removed from the brainstorm that you had with the Perlu influencers. And so, I just love to hear that it was eye opening to you and that you felt like you learned a lot from it. And then that inspired future influencer marketing campaigns.
If there’s anything more that you would like to add to that, I’d love to hear it.
Cody Beavers: I thought it was really an eye opening experience. Always being a marketer, you’re usually behind your computer screen doing more of the boring side of things when it comes to marketing. Really being part of a creative brainstorm again was cool and I think beneficial. It’s something that definitely every marketer should try and get together at least once or twice a year, probably more. But having some sort of time to sit aside and brainstorm ideas, especially with influencers, leading influencers in your industry is a really smart way to market.
Perlu: Love that. That’s so great.
What influencers did you get to brainstorm with?
Cody Beavers: The influencers that we brainstormed with, I believe they were all working with Perlu and they were all travel based. That’s definitely the type of influencers that Sixt is looking at right now. Being able to be part of a brainstorm with influencers that you want to work with helps you gain perspective on not only kind of the trips that they’re looking at taking, but also looking at the content that they’re wanting to create, and the content they’re passionate about. Just because they’re travel influencers, that doesn’t mean that’s the only thing they’re passionate about. Looking at travel influencers, I’m looking at what their niche might be, whether it’s traveling with family, solo travel, adventure travel. It put things in perspective. We shouldn’t only be looking for travel influencers, we should be looking for travel influencers with a specific niche attached to it because that gets us really into a new type of audience and brings in a new set of eyes.
Perlu: Cool. Cool. When someone is looking for a car rental company, it’s great for them to have an influencer that they’re following already promoting it so that brand awareness also exists. But even if they see there was a really positive experience with Sixt and they got to drive these cool BMWs around and all of that, are you seeing a lot of brand loyalty tied to those campaigns?
Cody Beavers: Of course that’s a great way to start a relationship with a customer and build brand loyalty with them. But in terms of if the customers see that someone they’re following, someone that they’re influenced by is renting with this great company, they want to look more into it. So we feel like that just doesn’t stop there. It takes a lot to build brand loyalty. It might even take longer than we anticipate to get a customer loyal to our company. But influencers are a great way to start that building process to reach that sense of brand loyalty that so many customers have with so many other companies in the space. But definitely influencer marketing is a great place to start when it comes to building brand loyalty.
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Perlu: Awesome. Awesome. Well thank you so much for joining us today, Cody.
Thank you to everyone listening. We hope you enjoyed hearing from Cody Beavers, the social media and communications manager for Sixt USA. If you like our show and are interested in what it takes to succeed in influencer marketing, check out our blog at blog.perlu.com for more podcasts and blog posts. And sign up for Perlu at perlu.com to meet, mingle, connect, collaborate, and grow your career. We hope you join us for our next installation of the Perlu Podcast: Influencer Marketing Reimagined.
Further Reading Car Mechanic Turned Agency Founder Tom Potts on Using Influencers to Drive Results Justyna Torres of 360i on Fashion & Beauty Influencer Partnerships Kibbee Miller of Converse on What Big Brands Look for in Influencers Dave Peck of RingCentral on Executing Foolproof Influencer Marketing Campaigns Categories: Brands Influencer Marketing Podcast Travel Tags: influencer marketing podcast
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The Weather Station
Brian Furman, mxdwn
Combo Chimbita
Elena Childers, BTRtoday
Grant Owens, We Found New Music
Death Bells
Mary Chang, There Goes The Fear
Avant / Experimental
Kevin McStravick, Operation Every Band
Justin Spicer, Tiny Mix Tapes
The Magnettes
Raj Rudolph, EQ Music
Suzi Wu
Jacob Moore, Pigeons & Planes
Gus Dapperton
Noah Slee
Donna Arendse, Majestic Casual
The Shacks
Joshua Chiang, Control + Alt + Delight
Otzeki
Molly Burch
Will Oliver, We All Want Someone To Shout For
Stop Light Observations
Tracy Bryant
Jade Bird
Moonlight Breakfast
Bill Pearis, BrooklynVegan
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
Kydd Jones
Double Ferrari
Ben Umanov, MetalSucks
Duckwrth
Gatecreeper
Centavrvs
Sopitas, Sopitas
Rat Fancy
Kino Kimino
Kellie MacDougall, mxdwn
Lido Pimienta
Mallrat
The Marías
Ness Nite
Amanda Hatfield, BrooklynVegan
Cut Worms
Nate Rogers, FLOOD Magazine
Curtis Roush
MNKYBSNSS
El Mató A Un Policia Motorizado
Latin Indie
LNG/SHT
Lomelda
David Nadelle, Tiny Mix Tapes
Justin Bieggar, All Things Go
Virginia Croft, Alt Citizen
Sophia Gragg, mxdwn
Stasia de Tilly, Alt Citizen
Matt Matasci, mxdwn
Adam Rothbarth, Tiny Mix Tapes
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
Now, Now
Peter Bowman, All Things Go
For some, music is a requisite need; for others, it is simply a soundtrack playing behind their day-to-day routine. No matter how casual or invested one’s relationship with music is, we have all had “Who’s this?” moments.
It is our hope that The Music Blogger’s Guide To SXSW will spark a few for you.
I would like to give a huge thanks to all of our contributing bloggers for shining a light on their favorite up-and-coming artists from this year’s festival.
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Melbourne, Australia Soul
Play song Listen to “Pain And Misery”
Tenderness is at the heart of The Teskey Brothers’ sound, the Melbourne blues band taking proud cues from the likes of soul music pioneers Otis Redding and Sam Cooke and weaving them into something of their very own—a sort of folk blues born out of Melbourne’s Yarra Valley, well over 9,000 miles from Memphis. Thankfully, music travels both time and space. The Teskey Brothers’ 2017 self-produced and independently released debut album Half Mile Harvest swings with all the hallmarks of 1960s blues—the yearning in album standout “Crying Shame”, the tangible melancholy of “Pain and Misery” and the undeniable groove of “Louisa”, for example—all underscored by frontman Josh Teskey’s whiskey-soaked vocals. Keep an eye on these Yarra Valley lads, they’ve got some yarns to spin.
— Nastassia Baroni, Music Feeds
Check out The Teskey Brothers at SXSW
Nastassia Baroni
Music Feeds
Music Feeds / @musicfeeds
Nastassia Baroni is a Sydney-based music journalist and Head of Content for Evolve Media Australia, parent company of Australian music website Music Feeds. She’s passionate about homegrown Australian music, The West Wing and defending the merits of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Rider Doolittle
Boston, MA Rock
Play song Listen to “Acetone”
For those looking for someone who can relate to all those anxious feelings being pre-middle-aged in 2018 can engender, just head north east. Once you hit Boston, you’ll find Vundabar, a trio of DIY rockers who have been bottling tension on their own Gawk Records since 2013’s Antics. With sounds that jangle deep under the sludge of modern stress, the group does their best to laugh back the absurdity that surrounds us. There’s something oddly comforting in the way they bring their goofy nature to confront all too serious topics, just as their music feels somehow fun despite its darker overtones. Their new album, Smell Smoke, does even more to break down the walls between light and dark, pulling back their mask of kooky charm to reveal a band at their most honest—and most ripping.
— Ben Kaye, Consequence of Sound
Check out Vundabar at SXSW
Ben Kaye
Consequence of Sound / @idonttwit
Ben Kaye is News Editor for Consequence of Sound, a leading online magazine covering the latest in music, film, and television. Raised just outside Boston, educated on Long Island (Hofstra University), and living in Brooklyn, Ben has been covering music for some seven years now. In addition to helping run CoS’ daily news section, he contributes heavily to live coverage and features with both his pen and his camera. He has also worked in comic book journalism and owns what some would call an obscene amount of comics and memorabilia.
Neil Thompson
London, United Kingdom Pop
Play song Listen to “I'll Make This Fun”
North London indie-pop trio Girl Ray brought a ray of lo-fi sunshine to 2017 with the release of their debut album Earl Grey. Penned in part during their school A-levels exams, the record is filled with experimental rays of sunshine about boys, loneliness, and teen angst, expressed with a disarmingly carefree attitude through soaring vocal harmonies and effortless C86-style jangle-pop melodies.
— Tim Dickinson, The Blue Walrus
Check out Girl Ray at SXSW
Tim Dickinson
The Blue Walrus / @thebluewalrus
Tim is the editor of London-based new music blog The Blue Walrus, where he has spent more than a decade unearthing new and exciting bands from the UK and beyond. He also currently heads up the music section of new media publication The Descrier, and you will find him at gigs hunting for unicorns in and around the British capital.
Maclay Heriot
Sydney, Australia Rock
Play song Listen to “Let Me Down Easy”
Gang of Youths are Australia’s most decorated band of 2017, deservedly taking away four ARIAs (that’s the Australian Recording Industry Association Awards) for their second album Go Farther In Lightness. While accolades aren’t necessarily indicative of caliber, in this instance they’re an affirmation that this Sydney band is on to something uniquely powerful. Though they could, and will, fill stadiums with their epic sound, placing the moniker of ‘stadium’ rock on a Gang Of Youths record would be diminishing. They are reaching for something more—an exploration and expression of the human experience, as told through the cathartic power of rock. From their debut record to its magnificent follow-up Gang of Youths—led by magnetic songwriter and frontman David Le’aupepe—run the gambit of emotions: from heartbreak and despair to yearning, hope and ultimately redemption. As a listener you cannot help come away feeling somewhat healed by the process. It’s also something you, quite frankly, have to experience in a live setting. For Dave’s on-stage sashay alone. Trust me.
Check out Gang of Youths at SXSW
Wisse Kodde
Brooklyn, NY Rock
Play song Listen to “Sometimes”
The music of Hypoluxo is built at just the right speed for SXSW: the right amount of groove and jangle to keep you standing on your tired feet, plus just the right amount of laid back vocals to pair with your beer and tacos. It was their 2016 album If Language that first caught my ears, and then their 2017 EP Taste Buds that really got me to stick around. Listening to both of those releases as I write this, I keep drifting off to daydream. But that is exactly what I want from my music in 2018. Lose yourself in their stories or your own but Hypoluxo makes music that takes you away for a moment. Catch them live this week—your feet and your mind will thank you.
— Brandon Bogajewicz, The Burning Ear
Check out Hypoluxo at SXSW
Brandon Bogajewicz
The Burning Ear / @theburningear
For over 9 years Brandon Bogajewicz has been rambling about music he like on The Burning Ear. One of his favorite things in the world is connecting people with bands and songs that deserve more attention. Over the years The Burning Ear has hosted numerous showcases at SXSW, a series of live shows in Los Angeles, and even made a few t-shirts. More recently the website has evolved into an analog counterpart called Vinyl Moon which presses the bands he loves most on vinyl every month. He’s been lucky to work with all 5 of the bands he writes about in this booklet, and releases their music on vinyl. Brandon’s favorite part of the music industry is creating a small but happy family of music makers and music cheerleaders.
Austin, TX Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Game Time 3”
While Austin, TX. may be a hotbed for up-and-coming indie artists, the city’s rap scene is just now coming into the Texas spotlight due to a rapper who only recently turned 17 years old. Quin NFN is an Austin native who has only recently begun making music, and in the short time that he has been releasing music—originally made for him and his friends—he has set the streets of the Lone Star State’s capital on fire with his refreshingly organic take on Southern trap music. He is quickly becoming known for his ability to vividly portray the realities of his life in the streets using quick-witted wordplay and hard-hitting metaphors. The young MC has been gaining attention from notable regional publications with the independent release of music videos and singles via SoundCloud. Quin’s social media following has been growing at a remarkable rate due to consistent support from Southern blogs and Texas based artists alike.
— Jake Markow, Dirty Glove Bastard
Check out Quin NFN at SXSW
Jake Markow
Dirty Glove Bastard
Dirty Glove Bastard / @DGBastard
Jake Markow is a junior at the University of Houston majoring in Public Relations. He currently writes for Elevator and Dirty Glove Bastard, focusing on up and coming hip-hop artists. Born in California, he got his start in music through playing and tour managing bands. After moving to Texas for college, Jake transitioned into producing for rap artists. Jake’s favorite artists are John Mayer and Young Thug, and he was voted “Most Likely To Be In Your Bae’s Headphones’ in high-school.
Shervin Lainez
Nashville, TN Rock
Play song Listen to “Your Dog”
Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, is poised to become bedroom-pop’s newest star—she cultivated a devoted fanbase through Bandcamp and released her first record with Orchid Tapes, the NYC label that launched (Sandy) Alex G, Julia Brown, and Ricky Eat Acid. Her musical lineage is enviable, as an NYU student by way of Nashville—home of two most vibrant music scenes in the country. We love bedroom pop because it’s confessional and interior, like our own secrets sung back to us. Soccer Mommy delivers that to us in spades (“You smell like cigarettes and how chocolate tastes/It makes me wanna die but I guess I can wait” she sings in “Death By Chocolate”). But she also brings an unabashed bite to a genre that has been almost exclusively defined by some element of softness and shyness. “I don’t want to be your fucking dog,” she declares on a track from her upcoming album Clean. The song makes lo-fi anthemic, recalling “Fuck and Run”-era Liz Phair. It’s hard to create music that can embody both of these seemingly contradictory things, and if Soccer Mommy can do that this early in her career, there’s no limits on what she might deliver.
— Nikki Barnhart, Alt Citizen
Check out Soccer Mommy at SXSW
Nikki Barnhart
Alt Citizen
Alt Citizen / @altcitizen
Nikki Barnhart lives and writes in New York City, where she works in book publishing, and reminisces about her glory days as the music director of her college radio station.
3_56am
Play song Listen to “Joccin”
Every year, I scour the official SXSW showcase list, listen to the locals and pick out ten to fifteen favorites for an article. During these marathons, dozens of songs make the short list. Only a few force me to reconsider a genre. The opening bass line of Magna Carda’s “The Root” did exactly that. It’s everything I love about hip-hop: exceptional production, neck snapping beats, and lyrics full of power and meaning. Lead MC Megz Kelli’s weaving, wandering flow perfectly complements her smooth, jazzy backing band and keyboardist/producer Dougie Do’s laser guided production. The easiest comparison is pre-“Things Fall Apart” Roots blended with Lauyrn Hill’s honesty and a splash of Left Eye’s unique style. The best thing to come out of Austin hip hop since Riders Against the Storm, Magna Carda is a group that demands your attention.
— Bill Tucker, The Austinot
Check out Magna Carda at SXSW
Bill Tucker
The Austinot
The Austinot / @theAustinot
Jerseyian turned Austinite Bill Tucker writes words for a number of sites and publications. He currently serves as Lead Blogger for The Austinot (hyper-local lifestyle blog), as a columnist for skirmishfrogs.com (retro gaming), and contributor to Texas Highways Magazine. His past credits include the Entertainment Weekly Blogging Community, and penning film reviews for a variety of sites and outlets. He enjoys video games, craft beer, Austin’s incredibly vibrant music scene, and convincing his friends “Dr. Strangelove” is one of the greatest films of all time.
Edmonton, Canada Rock
Play song Listen to “Try ;-)”
For those who don’t know her yet, Jessica Jalbert’s Faith Healer is one of Western Canada’s most lauded acts of the last few years. That may bring to mind visions of prairies and mountains, but Faith Healer operates in another lane from that type of troubadour.
Her songwriting recalls the past with a mix of wistfulness and humour, touching on soft-rock and psych-pop with the odd guitar freakout mixed into synths and gentle strums. 2017’s Try 😉 (yes, that’s an emoji in the title) she jokes about astrology and lack of motivation over bobbing bass lines, synth haze and varying guitar hijinks. It’s a soothing sound that stays memorable with its wit. That may be in part thanks to forming a permanent band around the project, a comfortable, clearly well-attuned cast including longtime collaborator Renny Wilson. Between their chemistry on stage and comfort coming from time spent playing out since their latest LP, it’s a pretty great time to catch Faith Healer for yourself.
— Colin Gallant, BeatRoute
Check out Faith Healer at SXSW
Colin Gallant
BeatRoute
BeatRoute / @BeatRouteAB
Colin is a writer, editor, show-booker and not-for-profit worker from Calgary, AB.
While he hates writing about himself, he loves coming up with nice words to say about other people, facilitating opportunities for developing artists, and boosting others up on his surprisingly broad shoulders.
He wrote about excellent bands that are playing this year at SXSW, and would cry tears of joy if you made the time to go see them.
Stefanie Vinsel
Austin, TX Americana
Play song Listen to “Watching From a Distance”
Austin’s own David Ramirez can convey quite a lot with his careful, smoky vocals–joys and burdens, regrets and possibilities, lust and longing. Whether deeply personal or stunningly universal, he writes melodies and stories that dig into your nervous system and remain etched there for a long time. His most recent outing, We’re Not Going Anywhere, is no exception. The spacious, meditative collection of songs reflects on Ramirez’s Mexican American heritage through the lens of our current climate. From the expansive synth-driven sounds of the album’s lead single “Watching from a Distance” to its striking piano-led closer, We’re Not Going Anywhere demonstrates range and maturity from the Americana artist. He’s honed his craft, cut his teeth on the road and written stories that are much larger than a single human experience. He brings all this with him to the stage, making his live performances as gripping as their recorded counterparts. Be sure to catch him for a moment of rumination in a week of chaos.
— Lauren McKinney, The Wild Honey Pie
Check out David Ramirez at SXSW
Lauren McKinney
The Wild Honey Pie
The Wild Honey Pie / @@thewildhoneypie
One of The Wild Honey Pie’s founding members, Lauren has spent the past seven years winding her way through the world of music journalism and marketing. In addition to being a longtime contributor and editor for the site, she has taken on roles within artist management – previously at Red Light Management and currently at Foundations Music, leading their in-house marketing team. All the while, she’s stayed true to The Wild Honey Pie’s ethos of music discovery, promoting up-and-coming artists from across the musical spectrum and absorbing songs and sounds from as many genres as possible.
Dokkum, Netherlands Rock
Play song Listen to “Half Aryan”
The folly of youth is often offset by a conviction in following one’s chosen path and being unafraid to do things your own way. And so it is with The Homesick, three cheeky young scamps from The Netherlands. They’ve perfected a set of gritty, noisepop vignettes with real steel; songs about Dark Age Christian martyrdom (St. Boniface), food habits (Eater Of Meat), and teenage religion (The Best Part Of Being Young Is Falling In Love With Jesus) wouldn’t be most band’s idea of cracking the mainstream, but like I said. The folly of youth.
The trio have cannily repurposed a lot of classic, off-kilter music, mixing bratty garage rock with a sense of the absurd, all the while displaying remarkable pop nous for ones so young. And, like all great pop, they take aim at several targets and hit pretty much all of them on their debut album Youth Hunt; party anthems, giddy hooks, and distorted noise all surface at some point, judiciously used and wonderfully executed.
— Derek Robertson, Drowned In Sound
Check out The Homesick at SXSW
Derek Robertson
Drowned In Sound / @DrownedinSound
Derek Robertson is a freelance music writer, editor, and digital journalist with over ten years’ experience contributing to a variety of publications, both in print and online. Having written for the likes of the Guardian, the Independent, the Quietus, Clash, Loud & Quiet, and Le Cool, as well as a three-year stint as the English Editor of PERDIZ magazine, he is now Editor In Chief at Drowned In Sound, where he oversees editorial direction and is involved in digital strategy. He also contributes to Subbacultcha, a Dutch independent music and art platform devoted to emerging artists, and provides content for several internationally renowned festivals.
SHANE GONZALES
Compton, CA Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to Buddy
23-year-old Simmie Sims, aka Buddy, has been working his way through the industry for a minute now. Breaking through last year with a pair of well received EPs, he’d been working towards a career in performance since hitting the stage in musicals such as The Wiz and Dreamgirls from the age of seven. The Compton rapper spent his teenage years as the protege of Pharrell Williams, signing to his i am OTHER imprint and releasing the Idle Time mixtape, which included features from an all star cast including Kendrick Lamar, Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke.
In 2017 he demonstrated his artistic maturity through the uplifting melodies of ‘Shine’ and two subsequent EPs, Ocean & Montana produced by Kaytranada and Magnolia with Mike N Keys. Collectively the releases showcase Buddy as a diverse vocalist, applying both rapped and sung vocals to soulful beats that pay homage to his West Coast hip-hop heritage while embracing the youthful, carefree spirit of a late afternoon absorbing the Californian sun.
— Grant Brydon, CLASH Magazine
Check out Buddy at SXSW
Grant Brydon
CLASH Magazine
CLASH Magazine / @clash_music
When he’s not working on his falsetto in the shower and trying to win rings for the Raptors on 2K, UK-based writer Grant Brydon is Hip-hop editor of CLASH Magazine. Over the past twelve months his adventures have included a late-night drive through Houston with Travis Scott and an afternoon on an Irish golf course with Gucci Mane, both of which graced the cover of the magazine. He also curates CLASH’s Spotify and Apple Music playlists, which will get your thumbs stretching for the fire emoji.
Adama Jalloh
Dagenham, United Kingdom Jazz
Play song Listen to “Fussin' and Fightin'”
Hailing from across the pond comes Zara McFarlane and her golden voice that makes one weep tears of joy, pain, and ecstasy all at once. Her self-produced take on Neo-Jazz jettisons you to a state of pure soulful bliss, like you’re sitting at a coffee shop in a far-off place sipping on the best coffee you’ve ever had. Every one of her track has an almost progressive nature to it, reflecting the spiritual jazz of the 70s blended with a mix of reggae and Afro-beat. Her debut EP IF YOU KNOW HER hit the scene in 2010 and garnered the attention of Gilles Peterson, who promptly helped get her signed to Brownswood Recordings. Since her debut she has continuously released some of the most beautiful music on the aforementioned imprint and melted hearts, minds, and souls all across the globe.
— Reese Hayward, CONTROL+ALT+DELIGHT
Check out Zara McFarlane at SXSW
Reese Hayward
CONTROL+ALT+DELIGHT
CONTROL+ALT+DELIGHT / @controlaltdelight
Born on the East Coast with a childhood forged in California, Reese Hayward can mostly be found brunching when he’s not watching kung-fu movies. He’s been a music writer for 3 years and counting and will literally go to any show as long they serve mojitos.
Tom McGeehan
Play song Listen to “Paranoia”
Once you start exploring the introspective, soft depths of Liza Anne Odachowski, it will be difficult to resurface to other, louder noise.
This brilliant indie singer-songwriter has been thoughtfully creating music for most of her life. Liza Anne picked up a guitar at 10 years old and released her first album, The Colder Months, when she was just 19. Her 2015 sophomore album Two remains revered by critics and outlets. For fans, it’s been a humbling experience to wait for more.
Hours before SXSW begins, Liza Anne will finally release her third album, Fine But Dying. Her 11 latest treasures, including two new enthralling singles “Closest To Me” and “Paranoia,” were recorded in the La Frette Studio in Paris.
Fans of The Oh Hellos should race to see this young musician as she kicks off her sweeping North American tour in Austin. But first, listen to “The Colder Months” and “Take It Back.”
— Cassie Morien, Indie Shuffle
Check out Liza Anne at SXSW
Cassie Morien
Indie Shuffle / @indieshuffle
Austin-based journalist Cassie Morien has been covering music since 2002. After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida, Morien served as an editor for Boca Raton magazine until she couldn’t stand one more second of Florida’s swamps and sunburns. She finally escaped to Texas in 2013.
Morien is a staff writer for Indie Shuffle and contributing writer for Teeth Magazine. She also serves as the official blogger for SunFest Music Festival. When she’s not damaging her eardrums, Morien can be found tweeting for tech giants at INK Communications Co. She is madly in love with hashtags, music festivals, milkshakes, synth-pop, and the human race.
Ian Laidlaw
Melbourne, Australia Rock
Play song Listen to “A Quality of Mercy”
Perhaps the most special thing as a music fan is to stumble onto something so special that it defines the way you listen to music from that day forth. And with that, go to a quiet place and take a listen to the debut album from RVG. The Australian band are crafting a sound that seems predestined if you spent any time listening to the Go-Betweens; the song structures are similar, especially when it comes to the textural layers the band apply to each track. But, the power of the music seems to pour from the lyrics penned by Romy Vager. Lines like “staring at the ceiling/feeling numb” or “I wasn’t sad, but I wasn’t happy” seem as if they could have been written by any one of us; this makes their music personal, and yet common to all of us. Thus, great songs with lyrics will leave listeners with something special to take home with them when this week has passed.
— Nathan Lankford, Austin Town Hall
Check out RVG at SXSW
Nathan Lankford
Austin Town Hall / @austintownhall
Nathan Lankford is a 8th Grade teacher by day, and a music writer/record label owner by night. He has been active in the music community both in Austin and beyond since 2002, always trying to promote the music that’s near and dear to him. Nathan fashions himself as a fan of the best unpopular music around.
Jennifer Cheng
Seoul, South Korea Electronic
Play song Listen to “Intelligentsia”
CIFIKA made her presence known very quickly with the release of her first EP, INTELLIGENTSIA. Even though it was released at the end of 2016, it has crept around and is recognized as one of the strong new voices in electronic music. The genre is filled with many amazing artists and CIFIKA is already making an impact.
Her performance with Naver OnStage proved that her music isn’t stuck inside the studio and experiencing her music live could be a life changing event for her fans. Since INTELLIGENTSIA, CIFIKA has released two singles that show growth and expertise. CIFIKA might be exploring on each release, but she’s creating a stellar discography.
— Chris Park, Korean Indie
Check out CIFIKA at SXSW
Chris Park
Korean Indie / @koreanindie
Chris Park is an Editor at Large for Korean Indie. He has been writing about Korean independent music since 2008 and continues to try and introduce new artists and bands to audiences around the world.
Marcus Maddox
Play song Listen to Tristen
With four albums to her name, Tristen has demonstrated her range and revealed her remarkable talent within the Americana space. Teardrops and Lollipops (2009) and Charlatans at the Garden Gate (2011) are both unwavering collections, careening through authoritative strums, razor sharp lyrics and percussion to drive them both. These albums, like the rest of her catalogue, are catchy, but never venture into being easy. Easy to like, yes. But they offer a piercing depth that resonates beyond the often tranquil or appealing melodies. Her next album, Caves, took that same intensity and ventured into a more pop-instrumental territory, with synth sounds and synthetic percussion adding their flourish below her notable vocals. Her most recent release, the remarkable Sneaker Waves, seems to have combined elements from all her previous outings. As synthetic elements meet organic warmth, Tristen is both expressive and intimate, steadfast and conflicted. The songs dive headfirst into a world of interpersonal dynamics and expression, and her live performance follows that same journey. I highly recommend catching her in Austin if you can!
Check out Tristen at SXSW
Moa Romanova
Stockholm, Sweden Rock
Play song Listen to “Oh Me I'm Never”
Stockholm based ShitKid has been (not so) quietly putting out some of the most disruptive indie rock we’ve heard since 2016. The PNKSLM album brings you into a punk basement show with influences that range from The Ramones to The White Stripes. ShitKid started her career in an all-female punk outfit that has definitely informed her current vehicle. Her enigmatic presence and unique sound also helped her win the “Best Rock Album” at Sweden’s 2018 independent music awards. If you want to get your face rocked off, make sure to check her out this SXSW.
— Alexandra Berenson, Vinyl Me, Please
Check out ShitKid at SXSW
Alexandra Berenson
Vinyl Me, Please
Vinyl Me, Please / @VinylMePlease
Alexandra Berenson works as the A&R for Vinyl Me, Please. She runs the Rising Program and currently lives in Denver, CO.
Melbourne, Australia Pop
Play song Listen to “Love Me Back”
WILSN may be a Nashville-based artist these days, but she cut her chops in Melbourne venues, famously playing her first shows just four years ago supporting late soul legend, Charles Bradley. An impressive live debut for WILSN, no doubt, but it’s no stroke of good luck. It’s all down to the power of the voice and the swagger of the songs, particularly 2015’s breakout hit “Unmeet You”. Fast forward a few years and WILSN’s 2017 ballad “Love Me Back” sees the artist build on the soulful melancholy of her debut and ramping it up a few notches with a modern pop finish. From Geelong to Nashville, it’s clear the evolution of WILSN is one to witness live.
Check out WILSN at SXSW
Adam Moroz
Austin, TX Pop
Play song Listen to “Young Adult Fiction”
When I first met Mobley, it was before a rainy outside set at Austin’s Spiderhouse Ballroom. For 15 minutes, he dragged boxes of gear on stage. Loop pedals and samplers. Two guitars, a series of keyboards, and a full drum kit. On a rain-slicked roof of a neighboring café, a tech aimed a projector at the stage. All this for one man playing an exciting, soulful blend of pop, hip hop and R&B. And man, did he put on a show. Ablaze with lighting, TV monitors, and pure theatrics, the small stage exploded into a virtual amphitheater and shook raindrops from the trees. Watching Mobley dash from keys to electric guitar to sampler, all while engaging the audience in wonderful ways, will be the highlight of my SXSW experience. Make it yours as well.
Check out Mobley at SXSW
Cara Robbins
Los Angeles, CA Rock
Play song Listen to “Stronger”
Cecilia Della Peruti has been making music as Gothic Tropic since 2011, but as charming as her early rough’n’ready singles and EP were, it was last year’s debut album Fast Or Feast that really distilled her power pop, angular guitar lines, and cheeky nods to Girl Group shimmer and sensual R&B into something special. Punchy yet lighthearted, her songs have an infectious groove – a kind of cosmic indie pop – and yet she’s not afraid to tackle serious subjects; old flames, new loves, and self-assertion are all dissected in her own, unique way.
Several tours as a hired gun – most recently for Beck – have allowed her to perfect her stagecraft; live, the songs fly, a proper band adding real heft to her music. A little polish goes a long way, and from classic 70s melodies to jangly earworms, Fast Or Feast cements her talent as songwriter and guitarist. It might have taken her a while to finally make a record, but it was very much worth the wait.
Check out Gothic Tropic at SXSW
Bronwyn Walls
Austin, TX Rock
Play song Listen to “Petal”
The term “shoegaze” is a nebulous genre. Any band with a whiff of 80’s goth, moody new wave or breathy, dreamy vocals tend to get plunked into the category. Less My Bloody Valentine in favor of early Death Cab, Hovvdy creates grand sonic landscapes from simple instrumentation, hushed vocals, and layer upon layer of lo-fi fuzz. Songs like “Petal” and the folky “Cranberry” lift the veil to reveal simple, emotive acoustic guitar and rhythm tracks while “Pretend” and “Left Out” layer the angst with electronic backbeats and far off electric squall. The result is like wrapping up in a warm blanket on a dour, grey morning. Comforting, dreamy, and full of breathless anticipation for the clouds to eventually part.
Check out Hovvdy at SXSW
Dany Morales
Houston, TX Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Artificial Pt. 2”
With youth and plenty of guile on his side, Tedy Andreas reps the newer class of Houston rappers. Storytelling and stacking metaphors are two of Andreas’ biggest strengths. Not long after he broke out with “Mercedes” in late 2015 did Andreas venture further out West, riding a style of production that felt dreamlike, almost entirely lucid. It’s a hazy kind of rap style to boot, making Andreas a rapper who is at ease cultivating a lifestyle of flourish. Most of his songs make mention of trying to make it as a bit of an outcast, from driving his sister’s Civic to hustling up and down busy commerce sections of the state’s biggest city. What he brings to SXSW is a clever outlook on not just rhyming but relaxed, focused songwriting. In a city where everyone believes they have next, Tedy Andreas is shifting names out of the way and doing his best to put his name at the top of the list.
— Brandon Caldwell, Day & A Dream
Check out Tedy Andreas at SXSW
Day & A Dream
Day & A Dream / @dayandadream
Brandon Caldwell is the editor-in-chief of Day & A Dream, a Houston music & culture website. His work has been featured in Complex, Billboard, VIBE, UPROXX, the Houston Press, Village Voice, DJBooth and more.
Austin Sylvest
Play song Listen to Lo Moon
The trio of artists who comprise Lo Moon first collectively emerged in late 2016 with their debut track “Loveless,” and have entranced the indie scene with their evocative soundscapes ever since. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Lowell had recently moved from New York to Los Angeles when his future bandmates — bassist/keyboardist Crisanta Baker and guitarist Sam Stewart —
fell in love with his song “Loveless.” A fateful garage jam session arose, and the rest is history. Together the three talents weave lyrically lush and darkly atmospheric guitar-driven alternative pop-rock. Emerging from anonymity in LA to the attention of tastemakers and the blogosphere, Lo Moon is in demand and anticipating the release of their self-titled full length album, featuring Death Cab for Cutie frontman Chris Walla on production duties. The vibe gives a distinctive nod to shimmery retro synth pop, while retaining the dynamic narrative focus of Lo Moon’s singer/songwriter soul.
— Katey Ceccarelli, EARMILK
Check out Lo Moon at SXSW
Katey Ceccarelli
EARMILK
EARMILK / @EARMILK
Katey Ceccarelli is the dance/electronic editor for the online music publication EARMILK.
Play song Listen to “Running”
In The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, Jessica Hopper writes of Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, saying that her voice posted “the bail from my teen grunge prison.” A generation later, Bully and frontwoman Alicia Bognanno are doing the same. While the Nashville outfit definitely takes some cues from modern-day indie rock, Bully are also a standing testament to grunge’s young intrinsic appeal.
— Andrew Karpan, All Things Go
Check out Bully at SXSW
Andrew Karpan
All Things Go
All Things Go / @AllThingsGo
Andrew Karpan is a writer based in New York. He believes Pavement was the last good boy band.
San Fransico, CA Rock
Play song Listen to “Yam Yam”
Despite their name, No Vacation never fails to whisk us away on a wistful and leisurely holiday with their lo-fi surf rock and bedroom dream pop. The San Francisco transplants, now based in Brooklyn, formed in 2015 as a dorm room collaboration. They released two mixtapes before going on a year long hiatus. No Vacation’s members reassembled last year on a five track EP entitled Intermission, out on Topshelf Records. Standout tracks like “Yam Yam’ and “Mind Fields” are worn and soothing, like a light sea spray on a warm summer’s day. Their wavy swirling sun-bleached pop coasts along intimately, like a chaste heart-to-heart or a sincere pinky swear promise. But No Vacation’s quaint and idyllic music can also exude a brisk and headstrong vitality, like Day Wave or Hazel English’s aching indie rock tucked into Yumi Zouma’s wispy purling dream pop.
— Amy Huang, I Heart Moosiq
Check out No Vacation at SXSW
I Heart Moosiq
I Heart Moosiq / @iheartmoosiq
Amy graduated with a master’s degree in comparative biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley before discovering how deep her passion for music ran. This never-ending obsession lead her to create I Heart Moosiq, a San Francisco based blog that accentuates exceptional new music and highlights noteworthy artists, bands, and producers from all across the genres. She spends a profuse amount of her time listening to and writing about music. A lot of her spare time is spent attending shows and concerts, particularly ones at intimate venues where emerging artists are showcased. I Heart Moosiq is a rewarding experience and a heartfelt endeavor she hopes to continue for much time to come.
Colin Medley
Windsor, Canada Rock
Play song Listen to “Everybody Knows”
Why should rock be so serious? Quirky, queer and lots of fun, Partner are a Canadian duo with Mike Myers in their hearts, making softly rollicking ‘70s pastiche complete with guitar solo breakdowns. These are songs about struggling to wake up, getting stoned and chasing crushes to the gym. Their debut In Search of Lost Time is aptly Proustian – a few seconds of “Comfort Zone” will fill you with memories of when Weezer was fun and when skits were something new that people put on records. It’ll savage your cynicism and have you reconnecting with long lost friends in no time.
Check out Partner at SXSW
Gold Coast, Australia Pop
Play song Listen to “Adore”
Australian singer/songwriter Amy Shark wears her heart on her sleeve. Her frank and personal lyrics have been likened to Lorde’s, and carry a nostalgia that traces back to adolescent loves and existential prom nights spent staring at the stars. Her mega-hit “Adore” that garnered her the #2 spot on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2016 was just the beginning—Amy’s debut EP Night Thinker displayed a sharp tongue alongside her breathy vocals and guitar. Shark’s debut LP is on the horizon and she’s amassed a handful of tunes with which to show off her guns. She’s also been in the studio with Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus, and if that isn’t enough to convince you of her impressionability, I’m not sure we can be friends.
— Ingrid Rosales, We Are: The Guard
Check out Amy Shark at SXSW
Ingrid Rosales
We Are: The Guard
We Are: The Guard / @@wearetheguard
I’ve been covering the L.A. music scene for half a decade. When I’m not hunting down talent, I’m writing about it and talking about it.
Barcelona, Spain Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Jacaranda”
As Bad Gyal, vocalist Alba Farelo celebrates her deep love for dancehall, riding rhythms that mutate into irresistible melodic dispatches from her mind, sung in her native Catalan as well as Spanish and English. Garnering international notoriety thanks to her 2016 rework of Rihanna’s “Work” — titled “Pai,” her own slang word for money — Alba slowly delivered a stream of catchy-as-hell club singles, soaked in digital sheen and deep bass rumbles. With a fresh EP under her belt, she’s already made a huge impression at international festivals, where her shows inevitably turn into sweaty, smoke-filled parties; it’s here that Bad Gyal’s warbled auto-tuned vision comes to life.
— Marcos Hassan, Remezcla
Check out Bad Gyal at SXSW
Marcos Hassan
Remezcla / @REMEZCLA
Marcos Hassan is a culture journalist and musician based in Mexico City. Currently, he is a regular contributor to Remezcla and Noisey En Español. Since 2007, his work has appeared on Noisey, Tiny Mix Tapes and Daily Bandcamp as well as Mexican publications like Warp, Indie Rocks, Chilango, and Letras Libres, among others. He also records and plays music as Caos Del Té.
New York, NY Pop
Play song Listen to “Hard To Be Still”
Annie Hart is perhaps best known as a founding member of sophisticated dream-pop trio Au Revoir Simone, but during the band’s five-year hiatus the Brooklyn-based artist quietly found her own voice and finally released her debut solo LP in 2017, the critically acclaimed Impossible Accomplice. Hart’s post-new wave synth-pop sound will feel familiar to fans of her previous work, but on her own the music is more intimate and defiantly vulnerable.
Check out Annie Hart at SXSW
Andreas Bjørseth
Oslo, Norway Electronic
Play song Listen to “Pretty Baby”
Oslo’s Sassy 009 don’t seem like they care whether you dance, sing, flail or do all at once. They are making music their way and you can get involved or get out of their way. Dissonant beats, fuzzed out rapping, and floating flute solos are just some of the oddball elements you can expect on their debut EP, 2017’s Do You Mind. “Pretty Baby” is a throbbing hangover of a dance song that makes you want an Advil and a double shot in equal measure. Conversely, “Are You Leaving” is that elastic cloud you float on after that double shot. I’ve never seen them live and have no idea what to expect but there is no way I’m missing a chance to see them live at SXSW. I want to see that flute solo live.
Check out Sassy 009 at SXSW
Eryn Brooke
Play song Listen to “Sweet Little Messages”
Soda shop soul with a sweet, delightful tone, Charlie Faye & the Fayettes transcend the term “retro act”. A 60’s era girl group plucked straight from a DeLorean, Faye and her trio of tender vocalists weave authentic soul through tight arrangements and beautiful harmonies. Tracks like “Sweet Little Messages” burst with the innocence and blushing love found only in Archie comic books and reruns of Happy Days, while “Coming Round the Bend” speaks to the changing tides of life via a Ronettes-style thumper. It’s not all bubblegum and chocolate malt—like the best of the genre, Charlie Faye attacks tougher topics like neighborhood gentrification and the tangled emotions of failed love. Their music may seem trite to the jaded, but in a world full of doom and gloom, the Fayette’s sound is refreshing, infectious and welcome.
Check out Charlie Faye & the Fayettes at SXSW
Andrea Behrends
Nashville, TN Bluegrass
Play song Listen to “Arizona Fire”
Nashville’s Becca Mancari is 1/3 of the band Bermuda Triangle (with Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard and Jesse Lafser), and she’s also a solo artist who released her debut album Good Woman in 2017. The album was produced by Kyle Ryan of Kacey Musgraves’ band, and it got a nice amount of attention in country circles, but it was sadly overlooked in indie rock circles where it would probably go over pretty well. Becca’s voice, songwriting style, and production style recall a handful of folky indie rock contemporaries, including Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, and others in that realm. When she does have traditional country signifiers, she usually throws in a twist, like how her pedal steel player uses effects and reverb, creating an air of psychedelia. She strikes a really nice balance between sounding familiar and innovative, and I have a feeling she’s going to have no trouble winning over crowds at this year’s SXSW.
— Andrew Sacher, Brooklyn Vegan
Check out Becca Mancari at SXSW
Andrew Sacher
Brooklyn Vegan / @brooklynvegan
Andrew Sacher has been writing about music at BrooklynVegan since 2010, but he’s been obsessing over it since hearing The Beach Boys at age 6. In addition to writing, he’s helped curate events and playlists. He has represented BrooklynVegan at SXSW for the past five years, as well as at music festivals like Firefly and Lockn’, and on BBC Radio 1. He is currently a senior editor at BV and living in New York City.
KYLE MULLARKY
Play song Listen to “WANT”
BOYTOY is a New York City band that combines east coast and west coast vibes with punk rock and The Spice Girls. Their chaotic fuzzed-out sound and painfully stylish looks will make your ears bleed and your heart throb. Created by surfing and smoking buddies Saara Untracht-Oakner and Glenn Van Dyke in 2013, they’re now joined by drummer Chase Noelle from Thelma & The Sleaze and just finished recording their sophomore LP with Lena Simon, bassist of La Luz. These are some rockers that know how to handle a goddamn instrument. It’s the kind of music you don’t take home to mama, but you do anyways. Swing your hips along and let yourself go postal for BOYTOY.
— Elena Childers, Alt Citizen
Check out BOYTOY at SXSW
Elena Childers
Elena Childers was born & raised in Pittsburgh, PA, by a punk rock drummer from the mountains of Kentucky and a rebellious scientist from the capital of Chile. Now living in Brooklyn, NY—she’s a rebel with no cause needed and a podcast host/ music journalist for BTRtoday and Alt Citizen. Catch her backstage at all the coolest underground shows in NYC.
Sydney, Austrailia Americana
Play song Listen to “Stargazer”
Having made her name as the honey-voiced vocalist of ’00s indie types Howling Bells – an Aussie troupe armed with swooning noir hooks and dark romance to spare – Juanita Stein stepped out on her own last year with debut solo release America. Spinning tales of sorrow and betrayal and turning them into something exquisite, it channels a Lana Del Rey-esque sense of spine-tingling melancholy, guiding you on a sultry trip through the dark side of the American dream. Spending the latter part of 2017 touring Europe’s arenas as handpicked support to The Killers, Juanita’s intimate storytelling might be of a thoroughly different sort to that of her Vegas pals but these songs are no less dramatic. An old soul in the classic romantic tradition, she’s the sepia-tinged antidote to the bigger, brighter, faster headache of the modern world.
— Lisa Wright, DIY Magazine
Check out Juanita Stein at SXSW
DIY Magazine
DIY Magazine / @diymagazine
Lisa Wright is a London-based music journalist and gig promoter. Having written for NME between the years of 2009-2015, she now works as a staff writer for UK indie magazine DIY with additional bylines in the likes of Time Out, Noisey, The Guardian, The Independent and more. She also curates live events for DIY and runs longstanding club night Antidotes which has seen early shows from the likes of Wolf Alice, Slaves, Fat White Family and more.
Brooklyn, NY R & B
Play song Listen to “Some Mistakes”
Grammy-award winner Anna Wise first broke through to national audiences with her work on Kendrick Lamar’s highly acclaimed Good Kid, M.A.A.D City and To Pimp A Butterfly albums, but her story doesn’t start and end there. The Berklee trained vocalist catapulted herself from being part of Sonnymoon to a soloist with a relaxed yet at times powerful timbre. She’s spectral in that way, building off of years of training at conservatory schools and dabbling in experimentation. Wise has been more than capable to be a spellbinding singer and songwriter, especially after championing her self-worth on projects such as The Feminine: Act 1. Wise’s voice can fit into any realm and any form of possibility, such as last year’s “Coconuts” that found fun within an R&B/pop styling. Confident and breathtaking as a singer, Wise will lull fans in every time and leave them with a brand new memory every time she exits the stage.
Check out Anna Wise at SXSW
Cameron Wittig
Canowindra, Australia Pop
Play song Listen to “Heaven I Know”
Australian native Gordi tore us down and built us back up just two years ago with her EP Clever Disguise. That’s no easy feat: what’s even harder is shining in a genre where it is expected for a beat of a song to make you want to dance. Clearly, she has the ability to create a “pop” song that speaks to your heart and head and contains more depth than the usual lighthearted pop. At the moment it is Gordi who has the best model of blending folk and pop—take a listen to “Can We Work It Out” and see for yourself. Having toured with Asgeri and Bon Iver, we’re hoping that sooner rather than later people will catch on to this distinctive artist and it will be Gordi headlining her own shows.
— Beca Arredondo, We Are: The Guard
Check out Gordi at SXSW
Beca Arredondo
We Are: The Guard / @WeAreTheGuard
For Beca Arredondo, music has always been a part of her life. She’s been fortunate enough to be in a career that she loves, where discovering artists, writers, and working with amazing, talented people fuels her blood each and every day. You bet, she’s on the hunt for the next big thing.
Toronto, Canada Singer-Songwriter
Play song Listen to The Weather Station
Hailing from Canada, The Weather Station move like frostbitten skin dipped in mercury. Fueled by Tamara Lindeman’s muted, insular vocals delivered in sheepskin soft movements of air, the band creates clouds inside whatever space they reside, like an overcast Toronto afternoon. Their latest record, 2017s The Weather Station, is pungent—it’s thick, syrupy and rife with natural emotion but zero pretension. The band consists of bassist Ben Whiteley, pedal steel guitarist Adrian Cook and drummer Ian Kehoe. The trio provides a crescendo and a tension that hovers on the precipice, with enough pull to coax a listener away from the edge. There is a warmth that hides just above the freezing line, a barrier of sound to block the cold.
— Brian Furman, mxdwn
Check out The Weather Station at SXSW
Brian Furman
mxdwn / @mxdwn
Brian Furman is a writer originally from the kingdom of hopeless optimism that is Cleveland, OH. He has been writing professionally for 10+ years with multiple pieces of Fiction published in multiple mediums. He currently lives in Tampa, FL with his beautiful, and patient, wife, two children, dog, and cat. He loves his family, David Bowie, and the Cleveland Browns.. not necessarily in that order.
Itzel Alejandra Martinez
New York, NY Latin Rock
Play song Listen to “Dame Tu Mano (Abya Yala)”
Combo Chimbita is one of the hardest working bands you’ll ever see born and raised out of NYC. New Yorkers are already extremely ambitious, but combine that with the power of first-generation Colombians and you get a sound that’s already living in 2040. They take traditional sounds of Cumbia and combine it with synth, powerful vocals, and a guacharaca. The live experience will take you on a trip to the future where light shows penetrate your brain, intense melodies invade your body, and music unites us all. After SXSW the group will be continuing their tour to the west coast and eventually making their way back to NYC—you’re not going to want to miss Combo Chimbita.
— Elena Childers, BTRtoday
Check out Combo Chimbita at SXSW
BTRtoday
BTRtoday / @@breakthruradio
Jack McKain
Los Angeles, CA Pop
Play song Listen to “watch”
This young pop phenom broke onto the scene at the tender age of 13 when she uploaded her song “Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud to share with her dance teacher. Almost overnight, the song went viral and now boasts a hefty 38 million streams across all platforms. This past year we saw the release of her debut album don’t smile at me [Interscope Records], which she co-wrote with her brother Finneas, the other half of the project. With their dark, clever lyrics, undeniably catchy melodies, and Billie’s unmistakable style, this is one act you will not wanna miss at SXSW this year. Wherever they perform, we suggest arriving early because it will no doubt be packed to the brim.
— Grant Owens, We Found New Music
Check out Billie Eilish at SXSW
Grant Owens
We Found New Music
We Found New Music / @wfnm
WE FOUND NEW MUSIC is an artist discovery platform dedicated to introducing exceptional artists to music industry leaders and organizations. In the past 4 years, we have helped introduce artists through performance & interview sessions, blogs, radio shows, Concerts & DJ sets with today’s most relevant artists, including Billie Eilish, Kim Petras, FRENSHIP, and Bishop Briggs. We book the artists we discover at LA’s live music concept, The Peppermint Club. This will be WE FOUND NEW MUSIC’s fourth time presenting an official showcase at SXSW, this time, teaming up with The Peppermint Club, to create a unique 12 band lineup at The Palm Door on Sixth Street, on the evening of March 15th.
London, United Kingdom Rock
Play song Listen to Goat Girl
Goat Girl understand that rock & roll has always been at its most visceral when rolling around in the gutter. Their music has plenty of primordial sludge, but they forgo the short sharp blasts of punk for echo-heavy, reverb-drenched tunes that groove, the bastard children of garage rock and 1950’s Girl Group gold.
Debut single “Scum” didn’t make it past the two minute mark; in fact, only one of their first four songs did. They don’t like to waste words, delivering concise jabs to both the gut and the brain. But they have smarts and humour too, plus plenty of sleaze. “Touch my body, touch my soul / Touch that deep and disused hole” drawls singer Lottie on ‘Country Sleaze’, her deadpan, dead-eyed delivery all part of the charm. And when they’re taking inspiration from the likes of The Slits, Patti Smith, and Billie Holiday, you know they have impeccable credentials.
Check out Goat Girl at SXSW
Sydney, Austrailia Rock
Play song Listen to “Roman Candles”
Ethereal, bellowing guitar melodies characterize one of the most exciting rock acts to come out of Australia in quite some time. Death Bells hit you in the mouth with their brand of distorted guitar riffs and distinctly melancholy vocals. Their ability to arrange each piece of their band from synths and drums to guitar and bass so effortlessly really elevates their releases to the next level. Their most recent album, Standing at the Edge of the World, was released in 2017 but could have come out in 1987—the way their guitar rhythms kind of fade into the distance and then aggressively return like that of a new-wave band. One can dive in the middle and mosh, or simply stand in the back and smoke a cigarette—there is enjoyment to be had for every person at a Death Bells show.
Check out Death Bells at SXSW
Meyrem Bulucek
Vienna, Austria Avant / Experimental
Play song Listen to “Zoo”
Sometimes the most intriguing music comes out of an act trying to sound different from everyone else, breaking new ground. That’s how Austrian duo Leyya’s percussive-propelled single “Drumsolo” and their unique musical point of view came about. Sophie Lindinger and Marco Kleebauer love pop music, but they have also recognized the need to break out of the all-too-predictably structured pop music of today. Having released their second album Sauna ahead of SXSW 2018, they’ll come to Austin with the “Heat” of Lindinger’s beguiling, punctuated vocals and Kleebauer’s mesmerising beats. Their sound is a combination sure to keep bodies grooving into the wee hours.
— Mary Chang, There Goes The Fear
Check out Leyya at SXSW
Mary Chang
There Goes The Fear
There Goes The Fear / @tgtf
Mary Chang has been the owner and editor-in-chief of There Goes the Fear since 2010. Deeply passionate about spreading the word on good music, she has broadened TGTF’s original focus on UK artists, with the Web site now exploring acts from America, Ireland, Australia, Scandinavia, and more. Although based in Washington, DC, Mary has covered gigs and music festivals on three continents, relishing travel to discover music and experience live performances with the locals. She previously wrote for PopWreck(oning), quickly becoming their British music expert; DIY; and ClickMusic. Her favorite interviewee to date? Tom Chaplin. Mary’s day job is in scientific publishing.
Bronx, NY Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Already”
A heart-leading storyteller, Kemba’s music has evolved into a unique lane, a mix of rapping and singing over thoughtful, diverse beats. Formally known as YC the Cynic, Kemba has a conversational style, keeping a serious, artistic angle to his craft. His chameleon flow gives his songs robustness, adding a sense of adventure from verse to verse. Smooth rather than manic, Kemba is able to switch hats without sounding jumpy. The progression from record to record is obvious and encouraging as well, peaking with a couple of recent singles “LoveGoes” and “Delivert”. Mixing experimental foresight with 90s-and-older-school soul, this zone is ideal for Kemba and a place he sounds clearly comfortable. Political and cultural themes anchor 2016’s reinvention Negus, a sign that SXSW 2018 will be a ripe stage to try out what’s now for an artist that sounds like he’s right in the middle of his stride.
— Kevin McStravick, Operation Every Band
Check out Kemba at SXSW
Kevin McStravick
Operation Every Band
Operation Every Band / @OperEveryBand
Kevin McStravick started Operation Every Band in 2010, a site dedicated to reviewing every showcasing SXSW artist before the conference kicks off each March. Pairs well with spreadsheets, headphones and soul.
Athens, GA Rock
Play song Listen to Juan de Fuca
First things first, Juan de Fuca is a band, not a man. More importantly, it’s a band you’re going to scramble to catch during this year’s festival. The group recalls early 00s New York, before the hype blew it all out of proportion: the songs on their debut Solve/Resolve carry a wave of emotional crests, whilst still holding onto an effortless sense of cool that seeps through your speakers. But to rely upon those similarities does the band a great injustice, as their music draws from a bevy of influences. Whether you hear the Walkmen, Cursive or Jawbreaker, they’re drawing from the very lifeblood that defines modern indie rock, though they’re fashioning it in a style that is wholly their own. You won’t be able to skip a track on their debut record, so be sure not to skip a chance to catch them in the flesh at this year’s fest.
Check out Juan de Fuca at SXSW
Oxford, United Kingdom Rock
Play song Listen to “Deep Pockets”
If the internet is believed, Gaz Coombes is known more for his former facial hair choices than his musical accolades. Some would tell you this form of media flattery is meek and fake, and in this instance, they may be correct. Yet those muttonchops of the past would sport well on Coombes as he flexes his muscle on his upcoming solo album, World’s Strongest Man. Coombes has experienced a carnival’s worth of spectacles in his storied musical career: the potential to be a model and a television personality among them. So one has to assume that his latest release takes its name from his steely resolve to stay on the true path as musical ringmaster. He has tamed mod fashion, bucked pop trends, and carried the Britpop torch when many tried to extinguish it. You may have missed it leering at those sideburns; do not make that mistake twice.
— Justin Spicer, Tiny Mix Tapes
Check out Gaz Coombes at SXSW
Justin Spicer
Tiny Mix Tapes / @tinymixtapes
Justin Spicer has been a music journalist for 15 years, writing and editing for various websites, including Tiny Mix Tapes (Cerberus), KEXP, Bandcamp, and Brainwashed. When not writing about music, Justin covers games (video and board) and is currently chasing a Masters degree in Learning Design and Technology. He also has two young daughters sure to grace a SXSW showcase stage one day if their current songwriting acumen pans out, and a lovely wife who puts up with his many varied hobbies and pursuits. Justin would also like to take this opportunity to thank the myriad bands who are helping to redefine the music business in the 21st Century, especially those that continually send him their LPs, cassettes, CDs, and digital links. Justin would not be able to contribute to great happenings such as SXSW without the many musicians who keep his passion for music alive and well.
Photo: Beata Cervin
Pajala, Sweden Pop
Play song Listen to “Killers in a Ghost Town”
Having captured our black heart emoji hearts with their pop punk anthem “Sad Girls Club”, The Magnettes are onto something mischievously fun in bringing their special blend of Swedish sass to our ears. Their album Ugly Youth dug itself deep into our soundscape last year and it’s singles keep punching their way onto our Spotify playlists. We like to think of The Magnettes as “Icona Pop for the deep thinkers”. If Josie and The Pussycasts are Riverdale’s answer to hometown music heros, then think of The Magnettes being Westerburg High School’s pin-up girls with the Heathers as their biggest fans. Gearing up for their SXSW appearance this year, the renegade pop prowess of The Magnettes is most certainly one of our top picks for must-see shows this year in Austin. They’ve been favorited on our SXSW GO app for months.
— Raj Rudolph, EQ Music
Check out The Magnettes at SXSW
Raj Rudolph
EQ Music
EQ Music / @EQMusicBlog
Raj Rudolph has been an pop music obsessive ever since he heard Madonna’s iconic debut album. When he couldn’t stop playing “Music For The Masses” by Depeche Mode, he instantly knew that electronic and pop music would be his life-long passion. Raj is American born, but has lived in London since 2000. He created EQ Music Blog as a passion project from the ground up having interviewed some of the biggest names in pop like Gaga, Sia, Mika, Kelis, Robyn and every member of the Scissor Sisters. EQ Music is one of the UK’s longest running influential pop blogs, voting in BBC Sound and regularly hosting showcase nights for emerging electronic pop acts in the British capital. Raj is also a Program Manager for MTV/Viacom’s Global Entertainment Group as has freelanced as a digital producer for the likes of Google, Huffington Post, Vogue, GQ and WIRED.
Jenna Ledger
Montreal, Canada Rock
Play song Listen to “These 3 Things”
Montreal quartet Ought have been steadily building up a fanbase for their idiosyncratic output since the release of 2014’s More Than Any Other Day. Too dissonant and strange to fully feel at home in the indie rock spectrum, but too full of unexpectedly melodic and sweet moments to fully give in to post-punk, it found the group at an intriguing crossroads of their own making. Following it up with Sun Coming Down the next year, they now head into 2018 with the forthcoming release of third LP Room Inside The World. Headed up by the typically atypical contorted journey of “Disgraced In America” and “Desire”—a melancholy offering complete with a 70-piece choir—it’s safe to say Ought won’t be treading the well-worn path any time soon.
Check out Ought at SXSW
Tara Thomas
Washington DC Folk
Play song Listen to “Dreamcatchers”
Multi-instrumentalist Odetta Hartman is difficult to categorize, and rightfully so. She presents twangy images of old country that often build into a gorgeous uproar of sounds, each instrumental moment more beautiful and complicated than the last. There’s no need to rely on genre boundaries when the compositions you create mark territory not often travelled.
The songs on her debut album, 222, are oftentimes brief but pack an emotional, visceral punch, either building dynamically over their brief lifespan, gleefully tumbling through crunchy fuzz or maintaining an illusive sweetness throughout. All along, strings and electronic touches wrap these songs in a gorgeous haze, one that compliments her vocals as they warp and bend to meet the song. As a Manhattan native perhaps Odetta Hartman’s exploration of sound draws from the eclectic, unyielding energy of her hometown. The moments of clarity and harmony are often met with a stunning cacophony of musical friction. Most things in life have multiple sides and Odetta Hartman has mastered the art of expressing hers.
Check out Odetta Hartman at SXSW
Taken Care Of
Play song Listen to Suzi Wu
“I’m a 19-year-old female from the future trying to make America cyberpunk again.” That’s what Suzi Wu told Pigeons & Planes when we asked her to introduce herself for a feature published in January of 2018. Stylistically, her music is more pop than punk, but there’s an unapologetic, raw energy to the songs on her 2017 EP Teenage Witch. Unlike so much of the pop that dominates radio and charts, Wu’s modus operandi is in-your-face and unkempt, but in the most charming way possible. Just watch the video for “Taken Care Of” and you’ll get it. Suzi Wu is making music that’s catchy enough to be accessible on first listen, but she’s got an edge that really sets her apart. She’s the badass that pop music so desperately needs, and we can’t wait to see what she does next.
— Jacob Moore, Pigeons & Planes
Check out Suzi Wu at SXSW
Jacob Moore
Pigeons & Planes / @PigsAndPlans
Jacob Moore started Pigeons & Planes in his bedroom in October of 2008. He ran the website independently for years before joining Complex and running the site as an owned and operated property. Pigeons & Planes is a music brand that focuses on discovery, produces live shows, and creates original editorial, video, and social content around new music.
Play song Listen to “I'm Just Snacking”
Gus Dapperton isn’t the stereotypical rock star, but the rising 20-year-old is beginning to embrace the term. He’s a DIY musician whose music has all the essential elements—timeless songwriting, meticulous arrangements, and an unmistakable voice—but his intangible qualities are even more convincing. Gus has the style, moves, and charisma to become one of music’s next breakout acts, and the 6-foot-3, bowlcut-sporting, gender-bending young man is just getting started. 2017’s Yellow and Such EP, although short and sweet, was a highlight from the year. His music videos for “I’m Just Snacking” and “Prune, You Talk Funny” brought Dapperton’s vision to life. His live performances exude confidence. If you encounter any disgruntled music snobs who say there are no original new voices in music, direct them to Gus Dapperton.
Check out Gus Dapperton at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Lips”
New Zealand-born, Berlin-based singer, musician and producer Noah Slee is an astounding talent. Combining traditional soul influences whilst experimenting with electronic production, the up-and-coming artist effortlessly blends an array of genres ranging from future beats and contemporary soul, to progressive RnB and indie-electronica.
His debut album OTHERLAND, released on Majestic Casual Records last year, focuses on many life-changing moments as Slee becomes more open about his sexuality, explores the Berlin nightlife, ponders on religion, pays homage to his Tongan roots, and grapples with his artistry across the incredible 17-track body of work.
With a disarming personality and engaging live show, Slee is proof of what we all know to be true: music is a healer.
— Donna Arendse, Majestic Casual
Check out Noah Slee at SXSW
Donna Arendse
Majestic Casual / @@majesticcasual
“Donna Arendse is lover of the finer things in life, such as Rooibos tea, digestive biscuits, and golden retrievers. She holds a Bachelor degree in Communication from The University of Newcastle (Australia), with a major in Public Relations.
Donna joins her love of music and PR with agency Lekker Collective, where she harnesses her skills to conduct digital campaigns for new music releases, and provide management services and support for emerging artists. Since the birth of Lekker, it has branched out into curating intimate soul events, artist development, and playlist curation.
Donna also creates music in her future-soul project, The Septembers, writes for publications Indie Shuffle and C-Head Magazine, and works as a product and community manager at tastemaker label and curator platform Majestic Casual.”
New York, NY Rock
Play song Listen to “Follow Me”
Bedroom pop, doo-wop and early-50’s rock blend together most pleasantly, courtesy of The Shacks. Like a blast from the past, the duo of Max Shrager and Shannon Wise pay tribute to New York’s soulful history and then throw on a modern indie twist to create welcome disparity in an arguable sea of sameness.
Shannon’s timid voice adds an extra element of je ne sais quoi. At once shy, deep, and entirely full of young love, there’s a youthful hope that seeps sweet as honey and butter through each of their songs (hear: ‘Follow Me’). On top of that, Shrager’s production and the band’s dispersed jam sessions serve listeners a healthy helping of soul, catchiness and fortuitous flair (hear: ‘Orchids’). The Shacks debut LP Haze is out March 30, 2018 on Big Crown Records.
— Joshua Chiang, Control + Alt + Delight
Check out The Shacks at SXSW
Joshua Chiang
Control + Alt + Delight
Control + Alt + Delight / @CtrlAltDelight
Joshua Chiang’s music appreciation runs the gamut. The uniqueness of any and all sounds finds a place within his ears. He is, however, more inclined to the gloomier, moodier, and darker corners of music. As a writer, photographer, and underground promoter, he spends much of his time keeping his eyes and ears on the next big thing as well as what has been under everyone’s noses the whole time.
Lauren Maccabee
London, United Kingdom Electronic
Play song Listen to “Pay The Tax”
Siblings are common in bands, sure, but how often do you come across cousins making music together? Mike Sharp and Joel Roberts are East Anglia-bred, London-based duo Otzeki, part of the burgeoning electronic/rock/pop genre sweeping Britain at the moment. The pair initially turned heads with their 2016 debut EP Falling Out, featuring the uber-catchy “Hope in Hell,” successfully combining vocals oozing beautiful desolation with a driving beat. Singles such as “True Love” and “All This Time” and EP Sun is Rising followed, showing their aptitude in fusing irrepressible electronic beats, R&B infused vocals, and alt-rock guitar into something truly intriguing.
Check out Otzeki at SXSW
Kelly Giarrocco
Austin, TX Singer-Songwriter
Play song Listen to “Downhearted”
Last year Molly Burch started off 2017 strong with her debut album Please Be Mine released on taste-making New York record label Captured Tracks. It was a delish retreat to the songwriting prowess found in retro times, given a nice new spin with an Austin-based influence. This makes her a perfect fit for SXSW as a hometown kid and one that carries the spirit of not only the city but also the SXSW festival at large. With only one album under her belt, it’s safe to call Molly Burch one to watch.
— Will Oliver, We All Want Someone To Shout For
Check out Molly Burch at SXSW
Will Oliver
We All Want Someone To Shout For
We All Want Someone To Shout For / @weallwantsome1
Will Oliver is photographer and writer based in New York City that founded music blog We All Want Someone To Shout For. He started the blog 10 years ago as a way to share new music discoveries with his friends and it has turned into something much more in recent years.
Mert Gafuroglu
Brooklyn, NY Punk
Play song Listen to BODEGA
If The Talking Heads, Devo and The B-52’s had a baby that was raised on the gritty streets of NYC during the ‘70s punk era and hung around the likes of Richard Hell and Patti Smith, that baby would be BODEGA. The Brooklyn-based group is a dirty art school band with five members and occasionally a wizard to introduce them. Their stage presence is a splurge of different explosions with two drummers, two guitarists, a bassist, and singers that fear nothing. It’s always a sweaty experience, but a satisfying one. This May they’ll be heading out for their first European tour and in June their debut album Endless Scroll will be released on What’s Your Rupture? Records.
Check out BODEGA at SXSW
Vincent J. Musi
Charleston, SC Rock
Play song Listen to “h d w g h ?”
If you’re a fan of Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Moon Taxi, and Young the Giant, South Carolina’s Stop Light Observations (SLO, if you’re in the know) might just be your new favorite band. This “southern-retro-electro-rock” troupe includes lead singer William Blackburn; guitarist, pianist and synthmaster John Keith “Cubby” Culbreth; lead guitarist Louis Duffie; drummer Luke Withers; and bassist Will Mahoney.
If you’ve caught these southern rockers before (maybe at Bonnaroo or Charleston’s biggest club, The Music Farm) you already know that shirts and shoes are not required for a damn good performance. These multi-instrumentalists are too busy jamming on fiddles, guitars, and saxophones to be bothered with excess fabric.
Peel off your own layers while you dance to Stop Light Observations’ freak folk. Their albums TOOGOODOO and Radiation should be sampled often. Warm up with “Smilers of the Night” and “Dinosaur Bones.”
Check out Stop Light Observations at SXSW
Kimberly Fitzner
Play song Listen to “Forever Certain”
Los Angeles’ Tracy Bryant is a thoroughbred of rock. Raised at home on 50’s and 60’s classics and forged in an era of punk and post-punk, his music floats seamlessly between nearly every iteration of rock. Naturally, he’d fall in with hometown heroes Burger Records. His album progression from 2014’s self-titled through 2016’s Subterranean to 2017’s A Place for Nothing and Everything in Its Place highlights his extensive depth of rock knowledge and his ability to blend it all together superbly.
Tracks like 2014’s “Want” showcases 60’s rock fuzz and grit, whereas 2016’s “Hey Spaceman!” calls to mind goth-pop dejection and 2017’s “A Crowded Room” calls to underbelly Americana akin to Velvet Lou (R.I.P). All in all, his sound incorporates tinges of lonely hearts cruising quiet highways through Nowhere, USA. His chautauqua across all three albums hints at love and self-discovery in the seeming emptiness.
Check out Tracy Bryant at SXSW
Smallfield, United Kingdom Singer-Songwriter
Play song Listen to “Cathedral”
A singer-songwriter from London whose songs sound like they could be straight out of the American heartland, Jade Bird is an artist we are extremely excited about. In 2017 we saw the release of her debut EP Something American [Glassnote Records], a vibrant, emotional collection of Americana, folk and country-tinged songs that speak straight to the soul. Her voice is so real and so powerful, it’s hard to not let yourself be transported to the exact place she was when she wrote them. You can check out her latest single “Lottery” below and be sure to catch her around town this SXSW.
Check out Jade Bird at SXSW
Bucharest, Romania Pop
Play song Listen to “Time”
Pop is alive and well in Eastern Europe. It’s just that most of it doesn’t make it out to our ears out west. Moonlight Breakfast, an eclectic trio who met in Bucharest, Romania, comprises captivating vocalist Christine, clarinet and drums-playing producer “Bazooka,” and keyboardist and guitarist Adita. Debut album Shout was more soulful and jazzy, while 2016’s Time following had a more straightforward pop sound. Whether your musical poison is a killer rhythm, a punky attitude, an infectious pop melody, or a smooth and sultry vocal, or maybe even all three at the same time, Moonlight Breakfast offers something for everyone.
Check out Moonlight Breakfast at SXSW
Issaquah, WA Singer-Songwriter
Play song Listen to “Where's My Love”
SYML is named after the Welsh word for “simple”, yet there’s nothing simple about the complex emotions that seep through the surface of his music. Seattle based musician Brian Fennell, who’s also a founding member and the frontman of indie rock band Barcelona, was adopted, which resulted in a disconnection with his Welsh roots. Soul-searching introspection winds through the find threads of SYML’s gently aching, deeply haunting music, a crossroads where tenderly tormented ambient pop meets contemplative dream folk. Songs like “Where’s My Love” off his first EP Hurt For Me or “Fear of the Water” from his latest EP In My Body are wayfaring sojourns that tug long and efficaciously on our heart strings. We find ourselves absorbed by SYML’s melancholic musings, whose soft gusts and delicate howls remind us — no matter how disparate our pasts, we all suffer the same human conditions, such as sorrow and heartbreak.
Check out SYML at SXSW
Antoine Bordeleau
Play song Listen to “Coup d'épée”
Montreal’s Corridor take familiar elements but assemble and scramble them in a way you may not have heard before. There’s a twin-guitar interplay that recalls the late-’70s mutant new wave of XTC, The dB’s and The Feelies, with a sense of melody that shows a love of ‘60s psychedelia and sunshine pop. Putting a hometown twist on things, Corridor sing entirely en français. Don’t let that put you off though: the creativity and abundance of killer tunes found on their acid-baked 2017 album Supermercado breaks through the language barrier. Corridor are even better live, with a real joie de rock that knows no borders — guitars slash, harmonies soar, bodies a constant blur.
— Bill Pearis, BrooklynVegan
Check out Corridor at SXSW
Bill Pearis
BrooklynVegan / @brooklynvegan
A lifelong music geek, Bill has been writing for BrooklynVegan for nearly 10 years, having lived through electroclash, shitgaze, chillwave, seapunk and and other scenes he only sort of remembers. He is currently BV’s Senior Editor.
Seoul, South Korea Pop
Play song Listen to Jay Park
Multiplatinum Korean-American hip-hop superstar Jay Park has been a fundamental presence in the cross-cultural K-Pop movement of the past decade. With multiple platinum records, two label imprints — AOMG, based in Seoul, and the internationally-focused H1GHER MUSIC — Park has garnered esteem for his own music, along with recognition for his curated sounds. He is a singer/songwriter, rapper, producer, and choreographer, with roots in Seattle and the competitive b-boy scene. Park’s youthful passion for dance as a member of the Art of Movement b-boy crew inspired his ascension in the hip-hop community, and shaped the mogul he is today. Jay Park’s most recent studio album, 2016’s Everything You Wanted, charted #3 on Billboard World and iTunes U.S. R&B. His most recent release Forget About Tomorrow, a synthy electronic collaboration with Los Angeles producer Yultron, hit #1 on the South Korean charts. Despite his Renaissance man abilities to create dynamic hip-hop and pop music with wide international appeal, reverence for his cultural roots remains firmly at the heart of Jay Park’s work.
Check out Jay Park at SXSW
Manchester, United Kingdom Rock
Play song Listen to “There's a Honey”
It’s hard not to draw comparisons right off the bat between Pale Waves and The 1975, especially since 1975 frontman Matt Healy co-produced their first two singles. The band also spent the past year opening up for The 1975 on 32 dates across North America, which is no small feat considering how relatively new they are and the fact that they only have four singles released to the public. What really drew us to them in the first place, besides their canny knack for a catchy hook, is their distinct The Cure-meets-Avril Lavigne aesthetic. It’s almost impossible to take your eye off lead singer Heather Baron-Gracie. With their genre-blending cocktail of dream pop and post-punk 80s rock, this 4-piece band of misfits from Manchester are high on our list of acts to watch in 2018. Watch the video for the Matt Healy directed “Television Romance” and be sure to etch them into your schedule this year.
Check out Pale Waves at SXSW
María Fernanda Molins
Tijuana, Mexico Rock
Play song Listen to “Ojos En El Carro”
Although Estrella Sánchez and Amor Amezua are only in their early 20s, everything about their band Mint Field exudes wisdom and experience well beyond their years. Formed only a few years ago in their native Tijuana, the duo has already accumulated some mileage on their home country’s tour circuit, as well as some forays to international stages including Coachella in 2016. If playing live nonstop isn’t enough, Sánchez and Amezcua worked on their proper debut album Pasar De Las Luces for more than a year now. It’s a document that demonstrates a mature take on 80s post-punk and dreampop as a springboard for their lucid melodicism. Mint Field are a vision conjured from ethereal sound that evokes yearning from deep within the listener’s senses.
Check out MINT FIELD at SXSW
Seoul, South Korea R & B
Play song Listen to Crush
For an artist so young, Crush has a big presence in the Korean music industry. His list of releases is exhaustive and equal to the number of featured appearances he has made on other artist’s songs. Primarily known for his R&B songs as both an artist and producer, he’s also released a ballad, “Beautiful,” for the drama Goblin.
Moving between genres shows that Crush is able to capture the essence of any genre and only needs the right inspiration to create music. Bringing his talents to the United States again, Crush knows how to connect with audiences and will present an amazing show for anyone lucky enough to watch him live.
Check out Crush at SXSW
Joe Agius
Brisbane, Australia Pop
Play song Listen to “Try”
Harriette Pilbeam made her debut last summer as Hatchie, welcoming us into a nostalgic world etched out of stringy shoegaze and dreamy glistening pop. The multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Brisbane has released two singles, “Try” and “Sure”, and she recently signed to Ivy League Records with a debut EP named Sugar & Spice on the way. Pilbeam is no stranger to the scene. She was previously involved in bands like Babaganouj and Go Violets, but with her solo project, Hatchie swaddles our hearts with a 90s inspired sound, evoking the ethereal haze and willowy rock of Cocteau Twins, The Cranberries, and Wolf Alice. Hatchie’s gauzy shimmering songs inspire us to recall the doe-eyed summers of our innocuous youth, so sweetly and poignantly entrenched in affairs of our jilted hearts. Perhaps it’s a mirage distorted by time, but this trip down memory lane is extra sweet when recollected through Hatchie.
Check out Hatchie at SXSW
Lissy Elle Laricchia
Baltimore, MD Rock
Play song Listen to Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
Vocalist-drummer Ed Schrader has been accosting ears for nearly 10 years, with bassist Devlin Rice joining shortly after the project’s formation. Coming out of Baltimore’s DIY haven Wham City, the pair had a fortuitous start in cahoots with fellow Baltimorean Dan Deacon.
In the time between their origins and the imminent release of Riddles, Schrader and Rice made their name on a catalogue that veered between primordial blasts of savagery and ruminative baritone mantras, all while keeping a continuity of jagged minimalism.
While their ethos remains on the transformative Riddles, it marks a new era with Deacon as collaborator throughout. Lead single “Dunce” is a bluesy grind with gritty heft, the title track an ebullient release, and “Humbucker Blues” a dusky pout. The Music Beat are a band on the other side of a creative breakthrough with a can’t-miss spring in their step. Now may just be the ideal to witness them in person.
Check out Ed Schrader’s Music Beat at SXSW
Gemma Dagger
Glasgow, Scotland Rock
Play song Listen to “Propaganda”
Looking to London for the next great British guitar band? Shift your gaze north to Glasgow. Catholic Action is a proud product of the Scottish cultural capital’s supportive environment, and frontman Chris McCrory ensured they’d make an album under their own terms. The group’s well-received debut In Memory Of, released in fall 2017, shows off the band’s own brand of glam rock informed by pop. A confident Scottish swagger accompanies the bass-buzzy “L.U.V,” a song just begging you to clap your hands while you sing along to it, while “Propaganda” is a brash anthem about asserting your independence. Make no mistake, Catholic Action’s return to Austin for their second SXSW in a row is sure to be special.
Check out Catholic Action at SXSW
Birmingham, AL Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Rubbin Off The Paint”
Hailing from Birmingham, Ala., YBN Nahmir is a 17-year-old viral sensation who has been taking the internet by storm. The young rapper began to see what many would claim as overnight success after he released the music video for his record “Rubbin’ Off the Paint”, and has kept his name in the mouths of fans, major artists, and blogs alike ever since. Currently his viral single has 81 million YouTube views and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 46. His chart-topping single received remixes from both Vince Staples and Danielle Bregoli aka Bhad Bhabie, as well as public cosign from Chris Brown. Nahmir’s viral success has taken him from playing video games with his high school friends to turning down record deals from major labels and performing at major festivals such as Rolling Loud. At such a young age, YBN Nahmir’s career is looking very bright as he may be the biggest ‘SoundCloud’ rapper to emerge out of the South in 2018.
Check out YBN Nahmir at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Brand New”
Austin’s Kydd Jones is the hometown favorite, an eclectic rhymer and producer who found his footing and hasn’t bothered to slow down. There’s no true definition to how Kydd Jones operates. At times, he can incorporate moody bass lines that live in darkness. In others, he could rap and sing and defer to light and airy production. It shouldn’t shock anyone that Jones, who ventured out to Atlanta to hone in his sound even further was hand picked by Chuck D himself to open for Public Enemy. He writes in the role of a dreamer, never satisfied and always striving to find a new creative peak. Songs such as “W R U” with Kirko Bangz found a way to work in Jones’ singing voice and swamped it with an ovure that modern R&B is enamored with. More and more, Kydd is operating at a level that he hadn’t discovered yet when he first performed at SXSW. Now he’s a well-rounded performer and one of the best rap talents the city ever produced.
Check out Kydd Jones at SXSW
Athens, GA Metal
Play song Listen to “Double Ferrari”
Double Ferrari make the music you always dreamed of making in your bedroom growing up in the ‘80s; it’s all about the guitar! Two of them, to be exact, as the name implies, usually playing together in glorious, harmonious twin leads. The band’s name really does say it all: this is music you could crank while screaming down a California highway in a super-fast sports car, watching the palm trees whiz by, hair whipping in the wind. With a fresh wave of ‘80s nostalgia currently sweeping the globe, Double Ferrari evoke retro vibes without going full-on down Nostalgia Lane; their music retains a fresh and modern sound.
— Ben Umanov, MetalSucks
Check out Double Ferrari at SXSW
Ben Umanov
MetalSucks
MetalSucks / @metalsucks
Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of MetalSucks
Los Angeles, CA Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to Duckwrth
Since growing up as a sheltered “Grand Pastor’s kid” in South Central L.A., Jared Lee, aka Duckwrth has been creating his own worlds. This is evident throughout the art school dropout’s rap career, where psychedelic blends of electro funk, rock and soul seamlessly wash into each other as he parties on through the chaos of the world around us.
A cross-platform talent, the 29-year-old has created an aesthetic to accompany his sound through self-designed cover artwork and his daring sense of style, which has had him appearing in campaigns for Levis, Facebook and Rare Panther. His own gender-fluid clothing designs have been featured everywhere from LA Weekly to Nylon.
Last year Duckwrth took his music career to the next level, with a debut album I’M UUGLY that saw him collaborate with Sabrina Claudio, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Hodgy Beats, followed up with an XTRA UUGLY Mixtape in the winter.
Check out Duckwrth at SXSW
Phoenix, AZ Metal
Play song Listen to “Sweltering Madness”
Gatecreeper are one of the most exciting up-and-coming death metal bands on the scene today. Like the lovechild between Dying Fetus, Death and Crowbar, Gatecreeper know when to groove, when to ratchet up the technicality and when to dial it back into the swampy, nether regions of sludge and doom. Most importantly, they slam—and they slam HARD. See them live and you’ll instantly understand why they’re one of the most buzzed-about bands of 2018.
Check out Gatecreeper at SXSW
Cristina I. Massieu
Distrito Federal, Mexico Electronic
Play song Listen to “El Punto Final”
Mexican bands give it all on stage every year at SXSW. If we are going to talk about ‘giving it all’ and Mexican culture, you have to keep an eye on Centavrvs. This band, from Mexico City, knows how to combine powerful beats with Mexican folklore perfectly. If you feel like yelling “¡Viva México” and dancing ‘a la Pancho Villa’ but with mid-tempo beats, you have to listen to Centavrvs and their ‘Mexican Revolution’ vibes. That’s how they roll.
— Sopitas, Sopitas
Check out Centavrvs at SXSW
Sopitas
Sopitas / @sopitas
We are a group of mexican guys in love of music, movies and tv shows (the good ones). We also write about music trends, and the best and worst of tv series, movies and videogames; some viral things too. Everything at Sopitas.com
Play song Listen to “Beyond Belief”
Indie pop is best characterized by the combination of every sentiment; it covers love, loss, friendship and memories, all spun in a whimsical fashion. It also carries an emphatic musical punch of jangling guitars and steady drumming that swells into infectious choruses that forever stick in your head. This is precisely the band that Rat Fancy has become. One listen to the group’s hook-laden hit “I Can’t Dance to the Smiths Anymore” will surely have you swinging your arms about in the air whilst a huge grin creeps across your face. Elsewhere on the band’s Suck a Lemon EP you’ll find buzzy guitars backing huge melodies or endearing ballads that seem infinitely inescapable. You’re going to find yourself carried away by the natural charm of this LA group; you’re going to lose yourself in the emotions; you’re ultimately going to run off and tell all your friends how much you love this band!
Check out Rat Fancy at SXSW
Matt Everitt
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Folk
Play song Listen to “Silver Lining”
Matt and Sam from Mt. Joy went to high school together in Philadelphia but didn’t connect to make music until years later in Los Angeles. That deep familiarity is a perfect back story to a band that feels like I’ve known their music forever. However, Mt. Joy didn’t coast into my ears until late 2016 with their debut single “Astrovan” and it’s fairly undeniable lyric “You know, Jesus drives an Astrovan”. I was instantly hooked. Their follow up song “Sheep” ended up solidifying my love for them and may still be my favorite from their scant five-song catalog. I got to see them live at last year’s SXSW and it was a total treat to see these fantastic musicians rock a tiny room. I recommend that you take advantage this year and I don’t imagine the room will be as small for very long.
Check out Mt Joy at SXSW
Thomas Ignatius
Play song Listen to “Passion”
If you’ve ever wondered what the members of Sonic Youth are up to these days, look no further than Kino Kimino’s debut album Bait Is For Sissies. The Brooklyn-based grunge pop project, fronted by guitarist and performance artist Kim Talon (Eagle and Talon, Jan), combines a quirky-cute Bratmobile vocal style with post-punk backing. The album features none other than drummer Steve Shelley and guitarist Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Their signature dark, chugging rhythms add a sly twist to her offbeat-on-purpose melodies—an interesting play on the usual indie rock outfit, think Fugazi meets Sleater-Kinney. Kino Kimono is a mismatch of genres paying homage to female rock bands of the 90s and 00s and the result is a completely original sound.
— Kellie MacDougall, mxdwn
Check out Kino Kimino at SXSW
Kellie MacDougall
Kellie MacDougall is a 21 year-old artist living in East Nashville, Tennessee. She moved there from Boston in 2015 to pursue an education in audio engineering and have since graduated with an Associate’s degree. She volunteers at DIY punk venues around the local scene and works as a stagehand setting up at arena concerts. She came into music journalism through zines and live photography. Some artists that inspire her work are Joan Didion, Kathleen Hanna, and Bob Gruen. In her spare time she paints, plays electric guitar, and works part-time as a dog walker.
Toronto, Canada Electronic
Play song Listen to “Agua”
The best new discoveries can be the hardest to describe. Lido Pimienta’s sound is one of explorative psychedelia on top of Colombian folk on top of dance electronica. Layered creatively and with purpose, Pimienta’s 2016 record La Papessa communicates beyond language. Organic and electronic percussion intermingle seamlessly, complex harmonies carrying sonic weight where the whole is greater than any of the individual ideas playing part in Pimienta’s story. The Toronto based artist was recognized with 2017’s Polaris Music Prize—it’s a great sign of global multiculturalism when Canada’s top award goes to a record that isn’t in English or French. Of the hundreds of artists listened to so far, Lido Pimienta ranks among the top in terms of being consistently interesting, especially with multiple listens—an indicator of a SXSW artist that is going to have heads turning come March.
Check out Lido Pimienta at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Better”
Grace Shaw’s rap alter-ego Mallrat has been taking over my playlists for the past few years, not to mention radio play in her home of Australia (Triple J) and my home of Los Angeles (KCRW). Grace refers to herself as the “Hannah Montana of the rap game” but that says more about her goofy personality and still being a teenager than anything remotely Disney-approved. She raps about what she knows, including the double life she lived recording her early songs while still in high school. Going to class by day and the recording studio by night, lame parties with lame peers while bigger things lay just on the horizon. There is actually something quite universal in that and I can’t think of anything better than witnessing Grace rap her heart out to us all this week.
Check out Mallrat at SXSW
Play song Listen to “I Don't Know You”
Leave it to Los Angeles’ The Marías to sell red sunnies as their march. After all, it takes a band with a poolside retro chic aesthetic to make that kind of eyewear fashionable. Everything about The Marías seems to come out of a period specific movie script: they were formed when Josh Conway did sound at a solo show for the band’s future vocalist María, inviting her to work at his home studio. That led to fall in love, and since then, they’ve made sweet and easygoing pop that draws on everything from 60s soul, bossa nova, and psych, like the first volume of 2017’s Superclean. Their videos give a sense of old Hollywood glamour that blends perfectly with their sound, which creates the perfect setting for their audience to fall in love with each other, if only for the duration of their show.
Check out The Marías at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Money”
Vermont isn’t generally considered a hotbed for rockabilly singer-songwriters, but Caroline Rose doesn’t give much of a damn for the generally considered. Hell, she barely cares for the confines of “rockabilly,” as her sophomore album, LONER, completely morphs the genre she so deftly cradled on 2013’s American Religious. While there’s still a clear Americana backbone to the new effort, Rose leans playfully into pop, as on the bombastic “Money” or the plucky soul of “Getting to Me”. If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed, though, it’s her complete control over her artistry. A true DIY master, she produces and arranges all of her own music, and even directs her own videos, often casting herself in multiple roles. In that way, Rose is able to present her sharply satirical look at the human condition in its most honest and electric terms. So consider that.
Check out Caroline Rose at SXSW
@rozewatta
Minneapolis, MN Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Expectations”
Ness Nite is forging a new path for herself in the underground R&B/Hip-Hop scene. The Minnesota native fits in with peers like Kari Faux + Yaeji while taking influence from more established artists like Kid Cudi. Her newest upcoming project, Dream Girl, is executive produced by Alex Tumay (Young Thug, Metro Boomin) and is a beautiful display of Nite punching above her weight. The first single off of her upcoming full-length, “Expectations,” features melancholy production, baroque backing vocals and Ness’ signature rap flow; while her second single, “Tightrope,” showcases her lighter, more bouncy side. This year will be Ness’ SXSW debut – make sure not to miss it.
Check out Ness Nite at SXSW
Richmond Lam
Toronto, Canada Rock
Play song Listen to “Someplace”
Canadian experimental music and art collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan formed in 2007 by then-Montreal art students Alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood. Just over ten years later, after multiple appearances on the Polaris Prize shortlist and some changes in personnel, they’re releasing DIRT, their third album. It’s the continuation of a discography marked by the collective’s tendencies towards extreme and disparate inspirations, sonic and beyond: from heavy metal to dream pop, psych to industrial, prog to J-pop. They also cite Buddhism, science fiction, anime, and manga as influences. Y//ST’s expansive vision extends into aesthetics, too; they’re known for their theatrical, intense live shows, complete with dramatic makeup and art and lighting direction. They even have a name for their unique style, “Noh-wave,” taken from Noh theatre and “no wave” music. At their best when they transform a dark venue into fully realized stage-show, Y//ST’s memorable sets are sure to cut through the clamor of SXSW.
— Amanda Hatfield, BrooklynVegan
Check out Yamantaka // Sonic Titan at SXSW
Amanda Hatfield
Amanda Hatfield is a photographer and writer from New Jersey. She’s contributed to BrooklynVegan in a variety of roles since 2010, and currently as photo editor and social media manager.
Caroline Gohlke
Brooklyn, NY Folk
Play song Listen to Cut Worms
Max Clarke has a background in graphic design, so it should come as no surprise that his musical persona—Cut Worms—is imbued with a sharp attention to detail, and a keen understanding of the lineage of his craft. On his debut EP, Alien Sunset, out last October on Jagjaguwar, vocal melodies and guitar lines settle in casually alongside his songs of love and devotion like colors on a poster. A splash of the Everly Brothers’ innocence here, a sprinkling of Roy Orbison’s melancholy there. It seems simple, but, just like the best graphic design work, there’s a lot going on—and above all it feels extraordinarily timeless. (Good taste never goes out of style.) Clarke is preparing his full-length debut on Jagjaguar, set for release later this year, but when it comes to music that could be from any era, it’s worth the wait to ensure that it’s from yours.
— Nate Rogers, FLOOD Magazine
Check out Cut Worms at SXSW
Nate Rogers
FLOOD Magazine
FLOOD Magazine / @floodmagazine
Nate Rogers is the editor-in-chief of FLOOD Magazine. He lives in Los Angeles, where he was born and raised—and will truthfully likely die. He is the magazine’s foremost expert on Nicolas Cage and Guided by Voices, as well as the frequent, understated intersection of the two. He still hasn’t seen Joan Didion in person but he looks for her everyday.
Play song Listen to Superorganism
Having set the Internet alight last year with ‘Something For Your M.I.N.D’, two minutes and forty-five seconds of such brilliant warped and utterly-of-its-time guitar pop, many assumed it simply had to be the work of seasoned pros. But no, this super-group really is an international eight-piece fronted by a 17-year old Japanese girl who they discovered in Maine. That they now all live in the same terraced house in London, scheming and perfecting their musical alchemy, completes the picture of a Millennial hivemind distilling youth culture and weird corners of the Internet into nuggets of pop gold.
And what a glorious racket they make. Fun and carefree, there’s a hazy, cartoonish quality to their songs. Neon bright, they favour a maximalist take on pop – adding layer upon layer, like a musical collage – putting fun to the forefront and eschewing traditional notions of “cool”. And, like much of modern culture, by poking fun at conventions and not taking themselves too seriously, they’ve ended up the coolest kids in town, making music that’s somehow nostalgic and yet so completely 2018 it feels indispensable.
Check out Superorganism at SXSW
Matt Lief Anderson
Play song Listen to “Getaway”
If you thrive on psychedelic rock, Austin’s own The Bright Light Social Hour is likely a staple of your collection. But temporarily hit pause on Space is Still the Place to make room in your prismatic heart for Curtis Roush’s solo endeavor.
TBLSH’s soulful singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist explores new celestial territory with his spellbinding release Cosmic Campfire Music. This quiet, shimmering collection was recorded by Roush in motels, a tour van, and his parents’ spare bedroom. He tracked the album to an analog tape during a chill in 2016, playing every single instrument himself.
While Cosmic Campfire Music will make your body swoon, it is important to note that Roush touches on heartbreaking life experiences on this album, including the suicide of Alex O’Brien, manager of The Bright Light Social Hour and brother to bandmate Jack O’Brien.
Wrap yourself around these brand new sounds and follow Curtis Roush from stage to stage this SXSW. His magic should be experienced in person.
Check out Curtis Roush at SXSW
Josefina Santos
Bogotá, Colombia Electronic
Play song Listen to “Enumerar”
There is something futuristically cool about MNKYBSNSS that I can’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps it’s because tracks like “Something’s Missing” and “Raindrops” sound as effortlessly apropos for European clubs as they would do for a future Blade Runner movie. Maybe it has something to do with the cinematic quality of their music videos that keeps me hungering for more. All I know is that I’m fan-boying with every new release MNKYBSNSS flawlessly execute with their self-proclaimed “abstract compositions and divergent rhythms”. Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, this electronic duo have meticulously crafted a set of crazy/sexy/cool tracks that have enticed Sony Music to leap on board and help spread the MNKYBSNSS to the masses. I’m ready to let the smoke and wind machines luxuriate me in the laser synthetics and poptronik sound that MNKYBSNSS promise on first listen.
Check out MNKYBSNSS at SXSW
Jason Macdonald
Las Vegas, NV Rock
Play song Listen to Shamir
Ditching the playful electro-pop of debut LP Ratchet for a record full of emotional introspection, 2017’s Revelations found 22-year-old Shamir Bailey switching up everything that first brought him to the public eye. Originally signed to XL Recording and touted by the press as a new kind of poster boy for the alternative LGBTQ community, Shamir then spent a period of time out at sea once it became clear that his artistic style was moving away from the giddy dance floor pop that made his name. Now, having overcome a personal nadir in which he nearly quit music for good, Shamir is back on a high and working on his own terms. Reconfiguring his sound into something more lo-fi, introverted and personal, Revelations is as surprising and celebratory a return as its title suggests.
Check out Shamir at SXSW
Flor Petra
La Plata, Mexico Latin Indie
Play song Listen to “El Tesoro”
Under the leadership of Santiago Motorizado, El Mató a un Policía Motorizado (EMAUPM) is a band like no other. Not because they’ve been working over the past 10 years, but because their arrangements haven’t lost their honesty. They carefully arrange their mixes and constantly experiment with their synthesizers. With garage and krautrock roots, EMAUPM beautifully reflects what every human being has felt in his life with their delicate sounds: that love has defeated us once a while.
Check out El Mató A Un Policia Motorizado at SXSW
David Barajas
Cancun, Mexico Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “Llaves, Teléfono y Cartera”
Although this is not LNG/SHT’s first time at SXSW, this rapper is “must watch” material. A long time ago the artist from Cancún, Quintana Roo, made a statement saying that his role will be different from everything and everyone. Now, he proves it. From topics that range from social classes to pop culture, his powerful lyrics will stay on your mind and make you think about life. LNG/SHT has become popular not only for his music, but for his performances that feel like you are in a stand-up comedy show as well as a concert, a complete experience we recommend 100 percent.
Check out LNG/SHT at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Faithless”
Flyte may be strangers to U.S. audiences, but over the past few years they’ve been steadily building a name for themselves. At first channeling the bright pop of the 80s, the group refined their sound to something delicate that could’ve come out of the 60s. Their smart songwriting is refreshing in today’s world of overproduction. Flyte may just be one of the most overlooked bands going right now but we hope that their first stop in the U.S. at SXSW will allow them to break through in a way that they so clearly deserve.
Check out Flyte at SXSW
Silsbee, TX Folk
Play song Listen to “Interstate Vision”
Singer-songwriters are two-a-penny these days, but there is something about Hannah Read’s spartan, less-is-more sound that simply captivates listeners. As the guiding force in Lomelda, Read specializes in thoughtful songs detailing the steady search for meaning in life’s travels and the complicated connections that exist between us all. A cultishly adored reputation has been built, thanks to the 2017 sophomore album Thx, which features Read’s emotive voice and economical instrumentation throughout, from the strong hook-laden grower “Bam Sha Klam” to the desperate howls of “Only World.” Always understated but intricately woven, Lomelda’s songs—performed in a five-miles-an-hour style—sound timeless, but oddly familiar, adding to the sweet intrigue of Read. As she croons “Do you know me yet?” on Thx’s opener “Interstate Vision,” we must concede that we don’t, but we won’t stop trying. Undefinedly magnetic, Lomelda is an unpolished gem of a performer to be cherished.
— David Nadelle, Tiny Mix Tapes
Check out Lomelda at SXSW
David Nadelle
David Nadelle is a record collector and writer for Tiny Mix Tapes. He lives with his family in Ottawa, Ontario.
Matthew James-Wilson
Los Angeles, CA Punk
Play song Listen to “Evolution of a Friendship”
Inspired by the post-punk art scenes in Southern California, French Vanilla have embarked on a journey in recent years to challenge what they consider the “all dude-rock” dominance in local scenes. Sharp bass lines and shouted vocals ring like calls to action as an almost schizophrenic saxophone plays like battle music. Feminist and poignant social lyricism is coupled with an intense yet playful dance floor energy – reminiscent of locals Mika Miko and Scotland’s Shopping. Their DIY approach to both recording and video production is a pleasant reminder for the locally initiated that advances in tech will never dilute LA’s grassroots cultures and influence. Their debut album is out now on Danger Collective and is required listening for the true music snob.
— Justin Bieggar, All Things Go
Check out French Vanilla at SXSW
Justin Bieggar
All Things Go / @sketchedsounds
Justin Bieggar is a music journalist and photographer based in Southern California, currently working as Associate Editor for All Things Go and Creative Producer for Fox Theater Pomona.
Philadelphia, PA Rock
Play song Listen to “Dog Milk”
There’s a sort of dizzying effect to Palm’s 2015 debut album, Trading Basics. However, this is where the Philadelphia band goes right—dissonance and confusion allow the listener to completely dive into their brand of surf rock, creating a musical rabbit hole free of outside distraction. Their latest track, “Composite”, jumps between different rhythmic meters, inviting the listener to a “catch me if you can”” challenge. The chorus of the track sounds like a kaleidoscope looks—a plethora of colors spawning out, dazzling and invigorating.
It’s important to note that none of the members of Palm—Eve Alpert, Kasra Kurt, Hugo Stanley, and Gerasimos Livitsanos—were formally trained on their instruments. Their self-training leads to organic creation, unaware of rules they should or should not follow: it is unadulterated, honest rock. Hard to categorize, they jump between experimental, twee, surf rock, and jangle pop—they write what feels right. Palm is a band for those who feel jaded by what reminds them of another band. Their brand of rock is refreshing and original, as are the people behind the songs.
Their new record, Rock Island, is sure to please, a curated set of new, dynamic, certainly unpredictable adventures, perhaps more subdued and tranquil ones, as it was recorded in a farmhouse in upstate New York.
— Virginia Croft, Alt Citizen
Check out Palm at SXSW
Virginia Croft
Virginia has been writing since her freshman year of college, penning her admiration for Best Coast and Leslie Knope via online zine Pop Culture Puke. Her work has appeared in Treble Zine, The Le Sigh, Westchester Magazine, and Paste Magazine. She is a staff writer at Impose Magazine. In October, she rewatched the Office and documented every use of Wegman’s products, which you can find on her twitter.
Matthew Williams
London, United Kingdom Punk
Play song Listen to “The Hype”
British trio Shopping broke into the post-punk scene in 2013 with their first album Consumer Complaints and have been rocking away since. Guitarist/Vocalist Rachel Aggs, bassist Billy Easter and drummer Andrew Milk make up the London three-piece, recently released their third album, The Official Body, in January. Shopping looks to artists like ESG, Delta 5 and the Au Paris to create their high-energy, mesmerizing sounds. Though claiming they’re not a political band, Shopping also draws inspiration from social topics ranging from their “distrust of capitalism” to society’s idea of the ideal body image. Shopping’s music will have you on your feet dancing from the moment the guitar and drums come in. Their light-hearted, exhilarating sound and spirit is highly contagious.
— Sophia Gragg, mxdwn
Check out Shopping at SXSW
Sophia Gragg
Sophia Gragg is currently a features writer at mxdwn, social media intern at Fearless Records and a writer for her university’s newspaper The Daily Trojan (USC). She has always had a passion for music and plans to work in the industry. Sophia is always going to concerts, finding new artists to fall in love with, and likes to make monthly playlists that her friends listen to. She listens to a large variety of music genres, but her roots will forever be in indie and rock music.
Play song Listen to Public Access T.V.
Formed in 2014 in New York City, Public Access T.V. has been infusing the local scene with new wave embellished post-punk. Since then they’ve toured with The Strokes, The Pixies, and many more of the greats. They hold a special place in the East Village, New York City as their studio and home went up in flames during the 2015 explosion of 123 2nd Avenue. They’ve done work to heal their community as well as develop their sound since.In 2018 we expect to hear a groovier and lo-fi approach to their music, teased by their re-release records like “Lost in the Game” we hear broken-down-beats and care free trumpets that form a youthful ballad.
— Stasia de Tilly, Alt Citizen
Check out Public Access T.V. at SXSW
Stasia de Tilly
Stasia de Tilly is an audio-visual artist and contemporary arts academic who also loves music journalism. She grew up in Hong Kong and moved to NYC in 2015. She writes for Alt-Citizen as well as for herself in her bedroom late at night.
Alberto Van Stokkum
Madrid, Spain Rock
Play song Listen to “Garden”
Spanish all-female quartet Hinds made waves at SXSW 2016 following their debut Leave Me Alone and now are on the precipice of an even bigger breakthrough. Their second album I Don’t Run is scheduled for release just after SXSW. Judging from lead single “New For You,” the four ladies from Madrid have further honed their jangling, sun-soaked indie rock on this new album. The English-sung lyrics of Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote offer the perfect dynamic to their lo-fi garage rock sound. Hinds are a band with big things ahead of them, with SXSW providing the perfect opportunity to catch their rising star.
— Matt Matasci, mxdwn
Check out Hinds at SXSW
Matt Matasci
Matt has written and edited for mxdwn since 2015, the same year he began his music journalism career. Previously (and currently) a freelance copywriter, Matt graduated with a degree in Communications from California Lutheran University in 2008. Born on the Central Coast of California, he is currently a few hundred miles south along the 101 in the Los Angeles area.
Angelina Castillo
Play song Listen to “Won't Keep Me Up At Night”
Sun Seeker’s debut EP Biddeford falls cleanly in the category of psychedelic alt country, waves of Laurel Canyon folk emboldening the newcomers’ impressively strong songwriting. Their songs find enough bounce and swing to grab a tight hold, but are built on the back of quieter, front-porch traditions. Acoustic and slide guitars are intertwined with strings and breezy harmonies (see dreamy, 60s pop infused “Churchill” or the Shins-like title track), a seamless mix that is rarely captured with this much resound. Released on Third Man Records last summer, the Nashville quartet created a collection that grows with each listen, a delicate touch assisted by excellent production work from local Buddy Hughen. If this is a first step, Sun Seeker should be on their way to headlining in short time – lookout for a SXSW breakout if their live gigs are as together as they sound on record.
Check out Sun Seeker at SXSW
Meg Remy
Play song Listen to U.S. Girls
An ever-interesting experimental art-pop project since its inception in 2007, Meghan Remy’s U.S. Girls always finds an agreeable stride among its noisy loops, gripping beats, house vibes, and sharp melodies. Remy’s 2015 album Half Free—her first on 4AD—was a breakout of sorts, acquiring nominations for a Juno Award and the Polaris Music Prize, and rightly so: tracks like “New Age Thriller” and “Window Shades” reveal the impeccable sense of style and dark drama within Remy’s project. This year’s In a Poem Unlimited has the same art-pop DNA, but trades out some of its predecessor’s noise and ambiance for more direct, straightforward grooves and psych-tinged gestures. What unites all of this work is Remy’s communion with the shadowy, visceral side of pop music, making hers an important voice.
— Adam Rothbarth, Tiny Mix Tapes
Check out U.S. Girls at SXSW
Adam Rothbarth
Adam Rothbarth is a music critic and journalist based in St. Louis, MO. After completing his M.A. in Musicology, he joined Tiny Mix Tapes as a staff writer and has been a regular album review contributor to Apple Music; his work on music and film has appeared a number of leading publications and radio stations, including Pitchfork, Spin, Vice, KEXP, and Gimme Radio. Recently, the BBC noted his review of Arcade Fire’s album Everything Now as one of the 7 most scathing record reviews of 2017. Outside of writing, Adam’s interests include baking, classical music, philosophy, Kanye West, and vegan food.
Angelina Papageorge
Play song Listen to “Freak Like Me”
The first time I saw NoMBe live was about 3 years ago in a tiny record store in Los Angeles with about 14 other people crammed in between the stacks. It was intimate and magical, and I quietly sang along to the few songs he had released so far. In December of last year I caught him headlining a packed show in Los Angeles and got to sing along with hundreds of other people in the room. Man, did he bring it! He brought the energy. He brought the enthusiasm. He brought the songs! Which is not a surprise if you have been following NoMBe’s 2017 as he released one song a month for 12 months. He capped off that torrent of jams with the release of his debut album on Valentine’s day this year. It is a record all about the women in his life and it is a treat to witness.
Check out NoMBe at SXSW
Zak Kaczmarek (@zakarij)
Fremantle, Austrailia Folk
Play song Listen to “Boys Will Be Boys”
After playing with a series of bands in her native Australia, 2017 saw 25-year-old Stella Donnelly strike out on her own with the release of her debut solo EP Thrush Metal. Through her melancholic yet combative songwriting, Donnelly is able explore topics as provocative as sexual assault and slay them aided only by the weapons of her voice and an acoustic guitar.
Check out Stella Donnelly at SXSW
Chelsee Ivan
Play song Listen to “Talking Pictures”
As far as discoveries go, it’s always rewarding to hop upon a band with a confidence in its sound that allows them to add new experiments into their modus operandi. SXSW audiences will surely find that out if they make the right choice and catch a set by FRIGS during this year’s festival.
The Toronto band has been cultivating a pitch black take on post-punk and grunge since 2014, with a name change and signing to Arts & Crafts along the way. It’s safe to say they’ve made their proper arrival with this years’ debut-of-sorts LP, Basic Behaviour.
The release most predominantly showcases a mastery of murky mood and grim, death march swagger. Usually served up in the form of the clangorous interplay of jangle-noir guitar and bombastic drums, with an inky slurp of bass punctuation and shiver-inducing vocal rumble, FRIGS make the void a downright exciting place to be.
Check out Frigs at SXSW
Devon Bristol Shaw
Play song Listen to “Puke's Diner”
Nicole Sisti and Shari Page found each other through a Craig’s List post entitled Two Girls One Drummer. That should already shed some light on what this band is like. They’re wild, riotous, and know how to party. But Thick was missing something. Cue Kate Black—originally in Whiskey Bitches, Black added the cherry on top to the chaos. Bonding over their mutual love for Blink-182 and Bikini Kill, the trio have now created the ultimate pop-punk alliance that’s breaking necks and taking names—and by that I mean, there’s always a wall of a dozen girls head-banging and moshing at their shows. Battle wounds are inevitable. Keep an eye out for several new singles this year and their sophomore EP coming soon.
Check out THICK at SXSW
Play song Listen to “Equestrian”
A post-punk label often rides the bottom of many a press release, but no band of late truly exemplifies the style more than Atlanta’s Omni. Through two albums, the band have brandished sharp guitar chops and infectious rhythms that give your heart a jitter and your step a bounce. Although you’d be wise not to entirely trust the group’s spasmic structures, as their last effort, Multi-task found the band expanding their sound, rounding the edges of those sharp chords into stretched out pop gems. Perhaps the best news for you is that the majority of the band’s tracks fall below the 3 minute barrier, and compiled with their frantic live sets, you’re going to get maximum returns watching them perform. If you’ve been dipping your toes in the proverbial post-punk pond, it’s time you take that final leap with the best around.
Check out Omni at SXSW
Katie Neumann
Detroit, MI Rock
Play song Listen to “Tea-Soaked Letter”
Female songwriters are having a bit of a moment these days and considering all that’s going on in the world, it’s about time. Throw Detroit singer-songwriter Anna Burch into the mix as she just released her debut album Quit The Curse via Polyvinyl Records. It’s an honest first impression of folk songwriting wit, with a smart pop charm that works in tandem to give her songs a sincerity that rings true every step of the way. It’s hard not to be won over by her playful tunes while also find a way to move the needle emotionally.
Check out Anna Burch at SXSW
Una Blue
Northhampton, MA Electronic
Play song Listen to “Motion”
The rigid drum machines, plastic synths, and eerie vocals of Boy Harsher don’t sound much like what you would expect from an album called Country Girl. Then again, the Northampton, Ma. duo don’t sound much like what you would expect from the town that brought you Dinosaur Jr. and Speedy Ortiz. Boy Harsher combines the production talents of August Muller with the chilly, ethereal vocals of Jae Matthews. The pair are working in the resurgent goth styles of the 21st Century, reclaiming European coldwave with American EBM as compiled on Trevor Jackson’s Metal Dance compilation from 2012. They also incorporate some of the warm, glowing New Wave vibes of Synthpop 2.0. Think recent M83 or The Chromatics. 80s electronic music has a tendency to be rigid and grating—Boy Harsher smooths off the rough edges to help you levitate off into the sunset. Their SXSW appearance is coming hot on the heels of a successful string of sold-out tour dates. They’re sure to be at their tightest.
Check out Boy Harsher at SXSW
Chicago, IL Hip-Hop / Rap
Play song Listen to “hOp Off”
Drool opens up with a lonely horn line, inviting a raw African drum line to set up a psychedelic, hazy layer for Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s experimental rhymes to hit with maximum headiness. Mixing singing and rapping into a stream-of-consciousness flow, Ogbonnaya sounds like he comes from another planet, stretching the genre with a journeyman’s eye. Even though Ogbonnaya has a few solo records and various band releases, Drool is an excellent introduction to the eclectic artist – far reaching, strongly produced and refreshingly confident. Vocally, Ogbonnaya has a surprisingly rich range, often stretching octaves, as much an audio manipulator as a singer in a traditional sense. It’s a weird listen for sure, but one that pays off for anyone willing to take a windy road instead of charging straight ahead.
Check out Nnamdi Ogbonnaya at SXSW
Montreal, Canada Singer-Songwriter
Play song Listen to “If After All”
Common Holly sounds like a siren song bleeding its way into a fugue state. The album Playing House (2017) is hallucinatory but alert, a dream that leaves one haunted even in a state of being half-remembered. In more concrete terms, Common Holly is the work of singer-songwriter Brigitte Naggar, a singer blessed with an arresting vocal ability that turns a thought into an event. She has a depth of phrasing that makes her ease of elegance in accompaniment maddening. The approach to guitar instrumentals is understated, familiar, but stirring in its restraint and lack of cliches. It’s how a private conversation between strangers feels to a listener.
It’s not fair that one person should both be a top-tier vocalist and operate a guitar-based indie song vehicle so naturally. For every Stevie Nicks, we suffer a thousand Sheryl Crows. For every Mount Eerie, we endure a billion typewriter poetry Instagram accounts. We don’t deserve the level of execution offered by Common Holly, but we might as well just be thankful we wound up with it.
Check out Common Holly at SXSW
Minneapolis, MN Pop
Play song Listen to “Yours”
KC Dalager and Brad Hale started writing music together in high school under the moniker Now, Now Every Children. In 2010, changing labels and seeking a fresh start, they shortened the name to Now, Now. After being relatively quiet since 2012’s promising pop-punk LP, Threads, they released a couple of singles last year. “SGL” and “Yours” are far more pop than punk, lush tracks of wanting it all and driving with the windows down. In many ways, Threads, though it surveyed a darker landscape of images (darkness, ice, needles, ghosts), was about the same passions—just racked with crippling obsessions and regrets. “SGL”—short for “shotgun lover”—is past all that: “I was young and undone / But I could have died with you there in the sun / Pick it up, baby, if I’m moving too slow,” sings Dalager. Once young and undone, now Now, Now is picking up the pace.
— Peter Bowman, All Things Go
Check out Now, Now at SXSW
Peter Bowman
Peter is a video producer and contributing writer based in Charlotte, NC.
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5 posts from December 2014
British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – The Winners
Posted by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs
After Tim Hitchcock's keynote, which opened the British Library Labs' second annual symposium, Roly Keating, the Library’s Chief Executive, presented awards to the 2014 Labs competition winners Bob Nicholson and Desmond Schmidt.
Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library
See Roly Keating's brief speech here:
Roly Keating's brief speech at the Labs Symposium.
Roly thanked the members of the British Library Labs team, advisory and project boards, workplacement students and volunteers. He then formally congratulated the winners of the 2014 Labs competition; Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber's 'TILT' and Bob Nicholson's Victorian Meme Machine.
Roly Keating presenting Bob Nicholson with his prize.
Roly Keating presenting Desmond Schmidt with his prize.
Desmond and Bob then gave presentations on their work.
Desmond presented TILT, a tool he and his colleague Anna Gerber have been developing with cooperation with the Labs. Historical printed and manuscript material is often difficult to read and understand. Once digitised, researchers create detailed transcriptions, but making links between page images and the transcribed text is difficult and time-consuming. TILT is a tool that uses semi-automated techniques to build these links, to verify them, and to capture information that goes beyond text to include differences in lineation, type-size and line-spacing.
Desmond Schmidt, Research Scientist, University of Queensland, talking about 'TILT'
Read more about the project.
Bob presented the work he has been doing with Labs on the Victorian Meme Machine. What would it take to make a Victorian joke funny again? While the great works of Victorian art and literature have been preserved and celebrated by successive generations, even the period’s most popular jokes have now been lost or forgotten. Fortunately, thousands of these endangered jests have been preserved within the British Library’s digital collections. This project has begun to find these forgotten jokes and bring them back to life.
Bob Nicholson, Lecturer, Edge Hill University talking about the Victorian Meme Machine
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Victorian Meme Machine - Extracting and Converting Jokes
Victorian Humour
BL Labs, Collaborations, Events
British Library Labs Symposium 2014 – Keynote
The second annual British Library Labs Symposium on Monday 3rd November, 2014, opened with Professor Tim Hitchcock giving a keynote speech focusing on 'Big and small data in the humanities'.
Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex, giving a keynote at the British Library Labs Symposium 2014
Please note that full subtitles are available on YouTube and the transcript for the Tim's talk is available here.
Tim began with a quick reflection on the British Library Labs project:
In my experience Labs is unique. With a budget the size of a tuppenny bit, the BL, through the Labs, is both intervening in a space few others have had the confidence to inhabit; and as importantly, gently interrogating the role of a ‘library’ – in this case THE library – in a changing world of information and discovery.
By reaching out to both humanist scholars in need of technical support and expertise, and as importantly, developers keen to pursue an idea with an academic or humanist twist, the Lab is working in a space that neither the academy and higher education, nor the private sector are particularly good at. The Lab creates a space in which the intellectual capital of the Library, is made available to its users, in an entirely new way.
There are any number of research council initiatives, European funding calls, and twitchy private sector start-ups out there, ragging at the edge of established practise. We are advised to seek ‘disruption’, and to pursue the shiny. But it is important to remember that the institutions we have inherited – libraries and museums in particular - were created in service of a deeper purpose. It is not simply that we value them because they are ancient and august. Instead, we value them as a means of preserving memory, and acknowledging worth. And as importantly, we value them as part of a complex ecology of knowledge discovery, dissemination, and reflexion. So while disruption and the shiny, are all good; it remains important that libraries, continue to serve the fundamental purposes for which they were created. And the Lab, seems to me to answer this need.
In other words, as much as being a space in which new projects and approaches can be bench-tested; the Lab is important as a fragment of an ongoing negotiation about the role of the institutions of memory and knowing. And getting that role right, is imperative.
By acknowledging the existence of the library’s own great technical expertise; and essentially inviting people from across the piste to partner with it, the Lab is effectively re-thinking what it is to be a ‘reference’ librarian, an information professional, an engineer, servicing a technology of knowing.
Over the course of the rest of the day, wild and fun initiatives will roll before your eyes, but as they do, I think it is worthwhile keeping in mind that larger project and aspiration, of turning this inherited institution, the British Library, in to something that can continue to deliver on the unchanging principals it was created to serve.
Tim the went on to talk about how while 'big data' has grabbed the headlines in recent years, the creation of new digital tools has also changed how we undertake forms of 'close reading'. This talk explored how 'big data' and 'close reading' can be more effectively integrated into a single research strategy that acknowledges the importance of seeing inherited culture both in detail - close up; and in context - at scale. It also considered these methodological developments in light of the continuing importance of more traditional humanist theory.
Tim Hitchcock answering a question from the audience at the Labs' Symposium.
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British Library Labs Symposium 2014
Big Data, Small Data & meaning
BL Labs, Data, Events
Curious Roads to Cross - 21st Century Curatorship Talk by David Normal
On the 17th of October 2014, artist David Normal gave a presentation to a group of British Library staff, as a part of the 21st Century Curatorship series about his work 'Crossroads of Curiosity'. David has previously blogged about his work here.
David Normal giving his talk to British Library staff.
He talked about 4 pieces of collage art he created for the 2014 Burning Man Festival, entitled the 'Crossroads of Curiosity' which were based on images from the British Library 1 Million images release. As part of this talk, David was interviewed and was able to give a brief summary of how the work came about (see the 5 minute video below):
A 5 minute interview with David Normal about his work 'Crossroads of Curiosity'
The lecture David gave to staff covered his background as an artist and his various interests and influences which included; collage, computer graphics and use of illustration in his work especially from the 1940s and the 19th Century. He then talked about how his four paintings entitled 'Crossroads of Curiosity' came about and how he used images from the British Library's Flickr Commons 1 million release to make them. David then explained how these paintings (each created originally at a size of 3 foot by 8 foot (0.9m by 2.4m)) were made into an 'epic suite' of 4 illuminated light boxes at a size of 8 feet by 20 feet (2.4m by 6.1m) for the Burning Man Festival that took place between 25th of August and 1 September, in Nevada, USA this year.
The full lecture (just under 20 minutes) can be viewed below for those that missed it:
David Normal's lecture given to staff at the British Library about his work.
David then spent just over 20 minutes (about 5 minutes for each painting) giving his interpretation of what the paintings actually meant to him, see the video below:
An interpretation of the meaning of each of the four paintings, collectively called, 'Crossroads of Curiosity', created for Burning Man
For those of you that are interested, David will be speaking at the Curious Images event on 18 December, 2014 at the British Library.
@bl_labs #bl_labs #britishlibrary #BLDigital
Curious Roads to Cross: British Library, Burning Man and the art of David Normal
BL Labs, Collaborations, Events, Projects
Two 'Off the Map' games available as free downloads
A couple of months ago I blogged about the 2014 Off the Map competition winners announcement at GameCity9 Festival. Well, since then two of the winning teams have demonstrated their games at the British Library for International Games Day at Your Library. Seeing the Oculus Rift set up in the Library was brilliant!
Furthermore, I'm pleased that these two teams have now made their games available as free downloads.
The 2014 first place game Nix was created by Jackson Rolls-Gray, Sebastian Filby and Faye Allen from the University of South Wales. Using a virtual reality Oculus Rift headset, the game challenges players to reconstruct Fonthill Abbey via collecting hidden and moving glowing orbs in a spooky underwater world.
You can follow instructions to download Nix here (note: you will need your own Oculus Rift headset to play it). If you don't have an Oculus Rift, then you can see a flythrough of their game on YouTube:
The second game is from one of the 2014 runners up, team Shady Agents, also from the University of South Wales, who have released their Edgar Allan Poe-inspired game Beneath the Crimson Moon here.
Image from Beneath The Crimson Moon
After the delights of the 2014 competition connected to our exhibition Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. The 2015 Off the Map competition is linked to the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and is fittingly called 'Alice's Adventures Off the Map'. Curators have selected an amazing range of maps, photographs, texts, sounds and illustrations, which we are keen to share with Off the Map participants.
'Alice's Adventures Off the Map' will be launched at the British Library on Monday 8 December 2014, at one of the Digital Research team's free evening Digital Conversation events. If you would like to come along to find out more, please book here.
Stella Wisdom
Curator, Digital Research
@miss_wisdom
Collaborations, Events, Games, Gothic, Projects
Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
Researchers today are reliant on software and the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) is a national facility for cultivating world-class research through software. The work of the SSI is focussed around four themes fundamental to doing research in the digital age, these are:
enabling access to Skills and Training that creates a capable research software community and teaches them methods to advance their research
advocating for systems of credit that Recognise and Reward good software development and reuse practice
championing the varied job roles and Career Paths associated with research software
promoting the fundamental place of software in enabling Reproducible Research that supports confidence in the research process and its results
A major activity the SSI undertakes is a fellowship programme that funds researchers in exchange for their expertise and advice. I am delighted to have been selected as a 2015 Fellow.
With the British Library increasingly a place full of data as much as physical stuff, and with the announcement yesterday that the British Library has been selected by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as the location for the headquarters of the Alan Turing Institute, this award of a SSI Fellowship could not be more timely. And with these developments in mind, I plan to use the Fellowship to deepen my knowledge of and engagement with the the nascent systems of credit giving and evaluation for software produced during humanities research and (taking Software Carpentry as a model) to broaden the remit, lessons learned, and capacity in the GLAM sector to reproduce in their own institutions the research software specific elements of our internal Digital Scholarship Training Programme. But above all, I look forward to working with the other fellows, to sharing experiences, and to advocating for a scholarly landscape - agnostic of subject domains - that recognises software as, for, and by research.
@j_w_baker
Collaborations, Projects
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Tag Archives: content management system
BBC News redesign architect gets technical about changes
If you are more interested in the cogs and wheels behind the BBC News site’s redesign than the end product, a post by their chief technical architect John O’Donovan this week should be of interest.
The BBC has one of the oldest and largest websites on the internet and one of the goals of the update to the News site was to also update some of the core systems that manage content for all our interactive services.
O’Donovan first outlines the reasoning behind keeping with a Content Production System (CPS), rather than moving over to Content Management System (CMS), before giving a detailed look at the latest model – version 6 – that they have opted for.
The CPS has been constantly evolving and we should say that, when looking at the requirements for the new news site and other services, we did consider whether we should take a trip to the Content Management System (CMS) Showroom and see what shiny new wheels we could get.
However there is an interesting thing about the CPS – most of our users (of which there are over 1,200) think it does a pretty good job [checks inbox for complaints]. Now I’m not saying they have a picture of it next to their kids on the mantelpiece at home, but compared to my experience with many organisations and their CMS, that is something to value highly.
The main improvements afforded by the new version, according to O’Donovan, include a more structured approach, an improved technical quality of content produced and an ability to use semantic data to define content and improve layouts.
See his full post here…
This entry was posted in Data, Editors' pick, Multimedia, Online Journalism and tagged BBC News, cms, content management system, content production system, John O'Donovan on July 28, 2010 by Rachel Bartlett.
Johnston Press Atex system is bad news, but the death of the sub-editor is inevitable
Last month Johnston Press journalists, enraged by a new publishing strategy and online/print content management system (CMS) called Atex, voted for group-wide industrial action. Atex will make reporters responsible for subbing and editing their own newspaper stories using pre-made templates. The vote was thwarted by a High Court challenge; a re-ballot is underway.
Now several other companies including Archant are either using or considering using the same system.
The NUJ has a point when they say that with fewer staff and less checks and balances, more errors will get through – this aberration of a front page in the JP-owned Bedfordshire Times & Citizen recently is a classic example.
Yesterday I questioned exactly why the union was opposing Atex; included in the union’s greviances were baffling and unexplained “health and safety” concerns. The union later told Journalism.co.uk that they meant that it adds to staff stress levels.
But, I went on in conversations both online and privately, isn’t this part of a wider problem? The NUJ has a fundamental belief that sub-editors should sub stories and reporters write them. Like the pre-Wapping ihousen-printers that jealously guarded their very specific, outdated roles, the ideal outcome for the union is to maintain the status quo and protect jobs.
The reality isn’t quite that simple. Atex, as more than one person said, is far from the innovative answer that newspapers need. One person with knowledge of how Atex works, who works for a company that is planing to implement it and asked not to be named, put it to me like this:
We’re still in transition in my newsroom at the moment – we haven’t switched to using it for the web yet. However, if the system goes ahead as planned we will not be able to insert in-line links into stories, nor will we be able to embed content from anywhere else online. It’s possible to build link boxes that sit next to web stories, but it’s time consuming compared to in-line links – and if our current CMS is anything to go by, in the press of a busy newsroom, it won’t get done.
That sounds like a retrograde step. Far from holding back innovation, it sounds like JP journalists are right to oppose the move. This is from a company whose former chairman of nine years, Roger Parry, last week criticised the very board that he chaired for not investing enough in digital media (via Press Gazette). Exactly who else is there to blame?
But it gets worse:
For those of us who possess data skills and want to make mashups, visualisations and so on, this is a massive inhibition – even if we find the time to innovate or create something really special for our papers, we’ll have no outlet for it. It also means we can’t source video or images for our stories in innovative ways – no YouTube embeds or Flickr slideshows – cutting us off from huge resources that could save time, energy and money while enhancing our web offering.
It’s astonishing that we’re even considering such a backwards step to a presumably costly proprietory system when so many cheaper, more flexible, open source solutions exist for the web.
Regional reporters, web editors and even overall editors will read that and find this frustration of digital ideas by technical, budgetary limitations very familiar. The last point rings loudest of all: cheap, dynamic blogging solutions like WordPress and Typepad provide all newsrooms need to create a respectable news site. Publishing executives seem to find it hard to believe that something free to use can be any good, but just look at what’s coming in the in-beta WordPress 3.0 (via @CasJam on Mashable).
So the union’s misgivings in this case appear to be well placed. The drop in quality from Johnston’s cost-cutting is there for all to see in horrendous subbing errors, thinner editions and entire towns going without proper coverage.
Unfortunately, journalists have to accept that no amount of striking is going to bring back the staff that have gone and that times have changed. Carolyn McCall’s parting shot as CEO of Guardian Media Group was to repeat her prediction (via FT.com) that advertising revenues will never return to pre-recession levels – and don’t forget Claire Enders’ laugh-a-minute performance at the House of Commons media select committee, in which she predicted the death of half the country’s 1,300 local and regional titles in the next five years.
Regional publishers may not all have a solution that combines online editorial innovation with a digital business model right now. But to get to that point, reporters will have to cooperate and accept that their roles have changed forever – “sub-editor” may be a term journalists joining the industry in five years will never hear.
Patrick Smith is a freelance journalist, event organiser and formerly a correspondent for paidContent:UK and Press Gazette. He blogs at psmithjournalist.com and is @psmith on twitter.
This entry was posted in Journalism, Newspapers, Online Journalism and tagged Atex, Bedfordshire Times & Citizen, cms, content management system, Johnston Press, jp, National Union of Journalists, nuj, Patrick Smith, strike action, strikes on June 16, 2010 by Patrick Smith.
Newsandtech.com: San Diego Union-Tribune finally abandons manual pagination
The San Diego Union-Tribune, the last major metro in the United States to put together its pages manually, will finally – after 140 years – move to a new content management system.
Newsandtech.com reports:
“[T]he paper goes live on a 250-seat Atex Prestige content management system in November.”
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Newspapers and tagged atex prestige, content management system, newsandtech.com, San Diego Union, San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Tribune, United States on September 1, 2009 by Judith Townend.
The Editorialiste: ‘New media reality check’ for new journalists
Andrew Nusca shares his thoughts on the new media skills needed by modern day journalists:
“As new media has increased in popularity and usage, this myth has populated of the multi-talented reporter – you know, the one carrying all the gear a few paragraphs back. And while it’s certainly an ideal, it’s not a necessity. In fact, it’s barely a reality.”
He follows this with some very useful advice for journalists entering the profession:
“For most online journalism, all you need to know is how to blog and how to use a CMS, or content management system.”
Full post at this link…
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Journalism, Multimedia, Training and tagged andrew nusca, content management system, media reality check, media skills, multimedia, new media, Online Journalism, reporter, Training on April 21, 2009 by Judith Townend.
New look for Archant’s Eastern Daily Press
At the end of last week regional newspaper publisher Archant set live its new look Eastern Daily Press site – part of changes ahead of a larger redesign later this year.
Here’s a snapshot of part of the home page, which now features a wider layout and simpler navigation. The design follows that already seen on the revamped East Anglian Daily Press and Evening Star titles, which will be rolled out group-wide.
“The EDP is Archant’s most popular newspaper website (around 2.5m page views, and 280k monthly unique visitors), and is a regular award-winner. The changes made this week are to intended to give the site a more modern approach (…) and represent the first major redesign since the site was launched in 2001,” James Goffin, Archant regional web producer, told Journalism.co.uk.
“We’ve also reviewed the content on the site to make sure it is fully in tune with what our readers are looking for.
“This first-stage of the relaunch will be followed up later this year with new features as part of our move to a new joint content management system for print and web.”
Congratulations to Archant’s Norfolk web team (Celia Sutton, Tracey Tutt and Vince Yallop) for the EDP overhaull – am sure they’d appreciate any thoughts?
This entry was posted in Newspapers and tagged Archant, Archant's Eastern Daily Press, Celia Sutton, content management system, East Anglian Daily Press, Eastern Daily Press, Evening Star, James Goffin, Journalism.co.uk, last week regional newspaper publisher, regional web producer, Tracey Tutt, Vince Yallop, web producer, web team on April 20, 2009 by Laura Oliver.
NPR: ‘Develop content management tools, not web publishing tools’
Media and news organisations should look at building content management systems that do more than just creating webpages, says National Public Radio’s (NPR) Daniel Jacobson.
“In building our CMS at NPR, our goal was to make sure the tool could publish to anything, including NPR.org. If our focus did not consider other platforms, we could have ended up with a web publishing system that binds the content too closely to the website itself.”
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Online Journalism and tagged cms, content management, content management system, content management systems, content management tools, Daniel Jacobson, In building, National Public Radio, NPR, web publishing, web publishing system on February 6, 2009 by Laura Oliver.
Online Journalism Scandinavia: Mecom’s Danish arm will cut costs with open-source CMS
Mecom-owned Berlingske Media, Denmark’s biggest daily newspaper publisher, has decided to ditch its costly online publishing system for open-source software Drupal.
As Journalism.co.uk reported earlier this year, Berlingske Media already runs some of its sites on Drupal – a free content management system (CMS).
After a long period of deliberation, the Danish division of Mecom, the ailing pan-European media group headed by former Mirror-boss David Montgomery, has decided to make Drupal its online publishing system of choice.
“It is no secret that economy means a lot to us, but if the system had been unstable and not user-friendly, the price would not have been decisive,” Berlingske’s CEO Lisbeth Knudesen told eJour (in Danish).
She particularly praised Drupal for being so much more flexible than traditional publishing platforms.
This entry was posted in Online Journalism and tagged Berlingske Media, CEO, cms, content management system, costly online publishing system, daily newspaper publisher, David Montgomery, Denmark, Drupal, Journalism.co.uk, Lisbeth Knudesen, Mecom, media, Online Journalism Scandinavia, online publishing system, open-source software on December 23, 2008 by Kristine Lowe.
CSM and CMS: Christian Science Monitor readies technology for web-only move
Following its decision to become an online-only outfit from spring next year, the Christian Science Monitor has opted for an open source content management system (CMS) produced by Norway’s eZ Systems.
The eZ Publish CMS will support multimedia content and allow the monitor to publish to multiple platforms if needed, a release from eZ said.
The deal marks the CMS provider’s plans to expand into the US.
This entry was posted in Handy tools and technology and tagged Christian Science Monitor, content management system, eZ Systems, Norway, open source, The Christian Science Monitor, United States on December 10, 2008 by Laura Oliver.
The Drum: Trinity Mirror to expand new production system to Scotland
The publisher may extend the new production system currently being introduced to its Midlands titles to its Scottish operations, which includes the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
As part of the new procedure journalists upload their copy directly to a centralised content management system, before it is deployed to the online or print edition, The Drum reports.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Journalism, Newspapers and tagged content management system, Scotland, Sunday Mail, the Daily Record, The Drum, Trinity Mirror on October 15, 2008 by Laura Oliver.
Makeover for the Telegraph business pages
Today sees the launch of the all-new Telegraph.co.uk Finance – a merger of their business and personal finance sections into one channel.
The new format is the result of their new digital publishing and content management system, Escenic. A release from the Telegraph said that Escenic has allowed ‘easier navigation, improved accessibility and allows for contextually relevant data to be embedded in articles and throughout the channel.’
The new finance channel includes:
Edmund Conway’s ‘Economic Pulse’ blog
Two new platforms for funds and shares, where users can make their own portfolio
Financial commentary and analysis from breakingviews.com, as announced last week
The channel is available on their mobile portal, out last month. The group has also developed a new widget for social bookmarking, a financial iPhone application, and a ‘Questor’ tool, which gives share and market tips.
Paul Farrow, digital personal finance editor, Telegraph.co.uk, said in the release: “Financial news has never mattered more. We wanted to strengthen our business coverage by looking at the reasons behind financial developments but also at how they directly affect the consumer.”
The changes are a continuation of their re-design process, started in July, which saw a new look for the news, sport and travel sections.
This entry was posted in Online Journalism and tagged blogging, Business, content management system, digital personal finance editor, Edmund Conway, escenic, finance, finance channel, iPhone, Paul Farrow, personal finance sections, Questor, Telegraph.co.uk, the Telegraph, travel sections on September 23, 2008 by Judith Townend.
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MPR News Intelligence on higher education
Learning · Money · Schools
U won't comment on question about U official's possible ag interests
Alex Friedrich September 16, 2010, 4:24 PM Sep 16, 2010
Here’s a statement that MPR reporter Stephanie Hemphill has received from the U’s spokesman.
He does NOT address, as Hemphill requested, the question of a connection between Karen Himle, head of University Relations, and current/former ag clients of her husband’s.
From: Daniel Wolter [mailto:wolter@umn.edu]
To: Hemphill, Stephanie
Subject: Re: Bell film
Hi Stephanie —
Here is the University’s statement on the “Troubled Waters” documentary postponement:
In 2008, the University of Minnesota received a legislative appropriation, and subsequent additional private funding, to develop an educational documentary on the waters of Minnesota, designed to promote watershed understanding and citizen action in protecting, restoring and conserving water resources.
Recently, the documentary, “Troubled Waters,” was previewed by a number of University officials and faculty. As a result of input received from these viewers, Bell Museum Director Susan Weller has requested a small group of qualified faculty review the film and advise her on whether the documentary as edited meets the specifications of the legislative appropriation to the University, and is factually accurate, objective and balanced in its presentation.
The overall purpose of the review is to assure that the University meets its responsibilities under the legislation to provide the best quality product, one that meets the expectations contained in the legislation and provides high-quality educational material for viewers.
The University looks forward to hosting the premiere of the film when this process is concluded. — Daniel Wolter
Director, News Service
Office of University Relations
www.umn.edu/news Twitter @UMNews www.facebook.com/UofMN
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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
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← We will love you ’til the day you die.
Never had a chance. →
Jeebus, these people never quit.
Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier (h/t Andy Staples), on the BCS:
“It’s truly amazing. The sport where the NCAA can generate the biggest revenue and they end up giving it away for free. If the university presidents ever really truly understood what is happening, they would be in disbelief. The NCAA leadership over the past 30 years has been lulled to sleep while this transformation took place.”
Damn it, the NCAA never had the D-1 football postseason to give away. And the university presidents of the Big Six know exactly what’s happening. That’s reinforced with every check fueled by broadcast rights they receive.
There is no transformation.
Dude, I get that you think it’s Boise State’s birthright to sit at the money table with the big boys, even though it doesn’t draw like they do in the stands or on the tube. Just don’t pretend everyone is being screwed due to the stupidity of people like Mike Slive and Jim Delany. Because, as Michael Corleone said to Carlo Rizzi before he had him killed, that insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, It's Not Easy Being A Mid-Major
38 responses to “Jeebus, these people never quit.”
Would the Pac-12 please go ahead and expand again, letting in Boise State so they’ll shut the fuck up, please?
Never happen. The PAC 12 would never associate academically with a (former) JuCo. And Boise State brings nothing to the table athletically except football.
Admittedly, there’s no compelling reason to let them in aside from PR. The question is, how long will Boise remain a relevant football program? Peterson isn’t going to stay there forever, and I can’t imagine them maintaining this level of play once he’s gone. Whoever takes the plunge is going to be saddled with a terrible football program within the next decade in all likelihood. I think I just talked myself out of thinking anyone will take them.
Maybe we ought to wait until after we win the damn game to be talking about how shitty Boise State is. Just sayin’.
If I’d said they were shitty right now that would make a lot more sense.
This article and these comments are borderline RETARDED.
I would comment more about trying to see this point of view, but I cannot get my head that far up my@ss.
Calling people retards with their heads up their asses is an interesting debate tactic.
It was not a debate. Just an observation.
Boise St. does not belong at the adults table. Spend some more time work your way up like Miami and FSU did. If you want a playoff please drop down a level.
and UGA, for that matter.
Not trying to threadjack here, Senator, but did you see Bill King’s article about Deion Bonner? He actually has a screenshot of Bonner’s twitter where he posted “Trying to sell this ipod” and then continued to tell people there was nothing wrong with it and that he had two of them.
He also posted on his facebook last week that he just bought $200 sunglasses.
In another worrisome note, on Crowell’s facebook, in his defense of Bonner, he said it was “sumthin all us dun did b4” and that he needs to keep his head up. I continue to be doubtful that Crowell will make it four years in Athens without some dumb run-in with the law.
Michael Carvell is reporting that Crowell shut down his Facebook page and doesn’t have a Twitter account, so he may be smarter than you think.
Senator, you are fast. Was just getting ready to re-jack the thread for you, but I see you don’t need any help.
I’m not sure where Carvell is getting his information, but I’m looking at his profile right now (and no, I’m not friends with him), questionably worded wall posts and all.
Crowell’s facebook profile, that is.
From Crowell.
I just saw that as well and was about to comment on it, but you beat me to it. Either way, his facebook profile is still active and open for all to see, so I’m not sure what the mixup is.
and he commented on Deion Bonner’s status as recently as two hours ago, which would be after he told Carvell his facebook was shut down.
Gee, you don’t suppose it could be an imposter, do you?
It’s the same profile that he’s been using for the past several months, interacting with Quintavious Harrow, Deion Bonner, and several other well-known athletes. It has numerous pictures of him linked both by him and others, with comments from him and others about the pictures. If it were faked, then I’m assuming Deion Bonner, Cootie Harrow and the rest would have to be fake as well, and it’s about the best fake profile ever.
According to the Rivals site, you are 100% correct – an imposter.
I would love nothing more than to beat them back to the Stone Age yet again, for this exact reason.
Attention, Boise State: the presidents in the BCS conferences are watching as their schools are making money hands over fist. Incidentally, they’re the power brokers. They know what’s going on. You do, too. Now sit down, shut up, and take your Fiesta Bowl handout after you finish beating up on all of the also-rans with whom you share a conference, which is the only reason you keep going undefeated (and I don’t care about the fact that you beat a bloated, unmotivated Oklahoma team or the same VA Tech team that James Madison also beat).
TrboDawg
FWIW… There are currently (12:49pm PST 04/19/11) two “Isaiah Crowell” pages on Facebook, neither of which appear to be his personal site. One is listed as “Athlete” the other as “Community.” They both look like they were set up by fans.
“Boise State generated a little more than $500 from its text-messaging fund raiser this weekend. Fans can donate $10 to the Bronco Stadium expansion project by texting BUILD to 27722”
Did no one see that little nugget about BSU in the article…If BSU is wondering why they didnt get a seat at the big boy table they need look no further.
carefulBrad
Did no one tell them to throw in a free hot dog and coke?
I think that helped Tennessee increase their ticket sales in 2010. Or offer a two ticket for one package. It could work there.
Skeptic Dawg
What truley makes this sad is the fact that they will beat us in the Dome this fall. CMR and this program have given me zero reason over the past 3-4 years to believe they are capable of winning a big game.
zdub
What’s your point? Yeah they may beat us but what will that prove…that they can beat a (currently) average-at-best SEC team?
Beating us doesn’t really change anything. If they win, people say they beat a average team from the SEC and were supposed to. If they lose, people say they got beat by a average team from the SEC and their national title hopes are over before they even begin.
And this game truly has little meaning for us, at least in regards to the SEC (let’s not kid ourselves, we aren’t going to compete for a national championship this season). The most important game on the early slate is USCe and a victory in Athens over them will be crucial in getting back on top of the SEC East.
I beg to differ sir. The most important game is always that game which is next on your schedule. Currently, the Broncos are next and that is the most important game today. One at a time. Last year we were an average SEC team. This year we don’t know what we are. imho… I doubt we remain “average”.
We may not know what we are, true, but we do know for a fact that Boise State will be ranked ahead of us for this opening game.
As for the most important game being the one next on your schedule, let’s agree to disagree. I want us to beat Boise and SCe, but if I had to choose, I would want us to beat SCe more simply because it would help us win the SEC.
The point is this: The very last thing CMR and this program currently need is an opening game L. Regardless of the opponent. As McGarity and CMR have both said, this a a game to put the Dawgs back on the map. It is also a game that the program needs to prove to THEMSELVES. When is the last time the Dawgs have won a big time game? So yes, this is a huge game for the program.
So if a opening game loss is so crippling, why didn’t McGarity just stick with playing Louisville to start the 2011 season? It would seem that beating Louisville in Athens would have been a much easier way to begin the season than playing a really good Boise team in Atlanta (with the outcome much more up in the air).
And what happens if we indeed lose, are we suddenly off the map? Will we just fade away until only a shell of the program is left? I just think people are putting way too much importance on a out-of-conference game to start the season. If we win great, if we lose then we compete for the SEC and see what happens.
Losing to Boise but beating SCe would be just fine with me. In fact, that’s what I’m expecting to happen.
You didn’t just post all that shat did you? I mean really. You just don’t get it or are you being obtuse? Let me encourage you to continue to follow the Dawgs…. and I shall share with you that “EVERY” win is important. Gee can we trade a USC loss and feel good if we swap a Gator win with it? Good grief. Just win baby! That’s the ticket.
Thank you, Al Davis. Some wins are more important than others: conference wins trump out of conference wins with the exception of Tech, just because losing to them is embarrassing and leads to nerd happiness, a sight no one should have to witness.
I’ll take the Al Davis comment as a compliment if only for his total body of work.
“Al Davis is the only person to have served pro football in such varied capacities as (1) a player personnel assistant, (2) an assistant coach, (3) a head coach, (4) a general manager, (5) a league commissioner and (6) the principal owner and chief executive officer of an NFL team.”
I think the effects of losing the first game of the season should be something that’s understood without a lot of explanation. However, maybe the good Senator might find some time to write about it here.
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” Vince Lombardi
Coming off a road loss to Central Florida in a bowl following the first losing season for CMR, it would seem to me that this game (Boise State) is of utmost importance.
I don’t want to beat this to death but about a year ago I posted an elaborate study covering the entire history of UGA football of what happens when UGA loses its first game and it ain’t pretty. We are talking about young males who think that they are bulletproof. When they find out they are not they lose confidence. Losing the first game is waaay bad for the prospects for the rest of the season. Look it up. I did.
I believe you and thanx. I can’t find a silver lining in losing that first game no matter who we beat in the second one.
Eeyore please stop with the 3 or 4 years ago meme. 3 and 4 years ago we finished in the top 10.
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Firemen from four Norfolk towns, some wearing breathing apparatus, sort through the reed-thatched roof of a cottage on fire at Burgh.
Blaze makes six homeless
From the Eastern Daily Press, Monday 22 March 1976
A family of six were made homeless on Saturday when fire destroyed the thatched roof and severely damaged upstairs rooms of their detached cottage at Church Lane, Burgh, near Aylsham.
Mr and Mrs Barry Thorpe, with their three sons and daughter moved to Norfolk from Leicester only months ago. Mr Thorpe, who used to be in the hosiery business, had decided to devote a few months renovating their newly-acquired cottage before he started business again.
“We had done the work upstairs, which had included replacing some beams and floorboards and had had the wood treated for woodworm, and we had just started downstairs when this happened,” he said.
Family and friends help in moving possessions to a caravan from the thatched cottage that caught fire.
It was Mr Thorpe who spotted the fire and raised the alarm. “I was out in the garden and saw flames coming up from a hole in the thatch,” he said. He and Mr Robert Dittrich, of the Post Office Stores, tried to contain the blaze with a hosepipe and the family were joined by many villagers in removing as many contents as possible to safety.
The roof was well alight when Aylsham firemen under Sub-Officer Ken Walker, arrived. They were soon joined by North Walsham brigade with Sub-Officer Ken Mace in charge, and four men wearing breathing apparatus went into the house to direct jets on to the flames.
Firemen from Stalham and Wroxham also were sent to Burgh, and Divisional Commander Donald Wallace was among senior fire officers of Norfolk Fire Service who attended.
EDP front page news
Mr Thorpe paid tribute to people of the village who helped to get a lot of the furniture out of the house, and those who had offered the family temporary accommodation. “Although we are homeless as you can see, we are, in fact, not without somewhere to live for the time being,” he said.
Mr Thorpe explained that recently, his wife’s mother had moved into the area. He said he did not know if it would be possible to rebuild the cottage.
Three of Mr and Mrs Thorpe’s family – Paul, 18, Clive 16, and Sarah Jane, who is eight, helped move things out of their house. Their other son, Kevin, was away visiting friends.
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Somewhere Far Beyond is the fourth studio album by German power metal act Blind Guardian.
It was released in 1992 and produced by Kalle Trapp. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who has also drawn the artwork for some more of Blind Guardian's releases (Tales from the Twilight World, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, etc.).
The album saw the band creating its own original sound, while still employing most of their speed/power metal techniques.
The strong songwriting of the album (including fan favorite "The Bard's Song - In the Forest") made the album a power metal staple. The image of the cover and the two Bard's Songs gave the band its nickname "The Bards". The use of the nickname has been also extended to the fans of the group, Circle of the Bards being the now defunct fan club and Hansi frequently calling the fans Bards.
The album was acclaimed by power metal fans all across Europe and especially Japan, allowing them to tour for the first time outside Germany. The tour in the Far East led to the first live album of the band, Tokyo Tales.
It was remastered and re-released on 15 June 2007, with bonus tracks.
* Hansi Kürsch – vocals and bass
* André Olbrich – lead, rhythm, acoustic guitars and backing vocals
* Marcus Siepen – rhythm, acoustic guitars and backing vocals
* Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums
Guest musicians
* Piet Sielck –effects and guitars
* Mathias Wiesner – effects and bass on "Spread Your Wings"
* Rolf Köhler, Billy King and Kalle Trapp – backing vocals
* Stefan Will – piano
* Peter Rübsam – Scottish and Irish bagpipes
* Kai Hansen – lead guitar on "The Quest for Tanelorn"
* Kalle Trapp – producing, mixing and recording
* Piet Sielck – second engineer
* Andreas Marschall/Becker — Derouet Hamburg – cover paintings
* Tom Nagy – photo
* a•r•t•p•o•o•l – graphics
*"The Bard's Song (In the Forest)" has been covered by German a capella metal band van Canto.
Lyrical references
* "Time What is Time" is about someone who finds himself in the Blade Runner world.
* "Journey Through the Dark" is about someone who's forgotten who he is, time travel, and, specifically, Jhary-a-Conel. Jhary a-Conel is a bard and a companion of the Eternal Champion, from the books by Michael Moorcock.
* "Black Chamber" deals with someone finding himself in the Twin Peaks world and facing a dark fate.
* "Theatre of Pain" is based on the fantasy novel The Merman's Children by Poul Anderson.
* "The Quest for Tanelorn" is also about Jhary a-Conel. (Tanelorn is a fictional city in The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock's stories).
* "Ashes to Ashes" is based on reality; it has to do with the death of Hansi's father. Source:http
* "The Bard's Song - In the Forest" is inspired by the computer game The Bard's Tale. Source:http
* "The Bard's Song - The Hobbit" is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
* "Somewhere Far Beyond" is a retelling of Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three.
* "Trial by Fire" is about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's a cover of the heavy metal band Satan.
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Blind Guardian is a German metal band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres. Blind Guardian is a part of the German heavy metal scene that emerged in the mid-1980s.
The band's lyrics, written by vocalist Hansi Kürsch, are inspired by the fiction of fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, and Michael Moorcock, as well as traditional legends and epics.Bradford Lee Eden. Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien. McFarland, 2010. ISBN 0786448148, 9780786448142. 215 pages Over the years, a running theme has developed associating the band members with travelling bards.
Blind Guardian formed in 1984 in Krefeld, Germany, by Hansi Kürsch (vocals, bass) and Andre Olbrich (guitar) under the name Lucifer's Heritage. The band first released two demos in 1985 and 1986, despite undergoing chaotic lineup changes: Markus Dörk (guitar) and Thomen Stauch (drums) were replaced by Christof Theißen and Hans-Peter Frey, respectively. Finally, in 1987, Marcus Siepen joined and Thomen came back to form the lineup which would stay consistent for the next 18 years.
After Lucifer's Heritage signed a contract with No Remorse Records, the band changed their name to Blind Guardian to avoid any speculations about Satanism (in a bio it was stated that they also wanted to distance themselves from the black metal movement, as their demos were placed in with black metal albums at local record shops). They released their debut album Battalions of Fear in 1988, which was essentially a speed metal album heavily influenced by Helloween. These two German bands had close ties, and Helloween founder Kai Hansen made a guest appearance on Blind Guardian's second LP, Follow the Blind (1989), where the band revealed some thrash metal influence. Their third LP, Tales from the Twilight World (1990), had a much more melodic and "epic" feeling, with usage of choir and classical music influence.
Blind Guardian signed with Virgin Records in 1991, and released their fourth studio album Somewhere Far Beyond in 1992 and the live album Tokyo Tales in 1993. Flemming Rasmussen, former Metallica producer, began working with the band in 1994, producing their fifth studio album Imaginations from the Other Side, released in 1995, and The Forgotten Tales, an album that contained half covers and half original work, released in 1996.
In 1998, Blind Guardian released their epic album Nightfall in Middle-Earth. "Complete with anthemic choruses, spoken word story lines, and plenty of bombastic power metal punctuating every dramatic turn", says Allmusic's Vincent Jeffries, "Nightfall in Middle-Earth is perhaps Blind Guardian's most triumphant". A concept album based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, Blind Guardian's music demonstrated some folk rock influence, but also featured heavy use of Queen-style layered backing vocals. Since Nightfall, bass guitar has been played by sessional member Oliver Holzwarth, and Hansi has been able to devote all his attention to singing. Nightfall was also the last Blind Guardian album produced by Rasmussen.
A Night at the Opera, named after the Queen album, was released four years later. On this album, the band's sound lacked almost all influence of their original speed metal. Power and progressive metal abound, with over the top orchestral backing and a consistent vocal and guitar layering throughout. Though not a true concept album, many of the lyrics dealt with the common themes of religion and relations between human and divine powers. It was followed by a live album in 2003 and a DVD, Imaginations Through the Looking Glass, in 2004, which was the last recorded Blind Guardian material to feature Thomen Stauch on drums. He left the band due to musical differences and was replaced by Frederik Ehmke. The first album with Ehmke was A Twist in the Myth, which came out in 2006.
Blind Guardian recently participated in the soundtrack for the In the Name of the King: a Dungeon Siege Tale fantasy movie (Uwe Boll), which came out in 2008. The band also recorded a theme song for Sacred 2 Fallen Angel RPG video game, the prequel to Sacred.
A Voice in the Dark was the next single from Blind Guardian that was released 25 June 2010.
On July 30, 2010 the album followed, called At the Edge of Time. The band started "The Sacred Worlds and Songs Divine Tour 2010", the European dates will have the opening acts Enforcer and Steelwing. The 22 October in Gothenburg, Sweden only Steelwing was the opening act. The US dates will have Holy Grail and Seven Kingdoms and later they were announced that they would play at Wacken Open Air in 2011.
Musical style
Blind Guardian @ Gods Of MEtal 2009.JPGthumbBlind Guardian with the band's definitive scenery in background
Blind Guardian's first two albums, Battalions of Fear and Follow the Blind, were more in the style of speed metal than their following works. Beginning with their third album Tales from the Twilight World, Blind Guardian gradually began to write more complicated compositions focusing less on speed. As of their sixth album, Nightfall in Middle Earth, Hansi stopped playing bass to focus on singing. At this point the band began to incorporate large amounts of orchestral arrangements, and utilized the technique of overdubbing, heavily influenced by the English rock band Queen.
Blind Guardian's music features the staccato guitars and double bass drumming characteristic of power metal, as well as the use of overdubs and numerous backing vocals to create a dense sound. This technique, especially notable in the guitar and vocal tracks, creates the impression of a vast army of musicians playing in unison and singing in harmony. This proved significant on all albums after the first two but most particularly on A Night at the Opera.
Another definitive feature of Blind Guardian music is frequent use of folk tunes and instruments, especially in power ballads such as "Lord of the Rings", "The Bard's Song", "A Past and Future Secret", "Skalds and Shadows" and "Curse My Name", among others.
Along with Jon Schaffer, the leader and founder of Iced Earth, Kürsch is a member of Demons & Wizards, where he is the lead singer.
Blind Guardian have been working on and off for eight years on an orchestral project writing music about The Lord of the Rings (negotiations failed to be included on the famous The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as the soundtrack, because the band wanted to concentrate on their next album). Although it will not be a power metal album, it will be published under the name of Blind Guardian because it matches the theme of the band's lyrics, according to Hansi.
*Hansi Kürsch – Lead vocals (1984–present), Bass guitar (1984–1996)
*André Olbrich – Lead guitar (1984–present)
*Marcus Siepen – Rhythm guitar (1987–present)
*Frederik Ehmke – Drums, Percussion, Flute and Bagpipes (2005–present)
*Oliver Holzwarth – Bass guitar (Sessional Member) (1997–)
*Michael Schüren – keyboards, Grand piano (Sessional Member) (1997–)
*Pat Bender – Keyboards, Sound effects (Sessional Member) (2002–)
*Thomas Hackmann – Backing vocals (1990–)
*Olaf Senkbeil - Backing vocals (1998–)
*Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – Drums (1984–1985, 1987–2005)
*Mathias Wiesner – keyboards, effects (studio) (1989–2002)
*Markus Dörk – Guitars (Lucifer's Heritage) (1984–1985)
*Christof Theißen – Rhythm guitar (Lucifer's Heritage) (1986)
*Hans-Peter Frey – Drums (Lucifer's Heritage) (1986)
*Dirim Ceseroglu - solo violin (Wheel of Time) (2010)
*Rolf Köhler – backing vocals, lead vocals (1990–2007—his death)
*Martin G. Meyer – Keyboards (2006–2008)
*Alex Holzwarth – drums (live) (2002–2003)
*Billy King – backing vocals (1992–2002)
*Boris Schmidt, Sascha Pierro – Keyboards and sound effects (2002)
*Max Zelzner – flute & alto-flute (1998)
*Norman Eshley, Douglas Fielding – narration (1998)
*Piet Sielck – guitar, backing vocals, effects (1990–1996)
*Kalle Trapp – backing vocals, lead vocals, lead guitar (1990–1996)
*Otto Sidenius – organ (1996)
*Stefan Will – piano (1992–1996)
*Jacob Moth – acoustic guitar on (1996)
*Ronnie Atkins, Aman Malek – backing vocals (1996)
*Kai Hansen – lead vocals, guitar solos, backing vocals (1989–1992)
*Peter Rübsam – Scottish and Irish bagpipes (1992)
*Niko Trznadl – bass (live) (1988)
*Thomas Kelleners – vocals (Lucifer's Heritage) (1984)
*Battalions of Fear (1988)
*Follow the Blind (1989)
*Tales from the Twilight World (1990)
*Somewhere Far Beyond (1992)
*Imaginations from the Other Side (1995)
*Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998)
*A Night at the Opera (2002)
*A Twist in the Myth (2006)
* At the Edge of Time (2010)
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Define basic accounting terms.
Answer-Accounting statement of a company is required by everyone to understand a company’s financial status. Therefore, it is important to structure this statement wisely with some standard language and set rules. These set rules are known as Generally accepted accounting principle. These principles help a company to prepare the various type of statements of both government and private agencies.
Answer-Accounting statement of a company is required by everyone to understand a company’s financial status. Therefore, it is important to structure this statement wisely with some standard language and set rules. These set rules are known as Generally accepted accounting principle. These principles help a company to prepare the various types of statements of both government and private agencies.
Explain the business entity concept with an example.
Answer- In this concept, business is treated as a unit separate and distinct from its owners, creditors, managers, and others. In other words, the owner of the business is always considered as distinct and separate from the business he owns.
Why is it necessary for accounts to assume that a business entity will remain a going concern?
Answer- This assumption provides the very basis for showing the value of assets in the balance sheet because we assume that these assets are not going to be sold in the near future.
What is the basic accounting equation?
Answer- Assets = Liabilities + Capital
Explain the characteristics of Accounting Principles.
Answer- The characteristics of Accounting Principles are.
Accounting principles have their own set of rules and guidelines used to develop an accurate and easy to understand the financial statement of a company.
These principles are determined from years of experience and reason. They are not laboratory proven, therefore, they are not used universally
These principles are not static so they have a chance to change with the passage of time according to new policies and needs of the user.
The reception of accounting principles depends upon the following points.
Relevance- It means the principle is relevant only if the accounting information derived is useful to the user
Objectivity- The principle is objective if it is free from personal bias or judgment from those people who furnish the accounting information.
Feasibility– The principle is feasible if it can be applied easily and without the complexity
Very Short Questions
Give two characteristics of accounting principles.
Answer- The two characteristics of accounting principles are
(i) Man-made
(ii) Flexible
What is the business entity concept?
Answer- Business is treated as an entity separate and distinct from its owners.
What is the money measurement concept?
Answer- Only those transactions and events are recorded in accounting which can be expressed in terms of money.
What is going concern concept?
Answer- Business will continue to exist for a long time in the future and there is no intention to close it or reduce its size significantly.
What is the accounting period concept?
Answer- The entire life of an enterprise is divided into time intervals which are known as accounting periods at the end of which a profit and loss account is prepared to ascertain the profit and a balance sheet is prepared to ascertain the financial position.
What is the cost concept?
Answer- Assets are shown in the book at cost of acquisition less depreciation.
What is the dual aspect concept?
Answer- Every business transaction is recorded having a dual aspect. One aspect is debited while other is credited.
What is matching concept?
Answer- All costs incurred during a particular period should be charged to revenue of the period for determining the net profits.
How does the matching concept apply to depreciation?
Answer- In matching concept all costs which are incurred in an accounting period should be charged against the revenue of the period. Hence, depreciation of the current year is charged against the current year’s revenue. In other words, the full cost of the asset is not treated as an expense in the year of its purchase itself rather it is spread over its useful life.
What is accrual concept?
Answer- Revenue is recorded when sales are made or services are rendered and it is immaterial whether cash is received or not.
What is a convention of full disclosure?
Answer- There should be sufficient disclosure of information which is of significant interest to the users of financial statements.
What is the concept of consistency?
Answer- Accounting principles and methods once selected and adopted should be applied consistently from one year to another.
What is the convention of prudence or conservatism?
Answer- All anticipated losses should be recorded in the books of accounts, but all anticipated or unrealized gains should be ignored.
What is the convention of materiality?
Answer- Items having an insignificant effect or being irrelevant to the users of financial statements need not be disclosed.
Which principle states that the financial statements should disclose all significant information?
Answer- Convention of full disclosure.
‘Closing stock is valued at lower of cost or realisable value’. Which principle of accounting is applied here?
Answer- Convention of Prudence or Conservatism.
Why should a business follow the consistency concept?
Answer- One of the qualitative characteristics of accounting information is comparability i.e., the financial statements must be comparable from year to year. It is possible only when accounting principles rea not changed and followed consistently year after year.
State one limitation of historical cost.
Answer- During periods of inflation, the figure for net profit will be distorted because depreciation based on historical cost will be charged against revenues at current prices.
Why the entire life of a business is divided into time intervals?
Answer- To ascertain the amount of profit earned or loss suffered by the business.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Questions
What is meant by GAAP?
Answer- GAAP stands for General Accepted Accounting Principles.
The proprietor of the business is treated as a creditor to the extent of his capital under which concept?
Answer- The concept is a business entity concept.
A customer of X Ltd. has discounted his business. He used to purchase 30% of the total goods produced by X Ltd. Is it relevant information in your opinion and should be disclosed by X Ltd.
Answer- Yes, the information is of material interest to the users of financial statements and must be disclosed as per the convention of full disclosure.
X Ltd. gets a contract of ₹100 crores to build a shopping mall to be completed in 3 years. The management of the company wants to ascertain profit or loss on this contract only when the contract is completed. Is the management justifies?
Answer- No, the management is not justified. Although the true profit and loss can be ascertained only after the completion of the contract, it will be divided into time intervals of twelve months for the ascertainment of profit as per accounting period concept.
Under which principle the calibre or quality of the management is not disclosed in the balance sheet.
Answer- Under the principle money measurement concept the calibre or quality of the management is not disclosed in the balance sheet.
Which accounting principle states that all anticipated losses should be recorded but all anticipated profits should be ignored?
Answer- Convention of Prudence states that all anticipated losses should be recorded but all anticipated profits should be ignored.
According to which concept depreciation is to be charged as per one particular method year after year?
Answer- According to the concept of consistency the depreciation is to be charged as per one particular method year after year.
Why the full cost of an asset is not treated as an expense in the year of its purchase?
Answer- Because of going concern concept, it is assumed that the business will continue to exist for a long period in the future. Hence, the cost of the asset is spread over its useful life and only the current year’s depreciation is treated as an expense.
During the year the company purchased ballpoint pens of ₹500. These were issued to employees and were still in use at the end of the year. Which accounting concept you would follow in dealing with this item?
Answer- Materiality convention will be followed in dealing with this item. As per the concept, items having an insignificant effect or being irrelevant to the users of financial statements need not be disclosed. Hence, it will be treated as an expense and will be debited to the stationery account.
A debtor who owes ₹2 lakhs to the company is rumoured to be declared insolvent. Will you disclose the information in the books?
Answer- Yes, as per the convention of conservatism, all anticipated losses should be recorded. But all anticipated gains should be ignored. Hence, provision for doubtful debts should be created in anticipation of actual bad debts.
Goods withdrawn by the proprietor for his personal use has not been recorded in the books of accounts. Which accounting concept has been violated?
Answer- The business entity concept will be violated.
In a business provision for doubtful debts is created @5% on debtors every year. Name two accounting principles followed in this process.
Answer- The two accounting principles followed in this process are consistency and prudence.
A firm has stationery stock amounting ₹400 as at the end of the financial year. Accountant of the firm has written it off to profit and loss account. Is he right in doing so?
Answer- Yes, the accountant is right because he has followed the materiality convention according to which the items having insignificant effect may not be disclosed or may be written off.
Value-Based Questions
Why the closing stock is valued at cost price or realisable value whichever is less?
Answer- Closing stock is valued at lower cost price or realisation value according to the convention of conservation of conservatism or prudence.
What is the value involved in adopting the convention of conservatism or prudence?
Answer- According to the convention of conservatism, all anticipated losses should be recorded in the books of accounts but all anticipated gains should be ignored. The values involved in following this principle are (i) following the policy of playing safe and (ii) transparency.
Do you think that the convention of conservatism results in the creation of secret reserves?
Answer- Yes, the convention of conservatism will have two effects:
(i) Profit and loss account discloses lower profits in comparison to the actual profits.
(ii) The balance sheet will disclose the understatement of assets and overstatement of liabilities. These two effects result in the creation of secret reserves.
What value is involved in following the concept of a separate entity?
Answer- In the absence of the concept of a separate entity, the net profits and financial position of a business entity cannot be known.
Identify the values involved in the assumption of ongoing concern.
Answer- The values involved in the assumption of ongoing concern are
(i) It is because of this concept that a distinction is made between capital and revenue expenditure
(ii) It is because of this concept that full cost of an asset is not treated as an expense in the year of purchase itself and the cost is spread over the useful life of the asset by charging depreciation on a suitable basis.
(iii) It is because of this concept that outside parties purchase shares and debentures of the enterprise.
Why fixed assets are not shown in the books at market value?
Answer- Fixed assets are not shown in the books at market value because
(i) As per the historical concept, we record fixed assets at original cost
(ii) As per going concern concept, the assets are not going to be sold in the near future. Hence, the market value is irrelevant.
Why the entire life of the business enterprise is divided into time intervals?
Answer- Entire life of the business is divided into time intervals of twelve months for the ascertainment of profits.
A company purchased goods for ₹5,00,000 and sold 80% of such goods during the year. The market value of the remaining goods was ₹90,000. The company valued the closing stock at cost. Which principle is being violated?
Answer- The principle of a convention of conservatism or prudence is violated.
On 25th March 2017, a fire broke out in the premises of Kamal Ltd. and destroyed a part of its plant and machinery. On account of this, a sharp decline in production for the next six months is expected. The company did not disclose this fact in its annual report for the year ended 31st March 2017. What is your opinion about this omission?
Answer- The company has violated the convention of full disclosure. Loss of plant and machinery is material information and should have been disclosed.
R Ltd. purchased 500sq. Meter land for ₹1.5 crores to build a factory. At the end of the year, the market value of land was ₹1.35 crore. R Ltd. treated ₹15 lakh as loss and recorded the land at ₹1,35 crore. Is it a correct treatment?
Answer- No, it is not a correct treatment. According to cost concept, a fixed asset is recorded in the books at a price it was acquired.
Raja Ltd. purchased securities for ₹50lakh. At the end of the year, the market value of such securities was ₹40 lakh. While preparing the financial statement, the company valued the securities at cost i.e at ₹50 lakh. Is it a correct treatment?
Answer- No, it is not a correct treatment. The company has violated the convention of prudence according to which current assets are valued at cost price or realisable value whichever is less.
A company has been charging depreciation @10% on original cost method. It now wants to change the method from the original cost to diminishing balance method, the rate of depreciation being 15% p.a. Can it do so?
Answer- Yes, the method and the rate of depreciation can be changed but the change in method will be treated as a change in accounting policy. The company should disclose the change in its financial statements along with its impact on profit or loss.
Mohan the owner of a business receives an order for the supply of goods worth ₹2,00,000. He has also received ₹25,000 against this order. Mohan wants to record it as a sale. Is Mohan correct in doing so?
Answer- No, he will not be correct in recording it as sales because the goods have not been delivered as yet and hence the sale is not completed. Mohan has not earned the revenue so far. Under the matching concept, revenue is recognized as earned only when the cost incurred to earn that revenue is also recognized as an expense in that period.
Identify the value involved in full disclosure principle.
Answer- The value involved in the full disclosure principle are
(i) Reliability
(ii) Transparency
(iii) Honesty
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John Simon on Betty Buckley & Nikki Blonski
Mr. Simon weighs in on the divas appearing at Feinstein’s and the Birdland:
“It is inspiriting to see 19-year-old Nikki Blonsky take over the podium at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency for a solo nightclub performance and carry herself with the assurance and acumen of someone much older. …But her voice, too, is sizable, and she puts it to good use in a well-chosen eclectic program, whose songs—along with an expectable few from Hairspray—range from Cole Porter to Frank Wildhorn, Willie Nelson to Stephen Sondheim, and include the “Habanera” from Carmen in a French not immediately recognizable as such.
‘…when it comes to emotional immersion and consummate musicianship, Ms. Buckley has few equals, and no evening spent with her is wasted time. I enjoyed especially items by Abbey Lincoln and Tom Waits, and such standards as “How Deep Is the Ocean” and “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” although “Autumn Leaves” and a couple of Antonio Carlos Jobim numbers do not, in my view, profit from Kenny Werner’s arrangements.”
Remember: Betty Buckley appears this weekend at the Kennedy Center.
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Stephen Holden on KT Sullivan
The NYTimes weighs in on Sullivan’s Kern show at the Algonquin: “Ms. Sullivan, who is accompanied by Tedd Firth on piano, Andy Farber on reeds and Steve Doyle on bass, has a fluttery, semioperatic soprano that gives Kern’s most famous melodies their due. But her primary goal on Thursday was to bring his songs down to earth without damaging them.”
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Nuts and Bolts advice from George Fulginiti-Shakar
George Fulginit-Shakar has a great piece in the DC Cabaret Network blog about the way to ingratiate yourself with your music director through the proper preparation of your music.
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Beverly Cosham at Germano’s
Cabaret Scenes has posted my review of Beverly Cosham at the Cabaret at Germano’s.
Here’s her set lists:
My Resistance Is Low
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Putting Things Away
Something New In My Life
The Way He Makes Me Feel
My Favorite Year
Rhode Island Is Famous For You
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
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Stephen Holden on Betty Buckley
The NYTimes weighs in on Betty Buckley at Birdland: “Everything Ms. Buckley sings is infused with a sense of emergency. The words, “No, no, they can’t,” from “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” became the fierce cry of a mama lion whose cubs were about to be snatched from her. A Gershwin expression of triumphant contentment was transformed into an imaginary crisis.”
Don’t forget, Buckley will be at the Kennedy Center October 3 & 4.
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Return to BlueGobo
I hadn’t been on the BluGobo site for a while and it’s been snazzed up a bit. The navigation seems much easier and they’ve added a passel of content.
For those of you who haven’t been on this site, it’s a terrific resource for video clips of televised numbers from musicals. It’s amazing to see things like the Who’s That Woman staging from the London production of Follies or Poor Little Person from Henry, Sweet Henry with the amazing Alice Playton doing early Michael Bennett choreography.
I’ve been starting to draft some thoughts on adapting stage numbers to cabaret. Here’s a clip that I thought I would never see again — the American Dance Machine’s re-creation of If the Rain’s Gotta Fall from Half a Sixpence. Here is staging that takes a so-so song, and uses dance and staging to build and build and build it into something spectacular. Good luck trying to do that with the very slight material in a cabaret setting. (And the note on the site is incorrect — the hat toss is built into the staging.)
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The Peripatetic Joe Peck
Joe Peck opens the season at Indigo at the Atlas this weekend with his new show Sinatra & Styne: It’s Magic which he also presents in October at the Prince Theater in Chestertown, MD.
Sinatra & Styne: It’s Magic!
September 27 – 8:30 p.m.
Indigo @ the Atlas
1333 H St., NE
$17.50 plus $10 food/drink min.
tickets: 202-399-7993 or www.atlasarts.orgYou won’t want to miss this evening of great tunes as Joe Peck sings a tribute to two giants of American music. Jule Styne and Frank Sinatra were two of the biggest stars in popular music throughout their long and celebrated careers. One composed amazing music and the other sang his tunes masterfully – in movies, in concerts, and in the studio. Each man left his own incredible legacy, but when they collaborated on a project – well, it was magic! Join Joe and outstanding pianist and music director Alex Tang for a show packed with favorites like “Just In Time,” “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “It’s Magic,” and many, many more. Info @ www.atlasarts.org and www.joepeck.net.
Joe repeats the show October 4th at the Prince Theater in Chestertown, MD, 8:00pm
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When Was The First Movie Ever Created?
By Steven Rawls
Movies are a wonderful way to escape for the everyday stress of a demanding job or just kick back and relax. While they can certainly be entertaining, few people have asked themselves exactly when the first movies were created. So how did the ‘motion picture’ come to exist and who/what did it start with?
The Horse in Motion (1878)
Before what we know as film was first created, we had to have ‘moving pictures’. Also known as Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, the collection of “automatic electro-photographs” was meant to analyze the gait of a horse at full gallop.
Commissioned by industrialist Eadweard Muybridge, he wanted Leland Stanford to help him answer a question that had been nagging him for some time: did a horse feet ever leave the ground simultaneously at any point?
In the process of creating this collection of moving pictures, Muybridge found that the hooves did indeed leave the ground. This only occurred, though, when all four were “collected” under its belly. This provided evidence to the contrary of horses in old pictures depicted galloping.
Many more similar ‘moving pictures would come later on, such as the elephant rising and coming back down on all fours.
We also have Muybridge to thank for his work in photography and our modern ability to capture motion in a single image.
Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
Not more than two years later, a French inventor named Louis Le Prince would begin producing his greatest works in Roundhay, Leeds, England. Verified as by Guinness Book of Records as the oldest surviving film in existence, it is only about 2.5 seconds long. Le Prince recorded the film using a single lens camera that he invented himself.
Mystery buffs would love the craziness surrounding the film too. Less than 5 years after the movie, one cast member died, another killed, and the inventor disappeared into the shadows.
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888)
This was Louis Le Prince’s second film (that the world is aware of). It is also considered the second film ever to be made. It was done no more than a week or two after Roundhay Garden Scene.
Any cinephiles reading might be disheartened to know that the original film was lost to time. Today, anyone interested might find a digitized version of the photos at major library institutions or film museums. While you can watch the film on YouTube, it seems to take away from its history when you don’t visit a museum to see it.
Today’s bridge design was made by T. Dyne Steel and the structure was built by W. H. Barlow. In 1875 on that same bridge, citizens of the town of Leeds observed from the metal road bridge as a local 19th-century theater burned before their eyes.
This would be Le Prince’s third and final film, as continued work was not in the cards. No one for certain why, but the film is grainier and harder to make out than the first two the photographer made.
The Tour Cut Short
During his work from 1889 to 1890, Le Prince sought out the help of mechanic James Longley to create a machine that would project his films. They were able to create a ‘model’ of a single lens projector, but a three-lens was the final design. Workers at the pair’s shop attested to seeing the test runs, but a public display of the machine was never made.
After his work with the above-mentioned project, Le Prince had made arrangements to tour England with his new works before returning to the United States for another tour.
According to his brother, he was to meet his brother with friends after he stepped off the September 16 train to France to spend time with family before leaving once again. Much to their dismay, Le Prince never stepped off the train. Both he and his luggage has disappeared from the face of the Earth, it seemed.
There are a few rumors, with at least two involving murder. The grandson of his brother suggested it was suicide. Another theory suggested that Edison, struggling to compete with other inventors, may have engineered Le Prince’s disappearance in order to acquire the patents for the Frenchman’s inventions.
Jean Mitry suggested in a 1967 film that the Frenchman never boarded the train in Dijon, where he was coming from.
Le Prince was declared dead in 1897 by French government officials. In 2003, a photo from the time of his disappearance was found in police archives showing a drowning victim who eerily resembles the inventor.
What is your opinion? Was Louis Le Prince murdered? Did he commit suicide? Or was he simply an unfortunate drowning victim who slipped and conked his head before sinking?
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Speak of the Dead: Seeking the Stories of My Refugee Family
The first generation of refugees have the power of selective memory. Children like me learned early to tiptoe around our families and their traumas.
In my family, every story came with a silence. It pressed behind words, hid within closed doors and whispered phone calls. Because of this silence, my knowledge of where we came from remained skeletal. I knew that my eldest uncle, cậu Long, had left Vietnam after the war, studying abroad before gaining refugee status in 1975. His brother, my cậu Huỳnh, fled by boat soon after. My mother and her sister stayed behind until cậu Long could sponsor and bring them to Vancouver in 1989.
Two years ago, the first time I tried to ask for any more than that, I was redirected to cậu Long, the unofficial historian of our family . Over the phone, he listened to my questions. Then, slowly, years of untold stories began to unspool: the day my grandfather fished out the body of an American soldier from the stream behind their house. The times they dug bunkers with their hands to hide from bombs overhead. Even as war loomed over his childhood, cậu Long had hoped that the worst of it would pass them by. “But by 1968, it found us too,” he told me. “North and South had agreed to a ceasefire so that soldiers could go home for the New Year. But the North was cunning. They used those nights to flood their soldiers throughout Southern territory. Before the sun rose, they fired their cannons from the mountains, the sharp crack startling us awake.
“We grabbed our things and ran west from Tâm Hải into Tâm Kỳ until we could no longer see smoke on the horizon. Days later, when we returned, the South had won back our island, but many neighbors had lost their lives in the crossfire. Your grandparents’ hamlet had been burnt black, barren in the seasons afterward.
“And your great-uncle, ông Bác Lạng - he was a xả trưởng, a village leader, which meant that he openly supported the Southern regime. He knew that he would be captured by the North if he stayed on Tâm Hải. When we ran west, he set off alone to the countryside to wait out the battle. But some Northern soldiers tracked his path, and a week later, they forced their way into his hideout. They dragged him from his bed out into the night, and they killed him.”
Vietnamese Americans, how do we navigate the silences within every story we are told, knowing that silence is a choice our families make to survive? What do we do with the questions that we cannot ask?
The first generation of refugees have the power of selective memory. When my parents spoke of Vietnam, it was to remind me to be grateful for what I had in the United States. “We were so poor that we only had fish sauce and rice to eat. You have no idea how lucky you are,” my mother would chide, whenever I left my bowl unfinished.
When my parents spoke of Vietnam, it was to remind me to be grateful for what I had in the United States.
She never explained to me why her family was so poor. Years later, I would read about Vietnam’s socialist reforms and the resulting famines, along with postwar discrimination against those who had followed the South. But maybe my mother never said these things because then she would have had to talk about the war, and all the other memories less easily translated into lessons.
As a child, if I wanted to know more about my great-uncle’s life, I would have had to ask my mother: “Remember Ông Bác Lạng, your uncle who was killed by Northern soldiers in the war?” Even now, the words die in my throat. I asked cậu Long in a rare moment of courage, but even then, I wondered what telling that story had cost.
Children like me learned early to tiptoe around our families and their traumas. We recognized the faraway look in our parents’ eyes, the suddenly brusque tone in their voices indicating that we had disturbed one of the many lines we were not allowed to cross. I didn’t ask about my great-uncle again. But his story kept stirring in my mind, a restless presence that gradually took shape. In secret, I imagined him to be like every other uncle in my mother’s family, round-faced with a penchant for large belts and flashy watches—like the men whose laughter filled the room whenever they gathered to drink beer and play cards until dawn.
Maybe my great-uncle became a xả trưởng because he truly believed in the promise of Western democracy in Vietnam. But no one else in my family was like that, which makes me think that my great-uncle did not choose a side so much as it chose him by accident of geography. Tâm Hải was under Southern control, and working for the South Vietnamese government would have offered higher earnings than fishing or farming. In a family as hungry as my mother’s, my great-uncle must have learned to grasp any opportunity he could to survive.
As the war crept closer, he might have heard neighbors talk about their family members hiding from unending torrents of bombs, or the thick, noxious rain that left villages sick for generations. In 1968, when he knew the North was coming, he embraced his wife and children before stepping onto the ferry to Quảng Nam. He wouldn’t have told them where to find his hiding place, a family friend’s empty shack several kilometers southward. My great-uncle spent the next few days alone, in a village where no one knew his name, in a small, windowless room behind walls sagging from years of flooding and decay. With each day, the banality of waiting began to overshadow his fear of being captured.
When his final night came and the Việt Cộng knocked down his door, maybe a part of him was almost relieved. Maybe he had already accepted how small he was in the great wheel of history that had set our family in motion. Lying on the ground, in the moment before they shot him, maybe my great-uncle looked up at the black sky and thought of his daughter, my dì Đạm. She would survive the war and eventually resettle in California, becoming the matriarch of our family gatherings; every New Year, we drove up from San Diego to Westminster to visit her and her grandsons. My sister and I would accept dì Đạm’s red envelopes fat with bills, mumbling our thanks before running outside to play with our cousins. No one had ever told us what she had left behind.
I thought learning my great-uncle’s story would give me more answers. Instead, it sharpened a hunger that had lived in me far longer than I had realized. Nothing I imagined about my family could substitute for actual knowledge. If I could place them in a history, if I could sit within the fullness of their stories, then maybe I would finally understand who they were beyond their silences.
My great-uncle was killed by the Việt Cộng, his death unmarked in the country he loved. In our family, he faces another kind of forgetting, designed to protect children like me from the past.
I carried that hunger with me last February when I visited Tâm Hải for the first time. The island was poor as my mother remembered it, with the kind of closeness only found in the countryside: the man at the coffee stand went to high school with my uncle; his wife knew my mother. Maybe this place still recognized me as its own, even a generation later.
When I searched the island for signs of the battle that cậu Long told me about, I found no war monuments or markers, only one nghĩa trang liệt sĩ, a government-funded cemetery on the main road with tombstones for Northern soldiers. I had nothing but cậu Long’s story to prove that what had happened to my great-uncle was true. Later, when I asked cậu Long about the cemetery, he shook his head and said, “Lịch sử thường viết bởi những người thắng.” History is written by those who win.
After the US and South Vietnam lost the war in 1975, the new Vietnamese government began erasing the remnants of war history that clashed with its narrative of revolutionary victory. Southern war memorials were demolished, streets were renamed for Communist heroes, and contemporary history books mention nothing of the South Vietnamese refugees now living abroad. Later, in Sài Gòn, I visited the War Remnants Museum, a place that rightfully criticizes US military crimes yet chooses to forget that Vietnam also killed its own people in pursuit of revolution. I walked through the Reunification Palace, the Hồ Chí Minh Museum, other nghĩa trang liệt sĩ, feeling distinctly like a trespasser—Việt Kiều like me are the living reminders of a story Vietnam hopes to forget for good.
My great-uncle was killed by the Việt Cộng, and his death is unmarked in the country he loved. In our family, he faces another kind of forgetting, a series of omissions designed to protect children like me from the past. It could very well be that he was as quietly self-sacrificing as the rest of my family is, and would think all this is for the best—better to forget the things we cannot change. But imagining him as resigned doesn’t answer any of my questions. I want my great-uncle to be selfish; I want him to demand recognition, to pound against the walls of our memories so loudly that we can no longer ignore the sounds. I need to know that I am not the only one in my family haunted by all this forgetting. If there is someone else here, searching for the same things I am, then at least the path before me is less lonely than it was before.
Vietnamese people believe those who die dishonorable deaths become con ma, hungry ghosts, rather than ancestors. Con ma are those without family altars, often because they had no homes, died violently, or have unfinished business with the living. In Vietnam and its diaspora, temples set aside the seventh month of each year for offerings to the hungry spirits, out of both empathy and fear of retribution.
My great-uncle could have become an angry ghost as war dead often have, enacting wrath and injury upon the living. But I want to think that if he became con ma, it was partly because he could not bear to leave Tâm Hải, the place where our ancestors lived and died for eleven generations. I want to believe that he recognized my mother’s face in me when I visited Tâm Hải for the first time. When I stepped off the ferry onto the sand, the sea stretching endlessly into the sky, perhaps he hoped I would see why my mother loves her hometown so much. When I wandered through countless war memorials in Sài Gòn, perhaps he listened to me wonder about everything they didn’t say.
I want to believe my great-uncle pressed me toward his story because he wanted me to find the question at the heart of who he was, the rupture between him and the country he loved. Soon after his death, most of my maternal family left Vietnam hoping to build new lives. Now they wonder why, when they have spent years moving forward, I keep looking back. How can I blame them for choosing to forget in order to survive? And how can I not think about what may happen as a result—future generations, grasping in the dark for their own histories? Our generations becoming strangers to each other, so afraid of the hurt in both the question and its answer that we choose not to say anything at all?
How can I blame them for choosing to forget in order to survive?
Forgetting comes with costs that I am no longer willing to pay. But when I try to speak now, my voice is still halting—I’m still worried that I’m only being selfish. If my family has refused to remember for this long, imagine how they would feel about me writing down secrets that I was never supposed to know. Maybe my great-uncle would think I am a thief, stealing his story to name my own silences rather than his.
Then again, sometimes it feels like it might be the other way around, that my great-uncle’s story has overtaken me in its efforts to tell itself. It has to be him, the restless presence keeping me awake, crossing out countless pages until I arrive at the first one that mentions his name. I don’t know if I can do what he’s asking of me. I write in the wrong language; I imagine a war I have never felt. But I am the only one we know who is willing to try.
As I write, I listen for him, each silence a new space for his words to find their way in. As one of the dead, my great-uncle teaches me to remember. As one of the living, I try to speak his memory into new questions, new strands of possibility that might lead us back to one another.
Victoria Huynh is a senior at Brown University. She spends her time writing, cooking, and thinking about Vietnamese community healing. Find her on twitter @victoriatnhuynh
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Djøf Becomes Founding Member
CBS aims to improve Denmark’s competitiveness by fostering young innovative companies. CBS’ start-up environment, Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), has 100 affiliated companies each year. And while many of these companies get their business model in place and learn to be self-reliant, there is still a significant unprecedented potential.
The early start-up phase with the ominous name “The Valley of Death”, is especially difficult for start-up companies to get through. It is here the association CBS StartUp can make a difference, says the President of Copenhagen Business School Per Holten-Andersen:
“The purpose of CBS StartUp is to help more of our entrepreneurs, on their way to gaining foothold and contributing positively to society with growth and jobs. CBS StartUp will help young companies with financial support for consultancy aid in the early and difficult startup phase.”Per Holten Andersen, President at CBS
The association’s operations are funded by members’ subscription payments, sponsorship, fund support and public support. Djøf is the founding member of CBS StartUp and has with a grant of 733,000 DKK made it the associations existence possible.
“We are extremely pleased to have Djøf as the founding member of CBS StartUp, which has expanded its work area and network,” says Per Holten-Andersen.
Djøf has, according to the chairman of ‘Djøf Private’, Henrik Funder, chosen to support CBS StartUp with a grant of 733,000 DKK, from the now expired fund, Civil Economy Funds, to promote business economic educations.
The Danish Society for Education and Business, DSEB, has also chosen to support CBS StartUp in this early phase. The DSEB has donated 500,000 DKK.
We in Djøf, look forward to a strengthened effort in making new startups even more successful. There is an enormous creativity and dignity among CBS students, who promise sustainable growth and innovation in Danish business. We are looking forward to the coollaboration with the new association, says Henrik Funder.
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Reformed: Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid
by Flyn Ritchie • September 18, 2019 • 0 Comments
Karl Petersen has managed to find time to write four books between his day job teaching English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond and creating a home with his wife and two daughters.
He will launch Reformed: Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid this Saturday evening (September 21) at Grace Vancouver Church.
Here is the publisher’s (Wipf and Stock) description of the book, followed by two excerpts:
A heart-warming childhood memoir about the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, Reformed sweeps us into a young boy’s world of trials and redemption. Tornados, disabled siblings, death, guns, fears of losing his mother, and the mysteries of sex are challenges Karl faces before he is 10 years old. [He grew up just across the border in Washington.]
He wrestles with the moral and theological puzzles that shape his world. Sometimes his conclusions challenge the status quo. When bad decisions lead to delinquency and crime, he must learn how to respond as flashes of truth and grace ignite in him the first flames of faith.
Without self-pity, nostalgic sentiment or indictment of his past, Petersen’s stories – vivid, candid and humorous – draw us into his quirky family of 10 in a time before iPads.
Terry led our tribe out behind his barn to a pasture where he kept his pigs. We came to a hollow with a mud hole near the bottom of it where his pigs would wallow. His pigs were all there, lying stone still where the tornado had slammed them into the mud. It was like a battlefield scattered with wounded and dead hogs. We walked among them, checking for signs of life. Near the pond a couple of pigs were stuck neck deep, unable to move. They simply grunted a couple of mournful, lonely grunts as if to say, “No rush, but when you have a minute . . . ”
“What are you going to do with them all?” Don asked.
“Help me out here,” Terry said.
They turned a couple over.
“Not a scratch on ‘em,” Terry said. “I say too good to waste and good enough to eat.”
He’d send them to get butchered, but the word would come back that they were no good. The meat from every pig was shot through with shards of wood. They’d died a gruesome death.
As we drove home, scattered debris on the ground flashed by the car window as if still caught in the tornado – tree branches, barn siding, a chair, t-shirts, a Cubs baseball cap. The word was no one had been seriously injured and not one soul was lost. Like Jesus sending demons into the swine, somebody said, God had let the pigs take the hit for us. No souls were lost, but in a way I couldn’t have explained, mine was found when that funnel cloud touched down. God had got my attention.
My parents believed man was endowed with a spirit and intellect animals did not possess. According to our Dutch reformed doctrine, man was “the crown of creation,” and animals were under man’s dominion. Some said animals would not go to heaven, so it was best not to love them too much. But my doubts about this idea, along with doubts about shooting the sparrow, prodded at my chest like a woodpecker on a young tree. I had questions.
“Dad, where do animals go when they die if they don’t go to heaven?” I asked, poking at my breakfast cereal with a spoon.
Dad gazed up from his fried egg. Here were more animal questions from one of his boys. He wondered where it was going this time.
“When we eat roast beef, we kill cows, right?” I continued. “So where do they go after they die?”
“We kill cows because we need to eat, like your snake Bomber needed to eat those frogs, right?” Dad said.
“And we can kill animals if they’re pests, too, right? Don said we can kill all the starlings and house sparrows we want because they’re invaders from England, and they crowd out native species. They’re nest robbers, so it’s okay to kill them, right? But then if we kill them, do they go to heaven?”
There was a long pause. Dad seldom stated his beliefs without careful thought. He understood his role as a pastor never more so than when it came to influencing young minds. Keith, six years old, listened, spooning cereal over the lip of his bowl into his mouth.
“I don’t like the thinking that says you can kill things just because they aren’t native to our country,” Dad said finally. “Your grandparents immigrated from Holland. Do you think it would have been right for people to shoot at them? Or, how about the people coming here from Asia?”
“Well, I’ll shoot them before they get here if I go to Vietnam,” I blurted.
“You’re not going to Vietnam,” he said solemnly. It sounded more like a prayer than a statement.
Karl Petersen has also published two collections of poetry, Bellowing in the Common and Urban Fits, and a novel, The Kingdom of What Is.
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Graphic: Warmer Earth, greener North
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Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation - Volume 34, issue 4
Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, a peer-reviewed international scientific journal, serves as an aid to understanding the flow properties of blood and the relationship to normal and abnormal physiology. The rapidly expanding science of hemorheology concerns blood, its components and the blood vessels with which blood interacts. It includes perihemorheology, i.e., the rheology of fluid and structures in the perivascular and interstitial spaces as well as the lymphatic system. The clinical aspects include pathogenesis, symptomatology and diagnostic methods, and the fields of prophylaxis and therapy in all branches of medicine and surgery, pharmacology and drug research.
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Noninvasive assessment of cutaneous vascular function in vivo using capillaroscopy, plethysmography and laser-Doppler instruments: Its strengths and weaknesses
Authors: Yvonne-Tee, Get Bee | Rasool, Aida Hanum Ghulam | Halim, Ahmad Sukari | Rahman, Abdul Rashid Abdul
Abstract: Given that functional abnormalities of the microcirculation are one of the primary abnormalities in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis, various noninvasive clinical tools have been developed recently to assess the microvascular function, particularly at the skin. The common techniques used to assess cutaneous microvascular function in vivo include capillaroscopy, venous occlusion plethysmography, and laser-Doppler instruments (laser-Doppler fluximetry and laser-Doppler imaging). These noninvasive techniques can be used as an early measure of functional abnormalities within the microvascular tree, predominantly in population at high risk for cardiovascular events. This review discusses some underlying application principle of these techniques, including its clinical significance, method reproducibility …and limitations. Show more
Keywords: Clinical significance, in vivo, limitation, noninvasive, reproducibility, skin, technique
Citation: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 457-473, 2006
Association between arterial stiffness and the deformability of red blood cells (RBCs)
Authors: Lee, S.S. | Kim, N.J. | Sun, K. | Dobbe, J.G. | Hardeman, M.R. | Antaki, J.F. | Ahn, K.H. | Lee, S.J.
Abstract: The relationship between the flexibility of atherosclerotic vessels and RBC deformability has been investigated. A significant difference of RBC deformability was found among the arterial stiffness groups classified by oscillometric measurement of blood pressure. The deformability was determined by direct microscopic observation of RBCs subjected to shear stress of 0.3 to 40.0 Pa with a rotating rheoscope. The deformability of stiffen group – abnormal pulse wave pattern group or moderate cardiovascular risk group – was found to be much higher than that of normal groups in wide shear stress region (3.0, 10.0, 30.0, and 40.0 Pa). We postulate that the …body adapts high shear stress in vivo by making RBCs more distensible, and therefore less likely to rupture under strain or microcirculatory alterations. Show more
Keywords: RBC, deformability, arterial stiffness, rheoscope, in vivo
Vascularization of liver tumors – Preliminary results with Coded Harmonic Angio (CHA), phase inversion imaging, 3D power Doppler and contrast medium-enhanced B-flow with second generation contrast age…
Authors: Jung, E.M. | Kubale, R. | Jungius, K.-P. | Jung, W. | Lenhart, M. | Clevert, D.-A.
Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the dynamic value of contrast medium-enhanced ultrasonography with Optison® for appraisal of the vascularization of hepatic tumors using harmonic imaging, 3D-/power Doppler and B-flow. Materials/methods: 60 patients with a mean age of 56 years (range 35–76 years) with 93 liver tumors, including histopathologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [15 cases with 20 lesions], liver metastases of colorectal tumors [17 cases with 33 lesions], metastases of breast cancer [10 cases with 21 lesions] and hemangiomas [10 cases with 19 lesions] were prospectively investigated by means of multislice CT as well as native and contrast medium-enhanced ultrasound using a …multifrequency transducer (2.5–4 MHz, Logig 9, GE). B scan was performed with additional color and power Doppler, followed by a bolus injection of 0.5 ml Optison® . Tumor vascularization was evaluated with coded harmonic angio (CHA), pulse inversion imaging with power Doppler, 3D power Doppler and in the late phase (>5 min) with B-flow. In 15 cases with HCC, i.a. DSA was performed in addition. The results were also correlated with MRT and histological findings. Results: Compared to spiral-CT/MRT, only 72/93 (77%) of the lesions could be detected in the B scan, 75/93 (81%) with CHA and 93/93 (100%) in the pulse inversion mode. Tumor vascularization was detectable in 43/93 (46%) of lesions with native power Doppler, in 75/93 (81%) of lesions after administering contrast medium in the CHA mode, in 81/93 (87%) of lesions in the pulse inversion mode with power Doppler and in 77/93 (83%) of lesions with contrast-enhanced B-flow. Early arterial and capillary perfusion was best detected with CHA, particularly in 20/20 (100%) of the HCC lesions, allowing a 3D reconstruction. 3D power Doppler was especially useful in investigating the tumor margins. Up to 20 min after contrast medium injection, B-flow was capable of detecting increased metastatic tumor vascularization in 42/54 (78%) of cases and intratumoral perfusion in 17/20 (85%) of HCC cases. All 19 hemangiomas were correctly classified by phase inversion imaging. Conclusions: Contrast medium-enhanced ultrasound investigation of liver tumors with Optison® allowed reliable detection of tumor foci and, in most cases, appraisal of tumor vascularization. The time available for evaluation of tumor margin vascularization was substantially longer in B-flow. Show more
Keywords: Liver tumors, vascularization, contrast medium-enhanced ultrasound, 3D imaging
Rheological properties of erythrocytes in patients suffering from morbid obesity. Examination with LORCA device
Authors: Wiewiora, Maciej | Slowinska, Ludmila | Wylezol, Mariusz | Pardela, Marian | Kobielski, Andrzej
Abstract: Obesity is associated with many comorbid pathologies that lead to increased morbidity and increased mortality. Hemorheological changes in obesity are currently investigated as one of the risk factors for many comorbid pathologies. It has been found that erythrocyte hyperaggregation and a decrease in erythrocyte filterability have also been well documented in obesity patients. The aim of this study is to present preliminary results of the influence of weight reduction after vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) on aggregation of red cells and red blood cells deformability. We studied seven patients who underwent VBG, median age 46 years (range 35–52), median BMI 52.1 …kg/m2 (range 36.6–66). Blood rheology changes and selected biochemical parameters were examinated before and 6 months after VBG. Erythrocyte elongation and red blood cells (RBC) aggregation were measured using the Laser-assisted Optical Rotational Cell Analyser (LORCA). The RBC aggregation index was significantly decreased, while the aggregation half-time (t1/2 ) significantly elongated after surgery. The syllectogram amplitude did not change. No differences in RBC deformability were observed in the postoperative period. Conclusion: We could conclude that among morbidly obese patients six months after VBG some beneficial changes of erythrocyte rheological parameters are observed. Further studies are necessary to confirm our preliminary results. Show more
Keywords: Morbid obesity, vertical banded gastroplasty, red blood cell aggregation, red blood cell deformability
Effects of salvianolic acids on erythrocyte deformability in oleic acid induced acute lung injury in rabbits
Authors: Xing, Jun-Jie | Chen, Xi | Tu, Peng-Fei | Jiang, Yong | Zhao, Jin-Yuan
Abstract: The present study was to investigate the protective effects of salvianolic acids (SA) on deformability of red blood cells (RBCs) and its mechanism during the development of acute lung injury (ALI) induced by oleic acid (OA) in rabbits. 32 rabbits were randomized into four groups, normal control group, OA-treated group (0.15 ml/kg), SA-treated group and OA+SA treated group. The blood samples were collected at 0, 10, 30, 60, 90, 120 and 180 min after OA injection. The RBC deformation index, Orientation index and small deformation index were measured by ektacytometry. The concentration of malondialdehyde (MDA) in RBCs was detected by …the assay kit. Meanwhile, the pulmonary pathological examination and the blood gas analysis were also performed. The results showed that the deformation index, orientation index and small deformation index decreased during the early phase of ALI, while the concentration of MDA in RBCs increased during the course. Pre-treatment with SA increased the deformability and orientability of RBC significantly and decreased the concentration of MDA in RBCs compared with OA group. Meanwhile, the hypoxia and pulmonary pathological damage were much improved. These results suggest that there were erythrocyte deformability changes in the early phase of ALI. SA has the protective effects on erythrocyte deformability during the development of ALI induced by OA, which might be due to its antioxidant effect. These results are valid in rabbits and in a model of ARDS, it would be interesting to see the effects of SA in patients. Show more
Keywords: Acute lung injury, salvianolic acids, deformability, malondialdehyde
Changes of microvascular perfusion during acute ureteral obstruction in the rat kidney – The influence of gastrin releasing peptide
Authors: Penkalla, Ralf | Bedke, Jens | Hemmerlein, Bernhard | Kahler, Elke | Strauss, Arne | Zöller, Gerhard M. | Heuser, Markus
Abstract: Introduction: Peritubular renal microcirculation has not been directly visualized in acute ureteral obstruction. Therefore, we used epiilluminescence intravital microscopy and an animal model for the assessment of microvascular perfusion. Materials and methods: In group 1 (n=5) the left kidney of Wistar rats was exteriorized and placed on a heatable stage for microcirculatory analysis. FITC-dextran was injected for plasma staining. Microcirculatory stability of the model was assessed by a repeated intravital microscopy at baseline, 60, and 120 minutes. In detail, the functional peritubular vessel density (FVD, total vessel length per area in cm/cm2 ), the red blood cell velocities and diameters …in/of arterioles and peritubular capillaries and the perfusion index were measured. In group 2 (n=7) the left ureter was obstructed after baseline microscopy. In a third group (n=6) the influence of the antidiuretic and vasoconstrictive peptide gastrin releasing peptide on peritubular microcirculation of the obstructed kidney was measured. Results: Repeated intravital microscopy did not induce major microcirculatory disturbances in group 1. Acute ureteral obstruction significantly decreased the index of peritubular perfusion. Moreover, FVD was found decreased at 120 minutes after a small rise at 60 minutes. Whereas blood cell velocities were not changed, arteriolar diameters were decreased after 120 minutes. GRP infusion lowered intrapelvic pressures at 60 and at 120 minutes. The transient increase of FVD (group 2) was not observed. The calculated peritubular flow remained nearly constant compared to a decrease in group 2. Histological assessment did not reveal any microscopy induced renal damage nor any differences between the groups. Conclusions: (1) The model is stable for a time period of at least 120 minutes and allows for the direct visualization of the renal peritubular vessels. (2) Peritubular microcirculation shows a significant deterioration during ureteral obstruction. (3) Infusion of GRP may be beneficial for the microcirculation of the acutely obstructed kidney. Show more
Keywords: Ureteral obstruction, microcirculation, GRP, intravital microscopy, peritubular
The role of erythrocyte aggregation in the abnormal hemorheology of multiple myeloma patients
Authors: Pribush, A. | Hatskelzon, L. | Mazor, D. | Katorza, E. | Zilberman-Kravits, D. | Meyerstein, N.
Abstract: Objectives: The aim of this study is to clarify whether increased aggregation of red blood cells (RBCs) of multiple myeloma (MM) patients is caused by changes in plasma chemical composition or is associated with alterations in RBC properties and in addition, to suggest an approach to revert the enhanced aggregation in MM toward normal. Materials and methods: 40 blood samples of MM patients and suspensions of control RBCs in MM plasma were examined. In addition, RBC aggregation in MM blood was studied in the presence of dextrans with mean molecular weights of 9.6 and 40 kDa (D9.6 and D40). A …method based on electrical and dielectric properties of cellular suspensions was used to study RBC aggregation. In this method, a lower aggregation index demonstrates a higher aggregability. Results: The mean values of aggregation index for whole blood of healthy individuals, control cells in MM plasma and MM blood sample are 19.0, 7.2 and 3.2%, respectively. The kinetics of RBC aggregation slow down with the decrease in the fraction of MM plasma. No correlation was found between RBC aggregation and the immunoglobulin plasma level. Addition of D9.6 to MM blood reverts the enhanced aggregation toward normal. Discussion: The findings that RBC aggregation changes in the following order: MM blood > normal RBCs in MM plasma > control blood sample, suggest that surface-active plasma molecules play a role in enhanced aggregation in MM. The surface concentration of these molecules and hence RBC aggregability is reduced in the presence of dextrans due to their competitive adsorption onto RBC membrane. Because the end-to-end distance of D40 is quite comparable with the Debye length, the effect of this particular dextran on RBC aggregation is negligible. Show more
Keywords: Erythrocyte aggregation, multiple myeloma, dextrans
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Behind the scenes look at Culloden Battlefield and the National Trust for Scotland
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1715 – The rebellion that should have worked…
June 26, 2015 June 26, 2015 dreid1746 History 1715, 1715 Rebellion, Battle of Sheriffmuir, Jacobites
Culloden essentially marked the end of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and as such it is marked as one of the most well known moments in Jacobite and Scottish history. But, there were quite a few other rebellions that took place before the ’45 and this year marks the 300th anniversary of one of these – the 1715 Rebellion.
The 1715 uprising is widely considered to be the Jacobite Uprising that should have worked. It had a large amount of support, across both Scotland and England, but it failed largely due to poor management and organisation.
In 1714 Queen Anne died and the throne passed to George I and the Hanoverian line. George I thought the Tory government were pro-Jacobite and thus replaced them with a Whig government. There was widespread unrest about the new king and riots ensued in favour of the Jacobites across England.
In March of 1715 King James VIII & III petitioned the Pope for money and military aid for a Jacobite uprising to capatilise on this tension. The plan was for two Jacobite uprisings to happen in England. First a diversionary smaller uprising in the north. Once the British army had rushed north to deal with this uprising, the main uprising in the south west of England would start.
However, matters soon got complicated. In August the Earl of Mar returned to his estate in Scotland having failed to convince King George that he was not a Jacobite sympathizer. Here he held a council of war with leading Jacobites apparently unaware of James’ plans. On 6th September Mar and other local Jacobites raised the standard at Braemar and caught everyone by surprise. The timing of Mars’ independent rising could be fatal to King James’ plans. It could pull large parts of the British army North before the planned diversionary rising.
Mars’ Jacobites took Inverness, attempted to take Edinburgh and then headed south and met up with English Jacobites in Northern England. All this action lead to leading Jacobites in south west England being arrested by the Government which effectively stopped the plans for a main rising in the south.
In November 1715 the Jacobite actions came to their climax.
From 10th-12th November remaining Jacobites in the Highlands took part in the Siege of Inverness which occurred when Government forces tried to take back the town. In the process of this Government man Arthur Rose, son of Kilravock was killed and Kilravock seeked revenge. With threats to burn Inverness to the ground the Jacobites met to discuss surrender. The Jacobites wanted to march south and join Mar but this was not allowed and eventually they agreed to hand over their weapons and return home and hand Inverness back to the Government.
Meanwhile from 12-14th November the Battle of Preston occurred with the English Jacobite rising trapped in Preston and eventually forced to surrender to the Government.
Finally on 13th November the Battle of Sheriffmuir occurred, this was the main battle of 1715. The Government were seriously outnumbered by Mars’ Jacobites but Mar refused to press home the advantage and risk his entire army so allowed the Government to withdraw after a day of fighting. There was no conclusive victor but the battle caused demoralisation amongst the Jacobites who should have won based on numbers.
After this nothing major happened only a few minor skirmishes. In an attempt to maintain the rising King James VIII & III arrived in Scotland in December but by this time the Jacobite army was suffering heavily from desertions and he left in February 1716 as the rising had essentially fizzled out.
Overall Government losses for the 1715 Uprising are estimated around 1,000 men whilst Jacobites lost roughly 250 men. If the men had been more coordinated in their attacks and had formed a united front rather than seperate groups who knows what the outcome may have been?
This September we will be marking the 300th anniversary of the rising with a special 1715 exhibition . So far plans are going well and we have letters from the Highland Archive Centre to showcase and hopefully a renactment of the raising of the standard at Braemar.
Hope you enjoyed the post. As always like, share, comment, blog and follow us to your hearts content.
All the best K & D
Anyone for Sheep’s Head Soup?
June 19, 2015 June 19, 2015 dreid1746 Uncategorized 18th Century, Recipe
Just when we thought we couldn’t get anything more gruesome for you to make than haggis we found a recipe for the classic ‘Sheeps Head Soop’.
A Sheeps Head Soop
Take the sheeps head & put it down with as much water as will cover it, a faggot of sweet herbs, a little all spice & pepper. Let it stew softly till the head be very tender. Then, take up the head & strain the broth & have 2 or 3 onions cut small & an head of white cabbage cut small. Put these in the broth & let it stew till it be very tender. Than have a qrt of new milk boyled, the yolks of 2 eggs brewed in it. Stir this into the soop. You must have one side of the head kept very hot & serve it in the middle of the soop. Put a little salt in.
To be fair we didn’t think it sounded too bad until the end where one side of the head was to be served in the middle of the soup. We didn’t fancy staring down and seeing half a head looking back at us!
Luckily puddings have proved to be much nicer including this recipe for Plum Cakes.
To Make Little Plumb Cakes
Take a pnd of flower well dryed, 1 pnd of butter & a pnd of currants well washed & pickd, 3 qrt of a pound of white sugar well sifted, six yolks and 2 white well beaten. Beat the butter with a little orange flower water with yr hand till it cream, then put in yr corrants & a whole nutmeg. Then beat it again. Then mix the flower & sugar & put it in by handfulls, till all be in. Keep itt beating an hour after and when the oven is hot, butter yr pans. Yr oven must be as hot as for cheesecakes.
This one sounded much nicer especially the addition of nutmeg and is definitely one we would be tempted to try.
One final recipe to share with you this week, though this one is slightly different. Instead of something to eat we found a recipe for some lip balm!
Recipe for a Lip Salve – Mammas Way
Take a pint & half of claret, a qr of a pd of currants, 1 pd of butter without salt, 4 or 5 ounces of Virgins Wax & 2 ounces of ye root Alkanet, otherwise call’d Alcony. This last with ye wine & currants must be boyl’d a pritty while. Afterwards, ye butter & wax being put in, must be boyl’d a little, then strain all into a bason. If, when cold, you find it too soft, add more wax. If too hard, add more butter. When it tis cold, ye top must be taken of & melted by it self & strain’d into little cups for use. If you have a mind to sweeten it, strain it with orange flower water or what else you think fit.
We looked into it and Alkanet, or Alcony, is a herb which can be cultivated for its dye. The rind of the root can be used to produce a deep red colour, perfect for the lips.
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed reading these recipes and might just give them a go.
As always do like, follow, tweet, comment, share, but please don’t terrify us with pictures of half a sheep’s head! All the best K & D
How to wear a plaid
June 14, 2015 March 27, 2016 dreid1746 History, Outlander 18th Century, Highland Dress, Kilt, Plaid
The plaid has to be the characteristic dress of the Highlander in the 18th Century but making it look good requires a bit of skill. Trust me I have tried it and there’s definitely an art to it that I do not have.
Before we begin though it’s important to say what a plaid actually is. The term plaid comes from the Gaelic ‘plaide’ which means blanket (pronounced ‘platchuh’) and in its simplest terms it is a piece of tartan roughly 5 metres (18 feet) long and about 5 foot wide. This was then pleated and styled into the plaid. The cloth was so large that looms of the day were not wide enough to make it in one go so two pieces of material were actually sewn together along the long edge to make the plaid.
To begin the centre of the plaid was pleated. Roughly two thirds of the plaid was folded into pleats reducing the length to about five feet. This was then gathered around the man with the bottom edge falling at the knees. The top half would then be rearranged, typically drawn up to the left shoulder and fastened with a brooch leaving the right arm free. Extra material would be tucked in at the waist to create pockets.
Our volunteer John showing the plaid
The plaid could also be used in poor weather to cover the shoulders and arms from the cold and there are some who believe in cold weather men would actually dip their plaid in water as wetting it would allow the wool to swell offering better protection against the wind and cold. In sub-zero temperatures this could also create a layer of thin ice on the surface of the plaid which would further insulate the owner.
Wrapped over the shoulders for warmth
In times of battle many men would take off the weighty plaid and charge naked from the waist down towards their enemies. (Thankfully i don’t have a picture of this to terrify you with)
In most places you’ll find it noted that plaids were made up first by lying out and pleating the fabric and then the Highlander would lay down on top of the pleats and wrap the fabric around himself securing at the waist. However, with up to 21 feet of material this was likely to be unmanageable for all but the wealthy as there would be no room inside for such masses of fabric and laying it out in the wind and rain seems rather impractical. Quite possibly many people may have had the plaid already pleated and ready to secure so would simply have to take it off its hook and secure it to them via a belt of rope therby eliminating the need for a large room to prepare.
A look at the pleats on the back
The traditional plaid was banned in 1747 following the Battle of Culloden when it was ruled that anyone wearing the plaid, trews or tartans should be imprisoned for six months for their first offense and transported for seven years if they were caught again.
One final shot of John
Hopefully you’ve found this interesting and i hope you are all about to go and grab a blanket and give it a shot.
As always like, follow, reblog, share, tweet, comment and be sure to strut around your house with pride whilst wearing your new plaid. All the best K & D
A Brief History of Clans
June 5, 2015 June 6, 2015 dreid1746 History 1745, 18th Century, clan, Culloden, History, Jacobites, scotland
One of the most common queries we get at Culloden is people researching their own family history and trying to understand more about the clan from which they come. So, we thought we’d do a little insight into clans to give you a bit of background on the complicated topic.
First things first: just what is a clan?
The word clan comes from the Gaelic clann meaning children or family.
A clan was typically a community of people living in roughly the same area at the head of which was the Chief. Members of this community could be related to the Chief by blood or they could have been inhabitants upon his lands. The members of the community, or clansmen, gave their loyalty to the clan Chief and in return he gave them protection, justice, and leadership. Clan members often took the Chief’s surname whether they were related to him or not.
A large clan would have branches or septs, headed by Chieftains who originally would be related to, or appointed by, the Chief. These septs were other family units who did not share the same surname as the Chief but treated him as their own head.
Not everyone in rural Scotland was part of a clan. Unlike those in the Highlands, the Lowlands had similar communities in places such as the border regions, but their structure and customs were somewhat different from those of the Highland clans. The Border Clans were distinct in their customs and appearance, country tenants would rent land from local Landlords or Lairds without any of the benefits or responsibilities of Highlanders under a clan Chief. However, this didn’t mean that the tenants were not forced to fight for their landowners.
So, the important question, how did you go about becoming a Chief?
The Chief owned the lands, managed the estate, commanded the clan in times of conflict, exercised judicial powers over his people and provided them with assistance in times of difficulty. At the same time they continued to uphold the clan traditions of hospitality, kinship and Gaelic cultural patronage.
The role was usually inherited by the eldest son, although this didn’t always happen. Typically Chiefs were well-educated, often well-travelled politicians or businessman who operated in wider economic, political and cultural worlds.
Between the Chief and the clansmen was the tacksman who was often related to the Chief. They rented out the Chief’s land and gathered the men when the Chief wanted to go to war. This system meant the Chief was not personally involved in these operations and could therefore retain his position as ‘father of his people’ unimpaired.
Whilst we might understand what a clan is we still need to discover how they formed in the first place?
Clans did not derive from any single race or tribe, indeed they were descended from a variety of tribes that at one time settled in parts of Scotland, races such as the Celts, Picts, Britons and the Norse. The first language of the Highland Clans was Gaelic and at one time this was the majority language of the country, but a divide began to open up over time between the Lowlands and the predominately Gaelic speaking Highlands.
This language divide helped to separate the Lowland Scottish families and the Highland clans and with the geographical divide two different cultures began to emerge. The general power of the clans increased the further away they were from the centre of power and authority in Scotland, which varied with where the monarch chose for his or her main residence during any given reign.
The clan system no longer exists as it did in the 18th Century, so what happened?
By 1745 the clan system was already changing with some Chiefs becoming more interested in money than men and dispensing with the tacksmen as costly intermediaries. The Chiefs had always been at odds with the established authorities in Lowland Scotland, be it through the differences in culture, language, custom or other factors. However, over time and with increased exposure to the rest of Scotland, some of the Chiefs, rather than seeing themselves as being at the head of an extended family, began to take on the role of land owners along the lines of the English or Lowland Scots landlord. Gradually many of the Chiefs desired to live similar lives to their counterparts in the Lowlands and in order to fund the expensive lifestyle that this entailed they set in motion changes to the fabric of the Highland way of life. Thus a painfully slow alienation of the Chiefs from their clans gradually began.
Many people believe it was Culloden that caused the demise of the clan system but in reality Culloden acted merely as a catalyst, accelerating the process of social change within the clan system. After the battle the Government pushed ahead with legislation to alter the way of Highland life.
The Act of Proscription (1746) was a series of measures designed to limit, if not destroy, the power of the clans in order to remove any future threat from the Highlands to the rest of Great Britain. The Act included banning the wearing of the traditional Highland dress, disarming of the population and other such measures. The law was enforced mercilessly by the Government and it is said that tens of thousands of Highlanders were murdered by Government troops in the space of a few years after the failure of the 1745 rebellion for trivial crimes and indeed many such executions were said to have been completely arbitrary.
In 1747 the Heritable Jurisdictions Act removed Chiefs from their hereditary power to impose punishments of imprisonment or death and they became ordinary landlords. Their wealth had been reckoned in men and now, with their lands remote and poor in comparison to the south, they were no longer important. Rents were increased and whole communities were uprooted and evicted to make way for the more profitable sheep, with little and often no concern for their wellbeing.
Gradually much of the Highlands, once teeming with thriving communities, the clan system at the heart of them, emptied. A great mass of people had been forced to emigrate to the Lowlands of Scotland or overseas, some had left voluntarily, some were assisted by their former Chiefs but most were forced out by the Chiefs-turned-Landlords.
Whilst this was a huge loss to Britain it proved an immeasurable gain to those countries abroad to which they travelled and from which, generations later, their ancestors have returned on a pilgrimage to a proud past.
Which brings us full circle to today and the many visitors we get to welcome to Culloden in search of their ancestry.
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Michael Phelps Takes To Facebook Live To Defend Shark Week Race
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(KBCWtv) – Olympian Michael Phelps makes no apologies to television viewers who were disappointed when they watched a Discovery Channel Shark Week special that pitted Phelps against a computer-simulated fish based on data on the swimming speed of sharks.
Phelps conducted an almost hour-long Facebook Live on Tuesday to address the issue fans raised when he didn’t face an actual shark.
He says that it would be impossible to truly race a shark, side-by-side, because sharks don’t swim in a straight line.
Phelps also said he made it clear from the beginning that he wasn’t racing an actual, real shark.
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Austin Woman’s Fundraising Campaign on Indiegogo for Final Surgery
Please Help Fund Toni’s Final Surgery after Successfully Losing
over 150 lbs during Her Three-Year Weight Loss Journey
In mid-October 2010, Toni’s primary care doctor, Dr. Ian Alward, South Austin Medical Clinic based in Austin, Texas, told her point blank that if she did not quit smoking, drinking and starting eating better she would most likely die or have a heart attack before her next birthday. This was the beginning of a long and grueling weight loss journey that has led to a much better lifestyle and completely changed her life.
Toni 14 Months into her Weight Loss JourneyGiving Up Cigarettes, Drinking and Junk FoodHer first and hardest step was giving up cigarettes. After 30+ years of smoking at least a pack a day, she quit cold turkey. Next, Dr. Alward put her on a strict diet that got rid of junk food and bad eating habits and started following a stringent meal plan that only included fish, veggies, nuts and drinking only water; a drastic change from junk food, fast food and her native food. (Asking an Italian to give up pasta, pizza and bread was almost as bad as giving up nicotine.)
“I wish more of my patients listened as well as Toni. America has a serious problem with obesity and many individuals lose heart or have difficulty staying motivated to lose weight and improve their health,” said Dr. Ian Alward. “Toni is a great example for others to follow. It takes a strong will to make simple changes to your diet and adopt an active lifestyle.”
Dr. Alward continued, “I am very proud of Toni for her successful weight loss journey. I would strongly encourage people to support her hard work and dedication to a healthier lifestyle.”
Toni working out at Raw Power Gym in Lakeway, TexasAdopting an Active Lifestyle
Once her daily intake of bad things was corrected, Dr. Alward instructed her to begin a rigorous exercise program. Not exactly an easy task for a 300+ lb female that is only 5′ 1″ tall. Walking around the block more than 8 minutes was a huffing and puffing experience that led to panic attacks until she got used to the routine. With the help of family and friends, Toni began walking and kept going until she was ready for the next step.
How to Hire the Right Personal Trainer
Fast forward twenty-four months after a weight loss of 128 lbs, Toni finally had reached a point where she wanted to hire a personal trainer. She did her research, went through three personal trainers and finally ended up working out with a GREAT personal trainer, Paul Clear, at Raw Power Gym based in Lakeway, Texas, just west of Austin. Her goal was to increase metabolism and build muscle to tone up her body as much as possible. She started with working out one-time per week and gradually increased to three times a week. As a result she lost another 35 lbs.
“When you are grossly overweight and you are suffering from a serious self-esteem challenge, finding the right personal trainer can make or break your desire to go and work out five times a week,” said Toni Born. “Replacing a drill sergeant who barks orders with no compassion and doesn’t truly care about his clients’ feelings with a caring personal trainer who is a true motivational guide and has a genuine interest in helping his clients achieve their goals made all the difference in the world for me.”
“After a year’s worth of trying three different personal trainers that cared more about making money than helping clients achieve their personal goals, Paul was the true inspiration that kept me going through my most difficult times and is now a trusted confidant and great personal friend,” continued Toni B.
Paul put Toni on a regiment of exercise that had helped her become acclimated to 30-minutes of cardio vascular exercises first, and then eased her into weights and more advanced, strenuous workouts.
“As a professional personal trainer, I spend many hours each week helping my clients build a better body. And when I met Toni and heard her weight loss story, I knew right away that she was going to be a great person to work with,” said Paul Clear, a personal trainer at Raw Power Gym in South Austin. “Even though she had lost a tremendous amount of weight, her physical stamina was barely sufficient to get her through a 25-minute mobility workout, but it did not take her long to begin muscling her way through very vigorous workouts.”
“Toni had a very difficult time getting a loan to pay for her first skin removal surgery, but I can tell you first hand it made an incredible difference on how she felt about her body,” Clear added. “I sincerely hope that people in the Austin area will help her raise the money she needs to pay for the last skin removal surgery because she certainly deserves it as a reward for the hard work she has put into her successful weight loss journey.”
Extreme Weight Loss Leads to Excessive Sagging Skin
From the beginning weight of more than 300 lbs, Toni went from a size 24 pants and size 28 top to a size 4 pants and a petite small top. If you are a male, you may not understand how important this is, but every female will know exactly what it means to go down 10 sizes in pants. As you can imagine, Toni was very proud of herself for this significant three-year achievement.
And while all this progress was uplifting and dramatically improved Toni’s ability to get around, participate in normal activities, improve her self-confidence and self-esteem, it also created some depressing feelings, as well. Even though there was a new, improved body laying underneath and a heart that was beating stronger than ever, the excess amount of sagging skin was completely masking the years of hard work that she had put into her personal journey. As you can see from her pictures, she looked liked a deflated balloon.
Seven months later, there was only one step remaining to complete. Find a plastic surgeon to remove the excess skin and reveal a shinning body that she could be proud of when she looked into the mirror and saw the new and improved Toni.
Hiring the Right Plastic Surgeon
After interviewing many doctors and reviewing their “before” and “after” photo albums, Toni was EXTREMELY impressed with Dr. Steven Holzman’s work, a plastic surgeon at the Plastic Surgery Center of Austin in North Austin that specializes in extreme weight loss skin removal surgery.
“Not all people are familiar with plastic surgery, but in reality we perform many good deeds for our patients that really need help to improve their bodies for reasons other than vanity,” commented Dr. Steven Holzman. “We help patients just like Toni every single day. She has made remarkable progress in her life by successfully losing more than a hundred pounds, but was left with a significant amount of loose skin which is very traumatic for patients with this condition.”
“These types of patients are extremely proud of their accomplishments, but are left with self-esteem issues because of the loads of wrinkled skin which is completely hiding all of their hard work,” Holzman stated. “Many people have a fear of surgery but after the process is complete, when I look into their eyes and see their overwhelming satisfaction, the feeling is priceless.”
How to Pay for Expensive Skin Removal Surgery
The final step was trying to figure out a way to pay for the surgery. Toni tried several options to pay for the surgery. Her credit union, University Federal Credit Union, her credit card company and several other local banks denied her application for an unsecured loan to finance the two separate operations Toni needed, even though she had good credit scores from all three credit bureaus.
Luckily there was a local Good Samaritan in town, Wells Fargo Bank, which was willing to take a chance on Toni based on her credit history and listening to her inspirational story and personal weight loss history.
“In the banking business, we are presented with a lot of unique requests for personal loans, but as I listened to Toni’s story, it really tugged on my heart strings. I checked her credit history and was pleased to see that she had a great credit score on all three credit bureaus,” stated Emily McKenzie, a Wells Fargo loan officer at the Brodie Lane Branch in South Austin. “Toni received the loan based on her credit history and now she has moved all of her business to Wells Fargo because she feels that we are a bank that truly cares about her — and we do. We are in the relationship business.”
McKenzie added, “Toni came to the bank to make her loan payment and showed me the results of her first surgery. It made my day that we were able to help make one of her dreams come true. We sincerely hope that she can find enough crowdfunding donors on indiegogo to help her pay for the final surgery. She deserves it!”
First Skin Removal Surgery
Toni has already taken out a $19,000 loan to pay for the first surgery on her own. The original price for the first skin removal surgery was $19,000, but some minor complications required her to stay in the hospital an extra day, which added an additional $1,000 to her medical bill that was unexpected.
Even though it was expensive, you can see from her pictures, the body improvement after the first surgery was simply amazing!
Crowdfunding Goal
The problem now is that Toni is maxed out on the amount she can borrow. The second surgery to remove the remaining excess skin from her arms and legs will cost around $9,000. In addition, she needs to find a way to pay for the additional $1,000 bill that she was charged for staying an extra night in the hospital. So her total crowdfunding goal is to raise $9,999.
Hoping to harness the compassion of the crowd, Toni is seeking 133 people to donate $75 each to help her complete her personal weight loss saga. Unlike most crowdfunding campaigns, she doesn’t have much to offer except an eternal debt of gratitude.
If she does not raise the full amount needed for the second surgery, she will apply all donations to her first loan of $19,000, plus the $1,000 for the unexpected extra hospital day. If she raises more than her goal of $9,999 for the final surgery, she will apply everything she receives to pay off all her skin removal surgery debt.
Please Share this Story on Social Media
Even if you cannot help with money, it would be immensely helpful if you could forward her personal story to your family, friends and business colleagues via your social network circles. You can send this link: http://igg.me/at/help-toni-raise-donations-for-surgery via e-mail or social media posts to help Toni spread the word.
And please note the personal courage it took to post these photographs of her body before and after the first procedure. She has some real skin in the game, pun intended, and over $19,000 of her own money paid for the first surgery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Notes from Toni’s Supporters:
Amy – Friend in Austin
“Once Toni started losing weight, she began to be more and more inspired, but at the same time it was probably the most depressing part of her journey because she had so much loose skin leftover after the weight lost,” Amy, a close personal friend who took care of Toni after the first skin removal surgery. “It was very hard for her to post pictures of her barely clothed body for everyone to see, but in her mind she is very proud of what she has accomplished and she wants others to see that having the excess skin removed makes an amazing difference in her self-esteem and the entire process worthwhile. If this crowdfunding campaign works, it will be very beneficial to someone who really deserves it!”
Allison – Friend in North Austin
“When I first met Toni and heard her story, we bonded instantly because I had gone through a similar weight loss experience,” said Allison, another co-worker and now personal friend. “I had never heard of crowfunding before she shared this profile with me, but I sure hope that she can find enough people to donate $75 each because she really, really deserves it! She has put a lot of hard work into losing all of this weight. If you look at her “before” and “after” pictures, it is easy to see why she needed this surgery so bad.”
Allison continued, “And the fact that she went and took out a $19,000 bank loan on her own to pay for the first surgery shows that she has some real skin in the game, pun intended. Now she just needs a little help from friends, family and good Samaritans to raise the final $9,999 that she is seeking to complete her weight loss transformation.”
Marianna – Friend in South Austin
“Toni is a women I respect not only because she has a beautiful soul but also because she has done what most only say they are going to do every January 1st,” said Marianna, one of Toni’s co-workers and personal friends. “To lose the weight like she has in the past three years is very motivating in the fact that she inspired me to follow through with my own goals. She is a motivator and an inspiration to those around her. If she can raise enough money through this crowdfunding campaign to accomplish this last bit of her weight loss goal…I say thank you in advance.”
Members of the Press
If you are a reporter, please call Robert Hoskins, Front Page PR, at (512) 627-6622. He has a full electronic press kit, press releases, photos, and numerous fitness research reports that are full of cool facts and figures. He is very responsive and will be glad to setup a quick 10-minute phone interview.
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Body Boxing Bootcamp Launches Indiegogo Fitness Crowdfunding Campaign to Finance their State-of-the-Art Boot Camp Workout Center for Clients and Personal Trainers in Los Angeles
BBB is offering boxing boot camp personal trainer perks, fitness boot camp gift cards and workout center pre-orders to donors living in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Park La Brea, West Beverly, West Hollywood, West Los Angeles and Wilshire
Body Boxing Bootcamp launched a community internet-based fundraising campaign on indiegogo’s crowdfunding platform to help raise money to open a new fitness boot camp workout center located in Los Angeles just west of Hollywood, California.
Body Boxing Bootcamp Launches Indiegogo Fitness Crowdfunding Campaign to Finance their
State-of-the-Art Boot Camp Workout Center for Clients and Personal Trainers in Los Angeles
Crowdfunding is a new way for local community members to pool their money together in order to help local entrepreneurs launch businesses customers would like to see introduced into their cities and towns based on their own personal desire to buy or use the product or service.
For example, there are plenty of traditional gyms in the Hollywood area, but none of them feature the mixture of boxing workout techniques combined with dancing, Thai kickboxing, resistance training (rubber bands and light weight lifting), plyometrics (jumping and quick movement drills), calisthenics (using one’s own body weight), obstacle courses, circuit training, and parachute running.
Customers that would like see the new workout facility open up can log on to and donate money by pre-ordering boot camp training workouts, buying fitness gift cards for friends or purchasing one or signing up to become a personal trainer at:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/body-boxing-boot-camp-seeks-funding-to-open-a-fitness-center-in-los-angeles/x/1907888
In return for a donation, BBB is offering to train anyone that wants to learn how to become a personal trainer and is offering a white paper, DVD, Smartphone wireless app, business plan template and all the necessary equipment to get into the personal trainer boot camp business.
Body Boxing Bootcamp fitness workouts target:
Young singles seeking active lifestyles;
Baby boomers preventing the onset of old age;
Overweight kids seeking to gain a better self image and self-defense skills;
Celebrities, movie stars, rock stars who prefer private workouts when visiting Hollywood; and
Anyone that wants to lose weight and get into an active routine that is fun and burns lots of calories.
“Both private personal training and group workout sessions will be offered, but the majority of the boxing boot camps will be done in groups of ten to twenty people,” said Kevin Barringer, Body Boxing Bootcamp’s CEO and head personal trainer. “When people workout together, over time they become friends. And most friends are competitive and like to push each other to work harder. This is the secret sauce that makes our classes fun and keeps our clients coming back for more.”
Body Boxing Bootcamp (BBB) needs $375,000 to lease retail space, renovate it and build a specially formatted workout center that will provide plenty of space for indoor workouts that are similar to the outdoor classes that the company offers on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the nearby Pan Pacific Park.
In addition to its own fitness boxing boot camps, BBB plans to rent out space in the gym to other personal trainers and Meetup boot camp organizers.
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Adults with their own adoption stories react to the heartwarming adoption of a 5-year-old
A 5-year-old boy's entire kindergarten class showed up to support him at his adoption hearing.
Posted: Dec 6, 2019 6:28 AM
Updated: Dec 7, 2019 2:15 PM
Posted By: CNN
On his formal adoption day, a gregarious 5-year-old boy helped unlock the most cherished stories of a nation.
CNN published a story on Thursday about a boy in Michigan named Michael who brought his entire kindergarten class in the courtroom as a judge finalized his adoption. Michael said he wanted to bring his class because they are a part of their family.
One by one, his classmates stood up and said they loved him. His soon-to-be parents beamed.
Readers swooned.
On CNN's Facebook account, readers weighed in with their own adoption stories, showcasing how family is built not by blood, but by love.
Lizz Martinez wrote, 'I was adopted 25 years ago and I absolutely love this. I can picture that day perfectly. I can still remember the smell of the wooden benches in that courtroom, and I can still remember the big bright smile on Judge Elizabeth's face. I was able to live a life I never would have had thanks to the most incredible, strong and resilient single mom that pushed and persevered in a time when a single parent adopting was nearly impossible. Thanks to my mom for my second chance at life. Forever my hero and greatest inspiration.'
Martinez added, 'I have one of my own currently and am absolutely open to adopting. My adopted mother seriously is incredible and if I can be just 10% of the mom she is I know I will have been successful.'
Hilary Ballard Nail had her own heartwarming story. 'When we adopted our foster son several years ago, the happy and supportive energy in the courtroom was wonderful,' she wrote. 'The judge was very sweet as I was very emotional about the event. But the best part was, when we opened the doors to leave and all the families and kids waiting in the hallway clapped for us as we left the building. Some of those folks were struggling still but they had such grace and love. It was beautiful.'
LaTonya Herrod-Fuhring added, 'Adopted 57 years ago and I've had the best parents I could ask for.'
Hop Sing echoed that sentiment: 'Great story,' she wrote. 'I was adopted and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.'
Brodie Shields wrote, 'My Sister was adopted before I was born. I waited a lifetime to meet her and finally met her when I was 33. I love her so much and was happy to know she had a great childhood and adoptive family. Bless those special people who adopt these children and give them a loving home, they so deserve to be loved and taken care of.'
Orla Maxwell Frye shared, 'I adopted my step son 2 yrs ago. He wore a t-shirt that said 'Adoption Rocks.' The Judge loved it.'
Stephen Satterfield commented, 'I was adopted 14 years ago. I'm planning on adopting a kid (whilst having my own) when I'm able to (I'm only have 17 and have college soon). I am also adopted by a single mom.'
But others expressed doubts, noting that our collective story of adoption isn't fully expressed through families smiling and hugging. There's a deeper, and often painful story, playing out beyond the view of television cameras.
Sarah Conte said her view was that adoption is 'complex, it's hard, and it's traumatic for the kids and first families. Unfortunately lots of people only want to hear from adoptive parents and yes, they're happy. Good. I was happy the day I adopted my daughter too. It was a lovely day. But I would be lying if I said I wasn't sad too because it meant my daughter would never go back to her first mom. Adoption is about love but it's also about loss too.'
In a Facebook post, Kent County summed up how Michael helped remind a nation of our common bonds.
'Perhaps the interest in Michael's story proves that the things that unite us are far more important to us than the things that divide us. We learned this lesson from a five year old who never endeavored to teach.
'He simply let us witness love, effortlessly.
'Thank you, Michael'
Adoption fees waived at Greenhill Humane Society
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Heat transfer for boiling inside horizontal tubes
Woods, Wallace Kelly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940)
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Ryan, Norman W (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949)
Studies on vulcanization with sulfur at elevated temperatures
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Certain cohesive and adhesive characteristics of thermoplastic high polymers
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Adsorption of ammonia by water and acid in various standard packings
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AuthorAddoms, James Neal, 1920- (1)Cadogan, William P. (William Patrick), 1919- (1)Collins, Arthur Spragens (1)Egbert, Robert B (1)Fellinger, Lowell L. (Lowell Lee), 1915- (1)Longwell, John P (1)Merrill, Edward W (1)Pearce, Frank G (1)Pohlenz, Jack B (1)Reed, Thomas Frank (1)... View MoreSubjectChemical Engineering (18)... View MoreDate Issued1941 (4)1948 (4)1946 (3)1940 (2)1947 (2)1943 (1)1945 (1)1949 (1)Has File(s)
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Unknown: Richard B. Walsh, Jr.
Defendant: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Maharashtra: Parents admit to confusion over admissions and syllabus
By Geeta Published On 9 Feb 2017 8:33 AM GMT | Updated On 9 Feb 2017 8:33 AM GMT
Mumbai: The Central Board of Secondary Education’s(CBSC), statement on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 while clarifying many doubts in the minds of medical aspirants and their parents continues to remain ambiguous about admission rules for deemed universities in the state, and the NEET 2017 syllabus .
Parents of aspiring medical entrants are planning to meet officials of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) to gain an insight into the admission process and its syllabus.
“In the last many years medical admissions had never given any weight age to class 12 marks, but recently the Supreme Court requested all higher education courses to consider that score as well as entrance exam scores. We are not sure if the rule is applicable this year,” said one of the parents.
The DMER in a statement released earlier this month had said that admissions to all government run and private institutions (excluding -15% All India Quota), will be conducted by the DMER. However, there was no mention about the status of Deemed Universities.
“We don’t want to wait till the last minute for clarity. So hopefully the state government will release another statement soon,” said a parent.
The DMER Director in a clarification to the HT said that the matter of admissions to deemed universities was still sub judice, as it was pending in the Supreme Court.
“Once we get a go ahead from SC, we will release a statement on that as well. As for weight age to class 12 marks, medical admission have given no weight age to class 12 marks since 1999, and we will continue the same rule in 2017. As for 2018, we can decide later,” said Dr Pravin Shingare, Director, DMER.
Parents have complained about syllabus problems, including an unclear stand by CBSE on the portion applicable for NEET 2017. “The website says that the portion will include questions from CBSE as well as a common state board syllabus, but there is no such thing as a common state board syllabus. Each state has a different syllabus,” said Sudha Shenoy, a parent. The parents of aspirants are hoping for a word from the CBSE for better clarity soon in the near future.
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EENG115 Introduction to Logic Design
Variables and functions. Boolean algebra and truth tables. Logic gates, Karnaugh maps. Incompletely specified functions, Multilevel logic circuits. Tabular minimization. Number representation. Arithmetic circuits. Binary codes. Programmable logic devices. Multiplexers, decoders and encoders. Synchronous sequential circuits, flip-flops, synchronous counters.
1 4 4 - 1 7
CHEM101 General Chemistry
Atoms, molecules and ions; Mass relations in chemistry, stoichiometry; Gasses, the ideal gas law, partial pressures, mole fractions, kinetic theory of gases; Electronic structure and the periodic table; Thermo chemistry, calorimetry, enthalpy, the first law of thermodynamics; Liquids and Solids; Solutions; Acids and Bases; Organic Chemistry.
PHYS101 Physics - I
Physical quantities and units. Vector calculus. Kinematics of motion. Newton`s laws of motion and their applications. Work-energy theorem. Impulse and momentum. Rotational kinematics and dynamics. Static equilibrium.
MATH151 Calculus - I
Limits and continuity. Derivatives. Rules of differentiation. Higher order derivatives. Chain rule. Related rates. Rolle's and the mean value theorem. Critical Points. Asymptotes. Curve sketching. Integrals. Fundamental Theorem. Techniques of integration. Definite integrals. Application to geometry and science. Indeterminate forms. L'Hospital's Rule. Improper integrals. Infinite series. Geometric series. Power series. Taylor series and binomial series.
1 4 4 1 - 6
ENGL181 Academic English - I
ENGL 181 is a first-semester freshman academic English course. It is designed to help students improve the level of their English to B1+ level, as specified in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course connects critical thinking with language skills and incorporates learning technologies such as IQ Online. The purpose of the course is to consolidate students’ knowledge and awareness of academic discourse, language structures, and lexis. The main focus will be on the development of productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading) skills in academic settings.
ENGL191 Communication in English - I
ENGL191 is a first-semester freshman academic English course. It is designed to help students improve the level of their English to B1+ level, as specified in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course connects critical thinking with language skills and incorporates learning technologies such as IQ Online. The purpose of the course is to consolidate students’ knowledge and awareness of academic discourse, language structures, and lexis. The main focus will be on the development of productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading) skills in academic settings.
EENG112 Introduction to Programming
High-level programming environments. Variables, expressions and assignments. Introducing C programming. Structured programming; sequential, selective and repetitive structures. Function definition and function calls. Prototypes and header files. Recursive functions. Arrays and pointers. Dynamic memory management. Parameter passing conventions. Multi dimensional arrays. Structures and unions. Conditional compilation, modular programming and multi-file programs. Exception handling. File processing. Formatted I/O. Random file access. Index structures and file organization.
EENG102 Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering
A series of seminars are held in current topics and areas of specialisation in Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering. Speakers are invited from different departments of EMU or other International Universities, Industry and Consulting firms, to deliver seminars in all aspects of engineering that are not normally covered in the lecture courses. These include, safety at work, standards, quality control, engineering ethics, etc.
2 No-Credit 1 - - 1
MATH106 Linear Algebra
Cartesian coordinate system; Linear equations and lines, system of linear equations, quadratic equations, functionsSelected application to economics and accounting. Matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations and their solutions using Cramer's Rule. . Set theory, counting theory, discrete probability. Descriptive statistics
MATH152 Calculus - II
Vectors in R3. Lines and Planes. Functions of several variables. Limit and continuity. Partial differentiation. Chain rule. Tangent plane. Critical Points. Global and local extrema. Lagrange multipliers. Directional derivative. Gradient, Divergence and Curl. Multiple integrals with applications. Triple integrals with applications. Triple integral in cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Line, surface and volume integrals. Independence of path. Green's Theorem. Conservative vector fields. Divergence Theorem. Stokes' Theorem.
PHYS102 Physics - II
Kinetic theory of ideal gases. Equipartition of energy. Heat, heat transfer and heat conduction. Laws of thermodynamics, applications to engine cycles. Coulombs law and electrostatic fields. Gauss's law. Electric potential. Magnetic field. Amperes law. Faradays law.
ENGL182 Academic English - II
ENGL182 is a second-semester freshman academic English course. It is designed to help students improve the level of their English to B2 level, as specified in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The course connects critical thinking with language skills and incorporates learning technologies such as IQ Online. The purpose of the course is to consolidate students’ knowledge and awareness of academic discourse, language structures, and lexis. The main focus will be on the development of productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading) skills in academic settings.
ENGL192 Communication in English - II
ENGL192 is a second-semester freshman academic English course. It is designed to help students improve the level of their English to B2 level, as specified in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course connects critical thinking with language skills and incorporates learning technologies such as IQ Online. The purpose of the course is to consolidate students’ knowledge and awareness of academic discourse, language structures, and lexis. The main focus will be on the development of productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading) skills in academic settings.
EENG212 Algorithms and Data Structures
Structures and unions. Storage structures and memory allocations. Primitive data structures. Data abstraction and Abstract Data Types. Array and record structures. Sorting algorithms and quick sort. Linear & binary search. Complexity of algorithms. String processing. Stacks & queues; stack operations, implementation of recursion, polish notation and arithmetic expressions. Queues and implementation methods. Dequeues & priority queues. Linked storage representation and linked-lists. Doubly linked lists and circular lists. Binary trees. Tree traversal algorithms. Tree searching. General trees. Graphs; terminology, operations on graphs and traversing algorithms.
EENG223 Circuit Theory - I
Definitions and units. Experimental laws and simple circuits. Techniques of circuit analysis. Inductance and capacitance. Source-free RL and RC circuits. Applications. The Unit-step forcing function. RLC circuits.
MATH207 Differential Equations
First-order differential equations. Higher order homogeneous linear differential equations. Solution space. Linear differential equations with constant coefficient. Non-homogeneous linear equations; variation of parameters, operator methods. System of linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Laplace transforms. Power series solutions. Bessel and Legendre equations. Orthogonal functions and Fourier expansions. Introduction to partial differential equations. First- and second-order linear PDE's. Separation of variables. Heat and wave equations.
CIVL211 Statics
Basic definitions, concepts and principles. Statics of particles, resultant of forces in space, equilibrium and free-body concept. Statics of rigid bodies, moments, couples and equivalent force systems. Equilibrium of rigid bodies. Distributed forces, centroids, center of gravity and, moment of inertia. Definition of determinacy of structures, analysis of statically determinate structures, including trusses, beam, frames and arches. Friction.
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MENG286 Material Science
Crystal structure and crystal geometry phase diagrams of alloy systems, heat treatments applied to metallic materials and plain-carbon steels. Mechanical properties of metals stress-strain in metals, tensile test, hardness and hardness testing, fatigue and fracture of metals, impact test, creep of metals and creep test. Strengthening and plastic deformation of metals. Mechanical properties of ceramics, glasses, polymers and composites. Corrosion of metals. Material selection based on mechanical properties.
MENG244 Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
Basic concepts and definitions of thermodynamics. Properties of pure substances. The first law of thermodynamics for the closed and open systems. The second law of thermodynamics. Entropy as a property. Brayton cycle (gas power cycle). Rankine cycle (steam power cycle). Refrigeration cycles.
MATH252 Mathematical Methods for Engineers
Complex numbers. Algebra of complex numbers. Polar representation. Complex functions. Limit and continuity. Analyticity. Analytic functions. Cauchy-Riemann equations. Line integrals. Cauchy integral formula. Isolated singularities. Residue theorem. Numerical error. Solution of nonlinear equations. Convergence. Solution of linear system of equations: direct and iterative methods. Interpolation. Curve fitting. Numerical differentiation and integration.
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The profession of Engineering involves, apart from many other tasks, a proper utilization of materials of nature. Properties of materials form an important part of design and can be changed to make them suitable to manufacture devices that will perform a specific task. A collection of devices perform functions and make possible applications towards improving the standard of living for the benefit of mankind. Hence, it is the aim of this course to provide knowledge, at an introductory level, mainly about semiconductor materials used in electrical engineering.
EENG224 Circuit Theory - II
Sinusoidal Sources and Phasors. AC Steady-State Analysis. AC Steady-State Power. Three-Phase Circuits. The Laplace Transforms. Circuit Analysis in the s-domain. Frequency Response. Mutual Inductance and Transformers. Two-port Circuits.
EENG226 Signals and Systems
Continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Linear time-invariant (LTI) systems: system properties, convolution sum and the convolution integral representation, system properties, LTI systems described by differential and difference equations. Fourier series: Representation of periodic continuous-time and discrete-time signals and filtering. Continuous time Fourier transform and its properties: Time and frequency shifting, conjugation, differentiation and integration, scaling, convolution, and the Parseval`s relation. Representation of aperiodic signals and the Discrete-time Fourier transform. Properties of the discrete-time Fourier transform.
EENG232 Electromagnetics - I
Review of vector calculus. Electrostatics in vacuum . Coulomb?s and Gauss?s laws. Electrostatic potential. Poison?s and Laplace?s equations. Conductors in the presence of electrostatic fields. Method of images. Dielectrics; polarization. Dielectric boundary conditions. Capacitance. Electrostatic forces by the virtual work principle. Steady currents. Ohm?s and Joule?s laws. Resistance calculations. Magnetostatics in vacuum. Ampere?s force law. Biot-Savart law. Magnetic vector potential, Ampere?s circuital law. Magnetic boundary conditions. Magnetic dipole. Magnetization. Hysteresis curve. Self and mutual inductance. Magnetic stored energy. Magnetic forces by the virtual work principle.
EENG331 Electromagnetics - II
Electromagnetic induction; Faraday's and Lenz's laws; transformer and motional electromotive force; induction heating; transformer; displacement current; time-varying fields; Maxwell's equations; wave equations; time-harmonic fields; complex Phasors; scalar and vector potential functions; plane waves in vacuum; plane waves in dielectrics and conductors; polarization; skin effect; electromagnetic energy and power; Poynting's theorem; reflection and refraction of plane waves at dielectric interfaces; Snell's laws; Fresnel formulas; critical angle; total internal reflection; total transmission; Brewster's angle; standing waves; transmission line theory; TEM waves; transmission line parameters; lossy and lossless lines; matching of transmission lines to their loads.
EENG341 Electronics - I
Diodes; diode circuits and applications. BJT, MOSFET and JFET structures, modes of operation, biasing, small-signal modelling and analysis. Multistage amplifiers; operational amplifiers; output stages.
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MATH322 Probability and Statistical Methods
Introduction to probability and statistics. Operations on sets. Counting problems. Conditional probability and total probability formula, Bayes' theorem. Introduction to random variables, density and distribution functions. Expectation, variance and covariance. Basic distributions. Joint density and distribution function. Descriptive statistics. Estimation of parameters, maximum likelihood estimator. Hypothesis testing.
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EENG342 Electronics - II
Feedback amplifiers. Applications of operational amplifiers. Active filters. Logarithmic and exponential amplifiers. Analog multipliers. Comparators and the Schmitt trigger. Voltage-Controlled-Oscillators. Multivibrators. Data conversion circuits. Sinusoidal oscillators.
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IENG420 Fundamentals of Engineering Economy
An introduction to the basics of economic analysis for decisions in engineering design, in manufacturing, in manufacturing equipment, and in industrial projects. Time value of money. Cash-flow analysis. Cost of capital. Return on investment. Elements of cost and cost estimation. Break-even analysis. Decision making among alternatives. Effects of depreciation. Taxes. Replacement analysis. Inflation.
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IENG355 Ethics in Engineering
This course is designed to introduce moral rights and responsibilities of engineers in relation to society, employers, colleagues and clients. Analysis of ethical and value conflict in modern engineering practice. Importance of intellectual property rights and conflicting interests. Ethical aspects in engineering design, manufacturing, and operations. Cost-benefit-risk analysis and safety and occupational hazard considerations.
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MoU signed to establish Confucius Institute at University of Sargodha
By Maryam Mahmood Khan On Oct 9, 2019 128 0
BEIJING, Oct 9 (APP):Pakistan and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the Confucius Institute at the University of Sargodha. It was signed, along with other several MoUs during the first day of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China.
Pakistan Ambassador Naghmana Hashmi on behalf of Vice Chancellor Sargodha University and Deputy Director General of the Confucius Institute Headquarter in China signed the agreement in presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
This is the fifth Confucius institute being established in Pakistan to promote Chinese language and culture.
In July this year, the University of Sargodha had signed an MoU with Henan Normal University under which the two universities decided to cooperate for establishing the Confucius Institute and approached Henban last month for the purpose.
Already, this month, two Chinese language teachers from Henan Normal University have joined the University of Sargodha and started the Chinese languages classes as a prelude to the establishment and functioning of the Confucius Institute at the Sargodha University.
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Posted on the 25 May 2013 by Susanduclos @SusanDuclos
By Susan Duclos
(Note to the Free Press, quoted below- America is a Republic, not a Democracy, but kudos for demanding answers)
Via Free Press:
On Friday, Free Press and more than 60 civil liberties, digital rights, press freedom and public interest groups sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a full, transparent account of the Justice Department’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers.
Representing millions of Americans, the groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Communications Workers of America, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sunlight Foundation and the Writers Guild of America East. (The full list of signers can be found below.) In addition, Free Press delivered more than 16,000 petition signatures urging the Justice Department to protect press freedom.
Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron made the following statement:
“The Justice Department’s abuse of press freedom is appalling, and the consequences could be far-reaching. This is not just a matter of concern for journalists or newsrooms; it’s an issue at the heart of our democracy. We can’t hold government and corporate leaders accountable or have an informed public unless we support truth-seeking journalism. President Obama says journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. But actions speak louder than words, and guidelines only work if they're actually followed. The broad range of groups speaking out today signal the beginning of a broader popular movement defending press freedom. Our message to the attorney general and the president is clear: End the targeting and intimidation of journalists and whistleblowers.”
Read the full text of the letter and the list of signers below:
Attorney General Eric Holder
Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole
More than 50 journalism and press organizations recently wrote you to voice grave concerns about the Justice Department’s subpoena of telephone records belonging to Associated Press reporters and editors. We write today as a coalition of civil rights, public interest, transparency and media reform groups to express similar concerns.
Your actions have threatened press freedom — and endangered the health of our democracy. As groups working to strengthen democratic institutions and foster more open government, we are deeply concerned that your agency’s actions will hinder efforts to make government more transparent and accountable to the public.
Following years of aggressive leak investigations, the Justice Department’s overreaching subpoena of AP phone records sets a dangerous precedent. Furthermore, it appears to violate the Department’s own rules and guidelines. The impact of the Justice Department’s actions is already being felt. AP CEO Gary Pruitt reports that sources are now less willing to talk to reporters. And journalists from newsrooms large and small have noted the chilling effects on their coverage of the government.
The latest news suggests that the subpoenas were even broader than initially reported. In addition, details are emerging about a case in which the Justice Department also seized phone records from reporters at Fox News and labeled one of its journalists a “co-conspirator” for simply doing his job.
These troubling developments raise real questions about the scope of the Department’s surveillance of journalists. At a recent congressional hearing, Mr. Holder, you couldn’t recall how many times the Justice Department has subpoenaed journalists’ records. We need to know the full extent of your Department’s crackdown against journalists.
In the digital age, reporting is no longer confined to America’s traditional newsrooms. As such, threats to press freedom threaten anyone who seeks to share information about official actions using a cellphone, social media service or website. The Obama administration promised a new era of openness and transparency. Your actions, which expand secrecy and intimidate those trying to shed more light on our government, run counter to that promise.
We demand a full accounting of the Justice Department’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers. We need this information so that we can advocate for appropriate action to protect everyone’s constitutional rights and push for stronger legal standards to protect all types of information gathering and sharing.
The Justice Department must explain its overreach in this matter. Furthermore, we call on the Department to stop violating its existing rules and cease targeting of individuals and organizations reporting on government activity.
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Pete Droge – Necktie Second
Producer: Brendan O’Brien
Key Tracks: “If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself),” “Hardest Thing to Do”
Label: American Recordings
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Pete Droge – Necktie Second quantity
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The Skinny: During the 1990s, if someone’s cat wrote a song by walking on a Casio keyboard — as long as it happened in Seattle — that shit got recorded and released. Pete Droge is not that cat. Necktie Second is classic-rock songcraft from the heart, transmitted through a delicate, fragile brain. A mid-tempo walk through the Hall of Fame of radio-rock styles with beefy, vintage guitar tones.
Sounds like: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Replacements, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Old 97s
Deeper Thoughts: If you’ve got the fever for more cowbell, look no further than the single from this debut release by one of the less-celebrated artists to come out of the Pacific northwest during this period. “If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Kill Myself)” is as touching a call for help/marriage proposal as I’ve heard. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers echo all over this quasi-radio track. “Straylin Street” evokes the vocal stylings of the late Ronnie Van Zandt (think, “Simple Kind of Man”). Neil Young’s, “Helpless” would fit comfortably on this record, and if Leonard Cohen had grown up in Washington state during the heyday of FM radio, he might have written the suicide-watch slow grinder “4th of July.” By the way, it really takes balls to bury the best song on the record in the #8 slot — “Hardest Thing to Do” simmers with desperation in the verse until it boils over with longing in the chorus. Elaine Summers contributes heart-breaking backing vocals. I really hope Pete’s OK…
The Sonics: Very engaging. Big, round, warm & fuzzy guitar tones are featured throughout. The mixes allow ample peripheral space around each instrument. O’Brien found a simple, organic sound that invites you to keep listening to the next tune. Great low-frequency body, even though the bass does get a bit floppy at times. It’s a little annoying that at the beginning of several tracks the mix is panned hard right until all the instruments enter to fill it out. This disc is a way more satisfying listen than the streaming ear-bud experience.
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The projects were won by companies in SECI's auction of 2,000 MW of projects in April this year. SECI has now asked for quick financial closure.Kaavya Chandrasekaran | ET Bureau | December 29, 2018, 08:35 IST
BENGALURU: Wind energy developers who won projects in Gujarat are in a bind because they have been asked to achieve financial closure by January 3 but the state is not leasing them any land.
The projects were won by companies in Solar Corporation of India’s (SECI) auction of 2,000 MW of projects in April this year. SECI has now asked for quick financial closure.
This is impossible, the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) and the Wind Independent Power Producers Association (WIPPA) have together written to the minister for new and renewable energy (MNRE) R K Singh and sought a meeting with him.
SECI has threatened to invoke the developers’ bank guarantees if the deadline is not met. “Requisite documentary evidence regarding financial closure (which was scheduled for December 24, 2018) is not submitted,” SECI’s letter to the concerned developers reads. “You may submit all relevant documents on or before January 3. Non compliance of the same may attract action as per the provisions … of the PPA.”
The industry bodies said in their letter that after the award of contracts, project developers approached the government of Gujarat for leasing of land. “The project developers were given to understand that the state government has taken a call not to provide land in Gujarat for projects that have executed PPAs with SECI,” the joint letter says.
With a scarcity of sites that have adequate wind speed in Gujarat, the state government decided some months ago that it will lease land solely for projects supplying power to its own utility, Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd, and not for central projects, whose power can be supplied anywhere in the country through the interstate transmission system (ISTS).
“We are keen to have an amicable solution to the issue, but SECI should have first consulted the state as to whether we can give land or not,” said a senior Gujarat government functionary dealing with the issue. “We want the entire sector to develop. It is in the overall benefit of the state and the country, so we will allot the land.” But he did not disclose any further details about what solution the state government had in mind.
SECI’s 2,000 MW wind auction in April left it to developers to decide where they wanted to locate their projects. Since the best wind energy sites are available mostly in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, most of the winners sought to set up projects in Gujarat. SECI has since conducted another 2,000 MW wind auction in June, followed by a 1,200 MW auction in September, many of whose winners too are keen on Gujarat-based sites. Of the total of 7,000 MW of wind projects auctioned by SECI this year, around 3,500 MW are expected to be in Gujarat.
The IWTMA and WIPPA letter notes that SECI was aware of the problem since some meetings relating to the matter have already been held. “Despite your instructions and support, the issuance of notices by SECI shows its indifference to the situation on ground and to the interactions you had with the industry,” the letter says.
An SECI official said it was only following protocol. “They have made a representation and we will see if we can consider an extension,” he said.
“We hope that the issue will be resolved. Our project is stuck,” said one of the winning developers. He noted that private land in the Kutch area, where wind projects are largely located, was scarce, and hence leasing such land was not a viable alternative. But another developer disagreed. “It is not that private land is not available,” he said. “It’s just that it’s much more expensive. The developers have bid at competitive rates and hence want state land to keep their costs down.”
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Mike's research interests are in mathematical modeling of environmental systems and quality, uncertainty analysis, value-of-information decision analysis, water-energy integrated assessment, and sensor-data fusion. Mike has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. Mike is a California-licensed Professional Engineer (Civil), and has worked at an environmental engineering firm where he conducted environmental health risk assessments. He is Leader of the Sustainable Energy Systems Group and former Leader of the Airflow and Pollutant Transport Group (Indoor Environment Dept.). Mike has been at LBNL since 1998. Mike's personal website is uncertainty.lbl.gov.
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New Book | Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History
Posted in books by Editor on August 25, 2016
From Penn Press:
Timothy Campbell, Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740–1830 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 440 pages, (cloth) ISBN: 978-0812248326 / (ebook) ISBN: 978-0812293043, $65 / £42.
Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.
In a panoptic sweep, Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the distinction between the past and the present, created an expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume’s ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds’s aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott’s costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to trace eighteenth-century historicism, Historical Style draws upon the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain have often neglected.
Timothy Campbell teaches English at the University of Chicago.
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Introduction: Fashions Past
I | The Dress of the Year
1 Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity
2 Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times
II | The Fictions of Serial History
3 Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau
4 Historical Novelty and Serial Form
5 Walter Scott’s Fashion Systems
6 William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction
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Account-based marketing commands a collective team effort, with several different stakeholders working closely together throughout the entire customer life cycle. In order to successfully build an All-Star ABM roster, 8 core players must be recruited.
1.Director/VP of Sales: The Conductor
Directors/VPs of Sales are the “conductors” of the sales team. They ensure revenue targets are met, defines ideal customer personas (ICPs), finalizes the tiered lists of accounts, and is tasked with selecting CRM and predictive sales tools to optimize sales efforts. Top performing Directors/VPs of Sales exhibit two skill sets:
Leadership: According to Forbes only about 1 in 6 candidates deemed a strong fit for sales are strong fits for sales management. A top-performing salesperson does not necessarily make for a strong Director/VP of Sales. As they have advanced in their careers, Directors/VPs of Sales must have acquired and honed the key leadership skills necessary to guide, motivate, and inspire an entire team.
Metrics-Focus:Director/VPs of Sales must understand the metrics that underpin and inform sales targets. They must be laser-focused on success metrics and the attainment thereof. Top sales managers score 20% higher in personality tests when it comes to the success-driven facet. That is, they fixate on achieving revenue goals.
2.Account Executives (AEs): The Quarterbacks
AEs act as the primary liaison with prospects. They are the “quarterbacks”. They are tasked with defining account strategies and ensuring prospects fit ICPs. By way of demos, customer meetings, and other touch-points, AEs are responsible for closing deals. Highly effective AEs excel when they exhibit two fundamental skills:
Relationship-Building: Top-performing AEs must be relationship builders with high levels of emotional intelligence. Whether introverted or extroverted, AEs must have that knack for connecting with prospects, establishing rapport, and building trust.
Verbal Acuity: Verbal acuity is a prerequisite for establishing credibility with prospects. According to research conducted by Steve W. Martin, founder of Heavy Hitter Sales, high-performing salespeople communicate at the 11th to 13th-grade levels, while their underperforming counterparts hover around the 8th or 9th-grade levels.
3.BDRs/SDRs: The Linemen
Business Development Reps (BDRs) and Sales Development Reps (SDRs) are responsible for conducting research on accounts, prospecting, and qualifying leads before passing them off to AEs. They are the “linemen”, offering support to the AE on an as-needed basis by taking on critical activities such as CRM record-keeping and crafting account-specific messaging. Highly effective BDRs and SDR set the bar high in terms of two skills:
Time Management:Many tasks carried out by BDRs and SDRs are repetitive in nature. Optimizing the efficiency of repetitive tasks through the use of, for example, effective calendar management and proper email hygiene practices, curtails time wrapped up in repetitive tasks, so adequate focus can be placed on selling. High performers stand out from their lower-performing counterparts by challenging the reality that only about 1/3 of a salesperson’s time is actually spent selling.
Listening: Top-performing BDRs and SDRs don’t erroneously confuse “selling” with “talking”. They know the importance of listening to customers in order to more effectively craft personalized value propositions and messaging. According to a study by Pipedrive, the highest yielding B2B sales conversations hovered around a 43:57 talk-to-listen ratio.
4.Customer Success Managers: The Nurturers
Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are responsible for nurturing relationships with existing customers. They are focused on customer engagement. The CSM’s objective is one of transforming existing customers into product advocates and champions. Top-performing CSMs tend to exhibit two critical skills:
Proactiveness: CSMs can’t afford to be reactive; they’re expected to be anticipatory, change-oriented, and self-initiating.They must pinpoint problems before they arise and rapidly course correct. This enables them to effectively ensure that customers succeed, in turn priming them to capitalize on upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
Customer Education Bias: Celebrated CSMs dedicate significant time to understanding customers’ unique needs and pain points, and outfitting them with education content related to new product offerings, features, improvements, etc. Best-in-class CSMs communicate their value propositions clearly so customer advocates are best equipped to strengthen consensus within their organization.
5.CMO/VP of Marketing: The Director
CMOs/VPs of Marketing are the “director” of the marketing train, tasked with shaping the marketing messaging strategy. They coordinate all marketing activities, selects marketing automation systems to optimize efforts, and tracks the success of campaigns and strategies. Top CMOs/VPs of Marketing exhibit two essential affinities:
Multi-Channel Focus: Today’s CMOs/VPs of Marketing must be “T-Shaped”. That is, they must be exposed to, and well-versed in, a multitude of marketing channels. This empowers them to effectively launch and exploit omni-channel marketing campaigns and maximize the effectiveness of every customer touch point. According to Gartner, 90% of marketers struggle to seamlessly connect more than three channels related to the buyer journey. Top-performing CMOs/VPs of Marketing avoid this reality.
Change Embracement: Today’s marketers face a new reality: millennials rapidly fluctuate in their preferred social media channels. From LinkedIn to Facebook to Twitter to Snapchat, millennials’ preferred online platform is ephemeral and in constant flux. Best-in-class CMOs/VPs of Marketing embrace change, appreciating that the optimal marketing strategy for today may be obsolete tomorrow.
6.Marketing Team Members: The Content Ninjas
Marketing team members are responsible for collecting insight from the sales team and developing customized content, campaigns, and playbooks according to agreed upon ICPs. This ABM player must be a content “ninja” and ensure content is developed to address every stage of the customer life cycle. Top ABM marketers possess two invaluable skills:
Revenue-Driven: According to the Fournaise Marketing Group, 78%of CEOs believe that marketing is not focused on generating top-line revenue growth. Top notch marketers stand out from the masses in terms of ensuring a close alignment between sales and marketing.
Technically Proficient:Traditionally, marketers have been perceived as the creative ones in an organization. While creativity is an essential marketing trait, technical prowess is increasingly important and in demand. Back in 2016, Gartner astutely predicted that, by 2017, marketing would spend more on technology than the IT department.
7.Chief Revenue Officer (CRO): The Middleman
The CRO is a new, but welcome, addition to the ABM consortium of talent. CROs acts as the primary conduit and “middleman” between sales and marketing. They define a predictable revenue strategy, ensures sales and marketing are aligned, and recruits (on an as-needed basis) executive sponsors to assist with deals. Best-in-class CROs exhibit two highly coveted dispositions:
Collaborative: CROs must serve as the de-facto bridge between sales and marketing. They must work with departmental heads and sales and marketing team members. Paragon CROs are seasoned mediators. They perform the difficult feat of navigating the traditional cultural divide between sales and marketing, while at the same time appealing to the two diverse teams. Not surprisingly, many CROs have a background in operations.
Data-driven: More so than any other player, CROs must be data-driven. They must be in-tune with sales and marketing-related metrics and KPIs. Whereas metrics such as deal size, average sales cycle length, opportunity win rates, and MoM sales growth are more relevant to sales, metrics such as leads per channel, MQL: SQL conversion rates, email open and click-through rates, and cost of content resonate louder in the marketing arena. Proficient CROs will not only understand both castes of metrics, they will understand their interrelations and correlations.
8.Product Manager (PM): The Customer Voice
PMs ensure sales and marketing are constantly in-tune with upcoming product roadmaps.They work jointly with sales and marketing to understand whether there is demand for custom solutions and whether potential asks are feasible. PMs excel when they exhibit two traits:
Innovativeness: In today’s cutthroat competitive environment, top-performing PMs must be innovative. Rather than focus on resource constraints, they focus first on opportunity. Ian McAllister, Director at Airbnb, explains, "The top 1% product manager‘s thinking won’t be constrained by the resources available to them today or today’s market environment. They’ll describe large disruptive opportunities, and develop concrete plans for how to take advantage of them.”
Customer-centricity: Working within a black-box environment can be disastrous. Top-performing PMs are unique in that they obsess about the customer. They take time to speak with customers and observe them in their natural environments. This enables them to hone in on their pain points and react by producing prototypes and, ultimately, final features and products that delight. PMs should be the voice of the customer.
A successful account-based marketing strategy involves the formation of an All-Star team. When recruiting the stakeholders who will be integral to your ABM strategy, consider whether they exhibit the skills required to succeed in today’s age of selling and marketing.
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The Porsche 911L was a one year only model Built for the 1968 model year and developed for the North American market. Produced to fill a gap in the Porsche line up as the 1968 911S models could not pass the strict new emissions tests mandated for year. With only 499 cars built the L ‘s remain a rare and exclusive car and were the top of Porsche’s line up for 1968
11805061 is an early matching numbers car built on 2nd of October 1967 Having had just two owners, the first, Douglas Hannon, known as ‘Professor Bass’ was a well regarded authority on Bass fishing who authored several books and videos on the subject. Hannon purchased the L in 1968 from the New Orleans Porsche dealer whilst he was at college in Florida, retaining the car from 1968 until 2012, during his ownership he chose a color change from the original Irish Green to its now shade of Ossi Blue. In 2012 the 911L was acquired from Hannon by a Florida dealer who then commissioned an engine and transmission rebuild, fitting SSi heat exchangers and a new muffler. At the same time the brake calipers were overhauled, the master cylinder replaced and the shock absorbers uprated to Konis, the corresponding receipts are included
During the 911L production run Porsche changed the material used for its engine cases from aluminum to magnesium, the aluminum engines have fared better and are considered much stronger, this matching number motor is one the early aluminum cases and considered much more desirable
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(REFERENCE COPY - Not for submission)Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application
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Overall Structure Height 223.7 meters
Ground Elevation (AMSL) 116.4 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Ground Level 75.7 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Average Terrain 49.4 meters
Height of Radiation Center Above Mean Sea Level 192.1 meters
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Is the applicant or any party to the application the holder of an attributable radio or television joint sales agreement or an attributable radio or television time brokerage agreement in the same market as the station subject to this application?
Applicant certifies that the proposed facility complies with the Commission's multiple ownership rules and cross-ownership rules.
Applicant certifies that the proposed facility: (a) does not present an issue under the Commission's policies relating to media interests of immediate family members; (b) complies with the Commission's polices relating to future ownership interests; (c) complies with the Commission's restrictions relating to the insulation and non-participation of non-party investors and creditors
Does the Applicant claim status as an "eligible entity," that is, an entity that qualifies as a small business under the Small Business Administration's size standards for its industry grouping (as set forth in 13 C.F.R. § 121-201), and holds: (a) 30 percent or more of the stock or partnership interests and more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation or partnership that will own the media outlet; or (b) 15 percent or more of the stock or partnership interests and more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation or partnership that will own the media outlet, provided that no other person or entity owns or controls more than 25 percent of the outstanding stock or partnership interests; or (c) more than 50 percent of the voting power of the corporation that will own the media outlet (if such corporation is a publicly traded company)?
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It will operate on the DTV channel for this station as established in the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice.
It will operate post-incentive auction facilities that do not expand the noise-limited service contour in any direction beyond that established by the post-incentive auction channel reassignment public notice.
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The antenna structure to be used by this facility has been registered by the Commission and will not require re-registration to support the proposed antenna, OR the FAA has previously determined that the proposed structure will not adversely affect safety in air navigation and this structure qualifies for later registration under the Commission's phased registration plan, OR the proposed installation on this structure does not require notification to the FAA pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 17.7.
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Katharine McPhee postpones tour due to 'extreme vocal fatigue'
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Katharine McPhee has postponed her planned fall tour. File Photo by Serena Xu-Ning/UPI
Katharine McPhee announced on Instagram that her planned Fall in Love tour will be postponed due to vocal fatigue.
"I've been so looking forward to getting on the road and seeing all your faces for my upcoming tour dates. It is with deep regret that I must postpone these live dates until next year," the singer said on Saturday.
"I've been struggling with extreme vocal fatigue these last few weeks following my broadway run and have been on strict vocal rest for weeks in hopes that I could be ready for this tour come November but it looks like my body is going to need a little more time," McPhee continued.
"I promise we will reschedule these dates and I'll be back to myself in a couple weeks. I hope you understand. Lots of love," she concluded.
McPhee's Fall in Love tour was set to begin on Nov. 3 in Kohler Wis. She would have also performed in cities such as Chicago, Boston and Ft. Lauderdale, among others.
McPhee made headlines in July after becoming engaged to David Foster.
I’ll see you all soon. 🖤
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Entertainment - U.S. Daily News: Katharine McPhee postpones tour due to 'extreme vocal fatigue'
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With a year left before we have to make a choice, the 2016 Presidential Election is in full swing. And boy, are we tired of the candidates already! Every night on the news is another story about how Donald Trump put his foot willingly in his mouth or how Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand the difference between a personal email account and a work email account. And, there are the debates.
Last night marked the second debate between the top 11 (out of 16) Republican candidates. For three excruciatingly long hours, the American public who weren’t watching Netflix listened as the 10 men and one women gave their opinion on how the US is broken and how the other guy can’t fix it.
What did we learn from the debate? Besides Jeb Bush smoked pot once 40 years ago, that is. Probably not a lot. Just the same old line all politicians have – the world is a mess and I’m going to straighten it out. Well yeah, ok, that’s swell. How are you going to do that? And then bluster, bluster, bluster. Look at Donald Trump, after all. He wants to build a wall and get rid of illegal immigrants…as soon as he figures out a plan.
If you think about it, many companies trying to sell you something have a very similar tactic. Nearly every day, your clients are receiving emails and phone calls from your competitors telling them how they can do your job better. Oh, and these guys are good. They can show you how you’re not ranking at the top of the search engines and how the pages on your website doesn’t have good enough content or even going so far to saying, “We can tell you’re struggling with your Twitter posts. Just look at these tweets!”
Pretty crummy, right? Think how the sitting president feels with all these Republican candidates saying, “He’s doing a terrible job! And we can do better!”
Cold calling is not illegal and there have been times when it can be a success. But at the same time, you shouldn’t have to insult the work of someone else. Or rather, insult and then don’t back up your claims. You say you can put out better tweets…give an example of your work with a current client. You think you can get the client to the top of the search engine rankings? Show how you would do things differently. Say that you can do better with website content? Present a before and after of one of your clients. Be full of integrity and character. How a person pitches you (just like in the presidential debates) is surely a direct reflection of how their company operates. People trust results!
And whatever you do, believe in the company (or candidate) that you pick. They have your future in your hands, after all.
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Creatures » … » Plants » … » Cacti » …
Creatures » Cellular organisms » Eukaryotes » Plants » Green plants » Land plants » Embryophytes » Vascular plant » Spermatophytes » Angiosperms » Eudicots » Superasterids » Caryophyllales » Cacti » Easter lily cactus «
Cardón
Echinopsis atacamensis (Phil.) H. Friedrich & G. D. Rowley
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Echinopsis atacamensis (cardón) is a species of tree in the family cacti. It is listed as near threatened by IUCN and in CITES Appendix II. It has photosynthetic stem leaves. It is a photoautotroph.
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900033
Definition: whole plant arborescent
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/nearThreatened
Definition: A taxon is Near Threatened when it has been evaluated against the criteria but does not qualify for Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable now, but is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.
Source: http://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/taxonredirect/152156
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/CITES_II
Definition: Appendix II lists species that are not necessarily now threatened with extinction but that may become so unless trade is closely controlled. It also includes so-called "look-alike species", i.e. species whose specimens in trade look like those of species listed for conservation reasons. International trade in specimens of Appendix-II species may be authorized by the granting of an export permit or re-export certificate. No import permit is necessary for these species under CITES (although a permit is needed in some countries that have taken stricter measures than CITES requires). Permits or certificates should only be granted if the relevant authorities are satisfied that certain conditions are met, above all that trade will not be detrimental to the survival of the species in the wild. (See Article IV of the Convention)
Source: https://www.speciesplus.net/#/taxon_concepts/27817/legal
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/photosyntheticStem
Definition: Stem photosynthesis is similar to C3 leaf photosynthesis and occurs in species inhabiting a diversity of high-light sites
Attribution: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012276460-8/50012-6
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000013
Definition: A process during which a living entity generates food from abiotic sources and captures energy from light.
URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#ConservationStatus
Definition: degree of conservation concern as assessed by a government agency or other recognized authority such as IUCN or CITES
CITES Appendix II
Attribution: https://www.cites.org/eng/app/index.php
Definition: A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.
leaf morphology
photosynthetic stem
leaf sheddability
Definition: A plant's disposition to lose leaves by a natural process
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001733
Definition: Evergreen (plant): A quality inhering in a plant by virtue of the bearer's disposition to retain foliage.
Attribution: [database_cross_reference: PATOC:GVG]
life cycle habit
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0002725
Definition: Determined for type of life cycle being annual, binneal, perennial etc.
Comment: The life cycle habit indicates the typical duration of an individual plant's life. Common values are annual, biennial, and perennial. Some plants have different durations depending on environment or location, so a plant can have more than one value.
Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span extends over more than two growing seasons, c.f. annual, biennial, ephemeral, of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic
Attribution: Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossaryi_p.html#perennial
photosynthetic pathway
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/photosyntheticPathway
Definition: the biochemical pathway a plant uses to gain carbon for growth and reproduction. Plants have evolved three photosynthetic pathways, each in response to distinct environmental conditions, resulting in differences in their ecological patterns of growth and distribution.
Comment: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-ecology-of-photosynthetic-pathways-15785165
CAM photosynthetic plant
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22283117
Definition: Crassulacean acid metabolism. A carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.[1] In a plant using full CAM, the stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce evapotranspiration, but open at night to collect carbon dioxide (CO2). The CO2 is stored as the four-carbon acid malate in vacuoles at night, and then in the daytime, the malate is transported to chloroplasts where it is converted back to CO2, which is then used during photosynthesis.
Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism
plant growth form
Definition: whole plant growth form
plant lifeform
Definition: whole plant lifeform
terrestrial plant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/terrestrialPlant
Definition: A terrestrial plant is a plant that grows on or in or from land. Other types of plants are aquatic (living in water), epiphytic (living on trees) and lithophytic (living in or on rocks)
Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_plant
seed dry mass
URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Seed_dry_mass
Definition: the mass of a seed, assessed after drying
trophic guild
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
photoautotroph
woodiness
URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&trait=Woodiness
Definition: a feature of the whole plant, defining the occurrence and distribution of wood (secondary xylem) along the stem
Definition: a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue. Wood is a structural cellular adaptation that allows woody plants to grow from above ground stems year after year, thus making some woody plants the largest and tallest terrestrial plants. Wood is usually primarily composed of xylem cells with cell walls made of cellulose and lignin
Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_plant
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of cardón
cardón includes 2 children:
Echinopsis atacamensis ssp. atacamensis
Echinopsis atacamensis ssp. pasacana (F. A. C. Weber ex Rümpler) G. Navarro
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Posted On Monday, 13 July 2015 19:08 Published by eProperty News
Developers are fetching record prices in a number of new luxury apartment buildings in sought-after areas of Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Sectional title values are testing new highs. Developers are fetching record prices in a number of new luxury apartment buildings in sought-after areas of Cape Town and Johannesburg. On the corner of Riebeeck and Long on Cape Town’s foreshore, seasoned developer John Rabie is transforming the old 23-storey Safmarine House into what will become the Swedish Rezidor group’s first apartment hotel in SA. The Louis Karol-designed skyscraper was Cape Town’s tallest building until Old Mutual completed its Portside last year.
The new five-star Radisson Blu Hotel and Residence will offer a mix of hotel rooms and privately owned apartments. The first 11 floors will comprise 215 hotel rooms while floors 12-21 will house 128 luxury one- and two-bedroom apartments. The top two floors of the building will boast 10 penthouses with price tags of between R10m and R35m. Ninety percent of the 128 apartments, priced from R1,63m to just under R5m, have already been sold scarcely five weeks after Rabie’s company, Signatura, in partnership with property owner Shaun Rai, officially launched the R1bn development. That translates into a rand per square metre rate of around R35000-R55000, which sets a new benchmark for Cape Town CBD apartment prices. It’s more than double the average R19227/m² sales price fetched for apartments changing hands in the city centre in 2014.
Buyers at the Radisson have the option to place their apartments in the hotel’s rental pool once it opens its doors next October. Rabie, also nonexecutive chairman of Rabie Properties, which was behind Cape Town’s multibillion-rand Century City and Westlake developments, ascribes the strong demand for the Radisson apartments to the building’s prime location. It’s within walking distance of the V&A Waterfront and a stone’s throw from the International Convention Centre and a number of corporate head offices such as Investec and FNB/WesBank.
Though prices achieved at the Radisson may well set a new record for the inner city, Rabie believes the Radisson still offers a value proposition, given that apartments at the nearby Marina at the V&A Waterfront typically trade for R70000/m² Johannesburg developers have seen an equally strong take-up of luxury apartments in recent months, particularly in the Sandton and Rosebank areas, where a number of new developments are under construction or being planned. Last week Amdec and Pam Golding Properties (PGP) launched the fourth residential phase at trendy mixed-use precinct Melrose Arch, with 119 one- and two-bedroom apartments for sale from R2,965m to just over R6m — the equivalent of R45000R48000/m², nearly double the R24000/m² asking price for new Melrose Arch apartments during the height of the 2006/2007 boom, according to PGP’s Peet Strauss. In October last year, Chaim Cohen’s Newcity Group launched the 12-storey Embassy Towers behind the US embassy, a block away from Sandton City on Empire Place in Sandhurst. About 70% of the units have already been sold off-plan despite prices of two-bedroom units starting at R6,5m. Three of the building’s five penthouses on the top floor, all with expansive views across the city, have been snapped up at between R21,5m and R28m.
The latter is a 500m² unit, including a 150m² roof garden and pool. Prices achieved at Embassy Towers translate into an average R45000-R50000/m², which Cohen believes sets a new record for Sandton apartment values. “When I first presented my price list to my partner and estate agent about a year ago they both thought I was mad, as nothing else was selling at this level yet.” But Cohen says Embassy Towers has sold successfully because the surge of middleand upper-management employees into Sandton on the back of large-scale office developments, coupled to increased traffic congestion, has created demand for luxury apartment living in a mixed-use environment. “We are also delivering a product in a prime location that is unrivalled in the Johannesburg market.”
Cohen says when Newcity first launched The Emperor, its first high-rise development in Sandton, 10 years ago, many doubted they would achieve the then price-breaking level of around R13500/m². “When The Emperor was completed two years later, buyers were reselling at R27000/m², double the purchase price.”
Cohen believes upper-end sectional title prices in Sandton may soon rival those of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and Atlantic Seaboard suburbs, where upperend apartments sell from R60000/m² to R100000/m². In fact, apartments at Legacy hotel group and Nedbank’s recently launched The Leonardo, near the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, are already fetching up to R80000/m². The R2bn Leonardo development at 75 Maude Street, near the Hotel Balalaika, will be Sandton’s tallest building, at 42 storeys or 150m.
The development will comprise nine floors of offices, 200 apartments, including eight 500m² penthouses, and The Leonardo Suite, a 2100m² penthouse, which is expected to beworth a staggering R180m on completion.
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Project acronym ACCELERATES
Project Acceleration in Extreme Shocks: from the microphysics to laboratory and astrophysics scenarios
Researcher (PI) Luis Miguel De Oliveira E Silva
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO
Summary What is the origin of cosmic rays, what are the dominant acceleration mechanisms in relativistic shocks, how do cosmic rays self-consistently influence the shock dynamics, how are relativistic collisionless shocks formed are longstanding scientific questions, closely tied to extreme plasma physics processes, and where a close interplay between the micro-instabilities and the global dynamics is critical. Relativistic shocks are closely connected with the propagation of intense streams of particles pervasive in many astrophysical scenarios. The possibility of exciting shocks in the laboratory will also be available very soon with multi-PW lasers or intense relativistic particle beams. Computational modeling is now established as a prominent research tool, by enabling the fully kinetic modeling of these systems for the first time. With the fast paced developments in high performance computing, the time is ripe for a focused research programme on simulation-based studies of relativistic shocks. This proposal therefore focuses on using self-consistent ab initio massively parallel simulations to study the physics of relativistic shocks, bridging the gap between the multidimensional microphysics of shock onset, formation, and propagation and the global system dynamics. Particular focus will be given to the shock acceleration mechanisms and the radiation signatures of the various physical processes, with the goal of solving some of the central questions in plasma/relativistic phenomena in astrophysics and in the laboratory, and opening new avenues between theoretical/massive computational studies, laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations.
What is the origin of cosmic rays, what are the dominant acceleration mechanisms in relativistic shocks, how do cosmic rays self-consistently influence the shock dynamics, how are relativistic collisionless shocks formed are longstanding scientific questions, closely tied to extreme plasma physics processes, and where a close interplay between the micro-instabilities and the global dynamics is critical. Relativistic shocks are closely connected with the propagation of intense streams of particles pervasive in many astrophysical scenarios. The possibility of exciting shocks in the laboratory will also be available very soon with multi-PW lasers or intense relativistic particle beams. Computational modeling is now established as a prominent research tool, by enabling the fully kinetic modeling of these systems for the first time. With the fast paced developments in high performance computing, the time is ripe for a focused research programme on simulation-based studies of relativistic shocks. This proposal therefore focuses on using self-consistent ab initio massively parallel simulations to study the physics of relativistic shocks, bridging the gap between the multidimensional microphysics of shock onset, formation, and propagation and the global system dynamics. Particular focus will be given to the shock acceleration mechanisms and the radiation signatures of the various physical processes, with the goal of solving some of the central questions in plasma/relativistic phenomena in astrophysics and in the laboratory, and opening new avenues between theoretical/massive computational studies, laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations.
Project acronym AXIAL.EC
Project PRINCIPLES OF AXIAL POLARITY-DRIVEN VASCULAR PATTERNING
Researcher (PI) Claudio Franco
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOAO LOBO ANTUNES
Summary The formation of a functional patterned vascular network is essential for development, tissue growth and organ physiology. Several human vascular disorders arise from the mis-patterning of blood vessels, such as arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms and diabetic retinopathy. Although blood flow is recognised as a stimulus for vascular patterning, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms that regulate endothelial cell behaviour in response to flow and promote vascular patterning. Recently, we uncovered that endothelial cells migrate extensively in the immature vascular network, and that endothelial cells polarise against the blood flow direction. Here, we put forward the hypothesis that vascular patterning is dependent on the polarisation and migration of endothelial cells against the flow direction, in a continuous flux of cells going from low-shear stress to high-shear stress regions. We will establish new reporter mouse lines to observe and manipulate endothelial polarity in vivo in order to investigate how polarisation and coordination of endothelial cells movements are orchestrated to generate vascular patterning. We will manipulate cell polarity using mouse models to understand the importance of cell polarisation in vascular patterning. Also, using a unique zebrafish line allowing analysis of endothelial cell polarity, we will perform a screen to identify novel regulators of vascular patterning. Finally, we will explore the hypothesis that defective flow-dependent endothelial polarisation underlies arteriovenous malformations using two genetic models. This integrative approach, based on high-resolution imaging and unique experimental models, will provide a unifying model defining the cellular and molecular principles involved in vascular patterning. Given the physiological relevance of vascular patterning in health and disease, this research plan will set the basis for the development of novel clinical therapies targeting vascular disorders.
The formation of a functional patterned vascular network is essential for development, tissue growth and organ physiology. Several human vascular disorders arise from the mis-patterning of blood vessels, such as arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms and diabetic retinopathy. Although blood flow is recognised as a stimulus for vascular patterning, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms that regulate endothelial cell behaviour in response to flow and promote vascular patterning. Recently, we uncovered that endothelial cells migrate extensively in the immature vascular network, and that endothelial cells polarise against the blood flow direction. Here, we put forward the hypothesis that vascular patterning is dependent on the polarisation and migration of endothelial cells against the flow direction, in a continuous flux of cells going from low-shear stress to high-shear stress regions. We will establish new reporter mouse lines to observe and manipulate endothelial polarity in vivo in order to investigate how polarisation and coordination of endothelial cells movements are orchestrated to generate vascular patterning. We will manipulate cell polarity using mouse models to understand the importance of cell polarisation in vascular patterning. Also, using a unique zebrafish line allowing analysis of endothelial cell polarity, we will perform a screen to identify novel regulators of vascular patterning. Finally, we will explore the hypothesis that defective flow-dependent endothelial polarisation underlies arteriovenous malformations using two genetic models. This integrative approach, based on high-resolution imaging and unique experimental models, will provide a unifying model defining the cellular and molecular principles involved in vascular patterning. Given the physiological relevance of vascular patterning in health and disease, this research plan will set the basis for the development of novel clinical therapies targeting vascular disorders.
Project acronym BlackBox
Project A collaborative platform to document performance composition: from conceptual structures in the backstage to customizable visualizations in the front-end
Researcher (PI) Carla Maria De Jesus Fernandes
Host Institution (HI) FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS E HUMANAS DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
Summary The global performing arts community is requiring innovative systems to: a) document, transmit and preserve the knowledge contained in choreographic-dramaturgic practices; b) assist artists with tools to facilitate their compositional processes, preferably on a collaborative basis. The existing digital archives of performing arts mostly function as conventional e-libraries, not allowing higher degrees of interactivity or active user intervention. They rarely contemplate accessible video annotation tools or provide relational querying functionalities based on artist-driven conceptual principles or idiosyncratic ontologies. This proposal endeavours to fill that gap and create a new paradigm for the documentation of performance composition. It aims at the analysis of artists’ unique conceptual structures, by combining the empirical insights of contemporary creators with research theories from Multimodal Communication and Digital Media studies. The challenge is to design a model for a web-based collaborative platform enabling both a robust representation of performance composition methods and novel visualization technologies to support it. This can be done by analysing recurring body movement patterns and by fostering online contributions of users (a.o. performers and researchers) to the multimodal annotations stored in the platform. To accomplish this goal, two subjacent components must be developed: 1. the production of a video annotation-tool to allow artists in rehearsal periods to take notes over video in real-time and share them via the collaborative platform; 2. the linguistic analysis of a corpus of invited artists’ multimodal materials as source for the extraction of indicative conceptual structures, which will guide the architectural logics and interface design of the collaborative platform software.The outputs of these two components will generate critical case-studies to help understanding the human mind when engaged in cultural production processes.
The global performing arts community is requiring innovative systems to: a) document, transmit and preserve the knowledge contained in choreographic-dramaturgic practices; b) assist artists with tools to facilitate their compositional processes, preferably on a collaborative basis. The existing digital archives of performing arts mostly function as conventional e-libraries, not allowing higher degrees of interactivity or active user intervention. They rarely contemplate accessible video annotation tools or provide relational querying functionalities based on artist-driven conceptual principles or idiosyncratic ontologies. This proposal endeavours to fill that gap and create a new paradigm for the documentation of performance composition. It aims at the analysis of artists’ unique conceptual structures, by combining the empirical insights of contemporary creators with research theories from Multimodal Communication and Digital Media studies. The challenge is to design a model for a web-based collaborative platform enabling both a robust representation of performance composition methods and novel visualization technologies to support it. This can be done by analysing recurring body movement patterns and by fostering online contributions of users (a.o. performers and researchers) to the multimodal annotations stored in the platform. To accomplish this goal, two subjacent components must be developed: 1. the production of a video annotation-tool to allow artists in rehearsal periods to take notes over video in real-time and share them via the collaborative platform; 2. the linguistic analysis of a corpus of invited artists’ multimodal materials as source for the extraction of indicative conceptual structures, which will guide the architectural logics and interface design of the collaborative platform software.The outputs of these two components will generate critical case-studies to help understanding the human mind when engaged in cultural production processes.
Project acronym C.o.C.O.
Project Circuits of con-specific observation
Researcher (PI) Marta De Aragao Pacheco Moita
Summary A great deal is known about the neural basis of associative fear learning. However, many animal species are able to use social cues to recognize threats, a defence mechanism that may be less costly than learning from self-experience. We have previously shown that rats perceive the cessation of movement-evoked sound as a signal of danger and its resumption as a signal of safety. To study transmission of fear between rats we assessed the behavior of an observer while witnessing a demonstrator rat display fear responses. With this paradigm we will take advantage of the accumulated knowledge on learned fear to investigate the neural mechanisms by which the social environment regulates defense behaviors. We will unravel the neural circuits involved in detecting the transition from movement-evoked sound to silence. Moreover, since observer rats previously exposed to shock display observational freezing, but naive observer rats do not, we will determine the mechanism by which prior experience contribute to observational freezing. To this end, we will focus on the amygdala, crucial for fear learning and expression, and its auditory inputs, combining immunohistochemistry, pharmacology and optogenetics. Finally, as the detection of and responses to threat are often inherently social, we will study these behaviors in the context of large groups of individuals. To circumvent the serious limitations in using large populations of rats, we will resort to a different model system. The fruit fly is the ideal model system, as it is both amenable to the search for the neural mechanism of behavior, while at the same time allowing the study of the behavior of large groups of individuals. We will develop behavioral tasks, where conditioned demonstrator flies signal danger to other naïve ones. These experiments unravel how the brain uses defense behaviors as signals of danger and how it contributes to defense mechanisms at the population level.
A great deal is known about the neural basis of associative fear learning. However, many animal species are able to use social cues to recognize threats, a defence mechanism that may be less costly than learning from self-experience. We have previously shown that rats perceive the cessation of movement-evoked sound as a signal of danger and its resumption as a signal of safety. To study transmission of fear between rats we assessed the behavior of an observer while witnessing a demonstrator rat display fear responses. With this paradigm we will take advantage of the accumulated knowledge on learned fear to investigate the neural mechanisms by which the social environment regulates defense behaviors. We will unravel the neural circuits involved in detecting the transition from movement-evoked sound to silence. Moreover, since observer rats previously exposed to shock display observational freezing, but naive observer rats do not, we will determine the mechanism by which prior experience contribute to observational freezing. To this end, we will focus on the amygdala, crucial for fear learning and expression, and its auditory inputs, combining immunohistochemistry, pharmacology and optogenetics. Finally, as the detection of and responses to threat are often inherently social, we will study these behaviors in the context of large groups of individuals. To circumvent the serious limitations in using large populations of rats, we will resort to a different model system. The fruit fly is the ideal model system, as it is both amenable to the search for the neural mechanism of behavior, while at the same time allowing the study of the behavior of large groups of individuals. We will develop behavioral tasks, where conditioned demonstrator flies signal danger to other naïve ones. These experiments unravel how the brain uses defense behaviors as signals of danger and how it contributes to defense mechanisms at the population level.
Project acronym CAPSAHARA
Project CRITICAL APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND ISLAMIC MILITANCY IN THE WESTERN SAHARAN REGION
Researcher (PI) Francisco Manuel Machado da Rosa da Silva Freire
Host Institution (HI) CENTRO EM REDE DE INVESTIGACAO EM ANTROPOLOGIA
Summary This project proposes an analysis of the reconfigurations established in the socio-political vocabulary of the western Saharan region – southern Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania – from the “post-empire” to the contemporary period. The project should produce an analysis of 1) the social and political structures shared in the region, 2) the local variations of those structures, based on case studies, 3) their specific configurations, based on social markers such as gender, age, and class, 4) the use of those structures in different historical periods. All these will be under theoretical and ethnographic scrutiny in order to achieve its main goal: 5) to understand the recent articulation of the social and political structures of the Western Saharan region, with broader and often exogenous political vocabularies. The methodology used in this project is based on readings associated with different social sciences, with a particular focus on anthropology, history, and political science. The members of the research team, with experience and linguistic competence in the different geographies involved in this project, are expected to conduct original field enquiries, enabling a significant enhancement of the theoretical and ethnographic knowledge associated with this region. The project’s main goal is to analyse the types of interplay established between pre-modern socio-political traditions and contemporary political expression and activism, in a particularly sensitive – and academically disregarded – region. Its effort to integrate a context that is usually compartmentalized, as well as to put together a group of researchers generally “isolated” in their particular areas of expertise, geographies, or nations, should also be valued. The project’s results should enable the different contexts under study to be integrated into the wider maps of current scientific research, providing, at the same time a dissemination of its outputs to an extended audience.
This project proposes an analysis of the reconfigurations established in the socio-political vocabulary of the western Saharan region – southern Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania – from the “post-empire” to the contemporary period. The project should produce an analysis of 1) the social and political structures shared in the region, 2) the local variations of those structures, based on case studies, 3) their specific configurations, based on social markers such as gender, age, and class, 4) the use of those structures in different historical periods. All these will be under theoretical and ethnographic scrutiny in order to achieve its main goal: 5) to understand the recent articulation of the social and political structures of the Western Saharan region, with broader and often exogenous political vocabularies. The methodology used in this project is based on readings associated with different social sciences, with a particular focus on anthropology, history, and political science. The members of the research team, with experience and linguistic competence in the different geographies involved in this project, are expected to conduct original field enquiries, enabling a significant enhancement of the theoretical and ethnographic knowledge associated with this region. The project’s main goal is to analyse the types of interplay established between pre-modern socio-political traditions and contemporary political expression and activism, in a particularly sensitive – and academically disregarded – region. Its effort to integrate a context that is usually compartmentalized, as well as to put together a group of researchers generally “isolated” in their particular areas of expertise, geographies, or nations, should also be valued. The project’s results should enable the different contexts under study to be integrated into the wider maps of current scientific research, providing, at the same time a dissemination of its outputs to an extended audience.
Project acronym CELLFITNESS
Project Active Mechanisms of Cell Selection: From Cell Competition to Cell Fitness
Researcher (PI) Eduardo Moreno Lampaya
Summary The molecular mechanisms that mediate cell competition, cell fitness and cell selection is gaining interest. With innovative approaches, molecules and ground-breaking hypothesis, this field of research can help understand several biological processes such as development, cancer and tissue degeneration. The project has 3 clear and ambitious objectives: 1. We propose to identify all the key genes mediating cell competition and their molecular mechanisms. In order to reach this objective we will use data from two whole genome screens in Drosophila where we have identified 7 key genes. By the end of this CoG grant, we should have no big gaps in our knowledge of how slow dividing cells are recognised and eliminated in Drosophila. 2. In addition, we will explore how general the cell competition pathways are and how they can impact biomedical research, with a focus in cancer and tissue degeneration. The interest in cancer is based on experiments in Drosophila and mice where we and others have found that an active process of cell selection determines tumour growth. Preliminary results suggest that the pathways identified do not only play important roles in the elimination of slow dividing cells, but also during cancer initiation and progression. 3. We will further explore the role of cell competition in neuronal selection, specially during neurodegeneration, development of the retina and adult brain regeneration in Drosophila. This proposal is of an interdisciplinary nature because it takes a basic cellular mechanism (the genetic pathways that select cells within tissues) and crosses boundaries between different fields of research: development, cancer, regeneration and tissue degeneration. In this ERC CoG proposal, we are committed to continue our efforts from basic science to biomedical approaches. The phenomena of cell competition and its participating genes have the potential to discover novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies against cancer and tissue degeneration.
The molecular mechanisms that mediate cell competition, cell fitness and cell selection is gaining interest. With innovative approaches, molecules and ground-breaking hypothesis, this field of research can help understand several biological processes such as development, cancer and tissue degeneration. The project has 3 clear and ambitious objectives: 1. We propose to identify all the key genes mediating cell competition and their molecular mechanisms. In order to reach this objective we will use data from two whole genome screens in Drosophila where we have identified 7 key genes. By the end of this CoG grant, we should have no big gaps in our knowledge of how slow dividing cells are recognised and eliminated in Drosophila. 2. In addition, we will explore how general the cell competition pathways are and how they can impact biomedical research, with a focus in cancer and tissue degeneration. The interest in cancer is based on experiments in Drosophila and mice where we and others have found that an active process of cell selection determines tumour growth. Preliminary results suggest that the pathways identified do not only play important roles in the elimination of slow dividing cells, but also during cancer initiation and progression. 3. We will further explore the role of cell competition in neuronal selection, specially during neurodegeneration, development of the retina and adult brain regeneration in Drosophila. This proposal is of an interdisciplinary nature because it takes a basic cellular mechanism (the genetic pathways that select cells within tissues) and crosses boundaries between different fields of research: development, cancer, regeneration and tissue degeneration. In this ERC CoG proposal, we are committed to continue our efforts from basic science to biomedical approaches. The phenomena of cell competition and its participating genes have the potential to discover novel biomarkers and therapeutic strategies against cancer and tissue degeneration.
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An indispensable companion to the classic Chinese book of wisdom known as the I Ching. I Ching Readings is the only book ever published that shares the real-life stories of people who have consulted the I Ching-their questions, the answers they received, and the events that followed. Wu Wei's informative stories show how the I Ching unerringly guides people to great success-and how misinterpreted guidance can lead lives off track. In this unique work, you will also learn how to understand and interpret answers you receive from the I Ching and, just as importantly, how to phrase your questions to obtain the best possible answers. "It is a great comfort," says Wu Wei, "to know that no matter how monumental our problem, there is a solution to it that will put us in a better situation than we were before the problem arose."
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Demand for North American bear parts fuels black market activity in Canada: expert
September 1, 2019 December 23, 2019 Supertrooper Causes, News, Wildlife
Black market demand for bear parts like gallbladders and paws has led to poaching of these animals in Saskatchewan and Canada, according to one man who’s dedicated to cracking down on wildlife trafficking.
“Imagine that you have somethingthat has gone extinct just about everywhere else in the world but there’s only one place that it’s left, and this thing is very much coveted for its medicinal properties,” said Sheldon Jordan, who heads up wildlife enforcement for Environment and Climate Change Canada. “This is the story behind the black bear.”
A Saskatchewan woman has been charged with seven counts of trafficking animals after allegedly selling bear parts on the black market. (CBC)
Bear trafficking has come onto the public radar after a 55-year-old Saskatchewan woman was charged with seven counts of trafficking bear parts.
Jordan said demand often comes from Asian communities — both expatriates in North America and those living in Asia — but is not limited to them alone.
Bears’ gallbladders are actually proven to have medicinal properties, as these create an acid helpful to the human immune system, he said.
“The fact that it can be synthesized chemically doesn’t matter. There are some people who really want the wild thing,” he said.
He said that, for this reason, all the provinces in Canada have either outlawed or highly limited bear gallbladder possession.
Hunters who bring down a bear must leave the gallbladder in the gut pile, but some may take it and sell it to a middleman for $50 or $100, where it can be eventually sold to a buying community for thousands of dollars, he said.
Bear paws are also in demand, often for use in soup, while the baculum — or penis bone — is also sought after for its perceived medicinal benefit, Jordan said.
A woman in Saskatchewan has been charged with trafficking bear parts on the black market. Sheldon Jordan, director general of wildlife enforcement for Environment and Climate Change Canada, breaks down the black market and explains the demand for Canada’s wild black bears.
Sheldon Jordan holds a confiscated rhinoceros horn in Environment Canada’s Ottawa-area evidence room. The director general of wildlife enforcement for Environment and Climate Change Canada says wildlife crime is a huge source of funds for organized crime. (CBC News)
Jordan said wildlife trafficking is the fourth largest illegal market in the world, worth roughly $205 billion.
Jordan’s federal agency deals with international trafficking, but he said his department works closely with provincial conservation officers that are checking permits and taking apart organized trafficking networks.
Both also rely on the role of the public in fighting trafficking, and call on people to report, even anonymously, when they see poaching, he said.
“It really, really does help us in law enforcement get a hand up on the poachers who are taking our common wealth.”
This article was first published by CBC News on 22 August 2019.
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humans are such assholes leave these animals alone & sell your own parts!!!!!!!!!!!
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Appallingly heartless, ignorant,and beyond comprehension.this is the 21st century and the troglodyte populace are still back in the Stone Age.
Sue Lesmond
These disgusting animal abusing/murdering cretins most definitely need to e exterminated!
Isn’t it typical that an overpopulated country like China is willing to push wild animals to extinction for their body parts for so-called medicinal uses. No amount of rhino horn, elephant tusk, tiger bones or bear gall bladders will save them when the anti-biotic resistant bugs take hold – which they inevitably will – the sooner the better.
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Fox’s New Faces: Ms. Brianna Wolk
Cassidy Waigand
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Brianna Wolk is halfway through her first year of teaching College Prep Geometry, Geometry, and Algebra 2B at Fox High School. After receiving the A+ Scholarship, Wolk said she attended Jefferson College for two years and then went to Missouri State University. While there, she majored in secondary education, focusing on mathematics.
While this is Wolk’s first year at Fox High School, she has taught at another school in the past. “This is my third-year teaching overall,” she said “I was at Poplar Bluff for the previous two years.” So far though, she enjoys her first year at Fox. “It’s gone by really fast so far, so I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I like it a lot,” she said.
Wolk said that her favorite part of teaching math in general is that “every so often there is always a kid that walks in that says, ‘I don’t like math. I’ve never been good at math’ and I get to change that kid’s mind, and I think that’s really cool.” The hardest aspect of her job though, “would probably be trying to help the unmotivated students that I really want to help, but they don’t really care.”
Overall though, Wolk’s favorite thing about Fox is the people she works with. “The math department is great. We collaborate a lot. We share with each other a lot, and I definitely don’t feel like I’m in this alone because I can just go next door, or down the hall and ask one of my colleagues, ‘hey what do you think about this’ and it’s just a really great thing.”
At the end of the year, Wolk hopes that her students learn “that if they don’t get it on the first try to not just stop trying. I want them to realize that it’s okay if they make mistakes on the first try and it’s okay if they make mistakes on the second try. Just keep going because you can eventually get it.”
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Season 12 (Final Season)
Season & Episode Discussion
1211 'The Paintball Scattering' (January 3)
episodes 1211 'The Paintball Scattering' (January 3)
By Tripper, December 11, 2018 in Season 12 (Final Season)
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6 hours ago, Chrismo said:
Also i’m Not understanding why she went from a boyfriend to wanting an arranged marriage.
She said she went for the idea of an arranged marriage because things didn't work out with past boyfriends.
joyceraye 6547
10 hours ago, Die Zimtzicke said:
Even as these things go, their pre-engagement courtship was rather on the short side. At least they know what they're dating for, so it shouldn't take too long before they decide either way. Anu is used to being her own boss in life and not in the habit of consulting anyone about whom she sees. She perhaps wouldn't think of telling Raj her ex was coming round. I think having more than one person on a security doorcam is a good idea and not spying, BTW.
6 hours ago, joyceraye said:
Anu is used to being her own boss in life and not in the habit of consulting anyone about whom she sees.
And Raj is not used to being his own boss and definitely in the habit of consulting everyone who knows about who he sees, what he does, how he lives etc. Which is one thing I like about Anu. She will tell him what to do with his life the way he's used to having someone tell him what to do and she's got to be better at budgeting than his parents or Sheldon. I liked Lucy with him because I thought they had a lot in common, but they both had the same problems. That's why it didn't work. He and Anu have a lot in common but they don't have the same problems.
JohnPhD 1724
On 1/4/2019 at 10:50 AM, Itwasdestined said:
I think we got as much paintball action as the early season episodes. ( and Howard does get a lot of sex as a result of the game!)
Yes, it was in the same shed that Howard first had sex with Leslie W. - I take it that's what you're referring to? I found the repetion rather tedious.
On 1/4/2019 at 11:51 AM, bfm said:
As for Shamy, I've started getting bored with them before theg got married, because there's just too much of them, for me.
God, yes.
It looks as tho the programme-makers want to end the series with the Worst Season Ever: challenging, but on this form they can do it. Their main weapon is Amy: she's just so boring to watch, and in this ep she's on screen for more than half the time. Normally scenes are cut quite short, but Shamy scenes are left at least a minute after they should have been cut. And the Super Asymmetry story line is one of the worst ever. Utter nonsense, and a deliberate insult to anyone with the slightest interest in physics. I read long ago that TBBT had a physics consultant to make sure things like the equations on whiteboards made sense. He must have quit long ago. And the very idea that a couple of lines scrawled in lipstick on a mirror by a neuroscientist on her wedding day could "revolutionise physics" is grotesque. And smug Amy lapping it up is just horrible.
Apart from that: Paintball? Again?
What happened to poor old Stuart? The guy who could once date Penny?
Stephen Hawking 6834
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Stuart would have to be crazy, not to want to live with Denise.
She's beautiful, she's sexy, and she's into comic books.
That's the Nerd hat-trick.
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On 3/2/2019 at 3:02 PM, Stephen Hawking said:
But if he lives with Denise, he'll be expected to help pay the bills. While right now he lives for free at Howard and Bernadette's!
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Blow after blow sent Pumki volleying back and forth as Orenji unloaded on her.
The damage was more distraction than anything else – pain and an inability to find focus more than anything she suspected would be permanent. Still, she can’t spar if she can’t even stand still for two seconds without being punched, kicked, kneed or elbowed.
He was screaming at her; chastising. Saiyan heritage or not, it appeared her human half wasn’t passing muster from her opponent’s point of view.
It was after suffering a hammer-blow to the face that she saw stars… a blur… a golden glow that grew hotter until her vision cleared and was revealed to be not gold, but an orange aura enveloping a source of great ki – Lord Polar.
“Uh… hey, boss…” Pumki winced out between ragged breaths, her hands cupped over her abdomen. “What brings you… out here? Want a piece of this too?” she laughed through the pain.
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RE: Dragon Ball Xenoverse OOC
Yeah… I’m not sure what the yellowish glow is, but it’s definitely not my hair.
And as for a Power Goal, Pumki doesn’t really have one. She’s not focused so much on a finish line of power as making Time Patroller, and then seeing what’s next.
Pumki felt like little more than a child’s rag-doll being tossed aside. Ki blasts concussed against her chest and a flurry of blows snapped her head back and forth with impacts that made it difficult to focus, even for a saiyan. She grit her teeth in frustration and went fully defensive, forearms barring across her face and suffering the brunt of Orenji’s ki volley.
Wait… did he just roar “Roar” at me? Maybe it was a technique she hadn’t learned yet… not like she didn’t have a penchant for screaming out the flashy names of her powers too.
After the third impact, Pumki draw ki around her to form an orange-tinted variation of Gohan’s Energy Barrier technique to ward of the rest of Orenji’s volley.
She knew it wouldn’t last long, but would at least give her a second to catch a second wind.
Pumki’s a fish out of water. Her main goal at the moment is to become a Time Patroller, because the Kais took her in and she really doesn’t have anywhere else to go. Her long term goal is to regain her memory.
Shit! thought Pumki as Orenji suddenly charged her. So much for pleasantries and warm ups! The tiny saiyan girl vaulted back off the seat of her monocycle, arcing in a crescent through the desert air before landing cat-like on her feet. Her hands smoothed down her skirt out of habit before curling into fists before her eyes.
“Wait!” She said, realizing her glasses were still on, then plucks them from her face and rests them atop her cycle.
“Okay… game on.” A halo of ki energy erupted around Pumki before launching herself at Orenji. Her fists and feet alternated in a flurry of combinations… cunning, precise, with needle-point accuracy. The technique of a warrior who had spent a lifetime, or more, training… but the speed and power of a relative neophyte.
((OOC: I place Pumki’s power level similar to Goku’s at the start of the Ginyu Saga.))
Pumki pulled her head back in contemplation as Orenji boasted, challenged and enticed the saiyan girl.
“Oh, umm… hi,” she smiled in thought while still straddling her monocycle. “I’m Pumki. Umm, no – I didn’t drive out here looking to spar; just wanted to check out the sights. Figured there might be a fun place to camp for the night.” She glanced around at the rising mesas surrounding them, then back to Orenji. "And I’m afraid I already have a trainer and mentor. You probably know him… he’s another of the big-shots around the Time Patrollers by name of Polar. Lord Polar.
“As for sparring anyway…” she shrugged a little. “I suppose a little exercise couldn’t hurt.”
Thanks, Rose.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the electric engine of Punki’s monocycle hummed as she drove into the desert wasteland of Conton City. A large plume of dirt trailed its single wheel as she turned towards a mesa in the distance. Getting up it without the advantage of flight may be a tad tricky, but she was certain she could climb it if it came to that. It’d be well worth it, she reasoned, to perch her camp for the night atop it and get a great view of the city proper’s night skyline in the distance.
But shortly after entering the heart of the desert, she spotted flashes on the horizon. Ki blasts? They certainly were – she could sense their energy even from this distance! Fights were common in Conton, more often just sparring than anything malicious, but better check it out to be sure.
Pumki twisted back the throttle of her cycle as far as it would go, rocketing off past a low rise and into a clearing where she found not two people dueling, but just a single guy alone in the wastes.
She slowed her approach, glancing around at the tell-tale pock marks of ki blasts, then pulled to a stop in front him.
“Heya!” the tiny, orange-haired girl chirped and pried the large driving goggles from her face. “What’s going on out here – everything oka~~?” Recognition hit her mid-sentence. “Hey! You go to Orange Star, right?”
((OOC: @Beet, Gamerhotboy, whatever else you call yourself… fuck off. @Cookiekittyuke – can you do something about this?))
Pumki was only a few short steps outside the school when one of her fellow saiyans took flight over her head and towards the apartments. Am I the only one who still hasn’t earned her flight license?? she sighed to herself while plucking a capsule from her belt. It was ridiculous… she had the power of flight, and most the people circling overhead where over-powered, violent maniacs, so why was it okay for them to fly but not her?? Stupid rules… She tossed the capsule to the ground and summoned her monocycle in a puff of white smoke.
This is getting embarrassing… she groaned as the electric motor loudly hummed her departure.
At least it was the weekend, and without any assignments (and Polar out doing super cool Time Patroller things that probably included punching super cool bad guys in the face), Pumki was left with an empty weekend. Maybe a trip was called for… a little sight-seeing to the northern expanse of Conton that she hadn’t visited before due to the aforementioned stupid no flying rules.
She packed a bag (and, well, an entire house courtesy of Capsule Corp), strapped a pair of driving goggles to her face and rode out past the north gates towards the Wasteland (ooc: where, I assume, Orenji still is… feel free to interact as I drive through on my little electric monocycle).
CONTON CITY
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Two Weeks Later
Pumki sat in her seat trying her best to focus on Miss Hamilton’s lecture on Namekian Ancient History, but that was a battle she was destined to lose.
She was a saiyan… or half-saiyan according to Doctor Curry… and had never been to Namek. Probably never would. Plus, all this sitting and listening wasn’t her style anyway. She wanted to be out there… somewhere… somewhen… doing something that was actually productive and likely involved punching someone who deserved it.
She was more than a little grateful when the bell chimed the close to the class day and she shouldered her backpack.
“Don’t forget your essays are due tomorrow!” Pumki winced at the sound of Miss Hamilton reminding the the students as they exited. She was done with hers. Mostly. Kind of. But she could worry about that later. For the moment she was just interested in getting out of the school and into the city. And hoping to get a summons from the Kais or Polar before too long, because this school stuff was going to be the death of her!
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State Of The Program
By geaux_sioux, December 1, 2019 in Football
Rate Bubbas UND Tenure
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1. Bubbas Grade
Well that was embarrassing. Where does the program currently sit?
1. Our WR group is too slow/white. It just is what it is. Our WR does not look D1. Tall slow white boys can ball but if that’s all you have it makes it really hard to get separation against even an average secondary.
2. OL too small. This position group has been a disaster under Bubba.
3. DL too small. This position has also been a huge problem under Bubba. You just can’t run a 3-4 with smallish DL. We either need to recruit DL with body types like what Weber State has or we need to change to a 4 man front.
4. Clock management..... that’s all I need to say about that.
5. Our RB group was neglected for 3 years and it shows. Somehow all these other teams can find dynamic big strong backs. We haven’t had one in a while, that needs to change.
6. OLB depth? Not good enough. We only went a legit 3 deep this year.
7. Safety play has been poor since Reyes left. Bubba has really struggled with safeties for a guy who used to coach secondaries.
8. Overall we lack size and athleticism. Is this SC coach’s fault or is it recruiting? Or both?
Personally I feel like Bubba has done what he’s capable of at UND. I don’t know about you but I’m not ok with barely making the playoffs and getting our !@#$ pushed in and that being considered the second best season under him.
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29 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
I think you are on the right track on most points... Especially recruiting more athletic WR's and bigger linemen. However, I think our strength training is the worst in the country. I have been in quite a few programs and talked to many players across the country. I also dealt with the current st coach. He is stuck in the 1970's and has no idea what it takes to be a top tier athlete now days. Doesn't even believe in stretching... (Hence all of our injuries). Believes you should work out while injured or thinks you are a pu***. Was one of the reasons I almost didn't go to UND because he seemed like the biggest negative when I went on the OV back in the day. Doesn't do position specific lifting either. Linemen do the same lifts as receivers... Let that sink in.
UNDhoops
Disagree about the RBs but the rest is pretty spot on. I’m no football expert in terms of development and stuff but anyone who is in middle school could do better clock management
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Someone smarter than me should go get Chaves' tweet... He still supports Bubba and can't wait to continue to build with him.
bincitysioux
Location:North Dakota
IMO, #4 and #8 on that list are the most glaring and obvious things that stand out to my untrained eyes on a game to game basis.
Clock management has been a significant issue in many games this season, and at times in previous seasons. It has literally cost us wins from time to time.
I've been harping on the strength program for a few years. Anyone who watches a lot of the games either in person or on TV can attest that there are few games where we appear to be the bigger, stronger, or faster team. This has been the case since moving to DI 12 years ago. Sure, I agree that recruiting plays a huge part in this and can always be better as well. But we have had the same strength coach for two different coaching staffs with similar results.
#3 is the next biggest issue in my eyes. This defense hasn't been getting it done in recent seasons. It's fun to watch at times when they terrorize the QB or force a turnover, and that is all great, but at the end of the day they often give up a lot of yards and a lot of points. It isn't a new trend, but for whatever reason, the Defensive Coordinator has normally been given a pass from most on this website (who are often pretty critical of just about everyone else). The 3-4 is possibly an outdated base defense and probably why we are one of maybe 5 teams in the country that run it. Chicago's "46 Defense" was also awesome in the 80's but nobody runs that anymore either.
I'd like this program to be farther along that it is at this point just like everyone else. But being a realist and considering the financial aspects, it would be pretty incredible for Chaves to make a coaching change at this point. When you look at it from the Athletic Director's perspective he probably sees that overall the program is in better shape than it was when Bubba took over. Not in great shape, but better shape. It's been trending upward since the disastrous 2017 season. Playoffs in 2 of last 4 years, and just outside the playoffs in 2 other years. 4 winning seasons vs 2 losing seasons under Bubba.
Again, I'm not advocating one way or the other, just trying explain how I think that Bill Chaves is probably assessing the situation.
31 minutes ago, Hawks_Fan_24 said:
So if Baukol doesn’t believe in stretching why does he have the football team stretch?
What stretching are you talking about? The warm up before practice? I don't really call that stretching. He recently implemented new concepts before weights, but that was due to Coach Fantuzzi (great coach!). He does not believe in static stretching. This was told directly to me by him. So that would be a question for him. We could definitely use a better strength coach. He does not know how to develop fast, explosive, and durable athletes imo. He knows strong... I remember when we did our 40 times and how awful they were even by our best.
"Where does the program currently sit?"
If there's a list of potentially 8 areas that are deficient within a program that's been under the leadership of a head coach for 6 years IMO there's one thing that needs to be addressed immediately.
Is this team ready for 2020 MVFC play? OP's 1-8 says not. MVFC is a very physical conference. Hawks were out-physicaled today by a Southland Conference team.
Maybe Bubba is not the problem. Maybe its the SC coach and program not building up recruits to size, speed, physicality and endurance during their first year or two in the program is the primary problem. Bubba can only put the players on the field that come through the SC program, assuming Bubba and staff recruit quality prospects.
Agree about SC and I think it's time to rethink the 3/4 D.
Bubba is here for at least 2 years.
Change needs to come in those around him. Freund was a nice pickup. Not his fault QB has happy feet or receivers can't make tough catches or OLine is great at pass protection, but can't open holes.
Mama Sue
Well does anyone listen to the GOBC, fans, or the public? We seem to have wonderful recruits and then there is a disconnect... not sure where.
Last week I wanted to order 2 cases of beer and 4 pizzas and lock us 7 council members in a room to duke it out. I mean seriously let’s make some decisions and stand behind them... same with this. Determine a focus, put $$$ behind it an get ‘er done. You know people are PAID to do this...no consultants... just make decisions...
8 minutes ago, shep said:
Tackling is also right up there as a concern.
It seemed like shoring up a few minor details like tackling and clock management would have been worth an extra win this season.
He had us do plenty of stretching. And for the 40 times are you considering the measurement tools and how they compare to the combine and hand times?
2 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
It seems you've always been a bit of a supporter of Baukol. Do you think it's more of a diet and player effort/focus (on weights) issue? Genuinely asking.
2 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
1. Ahhhhhh yeah.
2. Yup.
3. Gotta get some fatties. Need a transfer or JUCO kid to help inside.
4. This area is a God damn embarrassment.
5. Need a bell cow. Where do you get one?
6. A heartbeat away from disaster.
7. Do you move Holm to safety with Fort being a starter next year? He's intelligent, cocky, and could make a difference IMHO. Good corner though.
8. See SDSU, NDSU,
My biggest concern going into next season is the line. And boy does Tommy need the weight room. I think the kid can play, and would run a great RPO offense with some speed at WR.
nd1sufan
49 minutes ago, shep said:
As someone who is on the outside looking in, one thing UND lacks is athleticism and SPEED. I think it was obvious that UND was outmatched in the speed department today vs Nicholls. UND didn't have any skill position players that could separate from Nicholl's players. It appears that the WR commits this year don't address the fact that you don't have anybody that can stretch the field and at least pet a little fear of a deep pass in an opponent. The OL and DL do also need to get bigger and more physical also. I think you will see next week when Nicholls comes to Fargo that NDSU will not have a speed disadvantage. NDSU recruits the South(Florida and Georgia specifically) for Skill positions (RB's, WR's and DB's). Maybe Bubba's staff needs to look at that. After seeing Chave's tweet tonight, it looks like there is a better chance of an Bubba extension than a Bubba firing.
32 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:
When you look at what Kenny Golladay became after a year in the weight room under Baukol and how much faster Greg Hardin got over the course of his career you have to wonder if Baukol is too often being asked to turn Honda Civics into Ferraris. And for nutrition, some people will say what you eat is 70% of your results. When you look at quite a few of our players it’s clear diet is an issue. Not sure what the current situation is with education and standards but it needs to improve.
Not sure what the current situation is with education and standards but it needs to improve.
Who's responsible for educating the players on that?
3 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:
I assume there is a dietician on staff to educate and monitor what the players are eating.
Vegas_Sioux
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2 hours ago, WiSioux said:
Special Teams is still an issue as well. I know some will point to the two punt blocks that did seal victories for us, but I always view a blocked kick as more of a fluke play or a great individual effort than anything else.
The place kickers on this team are a real liability. Taubenheim wasn't stellar but was at least serviceable. The current guys make him look like an All American.
I will give the coverage teams credit though, they were good this year and produced some nice situational punts. The punter doesn't doesn't have a strong leg, but he pinned teams deep several times.
Not the tweet I was expecting.
How many wins next year?
coltssiouxfan
Just now, SiouxHawkGuy said:
I’d say 6 or 7
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Somali Crime From Maine to Minnesota
Editor: Oops! Had a typo in my original title!
Remember the story from last summer where roving gangs of Somali ‘youths’ got into a “brawl” with locals in the city park in Lewiston, Maine. I wrote about it here. A local Maine man died after being hit by a brick.
Breitbart also reported the news, but the story was written before Donald Giusti died from his injuries.
Breitbart published this screenshot from a video taken the night of the June attack that resulted in Giusti’s murder.
Last week, locals returned to the park for a vigil for Giusti, and the Bangor Daily News headline says,
Lewiston vigil turns violent
It is really an incredible story as it explains that Giusti’s friends and family were attacked again by a “group” who drove up and got out with “bats and stuff” and began hitting the attendees.
One man was taken to the hospital, but not one word about who the people in the “group” were! Police say they are investigating.
Oh, and by the way, they have never been able to make any arrests or solve the mystery of who killed Giusti even as there is video available of the June fight with the group of Somali ‘youths.’
This latest “brawl” happened on December 27th and I am not seeing any other stories, so if you do, send me a link! I’m curious to see if the ‘S’ word is mentioned.
On Tuesday, Alpha News trumpeted this headline,
Large Violent Crime Increase in Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood
Star Tribune reports that largely driven by a surge in robberies, and assaults the Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has seen over 60% increase in violent crime in 2018.
This increase in crime comes at a time when Minneapolis is having trouble recruiting police officers.
Authorities put the blame on a violent rivalry between St. Paul and Minneapolis East African gangs.
The rise of Somali gangs is not new to Minnesota. In 2009 CBS reported that somewhere between 400-500 Somali youth were active in gangs.
Some of the active gangs include Somali Hot Boyz, the Somali Mafia and Madhibaan with Attitude.
Note that the media never makes any mention of how the Somalis were seeded in Maine and Minnesota through the US Refugee Admissions Program. Your average American, reading these stories, must wonder why and how so many Somalis got to America in the first place! Why is that? Is it that the media is loathe to put the word “refugee” in a story about violent crime?
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Bob Enos says:
So glad to see you back, Ann. You were sorely missed!
Thanks! Glad to be back (I think)!
Dr. Rich Swier says:
Great. Published: http://bit.ly/2TsNAAZ
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Frauds, Crooks and Criminals wrote:
> Ann Corcoran posted: ” Remember the story from last summer where roving > gangs of Somali ‘youths’ got into a “brawl” with locals in the city park in > Lewiston, Maine. I wrote about it here. A local Maine man died after being > hit by a brick. Breitbart also reported the n” >
Garnett Rope says:
It is really sad when the police won’t follow up on a murder just because of who did it. Our Republic is doomed if this continues to happen.
sturandot13 says:
Yep. Just like so many countries in Europe.
stp479 says:
Get it straight, democrats will gladly allow our murders in exchange for the votes of the newly arrived. There is video of the murderer(s), yet no arrests, this vigil was attacked, as fully expected, yet no police presence. There is only one way out of the dystopic multicultural future that will end in in civil war and it is nationalism/populism. It’s not what I’d wish for, but those who are forcing this flood of unassimilable migrants upon us leave us no choice.
CTTV15@Hotmail.com says:
My 2 grandchildren were caught up in a 100 Somali gang fighting riot at the Valley Fair amusement park (“Valley Scare”) this past September..
15,000 people had to be evacuated over the course of almost 2 hours, by 6 police departments, MN State Troopers, a police helicopter, and additional first res-ponders.. The Mall of America is a very dangerous place now. Women are being chased off of inner city Minneapolis lakes, and being threatened by up to 30 Somali males, with “Kidnap & Rape”, while they brandish ISIS flags (I have the police reports – and they are gut wrenching to read). “Dine & Dash” thugs are raiding restaurants throughout the Twin Cities, and bragging about on Twitter… ..And there is so much more..
The local WCCO (CBS News) TV news called the Valley Fair riot a “minor incident”, which amplifies the other problem we have here in Minnesota. Almost zero reporting that is truthful.. This is high stakes “Liars Poker”, and people are dying, people are getting stabbed, raped, shot, and being terrorized..
Everybody connected to the so-called “public authority”, The Courts, far too many in Minnesota law enforcement, public health departments, mayors, MN DHS, city council members, many in CHURCH LEADERSHIP, and MEDIA are lying through their teeth about all this, all across the State of Minnesota now… …And it is getting worse every day..
Minnesota is in deep trouble these days, and now that Waltz is the newest corrupt MN Governor, Keith (AKA: “Hakim” – “X” – “Mohamed”) Ellison is the new Marxist/Anarchist MN Attorney General, Ilhan Omar having taken his place in OUR US Congress, Amy Klobuchar, and so-called republicans like Tom Emmer, as OUR representation in Washington DC, we are almost done for..
Add to all this the mass migration (secondary migration) from other US States to Minnesota now, to steal anything that isn’t tied down, nailed down, or guarded by an armored tank division, atop the most out-of-control welfare distribution system breached by thieves already in the past ten years (ANNUALLY approximately $700 Million Dollars – all social services program(s) FRAUD combined), PLUS continued Refugee Resettlement, and the State-wide SANCTUARY State program costing MN taxpayers a net/net BILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY, and what we have here as a result is a brewing cultural, societal, and economic Armageddon…
$65 Billion Dollars of personal wealth has already exited Minnesota permanently in the past 3.5 years, and business are bugging out also, or closing their doors..
“15,000 people had to be evacuated over the course of almost 2 hours, by 6 police departments, MN State Troopers, a police helicopter, and additional first res-ponders” I’d like to see the rare honest portrayal of this, can you direct me to as I’ll share it widely.
All you have to do is Google “Valley Scare” riot/brawl September 22nd 2018, Shakopee, Minnesota..
Media covers up riot at Valley Fair.
I wrote all about it then.. There is video..
Thank you, will do, and will share it too.
I found this in depth and in person account of the horror inflicted by the Somalians, and how the media and Facebook worked to cover it all up!!! https://www.facebook.com/peggy.t.tierney/posts/2151315991553874
This is a sickening and frightening recount of events. The situation in MN is a result of deliberate actions / policies taken by politicians that are destroying our beloved communities and our country. My heart goes out to you and to all of the law abiding AMERICANS whose families sacrificed to make our country great.
To all, Watch the movie ‘July 22’ It is about the Norway white right wing terrorist who killed those kids at the summer camp. The heroine is a refugee. Whoever produced it wants to portray all refugees like her and that all right wingers are hateful crazies. Granted he was, but all refugees are not peace loving people who only want to assimilate into the culture of the country they now live in. I think it is on Netflix but it shows how brain washing has infiltrated every avenue of our lives.
I’ll pass, but it is a good point to make how nearly all MSM is full time propaganda, whether it’s mixed/gay marriages, mass migration, or Islamophilia there’s an axe being ground in our faces each time.
It was a pretty good movie though to see what those kids went thru.
Sad how the mainstream media never wants to completely report it.
Political Forum says:
Communists hate racists, but when has diversity worked out anywhere?
Communists hate pollution, but the USSR was environmental catastrophe.
Communists hate businesses and love welfare, but who would want to work if work is punished with taxes and regulations and laziness is rewarded with welfare?
Communists hate guns, but how do you resist tyranny without a gun?
Communists hate morality, but why?
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Compared to some other British car manufacturers, Lotus is a relative newcomer, founded by Colin Chapman in 1948. But Lotus has built a legend around its incredible history, including a long string of celebrated sports cars and seven Formula One Championships. Chapman's innovative designs emphasized simplicity and lightness. In 1957, Chapman introduced two cars that exemplified this approach: the elegant Lotus Elite sports coupe and the Lotus 7, a minimalist high-performance roadster. The 7 remains in production after almost 50 years, built by Lotus until 1973, then by Caterham Cars, which bought the manufacturing rights. Lotus won its first Formula One victory in 1960, and its first World Championship in 1963. The Lotus Esprit sports car, produced from 1976 to 2004, turned heads from the start, particularly when it appeared in a James Bond movie as a car with submarine capabilities. After Chapman died in 1982, the company changed hands. Under GM ownership from 1986 to 1993, Lotus turned the modest Vauxhall Carlton sedan into a 176-mph 'super-saloon,' the first of the genre that has been adopted by many manufacturers today. Current models include the Elise roadster, the Exige coupe, and the Evora. These diminutive composite-bodied sports cars on aluminum frames maintain Lotus' reputation for obtaining big performance from lightweight packages.
1956 Lotus Eleven - Photo by ScufferQPD
An all-new racing car for 1956, the Lotus Eleven incorporated a tubular steel space frame and stressed aluminum panels for rigidity. The car was powered by a lightweight 1.1-liter Coventry Climax engine, could hit 143 mph, and finished seventh overall at Le Mans. Fully loaded the car weighs around 1,000 pounds. Other versioned cars had engine options with sizes from 750cc all the way to 1,500cc. In its primary 1,100 cc class, the Lotus Eleven was successful on the track and was piloted by drivers such as the great Stirling Moss. To this day, there are few cars that can match its beauty or feather-light package.
1967 Lotus Type 49 - Photo by Shaggy Socal
Take yourself back to what many refer to as the greatest era of open-wheel racing; the days when legendary racers Jim Clark and Graham Hill piloted the Lotus Type 49 to seemingly countless victories. Clark and Hill were the very best at their jobs, and the Type 49 represented the cutting edge of design technology. After a period of difficulty in the 3.0-liter formula, Colin Chapman went back to the drawing board. Chapman made the next step forward and convinced Ford to build an F1 engine. The result would be the Ford Cosworth DFV and an advanced chassis using the engine as a stress-bearing structural member. Since then nearly all Formula One cars have been built this way and the Cosworth DFV would become the engine of choice through the 1970s. The 49 could be a handful to drive, with the power of the Cosworth V8 delivering bursts of power that even Graham Hill had reservations about. Take your throttle control to the next level and give the Brabham BT24 something to fight with on equal ground with one of Colin Chapman’s major advances in race car design.
1971 Lotus Elan Sprint - Photo by bennoj61
These two-tone, mechanically upgraded versions of the Elan were introduced to improve sales near the end of their production. They are very popular among collectors and vintage racers for their quickness and agility. The small four-cylinder engine received a large-valve head, hi-lift cams and a higher compression ratio to deliver 126 horsepower. At just over 1,500 pounds, that was more than enough spunk to make them fun to drive. The Elan Sprint would do 0-60 in 6.7 seconds and could reach a top speed of 121 mph. Many say the Mazda Miata is modeled after the Lotus Elan. Pit the two against one another in Forza 4and find out if there is anything to compare.
1976 Lotus No5 Team Lotus 77 - Photo by TheSagaris458
1999 Lotus Elise Series 1 Sport 190 - Photo by RECEPTOR 17
The original Elise was so lightweight that the run-of-the-mill Rover engine, barely wheezing out 118 horsepower, was more than enough to allow the Lotus to embarrass much more powerful sportscars. Corners? Forget about it, the Elise makes go-karts look like land barges. So when Lotus snagged the (very British-sounding) Very High Performance Derivative version of the K-series engine from the Rover parts bin to create the limited production Sport, the resulting 190 horsepower output in the bantamweight chassis had the effect of turning the insanity up to 11. When you told a Lotus dealer that you wanted a Sport (or presented a regular-spec car for conversion), it set Lotus’ highly-skilled race technicians a-flutter, hand-modifying the Elise with competition-ready componentry like a roll bar, thin-shell race seats, and of course suspension and brake upgrades. The result is breathtaking; it’s a very small car that can do very big things, like dash to 60 mph in just 4.3 seconds. While that’s impressive, just like the Sport’s less burly Elise siblings, its forte is lateral acceleration. That means the twisties are its natural habitat, and you’ll quickly understand why Lotus’ commitment to “adding lightness” has given them the reputation for making some of the best-handling cars around.
2002 Lotus Esprit V8 - Photo by RECEPTOR 17
Cars are an art form, and few make the case as clearly as the Lotus Esprit. Originally unveiled as a concept car in 1972, the Esprit carried the flag as one of the great British supercars for more than 30 years. The Esprit’s evolution took it from a naturally-aspirated four-cylinder to the twin-turbo V8 of 2002. The internally developed all-aluminum 90-degree V8 was code-named Type 918. Horsepower potential was near 500 but the 918 was detuned to a very healthy 350 HP to accommodate the limitations of the transmission. In the Lotus tradition, lightness has always been a factor in its performance. Acceleration is brisk and top speeds are in excess of 175 MPH. The Esprit’s classic wedge design, now in its fifth emanation, was revamped in 1993 by designer Julian Thomson. Whether you choose the Esprit for its breathtaking performance or its timeless design, getting behind the wheel will is always a thrill.
2005 Lotus Elise 111S - Photo by Pebb
2009 Lotus 2-Eleven - Photo by Vanna91
The 2-Eleven is by any standard an extreme car. In the United States (and likely other jursidictions), it’s so extreme it can’t be driven on the street, and lives only on racetracks (where it must be admitted it is most at home). However, in Lotus’ home market, for a small fee you can have Lotus equip the 2-Eleven for road use with lights, mirrors, and the like. That being said, it takes a strong nerve to drive this minimalist car, with no top, windscreen, or amenities like a carpet or radio, on the road. In particular, the car’s unique qualities might be a hindrance too, as the 2-Eleven single-handedly seeks to redefine “extreme performance.” Weighing just 1,650 lbs., and with 251 horsepower courtesy of a supercharged 1.8-liter motor, the 2-Eleven is superlative in virtually every performance metric—despite technicalities, the 2-Eleven is truly a racecar. It’s also a worthy successor to its namesake, the original Lotus 11, a similarly light and powerful car for its day.
2011 Lotus Evora S - Photo by TheSagaris458
2012 Lotus Exige S - Photo by leopauldelr
For 2012, the Exige S gained some mass, adding a little over 500 pounds to its otherwise feather-light curb weight. Thankfully most of that weight is due to the much larger V6 that delivers more than a hundred additional horsepower. The Exige S is nimble as ever but delivers significantly faster acceleration and a much higher top speed than the base Exige, making this driver’s car even more appealing to performance fanatics.
2015 Lotus E23 - Photo by WindsweptDragon
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Alexander Hamilton Papers
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To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 27 July 1799
From William S. Smith, 27 July 1799
Major General Hamilton
12th. Regt. July 27th. 1799—
Enclosed I have the honor of presenting a letter from Capt. Fondy, recommending Mr. Tobias V. Cuyler as a Candidate for a Lieutenancey in the 12th. Regt. I have not the pleasure of an acquaintance with Mr. Cuyler, but from the warmth of Capt. Fondy’s expressions relative to him, I have not the least doubt but Mr. Cuyler may with propriety be put in the scale with the other Candidates.
The Bearer of this Mr. Kipp of Kippses Bay is also solicitous of a similar appointment in the Regt., he has been presented to me as a Gentleman of fair character & very respectable connections, he however informs me that he has letters from Mr. Samuel Jones and Benjamin Walker, addressed to you, these letters doubtless will be more particular than my knowledge of Mr. Kipp will justify me in being, his appearance & manners are in his favour & I doubt not you will place his name on the list of Candidates, in such station as his recommendations may merit—As it is probable that there are more applications, than there are vacancies, would it not be well to offer the supernumerary’s the stations of Cadets, in the Regt. regularly ranked as Candidates for the next vacancies? and would it not be an eligeable arrangement, to require the best informed and most alert of the Cadets to do the duty of Seargeant Majors in the respective Battalions? they are to do the duty of Deputy Adjutants, and would contribute to add respectability to the station, all which is respectfully submitted—
I have the Honor to be with respect Sir, Your most Obed. Humble Servt.
W. S. Smith
(ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress), enclosing Dowe J. Fondey to Smith, June 29, 1799 (ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/02-01-02-0754
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“To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 27 July 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/02-01-02-0754. [This document from The Papers of Alexander Hamilton is original to the digital edition. It was added on 30 December 2015.]
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Patients with lung illness caused by vaping face an unchartered future
Posted 10:55 PM, December 17, 2019, by Grace Griffaton, Updated at 08:48PM, December 17, 2019
BERKS COUNTY, Pa. -- Lung illness caused by vaping is still so new to many people, including the doctors who treat it.
Medical experts say because the vaping products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration or FDA, they don't always know what is in them or how all of the chemicals interact inside the body.
A teenager from Berks County is sharing his story in an effort to deter teens from using those products.
"I'm known as the kid who almost died from vaping," said Xander Amidon of Berks County.
It's not the reputation the teen wants or ever thought he would have.
"I'm a good kid. I never really get in trouble," said Xander.
Xander played rugby at Governor Mifflin High School
until what seemed like just a virus landed Xander in Reading Hospital.
"I just thought I was sick at first, and like had a cold, and then, I woke up, and I was completely ill," explained Xander.
Doctors put Xander on steroids, a number of antibiotics, and hooked the teen up to oxygen.
"Just watching him struggle to take every single breath. It was a mom's worst nightmare," explained Kari Ide, Xander's mother.
Fortunately, time was on Xander's side.
"I almost died. I was told by the doctors if I didn't come in at that time, and I came in a couple hours later, I most likely would have died or i would have been in a coma," said Xander.
Xander is one of more than 1,200 people who are suffering from a lung injury caused by vaping or electronic cigarette use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC. 26 people have died.
"I always had a dab cartridge, and I smoked a lot, and it just completely ruined my lungs," explained Xander.
Up until the diagnosis, Xander says he juuled and vaped THC cartridges just about every day; THC is the prime ingredient in marijuana. It produces the high people talk about. Xander says he bought the THC pods off his classmates and friends.
His mom says she had no idea Xander was doing it.
"You warn your children against it, you tell them not to do it, but they do what they want to do," said Ide.
The problem now?
"The long term effects... We don't know," explained Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, the director of Johns Hopkins Tobacco Treatment Clinic in Baltimore.
Nobody, including Dr. G, seems to know what vaping will do to people's bodies down the road.
"My hope is that a lot of these patients is reversible, but we are going to find out that there is going to be irreversible damage and the thing about it - a 16 year old robbed of their lung function is heartbreaking," explained Dr. G.
The Johns Hopkins Tobacco Clinic was established last July. Since then, Dr. G says physicians have seen 153 people addicted to tobacco and nicotine, 33 of whom are addicted to electronic cigarettes. He says more than a dozen of those cases are kids.
"Like a science experiment is what they called me," said Xander.
"They called him a science experiment because they didn't know what cocktails, what medications would stop this from progressing," added Ide.
Flash forward to this fall: The food and drug administration issues a warning urging people to stop vaping THC. Researchers believe an additive found in some THC vaping products called Vitamin E Acetate could be dangerous when inhaled. However, the FDA says it's likely not the only chemical of concern in vaping products, which is why it's cautioning against adding any substances, including flavors and the ones sold at retail establishments, to existing vaping products.
"Even though we may know for instance chemical A, chemical B, chemical C, chemical D, them being together in my opinion is the first time so these chemicals interacting together may give birth to a whole new toxin we never heard of," explained Dr. G.
Dr. G describes it as a chemical cocktail that makes treating addiction very challenging. He says compare it to the David and Goliath bible story.
"If I don't even know how big Goliath is, it's hard to make a game plan to strike him down," stated Dr. G.
Traditional combustible cigarettes are regulated by the FDA; Dr. G says that makes it easy for doctors to ask patients what brand they smoke, how many packs a day, and develop a treatment plan from there.
"Because of these individuals buying pods and cartridges that are not FDA regulated, I have emailed Juul, for instance, and other companies, 'Please tell me what is in this. My patient is suffering pulmonary complications, and I need to understand,'" said Dr. G.
On top of not knowing all the ingredients, Dr. G says it is nearly impossible to figure out how much chemicals people have inhaled from e-cigarettes and vaping products.
"Meaning these chemicals may not be dangerous at very low levels, but with electronic cigarette users, they can take the pods and cartridges and puff pretty extensively throughout the day, far exceeding what we would ever recommend not to surpass in a daily amount," he said.
Even with all of those unknowns, Dr. G worries vapes and electronic cigarettes are still more appealing than smoking cigarettes, and it took decades before some people started taking the dangers of smoking cigarettes seriously. He fears the same thing is happening now, just with vaping.
"We do see it as, especially in the youth, the ability to act now, before we create a whole new generation of patients because we weren't as aggressive to get them off these products to begin with," said Dr. G.
For now, Xander is doing what he can at home. Mom tells FOX43 Xander is spending precious time with a new niece who he loves dearly. She says it's very difficult for her son to talk about what happened, but they're both sharing Xander's story to spare someone else the same pain.
Topics: berks county, doctors, Johns Hopkins, vaping
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Nicky – The Home Alone Golf Ball, challenging strategy game on Switch
Console, Nintendo Switch / By GameCut
QUByte Interactive, in partnership with MinimalLab, announced Nicky – The Home alone Golf Ball is available on Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch.
Nicky – The Home Alone Golf Ball: Is a very fun action and challenging strategy game in which you have to carefully calculate your movements to get to the end of the trail. Each time you play this game, you earn skills and knowledge to finish the challenge in fewer movements. Be careful, you certainly don’t want to move backwards, because that would make you perform a lot more of movements. There is a world ranking with the 10 players that finish the game in less movement. This ranking is monthly, so each month it is reset and new people have the opportunity to have their names placed in the ranking. Nicky is a little golf ball that needs your help. The game is set in several places, which begins in the interior of a house, then you have to find a way to his homeland.
Fun Gameplay and Challenges.
World ranking, try out your skills against the champs.
Easy to play, Drag, Aim and Shot.
Beautiful graphics and ambient.
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