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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 13
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 5908)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 13
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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TIME: A Year After the Santa Fe School Shooting, Texas Legislature Shuns Tougher Gun Control
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A Year After the Santa Fe School Shooting, Texas Legislature Shuns Tougher Gun Control
May 17th 2019, 13:50, by JIM VERTUNO / AP
(AUSTIN, Texas) — A year after a high school mass shooting near Houston that remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, Texas lawmakers are on the brink of going home without passing any new gun restrictions, or even tougher firearm storage laws that Gov. Greg Abbott backed after the tragedy.
A Republican governor pushing even a small restriction on firearms kept at home in gun-friendly Texas was a landmark shift after two decades of loosening weapons regulations. And it put Texas in line with other states exploring ways to prevent not just mass shootings, but thousands of lethal gun incidents involving minors.
But the state’s effort was met with a swift and severe rebuke from gun-rights advocates who have all but killed the issue. The anniversary of the shooting at Santa Fe High School is Saturday.
“I saw my friend and co-worker killed,” Flo Rice, a Santa Fe substitute teacher who was shot five times that day, told lawmakers. “Had stricter gun laws been in place, maybe the shooter’s father would have had his guns locked up, 10 lives would have been spared … It is too late for Santa Fe, but maybe this bill will save other children’s lives.”
Her words had little impact. In the final two weeks of the legislative session, Texas lawmakers are instead moving toward arming more school personnel, boosting campus security measures and mental health services for teenagers. Those also were ideas from Abbott, who has gone silent on the issue of gun storage safety since first proposing it.
“It’s really sad,” said Ed Scruggs of Texas Gun Sense. “Here we are coming up on the one year anniversary and they’re not doing anything but putting more guns in schools and hardening school sites. And this was something that could have applied directly to a situation like Santa Fe.”
Police have alleged the Santa Fe shooter, a student at the school, used his father’s shotgun and handgun to kill eight students and two substitute teachers. Thirteen others were wounded.
Within days, Abbott held a series of roundtable discussions on school violence with victims and gun rights and gun control advocates. Ideas that emerged included increasing the penalty for gun owners — from a misdemeanor to a felony — when minors take and use their firearms to harm or kill someone. Texas has no requirement that all firearms be locked up.
The blowback was almost immediate.
Members of the Legislature’s “Freedom Caucus” vowed to oppose home gun storage regulations as government overreach on the right to bear arms. Gun rights groups insisted firearms must be kept easily available for self-defense.
“I will fight it forever,” Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a Republican, tweeted hours after Abbott first backed tighter gun storage laws. Within a month, opposition to the plan was part of the 2018 state Republican party platform.
The gun storage penalties, and a plan for a statewide public service campaign on safe storage, still had some GOP support when lawmakers convened in January. One of the primary sponsors of the Senate’s gun storage bill is Republican Sen. Joan Huffman, a former prosecutor and judge from Houston.
She’s also the chairman of the Senate committee where her bill was assigned. The session ends May 27 and Huffman has yet to give her own bill a hearing.
“That’s the clearest signal possible” that Republican leadership wants to make sure the bill will die, said Mark Jones, political science professor at Rice University.
Despite their strong majorities in the House and Senate, Republicans want to avoid any votes that could be interpreted as anti-gun in a state with more than 1.3 million handgun license holders, Jones said.
“An overwhelming majority still worry far more about the Republican primary than the general election,” Jones said. “They are always worried about being outflanked on the right.”
Huffman and Abbott’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
The House at least gave the gun storage bill a late-night committee hearing to hear testimony, but didn’t take a vote.
Rice, the wounded teacher, was among a handful of witnesses. With the aid of a cane, she limped to the podium to plead with lawmakers to pass the bill. She was immediately followed by Rachel Malone, Texas director of Gun Owners of America, who opposed the measure.
“We should give (gun owners) freedom to protect themselves,” Malone said. “Guns are used more often to protect innocent lives than they are used to take it.”
The bill for a statewide safe storage campaign fell flat. Representatives of the NRA and the Texas State Rifle Association lobbied against it, arguing that gun rights groups and gun manufacturers have already created similar campaigns that are distributed to gun stores and shooting ranges.
That way, gun owners get “content delivered from a source they trust,” NRA lobbyist Tara Mica told lawmakers. A state campaign designed by the Texas state police could easily be corrupted by anti-gun rhetoric, she said.
The ability to stonewall two bills that had the support of Abbott just a year ago proves the muscle of the gun lobby in Texas, said Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat.
“It shows the stranglehold that unreasonable zealots have over this issue,” Moody said. “And that’s a sad state of affairs given where we were a year ago in Santa Fe.”
Media files:
Law enforcement officers respond to Santa Fe High School after an active shooter was reported on campus in Santa Fe, Texas on May 18, 2018.
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Location: Main Index » Forum Index » Ivy League » Cornell Big Red » Virginia Tech
Post: Virginia Tech (Topic#25718)
Loc: Goshen, NY
After beating up on a number of cupcakes, the Big Red have a big test tomorrow against Va. Tech in Blacksburg. Obviously plenty of ACC-level talent on the Hokies, but if Cornell hits a reasonable percentage of 3’s they’ll have a puncher’s chance.
mountainred
Masters Student
Loc: Charleston, WV
In response to scoop85
VaTech and Cornell hosted St. Francis (PA) in back to back to back games last month. The Hokies won 85-55 and Cornell won 93-80, but both were 20-ish point games with 15 minutes to go.
Cornell looked pretty good against Penn State, but VaTech looks to be a step up in class. Interested to see how the Big Red match-up.
In response to mountainred
Loved the way that Earl's team came out of the shoot playing at a very fast tempo with no fear. Cornell will probably lose but the team looks much improved -- talent level appears to be a significantly higher level and Earl looks like that he has command of the team.
Cornell may well be a factor this year based on how most other IL teams have been playing.
In response to bradley
Shooting has cooled off and the game is getting out of reach. A little disappointed it is not closer, but VaTech is pretty good.
HARVARDDADGRAD
Loc: New Jersey
Love the tempo & depth.
Short bench Ivy opponents will be tested
In response to HARVARDDADGRAD
Only wish we had 6 traditional Ivy weekends instead of only 3.
I’m a convert. Cornell will win Ivy games this year.
Observations on Boothby vs Va Tech are somewhat unfair due to the athleticism of the opponent. At this point in his career, Boothby is pretty much limited to catch and shoot from 3 point range. He was 2-3 vs Va Tech, and is now the second ranked 3pt shooter nationally at 57.45% (27-47). He had 1 rebound and 1 assist in 21 minutes vs Va Tech and only shot 3's.
At this point in his career Boothy reminds me of Harvard's Laurent Rivard. Boothby has taken 51 shots, 47 of them 3's. In Rivard's Junior (199 of 216) and Senior (186 of 210), Laurent tended to only take 3's but for transition baskets if I recall correctly. Rivard appears to have developed into a better athlete, but was an inch or two shorter than the 6'7" Boothby.
Maybe an even better comparison is Penn's Sam Jones (2014 - 2018). Like Rivard, Jones didn't shoot 3's almost exclusively until his Junior season. As a Junior, Jones attempted 65 3's out of 71 shots and as a senior 42 of 43. Jones played 20 minutes per game his first two seasons, similar to Boothby, but his usage dropped to 10 mpg as a junior and 4 mpg as a senior. Rivard was more versatile and thus played more minutes (25mpg to 34 mpg).
Boothby, in a small sample, is shooting 57.5% on 3's while Rivard was at 41% career and Jones 37.5%.
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Get your Team USA gear at TheFlagShirt.com
It hasn't even been three weeks since the World Cup ended, and already I'm missing all the excitement that comes with watching great soccer and supporting your favorite team. While I have a soft spot for Germany (who won the cup) and the Netherlands (who placed third), the team we really went all out for was Team USA. The USMNT had an amazing tournament; even though they didn't get past the round of 16, they played their hearts out, and played beautiful, world-class soccer. Who will ever forget Tim Howard (aka the US secretary of Defense) and his record-breaking saves in USA vs BEL?
Even more thrilling for me to watch was the support that came from American fans. Soccer is not a big sport in the US, not compared to football, baseball and basketball, but it is growing in popularity. It was amazing to see 20,000 screaming fans gathered in parks across the US, cheering and waving flags! We had our own local viewing parties, and the family all turned up in Team USA apparel: hats, shirts, glasses, and buttons in red, white, and blue!
Fortunately, it's easy to theme your outfit to Team USA: just wear blue jeans, a red or white shirt, and red or white hat or flower on your head. But it's so much more fun to bedeck yourself from head to toe in the American Flag! That's where TheFlagShirt.com comes in -- they've been a family owned business for over 70 years, and they're as American as the products they sell.
The merchandise on TheFlagShirt.com goes way beyond the standard Stars and Stripes on a shirt! Here are some of my favorite products from TheFlagShirt.com. They use the stars and stripes in so many imaginative ways! Don't you just love the Hello Kitty USA shirt? I especially love the vintage styles and the distressed styles. And how about those Stars and Stripes Board Shorts!?
Check out the sweatshirt that TheFlagShirt.com sent me -- isn't so wonderfully over-the-top? The design is screen printed on the shirt, and it's going to take decades for that design to fade (and if it does, well, it's okay because it's a distressed print!). I love it because a lot of the games we watch are in the evenings, when it gets chilly. It's all very well to wear a TEAM USA shirt, but when it gets cold, you have to cover it up, so why not get some TEAM USA outerwear like my awesome new sweatshirt? I love it! It's perfect for summer evening barbecues and nighttime fireworks displays!
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Home GOP Primary 2016 Breaking: Romney Announces He’s Supporting Ted Cruz In Utah’s GOP Caucus
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Breaking: Romney Announces He’s Supporting Ted Cruz In Utah’s GOP Caucus
Romney, left, Trump, right
Mitt Romney is voting for Ted Cruz for President in Utah as part of an effort to disrupt Donald Trump at the convention in Cleveland.
“I will vote for Senator Cruz and I encourage others to do so as well, so that we can have an open convention and nominate a Republican,” Romney said in a statement.
Here is Romney’s full statement:
“This week, in the Utah nominating caucus, I will vote for Senator Ted Cruz.
Today, there is a contest between Trumpism and Republicanism. Through the calculated statements of its leader, Trumpism has become associated with racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, vulgarity and, most recently, threats and violence. I am repulsed by each and every one of these.
The only path that remains to nominate a Republican rather than Mr. Trump is to have an open convention. At this stage, the only way we can reach an open convention is for Senator Cruz to be successful in as many of the remaining nominating elections as possible.
I like Governor John Kasich. I have campaigned with him. He has a solid record as governor. I would have voted for him in Ohio. But a vote for Governor Kasich in future contests makes it extremely likely that Trumpism would prevail.
I will vote for Senator Cruz and I encourage others to do so as well, so that we can have an open convention and nominate a Republican.”
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No. 1 Denair Will Host Southern League Rival Gustine in First Home Football Playoff Game Since 2007
Posted on November 6, 2018 by DenairPulse Editor
Submitted by Denair High School
It will be a Southern League rematch in the second round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VII football playoffs.
Top-seeded Denair (9-1) vs. No. 4 Gustine (6-5), with a spot in the championship game at stake. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Friday at Jack Lytton Stadium.
The teams know each other well and played Sept. 28 in Gustine. Denair, trailing 14-7 at halftime, ambushed the Reds with six touchdowns in the second half to win 49-14 and ruin Gustine’s homecoming.
That victory launched the Coyotes on a five-game winning streak that earned them solo second place in league behind unbeaten Ripon Christian, the coveted No. 1 seed in the playoffs and a first-round bye last week.
Gustine earned its rematch with Denair edging Millennium of Tracy 28-27 in Gustine last Friday.
Denair coach Anthony Armas said he didn’t have a preference of who his team would play, but isn’t surprised that it’s Gustine. The Coyotes also defeated Millennium earlier this season.
“They’re both physical and have some talented kids,” Armas said. “Gustine has some big kids up front. They have a pretty talented running back. And their quarterback is pretty good.”
Denair overpowered Gustine in the first game. Hunter Musgrave had his best game of the season, ripping off 206 yards on 18 carries and scoring three touchdowns. Steffin Winston ran 14 times for 84 yards and a TD, and Dylan DeSilva added 61 yards and three more touchdowns. Denair also forced three turnovers.
“I don’t think they’re 100% convinced that that win was legit,” Armas said of Gustine. “I think they think it was a fluke. They’re going to try to take it to us.”
The coach said his message this week will be the same as it’s been since practice began in August. “Just keep getting better at what we do.”
What the Coyotes thrive on is a Wing T offense that keeps opponents guessing about which running back will carry the ball and which direction that will be. Other than Ripon Christian, no one has stopped Denair this year. The Coyotes are averaging 44 points a game in their nine victories.
What’s equally important is Denair’s defense. The Coyotes are holding opponents to 18 points a game, including one shutout and three games allowing just one touchdown.
“We’ve done pretty well offensively, but I think our defense gets overlooked,” Armas said. “It was in the second half of that Gustine game that we became ball hawks. We’ve been good about creating turnovers ever since.”
He expects Friday’s game to be closer than the first meeting, if only because Gustine will be looking for payback and to spoil Denair’s season.
“It’s easier to make adjustments when you lose like that,” Armas said.
Extra points: This will be the first home playoff game for Denair since 2007, according to athletic director Darrin Allen. … The Coyotes last were in the playoffs two seasons ago, when they were beaten on the road by Amador in the first round. … The other Division VII semifinal on Friday night has No. 3 seed Golden Sierra (7-4) of Grass Valley at No. 2 Big Valley Christian (9-1) of Modesto. … The championship game will be played Saturday, Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. at a site still to be determined.
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Tag: stilwell
Plus $1,000 check.
This spilled out of a very old, chewed up manila folder in a mouse infested file cabinet I was cleaning out this weekend. I’d forgotten completely about borrowing a thousand dollars to buy a truck to haul wood and country-boy stuff from Sonoma County to San Francisco after the 1940 Chevy Special Deluxe died on me. The truck was a powder blue, 1964 Chevy C/K long bed with a 293 cu. in. inline six and three-speed transmission. Absolutely nothing fancy about it; it had been a working truck for a carpenter; not abused but not pristine by any means.
Stock image. Mine was considerably less attractive, though in good shape.
The money was paid back, and the truck was thoroughly enjoyed for the ten years I used it, and while looking online to find a picture of one like it, I was floored to find a fully restored version could sell for over $20,000 in 2019.
The note evoked a strong feeling for my mother for the Grand Adventure she — and my father — set our family on. I only recently have sensed just how much of an extraordinary adventure my life has been and continues to be, and a fairly wonderful one at that. No life is without darkness and miasma; but on the whole, mine has been full of light, laughter, beautiful days of sun and rain and fog and snow and twilights and dawns …
My Dad, Adventurer
Col. Jay F. Gamel — not yet a Senior — was posted to the 10th Army Air Corps in the China-India-Burma theater, sometime in late 1943 or early 1944. He was in Burma when I was born in August of 1944, so that dates my conception using Kentucky windage to somewhere around Thanksgiving in 1943. He served under Mountbatten and Stilwell and told stories about both of them. I’ve since harbored romantic notions of the the war — WWII — in China and Burma.
I grew up listening to tales of planes full of medical supplies headed for both Chang Kai Chek’s Kuomintang and, eventually, Chou En Lai and Mao’s Communists, being shot at by Japanese, crews freezing to death at altitudes over 15,000 feet, balky and badly designed new air frames disintegrating mid-flight. Dad had the ribbons to back up those stories. He once told of being berated for not carrying a side arm in forward areas. Having finally secured a 1911 Colt .45, he managed to bag a tiger that was marauding the local chickens while sitting in a latrine. These stories electrified my pre-pubescent brain, let me tell you. A frequent visitor to our dining room was Johnny *** a survivor of Bataan whose emaciated body never recovered, a living, breathing example of what Hollywood movies would never portray, lest audiences be repulsed by the reality of war. His impact on me lasts to this day.
Dad earned medals for feats and service, flying The Hump over the Himalayas in cranky new C-46s, as Chief Surgeon of the 10th Air Force — a Command Flight Surgeon — staffing advanced medical facilities for Vinegar Joe’s ill-fated though often glorified sortie into Burma. I’m reading Barbara Tuchman’s Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945, a work that earned her second Pulitzer Prize. The book puts some real-time perspective and insights into the enormous egos at loggerheads in this thoroughly misunderstood and murky theater of war. With nearly 75 years of perspective, some of the fog has been lifted, though the monumental national polities remain locked into eternal conflict over how best to enrich their owners and continue to cloud insight and reason to further their aims.
My Mother, Adventurer
Jayne Doris Gamel, Sr., and friend shopping in London, 1950
Mom was one of two girls left fatherless at a fairly early age, raised by a none-too-hardheaded, opera trained, southern belle, with ‘notions.’ Let me be clear here; Jayne Doris Estes was a beauty and given to no little drama to fill her days and hours. That I know from personal experience. I have come to doubt much of what I heard from her and learned from her sister and mother, but what I know for certain is that she loved life, her children, her husband for all his martial ways, and being on the grand adventure she chose, an adventure that led her to England and France, a life in mansions with many servants, married to a diplomat/officer serving in the murky regions of American policy making (at times) in the capitals of England and France. And, boy, did they have a time of it.
What she said: She graduated a fine girls school at 16, went on to read law but never obtained a degree. There were some other stories I do not know about (talk to sisters), but she headed to Hollywood in 1932 or so, with a stop in Carmel where she made silver jewelry in a swimming pool and played tennis with a young Pancho Gonzales (though that is patently impossible, since he was born in 1928 – though she may have met him later. What do I know; I was a kid when I heard this stuff.) She married an Army General, Fred Gardner, a doctor whose wealthy mother convinced him never to have children (short version). Mother divorced him, met my father (though the order of these events was never clear), and they were married in 1939, honeymooning at the Ahwanee in Yosemite.
There’s a whole lot more, but that can wait. What’s clear is that I came by my adventurous nature legitimately and have carried on a family tradition with abandon and joy. I no longer have to be frustrated, confused or sad about not having decided to “settle down” or any of that other nonsense people spout to justify becoming fossilized by forty. I yam what I yam, and that’s a fact.
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Andy Jillson June 15, 2020 Interviews
Interview: Rob Wallace (Concert Photographer)
Gary Clark Jr. (Photo by Rob Wallace)
Hazy Eye Music Media is proud to announce the second interview in a series of interviews I’m currently conducting with some of my favorite concert photographers. I’m stepping outside of my comfort zone and have begun picking the brains of some phenomenal photographers. My interviews in this series focus on “local” concert photographers. That is photographers around DC, MD, and VA. The DMV as we call it.
Anyway, check it out! I, Andy Jillson, was fortunate enough to interview Rob Wallace. Rob is a topnotch concert photographer and has covered a wide variety of great musical artists. Rob truly loves music and photography, and it shows in his work. He is a member of the I.M.P. house photographer team and shoots at multiple venues around the DMV such as The Anthem, 9:30 Club, Lincoln Theatre, Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Wolf Trap. Continue reading below for my full interview with Rob Wallace.
Bring Me the Horizon (Photo by Rob Wallace)
Marcus King Band (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: Hi Rob! How are you?!?
RW: I am doing great!
AJ: Can you introduce yourself and tell us your general location and where you primarily shoot shows?
RW: My name is Rob Wallace and I’m based in the Washington, D.C. area. I shoot all around D.C. and other nearby locations like VA and Baltimore, MD.
AJ: You’re definitely among the most talented concert photographers around DC, MD, and VA. When and how did you start shooting concerts and reviewing live performances?
RW: Greatly appreciate it. I really started shooting in the reggae genre because D.C. has a lot of Reggae bands and it seemed to be the easiest way to get in with a band and start building a portfolio.
AJ: What inspired(s) you as a photographer? Why photograph concerts?
RW: I remember going to a SOJA show in Richmond, VA and seeing their photographer running around the venue, and I thought that seems like a really fun job so I decided to start acquiring gear and taking some photography classes. I ended up meeting their photographer, John Shore, who is a local photographer and he was instrumental in helping me learn the ins and outs of concert photography.
Rob Zombie (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: Do you also write live concert reviews, album reviews, or interview musicians? If so, what inspired(s) you as a writer/music journalist? Why write about live music or musicians?
RW: I have done all of one interview with Phil Anselmo from Pantera and I used to write reviews, but now I mostly just do house photography gigs for I.M.P., Wolf Trap Foundation, and The National in Richmond, VA. I’m not much of a writer to be honest, but I really like capturing the emotion and action of a live performance.
AJ: What are some of your favorite venues to photograph at around the DMV?
RW: I would say my absolute favorites are The Anthem, 9:30 Club, Wolf Trap, and Merriweather.
AJ: What type of camera equipment do you normally use when shooting shows? What are your preferred lenses and camera settings?
RW: I use a very specific set of settings to get my focus to how I like. I also use my two Nikon 750s usually depending on the venue with a 70-200 lens on one and either a wider zoom lens on the other or I will go with a prime wide lens if it is a darker venue.
Sammy Hagar & Michael Anthony (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: How do you edit your photos? Any particular editing programs or techniques you regularly use?
RW: I do all my work in Adobe Lightroom.
AJ: What were the first 3 shows you obtained photo passes for? How were you able to obtain the photo passes? What were the experiences like?
RW: The first show I got was Tribal Seeds at 9:30 club, second was SOJA at Wolf Trap, and third was See-I. They were a lot of fun and the one that was the most special was SOJA because I met their photographer, John Shore, at this show and he invited me to shoot the See-I show at Eighteenth Street Lounge. They played every Wednesday night in a room that is laced with gold walls and he said “if you can shoot here you will be able to shoot at any venue” because there is no barricade, it’s packed, and the lights in there aren’t the best. It really pushes you as a photographer though. It enables you to learn the limits of your camera and what you can do in editing.
AJ: Any photographic or musical projects planned for the near future?
RW: As for the future, I have no idea what that holds. I am usually busy in the summer at Wolf Trap, but with the cancellation of the summer season I’m not sure when I will be back out there shooting shows again.
Dropkick Murphys (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: When and where was the last show you photographed? What bands were playing? What do you remember about it? Anything particularly interesting about the last show you covered?
RW: The last show I covered was Michael Kiwanuka at Lincoln Theatre and Sammy Brue was opening. He was incredible and was an act I had been trying to see. We are lucky to have so many historic buildings/music venues. Lincoln Theatre is a cool place to see a show if you have a chance.
AJ: How have you been staying active/keeping yourself busy since coronavirus altered our world?
RW: Well, I’m a government contractor so I have been lucky to still be working and still have a constant income coming in. I am also a really big Star Wars fan so I have taken on the task of building a full-sized, remote controlled R2-D2 built completely out of aluminum. That has taken up a lot of my time.
In This Moment (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: What have you been listening to? Any particular artists and/or albums you’ve recently discovered or rediscovered?
RW: With the early release of the new Run The Jewels I have been listening to that quite a bit.
AJ: Are you a record collector? If so, what are a few of your most valued/loved records? If not, do you collect something else?
RW: I do collect records and I specifically like to collect signed vinyl. I currently have some signed by Twin Temple, Bully, Tenacious D, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, and Behemoth. I also collect all things Star Wars and have a whole basement full of collectibles.
AJ: Have you watched or read anything interesting lately?
RW: Binge watching Disney Plus or What We Do In The Shadows.
AJ: What are your best memories/proudest moments of being a photographer?
RW: I think my proudest moments are being a house photographer for some of these local venues/companies like I.M.P. and Wolf Trap. They are iconic and I think it’s special that they trust me to document some of their big shows. Also anytime an artist says they like a photo. That means I did my job right.
AJ: Any funny, embarrassing, or awkward moments while in a photo pit?
RW: I think the funniest moment I can remember off the top of my head was Damian Marley at The Anthem. There were a lot of big name reggae acts on the bill and they all had entourages, but by the time Damian took the stage there were over 50 random people and “social media influencers” in the pit shooting the show with iphones and ipads. It was a cluster but I laughed about it.
AJ: Top 5 best concerts you’ve photographed?
RW: These are always the hardest questions for me, but I think off the top of my head (just because they were big names that I considered legends) it would have to be; Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, and “Vets Aid” which was Joe Walsh, Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban, and Gary Clark Jr.
Architects (Photo by Rob Wallace)
AJ: Top 5 all-time favorite bands/artists?
RW: I listen to so much this is kind of difficult to answer as well, but I would go with Behemoth, Bob Marley, Run The Jewels, The Black Keys, and Ghost.
AJ: What artists are on your bucket list? Who do you dream of photographing one day?
RW: I think right now Post Malone and Billie Eilish are really popular and I find them pretty interesting so I would like to cover both. Most of my bucket list consists of people that are far gone like Queen (original), Bob Marley, The Doors, Hendrix, and Amy Winehouse.
AJ: Anything you want to add to this interview? Any last words for the readers?
RW: I can’t think of much more honestly except that I can’t wait to get back out to shows and see everyone in person again.
AJ: Thanks Rob! Fin.
Check out Rob’s official website, Mindful Photo, to see more of his work!
Baby Metal (Photo by Rob Wallace)
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Interview: Nick Sadler (Daughters, Fang Island, Way Out, Mythless)
Interview: Max Ruehrmund (Concert Photographer)
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From Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity to Transdisciplinarity and Back Again
Jürgen Mittelstrass
is Prof. em. of theoretical philosophy and philosophy of science at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Hartmut von Sass (Hg.)
Between / Beyond / Hybrid
New Essays on Transdisciplinarity
Everyone calls for it, but no one knows what the subject matter of this call really is—transdisciplinarity. After a period in which it went from an academic invitation to a demand urgently to be fulfilled, the concept has recently been losing its pull. High time to approach the concept anew and in a new form.
This volume collects prominent voices in the debate on transdisciplinarity in a transdisciplinary manner. Its coincidence of content and form in presenting main papers and critical replies to them from a different discipline allows for a vivid discussion and new insights. These stylistically and thematically divergent contributions are linked by reservations about transdisciplinarity as an allround intellectual weapon and the conviction that its programmatic weight could be regained by approaching the subject from the margins—transdisciplinarity where it breaks down, fails, comes to an end. Unravelling transdisciplinarity’s contours by clarifying its limits.
Hartmut von Sass
Transdisciplinarity—a Drug on the Market?. An Introductory Question
Transdisciplinary: from a Philosophical Stance to its Implementation. A Response to Jürgen Mittelstrass
Harald Atmanspacher
Art with Some T?. A 35-Minute Essay
Florian Dombois
Artists and the Transdisciplinary Workplace. A Commentary
Amrei Wittwer
Transgressing Disciplines. The Transdisciplinary Settings of Media Studies, Gender Studies, and Artistic Research
Andrea B. Braidt
Response to Andrea B. Braidt
Collaborating In and Beyond Science. Obstacles and (Somewhat Surprising) Opportunities
Sabine Maasen
Transdisciplinarity and Condensed Knowledge. Response to Sabine Maasen
Christoph Schenker
Crossmapping. A Hermeneutic Practice
Transdisciplinarity—a Double-Agent Operation?. A Commentary on Elisabeth Bronfen’s Crossmapping Concept
Away from the Disciplines
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
The Way of Science, or Away from Science. A Reply to Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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The Kelly Phillips Foundation > The Dragonfly
The Kelly Phillips Foundation
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The Dragonfly Story is a symbol for those grieving loss. For those that loved and lost Kelly, the symbol of the dragonfly has provided peace and remembrance.
Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions.
Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened their friend was dead, gone forever.
Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, she was determined that she would not leave forever. She would come back and tell her friends what she had found at the top.
When she reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, she was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that she decided she must take a nap. As she slept, her body changed and when she woke up, she had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.
So, fly she did! And, as she soared she saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what she had never known existed. Then she remembered her beetle friends and how they were thinking by now she was dead. She wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that she was now more alive than she had ever been before. Her life had been fulfilled rather than ended. But, her new body would not go down into the water. She could not get back to tell her friends the good news. Then she understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what she now knew. So, she raised her wings and flew off into her joyous new life!
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Sticker Girl And The Cupcake Challenge
by Janet Tashjian (Series)
The girls advertise their delicious creations and are thrilled to be invited to par-ticipate in a web show baking contest. Can Martina balance school and a ruth-less cupcake competition, all while keeping her stickers in check? Grades 4-6. You may also enjoy The Never Girls: In A Blink by Kiki Thrope.
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Kids Corner is America's longest-running daily call-in radio show for kids. Hosted by Kathy O'Connell and produced by Robert Drake, Kids Corner is celebrating its 35th anniversary of programming in 2023. Kids Corner is a production of WXPN-FM, member-supported radio from the University of Pennsylvania. WXPN is made possible thanks to the generous support of its members and business sponsors. Copyright 2023 WXPN-FM / The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania, All Rights Reserved
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Convention Appearances 2021
With things getting back to normal, Kristopher is gearing up for convention and book signing season. These will be his first appearances since November of 2019! Come see him alongside your favorite horror movie actors, directors, and authors at the following events.
SCARES THAT CARE CHARITY WEEKEND – Williamsburg, VA – July 30th through August 1st. Kristopher will be in the celebrity room of the hotel signing books all three days. He will also be appearing on panels and doing live readings on Friday the 30th.
GET TICKETS.
Next up is Creature Feature Weekend – Gettysburg, PA – August 27th through the 29th. Kristopher will be in the celebrity room of the hotel signing books all three days.
Next up is CRYPTICON – Minneapolis, MIN – September 10th through the 12th. Kristopher will be signing books all three days.
Next up is CT HORRORFEST – Naugatuck, CT – September 18th. Kristopher will be signing books one day only!
Next up is The Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival – Haverhill, MA – October 9th. Kristopher will be signing books one day only!
More events to be added soon! Kristopher is excited to see you all again!
Gone to See the River Man – out now from Cemetery Dance Publications
Today is the official release of my new novel Gone to See the River Man, from Cemetery Dance Publications, and I couldn’t be more excited about it. If ever you were going to buy one of my books, make it this one.
It is available on every ebook format including Kindle, Nook, Kobo and iTunes. Just $2.99. Physical copies will arrive later this year. If you don’t have a Kindle or Nook yet, there are FREE apps for your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, and more on Amazon’s website and Barnes & Noble’s website.
Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers.
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers.
Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than twenty women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it.
She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.
Edmund tells her she must go to his cabin in the woods of Killen and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.
In her quest, she brings along her handicapped sister, and they journey through the deep, dark valley, beginning their trip upriver. The trip quickly becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori’s personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. The river runs with flesh, the cabin is a vault of horrors, and ghostly blues music echoes through the mountains. Soon they will learn that The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human — at least, not anymore. And the key is just the beginning of what is required of Lori to prove she’s worthy of a madman’s love.
“Having already proved himself a master of extreme horror with Full Brutal, in Gone To See The River Man, Triana shows he is able to paint his uniquely disturbing visions with a much broader palette. This gloomily atmospheric novel is an excellent and unnerving exercise in steadily mounting dread and an inexorable rendezvous with doom. It fuses family tragedy with phantasmagoric horror in a way that will linger long in memory. In short, this Triana guy is a serious contender.”
—Bryan Smith, author of Depraved
“Kristopher Triana pens the most violent, depraved tales with the craft and care of a poet describing a sunset, only the sunset has been eviscerated, and dismembered, and it is screaming.”
—Wrath James White, author of The Resurrectionist
The Long Shadows of October – Now Available
Now available from Grindhouse Press. THE LONG SHADOWS OF OCTOBER, a brand new Halloween horror novel.
“One of the most exciting and disturbing voices in extreme horror in quite some time. His stuff hurts so good.” – Brian Keene, author of The Rising
“What would you get if you combined a raunchy teen-sex romp party movie with a haunted house ruled by a vengeful, lust-fueled evil? You’d get an unforgettable NC-17 read packed with tempted virgins, tormented spirits, grisly surprises, and the ultimate showdown of female-empowered sensuality. In other words, you’d get this book!” – Christine Morgan, author of Lakehouse Infernal
Appearance! Killercon – Austin, TX
Very excited to announce that I’ll be a part of two panels at KillerCon in Austin, TX on Saturday, August 17.
7:30pm Raising The Freak Flag! Sex, Perversion, Fetishes, and Utter Depravity. When Does It Go Too Far? I’ll be up there with Edward Lee, Wrath James White, John Skipp, Christine Morgan and Dave Barnett.
“In Extreme Horror, Erotic Horror, and even Bizarro, sex is often used as a plot device, a source of fear, and terror, an example of how terrible our antagonist can be. When does it go too far and become sexist, or exploitive? Is it okay to portray sexual minorities as villains? Kinks and fetishes as examples of evil?”
Before that, at 6pm “HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF: What Do You Do To Stay Sane And Creative?” I’ll be up there with Lucas Magnum, William Gagliani, Michael Luis Dixon, Kenzie Jennings and Kelli Owen.
“After wallowing in the realm of werewolves, demons, zombies, serial killers, and their victims, dredging up the horrors from your past, and the headlines to bleed them onto the page, how do you fend off depression? What do you do with your anger and outrage? What do you do when self-doubt and imposter syndrome become paralyzing? How do you hold it together and keep writing?”
I’ll also be signing books all weekend!
Join us for the carnage!
The Long Shadows of October
Triana’s brand new horror novel “The Long Shadows of October” will be unleashed this fall via Grindhouse Press. Official release date TBA. Cover art by George C. Cotronis
When Joe and Danny take on the job of house sitting Snowden Manor, they fail to realize that they won’t be in the house alone. For inside the walls swarms a horrible specter, one that uses the manse as a prison for souls. She is part ghost, part succubus, and part black witch – an enchanting woman who died as a teenage girl within the house. And now that the October super moon is falling over the mountains, she is ready to reclaim her flesh.
Kayla is a shy girl who has a crush on Joe, so when he invites her to the house party she and her best friend Maxine come along. But no sooner do they get there than strange things start to happen. People go missing and the boys begin to… change.
Kayla is visited by wraiths on the mountain. They advise her to destroy the witch before she takes over the souls of her friends. This leads Kayla on a journey through necromancy and seduction, one that could cost her her sanity if not her life. And as Halloween approaches, the manor becomes a vessel for all the powers of darkness, leading to a showdown of otherworldly horror as the lines between two dimensions are severed.
New Novel TOXIC LOVE
WARNING: this book contains hazardous material. Handle with extreme caution. Exposure to its contents can cause severe damage to one’s health.
TOXIC LOVE. Coming this Valentine’s Day. Pre-order the ebook now for just 99 cents.
When you’re forty-five, getting divorced, and disillusioned from years of soul-sucking work in corporate America, there isn’t much to look forward to. With his personal life just as deep in the dumps as his professional life, Mike Ashbrook figures a janitorial job would be somehow fitting, but what he finds is a different kind of clean-up service.
Now Mike is wrist-deep in human waste. As a crime-scene cleaner, when the police are done, his job is just beginning. His biggest problem now, besides wiping up blood, guts, and other nastiness, is his new co-worker, Sage. She’s young, beautiful, and the only other employee who doesn’t quit after a week. She may also be totally insane. Sage is not just an enigma—she’s toxic.
Toxic Love is a darkly comic and erotic nightmare from the master of blood-soaked horror, Kristopher Triana. Throughout this tale of perversion, gore, necrophilia and even some mobsters, Triana pens powerful characters who will move you just as deeply as they’ll repulse you.
This Valentine’s Day, get toxic! What have you got to lose? After all, you know what they say: No Guts, No Glory Hole!
Triana was recently interviewed by Andrea Dawn. Check out the article here. Join us over at The Splatter Club (membership is always free) for more on his new novel Full Brutal, including contests and giveaways.
FULL BRUTAL – OUT NOW
Triana’s latest nightmare is FULL BRUTAL, now available through Amazon, Smashwords, and straight from Grindhouse Press (or generally anywhere books are sold).
Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of her suicidal thoughts, she begrudgingly decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way her peers do. She seduces one of her teachers, hoping to ruin his life just for the fun of it. This starts Kim on a runaway train of sadism, and she makes every effort to destroy the lives of those around her. But soon simple backstabbing is not enough to keep her excited, and she nosedives into sabotage, violence, and even murder. When Kim finds out she’s pregnant with her teacher’s child, a new madness overtakes her, and she realizes there’s only one thing that will satisfy her baby’s hunger . . .
“One part Heathers and Mean Girls, another part Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer, Kristopher Triana’s Full Brutal lives up to its title in the juiciest, goriest way imaginable. It’s a deep plunge into madness and murderous frenzy for the pure hell of it. At the same time, it is intricately clever in the way it delivers its carefully calculated doses of eye-popping brutality. Full Brutal is a damn good hardcore horror novel.”
–Bryan Smith, author of 68 Kill
“As violent and sadistic as it is wickedly satirical, Full Brutal will leave you feeling disgusted, degraded and filled with contempt for humanity. I loved it.”
– John McNee, author of Prince of Nightmares
“Full Brutal is like American Psycho through a Mean Girls filter, except cheerleader from hell Kim White makes Patrick Bateman look like a well-adjusted gentleman you’d really like to get to know. Arguably Triana’s finest and most disturbing work to date, and I’m a little terrified to see how he’s going to outdo this one in the future.”
– Chad Stroup, author of Secrets of the Weird
“Full Brutal is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I loved it. Extreme horror is in good hands.”
– Kristopher Rufty, author of Something Violent and Pillowface
Phoenix Comic Fest Appearance
Triana will be with Blood Bound Books at Phoenix Comic Fest, May 25th through the 27th, at booth # AA1102. He will be signing copies of Body Art, DOA II and III, and the advance, comic con exclusive copies of his forthcoming novel, Shepherd of the Black Sheep, which will have its general release in September. Get a copy four months early!
Author Drew Stepek will also be appearing and signing books. Drop by and see us in the desert!
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1. Anti-Vax
2. Hysteria
3. DoJ
5. Uber
6. Force Field
1. Anti-Vax. Latest authoritarian hysteria being ginned up is smartly targeting those who for whatever reason have chosen to be unvaccinated as the latest recipient of state sponsored discrimination and segregation. As it is difficult to argue without data (though ALL data during the Zombie Apocalypse has been unreliable) a few things are worth considering.
First, take a look at who and what are demanding people get vaccinated. They are the four groups with the very least credibility with the general public during the last 18 months: government, media, social media and public health officials. If these are making the demands, is there any surprise that nobody is paying attention to them?
New masking mandates look a lot like persuasion plays aimed at the unvaxxed, forcing everyone to mask up until those without vaccinations get theirs (which they will, one way or another). The logic behind this is much the same as that of the basic elementary school teacher who punishes the entire class for the sins of one student (known or unknown). Note that that mostly ended when we were 10.
No attempt has been made to determine who and who doesn’t have antibodies in their system aimed at COVID. These tests are not nearly as widespread or quick as the PCR test being withdrawn by the CDC. We still have an appreciable population, 35 million Americans who had the virus and recovered from it, a bit over 10% of the total population. We still have 74 million Americans who are under age 18 who don’t get the virus. There are 165 million Americans fully vaccinated. Add the 3 numbers together, and you have nearly 83% of the population who are in some way protected against the virus. Sounds like herd immunity to me, but what do I know?
But look at what Harris – Xiden are doing, bringing in hundreds of thousands of illegals, none of which are ever tested, and distributing them nationwide. At least 10% of these people are COVID positive, but nobody seems to care. Want to know where new infections are coming from? Look no farther than the newly invited wave of border crashers being injected into communities nationwide.
The Placing of the Blame by the media has been aimed straight at Trump supporters, who seem to be getting the jab in a bit lower number than others. But as it turns out, hesitancy to get the jab maps out similarly between whites, Latinos and blacks, with those 18-24 of all races the most reluctant. Least hesitancy to get vaccinated is among Asians of all age groups. This is one reason that Harris – Xiden have been a bit slow to impose mandatory vaccinations for all federal employees, which have a huge number of minorities. In doing this, Harris – Xiden is making war against its base. The federal employee unions have also gotten themselves involved in pushing back against these sorts of expected mandates.
2. Hysteria. Conservative pushback against this artificial hysteria is much more significant than it was 18 months ago, as we have learned a bit about how to deal with the virus. It is being led by Governors DeSantis and Abbot. The conservative commentariat from Sarah Hoyt to the NYP have jumped fully on board. And there seems to be a growing Irish Rebellion approach to the masking mandates, failure to comply while forcing employees of businesses to enforce something they really don’t want to enforce in the first place.
The woke generals got themselves fully involved in fanning the flames of the ongoing panic. A two-star Army General at Fort Sam Houston mandated mask wearing indoors beginning a week ago. Masking showed up at the Elmendorf – Fort Rich Commissary over the weekend. It wasn’t irrationally enforced, but that is coming.
The two-star Commanding General of Fort Benning got himself into a wet drill with a commenter on Twitter over masking. In this the commenter, who claims to be a former military member who separated May 2020 pointed out that DoD had a total of 26 deaths due to COVID in 18 months. OTOH, there was a 25% increase in suicides, with 26 additional servicemen taking their lives over the first 3 months than the previous year. The General returned fire, eventually accusing the commenter of “shilling for Putin.” Nice to see the Perfumed Princes are well ensconced parroting the Harris-Xiden party line. But the problem exists, as lockdowns and harsh limits on where the troops can go off base, masking, gym shutdowns, all combine to increase depression and in turn suicides among the force. It’s been 25 years since I separated. At the time, Commanders were too busy to get into public wet drills.
Finally, a great piece about the government approach to the Wuhan Flu from Wretched at the Belmont Club late last week. He draws the analogy between what public health officials are doing trying to ferret out the virus with what the submarine hunters in Tom Clancy’s Hunt for the Red October were doing. Antisubmarine warfare is essentially an information war. The better information you have on the location and movement of your quarry, the more focused and ultimately successful your attack on him can be. The COVID lockdowns were low information affairs that demonstrate what little actionable information public health officials actually had. They were the functional equivalent of depth charging hundreds of square miles of ocean in order to find a single sub, something nobody can afford to do. During the War on Terror, air delivered munitions progressively shrunk as target information improved. They were just as deadly to the intended target toward the end as they were in the beginning. Difference? Collateral damage was minimized.. Global lockdowns were the functional equivalent of firebombing Dresden, Hamburg or Tokyo, giant demonstrations of earnestness with little military efficacy. Perhaps size and severity of the lockdown is more an indicator of failure. As the restrictions get progressively less widespread and more precise, that’s when we will know we are winning. Problem is that governments don’t do that all that well.
3. DoJ. It took only six months for the Merrick Garland (In)Justice Department to turn itself back into a democrat protection racket. Evidence comes from a couple decisions last week. The first was the decision not to prosecute five ChiCom military spies who hid their involvement with the CCP military in order to get work visas in the US. Judges dismissed parts of cases against two of them after the FIB failed to inform them of their Miranda rights. They were arrested in a sweep last summer. The second came last week as (In)Justice decided not to bring civil rights investigation against Governors Whitmer (MI), Cuomo (NY) and Murphy (NJ) over nursing home COVID deaths and subsequent coverups. The FIB now claims to be fully focused in bringing those currently housed in the DC Gulag for their political crimes Jan 6 to “justice.” At least one defense attorney has started asking federal judges about the disparate treatment between those who were wandering the halls of congress taking selfies for three hours and those who tried to burn down a federal courthouse in Portland last summer. Something about equal rights under the law, a thing DoJ seems to have forgotten.
4. Equity. One of the things that the teacher’s union has been doing as they cram CRT down the collective throats of their students is carefully tell those kiddos not to tell their parents what is going on in their classrooms. Legal Insurrection last week had a story about a very uncomfortable Minnesota fourth grader after being told not to tell her parents about an equity survey. If CRT and equity are such wonderful things, why can’t the kiddos talk about it at home? Answer: it is because the teachers know it is an unpopular lie are sneaking it through the system into their classrooms.
5. Uber. Interesting piece out of FEE last week demonstrating that Uber and other ride sharing services are actively saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars every year. The study comes out of UC Berkely which looked at Uber and the impact it has on alcohol-related traffic deaths and total traffic deaths in the US. They found that Uber reduced alcohol related traffic fatalities by 6.1%, some 214 lives in 2019. It also reduced overall traffic deaths by 4$, another 494 deaths in 2019. These were mostly due to driving tired / sleepy customers. Extrapolating this across years, we find that Uber has saved thousands of lives and $2.3 – 5.4 billion in vehicular damage / destruction over the last half decade. This success is another reminder that lawful pursuit of profit in a free market is a help for all of society, something ignored by California unions and national democrats.
6. Force Field. From the world of “after all, this IS the 21st century…” (h/t Glenn Reynolds) comes some technology news from the AF Research Lab (AFRL) at Kirtland in NM. This one is a new analysis of DoD investment into directed energy technologies some 40 years out. Yeah, I know that is a mere 4 decades out of the political gene pool. But suffice it to say that either current DoD wokeness hasn’t completely trashed research into future weapons systems, or that those weapons systems are decades behind based on that very same wokeness. The AFRL analysis proposes a high-altitude missile defense system, an umbrella, part of a layered defense system, that already includes existing examples of what the analysis calls force fields. In the old SF world, a force field is an emission from a target that immobilizes whatever it being shot at them. An inverse of a force field in SF would be a tractor beam, something that can reach out and grab anything within range and do something with it. Todays’ force fields are non-kinetic anti-drone and anti-missile systems that can use high power microwaves to disable or destroy their targets. The Holy Grail of military utility for today’s systems is a system that is affordable enough to provide a nuclear / missile umbrella. DARPA believes that such a system (unlikely) or combination of systems (likely) will be deployable and able to include methods to destroy other threats, eventually becoming a nuclear or ballistic missile umbrella. I believe the early manifestation of this will be a bulletproof umbrella against autonomous drone attacks. Such a system will be multi-layered, tiered, not unlike what current missile defense systems are designed to be. No single system is 100% effective. OTOH, the combination of multiple systems is hoped to be bulletproof. The analysis uses a combination of lasers, RF weapons, millimeter wave, high power microwave and particle beam weapons designed to create five military weapons effects: deny, degrade, damage, destroy or deceive. Whether the layered defense around a target is an impenetrable wall, the combination of multiple weapons systems to defend a target area becomes the functional equivalent of a force field, though not within the old SF definition of the term. But that is coming, as once you can deny access to any outside attack, the logical improvement path is to make that system or combination of systems simpler and combine defense paths eventually leading to the old SF force field. We can only hope these guys get from where they are to where they want to go before military leadership gets too woke and incompetent.
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BEACH PRINCESS, 2013 16h bay mare
Located at Finger Lakes Race Track, Farmington, NY (near Rochester
This beautiful and classy mare has been lovingly cared for by her connections for 6 years and is a beloved member of the shedrow. Princess impressed us as a beautifully conformed mare with a solid build that has served her well in her successful racing career. She is reported to be sound and we observed clean legs all around. Princess was very dignified during her meet and greet with us, standing quietly on a loose lead as we chatted with her handler (who is very fond of this mare and will miss her!). She is of the opinion that Princess should have an experienced rider. She says Princess on some days can be “sweet as pie” and on other days doesn’t want to interact. We got to see the super sweet personality! Her handler (who also gallops Princess) also states that the mare has a big heart and will give you everything that is asked of her — again, a testament to her race record and hardiness. Princess has 44 lifetime starts with 8 wins, 7 seconds and 9 thirds with $137,000 inearnings and she still has a lot in her tank. Showing lovely, balanced movement at the walk and jog on a loose lead, Princess could go in just about any direction in her post-racing career. She is by Alex’s Pal, who is from the Valid Appeal/In Reality sire line; her dam Beach Barbicue is by Tabasco Cat out of an Unbridled mare.
Price $3000 negotiable
Contact Jen Bartlett 585-797-5682 (texts preferred)
Race record: https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=9575825®istry=T&rbt=TB
Pedigree: https://www.pedigreequery.com/beach+princess
A PPE is always recommended. For information about on track vet practices available to do PPEs, please see the How to Buy menu tab on our website, which is linked in the post pinned to the top of our FB page.
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Category Archives: Experimental
Sound Disturbance – a sonic art festival in Malmö
We can’t close our ears. Therefore sound can be both a bliss and a disturbance in life. Sound can affect our emotions immediately, without any thought or explanation. It’s an expression that is increasingly used and loved by artists and audience and there is a need for events and opportunities to put the light on what it really is: an artistic expression of its own right.
Today Sound Disturbance starts, a two day long nordic festival in Malmö for sonic art. Entrance is free and everything takes place at Inter Arts Center in Malmö. In addition to concerts with artists from all Nordic countries there are a number of interesting seminars. Furthermore you can also visit installations by comic book writers, video artists and others. The event is a collaboration between C-Y (ContemporarY), MUU and Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter.
During the concerts you can listen to experimental music from various genres, like ambient, drone, noise and electroacoustic music. There are also collaborations between sound artists and comic book writers in live sessions. The entire schedule and all information is available here.
Here are some tracks from a few of the performing artists.
Jurmo – “Gnistor, irrbloss 1:2”
It’s exciting with music that is searching more or less actively for what it really is. That is how I perceive this album, not as if it has an identity problem, but rather like if it is trying new ways in a playful and fascinating manner. “Gnistor, irrbloss” is music for a wind quartet (mostly brass), percussion and a voice (Nicolai Dunger), who alternately improvise, sound and play compositions which sometimes just are, sometimes are pop-melodic and sometimes are fragmentary. This search also makes it hard to categorize. Sometimes it sounds like jazz, but it’s also art music and pop. “Gnistor…” is the first album of two made in this way.
The founder is Johan Arrias, who gathered the musicians playing on the album, and he also writes that the record is “a mixture of ready-mades, poetry, songs, sounds and sketches”. This makes the album appear like an art gallery or maybe like a part of an art gallery. In any case, I get quite curious about the continuation.
Sista striden
Gnistor, irrbloss 1:2 by Jurmo
Reglerna och leken
Gnistor, irrbloss 1:2 by Jurmo Johan Arrias’ site – on Spotify – on Apple Music – on Bandcamp
Sven Rånlund – “La Vie Modulaire 1” album
Modular synthesizers! For some (plenty of people) the term leads to a greedy look and the want for new sounds, new equipment and more. The fact is that – after many years as an obscure and forgotten instrument – during the last years a rather large subculture has formed around modular synths. This has created a lot of great music, and among other things led to an interesting documentary about synth history: I dream of wires (also available on Netflix).
In Sven Rånlund’s gentle hands the modular synth generates everything from nice polyphonic, rhythmic compositions to scifi sounds and more abstract structures. The 60’s is still there but somehow filtered through the years 2014-2016. You can sense from the titles that here is a composer who works in a playful way but still seriously, which is also emphasized by the philosophic texts in the CD booklet. The modular life (“La Vie Modulaire”) is a fun and exciting journey. Have a listen!
Starboared
Bongo aero
Sven Rånlund’s site – on Bandcamp – on Spotify – on Apple Music
Ullén-deHeney-Hug – “Quarrtsiluni”
Quarrtsiluni is a word in Inuit which roughly means that you are quietly sitting together waiting for something to happen. You may listen to this album in that way, but I do think that it’s rather eventful. There are six tracks which are titled only with numbers: Song one, two, three.. and so on. Each song or track is an improvisation with the starting point in the feeling of just sitting together and the sensation that something has to be said, something necessary. Maybe the spirit of the great whale is among us in the music, as they write on the label Lamour records.
Lisa Ullén on piano and Nina de Heney on double bass have been playing together for a long time and they are a well established duo. On “Quarrtsiluni” they are also joined by Swiss Charlotte Hug on alto violin.
Read more here and listen to the entire album in one session in the Youtube clip below, or sample one of the tracks in the Soundcloud player.
More about Lisa Ullén | Nina de Heney | Charlotte Hug
“Quarrtsiluni” on Spotify – on Apple Music
BC Grimm – “Orbis Obscura”
A 35 minute long sci-fi tone poem for pipa (chinese lute) and guitar pedals. It’s not exactly something you encounter every day. The music are also ambitious and quite unusual to say the least. BC Grimm, aka Brian Grimm, grew up with various chinese string instruments and has also later studied several of them in Hong Kong.
On “Orbis Obscura” the traditional chinese influences are not that obvious, so if you expect that you might get disappointed. But the music is built from the sound of Grimm’s pipa, a sound he then manipulates with the help of pedals and effects beyond recognition. Noise, drones and other sounds that are connected to sci-fi are poured into the mix, creating an interesting journey through Grimm’s sound imagination.
BC Grimms site | Bandcamp | Twitter
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Browse: Home / 2015 / March / 13 / Spiegel: NOAA “Embarrassment” Over “Four Years Of Failed El Niño Forecasts” …”Numerous Buoys Have Ceased To Function”!
Spiegel: NOAA “Embarrassment” Over “Four Years Of Failed El Niño Forecasts” …”Numerous Buoys Have Ceased To Function”!
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2015
We keep hearing that the climate and weather forecasting tools are gaining in sophistication, and correspondingly in reliability. Climate model simulators claim to be able to see decades, even centuries, into the future!
Yet Spiegel Science journalist Axel Bojanowski has an analysis here which looks at the recent spate of failed El Niño predictions by the NOAA, and shows that these forecasting tools are still terribly lacking. His latest piece: “Change in global weather: El Niño embarrasses meteorologists“. (Here I’m not sure why Bojanowski (or his editors) chose the term ‘meteorologists’ because much of the work is arguably done by climate scientists.)
It is an accepted fact that the El Niño cyclic changes in the equatorial Pacific surface temperatures have major impacts on the global weather, especially the northern hemisphere. Thus it would be useful if scientists were able to predict them with some degree of rough accuracy.
Unfortunately accuracy is still a long way off as forecasters falsely predicted an El Niño four years long, and only now has it finally begun to take hold. Bojanowski writes:
Seldom have meteorologists been made to look so foolish. Four years long they published the same prognosis: Soon an El Niño would be taking hold in the Pacific.”
The Spiegel journalist describes how last June experts were “80% sure” a powerful El Niño was in the works, and how in 2013 “a peer-reviewed paper in a well known science journal” boasted of new forecasting methods for El Niños. Sadly, these experts aren’t anywhere near getting it right. So, as a result, Bojanowski writes, they have recently become “considerably more cautious” with their forecasts. Embarrassment does that.
Bojanowski describes how the ENSO’s impact on global weather patterns, wildlife, and even regional sea levels, and how NOAA experts have had to admit the latest El Niño has been an unexpectedly tame one – in stark contradiction to forecasts made earlier. He writes: “The inaccurate forecasts of the past year has forced the scientists to rethink their methods, said NOAA expert Gabriel Vecchi in the journal ‘Nature’.”
Numerous buoys out of order!
Bojnowski also writes that the biggest problem is reliably predicting the weakening of the tradewinds, and says this has become difficult because “numerous buoys have ceased to function over the years” and so are no longer able to measure the changes in sea surface temperature.
That is certainly an interesting revelation presented here by Bojanowski. Still, NOAA El Niño forecasters should not feel too bad about their measurement and forecasting woes because it could be much worse. For example their climate colleagues haven’t gotten their global temperature forecasts right in over 18 years!
And concerning what can be done in place of the “numerous” out-of commission buoys, perhaps the NOAA El Niño scientists could consider using the “filling in the data” method and simply apply the measurements made by the closest functioning buoy (even if it is 1000 kilometers away). After all the global surface temperature scientists seem perfectly satisfied with that particular method. The data-fill-in method would surely allow the NOAA El Nino experts to make forecasts that are just as spectacularly accurate as those of the global warming climate scientists.
Flashback: wattsupwiththat.com/el-nino-sea-monitoring-half-dead-already/
Posted in Models, Oceans | 20 Responses
20 responses to “Spiegel: NOAA “Embarrassment” Over “Four Years Of Failed El Niño Forecasts” …”Numerous Buoys Have Ceased To Function”!”
nightspore 13. March 2015 at 8:07 PM | Permalink
Another strike against these guys: as part of the multi-billions spent for climate change research, did no one think to put in for equipment maintenance? This also sounds eerily similar to the surface temperature station scandal. Maybe it’s another reflection of the fact that these guys are all modellers; no thought is ever given (apparently) to where the numbers come from – and what it takes to get good measurements.
P Gosselin 13. March 2015 at 8:14 PM | Permalink
I’ve added a link to WUWT. Appears the funding for the all-important buoys was cut….which is a damn shame because ENSO forecasting is something that is actually very useful.
AndyG55 13. March 2015 at 9:40 PM | Permalink
“as part of the multi-billions spent for climate change research, did no one think to put in for equipment maintenance?”
I suspect that this will be the case for wind turbines.
They will die, and just be left to rot once subsidies and FIT rorts run out.
The people who took all that subsidy money will be nowhere to be found.
A C Osborn 13. March 2015 at 8:16 PM | Permalink
You know what they say about “Bad Workmen blaming their Tools”?
Bruce of Newcastle 13. March 2015 at 9:09 PM | Permalink
Ben Santer admitted in the APS workshop in January that the AMO and PDO aren’t in the models.
That is why they are failing since ENSO is strongly influenced by the PDO. During the low phase of the PDO, which we’re in now, there are fewer el Nino’s and they are short and weak. This will continue until the warm phase of the PDO which won’t come for another 20 years or so.
Just remember..
the less data they have coming in…
the more they can “infill” !!
Curious George 13. March 2015 at 9:51 PM | Permalink
I would not put much weight on the buoys out of commission. Not enough information given, but I guess that instead of maintaining ancient buoys, they are replacing them with Argo or other modern equipment.
Ed Caryl 13. March 2015 at 10:23 PM | Permalink
Except the Argo floats don’t do wind, air temperature, etc.
DirkH 13. March 2015 at 10:55 PM | Permalink
Difficult to measure wind speed when you’re 2000 m underwater.
TruthTeller 14. March 2015 at 7:45 PM | Permalink
He was specifically talking about “trade winds”, and you want to dismiss the facts because of some underwater buoys, somewhere? That’s classic. How, exactly, will those “modern” underwater buoys measure wind speed?
You people are religious zealots. No amount of science or reason can ever touch your dogma.
Leo G 15. March 2015 at 12:09 PM | Permalink
Druck pressure sensors in most of the Argo floats were found in 2009 to be misoperating due to oil micro-leaks, potentially affecting all float models. The resulting pressure drift can happen gradually or suddenly and leads to false indications of temperature rise over time at depth (among other things).
DirkH 15. March 2015 at 3:32 PM | Permalink
Interesting! Thanks!
cementafriend 14. March 2015 at 12:55 AM | Permalink
The article above mentions “Unfortunately accuracy is still a long way off as forecasters falsely predicted an El Niño four years long, and only now has it finally begun to take hold” but Axel B has fallen into the trap of accepting a forecast. As of 13th March the SOI is close to zero see here https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationindex/30daysoivalues/ and there is no sign of an El Nino. Right now there are 3 cyclones close to Australia. The Monsoon (wet) season just has been a bit late. It could be that the SOI graph has turned and it could be heading towards a La Nina (ie more rain at the western side of the pacific -the Australian eastern coast) determined by sustained +ve SOI over 10. SOI is the atmospheric pressure difference between Tahiti and Darwin divided by the SD of the difference. The pressures have been measured since 1860.
Climate scientists do not understand pressures and mass transfer. Dr Gavin Schmidt admitted on a blog that he did not understand the Schmidt number.
P Gosselin 14. March 2015 at 10:37 AM | Permalink
One could argue we are borderline El Nino: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/indices.shtml
The general point he makes of course stands solid.
cementafriend 14. March 2015 at 12:22 PM | Permalink
Pierre, BOM has become hopeless and everything they say needs to be taken with “a grain of salt”. Here is one post at Jonova http://joannenova.com.au/2015/03/historic-documents-show-half-of-australias-warming-trend-is-due-to-adjustments/
This post at Warwick Hughes mentions the supposed El Nino http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=3618#comments
Your graph from BOM shows zero sea temperature anomaly and a falling trend. If anything from that and the SOI graph one could predict a coming La Nina (ie more rain and cooler). After a dry period (there has been a drought in Queensland over the last two years) rain can be expected and it now seems the drought is over.
Graeme No.3 14. March 2015 at 4:59 PM | Permalink
Re BOM: today the man giving the weather on the TV commented that the actual temperature was almost correct.
The general public is quite sceptical of the predictions.
Paul Homewood 14. March 2015 at 10:03 PM | Permalink
Remember as well that we are are still firmly parked in the middle of the warm AMO.
This has a direct impact on NH temps. When the AMO starts dropping, which will probably happen during the 2020’s, NH temps will drop like a stone for 30 yrs.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/amo-pdo-cycles-2/
If global temps are flat during the last decade of warm AMO, I would suggest it is time to get the fur coats out!
Joe Bastardi 15. March 2015 at 9:19 PM | Permalink
JAMSTEC has been spot on. Never forecasted a major enso event instead had what we were saying.. a modoki event. Likely to continue into next winter, but never reach the kind of levels CFSV2 keeps trying to forecast. ALot of el nino hype is wishcasting the overall cycle in the Pacific has changed and el ninos, like the 60s and 70s are not likely to be as strong or as long as the 80s and 90s. Joe D Aleo wrote about this several years ago
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yonason 16. March 2015 at 6:08 AM | Permalink
Long on expensive but worse than useless models, short on time tested practical applications.
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Presidential Piscatorial Pursuits
June 28, 2018 By Jonathan Wright
Q: What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump Jr. have in common?
A: They each like to go fly fishing!
You thought there was a joke coming, right? Well, no joke, both the former president and the son of the current POTUS were reported being guided on the water last week fishing for trout. Obama chose the Adirondack region in New York for his excursion, and the younger Trump took a river float trip in Montana. Both were apparently successful in catching fish, which you know had to be a stress test for the guides.
According to the New York Times, Mr. Obama flew into Adirondack Regional Airport near the former winter Olympic site of Lake Placid, and engaged local guide Vince Willcox of Wiley's flies in the town of Ray Brook. Willcox reports that the former president, who had only fly fished one other time, did great, "catching a couple of fish", one of which was kept for dinner. The two spent the day at an undisclosed location with secret service staff at the ready, and after the session, shared some of Willcox's home brewed beer. It is not known if the two were fishing on a river or lake, but Willcox said the trip had been in the planning stages for over nine months.
Over halfway across the country, another player on the current political stage -- Donald Trump Jr. -- took time to float the Stillwater River in Montana. People.com reported that the younger Trump took his new girlfriend, media personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, along for the trip and commemorated the occasion making posts on Instagram.
"Great time floating the Stillwater River yesterday in MT with @kimberlyguilfoyle. It doesn't get prettier than this," he captioned a series of photos of them fly fishing. "What a way to spend a weekend. #fishing #flyfishing #montana #mt #outdoors."
While Montana and New York each have a long history with the sport, and are generally considered prime examples of either Progressive or Conservative values, it appears that fly fishing crosses the aisle between parties and provides common ground for policy discussion on what is of value to Americans. Interestingly, current Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is also a native Montanan, and his views on public lands such as the Stillwater River that Mr Trump enjoyed would certainly be welcome in the debate.
Presidents have always fished with flies. Teddy Roosevelt was an avid hunter and angler before spinning gear existed, and Dwight Eisenhower was a fan of the classic "House and Lot" dry fly pattern. More recently, Jimmy Carter returned many times in his retirement to float the class 4 whitewater of Gunnison Gorge in Colorado to get a crack at the wild browns there.
If only we could get current and past presidents together in a boat for the day, I think that many of the country's problems might get sorted out in short order!
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Future Electronics
Future Electronics Offers CUI Inc.’s Family of Low Power Board Mounted DC/DC Converters
Future Electronics - Monday, May 5, 2014.
Submitted by Claudio Caporicci.
Pointe Claire, Quebec (prsync) May 5, 2014 - Future Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, offers CUI Inc.'s family of low power board mounted DC/DC converters.
CUI has introduced a family of low power board mounted DC/DC converters for use in harsh environments and demanding applications. PES1-M and PEM1-SDC/DC converters from CUI Inc. combine high isolation and wide operating temperature range.
The unregulated PEM series provides 3,000VDC of I/O isolation and a wide operating temperature range of -40°C to +105°C. There are two ranges of converters in the family: the PEM1-S devices are rated for a 1W output, and the PEM2-S for a 2W output.
CUI also produces the PES1-M, a surface mount DC/DC converter which provides an isolated 1W output.
The PEM and PES series incorporates a number of design and manufacturing improvements to previous generations of converters, providing for improved efficiency and thermal performance. Overall efficiency has been raised to as much as 89% at full load. The new design also enhances the devices' performance across the load curve, reducing power consumption at light-load and no-load conditions, making these converters ideal for use in mobile and battery-powered devices.
The PEM converters are housed in a compact, industry standard 7-pin SIP package measuring 19.6 x 7 x 10mm, and the PES1-M in an 8-pin package measuring 12.7 x 8. x 7.25mm. Nominal inputs of 3.3V (except PES1-M), 5V, 12V, 15V and 24V (±10%) and output voltage configurations of 3.3V (except PES1-M), 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V, 24V, ±5V, ±12V, ±15V, and ±24V are available.
To provide an additional layer of protection for sensitive loads, the converters also come with continuous short circuit protection and 8kV of ESD protection.
Typical applications include medical equipment, industrial control equipment, mixed signal systems, and security equipment.
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Obnovljivi izvori energije i energetska ućinkovost u ruralnim podrućjima
Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency for Rural Areas
Perspectives of Renewable Energy in the Danube Region
Territorial Cohesion in Europe
Regional Transformation Processes in the Western Balkan Countries
The Role of Environmental Industry in the Regional Reindustrialisation in Hungary
South-East Europe: State Borders, Cross-border Relations, Spatial Structures
Uniregio : Universtitäten in der grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit
Hungarian Spaces and Places: Patterns of Transition
A Portrait of South Transdanubia
Regions and Cities in the Global World
Regional Processes and Spatial Structures in Hungary in the 1990s
European Challenges and Hungarian Responses in Regional Policy
Hungary: Society, State, Economy and Regional Structure in Transition
Development Strategies in the Alpine-Adriatic Region
Regional Policy and Local Governments
SOUTHEAST-EUROPE: STATE BORDERS, CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS, SPATIAL STRUCTURES
Hajdú Zoltán - Illés Iván - Raffay Zoltán
Pécs : Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
ISBN 978 963 9052 65 9
There were and still there are territories in the continent of Europe that are in the foreground of international political, scientific, economic etc. public interest from time to time and then the interest in them fades for a shorter or longer while. The Balkans Peninsula, "The Balkans" and Southeast-Europe have already been in the centre of the European public attention and power games several times.
By the right of the ancient Greek civilisation, the southern parts of the Balkans Peninsula can be taken as the cradle of the European culture. The history of the Roman and the Byzantine Empire started a peculiar process of "change of empire" in the region in the broader sense. The Republic of Venice as a super power "spread the enlightenment" in the Mediterranean areas of the Balkans Peninsula. The Ottoman Empire conquered the Balkans for centuries and accordingly had deep structural effects on the whole of the region.
Modernisation was a complicated process, a multi-player "game" from the beginning, where the Ottoman Empire, the desire of the oppressed small peoples for liberty and later the conflicts among them all played their parts, as did, last but not least, the super powers who treated the small nations almost as "toy dolls" durrog their rivalries. The definitely not positive consequence of all these common activities became the birth of a "hornet's nest" in the Balkans.
The 20th century reinforced in many respects the negative connotations of "The Balkans", among the peoples living in the peninsula few admitted their "Balkans" character or attached themselves to "The Balkans". International politics and political geography, however, still created a special notion (balkanisation), generalising the processes of the region.
Actually it was a dilemma from the beginning in the development of geographical science how to divide the volatile political units (states etc.), changing frequently and within short times, which stand the test of time, enjoy a public consensus and are acceptable for everybody. (Later it became a Basic issue of regional science and the European macro-regional co-operabon and planning process.) In the beginning the hasis of the division was provided by the basins (catchment areas etc.) of the large rivers, but it turned out soon that the rivers were far to attractive for the "state border makers" of the actual powers, so no final solution acceptable for everybody could be reached by such a division.
From the early 19th century, both the significant development of physical geography leading to the more precise definition of concepts and the progress and increasing demands of school education led to the division of Europe into islands, peninsulas, basins and mountain ranges etc. (Even though there was consensus on the designation of the respective categories, the specification of the designated macro-region was often debated.)
The volumes now published in Hungarian and English languages were not written as monographs and do not give a complete picture of the whole Balkans region (this will be done by the monograph to be published in Athens, providing a comprehensive summary of the whole research), or the role of Hungary in the research of the area. What the studies do is highlight some important segments of the special issues (important from the aspects of Hungary) of the Balkans.
Hungarian academics have been actively studying the Balkans Peninsula und Southeast-Europe for about a century und a half. The internal transformation processes of the region - as thoroughly documented by Zoltán Hajdú - have always had a considerable impact on the directions of the Hungarian researches.
The structural features of the countries of Southeast-Europe und the components in the transformation of the internal spatial structure are mised as issues of European significance in the essay of Iván Illés. The macro-regional processes und the development of the situation of the individual countries followed different development paths after the systemic change, too.
The development of the macro-regional transport connections has traditionally been important for Hungary. The essay written by Ferenc Erdősi gives an introduction to the transport processes of the region, together with the political correlations of these processes.
Gyula Horváth in his essay analyses the general determinations of the regional processes in East-Central Europe, drawing attention to the occasional differences as well. In this region, regionalism is a more complicated phenomenon than in the other parts of Europe.
Ilona Pál-Kovács gives in her study an overall view of the internal administrative reform tendencies of the Southeast-European countries. The political weight of public administration is significant in each of these countries. The situation is especially interesting in the case of Bosnia und Herzegovina.
New spatial categories have emerged (West Balkans), but the consolidation of the whole of the region and its placement in the European integration process is still to come. Zoltán Pámer deals in his study with the European Union integration processes (and often question marks) of the West Balkans.
The processes of the historical and the recent past, and the still unsolved situation of Kosovo make it necessary confront the issue whether the European Union is going to be able to "Europeanise" the region. If not, the unsettled tensions and processes in the Balkans will partly destabilise the southeast parts of the European Union.
southeast_content.pdf
Full text of the book
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Big Ten Season Grades: Ohio State, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois
Posted by Alex Moscoso (@AlexPMoscoso) on April 18th, 2014
Continuing our season-ending analysis, we look at the performances of Ohio State, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. Earlier this week, we handed out grades for Indiana, Northwestern, Penn State and Purdue.
This season (25-10, 10-8): What would be a successful season for most programs was a relative disappointment for the Buckeyes. Ohio State did not capture a Big Ten regular season or tournament title for the first time since 2008-09, and similar to that season, they were also bounced out of the NCAA Tournament in their first game. The issue for the Buckeyes – which was a clear problem area in the preseason – was generating offense without Deshaun Thomas in the lineup. Thomas’ replacement, LaQuinton Ross, almost doubled his scoring average, but the Buckeyes failed to find reliable offensive firepower anywhere else. In the end, Aaron Craft and Ohio State’s excellent showing on defense wasn’t enough to overcome the team’s offensive woes.
Thad Matta had a let-down of a season relative to his own success. Don’t expect it to continue next season. (Getty)
Next season: The Buckeyes lose Craft, Amedeo Della Valle, Ross, and Lenzelle Smith Jr. They welcome in an elite recruiting class that includes D’Angelo Russell, Keita Bates-Diop, and Jae’Sean Tate; and they also will get graduate transfer Anthony Lee from Temple next year. These additions along with several talented players already on their roster should have no one worrying about the state of the program going forward. This season was merely a hiccup in the Thad Matta era.
Iowa: C
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Rushed Reactions: #11 Tennessee 78, #11 Iowa 65
Posted by Chris Nguon on March 19th, 2014
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Three Key Takeaways in Tennessee’s First Four win.
Tennessee head coach Cuonzo Martin speaks with Jordan McRae during the Vols’ seesaw victory over Iowa State. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Per the norm, the numbers are usually right. Going into Wednesday’s contest, virtually all advanced metrics revealed that these two teams were evenly matched and that certainly played out on the court. When one team looked as if it was going to pull away, the other team found a way to gather itself and stave off absorbing of the knock-out blow. Tennessee’s performance was absolutely gritty to the fullest effect and I am sure Cuonzo Martin is very proud of his guys. The Volunteers trailed (albeit only by a small margin) for the majority of the second half but Martin’s squad simply refused to take “no” for an answer. Tennessee was down by as much as five points in the second half but finally took the lead with 3:12 left when Antonio Barton nailed a trey. Two minutes later, the Vols re-took the lead with a bucket from Jeronne Maymon. And even though Roy Devyn Marble put the crowd in a tizzy with his game-tying jumper with 18 seconds left, the Volunteers stayed poised and controlled the entire five minutes of overtime to earn a very impressive victory.
Marble’s teammates picked him up big-time, but it wasn’t enough. With the season on the line and their star standout struggling from the field, the other Hawkeyes didn’t sulk or tighten up like many teams have been known to do. Instead, players like Adam Woodbury, Peter Jok and Zach McCabe picked up the slack in the grandest of styles – keeping Iowa afloat with an array of gutty plays down the stretch until their senior leader finally found the bottom of the net. For all the hair-pulling that Iowa fans experienced this season, watching Marble’s definitive answer after the Volunteers took a two-point lead with 3:12 left must have been a sight to see. For good measure, Marble added a handful of other big plays in the final two minutes – none bigger than his jumper with 18 seconds remaining to tie the game. However, if Marble had shot better than 3-of-15 from the field (0-of-6 from three), I think even he would admit that his Iowa team wouldn’t have found itself anywhere near overtime. Read the rest of this entry »
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Evaluating Big Ten Teams in the Midwest Region
Posted by Brendan Brody on March 18th, 2014
When the field of 68 was revealed to the masses on Sunday night, the Midwest region was the one that got the most attention. It was called the “Group of Death” on a number of occasions by different media members — borrowing from soccer terminology, and used to describe what normally is the hardest group in the World Cup. The Big Ten has two of the 18 spots in this grouping, with Michigan earning a #2 seed and Iowa getting a #11 seed. Iowa’s late-season swoon caused the Hawkeyes to drop to the “opening” round, where they’ll take on a surging Tennessee team from the SEC on Wednesday night. Here’s an outline of what the Wolverines and the Hawkeyes are up against this week as they try to navigate their way to North Texas.
John Beilein and Michigan will have their work cut out for them if they were to make it to their second straight Final Four.(Lon Horwedel/AnnArbor.com)
Michigan has an easier road than Iowa, but the Wolverines will still have to navigate through a treacherous path to get back to the championship game. They start out with SoCon conference champion Wofford on Thursday evening. The Terriers hold opponents to 32.5 percent shooting from the three-point line, so if Michigan were to become only the fourth #2 seed to go down in the first round since 2002, it would probably because they simply couldn’t hit any outside shots. The next round will give them a different set of challenges in a game against either Arizona State or Texas. The Sun Devils have the necessary perimeter athletes to counter the strength of Michigan’s trio of wing superstars, with an elite scoring point guard (Jahii Carson) backed up by a 7’2″ shot-blocking maestro in Jordan Bachynski. Texas offers a different set of challenges with its rugged inside play offering a marked contrast to the free-flowing motion of Michigan’s offense. Should Michigan make it to the Sweet Sixteen, that’s when things really could get insane. If the bracket holds, the Wolverines will get a rematch with Duke that would allow Nik Stauskas a chance at redemption from his previous four-point performance in Durham. An Elite Eight appearance could net a national title game rematch with Louisville, a chance to take down an undefeated Wichita State team, or even a battle with a Kentucky team that could very well break the Internet should the Wildcats make it that far. Prediction: Elite Eight loss to Louisville.
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A Quality Performance Today in Indianapolis is a Must For Iowa
You could make a case for any number of Big Ten teams really needing to show out at the Big Ten Tournament if they hope to make a run in the bigger March tournament. Minnesota is situated squarely on the bubble after finishing with a conference record of 8-10. Nebraska was inhabiting the same patch of bubble real estate until their win over Wisconsin. They should be in the field of 68 now, but another win would be nice for their collective peace of mind. Michigan State wants to prove that they are worthy of the preseason hype they generated with their team all back from their different injuries. Indiana and Illinois need to win four games in four days to get there. But Iowa has the most to prove out of anybody in the field. They’ve plummeted from a potential #3 or #4 seed, to a team that with an early loss, could be looking at double-digit territory. So how do the Hawkeyes fix things to get back on track?
Gabriel Olaseni and Josh Ogelsby need big games for Iowa to advance in the Big Ten Tournament. (John Schultz/Quad City Times)
Fix the Defense Immediately: Here’s a quick breakdown of what the Hawkeyes have given up in their last six games in terms of points per possession: 1.22, 1.32.1.12, 1.06, 1.26, and 1.12. Even in their lone victory in the bunch over Purdue, they still allowed the Boilermakers to shoot 49.1% from the field. On their KenPom page under defensive footprint, it says inconclusive. Nothing sums up their lack of a defensive identity better than that. They do a decent job blocking shots and Roy Devyn Marble and Mike Gesell do a pretty good job getting into the passing lanes and getting steals. But in their recent rough patch they’ve given up far too many easy baskets in the paint. Whether it means extending their zone press and getting more aggressive with it (which they have the depth to do), or just hanging back and sticking to either a man-to-man or a zone, Iowa needs to pick a style and go with it. I don’t know if their is confusion about what their responsibilities are, or that they just don’t care because they think they can outscore people. Either way, what they’re doing right now isn’t working, and hasn’t for a number of games. Read the rest of this entry »
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The RTC All-Big Ten Team: Iowa’s Roy Devyn Marble
Posted by Brian Buckey on March 10th, 2014
Checking in at No. 4 on the RTC All-Big Ten countdown is Iowa’s Roy Devyn Marble. Marble has carved out a nice career at Iowa, where his dad Roy Marble is the program’s all-time leading scorer. The senior has improved in each of his four seasons with the Hawkeyes, raising his scoring average each year as his role on the team continued to grow. On a team full of talented offensive players, there is no doubt that Marble is Iowa’s go-to guy and will be the key to any success the Hawkeyes have in the postseason.
Devyn Marble (middle) is the fourth best player in the Big Ten.
Why Roy Devyn Marble is the fourth best player in the league: Iowa has turned into an offensive juggernaut in the Big Ten and Marble leads an offense that is first in the Big Ten in scoring average (82.6 points per game) and fourth in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency (1.21 points per possession). He averages 17.0 points per game himself, which ranks sixth in the conference this season. He is also 10th in the league in assists at 3.5 per game, 10th in three-pointers made at 1.6 per game, and fifth in steals at 1.8 per game. Over his career in Iowa City, he has turned himself into a complete player and versatile weapon who can attack off the bounce as well as burn a defense with hit long-range shot. Marble has been a consistent offensive threat all season, with 12 games of 20 or more points, and while Iowa has struggled lately, Marble has continued to produce at a high rate (20+ points in five of the team’s last six games). The Hawkeyes have lost five of those six games, but those defeats can’t be attributed to Marble’s play; rather, it has to do with the team’s general lack of defensive intensity, as indicated by a porous 1.06 points per possession rate that they give up in the Big Ten.
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Two Key Questions for Iowa at Michigan State Tonight
Posted by Jonathan Batuello on March 6th, 2014
Michigan may have clinched the Big Ten, but Iowa‘s trip to Michigan State tonight has plenty of importance for Big Ten Tournament and NCAA seeding. The Hawkeyes are in a battle with Nebraska and Ohio State for their first top-four finish in conference play since they tied for fourth during the 2006-07 season. Michigan State, on the other hand, is trying to get some confidence with its entire lineup finally healthy. For both teams, it is an important contest in terms of momentum, so with that in mind, here are two key questions heading into tonight’s game:
Roy Devyn Marble and the Hawkeyes desperately need a win at Michigan State for NCAA Tournament seeding purposes (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports).
1. Both Iowa and Michigan State have had skids recently (losing three of four with each winning versus Purdue), so which team needs this win more for confidence and NCAA Tournament seeding purposes?
Realistically both teams need this win, but Iowa probably needs it more than Sparty. The Hawkeyes ended their losing streak against Purdue, but it nearly blew a double-figure second half lead against the Boilermakers. Iowa is also on the verge of losing a first round bye in the Big Ten Tournament as well as seeding for the NCAA Tournament. Most prognosticators have Fran McCaffery’s group sitting in the #6-#7 range (RTC’s Daniel Evans has them as a #7 seed), so a win likely helps them avoid a fall to the challenging #8-#9 seed line and a potential second-round match-up with a #1 seed. It also gives them the confidence of another marquee win, something they have lacked with only one win against a current Top 25 team. Michigan State needs the win too, as it is battling for a top four protected seed in the NCAA Tournament, but with its lineup only recently becoming healthy, regaining chemistry for tournament play is of paramount importance. Everyone knows what a full Spartans squad can do and seed placement won’t really deter that potential if they start firing on all cylinders.
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Can Iowa Shore Up Its Shoddy Defense in Time?
Posted by Deepak Jayanti (@dee_b1g) on March 4th, 2014
After three seasons at the helm, Fran McCaffery will finally take Iowa back to the NCAA Tournament. That’s the good part about the Hawkeyes’ season. The next logical question is whether they can win more than one game there. With a 20-9 record and an RPI in the 30s, it is likely that the Hawkeyes will be on one of the top six seed lines, which could put them in a dreaded #5/#12 match-up against a decent team. Even if they get past that round, they’ll have to beat a Top 25 quality team that is likely to be offensively talented. At this late point in the season, it is still unclear if the Hawkeyes can defend well enough to beat a team that can run in a track meet with them. Over their last four games they have given up 1.21, 1.31, 1.12 and 1.06 points per possession, respectively, against Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Purdue. Those numbers do not bode well for a team looking to make some noise as we head into March.
McCaffery’s Hawkeyes will need to get some stops if they hopse to get to the Sweet 16. (AP/C. Neibergall)
Defense has been an issue for Iowa all season long, and a lack of it is the main reason they have been unable to close out many games. Their record is a bit deceiving because they have won all of the games that they were supposed to, but they really only have two quality wins on the year: at Ohio State and vs. Michigan in Iowa City — even in both of those games, the Hawkeyes gave up more than a point per possession to the Buckeyes and the Wolverines. A win against Xavier, another NCAA Tournament team, is impressive, but an argument can be made that the absence of Musketeers’ star Semaj Christan during the second half helped the Hawkeyes. These observations are not intended to take anything away from Iowa’s resume this season, but merely to point out that its stay in March Madness could be a short one unless they find some answers on defense, and soon.
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Big Ten Weekend in Review: Illinois and Indiana Mount Late Charges
Posted by Brendan Brody on March 3rd, 2014
With the drama pretty much settled at the top of the Big Ten standings, the biggest storyline to emerge from the weekend was the fact that Illinois and Indiana have rallied back to the point of respectability. Illinois shocked Michigan State 53-46 in East Lansing and has now won four of their last six games. Indiana was missing its Freshman of the Year candidate Noah Vonleh, yet still won over Ohio State 72-64 in a game that wasn’t really as close as the final score indicated. The Hoosiers have now won three of their last four contests and sit at 17-12 (7-9 in the Big Ten) on the season. Illinois is also 17-12 overall, with a 6-10 league mark. It’s still unlikely that either team will make its way to the right side of the bubble, but they’re inching closer and have meaningful games left this week that could help their respective causes. Iowa got back on track with a win over Purdue; Michigan continued to roll; and Wisconsin won its seventh game in a row. Here’s some of the rest from the weekend that was.
Roy Devyn Marble once again took over offensively as Iowa beat Purdue to stop a three game losing streak. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports).
Player of the Weekend: Roy Devyn Marble: Marble continues to be slightly overlooked as a defensive player, as his length and wingspan are vital in Iowa’s 1-2-2 trapping half-court zone. Marble reached four or more steals for the fourth time this season, as Iowa forced 16 Purdue turnovers in its win on Sunday. He also did his normal damage on the offensive end as well, scoring 13 of his 21 points in the first half. He needed 18 shots from the field to get there, but this was more a function of Purdue’s defense as opposed to Marble forcing anything. He ended the game with team highs in points (21), assists (five), and steals (four).
Super Sub of the Weekend: Evan Gordon: Gordon and fellow senior Will Sheehey have really played well in the past week as Indiana won two out of three games. Gordon did nothing spectacular on Sunday, but he was really steady as a secondary ball-handler along with Yogi Ferrell. He knocked down pressure free throws in the late stages of the game once again, scoring nine points on the afternoon. He also got three steals as the Hoosiers were able to frustrate Aaron Craft into another horrible offensive game where the senior went 2-of-11 from the field with three turnovers. It looks as though Tom Crean is starting to lean on his seniors in the closing stages of games, as Gordon, Sheehey, and Jeff Howard saw time down the stretch in the win.
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Who Won The Week? Louisville, Marcus Smart, Michigan and The Citadel…
Posted by Kenny Ocker (@kennyocker) on February 28th, 2014
Who Won the Week? is a regular column that outlines and discusses three winners and losers from the previous week of hoops. The author of this column is Kenny Ocker (@KennyOcker), a Spokane-based sportswriter best known for his willingness to drive (or bike!) anywhere to watch a basketball game.
We’ve got more to get to here than usual, so we’ve got a special extended-yet-abbreviated edition of WWTW on tap today.
WINNER: Louisville
Russ Smith won Louisville’s game over Cincinnati on Saturday with a late jumper. (AP)
Your defending national champions – remember them? – are rolling at just the right time in the season. They went into Cincinnati and handed the Bearcats their first home loss of the season Saturday, 58-57, with a Russ Smith dagger – remember him? – then followed that up by blowing out woebegone Temple 88-66 on Thursday.
Sophomore Cardinals forward Montrezl Harrell thrived this past week, as he has since the dismissal of Chane Behanan, scoring 21 points in both games. Going forward, the Cardinals have games left at Memphis and SMU, followed by a home game against Connecticut. Though they’re tied with Cincinnati at the top of the American and on a seven-game winning streak, we’ll know much more about Louisville by the time the conference tournament rolls around.
(Related winners: Smith; Harrell. Related losers: Cincinnati, which squandered its chance at an outright AAC championship by losing at home; Temple, which had its first 20-loss season in school history thanks to Louisville.)
LOSER: Saint Louis
The Billikens, which had been one of America’s last four teams undefeated in conference, took one of the most befuddling losses of the whole season, falling 71-64 on Thursday to a Duquesne team that had won four Atlantic 10 games in Jim Ferry’s two seasons in Pittsburgh. What had been one of the nation’s top 10 shooting defenses gave up an effective field goal rate of 50.7 percent, including 14-0f-18 shooting and 7-of-9 three-pointers by Dukes guards Micah Mason and Jerry Jones. And against one of the nation’s 10 worst defenses vs. three-point shooting, Saint Louis only made 4-of-23 shots from beyond the arc. The Billikens have a top-five defense nationally according to KenPom.com, but their offense ranks 169th in efficiency. Then again, defense wins championships, right?
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Weekend Preview in the Big Ten
Posted by Alex Moscoso & Brendan Brody on February 22nd, 2014
Typically, RTC Big Ten microwriters Alex Moscoso and Brendan Brody preview the weekend’s most important or interesting conference game. This week the problem is — and it is a good problem we might add — that all the games on this weekend’s slate have some level of significance. So we decided instead of focusing on just one to quickly preview and analyze each of the five weekend match-ups in this single post. Enjoy.
Wisconsin at Iowa (Saturday, 12:oo PM ET, ESPN2)
Fran McCaffery Was Not Happy About His Previous Ejection (AP)
AM: This is one of the most consequential games this weekend as it pits the current third and fourth place teams against one another. If Wisconsin loses, the Badgers will likely be out of contention for a regular season championship as they’ll find themselves three games back of the Michigan-Michigan State winner with only five games remaining. In their previous meeting, Iowa came firing out of the gates and built an 11-point lead at half before blowing it as Fran McCaffery was ejected for an incensed outburst towards the officials. Look for Iowa to try to set the pace once again, but this time get players other than Roy Devyn Marble involved. It would also help to defend the three-point line better than they did at the Kohl Center, where Wisconsin shot a tidy 45.5 percent.
Minnesota at Ohio State (Saturday, 6:oo PM ET, BTN)
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Listen to albums and songs from The Kingsmen (Gospel). 3 - The Kingsmen on AllMusic - 1965 - The group's third album, again issued here… It's unfair to call the Kingsmen "one-hit wonders," as they did have hits besides "Louie, Louie" (even if they're not well remembered today), but very few bands in the history of rock & roll managed to get as much mileage from a single song as they did. The Climb 7. Money (That's What I Want) ... (12 songs) Living Legacy Movement 13-10-2017 Look at God. Not What I Do . This presents all the clean studio single takes in great sound. Louie Louie song from the album The Best Of The Kingsmen is released on Jan 2006 . The Kingsmen [US3] originally did Money, Tossin' and Turnin', Linda Lu, Great Balls of Fire and other songs. The Kingsmen. List of Songs. In a way the only Kingsmen LP you need—their first three albums all have great songs and playing but are ruined with patently fake applause overdubs and horrible EQ—heartbreakingly unlistenable (what were they thinking?). Peaked at #42 on 31.10.1964. The Jolly Green Giant 6. John Newman) • Rudimental. The Kingsmen. Long Green 9. Kingsman: The Secret Service | Official Trailer 2 [HD] | 20th Century FOX, Kingsman: The Secret Service | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX, Kingsman: The Secret Service | Official Red Band Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX, Kingsman: The Secret Service | Official Trailer 3 [HD] | 20th Century FOX. What's the music they play in the church scene. So whether it's a Summer Music Festival, a Sailing Regatta, Wedding, Garden Party, Christmas Carnival or Easter Parade, The Kingsmen have a repertoire of songs with performances to match. The Kingsmen. © 2021 OLDIES.com and its affiliates and partner companies. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard charts for six weeks. Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of WayneSongwriter Interviews. [0;25] Eggsy does parkour to escape the Chavs. Miraculous this LP even exists, frankly. This song recharted for the Kingsmen in 1966 and also became a hit for the Sandpipers that same year. ... which is the inspiration for many of her songs. Louie Louie . Money. 05:19 02. The band first got together in 1959. "In 1995 the Kingsmen got with some of our alumni and recorded our 40th reunionat the National Quartet Convention. The Kingsmen Songs List 1. When recorded the band members were Jack Ely (vocalist/rhythm guitar; d. Listen to The Kingsmen Louie Louie MP3 song. Opening song, during a raid in the Middle East in 1997. Heavy crown is the last song in the movie not the first and as said before the first song (Money for nothing by Dire Straits) isn't even mentioned. The Kingsmen. Not much is known about the early days of the King's Men quintet, an old-time Southern gospel act who are not to be confused with the Portland, OR-based garage band the Kingsmen (the band whose enduring "Louie, Louie" survives today as one of the all-time frat rock classics). Surf's Coming: 60 Cool Tracks from the Pioneers of Surf... (CD), Quadrophenia: Music From The Soundtrack Of The Who Film (2... (Vinyl LP), Best of the Northwest - The Louie Louie Collection (CD), Rumble: 40 Raucous Guitar & Sax Instrumentals (2-CD), Ronnie I's Top 25 Ballads By Non-Hit Vocal Groups (CD), Louie Louie: The World of The Kingsmen (CD), Song previews provided courtesy of iTunes. Give Her Lovin' Peaked at #4 on 06.03.1965. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry’s “Louie Louie”, which held the 2 spot on the Billboard charts for six weeks and has become a timeless classic. The Kingsmen is a 1960s garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States. The Kingsmen are a garage/frat rock group from Portland, Oregon. One new song, "Don't Say No" (released as a single in 1967), was also included. The Kingsmen. Look at God (feat. The guy who brought us "Stacy's Mom" also wrote the Jane Lynch Emmy song and Stephen Colbert's Christmas songs. List of songs with Songfacts entries for The Kingsmen. The Kingsmen [US3] covered Money, Tossin' and Turnin', Linda Lu, Great Balls of Fire and other songs. 2640 fans Top tracks. THE KINGSMEN's songs: Listen to songs by THE KINGSMEN on Myspace, Stream Free Online Music by THE KINGSMEN The Kingsmen were formed in Portland, Oregon in 1959 by guitarist and singer Jack Ely and drummer Lynn Easton, two teenagers who had been friends for years. the first song which plays while the kingsmen are attacking the umpire, which i found from various sources is not mentioned here! Easton, whose mother had registered the name of the group and therefore owned it, declared that from this point on he intended to be the singer, forcing Ely to play the drums. The two began playing parties at a local yacht club, and within a year they'd expanded to a quartet with the addition of guitarist Mike Mitchell and bassist Bob Nordby. Join Napster and access full-length songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. 01. Death Of An Angel. The Jolly Green Giant 1965; Louie Louie 1963 (This oldies garage band classic was originally based on a Jamaican love song, but it stirred up a lot of controversy when it was first released because of its unintelligible lyrics. When Eggsy is in the club, with the two others candidates. The Kingsmen formed in high school and played around Portland, Oregon; during the '60s they would record several albums and release a number of singles that did hit the charts, although none reached the success of \"Louie Louie.\"The Kingsmen, who were quite young, recorded the The Kingsmen’s version of the song is sloppy and raw, with actual mistakes in there. 1. Feel the Love (feat. No soundtracks are currently listed for this title. Before the success of "Louie Louie", the members of the Kingsmen took varied paths. The Kingsmen. The Best of the Kingsmen (Scepter/Citation Series CTN-18002) 1972 The Kingsmen's seventh album completed their career arc in the 1960s with a compilation of previous releases including all eight of their Billboard Hot 100 singles. The Jolly Green Giant. Look at God. Death Of An Angel 5. The original line-up was Jacky Ely (guitar/lead vocals), Lynn Easton (drums), Mike Mitchell (lead guitar), Bob Nordby (bass) and Don Galucci (piano). The single has become an enduring classic. Worldwide, scores of millions of people recognize the opening strains of the hit song “Louie Louie” the instant they hear them. This led Jack Ely and Bob Nordby to quit the group in 1963, and Gary Abbott and Norm Sundholm were added to play drums and bass, respectively. The Kingsmen (3) Profile: American Southern Gospel vocal quartet formed in 1956 Sites: kingsmenquartet.musiccitynetworks.com. The Kingsmen, Soundtrack: Knight and Day. 02:45 02. The garage rock band from Portland were formed in 1958 and managed to release one of the best song ever recorded in the history of music, Richard Berry’s “Louie Louie” (which, of course, their top 1 in this list) – it stayed at the No. Annie Fanny 8. To place an order or for customer service, call toll-free. please mention this!! Louie Louie 2. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Kingsmen, Vol. Listen to I Believe In A Hill Called Mount Calvary, Reunion In Heaven and more from The … Get all the latest news, tour dates, music and more. The duration of song is 02:45. The original CD did not include all of the songs or any of the talking," says the Kingsmen's Ray Dean Reese. Complete song listing of The Kingsmen Quartet on OLDIES.com The Kingsmen Quartet ~ Songs List | OLDIES.com COVID-19: Because of processes designed to ensure the safety of our employees, you may experience a delay in the shipping of your order. YeYe) The Kingsmen. Find out more about The Kingsmen, How We Sound, Our Performances or even enquire about Hiring Us. dire straits "money for nothing", Pomp and Circumstance (From "Kingsman: The Secret Service"). 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Scream for a Week – December 5, 2016
Welcome to our newest column addition Scream for a Week!
We here at The Digital Bits are big fans of Shout!’s Scream Factory division and, not unlike Todd Doogan’s Criterion Spines Project, we wanted to cover Scream Factory’s releases by catching up on a bunch that we’ve missed while acknowledging the previous ones. We’ll also be covering new ones here as well. This column will go up on a bi-weekly basis, so be sure to check back in another two weeks for another pile of Scream Factory goodness.
First up is a double feature of Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror, both terrific horror anthologies. Tales from the Crypt in particular contains one of the creepiest and more effective Christmas horror stories. Speaking of Christmas, new on the slate is a Collector’s Edition of Black Christmas, a title long sought after by Scream Factory fans and one that I believe many will feel was worth the wait. Also new on the chopping block is Jack’s Back, a great little thriller mostly forgotten by genre fans. Next is George A. Romero’s Monkey Shines, one of his most enjoyable non-Dead movies. And last but not least is a double feature of TerrorVision and The Video Dead, one of Scream Factory’s earliest releases and still one of their most fun. [Read on here…]
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TFN Interview With Author Ryder Windham
Posted By Adrick on January 23, 2012
Ryder Windham is well known for his many contributions to the Star Wars Expanded Universe over the years. His contributions include the Droids comic series, Jedi Vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, and the upcoming Millennium Falcon Owner?s Workshop Manual. His series of Star Wars biographies for young readers includes the newly-released Wrath of Darth Maul, which provides a detailed look at the life of the young Sith Lord. Here we discuss the series, how Maul?s existing backstory was integrated into the newer material, and the making of a Sith Lord.
You?ve been writing for Star Wars since the mid nineties, and have probably written more regularly for the franchise than just about any other recent author. How do you maintain a fresh approach to stories and characters?
It helps to keep in mind that every Star Wars book could be a reader?s first Star Wars book, that it?s fresh for someone else. I might be very familiar with the characters and situations, but the goal is to make each Star Wars story exciting and memorable, and leave the readers simultaneously satisfied and eager for more. I think it also helps that I genuinely love playing in the Star Wars universe, that I get a kick out of revisiting various stories from different perspectives. I never get tired of a return trip to Tatooine.
The Star Wars biography series for young readers has had four installments based on the lives of Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, and now Darth Maul. How did this series come to be?
Scholastic editor David Levithan contacted me in 2006, asking if I?d be interested in writing a novel that was essentially the Star Wars saga from the perspective of Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. The publishing plan was to release the novel in 2007 and exploit the thirtieth anniversary of Star Wars. I?d already written the junior novelizations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi for Scholastic, so Vader?s life was definitely familiar territory, but I thought it was a great opportunity to do something slightly different.
I had no idea Scholastic was planning more biographies beyond the Vader book, and I?m not involved in the planning at all. For each biography, Lucasfilm and Scholastic editors choose the main character to focus on, and then Scholastic contacts me. I?ve joked that I?ll eventually write R2-D2?s memoirs, and the entire book will be in binary code.
How has your approach to the subjects of the biographies changed over the last four volumes?
For The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader, I was initially instructed to focus primarily on writing an adaptation of every scene featuring Anakin and Vader in the movies. I can?t remember why, but Lucasfilm was somewhat hesitant to let me incorporate a lot of details from the Expanded Universe. I very politely protested, suggesting that readers would expect something more than a replay of Anakin and Vader in the movies, that the Expanded Universe information would be new for a lot of young readers. I was also keen on adding some new bits, like how Anakin and his mother arrived on Tatooine, and how they met Watto, not because I wanted to claim bragging rights for scripting those particular moments, but because I thought such sequences would help shape Anakin?s character. It was also my idea to tell the story in a somewhat non-linear fashion, beginning with Vader just before the events of Return of the Jedi, and then flashing back to Anakin Skywalker?s childhood, and proceeding up through the end of Jedi.
After the novel was released, young readers enjoyed it well enough, but a good number of older readers complained that that it didn?t contain more ?new? material. Annmarie Nye became my editor at Scholastic, and when she offered me the Obi-Wan assignment, she encouraged me to draw more from the Expanded Universe and also to create new sequences. For the Luke Skywalker book, I was further encouraged to develop new sequences, including an adventure for Luke after the events of Return of the Jedi, and I couldn?t resist resurrecting an old enemy from the Star Wars comic strip by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. As for Darth Maul, very few stories existed about his youth, so I was fortunate in that Lucasfilm allowed me to expand his biography quite a bit.
If there?s one thing all my Star Wars biographies have in common, it?s that they begin with the characters when they?re older, and then go back to when they were younger, and proceed from there, showing how the characters mature. But I wouldn?t say the biographies are totally formulaic because each character is so different. Lucasfilm may have encouraged greater leeway with the Expanded Universe after The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader, but I?m not sure my approach has changed that much with the other books. I just hope to entertain readers, and also make them connect with the characters.
This book comes out right before The Phantom Menace is released in 3-D, and just before Darth Maul makes his return in The Clone Wars. Was this the reason Darth Maul was chosen as the subject for the next biography?
Yes, definitely. When I got the assignment, someone, I can?t remember who, told me that Darth Maul was going to be the Star Wars poster boy for 2012. He?s everywhere.
Although Maul was ?resurrected? for The Clone Wars TV series, The Wrath of Darth Maul is the first story to reveal his survival after the events of The Phantom Menace. Did this affect the story you wanted to tell?
Unless one considers Darth Maul?s appearance in the Visionaries comic book as canon, yes, I think The Wrath of Darth Maul is the first official ?Maul survived? story to appear in print. The Clone Wars episode definitely helped shape Wrath, giving me various story ideas as well as a neat prologue and epilogue. I didn?t have any preconceived notions about the story before I learned details about Maul?s resurrection, so I really just took the info that Lucasfilm gave me and did my best to work with it, to shape a Maul story that worked with The Clone Wars.
What was it about Maul?s character that you wanted to capture in 214 pages?
I was mostly intrigued by the challenge of making Maul a sympathetic character, which was a challenge I gave myself. I can only imagine how other writers might have handled young Maul, but I suspect some would have been tempted to make him an evil critter from the very start, and Lucasfilm might not have dismissed that idea either. We see Maul in The Phantom Menace, and he?s totally vicious and terrifying, so fully formed, it?s hard to imagine him any different. But the way I figured it, he wasn?t born hating Jedi, wasn?t born with a lightsaber in his hand. I thought Maul would be a more compelling character if I could convey that he was a lifelong victim of circumstances, but one who has little awareness that he?s a victim.
What do you think appeals to people most about Maul? What sets Maul apart from other Sith Lords we?ve seen?
A lot of Maul?s appeal is in his appearance. He?s so visually striking and deadly looking, it?s almost impossible to avoid looking at him. He?d definitely stand out in a lineup of Sith Lords. As for what else sets him apart, and I?m just going to stick with Sith Lords from the movies? Unlike Count Dooku or Anakin Skywalker, Maul never had a choice about becoming a Sith Lord?s apprentice. He wasn?t lured to the dark side, didn?t start off as a Jedi apprentice and then lean toward darkness. One might argue that Anakin felt as if he had no choice when he allied with Darth Sidious, but my take was that Maul had no choice, that he?d been corrupted since infancy.
You previously wrote about Darth Maul in The Fury of Darth Maul, a novel/gamebook combo from the Episode I Adventures series. This was one of the first EU stories to focus on Maul. Did you give much thought to his background then?
No, not really, not at the time. I never wondered what Maul might have been like as a boy, or any other details of his past. I guess I took him at face value. Back then, there may have even been a mandate to not reveal too much about Maul?s past, just like Yoda?s origins have always been off limits.
However, I did have an indirect impact on Maul?s background. In 1998, Running Press hired me to write Star Wars: Episode I Who?s Who, and for that book, Lucasfilm encouraged me to create names of species and homeworlds as well as brief biographies for various members of the Jedi Council and also the Podracers. I came up with the word Zabrak to describe Eeth Koth?s species, and then another writer decided that the similarly horned-headed Darth Maul should also be a Zabrak. When I first heard a character say ?Zabrak? on The Clone Wars, I had to grin at that.
The Wrath of Darth Maul blends together a lot of material from different sources about Maul?s past. Was it difficult to integrate all this while still creating something new?
Because there wasn?t much info about Maul?s past, it wasn?t difficult to create and make room for new bits. The Darth Maul Journal written by Jude Watson provided a lot of information, and really served as a foundation for Maul?s past. The Journal includes several passages that start off with something like, When I was young, my Master brought me to a world for a training exercise, and it became my job to sort out when those events occurred, how old Maul was at the time, and so on.
The only thing I recall as a slight stumbler was that Lucasfilm used to endorse the idea that Maul was adorned with ?Sith tattoos,? but that idea seems to have changed with the introduction of the Nightbrothers in The Clone Wars, as all the Nightbrothers have similarly tattooed heads and bodies. I didn?t address the issue, just omitted any mention of Sith tattoos.
This novel names the previously unidentified worlds where Maul was trained. Mustafar in particular is used heavily. Can you explain the process behind choosing these planets?
Leland Chee, the continuity editor at Lucas Books, informed me that Darth Sidious secretly trained Maul on Mustafar. So, after reviewing Jude Watson?s Darth Maul Journal, and noting how Maul visited various unnamed worlds during his training, I examined Star Wars: The Essential Atlas to pick worlds that weren?t too far from Mustafar, which seemed practical. I figured Sidious wouldn?t want to travel too far with young Maul. The Atlas is one of my favorite reference books, and I use it frequently. I should just throw money at Dan Wallace and Jason Fry the next time I see them.
James Luceno?s Darth Plagueis, his Darth Maul short story Restraint, and the upcoming Clone Wars episode Brothers all influence the plot of this book, yet none of them was released while you were writing the book. What did you have to work with?
Shortly after I got the Maul assignment, I learned that James Luceno was working on Restraint, and Lucasfilm encouraged us to talk so we could make our stories mesh. I?d never met or talked with Jim before, and we had several long talks on the phone, which was a pleasure. He was very generous with his ideas. He came up with Orsis Academy, the Mandalorian instructor, and Maul?s fight with the Nightsisters, and I somehow wound up inventing the Mandalorian?s name, also the names of Maul?s fellow cadets at the academy. He sent me his outline and first draft of Restraint, and I sent him excerpts from my book. At first, I planned on just alluding to the events in Restraint, but the editors encouraged me to adapt Jim?s story from purely Maul?s perspective. I think my only significant contribution to Jim?s story was to suggest that Maul would do something that left the Nightsister?s leader, Talzin, in Maul?s debt, as I thought that would better mesh with situations in upcoming episodes of The Clone Wars, or at least what little I knew about the episodes.
As for The Clone Wars episode Brothers, secrecy was such that Lucasfilm Animation didn?t want to release a script. Leland Chee described Maul?s appearance to me over the phone, and also provided some dialogue from an episode featuring Maul. Leland really gave me everything I needed to get the job done.
One thing that really strikes me about this book is that Maul is sympathetic not because he once had love and friendship, like Anakin Skywalker, but because he had the potential for it even during his horribly brutal life. This gives his character an element of tragedy while staying away from a more traditional "fall" to the dark side. Were you aware of this when creating the relationships Maul had with Deenine and Kilindi?
Yes, that was deliberate. Every time the story seems to be building toward Maul gaining a friend or being the recipient of some small act of kindness, it just doesn?t work out, or the opportunity is yanked away from him. If I?d written Maul as a remorseless psychotic killer since childhood, there?d be no tragedy, and I did think tragedy was necessary for Maul?s story to hold any strong interest. Most readers can?t easily identify with a Force-using character, but they can identify with what it?s like to want a friend, to want praise from an adult, to want a life without pain. All of Maul?s relationships with other characters were engineered to mess him up, to make him more hateful and untrusting. The tragedy is evident in several sequences that suggest Maul secretly yearned for a friend at different times in his life, but that he could never have one.
As is appropriate for the character, this novel is dark and violent?at times it?s quite easy to forget it is meant for younger readers. Was this a hard line to walk?
I?m afraid this will sound pretentious, but I really never think about the age of the readers. I?m more conscious of the fact that I?m writing for Star Wars fans, and that I hope to please them all, children and their parents included. The editors knew from the start that this book would contain violence, that it wouldn?t have anything resembling a conventional happy ending. But as you noted, that?s appropriate because we?re dealing with Maul. I think the editors trusted that I wasn?t interested in glorifying violence, that I understood my job was to tell how Maul evolved into Darth Maul, and also indicate that he?d survived the Battle of Naboo.
The hard part was that I wound up dipping into very dingy areas of my own imagination to put Maul through some extremely cruel paces. I didn?t take any delight in making young Maul suffer, but I also knew the only way Maul could become Darth Maul was to really put him through hell. After working on some disturbing sequences, I just needed to get away from my computer. I took a lot of long walks to clear my head.
Only one bit of violence was edited out. In my first draft, when Maul fights an Abyssin student at Orsis Academy, Maul didn?t just bite the Abyssin?s nose. He bit it off and spat it out. I thought I was being clever by making Maul?s opponent an Abyssin with regenerative abilities, so his nose would have grown back. But the editors said, Nope, that?s still way too violent and gross. And they were right. Another writer might have tried to argue that a Star Wars character temporarily losing a nose isn?t a big deal compared to a character permanently losing a hand or head because of a lightsaber, but still? No need for gross.
What was your favorite part about writing this book?
Getting to know Jim Luceno was a terrific bonus. I?m still just tickled that I was selected to write it, that I was encouraged to flesh out Maul?s past.
I do have a favorite recollection while writing the book. After I?d finished the opening chapters, I gave them to my daughter Violet, who was just shy of eleven-years-old at the time. Before that, Violet?s only assessment of Darth Maul was to say, ?He looks freaky.? I just sat back quietly and watched her face as she read. She started off looking very serious, and then a few pages into it, she grinned. And then her brow furrowed. And then she said, ?Awwww!? and looked up at me with a pained expression. That?s when I knew I could make someone feel sorry for Darth Maul. A benchmark moment.
Thanks again to Wrath of Darth Maul author Ryder Windham for taking the time to talk to me. His book is available in stores now.
April 11, 2012 Ryder Windham Ultimate Visual Guide Signing
January 16, 2012 Wrath Of Darth Maul Reviewed
June 15, 2011 Darth Maul Bio Book Coming Next January
May 25, 2011 Star Wars: Darth Maul Bio By Scholastic
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The Millennium Crisis
Following the structural crisis in the world political economy since April 2000 ...
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Medianalysis — The Unified Field Theory of the Global Media Society
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Popular Anger in South Korea re Deployment of US-Sponsored THAAD Anti-Missile System, Even In Face Of Bellicose Northern Artillery Drills
April 28, 2017 David Caploe China, East Asia, Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Trump - International Provocations, US Alliance System 0
Opposition head, likely new Premier, calls US & lame-duck Seoul regime rapid deployment attempted “fait accompli” before May 9 elections. Fierce protests by local villagers & activists arose quickly on Wednesday in Seongju, site of deployment. Sirens wailed to alert villagers as a convoy of US military vehicles carrying the radar, launchpads, interceptor missiles and other key parts of the THAAD system pulled into town. Hundreds of villagers rushed out, shouting slogans against THAAD and blocking the road. But more than 8,000 South Korean police officers overpowered them, removing protesters and their cars from the road to let the military vehicles pass on their way to abandoned golf course, site of the deployment. Top, South Korean anti-THAAD protesters. Below, guided missile submarine Michigan at a base in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday. Its presence reflected heightened military readiness on both sides of the Korean Peninsula.
The United States and South Korea began installing key elements of an advanced missile-defense system in a rural southern county on Wednesday,
a day after North Korea held huge artillery drills to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of its military.
Work on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, also known as THAAD, got underway in Seongju, 135 miles southeast of Seoul,
while China, which strongly opposes the Thaad system, continued to try to tamp down tensions over signs that North Korea was preparing for a nuclear test.
It remained unclear whether the installation was ahead of schedule;
Washington and the lame-duck Seoul government have said only that they want THAAD operational “soon” or “within this year.”
The deployment has become a key issue in the campaign for the May 9 election to choose the successor to former President Park Geun-hye,
who had agreed to the deployment but was forced from office in disgrace last month.
Moon Jae-in, an opposition leader who is leading the polls, has vowed to review Ms. Park’s agreement if he is elected.
He accused the United States and South Korea earlier of rushing the deployment to make it “a fait accompli” before a new leader takes office in Seoul.
South Korea remains deeply divided over THAAD, which both Washington and Seoul say is
intended to defend South Korea and American troops there from North Korea’s fast-growing nuclear and ballistic missile threats.
In Seongju, fierce protests by local villagers and activists arose quickly on Wednesday.
Sirens wailed to alert villagers as a convoy of US military vehicles carrying the radar, launchpads, interceptor missiles and other key parts of the THAAD system pulled into Seongju.
Hundreds of villagers rushed out, shouting slogans against THAAD and blocking the road.
But more than 8,000 South Korean police officers quickly overpowered them,
removing the protesters and their cars from the road to let the military vehicles pass on their way to an abandoned golf course, the site of the deployment.
North Korea’s long-range artillery drills were conducted near Wonsan, along the country’s east coast, according to the South Korean military.
They coincided with military maneuvers by the United States and its allies,
as well as the arrival of the Michigan, a submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, in the port city of Busan, South Korea.
The United States Navy described the arrival of the submarine as “routine,”
but its presence reflected the heightened military readiness on both sides of the Korean Peninsula.
And on Wednesday, the Navy’s Seventh Fleet said that a strike group led by the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson was conducting exercises with Japanese forces in the Philippine Sea.
In addition to holding joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea,
US and South Korea have been staging military maneuvers in Pocheon, northeast of Seoul, demonstrating some of their latest weapons.
A North Korean state newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said last week that
the joint maneuvers were taking the tense situation on the peninsula to the “verge of explosion.”
North Korea often uses important national holidays, like the anniversary on Tuesday, to display its military might.
On April 15 — which would have been the 105th birthday of Kim Il-sung, the country’s founder —
it held a large military parade, flaunting what analysts said could be new intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The next morning, it launched a ballistic missile that failed after liftoff.
North Korean soldiers in front of statues of country’s founders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il,, in Pyongyang, the capital, on the day of massive artillery drills. Credit Kyodo, via Reuters
The South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing an unidentified government source, said
the North Korean exercise involved 300 to 400 pieces of long-range artillery, of the same type deployed along the border north of Seoul.
Seoul, a city of 10 million, lies in range of the North Korean artillery and could experience catastrophic damage if war broke out.
Yonhap called the drill one of the largest live-fire exercises conducted by the North.
South Korea said Monday that it had developed radar that can detect incoming artillery faster and more accurately than the radar it now uses.
The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said the technology, to be deployed by 2018, would not enable the South to intercept the rockets
but would allow the military to identify their source more efficiently and strike the launchpads.
On Tuesday, China sent Wu Dawei, a longtime diplomat handling tensions on the Korean Peninsula, to Tokyo
for talks with Japanese Foreign Ministry officials in hopes of warding off military confrontation.
Source: Missile Defense System Takes Shape in South Korea as North Holds Drills – The New York Times
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Disguised in the Spotlight: “Real Characters” Live at McNally Jackson
by Nick Curley No Comments
Sometimes when there’s a frequently performed show that’s been going on for awhile – but which you are attending for the first time – there’s a warm and tingling sensation that you’ve stumbled onto a desert island with its own thrilling new customs, or a secret society’s meeting a la the Stonecutters on The Simpsons, or that crew that Ben Franklin hypes in radio commercials.
Such were the good vibrations Wednesday evening at McNally Jackson in Nolita, where writer/comedian Andy Ross (Two jobs? A double threat!) proved a gracious host to five superb storytellers in a recurring series called “Real Characters”. I was genuinely surprised by the charms of each tale, and not merely because I had two plastic cups of wine beforehand (red, and of a higher quality than bottles found at most bookish events). If you’re in the market for a nice Malbec, I believe the wine had one of those names that also could have been its region, like Estrella, or Diaspora.
I even got to indulge one of my weirdest and thus favorite habits shortly before the show started: sitting alone in a crowd of people having multiple disparate conversations and eavesdropping only on non-sequential portions of each. All around me, a bouquet of utterances!
“Friends? He’s got a lot of friends.”
“Bogota is in Columbia, yes.”
“You have to get out of the city right now. It’s what makes sense.”
“Probably gonna graduate.”
“Some is good, some is bad, but all of it is funky.”
“Cheese? Oh, cheers! Yes, right: cheers!”
From there, each of the night’s readers brought a unique spirit to the festivities, beginning with Dawn Fraser‘s endearing tale of watching her brother – a man faced with Down syndrome – play with two young children in their family, and the ways in which she relished seeing both her brother and these children so enjoy one another’s company. Fraser also described her impulse to want to play with people’s earlobes in mid-conversation, which in hindsight I find curiously relatable. Fraser is also the creator and host of Fort Greene’s Barbershop Stories, which is a really good premise for a show that I will totally go to someday! Next, Jane Borden of Vanity Fair and her very own memoir I Totally Meant To Do That continued this brief theme of relating to the youths in telling of her attempts to bond with her nephew. It does not take a logical leap to hear that Borden found that unity in the comfort of making fart noises with one’s hands and armpits.
Later, a room of at least a hundred people collectively fell in love with Daily Show writer Hallie Haglund, who dared relate to us what it is to be a nineteen year old dropout living in Colorado and dating your depressive forty year old co-worker at a low-rent Italian chain restaurant. Haglund’s revelations incited laughter out loud, and painted a tapestry of the man in question, who from her depiction sounds like what Glenn Danzig would be up to these days if karma was real.
The show was rounded out with a double dose of stellar Saturday Night Live folk: writer Mike O’Brien and cast member Kate McKinnon. O’Brien’s story, a lengthy but riveting tale of lazy, hard boiled sleuthing entitled “Buck McCoy: Renegade Cop”, was as hilarious as it was kinda gross and absurd. O’Brien’s slow and nuanced cracking open of a tall boy of Coors Light at the story’s outset acutely set the mood. If nothing else, let this piece direct you to O’Brien’s delicately awkward and earnestly creepy web series 7 Minutes in Heaven, in which he interviews an array of funny and/or pretty people from inside a closet. McKinnon meanwhile damn near stole the show: an utter marvel at character work, she first portrayed the ejaculate-soaked trials and tribulations of a hive’s queen bee living by the axiom “Be careful what you wish for”. She then switched gears (and wigs) to bring to life a scientist coincidentally named Kate McKinnon, who therein delivered a thorough and rigorous report on whether it is possible for a lonely scientist to engage in a mature and mutually beneficial romance with her cat. McKinnon looks like Scarlett Johannson and is funnier than Jake Johannsen. By the time you read this, she will be the most famous person on Earth.
In the name of rigorous criticism, I’m saddened to report that I had a lovely time watching this show, and can find virtually no fault in it. Am I softening in my old age, like the stool of our elders? I’m struggling to think of a disreputable or lame moment all evening. If only someone had stepped on my new sneakers, or one of the evening’s readers had proven to be a secret Nazi who’d gotten this far before spilling the beans of prejudice. In pursuit of total and utter perfection going forward to next month’s edition of Real Characters: perhaps the wine could had been delivered to my seat, coupled with a soft kiss on the cheek? Something to consider for next time.
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China Allows Usage of Ruble in Sino-Russian Border City
2015/08/10 By Alexander Shishkov in Business Opportunities, HomePage Featured, Investment Opportunities, Trade Opportunities Tags: China, Russia
China’s central bank has allowed usage of Russian currency ruble along with yuan instead of U.S. dollar in Suifenhe city on the Sino-Russian border in northeast China. © Fotolia/ Comugnero Silvana
The People’s Bank of China (PBC) has authorized Suifenhe City on the China-Russia border in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province as a pilot zone where the ruble can be officially used alongside the yuan.
Jin Mei, deputy secretary-general of the monetary policy committee of the central bank made the announcement at the opening ceremony of a trade exposition in Suifenhe Saturday.
The circulation of the Russian ruble in the border city is a result of the “benign development” in settling bilateral trade with yuan and ruble instead of U.S. dollar, Jin said.
Suifeihe City is the major hub of Heilongjiang Province’s trade with Russia. The city accounted for 80 percent of Heilongjiang’s export of goods to Russia and reported a foreign trade of 7.59 billion U.S. dollars in 2014.
Ruble is already widely used in Suifenhe, particularly in shops and hotels targeting Russian customers, local sources said.
City officials believe that legalizing the use of ruble will promote bilateral economic cooperation and boost tourism. The pilot project will not threaten the renminbi as the domestic currency, they said.
China and Russia signed a currency swap agreement in 2014 as a foundation for financial cooperation between the two nations.
Cross-border yuan-dominated payments between China and Russia reached 8.22 billion yuan (1.32 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2015, a 112-percent year-on-year increase, according to Jin.
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Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign
December 7, 2015 creative address, bernardino, law-enforcement, obama-on-sunday, office, president, roberta-rampton, shooting, silicon-valley, use-technology, wednesdays, york
By Roberta Rampton and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online. “I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” Obama said in a televised Oval Office speech
Massachusetts to ban fantasy sports for people under 21
November 19, 2015 creative attorney, college-sports, draft, over-the-past, picture-taken, ratings-agency, schneiderman, scrutiny-over, under-the-age, york
Massachusetts would prohibit people under the age of 21 from playing paid fantasy sports games under a proposed set of regulations for the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry laid out on Thursday by state Attorney General Maura Healey. The proposals would also ban fantasy competitions based on college sports, prohibit promotions of paid fantasy sports on high school and college campuses and bar professional athletes, agents and others connected to pro sports from taking part in paid fantasy contests related to their sports. The fantasy sports business, led by DraftKings and FanDuel, has drawn increasing regulatory scrutiny over the past few weeks with state regulatory officials debating whether the paid daily games are gambling.
Facebook says it froze user named Isis by mistake
November 18, 2015 admin action-the-user, airliner-over, being-spelt, extent, islamic-state, log-in-page, melissa-fares, pennsylvania, personal, spelt-the-same, the-acronym, user, york
By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group. Anchalee, a software developer in San Francisco, on Monday posted a screenshot of a Facebook log-in page that showed a message “Account disabled”
Snippets of Adele’s ’25’ leaked, removed days ahead of release
November 18, 2015 publisher 85th, academy-awards, action-the-user, airliner-over, extent, islamic-state, million-copies, official, personal, selling-album, song, the-official, were-reported, years, york
Parts of Adele's much anticipated new album “25” were reported on Wednesday to have been leaked online ahead of the official Nov. 20 release of the Grammy-winning British singer's first release in four years
DraftKings, FanDuel lose early bid to head off NY shutdown
November 17, 2015 creative are-building, attorney, been-pressuring, cheltenham, daily, dissuade-people, games, vendors, york
(Repeats with no changes) By Brendan Pierson and Michael Erman NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel on Monday lost an atttempt to head off the New York attorney general’s effort to shut down the companies in the state. A New York state judge denied temporary restraining orders sought by the companies that would have halted New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s efforts to declare the games illegal gambling in the state. Schneiderman said the games were against state law last week and told the companies to stop taking money from New Yorkers.
BRIEF-DraftKings intends to continue operating in New York
November 16, 2015 admin been-pressuring, cheltenham, draft, its-business, michael-erman, next-week, says-intends, vendors, york
Nov 16 (Reuters) – * DraftKings says intends to continue operating in New York * DraftKings says NY AG assured the court he will take no action against DraftKings or its business partners before emergency hearing next week (Reporting By Michael Erman)
Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel stops taking money in NY
November 14, 2015 publisher accounts, after-the-state, board-inside, daily, daily-fantasy, players, said-on-friday, schneiderman, sports-market, state, stopped-taking, suzanne-barlyn, taking-money, york
By Liana B. Baker and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said on Friday it stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state's attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent cease and desist letters this week to daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state.
FanDuel stops taking new deposits in New York
November 13, 2015 publisher after-the-state, attorney, companies-filed, fantasy-sports, games, jason-robins, ordered-the-two, state-court, two-companies, york
NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports site FanDuel said it has stopped taking new deposits in New York after the state’s attorney general declared the games to be illegal gambling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent daily fantasy sports market leaders FanDuel and DraftKings cease and desist letters earlier this week, demanding that they stop taking money from players in the state. Both companies filed lawsuits in New York state court earlier on Friday to contest the order
Trump pokes fun at his presidential style as ‘Saturday Night Live’ host
November 8, 2015 admin alice-popovici, hampshire, imaginary, opening, primary-ballot, secretary, turn-as-host, york
By Erin McPike and Alice Popovici NEW YORK (Reuters) – Candidate Donald Trump on Saturday satirized his imaginary presidency with a Washington Monument covered in gold mirrors and policy agenda made of magic in his turn as host of comedy show “Saturday Night Live.” The Republican front runner steered clear of making fun of an immigration plan that has angered Latinos but the show's writers did make sure he was called a “racist” during his opening monologue. Actor Larry David stood to the side of the stage and yelled “racist” as Trump spoke, saying he heard he would make $5,000 for doing so — a reference to one group's offer to anyone who yelled that at Trump during the live NBC show.
On social media, Cruz steals spotlight, but Trump wins on sentiment
October 29, 2015 publisher asked-the-high, cnbc, distant-third, donald-trump, latest-national, most-attention, mountain, night, said-it-now, social-media, texas, york
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Product: Restaurant Pro Express Mobile
Company: Company: pcAmerica
A new mobile POS solution from pcAmerica has joined the ranks of innovators making it possible for wait staff to place orders and process payments tableside. Restaurant Pro Express Mobile offers the same functionality of a stationary POS terminal but on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, pcAmerica reported. And it synchronizes guest checks and menus in real time with the company's Restaurant Pro Express touch screen system.
RPE Mobile, which debuted at the RSPA RetailNOW Convention in July 2011, is scheduled for rollout soon. "We have already a restaurant product that's pretty widely used for both table service and quick service," said David Gosman, Chief Executive Officer at pcAmerica. "It is still a PC-based product, so you would still need to have our Restaurant Pro Express core product within the business."
But instead of installing four or five POS terminals in a restaurant, which requires servers to take orders on paper and transfer information at a POS station, orders can be entered accurately into the mobile device and payments processed through an attached encrypted card reader, Gosman said.
"It is routing it back into their primary POS system, which does connect through SSL," he added. "Our POS system has all the power and ability to do special pricing, calculate taxes, send orders to the kitchen - all the features you would expect in a high-end POS. But we're giving it that mobile extension where the server can take orders and process payments at the table and spend more time with the customers."
Pocket-sized navigation
Gosman believes mobile POS solutions are gaining popularity because they offer the functionality of a traditional POS package in an affordable unit that fits into your pocket. The company has found that tableside ordering not only reduces wait times and errors, but it also enables staff to deliver more personalized service and, in the process, up-sell drinks, side dishes and desserts.
"It has a really great design in terms of how everything is laid out," Gosman said. "It's very colorful and moves forward in a list format that a lot of users are familiar with," and because it operates with the touch of a finger, no stylus device is required.
In synchronizing with the main POS system, servers can walk around a busy bar placing orders through the device with happy hour pricing reflected on each order, Gosman noted. "You can also split checks, so if somebody wants to pay with two separate credit cards, you can do that in the mobile device as well," he said. With RPE Mobile, tips can be applied and signatures captured electronically on the signature pad.
A broader profit perimeter
According to pcAmerica, RPE Mobile not only enhances the profit potential for traditional hospitality businesses, including restaurants, bars and nightclubs, but it expands sales to virtually any environment where wireless POS capability is required such as stadiums and other outdoor venues.
"It really is going to be any table service restaurant application, whether it be an independent or a chain," Gosman said. "It's priced on a very scalable model. The pricing itself works on a monthly fee, and the monthly fee applies to a per terminal basis, so you can scale up or down as many terminals as you want at any point in time." RPE Mobile's software-as-a-service technology will be available through pcAmerica's reseller channel under a revenue share model.
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