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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 178
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
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 1997, 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 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, 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 178
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 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, 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 1884, 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 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Home | The Artist | His Art | Art Store | Art Show | Media/Links | Contact Us
Libations René Cera - An Artist Who's Time Has Come!
Delivered messages to Renoir and sketched with Matisse
René Alexandre Paul Cera was born in Nice, France on April 15, 1895. He delivered messages to Renoir, sketched with Matisse and painted for Marshall McLuhan in Canada. A decorated war veteran, he trained at the Nice School of Art.
Cera moved to Canada in 1928 to head the T. Eaton Company's Architectural Design area and stayed for 32 years. Throughout this period he created many futuristic canvases that now grace embassies, banks, schools and other public buildings both in Canada and the United States. He died in 1992 and his ashes were sprinkled in the Seine River, France at a spot where he once painted. (The Artist)
These unique canvasses reflect Cera's gift of inspiration - his use of colour and shapes to create disturbance and vibrancy. (His Art)
Visit our virtual art "store" for some of the featured art pieces. (Art Store)
To learn more about the Art Show, advance purchase or licencing inquiries, please email: marie.trojan@sympatico.ca
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Consuming (the) Victorians
November 18, 2015 November 29, 2015 by Megen de Bruin-Molé
Image from BBC One’s The Paradise © BBC, photographer: Jonathan Ford
Are you a Victorianist, or do you just love all things Victorian?
Then feast your eyes on the 2016 British Association for Victorian Studies’ Call for Papers: ‘Consuming (the) Victorians’, brought to you with the help of the invaluable Tom de Bruin! At this 3-day conference, hosted by Cardiff University, we’ll be looking at Victorians practices of consumption, as well as how the Victorians are consumed today. Send your proposal to BAVS2016@cardiff.ac.uk by 1 March, 2016:
The Victorian age saw the emergence of ‘modern’ consumer culture: in urban life, commerce, literature, art, science and medicine, entertainment, the leisure and tourist industries. The expansion and proliferation of new mass markets and inessential goods opened up pleasurable and democratising forms of consumption while also raising anxieties about urban space, the collapse of social and gendered boundaries, the pollution of domestic and public life, the degeneration of the moral and social health of the nation. This conference is concerned with the complexity and diversity of Victorian consumer cultures and also seeks to consider our contemporary consumption of the Victorian/s.
We welcome proposals for individual papers, and encourage proposals for panels (3-paper sessions), on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Urban spaces and city life: the flâneur/flâneuse, the steam/trolley bus, the rise of suburbia, street cultures
Transformations of the countryside: the Victorian pastoral, the country retreat, the farm, garden cities and model villages, alternative communities
Commerce: the department store, fashion, retail and advertising
Politics: new political mass movements, Chartism, feminism, Fabianism, ‘Victorian values’ in the present
Art: Pre-Raphaelitism, Impressionism, arts and crafts, photography, illustration
Science and technology: the railway, the Great Exhibition and exhibition cultures, the lecture, the gramophone, physics, biology
Science, spectacle and performance: taxidermy, the magic lantern, the diorama, the cinematograph
Literature: the magazine, newspaper, sensation, railway, crime and other popular fiction markets, self-help, religious tracts
Consuming life styles: the Girl of the Period, the Aesthete, the Dandy, the Decadent, the New Woman, the Lion/ess, the fashionable author, interview cultures
Cultures of entertainment and leisure: oper(ett)a, theatre and melodrama, the recital, music halls and concert halls, sheet music and instrument manufacture, the amateur, the club and associational culture, the bicycle, sports, boating
The tourist industry: sightseeing, the preservation of and popular attraction to historical buildings (e.g. National Trust), Baedeker, new (imperial) travel cultures
Medicine and the market place: medical treatments and therapeutics, medical advertising, professional practices, public and private treatment practices, institutional medicine, alternative therapies
The pleasures and perils of consumption: music, food cultures, cooking, chocolate, alcohol, addiction, opium, fashion, smoking, sex
Consuming bodies, moral contagion, social reform and the law: the city at night, prostitution, homosexuality, pornography, the ‘Maiden Tribute’ and trafficking; censorship, temperance, Obscene Publications Acts, Contagious Diseases Acts, National Purity Association, social purity activism, feminism, social welfare movements
The ‘other’ Victorians: the Victorians through the lens of their 19th-century contemporaries; the Victorians and 19th-century Europe; European Victorians
The Victorians and their pasts/Victorian consumption of earlier periods: Victorian medievalism in art and architecture, the Victorian Renaissance
Victorian afterlives: how the Victorian/s have been consumed by subsequent periods, such as the Modernists, Leavisites, faux/retro/post- and neo-Victorianism, heritage film and costume drama, the Victorians in contemporary architecture, art, interior decoration, music
Reception in the Impressionist galleries, with access to the Victorian art gallery, followed by an organ recital and conference dinner, National Museum Cardiff.
House tour of Cardiff Castle, with interior decoration by Victorian architect William Burges.
For further details consult our website: BAVS2016.co.uk
All conference presenters are required to be members of BAVS or an affiliated organisation (e.g. AVSA, NAVSA).
Please submit an individual proposal of 250-300 words OR a 3-4 page outline for a 3 paper panel proposal (including panel title, abstracts with titles, affiliations and all contact details, identifying the panel chair), to BAVS2016@cardiff.ac.uk by the deadline of 1 March 2016. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. All proposals should include your name, academic affiliation (if applicable) and email address.
Enquiries should be directed to Professor Ann Heilmann (BAVS2016@cardiff.ac.uk).
Megen de Bruin-Molé (PGR, Cardiff), Rachel Cowgill (Music, Huddersfield), Daný van Dam (PGR, Cardiff), Holly Furneaux (English, Cardiff), Kate Griffiths (French, Cardiff), Catherine Han (PGR, Cardiff), Ann Heilmann (English, Cardiff), Anthony Mandal (English, Cardiff), Akira Suwa (PGR, Cardiff), Julia Thomas (English, Cardiff), Keir Waddington (History, Cardiff), Martin Willis (English, Cardiff)
Categories OtherTags capitalism, cfp, conference, consumerism, consumption, leisure, Neo-Victorian, shopping, The Paradise, tourism, Victorian
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Breakfast Club YouTube movie
Recasting Movies With YouTubers: The Breakfast Club
Since we’re weekend warriors now, it only makes sense that we break from the pack and engage in some rampant free-thinking. Pretty soon YouTube and Hollywood should completely merge and we will be seeing our favorite YouTubers starring in our favorite TV shows and movies. Of course, until that point, we can only speculate on what might have been had this merger happened 10, 20 or 500 years ago. So every weekend, we take a pop culture movie and recast it with YouTubers who we think might have worked perfectly in that role.
This week: The Breakfast Club
Okay, I’ve wanted to recast this movie with YouTubers for a while. All of them have already fallen into place in my mind time and time again, so it’s pretty exciting. For once, someone with more ambition than me needs to get off their lazy ass and make this thing happen. I promise to torrent it if it does get made though, so there’s that. Also, like the original, my version is cast with kids who are clearly way too old for high school.
If you aren’t familiar with this John Hughes classic, you need to jump on Netflix stat, because it is one of the most iconic films to come out of the 80s. Starring key members of the Brat Pack, including Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and that guy who was in Mighty Ducks (Emillllliooooo!), The Breakfast Club is the story of five high school tropes locked in a room together for Saturday detention: “You see us as you want to see us…in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.” And don’t forget that closing where the Simple Minds song, “Don’t You Forget About Me” plays. Damn, it’s just about perfect. But my version would be BETTER:
John Bender
Played in the movie by: Judd Nelson
Played in our version by: VitalyZDTv
The bad-boy criminal. John Bender is the plum role in The Breakfast Club. He was the guy that every other guy wanted to be — the badass who simply doesn’t give a f**k. Who does that sound like on YouTube? If you said VitalyZDTv, well, you’re exactly right. Vitaly alone has the swagger to be this much of a troublemaker and to piss off the principal, Richard Vernon.
Claire Standish
Played in the movie by: Molly Ringwald
Played in our version by: Michelle Phan
The princess. She’s so straitlaced and goody two shoes she doesn’t belong in Saturday detention with the likes of John Bender. But since she’s here, she might as well learn that she’s not as perfect as she thinks she is. And who on YouTube could learn that lesson better than a style queen? Michelle Phan would do nicely here.
Andrew Clark
Played in the movie by: Emilio Estevez
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Scientists Use Online Game To Research COVID-19 Treatment
March 4, 2021 Nature
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Wireless headphones are the best they’ve ever been – and yet the wire is more relevant than before
By Becky Roberts published 30 July 22
Wireless headphones are hitting new price (and sonic) levels, but they still haven't overtaken the wire
(Image credit: Mark Levinson)
Wireless headphones are getting better. Bluetooth software is getting better, headphones hardware is still hitting new heights, and manufacturers are getting braver in taking advantage of both to make higher and higher-end wireless pairs – no doubt, to some extent at least, thanks to a company as big as Apple having very publicly pushed up the price parameters with its AirPods Max. So far this year, Mark Levinson, T+A and Bowers & Wilkins are all aspiring for next-level wireless headphones performance, priced as such.
The wired headphone has been safe, albeit existing on the sidelines of a vast headphones market dominated by wireless over-ears and true wireless earbuds. Safe in the knowledge that, at one end of the spectrum, some people will always just be happy using those bundled in the box or “any old pair”, and at the other that wireless headphones haven’t been able to achieve good enough sound quality to impact the audiophile or professional studio space. Indeed, wires have remained necessary in this increasingly wireless world to deliver ultimate audio quality to those who crave it.
So will this new slew of higher-end wireless headphones delivering audio performances, and carrying price tags, twice and thrice those we have classified as ‘premium pairs’ in recent years jeopardise that? Really, how close to 'wired-level' sound are they?
Wireless performance is hitting new heights
When we got our ears around the AirPods Max almost two years ago, we were left with no choice but to brand them with a big fat five-star What Hi-Fi? logo on the account that they sounded considerably better than the then-class-leading Sony WH-1000XM4 and therefore justified the fairly significant price gap.
It was the same with the Beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless, which also stand out on our best wireless headphones list due to their high price: they sounded a level or two above the Sonys, Sennheisers, Boses and the like, even if they were positioned as more for home rather than portable use. Only time will tell whether this will be the case for the forthcoming Bowers & Wilkins Px8, or other similarly priced pairs that will inevitably knock on the door soon.
When we recently reviewed the Mark Levinson No.5909 – double the price of the Apples and Beyerdynamics, and suffice to say the most expensive Bluetooth pair we’ve come across so far (though there are now others in this fledgling field, such as T+A’s Solitaire T), the same was true again. The wireless performance benchmark had been raised much further. In the context of wireless headphones (where to a varying extent, sound quality always makes way for convenience), five stars. If the convenience of wireless and/or noise cancellation is important to you, the Mark Levinsons compromise on sound quality the least to give it to you.
People willing to drop four figures on headphones have been around for years, of course, as the existence and success of established high-end headphone manufacturers – Audeze, T+A, Grado, Sennheiser, Stax, Focal etc – proves. Perhaps you are one of them? There will be people willing to do the same for wireless pairs too, and perhaps you are one of those. Still, this admirable wireless headphone ambition doesn’t make wired headphones obsolete.
Wired > Wireless...
(Image credit: Sennheiser)
Wireless headphones performance has incrementally improved over years and model generations to the point where the best pairs really are now very good indeed – and certainly good enough to appease most people.
Has the wireless headphones market now reached maturity to satisfy those audiophiles who have so far resisted making the switch? While the gap is being closed, it is still wide enough (and then some) to justify the existence of wired headphones. After all, even the wireless Mark Levinsons only equate to the performance of something like the wired Beyerdynamic DT 700 Pro X in strict performance terms.
Throw a good DAC like the Chord Mojo 2 in there and the preference falls into that combo’s favour. And all for less than the price of the No.5909. Everything above that, of which there is a lot, from the brands listed above and otherwise, is therefore untouched by wireless pairs and therefore still relevant for audiophilic or professional use.
In fact, the increasing accessibility of higher-quality music through streaming services – where collectively we consume most of our music today – has arguably made wired headphones more relevant than they have been for years. Are CD-quality streams worth playing through wireless headphones? We have heard differences between low-res streams and ‘lossless’ (CD quality) ones through the better crop of wireless headphones and sources (even if the transmission of the latter is never actually lossless; it discards some song data in the process in order to be more efficient and that’s an inherent limitation of Bluetooth today).
But the majority of wireless pairs connected to a phone, laptop or hi-fi source playing these lossless streams won’t be transparent enough for listeners to benefit from the truly significant quality gap between the music files. The relationship between hi-res music and wireless headphones is even rockier, due to the music having even more information in it than the latter is able to communicate due to Bluetooth and/or hardware limitations.
If people want truly good-quality music on the go or at their desk, it’s actually never been easier to get it. But for that, you do ideally need – guess what – wired headphones. (And preferably also a portable DAC that can feed them more of the music signal than your phone or computer will be able to – something that as of late is now available in discreet, affordable forms to encourage high-quality headphones listening while keeping its inconvenience as minimal as possible.)
…but for how long?
(Image credit: Qualcomm)
Will we ever see the day that wireless headphones and Bluetooth technology are good enough to wave goodbye to wired models? It seems mad to think that highest-end wired headphones and IEMs could actually be surpassed in the sound department by wireless alternatives.
But we could comfortably in our lifetimes see a day where wireless headphones are dutiful servants to the quality that audio is recorded in; where wired headphones are only truly necessary for studios and serious hi-fi set-ups.
That’ll be down to how much progress is made in the Bluetooth arena unless headphones receiving hi-res music over wi-fi becomes a practical solution first. Bluetooth is predominantly the limiting factor in today’s wireless headphones as it cannot transmit hi-res audio losslessly – i.e. without chucking away a chunk of a file’s data in the compression stage of its transmission process. Right now, it’s proven impossibly tricky for Bluetooth to accommodate a bandwidth or bit-rate high enough to carry full-fat hi-res audio while providing a stable, low-energy connection between two devices.
Many new developments around Bluetooth are still primarily concerned with making headway in energy consumption and wireless range, as my colleague Jez Ford has recently discussed. But telecoms giant Qualcomm, who has played a major part in progressing Bluetooth quality through its aptX codecs, has now come up with aptX Lossless. This new Bluetooth codec can supposedly transmit CD quality (though not hi-res) truly losslessly – an unprecedented feat and, you have to believe, a coup for the progression of portable wireless audio. While this will start reaching the first wave of headphones and sources (likely phones) within the next 12 months, supporting devices will no doubt come in more of a trickle than a tidal wave to begin with. After all, aptX HD (which can transmit lossless and hi-res, albeit lossily) was released in 2016 and only in the past year or two has there been a decent choice of compatible products on the market.
Considering this timeline, we might not have lossless transmission of hi-res audio over Bluetooth until the 2030s. For now, if you love music and want to hear it between your ears the best way you are able in the high-quality audio that is fortunately now on offer, consider taking a minor hit on inconvenience and going the wired way with a portable DAC. Because even spending around four figures on the best wireless pairs around, as fantastic as they may be for their intended purpose, won’t compare.
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Becky Roberts
Becky is the managing editor of What Hi-Fi? and, since her recent move to Melbourne, also the editor of Australian Hi-Fi magazine. During her eight years in the hi-fi industry, she has been fortunate enough to travel the world to report on the biggest and most exciting brands in hi-fi and consumer tech (and has had the jetlag and hangovers to remember them by). In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake.
Good article. (y)
Big Aura
It's a good article, but from reading this you'd think the downsides of bluethooth were merely a trade-off between bandwith v full fat hi-res (which you may not notice anyway) and extending range.
It misses out the (for me) single biggest issue in wireless and one that no review really touches upon - bluetooth isn't fit for purpose. It's a data-tranfer process, and not designed for music.
It works on the 2.4GHz band (for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) - mainly to avoid paying licensing fees). It's a crowded space, and in busy areas it bounces around, reconnecting over and over again. I appreciate that WhatHiFi have amazing dedicated listening facilities in their offices, but these products are designed for moving around.
I cannot make it from one end of Liverpool Street Station (my twice-weekly commute hub) or Victoria Station (once a week) without at least a dozen, and usually waaay more drop outs. I'm on my second set of Shure Aonics - so maybe this is just a Shure issue, but I've really not had the desire to spend another £200+ to find out if other manufacturers have this issue.
I'd love to see testing of wireless products in busy stations and on tubes/buses, as a lot are bought for that purpose.
I've also got a Zorloo Z'tella and a Chord Mojo. The Z'Tella is good, but the bullet-proof build of a 3.5mm jack is far superior to the (frankly) skitish and fragile USB-c connection. The Chord Mojo is fine for aeroplanes, long train journeys and desk-based listening, but entirely rubbish for on the move commuting. It's a real conversation starter as a paperweight tho (which is what it's been for the past 3 years!).
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I do think you should add something about BT LE Audio/5.3. It adds bandwidth and better codecs as standard (LC#, but many will support LC3Plus as well). This is already happening. And of course Qualcomm will also come with their proprietary protocols as well, if you have their silicon on both ends. There are also already other proprietary loss-less protocols for LE Audio out there, like Mach from Nexum, who run a successful Kickstarter campaign lately.
manicm
Good riddance to the headphone jack on phones.
flouncer
I really miss a headphone jack on my phone.
Richard van Enteren
A very interesting article. I only use wired headphones and in-ears with a external portable DAC.
Wouldn’t WiFi a better solution than Bluetooth for wireless listening?
podknocker
I'm really looking forward to lossless bluetooth, in streamers, headphones and in laptops etc. I think it will be a bigger leap in quality than the previous ones. I'm hoping Spotify release a HIFI tier also. I love Tidal, but the catalogue choice and playlist recommendation algorithms, are far better with Spotify, for me anyway. I listen to music through a pair of Sennheiser HD600 cans, I've had for years. They're plugged into my Dell laptop and they sound really good. I hope cable free cans, with the latest BT chips and apps sound as good, when they arrive.
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Ian Steele : Studio Potter
Pots | Artists Statement | Biography | Contact
Ian Steele: Biography
Ian Steele a Canadian artist, born in Saskatchewan but raised on the West Coast. he graduated from Vancouver School of Art in 1961, specialising in ceramics, and then travelled to St Ives to apprentice with Bernard Leach for two years, 1963-65, and worked as a staff potter from 1967-69. He returned to Canada to run his own pottery at Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island but came back in 1977 to live and work in Chudleigh, Devon.
His work is held in private collections in Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
The Leach Legacy: St Ives Pottery and its influence: Marion Whybrow 1996
Leach Pottery St Ives: Marion Whybrow 2006
BC Potters: March 2006, volume 42 no 3
Thrown: March 2008, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada
Recent Exhibitions Include:
'I Send You This', The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon, August 2004
The Great Barn, Higher Ashton
'Thrown', Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada
'Embodiments', Exeter Natural Health Centre, Exeter, November/December 2004
Ian Steele: Studio Pottery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon, November 2004
'All Wrapped Up', The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon, November 2004
'Embodiments', Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset, May 2005
Summer Show, Art Terracina, Exeter, Devon, Summer 2005
'The Art Bar', The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon, August 2005
'Embodiments', Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset, November 2005
'Embodiments', Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, March/April 2006
'Ian Steele: Studio Pottery & Life Studies', Camelford Gallery, Camelford, Cornwall, June 2006
Camelford Gallery
'Summer Exhibition', Camelford Gallery, Camelford, Cornwall, August 2006
'Open Studios: Ian & Barbara Steele', Chudleigh, Devon, September 2006
Devon Art Works: Devon's annual open studios event, September 2007
Town Mill Galleries
'Ian & Barbara Steele', Town Mill Galleries, Lyme Regis, Dorset, October/November 2007
'Christmas Exhibition', Coombe Farm Gallery, Dittisham, Devon, November/December 2007
Artists of the South West - Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. April 2011
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Plant Explorations: Makers Reimagine a Historic Archive at The New Craftsmen
iwano@_84 May 6, 2022 3 min read
For a decade, The New Craftsmen has been at the forefront of the British contemporary craft movement, championing meaningful craft that has been playfully imagined and properly made. To mark its ten year anniversary, The New Craftsmen has invited its community of makers—including artists, woodturners, basketmakers and furniture makers—to reflect upon and take inspiration from the evolution and uses of their craft across the centuries. This month, it stages Plant Explorations—a response to and reflection on humanity’s resourceful and ingenious making traditions with plants. Here’s a look:
Above: “Plant Explorations’” features work by the basketmaker Pip Rice. Rice’s collection of sculptural artworks were inspired by a number of string-wrapped forms in the Kew Archives, including a cone from the Macrozamia Douglasii plant found on Fraser Island, Australia, in 1881.
The group exhibition will be unveiled at London Craft Week (May 9 to 15) and includes the work of six makers who are already represented by The New Craftsmen: Annemarie O’Sullivan, Catarina Riccabona, Hilary Burns, Lola Lely, Maggie Smith, and SASA Works, alongside four exciting new makers: Cyriaque Ambroise, Lisa Atkin, Pip Rice, and Takahashi McGil.
Above: Archival files from the Economic Botany collection at Kew Gardens. The collection is a vital resource to study the role of empire and trade in British and global history, as well as arts and crafts, archaeology and anthropology.
Earlier this year, the makers were invited to explore the Economic Botany Collection at Kew Gardens, home to over 100,000 objects that represent how life depends on plants and how humans have made use of plants for millennia. The makers were guided through the collection by the ethnobotanist and curator, Mark Nesbitt, and Ruth Stungo, a leading scholar of basketry and visiting researcher at Kew Gardens.
Above: A book from the Economic Botany collection at Kew Gardens, which also includes ancient Egyptian artifacts, 40,000 specimens of wood, bark cloth, basketry, gourds, and botanical jewelry.
Working closely with Catherine Lock, the creative director of The New Craftsmen, each maker has responded creatively to their findings at Kew and the result is a dynamic new collection of work that encompasses furniture, lighting, tableware, basketry, and artwork.
Above: The exhibit features the Knap Light by Annemarie O’Sullivan; a Kiyome Hachi vessel with Hisaku Ladle by Takahashi McGil, and a Willow Gourd vessel by Maggie Smith.
Above: Takahashi McGil’s Musubi Kame Vessel II. Takahashi McGil are a husband and wife team with a woodturning studio based in Devon. Kaori Takahashi from Japan and South African born Mark McGilvray combine Japanese traditions with western techniques. Their work for Plant Explorations was inspired by a collection of ancient, cylindrical water gourds they studied while at Kew.
Above: Lola Lely’s Kabuto Chandelier in Permission was made from Japanese mulberry paper and finished with a thin layer of wax to give the shade a sheen reminiscent of a plant’s surface. Lely—a multi-disciplinary designer and co-founder of Wax Atelier —was inspired by the ingenuity of a palm leaf folded and stitched to form a basket, and the quality and finish of a military helmet made from paper— both of which were found in the Kew archives.
Above: Using materials sourced from her local woodlands and techniques that stretch back to prehistoric times, basketmaker Lisa Atkin has created a collection of baskets intended for use by a tribe of fictitious hunter-gatherers.
Above: A collection of pieces by the French artist (and professional tree climber) Cyriaque Ambroise, who uses simple hand tools to create unique objects and sculptural pieces from his open-air studio. His contribution to the exhibition includes a collection of objects dedicated to the Japanese tea ceremony, wabi-cha, and a number of small wooden stools and tables.
Above: A series of trays created by Cyriaque Ambroise in response to the collection of hand-carved, Japanese Wagatabon trays seen at the Economic Botany Collection. Ambroise has studied Wagatabon tray making—a craft that has been practiced in Japan since the early 17th century.
“Plant Explorations” will be exhibited from 9th May at The New Craftsmen showroom and available to view and purchase online.
For more craft, see:
10 Ways to Display Wooden Spoons, Artisan Edition
Currently Coveting: London Artist Sophie Sellu’s Functional Wood Sculptures
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Hackers take aim at prison locks and other real-world targets
By John D. Sutter, CNN
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A little-known electronic component in some prisons could be hacked to throw open the doors that lock inmates in their cells.
Once limited to the virtual world, hackers are targeting real systems
Researchers have shown how to hack into prisons and open locks
Another hacker uses cell networks to unlock and start cars, remotely
A major computer worm called Stuxnet seems to have set off the trend
Las Vegas (CNN) -- If you've seen the 1983 movie "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a pretty good idea what hackers and security researchers are super-concerned about these days -- in real life.
Here at the Black Hat hacker conference at Caesars Palace, computer security experts have shown ways they can use virtual tools to tap into and tamper with all kinds of stuff in the real world, which is the gist of what made "WarGames" so scary.
No longer limited to the digital domain, hackers -- many of them working for good -- are now targeting prison systems, the power grid and automobiles. They'll target anything with a mini-computer inside of it. These days, that's pretty much everything.
Researcher Don Bailey pointed out that there's even a pill bottle with a cellular connection, so that it can remind its owner when to take his or her medicine.
His first thought: "I'm not sure if that's a good idea."
A computer worm called Stuxnet is the main reason hackers and security types are focusing on these "real-world exploits" right now. While Stuxnet isn't grabbing as many headlines these days as Anonymous and LulzSec -- two hacking groups that have been stealing personal data and taking over big-name websites -- in-the-know security experts and ex-government officials say the idea behind that worm is actually far scarier.
The evolution of computer viruses
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"The Stuxnet attack is the Rubicon of our future," Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, said during a keynote talk here.
Stuxnet showed, for the first time, that a bit of malicious computer code could control industrial systems. The common wisdom is that the worm, which spread all over the Internet last year, was designed to attack and possibly blow up nuclear facilities in Iran.
No one knows for sure who wrote that worm, and its powers were never put to use. But the code is out there, and security researchers and hackers are jumping at the chance to study that code and figure out what else it -- or something like it -- could do.
The examples surfacing at Black Hat and DEF CON, a companion hacker conference attended by 15,000 people, sound like they're pulled from a Hollywood thriller.
Tiffany Rad, a computer science professor by day, showed that a little-known electronic component in correctional facilities could be hacked and used to throw open all the doors that lock prisoners in their cells.
"Where there exists a computer, there's still a chance of breaking that computer," said Teague Newman, who worked with Rad on the hack. The two say they have gone to the federal government with their research. They won't publish the exact code someone could use to tap into prison lock systems for fear that such an event would actually occur.
The prison hack wasn't even that hard, they said. Working in a home basement in Virginia on a budget of $2,000, it took the duo only two hours to figure out and exploit the bug, which attacks a Siemens networking component called a programmable logic controller.
"It was not difficult," Newman said.
Siemens is working on a fix, but it won't necessarily come quickly.
"We need time to go after those vulnerabilities," said a Siemens engineer who asked not to be named because he's not authorized to speak on the record. "It's not like in the IT world where you can quickly create a patch. We are really talking about critical systems here ... so if you create a patch you want to make sure the patch doesn't influence operations and the PLC (the networking component) is still running afterwards as designed."
Rad and Newman said that company doesn't deserve all the blame. The way prison security systems are networked, and the way employees use them, are also at fault.
Central computers that control locks should not be hooked up to the Internet, for example, but they often are, the researchers said.
Other Black Hat speakers discussed the vulnerabilities of electrical grid and water systems, which, theoretically, could be attacked using similar methods. And further attacks focused on holes in cellular networks.
Again, the targets are real-world, not virtual.
Bailey of iSEC Partners demonstrated a way to hack into the mobile components on many cars to unlock or start the vehicles with a few texts from his Android phone. But breaking into cars isn't the scary part, Bailey said in an interview.
"I could care less if I could unlock a car door," he said. "It's cool. It's sexy. But the same system is used to control phone, power, traffic systems. I think that's the real threat."
As for solutions, Bailey said the problem is the cost and lack of regulation.
"The issue is not just architecture but its cost," he said. "A lot of the errors and the vulnerabilities I'm seeing (are) in overall architecture. It's all systems -- whether it's your car or your tracking device or your pill bottle or whatever.
"It's the issue of no regulations, no standards and no one enforcing any semblance of security."
Security professionals need to step back from the technology and look at how these real-world systems -- from prisons to power plants -- are designed, said Tom Parker, vice president of security services at FusionX, a computer security company.
"We're making the same mistakes over and over again," he said, adding that these at-risk networking components are doing more than they were designed to do.
None of the researchers argue that society should stop putting little computers inside everything. Instead, they said, we need to work harder to make those little computers secure. And if we don't, they say, the consequences could be huge.
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Ar zīda diegu nevar rupju maisu lāpīt. (LFK 231, 4945)
Since the very first days of the Archives of Latvian Folklore work recording was done not only using some paper and pen, but also employing technical means.
In 1926 ALF acquired three phonographs — as devices for recording the folk melodies. Folklorists took the device with them to the folk singers and recorded melody samples onto the wax cylinders. (The samples recorded during this period are rather short, rarely reaching 20 seconds, which to an extent is an imposed restriction as the whole cylinder can take about 3 minutes of recording.) Then in Rīga these recordings were transcribed into notations by composers Artūrs Salaks and Pēteris Barisons.
The last time phonographs were used was the expedition in 1947, making the total number of recorded cylinders 191. In 1998with the technical help of Viennese Phonogrammarchiv the cylinders were re-recorded onto DAT cassettes and later digitised.
Beyond that in 1934 LFK in collaboration with the Latvian Radio recorded singers and musicians from Kurzeme for the purpose of providing Radio with some folklore repertoire for broadcasts. The recording was performed in Rīga, Bellaccord record factory producing shellac records in a few copies of each.
In 1951 folklorists for the first time in history performed a tape recording. ALF holds 197 tape reels of different sizes. The 1970s saw introduction of another tape format – compact cassettes, that reach even higher total numbers. Both the tapes and the shellac records (along with dedicated recordings) provided material for the Latvian folklore anthology published in 1986 in the format of a vinyl double album (the USSR company “Melodiya”, produced by the Leningrad factory). Copies of the tape recordings can also be found at the National Sound Archive of the British Museum in London.
All tapes of the ALF were provided with listening copies in the format of compact cassettes, after the digitisation these are available in computer-readable format, both locally and— for most of the recordings — on the web.
In 2003 with the support of UNESCO the digitisation of the recordings was initialised. As mentioned above, a significant part of the recordings are available for listening in the ALF database, the full collections is available locally.
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Cause E011, 12 & 13 of 2021 (Consolidated)
Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions & Hospital Workers (KUDHEIHA) v BOM Cheptenye Boys High School (Cause E011, 12 & 13 of 2021 (Consolidated)) [2022] KEELRC 13024 (KLR) (27 October 2022) (Judgment)
Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions & Hospital Workers (KUDHEIHA) v BOM Cheptenye Boys High School
Employment and Labour Relations Court at Kericho
Onesmus Ndambuthi Makau
In the Employment and Labour Relations Court at Kericho
ON Makau, J
Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions & Hospital Workers (KUDHEIHA)
BOM Cheptenye Boys High School
1.The Claimant has instituted separate suits against the Respondent on behalf of its five members Mr. Edwin Kipyegon, Alphonce Kipkirui, Japheth Too, Mrs Edith Chebet and Roseline Langat (herein after referred to as the grievants). The suits were consolidated on 27th January 2022 and they all prayed for:a.That the court finds that the respondent violated provisions of statutes and grievants be reinstated unconditionally without loss of benefits.b.Payment of all monies, allowances and benefits under the CBA including: -i.Salary in lieu of noticeii.Days worked (if any)iii.Accrued annual leave due (if any)iv.Unpaid leave travelling allowances (3years)v.Service gratuityvi.Unpaid medical allowancevii.Unpaid/underpaid wages and house allowanceviii.Maximum Compensation for unlawful loss of employment.c.Costs of the suit and Certificates of service.
2.The facts of the case are that Mr. Edwin Kipyego was employed as a Posho mill attendant on 5th msrch 2013 until January 2018 when he was transferred to the Securiry department as a security officer. While on duty on the night of 17th October 2019 the Deputy Principal found him with 40 pieces of Chapatis and he took the away. The grievant was also invited to the office the following day to explain why he had in his possession the said chapatis. He never found the Deputy Principal but the Principal who told him to home until he was called back. After waiting for two months he felt frustrated and terminated his contract by his letter dated 7th November, 2019. The employer never served him with any dismissal letter or certificate of service. His salary was Kshs 7,234 and he served for 7 years and a half.
3.Mr. Alphonce Kipkirui Too was employed by the respondent on 12th May, 2009 as a security officer. On 17th November 2019, while on duty at the school gate, the Deputy Principal accused him of being absent from his work station the previous night when he went round the school. The deputy principal further told him that it was not the first time he was absent from work. He then told him to go home at once and report to the office the following day. When he visited the office, he found the principal and the deputy who just told him to go home. His request for a letter was ignored and was told to do what he was told. Since then, he was not called but another person was employed to replace him. Therefore he contends that he was condemned unheard contrary to section 40 of the Employment Act and Article 50 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010. He worked for 10 years and a half and he was earning Kshs. 8,634.
4.Roseline Chebet Langat was employed as cook on 8th May 2012. In May 2019, she was assigned an assistant and they worked harmoniously for one month. In june 2019, differences arose when the assistant refused to perform her duties as per the duty roster. Intervention of the Cateress was invoked but it bore no fruits and the matter was referred to h e Principal. Despite advice by the principal to work harmoniously, the assistant did not comply. Thereafter the grievant fell ill and the doctor recommended for lighter duties but differences with her assistant continued and she was suspended vide the letter dated 2nd August 2019. The suspension was indefinite and the reason the constant squabbles in the kitchen. The letter did not state that salary will be paid during the suspension. She was also required to go for arbitration before their church elders, provincial administration and present a written report to the respondent to inform the next cause of action.
5.Following the intervention by the claimant union, the grievant was invited to a disciplinary hearing but since he did not have any report from her spiritual leaders and provincial administration, no hearing took place. No dismissal letter was given by the employer but the claimant contends that the grievant was condemned unheard by being silently dismissed by the principal through usurpation of the powers of the Board of Management.
6.Mrs Edith Chebet was employed by the respondent as Assistant store Keeper on 1st November 2011. Through the letter dated 27th March 2018, she was notified that her employment would be terminated on account of redundancy with effect from 30th April 2018. The letter was not copied to the trade union or the area labour officer but it was copied to the BOM Chairman and the Bursar. She was never paid severance pay as promised or issued with certificate of service. She served for 6 years 5 months and her salary was Kshs. 7500.
7.Mr. Japheth Too was employed by the respondent as a Lab Technician on 15th February 2006 and worked until 27th March 2018 when he also received a letter notifying him that his employment would terminate on 30th April 2018 of account of redundancy. The letter was not copied to the trade union and the area labour officer, but was copied to the BOM Chairman and the Bursar. He started with a salary of Kshs.5400 but later it was raised to Kshs. 12,420. He served for 20 years and 2 months.
8.The union reported the respective matters to the Cabinet Secretary Laour and a conciliator was appointed to resolve the matter. However, the respondent was adamant and the matters were brought to court. They accuse the employer of violating their right to fair hearing before termination of their contract of employment and pray for the reliefs sought.
9.The respondent has filed defence denying the allegations by the claimant and prayed for the suit to be dismissed with costs.
10.The suit went to full hearing where both sides gave evidence and thereafter filed written submissions.
11.The claimant called all the five grievants as its witnesses. Mr. Japheth Too testified as CW1 who stated that he was employed on 15th February 2006 by the respondent as a Lab Assistant earning Kshs. 5400 per month. The contract was never reduced into writing and he was also not paid House Allowance, medical allowance or leave travelling allowance. He was a member of the claimant union to which he paid subscriptions directly from 12th July 2017 when he joined to June 2018. He paid the subscription that way to avoid victimization.
12.On 27th March 2018, he was served with a letter terminating his employment on ground of redundancy. The letter was not copied to the Labour officer but the BOM and the Bursar. He was not paid any terminal dues after the termination despite his long service of over 12 years nor was he issued with a certificate of service. As at the time of the separation, his salary was Kshs.12, 420 per month.
13.He testified that the letter referred to a Circular from the Ministry but according to him the Circular did not talk of redundancy. The matter was referred to conciliation before the Labour office Kericho but he was not paid anything. The termination has caused loss on him therefore he prays for the reliefs set out in his suit.
14.On cross examination, he admitted that he was given one month notice by the respondent before the termination.
15.Mrs Edith Chebet testified as CW2 and stated that she was employed by the respondent on 1st November 2011 as a store Keeper earning Kshs 7500 per month. No other allowances were paid to him and the contract was also not reduced into writing. Her services were also terminated by a letter dated 27th March 2018 on account of redundancy. No terminal benefits were paid to her upon termination. Therefore she prayed for the reliefs sought in her suit.
16.On cross examination, she stated that she joined the claimant union on 10th July 2017. She admitted to receiving one month notice before the termination.
17.Mr. Alphonce Too testified as CW3 and stated that he was employed by the respondent on 12th May 2009 as a security officer but he was never issued with any appointment letter. His duties included manning of the school compound and the students’ security. His monthly salary was Kahs. 4300 without any allowances. He was a union member paying his subscriptions through check off system.
18.He testified further that on 17th November 2019, as he was reporting to work, the Deputy Principal told him to go back home and report to the office on 19th November, 2019 to explain why he was absent from work on 16th November 2019. When he reported on 19th November, 2019, the deputy principal told him to go home until he was called back but he did not receive any call. He contended that he was on night duty on the 16th November 2019 doing patrol and the deputy principal never called him via telephone.
19.He denied the allegation in the defence that on 30th July 2018 he was found asleep while on duty. He denied also that he was served with a show cause letter for the said conduct. He further denied that he left the main gate open on 26th October 2018 and an intruder entered the school. He contended that on the said night they were three guards, he was guarding the lower gate, another guard was manning the main gate while the last was guarding the teachers, dormitories and administration area.
20.He further stated that the police arrested the intruder and only interrogated the guard at the main gate. He further stated that no document has been filed to show that he was found guilty for the intrusion by the armed stranger.
21.He admitted that he was not issued with any suspension or termination letter by the respondent but maintained that his services were terminated and lost income. He was also not issued with a certificate of service. As at the time of the termination he was earning Kshs. 8834 per month.
22.He contended that he was not paid terminal dues after the separation despite the matter having gone to the labour officer for conciliation. Therefore he prayed for the reliefs sought in his suit.
23.On cross examination, he denied that he served a resignation letter. He admitted that there was a lapse while on duty when an intruder came to the school through the main gate. He maintained that he was manning the lower gate on the said night. He reiterated that on the material date he was manning the lower gate but he was supposed to remain in one place but patrol the area also.
24.He further reiterated that on 19th November 2019 he was told by the deputy principal to go away and wait until he was called back but he was never received any call. He maintained that he was never heard but admitted that he never wrote any protest letter thereafter.
25.Mr. Edwin Kipyegon testified as CW4 and stated that he was employed by the respondent on 5th March 2013 as a security officer for a monthly salary of Kshs 5000 with no allowances. He was also not issued with any appointment letter. he was a member of union and his subscription was paid through check off.
26.He testified that on 17th October2019, the deputy principal found with 42 Chapatis while on duty and told him to report to the office the following day. When he went to the office he found the principal and the deputy but they just told him to go away and never to return. He had not been told to come to the officer with a fellow employee. He was also not served with any show cause letter on 7th December 2019, he wrote a resignation letter so as to be paid his dues.
27.He testified that the chapatis found in his possession was for his daughter’s birth day party the following day. He maintained that he was not heard before the dismissal. He also denied that he left the door of a dormitory open and contended that the theft occurred in a different dormitory from the one he was guarding. However, he admitted that he heard that students’ property was stolen from the dormitory.
28.He testified that he reported the matter to his trade union and a dispute was reported for conciliation but even then, he was paid nothing. He was also not issued with certificate of service. He contended that he served for 7 years and his salary at the time his exit was Kshs. 7234 per month. Therefore he prayed for the reliefs sought in his suit.
29.On cross examination, he admitted that he he wrote a resignation letter.
30.Finally, Mrs Rosaline Langat testified as CW5 and she told that court that she was employed by the respondent as cook in May 2012. Her monthly salary was Kshs. 4000 but no house allowance or any other allowance was paid to her nor was she given any appointment letter. The salary was later increased to kshs. 7000. She was a member of union and paid subscription through check off.
31.After working for 7 years, Ms Winnie Cherotich was employed to help her but after one month she started to differ with her for refused to do assigned duties. On 23rd June 2019, they differed until the Cateress came in but still Winnie refused to do her duties. The matter was escalated to the principal and Winnie apologised and promised to do her duties.
32.CW5 further testified that on 9th July 2019, she fell down and suffered injuries and thereafter she suffered from cerebral malaria. After treatment, the doctor recommended that she be allocated light duties but Winnie insisted that everyone will do her usual duties which led to fresh differences. The Cateress referred the matter to the Principal and she was suspended vide the letter dated 2nd August 2019. The suspension was for indefinite period and she was not paid any salary. The letter directed her to bring a report from church, chief and the union.
33.He further testified that he was summoned to appear before the Board but when he went with a union official, the principal and the board chased them away saying that the union was a stranger to the school. The matter was referred for conciliation but the employer refused to appear thrice.
34.On cross examination, she admitted that she was given a suspension letter and that she had misunderstanding with her colleague. She also admitted that she did not file any report from the church or police or chief as directed by the principal. She relied on the letter on record as proof that the employer was summoned to the conciliation but failed to attend.
35.The respondent did not avail its witnesses but it relied on the written statement by its witness Mr. Charles Ochengo as its evidence. The witness is the Principal of the school and claimant conceded to the nature of testimony tendered.
36.In brief the witness admitted that all the grievants were employees of the respondent. As regards Mr. Japheth Too and Edith Chebet, she testified that they were retrenched following a Circular number MoE.HQs3/13/3 from the ministry of Education. In his view, the the termination was lawful since it gave the grievants one month notice vide the letter dated 27th March 2018. Finally, he contended that the grievants were not members of the union as at the time of thir retrenchment and they only learned of their membership through the letter from the union dated 27th August 2018.
37.As regards the other three grievants, the witness stated that they were to blame for the termination of their services. He stated that Mr. Alphonce Too performed his duties of security guard negligently including on 5th July 2018 when he left the gate open at dawn and a man wielding a machete entered the school threatening to harm the students before police rescued them; on 30th July 2018 when he was found asleep in the Laboratory at dawn; on 26th October 2018 he left the gate he was manning open and 120 boys left the school at dawn; in September 2019 he left he was found sleeping in the lower staffroom at dawn and when he was asked to explain the matter he absconded never to report back again.
38.The witness further stated that Mr. Edwin Kipyegon likewise performed his security duties negligently in that on 22nd july 2019 he reported to work at 7.40 pm instead of 6,30 pm; again he failed to lock lower dormitories’ gate and some students gained entry, broke into others boxes and stole their property; on 6th October 2019 he failed to report to work in the evening as scheduled and failed to notify his seniors; and that he was found selling chapatis to students at night and he was directed to see the deputy principal the following morning but he disappeared until 7th November 2019 when he left a resignation letter with the School Secretary. The resignation was made two days after he was served with a show cause letter demanding a response within 14 days.
39.Finally, the witness stated that Mrs Rosalia Langat sharply disagreed with her fellow cook Ms Winnie Cherotich on 23rd June and quarrelled and they were warned after being summoned in the Principal’s office. They two repeated the same quarrels on 2nd August 2019 threatening to fight. Before then Rosalia had absented herself from work and said she had been admitted in hospital for treatment of an illness which she said had been inflicted on her by Winnie. She further said that a pastor who prayed for her told her that winnie had paid a preacher kshs, 1000 to pray for her to fall sick, which allegation Winnie denied. The two were suspended and referred to the pastor for arbitration and report the alleged threats to security agency and local authority and report back with a written report that they had complied with the instructions given but they disappeared alleging that they have been sacked.
40.The Claimants did not file any submissions after the hearing but the respondent filed. The submissions by the respondent merely repeats the foregoing explanations and urges the court not to interfere with separations. The court was also urged not to award the claimants the reliefs sought in the respective suits.
Issues for determination and analysis
41.I have carefully considered the pleadings, evidence and submissions and found no dispute that the claimants were employed by the respondent. The issues for determination are:a.Whether the redundancy of the two grievants in Cause No.E013 of 2021 was unlawful and unfair.b.Whether the three grievants in Cause No.E011 & 12 of 2021 voluntarily resigned or they were constructively dismissed by the respondent.c.Whether the Claimant is entitled to the orders sought.
Redundancy of the grievants in Cause E013 of 2021
42.Redundancy has been defined under section 2 of the Employment Act as:“the loss of employment, occupation, job or career by involuntary means through no fault of an employee, involving termination of employment at the initiative of the employer, where the services of an employee are superfluous and the practice commonly known as abolition of office, job or occupation and loss of employment”.
43.From the foregoing definition, it is clear that when it comes to termination on account of redundancy, the reason for the termination cannot be blamed on the employee. The reason must relate to an involuntary happening or cause that is beyond the employer’s control or which is inevitable in relation the employer’s operational requirements. In this case, the reason was cited in the termination notice dated 27thMarch 2018 as follows:“following the Ministry of Education circular number MOE.HQS/3/13/3 on Guidelines for implementation of Free Day Secondary Education, and the subsequent review of Non-teaching Staff establishment by the Board of Management, I wish to inform you that your services to the school as … will end on 30/04/2018 on account of redundancy.Your severance will be worked out and paid accordingly.…”
44.The Circular is dated 19th October 2017 and relevant paragraph is number 5.0 which stated as follows: -“The taskforce recommended that MOE disburses funds to support NTS. To minimize the cost of secondary education it is necessary to rationalize the recruitment of NTS as recommended by the taskforce report. It shall be the responsibility of the boards to hire Non-Teaching Staff at terms commensurate with qualification and capacity to pay.”
45.The above paragraph cited qualification and capacity to pay as the factors for the school boards to consider when hiring non-teaching staff. The termination notice to the two grievants laid off herein did not state which of the two factors set out in the above Circular was used as the ground for the redundancy. The grievants had served as Lab Assistant and Assistant Storekeeper respectively. The respondent did not also tender any evidence to show that there were other persons serving in the said positions nor has any evidence been given to show that the positions were abolished. Consequently, the court finds that the respondent has failed to prove that the reason for the termination was valid and fair to justify termination of services of the grievants for no fault.
46.Besides, the court finds that the procedure followed in terminating the employment on account of redundancy was contrary to the mandatory procedure set out under section 40 of the employment Act. The said requires that the employer must serve at least one month notice to the employee or his trade union (if a member), and the area labour officer. In this case, the area labour officer was never served and therefore a crucial procedural step, of consultation, was skipped.
47.While discussing the purpose of serving a prior statutory notices of redundancy, the Court of Appeal in the Kenya Airways Limited v. Aviation & Allied Workers Kenya & 3 Others [2014] eKLR stated as follows:“The purpose of the notice under section 40 (1) (a) and (b) of the Employment Act, as is also provided for in the said ILO Convention No. 158 – Termination of Employment Convention, 1982, is to give the parties an opportunity to consider “measures to be taken to minimise the terminations and measures to mitigate the adverse effects of any terminations on the workers concerned such as finding alternative employment.” The consultations are therefore meant to cause the parties to discuss and negotiate a way out of the intended redundancy, if possible, or the best way of implementing it if it is unavoidable. This means that if parties put their heads together, chances are that they could avert or at least minimise the terminations resulting from the employer’s proposed redundancy. If redundancy is inevitable, measures should be taken to ensure as little hardship as possible is caused to the affected employees.” [Emphasis added]
48.The respondent further failed to pay the grievants their terminal benefits that accrued from the said redundancy including severance pay, salary in lieu of notice and any other benefits as provided by the said section 40 of the Act. Consequently, the court finds that the respondent has failed to prove that the termination of the grievants’ employment was done in accordance with a fair procedure.
49.Having found that the employer has failed to prove that the termination was grounded on a valid and fair reason related to the employer’s operational requirements, and that a fair procedure was followed, the court finds that the redundancy of the two grievants in Cause No. E013 of 2021 was unlawful and unfair.
Voluntary resignation or unfair dismissal of the other three grievants
50.Section 47(5) of the Employment Act places the burden of proving unfair termination on the employee who alleges that he was so dismissed while the employer must justify the reason for the termination. The employer has a further burden of proving that a fair procedure was followed under section 45 of the Act. The question that begs for answer herein is whether the claimant has proved that the grievants were dismissed by the employer.
51.The claimant’s case is that the three grievants were verbally suspended verbally for alleged misconduct, in manner that they deemed to amount to constructive dismissal. However the employer contends that the Mr. Edwin Kipyegon and Alphonce Too performed their security duties negligently, absconded duty and engaged selling food stuffs to students and when they were summoned to the office to explain themselves they disappeared completely save for the former who served a resignation letter dated 7th November 2019.
52.Mr. Edwin Kipyegon admitted that he was found with 42 pieces of chapatis while on duty at night and that he was directed to go to the office the following day. Likewise, Mr. Alphonce Too admitted that on 17th November 2019, the deputy principal accused him of absence from work on 16th November 2019 and told him to go to the office the following deny to give an explanation. The two allege that they went to the office as directed but they were just told to go back home and wait until they were called back. The principal has denied that allegation and stated that the grievants never went to the office as directed by the deputy principal but just disappeared. The grievants have not produced any evidence, either documentary or eye witness to prove that, indeed they went to the office as directed.
53.Mrs Rosalia Langat, on the other hand, was involved in repeated quarrel with her fellow cook and also absented herself from work. When she reported back she alleged that she fell ill and was admitted in hospital. She attributed her predicament on her fellow cook Ms Winnie who allegedly paid a pastor to cast a spell on her. In fear that the ladies might one day injure one another with knives or other means in the kitchen, the two were given a suspension letters to sort the spiritual matters before the pastor and also report the alleged threats to the security agency and local authority. They were then required to come back with report form the pastor and the security agency showing that they complied. Rosalia never returned to the office with or without a report that she had complied with the instructions given in the suspension letter.
54.Having considered the evidence on record, the court finds that the claimant has not proved on a balance of probability that the grievants’ employment was terminated by the employer. On the contrary the court satisfied that the evidence supports a finding that it is the three grievants who voluntarily resigned from the employment to evade disciplinary process at the shop floor. The resignation for Rosalia Langat and Alphonce is implied from their conduct while that of Edwin Kipyegon is expressly contained in his resignation letter dated 7th December,2019.
55.In view of the foregoing finding that the Claimant has failed to establish that the grievants in Cause E011 and E012 of 2021 were unfairly and unlawfully dismissed, I decline to find that respondent violated any statute. I also decline to order their reinstatement or award compensation under Section 49 of the Employment Act.
56.Finally I dismiss the two suits entirely because the other reliefs sought have not been particularised, quantified and proved by evidence.
57.As regards the claim in Cause E013 of 2021, I have already found that the redundancy was unlawful and unfair and therefore, the grievants are entitled to relief under section 49 of the Act. The separation occurred on 30th April 2018 which is more than 3 years limitation period within which the court can order reinstatement under section 12 of the Employment and Labour Relations Court Act. Consequently, I award the alternative prayer for compensation.
58.The termination was not for any fault on the grievants’ part. Edith Chebet served for 6 years five months and therefore I award her 6 months gross salary as compensation for unfair termination. She will also have one month salary in lieu of notice. Japheth Too served for over 20 years and therefore his long service entitles him to higher compensation than his colleague. I award him 12 months gross salary plus one month salary in lieu of notice. I decline to base this award on the Collective Agreement produced because it has not been established that it applied to the grievants and the respondent herein.
59.The rest of the reliefs sought are declined because they have also not been particularised, quantified and proved by evidence.
60.In the end, I enter judgment in favour of the claimants as follows:Edith ChebetNotice Kshs. 7,500Compensation Kshs. 52,500Total Kshs. 60,000Japheth TooNotice Kshs. 12,420Compensation Kshs. 149,040Total Kshs. 161,460
The above awards are subject to statutory deductions. Since both parties have succeeded in one or two of the consolidated suits, I direct that each shall bear tits own costs.
Dated, signed and delivered at Nyeri this 27th October, 2022.ONESMUS N MAKAUJUDGEORDERIn view of the declaration of measures restricting court operations due to the Covid-19 pandemic and in light of the directions issued by his Lordship, the Chief Justice on 15th April 2020, this judgment has been delivered to the parties online with their consent, the parties having waived compliance with Rule 28(3) of the ELRC Procedure Rules which requires that all judgments and rulings shall be dated, signed and delivered in the open court.ONESMUS N. MAKAUJUDGE
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Epilepsy is among the most common chronic neurological conditions. The medical management generally involves prescribing one or more anti-seizure medications (ASMs). During the last decades different treatment options have been provided for individuals with epilepsy and their caregiver, aiming to give a better control on their seizure frequency. However, some people are unable to obtain seizure freedom\adequate control from ASMs, or other treatment options such as resective epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation (DBS), Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), and ketogenic diet for different reasons.
The promising effect of listening to music in individuals with epilepsy has been reported in the past 15-20 years, demonstrating a reduction in seizure frequency during the periods of daily listening to Mozart K.448.
What did we do to in our last work?
In our last clinical study (2016-2019), we aimed to provide a clear answer on whether listening daily to Mozart K.448 could help individuals with epilepsy to reduce their seizure counts, and to build a meaningful collaboration among individuals with epilepsy and our research team.
In our last work, we reported for the first time the effect of daily listening to Mozart K.448 on seizure frequency as compared to a carefully selected control piece. Our control piece was a scrambled version of the original Mozart piece, having a similar mathematical features as the original piece. However, this piece was shuffled randomly and lacked rhythmicity completely, sounding like noise. Using a spectrally similar control piece, our study advanced previous reports that were limited by a “no music” control condition. Our manuscript has been published in Epilepsia Open (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/epi4.12400).
How did we achieve this?
Using randomized controlled crossover design, our participants were randomly assigned to either start the intervention by listening to Mozart K.448 as the treatment piece or the scrambled Mozart K.448 as the control piece once a day for six months. Additionally, there were three-month baseline, and three-month follow-up periods before and after the six-month listening period. Seizure diaries were collected from the participants as the main outcome of the study. The medications kept unchanged for the participants during the one year intervention.
What did we find?
Employing three methodologies to investigate the existence of the treatment effect, our results revealed a reduction in seizure counts during the period of daily listening to Mozart K.448, which was not observed for the scrambled Mozart during the control period (p-value < 0.001).
Our results showed daily listening to Mozart K.448 was associated with reducing seizure frequency in adult individuals with epilepsy.
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Cobby welcomes you!
This time I want to tell you how our actions in the past year will affect the future of the FCI. I am not saying it is not important to summarise our achievements and to explain why we proceeded in a certain way, but I want to talk about our future as an international organisation, but most important about the future of our dogs worldwide.
Three aspects have been transcendental during the past year; cooperation and collaboration, innovation and preparation for the future. These three aspects will lead our organisation for the next year.
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New agreement on the mutual recognition of dog show judges between the Kennel Club (UK) and the FCI
The FCI is happy to announce that a revised version of the current agreement on the mutual recognition of dog show judges was signed on Thursday 9 March 2017 with the Kennel Club (UK) on the occasion of the Eukanuba World Challenge and Crufts in Birmingham.
Working Group for Restructuring the FCI (WGRF) : follow-up
The Working Group for Restructuring the FCI (WGRF) held its final meeting on March 21st, 2017 in Amsterdam at the Head Office of the Raad van Beheer.
A dog-loving society: Best practices and perspectives
International workshop, Vilnius (LT), 6-7 March
After their international dog show on the previous weekend, the Lithuanian canine organisation held a workshop on 6-7 March, which main focus was on the initiatives aiming at raising the awareness of the general public regarding dogs and their role in society.
Dogs in the space race
It was the nineteen fifties, an era that saw a stand-off between the superpowers - i.e. the almighty USSR and the proud USA. The Soviets were putting pressure on the North Americans by announcing their successes - which had more to do with propaganda than with science, cheered on by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the Russian president known all over the world simply by his surname.
Focus on the Japanese canine organisation’s Dog Picture Contest and Photo Contest 2016
The Japan Kennel Club is doing wide range of activities nationwide to promote the spirit of love for animals. We think it especially necessary to cultivate children's sound mind in their early time in order to nurture compassionate children with warm heart.
Introducing the Israel Kennel Club’s new Board of Directors
The Israel Kennel Club (IKC) had its general meeting and election March 1, 2017.
Scientific research answers the question
Child’s best friends: pets or siblings???
Pets are common but their importance to children and early adolescents has received scant empirical attention. This is partly due to a lack of tools for measuring child-pet relationships.
FCI World Dog Show 2017 in Leipzig : the preparations are making good progress
April began with a visit of an FCI delegation to Leipzig: a tour of the WDS venue and a meeting with the main stakeholders in this event were organised in the city which will soon host one of the major events of the canine calendar.
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The base V6 Camaro coupe lives in the media shadow of its LS1 Z28 brother, and that's unfortunate because the V6 Camaro is a great performance car in its own right. From its 200-hp engine to its large 4-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, the lesser Camaro can keep up with any 2-valve Mustang GT and can run circles around import performers.
Chevrolet is modest about its V6 coupe; there are no huge ad campaigns, no big media parties, and no hoopla about big horsepower in the media or sales literature. It's just there, the diamond in the rough waiting to be discovered. Unfortunately, GM's zero-advertising "build it and they will come" strategy hasn't worked. Sales are down and the big-wigs are getting frumpy. Could we be witnessing the last days of the rear-wheel-drive Camaro? If so, they can only blame themselves because this is one hot performer.
Our Sport Gold Metallic test model was equipped with the base 200-horsepower 3800 Series II V6 engine, 5-speed manual transmission, 4-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, tilt steering column, air conditioning, AM/FM cassette 4-speaker sound system, dual airbags, P215/60R16 radials, intermittent wipers and remote hatch release.
For an additional $2,200 over base price, our tester had cruise control, foglamps, power door locks, removable T-roof panels, keyless entry, rear window defogger, N.Y. emissions package, body-side molding and rear floor mats. For some strange reason, power windows and mirrors were not part of our press vehicle, conveniences we missed dearly in the two weeks we had the Camaro.
Realistically, when you figure in the $750 rebate (offered right on the window sticker) and your dealer's best price, a well-optioned V6 should go for around $16,000. As you read this at the model year close-out, you'll likely do even better than this because dealers will be making way for the '99s, which we understand will be virtually identical to the '98s.
For 1998, the Camaro's front fascia has been updated (see "Cruise Missile," May '98), and the Delco anti-lock brake system has been scratched in favor of a new Bosch system that uses a smoother active proportioning scheme. All Camaros receive larger brakes for 1998; 12-inch vented rotors are standard on both the V6 coupe and the Z28, meaning essentially that the V6 gets Z28 stopping power free.
The 200-hp 3800 Series II V6 has been in the Camaro since the last half of the 1995 model year. The simple pushrod V6 has one primary advantage over more sophisticated multivalve engines: displacement. With less output per cubic inch, the 9.4:1-compression V6 is the model of reliability. Even with more cubes, the 3800 sips gas to the tune of 30 mpg on the highway, thanks to its top-shelf DIS and Delco engine management.
Compared with previous LT1-powered F-bodies we've driven, the V6's big brakes were noticeably better. (Autocrossing, anyone?) One major shortcoming was the small tire, which activated the threshold of the ABS a little too early for our tastes. We suggest you check the box for the Y87 performance handling package, which includes the Z28's larger 235/55R16 tires and aluminum alloy wheels. This "must have" package also includes a sport steering ratio (14.4:1 vs. the regular 16.9:1), dual exhaust tips and a limited-slip rear (all 5-speeds keep the 3.23 gears; automatics are upgraded to 3.42 gears from 3.08).
During the Camaro's stay at GMHTP, we had the opportunity to drive the V6 on several twisty switchbacks. The big Z28 stoppers inspired us to brake late going into corners, but turn-in was dicey due to the small tire contact patch. However, unlike driving an SN95 Mustang in similar situations, the Camaro's low center of gravity made the edge of control much more predictable. If you regularly read the reviews of import performance cars, you could be forgiven for thinking the latest Japanese or German micro motor is the greatest thing since sliced bread. High-revving multi-valve DOHC engines the size of your morning cup of coffee zing out 150, 175 or even 200 hp. Ironically, these engines are more suited to the title of "high-tech" than the Camaro's 3800 Series II V6 pushrod motor, but we wouldn't exactly call the Camaro's distributorless, sequential fuel-injected, dual-electronic-spark-control V6 a low-tech motor, either.
At the drag strip, the Camaro's pushrod V6 really shined. A let's-get-acquainted 15.23/89.5 was followed by a 15.37/90.3, 15.41/89.8 and a 15.47/89.2, with the engine getting successively hotter from being hot-lapped. With the air filter out and the serpentine belt off, the V6 responded after a cooldown with a 15.03/91.0 and a 15.15/90.3. We did notice that above 4000 rpm the exhaust sounded noticeably restrictive; this leads us to believe that major gains in horsepower--perhaps as much as 10 percent--could be made with just a larger catback exhaust. This would put our test Camaro in the 14s without removing the air filter or belt. Still, we think low 15s going through in third gear with an open rear and a small radial tire is absolutely fabulous given the Camaro's budget status.
Give the V6 some gear, a catback exhaust, a small pair of slicks and a 10-minute tune-up and this budget bomber can knock down modular-motored Mustang GTs all day long. And while some diehard Ford fans are perfectly welcome to argue with this biased opinion, we already know of at least one automatic V6 F-body that is running 12.80s in NHRA Stock Eliminator.
If you're looking for a performance car--domestic or import--and you're on a budget, the V6 Camaro is perfect. Great looks, super all-around performance, autocross potential, numerous available aftermarket speed parts and rear-wheel drive make the V6 Camaro an obvious choice.
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NPR Piece about the Origins of the Banjo
Posted by Andy Chase on August 23, 2011 at 6:55pm in Uncategorized
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139880625/the-banjos-roots-reconsidered
(With an appearance by own own Mr. Greg Adams, I might add!)
Permalink Reply by Carl Anderton on August 23, 2011 at 7:20pm
Awesome! I heared that this morning while driving my semi.
Permalink Reply by Ed Womack on August 25, 2011 at 11:28pm
From the video description:
"Esa Jarju is an African Ekonting player (one of the ancestors of the Banjo). In this video the American Banjo is taken back to its home in West Africa and, amazingly, Esa Jarju has no problem at all playing it right away, even though it's his first time."
Permalink Reply by Rob Morrison on August 28, 2011 at 1:12pm
Just something to think about re: the origins of the banjo.--
I was stationed on the island of Okinawa for 18 months during the Viet Nam War. I lived-off base in a private residence in the village of Futemna. My next door neighbor played a musical instrument called the samisen (pronounced shamisen) every night after dinner while his family sang with him. The samisen is now a traditional Japanese instrument, but originated 600 years ago in Okinawa (Okinawa is not Japanese culturally or racially). There is a continuous tradition of samisen music from 1400 to the present.
A samisen is a 3 string banjo which looks, sounds, and plays like a banjo. In Okinawa the samisen has a snakeskin head, while in Japan the heads are made of dog or cat skin. They are both played with a plectrum. There are umpteen traditional musical genres for the samisen including Kabuki theater.
So in this time of multiculturism and parallel universes, when discussing the origins of the banjo, one must specify which banjo. Listening to that man play the samisen as the sun set remains one of the most magical experiences of my life. As I recently quoted Joe Ayers, music truly is a universal language.
Permalink Reply by Strumelia on August 29, 2011 at 7:57am
Personally, I feel the banjo was an already existing African instrument that was brought here, was unlike anything else that was here, and has slowly evolved and changed since then. The problem with saying it was 'invented' here in America is that there is no distinct cutoff moment when the gourd instruments played by slaves became the familiar minstrel or factory banjos played by whites. Rather, the evolution and changes to the slaves' 'banjar' were varied, subtle, and geographically widespread here in America.
Must have been hundreds of home made instruments during slavery times that we today might be hard put to classify as either an African or American instrument. When gourds were unavailable, other materials at hand were used by slaves to make their banjars/banzas, whatever they called them. When did these instruments technically stop being African instruments- because they were made here in America? Because they had bent wood pots rather than gourds? Because they had more strings, or a wider fingerboard? It's all interesting. :)
Much the same debate is involved when discussing the Appalachian dulcimer, which can be clearly traced to it's several direct ancestors in Germany, Sweden, France, and Norway. Those immigrants continued making hummles, epinettes, and scheitholts here even after they arrived in America. But the American mountain dulcimer jumped into a clear distinct path quite different from its instrument ancestors when it was given a raised fingerboard located in the middle of the soundboard rather than to one side. This put it into a whole new instrument classification.
Permalink Reply by John Masciale on August 29, 2011 at 8:05am
Strumelia,
I see the instrument as a blend of western and African technology. I would consider it a banjo when a western neck and tuning pegs find their way on to the instument. At that point it ceases to be a purely African instrument. From the best that we can tell, this more than likely happened in the Carribean, and then found its way here. Just like American music, the instrument comes from a melting pot of musical ideas.
Permalink Reply by Rob Morrison on August 29, 2011 at 9:40am
Dan'l--OK. I figured somebody would bring this up. This is pretty much my point. There are plucked membranophone instruments all over the world, not just in Africa, the the Carribean, and North America. They all have their own unique cultural and societal significance. Yes, the American banjo is unique and important, but not all that unique and different. For example when you talk about "America's instrument", to Which instrument are you referring?
Is it the gourd banjo, the cheese hoop, the classic banjo, the tenor banjo, the banjo uke, the banjo mandolin, the guitar banjo, the six string banjo, the pony banjo, the banjorine, the blugrass banjo, fretless, fretted? Of course it depends on the time period and location. The American banjo does not seem to have yet reached a final form. One hopes it never will.
Before I lived in the Far East I had only a very vague, if any, knowledge of banjo-like instruments anywhere else in the world other than the USA. Two things impacted me about my experiences on Okinawa, the first being that these instruments and the music played on them existed. The second realization was that the indiginous people there, who had almost nothing in terms of material posessions, had this rich musical heritage that was seamlessly interwoven with their lives. These were not musical performances meant for an audience. These were family traditions I was privileged to witness simply because I was a neighbor. They reminded me of my Uncle George who my family thought was crazy because he played music "for no reason at all."
I do agree with your point, by the way.--Rob
Dan'l said:
Rob, I respectfully disagree 100 percent with your statement: "when discussing the origins of the banjo, one must specify which banjo." My long explanation below.
Dan'l
I understand the appeal of shirtsleeve definitions, but in this case I feel it's counterproductive because it tends to blur the careful and cooperative work done in tracing and defining our instrument.
The Samisen was never called a banjo by the people that developed and used it (yes?). They already have a perfectly good, pronouncible name for their instrument, so why replace with a Westernised term? That only confuses the truth that the first banjo in Vietnam was an import.
The word banjo, like the instrument it represents, was finalized in spelling and meaning in America where the word came into popular use. The word banjo refers to the instrument finalized in America. If you must note a connection, the Samisen is a stringed lute, correctly sharing that term for the banjo -- in the ranks of many stringed lute types from various countries around the world.
Music may be a universal language, but languages are not universal. To casually hybridize terms across languages and cultures serves no purpose for meaningful discourse and common understanding.
Permalink Reply by Strumelia on August 29, 2011 at 6:35pm
There certainly is a continuum of membrane lute types over time. But none of those were called banjo nor did they have the collective characteristics of a banjo. It was blacks in the Americas, not Africa, that deserve the credit for originating major improvements over ancestral instruments with the addition of flat fingerboards and more versatile modal string tunings.
Dan'l, we cannot be so sure about the instrument's name being 'invented' here in America:
The slave trade brought the instrument to the Americas. The earliest reference from 1678 mentions a "banza" in Martinique. From this point forward there is consistent reference to the instrument in historical documents. In 1781 Thomas Jefferson writes: "The instrument proper to the [slaves] is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa."
Dan'l writes:
Nothing was stopping those things from happening in Africa, but it didn't happen. Those prior instruments were mature forms for milleniums. So yes, invention is the proper term for what occurred in the Americas, a new thing developed within people's lifetimes.
Actually I imagine it pretty unlikely that ' those prior instruments were mature forms for milleniums'. Anything that creative craftmen and musicians make by hand very typically undergoes design changes from one maker or one generation to the next. We cannot possibly say that African craftsmen were not trying out new materials and designs on a regular basis. Why wouldn't they, just like everyone else does?
That minor point aside though,....I see the development of the banjo as an evolution of something that already existed in a more organic form, rather than as an invention of something brand new. The term invention to me implies that it was created from nothing as a completely new thing.
I can't help but add that I don't necessarily see the addition of hoops, mechanical tuners, frets, resonators, etc, as clearly being 'improvements'. Changes and innovations yes, but just like the automobile or the zipper, one man's improvement is another man's lamented loss. ;)
Permalink Reply by Joel Hooks on August 29, 2011 at 8:55pm
I side with Dan'l on this one- but I'm a gonna stay out of it cause it is way over my head.
It's interesting that Greg has stayed on the sidelines here, perhaps he's waiting for the wind to die down.
Permalink Reply by Strumelia on August 29, 2011 at 11:23pm
The uninitiated don't discern anything anyway ...once they do they are no longer uninitiated. O the irony! lol
I think anyone interested in banjo origins will quickly get a general accurate idea after a small bit of reading.
A lot of this is simply seeing the same things from different viewpoints and through slightly different lenses, combined with a certain amount of word juggling.
I tell people that the banjo was originally an instrument brought here by slaves from Africa, which then evolved to its present day form. That seems like a good practical description for folks who come up to me during a gig and ask me about where banjos came from. I can't really tell them to go read Gura & Bollman. ;)
I would disagree with one part of your statement. The Banjo was not brought here from Africa. Maybe from the Carribean. The important point is that it evolved here, which is why it is an American, not an African instrument.
Here is a slide from a talk I gave earlier this year.
Early Banjo Names
Strump-Strump (Jamaica 1687)
Bangil (Barbados 1708)
Strum-Strum (Jamaica 1740)
Banshaw (St. Kitts 1763)
Creole Bania (Suriname 1773-1777)
Banjay (Barbados 1784)
Banjar (Barbados 1796)
Banza (Carribean 1810)
Bonjaw (Jamaica 1923)
Banger (NY 1736)
Banjar (Thomas Jefferson 1781)
Banjo (Nicholas Cresswell 1774)
Permalink Reply by Strumelia on August 30, 2011 at 10:00am
I hear what you are saying John, but why are we assuming the banjo did no evolving and 're-inventioning' in Africa before it was brought here? Do changes to the instrument only count if they occurred here? I tend to view it (similarly to the way I view folk or traditional music) more as a continuous line of varied evolution and influence that likely goes back hundreds of years, rather than the instrument suddenly being 'born' and having a life only once it was brought here. This issue can be seen through different lenses, and it's been debated often enough.
And of course 'the origins of the banjo' does not necessarily mean the same thing as 'the birth of the banjo'.
Perhaps it would be helpful if we agree upon a specific definition of 'banjo'- a detailed description of what a 'banjo' is might clarify the discussion for all of us. Then we could perhaps agree on when the banjo was 'invented'.
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Vintage Motorcycle Festival
August 26, 2015 by Lara
On Saturday Aug 22nd, we rode down to Tacoma and spent the afternoon ogling vintage bikes at the LeMay Car Museum. Here are a few of the ones that really stood out for me.
Six Into One
I’ve always had a thing for 6-cylinder inline engines. The early-80’s Honda CBX was a lovely piece of work, and the 6-into-1 bundle-of-snakes header here is just the icing on the cake. The owner rode it away when the meet was over and it sounded as good as it looks.
One of the first bikes I really remember: a late 60’s Honda CL 350 Scrambler. A co-worker of my dad’s had one just about like this. He had to go to Germany for an extended period of time, so he left it with my dad. We used to go for Sunday afternoon rides up to around the lake just a few miles for our house. This is probably where my love of motorcycles was kindled.
Old Meets New
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not that big a fan of modern Moto Guzzi’s, but this ’57 Falcone (also known as the ‘bacon slicer’ Guzzi) really does it for me. The artistry in the design of the overhead cam rocker boxes, and that enormous external flywheel. Pure Italian beauty.
Trials!
This is a ’76 Bultaco Sherpa T Observed Trials bike. I Had a ’79, which was nearly identical except that it was blue, and mine had a minor celebrity provenance. It’s first owner was a successful national motocross racer named Chuck Sun. That Bultaco was the bike that taught me enough trials skills to get to the Advanced class. (The first time around, in my early 20’s. I worked my way to Advanced standing again in my late 40’s; it was much harder that time!) This bike is awesome for two reasons: it still has the original alloy fenders, which almost none of them that have actually been used in competition still possessed, and it was shown with a period-correct punch card clipped to handlebars, as though its rider was just about to head out on the loop for a real event back in ’77.
This is the bike that took Best-in-Show. A Godet Egli-Vincent. Which means a 1000cc V-twin from a classic Vincent Black Shadow, in a Patrick Godet-built replica of an Egli chassis. Godet did such a masterful job of replicating the Egli chassis that Fritz Egli gave him permission to use his name on the bikes. An absolutely stunning piece of craftsmanship. It also made a beautiful noise!
There are more pictures at Lara’s SmugMug account.
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Author: Trent Fitzgerald
Lupe Fiasco Hints at Retirement From the Rap Game
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It looks as if Lupe Fiasco is retiring from the rap game. Just weeks until he releases his new album ‘Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1,’ the Chicago rapper went on Twitter Wednesday (Sept. 5) to announce his pending retirement.
“This album will probably be my last…its been a pleasure to have all my fans provide so much love and inspiration for me and my family but my heart is broken and I see no comfort further along this path only more pain,” he wrote on his timeline (courtesy of The LupE.N.D. Blog). “I cannot participate any longer in this… My first true love was literature so I will return to that…Lupe Fiasco ends here…”
Fiasco’s announcement followed after his heated Twitter spat with fellow Chi-City rapper Chief Keef, who didn’t like Fiasco’s comments about him in a radio interview. During a chat with Baltimore’s Q92, Fiasco admitted that he wasn’t a huge fan of Keef’s music. “Chief Keef scares me,” he said. “Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents. The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who’s doing it and perpetrating it — they all look like Chief Keef.”
In response, Keef tweeted, “Lupe fiasco a hoe a– n—a And wen I see him I’ma smack him like da lil b—- he is #300.” The tweet cause a tidal wave of reactions on Twitter. In an attempt to make peace with Keef, Fiasco wrote to the young rapper, “I cant go 4 that @ChiefKeef & i cant let the people i love, including you my n—a, go 4 that either. We kings not f—ing savages and goons. i love u lil bruh @ChiefKeef… i really really do from the bottom of my f—ing heart. I know that street s— like the back of my hand.”
While it’s sad to hear that Fiasco might consider retirement, he still owes one more album to Atlantic Records. We must also mention that Fiasco did contemplate retiring from music back in 2008 because making records for him was both financially and creatively unsatisfying.
So let’s hope that Fiasco is not really serious about hanging up the mic, especially when he’s one of the few rappers in the genre who makes poignant music to inspire and not to denigrate.
Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1′ will arrive in stores on Sept. 25.
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Big Sean Grabs Tyga for ‘Do What I Gotta Do’ Track
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Rapper Big Sean‘s just-released free mixtape ‘Detroit’ boasts a slew of collaborations, including J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, Juicy J, Royce da 5’9, Mike Posner and others. One club-driven track on the collection is called ‘Do What I Gotta Do’ and it features ‘Rack City’ rapper Tyga.
The song, produced by Million $ Mano, sounds like a sequel to Big Sean’s booty-shaking anthem ‘A– (Dance)’ from his debut album ‘Finally Famous.’ It’s your basic strip club, get-money banger with its booming 808 drum beats and swirling keyboards.
On the track, Big Sean talks about money and hollering at ladies in the club. “B—- I’m finally famous, I do, I do what I want / The money, money, sex, money in the air, with an aroma / Swear I got her head bangin’, bangin’ might be in a coma / Walk up to the baddest b—- and tell her that I own her,” he raps.
Tyga follows up with his cash-over-groupies rap verse. He spits, “I’m about my business and this b—- is temporary / I don’t give them love, try February / Money committed, swear this s— be married / I get that cake, cake, cake, then I pop a cherry.”
Sean’s ‘Detroit’ mixtape should hold fans over until the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music album ‘Cruel Summer,’ which hits stores on Sept. 18. Afterward, Big Sean will release his still-untitled second album later in the fall.
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Kanye West, Big Sean + Jay-Z, ‘Clique’ – Song Review
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Kanye West finally released a new single from his upcoming G.O.O.D. Music compilation ‘Cruel Summer.’ The Hit-Boy-produced song features guest appearances from two rap heavyweights — Big Sean and Jay-Z.
The song boasts a plodding beat with crackling snare and haunting keyboards. The rap trifecta do provide some creative lyrics on the track, which will have everyone repeating the chorus, “Ain’t nobody f—ing with my clique, clique, clique, clique, clique.”
Big Sean kicks things off with his serve verses rapping, “You know 2 Chainz? / Scrrr! / I’m pulling up in that Bruce Wayne / But I’m the f—ing villain, man, they kneeling when I walking in the building / Freaky women I be feeling from the bank accounts I’m filling.”
Hova follows reminding listeners that him, Sean and Yeezy are the kings of the rap game. “It’s the dream team, meets the Supreme Team / And all our eyes green it only means one thing / You ain’t f—ing with my clique,” he rhymes.
Finally, Yeezy spit some clever verses and even references his girlfriend Kim Kardashian‘s infamous sex tape in his lyrics. “Break records at Louie, ate breakfast at Gucci / My girl a superstar all from a home movie / Bow on our arrival — the un-American idols,” he raps.
‘Clique’ is a dope song that should get everyone psyched for the release of ‘Cruel Summer,’ which will hit stores on Sept. 18.
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Azealia Banks Performs at Fashion’s Night Out + Launches MAC Lipstick
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Rapper Azealia Banks celebrated Fashion’s Night Out in New York Thursday (Sept. 6) with the launch of her new lipstick “Yung Rapunxel” for MAC cosmetics. The lipstick, which is named after her alter ego, is a limited-edition product that comes in a deep plum-colored shade of awesomeness.
The Harlemite perform at the MAC’s SoHo store in front of her Kunt Brigade (aka “her fans”) wearing a black bikini top, matching sheer shorts and knee-high combat boots. Banks performed all of her songs that have made her pop music’s “It” girl. Her set included tracks like ‘Liqourice,’ ‘Van Vogue,’ ’1991′ and her hometown anthem ’212.’
As for her lipstick, Banks said that it was inspired by her don’t give a f— attitude. “It came from me wearing long weaves and being a s— starter,” she tells Allure. “Yung Rapunxel is someone that just f—s everything up. She just wants to have a good time, but she’s not f—g s— up on purpose, she’s f—ing s— up because you’re not ready, and everyone else isn’t being themselves, and everyone else is trying to follow whoever they think is the leader.”
“Little do they know, the leader doesn’t even know what the f— they’re doing,” she continues. “So that’s where it came from, and I just started saying it a lot, like I say it in ’212.’ Yung Rapunxel is just that girl who’s like, ‘What’s up? I’m here. Who has a problem?’”
Not us. You go Yung Rapunxel!
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A$AP Rocky Grabs Rihanna’s Booty During 2012 MTV VMA Performance
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There are always surprises at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, but one of the most talked-about moments at the show happened during Rihanna‘s kick-off performance of the remix of ‘Cockiness (I Love It)’ with A$AP Rocky.
As the title of the song suggests, the Harlem rapper got a little, um, cocky, and near the end of the song, he grabbed a handful of RiRi’s booty before leaning in for a kiss on the cheek (pun intended). Rihanna didn’t seem bothered with being groped onstage, and playfully pushed Rocky away.
Their intimate moment was surprising given the fact that Rihanna’s ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, was sitting in the audience watching the performance. But we figure he didn’t mind since he was later photographed kissing Rihanna at the event. Footage verifying the smooch has sparked rumors that the couple have rekindled their relationship, despite Brown dating his current boo Karrueche Tran.
In the end, everyone came out a winner. A$AP Rocky grabbed one of the most sought-after backsides in pop music, Breezy won a moonman trophy for Best Male Video and Rihanna nabbed the coveted Video of the Year award (for ‘We Found Love’).
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Fat Joe Pays Tribute to Chris Lighty on Slaughterhouse ‘Goodbye’ Remix
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The death of hip-hop impresario Chris Lighty has left the hip-hop community in mourning. Rapper Fat Joe, whom Lighty managed during the early years of his career, pays tribute to the late rap mogul on Slaughterhouse’s elegiac remix to ‘Goodbye,’ which was produced by hit maker Boi-1da.
“He saved my life,” said a solemn Fat Joe on the piano-driven song. “You was my mentor / You started me / That’s why you will forever be a part of me,” he raps. “I pray to God to forgive him / And when you get to heaven, tell Pun that we miss him.”
Slaughterhouse members Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Crooked I and Royce da 5’9″ also recall their heartfelt memories of loved ones who have passed away. The song is a huge reminder of how precious life is and how important we must cherish it while we are still here on earth.
Meanwhile, family and friends paid their last respects to Chris Lighty at a memorial on Wednesday (Sept. 5) in New York. According to MTV News, hip-hop luminaries LL Cool J, Missy Elliott, Diddy, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Russell Simmons, Busta Rhymes, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Fat Joe and Lyor Cohen were among the mourners present at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel where Lighty was remembered. After the service, the rap executive’s casket was loaded into a hearse and driven off to his final burial place with his wife and children following behind in another vehicle.
May Chris Lighty rest in eternal peace. His contributions to hip-hop were infallible and he will be sorely missed.
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Wiz Khalifa Reveals the 2050 Tour Dates With Taylor Gang, Pushes Album Back
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We have some good news and bad news. The good news is Wiz Khalifa and his Taylor Gang crew are hitting the road this fall. The bad news… the Pittsburgh rapper has pushed back his second LP, ‘O.N.I.F.C.,’ again for the umpteenth time.
After a successful run with Mac Miller on the Under the Influence of Music tour this summer, Wizzy is taking things futuristic with his “2050 Tour” in October. The 36-city North American jaunt blasts off on Oct. 12 in University Park, Pa., and stretches through Canada before landing in Fairfax, Va., on Dec. 6.
Joining Wiz on the trek are Taylor artists Chevy Woods, LoLa Monroe, Juicy J, Berner and Tuki Carter. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Sept. 7) at Wiz’s online headquarters. If you have some extra chips, there are some meet-and-greet packages available if you want to hang out with Wiz after the show.
As for Wiz’s second album, ‘O.N.I.F.C.,’ it won’t be released on Sept. 18 as originally scheduled. According to Billboard, a rep told them the collection will be “coming soon.” In the meantime, you can listen to the Wiz’s unreleased collaborative song with Mac Miller called ‘Goin’ Places.’
Wiz Khalifa & Taylor Gang The 2050 Tour Dates
10/12 – University Park, Pa. | Bryce Jordan Center
10/13 – Providence, RI | Dunkin’ Donuts Center
10/14 – Bridgeport, Conn. | Webster Bank Arena
10/16 – Amherst, Mass. | Mullins Center
10/17 – Rochester, N.Y. | Blue Cross Arena
10/18 – Syracuse, N.Y. | The Oncenter War Memorial Arena
10/20 – Montreal, Canada | STADE UNIPRIX SHOWS
10/21 – London, Canada | John Labatt Centre
10/23 – Cleveland, Ohio | Wolstein Center
10/24 – Chicago, Ill. | UIC Pavilion
10/25 – St Louis, Mo. | Chaifetz Arena
10/26 – Milwaukee, Wis. | Eagles Ballroom
10/27 – Des Moines, Idaho | Jacobsen Center
10/28 – Omaha, Neb. | Omaha Civic Center
11/2 – Calgary, Canada | Stampede Corral
11/4 – Edmonton, Canada | Shaw Convention Centre
11/6 – Vancouver, Canada | Rogers Arena
11/7 – Seattle, Wash. | WaMu
11/8 – Portland, Ore. | Rose Quarter
11/10 – San Jose, Calif. | Events Center
11/11 – Sacramento, Calif. | Power Balance Pavilion
11/13 – Los Angeles, Calif. | Gibson Amphitheater
11/20 – Frisco, Texas | Dr. Pepper Arena
11/21 – San Antonio, Texas | Illusions Theater at Alamodome
11/23 – Houston, Texas | Reliant Arena
11/24 – New Orleans, La. | UNO Lakefront
11/25 – Nashville, Tenn. | Bridgestone Arena
11/28 – North Charleston, S.C. | North Charleston Coliseum
11/29 – Tallahassee, Fla. | Strip on Tennessee Strip
11/30 – Orlando, Fla. | UCF Arena
12/1 – Coral Gables, Fla. | Bank United Center
12/2 – Tampa, Fla. | USF Sun Dome
12/4 – Clemson, S.C. | Little John Coliseum
12/5 – Norfolk, Va. | Constant Convocation Center
12/6 – Fairfax, Va. | Patriot Center
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Dr. Dre Tops Forbes’ ‘Hip-Hop Cash Kings’ List
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Veteran hip-hop producer Dr. Dre is the new king on the throne of Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. Despite not dropping a full-length album, the good doctor was able to make his money selling his ubiquitous headphones.
According to the financial magazine, Dr. Dre earned an impressive $110 million thanks to his profitable sale of his Beats by Dre headphones to electronics company HTC. Rap mogul Diddy finished at No. 2 with $45 million mostly from the profits of his Ciroc vodka and Sean Jean clothing line.
Jay-Z, who was No. 1 on the list in 2011, came in at No. 3 with $38 million. Hov earned most of his money through his partnerships with the Brooklyn Nets, his advertising firm Translation and cosmetic company Carol’s Daughter. Jay-Z’s ‘Watch the Throne’ partner Kanye West followed at No. 4 with $35 million from his touring revenue and sales of the ‘Throne’ album. Rounding out the top 5 is Lil Wayne with a net worth of $27 million thanks to his Mountain Dew endorsement deal, the launch of his clothing line Trukfit, and album sales of ‘Tha Carter IV.’
Speaking of Weezy, his Young Money labelmates Drake and Nicki Minaj finished at No. 6 and No. 8, respectively on the tally. Drizzy netted $20.5 million, while Minaj pulled in $15.5 million. Their boss, Cash Money co-founder Birdman (aka Bryan Williams), placed seventh with $20 million earned within the past year.
Elsewhere, Maybach Music Group artist Wale was crowned “Cash Prince” by Forbes for pocketing nearly $5 million, just $1 million short of making this year’s Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. “I don’t want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy’s,” the D.C. native told the magazine. “I want to get the highest score on Pacman or Frogger… [and] I want to make sure I’m on the Forbes list in a year or two.”
Cash Kings 2012: Hip-Hop’s Top 20 Earners
1. Dr. Dre: $110 million
2. Diddy: $45 million
3. Jay-Z: $38 million
4. Kanye West: $35 milliom
5. Lil Wayne: $27 million
6 Drake: $20.5 milliom
7. Birdman: $20 million
8. Nicki Mianj: $15.5 million
9. Eminem: $15 million
10. Ludacris: $12 million
11. Pitbull: $9.5 million
12. Rick Ross: $9 million (tie)
13. Wiz Khalifa: $9 million (tie)
14. Snoop Dogg: $8 million
15. 50 Cent: $7.5 million
16. Swizz Beatz: $7 million (tie)
17. Pharrell Williams: $7 million (tie)
18. Young Jeezy: $7 million (tie)
19. Mac Miller: $6.5 million (tie)
20. Akon: $6 million (tie)
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Nicki Minaj Receives Death Threats On Twitter Over Mitt Romney Rap Verse
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Not everyone was feeling Nicki Minaj‘s verse on Lil Wayne‘s flip of ‘Mercy,’ in which she implied that she was a Republican and voting for Mitt Romney. Her rap line has garnered her a slew of hate from radical Democrats on Twitter.
AllHipHop.com rounded up some of the vitriolic tweets that were sent to the Harajuku Barbie. One person wrote, “Somebody please kill Nicki Minaj,” while another tweeted, “Sooo Nicki Minaj voting for Romney? That b—- can die too.” Ouch!
No word if the Young Money queen was serious when she rhymed, “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney / You lazy b—-es is f—ing up the economy.” And Minaj has yet to address the haters on her own Twitter feed.
However, Gawker did some fact-checking and discovered that Minaj is not even a registered voter. WTF?!
Gawker writes:
A search of voter rolls in California and New York, where Minaj maintains homes, comes up empty; which means that not only is Minaj not a registered Republican voting for Mitt Romney, she’s not voting at all unless she registers soon. (It’s also unclear whether or not Minaj, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, is an American citizen.)”
Uh-oh. Let’s hope the authorities at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services doesn’t pay Minaj a visit and decides to deport the ‘Starships’ rapper to Trinidad and Tobago.
Questionable naturalization aside, maybe Minaj was joking around with her Mitt Romney line and people are overreacting. At any rate, if Gawker’s research team are on-point with their fact-checking, Minaj has bigger issues to worry about than so-called “lazy b—-es” who are “f—ing up the economy.”
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First Lady Michelle Obama Praises Elle Varner
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Everybody loves Elle Varner including First Lady Michelle Obama. The R&B songbird received a shout out from FLOTUS at the Democratic National Convention Monday night (Sept. 3).
In an interview with E! News, Michelle Obama spoke openly about President Obama’s accomplishments during his four-year term in office, including jobs, gay marriage and her daughter Malia’s first week as a freshman in high school. Ms. Obama is also up on the latest hits as well. When asked who is Malia’s favorite singer, the First Lady quickly acknowledge the one and only — Elle Varner.
“Malia is all on top of her,” she said of the 23-year-old singer. “So she played her new album for me and I picked out a couple songs.”
Upon hearing the news that FLOTUS shouted her out, Varner shared her excitement on Twitter. “OH MY GOD!!” she tweeted. “I literally prayed for this @MichelleObama thank you so much!! I’m so honored and speechless.”
This is a good look for Varner who is set to embark on her ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Tour next week. The jaunt will see Varner performing at several college campuses across the nation. The trek kicks off Sept. 8 in Louisville, Ky., and wraps in Tallahassee, Fla., on Nov. 9. Varner’s tour will hit Washington, D.C. on Oct. 18, so maybe Michelle Obama will take her daughters Malia and Sasha to the show.
In the meantime, Varner is gearing up to release a new video for her next single ‘I Don’t Care.’ She tweeted, “Wow wow watching the rough cut of “I Don’t Care” and I’ve never looked/felt so sexy before! Hard work paying off.”
Elle Varner’s ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Tour Dates:
9/8 – Louisville, Ky. | Coles Place
9/16 – Atlanta, Ga. | Georgia World Congress Center
9/22 – Jackson, Miss. | Club Pluto
9/27 – Nashville, Tenn. | Tennessee State University
9/28 – St. Louis, Mo. | Emerson Performing Arts Center
10/5 – Philadelphia, Pa. | Theatre of Living Arts
10/6 – Dallas, Texas | Southwest Airline State Fair
10/9 – Hayward, Calif. | Cal State East Bay
10/10 – Normal, Ala. | Alabama A&M
10/11 – Baltimore, Md. | Morgan Stage University
10/13 – Langston, Okla. | Langston University
10/15 – Petersburg, Va. | Virginia State University
10/18 – Washington, DC | Howard University
10/19 – Dover, Del. | Delaware State College
10/20 – Cheyney, Pa. | Cheyney University
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Molton Brown Fine Fragrance Collection
by Jessica Deseo on 02/01/2020 | 5 Minute Read
The Molton Brown finne fragrance category was not performing to expectations. The scents were created by master perfumers, using ingredients of the highest quality. But the perfumes just weren't selling.
The reason was packaging:
1. It didn't stand out from the rest of the brand's vast offering, with the bottle silhouette borrowed from the brand's range of body and bath products.
2. The perceived value was low, with an overall lack of detailing, jarring colours and a total absence of textures.
3. It had been copied by large diffusion brands, at much lower price points, to the detriment of the original Molton Brown design.
THE BRIEF:
Together with the brand, we established three clear objectives:
1. To reclaim a luxury positioning for the brand's fine fragrance category.
2. To establish credibility in the fine fragrance market.
3. To tell the brand's story: born in London in the 1970's, with a progressive outlook characteristic of the period.
MY DESIGN:
1. First I had to address the silhouette.
But more importantly it is an expression of individuality, a concept key to the brand's approach to scent.
But although the shape is radically different, it borrows from the brand's design language.
B. Tactility:
2. I re-interpreted the Lens, one of the brand's key assets.
By turning it into a bold spherical cap, the Lens became the main feature of the bottle.
For the Eaux de Parfum, each scent has its own cap colour. This helps with range navigation.
The production process means each cap displays unique patterns, so no two bottles are the same.
The concave mirrored surface to the top of the bottle creates distorted reflections reminiscent of the psychedelic imagery of the 1970's: a reference to the brand's origins and an expression of perfume's unique ability to alter perceptions and create our own reality.
3. I achieved a heightened level of luxury, using three main strategies:
I created a form that stands out amongst the brand's vast range of products. That instils a clear hierarchy between all the product categories.
A. Weight:
The glass base is thick, with the shoulders covered in a metal sheath. So the bottle feels heavier than expected.
By using raised inks (on the glass), laser-etched motifs (on the spray collar), embossed hot-foiled branding and debossed repeat pattern textures (on the pack).
C. Sophisticated use of colour:
One colour for all Eaux de Parfum (core brown), and another for all Eaux de Toilette (Stone). That's it.
A departure from the garish rainbow previously used by the brand. Instead, a true sense of a collection of luxury perfumes. It's the brand that comes first.
4. I made it refillable:
Molton Brown stores are able to refill these bottles, which provides many benefits:
A. Better for the environment, as each bottle can be used several times.
B. Better for footfall, as customers come back to the store for refilling. Hello, cross-selling and up-selling.
C. Better for loyalty, as customers are less likely to switch fragrance.
5. I designed to support the commercials:
A. The aluminium cap, rather than unique resin.
B. The glass lacquering to the base only, rather than all-over.
C. The folding board box, rather than the two-part rigid board presentation pack.
It is contemporary, yet looks like it could have come straight out of the 1970's.
Eau de Parfum vs Eau de Toilette. Two versions of the same bottle.The silhouette is preserved, so they belong firmly in the same family. But subtle differences in treatment for the Eau De Toilette allow for efficiencies, and margin optimisations:
6. The Outer pack:
So it stands out, but it still belongs.
All of which makes it ok for the one to retail at a lower price than the other.
7. A collaborative process.
Crucially, I was also involved throughout the entire development process, creating a bridge between the Marketing and the Production functions. Enabling true collaboration. Because it's not what I design. It's what we make. I love working this way, because I truly believe the development process is a creative one. Key to the viability of the end result. And that's why I like to get hands-on. Go to the factory. Talk to the machine operator. Check the production line.
I created two proprietary colours (Brown and Stone), and worked with the paper mill in the UK to develop two bespoke papers. The addition of embossed logos and debossed all-over patterns create texture and tactility, which consumers associate with quality. The colour is dictated by the category (Brown=EDP and Stone=EDT) rather than by SKU (as was the case in the past, creating a confusing and garish rainbow display at point of sale).
Instead, I unified this for a luxury collection aspect, which puts the brand first. The Molton Brown fine fragrance category was not performing to expectations. The scents were created by master perfumers, using ingredients of the highest quality. But the perfumes just weren't selling. The client knew what they needed to achieve. They did their homework in ensuring this was clearly communicated, then trusted me to deliver. Embraced the creative process.
Jessica Deseo
Jessica Deseo is a native southern Californian and Mexican-American designer. She has worked as a professional hands-on designer for a wide array of notable brands since 2005. In 2014, she took a step back from the day-to-day pixel-pushing and became a partner at Dieline, where her ultimate goal was to support the advancement of the packaging design community. In 2016, Jessica became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design, where her students' work has received a variety of recognition and awards in the packaging world. In 2019, along with her business partner at Dieline and other notable industry experts in the design community, they acquired PRINT Magazine, a longstanding staple of the graphic design community. Now, in her additional new role as a Partner and Co-Chief Creative Director at PRINT, she wears many hats and wants to grow the graphic design community with culturally relevant features while celebrating up-and-coming designers. Aside from her day-to-day, she enjoys her role at the New Museum Inc, where she serves as a mentor and has found a passion for helping young designers. In her personal time, she enjoys going to museums and the beach with her husband and daughter. In her limited personal time, she enjoys reading books by female BIPOC writers and attempting (attempting being the keyword) to learn how to cook traditional Mexican dishes.
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Home Blues Bo Carter Bo Carter - Twist it Babe 1931-1940 (1973)
Bo Carter - Twist it Babe 1931-1940 (1973)
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01. Twist It, Baby (1931)
02. Some Day (1938)
03. Doubled Up In A Knot (1935)
04. Shake 'Em On Down (1938) play
05. Let Me Roll Your Lemon (1935)
06. My Baby (1940)
07. Rolling Blues (1935)
08. Policy Blues (1940)
09. Honey (1940)
10. The Law Gonna Step On You (1931)
11. I Get' The Blues (1935)
12. Howling Tom Cat Blues (1934)
13. Pussy Cat Blues (1936) play
14. Bo Carter Special (1934)
Guitar, Vocals – Bo Carter
This Yazoo release compiles fourteen sides by Bo Carter recorded between 1931 and 1940. Carter was an extremely prolific recording artist, and "Twist it Babe" is a solid introduction to his body of solo work. His originality and virtousity on the guitar, often overlooked due to his propensity for double entendre, put him technically on par with other "uncopyable" bluesmen such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Robert Pete Williams.
If you have a problem with "dirty blues", then this album, and Bo Carter all together, are really not for you, however, he is a master of country blues guitar and this album is a great place to start. The production and sound are as clean and clear as you will find in the 1930's.
The listener of this album will witness his utter disregard for standard blues phrasing and cliched licks. You will discover through repeated listening that his seemingly simple and catchy songs are actually quite complex arrangements, featuring skills and techniques that remain absolutely unique within the blues vernacular. The combination of melodic, harmonic genius and command of counterpoint, and polyrhythmic bass lines are facilitated by the use of all five fingers of his picking hand, and five different tunings on the guitar. ---Jeff Melvin
Armenter Chatmon, alias Bo Carter, left a sizable thumbprint on 1930s blues. His output as a member of the Mississippi Sheiks is unremarkable, but his solo work retains an amazing freshness. It should be noted that this CD does not represent his most sexual material. "Banana in Your Fruit Basket", another Yazoo Records opus, offers 14 of his most explicit songs. While I don't find any of this music objectionable, the reviewers who preceded me are right about this disc. If you have qualms about racy lyrics, neither "Twist it, Babe" nor "Banana in Your Fruit Basket" will elicit any smiles. For blues hounds, both CDs are emerald-pure lowdown fun. Recommended. ---Loren Burris
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AtomP Reviews: Door Kickers [Killhouse Games]
Atomp/Tom Hooper Games
atomp April 2, 2015 April 3, 2015
With a weekend off I delved into my list of unplayed games (it’s a long list) and pulled free from that list a game that I’ve had for some time: Door Kickers. Door Kickers is a top-down pausable real time SWAT CQC tactics game. The player has a team and the ability to issue orders and pathing to that team in order to complete one of a variety of mission types. This isn’t too different from Breach and Clear, which I’ve covered previously, although I’d be reluctant to say that one was better or worse than other. The SWAT series call backs are clear here, which is great because I adored SWAT 4. What I can state off the bat is the dedication of the development team to the game, this isn’t a fire-and-forget game that’s gone gold and been forgotten. Door Kickers instead receives regular updates, including free updates and whole new campaigns courtesy of the developers which is something that they quite honestly could have charged for. I love seeing this kind of developer, they’re gamers making games for other gamers and that is a brilliant thing. Take their stance on DRM stated on the website for example: “We’d rather spend resources on the actual game and we don’t like to impose restrictions on our paying customers.” Now this isn’t a unique attitude to Killhouse Games, but it is the kind of attitude that shows what kind of developers they are: good ones.
The game itself is of the gritty and realistic strategy game type, as opposed to the abstracted action of the likes of Frozen Synapse. Door Kickers is also hard, like properly hard. It takes no prisoners and will demand regular restarts in order to get the best rating possible, requiring a refining of tactics and loadout throughout the process. The tactical system is interesting, rather than the “right-click to straight line” way point system that Breach and Clear utilises, Door Kickers allows the drawing of a trooper’s path through the map. This difference, combined with the pausable real-time over turn-based system make Door Kickers an interesting experience and actually playable in real-time, not that you’ll want to. You’re going to want to use that pause button because being able to adapt multiple trooper’s orders and pathing simultaneously is invaluable and absolutely necessary later on. Door Kickers uses a star system to differentiate between a mission done well and a mission only barely completed. This post-mission analysis includes a series of determining factors and whilst not as detailed as SWAT 4’s debriefings, it still provides ample reason to keep retrying a level until you’re within the par time with no troopers down. Getting these stars enables you to use them to buy different types of equipment and firearms allowing loadout customisation with increasingly deadly or appropriate gear. This progression is game-wide so it’s possible to build good set of gear on single missions before entering into the campaigns.
The missions available are divided between single missions and campaigns and come in a variety of flavours from hostage rescue to drug busts to simple sweep and kill. The single missions can be played in any order whilst the campaigns are short groups of missions that enforce continuity in terms of wounded or lost troopers. In addition to these is a random mission generator that will take existing maps and throw a random mission together and then the scenario editor with Steam Workshop integration opening map making to the community. This tallies up to an admirable amount of content, especially considering the replayability would already be high thanks to loadout and tactical customisation. Not only does the community (and you) have the ability to create and upload new missions but the developers also release extra campaigns in free updates, as I’ve said before this is the way to do this business. In addition to the star system of levelling mentioned earlier, your squad will also level as you complete missions with them, gradually improving their skills. Then in addition to this there are points earned which can be spent on squad-level improvements to weapon draw, reaction time and such. All in all, a game that could suffer from being a series of detached and distinct missions has a reasonable amount of progression, but without the caveat of feeling like a system that was once free to play.
With regards to the troopers themselves I have mentioned their levelling and gear, but not in any detail. The troopers come in a handful of varieties: pointman, assaulter, breacher, stealth and shield. These categories are reasonably self explanatory and dictate the type of weapons and equipment that particular trooper can have. There are base weapons for each type available but you’ll soon want to spend those hard earned stars on some new and shiny guns. Personally I’ve got a squad equipped mostly with the SG1 classic, the P90 PDW. The weapon characteristics are well simulated, for example my squad of P90s can draw and point very quickly in confined spaces due to the compact and short design of the PDW, they have an impressive 50 round magazine which limits the reload requirements and can penetrate body armour well thanks to that 5.7mm miniature assault rifle round. The P90 is a good weapon for this, besides the limited stopping power that is. There is a very good variety of weapons with the predictable classics such as the old M4/M1911 combo but also some other varied weapons, I believe I saw a very expensive Israeli bullpup in the menu. The armour and gear is detailed although it could have been more-so, but really that’s me being picky and wanting more customisation. The body armour system offers a variety of vest options, ranging from very lightweight low-threat vests to the really heavy ones with the groin attachments and most things in between. The gear provides the selection of SWAT gear that you’d expect to see: flashbangs, stingers, door probes, hammers, breaching charges, etc. The gear and armour loadout will alter the speed and dexterity of your troopers, so there are some circumstances where speed is preferred over protection and vice versa. All of these provide the player the ability to level and equip a squad of their own, customised to their own personal play style and tactical preferences.
The system requirements for Door Kickers are not excessive, in fact in my laptop test with my trusty Thinkpad X220 (Debian Jessie) the game ran absolutely fine, which means that most non-toaster laptops and systems in general should be capable of handling things just fine. This is great news as Door Kickers is absolutely a game of lunch breaks, just do a mission or two on the laptop rather than a dedicated play session, although those are still fun. Currently the game is available on Windows, Mac and Linux with mobile versions on iOS and Android currently in development. This is great news as the lunch break friendly nature of the game should translate over to tablets very well, with some interface modifications that is. The game is currently $20.00 from the website, providing a Steam key and a DRM free download but it’s also available from Steam direct, the Humble Store, and GoG. Personally I went for the Humble Store option over getting it directly from the website as it allows me to better manage my game library, but it’s really up to you. For the price asked, the game is absolutely worth the cost, the sheer amount of content provided by the developer alone is enormous, then consider the addition of the random mission generator, existing community maps and an easy to use mission creator and you’ve got all the tactical content you’ll ever need. Just try to avoid playing so much that you walk into a room in real life and noting hard cover, soft cover and arcs of fire.
Edited 03/04/15: Altered images and minor text corrections.
Door Kickers website:
http://inthekillhouse.com/doorkickers/
Door Kickers purchase on website:
http://inthekillhouse.com/buy/
Door Kickers on Humble Store:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/doorkickers_storefront
Door Kickers on GoG.com:
http://www.gog.com/game/door_kickers
Door Kickers on Steam:
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Sex education, gender policy and pepper spray; Womantra’s wish-list to address gender-based violence
Thursday 10 December 2020 Letters to the Editor, View Point 0
“[…] Amend, implement, and budget for the National Gender Policy. A formalised multi-sectoral approach to awareness raising, prevention and accountability must be applied to all aspects of gender-equality, including gender-based violence. “These interventions should include private and state actors, communities, etc…” The following is a press statement from Womantra, which …
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The Association of Female Executives of Trinidad and Tobago (AFETT), Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA), Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO), Domestic Violence Survivors Reaching Out, Down Syndrome Family Network, UWI Faculty of Law (St Augustine Campus), Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago (FPATT), …
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On Wednesday last, I gave the third in a series of presentations put on by the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies. My presentation was entitled Professional Organisations and the Public Interest. One aspect of my presentation was an examination of why we are so often silent in the …
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First, the bad news. Survey says that Family Feud host and Think Like A Man author Steve Harvey’s stint as the “woman whisperer” is over, after he created an international furore yesterday by giving Miss Colombia a shorter reign as Miss Universe than Reshmi Ramnarine had at the SIA. Colombia …
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On Friday December 18, the Aria Lounge on Ariapita Avenue should have more cross-dressers than, well, Curepe, after ‘Womantra’ asked women to wear their most unfemale clothes to disguise their femininity while men were advised to wear dresses. Before you get too excited, Mr Live Wire would like to point …
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EUscreenXL Offers Attractive Home for Archival Videos
Lithuanian Central State Archive participates in EUscreenXL (European TV and radio archives on the Internet) project, financed by European Commission. EUscreenXL – the follow-up of the international EUscreen project, joining together archives, TV companies, audiovisual institutes and other organisations which create, preserve and popularise audiovisual documents. Lithuanian Central State Archive is one of the new partners. During the project the archive plans to give the access via Euscreen portal to 600 titles of sound recordings of USA Lithuanian radio station „Margutis"
The EUscreen Network is proud and thrilled to announce the launch of its renewed EUscreen website (euscreen.eu) during the International Conference From Audience to User: Engaging with Audiovisual Heritage Online, in Rome, Italy on October 30th.
The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together videos, stills, text and audio that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries.
“The EUscreen Network has been offering access to the highlights of Europe’s rich broadcasting history for several years.The redesign of the portal marks an impressive milestone of its activity. We hope that users enjoy the new features. We look forward to hearing their responses and further improving the site in the years to come”. Johan Oomen, EUscreenXL Technical Coordinator.
The re-developed EUscreen portal offers a brand new experience. The platform is user-friendly and dynamic, inviting visitors to play the videos and discover new content. It gives users a chance to explore the crème de la crème of Europe’s rich broadcast history on the homepage where a selection of specially chosen content is displayed. These video highlights showcase a range of material from across Europe and have been specifically chosen by the contributing archives. Users can explore videos dealing with current affairs and topical issues from the early 1900s until today. They can also watch series and collections ranging from broadcast series to collections of amateur films. The new version of the portal is optimised to be accessible on mobile devices and allows content to be easily shared.
In order to make the content accessible internationally, the portal provides English subtitles for a range of videos. Finally, an exhibition builder (available soon) will allow users to create virtual exhibitions and facilitate the use of videos, photos and audio material.
Over the next few weeks, the website will continually be updated, in response to users feedback.
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About EUscreenXL
EUscreenXL is a three-year project co-funded in 2013 under the CIPICT-PSP Programme. It aggregates a comprehensive body of professional audiovisual content and makes it accessible through Europeana and the EUscreenportal. The project consortium consists of 20 leading audiovisual archives, excellent media scholars, skilled technical service providers and networks such as FIAT/IFTA and the European Broadcasting Union.
Want to take a more active role? Learn how to join our network!
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Henry Bedinger III (45)
Journey to Canaan
Continued from: The Eagle from Harper's Ferry
[This account of an article written and illustrated by David Hunter Strother, under the name of "Porte Crayon", highlights a few adventurous vignettes of a Mr. X M C, herein revealed as none other than the ex-congressman Henry Bedinger III, and his fellow sportsmen in their expedition to the Canaan Country.]
In 1853 Randolph County, Virginia, was a tract of country called Canaan, as it is still called to this day. Canaan, containing from seven to nine hundred square miles, was then entirely uninhabited, and so savage and inaccessible that it has rarely been penetrated even by the most adventurous.
So begins the 1853 narrative, written and illustrated by Porte Crayon [i], of an expedition by six intrepid young gentlemen of the Shenandoah Valley, then of Virginia, into the savage wilderness of the Canaan.
The gentleman of our greatest interest, is Henry Bedinger III referred to in the narrative only by initials, Mr. X M C. Sometime in the month of May, Mr. X M C received a letter which ran as follows:
Porte Crayon
David Hunter Strother
Mr. X M C
Henry Bedinger III
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"Dear Mr. X M C,
We have fixed upon the 1st of June to start for Canaan Country. Our party will consist of Dindon, Jones, Smith, your old friend Penn, and myself. Can you join us? If so, give us immediate notice, and set about making your preparations without delay. I would recommend to you to procure the following equipments: a water-proof knapsack, fishing tackle, and a gun; a belt with pistols--a revolver would be preferable, in case of a conflict with a panther; a hunting- knife for general purposes--a good ten-inch blade, sharp and reliable. It will be useful for cleaning fish, dressing game,and may serve you a turn when a bear gets you down in a laurel brake. Store your knapsack with an extra pair of shoes, a change of raiment, such as will resist water and dirt to the last extremity,a pair of leggings to guard against rattlesnakes, and the following eatables: one dozen biscuit, one pound of ham, one pound of ground coffee, salt, peppers and condiments. This will be the private store of each person, the public supplies will e carried out on horses.
"The place of rendezvous is the Berkeley Springs, the day the 31st of May.
"Yours in haste,
Porte Crayon."
To the foregoing came a gratifying reply:
" Mr. X M C will certainly come."
The Adventurers:
Porte Crayon, the artist and narrator of the tale.
Dindon,athletic, sportsman, never wearied in a debate.
Penn, an author of some distinction, his language poured forth in irresistible torrent.
Jones, inclined to be stout, not to say fat, fond of sports and personal comforts.
Smith, of imposing presence, of few words, but zealous promoter of the expedition.
X. M. C., raconteur par excellence, sophisticate, an ex-member of congress
Guides were engaged. Thornhill, an intelligent, energetic, good-tempered fellow agreed to undertake the job, along with Conway, a woodsman of unperturbed gravity.
Thornhill's dwelling, Porte Crayon declared, looked like the connecting link between a hut and a wood-pile.
The march into the Canaan thus begun, Thornhill, with his tomahawk, led the van. Dindon, Crayon, and Penn followed; then came the pack horses Lame Kit, led by Conway; and Old Sorry, conducted by Powell, a hunter engaged to to bring the horses out. Smith and X M C formed the rear guard and far behind lagged Mr. Jones.
Toward evening the rain fell in torrents. A more cheerless prospect for a night could scarcely be imagined. Conway's woodcraft however, triumphed. With knife and hatchet he gathered forks, props and cross-poles he he speedily covered with bark a complete shelter and soon raised a roaring cheerful fire. Mr. Jones rolled himself in a blanket of bark, procured by Mr. Conway.
Penn and Smith could not resist the desire of trying their fine rods. Having fitted them up, they made a simultaneous throw. Smith's foot slipped , and he came down upon the point of his rod, splintering it to the last joint. Penn made a magnificent fling, but having forgotten to attach his line to the reel, three of the joints went over the falls, carrying with the the line and that incredible specimen of entomology, the fly.
Intent upon fishing , the party marched about four miles and came upon Blackwater Creek. As they followed down the bed of the stream, a deer was see to cross a short distance from them, which so excited Mr. X that he made a rush to get ahead of he main body, and if possible to get a shot. Just a he was about attaining his objective he set foot upon a slippery stone, and pitched head-foremost into the water. As he was hailed with shouts of encouragement.--"there goes the deer!--shoot! bang away!" Mr. X politely requested the company to go to a place where cold water was more of a rarity; and quietly took his position in the rear of the column.
Mr. X M C, who had not yet fleshed his maiden hook in the gills of a trout, went out with Conway to try his luck. After many unsuccessful attempts, he at length hooked a fellow, and drew him out of the water with such a jerk (X is possessed of great physical vigor), that rod, line and fish were lodged in the overhanging branches of a tree. Here was a spite--the stream was wriggling with trout, and X had just acquired the knack of hooking them; but his implements and, worse than all, the first trophy of his skill, were hanging on the envious boughs. Now, if X M C had any one trait that predominated over all others it was determination. Missiles were plenty, and he straightaway opened upon the devoted fish a mingled shower of stones, sticks,and anathemas. At the end of an hour he succeeded in bringing him down, well dried and slightly tainted.
"Well!" quoth Conway, who from a short distance had been the philosophical eye-witness of he proceeding, and who during the time had bagged some sixty of the finest trout--"Well; I've seed fish catched in a great many different ways, but I never seed'em chunked out of trees afore."
"The return to the settlements was unmarked by any incident
worthy of record. Accustomed to the forest, hardened to the toil,
the difficulties of the march passed as matters of course; and an
occasional unsuccessful shot at a deer, or the discovery of a bear's
trail, only elicited a brief comment or a laugh. On the second day
they breakfasted at Conway's, dined at Towers', and, twenty-four
hours after, the heroes of the expedition into Canaan had resumed
the dress, and, to all appearance, the habits of ordinary life. Yet,
by a shrewd observer of character, they might still be distinguished
from the common herd. There was a certain gallant swagger when
they walked abroad, a lighting-up of the face when they met each
other, or when the subject of hunting and fishing was introduced; an
elevation of ideas, a largeness of speech, an ill-concealed disdain of the petty affairs of life, such as law, medicine, or agriculture; and for a long time, whenever they were invited out, even the heavy-handed and profuse housekeepers of their neighborhood seemed to have suddenly become close and thrifty, or to have made some unaccountable mistake in their calculations."
"In the town of M[artinsburg] were several returned Californians who had made the overland trip, dug gold and starved on the Yuba and Feather Rivers, and returned to their homes by the Horn or the
Isthmus, with nothing to show for their trouble but a stock of hard-
earned experience, and the hope of being heroes and story-tellers for the rest of their days. Alas! they happened in an unlucky time.
Whenever one of them, thinking he had an audience in a bar-room
or at a street corner, would commence infandum renovare dolorem,
he was invariably trumped with, "Yes, that reminds me of the Black-
water;" and in five minutes' time the poor Californian would stand
mute and abashed at supposing that he had ever been hungry in his
life, or had ever seen any thing worth talking about."
[i] Strother, David Hunter, 1853,The Virginian Canaan, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 8, pp. 18-36.
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HomeIndian EconomyPrice of Matchbox to be Hiked to Rs 2 After 14 Years Later
Price of Matchbox to be Hiked to Rs 2 After 14 Years Later
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From December 1, the price of every matchbox will be increased’s 2 from the present Re 1. This is in view of a rise in the production budget, triggered by an increase in the price of raw materials. Matchbox buyers will get more matchsticks into a matchbox when they buy it at an updated price Rs.2 , up from 36 matches to 50 per box.
After a gap of 14 years, the National Small Matchbox Manufacturers Association has finally increased the price of their product! The raw materials have increased in price and that’s leading to a jump in cost.
The price of all the raw materials used in our products has increased. “Price of kilo red phosphorus also has increased from Rs 410 to Rs 850, wax from Rs 72 to Rs 85, potassium chlorinate from Rs 68 to Rs 80, splints (sticks) from Rs 42 to Rs 48, and the outer box and inner box both have gone up,” said by matchbox manufacturers association.
The rise in fuel prices is also a factor to increase the production cost. It has also led to an increase in the transportation cost of products. The government has decided that from December 1, the price of a matchbox would be increased to Rs 2 (MRP) from the present Re 1, they said. “After about six months we may review the situation.” In 2007, the price was increased from fifty paise to Re 1 per matchbox.
Sethurathinam said the matchstick count in a matchbox will be increased to 50 from 36. “When the customer pay Rs 2, he will get 50 match sticks into the matchbox.” The price increase would help tackle the situation that has arisen due to the rise in production cost and the decision to go for a hike was taken after discussions with all associations, he said.
Over 5 lakh people depend on the matchbox industry and, while 90% of the workers are women, Tamil Nadu is a leading manufacturer of matchboxes, and Thiurthangal, Kovilpatti, Sattur, Sivakasi, Ettayapuram, Kazhugumalai, and Kaveripakkam are the major production centers.
Approximately, there are 1,000 matchbox units which include small and medium-sized matchbox manufacturers as well.
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No deterrent to pirates, U.S. commander says
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Piracy off the coast of Somalia can't be stopped until there is some authority to bring pirates to justice, according to the commander of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.
U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney: Need to hold pirates off Africa's east coast accountable.
Because there is no working government in Somalia and no country is willing to take captured pirates, bring them to trial and detain them, there is no deterrent for pirates to stop attacking ships, Vice Admiral William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday.
"The problem is there's not a way to -- until we have a mechanism [to hold them] accountable and try them for their actions, there's no way to -- to finish the problem," Gortney said.
The United States is making a deal with a country in the eastern Africa region to hold and try pirates captured by the U.S.-led Combined Task Force 151, a new maritime anti-piracy mission started earlier this month.
He said an official announcement would be made after the deal with the country is official.
In the past three months, piracy attacks have averaged about 12 to 14 a month off the east coast of Africa. As of mid-January, the attack numbers are already at the average of the past three months, according to Gortney.
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"That [number] should tell you that we're not -- we're not being 100 percent successful on the deterrence of the attempt. And that's where we have to go after," Gortney said.
The United States is expecting other nations to join the anti-piracy task force, but at the moment, the United States is the only country in the task force with just three ships off of the waters of Somalia.
There are ships from some European and Asian countries patrolling the waters independently as well, primarily guarding cargo ships from their own countries.
Pirates attacked nearly 100 vessels and hijacked as many as 40 in the waters off the coast of Somalia in 2008, according to the International Maritime Bureau. See how pirate attacks peaked in 2008 »
Pirating off of Somalia has increased during the past four to five years as fishermen from Somalia realize that pirating is more lucrative than fishing. Additionally, pirates are able to get away with the crimes because of the lack of government and overall lawlessness in the country.
Gortney said statistically the chances of ships being pirated off of Somalia less than one percent, but it won't be stopped until piracy is "disincentivized."
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Worst sunburns scorch and sizzle -- 5 ways to avoid getting deep-fried
By Madison Park, CNN
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Dermatologists say wear a shot glass full of sunscreen, reapplied every 2 hours
There's no validated evidence sunscreen is unsafe
Look for sunscreen with zinc oxide, titanium dioxide and ones with UVA/UVB protection
(CNN) -- Whether a person is light- or dark-skinned, whether it's cloudy or sunny outside, dermatologists recommend wearing sunscreen -- globs of it.
The simple act of enjoying the sun has become complicated with questions about how much sunscreen to use (more than you think), how often to apply (frequently) and what those acronyms (UVA, UPF, SPF) mean.
This week, the Environmental Working Group likened some sunscreens to "modern-day snake oil," calling most of the products ineffective and questioning their safety. It said that the products were "exposing people to potentially hazardous chemicals."
The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Dermatologists say there is no evidence that sunscreen is unsafe and that going unprotected is much more dangerous.
The problem is that not all sunscreens are created equal, depending on their ingredients. And the scars of neglecting sun protection are chronicled on the iReport photo wall of pain.
The sun is not the only culprit. Frequent trips to tanning booths have been found to double or even triple risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, according to a study this week.
The rays from the booth or the sun can damage the skin cell's DNA, producing mutations that lead to cancer.
The National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention has declared the Friday before Memorial Day, which kicks off the summer, a "Don't Fry Day." Here are five tips to avoid joining iReporters' stories of their worst sunburns ever (ouch).
1. Clothing matters
All clothing protects the skin to some degree, said Dr. Ariel Ostad, a clinical assistant professor in the department of dermatology at New York University Medical Center.
A tightly woven fabric such as denim confers more protection than linen, because it allows less light penetration, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.
While it's unlikely anyone would wear sunscreen underneath thin clothes, it might be worthwhile for extra sensitive people, Ostad said,
"Even with T-shirts, I see people who get burned," he said. "If someone has a history of cancer or is very fair skinned, it doesn't hurt to put it on," underneath the clothes.
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Some companies create UV-absorbing clothes. These might be helpful for people who spend hours in the sun, because the fabric's weave is designed to protect against the sun, said Ostad, who has no relationship with any of the manufacturers.
These clothes have ultraviolet protection factor, also known as UPF, which indicates how much UV radiation can penetrate the fabric. A shirt with an UPF of 30 means just 1/30 of the sun's radiation can get through.
2. Sunscreens should have UVA and UVB protection.
UVB rays cause sunburns.
UVA rays age the skin, causing wrinkles and tans.
These are two types of ultraviolet radiation that damage and increases risks of skin cancer.
Make sure the sunscreen product has both UVB and UVA protection, dermatologists say. The key active ingredients to look for are zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, said Ostad.
"Evidence has shown the best sunscreens are the ones that block UVB and UVA," Ostad said. "The majority of these companies that market sunscreen products, they try to make people more aware of the SPF."
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3. A high SPF is hype.
The higher the Sun Protection Factor value, the better sun protection the product is supposed to provide against UVB light.
Research shows that an effective SPF 15 can block about 93 percent of all incoming UVB rays, SPF 30 blocks 97 percent and SPF 50 blocks 98 percent.
The protective factors plateau from there, Ostad said. A product with SPF 100+ blocks about 99.1 percent of the UVB rays.
"You don't really need a high number," Ostad said. "They end up being expensive and don't do more than SPF 50."
Keep in mind, SPF protects only against UVB rays. This fall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue sunscreen labeling changes and a star-rating system to also measure UVA protection.
4. Sunscreen sprays are not as effective.
Sure, the sprays are easy to apply, but the downfall is they're less effective. Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide doesn't come in spray form. And most of the sprays protect mainly against UVB rays, Ostad said.
Another problem is that people don't use enough sunscreen, said Dr. Rutledge Forney, an educational spokesperson for The Skin Cancer Foundation.
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An average person should use a dollop -- enough to fill a shot glass, she said. About one ounce of sunscreen should be applied 30 minutes before going outside and reapplied every two hours, she said.
"Whether the sun is out or not, put on sunscreen on your face and hands, just like you would brush your teeth twice a day," Forney said.
5. Darker skin tone isn't a free pass
Darker-skinned people have some natural protective qualities from their pigmentation, but it's no immunity against sunburn and skin cancer. African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and people of color get the disease, too.
It might be harder to diagnose skin cancer in these populations because the growths often appear in atypical locations such as palms, soles of the feet, toenails and fingernails.
Skin experts say all racial groups need to use sunscreens.
CNN's Sabriya Rice contributed to this report.
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Today, after several weeks of people clamoring for changes on Twitter, such as dropping the word "race" or angry that orcs and drow are portrayed as purely "evil", Wizards of the Coast's Jeremy Crawford issued a statement that addressed recent changes that had occurred and would continue to occur to address the issue.
I'm not going to lie and say this is anything my group and I have ever had trouble with, while some games we've played used orcs and drow as purely evil, I seriously doubt that any long-running groups are completely static in their approach.
The Monster Manual for ADnD 1st Edition was the first RPG book I ever read through. I had loved Clash of the Titans and therefore mythology and when I discovered a book full of monsters at my local B. Daltons I was blown away. It felt like I read through it for hours while my parents shopped the Mall the store was located in. Before we left the Mall, I asked my parents if I could buy the book and they offered to take me to a nearby toy store and I promptly forgot about it. The next time I was in B. Daltons the huge display at the front of the store for ADnD was gone and I didn't couldn't find them, maybe the Satanic Panic had it or maybe I was a kid and just fairly lazy.
I did get quite a few of the DnD bendy monsters and action figures and loyally watched the cartoon though. I wouldn't play my first game of ADnD until I was a Sophomore in College and that's when I found out my Mom was worried bout it because of the Satanic Panic craze (yes, I watched Mazes and Monsters and didn't really think much of it) and didn't want me to own that book so many years before.
When I began to DM ADnD 2E many of my adventures started with me flipping through the new Monstrous Manual hardcover and choosing a monster I thought was cool. I happened to love wyverns, hook horrors, and ogre magi and they appeared in my games quite a bit.
I've never assumed drow were evil because they were a matriarchy or orcs were evil because they might be inspired by the Mongels. I assumed they were monsters in DnD and were the "bad guys" that my players, the "good guys", would kill them to take their stuff. At the same time, if the players wanted to use diplomacy that was fine too. Drow might be evil, but they weren't stupid, in fact, one of the games I'm running right now has had the player's negotiate their way through a version of the Keep on the Borderlands.
My personal feeling is that if you look at a fictional creation and see within it a certain Human ethnicity then you have some serious problems and might be a racist.
Since that is out of the way I'm going to drop some DnD publishing history. I think many of those who have voiced their displeasure with WotC's portrayals might not have been around for DnD 4th Edition. 4E's designers were willing to slaughter every sacred cow that didn't work and when a lot of us heard that we cheered as we geared up for its release.
One of those sacred cows was Alignment and another was expectations. Creatures might be known for a certain Alignment but that wasn't a hard rule at all. Gold Dragons could be Evil, Drow could be Good, Orcs could be Lawful Good. 4E wanted you to tread upon the established lore and tried to modernize DnD's tropes.
Drow might not worship Lolth, the world wasn't necessarily filled with magic item vendors, and Fighters got cool Powers too.
The Designers of 4E didn't want anyone to assume anything and that philosophy was reflected in R.A. Salvatore's novels from that period where Drizz't contemplated the fact that Race and Alignment were not linked after all and there might be plenty of other drow that wanted more out of life than to serve the Spider Queen and dwell in the Underdark. An Orc King united his people in the North and Drizz't didn't kill him. And do you want to know why? Because DnD 4E did not succeed.
Read that again, DnD 4th Edition and 4th Edition Essentials did not succeed and the plug was pulled on that edition and everyone who had either dispised or grew to despise 4E moved on to Pathfinder 1st Edition which did not choose to alter DnD's classic tropes.
I am certain that Alignment and Race were areas the 5th Edition Designers made sure to walk back as they developed the game. DnD 5E is a massive success and a cultural juggernaut right now, but during DnD Next that wasn't guaranteed. The development team was reduced to a skeleton crew and it very much felt like a last gasp effort that hit at just the right time. People loved that it was DnD again and embraced its roots.
What you need to understand is that Wizards of the Coast tried to be innovative and the fanbase left them high and dry. And now, as Nerd Culture always does, we have to persecute the thing we love to prove that we love something enough to hate it and we will not allow anyone who thinks otherwise to share that thing with us.
This is a game of make-believe with math and dice and if you lose sight of that then shame on you.
By Cross Planes at June 18, 2020
Labels: DnD
Doctor Futurity said...
Itai Assaf Raizman-Greif said...
I've been running games for 30 years, I never played with alignments because I always felt it was a weird and counterintuitive idea, and I hated 4E because it was a board game and not a roleplaying game. Now I play 5E, it's my favorite edition of all the editions I've played, and I still play without any alignments.
So I disagree with your premise, it's well known that correlation does not imply causation.
Cross Planes said...
@Itai Assaf Raizman-Greif, I respect that you disagree with me and acknowledge your experiences. My point about Alignments is that 4th Edition also made it loud and clear that no "cow is sacred" meaning that Races and Monsters didn't have hard and fast alignments which is something that seems to bother those objecting to drow and orcs in 5E. It wasn't this one decisioin but so many of those "sacred cows" being changed helped cause 4e to fail.
5E wasn't sure thing. The D&D team was reduced to a skeleton crew and after watching a portion of their market share dump them for Pathfinder or the OSR, they decided to use the lessons they learned about game balance from 4E and used more "old school" langauage terminology and themes. 5E could've been the end of D&D as we know it. But it was pretty well designed and Critical Role happened and being a Geek became Chic. Do you know the problem when something is chic? Awful people are attracted to it or the idea of it. Meanwhile, Awful Geeks began to realize that they loved D&D enough to Hate it to prove they were chicer than the asshats and they are now clamoring for changes to the game that when they were first tried were part of the reason the project didn't succeed.
Guess what? I don't use Alignment either, but I'm not associating made up races with human ethnic groups or comparing drow or orc culture to the Mongols or people of color.
And I'll reiterate this one more time: If you look at a race in D&D and see a human ethnic group you are a fucking racist.
OK, let's see if I can understand your position better. Because you seemed to be saying "associating alignment and behavior with race is what helped 5E succeed". But you list a whole bushel of reasons why 5E succeeded; and 4E changed so many things, slaughtered so many sacred cows, not sure you can say just one element is the cause of its failure.
Things like race/alignment tropes are not remotely why 4e failed. There are alot of reasons that 4e failed, but this specific aspect was not one that was voiced at the time of 4e or until now.
4e made drastic alterations to the stat system, they released an unfinished version (and by the time the "essentials" stuff came out, it was too late), the digital tabletop was a huge element, yet got shelved (due to its own complications, but partially due to the unfinished system thing), and it changes core mechanical aspects and terminology that made some people feel it borrowed too much from video games that were inspired originally by D&D in the first place.
It would have been more successful if it were released with a different name, such as "D&D Tactics"... It would have been more successful if the original game looked like Essentials... As I said, many reasons, but alignment and racial assumptions was definitely not one of those things.
@Itai and Unknow, This is really simple. The 4E team didn't think there were any "Sacred cows". One of those changes was changing the Alignments and empowering the DM to ignore assumptions about the lore of D&D.
4E failed. Part of it was the lack of VTT, the poor math, a large section of the player base that didn't want to invest in a new edition/didn't like the changes, and abandoning the OGL and the GSL as a poor replacement.
Essentials was too little too late and the OSR appealed to other members of the market.
Alignment was not the reason 4E failed, but it was a change that the 5E designers specifically rolled back to the previous D&D lore.
I'd imagine most of the current players don't realize that.
5E is the way it is because the Designers were trying to align D&D's lore back to editions prior to 4E.
In other words, Drow, Orcs, and Gnolls were by default evil humanoids. They made that change because 4E failed along with many, many, many other mechanics that were brought back from older D&D editions.
Further, D&D had never released an edition were the mechanics were open to the community and the previous edition could be supported without WotC suing them into oblivion the way TSR did. The fact that the OGL was abandoned provoked some of 3.X's biggest supporters to continue to serve the audience that felt abandoned by WotC.
Raging Owlbear said...
Your side trek into 4e is a bit of a non-sequitur. Alignment in 3.x was already loosey goosey. IIRC, Orcs were listed as “Usually Chaotic Evil”. WotC had already taken steps away from racial essentialism in 3rd Edition Monster Manual which undercuts your premise that it had anything to do with a reaction to 4e.
Marty, I completely disagree. For instance this is quoted from Wizards Presents Worlds & Monsters which was a preview for 4E:
"“Good” and “Evil” Mean More: Being aligned toward good means being a champion who actively fights for what is right, not merely someone who supports such ideals. Being good is a defense against evil, never a vulnerability to evil. Like- wise, evil is more than just bad thoughts. Most average people aren’t aligned one way or the other. You can’t use magic to know whether or not a creature is evil or good: You must judge it by its actions or know its nature (demons, for example, are always evil)."
Alignment was altered significantly as written for 4E and it was walked back for 5E.
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