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Homeland chief Nielsen issues unusual call for border cops
Politico Dec 01, 2018 8:25 AM ET
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has requested the deployment of civilian law enforcement officers from several other cabinet departments to the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
In what current and former U.S. officials said would be an unprecedented move, the officers — who in most cases have duties entirely unrelated to border security — would help border patrol agents repel what the memo calls "migrant caravans originating from Central America."
The request suggests that personnel with such assignments as guarding diplomats, patrolling national parks, and protecting nuclear weapons might effectively "become Customs and Border Protection personnel," as one former Justice Department official put it, with the power to arrest border-crossers.
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Have you ever found yourself at the right place at the wrong time, only to find out it was perfect timing after all?
Why is it that slapping the forbidden label on something makes it infinitely more enticing?
Altered Esthetics was a DIY space in a era of increasing accessibility in the arts, and it was great to be part of a growing movement within the creative community.
When you're thinking about something new - a new project, a new idea - what encourages or discourages you? What motivates you to move forward?
Video games: art you can play with!
On finding the first home for Altered Esthetics in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
I had so much to learn!!!
I remember rolling into Minneapolis in September, a few weeks later than expected thanks to some car trouble in Colorado. The reds and golds and browns of autumn leaves were still crisping along the sidewalk. Everything was beautiful, and fall in Minneapolis remains my favorite season.
Brian and I arranged with a friend to sublet her place, the upstairs floor of a split-level single-family home. It would be a few days before it was ready, so we spent the first weekend in Minneapolis on the welcoming and ready futon in our friend's basement.
The apartment, once cleared out, was a great first place to stay. Our upstairs abode was in the house next door to our friends and walking distance to little coffee shops and restaurants in Stadium Village and Dinkytown. Both districts were at that point still populated with small and local shops, and we were a quick hop to Espresso Royale or the (old) Purple Onion.
My transition from the concrete jungle of Los Angeles probably made me seem pretty touristy to my friends. Squirrels were a novel excitement, and an endless canopy of trees and the picturesque fall foliage served as beautiful frames to every street picture. With a small bit of savings, I had strategically placed myself in a great location for a new adventure, and there were nothing but blank pages on which to write the next chapter.
At the time the world seemed open in an exciting but overwhelming way. I wondered: What's harder? Knowing what you want to do and struggling to get there or not knowing yet what you want and having to learn on the go? I was about to find out. The first page of an empty journal is always the scariest one to write on.
In a past and more evocative life, I was a monster. And then, I was a make-up artist. Sometimes, I still get to pretend.
I'm curious what venues and spaces helped inspire and welcome my friends and colleagues? What spaces formatively influenced who you are today?
Over the next year, I'll be sharing more from It's Never Going To Work - and more in general, including a few new articles I've been working on. In honor of the new year and many new adventures beginning, here is the opening chapter from my book.
Brian and I woke up at the crack of dawn. We loaded up the car with our meager belongings, then circled my parents' house one last time for anything forgotten.
My mom packed us two little coolers with snacks and treats, because she's amazing like that. She stood at the edge of the curvy walkway that leads up to my parents' house, arms crossed and trying to smile, my dad beside her. And there they remained as we backed out of the driveway, turned down the street, and gradually drove out of view.
As we wound round the mountain roads on our way out of the L.A. basin the sun began to rise, beautiful bright reds and oranges that almost made it hard to see the winding roads ahead. I knew my Social Security number by heart (thanks, college!), but I was twenty-three and still had no idea who I was. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with my life, exactly. But I knew I wanted to try life someplace new.
That was how I left California, after several months of planning and prep, in the wee hours of the morning. My boyfriend and I spent our last few weeks in my old room at my parents' house, having escaped none too soon from a spider-infested apartment. And rather than it being stressful to live with my parents again, it was good to spend a few weeks of concentrated family time before leaving.
A mom now myself, I can only fathom how hard that must have been for my own mother. Even writing this makes me choke up a little and want to go wake up my finally sleeping toddler to give her a little squeeze. Adventures like these are a little ways off for her, but I know they'll be here before I know it. When they come I hope I'm half as gracious, brave, and encouraging as my mother was—my whole family, for that matter. And as my travels would tell: attempting to live in a new place is one of the best ways to bust out of one's comfort zone.
This post is adapted from It's Never Going To Work: A Tale of Art and Nonprofits in the Minneapolis Community illustrations by Athena Currier. ©2018 Jamie Schumacher.
Chapter Title - Mike Doughty.
Appropriating the Holidays Part III: Happy Holidays and putting the Christ back in... Saturnalia?
The third piece in an ongoing series I've been writing about holiday histories. Since it's the most wonderful time of the year, let's talk about Christmas!
Press and updates on It's Never Going To Work - plus a special offer for the holidays!
It's Never Going To Work launches THIS WEEK!
Sometimes the idea of something seems so big, the odds of it happening don't look promising.


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The 2012 Richmond Raiders season was the third season as a professional indoor football franchise and their first in the newly formed Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL). One of 6 teams competing in the PIFL for the 2012 season.

The team played their home games under head coach James Fuller at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The Raiders earned a 10-2 record, placing tied for 1st in the league, qualifying for the playoffs. They were defeated in PIFL Cup I, 56-60 by the Albany Panthers.

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All start times are local to home team

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Now, I am not a vegan but for a long time, I have not been able to eat anything containing eggs which makes baking difficult….
Then I found this recipe for vegan brownies but I have adopted it a little to include a little jam (obviously! ) and a chocolate ganache topping.
I used a square muffin tin which i greased with some margarine.
1. Preheat the oven to 160 C degrees and grease the muffin tin.
2. Mix all the muffin ingredients together until you have a smooth mix. Use an ice cream scooper to fill the muffin tray. This will give you identical muffins.
3. Bake for 25 mins.
4. Place on a cake rack to cool.
While the muffins are cooling down, heat up the oat cream until its nearly boiling and then take it off the heat. Roughly chop the chocolate and pour it into the hot oat cream. Stir gently until the chocolate has fully melted and you have a smooth ganache. Let it cool to room temperature.
Take a nice and cut a little hole in each muffin and fill with a teaspoon of Summerfruit & Chia jam.
Once the ganache has cooled a little, pour some over each muffin and then leave it to set either in the fridge (if you are in a hurry) or on the kitchen counter.
I decorate mine with dried raspberries but you could use some chocolate eggs or fresh berries for decoration.


The cast was at the Montreal Comic-Con this year, but their autograghed photo at over $100 was too much for me.
Good to see you back. I hope all is well with you.
$100 is a lot of money, but since most of these folks charge around $20 per signature, it would probably cost you more if you were to get individual signatures from everyone.
I don't like having to pay for autographs, but I understand their motivation. I instead prefer to collect signed books from different authors. First editions of famous writers can get expensive, but if you only care about the signature you can get affordable items if you don't mind book club editions, 10th printings or lesser known titles.
Going that route, I've obtained signed editions from people like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Frank Herbert. Of course, I have no real way of knowing whether or not the signatures are legit or fakes.
While I understand some celebrities charging for auto graphs at cons, it's the sometimes ludicrous prices that get me. While I have been tempted on occasion, I have never actually plunked down for a sig. There are a few (very few) that I would seriously consider, but even then it would depend on the price. Thankfully SF authors and Comic artists/writers don't charge (with a few exceptions). In most cases if they have something to sell on their table I often end up getting something from them as thank you anyhow.


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Guidebooks v the field: the case of female fairywrens
In the numerous guidebooks to Australian birds, I have always felt they are clear enough to allow quite easy identification of quite similar species after one reads carefully.
The classic case of this is the female Petroica species, which are identified largely by whether or not there is white in the tail or wing:
Petroica rodinogaster has no white in the wing or tail
Petroica rosea has white in the tail but not the wing
Petroica phoenica has white in both the tail and wing
Female Petroica boodang has a faintly scarlet patch on her breast, like the blue of female Malurus amabilis.
Female Petroica goodenovii has a distinct red patch above her bill
When I had a look at the other female Malurus from a total of four guidebooks to birds of Australia, it seems as if one can generally identify the superficially similar dull-brown female ("jenny") fairywrens by looking closely:
Female Malurus melanocephalus and Malurus leucopterus are pale in colour, yellowish-grey with no eye-ring. They can be distinguished because:
leucopterus has (a very pale) blue in the tail
melanocephalus has no blue in that tail
Female Malurus lamberti and Malurus elegans are a greyish-blue above and have a dark greyish-blue tail. They can be distinguished because:
lamberti has an orange-chestnut-coloured bill
elegans has a black bill like male fairywrens
Female Malurus pulcherrimus has duller greyish-blue upperparts, a bright blue tail and dark brown bill, lores and eye-ring of the same colour with no faintly white eye-ring.
Female Malurus coronatus has a grey-blue head with a black bill and a deep chestnut patch next to that bill
Female Malurus cyaneus and Malurus splendens are entirely brown with no bluish tinge, with a chestnut bill and lore. They can be distinguishedbecause:
cyaneus has a basically brown tail like Malurus melanocephalus
splendens has a blue tail, similar in colour to Malurus melanocephalus and Malurus leucopterus.
Female Purple-Crowned Fairywren (Malurus coronatus)
However, what these pictures show is that the recognition features that are show clearly in most guidebooks are of little field use in the heathlands where fairywrens are found. Most especially, the difference in colour between Malurus leucopterus and the other fairywren species found in Western Australia is not actually of that much value: if you look, the Malurus leucopterus appears equally grey vis-à-vis the other fairywrens. Also, the greyish-blue upperparts seen in Malurus elegans, pulcherrimus and lamberti from the guidebooks do not appear any different from the brown colour of splendens (which indeed is just as grey)! The easist to grasp from this is in fact female lamberti, because the bill and lores are so different in colour, though not to the same extent as in female Malurus coronatus, which is very distinctive with its faint purple cap, chestnut cheek and black bill.
The pictures shown for species found near Perth, and those at BirdLife ('Fifty Shades of Brown') are actually clearer in the field than guidebooks, or at least those guidebooks where fairywrens are not shown in real habitat. In fact, these pictures make one treat guidebooks with caution, though I have known to do this for some time despite their great value.
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The shrinkage problem for the Enriched World
This morning, there is an interesting article about an emerging and natural problem for an "industrial" Enriched World: that of urban shrinkage due to lowest-low fertility and/or large-scale out-migration.
These problems are inherent in a postindustrial Enriched World (at least practically) due to the combination of:
extreme comparative disadvantage in non-mobile resources (agriculture, mining, forestry)
limited flat land supply for maintaining replacement-level fertility
high taxes demanded by the working classes since their formation and eventually enforced on governments after World War II further reduce the money available to form families
inherent (at least in practice) large welfare states further reduce the incentives for women to have children
Despite this, there has generally been very little discussion of how the real Enriched (and Tropical) World will actually respond to urban shrinkage from lowest-low fertility or limited job opportunities.
In this context, although I was not able to read the full article, 'How does(n't) Urban Shrinkage get onto the Agenda? Experiences from Leipzig, Liverpool, Genoa and Bytom' is a fascinating article to look at. It considers four European cities that in recent years have lost large proportions of their populations to these features and argues that policymakers do not take this into account.
However, I have not seen evidence of different attitudes by the real "policymakers" of the Enriched World – the working and welfare-recipient classes.
Urban shrinkage is no doubt easily accepted by locals who feel they can gain more space without losing the personal luxury items that are not obtainable in the more sparsely populated Australian suburbs where music listening and reading habits are comparatively exceedingly standardised. The extremely materialistic character of welfare recipients will make them think population shrinkage is a good thing, because fewer people could theoretically spread the same wealth more widely.
However, each Enriched nation's product of least comparative disadvantage does not remain such permanently. This is in severe contrast to Australia, Africa and Arabia where comparative advantage remains in the same specialisation – primary products – at all stages of development. It is difficult to see whether Enriched World governments will forever be able to cope with tax revenue loss from either departing industrial corporations or fewer working people. Personal luxury items which serve to define each individual in Enriched World cities are unlikely to provide the tax base people in these cities generally desire, and Enriched World politicians have enough dilemmas trying to maintain profitability and reduce debts without becoming vulnerable to an overthrow from the highly politicised – though outwardly peaceful – masses on which they depend. These masses fear that if regulations were dismantled and taxes reduced, they would lose job security, because secondary and especially tertiary industries are much more mobile than those sectors where Enriched World comparative disadvantage is greatest – agriculture and mining. This is made worse by their desire to spend so much on their favourite specialised consumer goods, rather than save for difficult periods.
Declining populations in many Enriched World cities have little hope to improve allocation of land, partly because the decline will mean more and more single-person households, but also because demand for high living standard will make people reluctant to ease development laws to permit more efficient use of land. In their book The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution, Barry Asmus and Wayne Grudem say:
"Just as environmental policies that are too lax [as in Australia and Africa today] allow for the careless destruction of the environment, so environmental policies that are too strict [as throughout Eurasia and the Americas today] prohibit wise use of the environment, as these restrictions also hinder economic growth"
These strict laws create problems for development of the large areas of steep land in Europe which surround cities built on tiny areas of flat land. If they were removed, it would be interesting to see if this steep land would be able to be used for anything other than recreation or wildlife habitat?? Most free-market urban planners (e.g. Wendell Cox) say nothing about whether urban housing can be built economically on slopes too steep to farm: if they can, there is, even allowing for erosion and other hazards, potential for dealing with the land shortage the Enriched World faces in a small way at least. Then, if the land shortage can be eased, so might lowest-low fertility, unaffordable welfare states, and a radically "selfist" culture – changes whose benefits I have noted before.
on Saturday, December 28, 2013 No comments:
Labels: culture, ecology, farming, politics
A special Christmas
This past few days have been wonderful for me inasmuch as my mother and brother have been together with me for the first time in four years. My brother during this period has lived in Singapore, Frankfurt am Main and Norman, Oklahoma working at various universities in subjects such as Asian Studies.
My brother had been home for ten days – after I had a terrible lockout which cost me $165 to get a locksmith and tired me out severely in a manner that is not good when the hot weather is coming – before Mummy came home and she said – rightly – that I was not nearly enthusiastic enough about seeing her return from Xī'ān, but I forgave her for this swiftly.
I was very, very late in getting Mummy the bike, but experience buying my own bike a couple of months ago compensated for this delay quite well and consequently I was able to make a good decision. Once I had decided, I called Mummy who was very excited, and even more so yesterday when I bought the bicycle home for her to see – though minus lock and helmet, which my brother bought soon after as we settled at home.
This is my mother's new bicycle. It is the most expensive gift I have ever bought at $850 including helmet, panniers and lock, but it is one I had promised Mummy before Christmas and though about for a long time.
Today, we had a lovely Christmas dimmer – stuffed chicken, pork, beans and roast potato, along with a potato salad. I previously disliked potato salad, but seriously enjoyed this one totally. then there was a rally good Christmas cake and ice cream, which is very bad for my mass which has ballooned to over 130 kilograms or 20 stone on the old scale, but has made me feel much more "full" than I have in past years.
Comapred to recent Christmases, most of which have been spent in Singapore's awful climate, this is the best I have had for a long time and Mummy talked at dinner about memories of which I – despite having a very good memory for most things – could not recall a thing about.
on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 No comments:
How Australia's suburbs became a refuge from militant libertinism
The fact that during the Bush Senior Era Australia's suburbs developed into a refuge from the militant atheism, radical individualism and radical egalitarianism that uniformly rule the Enriched World and most of the Tropical World is something that has grown obvious to me as I read and reflect upon what goes on globally today.
Still, seeing exactly how this happened and how long the political ultraconservatism of Australia's suburbs has been a defining feature thereof is something quite independent of understanding why they became what they are.
Two articles I found studying The West Australian as part of a Wikipedia project I began in August to document WAFL seasons from as far back as possible provide more clues on this critical question than I had ever found before.
The earlier, 'Penalise polluters, say Libs', written in 1974 (I do not remember the precise date) is extremely revealing. Written to my ignorance by State Liberal divisions and severely criticised by Environment Minister "Moss" Cass, it said that – at a time when there might have been some opportunity to actually stop the severe environmental damage caused by Australia's transport policies to Western Australia's climate – that the government should cooperate with the States to conserve Australia's resources, invest in beautification and foster public awareness of these problems.
Despite the fact that the policy of the Coalition was far more dreadful even in 1974 than I thought on first read, if it's local branches were pushing for something less bad, it suggests that Australia's masses might have been more concerned about their environmental impacts than they are now. Whether this reflects greater observation of ecological problems from tariff-supported local manufacturing or less concern about high interest rates, unemployment and housing unaffordability is not perfectly clear. My thesis is that, owing to the nineteenth-century rail systems still serving the current mortgage belt, they were not isolated from academic cultures as they are today and this may be a significant factor in mere demand for better environmental policy bilaterally.
The later article, 'Most reject special land rights: survey', dates from the twelfth of July, 1993 and a change in the perspectives of the majority of suburban Australians is clearly evident. The fact that "96 percent said Australia should develop its natural resources and minerals", irrespective of the uniquely high environmental costs history has shown to be inherent in doing so, clearly shows that at this time, after punk, metal and rap had almost washed clean the values of the Enriched World, suburban Australia had become a kind of cloister from "the world" – the extremely present-oriented and hedonistic music that swept over the Enriched World during my childhood. Natural growth of suburbs beyond a public transport system that extensive road construction rendered unprofitable isolated them from outsiders' view, as seen in a Melbourne tourist guide which said clearly and calmly
"generally, there isn't much that will attract you to the suburbs".
Whilst a large number of people certainly found the values of the Boomers' Enriched World highly reasonable, just, logical and sustainable, another potentially even larger number found them exceedingly difficult from an emotional perspective. The focus on science rather than people, the tendency to look at the abstract rather than practical and the consequent lack of usefulness of what many academics (myself included!) did at university, is something these people do no want.
They are quite different from my 1990s-era image of "working-class 'Tories'" who swept Jeff Kennett to power in 1992 and 1996, being not macho and aggressive and loving motor racing and other violent entertainment. They are actually very selfless, charitable and the principle audience for the pop and country music that dominated stations like 3MP and the BAY back in the 1990s. Their dependence on low taxes and interest rates makes it very tough for them in the land- and lithophile-depleted Enriched World, where housing space is unaffordable for all but but the very rich and is severely restricted owing to powerful feeling of class envy towards that group.
This "community culture", concerned with economics and the community rather than abstract ideas, made its home during the 1980s and 1990s in suburban Australia, and made its presence felt in Australian politics in two "waves" – the first in the 1990s and the second as I write.
on Monday, December 23, 2013 No comments:
Labels: climate change, climate research, culture, demographics, family
A rare meal together with my brother
Although my mother has been in Xī'ān over the past week, there has been the surprise of seeing my brother for the first time in a long while as a result of him working in Oklahoma and wishing to gain a prestigious job in Oslo. It has been wonderful to see my brother, though he still is extremely busy and the familiar tendency to sleep all morning is still apparent, although he says it is jet lag and that he has to get up every day to do much more serious work than I have ever had to.
As a result, though to my benefit after having to spend a whopping $165 to get back into the house after locking myself out through wrongly taking Mummy's car keys without realising that she had taken away her own house key! it was terribly tiring for someone who was getting back into a better rhythm before this event, and it still effects me today even as I plan for a lot of Wikipedia work with very limited funds.
However, this Saturday, with the weather in Melbourne becoming much worse than its been (read "hotter" for "worse" if you do not believe me), I decided I should cook dinner for Jonathan for once and I was surprised at how much of a success I made of cooking some terribly old vegetables into a chicken stew. Jonathan really liked it - and in fact he helped whist I bought some new chicken stock so the stew could actually be made. I have a rare picture of it which I will show to see what you think:
on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 No comments:
Labels: family, personal behaviour, work
Why Australia must be "sued into sutainability"
The elimination of the woefully inadequate carbon tax by the Abbott Government is depressing. Knowing as much as I do about the extremely low productivity, age and infertility of the Australian continent those with serious ecological knowledge would hope for better.
Nonetheless, is there a point in crying over something scientists can do nothing about??
The answer is no - we must look to alternative causes to see why Australia lags further and further behind the rest of the world in greenhouse emissions reductions, when its infertile soils, hot climate and high species diversity suggest firmly it needs to be moving further and further ahead. It is pointless arguing the toss: Australia will move away from sustainability as the rest of the world moves toward it.
This map, taken from the FAO site "http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/nr/images/resources/images/Maps/geonetwork/terrslope.png", shows just why Australia has such a poor sustainability record: it has little incentive to be efficient with land and energy use due to its continuous and abundant very flat land.
The map above is based on the FAO's map of median terrain slope, with the modification of cutting off cryospheric land as if it was above about 9˚ slope. Although my rendition is not perfect, it is striking how vast the areas of extremely low slope are in most of Australia, and how even the relatively steep areas of the east coast, the Kimberley and central Australian ranges are not highly "dissected". The vast supply of continuous flat land northwest from the Main Divide is rivalled - and barely - only in the Amazon and Sahara under climates equally or more inhospitable, and there the flat land is far more broken and less economic for farming or housing.
This is why "feeling" types, strongly interested in other people and deep romantic relationships, are attracted to Australia's suburbs, whereas "thinking" types who are interested in things and ideas more than people gravitate to Eurasia and the Americas, where dense populations and lack of space allow for intensive discussions but little room for nurturing families.
Countering the natural tendency for exploitation in Australia and conservation in the northern and western hemispheres requires a completely different line of attack.
The most likely method is to demonstrate why Australia is responsible for global warming even though its emissions are not yet a large proportion of the global total (though they certainly will be in the future). Per capita emissions, especially given the relative ecological energy consumption of Australian vis-à-vis Enriched World ecosystems, are enough reason to give Australia an exceptional responsibility for man-made global warming.
With time the power of the Enriched World to demand Australia pay its fair (large) share for the costs of man-made global warming abroad will decline. This makes the Kyōtō Protocol more of a failure than its sceptics think, and makes a complete rethink of policies all the more urgent. If Australia was made to pay or sued for demonstrable damages, it would completely alter its ultraconservative, pro-mining and pro-freeway politics at a stroke. The effect would be immense compared to the changes made of late in Eurasia and the Americas!
on Monday, November 18, 2013 No comments:
Labels: ecology, history, politics, transport
Why people compain about the weather - reversing the popular myth
I have for a long time thought it odd that people in places blessed with comfortably cool climates - even if they are gloomier than could be desired - complain so much about the weather. England and Seattle are the most prominent places where people are supposed to complain a lot about the weather, but Europe throughout is known for this type of talk. One person on the web whom I will not name says:
"if your country has better weather than England you're not allowed to complain about it"
This statement is based on the assumption that most of the world has much better weather than England. Whilst this a common perspective, I would dearly wish people to think about it logically. England does have a rather gloomy climate with a large number of rainy days, but it does not have:
extreme winds and heavy rainfall as is found in the tropical cyclone belts of Australia, Asia and the Caribbean
extremely uncomfortable and even dangerous humidity as occurs in the summer or year-round in southern and eastern Asia, eastern North America, eastern South America, West Africa and most of Australia
unpredictable and extreme droughts and resultant dust storms and stock losses as found in Australia and southern and Eastern Africa
nor does England have the huge flood flows that occur in wet years in Australia, where the Burdekin River, with a VMAD of around 330m3/s, can reach a flow equal to that of the Congo.
extremely hot and dry weather with dangerous sun conditions, as found in the hot deserts on the eastern side of subtropical anticyclones
extremely heavy snowfalls as found in northeastern North America and northern Japan
extremely cold conditions as found in northern North America, Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Central Asia and Antarctica
If one factors in all these conditions, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of planet Earth as we know it must have worse weather than England!
More than that, some of those other places known for complaint about the weather, such as Seattle, also have unusually clement weather with mild summers and damp, cool winters. Seattle is quite a bit sunnier than England at about 5.2 hours of sun per day, and is very dry and sunny in the summer with 10 hours of sunshine and only 17mm of rainfall in July: in fact Seattle's longest rainless spell is over fifty days, quite a bit longer than here in Melbourne.
What this clearly implies is that people in England complain about the weather so much because they are, relatively speaking, spoiled by having it so good compared to most of the world. As I see it, between 80 and 90 percent of the world must have worse weather than England. When the weather becomes a little uncomfortable or what they do not wish for, Europeans are easily upset, in contrast to Asia, Africa and most of Australia or the Americas where people accept dreadful weather very willingly as they acclimatise to it and tolerate it. It certainly takes a lot to cope with an average annual top of 36˚C as in Wyndham, or with -20˚C winters and humid 25˚C summers as in Harbin, but those used to them will see them in ways that make them less awful then they are. For instance, the extreme seasonal contrasts of Manchuria - which can be life different planets in summer and winter - no doubt becomes extremely interesting to those who live there, as would the extreme fluctuations of drought and flooding cyclones in the Pilbara.
With this sort of variety, horrible climates become something other than subjects of complaint, whereas comfortable climates generally cannot be thus transformed.
on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 No comments:
Labels: climate research, culture
NME's Top 500: A "repeat" of 'Rolling Stone' in 2003
Today, in the Bailleau Library, I had a look at "best albums" lists on a special scholarly site and saw that British magazine New Musical Express had only a few months ago written their own "Top 500". The identity of its top album, which I have seen strongly praised and aggressively criticised (citing the Warlock Pinchers "Morrissey Rides a ****Horse" in the latter case), was enough to make me have a look, and here is the full list, with albums I own highlighted in pink.
Keenan's
1 The Queen Is Dead The Smiths N Y
2 Revolver The Beatles N N(Y)
3 Hunky Dory David Bowie N(Y) N
4 Is This It The Strokes N N
5 The Velvet Underground and Nico The Velvet Underground Y Y
6 Different Class Pulp N N
7 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses N N
8 Doolittle Pixies N N
9 The Beatles The Beatles N Y
10 Definitely Maybe Oasis N N
11 Nevermind Nirvana N(Y) N
12 Horses Patti Smith Y N(Y)
13 Funeral Arcade Fire
14 Low David Bowie N(Y) N
15 Let England Shake PJ Harvey N N
16 Closer Joy Division Y N
17 It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy Y N(Y)
18 Loveless My Bloody Valentine N N
19 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys
20 OK Computer Radiohead N N
21 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West
22 Parklife Blur N N
23 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie N(Y) N
24 Exile on Main Street The Rolling Stones N(Y) N(Y)
25 What's Going On Marvin Gaye N N
26 Pet Sounds The Beach Boys Y N(Y)
27 Screamadelica Primal Scream N N
28 Back to Black Amy Winehouse
29 Marquee Moon Television Y N(Y)
30 Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan N N
31 Dog Man Star Suede N N
32 Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys N N
33 Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur N N
34 Abbey Road The Beatles N N(Y)
35 In Utero Nirvana N(Y) N
36 Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan N N(Y)
37 Forever Changes Love Y N
38 Never Mind the Bollocks… Here's the Sex Pistols Sex Pistols Y N
39 London Calling The Clash N(Y) N
40 Unknown Pleasure Joy Division N(Y) N
41 Daydream Nation Sonic Youth Y N(Y)
42 Innervisions Stevie Wonder N N
43 Rubber Soul The Beatles N N(Y)
44 The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers N N
45 Parallel Lines Blondie N N
46 Debut Björk N N
47 Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths N N(Y)
48 Hounds of Love Kate Bush N Y
49 Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem
50 Dusty in Memphis Dusty Springfield N Y
51 Rumours Fleetwood Mac N N
52 Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones N(Y) N(Y)
53 Station to Station David Bowie N(Y) N
54 Remain in Light Talking Heads N N
55 Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones N(Y) N(Y)
56 After the Gold Rush Neil Young N(Y) N(Y)
57 The Man Machine Kraftwerk N N
58 Surfer Rosa Pixies N N
59 In Rainbows Radiohead N N
60 Blue Lines Massive Attack N N
61 The Clash The Clash Y N
62 Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan N N(Y)
63 Blue Joni Mitchell N N
64 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan N N(Y)
65 Automatic For the People R.E.M. N N(Y)
66 The Bends Radiohead N N
67 (What's the Story) Morning Glory Oasis N N
68 Astral Weeks Van Morrison N Y
69 Murmur R.E.M. N N(Y)
70 Up the Bracket The Libertines N N
71 Harvest Neil Young N(Y) N(Y)
72 Transformer Lou Reed N N(Y)
73 Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan N N(Y)
74 Illmatic Nas N N
75 Dookie Green Day N N
76 Discovery Daft Punk N N
77 White Blood Cells The White Stripes
78 Suede Suede N N
79 Kind of Blue Miles Davis N(Y) Y
80 Raw Power Iggy and the Stooges N(Y) N(Y)
81 Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk N N
82 Tapestry Carole King N N
83 The Band The Band N N(Y)
84 Live Through This Hole N N
85 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen N N(Y)
86 Grace Jeff Buckley N N
87 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles N N(Y)
88 For Your Pleasure Roxy Music N(Y) N
89 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill N N
90 A Grand Don't Come For Free The Streets
91 Purple Rain Prince and the Revolution N N
92 Radiator Super Furry Animals N N
93 Songs for the Deaf Queens of the Stone Age N N
94 Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones Y N(Y)
95 Spirit of Eden Talk Talk N N
96 Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy N(Y) Y
97 The Smiths The Smiths N N(Y)
98 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel N N
99 The Libertines The Libertines N N
100 Hatful of Hollow The Smiths N N(Y)
101 Computer World Kraftwerk N N
102 The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips N N
103 Electric Ladyland The Jimi Hendrix Experience N(Y) N(Y)
104 Funhouse The Stooges Y Y
105 Rain Dogs Tom Waits N N
106 IV Led Zeppelin N Y
107 Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine N N
108 Pinkerton Weezer N N
109 Darkness on the Edge of Town Bruce Springsteen N N(Y)
110 Liege and Lief Fairport Convention N Y
111 Dare The Human League N N
112 Liquid Swords GZA
113 If You're Feeling Sinister Belle and Sebastian N Y
114 Kid A Radiohead N N
115 Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub N N
116 Elephant The White Stripes N N
117 The Lexicon of Love ABC N N
118 Searching for the Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners N N
119 His'N'Hers Pulp N N
120 3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul N N
121 Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin N N
122 Technique New Order N N
123 13 Blur N N
124 Graceland Paul Simon N N
125 Live at the Apollo James Brown N Y
126 Ill Communication Beastie Boys N N
127 Ramones Ramones Y Y
128 Urban Hymns The Verve N N
129 On the Beach Neil Young N(Y) N(Y)
130 Turn on the Bright Lights Interpol
131 Thriller Michael Jackson N N
132 Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd N N
133 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band N N
134 Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea PJ Harvey N N
135 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem N N
136 Fever to Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs N N
137 Blur Blur N N
138 Illinois Sufjan Stevens
139 Disintegration The Cure N N
140 Bryter Layter Nick Drake N N
141 Natty Dread Bob Marley and the Wailers N N
142 Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg N N
143 Desire Bob Dylan N N(Y)
144 Are You Experienced The Jimi Hendrix Experience Y N(Y)
145 Odessey and Oracle The Zombies N Y
146 Relationship of Command At the Drive-In
147 Channel Orange Frank Ocean
148 Nebraska Bruce Springsteen N Y
149 Either/Or Elliot Smith N N
150 Original Pirate Material The Streets
151 Dry PJ Harvey N N
152 Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev N N
153 The La's The La's N N
154 To Bring You My Love PJ Harvey N N
155 Music for the Jilted Generation The Prodigy N N
156 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Spiritualized N N
157 Psychocandy The Jesus and Mary Chain N N
158 Two Dancers Wild Beasts
159 Entertainment! Gang of Four N N
160 XTRMTR Primal Scream N N
161 The Suburbs Arcade Fire
162 The Boxer The National
163 Neu '75! Neu! N Y
164 At Folsom Prison Johnny Cash N N(Y)
165 Let Love In Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds N N(Y)
166 This is Hardcore Pulp N N
167 Lady Soul Aretha Franklin N N
168 Dummy Portishead N N
169 Don't Stand Me Down Dexys Midnight Runners N N
170 Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins N N
171 Fear of Music Talking Heads N N
172 Songs in the Key of Life Stevie Wonder N N
173 III Led Zeppelin N N(Y)
174 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Bright Eyes
175 Young Americans David Bowie N(Y) N
176 Want One Rufus Wainwright N N
177 Young Team Mogwai N N
178 The Coral The Coral
179 Miss E…So Addictive Missy Elliott N N
180 Germ Free Adolescents X-Ray Spex N N
181 Music Has the Right to Children Boards of Canada N N
182 Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers N N
183 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below OutKast N N
184 Kala MIA
185 Paid in Full Eric B and Rakim N N
186 The Blueprint Jay-Z N N
187 Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine N N
188 A Love Supreme John Coltrane N(Y) Y
189 A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren N N
190 Piper at the Gates of Dawn Pink Floyd N N
191 Elastica Elastica N N
192 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand N N
193 Gold Ryan Adams N N
194 Appetite for Destruction Guns'N'Roses N N
195 A Hard Day's Night The Beatles N N(Y)
196 Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers N N
197 Back in Black AC/DC N(Y) Y
198 Sign of the Times Prince N N
199 Giant Steps The Boo Radleys
200 Last Splash The Breeders N N
201 Hex Enduction Hour The Fall N N
202 Maxinquaye Tricky N N
203 Teen Dream Beach House
204 Bad Michael Jackson N N
205 Straight Outta Compton NWA N Y
206 Slanted and Enchanted Pavement N N
207 Pearl Janis Joplin N N
208 Risque Chic N N
209 The Kick Inside Kate Bush N N(Y)
210 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields N N
211 Nightclubbing Grace Jones N N
212 Youth and Young Manhood Kings of Leon
213 One Nation under a Groove Funkadelic N(Y) N(Y)
214 Moon Safari Air N N
215 Mezzanine Massive Attack N N
216 Power, Corrruption and Lies New Order N N
217 Lust for Life Iggy Pop N N
218 Primary Colours The Horrors
219 All Mod Cons The Jam N N
220 Alligator The National
221 Broken English Marianne Faithful N N
222 Fever Ray Fever Ray
223 Neon Bible Arcade Fire
224 Heaven Up Here Echo and the Bunnymen N N
225 Electric Warrior T. Rex N N
226 The Doors The Doors N N
227 Imagine John Lennon N N
228 Brighten the Corners Pavement N N
229 Metal Box Public Image Ltd N N
230 Aladdin Sane David Bowie N(Y) N
231 The Chronic Dr. Dre N N
232 Songs of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen N N(Y)
233 Down in Albion Babyshambles
234 Behaviour Pet Shop Boys N N
235 Murder Ballads Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds N N(Y)
236 Suicide Suicide N Y
237 The xx The xx
238 Show Your Bones Yeah Yeah Yeahs
239 Boy in Da Corner Dizzee Rascal
240 New Boots and Panties!! Ian Dury N N
241 Ray of Light Madonna
242 Off the Wall Michael Jackson N N
243 The Hissing of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell N N
244 Smother Wild Beasts
245 Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals
246 MTV Unplugged in New York Nirvana N(Y) N
247 Glasvegas Glasvegas
248 The Slim Shady LP Eminem N N
249 The Fat of the Land Prodigy N N
250 Weezer Weezer N N
251 Surf's Up The Beach Boys N(Y) Y
252 Visions Grimes
253 Exile on Main Street Pussy Galore
254 Meat is Murder The Smiths N N(Y)
255 The English Riviera Metronomy
256 This Year's Model Elvis Costello and the Attractions Y N
257 The Boatman's Call Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds N Y
258 Five Leaves Left Nick Drake N N
259 Yo! Bum Rush the Show Public Enemy N(Y) N(Y)
260 The Specials The Specials N N
261 Live! Bob Marley and the Wailers N N
262 Criminal Minded Boogie Down Productions N N
263 I Speak Because I Can Laura Marling
264 Please Please Me The Beatles N N(Y)
265 Celebrity Skin Hole N N
266 A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay
267 Stupidity Dr. Feelgood N N
268 Todd Todd Rundgren N N
269 Skying The Horrors N N
270 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks N Y
271 Loaded The Velvet Underground N(Y) N(Y)
272 Parachutes Coldplay
273 The College Dropout Kanye West
274 Green R.E.M. N Y
275 Quadrophenia The Who N(Y) N(Y)
276 Ocean Rain Echo and the Bunnymen N N
277 Reading, Writing and Arithmetic The Sundays N N
278 Cut The Slits N N
279 Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Y Y
280 Drukqs Aphex Twin N N
281 My Aim is True Elvis Costello N(Y) N
282 Grand Prix Teenage Fanclub N N
283 Roxy Music Roxy Music Y N
284 13 Songs Fugazi N N
285 Midnight Love Marvin Gaye N N
286 Dust Screaming Trees N N
287 Reign in Blood Slayer N N
288 Music of My Mind Stevie Wonder N N
289 The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers Y N
290 Expecting to Fly The Bluetones
291 Younger than Yesterday The Byrds N(Y) N(Y)
292 The New Fellas The Cribs
293 High Land, Hard Rain Aztec Camera N N
294 Myths of the Near Future Klaxons
295 Doggystyle Snoop Doggy Dogg N N
296 Let's Dance David Bowie N(Y) N
297 Ege Bamyasi Can Y N(Y)
298 Malcom McLaren Malcolm McLaren N N
299 16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens N N
300 The Who By Numbers The Who N(Y) N(Y)
301 World of Echo Arthur Russell N N
302 Homework Daft Punk N N
303 Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus N(Y) N(Y)
304 UFOrb The Orb N N
305 Every Picture Tells a Story Rod Stewart N N
306 The Freewheeling Bob Dylan Bob Dylan N N(Y)
307 Midnight Vultures Beck N N
308 It's a Shame About Ray Lemonheads N N
309 Metallica Metallica N N
310 Countdown to Ecstasy Steely Dan N(Y) N
311 Guerilla Super Furry Animals
312 Treasure Cocteau Twins N N
313 Frank's Wild Years Tom Waits N N
314 Spiderland Slint N N
315 Cheap Thrills Big Brother and the Holding Company N N
316 Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello and the Attractions N(Y) N
317 Grievous Angel Gram Parsons N N
318 OG Original Gangster Ice-T N N
319 Who's Next The Who N(Y) N(Y)
320 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits N N
321 Lost Souls Doves
322 This is Happening LCD Soundsystem
323 Bitches Brew Miles Davis N(Y) N(Y)
324 Life's Rich Pageant R.E.M. N N(Y)
325 Sea Change Beck N N
326 I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Yo La Tengo N N
327 Mutations Beck N N
328 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots The Flaming Lips N N
329 Heroes David Bowie N(Y) N
330 Third Portishead
331 Kick out the Jams MC5 N(Y) N(Y)
332 HMS Fable Shack
333 Band on the Run Paul McCartney and Wings N N
334 Since I Left You The Avalanches
335 …Like Clockwork Queens of the Stone Age N N
336 Raw Like Sushi Neneh Cherry N N
337 The Grey Album Danger Mouse
338 Ready to Die Notorious BIG N N
339 Ten Pearl Jam N N
340 We Are Family Sister Sledge N N
341 Closing Time Tom Waits N N
342 Lazer Guided Melodies Spritualized N N
343 John Wesley Harding Bob Dylan N N(Y)
344 Beautiful Freak Eels N N
345 Punch the Clock Elvis Costello N(Y) N
346 Low Life New Order N N
347 Dirty Sonic Youth N(Y) N(Y)
348 Whitney Whitney Houston N N
349 An Awesome Wave Alt-J
350 BRMC Black Rebel Motorcycle Club N N
351 Sweetheart of the Rodeo The Byrds N(Y) N(Y)
352 White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground Y N(Y)
353 Mclusky Do Dallas Mclusky
354 Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes Y N
355 New York Dolls New York Dolls Y N
356 Bossanova Pixies N N
357 Copper Blue Sugar N N
358 Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt N N
359 We're Only in It for the Money The Mothers of Invention N(Y) N
360 Room on Fire The Strokes
361 A Nod is as Good as a Wink The Faces N N
362 Hello Nasty Beastie Boys N N
363 Damaged Black Flag Y N
364 For Emma, Forever Ago Bon Iver
365 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegatables Dead Kennedys N N
366 Songs of Love and Hate Leonard Cohen N Y
367 Nights Out Metronomy
368 Hail to the Thief Radiohead
369 Strange Mercy St. Vincent
370 Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever The Cribs
371 Odelay Beck N N
372 Atomizer Big Black N N
373 There's No Place Like America Today Curtis Mayfield N N
374 In the Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra N N
375 Vauxhall and I Morrissey N N
376 Live at the Harlem Square Club Sam Cooke N N
377 Stormcock Roy Harper N N
378 Pink Flag Wire Y N
379 The Boy with the Arab Strap Belle and Sebastian N N(Y)
380 Silent Alarm Bloc Party N N
381 Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) David Bowie Y N
382 Bridge over Troubled Water Simon and Garfunkel N N
383 Someone To Drive You Home The Long Blondes
384 Elvis Presley Elvis Presley Y Y
385 Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes
386 Revival Gillian Welch N N
387 Combat Rock The Clash N(Y) N
388 Happy Sad Tim Buckley N(Y) N(Y)
389 Le Tigre Le Tigre N N
390 A Northern Soul The Verve N N
391 Burial Burial
392 Beauty and the Beat Edan
393 Dirty Mind Prince N N
394 Chairs Missing Wire N(Y) N
395 De Stijl The White Stripes N N
396 L.A.M.F. Heartbreakers Y N
397 Reasonable Doubt Jay-Z N N
398 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young N(Y) N(Y)
399 The Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds N N(Y)
400 This Nation's Saving Grace The Fall N N
401 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle N N(Y)
402 Twenty One Mystery Jets
403 Vespertine Björk N N
404 No Other Gene Clark N N
405 Otis Blue Otis Redding N N
406 Rated R Queens of the Stone Age N N
407 Going Blank Again Ride N N
408 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pavement N N
409 Tago Mago Can N(Y) N(Y)
410 Antics Interpol N N
411 Madvillainy Madvillain
412 Endtroducing… DJ Shadow N N
413 Pills N Thrills and Bellyaches Happy Mondays N N
414 Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers N N
415 Chet Baker Sings Chet Baker
416 Merriweather Post Pavillion Animal Collective
417 1977 Ash N N
418 Electro-Shock Blues Eels
419 Let It Come Down Spiritualized N N
420 People's Instinctive Travels… A Tribe Called Quest N N
421 Radio City Big Star Y N(Y)
422 Too-Rye-Ay Dexys Midnight Runners N N
423 Live at Leeds The Who N(Y) N(Y)
424 The Joshua Tree U2 N N
425 Nancy and Lee Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood N N
426 Goo Sonic Youth N(Y) N(Y)
427 Here Come the Warm Jets Brian Eno N N(Y)
428 Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen N N(Y)
429 Bleed America Jimmy Eat World
430 Scott 4 Scott Walker N N(Y)
431 Badmotorfinger Soundgarden N N
432 Tindersticks Tindersticks N N
433 2001 Dr. Dre N N
434 Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout N N
435 Easter Patti Smith N(Y) N(Y)
436 Mirrored Battles
437 Dear Science TV on the Radio
438 Aha Shake Heartbreak Kings of Leon
439 The Futureheads The Futureheads N N
440 Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy Billy Bragg N N
441 Arrival ABBA N N
442 Al Green is Love Al Green N N
443 Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle Bill Callahan
444 Violator Depeche Mode N N
445 Tusk Fleetwood Mac N N
446 The Warning Hot Chip
447 Diamond Dogs David Bowie N(Y) N
448 Sci-Fi Lullabies Suede N N
449 AM Arctic Monkeys
450 Rid of Me PJ Harvey N N
451 Third/Sister Lovers Big Star N(Y) Y
452 The B-52s The B-52s N N
453 The House of Love The House of Love N N
454 The Writing on the Wall Destiny's Child N N
455 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
456 September of My Years Frank Sinatra N N
457 Black Cherry Goldfrapp
458 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco N N
459 The Black Album Jay-Z N N
460 Bleach Nirvana Y N
461 Generation Terrorists Manic Street Preachers N N
462 Master of Puppets Metallica N N
463 Pod The Breeders N N
464 Because of the Times Kings of Leon
465 High Violet The National
466 The W Wu-Tang Clan N N
467 The Idiot Iggy Pop N N
468 Chutes Too Narrow The Shins N N
469 Holland The Beach Boys N(Y) N(Y)
470 Graduation Kanye West
471 Oracular Spectacular MGMT
472 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Smashing Pumpkins N N
473 A Storm in Heaven The Verve N N
474 Tarot Sport Fuck Buttons N N
475 Smoke Ring for My Halo Kurt Vile
476 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters N N
477 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
478 Trouble Will Find Me The National
479 The Real Ramona Throwing Muses N N
480 I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin N N
481 Smile Brian Wilson
482 Lady in Satin Billie Holiday N
483 Blood and Chocolate Elvis Costello and the Attractions N N
484 The River Bruce Springsteen N N(Y)
485 Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Kendrick Lamar
486 Homogenic Björk N N
487 Sound Affects The Jam N N
488 I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen N N(Y)
489 George Best The Wedding Present N N
490 Back in the USA MC5 Y Y
491 Actually Pet Shop Boys N N
492 Hidden These New Puritans
493 Blood This Mortal Coil N N
494 The Head on the Door The Cure N N
495 Hot Fuss The Killers
496 Album Girls
497 Random Access Memories Daft Punk
498 Berlin Lou Reed N N(Y)
499 Star Belly N N
500 Stankonia OutKast N N
What struck me when I compared this list with Joe S. Harrington's from 2001 on Blastitude and the Rolling Stone list from 2003 is that the number of albums from Harrington's list in this New Musical Express list is only one less than in Rolling Stone's list (I haven't checked agreement).
What this suggests to me is that New Musical Express, regarded in the past as less of a promoter of "popular" rock than Rolling Stone or Spin, is today no different from them. Writers like "janitor-x" have said that such magazines should ignore music that does not resemble 1960s music, like 1980s Metallica, Slayer, the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag, but this is hardly in evidence.
More than this, and probably more than with the Rolling Stone list, there is little consistency of any sort in the New Musical Express list, noted from when the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was at #87 instead of being at #1.
The treatment of the most famous "popular" singers and bands since the "punk revolution" is not consistent either: if Whitney Houston gets one album, should not all the popular "easy listening" singers since then do so??
More than that, those who have studied music for as long as I have – which dates back to my discovery of Harrington's list by an accident on Google in 2001 – are so aware of the large number of omitted artists that I have decided to compile a list below of twenty omitted artists from the writings of Harrington, David Keenan and Piero Scaruffi. Whilst I am in no way certain that these are the twenty most deserving omitted artists, they would certainly change the list quite dramatically if added.
A Representative Album by Twenty Artists Recommended by Two or More of Scaruffi, Harrington and/or Keenan and not on NME list
Free Jazz Ornette Coleman Aside from Davis, Coltrane and Mingus, these three were the giants of avant-garde and free jazz during the period it was the underground music
Spiritual Unity Albert Ayler
Atlantis Sun Ra
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band Either adored or hated by most; NME omission understandable given the magazine's history as a promoter of punk music.
Live Dead The Grateful Dead
Easter Everywhere Thirteenth Floor Elevators
The Parable of Arable Land The Red Krayola Regarded by some as more experimental and eccentric than Beefheart; have heard but cannot agree fully.
In the Court of the Crimson King King Crimson Regarded frequently as the first and best progressive rock album; though progressive rock is generally disliked at NME.
The Marble Index Nico
Master of Reality Black Sabbath Originally reviled, latterly revered and amazingly ignored by NME.
Faust IV Faust
Tyranny and Mutation Blue Öyster Cult Arguable the first pop metal band, often ignored by critics.
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy The Dictators
Wild Gift X Critically revered post-punk band
Ace of Spades Motörhead Cited as the precursor to Metallica by that band, yet ignored by NME and many others.
Minor Threat Minor Threat
Double Nickels on the Dime The Minutemen Among most critically beloved bands of 1980s, but never dented Billboard Top 200
Charmed Life Half Japanese
Twin Infinitives Royal Trux Acclaimed avant-garde band of 1990s
Slow, Deep and Hard Type O Negative Frontman Pete Steele died in 2010; band known for its gothic metal style with humorous but dark themes
on Saturday, November 09, 2013 No comments:
Labels: culture, lists, music, radio
Insulting as a child, but with hindsight funny
A few days ago, without seeing it in the post, I saw that my mother had found a letter to me from Front Porch Republic:
It amazed me that the writers mistook me for a woman with "Dear Ms. Benney"!
As a boy, I was often called a "girl" and many children at PEGS said loudly "Julien's sex is a female" and that insulted me enough that I said "My sex is a male"/"My sex is a male" and the teasing boy replied "fe" when I said it. I felt that whoever was teasing me really needed severe punishment so they would never, ever think of doing it again; however none of my schools did a thing to stop kids teasing me, to the point that I felt physical fighting was the only way I could hurt them enough, although I knew myself as much weaker than the bullies.
With age, I feel as though it's not nearly so insulting to be called a female as it seemed in the manly world of Bush Senior Era youth, brought up on bands like AC/DC or Guns'n'Roses who (implicitly) had an ideal of a world without women. This world, which approximates what the masses in the Enriched World want today, clearly is not sustainable given the large government debts universal in Eurasia, the Americas and New Zealand and the absence of natural resources with which to pay for them. Being depicted as feminine and soft is in that sense inherently countercultural in the Enriched World, and for this reason I have not responded to what Front Porch Republic did as I would have in school.
on Friday, November 08, 2013 2 comments:
Labels: culture, humour, personal behaviour
'Time' is right
Today, Time is coming to a conclusion that I have done for a long time, although I do so in a very different manner from conventional wisdom. The magazine cites data from the science journal Nature that does a though experiment in which people were asked to invest money into a "climate account" whereby of they gave half their money to climate change advertisements, they were considered successful and were given more money.
What Time found, not to their own surprise, was that
"the more delayed the payout was, the less likely the experimental groups would put enough money away to meet the goal to stop climate change"
This certainly suggests people, even in those nations with the best environmental record (which corresponds practically perfectly to nations with least need therefor) are not willing to accept the short-term costs necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In countries like Australia and Southern Africa, such is obvious: dealing with climate change has serious costs for ordinary families:
higher housing costs are an inevitable result of a rigid target for a carbon-neutral Australia
privacy loss from having to make every journey on a crowded or semi-crowded bus instead of the privacy of a 4x4
not having the choice to use the cheapest, but most polluting forms of energy or even of building materials for housing
having to pay higher taxes to completely reverse eighty-five years of car-based transport policies
having to revegetate farmland to return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere would mean higher food prices owing to the exceptional comparative advantage Australia has in agriculture (despite its extreme un-sustainability)
One might think the sacrifices required in energy- and land-poor nations of Eurasia, North and South America, New Zealand and most small islands would be much less. This, however, is misleading.
In the scheme of combatting climate change, the role of these nations (where in a free market energy consumption is restricted by the necessity for high-density and low-energy development) is not to develop renewable energy, but to enforce its development on Australia and Southern Africa. These latter nations have much higher per-capita greenhouse gas emissions, yet exceptionally fragile ecosystems due to their exceedingly ancient soils and low rainfall. It is extremely plausible that transition to a carbon-neutral economy in Eurasia and the Americas will be offset completely by increased Australian and South African emissions, and the environmental cost will be unquestionably greater than the same emissions from the Enriched World.
The job of the Enriched and Tropical Worlds is to stop the Unenriched World from exporting carbon emissions and pollution. Doing this will mean recognising how the Unenriched World, with its mineral wealth and comparative advantage in agriculture, has in the long term an unrivalled ability to pay for these costs – not to mention responsibility. Doing this will take away a large proportion of already-stressed government budgets from the Enriched and Tropical Worlds, which would mean:
much less if any public welfare
lower wages without wage regulations (which cost money)
few or no goods from the Unenriched World (as it has to clean up its act on greenhouse emissions)
more expensive finished goods as the Unenriched World's raw materials are less available
harder work for many people without welfare
However, a concerted plan to attack the source of the global climate crisis – the "Deep South" of Australia, Southern Africa and perhaps the Middle Eastern oil states – is the only way out. The absence of natural internal regulations in the Unenriched World means external regulation by demanding that external costs be paid 100 percent is the only way long-term global improvement can be made.
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An unexpected shock from the cheap and nasty land
Although I had worried from my trip to Braeside described in an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago, the last three days have been traumatic beyond my belief.
The fact that I had carried my bike up a creek whose cleanliness I always doubted was a worry to me from the time I found the exit to Boundary Road. I was worried that the mechanisms had dirt but cleaned only the panniers (which were so dirty I had to clean them fully twice for improvement) and rode the bike as it was for some time. However, after a while noise in the rear wheel became so bad as to worry me severely, so that a week ago, thinking it was merely loss of lubricant, I decided to lubricate it to see if the noise would go. From the time I sprayed the oil, I knew something was wrong, but I never suspected just how bad. On Sunday, I decided I would take the bike to BSC Bikes to see what was wrong. I thought it would be a minor repair, but at first I found it would have to be new ball bearings on the pedal which would cost ninety dollars, then an oil change in the rear gear system for sixty dollars.
When I came in on Wednesday with clean panniers, I was expecting a finished bike but suffered one of the rudest shocks of my life. I was told that the rear gear system had rusted beyond repair, and on my request I was shown how badly it was damaged. I was amazed to still see the water in the gear train three weeks afterwards! I was told that there was an option of an eight-speed replacement wheel could be installed because the original seven-speed one was out of stock for four hundred and thirty dollars. I hesitated about accepting because the braking mechanism worried me: it involved pushing back to brake rather than the handle brake on my previous bikes. Consequently, I spoke to my mother about and looked for a new bicycle, though I live in fear I will make a similar mistake again and ruin bicycle after bicycle.
Two days spent - at least in the afternoons - in bike stores have clouded the problem even more. Even a little experience with a back-pedalling brake did not allieviate my fears at a time when I am desperate to have a bike at a cheap cost. It is a pity that I cannot either test it thoroughly to be sure it can work on my present bike, and a bike shop further south down Brunswick Street was really stern that there is no way I could make the necessary test at any store, and that a rental so I could have a bike whilst waiting the three months BSC Bikes had said a replacement gear train would take is virtually impossible. Moreover, I have no wish to live three months without a bike although I could save thousands of dollars compared to a new bike, which is almost certain to develop the same problems. The trouble is that Australia has such poor service that one often does not know when the item will come, whereas I imagine in Eurasia and the Americas this "three-month" wait would be so fast the replacement geartrain would have come to me today if it had been ordered on Wednesday!
Although I have found a few possible bikes at the upper end of my price limit, I am still worried about spending the money and realise decent service would eliminate the need. More than that, proper warranty I have always dreamed would ensure immediate replacement even when - as in this case - the damage is one hundred percent my own fault for never servicing the bike. Still, maybe even routine service would be in the long term far cheaper than the "shoestring" maintenance policy I have stuck to over the past two years! On the other hand, I always imagine superlative quality would ensure that this damage could be withstood with perfect ease, as well as that Australia's apolitical, ultraconservative populace ensures shoddy quality is the order of every day.
on Friday, October 11, 2013 No comments:
Labels: culture, personal behaviour, transport
Two fallacious plans
Over the past week, I found a plan that set about what is required to "halve" global greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, comparing a number of scenarios for various regions of the globe. Today, I found another, more critical plan that aimed to achieve the same goal regarding the aversion of global warming.
Of the two, the first is greatly more detailed and easier to commend because it focuses on a wider range of nations than the second, which only discusses China, India, the United States and Russia. However, the reality is that those nations are an extremely limited threat compared to Australia, for reasons I will tabulate below:
Area of non-cryospheric
land under 11˚ slope
CO2 emissions per capita
Median virgin soil available P
Median coastal
animal plankton density
Species richness (vascular plants)
Species endemism (plants and vertebrates)
China 700,000 km2 1,200,000,000 1,714 7,200 kg 0.015% 1,000 mgm-3 31,000 25%
India 2,200,000 km2 1,050,000,000 477.5 1,610 kg 0.0075% 750 mgm-3 20,000 30%
USA 2,000,000 km2 300,000,000 150.0 14,000 kg 0.0075% 500 mgm-3 18,000 10%
Russia 2,000,000 km2 131,000,000 65.5 9,000 kg 0.01% 750 mgm-3 10,000 under 5%
Australia 7,400,000 km2 22,000,000 2.9 28,000 kg 0.0003% 75 mgm-3 15,000 80%
Note: All values are approximate but should give reason to propose radically different requisite ecological standards for Australia
The table above should demonstrate very clearly the problems with a focus on China, Russia, India and the United States.
Firstly, their supply of land relative to population is small (Russia) to tiny (China), which creates incentives for efficiency in land use. Efficiency in land use via high-density development encourages low emissions, as when road space becomes expensive public transport becomes more viable economically.
Secondly, this limited supply of land allows a free market to effectively conserve resources, since most land in China, Russia, India and the United States is too steep or too icy for farming or housing. This creates a natural system of conservation reserves without government interference. It is potentially superior to government-based systems, since governments may have a short-term focus on extracting resources from wildlife areas (e.g. timber, animal products) that a private owner would not.
Thirdly, the very high fertility of their soils and oceans means environmental destruction is repairable, because soil replenishment is continuous and vegetation grows relatively rapidly.
In Australia, by comparison, the last soil replenishment was 300 million years ago, so that when Australia's fragile soil structure is altered by cropping it cannot replace itself. Australia's vegetation also grows slowly on soils with negligible concentrations of P and chalcophile nutrients. Nonetheless, the uniquely abundant land supply in Australia encourages exactly those land uses causing soil loss. Even with low yields, Australia's supply of land is such that mechanised farmers can make profits unattainable with more dense populations. As input level increases, the ratio of Unenriched to Enriched World yield increases, multiplying the latter's economic disadvantage. The next step in a free market – not taken for political reasons – would be for the Enriched World to wholly abandon agriculture and have farmland converted to housing. This would logically further expand "non-renewable" farmland in Australia and Africa, with unproven but probably severe consequences because of the inherent unsuitability of their soils for exotic crops.
For both economic and political reasons, there is no incentive in Australia for energy-efficiency. Rather, the incentive is to find the lowest-cost living possible. This tends to be exceedingly backward in energy-efficient practices. Examples are frequent use of 4x4s, expansion of coal-fired power, and extremely poor housing insulation leading to very high use of energy-guzzling air conditioners.
Lastly, of course is fertility and population growth. Whereas Russia, China and India are affected by lowest-low fertility, Australia has near-replacement fertility and Liberal policies are likely to increase it, especially if they "take the plunge" with welfare cuts that in the Enriched World would have them overthrown by revolution.
For all these reasons, along with the results of September's election, focusing only on the four "major" emitters undoubtedly constitutes a "do-nothing" policy. Australia must be a central part of every greenhouse negotiation and singled out for its extremely high per capita emissions before any hope of progress exists.
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Dawn at 37,000 feet this morning, on my way home. Not the best picture but it was something to see, looked like orange fire rolling onto the horizon.
Neat picture; you can almost make out the things on the ground, too, but not quite.


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Prognostic significance of mitral regurgitation in acute myocardial infarction. The MILIS Study Group
Am J Cardiol. 1990 May 15;65(18):1169-75. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(90)90968-7.
B Barzilai 1 , V G Davis, P H Stone, A S Jaffe
1 Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
To define the frequency, natural history and clinical correlates of the murmur of mitral regurgitation (MR) detected after myocardial infarction, clinical data from 849 patients with documented acute myocardial infarction were analyzed. A murmur suggestive of MR was present on admission in 76 patients (9%). Patients with MR on admission were older and more apt to be female and nonwhite. They also had a significantly greater frequency of prior infarction and signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure. There was no difference in the location (anterior or inferior) of infarction. Patients with MR on admission had a 36% mortality compared to 16% for those who developed MR later in the hospitalization and 15% for those without MR by auscultation (p less than 0.001). Correction for differences in baseline variables indicated that the presence of MR on admission did not contribute independently to mortality. Thus, the murmur of MR derives its prognostic significance from integration of multiple clinical, radiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics.
Heart / physiopathology
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / etiology*
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
Myocardial Infarction / complications*
Myocardial Infarction / mortality
Myocardial Infarction / pathology
Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
Survival Rate
N01-HV-7-2940/HV/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States


Micki Mills has served as a paralegal with Collins Cockrel & Cole since 1988, following service to several other Colorado law firms since 1980; and received her Paralegal Certificate in 1991. In addition to substantial work in all aspects of real estate, statutory compliance, inclusions, exclusions, district formations and dissolutions, and most other aspects of special district law, Micki is recognized throughout the State for her work in local government elections of all types and training of election officials. Micki speaks regularly at the SDA Annual Conference and assists in training webinars for both the Special District Association and the Division of Local Government of the Department of Local Affairs. Micki also served as a member of the Interjurisdictional Election Issues Committee and assists the Special District Association in the drafting or review of election legislation.
Micki has been a long-time Lakewood resident and currently shares space with a French Bulldog named Romeo. Her favorite activities include playing in the mountains, hiking, traveling (especially road trips to National Parks) and getting through her Bucket List. Micki will always claim that her proudest accomplishment was raising her twin sons, Cahn and Cole.


I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia - Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. - Leonardo Da Vinci.
Custodia in pelle, con titoli in oro contenente 72 riproduzioni in facsimile delle tavole dei disegni, recto e verso, e un volume di trascrizione e commentario su carta a mano.
Curator: Commentario di G.Nepi Sciré; A.Perissa Torrini; C. Pedretti.
Details: cm.33,5x 48,8, Edizione Nazionale dei Manoscritti e dei Disegni di Leonardo Da Vinci. A cura della Commissione Vinciana.
Abstract: The collection presents the Da Vincian drawings conserved in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. This prestigious series of plates, creating an immediate visual impact, is an inspiring synthesis of the multifaceted aspects of Leonardo's artistic and scientific works viewed in both their theoretical and practical applications. The variety of themes and techniques expresses all the graphic splendour of the works by Leonardo – such as the renowned Vitruvian Man – and that of his best pupils. A volume with Carlo Pedretti's diligent introduction presents the collection, the attribution methods, the stylistic features and the chronology of the works. This is followed by the history of the collection, a complete bibliography, a concordance and watermark tables, and six excursus on specific aspects of the collection. The drawings have been catalogued by Giovanna Nepi Sciré and Annalisa Perissa Torrini and consist of 26 works by Leonardo, 33 by his pupils and followers, and 13 by copyists, imitators and other sources. Description: Leather-covered box (size 335 x 488 mm) with gold tooling, containing 72 facsimile reproductions of the drawings, recto and verso, and a 220 page volume of text printed on handmade paper and bound in Fabriano paper.


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Why Lebanon needs inclusive innovation
With the Lebanese Lira plummeting to less than half of its official value, economic activity expected to contract by 12% and more than 50% of the population expect...
With the Lebanese Lira plummeting to less than half of its official value, economic activity expected to contract by 12% and more than 50% of the population expected to live below the poverty line in the coming year, Lebanon is undergoing its worst economic crisis in decades.With the new government unable, or unwilling, to implement the structural changes the country needs to rebound, civil society, often with the help of the diaspora, has taken a lead role in creating solutions to alleviate the country's most pressing challenges. The last couple months have seen the emergence of encouraging initiatives such as LIFE's emergency relief fund to provide food, medication and basic needs to those that needed it the most and Impact Lebanon Dikkeni initiative which helps local artists, designers and businesses sell their products abroad.Innovation ecosystems play a key role during economic crises and contribute to laying the foundations for the next cycle of economic growth.
Human rights groups renew calls for Kafala reform amid worsening crisis
Impact Lebanon, an initiative hub aimed at pursuing and delivering impact in Lebanon, hosted a webinar titled "Kafala: The Road to Abolition" in collabora...
Impact Lebanon, an initiative hub aimed at pursuing and delivering impact in Lebanon, hosted a webinar titled "Kafala: The Road to Abolition" in collaboration with Lebanese Diaspora for Action and Meghterbin Mejtemiin.
Beirut Today
DIKKÉNI | An online concept store supporting Lebanese talents and NGOS
These seven women got inspired by the tragedy Lebanon was facing since October and were able to connect their minds together through the help of equal goals that p...
These seven women got inspired by the tragedy Lebanon was facing since October and were able to connect their minds together through the help of equal goals that pushed them to make something like Dikkéni happen. And they were all inspired by three ideals that were equally shared among them:
Jdeed Magazine
Lebanese Expats Held Protests In Solidarity With The People In Lebanon
Lebanese people in the diaspora who are part of the Meghterbin Mejtemiin group announced that they will be holding protests abroad in solidarity with Lebanon and t...
Lebanese people in the diaspora who are part of the Meghterbin Mejtemiin group announced that they will be holding protests abroad in solidarity with Lebanon and the Lebanese people on Sunday the 5th of July.
Diaspora libanaise et citoyenneté : au-delà des transferts de fonds
Historiquement, la diaspora libanaise a toujours eu les pieds bien ancrés dans son pays de résidence, et le cœur tourné vers la mère-patrie. Si cette caractéristiq...
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Q: How to return a record for every item in the 'where value in ' clause? Oracle11g
I want to know if a player has ever played shortstop. However, a player
may not even be in my table, yet I'd still like to return a row for that player. In this case, player #3 is not in table, but I'd like to return a row nevertheless.
Selection Criteria

If player has at least one SHORTSTOP record then return just 1 row with YES.
If player has at least one record and none of them are SHORTSTOP then return just one row with NO.
If player has no records then return just one row with NO.

Query
with baseball_players as
(select 1 as player_id, 'SHORTSTOP' as position  from dual union all
 select 1 as player_id, 'FIRSTBASE' as position  from dual union all
 select 2 as player_id, 'FIRSTBASE' as position  from dual)
select player_id,  case position
   when 'SHORTSTOP' then 'YES'
   else 'NO'
   end   has_played
from baseball_players
where player_id in (1,2,3)

Question: How can I write query to get desired results?
Desired Output
PLAYER_ID  HAS_PLAYED
----------------------
   1        YES
   2        NO
   3        NO

A: Rather than using a where clause, create a tempoary table, insert the values in and left join on the table you created.
Use a case statement for IF NULL then NO, otherwise YES.

A: How about this:
WITH playerList AS
    (
        SELECT
            1 player_id
        FROM
            dual
        UNION
        SELECT
            2
        FROM
            dual
        UNION
        SELECT
            3
        FROM
            dual
    )
, baseball_players as
    (
        select 1 as player_id, 'SHORTSTOP' as position  from dual union all
        select 1 as player_id, 'FIRSTBASE' as position  from dual union all
        select 2 as player_id, 'FIRSTBASE' as position  from dual
    )
SELECT
    pl.player_id
    , MAX(CASE WHEN bp.position = 'SHORTSTOP' THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO' END)
FROM
    playerList pl
LEFT JOIN
    baseball_players bp
    ON
    bp.player_id = pl.player_id
GROUP BY
    pl.player_id

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Q: How can I run things off Netbeans on Ubuntu? Localhost not working When I try to run something on Netbeans using Ubuntu, a window opens but nothing actually works. I'm pretty sure it's because my http://localhost/ isn't working. So, how do I get that to work so I run files on Netbeans? Any specific step-by-step instructions would be great. I heard I had to install Apache, but I'm not sure.

A: If you want to run PHP stuff outside NetBeans, there are several steps you have to take:

*

*Install apache web server - sudo apt-get install apache2

*Install PHP and connect it with apache - sudo apt-get install php5 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

*Restart apache - sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now, your Document Root (web root) should be at /var/www.
Place your files there and access them with http://localhost/desired_file.php with some web browser or just execute them with php compiler on the command line.
Depending on your distro/version, there might be some configurations to be done, but that's the basic stuff you need to run PHP outside NetBeans


Sorry to bring this on you…..I am leaving for Sydney this coming Friday.
I am taking the following Canon lenses along 70-200mm f2.8/II , 16-35mm f2.8/II, 24-105mm f4 + 2 extenders 1.4x and 2x.
Which body would you take along 1. Canon 1D Mk iV or 2. Canon 6 D Mk I ? It will be impossible for me to take two bodies (on-board luggage).
I am there only for 16 days and mostly will explore Sydney and greater surroundings as well as 3 days in Uluru (Ayers Rock).
Never been to either place, but if it were me I would leave the 24-105 and take both bodies.
With that combination, the gap in focal lengths is only 45-70mm, which isn't really a problem at all.
What are you expecting to shoot at 280/400mm?
Personally I'd take the 6D and the 16-35 and/or 24-105 and leave the rest at home.
Two different bodies means two different sets of batteries and chargers.
I thought hard again and take the full format 6D to get the most out of the wide angle setting of the 16-35 for city and harbour shoots.
I also take the 70-200 for possible telephoto / effect shots with extender 1.4x. I leave the 24-105 at home.
Even now with all the batteries, and remotes and body + 2 lenses my bag weighs nearly 7kg .
I love "shooting" birds (all sorts , small and large) but I am more after city/harbour and landscape shoots. I love the desert and Namibia so I will see how the OZ desert compares.
Have a great trip – and bring back the memories – and photos!
Although there are no guarantees, I seriously doubt it will be weighed anywhere. I have travelled extensively with a Gura Gear backpack, and around 17kg of equipment. Once I was questioned – opened the bag and discussed the value, and delicacy of the equipment, and was waved through with a smile. Nobody wants to take responsibility for lenses.
Keep a sense of humour, and great patience, and I am sure you will have no issues.
Nobody wants to take responsibility for lenses.
But I have also learned that I dont want to carry all that weight.. I can hardly get my bag in the overhead hold.
They've never even suggested putting my gear in the hold, and I've carried a lot of it in my day. These days I use a Pro Roller x200 AW so I don't even have to pretend the bag is light.
Same here. If I'm travelling for pleasure I take as little as possible. Lugging camera gear around on holiday just for the sake of it ruins the experience.
I put the body and the 2 lenses plus all neccessary accessories in my leather shoulder bag (8 kg) and went on board with my laptop as well. Nobody questioned me or wanted to look inside the bag or wheighed it, except SA security. Put both items in the overhead locker and no further problems.
We flew with QUANTAS direct to Sydney and were also allowed 30kg of in-hold-luggage. I dont know what the other airlines allow BUT WE did not even have a whiff of a problem, never mind a question.


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Does Red Notice Have More Than the Charm of Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson, and Ryan Reynolds?
Red Notice — released Friday on Netflix — brings together three of Hollywood's biggest stars: Dwayne Johnson as an FBI agent John Hartley, Ryan Reynolds as art thief Nolan Booth and Gal Gadot as up-and-coming criminal The Bishop. Originally planned for the theatres by Universal Pictures, Netflix acquired Red Notice in 2019. It then committed to $20 million (about Rs. 150 crores) salaries apiece, as part of a $200 million (about Rs. 1,490 crores) production budget. What could go wrong with such a dream package? Turns out everything.
Host Akhil Arora speaks with Deputy Reviews Editor Roydon Cerejo on this week's episode of Gadgets 360 podcast Orbital to discuss all things Red Notice.
Spoiler alert: If you are planning to watch Red Notice but have not yet watched it, you should not listen to our discussion right away and watch the movie first.
We begin our discussion by talking about the plot. The Red Notice trailer gave us an idea of what the film would be like. The 117-minute movie might have more to show, but it's nothing unexpected. Dwayne Johnson spends a lot of time with Ryan Reynolds who is basically playing Deadpool, but without the costume and in a family-friendly PG-13 manner. In contrast, Gal Gadot is entirely unlike Wonder Woman, and seems to be having the most fun.
The family-friendliness is also visible elsewhere. Even though Red Notice is an action-packed movie, you never see anyone die
Red Notice Review: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot Are in It for the Money
We also delve into how Red Notice plays into Johnson's career — especially since he's become a producer. Red Notice is the third collaboration between Johnson and director Rawson Marshall Thurber, after earlier action-comedy Central Intelligence in 2016 and action thriller Skyscraper in 2018.
Along the way, we touch upon how Red Notice is part of Netflix's ever-growing content factory — with the aim to cast the widest and biggest net possible. That, in a nutshell, explains the appeal of an action comedy movie with three of Hollywood's biggest stars.
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