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Limerick gang killing: Burned-out car examined
Gardaí investigating a brutal gangland killing in Limerick have examined the remains of a burned-out car which may have belonged to the murder victim.
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The car was recovered on Monday night near the area where the body of 23 year-old Michael Campbell McNamara was discovered dumped in a field off the Fedamore Road on the southside of the city.
A post-mortem examination carried out by Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, revealed that the victim had died from gunshot wounds to the body. His hands and feet had been bound and it appears he had been shot a number of times in an 'execution-style' killing.
Michael Campbell-McNamara, who was originally from Southill but had an address at Cherrydale Court, Dublin Road, was well-known to gardai in Limerick. He had close criminal associations with one of the factions involved in a well-publicised bloody feud in the city which has already resulted in three murders.
The victim may have been targeted because of his connections with this gang based in the Island Field area of Limerick. Described as a hardened criminal, it is thought he may also have been involved in a separate violent dispute in the Southill area of the city.
It is understood he had recently left Limerick prison where he had been serving a jail sentence.
Gardaí investigating his brutal slaying say the discovery of a burned-out car on the southside of the city may be significant.
One theory being examined is that Michael Campbell McNamara may have been forced to drive at gunpoint to the isolated spot where he was executed before the car was burned out.
"We can confirm that a car was found burned out. At this stage we can't positively say that it was connected to the victim although we are looking at that aspect," said Inspector Gerry McNamara of Roxboro gardaí.
Gardai are appealing for anyone who was in the vicinity of the Fedamore Road area last Sunday night or Monday morning to contact them at the incident room in Roxboro Garda Station on 061 214 349.
The removal of Michael Campbell McNamara's body takes place tomorrow night) from Cross's Funeral Home to St Mary's Church.
The burial takes place in Castlemungret Cemetery on Thursday following 11am mass.
The launch of the murder inquiry came on the eve of the trial of five men charged with the murder of crime boss, Kieran Keane, at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick. Keane, 36, was shot dead in a similar 'execution-style' killing at Drombana last January barely two miles from the scene of yesterday's grim discovery.
In a sinister twist, the last gangland killing in Limerick - which claimed the life of John Ryan in July - came on the eve of the first-ever sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Limerick.
The area around yesterday's crime scene was sealed off pending the arrival of forensic experts from garda headquarters in Dublin and the Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy. A post-mortem was due to be carried out last night at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.
The murder victim's body was dumped just yards from the new multi-million Euro Limerick by-pass road, which is currently under construction. When the man walking his dog discovered the body yesterday morning, he alerted nearby construction workers who were carrying out work on the new road.
"I saw him running up towards us and he was in an awful way. He asked me if I had a phone to ring the guards because there was a body in the field. It's lucky that children are all back at school now or else it could have been one of them who found the body," said one construction worker at the scene yesterday.
It is believed that Michael Campbell-McNamara had recently armed himself with a high-powered weapon which gardai believe could have been used in the ongoing feud.
The Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Dick Sadlier, has condemned the latest gangland killing and called for an end to the spiral of violence.
"This is a particularly brutal murder. It seems to me that this type of barbarity is now becoming almost commonplace and we have to cry halt," he said.
"There must be an end to this spiral of violence and I want to say to those involved that there are only two eventual outcomes to violence of this nature. One is obviously death and the graveyard - and the other - to those who perpetrated this crime - is a very long prison sentence.
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Q: Blinking form windows in Qt5 application I have a rather complex Qt application with a lot of different ui elements/files.
Basically, when going from a welcome screen to the main application view, I have a few small windows appearing and almost immediately disappearing. The only text on them is the window title "Form", like so.

I assume this has something to do with some ui elements not having a parent, or something like that, but I have no idea what to look for exactly? I don't know where to look for either because there are no clue on the windows themselves and too many graphical elements to blindly go through each of them.
Any idea on to remove them, or at least a method to try to solve this would be much appreciated.
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A: This was due to widgets not having parents when they were created, but they quickly disappeared because they were then immediately added in a layout.

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AI chip startup taps two UK design teams
Business news | November 12, 2019
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A US startup has emerged from stealth mode with a programmable AI chip architecture and software for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Blaize, formerly called Thinci, has backing from automotive companies such as Toyota and Denso, and currently has 325 staff around the world, including two design teams in the UK.
The AI chip technology, called a Graph Streaming Processor (GSP), uses a multicore architecture controlled by a state machine. The flow of the machine learning data is determined in the compiler beforehand. This means the compiler and the software development kit (SDK) is a vital part of the development, and the company claims that the architecture can process data ten to a hundred times faster than other AI chips with lower power consumption.
The company has developed prototype chips on a multiproject wafer that is being used with the software by fifteen early adopters around the world. However it is not revealing details of the architecture or power consumption figures until the first half of next year, other than to say it uses small amounts of SRAM with every execution unit to reduce the need to go to power hungry off chip high speed DRAM memory such as HBM.
"We are developing native computation of complex graphs," said Dinakar Munagala, Co-founder and CEO of Blaize (above). "We had this vision of how to implement this in a small power envelope and silicon footprint. The way we run graphs natively is applicable to edge computing where we let the hardware manage the hardware scheduling and data dependencies without needing to go to DRAM as often as possible.
"We have a complex compiler and driver that understands the graph, and an SDK compiler tool chain that can understand any network – for example in automotive applications using a point cloud behind radar, lidar, etc."
Next: Early architecture details
The graph compiler constructs a data flow graph, and the control flow is implicit in that, says the company. At run time that map of the metaflow is passed to the state machine hardware in the chip which can switch the context and flow based on the incoming data in real time. A scheduler calls in the resources it needs.
"This is a scalable architecture," says Munagala. "It can be small for the edge camera, larger for an aggregator box to cloud server, so we are building products to multiple application points."
The compiler works with the popular machine learning frameowrks such as Tensorflow or Caffe, but Blaize has also developed a kernel compiler. "Customers have custom code and we are probably one of three companies on the planet that could compiler the C++ code," said Munagala. "There are some workloads that don't exist in a library or are proprietary, and our ability to add a true compiler allows them to develop proprietary code."
"It's a modular compiler so its all integrated together. We started on automotive qualification from day one of working on the compiler as well as the hardware and the software components," he added.
Eighteen months ago the company acquired the UK MIPS design team from Imagination Technologies when the US team was acquired by competitor Wave Computing. It also hired a team in Leeds that had been working on compiler technology for Sega, and together these form the core of the platform engineering tram. The development engineers in Hyderbad are working on the chip and compiler technology.
Next: Investor comments
"The coming out of Blaize and its leading Graph Streaming Processor is extremely exciting," says David (Dadi) Perlmutter, an angel investor, entrepreneur and former EVP and Chief Product Officer of Intel corporation. "As an initial investor in Blaize, I recognized early on the great efficiency of one of the first to market a complete solution designed from scratch, fully optimized for AI and Neural Network applications. The unprecedented efficiency is great for a wide range of edge applications, particularly the automotive market. I am proud of the team in delivering on the promise."
"Blaize is very innovative, our important business partner," says Yukihide Niimi, CEO of NSITEXE and DENSO Advisory Board member. "DENSO is demonstrating leadership in many areas as the automotive industry undergoes extraordinary technology changes. NSITEXE was established to catch up such technology change and to accelerate development of flexible compute IP solutions like DFP. NSITEXE is willing to work together with Blaize to boost the flexible Graph (Data Flow) compute technology eco-system."
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Leonard Lance & Vicente Gonzalez
Compare the voting records of Leonard Lance and Vicente Gonzalez in 2017-18.
Leonard Lance
Represented New Jersey's 7th Congressional District. This was his 5th term in the House.
Leonard Lance and Vicente Gonzalez are from different parties and disagreed on 55 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 28, 2018 — Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018
June 21, 2018 — Securing America's Future Act of 2018
June 7, 2018 — Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act
Dec. 20, 2017 — Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Oct. 26, 2017 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027
May 4, 2017 — American Health Care Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Space Frontier Act of 2019
Nov. 14, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 6784, the Manage our Wolves Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from November 19, 2018, through November 26, 2018
Sept. 6, 2018 — Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act
On Motion to Recommit with Instructions
July 25, 2018 — Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018
July 19, 2018 — Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy
July 18, 2018 — McHenry of North Carolina Amendment No. 87
July 18, 2018 — Meadows of North Carolina Amendment No. 84
July 18, 2018 — Smith of Missouri Amendment No. 70
July 18, 2018 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 62
Failed by a margin of 3 votes.
July 18, 2018 — Gallego of Arizona Amendment No. 51
July 18, 2018 — Lamborn of Colorado Amendment No. 49
July 18, 2018 — McMorris Rodgers of Washington Amendment No. 46
July 18, 2018 — Mullin of Oklahoma Amendment No. 44
July 18, 2018 — Adams of North Carolina Amendment No. 29
July 18, 2018 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 25
July 18, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.Con.Res. 119, expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy
June 8, 2018 — Takano of California Part B Amendment No. 16
June 8, 2018 — Meadows of North Carolina Part B Amendment No. 15
May 22, 2018 — Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act
May 17, 2018 — Westerman of Arkansas Part C Amendment No. 13
May 17, 2018 — Faso of New York Amendment No. 13
April 25, 2018 — To provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System pursuant to a certain operation plan for a specified period of time, and for other purposes
March 15, 2018 — Regulation At Improvement Act of 2017
March 14, 2018 — Taking Account of Institutions with Low Operation Risk Act of 2017 or the TAILOR Act of 2017
Feb. 15, 2018 — Langevin of Rhode Island Part A Amendment No. 2
Dec. 14, 2017 — Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act
Dec. 6, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 38) to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a means by which nonresidents of a State whose residents may carry concealed firearms may also do so in the State
Nov. 30, 2017 — Minnesota's Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act
Nov. 1, 2017 — Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017
Nov. 1, 2017 — O'Halleran of Arizona Amendment No. 3
Nov. 1, 2017 — Khanna of California Amendment No. 2
Oct. 5, 2017 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027
Sept. 25, 2017 — Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act
Sept. 14, 2017 — Huizenga of Michigan Amendment No. 207
Sept. 14, 2017 — Mitchell of Michigan Amendment No. 204
Sept. 14, 2017 — Gohmert of Texas Amendment No. 195
Sept. 13, 2017 — Gibbs of Ohio Amendment No. 187
Sept. 13, 2017 — Meadows of North Carolina Amendment No. 172
Sept. 13, 2017 — Courtney of Connecticut Amendment No. 164
Sept. 13, 2017 — Clark of Massachusetts Amendment No. 154
Sept. 13, 2017 — Meng of New York Amendment No. 138
Sept. 13, 2017 — Pocan of Wisconsin Amendment No. 134
Sept. 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 75
Sept. 13, 2017 — Mullin of Oklahoma Amendment No. 74
Sept. 8, 2017 — Carbajal of California Amendment No. 57
Sept. 8, 2017 — Palmer of Alabama Amendment No. 56
Sept. 7, 2017 — Ellison of Minnesota Amendment No. 38
Sept. 7, 2017 — Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 29
Sept. 7, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 18
Sept. 7, 2017 — Thompson of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 15
Sept. 7, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 2
Sept. 7, 2017 — King of Iowa Part B Amendment No. 80, as modified
Sept. 7, 2017 — Castro of Texas Part B Amendment No. 75
Sept. 6, 2017 — Babin of Texas Part B Amendment No. 58
July 27, 2017 — Perry of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 63
July 26, 2017 — Pingree of Maine Amendment No. 54
July 26, 2017 — King of Iowa Amendment No. 23
July 26, 2017 — Takano of California Amendment No. 7
July 20, 2017 — King Cove Road Land Exchange Act
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 1
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 2
July 19, 2017 — Engel of New York Part B Amendment No. 1
July 18, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 4
July 18, 2017 — Tonko of New York Amendment No. 2
July 13, 2017 — Gosar of Arizona Amendment No. 5
July 13, 2017 — Hartzler of Missouri Amendment No. 10
July 13, 2017 — Aguilar of California Part B Amendment No. 10
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 8
June 8, 2017 — Faso of New York Part B Amendment No. 4
June 7, 2017 — Anti-Border Corruption Reauthorization Act
June 7, 2017 — Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico Amendment No. 1
May 24, 2017 — Esty of Connecticut Amendment No. 1
March 2, 2017 — Farenthold of Texas Part A Amendment No. 2
Feb. 16, 2017 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Department of the Interior relating to "Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska"
Feb. 14, 2017 — Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act
Feb. 7, 2017 — Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
Feb. 1, 2017 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers"
Jan. 11, 2017 — Scott of Virginia Part A Amendment No. 12


Prometedora nueva tecnología de Biofilm para el tratamiento de aguas residuales.
Robert Nerenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, hasdeveloped a method for wastewater treatment he says may significantly decrease the chemical costs and carbon footprint associated with conventional wastewater treatment.
A greater number of wastewater treatment plants use biological nutrient removal, which typically requires additional chemicals to work effectively. This might include a chemical that provides an external electron donor, or else a carbon source, such as methanol or ethanol. Typically, these types of chemicals are expensive, toxic, and also have a significant carbon footprint.
Gasses including hydrogen, methane, and oxygen are inexpensive and can help with microbial processes, including those that aid in water treatment. They have rarely been used as electron donors in wastewater treatment because they have a low solubility.
The biofilm reactor technology on which Nerenberg is working would directly deliver the gas to the biofilm, which eliminates these problems. He is studying the feasibility of using various inorganic or gaseous compounds — including sulfur, sulfur dioxide, sulfite, hydrogen sulfite, and methane — for delivery to membrane biofilm reactors.
MBfRs are not membrane bioreactors (MBRs). An MBR is a biological treatment process where a membrane is used to separate biomass from the effluent water, substituting for a clarifier. Because MBRs act as filters, they are susceptible to fouling by biofilms or other materials that accumulate at the membrane surface. In contrast, in MBfRs a gaseous substrate moves across the membrane, while the naturally-forming biofilm on the outer surface catalyzes desired reactions. Since the pores of the membrane are hydrophobic, water and bacteria do not penetrate and block them. The combination of a membrane for gas delivery as well as for biofilm support led to the name Membrane-Biofilm Reactor.
Many of these compounds are waste products of other industries and can be much more cost effective and sustainable than the carbon compounds currently used in BNR processes. Elemental sulfur, for example, is a waste product from a number of industries, including oil refining and coal or gas-burning refining plants, and in many cases these industries would be happy to provide the sulfur for free to entities willing to remove it. The research thus also offers a means to transform a waste product into a valuable resource.
Membrane-biofilm reactor technology has been demonstrated in pilot testing. The approach is being scaled to work in larger treatment operations.
This funding and recognition should help the work move forward. Nerenberg is reportedly focusing now on applying the approach to work with sulfur and sulfur dioxide, which he says possess the greatest potential for immediate application. He is working with the Hampton Roads Sanitation District in Virginia, where there have been preliminary denitrification tests with both sulfur and sulfur dioxide.
The research should ultimately determine the optimal applications and configurations of membrane-biofilm reactor technology that would be able to decrease wastewater treatment costs while increasing the operation's sustainability.
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PVA Association - Frankston Mornington Peninsula Local Learning & Employment Network Inc.
The PVA is an association of the providers of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning in the Frankston Mornington Peninsula region. The group includes VCAL Coordinators from secondary schools, special schools, community providers and TAFE colleges.
Provide professional and informed advice on the administration and implementation of VCAL and key policy issues for VCAL providers.
Build stronger links between VCAL Coordinators and the PVET network.
Provide opportunities for networking and for sharing and building knowledge between VCAL providers and stakeholders.
Support both new and experienced VCAL Coordinators.
Develop and implement annual and longer term plans for the Peninsula VCAL network.
Explore opportunities for partnerships and joint projects with key stakeholders working within the FMPLLEN, including seeking additional funding opportunities and facilitating organisational applications for funding.
Host the annual FMP VCAL Awards event.


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Q: When using feature-linked annotation in ArcGIS 10, can I create multiple annotations from one feature? I have a road that I want to create multiple annotations for. Is it possible to attach more than one annotation to the same feature?

A: I'm not sure what the setup is for ArcGIS 10, but in 9.3.1 on the Properties>Label tab you can define more than one label class for labeling.  Change the "Method" option to "Define classes and features and label each class differently."  You can then define a different field, placement properties, and expression for each class.  Alternatively, you could just only label one class, but concatenate multiple fields within the expression option (see example below).
[FIELD1]&" "&[FIELD2]
After you have your labels setup and labeled you can then convert them to feature linked annotations.
In addition, the ArcGIS Resource Center has much more literature on labeling and annotations.

A: You can control pretty well every facet of annotation behavior (placement, font, color, add symbols, rotation angle, multiple labels per feature, etc, etc .....> ).
....and yes, create your different annotations and organize them in a geodatabase.
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird
The Good, The Bad, The Weird: Set in the 1930s, a bounty hunter, most-wanted criminal and petty thief are all after the same ancient treasure map. This flick has it all: style, action, plot, rivalry, twists, adventure, suspense, guns, huge sets, humour and explosions. Most of all, it's actually great fun to watch, with the exception of a few short 'meh' sections and one psychedelic scene – the rest is all killer. The whole story, but most notably the final scenes are brilliantly executed classic Western. The Bad and Weird characters are great to watch, and the director's on good form. Definitely a bit more of a bloodbath than you'd expect from an upbeat film like this with scarlet, limbs and fingers flying all over the place. The audio track really comes alive during the action scenes and there's a nice nod to Tarrantino with an epic song choice for the huge chase scene. There's also a nice bit of Korean history thrown in the mix. Overall, it's an amazing film from a director with a great track record, and another brilliant example of why Korea is one of the best countries as far as movie exports go.
Score 8.5/10
5.1 Immense
bitchslap
blood facial
Chestshot!
diver helmet
eyeshot!!
finger... ouch!
impalement
infinite bullets!
Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom
Jung Woo-sung
Kim Ji-woon
Lee Byung-hun
Song Kang-ho
the Good The Bad the Weird
Aiden R said: April 26, 201012:36
Awesome! This just started playing in NY and I'm hearing great things. Solid review, gotta see this now.
Paragraph Film Reviews said: April 26, 201013:06
I noticed it was only just screening in the 'states in one of Castor's news round-ups, weird because it's been out for so long in Europe (around 18 months) that I picked this DVD up on the cheap a while back. Would love to have seen it on the big screen though. Looking forward to the CTCMR take on it!
Simon/Ripley said: April 27, 201002:14
I am on such a South Korean cinema bender right now, you don't even know. Thank you for sharing some wisdom on a movie I won't be able to see for a year.
Kai B. Parker said: April 27, 201003:07
Somebody just picked this for my next FILMS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED TO SEE blog on May 1rst… looks awesome!
ANOTHER epic hidden gem post? Sweet! Looking forward to reading it on Saturday.
Volume 3!!! ;)
Another great set of films this time!
Darren said: April 27, 201009:00
I loved it too (I'm the guy Kai mentioned). It's just great fun and – I think – captures Leone's spirit near perfectly. And I adore the ending, without spoiling anything.
Ronan said: May 5, 201010:54
Sounds like a must-see movie, trailer looks good too. Hope they will release it in the UK.
haskellch said: September 10, 201004:54
So awesome that you enjoyed this film. I do not know many people outside my circle of friends that have seen it, but so glad we share an affinity for this film.


On various Saturdays throughout the year, Collage Barcelona will be hosting their Saturday Sessions.
Two Saturdays a month events will be geared at a wider age range, inviting children from ages 4 to 14 to come without the parents and learn and practice their English in a fun and creative way.
Collage Barcelona promote the immersion of English through these sessions, however welcome both native and non native English-speaking families. Snacks will also be provided.
For more children events in Barcelona, check our online calendar.


She's got big dark eyes, thick lashes, long muscular legs and hilariously oversized feet. As a petite example of Australian wildlife, she's also a breath of fresh air in the intense moments building Queensland's newest luxury camping experience.
Welcome 'Lilly Pilly' (named after the trees so common in this region). The baby red-necked wallaby joey captured our hearts the instant we scooped her quivering body off Christmas Creek road. Her mother was nowhere to be seen. Judging by the grazes on the youngster's legs, we assume both were hit by a car – an unfortunately common occurrence on Australia's roads.
At first glance the young macropod is a comical combination of carton-mouse head, over-size ears, the body of a rat and disproportionately large T-Rex rear limbs. With kangaroos, echidnas, koalas and platypus, it's easy to see why Australia's unusual mammals baffled early naturalists. On first reports, the platypus – an egg-laying, rubber-billed mammal with fur and the webbed feet of a duck – was even considered an elaborate fraud.
Fortunately Lilly Pilly is an easy charge – relaxed, comfortable and curious about her surrounds. She's also intriguing. She washes herself like a cat, licks in affection and dips her head to say please tickle my neck a little more.
As her adopted 'mum', my favourite time of day is when she emerges from her pouch to nibble on grass roots and cavort around her play-pen. She stumbles like a drunk when she forgets she doesn't always have the co-ordination to scratch and stand at the same time. As her confidence grows, it's time for laps. She bounces here and there before making a quick run for the pouch, tumbling in classic joey style into foetal position to catch her breath and regroup. On rare moments she's more grown-up, sticking only her head into the pouch to collect herself.
Lilly Pilly's arrival has helped put perspective into the intensity of this final push to complete the building of Nightfall wilderness camp's Queensland glamping experience. Feeding the young joey every four-and-a-half-hours, day and night, enforces moments of quiet contemplation, deepening my connection with our Australian wildlife, Nightfall's surrounds and my sense of wonderment at the cleverness of nature.
We're now into the nitty-gritty of construction, adding layers of detail to our permanent tent accommodation. It's slow considered work, where attention to the creative and innovative is paramount. Consider the bathroom fit-out: it would have been easy to walk into a major franchise to pick off-the-rack taps, but that's not Nightfall. Even when you have great ideas, there are stumbling blocks in the plumbing and building regulations. Taps alone must have hot and cold symbols and WELS certification. Rejecting the mainstream chrome took us along a bumpy journey, eventually culminating with the discovery of New Zealand's Heritage Bathware company. Their aged copper and brass tapware was exactly what we'd been looking for. Heritage Bathware owner Michael Brown lovingly handcrafts rain-head showers and adds his distinctive touch to vintage taps. He also has great vision, easily grasping styles which differ from the norm. We now wait excitedly to put the look together when the plumber returns.
COMING SOON: ANNOUNCING NIGHTFALL'S OPENING DATE AND LIMITED OPENING-CELEBRATION OFFER.


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Tag Archives: Bill Foster
Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy?
Registration now open for 2013
The Tampa Bay Times broke down the numbers from the Feb. 12 Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon in St. Petersburg and the results show that the inaugural event fell well short of what race organizer Competitor Group projected in May when it landed $30,000 in city services and $100,000 from Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater to market the event.
During a splashy news conference in May, Competitor projected 12,000 to 15,000 runners and St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster said the event could account for 10,000 hotel nights and pump $15 million into the local economy.
We examined those numbers at the time, turning to economist Philip Porter of the University of South Florida, a longtime critic of sports economic impact projections. Porter suggested only a small portion of the runners would come from outside the Tampa Bay market, minimizing economic impact.
That's exactly what happened, according to The Times. The Feb. 12 race had just 7,000 finishers, only 1,248 of which came from out of state. The three official race hotels booked just 200 rooms. Other hotels already were nearly full with other bookings.
Porter says such projections always overestimate economic impact.
"Think about it. You're coming to City Council and asking for money and support shutting down roads and you're going to promise the sky," Porter said this morning. "If you don't deliver the crowds it doesn't matter because there's no mechanism in the contract that holds you accountable."
Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater has a three-year contract for the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon and has pledged $100,000 for each race in 2013 and 2014.
Though the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon generally was well received, some runners wondered why it needed to begin at one site (Tropicana Field) and end at North Shore Park. Runners faced $15 parking fees at The Trop on race day and for mandatory packet pickup on the days before, though many parked in free two-hour spots on the streets and walked over.
Weather was chilly for the race, though that likely had little impact on late registration in the days leading up to the event as entry fees were a whopping $125. Advance registration was as little as $55 and Competitor was offering $65 registration for the 2013 event during packet pickup this year.
Filed under Races, Running
Tagged as Bill Foster, Competitor Group, Philip Porter, Rock 'n' Roll half marathon, St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay Times
Rock Concert Parking Prices
St. Pete runners will pay ballpark prices to park at The Trop.
Runners hoping to park in Tropicana Field lots near the start of Sunday's Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon in St. Petersburg will have to pay $15.
If they wish to park at The Trop on Friday or Saturday for mandatory packet pick-up at the event's health and fitness expo at the beloved dome, they'll have to pay another $15.
That's $30, which is more than it costs to enter most 5K events, few of which involve parking fees, as well as more than most tickets to Tampa Bay Rays' games. (Registration for the Rock 'n' Roll half marathon itself began at $55 and gradually rose to $105. Expo registration will be $125).
In a Tampa Bay Times story yesterday, race organizer Competitor Group pointed the finger at the Rays for the parking fees. A city official said it's between the Rays and the promoter (Competitor). Rays vice president Rick Vaughn, the best PR guy in sports, must feel like he's having a flashback to the Vince Naimoli era, spinning what seems to be a petty situation all around.
"The Rock 'N' Roll Marathon Expo is a commercial enterprise and, like all for-profit events at Tropicana Field, its promoters are required to pay a parking fee," Vaughn told The Times.
Vaughn is right, of course, though all this has little to do with revenue from a few thousands vehicles, probably much less given that most runners will seek out cheaper parking further away. After all, this is a crowd that doesn't mind walking a mile or two to run 13.1.
The situation has much more to do with entitlements of race promoters, city officials mesmerized by dubious economic studies, and perhaps the ongoing friction between St. Pete and the Rays over the team's future ballpark.
When St. Pete and Competitor Group announced the event in May, Mayor Bill Foster cited a $12 million economic impact, even though the much larger, established Gasparilla Distance Classic in Tampa reports an impact of roughly half that. Philip Porter, an economist at the University of South Florida who has long criticized sports economic studies, suggested St. Pete's numbers were highly inflated since the vast majority of runners figured to be local.
Nonetheless, Foster plowed ahead, committing $30,000 in city support, including police and road closures, expenses race promoters typically foot on their own. The St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission committed $100,000 to promote the race by taking out ads in national running magazines – even though Competitor Group itself publishes several prominent endurance sports magazines.
But where Foster really got into murky water was by asking the Rays to let The Trop host a health and fitness expo (and packet pickup) for free – a $60,000 value. You have to think the Rays, run by team president and avid marathoner Matt Silverman, might have written this off as another of the many community goodwill gestures the team has made since Stu Sternberg took over as principal owner in 2005. Heck, Sternberg didn't charge Rays fans for parking for the entire 2006 season and continues to offer some degree of free parking to carpools of four or more fans.
Unfortunately for runners, Foster and Sternberg have been involved in a stalemate over the Rays future for more than two years. Sternberg wants to consider new ballpark sites outside of St. Pete (i.e. Tampa). Foster keeps pointing to a Tropicana Field lease that runs through 2027.
So here we are, with runners contemplating parking options, shuttles, and the logistics of a race that starts at one venue (The Trop) and ends at another (North Shore Park).
Who to blame? There's plenty to go around.
COMPETITOR GROUP: The San Diego-based promoters could (should?) pay the Rays and pick up the parking. They received much more consideration from the city than other race promoters. Not only that, it was only a few years ago that local promoters had to convince St. Pete to let anyone host a half-marathon. All Competitor had to do was waive an economic impact study to get Foster excited. Last weekend, the organizers of the Chilly Willy Duathlon picked up the new $5-per-car entry fee for athletes competing at Fort DeSoto Park in St. Pete. A smaller event, to be sure, but still a big hit by a local promoter who doesn't get any of Competitor's considerations from the city or county.
There's nothing that irks people more than paying for parking. They never remember the steep prices they paid for sports and entertainment tickets, along with the $10 per beer. But they won't forget the $15, $20, or $30 they had to pay to park. Speaking of sports tickets…
THE TAMPA BAY RAYS: Only in the warped alternative reality of professional sports does a city have to ask permission from a tenant to stage an event in a building the city owns (but the team operates). But that's how sports works and, in fairness to the Rays, they'd like nothing more than to make The Trop available to the city of St. Pete for health expos, packet pickups and other events 365 days a year.
The Rays seem to be on the right side of this argument, but we wonder if it's worth the PR hit. Yes, this parking revenue is covering their costs, but all runners will know is that they had to hand over $15 (perhaps twice) to the same lot attendants who work Rays games.
The Rays, as you may have heard, have some attendance issues. And while it's true that the people who get up before dawn on Sunday mornings to run half marathons generally aren't the same people who sit around for three-plus hours drinking beer and watching B.J. Upton, there's going to come a time when a Rays stadium issue is going to be placed on a ballot somewhere in the Tampa Bay area. As the Buccaneers learned, those votes can be awfully close.
Sternberg and his staff have done most everything right since taking over in 2005, with the exception of grossly underestimating the opposition to development along the St. Pete waterfront and thinking Pat Burrell had a heart.
The Rays ate $16 million on the Burrell deal. Seems like $60,000 wouldn't be a bad PR investment, though again the lion's share of the blame goes to the one man we know won't be running 13.1 miles on Sunday:
MAYOR BILL FOSTER: This guy quickly has established himself as the biggest ego we've seen in Tampa Bay politics, and that's saying something. The logical thing would be for Foster to go to Competitor and say, "Look, we've bent over backwards for this event, given you far more cash and consideration than we should have. And now all of us are going to lose some serious goodwill over this parking issue. Now I may not know much about endurance sports. To me a half Marathon is what I had left after eating part of a chewy candy bar, but I hear you guys have added a lot of these events over the last year or two. Seems like you might have to cut back like you did with those Nutty Buddy races. What? Muddy Buddy? Okay, whatever, point being we want to have you back and I think you want to be back. So why don't you go to the Rays and meet them halfway for, say $30,000?"
Failing that, let's line up Mayor Foster and Stu Sternberg for a 5K.
If either finishes in under 30 minutes, parking is $30.
If not, parking is free.
Filed under Running
Tagged as Bill Foster, Competitor Group, Rock 'n' Roll half marathon, St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay Rays, Tropicana Field
St. Pete Mayor's Rocky Marathon Deal
Another half marathon for St. Pete
For years Philip Porter has shaken his head as public officials around the country have cited dubious economic impact studies to justify massive public spending for sports events.
So when St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster touted an economic impact of as high as $12 million for the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon that the City Council approved Thursday night, the University of South Florida economist got out his calculator once again.
"Let's say you have 25,000 runners," Porter said Friday morning. "That's $480 per person, which might be possible if everyone came from out of town. But the vast majority of these people will be local. They'll enter the event and go home. At most they'll buy a meal somewhere."
Local race organizers were out in force Thursday night to protest Rock 'n' Roll Marathon organizer Competitor Group getting $30,000 in city support, including police and road closures – expenses race directors typically foot on their own – for the Feb. 12, 2012 event.
Given the money being made during this running boom, in the middle of a recession, the question is why any running organization is given a dime in public funding.
The Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, featuring rock bands along the course, is the most popular national marathon and half-marathon series. Half marathon fees average $90. With a typical field of 25,000, that's $2.25 million in gross revenue, not counting sponsorship dollars.
"For an investment of $30,000, we could have a $12 million return," Foster, citing the economic impact study, was quoted by The St. Petersburg Times. "I don't know why we're still talking about it."
Here's why we're still talking about it:
When a race is put on by a local promoter – such as Chris Lauber of the Halfathon series or Dawna Stone and Matt Dieter of Women's Running, both of which were on hand last night – the money is supporting local businesses. Competitor Group, owned by New York private equity firm Falconhead Capital, is based in San Diego.
The approval for the Rock 'n' Roll event came on the same day Pinellas County announced plans to lay off 1,100 teachers as part of an ongoing budget crisis. Different budgets, to be sure, but still hard to justify.
But the $30,000 is not the most ridiculous or ironic expense approved for the race last night. Actually, it might not rank in the top two.
The St. Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission, according to The Times, will spend $100,000 to promote the race by taking out ads in national running magazines.
Want to guess what Competitor Group's core business is?
Yep, they produce national running magazines.
Oh, sure. One of those magazines is Triathlete. The other, Competitor magazine (for which I spent 2010 as a regional editor), does technically cover other endurance sports, though it focuses on running. (At the end of last year, editors were told to write only about running.)
Hopefully the Sports Commission won't be spending money on Competitor Group magazines. But given Competitor's strength in that area, why should the Commission be spending any money on magazine advertising at all?
Maybe the Sports Commission could buy some ads in Women's Running, the magazine published by Dawna Stone!
Somewhere Wendy Johnson, who died last year, is shaking her head. For years, Johnson lobbied the City of St. Petersburg to let her Motion Sports Management company stage a half marathon in St. Pete. City officials resisted, not thinking there was a market.
By the time the city came around, other local organizers were in the bidding. Stone eventually got the contract and now has a three-race national women's running series, anchored by the November half marathon in St. Pete.
Now St. Pete is all about staging half marathons, even though the Rock 'n' Roll event will come just three weeks after Lauber's Clearwater Halfathon and three weeks before the wildly popular Gasparilla Distance Classic in Tampa.
The Rock 'N' Roll event also will compete with the popular Chilly Willy Duathlon, which has been around for nearly a decade and is held in St. Petersburg on the same Sunday in February at Fort DeSoto Park. The Chilly Willy does not receive a dollar from St. Pete or the county. It's a safe bet the portly Mayor Foster has never heard of the Chilly Willy Duathlon.
You'd think Foster would have learned from the City of Clearwater, which got little beyond traffic complaints for all the money it paid to host the Ironman 70.3 for the last five years. By the time that deal ended last year, the Tampa-based World Triathlon Corp. didn't even put "Clearwater" on one piece of official race merchandise.
Remarkably, Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard couldn't wait to sign up to host the year-end event for the new Ironman 5150 series.
Let's hope Competitor at least gets the marketing right and doesn't refer to St. Pete as "Tampa" the way ESPN does whenever Tropicana Field hosts an event.
Speaking of The Trop, perhaps the most incredible aspect of the Rock 'n' Roll deal is that Foster and the city asked the Tampa Bay Rays to allow the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon to hold a health and fitness expo at Tropicana Field for free. That, according to The Times, was valued at $60,000.
Imagine the response when that came across the desk of Rays' president Matt Silverman, himself a marathon runner.
Silverman and his colleagues have spent the better part of the last 18 months trying to get Foster to let them speak with Hillsborough County about a possible stadium. Foster won't even entertain the notion.
Granted, only in the warped world of stadium leases does a city have to ask permission from a team to hold an event in a building the city owns. The Rays have no choice but to go along, though it would make for wonderful theater if they refused.
Porter, the USF economist, won't be the last person to raise an eyebrow over Foster's generosity with Competitor Group.
"This is the same mayor who tells the Rays to take a hike on the stadium issue," Porter says. "Now you've got an event where mostly local participants are paying entry fees that are being exported. If this is anything like Gasparilla, there's no economic impact at all. People will wake up at home, go do the race and drive back home."
Tagged as Bill Foster, Competitor Group, Dawna Stone, Philip Porter, Rock 'n' Roll marathon, St. Petersburg, Women's Running


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African American Composer, Pianist & Professor H. Leslie Adams, Whose Works Are Often Performed & Recorded, Was Born Dec. 30, 1932 in Cleveland
On December 27, 2014 AfriClassical posted:
H. Leslie Adams: PIANO ETUDES (Complete in two parts, total 141 mins.) ; Part I by Pianist Maria Corley; Part II by Pianist Thomas Otten, YouTube
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com, writes: "Today is Leslie Adams's birthday."
H. (Harrison) Leslie Adams is an African American composer, pianist and professor who was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 30, 1932. His website is http://www.hleslieadams.com
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma has specialized in African heritage in classical music for four decades, and has kindly made his research file on the composer available to this website.
We learn from Prof. De Lerma that H. Leslie Adams was a student of both piano and voice before finishing high school: "A native of Cleveland, Harrison Leslie Adams began private piano study with Dorothy Smith and Mina Eichenbaum and voice with John Howard Tucker. Following graduation from Glenville High School he enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M, 1955), studying composition with Herbert Elwell and Joseph Wood, voice with Robert Fountain, and piano with Emil Dannenberg. He studied composition privately with Robert Starer (1950) and Vittorio Giannini (1960) before attending California State University-Long Beach (M.M., composition and choral music, 1967) where his composition teachers were Leon Dallin and Robert Tyndall. He entered Ohio State University in 1968 and secured his Ph.D. in music education in 1973, a student of Marshall Barnes. Subsequent study of orchestration was guided by Edward Mattilla, Eugene O'Brien, and Marcel Dick (1978-1983)."
Adams went directly from high school to Oberlin Conservatory, Prof. De Lerma writes, eventually earning Bachelor's and Masters degrees in Music and a Ph.D. in Music Education. Prof. De Lerma explains that Adams was a choral director at Stillman College in Alabama, and went on to hold a variety of positions as a pianist, music director and composer.
For many years, AfriClassical has frequently reported on premieres and other performances of both vocal and instrumental works of H. Leslie Adams. His opera Blake is another highlight of the composer's career.


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Harold Ensign Bennet Pardee (* 11. Dezember 1886 in New York City; † 28. Februar 1973 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Kardiologe. Er leistete wichtige Beiträge zur Interpretation des Elektrokardiogramms (EKG), insbesondere in Hinblick auf die Herzinfarkt-Diagnostik.

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Harold Pardee war der Sohn von Ensign Bennett Pardee und Clare Burton Pardee. Er erwarb seinen Bachelor 1906 am Columbia College und 1909 seinen Doctor of Medicine am College of Physicians and Surgeons der Columbia University. Anschließend war er am New York Hospital, heute aufgegangen im NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), tätig. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs war Pardee Angehöriger des Medical Corps (MC) der United States Army. Ab 1927 war er als assistant Professor, später als associate professor am Weill Medical College der Cornell University tätig. Pardee wirkte in der American Heart Association (AHA) als Vorsitzender des "Committee for Coordination of Investigation" (1927), in der New York Heart Association (NYHA) als Präsident. 1958 trat der Kardiologe in den Ruhestand.

Pardee war ab 1918 mit Dorothy Dright Porter verheiratet. Das Paar hatte zwei Töchter und einen Sohn.

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1920 berichtete Pardee über EKG-Veränderungen bei einem Patienten, der ihm 1917 mit einem akuten Myokardinfarkt vorgestellt wurde. Pardee beschrieb eine ST-Strecken-Hebung in der akuten Phase des Infarktes. Ähnliche Veränderungen waren zuvor nur im Tierexperiment beschrieben worden. Die von Pardee beschriebenen Veränderungen wurden von Paul Dudley White als "Pardee's sign" bezeichnet, ein heute weitgehend ungebräuchlicher Terminus.

Das von Pardee 1924 erstmals veröffentlichte Lehrbuch Clinical Aspects of the Electrocardiogram etablierte sich als Standardwerk. In der letzten Ausgabe von 1941 beschrieb der Kardiologe eine vergrößerte Q-Zacke in der Ableitung III nach Einthoven, die er als typisch für alte inferiore Myokardinfarkte ansah. Eine solche Q-Zacke (> 0,03 Sekunden, mindestens 1/4 der Amplitude der nachfolgenden R-Zacke) wird als "Pardee-Q" bezeichnet. Sie ist allerdings weder spezifisch für einen inferioren Infarkt, noch muss dieser mit einer solchen Veränderung einhergehen.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
 Harold E. B. Pardee: An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction. In: Arch Intern Med. 1920 Nr. 26, S. 244–257.
 Harold E. B. Pardee: Clinical Aspects of the Electrocardiogram. Hoeber, New York 1924. (weitere Auflagen 1928, 1933, 1941)
 Harold E. B. Pardee (Hrsg.): The Nomenclature and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels.  New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, New York 1928.
 Harold E. B. Pardee: What You Should Know About Heart Disease. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia 1928.

Literatur
 Paul Kligfield: Harold Ensign Bennet Pardee. In: Clin Cardiol. Nr. 8, S. 396–398, PMID 16144219,
 George E. Burch, Nicholas P. Depasquales: A History of Electrocardiography. Norman Publishing, 1990. ISBN 0930405218. S. 90f.
 Paul Kligfield: The "Pardee Sign": A Milestone in the Electrocardiology of Acute Myocardial Infarction. In: Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology. Nr. 3, 1997, S. 292,

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Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Kardiologe
Hochschullehrer (Cornell University)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1886
Gestorben 1973
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Harmonic usually refers to the frequency components of a time-varying signal, such as a musical note.

Mathematics, science and engineering
 Harmonic (mathematics), a number of concepts in mathematics
 Harmonic analysis, representing signals by superposition of basic waves
 Harmonic oscillator, a concept in classical mechanics
 Simple harmonic motion, a concept in classical mechanics
 Harmonic distortion, a measurement of signal distortion
 Harmonics (electrical power)
 Harmonic series (mathematics), a divergent infinite series
 Harmonic tremor, a rhythmic earthquake which may indicate volcanic activity

Music
 String harmonic, a string instrument playing technique
 Artificial harmonic, a string instrument playing technique
 Enharmonic, a "spelling" issue in music
 Harmonic series (music), the series of overtones (or partials) present in a musical note, or the vibrational modes of a string or an air column
 Scale of harmonics, a musical scale based on harmonic nodes of a string
 The Harmonics, a rock a cappella group from Stanford University
 Harmony, the musical use of simultaneous pitches, or chords
 Inharmonicity, the degree of overtones' departure from integral multiples of the fundamental frequency
 Overtone, any resonant frequency higher than the fundamental frequency

Other uses
 Harmonic (color), a relationship between three colors
 Harmonic Convergence, a New Age astrological term
 "Harmonics", the twelfth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album
 Harmonic Inc., a video infrastructure product company, headquartered in San Jose, California

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 Harmonix, a video game development company


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The Mars Volta - La Realidad de los Suenos (18LP Boxset)
By Richie Sombrero,
March 7, 2021 in New & Upcoming Releases
Richie Sombrero
Location: Belfast
Easily my favourite rock band of this century. Nice to see the expensive albums repressed although in limited very expensive boxset form doesn't really solve scalper prices unless they also reissue separately. In typical Mars Volta form it also isn't straight-forward, no Scab Dates and no Frances the Mute the song included for some reason. Only 'new' stuff seems to be De-Loused demos which are already floating about.
I own them all anyways but perhaps this will pave the way for new stuff.
It's out in April.
Behold Goliath!
Zephyr_Nova
What are the chances that a Mars Volta fan who's into them enough to buy an 18lp box set doesn't already have all 18 lps?
But yeah, amazing band.
I stupidly bought it and only album I don't have is Nocto.
Odd it doesn't have Scab Dates either. Nor the Bedlam B-Sides.
Like, could have thrown in a live dvd even, they've loads of pro-shot concerts unreleased.
Volta gonna Volta. Still looks cool.
gnarlybog
Frances the Mute is a masterpiece. I wonder how new material would sound? I'm worried Cedric's voice is totally shot.
Poimandres
Amputechture is their best album.
I'm getting the itch to go on another Volta/Omar binge.
14 hours ago, Poimandres said:
Agreed. Saw them on Goliath tour, mind-blowing.
Wouldn't mind hearing new material from them, who knows. Noctourniquet was certainly their weakest one, but still good. Probably just a result of their style running its course, so maybe we don't need anything new.
Octahedron was underrated, a much-needed and very well-executed change of pace after the very intense but great Amputecture and The Bedlam in Goliath.
Saw them on the Frances the Mute tour when I lived in Houston. So fucking good.
Location: public shitting, Oregon
nuts. epic box set.
Deloused in the Comatorium is one of my fav all time albums. just perfectly epic prog punk whatever the fuck you wanna call it. i think i listened to it and nothing else for like a month when it came out. some of the other stuff is pretty hit and miss for me but some excellent moments. deloused has the singing more in check with no falsetto annoyances and just jams. Amputechture is cool but deloused is king imo. it's the one.
i should give the other albums another go. it's been a while. i listen to deloused once or twice a month though.
Agreed that De-Loused is where it's at, I also listened to it non-stop when it came out. It's been a while since I've played any TMV album, to be honest. And the only one I have on vinyl is Octahedron, which I purchased just a couple years ago after finding it in a local shop for a reasonable price. Other albums I've come across in the last 5+ years were too spendy. Buuuuut I still haven't even played the damn record. I'd probably have them all on vinyl if I was buying vinyl when they were released. Had them all on CD, up to the last one, except for the live stuff.
Deloused is a fucking ridiculously strong debut album. All of their albums are interesting and impressive for many reasons, but every single song on Deloused is a big winner for me. Amputecture's also quite excellent, but the songwriting's still not quite on the same level. They just started off way too good and didn't really leave any room for improvement... not to undermine everything else they've done, as it's great, but... like how the fuck do you top Deloused?
Deloused is indeed excellent. Frances would also top most bands discographies if it were theirs.
18 piece boxset though? No thanks that is truly absurd (unless its Ae).
I don't find Octahedron to have aged well. First 3 are unimpeachable and Bedlam is great fun with the drums. I don't mind Nocto but it's like a different band.
I'm unsure if they'll make new stuff under MV name, Omar has referred to this boxset as an ending but then he's about as reliable a narrator as Aphex.
that's a thing of beauty. £380 though wooow.
Listening to Deloused once again and it's still so so good, what a fantastic album, Cedric is such a charismatic singer.
beerwolf
Location: third stone from the sun
TMV passed me by first time around, I did have RoC but wasn't enthralled by it and I think the reviews at the time for Deloused were either 9/10 or mostly 3/10. So I just never bothered.
That changed a few weeks ago when I decided to pick Deloused up and give it a spin. And got my 🧠 instantly blown into smithereens. Wow. Super brilliant. And can't stop playing it. Best guitar album I've discovered in a long, long time. Can't wait to listen to the rest of their sonic maelstroms. But I won't be buying this! 😌
Was interesting to learn that they recorded part of Amputechture at Clouds Hill. Didn't realise association was so long.
Polytrix
Won't be buying this but would love seperate released so I can finally get Deloused at a good price. Hope that happens.
Clouds Hill said would do individual ones if this sold well so probably will.
BelacquaShuah
i used to be on the umbi and the comatorium back in the day. Frances is my favorite followed by De-loused and Tremulant EP.
recently listened to Frances after a long time and damn it does hit hard. love Omar's style which could get pretty wild, like the end of L'Via.
Hail Sagan
Location: A Pale Blue Dot
I was sad when At The Drive-In came to an end. I remember picking up Frances the Mute and was not feeling it at the time for whatever reason. Didn't know Deloused was actually their debut, had I grabbed that first that would have likely gotten me into them sooner. Anyways, really great band with a huge discography. That's my riveting take on the situation really hope you guys enjoyed reading this bye.
On 3/10/2021 at 10:31 AM, sidewinder said:
I just gave it a listen for the first time in years... man I did not spend enough time with this album. There's so much in there, rhythmically, melodically, lyrically... and the synth drone reminds me so much of Eliane Radigue, I so badly want to know if she was the inspiration behind that. But, you know, a one note synth drone can come from a lot of places, most usually the equipment that happens to be on hand.
The final stanza of the lyrics struck me as a particularly powerful/disturbing ode to the death penalty. A lot of MV's lyrics come off as strange and poetic word salad, but occasionally a more profound meaning jumps through for me, and when it does... jesus. They go some dark places.
Does your temperature ache?
Is your glass about to break?
Are you purple with current?
Will you now become the servant?
Gordian knots in the power lines
Saucer fills to empty with pesticide
Like the pharaohs of old
Bury me in gold
I'll make your son refuse to fight
In the Stockholm setting that we provide
If your heart does cease to speak
My fingernail choir will make your chalkboard sing
That wailing guitar solo that follows that last line, combined with that last line? Fucking epic.
Bedlam was one of the most instantly fun albums I've ever heard. Those Pridgen drums, damn.
First of the De-Loused demos is up on Spotify, apparently it's fantastic. These were leaked originally at the time but have been remixed/remastered I believe.
I'm gonna wait for the vinyl though as it'll be huge for me to hear this.
On 3/24/2021 at 12:10 PM, Richie Sombrero said:
Yeah, that guy's on another level. I like that his nickname is "Perpetual Solo", which is pretty apt. For most projects that's not really what you want from a drummer, but in a Mars Volta context it... fulfills its destiny.
splesh
I used to absolutely love these guys' first three albums. Will need to relisten sometime in the near future. Saw them live during the Bedlam in Goliath tour but the venue sucked and I wasn't in a good place those days and seem to remember things declining sharply starting around that time for my own tastes.
This boxset seems way above and beyond what I can imagine ever wanting but to each their own. I think I'd still like them a bunch because they have such a rollicking, fun times sound, though I would no longer have teenage pretensions of their music being far superior to other rock or anything along those lines, y'know?
Edited March 29, 2021 by splesh


I left for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago at four in the afternoon on Tuesday for my flight to London, England. Thereby beginning the longest day of my life.
Before getting to O'Hare, my parents and I stopped for my final meal in the U.S. and where else to stop than Culvers? After that, it was on to the airport.
As we walked into Terminal 5, the international terminal at O'Hare, I lugged in my two very (very very) heavy suitcases, anxiously anticipating placing them on the airport scale. Luckily, both were (somehow) underweight.
I went through security no problem, but as I was going to swing on my backpack, my Wisconsin tumblr cup flew out of my backpack and cracked. I was off to a great start…Luckily I took two water bottles with me and had a backup.
My flight boarded at 8 p.m., ahead of schedule as it was set to take off at 8:45 p.m. When booking my plane ticket, I had the opportunity to upgrade my seat for a rather cheap price and therefore was sitting in one of the nicer sections and had a large chair with extra room to recline. It was super nice. They also served a full three-course meal in my section, but I had eaten before and was attempting to sleep by the time they were serving food at around 9:45 p.m.
I was not able to get much sleep during the flight, I managed maybe about an hour. I can never get comfortable enough to sleep on plane flights.
After circling Heathrow for about 15 minutes, we were finally cleared to land and we touched down in London! It was a little confusing at first making my way from where we landed in Terminal 5 to where I got my passport and visa checked, (I had to take a short shuttle to get there), but then I quickly found my bags and there was no one at customs so I was able to walk right through!
I then met up with a girl that I had talked to on the UW in London Facebook page and we took a car that I had reserved online to the Metrogate building in Kensington to pick up our keys. Between the two of us, we each only paid about £20 for the trip. Much cheaper than taking the Heathrow Express, the Tube or a Black Cab Taxi! And much more convenient!
After checking in at Metrogate, I lugged my two large suitcases just over a half of a mile south to Manson Place where I am staying for the next four months. My flat is up on the third floor (so in the UK, this means the ground floor plus three floors aka the fourth floor). The building we are living in is over 300 years old and is a converted town house so it conveniently has NO elevator. I lugged both of my near 50 lbs. suitcases up the stairs. I needed a break after. No joke.
As I was the last of my roommates to arrive, I was lucky enough to get the top bunk of the quad room that I am in. Thankfully I slept on a lofted bed all last semester so am used to climbing up into bed. We also each got a large wardrobe and a small nightstand.
There are twelve of us in the flat, four guys and eight girls. We have three bathrooms and a nice common area with a large couch, tv, breakfast bar, kitchen and three fridges and freezers. It was recently renovated and is a pretty nice set up!
After settling in and partially unpacking (I still have a lot to do as they only provided about 10 hangers, so Amazon Prime UK to the rescue), we walked over to Foundation House where our classes are held. There, they took pictures of our passports and visas and then we picked up some of our course materials.
One of the Residence Life Supervisors took us on a very quick walking tour of the part of Kensington where we would be living and studying.
After that, I went out to dinner with a few of my flatmates to one of the most popular restaurants in the U.K., Nando's. Needless to say, I was pretty excited to eat dinner at a place that Ed Sheeran has written a song about (Nando's Skank).
Apart from forgetting to tell the woman taking my order to not put mayo on it, (no worries, I scrapped it off), Nando's was pretty good and not too expensive so I will for sure be going back in the future.
After dinner, we made our way to Sainsburys to do a little grocery shopping. While rather large, Sainsburys is not my favorite grocery store. They are relatively cheap, but don't have the best produce or meat sections. I plan on shopping there for dry food and goods only.
While I should have been exhausted by this point, I could not bring myself to sleep and stayed up until about 3 a.m. London time. I then finally fell asleep until about 10:30 a.m. the next morning.
After wakin g up, I had some more time to finish unpacking, shower and get ready for the day. We had our first day of orientation at 2 p.m. It was held at Imperial College, just a few short blocks away from Manson Place.
This part of our orientation mainly covered what life in the "residence halls" would be like as well as helpful hints for adjusting to life in London. We were able to meet our Residence Life Supervisors and learn about programs offered in the residence halls and at the Foundation House where our classes are held.
Later in the afternoon, we walked to High Street, an area filled with different places to shop. A few of us still needed switch out our SIM cards for U.K. cards, and we ended up going to the provider "Three" for our SIM cards as they had the best coverage and deals for international individuals in the U.K.
In our welcome packets, we were given tickets to a play in the West End titled "The Play That Goes Wrong." It was at 7:30 p.m. and we had to take the tube to get there. It was my first time taking the tube and I was relatively nervous to do so, but after riding there, I discovered how easy it was to do and I am slowly beginning to understand the big map and where the different lines go. This will help with getting to different parts of the city that are way too far to walk to.
The play…in my opinio n, was not great. It was a lot of physical comedy and "dumb humor" as I like to refer to it as. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it though. Supposedly J.J. Abrams saw it and liked it so much he is paying for it to be brought to Broadway in New York…I don't understand this but to each their own.
After the play, I rode the tube back to Gloucester Station with some of the girls from my flat and then enjoyed a quiet night in.
My next post should be up tomorrow and will talk about my day today exploring Hyde Park!
That's the day I leave for a city I've been dreaming about for years: London, England.
For the past week, I have procrastinated packing my allotted two suitcases with everything I will need for the next four months. For an over-packer, this is not the easiest task in the world, but I'm getting there (almost, sorta, kinda, not really…).
People have constantly been asking me how I'm feeling about leaving for London for the past month. Am I excited? Am I nervous? Anxious? Ready? Prepared?
My answer? A mix of all of the above.
I've never flown on a plan by myself before.
I'm extremely nervous about losing my luggage.
How does one get from Heathrow to Kensington?
I need to get a new phone service and number.
Classes last three hours-what how will I make it through that?
Rumor is they don't have peanut butter?
Oh, and they talk funny there.
For a person who hates change, this is a big step. But I'm ready(ish) for it.
I am taking part in the UW in London Study Abroad program and couldn't be more excited! Over the past month, and especially this week, I have felt a mix of emotions as I've said goodbye to friends and family. I'm extremely excited to make the big trip across the pond, but I'm also incredibly sad to have had to say goodbye to so many friends and family that I won't see for a while.
So, what will I be doing/how does my program work?
My program is split up into two parts. The first seven weeks consist of four classes each worth three UW-Madison credits. Because my program is through the Foundation for International Education and is affiliated with UW-Madison, I don't have to worry about all of my credits transferring back like I would if I were studying abroad through a different program.
After these first seven weeks, I have a week-long break (which is basically our spring break but is at the end of February.) I hope to do a lot of traveling during this time and would really like to spend a lot of this week in Spain using my Spanish!
For the next seven weeks after this week-long break, I will be enrolled in three classes and then be placed in an internship which will take up three days each week. The internship aspect of this program is what most excited me about this program and was ultimately a deciding factor in choosing this program over the other London programs offered at UW-Madison.
For the internship, I chose between either a service internship or a regular internship. I went with the regular internship and was able to rank my first three internship choices as Music, Communications and Journalism and Media. Once I arrive in London they will inform me where I have been placed and I will have a short interview with the employer to make sure it is a good fit. I cannot wait to find out where I will be placed!
Also upon arriving in London on Wednesday morning, I will find out who my roommates are! I will have either one, two, or three other roommates. Being that I had a single room this past semester, having three or even one roommate will be a big change. I'll be living in a flat in the borough of Kensington (the same neighborhood as Prince William and Kate OMG), and hope to bump into David Beckham while grocery shopping (one of our academic advisers has actually done this-AMAZING).
While in London, I not only plan to explore the amazing city, it's history and culture, but also explore surrounding cities and countries. High up on my list include places like Ireland, Spain, Denmark, France and Germany. I'm sure that list will change and expand but I also want to not only be in London but truly live in London for a majority of my time abroad.
I am going to blog about my time abroad as often as possible, so be sure to keep up with the Study Abroad in London tab on mostlymotto to hear about my classes, internship, travels and everything else I do while studying abroad in one of the greatest cities in the world: London.


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Madison, Ridgeland squabble over road funds
Emily Nitcher
The Mississippi Department of Transportation and a group of Ridgeland residents are unhappy the Madison County Board of Supervisors reallocated a portion of funds from a $6 million lawsuit settlement.
In what opponents have called a highly political move, the supervisors voted 4-1 in April to move plans for construction from Highland Colony Parkway south of Old Agency Road in Ridgeland to Highway Colony north in Madison.
In June 2010 the Board of Supervisors filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against MDOT after plans fell through to construct the Reunion interchange. A settlement was reached before the case went to trial in Hinds County Circuit Court.
Under the terms of the agreement, the supervisors can use the $6 million for specific road projects: overlay work on a portion of Highland Colony Parkway, Yandell Road, Reunion Parkway and Wheatley Street; and widening Hoy Road.
As it currently stands after the April vote, Madison would gain most of the funds with $2 million for Yandell Road, $1 million for Hoy Road, $1.5 million for Highland Colony Parkway north and $1.5 million for Reunion Parkway.
The Community Awareness Committee in Ridgeland says those funds should stay in their city. The group is asking residents to call and email supervisors and ask them not to strip money from Ridgeland.
"We were very displeased not only with reduction in the much-needed roadway work for the city but the overall actions of Madison County supervisors," said Drew Malone with the Community Awareness Committee. "We feel like they were not looking out for the city and citizens' best interests. The only voice that we have is (Supervisor) Gerald Steen, who is doing the best he can. When you have the other supervisors keep voting him down, there's not much he can do."
Ridgeland citizens aren't the only ones displeased.
MDOT and the Board of Supervisors had verbally agreed to the previous deal. Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall said he was surprised to learn the board voted to reallocate the funds and that nobody ever gave him a reason for the decision.
Hall said all of the roads need attention and that the roads the Board of Supervisors moved the funds to aren't in any worse shape than the ones in the original agreement.
"They wanted to move it purely for political purposes," Hall said. "Part of the agreement was that they would go through the local public agency process."
And part of that process is that both sides have a memorandum of understanding, he said. Madison County can't get funds until both sides agree on the memorandum.
In the coming weeks MDOT plans to present the Board of Supervisors with a memorandum of understanding that includes Highland Colony Parkway north, instead of Highland Colony south, as per the original agreement.
"I'm not trying to make a fight out of this or make anyone mad," Hall said. "I propose they go back to what they originally said."
The change in allocation of funds was proposed by District 1 Supervisor John Bell Crosby. Reallocating the road funds was not on the meeting's agenda.
"Mr. Crosby reported that because of the traffic flow and safety issues, the funds should be transferred…" according to minutes from the April 21 board meeting. Crosby did not respond to messages left by The Clarion-Ledger.
Steen of District 3 was the only supervisor to vote against the move. Steen said he believes the other supervisors were not pleased that he questioned, motioned to kill and voted against giving a $1.2 million no-bid airport study contract to Rudy Warnock and Associates. Warnock is also the county engineer.
"This is a very politically motivated move to direct money from District 3, which is primarily the city of Ridgeland to other parts to the county," he said.
District 2 Supervisor Ronny Lott agrees with Steen but said he doesn't regret voting for reallocating the funds.
"I believe it was truly a political ploy to cause damage to Gerald Steen," Lott said. "Gerald and I have frequently made stands that were not always popular."
Lott said he voted to alter the road plans because it meant more of the funds would go to his district. Lott is currently running for Madison County chancery clerk.
Other members of the board deny the change was political at all.
Karl Banks, the District 4 supervisor, said people can call it what they'd like, but the funds from the settlement were moved to areas with a higher traffic count.
Banks said the Board of Supervisors didn't give much thought to the first allocations. In April they thought things through and decided to move the money, he said. The plan, Banks said, is to come up with additional county funds to fix Highland Colony Parkway south.
"I'm 100 percent for funding the south end of Highland Colony with county funds," Banks said.
District 5 Supervisor Paul Griffin didn't consider the traffic count in his vote. He said he saw an opportunity to get another million dollars for a road in his district and that's why he supported it.
"I can't include traffic counts into my consideration because my roads would never get resurfaced," Griffin said.
The Board of Supervisors had the option to use the funds on any of the four roads listed in the settlement agreement, said board attorney Mike Espy, as long as they did not exceed the $6 million price tag or use any funds on roads not listed in the settlement.
Espy also pointed out that any side could reopen litigation. The original lawsuit lasted for two years before a settlement was reached.
"I just hope that before we descend in the pits of ligation we can sit down and reason this out," he said.
Contact Emily Nitcher at (601) 961-7303 or enitcher@jackson.gannett.com.


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Sore throat. Stuffy and runny nose. Dry cough. When you're sick with a cold and flu, all you want to do is crawl into bed and sleep for a week or two. But your pesky symptoms make it impossible to rest easy. When bedtime finally rolls around, you actually feel worse than you did during the day.
To help you stop tossing and turning throughout the night, we have compiled seven natural tips aimed at helping you get a restorative night's sleep – so you can put that cold and flu to bed once and for all.
2. Darken your bedroom. It's important to create a healthy environment that promotes quality sleep, and you can start by turning down the lights. The dim lighting signals to your body that bedtime is approaching so your brain starts getting ready for sleep. Keep your bedroom dark and quiet until you get enough sleep, and if you have a brightly illuminated alarm clock, make sure it's not facing you during the night.
3. Keep it cool. Make sure your bedroom temperature is nice and cool. When your body temperature drops, your brain goes into sleep mode. In fact, The National Sleep Foundation recommends that you keep your bedroom between 15.5º C and 19.4º C.
4. Take a hot shower. Before bed, muster the strength to take a hot shower. When you get out, the drop in body temperature helps prepare your brain for sleep.
6. Elevate your head. It's been found that elevating your head more than 20° above the horizontal level can reduce nasal congestion and ease sinus pressure.3 Try propping yourself up with a few extra pillows or plump cushions for your sofa to make breathing less difficult.
7. Quiet your mind. Even when you're exhausted and not feeling well, sometimes you can have a mental block that prevents you from falling asleep. Try to establish a relaxing bedtime routine to help you wind down before bedtime, with calming activities like meditation, reading, or listening to soothing music.
1. Whittaker, C. (2010) Allergic Rhinitis. SA Pharmaceutical Journal. pp. 34-42.
2. Krauchi, K., Cajochen, C., Werth, E., Wirz-Justice, A. (2002) Functional link between distal vasodilation and sleep-onset latency. American Journal of Pysiology. 278(3).
3. Rundcrantz, H. (1969) Postural variations on nasal patency. Acta otolaryngologica. 68: pp. 435-443.
Always read the label. Use as directed. Keep all medicines out of reach and sight of children.


A squadron of U.S. Air Force F-16s from Aviano deploying to Poland in response to Ukrainian crisis.
Twelve F-16s and 300 military will deploy next week to Lask air base in central Poland, for a combined exercise with the Polish Air Force.
According to the Polish Minister of Defense Tomasz Siemoniak, the exercise was initially scheduled on a much smaller scale, but it was enhanced following the crisis on Poland's eastern border.
U.S. F-16 deploy quite regularly to Poland. In May 2013, six F-16s and 150 men from the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 176th Tactical Fighter Squadron from Truax Air Force Base deployed to Lask to train integration and interoperability with the Polish F-16s, Su-22s from 21 AFB in Świdwin and MiG-29s from 23 AFB in Minsk Mazowiecki.
Meanwhile, six F-15s from RAF Lakenheath reinforced the U.S. detachment at Siauliai in Lithuania, where the U.S. fighter jets provide Baltic area air policing tasks.
For the moment, these appear to be symbolic deployments: in case of confrontation, Washington will have to commit much more powerful assets.