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> think we were just lucky it didn't bite before.
> You can recheck your patch and push it I guess.
Please find attached an updated patch complete with the test case.
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* tests/lint.scm ("github-url: already the correct github url"): New test.
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By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 3 Minutes Read May 21, 2010
Accessibility standards: Are you ready for the customer service standard?
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Are you ready for the Customer Service Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act? I recently attended an informative labour and employment law conference by Davis LLP, and learned that many businesses appear to be unaware of the extent of their obligations under this first standard—and private sector organizations that provide goods or services with at least one employee in Ontario must implement the changes by January 1, 2012.
The point of the Act is generally to change attitudes and environments in Ontario's workplaces, specifically by removing barriers for disabled persons at organizations that provide goods and services and employ Ontarians. A "barrier" means anything that prevents a person with a disability from fully participating in all aspects of society because of his or her disability, including:
A physical barrier
An architectural barrier
An information or communications barrier
An attitudinal barrier
A technological barrier
A policy or practice
The definition of "disability" under the legislation is quite broad, and includes:
Any degree of physical disability, infirmity, malformation or disfigurement caused by bodily injury, birth defect or illness
A condition of mental impairment or developmental disability
A learning disability
A mental disorder
According to the Ontario government, about 15.5 percent of Ontarians have disabilities; this is a significant amount of the population. Persons with disabilities must be able to participate in your organization without barriers.
But what can you do?
The requirements are quite complex, but there are numerous things that can be done in order to make an organization more accessible, including:
Creating policies and procedures governing the organization's provision of goods and services to persons with disabilities, and ensuring that the policies and procedures are consistent with equality, the dignity of persons with disabilities, and integrating service provision with persons with disabilities
Ensuring that the created policies exist in accessible formats
Enhancing communication methods of the organization taking into account persons with disabilities
Having a feedback process for customers of the organization and making the process accessible to customers
Addressing the use of assistive devices, service animals and support persons in the organization's policies and procedures
Addressing how the organization will prepare and provide notices of temporary disruptions of services (for example, when an elevator breaks down)
Fulfilling reporting requirements established under the Act
Providing training to members of the organization in order to develop the above-mentioned policies, and in order to interact with members of the public on behalf of the organization
Before commencing, it may be wise to conduct an audit of the premises and determine what is required to comply with the accessibility standard. Some goals may be accomplished with some renovations, while others may be done with some minor changes in procedure.
There are some hefty penalties for those who do not comply with the standard. Individuals could face fines up to $50,000, and corporations up to $100,000, for each day or part of a day an offence under the Act occurs or continues to occur.
Because of the complexities of the Act, it is time to start thinking about this now: 2012 is not that far away, and there are a lot of steps to implement to comply with these upcoming obligations. Has your company done a complete review of what is required in order to meet the accessibility standard under the Act?
Christina Catenacci
Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD
Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Christina worked as an editor with First Reference between 2005 and 2015 working on publications including The Human Resources Advisor (Ontario, Western and Atlantic editions), HRinfodesk, and First Reference Talks blog discussing topics in Canadian Labour and Employment Law. She continues to contribute to First Reference Talks as a regular guest blogger, where she writes on privacy and surveillance topics. Christina has also appeared in the Montreal AI Ethics Institute's AI Brief, International Association of Privacy Professionals' Privacy Advisor, Tech Policy Press, and Slaw - Canada's online legal magazine.
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In Tibet, ? – 19th century, a unit of capacity.
Dobu (?) Tibet. A measure of capacity equal to a Kachchá man of 20 Sers : in some places it is said to be equal to 18 De, in others to 12.
H. H. Wilson, page 576.
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Perk Homes, run by the Husband and Wife team of Brannon and D'J Perkison, is the construction arm of Studio Perk. We specialize in building architect-designed homes that are high quality, technologically advanced, and environmentally sustainable. We love the unique and creative! New construction, renovations, expansions, home repair, construction budgeting, and LEED consulting are all in the scope of our activities.


Guy Fieri loves seafood especially crab. Today he packs as much of the crustacean's sweet meat as possible into his tender Crab Burgers topped with creamy, mustard-spiced Celery Root Remoulade. Alongside, Ragin Cajun Onion Rings and a peachy Georgia's Delight cocktail.


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Susan Lucci Says Don't Blame Her for Demise of 'All My Children' Reboot
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"All My Children" star Susan Lucci says she's not the reason Prospect Park decided not to move forward with an online version of the show, reports TVLine.com.
Lucci told her fans via her Facebook page: "I made it clear that I would be ecstatic to be a part of 'All My Children' in a prominent way if they committed to producing the series for another year. I have not heard back from Prospect Park since then," the story says.
She added, "In fact, I learned of their decision not to proceed with 'All My Children' at the same time you did, through the media," according to the story.
High-Ranking TV Industry Exec Elected to Lead TV Academy
News of the World's Alleged Phone-Hacking Tactics: Vilification, Blackmailing, Harassment


9999 is quite easy to achive. I can deal 9999 4 times in 1 attack with every character.
I can deal 9999 twenty times in one attack. Always.
Of course the person has to hit me first.
Which would never happen with me, good old 255 evasion and that evasive armor which i forgot what its called.. Mythril?
I always get 9999 with the Ultimate Weapon. Cloud's really good with it. I think you can do 9999 on any enemy(except the ruby weapon) with the Ultimate weapon. I personally find doing 9999 easy to achieve. That's why I hate one hit limit breaks.
<font color=red face="comic sans ms">Yes, the power of all the characters' ultimate weapons are affected in a different way.
Ultima Weapon - Damage based on the difference between Cloud's current and maximum HP scores.
Missing Score - more damage caused if you equip more materias with lots of MP on it.
Premimum Heart - If Tifa attempts a Limit Break but gets a MISS for one of her slots, the power of this weapon will increase. The power of this weapon is also higher when Tifa's limit bar is higher.
Princess Guard - When Aeris' allies are in critical condition or are killed, this weapon becomes stronger.
HP Shout - Just like Ultima Weapon.
Conformer - If Yuffie's opponents are of a higher level than Yuffie's, she'll do more damage with this weapon.
Death Penalty - The Death Penalty's power raises in proportion to how many enemies Vincent has killed since joining your party.


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HomeUncategorizedAdamany appoints new chief of staff
Adamany appoints new chief of staff
Temple University President David Adamany announced the appointment of Tabb J. Bishop as Deputy Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President, for Temple University. "We are delighted that Tabb is joining Temple University at
19 September 2002 The Temple News Uncategorized
Temple University President David Adamany announced the appointment of Tabb J. Bishop as Deputy Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President, for Temple University.
"We are delighted that Tabb is joining Temple University at this crucial time," President Adamany said.
"His policy experience in education, economic development and housing, and his thorough knowledge of Pennsylvania government will prove invaluable as we continue to implement our vision for Temple's future.
Among other responsibilities in the President's Office, Tabb will oversee implementation of the goals articulated in our Self-Study and Agenda, and help Temple maintain outstanding relations with our community, city and the Commonwealth."
"I am very pleased to have the opportunity to work with President Adamany, Chief of Staff Greg Rost and the other administrators, faculty, staff and students of Temple University," said Bishop.
"These are exciting times at Temple, and I am looking forward to advancing the President's agenda for Temple's future."
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Sparta sets 'em straight at the TLA


FLOC's November 2009 event took place at Hennessey's Tavern in Dana Point where the entire bar was turned into a casino to raise awareness and money for WeROCK. Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Andrea Kooiman, shared her passion for helping kids build their self-image through the discipline and challenge of running a marathon. As of yet, no FLOC members have signed up to join her running team, but together they helped generate over $1200 for the new non-profit!!


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Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (June 19th 1758, Naples - April 8th 1833, Florence) was an Italian engraver. He received his earliest instructions from his father, himself an engraver; but, in order to be initiated more fully in the art, he was afterwards placed as a pupil under the celebrated Volpato. He assisted this master in engraving the famous pictures of Raphael in the Vatican, and the print which represents the miracle of Bolsena is inscribed with his name. He married Volpatos daughter, and, being invited to Florence to engrave the masterpieces of the Florentine Gallery, he removed thither with his wife in 1782. His reputation now became so great as to induce the artists of Florence to recommend him to the grand duke as a fit person to engrave the Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci; apart, however, from the dilapidated state of the picture itself, the drawing made for Morghen was unworthy of the original, and the print, in consequence, although an admirable production, fails to convey a correct idea of the style and merit of Leonardo. Morghens fame, however, soon extended over Europe; and the Institute of France, as a mark of their admiration of his talents, elected him an associate in 1803. In 1812 Napoleon invited him to Paris and paid him the most flattering attentions.
A list of the artists works, published at Florence in 1810, comprised 200 compositions; the number was afterwards considerably increased. Amongst the most remarkable, besides those already mentioned, may be noticed the Transfiguration from Raphael, a Magdalen from Murillo, a Head of the Saviour from da Vinci, the Car of Aurora from Guido, the Hours and the Repose in Egypt from Poussin, the Prize of Diana from Domenichino, the Monument of Clement XIII. from Canova, Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur, Francesco Moncado after Van Dyck, portraits of Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, and a number of other eminent men. His prints have hardly maintained the reputation which they enjoyed during the artists lifetime. Though carefully and delicately executed, they are somewhat mechanical and wanting in force and spirit.


I am a student of Economics, with a tangential interest in maths.
9 What is the difference between preferences lacking "completeness" and being indifferent?
9 Which of Anscombe-Aumann's axioms imply the Sure-Thing principle?
5 When is a measure the pushforward of another measure?
5 Do people really care about higher moments?


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Home > Legislation > 115th Congress > H.Res.761
H.Res.761 - Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women's History Month.115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] (Introduced 03/01/2018)
House - Oversight and Government Reform
House - 03/01/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions)
Cosponsors: H.Res.761 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)All Information (Except Text)
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] | Cosponsor statistics: 84 current - includes 77 original
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Strong growth and fair valuation make Alkem Labs a good bet
Mumbai-based Alkem Labs is the local market leader in anti-infectives. It earns three-fourths of its revenues from India – a significant portion of it coming from West Bengal, UP and Bihar.
Updated: December 02, 2015, 07:44 IST
By Kiran Somvanshi
ET Intelligence Group: Mumbai-based Alkem Labs is the local market leader in anti-infectives. It earns three-fourths of its revenues from India – a significant portion of it coming from West Bengal, UP and Bihar. Its top 20 brands contribute over half of its total domestic revenues.
Over 40% of its portfolio comprises acute therapy products, which typically are the most penetrated and low-margin in nature. Marketing acumen and lowcost (brands) have been the company's unique selling points. Alkem's international business is building a pipeline of products for approval in the US.
Alkem is a debt-free, profitable company with double-digit growth. In the past three years, it expanded inorganically, taking a toe-hold in the US and beefing up presence in the market for lifestyle disorders.
These investments took a toll on profitability, pushing down operating margin to 12-13% from 16-17%. The margins are likely to improve steadily as the investments start accruing returns. But, the risk profile of Alkem's is likely to increase as share of its regulatory-driven international business rises in total revenues.
The issue values the company at 19 times its FY16 estimated earnings per share of `55 per share. The company's valuation of `12,600 crore also stands at 2.5 times its revenues for FY16. These are fair valuations when compared with peers like Torrent Pharma, Ipca Labs and Wockhardt, leaving room for post listing gains.
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How Do I Profit On A Property Without Spending My Own Money?
Joe: Okay. There's lots of ways you can deal with this type of property, sell it to an investor and that type of thing, but let's talk about this first of all. Does this make sense as a deal? You're looking at $150,000 for the asking price, $10,000 for the septic. $40,000 to get into good shape. I don't know if that's in addition to the $10,000 or not, but let's say it's $50,000 to get into good shape. So now you're at $200,000. If an investor's going to keep it as an investment property the insurance will, or the taxes will go up because it gets rid of the mortgage exemptions. Some areas have this, some don't. This one does. And it's not going to go up from $350 to $900. It's going to go from $350 probably to $500 a month for that tax, if he kept if for an investment property. But on a property like this it's probably going to be sold to an investor that is going to then fix it up and flip it.
Joe: So what you want to do is make it as cheap as possible for the investor to buy the property. And, or, if you're going to do it yourself, you know, if you have some capital to work with, then you could do it yourself that way.
Joe: But let's say that you don't have any capital, so you want to make this as cheap as possible for somebody to do it. $325,000 is the profit, or is the actual price here, so if you got it for $150,000 and let's say you wanted to make $20,000 on this property. So, and you might be able to make more by the way, but let's just say you make $20,000. That's a nice payday. So, $170,000, you're going to ask the seller to take it on terms at $150,000, so make it one-year land contract. And it'd be better if you can get a longer term on the land contract but even one year is good for a rehabber. So one year on a land contract with payments of we'll say $1,200 a month on something like that.
Joe: So he's got $1,200 a month on a one-year land contract. He's going to have to come up with $20,000 down for your profit. So now he's at $170,000. He's going to have to come up with another $40,000, let's say $50,000 for the rehab. So we've got $220,000 into the deal and actual cash out of his pocket is $70,000. So he's got $70,000 into this deal, maybe another $10,000 in payments to hold it and keep it so $230,000. He sells, let's say he sells it on the MLS and it costs him $30,000 to sell it so now he's down to $290,000. So he's making $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 on his investment of $60,000, $70,000. So he's making 100% on his money in one year which is really good for a guy like this. Instead of having to come up with the whole $150,000 plus the rehab plus your cost. So this would be a great deal and fairly easy to sell to any investor because they don't have to come up with $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 in order to make as much money in, between three and six and twelve months depending on how long it takes them to fix it up and turn around and flip that property on a straight deal on the MLS.
Joe: If you're able to get a longer term, it might make it even easier to sell because then that seller could then turn around and sell it on terms and take money coming in on it and on the return, they could get a return every month on their property. They could sell it for $325,000 and not pay any realtor fees and take it over time or do a lease option it or do a land contract on it, you know, any of these other zero down structures that might work for it.
Joe: So this is a good deal. I would do this one. Good luck.


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In light of recent free speech-related controversies at UC Berkeley, Chancellor Carol Christ has reiterated the campus's commitment to free expression and confirmed that controversial conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos has been invited to return to campus next month.
Christ sent a campuswide email Wednesday morning in which she confirmed that both conservative writer Ben Shapiro and Yiannopoulos have been invited by student groups to speak on campus in September. Christ, who has called this academic year a "free speech year" on multiple occasions, stated that denying certain speakers from campus would be providing students with a "less valuable education" and that the campus should show students that they can choose what to listen to and that that they can form their own arguments.
Christ added in her email that BridgeUSA and the Berkeley Center for New Media will hold a conference Oct. 5, and she also mentioned plans for a series of events in which people holding "sharply divergent points of view" will participate in moderated debates. Such sharply divergent ideas, Christ stated, are key to the campus's mission and democracy.
Yiannopoulos was previously scheduled to speak on campus Feb. 1, but the event was abruptly canceled because of the aggressive protest that erupted on Sproul Plaza, resulting in a campuswide lockdown. A few months later, Yiannopoulos announced on his Facebook page that he intended to return to UC Berkeley later this year for "Milo's Free Speech Week," during which he would hold talks, rallies and parties in the name of the First Amendment.
Christ's earlier statements calling this year a "free speech year" for campus and introducing plans for multiplatform debates were widely criticized, with critics calling her statement tone-deaf and insensitive to groups that could potentially be targeted by hate speech.
In her email, Christ acknowledged that defending the right of free speech for those we disagree with can be difficult, but she encouraged the campus community to not resort to "the heckler's veto" and try to silence them.


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A household name in heavy-metal shredding, guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen describes himself as stubborn and dictatorial. "I'm very set in my ways and not necessarily in a bad manner," he said over breakfast. "I know what I want and I go for it." Though his style of music isn't as popular as it once was, he presses on with renewed vigor, his titanic talent intact.
Now on tour with Guitar Gods, a mind-warping, blizzard-of-notes-per-bar bill that also features guitarists Bumblefoot – Ron Thal's stage name – and Gary Hoey, Mr. Malmsteen, 50, is getting ready for the release in August of a live DVD and CD, recorded in Orlando and Tampa, respectively.
Ranked with Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen as innovators of electric rock guitar, the Stockholm native became obsessed with the instrument after he received a copy of Deep Purple's Fireball for his eighth birthday. But though he admired the band's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, young Yngwie was even more intrigued by the work of Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks, who made references in his compositions to J. S. Bach. In fact, it was a recording of a Niccolò Paganini composition that helped Mr. Malmsteen find his musical voice. Paganini's Caprice no. 24 in A minor would eventually become a model for his style, which relies heavily on clearly articulated arpeggios and dazzling speed. "Niccolò Paganini and Johann Sebastian Bach with a Strat and a stack of Marshalls" is how Mr. Malmsteen described his approach last week, referring to his Fender Stratocaster guitar and Marshall amplifiers, his preferred gear.
He arrived in Los Angeles in 1983, recruited by a producer who placed him in a group that was beneath his talents. "It was the most banal band I could be with, but I wanted to be on a piece of vinyl," Mr. Malmsteen said. "It wasn't an ideal situation, but I knew I was going somewhere." He released his first solo album a year later.
With ear-splitting, classically influenced shredding as his trademark, Mr. Malmsteen quickly became a star – and lived the lifestyle that went with it: In 1987, while driving drunk, he plowed into a tree near his home in Woodland Hills, CA, and was in a coma for a week.
"A lot of people pine for the '80s," he said. "I don't." No longer a drinker, Mr. Malmsteen's game these days is tennis. Framed by right-angle mutton chops, his moon face was bright, his smile engaging. Vitamins went down with his scrambled eggs.
With the arrival of grunge music, the '90s were a bleak period for gonzo guitarists such as Mr. Malmsteen, who had no US record deal and relied on touring in Japan and South America to keep going. Late in the decade, he composed Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E-flat minor, op. 1. Many rock artists have played with full orchestras, but Mr. Malmsteen said his concerto was the first to be composed in a classical mode with electric guitar as the solo instrument.
The recording industry in a shambles, his career received an unexpected boost via Guitar Hero and Rock Band, video games that featured his challenging music. Footage of his wild performances were viewed by millions on YouTube – the kind of exposure, Mr. Malmsteen said, that was impossible when the industry was in control. Resistant initially to new recording techniques, he eventually used Pro Tools software on his home-studio computer to record his most recent album, Spellbound (2012), which he released on his own label.
"In a bizarre way it's like I was going back to when I was seventeen years old," he said of life in rock's new model. "I had no expectation of radio airplay, no anything else." As a teen in Stockholm, he explained, "I would play a seventeen-minute guitar solo, sing four bars, and do another seventeen-minute guitar solo. That was the greatest means of expression then. I love to have that feeling."
At the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ, a wall of Marshalls at his back, Mr. Malmsteen jumped and karate-kicked, spun the guitar around his back, flung picks at the rabid audience and discharged a torrent of fully articulated thirty-second notes – all during Rising Force, his first number. Later, he offered the Bach-influenced Dreaming (Tell Me) on acoustic guitar before returning to his Strat for metal's roar. His relentless attack seemed effortless, and never did he seem to mind that he was playing for far fewer people than when he filled stadiums in his glory days.
"I don't know what the carrot in front of me is," he said the morning before the show. "I take criticism and praise the same way. Of course, everyone likes to hear good things, but I don't change. I know what I'm doing."
Jim Fusilli – The Wall Street Journal
Kennedy, the Potty-mouthed Virtuoso
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Nigel Kennedy, the enfant terrible of classical music, is always good for a quote. Try this from an interview last year with The Guardian newspaper after the interviewer pointed out that his concert will be conducted by a woman: "I really don't see what's so important about gender. I think conductors are completely over-rated anyway, because if you love music why not play it? . . . I don't think the audience gives a shit about the conductor. Not unless they've been pumped full of propaganda from classical music writing or something . . . no one normal understands what the conductor does . . . they just wave their arms out of time."
It's a typical Kennedy rant – the sort of one-sided expletive-filled generalization we can perhaps dismiss as trash talk – or simply Kennedy being Kennedy. He might sometimes be wrong, or perverse, but he's lovably wrong or irresponsible in the way of the naughty child.
And speaking of children, there is another great quote from comedian Bob Monkhouse who said: "Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional."
As Kennedy told an audience at a performance last year of music from his recent CD Recital, which blends Bach with Fats Waller and his own compositions: "All this repertoire is music which I have either grown up with, or feel I've grown up with, bearing in mind that growing up is something I haven't been overly interested in so far."
Perth fans of this violin virtuoso with the potty mouth, extreme opinions and arrested development will get the full flavor of his personality in an intimate recital on 29 April 2014. Kennedy will divide his concert into two distinct halves – the first half solo violin compositions by Bach. After interval he will introduce his four-piece combo of acoustic guitars, bass and drums playing his own compositions and jazz improvisations.
For some reason I've got it into my head that his Australian tour will feature music from Fats Waller, recorded on his CD Recital. "Nuh, man, Fats is not on the list, although Fats might find his way in there at the end," he says on the phone from London.
Of the Bach violin compositions, Kennedy says: "I love the geezer, man. I'll be playing his Chaconne in D minor (BWV 1004), a set of variations which are just phenomenal." (It's been praised as one of the greatest pieces of music ever written). And on his own music, Kennedy searches for a comparison: "It's intimate stuff with acoustic guitars and the drummer just on the brushes, very quiet really: somewhere between the Modern Jazz Quartet and Fairport Convention."
Kennedy is one of the few classically-trained musician who feels comfortable playing jazz, particularly that distinctive sense of freedom that comes from improvisation. In his youth he played on stage with the great jazz violinist and improviser Stéphane Grappelli and he has created music in homage to the equally celebrated rock guitar improviser Jimi Hendrix.
It's rare to find someone who can move so easily between strict classical music and the spontaneity of jazz, I suggest. Why do so many classical musicians find it so difficult to play jazz or improvise? "I think it is because classical musicians are over-taught and over-trained," he shoots back. Improvisation is a lost art in classical music. Bach used to do it a lot but somehow it got lost in the eighteenth century. "Classical musicians now just read the notes. But you can't just play the notes: you've got to bring emotion to it. Jazz improvisation is like the real truth behind the music."
He might buy an argument with classical musicians over that one, but Kennedy is never far from controversy over his views. Even his off-hand remarks are likely to get him into trouble.
Take the controversy that erupted at last year's Proms concert, where Kennedy played with a group of Palestinian musicians. At the end of the performance, Kennedy told the Albert Hall audience: "We all know from experiencing this night of music that giving equality and getting rid of apartheid means there is a chance for amazing things to happen." His apartheid comments were interpreted as an attack on Israel's policies towards the Palestinians and were edited out of the BBC's television broadcast which went to air later. Kennedy furiously denounced the action as an attack on freedom of speech, a response lapped up by the British media.
In our phone interview Kennedy is more philosophical, saying he was only making a remark about how good it was to be able to play with Palestinians. "Then some baroness, who is not worthy of that name, got it into her head that my remark should be banned," he says, clearly annoyed that the comment had gotten out of hand. (He is referring to a former governor of the BBC, Baroness Deech, who said Kennedy's remarks were offensive and untrue and that there was no apartheid in Israel.)
But, really, should he have been surprised? Kennedy has spent a career developing a reputation for his "punk" attitudes to classical music, of debunking myths and being provocative about how he feels about music and life in general.
Ron Banks – The West Australian


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But if the user press ESC keyboard button all data that user put in my DialogBox will be lost.
Is there a method to intercept when user press "ESC" button and save all data of the DialogBox form ?

A: I would use QueryClose event on Form.
I see 3 ways how solve your task:

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*Save data into User Profile (see more details here: GetProfileDocument)

*Save data into notes.ini (more details here: SetEnvironmentString)

*Add a validation on QueryClose that will ask User if it's OK to close Dialog dialog. Parameter Continue controls if Dialog can be closed or not.

See screen with QueryClose event below.

NOTE: if you want to have different behavior on if user clicked Cancel button and Esc than make Cancel as a custom button, so it first set some values to dialog and than fire closing, in such way on QueryClose event you will know how user fired close dialog event.

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After Ryan Seacrest's former hair stylist at the E! Network accused him of sexual harassment this past week, his co-host on Live!, Kelly Ripa, came to his defense on their show. But despite her words of support, Seacrest and Ripa's friendship may not be as good as it seems on air.
According to Page Six, Ripa doesn't want to risk anything happening to her popular morning show, and she is livid because the allegations against Seacrest could potentially mess things up.
"They oversell their friendship…Her reputation is rolled up in this — this is her show. For Kelly, there's not a Plan B. She has to make a decision and rally around him," claims a source.
Seacrest has denied the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by Suzie Hardy, who claims that the American Idol host pushed her head towards his crotch while she tied his shoes. An anonymous source who also worked with Seacrest has corroborated Hardy's story, claiming that they witnessed the behavior multiple times.
He then stomped his own shoes on himself.
But, the next day, Ripa sang her co-host's praises when she declared in front of their audience that Seacrest is a privilege to work with and she adores him. She added that she is looking forward to seeing Seacrest on the red carpet at the Oscars, and he is a professional and great person. She concluded by saying that she is lucky to work with him every day.
Ripa famously had a meltdown when her former co-host Michael Strahan quit the show without giving her any kind of notice. And, since Seacrest joined her last May, he has done everything he can to stay on Ripa's good side, because she has a lot of pull on Live! and influence over him.
When Seacrest was supposed to appear on ABC's Good Morning America – which Strahan now co-hosts – to promote the new American Idol with Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, and Katy Perry, he pulled the plug on the appearance at the last second at Ripa's request.
Apparently, at the time, Kelly Ripa was worried about Ryan Seacrest's new affiliation with ABC and was worried that they will eventually take him away from Live! too.
Live! with Kelly and Ryan airs weekday mornings on syndication throughout the country.
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Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate Maajid Nawaz has received death threats after tweeting a cartoon.
An explanation of the background, the religious issues and the policy implications.
The furore show why the UK should never again have a blasphemy law.
A few days ago I was asked to sign a petition to defend Maajid Nawaz from the risk of de-selection as the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn. Until then I was unaware of any attemps to de-select him.
After signing the petition, I tweeted it, which led to various Twitter conversations about the issue, which I see as entirely one of freedom of speech.
In turn that led to BBC Radio London phoning me on the morning of Monday 27 January to ask me to participate in a telephone phone-in programme. Shortly after my radio appearance, Paul Goodman, the editor of Conservative Home asked me to write a piece for that website.
I wrote it the same evening and it was published on the morning of 28 January. It is reproduced below.
Mohammed Amin is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity.
That great inspirer of many Conservatives (about what not to believe) Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
I hope that is what we are now seeing with the way some Muslims react to some cartoons. Unlike the Danish cartoons of 2005, so far there have been no riots, either here or elsewhere. However endless numbers of tweets have been despatched into the ether.
Maajid is a Muslim Briton of Pakistani ethnicity who grew up in Southend and became a religiously motivated extremist in Hizb ut Tahrir, eventually spending four years in Egyptian prisons. His autobiography, "Radical: My journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening" is a compelling read; my review rates it highly.
After release, Maajid co-founded the anti-radicalisation think tank Quilliam along with Ed Husain, and is now its Director. In July 2013 he was selected as the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate to stand for Hampstead and Kilburn; a seat that was a three way marginal in 2010.
Jesus and Mo is a cartoon series that has been running since late 2005. In October 2013 at the London School of Economics freshers' fair, two atheist students wearing Jesus and Mo cartoons on their tee shirts were ordered by security personnel to cover up or leave the fair. After the subsequent threat of a lawsuit, the LSE apologised for this action.
On 12 January the BBC programme "The Big Questions" topic was "Should human rights always outweigh religious rights?" There were two students in the audience wearing a Jesus and Mo cartoon on their tee shirts; the BBC carefully avoided showing any close up of those tee shirts.
Afterwards, Maajid and others issued various tweets about the BBC's decision not to show the tee shirts close up. One in particular read as follows: "This Jesus & Mo @JandMo cartoon is not offensive & I'm sure God is greater than to feel threatened by it." Maajid also attached a picture of the cartoon. The original tweet and cartoon can be seen at this link.
Maajid suffered a hail of abuse on Twitter, which included death threats. I have looked at some of the tweets and in many cases the writers appear to be trying to stay inside UK law by hinting at the appropriateness of death rather than calling for Maajid to be killed in plain English. There is no point in my seeking to itemise the most serious tweets.
I personally only became aware of the issue on 20 January when I signed and then tweeted a change.org petition calling upon Nick Clegg to support Maajid which at the time of writing had just over 6,500 signatories.
There is also a change.org petition calling for Nick Clegg to remove Maajid as PPC for Hampstead and Kilburn which at the time of writing had about 20,600 signatories.
Muslims believe in the third commandment (Exodus 20:4-6) in quite a strong form. Almost all Muslims avoid creating representations of God, and most avoid creating representations of the prophet Muhammad or any other prophets, although there are some old paintings which show Muhammad in an appropriately respectful manner.
Some Muslims are vehemently opposed to the message of Quilliam that extremists such as Al Qaeda draw inspiration from an (incorrect) interpretation of Islam. Accordingly they welcome any opportunity to attack Maajid who is Quilliam's director.
Internal politics within the Liberal Democrat Party, with some Muslims simply not wanting Maajid to be their candidate, partly due to factor (1).
If Maajid has sufficiently upset a large number of Muslims in Hampstead and Kilburn, or more significantly in the rest of the country, that could be a reason for Nick Clegg to remove Maajid as a Lib Dem candidate. Conversely, Maajid may have drawn a large number of liberals towards him by taking a rational approach to this cartoon and by keeping calm under the pressure.
Either way, Maajid's value (positive or negative) as a Lib Dem candidate is a matter for his party and not something that the Conservative Party should get involved with.
As I wrote in my piece "Blasphemy should remain decriminalised" our country abolished the law of blasphemy in 2008. Incidents such as this one show why it should stay off the statute book, as we would otherwise regularly be plagued with attempts to use blasphemy law to stifle free speech.
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service should throw the book at anyone within the jurisdiction who has made death threats, either express or implied, against Maajid. The only test should be whether there is sufficient evidence to underpin a successful prosecution. Any threat maker who is employed by the public sector should be sacked for misconduct if at all possible.


Wesley Matthews scored 30 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers over the Minnesota Timberwolves 103-95 at the Rose Garden. Damian Lillard added 28 points and 8 assists. JJ Hickson had 14 points and 13 rebounds in the win. The Blazers improved to 6-6 record on the season as they begin their 7-game road trip on Sunday.


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Prince Philip Dies On Hospital Trolley
Posted date: August 15, 2012 In: News
The Duke of Edinburgh has died in a hospital corridor after he was left waiting on a trolley for 13 hours.
Prince Philip, 91, from Windsor, had been admitted to an NHS hospital after suffering a recurrence of a bladder infection this morning but, upon arrival, could not be found a bed.
The semi-retired tourist attraction was treated for his crippling pain while he waited on a collapsible trolley, but overstretched nursing staff failed to notice when he fell unconscious shortly after he had shouted out a sexist remark.
His devastated grandson, Prince Harry, 27, told The Taxman it should never have been allowed to happen.
"It was as if The Duke wasn't important, he was just left to rot behind a vending machine," Mr Harry said, his voice crackling with emotion.
"If there had been enough beds, or enough staff, I'm sure my grandpop could have been given his own wing, or at least a ward.
"I'd like to blame the hospital's management, but to be honest, it's our own fault for thinking we could be handed anything decent in life for free."
Mr Harry said his family would normally pay for private healthcare out of their own subjects' pockets, but had decided to try the National Health Service instead after they discovered its existence during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The third in line to the throne added: "The NHS sounded like a really good idea, but it looks like London 2012 spent more money advertising it than the government has on providing it."
The hospital responsible for making our monarch a widow has vowed not to carry out any kind of investigation into the death of Mr Philip.
A spokesman said: "It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that we don't have enough money left in our budget to cope with the demands of an aging population.
"Which is just as well, because we can no longer afford to employ any brain surgeons. Instead, our neurological operations are now being performed by volunteers.
"It's part of the 'Big Society'."
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Appearing on television yet more is also a further boost for my massive ego.
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Anthony Anderson returned as host for the annual NAACP Image Awards held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Jan. 15. The Starz drama "Power", ABC's comedy series "black-ish" and the motion pictures "Girls Trip" and "Get Out" all won multiple awards.
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The publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed more at the commercial sector.
This Handbook is effectively an almanac, as these are regular publications that contain information for the community and data including astronomical records, statistics such as tide time, eclipses, church festivals, timelines and much more.
This handbook is an immense reference book to the world of our ancestors over 100 years ago.


Opinion: Is too much screen time really that bad?
How often do you hear people questioning the amount of 'screentime' children have each day, or week?
I came across a study from the Pew Research Centre last week which found that two-thirds of parents are concerned about the amount of time their children spend in front of screens.
Children are growing up in a world surrounded by technology where computer coding comes as easy to kids today as making diamonds out of string did to me, and they get as much fun out of creating and editing videos as I did out of playing elastics.
Film imagery can actually seem realistic, far from my day when a, now obviously fake, mechanically moving shark terrorised the town of Amity or Falkor the Luckdragon slid through skies looking like nothing more than a poor effort of Photoshop.
But what the report also highlighted was while parents are concerned about their kids' screentime, their own screen time habits also came into question.
More than half of teens said they found their parents or caregivers to be distracted when the teens were trying to have a conversation with them.
The study also found most teens check messages or notifications as soon as they wake up, and just over half of parents did the same.
Experts say - quite obviously if you ask me - that parents have a big role in their kids' screen habits.
You can't complain about a child's screentime if you're ignoring them because you're 'sending an email', 'doing some work' or just socialising on your phone or device.
Many times I've taken my kids to the park and noticed parents sitting on a seat on their phones while their children play - no judgement here by the way, I do exactly the same. It's a time when I know they are active and entertained, and I have a small amount of much-needed time to myself.
But as soon as they want me to be involved, I am.
Children do as parents do. Children in families out running, biking or playing sports in their free time will likely learn the same habits, while those with parents who play video games, are on devices, or work on their computers at home will no doubt follow suit in some way - we just can't complain about screen time if they don't see any different.
In today's world, where car doors close at the touch of a button and video calling makes connecting around the world so much easier - it's no surprise youth cannot get enough of their iPads and devices.
But, it's not necessarily a bad thing either.
This is their world and they have to know how to live in their world - we don't want to halt their growth in technological areas just because it's not what we, as parents, experienced in our youth.


A new bill proposed in the Senate by Senator Whitmire seems to be the same as that of HB 1906.
The bill deals with lowering the surcharge for someone who successfully completes the DWI/Drug Court program. As I stated before, this only helps someone that completes the course, which can be 2 years or more later. This means that the bill does not really save the person much. It would be a better bill if the savings were upon entering the DWI court program. I would even be in support if those savings were only temporary and became permanent after successful completion. I think that would be a better idea.
relating to the amount of a surcharge assessed on conviction of certain intoxicated driver offenses on the driver's license of certain persons who complete a drug court program.
(2) has not been arrested for an offense under Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, during the 180 days after the date of the program completion.
(b) On a timely request by the defendant, the judge or magistrate shall enter the written findings under Subsection (a) and promptly send a copy of those findings to the Department of Public Safety accompanied by the court's order to reduce the amount of the annual surcharge assessed under Section 708.102, Transportation Code. On receipt of a copy of the written findings under this subsection, the Department of Public Safety shall reduce the amount of the surcharge assessed to the amount specified in the court's order.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a person who, on or after the effective date of this Act, enters a drug court program under Chapter 469, Health and Safety Code, regardless of whether the person committed the offense for which the person enters the program before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.


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More Money, Fewer Deals: Five Key Takeaways from Cisco's 2017 Report on Investment in Israeli Startups
Israeli startups in 2017 raised 13% more capital compared with the year before, but saw 9% fewer deals
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In 2017, the hyperactive Israeli startup ecosystem raised 13% more capital than in 2016—$4.72 billion in total—but saw 9% fewer investment rounds. This translated to higher average deal size. Further analysis reveals that a major contributing factor is the increase in growth-stage funding, attributed to the emergence of late-stage funds and the abundance of mega-rounds, such as $400 million raised by home design company Houzz, $250 million by ride-sharing company Via Transportation inc. and $140 million by cybersecurity startup Skybox Security Inc.
While growth-stage funding saw an increase, early-stage funding was down.
The top sectors were cybersecurity, autonomous cars, and artificial intelligence. Acquisitions were up, including two extraordinary deals that topped $1 billion, and more than 380 new investors joined funding rounds.
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"Startups and Venture Capital in Israel" is a report published by Cisco Investments in collaboration with Altshuler Shaham Benefits, Deloitte, LeumiTech, and Geektime. Here are the five top takeaways about investments in Israel.
1. Israeli artificial intelligence startups are leading a hot market
Israel is a global leader in artificial intelligence at a time when the buzz around the sector is reaching the levels of pre-2016 Big Data. Prospera Technologies, Logz.io, and Zebra Medical Vision Ltd. are a few of the many Israeli entries on CB Insights' list of top 100 global AI companies for 2017.
The report forecasts AI will become increasingly central to tech innovation and will eventually become a pervasive building block of technology stacks. Israeli AI startups raised $417 million in 2017 — a 760% increase from the year before— as investors were keen to find the next Mobileye, last year's mega-acquisition.
2. VC investments in cybersecurity companies broke records in Israel and worldwide
In Israel, VC investment in cybersecurity grew 40% to $801 million in 2017 and included large expansion rounds for companies such as Skybox Security, SentinelOne Inc., and Cybereason Inc. As network complexity increases and expands into IoT and cloud environments, the risk of serious cyber-attacks grows. We've seen an uptick in funding in a few sub-segments, such as endpoints protection and forensics, advanced threats mitigation and security operations automation and orchestration.
Interestingly, we've seen the formation of categories where Israeli entrepreneurs have a breadth of experience and deep domain know-how. In those domains, Israeli companies are innovation thought leaders. IoT security is one such category, with companies like Claroty Ltd., Cyber X, Inc., and Indegy Ltd. leading the industrial IoT front; Armis, Inc. and Axonius, Inc. in wireless; and Medigate in medical devices.
Many vendors are integrating machine learning and deep learning algorithms into their solutions. Demisto, Intezer Labs Ltd., and PerimeterX, Inc. are a few examples.
3. Transportation and autonomous vehicles are among Israel's busiest M&A sectors
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MX-80 SOUND C/D
Cant get this computer at work to search the threads so sorry if the the thread is redundant. But did anyone ever see them? They had such a unique guitar sound. I cant think of anyone else who sounds like that.
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 17 March 2003 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I mean, do you have any of the original records?
Like Hard Attack and Crowd Control and shit? Totally classic. Bruce Anderson's guitar playing is very original and rewarding of repeated listens.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 17 March 2003 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Have both But never saw em live in ny so cant envision the playing style on say "someday you'll be king" is just palming/muting and sliding up the neck or are those one string guitar solos and cheap peavy amps its such a great fixin to explode sound
They were great way back then, not so great now, or maybe it's me who's changed. Their last couple just didn't do it for me.
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 March 2003 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Fucking classic. Esp. the first three albums.
― hstencil, Monday, 17 March 2003 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Heh, in the UK there is also a v. right-wing political pundit called Bruce Anderson!
I like the dbl live Henry Kaiser alb that Anderson plays on ('Heart's Desire'?)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 17 March 2003 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, since another thread was started, time to revive this a bit. Any other fans around? I don't listen to them often but I do love them whenever I give them an ear, as you can see here, here and here. And they helped get me familiar with the Gulcher Records bunch.
Anyway, Chuck Eddy to thread (first heard about 'em through Stairway to Hell, I think...or was it Trouser Press?)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Of the older stuff, I've only heard the two Ralph albums. I SUSPECT that the earlier records are even better. True?
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 7 May 2004 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
was gonna post this on the other thread.
Thomas, you can get essentially everything you need on two CDs. The Big Hits/Hard Attack CD and the Out of Control CD on Atavistic. The former is their first EP and LP, and the latter is their 2nd and 3rd lps (originally recorded for Ralph) on 1 CD.
Personally, I'd go with Out of Control first. I like the songs slightly better on those later records. But the group interplay and Bruce Anderson's skin-flaying guitar is gloriously present across all their recorded work. But yeah, buy those two CDs - which can usually be found fairly cheaply anyway - and you've pretty much got it covered.
I don't care so much for the 90s era stuff, but god bless 'em for keepin' on keepin' on. I saw 'em play live in my old college radio station's record library and they were a lot of fun. Really cool guys.
I can't tell if I was trying to be funny or not with my original comment up there.
Also, Myonga Von Bontee to thread.
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Out of the Tunnel
2. Hard Attack/Big Hits
3. Crowd Control
4. Any Half-Life or Bruce Anderson solo stuff you can track down.
― chuck, Friday, 7 May 2004 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I really really should check them out more throroughly
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Out of the Tunnel: Bought it on a rave review in Creem magazine. Introduced at a Friday night drinking party where it proved a mighty bummer to most in attendance. Frankly, though, the concept of MX-80 Sound on this record was a lot better than the execution; it was a bit disappointing and didn't hold up for me under repeated listens. But it remains tuneless loud guitar noise unlike anything else at the time.
Crowd Control: Initially, I liked it more because it sounded like MX-80 were becoming a more conventional hard rock band. Then I realized I liked them noiser, more tuneless and louder best.
― George Smith, Friday, 7 May 2004 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
You should investigate this related subject, too, while you're at it:
What is John (Cougar) Mellancamp's best song?
I dig O-Type, but am prepared to be the only guy who does
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
CLASSIC: Big Hits, Hard Attack, Out of the Tunnel, Crowd Control, and the "Have Another Drink" 7".
HALF UNDERWATER: Das Love Boot (although it sounds good at the moment under a live stream of Donald Rumsfeld's inventive denials)
Simultaneously one of the best art rock and hard rock bands to come from Midwest. They're one of prime Sonic Youth's finest influences.
Also check out Bloomington's neurotic Dancing Cigarettes if MX-80's just too macho for your pouch. I even liked some songs on an MX-related Angel Corpus Christi CD that came from Geffen about ten years ago.
You really should check them out more thoroughly.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I couldn't get with the one O-Type CD I had. Believe me, I wanted to, but I thought it was a pretty tough slog. I'd kind of like to hear it again, actually, as this was a few years ago and I sold it.
There were from Bloomington, Indiana? Heh heh, maybe there's something in the water about discordant rock bands there. One of my current fave rock band is Racebannon from the same town.
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 May 2004 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
there is indeed something in the water!!
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Did the tracks from the "Subterranean Modern" Ralph Records compilation turn up anywhere later, on CD?
"Lady in Pain" and "Possessed" are amazing... (And then there's the incredible Chrome tracks on that comp as well.)
― jwd, Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, enough leftover PCB-sludge from the Westinghouse Corp to warrant eight separate federal Superfund clean-up sites, thus inspiring the MX80 song "Tidal Wave."
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.mx-80.com/images/Hifi1.jpg
I first heard about 'em in the SPIN Alternative Guide, then Stairway To Hell. I enjoy them in small doses, which is ironic since I've got the Big Hits/Hard Attack cd and the Crowd Control one. Entertaining but not crucial.
I think Bloomington pride is why I'm keeping these albums around.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 May 2004 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
plus I got them on the serious cheap tip at Ameoba records in berkeley.
Hey, that's *Edge of the World* by the Mekons next to *Hard Attack* in that *Hi Fidelty* photo, I think. (One of my favorite descriptions in Stairway to Hell, by the way, is how I say Vertical Slit sounded like a cross between *Hard Attack* by MX-80 and *Hard Attack* by Dust, though I assume almost nobody knew what I was talking about!)
― chuck, Saturday, 8 May 2004 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Firing up the burner right now "Big/Hits Heart Attack" then "Out Of Control". How's the live one "Always Leave'em Wanting Less and "I've Seen Enough"?
― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
plus I got them on the serious cheap tip at Ameoba records in berkeley
...one of the owners/founders of which store was the drummer for said band in their late-80s incarnation.
― kdjeifw@ijfd, Sunday, 9 May 2004 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link
What's the word on the 1987 "Existential Lover" cassette? Trouser Press says "simmers constantly with psychotic abandon...a real edge-of-your-seat listen." Wow.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 9 May 2004 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, is there really any need for me to weigh in with my opinion? As Alex has his Killing Joke and Ned has his MBV, I have MX-80! (Even as I regretfully admit that their post-vinyl output has been relatively undistinguished.) It's truly tiresome, the number of times I've referred to Hard Attack as my alltime favourite LP. And adding the debut "Big Hits" 7" to the CD reissue could only make it better. (Can't imagine how foreign the midwestern USA must've seemed to outsiders, with Pere Ubu and Debris, in addition to MX-80, all making their vinyl debuts in that bicentennial first-year-of-punk. Neither New York nor London produced anything so peculiar at the time.) Out Of The Tunnel and Crowd Control were less chaotic (down one drummer, from two) but even
louder and harder. Those two are compiled on the cleverly-titled Out Of Control.
Anyway, I could bore you all even more with thousands of words of praise, but I'd probably get fired. So let me just second what my man Broheems has to say: Big Hits/Hard Attack and Out Of Control compile the three LPs and EP and are essential. Not far behind (in my opinion) is the all-instrumental Das Love Boot compilation. (One of the few compilations I've heard that advance BACKWARD in time, ie. oldest stuff last.) There's a bit of overlap, but it's worth hearing especially for the raging early live-in-Bloomington tracks. (Lotsa trademark phasers-on-stun guitar from the incomparable Bruce Anderson here.) After those, you're on your own: Just because I'll buy ANYTHING with MX-80's trademark radar-scope logo (and most anything with a past or present bandmember) is no reason you should do the same! But the endless parade of side-projects (Half-Life, O-Type, Gizzards, more) all contain moments of hair-raising brilliance.
Chuck: I was the proud owner of both "Hard Attacks" a year before "Stairway To Hell" was published! But (along with Richard Riegel) you get full credit for hipping me to the band in the first place.
Ian: "Existential Lover" is good-but-not-great. Good songs sabotaged by the lack of a human drummer and some listless Rich Stim vocals. No doubt law school was consuming the bulk of his energy.
brg30: I think "Always Leave 'em...", like most live MX-80, suffers from Stim's inability to effectively sing & play at the same time. The great live stuff from the all-instrumental "Das Love Boat" is the exception that kinda proves the rule.
jwd: Of the "Subterranean Modern" tracks, only "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" has made it to CD, on "Das Love Boat." Minor trivia note: "San Francisco" is the only MX-80 cover of an actual song that's NOT a TV/movie theme! (At least, until "We're An American Band" is released.)
Finally, Hard Attack and Das Love Boat may be deleted, so I'll gladly burn copies for anyone curious enough to pay for postage. This band, and its impenetrable roadblock-of-sound demands to be heard!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
bump for owen
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I lived in Bloomington in the 80's but never got to see them. Big Hits is my favorite.
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, they'd abandoned Bloomingdale for Frisco and the welcoming arms of Ralph (Records) by '78 anyways.
And in case I haven't gotten my tiresome message through:
http://www.mx-80.com/images/discography/HardAttack.jpg
...greatest album evah!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:31 (sixteen years ago) link
six months pass...
great band, but the cover arts of their record is the worst ever.
MoB+Destroy all monsters+Flipper (singing style)+Stooges of course.
― reviving, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
now that i cant stop listening to flipper, imna take another swing at out of the tunnel, which has previously never quite clicked.
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Myonga, can you comment on the "different mix Dutch version" of Hard Attack? Do you have that?
Also not mentioned on this thread is a great live album "1977 Live At The Library 1978" that was recorded when they were still in B-ton. The newly reconstituted Gulcher label put it out a few years back.
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know whether everyone is picking up on this news so I'll xpost:
Dave Mahoney RIP
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
-- sleeve
I wish I had that! One showed up on ebay and I kicked myself for seeing it too late.
From the band's Forced Exposure interview:
FE: Is it true that the Dutch pressing has a different mix? Does that really exist?
Dale: Yeah. It's the original mix in fact.
Bruce: Basically, what happened is that the A&R person who signed us up, Howard Thompson, decided there wasn't enough compression on it. So he compressed it and gave it a "vocal" mix.
I read somewhere that the CD reissue reverted to the original mix. But I've played both the LP and CD over 1000 times and can't tell the difference, so either that source was misinformed or my ears just aren't that great. (On the other hand, I haven't played the vinyl since the CD was released 11 years ago, so maybe it's my memory that's at fault. Who knows?)
(Oh, and thanks for posting that link, Ned.)
― Scott Bloomfield (the former MVB) (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 4 May 2006 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Did people pick up the Chinaboise release on Gulcher (sometime in the last year/two)? Great proto-MX-80 Sound, like 'MX-80 'Round the Campfire, with Girls and Acoustic Guitars'. Very fun, a little Modern Loversish.
As for MX-80 Sound, I prefer the two-drum attack sound, but still love the early 80s releases.
Any fans of Debris? I can't ever quite get into them as much, but they definitely share some qualities with MX-80 Sound.
― I.M. (I.M.), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
three years pass...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ujxTJoMhroU/SUwlL8MGtZI/AAAAAAAAAnI/Wcbf3lhiWEY/s1600-h/MX-80+Sound%234.jpg
― the descent of mayne (am0n), Saturday, 27 February 2010 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
But life couldn't be lusher
Now that I've got an ice crusher
CRUSHED! ICE!
― Big Drug Dan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 February 2012 07:03 (nine years ago) link
Yeah good band. I got introduced to them by the Forcedexposure cover feature. Have the Atavistic cds plus a few live sets that were Dimed some time back.
Also love Debris, Vertical Slit and wish I knew my way through what else is out there along the same lines.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 25 February 2012 10:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIHBehzE5l8
For a split second in the end, many get an idea what their stage presence was.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 07:15 (nine years ago) link
Is that the only video from the time? It was the only one pre-92 I could find on youtube when I looked last week.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:18 (nine years ago) link
Yep, I believe that's the only video record of that band afaik.
(But their entire '77 "Live At The Library" show was recorded on videotape! That's just gotta be released someday, right?)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Have Hard Attack on vinyl
Anybody rec. me a decent table to play it on apart from snooker, billiards or table tennis etc. Sorry
These chaps were fucking weird to me. At least 5 years ahead and from bumfuck too. Excellent
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:15 (nine years ago) link
― Stevolende, Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:04 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good question, cuz the stuff that i associate most closely with MX-80 sound and the other bands stevolende mentions tends to much less aggressively avant: simply saucer, fungus brains/venom p. stinger, electric eels, rocket from the tombs, etc. would love to think there's a bunch more seriously art & noise damaged alien punk out there. i mean, i guess chrome qualify, but they're a good deal more well-known than MX-80.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Twinkeyz!
their entire '77 "Live At The Library" show was recorded on videotape! That's just gotta be released someday, right?)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:19 (4 hours ago)
As a former Bloomington resident, I can almost guarantee you that this video is languishing in the cable access archives in the Bloomington Public Library. For more info you might want to write the folks at MFT Archives in Indiana, http://musicalfamilytree.ning.com/
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 22:59 (nine years ago) link
just found this in the comments about MX80 Sound at a blog called
North Fork sound
http://northforksound.blogspot.com/2008/12/mx-80-sound.html
the blog writer compares the English & Dutch versions of Hard Attack and says
"ok, it's the same mix but the UK pressing has more high/mid (in the 8 - 10KHz, I would guess) on it, making Rich's voice a bit more 'present' and the overall sound perhaps a little thinner. One could argue, however, that the guitar has a touch more 'bite' to it and the drums sound crisper. Both sound fantastic on headphones cranked up loud!"
So there's the answer to a question I think gets asked in the thread above.
― Stevolende, Friday, 2 March 2012 10:30 (nine years ago) link
*head explodes*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtqsjaU3MPI
velmawallenrod 1 week ago
I'm currently working on the next installment of the MX-80 reissue series, and it will feature a full album's worth of entirely unreleased material from their (vast) vaults. The number of compositions they came up with in a several year period, and jettisoning most of them as they went, is astonishing. It should be released on the Superior Viaduct label in a few months, after the vinyl reissue of the re-mixed "Hard Attack" (which is due out shortly... check their web site for updates).
*head explodes again*
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:30 (eight years ago) link
vinyl reissue of the re-mixed "Hard Attack"
aw hell yeah! great news.
― sleeve, Sunday, 7 April 2013 18:09 (eight years ago) link
As someone who owns 4 minutely different vinyl versions of "Hard Attack" (plus a fifth for good measure), I concur
yeah shit yeah
― contenderizer, Sunday, 7 April 2013 19:34 (eight years ago) link
three months pass...
Picked up the "Hard Attack" reissue lp this wknd, sounds great
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 22 July 2013 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Man, can't wait for unreleased MX-80 Sound. The Chinaboise thing is pretty underrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7BIDXQmo5A
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 00:01 (eight years ago) link
MX-80 SOUND - Hard Attack 2CD
Debut album restored from the original analog tapes (also available in vinyl edition) + 19 unreleased songs from 1976-1978.
http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/cds/products/mx-80-sound-hard-attack-2cd
omg, this release is practically everything it could've been!
It was 18 years from the release of "Hard Attack" until its first CD reissue, and here it is again another 18 years after that. And with a slightly different, new bass-heavy mix, some may think it sounds even better this time around. I'm not necessarily among them ("Civilized/Demeyes" in particular sounds quite a bit bonier than every other mix I've heard), but I do appreciate being able to really HEAR Dale's bass lines for the first time. The stuff he plays on "Summer '77" in particular is a revelation. (Also, there's no "Sad Girls" on this edition like the '95 Atavistic added to theirs, but I guess the integrity of the original LP is preserved this way.)
And the bonus stuff on the second disc! Over an hour of it, live/studio/rehearsals recorded from '76-78, in good-to-great audio and uniformly tighhht performance. Some highlights:
"Felonious Funk", "Stranger's Friend" - Outtakes from the "Hard Attack" sessions (all two days of them), these were previously heard on the "Live At The Library" CD, but it's lovely hearing 'em clearly with that highwire Gilfoy Studio sound. Also worth noting: the lyrics are completely different this time around, which maybe demonstrates just how fluid the lyrics could be, since both were recorded in April of '77. (How much material did these guys HAVE, anyways?)
"Rockin' Robots" - I've always called the 1976-79 edition of this band my favourite American band ever (or close enough) and the dual drum team of Jeff Armour/Dave Mahoney are the reason why - I seriously can't think of another drum team that sounds like 'em, that incomparable tight looseness. Can't tell what was rehearsed, what was improvised, and what was a brilliant mistake. This track gives a good example of what I mean.
"Sit Down" - This, better than the two or three imitation-Henny Youngman my-wife's-cooking bits scattered throughout the disc, is one of the best displays of Rich Stim's crackpot sense of humour: a "Tighten Up" styled little R&B jam with Rich attempting some JB-style "huh!"s and pseudo-lecturing some hypothetical guy in the crowd who wants to take his shirt off and dance to "come on, siddown. Hey SIT DOWN!" Plus he throws in some excellent "Super Bad"-style free alto blowing.
"What The..." Along with "Tidal Wave" and "Someday You'll Be King", the most purely Punk Rock they ever got. (Wish I could make out a single word. Or find this song in my "How Can..." lyric book.)
"Rock Mini", "Spoonfight" - BRUCE FUCKIN' ANDERSON YOU ARE MY GUITAR GOD
And that's about 25 minutes of this!
Maybe the most amazing thing about this document is just how much material these guys had...could've released full LPs of new songs each year between their first and 2nd full albums - as many as Devo, and one more than Television, to name two bands who these guys have reminded me of for at least a song or two at a time. (Others are Ubu, Chrome, minutemen, Burma, B-52s, Tubeway Army, etc etc.)
So happy to see the circle-p next to the band's name on the back cover - that suggests that they own all their own stuff, and that we might see more archival releases someday. (Again: the material that these guys had! There are still two dozen songs in that songbook that have never surfaced.) Would love to see a box set of those legendary Monroe County Public Library gigs, or at least that '76 one from the Time Out Tavern. Until then I'll thank the boys for this labour of love. (Oh yeah, there's some nice live-in-the-living room and elsewhere photos. And a dedication to both Jeff Armour and Dave Mahoney...so I guess Jeff is dead, too. sadly. RIP)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:07 (eight years ago) link
...so I guess nobody else is interested in this, yes?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Oh I am definitely interested in vinyl reissue of Hard Attack.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:50 (eight years ago) link
i was bummed that i missed the release show
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:52 (eight years ago) link
Have been trying to work out if I need it if I already have the Atavistic version plus Live At The Library. Hadn't heard about bass orientated remixing or anything.
Is much of Live at the Library on there?
Label did a good job with the Devo Hardcore set so might look into this if I get some dosh.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:14 (eight years ago) link
The vinyl reissue looks and sounds awesome. I am sure I will pick up the cd at some point.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:15 (eight years ago) link
slightly annoying that the download code you get with the vinyl doesn't give you the bonus tracks from the double cd...
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:21 (eight years ago) link
The atavistic cd is mis-tracked, though that affects the single more. Remastered, so of course more gain now, but the bass is more prominent as well. Atavistic CD gives you "Sad Girls" as a bonus.
About a dozen or so tracks from various library gigs, but nothing repeated from the 2002 Live At The Library 1977-78 release on Gulcher...although both releases do feature tracks from a particular May '78 show. xpost to Stevo
Thanks, does sound pretty necessary then.
five years pass...
Really cool long piece about the band, bringing them up to the present day
https://www.bynwr.com/articles/long-distance-information
I tracked down 2015's "So Funny" which passed me by (it's on bandcamp) and it is very cool
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 4 November 2019 14:45 (two years ago) link
thanks the the bump, I need to track down that expanded Hard Attack reissue
― Book Doula (sleeve), Monday, 4 November 2019 15:24 (two years ago) link
I knew a few of those guys for quite a while before I knew they had been in this band. I think it was shortly after Weasel moved to Oakland ... and he told me about MX80 and asked if I knew any of these people, and he listed a couple names. And my response was like ... Dale? The guy that runs that movie theater in Berkeley?
― sarahell, Monday, 4 November 2019 18:19 (two years ago) link
RIP Bruce Anderson.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 03:29 (one week ago) link
So sad! Now that this makes me finally think to check, tons of stuff on their Bandcamp.
― dow, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 04:02 (one week ago) link
A good tribute to the band from Albini:
https://t.co/qc9vahnA12
— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) January 12, 2022
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 04:12 (one week ago) link
Arrgh this is shit news indeed. Still remember my amazement when I heard Hard Attack for the first time
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:13 (one week ago) link
Bruce worked at Amoeba at the same time I did in '00-01. I don't think I've crossed paths with him since then but he really made me laugh. They were like THE Amoeba band.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:34 (one week ago) link
RIP - one of a kind!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:54 (one week ago) link
total legend and one of Bloomington's legends especially, their shadow loomed large
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:04 (one week ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiGnDTPrFE
One of my favourite guitarists ever
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:19 (one week ago) link
Found out that Live At the Library was on Spotify earlier but the band has about 4 different listings and they don't seem to be interconnected on the site MX-80, MX-80 Sound, MX80 Sound etc
Would be good if the cd of Live At the library was reissued. Cos i think it's great stuff.
Also remember the Forcedexposure cover story being really good and probably my introduction to the band.
I wound up with a Di leva cd in the mid 90s and then found out that she was married to one of the 2 guitarists but I can't remember which
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:45 (one week ago) link