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Q: Solaris network configuration (poor performance) I am wondering if there is anything in the Solaris 10 configuration that I may be able to change to resolve a strange network performance issue I'm facing.
I have two Solaris 10 machines, both of which communicate with a 3rd. Between the first and third, I see the following network transfer performance:
me@sever_three:/var/adm> netio -t server_one

NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel

TCP connection established.
Packet size  1k bytes:  3652 KByte/s Tx,  3012 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  2k bytes:  13977 KByte/s Tx,  10910 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  4k bytes:  5604 KByte/s Tx,  14780 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  8k bytes:  52212 KByte/s Tx,  30345 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes:  25432 KByte/s Tx,  38524 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes:  41940 KByte/s Tx,  52256 KByte/s Rx.

while to the second I see:
me@server_three:/var/adm> netio -t server_two

NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel

TCP connection established.
Packet size  1k bytes:  3804 KByte/s Tx,  400 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  2k bytes:  16477 KByte/s Tx,  1349 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  4k bytes:  76230 KByte/s Tx,  1384 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size  8k bytes:  33076 KByte/s Tx,  6782 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes:  108829 KByte/s Tx,  111466 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes:  112070 KByte/s Tx,  112098 KByte/s Rx.

Now, we are investigating cabling and routers, but I was wondering, is there any Solaris 10 configuration that might be throttling or otherwise impacting the performance of the second server (at the 1Kb packet size).
The machines are 1 hop distance from each other, directly connected through a router. Network statistics show no obvious errors, though if anyone has a good way to check let me know.

A: Have you checked that the speed and duplex are set correctly on server_one (and its switch)?  Are server_one and server_two on the same network? Do they talk to server_three over the same interface? Do you experience the same performance issues between server_one and server_two?


Its amazing how we transition from busy to busier and then to even more so. I didn't realize at all how soon two weeks have passed and I didn't get a chance to think about my next post. Now when I am trying to write something, I felt its been such long time.
May be this is a very womanly thing but after spending my whole day in office, I feel relieved when I enter my home, especially in my kitchen. My kitchen feels like a room full of treasures. You select what gems you want from the treasure chest and then make your own jewellery.
Beat the eggs and the sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Break the chocolate into small pieces and then melt with butter in a Bain-marie until it forms a thick pool of chocolate and no lumps remaining. Add the flour in to the egg and sugar mixture and whisk it well using an electronic whisker. Now add the chocolate in to the mix and using a wooden spoon give the mixture a good stir. Last but not the least add the mixed nuts to the mixture and bake it the the oven for 20 minutes.
Cool it in a rack for some time then cut them in to squares and serve with tea or coffee. Enjoy.
Once upon a time in a land far far away there lived a little girl. She lived in a little cottage and had a little garden full of strawberries, peaches, apricots pineapple and many more fruits and vegetables. Near her little cottage there were two small springs each had melted chocolate flowing through them. One was dark chocolate and the other one was white. On a bright sunny day she would go to her garden, hand pick some fresh fruits and get two bucket full of chocolates and make little delights for the afternoon market in the village.
The little girl decided to dress the strawberries in a suit with a bow. Some of the apricots in white dress with dark laces decorated on them and some in dark hat. Let the well dressed fruits relax for sometime and then she took them to the market.


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La chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Crana, frazione di Onsernone in Canton Ticino, venne eretto nel 1676. Le due cappelle laterali furono aggiunte nel biennio 1821-1822. Il campanile è del 1834.

Tra il 1886 ed il 1905 fu aggiunta la parte finale del coro, prolungata la navata, inserito un soffitto piano di gesso, e terminata la facciata, scandita da lesene che reggono un timpano rettangolare affrescato con i due Santi titolari.

Il soffitto della navata reca un ampio dipinto con la "Majestas Domini" del 1991, dipinta da Angelo Celsi.

Note

Bibliografia
 Giovanni Sarinelli, La Diocesi di Lugano. Guida del clero, La Buona Stampa, Lugano 1931.
 Adolfo Caldelari, Arte e Storia nel Ticino, ETT, Locarno 1975.
 Bernhard Anderes, Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Porza-Lugano 1980, 234-235.
 AA.VV., Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, 226.

Pietro e Paolo
Onsernone

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package org.apache.camel.component.jcr;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.util.Calendar;

import javax.jcr.Value;

import org.apache.camel.TypeConverter;
import org.apache.camel.impl.converter.DefaultTypeConverter;
import org.apache.camel.impl.engine.DefaultPackageScanClassResolver;
import org.apache.camel.spi.Injector;
import org.apache.camel.support.ObjectHelper;
import org.apache.camel.support.service.ServiceHelper;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.value.BinaryValue;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.value.BooleanValue;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.value.DateValue;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.value.StringValue;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

/**
 * Tests for JCR type conversions ({@link JcrConverter})
 */
public class JcrConverterTest {

    protected TypeConverter converter;

    @BeforeEach
    public void init() {
        converter = new DefaultTypeConverter(
                new DefaultPackageScanClassResolver(),
                new Injector() {
                    @Override
                    public <T> T newInstance(Class<T> type) {
                        return newInstance(type, true);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public <T> T newInstance(Class<T> type, String factoryMethod) {
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public <T> T newInstance(Class<T> type, boolean postProcessBean) {
                        return ObjectHelper.newInstance(type);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean supportsAutoWiring() {
                        return false;
                    }
                }, true);
        ServiceHelper.startService(converter);
    }

    @Test
    public void testBooleanValueConverter() {
        assertJcrConverterAvailable(BooleanValue.class, Boolean.TRUE);
    }

    @Test
    public void testBinaryValueConverter() {
        assertJcrConverterAvailable(BinaryValue.class, new ByteArrayInputStream("test".getBytes()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testDateValueConverter() {
        assertJcrConverterAvailable(DateValue.class, Calendar.getInstance());
    }

    @Test
    public void testStringValueConverter() {
        assertJcrConverterAvailable(StringValue.class, "plain text");
    }

    private void assertJcrConverterAvailable(Class<?> expected, Object object) {
        Value value = converter.convertTo(Value.class, object);
        assertNotNull(value);
        assertTrue(expected.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass()));
    }

}

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Q: Analytical solution to coupled nonlinear ODEs I am looking to solve several coupled nonlinear ODEs like this one:
$\hspace{20mm} \frac{d x(t)}{dt} = C_1 \cdot x(t) + C_2 \cdot y(t) + C_3\cdot (x(t)^2 + y(t)^2) x(t),$
$\hspace{20mm} \frac{d y(t)}{dt} = C_1 \cdot y(t) - C_2 \cdot x(t) + C_3\cdot (x(t)^2 + y(t)^2) y(t).$
I have tried multiplying the first by $y(t)$ and the second by $x(t)$ and adding them or subtracting them, but with no luck.
I have noticed that each system is almost symmetrical, is there any general procedure for such systems? If not, how do I solve this system?

Context
I am looking into Rain-Wind induced vibrations of stay cables. I am trying to approximate the model I have derived using a Multiple Time-Scale Perturbation Analysis. During this analysis, many coupled nonlinear ODEs need to be solved, which are almost symmetrical.

A: We have two coupled ODEs
$$\dot x = c_1 x + c_2 y + c_3 \left( x^2 + y^2 \right) x$$
$$\dot y = c_1 y - c_2 x + c_3 \left( x^2 + y^2 \right) y$$
Multiplying the first ODE by $x$, the second ODE by $y$, and adding them, we get
$$x \dot x + y \dot y = c_1 \left( x^2 + y^2 \right) + c_3 \left( x^2 + y^2 \right)^2$$
Let $r^2 := x^2 + y^2$. Differentiating, we get $2 r \dot r = 2 x \dot x + 2 y \dot y$. Thus, we have the ODE
$$r \dot r = c_1 r^2 + c_3 r^4$$
Dividing both sides by $r$, we get
$$\dot r = c_1 r + c_3 r^3$$
Integrating,
$$r (t) = \sqrt{\frac{c_1}{\left(c_3 + \frac{c_1}{r_0^2}\right) e^{-2 c_1 t} - c_3}}$$
Going back to the original system of ODEs, multiplying the first ODE by $y$, the second ODE by $x$, and subtracting them, we get
$$\dot x y - x \dot y = c_2 \left( y^2 + x^2 \right)$$
Dividing both sides by $x^2$, we get
$$\frac{x \dot y - \dot x y}{x^2} = - c_2 \left(\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)^2 + 1\right)$$
Note that the left-hand side is the derivative of $\frac{y}{x}$. Let $\xi := \frac{y}{x} = \tan (\theta)$. We then obtain the ODE
$$\dot \xi = - c_2 \left( \xi^2 + 1 \right)$$
Integrating,
$$\arctan (\xi) = \arctan(\xi_0) - c_2 t$$
Since $\theta = \arctan (\xi)$, we have
$$\theta (t) = \theta_0 - c_2 t$$
To summarize, we transform the original system of two coupled nonlinear ODEs into a system of two decoupled polynomial ODEs
$$\begin{aligned} \dot r &= c_1 r + c_3 r^3 \\ \dot \xi &= - c_2 \left( \xi^2 + 1 \right) \end{aligned}$$
and then integrate. Once we have $r$ and $\xi$, we have $r$ and $\theta$. We then use $x = r \cos (\theta)$ and $y = r \sin (\theta)$ to go from polar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates.

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Fjöldi réttmætisathugana hafa verið gerðar á ASEBA matslistunum í mörgum þjóðlöndum, þar á meðal út frá íslenskum gögnum. Notendum til upplýsingar og fróðleiks er hér listi yfir hluta þeirra heimilda sem varða efnið, út frá leitarorðinu "réttmæti (validity)"´í gagnagrunni ASEBA á árunum 1990-2006.
Ivanova, M.Y., Achenbach, T.M., Rescorla, L.A., Dumenci, L., Almqvist, F., Bilenberg, N., Bird, H., Broberg, A.G., Dobrean, A., Döpfner, M., Erol, N., Forns, M., Hannesdottir, H., Kanbayashi, Y., Lambert, M.C., Leung, P., Minaei, A., Mulatu, M.S., Novik, T., Oh, K.J., Roussos, A., Sawyer, M., Simsek, Z., Steinhausen, H.C., Weintraub, S., Winkler Metzke, C., Wolanczyk, T., Zilber, N., Zukauskiene, R., Verhulst, F.C. (2007). The generalizability of the Youth Self-Report syndrome structure in 23 societies. J Consult Clin Psychol, 2007; 75(5), 729-38.
As a basis for theories of psychopathology, clinical psychology and related disciplines need soundtaxonomies that are generalizable across diverse populations. To test the generalizability of a statisticallyderived 8-syndrome taxonomic model for youth psychopathology, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed on the Youth Self-Report (T. M. Achenbach & L. A. Rescorla, 2001) completed by 30,243 youths 11-18 years old from 23 societies. The 8-syndrome taxonomic model met criteria for goodfit to the data from each society. This was consistent with findings for the parent-completed ChildBehavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) and the teacher-completed Teacher's Report Form(Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) from many societies. Separate CFAs by gender and age group supportedthe 8-syndrome model for boys and girls and for younger and older youths within individual societies.The findings provide initial support for the taxonomic generalizability of the 8-syndrome model across very diverse societies, both genders, and 2 age groups.
Greininn í heild sinni er að finna hér.
Ivanova, M.Y., Achenbach, T.M., Rescorla, L.A., Dumenci, L. Almqvist, F., Bathiche, M. et al. (2007). Testing the Teacher's Report Form syndromes in 20 societies. School Psychology Review, 36, 468-483.
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If everyone else can do it, why can't I?
If Ty Wiberg, a 13-year-old from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, has one guiding principle in life, that might be the one.
The Chippewa Falls Middle School student has undergone 16 surgeries, walks with braces and uses a wheelchair for distance. Ty was born with spina bifida, a spinal cord malformation. He also suffers from hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain for which a tube-like shunt drains excess fluid. And he has limited sensation from the knees down, among other issues.
Not that any of that is slowing him down.
Ty mono-skis, distance races with his wheelchair, scuba dives, plays wheelchair basketball, swims and does karate. This past winter, he spent a week at a downhill ski camp in Colorado for kids with disabilities and injured veterans. This spring, he recently received his black belt in karate.
"I think his tenacity and his ability to just keep going and keep a positive attitude when things are rough is pretty amazing," says Michele Wiberg, Ty's mother.
His father, Al, agrees. "That's the biggest thing that I see with Ty, too, is he always wants to try new things. 'If everyone else can do it, why can't I?'" Al says.
Ty's parents learned they were going to have a son with spina bifida during a routine ultrasound and were warned he may never walk. Spina bifida occurs in utero when the neural tube fails to properly close — potentially damaging the spinal cord and causing a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities.
"The news was pretty devastating for us, because you don't ever want anything to be wrong with your child," Michele recalls. "But something deep down inside as a mom said, 'No, he'll be able to walk.'"
Still, he's surprised everyone with what he's been able to accomplish. In addition to all Ty's extracurricular activities — "I really like doing stuff outdoors," he says — he also speaks publicly about living with limitations.
Jane Byrd, M.D., is Ty's Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine physician at Mayo Clinic Health System – Chippewa Valley in Chippewa Falls. She's known Ty since birth and says he's "an inspiration to everybody, whether or not he had spina bifida." Spina bifida can often impact patients' independence and activity, but Dr. Byrd notes that Ty's disability certainly isn't limiting him. "He's probably more active than a number of children I have who have no underlying disabilities," she says.
Ty receives his general medical care locally and specialized care from the Spina Bifida Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, an integrated clinic where patients can see all the specialists relevant for their care in one place and on one day. This typically includes Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Orthopedic Surgery; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Physical Therapy; Occupational Therapy; Social Services; Urology; and Dietetics.
Sherilyn Driscoll, M.D., Ty's Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician, says she and her Mayo Clinic colleagues communicate regularly, ensuring a coordinated, cohesive care plan is in place. The communication and coordination extends to Ty's doctors back home.
"We love Dr. Byrd, and the collaboration between Mayo Clinic Health System, and the Spina Bifida Clinic in Rochester is just amazing," Michele adds. "I wouldn't want my son to go anywhere else."


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200Devin is Upon Us
So I have been pretty lax with the updates thru all these holidays but rest assured I'm going to have something for your New Years Day Hang Over. New Years Eve is the 2nd Anniversary of HoustonSoReal aqnd I plan to spend all night on it again, like I did 2 years ago. I have some new music, photos and YouTubage I haven't posted up yet. Plus a full on holiday report from headquarters with stories of how I drank Genny Cream Ale, ate apple pie for breakfast and dchocolate peanut butter balls for lunch. I'm also going to tell you that my mother bought me boxer shorts with weed leafs all over them for Christmas and a DVD player I plan to set to region 2 so I can watch DVD's from other places on the TV not just the computer. Yeah man it's gonna be off the chain believe me. I got stories and such fo dat ass. And music. And videos.
And I am also going to outline my New Years resolutions which will be magnanimous undertakings but fuck it.
I'm also going to strive to be easier to work with. I think I just lost another job this week because I can't keep my mouth shut when editors start acting like Dilberts.
Why must everything have a formula? Why are these formulas created by the most boring of our society? Why are the most boring of our society in charge? In the nation that exists in my mind, drunks rule and stoners guard the roost.
Abacuses and slide rules for everyone.
And Genny Cream Ale. And Shiner Bock.
And Bukowski dvds. (why are there so many of these now that dude is dead?)
Go Vegan Texas.
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R.I.P. Eban Doss
Photo courtesy of (I mean taken from) the Houston Chronicle Website)
Not too much known about what happened, but from what I heard... Inspirational, experimental, DJ and producer Eban Doss has passed from a short, but long bout with Melanoma/Skin Cancer. I honestly don't know a lot of details and didn't know dude really well but always admired his music and thought he was pretty cool. There will be a Memorial event celebrating his life on Friday night, I think at the Grab. More details to follow.
Cuz Davey D Said That
I mean he sent it. In a mass email. But it's the truth and I hope it means something to you. Change for 2007 is the motto on all levels. Change ourselves. Change the government. Change the arts. Change the structure. Change it all cuz it ain't working in it's current state.
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Rise up Hip Hop Nation: Making 2007 the Year of Sustainable Change
by Kristine Wright (Tina)
On the eve of a new year, I'd like to begin by offering peace and respect to everyone everywhere. While many are celebrating the holiday season, many more are suffering. Some are reflecting on the year gone by, while others are just praying the New Year will bring new possibilities for joy, peace, sustenance and justice. This is the time of year for reflection on the past and resolutions for the future. For me, this annual process led me to important questions. How can we make 2007 the year of sustainable change? What concrete steps can we take to address what ails our communities and our global village more broadly? Wherever we are in life, whether blessed or oppressed, affluent or struggling, the condition of the global village will directly affect us all sooner or later, and it is in our best interest to work towards sustainable change.
The first thing we must do is realize that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We can no longer wish for better and act the same, maintaining status quo by default. To get out of the hell that corporate greed, concentrated power, western imperialism, religious fanaticism, and "ideology over reality" have created, we must get specific about what it will take to realize people power. It is not enough to be compassionate, you must act (14th Dalai Lama, 1992). And here are a few specific things you can do:
1. Pick one local issue and one global issue that you will educate your self about and stay informed!
2. Join two organizations that deal with your issues of choice (feel free to email me if you need some suggestions).
3. Mentor one child (For parents, mentor your children fully and completely). For childless adults (21+), mentor a child at your local school, Boys/Girls Club, or Big Brother/Big Sister organizations. Each One Teach One; Each One Reach One.
4. Sign at least one petition a month. Activism in the digital age is much easier than in previous ages, and it is easier to stay informed via the internet and email. For those that do not have internet access at home, utilize your city's public library.
5. Recognizing that all media is framed (left/right, conservative/liberal), get your news from multiple media sources. By doing this, you will learn to separate facts from ideology.
6. Attend three community meetings or rallies a year or volunteer at community service centers at least three times a year. Getting involved in your community will lead to changes on the community level which will manifest on the global level eventually.
7. Be a conscious consumer. It's a simple as this: support what you believe helps your community, reject what does not.
8. Vote. Whether the system works or doesn't; whether elections are stolen or not. Too many of our forefather and foremothers died to give us the right to vote, and for no other reason than that, we need to honor that right. I strongly recommend all, particularly full time workers, consider absentee voting (this way you don't have to worry about making it to the polls on the day of the election). Visit your state's Secretary of the State page to register to vote and/or sign up as an absentee voter. Voting is easy and doesn't cost to do, but it might cost greatly when we do not. Do not buy into the idea that two evils are the same. There is no more striking example than the Iraq war to disprove this belief. I know if the 2000 election resulted in President Gore instead of Bush, we would not have hundred of thousands of dead Iraqis and thousands of dead and wounded service people. As well, global warming, and science in general, would be taken much more seriously. Voting may not directly affect your community but not voting could. To directly affect your community, it takes activism by community members and this list hopefully provides some guidance.
9. Make a sincere effort to communicate across class, color and generational lines. Most of what ails our community could be fixed with honest, open dialogue. With this we could overcome the internal divisions that separate us, and unity could be realized.
10. FORGIVE. No sustainable change will be possible until we develop the ability to be critical but forgiving, unyielding on principle but yielding on people and humanity. Mistakes have been made but if we let our mistakes keep us divided, it will impede our progress. We have to embrace our mutual interests and avoid getting clogged down in our differences. A community divided is a community conquered indeed. I challenge those in conflict to take time to dialogue on what divides us (hip hop v. civil rights generation, mainstream v. underground, rapper v. rapper, bourgeois v. proletariat) and find common ground to work together on. Sustainable change will require that brothers and sisters reconcile with our humanity, and forgive past (as well as future) shortfalls and indiscretions.
It is in human nature to be self-preserving, even at the expense of our progress at times. Informants have sold out movements for personal reward – and will again; some leaders have played politics at the community's expense for power – and continue to; brothers and sisters have disrespected themselves and their ancestors through some thoughtless actions (and even profit from some of this in hip hop). Our inability to forgive one another's trespasses will be our biggest impediment toward self determination. While I believe critical analysis of people that hurt our cause is essential, making criticism of others our primary focus makes it that more difficult to find common ground and unify around common interests. In the words of Iyanla Vanzant, Be against nothing…just be clear what you are for.
Here are a few things I'd like to see happen on an institutional level:
1. Black media needs to step up and serve the community, not exploit it. I see great room for this right now because it seems that commercial "urban" radio is at a crossroads. The music industry in general, and the hip hop industry, in particular, will never be the same, due to many things: the digital age being one of the major reasons. Hip Hop radio is struggling these days. It is the perfect time for radio to get innovative and diversify its play lists. It's obvious that the listening community is finally grown weary of the same ole' same ole'. What is needed is a more representative and balanced vision of hip hop. But even more than that, the media needs to inform listeners of issues that affect their lives. I see some success of that happening with national syndicated programs like the Michael Baisden Show (which is creating a community of 50+ heavily populated Black cities across the country every weekday and discussing some important issues that affect the community). As well, he has given airtime for everyday community organizers and entrepreneurs to promote their events and businesses. This is a good model to embrace.
Hip hop stations need to give quality time to issues important to the hip hop community. I'd like to see commercial stations like K-DAY (in L.A. and streaming worldwide) give a primetime 30 minute spot weekdays, and an hour weekend spot to this type of broadcast. Davey D's Breakdown FM Radio provides a great model. I'd also like to see 5 minute spots @ 4pm for community event listings, particularly for positive youth events. Finally, radio stations need to sponsor & broadcast dialogues at community high schools at least once a month. All these efforts will build community through dialogue and activism.
2. The panel on the annual State of the Black Union must be diversified by class and age. I know Tavis Smiley has interviewed a number of hip hoppers on his show, including Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, Common, Chuck D, KRS-One, Nas, Queen Latifah, and Saul Williams. Last year, given the emphasis on Katrina, it would have been beneficial to include on the panel someone like David Banner, or Kanye West, or community activists like Rosa Clemente or Fred Hampton Jr. (who organized community level Katrina relief efforts).
Hip hop needs to be represented for the annual State of the Black Union to have legitimacy. So I hope this message make its way to organizers and the oversight from last year will be remedied this year. All classes of our community need to be heard as well. At last year's forum, two Katrina survivors were brought on stage and given a couple minutes to discuss their experiences. Why was this brother and sister not invited to sit on the panel and add their perspectives to the dialogue? As long as activist do not respect the intellect of the most oppressed among us (poor and working class), and activists and leaders preach to the community they wish to uplift, instead of working with and learning from the community they wish to uplift, there will be no sustainable change.
3. Rappers and Media Program Producers: Stop using the n-word and derogatory words like bitch for women on records and other media forms. Substitute these with words like brotha, sista, and fam(ily), etc.. I realize that erasing a word that has a 400 year history in the vernacular of the Black community is not going to happen anytime soon. The masses in day to day speech will continue to use it, but people that put out products that must be edited and packaged before sale have the ability to be much more selective in what they put out there. Leading by this example will make a difference in our youth's psyche. We already have proof of that. When Public Enemy and other rap groups wore the X caps and African medallions in the late 80s and early 90s, the masses followed their example, and the consciousness of the people grew.
4.Community Policing. All oppressed communities should adopt the Black Panther model of community policing. Police watch organizations like the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, CA have had success in keeping the police (who are sworn to protect and serve the community) accountable. On top of this, community policing will counter the power that destructive entities (violence, drugs, delinquencies) have on our community youth. Be visible and be engaged.
This list is a start. It is in no way definitive, but it will bring sustainable community change if each and every one of us acts on suggestions listed (and others). The reason I focus on sustainable change is because our history shows us that we are very capable of big movements (Abolition, U.N.I.A., Civil Rights, Black Power), but what we have not been able to do as yet is sustain these progressive movements. To sustain them, we need continual people power and community involvement. Micro level activism can off set macro level power imbalances.
Sustainable change will take more than just vision for a better tomorrow; it will take reconciliation with the past and acceptance of the present reality. The reality is that social structure rules our lives. And like the entire natural world, humans must adapt to survive whatever structural conditions they must bear, and today that entails an uneven distribution of resources where 6% control most and 94% have little. When we reconcile with this reality, we can move to build solutions, based on "what is" instead of "what ifs".
So while the Panthers tried to build consciousness they also served the community with hot meals and health care. Bob Marley inspired souljahs across the globe, but those in most need in his native country, he gave food and shelter to daily. It is the only way to liberation: people must live before they can grow in consciousness and self determination, and each of us can take these specific actions to help our fellow beings live, learn and grow, both physically and consciously. Through self determination, we can free ourselves from dependency on a system that has never, and will never, serve us well. So for the New Year, I offer this list of specific actions individuals and communities can adopt, and if we follow it and work together to build on it, we can finally move the crowd…to freedom. One love.
v One God! One Aim! One Destiny! –
Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
v Someday at Christmas, there'll be no wars....When we have learned what Christmas is for...When we have found what life's really worth, there'll be peace on Earth –
I also really liked this article by my man Jeff Liles on the true death of the album. Jeff is one of my REAL FOLKS FOR REAL. So hit the link and give it a read.
Also I plan on doing a short, unexciting look back at 2006 before 2007 sometime. Also, tonight on Damage Control we will have a special James Brown tribute mix by DJ Chill and some other shit I am sure.
posted by Pushermania at 9:11 AM 9 comments
I Need 20,000
Hits. In the next week. I gotta hit a million hits by 200Devin. Can anyone out there help me? Let your people know we got a free Devin track, a Christmas mix and randy photos of wanton women scattered throughout. I guess it doesn't really matter but it would be nice to roll this bitch over to a million just as the new year sets in.
2007 > 2006 (and 2006 was pretty good for me).
Merry Christmas Y'all!
THIS WEEKS DAMAGE CONTROL!
Finna pop a couple pictures up in a few but I wanted to make sure yall had this on yer mp3 playas before you hit the road for that holiday people seem to love so much this time of year and such.
DOWNLOAD IT DONT STREAM IT FOOOOOL!
I love it too. Keep yer head up and your belly full if possible this weekend and show somebody some semblence of love for once in your life you heathens.
posted by Pushermania at 1:31 PM 7 comments
NEW TRACK FROM -
DEVIN THE DUDE FEATURING TONY MAC
"Treatin' Me Cold"
Mayne I didn't even know I was gonna have this one for you today but alas and alak I do!
This is a song that MIGHT be on the new Devin the Dude album Waiting to Inhale. It'll come out on Rap-A-Lot Records on March 13th and we are gonna have a HUGE release party for him at SXSW with special guests that you will not believe on March 14th.
2007 finna be this boys year for real.
The song is called "Treatin' Me Cold" and it was produced by Devin, Mike Dean and the Coughee Brothaz. It features Tony Mac of the Coughee Brothaz singing as well.
You are now REQUIRED to post a comment since I am giving you this exclusive lil gem right here. Lemme know what you think and hit up Devin's MySpace and let him know what you think.
Devin the Dude featuring Tony Mac - Treatin' Me Cold
Radio Holidaze
I've been obsessed with the radio since I was really young. I mean really young, like since birth I think. Nowadays with my ipod and a working CD player in the car, I rarely check to see if anything is on because 9 times out of 10 of course, there isn't.
But for some reason around the holidays I always find myself scanning thru the dial looking for something interesting to listen to. A story, some news, Christmas songs, etc.
I think that comes from having spent most of my Christmases of the past 17 years back home with my mother (though not the past 3, which kind of hurts), in the room I grew up in from 10th grade thru 12th, listening to CBC radio or whatever I could find. I think I have written this here before, but I'm originally from Erie, Pennsylvania and there they may not have much, but they've got a hellafied radio range. Growing up, 4 miles or so from Lake Erie, I would listen to radio from Canada, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and sometimes as far away as Chicago (on the AM dial generally).
So when I would go home to visit my mom from Houston, Amsterdam, Chicago, Austin, New York or wherever I was living, I would always spend a little time revisiting the local radio and beyond.
From the time I was like 8 years old till maybe 15 or so, I was obsessed with year-end countdowns. I wasn't even necessarily into the pop crap they were playing on the radio, but for some reason me and my boy Chris Confer obsessed about it. We would sit and write down every song in the Top 104 songs of the year on K104 and we'd call into the station to express our disapproval if a song was too high or too low on the charts. We'd listen to the stations from all over and compare the lists. We'd look for albums by Canadian bands we'd hear on Canadian radio. We'd literally stay over at each others houses and stay up all night listening and writing and calling and probably drinking sodas and eating cookies to stay awake and alert (I once stayed up for 4 days straight on a Mom's Chocolate Peanut Butter Ball Bender – Mom, you better be bringing the balls!)
In the past few weeks I've been finding myself doing the same thing. We're not going to Erie for the holidays this year, everyone is coming here, so I have been scanning the dial to hear what I can hear. I've even tuned into a couple of Erie stations on the internet and realized that even though they all blow major dick, they're a part of me and well for some reason they bring me some comfort. (Even WERG, the station where I did my first radio show, a reggae show in 1988 and 1989. That station sucks so much balls it should be illegal what with all the nu metal and such blaring from their basement studio).
Anyway, the other day I was scanning the AM dial and came across Michael Savage for the first time ever. I had always read that this Savage dude is like O'Reilly on 'roids, the most vile conservative scumbag our country has to offer. Save for the folks your moronic parents and coworkers keep on electing.
Herr Savage made a comment somewheres along the lines of "America is the only country worth caring about today, and it's almost not worth caring about." He cited the rampant perversion of the Belgians, the Christmas hating Persians and well, he even hates Japan. Dude probably even hates Norway and Norway is vastly superior to the United States when it comes to everything but sunshine in the winter and the price of beer. Dude probably even hates the Netherlands even though you can get ANYTHING at any time of day there, and well, that's respectable. I fuckin' love the Netherlands.
Anyway, I say that a lot, anyway, I can't believe that this sort of hate speech is allowed to exist in this country, and in the month in which the dude this dude worships was born. Is nothing sacred? Does Michael Savage hate Jesus so much that he would desecrate his month? The answer is yes, and Michael Savage is a heathen. He's scum. The lowest of the low and needs to catch a bad one.
But whatever, I'm not gonna let him steal my sunshine. Christmas is in full swing here at SoReal Manor and as of 4:20 p.m. on December 16th I have officially entered the holiday season. Two weeks ago I didn't know what the fuck we were gonna do to financially participate in this the holiday of holidays. Things looked quite bleak, but with some yelling, screaming and strong arming, we're actually floating above the water this year and well, Christmas is not going to kill us. Like I thought it would. Seriously, I didn't know what to do.
That being said, I also have to send a shout out to J. Mill at the Source. I've been covertly tripping on them here on the blog saying things about how they owe me a bunch of money and well, yes I was pissed. They still owe me money, but today I received a check and a note from J. that basically let me know that they haven't forgotten about me and are trying. I always liked him a lot man. He's a good dude and I have known that for a few years now. Being owed over $3000 by the Source, I let the anger at that corporation (or whatever the fuck it is) cloud my vision and I was seriously sitting here stewing for some time, expending a lot of (negative) energy on something I couldn't do much of anything about.
Anyway, dude is working to make good and I appreciate him a lot for that. I support Down Magazine and am not even trippin' on the Source right now. I like this feeling. It's so Christmas-y! Thank's J. Mill! (This may sound weird but I kind of knew this was gonna happen. I trust dude.)
And Happy Holidays top all of you. No matter what you celebrate, try to do so in the next couple of weeks. With me, in a park, jamming Sabbath, cuz it's like that.
I'm DJing THIS SATURDAY! FREE!
Last Night's Damage Control
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNH. What you know about me behind them wheels?
On them decks.
Doin' it big.
Christmas/Holiday music all night at the Orange Show. Me and Mariachi MECA jammin' on down SoReal. If you miss this, you are missing the whole point of Christmas. If you don't like Christmas music then you are with the terrirists so rethink yoself and make yoself seen enjoying Christmas at the Orange Show this Saturday night lest them peoples come break your door down for being on the other side of that fence o.k.? There'll be food, drinks, good vibes, family friendliness, incredible lights throughout the hood and on the structure itself.
The Orange Show is hands down my favorite venue in Houston. You need to come party with me. (DJ Eva gonna be on the wheels with me as well. On that futuristic shit.)
YOU CAN GET DIRECTIONS FROM THE ORANGE SHOW WEBSITE SO CLICK HERE GET THEM AND COME THRU.
RSVP ON THE MYSPACE EVENT PAGE FOR THIS PARTICULAR EVENT!
Then hit up My MySpace. Knowmtalmbout. Somebody will see it. Not me.
Last night Damage Control was o.k. Chill showed up at like 1 a.m. and never set up them tables so I was talking to people over beat cd's on repeat feeling like a goof with no real vibe going throughout the place. You might notice that I played like 46 minutes of music right from the jump without really talking. I was tired as shit - I been going thru it Holiday work style lately - and not feeling the whole interview process. Amy didn't want to co-host with me, she just wanted her own hour so I just kind of sat there dazed going through CD's wondering why. Lot's of good stuff last night, but equally balanced with shitty shit that didn't need to be played.
New exclusive music from north Texas from PPT, Money Waters and Twisted Black that should have you trippin'. Good stuff.
These dudes showed up!
Golden Child, Da Ryno, A3, Chalie Boy
They came in like 1:30 and I was so tired I was just not as excited as I should have been. I got love for all them dudes, but I was about to fall over. And I didn't even realize that last night WAS THE FIRST TIME CHALIE BOY EVER CAME TO DAMAGE CONTROL! We should have done it bigger, but I was deep in a zone, a thousand feet from what you think that I'm on... Yungbuk.
DOWNLOAD DON'T STREAM LAST NIGHTS DAMAGE CONTROL LISTEN TO IT ON YO OWN SHIT NOT THIS HERE SERVER THANKS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS.
posted by Pushermania at 10:48 AM 4 comments
Congratulations to the Grit Boys
On signing to TVT Records.
They wanna know if Houston can hold on to it in 2007. With UGK on Feb. 27 (Underground Kings), Devin on March 13th (Waiting to Inhale), Grit Boys in the first quarter, Willie D's new album is a monster on some classic Geto Boys shit, it doesn't seem ready to stop yet. Shit I'm ready for 2007. Bring it on. What the fuck. I'm ready.
Damage Control tonight midnight till 3am central time www.kpft.org to listen live.
Big Tuck Out Today Man!
Ya heard? It's good.
Two New Trae Videos!
Peep this the um, world premier of sorts of the two new videos from the only rap album I was able to listen to in it's entirity in one sitting this whole past year.
Trae feat. Yung Joc - In the Hood
Trae feat. Z-Ro - No Help
Both these songs jam. "No Help" might be my pick for jam of the year. If I did things like pick jams of the year and such.
Another Fine Milestone for our Fine Nation
U.S. Imprisons More People Than Any Other Nation
By James Vicini, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Dec. 9) -- Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
A U.S. Justice Department report released on November 30 showed that a record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison or jail.
According to the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, more people are behind bars in the United States than in any other country. China ranks second with 1.5 million prisoners, followed by Russia with 870,000.
The U.S. incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 people in the highest, followed by 611 in Russia and 547 for St. Kitts and Nevis. In contrast, the incarceration rates in many Western industrial nations range around 100 per 100,000 people.
Groups advocating reform of U.S. sentencing laws seized on the latest U.S. prison population figures showing admissions of inmates have been rising even faster than the numbers of prisoners who have been released.
"The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. We rank first in the world in locking up our fellow citizens," said Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports alternatives in the war on drugs.
"We now imprison more people for drug law violations than all of western Europe, with a much larger population, incarcerates for all offenses."
Ryan King, a policy analyst at The Sentencing Project, a group advocating sentencing reform, said the United States has a more punitive criminal justice system than other countries.
More People to Prison
"We send more people to prison, for more different offenses, for longer periods of time than anybody else," he said.
Drug offenders account for about 2 million of the 7 million in prison, on probation or parole, King said, adding that other countries often stress treatment instead of incarceration.
Commenting on what the prison figures show about U.S. society, King said various social programs, including those dealing with education, poverty, urban development, health care and child care, have failed.
"There are a number of social programs we have failed to deliver. There are systemic failures going on," he said. "A lot of these people then end up in the criminal justice system."
Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California, said the high prison numbers represented a proper response to the crime problem in the United States. Locking up more criminals has contributed to lower crime rates, he said.
"The hand-wringing over the incarceration rate is missing the mark," he said.
Scheidegger said the high prison population reflected cultural differences, with the United States having far higher crimes rates than European nations or Japan. "We have more crime. More crime gets you more prisoners."
Julie Stewart, president of the group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, cited the Justice Department report and said drug offenders are clogging the U.S. justice system.
"Why are so many
people in prison?
Blame mandatory
sentencing laws
and the record
nonviolent drug
offenders subject
to them," she said.
Morons.
This weeks Damage Control
Mo' thowed than a chair at the Mixtape Awards.
DOWNLOAD DO NOT STREAM THIS WEEKS DAMAGE CONTROL!
(With all due respect to Justo - Rest in Peace Brother - who I met in 1994 and always respected...)
How in the hell is there a "Mixtape Awards" and Rapid Ric is not nominated in one category?
Dude has been putting it down hard for the past few years but this year in particular has taken it to the next level. Chalie Boy tape, Magno tape, All Flows, etc... Not a dud in the bunch.
Dude actually mixes unlike a good 30% of the folks who have been nominated. Dude gets exclusives that really are exclusives, not just record company leaks.
Everything he does is real and he is killin' it right now. Spinning overseas. DJing for Chamillionaire, Slim Thug and Devin the Dude to name a few. His crew, the Whut it Dew Family are HANDS DOWN the best MC's in the south. Hand's down.
Yet and still dude ain't nominated for nothin'.
And there's only four people in the "Screwed and Chopped" category. Watts, OG Ron C, Ryno and Slice. Now I cut for all four of them. But how you gonna not have DJ-D in there? Street Pharmacy? Big Chance? Come on now man. DJ-D just did the whole Rap-A-Lot catalog it seems AND HE ACTUALLY MIXES!
He's not pushing buttons on a computer.
Man, I honestly don't care about awards show, but duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes are you insane? I think a special category needs to be created or maybe just a lil acknowledgement needs to be given to Rapid Ric, a young brother who is truly changing the game.
Bang's Birthday Party
Awwwwwww man it went down Saturday night. I rolled with the Wolftown Committee out to the Perfect Rack and checked out one hell of a showcase in celebration of my man Bang's birthday.
ALSO CLICK HERE TO HEAR RAPID RIC AND CHAMILLIONAIRE TAKE OVER THE SEMTEX SHOW ON BBC 1XTRA THIS PAST FRIDAY! THEY KILLED IT. RIC AND CHAM PART IS THE LAST HOUR.
Anyhoo...
The birthday man hisself, BANG!
Charlie Berry and Cl'che
Murder 1, Dope E, K-Rino and Justice (middle)
Grit Boys came on first and killed it. They did like 10 songs it was tight.
Then Gorilla Squad put it down real hard as well.
Great Scott killed it too. First time I have seen him perform, I think.
And King Tutt too. He's no joke.
Finally got a photo of Jai Boo from the Wolftown Committee! They will be here till Friday. If you work in the rap game out here and want to be heard overseas, you need to holler at these folks. They're everywhere.
So nice I had to snap it twice.
King Tutt!
Moufs of the SOuf killed it as well and are starting to make some noise out here for real.
That's a mighty peculiarly placed bottle and I am not sure how it got there.
Cl'che performed like she was in front of 50,000 people at the Astrodome or some shit. Killed it!
And was joined by Dougie D, Showtyme, Charlie Berry and more.
As evidenced by photos such as this. Sort of.
And our headliner for the evening, K-RINO!
Man it's always a pleasure to see K-Rino in concert. His catalog is so deep and he pulls from every album and just slays it. Also I like the way he dresses better than most other rappers. He's way more on my level man. I feel this dude. As you already know.
Bomber jackets and Loc's > diamonds and furs.
And MattSoReal said that. Picture me rollin' like Pac ya bitch. (Pimp C said that, more than once).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BANG!
Man I promised Bang I would post his flyer for this birthday blow out of blow outs earlier this week, but alas and alak I slacked. So um, check it out. Tonight at The Perfect Rack come celebrate the birthday of Bang, one of Houston's most important documentarians of the scene and then some. Grit Boys, K-Rino, Showtyme, Dougie D, Cl'che, Martel Music, Moufs of the Souf, Gorilla Squad, King Tutt and Great Scott will all be performing. It's safe to say that yes, it's goin' down.
Perfect Rack is on Magnum just off 290 on that Northwest side.
And two weeks from today I'll be DJing Christmas Music at the Orange Show before and after a Mariachi battle! Read what the Orange Show's MySpace has to say about said event:
Orange Show Events
December, 16 2006 at Matt Sonzala of HoustonSoReal and Mariachi Bands at the Orange Show!!
2402 Munger, Screwston, 77023
First ever Mariachi Battle! well not sure about that but this will be a fun way to end the year at the Orange Show. To top it off Matt Sonzala of HoustonSoReal will be spinning a n exclusive Holiday Music set from his vast collection. FREE!!!!!
I've got a lot of Christmas music and yes I am available to DJ your holiday party. Rates negotiable in relation to amount of grog and nog on site and what might be in said nog and grog. Holla.
More Pics from Damage Control from 14K
Those who have been fortunate enough to pick up the Coughee Brothaz Collectors Edition CD may have noticed these two unique voices booming out the Coughee Pot. 14K - Wood and Quad respectively - are originally from New Mexico. They moved here after a few chance meetings with Devin the Dude, who liked their music so much he invited them to come to Houston and work with the Coughee Brothaz. I wish I had a song to post for you to hear from the new shit, but they won't let me. So check out last weeks Damage Control below and you can hear a jam. Or of course you can check out their MySpace page.
Thanks for the photos guys. I didn't get any of Late of Lil J Xavier (what's up with everyone sleeping on getting photos of Jai Boo? That's just silly!) so add these to the post below in the perpetual blog that is your mind.
14K and Kool Herc
14K with Tricksta and Late of the Wolftown Committee
14K with K-Rino (Wait till you hear the collabo they did, for real you will shit)
Lil J Xavier - the youngest in charge for real with 14K


text:
Ravel: la valse
June 20, 2022 June 19, 2022 | Arjan Uittenbroek
https://www.discogs.com/release/12453982-Ravel-Orchestre-Des-Concerts-Colonne-Pierre-Dervaux-Chabrier-Orchestre-Des-Concerts-De-Paris-Pierre-
A record with at least three well known orchestral works. Two from Ravel, and two from Chabrier. I forgot about Chabrier, but I used to listen to his España a lot when I was young. A good reason to focus on the lesser of the two French impressionists.
Chabrier was born in 1841 as the only son of a lawyer from the Auvergne, central France. His parents didn't want a musical career for him, so after an education as a lawyer he started late in music. By the time he was forty he was a full time composer.
His work was very influential on later French modernists, like Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc and Satie. But also Stravinsky and Richard Strauss were indebted to Chabrier.
España is a so called orchestral rhapsody. He wrote it after a trip he and his wife took to the country in 1882. It started the French craze for Spanish music at the end of the nineteenth century. Other pieces followed, like Debussy's Iberia and Ravel's Rhapsodie espagnole.
#Chabrier #Dervaux #Le Conte #no streaming #Ravel


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