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Locomotif: A short survey of trains, music & experiments
Posted on Monday, Oct 22, 2012 12:30AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Gautam Pemmaraju
by Gautam Pemmaraju
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
The influential electronic music artists Kraftwerk, saw their 1977 concept album Trans-Europe Express as a symbol of a unified Europe, a "sonic poem" enabling a moving away from the troubled legacy of the war, and particularly, of Nazi Germany. The dark spectre of the Third Reich and their militaristic high speed road construction was often linked to the band's fourth studio album Autobahn, although the band saw it, in part, as a "European rejoinder to American 'keep on trucking'" songs. The French journalist and friend to the band, Paul Alessandrini, had apparently suggested the idea of the train as a thematic base (See the wikipedia entry): "With the kind of music you do, which is kind of like an electronic blues, railway stations and trains are very important in your universe, you should do a song about the Trans-Europe Express". Described as embodying "a new sense of European identity", the album was destined to become a seminal work of the band, not just in fusing a qausi-utopian political idea with their sonic aura, at once popular, idiosyncratic and profoundly influential, but also in 'reclaiming the train', which chugs across "borders that had been fought over". In response to Kraftwerk's espousal of European integration, band member Karl Batos says here,
We were much more interested in it at that time than being Germans because we had been confronted by this German identity so much in the States, with everyone greeting us with the 'heil Hitler' salutes. They were just making fun and jokes and not being very serious but we'd had enough of this idea.
The chugging beat, "ripe with unlikely hooks, and hypnotic, minimalist arrangements" is in ways an ideological amplification of the idea of Autobahn, referencing the transport networks of Germany, and seeking in its "propulsive proto electro groove…a high speed velocity transit away from the horrors of Nazism and World War II". There was, however, as Pascal Bussy writes in Kraftwerk: Man, Machine, Music (1993), a formidable nationalism underlying their somewhat nebulous politics. Kraftwerk believed, as Hütter is quoted saying to the American journalist Lester Bangs in 1975, that they were unlike other contemporary German bands which tended to be Anglo-American; they wanted instead to be known as German since the "the German mentality, which is more advanced, will always be part of our behaviour".
Drawing quite a bit of inspiration from pioneering avant-garde artists such as Karl Heinz Stockhausen, the Italian composer Russolo & the Fluxus Group (which included La Monte Young, Jon Hassel & Tony Conrad), it was actually the Frenchman Pierre Schaeffer that they were directly indebted to, in some manner, with regard to their electronic transport music. As Karl Batos reveals in the aforementioned interview, they were 'following his path', since it was the Schaeffer's Musique Concrète piece using only train sounds that they were referencing.
Musique Concrète was a Schaeffer's way of 'turning his back on music'. It was a method of empirically gathering environmental sounds and creating sonic envelopes using those sources. In doing so it was in "an opposition with the way musical work usually goes", Schaeffer believed, and the process of collecting sounds, 'concrete sounds', whatever their origin be, was "to abstract the musical values they were potentially containing". It was a way of 'freeing' composition from its formalist shackles and reformulating the process of composition, 'a new mental framework', which saw the shaping of music as a more 'plastic' process. In a 1986 interview (read here), the broadcast engineer who worked for the radio station ORTF, says that having successfully driven out the German invasion in the years after the war, music was still 'under an occupying power' – Austrian, 12 tone music of the Vienna School. It was this that he wished to reject and seek instead, "…salvation, liberation if possible". He, along with Pierre Henry, in contrast to purely electronic music, developed pioneering modes and techniques of electroacoustic improvisation, wherein naturally occurring and other environmental sounds, 'any and all sounds', were recorded and then manipulated to create musical compositions.
Etudes aux Chemins du Fer (Railroad Study) is often described as an early example of an audio mash-up, and the first one of railroad sounds – engines, track sounds, whistles and other associate sounds. Described here as "audio portraits for the end of the machine age and the beginning of the electronic age", Schaeffer was drawn to "external events and impressive machines". He recorded these sounds at several locations, his intention in part, was to 'remove the original meaning' of the sounds. Then using reverse, loop, speed change edit techniques, the final composition became then a surrealist sonic reconfiguration, a sonic collage of sounds, freely collected and organized.
Schaeffer's ideas were influenced in part by Luigi Russolo, who propounded an elaborate aesthetic theory of noise (see also intonarumori instruments). John Cage's thoughts on noise are also quite extensive, and as Paul Hegarty points out here, "all noises can be brought into the realm of something like music, and will drastically increase the remit of sound making and listening". It is this principle, of a broader, unexplored universe of sounds and noise open to exploration and experimentation that underscores the thoughts of Russolo, Cage, Schaeffer, amongst many others. Hegarty further points to Cage's increased liking for noise, 'more than intervals' and 'just as much as single sounds', and Russolo's belief in the richness of noise. In his seminal futurist manifesto, The Arts of Noise (1913), Russolo states that hitherto, "musical art had looked for the soft and limpid purity of sound" and then sought to caress "the ear with sauve harmonies", but it is noise-sound that has brought radical change for,
This revolution in music is paralleled by the increasing proliferation of machinery sharing in human labor. In the pounding atmosphere of great cities as well as in the formerly silent countryside, machines create today such a large number of varied noises that pure sound, with its littleness and monotony, now fails to arouse any emotion.
His evangelical zeal of noise aside, Russolo's points to his belief in the grandness of the machine age, its ability to bring large, transformative change, and of course, the grandness of human endeavour gloriously and emphatically reflected in the image (and noise-sounds) of machines. There is more pleasure, he contends, in "the sounds of trolleys, autos and other vehicles…than heroic or pastoral symphonies". Though Beethoven and Wagner "have deliciously shaken our hearts" in the past, "now we are fed up with them", Russolo explicates in his grand manifesto.
As the music journalist Paul Morley writes here, Russolo's manifesto provided the name for the experimental British band fronted by Trevor Horn, who Morley christened as Art of Noise. In pushing the boundaries of defining what music could be, Morley writes that Russolo's influence was path breaking and that he "helped create a musical landscape all the way from experimental classical music via avant-rock to electronic pop". Fuelled further by jazz innovations, and the avant garde ideas of Stockhausen, Cage and others, Russolo's legacy goes a long way, in particular, influencing the "way technology was used (and abused) to mix sound and noise" and,
All great radical modern music made by humans and machines mixing noise and nature is Russolo's great dream of industrial sound come to life. Everything in his head could eventually be produced in a modern recording studio.
Russolo was far more flexible than the futurist guru Filippo Marinetti, Morely points out, who rejected the musical (and artistic) past with great ceremony. Marinetti's intense nationalist fervour, his militant, fascist tone, the base upon which his ideas were formed, are more than evident in this translation of the founding of Futurism and the writing of the manifesto, wherein after a sleepless night of discussions and drafting with friends when for "hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic", having written that they would "destroy the museums, libraries, academies…every opportunistic and utilitarian cowardice", the last point of their 'incendiary' manifesto declares,
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizon; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.
Equally dissatisfied with traditional music, and also desiring some kind of 'freedom from the shackles', Feruccio Busoni authored a paper titled Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music in 1907. As Thom Holmes writes in Electronic and Experimental Music (2008), after encountering Thaddeus Cahill's prescient electronic musical device the Telharmonium, he "immediately grasped the relevance of the achievement to his own quest for a means of creating microtonal music". Besides, he also immediately understood, Holmes reveals further, "the special relationship between inventors and musicians":
I almost think that in the new great music, machines will be necessary and will be assigned a share in it. Perhaps industry, too, will bring forth her share in the artistic ascent.
Francesco Pratella, another futurist ideologue, in 1911, wrote his own manifesto against traditionalism, "intellectual mediocrity and commercial baseness", and unfurling "to the freedom of the air and sun the red flag of futurism", he thereby issued a call to young composers to embrace adventure and new ideas. As Holmes points out, Pratella was interested in atonality, the use of semitones, and to "crush the domination of dance rhythms", but it would be his follower Russolo who would take this thought further, and build his noise-making machines.
Amongst the Intonanumori that Russolo built in collaboration with painter Ugo Piatta, which produced a "families" of sounds, from roars, whistles, whispers, screeches, material noises, and voices, there was one, which Holmes writes of, that was meant to imitate the sound of an automobile engine starting. Russolo and Marinetti staged the first futurist concert in 1914, and described the reaction of the 'incredulous public' as "showing the first steam engine to a herd of cows". As Holmes writes, in a 1922 interview Russolo had said, "speed and synthesis are the characteristics of our epoch", once again pointing to the "the likely marriage of electronics with music".
Russolo's ideas caught the fancy of many, who saw great possibilities of experimentation. Arthur Honegger's 1923 orchestral work, Pacific 231, inspired by a steam locomotive, is an early example of the fusing of some of these ideas. Edgard Varèse (from Charlie Parker to Frank Zappa, he had a long list of admirers; see here) who knew both Marinetti and Russolo, took the cue. Holmes points out that although disappointed by the iconoclastic music being made by the futurists, he was very taken by the possibilities. Using dissonance and atonality, his musical experiments was 'energized', Holmes writes on, with "striking rhythms, clash of timbres, and unusual combinations of instruments", and the underlying thought is revealed in this quote:
I prefer to use the expression "organized sound" and avoid the monotonous question: "But is it music?" "Organized sound" seems better to take in the dual aspect of music as an art-science, with all the recent laboratory discoveries, which permit us to hope for the unconditional liberation of music, as well as covering, without dispute, my own music in progress and its requirements.
Composers and inventors alike were seeking such liberating ideas, and what with the likes of Lee De Forest, Vladimir Baranoff Rossiné, Jorg Mager, Leon Theremin, Maurice Martenot and Robert Moog who created exciting new inventions, and experimentalists such as George Antheil (see Ballet Mécanique), John Cage and Stockhausen, but a few stars in the grand firmament of musical argonauts, these adolescent promiscuous entanglements between music, art and technology were to eventually, over the decades, result in furtive couplings and noisy fornication in the open alike. The programmatic futurism of the early 20th century is now a distant problematic, moderated by the unfolding of history; and the wars, the onset of the electronic age, the digital age, have radically transformed these early experiments, extricating them in some sense, from their original ideological moorings. Simplistic attributes have given way for keen and oftentimes, playful conceptualism.
'In search of lost silence', John Cage embarked on a musical train journey in 1978, creating an improvised concert on a train over two days in Bologna. Alvin Curran reconstructed this in 2008. Steve Reich's piece for strings and tape, Different Trains, first performed by the Kronos Quartet, uses recorded voices as melodic elements, aside from other experimental techniques. It plays with memory reconstruction and the composer has mentioned holocaust trains in association. There are several other interesting experiments linked to trains, not merely evocations of memory, sensory experience, or reflected abstractions, but also quirky conceptual formulations. A more 'one dimensional concept', is Entfernte Züge, or Distant Trains (1983), a 'musical sculpture' by Bill Fontana, set in a field where once stood one of the busiest pre-war train stations of Europe, the Anhalter Bahnhof. There is also Australian scientist and sonic artist Alan Lamb's 2006 installation Loco Motivus project, which involved a 'found' Aeolian harp (see my piece on aural mapping and 'found' instruments) using wayside telephone wires at Pindari, a farm near Wagga, NSW. The 'performance' was conducted on an eight-carriage train, and as it entered a silo sliding, the sounds of the wires were transmitted to the train via CB radio. Lokofon is another notable example by Norwegian musician/artist Espen Sommer Eide, which involved a set of soundworks by different artists on the northernmost train railroad in the world. One artist, Anton Nikkelä, the creator of this work informs me, lectured on Russian railroad construction while propaganda music was playing in the background. Alexander Chen's reimagining of the NY Subway Map (Massimo Vignelli's 1972 diagram) as a set of strings, is a fabulous interactive work, wherein the trains (or imagined graphic ones at least), become the performers, as the artist puts it. The subway train is recreated in another visually provocative and striking motion graphic art piece, titled Dynamics of the Subway, by Japanese artist/designer Keita Onishi, wherein geometric shapes propel the formation of the composite sound and visual.
Trains have long inspired great music (not to mention art and literature as well). From classic American railroad folk songs and ballads, blues, jazz, rock and pop (see this exhaustive list and this Smithsonian Folkways collection), not to mention Hindi film songs, there is a vast array of music linked to trains (alert readers will possibly point to more). Emory Cook, the inventor and recording engineer, made a series of recording of trains in New York, titled Rail Dyanamics (1950). A Japanese express train is called Sonic. There has been a long fascination with the great machines, and what trains have represented and inspired, has been in part, the ability to metaphorically travel with pulsating vigour, a sort of propulsive, percussive march onward to newer ground. With freight and fireball, express and bullet, electric and ghost, it is perhaps the freedom train that is most obviously emblematic of the journey to newer artistic thought and expression.
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—Richard Dawkins, previously Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
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In response to a New York Times article by journalist Michael Moss (@MichaelMoss) detailing the neglect of animals at a federal research facility in Nebraska, lawmakers have introduced new legislation. The bill – Animal Welfare in Agricultural Research Endeavors (AWARE) Act – would amend the current Animal Welfare Act to remove existing exemptions for animals used in research at federal facilities. Both Democrats and Republicans signed on.
Two lawmakers involved in the legislation were Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Representative Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
Hoard's Dairyman (an online journal devoted to dairy farming) reported that the two had stepped into a leadership role for "The Congressional Animal Protection Caucus (CAPC)." CAPC is a non-partisan congressional group that highlights important issues affecting animals.
Learn more about the background to this story from a previous UC Food Observer post.


We had a long, important meeting on Thursday, November 15. Here's a quick recap.
The board approved an updated version of our Environmental Stewardship strategic directive by a 6-2 vote (see pg 11 here for final version). The new SD sets long-term goals of 50% of retail sales coming from renewables and a 20% reduction in our carbon intensity (annual CO2/kWh) by 2030 from a 2010 baseline. My 'no' vote was incredibly difficult. I'll explain.
I am on the Public Information Committee, which is the committee that is tasked with bringing the full board a recommendation for final language on the strategic directive (SD). Our committee, along with the majority of the senior management team, spent hours upon hours studying, discussing, deliberating, refining, considering, evaluating, disagreeing, and ultimately compromising on the now final version. It was an arduous yet productive process through which I gained even more respect for my colleagues and members of senior management.
Yet, as we wrapped up our discussions as a full board at Tuesday's all-committee meeting, I still wasn't sure how I was going to vote. On one hand, the new SD is significantly improved. While it wasn't perfect, we made good progress. Furthermore, I felt the need to honor the work and compromise of the PI Committee. On the other hand, my primary concern was that we weren't setting a long-term vision for carbon reduction.
I'm proud of the way in which we've approached totally rewriting this SD, and I believe it is a marked improvement over the previous version. I'm proud of the fact that we're talking about carbon emissions and much, much more, and our conversations are thoughtful, and tough, and mixed with equal parts practicality and future thinking.
But we must continue to wrestle with the challenges we face. For it's not an understatement to say that we have an opportunity to solve one of the world's biggest, most complicated challenges. We can play a leading role in helping humanity transition to an economy that is economically and reliably fueled by clean, non-emitting fuel sources. It is the challenge of our lifetimes, and I can think of no better organization and no better people to tackle the challenge…and I look forward to working together with my fellow board members, with OPPD's management team, and with all of OPPD's exceptional people to embrace the opportunity and solve the problem.
All throughout the process of rewriting SD7, we accepted, reviewed and considered comments from the public, and there were many. During the Board meeting, several students from Creighton University and a few from Central High School advocated for more aggressive action on reducing climate impacts. These students gave articulate, compelling and at times emotional testimony. They were knowledgeable, on point, and their thoughtful comments really grabbed my attention.
Once public comment concluded, we went right into voting, and I voted no. While it wouldn't have mattered one way or another (it would have passed either way), I felt the weight of that vote. Yes/no votes are very black and white. There's no "yes, but…" alternative. In the case of SD7, what took me from a 'yes' vote to a 'no' vote was that lack of a long-term vision for zero carbon.
In the end, I'm very satisfied with the progress we made on SD7, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it is implemented. And perhaps most importantly, for those of you that have testified before public bodies and wondered whether or not it made a difference, let me reassure you, it most certainly does.
Over the last few months and culminating at our November meeting, OPPD has changed course in how we're planning to decommission the Fort Calhoun nuclear station. Our previous plan was to deconstruct the plant in roughly sixty years. Through exceptional work on the part of some stellar OPPD employees, we're electing to expedite that timeline and deconstruct in the next ten years, which will save OPPD roughly $200 million over the next several decades.
We've also elected to pursue a deconstruction plan that will be led by OPPD and will also engage a contractor in assisting and advising along the way. Keeping our staff in charge and leading the project is the right approach. They've been doing a great job with the early stages of decommissioning, and I'm confident they'll knock it out of the park with deconstruction.
OPPD released its 2019 budget last week. The utility is in a great financial position, and I'm really happy with how strong we are financially. See here for the full presentation slide deck, or watch Tuesday's full video presentation (starting at 16:40) here.
Four members of the senior management team earned 3% merit increases, which, for most of them, was on top of market adjustments made to their salaries. With respect to the latter, their jobs had expanded to the point where the market salary comparisons we were using were no longer germane. As such, they needed to be compared to other jobs, which increased their salary ranges. In any event, all four of them are performing at very high levels, and I fully support their market and merit increases.


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Bottle Episodes – With Sloane Crosley – Episode 276
Author Sloane Crosley ("Look Alive Out There," "I Was Told There Would Be Cake") invites the ladies over to Chateau Marmont for convo on her new book "Look Alive Out There," (available here for purchase.) Plus, they get into the hotel's spooky history, monkey masturbation, theories on Prince, and so much more!
Crosley's collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, was published by Riverhead Books on April 1, 2008, and became a New York Times bestseller. It was a finalist for The Thurber Prize, one of Amazon.com's best books of the year and optioned for series by HBO. Her second collection, How Did You Get This Number also became a New York Times bestseller, and was published on June 15, 2010. Her debut novel, The Clasp, was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2015 and optioned by Universal Pictures in 2016. Her third book of essays, Look Alive Out There, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in April 2018.
Crosley was a weekly columnist for The Independent in the UK and editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2011.
Crosley is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and was the founding columnist for The New York Times "Townies" Op-Ed series, a columnist for The New York Observer Diary, a columnist for The Village Voice, a contributing editor at BlackBook Magazine and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Elle and NPR. She has also written cover stories and features for Salon, Spin, Bon Appetit, Vogue, Esquire, Playboy, W Magazine and AFAR. She co-wrote the song "It Only Gets Much Worse" with Nate Ruess.
Crosley is co-chair of The New York Public Library's Young Lions Committee and serves on the board of Housingworks Bookstore.
In 2011, she appeared on the TV series Gossip Girl as herself and she was a regular fixture on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
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Sony introducing the first ever 240Hz LCD TV and the world's thinnest TV.
in Sony Discussion on 30 August 2008
OK... 120 Hz TVs are actually worth it, since they eliminate the jitter of 3:2 pulldown. Honestly though, they could make a TV that supports a 72 Hz mode, and it would eliminate the jitter and be more than fast enough. 240 Hz is pure marketing....
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RolStoppable said: Entroper said: The lack of sensitivity is something that drives me nuts about the Dualshock 2. I first noticed it when playing the Super Monkey Ball collection. The level of control was absolutely HORRID compared to the Gamecube version of the game.I am fairly certain that there are more than two degrees, but the resolution is pretty poor, and the "dead zone" is...
The lack of sensitivity is something that drives me nuts about the Dualshock 2. I first noticed it when playing the Super Monkey Ball collection. The level of control was absolutely HORRID compared to the Gamecube version of the game.I am fairly certain that there are more than two degrees, but the resolution is pretty poor, and the "dead zone" is huge. If you pop in a Gran Turismo game, you...
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PooperScooper said: Entroper said: PooperScooper said:Me and rocketpig had that same debate about damage, I for one think games should stop trying to be realistic. Realism ruins games. If I wanted to realism I'd take my car out. If I wanted to have the effect in recoil while shooting a firearm I'd join the army. A game is suppose to be fun not discouraging....
PooperScooper said: Me and rocketpig had that same debate about damage, I for one think games should stop trying to be realistic. Realism ruins games. If I wanted to realism I'd take my car out. If I wanted to have the effect in recoil while shooting a firearm I'd join the army. A game is suppose to be fun not discouraging. So you'd just air-freight your Ferrari to...
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New AMD Graphics Chip More Powerful Than Every Console Combined
in PC Discussion on 19 June 2008
ssj12 said: Entroper said: ssj12 said: fazz said: ^ By "next" you mean the R800? Or the RV770? Because even the Radeon HD4850 that will sell for ~$200 is around 40% better for games than the 9800GTX. You do realize we are at the point that a stronger GPU isnt even needed. What is the point of being able to run Crysis at...
ssj12 said: fazz said: ^ By "next" you mean the R800? Or the RV770? Because even the Radeon HD4850 that will sell for ~$200 is around 40% better for games than the 9800GTX. You do realize we are at the point that a stronger GPU isnt even needed. What is the point of being able to run Crysis at 300fps? Actually, nVidia's latest card, the $649 GTX 280,...
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MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE
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The Medal for Meritorious Service shall be awarded to any member of the New York State Organized Militia who, while serving in any capacity in the organized militia after 17 April 1979 distinguished themselves by heroism, exceptionally meritorious achievement or exceptionally meritorious service. Awards may be made to persons who are members of the Armed Forces of the United States, but only under exceptional circumstances and with the express approval of The Adjutant General. This award is not authorized for civilian personnel.
Heroism: Awards may be made for acts of heroism which were performed under circumstances which are of a lesser degree than that required for award of the Medal for Valor. The act of heroism must have involved personal hazard or danger and the voluntary risk of potential injury. Awards will not be made solely on the basis of having saved a life.
Exceptionally meritorious achievement or exceptionally meritorious service: Awards may be made to recognize single acts of merit or meritorious service. The required achievement or service, while of a lesser degree than that required for the award of the Conspicuous Service Medal must nevertheless have been meritorious and accomplished with distinction beyond that normally expected while serving in a position of responsibility. An award for meritorious service will not normally be made for periods of service less than six months.
How awarded:
Recommendations for the award of the Medal for Meritorious Service will be submitted using DMNA Form Letter 48-R (Sample Figure 2-5, DMNA Reg 672-1) and accompanied by a citation in accordance with the sample and guidelines outlined in Figure 2-6, DMNA Reg 672-1. Requests will be forwarded through command channels and each intermediate commander will provide appropriate recommendation in forwarding endorsement. Recommendations will be forwarded to the major component awards board for review, recommendation, and subsequent approval/disapproval by the commander.
Succeeding awards:
For each succeeding award, a Medal device (shield) will be attached to the suspension ribbon and the service ribbon. These devices shall be:
Silver to represent one additional award.
Gold to represent five additional awards.
Approving authority:
The approving authority for this award is the commander of each respective major component of the New York State Organized Militia.
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Pivotel, one of Nashville's top business internet services and business phone systems providers, has recently updated its online presence to meet customer demand. President Marcus McGee says an influx of online information requests drove the decision. Now, clients throughout the Nashville and Brentwood area can find out more about Pivotel's services before calling in for a quote.
Nashville, TN – Pivotel Networks is one of Nashville's leading telecommunications and technology companies. As such, Marcus wanted to showcase his company's technology solutions online. This has been achieved by updating the company's website to allow customers to pull additional information about products and services before calling in an expert.
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UCaaS. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is a scalable and flexible communication platform that allows businesses access to as many "seats" as needed to ensure that each employee can utilize voice and chat communications. Business phone systems operate on a VoIP platform that continually upgrades as technology changes.
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Q: Auto Scaling, Elastic IP When I use Network Load Balancer with Auto Scaling, everytime an instance is spawned it gets a new public IP.
I would like to have an EIP for each instance. I was hoping that when I assigned an EIP to availability zones in the Network Loadbalancer configuration would do the trick.
Is there a a way to have autoscale and static IPs for the instances spawned?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/
According to this it looks it's not possible:

Unfortunately, there is no way to make autoscaling automatically
  assign an Elastic IP address to newly launched instances

Static IP for Auto Scale in AWS
and according to this:
Assigning static IPs to auto scaled EC2 instance

A: Write a script and put it on your startup script in launch configuration for your autoscale group, that script can do anything you want, range from assigning the new EIP to check other services for the white/blacklist.
For more info read
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html

A: As others have mentioned this can be accomplished by provisioning new EIP and using UserData to associate the instance with newly issued EIP. However, following setup would have the following issues:
1) EIP have limits by default its 5 per VPC, and even you can increase the limit you need to know the maximum number of EIP your VPC will use
2) When instance gets terminated you will need to create a process to delete staled EIP or figure out how to reassociated previously allocated EIP
Having said that I do use a static EIP in my ASG but its only for HA rather than scalability, so in the following example I'm reusing existing EIP each time I launch a new instance
            #!/bin/bash -xe
            INSTANCE_ID=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
            aws ec2 disassociate-address --association-id ${OpenPVNEIP.AllocationId} --region ${AWS::Region} || true
            aws ec2 associate-address --instance-id "${!INSTANCE_ID}" --allocation-id ${OpenPVNEIP.AllocationId} --region ${AWS::Region}

A: I created a Lambda inside a private subnet.
I linked the private subnet to a NAT Gateway and thus I managed to get a static IP for my Lambda. The limit of 5 EIPs was an issue for me.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/internet-access-lambda-function/

A: With EC2 & Auto scaling, You need using user data in EC2 to Auto Attach Elastic IP to EC2 Instance For Auto scaling
#!/bin/bash
aws configure set aws_access_key_id "XYZ..."
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key "ABC..."
aws configure set region "ap-..."
aws ec2 associate-address --instance-id "$(curl -X GET "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id")" --public-ip your_elastic_IP

Note: you should create new user & IAM have only permission associate-address to create/get aws key
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unix meaning
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Noun: UNIX
Trademark for a powerful operating system
- UNIX system, UNIX operating system
Derived forms: UNIXs
Type of: operating system, OS
Encyclopedia: UNIX
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<operating system> /yoo'niks/ (Or "UNIX", in the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics") Plural "Unices". An interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C, is considered a co-author of the system.
The turning point in Unix's history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972 - 1974, making it the first source-portable OS. Unix subsequently underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment.
By 1991, Unix had become the most widely used multi-user general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people consider this the most important victory yet of hackerdom over industry opposition (but see Unix weenie and Unix conspiracy for an opposing point of view).
Unix is now offered by many manufacturers and is the subject of an international standardisation effort Unix-like operating systems include AIX, A/UX, BSD, Debian, FreeBSD, GNU, HP-UX, Linux, NetBSD, NEXTSTEP, OpenBSD, OPENSTEP, OSF, POSIX, RISCiX, Solaris, SunOS, System V, Ultrix, USG Unix, Version 7, Xenix.
"Unix" or "UNIX"? Both seem roughly equally popular, perhaps with a historical bias toward the latter. "UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group, however, since it is a name and not an acronym, "Unix" has been adopted in this dictionary except where a larger name includes it in upper case. Since the OS is case-sensitive and exists in many different versions, it is fitting that its name should reflect this.
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Junaid speaks about his singing video from his nikkah reception that went viral.
The newlywed groom says he never took any singing classes.
Junaid is a big Muhammad Rafi fan and admirer of his song, kya hua tera waada.
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The video of Junaid crooning the famous song at his wedding reception had gone viral on social media platforms soon after he posted it on his Instagram handle yesterday.
Junaid has been married to former politician Saif-ur-Rehman's daughter, Aisha Saif Khan, on Sunday during a private ceremony at the luxurious Lanesborough Hotel in London.
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Former Obama officials hammering Biden on Afghanistan highlighted in scorching RNC ad
The Republican National Committee (RNC) highlighted Obama-era officials hammering President Biden's handling the botched Afghanistan troop withdrawal.
The new RNC ad compiles clips of officials from former President Obama's administration weighing in on the Afghanistan crisis caused by Biden's hasty troop withdrawal.
"Joe Biden is to blame for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal," the RNC's research arm tweeted Friday. "Don't take it from us, take it from Obama-Biden administration officials."
BIDEN PRESIDENCY TEETERING AMID CALLS TO RESIGN, POTENTIAL INVESTIGATIONS OVER US DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN
"This Afghan government was going to collapse rapidly because of the way in which we got out," Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a CBS interview highlighted in the video.
"I think of John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs," Obama-era CIA director Leon Panetta said in a CNN interview. "It unfolded quickly, and the president thought everything would be fine and that was not the case."
Obama's Afghanistan Ambassador Ryan Crocker remarked the botched withdrawal has "created a global crisis," while Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod called the pullout a "disaster" and said the execution was indefensible.
The ad also highlighted comparisons by former CIA director John Brennan and other high-ranking Obama officials of the fall of Afghanistan to the Dunkirk evacuation and the fall of Saigon.
The RNC ad comes as the clock ticks down toward the Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline and the Taliban consolidates power in the region.
The Afghan capital of Kabul was rocked by a suicide attack on Thursday that killed at least 13 service members and more than 90 Afghan civilians.
Houston Keene is a reporter for Fox News Digital. You can find him on Twitter at @HoustonKeene.
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The odds are the 2016 riding season will kick off early, with an epic ride.
Our pre-move preparations got me into the garage on Sunday. We're not hoarders so there wasn't much to discard, other than my Honda Civic.
The lease is at an end and we have decided not to buy the car. We have offered it to friends and family because it's a steal. A 2012 Civic, nicely equipped, in top notch condition, with 45,000 kms on the clock, for less than $9k. But... it's a manual transmission so there are no takers. Heave-ho, ciao, and bon voyage, it's been nice to know ya! It goes back on Wednesday, so I kicked it out of the garage to let the Vespa take its place.
Before the Vespa starts the season it needs to have its Heaterz heated grips swapped out for Hot Grips. You see, the right Heaterz grip is defective and so the pair has got to go. I've had the Hot Grips waiting in the wings for almost a year, and now's the time. Nothing but the best from now on.
This year the inaugural ride will be, weather permitting (he writes, mentally crossing his fingers), my exodus run.
Five hundred kilometers in a bee line down the 401 from Montreal to Toronto on March 30. Even with the winter weather somewhat at bay, I'll need all the cold riding gear in top shape.
As for a car in my future, time will tell. Right now I'm hankering for a two door Jeep Wrangler, soft top, black or blue, manual, to which I'll add half-doors to be skinned with the Life on two wheels logo. Such a specific daydream. Who knows?
In the meantime that grip job awaits. Depending on how that goes, maybe I'll install the new rollers I picked up last fall. It will be a good excuse for using the new torque wrench Susan got me for Christmas.
A Jeep!? Somehow that doesn't seem to fit. How about a Unimog?
That Civic would be a steal! It's a shame so few people even know how to drive a manual car. I hope the weather cooperates!
If I were wealthy I would certainly have one of those. My real dream is a Land Rover 110, but a real Jeep comes real close, close enough in fact.
The ability to handle a manual transmission is really important when it comes to renting cars in Europe.
David, in my humble opinion: Manual is the only way to drive; two-wheelers are FAR more deserving of garage space than automobiles; and if you get yourself a Jeep that's all dressed up with L2W logos, you'll be pert near guaranteed an accidental cameo in the next Jurassic installment, and the results mightn't be too pretty. :D We'll just start calling you David "T-Rex Lunch" Masse.
An exodus ride -- I like the imagery that creates in my head. Good luck and be safe on that ride.
Haven't test driven one in three years. Perhaps they have magically improved? Hope so.
How about a Pinz-Gauer instead of the Unimog? You'd be the talk of the neighborhood!
Quirky ride fits with the look, like a good coat of mud.
I don't want something mainstream, I want a bit of an outlier.
The best handling vehicle hands down was my Miata. Now I want a beast.
I love the Pinz-Gauer too, more than the Unimog. Wouldn't fit in the new underground parking.
First the Jeep and next thing you will be putting a surf board in the back seat?
I'll keep my fingers crossed that the weather gods will be with you end of the month.
I am surprised at how few people can drive a manual transmission these days. Seems like those of us born in the 70's were the last generation. Everything is so automatic and automated nowadays.
Me thinks you will have an adventure riding the Vespa to TO. Let's hope March goes out like a lamb just for you.
Thanks Sonja, heaven only knows what drives the weather. All I need is the promise of clear roads and no precipitation. Your kind wishes may well do the trick.
As for surfing, odds are I'd end up as shark bait.
Well Brandy, the good news is that at this time of year the weather in Toronto is generally quite a bit nicer than the weather here, so if it's OK here if anything it gets better as you head west. I still need to keep my fingers crossed and whisper incantations to the weather god.
It might have a longer wheelbase than a traditional Wrangler, which could provide a better ride (though for a factory automobile, nothing beats the Wrangler's shorter wheelbase for nitty gritty off-roading). I'm certainly keeping my eyes on this, as I had a brief love affair with a '53 Willys pickup. (sigh) It was just too impractical--so I sold it and bought an '05 Vespa GTS250.
Or--better yet--get yourself a custom job from legacypowerwagon.com, but be prepared to fork over a quarter of a million to half a million bucks.
Ry I've got shallow pockets, so if and when I pull the trigger, it will be on a used Wrangler. I'll be shopping from the dog pound, not the thoroughbred paddock.
A Jeep for David? Talk about a image shift. I purchased a Jeep when I lived in the Adirondacks. I wouldn't get another unless you like a hard ride or see yourself doing a lot of off-road travels, maybe Africa. Poor gas mileage, uncomfortable riding, etc. But, as our Northern Indiana Jones, maybe?
Jim I know about all the atrocious aspects of the legendary Jeep, but 1) doors that you remove or replace, 2) a windshield that folds down, 3) a roof that comes off, 4) unstoppable four wheel drive, 5) a floor with rain drains, and 6) a brute of a vehicle, that's what I need to experience. Indiana Jones? Maybe in some crevasse of my mind, back where I keep track of my Quark flashlight, Leatherman Wave, Tyrol hiking boots, and vintage Tilley hat.
March 30 - hope it is a great day for a ride!
Thanks Ed! I have to cross more appendages.
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Race Starts: Half 8:00 AM; 10k – 8:10 AM; 5k – 8:20 AM
Johnson Volvo Cars Durham:
966 Southpoint Autopark Blvd,
Start & Finish Location
We will start and finish at Johnson Volvo Cars Durham.
Address: 966 Southpoint Autopark Blvd, Durham, NC 27713
Getting to the Start Line & Road Closures
Audubon Lake Drive and Highgate Drive will be closed to traffic during the event.
Participants will need to access the start/finish venue from NC-751 on race morning and not from Highgate Drive to avoid road closures.
Runners can take I-40 to Exit 274 and then turn directly onto Southpoint Autopark Blvd from NC-751 to reach the start area.
Plenty of parking will be available to runners at Johnson Volvo Cars Durham: 966 Southpoint Autopark Blvd, Durham, NC 27713
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View all course information including course maps, an elevation map, hydration and medical stations, and spectator locations here!
All distances will utilize chip timing.
Runners in the Half Marathon will have a time limit of 3 and a half hours.
Any runners remaining on the course after the time limit will no longer be considered race participants and will be required to follow pedestrian laws. Official times and post-race amenities cannot be guaranteed for runners who finish after the time limit. Please note, there will note be a sag wagon available to pick up runners who are unable to meet this time limit.
Finisher Medal
Only half marathon participants will receive a finisher medal at the finish line.
Overall Awards
Awards will be given to male and female overall group winners based upon gun time.
Overall awards will be given to the top THREE finishers for the half marathon.
Overall awards will be given to the FIRST PLACE finisher only for the 10k and 5k.
Overall awards for the 5k and 10k will be announced at 9:15am.
Overall awards for the half marathon awards will be announced at 10:15am.
Winners must be present to receive their award; awards will not be mailed out.
Age Group Awards
Age group awards will be given to male and female age group award winners based on chip time.
Age group awards will be given to the top THREE finishers for the half marathon.
Age group awards will be given to the FIRST PLACE finisher in the 10K and 5K.
Age group awards for the 5k and 10k can be claimed at the Race 13.1 Customer Service tent following the announcement of the overall awards for the 5k and 10k.
Age group awards for the half marathon can be claimed at the Race 13.1 Customer Service tent following the announcement of the overall awards for the half marathon.
Age groups are as follows: 19 & under; 20-24; 25-29; 30-34; 35-39; 40-44; 45-49; 50-54; 55-59; 60-64; 65-69; 70-up.


On July 1, 2014, part of a 2012 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule became active that will make it easier for voters to know who is paying for political TV advertisements.
In April 2012, the FCC decided in a 2-1 vote to require the four biggest broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox — to make public their contracts with purchasers of ad time. Since August 2012, the FCC has run a website that allows viewers to search these purchases by network and to view contract information, including who purchased the spot, its cost, and how often it will run.
Initially, the rule applied only to affiliates of the "Big Four" in the 50 largest media markets, which aired approximately 60 percent of the nation's total ads.
In 2012, advertisers spent $3.1 billion to run political ads on local TV stations.
As of July 1, 2014, however, every station — large and small — from the nation's 210 media markets must now disclose its ad files, expanding the number of affiliates that must comply from roughly 230 in 2012 to over 2,000 now.
These recent disclosures reveal that advertising activity for the 2014 midterm elections is already well underway across the country — especially by Super PACs and other outside groups — in states and media markets where such ad files were previously more difficult to obtain.
In Louisiana, for instance, a conservative 501(c)(4) group named Generation Opportunity has already spent more than $50,000 to purchase 183 ads in the Lake Charles, Lafayette, and New Orleans markets. Generation Opportunity has raised millions of dollars — the bulk of its funding — from groups related to the Koch brothers and ran advertisements in 2013 featuring a large and creepy Uncle Sam that were meant to discourage young adults from enrolling in the health care exchanges.
Also, Senate Majority PAC has spent over $35,000 to purchase 107 spots in the state to help incumbent Mary Landrieu (D-LA) defend her seat.
The new disclosure rules show that outside groups have also already scheduled ad spots in other states with highly contested congressional seats.
The availability of these ad files makes it easier to enforce existing campaign finance regulations, which have been greatly altered in recent elections since the Citizens United case in 2010.
Other organizations that may purchase TV ads are tax-exempt 501(c) groups, the most politically active of which are 501(c)(4)s.
Politically active organizations often maintain 2 distinct operations: one Super PAC and one 501(c) entity.
Organizations in this class are registered with the IRS as "social welfare" groups and may not make political activism their primary focus. These 501(c)(4) groups may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money so long as their political expenditures do not account for more than half of their total spending, and they are not required to disclose their donors.
Many politically active organizations often maintain two distinct operations — one Super PAC and one 501(c) entity — in order to maximize their spending capabilities while withholding information about the sources of their fundraising.
One such group is Karl Rove's Crossroads organization, which is represented by two related entities: Crossroads GPS, a 501(c)(4), and American Crossroads, a Super PAC.
The shell game works like this: a group may raise millions of dollars through its non-profit, tax-exempt organization and then transfer that money to its related Super PAC — some of which share the same address or PO Box. When the Super PAC opens its books, rather than revealing the names and amounts of individual contributors, one sees the bloc contribution from the non-disclosing 501(c) entity, effectively withholding the names of donors from view.
The FCC rule mandating that broadcasters disclose their sources of revenue from political advertisers online is expected to increase accountability.
TV viewers now have a simpler way to identify which groups are purchasing ads in their home towns and how much they are spending.
The 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform required broadcasters to keep track of any ad considered a "political matter of national importance." If an ad met this standard, the broadcaster had to indicate the name of the candidate being featured, the office being contested, or the issue being discussed.
However, when the Sunlight Foundation, a democracy watchdog group, took a random sample of 200 ad files, it found that many filers failed to properly disclose the name of the candidate or election. Now that citizens can view these files easily and report omissions, there will be a greater incentive for full compliance.
The mandate is also expected to encourage transparency.
Before the FCC's 2012 rule, citizens who wanted to know about a station's ad revenue had to visit the station in person and request to see their paper documents. Volunteers shared their findings through searchable online databases such as Political Ad Sleuth.
TV viewers now have a simpler way to identify which groups are purchasing ads in their home towns and how much they are spending — a major boon to citizens in the post-Citizens United environment.


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Cove Springs Park and Nature Preserve-Frankfort, KY The park consists of 240 acres of wetlands, streams and springs. There are two waterfalls, Hurst Falls and Cove Spring Falls. This site was previously a reservoir that served as the primary drinking water source for Frankfort and still contains remains of the original water works in various stages of disrepair. The most prominent artifacts are the stone dam and limestone overflow tower, but other waterworks ruins can be found throughout the park


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MTN Nigeria Launches Its Mobile Money
MTN mobile money, Momo-Agent
MTN Nigeria officially launched its mobile money – Yello Digital Financial Services Limited (YDFS), otherwise called MoMo Agents, on the 29th of August, 2019, at Abuja.
Yello Digital Financial Services Limited (YDFS) is a subsidiary of MTN operating with a license from the Central Bank of Nigeria since July 2019 to offer financial services to enhance financial inclusion.
YDFS director Usoro Usoro said that the introduction of mobile money services is to help mobile phone users make payments and transfer money easily.
Nigeria has an enormous population in Africa, hence serving as MTNs largest market.
Recall that MTN is Nigeria's largest telecommunication network with over 90 million users.
Highlight on the Activities of MoMo Agents
You will find below how MoMo agents operate;
Customers can only transfer the lowest amount of one hundred naira and the highest of one hundred thousand naira. The limit of some agents is fifty thousand naira.
Every transfer incurs a 50 naira charge to the agents paying and a 50 naira charge to the sender, making it a total of 100 naira.
To begin with, customers will have to send a free text and get an immediate reply displaying information about nearby agents.
Upon selecting an agent, the customer will transfer the desired fund to the agent and then receive a code to give the receiver access to the fund.
The receiver will have to take the code to a nearby agent to collect the transferred money.
The receipt expires within 30 days, which means that the receiver has to claim the money within the period.
Mobile Money Scheme in Other African Countries
Already Kenya is the highest African country with the most successful mobile money services. It has lifted 194,000 of Kenya's population out of poverty.
Ghana, however, has the most successful MTN MoMo service operations in West Africa. Ghana describes the mobile money services by MTN as an inexpensive, speedy, safe, and convenient way of recharging credit, transferring money, and paying bills by phone or online.
You do not need to travel long distances to the bank and stand in long queues because you can make your transactions with your phone. MTN partners with many banks to offer their services.
Mobile Money Market in Nigeria
Despite the population of Nigeria of over 200 million people, the majority of the people are unbanked, especially those in the rural areas.
About 65% of Nigeria's population is in the informal sector. The mobile money services will also reach these people, encouraging the Central Bank of Nigeria's financial inclusion policy.
Nigeria has 21 certified mobile money agents, but Paga, established in 2009, is the market leader.
Even though Paga has been with about twenty-three thousand agents and eight million users, MTN can use its goodwill and customer relation to reach as many unbanked populations as possible.
By 2025, market experts forecast that the mobile money market will mature to $73bn, making 25.6% CAGR as the Central Bank of Nigeria issues out licenses to mobile money agencies.
MTN and Flutterwave Mobile Money Partnership
On the 9th of September, 2021, MTN had announced its partnership with Flutterwave – a top payment technology company in Africa.
The partnership enables mobile money users in Zambia, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda, and Cote d'Ivoire to receive money from the MoMo agent.
From the report of MTN, MoMo agents in Nigeria are up to 581,514 and 48.9 million users as of June ending 2021.
GSMA forecasted that by 2025, Africa would reach a 50% subscription and a global record of 45% mobile subscribers.
In a comment, the CEO and founder of Fluterwave, Olugbenga "GB" Agboola, said that seeing the recent and potential growth in mobile money across Africa, partnering with MTN is to support the growth process.
Is there MTN mobile money in Nigeria?
MTN mobile money, which allows you to transfer money into your e-wallet account, collaborates with many banks in Nigeria.
When did MTN Nigeria officially launch a mobile money agent?
On the 29th of August, 2021, MTN officially launched its mobile money agents – MoMo agents. The agency allows users to transfer money, receive cash, and pay bills of all kinds.
When was MTN mobile money introduced?
MTN first introduced its mobile money, MoMo Agent, in the year 2009 in Ghana. Ever since the introduction of MoMo Agents, it has been spreading its services across the continent.
When did mobile money start in Nigeria?
Mobile money first started in Nigeria in the year 2009 with the Paga mobile money services.
As MTNs MoMo Agents expands its base to the 36 states of the federation, they also expect to reach out to 500,000 agents.
Just as Dr. Olayinka David-West rightly said, the mobile money industry needs patient capital as it is long term venture.
In terms of distribution, MoMo Agent should make a thorough observation to reach out to the target audience, especially the unbanked population.
Also, they should put other strategies like good collaboration with relevant companies in place to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction.
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The 2009 Nobel prize for economics recently was awarded to two Americans – Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson – for complementary ideas on economic governance.
Ostrom, a professor of political science at Indiana University, is the author of "Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action," and numerous articles, including "Policy Analysis in the Future of Good Societies," written earlier this decade.
In awarding the prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted that Ostrom "has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized." Such common property might include fisheries, forests, aquifers, and even the air. She suggests that, more often than thought, users can cooperatively manage the resources themselves to successfully obtain continuing joint benefits.
Common property forest resource management, for example, has been practiced and studied in China, India, Mali, Portugal, Sweden, and various other parts of the world. "When local users of a forest have a long-term perspective, they are more likely to monitor each other's use of the land, developing rules for behavior," Ostrom said.


Like how we take care of our physical health through periodic check-ups, inspecting the financial health from time to time is very important. We tend to look at what we eat, how we keep our lifestyle in order to have a healthy life.
In the same way, having a disciplined way of managing your portfolio will safeguard your future spending, earning and saving.
Personal finance management helps to plan our future appropriately. Read ahead to understand how one can analyse their personal finance strength with some easy to do ways.
I have seen families starting their monthly expenses after budgeting. They allocate a particular amount for each fixed expense like rent, education fees, petrol, commuting, etc., But, if you ask me how many of them check at the end of the month whether the money they spent on each task matches with what they budgeted. My answer is 'not so positive'.
This can be achieved by simply, but unfailingly following two steps.
Attaining financial goal is like a journey. Planning is necessary if you want to travel from one destination to another even within a city. Because planning gives us proper,safer and easier route to reach our destination. Likewise, planning is necessary in order to reach your financial goals which include but not limited to retirement benefit, healthcare etc.
Group them to make a considerable financial plan to secure your future.
After making financial plans, the most powerful process in personal finance management is supervising or monitoring the activities.
Identifying risk is an essential part in personal finance management.
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Not keeping minimum balance in bank accounts.
Many times, financial urgencies like illness, loss of job, family changes, long term disability, legal problem cause finance crisis.
Understanding the tactics to handle un-avoidable debt is very important in personal finance management. Not able to manage debt go to the extent of suicide. In case of insolvency, reach out for expert's guidance instead of taking any foolish step. There are legitimate ways that can help manage bankruptcy or unavoidable debt.


After 10 races on the Waitemata Harbour for the annual Maersk Line 18′ Skiff ANZAC Championship, Yamaha has come out as the clear winner.
David McDiarmid, Matt Stevens and Brad Collins have stayed in the top spot for the entire regatta with four guns out of ten races.
"Bloody good to come away with the win after finishing second at the JJ's. We are pretty stoked!" said skipper McDiarmid.
"Today was windy which was good. It was all on for the last couple of races. Matty was pretty good and only left the boat once! Brad was good too." continued McDiarmid.
Thurlow Fisher Lawyers were second place overall after missing race 10 due to a few issues.
"We were definitely gunning for the win! But it was a top event and Yamaha sailed really well and deserve the win. They are very consistent. We went into race nine after the doing the sums knowing that we had to beat them, but they are just too slippery upwind," said skipper Michael Coxon.
"We didn't end up racing the last race knowing what the outcome was going to be, and we had a few issues and a flight to catch so headed back to shore.
"Well done to Yamaha, they sailed extremely well. It was a great regatta, the race committee did a great job getting all the races away and finally we got the south wester with flat water and finished off the regatta with some breeze." continued Coxon.
Noakes Youth had a glamour end to their regatta finishing third overall – their first podium finish this season.
Skipper Ashlen Rooklyn was extremely happy with the great result.
"We were unlucky on our second day, but put our heads down and got a couple of seconds and ended up with a spot on the podium. We are really happy, but wouldn't be here without the support of Sean Langman," said Rooklyn.
At the prize giving, Yamaha thanked the "dingoes" for crossing the ditch to race in Auckland.
"Without you lot coming over, we don't get better. So thanks, and keep coming back, so we can beat you in Australia as well," laughed McDiarmid.
In 2015, the Auckland Sailing Club merged with Royal Akarana Yacht Club. ASC became the Auckland Skiff League, and the ANZAC Championship was the first major 18′ Skiff event managed by the RAYC team.
The 18's will now stay on the ramp at RAYC before being loaded back into containers and shipped to Fiji for the first annual Mark Foy Championship to be hosted by Denarau Yacht Club.
Nigel Skeggs from DYC was at the prize giving and was excited to soon be hosting the fleet of 18′ skiff sailors.
"The water temperature should be 28 degrees by then so leave your wetsuits at home!" said Skeggs.


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El río Xindian (en chino: 新店溪), también denominado Xindian Creek, es un afluente de 81 km que nace próximo a Toucheng, en la zona noreste de Taiwán y desemboca en el río Tamsui cerca de la ciudad de Taipéi.

Características

El río Xindian cubre una gran superficie de pozos profundos de agua y la zona esta considerada como uno de los ocho paisajes y doce puntos de veraneo de Taiwán desde els segundo año de la era Shōwa (1927) y ha sido incluido en los diez lugares más pintorescos de Taiwán por el Gobierno de la República de China en 1970. El área atrae cada año a turistas y a visitantes locales.

En el río Xindian existen tres grandes puentes conocidos como el puente norte de Bitan, construido en 1972, el puente de la autopista Formosa-Bitan, construido en 1996 y el puente Bi en el sur, también conocido como el puente colgante de Bitan, construido en 1937.

El pez nativo más conocido del río Xindian es el pescado dulce Plecoglossus altivelis, también conocido como ayu, que suele habitar en las corrientes claras y sin contaminación de agua fría. Durante la invasión de Japón y a partir de 1948, las regulaciones que se establecieron en la pesca consiguieron que se asegurase la reproducción y el desove de los peces.

También es nativo del río Xindian el Sicyopterus japonicus, también conocido como gobio monje una especie anfídroma, que desapareció durante veinte años, debido los daños producidos en el medio ambiente y redescubierto en Bitan en 2008 por un equipo de investigación de la Universidad Nacional de Educación Hsinchu, hecho que ha constatado que el proyecto para el saneamiento de la contaminación del río ha surtido efecto.

No obstante, el río Xindian sigue contaminado por el vertido de las aguas residuales y por la contaminación industrial de la industria ilegal. La restauración del curso de agua natural se encuentra en la actualidad en la agenda del Gobierno de la ciudad de Taipéi, del Gobierno Central de Taiwán Gobierno y de varias organizaciones ciudadanas.

Véase también

 Geografía de Taiwán
 Río Dajia
 Río Tamsui
 Río Keelung

Referencias

Enlaces externos

  Imágenes en Google sobre el río Xindian
  Imágenes en Flickr sobre  el río Xindian

Xindian

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Billy Joel Summer Highland Falls & More
Here on my Billy Joel Summer Highland Falls page you'll find acoustic tutorial demos, free chord sheets you can download in .pdf format, some tips on strumming these songs and low cost acoustic tutorials to assist you in playing Billy Joel tunes on the guitar.
Jump links to quickly access the sections.
Billy Joel's Dropdown Menu
1. A Matter Of Trust 2. Allentown 3. An Innocent Man 4. Honesty 5. It's Still RnR To Me 6. Just The Way You Are 7. Keeping The Faith 8. Only The Good Die Young 9. Piano Man 10. She's Always A Woman 11. She's Got A Way 12. Sleeping With The TV On 13. Summer Highland Falls 14. The River Of Dreams 15. Uptown Girl 16. We Didn't Start The Fire 17. Your May Be Right 18. You're My Home
Billy Joel Summer Highland Falls
As you know, Billy Joel has been an influence in music culture since 1965. It's no coincidence that he and Elton John have become great friends through the years. Their talents are on the same instrument, they started during the same period (Sir Elton in 1962) and both are close to the same age (Joel is 73 and Elton 75 in 2022).
1. A Matter Of Trust
A Matter Of Trust released this song in the summer of 1986 from his album "The Bridge".
The song reached #10 in the US and #3 in Canada. The music video for this one featured Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney as spectators and is the only music video featuring Billy Joel playing guitar.
Rhythm: down down up down down up down up and repeat
Chords: D, Bm, Gbm, A, D, Em, Dmaj7
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2. Allentown
Allentown was a #1 hit in Australia and reached #17 in the US. The song has taken on a persona as a representation of the working class blue collar man. Joel began writing this song in the 1970's but never finished it until 1982. He called it Allentown not because it was an industrial steel town like Bethlehem PA and Levittown NY, but because it was easier to write lines that rhyme with Allentown.
One of those Billy Joel guitar songs that has it's own special vibe to try and capture on an acoustic. Find this track on the 1982 album "The Nylon Curtain".
Picking: No but a few riffs in the rhythm
Chords: C, Em, D, G, A7, Am7, Bm, Gbm, A#, F
3. An Innocent Man
An Innocent Man hails from the 1983 Billy Joel album of the same name. This song pays respect to Ben E King and The Drifters and Joel commented he went for the high notes in this one while he still had the vocal range.
The song peaked at #10 on the billboard Hot 100.
Chords: C, Dm, F, G, A#
4. Honesty
Honesty was released in May of 1979 from the "52nd Street" album which was released a year earlier. The song was a #1 hit in France and peaked at #24 in the US.
Joel has performed this song with Elton John on occasion. This is one of those great Billy Joel guitar songs that everyone knows well.
Capo: No - original key 1 fret higher
Chords: A, A/Gb, Fmaj7, E7, D, E, Dbm, Gbm, B7, Esus, E, Fdim, Ab, Dbsus, Dmaj7, Gbm/E, Db7, A7, E7
5. It's Still Rock N Roll To Me
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me was a #1 hit in the US during the summer of 1980. If you listen closely you'll hear that the snare drum is tuned lower than usual which was a technique requested by the sound engineer of drummer Liberty Devitto.
The song was also a #1 in Canada. The song hails from the "Glass Houses" album.
Capo: 3rd fret
Picking: Yes a little
Chords: A, Dbm, G, D, Gbm, B7, E, Bm, Db, F, C
6. Just The Way You Are
Just The Way You Are hails from "The Stranger" album from 1977. This was a career launching song for Joel as his first top 10 in the US, reaching #3, and won Grammy's for Record Of the Year and Song Of The Year.
Yeah that will get you noticed for sure. The released single was about a minute shorter than the album version.
Rhythm: down down up down up down up and repeat
Chords: D, Dsus, Bm, G, D7, Gm, G6, Am, Esus, E, A7, Em, Gbm, B7
7. Keeping The Faith
Keeping The Faith is from the album "An Innocent Man" and peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Christy Brinkley, Richard Pryor and Joe Piscopo all appear in the music video.
Rhythm: a steady down up down up shuffle
Chords: D, G, A, Em
8. Only The Good Die Young
Only The Good Die Young was one of four singles were released from "The Stranger" album back in 1977. Because the song was considered anti-catholic at the time because the guy in the song was lusting after a catholic girl, many radio stations got pressure from the church.
Of course the controversy drove up sales as it always does. And the guy in the song never scored with the girl in the end. The song peaked at #24 in the US.
Picking: Yes a little in rhythm
Chords: F, G, Am, C, D, C7
9. Piano Man
Piano Man reflects what Billy Joel played in the bar scenes in the beginning of his climb, and this song reflects some of the characters he'd encounter in piano lounges in Los Angeles in the early 1970's. This song was his first major hit peaking at #4 on the Easy Listening chart.
During the last half of the 1970's, all of Billy Joel's singles did better in Canada than in the US. The track can be found on the "Piano Man" album of 1973.
Chords: C, G6, Am, Am/G, F, G, Em, D, D/Gb
10. She's Always A Woman
She's Always A Woman was a #17 hit for Billy Joel back in 1977.
The song hails from the album "The Stranger".
Chords: D, Dsus, A, G, D/Gb, Gb, Bm, Bm/A, A7, A/Db, Bm/Ab, E, A/Ab, Gm, Em, Dm, Dm/C, Dm/B, C, G6, A#, A#/A, E/Ab, E7
11. She's Got A Way
She's Got A Way goes all the way back to 1971 to the album "Cold Spring Harbour".
Billy Joel wrote this one about his first wife Elizabeth and mentioned the song was a bit corny but he re-recorded it again in 1981 for his first live album, "Songs In The Attic".
Rhythm: down strokes or use a down down up down down up
Chords: G, D/Gb, Em, G7, C, D, Ebmaj9, Csus2, Am, Gm, D/Db, Edim, Bm, D7, B7, Gb, Em7
12. Sleeping With The Television On
Sleeping With The Television On was on the 1980 "Glass Houses" album.
The song was never released as a single.
Rhythm: up up down up down up down up and repeat
Chords: Gmaj7, A, Bm/D, D, A/C#, Bm, G, D/F#, Bm, Em, F#, D/Gb, A7
13. Summer Highland Falls
Summer Highland Falls is from his Turnstyles album in 1976. Often times musicians don't record with the same people you see on stage. There are "studio musicians" and "live on tour stage musicians".
This entire "Turnstyles" album was re-recorded after Joel was disappointed with the initial recording using studio musicians. So he used his road band in the studio to re-do the entire album and took over himself as producer.
Rhythm: down up down up up down up and repeat
Chords: D, D/Gb, Em, G, A7, E7, A#, Bm, Bm/A, E, A, A7sus, A7, C
14. The River Of Dreams
The River Of Dreams is from the album of the same name and hit the airwaves as a single in 1993.
The song reached #1 in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Capo: 3rd fret - original key = no capo
Rhythm: down up up down up down up and repeat
Chords: G, C, D, Em, Em/D, A7
15. Uptown Girl
Uptown Girl inspiration for this song came from an encounter with Christy Brinkley, Whitey Houston and Elle McPherson and was going to call the song Uptown Girls, but then changed the title. He also said Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons gave him the idea for the vibe of the song.
It was a #1 in five countries but peaked at #2 in the US.
This one should be on your Billy Joel guitar songs setlist for a bar. This track is on the album "An Innocent Man".
Rhythm: down down up down up down up repeat
Chords: D, Em, Gbm, G, A7, A#, Gm, Cm, F, Am, Fdim
16. We Didn't Start The Fire
We Didn't Start The Fire was one of seven singles released from the album "Storm Front" in 1989-1990.
This was the biggest single reaching #1 in the US and a top 10 in several other countries.
Rhythm: down down up down down down up down and repeat
Picking: Yes a few riffs in the rhythm
Chords: G, D, Em, C, A
17. You May Be Right
You May Be Right peaked at #7 in the US and #6 in Canada.
The track can be found on the "Glass Houses" album from 1980.
Chords: A, E, Bm, G, E7, D, Gbm
18. You're My Home
You're My Home came about as Billy Joel was broke in 1973 while out n California and couldn't afford to buy his wife at the time a Valentines Day gift, so he wrote this song for her instead.
Helen Ready covered the song but Joel apparently did not really like her version. This track is on the 1981 album "Songs In The Attic".
Rhythm: down up down up down up with a steady shuffle
Chords: D, Dmaj7, G, A7, D7, Gbm, Em, Bm, A
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Built in the early 1960s by a French concern, the Lang-Xang Hotel is just one street from the "Nam Phu" central fountain, close to travel services, airline offices and banks.


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