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National Wildlife Federation CEO shares how his team approaches conservation during Covid-19
Colin O'Mara, CEO of the National Wildlife Federation
Opinion: Investing in natural climate solutions will get us back to work and prevent future crises
The COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdown have struck down hard on countless environmental efforts. Among the damage, fish and wildlife conservation is particularly vulnerable. And recent rollbacks on countless environmental protection acts — including the Endangered Species Act — suggest a difficult recovery for conservation. What's worse is a lot of work in conservation depends on the ecotourism industry, which has understandably seen better days. The National Wildlife Federation, the largest American private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization with over 6 million members, has seen this challenge play out first-hand.
Recently, I sat down with Collin O'Mara, the National Wildlife Federation's CEO. Together, to discuss how his organization is working to propel conservation forward despite political turbulence and the Covid-19 pandemic. O'Mara also shares how conservation work at the national level can adjust to crises like this one.
Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
ARI KELO: How has the National Wildlife Federation changed its approach to wildlife conservation since the COVID-19 pandemic hit?
COLLIN O'MARA: There's more focus on the disease transmission. And we are primarily a domestic organization — 95% of our work is domestic. We've been doing more work internationally lately because we've been asked to help provide technical assistance and help approach ecological challenges.
There's also the issue of wet markets that also include wildlife markets. But there's also this challenge of habitat infringement and encroachment. So we're basically coming in contact with species that have much higher temperatures in the lake, so those are just pandemics waiting to happen. Some of these diseases that don't cause problems in the wildlife population because they're an outbreak at a higher temperature can be devastating if they're transmitted somehow to humans. And that's what we're experiencing.
So it's becoming less just about on-the-ground work, like moving dirt, restoring habitats, and planting trees, as much as it's about getting these policies in place. But there are serious people from both political parties in the US and leaders around the globe that are taking this very seriously. And now, all of a sudden, we're making it a priority to both obviously address the pandemic now, but prevent the next one too.
Beyond just the approach and process of wildlife conservation, how has the National Wildlife Federation been approaching its operations differently?
On the logistical side, obviously having our entire staff telecommuting across the country is a challenge. And at the same time, we do a lot of work with kids, so we're providing educational programming for 12,000 schools across the country. We provide the Major Rick magazine, so we do a lot of educational work. So we've tried to virtualize all of that material very quickly and made it more parent-friendly because a lot of it is written for teachers. And we're also trying to provide a ton of content and talks on just dealing with the reality of homeschooling and virtual learning.
We also run one of the largest wildlife gardening programs in the country. And since folks are spending more time outdoors, we're helping them have different tools and resources that are helpful to bring back pollinator populations and songbirds. So we have a lot of activity there.
And then we're deeply involved in the politics at the state capitals and Congress with the response. That's both on the wildlife disease side, which obviously was how this all started, as well as the recovery. And so we're helping make sure that folks don't have their water shut off because they no longer have the ability to pay their bills and making sure that there aren't other impacts, such as with communities of color.
Speaking of politics, how do you feel about the EPA's actions during Covid-19?
If you look at the mortality rates, folks that are in communities that already have higher levels of pollution are seeing significantly higher levels of mortality. So we're connecting some of those dots and also fighting against the EPA that's been weakening a lot of these protections in just a very unconscionable way.
I'm very active there and we'll be even more active in the weeks and months ahead as the conversation turns to recovery and making the case that we can put millions of people back to work. We're working on restoring natural resources, fixing parks, reforesting our national forests, reclaiming degraded land. We're almost like a civilian conservation corps for the 21st century, so we're deeply involved in those conversations too.
Overall, we're trying to just be helpers. I always like that Mr. Rogers quote, you know, when there's a crisis, look for the helpers. I think we're trying to be helpers during this time.
I've also seen some stories about how the decreased tourism since the stay at home orders began may have led to decreased funding for conservation efforts. Is this true for the National Wildlife Federation too?
The outdoor economy is an $887 billion industry in this country and folks aren't traveling, right? Folks are maybe using some trails if they're fortunate enough to have some kind of nature close to home or something similar. But we're seeing a lot of projects get pushed back. We're doing restoration projects all across the country where folks have to be more than six feet from coming in contact with each other. So a lot of that work's being delayed. A lot of that funding is being delayed. And a lot of the wildlife conservation funding in this country actually comes from the sale of things like firearms, ammunition, and fishing capital. And so some of those sales are up, some are down.
On the state side, you're seeing states that have had massive revenue collapses. And so now the portions of funding that came from general revenue sources are being eviscerated in some cases. So it's just very uneven right now. I'm optimistic that through the recovery packages, there will be enough bipartisan support for restoring natural resources that there'll be a lot of investment in this area. But you know, it's pretty bleak right now.
What other other sustainability-related challenges have been propelled by the Covid-19 pandemic that you hope we'll all start to talk more about?
One of the stories that hasn't really been covered yet is that over the next year or couple months, we're going to see massive kinds of climate impacts in different parts of the country. There's some really bad flooding going on right now in North Dakota that's going to move farther south.
Fire season is supposed to be very, very bad right now in the West and the Southwest. And then, who knows with hurricane season, but if it's anything like the last few, it could be really bad. So if you layer on top those kinds of natural disasters on weakened economies with state governments that have no money right now, high levels of illness, and health infrastructure that's already overwhelmed, it gets pretty scary, pretty fast.
In light of these unusual times, how are you, as CEO, keeping the National Wildlife Federation focused on its mission?
I think if we really lead with compassion, a lot of other things fall in place. And this new reality is showing some of the structural inequities in society, right? Take access to healthcare, access to clean water, or the impacts of pollution — the structural racism that's defined a lot of these systems is coming out in horrible ways.
And at the same time, a lot of the solutions are addressing these kinds of underlying natural resource issues. So I'm optimistic that we're seeing more folks understand what environmental justice is in this country right now because they're seeing these death rates. Then, all of a sudden, if you peel back though one more layer, you're like, "Oh, that's because folks have higher rates of respiratory illness or cardiovascular disease that's very related to the amount of pollution, which is different."
We have Mustafa Santiago Ali, who's our amazing leader who kind of built the environmental justice program at EPA. He now oversees our environmental justice work and he says that we've allowed these sacrifice zones to be created across this country. You'll have these large heavily polluting facilities in neighborhoods in some cases. And then you layer on top of it insufficient access to healthy food, insufficient access to health care services, etc.
So for us, it's just a matter of staying relevant and also not being taking advantage of a situation. Instead, we try to make the case that the reason we need clean air and clean water is the same as the reason we need healthy wildlife habitats. It's to make sure that every community has the same opportunities.
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package com.tvd12.ezyfox.testing.io;

import com.tvd12.ezyfox.builder.EzyArrayBuilder;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.builder.EzyObjectBuilder;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.entity.EzyArray;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.entity.EzyObject;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.factory.EzyEntityFactory;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.io.EzyOutputTransformer;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.io.EzySingletonOutputTransformer;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.io.EzyStrings;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.security.EzyBase64;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.testing.entity.EzyEntityTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public class EzyLiteOutputTransformerTest extends EzyEntityTest {

    private final EzyOutputTransformer transformer =
        EzySingletonOutputTransformer.getInstance();

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new EzyLiteOutputTransformerTest().test5();
    }

    @Test
    public void test() {
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(true, false, true), boolean[].class),
            new boolean[]{true, false, true});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray((byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3), byte[].class),
            new byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(new byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3}, byte[].class),
            new byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray('a', 'b', 'c'), char[].class),
            new char[]{'a', 'b', 'c'});
        assertEquals(transform(new byte[]{'a', 'b', 'c'}, char[].class),
            new char[]{'a', 'b', 'c'});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1D, 2D, 3D), double[].class),
            new double[]{1D, 2D, 3D});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1F, 2F, 3F), float[].class),
            new float[]{1F, 2F, 3F});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1, 2, 3), int[].class),
            new int[]{1, 2, 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1L, 2L, 3L), long[].class),
            new long[]{1L, 2L, 3L});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray((short) 1, (short) 2, (short) 3), short[].class),
            new short[]{(short) 1, (short) 2, (short) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray("a", "b", "c"), String[].class),
            new String[]{"a", "b", "c"});

        assertEquals(transform(newArray(true, false, true), Boolean[].class),
            new Boolean[]{true, false, true});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray((byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3), Byte[].class),
            new Byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(new byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3}, Byte[].class),
            new Byte[]{(byte) 1, (byte) 2, (byte) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray('a', 'b', 'c'), Character[].class),
            new Character[]{'a', 'b', 'c'});
        assertEquals(transform(new byte[]{'a', 'b', 'c'}, Character[].class),
            new Character[]{'a', 'b', 'c'});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1D, 2D, 3D), Double[].class),
            new Double[]{1D, 2D, 3D});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1F, 2F, 3F), Float[].class),
            new Float[]{1F, 2F, 3F});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1, 2, 3), Integer[].class),
            new Integer[]{1, 2, 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray(1L, 2L, 3L), Long[].class),
            new Long[]{1L, 2L, 3L});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray((short) 1, (short) 2, (short) 3), Short[].class),
            new Short[]{(short) 1, (short) 2, (short) 3});
        assertEquals(transform(newArray("a", "b", "c"), String[].class),
            new String[]{"a", "b", "c"});
    }

    @Test
    public void test1() {
        assertEquals(transform(true, boolean.class), true);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, byte.class), (byte) 1);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, char.class), (char) 1);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, double.class), 1D);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, float.class), 1F);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, int.class), 1);
        assertEquals(transform((byte) 1, long.class), 1L);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, short.class), (short) 1);

        assertEquals(transform(true, Boolean.class), true);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Byte.class), (byte) 1);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Character.class), (char) 1);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Double.class), 1D);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Float.class), 1F);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Integer.class), 1);
        assertEquals(transform((byte) 1, Long.class), 1L);
        assertEquals(transform(1L, Short.class), (short) 1);
        assertEquals(transform("a", String.class), "a");
    }

    @Test
    public void test2() {
        String encode = EzyBase64.encode2utf(EzyStrings.getUtfBytes("dungtv"));
        assertEquals(transform(encode, byte[].class), EzyStrings.getUtfBytes("dungtv"));
    }

    @Test
    public void test3() {
        char[] chs = new char[]{'d', 'u', 'n', 'g', 't', 'v'};
        String string = new String(chs);
        assertEquals(transform(string, char[].class), chs);
    }

    @Test
    public void test4() {
        EzyObject obj = newObjectBuilder()
            .append("1", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new boolean[]{true, false, true})
                .append(new boolean[]{false, true, false})
                .append(new boolean[]{true, false, true}))
            .append("2", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new byte[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new byte[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new byte[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("3", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new char[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new char[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new char[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("4", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new double[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new double[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new double[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("5", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new float[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new float[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new float[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("6", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new int[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new int[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new int[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("7", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new long[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new long[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new long[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("8", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new short[]{1, 2, 3})
                .append(new short[]{4, 5, 6})
                .append(new short[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("9", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new String[]{"1", "2", "3"},
                    new String[]{"4", "5", "6"},
                    new String[]{"7", "8", "9"}))
            .append("10", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Boolean[]{true, false, true},
                    new Boolean[]{false, true, false},
                    new Boolean[]{true, false, true}))
            .append("11", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Byte[]{1, 2, 3},
                    new Byte[]{4, 5, 6},
                    new Byte[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("12", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Character[]{1, 2, 3},
                    new Character[]{4, 5, 6},
                    new Character[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("13", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Double[]{1D, 2D, 3D},
                    new Double[]{4D, 5D, 6D},
                    new Double[]{7D, 8D, 9d}))
            .append("14", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Float[]{1F, 2F, 3F},
                    new Float[]{4F, 5F, 6F},
                    new Float[]{7F, 8F, 9F}))
            .append("15", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Integer[]{1, 2, 3},
                    new Integer[]{4, 5, 6},
                    new Integer[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .append("16", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Long[]{1L, 2L, 3L},
                    new Long[]{4L, 5L, 6L},
                    new Long[]{7L, 8L, 9L}))
            .append("17", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(new Short[]{1, 2, 3},
                    new Short[]{4, 5, 6},
                    new Short[]{7, 8, 9}))
            .build();
        test(obj);

    }

    @Test
    public void test5() {
        EzyObject obj = newObjectBuilder()
            .append("1", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(true, false, true))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(false, true, false))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(true, false, true)))
            .append("2", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("3", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("4", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("5", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("6", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("7", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("8", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("9", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append("1", "2", "3"))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append("4", "5", "6"))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append("7", "8", "9")))
            .append("10", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(true, false, true))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(false, true, false))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(true, false, true)))
            .append("11", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("12", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("13", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1D, 2D, 3D))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4D, 5D, 6D))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7D, 8D, 9d)))
            .append("14", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1F, 2F, 3F))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4F, 5F, 6F))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7F, 8F, 9F)))
            .append("15", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .append("16", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1L, 2L, 3L))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4L, 5L, 6L))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7L, 8L, 9L)))
            .append("17", newArrayBuilder()
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(1, 2, 3))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(4, 5, 6))
                .append(newArrayBuilder().append(7, 8, 9)))
            .build();
        test(obj);

    }

    public void test(EzyObject obj) {
        //check
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("1", boolean[][].class), new boolean[][]{
            new boolean[]{true, false, true},
            new boolean[]{false, true, false},
            new boolean[]{true, false, true}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("2", byte[][].class), new byte[][]{
            new byte[]{1, 2, 3},
            new byte[]{4, 5, 6},
            new byte[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("3", char[][].class), new char[][]{
            new char[]{1, 2, 3},
            new char[]{4, 5, 6},
            new char[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("4", double[][].class), new double[][]{
            new double[]{1, 2, 3},
            new double[]{4, 5, 6},
            new double[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("5", float[][].class), new float[][]{
            new float[]{1, 2, 3},
            new float[]{4, 5, 6},
            new float[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("6", int[][].class), new int[][]{
            new int[]{1, 2, 3},
            new int[]{4, 5, 6},
            new int[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("7", long[][].class), new long[][]{
            new long[]{1, 2, 3},
            new long[]{4, 5, 6},
            new long[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("8", short[][].class), new short[][]{
            new short[]{1, 2, 3},
            new short[]{4, 5, 6},
            new short[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("9", String[][].class), new String[][]{
            new String[]{"1", "2", "3"},
            new String[]{"4", "5", "6"},
            new String[]{"7", "8", "9"}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("10", Boolean[][].class), new Boolean[][]{
            new Boolean[]{true, false, true},
            new Boolean[]{false, true, false},
            new Boolean[]{true, false, true}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("11", Byte[][].class), new Byte[][]{
            new Byte[]{1, 2, 3},
            new Byte[]{4, 5, 6},
            new Byte[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("12", Character[][].class), new Character[][]{
            new Character[]{1, 2, 3},
            new Character[]{4, 5, 6},
            new Character[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("13", Double[][].class), new Double[][]{
            new Double[]{1D, 2D, 3D},
            new Double[]{4D, 5D, 6D},
            new Double[]{7D, 8D, 9d}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("14", Float[][].class), new Float[][]{
            new Float[]{1F, 2F, 3F},
            new Float[]{4F, 5F, 6F},
            new Float[]{7F, 8F, 9F}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("15", Integer[][].class), new Integer[][]{
            new Integer[]{1, 2, 3},
            new Integer[]{4, 5, 6},
            new Integer[]{7, 8, 9}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("16", Long[][].class), new Long[][]{
            new Long[]{1L, 2L, 3L},
            new Long[]{4L, 5L, 6L},
            new Long[]{7L, 8L, 9L}});
        assertEquals((Object) obj.get("17", Short[][].class), new Short[][]{
            new Short[]{1, 2, 3},
            new Short[]{4, 5, 6},
            new Short[]{7, 8, 9}});
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    private Object transform(Object value, Class type) {
        return transformer.transform(value, type);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private <T> EzyArray newArray(T... items) {
        return newArrayBuilder().append(items).build();
    }

    @Override
    protected EzyObjectBuilder newObjectBuilder() {
        return EzyEntityFactory.create(EzyObjectBuilder.class);
    }

    @Override
    protected EzyArrayBuilder newArrayBuilder() {
        return EzyEntityFactory.create(EzyArrayBuilder.class);
    }

}

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I have all the equipment, micrometers, experience to rebuild the engine of my 1958 100-6.
I am looking for a shop that can do a rebuild closer to blueprint than just clean and reassemble with new wear and disposables. A shop that can break in the engine on a dyno.
There is a place in Colorado that do to this level but only 1930s vintage Cord, Rosenberg, Cadillac, and the like.
Reach out to members of the Southeast Michigan Austin Healey Club (Detroit area rep Ron Mitchel handles the email blasts; reach him at: rpmhealey@gmail.com ).
Stepping up the game a bit here; BMW DOHC 4-valve/cyl with continuously variable cam timing. Full complement of polymer coatings applied (thermal barriers, thermal dispersants and dry-film lubricant). Being packed up for shipment to Livonia, MI where it was run in a local race series.
Same type of engine, a BMW S54 except this is a 3.4 ltr stroker (3.2 L stock) about to have its M Coupe body lowered over it.
Fresh rebuild of DOHC 4-valve/cyl BMW S52 engine with supercharger (single-step cam-timing on intake only).
TMS liked this picture of one of my engines enough to use it in their catalog for their "shorty" headers. This S52 was the first BMW engine that had a full complement of polymer coatings applied to it (at least the 1st BMW by me; I'd been applying them on LBC engines since the early 1990s).
Something completely different! An LS3/T54 Magnum for a BMW M3 (Bose Junge, or Nasty Boy in German!).
Another polymer coated S54 taking shape; fixture being used to install exhaust camshaft (they're hollow and can break if not pressed in__against valve spring pressure__evenly).
Though there is nothing that unique about a Healey engine that a competent engine builder/race shop could not handle you might want to contact Fourintune in Cedarsburg WI, as I believe they built and set up Larry Patterson's 100 race car/engine.
I must ask--why do you feel the engine would need to be "broken in" on a dyno?
They've done some excellent work.
No reason to look outside the area.


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Q: ReactJS/NextJS - npm run build fails - SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export' When running "npm run build" I'm getting the following error:
> Build error occurred
C:\Users\...\project\nextjs-frontend\node_modules\mui-rte\index.js:1
export {default} from './dist/MUIRichTextEditor'
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'export'

node_modules/mui-rte/index.js just contains
export {default} from './dist/MUIRichTextEditor'

However with npm run build my project works just fine and I can use MUIRichTextEditor.

<MUIRichTextEditor
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                onSave={save}
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                  "italic",
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                  "quote",
                ]}
              />

The build error is preventing me from updating the production version. Does anyone know why I'm getting the export error?

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Q: Prove that a linear mapping between vector spaces is an open mapping iff Let $(N,|| \ ||)$ and $(N_1,||\ ||_1)$ be normed vector spaces and $f$ a linear mapping of $N$ into $N_1$.  Prove that $f$ is an open mapping if and only if $\forall$ $n \in \Bbb N $, $B_r(0) \subseteq  f(B_{1/n}(0))$, $\exists$ $ r \gt 0$.
I can't figure out how this would make sense.  I know that an open mapping is one whose image of each open set is open, but how can an open ball about $0$ in $N$ be a subset of the image of an open ball about $0$ in $N_1$?  Is this just saying the $0$ vector in $N$ and $N_1$?

A: You have to show that the image of the open subset $U$ is open, let $x\in U$, there exists $n$ such that $B(x,1/n)\subset U$. Consider $r$ such that $B(0,r)\subset f(B(0,1/n)$, $B(f(x),r)=f(x)+B(0,r)\subset f(x)+f(B(0,1/n))=f(B(x,1/n))\subset f(U)$. This implies that $f$ is open.

A: If $f$ is open then for every $n$, the set $B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)$ is open in $N$ and so $f[B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)]$ is open in $N_1$ and it contains $0 = f(0)$. So $0$ is an interior point of $f[B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)]$ which means that we have some $r>0$ such that $B_r(0) \subseteq f[B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)]$. This shows necessity of the condition.
Suppose $f$ obeys this condition, then let $O$ be any open set in $N$, and we want to see that $f[O]$ is open, so let $y$ be any point in $f[O]$. So there is some $x \in O$ such that there is some $n$ such that $B_{\frac{1}{n}}(x) \subseteq O$, because $O$ is open. Then we know that there exists an $r>0$ by the condition, so that $B_r(0) \subseteq f[B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)]$.
If $d(y,y') = ||y - y'||_1 < r$, then $y - y' \in B_r(0)$, so $y - y' \in  f[B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)]$, so there is some $x' \in B_{\frac{1}{n}}(0)$ with $f(x') = y - y'$. So $x - x' \in B_{\frac{1}{n}}(x)$ (as $||(x-x') - x|| = ||-x'|| < \frac{1}{n})$, so $x - x' \in O$ and so $f(x+x') = f(x) - f(x') = y - ( y - y') = y' \in f[O]$. As $y'$ was arbitrary, $B_r(y) \subseteq f[O]$ and so $y$ is an interior point of $f[O]$.
As $y$ was arbitrary, $f[O]$ is open, as required.
The idea is to use linearity and translation invariance of the norm, to transport openness around the origin to openness everywhere.


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NILD CET 2019 - National Institute of Locomotor Disabilities Common Entrance Test acronym as NILD CET is conducted by the National Institute of Locomotor Disabilities for admission to various Undergraduate Courses at NILD (Kolkata), SVNIRTAR (Cuttack) and NIEPMD (Chennai).
Applicants can read all the necessary details regarding NILD CET 2019 such as application form, eligibility criteria, admit card, result, selection process etc. on this page.
The admission to various Bachelor Courses for the academic year 2019 offered by NILD, SVNIRTAR, & NIEPMD will be done as per the application and admission procedure detailed in this bulletin. The candidate should be an Indian National. The admission will exclusively be on the basis of merit in the Common Entrance Test (CET-2019).
Last date of receipt of Application Form or closing of online submission: 24th May 2019 till 5 P.M.
Only those candidates who are born between 01st January 1999 and 31st December 2002 (inclusive of both dates) are eligible.
For SC, ST & PH category candidates, the candidate should be born between 01st January 1994 and 31st December 2002 (inclusive of both dates).
Date of birth as recorded in the Matriculation Certificate /Secondary Education Board Certificate (Class X) will be treated as authentic. Candidates must produce original certificate for proof of age at the time of counselling, failing which they will be disqualified.
BPO (4 years + 6 months): 10+2 (Higher/Senior Secondary Examination) I.Sc. or equivalent- recognized examination with subjects Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology(B) or Mathematics (M) and English with minimum aggregate of 50% in PCB/PCM when taken together for General/OBC and 40% for SC/ST & PH candidates.
BPT (4 years + 6 months): 10+2 (Higher/Senior Secondary Exam) I.Sc. or equivalent- recognized exam with subjects Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology(B) and English with minimum aggregate of 50% in PCB when taken together for General/OBC and 40% for SC/ST & PH candidates.
BOT [4 years + 6 months]: 10+2 (Higher/Senior Secondary Examination) I.Sc. or equivalent- recognized exam with subjects-Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology (B) (Botany and Zoology) and English.
BPT [4 years + 6 months]: 10+2 (Higher/Senior Secondary Examination) I.Sc. or equivalent- recognized exam with subjects-Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology (B) (Botany and Zoology) and English.
BPO [4 years + 6 months]: A candidate who has passed 10+2 in science or equivalent with Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology (B)/Mathematics (M) with minimum 50% in PCB/PCM and other test will be eligible. For SC/ST and PH candidates, the minimum mark should be 40% and 45% respectively.
BOT [4 years + 6 months]: Passed the qualifying 12th standard/I.Sc. or equivalent exam having English as a subject and a minimum of 50%in science with Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology(B) as mandatory subjects. For SC/ST and PH candidates, the minimum mark should be 40% and 45% respectively.
BPT [4 years + 6 months]: Passed the qualifying 12th standard/I.Sc. or equivalent exam having English as a subject and a minimum of 50%in science with Physics (P), Chemistry (C), Biology(B) as mandatory subjects. For SC/ST and PH candidates, the minimum mark should be 40% and 45% respectively.
Date of Examination 09th June 2019 (Sunday) 11.00 A.M.
The Entrance Test will be of 2 hours (120 minutes) duration. Questions will be multiple choices objective type of 10+2 Science standard. The entrance test shall have one paper consisting of two parts.
There will be 100 multiple choices objective type questions of one mark each. More than one option answered against a question will be deemed as incorrect. Any question not attempted shall be awarded ZERO marks.
The candidates can opt any three centres as per their convenience. Normally the candidates are allotted the centre of first choice; however, it can be changed at the discretion of the competent authority. The request for change of centres will not be considered.
For NILD, one seats each in BPT, BOT & BPO is reserved for J&K. For NILD & SVNIRTAR, 2 seats each in BPT & BOT and 1 seat in BPO, For NIEPMD 2 seat each in BPT & BOT are reserved for North Eastern State.
CET 2019 results will be published on Common rank as well as for PwD, J&K, NE Rank. Candidates who get reservation form PwD Rank, J&K, NE Rank, the seat will be deducted from the candidate's category (Gen/SC/ST/OBC).
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For offline payment, a Demand Draft of Rs.750/- for General/OBC/NE/J&K & Rs.600/- for SC/ST & PwD candidates should be sent along with the duly filled downloaded form in favour of "National Institute for Orthopaedically Handicapped" payable at Kolkata.
Offline Payment: Through Demand Draft to be made in favour of "National Institute for Orthopaedically Handicapped" payable at KOLKATA.


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A series of black and white photos from Brazil's Boa Viagem beach of yesteryear opens Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius and inaugurates a prolonged dance with nostalgia. It proliferates in the film's narrative span of some 30 years, from flashbacks of leisurely nocturnal car rides on the beach with 8-track tapes playing in the background, to birthday parties and generations of sexual encounters on a family heirloom of a cabinet. Such remembrances of things past are not merely incidental for a feature that has generated controversy in Brazil's political present.
In Aquarius, memories — of places, moments, music and lovers — balance imminent struggles to live well. Each recollection holds the story of a scar or persisting trace, like the grooves in the vinyl that its protagonist, Clara, collects. Good or bad, what is valuable about them is their material connection with the present. Conflict arrives when a handsome developer escalates attempts to buy, or otherwise coerce, Clara out of her beachside apartment in Recife so that it can be demolished to make way for a luxury condominium high-rise. A luminous Sonia Braga further ties the film to more than 30 years of Brazilian cinema history along with a delightful soundtrack that oscillates between bossa nova and anglophone rock. A child of the sixties — as the film's title suggests — and descendent of at least one feminist activist from that earlier moment of turbulence in Brazilian politics, Clara refuses to relinquish her home.
The ensuing tug of war is haunted by poetic reminiscence, as if the sensuous body of an aging Braga could foil gentrification by itself. Clara is the last holdout and sole occupant of the building, The Aquarius. Her children and her neighbors are ready for her to sell, but she stubbornly refuses in righteous indignation. She prefers her current apartment — which has been in her family for generations — to a new building in the same way that she values her records more than her MP3s.
But Clara makes for an ambivalent underdog. A professional music critic and member of Brazil's cultural elite, she employs a loyal domestic from a less privileged neighborhood and owns a fair deal of real estate herself, highlighting deeper layers of stratification in Brazilian society along lines of race and class. Lamenting the corruption and nepotism of Recife, she engages its methods to fight the developer. Her quest thus walks a fine line between being a virtuous microcosm of a national battle between local interests and rampant globalization, and an exercise in impetuous narcissism. Kleber Mendonça Filho undermines nostalgia, then, even as he presents it as the most obvious antidote to global capital's short-term memory problem — its willingness to indiscriminately uproot people and places in the service of profit margins.
At Cannes, the film's cast and crew used their appearance to publicly criticize the undemocratic ousting of Workers' Party President Dilma Roussef. The move generated enough of a polemic that it likely pushed the feature out of Oscar contention. Much like that gesture, Aquarius shines most brightly in its presentation of instances of strong-willed, resilient and vivacious feminine solidarity. Sonia Braga brilliantly embodies the battle-tested, still-willful and desirous Clara, and Mendonça Filho beautifully frames two distinct chapters of her life where past and present intermingle and collide.
Aaron Boalick (@FlixCritic) is a freelance film critic in New York City and Adjunct Faculty in the Film Division of Columbia University.


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Messianic preparations underway as 3rd Temple planned
Experts speak out on prophetic implications
Temple Mount, Jerusalem
For the first time in hundreds of years, there are serious preparations underway to build the Third Temple prophesied in Scripture.
This week, the nascent Sanhedrin, a group attempting to revive the ancient Jewish legal institution, reportedly selected an individual to serve as high priest if the political situation allowed Jews to access the Temple Mount for Yom Kippur.
The high priest would bring the sacrifices which would be offered in such a situation.
Rabbi Baruch Kahane declined the nomination to serve as "Kohen Gadol," or high priest. Instead, Kahane has reportedly been nominated to serve in a different clerical role.
However, he also told Breaking Israel News preparations must be made so a Temple service can be performed if the political situation permits it.
"It is clear that we need to be prepared, to prepare the priests, to have everything ready," he was quoted as saying.
Other preparations are also being made. The Temple Institute in Jerusalem, a group dedicated to physically constructing the Third Temple, used crowd funding to raise over $100,000 to create architectural plans for building the Third Temple. The same organization also reconstructed the Altar of the Lord. There are even attempts to breed the special red heifers suitable for ritual use.
Mark Biltz, the author of "God's Day Timer" and a Christian pastor passionate about connecting believers with the Jewish roots of their religion, was enthusiastic about plans to rebuild the Temple.
"We are definitely living in Messianic times!" he exclaimed to WND. "We have been without a Temple for too long. This is the fulfillment of a prophecy in the book of Hosea."
He quoted a verse which said in the Last Days the "children of Israel" would return and renew the sacrifices in the Temple.
Biltz said he believes this prophecy will be inaugurated soon. He called on the Israeli government to do what is necessary to make it happen.
"All that is really needed is an altar and the political will of the Israeli government to have a greater fear of heaven than of man," he argued.
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Jonathan Cahn, subject of the smash documentary film "The Harbinger Man," and author of the new book, "The Book of Mysteries," says he finds the news "fascinating."
"We know that according to biblical end-time prophecy, the Temple of Jerusalem must be rebuilt," the messianic rabbi told WND. "The Temple requires a priesthood. A priesthood requires a high priest. Though the Sanhedrin and priesthood right now lacks official legal authority and the rebuilding of the Temple will require a very dramatic turn of events, the very fact that in 2016, there is talk and movement toward the appointing of a high priest over the future Temple is quite striking."
Cahn also said it is remarkable that it is only now, through modern technology, can the Jewish people fulfill the laws and rebuild the ancient Temple priesthood according to the law.
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"Another piece of the puzzle involves modern DNA technology," he explained. "Only the blood descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses, can serve as priests in the Temple. It is only in the last few years, with the development of DNA analysis, that the descendants of Aaron can be identified. In an amazing development, scientists were able to identify 'the priestly gene,' a genetic code carried by the sons of Aaron that goes back about 3,000 years, just about the same time as lived Aaron, the first high priest of Israel."
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Bill Cloud of Shoreshim Ministries, the author of "Esau Rising," said it is fascinating "religious Jews in Israel are obviously anticipating the coming of Messiah."
"Their readiness to reinstitute Temple Service is predicated upon their belief that the Messiah will soon be revealed," he told WND. "Of course I believe He has already been revealed and will return in the not-to-distant future."
However, Cloud sounded a note of caution about whether a Temple built in Jerusalem would actually qualify as the Third Temple.
"Revelation 11 strongly implies that another temple will be built in Jerusalem, however, I'm not convinced that this is the messianic Temple," Cloud said. "I'm not convinced that this particular temple alluded to in Revelation 11 qualifies as 'the Third Temple.' I think there is a very good chance that this Temple referred to in Revelation 11 is simply man's attempt to force the issue. As a matter of fact, based on things we read in Revelation 11 and in Daniel chapter 9, this attempt to rebuild might be squashed by the one the Bible calls 'Antichrist.'"
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Carl Gallups, author of "Be Thou Prepared" and the upcoming "When the Lion Roars: Understanding the Implications of Ancient Prophecies for Our Time," said Christians should not be distracted by details. Instead, he called on believers to focus on the core truth at the center of the debate. Regardless of who is appointed high priest, the details of construction or even if any of these projects are making progress, Gallups said the fact the discussion is happening at all is hugely important.
"The implications of the continual talk, planning, construction and even conspiracy theories coming out of Israel concerning the possible construction of a Third Temple in Jerusalem are monumental!" he exclaimed. "It is a fact that many orthodox Jews believe this event is necessary for their 'messianic understanding' to come to fruition. The very talk of such a thing has huge geopolitical implications as well. Many believe that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism would somehow have to either come together on the project – or go to war over the matter. Others believe that the Antichrist himself will somehow be involved in bringing at least Islam and Judaism and, perhaps, some brand of Christianity to a melding point with the construction of a Temple structure in the 'Holy Place' of Jerusalem – and the Temple Mount.
"All of the debates, discussions, plans and headlines are indicative of the profoundly prophetic times in which we are now living. If the 'Temple Talk' invokes increasing global discussions and awakening to the biblically prophetic nature of our times, I welcome it!"
Gallups said ultimately, what is to happen is foreordained – and he urged Christians to become rededicated to their faith. As he lays out in "When the Lion Roars," the Florida pastor argues the end times are coming soon and the proof can be found in the unique events this generation has witnessed.
"In the end of it all – it's all about the return of Jesus Christ," he said. "He came the first time, according to the prophecies, and those same prophecies declare He is coming again. Not only that, the prophecies are clear that He would return in the days shortly after Israel returned to the land, Jerusalem was in control of that returned Israel, and the Ezekiel 38 nations began their alignment against Israel. Those days are here, and we are the first historical generation to see it happen – Temple or no Temple."
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BEST METAL The Best Metal on Bandcamp: November 2021 By Brad Sanders · December 02, 2021
The final regular Bandcamp metal column of 2021 includes lachrymose death-doom, anti-imperialist black metal, Teutonic thrash played by Swedish teenagers, and much more.
Dream Unending
Tide Turns Eternal
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In their primary bands, Derrick Vella of techy death metal explorers Tomb Mold and Justin DeTore of the punishing Innumerable Forms rarely play anything that's explicitly beautiful. Dream Unending, a new collaboration inspired by the oneiric melancholy of the Peaceville Three, is their chance to lean into aching, stately melodicism. On Tide Turns Eternal, Vella and DeTore build brilliantly layered death-doom epics out of shimmering guitar and reverb-soaked vocals, leaving plenty of negative space to allow the emotions of the songs to hit with full force. They're at their best when they chase a musical idea all the way to its logical endpoint; the 11-minute "Dream Unending" and 10-minute title track are easily the strongest songs on the album, introducing new motifs at will even as they cannily use repetition to drive them home. Despite its deep roots in doom, Tide Turns Eternal isn't a dour or depressing listen. Thanks largely to Vella's soaring guitar work, which bears traces of his avowed Pink Floyd fandom, the album invites us to take in the scope of the world's gloom but cast our gaze heavenward anyway.
Empires Vanquished and Dismantled
Spectral Lore
Αθήνα, Greece
Empires Vanquished And Dismantled Spectral Lore .
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The Greek multi-instrumentalist Ayloss lives at the nexus of two of black metal's bleeding edges. He's a luminary of cosmic black metal, a sound he helped define with his long-running project Spectral Lore. He's also an avowed leftist, and a spiritual peer of antifascist acts like Dawn Ray'd and Underdark. With Mystras, Ayloss articulates the ideology of anti-imperialism by evoking the class struggles of the medieval era. The specifics of the history he writes about on Empires Vanquished and Dismantled can occasionally feel esoteric, but his perspective cuts to the bone. It's impossible to misinterpret a verse like this one, from "In the Company of Heretics": "We are the anguish of Alexander's feverish nightmares/ The knife in Caesar's bloody corpse/ The tear that falls on Constantine's cheek." The propulsive black metal songs on Empires are constructed out of churning riffs and nimble lead work, while interludes utilizing Turkish ney flute, santoor, violin, and operatic vocals anchor the album to its medieval setting. The 14-minute epic "The Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem" and the blistering "To the Builders" both rank among the best songs Ayloss has ever written, and the conviction of their righteousness is matched only by the vividness of his world-building. Close your eyes and you're back in the Middle Ages, straining at the chains of a wealthy tyrant. Mystras brings you there to ask a question: Which side are you on?
The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter
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Aging heshers, rejoice—the kids are alright. All four members of Stockholm's Eternal Evil are still teenagers, but their rowdy, ripping thrash is straight out of the '80s. The young Swedes seem most inspired by the bands of Germany's Teutonic thrash movement on their debut album, The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter. Unlike American acts like Metallica and Megadeth, who ultimately reshaped metal's mainstream in their own image, German bands like Sodom and Destruction were too doggedly raw—too extreme—to move beyond its fringes. These are the bands whose DNA you'll hear in Eternal Evil songs like "Bestial Fornication" and "Minotaur of Evil," adrenaline-pumping anthems that blast forward with reckless abandon, grafting warped, chromatic melodies onto their palm-muted riffs. There's nothing particularly innovative happening on The Warriors Awakening, but Eternal Evil deserve a lot of credit for so compellingly reconstructing a sound that peaked 20 years before they were born.
Morgul Blade
Fell Sorcery Abounds
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The Middle-earth of J.R.R. Tolkien's work is a place where illimitable goodness exists alongside all-devouring evil. Most metal artists who sing about Middle-earth tend to sound most comfortable evoking one or the other—the valor of Aragorn or the malevolence of Sauron. Philadelphia's Morgul Blade are one of the few bands who can do both. That's partly because of the novel way they augment their power metal-derived core with more extreme sounds. On Fell Sorcery Abounds, the band's debut, they conjure soaring melodies and bombastic arrangements that wouldn't be out of place on a Blind Guardian record. Quasi-black metal shrieks, lugubrious doom riffs, and dungeon synth passages round out the album's sound and help make it the rare piece of Lord of the Rings-inspired art that truly feels like The Lord of the Rings.
Churchburn
Genocidal Rite
Genocidal Rite Churchburn .
Over the past decade, Providence, Rhode Island's Churchburn have quietly amassed one of the most formidable and adventurous discographies in doom metal. Principally the project of drummer Ray McCaffrey (ex-Sin of Angels) and guitarist/vocalist Dave Suzuki (ex-Vital Remains), the band play a maximalist form of sludge that invites squalls of frenetic death metal soloing, ghostly black metal atmospherics, dark ambient dirges, and delicate nylon-stringed guitar work into its hellish fray. Genocidal Rite is their third and best full-length, and real-life circumstances within the band made it particularly poignant. Suzuki's father passed away shortly before the completion of the album, and his death inspired the luminous "Unmendable Absence" as well as the crushing "Scarred." Anyone familiar with Suzuki's work in Vital Remains knows that he's a technically brilliant lead player, but on Genocidal Rite, his solos feel more expressive than usual. Suzuki has spoken about how he went into the studio without solos prepared, opting to improvise them on the spot while thinking about his father. The spirit that moved through him that day yielded some of the finest guitar work of his career.
Listen to an interview with Churchburn on the Bandcamp Metal Show.
States of Chaos
States of Chaos GODLESS .
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Death metal reigns supreme in the Indian underground. Bands like Gutslit and Moral Collapse are pushing the genre to exciting new places, and new acts seem to pop up in hubs like Mumbai and Bangalore every week. One of the most promising young Indian bands is Hyderabad's GODLESS, who play death metal like they have an appointment they don't want to be late for. The nine songs on States of Chaos, the band's debut LP, zip by in just 29 minutes. GODLESS favor tempos that allow them to operate at warp speed. If a lot of today's death metal seems to be cross-pollinated by doom, States of Chaos sounds more like the mid-'80s death metal that was slowly shaping itself into a proper genre rather than an extra-fast, extra-fucked-up permutation of thrash. There's some canny, off-speed stuff here, too—check that mosh-starter of a verse riff on "Orbits of Decay"—but for the most part, GODLESS want you to sprint to keep up.
Shock to the System
Shock to the System TOWER .
On their sophomore LP, Shock to the System, Tower play a gruff, streetwise brand of heavy metal that befits their New York City roots. No matter how complex a song gets, the band always find their way back to its rowdy, rock 'n' roll center. That's thanks in part to the loose-but-locked-in interplay between the band's two guitarists and their rhythm section, and thanks in part to the gritty delivery of frontwoman Sarabeth Linden. You can practically hear the tissue of her larynx fraying when she screeches through some of her more daring vocal lines. There's also a rich melodicism to her voice, and even when she leans into a line that draws out her growl, she never misses a note. Behind Linden, guitarists James Danzo and Zak Penley trade NWOBHM-inspired licks, sometimes racing through short neck-snappers, and sometimes layering them into, erm, towering arrangements, like the seven-minute "In Dreams."
Daxma
Unmarked Boxes
Unmarked Boxes Daxma .
2 x Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
Daxma play the kind of dramatic, swelling post-metal that can seem lab-engineered to induce emotional catharsis. The Oakland band writes songs that routinely cross the 10-minute mark, building soul-stirring crescendos that erupt right when they're supposed to. There is a formula at work here, but when the formula is executed as well as it is on Unmarked Boxes, it's hard to argue with it. In contrast to previous Daxma releases, which were more abstract in their lyrical focus, Unmarked Boxes deals with grief and hope as embodied in a line by the 13th century poet Rumi: "Don't grieve, anything you lose comes back in another form." Perhaps that more introspective approach is what helps make these songs come so brilliantly to life. Every passage of densely layered guitar and violin sweeps you up in its embrace, and every purifying release of musical tension feels like an exhalation of held breath.
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Listening is something I'm either great at, or really bad at. I have a self-diagnosed condition called "shiny object syndrome". I'm the best listener when I focus, but once something grabs my attention…forget it. And I can't listen, and process, while distractions are begging for my attention. I try, but I lose, every time.
God has been putting a few words on my heart the past few weeks. The past 3 years I've used a word to help me mature and give me a goal & focus instead of a NY resolution. And every year the word has not disappointed. So this year I kept getting stuck on the word "use". But I knew that wasn't the word; it has something to do with it, but it isn't it. Then the word "abide" and "surrender". All of these words were not them, but I knew they all had to do with my word for 2018. I went through thesauruses…nothing. I went through some bible verses that talked about "dying to self" and "abiding in Him"…nothing. I went through commentary on John 3:30; all relevant, but the word was still a mystery. What could God be telling me? Why couldn't I figure this out?
I had a bit of a rough day yesterday. Raising teenagers is just tough! If I make it through the next few years, or if they make it through the next few years…we will be on the home stretch. As I laid in bed last night, I found myself searching for answers and direction. If I could just slow my mind down, maybe I could figure out exactly what I'm doing wrong as a parent…or take comfort in knowing what I'm doing right. The right response is not always popular when it comes to kids.
I got up this morning, and my devotional hit me like a ton of bricks. In 1 Samual, Samuel said to God, "Speak, your servant is listening." Samuel wasn't just listening, he was silent. Ready. Willing to do whatever God had to say. He surrendered himself to be used by God.
Me: I'm not listening! Smh!
I'm hearing, my ears are open, and I'm doing things, and I'm being obedient; but I'm not listening. I'm not surrendering my heart. I'm coming to God in prayer with the wrong expectations. I must pay attention AND respond! Geez…I've put God in a box. Abandonment, use, surrender, abide, die-of-self, John 3:30. I'm not listening!
I'm not perfect, but Jesus is. I'm not strong, but Jesus is. I'm not free of sinning, but because of what Jesus did, I'm free of my sins. I'm not humble, but I am learning how to be through His Spirit, and His Word. I will never be Jesus, but I will be with Him, and I want to be ready when that day comes! I must listen to His direction. His grace is sufficient – hallelujah – but I can't stop the direction of correction in my life.
So, I must be quick to listen. Not just to what is spoken, but also to what isn't said; actions. This may be the most difficult word I could have been given. I need to be eager to learn how to listen, be present in every moment, and rely wholly on the Holy Spirit so I can do it. Again, just another level of my need for Him. I truly need Him every moment.
If you've never chosen a word for a new year, I recommend it – it isn't focused on just one goal, but can be helpful in all areas of your daily life.


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Live Stream the Gorillaz' Demon Dayz Festival
by: Michael Cooper Jun 10, 2017
After an extended hiatus, the Gorillaz returned in a big way with their gargantuan fifth album Humanz. The album had no shortage of remixes in the lead up to its release, and the animated apes explored numerous new avenues to promote it.
The most ambitious project the group has embarked on, however, was their very own festival dubbed Demon Dayz. The day is finally here for the festival to open and, thanks to Red Bull, those fans who won't be able to make it to Kent will still be able to enjoy the show. Starting at 2PM EST, fans will be able to catch performances from the likes of De La Soul, Detroit's own Danny Brown, and, of course, the Gorillaz themselves. See the full schedule below, all times noted are EST.
2:00 PM – Fufanu
2:30 PM – De La Soul
4:00 PM – Gorillaz
2:00 PM – Kilo Kish
3:10 PM – De La Soul (replay)
4:00 PM – Danny Brown
Gorillaz release 'Sleeping Powder,' their first single since 'Humanz'
Watch Stephen Colbert rap with Gorillaz on 'Feel Good Inc.'
MTV Live to air documentary around HARD events
Tags: danny brown, de la soul, demon dayz, Gorillaz
Baauer, Channel Tres, and Danny Brown release house-forward bumper for GTA
Gorillaz release trailer for forthcoming one-day-only documentary, out Dec. 16
Watch DJ Shadow and De La Soul perform live on Kimmel


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