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jane's addiction related news & info
Bootography
At Atlanta's Cotton Club
Been Caught Stealing
Classic Versions
Complete Expression Session, The
Devil Made Me Do It, The
Down In The Flames
Forget The Rumours… We're Still Alive
Get Off!
Gift, The
Grunge Live Vol. 2
Had A Dad
Hammerstein Ballroom, NY
Head Shop, The
Idiots Rule (v1)
Idiots Rule (Vol. 1)
Jane's Addiction Live
Jane's Addiction Live Vol. 1
Kleptomaniac
KROQ Weenie Roast 2001
La La Palooza
Last Fixx
Last Show
Live & Insane
Live And Profane (1 Disc Version)
Live Too
Live USA
Mountain Songs
New Generation Grunge
Pigs In Zen
Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
Skin And Bones
Standing In The Shower
Tonka 1
Trip Away
Whores In The Shadow
Among Freaks
Brixton Academy
Early Symptoms
It's A Jane's World
L.A. Street Scene
Mephisto Demos
One Hit Is All It Takes
That Ain't Country
Trip Away (Vinyl)
Untitled / Ritual Demos
Untitled Red Vinyl
Lollapalooza (Cassette)
Mountain Songs (Part 1)
100 Waves
A Priori
Alternative Live Vol. 2
Bones 'N Smoking Stones
Dive Away
Don't Need You
Japanese Pornomania
Live In Las Vegas, Nevada
Porn Again
Porno For Perry
Suck On This
Surf To The Rising Sun
Woodstock '94 (Box Set)
Woodstock 1994 (v1)
Psi Com
Club Lingerie
Psi Com Demos
A Cabinet Of Curiosities
Alternative Collection
Great Escape Artist, The
Kettle Whistle
Live And Rare
Live In NYC
Lowdown, The
Maximum Jane's Addiction
Nothing's Shocking
Ritual de lo Habitual
The Shocking E.P.
Up From The Catacombs
Classic Girl
End To The Lies
Irresistible Force
Mountain Song
Three Days / Stop!
Catalog Sampler
Jane Says (1988)
Jane's Addiction Demos
Live 8-28-91
NIN/JA 2009 Tour Sampler
Standing in the Shower… Thinking
Universal Sampler
Videos & Movies
Live Voodoo
Soul Kiss
Best of Jane's Addiction
Hard Rock Comics: Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction: in the Studio
The Jane's Book
Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction
Natural Born Killers
O'zone: Noise of a Sub-Culture
Songs of Anarchy, Vol. 2
Ain't No Wrong / Heathen
Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Electro Addiction: An Electro Tribute to Jane's Addiction
Exxxile on Main Street: Triple X Records Collection
How To Dress To Fit The Occasion: The String Quartet Tribute to Jane's Addiction
MOM 3: Music For Our Mother Ocean 3
Opium Jukebox – Music To Download Pornography By
Pacific Mastermind
Scream: The Compilation
Spin Session: Porno For Pyros
Trademark Of Quality (1992)
Perry Farrell – Rev
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1, The
Good God's Urge
Rhino Hi-Five: Porno For Pyros
Hard Charger
Tahitian Moon
100 Ways
Cursed Female / Cursed Male
Dogs Rule The Night
Meija
Pete's Dad
Cable Guy, The
Private Parts
In Concert (#97-17)
In Defense Of Animals – Volume 2
MTV 120 Minutes Live
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Woodstock '94
Worktape 1
L.A. Mantra II
This Is Religion
L.A. Song
No Fronts
Song Yet To Be Sung
Patience Bossa, The
PerryEtty – Applause For You
Seeds / 2 Souls Alone
Go All The Way (Into The Twilight)
Happy Birthday Jubilee
Shekina
NCSI
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Best of the Jammys: Volume 1, The
Chabad Telethon Presents: Celebration 25
Chef Aid: The South Park Album
Hollyword
Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors
World of Happiness, A
Herbert – Addiction
Infected Mushroom – Killing Time: The Remixes (feat. Perry Farrell)
Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art
Saga of a Hypester
Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
Camp Freddy – Merry Xmas Everybody
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Aeroplane
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Coffee Shop
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Love Rollercoaster
Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Warped
Rhimorse
Spread – Unicorns & Rainbows
Basketball Diaries, The
Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Xmas
Means To An End: The Music of Joy Division, A
Small Circle of Friends: A Germs Tribute, A
Lowen & Navarro – Broken Moon
Lowen & Navarro – Walking On A Wire
Perry Farrell – Song Yet To Be Sung
Perry Farrell – Song Yet To Be Sung (Promo)
Porno For Pyros – Good God's Urge
Porno For Pyros – Hard Charger
Traci Lords – Fallen Angel
Rockstar: INXS
Starlicks Master Sessions – Dave Navarro
Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen + Dave
Don't Try This At Home – A Year In The Life of Dave Navarro
Stephen Perkins
Infectious Grooves – Plague That Makes Your Booty Move… It's The Infectious Grooves, The
Infectious Grooves – Sarsippius' Ark
Methods of Mayhem – Methods of Mayhem
Class of '99 – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
Li'l Pit – Feeling Good / Sometimes I'm Happy
Monk With Gun vs. The MiGs – Immigrant Song / Sake Bindings
Methods of Mayhem – Get Naked
Methods of Mayhem – New Skin
Methods of Mayhem – Proposition Fuck You
Big Daddy – Music From The Motion Picture
Encino Man
Faculty – Music From The Dimension Motion Picture , The
Drum Nation – Volume 1
Flyin' Traps: Stereo Drums
Look At All The Love We Found – A Tribute To Sublime
Pro-Mark Collector's Edition Vol. 1
Super Bad @ 65: A Tribute To James Brown
Welcome to our Nightmare – A Tribute to Alice Cooper
Broadcast – The Noise Made by People
Dave Navarro – Trust No One
Perry Farrell – Song Yet To Be Sung (Promo Single)
Peter Murphy – Unshattered
Stephen Perkins – A Drummer's Life
Go-Jo Bags
Eric Avery
11th Hour, The (Original Motion Picture Score)
Dangerbird 2007
Dangerbird Spring Sampler '08
Give Listen Help
Secretary Bird – Secretary Bird
Venice Underground – Venice Underground
Polar Bear (Blue Vinyl)
Polar Bear (Chewing Gum)
Why Something Instead of Nothing?
Demo Tape 1
Demo Tape 98
Scoopy / Wednesday
Whore: Various Artists Play Wire
Banyan
Anytime At All
Live At Perkins' Palace
Satellite Party
Ultra Payloaded
Live at Lollapalooza 2007: Satellite Party
Wish Upon A Dog Star
Hard Life Easy
The Panic Channel
(ONe)
Why Cry
Lollapalooza '91
Lollapalooza Chile '11
Lollapalooza Brasil '12
Ain't No Right
Another Soul Mate
Bad Shit
Blood Rag
Bobhaus
Broken People
Chip Away
Drip Away
Embrace The Darkness
Everybody's Friend
Hypersonic
I Would For You
I'll Hit You Back
I'll Protect You
Idiots Rule
Irresistible Force (Met The Immovable Object)
L.A. Medley
Let Me In My House
My Cat's Name is Maceo
No One's Leaving
Ocean Size
Price I Pay
Slow Divers
Splash A Little Water On It
Suffer Some
Ted, Just Admit It…
Thank You Boys
Then She Did…
To Match The Sun
Ultimate Reason
Up The Beach
Words Right Out Of My Mouth
Wrong Girl
1970 (I Feel Alright)
Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
I Got A Right
A Little Sadness
Bali Eyes
Black Girlfriend
Cook The Rice
Cursed Female
Cursed Male
Kimberly Austin
Packin' .25
Porpoise Head
Streets On Fire
Thick Of It All
Val Knows How To Milk A Cow
Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
Satellite of Love
City Of 9 Gates
Follow the Insated
Greedy Was The Beggar
Ho Ka Hey
Psi Com Theme
Xiola
Get At 'Em
Jealous Song
Wait For History
Admit I
Did You Forget?
Happy Birthday Jubilee (Reprise)
King Z
Letters to Xiola
Nasty Little Perv
Nua Nua
Revolution Solution
The Patience Bossa
Time Of Your Life
Avoiding the Angel
Easy Girl
Message From Twiggy
Mourning Son (Reprise)
Not For Nothing
Slow Motion Sickness
Very Little Daylight
Venus In Furs
All Remote And No Control
Belly Of An Insect
Beside The Fire
Chicken Bone (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 2)
Philo Beddoe
Porchlight
Song In The Silence (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 7)
Sun's Gone
Unexploded
Walk Through Walls (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 5)
Steve Perkins
Monkey In Brazil
Peter DiStefano
Another Love Song
Free & Fun
Hipocrisies
My Sweet Tooth
New Day Clear
Soul Trigger
Words In Red
Venice Underground
Angel Bones
Deflower
Hard Young Thing
Insane Toy Symphony
Punk Rock Guitar
Take Me Down
Venice By The Sea
Blue Bruises
Left To Lose
Lie Next To Me
Night One
Said You'd Be
She Won't Last
Teahouse Of The Spirits
Insanity Rains
Milky Ave.
Only Love, Let's Celebrate
The Solutionists
Ultra-Payloaded Satellite Party
Woman In The Window
Fake Songs
All White People Look Alike
Alternative Press – "Something Shocking" – November 1997
Alternative Press – "Back Up The Mountain" – December 1997
BAM – "Addiction By Subtraction?" – November 30, 1990
BAM – "Dave Says" – April 4, 1999
BAM – "Jonestown Revisited" – December 2, 1988
BAM – "Last Ritual – June 14, 1991
BAM – 'Jane's Addiction' Review – July 3, 1987
BAM – 'Soul Kiss' Review – April 7, 1989
Contrast – "The Story of Jane's Addiction – Issue 1, Winter 1986
Details – "Techno for Tyros" – July 1996
Details – "Trash 'N' Vaudeville" – February 1989
Guitar Player – "Just How Shocking is Jane's Addiction?" – March 1991
Guitar World – "Birth of a Nation / Hot and Bothered" – March 1996
Guitar World – "Shock Exchange" – November 1997
Modern Drummer – "Stephen Perkins: Drum Addictions" – March 1993
Music Connection – "In Deep With Jane's Addiction" – May 18, 1987
NO MAG – "Psi Com" – Spring 1984
Option Magazine – "Close Encounter!" – March-April 1996
Propaganda – Spring 1991
Raygun – "Lust For Life" – April 1996
Raygun – "Sweet Jane's" – November 1997
Reflex Magazine – "Standing In The Shower With Jane's Addiction" – Volume 1, Issue 9
Rolling Stone – "Hardly a Plain Jane" – February 9, 1989
Rolling Stone – "Nothing's Shocking: Meet L.A.'s Wildest New Band Jane's Addiction" – February 7, 1991
Rolling Stone – Perry Farrell Q&A – July 14, 1994
Rolling Stone – "Local Heroes" – October 22, 1987
Rolling Stone – "Peripheral Vision" – October 16, 1997
Spin – "Rage Against The Machine / To Live and Die in L.A." – April 1996
US Magazine – Dave Navarro Interview – November 1997
Warp Magazine – "Perry Farrell: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" – June, 1995
Christy Borgman Photos
Above Ground – 2018/04/16 @ Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2003/07/25 @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA
Jane's Addiction – 2008/10/23 @ La Cita, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2008/11/20 @ El Cid, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2009/02/16 @ The Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2009/05/20 @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2009/08/09 @ Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Jane's Addiction – 2010/07/02 @ The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA
Lollapalooza 2010 – Day 1 – August 6
Lollapalooza 2010 – Perry Farrell – August 6
Lollapalooza 2010 – Perry Farrell – Friday, August 6 – After Party
Lollapalooza 2010 – Peter DiStefano – August 7
Lollapalooza 2010 – Semi Precious Weapons with Lady Gaga – August 6
Lollapalooza 2010 – Soundgarden – August 8
Lollapalooza 2010 – Sights from the Grounds
Perry Farrell – 1999/07/24 @ Spitfire Tour at Woodstock '99, Griffiss Park, Rome, NY
Perry Farrell – 2006/11/08 @ Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA
Perry Farrell – 2008/01/17 @ The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA
Perry Farrell – 2008/08/03 @ Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Perry Farrell – 2008/08/02 @ Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Satellite Party – 2006/12/11 @ The Key Club, West Hollywood, CA
Satellite Party – 2007/01/24 @ Spaceland, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Satellite Party – 2007/05/27 @ Epoxybox, Venice, CA
Satellite Party – 2007/10/04 @ Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA
Satellite Party – 2007/10/07 @ Glass House, Pomona, CA
Surfrider Fundraiser – 2010/09/11 @ Surfrider Beach, Malibu, CA
Axis of Justice – 2008/04/15 @ The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA
Camp Freddy – 2005/08/08 @ The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA
Camp Freddy – 2010/03/03 @ Avalon Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Camp Freddy – 2010/04/15 @ Central Courtyard at Hollywood & Highland, Los Angeles, CA
Hellride – 2007/12/07 @ Fitzgerald's, Huntington Beach, CA
Hellride – 2009/10/03 @ Kristin Jai Klosterman Art Studio, Venice, CA
Hellride – 2010/03/25 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice, CA
The Hardening Of A Gentle Heart
Jane's Addiction – 2009/07/18 @ Rock-n-Coke Festival, Hezarfen Airfield, Istanbul, Turkey (Jason D. Jones)
Jane's Addiction – 2013/05/11 @ Napa Expo, Napa Valley, CA (Jeff Kramer)
JanesAddiction.org Exclusives
Jane's Addiction – 2009/05/29 @ Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus, OH
Jane's Addiction – 2009/05/30 @ Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Jane's Addiction – 2009/05/31 @ DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
Jane's Addiction – 2009/06/10 @ Post-Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
Jane's Addiction – 2009/06/13 @ nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Portsmouth, VA
Jane's Addiction – 2009/06/14 @ Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT
Jane's Addiction – 2010/05/05 @ The Bardot, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2014/09/19 @ House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2014/09/20 @ Sunset Street Music Festival, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Jane's Addiction – 2012/02/24 @ The Fillmore Detroit, Detroit, MI
Misc. Magazine Shots
DJ Peretz
Li'l Pit - Feeling Good / Sometimes I'm Happy
Feeling Good / Sometimes I'm Happy is a single from Li'l Pit, a one-off side project started by Mike Watt while he was experimenting with a stand-up bass. After getting comfortable with the instrument, Watt got together with some friends, including Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins, and cranked out the two songs that make up this single. Released in August of 1997 by Kill Rock Stars, this two-track vinyl single is the only release from this side project, although the band did perform a handful of live shows together. The two songs on this single are cover songs.
The single was recorded and mixed in April of 1997 at Crazybird Studio in Montebello, CA
The following article about Li'l Pit from Addicted To Noise:
Mike Watt, Stephen Perkins Jump Into Li'l Pit
Ex-Minutemen bassist joins Porno for Pyros drummer and little known singer in jazzy side project.
Addicted To Noise Staff Writer Chris Nelson reports : When Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote the lyric "It's a new dawn / It's a new life for me," for their 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, little did they know how pertinent the lines would be 30 years on for a veteran punk, a rocker on a "relapse" and an unknown vocalist.
The words could hardly be more fitting however, for Li'l Pit, the four-piece jazz combo comprised of bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE), Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros), singer Thalia Ferreira, along with clarinet player Leo Chelyapov. The group has just released Bricusse & Newley's "Feeling Good" (RealAudio excerpt) backed with the jazz standard "Sometimes I'm Happy" as their first single for the Kill Rock Stars label.
The record marks not only something of a "new life" for Watt, who plays upright bass for the first time on record, but also for Ferreira, who'd never recorded at all before she found herself in the studio with members of the Minutemen and Jane's Addiction.
The pair met two years ago in their hometown of San Pedro, Calif. when Watt saw Ferreira singing with her band Linus. After they became friends, the singer asked Watt if he wanted to work on "Feeling Good" and "Sometimes I'm Happy," which she had first heard on the Alive album by jazz vocalist Carmen McCray.
"He mentioned that he was playing a stand-up bass now, and that would be great," Ferreira, 25, said. "All I was expecting was just to do them, not really have a single."
The 39-year-old Watt, never one to turn down a new musical challenge, jumped on the idea. "It was her idea to do the songs," said Watt, who also releases his second solo album Contemplating the Engine Room this month. "I listened to them, and said, 'Whoa!,' these arrangements are pretty sparsed out. It'd be neat to play string bass to them and do something way different." Before long, Watt had brought Perkins — the two played together when Watt went on the road as Porno For Pyro's bassist last year, as well as in the experimental band Banyan — and Chelyapov (a Russian-born clarinetist who'd also played with Porno) into the Li'l Pit fold.
Recorded during a single evening in April, the seven-inch features four players creating a sound that is far from what is typically associated with the higher-profile members of the quartet. "I'd gotten that bass about two-and-half years ago and I wanted to learn it," Watt said. "There's nothing like recording — having the thing live forever — to inspire you to learn."
Ferreira said Watt's excitement for the project was contagious for someone just learning the ropes. "He was totally gung ho," she said. "We would both practice together because I'm new at this and he's new at it. I was really comfortable because we were both on equal levels. Watching him not knowing much to being as good as he got was really interesting. You know his style, how he bangs on the bass, gets really hard and rough — it was really cool to see him do that on the stand-up bass because I've never seen anyone play like that."
For Perkins, at 30, now preparing to head out for a Jane's Addiction reunion tour, the material was closer to his roots, but still a departure from his work with Jane's and Porno. "I'm a great appreciator of the old jazz, swing era," he said. "That was the first music I ever played to, Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman type stuff."
Watt said he carried the name for the group around for five years, inspired by a scene in an L.A. club called the White Horse. The floor there had barely enough room for two people to mosh, he said, and the term "Li'l Pit" reminded him of the comic strip character Li'l Abner.
The bass player is hardly a stranger to musical side projects: He also plays in a Material Girl cover band called the Madonnabes as well as the dual bass group Dos, and Banyan. Nowadays, Watt said he's looking for something more from his extracurricular work than simply another outlet for songs.
"It seems more and more when I do other bands, I want 'em to be a completely different little journey," he said. "I'll play bass, but I want it to be in different worlds. It's like driving: it's still rubber wheels on your car, but you're going through the desert, now you're going through the forest, now you're going through the bayou, now you're going through the beltway." [Wed., Oct. 1, 1997, 9 a.m. PDT]
Track Listings:
Sometimes I'm Happy
Release Date: 08/1997
Released By: Kill Rock Stars
ID Number(s): KRS-284
Medium(s): 7″ Vinyl


When Jorge Biassou arrived in St. Augustine in 1796, he was already a legend. His appearance was similar to that of a king, as wore gold-trimmed clothes, a silver saber, and an ivory dagger while parading into town with his wife and Haitian followers. His followers were acknowledged as being his "family" because of their loyalty and dependence on him. General Biassou was known to be the fieriest leader in the Haitian slave revolt against the French. He was also Florida's only black militant political leader.
Biassou was born "Georges" on the island of Hispaniola. He was the son of slaves in French Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). During this time, the plantation owners there were known to be extremely harsh and brutal with their treatment towards the slaves. In 1791, thousands of slaves rose up and poured out their anger against the dominant white community. Biassou joined with the slaves and quickly assumed the leadership along with Jean François. He commanded that the ex-slaves burn the plantations and murder those who were white. Along the way, he fueled his own and his followers' national spirit through religious practices of their African ancestors.
During the war on the French, slaves were given weapons, supplies, salaries, and Spanish citizenship. Francois, Biassou and his aid, Toussaint L'Ouverture, received gold medals and letters of thanks and confidence from the Spanish government. It was during this time in 1793, "Georges" became "Jorge" Biassou, a free, French-speaking, Spanish general of his freed rebels, the Black Auxiliaries of Carlos IV. Biassou coveted his title and salary. He proved his Spanish loyalty a year later when Toussaint withdrew a portion of the Black Auxiliaries to focus on freeing more slaves.
Biassou served St. Augustine's military well for five years. He died in 1801 at the age of sixty; he had achieved ten years of freedom.


NCSO Find drugs, weapons and rattlesnakes during a recet Investigation.
Navajo County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jesse Thompson has been confirmed to the State Transportation Board by the full Senate.
Navajo County continuing to develop innovative solutions to combat revenue challenges.
Navajo County has identified 2 cases of leptospirosis in dogs.
Navajo County has partnered with AZ Town Hall to host the White Mountain Business Owners Roundtable on Feb 15th.


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Salutes to Laurent Durvernay-Tardif, Fred Willard, Trey Mancini + Watching 1980s Games & Upcoming TCM Highlights
Tags: Bill Buckner, Bob Stanley, George Brett, Mookie Wilson, Trey Mancini, Vin Scully, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Andrea Kremer, Bryant Gumbel, Fred Willard, Martin Mull, Richard Sandomir, Kirk Fredriksson, Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Steve Balboni, Bud Black, Tim McClelland, Billy Martin, Lee MacPhail, Jim Rice, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat Adderley, Bob Ojeda, Roger Clemens
In a normal baseball season, June swoons are a fate teams want to avoid. Let's hope that we as a nation don't swoon into the worst kind of cultural and maybe actual civil war.
I like to accentuate the positive so here's a huge shout-out to Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. The only doctor in the NFL and fresh from a Super Bowl triumph, Laurent is currently on duty serving COVID-19 patients at a hospital outside Montreal.
I learned many fascinating things about Duvernay-Tardif during an incisive report by Andrea Kremer in the current installment of HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel". He is the only McGill of Montreal university graduate ever to play in the NFL. His parents once took him and his sister out of grade school for a year to sail the world.
Here's another inspiring story. Comic actor Fred Willard passed away last week at the age of 86. I first loved him playing an Ed McMahon-style sidekick to Martin Mull's Barth Gimble on "Fernwood 2-Night," the successor to "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman" on early 1970s TV.
Willard later won great acclaim for his roles in SUCH hilarious satirical films as "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" where he played a memorable Joe Garagiola-style dog show announcer. He and Martin Mull later played a gay couple on"Rosanne" and at the end of his life Williard had a recurring role as a grandfather on "American Family".
But according to Richard Sandomir in the New York Times obit, Fred Willard said that his "greatest achievement" was "teaching his daughter how to catch a fly ball." Willard himself played baseball at VMI and also on military teams in Florida.
I want to wish continuing speedy recovery to the Orioles Trey Mancini who is recovering from colon cancer surgery and will miss the entire 2020 season (whether or not it is played).
It turns out that Trey's father is a surgeon who had the same operation when he was 58.
Trey, the only consistent offensive threat on a depleted Baltimore roster, is not yet 28.
He has already become a team leader on the Orioles and a fan favorite.
In a heartfelt piece he wrote for the Players Tribune, Mancini thanked the scout Kirk Fredriksson who had become a passionate supporter of him when he was playing for Holyoke in a New England collegiate summer league.
Thanks to Fredriksson's advocacy, the Orioles made Mancini their 8th round pick in the 2013 amateur draft. Rare is the player of any generation who has publicly praised the scout who signed him. Just another reason to wish Trey Mancini the speediest of recoveries.
As of this posting at the beginning of June, I don't know if major league baseball will return this year. It doesn't look like deal-makers exist on either side of the owner-player divide.
I don't think it has helped that all the meetings have been held on Zoom.
Though I miss the daily flow of games and news of games, I have found some enjoyment watching old games on MLBTV. Like most of the pine tar game between the Yankees and Royals at Yankee Stadium on the cloudy Sunday afternoon of July 24, 1983.
I had forgotten how wonderfully wacky was Phil Rizzuto's on-air presence. There he was, plugging a friend's restaurant and another friend's birthday while bantering with sidekick Frank Messer.
When Messer used the word "perpendicular" to describe how one hitter had dived across the plate to protect a base runner on a hit-and-run play, Rizzuto acted impressed. "Very good, Messer, . . . not that I know what it means."
Was also revealing to hear both Phil and Frank berate Steve Balboni for lack of production. He was a rookie on the 1983 Yankees but he never could relax in NYC.
He was traded to Kansas City the following year and had a good career with the Royals. On their 1985 world champions, he played first base all season and belted 36 HRs with 88 RBI and went 8-for-25 in the World Series.
This game is most remembered for George Brett's epic rant when his three-run home run in the top of the 9th was voided by rookie plate umpire Tim McClelland. Billy Martin convinced the ump that Brett had used too much pine tar on his bat.
The Yankees' win was voided soon thereafter by American League president Lee MacPhail who argued that the rule was being interpreted too legalistically. Watching the whole game made me remember that Royals starter Bud Black pitched very well - Black is now the Colorado Rockies manager.
I also remembered important details when watching the famous Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. The smooth delivery and intelligence of Vince Scully was a joy to experience again. The game is of course known as the Bill Buckner Game, but in any dramatic close game there are a raft of earlier plays that are just as important.
It was an elimination game for the Mets who fell behind early to the Red Sox 2-0. Southpaw starter Bob Ojeda had come up with Boston and he was highly motivated to beat his old team. He kept the Mets in the game.
Boston's Roger Clemens was in a good form and no hit the Mets for four innings but he used a lot of pitches. In 1986, pitch counts were not yet in vogue. Though Clemens gave up the lead in the 5th, he stayed in through the 7th, throwing about 135 pitches and getting out of jams in both the 6th and 7th innings.
Another lesson learned from Game 6 was how vital a role Mookie Wilson played. Not known for his arm, he still threw out Jim Rice at home plate to keep the Red Sox lead at one run in the 8th inning.
We all remember Bill Buckner's error on Mookie Wilson's grounder that gave the Mets the win, but let's not forget the previous 9 pitches that Mookie battled against reliever Bob Stanley.
The mastery of Vin Scully was evident throughout the broadcast, not least at the very end when the camera showed a shell-shocked Red Sox team leaving the field. Scully said, "If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one is worth a million."
Before I forget, TCM throughout June will be featuring "Jazz in Film" every Monday and Thursday night. Late on Th June 4 (actually early Fri June 5) "High Society" with Louis Armstrong in a prominent role will be shown.
And I'm really looking forward to Monday night June 8 at 8p Sammy Davis Jr. stars in the rarely seen "A Man Called Adam" (1966). Davis Jr was one of the greatest entertainers in American history and I'm eager to see how he plays a jazz trumpeter (with music provided by Nat Adderley, Cannonball's brother).
That's all for now. Always remember, now more than ever, "Take it easy but take it!"
Jun 02, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
A favorite--Willard's Best in Show comment when the judge touch a dog's private's was something like"I wouldn't allow that without dinner and a movie"
- ron sisk
Jun 02, 2020 7:52 PM EDT
LL- you sir, are a living legend. what a schmooze-a-thon, a veritable potpourri of uber-trivia. keep 'em comin'. and I was definitely a better hoopster than you in 6th grade.
- kk
Jun 03, 2020 11:05 AM EDT
Rizutto was quite the character. I remember when Bill White mentioned a current player on the Giants. Rizutto replied,
"You know I don't follow that other league, White."
- Les Taub
Reflections on Stan Musial's 3000th Hit, "Woman of the Year" on TCM, and Pianist Igor Levit
Tags: Woman of the Year, Moe Drabowsky, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Paul Waner, Joe DiMaggio, George Vecsey, James Giglio, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Ring Lardner Jr., Garson Kanin, Michael Kanin, Minor Watson, William Bendix, George Stevens, Igor Levit
I'm posting this blog on the night of May 13, 2020. 62 years ago in the daytime at Chicago's Wrigley Field - before lights came to desecrate that baseball pantheon - Stan "The Man" Musial stroked his 3000th hit, only the eighth to do so and the first since Paul Waner had done so for Dodgers in 1942.
Somehow in the This Day in Sports History section of the NY Times today, Musial's milestone was omitted. Stan The Man, named in grudging genuine respect by Brooklyn Dodgers fan for how he wore them out in Brooklyn, just doesn't get respect. Maybe because he was basically Midwestern nice and didn't exhibit the rage of Ted Williams or the cool grace of Joe DiMaggio.
There is a wonderful saying: "If consistency were a place, it would be lightly populated." Well, Musial would be a treasured resident in that hallowed hall.
3630 career hits, 1815 at home, 1815 on road, .331 lifetime BA, 1951 career RBI, 1949 runs scored. At the time, 3630 was second to Ty Cobb in most career hits.
Musial was more than his stats, though. He could run and throw and his story should be a warmly remembered one. He started out as a left-handed pitcher but his permanent shift to outfield early in the 1941 minor league season propelled him to the big leagues and a 22-year career.
Biographers James Giglio and George Vecsey have done an admirable job in recent years bringing Musial back to our attention. Let's remember his achievement and not get hung up on big city East Coast West Coast delusions of grandeur.
NOW LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES!
As readers of this blog know, watching largely black-and-white old movies on the TCM cable channel has kept me somewhat sane during the pandemic.
So last night - May 12th - I caught "Woman of the Year" (1942), not realizing until later that it was the first Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn movie pairing. Eight more were to come as well as a long-lasting off-screen relationship (though devout Catholic Tracy never divorced).
The concept of a grizzled sportswriter falling in love with an internationally-acclaimed activist-reporter that looks down on sports was a good one. The film, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and the brothers Kanin, Garson and Michael, was directed crisply by George Stevens who had worked with Hepburn earlier in her career.
In any memorable film, the supporting cast has a huge role in its success. Minor Watson plays Hepburn's father. He congratulates Tracy for having the courage and stamina to marry someone as independent and talented as his daughter.
(In 1950 Minor Watson would offer a good portrait of Branch Rickey in "The Jackie Robinson Story". Not as good as Harrison Ford's in "42" (2013) but still believable.)
William Bendix as the bartender-manager of Tracy's favorite watering hole is hilarious as an ex-boxer ready at a moment's notice to describe how he knocked out Braddock in the seventh round. It feels nice to give a plug to Bendix after his unfortunate title role six years later in the "Babe Ruth Story".
Near the end of the flick, Tracy delivers one of my favorite lines after secretly watching Hepburn's farcical attempt at making breakfast: "It's fourth down and time to kick."
The ending of the film does wimp out with Hepburn literally on her knees promising to be a more domestic wife for old-fashioned Tracy. Nobody working on the film was happy with the ending, but M-G-M under Louis B. Mayer was not going to take a chance on an ambiguous ending esp. as World War II loomed. (It opened in early Febuary 1942 at NYC's Radio City Music Hall and no doubt was completed well before Pearl Harbor.)
Stephanie Zacharek in her April 21, 2017 essay in criterion.com makes a couple of very penetrating observations. She writes that the Tracy-Hepburn pairing showed that "the secret to happiness is finding joy in the corners." She adds if we're unhappy with the hokey ending, "It's an invocation to write our own better one - one that we can ourselves can live."
Amen to all that! Certainly watching Hepburn in "Woman of the Year" - a title she receives in the film for her international journalism - made up for the incongruity of seeing her earlier yesterday on TCM. It was in a film three years later, "Undercurrent" (1945, directed by Vincente Minnelli.)
After a horse kills her no-good husband Robert Taylor (who had almost killed her), she is pictured on a sofa listening rapturously to Taylor's kinder brother Robert Mitchum (!) playing Brahms on the piano. There have been stranger scenes in Hollywood films but this one ranks in the top ten IMHO.
One last cultural tip - check out the May 18, 2020 New Yorker magazine for Alex Ross's probing profile of gifted young pianist Igor Levit. He is portrayed as someone who not only delivers the goods as a musician - with wide open ears willing to embrace all kinds of popular music. But he insists on being a social activist for all the good causes.
Levit even tells the story of being overwhelmed by the goodness and intelligence of Monica Lewinsky when she came backstage after a rare Levit NYC performance. As a big coalition man myself, I'll take workable coalitions wherever they may appear.
May 14, 2020 8:33 AM EDT
Lee, Again, very informative and always well written. Growing up in Rochester, NY I have fond memories of the St. Louis Cardinals, the parent club of our Red Wings. Besides seeing Musial and Schoendienst during the annual exhibition games, we saw a lot of the Cardinal's players coming and going like Jackie Brandt and Luscious "Luke" Easter among others. When I was about 14, my best friend entered the Red Wing Batboy Contest by writing an essay about "Why I Wanted to be the Batboy." Miraculously we were both chosen as one of the four finalists. While neither of us got the top prize, we were consoled with two box seat season tickets which we used mightily. The CHQ season is cancelled but as they say in sports, " There's Always Next Year." Stay Healthy, Paul Anthony P.S. I'll send you the link to my new on line Jazz program.
- Paul Anthony
I didn't realize Brandt came up with the Cardinals. I remember him well as a New York Giant coming up at same time as Bill White. But was Luke Easter ever a Cardinal? I know he became later a resident of Rochester and I think it was there working as a security guard he was killed in the line of duty.
Amazing as always, Lee!! My husband just noted that Stan Musial is fourth all-time in hits, while Jeter is sixth.

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First things first: Facial hair growth in women is not usually anything to worry about, so if you've got a bit of fuzz above your lip or on your chin, don't fret—this is totally normal for many people. But what if you have facial hair that's appeared suddenly where you didn't have any before, or it's growing in thicker or faster than usual? There are some health-related reasons you might be sprouting new facial hair, and these are good to know.
While most women have at least some amount of facial hair, it tends to be very fine and light in color. Sometimes, it can come in darker and coarser, but this isn't necessarily any indication of health problems. The Mayo Clinic notes that the amount of facial and body hair you have tends to pivot on genetic factors and there's a wide range of normal hair growth, color and bodily distribution based on a woman's family traits. According to Healthline, excessive hair growth on women's bodies and faces, however, is called hirsutism.
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Dr. Darria Long Gillespie, Harvard and Yale-trained ER doctor and author of Mom Hacks, explains that when women have hirsutism, their hair growth resembles what you'd usually see in men, and it can happen when a high amount of male hormones—such as androgens and testosterone—are present in a woman's body. Gillespie further explains that hirsutism affects about 5 to 10 percent of adult premenopausal women.
Various hormonal factors can come into play when it comes to facial hair growth, Dr. Adeeti Gupta, founder of Walk In GYN Care, explains. Specifically, excessive facial hair can be caused by an imbalance in estrogen and testosterone—one of the most common being polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Gupta recommends that in addition to noting any new facial or bodily hair growth, also be on the lookout for other symptoms, such as sudden weight gain, acne, irregular periods or even male-pattern baldness, and discuss these issues with your doctor. Gillespie also explains that while hirsutism may be an isolated condition requiring minimal therapy—if any—it's usually a sign of unbalanced hormone levels.
It's worth noting that while facial hair growth can be a cause for concern, it's important not to panic if you notice any changes. Dr. Donnica Moore, a physician, president of Sapphire Women's Health Group and host of the podcast In The Ladies' Room With Dr. Donnica, explains that causes of hirsutism include any health condition that causes an excess of androgens. "These are the so-called male hormones, but women make them too," she adds.
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According to Moore, other potential causes of newly grown facial hair in women can include Cushing syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, certain tumors and even some medications. And while it's easy to hit the panic button if you spot some new chin hairs, Moore explains it's best to stay calm and talk to your doctor about the possible underlying cause.
When you do see a physician, they will do a health intake tracking your menstrual cycle and look for possible triggers of the new hair growth, like PCOS, according to Medical News Today. If no underlying hormonal imbalances are present, your hirsutism is most likely genetic. But, if sudden menstrual irregularity is coupled with new hirsutism, your doctor may test for more serious conditions, such as tumors of the ovaries, pituitary or adrenal glands.
And while there's a wide range of what's considered "normal" when it comes to facial hair growth in women, if you notice changes in your menstrual cycle or other new symptoms, see your doctor so they can rule out any potential underlying medical conditions — just in case.
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Shares in Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX: NCM) and other gold miners could be at risk of big falls if the three new emerging storm clouds continue to gather momentum.
The three risks - a falling gold price, the advancing Aussie dollar and weakening demand from China have already sparked a wave of investor fear in the last two weeks.
Newcrest Mining shares have have lost over 21% since mid-March, while Evolution Mining Limited (ASX: EVO) has dropped 18% and even Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST), one of the year's best performing gold miners, has pulled back 19%.
The falls are being driven by the falling gold price which is down 7% over the same time period. This is partly because of comments made by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen about raising interest rates, hinting at a stronger U.S. economy, and partly due to easing fears about war in the Ukraine.
Compounding the impact of falling gold prices is the sudden advance of the Australian dollar. The Aussie dollar has appreciated almost just under 6% against the USD since March, shooting past US$0.92 and reducing extra margin Australian exporters get on commodities priced in USD.
The third risk factor is the potential for weaker demand for gold in China. China was the world's largest buyer of gold in 2013, but a range of factors, including the weakening yuan and the end of the country's Lunar New Year holidays could see demand slow according to an article by Bloomberg.
The three risks are gathering like dark storm clouds over gold producers, but Newcrest could be poised to cope better than most. The company is among the lowest cost producers and is helped by large economies of scale and the ability to target higher-grade ore.
Newcrest Mining has already fought its way through the storm of 2013. The latest risk factors will come as unwelcome news for current investors given the potential impact on company earnings, but with Newcrest's all-in sustaining costs for the December quarter less than A$1,000 per ounce, operationally the big gold miner is well positioned should a storm hit.
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Home Gaming Monitors
5 Best Gaming Monitor Under 300 | Buying Guide
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Best Gaming Monitor Under 300
Today we'll talk about which are the five best picks, how to choose the correct product, and what you should look at before buying. We write these products based on their price, quality, durability, performance, and more. If you'd like to see their price and find out more information, you can check out the links in the table down below to make it easier.
Viewsonic XG2402
As far as under 300 dollar gaming monitors go the Viewsonic XG2402 is the best because it delivers all the qualities that more expensive monitors deliver without raising the price. Check On Amazon
ViewSonic Elite XG240R
Coming to the runner-up on this list, we have an excellent monitor that's pretty much as good as the first pick. The Viewsonic elite XG240R. This monitor is a superb, solid choice. Check On Amazon
AOC C24G1
The cheapest one that delivered a great performance is the AOC C24G1, which is pretty surprising to see. It may not be packed with great features and such, but for gaming under 300 dollars, it's great overall for a pretty cheap monitor. Check On Amazon
BenQ ZOWIE XL2411P
If you're anything like me, you always search for the product that's the best for the money that it comes out. And in this category, that product is the BenQ Zowie XL2411P. Check On Amazon
Acer XF240H
If you want that meeting feature, you should check out the Acer XF240H, which delivers great value for the money just by looking at it. It's the Acer XF240H doesn't leave a great first impression, not in terms of quality. Check On Amazon
The most important things you have to know before buying a gaming monitor.
These days generally, there are two types of panels out there, IPS panels that deliver a great viewing experience, color, and reproduction, and viewing angles. But these are more expensive compared to the other type. However, if you value quality, these are excellent. On the other hand, we have TN panels that deliver speed on a budget price point. These monitors also have lower latency and deliver great refresh rates, which are good but sacrifice the color reproduction and the viewing angles department.
Refresh rates
When it comes to gaming monitors, the refresh rate is one of the most important features. And it's also a thing that's a big talking point today. For those who don't know, the refresh rate of a monitor is the number of times the image on the screen refreshes. To put it simply, the higher the refresh rate, the smoother the image, which gives you an edge in gaming. The minimum on this is 60 hertz, which is good, but there are better ones, such as 75 hertz, 120 hertz, which is a huge difference from the baseline. And there's also 144 Hertz and 240 Hertz monitors, which are top of the line.
Resolution is a very important thing when it comes to monitors, but it would be more relative to the size of your monitor. Most monitors in this price range hover around 24 range and the max is 27 inches.
So for those sizes on the monitor, I can say that even 1080P is pretty good. And if you strike a deal for a 1440P resolution monitor, then you have hit a gold mine that should deliver plenty of sharpness. Buying a 144-hertz monitor a few years ago would cost you a fortune. But fortunately, these days, with the advancements in technology, we see more and more of these models appear in the budget range.
As far as under 300 dollar gaming monitors go the Viewsonic XG2402 is the best because it delivers all the qualities that more expensive monitors deliver without raising the price. Great response times, nice resolution, freezing adjustable stand and so much more in one package under three hundred dollars. The Viewsonic XG2402 has a pretty plain design just by looking at its cabinet with its black matte casing. However, there are some flashy details on the base and stand to deliver those gaming vibes that many gamers are large fans of.
It's pretty simple and utilitarian overall, though, and what it lacks in aesthetic or value it makes up for in practicality and usefulness. For example, it has a hook on the back that acts as a headphone doc on the back. It also has a circular red ring that acts as a cable management feature, which I consider one of the best qualities and monitors that have it. It also has plenty of adjustments to its amazing stand as it delivers forward and backward, tilts height adjustability, and swivels up to portrait mode. If you need it for multi-monitor setups on the back, you'll also spot the 100 by 100-meter mounting holes that allow you to connect it to aftermarket options.
In terms of connectivity, it has to HDMI port, a display port, three USB ports, and a headphone jack. It also has gaming-centric modes such as FPS one and FPS two modes that deliver better performance for shooter games. Definitely the best overall.
Super OSD flexibility in allowing the acquisition of gamma handling alone with OSD adaptation, not to compete with any 'IPS glue', provides detail level data support and, so on Keeps away the associated 'bottom corner bloom' that some users dislike
Normal built-in speaker
Normal TN viewing angles affect the gamma and saturation levels that perceive color consistency. Perceived changes in gamma affect visibility
Coming to the runner-up on this list, we have an excellent monitor that's pretty much as good as the first pick. The Viewsonic elite XG240R. This monitor is a superb, solid choice. If you want fast and smooth performance in your gaming sessions, well, it might not be a very vibrant monitor. If you want fast-paced gaming, this is it to be honest. The Viewsonic elite XG240R is a pretty bland-looking monitor, nothing exceptional overall. And some gamers are stealthy designs. It doesn't have any gaming focus details or red lines, just a simple map-like monitor that gets the job done. It looks like a generic office monitor, but it packs a lot of performance under the hood. Like those sleepers cast. The bezels are relatively thin, but you still get some boulders that measure 0.67 inches.
The screen surface has an anti-glare coating that rejects any ambient light that might distract you and eliminates issues such as grain that is pretty annoying. The OSD is controlled with press buttons that are quite good overall and very intuitive to use, which excellent overall is. The standard of this thing is quite stable and delivers plenty of adjustments are you can get the best set up for your needs. It delivers height, swivels back and forth, and tilt and portrait mode adjustments for connectivity.
It has to HDMI 1.4 port at a sleeper, 1.23 USB 3.0 ports, and a 3.5 millimeter port for audio. The accuracy is not pleasant, but then again, it's designed for gaming. It has a refresh rate of 144 hertz, which is rather smooth, and with the AMD freezing feature, you'll enjoy this quite a lot.
144Hz refresh rate offers stable performance
Affordable than most gaming monitors
Free sink prevents the screen from tearing
Frustrated design
Display under discussion
FreeSync does not work with Nvidia GPUs
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The cheapest one that delivered a great performance is the AOC C24G1, which is pretty surprising to see. It may not be packed with great features and such, but for gaming under 300 dollars, it's great overall for a pretty cheap monitor. The AOC C24G1 features a great design overall with some gaming vibes that are not over-the-top and very tastefully placed.
For example, the red line that's placed around the bottom bezel of the monitor and some other red accents on the back. You notice that it's a gaming monitor, but it's not going to be an eyesore. It also has some super-thin bezels on top and sides and a thicker band in the bottom part. You'll also notice that the AOC C24G1 is a curved monitor with a slight 1500 R curvature that delivers a nice immersive experience. The standard rate overall.
And I was impressed that it had a cable management solution with its whole. I should also state that the stand is made of metal and it's quite adjustable since it delivers height swivel until to judgment. On top of that, you can also opt for an aftermarket stand with 100 by 100 feet amount holes in the back for connectivity. The AOC C24G1 offers HDMI 1.4 ports that display 1.2 VGA and a 3.5 millimeter export for headphones or speakers. And what millisecond NPR that makes every gameplay super smooth input lag is just four milliseconds and the VA panel delivers a superb gaming performance.
Great color consistency
Blurred screen
Sturdy stable contrast
Short input interval
144Hz AMD Free Sync
Aging OSD design
1920 x 1080 resolution
No speakers or USB
If you're anything like me, you always search for the product that's the best for the money that it comes out. And in this category, that product is the BenQ Zowie XL2411P. I've always been impressed with the zowie range of BenQ as it's delivered a breath of fresh air to the gaming peripheral industry. And this model right here is one of the most notable in that lineup. Taking a look at the BenQ Zowie XL2411P, I can see that it's definitely not a stylish device.
It looks ugly and it's not aesthetically pleasing at all. However, this is not designed to be a pretty face. It's designed to deliver you a great gaming performance and quality at a budget price. It's pretty functional, though. For example, it eliminates glare with its matte body. I should mention that its pedals are not thin and will not be a great idea for dual monitors set up on the right-hand side, you'll spot the OSD controls that are pretty intuitive to control. Overall, on the panel itself, there's the anti-glare layer to reject any ambient light and deliver a green-free image with saturation, which is pretty pleasing. Overall, the base is pretty sturdy and it's great to use with its tray-shape for storing pens or other accessories.
He delivers plenty of adjustabilities as well, including height adjustment, swivels back tilt, and rotation to portrait mode. On the back, there's a cooling vent as well, and it has the 100 by 100 feet amount holds. The aftermarket stands in terms of connectivity. It has a display board, HDMI port, and DVI Port to complete the setup. The BenQ Zowie XL2411P is based around a 24-inch twist in a pneumatic panel with a Full HD resolution which delivers great pixel density and sharpness overall, and I should also mention that the peak brightness of this panel achieves 350 met and a contrast ratio of a thousand to one.
The color depth is a standard eight-bit and it's pretty good overall. The biggest feature of this monitor is that it delivers a great 144-hertz native refresh rate, one millisecond response time, and four milliseconds of input. Like that's amazing for gaming. Like I said at the beginning of this list a few years ago, you had to invest a significant amount of money to buy a monitor with a 144-hertz refresh rate. But these days you can get them for pretty cheap.
Best response time
Outstanding short input interval
Great peak brightness and excellent reflective handling
The image decreases at an angle
Does not support any advanced gaming features, such as free Sync
If you want that meeting feature, you should check out the Acer XF240H, which delivers great value for the money just by looking at it. It's the Acer XF240H doesn't leave a great first impression, not in terms of quality. It is just so bland looking for a gaming monitor, which is pretty interesting. However, I would better prefer that a monitor have an unassuming and boring design than a lackluster performance, which we'll touch on later. It feels like it's made from quality parts, though, and it has a black matte finish. That's good. Overall, the bases are circular, which attaches to the stand, which delivers plenty of reliability. I should mention that the Acer XF240H has pretty thin bezels making for a great multi-monitor setup, which is great in my opinion. I should also mention that the stand has a cable management system that allows you to create a clean and clutter-free setup.
It also delivers great ergonomic adjustments, including height, tilt, pivot, and swivel. Moving on, it has a display port 1.2 HDMI 1.4 with MHL dual-link DVI-D ports along with the headphone jack for connectivity, which is great. Let's talk about the performance and image quality of this product. The Acer XF240U is equipped with a 24 inch twisted pneumatic panel that delivers a full HD resolution of 1080P. This results in great pixel density and the image appears pretty clear. The brightness maxes out at 350 units and the contrast ratio is static at a thousand to one.
The colors aren't very vibrant, but they are pretty good overall. The biggest selling point to the Acer XF240U is that it has a 144-hertz refresh rate via the display port and it also supports the NVidia G-sync feature for the tear-free gaming experience. Solid all around.
Short input interval and quick response time
Full ergonomic comfort
G-Sync agreeable
Poor viewing points
Lacks great connectivity
You cannot use G-Sync on an HDMI port
Thanks for reading, I hope you like the article if you found it helpful. Please remember to leave a comment on my blog to see more articles like this in the future. If you have any questions related to these products, you can leave a comment below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening.
What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with global repercussions and it's not long before the CIA come calling. If Kaltrina talks and Abazi is imprisoned, then certain information will come to light - information that men will go to any lengths to keep buried.
What they don't realise though is that Keira Lynch isn't your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man, and as they're about to find out, she's at her most dangerous when threatened.
Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening. What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with global repercussions and it's not long before the CIA come calling. If Kaltrina talks and Abazi is imprisoned, then certain information will come to light - information that men will go to any lengths to keep buried. What they don't realise though is that Keira Lynch isn't your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man, and as they're about to find out, she's at her most dangerous when threatened.


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Alright, alright. We get it, readers. Pete's is a well-rounded grocery store. You don't have to rub it in other grocers' faces with nine consecutive Best Smoothie, nine consecutive Best Salad and four Best International Grocer awards. But seriously, the eternally busy Dresden Row location of Pete Luckett's brainchild—and now Sobeys affiliate— covers a lot of ground and produces some strange grocery orders: One-of-a-kind super salads, fresh-from-the-blender smoothies, halloumi from Cyprus, olives from Spain and Worcester sauce Walker's Crisps. According to your votes, it's all part of a balanced meal.


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THE MAN FROM THE 25TH CENTURY
The Man from the 25th Century was a short presentation made to promote a new idea for a television show in 1968. The presentation was made at the same time as the first season of Land of the Giants and shortly after the end of The Time Tunnel in which James Darren starred.
James Darren - Tomo/Robert Prentice (Earth name)
John Napier - Karl Baldwin
Ford Rainey - General George Atwood
John Crawford - Bonti
Patrick Culliton - Visitor to Project Delphi
On a blue alien planet, a man (Darren) stands in an arena, watched by 5 alien beings. They are testing the man's mental and physical abilities. They ask him what his Earth name is, and he gives the name Robert Prentice. His Earth identity is that of a man 27 years old, born in 1951. Raised in Kansas, he was taken from that world as a child and teleported to the blue planet to be trained for a mission. The aliens test whether he is physically conditioned for anything he might meet on Earth and he passes the test. They test his abilities with telekinesis, and he fails to achieve results quickly enough. Bonti (Crawford) terminates the alien who had been training him.
Tomo challenges Bonti (the supreme command) and Bonti sees his compassion as implying that there are still traces of his humanoid emotion. The aliens realise they have no more time, and they tell him has to return to Earth. As they are 500 years ahead of Earth, his mission to destroy the Earth's Project Delphi is vital. If anyone hinders him, they must be destroyed!
Tomo is transported to Earth by a flying saucer. On landing Tomo (now Prentice) drives a car out of the space ship. Bonti speaks to Tomo as he drives and tells him to avoid all but necessary human contact.
As he drives along the shore line, he hears a voice from the car radio from Project Delphi. He is told that for security reasons, he must let go of the steering wheel and that they are now controlling his car. Prentice does this cautiously and the car is directed toward a cliff face, which opens just in time, and leads into a large tunnel.
Prentice finds himself in the Project Delphi complex and a voice welcomes him and tells him that the orientation group is ready and waiting. General George Atwood (Ford Rainey) instructs the visitors to the complex of the purpose of the project and takes them on a tour.
General Atwood tells the orientation group that they are about to become part of Earth's most vital first line of defence, the Radial Umbrella which will shield Earth from attacks from outer space. He takes them through Blue level 3, and indicates that from this point the project descends more than mile down toward the center of the Earth. Each level is colour coded with increased level of strategic importance.
The General shows them the core, the deepest level of the project. A hyper-atomic furnace. He warns that if its nuclear power ceased for even a moment, the entire complex could be destroyed.
Prentice breaks away from the group and as he wonders towards the control room, he is stopped by a guard. Using his super human strength, he nearly kills the guard, but his inner human "weakness" somehow stops him and he puts the guard down on the ground.
As he enters the control room Prentice is greeted by two engineers and fights them, throwing them against the electrical panels and sparks fly. Prentice pulls computer chords and plants a device on one of the panels, but is stopped by Karl Baldwin (Napier) and the security team.
The aliens are watching and Bonti says that Tomo cannot be allowed to survive as he holds too much information. He commands that Prentice must be destroyed.
Baldwin struggles to get anything out of Prentice. The General checks in and a signal comes in from lab 3, that a space vehicle is bearing straight in at 11,000 miles and approaching Earth's atmosphere. Baldwin tells them to activate Radial Umbrella.
An alien craft gets through and demonstrates its power by destroying a building. An angry Baldwin, drags Prentice from his seat and asks him who are the cruel children? Prentice can't believe that this destruction could have been intentional. Why would the aliens destroy innocent people? Prentice warns that they will reverse the polarity and the complex will implode in seconds!
Baldwin tells him that is all up to him now. Can he stop it? Prentice uses his control device to somehow reverse the energy and the alien craft explodes.
The room goes dark, they don't know what's happening. Suddenly, everyone else disappears and Prentice finds himself alone.
Bonti speaks to Prentice through the monitors on the wall. Bonti tells him that what he has learned from them is but a minute particle of their infinite knowledge. Prentice has betrayed them. "Now you will see the instrument of your destruction".
An indestructable version of Prentice appears, a double that cannot think, relate or feel which is why it wasn't originally sent instead of the real Prentice. Prentice's double attacks him, but somehow, Prentice throws him against the controls and the double is destroyed.
The complex staff reappear and ask him what happened. Is it really over they ask. Prentice replies that it is not over, and warns "I'm afraid it's just beginning".
The Jupiter II and clips from Lost in Space are used on Prentice's return to 20th Century Earth
In the Project Delphi complex they are wearing Tic Toc radiation badges
The atomic core control room is actually the Jupiter II main door, although the interior is dressed up differently
You will recognize many of the computer tape drives, control panels and other set pieces from The Time Tunnel complex
The script is very different with Prentice escaping from Project Delphi and meeting a new character, a girl called Mary Sue
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using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Crosstales.RTVoice.Model;
using Crosstales.RTVoice.Util;

namespace Crosstales.RTVoice.Demo
{
    /// <summary>Simple GUI for runtime TTS with all available OS voices.</summary>
    public class GUISpeechMobile : MonoBehaviour
    {

        #region Variables

        public GameObject ItemPrefab;
        public GameObject Target;
        public Scrollbar Scroll;
        public int ColumnCount = 1;
        public Vector2 SpaceWidth = new Vector2(8, 8);
        public Vector2 SpaceHeight = new Vector2(8, 8);
        public InputField Input;
        public InputField Culture;
        public Text Cultures;
        public static float Rate = 1f;
        public static float Pitch = 1f;
        public static float Volume = 1f;
        public static bool isNative = false;

        private string lastCulture = "unknown";
        private List<SpeakWrapper> wrappers = new List<SpeakWrapper>();

        private bool buildVoicesListIOS = false;

        #endregion

        #region MonoBehaviour methods

        void Start()
        {
            Cultures.text = string.Join(", ", Speaker.Cultures.ToArray());
            Input.text = "Hi there, my name is RTVoice, your runtime speaker!";
            Culture.text = string.Empty;

            //buildVoicesList();
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (!lastCulture.Equals(Culture.text))
            {
                buildVoicesList();

                lastCulture = Culture.text;
            }

            if (Helper.isIOSPlatform && Time.frameCount % 30 == 0 && !buildVoicesListIOS)
            {
                buildVoicesList();
                buildVoicesListIOS = true;
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region Public methods

        public void Silence()
        {
            //foreach (SpeakWrapper wrapper in wrappers)
            //{
            //    if (wrapper.Audio != null)
            //    {
            //        wrapper.Audio.Stop();
            //        wrapper.Audio.clip = null;
            //    }
            //}

            Speaker.Silence();
        }

        public void ChangeRate(float rate)
        {
            Rate = rate;
        }

        public void ChangeVolume(float volume)
        {
            Volume = volume;
        }

        public void ChangePitch(float pitch)
        {
            Pitch = pitch;
        }

        public void ChangeNative(bool native)
        {
            isNative = native;
        }
        #endregion

        #region Private methods

        private void buildVoicesList()
        {
            wrappers.Clear();

            RectTransform rowRectTransform = ItemPrefab.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
            RectTransform containerRectTransform = Target.GetComponent<RectTransform>();

            for (var i = Target.transform.childCount - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                Transform child = Target.transform.GetChild(i);
                child.SetParent(null);
                Destroy(child.gameObject);
                // Optionally destroy the objectA if not longer needed
            }

            List<Voice> items = Speaker.VoicesForCulture(Culture.text);

            if (items.Count == 0)
            {
                Debug.LogWarning("No voices for culture '" + Culture.text + "' found - using the default system voices.");
                items = Speaker.Voices;
            }

            if (items.Count > 0)
            {
                //Debug.Log("ITEMS: " + items.Count);

                //calculate the width and height of each child item.
                float width = containerRectTransform.rect.width / ColumnCount - (SpaceWidth.x + SpaceWidth.y) * ColumnCount;
                float height = rowRectTransform.rect.height - (SpaceHeight.x + SpaceHeight.y);

                int rowCount = items.Count / ColumnCount;

                if (rowCount > 0 && items.Count % rowCount > 0)
                {
                    rowCount++;
                }

                //adjust the height of the container so that it will just barely fit all its children
                float scrollHeight = height * rowCount;
                containerRectTransform.offsetMin = new Vector2(containerRectTransform.offsetMin.x, -scrollHeight / 2);
                containerRectTransform.offsetMax = new Vector2(containerRectTransform.offsetMax.x, scrollHeight / 2);

                int j = 0;
                for (int ii = 0; ii < items.Count; ii++)
                {
                    //this is used instead of a double for loop because itemCount may not fit perfectly into the rows/columns
                    if (ii % ColumnCount == 0)
                    {
                        j++;
                    }

                    //create a new item, name it, and set the parent
                    GameObject newItem = Instantiate(ItemPrefab) as GameObject;
                    newItem.name = Target.name + " item at (" + ii + "," + j + ")";
                    newItem.transform.SetParent(Target.transform);
                    newItem.transform.localScale = Vector3.one;

                    SpeakWrapper wrapper = newItem.GetComponent<SpeakWrapper>();
                    wrapper.SpeakerVoice = items[ii];
                    wrapper.Input = Input;
                    wrapper.Label.text = items[ii].Name;
                    wrappers.Add(wrapper);

                    //move and size the new item
                    RectTransform rectTransform = newItem.GetComponent<RectTransform>();

                    float x = -containerRectTransform.rect.width / 2 + (width + SpaceWidth.x) * (ii % ColumnCount) + SpaceWidth.x * ColumnCount;
                    float y = containerRectTransform.rect.height / 2 - height * j;
                    rectTransform.offsetMin = new Vector2(x, y);

                    x = rectTransform.offsetMin.x + width;
                    y = rectTransform.offsetMin.y + height;
                    rectTransform.offsetMax = new Vector2(x, y);
                }

            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("No voices found - speech is not possible!");
            }

            Scroll.value = 1f;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}
// Copyright 2015-2016 www.crosstales.com

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Rapid assembly furniture for the Scottish Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2008
Paul Kerlaff (Designer)
In October 2008, Paul Kerlaff was commissioned by the Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for Architecture, to design and manufacture furniture for Scotland's first ever stand-alone pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Biennale. Known as the 'Gathering Place', and designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects, the pavilion was situated on the Piazza della Stazione and acted as focal point for meetings and a series of seminars by Charles Jencks and Zaha Hadid.
The techinique of kerfing (slotting) plywood was adopted as a means of achieving tight radii on a pre-finished panel without the need for formwork or extensive gluing time. Intensive prototyping explored a number of composite laminated panels as possible solutions to the break out of face materials, including fabrics and nylon mesh. Eventually this process produced a Birch plywood core faced with a nitrile cork-rubber more commonly used in the automotive industry. Pre-bonding and pre-finishing enabled rapid assembly to suit the tight deadline and successfully addressed issues such as grain lifting and post assembly finishing that are problematic in small batch production.
The stools were used throughout the duration of the Biennale and survived transportation by water barge and before being re-housed in Glasgow's Lighthouse Centre for Architecture and Design. The Gathering Place project was widely documented in publications including Blueprint and DesignBoom and a prominent location in front of Venice's main train station helped to attract an estimated 300,000 visitors.
11th International Architecture Biennale - Venice, Italy
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Along with the new iPhone coming every year, hundreds of people rush in front of Sydney Apple Store in Australia. The crowd goes to the city's main road-George Street. But this time there are no crowds. Now there were only 30 customers.


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Under Scan
ArtReach was appointed by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) in 2005 to commission a major outdoor visual art installation for the region. After shortlisting a number of international artistic teams, ArtReach procured Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer to deliver Under Scan, an interactive video installation featuring 1000 video portraits of local people. A main public square (of up to 2,000 sqm) is flooded with light in which the portraits are discovered within the shadows of passing pedestrians. ArtReach worked with the artist and his Canadian team to successfully produce this highly technical yet accessible project which attracted live BBC broadcasts for each of the five locations; Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham from November 2005 – March 2006. Following completion of the Under Scan project in the East Midlands ArtReach worked with commissioner emda and artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer to publish a book detailing the delivery of this important, large-scale video art work (including a collection of critical essays). Under Scan was presented for six months in 2007 as part of Venice Biennale and was produced by ArtReach in Trafalgar Square, London in November 2008.


ARLINGTON, Va. Officials at the Defense Agency Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are soliciting creative proposals for the fourth swarm sprint in its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
ABERDEEN, Md. University and Army Research Laboratory (ARL) scientists published a new research paper in Science Advances that looks at soldier brain activity during specific tasks for ways to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) teaming to dynamically complete tasks.


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Cloud Native Applications
By: IBM Cloud Team
What is cloud native?
Cloud native microservices
Development principles
Cloud native vs. traditional applications
Cloud native and IBM
Jump to ... What is cloud native? Advantages and disadvantages Architecture Cloud native microservices Application examples Development principles Storage Cloud native vs. traditional applications Cloud native and IBM menu icon
Explore cloud native applications and how they drive innovation and speed within your enterprise.
Cloud native refers less to where an application resides and more to how it is built and deployed.
A cloud native application consists of discrete, reusable components known as microservices that are designed to integrate into any cloud environment.
These microservices act as building blocks and are often packaged in containers.
Microservices work together as a whole to comprise an application, yet each can be independently scaled, continuously improved, and quickly iterated through automation and orchestration processes.
The flexibility of each microservice adds to the agility and continuous improvement of cloud-native applications.
In the video, "What is Cloud Native?", Andrea Crawford gives an overview of some of the key concepts:
You can also dive into the IBM Cloud Podcast, which has a seven-episode miniseries entitled "Everything Cloud Native."
IBM customers find themselves increasingly tasked with improving existing applications, building new applications, and enhancing user experience. Cloud native applications meet these demands by improving app performance, flexibility, and extensibility.
Compared to traditional monolithic apps, cloud native applications can be easier to manage as iterative improvements occur using Agile and DevOps processes.
Comprised of individual microservices, cloud native applications can be improved incrementally and automatically to continuously add new and improved application features.
Improvements can be made non-intrusively, causing no downtime or disruption of the end-user experience.
Scaling up or down proves easier with the elastic infrastructure that underpins cloud native apps.
The cloud native development process more closely matches the speed and innovation demanded by today's business environment.
Although microservices enable an iterative approach to application improvement, they also create the necessity of managing more elements. Rather than one large application, it becomes necessary to manage far more small, discrete services.
Cloud native apps demand additional toolsets to manage the DevOps pipeline, replace traditional monitoring structures, and control microservices architecture.
Cloud native applications allow for rapid development and deployment, but they also demand a business culture that can cope with the pace of that innovation.
Cloud native applications rely on microservices architecture. This distinctive architectural approach to software development focuses on the creation of discrete, single-function services. These single-function services—or microservices—can be deployed, upgraded, improved, and automated independent of any other microservice. This independence enables frequent, iterative updates that do not disrupt the application experience of end-users.
Developers often run microservices inside containers. Containerization packages software and all its dependencies so that an application can run in any environment. Containers are lightweight, fast to deploy, and amplify the benefits inherent in microservices.
For more information on containers and containerization, see "Containers: A Complete Guide" and "Containerization: A Complete Guide."
Learn more about why you should use microservices and containers as an architectural construct.
A microservice is a small application with a small footprint that performs a specific function. Microservices enable an architectural approach where a much larger application is composed of discrete, independently deployed components. The microservices approach to software development can be used in multiple ways but has become closely associated with cloud native application development. Microservices work well with cloud native apps because of their modular structure, compatibility with Agile and DevOps processes, and harmony with container use.
For a full overview of microservices, see "Microservices: A Complete Guide."
The following video provides a high-level exploration of microservices architectures:
In the next three years, 75% of non-cloud apps will be moved to the cloud. Fortunately, the microservices approach used to create new apps can also be used to modernize traditional monolithic applications. This webinar describes how app modernization works (44:26).
Learn how cloud native development that employs microservices is breaking down the barriers of traditional app development.
Cloud native applications often have quite specific functions. Consider how cloud native applications might be used on a travel website. Each topic covered by the site—flights, hotels, cars, specials—is its own microservice. Each microservice may roll out new features independent of the other microservices. Specials and discounts can also scale out independently. While the travel site is presented to customers as a whole, each microservice remains independent and can be scaled or updated as needed without affecting other services. The following are a few examples of other cloud native applications.
IBM Cloud Garage provides IBM customers consulting expertise to build scalable, innovative cloud native apps fast. It offers an innovation hub where businesses of all sizes can design and build apps that solve real-world business needs.
American Airlines (2:50) partnered with IBM to build a Dynamic Rebooking app that launched during a severe weather pattern. The app improved the customer experience by providing users more information and an improved rebooking process.
XComP Analytics (1:56), an analytics platform for education and training, needed to solve an analytics problem, but in the process of correcting one issue, the company was able to develop six new products after engaging with IBM Cloud Garage. The solution included the use of microservices architecture and plugging in IBM Watson to solve specific analytics issues.
UBank (2:45) had a business need to improve their home-loan offering and help customers complete the home-loan process. The company's smart assistant app, RoboChat, answered that need and was built using the IBM DevOps toolchain. Customers that used RoboChat had a 15 percent higher home-loan completion rate.
A critical point of medical research is to advise doctors on best practices for patient care. However, medical research that reveals best practices takes 17 years to work its way into actual medical practice. ThinkResearch (2:06) uses IBM Cloud to deliver the best medical information at the point of care. By using IBM Cloud infrastructure and managed Kubernetes services, the ThinkResearch DevOps team can focus on innovation and patient care rather than infrastructure.
Whether creating a new cloud native application or modernizing an existing application, developers adhere to a consistent set of principles:
Follow the microservices architectural approach: Break applications down to the single-function services known as microservices. Microservices are loosely coupled but remain independent, allowing the incremental, automated, and continuous improvement of an application without causing downtime.
Rely on containers for maximum flexibility and scalability: Containers package software with all its code and dependencies in one place, allowing the software to run anywhere. This allows maximum flexibility and portability in a multicloud environment. Containers also allow fast scaling up or down with Kubernetes orchestration policies defined by the user.
Adopt Agile methods: Agile methods speed the creation and improvement process. Developers can quickly iterate updates based on user feedback, allowing the working application version to match as closely as possible to end-user expectations.
Cloud native applications frequently rely on containers. The appeal of containers is that they are flexible, lightweight, and portable. Early use of containers tended to focus on stateless applications that had no need to save user data from one user session to the next.
However, as more core business functions move to the cloud, the issue of persistent storage must be addressed in a cloud native environment. This requires developers to consider new ways to approach cloud storage.
Just as cloud native application development takes on a microservices and modular approach, so must cloud native storage. Cloud native data can reside in any number of places— such as event or system logs, relational databases, and document or object stores.
Data location, retention demands, portability, platform compatibility, and security are only a few of the aspects that developers must consider when planning for cloud native storage.
Discover how IBM Cloud Object Storage creates a persistent data store for cloud native applications.
Cloud native vs. Cloud enabled
A cloud enabled application is an application that was developed for deployment in a traditional data center but was later changed so that it also could run in a cloud environment. Cloud native applications, however, are built to operate only in the cloud. Developers design cloud native applications to be scalable, platform agnostic, and comprised of microservices.
Cloud native vs. Cloud ready
In the short history of cloud computing, the meaning of "cloud ready" has shifted several times. Initially, the term applied to services or software designed to work over the internet. Today, the term is used more often to describe an application that works in a cloud environment or a traditional app that has been reconfigured for a cloud environment. The term "cloud native" has a much shorter history and refers to an application developed from the outset to work only in the cloud and take advantage of the characteristics of cloud architecture or an existing app that has been refactored and reconfigured with cloud native principles.
Cloud native vs. Cloud based
A cloud based service or application is delivered over the internet. It's a general term applied liberally to any number of cloud offerings. Cloud native is a more specific term. Cloud native describes applications designed to work in cloud environments. The term denotes applications that rely on microservices, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and can be used via any cloud platform.
Cloud native vs. Cloud first
Cloud first describes a business strategy in which organizations commit to using cloud resources first when launching new IT services, refreshing existing services, or replacing legacy technology. Cost savings and operational efficiencies drive this strategy. Cloud native applications pair well with a cloud-first strategy because they use only cloud resources and are designed to take advantage of the beneficial characteristics of cloud architecture.
Meeting more-demanding user expectations means adopting the right architectures, practices, and technologies. As you look to enhance user experience by building new applications and modernize existing applications on your journey to cloud, cloud native can help by improving app performance, flexibility, and extensibility.
Take the next step:
See how you can start to move forward by using IBM for cloud native.
Learn how IBM can help lead the way with cloud native professional services.
Try your hand at modernizing an existing app for cloud native deployment with this tutorial.
Get started with an IBM Cloud account today.


Colorminium have been awarded a Gold Accreditation for the Best Employers in the Eastern region 2018.
Excellent to have our HR Partner Simon Parry attend the event today to receive this fantastic award.
This award was judged through a series of surveys with employees conducted by the institution. It explores how each business works to better engage their employees and what activities are undertaken to make workplaces more engaging. It marks companies out as ones which care deeply about the well-being of their employees and which go the extra mile to build an engaged workforce focused on the success of the individual and the business.
It brings more than just an award but brings ongoing support and development opportunities to organisations looking to enhance their employer brand and increase employee engagement.
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A former Mossad agent, Ziva first appeared in Season 3, and ever since, has amused her team with her ability to mangle American colloquialisms. Take this quiz on Ziva's greatest misses and see if you have a better grip on all the familiar, yet curious phrases spoken in America.
In "Ravenous," Ziva asks a park ranger if she can take a "bat nap" -- what did Ziva mean to say?
Help Ziva with this cliche: "A spoon full of _______ helps the medicine go down."
In "Cover Story," Ziva tells McGee that it looks like he "saw a goat." Ziva should have said: "It looks like you saw a _____."
Here's a cliche Ziva would surely get wrong. Fill in the blank: "Whoever ____ with the most toys wins."
Help Ziva with this idiom. "You can catch more flies with honey than with _______."
This old cliche would surely trip up Ziva. Fill in the blanks: "The only difference between women and girls is the ______ of their ______."
In "Friends and Lovers," Ziva tells John "it's like shooting fish in a pond." What did she mean to say? "It's like shooting fish ..."
Help Ziva fill in the blanks. Wake up and _______ the ________.
In "Ravenous," Ziva tells Tony "It'll be like trying to find a pin in the haystack." Tony corrects her, saying that it should be a _______ in a haystack.
The NCIS gang never has much time to eat. If Ziva ever did sit down for a big meal, she could use this cliche: "One ______ short of a combination plate."
Help Ziva with this cliche: "That's like closing the barn door after the _____ has bolted."
Look on the bright side: at least you're a nice person. When it came to the quiz, however, you may have bitten off more than you can chew. Buckle down, mind your p's and q's, and try the quiz again. A journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step.
You're smarter than the average bear, but you're not exactly a rocket scientist either. But hey, no use crying over spilled milk. Lick your wounds, keep your nose to the grindstone and try again. Remember: it's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game.
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Toro Tapas & Tequila in Patchogue was among the highest-ranked restaurants in the area.
But a 4.5 on Yelp and 4.4 on Google wasn't paying the bills.
So now he's going to have some fun.
The eclectically decorated and aggressively affordable Nahcho Papi opened on Saturday, Jan. 26, serving up traditional dishes from South and Central America.
Bonilla is describing the concept as a Latin Pub.
The renovations were ongoing, and started in November (more photos below).
The good news for Toro lovers is that executive chef Andres Molina, who's cooked Spanish and Castilian small plates at Toro for the past two years, is staying on board.
Bonilla and the staff are especially excited about increased volume, which explains some of the price points such as the $8 skirt steak with rice, fries and fried plantains.
The specialty cocktail menu also includes a Cucumber CBD Margarita ($16).
The place is decked out in whimsical Latin artwork. And, there are plans to reintroduce some tapas off the old menu come summer, such as the grilled octopus.
"Like Toro, we want to serve the best food and best drinks possible," Bonilla said.
Nahcho Papi is located toward the eastern end of the village, just past New Patchogue Village Fitness & Spa (formerly Finest Fitness). The address is 224 East Main Street, though the entrance and parking is off Rider Avenue. The phone number is 631-438-0775. Click here for the menu. There's on-site parking and typically plenty of municipal parking behind the gym.
The hours are Monday through Thursday, 4 – 10 p.m., Friday, 4 – 11 p.m., Saturday 3 – 11 p.m., and Sunday 3 – 9 p.m. The hours are new and subject to change.