You don't have to buy them from these guys, they just had a good pic.
Hilarious. I used to be a jag guy...and I think I have a set of those mounts in my parts hoard but never thought of them. I'm happy with the leaf spring eye mount style mount, but not the 90A Shore hardness. I can pour polyurethane and use the existing mounts to make a mold. It'll be fine.
I could come forward with the pan. At this point, I'm down about 1/2 L to a litre so my guess is that the pan as it sits will still hold about 5 L - I'm fine with that. With the oil cooler, it's plenty of volume. I will add some trap doors to the sheet metal baffle to further assist in corners to prevent oil starvation.
If you're gonna be thrashing around on track days an oil accumulator is a good idea. You know how they work, don'tcha professor?
I'm OK with the mount at this point. I can change it later if needed.
Yup - fully up to speed on accumulator's. It's a good idea and simple to implement. Really no good reason to not have one.
As far as track days...well, that's the idea - but of course this is Western Canada so my options are super limited. Southern Alberta has no tracks at this time so I autocross. Now, that said, I'm willing to head on down to the PNW and join you guys for a run or two. I mean...if there's still good coffee and beer.
Until little donny puts a tariff on coffee (covfefe) we'll have plenty of that and lots of local micro brews!! See ya' next spring (fingers crossed)!
The latest episode is now up. This time - engine mounts.
Rolling along - Anti Roll Bar video.
Trying to get a few jobs cleaned up. Thought I'd start with finishing the rear end sheet metal. I honestly need a break from some things and I enjoy sheet metal work. The weather is nice and I can get the priming done to at least hold things until we're ready to roll on the entire car.
But just like everything - I get started and find a little rust. It didn't take long to fix - but it did pull me off other tasks for a bit. I'll fill you in later on the rest when it's all done.
In the mean time - rust repair 101.
Cut out the old stuff - use whatever is fast (air chisel was my weapon of choice). I didn't take pictures - it was just a little surface rust, that wasn't surface rust. The rear window leaked - that's the cause as far as I can tell. Wheel well rusts due to window leakage.
I'm not worrying about the doubling panel or the outer because I'm going to change this panel out when the fenders get done.
Funny enough - this car is very solid on the inside. The old flanges just needed a little scrub and they're fine. Quick shot with some zinc weld through primer.
Patch panel - messed up punching the one hole!
A few plug welds and a little seam and we're all fixed up.
Grind it back to finish it off.
And a dab of primer.
I'll be epoxy priming this area later. The zinc is there as there will be a closing panel when the new outer wheel well goes on. I'll just tape the are when doing the rest.
Great work man, I'm taking notes so I can rebuild my front geometry and steering at some point in the future.
On the oil pan front, I cut a similar amount (maybe more) off of my sump and have had zero oil starvation or pressure loss issues. Mine isn't a race car by any means, but I've done some pretty decent cornering in the rockies with it. The dipstick is stock 960, and I can get right at 6 quarts in it going by the full mark on the stick (not including filter). I'm using soft rubber mounts too and I haven't had any rubbing issues, clearance is pretty tight in a couple of areas.
My engine is a PITA to remove too, I really need to notch the front cross member for sump clearance during install. The pan is just so big there's only one way to get it in there.
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I'm trying to get caught up with my video backlog. I'm going to try to get a few shorter episodes out here in the next month to get caught up.
The start of the oil pan modifications.
Still rocking and rolling right now.
Absolutely loving the "Ride of the Valkyries" music......... what is the smell of victory in the Throttle Stop Garage?
Also loving your fabricating..... I just may have to subscribe!
LOL - thanks. You'll see what the traditions are when we finally roll this thing out of the garage. My wife and dog do not approve of most of the smells that emanate from the garage.
Let's see if I can get 100 subscribers!
I sure can appreciate your challenges with this build...... optimize the suspension, then fighting for every bloody inch when fitting the whiteblock, what with the original 1950's suspension location in that classic sheet metal. It certainly might have been easier to try and graft a 960 crossmember into the Amazon, but with minimal front suspension improvement.
If it makes you feel any better, recently HOTROD ran a story about a guy fitting a full dressed LS into those confines..... however I doubt he went to your lengths on the Vette front suspension and steering (memory says they were dirt track building guys who just feel in love with the Amazon wagon metal). I'm pulling for you Craig, and very, very impressed with your fab skills. Now I'm heading downstairs to MIG together some 409SS exhaust, stretching my skills a bit further (using 309L wire and TRI-mix, so I've got that going for me).
Here's the latest installment. I'll do up a post later for those that would rather that form of content.
So - something is now DONE.
This is a hell of a build, can you come do mine next!
Thanks - trying to keep the details and quality very high. Still so much to come together before it starts to look like a car again.
I get the rear sheet metal all finished, filled and primed. Yes, it's progress...you heard it hear first.
I thought it was time to switch things up a little and actually completely finish something on this project. So the rear of the car, for years...has been close to finished. Close. But not finished. The sheet metal was roughly fitted and held in with Clecos and the rear seat bulkhead was out, but held in with Tek screws. I have stretched the rear inner fenders 20 mm or so and re-crafted the original back seat back to fit (the base fit fine). But I had never finished up - it needed some filler and the seam sealer was rough, and it was a little scratched up from having to remove the previous Dynamat installation.
So I got to work (see the vids) and got this done. It took almost 3 weeks to complete. Here's the back seat bulkhead welded in.
I had just slopped some epoxy primer on it a few years ago, so that had to get sanded off and this photo is mid prep for the rest. So some parts done, most not done.
You can see where the strip was added...you can't feel where it was added.
I then returned to the trunk to get that sorted out. Lost of paint on the inside of future box sections and many, many plug welds later I was sanding and almost ready for some filler.
Drivers side fender is a little artsy as I will be carrying a spare tire.
Inside and out were then filled with a short strand waterproof filler and finished with some very nice Evercoat Ultra. No pin holes, easy to sand. The perfect filler.
I then broke out the paint guns (I like painting) and treated the metal to two coats of PPG Epoxy Primer (DP48LV) - don't use cheap epoxy - it's nothing like the real deal. Note, I filled the old speaker hole in the parcel shelf area.
I think it came out great.
Getting in all the nooks and crannies was a challenge...thank goodness for fan control.
Ya, that'll do. I still have to change the outer wheel housing - so that's why that's not painted.
I also did the complete rear underside - so that's all done. It needs seam sealer, but that can wait until we're laying colour and done the rest of the sheet metal work back here. For now, the IRS is back up at home and we're moving onto the front of the car again.
I've been a bit busy with work...and we added a new member to the team.
He doesn't like the garage a lot just yet, but I have hopes.
So with the back finished enough for now, it's back to the front of the car. Before the frame can go in, the pedal box for the floor mounted pedals needs to go in and the transmission tunnel needs to be replaced. So let's get on with the show.
The engine position meant the pedal box needed to move towards the outside of the car about 1/2" No big deal, I had the room. Just a little more metal massaging.
Final position - seems fine.
The pedal mount plate welds directly to the frame - it's 1/8" plate and should be more than enough once fully boxed.
I had to create a relief in the box to cover a gap between the box and the frame - the box ended up going a little higher on the firewall than planned, so this was easiest.
I'll fill in the sides and front so that crap doesn't collect in the gap.
I'm also working on the transmission tunnel. It's a bit tight on the drivers side...reverse switch is on the sheet metal.
I think I'll just bend it out a little...this should do the trick.
240 tunnel all cleaned up - looks like a good fit once the front panel was removed.
I should get the sheet metal flange built to receive the trans tunnel this week. Then mount up the rear end and see what I have to do for the drive shaft tunnel.
dat paint work... Excellent updates as always.
Time to get the trans tunnel sorted out.
The 240 tunnel will work almost perfectly. I was amazed when I knocked out the lip where I lopped this off the donor car that was just about perfect.
I toyed with the idea of reusing the base of the old tunnel, but it just didn't make any sense to do that when I still had to build the flange to attach this tunnel to the firewall. It really isn't the right shape to match at the base, so better do it right.
Didn't take any picture of how I did this...watch the video when it's out.
Here's the top joining part.
Getting it all levelled off was tricky - but worked.
Took two stabs to get the shifter dead centre.
Then the skirting got done. This will get tidied up and finished this week. Then the tunnel is a little closer - next up will be the drive shaft fitting.
Very nice! Love seeing the progress!


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Q: jQuery/Ajax: How to send data to an url without showing data in web-developers I have a litle shop basket where I can add products.
Here is my index.php
...
Apple
...

Here is the functions.js
function add_product_to_cart(item, id) {
    var item = item;
    var id = id;

    $.ajax({
      url: "ajax.php",
      type: "POST",
      data: {
        action: "add",
        name: item,
        id: id
      },
    success: function(data) {
      //do something
    }
  });
};

When I click on "Apple", the parameters are send to the ajax, and they are visible for example in the Firefox-Web-Developer.
Is there a chance to hide these POST-parameters? Maybe to protect it from attacs from outside? Is my thinking maybe totally wrong how to add it to the basket? Thanks for any help!!
Here is a screenhot from my web-developer.
Web-Developer Firefox

A: You can't hide what is being logged in the Network tab of Chrome Developer Tools. Even if you could, a hacker could sniff the requests using Fiddler or other web proxy. Client side validation is nice, but not the end all. Most people wouldn't be trying to send requests to your server illegitimately but some will I suppose.
You really should be doing server side validation that data sent to the server is indeed valid. Don't rely on the client to do this as anyone can modify what is sent directly to the server. In your PHP code, you would do something like this:
function validate_data($data)
{
    // other code here
    if(!is_discontinued($data['product_id']))
        add_to_cart($data['product_id']);
    // other code after
}

function is_discontinued($product_id)
{
    // do database query
    $is_discontinued = lookup_product($product_id);
    return $is_discontinued;
}

This is very barebones, but it should give you the idea of what needs to be done.
EDIT:
After looking at some of your recent comments, you may also like to include CSRF tokens to make sure that requests originate from your domain. These tokens are generated on the server and often stored in hidden fields in the form to be sent back to the server with each request. Then you validate the token on the server and after it passes validation, you perform your action.
Note, this will only slow down most hackers, but it can deter some who aren't dead set on performing illegitimate requests.
In terms of sending the value with AJAX requests, you would need to select your hidden field and add its value to the POST data. Your AJAX request would then look something like this:
function add_product_to_cart(item, id) {
    var item = item;
    var id = id;

    $.ajax({
      url: "ajax.php",
      type: "POST",
      data: {
        action: "add",
        name: item,
        id: id,
        token: $('#csrf_token').val()
      },
    success: function(data) {
      //do something
    }
  });
};

On the server (PHP), you would have something like this:
function get_csrf_token()
{
    $token = md5(uniqid(rand(), TRUE));

    if (!isset($_SESSION['token'])) {
        $_SESSION['token'] = $token;
    }
    else
    {
        $token = $_SESSION['token'];
    }

    return $token;
}

function valid_csrf_token()
{
    if(isset($_POST['token'])){
        if($_POST['token'] == $_SESSION['token'])
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }
    else {
        return false; // no token was sent with the request
    }
}

Then in your form, you would have your hidden field like this:
<input id="csrf_token" type="hidden" value="<?php get_csrf_token(); ?>" />

Finally, your original PHP validation function would include the CSRF token validation:
function validate_data($data)
{
    // other code here
    if(!is_discontinued($data['product_id']) && valid_csrf_token())
        add_to_cart($data['product_id']);
    else
        header('HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request', true, 400); // set status to bad request
    // other code after
}

Note, setting the status to bad request is optional, but it will show the request was not as expected.

A: The answer is: No, there is no way you can hide the data you're sending to server using AJAX.
But this shouldn't be a problem, since you MUST validate everything on server.
You can validate things on client-side (for normal users) to have a easier/faster response on client, and to get less traffic on your server. But, as said above, you must revalidate everything on server, cause this is the only way you can ensure that, even if malicious data is sent to your server, your website will still work as expected.
Btw, you can even block/ban the users that are trying to make something different from what your not-modified client code usually does.

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Music | November 2, 2020 12:15 pm
Listen: David Lee Roth Releases New Song Dedicated to Eddie Van Halen
The Van Halen singer's solo track reflects on his pre-fame days in California
David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen during their last concert tour together in 2015.
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By Kirk Miller
Singer David Lee Roth recently released the contemplative track "Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bar and Grill," dedicated to his late bandmate Eddie Van Halen, as reported by Consequence of Sound.
While the song was actually written a few years back with guitarist John 5 (a frequent Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson contributor who got his start with a little-heard Roth solo album back in 1998), it had yet to see the light of day until last week.
Roth shared the song via YouTube with a still graphic featuring the message, "Hey Ed / I'm gonna miss ya' / See you on the other side." It's an acoustic number that reflects on the singer's pre-fame days in Los Angeles; for fans who haven't heard from the Van Halen singer in a while, it's a bit mellow but not that far removed from his rock ballad "Damn Good" (from the 1988 album Skyscraper).
Eddie Van Halen passed away in early October at the age of 65 after a long battle with throat cancer. Roth, meanwhile, has begun to release songs (including the aforementioned "Somewhere …") as part of The Roth Project, a comic book/music collaboration online now.
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What if you could change your mood at the flip of a switch? Or even by the sound of your own voice? Philips recently held their European press launch for their Hue range of lighting, and the results were amazing.
Whether you wish to feel energized, or you simply want to read, concentrate or relax, each hue of light can assist, and Villa Nicola transformed into every mood during the cocktail party, dinner, talks and socialising. Our garden courtyard received a complete change in personality, within moments!


On Thursday, Karlie Kloss surprised the world when she posted a photo of herself in a wedding dress and veil, holding a simple bouquet of white flowers in one hand and her new husband Joshua Kushner's hand in her other. This is how the supermodel announced she was married in an intimate ceremony in upstate New York late last week. As shocked as we were to find out that this extremely famous couple had pulled off the private nuptials three months after becoming engaged without anyone finding out until the marriage license was signed, there is one element of the Kushner-Kloss wedding that came as less of a surprise. According to Instagram stories shared by Kloss over the weekend, she and her new hubby got their wedding cake from Momofuku Milk Bar.
One of the photos Karlie shared on Instagram over the weekend features her sitting on the floor in her gorgeous Dior wedding gown, holding what looks like a piece of Milk Bar's Best Freaking Cookie. In the top left corner of the picture, the model wrote, "Finally got to eat my @milkbarstore wedding cake at 2 a.m." The following photo shows a massive version of one of the bakery's most iconic offerings, Birthday Cake, being picked at with a fork.
The Milk Bar wedding cake seems like a natural fit for Karlie Kloss' big day since she has worked closely with the brand in the past and is good friends with the bakery's owner Christina Tosi. In 2012, with help from Tosi, Kloss created her very own Milk Bar cookie called Karlie's Perfect 10 Kookie. At the time, all the proceeds earned from the treats benefited FEED Project. The newlywed's special creation is still available at Milk Bar and may have also been served at her recent wedding reception.
Though we're not sure Tosi made the guest list for Kloss's recent 80-person wedding, we're guessing her famous pastry chef friend will be at the bigger celebration the couple is reportedly throwing next spring, and perhaps, the two will collaborate on the dessert lineup for that party as well.


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Q: postMessage function not working with window.onload? OK, so here's the setup. I have an expandable banner that swaps out the HTML of the smaller initial banner to the larger expanding banner. (In this test it expands from 160px wide to 600px wide.) I also have the second HTML page jump to a specific scene in my exported Tumult Hype (An HTML 5 animation program) files.
The function

"postToHype()"

uses postMessage to pass off to the second HTML document HypeExample to tell it to open to the second scene of the document. So in theory, what happens is the ad not only expands and loads the second HTML document, but it also then jumps to the second scene in that document.
This is working for me; it triggers the "postToHype()" function when I mouseover the ad. This also works when I tested using a button which also triggers the

"combine()"

function. The "combine()" function ALSO triggers the function

"autoExpand()"

which opens the ad for 7 seconds and then closes it again.
What I can't get to work is having window.onload call the "combine();" function. When window.onload fires "combine()" , "autoExpand()" works but "postToHype()" does not. Why does the button click and onmouseover work with my "postToHype()" function, but "window.onload" does not?
Not all of the code is shown here (such as the linked .js libraries) but I tried to include the most pertinent bits. Any and all ideas are greatly appreciated.

This is an HTML banner RK V7. Click to see exported HYPE interactive that loaded inside.

<button onclick="combine();">Click me</button>

A: Change it lite this:

You need to defining the function postToHype() before you are calling it. And it is better to just use one script tag and write all your code in it.


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On Tour!! (well.... three gigs)
Well-o-well, I have had a busy few days. On Sunday, I played at the Sage in Gateshead. What an honour! Geordie girl from Wylam leaves north-east, has failed career in two bands, burns out, has kids, starts again, and gets to play the Sage!
Martin Stephenson was asked to put on a show alongside the film The Haint of the Budded Rose, which was about Charlie Poole, or at least, the making of a play about Charlie Poole. So Gary O'Dea, Steph Macleod and myself each played short sets, and then Martin, Jim Morrison on fiddle and Brian (he's got the guitar shop in Newcastle) got up to do a much longer set. Oh, the venue is beautiful! The room was light and airy, very high, with a polished wooden floor and strange matchstick-patterned wooden walls which made it acoustically perfect; the audience was totally silent, but very smiley, and the whole thing went off smoothly and goodnaturedly, with Martin's sometimes percussionist Fin McCardle picking us up, Shane Fonteyne doing a bit of washboarding for a couple of songs, and a lovely sunny day outside.
Next up was the Red Dragon in Kirkby Lonsdale, which was sort of an OK gig but one where you had to yell to be heard over a crowd of boozers. On the left side of the room, people were listening; on the right side, they were shouting. I was lucky to get my bit over with but I felt really sorry for Martin who had to do the work of a whole band.
Lastly, yesterday's gig was another very nice one. A whole bunch of acoustic artists have contributed to an album of cover versions of Martin's songs, organised by Pete Shields who runs Candlelit nights all over the Midlands and the Northwest. At the gig at DeBees in Winsford, five of those artists played their versions, which was really great. When the CD is out (it has been delayed) I'll tell you who all the contributors were- there are some really good performers on it. Rob Metcalfe started the evening off with a lovely version of Home and Steph Macleod did a fantastic version of Orange is the Colour of Joy last night, so I am looking forward to hearing the rest of it. One poor guy's plectrum kept leaping out of his fingers, four times, in spite of being replaced by picks belonging to audience members, and he gave up in the end, which was a shame.
DeBees has a very good PA and I played a set after them, which I really really enjoyed, and then Martin got up and played some lovely stuff I have not heard before. The place was full of guitarists and freinds- Stephen Foster-Pilkington and Katie were there, and Mike and june and Laura, so there was a very good atmosphere.
Somewhere amongst all the playing, I had a Mark Toney's ice cream in Newcastle, photographed a gypsy fortune teller in the BIgg Market in the toon (very weird), noticed that the clock in the Central Station now has hands, saw big thick chaps with bap-hands holding bacon baps in them, got to dislike Novo-Castrian bus drivers who whistled past me and my guitar at the bus stop, and went to Worm Hill, which the Lambton Worm curled round in between eating the peasants of County Durham.
Oh yes- and had lots of conversations with waiters in Bangladeshi restaurants!
I'm putting Autumn Love on Myspace now, for Nick and Sue who are getting married on Saturday. It is their song, I wrote it specially for them, and they certainly deserve to be sung about.
For future- my set list at De Bees- A Bad Day, Temptation, Love on the Wind, I Feel It, Memento Mori, Heaven Avenue
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Thursday, July 31, 2008 No comments:
Here is the info Steve sent me:
London Improvisers Orchestra at Amadeus, Sunday July 20, 2008:
Adam Bohman - amplified objects
Tony Marsh - drum set
Caroline Kraabel - alto saxophone
Dominic Lash - contrabass
Torben Snekkestad - soprano saxophone and clarinet
Roland Ramanan - trumpet
Alexander Hawkins - keyboard and piano on A5
Rodrigo Montoya - shamisen
Sarah Robins - flute and piccolo
Ray Warleigh - alto saxophone and flute
Javier Carmona - percusssion
Ricardo Tejero - clarinet
Ute Kanngiesser - 'cello
Philipp Wachsmann - violin
John Rangecroft - clarinet
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone on B1
Ivor Kallin - viola
Steve Beresford - piano except on A5
1 conduction by Wachsmann
2 conduction by Ramanan
3 small group: Montoya, Snekkestad, Lash, Beresford
4 conduction by Kraabel
5 conduction by Beresford
And here is my wildly pretentious review!!!
Amadeus is a Subud meeting centre in Little Venice- set in strange streets with an ironed and starched feel and absolutely NO litter at all (can this be London?)
Inside, Steve Beresford drifts through the room like a Beta Pied Piper, and gradually the musicians flow towards the performing area where their chairs are set out ready...
(I had to get used to it so I can't review the first piece)
As they sit they show the same degree of concentration as athletes; the second conductor does a sort of noise meditation. The orchestra put their hands on their heads and hum ( I joined in too, actually) and one by one, instruments join and leave the noise.
The conductor was a sound controller- or thought he was until the piece ended itself and took him by surprise!
The third piece was a small group. Who decided who stayed and who left? I couldn't work it out.
Steve Beresford's piano notes twittered and dodged: I thought I detected a covert dislike of hymn-playing at school assembly there. His playing also had the distant spookiness of the accompanist to Albert and the Lion by Stanley Holloway. I loved the wooden timbre of the double bass and the shushing soprano sax- the room has excellent acoustics.
The fourth piece was conducted by a woman who had an idea in her head that did not include the sax player in the front row, who had two goes at playing a little motif, only to be steamrollered in mime twice. Eventually, the piece stopped and started again. It began as an air on mains hum before developing into rattlesnakes and havoc in a 1950s kitchen, getting wilder and wilder, making me imagine Eraserhead: she made slanting movements with her arms and the instruments made slanting sounds (how that?), before subsiding to mains hum again. During all this, she strode around the room, soaking up the sounds before giving more instructions.
I was fascinated by the chap with all the instruments laid out on a table playing an electronic spring with a violin bow and a lightbulb.
Last up in the first half, it was Steve's turn to conduct. He let the sax player have his moment, embedding him into the piece right from the start; with the baton clamped between his teeth, he created a dynamic, rumbling piece like a stew with lots of chunky bits in it, during which I discovered that if you play a wine glass half full (or half empty) with water with a violin bow, it sounds different if you play the side nearest to you or the side furthest away. Ah, the Duracell rabbits bouced down the stairs in my imagination, screaming intermittently. Steve introduced smiles into the music; what an exercise in diplomacy it must be to conduct an improvisers' orchestra! In the Horns I used to work it so that each person got a song with a solo in turn. This line-up must be hell and there must be lots of grumpy phone calls on a Sunday evening between those who feel cheated by the conductor's choices! Somehow, he managed to let each person express their personality; there was an achingly lovely flute solo, so beautiful, and then a guy blowing on to a timbale with pursed lips and making a trombone-like sound, a cross between a fart and an angry wasp.
What a way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Quiet and loud at the same time, another of London's many music worlds. I am a person not made to enjoy improvised music, I like a nice crunchy verse followed by a nice juicy chorus, but I did find it fascinating and perfect for a change of mood, concentrating on timbres and instrumental coonversations. I would love to see this lot do a gig in a tube carriage, spontaneously!
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Friday, July 25, 2008 No comments:
Steve Beresford's going to send me the people's names in the Improvising Orchestra so I will wait until then to do the review.
Yesterday me and Caroline Coon went to the Wilhelm Hammershoi exhibition at the Royal Academy. Caroline had seen a picture of his and was intrigued to see more and she suggested that we meet up and have a proper look.
His paintings are completely inspiring- if i wrote about them they would sound boring, because they are grey, or shades of grey, and often of the same room, with two or three year gaps between them, and different sunshine. When there are people in them, it's often the back of the person, and there is hardly any detail and the rooms are empty. They are sort of full of what you don't see.
You realise that a lot is hidden; the exhibition is called 'the poetry of silence', and they are indeed very still paintings. But they often have a little touch of humour, almost to see if you notice it: a tiny streak of yellow on a bedstead, or a box on a shelf that is so mysterious that you are dying to know what's inside it.
One painting has one or two leaves from a plant that you can't see just poking in the side of the painting. In some paintings, the grey is blue-grey, and in othesr, it is green-grey.
The light parts of the paintings are incredibly bright- lots of them feature windowpanes, or panelled doors reflecting light at an angle.
In many ways they resemble etchings in their use of dark darks and light lights.
You see, I have gone there again in my head.
Yes, I really did like the exhibition. It made me want to be an artist again.
Thank you Caroline for taking me.
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Wednesday, July 23, 2008 No comments:
The Improvising Orchestra, improvising, and instruments at rest
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Monday, July 21, 2008 No comments:
Words into the ether
Yesterday I went to see the London Improviser's Orchestra playing in the afternoon. It was so good that they are going to get their own separate posting rather than just a mention- a Sunday Special, when I have a bit more time.
Afterwards I went over to Tom's attic and Paul came over to play a little clarinet on the song I've written for my cousin's wedding. He and his wife-to-be have had more tragedy than is humanly bearable and it is so lovely that they are marrying each other. I have written one of my best ever songs for them but I'm not putting it on Myspace till they've heard it. Paul tried the soprano sax first but it sounded a bit too harsh; when the clarinet met the track it fitted perfectly and sounded jaunty and thirties-ish and it iced the cake a dream.
I'm going to bloody miss Tom when he goes to New York. Often, people in studios are very patronising to woman musicians, even if they don't mean to be. They treat us as though we have a disability that means everything needs to be explained to us extremely slowly, and they think we want to know everything about them, all the very important things they have done, so we know just how unimportant we are in the greater scheme of things. When we ask them to change something in the track, they don't, because they think we are too stupid to notice they haven't, and they are delighted when we realise that our most important contribution in the studio is to make them a cup of tea. Two sugars, please.
But not Tom. He listens to what you want, learns your foibles, and gets the very best out of your performance, being tactful when you have a bad day, editing like lightning, and accepting wacky ideas like a trouper. You don't have to be an extrovert, you don't have to pretend you're thick and flutter your elderly eyelashes; you go there, take off your coat, unpack your guitar, and create.
He also likes the musicians I invite in to work with me (apart from one surly chap who p*ssed the lot of us off), which really matters, as any musician will tell you.
Anyway, that's enough of that.
I was going to tell you about Nigel Kennedy. Helen and the Horns met him when we did Pebble Mill at One. We had a horrible time as they were so nasty to us (later, the Flying Pickets said they were horrible to them too, and they vowed never to play it again but then they did when they were asked; they were horrible to them the second time as well).
Nigel was nice, though. He was still a gleeb with a pale blue buttoned-up shirt and a side parting: it was in his pre-punk days, still post-punk. But he came over to chat and told us he used to go to Dingwalls in Camden to see the bands. He was great, and it was tempting just to let him tag along with us and join in whatever we were doing next; it is so rare to find such an open and friendly person in the music industry. He was totally agenda-free, probably because he is so talented that he doesn't need to try to impress people and he must have worked out at a really young age that being straightforward and honest scares off the creeps and ne'er-do-wells at lightning speed; it sort of turns them inside out so the bad bits decorate their horrid surfaces instead of being hidden behind artful smiles.
I've been going on for ages, haven't I? I meant to do a neat little posting that would fit into a thimble but instead I've created a ten-course dinner for a giant. Au Revoir till tomorrow, dear ether.
An orange balloon has just gone floating past the window.
Wonder where it's headin'?
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Saturday, July 19, 2008 No comments:
Katy at the Linbury Theatre, and I missed Nadya
Me and Mandy went to see Katy Carr at the Linbury Studio Theatre, under the Royal Opera House, last night.
It's a weird venue- you walk down and down and down deep black stairs, into a bright cave. She'd already started when we got there and that added to the drama. Katy has become very stylish and has got a band- Anja on accordion (she played on Dreaming of You), two female backing vocalists, a tuba, guitar, bass and drums plus a three-piece suite of strings. She also has dancers, and a clutch of new songs that are totally Katy but also very good indeed. They were all in forties chic- tea dresses and landscaped hairdos for the ladies, with back-projected slides of planes and orchids. It was really entertaining- Katy always lives her vision but has never really concerned herself with visuals before and it was a real pleasure to see this, especially as the band looked so into what they were playing. I always watch the string players and they were moving along, dancing in their heads and that's always a sign that they are enjoying what they are playing. They dynanics of what was going on musically were great, and you couldn't keep your eyes off the stage; the only bit I didn't like was the retro song section at the end, which Katy dedicated to her grandmother; it was a personal thing because those old songs like Lili Marlene carry images of bombsites and sirens with them in my imagination and I find them spooky and scary.
Steve Beresford was there, and I haven't seen him for ages; and Mr Wearsthtrousers e-zine too; of course I said all the wrong things as usual. He asked me if I'd finished the album yet and I told him I'd been listening to it today and thought it sounded crap then realised one of the speakers had fallen down the end of the bed. Once I'd fished it out and propped it up again, everything was OK. But you know, I'm writing the next one now, and I need to 'promote myself' like a proper artist, with gravitas and chips. Sorry!
So.. off to see Nadya's band, The Home Office, at the Elevator Gallery in Hackney Wick. Only problem was that the AA Routefinder had crashed yesterday afternoon and I had to try to create my route myself. Disaster. I found myself lost in Homerton, a mere sniff away from where they were playing, but totally unable to find the gig. Blast. And on the way home, in spite of the fascinating drama of driving through Stamford Hill and seeing Orthodox Jewish men in massive cylindrical fur hats, corkscrew curls and white stockings materialising out of the orange urban gloom, I managed to drive through Tottenham twice and arrived home with tears of frustration in my eyes. They had gone on later specially, and I did so want to post a photo of Nadya in her tutu and barbed-wire necklace!
I'm a mood processor. I process bad moods, sad moods and mad moods and turn them into merry songs with sarcastic lyrics, unless they are just happy songs.
I left Brighton Art College with a degree in Fine Art Printmaking, licence to be on the dole. The first job I managed to get was at a printers in Lewes who were attached to a veterinary supplies company ( I know I may have told you this before but here it comes again)
I learned how to be a typesetter, setting minute slivers of lead into a form which held them tightly into place so that thousands of addresses on little tablet envelopes could be printed from a massive wheezing, thumping letterpress. All the little lead letters and punctuation and spacers were kept in huge flat drawers in cabinets down the side of the room. I learned how to use a manual press for short runs, and how to melt grains of resin on to freshly-printed paper to make raised lettering for posh writing paper. I learned how to hold huge piles of A4 paper and knock them into shape so that they would fit into the press, and how to package blocks of printed paper neatly and quickly in brown wrapping paper, ready for delivery.
I had to work alone with a horrible man who chain smoked and wore loud checked polyester trousers. He used to tell me about his conquests and his activities in the back of a mini car, and how he used to print pornography in London until the printers there got busted. He was immensely proud of the fact that he belonged to the local National Front in Mayfield, and he had their logo in one of the drawers, but he never asked me to print it, thankfully. He constantly asked me to make him cups of tea and snuggled up to me with his faggy breath as I was working and I had to leap off the stool to get away from him. Ugh. Once, he asked me to draw a JCB for a friend of his who was selling them, and offered me 50 quid. It took me ages to draw and when I'd finished he took it off and refused to pay me. I told the punks in the Windor Tavern about him and they offered to beat him up him for me, but I said no thank you.
One day, a bottle of something called Euthanol turned up by the tea things. I convinced myself that it was for killing animals (as in euthanasia), and it was going to make its way into my coffee, and I took fright. I handed in my notice, requesting that the creep be told not to speak to me again until I left, and went off to be a glorious shop assistant instead.
True fact: remember that song 'Love Don't Live Here Any More'? That poom-poom-pa-pa-poom drum sound was the only thing you could hear on Radio One through the whack-whack of the press when it was on a run of printing, and reminds me eternally of the horror-job.
Helen and the Horns CDs in Brighton
A record shop in Brighton has just been in touch to say they have some CDs that they want me to collect. I wish I'd known, because Rough Trade ran out and I haven't been able to get any more from Near Shore, who don't respond to my emails, and who have some left. So I took some original vinyls down to Rough Trade instead.
I'll either have to go down to Brighton and get them (which seems like a nice idea, more I think of it) or persuade a friend in Brighton to get them for me, as the shop wants to throw away all their unsold stock.
O the trials of rock'n'roll!
Unsold stock
Unsold sock
Unsold clock
Unsold Wok
Unsold Croc
Unsold Glock(enspiel)
and Roll
Back to the beginning again.
As I was walking up the road this morning I realised that I have spent 30 years worrying about a lyric by Curved Air, the prog rock band I loved when I was in the Sixth Form.
'On a bright summer's day
In the middle of May...'
sings Sonja Kristina.
But May's not in the summer! It's in the spring! Or have they moved summer and I didn't notice? This has confused me for years and years, until this morning when it finally dawned on me that they were just rhyming May with day, and not shifting the seasons about after all.
Christina's Bird: a true story.
Christina bought a bird at the pet shop and took it home to her flat.
'Hurray hurray!', sang the bird, 'I have been bought and taken to a home, lucky me, lucky me, at last I belong to someone and I am singing a happy song. Just listen! Tra-la, tra-la! Just look at this house! It has windows and curtains and a carpet, and a television to keep me company, and exciting noises coming from the kitchen! Tweetly-deetly, what a glorious day! A lifetime of love and care, and Trill bird seed in my little yellow plastic feeder attached to the bars! No cats! No cats! the telephone rings, trill-a-dee, trill-a-da! She sits there reading, what a beautiful girl, readily-deedly, turn the pages, turn the pages! The sun is shining, the sky is blue! Trilladoo!'.
'Bloody bird never shuts up!', grumped Christina, and took it back to the pet shop.
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Sunday, July 13, 2008 No comments:
Musing by the Serpentine
I had a nice afternoon yesterday sitting at the Serpentine cafe, with Gina Birch and friends. She is making a DVD of the Raincoats and has been interviewing some really interesting people, including Robert Wyatt (yay!) and Jane Mo-Dette (yay!).
It was spattering with rain so we put our brollies up, the two of us, while another pal went to get the coffees. A waitress came to the table and Gina asked her if she could find us a big umbrella to put up to shelter the table; she said she'd go in and ask.
She popped out and called 'No umbrellas!' across to us.
When the other pal came back to the table, he said,'That's not very nice. I asked if you just had to get wet then, and she said Yes'.
He'd thought she was telling Gina and me to put our umbrellas down and just get wet, and he wondered why umbrellas were not allowed.
Anyway, we did a circuit of the Princess Diana water-features, observed an interesting grafted tree, and rather cruelly mocked a uniformed chappie on a golf-cart who was pootling along when his umbrella suddenly flipped inside-out over his face, causing him to swerve and become a menace to all the doggies out on walkies.
It's all go for the ladies who lunch!
I hereby invent an invention, a small device that fits into mobile phones, mp3 players and so on, recharging them automatically from the static electricity generated by the user as they walk over carpets, through tube stations, brush past people in crowds, slide into their cars, and stand under trees in thunderstorms.
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1 comment:
The Piranhas
The Brighton band most likely to succeed back then was the Piranhas. Joby and the Hooligans had a close friendship with them at the beginning- we did a lot of gigs together. Johnny Piranha had a transparent perspex guitar which looked as though it was made out of Fox's Glacier Mint. They were a really interesting bunch of blokes- I inherited Dick the drummer's awful printing job in Lewes, with the National Front man working there: Dick went on to work at Lewes railway station. Reg, the bass player, became chief sparks at the Cafe Royale in Regent Street, after being lumbered with the tax bill for all of them because he was the only one with a proper job. Madness used to attend their early London gigs, begging for a support slot. If you listen to the Piranhas and then Madness, you'll see why- the same bouncy reggae poppy vibe is there in both of them.
They had a hole in the floor of their van to wee out of when they were driving long distances.
They had great songs, and one song which bordered on extreme cheesiness called Saxophone. It was written when they acquired a sax player, Zoot, in order to show off his skills. I think Zoot came from the University of Sussex or something- he was definitely a Proper Musician.
Joby and the Hooligans created a dance (pretentious, moi?) from the film Metropolis, which had been screened in full on BBC 2. You know the bit when the workers trudge along in single file with heads bowed, each one with an arm on the shoulder of the person in front, with an air of abject misery? Well, that was us; we trudged this way and that, across the front of the Buccaneer, from one side of the little stage to the other, changing direction dramatically as we got to each end, all the way through the songs.
Boy, we must have been irritating!
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4 comments:
Psycho Buildings at the Hayward Gallery
Kim came up from Brighton, and we met at London Bridge. On the way out of the tube station, I noticed a wreath with the London transport logo, commemorating '52 Customers'. How awful that Thatcherspeak still lives on all these years later, and those poor passengers are described in commercial terms rather than in human terms, in death as in life!
I found this really upsetting, like being force-fed something really disgusting at an emotional and truthful moment.
I respect my fellow humans killed by terrorists a year ago.
We decided to walk from London Bridge to the Hayward Gallery, in spite of the gloomy sky and chilly air. It's a great walk, past Southwark Cathedral, the ancient ship, the brand new Globe, various buskers (vibraphone today) the Tate Modern, all street-arted up, skateboarders, a jogger with a very wobbly bottom, and a second-hand book sale.
The exhibition was a real mixed bag of stuff- we'd gone to see Rachel Whiteread's dolls houses (they were great, charming and exciting and inspiring); we were not very impressed by a tissue-paper house that reminded us both of school art projects, nor a fake-exploded house (yawn) but we loved the red net stairs and banisters made by Do Ho Suh that floated above us in the air. It made you want to be a red net person and walk upstairs past the red net light switches on to the red net floor above. It was perfectly-made, with the dowelling of the banisters beautifully detailed.
Best of all, however, were the boats. They have an exceedingly pretentious title which I am sure is meant to be funny, but they were boats- on the roof! You could get in, grab hold of two silly yellow plastic oars, and scull about in shallow water several floors up, with views of the Wheel and the Thames and little buses and the big blue sky- it was huge fun, especially as the oars (or we) were so completely inefficient. When you'd had enough, they hauled you in with umbrellas and you climbed out on to a wobbly yellow waterlogged carpet.
Pic: strangers on a rooflake
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Tuesday, July 08, 2008 No comments:
Lawrence Corner
Do you remember Lawrence Corner? I could never decide if it was called Lawrence, on the corner, or whether there was actually a man called Mr Lawrence Corner.
Anyway that's where you got military cast-offs, quirky colonial hats, and funny things like sailor-suits. You could almost predict London's next fashion trend by going along there and seeing what they'd just got into stock. I bought a khaki skirt there once that I gave straight away that night to Cedric Porter, who wrote for the South London Press (shouldv'e been called Cedric Re-porter, shouldn't he?). King Kurt had a King Skirt gig and would only admit people in skirts. So Cedric struggled the skirt over his bony hips, almost busting the zip in the process, and was allowed to attend the gig.
I never asked for it back.
Anyway, one thing they had which I really liked was reject scientific equipment, especially test tubes, glass flasks and so on. I used to imagine myself, famous, in my rock kitchen, cooking up little somethings in test tubes instead of normal pots and pans. I couldn't possibly imagine living in a normal house with carpets on the floors and a hoover that worked.
What made me remember all this? I have an annoying handbag that is so dark inside I can't find anything, ever. I've been trying without any luck to find a better one. I remembered that I used to buy those green canvas plumber's bags, which were incredibly useful and just the right size. My manager, Claudine, who loved animals (she once kept a bat in her bathroom that escaped into the bidet) used to call them the Crocodiles.
That's what made me remember.
Singers and Other Musicians
Funny- we have a micro-sensitivity to ourselves; no wonder we are so self-absorbed!
Think about all that listening to our own voices in headphones, with every nuance amplified into our own ears and every emotion bigged up giant-size on a billboard inside our vain brains.
In the studio, even our breathing has a potential commercial significance. We are More Important Breathers than people who don't go into recording studios. Our breathing isn't just for keeping ourselves alive- it's for Being Significant.
As for our singing- we can be genuine until we learn how to be artificial, and then we spend the rest of our days striving to sound genuine again!
OK, I admit it- I've been watching Big Brother.
It was worth it for Kat's invention of the word 'matchdatingmakerlove' when she was talking about Jen and Dale.
I found Jen chilling, as she is a perfect replica of the nasty Geordie beauties who used to bully me at school years ago.
Rock Baby
I get sent all sorts of catalogues, from Stena Stair lifts and walk-in baths to twee catalogues with toys for posh toddlers. This one was from a death metal catalogue. I would love to see my details at the mass marketing database!
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Sunday, July 06, 2008 1 comment:
Sunday Sundries
Whatumagonado today?
It's a rainy summer Sunday, I'm gona walk up the road to the shops and buy something for lunch...
Then spend a while putting half the 1980s mags (remember 'New Sounds. New Styles'?) on eBay.
The others are in the loft- that mag 'Debut' that had a free LP with it. It's the scanning that takes ages, so I'll do it in bits.
I have to decide whether to keep Song Club going. I love doing it but it takes a lot of time to manage it; but the funder, a local charity, really loves it and so do the school children. Hmmm.
I have to write a press release for 'Poetry and Rhyme'; you need to feel on top of the world for such things and I'd rather toppled of my world this week but I'm scraping back up again so it's probably worth a first attempt. I have a nice quote from Julian Lewry who puts on Guilfest to start it off with, so maybe I can bounce up from there.
Encouraging things happen sometimesto pick you up; Rowen Bridler has asked me to play some guitar on some of her tracks (she's a really good songwriter- check out her Myspace), someone wrote from the States telling me how much she likes my tracks and that she downloads them straight away and plays them in her car. And the Boothill Foottappers have a Myspace, which is great: they were around at the same time as Helen and the Horns and they had a proper hit with 'Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes'. We were all a gang of checky shirts and tomboyism. I used to like the Shillelagh Sisters too and once played washboard with them at The Fridge in Brixton- the old Fridge with the beautiful sparkly blue-white walls and the dreadful sound, even though they had stuffed a sock in Lambeth Council's compulsory noise monitor.
That was where my Champagne Friend took mischievous delight in discovering that our muscle-man designer friend, who went on to become thoroughly famous, was born in the year of the Bore, sorry, Boar. He wasn't boring at all, but he got so cross it only spurred her on and I think it ruined the poor chap's evening!
Helen and the Horns had a residency there and we also played a couple of gay nights too. It was there that we, or rather I, got a thoroughly cruel review from a journalist called Antonella Gambotto who was going out with the Editor of one of the music mags at the time. He liked me, or the band, so she didn't, and she called me 'cow-eyed, no-thighed'.
Later, I met Rita Ray from the Darts and talked to her about it; she told me that reviewers were constantly writing about her body and not her voice, and that you just had to get used to it.
That journalist went on to call Cliff Richard a Nazi in a later article, about Sun City I think. His people took her to court and she had to stop working the the UK for a while. She had not realised that he is Anglo-Indian.
I used to like playing there- it was to Helen and the Horns what the Moonlight Club was to The Chefs- a sort of musical home where you could play a series of gigs and experience a venue differently every time. At the Fridge, we were a regular outing for a whole community of short-life housing artists and musicians and film-makers. Vic Reeves used to turn up from time to time, before he was famous, and various Feminist media friends with exciting plans. It was good.
Every so often, I pop in to see my friends at their blogs- mostly Brother Tobias, Goldtop and themummysbracelet. Joby has an e-blog.
Blogs are funny things- there is something of the medical scanner about them- you know, those machines that capture x-ray photographs of slices of brain one cell thick, to allow the radiologists to see if the patient has a tumour or some other abnormality in their head.
You get a thin slice of a person's life, the part they care to show you: a blogpersona, with a lot of parts missing. The obvious missing part is the physical presence of the blogger, but there is always much more hidden than that. It's not like Big Brother!
Man Nearly Falls Off Roof
I was sitting watching Gok Wan on TV with my pal Fonotz.
'A man is falling off the roof', observed Fonotz.
Across the road, a man was falling off a roof.
He was holding on with his fingertips, with his arms and legs at crazy angles
I shot into my scruffy pink Timberlands and belted across the road.
A little girl stood at the foot of the ladder, trying to be In Charge.
Together, we hoisted the heavy ladder, which had slipped into the shrubbery, over the tiles, one at a time, so it was straight again and within reach.
'Can you reach it?', I asked
'No', said the man.
He gingerly edged towards it, stopping every so often because the roof was covered with green algae.
Finally he caught hold of the top of the ladder with one hand, and eventually managed to get his feet on to the top rung.
I stood on the bottom rung to try to stop it from slipping again.
'Thanks', he said when he got to the bottom.
I went back home and finished watching Gok.
Ruffty-tuffty, ain't I?
Posted by Helen McCookerybook at Friday, July 04, 2008 3 comments:
Rockin' Girl
New track uploaded on to Myspace, and emailed to Martin Stephenson for a rockin' solo!
The Strawberry Jam Factory
In between Sunderland Polytechnic (Foundation) and Brighton Polytechnic (Fine Art Printmaking), me and Kathy Gilbert went to Norfolk to pick strawberries.
We slept in shacks that reminded me of the hen house we had at home when I was a little girl. Food was basic- breakfast was a toppling pile of sliced bread and extremely greasy margarine, slathered on both sides, and a cup of brown stuff that I couldn't work out whether it was tea or coffee, but it tasted better with sugar, whatever it was. A French traveller made us rice'n'onions for an evening meal.
We discovered that you made most money working night shifts at the factory on the conveyor belt.
There had been a glut of strawberries that year and a lot of them had gone rotten on the plants; the ones we had to sort through were also semi-rotten, and you were supposed to pick the baddies off the conveyor belt and throw them in bins behind you. The only problem was that they were so rotten that your finger went straight through them in one grisly splodge, so off they went into the giant churns at the end of the conveyor, along with the masses of earwigs that nobody wanted to touch.
When the churn was full, they opened the door at the end of the factory and dragged it out, where men in white suits and face masks sprayed a chemical into the churns that smelled so strong you couldn't breathe and you were left gasping.
The French boys fell asleep as they stood there on the production line, and the foreman bawled them out.
'Get out of my faaarktry!!', he bellowed into the huge neon-lit cavern.
When me and Cathy went to the toilet at half-time, we noticed our noses had turned into strawberries.
Odd Fact: we made friends with the French traveller, who had very few teeth, but was fun. He told us he travelled round Europe, picking fruit, and was going to Scotland next for the raspberries. So we invited him to stay, as we lived on the way.
I got a call one night from a young man in Sunderland, asking for Kathy's number on behalf of the French traveller (I later discovered that this was my friend Richard doing the guy a favour: what a coincidence!). I gave him her number and directions to her house. Of course, to get her revenge, she sent him on to my house, where the McParents took it al in their stride, apart from when he refused to help McMum do the washing up, as men don't do that sort of thing. He slept on the couch downstairs and at five in the morning he left, never to be seen again.
After a quick whiz round the supermarket to stock up on blueberry muffins and buy a strong coffee (getting about 4 hours sleep a night at the moment), I rolled up at Tom's house. It was funny to see that a second Indian sweet shop has opened and gone bust downstairs since the last time I was there! The hallway was still packed with PA speakers (Tom also plays in a covers band and they are always busy with weddings at this time of year) and there were still lots of letters on the floor.
All the studio gear was crammed into the attic, a satisfyingly messy tangle of leads on the floor and keyboards, black metal units and more cables on every living surface. the computers were up and running, the mic was set up, and it was ready to go.
I did The Song of the Old Man first, to get the cramp-inducing chords out of the way. I may have to re-record it using an acoustic guitar like the MArtin acoustic, but the vocal was OK especially for a morning vocal. I can't ponce about with ideas like not singing before rock'n'roll breakfast time (that's 12 midday to you!) because I've always had to record before work which starts at 2, but most singers do say they sing best in the evenings. Then I did a rockabilly song called Rockin' Girl, which I have just written. There is a gap for a guitar solo and it gave me an idea. The next rockin' track I do, I'll put on Myspace with an invitation to download it and add a rockin' solo to anyone who wants to, and then release the best one!
Next up was Baby, a song I'm distance-writing with Martin Stephenson. I am not sure if I got the chords right on his bit (I wrote a verse and some chords, and he wrote the next verse and the melody and words for the bridge) but I'll email it to him and see.
Finally, I did a backing vocal on the She Will Fly song that I'm going to animate.
All that in less than three hours, and I then came home and houseworked like mad because someone's coming to look round the house tomorrow to see if they want to buy it.
So now I am sitting like a complete zomboid lump but feeling that today has not been a bad day at all.
Mugabe and Music
An academic called Winston Mano, who is Zimbabwean, has done some fascinating research on Zimbabwean music.
Because the exiled Thomas Mapfumo has so much popular power in Zimbabwe, Mugabe and his followers decided to fight back with music of their own. They reclaimed field songs and folk music, using it in TV ads to show that Mugabe reflected traditional Zimbabwean values, untainted by Westernisation (bit like Hitler in a way, encouraging folk music in Nazi Germany). several MPs even brought out their own albums, in support of Mugabe. The weirdest thing that Winston had was a cassette featuring a pop song about hatred of the UK, and in particular, Tony Blair, whose name appeared regularly throughout the song, which was sung in the Zimbabwean language.
As for those suits Mugabe wears- what beatiful kitsch horror! They must have cost a fortune, with those portraits of him printed on them. He has at least two- a green one and a red one, which both resemble banknotes in their detail and colouring. Dictators seem to have a sense of style that reinforces their invincibility- be wary of Superman, you never know what he's up to when you're not looking!
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White Stripes' Jack White Receiving Royalties from ESC 2018 winner "Toy"
By Matt Friedrichs
The lead singer of the White Stripes is now receiving royalties aka money from "Toy", the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
Nov Reuveny, the Cultural and Entertainment Correspondent of KAN, confirmed that Jack White is going to receive royalties for the song "Toy" which was written for Netta, who ultimately won the competition this past May in Lisbon, Portugal. Universal Music Studios previously sent a pre-suit notice to the two songwriters Stav Beger & Doron Medalie, alleging that the two writers copied from the White Stripes song "Seven Nation Army", released in 2003.
Many have observed that the two songs have a similar baseline which is not uncommon and the case with many other pairs of songs. However, Universal's attorneys alleged that similarities in rhythm and harmony constitute copyright infringement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM–L-3RwDw
The royalties will be shared with Jack White as per the agreement, putting the dispute to rest. This also will open up the possibility to make the song "Toy" available in more countries, according to the Times of Israel.
Exclusive: Jack White, the lead singer and guitarist of "White Stripes", is now getting royalties for the @Eurovision wining song Toy, following accusations that the writers copied a part of it from his hit Seven Nation Army.@kann_news #Toy @whitestripesnet pic.twitter.com/TVsm3f3lKm
— נוב ראובני | Nov Reuveny (@Nov_reuveny) February 6, 2019
Source: Times of Israel
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Q: kdeinit5 starts background konsoles with high CPU usage I am using KDE Neon LTS 5.12, sometimes, for some unknown reason, I can see a high CPU usage that comes from started konsoles by kdeinit5.
Every konsole has no window and uses up to 17% CPU approximately. As I do not know the reason this happens, sometimes I see one, or two, or 4 konsoles (17% * 4 = 68% CPU usage) with the same description: konsole [kdeinit5].

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What does Palestine have to do with us here at Creekside, 6,753 miles away? Besides, with so many problems in the world—North Korea, trade with China, Syria, refugee issues—why be concerned with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? For two reasons. First, as Christians we should be concerned about injustice anywhere in the world. Second, in my experience speaking to people from the Middle East especially, this unresolved issue is a huge stumbling block to world peace.
In January, I spent two weeks in Israel with a group of 25, led by Pastor Keith Carpenter of Kent Covenant. What a life-changing and affirming experience to visit Israel, land of rich spiritual heritage, fear, and injustice. Though 95% of Christians who go to Israel visit only Christian sites, our tour was designed to immerse us in the culture and politics of the region as well as to visit the historical sites of our faith. Galilee, where Jesus recruited Mark, John, Peter, and Matthew; Capernaum, Nazareth, Jericho; rededicating our lives by submersion in the (cold) Jordan River; and yes, floating in the Dead Sea—we did it all! Being at the spot in Bethlehem where Jesus was born was especially moving to me.
But what also stirred my soul was the plight of Palestinians. Those who are Israeli citizens are in fact second-class citizens because of a recent law, which says that only Jews have full rights. Those in the Palestinian areas are under the authority of Israel and undergo discrimination, travel restrictions, electricity and water shortages, and unfair imprisonments. A teenager throwing a stone at a soldier could get anywhere from eight months to three years in jail. We met a father whose teenage son died as result of being in prison.
In the meantime, the Israeli government is building and approving new settlements which are squeezing Palestine into an ever-smaller area.
So what can we do, if anything? I suggest that we Christians and Americans have a responsibility. Our faith tells us to "love mercy and do justice," as written in Micah 6:8. American Christian attitudes are often part of the problem, as we support the government of Israel unconditionally, with no strings of civil rights attached. Jeremiah 9 refers to punishing those who are circumcised in body but not in spirit, "…yes, even the people of Judah. And like all these pagan nations, the people of Israel also have uncircumcised hearts" (v. 26b NLT). This could also be said of Christians who turn a blind eye to the injustice and fear in that ancient land of our spiritual heritage.
I wonder if the current Israeli situation is so different from what it was in the U.S. regarding the treatment of our black citizens before civil rights legislation kicked in. Some would argue we still have a ways to go in this regard.
Is caring for Palestinians anti-Semitic? Absolutely not. Freedom for all people, including the Israelis, is the goal. The Israelis are "the chosen people," chosen to represent God and his mercy and justice on earth, not chosen to rule as they were once ruled by the heavy hand of Rome.
I have contacted my Congressional representatives and urged them to work for a peaceful, fair solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue and to not let Israel off the hook in its unfair, unjust treatment of the Palestinians. Maybe you would consider doing the same.
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François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter ran one of the most important and prosperous furniture workshops in Paris at the beginning of the 1800s. The son of a well-known chairmaker, Georges Jacob, Jacob-Desmalter took over his father's business with his older brother in 1796. When his brother died six years later, Jacob-Desmalter hired his father back as his partner and began to develop one of the largest furniture workshops in Paris. By 1808 he employed 332 workmen to produce pieces worth over 700,000 francs per year. A third of this stock was destined for export; his warehouse alone held over 500,000 francs' worth of furniture.
Furniture produced by the firm of Jacob-Desmalter et Cie (Co.) was mainly made from mahogany in the Empire style, where geometric shapes and straight lines prevailed. The clients included Pauline Borghese, Napoleon I's sister, and the Empress Josephine, for whom he supplied numerous pieces for the imperial residences. One particularly important commission was a magnificent cradle built for the infant Napoleon II, king of Rome.
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Chelsea was a competitive gymnast until the age of 14 and then switched over to competitive cheerleading. She cheered on the world renowed cheerleading team Maryland Twister F5 where she was part of a national championship team, received airtime on America's Got Talent and ESPN, and finished 4th place at the Cheerleading Worlds. Chelsea has worked with Pam Duke on and off, coaching cheerleading and gymnastics for the past 10 years. She can't wait to continue this new journey with her.
Pam's love for gymnastics began at a young age when she started competing in the sport under the well known Bob Morris. From there, her interest grew into not only gymnastics, but cheerleading too. She started her coaching career with varsity cheerleading at James M. Bennett High School from 1993 - 1996. From 1996 - 2000, she coached Varsity Cheerleading at Parkside High School, where she developed a competitive team. She then coaced at Salisbury University from 2000 - 2004. In 2006, she began Nor' Eastern Storm All Stars, who in 11 years have won numerous Regional, National, and US Finals Championships.
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Malala Yousafzai: Accolades, applause and a grim milestone
Ben Brumfield and David Simpson, CNN
Updated 6:38 PM EDT, Wed October 9, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls education who was shot in 2012, is still a Taliban target.
PHOTO: AFP/Getty Images
Malala marks the anniversary of her shooting with a book about her life
Taliban still want her dead, spokesman says
She is a popular favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize
She angered the Taliban by blogging against their suppression of education
Editor's Note: See a side to Malala you haven't seen before in Christiane Amanpour's special interview, The Bravest Girl in the World, on CNN Sunday, October 13, 7pm ET. The program, recorded with a studio audience, will include exclusive material.
A year ago Wednesday, Malala Yousafzai was riding the bus home from school when a Taliban gunman climbed aboard and shot her in the head. She nearly died.
Now, the 16-year-old advocate for girls' education is a popular favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded Friday.
To mark the anniversary of the shooting, her memoir, "I am Malala," came out Tuesday. The phrase has become a battle cry for the right to an education around the world.
The memoir follows her odyssey from near-death to global fame in just a year's time. It also gives a vivid account of her everyday life in Pakistan's Swat Valley and how she developed a love for education.
Her public fight to get that education and for the right of girls to get one, too, is what put her at odds with the Pakistani Taliban.
They banned girls from schools in the Swat Valley in 2009. Malala anonymously blogged for the BBC in opposition to that order, drawing the Islamist militants' rage.
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New threat
The Taliban renewed their death threat against her Monday.
Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the teenager was targeted because she was used in propaganda against the Taliban.
"If there is any opportunity we can target, she would be on our hit list again."
The Taliban have denied Malala was targeted for promoting education for girls.
"Taliban are not opposed to girls education, if it's within the ambit of Shariah and Islamic education, but they could not support anti-Islamic agendas and Westernized education systems," Shahid said.
The militant group destroyed over 170 schools between 2007 and 2009, the U.N. said.
Malala answers
In an interview with Malala on "The Daily Show" on Tuesday, Jon Stewart asked her what she would do if a Taliban assassin came calling again.
"I'll tell him how important education is, and that I even want education for your children as well," she said Tuesday. And I would tell him, 'that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.'"
Fighting the Taliban is important, but through peace, dialogue and education, she said.
But the Taliban often prefer to let their guns do the talking.
Malala has lived outside of her homeland ever since she was shot last year.
Malala at U.N.: The Taliban failed to silence us
Her odyssey
The gunman who climbed on board that school bus wounded Malala in the head and neck. The driver hit the gas. The assailants got away.
Malala was left in critical condition.
Doctors fought to save her life, then her condition took a dip. They operated to remove a bullet from her neck, and as brain swelling threatened her life, a surgical team cut out a section of her skull to relieve the pressure. After surgery, she was unresponsive for three days.
She was flown to the U.K. for intensive medical treatment and multiple surgeries to repair the damage the bullets had done.
Doctors there covered the large hole in her skull with a titanium plate. Malala has kept the piece of skull that had been removed as a souvenir of her fight.
It is nothing short of a miracle that the teen education advocate is still alive and even more astounding that she suffered no major brain or nerve damage.
The attempt on Malala's life propelled her and her cause onto the global stage.
Beyond her hospital room in her new home in the UK, a world sympathetic with her ordeal transformed her into a global symbol.
An avalanche of support poured in, including from world leaders.
The U.N. started a global education program for girls called "I am Malala," the name she has chosen for her biography.
This year, the Malala Fund was created to support education for girls around the world.
"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed," she said. "And then, out of that silence, came thousands of voices."
Gordon Brown: How Malala forced terrorists onto defensive
Taliban to Malala: Why we shot you
CNN's Max Foster contributed to this report.


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The whole family can join Sunset Zoo for a unique experience in one of our family-oriented classes. Below are our current opportunities. Check back often for new additions.
Painting with the Animals
During this unique experience, families will visit a featured animal and use their powers of observation to create a masterpiece. To kick off your experience, Sunset Zoo staff will introduce the featured animal highlighting fun facts about the individuals in our care at the Zoo. After the brief introduction and interaction with related animal artifacts, families will be guided through a painting experience using tempera paint and 8x10 canvases. Depending on the featured animal, experiences may take place in the zoo at the animal's habitat or in a space more conducive to viewing the featured animal. Below are some example paintings.
At the conclusion of the painting experience, a painting or print from the featured animal will be given away to one lucky participant. While paintings dry, families are welcome to enjoy the rest of Sunset Zoo.
Space is limited, thus pre-registration is required. Registration is first come, first serve, and you can register by clicking here. Sunset Zoo staff will greet families participating in front of the Zoo's ticket booth and guide participants to the location of the painting experience. Experiences will last approximately 45 minutes.
Date Featured Animal Start Time
January 28, 2023 Eastern Screech Owl 11:15 a.m.
March 25, 2023 Guinea Pig 11:15 a.m.
May 6, 2023 Malayan Tiger 9:00 a.m.
July 8, 2023 TBA 9:00 a.m.
September 16, 2023 TBA 9:00 a.m.
November 4, 2023 TBA 11:15 a.m.
Register here starting January 2, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. Registration fee covers all painting supplies, including one 8"x10" canvas per registrant. Please note, these programs start prior to the zoo's regular admission hours. Therefore, day-of registration is not available
At least one parent is required to stay with child(ren) participants at all times during the program. Therefore, we also highly encourage parents to register and participate alongside their child(ren). However, we do recognize some children may need extra parental support to fully participate. Those parents do not need to register, but will not receive their own painting supplies nor get an entry into the drawing for the animal painting.
Registration Fee: $17/Non-member; $15/FOSZ member
Refund Policy for Classes Requiring Registration
A full refund is granted if cancellation is received one week (seven days) prior to class; partial refund with notification at least 48 hours before and no refund if notified less than 48 hours in advance. We may also be able to transfer youth between class sessions; contact us at 785-587-2737 or sunsetzoo@cityofmhk.com for assistance.
Start time is before Sunset Zoo opens. Staff will meet all registered families at the entry gate. Please arrive promptly at or slightly before the program start time so you do not miss entry or limit your experience. Staff will only wait a maximum of 5 minutes for late arrivals. Late arrivals will not be given a refund.
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"Every trial you encounter must contribute to your evolution. For this reason you must not rebel and consider yourself the victim of an injustice on the part of destiny, or of God! Someone may say: 'I didn't deserve this!' How can he know what he deserves? He does not know himself; he does not know his past, his present, and certainly not his future. On what basis, then, does he make his judgement? Even in a trial when the jury condemns an innocent – history is full of such miscarriages of justice! – there is justice behind the injustice. This has happened even in the case of saints, initiates and the great Masters, some of whom were imprisoned, burned, or crucified. Although seemingly unjust, in reality these ordeals were justified, and they had to accept them in order to pay a debt, to understand certain truths which they would not otherwise have understood, or to become stronger. The notion of a divine injustice prevents human beings from evolving. From now on they must understand that their trials are justified, and in doing so they will take a great step forward."


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Q: Problem Setting Up iPhone 5s I just purchased an iPhone (on Sprint), my first one, off of Craigslist. However I am having a problem: I get home and connect it to Wi-Fi and it says I need a SIM card. I looked online a bit to see if I can buy one, but I've heard if you go to Apple you'll get into trouble with them. I took a screenshot of the Craigslist ad, just in case. I was wondering if there's a way to buy a SIM card. I think it's a used phone, but on the ad it says new but out doesn't look new, if it makes a difference. I really want to know where can I get a SIM card, how will I be able to use it, how much it is, etc.

A: Go to a shop selling Sprint contracts/SIMs and buy one.

A: First of all, congratulations on buying your first iPhone. :) They truly are the best phones.
Now, about your post:
There's nothing bad about buying a used iPhone, as long as it's not iCloud locked. I've done it many times; the iPhone 6s I'm typing this on is the only iPhone I've ever bought new.
The seller was right in not selling you the SIM card with the iPhone, as it's his and he just put it into whatever other phone he's using now to continue his service.
If your old phone (if you had one) was on Sprint and takes a nano-SIM card, all you need to do is stick a paper clip in the hole on the side opposite the volume buttons on your iPhone to pop the SIM card tray out and insert your old SIM. See this Apple Support article for more help.
If not, you just need to take it into the nearest Sprint store and the representative there should be able to help you. You'll need a cellular plan for it and the SIM should cost anywhere from free to $20.


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At present there are no visitor facilities or recreational amenities on or near Derrinea Bog.
Open days, school tours as well as public walks and talks are planned on Derrinea in the future.
There is some information signage about the bog at that location. It is accessible from the N83 and R293 roads. Please note this cul-de-sac is used by local residents. There are no parking facilities.
Derrinea raised bog SAC is located just 5km north-northwest of another of our raised bog project sites, Carrowbehy/Caher Bog SAC which is much more visitor friendly.


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ASSTRA » Press centre » AsstrA News » 2018 » 09 » New tunnel to Europe delivers as planned
New tunnel to Europe delivers as planned
Section AsstrA News Date 03.09.2018
The largest infrastructure facility in Ukraine – the Beskid Tunnel – officially opened on May 24, 2018. A single-track version of the historic tunnel was built at the end of the 19th century, and its technical condition after more than 130 years kept cargo traffic to a minimum. In 2007, it was decided to build a new two-track tunnel with increased capacity.
For Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsya), there were two possible options: reconstruct the old tunnel or build a new one. The second option was chosen and after 10 years of construction a new section of the road was created, also passing through Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Italy. On this route flows more than half of Ukraine's transit cargo flows to Central and Western Europe. About 100 million euros were allocated to the project.
To learn what Ukrainian transport industry specialists expected from the launch of the new tunnel and to what extent those expectations were met, we talked with Aleksey Sorokin, Head Agriculture Products Logistics at AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG.
Aleksey, did the development forecasts of this large-scale national project come true?
The new tunnel was built with two main goals: more traffic and faster traffic. According to the latest data, the number of freight trains increased to 30 trains per day and the target is 50 trains per day. The trains can travel at 70 km per hour, twice faster than before. Therefore, yes, we can assume that these forecasts were realistic.
Can you call this project successful now, two months after the launch?
It is important to understand that the tunnel was built primarily to guard against losses in the future and not to generate short-term profits. According to Ukrainian Railways, up to 30 million tons of goods are transported to Europe from Ukraine by transit or export per year. More than half of the traffic flows through the Beskid Tunnel. In other words, the loss of this transport and logistics route would mean significant losses for the Ukrainian transport market. According to experts, the losses from such an event could amount to 50 million euros per year. Therefore, the newly constructed tunnel will not only allow cargo traffic levels to be maintained but also increased eventually.
If we talk about grains, have rail transportation volumes increased to Europe?
The primary intended users of the Beskid Tunnel are mining and metallurgical enterprises. For the grain industry of Ukraine, to be honest, with the opening of the tunnel little has changed. Cereals are a cargo for ports: sea transport has been and remains the first choice because of its low cost.
Alexey, what development prospects do you see for the transportation of grain by railways?
There remain unresolved issues of personnel shortages, traction, outdated infrastructure, and monopoly pricing. If these challenges are solved then of course customers will choose to ship more rail cargo as a safer and more cost-effective option.
In early August this year, the World Bank published the results of Logistics Performance Index of efficiency in the industry. In 2018, Ukraine took 66th place, which is 14 positions higher than in 2016. Russia is in 75th place, Belarus 103th, and Kazakhstan 71st. And although it had the best overall performance results in the region, Ukraine received the lowest marks on the six indicators of infrastructure readiness.
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