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Curiosity Quills is excited to reveal the cover for Edward Aubry's Literary-Fiction, Science-Fiction Romance UnHappenings, scheduled for release January 8, 2015. The stunning cover was designed by Andy Garcia. A review tour for UnHappenings is scheduled for0 January 5 - 16, 2015. If you're interested in taking part in the review tour, please sign up here.
About UnHappenings:
When Nigel Walden is fourteen, the UNHAPPENINGS begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice. Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him. But the enigmatic young guide shares very little, and the haggard, incoherent, elderly version of himself is even less reliable. His search for answers takes him fifty-two years forward in time, where he finds himself stranded and alone. And then he meets Helen. Brilliant, hilarious and beautiful, she captivates him. But Nigel's relationships always unhappen, and if they get close it could be fatal for her. Worse, according to the young guide, just by entering Helen's life, Nigel has already set into motion events that will have catastrophic consequences. In his efforts to reverse this, and to find a way to remain with Helen, he discovers the disturbing truth about the unhappenings, and the role he and his future self have played all along. Equal parts time-travel adventure and tragic love story, Unhappenings is a tale of gravely bad choices, and Nigel's struggle not to become what he sees in the preview of his worst self.
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About Edward Aubry:
Edward Aubry is a graduate of Wesleyan University, with a degree in music composition. Improbably, this preceded a career as a teacher of high school mathematics and creative writing. Over the last few years, he has gradually transitioned from being a teacher who writes novels on the side to a novelist who teaches to support his family. He is also a poet, his sole published work in that form being the sixteen stanza "The History of Mathematics." He now lives in rural Pennsylvania with his wife and three spectacular daughters, where he fills his non-teaching hours spinning tales of time-travel, wise-cracking pixies, and an assortment of other impossible things.
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The Twelfth Doctor: Lights Out by: Holly Black
Holly Black is possibly the best. Author. Ever. Who wrote the best. Book. Ever. Which is this book. This book is the best. Book. Ever. Why, you say? She managed to make a book about galactic space coffee, a winged Godzilla, and the Doctor.
Lights Out is about a person cough alien cough named 78351. He used to be a miner. He has a deadly fear of the dark, which he got when a mine collapsed with him in it. After that he bought a rundown ship and fixed it until it could fly again. Then he became a Transporter of Coffee Beans, which is a very important job. He goes to the ICRS (Intergalactic Coffee Roasting Station) to get the next shipment of coffee, and meets the Doctor. The Doctor doesn't recognize him, and Fifty One starts to explain that he saved him, but… then someone dies.
DAH DAH DAAHHHHHH!!!!
The Doctor and Fifty One go on a mission to discover who the is the murderer. More people die, there are more scary blackouts, and we discover more about Fifty One's past. In the end, the murder ends up being
OHMAHGOSHTHEREAREDALEKSATTACKINGMEFORWRITINGABOUTHEDOCTORSAVEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
When speaking about The Man Without Qualities Milan Kundera, the great Czech writer, said that it was a novel that he admired a great deal, except for it's great unfinished length. He compared to the book to a string quartet that lasted for twelve hours, and a castle so big that you couldn't see it all at once. I am not so audacious as to compare The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacobo dellla Quercia to the aforementioned novel, but the above quote popped into my mind when I thought of how I would review TGALPWC, (forgive the abbreviation, but the title is just too long to keep using), so stick with me for a while.
This book had a lot on its side when I started it, being that it was a alternate history novel with a bit of a steampunk twist, but it wasn't too long before my goodwill ran out, and I found myself dutifully slogging my way through this book. Essentially this book is about Robert Lincoln, son of the President, who discovers a mysterious pocket watch that belonged to his father, and has been mysteriously running for decades. This watch starts and proves to be the key in a massive conspiracy that threatens the freedom of the entire world. After a fairly taut beginning, the whole story gets dragged down by a plethora of characters and storylines. The author manages to cram in President Taft and his wife, several members of his staff, Teddy Roosevelt, Tesla, J.P. Morgan, King Leopold of Belgium, Kurtz (from The Heart of Darkness), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Titanic, and tons of other fictional and historical personages and events. Add in an Air Force One dirigible, a robot Taft, meteorites and some under-imagines villains, and you have the basic plot.
Now there have been plenty of novels with complicated plots and a ton of slam-bang action and have managed to pull it off. Here Mr. della Quercia gets bogged down with a dizzy, slapstick style and telegraphed prose so that the whole thing feels more like a farce than anything else. There are few things that can cripple a book more than comedy that isn't funny. This book contains several scenes that read like satire but are flat and uninspired. As the book nears the end it begins to feel even more and more rushed as battles and chases are glanced over in a pell-mell rush to the finale.
The author certainly knows his history, and has a genuine feel for the times and it characters, and showed enough promise ,in flashes, to make me give him a second chance, but in the end it was a case of too little too late to save this novel.
Creed by: Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie
This is difficult to review because A.) I must have liked it because I read it in less than 24 hours, but B.) This story is still haunting me in a not so very nice way. Let me start by saying that the entire time I was reading this book I was totally creeped out, as in my mind was disturbed by what I was reading to the point that I was making grimacing faces while comprehending what was going on.
I work with foster children, I know the pain of abuse that they must overcome, and to read a book that really brings those horrors to life was not very much fun for me. I'm a "cheer for the heroes to overcome evil" type of girl, and well I guess honestly I'm always looking for my happy ending. Let me just say that this is NOT THAT BOOK.
This book is dark, depressing, haunting, and disturbing, but this book is also very well written, well planned, well paced, and above all else has real characters that you connect to from the start. Do I recommend this book, absolutely, but with the warning that what you read will invade your thoughts and pleasant dreams.
The Bitter Trade
On more than a few occasions my Dad said to me "From the smallest acorn comes the biggest oak", a folk homily that nicely encapsulates The Bitter Trade by Alexander Piers. Set in England at the beginning of the Glorious Revolution and into the Restoration this book is the story of the wonderfully named Calumny Spinks, a young illiterate with a Huguenot mother, a guild-less weaver with a dark past for a father, and nothing going for him but a handsome face and a talent for mimicry.
From a fly spot of a village in the countryside Spinks travels to London, and finds himself, knowingly or not, right in the middle of people and events that will shape the future of England, and all of Europe. The reason for most of these calamitous events is that a handful of coffee merchants want to give the people a better brew to drink, and make a few fortunes on the way, and because of all the guilds and rules and tariffs that stand in their way they end up overthrowing a government. If this seems difficult to swallow you have to remember that in this era coffee-houses were the like the internet, a place where people of all castes and classes could meet and talk in anonymity.
There is a lot in this novel that smacks of the classics picturesque, but it is very much a modern novel, grounded in reality, and at times steeped in the brutality of the era. The story barely has begun before Calumny witnesses a member of his family being scolded, with in that era, as it does here, means being lynched, usually ending in death. From there Calumny gets caught up in a series of plots and encounter that flies by in a pell-mell fashion, as he moves through society, sometimes a pawn, and sometimes in charge of his own destiny, but always with wit, and a panache that I have seldom encountered. Mr. Piers does a sensational job of keeping the plot twists and turns come, while never slowing down the story. At the same time this novel is rife with characters, some with large roles, and other small, but all fully realized, and all seeming that as if their stories are going to keep going even after they step from the pages of this book.
I have yet to speak about Calumny. He is not exactly the nicest character, and often comes across as a selfish bastard, but he manages to redeem himself just enough, and he is always fascinating. This is one of my favorite novels that I have read recently, and am happy to say, for a change, that a sequel is in the works. I will be waiting with bated coffee-breath.
A Simple Feast: A Year of Stories
What perfect timing to run across this book, right when I'm preparing my Thanksgiving menu, but please don't limit this book just to this event. This book is filled with so many delectable edibles made with fresh healthy core foods. Just reading the Table of Contents can make anyone drool, but this book is not just about the recipes. This book is also filled with wonderful heart felt stories. The combination of which is striking and makes for a great edition to be added to any kitchen.
I do want to touch on a sampling of the recipes so that you get the proper idea. First the contents are split as Brown Lunch Bag, Treasure Hunt, Harvest Celebration, Winter Snow Day, Tapping the Maple Tree, Breakfast in Bed, Tea Party, Date Night, Rooftop BBQ, and the list goes on. You get the idea? Now the actual recipes (YUMMY!); here are some of my favorites, this is a micro list compared to what is contained within this book' Grilled Fennel and Watermelon Salad, Fried Hominy with Chile and Lime, Turkish-Style Eggs with Yogurt, Cumin Glazed Carrots, Pecan Pie with Salted Maple Ice Cream, Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Cranberries and Almonds, Spice-Rubbed Steak and Mango Chutney Crostini, Wild Mushroom Risotto with Caramelized Leeks and again the list goes on and on. I highly recommend foodies go get this book now.
Cautionary Tales by: Piers Anthony
This is a collection of short stories and essays that are absolutely unlike anything else I've ever read from Piers Anthony, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. First, these are Cautionary Tales and Mr. Anthony does a great job of identifying what the cautionary material is in each segment prior to the reader diving in head first to discover a very taboo subject matter.
This book is very graphic, and some stories are flat out disturbing, but unlike other erotica short stories there are some very thought provoking contexts surrounding each story. It's my belief that this underlying context was what the author wanted the reader to start to contemplate because I don't really think alien sex was the main point.
An example of this would be the short story Serial in which (and I'm not spoiling anything here as the author warns you first what the story involves) a serial male rapist becomes the victim of a serial female rapist. This story was very graphic with some very disturbing imagery, but the story did more to promote a discussion regarding different types of power that people have over one another.
Overall some of the stories were enjoyable and some just didn't sit right with me. This is a book of cautionary tales so as adult readers you should be able to discern which stories you will enjoy and which stories you should skip.
Roosevelt's Beast
Let me start out by saying that Roosevelt's Beast by Louis Bayard is a very good book. It's both smart and wise, and taut and tense, a well-researched novel that is both a work of literature and a solid thriller. So why didn't I give it more stars?
I am a huge fan of Mr. Bayard, and have been reading him since his first book. In particular I would suggest The Pale Blue Eye and Mr. Timothy, two novels cut from the same cloth as Roosevelt's Beast. Also, Theodore Roosevelt is one of my true heroes, a man for whom my admiration knows no bounds. His life was so varied and interesting, and lived with such brio and passion that reading about him makes even some one as laid back as me want to go out and grab life and suck the marrow from its bones. So it would seem like the stars have aligned to bring me a book over which I would drool. Therein lies the problem. Perhaps. A case of expectations that is perhaps a bit too high.
Roosevelt's Beast also deals with high expectations, since the book's main protagonist is Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore's son, who never lived up to the expectations set by his father, which is entirely understandable. The novel is set during the expedition led by the Roosevelt's into the backwaters of the rain-for the origin of the Amazon. During the trip Kermit becomes increasingly aware of his Father's deteriorating condition, both physically and mentally, as the expedition begins to unravel in the unforgiving climate of the Amazon Basin. All of this is conveyed with considerable power by Mr. Bayard as he contrast the physic world of the two men with the physical challenges that they f ace as they limp on towards their seemingly impossible conclusion. During one particularly grueling episode the Roosevelt's become separated from the expedition, and are found by an obscure primitive tribe, who are being hunted by a monster that may or may not be supernatural. Living with this tribe is a woman who is not a native, and speaks Portuguese, and through her the tribe enlists the Roosevelt's aid in killing the beast.
Now all of this is laid out in harrowing detail that practically makes you feel like you are dripping with sweat and stinging from the bite of various no-see-ums. Both Roosevelt's are living breathing characters, and Luz is affecting. The plot however takes a strange psychological turn that I cannot reveal without spoiling everything, that was consistent with some of the book's themes, seems somehow disappointing, and makes the latter section of the book a rather heavy slog, as the adventure and excitement are replaced with a kind of lingering dread. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to like in this book, and it kept me riveted for most of its length, but I wasn't quite satisfied. It's entirely possible that it was my fault for having such high expectations going in, but I guess that Mr. Bayard wouldn't mind that too much.
The Word Exchange
At first so many people were enraptured by the seemingly boundless freedom of the internet and the information age that no one seemed to see the downside. Well, if you look at publishing lately you will see that the people who see the downside have begun to step up. The Circle by Dave Eggers was one such book, and it was quite good. The Word Exchange by Alana Graedon is another, and it's even better as far as I see it.
In the near future almost all books, newspapers and magazines have been replaced by Memes, devices that keep people constantly in touch, and call us cabs before we leave a building, and order food at the first sign of hunger. The story is about Anana, and her father Doug, whom are both working to produce the last printed edition of the North American Dictionary of the English Language. Right before the launch Doug goes missing, and leaves Anana a cryptic note that says ALICE. From there, like the eponymous note, Anana begins a trip down the rabbit hole into a world rife with conspiracy as she tries to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance as the outside world slowly begins to come unraveled, struck by a pandemic called
"Word Flu", which seems to be carried through Memes and the internet itself, and that leaves its victims losing first pieces of their language, and sometimes their lives. Anana's husband Max, who is quickly on the way to becoming her ex, meanwhile, is a dot.com entrepreneur who is hip deep in the conspiracy, which also touches the lives of her co-worker Bart, who has a crush on her.
That would be enough to make this a good book, but on top of its thriller-like elements Ms. Graedon makes her story a joyous mash-up of several different genres, from romance to comedy to philosophical ruminations on the nature of language. Her own use of language is spot-on, elegant and flexible enough to move confidently from character to character, each of whom comes alive in their own voice. It's all laid out in alphabetically-ordered chapters, and even that arch touch manages to work. Any work that cares this much about language, the written and even the spoken word, is going to mean a lot to me, so if I climbed atop of my soap-box a bit during this review, I do heartily apologize.
Having said that, this novel is funny, scary, and exceptionally smart; It's as much a thriller as a meditation on how we speak, listen, and try to make our shared words meaningful to one another, and anyone who cares a fig for the written word and the barriers we face as we try to use language to apprehend the world, should read it.
The Murder of Adam and Eve
By: William Deitrich
Reviewed By: Brennan Palm (15 yrs old)
This book is one of those rare cases where when it begins you think it has a chance of being a horrible book, and then it just keeps getting better, and better, and better, all the way to the very end where it proves to be one of the best books of the year. Yes this book is a YA book, but it is living proof that a YA book can easily be better than an adult book. (so that IDIOT who said adults should be ashamed to read YA books can go stuff it up a pipe and smoke it) It has many strengths compared to the conventional YA book, the foremost being that it's damn surprising, just when you think it's going to go like this, then it turns upside down and go's the other way. It is seriously insane; there are nearly as many plot twists in the last chapter as the last episode of Sherlock.
As for the plot itself, the story is that an alien race called the Xu abducts a teenager named Nick to participate in a test. The Xu think that humanity as it is cannot live without destroying things so they give Nick a challenge. The Xu are going to travel back in time and kill the biological Adam and Eve, destroying humanity, and Nick has to stop them.
The whole middle is like a mix of an episode of Survivor Man and The Bourne Supremacy. Then the end is like (text lost) HA HA you won't know till you read it. *****


They come. They usually walk in without knocking. They come anywhere. On the train, at school during the lesson, while I'm brushing my teeth and even right before I fall asleep. Some of them good and some bad. Some seem good when I first encounter them and then they turn out to be quite bad.
I used to get excited with every single idea that popped into my head but I've learnt to ignore the bad ones, the trivial ones, the impractical ones, those that will require too much of my time, the silly ones – of course! -, those out of my comfort zone, the ones that cost too much, the ones that are doomed to fail and many more categories of ideas.
So, of all the ideas that come to my head, a good 90% of them goes to trash or… if it seems like something with potential but "I don't have enough time and money and people to support me at the moment", it goes to the Secret Box of All The Ideas that Never Came to Life. I'm sure you've heard of it! What? No? But don't you have one of your own? Oh! I see… you might know it as the Box of Postponed Ideas! Mine used to be called that but I thought I'd change the label to something that is… true.
We tend to consider ourselves incapable of actually pursuing a fantasy, something that is a little further away from what we are used to. We tend to think it's childish and it probably will never go as planned. If we try something we are not sure we CAN do, the chances are we'll fail. And if we do, we'll be labelled as "The Failure", "The Person Who Tried But Couldn't", so we never really try.
I know it is impossible to try and do anything that comes to our heads but I am sure that between all the actually silly ideas that come to us every day, there must be some really good ones that are worth trying out or at least giving a second thought to. I know everyday life can be a lot to handle and I know that most of the time we look for ways to have less to worry about, not more. But try and pay more attention to what just comes to your head.
Let's discussThere are pressing matters. Things that need to be talked about. Maybe we all have those in our heads from day to day. Let's speak up about our opinions. They are unique and they make us who we are!
It's a matter of ArtArt. What makes life, life! What makes it differ from survival. I want as much of it as possible in my life and my blog!
Just a diary momentThoughts… honest and unfiltered.
Poetry Corner – From Heart To PaperMy poetry – not yet all of it! – have a glimpse. Read and write as much poetry as you can. It clears the soul.
Places and AdventuresHere's the fun place, full of different experiences and journeys. So you can come with me anywhere.
Survival GuideThings might get rough sometimes. That's ok. Finding the ways to deal with what causes the problem is the next step.
I hope your day just got a little brighter!
It's spring and it's sunny and I'm in love. That's all. All I need.


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The rigmarole of stretching a cover over a dinghy in choppy water prior to hoisting it on davits can become a very wet business if you're not careful. Leaning right over either end, trying to stretch a cover over the bow and stern pods can quite easily result in a head-first dip in the drink. Believe me, I know from experience.
My schooner's dinghy is a 10ft RIB, so at least it has a solid floor to scramble about in. Soft bottoms are not as stable, so the chance of slipping overboard is greater.
To fit the dinghy cover I first had to lean perilously over the stern to fit it over each rear pod. This was a comparatively easy operation compared to the bow, because the cover was loose. Even then, just one rogue wake from a passing motorboat—it's always a passing motorboat, isn't it—and I had to hold on for dear life to prevent myself slipping headfirst over the stern.
I would then maneuver the cover to the bow, keeping tension on it to prevent it washing off the stern pods and I would have to start all over again. The cover then had to be stretched over the bow by leaning right over to hook it as far underneath as possible. The problem all the time was that I was getting in the way of the cover myself. With the cover finally hooked over both ends I then had to grab the hoisting lines hanging from the davits and pass them through the front and rear grommet holes in the cover and hook them to the wire strops on the dinghy.
I then had to scramble out from under the cover to climb up the stern boarding ladder. If the water was choppy this operation was exhausting, and every time I performed this balancing act, and especially after falling in—twice—I swore there had to be a better way. At least it was then an effortless job to hoist the dinghy to the top of the davits using my home-made electric winch, which pulled it up in about 20 seconds.
I considered cutting the cover in half to make a separate bow and stern sections, then zipping them together when both ends were in position. But trying to attach two halves of a zip is difficult enough on land for my old hands, never mind in a lurching dinghy with wet fingers. Still, thinking about zips set me on the right path.
I had our local canvas man sew two zips 4ft 6in inches apart from one side of the cover to the middle, which gave me a sizable "flap" in the middle of the cover.
With the flap open the cover easily stretches on both ends of the dinghy because I'm no longer in the way, and I can sit comfortably on the seat to effortlessly connect the davit hoists. I can then easily climb up the stern ladder and hoist the dinghy. It is then a simple matter of simply zipping up the flap—job done!
As an additional thought, I had small loops fitted on the ends of the zips and on the other side of the cover. I also tied lengths of thin blue cord to the outboard loops, so when the dinghy is on the davits I can hook the dangling cords with a boat-hook and thread the ends through the loops in the zip. Pulling the cords tight holds both sides down and stops the middle of the cover from blowing about in a wind.
When we need to stow fenders or mooring lines in the dinghy, it is also now an easy matter to just unzip the flap, stuff all the fenders in, then zip it up again.
This is a marvelous modification, well worth the $75 I paid to have two zips fitted to the cover.
Finally, looking at the pictures accompanying this article, you may think, "Why has he got a flap on both sides of the cover?" This is a fair observation, and the answer is: because the canvas man stitched the first set of zips on the wrong side of the cover, so I took it back to him to do it again. I, therefore, got two flaps for the price of one!
That said, I have never used the outboard flap, although I suppose when the plastic zips eventually perish in the hot Florida sun, as they surely will, I can just turn the dinghy round and use the other flap. After all, on boats it's always good to have a backup, isn't it?


Do learners want to use technology?
After talking about the difference between working in primary education and higher education last week, my thoughts this week has turned to something which I have been thinking about for a long time – so long that I'm not sure whether I have already written a waffle about it. If I already have then I apologise because I feel the need for speed…I meant o waffle about it again. So split into your ability groups, grab your resources and lets waffle about differentiation.


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Q: Silent install of Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Windows EC2 Instance I tried running a silent install of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on a Windows EC2 instance using the following command:
:: Install ODBC for SQL Server
msiexec /i msodbcsql.msi IACCEPTMSODBCSQLLICENSETERMS=YES /qn

The command returned immediately without doing anything. Only the /qb option works but that displays a UI which I would like to avoid.
Why doesn't /qn work?

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The remote Windows host is missing security update 4343909.
- A remote code execution vulnerability exists in "Microsoft COM for Windows" when it fails to properly handle serialized objects. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted file or script to perform actions. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file.
- A spoofing vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge does not properly parse HTTP content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could trick a user by redirecting the user to a specially crafted website. The specially crafted website could either spoof content or serve as a pivot to chain an attack with other vulnerabilities in web services.
- An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle parsing of certain symbolic links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially access privileged registry keys and thereby elevate permissions. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
- A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly validates hyperlinks before loading executable libraries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
- An information disclosure vulnerability exists when affected Microsoft browsers improperly allow cross-frame interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain browser frame or window state from a different domain. For an attack to be successful, an attacker must persuade a user to open a malicious website from a secure website.
- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow an attacker to access information in multi-tenant environments. The vulnerability is caused when .NET Framework is used in high-load/high-density network connections where content from one stream can blend into another stream.
- A spoofing vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly handles specific HTML content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could trick a user into believing that the user was on a legitimate website. The specially crafted website could either spoof content or serve as a pivot to chain an attack with other vulnerabilities in web services.
Apply Cumulative Update KB4343909 as well as refer to the KB article for additional information.


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Frederick Mostert joins Bird & Bird as Of Counsel in London
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International law firm Bird & Bird is pleased to announce the arrival of Frederick Mostert, who joins the London IP team as Of Counsel.
An eminent figure in the IP world, Frederick is Past President of the International Trademark Association and the current President of the Luxury Law Alliance. He also has valuable in-house experience, having served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel of luxury group Richemont, which includes world famous brands such as Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Alfred Dunhill, and Chloé.
Frederick is a Professor of Practice in Intellectual Property Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, where he won the 'Rising Star' Teaching Excellence Award in 2018. He is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Intellectual Property Law of Tsinghua University, Beijing. He also founded the Digital Scholarship Institute and Digilabs.
He has contributed to several books – including as Principal Author of the internationally recognised title Famous and Well-known Marks – An International Analysis - and his op-eds have been featured in the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post.
In 2015 he was inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame, which honours those who have helped establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century. Frederick's notable past pro-bono work includes legal assistance to President Nelson Mandela and the Shaolin Monks.
Frederick will be continuing with his academic career and is bringing his part time consultancy practice over to Bird & Bird. He will also be available to advise clients on high level strategic projects.
Frederick commented: "I am delighted to be working with the IP team at Bird & Bird, many of whom I already know. My interests in brands and digital/online issues makes Bird & Bird the perfect match for me and my clients."
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51 of 53 recommend this,
Reviews: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Fiedler
Review by ritournel June 15, 2005	(3 of 5 found this review helpful)
Performance: Sonics:
This is a fair record with an attracting set of Gershwin famoust's pieces. I found the Concerto in F particularly well interpreted and with a better sound than in the "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An american in Paris". The balance between the piano and the orchestra is excellent in all the tracks. Considering the age of this venerable performance, the result is pretty good.
Review by Ivymike August 5, 2005	(6 of 6 found this review helpful)
Super performances here, and great Shaded Dog audio quality.
The recordings date from 1959 and 1961, and all are three-track. Two engineers were present, however: Lewis Layton and Anthony Salvatore. Layton chooses a sound that is more reverberant overall, with a more distant perspective; Salvatore's is closer, a bit edgier. Both have their merits and both sound fabulous.
"Rhapsody" is hard to resist even if it is a bit overexposed. (Some of my high school students commented on this when I played this disc in the background recently). Wild is set front and center before the orchestra, which sounds enormous in the reverberant acoustic of Symphony Hall, Boston. Tape hiss is low in level. The dynamic range is thrilling, hair-raising, one of those great recordings that raises goosebumps at the end. The Pops were great with this kind of music and this is a must-have recording. 4 1/2 stars for performance and sound.
The Concerto in F was a pleasant surprise to me the first time I heard it. I've since heard it live and it, too, is a good piece of light music and well-suited to the Pops. The perspective is closer in this recording, with a wide soundstage; it, too, shows off the reverberant acoustic of Symphony Hall. Watch out for the bass drum; it packs quite a wallop! Dynamics are fearsome; there's a hint of tape overload during the very loud fff passages but these don't detract from the fact that this, too, is an excellent recording. 4 1/2 stars for the performance and 4 for sound.
One additional comment: this SACD seems to have been tranferred at a lower average level than the other RCA discs in the same series. For full effect you'll need to turn up the volume a bit even if it means re-balancing the center channel.
Review by Oakland February 27, 2006	(12 of 12 found this review helpful)
It is tempting to write off as pedestrian a disc that features performances of the ubiquitous "Rhapsody in Blue" and "American in Paris". But pedestrian this disc is not, either for sound or for performances.
There is so much to marvel about here. By the early 60's (6 or 7 years after it's initial stereo recordings) RCA had just about made the transition from mono and was producing it very best stereo to that point. The music and the production is top tier even by today's best, especially the 3-channel layer. Regarding the production, the depth and soundstage are suspended in such a way that the music rarely, if ever, gives the speakers away, even in the light of day. This is truly extraordinary given the vintage of the recordings when the "ping pong" phenomenon that blatantly spot lit the 2 stereo speakers was still the presentation of choice among many labels.
I'm no Gershwin expert but the performances of all 5 compositions, nearly 80 minutes worth, really excite me. "Rhapsody in Blue" and "American in Paris" are anything but sway-backed warhorses here. The performances are fresh and exhilarating. And the "Concerto in F", which I had heard before but not really listened to, was a wonderful find. I enjoyed pianist Earl Wild, so much so that when I first bought the disc I looked him up on the web fully to read his biography, expecting something like "he was born xxxx and died xxxx" (as what is usually the case with recordings of this vintage). Hey at 90+ he is alive and kickin' (last time I checked) and still giving recitals!
The sound is great is either two-channel or three channel.
A lot of bang for the buck.
Robert C. Lang
Review by Compression Must Die March 22, 2006	(2 of 3 found this review helpful)
Excellent...prefer it to vinyl. Clarity is outstanding, one of my favorite non-mainstream discs. Something about this has me coming back again and again. Worth the hard earned. :D
Review by madisonears January 30, 2007	(4 of 8 found this review helpful)
Do you think it's okay to love an SACD? I mean, is it proper that, after fingering it from the shelf and approaching the open drawer of the player, one gently opens the case instead of merely cracking the cover, then tenderly removes the disc and places it onto the waiting tray, trembling slightly lest the player not function properly and see the pits and decode the bits as it should instead of coughing up the dreaded "CAN'T READ" or "NO DISC"? Is it appropriate to listen for the first sound with more than just anticipation, but, instead, real longing and warm regard? Should one close one's eyes and swim in the sensuality, sway to the sinuous beauty of the first notes? Do you think it's right for a person's movements to become agitated in congruence with the rhythms of the music, to close one's eyes and try to conjure a beautiful face or a warm and inviting scene? Should someone's heart beat faster with each successive climax, then slow again as a wave of serene tenderness washes over the music and them? How can one justify feeling physically, almost emotionally connected to an electro-mechanically produced bunch of sound waves? Where is the decency in a total surrender to the alluring charms of an aged and slightly flawed warhorse which has been played by too many, distorted by more than a few, fulfilled and understood by even fewer, even hijacked and corrupted for corporate gain? Isn't it somewhat shameful to thrill at the glittering, whirling finale full of tawdry bombast and overblown sentiment?
Just checking...
Of course it's okay. That's why I own this disc.
Review by Lucabeer January 30, 2012	(1 of 2 found this review helpful)
A bit too much tape hiss, but dynamics are excellent and the performances are top notch.
Review by EdBoxer June 9, 2012	(4 of 5 found this review helpful)
I've owned most of contents of this SACD on LP, Cassette, and/or CD.
The best performance here is the Concerto. Wild and Fieldler are not only ripping through this unabashed, they are clearly having a great time.
The Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris are both very well played and among my favorite performances (surpassed only by the Bernstein). Wild in the Variations on I've Got Rhythm is little short of astonishing.
The only new performance for me was the Cuban Overture. And after hearing it, I wish they had added the "Strike up the Band" recording in its place. Both are well performed, but, for me, the "Strike up the Band" is a better fit with the rest of the contents of the disc.
Now to the sound - OMG - the three channel SACD is amazing. I have never heard these in such clarity. There is an incredible sense of depth to the sound field. Percussion and some inner voices that were always somewhat muddy are now crystal clear. You can hear where every instrument is. A direct comparison between the Living Stereo CD release (minus the Cuban Overture)and this SACD is like having 200 years of dirt removed from a Michelangelo.


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Acoustic Music, Bluegrass Music
Merlefest at 25: Gifts in small packages
written by DJB
Sometimes the best gifts come in small packages. That's how it felt for me on the opening evening of the 25th anniversary of Merlefest – the Americana music festival tucked away in the hills of North Carolina.
Opening day at Merlefest is the easiest to navigate, because virtually all the music is centered around the main "Watson Stage" – named for the blind guitarist Doc Watson from nearby Deep Gap and his late son and musical partner Merle. (It was Merle's tragic passing on October 23, 1985 that led to the first festival twenty-five years ago in 1988.) Juggling between the 14 venues and making tough decisions about which acts to see and which acts to miss only happens later in the weekend.
So I arrived after my drive from Silver Spring in time to catch the first of the main acts on the Watson Stage – The Boxcars. Coming together after stints with Alison Krauss + Union Station, J.D. Crowe, and Blue Moon, this is a "new" band with a lot of experience. Even with mandolinist Adam Steffey under the weather, they produced a terrific kick-off set of good contemporary bluegrass.
The other Watson Stage acts were equally strong. Donna the Buffalo with guest Jim Lauderdale (above) had the joint jumping, with tunes such as Except For That One Time and the accordion/washboard-fueled Hot Tamale Baby. Both Donna the Buffalo and Lauderdale are long-time Merlefest favorites, and it was clear that many had come to the Watson Stage area to hear their set, and then had plans to skip out to the food or merchandise tents.
But Merlefest is full of surprises. There is this small "cabin" stage that sits to the side of the Watson stage, and while the main acts set up, small half-hour sets are performed, sometimes by up-and-coming artists and sometimes by big names playing solo. The music never stops in this area, and you can hear some real gems.
That was the case tonight. When the last notes of the Buffalo/Lauderdale set were ringing out, festival goers were heading up the aisle. But many were stopped dead in their tracks…and then returned to their seats…by the opening number from a Shenandoah Valley band that hails from Harrisonburg, Virginia, near my old stomping grounds of Staunton.
The Steel Wheels kicked off their Cabin Stage set (above and at the top of the post) with an incredibly powerful a cappella number, Rain in the Valley, and then held the crowd in their hands until they wrapped up with The Shape I'm In as a tribute to the recently-departed Levon Helm. While short in time, the band's set won many new fans last night as evidenced by the standing ovation they received.
The other gift in a small package came later on the Cabin Stage, when Jim Lauderdale, Claire Lynch, and western singer Wylie Gustafson shared solo tunes on a songwriter showcase. Special treats included Gustafson's Buck Up and Huck It — three little vingettes of modern western life woven into one song — Lynch's Wednesday Child tune for all the "bad boys" — and then a beautiful bit of high plains yodeling as the festival grounds grew quiet to let the clear notes from Gustafson sail off into the clear spring evening.
The final two Watson Stage acts for the evening certainly satisfied those who came for the headliners. I'm not a huge fan of Dailey & Vincent, but I was more impressed with this set than with my first encounter at Merlefest three years ago. They've dropped some of the canned stage patter, added B.J. Cherryholmes to the band to play some hot fiddle (on Black Eyed Susie and the show-closing Lee Highway Blues) and sing some beautiful harmony. While I know I'm not suppose to say this, having lived in Staunton for 15 years, but a little bit of the old Statler Brothers style goes a long way with me…and Dailey & Vincent have adopted it as a big part of their show (including the incredibly low bass notes in the harmony).
Vince Gill (above and left) came on stage with a bit of an Eric Clapton look…scruffy beard, black glasses…and on at least a couple of tunes could have given the old guitar master a run for his money. Oklahoma Borderline is his show-off guitar number, and he didn't disappoint.
But Gill also knows "I live in a big house because I sing high like a woman" and so the majority of his show featured his vocals on love songs. Gill was having fun, however, and before singing a cheating song ("country music today doesn't have enough cheating songs" he opined), he asked for a show of hands of people who "were here this weekend with someone they shouldn't be…just to see who was going to like this song the best." He also credited his bluegrass roots with teaching him the harmonic structure for vocals that shaped his country music career.
The evening's final gift came in the dance tent on the way out to the car. Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks – who will NEVER be confused as a mainline country music act – were raising the roof with their unique takes on Frankie and Johnny and a bunch of other "old songs." That's the Merlefest I wanted to remember as I headed out into the night.
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Tagged with: Acoustic Music, Blind Boy Chocolate & The Milk Sheiks, Bluegrass Music, Claire Lynch, Dailey & Vincent, Donna the Buffalo, Merlefest, The Claire Lynch Band, The Steel Wheels, Vince Gill, Wiley Gustafson
by DJB
I am David J. Brown (hence the DJB) and I originally created this personal blog more than ten years ago as a way to capture photos and memories from a family vacation. After the trip was over I simply continued writing. Over the years the blog has changed to have a more definite focus aligned with my interest in places that matter, reading well, roots music, and more. My professional background is as a national nonprofit leader with a four-decade record of growing and strengthening organizations at local, state, and national levels. This work has been driven by my passion for connecting people in thriving, sustainable, and vibrant communities.
Claire Lynch says
Thanks for the mention… Cheers! -claire lynch
Candice Brown says
Sounds like you are in your element and having a grand time of it! How do you remember all these details when the evening is over?
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Q: How can I use the bind command for remapping keybindings for screen? I am trying to use the bind command to remap C-a keybinding in screen, as I use C-a for getting to the beginning of a line.
According to the screen documentation I should use the bind command for remapping keybindings. When I looked at the man page for bind, it says that bind is used for binding a name to a socket. I think that is a different bind.
I looked up examples for rebinding using bind but it looks like the bind command being used is different from the one described in the man page.

A: Well, if you want to remap the default key combination CRTL + a to another one like CTRL + j, which is pretty common, in my ubuntu 18.04 I just created a file under my user's home directory and put a line like below in it:

camaleon@ubuntu-server:~$ cat ~/.screenrc
  escape ^Jj

Now next time you run screen command you can press CTRL + j. However the default it's still working but remember you can easily jump to the beginning of the line by pressing CTRL + a + a.
Note: You can also test it at runtime inside a screen session by typing CTRL + a and then : escape ^Jj.
I hope this helps.


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Judicial Watch: Obama State Dept. Sent Classified Intel To Sen. Ben Cardin to Undermine Trump
By Ann | February 8, 2018 11:15AM
Government watchdog group Judicial Watch recently released 42 pages of heavily redacted State Department documents that they say the Obama Administration leaked to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in an effort to undermine President Donald Trump just days before his inauguration.
Reminder: JW found evidence showing Obama State Dept under John Kerry sent its own "dossier" of classified info on Russia to a Democratic Senator in order to undermine Trump — and we're seeking answers on who authorized the release of this classified info. https://t.co/R7ySXBO8pz
— Judicial Watch  (@JudicialWatch) February 8, 2018
The released documents include news reports on Russian government officials working to forge relationships with far-right parties in Germany, France, and Austria, as well as details of Russian efforts to undermine sanctions placed on it by the European Union, disrupt the 2016 parliamentary elections in Montenegro, and create rifts between the U.S. and Turkey.
However, the documents do not appear to mention Trump or detail alleged Russian interference in the United States election. Even so, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton believes that the intelligence was leaked to Sen. Cardin in effort to undermine Trump. "Judicial Watch will pursue information on who pulled this classified information, who authorized its release, and why was it evidently dumped just days before President Trump's inauguration," Fitton said.
Indeed, in March 2017, the New York Times reported that Cardin had requested State Department documents on Russian meddling in elections and shared them with Republican members of the Foreign Relations Committee. That same month, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas admitted that she had urged "people on [Capitol] Hill" to "get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves [office]."
Notably, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that Cardin will step down from his role as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) will take his place.
Does the Deep State rabbit hole never end? As Fitton suspects, it seems there was or is an anti-Trump mole within the State Department who leaked this classified intelligence to Cardin. Judicial Watch has already uncovered a boatload of damning evidence against officials at the FBI and DOJ, and it's surely only a matter of time before they find out who's responsible.
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Could someone tell me the name of this song.?
I remember the rythm very well, but can't do much of typing it on a keyboard. I just know it's an 80's song, sang by a male singer with a rough voice. Some of the lyrics I remember is something like climbing the top of the mountain, and flying higher and higher. Or something of that sort. Thanks.
Update: I just listened to the song that Anonymous suggested and it isn't the song I'm looking for. But thanks anyway and it that was song was a good song BTW. but not the one I was looking for
Best Answer: Lyrics: St. Elmo'S Fire (Man In Motion) John Parr
Growing up, you don't see the writing on the wall
Passing by, moving straight ahead, you knew it all
But maybe sometime if you feel the pain
You'll find you're all alone, everything has changed
Play the game, you know you can't quit until it's won
Soldier on, only you can do what must be done
You know in some way you're a lot like me
You're just a prisoner and you're tryin' to break free
I can see a new horizon underneath the blazing sky
I'll be where the eagle's flying higher and higher
Gonna be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire
wu........
Burning up, don't know just how far that I can go (just how far I go)
Soon be home, only just a few miles down the road
I can make it, I know I can
You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man
I can climb the highest mountain, cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me, burnin' in me
Just once in his life
A man has his time
And my time is now
I'm coming alive
I can hear the music playin', I can see the banners fly
Feel like you're back again, and hope ridin' high
I'll be where the eagle's flyin' higher and higher
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me
Burnin', burnin' in me, I can feel it burnin'
Oooh, burnin' inside of me... (to fade)
Source(s): http://www.project80s.com/lyrics/song-ly...
Butterfly Kisses ♥ · 1 decade ago
that one savage garden song? i forgot what it was called... i want to stand with you on a mountain, bathe with you in the sea? or different song lol...
Kevin · 1 decade ago
possibly "given to fly" by pearl jam. Fits the description somewhat lyically and Eddie Vedder has a raspy voice.. However the song is from the 90's...best i could think of-heres lyrics
He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out.
A bad time nothing could save him.
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out.
He got up outta there ran for hundreds of miles.
He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree.
The wind rose up set him down on his knee.
A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw.
Deliver him wings, "Hey look at me now!"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor.
Oh, power, oh. He's flying whole. High, wide, oh.
He floated back down cause he wanted to share.
This key to the locks, on the chains, he saw everywhere.
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed by faceless men.
Well *******, he still stands.
And he still gets his love he just gives it away.
The love he receives is the love that is saved.
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky.
A human being that was given to fly.
I'm flying, oh. High flying, oh.
He's flying, oh. High, oh, oh.
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The late Denyse Thomasos, a star of the latest Whitney Biennial, lives again in Toronto
One of the stars of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, the late Denyse Thomasos, has symbolically returned to Toronto, where she moved with her family as a youngster after being born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1964. Though she died a decade ago at just 47, she lives on at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), where she has taken over the museum's spacious fifth floor. The exhibition, Denyse Thomasos: just beyond (until 20 February 2023), features more than 70 paintings and works on paper, many of them sizeable, others rarely seen.
It's a bit of a twist that her work is being shown in such a cavernous spot, as much of her work, described as "semi-abstract", is concerned with confinement. As she wrote in one of the sketchbooks included in the show, "My work is about cages, about enclosures, being enveloped." Black culture, history and politics were other areas Thomasos explored.
Denyse Thomasos. Metropolis, 2007. Art Gallery of Ontario. © The Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery.
She wasn't holding back with brush in hand, as she liked to work very large, many of her canvasses being 11ft by 20ft, the size of her studio wall in New York's East Village, where she later resided. "She was obsessed with scale," co-curator Renée van der Avoird explains. "We needed the fifth floor to show [the works] because you need that space to back up and look at them."
Others who played a big part in making the Thomasos exhibition happen were the Art Gallery of Guelph's Sally Frater, and Michelle Jacques, who is chief curator at Saskatoon's Remai Modern, where the show will travel next spring. Jacques, who like Thomasos has Caribbean roots, previously worked at the AGO and got to know the artist, who created a large wall mural for the gallery during renovations in 2005. "She wanted the world to be a better place for herself and her daughter," Jacques says. "She could just see beyond the world as it is."
Staff were still in the process of stretching some of the large works during the exhibition's press preview on 4 October, and it looked like they were going to be at it for some time. One even had a few tears and so needed mending.
Denyse Thomasos, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1984-85. Art Gallery of Ontario. © The Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery.
Thomasos travelled widely, too, to Peru, Southeast Asia, India, China, Mali, Senegal and South Africa, all the while snapping photographs that she would refer to in her work. There are several of her photo albums on display at the AGO, as well as her paint-spattered shoes.
Amazingly, if you were lucky enough to have visited the Canada's Wonderland amusement park, which is just north of Toronto, or the entertainment venue Ontario Place, in 1983 or 1984, you could have sat for the artist and had your portrait done by her for a small fee. Two years later she was commissioned to paint murals for the University of Toronto, where she was studying art. She later attended Yale University, where she first made work addressing slavery. After another five years in Philadelphia it was on to Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she was an associate professor of art.
Denyse Thomasos painting a mural © The Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery.
Thomasos's early influences included Theodore Gericault, Anselm Kiefer and Eric Fischl. But as she matured she began to move on from doing figurative works. There were other factors. "The immediate experience of urban collapse had a psychological effect on my work," she said in 2012.
"My whole life has been about this idea of developing a language out of line," she is quoted in the AGO catalogue as saying. "There was something very tedious about the technical aspect of figuration that I was not interested in. The moment I actually had to make a hand look like a hand, I was not connected to my concept. […] Whereas line, this sort of constant line, was like the recording of time."
She added: "I could not be disconnected from my canvas emotionally, not even for one minute, and line allowed me that."
Denyse Thomasos, Maiden Flight, 2010. Art Gallery of Ontario. © The Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery
Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, until 20 February 2023, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
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"Mice Templar is extremely similar to Game of Thrones…but on a really small scale" Michael Avon Oeming and Bryan J.L Glass discuss the Mice Templar
This week sees the launch of the second episode of the new series of the brilliant Mice Templar from Image Comics and Bryan J.L Glass, Michael Avon Oeming and Victor Santos. Since we last saw Karic of Cricket's Glen things have gone well, with him finally accepting his destiny as the chosen one and even finding time for a little romance with Aquila. But things are about to take a turn to the dark as Glass, Oeming and Santos begin the build towards their climactic finale. Who will prosper, who will fall and, knowing their fondness for mice mortality, who will even survive?! So we got in touch with Bryan and Michael to find out.
By the end of volume 3 we had been introduced to a huge range of characters and have several intersecting story lines and characters, did you always intend Mice Templar to build to such a scale or has it evolved like that naturally?
Mike: When we began everything was much simpler, but Bryan realized the Mice Templar world had to operate on a much larger scale, and that includes those who inhabit it along with their own personal stories.
Bryan: Mike's original synopsis followed a handful of characters over a six issues. But the moment I explored the question "how did the Templar fall", I realized this was about far more than those characters on an adventure…this was the story of a culture and its collapse. What we'd intended suddenly expanded in all directions simultaneously: into the past, and the Templar's founding; into the future consequences of whether or not such a corrupt order as the Templar should be restored; into politics, religion, social class structures, racial dynamics and ideological divides. Exploring such diverse issues requires characters and story to flesh those ideas out…and then those characters need history. Before we knew it I had developed a 25-issue saga before issue #1 was ever even scripted. Once the actual storytelling began to unfold, new inspirations struck constantly. So now, as we approach the grand finale, the story of Karic, Cassius, Leito, Aquila and Icarus is a whopping 40-issues!
Volume 3 finished with a rare happy ending for the world of the Mice Templar – Karic thwarted the druids and woke from his coma – but in the first issue you have mixed things up with plenty of deception and distrust, and a brilliant cliff hanger (almost literally). Do you always look to stir the pot and change characters around at the beginning of a story arc rather than have them continue to play out their roles from the previous arc?
B: The stakes in Mice Templar are always evolving: every triumph is tinged with failure, while every tragedy leaves a wisp of hope. The dynamics are always in flux.
M: It's good storytelling practice to have alternating moods between scenes/arcs. If you end one on a happy note, it's good to shift gears and start the next going in a sad note, or start and end a scene with a different vibe. The contrast keeps the story flowing. Bryan is pretty brilliant at that.
Am I right in thinking volume 4 will be the end of Mice Templar's run? And if so, with so many characters involved are you building towards an epic climax at the end – something to rival the Battle of Avalon even? I know you've mentioned Norse mythology in the notes at the back of the trades before, so are the Mice heading for Ragnarok?
B: Obviously, we don't want to give anything away. But I can reveal that Volume IV will deliver the decisive climax of Karic and King Icarus's stories. Those two characters will meet face-to-face. Every subplot will be concluded. Every character arc will run its course. And every mystery the series ever raised will be revealed. There will indeed be multiple events in succession to rival the Battle of Avalon where the Templar fell. In addition to so many characters, we've also introduced many sentient races that all have a part to play in the finale to come: mice, rats, weasels, bats, cats, owls, moles, serpents and terrible hordes of red ants. There is also a mystical side to this world, with the Creator Wotan, the fallen spirit Donas, a pantheon of gods, demonic possessions, mystics, priests and witches…and insect swarms that are cursed to maintain boundaries between the alternate worlds of night and day by eating alive any soul who tries to stay awake and cross over from one world to the next.
While Mice Templar may not have a Ragnarok event to end everything in an annihilating apocalypse…there is most definitely a Ragnorok-scale conflict coming to a head as every realm the series has featured will be as significant as the races and characters we've introduced.
Speaking of the essays and notes at the back of the book, I love the way you have mixed the mythologies and faiths of different cultures and eras together to create the Templar universe. How faithful do you keep to existing faiths/mythologies and was that intentional way to build the world or do you think it is a reflection of the common ground that so many religions have? (i.e. they all have themes of resurrection, a chosen one and a spiritual joinery with tasks/ordeals along the way)
M: I can't speak for Bryan, but for me, creating mythologies starts by studying them. These things don't happen on accident; these stories and beliefs were built upon generations and generations of societies that needed to find an explanation or belief system that explained the world around them and reinforced the idea that there is something after we die. Once you can see those patterns, it becomes a compass on how that would translate into your story. Bryan and I are very respectful of other peoples beliefs, so that study and adaption comes from that understanding and so we make sure we aren't stepping on anyone's toes.
B: Both Mike and I have derived inspiration from established mythologies, religions and faith-systems, but we've not held ourselves exclusive to any, as that very inspiration was to create our own that conforms to the dictates of our tale and its specific cosmological needs. We've also raided established history, literature, as well as the "pop culture" of other eras and cultures. We believe the themes we're pursuing in Mice Templar are universal and cannot be claimed exclusively by any single faith.
The parallels between Karic and Leito and Cassius and Ronan seem to be getting ever closer (especially with Aquila potentially filling the Llochlaraine role) will we finally see the reuniting of the survivors of Crickets Glen in this arc, or are you deliberately keeping them apart for now? And is there anyway this can end happily?!
B: The believable happy ending is the real trick. Is there any way to apply a "happy ending" to a tale like this that doesn't feel like it was stamped on? I can only say that we're commited to giving this tale a "satisfying" ending. Any happiness will have to be earned. All I will say is that every character still living will eventually be in the same location at the same time…and none of it is going to play out like anybody has guessed.
Has the popularity of big budget fantasy shows like Game of Thrones helped the popularity of Mice Templar do you think? The tone and attitude feels very similar, as does the complex story lines and huge cast of characters. Are there any other books that are inspiring you currently?
M: Man, that's a great question. It's hard for me to answer, because we are such a niche, such a sub-genre of a genre. It's fantasy, but because of the anthropomorphic angle of it, I know it locks some of those readers out. Or maybe it doesn't, but at least to me, it isn't super clear on how much we're benefiting from the current fantasy explosion, but I hope it's helping. Our numbers have gone up after our last series, so things are looking good.
B: We share the same intrigue and violence, and characters placed in heavy consequential circumstances for the fate of kingdoms, but I'd never read George R.R. Martin's fantasy epic before the HBO series began. And when the episodes began to air, our series was unfortunately falling behind, and then went on hiatus for a year. So it is truly with Volume IV coinciding with GoT season three that I believe our two visions are finally comparable. Fans of both have told us they feel Mice Templar is extremely similar to Game of Thrones…but on a really small scale!
Victor Santos has taken over the art reigns for this run, what do you think he brings to the title as an artist and does it make you jealous Mike to see someone else drawing your characters? Any plans to return to the artist's seat before the end of the series?
M: I am soooo grateful to have Victor drawing Mice Templar. When I knew we needed help to continue the book there were only two options…. Mike Mignola or Victor Santos! I figured Mike might be too busy so I asked Victor and was VERY lucky, not only that he said yes, but that he was already a big Templar fan — now he is a co-creator and co-owner of the book as well, as Bryan and I recently made him a solid partner, which was long overdue. I love seeing Victor's approach to the book, it certainly helps me keep my game up when I get to draw these guys. I look forward to inking Victor on some Templar in the future.
B: I love working with Victor Santos so much, that I asked him to become a part of my new secret project that was just picked up by a major publisher. It will show completely different styles for both of us, in both writing and art, than what fans have become accustomed to in reading our Mice Templar work.
As for Mike…if all plays out as we hope, and everybody's schedules coordinate, Mike will return to the last issue of Volume IV, entitled "Epilogue." I love the idea of bringing everything involving the creative team on the series full circle.
Censorship has reared it's head this month with the banning (and unbanning) of Brian Vaughan's Saga. Mice Templar is certainly not a title to shy away from the more violent elements of story telling so how do you regulate your own content to avoid such an issue? Do you have an internal limit of how violent is too violent (the torture scene of Mornae in issue 2 I would say skates very close to the edge) and what about sex – do you draw a line and say 'no sex' because this is ultimately a book about talking mice, or is not there because that is just not a part of the story you want to tell?
B: A cursory perusal of any random issue of Mice Templar will shock the viewer with its brutality, particularly as it comes from a seemingly kid-friendly, all-ages "talking mice" series. Yet I don't believe any of the violence we've ever presented has been for shock. The moments can definitely be shocking and unexpected, yet when taken in the context of the story we're telling, I believe those moments are necessary. So much of Templar relates to both our ancient and modern world, where individuals can be so divided by what they believe that it leads to oppression and death. Like many of the most potent and powerful anthropomorphic tales ever crafted, these "talking animals" serve more as a reflection that as escapist entertainment.
The sequence you referenced regarding Karic's mother Mornae in issue #2 was one of the most disturbing sequences I've ever written. When the art first arrived, I seriously considered revising the sequence. Our colorist Serena Guerra told me it was the most difficult "art" she's ever been a part of. But when you're able to look beyond the horror of that sequence, it serves as one of the most powerful catalyst moments of the entire series for 11 characters.
I'll also warn you in advance that issue #4 is probably the darkest single issue of anything I've ever written. But as the topic is how racial hatred is passed down from one generation to another, the potency of the message far outweighs the kneejerk squeamishness this one story may generate.
As for sex…this story doesn't need to dwell upon that. Relationships and attractions, both healthy and distorted, are a huge part of this series, and serve as the primary motivation for many actions. But to showcase such moments with graphic anthropomorphic titilation would do this story, I believe, a serious disservice.
Speaking of Saga, Image Comics seem to have a really strong roster of titles, including Saga, at the moment, is there any internal rivalry to create the best book you can? Or any pressure to maintain the quality of your Image rivals?
M: No rivalry, but the pressure to produce a quality book is always there. Bryan and his brother Jim Glass (a true unsung hero of this series) have always designed what I think are some of the best looking hardbacks and TPs Image has ever put out. I can say that because I don't do a thing on the design; it's all Jim and Bryan. The fold-outs, the design and page markers are class and beauty all the way. The interiors of course speak for themselves. Between Bryan's writing, Victor's art and our amazing colorists — Serena Guerra, Chandra Free and veronica Gandini — it's just a beautiful series.
The tone for Templar is getting even darker in volume 4, do you ever have the urge to just write something light and fluffy and fun for the characters to do – just for an issue or two – this is a book about talking mice after all?!
B: As I've said, we realized we were tackling some pretty heady stuff early on, so Mice Templar was never going to be light and fluffy, and solely involved with heroic adventure. Yet we've also had wonderfully light moments — Karic's "date" with Aquila in the stream comes to mind. There have been jokes. Poop jokes are always a favorite; or in the case of the mice, "pellet" jokes! But as we look across everything Volume IV needs to convey to bring us to the end, there will terror and death, extraordinary sacrifices and noble heroics…and very little humor. Volume IV Legend is truly the darkest of the dark before the dawn. And in the world of the Mice Templar, dawn's approach represents a flesh-eating horror.
Finally, with so many fighting/talking rodents in the world of fantasy and comics, if you had to assemble an Expendables style Dream Team of talking rodents from other books to aid Karic in his fight against Icarus and the rats, who would you pick and why?
B: I'd enlist Basil the Great Mouse Detective to help our heroes solve the great mystery King Icarus represents.
Mice Templar volume 4 issue 2 is available now via ComiXology and the Image Comics app for £2.49/$3.99 and pick up issue 1 for just £1.49/$1.99.
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JoAnn Verburg, WTC, 2003. T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2009.
Join JoAnn Verburg for an intimate conversation about her practice and her piece WTC (2003), part of Five Ways In. Verburg's photographs, made with large-format cameras mounted on tripods, have been described as strikingly serene and spare, with a finely tuned awareness of movement and space. WTC features poet Jim Moore, the artist's husband and longtime subject.
With an extraordinary sensitivity to the energy and sensuality of the natural world, JoAnn Verburg creates work that conveys the beauty of its subject and setting through soft lighting, varied focus, and thoughtful composition. Her solo show Present on the Road to Bazzano was held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 2001, and in 2003 she was the subject of a mid-career touring exhibition and catalogue titled Present Tense: Photographs, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which was presented at the Walker in 2008. In addition, her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle; the International Center of Photography, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran.


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ZeniMax versus Oculus VR trial commences, and it's gotten mean already
By Shaun Prescott 11 January 2017
ZeniMax didn't have the "vision, expertise or patience" to work on VR.
ZeniMax Media – the parent company of Bethesda, id Software and more – filed a lawsuit against Oculus VR back in 2014, accusing the latter of "misappropriating ZeniMax trade secrets relating to virtual reality technology". Among the lawsuit's claims was that John Carmack, formerly of id Software but now CTO of Oculus, worked on some of the VR tech while still employed by ZeniMax.
Now, nearly two years later, the trial has finally commenced at a Texas court, and there's no love lost between the two parties. In a statement provided to Upload VR, Oculus VR pulled no punches, dismissing the lawsuit as a waste of time.
"We're eager to present our case in court," the statement reads. "Oculus and its founders have invested a wealth of time and money in VR because we believe it can fundamentally transform the way people interact and communicate. We're disappointed that another company is using wasteful litigation to attempt to take credit for technology that it did not have the vision, expertise, or patience to build."
ZeniMax filed the lawsuit in May 2014, weeks after Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR. The three week trial is believed to include live witnesses, such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Shaun Prescott
Shaun is PC Gamer's Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.


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Biker's warning! Erythropoietin hits blood vessels to raise blood pressure in the brain
by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Erythropoietin or EPO might be considered a "performance enhancing" substance for athletes, but new research published online in The FASEB Journal shows that these enhancements come at a high cost--increased risk of vascular problems in the brain. According to the study, short- or long-term use of EPO raises blood pressure by constricting arteries, which reduces the flow of blood to the brain. This finding also contradicts earlier evidence suggesting that EPO may be a viable early treatment for stroke victims.
"The new findings of this study urge to scrutinize present indications for EPO, and so help to better delineate positive versus adversary health effects of EPO for each patient," said Peter Rasmussen, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. "Future research should aim at developing an EPO-based agent for treatment that does not have a negative effect on the blood vessels of the brain."
To make this discovery, Rasmussen and colleagues evaluated the effects of acute high doses of EPO for three days and chronic low doses of EPO for 13 weeks in two groups of healthy males. Responsiveness of brain vessels during rest and during bike-riding exercise, with and without hypoxia, was examined. Blood vessels were also analyzed using ultrasound measurements and by measuring how much oxygen reached the brain. They found that prolonged EPO administration increased hematocrit, while acute administration did not. They also found that both groups had increases in blood vessel constriction and higher blood pressure.
"EPO is used by doctors to increase red blood cells in sick people who can't make enough of them: it's called honest medicine. When EPO is used by healthy bikers and runners to boost their performance, it's called cheating. Now we know that folks who use EPO covertly are cheating not only the time-clock, but themselves," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "Not only is EPO likely unsafe in healthy athletes, but there are many other ways to build up stamina without drugs."
A new way to boost red blood cell numbers
More information: Peter Rasmussen, Yu-Sok Kim, Rikke Krogh-Madsen, Carsten Lundby, Niels V. Olsen, Niels H. Secher, and Johannes J. van Lieshout. Both acute and prolonged administration of EPO reduce cerebral and systemic vascular conductance in humans. FASEB J. December 9, 2011; doi:10.1096/fj.11-193508
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Krong Pinang (, , Malay: Kampung Pinang, Patani Malay: کامڤوڠ ڤينڠ) is a district (amphoe) of Yala province, southern Thailand, established by the Royal Decree Establishing Amphoe Krong Pinang, Changwat Yala, BE 2547 (2004), which came into force on 8 October 2004.

Etymology
The name Krong Pinang is a Thai corruption of Kampung Pinang (Jawi: كامڤوڠ ڤينڠ, ), its original Malay name means 'village of Pinang'. The word pinang means 'betel palm' or 'betel nut tree' (Areca catechu) in Malay.

History
The minor district (king amphoe) Krong Pinang was established on 30 April 1994, when four tambons were split off from Mueang Yala district. It was upgraded to a full district on 8 October 2004.

Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise): Raman, Bannang Sata, Yaha, and Mueang Yala of Yala Province.

Administration
The district is divided into four sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 23 villages (mubans). There are no municipal (thesaban) areas. There are four tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

References

External links
amphoe.com

Districts of Yala province

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Crystal W.M. Chan
I was born and raised in Macau, a former Portuguese colony in China. I have lived in Taiwan, Greece and Portugal. I studied Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts; and I am currently based in New York.
My gestural paintings involve figures and bleak landscapes that are drawn with an expressive line and brushstrokes. I seek to evoke emotions that resonate with haunting memories and nostalgia.
I have participated in numerous group shows and solo exhibitions, including a recent collaboration with renowned photographer Nick Knight. I was invited to participate in This Is My City Artist-in-Residence in Portugal in 2014. I received a Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau Grant for Artistic and Cultural Study, and a Macau Art For All Society Art Scholarship from 2015 to 2017. My artworks are held in the Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau and private collections.
http://cargocollective.com/crystalwmchan
2018 I Am My Own Landscape
2018 "Open Field" Solo Exhibition | The National Arts Club, New York
2018 "I Am My Own Landscape" Solo Exhibition | Chinese American Arts Council, New York
2017 First Prize - The National Arts Club Will Barnet Student Show, New York
2015 "I Am My Own Landscape" Solo Exhibition | Albergue SCM, Macau
2015 "Forever Someone Else" Solo Exhibition | Art For All Gallery, Beijing
2014 "Living in the Memories of the Future Self" Painting Exhibition | Livraria Portuguesa, Macau
2014 "This Is My City" Creative Residencies | Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal


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Q: JNI: How to get class of jdoubleArray as a 'jclass' on the JNI/C++ side? I wrote a native Java function that passes a 2D array of double. What is a "double [][]" on the Java side, becomes a "jobjectArray" on the JNI/C++ side. So I need to use GetObjectArrayElement() to access the elements of the "outer" array, and these elements (i.e. the "inner" arrays) should be of type jdoubleArray. But I get them, from the GetObjectArrayElement() function, as jobject type. Now, how do I check whether the jobject is actually a jdoubleArray using the IsInstanceOf() function?
I obviously need a jclass that represents the jobjectArray class. But how to do that? I have no idea what string I would need to pass to FindClass for the jobjectArray class. Apparently, there's no equivalent for the jobjectArray on the Java side... The only method that I have figured out so far is:
jdoubleArray dummyDoubleArray = env->NewDoubleArray(1);
jclass doubleArrayClass = env->GetObjectClass(dummyDoubleArray);

if(env->IsInstanceOf(element, doubleArrayClass)) ...

This needs to create a dummy DoubleArray every time! Is there a more efficient way?
Thanks in advance!


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…flock together.
For all the different birds we've spotted so far on our two year sailing adventure, check out our Bird page.
Weekly photo challenge: variations on a theme
Eternal silence
Silence is rare. Even at the quietest times, like the depths of night, or sunrise, or in the middle of the desert, or at the top of a mountain, there is still sound.
Insects humming.
The wind.
Our own breathing.
Cars travelling on a distant road.
But death is silent. It occurred to me when I came across some marine critters that had washed up on the beach. Alive no more. And eternally silent.
For happier thoughts and more beach combing finds, check out my sailing blog: beach combing and bully beef…
Millions of years ago, a big coral reef covered much of what is now South East Asia. Just as they do now, coral polyps living in the reef secreted limestone as they built the coral, and other marine critters like shells and urchins deposited calcium.
Fast forward a bit and the tectonic plates below started to rub against each other and rumble. The continents started to move. The reef was thrust skyward by the movement of big slabs of rock and the sea level started to change.
Fast forward a lot more and where there was a reef, there's now hundreds of little islands. Rock pillars jutting straight out of the sea.
Fast forward a bit more to present day. The islands in Phang Nga Bay in Thailand are spectacular. But it's what is hidden within that is most impressive. Weather and time have carved their way through the limestone rock to produce caves and inner lagoons. Karstic formations ripe for exploration!
For more about exploring the hongs in Phang Nga Bay or sailing around Thailand, check out my sailing blog: the Alpha Odyssey.
Growth begins with a seed or an egg or a spark.
For nudibranchs (fancy-looking sea-slugs), their lifecycle starts with eggs laid in an intricate flower-like ribbon.
(To see what hatched out of these and for more about the nudi life cycle, check out this post…)
Flamers and fireworks…hello 2018!
The Alpha Odyssey
Incoming!!!
Normally that's a call you hear on a battlefield when rockets and artillery are raining down, but it was also yelled out several times during our new years eve celebrations aboard SV Billaroo in Patong Bay, Thailand. Every now again, an errant paper lantern, lit by revellers on nearby Patong Beach to accompany new years' wishes into the atmosphere, would break from its skyward arc, and come plummeting down towards our yachts. One of these "flamers" (so-nicknamed because they were usually on fire) actually hit the mast of a yacht in front of us! (Hopefully there was no damage to the halyard or anything else.)
Earlier in the night we went ashore for a quick walk through the infamous Patong Road precinct. It was only just gearing up for the big night ahead, but we were still accosted by hawkers trying to flog "ping pong shows" as we made…
The golden hours of 2017


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You can watch the event video here.