The Canon EOS-1D X and the Canon EOS 5DS are two professional cameras that were officially introduced, respectively, in October 2011 and February 2015. Both are DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that are equipped with a full frame sensor. The 1DX has a resolution of 17.9 megapixels, whereas the 5DS provides 50.3 MP. Read on to find out how these two cameras compare with respect to their body size, their sensors, their features, their input-output connections, and their reception by expert reviewers.
The physical size and weight of the Canon 1D X and the Canon 5DS are illustrated in the side-by-side display below. The two cameras are presented according to their relative size. Three consecutive views from the front, the top, and the rear side are shown. All width, height and depth dimensions are rounded to the nearest millimeter.
If the front view area (width x height) of the cameras is taken as an aggregate measure of their size, the Canon 5DS is considerably smaller (34 percent) than the Canon 1D X. Moreover, the 5DS is substantially lighter (40 percent) than the 1DX. In this context, it is worth noting that both cameras are splash and dust-proof and can, hence, be used in inclement weather conditions or harsh environments.
Concerning battery life, the 1DX gets 1120 shots out of its LP-E4N battery, while the 5DS can take 700 images on a single charge of its LP-E6 power pack. As can be seen in the images above, the 1DX has a battery grip built in. This facilitates image-taking in portrait orientation and gives it additional battery power. In order to provide similar functionality for the 5DS, Canon provides the BG-E11 vertical grip as an optional accessory (see here on eBay).
Any camera decision will naturally be influenced heavily by the price. The manufacturer's suggested retail prices give an idea on the placement of the camera in the maker's lineup and the broader market. The 5DS was launched at a markedly lower price (by 46 percent) than the 1DX, which puts it into a different market segment. Normally, street prices remain initially close to the MSRP, but after a couple of months, the first discounts appear. Later in the product cycle and, in particular, when the replacement model is about to appear, further discounting and stock clearance sales often push the camera price considerably down.
Technology-wise, the 5DS uses a more advanced image processing engine (DIGIC 6 (Dual)) than the 1DX (DIGIC 5+ (Dual)), with benefits for noise reduction, color accuracy, and processing speed.
While the two cameras under review share the same sensor size, the 5DS offers a higher resolution of 50.3 megapixels, compared with 17.9 MP of the 1DX. This megapixels advantage translates into a 68 percent gain in linear resolution. On the other hand, these sensor specs imply that the 5DS has a higher pixel density and a smaller size of the individual pixel (with a pixel pitch of 4.14μm versus 6.95μm for the 1DX). However, it should be noted that the 5DS is much more recent (by 3 years and 3 months) than the 1DX, and its sensor will have benefitted from technological advances during this time that compensate for the smaller pixel size.
The Canon EOS-1D X has a native sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 51200, which can be extended to ISO 50-204800. The corresponding ISO settings for the Canon EOS 5DS are ISO 100 to ISO 6400, with the possibility to increase the ISO range to 50-12800..
Since 2007, DXO Mark has published sensor performance measurements that have been derived using a consistent methodology. This service assesses and scores the color depth ("DXO Portrait"), dynamic range ("DXO Landscape"), and low-light sensitivity ("DXO Sports") of camera sensors, and also publishes an overall camera score. Of the two cameras under consideration, the 5DS has a markedly higher DXO score than the 1DX (overall score 5 points higher), which will translate into better image quality. The advantage is based on 0.9 bits higher color depth, 0.6 EV in additional dynamic range, and 0.2 stops of reduced low light sensitivity. The table below summarizes the physical sensor characteristics and sensor quality findings and compares them across a set of similar cameras.
Many modern cameras are not only capable of taking still images, but can also record movies. The two cameras under consideration both have sensors whose read-out speed is fast enough to capture moving pictures, but the 5DS provides a faster frame rate than the 1DX. It can shoot movie footage at 1080/60p, while the 1DX is limited to 1080/30p.
Apart from body and sensor, cameras can and do differ across a variety of features. The 1DX and the 5DS are similar in the sense that both have an optical viewfinder. The latter is useful for getting a clear image for framing even in brightly lit environments. The viewfinders of both cameras offer the same field of view (100%), but the viewfinder of the 1DX has a higher magnification than the one of the 5DS (0.76x vs 0.71x), so that the size of the image transmitted appears closer to the size seen with the naked human eye. The following table reports on some other key feature differences and similarities of the Canon 1D X, the Canon 5DS, and comparable cameras.
The 1DX writes its imaging data to Compact Flash cards, while the 5DS uses Compact Flash or SDXC cards. Both cameras feature dual card slots, which can be very useful in case a memory card fails.
For some imaging applications, the extent to which a camera can communicate with its environment can be an important aspect in the camera decision process. The table below provides an overview of the connectivity of the Canon EOS-1D X and Canon EOS 5DS and, in particular, the interfaces the cameras (and selected comparators) provide for accessory control and data transfer.
The 5DS is a recent model that features in the current product line-up of Canon. In contrast, the 1DX has been discontinued (but it can be found pre-owned on eBay). As a replacement in the same line of cameras, the 1DX was succeeded by the Canon 1DX Mark II. Further information on the two cameras, as well as related accessories, can be found on the official Canon website.
So how do things add up? Is the Canon 1D X better than the Canon 5DS or vice versa? Below is a summary of the relative strengths of each of the two contestants.
If the count of relative strengths (bullet points above) is taken as a measure, the 5DS is the clear winner of the contest (11 : 5 points). However, the relevance of individual strengths will vary across photographers, so that you might want to apply your own weighing scheme to the summary points when reflecting and deciding on a new camera.
Do the specifications of the Canon 1D X and the Canon 5DS place the cameras among the top in their class? Find out in the latest Best DSLR Camera listing.
In any case, while the comparison of technical specifications can provide a useful overview of the capabilities of different cameras, it remains partial and cannot reveal, for example, the shooting experience and imaging performance when actually working with the 1DX or the 5DS. User reviews, such as those found at amazon, can sometimes inform about these issues, but such feedback is often incomplete, inconsistent, and biased.


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Dan Rattiner's Stories
Hamptons Suburbia Museum Offers Something New in Southampton
By Dan Rattiner Posted on January 27, 2019
Hamptons Suburbia Museum in Southampton, Photo: Tom W. Ratcliffe III
Sag Harbor, East Hampton and Southampton keep all the old historic homes and windmills from days gone by carefully maintained and protected from development. In Southampton, you will find the original Halsey House, built in 1683, on South Main Street, the Pelletreau Silversmith studio on Main Street.
The whole downtown of Sag Harbor, including the Custom House, is originally from the 18th century, with Whaling Museum and American Hotel dating back to the 19th century. East Hampton has the old Home Sweet Home saltbox from the 1700s, along with the Hook Mill, Gardiner Mill and the Pantigo Mill. Indeed, these villages are actually Old New England villages. At least East Hampton and Southampton are. They were settled by New Englanders and have town greens, town ponds and old cemeteries. Sag Harbor's centerpiece is Long Wharf, originally built for the whaling ships here around 1770. All three villages feature a magnificent white Presbyterian church amidst a flock of churches and synagogues in and around Main Street.
Who's Here in the Hamptons
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Occasionally, executives come from a chain such as Hooters or Taco Bell, hoping to open a store in these parts. They knock on the door of the planning departments. It gets them nowhere. They are turned away, never to return. Laws are in place to make it impossible for a Wendy's or a KFC or any other drive-through establishment to open up in the middle of downtown, and if the laws aren't strong enough, there is social pressure applied.
You know, a local person can get tired of looking at all this old stuff every day, the hay barns and outhouses of those long-ago days gone by. But I can tell you that visitors from afar, especially from Manhattan, love what they see as this quaint counterpoint to all the skyscrapers and traffic in the big city.
Quite a few people also come from suburban Long Island to these parts, and they sometimes can miss what they have back home. It is for those people that the largest of our Old English village communities, Southampton, has set aside a new and unique "historic" two miles of drive-throughs, fast-food and chain-store establishments to create a living, interactive museum that the general public can enjoy.
Through a series of grants and tax incentives, the area has already been blessed with what is today a "starter pack" of retail establishments typical of the businesses of that place. Many more are expected to follow. Imagine. You can get to enjoy a suburban shopping experience typical of the last half of the 20th century without having to drive 50 miles to get to one.
The assemblage had its official grand opening as the Hampton Suburbia Museum just last week. At noon on Wednesday, local officials using a hedge cutter sliced through the red-white-and-blue ribbon. The centerpiece of it, where the ribbon-cutting took place, was under the traffic light that regulates traffic flow at the intersection of County Road 39 on the east and west and North Sea Road on the north and south. Hereby is a review.
The traffic intersection is unlike any in the Hamptons or anywhere else on the East End. It is a full 10 lanes wide as it flows and slows approaching the traffic light there to await instructions on how to proceed. Coming eastward (toward the sunrise), the road widens as it approaches the traffic light to allow for not only the two main drive-along lanes, but also a left-turn lane that allows you to turn onto North Sea Road when the green arrow tells you to turn to the left; three straight-along lanes; and a right-turn lane, marked "no right turn on red"—which will require you to come to a stop to observe the traffic light, probably holding you up for a full five minutes as that computerized traffic-control device handles the full eight different traffic flows coming and going there.
From this vantage point, you can observe to your left the "anchor" tenants of the museum already in place and open to the public. On the north side of this intersection is the Meineke, the Cumberland Farms Station and mini-mart, and the Burger King, and on the south side the Dunkin' Donuts and the elder care facility, the BP Station and the beverage distributor. Going forward through the intersection and looking south, you will get to see Southampton Tire Center and McDonald's, across the street the 7-Eleven, Twin Forks Pest Control and Snow White Laundromat, then further on a storage rental building and the legendary Southampton Car Wash.
There is nothing else like the Hampton Suburbia Museum in the Hamptons. If you crave a little dash of suburbia during your busy day, the cost to enjoy this outdoor museum is nothing. It's absolutely free. The merchants offer their wares at reasonable prices, and if you go at the right time there is often a sale on.
Meanwhile, at the light, there is usually a long line of motorists in cars, their engines idling, waiting for the light to change in their carefully selected lanes, anxious to enjoy this unique assemblage of suburban icons unmatched anywhere else in the Hamptons, finally, at long last, officially open to the public as a tourist site.
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This version of Angel's Road was recorded in 2010 at the same time as Amy Obenski's album, Grow to Catch the Wind. However, it was not released with the album and was stowed away for the right moment. Daniel Brown covers the track with his droning cello, invoking the sounds of a fiddle but with more depth. The first version was included on her album, Kite, which was released in 2006. Both versions have their appeal. It's up to you to decide which one you prefer or if you love them both equally.
Her haunting and ethereal vocals have been heard on the T.V. show, Grey's Anatomy, and MTV's reality show, MADE. Lyrically she's been known to bring underlying thoughts to the surface– thoughts that most people have but don't reveal. For this reason her music has been described as "gripping", though musically she can be compared to mellow divas such as Sarah McLachlan or Norah Jones.
Amy's fourth album, Grow to Catch the Wind (2011), took her multilayered sound to new levels. A string quartet, layered harmonies, and howling cello solos all join with her signature soaring vocals, piano and guitar. Amy's lyrical confessions pierce through the sonic complexity, perhaps more than ever. The album, her most brave and honest work yet, is the culmination of several years of soul-searching, a cycle of death and rebirth.
Amy's eclectic sound draws on her background in classical and jazz, and influences ranging from folk to funk. "Music has always been engrained in my life," says Amy. "It's in my breath. People ask my influences but it's really hard to say. Mozart, Billy Holiday, Prince, Bob Dylan…. They're all in there." Amy began studying music at age five, and continued throughout her childhood, singing in her school choirs, taking piano lessons, and continued through college, eventually leading her to where she is today.


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The question of whether kinematic -shell-dynamos are able to produce a cyclic activity is addressed. The α-effect is allowed to be latitudinally inhomogeneous and anisotropic but it is assumed as radially uniform in the turbulent shell. For a symmetric α-tensor we only find oscillatory solutions if i) the α-tensor component vanishes or is of the opposite sign as , ii) the α-effect is strongly concentrated in the equatorial region and iii) the α-effect is concentrated in a rather thin outer shell. In the other cases almost always the nonaxisymmetric field mode S1 (which slowly drifts along the azimuthal direction) possesses the lowest critical dynamo number. The uniform but anisotropic α-effect (e.g. ) leads to nonaxisymmetric solutions as is experimentally confirmed by the Karlsruhe dynamo installation. One of the antisymmetric parts of the α-tensor, however, plays the role of differential rotation in the induction equation. Using the results of a numerical simulation for the α-tensor of the solar convection zone for the radial profile of this effect, one finds the possibility of oscillating -dynamos even without the existence of a real nonuniform rotation law. Compared with the results of numerical simulations of the full α-tensor, the amplitude of the antisymmetric part of the tensor must be artifically increased by only a factor of three in order to find oscillating solutions.


First Person Learning a new language in a new land, would we ever fit in?
Learning a new language in a new land, would we ever fit in?
It felt like drowning: heart pounding, head spinning. On my second day in Canada I stood in a Toronto supermarket, my hand outstretched in a beggar's gesture.
"Is it a buttermilk? Curd?" asked a woman in her 60s, her forehead wrinkled in mild concern.
Her response confused me. What's with this "curd" thing, I wondered. Isn't curd part of sheep's fat? And how could something simultaneously be a butter and a milk, solid and liquid?
"Sorry to ask, dear, where are you from? You don't look Russian," the woman said as she flashed me her best "inclusive Canadian" smile.
I blinked once or twice and opened my mouth. Nothing came out. I knew what I wanted to say. Yes, ethnic Russians are 80 per cent of the population of Russia, but there the census reports 194 other ethnicities. No, I don't look Russian, I was born in Sakha Republic in Siberia. The territory of my homeland is one third the size of Canada, and the capital, Yakutsk, is the coldest city on Earth. I wished I knew enough English to be able to say all of that.
Fate has a curious sense of humour. When I lived in Russia, I once saw this student from Africa in a meat shop. The winter in St. Petersburg was especially severe that year. The Neva river froze all the way to the bottom, which had happened only once before, during the Nazi siege of the city.
"What can I do for you?" the shop girl asked, trying not to stare at the visitor's lips, actually blue from the cold.
The foreign student warmed his fingers with his breath and tapped on the glass of the meat display case.
I had smiled at the language barrier back then.
But I wasn't smiling anymore. As a newcomer to Canada I was feeling the strangeness of it all. I felt threatened when people smiled at me on the streets. In Russia people don't give you smiles for free. In fact, prior to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia earlier this year there were special training sessions for volunteers: teaching them how to smile just for the fun of it. As the Russian proverb says, laughter without a cause is a telling sign of a fool. Russians prefer to frown as if someone's life depends on it. And sometimes it does.
As it turned out, I wasn't ready for the immigrant life at all. English was a part of the curriculum in my school and later at university, too. I thought I knew a thing or two but the words I knew were totally out of place. I could spell "exploitation," but had no idea how to ask for a fork. I struggled every time the phone rang and someone started spewing words at me. I was able to catch one or three. I was stuck. I grew my hair out, not because I wanted to but because barbershops and hair salons were terra incognita, the term appropriately sounding like the word "terror." I couldn't read books - the labels on cereal boxes were more on my level. I nearly forgot what a cinema was and didn't watch movies till Netflix launched an option for subtitles. In my previous, not-incapacitated life, I was an avid theatre-goer, with all that ingrained Russian love for Chekhov and Stanislavski's method. In Canada my attempt to watch a play at the Stratford Festival was a soul-crushing experience. Damn Shakespeare.
My family struggled alongside me. Before we sent our 12-year-old son off to his first day of school in Canada, my husband and I spent a morning debating whether we should teach him how to say his name or how to count from one to 10. In Russia he attended a German Immersion school, poor soul.
Not all my children suffered. The language barrier was a more casual burden for my 17-year-old. Thanks to his dyslexia, there was little difference about which vowels in what language to confuse. However, the new Canadian environment had a say, I suspect, in his decision to pursue arts and sports.
I didn't want to be here either. I wanted to be myself again, not this deaf, frightened, half a person with a speech impediment.
I am not fluent, but I am no longer drowning in English.
The river of words is carrying me on.
Oh, and that "white thing" I was desperately looking for in the wrong aisle was sour cream. The nice lady in the supermarket refused to rest until we've found what I'd come there for.
Nadya Semenova lives in Toronto.


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Further thoughts on @ADragoons "What is a #Wargame?" Mentioned in Dispatches podcast Season 5 Episode 13
December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 ~ RockyMountainNavy
Brant over at the Armchair Dragoons was kind enough to invite me to appear on another episode of Mentioned in Dispatches (Season 5, Episode 13) where the topic is "What is a wargame?"
If you suffer through me stumbling through the first part, we eventually get to the point where I offer a defintion:
"An inclusive and concise defintion may be proposed as: an imaginary military operation, conducted upon a map or board, and usually employing various moveable devices which are said to represent the opposing forces, and which are moved about according to rules representing conditions of actual warfare."
A Brief History of War Gaming: Reprinted from Unpublished Notes of the Author, Dated 23 October 1956 (AD 235 893, Armed Forces Technical Information Agency, 15 Oct 1960)
As though you haven't suffered enough listening to my ramblings on the podcast, I'm going to offer a few more here.
Randomizers
One item that many folks might insist is missing in the definition is that wargames need some sort of a randomizer. Most often this takes the form of dice but it doesn't have to be. In Tank Duel: Enemy in the Crosshairs (GMT Games, 2019) which, if you listened to the episode you can kinda tell that I like, a deck of cards is used to generate the random numbers for results.
Interestingly, the early editions of Flat Top (Battleline/Avalon Hill, 1977) did not have a random die combat resolution mechanic. The outcome of an attack was determined by looking up a cross-reference table. So maybe the randomizer is not actually a requirement but nothing more than an oft-called upon, easy to explain, option to introduce a random resolution element into a game design.
UBOOT & the Charlies
Full disclosure here: I didn't vote for UBOOT: The Board Game (PHALANX, 2019). I initially backed it on Kickstarter but dropped my pledge because the worker placement and app-assist didn't attract me. I have already gone on record saying that I feel the Charlies need a different award selection process. Does that make me biased against it? Maybe. So read on if you dare!
Back to the Well – Is UBOOT a Wargame?
We hashed this out on the podcast and said, "No." Upon reconsideration, do I still think so? As you can probably tell during the discussion, if there is one part of the definition that's going to trip people up it's likely will hinge on what they perceive to be a "military operation." In regards to the Charlies Award sweeper UBOOT:
Does the 'fact' the game takes place during a combat patrol make it a "military operation"?
Does the 'fact' the crew (workers) represent a military group make it a "military operation"?
Does the 'fact' the U-Boat has a military mission to sink enemy shipping make it a "military operation"?
I know that Moe repeatedly made the point that UBOOT is a worker placement game. He is obviously very focused on the core mechanic of the game. A legitimate question is; can a worker placement game be a wargame?
Courtesy UBOOT Kickstarter
In UBOOT, on every turn the players are responsible for certain crew positions. Moe (or was it Brant?) also made the point that the artificial three-order limit was not very realistic. After the podcast, it struck me that UBOOT in some ways is not unlike the old FASA title Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator (FASA, 1983). That game features Command and Control Panels for the different crew positions. It is possible to play the Starship Tactical Combat Simulator as a team…not too much unlike UBOOT. Now, I certainly consider the FASA Trek game a 'wargame', so why is UBOOT different?
FASA Star Trek Starship Combat Game Command & Control Panels (Photo by RMN)
I Know a Wargame When I See It
I think if you listen to our discussion of UBOOT and then Root (Leder Games, 2018) you will hear that, at least to me, what makes a game a wargame comes down to a matter of degrees. The question becomes, "when is enough, enough?" To Moe it sounds like the core mechanic trumps theme. I want to agree with that but my own track record is spotty. In the end, I can only say that I think theme can be both helpful and hurtful.
For instance, take a look at Pandemic: Fall of Rome (Z-Man Games, 2018) which gets mentioned but not discussed. In my mind, Pandemic: Fall of Rome is clearly a wargame.
Here is how the ad copy for Fall of Rome reads:
A weakened military has left the borders open to invasion from countless tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons, Goths, Vandals, and Huns. As you march through the Roman Empire, you must recruit armies, fortify cities, forge alliances, and face off against the invading hordes in battle.
In my mind, the fact the game explicitly tries to represent the march of forces, the recruitment of armies, fortification of cities, and even making alliances is all representative of a "military operation." Fall of Rome does this without almost any use of "classic" wargame mechanics (though I note that Fall of Rome is also the first game in the Pandemic family to have a combat resolution mechanism).
What about AuZtralia (Stronghold Games, 2018)? Billed by the publisher as an "adventure / exploration" game I think it is much more. Again, lets go to the ad copy:
Military units will help you to locate, fight and defend against the nightmarish beings that may be lurking on your doorstep. As well as hardware, you'll need to recruit some Personalities who have the skills and resources to help you.
Previously I described AuZtralia as a Eurogame for Grognards. The first part of the game is all about exploration and expansion and resource collection but at some point the game becomes a fight against the Old Ones and their minions. Does that make it a wargame? Let's see:
"Real or imaginary military operations" – You need both military forces and personalities to FIGHT the Old Ones – CHECK.
"….map or board…." – You actually have two to chose from in the base game – CHECK.
"Moveable pieces" – Weak; most of the pieces do not represent 'opposing forces" until that Old Ones wake up; then again, do your railroads and farms count as your 'forces'? – Heck, I'm still going to say CHECK!
"….rules representing conditions of actual warfare" – There is clearly a combat resolution mechanic in the game – CHECK.
In my mind, and to be fair, AuZtralia is a wargame PLUS. In other words, it is not a "pure" wargame from the start but after the Old Ones awake it certainly BECOMES a wargame. The wargame elements it has in the second half are 'sufficient' in my mind to make it a wargame. When I think about it, this same approach is most likely why I consider Root a wargame; it has sufficient wargame elements to tip the scale for me.
So what is is about UBOOT that doesn't tip that scale for me? Am I simply looking too askance at the worker placement mechanic and refusing to accept that mechanism can have a place in a wargame? How does the fact the crew must work as a team to Find, Fix, Track, and Target (F2T2 in military jargon) a merchant ship NOT make it a wargame? It works in Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator; why not here?
Maybe Moe is right. Maybe it's all about that worker placement mechanic. Maybe I see the emphasis in UBOOT on the mechanic with a theme wrapped around it rather than a theme supported by a mechanic. Come to think of it, that's a good way to explain how I look at all the games I talked about here.
I'm an old Grognard, So I Can Be Grumpy
Lastly, I'm going to expand a bit on a topic we talked about on the podcast. I fully agree that wargamers, as a niche group of hobby boardgaming, spend too much time defending our hobby. Indeed, the 'elitism' of some segments of the hobby boardgame crowd is hugely offensive. I'll even go so far as to say that even the self-anointed 'consciousness" of the wargame community can be offensive too. If you don't want to play wargames, or certain wargames, you don't have to and I won't force you. I fully believe in our community good game designs will rise to the top; socially engineered bootstraps are not needed. But don't you dare pretend you are superior to another gamer and can dictate what they (or I) can play. If a topic is that offensive then reasonable people will avoid it – gatekeepers are not needed.
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Interesting post. Made me think- which has to be a good thing. Personally I'm a theme first – mechanics second.
(It was Moe talking about the artificial orders limit)


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EMU announces 2020 Yoder and Webb Scholars
May 25, 2020 Last updated August 9, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has announced the 2020 Yoder and Webb Scholars. The scholarships cover full tuition and include admission into EMU's Honors Program.
The Yoder Scholars program was founded by Carol and Paul R. Yoder Jr., both graduates of 1963, with a gift of more than $1.2 million. [Read more about their reluctance for a spotlight and long legacy of philanthropy when named as 2011 Philanthropists of the Year by the Fundraising Professionals of America, Shenandoah chapter.]
The Webb Scholars program honors Ada Webb, one of the first African-American students to attend the university; and Margaret (Peggy) Webb who was the first African-American graduate in 1954.
Incoming first-years compete for the award at Honors Weekend. This year's application included a 400-word written response to the Octavia Butler quote, "All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you." Applicants were also challenged to create a conceptual response by communicating anything they wanted through the medium of a blank 3×5 card.
Honors faculty make their selections based on academic performance, community and extracurricular involvement, creativity, clarity of thought, and leadership potential.
Read about the 2020 Yoder/Webb scholars: Laurel Evans, Nathan Longenecker, Hebron Mekuria, and Noah Swartzentruber, below.
Laurel Evans says the second time she visited EMU, "it felt like I was coming back home."
"Out of all the colleges I was visiting, it was the only place that seemed genuinely collaborative, like everyone on campus really wanted to see everyone else thrive and succeed," she says.
Evans hasn't yet narrowed down what she wants to major in, but she's excited to try out the aikido club, EMU Explore club, and orchestra – she's a cellist, and plays in the John A Logan Community Orchestra near her home of Marion, Illinois. Evans also teaches private piano lessons from her home.
"My career goals are to serve the Lord and to serve those around me," she says. At the First Presbyterian Church of Marion, she serves as a deacon and Green Team member, and sings in the choir.
Evans enjoys baking, playing music, kayaking, swimming, and spending hours at the library. She volunteers as a tutor at the Boyton Street Community Center in Marion.
Evans received the Maxima Cum Laude distinction from the National Latin Exam, is a member of the National Latin Honor Society, and designed and directed her own education as a homeschool student. She's spent the last three summers at the Lux Theological Institute for Youth in Monmouth, Illinois, where she now serves as a board member.
Nathan Longenecker
Nathan Longenecker attended a trivia event during Honors Weekend that convinced him "that the students here are awesome." He also liked that faith is a core component of an EMU education.
"I also really appreciate that the professors at EMU look to not only teach but to build strong relationships with the students. This is not something you can find everywhere," he says.
He plans to major either in engineering or math and computer science. "I'm choosing STEM because I love looking into how things work and I love how the field is always new and exciting," he says. He hopes to someday do service work abroad.
Longenecker says he's excited about joining intramurals at EMU, and hopes to get involved with the new disc golf team on campus. In his free time, he also enjoys fishing.
Longenecker, who attends Lancaster Mennonite School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is a member of the National Honor Society, a soccer athlete, and a recipient of the Lancaster Mennonite School Alumni Association Award. He plays violin in the pit orchestra for musicals, and does sound, light, and video production.
Hebron Mekuria
Hebron Mekuria, of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, plans to be a computer engineering major, but she's not stopping there. Biochemistry or psychology might become her second major, to work towards her long-term goal of becoming a biomedical engineer whose research enhances the medical field with technology.
"I believe that technology is a rapidly advancing field and has a lot of potential to contribute to saving lives," Mekuria says. "I also am interested in studying child development or developmental psychology because there is a big gap in our country concerning this area."
A four-year engineering program at a Christian school attracted her to EMU, as well as having two close friends from primary school enrolled. Plus, when Mekuria visited, "I noticed how the teachers seemed genuinely interested in the lives of their students, and how much EMU was focused on making a global impact."
Mekuria dedicates much of her free time to children, volunteering at orphanages, leading Sunday school, and tutoring – which has piqued her interest in the emotional, social, and psychological needs of children.
"Right now, caretakers focus much on the physical needs of children and do not realize how much power they have to also shape the minds of their children," she says.
Mekuria speaks English and Amharic, and is working on her French. She's earned 16 high school honor roll awards, interned at St. Yared General Hospital in Addis Ababa, and has published two poems through the group Poets Unite Worldwide.
Noah Swartzentruber
When Noah Swartzentruber was in middle school, his mother gave him a book about coding. Ever since, he's been interested in developing software or some other computer-related career, so he's looking to join the computer science program at EMU this fall.
Swartzentruber says the students and faculty drew him to EMU: "Their friendliness and helpfulness has helped me to feel at home and familiar with the campus and classes as I have visited. From my interactions with professors, I feel that the individual, one-on-one interactions will be valuable during my college education."
The Riverside, Pennsylvania native enjoys soccer, volleyball, and rebuilding small engines. He also works for the Lancaster Mennonite School Production Crew, running sound and video equipment for events on campus.
He is a recipient of two Lancaster Lebanon League All-Star Soccer awards, the Union League of Philadelphia Good Citizenship Award, and the Lancaster Mennonite Alumni Association's Certificate of Merit.
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A big congratulations to each of you! We are excited to have you join the EMU community, and look forward to getting to know you better, and growing with you during your time here. Many blessings as you prepare for the fall.


At the direction of Congress, the FCC is examining the state of competition in the audio-delivery marketplace. This effort is expected to be the most complete look at competition in the industry in many years and could help guide future FCC decision-making on topics such as ownership rules.
This information will be used by the FCC as it prepares a report to Congress by the end of the year that assesses the level of audio-delivery marketplace competition.
Comments are due on September 24, 2018, with reply comments due October 9, 2018. If you would like to submit comments, please contact any attorney in our office.


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Martyrologium – w Kościele katolickim i w prawosławiu, uporządkowana chronologicznie księga liturgiczna zawierająca informacje o męczennikach, świętych, błogosławionych i obchodzonych uroczystościach.

Martyrologia powstawały lokalnie, w poszczególnych Kościołach, z czasem zrodziła się potrzeba martyrologiów ponadregionalnych, zwanych ogólnymi. W Kościele wschodnim takie ogólne martyrologium powstało przed 400 r. Napisano je w języku greckim, jednak przetrwało ono do naszych czasów jedynie w przekładzie syryjskim, stąd nosi nazwę Martyrologium syryjskiego. W połowie V w. w północnej Italii zostało ono przetłumaczone na łacinę i dodano do niego męczenników Kościoła zachodniego oraz męczenników afrykańskich. Autor-tłumacz przypisał to dzieło św. Hieronimowi, stąd znane jest ono jako Martyrologium Hieronima (Martyrologium Hieronymianum).

W średniowieczu, nowego wydania martyrologium, uproszczonego, ale też wzbogaconego o nowych świętych, dokonał mnich angielski św. Beda Czcigodny (673–735). W IX wieku opracowano nowe wydania, m.in. martyrologium Usuarda. Korzystali z nich redaktorzy nowego martyrologium, opracowanego po soborze trydenckim na polecenie papieża Grzegorza XIII (ur. 1502, zm. 1585) – tak zwane Martyrologium Romanum – (Martyrologium Rzymskie), kiedy to zreformowano też Kalendarz juliański, wprowadzając Kalendarz gregoriański. Po wielu korektach tego nowego wydania martyrologium, ostatecznej rewizji dokonał papież Benedykt XIV (ur. 1675, zm. 1758).

Martyrologium Romanum jest oficjalnym spisem wszystkich świętych i błogosławionych Kościoła Katolickiego. Ostatnie oficjalne wydanie Martyrologium Romanum (Martyrologium Rzymskie), uzupełnione na polecenie soboru watykańskiego II i promulgowane przez Jana Pawła II, ukazało się w 2004 r.

Martyrologium Rzymskie ukazało się też po polsku po Soborze w 1967 r. W przekładzie opuszczono elementy legendarne i historycznie niepewne.

Wykreślenie świętego z kalendarza liturgicznego nie oznacza pozbawienia świętego świętości, "bowiem, kto raz został uznany za świętego i wpisany do Martyrologium, pozostaje świętym na zawsze, chociażby wypisano go ze wszystkich kalendarzy liturgicznych na całym świecie".

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The Long Road Home...
a philosophical journey.
by Richard McKenzie Neal
Driving through the hours I found that my solitude allowed my mind to drift more seamlessly back to my beginnings. While many things were resurrected…the good, the bad and a lot of gray area in-between…some clear and detailed, others remaining murky and questionable…and rightfully so. We know, from my first book, what propelled me out into the bigger world, but were there underlying drivers that I was oblivious to? Why do some remain home while others leave…only to search for the path back, as their lives wind down? And why do we say, you can never go home…? I've heard it said, "In fantasy and myth, homecoming is a dramatic event…bands play, the fatted calf is killed, a banquet is prepared, and there is rejoicing that the prodigal has returned. But the reality is that exile is most commonly ended gradually, with no dramatic external events to mark its passing. The haze in the air evaporates and the world comes into focus, seeking gives way to finding, anxiety to satisfaction. Everything has changed…yet nothing has changed." My hometown (Pleasantville) was no longer my hometown. The downtown area was being abandoned with the businesses moving out to the edge of town…leaving many empty storefronts. The demographics had changed dramatically (not a condemnation, but an observation) and the old neighborhoods were run down and in various stages of disrepair. Once well-kept yards had disappeared beneath the accumulations of non-descript clutter. Past friends and classmates were difficult to locate and often even more difficult to recognize once found. Some of course had already passed, some were in various stages of dying (cancer) and many others were in poor health requiring personal assistance, walkers, canes and vast assortments of prescription medications. Another group included men who had survived heart attacks and stroke, but would never be the same…while others were chain smokers and overweight. And yes, there were a number of folks from my age group who had managed to maintain a healthy lifestyle and they looked well. But "we" were the exception. I also discovered that many of my cronies had never embraced or even accepted the computer as a modern-day necessity. A few chapters back I wrote about some lingering details that I'm hoping to put to rest in this book. The first, you already know about…finding a biological son that I've never met. The second one began over 50 years ago as a teenager growing up in Arkansas. I brought it to life in my first book and now I'm hoping to lay it to rest…dead or alive. And like the first search, the trail is cold and lacking vital information such as, exact age and a full name. James and I were friends back in the 50s when it wasn't "politically correct," and we were as conspicuous as black and white. I only knew (or remember) James by his first name and a nickname…"Snowball." James was approximately my age and we were both physically gifted…six-foot tall and slender. In retrospect…we were both, apparently…also colorblind. Another commonality shared by departing generations is the spiritual acceptance of an "after-life" as their current life winds down. I think most of us have always had that inkling inside, but with our mortality staring us in the face…that notion takes on an elevated sense of urgency. The timing of "losing touch with reality," could also suggest that we've given up on this world and are reaching out to the Promised Land. Sounds almost hypocritical…waiting until near the end of the game before choosing sides. What were we thinking, that we were immortal and would live forever? Nope! - Just young, dumb, know-it-alls. That same spirituality also brings clarity to the intangible drivers of this whole going home phenomenon. To go home is to experience the peace and love arising from our self-effulgent heart center, the core of our being. We find that all the love and happiness we have ever wanted is already available to us, every moment, without fail. A deep yearning causes us to search for our innate roots, the womb of our origin. We have gone out into the world, experienced "life" with its pains and pleasures, happiness and sadness. We never found a lasting happiness from those experiences. What we sought was not outside of ourselves. Early on in this book I suggested that going home isn't about returning to one's physical birthplace or home, but rather to another time…another place (Fridays With Landon). The truth is that we cannot go home and except for our memories…home, as we knew it, no longer exists. It has been relegated to the archives of a bygone time where we are the keepers and with our passing the past will be lost to the ages. And in time, the reality will be that our era was irrelevant at best, or it was just delusional manifestations of an antiquated, out-of-touch, departing generation. Or perhaps "the journey" is our home, and the going home phenomenon is an innate human need/desire to say good-bye as our journey winds down…as was my farewell tour. Every journey will eventually realize its intended destination, and it's not important to rush that arrival. Sometimes tossing the map is the best way to get where you really need to go. But there is yet another applicable country saying: "You can't get there from here."
Fridays With Landon
Richard McKenzie Neal
The Path to Addiction...
The Compromising of America
By this point in our lives (my target readers) we've all heard the old adage "You can't go home." But what does it mean? As life winds down and the drone of existence begins to wane, I'm feeling an intangible desire or need to reach back into my past and reconnect with a by-gone time and people...living and/or dead. It feels like an elusive melody that seems distantly familiar, yet strange and unidentifiable. If all the above sounds like a premonition of the inevitable, I agree and accept that my time is ticking away. But it's not about dying…it's about going home! I'm not afraid of dying, but I do struggle with the reality that I will no longer physically exist. I have to wonder if the term "going home" isn't a misnomer and maybe…just maybe, we're trying to return to "Neverland" (Fridays With Landon). When we were very young we searched for that elusive, utopian community…and studies have shown that in our declining years, we slowly revert to our childhood. Another line-of-thought is that it's all just a mirage. We know and accept that a man can be dying of thirst, in the middle of the driest desert, and his mind will anesthetize him by creating the illusion of an oasis. If we can acknowledge that phenomenon (the mind's coping mechanism) then it shouldn't be much of a stretch to reason that the elderly possess those same innate coping capabilities…to ease their journey home. Of course their mirage would be about "going home"…not to a place, but to another time. What is the driver for this (apparently) universal pilgrimage? I have to wonder, even compare it to an addict's motivation (The Path to Addiction)…one more trip down that path of pleasant memories even as the host is being sacrificed.
Richard was born in Hope, Arkansas (Bill Clinton's boyhood home), in 1941 and his father was gone prior to Richard turning two years old. He never knew the man, but attended his funeral as a sixteen-year-old. Before boarding a Greyhound bus for California, at seventeen, Richard knew two stepfathers and a number of others who were just passing through. During those teen years, before succumbing to the beckoning allure of the outside world, Richard worked at an assortment of low-paying jobs. Summers were spent in the fields…picking cotton and/or watermelons and baling hay. After dropping out of school, eloping and landing in California, he soon realized how far out of his element he had ventured. And without the guidance of his "Constant Companion," Richard would have spent a lifetime floundering in a sea of ignorance and ineptness…and his books would not exist. Richard's first book (Fridays With Landon) was driven by his son's life-altering heroin addiction. He had hoped not to author a sequel, but left the book open-ended due to historical concerns, which did in fact…resurface. For 25 years the family has endured the emotional highs and lows associated with the chaotic, frustrating and more often than not…heartbreaking task of rescuing one of their own, from the always ebbing and flowing tide of addiction. The unintended sequel (The Path to Addiction…) was triggered by a mind-numbing relapse after 30 months of sobriety. The second book was then written to bring closure…one-way or the other. The author advanced several possible scenarios for the ending of that book, but only one of those possibilities was favorable… His third book (The Long Road Home…) is a philosophical journey that we'll all experience as our time here begins to dwindle. All three books were written after retiring from the oil industry.


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Group from Pittsburgh finds opportunities abound in China - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "'They recognized the need to have a way to balance economic growth with the environment,' Flora said. 'Being able to build extremely energy-efficient buildings is a top priority.'"
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Graduated from Penn Hills High School, 1977. Ohio University, 1982. Spent time in grad school at Baylor University. My grades 9 and 10 were at St. Fedelis HS Seminary, now closed.


Celestial Wizard, BBQ Opens at 6pm!
Originally formed back in 1991, Angra is one of the biggest names of Brazilian heavy metal worldwide, due to their many acclaimed albums and the building of a glorious career. The Brazilian quintet is a musical reference, with its symphonic interludes and highly technical arrangements, plus the alchemy with metal and Brazilian elements. Angra today is an example of versatility in music.
Endowed with a rare sense of direction among Brazilian bands, Angra did not wait for things to happen on their own, and in 1992 their first demo tape was recorded. Titled 'Reaching Horizons', it sparked huge interest among metal fans in Brazil, Europe and Japan, which led the group to record their debut album at KAI HANSEN'S [HELLOWEEN] studio in Hamburg – Germany. The result is the album "Angels Cry", which truly changed the Brazilian metal scene and solidified Angra as a force within the closed European circuit of melodic metal.
The band managed to achieve the unthinkable for a Brazilian group in this style: over 100.000 copies sold in Japan where, due to the huge and unexpected success of 'Angels Cry', an EP was then released with some remixed tracks. Angra was taken to the top at the yearly reader's poll for by the specialized publication Rock Brigade, where they were awarded as Best New Band, Best Album, Best Vocalist, Best Album Cover and best keyboardist. 'Angels Cry' was only released in Europe in 1994, with immediate commercial and critic success.
Later that year Angra played at the first edition of MONSTERS OF ROCK festival in Brazil, sharing the stage with big names like KISS, BLACK SABBATH and SLAYER. Following their success at the festival, the band began a long tour through their country, leading them to a European tour in 1995.
In 1996, Angra dared even more with the album 'Holy Land', permeated by orchestral arrangements, choirs and Brazilian rhythms, which made this album an even greater commercial success than "Angels Cry". As a result, the band played their first tour in Japan and presented a new EP, 'Holy Live', recorded live in Paris.
In 1998 the prolific group had two releases: the EP "Lisbon" and the album "Fireworks", which was more focused on traditional heavy metal and with less of the neoclassical influences that were already part of style and repertoire of the band. An extensive and quite successful world tour supported the album.
In 2000, the band released the first box set ever released by a Brazilian heavy metal group: "Holy Box".
2001 saw the band release one of his strongest works to date: "Rebirth," an overwhelming critical and commercial acclaim in Brazil and abroad, selling over 100,000 copies in less than two months, something inconceivable for a metal band without great support from the mainstream media. They went Gold Record in Brazil, and "Rebirth" has sold over a million records so far. In 2002, the EP "Hunters and Prey" was released amidst the longest world tour the group had ever done.
"Temple of Shadows" marked the band's return to the studio. Released in 2004, the album exceeded 250,000 copies sold and put the group on the road until most of the following year, through Latin America, Europe, Japan, Asia and Oceania.
"Aurora Consurgens" arrived in 2006 and marked the beginning of a brief hiatus in the activities of the band – worn out by the grueling routine of touring. Angra only played live sporadically in this period, and the release of their next album, "Aqua"  held the most successful tour in the history of heavy metal in Brazil: a joint tour with SEPULTURA.
In 2013 the group returned to the world stage, this time with the Italian singer Fabio Lione [Rhapsody of Fire].The band presented a one-off show playing with Lione at the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. Not long after, the band was highly acclaimed by the public in their native São Paulo at the LIVE N 'LOUDER festival, where Angra performed with renowned names like TWISTED SISTER, SODOM, LOUDNESS, METAL CHURCH and MOLLY HATCHETT.
Throughout the year 2013 and 2014 the band performed a successful tour that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of their first album, "Angels Cry", and traveled throughout Latin America with amazing performances and great public support.
Between the first and the second part of that tour, the group returned to the studio to record a new album with Italian vocalist Fabio Lione.
After four years without releasing any new music, the moment fans have eagerly been waiting for is very close. Angra's new album "Secret Garden" shows the band in top form.
Pre-produced by legendary producer Roy Z (Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Halford) and recorded and produced in Sweden by the talented Jens Bogren (Kreator, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Dragonforce), "Secret Garden" brings together everything that has established Angra as one of biggest bands in its style: contemporary sound combined with inspired compositions.
The album will be released on January 16th, 2015.
"Secret Garden" shows the maturity of a band that, after 23 years on the road, continues with the same motivation and passion for music that drove the glorious beginning of the group. The compositions mend together elements that made the band known around the world, foregrounding the unity of seemingly distinct styles and combining in a unique way styles such as rock – in its various forms, classical music and Brazilian music.
"Secret Garden" is yet another masterpiece by the group and promises to become a great classic in the metal world. Like almost all of Angra's work, "Secret Garden" is a concept album which brings up the question: can something that does not exist to the eyes or is not perceived by the senses be considered as non-existent?
The songs tell the fictional story of scientist Morten Vrolik who fights to restore his happiness after a tragic accident that took the life of his wife. Faced with the harsh new reality, Morten is forced to revise his atheistic beliefs and values in order to recover a sense of personal contentment that was taken away by fate. The sudden change in his routine, the adaptability, synchronicity, loneliness, guilt, hope and the strength to rise anew are some of the topics discussed in the lyrics, always put to light under different perspectives – be they religious, scientific, philosophical or merely aesthetic.
One of the great strengths of the album is the variety of great guest musicians: Simone Simons from the Dutch band Epica divinely interprets the song "Secret Garden" while the great metal diva Doro Pesch sings an exciting vocal duet with Rafael Bittencourt on "Crushing Room". Actually, the various appearances of Rafael's lead vocals make for some of the strongest moments on this album, causing a contrast in tone and interpretation in comparison to Fabio.
The front cover and album design cleverly interlace the music and story into a beautiful artwork – created by designer Rodrigo Bastos Didier, representing the dreamlike moments of the album's story. The entrance to the secret garden, a representation of the unconscious and the whole atmosphere of mystery intend to bring to the fan an experience that transcends merely listening to the songs.
After a great international tour of the "Secret Garden" album in 2015 and 2016, with sold-out dates in various cities in Brazil and around the world, including a magical and historic show at ROCK IN RIO festival, where the band temporarily said goodbye to the guitarist Kiko Loureiro, who had joined Megadeth band, but who in the place entered the guitar player Marcelo Barbosa.
Angra has done some commemorative anniversary tours of the classic album "Holy Land" where he played the album in full with the guests like Ricardo Confessori and Luis Mariutti, ex-Angra members and other guests.
The album connects the concepts of previous albums ("Holy Land", "Rebirth", "Temple of Shadows") to one main system, "ØMNI", which in Latin means "ALL" "ØMNI" fabricates an interconnectivity that shines light towards a universal truth: everything that has happened, led to what the band is today. "ØMNI" celebrates and unites the whole history of Angra to this exact, current moment.
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Ian's Update March 2013
Posted on March 1, 2013 by Taverham Band
With the usual winter issues in January affecting rehearsals, we eventually got back in the swing of things and started our 2013 programme with a Round Table dinner at Marriott Sprowston Manor Hotel.
We have concerts locally at Taverham on 22nd & 23rd March and at Ringland Church on Saturday 27thApril. Tickets for the Ringland concert will be available from me on 01603 868680, Online Here or on the door.
Taverham Band Spring Concert
Friday/Saturday 22nd/23rd March 2013
Taverham Village Hall – Doors Open 7.00pm – Concert starts 7.30pm
Tickets £7 (Child £3) from:
Online Here
Drayton Post Office/Abbotts Estate Agents (Taverham) or Pamela Janes (Taverham Nursery)
Exploding Brass! with the 'Last Night of the Proms!'
Saturday 20th July 2013 – Taverham Hall
Plans for this year's Exploding Brass! are well underway with this being our 9th concert since 1995 and will be the biggest and best yet. We have 'The He Hews' taking part this year featuring our drummer John Clarke whom you may see performing near Jarrolds on a Saturday morning. Musician and singer Sam Kelly who reached the final of 2012 Britain's Got Talent to be beaten by Ashley and Pudsey the dog joins us for the first time. We also welcome the return of West End and BBC 1's 'The Voice' star, Tenor Benjamin Lake and of course our own Rebecca Mundy to perform during the evening including the favourites from the 'Last Night of Proms'. More details on the programme next month but we will be featuring a tribute to the blockbuster film and West End smash hit 'Les Miserables' and celebrate 50 years of The Beatles and James Bond.
We are delighted to have the services of Kimbolton Fireworks who for several years have produced the displays for London New Year's Eve and the Edinburgh Hogmanay, and also in 2012 the fantastic displays at the 2012 Olympic Games. Finally we are also delighted to have the return of BBC's Nick Conrad who will present the evening. All in all a fantastic event is lined up and we urge you to get tickets now at their discounted advance purchase price.
Taverham Band, The He Hews!, Benjamin Lake – Tenor (BBC1 'The Voice')
Rebecca Mundy – Soprano, Sam Kelly (Britain's Got Talent Finalist 2012!)
Fantastic Firework Display by Kimbolton Fireworks
(2012 Olympic Games and London/Edinburgh New Year celebrations)
Compere – BBC's Nick Conrad
Tickets are now available from the Exploding Brass! Box Office on 01603 850516 orwww.explodingbrass.co.uk priced at £20 adults and £10 for 5-16 year olds. Under 5's are free. A limited number of gazebo pitches are available at £20. Tickets will be at the usual outlets from March. Tickets on the gate will by £25 and £12 respectively, subject to availability.
Ticket price includes free programme and car parking.
Full details are available on www.explodingbrass.co.uk
Ian Colman


As advanced by my colleague James a few days ago, here's a second slideshow on natural disasters in Vietnam, this time showing prevention and mitigation measures put in place across the country. Again, the photos are striking. And the actions, varied and ingenious.
I spent last week at the 2009 UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.


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Arsenic Trioxide in Treating Patients With Advanced Hematologic Cancer
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of arsenic trioxide in treating patients who have advanced hematologic cancer.
Leukemia Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm Drug: arsenic trioxide Phase 1
OBJECTIVES: I. Develop a safe, weight-based, extended-dosing regimen of arsenic trioxide suitable for outpatient therapy in patients with advanced hematologic cancers. II. Determine the pattern of clinical adverse experience in patients treated with this drug. III. Evaluate evidence of clinical responsiveness that may provide leads for further testing in patients treated with this drug.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study. Patients receive arsenic trioxide IV over 1-4 hours on days 1-25. Courses repeat every 3-5 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Cohorts of 4-6 patients receive escalating doses of arsenic trioxide until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose at which no more than 1 of 6 patients experiences dose-limiting toxicity. Patients are followed for 1 month.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 48 patients will be accrued for this study.
Official Title: Dose-Ranging Study of Arsenic Trioxide in Advanced Hematologic Cancers
Study Start Date : April 1998
Actual Primary Completion Date : March 2000
Actual Study Completion Date : March 2000
MedlinePlus Genetics related topics: Multiple myeloma
MedlinePlus related topics: Arsenic
Drug Information available for: Arsenic trioxide Arsenic
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Lymphosarcoma Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Follicular Lymphoma Myeloid Leukemia Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Acute Myeloid Leukemia Acute Non Lymphoblastic Leukemia Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia Multiple Myeloma B-cell Lymphoma Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Mantle Cell Lymphoma Leukemia, T-cell, Chronic Adult T-cell Leukemia/lymphoma Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Mycosis Fungoides Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia Hodgkin Lymphoma Hairy Cell Leukemia Marginal Zone Lymphoma Plasmablastic Lymphoma Lymphoma, Large-cell, Immunoblastic Sezary Syndrome Plasmacytoma Burkitt Lymphoma Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Acute Erythroid Leukemia Di Guglielmo's Syndrome Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation Acute Monoblastic Leukemia
Ages Eligible for Study: 17 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven hematologic cancer, including acute or chronic leukemia, malignant lymphoma, or multiple myeloma Exclude acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3) Relapse from or resistance to at least one course of standard anticancer therapy and lack of alternative therapy that has proven to be curative in the underlying disease
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 17 and over Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.5 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL Other: Not pregnant or nursing Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for at least 4 months after study No history of grand mal seizures (other than infantile febrile seizures) No active serious infections that are not controlled by antibiotics
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: No concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No concurrent radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified Other: No other concurrent investigational agents
Study Chair: Steven Soignet, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
CDR0000066395 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
NCI-G98-1449
Last Verified: June 2013
Keywords provided by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
stage IV adult Hodgkin lymphoma
recurrent adult Hodgkin lymphoma
stage IV cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
recurrent cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
refractory multiple myeloma
Waldenström macroglobulinemia
stage III multiple myeloma
stage IV chronic lymphocytic leukemia
recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia
refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia
chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
meningeal chronic myelogenous leukemia
adult acute erythroid leukemia (M6)
adult acute myeloblastic leukemia without maturation (M1)
adult acute myeloblastic leukemia with maturation (M2)
adult acute myelomonocytic leukemia (M4)
adult acute monoblastic leukemia (M5a)
adult acute eosinophilic leukemia
adult acute basophilic leukemia
adult acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (M7)
progressive hairy cell leukemia, initial treatment
refractory hairy cell leukemia
acute undifferentiated leukemia
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Hematologic Neoplasms
Hemostatic Disorders
Paraproteinemias
Blood Protein Disorders
Hemorrhagic Disorders


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Battery Resources at UC Berkeley. 2011. UC Berkeley Battery Resources. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.
Bergeron, Louis. 2011. Nanoparticle electrode for batteries could make large-scale power storage on the energy grid feasible, say Stanford researchers. November 23. Stanford, CA: news.stanford.edu.
cartechboy. 2014. Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric?. May 14. tech.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/1711219/future-of-cars-hydrogen-fuel-cells-or-electric.
Chandler, David L. Liquid batteries could level the load: MIT team makes progress toward goal of inexpensive grid-scale batteries that could help make intermittent renewable energy sources viable. February 14. Cambridge, MA: MIT News Office.
hypnosec. 2013. Researchers Develop Solid But Flexible Electrolyte For Bendable Batteries. January 16. science.slashdot.org.
judgecorp. 2011. Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material. November 24. tech.slashdot.org.
LaMonica, Martin. 2011. Same-size lithium ion battery, 10 times the storage. November 17. news.cnet.com.
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. Chard: EMFs, Hybrid vehicles & Batteries, "Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk" (2008), "Health Hazards from Hybrids?" (from the People's Pharmacy, which is at WUaS), "Mythbuster: EMF levels in hybrids" (with actual milliGaus measurements), (Also: DIY Replacing a Toyota Prius Battery), Adding these articles vis this blog entry to WUaS in "Battery Technologies" and "Electric and Hybrid Vehicles" wiki subjects/schools, Don't really like the feeling of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) - they're kind of draining. February 19. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/chard-emfs-hybrid-vehicles-batteries.html .
Matheson, Rob. 2014. Beating battery drain: Startup's power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers. October 28. Cambridge, MA: MIT News Office.
Med-trump. 2011. Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created. July 27. science.slashdot.org.
Meinhold, Bridgette. 2012. Wilson Solar Grill Stores the Sun's Energy for Nighttime Fuel-Free Grilling. August 14. StumbleUpon.
MrSeb. 2012. LG Builds Working Flexible Cable Battery. August 31. hardware.slashdot.org.
Sasidharan, Abhilash. 2014. Application of Life-Cycle Assessment to Nanoscale Technology: Lithium-ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles. LinkedIn Nanotoxicology group.
Soulskill. 2013. Researchers Report Super-Powered Battery Breakthrough. April 17. hardware.slashdot.org.
Swedish Scientists Develop Renewable, Recyclable Battery from Alfalfa and Pine Resin. 2014. http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/cleantech/sustainable_brands/swedish_scientists_develop_renewable_recyclable_battery_ Swedish Scientists Develop Renewable, Recyclable Battery from Alfalfa and Pine Resin]. October 15. sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/cleantech/sustainable_brands/swedish_scientists_develop_renewable_recyclable_battery_ .
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Ewing, Rex A. 2010. Battery options for your off-grid home. CO: countrysidemag.com.
Gummersall, Bob. 2011. How can I keep my House Batteries Charged?. (Reviewed 10/2011). rversonline.org.
H, Kristie. 2010 Living Off-grid with Solar. December 6. Blue Pacific Solar Blog.
Small Wind Electric Systems. 2007. Small Wind Electric Systems: A U.S. Consumer's Guide. Washington, DC: US Department of Energy.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/06/028219/battery-powered-plasma-flashlight-makes-short-work-of-bacteria
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/1344223/ibm-creates-breathing-high-density-lithium-air-battery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6kxQYGVs0
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/13/2223226/is-iphone-battery-usefulness-on-the-decline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Mun1Mct6JEs
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140709182239-10344582-voyager-air-2-portable-wifi-storage-with-battery-and-usb-3
http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2014_08_28_helping_battery_cost_declines_keep_going_and_going
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/01/06/1516200/toyota-opens-patents-on-hydrogen-fuel-cell-technology
http://www.technologyreview.com/review/534866/why-we-dont-have-battery-breakthroughs/
http://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/teen-macgyver-invents-battery-to-save-the-planet
MIT creates new material for fuel cells. 2013? MIT creates new material for fuel cells: An MIT engineer peels a new thin material for fuel cells from a Teflon-coated substrate. Cambridge, MA: MIT OCW.
Nissan LEAF US Battery Factory -- How an Electric Car Battery is Made. 2013. Nissan LEAF US Battery Factory -- How an Electric Car Battery is Made. MotoMan.
Sadoway, Donald. 2012. Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy. Long Beach, CA: TED Talks.
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Q: Unity3D WWW Error C# I am working in Unity trying to figure out the WWW class and access API from online-go.com
I get an error in the Debug.Log though. Additionally, the Debug on Line 58 just returns a blank string. I don't think I am fully understanding how to use WWW since this is the first time I am using it.

Necessary data rewind wasn't possible
  UnityEngine.Debug:Log(Object)
  <LoadWWW>c__Iterator0:MoveNext() (at Assets/OGS.cs:60)

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
//using System.Net.httpclient;

public class OGS : MonoBehaviour {

    string generateAPIClient = "http://beta.online-go.com/developer";
    string APIKey = "0c63a59dd17ec69a48af5d9dc8b4e956";
    string requestUserToken = "oauth2/access_token";
    string clientID = "";
    string clientSecret = "";
    string baseURL = "http://online-go.com/";
    string url = "";
    string username;
    string password;
    string POST;

    List<Settings> settings;
    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        Debug.Log("Opened");
        settings = new List<Settings>();
        Load("Settings");
        clientID = AssignSetting("clientID");
        clientSecret = AssignSetting("clientSecret");
        username = AssignSetting("username");
        password = AssignSetting("password");
        POST = string.Format(   "client_id={0}&client_secret={1}&grant_type=password&username={2}&password={3}",
                                clientID,  clientSecret, username, password);
        url = baseURL + requestUserToken;
        StartCoroutine("LoadWWW");

    }

    //Assign settings loaded to settings variables
    string AssignSetting (string item) {
        int position = -1;
        for(int i=0;i<settings.Count;i++) {
            if(settings[i].name == item){return settings[i].value;}
        }

        return string.Empty;
    }

    IEnumerator LoadWWW() {
        byte[] byteArray = GetBytes(POST);
        Dictionary<string,string> headers = new Dictionary<string,string>();
        headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        WWW text = new WWW(url, byteArray, headers);
        yield return text;
        byteArray = text.bytes;
        string POSTResponse = GetString(byteArray);
        Debug.Log(POSTResponse);
        Debug.Log(text.responseHeaders);
        Debug.Log(text.error);
    }

    static byte[] GetBytes(string str)
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[str.Length * sizeof(char)];
        System.Buffer.BlockCopy(str.ToCharArray(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
        return bytes;
    }

    static string GetString(byte[] bytes)
    {
        char[] chars = new char[bytes.Length / sizeof(char)];
        System.Buffer.BlockCopy(bytes, 0, chars, 0, bytes.Length);
        return new string(chars);
    }

    private bool Load(string fileName)
    {
     // Handle any problems that might arise when reading the text
     try
     {
         string line;
         // Create a new StreamReader, tell it which file to read and what encoding the file
         // was saved as
            StreamReader theReader = new StreamReader(Application.dataPath + "/Resources/" + fileName + ".txt");
         // Immediately clean up the reader after this block of code is done.
         // You generally use the "using" statement for potentially memory-intensive objects
         // instead of relying on garbage collection.
         // (Do not confuse this with the using directive for namespace at the
         // beginning of a class!)
         using (theReader)
         {
             // While there's lines left in the text file, do this:
             do
             {
                 line = theReader.ReadLine();

                 if (line != null)
                 {
                     // Do whatever you need to do with the text line, it's a string now
                     // In this example, I split it into arguments based on comma
                     // deliniators, then send that array to DoStuff()
                     string[] entries = line.Split(':');
                     if (entries.Length > 0){
                            Settings newSetting = new Settings(entries[0], entries[1]);
                            settings.Add(newSetting);
                        }
                 }
             }
             while (line != null);
             // Done reading, close the reader and return true to broadcast success
             theReader.Close();
             return true;
             }
         }
         // If anything broke in the try block, we throw an exception with information
         // on what didn't work
         catch (Exception e)
         {
             Console.WriteLine("{0}\n", e.Message);
             return false;
         }
     }
 }

A: necessary data rewind wasn't possible mainly occurs when redirection is involved during the WWW call.
To fix this, make sure that the URL's you call are not redirecting you to another page in the process. Also it would be a good idea to have some error handling before you use the value.
// wait for the result
yield return text;

// Handle the error if there is any
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(text.error)) {
    Debug.Log(text.error);
}
// Now do with POSTResponse whatever you want if there were no errors.


UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD MASSIVE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ON OUR SHOW TONIGHT. WE HAD TO CANCEL AN ENTIRE SEGMENT AND HOPE TO HAVE THE STUDIO DIFFICULTIES FIXED BY NEXT WEEK. WE APOLOGIZE TO OUR LISTENERS FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
If you've followed Let's Talk About It!, you know that we were among the first media outlets to cover the case of Marissa Alexander, a victim of domestic violence who was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Florida court after firing a warning shot at an abusive husband (a warning shot that hurt noone). The case caused international outrage. Well, Marissa is back in the news today. This time, however, with good news.
It seems like an appeals court granted her a new trial. Details are coming in. You can be sure that we are going to have a lot to say about this in the coming days. In the mean time, read the decision from the court. Stay tuned.
history" as we ask if it's spring has turned to winter.
after ending their month-long occupation of Florida's State Capitol.
years in prison for firing a warning shot against an abusive spouse.
residents are fighting to save it. With attorney Charles Barron, Bill Campbell and Kim Lumpkin of the committee to save Greynold's Park.
Tune in as we talk about the ongoing fight for Justice in Florida. We will check in with Dream Defenders' Phil Agnew about their recent victory. We will talk to the youth at Power U, who have joined the Dream Defenders in their ongoing occupation of Florida's State Capitol, about their fight to stop the school-to-prison pipeline for Florida's youth. We will check in with State Senator Dwight Bullard about the ongoing fight to free Marissa Alexander from a 20 year prison sentence she received after firing a warning shot at an abusive husband. We check in on the State's plan to execute a severely mentally ill man, Jon Ferguson, who committed gruesome murders in 1977. Finally, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took taxpayer money when they were in trouble and now refuse to put money into a Federal trust fund for affordable housing. Find out why Miami residents are suing the so that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can pay us what they owe us.
Do NOT miss this show, and don't forget to call in at (305) 541-2350.
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herself against an abusive husband.
Corey and her star witness/Marissa's allegedly abusive husband, Rico Gray, have been on a virtual speaking tour telling their sides of the story, sometimes together.
blatant lies. Here are a few of them.
kill" her husband and his children the day she was arrested.
tried to kill anyone is a bald faced lie.
of evidence to prove Marissa's guilt.
did, it is not relevant to the case.
one" was a lie to protect Marissa.
virtually every time he speaks to someone.
son to tell the police that Chartrissia did it.
But there are other cases too.
what he did behind closed doors with Marissa.
like a very oddly specific lie to make up to protect someone.
still ensure a fairer sentence (as compared to people that …you know…decapitated someone). The original arrest report, seems to confirm that fact.
is necessary to discourage people from firing guns.
while the other just might go free after killing someone.
As the first outlet to read and disclose the actual evidence in the case to the public, please read some of our other work on the case, including The Different Views on Marissa Alexander's Case. To check out our other work on Marissa Alexander, check them out here, here, here and here.
Also check out our radio program where we interview Angela Corey below.
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1. More on the Marissa Alexander case: What the prosecutor could have done different.
recent sentencing of Marissa Alexander to 20 years in prison has everybody talking and in its wake we at Let's Talk About It! did what we do, put out the facts with a little of our input and let you decide. We specifically had something to say about what Angela Corey has been saying in the media. Check it out.
But what we really wanted to know is what the prosecutor could have done differently. To understand that and the confusing criminal law on the books, we talked to former prosecutor and current defense attorney Eric Matheny and civil rights/criminal defense attorney (and friend of the show) John De Leon Hear what they had to say.
penalties for doing just that.
also joined us to discuss his take on mandatory minimum sentencing.
minority communities in particular. This segment is a must.
Casino for organizing a union.
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1. Marissa Alexander update: Was prosecutor Angela Corey just doing her job?
Marissa Alexander, the woman who claims she was defending herself against an abusive husband when she fired a single "warning" shot into the wall of her home, hurting no one, was sentenced on Friday to a mandatory 20 years in prison. As we reported on Monday, that puts her sentence slightly higher than Floridians that have decapitated people, ran ponzi schemes and committed vehicular manslaughter. A lot of people have talked about Florida's unjust mandatory minimum laws, and we will tonight too. But first we want to know, could the Prosecutor (Angela Corey) have done something different when prosecuting the case? Hear what attorney John De Leon has and former prosecutor/current defense attorney Eric Matheny have to say about it. Check out some of our other coverage on the case here.
2. Mandatory minimums and 10/20/life, is it time for a change?
Almost everyone, except maybe Angela Corey's office, believes that the 20 year sentence in the case is excessive and/or unjust. The mandatory sentencing is part of a 10/20/Life law that takes the power away from judges to decide sentences on their own in felony cases involving the possession and discharging of a gun. Listen in to Greg Newburn from Families Against Mandatory Minimums and Desmond Meade of Florida Rights Restoration Council as we talk about the future of justice in states with mandatory minimum sentencing.
And we will also check in on the local fight for fair wages at the Mardi Gras Casino and other stories.
Marissa's lawyer Kevin Cobbin, and many others.
to actually cite the statements made by Rico Gray in a damning deposition.
why I keep writing and talking about this case.
of physical abuse that he has alternatively admitted and denied.
self-defense, but prosecutors claim it was out of anger.
*Rico Gray called the police (the 911 tape) alleging that Marissa fired the gun at him and his children.
saying that he made them up to protect Marissa Alexander.
claimed she gave him a black eye and she was taken to the hospital.
questions in the case, and their answers from the different voices involved.
Marissa Alexander fire a warning shot out of fear, or shoot out of anger? Did she aim at Rico and his children?
general public's naiveté of the legal nuances of the criminal justice system, that scoffing probably won't make the questions go away.
did not see Marissa Alexander fire the gun, and only heard it.
good at knowing how to play the system.
where she allegedly gave him a black eye.
Well, there is the police report and the hospital record.
didn't Marissa Alexander take a plea?
is being punished for not taking a plea.
domestic violence afraid for their life.
victim in this case will be justice.
be here for you sooner than you think.
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threats to families. To here this segment, download it here or press play below.
not working for Marissa. If you care about this case, you absolutely must hear this segment by downloading here or pressing play below.
Look out for more info soon.
1. No Love in North Carolina?!?!?!
Last night, North Carolina passed by referendum a Constitutional Amendment that basically bans Gay/LGBT marriages as well as Civil Unions between almost anybody. Although the Amendment is not too much different than the one that passed in Florida, the news has been like a shot heard around the world. Join us tonight as we get reactions North Carolinians on the ground, Wooten Gough (El Cambio), Rev. Jimmy Chalmers and folks from Southerners on New Ground.
If you have been following us, you will know that we have been among the most faithful followers of the case of Marissa Alexander. On Friday, she is expected to be sentenced to twenty years in prison for what she claims was self defense (where no one was hurt or killed) against an abusive spouse. Over the past two days we have compiled a whole heap of evidence and interviews from Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the case (and in the Trayvon Martin case), Kevin Cobbin (Marissa's attorney), Angie Nixon (Florida New Majority) and family and friends of Marissa Alexander. If you haven't heard about Marissa Alexander yet, it is time you heard now. And our show tonight will be the place to hear some of the most complete coverage on what many are calling one of the worst injustices in Florida's recent memory. To check our other coverage on Marissa's case, please click here and here.


Let's face the truth. Despite Slovakia's incredible amount of untapped potential for the travel-minded world, people (especially in the West) indeed simply don't know about Slovakia. Many can barely point out where Slovakia is located on the map of Europe, let alone name its capital. They think Slovenian is the official language, travel distances are measured in terms of how far the place is located from Prague and Czechoslovakia is apparently still very much alive.
People may be able to recognise Slovakia's neighbouring countries through associations with food, drinks, beautiful cities or well-known political events. However, the country that lays smack in the middle of all these nations remains elusive and a virtual mystery. Indeed, very "hidden".
The circumstances that made this so, are very complex. Too complex to be discussed in full here. Suffice to say, I believe it is a coming together of multiple factors.
Among others, there is Slovakia's past of oppression and the country remaining relatively closed off from the rest of the world even after its independence in 1993; there is the educational system in Western Europe which, in my experience, has been too much focused on the "West" and too little on the other side of Europe; and there is Slovakia's own contribution to its mysterious nature, with a government that lacks the interest (or means?) to promote Slovakia outside its borders and to change the corrupted image of Slovakia as something backward, Eastern, underdeveloped and unworthy of visiting to an altogether more realistic image of accessibility, beauty, tourism-worthy and, perhaps more importantly, progressively non-Eastern Block.
It is understandable, though, that the circumstances of a newly acquired independence, 25 years ago, may have forced Slovakia to look inward much more than outward. First focus on building up your country, before inviting others to come and look at it. Yet, despite being a young country, Slovakia is one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
Command of the English language is spreading fast throughout the country. Local governments and institutions are being more and more conscious about the historical, cultural and natural value of their region, initiating cultural events, reconstructing historical buildings and applying for EU funds to reinstate their heritage to its former glory. Nothing seems to speak of Slovakia as backward and underdeveloped.
Throughout the past years, I have guided friends and family more than once throughout the entire country, visiting all the hot spots and more. It is worth sharing that some of these visitors were very reluctant about coming here – not because of me or my wife, but because of not knowing what to expect from Slovakia, apart from what the stereotypes are giving in. However, every single one of these visitors in the end went back home with a whole new image and opinion of Slovakia as a country. Many of them have come back again, and again, and sometimes even again.
So, without trying to sound too much like a travel advertisement, why not let the rest of the world enjoy the progress Slovakia is making? I am aiming at tourists, travellers, adventurers, history-buffs, hikers, skiers and nature-lovers. Invite them to hike the High Tatras come summer or winter, walk the stoney halls of ancient castle ruins, decent down the tunnels of one of the many caves, taste the many unique wines, visit the self-proclaimed centre point of Europe, walk the coronation route through Bratislava, or travel the so-called "Gothic road" between South and North Slovakia and end your journey at the gorgeous cathedral of Košice in the east. This is just to name but a few of the great things one can see or do in Slovakia.
The list goes on and on. But without proper education of the outside world about what they can expect to find in a country like Slovakia, many will continue to equate Slovakia with everything they think they know about former Eastern Europe. Show the outside world Slovakia's uniqueness, beauty, nature, history and cultural heritage. Give the visitors a great lasting memory to bring home and share with friends and family. Allow Slovakia to finally step out of its shadows and start to shine.


For over twelve years God Module has injected a healthy dose of creepy into the dark electro scene. We had the chance to interview Jasyn Bangert, the mastermind behind it all, as he once again sets loose his imagination and musical talents to eager fans with the release of God Module's new album Séance on Metropolis Records.
God Module seems to be a band that cares a lot about and has a close connection with it's fans, how does this relationship effect the band?
Jasyn Bangert : One of the great things about God Module is that we have some very devoted and supportive fans. In response to this I have always made a point to go out of my way to stay in contact with our fan base on a personal level. Since I was a kid I have been deeply involved in the gothic/industrial/alternative scene and I still remember every time I met people in bands who were important to me. Now that things have changed and I find myself on the other side of these situations, I'll be honest that I do find it strange from time to time but it is also just as important to me as it is to them. I don't take our fans or our success for granted in anyway.
What is your personal favorite song on Séance and which song do you think will excite fans the most?
JB : At this point my favorite song is "Doppelgänger" for a few reasons. I really like the synths in the track and think they give the track a pretty but unsettling, eerie feeling. I used samples from the film Happy Birthday To Me when I had my yearly viewing on my birthday this year. They really fit perfectly with the lyrics and the theme of the song. As for the rest of the CD I think the songs "M.D.K." and "Rituals" are going over really well live.