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Caracas World's Most Violent City: Report
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Caracas is now the world's most violent city
Venezuela's capital city of Caracas has reportedly overtaken Honduras' San Pedro Sula to become the most violent city in the world, marking a shifting dynamic in homicide rates in Latin America's urban centers.
The year 2014 saw the city of Caracas hold the title of most violent city in the world, according to the annual ranking of the world's 50 most violent cities published by the Mexican non-governmental organization the Citizen's Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice (Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal – CCSPJP).
Caracas' homicide rate rose slightly from about 116 per 100,000 people in 2014 to about 120 in 2015 — or 3,946 murders in a city of almost 3.3 million inhabitants. At the same time, in the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras — which had topped the list consistently from 2011 until last year — the murder rate fell from about 170 in 2014 to 111 in 2015.
The Salvadoran capital San Salvador was third in the ranking (with a murder rate of about 108), while Acapulco, Mexico was fourth (105), and Maturin, Venezuela was fifth (86).
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The top 50 ranking included 21 cities in Brazil, eight in Venezuela, five in Mexico, three in Colombia and two in Honduras. El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica had one city each. Latin America accounted for 41 out of 50 cities.
Colombian and Mexican cities boasted the biggest reductions in homicides, while San Salvador displayed the largest increase. The capital's murder rate skyrocketed 77.3 percent from 61.21 per 100,000 in 2014 to 108.54 in 2015.
Also noteworthy are the exits of former Medellín, Colombia, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, from the list. Juárez was number one in the world between 2008 and 2010, while Medellín ranked as the world's most violent city throughout most of the 1990s, when its murder rate surpassed 300 per 100,000.
Latin American cities have dominated the world ranking since the CCSPJP started releasing its global murder rate list five years ago. However, the shift in positions over the past year reflect both the deteriorating security situation and the stark improvements displayed by certain countries throughout the region.
The rising murder rate in Caracas — which was at 98.71 in 2011 — appears to be the symptom of nationwide political and economic chaos and sky-high crime, which has reportedly given rise to heavily armed "mega gangs."
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Despite worrying statistics, the turmoil faced by the country's longstanding socialist regime — including recent National Assembly elections in which the opposition won a majority, a shortage of goods, and the imminent risk of hyperinflation — appears to have detracted attention from effectively tackling crime. A recent attempt to fight gang crime in Caracas led to protests and claims of extortion and robbery by security forces.
Although San Salvador has notably risen into the CCSPJP's top ten for the first time, this is no surprise given the critical violence levels that made El Salvador the most violent country on the planet last year. The breakdown of a 2012 gang truce has since caused the national murder rate — estimated to be 104.2 per 100,000 — to reach its highest level since El Salvador's bloody civil war ended in 1992.
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Former murder capitals Juárez and Medellín are now reportedly safer that the US cities of Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit and New Orleans, which appear in the CCSPJP's top 50. Medellín's turnaround forms part of a broader trend of declining violence in Colombia in recent years. Still, the city's exit from the list may have more to do with developments in the criminal underworld than with any government policy, given the 2013 truce between criminal organizations Oficina de Envigado and the Urabeños.
In Juárez, too, the fall in crime may be more attributable to the end of a vicious turf war between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Juárez Cartel, rather than government policy.
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The other morning, I bundled up and went outside to my deck to enjoy some morning coffee. The temperature was a frosty 38 degrees. The morning sun was just beginning to break through the clouds. I found my mind wandering back to other cold mornings in January when my life felt somehow placed on hold following the exuberance of the holidays, and the knowledge that Spring remains elusive — away off in the distance, like a mirage flickering far off in the desert.
Each year during this transition month, as the days begin to lengthen bit by bit, I watch in anticipation for those sweet harbingers of the coming vernal equinox. The sun peaks over the horizon a tiny bit earlier in the morning, and the later afternoon dusk lingers on.
Colorful birds that had long since decamped to South America begin showing up at my feeder. The first green sprigs push their way adamantly through the mud, soon to be arrayed in glorious technicolor as crocuses and hyacinths that peek poignantly out of the icy ground. And then there are Pansies.
Growing up, the worst slur someone could hurl at a man was to call him a Pansy. And yet, I've often thought how misbegotten that insult really was. Truth be told, despite their delicate appearance, these spectacular flowers are anything but wimpy. In fact, they're one of the toughest plants I know, able to thrive despite cold, snowy weather, and teasing us with a taste of what's to come.
As I sat there watching, the wind stirred, and the lovely pansies seemed to wave at me; their faces nodded forward as if deep in thought. "Good morning Tyra," they seemed to be saying with their sweet faces. I've always loved pansies but this week, they seemed so special.
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What influences the kinds of apps you use? Insight's Dr Ella Peltonen has some answers
Submitted by Grainne Faller on Tue, 04/09/2018 - 13:18
What factors influence the apps you use? Mobile devices and apps have become an integral part of everyday life. There is an app to support practically any kind of activity be it well-being, education, health, or leisure. Smartphones have become hugely popular across the world, and thanks to a wide range of pricing options, they are affordable to most populations.
A new paper from researchers at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC, University of Helsinki, Lancaster University and University College London provides insight into global populations and the type of apps they use. They have found that the country a person lives in is the single most important factor when it comes to influencing the kinds of apps they use.
Dr Ella Peltonen of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics says, "We wanted to study factors that govern usage of the mobile apps, particularly the role of geographic, demographic, and cultural values. We carried out a large-scale analysis of geographic, cultural, and demographic factors in mobile usage. We studied the data of 25,323 Android users who used 54,776 mobile applications in 44 countries across Europe, Americas, Asia and Oceania."
What the researchers found
English-speaking countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, along with Japan and South Korea had the highest app usage across the board. This is probably due to the fact that almost all apps have an English language version. In addition, many services and businesses in the USA and Europe have dedicated apps which boosts usage in these regions.
Ireland is closer to the group nicknamed "European" countries which include Continental Europe, as well as Southern and Central European and Nordic countries. These countries have lower app usage than the English-speaking countries, but higher than "Mixed" countries (see below). Thailand and Singapore also fell into the "European" group for app usage, possibly because they are popular holiday destinations for Europeans.
The lowest app usage was in the "Mixed" group of countries: Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan and India. In these groups, application usage in general was slightly lower than in the other groups, but higher in Sports and Racing Games.
How do the culture and values of a country influence the apps its population uses?
Hofstede's cultural value survey provides a widely used, if not perfect, way to present cultural values of the population. In the study, the researchers compared Hofstede's five factors to countries' app usage. They found that "masculine" cultures (with more pronounced gender roles) like Japan prefer Personalization apps, while "collectivist" cultures and those with more fluid gender roles such as Russia seem to value Family related categories, Education games, and Parenting. "Individualist" cultures such as the US favoured Entertainment applications and other leisure related categories, such as Travel and Local, Sports, Health and Fitness, and Music and Audio.
What effect do socio-economic factors have on mobile usage?
Socio-economic factors play an important role. The study shows that occupation, education, and how much a person has in savings, are the next important factors in determining what apps a person will use. Those factors trump age and gender, for example. People of similar socio-economic status tend to use their smartphones in a similar way across the globe. This is particularly true for people of similar household status (living with or without children) who tend to use smartphones in a similar way. This is also true for professionals and well-educated people.
Dr Mirco Musolesi, who leads the UCL Intelligent Social System Lab (UCL Geography), says: "Previously studies have not focused on geographic and cultural factors behind app usage, instead choosing to focus on usage patterns and behaviour.
"Our research highlights that even if mobile communications and hyper-connectivity are a global phenomenon, the country we live in plays a huge part in determining our app preferences. Understanding how and when people use phones, and which apps they engage with, is important for the study of individual behaviour and society at large."
Dr Peltonen says, "The results of our work show that there is a strong relationship between the type of apps people use and their geographic and socio-economic factors, suggesting that these different factors should be taken into account when studying mobile data. In addition, our results can be used to better target mobile apps in different countries, and for personalization."
The article "The Hidden Image of Mobile apps: Geographic, Demographic, and Cultural Factors in Mobile Usage" is a collaboration work between University of Helsinki, Finland, University College Cork, Ireland, Lancaster University and University College London, UK. The article will be presented and published in the 20th International ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (ACM MobileHCI 2018), on September 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. Pre-print of the article is available in https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/carat/pubs/mobilehci18.pdf
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While the writers of Dexter are already writing the script of the first 4 episodes of Season 7, the filming of the forthcoming season is set to start in May. According to sources, season seven will start shooting few days earlier, than last year. Until now, the official premiere date of Dexter Season 7 is still unknown.
What Bruna said. Minus the Heiling.
So is the other chair. This is an old picture silly. It's a sign that she was filming her scene when this picture was taken.
Can't wait, love Dex!! Hurry the f*** up!!!
Season 7 premiere episode can't get here too soon. Can't wait!
I cant wait for it! Big Hi from Portugal!
I want to see Dexter back in that white jumpsuit again in season 7, with the dummies and gallons of fake blood. We must see him in the blood room at the station. I love those scenes, because they mimic the Kill Room and Dexter gets to pantomime different techniques for murder while at work.
One of my favorite scenes in the series is when Dexter splashes the blood all over Deb, trying to figure out the one murder, and she screams and giggles and he starts laughing with her.
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Q: OpenVPN on Ubuntu VPS Server lost connection I'm trying to connect to VPN from Ubuntu server (version 16.04), but when server establish connection I lost the connection with server, and server seem doesn't have connection too. As I cannot make tests when server connect to VPN I have prepared a script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo openvpn --client --config /etc/openvpn/England.ovpn --auth-user-pass authVpn.txt &
sleep 10
route > route.txt
curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address://' -e 's/<.*$//' > ip.txt
ping www.google.es -c 4 > ping.txt
# Kill processes to can connect again
ps axf | grep "openvpn" | grep -v grep | awk '{print "kill -9 " $1}' | sh

When I reconnect, ip.txt and ping.txt are empty. The content of route.txt is:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         10.127.0.97     128.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 tun0
default         164.132.192.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ens3
10.127.0.1      10.127.0.97     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 tun0
10.127.0.97     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 tun0
45.32.180.53    164.132.192.1   255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 ens3
128.0.0.0       10.127.0.97     128.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 tun0
164.132.192.1   *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ens3

I have made the same test with Oracle VM on my computer and works fine.

A: I solved the problems:
1 - Server doesn't access to internet after connection with VPN. Solution: add Google DNS to /etc/resolv.conf (nameserver 8.8.8.8 and nameserver 8.8.4.4)
2 - I cannot access to server after this connect with VPN. Solution: redirect the VPN traffic to real IP:
ip rule add from x.x.x.x table 128
ip route add table 128 to y.y.y.y/y dev ethX
ip route add table 128 default via z.z.z.z

Where x.x.x.x is your public IP, y.y.y.y/y should be the subnet of your public IP address, ethX should be your public Ethernet interface, and z.z.z.z should be the default gateway. Information obtained from here and here

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One of the many things I love about tiramisu is the mouthfeel. It's density and weight, coupled with how cold it is, oftentimes make it a texture we crave just as much as the flavor.
Make the soaking liquid: Combine the coffee and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring it to a boil over high heat. When it boils, remove the pan from the heat and pass the coffee through a coffee filter. Let it cool to room temperature and then spike it with the rum. (Or purchase a 4 oz. cup of espresso, probably a double espresso if possible, from your local coffee shop. Bring it home, it doesn't need to be hot, and dilute it with 1/2 cup water, and then spike it with the rum.) Reserve until you're ready to assemble the tiramisu.
Make the rum syrup: Combine the sugar and water in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. You can whisk it a bit at the beginning to help the sugar dissolve into the water, but once it comes to a boil, stop and let the sugar cook until it has taken on a deep amber color. At that point, pull the pan from the heat and add the cream in one big addition. Give the pan a little breathing room because the cream will bubble up rather furiously for a moment. Then whisk, whisk, whisk until the sauce is smooth and even. Stir in the rum and let the sauce sit and cool while you get the mascarpone filling ready.
Make the mascarpone filling, Part 1: Whisk or, with an electric handheld mixer, beat the egg yolks and 1/4 cup sugar together for a couple of minutes, until the mixture is thickened and pale yellow. Whisk in the mascarpone and reserve.
Make the mascarpone filling, Part 2: Whisk the heavy cream to stiff peaks and put it in the refrigerator. In another bowl, with a clean whisk (because any fat from the yolks or the cream will make whisking the egg whites impossible), beat the egg white until it holds soft peaks. Gently fold the whipped cream into the egg white, and then fold that mixture into the mascarpone mixture. Reserve.
Build the tiramisu: Start by dipping the ladyfingers one at a time into the rum-spiked coffee, dunking each one for 3-4 seconds. You basically want your ladyfingers cocktail-party tipsy, not frat-party drunk lol. Arrange them shoulder-to-shoulder in a single layer in the 8-by-10-inch rectangular dish Drizzle half the rum syrup over the ladyfingers, pouring it freeform from a spoon. Use a spatula to gently disperse an even layer of the mascarpone filling over them, working gently so as not to rough them up. Do another layer: ladyfingers, syrup, mascarpone. Chill the tiramisu for at least 4 hours and as long as overnight. When you're ready to serve it, dust the top with the cocoa powder Serve cold, with hot coffee.


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Flu is a serious respiratory illness that affects millions of Americans each year – and in severe cases, can lead to hospitalization and even death. CDC estimates that annual deaths from flu have ranged from 12,000 to 52,000 from 2010 to 2020. Going into the 2021-2022 flu season, CDC was faced with a unique environment, navigating the continued spread of COVID-19 and looming threat of a "twindemic."
Flu-related illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths can be prevented with annual flu vaccination, yet vaccination rates dropped significantly during the 2021-2022 season compared with pre-pandemic seasons. Despite being higher risk, flu vaccination lags among adults living with certain chronic conditions. During the 2021-2022 season, preliminary estimates suggested flu vaccine uptake was also down across other higher risk groups, including pregnant people, infants and young children, and adults 65 years and older.
Formative audience research highlighted that our diverse audience had several motivators for getting their flu shots, depending on their unique situations. Leveraging audience insights such as this and working closely with CDC, we developed "I Get It," a campaign that helps encourage flu vaccination by highlighting the unique reasons people get a flu shot – based on what is most important to them.
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GX94 first launched on August 19, 1927 is a Yorkton based Country station broadcasting on a frequency of 940 AM. CFGW-FM is the sibling on the channel currently owned by Harvard Broadcasting. Now that's Country! is the slogan of the GX94. Apart from hosting country music CJGX (legal name of GX94) comes up with the latest news stories, weather and sports updates by every hour coming. It also serves as a flagship broadcaster of the Yorkton Terriers and Melville Millionaires in SJHL (Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League).
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Dawson Richardson of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange established the radio on August 19, 1927. GX in the calls stood for the Grain Exchange, meant to keep farmers abreast of newest market prices and fluctuations in the exchange. United Press news service was subscribed on January 1, 1939 followed by an increase in ERP from 100 to 1,000 watts and switching of frequency from 1390 to 1430 kHz. Havana Treaty in 1941 reset the frequency to 1460 kHz. The transmitter powered with 1,000 watts again switched its frequency to 940 kHz in 1945. By that time the CJGX had become a consistent news service, educational channel and a radio meant for farmers with helpful insights on live stock market. The daytime wattage was increased to 10,000 watts in 1957 and the programing predominantly was made for the farm families. After getting separate from the CBC Dominion Network in 1962 CJGX got a fulltime ERP of 10,000 watts by increasing the nighttime wattage from 1000 to 10,000 w. Once again in 1990 the daytime power was favored to increase to 50,000 watts while the nighttime signal would work with the existing ERP. With the effective control change coming into effect in 2008 the GX94 along with its sister became the property of Harvard Broadcasting Inc. held by Frederick W. Hill. CRTC renewed the license on May 28, 2010 with validation up to August 31, 2016. Listeners can have the best Country Hits, local news, local sports, community events update, contests, (Pick the Score, Rib Tickler, Umm Game, GX94 Roadies) the latest and more from the Game Day (Broadcast Schedules of SJHL teams), Highway Hotline, announcements, Blogs, (Now That's Blogs) GX94 Agriculture, recently played and more on GX94. Fans may connect with the GX94 through social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Insta and YouTube. Here is the website: www.gx94radio.com
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Have you hired home movers dubai to help you relocate to your new home? If the answer to this question is yes, then chances are you will have much to do to prepare your home before the movers arrive and begin packing and loading your belongings. While the movers will be able to handle almost everything from organizing your belongings to unpacking them at your new place, you can help expedite the entire moving process – and start getting comfortable in your new home even sooner – if you start handling some of the preparations now.
One of the most challenging parts of home moving into a new home is deciding where you will be putting all of your belongings. If you haven't already thought about this, you may want to start doing so now. After all, if the movers don't know where they will be placing your new items one they are delivered to your new address, then you may find yourself flustered as you need to start deciding impromptu where everything will be going once it arrives at your home. Not only could this cause added stress on your part, but you may also end up paying extra labor fees that you would not have had to pay out if you had a furniture layout already planned to begin with. To prevent this situation from happening during your move, make a list of the items you have and assign a number to each piece. Then, on another piece of paper, draw a layout of where each piece will go in your new home, indicating on the plan the identifying number of each furnishing. In a similar fashion, tag each piece of furniture with the number that it was assigned in both the list and on the layout.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) confirmed its decision this week to recommend the use of cholinesterase inhibitors only for moderate Alzheimer's disease and not for mild disease.
Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the body, which advises on the use of drugs in the NHS, said, "Alzheimer's is a cruel and devastating illness, and we realise that today's announcement will be disappointing to people with Alzheimer's and those who treat and care for them.
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New trailer for Mamma Mia! follow up film released
Thursday, 25th January 2018, 9:35 am
Updated Thursday, 25th January 2018, 9:38 am
Amanda Seyfried reprises her role as Sophie Sheridan in the Mamma Mia sequel
A new trailer for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again has been released, featuring many returning characters and beloved British actors.
The sequel will be released on Friday 20 July 2018, almost exactly 10 years after the first Mamma Mia! film hit cinemas.
Based on the songs of Swedish pop group, ABBA, the original production brought in more than $600 million globally at the box office.
Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Julie Walters and Colin Firth will all reprise their roles from the first film.
Newcomers to the cast include Lily James (Cinderella, Baby Driver) and Cher.
Returning to the Greek island of Kalokairi where Mamma Mia! was set, the plot of the new film flashes back and forward in time to show how relationships between the characters were forged, and to show how the present mirrors the past for Sophie (Seyfried) and those around her.
Mery Streep reprises her role as Donna Carmichael in the new film
Ol Parker (writer of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) writes and directs the sequel from a story by Catherine Johnson, Richard Curtis and Parker.
The musical will feature newly arranged versions of classic ABBA songs, including Angeleyes and When I Kissed the Teacher.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is released in UK cinemas on 20th July 2018


Ryan Preece is set for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series this season after landing a full-time ride with JTG Daugherty Racing. After AJ Allmendinger's departure following 2018, Preece joins the team as a contender for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award.
Preece had five Cup starts in 2015 while driving for Premium Motorsports with his best finish being 32nd at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. His road to NASCAR's top series was a challenge that he was able to eventually overcome.
His decision to leave JD Motorsports following the 2016 NASCAR XFINITY Series season led him to a part-time stint with Joe Gibbs Racing in 2017 and 2018. That's where Preece was able to take advantage of the equipment he had to show people his unique talent.
The No. 47 team has not ran where they intended too in the past season so a fresh driver brings new ideas to the mix.
It will also be the first time that Preece will be able to try new aero package that will be implemented on the Cup cars for the 2019 campaign.
For Preece, he will have to compete with Matt Tift, Tanner Berryhill and Daniel Hemric for this year's rookie trophy. His top competition is Hemric who will be piloting the No. 8 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. Hemric having ran a few cup races last season with the same team gives him an advantage over Preece.
Rookie seasons can be roller coaster rides for drivers but Preece is ready for the challenge.
It's going to be a challenge for Preece, but he wants to see improvement every week.
"If there is progression, I'm happy and we will keep on progressing and never fall behind," Preece said.
Bryan Rivero is a senior at Florida International University school of Communications and Journalism with a focus in Broadcast Media. He currently resides in Miami, FL where he has lived his whole life. In addition to POPULAR SPEED, Rivero is a marketing intern for the Florida Panther's Hockey Club.


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Workingman's Dead - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Mike Mettler | Oct 2, 2020
The Grateful Dead couldn't catch a break. Sure, they were the head-trip belles of San Francisco's 1960s psychedelic ball, but they were unable to get their recording act together enough to cut an album that best captured their true spirit—that is, until they struck prospector's gold with their fourth studio album, June 1970's Workingman's Dead. By dialing back on the overtly psychedelic-cum-outré experimental modes that dominated June 1968's Anthem of the Sun and June 1969's Aoxomoxoa and instead zeroing in on their folk-bred songcraft for Workingman's, the Dead had finally found their recording niche at last.
Rhino has been curating the Dead's extensive aural archives for decades, and seeing how they're well into regularly recognizing the band's ongoing half-century milestones, we now have a 3 CD deluxe edition for Workingman's Dead in hand. The last two CDs contain 2.5 hours of a heretofore unreleased complete of-era concert from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, on February 21, 1971. Engineer David Glasser (a noted Grammy Award winner for helming 1997's Anthology of American Folk Music) applied his mastering magic to the 16-track analog master tapes of this gig after being mixed by Jeffrey Norman at Dead guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir's Marin County TRI Studios. (Spoiler alert—it's much better-sounding than any unauthorized version of it you may have already heard.)
A 10,000-piece limited-edition picture disc LP of the studio album is available for the more wax-centric among us. Of course, I would have loved it if the 24-bit/48kHz 5.1 DVD-Audio mix from 2001 produced/designed by Dead drummer/percussionist Mickey Hart and engineered/supervised by Tom Flye had been included in the bigger anniversary package as well—or even given an update/refresher on Blu-ray—but you can't have it all.
At any rate, the Workingman's 3 CD foldout shell is housed in a sepia-toned slipcase sporting a 3D-ized version of the vintage band cover shot, complete with a tribute to their late chief lyricist Robert Hunter (who passed away in September 2019) on the back. Essayist David Fricke makes sure the Dead's homespun evolution is given its proper context, while project producer David Lemieux, the band's official archivist, rightly observes the album captures "the Dead sound that would largely define the next couple of years . . . authentically honest music."
Following the numerous production battles and other challenges the Dead faced while cutting previous studio efforts, enlisting their own live engineers Rob Matthews and Betty Cantor to join them at Pacific High Recording Studio in San Francisco was a wise move indeed, instantly giving Workingman's eight taut but loose songs the proper bed needed for the requisite authenticity. "Please don't dominate the rap, Jack / If you've got nothing new to say," guitarist/vocalist Jerry Garcia implores at the outset of the ragtag "New Speedway Boogie," and it's as good a manifesto as any for how the Dead planned to enter the post-'60s world in a new, albeit more traditional, way.
The acoustic "Uncle John's Band" opens the floor with a whiff of bluegrass, full harmonies, and clever rolling percussion from Hart and drumming partner Bill Kreutzmann. "High Time" serves as a smoky pedal-steel showcase for Garcia, while "Dire Wolf," whose lyrical base sprang from Hunter watching Basil Rathbone wholly embody Sherlock Holmes in 1939's Hound of the Baskervilles, gave even more credence to the Dead's country bonafides.
"Easy Wind," a vocal platform for keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, embodies the workingman vibe to a T. It also features Pigpen's sweet harmonica break in the left channel, followed by Garcia's electric guitar solo first complementing, then countering it in the right before crossing channels to the left. The hard-chugging, album-ending "Casey Jones" serves as a cautionary tale with both historical and modern contexts in mind. (Naturally, Garcia's admonishment to "watch your speed" held more than one meaning behind it.)
Discs 2 and 3 share a rich pageant of Dead live offerings, many of which would soon enough become concert staples. Though Hart did not appear at this show for various reasons, Kreutzmann more than handily carries the backbeat load. A cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" benefits from a heartfelt lead vocal turn from Bob Weir, perhaps tinged with additional melancholy due to the October 1970 passing of Janis Joplin, whose hit version of the song was released posthumously and reached No. 1 just a month after this show took place. "Ripple" gets a spirited, harmonic do-over after a false start, while "China Cat Sunflower" segues into "I Know You Rider" in that ramble-tamble way Dead fans love to no end.
The Grateful Dead's long strange trip would continue onward with (and be properly namechecked on) November 1970's American Beauty, which was recorded on the heels of Workingman's Dead and is surely next on their 50th anniversary multidisc docket. Until then, the backporch charms of the Workingman's Dead 3 CD set will more than drive the train that tells you just how the song goes.
Label: Warner Records/Grateful Dead/Rhino
Audio Format: 16-bit/44.1kHz PCM Stereo
Number of Tracks: 32 on 3 CDs
Producers: Rob Matthews, Betty Cantor (original album); Grateful Dead (original album and live material); David Lemieux (deluxe edition)
Engineers: Alembic (original album); Rob Matthews, Betty Canton (original album and live recordings); David Glasser (mastering, live recordings); Jeffrey Norman (mixing, live recordings)
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While my magazine subscription fell by the wayside after the sale (I still miss it), the one thing I always loved about the magazine/site is the audio and video reviews! Not necessarily the reviews themselves, but WHAT you review!
Like this review - you mention items that I have never heard of and didn't know that they deserved a box set! While most of the groups and movies you reviewed I had never heard of, they sounded intriguing enough for me to investigate. I cannot say that the music groups changed my biased views, but the movies (recent too) that I had not known about became some good watches!
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Speaking of other aspects, the WTC8001W's 8000 BTU rating sounds a tad problematic at first glance, seeing that a number of air conditioners with tantamount cooling/heating areas have 10000 BTU ratings or higher. With that in mind, maybe efficiency is the name of the game for the WTC8001W, since after our ranking algorithm weaved through a total of 6069 reviews, it found not even a single 1-star rating and the 2-star ones making up only 2 percent of its total review count as we were writing this.
Some of its top reviewers -- the ones that gave it 5 stars, that is -- commended the WTC8001W's ability to live up to its promised cooling/heating coverage of 350 square feet and relatively quiet operation. Some buyers were not very impressed by the heating feature, most of them essentially concluding that the heating feature is really just back-up heating -- the a/c being the true personality of this wall unit.
Sitting at the top and earning a 97 confidence level (More on confidence levels), the WTC8001W is not a perfect wall-mounted AC by any measure (in particular not for heating, apparently), but it seems like your current best bet for cooling, according to our comprehensive ranking system (Learn how we rank items).
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The obvious interpretation is that he simply wanted to shut himself off from the world, and all the negativity that had built up around him of late, for a short time.
A darker interpretation put forward by ScreenRant, however, is that Fleck was attempting to kill himself via either suffocation or hypothermia..
Weaknesses; Poor Harley, she has so many weaknesses. For one thing, the poor dear is insane and finds that if you don't have a smile on your face deserve a punch in the face. Her insanity drives people away resulting in her not having many friends. Another weakness, well she's human.
around 350Jokers's IQ is estimated to be around 350 (which is insane even in the real world), while Batman's is around 290. Additionally, the joker has been known to trick Batman numerous times causing him to even doubt himself in some cases.
Histrionic Personality DisorderPersonality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are "pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior" (Bornstein 1998).
He has bipolar disorder type 1, most recent episode manic, severe, with psychotic features, and he also has Pseudobulbar affect. That can be treated by medication.
The debate over Zazie Beetz's fate in "Joker" came to an end last month when cinematographer Lawrence Sher said her character, Sophie, was not killed by Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur. Director Todd Phillips keeps Sophie's fate purposely ambiguous in the movie. … "He doesn't kill her, definitively," Phillips said.
So everyone is telling you about how the Joker is scary because he's willing to murder and and torture and all of that stuff. … But there is an underlying truth about the Joker's personality that makes him truly terrifying. He's unknowable. The way he thinks is NOT like a regular person.
No Killing RuleSo, you want a civilian operating outside the law going around, killing people as he please without Justice just because he wear a costume. Batman's greatest weakness in DC History may be his one rule: no killing.
Batman's indomitable fear is that there will come a day when he will no longer be able to fight for the ideals he held so dear. That he would snap beyond repair, no longer protecting the morals such as his "no-kill" code that he stood for all his life.
Phillips, Phoenix and other members of the creative team used a "realistic lens" to devise the story. Fleck has PBA, a condition with uncontrollable laughing and crying outbursts. His sickly thin body is the result of the medication he takes.
"His behaviour does not neatly fit into any condition. The Joker is clearly a psychopath. He has no conscience. He has no empathy for anybody.
TL;DR: Joker is a metahuman with the power to change probability, but his power is subconscious and only works when the odds are way out of his favor. Consider how many times Joker has been in situations in which he should clearly be in over his head.
"Apparently, the thing he fears the most is that he is not taken seriously nor feared. That he is seen as a common clown. " That's how I've been seeing Joker for quite awhile now. He is afraid of people not being afraid of him, because that empowers him. He feels humiliation being seen as just a clown or a freak.
The most common story involves him falling into a tank of chemical waste that bleaches his skin white and turns his hair green and lips bright red; the resulting disfigurement drives him insane. The antithesis of Batman in personality and appearance, the Joker is considered by critics to be his perfect adversary.
That's right: Batman and Joker are half-brothers, at least according to Penny. The movie never explicitly makes clear whether that's true or not. Arthur, donning a red clown nose, pays a visit to Wayne Manor and performs an impromptu magic show for an enthralled young Bruce Wayne (played by Dante Pereira-Olson).
The Dark Knight Rises: Batman's Phobia To Bats Explained, And How He Could Get Over It… We know Batman has a deep and abiding fear of bats, but what does his phobia really mean, what is going on behind his fear and what can he do about it?
Everything after the fridge didn't happen You'd probably just thought of the fridge scene as being an expression of exactly how far off the deep end Fleck had gone, but one interpretation is that he killed himself in there and that from there on in, Joker is pure fantasy.
Joker's weakness is his pride and need to be in the spotlight. True that Batman is the one audience member he can always count on, but the show is not just for him. Joker plans his heists and jokes with the intention of everyone in Gotham (and hopefully the world) will see it and know that Joker did this.
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Nyctimystes pulcher, the spurred big-eyed tree frog, is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae, found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rivers.

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My bag was safe and sound back at the guest house and in celebration, Motta and I decided to take a quick nap. Scott, bless his soul, was still under the weather, and still in the deterioration phase, which we were crossing our fingers would soon transition to the upswing. So for the time being it was once again Mr. Motta and I who heaved out on the Speed TRs. We ordered a couple of fancy banana coffee drinks at a nearby cafe, still in celebration mode, and, fueled by those, we wheeled over to a pharmacy and picked up some electrolytic salts for our dear Mr Norton.
Pi Mai Lao was in full swing by the time we hit the streets, and were it not for the plastic bags that mercifully protected our cell phones, our robots would have been completely destroyed during the first few minutes of the wheel.
As we wheeled north in search of sandwiches, we were repeatedly soaked to the bone. In fact the entire street on which our guesthouse was built, which ran along the water, had descended into an anarchy of water warfare. Everywhere, music was playing, people were screaming, and water and powder were flying. Crowds of young people in black-face rode around in the backs of pickup trucks, jumping up and down until the trucks bounced on their springs like careening jack-in-the-boxes.
It was all we could do to keep our sandwiches dry as we scarfed down lunch at a street stall. Great parades of people were marching through the streets with hand-painted paper banners, displaying the creatures and gods that represent the new year. The winners of last night's beauty contest were riding on great floats through the streets, still looking gorgeous, though in my estimate overly painted and uncomfortable. Children roamed the streets with water guns, and it seemed like every hose in the city was running. We were soaked and re-soaked and powdered with tapioca. Each subsequent drying left my shirt starchier and starchier, slowly turning it into a kind of crusted armor, which repelled water for a moment before giving up and capitulating to new levels of water-logging.
Foreigners were participating too. Many of the visitors had brought their children, who seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the huge water fight. Older, twenty-something foreigners were also participating, many of whom had bought giant $10 or $15 squirt guns. I found their propensity for spraying a bloke in the eyes to be a little much.
We stopped once more for another cup of coffee from Stew's favorite coffee fellow in Luang Prabang. For a little less than a dollar, that man will whip up a large paper cup filled with a mean blended coffee drink, made from ice, startlingly strong Lao coffee, and sweetened condensed milk. Quite tasty and invigorating.
As we wheeled on, we started to notice that the streets were emptying of merry makers. This meant that everyone was headed to this large sandy island in the middle of the Mekong for the sand stupa (a structure that houses Buddhist relics) and the Bosi ceremony, the traditional Lao ceremony of well wishing. The island was a new addition to the Luang Prabang landscape. With this 50-year drought, the river had fallen so low as to create a new land mass. The people of Luang Prabang had decided to take advantage of this during the festival. The Vietnamese president was even flying in for the occasion. The people were gathering to continue the party, build sand stupas, and complete the Bosi ceremony, at the end of which white cotton threads are bound around the wrists of the participants.
We piled onto a longboat along with a whole bunch of locals and putted across the Mekong.
On the sand island, we found ourselves once again immersed in a giant crowd, while some water was still being thrown (for instance, I found it impossible to buy a bottle of water and drink more than a third of it before a beautiful woman would come up to me and dump my bottle over my head or down my back). But the weapon of choice here was the white tapioca powder and the black-face. They were selling bags of the white powder everywhere, and I was soon covered with it.
We ran into Stewart's interns on the island. They had bought some powder and were completely covered in a starchy encrustation. Now in a larger group, we began to roam the island, taking in the many stupas being constructed on the shore, and craning our necks to see into the Bosi ceremony. It seemed the ceremony was closed to the public. Inside, we could barely see a decidedly stuffy procession taking place, while well dressed dignitaries looked on or dozed, decidedly not covered in white powder.
Meanwhile, outside that strange vortex, the party raged on. They were firing homemade rockets into the air, smearing each other with black make-up, and jumping into the Mekong to cool off. We did all of the above, save the rockets.
There were also many traditional music groups marching around the island playing Lao music. Along with these, there was usually a fellow wandering through the surrounding crowd with a gourd filled with some kind of homemade firewater, doling out drams by pouring them into a little length of horn, out of which passers-by could drink.
Having thoroughly enjoyed the sand stupa party, we headed back to the other side of the river on another longboat.
Back on the other side, the madness was in full swing again, with giant speakers pumping deafening music into the streets, a savage upping of the water fight, and even impromptu stripping poles erected in the streets.
The extremes of experience, to be sure.
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What a panic! Part Mardi Gras, part spring break. It seems Luang Prabang has a particular youth orientation, no?
Indeed. Indeed. I either LP has a huge youth population, or maybe young people come from all over Lao to attend.


Howdy y'all! So the Margo book is officially launched! Immediately go out and buy it! You can get it from any good comic store or bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon, of course.
My September has been a blur of hospitals, nursing homes, day-long drives from Virginia to Georgia, and vice versa, raucous school visits including signing books for hundreds of kids, the Small Press Expo, and now Eleanor and I are back at my mom's house in Virginia.
My mom officially left the nursing home the other day, and we're trying to figure out what her life is going to look like for the next couple years. A Parkinson's diagnosis is a real crap-shoot, and everything is especially confusing in the wake of a pretty debilitating bout of pneumonia. She could get better enough to live some more years semi-independently, or… not. So, we're going to be in Virginia a few weeks at least, trying to set up home health care visits, finishing making her house more accessible, etc.
How's this going to bear out on Margo updates? I'm still not sure. We're trying to set up a little away-from-home studio here at the house, so we can get back to drawing. I really miss it – the only drawing I've done for the last couple weeks has been on the title pages of peoples' books! The book launch and all the related promo is also a job just on its own. I'll let you know as soon as I can.


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