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The Search For Sarah Polly White (Snow) (1780-1830)–Wife of Daniel Inman (1776-1848)–AN UPDATE!
Posted by drbibeall43
Alonzo Inman (1842-1912)–my paternal great-grandfather.
This article was originally written in 2015. When I finished the original version, I thought my search had ended, and I was satisfied with the results. After our son's passing in March 2016, I put away genealogy for a while. My interest has recently been renewed, but I did not realize it would take me back to this article.
Shortly before Christmas, I received a message from one of my Ancestry.com contacts. We met several years ago when our DNA matched on Ancestry. The match concerned my father's paternal Inman line and the two brothers we descended from. Her message concerned some medical records she obtained concerning her direct. She would be happy to share them with me by sending copies. Then with the rush of Christmas, I forgot all about them and was surprised when I received them the end of December or first of January.
"Who would send me a large envelope from Indiana?" I asked when it arrived.
And I was thrilled when I discovered the contents!
I'm not going to post the records on this site, nor am I going to identify the person concerned. What I discovered in those records, however, were answers to questions I had about my father's line for years. I will use my great- grandfather, Alonzo Inman, as a guide for this discussion. While the medical records do not pertain to him, they do provide insight into his ancestry. One phrase stands out in particular:
"His parents and grandparents were close cousins!"
That phrase took me through another ancestral search and led to a complete revision of this article. My discussion begins briefly with Alonzo Inman.
Alonzo Inman (1842-1912)
Alonzo Inman was born June 24, 1842 in Illinois to Loren Inman (1810-1878) and Lucy Carpenter (1812-1890). (1), (2) The parents of Loren Inman were Daniel Inman (1776-1848) and Sarah Polly White (Snow) (1780-1830). And the parents of Lucy Carpenter were Harvey Carpenter (1775-1840) and Charlotte "Charity" Marinda Cook (1776-1840). The 1850 Census for Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois lists the Loren Inman Family as follows:
Lorin (sp) Inman 39
Lucy Inman 39
Harvey C Inman 14
Joseph Inman 9
Alonzo Inman 8
Ethen Inman 4
Charlotte M Inman 1 (3)
The Ethen Inman listed on this record should have been Ephraim Inman. Dora Ellen Inman was born in 1852. And apparently, two unnamed infant Inmans were born to this family who did not survive. I do not know whether they were born in Illinois or in Iowa, where the family later settled.
By 1860, the Loren Inman family relocated to Iowa and settled in Union Twp., Floyd County, where they appear on the census for that year. The post office is listed as Marble Rock.
Loren Inman 49
Harvey Inman 24
Joseph Inman 19
Alonzo Inman 18
Ephraim Inman 13
Marinda Inman 11
Dora E. Inman 7 (4)
The road leading out to the Inman farm/farms was later called "Inman Road." I don't know whether this still holds true but when the farms were first established, they were all lined up along that road. When I was about five years old, my dad's brother, Forrest, came out from New York to visit us. We all drove up to Marble Rock one day and walked the Alonzo Inman-later the Loren Waiste Inman farm. That was in 1948. All of the houses were still standing along that road. My parents made another trip there in 1961. For the most part, the houses were standing, including the Alonzo Inman place that was built before the Civil War. We walked the grounds again, and I remember being surrounded by sheep. In 1997, my husband and I made our one and only trip to Marble Rock. Only one house was left standing. I could not tell whether it was in the process of being torn down or remodeled.
The last house standing in 1997 on Inman Road
We were joined by a flock of guinea hens who were curious about what we were doing! I was so glad to find the location of the Alonzo Inman/Loren Waiste Inman farm where my father was raised. I remembered my trip there in 1961 and the fact that the farm was at the end of the road. The pictures below depict the farm as it appeared in 1915-1920s and the site of the farm as it appeared on our trip there in 1997.
Alonzo Inman-Loren Waiste Inman Farm ca. 1915-1920s, Inman Road, Floyd County, Iowa
Site of the Alonzo Inman-Loren Waiste Inman Farm, Union Twp., Floyd Co., Iowa 1997. You can distinguish that fence row in front of both pictures.
On October 27, 1869, Alonzo Inman married Caroline Elizabeth Waiste (1842-1933) in Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. Born in Vermont, Carrie was the daughter of Uriah (Uri) Smith Waiste (1814-1873) and Polly Cline (1813-1886). Carrie had traveled by steamboat to Iowa to become a country school teacher. Her mother would join her there later.
[Note: I need to mention here that the Civil War would take its toll on members of these families. Alonzo Inman's brother, Joseph L. Inman (1841-1863) died of an illness in Memphis, Tennessee January 6, 1863. Carrie Waiste Inman's father served with Co. F, 142nd, NY Inf. His son, Henry Smith Thomas Waiste (1845-1921) was a private with the 60th New York Infantry. I have copies of their old Civil War letters, but they are difficult to read. One of Alonzo's uncles, Willard Inman (1801-1870) lost two of his sons in the Civil War: Franklin E. Inman (1844-1864), who died of illness in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, and Cassius F. Inman (1846-1863), who joined the Union Army at the age of 16 as a drummer boy, and who died of illness the following year at the age of 17 in a hospital in Chalmette, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. These are just a few of the examples.]
Alonzo and Carrie Inman had the following children:
Loren Waiste Inman (1870-1942)–my paternal grandfather
Charles H. Inman (1872-1880)
Martha Esther Inman (1876-1899).
Young Loren Waiste Inman
Young Martha Inman
Young Loren Waiste Inman and Martha Esther Inman
Loren Waiste Inman [my paternal grandfather] married Adelia Viola Clay (1869-1951) [my paternal grandmother] in Marble Rock, Iowa on April 4, 1893. She was the daughter of Levi Clay (1843-1917) and Mary Elizabeth Stillians (1849-1915).
Loren Waiste Inman during his politician days. He was a state senator from Floyd County, Iowa (Republican) 1909-1910 etc. His picture still hangs in the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Reportedly, he had the largest mustache in the State Legislature
A young Viola Clay in Adair, Iowa
Adelia Viola Clay, Adair, Iowa. This photo was taken by her uncle, John Stillians
The Loren Waiste Inman Family: (L-R) Harold Clay Inman (1894-1958), Forrest Glen Inman (1895-1965), Viola Clay Inman (1869-1951), Gordon Loren Inman (my father) (1908-1974), Loren Waiste Inman (1870-1942), Lelah Esther Inman, (1902-1981) Caroline Elizabeth Waiste Inman (1842-1933) Another son, Lloyd Burr Inman (1899-1901) had already passed away when this picture was taken.
The Cousin Connection: A Time for Sarah
So where do I go from here? I wondered as I considered my options. I read and reread the reocurring comment posted on the medical records I received:
The writer didn't say they were first cousins! The writer said they were close cousins! That gave me some room to wiggle around.
As already noted, Alonzo Inman's parents were Loren Inman and Lucy Carpenter. His paternal grandparents were Daniel Inman and Sarah Polly White (Snow). And his maternal grandparents were Harvey Carpenter and Charlotte "Charity" Marinda Cook. I had no problem with most of these cousin connections. I had discovered many cousins in several lines: Inman, Sprague, Bacon, Carpenter, Cook, Sabin and others. There was just one problem, however. In 2015, I originally decided that Sarah Polly White (Snow) was originally a Snow. When I pulled up the chart for the people I perceived to be Sarah White Snow's ancestors, I could not find a single cousin in the Snow line that would connect with the other lines in my tree. As far as I know, I do not have any common ancestor on that Snow line.
So back to the drawing board again!
I am so grateful for the many official records released by Ancestry.com since 2015. I did not have this information earlier and may have had it sooner had I not taken my leave of absence for a while. What follows is the rest of the story.
Sarah Polly White birth record from the Pomfret Records of Birth, Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870–the Barbour Collection. Ancestry.com
Sarah Polly White was one of a pair of twins born February 13, 1780 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut to Daniel White (1746-1804) and Mehitible/Mehetible Cummins (1750-1822). The other twin was Mehitible/Mehetable White (1780-1841). Mehitable White married Lemuel Morse, Sr. (1779-1854). She died January 2, 1841 in Lyme, Huron County, Ohio. The children of Daniel White and Mehitabel Cummins as identified in the Connecticut Town Records follow:
Jonathan White (1769-1839)
Danforth White (1771-1841)
Anna White (1773-1847)
Elizabeth White (1775-1845)
Daniel White (1777-1836)
Sarah Polly White (1780-1830)–the subject of discussion here. She was extremely weak at first and was not projected to live. The Benjamin Snow family took her in to their household and raised her as their daughter. She used the Snow surname at a later time resulting in the confusion as to whether she was a White or a Snow.
Mehitible/Mehetable White (1780-1841)–Sarah Polly White's twin. She married Lemuel Morse (1779-1854) and settled in Huron County, Ohio.
Sarah White (1781-1781)–a second daughter named Sarah. She apparently died at birth or shortly thereafter.
Dorcas White (1782-1847)
Walter White (1784-1812)
Resolved White (1787-1875)
Artemesia White (1789-1847)
Sarah Polly White (1792-1840)–a third daughter named Sarah (and a second one named Sarah Polly). She married George Hammond (1790-1860) and settled in Auburn Twp., Huron County, Ohio.
I should note that the Connecticut Town Records confused three of the Sarahs–Sarah Polly (the subject of discussion here), Sarah, who died in 1781, and Sarah Polly (born 1792). Mehitable had a twin named Sarah Polly. According to Mehetable's Find-a-Grave record, Mehetable was born February 13, 1780 and not in 1792, per the following:
Mehetable White Morse Gravestone from Find-a-Grave Memorial. Photo by Kathy (Posey) Meadows
Mehetable White Morse
Birth 13 Feb 1780 Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Death 2 Jan 1841 Huron County, Ohio, USA
Burial Bellevue Cemetery Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Plot Section 1, Row 24
Memorial ID 33212688 (5)
This makes Mehetable White and the first Sarah Polly twins!
The Snow Factor: Benjamin Snow (1752-1800)
Benjamin Snow was born August 13, 1752 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, and he died in Connecticut in 1800. He was the son of Joseph Snow (1713-1787) and Abigail Sarah Cornel/Cornwall (1712-1797). His wife was Hannah Chubb (1749-1800). Hannah was the daughter of William Prentice Chubb (1723-1753) and Rachel Squire (b. 1723). Hannah was born in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut. They were married March 30, 1773 in Ashford and they stayed there. Their children follow:.
Jonathan Snow, Jr. (1774-1810) Jonathan was born January 21, 1774, and he died between 1810 and 1820. The exact date of death is unknown. On April 24, 1794, he married Relief Johnson (1773-1831) in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut. Their children were: Annie Snow (b. 1794), Alice Snow (b. 1797), Hezekiah Snow (1798-1842), Hannah Snow (no dates).
Eunice Snow (1776-1850). Eunice was born April 6, 1776, and she died in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania April 25, 1850. She married Jesse Ames (1780-1861). Their children were: Roswell Squire Ames (1800-1886); Leon Ames (1804-1805); Simeon Ames (1806-1806); Margaret Philena Ames (1807-1871); Otis Ames (1809-1871); Jasper Ames (1811-1887); Chauncy Ames (1813-1848); Annis Ames (1817-1878)
Annis Snow (1778-1779/80)
Willard Snow (1782-1784). Willard was Sarah Polly White's pride and joy. She joined the Snow family shortly after her birth. Willard was born December 30, 1782, and he died July 28, 1784. Sarah was just two years older than Willard. She remembered him well and probably missed him a great deal. Her first son, Willard Inman, may have been named after him.
Dudley Snow (1784-1830). Dudley may well have been another of Sarah Polly's treasures. He served in the War of 1812 and died at sea in 1830. He married Mary Polly Penhallow (1787-1848) on March 2, 1806 in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Their children were: Abijah Rockwell Snow (1810-1892); William D V Snow (1812-1900); Parmelia Snow (b. 1821); Daniel Pinney Snow (1825-1902); [He may well been named after Daniel Inman]; and, James Snow (1828-1898).
There was definitely a scarcity of children in the Snow family when compared with Sarah's birth family. For this reason, I believe the Whites made the arrangement permanent when the Snows took in the infant Sarah. She later used the Snow surname, thereby creating the White vs. Snow controversy surrounding her name. I do not know how much contact the two families had with one another after Sarah was placed with the Snows. They were friends. The Whites lived in Pomfret and the Snows lived in Ashford. It may have pained the Whites that they gave up Sarah. That could explain why they named their next daughter Sarah. However, that Sarah did not live. And they named their last child Sarah Polly when she was born in 1792. That Sarah Polly White bonded well with her sister Mehitible/Mehetable; the two sisters eventually moved to Ohio with their families.
As already noted, there is no cousin connection with Alonzo Inman in the Snow line. The cousin connections are alive and well in the White line, however with the following surnames: Bacon, Carpenter, Sabin, Inman and Mayo and others.
In 1800, Sarah Polly White (Snow) married Daniel Inman in Dudley, Worchester, Massachusetts.(6) Daniel was the son of Joseph Inman (1750-1819) and Lucy Sprague (1753-1836). By the time of her marriage to Daniel Inman, Sarah's foster parents had passed away. Her natural father Daniel White and her mother Mehetabel/Mehitible Cummins were still alive. Daniel White died June 30, 1804 in Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts.(7)
Daniel White death notice in the Massachusetts Town Records for Windsor
He is apparently buried in Windsor, but his grave has never been discovered.
Mehetabel/Mehitible Cummins joined the Daniel Inman family in Ontario, New York, where she passed away in 1822. Her Find-a-Grave entry follows:
Mehetable Cummins White Gravestone, Find-a-Grave Memorial. Photo by Frank C. Hawkins
Mehetabel Cummins White
Birth 28 Mar 1750 Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Death 19 Jan 1822 Gorham, Ontario County, New York, USA
Burial Baldwins Corner Cemetery Rushville, Ontario County, New York, USA
She was able to finally bond with her daughter during the final years of her life.
The children of Daniel Inman and Sarah Polly White (Snow) follow:
Willard Inman (1801-bef 1870) Willard was born in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut in 1801, and he died in Jefferson, Butler Iowa before 1870. His wife was Lydia M. Peck. Their children were: Sarah S. Inman (1825-1879); Elsie (Alcy) Lowena Inman (1827-1906); Pvt. Daniel Willard Inman (1835-1909); Major Chester William Inman (1837-1894); 1st Lt. Joseph George Inman (1838-1893); Harriet S. Inman (1840-1913); Lucy Caroline "Carrie" Inman (1843-1880); Franklin E. Inman (1844-1864); Cassius F. Inman (1846-1863).
David Trumbull Inman (1802-1866) David was born in Ontario, Wayne, New York in 1801, and he died in Illinois in 1866. His wife's name was Alamanda. I do not have information about his children.
Alcy Inman (1807-1873). Alcy was born in Ontario, New York in 1807, and she died in Marble Rock, Floyd County, Iowa in 1873. Her husband was Robert D. Frost (1831-1907). Their children were: Joseph Inman Robert Frost (1831-1907); Sarah Frost (b. 1839); Josephine Frost (1843-1920); Robert David Frost (1846-1921).
Joseph Inman (1809-1880). Joseph was born in 1809 in New York, and he died in March 1880 in Marble Rock, Floyd County, Iowa. His wife's name was Caroline, who was born in 1810. I have no further information.
Loren Inman (1810-1878). Loren was born in Ontario, Wayne County, New York in 1810, and he died September 12, 1878 in Marble Rock, Floyd County, Iowa. His wife was Lucy Carpenter (1812-1890). They have already been discussed, but I will list their children here:
Harvey Carpenter Inman (1836-1886)–his wife was Sarah E. McCollom (1838-1924). Their son was Harry Edward Inman (1869-1933) [Note: Actually the son of Ephraim Inman and Harriet Clay–adopted by Harvey Carpenter Inman and Sarah E. McCollom.
Joseph L. Inman (1841-1863). He joined the Union Army in 1862 and died at age 22 of an illness in Memphis, Tennessee I have already discussed him earlier.
Alonzo Inman (1842-1912). My great-grandfather. I have already discussed him earlier.
Ephraim Inman (1846-1914). Ephraim was born September 1, 1806 in Aurora, DuPage, Illinois and he died August 9, 1914 in Buchanan County, Iowa. His wife was Harriet Clay (1849-1906). Harriet and my grandmother, Adelia Viola Clay, were cousins. Grandma left Adair, Iowa and went to Floyd County to help Harriet while her husband was ill. That's how my grandparents met at the local church one Sunday! The children of Ephraim Inman and Harriet Clay were: Louis Joseph Inman (1867-1908); Harry Edward Inman (1869-1933)–adopted by Harvey Carpenter Inman and Sarah E. McCollom; Harvey Ephraim Inman (1871-1960); Nellie Louisa Inman (1873-1941); Lucy Ellen Inman (1875-1943); Sarah R Inman (b. 1883). Bernice Caroline Inman (1887-1967).
Charlotte Marinda Inman (1849-1892). Charlotte was born August 5, 1849 in Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, and she died in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1892. Apparently, she had two marriages. I cannot prove the first marriage nor the son who was reportedly born of that marriage. She may have married a Frank Bell in Floyd County, Iowa in 1865. They may have had a son named Edward Bell (1866-1870). They may have divorced in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1866. She appears to have married Andrew Jackson Baumgardner (1828-1905) before 1870 in Floyd County, Iowa. They were divorced before 1880 because he remarried in 1881. (He appears to have had four wives). Charlotte spent her final years with her sister.
Dora Ellen Inman (1852-1930). Dora Ellen was born December 25, 1852 in Aurora, Illinois and she died February 28, 1932 in Portland, Multnonah, Oregon. Her husband was Henry Smith Thomas Waiste (1845-1921). He was one of Caroline Elizabeth Waiste's brothers. Caroline was Alonzo Inman's wife. I mentioned Henry Waiste previously. Their children were Lucy Bell Waiste (1872-1929), Charles Edgar Waiste (1876-1922), Robert Alonzo Waiste (1891-1964), Fay Caroline Waiste (1893-1894.)
2 Unknown Infants–names and dates of birth and death unknown.
Nelson Proctor Inman (1822-1872). Nelson was born March 1822 in Genesee County, New York, and he died in 1872 in Sheffield, Franklin County, Iowa. His wife was Laura Jane Denny (1826-1916). Their children were: Nancy J. Inman (1852-1916); John Nelson Inman (1854-1942); William Henry Harrison Inman (1856-1950); Daniel Alonzo Inman (1860-1916); Ida Irene Inman (1862-1864); Lucy Adele Inman (1864-1967).
Daniel Inman Illinois Public Land Purchase, July 1844
There is some dispute concerning the location of Sarah Polly White Inman's death–whether it occurred in New York or in Illinois. She was still alive in New York in 1830. Daniel Inman began purchasing land in Illinois May 31, 1842.(9) He was living in Illinois when he began making these purchases, so he may have been there as early as 1840. I cannot find an 1840 Census Record for him. Sarah would have died in New York because Kane County, Illinois wasn't formed until 1836. There is no definite date of death for her other than the 1830 Census. She would have died after that census record and before Daniel's move to Illinois (approx. 1840).
(1) Waiste Family Bible originally owned by Polly Cline Waiste, now in the possession of Barbara Inman Beall
(2) Alonzo Inman Death Certificate, Iowa Department of Records, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Des Moines, Iowa.
(3) 1850 U.S. Census, Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois for the Loren Inman family. U.S. Department of Federal Census, Washington DC. Copy obtained from Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah.
(4) 1860 U.S. Census, Union Twp., Floyd County, Iowa for the Loren Inman Family. U. S. Department of Federal Census, Washington DC. Copy obtained from Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah.
(5) Mehetable White Morse Find-a-Grave Memorial # 33212688. Accessed 5 Jan 2014. Available online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33212688#
(6) Inman, Charles Gordon. Daniel Inman of Connecticut, Ontario, New York, and Sugar Grove, Ill. and His Descendants ca. 1776-ca. 1976 with Ancestral Notes to the Early Seventeenth Century. Personal Copy.
(7)Daniel White Death Record. Massachusetts Town Death Records. New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisherOnline publication – Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.Original data – Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.
(8) Mehetabel Cummins White Find-a-Grave Entry. Find-a-Grave.com. Available online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21749721
(9)1830 Census for Daniel Inman; Census Place: Ontario, Wayne, New York; Series: M19; Roll: 117; Page: 56; Family History Library Film: 001717 Ancestry.com. Online publication – Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data – Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census,
(10)) Daniel Inman Illinois Land Purchase Certificate, July 1844. Online publication – Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
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One thought on "The Search For Sarah Polly White (Snow) (1780-1830)–Wife of Daniel Inman (1776-1848)–AN UPDATE!"
Glenn Carpenter
Thank you so much for your research.
Daniel Inman and Sarah Snow are my maternal 3rd great grandparents through Nelson Proctor Inman. But it gets more interesting. Lucy Carpenter, the wife of my maternal 3rd great uncle, appears to be from my paternal line descended from my 8th paternal grandfather, an early arrival in Plymouth who was a friend of Roger Williams in Rhode Island.
I look forward to reading your other information.


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55 Years Ago, Someone Blamed a Bombing on a Racist Politician
Michael Harriot
Filed to: Black HistoryFiled to: Black History
Image: Alex Wong/Getty images and AP Images
Now, we know.
When 19 sticks of dynamite planted by Klansmen exploded inside the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, killing 11-year old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, it was not the first time white supremacists had bombed a home or place of worship in Birmingham, Ala. It was not the second. It was not the 10th, nor was it the 40th. It would also not be the last.
Fifty.
Although the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing is the most famous of these, it was not a lone incident. Bethel Baptist was bombed three times. Explosives were planted at the home of Rev. A. D. King twice in two years, including 50 sticks of dynamite in 1965. Between 1947 and 1965, homes, gathering places and churches in Birmingham, Ala., would be bombed 50 times.
But on that September day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was about to step into the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta when someone delivered the news. King first contacted President John Kennedy and promised to appeal for peace. But of all the people on the entire planet, King wanted to have a word with one particular man. King did not blame God or Satan for this tragedy because he knew who was responsible. So he sat down, dictated a telegraph and sent it to that man, saying, in part:
...[T]he blood of four little children ... is on your hands. Your irresponsible and misguided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama the atmosphere that has induced continued violence and now murder.
Then he sent that telegram to the honorable governor of the great state of Alabama, Mr. George Wallace.
Aside from his spelling and ability to speak in complete sentences, George Wallace was a lot like Donald Trump. His racist rhetoric fueled his constituents. His presidential campaign slogan "Stand Up for America" was the 1968 version of "Make America Great Again." He told followers at his rallies to attack people and had protesters dragged out of his rallies. He claimed he was standing up for his base and white resentment.
But most of all, he invoked hate and racism. After a failed bid for governor in 1958, he claimed he lost because he wasn't racist enough and vowed to never be "out-niggered" again. In 1962, Wallace ran again as the staunchest segregationist in the country and harnessed white supremacy as his platform.
When a supporter asked why he started using racism as a political tool, Wallace replied, "You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor."
And at his inauguration in 1963, after his racist invocations made him the most powerful man in the state of Alabama—much like Trump did with his white nationalist speech to the joint session of Congress shortly after his 2016 election—Wallace told the adoring crowd in his infamous "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech:
As the national racism of Hitler's Germany persecuted a national minority to the whim of a national majority . . . so the international racism of the liberals seek to persecute the international white minority to the whim of the international colored majority...
But we warn those, of any group, who would follow the false doctrine of communistic amalgamation that we will not surrender our system of government . . . our freedom of race and religion . . . that freedom was won at a hard price and if it requires a hard price to retain it . . . we are able . . . and quite willing to pay it.
Doesn't it sound familiar?
And many of those previously mentioned bombings, including the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, were carried out by a man named Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss, one of the most notorious terrorists in American history. Chambliss had risen to the title of the "Exalted Cyclops" in the Ku Klux Klan. He eventually became friends with some of the most notorious racists in Alabama including Birmingham's Bull Connor, who hired Chambliss as a city mechanic and protected him during his "one-man war" against integration.
What supposedly inspired the 16th Street Baptist bombing was George Wallace standing at the entrance of the University of Alabama to try to stop federal troops from forcing the school to integrate. The FBI's informant says the integration of Alabama combined with the desegregation of Birmingham schools sent Chambliss "over the edge."
But was this necessarily Wallace's fault? Should political rhetoric be blamed for this heinous act of violence?
To say that, you'd have to prove the words were meant to incite violence. You'd have to prove that Wallace's words were an intentional provocation by someone who knew exactly what they were doing. Maybe it isn't George Wallace's fault because, to him, they were just words.
In fact, those words weren't even written by Wallace. They were written by Wallace's speechwriter, Asa Carter (whose story may be the most fascinating one you've ever heard, by the way). Asa had a gift for words and became Wallace's speechwriter after he changed his trajectory in life when he was charged with attempted murder during a shootout at one of his hangouts where he was a leader for...
The Alabama headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan
A Klansman's words resonated with a Klansman killer. They may not have caused those bombings, but they were kerosine on an already lit fire. George Wallace might not have been personally responsible for the political violence of his day, but he at least played a small part, according to many people.
And words matter. They can inspire violence as much as they can inspire hope. Trust me, I know. Dr. King knew. Yet, in spite of the recent acts of political terror, we have learned one valuable lesson:
When Donald Trump repeats his infamous slogan, you should think of the city called "Bombingham." You should think of the one neighborhood in Birmingham that is still called "Dynamite Hill," which was bombed more than most war-torn countries. And you should think of the 50 separate times between 1947 and 1965 that dynamite was planted in that city
Because that is obviously the "again" part of "Make America Great Again" on the hat that makes Kanye feel like a superhero.
World-renowned wypipologist. Getter and doer of "it." Never reneged, never will. Last real negus alive.
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Since their return to the stages of this world in 2016 at the "Frost & Fire" festival in Ventura, CA, Cirith Ungol have also played many successful festival shows in Europe. Due to the incredible demand and enthusiastic reactions from the fans, the band has decided to start writing and rehearsing a new song and now Cirith Ungol proudly unleash their first studio recording since Paradise Lost in 1991! Listen to "Witch's Game" below.
The 12" vinyl single features original artwork from the band's longtime collaborator Michael Whelan and is set for release on October 5th via Metal Blade Records. The b-side is a live version of Cirith Ungol's classic song "Doomed Planet", taken from their performance at Germany's Hammer of Doom festival in 2017. You can pre-order it at this location.
The band comments: "'Witch's Game' was forged for the upcoming animated movie 'Planet of Doom'. Since we reunited in 2015, there was always a question if we would release new material. It was always on the top of our minds, and when approached to write a song that would be featured in this amazing movie, we agreed. We had already been working on songs for our 5th studio album and this was a perfect opportunity to dip our hooves back in the lake of fire! We are all very excited about the band's future and hope you like this sampling of what we have been brewing in our secret lair!"
Definitely unexpected as RaduP says, but it's not a bad song! I'm stoked to hear more.
Definitely, that could be great album.
Well, this song actually sounds really good. Nice.


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Singapore Teams Win Kaspersky's Global 2022 Secur'IT Cup Student Competition
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Students from National University of Singapore and Singapore Institute of Technology bag top spot, beat global competitors
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Kaspersky held on January 4 the final round of the international Secur'IT Cup student competition pitting teams from across the world.
After the smoke cleared, the Russian security vendor announced that a team of students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) the overall winners, with the Hygiene Platform for Mobile Security (HPMS) project focused on creating a new mobile security hygiene application tool that bridges the gap between security and developers.
Over the last five years, the Secur'IT Cup has become a project that has united more than 5,000 talented students from around the world, collaborating on innovative cybersecurity projects, with the goal of providing the foundation for a safer tomorrow. By competing in this international contest with the main prize of US$10,000, these ambitious students receive an opportunity to enrich their cybersecurity background and obtain a comprehensive overview of working in the industry.
This year, 1,500 students from across the globe submitted their ideas in four categories: Router Security, Mobile Secure, Chess anti-cheating and Special nomination: Family Care. After expert review, 10 teams from countries including Egypt, Kenya, Kuwait, Russia, and Singapore were shortlisted to present new ideas to a jury of Kaspersky experts and industry representatives in a friendly but fiercely fought competition.
"The Secur'IT Cup competition was created as a project that would support or maybe even boost the growing interest of young professionals in the cybersecurity industry and help them implement their innovative ideas. From year-to-year we see more sophisticated prototypes submitted by students with diverse backgrounds from all over the world. We have a great record of student teams, who regularly participate in the competition, each time developing new and more creative solutions. That motivates us to continue to support the growing community of young talents united by the idea of creating a safe future," says Evgeniya Russkikh, Academic Affairs Group manager at Kaspersky Academy.
Winning the first place is Hygiene Platform for Mobile Security (HPMS) presented by the "N0H4TS" team of students from the NUS and SIT. The solution aims to improve mobile application security development by providing developers with several automatic and custom-made tools they can use for security scans, as well as a basic mobile security framework based on the OWASP Mobile Application Security.
"Winning Secur'IT Cup has been my top priority for the past four years. But this year, I just wanted to bask in the ambience of competition and enjoy the process. I would like to thank Kaspersky for organizing this competition that requires crazy creativity and yet has a super technical solution. It is my absolute joy to finally win it this year with my teammate," commented Pengfei Yu, member of the "N0H4TS" team.
In light of their efforts, two runners up of the general track were also selected and recognized at the event:
"Think like a cheater, live like a cheater" team that brought together students of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, was awarded for Anti-cheat-chess-tool, based on a modified algorithm for calculating the average accuracy of the game from Chessbase. The team has been awarded with the professional certification of choice (CISSP, CISA, CISM, etc.)
«Maia AI» team united students of the Faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University and Franklin University Switzerland and took third place with their financial project that addresses financial family needs. Their project includes cyber and financial awareness capabilities as well as an AI feature that serves as an advisor and planner. The team has been awarded with the professional course of choice on one of global MOOC-platforms
In the special Family Care nomination, the jury recognized team "Win+ners" from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Kazan National Research Technological University in Innopolis for their "Tail app" application that makes pet owners more aware of their pets' health, focusing on dogs, by analyzing their behavior. The winner in the special nomination receives a $3,000 grant to spend on their further education.
"It was an incredible and rewarding journey organizing the Kaspersky Secur'IT Cup 2022 APAC Regional Round and participating as a jury member at the Grand Final. It was a proud moment to see many great ideas pitched at the Grand Final from the APAC region, and a Singapore team clinching first place in the competition. I was heartened to witness the enthusiasm and creativity our youth has in tackling real-world problems. Competitions like this are important to prepare our future generation of talents to tackle the problems of tomorrow. Congratulations to all participants, and I look forward to their future contributions to creating a safer and more secure world," Emil Tan, co-founder, Infosec in the City, SINCON, director, IIC Productions (Pte. Ltd.).
In 2022, the competition also featured a new special "People's choice awards" nomination based on evaluation by people watching the live streaming online. Based on their opinion, the best project is a family-focused centralized notification app for banks – AUTCA – created by the "Owo" team from SIT and Design. The app provides a verified channel of communication between banks and consumers, and aims to reduce the number of phishing scams, and also streamlines financial communication between family members, allowing users to keep track of possible fraud.
The Secur'IT Cup is a project of Kaspersky Academy. To find out more about the competition and the Academy's other initiatives, please visit https://academy.kaspersky.com/. (/)
Tags: APAC, Kaspersky Academy, Mobile Secure, Secur'IT Cup 2022, Singapore techies
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Bitcoin has had a wild ride. It entered 2018 roaring up more than 280 percent from a little over $4,500 a coin late in 2017 to $17,429 by the first week of the new year. By week two, it had fallen some 35 percent to $11,403. From there it fell farther, some 48 percent, to $5,903 by late June, not much above where it was toward the end of 2017. It then climbed some 42 percent to $8,424 by late July and then fell some 27 percent to $6,184 by the middle of August. It has bounced around near that price since.
The initial 2018 gain sparked much interest. The word, Bitcoin, seemed to be on everybody's lips. CNBC reported on it almost hourly. It was the first question from anyone who knew I was in the investment business – friends, relatives, the man behind the counter at the Madison Restaurant on Manhattan's East Side, where I go for breakfast, the fellow at TSA who asked my profession. I gave everyone the same warning, not about this particular investment but rather about anything that soars as fast as Bitcoin. I also asked if they knew what Bitcoin was besides something that had gained value very fast. When it became apparent that no one had the slightest idea, I could offer another warning: never invest in something you do not understand.
Some say this is a new kind of money. Some journalists call it a crypto-currency, apparently because it is created through an encrypted algorithm. The U.S. Treasury classifies it as a commodity, though unlike tin or gold or wheat, it is created entirely through its algorithm. I suppose we could call it a synthetic commodity. It certainly behaves more like a commodity than money: During periods of enthusiasm, its price skyrockets only to fall precipitously in response to investor doubt.
Suffice it to say that because of these characteristics Bitcoin and its blockchain competitors are described and often offered as substitute money. The prospect of them as money has appeal to many. Until the advent of blockchain, the only way to control the supply of money and verify ownership came through the centralized record keeping of the banking system, which in the United States includes the Federal Reserve, the Treasury (which itself includes the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.) These institutions might not know just who has cash in hand or what he or she is doing with it, but they do know to the penny how much exists and they control that amount of currency in circulation. At the same time, the banking system knows who owns which account and how much is in it. Blockchain, with its unique distributed ledger, offers an anonymous alternative.
Because Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies offer this anonymity, they are especially attractive to those who would rather not have their dealings recorded in any government-related system. Blockchain currencies are untraceable, like $100 bills or gold bars, but they're even more attractive because they have none of the clumsiness (or possible drama) of a suitcase full of bills. They can move in the millions even billions through the Internet — an impossibility with paper money and gold bars, at least not with anonymity. It speaks to these qualities that Russian and Venezuelan officials have expressed hopes that such virtual currencies will enable their countries to end run American sanctions.
Many people forecast that Bitcoin and its kin will soon replace today's national currencies – dollars, pesos, pounds, euros, and so on. Bitcoin(s) could become money as long as everybody is willing to accept payment in them and believes them to be "safe." At the very least, that day will have to wait until Bitcoin leaves behind the wild price swings that have marked it so far. To become a dominant currency Bitcoin must also jump significant political hurdles. Governments have no desire to lose control over their ability to create and verify the ownership of money. Several countries, fearful of just such substitutions for their currencies, have already banned the use of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. The United States, Japan, and the European Union have not gone this far — yet. But should a day of reckoning arise, it's a good bet that governments will impose control, and Bitcoin, whatever its future as a synthetic commodity, will fail as a substitute for money. For the investor, then, Bitcoin becomes another potential addition to his or her portfolio, but one with more risk than many, and less predictability.


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Baby Phil, with mother Gretta and father Philip Senior, 1920.
Phil Junior in 1923, age 3.
The Wood family in Hastings, with new addition Gretchen front and center.
Gretchen and Phil have a tea party.
Gretchen, Phil, and two cousins.
A picnic at Hastings. Gretta in wrap at center, Gretchen and the two Phils at right.
The Wood family, early 1930s.
Phil in 1936, age 16.
A favorite family activity – sailing at Martha's Vineyard.
Gretchen, cousin Kitsy, and cousin Frances Wood.
The Wood family in 1938. Phil Senior and Phil Junior are in back; cousin Kitsy, mother Margretta and sister Gretchen are in the front.
At age 18, in Vineyard Haven.
Phil during his Swarthmore years.
A sketch of Phil, done by Gretchen during a family vacation to Atlantic City in 1941. Phil was reading to his mother and sister to pass the time on a rainy day.


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Attack Surface vs Audible: My Publishers Weekly op-ed.
Foodcrime: The tech predators destroying America's restaurants.
We Are Beautiful: 3D printable anatomical models of real bodies.
Precursor: Andrew "bunnie" Huang's new open source hardware mobile platform.
Attack Surface vs Audible (permalink)
I'm grateful to Andrew Albanese and Publishers Weekly for the chance to lay out the logic behind the Kickstarter campaign to sell the audiobook for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book, in a column called "We Need to Talk About Audible."
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/84384-we-need-to-talk-about-audible.html
The fact that traditional media companies like publishers are now beholden to Amazon – their direct competitor – is somewhat attributable to a lack of foresight on their part, but it largely the result of real chicanery on the part of the Big Tech monopolists.
I mean, it's not like the publishers were stupid the way Borders (RIP) was: remember when the largest books retailer in the USA decided to make Amazon its online division in 2000? They cancelled the deal in 2007 and went bankrupt in 2011. That was slow suicide.
But trad publishing has been rightfully suspicious of Amazon from the start and has used whatever weapons it had to resist the company's hegemony…unsuccessfully.
Today, the publishers' largest competitor knows (far) more about who buys and reads their books, and how, and why, than the publishers do.
To make things worse, Amazon's Audible division, an absolute, iron-clad monopolist in the audibooks market, with total dominance over a format that makes nearly as much as hardcovers, REQUIRES that all books it sells be restricted with its DRM.
That DRM doesn't stop piracy (one Google search will find you instructions for stripping DRM; two searches will find you Audible books, without DRM, as free downloads), but it does stop competition – it protects Audible, not authors.
Every audiobook the publishers sell to Audible is locked to Amazon's platform…forever. Only Amazon (not the author, not the publisher) is legally allowed to remove the DRM so the book can play on a player Amazon hasn't approved (say, a direct competitor's player).
After all, this is the company that blocked Chromecast as part of its bid to gain dominance for Prime Video. If you think they won't do that for audiobooks, I've got an essential-oil covid cure multi-level marketing scheme to sell you.
https://www.techhive.com/article/2982096/the-sad-story-of-amazon-video-on-chromecast-and-android-tv.html
That's why the point of this Kickstarter isn't merely to sell a bunch of my books (though it's doing that): it's to chart a course where publishers and bestselling authors can have successful audiobooks without Amazon.
To create a new kind of "Audible Exclusive" – a bestseller for sale anywhere EXCEPT Amazon. To get authors to switch because they get more money; to get readers to switch (to rivals like libro.fm and downpour.com) because they have better books.
To get Amazon to deal fairly: to let rightsholders (not a monopoly retailer whose sole contribution to my book is to allow me to upload it to their server and process a payment for it) decide whether it has DRM.
And if we can get Amazon to budge on this, let's not forget our brothers and sisters working in and relying on libraries – libraries where Amazon refuses to sell ANY Audible audiobooks, so ~50% of bestsellers are not available in our libraries.
Here's the closer for my op-ed: "Look, you can't shop your way out of monopoly capitalism any more than you can recycle your way out of climate change. Monopoly is a structural problem created by more than 40 years of lax antitrust enforcement. If there was any doubt, last month's Congressional antitrust hearings, which included a litany of complaints from Amazon suppliers who've been comprehensively chickenized, laid that to rest.
"But reversing monopolies is an iterative process. My effort to whittle away at Amazon's audiobook hegemony I believe will help show authors, publishers, and readers that there is a path to a more pluralistic and fair marketplace. And, in the process, fuel the growing support for more stringent antitrust enforcement."
Here's that Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/attack-surface-audiobook-for-the-third-little-brother-book/
Foodcrime (permalink)
We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money on every transaction but hope to make it back by securing monopolies.
Nowhere is this more visible than in the restaurant industry, where a bewildering array of deceptive (and even fraudulent) tactics are being deployed by Doordash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, and Yelp, who have nonconsensually interposed themselves between eaters and restaurateurs.
If this is ringing bells, you might be recalling the infamous May case-study in which a pizzeria owner discovered that Doordash had put up a fake delivery page for his restaurant and was selling his pizzas for less than he charged for them.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#schadenpizza
Doordash would take the orders, then pay low-waged workers to call the restaurant and pretend to be real customers ordering takeouts. Then other low-waged gig economy workers would pick them up, pretending to be diners, and deliver them.
The end-game was to become a gatekeeper to the restaurant, by offering lower-than-cost pizzas to this guy's customers and then threatening to divert them to a rival unless he paid ransom to Doordash.
The wily pizza owner figured out that he could order dozens of his pizzas to a confederate's home, and simply ship out boxes of half-cooked dough, and bill Doordash a small fortune for a few pennies' worth of cardboard and flour.
It was quite a fun story!
Alas, it was not representative. In the time since, the outlandish, predatory conduct of app companies has intensified, documented in "Rescuing Restaurants: How to Protect Restaurants, Workers, and Communities from Predatory Delivery App Corporations."
https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/rescuing-restaurants-how-to-protect-restaurants-workers-and-communities-from-predatory-delivery-app-corporations/
The report comes from Moe Tkacik for the American Economic Liberties Project, and it documents the fraudulent, anticompetitive tactics used by tech companies to steal from restaurants:
Merging dozens of companies (online menus, delivery services, etc) into a single giant, then doubling its fees
Creating fake websites for restaurants, then using SEO to make them the top results on Google, and tricking customers into ordering through an app company instead of a restaurant
Imposing anticompetitive contracting terms on restaurants prohibiting them from offering discounts for in-person dining or own-driver delivery
Punishing restaurants that refuse to pay for upsell "marketing services" by banishing them from app search-results
Tricking drivers into becoming dependent on apps for income, merging with competitors so they have no alternative, slashing wages, all while maintaining the fiction that drivers are "independent contractors"
Collecting sales tax on take-out orders that are not taxable and pocketing it
Using tax-evasion techniques to avoid sales- and income-tax at the local, state and federal level
Bribing Google (paying "referral fees") to add "order now" buttons to restaurants' listings that go to apps, not the restaurants' own ordering systems
When restaurants cancel their Grubhub service and build their own ordering systems, Grubhub fraudulently lists those restaurants as "not offering delivery"
Building "ghost kitchens" in shipping containers (etc) that clone the menus and recipes of the popular restaurants they've driven to their knees (while tricking chefs into working under dangerous, low-waged conditions in them)
It's the latest wrinkle on all the predatory businesses whose principle competence is SEO and fraud – think of the fake "locksmiths" that completely dominate all Google searches.
These are bullshit referral services that dispatch an untrained guy with a drill to destroy your lock and charge you a fortune, while the actual, skilled locksmiths in your neighborhood can't be located with a search.
But this is worse, because these predators have fantastically deep pockets, with money from the likes of Softbank (the notorious front for the Saudi royals behind Uber and Wework), and can afford to lose huge sums for years.
Older tech companies, like Yelp, are getting in on the action. As Edward Ongweso Jr reports for Motherboard, Yelp now fraudulently lists Grubhub's call center as the order number for restaurants in its database.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut
People who calls these numbers are deceived into thinking they are ordering from the restaurants they know and love – instead, they are being victimized by a rent-seeking man-in-the-middle attack that will destroy that restaurant over time.
Tkacik's report concludes with nine recommendations:
I. Investigate and prosecute the apps' systematic unfair and deceptive practices
II. Prohibit delivery apps from imposing no price competition clauses
III. Ban further anti-competitive mergers in the sector
IV. Enforce and expand local laws curbing predatory commissions and other delivery app abuses
V. Prohibit delivery apps from using loss-leader pricing to harm competition and incentivize consumers to abandon on-premise dining
VI. Eliminate "independent contractor" loopholes and force the third party delivery giants to give their workers the wages, protections and benefits required of employers
VII. Require delivery apps to restrict the use of data collected from restaurants to limited and specific purposes, and explicitly prohibit them from leveraging data
VIII. Mandate search neutrality within apps and bar payola style arrangements between apps and restaurants
IX. Separate platform and commerce in two ways: (1) Prohibit the combination of online ordering apps and delivery/logistics services (2) Online ordering apps and dark kitchens
We Are Beautiful (permalink)
Just launched today: We Are Beautiful, a collection of 3D scanned body parts from people of all ages, genders, sexes, and body shapes and sizes.
https://wearebeautiful.info/
The files are freely downloadable and suitable either for rendering or 3D printing.
The idea is to produce a realistic corpus of body-parts that reflect the diversity of the human body, as a corrective to the narrow range of body-types in pornography.
"We have 129 models of vulvas, penises, breasts, full body and partial body scans. All of our models are between 19 and 59 years old and span a wide range of ages, body types and countries of origin. We've carefully curated all the metadata of our models and are releasing the public information while carefully protecting the private information. We never reveal the identity of our models and this information does not exist online at all."
All files are licensed CC0, the least restrictive of all the Creative Commons licenses, and can be re-used commercially as well as personally.
The files are tagged by body part, characteristics (un/circumcised, asymmetric inner labia, skin mole, chemotherapy, etc), personal history (breastfed, episiotomy, etc), model and date.
The creators sent me 3D prints of some of their models and they're beautiful as objects in and of themselves. Someone should (and could!) go into business making and selling these in beautiful materials.
If you like this kind of thing, you should also check out Laura Dodsworth's "Bare Reality" books – three books of beautiful photos of diverse penises, vulvas, and breasts:
https://www.lauradodsworth.com/books
Precursor (permalink)
The Precursor is the latest open source hardware project from OSHW wizard Andrew "bunnie" Huang – AKA "the guy who broke the Xbox DRM and is now suing to overturn the DMCA."
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921
It's a mobile hardware platform, "a framework upon which you can assemble a wide variety of DIY mobile applications…designed from the ground-up to be carried around in your pocket."
"It's not just a naked circuit board with connectors hanging off at random locations: it comes fully integrated—with a rechargeable battery, a display, and a keyboard—in a sleek, 7.2 mm (quarter-inch) aluminum case."
The design is derived from the Betrusted project, an ambitious open source hardware privacyphone initiative that is super cool, but still has a long way to go before it's ready for field use.
https://betrusted.io/
Precursor delivers the hardware without the full software stack, with "all of the features you might need to validate and test a software stack like the one that will drive Betrusted."
It's based on a reprogrammable FPGA, which will allow the community to test and revise different low-level software before committing to a custom ASIC.
The hardware is open and the software is free.
The board and case are designed with room for one or two breakout boards for application-specific sensors or hardware modules: "from barometers to cameras and radios ranging from BLE to LTE."
The case is also designed to be modifiable for applications that need more room: "the designs are open source, and the native Solidworks CAD files we provide are constructed such that the enclosure's length and thickness are are parameterized."
The bezel is a "plain old FR-4 PCB" which can be easily swapped for a full-sized circuit board, while the LCD can be swapped with an OLED display for a much larger battery and more special-purpose hardware.
If you want a prefabriacated Precursor, you can sign up to back it on Crowdsupply (Huang has a long history of delivering his Crowdsupply projects on time and on budget):
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).
Currently writing: My next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. Friday's progress: 670 words (63295 total).
Currently reading: Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
Keynote for Law Via the Internet conference, Sept 22, https://www.crowdcast.io/e/LVI2020/register
DWeb Meetup — If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better? Sept 22, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-if-big-tech-is-toxic-how-do-we-build-something-better-tickets-120479309859
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 19, 2020 Tags 3d printing, amazon, attack surface, audible, audiobooks, bunnie huang, business, doordash, education, fraud, google, little brother, man in the middle attacks, mobile, monopolism, oshw, postmates, precursor, predatory capitalism, publishers weekly, publishing, restaurants, scams, science fiction, sex, sex ed, sexuality, trustbusting, uber, we are beautiful, yelp
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Call it Jams, the return of the first farm-to-table restaurant ever in New York. It's a big deal and it's opening tonight at 1 Hotel Central Park.
Before that term "farm-to-table" became but a meaningless groan of vaguely restaurant-related syllables, Jonathan Waxman (you now know him from Barbuto) was doing it. Decades ago. He was doing it well at a place called Jams. A place where Andy Warhol had a standing reservation.
After more than 25 years, that place is back, with a lot of new stuff (spicy duck) and some old (red-pepper pancakes with caviar).
Let's do it justice in the form of the slideshow you'd do well to look at.


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The stadiums and starting hours of the Garabagh FC's home matches as part of Europa League group stage have been declared.
Report.Az informs citing UEFA's official website that Azerbaijan's champion will host all its rivals within Group E at the Republican Stadium named after Tofiq Bahramov.
At this arena Garabagh FC will encounter England's Arsenal on October 4 and Ukraine's Vorskla on October 25. Both matches will start at 20.55. On November 29, the club from Aghdam will test its strength in an encounter with Portugal's Sporting. The start fit of this match will be sounded at 21.55.
As to the away matches, on September 20 Garabagh will encounter Sporting at Joze Alvalade stadium in Lissabon, Portugal. The match will start at 23.00 Baku time. The team trained by head coach Gurban Gurbanov will play against Volska at the stadium named after Alexei Butkovski in Poltava, Ukraine on November 8 and Arsenal FC at Emirates stadium in London on December 13. The matches will start at 24.00 Baku time.
It should be noted that the Europa League final will be organized at the Baku Olympic Stadium (BOS) on May 29, 2019. In this connection, it is not ruled out that the venue for Garabagh's home matches will be changed and dislocated to BOS.


RGE's Director for External Affairs Goh Lin Piao recently met senior public officials at an exchange from Africa to share with the Group's philosophy, practices and programmes on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Ethics & Integrity Institute (EII), a three-year old NGO that advocates ethics in organisations, led the ten-member Kenyan delegation in Singapore for a week-long visit to learn about servant leadership and CSR best practices adopted by Singaporean companies. The visit was facilitated by the Nanyang Business School's (NBS) NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies.
RGE external affairs director Goh Lin Piao introducing the Tanoto Foundation's objective of alleviating poverty through Education, Empowerment, and Enhancement.
After visiting the Centre for African Studies, the delegation learned from Mr Goh how respective businesses and groups associated with RGE continue to improve the environment and community.
Sustainability practices such as responsible forests and land management and eco-restoration projects in Riau were shared and discussed. They also learned how programmes like the Schemed Smallholders programme (Plasma) championed by Asian Agri, and Tanoto Foundation's education and empowerment programmes continue to positively impact infrastructure, quality of life and literacy.
The two-hour session covered discussions on governance, business and human capital development. It also provided a platform for a unique cross-cultural and cross-sector (academia, NGO, public, corporation) dialogue.
The meeting soon recognised how resource-rich countries like Africa, Indonesia and China needed strong leadership with the integrity and commitment to drive the adoption of best practices and champion sustainable development.
RGE (Royal Golden Eagle) is a global group of resource-based manufacturing companies in the forestry and energy industry. Our work ranges from the upstream, comprising sustainable resource development and harvesting, to downstream, where our companies create diverse value-added products for the global market.
Our commitment to sustainable development, conservation and community development underpins our operations, as we strive towards what is good for the community, good for the country and good for the company.
RGE is founded by Sukanto Tanoto in 1973 as RGM. The assets held by RGE companies today exceed US $15 billion. With more than 50,000 employees, we have operations in Indonesia, China and Brazil, and continue to expand to engage newer markets and communities.
Tanoto Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2001 by the Sukanto Tanoto and his family, whose philanthropy dates back to 1981. It strives to be the centre of excellence in poverty alleviation through education, empowerment, and enhancement of quality of life.


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Are Friends Electric? GM v Volvo
By Paul Reaney on November 23, 2012 Industry News, Volvo
Pandering to fear that the relationship between oil-producing countries in the Middle East and the United States is irreconcilable, General Motors have announced they will, by 2017, have almost half a million cars on the worlds roads that are powered in some way by electricity.
Speaking at the company's 'Electrification Experience' General Motors have told an audience of employees that they believe the future of personal transportation will, to some extent, include an electric element, particularly for those looking to use their Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Opel or Vauxhall to commute to work. The world's largest automotive manufacturer employ over 200,000 people in over 150 countries and sell almost 3,000,000 cars every year – that's a lot of commuting.
A GM suit has confirmed that plug-in based solutions will play a growing role in the company's growth, pointing to 2010's Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle their statement of intent. GM claims it will sell 50,000 electrified vehicles in 2012. In 2013, the electric propulsion featured in the Volt will be placed inside the company's new Cadillac ELR and sold in the United States and Korea. In 2014, the Chevrolet Impala will appear as a new semi-electric model.
However, peer behind GM's headlines and truth is a little less electrifying.
While most hybrids use an electric motor powerful enough to power a vehicle independently, GM's 'eAssist' simply helps a standard petrol engine without actually taking over duties itself. This lack of commitment has caused General Motors to experience some bad press. GM's Buick Lacrosse and Buick Regal both drew criticism for their 'mild hybrid' set-up, while Fortune Magazine named the Chevy Malibu Echo, also housing e-Assist, as the most disliked vehicle of 2012.
Perhaps GM should take a leaf Volvo's book (which is probably printed on recycled paper).
Volvo has increased plans for production of the first diesel hybrid. The V60 Plug-in Hybrid will emerge in the early part of next year and will increase from 1,000 to around 5,000 units from 2013 to 2014. Instead of lip service, Volvo have created vehicle that can that can travel over 30 miles on electric power only. The Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid is a product of a relationship between Volvo Swedish electricity company Vattenfall.
Which do you think is best? A big company doing a little or a little company doing a lot?
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Oregon's six Democrats in Congress want to spread the state's vote-by-mail law across the country. Both of Oregon's senators and four U.S. representatives announced the introduction of a bill Thursday that would require "every state to provide registered voters the opportunity to vote by mail," according to a statement. The bill summary promises that Congress would cover the postal costs for implementation. The Democrats argue vote-by-mail would help increase voter participation — in contrast to efforts at the state and federal level that they characterize as suppressing the vote.
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Stuffed Sistah: Stuffed animals, stuffed beanie babies, stuffed anything. The entire cubicle is one big advertisement for Nick Junior.
Candy Land Sistah: There's an M & M dispenser and a bowl of Kit Kats along with glass jars filled with jolly ranchers, Swedish fish and sugar babies.
OO7 Sistah: She's got passwords on the phone, her desktop and on the combination locks on her desk drawers. She's also got a privacy screen made of the darkest material known to Best Buy.
BET Awards Sistah: Every concert ticket, poster and t-shirt for Trey Songs, Chris Breezy and Usher can be found in this workspace. She's used push pins to create a heart around a photo of Justin Timberlake.
While researching for this post I discovered that supervisors and those in the business of handing out employee evaluations often scan the desk of a worker-bee and make several decisions regarding whether or not the employee is worthy of advancement. A messy desk signals to others that you are not only un-organized but likely incapable of taking on another project which would lead to another file or document on your desk.
A little dramatic for some but that's some real advice for a Sistah Girl. You can't have 6 pairs of shoes under your desk and a drawer full of hair products and a flat iron and expect to roll out when the "Heat" is around the corner. The flames could come from a corporate merger, a change in leadership or yes…because you are getting the pink slip. Whatever the reason, you gotta be ready to roll. I say chose five items to personalize your workspace and keep it moving.
A photo of someone/something you love (Kids, Dogs, Horses—nothing stuffed please). Some people like to know that you are personally connected. It makes them feel better.
No better way to look like a team player than displaying the company logo.
No real reason. It just seems like every cubicle has one.
There's nothing like giving people the impression that you've got your finger on the pulse of your industry.
Why all of the fuss about cubicle creativity? I guess it's because I'm constantly thinking about the obvious and subtle moves that we make that help people form impressions of who they think we are. You may think it's nothing but you never know. You could be one beanie baby, one M & M, flip-flop, toaster oven away from a promotion.
LOL at some of the things people have at their desk. I just surveyed my desk to see if I fall into any of these categories, and I do have a lil shoe store in my desk SMH. However, if I had to leave in 30 seconds flat, I could and would be able to grab some shoes. Thank You for this valuable info…"I SMILE"!!
Too funny! At least you're honest !
Ms. Drye! I am cracking up over here! This post is too funny and TOO TRUE at the same time. We do software and hardware upgrades regularly and I can't tell you the stuff we find over and under people's desks! Ain't nobody over here running out in 30 seconds. LOL And you are right about "impressions". Since I'm on the installation side I get to here what people really think of the messy desk, the shoes underneath and what's inside your drawers. Oh, and yeah, when you ain't around….people open them and look. But the best one for me is the sistah who has an alter beneath her desk made of stone. I wonder if on bad days she goes under there and sacrifices small animals and prays for her boss' demise.
An alter? Wow…u Neva know!


A P-8A Poseidon from the "Mad Foxes" of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 supported maritime operations in U.S. 5th Fleet under Commander, Task Force (CTF) 57, Feb. 24 to March 3.
The first time a P-8A had deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet since 2016, the aircraft conducted missions spanning the area of operation in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea and Arabian Sea.
"By having an asset deployed to Italy operate here in Bahrain, and to do so extremely well, we demonstrate the inherent maneuverability of naval air forces and the ready, relevant posture of the maritime patrol and reconnaissance community," said Capt. Chris Flaherty, commodore of CTF 57.
"Though we planned this cross-combatant command interoperability as a proof of concept, it highlights how we can flow forces between theaters in a matter of hours to respond to crisis. We will continue to exercise these capabilities, in conjunction with our counterparts at CTF 67 in Italy and CTF 72 in Japan, to ensure we provide fleet commanders with cross-component options to cross-component threats."
The aircraft participated in two long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, supported U.S. Navy ships as they transited through the Strait of Hormuz and provided an orientation flight for members of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces while conducting a mission over the Red Sea.
"It was a unique experience for our crew to work with the Saudi Arabian military," said VP-5 pilot Lt. Steve Mehr.
"Demonstrating the P-8A's combat systems in an operational environment with our partners was an incredible experience. The dynamic 5th Fleet is the perfect place to demonstrate our versatility."
The P-8A was also able to exercise its full command, control, communications and intelligence suite, sharing their tactical picture in near real-time with CTF 50's USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group via exchange networks like Links 11 and 16.
The P-8A Poseidon, the Navy's newest maritime, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, is a multi-mission capable replacement aircraft for the legacy P-3C Orion. It is a militarized version of the Boeing 737 and utilized for a wide-array of missions.


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How Full-Time Sellers Can Use Facebook Marketplace to Reach More Consumers
Tabitha Jean Naylor @TabithaNaylor
For more than a decade, Craigslist, eBay and Etsy have dominated the peer-to-peer marketplace in which items are bought and sold. This has become the digital version of garage sales, except the products and services sold on these marketplaces are far more diverse.
As it usually does, Facebook shook up the marketplace industry in October 2016 by announcing that it was going to relaunch Facebook Marketplace, putting more than a billion consumers in play in what is now the biggest digital marketplace in the world.
But lost in all the excitement is the fact that Facebook Marketplace may not just be a platform where someone can get rid of a little-used product, but that it can, in fact, offer new opportunities for users who sell products as a full-time occupation.
Let's take a closer look at how Facebook Marketplace compares to Etsy and eBay, and how this new platform could help local businesses reach new consumers
What Facebook Marketplace Offers
Despite taking regular hits from critics and consumers due to its status as the biggest game in town, Facebook has 1.86 billion monthly active users, and 1.23 billion daily active users, as of December 31, 2016.
More than 85% of those users live outside the U.S. and Canada, which means that Facebook's worldwide reach far exceeds that of Etsy or eBay.
Facebook Marketplace offers browsing, selling and searching features.
The browsing feature lets users look around the app without making a specific request, and displays product listings based on geography.
However, because this is Facebook, browsing is optimized to display products that users would like based on past activity on the platform.
In addition to products, Facebook Marketplace enables users to solicit job offers based on their skills, and to sell services targeted to a specific group of users or to all users on the platform.
But there is one major restriction in terms of sellers - brands are not allowed to sell on the platform, nor are they allowed to place paid ads for Marketplace users to view.
That could change in the future, but for now, Facebook Marketplace is modeling itself after Craigslist, Etsy and eBay, and simply offering a place for buyers and sellers to interact without handling any payment processing or shipping.
The other drawbacks so far is that there's no review system on Facebook Marketplace, so it's difficult for prospective buyers to gain a sense of a seller's trustworthiness and credibility.
And because Facebook doesn't handle payment transactions, there is no built-in guarantee of delivery, or a system that ensures that if a product is defective or sent in a condition other than advertised, a buyer would receive a refund.
With that in mind, here's how Facebook Marketplace stacks up against several other peer-to-peer markets.
Facebook Marketplace vs. Etsy
Etsy - which launched in 2005 - has cornered the market on artisan products.
As of December 2014, Etsy reported 54 million registered members, with more than 1.3 million sellers and 19 million buyers.
More importantly, 75% of the platform's gross merchandise sales from 2011 to 2014 were through repeated business.
However, Etsy remains primarily a web-based platform, with only 36% of its sales generated through mobile devices.
Like Facebook, Etsy has positioned itself as a social media network that encourages user connection, but unlike Facebook Marketplace, Etsy is heavily focused on vintage and collector's items as well as hand crafted art, clothing and jewelry items.
As a result, Etsy's appeal for full-time sellers is limited due to its strong focus on artisan-made products.
Despite its cache, Etsy has a much more narrow market than what Facebook Marketplace is offering, and Facebook also dwarfs Etsy in terms of number of registered users.
Facebook Marketplace vs. eBay
It goes without saying that eBay - which launched in 1995 - has become one of the go-to marketplaces for peer-to-peer transactions.
As per Statista, eBay had 167 million active buyers as of 2016, which is nearly double the number of buyers that were on the platform in 2010.
Although it's known as a marketplace where users can auction just about any product or service imaginable, home and gardening is the most popular sector, with clothing, vehicles parts and electronic equipment also strong revenue generators.
However, unlike Facebook, which has a broad international reach, the majority of eBay users reside in the U.S., Germany and the U.K. That puts eBay at a disadvantage in terms of consumer reach throughout the world, which is not an issue with Facebook Marketplace.
However, eBay generates high customer service scores for ease of use, product satisfaction and the breadth of goods offered on the platform - it's this level of customer experience that makes eBay the biggest challenge to the success of Facebook Marketplace.
Ebay has had more than 20 years to establish its brand and to refine its customer service, which means that it's far more practiced in understanding customer lifetime value related to peer-to-peer transactions.
That speaks not just to customer satisfaction, but also customer trust, which is one of the major factors in branding.
Ebay handles payment processing as well as shipment, and its review system and product delivery guarantee offers a fail-safe for buyers and sellers that Facebook Marketplace can't yet match.
Even though it has an obvious advantage in terms of registered users, Facebook Marketplace lags behind eBay in these critical areas.
Best Practices For Facebook Marketplace
Despite its ban on brands, Facebook Marketplace still offers exciting opportunities for individual sellers who've already established a profile on the platform.
Because buyers can search for products based on price and location, Facebook Marketplace is ideal for full-time sellers who are focusing heavily on the local market.
Brands can also take advantage of this new platform by creating personal profiles to sell their products, and those profiles separate Facebook Marketplace from a platform such as Craigslist, where there are few safeguards regarding who's really selling a product.
Facebook's profiles are integrated with whatever product a user is selling, which offers a greater sense of security and credibility, but that also means that sellers must take the time to ensure that their public profiles convey trust and honesty, which includes a clean, well-taken photo, and that they only share information that builds confidence in a prospective buyer.
Because Facebook Marketplace orders items based on users' interests, prior activity, it makes it easier for sellers to hit their targeted consumer group more efficiently.
But to take advantage of this targeting, sellers should list each item separately, instead of offering a slew of products, which can confuse buyers.
It's also important that sellers check other peer-to-peer sites to determine a price range for their items, so that they're in line with what prospective buyers would expect to pay.
Because Facebook Marketplace lacks buyer or seller protection, sellers must also be prepared for intense and prolonged negotiations to complete a sale.
Facebook Marketplace is the new peer-to-peer kid on the block, and while it has some negatives - such as lack of peer reviews and lack of product and delivery guarantees - it offers sellers a massive database of consumers, especially within their local area.
Better yet, it segments prospective buyers based on previous activity and buying behavior, which helps sellers tailor their products to a targeted market.
And while Facebook Marketplace doesn't allow brands to sell on its platform, individual sellers with active profiles are afforded boundless opportunities to gain credibility and to brand their products, while reaching hundreds of millions of more consumers than are on eBay, Etsy and Craigslist, combined.
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Treating Opiate Addiction with Opiates – The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly
There is nothing new about treating opiate addiction with other addictive drugs. That is a sad fact and one which has always been questioned by medical professionals and lay people alike. However, in recent years newer drugs have been added to the list of acceptable pharmaceuticals used in the treatment of addiction and this has raised more than a bit of concern.
While the use of methadone dates back more than half a century to treat addiction to opiates such as heroin, newer drugs are now in use and these are added to the list of controlled substances to beware of. Many people are alarmed at some of the facts which are being underplayed in the media.
For a better look at some of the controversy, check out information found on the Recovery Resource Center website. In the meantime, let's take a look at treating opiate addiction with other opiates to get a glimpse at the good, bad and sometimes downright ugly of this sometimes questionable practice.
Methadone Sets the Stage
Most people are familiar with methadone which was developed in the 1930s by German scientists as a synthetic analgesic (pain reliever) with properties similar to morphine. The effects are also similar to those of morphine and other such narcotics and there was a good bit of initial success with the drug as a pharmaceutical. However, in the 1960s as heroin addiction reached epidemic proportions, doctors began using methadone to help wean addicts off heroin, but even then, results were questionable.
Like heroin and other narcotics, methadone was also addictive, so that should have raised red flags right then and there. It is possible to overdose on methadone and since its properties are similar in scope to drugs like heroin and morphine, it has just as high a street value as those other addictive substances. Since 1947 when the drug was first introduced to the United States, methadone has been the most widely used MAT (Medication-Assisted Treatment) drug for opiate addiction. The FDA claims that it is not giving drugs to drug addicts, but many treatment centers believe otherwise. Bear in mind that methadone is an opiate.
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Buprenorphine Gets FDA Approval in 2002
Now, some half-century later a new opiate has entered the controversy. In 2002 the FDA approved the use of buprenorphine for use in MAT. In-depth information on buprenorphine can be found on the SAMHSA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, government website but it is clear that this is another potentially dangerous drug. By some accounts, the buprenorphine family of pharmaceuticals can be even more lethal than methadone for a few obvious reasons.
One of the main fears with the use of drugs in this family is the fact that, unlike Methadone, which must be administered by a treatment center for addiction, these drugs can be prescribed by a general practitioner for use in the treatment of addiction. That, in and of itself, is scary to a growing number of people. The buprenorphine drugs include:
Zusolv
Bunavail is a compound formulation of buprenorphine and naloxone and it is administered as a buccal film. This means it is placed on the inside of the mouth along the cheek for absorption. Suboxone is a combination of the same two compounds but this particular drug is administered in a sublingual film which means it is placed under the tongue for rapid absorption. Zubsolv is the same combination administered as a sublingual tablet.
Why These Opiates Are Used in MAT
Now then, at this point, you are probably asking yourself why on earth would doctors prescribe other addictive substances to treat addiction to opioids like heroin and morphine along with others in the family such as oxycontin. That is a very good question and one which has raised more than a few eyebrows upon looking at a few statistics.
First of all, the 'logic' behind using these drugs in MAT is because they are supposed to have a lower potential to be misused, which is questionable. These drugs all have a high street value which means they are, indeed, being misused as an illicit substance. However, the big 'selling point' is that they diminish the physical effects of dependency on the opioids which include cravings and withdrawal. They are also said to be less likely a cause of overdose.
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A Few Statistics to Be Aware Of
One of the most startling statistics is that methadone remains high on the list of causes of death by overdose on prescription opioids. According to the CDC, 2017 saw OD deaths averaging 47 per day and methadone featured prominently on the list of substances they itemized.
Putting this in perspective, in 2017 the top 5 drugs that caused overdoses were listed as:
Prescription drugs such as oxycontin
Now then, take a look at that list and you'll see that prescription opioids are second on the list with fentanyl being first. What is alarming about that is the fact that fentanyl is a pharmaceutical and, until recent years, not manufactured as an illicit street drug. It could be argued that the two leading causes of death by overdose would be pharmaceuticals!
In the end, it is imperative that any addict or concerned family member should understand that there are options. Yes, these drugs can help to save lives because they are not as deadly as opioids like heroin or fentanyl, but they can be abused as well.
It isn't always a matter of substituting one drug for another, but more a matter of feeding an addiction with another addictive substance. There is still a great deal of controversy in the press as well as the medical community, so it really is important for anyone to understand the various options in treatment.
Maybe MAT – medically assisted treatment – is the best course in the very beginning, but maybe it shouldn't be a long-term solution. The best advice you can be given is to do the research before committing to any treatment program of any kind. There are options, so arm yourself with the latest information so that you aren't setting yourself up for failure. You do have a choice you know! So take the time to learn your options. Your life depends on it.
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Filed Under: Drugs and Substances, Health
Tags: dealing with meds, med treatment, meds
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New releases for 1 April 2016
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1 April is a very nice week for new releases. If you don't often buy instrumental rock albums, there are two coming out this week which are essential: Explosions In The Sky return with their first studio album for some time. Hundred Records favourite Black Mountain's new album, IV, is unashamedly ambitious which is as…
Pre-release of the week: The Lumineers – Cleopatra, out 8 April
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Pre-sale of the week is Cleopatra, the second album from platinum-selling Denver trio The Lumineers – the follow up to their multi-Grammy-nominated self-titled debut. There is something timeless about this band that links their songs to 18th century pastorals, 19th century work songs, 20th century folk narratives and 21st century post-modern cinematic soundscapes. Success hasn't…
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Two fabulous local singer-songwriters, Jim Chorley and Nick Tann, will be performing for us next weekend. Come and hear them both from 2pm on Saturday 26 March.
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Amongst the small but perfectly formed new releases for the 25th March is Bob Mould's Patch the Sky, which boasts that rarest of things, a lovely balance of bright melody and dark story; talking of darkness, Birdy's Beautiful Eyes has been described as about overcoming the dark, and it does a fine job of that.…
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Pre-sale of the week is The Bride, the fourth album from Bat For Lashes, which follows the story of a woman whose fiancé has been killed in a crash on the way to the church for their wedding. Written as the soundtrack to an imaginary film, The Bride is Natasha Khan's most ambitious work to date,…
Franc Cinelli, live in store 19 March
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Italian-born London singer-songwriter Franc Cinelli brings his UK Folk Award-winning music to Romsey next weekend. He will be performing at 2pm on Saturday 19 March. Do your ears a favour and come to listen to him.
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First of the recommended releases for 18 March is Iggy Pop's collaboration with Josh Homme, which stands proudly alongside anything either have done in the past. Underworld's Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future has no right to be irresistible and relevant, but it is. Primal Scream's Chaosmosis is hugely ambitious and well worth a…
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