Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all of our MARFC members across the state and country! May the New Year bring Safe and outstanding racing for all racers & race fans alike in 2012!
It is with sadness that we report the passing of Midwest and Michigan Short Track Racing legend Joy Fair. Joy passed away suddenly while enjoying his regular breakfast with his buddies on Saturday December 10, 2011. Joy was a legend not only in Michigan but also in the entire Midwest region as the driver of the school bus yellow #1. Joy took numerous championships at the Flat Rock, Toledo, and Mt. Clemens Race Tracks as well as one at the Sandusky Speedway. Joy was honored by the Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club for championships no less than 20 different times and was honored with the MARFC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Joy was also inducted into the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 in recognition of all He had accomplished over his career.
Visitation for Joy will be at the Modetz Funeral Home located at 100 E. Silverbell Rd. in Orion, Michigan 48359 (248) 317-3777. Times of visitation will be on Wednesday December 14 5-9 PM, Thursday December 15, 2-8-PM with funeral on Friday morning at 10 AM from the Funeral Home.
Gods Speed Joy and condolences to the Fair family.
Racing Legend Joy Fair Passes Away!
We regret to inform you that this morning, Midwest and Michigan Short Track Racing lost a legend as Joy Fair passed away suddenly while enjoying his regular breakfast with his buddies. Joy was a legend not only in michigan but also in the entire midwest as the driver of the school bus yellow #1. Joy took numerous championships at the Flat Rock and Mt. Clemens Race Tracks. Funeral arrangements are not known but when they are available, Please check our website www.marfc.org for details on Joy's life and accomplishments as well as visitation details. The last time I saw Joy, the first thing He did was to shake my hand and proceed to tell me a joke. That is how I will remember a driver and a personality who gave so much to so many of us just by being who he was. He was one of my heroes and I will always remember the sights and sounds of the school bus yellow #1 showing everyone the fast way around the race track.
Another great Children's Christmas Party was had by all who attended! With nearly 30 children young and old with their families all enjoyed a grand time with Bubbles the Clown who gave a magic show and made animal balloons for all, and a very special visit with the big man in the red suit. Each child received a great gift from Santa and each went home with a door prize also. Lunch was provided to everyone attending and we thank all who made this event possible.


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Court texted me the other day and told me the kids were jonesing for a sleepover at Nana and Papa's. So yesterday afternoon, the three of them arrived with their rolling backpacks for a mini-vaca.
There were Pop-Its which provide all sorts of fun. Mylee used them to spell out her name. Once the photo was taken, she stomped them all at one time…..
They managed to convince me that slime was on the docket…..
Can you say red food coloring?
Finally, the evening concluded with banana splits…..
I wonder why they like coming to our house.
My grandkids always make me smile!
I'm glad to see Cole is back on board for smiling in pictures!


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It has been a very hectic week and it was in many ways a huge relief when it was all over and we were finally on the road.
The day before we left, the whole house was a mess and we still had to sort through all of our stuff. On top of all that though we were also filming our interview with the reporter from BTV from 10am to about 2pm. We also had our friend 大何 (Da He- a Dakar rally racer who has given us a ton of help planning, especially for the western part of the trip trough Xinjiang and Tibet) who offered to show up for the interview. CFMOTO was also kind enough to lend him a 650-TR to ride with us for the filming.
Despite the scramble, my goal was to leave on schedule on the 19th (which wasn't completely on schedule either since we pushed back a day to due to bad weather earlier in the week slowing us down). Even if we only did 100km on the 1st day, my thinking was it would be worth it to at least get a foot out the door. So we stayed up until about 1am on the 18th and were still packing the next ay from about 8am until 1pm on the 19th when we were finally ready to go!
We had decided that we were going to take it easy on days 1 and 2 as we settled into our routine. First 220km to Chengde and then a day off the next day would give us an opportunity to sleep in for the first time in what seemed like a long time.
The roads north of Beijing are really a pleasure to ride. This was overall a much better experience than our trips south. Rather than boring roads packed with trucks, this road wound its way through the mountains to the north of the city, often cutting through them too as we passed through at least half a dozen tunnels.
We pulled in to the city at around 5:30 at apaprently one of the only hotels in the city that can legally accept foreigners. We had dinner a few hours later next door to the hotel. As we were eating we noticed a couple of guys at a table nearby and one had put a cracked egg on top of his beer bottle. We looked inquisitively at them, wondering what they were up to. This got them really excited though as they suddenly started explaining how it was good for your health and that I should try.
Before I could even say yes, he had already asked the waiter for another egg from the kitchen and was bringing it over to my glass. He cracked it open inside and then poured my beer on top. Though I figured I might as well, I wasn't about to drink my beer egg alone so I told them they would have to do it with me too, to which they were happy to oblige. Gan Bei to our first day on the road!
Hi, my name is Hun . I'm from Korea n I'm living in SEOUL.
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Hi Hun, thanks for reading and happy to hear you're enjoying the posts! Appreciate the reference and good luck with your future adventuring endeavours. China's a great place to ride a motorcycle (once you can get past the regulation that is).


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Q: how to create Google cloud compute instance with multiple public IP and multiple private IP I have create private subnet on gcloud. Now I want to start gcloud instance with multiple private static IP and one public IP.but there no option for creating such VM. Please help if you know. Better if you post gcloud SDK command for it.

A: For the gcloud compute instances create command use the --private-network-ip=IP-ADDRESS flag to assign one internal/static IP. Only one is supported.

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Покосон () — незалежне місто в США,  в штаті Вірджинія. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Покосон розташований за координатами  ( 37.128360, -76.303534).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 203,12 км², з яких 39,67 км² — суходіл та 163,45 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 60 осіб/км².  Було 4726 помешкань (23/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 1,4 %. Іспаномовні складали 1,8 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 24,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,0 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,6 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 43,5 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 97,5 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 95,2 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  долари для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 4,2 % осіб, у тому числі 4,6 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особи. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 20,4 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 15,2 %, виробництво — 11,9 %, будівництво — 8,9 %.

Примітки

Джерела

Міста Вірджинії
Незалежні міста Вірджинії

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Сергей Курёхин - "Опера богатых" [1992]
Artist: Сергей Курёхин
Title: Опера богатых
Genre: Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Minimal Electronic
Донна Анна (pt. 1)
Аль-Кадбар Буги
Невеста Крумхорна
Трагедия В Стиле Минимализм
Харе Кришна, Донна Анна! (pt. 2)
Синагога-буги
Связанные Одной Пиццей
"The Rich's Opera" is a compilation of Sergey Kuryokhin's minimalistic works recorded during 1987-91 and released as LP in 1992. The name is probably a play on a popular Italian proverb "Bed is the poor man's opera". This is one of the best known Kuryokhin's works, possibly because it's less avant-garde than his early albums. In particular, the opening track "Donna Anna" is among his best-known and easily recognized compositions.
It has very little to do with rock music, but I'll place it under the "progressive rock" label nevertheless. Actually, it's fairly close to Kuryokhin's early 80's free jazz experiments, but more influenced by classical music and minimalistic electronic music. Fun fact: he was one of the few Soviet electronic musicians that owned a SCI synthesizer (namely SCI Prophet 2000) that was bought for him by one of the labels associated with Leo Records, and brought to Soviet Union by Joanna Stingray. According to Andrey Tropillo, having access to such equipment (which never was officially exported to the USSR, and costed almost like a new car on a black market in mid-1980s) was the main reason for Kuryokhin to start experimenting with avant-garde electronic music. The operatic female voice which you can hear in both parts of "Donna Anna" was recorded with the help of Olga Kondina, a professional opera singer. The rest of the album is entirely instrumental.
Автор: Alexander на 12:57 AM 0 коммент.
Ярлыки: free jazz, progressive rock, Russia
Сергей Курёхин & Поп-Механика - "Насекомая Культура" [1987]
Artist: Сергей Курёхин & Поп-Механика
Title: Насекомая Культура
Genre: Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Sound Collage
I already have mentioned Sergey Kuryokhin on here before, but he, as one of the most prominent Soviet avant-garde musicians, deserves much more. Today, 20 years after his death, he's remembered mostly for his "Lenin was a mushroom" prank that was aired on TV in 1991, but his legacy (as a musician, actor & screenwriter) is much more than that.
He became known at home mostly as a member of Aquarium during the first half of 1980s, and he has played in several other rock bands prior to that, but his main interests lied in free jazz and avant-garde music. In late 1979, he tried to send some of his piano compositions to BBC, which attracted the attention of Leo Feigin, who worked at BBC and owned the experimental jazz label Leo Records. In 1981, Feigin's label has released Kuryokhin's debut vinyl, which gained a considerable amount of recognition in the Western bloc. Inspired by this success, Kuryokhin decided to continue his career in experimental music, and started his own project "Pop Mechanics" (named after the Popular Mechanics magazine) in mid-1980s.
Pop-Mechanics, like many early industrial bands, always were rather a performance art group than a music band. They never had any fixed line-up, and most of the prominent members of the Leningrad Rock Club took part in Pop-Mechanics at some moment. This particular album was recorded with the help of Igor Butman, a very well-known jazz saxophonist, and the members of Leningrad-based techno duo The New Composers. It's probably the most avant-garde work of Kuryokhin released during the 80s, and it's mentioned in DMT's Industrial Culture FAQ as one of the early examples of Soviet experimental music that's fairly close to early industrial & musique concrete. I'd say it's rather free jazz mixed with minimalistic techno, but a work as experimental as this one defies any attempts of classification. The album was released on tape as one long track (presented in the video above), and re-released on CD in 1998.
Ярлыки: free jazz, progressive rock, Russia, USSR
Гражданская Оборона - "Звездопад" [2002]
Artist: Гражданская Оборона
Title: Звездопад
Genre: Psychedelic Punk
Песня О Циркаче
На Дальней Станции Сойду
Ветер Северный
Город Детства
На Всю Оставшуюся Жизнь
Слово - Товарищ
Белое Безмолвие
Красный Конь
Песенка Про Черную Гуашь И Надежду
Я Принял Решение
My blog would be incomplete without mentioning the most famous band in the Siberian punk scene, which was immensely influential to both punk and industrial/noise scenes in ex-USSR. Yes, I'm talking about Grazhdanskaya Oborona (the full name translates to "civil defense", and the shortened name, GrOb, means "coffin").
The band was founded on 8th November 1984 by Egor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinin on the ruins of Letov's earlier project Posev (aka Possev Verlag, founded in late 1982). Writing down their detailed history (and the history of numerous other projects associated with them) would take too much time and space, so I suggest you to research it by yourself, if you're interested. To put it in short: initially (in mid-1980s) they were playing raw and unpolished garage punk and post-punk, recording 10 full-length albums in just 2.5 years. In April 1987, they managed to take part in the 1st Siberian Rock festival in Novosibirsk. Their performance was very provocative by the standards of that time, and the organizers had to stop it after 25 minutes. Nevertheless, this incident made them famous over the whole country, and many people still call these 25 minutes "the finest hour" of Russian punk rock.
During 1988-90, they played a lot of live shows and recorded several more albums, but Egor Letov wasn't pleased with their popularity and fanbase (which, in general, was indeed horrible, like in the case with many other popular Russian rock bands of that time) and announced the band's break-up. In 1993, they've reunited again, but no new material was released until 1997. Their 1989-1990 recordings are characterized by being especially dissonant and noisy, close to 80's industrial and noise rock, and at times, even to primitive black metal like Ildjarn. Some critics consider these albums to be their best, but I personally prefer the period from 1997 to Letov's death in early 2008. GrOb's albums of that period are frequently called "psychedelic punk" due to strong influence of shoegaze and psychedelic rock, and more irrational and "trippy" lyrics. "Звездопад"/"Starfall" is very representative of that period, and I chose it for reviewing as one of the best albums in their whole discography.
"Starfall" is a collection of well-known old Soviet songs performed by Letov in his usual lo-fi noisy punk style. As usual, he couldn't sing properly (and he didn't pretend he could), but his vocals only add some "lo-fi" charm to the music. There's also some female vocals here and there, performed by his wife (now a widow) Natalia Chumakova. The sound is unpolished and fuzzy, but suprisingly melodic and nowhere near as harsh sounding as GrOb's early albums (I guess that's what is called "noise pop"). As for the choice of songs, I think Letov's intention was to cover both the most tragic-sounding songs he could find (mostly from the WWII era), and some of the more romantic ones as well. The title song was originally intended for the children, and I can guess that Letov has chosen it because he wanted to bring in the theme of children facing very mature political and ethical questions (a common theme in Soviet literature). The album artwork deserves a special mention, because Letov's decision to use the naive art of the Balkan school was great - these paintings reflect the surrealistic and "trippy" nature of the music very well:
Thanks to this album, I've discovered my new favourite painter - Ivan Generalic. Yeah, I know that the so-called "naive" or primitive art is mostly talentless shit, but it's certainly not the case with Generalic and his followers:
P.S. RIP Egor Letov. 10 September 1964 - 19 February 2008.
"And when I died,
There were no one,
who could deny that..." (E.Letov, early 1990s)
Автор: Alexander на 9:11 PM 0 коммент.
Ярлыки: punk, Russia
V/A - Origins Of Soviet Rock
Artist: (various)
Title: Истоки советского рока
Genre: Beat Rock, Rock'n'Roll, Surf, Rockabilly
Release date: 1960-70s mostly
Электрон - Лучший город земли (1965)
Александр Градский - В полях под снегом и дождём (1971)
Садко - Ты проходишь мимо (1967)
Аргонавты - Домик надежд и грёз (late 1960s)
Летучий Голландец - Love and the Rain
Ариэль - Дом восходящего солнца (1968)
Сокол - Солнце над нами (late 1960s)
Скифы - Годы как птицы (1969)
Марзаны - Апачи (1968)
Москвичи - Roll Over Beethoven (1967)
Кочевники - Посмотри в глаза (1969)
Второе дыхание - [Неизвестно] (1996)
Удачное приобретение - I've Got The Blues (1974)
Юрий Морозов - Виновата сама (1971)
Машина времени - This happen'd to me (late 1960s)
Мозаика - Тяжесть первородного греха (1982)
Окна - Посвящение Хендриксу (1971-1974)
Санкт-Петербург - Приходит день (1971)
Россияне - Инопланетянка (1977)
Оловянные солдатики - То что нам твердили в детстве (1972)
Пульсар - Осень (1971)
Фобос - Окна (1969)
Кентавры - Ямщик (1970)
Пит Андерсон - Blue Suede Shoes (1989)
The same blog where I found the Soviet Electronic Music compilation has a lot of other very interesting and rare stuff, including this compilation of underground Soviet rock music from before the late 1970s. This is what I'd call the "pre-Cambrian" era of Soviet rock before the recordings (especially listenable ones) from that time are very rare. Tape recorders and other sound recording equipment of more or less satisfactory quality became available to most independent Soviet musicians only since the end of 1970s. Of course there were many rock bands in the USSR well before that time, but there are very few survived recordings which are either hardly listenable (example #1, example #2), or they're the rare cases when the band members managed to gain access to the professional recording equipment. Not to mention that the vast majority of these bands simply didn't bother with recording anything... That's why I'm interested in any recording from that era, even if these bands were sounding too "dad rock" for me.
This sampler was compiled from many different sources, so the quality of recording is varied from track to track. Some tracks sound completely awful (mostly live recordings), some are pretty well recorded (mostly re-recordings of unreleased material). The most interesting thing about this compilation is that it doesn't differ much from the officially approved Soviet pop-rock of that time, in terms of both music and lyrical content, the only difference is that these tracks weren't released on vinyl and sold in stores. The real split between the "official" VIA scene and the underground rock culture started in the late 1970s with the rise of tape culture, and culminated in 1983-85 during the anti-rock campaign started by Chernenko's government. Most of the problems that Russian rock scene and its audiences are frequently criticised for (pretentious and elitist fanbase, high levels of plagiarism, putting too much effort into lyrics to the prejudice of music, etc.) are a result of that split, and can be also found in other highly ideologized genres of music (such as punk or black metal). For the sake of comparison, here's a song which was very popular in mid-1970s USSR:
The author of this compilation planned to include only independent/underground bands and artists, but the problem is that a lot of them later became professional musicians - even very famous ones, like A.Gradsky (track #2). He also didn't want to include any bands from the Baltic republics, because the Baltic rock scene always was too different from the rest of Soviet rock. The only exception was made for Pits Andersons from Riga, who was the pioneer of Soviet rock'n'roll (his first band, called The Revengers, was founded in 1962, or according to some sources - even in 1959).
Автор: Alexander на 3:57 AM 0 коммент.
Ярлыки: lo-fi, Russia, USSR
V/A - Soviet Electronic Music
Title: Soviet Electronic Music
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Minimal Synth
Release date: 1980-85 mostly
Эдуард Артемьев - Поход
Зодиак - Зодиак
А.Родионов и Б.Тихомиров - Электронный наездник
Зигмар Лиепиньш - Танец-85
Арсенал - Фоторобот
Зодиак - Пасифик
А.Родионов и Б.Тихомиров - Догоняй, компьютер
Эдуард Артемьев - Созвездие ушедших времен
Зигмар Лиепиньш - Твёрдый орешек
Videosex - Neonska reklama (Bonus Track)
Thanks to this blog (which is one of the best sources for old Eastern bloc music I've seen so far), now we have an amateur compilaton of non-underground Soviet electronic music. As the author admits, it wasn't easy to compile: beyond Eduard Artemiev (who is internationally known mostly for his soundtracks for Tarkovsky's movies), there's only a couple of names that got more or less wide recognition. However, I think it was a right decision to prefer quality over quantity by including only the best stuff into this sampler. This is a great compilation that accurately reflects the spirit and atmosphere of Soviet science fiction of early 80s, and it's strongly recommended to everyone who's interested in old school electronic music (especially space-themed). If you want more, then you might want to check out another series of compilations on that blog, which features almost all Soviet electronic artists they could find (several hours of music in total, movie soundtracks mostly).
For those who wonder WTF is track #10, I'll tell you: it's a soundtrack for the fitness classes which were very popular in mid-1980s. Might sound quite funny in our day and age, but it actually was one of the most erotic things you could see on Soviet TV in 1985:
The bonus track is performed by one of the first Slovenian synthpop bands which was very popular in Yugoslavia in the 80s. It's awesome how such a small country has managed to produce so many great industrial, synthpop, and other alternative electronic acts: Laibach, Coptic Rain, Borghesia, Neurotech, etc., etc...
Ярлыки: ambient, Russia, synthpop, USSR
Ночной Проспект - "Кислоты" [1988]
Artist: Ночной Проспект
Title: Кислоты
Genre: Synthpop, Experimental, Noise
Остатки сомнений
Мне не нужна информация
Наденем пилотки
Наши богатства
Всеобщее невезение
Another influental Soviet synthpop project, formed in 1985 in Moscow by Alexey Borisov and Ivan Sokolovsky. Both of the founding members were well educated and aware of the most recent tendencies in the Western experimental music scene (in particular, they certainly knew of E.Neubauten and Psychic TV). Their early material can be described as "acid techno pop" with female vocals (performed by Natalia Borjomova), but they took a more experimental direction by 1987.
This album is probably their most experimental one, varying from synthpop and post-punk (mostly in the first half) to noise and dark ambient (second half mostly). It wasn't well received by the public at the time, but now it's regarded as one of the first full-length albums of the Soviet industrial scene, along with this one. I personally don't think it's as great as some reviewers claim it to be (among other things, I disliked the vocals; the early releases with female vocals were better in this regard), but it undoubtely was a very interesting release for its time. The band still exists as of today, although Ivan Sokolovsky died in 2005.
Автор: Alexander на 11:55 PM 0 коммент.
Ярлыки: ambient, industrial, Russia, synthpop, USSR
Биоконструктор - "Танцы по видео" [1987]
Artist: Биоконструктор
Title: Танцы по видео
Genre: Synthpop, Minimal Synth
Биоконструктор
Танцы По Видео
Астрологический Ребус
Вечерний Блюз
Телетуризм
Гравитатор
Бетонный Рай
Bioconstructor was founded in 1986 in Moscow by Alexander Yakovlev and Andrey Kokhayev. In 1987 they became a 4-piece band and recorded their first tape which is presented here. The band split up in 1990, when most of the members joined Roman Ryabtsev to form Технология. Later the same year, Alexander Yakovlev later tried to revive the project under the shorter name "Bio", whih is still active today.
While Bioconstructor weren't the first Soviet synthpop band (the first ones appeared as early as 1983), and they never were as popular as Технология, they're still held in high regard as one of the most influental projects in the history of Soviet and post-Soviet underground electronic music, as well as one of the first Soviet bands to use dark sci-fi/cyberpunk aesthetics. The Moscow-based label Gravitator Records, specialized in synthpop, darkwave and dark electro, is named after one of the songs on ths tape.
Ярлыки: Russia, synthpop, USSR
Bonanza Banzai - "1984" [1991]
Artist: Bonanza Banzai
Title: 1984
Genre: Synthpop
Szárnyas Fejvadász / Blade Runner
Tánc A Vékony Jégen (Tánc Il.) / Dancing On Thin Ice (Dance Part Two)
Mint Az Eső / Like The Rain
Provokatőr / Provocateur
Az Érinthetetlenek / The Untouchables
Néma Film / Silent Film
Támadás / Attack
Rendben / Right
Nem Érdekel / I Don't Care
Az Utolsó Pillanat / The Final Moment
Techno Forever
I already have mentioned Bonanza Banzai on here some time ago, but let's repeat: they were one of the most famous among numerous Hungarian synthpop bands that appeared during the second half of the 1980s. It's benn said that most Hungarians that were in their teens during that time still know the lyrics of their best-known songs by heart. One of their former members, Ákos Kovács, is still very well known as a singer-songwriter.
The complete 1987-1994 discography of Bonanza Banzai can be found HERE in FLAC. My personal favourite is "1984", but other albums are pretty good too, especially the early ones.
Ярлыки: Hungary, synthpop
Snake River Conspiracy - "Sonic Jihad" [2000]
Artist: Snake River Conspiracy
Title: Sonic Jihad
Genre: Industrial Rock
You And Your Friend
Act Your Age
More Than Love
Somebody Hates You
From last.fm:
"Snake River Conspiracy is a rock band from San Francisco that formed in 1996. The band is currently comprised of Jason Slater, an ex-member of Third Eye Blind (bass guitar, producer) and Matt Lucich (Drums).
Tobey Torres sang on their debut album Sonic Jihad. After the first tour, Torres and Slater had a falling out, resulting in Torres leaving the band. Martina Axen (formerly of Drain STH) was brought on to perform live when SRC played a tour opening for Queensrÿche. While she was set to be the new official vocalist (going so far as to record on demos for the new album), an announcement was made on May 4th, 2006 that Tobey and Jason had reconciled and were back recording together with the intentions of releasing a new album in the Summer of 2007. This sudden and unexpected turn of events was well received by fans.
On September 4th, 2006, four months after returning to Snake River Conspiracy, Tobey Torres posted on her myspace blog that "I have once again chosen to disassociate myself from Snake River Conspiracy" and thanked fans for their support. Two days later, band guitarist Mitch Doran posted a message on the SRC forums that he had decided to leave the band as well. No official reason has been given for the second falling out. Jason Slater, who typically keeps fans apprised of the ongoings of the band via myspace and the SRC forums, has remained quiet on the situation as well as the status of the material that had been recorded during the brief reconciliation"
Such a pity they failed to release more than one full-length album, because they were a quite good band, as well as one of the few industrial rock bands of the 1990s to feature female vocals. The material on "Sonic Jihad" varies from mellow, almost synthpop-sounding songs like "Casuality" to more aggressive tracks like "Vulcan".
Ярлыки: female vocals, industrial, USA
Пикник - "Пить электричество" [1998]
Artist: Пикник
Title: Пить электричество
Genre: Art Rock, Industrial Rock
Venenum Rerum Omnium
Пить электричество
U (напряжение не кончается)
Афродита из пены и щелочи
Купорос-Е
Будь навсегда
Три истории: I. Разговор глухих
Три истории: II. Uroboros
Три истории: III. Чужие племена
You won't expect a band named "Picnic" to play post-punk and gothic rock, right? Yet they do it, and their name is actually a reference to Strugatskys' well-known book "Roadside Picnic". They were formed in 1981 (although some argue that the band existed in some form as early as in 1978) as a part of the Leningrad Rock Club, and recorded their debut album at Andrey Tropillo's studio in 1982. Initially they played classic rock, but their sound became more "progressive" with the time, and since the late 80s, they were highly influenced by gothic rock as well.
Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with their discography, because as of today, I've listened only to their "Best of" compilation and this album, which is considered to be their most experimental work. As a whole, it's still art rock, but heavily influenced by industrial and dark ambient. It's probably not the best album to start listening to their discography from (as in the case with DDT's "Мир номер ноль"), yet it's without a doubt one of the most interesting albums of the 90's Russian rock I've heard so far.
Ярлыки: post-punk, progressive rock, Russia
ДДТ - "Мир номер ноль" [1999]
Artist: ДДТ
Title: Мир номер ноль
Genre: Alternative/Industrial Rock, Classic Rock
Музыкальный образ I
Одноразовая жизнь
Музыкальный образ II
Расстреляли рассветами...
Черно-белые танцы
Донести Синь.
Музыкальный образ III (Выход)
My blog would be incomplete without mentioning the band which first introduced me to both classic rock and alternative/industrial rock when I was a teenager. You can find all basic info about then in Wikipedia, and I'll add that I was a fan of them and their frontman Yuri Shevchuk when I was 13-15 y.o. This video, which I saw on TV for the first time in early 2000, was probably the first alternative rock video I've seen and liked:
It blew my mind because it was so different from all the pop music videos which I've seen on TV before. Of course, I discovered Rammstein, Linkin Park and other bands of this kind shortly after that, but DDT remained my favourites for a long time. However, they became so popular not due to songs like the one above, but due to much more melodic and catchy stuff which they were playing in early 1990s. Here's, for example, their best-known song which was so popular that Shevchuk even grew tired of playing it live:
One more video from the same period, very simple yet surprisingly scary:
Like all popular bands, DDT has many devout fans and many haters as well. I must agree that some of Shevchuk's behaviour (mostly his "war on pop music" and some of his political activity) is suitable for a teenager but not for a grown man, but it hasn't much to do with his music. As for the music, he's frequently criticised for being rather a singer-songwriter with an electric guitar rather than a proper rock musician, but it isn't a big problem for me - I'm much more interested in neofolk and post-punk than in classic rock, after all. Some of DDT's albums can be indeed quite boring, especially if you don't understand the lyrics, but their discography is very varied in terms of sound. I chose this album to post mostly because it's a concept work strongly influenced by the industrial rock of the 90s, but it also has a lot of less aggressive-sounding, ballad-type tracks:
Ярлыки: alternative rock, Russia
ZGA - "Riga" [1989]
Artist: ZGA
Title: Riga
Genre: Noise, Percussion Industrial
Country: Latvian SSR
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After summarizing all my knowledge of early Soviet noise and industrial music, it seems to me that the industrial scene started to appear in the USSR around 1983-84, and the earliest known recordings were made in 1984. I don't know if bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Laibach or E.Neubauten were known to the Soviet audience back them, but Kraftwerk, The Residents and DAF were known for sure.
Of what I've listened to, "Zoldat Of Revolution" (1984) seems to be the best candidate for the very first Soviet industrial/noise demo. According to Dmitry "DMT" Tolmatsky's Industrial Culture FAQ, the 1983 demo by Center sounds surprisingly similar to early Psychic TV albums which were released around the same time, but I think there isn't that much similarity. I definitely hear strong Krafwerk influence on that demo, but otherwise it's just one of many amateur noisy Soviet rock recordings of that time (what I find more interesting is that tape contained some elements of rap, an year before the first known Soviet hip-hop album). Alexander Lebedev-Fronov of Linija Mass claims to have experimented with noises as early as in 1979, which might be true, but there's no independent evidence of it. The first documented evidence of his project's activity dates back to 1985 or 1987, depending on source.
However, there's one more project that for some reason isn't mentioned in DMT's FAQ, but is widely considered to be a seminal band in Soviet and post-Soviet industrial/noise scene. ZGA were formed in 1984 in Riga, Latvia (but, to my knowledge, no one of their members was Latvian). Soviet Baltic republics such as Latvia always were known for its "Westernized" music scene and enjoyed easier access to newest music from the Western bloc than the other parts of Soviet Union, so it isn't a surprise that one of the first Soviet industrial projects originated from there. The first album of ZGA that I heard was "Sub Luna Morrior" (released in 1996 and dedicated to the memory of one of their original members, Alexander Zhilin, who died in a car crash in March 1994). That was in mid-2000s, and such kind of music was too avant-garde for me back then. The band is still active today, although they've moved to St.Petersburg in 1991.
"Riga" is a collection of their recordings made during 1984-1988, released as their debut album by Points East (an Eastern European subdivision of a British experimental music label ReR Megacorp) in 1989. You can find all the mp3s and scans (several download options are available) on the band's official site. However, I'd recommend this album only to the die-hard fans of noisy and dissonant percussion industrial such as early Einstürzende Neubauten and Z'EV, otherwise this album probably will just give you a headache.
Ярлыки: industrial, Latvia, noise, USSR
Джунгли - "Весна в Шанхае" [1989]
Artist: Джунгли
Title: Весна в Шанхае
Genre: Instrumental Art Rock, Jazz-Rock
Весна в Шанхае
Пляска (Хоровод)
Замкнутый круг (Цикл 22)
I've mentioned this band in my previous entry and then realized than their music is surprisingly hard to find, so it'd be nice of me to post their album too. While I don't think it's avant-garde enough to be called "RIO" or "avant-prog", it's certainly influenced by the Rock In Opposition sound, and it's one of those Soviet experimental gems that are undeservedly forgotten nowadays (along with Стук Бамбука в XI Часов).
Джунгли / Jungle were formed in Leningrad in 1983 (according to other sources - in 1981), initially as a standard hard rock band. Fun fact: the name "Jungle" was chosen after some old man has called the audience of Leningrad Rock Club "a real zoo", and the band members answered jokingly: "It's worse than a zoo, it's jungle!".
By 1984-1985, their sound has evolved into art rock / jazz-rock. According to the band's gutarist, Andrey Otsryaskin, they were mostly influenced by Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Oregon, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Sergey Kuryokhin, probably the best known avant-garde musician in the Leningrad rock scene of that time, also had a lot of influence on them (and it's most likely him who sparked their interest in free jazz). Since late 1987, their style finally shifted away from standard rock music (apart from jazz, they were also interested in medieval music and polyrhythmic folk music at that time). The same year, they had their first chance to perform abroad - first in Poland, then in Denmark and Finland. Their decision to play purely instrumental music has helped them a lot, since they wouldn't have to worry that the audience won't understand the lyrics. By 1990, the band's lineup was reduced to a trio. Then in 1992, when Andrey Otsryaskin realized that his band doesn't have much future in a country which just entered a deep crisis, he decided to emigrate. Thus the story of Jungle has ended.
Горизонт - "Summer In Town" [1985]
Artist: Горизонт
Title: Summer In Town
Genre: Instrumental Art Rock, Avant-Prog
Снежинки / Snowflakes
Чакона / Chaconne
Летний город / Summer In Town
A RIO-influenced Soviet prog rock band which managed to release a vinyl LP in 1985, when the vast majority of independent Soviet musicians still had no other way of distributing their music than tape trading... is it real? Yes it is! Although they officially weren't called a rock band, but a "chamber instrumental ensemble", but it doesn't matter.
Horizont was formed in 1978 initially as a classic art-rock band influenced by Yes, Genesis and ELP. However, by 1983-84 their sound increasingly started to resemble the Rock In Opposition bands like Univers Zero or SMM, even if calling them a RIO-style band still would be a stretch. Like in case with Хроноп (whom they aided a lot with recording their two albums in 1990-91), they were based in Cheboksary and sponsored by Promtractor, which allowed them to release two professionally recorded albums in 1985 and 1988. Sadly art-rock wasn't very popular at that time, so they went largely unnoticed, despite being released on a major label. That's a pity, because they seem to be the only RIO-influenced Soviet band (beside Джунгли / Jungle who were an obscure jazz-rock band formed in 1983 as a part of the Leningrad Rock Club).
Here's a good and detailed review of "Summer In Town" written by Ilya Prutov, who's certainly much more knowledgeable of prog-rock and RIO than me (click to enlarge):
Ярлыки: progressive rock, rock in opposition, Russia, USSR
Хроноп - "Здесь и сейчас" [1990]
Artist: Хроноп
Title: Здесь и сейчас
Genre: Art Rock
Пока Мы
Пророк Иеремия
Время-Время
Как Странно
Although my city has over 1.2 million inhabitants, it never had a really significant music scene. It hosted one of the first Soviet rock festivals in 1971, but that's pretty much all; it never became a large rock music center, as Moscow, Leningrad or Sverdlovsk were. Even if things got slightly better since the beginning of 2000s, but the number of good local bands is still relatively small. Speaking of the Soviet period, I can't name anything except Rock Syndrome (which weren't that good) and Cronop, that were formed in 1985 and took their name from Julio Cortazar's book "Cronopios & Famas".
Until recently, I knew their founding member Vadim Demidov mostly as a music critic whose articles in a local newspaper were a major source of knowledge about rock music for me in the early 2000s when I was a teenager. Most of his band's albums turned out to be boring (that's often the case with the bands led by prominent music critics), especially the ones released after the band's reunion in 2004, but their best known works from 1990-91 are generally quite good.
Here's their first and the best known LP, released on vinyl by Melodiya in 1990. They had to move to Cheboksary (~200 km from here) to record it, because they couldn't find professional recording equipment of adequate quality here back then. The album was recorded with a 8-channel Tascam tape recorder, and the result turned out to be great by the standards of that time. The recording was sponsored by the Promtractor factory, who were generous enough to pay them wages during the whole process of recording, as well as buying them professional equipment from abroad.
"Achingly intelligent" might be one of the worst tags I've ever seen on last.fm, but it describes this album very accurately. It's very melodic rock with calm and relaxed vocals and prominent use of flute. Some tracks at the end of the album might be a bit boring, but at least the opening two ones are great. If you liked this album and are interested in hearing more from them (here's their 1985-2010 discography, but they've released more albums since 2010), I'd recommend their 1991 one, as well as their debut 1985 tape (surely it isn't recorded as good as this album, but it still has its charm).
Ярлыки: progressive rock, Russia, USSR
Мыши - demo [1996]
Artist: Мыши
Title: -
Мальчики на белом
Слушай
It's about time to post something with female vocals, and here's a really obscure band from St.Petersburg whose live demo was posted here 5 years ago. After looking at the track names, I thought it might be generic shitty pop-rock which isn't worth a listen. However, I did gave it a listen, and while I wasn't far from truth when expecting it to be pop-rock, it actually turned out to be pretty good.
I couldn't find much info about the band, mostly because of its very generic name ("Mice"), but they apparently were formed in the very beginning of 1990s, and released a full-length album in 1991. Back then they were playing post-punk with male vocals. On this demo, the vocals are performed by Regina Baronova, who now works as a professional singer in Spain. I understand she isn't really a rock vocalist, and she probably felt herself out of place in such a band, but her voice is awesome! It's the most distinguishing feature of this demo in my opinion, and that's a pity that their other recordings didn't have her on vocals.
The videos of their live performances are also very hard to find. I personally could find only one video of them performing on some big rock festival in 1996. The quality isn't great, but I don't have any better. The clothes that Regina was wearing on stage seem to be a bit strange to me, although I liked her short skirt (I think Regina's legs are just as nice as her voice :))
Ярлыки: female vocals, Russia
Аквариум - "Искушение святого Аквариума" [1973]
Artist: Аквариум
Title: Искушение святого Аквариума
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Noise Rock
Мой ум сдох
Концепция 14
Осторожно, берегись поезда
Бустер в ночи
Река Оккервиль
Ария шузни, влюблённой в джинсню
Мочалкин блюз
Гуру Панджахай
Ну а ты?
Он пришёл из туманной дали
У меня шузня. Гимн
Песня о кайфе
Господин Раутбарт
Упади на песок
Я — Шизо
Большая увертюра для квака B-mol
Маленький большой водопад
Ля-ля-ля
Фамилия — это субстанция
Во мне кто-то третий
Для Ахтараута
Сказка о двух королях
Пение птиц и птичек на могиле сдохшего ума
This album is a good answer to why the recordings of any independent Soviet rock bands priot to the end of 1970s are so scarce. Even if nearly every school and university had at least one rock band back then, very few of them had access to professional recording equipment, and what they could record at home usually didn't sound much better than this tape. No doubt it also would be forgotten by now, if not for the fact that it's a debut recording of a very well-known band.
"The Temptation Of St. Aquarium" was recorded during January-February 1973 (or 1974, according to some sources), using home-made monitors and mixing console (which needed a repair after every 20 minutes of use), an old tape recorder called "Dnepr", a 9-string guitar and some makeshift percussion. Some non-standard instruments and sound sources were also used, including the sound of a boiling plasic. The band members describe the results as "a surrealistic perversion made by two idiots: very funny, but very poorly recorded". The lyrics are mostly of jocular or absurdist kind, thus fitting the music (or, more like, "music") quite well.
The tape was considered to be lost until it was discovered in 1997 and released on CD in 2001. While its only value is historical, and it bears little relation to the band's later work, I find it to be strangely appealing to my dissonant, "industrial" side. After all, it's still better than Genesis P-Orrige & Thee Early Worm :)
Сергей Курёхин & Поп-Механика - "Насекомая Культур...

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Children with autism eventually become adults, and their autism doesn't just go away, leaving many families wondering what direction they'll take with their lives and careers. Many parents wonder how their children will manage to become functional members of society when they can't adequately communicate with their peers and struggle to fit in with mainstream society.
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27 Jun 2018 // Star Feature // Comments OFF
Americas-Caribbean S18 review: US has two-thirds of seats; Rio-São Paulo is busiest route
There is a strong North American influence in the Americas and Caribbean region with the US and Canada representing the largest and third largest markets for departing seats in S18. However, the four largest routes are all domestic services in South or Central America. The biggest route based on available weekly seats in S18 is the domestic Brazilian link from Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont to Sao Paulo Congonhas.
Peak summer season is upon us, so anna.aero thought it would be a good idea to summarise the busiest country markets, airports, airlines and routes from around the world, beginning this week with a look at the Americas and Caribbean. This revealed that the US accounts for more than two-thirds of the region's weekly departing seats and that US airports and airlines dominate the market in terms of available capacity. However, it is domestic South and Central American services that top the route rankings, with the Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont to Sao Paulo Congonhas sector taking the honours for the region's busiest airport pair.
North America rules the roost
There are 33.89 million weekly one-way seats available from airports in the Americas and Caribbean region in peak S18. This represents a 4.5% increase compared to S17. About 79% of this capacity is scheduled for domestic operations, although it should be noted one-way seats on internal services are counted in both directions, while international capacity to destinations outside of the Americas and Caribbean region is only counted in one direction. The US is, unsurprisingly, the largest market in the region for one-way seats. Nearly 23 million seats will be available from US airports during the week commencing 31 July, that's a huge 68% of the region's total capacity. US airports will offer 19.76 million seats on domestic services and 3.21 million on international links, equivalent to 74% and 46% of the respective total capacity in the Americas and Caribbean for the week in question.
Source: OAG Schedules Analyser – non-stop flights only. Data is for week commencing 31 July.
The top 12 country markets in the Americas and Caribbean include two North American nations (highlighted in red), with Canada in third place. The rest of the top-ranked markets feature seven South American countries (highlighted in green), two Central American nations (highlighted in orange) and one from the Caribbean (highlighted in blue). Brazil is the largest country market in the region after the US, while the only Caribbean representative in the top 12 is the Dominican Republic. For all but two of the top 12 markets, domestic capacity accounts for around two-thirds or more of the total available seats. Only Panama and the Dominican Republic are dominated by international traffic, with 94% and 99% of their respective departing seats operating to international destinations. All of the top-ranked countries have witnessed an increase in capacity for S18 compared to the equivalent peak period last year. The top 10 remain in exactly the same positions they occupied in S17 but Ecuador moves up a place to 11th and Bolivia replaces Cuba at the top table after a 62% jump in departing seats, largely due to strong growth on domestic services.
US Airports are major players
Given the predominance of the US domestic market, it is not surprising that ten of the 12 busiest airports in the Americas and Caribbean region in S18 are located in that country. Atlanta, the world's biggest airport, takes top spot. The highest-placed airport outside of the US is Toronto Pearson, in ninth position. Mexico City also makes the top 10 and is the only top-ranked airport outside of North America. The highest placed airports from South America and the Caribbean are Sao Paulo Guarulhos and San Juan which are in 17th and 70th position respectively. At most of the top-ranked airports, domestic routes dominate departing capacity. This is most extreme at Denver, where 95% of the scheduled seats for the week commencing 31 July will be flown on domestic routes. Only New York JFK (57%) and Pearson (59%) will see more seats departing on international services than on internal flights.
All of the top 12 airports witnessed an increase in departing capacity this summer compared to last year. The largest growth has taken place at Seattle-Tacoma and Mexico City. In total, OAG schedules show that 1,379 airports in the Americas and Caribbean region will see scheduled services during the week commencing 31 July, with 19 of these welcoming just one weekly flight.
USB3 lead the way, LATAM is top non-US operator
The top four airlines for departing seats in the Americas and Caribbean region are all US-based operators. The US Big Three (USB3) of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, occupy first, second and fourth positions. Between them they account for 13.79 million departing seats, which is equivalent to 41% of those available from the region. Nine of the top 12 carriers are North American-based operators (highlighted in red), with seven of these being US airlines. Air Canada and WestJet were the two Canadian operators. The remaining three airlines to make the top 12 are all from South America (highlighted in green). LATAM Airlines is the largest of these with 1.64 million weekly seats on offer. The highest ranked carriers from Central America and the Caribbean are Azul Airlines and Caribbean Airlines which are in 13th and 33rd place respectively.
All of the top 12 carriers have experienced an increase in capacity this summer compared to the equivalent peak week in S17. LATAM Airlines has seen the largest year-on-year growth, although this appears to be a result of published capacity being transferred to its LA IATA code from LATAM Brasil's JJ code, with the latter still operating a significant proportion of flights. If the published LATAM and LATAM Brasil capacity for S17 and S18 is combined, the equivalent year-on-year growth rate is a more reasonable 5.4%. Schedule data suggests that 267 airlines will offer at least one scheduled departure from airports in the Americas and Caribbean region during the week commencing 31 July. The smallest operator is Norlandair which will offer one flight between Greenland (considered part of North America) and Iceland using a nine-seat twin turboprop.
Latin America tops route table
Despite the pre-eminence of the US in the Americas and Caribbean market, the four largest routes in the region, based on weekly departing seats in S18, are all domestic links in South or Central America. In total 11 of the top 12 routes are domestic, with four in the US, three in Mexico and one each in Canada, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The only international route in the top 12 is the JFK to London Heathrow connection which is in 10th position. The largest route originating in the Americas and Caribbean region this summer is the link between Santos Dumont and Congonhas. Nearly 59,000 weekly one-way seats will be available on this internal Brazilian airport pair in S18, with three operators offering a combined 388 departures. The number of daily flights on this sector varies across the week from 38 to as many as 62.
Mexico City and Los Angeles, appear the most in the top 12, with each airport featuring as the origin or destination in three of the top-ranked routes. Nine of the top 12 have experienced an increase in weekly capacity this summer, with the strongest percentage growth coming on the Mexico City-Monterrey (24.2%) and Guadalajara-Mexico City (19.7%) sectors. Three of the routes have witnessed a decline in seat numbers, including the only international link in the top 12. However, the most pronounced cuts are Canadian, with the Vancouver to Pearson airport pair seeing a 5.9% reduction in one-way seats. The smallest scheduled service in the region is a link from Ouzinkie to Port Lions in Alaska, which is operated once during the week commencing 31 July. The route is flown by Island Air Service with a small Piper aircraft and only five seats are available.
Caveats and considerations
This analysis used a number of assumptions. The Americas and Caribbean region includes all countries grouped into the following global groups by OAG; North America, Latin America: Caribbean, Latin America: Central America, Latin America: South America. Typical peak S18 capacity and frequencies are taken from OAG schedule data for the week commencing 31 July. Where comparisons are made with last summer, the data refers to the week commencing 1 August 2017. The capacity included in the analysis accounts for any flights departing from airports in the Americas and Caribbean region. This includes all domestic and intra- and extra-regional international flights. On domestic and intra-regional international links capacity is counted in both directions on an airport pair. For extra-regional international services, seat numbers are only counted in the outbound direction.
Canada and Mexico are the third and fourth largest markets respectively for airline seats in the Americas and Caribbean in S18. On 15 March Canadian carrier WestJet launched a three times weekly operation between Vancouver and Mexico City, the day after it introduced services to the Mexican capital from Calgary.
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Spider-Man: Fairy Tales (2007)
Collects Spider-Man: Fairy Tales #1-4.
In the tradition of X-Men Fairy Tales, Marvel makes its move on melding more modern myths -- this time starring everybody's favorite wall-crawler! Featuring all-new interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood, Anansi the Spider-God, Tsuchigumo the Japanese Spider Spirit and Cinderella. Find out just how fun fairy tales can be... Marvel style!
Spider-Man: Fairy Tales
Avengers Fairy Tales (2008)
The critically-acclaimed line of Marvel Fairy Tales continues with a coming-of-age tale inspired by the timeless classic Peter Pan! When Wanda and Pietro are swept away to Neverland by the boy who never grows up, they find themselves pulled into a situation beyond their wildest dreams. However, as fairies and lost boys become locked in battle with a vicious pirate captain and his crew, the two chi
Spider-Man: Fever (2010)
Spider-Man is abducted by a depraved tribe of spider-demons to a bizarre dimension, where he is to be eaten alive. Dr. Strange goes on a perilous occult quest to rescue his friend -- and tangles with some very peculiar characters along the way…
Spider-Man & The Secret Wars (2009-2010)
Collects Spider-Man & The Secret Wars #1-4 and Marvel Super Hero Secret Wars #1. How do ten heroes end up buried alive beneath one hundred and fifty BILLION tons of rock? And is the Hulk mad enough to do anything about it? What were the events that led up to this catastrophe? What are the heroes thinking? And with the weight of an entire mountain range above them, how do they go about their des
Spider-Man: The Final Adventure (1996)
The climax of the iconic Clone Saga begins here! With the emergence of Ben Reilly as Spider-Man, where does that leave Peter Parker? Is he at last free to live a normal life?


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Women Make Careers in Aviation Soar
The month of March is recognized as Women's History Month, celebrating the accomplishments of women throughout history whose actions have inspired, motivated and changed the world. And just like every other industry, women have also made a huge impact in aviation throughout history and are vital to its continued success.
Destined for Greatness: 5 Places Where Women Made History – Out of the Blue
Sure, you can crack open a history book to read about the courageous women who fought for women's rights over the years. But why just read about them when you can take a walk in these women's shoes, and visit the places where they took a stand?
From self-taught inventor E. Lillian Todd to pilots like Amelia Earhart and Helen Richey, women have been pioneers in aviation and role models for generations of girls who dream of a career in the clouds.
First Officer Kathy Cosand paved the way… not just for her family of pilots, but for all women in aviation. #AATeam #WomensHistoryMonthhttps://t.co/YLX8IpbGm3
— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) March 7, 2018
Years later, Beth rejoined the Southwest ranks. This time, as a Pilot.
Her message?
"Don't tell me no. Watch me."
#InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/Z4J6xOTHLy
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) March 8, 2018
But even in 2018, there is still more work to be done to welcome women into aviation. Women make up only 6.33 percent of the commercial pilot workforce and even less as mechanics (2.34 percent), flight engineers (4.08 percent) and aircraft repair workers (5.29 percent). As we step forward into the next generation, there has never been a more vital time to encourage women to pursue their dreams in aviation.
#TBT – WomenVenture celebrated its 10th Anniversary last year at the 65th annual @EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh. For those that came before us & those trailblazing into the future of #aviation – we thank you! ✈🌎📦💪🏼 #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/T7mO1kIkzA
— UPS Airlines (@UPSAirlines) March 8, 2018
U.S. airlines are helping make this a reality by ensuring that girls around the country have the tools they need to succeed in the industry. By partnering with female-focused aviation programs around the country and even sponsoring their own events for children interested in aviation and STEM, the U.S. airlines are committed to making a career in aviation accessible for people of all genders and backgrounds.
Carrying the Torch
It's what Washington/Dulles-based First Officer Sarah Micklo calls "that old stigma," one that somehow continues to permeate corners of the aviation industry: the idea that women pilots aren't as good as their male counterparts. "At least one or two people during my career have said women don't belong in the cockpit," recalled Sarah.
On this #InternationalWomensDay, we're inspired by the women leaders we work with every day, including those willing to share career advice like Teleesa Mason. https://t.co/idu6uf7RMx pic.twitter.com/sq8tAnls4T
— FedEx (@FedEx) March 8, 2018
For more information and to learn about programs and events for women and girls in aviation, visit Women in Aviation International.


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New Zealand flights and accommodation
New Zealand Accommodation / November 4, 2017
Walk the ancient forests and glacier-carved mountains of this island nation and you'll soon discover why movie directors and outdoors enthusiasts love "Aotearoa".
With snow-capped peaks, primeval forests, and active volcanoes, New Zealand's stunning natural diversity has played a staring role in movies like Avatar and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's not just movie directors who are drawn here; outdoors enthusiasts also come in droves to trek mountains, ski glaciers, abseil into limestone caves and experience white-knuckle rides down river rapids. With Maori society dating back over 700 years, and English settlement almost 200, Aotearoa, as New Zealand is traditionally known, is a place of diverse cultural riches too.
At the top of the North Island, discover the "City of Sails", Auckland, then lose yourself in the fabulous Bay of Islands. Just to the south, the geysers and bubbling mud pools of Rotorua await. Visit the Whakarewarewa Thermal Village to learn how the Maori coexist with the unpredictable nature of the landscape. Near the North Island's center, hike through herb fields and forests near the active volcanoes of Tongariro National Park.
New Zealand's political and cultural capital Wellington, sits at the southern tip of the North Island. Ride the Wellington Cable Car, tour the city's museums and galleries, and order a short black in Cuba Street, the city's bohemian enclave.
From Wellington, it's just a short ferry ride to the South Island. Explore the glaciers and lakes of the Mount Cook region or take a TranzAlpine rail journey though Arthurs Pass. If you're into mountain biking or skiing, carve up the slopes around Queenstown, or saddle up for a multi-day adventure along the Otago Rail Trail. New Zealand is the birthplace of bungee jumping, so leap off the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge, or take a jet-boat ride through the swirling waters below. For a change of pace, paddle a sea kayak across the pure waters and silence of Milford Sound.
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22K Open, Vulnerable Containers Found Exposed on the Net
More than 22,000 container orchestration and API management systems are unprotected or publicly available on the internet – highlighting the reality of the risks of operating workloads in the cloud.
According to research from Lacework, the containers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarms and more) suffer from poorly configured resources, lack of credentials and the use of non-secure protocols. As a result, attackers can remotely access the infrastructure to install, remove or encrypt any application that the company is running in the cloud.
Internal Accenture Data, Customer Information Exposed in Public Amazon S3 Bucket
Gary McGraw on BSIMM8 and Software Security
Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3
In all, earlier this month Lacework found 22,672 open admin dashboards on the web; and more than 300 of them were unprotected by any credentials whatsoever. About 95 percent of these are hosted inside of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The firm said that it has alerted the affected companies.
"Each of these openings presents an entry-point into potentially sensitive data or an opportunity to hijack a organization's cloud assets," Dan Hubbard, chief security architect at Lacework, said in an interview with Threatpost. Depending on the motives of the attackers, they can perform a variety of attacks. When a user interface is open, anyone can get inside. Once inside, they can quietly use resources to mine for cryptocurrency, deposit malware or ransomware, wipe out data, grab sensitive PII, or do any of a number of things that could frustrate normal cloud operations and/or expose critical, private data."
If containers management consoles and APIs are open and accessible, it takes only a rudimentary level of skill to do damage. However, a more sophisticated attacker can perform data-mining on the open infrastructure in order to learn more about potential attack targets, and then deploy their attacks.
"More experienced hackers will be able to navigate to critical data in the container and beyond and into the overall cloud infrastructure," Hubbard said. "These experienced hackers know that a combination of behavioral engineering (getting anecdotal information about the way an environment is structured) along with access is the most potent combination, so they will try to get information from employees through phishing emails, bogus phone calls, and other means that prey on unsuspecting informants."
Even if the containers have authentication turned on, an attacker can test simple brute-force password and dictionary attacks to gain access, Hubbard noted.
In terms of the footprint of affected companies, they run the gamut in terms of size and industry.
"Although we did not access any of the consoles to drive into what the targets were or dig into a level that would allow us to see if they were compromised as this was largely automated, you can see in the data that there are all kinds of organizations included," Hubbard said. "Although we are not sharing company names, this is something that is not just about small startups or research divisions."
Containers are increasing in popularity among DevOps users in companies of all sizes because they facilitate collaboration, which optimizes their ability to deliver code fast to virtual environments. However, Lacework noted that securing workloads in public clouds requires a different approach than that used for traditional data centers, where APIs drive the infrastructure and create short-lived workloads. In turn, they're also becoming more interesting to cybercriminals.
"There is an inherent dynamic at play if you combine the goals of DevOps with easy-to-use tools like containers," Hubbard noted. "Users are not abiding by security controls, and without continuous and automated monitoring of the environment, things like misconfigurations and open containers linger as undetected issues. The DevOps team is not typically organized to look for these security issues, so they keep pushing code and using containers because containers make it easier for them."
However, the cloud operates with different types of perimeters, and movement of data is not linear, which poses new security challenges. Rampant misconfiguration of cloud storage buckets like Amazon S3s has plagued the space for years – containers are just another wrinkle.
"So much data is going into and out of S3 buckets and containers, but because it's often happening in an ad-hoc way through connections made by APIs, no one really knows the specifics of what data is available and what it's status is," Hubbard said. "The same things happen at the user level; the cloud encourages broad permissions so people can make changes and use their technology investment at business speed. But overly-permissive models lead sometimes to these assets being almost globally available."
The findings should come as a wake-up call, Hubbard said.
"This is strong evidence of where we are in the security maturity levels when it comes to deploying into public cloud," he told us. "While, certainly there are companies deploying with extremely secure workloads running least privilege, there is also a lot happening with little guardrails, visibility, or auditing