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Doves: Producing Kingdom Of Rust
Dan Austin & Jez Williams
By Tom Doyle
Doves have overcome writer's block, the perils of democracy and a silly studio name to produce an early contender for album of the year.
Doves (from left): Andy Williams, Jimi Goodwin and Jez Williams.
Missing in action since 2005's Some Cities, it might have been reasonable to assume that we'd heard the last of Doves. Instead, it turns out that the band have been painstakingly crafting the follow‑up, Kingdom Of Rust, already rightfully hailed as their best record to date.
That's not to say that the Wilmslow trio — twins Jez (guitar) and Andy (drums) Williams, plus singer/bassist Jimi Goodwin — are particularly happy about their apparently tortoise‑like work rate. They would dearly love, Jez insists, to make their records faster. "Oh yeah," he laughs. "But, y'know, because Doves is a democracy, everyone has an equal opinion, therefore the old wheel of democracy turns at a slower pace than it would under a dictator."
Out Of The Blocks
Williams admits that it wasn't just this democratic approach, along with an obsessive attention to detail, that created such a long gap between Doves albums. There was a bit of writer's block involved too, which the guitarist tackled by employing the radical Immersion Music Method, invented in 2001 by a pair of songwriters from Oakland, California.
"I was finding myself getting into bad habits," he says. "Like music avoidance — instead of knuckling down and getting on with songwriting, you might find an excuse to get your emails or pop out and see your mates. So I read this amazing book [The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, by Karl Coryat and Nicholas Dobson]. I'm simplifying it here, but basically what it boils down to is you have to write a song every half an hour for 12 hours. It's incredible. I had my Logic all set up as a template, everything plugged in ready to go. Then quite a few songs started to come out of these sessions."
Dan Austin engineered and co‑produced the bulk of Kingdom Of Rust.Photo: Soup Collective
Kingdom Of Rust co‑producer Dan Austin (Massive Attack, Cherry Ghost) first engineered for Doves in 2004 during the recording of Some Cities. "I recorded three tracks on that at 2kHz in London," he recalls. "It was just the tracking I was involved with, but it went fantastically well. The songs were ready to record, so there wasn't a lot of messing around, it was just all about getting a sound. They wanted to do something very vintage‑sounding. They had the EMI TG board in there and we went to 16‑track, 2-inch at 15ips, so it was a proper old sound."
"We were impressed by Dan and it felt right to work together again," Jez remembers. "He's an excellent set of ears and a great producer. We wanted to take control again this time and not have maybe this kind of mystical producer come in. I think, if I'm honest, we're more comfortable when we're in control ourselves really. Dan was coming in from the level that we were all working on it together."
Keen not to enter a commercial facility — perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the costs that would have been involved — the band opted instead to rent a Cheshire farmhouse and build their own makeshift residential studio. Austin says that only the barest amount of acoustic treatment was done to the improvised control room.
"There's a bedroom at one end with three racks of gear in and the Pro Tools and a load of mattresses to try and stop the sound flying around," he explains. "Very, very basic setup, but throughout the course of the 18 months that we worked here, we managed to get it to a point where you could take a monitor mix away and it sounded all right. It's still pretty inaccurate but it was never designed to mix in."
When it came to the recording environment of the living‑cum‑live room, Jez Williams says it was a matter of trial and error. "But it was one of those lucky ones," he points out. "You move all the gear in and you put up the mics and then start moving the drum kit all around the room. Dan found this optimum place near the fireplace that sounded great. Half is carpet, half of it's timber and there's this brick fireplace that obviously reflects the sound, so it's got a bit of everything."
The farmhouse location is the third in a succession of studios that Doves have set up. The first was a disused warehouse in Manchester where they suffered a serious fire in the late '90s that destroyed most of their equipment ("But that's another story," deadpans Williams), the second a long‑term borrow from New Order located in the city's Cheetham Hill, where chancing locals climbed onto the roof to steal the band's CCTV cameras.
In the tradition of their previous facilities, their latest studio is — bizarrely — named after former breakfast TV host Frank Bough. "It's Andy's perverse sense of humour," his brother explains. Not that Frank Bough Sound III is likely to last much longer than its predecessors, since Doves are already becoming keen to move on. A composite photo showing the inside of Frank Bough Sound III.
"We're getting a little bit tired of it now, 'cause it was such an intense, long period to record this fourth album," Jez laughs. "There's only so much cowshit you can take."
The initial plan for the recording of Kingdom Of Rust was for Dan Austin to set up the studio for the trio and then leave them to record their typically elaborate demos, some elements of which usually make it to their final masters.
"The reality of it was that didn't quite work out," Dan says. "A lot of the time they ended up going back to their laptops and just doing stuff in Logic at various people's houses or various cottages they went away to write in. They're all really tech‑ed up. By the time you get the demos, they sound really, really great. So it's generally a case of — track by track — deciding, 'Do we start again on everything?' If the drum sounds need fixing up, I always like sending stuff out into the room here through a PA and just trying to match all the sounds up, so there's a coherence to them."
All three members of Doves run Logic 8 on their MacBook laptops. "We're all Logic‑heads really," says Jez. "But we decided, for our proper studio, to get Pro Tools HD. Dan managed to front‑end Logic on the system. He set it up in a certain way that it was very easy to work on both and import stuff in."
"If they had lots of automated Logic effects, say, on the guide vocal," Dan says, "I'd record the vocal properly and then I'd fire the vocal back through their Logic automation and effects. I love all the plug‑ins in Logic — the bit‑crushers and distortions and the Tape Delay. We really got into Space Designer. Someone sent us some [EMT] 240 plate impulses and then we bought Revolver, the McDSP plug‑in for Pro Tools, put the IRs into that and it actually sounded even better than Space Designer."
The improvised studio seen from the other end.
Austin and the group's time at the farmhouse was broken up into four‑ to six‑week recording segments, interspersed with songwriting periods. Then all involved would return and swap the various files they'd been working on. "Yeah, just Bluetooth each other and drop files in," Jez explains. "It's instant, so it really helps us just to get on with the track and not get distracted by technology."
In terms of tracking, Doves have no set formula. "Quite a lot of times," Jez says, "we'd have the rough demo and then go in and knock it out to see where else we could go with it. We did get obsessed, probably a bit unhealthily, about BPMs and key."
"If the track had a rhythm acoustic guitar, that would absolutely be done with the drums," says Dan. "With those tracks, we'd set them all up, generally with Jimi playing bass in the DI to minimise the spill. There's a toilet which we occasionally locked the bass amp in to do live takes. Jez would be hidden behind a couple of screens playing the acoustic and the drums would go down. If it was an electric take, the guitar amp would go in the kitchen.
"Then, if we decided to keep the floor takes, we'd re‑amp, basically. I've got one of those Red Eye re‑amp boxes and it's just such a lifesaver. It means you can keep a really great performance and worry about the sound later. If you can get a pretty good sound, but you know you've got the DI and a re‑amp box, you're away."
Aside from a Mackie 32:8 mixer used for headphone monitors, Austin and Doves were desk‑less and working in the box, using an array of preamps, including four Neve 1073s and two API 7600s, the latter being particular favourites. "You can rack them all up together and make yourself a little desk," says Austin. "I love the APIs for the sharpness of them — on snares and guitars they're just fantastic.
"Then we've got a lot of the UA stuff. I just love the 8110s because they've got the tone switching, which is really subtle but it always seems to sound better in one position. You can really tan them as well, because they've got a separate output level — you can send the input right into the red and just pull the output down and it sounds really great. Then we've got the UA 2108. It's very, very coloured, but I love it on overheads. It just takes that horrible sheen out."
Mic‑wise, as Dan Austin puts it, the band used "pretty standard fare — the poshest thing was probably a [Neumann] U87. Then it was a vintage [AKG] D12 for kick drum and bass, and [AKG] 451s and 414s as stereo pairs and overheads. The SE Ribbon mics are just fantastic. We used them all the time on guitars with either a [Sennheiser] 421, a [Beyer] 201 or a [Shure] 57. But we've always got the ribbon there just to get the fatness in the low‑mid."
While other producers have been known to rewire an NS10 driver as a mic to capture low end from bass drums and bass amps, Austin and Doves experimented with smaller speakers. "They're just speakers out of an old Rover," Dan laughs. "But you get a lot of mid‑range with them. If you put them a few feet back from the kit and effect them up — generally distort them through a [Thermionic Culture] Culture Vulture and compress them through a [UREI] 1176 — it's the best ambient mic you've ever heard. There's just something about it. It pulls it away from being a standard drum recording."
Even more unusually, Doves have got into the habit of using vintage reel‑to‑reel tape recorders as mic preamps. "With The Last Broadcast, our second album, I started using Dictaphones for 'lo‑fi‑ing' sounds," Williams remembers. "Then, with Max Heyes, who was engineering, we started using tape recorders from the '70s, along with the Neumanns and stuff. Since then we've built our arsenal of late‑'70s tape recorders. The inbuilt compression on these things is amazing and you can get this raw, exciting sound. Then you mix it with the posh mics and it's incredible. It's got embedded in the Doves sound. The band's collection of cheap tape recorders was widely used for interesting, lo‑fi sounds.
"A lot of them have got these super‑crusty limiters in them that are super‑fast," Austin adds. "We quite often just have the tape recorder under the snare. It's just that thing that you can't get from EQ'ing or distorting another microphone."
Eastern Promise
Although Doves are best known as a guitar band, Kingdom Of Rust opens with a mostly programmed affair called 'Jetstream', featuring Jez Williams' newly acquired analogue synths, the Octave Kitten and the Polivoks — the latter the early‑'80s Russian‑built take on the Moog Prodigy.
"I was after a proper analogue keyboard but something a bit different," he recalls. "So I went on eBay and found this mad thing that was built in a military factory. It's rock hard. But it's an incredible, individual‑sounding machine and 'Jetstream' is mainly that. The track was originally just this very simple thing on the guitar, and we were trying to push it in a futuristic direction. We put the chords down onto a little reed organ that I bought off eBay for 20 quid, and then we put some phased hi‑hats down and started layering it with bass lines and getting the whole thing pulsating."
"All those white‑noisey snares are from the Polivoks," Dan points out. "They were all hand‑played, none of it's quantised, and that was the whole point, to make it feel organic. You could have done that track all in the grid and programmed it and it would've sounded disgusting."
In terms of instrument plug‑ins, Doves are huge fans of GForce's M‑Tron Mellotron simulator. "We're pretty obsessed with that M‑Tron plug‑in," Jez says. "It sits with guitars very nicely."
"They use it all the time," Dan adds. "It'd be great to have a real Mellotron, but I've had such problems with trying to record real ones in the past. I've actually ended up using the plug‑in, 'cause half the notes on the real one don't work and they're noisy."
Most of Kingdom Of Rust's rattling, Spaghetti Western‑flavoured title track, meanwhile, was built from the original Logic demo, recorded during a songwriting session in a cottage in Eyam, Derbyshire.
"We imported the drums, the bass, the guitars, and then Dan started doing sound replacements," says Jez. "It'd be like, 'Well Andy hit a tom there, but there was no mic on it cause we didn't have enough channels.' So we sampled a few toms and put them in and mucked around with some of the timings."
"The glock in the chorus was just an EXS patch," says Dan. "But we put it through various things. They're really into putting stuff slightly out of tune. There's a lot in that track that's deliberately sharp and I think that gives it a magical quality. We're constantly messing about with tunings, just pulling stuff wide. It gives you that width when everything's not on the note. It's the same with timing — when everything lands at the same time, it doesn't sound as big as when it's all slightly blurred."
Some tracks feature orchestral elements, a subtle blend of the real and the sampled. "A lot of orchestral stuff is from the EXS," Austin says. "Some of it is played — we used a quartet from Manchester — a lot if it is a combination and some of it's just samples. It was as and when, really."
When it came to guitars, Jez Williams used mostly his Gretsch Country Classic II, through a vintage Fender Vibrolux or a Vox AC30. "But then I just bought this new amp that's amazing, called the Audio Kitchen Little Chopper," he says. "It's hand built and it got made and delivered for the very last session on the album, so I managed to sneak it into a couple of the songs."
Elsewhere, while the Krautrock‑echoing 'The Outsiders' went down more or less live in a handful of takes, the atmospheric ballad 'Birds Flew Backwards' required four different versions before it was ready for the album. "We didn't want it to be entirely acoustic, but we didn't want it to be an overblown orchestral thing," Austin stresses. "It was just getting it right, really. I think what kick-started it being right was the dilruba that we had this guy come down and play. It just put it in a different place — this strange Indian instrument in a lot of reverb in the background. A lot of the orchestral stuff, all the kettle drums and so on, that's just Logic EXS stuff that we pumped out into the PA in the room just to give them a bit of vibe." Dilruba added an exotic flavour to 'Birds Flew Backwards'.
In general, Austin says, there's always much comparing and contrasting of sounds going on. "There's a lot of that stuff with Doves where you record things and capture them in two ways and then pick later. It's all about A/B'ing with them — 'Right, let's hear it one way and let's hear it the other way.' With arrangements, with sounds, with everything really."
By the end of the 18‑month recording period, perhaps understandably, Austin and Doves were to keen to hand the mixing of Kingdom Of Rust over to someone else. "We didn't want to mix it, simple as that," Jez states. "I think it's better to get someone else who isn't involved to mix your record, 'cause he or she's not going to have an emotional attachment to certain parts that took you four hours to get right. Because if you were involved in it, you damn well make sure that that four‑hour sweat session is in the mix."
Enter superstar mixer Michael Brauer (featured in SOS's Inside Track feature, in the November 2008 issue of the magazine: see /sos/nov08/articles/itbrauer.htm). "The guy's a mixing legend," says Jez. "He's just one of these mixers that can seem to get different styles of songs nailed. So he was perfect for our album."
"It was important to get a fresh pair of ears on it," says Dan. "What he does is very clear mixes — everything's there in its place. I love the mixes on the record, I think they're great. But it wasn't always easy to get there. There were a couple of recalls going on."
Austin also points out that — taking into consideration the amount of honing the tracks had undergone — the files that he and the band sent to Brauer were already embedded with a lot of the effect and automation information. "If you just put the track up with the faders in a line at zero, it would not resemble the song at all. So he just took it further. His vocal sounds are just fantastic — that's what he's really strong at. Just getting the vocal sitting in the track."
Instead of travelling to New York to attend the mix sessions, Doves and Austin took the progressive move of communicating with Brauer via Skype, using a program called Nicecast, designed for on‑line radio streaming. "What he'd do is send us WAVs via YouSendIt, and we'd send email comments back," Dan explains. "That would happen two or three times. So maybe by the time we got the third WAV, we'd be really close. He'd send me a Nicecast link, which would open up in my iTunes as a stream, and then basically his output from his desk in New York fired down that and I would pump it out of my M Box.
"We'd got him on another laptop on iChat so we could see him and talk to him and then we gent through the tweaks. There's about a five‑second delay on it, but it's 192kbps MP3 compression, so it sounds pretty good — enough to do changes like that. Then he'd send us the full‑rate WAV and we'd listen to that. It was a fantastic way of working."
"This was the first time we'd ever done it and we loved it," Jez enthuses. "Here we were in Frank Bough III, mixing live from New York. It was amazing. We'd work on it with him for an hour, tops, and it'd be done."
So, after 18 months of solid recording and writing, can Jez Williams actually bring himself to listen to the finished version of Kingdom Of Rust? "God, no," he laughs. "I reckon I'll probably give it about a year before I listen to it again. That's the only way you can really find out the kind of record you actually made."
Chemically Altered: Mixing '10.03'
Prior to the Cheshire farmhouse sessions with Dan Austin, Doves travelled to Rockfield in Wales to record three tracks with John Leckie, before the producer's other commitments forced them to make the decision to go it alone. Two of the tracks — 'Winter Hill' and '10:03' — made it to the final track-listing, though the latter, in particular, was radically reworked in subsequent sessions.
"'Winter Hill' was pretty much straightforward — go in, record it, quite straight down the middle," says Jez Williams. "But '10:03' was a bit more of a tricky one. We bedded the tracks with John Leckie and then we deconstructed them again, re‑edited the arrangement. It was one of those we kept coming back to. At one point it wasn't gonna make the album. We had to wrestle that one to the ground."
"Where that track is now from the original recording is very different," Dan continues. "It was totally hacked around. They'd actually mixed it with John and got it back here and thought, 'Maybe there's a different version of this.'"
In the end, the band turned '10:03' over to their friend and labelmate Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers, who rearranged the track. "Tom did a version that we really liked," Dan says. "It's good when you send stuff to other people, because they're not attached to things and they'll do very brave things — like he cut a verse and a chorus, about two minutes of the song. And we probably never would've done that. Generally, there's a lot of editing with them. We'd do different edits of arrangements and be constantly moving songs around. Y'know, final choruses would become the first chorus two months later and things like that."
'10:03' was also unusual in the sense that the final master originated from a Logic laptop mix that Jez Williams did and Dan Austin subsequently took to Modern World Studios in Tetbury. "Jez's mix was great, but because it was coming out of two outputs, it just didn't have the width," Dan explains. "So I took it to Modern World and matched it — kept all his automation and levels but just opened the mix out. Modern World is the only place I want to mix now, it's just fantastic. They've got an SSL Duality, a very medium‑sized control room, but it just sounds amazing. The automation system on the Duality is just so simple and it integrates with Pro Tools seamlessly. It's just an amazing‑sounding board."
Vocal Sounds
Dan Austin typically recorded Jimi Goodwin's vocals through two phase‑aligned mics simultaneously, usually an SM58 and a U87.
In recording Jimi Goodwin's vocals, Dan Austin usually opted for a high‑end/low‑end blend of Neumann U87 and Shure SM58. "Jimi really suits a U87," he says, "but I've got into a habit recently of setting up an SM58 right next to it and matching the phase and then blending. U87s are very sweet, and that's great for some songs. If you want a bit more poke, you don't always get that. I don't necessarily like SM58s on their own because sometimes you need a bit of poshness. So if you get the phase right, you can blend the two and it sounds great.
"Also, it gave me the option later of maybe just using the 58 on a backing vocal or just using the 87 on a chorus or something, just flicking the sound. It's that thing of not wanting to put someone through singing through 10 mics. If you put the two up, it means he hasn't got to mess around and I can decide later."
Given the lengthy recording period, however, there was the odd occasion where Austin had to match up a vocal sound he'd engineered some months before, in order to do new drop-ins. "I always recall everything," he points out. "There were a few times where, a couple of months later, we'd send for him again. As long as he did a few takes to get his throat in the same place and you recall it, you can do it, no problem."
Published July 2009
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Hugely welcome - Doctor Mary Favier on the ABC judgements implication for the pro-choice movement
Date: Thu, 2010-12-16 12:53
Dr Mary Favier, a Cork GP and a founder member of Doctors for Choice, says the ABC case decision is a hugely welcome, important and significant decision. That will make a fundamental difference and force the government to legislate for the X Case. She then explains the background to the ABC v Ireland case currently before the European Court of Human Rights. She explains why the outcome of the case (and the issues it raises) are central to the predicament currently faced my thousands of Irish women every year in Ireland. Pointing out the Irish Government has fought the three women (A, B and C) along every step of their long and arduous route to the European Court, she also addresses the issue of the silence of within the Irish medical profession in relation to the matter of abortion. Over 5000 Irish women leave Ireland each year to have abortions in European countries.
She explains the details of the C case, the women had consulted a number of doctors but none were willing to give consultations because of the legal implications around abortion provision. She had to do research on the internet before traveling to Britain for an abortion.
She says that Doctors should welcome this decisions as silence has been a significant problem. In her opinion doctors will welcome the decision because they can now seek specific training.
Dr Mary Favier, a Cork GP and a founder member of Doctors for Choice by Radio Solidarity
After she gives her opinion of the judgement the others questions Mary addresses are
1) Can you explain the back ground to this case briefly.
2) What are the main points in each of the case – A, B, C
3) What do these cases mean in terms of current ban on abortion provision in Ireland
4) And the Irish government have opposed this case that has been brought by the three women, is that right?
5) Why has the medical profession been silent?
6) I have read that you have said in the past that this silence of the medical profession contradicts best practice? Is that your view and why?
The struggle for abortion rights in Ireland (history with photos from 1980's to 2007)
Repressing Abortion in Ireland - a doctor speaks out
The situation in the north of Ireland
WSM policy on Abortion rights
Three speakers talk about the pro-choice struggles in Ireland they were involved in over the last three decades
The mp3 file of the interview is below, you can listen to it by clicking on it or right click on it to download it to your hard drive.
Interview with Dr Mary Favier of Doctors for Choice on the ABC case (7.32 MB mp3) 7.32 MB

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Iran Nuclear Talks
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Nov. 24
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The home stretch of ongoing nuclear talks ahead of an end-of-the-day deadline and the guesswork surrounding the results stayed in the front-page headlines Monday. A victory by the Reds against the Blues in the capital's 79th derby was also in the news. Another headline which appeared on the front pages of some Iranian dailies was a global conference in Qom, central Iran, where Muslim scholars gathered to discuss Takfiri and extremist groups.
Abrar: "Extension of the Geneva Interim Agreement will be on the table as an option if a final deal is not inked [between Iran and P5+1]," said a member of the Iranian negotiating team.
Afarinesh: "Any comprehensive nuclear deal should get the approval of parliament," said the chairman of parliament's nuclear subcommittee.
Afarinesh: For the first time direct flights will be established between three German cities and Iranian cities of Mashhad and Tehran.
Afkar: The University of Tehran will play host to a national conference on Iran's elite researchers on November 27.
Donyay-e Eghtesad: "An uninvited guest in Vienna [talks]," reads the daily's banner headline, speculating about the presence of Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal in the Austrian capital.
Ebtekar: The Saudis are in Vienna fearing a nuclear deal is clinched between Iran and P5+1. [The Saudi top diplomat was in the Austrian capital for talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of the November 24 deadline].
Esfahan Emrooz: More than anybody else, [President] Obama needs a nuclear deal [with Iran].
Ettela'at: "The Takfiri current [a reference to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)] is an enemy of Islam, Muslims and humanity," the Global Conference of Muslim Scholars' View on Takfiri and Extremist Currents announced.
Ettela'at: The pro-Israeli lobby in the US is trying to make nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 collapse.
Ettela'at:Iran's Science and Culture Hall of Famers (known as Unforgettable Faces) have thrown their weight behind Mohammad Farhadi, President Rouhani's fifth pick for the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
Farhikhtegan: "I'm confident that if we reach a deal that is verifiable […], that not only can I persuade Congress, but I can persuade the American people that it's the right thing to do," said President Obama in reaction to the possible conclusion of a final nuclear deal.
Hemayat: Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani has highlighted the need for Muslim nations to form an Islamic judiciary union.
Iran: Iran sets out conditions for the presence of foreign carmakers in the Iranian market: 40-percent customization of cars at the start of the contract; 85-percent customization in a five years' time; car exports from Iran; improving part-making capabilities; and a regional monopoly for Iran as far as car manufacturing goes.
Iran: Vienna, the venue of the ongoing nuclear talks, the final stopover of seven foreign ministers.
Iran Daily: Uphill struggle to secure historic deal.
Jahan-e Sanat: Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati has asked Iranians to buy works of arts rather than gold.
Jomhouri Islami: "Iran has purchased plane parts from Boeing at an official price," said the Chairman and Managing Director of Iran Air, Iran's flagship carrier.
Kaenat: "Iran will raise its gas processing capacity two-fold in three years," said the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC).
Kayhan: Iranian students have warned in a rally outside Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) that a final nuclear deal should not be inked at the expense of the country's atomic achievements.
Khorasan:"We have started to review the Constitution in order to plug its possible loopholes," said Abbasali Kadkhodaei, a member of the Supreme Board of Arbitration and Adjustment of Relations among the Three Branches of Government and a former spokesman of the Guardian Council.
Mardomsalari: "A 33-month spell has been broken", writes the daily about the capital's 79th derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis in which the former was defeated 2-1, the first win after almost three years.
Mardomsalari: "The military service completion cards of 59 football players have been revoked," the Military Conscription Organization announced.
Roozan: "The experience and knowledge of the first generation of the revolution should be tapped into to develop an understanding of the late Imam's way of thinking."
Tafahom: "We will not consider the interests of certain individuals or groups when we try to serve the interests of the establishment and contribute to the cause of sustainable security," said the intelligence minister.
By Iran Front Page
Abasali Kadkhodayi, Ali Jannati, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, Esteqlal-Persepolis derby, Int'l conference on dangers of takfirism, Iran-P5+1 nuke talks, Iran's Judiciary Chief, Iran's nuclear program, Iran's Intelligence Minister, Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), John Kerry, National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), P5+1 group, Prince Saud al-Faisal, Qom, Quoted, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi, Tehran university, US Secretary of State	November 24, 2014
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Photos: Foreign ministers of Iran, G5+1, EU's Ashton meet in Vienna
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Iran's next moves depend on US
Iran's Supreme Leader rebukes US in rare Friday sermon
Iraq's power output declines as gas supplies from Iran fall
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Photos: Iranian, Syrian defense ministers hold meeting in Tehran


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Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception (Eremite)
by Randy Reynolds
Chicago's Joshua Abrams has been composing a combo of auspicious and equivocal musics for a long time. It's only been in the past five years or so that others have begun to take notice of his talent and rangeless music. Most plainly was with the release of the brilliant Natural Information on Eremite in 2010, which caught the ear of The New York Times and The Wire.
Since then, Abrams has stayed with Eremite, releasing Represencing in 2012 and now with his newest Magnetoception in 2015. Magnetoception is a fierce double LP of extended ensemble performances that include Abrams on guembri (a three stringed african lute), Emmett Kelly and Jeff Parker on guitars, Hamid Drake on drums/percussion and Lisa Alvarado on harmonium, among others.
The music Abrams creates on Magnetoception pulls from a multitude of genres and models including krautrock, free jazz, world/ancestral musics and minimalism. "Lore" snakes ambient textures round pulsing bass and percussion, "Translucent" takes african melodies to hypnotizing levels through beguiling repetition, and "The Ladder" gracefully combines all of Abrams' ideas of the traditional and the modern into one splendidly roaming piece.
Magnetoception is Earth music. It doesn't have a specific locale or grab from easily accessed niche genres. It is music that is living, persisting and actively developing: it's also one of the best albums of 2015.
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Michael Gray (left) with fellow Founder Trustees Merchants House TrustWe are very fortunate to have two obituraries for Michael Gray, one of - as Nick Fogg describes - Marlborough's great characters, who passed away on Saturday 24 November.
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Brian Davies - pioneer in work on radiation - died on 27 OctoberBrian Davies, who lived for forty-seven years at Ballard's Piece, Forest Hill on the edge of Savernake Forest with his wife Joan, died at home on 27 October 2018. He was 88.
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8 month female pit bull shows signs of extreme dominance at the dog park.
Princess Pork chop is a sweet and loving puppy who is very respectful of people and who loves her older brother Obi Wan The Dobie who is 90lb Doberman Pincher. She is trained at home, still struggles a little bit with pulling on the leash, but all around she is a very smart and good dog.
I have been taking her to the dog park since she was old enough to attend because I wanted her to be socialized and sweet with all dogs. Unfortunately, from day one she got excited about fights and loved to dominate submissive dogs. After the first couple visits she got better, but I still can't trust her fully.
If there is a puppy or a dog that immediately rolls over she goes after it. Pushing it over and snapping. She is great with the big dogs and backs off if they stand their ground.
This is obviously a part of her demeanor, but I want to know what I should do in those situations to stop her. I want to know if it will be possible to trust her in those situations as she gets older.
Right now if she is too aggressive I leash her, tell her no assertively but lovingly, and walk her away from the situation, but I'm not sure if it is working or making it worse. As soon as I let her off she runs right back to that dog.She gets this determined and excited look that I have trouble snapping her out of it.
My Doberman and the last pitbull I had were great with other dogs always backing away from a fight and never showing aggression, so this is new to me and it seems it has always been apart of her.
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Promoting Transition to Home Orphan-Care!
CameroonONE is a Boston-based NGO that sponsors the educations, health needs and caretaker support of orphaned children in Cameroon. Through our new global project, ONETrack International, we are transplanting our Transition to Home orphan-care approach to other regions of the world. ONETrack already sponsors orphans affected by ebola in Liberia, orphaned children in The Gambia, Zimbabwe and Honduras, and our Greek chapter is working with Yazidi refugee families separated by conflict in Iraq.
According to international laws and standards, orphaned children are supposed to be reunited with extended family members at a local level. In cases where no capable family members can be found, then homes should be made available within their community of birth. If all these options are exhausted, then (and only then) should international adoption become an option. However, these principles are routinely ignored. CameroonONE's mission is to promote these expectations of international law.
CameroonONE has developed a program to confront the current orphan crisis within Cameroon. We have established the first In-Home Child Sponsorship program to support both an orphaned child as well as his or her surviving relatives with the goal of keeping families together while relieving the orphan communes of unnecessary cases. Host families that accept this responsibility do so with the understanding that it will be conditional, as long as certain requirements of the child's rearing are met.
This project can both reduce short-term poverty by directly providing a partial income to the impoverished and those most in need and ultimately fight long-term poverty by creating a more productive and competent future human capital among parentless children who may have otherwise received little or no education. ONETrack International is currently transplanting the CameroonONE solution to other parts of the world and will continue to expand to reach even more communities!


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Microsoft acquires game maker Activision Blizzard for nearly €60 billion
Courtney Horton January 18, 2022 2 min read
Microsoft acquires game maker Activision Blizzard, the transaction value is approximately 60 billion euros. The gaming company has been under fire for months over allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in September I started an investigationFor the game maker, the supervisor wants to know if the company has reported discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct in the workplace in a timely manner. Yesterday I mentioned the company Dozens of other employees have been fired for inappropriate behavior. company Advertise this summer Measures have already been taken to prevent intimidation. Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, may remain, despite all the ups and downs. Technology website The Verge to remember That once the deal is done and the transition period is over, he will still leave.
The game publisher is known for titles like CansAnd DiabloAnd Note and watch in a Call of duty. The company employs nearly 10,000 people worldwide. When the acquisition is complete, Activision Blizzard games will be added to Microsoft's gaming subscription, which now has more than 25 million users. Activision games are played by nearly 400 million people every month.
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Problems haven't stopped Microsoft from taking charge. "This accelerates the growth of our gaming offerings for mobile, PC, consoles, and the Internet, as well as providing the building blocks for the metaverse," Microsoft said in a statement. According to the software giant, this acquisition will make the company the third player in the gaming market after Sony and Tencent.
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Over the past few months, the focus has been It has grown tremendously for metaverses. It may be seen as a successor to the current internet. At this point, it's just an idea, but one that Silicon Valley is taking very seriously. In the metaverse, the digital and physical worlds are more intertwined. Augmented reality and virtual reality goggles are also expected to be more important in the development of the metaverse. The same goes for games.
There is a chance that the competition regulator in the US, UK or EU will take a critical look at the deal. More than before, the (big) trades in the tech world are closely watched due to the fear of abuse of market power.
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This No Man's Sky player won't stop building intergalactic fast food restaurants
By Steven Messner
published 1 November 2017
If you build it, they still won't come.
There is something painfully sad about a man building everything from a strip club to a Taco Bell in a videogame where no one will ever interact with them. But such is the path that YouTuber Boid Gaming (opens in new tab) has embarked upon—a path to fill his No Man's Sky galaxy full of empty KFCs, McDonalds, and, yes, even a monolithic Pepsi can. This dude loves brands.
I wish I could understand what motivation there is for such an endeavor, but I can only guess that Boid Gaming, after getting to the center of No Man's Sky's galaxy and realizing there is no meaning or purpose, has gone absolutely mad. For several months, he has been showcasing his intergalactic fast food restaurants on his YouTube channel.
Here's a dramatic reveal of a Kentucky Fried Chicken.
There's a surprising level of artistry here, in that each of his fast food restaurants definitely captures their aesthetic while still feeling suitably sci-fi. The No Man's Sky Foundation update (opens in new tab) introduced base building, but the tools aren't too complex, so putting together a rather nice looking McDonalds is a win in my books. But with each video I watch, I get a little sad seeing how empty these establishments are. They should be full of people, but instead, just like No Man's Sky, they're lifeless. I mean, can you even call it a strip club if no one is stripping inside of it?
And I don't even know where to begin talking about this giant Pepsi can he built. But I like to imagine that, millions of years from now, some civilization will discover its existence and send a manned mission to see it in person, triggering the conception of a giant, fizzy, god-baby.
Boid Gaming has a lot of impressive builds on his YouTube channel you should check out—especially if you just love brands. You can also check out this complete list (opens in new tab) of everything he's made so far and download his bases into your own version of No Man's Sky.
Steven Messner
With over 7 years of experience with in-depth feature reporting, Steven's mission is to chronicle the fascinating ways that games intersect our lives. Whether it's colossal in-game wars in an MMO, or long-haul truckers who turn to games to protect them from the loneliness of the open road, Steven tries to unearth PC gaming's greatest untold stories. His love of PC gaming started extremely early. Without money to spend, he spent an entire day watching the progress bar on a 25mb download of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 demo that he then played for at least a hundred hours. It was a good demo.


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Bremerton might lease Pendergast fields for turf installation
Bremerton is considering allowing a soccer club to install and rent out two turf fields at Pendergast Park where there are dirt fields now. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN
Two patches of dirt could soon be transformed into turf soccer fields at Pendergast Park, under a potential plan between Bremerton and a local soccer club.
WestSound FC would build, lease and rent out the two fields under a 15-year agreement with the city. The organization would collect all revenues from the site but have to pay property taxes on the land, and pay about $13,500 a year to the city in park maintenance fees.
Teams from area youth clubs, high schools and Olympic College, as well as adult leagues, are already interested in using the fields if they're installed, according to Dale Holdren, president of WestSound FC. Lacrosse and rugby teams also could use it, he said.
"We are really excited about bringing this project to completion," he said. "I believe we can help all these nonprofit organizations with eliminating this rarely used mud hole and replacing it with a popular, new soccer park that would actually help make kids healthier, while also bringing business into our community."
Bremerton Parks and Recreation Director Wyn Birkenthal said the dirt fields are rarely used and the city has no money to improve them. He feels the additional fields will make the 50+ acre park, already with an indoor soccer center and outdoor ball fields, a destination spot in the county for the sport, bringing in tourism dollars.
But the plan is by no means a done deal. Leasing or selling park properties in the city requires a unanimous 9-0 vote of the City Council, and at least one council member, Leslie Daugs, has reservations about it.
Daugs, an active soccer player herself, said she wants to make sure that the ownership group running Olympic Soccer & Sports Center, the indoor fields at Pendergast, are on board with the plan.
"I want to make sure there's partnerships in all of it," Daugs said. "I have no problem being the no vote."
Dennis Michael, one of the indoor soccer center's owners, said the group is discussing the proposal but did not want to comment further.
The proposal was to be voted on at Wednesday's council meeting, but it was removed from the agenda Tuesday and won't be back before the council until June 26.
"We want every council person to feel confident in what we've put before them," Birkenthal said of the delay.
Daugs had brought forth concerns at the first council discussion of the proposal June 12. She wondered whether the fields, being in a public park, could still be accessed if no one was renting them. She used the example of someone who just wanted to go "kick a ball around."
"We do expect the fields to be pretty busy, so in general folks will need to be reserving field time," Holdren said Tuesday in an email. "But otherwise, if they show up and the field is not in use, they are more than welcome to kick a ball around."
WestSound FC expects the project would cost about $1.2 million. Holdren notes that much of the work ? grading, drainage and lighting ? was completed by the city years ago. He said the club has about half of the money needed to install the turf fields already.
Holdren said demand is high for such fields, particularly ones with lights and turf, enabling use year-round. Paired with the site's more than 400 parking spots, Holdren envisions the field to be popular from the get-go, if approved by the council.
"The present plan will be environmentally friendly and help to reclaim and renew this site, and thus assist in the revitalization of this neighborhood," Holdren said.
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A frightening relationship between overweight and cancer!
April 17, 2019 by lebanon
Smoking is the number one cause of preventable cancer for decades and continues to kill more than half a million people a year in the United States.
But obesity is poised to take the lead, said Otis Brawley, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins and former medical director of the American Cancer Society, that the change could happen within five to ten years.
He noted that high rates of obesity may threaten the continuing decline in cancer mortality rates since the early 1990s in the United States.
Obesity and overweight are associated with an increased risk of at least 13 types of cancer, including stomach cancer, colorectal and liver cancer, as well as postmenopausal breast cancer.
Researchers at the American Cancer Society say that excess body weight is associated with about 8% of all cancers in the United States and about 7% of cancer deaths.
The exact relationship between cancer and overweight is unknown, but researchers are focusing on the visceral fat that surrounds the internal organs.
These fats are an active member of metabolism and produce hormones such as estrogen, which is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and some other cancers, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Jennifer Leighbeil, a breast cancer specialist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said the interaction is complex between metabolism, inflammation and immunity, creating a more cancer-prone environment.
The type of cancer that is strongly linked to obesity is endometrial cancer, and obese and overweight women are two to four times more likely to develop the disease than women with normal weight.
Overweight or obese people are about twice as likely to develop liver and kidney cancer, and are 1.5 times more likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
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Home Race TUDOR United SportsCar Championship heads to Detroit's Belle Isle
TUDOR United SportsCar Championship heads to Detroit's Belle Isle
The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship heads to Detroit's Belle Isle for the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic May 30 – June 1, which will see a 32-car field for street race shootout.
Following the split race format at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and a Prototype/GT Le Mans-only round at Long Beach, the Prototype and GT Daytona class cars will race together for a 100-minute sprint race around the picturesque Belle Isle.
Eleven P class cars are set to take part, led by the pair of Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03bs, which is coming off a breakthrough first victory in Monterey.
Aside from the DeltaWing, which was not scheduled to tackle the street race, the only other change comes with the lineup of OAK Racing's Morgan-Nissan, which sees Olivier Pla return to the wheel with Gustavo Yacaman following the Frenchman's commitments in the FIA WEC race at Spa.
A total of 21 cars, meanwhile, are listed to take part in GTD, one fewer than from Monterey due to the absence of the No. 51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 458 Italia GT3, which is only slated to contest select rounds.
A number of lineups have yet to be finalized, including the co-driver for Andrew Davis in the No. 27 Dempsey Racing Porsche 911 GT America, as well as the No. 007 TRG-AMR Aston Martin Vantage entry.
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The boab tree
Posted on 14/07/2015 15/07/2015 by Patrick Siu
The boab trees are icons of the Kimberley, Western Australia. They have bizarre, twisted leafless branches during the dry season and wreathed with brilliant green during the wet season. Boab trees are unique to the northern part of Western Australia and eastern part of Northern Territory. They attract attention because of their striking and unusual shapes.
A boab tree with bizarre, twisted leafless branches during the dry season
A boab tree wreathed with brilliant green during the wet season
Please visit my web page on boab trees :
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The Night Sky at Kimberley, Western Australia
During the first week of July 2015, my wife and I travelled to Kimberley, Western Australia for holiday. Kimberley is an outback region of Australia free of night pollution (except lights at the resort). We were amazed at the dark night sky. Even with unaided eyes, we can see many stars and the Milky Way. I took some photos with my small digital camera with a exposure of 1 second. I did not have a tripod, this is the reason why the stars appear to be a bit blurry.
The Pointers and the Southern Cross (taken at 8 pm on 5 July 2015 at Emma Gorge Resort , Kimberley, WA)
The stars of the Southern Cross are of different colours. Three are blueish-white, one is orange and the other red.
Acrus (Alpha Crucis) is a multiple star. It is made up of 3 stars, 2 of which are so close together that a small telescope cannot resolve them into 2 stars. Acrux is 370 light-years away from us.
Beta Crucis is 490 light-years away from us.
Gamma Crucis is 220 light-years away from us.
Delta Crucis is 570 light-years away from us.
The Jewel Box (NGC4755) is an open star cluster that lies a distance of 7800 light years. It is known as a 'superb piece of fancy jewellery'.
The Coal Sack is a dark nebula. It is a cloud of dust particles which stops light from the stars behind from reaching us. It is 500 light-years away from us.
The Alpha Centauri is a multiple star system and at a distance of 4.3 light-years. It is the closest star system to our solar system. It is made up of 3 stars but we can just see 2 stars using small telescopes. The 2 stars appear like dazzling white headlights.
Beta Centauri is the inner of the two 'Pointers' It is a trinary star making up of 3 stars namely Beta Centauri A1, A2 and B. They are about 350 light-years away. The indigenous people of northwestern Australia named it Bermbermgle. According to their legend, together with Alpha Centauri, the two brothers were noted for their courage and destructiveness. They speared and killed Tchingal 'The Emu' (Coal Sack Nebula).
The Omega Centauri is not a single star but a globular cluster. It consists of hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a relatively small region.
Stories from the Noongar people of Western Australia depict the stars of the Southern Cross as five naughty youngsters who scattered when a spear was thrown at them. Another Noongar story has the stars of the Southern Cross and the pointers as seven sacred men/spirits who came to Earth and made the laws, and started the 14 different language groups to re-establish the good marriage state [Reference: Beginner's Guide to the Night Sky (ABC Science)].
The Pointers, the Southern Cross with other neighbouring stars (taken at around 11 pm on 5 July 2015 in Emma Gorge Resort, Kimberley, WA)
As the Earth spins along its axis from west to east (ie anticlockwise), the night sky with the constellations of stars appear to rotate around the Southern Celestial Pole in a clockwise direction. The Southern Cross lies down towards the horizon.
The other constellation which could easily be observed was the the Scorpius. During July in the Southern Hemisphere, this constellation lies above my head.
The Scorpius
The Scorpius is easy to identify as the stars look like a scorpion with a bright red star Antares.
Antares also known as Alpha Scorpii is often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion". Distinctly reddish when viewed with the unaided eye, Antares is a red supergiant. This star has an age of around 11 million years at a distance of approximately 470 light years. Antares is already near to the end of its lifespan and is expected to explode as a supernova in the next million years.
Acknowledgements :
I would like to thank Lizi (Tour Director of AAT Kings) for her wonderful organisation and dedication to her job. Her passion about the beauty of Kimberley and the culture of the Aboriginal people is inspiring. I also wish to thank Warren the driver who took good care of all of us during the tour. Both Lizi and Warren made our trip of the Untamed Kimberley safe and highly enjoyable.
Further reading / viewing :
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/27/3169018.htm (How to locate the South Celestial Pole)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/starhunt/tour/virtual/ (Virtual tour of the night sky)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
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UHD, HCSO and HPD Host Town Hall Meeting for Chinese Community on Safety, Crime Prevention
Approximately 100 individuals from Houston's Chinese and Taiwanese communities gathered for a town hall meeting Saturday - hosted by UHD, the Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) and the Houston Police Department (HPD) - to learn crime prevention tips and receive an update on the recent, unsolved murders of a Chinese-American family in Cypress.
The event marked the first time the three organizations have collaborated to both educate and seek information from these communities pertaining to a recent crime.
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia addressed attendees and answered questions about recent crime reports in Chinatown, located in southwest Houston. He also reassured the group that the HCSO is actively pursuing all leads in the Cypress murder case and encouraged the community to come forward with any leads that may assist in the case.
Commenting to KHOU-Channel 11, Garcia said, "It's bad enough that two adults were found dead - but even worse, two small children both under the age of 10. As a daddy myself, this especially strikes a nerve for me."
He continued, "Rest assured, our investigators will find the person(s) responsible and bring justice to the family."
Garcia reached out to Hsiao-Ming Wang, associate professor of criminal justice at UHD and director of the Bayou Connection program, for help in gathering the Chinese community for the event. Wang also served as moderator for the meeting, which included a panel of 10 law enforcement officers and criminal justice professors.
Barbara Belbot, chair of criminal justice at UHD, and Gregory Fremin, captain of the HPD Northeast Patrol Command and current UHD criminal justice graduate student, also addressed attendees.
Other panelists included HPD Assistant Chief John Chen; John Chi, deputy director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston; HCSO Major Michael Wong; and Assistant Chief George Buenik of the HPD West Patrol Command. Mark Kellar and Janice Ahmad, associate professors of criminal justice at UHD, also attended the event and provided their expert opinion to media.
"It is extremely important for us to partner with the city's top law enforcement agencies, especially in tragic cases such as the Cypress murders, to bring justice to the family and help prevent future crime," said Wang. "HCSO and HPD have a strong connection with the Chinese community in Houston and this town hall meeting further cements that relationship, while helping to advance this important criminal investigation. UHD will continue to assist HCSO and HPD in helping to unite the community in solving the case."
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I was delighted when the lovely Jackie recently asked me to guestpost on her blog! I have recently been getting excited that autumn is here and winter is around the corner. I prefer the fashion and beauty trends in these seasons rather than spring and summer which are why I chose this topic for my guestpost.
My favourite fall colour for make-up is definitely Maroon, it is an obsession of mine. Whether I wear it on the lips, cheeks, eyes or all of the above; why not?!
Listed below are my hot-picks to wear for this season.
Sleek vintage romance palette, £7.99.
Collection gothic glam scorned, £2.99.
Mac mineralize blush lavish living, £18.50.
I hope you all enjoyed my little guestpost, Thanks again to lovely Jackie for letting me guestpost on her blog!


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Successful operation of the whole water system of clean gasification project in shandong Jin Coal Co., Ltd.
Danmotech started business from highly concentrated organic waste water treatment. In the coal chemical industry, we extent our business gradually to big volume wastewater system, recycled water system, desalted water system and the whole water system from small volume and single waste water treatment. Danmotech carried on the clean gasification project of Shangdong Jin Group upon our technical ...
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Measuring Gases produced by waste gasification to improve control and efficiency
Waste gasification is a type of waste to energy process where waste material is used as a fuel to create heat, electricity or other chemical products. Specifically, in waste gasification, the waste material is decomposed in such a way to produce gaseous products, often known as syngas, a combination of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and some carbon dioxide.1 Conventional ...
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2017 Conference Program October 15-18, 2017 The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:30 - 3:30 pm GSTC Members' Meeting 1:30 - 3:30 pm Syngas Catalyst Workshop: Holli Garrett, Clariant 2:00 - 5:00 pm ...
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American Science and Technology (AST), a sustainable technology company, has teamed up with TERMA Group, a team of Waste and Environmental Technology researchers at the University of Malaga, in Spain, to continue efforts on the development of new lignin-based products. Led by professors Tomás Cordero Alcántara and José Rodríguez Mirasol, TERMA Group has been working ...
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The green gas demonstration plant plans are underway
Along with our project partners we are currently building a commercial plant to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of producing green gas through the gasification of household waste. The plant will process 10,000 tonnes per annum of refuse derived fuel and waste wood to produce 22GWh per annum of grid quality natural gas, enough to heat 1,500 homes or power 75 heavy good vehicles. ...
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2016 Gasification & Syngas Technologies Conference Program
GSTC is hosting its annual conference Octobeer 16-19, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada. GSTC has now posted a preliminary 2016 Gasification and Syngas Technologies Conference Program on the GSTC website at www.gasification-syngas.org. In recognition of our new strategic partnership with The Methanol Institute, the 2016 conference program contains sessions on methanol production and ...
Largest Gasification Plant in the world nears completion
Dubbed the "largest gasification plant in the world", construction work is nearly done on Air Products' second 50 MW plasma gasification waste to energy facility on Teesside, North East England. While a number of major projects are underway globally, waste gasification has a chequered past. Many argue that when traditional thermal treatment with heat recovery is able to ...
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While a number of major projects are underway globally, waste gasification has a chequered past. Many argue that when traditional thermal treatment with heat recovery is able to achieve such high efficiencies, gasification is complex and unnecessary. Others point to low emissions and the potential to produce products such as hydrogen. Air Products is due to begin processing 350,000 tonnes of RDF ...
Nexterra consortium reaches financial close on biomass gasification plant in Northamptonshire, UK
Nexterra announced today that it has reached financial close on the Welland Waste Wood Power Plant which will use Nexterra's gasification technology. Nexterra also participated in the development and financing of the £51.6 m project located in Northamptonshire, UK. The Welland project is the second biomass ...
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Gasification Technologies Conference, October 11-14, 2015 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
The Gasification Technologies Conference (GTC) is issuing a Call For Presentations for the 2015 Gasification Technologies Conference (October 11-14, 2015 in Colorado Springs, Colorado). GTC is particularly interested in the following subjects: Biomass and ...
Energy Department Joins Navy and Agriculture Departments to Invest in Drop-In Biofuel for Military
Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman joined Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Secretary Ray Mabus of the U.S. Department of Navy, on September 19, 2014, to announce awards for three commercial-scale biorefinery projects that will help meet the transportation needs of the U.S. military and private sector. Together these three projects will ...
By US Department of Energy
Nexterra to Supply Biomass Gasification System for Birmingham Power UK
Nexterra Systems Corp.(www.nexterra.co.uk), a global leader in energy-from-waste gasification systems, announced today that it has signed a contract with MWH to supply a biomass gasification system for the Birmingham Bio Power Ltd. (BBPL) renewable energy power plant in Tyseley, UK. Developed by Carbonarius, the plant will be capable of producing over 10 MW of ...
GE Gas Engines to Power Green Waste Energy's Global Alternative Energy Projects
GE (NYSE: GE) and Greenwich, Conn.,-based Green Waste Energy (GWE) today announced they have signed a frame agreement for GE to supply an undetermined number of ...
By General Electric
Royal Dahlman project in collaboration with NNFCC shortlisted for gasifier pilot funding
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced the shortlist of companies vying for £2.8 million in funding to build an energy from waste gasification demonstrator plant. In 2012, the ETI launched a competition to find a company to design "the most economically and commercially viable, efficient energy from waste gasification demonstrator plant possible". The ETI has now narrowed ...
By NNFCC
Metso-supplied world´s largest biomass gasification plant inaugurated in Finland
Vaskiluodon Voima Oy has inaugurated the world's largest biomass gasification plant, which was supplied by Metso, in Vaasa, Finland. The plant was inaugurated by the Finnish Minister of Labour Lauri Ihalainen on March 11th. Vaskiluodon Voima's plant is ground-breaking in many ways, as this is the first time in the world that biomass gasification is being adopted on such a large scale for ...
By Metso Corporation
ENER-G welcomes government u-turn on support
Renewable energy specialist ENER-G (www.energ.co.uk) has welcomed the government's u-turn on financial support for small-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, which means that facilities between 50kW and 5MW will continue to receive Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs). In its review of support for renewable energy published in July, the government had ...
By ENER-G
Nexterra - Delivering clean energy in global markets
Nexterra Systems Corp. (www.nexterra.ca), the University of British Columbia (www.ubc.ca) and GE (www.ge.com) today celebrated the successful completion of an energy-from-renewable-waste combined heat and power (CHP) system located at UBC's Vancouver campus. This is North America's first commercial ...
By GLOBE SERIES
International Growth Markets for Environmental and Energy Technology
Currently Great Britain, Poland and Turkey are the most important foreign markets for exhibitors of the combined event "waste to energy+recycling" and CLEAN GAS AND COAL on February 19 to 20, 2013 in Bremen, Germany. Companies see the best growth business opportunities for environmental and energy technologies in these countries. Visitor registration is now available online. "The three country ...
By Freesen & Partner GmbH
Air Products to Build the World`s Largest Advanced Gasification Energy-from-Waste Facility
Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced it will build and operate the world's largest renewable energy plant in the UK using advanced gasification energy-from-waste (EfW) technology. The Tees Valley plant, located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, near Billingham, Teesside, will be the first of its kind in the UK, and the largest of its kind anywhere in the world with an ...
By Air Products
Energos welcomes ROC decision on Advanced Conversion Technologies
Clean energy recovery from waste business Energos (www.energos.com) says the government's decision to reverse proposed changes to Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC) support for Advanced Conversion Technologies (ACT) under its recent review will unlock much needed new generation infrastructure, including its own £450 million investment pipeline, and has ...


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I am a freelance writer and creative consultant living in the San Francisco Bay Area. My partner and I had been trying to conceive for more than 4 years to no avail and as my 42nd birthday approached this fall, I was considering giving up on our dream of becoming parents and turning my focus to other things. While I don't completely eschew the Western model of medical care, I am no fan of doctors, hospitals, over-the-top testing and other invasive procedures and favor a more Eastern approach focusing on holistic care, diet and building mind/body/spirit health.
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Bystronic is a worldwide supplier of high-quality press brakes, lasers cutting systems, automation and software for the economical processing of sheet metal and tubes. Bystronic stands for reliability, high-performance innovation, an outstanding price-performance ratio, and user-friendly operation. The focus is on the automation of the complete material and data flow of the cutting and bending process chain. The company's North American headquarters is located in Elgin, IL. Offices are also located in Toronto, Canada.
For more information on Bystronic Inc., visit www.bystronicusa.com, or to contact by e-mail, sales.canada@bystronic.com. Demonstrations throughout the show at Booth #905.
Please join Bystronic at booth 905 during FABTECH Canada 2018 where you will experience new and innovative high-performance manufacturing solutions that cover the full spectrum of file-to-part manufacturing - the machines, automation and software technologies that are driving fabrication companies to new levels of productivity, profitability and success.
To satisfy the increasing demand for high-speed, mobile bending systems, Bystronic will introduce the Xpert 80 Mobile Press Brake. With a bending length of up to 60 inches and a press capacity of 88 U.S. Tons, the Xpert 80 opens up a wide spectrum of applications for bending complex, small and medium size parts.
Innovation is at the core of the ByStar Fiber 3015 with 10kW Fiber laser. The machine has been designed from the ground up to meet the demands from high-speed fiber laser cutting as well as cutting capabilities into the thick plate range. With its uncompromising high-end performance, ByStar Fiber is designed for users who want to rely fully on fiber laser technology: from stainless steel, through to aluminum and mild steel, and non-ferrous metals such as copper and brass. The ByStar 3015 Fiber laser will be demonstrated with the ByTrans Extended automated material loading/unloading system.
High-performance software is fundamental to modern sheet metal processing. Bystronic's "Make It Easy" BySoft 7 software represents a new generation of design and manufacturing software that keeps pace with high productivity downstream equipment.
Manufacturing Execution System (Bystronic MES) is a new software solution developed by Bystronic that creates digital transparency across the entire process chain. Bystronic MES allows users to plan, direct and evaluate work flows according to defined timelines.
Bystronic is a worldwide supplier of high-quality press brakes, lasers cutting systems, automation and software for the economical processing of sheet metal and tubes. Bystronic stands for reliability, high-performance innovation, an outstanding price-performance ratio, and user-friendly operation. The focus is on the automation of the complete material and data flow of the sheet metal cutting and bending process chain. The company's North American headquarters is located in Elgin, IL. Offices are also located in Toronto, Canada. For more information on Bystronic, visit www.bystronicusa.com, or to contact by e-mail, sales.canada@bystronic.com.
With the new, high-speed Xpert 80, Bystronic is continuing the concept of the mobile press brake, which the smaller version Xpert 40 has already successfully established on the market. Compared to the Xpert 40, the Xpert 80 offers a decisive increase in bending length and press capacity. This opens up a wide spectrum of applications. Over a bending length of approximately 60 inches, the Xpert 80 generates a press capacity of 88 US tons, and all of this with a footprint of less than 10 square feet.
For many users, bending requires manufacturing small to medium-sized parts using press brakes that are too big for the job. For parts up to a bending length of approximately five feet and a maximum thickness of ¾ of an inch, these users do not really need a large-scale bending machine, but a small and versatile powerhouse. Bystronic developed the new Xpert 80 for precisely these requirements. A high-speed, mobile press brake with a compact format that fits into virtually any manufacturing environment.
Moreover, the machine achieves fast bending speeds up to 60 inches per minute. This enables users to bend three times as many parts with the compact machine compared to a slower large press brake. The ByMotion drive control, a Bystronic development, ensures that the Xpert 80's upper beam and back gauges are accelerated with high precision. This creates the perfect interplay between speed, precision, and bending force. The results are bending processes with the highest levels of repetition accuracy and speed.
Bystronic Inc. has offered customers single source service expertise for over 35 years. They provide innovative laser cutting and press brakes machinery, automation, system software and comprehensive customer training and support. The company's North American headquarters is located in Elgin, IL. Offices are also located in Toronto, Canada. For more information on Bystronic Inc., visit www.bystronicusa.com, or to contact by email, sales.canada@bystronic.com.
Designed for Fiber. Unrivaled for Speed.
The high performance ByStar Fiber 3015 with 10kW Fiber laser has been designed from the ground up to meet the demands from high-speed fiber laser cutting as well as cutting capabilities into the thick plate range. With its uncompromising high-end performance, the ByStar Fiber is aimed at users who want to rely fully on fiber laser technology. Users who will in future cut their entire range of orders using the fiber laser: from stainless steel, through to aluminum and mild steel, and up to non-ferrous metals, such as copper and brass.
One of the keys to achieving exceptional acceleration dynamics is reducing weight while increasing rigidity. Bystronic's patented triangle cutting bridge enables the ByStar Fiber to take full advantage of the increased speeds generated by the high fiber laser powers and the linear drives, while maintaining axis rigidity during accelerations.
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Demonstrations of the ByStar Fiber 10kW will be ongoing throughout the show at the Bystronic booth 905.


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Group One Ltd. Names Peter E. Schmitt Co. New DiGiCo Rep Firm For Metro New York Area
Pictured, left to right: Ryan Shelton (Group One), Tony Bevacqua (PES), Matt Larson (Group One), Michael LaVopa (PES) and John Zambrano (PES) behind DiGiCo's SD7 Quantum console and external KLANG display at the recent AES Convention in New York City
Group One Limited, the Farmingdale, New York-based US distributor for DiGiCo, announces the appointment of Peter E. Schmitt Company (PES) as its newest independent manufacturers' representative firm to service the UK mixing console brand. The announcement comes from Group One's Matt Larson, executive vice president of professional audio, to whom the firm directly reports.
Founded in 1926 by F. Edwin Schmitt, PES is headquartered in Pompton Plains, New Jersey and currently under the direction of President Bryan Ottens, who purchased the company from Mike Schmitt in May of 2013. Effective immediately, the firm is now spearheading DiGiCo's sales and support efforts in the Metro New York area, including Central to North New Jersey, the five boroughs of NYC, Westchester and Long Island.
"We're pleased to welcome Bryan and the rest of the PES team to DiGiCo's network of hard-working US reps," says Larson. "The company's rich 90-plus-year legacy of serving the pro audio and electronics industries has made them tremendously well connected in the Metro New York region and given them a deep knowledge base to draw from. History aside, PES also has a reputation for being highly creative and forward thinking, which are, of course, also hallmarks of DiGiCo. We look forward to having their valuable assistance here in Group One's own backyard of New York."
"DiGiCo's respected console ranges and other products mesh in perfectly with our line card across multiple vertical markets," shares Ottens. "The manufacturer is well-known for firmly keeping its finger on the pulse of what end users want, and as its representative, we stand ready to take care of those users, from connecting them with the right gear and people to meet their needs to being the factory's 'feet on the street.' There are exciting times ahead for PES and DiGiCo!"
For more information on Peter E. Schmitt Company, visit www.peschmitt.com.


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Jewel City becomes mixed-use precinct
Divercity Urban Property Fund is eyeing further investments in the Joburg CBD, as well as into an all-new urban renewal project in the Randburg CBD. The unlisted fund, which is a joint venture between property groups Atterbury and Ithemba Property with financial backing from RMH Property and Nedbank Property Partners, is planning to invest about R1 billion in the next phase of its Jewel City development. Its Randburg plan is still on the drawing board.
That's the word from Divercity CEO Carel Kleynhans, speaking ahead of Jewel City's official opening on Heritage Day (24 September) next week.
"We've invested about R1.8 billion already, which has gone into the redevelopment of Jewel City into a managed mixed-use precinet aswell asthe transformation ofthe once vacant Absa Tower Main building, just down the road.
"Divercity launched redevelopment construction on these inner-city projects almost two years ago and we have delivered despite the impact ofthe Covid-19 lockdown," he said.
"In fact, we even came under budget as we initially planned to invest R2billion.... However, this is just the first phase. We're planning to invest around R1 billion more into Jewel City's next phase," he added.
The Jewel City precinct, which covers six city blocks, was once home to Joburg's diamond trade and was owned by JSE-listed Redefine Properties.
However, with the decline of the CBD, the precinet has virtually been locked up and closed to the public for decades. Divercity's partners joined forces in 2018 to purchase the precinet from Redefine and have turned the old office buildings and warehouses into a secure inner-city neighbourhood.
Jewel City now includes about 1 500 residential units, 10 000 square metres of office space aswell as outlets such as Shoprite, Clicks, Pep, Roots Butchery,
Roots Grill, McDonald's and Chicken Licken. Significantly the project included the construction oftwo new residential blocks.
Rian Reyneke, CEO of Ithemba and a board member of Divercity, during a tour of the precinet on Tuesday said that one of the new residential towers was 13storeys high. This represents the single biggest new residential development in the city centre in over a decade.
"It is called the Onyx and has 660 units. The building was only opened in August due to the Covid-19 lockdown.... About 66 units are currently let and we are expecting to sign another 60 or so this month," he said.
"Residential letting has been impacted by the pandemic. However, we are confident that most of the units will be taken up considering the integrated environment we are creating here. It will pick up with the official opening of Jewel City next week," he added.
Reyneke believed Jewel City's redevelopment has special significance. "We are turning the precinet into a true neighbourhood, with pedestrianised safe streets and many of the
amenities people need. We have even managed to secure [JSE-listed] Curro to open a small primary school here."
"Over 400 trees have been planted in the precinet and we have landscaped streets and CCTV security.


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Directorial debutant Bradley Cooper produces, acts and directs Lady Gaga in this romantic musical drama about not giving up on your dreams. Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers -- and falls in love with -- struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer until Jackson coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jackson fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons. Adapted from the 1976 drama A Star is Born. Director: Bradley Cooper Cast: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga and Dave Chappelle.
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The White House Historical Association Partners with Historic Hotels of America
Members of the Association to Receive Discounts on Accommodations at Historic Hotels of America Hotels, Resorts, and Inns
November 27, 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – The White House Historical Association has partnered with Historic Hotels of America®, an official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to provide benefits for members of both organizations. Members of the White House Historical Association will receive up to 30% off best available rates when booking with HistoricHotels.org. Members of Historic Hotels of America will receive a discount on the 2018 Official White House Christmas Ornament from the White House Historical Association.
"This opportunity will allow our members greater access to presidential history, and a chance to experience historic sites across America where Presidents including John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Ulysses S. Grant have stayed before them," said Stewart McLaurin, President of the White House Historical Association. "The partnership furthers our mission of enhancing the education and understanding of the executive mansion by preserving White House related history.
Historic Hotels of America has 300 historic properties in membership across the country including hotels, resorts, and inns.
"Many legendary historic hotels have hosted U.S. Presidents celebrating special occasions, campaigning, or vacationing with their families," said Lawrence Horwitz, Executive Director, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide. "Guests can stay in the same hotels where U.S. Presidents have stayed, dine in the same restaurants where U.S. Presidents and their families have dined, and in many cases play on the same golf or tennis courts where U.S. Presidents have played. We are proud to partner with The White House Historical Association and help its mission to preserve and share the Executive Mansion's legacy for future generations."
Hotels such as The Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C. and the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania have hosted nearly every president. The Omni Parker House in Boston, Massachusetts is where John F. Kennedy proposed to the future First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. In 1879, the Palmer House, A Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, was the site of one of the most fabled dinners in history, a banquet in honor of the return of former President Ulysses S. Grant from a trip around the world. Richard and Patricia Nixon were married at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside, California. Ronald and Nancy Reagan spent their honeymoon at the Mission Inn. The Fairmont San Francisco, known as the "White House of the West" has hosted nearly every U.S. president since William Taft.
About Historic Hotels of America
Historic Hotels of America is the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest Historic Hotels. Historic Hotels of America was founded in 1989 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with 32 charter members. Today, Historic Hotels of America has more than 300 historic hotels. These historic hotels have all faithfully maintained their authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity in the United States of America, including 46 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Historic Hotels of America is comprised of mostly independently owned and operated historic hotels. More than 30 of the world's finest hospitality brands, chains, and collections are represented in Historic Hotels of America. To be nominated and selected for membership into this prestigious program, a hotel must be at least 50 years old; has been designated by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark or listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places; and recognized as having historic significance.
About The White House Historical Association
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. In 1961, the White House Historical Association was established to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion's legacy for generations to come. Supported entirely by private resources, the Association's mission is to assist in the preservation of the state and public rooms, fund acquisitions for the White House permanent collection, and educate the public on the history of the White House. Since its founding, the White House Historical Association has contributed more than $47 million in fulfillment of its mission. To learn more about the White House Historical Association, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org.
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