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Andrew Mueller is a journalist and author whose books sell badly enough to keep him in journalism. He also does things on the radio, and plays in a country band sometimes.
Andrew Mueller is a Wagga Wagga-born, London-based rock critic, travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He is a Contributing Editor at Monocle, and a frequent presenter on Monocle 24, including as host of the award-winning "The Foreign Desk". He also writes more or less regularly for Uncut, New Humanist and Smith Journal, among others. His byline has also appeared – and may yet again, who knows – in The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The Face, eMusic, Metro, High Life, The Quietus, The Australian, Frankie, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Bloomberg Business Week, Gear, Arena, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Little Atoms and NSFW, among many others.
Mueller has no real idea why he's writing all this in the third person, unless it's out of some desperate, deluded hope that it will sound like he can afford staff, or command the loyalty of starry-eyed interns. Anything else just seems kind of gauche, though, so he will stick with it.
He is the author of: "Rock & Hard Places", an anthology of rock journalism, foreign correspondence and travel writing first published in 1999, then reissued in updated form in 2010 and again in 2012; "I Wouldn't Start From Here", a history of the 21st century as seen from most of the places in which the 21st century has, thus far, happened, which was published in various territories between 2007 and 2009; "It's Too Late To Die Young Now", an affectionate memoir of a youth gleefully mis-spent in rock journalism, which was published in Australia in 2013, and elsewhere in 2014; "Carn", an episodic historiography of Australian Rules football, will be published in 2019.
In distant to recent past, then: Mueller was Reviews Editor at lamented rock weekly Melody Maker between 1991 and 1993. He wrote a fortnightly opinion column for Time Out between 2002 and 2004, and the "Bad Idea Of The Week" column, a regular study of human folly, for The Independent On Sunday Review between 2004 and 2006. Between 2008 and 2010, a variation on this theme, "Moment Of Madness", appeared weekly in the Financial Times Magazine. Between 2015 and 2018, he wrote a regular opinion column, sometimes but not always about sport, for GQ Australia.
Among various journalistic misadventures in more than 80 countries, Andrew Mueller has reported on the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the lifting of the siege of Bihac, the handover of Hong Kong, the invasion of Iraq, the wartime rock'n'roll scene of Sarajevo, an Elvis Presley festival in Tupelo and Ukraine's efforts to launch Chernobyl as a tourist destination. He was probably the first foreigner ever to set foot in the village of Panggi in Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India, and certainly the first to take a wicket on the village cricket pitch (caught behind off a thickish outside edge). He has ridden the Cresta Run, driven the proverbial Road to Damascus, been given a guided tour of Lebanon by Hezbollah, travelled the Trans-Mongolian railway, patrolled Basra with the Welsh Guards and Kabul with the Royal Anglian Regiment, played the country songwriters' open-mic night at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and flown the world's least commercially sane air route – IranAir between Tehran and Caracas. In November 2005, he was briefly an extremely minor international news story, after getting arrested in Cameroon while travelling with an illegal separatist group, and finding himself obliged to spend the weekend in gaol.
Andrew Mueller has interviewed a bemusing panoply of public figures, including Libyan heir apparent Saif Gaddafi, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, Loyalist hitman turned surrealist painter Michael Stone, UN High Representative to Bosnia-Hercegovina Paddy Ashdown, British MPs George Galloway and Boris Johnson, UK cabinet ministers Peter Hain and Geoff Hoon, long-imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier, Albanian prime minister Edi Rama, Formula 1 drivers Eddie Irvine, Damon Hill and Gerhard Berger, Israeli dissident Mordechai Vanunu, supermodel Helena Christensen, Abkhazian president Sergei Bagapsh, Muslim Council of Britain chairman Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Cape Verde prime minister Jose Maria Neves, Renault Formula 1 team principal Flavio Briatore, former MI5 Director-General Dame Stella Rimington, renegade MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson, West Indian cricket legend Michael Holding, Australian Rules football titan Ron Barassi, Albanian literary eminence Ismail Kadare, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Australian prime minister/foreign minister Kevin Rudd, Bulgarian pop legend Lili Ivanova, former US Vice President Al Gore, the deputy prime minister of Liechtenstein and two – count 'em – chief ministers of Gibraltar. He has also toured with some of the world's biggest rock acts (U2, Radiohead, The Cure, Pearl Jam, The Prodigy) and interviewed any number of others.
Andrew Mueller was also a contributing editor to the fifth edition of Robert Young Pelton's "The World's Most Dangerous Places" (Harper Collins, 2003). Other author credits include chapters in "The Mammoth Book Of Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll" (Constable Robinson, 2001), and "The Atheist's Guide To Christmas" (The Friday Project, 2009). He has also written sleevenotes for Straitjacket Fits ("Straitjacket Fits"), The Go-Betweens (the "Spring Hill Fair" and "Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express" reissues, plus "Live In London"), The Fatima Mansions (the "Viva Dead Ponies" reissue), Microdisney (the "Daunt Square To Elsewhere" anthology) and U2 (the "Achtung Baby" 20th anniversary reissue), and programme notes for U2 (the "Vertigo" and "The Joshua Tree 2017" world tours). He concedes, however, that on balance it's unlikely to get better than appearing in between Mozart and Muhammad in the index of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion".
Andrew Mueller has been twice shortlisted for the OneWorld Media Awards, once for the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards, once for the Audio Production Awards, and won the Current Affairs category at the British Podcast Awards in 2018 for his presenting of Monocle 24's "The Foreign Desk".
Andrew Mueller is the singer and songwriter with The Blazing Zoos, an incipient alt.country phenomenon who released their debut album, "I'll Leave Quietly", in 2010, and its follow-up, "Chocks Away", in 2016. He is also co-proprietor of presently – but hopefully not permanently – dormant Nashville-on-Thames country & western club.
In 2011, Mueller collaborated with Luke Haines and Cathal Coughlan on a spoken word and music farrago entitled "The North Sea Scrolls". This premiered at the Edinburgh Festival to reviews which were generally agog, if understandably perplexed. The album of the same name was released in 2012, and accompanied by a six-date tour of the British Isles, which was warmly received by appreciative crowds everywhere. Except Brighton, where they just stared at us like a golden retriever contemplating a Rothko. The show was revived for a performance at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in 2013 (in one of the small upstairs rooms, granted, but it doesn't say that on the poster).
Andrew can be contacted at mail@andrewmueller.net. He is especially keen to hear from commissioning editors with a budget and a sense of adventure or, failing that, impressionable heiresses whose fathers own newspapers.
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A great unused 1940s Massachusetts linen postcard in excellent condition; this card was never posted and it doesnt have any writing on the back.
Nice colorful and collectible vintage scenic view of Old Massachusetts, showing historic Sippican Elementary School on Spring Street in Marion.
This postcard is over 60 years old... a little piece of Marion history!
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Hustling in Vegas, with that Cherry & Lime.
Downtown Central ejuice is a salt nicotine and works best in a Pod system or MTL (Mouth to lung) device. This is a 20MG 50/50 VG/PG 10ML bottle of eliquid.
Nicotine Salts provide a smoother throat hit in a higher MG allowing for faster nicotine satisfaction compared to free base nicotine.


Over the next academic year I intend to show a lot more of the UCF student work on this blog. The staff and students put their heart and soul into the work that is produced at Falmouth. Personally, I get a massive sense of pride from what I do and want to share the results with the world. So here is the first of many; a video documenting the first Kinect based student project to come from UCF.
We were very lucky recently to have Kim Cascone visit UCF.
Focus is a directional aim of attention from the listener on certain points in the environment. The scope is the almost like the circumference around the focus point, the bigger the scope the larger the area where the listener is able to the sounds is. I am sure that my definition is not quite right but the way I imagine this to look visually is almost like a cone protruding away from the listener with the wide end furthest away. as the scope and focus gets larger and less specific the end of the cone becomes larger allowing a lot more sounds to be heard. If the cone's base becomes smaller then the listener can really focus in on very specific sounds.
I was very interested in the battle that seemed to be persistant in Kim's work between the auditory field being 3D and the stereo recording which exists only in 2D. Kim used the term 'grain' to explain how if done well a stereo 2D signal can be amplified to a 3D experience by the user. Grain follows the listener, past experiences and sensations amplify and reconstruct the 2D signal.
A small blog entry won't do this man justice so if you ever get the chance to see Kim talk then it is well worth going.
This project was built using Arduin and processing.org. The project has a beautifully unique and playful take on sound manipulation. I especially love the bucket but you will have to watch it to know what i mean!
Found this video of laughingsquid.com. Some of the effects used are mind blowing. I especially like the leaking TV its just a really nice concept. There are a few cheesy moments but these can be excused as overall the footage is awesome. The video is a show reel from the french design company EasyWeb.


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Engaged Learning Forum: "Anti-Asian Violence in South Bend and Indiana"
Time: Tue Jun 29, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Anti-Asian Violence in South Bend and Indiana: Understanding and Combating Discrimination in Our Communities
Tengfei Luo, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Black Lives Matter South Bend Representatives
Sharon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, University of Notre Dame
Kristine Yuen, LinkedIn Design Manager, Notre Dame alumna, and former South Bend resident
Lulama Moyo, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, people of Asian descent around the world have experienced increased attacks, discrimination, and unfair blame for the development and spread of the coronavirus. In the United States, these attacks continue to rise exponentially with perpetrators emboldened by the normalization of racial slurs such as "China virus" that give tacit encouragement for bigotry and xenophobia.
Of course, Anti-Asian bigotry in the United States is nothing new. From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the recent Muslim ban, anti-Asian discrimination has been written into government policy that, in turn, has normalized everyday expressions of discrimination.
As recent the high-profile killings of four Sikh men in Indianapolis and food truck driver Shane Nguyen in Fort Wayne have shown, this discrimination is occurring in our state, our region of Northern Indiana, and in South Bend.
Please bring your questions, stories, and ideas to join academic and community experts for this collaborative discussion about anti-Asian racism nationwide, in Indiana, and in local communities—and what can be done to stop it.
Please indicate if you will join by completing this registration form by 10:00 a.m., June 29. A zoom link will be sent to those who register.
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Q: Excluding .svn directories with WinRar I have a PowerShell script I use for creating distributions that copies compiled files from a few places and zips them up with winrar. In the script, I change to a directory containing the folders I want to run and execute this:
Invoke-Expression ($WinRAR + " a " + $zipPath + " " + $WinRARFilter + " " + $DistName + "-zip " + $WinRAROpts)

Which actually executes this:
E:\Progs\WinRar\WinRar.exe a C:\Users\Echilon\Documents\Coding\ResourceBlender-Express\trunk\dist\resourceblender-express_1.44-zip.zip -x*\.svn\* -x*\.svn -x\.svn resourceblender-express-zip -r -s -m5 -inul

Yet none of the .svn directories are excluded from the zip file. This used to work and I have no idea why it doesn't now, but I can't get it to exclude the right files.
The full script is on codeplex at http://resourceblender.codeplex.com/sourcecontrol/changeset/view/27742?projectName=resourceblender#456701 (at the bottom of the script)
Could someone with some experience in PowerShell shed some light on this please?

A: This is a PowerShell issue. I put the same command in the Command Prompt and BOOM!
winrar a -ehs -x*\.svn\* -u -r -afrar -m3 "dest file.rar" "source folder"

A: I had the same problem, solved using:
-x*.svn\

I use WinRar v3.93 for Windows. Please note the final backslash.

A: The right way of doing this is to perform a svn export which will create a copy of the project without the .svn directories (and anything else not version controlled) and then do the zip.

A: I agree with Neil Butterworth comment regarding the use of the svn export command being more appropriate in this case.
Talking about WinRar you might consider using an -e switch to skip hidden folders (.svn is a hidden folder) and an -ep switch to exclude it by name.
Please refer to WinRar manual for more information

A: I had the same problem and found this page with no solution, so for other people googling it  the correct switch is :
-x*\.svn\*

A: I ended up using
-x*\.svn*

This will ignore the actual .svn folder and not just everything inside of it. I'm also using WinRAR 3.80. Have you tried updating your version of winrar ?
Thought the svn export method worked out a lot better for me cuz I didn't get all the debug builds and misc .dlls

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Time for a Bold Statement?
March 23, 2011 by jfenwood
It's starting to look like "A New Century of Forest Planning" may ultimately come to refer to the hundred years or so it takes to get a new planning rule implemented. Will the "Hundred Years War" come to signify the length of the timber wars?
Way back in the 1900's, Chief Dale Robertson was convinced that a bold policy statement was necessary to address the big concern of the day– clearcutting of national forests. In a policy letter (not the best way to make policy, but a lot quicker than rule-making), Dale established that clearcuttting would no longer be the primary means of regeneration on national forest lands. There were howls of protest from silviculturists and tree-improvement specialists. There were exceptions for species like Jack Pine and Sand Pine. There certainly was no end to the timber wars, but it was a start down a path towards armistice.
Getting a new planning rule implemented will take more than just agreement about the wording of the rule. It's going to require an environment that will insure the intent of that wording can be carried out. Perhaps now is an appropriate time for the current Chief to make some bold statements.
My suggestions are:
1. Declare that restoration of ecosystem resiliency is not just an important part of the mission; it's the most important part.
Management actions would be all about producing desired ecological conditions in order to restore and maintain resilient ecosystems and help protect human communities from undesirable things like intense wildfires in the wrong places or downstream impacts from deteriorating road systems. There would be no need to calculate ASQ or argue about "lands unsuitable for timber production". (There may still be a need to "zone" for other uses.) "Below-cost" timber sales would no longer be a meaningful calculation. And, if the South is any indication, a lot more timber would become available for local mills.
2. Declare that planning at all levels will be a truly open and collaborative process.
All phases of planning would be "open source" with draft documents and supporting information easily accessible on-line. Raw data from inventories and monitoring as well as interpreted data, maps, and models would be open to all. I can't think of any other policy change that would do more to improve the level of trust among stakeholders. A side benefit would be a tremendous savings in responding to FOIA requests.
3. Declare that the Forest Service will commit to a process of establishing a shared vision for the entire agency.
With the National Forest System, Research, and State and Private Forestry all working towards shared goals, using an "all lands" approach, imagine what might be accomplished at landscape scales? This is the sort of partnership between managers and scientists that will be needed to truly ensure that "best science" is incorporated into decisions at all levels.
Are these declarations really all that bold? Not really, The Forest Service has been moving in these directions since before Dale Robertson penned his letter. A clear commitment to these principles might be what's needed to finally move the National Forest System into the New Century.
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Spotted Owl Fallout?
Standards in Planning
4 thoughts on "Time for a Bold Statement?"
Brian Hawthorne
The following is intended as a humorus way to make a point.
Yes! Buffo!!! Who needs all that NFMA and Multiple Use crud. To heck with Congress defining the mission of the USFS! Its high time the agency did it for itself!!!
2. Declare that planning at all levels is a truly open and collaborative process.
Declare it and it shall be so. Awesome!! Lets do it!!!
Yes again!! Buffo times ten!!!! To heck with Congress!! Bureaucrats Unite!!
Respectfully submitted. With tongue firmly planted in cheek.
I don't think that I am proposing anything inconsistent with NFMA or multiple use or that would be inconsistent with the will of Congress as established by law. Yes, NFMA requires some things such as determination of ASQ, but it would essentially become irrelevant. Obviously all of these will require a whole lot more than just declaring it so. (I should have originally said "planning will be" rather than "is"). It would not be simple, easy, or quick to accomplish.
I'm glad to see that you will be a strong supporter!
I read number 1 as a desire to "move" the direction (from Congress) toward a more preservationist mission.
Us multiple use types object to that sort of thing!
I believe part of the problem with the existing planning, and the problem with the Draft Planning Rule, is precisely that the agency is trying to hard to "move" away from their multiple use mandate.
I advise caution. If this is really what you mean to do, then don't be surprised when the response from local communities is to push a whole lot more of these "place based" bills.
Ecosystem resiliency (whatever the federal courts will determine that to mean) is all well and good, I suppose. However, (plagiarizing from the Quincy Lawsuit):
The awkward facts are that: (1) modern forests have structures and compositions radically different from historic natural forests; (2) large human populations now occupy forests and/or depend on them for essential commodities and functions, ranging from timber and water to recreation and safety; and (3) both law and regulation provide for human uses that did not exist in the pre-settlement forests. In order to accommodate these awkward facts, the Forest Service must be pro-active in restoring our forests to structures and compositions that are both natural and sustainable, with full regard for both ecological and human necessities.
That was most certainly not my intent. I think we can and should be harvesting a lot more on many national forests in order to restore resiliency. It's not just a matter of resiliency being "all well and good", it's absolutely essential if we are going to have multiple uses in the long run. I have posted many times before about the management of the National Forests in Mississippi which is all about restoring healthy ecosystems and as a by-product, results in more timber (I think this is still true) commercially harvested than any other national forest.
I agree with all of these statements, but I don't find them "awkward", just true. I believe that if we don't recognize that ecological sustainability underlies our ability to have economic and social sustainability, then we can never redeem the Congressionally mandated multiple-use responsibilities of the Orgainc Act, MUSY and NFMA.


GJD has secured a contract worth £5M over the next three years to make motion detectors for a global blue chip company.
GJD Manufacturing is an industry leader in the design, manufacture and supply of security electronics and motion detectors, which are used to trigger CCTV and other security systems at commercial and high end residential properties. GJD has secured a contract worth £5M over the next three years to make motion detectors for a global blue chip company. The contract will double GJD's turnover over the next two years and will boost the local area, enabling the company to recruit several new employees in the short term and hopefully even more in the future.
As a well established company that has clearly found the key to success, GJD does not require such intensive support and Yvonne meets with Mark every six months to up date him on any new schemes or initiatives and to check if there are any areas that she can be of assistance with.


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NDP Chair Jane Kleeb made the following statement following President Trump's State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening.
"President Trump started and ended with lofty language sandwiched between predictable rhetoric about his broken promise of the wall that Mexico was to fund.
Farmers are confronting climate change growing biofuels and installing wind and solar on land across Nebraska. And yet, Pres. Trump did not mention a peep about his empty promise on E-15 to grow the industry in Ag states that is helping rebuild rural America.


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Game Over for Defending Super Bowl Champion Ravens
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Posted By: MelissaRubin December 31, 2013
It's a wrap for the defending Super Bowl Champion Ravens after ending their season with a 34-17 loss to AFC North rival Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl Ride is Over
It is the first time in six years the Ravens failed to reach the playoffs under head coach John Harbaugh and quarterback Joe Flacco. The Ravens finished the season with an 8-8 record.Coach Harbaugh wasn't happy with the outcome:
"We're not ever going to be content with not making the playoffs," he said. "That's just not something that's going to be OK with me personally or Ozzie [Newsome] or any of us, or any player here. That's what makes it tough and disappointing. We expect to do that. We will fight like crazy to do that every single year."
The Ravens are the 15th Super Bowl champion team that failed to reach the playoffs the following season.
While their five-year consecutive playoff streak was awesome, all things must come to an end. The Ravens couldn't overcome the countless obstacles they faced this season.
Running back Ray Rice never fully recovered from the injury he suffered earlier this season; the running game never got going.
Red zone issues were a problem. The Ravens struggled to score touchdowns and settled for field goals.
The offensive line did a poor job protecting Flacco. He often had little time to throw the ball and was sacked countless times.
The Ravens hoped tight end Dennis Pitta could pick up of the slack after they traded wide receiver Anquan Boldin last season, but Pitta was injured in training camp and missed most of the season.
They lacked a veteran player to rally the troops. While they replaced players to the best of their ability during free agency, they could never replace the leadership void left after linebacker Ray Lewis retired.
Was it a disappointing season? While I could say yes because it is hard to look at the peak after getting to the top of the mountain, I will say no. I knew the Ravens would struggle this season; I never expected them to repeat.
While the Super Bowl hangover was painful, thankfully it is gone and we can move on from it. We will return healthier and stronger next season, for now we can enjoy a stress free post season…
MelissaRubin
Self-proclaimed sports junkie. Lifelong Baltimore sports fan residing in DC. Baltimore Ravens are my favorite team, I'm a die-hard fan and in constant need of a football fix. Baltimore Orioles and Washington Capitals fan too. Follow her on Twitter @egoddess1
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I participated in another MiniLD.
The code is Clojurescript, the graphics done with Quil (which uses Processing under the hood). The synth sound-effects are raw Web Audio courtesy of hum.
The point? Outlast the bot. Your max paddle hits gets submitted to a Ludum Dare leaderboard - the first of its kind.


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Star Trek - Flying a 3-Foot Enterprise to the Dog Poop Planet: The VFX of Rob Legato
Abigail Chandler
This article was originally published way back in September when The Companion first launched, which in internet years is approximately a decade and whole civilisations have risen and fallen like the shop window time lapse in 1960's The Time Machine. We're huge fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation and we hope you are too – especially with the whole thing sitting on Netflix alongside the absolutely sublime Star Trek: Discovery – so dive in 🙂
Few people have shaped the VFX industry as much as Rob Legato has. On top of his three Visual Effects Oscars – for Titanic, Hugo and The Jungle Book – he also provided the effects for Apollo 13, Armageddon and the first Harry Potter film. But before all of that, he was the guy who brought the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) to life. His background of studying cinematography and shooting commercials gave him the hands-on, all-rounder approach needed to cope with the demands and pressures of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I caught up with him over Zoom during the Coronavirus lockdown to find out how he achieved such impressive visuals on a TV budget, how he maintained an indie approach to effects on a network show, and how he finally figured out how to make the Borg Cubes terrifying.
When ILM did the VFX for 'Encounter at Farpoint', the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the plan was to shoot enough footage of the model Enterprise to provide stock footage for the entire season. But when the next episode rolled around, the script called for 15 new VFX shots in that episode alone. It was simply too time-consuming, and too expensive, to get a company like ILM to handle the VFX and model photography week in, week out – so TNG's VFX Supervisor had to get creative.
"Try it. It'll only fail, and then you might learn something from failing."
"Instead of it being this kind of mystique that only [companies like] ILM… could do these big Star Trek model shots, I figured I could do it. What's the big deal?" Legato shrugs, demonstrating the willing-to-try-anything attitude that has now won him those Oscars, as well as two Emmys for his work on TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Legato developed his fearlessly creative approach to VFX during his time in commercials in the 1980s, where, despite being a film school graduate with no background – or particular interest – in VFX, his willingness to experiment with filmmaking techniques made him the company's go-to effects guy. His philosophy at the time was: "Try it. It'll only fail, and then you might learn something from failing." It was a philosophy that stood him in good stead when he joined The Next Generation – and a philosophy that was slightly at odds with ILM's more rigidly organised way of doing things.
Luckily, the TNG producers were happy to let him put his own plans in place, so long as the show came in on time and on budget. Legato tells me over our Zoom chat that the attitude from producers at the time was "shoot as fast as you can, we'll take just about anything", but for Legato the look was just as important as the speed. TNG launched at the height of the VHS boom, so Legato realised that "in the same TV set that you watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, you could put a cassette tape in and watch Close Encounters, and you can watch the Star Trek feature [films]. You're used to seeing them in the same venue." He wanted to make sure that, while the effects might not quite match those of a high-budget feature film, they would at least be impressive by TV standards.
In the early days, Legato tells me that he "would shoot things in my basement to give it a lot more production value. I knew how to light, so if you shoot in smoke and have a light beam and shadows and shafts, it looks like you have a lot more things that you really have. So you could make something out of nothing. Because there wasn't really a rule book, and no-one knew what I could do or was doing, I was able to do whatever I wanted." The process of shooting the ship and planet models was one of gradual discovery, and Legato and the crew essentially learned and developed the process from scratch. They used motion control, the process by which a fixed camera move could be programmed into a computer, allowing the camera to replicate the exact move multiple times. That move could be used to separately shoot the ship, the stars, and any other element needed in the shot, and they could all be composited together into one shot in post-production. "The beginning was very tame, we did lock-offs," Legato says. "The ship would move but the stars wouldn't move because we needed to motion control those, or create them in some way."
You might think that a franchise as scientifically forward-thinking as Star Trek would have come up with some sort of advanced technique for creating the spacescapes that the Enterprise flies through – but no. Legato and his team "put a bunch of pinholes in a black piece of paper [and] backlit it." It's just one example of the quick, off-the-cuff thinking that was needed to bring TNG in on time and in budget. Legato tells me that they had a week per episode for TNG, and that in the early days he would regularly work 18-hour days, simultaneously handling post-production effects on one episode, shooting the next episode, and prepping for the one after that. Speed and creativity were of the essence.
Due to his filmmaking background, Rob brings a cinematic perspective to his VFX work. Photograph courtesy of Katie and Robert Legato.
In the end, once their process was locked in, Legato could shoot "maybe eight shots in a day. ILM would do one shot in a week… I could do a tremendous amount of decent quality work. I wouldn't say it was great quality work, but decent quality work that was different for TV." On Deep Space Nine, they brought in a guy who had previously only done features VFX work, who "said that I shot more in two weeks than they would shoot in a year on a feature." Legato would refuse to storyboard, because he enjoyed the process of discovery and the "happy accidents" that could happen while shooting and lighting models. As well as making the process more creative and flexible, it also made it faster, without having to go through the rigmarole of getting shots approved first. "I just got better week after week, because I was trying new things without having to go through a process," he says.
Soon, they began to iron out their process and make changes. The Enterprise model that ILM built was six feet across, which limited the ways they could shoot it. Their studio space wasn't huge, and they could only get the cameras so far away from the model. "I said that for me to do a better job I need a small, half-size Enterprise that has more detail on it, because I used to like to light it to look more like a feature. The original Enterprise, as designed, was supposed to be this sleek, plasticky-looking thing, well of course it makes it look like a model when it's just a sheet of plastic with nothing to catch the light." For $35,000, Tony Meininger (who later did the models for Titanic) built a three-foot Enterprise. "Now I could do much more adventurous shots, because now I can be twice as high, twice as low, twice as far away. It can go from quite a distance and do a brush-by with the camera, bring the camera in closer. It was a real innovation."
The original 6ft model of the USS Enterprise limited Rob and his team to slow, simple shots as seen here in 'Encounter at Farpoint' – S1, Ep1.
Alternatively, the smaller 3ft model allowed for more dynamic shots of the ships such as this example in 'Tin Man' – S3, Ep20.
Another time-saving device they hit upon was that instead of painting globes for each new planet the Enterprise crew encounters, they started using a white globe and projecting a slide image onto it. (Legato tells us that Dan Curry, another VFX Supervisor, "called one of them The Dog Shit Planet, because he went and photographed dog shit, and he thought it was so funny that one of the planets on Star Trek was made of dog shit.")
Because Legato was a cameraman and a second unit director, he understood a lot about building drama into his model photography, and nowhere is that more evident than in his work on the classic two-parter 'The Best of Both Worlds'. It wasn't the episode that introduced The Borg, (that was 'Q Who', which was handled by a different VFX Supervisor), but it's the episode that cemented their reputation as one of the franchise's best villains. "When I inherited the Borg ship, not to impugn the way it looked, but it was a cube, and if you flat-light it it just doesn't look like anything… The model wasn't great, it was hastily put together with the trees that model parts normally attach to. It was really fragile and funky. I thought graphically it just looked so boring that I couldn't do it. I would always twist it on its side so I was looking into the angle, and make a hot-lit side on one side and internal lighting. I did whatever tricks I could to make it graphic and make it come to life, and I made it look huge by doing these camera moves where I'm slowly going underneath it and it feels like it's getting bigger, I used all the tricks of the trade to make the thing seem imposing. If you just shoot it flat-on from a distance you can't get anywhere."
(Left) 'Q Who' – S2, Ep16, (Right) 'The Best of Both Worlds' – S3, Ep26 | CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment
By this point in TNG, Legato had built quite a toolbox for creating compelling model photography. Wide shots were 'informational, but boring', so to establish a new ship he would usually shoot it over another ship. He would use the sort of wide-angle close-ups that are commonly used to make human heroes and villains look imposing. "I always liked to keep everything moving. I didn't like static shots, so no matter what was happening the camera was always drifting and moving and doing something, it always has a mission. And then the closer I am to objects and things, the more the sound people could do something with it. If you're very far away and there's two ships, the noise of this ship and the noise of that ship kind of meld together, but if you get in really tight next to an engine they get to make a sound. I discovered that if I designed the shots that way, the sound would be better, and the end result would be more impressive because I gave them something to work with."
As the 90s wore on, TV shows began to replace models with CGI spaceships. The technology was still new, and ropey in places, and Legato says it "felt cheaper to me", in part because, at the time, you couldn't light digital models in the way that you could light physical models. Legato has since adopted digital effects (his most recent Oscar was for The Jungle Book), as have most films and TV shows, but there is still a fondness for model work. Seth MacFarlane was such a fan of Legato's work on TNG and DS9, that he asked him to film some stock model footage for The Orville "for nostalgia's sake. [MacFarlane] loved [TNG] when it was on, and loved the photography of the models, he felt like it felt like the real thing." Legato agreed to do the work, but found it a struggle. "[I]t was bizarre and very difficult to do because all the model makers are gone, people who shoot motion control when that was a more common thing to do, they're gone. So we had to patch it together and try to make up a unit. There's no company you can go to that does motion control work, where they build the model and shoot it at their shop. We shot it on the Twentieth Century Fox stage that they weren't using at the time, it was almost like one of those things where a restaurant comes in for a day, that kind of mentality, where you ship it in. We shot for a week, and that was some of the ship shots they used in the show."
Rob on the set of The Lion King | Photograph courtesy of Katie and Robert Legato
These days, Legato relies more on CG than on models, but his time spent working with models on Star Trek, and in his later feature work like Titanic and Apollo 13, has informed how he approaches digital effects. "Even when I shoot things like The Lion King, I limit it to what a real camera can do, being put on a dolly with a crane and a camera system and an operator, and not do magic CG moves," he says. "The trick to make it look like it's a conventionally photographed film is to conventionally photograph it in the computer, and resist the urge to do anything [impossible]." He finds himself missing the old days of models and working with physical objects, but, like with the switch from shooting on film to digital, he misses "the ritual" of it more than he misses "the limitations" of it. Today's crop of filmmakers were, like MacFarlane, heavily influenced by the ground-breaking work done by Legato and others like him. So maybe, despite those limitations, models and practical VFX will continue to thrive alongside their digital siblings.
Recommended Episodes
1. 'Encounter at Farpoint' – S1, Ep1 and Ep2
2. 'Contagion' – S2, Ep11
3. 'Peak Performance' – S2, Ep21
4. 'Booby Trap' – S3, Ep6
5. 'Remember Me' – S4, Ep5
6. 'The Best of Both Worlds 1 and 2' – S3, Ep26 and S4, Ep1
7. 'Silicon Avatar' – S5, Ep4
8. 'Conundrum' – S5, Ep14
1. 'Emissary' – S1, Ep1 and 2
2. 'If Wishes Were Horse's – S1, ep16
Shoutouts: A huge thanks to Benjamin Herbert, Tony Williams, and Paige Clark, three of our Kickstarter backers who made The Companion possible! Featured image courtesy of Katie and Robert Legato.
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The Last of the Lasts is het tweede album van de Franse groep Xang. Xang maakt hier muziek, die het best te vergelijken is met Rush en de rustige kant van Dream Theater. In tegenstelling tot Rush wordt er veelvuldig gebruikgemaakt van toetseninstrumenten.

Centraal thema van het album zijn de verschrikkingen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De acht tracks behandelen ieder een item uit die verschrikkelijke oorlog:
 Sacrifice (12:14); over de opoffering van zo velen, ook strijders uit de toen nog koloniën van Engeland en Frankrijk, die streden op en voor vreemde bodem;
 On leave (6:44); met verlof; verlof was natuurlijk aangenaam, maar velen zagen dan pas de verschrikkingen die ze hadden geleden en veroorzaakt, en het feit dat ze daar na een korte periode weer naartoe moesten;
 Verdun (11:11); over de Slag om Verdun;
 Sons of the Empire (3:44); over het feit dat Britse soldaten naast de Fransen streden en later ook begraven lagen;
 Mud (3:38); Modder zorgde ervoor dat alles trager verliep dan gedacht; en dat acties waarbij snelheid noodzakelijkheid was de dood tot gevolg kon hebben, aangezien de modder bewegingen haast onmogelijk maakte; tevens kon modder soms redding brengen, als men gedwongen was in een granaatinslag te overleven; het kleine beetje water kon dan soms verlichting brengen;
 Roommates (5:13); slapies
 Trenches (6:32); de eindeloze loopgravenstelsels van De Panne tot aan Bazel;
 Gas (8:13); Strijdgassen zoals en mosterdgas; de CD laat een geluid horen van ademhaling door een gasmasker.

De CD gaat gepaard met een boekwerk waarin een aantal foto's van begraafplaatsen, die vol liggen met slachtoffers van de oorlog, sommigen bekend en sommigen na 90 jaar nog steeds onbekend (zie Ossuaire van Douaumont). Ook moderne tekeningen geven een indruk van de ontberingen.

The Last of the Lasts heeft betrekking op het feit dat men na deze oorlog uitsprak: Nooit Meer Oorlog, niet wetende wat er 21 jaar later zou gebeuren, in het tekstboekje aangekondigd met "if only they knew".

The Last of the Lasts was het laatste album van Xang (gegevens 2021).

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Lawyers for Massachusetts woman who encouraged boyfriend's suicide appeal to Supreme Court
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Lawyers for the Massachusetts woman who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to throw out her conviction because it violated her right to free speech.
Michelle Carter's lawyers called her conviction in Conrad Roy III's death "unprecedented," saying it raises crucial questions about whether "words alone" are enough to hold someone responsible for someone's suicide.
FILE: Michelle Carter, center, listens to her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July of 2014. (Boston Herald via AP)
"Michelle Carter did not cause Conrad Roy's tragic death and should not be held criminally responsible for his suicide," Daniel Marx, one of her lawyers, said.
Carter was jailed in February after Massachusetts' Supreme Court unanimously upheld her conviction in the death of the then-18-year-old Roy. Carter, now 22, is serving a 15-month sentence.
The court agreed with a judge who found that Carter caused Roy's July 2014 death when she told him in a phone call to get back in his truck as it was filling with carbon monoxide and didn't call Roy's family or the police.
The phone call wasn't recorded, but the judge focused on a text message Carter sent a friend two months later in which she said Roy had gotten out of the truck because he was scared and she told him to get back in.
TEXAS MAN FATALLY SHOOTS HIS SISTER BEFORE TURNING GUN ON HIMSELF IN SUSPECTED MURDER-SUICIDE
Carter's lawyers said in their Supreme Court petition that the Massachusetts justices acknowledged that not everyone who verbally encourages someone to take their own life should be prosecuted but provided "no guidance to distinguish sympathetic cases of assisted suicide from culpable cases of unlawful killing."
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House to vote 'soon' on contempt for Barr, Ross over citizenship question: source
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House Democratic leadership has indicated that there will "soon" be a full House vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt over their failure to comply with subpoenas regarding the citizenship question on the census form, a source told Fox News.
Opponents of the citizenship question said it would discourage participation by immigrants and residents who are in the country illegally, resulting in inaccurate figures for a count that determines the distribution of some $675 billion in federal spending and how many congressional districts each state gets.
WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS 'LAWFUL' CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON FOX NEWS
The Trump administration had said the question was being added to aid in the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters' access to the ballot box. But in the Supreme Court's decision, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four more liberal members in saying the administration's current justification for the question "seems to have been contrived."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of wanting to "make America white again."
If the House votes to hold Barr and Ross in criminal contempt, the measure would head to the Justice Department, which Barr heads. He would likely recuse himself and ask someone else to consider the petition.
Politico reported that being held in contempt would be "an embarrassment for the Trump administration officials but would not lead to many tangible consequences."
Barr said earlier that the Trump administration would take action in the days ahead that he believes will allow a question on citizenship to be added to next year's census.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr offered no details except to say he sees a way to legally require census respondents to say whether or not they are citizens.
The Justice Department announced it is replacing the legal team that has been pursuing Trump's efforts, putting in place a new team consisting of both career and politically appointed attorneys.
Barr said he didn't have details on why the attorneys didn't want to continue, but "as far as I know, they don't think we are legally wrong."
Barr said he has been in regular contact with Trump over the issue of the citizenship question. "I agree with him that the Supreme Court decision was wrong," the attorney general said. He said he believes there is "an opportunity potentially to cure the lack of clarity that was the problem and we might as well take a shot at doing that."
Trey Gowdy: Nothing will be learned at next week's Mueller hearings
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Former congressman Trey Gowdy doesn't expect much to happen during next week's hearing featuring Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"Mueller doesn't want to come. He doesn't want to come because he's not going to deviate from his report. What you're going to get are these incendiary questions about obstruction and impeachment," Gowdy said Monday while previewing the hearing on "Hannity." "You're not going to learn anything next Wednesday that you don't already know."
TRUMP ATTY JAY SEKULOW: HERE'S THE QUESTIONS MUELLER MUST BE ASKED ON JULY 17
Mueller is set to testify before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence committees July 17.
Attorney General William Barr said in an interview Monday that the Justice Department would support Robert Mueller if he decides he "doesn't want to subject himself" to questioning from congressional Democrats
Mueller's report found no proof that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election, despite multiple outreach efforts by Russians, and did not reach a conclusion on whether President Trump obstructed justice.
Gowdy explained why the media "love" hearings like next Thursday and used a March 17 hearing featuring James comedy as an example.
"Think back to March of 2017 Sean when, when the other news had a public hearing… Jim Comey and Mike Rogers a hundred times the witness said I cannot answer that question in this forum. You would think the media would say that was a waste of everybody's time, don't ever do that again," Gowdy told Hannity.
"They love it they love it because what Adam Schiff and Swalwell and the others did is read newspaper articles that contain classified information only for the witness that they have to say 'I can't comment on that in this setting.' That's what's going to happen next week."
Fox News' Gregg Re contributed to this report.
Pelosi calls for Acosta to step down over Epstein plea deal, hits Trump
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to step down for what she called an "unconscionable agreement" with Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged earlier with sex trafficking in New York City federal court.
Acosta, who was a U.S. attorney in Miami back in 2008, helped Epstein secure a plea deal that resulted in an 18-month sentence. He served 13 months. The deal was criticized as lenient because he could have faced a life sentence.
Pelosi said in a tweet late Monday that Acosta's agreement with Epstein was kept from his "young victims" and prevented them from seeking justice. She said Trump was aware of the background when Acosta was appointed.
Acosta negotiated a deal that resulted in two state solicitation charges—a felony—and resulted in county jail. There were no federal charges. The Washington Post reported that Epstein was allowed to work from his office six days a week. The alleged victims were not told about the deal, the report said.
The Miami Herald called the allegations back then "stomach-turning." They included allegations that the wealthy financier lured dozens of troubled girls to an estate in Palm Beach and had sex with them. The paper's editorial called the allegations a "Ponzi scheme," because he would allegedly use new girls to recruit more.
BILL CLINTON KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT EPSTEIN'S 'TERRIBLE CRIMES,' EX-SPOKESMAN SAYS
The Herald's editorial said that in 2008, Acosta kept the alleged victims out of the process and failed to "even inform them of his lenient plea deal with Epstein. In February, U.S. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Acosta's office broke the law by not telling Epstein's victims of the sweetheart deal. In contrast, [U.S. Attorney Geoffrey] Berman, has issued a public call for women to contact his office to help him build his sex-trafficking case against Epstein."
Acosta has defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances, though the White House said in February that it was "looking into" his handling of the deal.
Epstein, the 66-year-old hedge fund manager, was charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment with sex trafficking and conspiracy during the early 2000s. He could get up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors alleged that Epstein, who was arrested on Saturday, preyed on "dozens" of victims as young as 14.
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., told Fox News that Epstein's initial sentence was "absurd" and said it is not a time "for people to say, 'oh, is a Republican or Democrat going to be implicated?' Every American should stand on the side of those little girls."
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Two White House officials told The Washington Post that Trump does not have plans to force out Acosta.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty.
Fox News' Gregg Re and the AP contributed to this report
Rudy Giuliani: If Biden wasn't prepared for Harris, will he be ready for Kim Jong Un, Putin or China?
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Former Vice President Joe Biden should have been prepared for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to criticize his comments about working with segregationist former senators, according to Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, on Monday told Fox News' Laura Ingraham, the host of "The Ingraham Angle," that Biden's failure to be prepared for Harris' onslaught raises questions if he is ready to negotiate with foreign rivals.
"If you are not prepared for Kamala, are you prepared for Kim Jong Un and Putin and the people in China?" Giuliani asked, in response to a clip of Biden's wife, Dr. Jill Biden.
In a CNN interview Monday, Dr. Jill Biden told Chris Cuomo her biggest surprise in the campaign occurred during the debate last month.
SOME 2020 DEMS TURN ON KAMALA HARRIS FOR ATTACKING BIDEN, THEN BACKTRACKING
"I think probably Kamala was a little bit of a surprise," she said.
Giuliani said Trump is not concerned about a potential face-off with the Democratic candidates.
"He's not shaking at all about Kamala Harris or any of them," he said.
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"The president realizes there's going to be a candidate — we don't know who it is — and they are going to have to make all these crazy charges. But I think is pretty comfortable."
In regard to Biden, the former New York City mayor added he has disagreements on a political level with the Delawarean but does not believe he is a racist.
"At a bare minimum, Biden is entitled to, "He's not a racist." — Also, he's not," he said, reacting to former First Lady Michelle Obama offering 'no comment' on the debate.
Arizona man fatally stabbed teen listening to rap because he felt 'unsafe,' police say
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Authorities on Tuesday said an Arizona man fatally stabbed a teen last week because he felt threatened by the teen's choice of music: rap.
The encounter happened Thursday at a Circle K in Peoria, about a 25-minute drive northwest of Phoenix, according to reports.
Michael Adams faces a charge of first-degree premeditated murder for the alleged stabbing of a teen last week. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
Witnesses told police that Michael Adams, 27, walked up to a 17-year-old who was listening to rap music and stabbed him the throat, Phoenix's Fox 10 reported. The teen – identified as Elijah Al-Amin –reportedly stumbled outside the Circle K and died.
Adams allegedly told officers he felt "unsafe" by the teen's choice of music. He allegedly said he had been attacked before by people listening to rap, the station reported.
He allegedly said he wanted to prevent an attack, but admitted the victim did nothing to provoke him.
The Arizona Department of Corrections said Adams had been released from jail two days before the alleged stabbing. Adam's lawyer told Fox 10 that his client has a history of mental illness and was released from jail without medication.
ARIZONA GIRL, 7, DIES AFTER HIT-AND-RUN CRASH, DRIVER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER, DUI: POLICE
"They released him to the streets with no medication, no meds, with no way to care for himself," Adam's lawyer said during a court appearance this week. "This is a failing of the Department of Corrections. This is easily foreseeable and that is an issue."
Adams was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of first-degree premeditated murder, the Arizona Republic reported. He is being held a $1 million cash bond and will appear in court next on July 15, the report said.
Extradition bill that prompted mass protests in Hong Kong is dead, Lam says
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The extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong's largest protests in more than a decade was declared dead on Tuesday by the former British colony's embattled leader who called the process a "total failure."
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, told reporters that the plan is dead, Reuters reported. There have been widespread calls for Lam to step down and her political fate is far from certain.
She faced tough criticism after insisting that the measure—which called for criminal suspects in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China—would help protect human rights in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Critics could not have been more opposed to the measure and Lam's theory. They said Beijing enforces arbitrary detentions and torture, a claim China denied.
PUZDER: PROTESTERS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM. US SHOULD SUPPORT
Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to retain its own social, legal and political systems for 50 years under an agreement reached before its 1997 return to China from British rule. But China's ruling Communist Party has been seen as increasingly reneging on that agreement by pushing through unpopular legal changes.
"It's the culmination of about six weeks of mounting concern," Hong Kong Bar Association Chair Philip Dykes said in an interview. "There is a dissatisfaction with it all."
Washington man severely burned after saving 8-year-old niece from fire says 'I'd run back in there and do it again'
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A Washington man, who has been hospitalized with serious burns all over his body after he rushed into a burning home to save his 8-year-old niece, told reporters from his hospital bed that he would do it again.
Derrick Byrd, 20, of Aberdeen, which is about a two-hour drive from Seattle, told KOMO News, "I'd do it again, I really would."
He added, "I'd run back in there and do it again even if I got burned worse or died."
NASHVILLE APARTMENT FIRE KILLS BABY, INJURES 5 CHILDREN, WHILE MOTHERS WERE AT NIGHTCLUB, INVESTIGATORS SAY
Byrd was airlifted to a nearby hospital with second and third-degree burns on his face, back and arms after the Thursday morning fire in his home, the station reported.
Byrd said when the fire broke out he immediately tried to help his sister get her three young children out of the home through the second-floor window.
"I ran downstairs even though I got burned, started catching the kids," he said.
Derrick Byrd spoke out from his hospital bed. (KOMO)
Byrd told the station he caught his 6-year-old nephew and his sister's baby but her 8-year-old daughter, Mercedes, was too afraid to jump.
He said when his sister fell off the roof, Mercedes fell back into the burning room.
"She was screaming my name," Byrd told the station. "So, I wasn't just going to let her sit there. I wasn't going to let my niece die."
He said he ran upstairs, "pushed right through the fire" all while he could feel it burning him.
FIRE AT JIM BEAM KENTUCKY WAREHOUSE CONTINUES TO BURN AS 45,000 BARRELS OF BOURBON ARE DESTROYED:REPORTS
"Then, I got her, I took my shirt off and put it around her face so she wasn't breathing any smoke and then I just carried her out, as fast as I could," Byrd told the television station.
He added, "Even though I got burned, I really didn't care though. I'd rather me get burned than her. She's young, you know. She's still got a lot of stuff going for her. She's a good kid."
Crews also airlifted Byrd's niece and 6-year-old nephew to a local hospital.
When asked what his reaction was to people calling him a "hero" Byrd told the station, "I can't say a hero. I just say I care for my niece and nephew. I wasn't going to let them die."
The house appeared to be a total loss and firefighters reportedly were just thankful nobody died.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
Rapinoe says US women's soccer team would be 'very happy to accept' Schumer's invite to Senate
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The U.S. women's soccer team's star forward Megan Rapinoe told reporters Monday that the team would be "very happy to accept" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's invitation to come to Capitol Hill to celebrate their victory and discuss equal pay legislation.
"What the #USWNT did was extraordinary, and they deserve to be compensated fairly," Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted on Monday. "All women need to be compensated fairly. Period. And we ought to pay attention to this not just once every four years during the World Cup, but year-in and year-out."
Earlier, Monday, during remarks on the Senate floor, Schumer invited the team to the Senate to celebrate the historic victory in the 2019 Women's World Cup. He also called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring legislation up for a vote that would ensure all women earn equal pay.
"And, while today we celebrate their victory, we also recognize that these women, these athletes, have challenges and they make us really think about the future of women's sports," Schumer said on Monday. "They make us grapple with the deep unfairness in how female athletes are treated, and paid, compared to their male counterparts."
TRUMP, PUTTING ASIDE RAPINOE'S ATTACK, CONGRATULATES WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM ON WORLD CUP WIN
Reacting to Schumer's call for equal pay, Rapinoe said, "That's great. I love that. Interested to see what McConnell does. Thank you, Chuck Schumer, for inviting us out. We are very happy to accept your invitation to come."
McConnell did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
On Sunday, President Trump unequivocally congratulated the United States women's soccer team after its repeat World Cup win — putting aside, at least for the moment, the firestorm surrounding Rapinoe's vow never to visit the White House.
Asked by reporters later in the day whether men and women World Cup soccer teams should make the same money — which Rapinoe has demanded — Trump responded, "I would like to see that, but you've also got to look at numbers… you have to look at who's taking in what" and "see how they're performing."
"I don't know what those numbers are," Trump added. "And, you have to see year-round how are they all drawing — what is the attendance for women's soccer outside of World Cup, but I would like to see it."
The U.S. women's soccer team posing with the World Cup trophy after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Rapinoe, the pink-haired team captain who emerged with the Golden Ball as top player and the Golden Boot as top scorer, has been an outspoken opponent of what she's described as systemic gender inequality in the United States. Rapinoe previously knelt during the national anthem prior to rules changes that barred the practice.
"I'm not going to the f—— White House," Rapinoe said in a widely publicized magazine interview in June. "No f—— way will we be invited to the White House. [Trump] tries to avoid inviting a team that might decline. Or, like he did when the [Golden State] Warriors turned him down, he'll claim they hadn't been invited in the first place."
Rapinoe has largely stood by her comments in recent weeks, except for the explicit language she used. On Saturday, Rapinoe said that she believed that "not many, if any" of her teammates would visit the White House if they won the final against the Netherlands.
MEGAN RAPINOE SAYS FIFA WORLD CUP PRIZE MONEY 'NOT FAIR,' WOMEN NOT AS 'RESPECTED' AS MEN
Rapinoe told reporters on Monday, "We've said publicly, I've said that I think most the team, if not everybody, I think everybody is with me. We don't want to go to the White House, so I figure that's why the invitation hasn't come."
Rapinoe's teammate Alex Morgan weighed in on the invitation, telling reporters on Monday, "We have a lot to talk about within the team."
She added that "she is sure that anything" that the team could do to "raise our voice and use their platform for, we will do so."
Fox News' Courtney Crawford, Gregg Re, Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Mark Meadows: Comey basically 'went through red stoplights' trying to 'get' Trump
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Former FBI Director James Comey tried very hard to get President Trump indicted in relation to the Russia investigation, according to Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.
Comey should have known information contained within British ex-spy Christopher Steele's Trump dossier was unverified, Meadows claimed Monday on "Hannity."
"What we see is, James Comey went through not only yellow flashing lights, but he went through red stoplights to try to get this president and indict this president," Meadows said.
"We know that Christopher Steele not only was talking to the DOJ, was talking to the FBI, was talking to the media — he was talking to anybody who would listen.
"He was sending smoke signals everywhere trying to get somebody to take this particular story that was false. The FBI knew it was false. They knew they had credibility problems, and yet, they continued to spy on American citizens."
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Meadows also referenced documents unveiled earlier this year showing that shortly after the 2016 presidential election, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec and Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr discussed new allegations sourced to Steele concerning the Trump campaign's Russia connections.
The previous month, in October 2016, Kavalec had met with Steele and documented his political motivations in writing — particularly that Steele's client was "keen" to see his anti-Trump materials "come to light" prior to the election. Kavelec forwarded her written notes, in which she also pointed out that some of Steele's claims were apparently false, to a senior FBI executive.
Despite Kavalec's concerns, the FBI used Steele's information to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page just weeks later. The warrant application did not clearly state that the dossier's creation was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Furthermore, Meadows and Sean Hannity noted key witnesses sought for questioning in the Justice Department inspector general's investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse recently came forward "at the 11th hour."
Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating — a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Fox News' Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge and Cyd Upson contributed to this report.
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Born: 25 April 1808, Culmstock, Devonshire, England.
Died: 22 July 1901, Cape Town, South Africa.
Richard Southey, Cape civil servant and politician, was the son of George Southey and his wife Joan Baker. In 1820, at the age of 12, he came to the Cape Colony with his family in a party of British settlers headed by his father. Landing at Algoa Bay in May, they settled on a farm between Bathurst and Grahamstown. Young Southey worked as a clerk in Grahamstown from 1824, but in 1828 volunteered for military service and was stationed at Fort Beaufort. The next year he undertook a hunting trip in Pondoland and Bomvanaland (on the Transkei coast) and then settled down as a farmer until the outbreak of the Sixth Frontier War in 1834. After active duty during this war he was appointed resident agent and justice of the peace at Mount Coke until 1836, when he settled as a farmer in the division of Graaff-Reinet. In 1843 he entered a stock farming partnership with William Shaw, but had enough free time to practice as a law agent in Graaff-Reinet. From 1847 to 1849 he held an appointment as private secretary to Sir Harry Smith. In 1848 he was present when Smith proclaimed the Orange River Sovereignty (now the Free State) and remained there as president of the war-tribute commission to investigate the participants in a recent rebellion. From 1849 he was called upon by the government of the Cape Colony to perform various special duties until he was appointed secretary to the lieutenant-governor in Grahamstown in March 1855.
Southey's competence and wide experience of colonial affairs led to his appointment as treasury-general of the Cape Colony in January 1862 until he succeeded R.W. Rawson* as colonial secretary in 1864. He held this post until the Cape was given responsible government in December 1872, a development which he strongly opposed. During these years he strongly advocated the extension of British authority over regions such as the Transkei, Basutoland (now Lesotho), and Griqualand West. When he retired as colonial secretary at the end of 1872 he was created a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) and appointed as lieutenant-governor of Griqualand-West. He held this post until August 1875, when he returned to the Eastern Cape. In September 1876 he was elected as member of Parliament for Grahamstown, serving until August 1878. He then retired to Wynberg, Cape Town, and in 1891 was honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in recognition of his services.
Throughout his career Southey participated in the activities of various societies and organisations that promoted science and agriculture. While residing in Grahamstown he was elected a member of the committee of the newly established Eastern Province Agricultural Association in November 1855. By January 1856 he was a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Grahamstown and served on a sub-committee which organised the presentation of classes and lectures to expand the society's role in the community. After this society had been renamed the Literary, Scientific and Medical Society he was elected joint vice-president in June 1856, a position he held to about 1860, and in October 1858 was elected a trustee of the society's Albany Museum. Meanwhile in May 1858 The Albany Agricultural Society was founded, with Southey as joint vice-president. He was elected its president in July 1859 and re-elected in July 1861.
In 1860 Southey was appointed by the governor as chairman of the newly established Meteorological Committee of the Cape Colony, the first official weather service in southern Africa. The committee initiated meteorological observations at a number of stations, but enthusiasm for the project gradually declined, with the result that no observations were recorded after 1868. Southey remained chairman, if only in name, to 1873. The failure of the committee may well have been caused by his inability to attend to its affairs as a result of more pressing official duties. Meanwhile he had been appointed as one of the three trustees of the South African Museum, Cape Town, in 1864, serving in this position to 1874 (though he was absent from Cape Town during the last two years). In 1877 he became a foundation member of the South African Philosophical Society and remained a member to his death. When the City and Suburban Horticultural Society was established in July 1885 he was elected joint vice-president. Towards the end of his life, in the early eighteen-nineties, he was president of the Western Districts Game Protection Association. In 1898, at the age of 90, he was still a trustee of the Albany Museum and hence an ex-officio member of the Literary, Scientific and Medical Society of Grahamstown.
Southey was married twice, first to Isabella Shaw in 1830, with whom he had five sons, and after her death (in 1869) to Susanna M.H. Krynauw in 1872. He was a prominent freemason and in 1863 was appointed provincial grand master (renamed district grand master in 1866) for South Africa under the Grand Lodge of England. In 1896 he was elected an honorary member of the Lodge De Goede Hoop, Cape Town.
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Eastern Province yearbook and annual register, 1862, p. 104.
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require 'colorize'  # https://github.com/fazibear/colorize
require 'singleton'

module WithEthics
  class Reporter
    include Singleton
    attr_reader :output_to, :current_check_family, :progress
    Report = Struct.new(:message, :status)

    # must be called at least once.
    def config(**args)
      # # keep a running record of checks reported, indexed by family
      # with each family keeping an array of checks
      @current_check_family ||= "general"
      @progress ||= {
         @current_check_family => []
      }

      # it's possible to suppress all output
      # This can be changed by calling config again
      @output_to = if args.has_key?(:output_to)
        args[:output_to].include?('none') ? [] : args[:output_to]

      else
        ['console']
      end
    end

    def family=(name)
      @current_check_family = name
      @progress[name] ||= []

      # and print it
      # IMPORTANT TO DO: Keep this from printing when console is suppressed!
      # and also when tests run
      str = "Check family #{ @current_check_family }".colorize(:blue)
      output_to_path str
    end

    # TODO: Change output wording depending on test family.
    def report(target, status)
      out_string = if status == true
        "\tFound #{ target }"

      else
        "\tWhere is #{ target }?"
      end

      report_message(out_string, status)
    end

    def report_problem(message) # assumed to be false
      report_message("\t\tFound a problem with #{ message }!", false)
    end

    # actually handles the output of generated strings
    def output_to_path(str)
      if @output_to.include?('console')
        puts str
      end
    end

    # no interpolation except color. Passes message right through
    def report_message(message, state)
      color = state == true ? :green : :red
      str = message.colorize(color)
      output_to_path(str)
      store(str, state)
    end

    # saves the check for later summary
    # IN: The message string and the (boolean) status of the check
    def store(str, st=nil)
      @progress[@current_check_family] << Report.new(str, st)
    end
  end
end

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