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The Detox Series is a project that focuses on detoxing a different aspect of life each month of 2017. It was born out of a desire to actually follow through on my resolutions this year by aligning around one goal- Detox. January's topic? Detoxing your mind.
I have a lot of stuff. It's no secret. My closet is overflowing, and I have a really hard time getting rid of kitchen and beauty products that I'm honestly never going to use – the "just in case" mindset. Since switching toward a sustainable lifestyle last year, I've found I am incorporating more and more minimalist approaches and mindset into my routines.
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Top Girls (theatre review)
May 14, 2018 / Leave a Comment
by kathkenny2
This review was first published on Daily Review on 18 January 2018
My mother used to tell me a story about women who would come into the emergency departments where she worked as a nurse. Complaining of agonising stomach pains, staff would have to break the news they were in labour and would soon be giving birth. The story always made me think about the extraordinary lengths women go to in order to avoid looking at the blindingly obvious thing that was happening to their lives, to their bodies.
There's a key moment in the first act of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (directed by Imara Savage for the Sydney Theatre Company) that reminded me of my mother's story. Marlene (Helen Thomson), all '80s shoulder pads and electric blue suit, is throwing a dinner party to celebrate her promotion at a London recruitment company. The famous women from history and art she has invited to join the toast include a ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man to become Pope. As the Frascati bottles empty, Pope Joan (Heather Mitchell) describes the pains that kept coming closer together as she rode a horse during a religious procession. When a baby slides out onto the road, Pope Joan and child are stoned to death.
The other characters listen but, in between ordering steak or Waldorf salad, they are busy bringing up their own dark tales. There is Lady Nijo (Michelle Lim Davidson) a concubine to the Japanese Emperor, Isabelle Bird (Kate Box) a Victorian traveller, and a Chaucer character Griselda (Paula Arundell) a peasant girl who became a nobleman's wife. Then there's Gret (Contessa Treffone), a figure from a Bruegel's painting who led an army of women through hell to fight the devils who'd hurt them (does that ring any bells?).
Each woman is celebrated and strong in her own way, but as they describe the horrors they endured, they each justify the men and ideologies they lived under as 'just the way things were'. Lady Nijo gushes about the fine silks she wore and says that it was fine that the Emperor had sex with her when she was 14 because he "owned her" (and that's also why she had to give up her first child). Griselda's husband sends her children away too, but she insists he is a good man. And fearless Isabelle internalises her own patriarchal world, insisting on her husband's superior qualities.
It's easier for these women not to look too deeply at the world that betrayed them. "I didn't want to pay attention, it was easier to do nothing", Pope Joan tells no one in particular. It's a gripping scene of revelations, non-sequiturs and characters speaking over each other, in turn oblivious to each other and appalled at the compromises and justifications their dinner companions made. Apart from Gret, that is. She spends most of the time back to the audience, squireling food away, barely talking until the end of the scene when tells a tells a story of taking revenge on the "bastards" who murdered her son.
Thomson is terrific here as Marlene, the alpha female boss holding the party together, in turn boosting the others and impatient with their compliance. "We've all come a long way", she insists. But Marlene has given up a child too, as we learn in the next scenes. She's also blindly swallowed her own share of questionable values on her way to the top, as we discover when the play shifts to her office and she can barely contain her contempt for Jeanine (Paula Arundell again) who wants to have a job and marriage and children.
All the actors from the first act's dream sequence return to play contemporary characters that variously contrast with or parallel their earlier character. Adventurous Isabelle returns as housewife Mrs Kidd, who comes to Marlene's office to tell her she should give up her promotion for the sake of her husband who deserves it more. The silent waitress from the first act (Claire Lovering) returns as ambitious lying job seeker Shona. Lady Nijo returns as a career woman (but she's also a mistress again). Pope Joan becomes Louise, another job seeker who's given her life to a male-dominated workplace and feels "she passes for a man". Subaltern Gret returns as Angie, the daughter Marlene relinquished to her sister and who is in remedial class at school.
In putting these women of such different times, places, abilities and ideologies alongside each other, Churchill questions any notion of a universal sisterhood or essential womanhood. And in having the same actor playing multiple characters with such different fortunes, each character shaped by her own time and place, she mocks Marlene's celebration of the individual's ability to rise above their circumstances to become a top girl. And what is sisterhood anyway, when Marlene's success relies on her own working class sister to raise her odd child?
Like the Pope's pregnancy, the women lie to each other and to themselves to make some sense of a world that doesn't work for them. Marlene's version of a top girl is really just Thatcherism and neoliberalism in feminism's name. Or worse. Her sister Joyce tells her "I suppose you would have liked Hitler if he was a woman. Got a lot done, Hitlerina".
But the unacknowledged and repressed has a tendency to return and, like Pope Joan's baby, Angie appears unexpectedly at Marlene's ordered office, in eerie circumstances that suggest all is not quite right with Angie (and what has she done with Joyce?). All the performances are strong, but Treffone is particularly terrific, playing Angie so guilelessly transparent it's almost painful to watch. A stand out too is Box as Joyce, the put-upon sister whose skin has worn both thick and thin.
The smart thing about this production is that we don't see Marlene as simply evil or unredeemable, as the Stones' Sympathy For the Devil coming at the end of act one seems to suggest (the song also seems to be a comment on the women's misplaced identification with the men who exploited them). Marlene has that will to power that, whether wielded by women or men, can hold us all in complicity. Angie is drawn to her aunt/mother Marlene because she's so "special".
Churchill wrote the play in 1982, a time when the gains of second wave feminism were settling in, but it was also during the first years of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministership. I was still in high school when my mother took me to see the Melbourne Theatre Company's version in 1984. I was listening to a young Madonna and performing in an all-girl school production of The Crucible. Many critics have rightly cited Churchill's socialist politics, and particularly Top Girls, as a trenchant critique of Thatcher's "There is no such thing as society" individualism. But as a young girl, seeing all these strong figures on stage – including a young rising star called Pamela Rabe as Pope Joan – the politics mostly washed over me. I remember thinking of it as celebration of girl power that was gathering strength and peaking in the 90s. In this year's STC version, I see different things. Now the play reads to me like a searing radical feminist critique of the misogyny that is expressed in a fear of women, their sexuality, and the children they give birth to and that can't be incorporated into structures of power.
I listened particularly to Lady Nijo, a thirteenth century concubine who becomes pregnant to her boss – an emperor who leads a country – describing how she was banished to the countryside. And I wondered whether her story is really different from an office affair that is currently threatening to derail the deputy Prime Minister and has seen another pregnant woman fleeing to the country. And when a woman leads an avenging female army through hell to pay back the bastards who've done them over, I can't help but think of #MeToo. The '8os office scenes and excellent costumes expertly evoke the 90s and Princess Diana and the film 9 to 5, but Top Girls is brim full of contemporary resonance.
The play which starts with a dream sequence ends with a nightmare, as Angie wakes from her sleep and a single world: "Frightening". Any hope of change, as ever, seems to lie with the Angies, the Grets: those who have no stake in the system, and therefore nothing left to lose.
Category: Feminism, Reviews, Theatre review Tags: Caryl Churchill, feminism, Helen Thomson, Sydney Theatre Company, Top girls
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Rick Ross: A Ghostwriter All Along
Posted on November 25, 2015 by stefanrehr
A dull moment is never something one would associate with Rick Ross. With his eighth studio album, Black Market, on its way, slated for release December 9th, Ross has been very vocal about one of the album's tracks, "Ghostwriter." Naturally, the song discusses its namesake and its author's role as an uncredited writer of many of today's top rap verses.
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Recently, in an interview with Time, Ross elaborated on the topic. The hip hop mogul states, "I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be a ghostwriter, and not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the rap game." He goes on to put his role as a ghostwriter in the context of his one career, justifying the practice as something that made sense due to his status. "Because of my own personal success I've always been able to keep that in the shadows. On this record, I just felt it was so current. It was needed."
Ross further added his take on the discrepancy between ghostwriting in pop music versus that of traditional hip hop. In his eyes, the practice is more acceptable in the former, which places its emphasis on the music as an entire entity as opposed to the latter. Specifically citing the rap of artist, DMX, Ross claims ghostwriting is less morally sound to its focus being on the lyrics–words, which in this case, aren't authored by the stated performing artist.
To put the issue in the context of record label operations, at the end of the day, the artist who performed the lyrics will be the one making the bulk of the song's consequent revenue. In the Rick Ross conceptualization of ghostwriting perhaps this is only fair with some artists as lyrics solely contribute a piece to the puzzle that is the song as a whole. However, imagine a rapper who's main selling point is the craft and wit of his lyricism. If these lyrics are not truly authored by that artist, it would seem that the artist's publishing and recording earnings should be split between the performer and the writer. At least that's how it works in traditional songwriter scenarios. With ghostwriting, the compensation is different. It is not dependent on the revenue generated from record sales, but rather the compensation is awarded in a one time lump sum prior to the record hitting the shelves. With some artists, such as MF Grimm, who in an interview with Forbes revealed, "I think I set a rate, every bar a thousand dollars", the payment could be severely disproportionate to the song's eventual earnings. Additionally, aside from the the money, an artist builds their fan base on the records under their name. If an artist is only writing songs for other artists, how can their own performance career come to fruition?
All this said, I am approaching this from an outsider perspective. In no way have I ever been involved in the hip hop industry and thus, perhaps their are legitimate benefits to being a ghostwriter. Maybe this is the ultimate sign of credibility in terms of hip hop lyricism? Maybe this is the only way to break into the business? Whatever it is, the tradition of ghostwriting is certainly as prevalent as ever with the biggest artists in the world–i.e. Rick Ross–taking part in the practice.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6770409/rick-ross-ghostwriter
http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2015/09/22/phantom-rappers-inside-the-business-of-ghostwriting/
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Have you ever thought of how a Game of Thrones musical would be like? Well, thanks to Coldplay you don't have to wonder anymore. A GoT musical was penned by Chris Martin and his other bandmates in support of the Red Nose Day celebrated by NBC. This is basically a campaign that's dedicated to raising money for young people and children who are living in poverty. The musical sketch had been teased by the network, which will have two clips and will be aired on Thursday.
The first feature includes Peter Dinklage, who plays the role of Tyrion Lannister on the iconic series, and sings about all the deaths that have occurred so far on the popular HBO series. There is also a more Coldplay-esque and mellow tempo in the second clip, which features Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. He plays Jaime Lannister on the series and his clip includes him asking Cersei for a hand, which is funny because Jaime lacks a hand.
The collaboration between the HBO show and Coldplay doesn't come off as a huge surprise because fans will remember that Will Champion, the drummer of the band made a cameo appearance in the episode of the Red Wedding. Now perhaps, maybe Jorah and Tyrion will sing some popular Westerosi tunes in the next couple of episodes.


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Fremont, CA - October 29, 2014 - Blackmagic Design today announced that Shiyan TV, a regional broadcaster in the city of Shiyan, Hubei province, installed the ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4Ks with ATEM 1 M/E Broadcast Panels as the main and backup switchers for its main production studio.
Built in 2007, Shiyan TV's main production studio is tasked with production of "Live Shiyan", the flagship news program of Shiyan TV. To broadcast the show, Shiyan TV started an analog to digital upgrade of their production studio system, with a goal of bringing in virtual studio and online graphics production to enhance the creativity and improving the reliability of the whole studio system.
At the heart of the new studio system is Blackmagic Design's ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K switcher with ATEM 1 M/E Broadcast Panel, which mixes feeds from cameras, the virtual studio system, online graphics system, media players and editing systems. Shiyan TV is also using Blackmagic Design's Smart Videohub routers, HyperDeck Studio Pro broadcast decks, DeckLink cards, Mini Converters and SmartView Duo monitors as part of their system.
"The ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K is a complete solution, which simplifies the system design. For instance, it includes a built in audio mixer, which enables the operator to mix and control video and audio, without the need to install external main and backup audio mixers, reducing the number of components and the possibility of an error occurrence due to the failure of matching audio and video," said Wang Wei, technical manager of Wuhan based Vijita Technology Co., Ltd., who helped Shiyan TV design and implement the new studio system.
During broadcasts, the chroma keyer on the ATEM switcher is used as a backup for the virtual studio system, while the blue screen feed is distributed to the virtual studio system and ATEM switcher. And in case there is a failure with the virtual studio system, operators can use the chroma key feature for keying and compositing work.
For the safety of the live broadcast, the second ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K is used as the backup switcher. Wang said: "Due to high costs, many broadcasters could not afford to use a real production switcher as backup. Instead, they use a video router in case the main switcher fails, but there could be unwanted flashes in between switches. The ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K has everything needed in live production but is not expensive, so we were able to deploy another ATEM switcher as backup and add a Smart Videohub 16 x 16 for further protection."
The new studio system was designed for Shiyan TV's new studio building, which is still under construction, so the new system had to be installed in the tight space of the old studio. "The ATEM switcher is versatile but compact, saving the precious space for equipment," added Wang.
In the new system, the PGM out of the ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K is split into two feeds, with one for a computer equipped with a DeckLink SDI card to capture to the master and the other for a HyperDeck Studio Pro SSD recorder for backup mastering.
A Mini Converter SDI to Analog is used to convert the PGM to analog for the analog monitor in front of the news presenter. A Mini Converter SDI to HDMI converts the virtual studio SDI signal from an aux. port of the ATEM switcher to HDMI, so the news presenter can monitor how he or she looks in the virtual environment. Two SmartView Duo monitors have also been installed for monitoring the key and fill signals for the virtual studio system.
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Boxer Aims for November Markup of Climate Bill
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold hearings the week of Oct. 26 on a sweeping climate change bill, Chairman Barbara Boxer announced Tuesday.
"We are continuing to see more support for our bill,— the California Democrat said at a press conference Tuesday, predicting she will schedule a committee markup in early November.
The Senate's climate change measure, introduced Sept. 30 by Boxer and Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), has so far received a tepid response among their Democratic colleagues, especially those hailing from the Midwest and coal-rich states. Boxer said Tuesday that she has been working with Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), Mark Warner (Va.), Bob Casey (Pa.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and Tom Carper (Del.) to accommodate those concerns, but noted those negotiations would not slow the bill's progress in the Senate.
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The chairman's mark that will emerge from the Environment panel will move directly to Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) office, Boxer said, where it will be melded with legislation from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and other committees that hold jurisdiction over climate change. Those panels include the more conservative Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and Finance committees, which will want to include their imprint on the carbon cap-and-trade provisions of the legislation.
Boxer did not indicate when the legislation — a top priority for Democrats that has been overshadowed by health care reform — would appear on the Senate floor.
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CIA and MI5 linked to assassinations in the Congo in sixties
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With the recent scandal of 'destroyed' Foreign Office documents in connection with Britain's bloody colonial past and more recent revelations of our secret services' murky complicity with Gadafhi's security services it is perhaps worth recalling Britain's role in the nefarious conspiracy in the Congo after it gained independence from Belgium in June 1960.
The Belgians had done nothing to prepare the country for independence, and it quickly degenerated into chaos, providing a motive for the Belgians to keep troops there. While the Belgians favoured Joseph Kasavubu to lead the new nation, the Congolese chose Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister. Lumumba asked the United Nations, then headed by Dag Hammarskjöld, to order the Belgians to withdraw, and the UN voted to send a peacekeeping mission to the Congo.
Impatient and untrusting of the UN, Lumumba threatened to ask the Soviets for help in expelling Belgian forces. He was no communist, but was interested in getting aid from wherever he could, including from the Soviet Union. He'd also sought and, for a time, obtained American aid. Civil war broke out four days after independence, and local leader Moise Tshombe announced copper-rich Katanga's secession in July.
In 1959 Lumumba had visited businessmen in New York, and stated unequivocally, 'The exploitation of the mineral riches of the Congo should be primarily for the profit of our own people and other Africans.' The country had rich deposits of copper, gold, diamonds, and uranium. Asked whether the Americans would still have access to uranium, as they had during the Belgian occupation, Lumumba responded, 'Belgium doesn't produce any uranium; it would be to the advantage of both our countries if the Congo and the US worked out their own agreements in the future.' The US, though, didn't trust Lumumba to protect their interests. Investors in copper and uranium in the Congo at that time included the Rockefellers, the Guggenheims and C. Douglas Dillon, who participated in a National Security Council meeting where the removal of Lumumba was discussed. In September, only twelve weeks after his election, his government was indeed overthrown in a western-backed coup by the military, and he was allegedly shot while escaping custody in January 1961.
The CIA was not satisfied solely with the death of Lumumba. One of the barriers to completing the takeover of the Congo remained the United Nations, and more specifically, the Swede Dag Hammarskjöld who was UN Secretary-General.
Hammarskjöld was killed only nine months after Lumumba in September in a mysterious air crash. Allegations were immediately made of a link between the two and of Western involvement, but firm evidence was difficult to come by. His death was part of an attempt to prevent Katanga's mineral wealth falling under the control of a progressive government.
He was flying aboard the Albertina to the Ndola airport at the border of the Congo in Northern Rhodesia, where he was to meet with Tshombe to broker a cease-fire. The pilot of the Albertina filed a fake flight plan in an attempt to keep Hammarskjöld's ultimate destination hidden. Despite this and other measures taken to preserve secrecy, less than 15 minutes into the flight the press was reporting that Hammarskjöld was en route to Ndola. Hammarskjöld and 15 other people were killed when their aircraft crashed entering what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, where the UN head was due to meet rebel leader Moise Tshombe to negotiate a truce in the Congolese civil war. Newspapers at the time alleged British involvement in a plot to kill Hammarskjöld to prevent UN support for Tshombe and his diamond-rich Katanga province.
However, in 1998 Reuters reported that South Africa's Truth Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu Wednesday had released documents which suggested a Western plot was behind the death of the head of the United Nations in 1961.
Tutu said his Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was investigating crimes committed during the apartheid era, had decided to release the documents although it could not verify their authenticity. Commission investigators stumbled across the documents by chance while researching an unrelated issue. They link South African agents to the death of Dag Hammarskjöld. The papers also revealed that the project was plotted at the highest levels of the CIA and MI5.
The alleged plot was revealed as the brainchild of at least two British security agencies - MI5 and the Special Operations Executive, together with the CIA - as these top-secret documents show. A series of messages between a 'commodore' and a 'captain' point to a plot hatched on South African soil by a group which had access to large sums of money and the ability to muster mercenary forces to protect Western investments in turbulent post-colonial Africa. The letters, with South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) letter-heads, include references to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI5 security service [SAIMR was a front company for the South African military].
In addition to outlining Operation Celeste - the plan to get rid of the 'troublesome' Hammarskjöld - the documents also implicate the SAIMR and international intelligence agencies in the death of Patrice Lumumba and they also implicate then CIA chief Allen Dulles. They claim that the explosives used for the bomb that downed the aircraft were supplied by the Belgian mining conglomerate, Union Minière. The company had extensive interests in copper-rich Katanga, and was known to have backed Tshombe's use of mercenaries, including the group led by South Africa's Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare.
The most damning document, marked 'Top Secret', refers to a meeting between MI5, Special Operations Executive, the CIA and the SAIMR at which it was recorded that Dulles 'agrees ... Dag is becoming troublesome and ... should be removed' and '…I want his removal to be handled more efficiently than was Patrice.'
These documents have predictably been dismissed as fakes by both MI5 and the CIA who still deny any involvement in Hammarskjöld's death. However, they bear a striking resemblance to others emanating from the SAIMR seven years before, when it was headed by 'commodore' Keith Maxwell-Annandale and had developed links with both South Africa's military intelligence and the National Intelligence Services. These documents also show that the SAIMR masterminded the abortive 1981 attempt to depose Seychelles president Albert René, and that it was also behind a successful 1990 coup in Somalia.
The CIA later opened its files on Cold War assassinations and admitted it had ordered the murder of Patrice Lumumba, but it still denies any involvement with that of Hammarskjöld.
The former UN Representative in Africa under Hammarskjöld, Conor Cruise O'Brien, said, 'I do not think there was anyone there who believed that his death was as accident.' He and another of Hammarskjöld's close associates, Stuart Linner, had both been targets of assassination attempts.
Interestingly, in 1976 a long-time CIA operative, Bud Culligan, a man with a grudge against his former employer, claimed he personally shot down Hammarskjöld's plane. He had kept a detailed journal of every assignment he had performed for the CIA. He had dates, names, places - he was a professional assassin. He clearly worked for the CIA in Africa but the extent of his involvement is impossible to prove.
We may never be able to uncover the real truth behind Hammarskjöld's death, but there is certainly no shortage of precedents for CIA involvement in other successful and unsuccessful assassinations of progressive leaders, from Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, to Omar Torrijos and Bishop Romero.
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Authorities say they are investigating a letter purportedly sent by fugitive Joseph Jakubowski that threatens violence at Wisconsin churches on Easter Sunday.
Police in Waukesha County say the letter was sent through the U.S. Postal Service and mentions churches in the Sussex area, about 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee.
A manhunt has been underway since police say Jakubowski robbed a gun store in Janesville, Wisconsin on April 4.
They have warned that the fugitive is considered armed and dangerous and the public should not approach him.
A fugitive accused of stealing numerous weapons from a Wisconsin gun store sent an anti-government manifesto to the White House that deemed the government a band of terrorists controlled by churches, saying "We need to spill their blood," a Milwaukee television station reported Thursday.
Joseph Allen Jakubowski has been the subject of an intense manhunt since the April 4 burglary at Armageddon Supplies near Janesville, a city about 60 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Police said video shows Jakubowski mailed a bulky envelope the same day, and his burned vehicle was found near the store, but that he hasn"t been seen since.
WTMJ-TV posted 35 pages of handwritten documents to its website that it said were verified as Jakubowski"s writings by an unidentified law enforcement official. Rock County Sheriff"s Office Commander Troy Knudson said the writings appeared genuine.


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Put Helen Earth Band in a Van
By Chad Deal, Nov. 3, 2010
A few months ago, the Helen Earth Band unloaded all its cash and maxed out a credit card to buy a tour van that singer-guitarist Marc Allen describes as "a total lemon. They sold us a van with a cracked [cylinder] head."
Having already driven over the mileage covered by their warranty, the band sold the overheating van back to the dealer at a several-thousand-dollar loss. In order to recoup losses and get back on the road, the Carlsbad/Encinitas trio (with brother Adam Allen and bassist Trevor Vieweg) has registered at arts-funding platform Kickstarter (kickstarter.com), where fans can donate toward the target sum of $5000. Prizes include albums, unreleased demos, private shows, T-shirts, posters, album art, and lifetime tickets to Helen Earth shows.
The group released its debut album Our Own Ghost City last November and is writing material for a new album. Though between drummers, the trio will be recording "Killing a Camera" (by Chicago emo-math band Braid) for an upcoming tribute album from U.K. indie label Too School for Cool.
Braid was a common reference point for the Allen brothers, who have been working on Helen Earth Band material since 2004.
"[Braid was] great at building and stopping on a dime," Marc says, "changing the feel, changing the mood, and smacking you in the face over and over again."
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VirtualArmor to Usher in a New High Standard for Cybersecurity
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3, 2015 /CNW/ - The age of the Internet has created a new worldwide threat: the information breach. Once thought to be a side effect of the holiday season, when credit card use is at its highest, today information hacks frequently strike year-round. In 2015 alone, credit card breaches were reported at major retailers, such as CVS, the UK's Carphone Warehouse and Trump Hotels. Healthcare providers, such as Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, UCLA Health, and Anthem also reported that client records, including personal information and claim reports, were compromised.
Furthermore, credit card and social security numbers aren't the only pieces of personal data that people have to worry about being exposed. In arguably the most salacious hack to date, a massive Ashley Madison data breach exposed millions of users seeking an affair.
Protecting information databases, regardless of the nature of that information, has become top priority across various markets. VirtualArmour International Inc. (CSE: VAI), an information technology company that provides advanced network and cybersecurity solutions, is looking to not only provide said services, but to act as a cybersecurity safeguard for their clients.
The Early Days of Cybersecurity
In the early 2000's, Netscreen, prior to being purchased by Juniper, was a force in the sector. Netscreen was the first step towards hardcore firewall environments as they started to look at traffic management, understanding what was coming through, and understanding how to encrypt the right traffic. In response, VirtualArmor was founded in 2001 by a team of networking and security industry experts. "At the time Netscreen came into market, they were doing very large appointments, so almost every Fortune 100 company was using them," said Christopher Blisard, founder of VirtualArmor. "In turn, we started Virtual Armor and quickly got indoctrinated into being a kind of Delta-like team for Netscreen in doing their largest deployments."
VirtualArmor noticed that customers at the time were buying the products that they didn't know how to manage. At the same time, Netscreen had produced an expensive and complicated software management toolset that was difficult for even large companies to understand and deploy. Just as the company began to look at the opportunity of developing and bringing to market managed services around the Netscreen products, Netscreen was acquired by Juniper.
The Right Solution for the Right Problem
In their effort to provide the right solution to solve client issues, VirtualArmor has created technology partnerships with companies that include Juniper Networks, IBM, OpenGear, and VMware, Inc.. As the old adage goes, never try to fit a round peg into a square hole. "The world and the landscape of security has really changed, and for the fact that you've got to have a portfolio of companies that support you as an individual organization to not only manage and monitor solutions that you're deploying, but also fend off these types of attacks and understand what they mean," said Blisard. "What we've seen as a massive transition in that space from offering a managed security service to really becoming a guardian for these companies."
The company's latest innovation, the Cloudcastr, is the fast track to a network functions virtualization (NFV)-powered cloud. Eliminating guesswork and speeding up time to market for new cloud services, Cloudcastr allows VirturalArmor the ability to go into an organization and completely set up a full cloud with whatever requirements that company requires. VirtualArmour then integrates a managed security service to help that company manage and support their cloud.
"I think with the development of our CloudCaster Technology, the ability for us to now go to our customer and instead of them going to IBM to get their cloud or to Amazon.com web services to get their cloud or this or that, we can actually go in, customize a cloud, integrate our platform and do it and give them a complete, thoughtful, holistic solution to running their business."
Offering solutions to help enterprises build, monitor, maintain and secure their networks, VirtualArmor can typically respond to a cyber-attack within 15 minutes. With a primary security operations center located in Middlesbrough, U.K. and a secondary SOC location in Salt Lake City, Utah, VirtualArmor's services run 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
The NFV Age
With new compute consumption models rapidly changing the way IT services are delivered, NFV is emerging as the ideal means to employing a software-defined approach for the deployment and management of network functions in the cloud. NFV is allowing cloud service providers and large enterprises to bring more automation to the network and deploy new services to the market with greater speed.
"About two years ago we really saw the shift in what was happening in the marketplace and that was more around cybersecurity," said Blisard. "Companies are now really looking at not insourcing and hiring, but actually outsourcing these capabilities and doing it with a portfolio of different organizations to try to fend off cybersecurity, and to that extent, just this year alone people coming on to our security platform has gone up 30% -- and that 30% really was captured over the last six months."
The company has achieved a number of milestones in recent months, including an approval to list their common shares for trading, commencing as of the opening of market on November 24, 2015, on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE). The achievement marks the company's progression in their mission to raise funds as part of their internal and product roadmap, but also for acquisitions within the field. "We felt that by going on to the exchange give the story that we're telling today and what we've done already and where we're going, this is a very exciting place to be investing money as investors," said Blisard. "I like the idea of being out on the exchange and showing the investment community where we're going and what we're doing." Furthermore, the company opened the doors to its new worldwide headquarters in Colorado's Denver Tech Center.
With over a decade of experience under their belt and a newly launched innovation, VirturalArmor is positioned to usher in the new standard for cybersecurity. "What I can tell you is that any customer that you talk to that is using Virtual Armor stays with us forever," said Blisard. "They stay with us forever because we're that good at what we do. We're going to focus on that path to continue to grow our customer base, and continue to go up the food chain to larger and larger companies."
For more information about VirturalArmor, visit www.virtualarmor.com.
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"Should I Love You" is a song by the German singer Cee Farrow, released in 1983 as the lead single from his debut album Red and Blue. It was written by Farrow and Lothar Krell, and produced by Andy Lunn. Released in North America only, the single reached No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained in the charts for six weeks.

Background
Having signed with Rocshire Records, Farrow recorded his debut album, Red and Blue, between March and December 1982 at Hotline Studios. Released in 1983, "Should I Love You" was issued as the first single from the album. It became a minor hit in October 1983 when it peaked at No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached No. 91 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles Chart. Although "Don't Ask Why" was released as the follow-up, it failed to chart, as did the Red and Blue album.

Shortly after the single and album's release, Rocshire began suffering legal issues when it was discovered that Rocshire had been financed by millions of dollars that Rocky Davis' wife, Shirley Davis, had embezzled from Hughes Aircraft while working as an accountant there. U.S. Federal Marshalls seized all of the label's assets, including master tapes, in January 1984. Farrow stepped away from the music business, but later made an attempt at a comeback with the 1991 single "Imagination". He died in 1993 in West Hollywood, California of a brain disease attributed to AIDS.

Release
"Should I Love You" was released in the United States and Canada only on 7" and 12" vinyl. The B-side, "Paint It Blue", was taken from Red and Blue and written solely by Farrow. In addition to the main 7" release, a promotional 7" vinyl was also released in the US. A 12" vinyl, released commercially and as a promotional release, featured an extended version of "Should I Love You", lasting a duration of over seven minutes, on both sides of the vinyl.

Music video
A music video was filmed to promote the single. The video features Farrow performing the song with backing musicians, as well as footage of Farrow in a restaurant where a woman, sat with an older man, can't help but notice Farrow. As the video progresses, the older man gets more suspicious, to the point where he reveals his cane to actually be a sword weapon.

Critical reception
Upon release, Billboard listed the song as a recommended pop single under their "Top Single Picks" of June 11, 1983.

Track listing
7" single
"Should I Love You" - 4:00
"Paint It Blue" - 4:55

7" single (US promo)
"Should I Love You" - 4:00
"Paint It Blue" - 4:55

12" single (US release)
"Should I Love You" - 7:20
"Should I Love You" - 7:20

12" single (US promo)
"Should I Love You" - 7:20
"Should I Love You" - 7:20

Chart performance

Personnel
 Cee Farrow - vocals
 Pave - guitar
 Peter Ponzol - saxophone, lyricon
 Lothar Krell - synthesizer, programming
 Ken Taylor - bass guitar
 Nick Name - drums
 Andy Lunn - producer, mixing, engineer
 Wolfgang Auer - executive producer
 Carmine Di, Jon Caffrey - engineers
 Mathias Dietrich - assistant engineer

References

1983 singles
Cee Farrow songs
1983 songs

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"Olipporu" Malayalam movie review
August 29, 2013 Fahadh Faasil, Kalabhavan Mani, malayalam cinema, malayalam movie, zareena wahab
With no proper characterization, director A V Sasidharan must have got a bite from 'Natholi effect', which may be the reason of this poor film making. "Olipporu" solely counts on the star power of Fahadh Faasil and the film doesn't provide the decent amount of faith to move ahead with this lackluster script. The actor himself recently clarified about his performance in the movie and on the verdict part, we gave "Olipporu" a thumbs down from our side.
A Bengaluru blogger Ajayan (Fahadh Faasil) pseudonymously writes under the tag of 'Olipporaali' and meets up few fellow
bloggers in this virtual world, where they use fictitious names like Gear, Brake, Clutch and others. As they are the part of this virtual world and decide to make a show, which being conceptualized by Ajayan. As per the plan was set for the show, but the man in attraction has disappeared. We get to know that Ajayan has met with an accident and admitted to a hospital with serious condition.
Now with this incident, bloggers who are part of this show find themselves in mess as they don't know anything more than Ajayan's phone number, which was switched off. His girlfriend Vani (Subhiksha) also doesn't have any clue about Ajayan. Here starts the flashback, where kind of spirit from Ajayan's body, comes into the arena and takes us to his past experiences. There moves the story through his childhood, where he found difficult to pronounce some letters. The movie caters politics to environment all, which takes you to the rest of this story.
Fahadh Faasil approached the character in his own way and things went haywire with loosely written plot. Kalabhavan Mani, Thalaivasal Vijay, Zareena Wahab, Aju Varghese, Subhiksha and others were just part of this show with nothing much more to do. Visual composition was the best part with Manoj Mundayat, while the editing wasn't up to the mark by Mahesh Narayanan. Song doesn't provide the space to fit into the right place and it has been tuned by John P Varkey and lyrics were written by Rafeeq Ahamed and Satheesh Kurup.
Narration was the big drawback in this movie and the way it has conceived "Olipporu" turns out a sour taste for viewers. Lack of communication in the script by P N Gopikrishnan and direction of debutant A V Sasidharan, makes this movie goes over the mind. More or less, the movie seems to be experimenting too much without any valid proportion. For the banner of Round Up Cinemas, Shaike Afsal, Sunil Karyattukara and Sudheer are the producers of this film.
Do share your thoughts with us about this "Olipporu" Malayalam movie review through your comments....
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Q: Java RMI - Casting from interface/$Proxy to original class? I have some server and client using Java RMI.
For simplifying, on server exists method returning Task (iTask) and receiving iTask.
For example, server:
interface iTask extends Remote{
    void publicMethod();
}

class Task extends UnicastRemoteObject implements iTask
{
    public void publicMethod(){...} //interface
    void packageMethod(){...} //not interface
}

And methods in some (doesn't matter in what) class:
iTask getTask(){
    return new Task();
}

void doSomethingSecret(iTask task){
    Task needthis = (Task)task; //BOOM! ClassCastException: $Proxy9 cannot be cast to nextQuest.server.Task
    needthis.packageMethod(); // I need this...
}

In client, I do just
iTask tsk = abc.getTask()
def.doSomethingSecret(tsk);

abc and def are remote objects!
Is there some way, how to call "packageMethod"? Thank you very much,
Mike S. (cz)

A: You can't. You have to cast it to the remote interface. It isn't the original class. It is a proxy. If there is a method you want to call on it, that method must be defined in the remote interface.

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In early 1881 a group of German immigrants, living in Washington County, near what is now Arlington, loaded their families and belongings into covered wagons and headed west. They stopped in southern Gosper County where they took homesteads in East Muddy, Turkey Creek, Elk Creek, and Union Townships. These families formed the core of what would become known as "The German Community." Nearly all were related, or would become related, to the Schievelbein family. The patriarch and matriarch of this extended family were Wilhelm Christian and Maria Christine (Koepke) Schievelbein. To this group God and their religion were as important as food and water; so one of their first acts after performing all that was necessary to insure shelter and food was the establishment of a church in 1882. The fist deaths among these folks were twins who died soon after birth. Only a few people know today where they are buried. When a tragic accident claimed the lives of two more children Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery was formed on a quarter acre of the land their father had donated for a church building. The first two burials were Emma (1883-1886) and Otto (1885-1886) Schievelbein, children of Wilhelm F. C. & Bertha (Melchert) Schievelbein, and grandchildren of Wilhelm and Maria.
Immanuel Lutheran School was built in 1888, and for several years the school building served as the church on Sundays and a gathering place for the whole German community. With the automobile came the inevitable and inexorable move from country churches and schools to town. In 1966 the school closed its doors for the last time and a year later the church memberships were moved to either Trinity Lutheran Church in Arapahoe or Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Elwood and the church doors closed forever. The cemetery is still being used by descendants of the original community.
This list of those buried in the cemetery is incomplete. If you know the names of others buried there, please, send them to and I will add them to the list.
If you live near this cemetery or plan to visit it anytime, please, consider photographing some, or all, of the gravestones and contributing them for use on this page. Or if you already have one or more photographs of stones in this cemetery I would be most happy to use them on this page. Write to if you would like to contribute photos for this or any Gosper County cemetery.
I want to thank Don Wohler for contributing most of the names included on these pages. I'm sure there are still some names that have been omitted. I will add any that are sent to me. If you see any errors, please bring them to my attention and I will try to correct them.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: All items appearing in parenthesis ( ) were added by the transciber from other records.