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TCC Letter In Support of Congressional Vote to Repeal IPAB
Please see the following letter from the Texas Conservative Coalition thanking members of the Texas congressional delegation for their recent vote to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an unelected bureaucracy created through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
Dear Congressman:
The Texas Conservative Coalition (TCC) is writing to express our gratitude for your support of H.R. 1190, which would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) – a central feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). It is now urgent that the U.S. Senate acts.
In 2013, TCC joined hundreds of organizations around the nation in calling for the elimination of the IPAB, one of the worst provisions of the PPACA.
Tasked with the responsibility of recommending cost-saving Medicare reforms to Congress, the 15-member unelected board has the power to implement its recommendations even without Congress's approval. Former Obama administration official Peter Orszag has publicly stated that IPAB's authority was deliberately set up as a way to "counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a little less democratic." Yet, that is precisely the problem.
Former Senator Tom Coburn and Congressman Phil Roe (both physicians), writing late last year in the Wall Street Journal, got to the heart of the matter: "Why is this board dangerous? Because there is nothing "advisory" about its vast powers. IPAB's mandate is to deliver on one of ObamaCare's central promises: Medicare cost-containment. The law gives this board sweeping authority to do so, with virtually no constraints."
Dissatisfaction and distrust of the IPAB is a bipartisan issue outside of the White House, and political figures as diverse ideologically as former Governors Sarah Palin and Howard Dean agree that it should be repealed. Indeed, Howard Dean explained his thoughts on the IPAB in a Wall Street Journal commentary in July 2013:
One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting—the essential mechanism of the IPAB—has a 40-year track record of failure…. getting rid of the IPAB is something Democrats and Republicans ought to agree on.
H.R. 1190 advances of the cause of health care freedom and liberty from an unaccountable bureaucracy. Thank you for your service, and we will encourage our Senators to take up this cause as well.
Texas Conservative Coalition
Senator John Cornyn's July 10 response to the above letter follows below:
June 30, 2015 / In Policy Letters

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Perhaps He looks both ways. The scripture is certainly true which says, "when you have done this unto the least of them, you have done it unto me." Thank you for caring, too.
This the one of the most powerful messages in pictures I have ever experienced. How insightful!
Thank you for your comment. My intent was to focus in the mind of the beholder. Sometimes it seems we can't get beyond the adoration – then on with the business of life. I believe we are called upon to be God's loving hands no matter what our "religion". We are here to help.
Is that a Greek name?
Thank you for the kind words. I threw it together and it took shape as I moved along. However, it woud not have been as powerful with lesser images. The one with the child crawling toward the pedestrian is especially compelling for me.


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Q: Google Dataproc Pyspark Properties I'm trying to submit a pyspark to a google dataproc cluster, and I want to specify the properties for the pyspark configuration at the command line. The documentation says that I can specify those properties with the --properties flag. The command I'm trying to run looks something like this:
gcloud dataproc jobs submit pyspark simpleNB.py --cluster=elinorcluster  —-properties=executor-memory=10G --properties=driver-memory=46G --properties=num-executors=20 -- -i X_small_train.txt -l y_small_train.txt -u X_small_test.txt -v y_small_test.txt

I have seriously tried every combination I can think of for the properties flag:
gcloud dataproc jobs submit pyspark simpleNB.py --cluster=elinorcluster  —-properties executor-memory=10G, driver-memory=46G,properties=num-executors=20 -- -i X_small_train.txt -l y_small_train.txt -u X_small_test.txt -v y_small_test.txt

etc., but I can't seem to get it to work. Keeps giving me this error:
ERROR: (gcloud.dataproc.jobs.submit.pyspark) unrecognized arguments: —-properties=executor-memory=10G
Usage: gcloud dataproc jobs submit pyspark PY_FILE --cluster=CLUSTER [optional flags] [-- JOB_ARGS ...]
  optional flags may be  --archives | --driver-log-levels | --files | --help |
                     --jars | --labels | --properties | --py-files | -h

Does anybody know how to make this work? It says that it needs a list of key value pairs, but what is the format of the list?

A: You should specify properties in a single flag as such:
--properties=executor-memory=10G,driver-memory=46G,num-executors=20

You can also use ':' instead of '=' to make it less ambiguous with other flags e.g.:
 --properties=executor-memory:10G,driver-memory:46G,num-executors:20

A: The Pyspark properties names has to be as on this list. And the correct command syntax for properties is:
gcloud dataproc jobs submit pyspark PY_FILE --cluster=CLUSTER --properties=[PROPERTY-A=VALUE-A,PROPERTY-B=VALUE-B,…]

A: The format of the list is one single string, comma separated k/v pairs, in quotes:
gcloud dataproc jobs submit pyspark simpleNB.py --cluster=elinorcluster \
  —-properties='spark.executor.memory=10G,spark.driver.memory=46G,\
  spark.num.executors=20' -- -i X_small_train.txt -l y_small_train.txt\
  -u X_small_test.txt -v y_small_test.txt

The properties also need to be legit pyspark property config syntax, which driver-memory=46G is not while spark.driver.memory=46G is.

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Covid-19 & NWO
Shill or Ignorant?
By Michael,
October 26, 2020 in Covid-19 & NWO
Is Brian Rose a
1. Is Brian Rose a
Michael 159
We are at a point where we need to stop buying into nonsense.
I cannot belief what Brian is talking here. More testing? Mate are you serious?
I think thats sadly it, but i need to scratch him forever. There is no excuse to go back to general media nonsense which has been exposed as nothing but propaganda time and time again by health professionals all over the world.
Unless he is still in denial that this is a purposly orchestrated agenda which cannot be more visible and clear as it is now, he must be a shill. No other options at this point.
TEST & TRACE FAILURES; Why These Testing Failures Are Closing Down Our Schools - Brian Rose.mp4
Edited October 26, 2020 by Michael
Nobby Noboddy 543
Nobby Noboddy
I think the poll results speak for themselves.
We don't have to hate these people, we just need to listen and then think for ourselves!
It is happening. I'm seeing it, normies waking up. And the beauty is that they are not already coralled like most of us.
Long live normies who get fed up and start thinking! They're going to save us 'activist milksops'
Ethel 214
8 minutes ago, Michael said:
Now that I think about it, it's almost as though he was using David Icke, although that may be an unpopular opinion. Think about it: he gets millions of hits to his website off the back of "I defend free speech", whilst simultaneously remaining on okay terms with the establishment by claiming that he "doesn't agree with all of David's views".
It's rather cunning actually. He has interviewed a variety of guests so wide as to appeal to many different demographics, not just the conspiracy researchers.
I rather think he is a game player, which I can't really be bothered with. That being said, I could be wrong.
3 minutes ago, Ethel said:
Shall i add it as a poll option?
Opinions differ, so i would be fine with that.
Its just after this speech there are for me no other options i could think of.
Yeah, you could add it as an option. I'm pretty sure he is. He's one of these 'smooth operator' types who tends to get on quite well in Western Society. He talks a big game but appears, unfortunately, to be mainly full of hot air.
ItsTheTruthThough 87
ItsTheTruthThough
Seems to be a game player, but it's hard to really judge.
TheAwakened 185
TheAwakened
56 minutes ago, Michael said:
I think he is a fraud. His face looks disingenuous.
He believes this plandemic which means to me he is automatically disqualified from being credible..
Vile opportunist. No problem with "successful" buisness people but he appears to me to be a con merchant from the start. So many naive people will be happy to throw money at him though. Similar to anna brees offering courses, not content with just being a interviewer.
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I Am Jacks Free Spirit
Hello, everyone, new member here.
I'll likely get round to posting a new member hello message eventually but this topic has spurred me into signing up and posting right away because I feel like I have something useful to contribute to this conversation:
Anyone remember Rose/Icke 1? Or maybe it was interview no.2, whatever but it was back in March or April when this was all kinda new - specifically it was the interview that the BBC etc latched on to as the one where Icke "allegedly" drew the link between 5G and Covid....
When I was watching that interview at the time I remember thinking, crikey, Rose has purposefully led Icke down the garden path here to get him to say something that can be used as a "soundbite", so that it could be pinned on Icke as saying "5G causes Covid!" even though, really, that's not what I believe David truly meant at all... my interpretation was that he meant that the health symptoms surrounding problematic 5G mirror the symptoms being "claimed" to be Covid, therefore, later down the road, if 5G starts causing problems with health en masse they will just say "you've got Covid" - THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS SAYING 5G CAUSES COVID!!
Also, there was later that thing where a large excerpt of one of the Rose/Icke interviews ended up being broadcast on TV, not that I saw it I think it was only on a TV channel you can get in London locality? But for Icke to end up on TV like that seemed a bit suspicious to me - especially since this was after the BBC jumped on the "Icke says 5G causes Covid" story, and then conveniently the interview was available on freeview or sky (?) ACTUAL TV not just the internet (somehow therefore making it more "true") - while at the same time just cementing the belief that because David is mad for the 5G thing then therefore EVERYTHING ELSE he says is also mad, thus publically discrediting all of his theories at once.
I still haven't answered the poll as I'm not even sure what I think... I'm just sharing my views and look forward to more discussion
Edited October 26, 2020 by I Am Jacks Free Spirit
54 minutes ago, I Am Jacks Free Spirit said:
As you said, Icke never said or meant that 5G causes Covid. He cleared that up a couple of times in his talks.
That has several reasons:
The first and most obvious is that it would actually confirm that Covid19 is real, which he denies.
(from my standpoint, real or not became irrelevant, as its either a mild flu which got rebranded as Covid19, or it is a new virus but somehow has the symptoms of every flu anyway)
The second is that 5G cannot cause virus infection, which of course David knows. Its mainly used to make him look like a fool.
5G trough its higher radiation can cause more illness with a lot of side effects and thus this in turn can be used to blame it on Covid19, which is what David Icke said and meant. (and you meant for that matter)
he led a lot of people down the garden path and has made a lot of money out of it.
He is an opportunist but at the same time, how do we know he's not paid by GOV types to play along with the agenda or as an influencer.
5G doesn't cause COVID
But COVID is very much part of the 5G The Great Reset.
So it't there to blacken the water.
To be honest I think Rose needs to be cancelled
My instincts tell me he's a 'game player'. I first came across him ahead of the interviews with Icke, and my first feeling was one of unease.
I don't know the man personally, but I've come across folks like him before - he comes across as a bit narcissistic and self-obsessed, and loves to over-hype things to the max. I found it tedious how this series of interviews were hyped and billed like a boxing match (Icke / Rose II etc) with all the palaver associated with the run up to 'the event' and then the subsequent 'technical failures' and delays, just adding to the hype and tension.
I think I only watched one interview, and apart from his into and a few interspersed questions, Rose hardly said anything - David may as well have just done the thing by himself and talked into a camera for an hour.
It was all about harvesting email addresses, and then 'spamming' all those people who eagerly handed over their email address just so they could watch the interview on the LondonReal website. I for one had no interest in his Business Accelerator or any of the other 'courses' he was pushing and selling. And that's exactly what happened, within hours I started getting the pushy emails on a regular basis. Hit that 'unsubscribe' link folks!
I do find it interesting that this series of Icke interviews coincided with the launch of his "Digital Freedom" platform, and since the last one the Ickes don't seem to have anything to do with him anymore.
Sorry if anyone disagrees with this, but I think the guy is a charlatan and not to be trusted.
screamingeagle 863
what is "game changer"
if it means agent of the elite sent by the elite then yes he is one.....
8 minutes ago, screamingeagle said:
Actually the phrase is "game player"
But in a way I think you're right.
There's a 'game' in play, and this fella is 'playing the game' in order to suit himself, and to no doubt try to benefit 'financially' for their 'reward'.
1 minute ago, Grumpy Owl said:
brain fart.....
2 minutes ago, Grumpy Owl said:
oh he went through indoctrination and removing any empathy in goldman sachs
and narcisim and egoism are very welcomed in a politician
looking his posture and body language he reminds me on silvio berlusconi
32 minutes ago, Grumpy Owl said:
Cannot disagree with anything you say there GrumpyOwl and you have put many of the thoughts I had about Rose. He is a bit like a car salesman in my estimation.
The only thing I felt that was positive was that Icke being put out there to so many views must have at least got a few more thinking about the various aspects of the current situation. So Rose has served a purpose in a small way.
Pabloisawake 17
Pabloisawake
On 10/27/2020 at 12:50 AM, Jack said:
There is no covid.
5G is a real threat, not a phony virus.
samantha565 6
samantha565
I wish I could have voted he is a game playing shill as I do think that's better, an opportunist reminds of the old love police guy Charlie, riding the good publicity of being "alternative" but happy to play the msm card as needed he is a grifter, and that portrait....oh dear. but life takes all sorts and I say he is harmless if not irritating to some.
oz93666 1,289
oz93666
Silly poll ... every one has their own definition for what a "shill" is or "game Player " means , so the results are meaningless ....
There are really two categories
A game player is one who is knowingly working with the cabal , following directions of unseen handlers who have a specific plan , he will be paid by them , or get cash from donations given by public ...
A grifter is an independent person , a swindler , asking for donations
Shill is an inappropriate term in connection with Rose
an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others.
"I used to be a shill in a Reno gambling club"


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This story may or may not be true. But much of what we present to others is fiction anyway, am I right?
Two sisters, born four years apart.
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The younger, born in spring, was an iris, needing water and cool breezes and the strength of the earth. Her successes were stellar, but were always shrouded in shadow, never quite lauded nor recognized.
The love and bond of the two girls for each other, however, was sealed through a shared passion for autumn leaves and winter snows and spring blossoms.
Their mother, an avid gardener and strict disciplinarian, was determined they would bloom. Fiercely she ripped the weeds from around them. They were carefully mulched with composted leaves of love — to protect them from winter storms or sudden rains or frosty unseen chills. No ragged, uncultured piece of greengrowth would even dare to approach them.
Rooted in a small fundamentalist, rigid, uncompromising church, the girls were again wrapped in a protective coating that did not allow deviation from the allowable norm. Sin, lewdness, or immorality were forbidden, even as thoughts. Dancing was considered both carnal and damnable. Dreams and passions were not even considered.
The younger sister swallowed the message whole and worried about each transgression she might have done in thought or deed. She lived for Heaven to come, and used obedience and self-punishment for each perceived digression from perfection.
The older sister, also fearful of sin, absorbed the message less viscerally, but proceeded to follow the rules quietly. Disobedience was not an option. Neither was exploration or experimentation or variation from expectations.
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He abused her, physically and mentally, but she could never prove any of it to authorities, who always sided with him when she lodged a complaint. The young man she truly loved from years before she lost forever.
She suffered for many years until she finally got enough courage to walk through the door and never return. For two decades after that, the husband stalked her, lied to authorities about her, turned her children against her. But she was free.
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The older sister also married — the childhood sweetheart, the smooth-faced, curly headed boy approved by both parents and church. She assumed this was love. She had never explored the world, her desires, her abilities, her skills. She never knew if she had any dreams — she never asked.
Gradually, however, her aspirations unfurled, like the petals of a flower about to bloom. She realized she had talents undiscovered, and abilities that had been hidden under responsibilities. She blossomed and became a hibiscus, a daffodil, a gardenia–an endless garden of hope and promise.
The older sister was also abused, although it took twenty years for her to realize it. Abuse is not just a physical smack on the face or a punch in the jaw. Abuse is constant infidelity, followed by apologies, followed by more infidelity. Abuse is accepting that, and apologizing for causing the abuser to stray away. Abuse is feeling inadequate and incomplete and ugly. Abuse is soaking an orchid with weed killer.
The younger sister, after years of prayer and suffering, received a job offer in another state. She accepted and moved in less than a week. It was overwhelming and perhaps impossible to swallow. Was she finally free? She still does not know. So much damage had been done to her physical and spiritual body that she may never heal. But now she lives with hope. And fresh seeds tucked into a window planter.
The older sister, who had been given a peek into glorious possibilities, also shed that silent, invisible blanket of abuse, and finally fled from what was seemingly a happy home. She left a garden of bright red roses — with their thorns. She sleeps alone with fear and uncertainty — and sweet relief.
This story may or may not be true. But much of what we present to others is fiction anyway, am I right? And truth is found within oneself.
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For the graphics chip you can use either the open source radeon module or ATI's proprietary fglrx module. For installation instructions, you can view our Configuring an ATI graphics chip guide. For 3D support, you will need the proprietary module.


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It is missing little less than one month for the official beginning of summer. Now it is more dare to go out in the street and enjoy everything San Sebastian has to offer. In the coming weeks San Sebastian will host various events to make your stay much more interesting. If you are staying at our hotel in San Sebastian during these days, you might like to know everything that this lovely city has to offer… it is going to be a nonstop of interesting things to do.
You will have of course to stop from time to time for a pitxo. During this month of May, one of the most interesting activities is the Olatu Talka festival currently celebrating its seventh edition. It is a festival aimed to "shake culturally" San Sebastian.
For a whole weekend, more than 200 activities will animate this initiative aimed at people of all ages and with different interests. Music, dance or languages also have a remarkable space.
What activities can not be missed?
One of the highlights will be the Big Dance, the greatest choreography in the world to be held simultaneously in more than 50 countries and which will open the festival. It will be on Saturday 20 May at 12.30.
The School of Music and Dance of Donostia will perform some parts of King Arthur in Tabakalera Square on 20 May at 21.00.
Monologues, workshops, lectures and experiments for little ones with the aim of bringing science to citizens and make it more fun. It will be held on May 21.
The "Space of the languages" will host numerous activities to show the variety of languages of San Sebastian throughout Saturday May 21.
The Kontzertour offers small concerts that will take place throughout the entire weekend.
Looking at June activities we find the very popular Surfilm Festival. This already veteran Festival in San Sebastian (fourteenth edition) is all about surf, music, art: from 23 to 26 June. The world of surf is represented trough different medias such as movies, music, art.
The full program is not yet available, so it is best to stay tuned to their website. Whether you are a surfer or if you are curious about this very exciting and active universe, the Surfilm Festibal is a good choice. Definitely a must do to add to your agenda.
This 2 events together with the usual attractions in San Sebastian (culinary, beach just to name some..) will make your stay in San Sebastian absolutely unforgettable.


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Matthew is passionate about art and sharing his history and culture through storytelling.


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Cyclichthys orbicularis is een straalvinnige vissensoort uit de familie van egelvissen (Diodontidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1785 door Bloch.

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Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota
Debt gang to unveil plan to other senators Tuesday
CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett
Washington (CNN) – Members of a bipartisan group of senators who worked for months to forge an agreement to make deep reductions in the federal debt will unveil a plan to slash trillions of dollars off that debt over the next 10 years.
The former Gang of Six members will reveal their plan privately Tuesday to a group of 40 to 50 senators.
"We're presenting the progress we've made," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota, the Budget Committee chairman. "It's a comprehensive approach that reforms entitlements, reforms the revenue code, cuts spending, is balanced and is in the range of $3.6 (trillion) to $3.7 trillion."
"We're going to ask people if they are interested in pursuing this," he said.
Conrad has been critical of the direction of recent debt ceiling talks involving Congress and the White House, saying they don't go far enough to reduce long-term debt. But the work of his group isn't likely to have much effect on the debt ceiling debate, which must be resolved in about two weeks or the U.S. will default.
An aide to one member of the group said he did not think all members had actually signed off on a formal proposal. Conrad wouldn't directly answer whether they had done so.
"We've agreed to this presentation," he said.
The Gang of Six includes Conrad and two other Democrats, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Mark Warner of Virginia. It currently has two Republicans: Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and Mike Crapo of Idaho. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, dropped out of the group after months of work over disagreements with the direction of the negotiations.
The gang's original goal was to put in place the recommendations of President Obama's fiscal commission, which called for debt to be reduced by $4 trillion over the next 10 years.
Coburn on Monday proposed his own plan to cut the debt by $9 trillion over 10 years through a combination of spending cuts, entitlement overhaul and tax reform. He acknowledged the plan would not pass, but said he hoped it would spark debate on the issues he raised with it.
Filed under: Debt • Deficit • Dick Durbin • Kent Conrad • Saxby Chambliss • Tom Coburn
lgny
There have now been at least 4 serious budget proposals (including the Ryan plan). What will it take for Congress to consider actually enacting one of them? They all seem to disappear after a week or two of publicity. Meanwhile, we need to get moving on the deficit.
A disillusioned Republican
Maybe if Coburn wasn't a quitter, they could have come to some agreement.
S.B. Stein E.B. NJ
I would have hoped that the GOP would have put its unnatural hatred of taxes aside for the betterment of the country. Apparently, it is party over country with some of them like Grover Norquist. He seems to be an unreasonable king maker. The idea is to do something. If the GOP can't or won't be willing to raise taxes in addition to cutting some loop holes, then they might be the most responsible for this situation. They could have done this kind of thing during Geoge W. Bush's first 6 years. They squandered that by over spending and not paying for the military actions that were taken.
BOBBB
Let me point out that if the GOPers accepted obama cuts, of whatever number, and the GOP accepted some revenue increases, the NET EFFECT would still be in their favor. They get their claims of less (overall) government.
July 19, 2011 01:12 am at 1:12 am |
The Greedy Old Pigs have declared class war on US!
Prediction: This "compromise" will not result in corporations or the filthy rich making a single sacrifice, while the rest of us will be expected to sacrifice. The GOBPbaggin' cult of corporatist political prostitutes have become utterly transparent in their efforts to serve the corporations and filthy rich who bought them.


Record-breakers Manchester City were at it again on Sunday afternoon at the Etihad Stadium, destroying Maurizio Sarri's Chelsea 6-0 with a showcase of world class football.
The result came with several footnotes too, as several records were updated today.
Sergio Aguero's three goals meant he is now equal with Alan Shearer on 11 hat-tricks for the Premier League record. Sergio missed an open net, but that just made him angry and soon after he belted in a screamer from distance, before capitalising on a Ross Barkley mistake to add a second.
When Raheem Sterling won a penalty in the second half, Kun stepped up to become the Premier League's joint-best hat-trick man, further cementing his place as one of the greatest strikers in Premier League history.
While Sergio equaled a record, Manchester City as a team broke one that had been set by Liverpool in the 2013/14 season.
City have scored 2 goals for the 15th Premier League home match in a row, a new Premier League record!
And last but not least, the 6-0 demolition job of Chelsea was the London club's worst in a long time. Since 1991, in fact.
0-6 – Chelsea suffered their heaviest defeat in any competition since losing 0-7 to Nottingham Forest in April 1991. Drubbing.


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Technology Bulletin
DN Staff | Feb 17, 1997
Space technology spins off knee brace
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, have leveraged space technology to invent an innovative knee brace for those recovering from strokes and knee injuries. Called the Selectively Lockable Knee Brace, the prototype device could mean quicker, less painful rehabilitation by allowing movement of the knee. Currently available knee braces lock the knee in a rigid, straight-leg position. In the new design, the upper part of the brace attaches around the thigh, with the lower part secured by a stirrup around the shoe. "It works by allowing the knee to bend when weight is not on the heel," explains co-inventor Neill Myers. "Once weight is placed on the heel, the brace locks into position." The device is a spin-off of mechanisms and materials technology used in developing propulsion systems at Marshall. The inventors are working with a private company to test the prototype and verify the design. For details, e-mail Dave Drachlis at [email protected].
Carbon nanotubes contain chemical reaction
A team of researchers from three institutions has carried out a chemical reaction in what may be the world's smallest set of test tubes: carbon nanotubes with inside diameters of less than 10 nanometers and lengths of just one micron. The work could ultimately have important applications in microelectronics and other fields where extremely small conductors and other structures would allow production of new types of nanoscale devices. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincotron in Brazil, and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland formed the carbon nanotubes, then opened the ends and allowed capillary action to fill them with molten silver nitrate. In the final step, they decomposed the silver nitrate into metallic silver by heating the tubes with a beam from an electron microscope. The process resulted in chains of tiny silver beads within many of the nanotubes, each bead separated by a pocket of gas under pressure as high as 1,300 atmospheres. Next, the team wants to use the process to produce a continuous metallic wire with a graphite sheath around it. The technique could also be used in flat-panel displays and to produce encapsulated compounds. For more information, visit http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/rco.asp.
Diaphragm pacemaker could enable independent breathing
Surgeons at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently implanted a medical device that may eventually allow the patient--a former high-school athlete--to breathe without a ventilator for the first time since a summer sports injury rendered him a quadriplegic. If the surgery proves successful, the patient's nerves will regenerate enough to use the implanted device--a tiny electrode and radio receiver with an implanted antenna. Doctors performed two nerve grafts during the six-hour surgery. After a few months, the implanted pacemaker's application of repetitive stimulus patterns to the phrenic nerves should result in smooth, rhythmic contractions of the diaphragm, thus allowing air into the lungs. Diaphragm pacing is far less expensive than using a mechanical ventilator. The technology also lets patients live outside of hospitals and nursing homes, eliminating the cost of inpatient care. Added benefits include: more normal breathing and speech, ease of eating and drinking, increased patient mobility, unobtrusiveness of the equipment, and silent operation. E-mail [email protected].
Satellite-based remote sensing to map Earth resources
Within two years, scientists hope to launch satellites that will let them produce the most complete maps of the composition and temperature of the Earth's surface. The data are essential in exploring for natural resources such as minerals and natural-gas deposits, monitoring global warming, or giving early warning of volcanic eruptions. The satellites, making up an Earth Observing System, will use remote sensing to gather data for studying the planet's surface and atmosphere. One of the goals is to make, for the first time, a worldwide map of the thermal radiation emitted from the planet's surface. John Salisbury, a research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, pioneered the technique using an infrared spectrometer to learn what something is made of by analyzing the thermal radiation it emits. He is compiling a library of the spectral signatures of infrared radiation emitted by specific materials. These data will help scientists interpret the satellite data. FAX Johns Hopkins at (410) 516-5251.
Process yields durable, lightweight metal parts
A metals-forming process developed about 25 years ago by MIT scientists is now giving automobile components manufacturers a new way to produce highly durable, lightweight precision parts. The process, known as rheocasting, is taking off mainly because of new automotive industry requirements for long-life, reliable, and lightweight parts that cannot be met by the traditional forming process of die casting. MIT has licensed the process to Alumax Inc., St. Louis, which has used it primarily to make longer-lasting aluminum automotive components for suspensions and air conditioners. Rheocasting was discovered in 1971 by David Spencer, then a doctoral student in the lab of Professor Merton Flemings of MIT's department of materials science and engineering. Spencer found that agitation of a molten metal during solidification made it smooth and creamy when it was partly solid, like ice cream. It was immediately clear to researchers that this flowable semisolid material could be the basis of a wholly new metal-forming process. The original work was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Army Research Office, subsequent work by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and current work by the DOE and industry. E-mail Elizabeth Thomson at [email protected].
Modems go cordless
Operating on the same principle as cordless telephones, new cordless modem technology jointly developed by IBM and Panasonic allows users to go on-line without physically connecting to a phone jack. Instead, the data are transmitted directly between the PC and a small device connected to the jack. Because the technology requires no software, driver, or operating-system changes to PCs, it literally offers users "plug-and-play" convenience. Based on patent-pending technology originally developed at IBM Research, the cordless modem technology delivers V.34 connections at speeds up to 28.8 kbps using a modified radio architecture similar to that used in current 900-MHz cordless phones. By basing the technology on existing protocols, the two companies each anticipate developing products this year that support high-speed analog modem data rates at an affordable cost. E-mail [email protected] or [email protected].
Plans afoot to convert natural gas to diesel fuel
Exxon Corp. may build the oil industry's first plant to cost-effectively convert natural gas into liquid fuels such as diesel. The firm is in talks with Qatar's state-owned oil company to build such a plant--using Exxon's technology--supplied by oil fields too remote for natural-gas pipelines. Such liquid fuels are more easily transportable and are cleaner, too: Natural gas-produced diesel is of a higher quality than that produced from crude oil, and has no sulfur. When burned, it produces less carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions. Tulsa, OK-based Syntroleum Corp. is working on a similar project. Visit http://www.calstart.org.
Prosthetic foot promises better balance
ATufts University bioengineer has developed a prosthetic foot that he says better mimics how a biological foot works. Besides helping amputees maintain their balance and stand, walk, or run more naturally, the new design decreases the pressure that can cause painful and dangerous wounds to the area where the prosthesis attaches to the leg. Current prosthetic feet are fairly good at shock absorption and propulsion, or "push off," says inventor Mark R. Pitkin, research assistant professor of bioengineering at Tufts School of Medicine. But a natural foot also provides balance and gait control using 33 complex joints, 26 bones, and more than 100 ligaments, muscles, and tendons. Pitkin analyzed the electrical impulses in biological feet and lower leg muscles during a stance--the part of a stride when all or part of the foot is on the ground. Using that data, he pinpointed and measured the moments of resistance in the ankle joint produced by muscle and tendon contractions. Pitkin noticed that the pattern of resistance was nonlinear and concave, with resistance almost nonexistent in the first part of the stance as the body leans forward and weight shifts from the heel to the ball of the foot. He then mapped the resistance patterns of the most popular prosthetic feet and discovered that they didn't match the physical reality of the gait. Pitkin's device, called a rolling-joint foot, allows for a progressive buildup of resistance in each stance. "The idea is the foot rolls along, producing resistance in a certain pattern," he says. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
Light-duty, long-range natural gas vehicle debuts
The nation's first long-range natural gas vehicle has hit the road. The "LongRanger" van, a working prototype developed by Long Beach, CA-based NGV/USA Inc., is a modified Chrysler Dodge Ram 350 van that achieves extended range by using a Multi-Fuel Storage Chassis. This chassis design incorporates cavities into the structure of the frame that allow natural gas cylinders to reside there, rather than attaching the cylinders as an afterthought. Two 62 x 14.8-inch cylinders are attached with steel hoop rings and brackets lengthwise within storage cavities located in the modified frame rails. The two existing smaller tanks remain perpendicular to them in the rear of the frame between the rear axle and bumper. The overall dimensions, suspension, and drive train of the Chrysler remain unaltered. Together, the cylinders hold 27 gasoline-gallons equivalent of compressed natural gas--enough for the vehicle to travel up to 340 miles before refueling. Previously, natural gas vehicles had been limited to a 150-mile range. Preliminary research indicates that when mass-produced, this adaptation can be cost effective and modified to accommodate other alternative fuels, such as propane, hydrogen, and even electricity. Interest in natural gas vehicles has increased over the last seven years due to governmental mandates and heightened concern for the environment--natural gas is about 30% cheaper and burns twice as clean as gasoline. FAX NCV/USA at (310) 595-0446


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Drama Films
Snow Day Movie
dougwest1posted 2 years ago
It was a cold and snowy day here, so I watched a movie on Netfilx about a group of writers, "The Professor and the Madman." I am obviously biased because I am a writer, but I thought this show was great. If you have seen the show, what do you think?
Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years agoin reply to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Profe … he_Madman_(film)
Yes, it is good, as it is based on an incredible true story.
Kathryn L Hillposted 2 years ago
"The Professor and the Madman is about the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States and Canada. It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its most prolific early contributors, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon. Minor was, at the time, imprisoned in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, near the village of Crowthorne, in Berkshire, England.
The professor is Sir James Murray, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Murray was a talented linguist ... had taught in schools and worked in banking. Faced with the enormous task of producing a comprehensive dictionary, with a quotation illustrating the uses of each meaning of each word, and with evidence for the earliest use of each, Murray enlisted the help of dozens of amateur philologists as volunteer researchers."
Extracted from the above link.
"The dictionary began as a Philological Society project of a small group of intellectuals in London (and unconnected to Oxford University): Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the existing English dictionaries.
in June 1857, they began by forming an "Unregistered Words Committee" to search for words that were unlisted or poorly defined in current dictionaries.
In November, Trench's report was the study On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, which identified seven distinct shortcomings in contemporary dictionaries:
Incomplete coverage of obsolete words
Inconsistent coverage of families of related words
Incorrect dates for earliest use of words
History of obsolete senses of words often omitted
Inadequate distinction among synonyms
Insufficient use of good illustrative quotations
Space wasted on inappropriate or redundant content.
The society ultimately realized that the number of unlisted words would be far more than the number of words in the English dictionaries of the 19th century, and shifted their idea from covering only words that were not already in English dictionaries to a larger project.
On 7 January 1858, the society formally adopted the idea of a comprehensive new dictionary. Volunteer readers would be assigned particular books, copying passages illustrating word usage onto quotation slips.
Later the same year, the society agreed to the project in principle, with the title A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles." Extracted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary
Furnivall approached James Murray, who accepted the post of editor. In the late 1870s, Furnivall and Murray met with several publishers about publishing the dictionary.
In 1878, Oxford University Press agreed with Murray to proceed with the massive project; the agreement was formalized the following year. 20 years after its conception, the dictionary project finally had a publisher. It would take another 50 years to complete.
"Late in his editorship, Murray learned that a prolific reader named W. C. Minor was a criminal lunatic. Minor was a Yale University-trained surgeon and military officer in the American Civil War, and was confined to Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane after killing a man in London. Minor invented his own quotation-tracking system, allowing him to submit slips on specific words in response to editors' requests. The story of Murray and Minor later served as the central focus of The Professor and the Madman, a popular book about the creation of the OED. This book was then the basis for the 2019 film The Professor and the Madman, starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn."
dougwest1posted 2 years agoin reply to this
Thanks for all the good historical information on the film. I didn't realize that Sean Penn was such a good actor.
Do teachers still teach students how to use a dictionary or is this becoming obs
by Denise Handlon 10 years ago
Do teachers still teach students how to use a dictionary or is this becoming obsolete?I use a dictionary (book) when I write, which I keep at my side. I've heard from a few people that NO ONE uses dictionaries anymore. (obviously they are wrong b/c there is at least still one,...
Which is the lengthiest word in English dictionary?
by Lovely 7 10 years ago
What are your favourite reference books?
by Adamowen 10 years ago
What new words do you think should be added to the English Dictionary?
by Elena 12 years ago
What new words do you think should be added to the English Dictionary?Example: people now say "I will Google it later". It even has a Past Tense. "I Googled it". Any more?
Does a Word Mean What Its Definition Says?
by ga anderson 3 years ago
Of course, a word means, (or is supposed to), mean what its definition says it means.And of course, it is technically correct to deny alternate meanings are correct or acceptable.But ... I think it is more real-life true that a word, in common usage, is more correctly defined by what a broad...
Do you have a hard copy dictionary that you still use like a Merriam-Webster?
Do you have a hard copy dictionary that you still use like a Merriam-Webster?I still need my dictionary and thesaurus beside be as I'm at my computer writing a hub. I don't use online dictionaries, an installed app/program, or spell checker. What do you use?


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I just obtained the Tannoy Speaker Line.
Congratulations, Ivan, on getting the line!
Will they be available in Florida for auditions?
Only in Cape Cod for auditions.
A long way from TN, but I bet it'd be worth it!
Ivan should do very well with this line. Tannoy has done a poor job with dealers here in the US (JMHO).
Does anyone know if Tannoy releases any of its wiring diagrams on their older Mercury Series? Seems like I have a problem that I don;t want to try and fix using trial and error.
As a dealer, I'm going to say no.
I might have to start a thread and ask for very specific help.
Ivan... Do you mind if I ask you? As soon as I'm allowed to create a thread, I'll put your name on the subject live (if you don't mind).


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He has extensive senior management and board director experience across the food, hospitality, professional services, entertainment and sporting industries. Mark has contributed to numerous business and marketing publications including 'Marketing's Role In The Boardroom'and 'What Value Marketing'.
Mark is a Certified Practising Marketer and a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute. He has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and a Certificate in Strategic Marketing Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.


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The 2018 Honda Pilot gets a brand new exterior coloration, Satin Metal Grey Metallic. Additionally, hatchback fashions are now accessible with the diesel engine. The 2018 Honda Pilot acquired a 5-star total security rating from the NHTSA (out of a possible 5 stars). In IIHS evaluations, the 2018 Honda Pilot Overview and Price has only been examined in aspect and moderate entrance overlap impression checks the place it acquired a Good rating (Good is the very best doable rating). It additionally obtained a Primary score on the IIHS' entrance crash prevention test for having an accessible forward collision warning system (Superior is the highest rating for the front crash prevention test).
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Pelosi stresses only a small number of Democrats are calling to impeach Trump, asks for patience
Christal Hayes
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to simmer down the intensifying calls to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday by stressing patience and highlighting that only a small number of Democrats are calling for the move.
Pelosi's comments came hours after special counsel Robert Mueller offered his first public statements about his nearly two-year investigation of the president and Russian election interference during the 2016 cycle, telling the public that charging Trump with obstruction was "not an option" because of a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president. During his comments, Mueller also announced his departure from his post and the Justice Department.
Mueller's comments were seen by some Democrats as an invitation for Congress to hold the president accountable by starting an impeachment inquiry. But Mueller's remarks did not appear to change things for Pelosi, who for weeks has tried to rein in impeachment calls. Speaking at an event at the Commonwealth Club of California, Pelosi stressed that while impeachment was not off the table, the House was not there yet.
Mueller breaks silence:Robert Mueller, in first public remarks, says charging Trump was 'not an option we could consider'
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"Nothing is off the table but we do want to make such a compelling case, such an ironclad case that even the Republican Senate, which at the time seems to be not an objective jury, will be convinced," Pelosi told the crowd.
She said she was "proud" of House Democrats, calling them "conscientious" about how "they've reached their decisions" over whether they believe impeachment proceedings are warranted, but she noted it was only a small number of lawmakers who at this point have called for the drastic move.
"I think it's like 35 of them out of 238, maybe its 38 out of 238, have said they wanted to be outspoken on impeachment and many of them are reflecting their views as well as those of their constituents," Pelosi said. "Yes, there are some, and the press makes more of a fuss about the 38 than the 200, who are over half of the Congress."
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Throughout her remarks, Pelosi compared the ongoing investigations and discussions about impeachment to that of the Watergate scandal that took down Richard Nixon's presidency and led to his resignation in 1974.
She noted that the Watergate investigation "took months and months" and Republicans and Democrats were not on the same page at first.
"The case has to be very compelling to the American people," Pelosi said. "We're legislating, we're investigating and we are litigating, and we're going to as we go down the path, make a decision based on the strongest possible case to get the best results for the American people."
For weeks, Pelosi has tried to tap down calls within her party to start impeachment proceedings. Those calls have only intensified over the weeks since the release of Mueller's report and Trump's defiant attempts to block the House from investigating him. Tensions reached a new level last week after Trump walked out of an infrastructure meeting at the White House with top Democrats, telling Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he wouldn't work with them on shared priorities such as infrastructure and bringing down the cost of prescription drugs unless they abandoned investigations into his presidency.


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Michael Beasley's visit to Lakers game a bright spot in a big loss to Wizards
Wizards guard John Wall goes for 40 points against Kyle Kuzma and the Lakers on Sunday.
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By Tania GanguliStaff Writer
There was a surprise addition to the Lakers' bench Sunday evening in Washington.
Michael Beasley appeared, having been away from the team for eight days. His mother, Fatima Smith, has been ill and she wanted to see his team play. So Beasley brought her to the game and watched with her from a suite.
Then, for a few minutes at the start of the second half, Beasley sat on the bench with his teammates. After a while, he returned to be with his mother.
"I was surprised," Lakers rookie Moe Wagner said of seeing Beasley. "I was really happy. He's a really good guy, really good team guy, and like I said, we are very close, so it's not the same without him."
Seeing Beasley offered a bright spot for the Lakers, and some perspective as they slogged through Sunday night's 128-110 loss to the Wizards.
A night after their largest margin of victory this season, defeating the Hornets in Charlotte by 28 points, the Lakers (18-12) came out flat and never recovered. The Wizards (12-18) routed them behind 40 points from John Wall and 25 points from Bradley Beal.
"We take our jobs very serious but we know that there's always real life happening and that's always the most important thing," Lakers coach Luke Walton said. "We also know we're lucky to have our jobs and we have a group that really enjoys each other and coming to work. But Michael obviously going through real-life stuff is more important than any basketball."
Wall had 28 first-half points and at halftime the Lakers trailed by 20. Despite the Wizards maintaining a large lead, Beal and Wall remained in the game until late in the fourth quarter.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope led the Lakers with 25 points on nine-of-12 shooting after making each of his first seven shots. Kyle Kuzma scored 20 points, making nine of 15 shots.
A night after his 75th career triple-double, LeBron James scored a season-low 13 points with six rebounds and three assists.
The Lakers did not have center JaVale McGee, who had been dealing with the flu all weekend, and started Tyson Chandler in his place.
"We just didn't have our energy and obviously we didn't have our depth. We got four out of our top 11 guys, two of them that's not with the team, obviously BI and Do," James said, referring to injured Brandon Ingram and Rajon Rondo.
"JaVale was a late scratch. And Beas. When you're trying to expend a lot of energy and you don't have a lot of bodies, it was just tough on us tonight."
Beasley had not been with the team since Dec. 8, when he left from San Antonio to be with his mother, who has been dealing with a serious illness throughout the season.
Beasley grew up in the D.C. area and has spent several games away from the team to be with his mother. The Lakers have allowed him all the time he needs.
"I couldn't imagine going through it especially with the relationship I have with my mother," Kuzma said. "I know he has the same. We're all here for him, giving him a helping hand for whatever he has. It was just great to see him."
The first time Beasley left the team was Oct. 29 before the Lakers played Minnesota. Beasley returned six days later. On Nov. 11, he left less than an hour before the Lakers played the Atlanta Hawks and returned the next day.
Beasley has played in just 10 games this season, but before his most recent departure, he played in six consecutive games. His best outing was Dec. 2 against the Phoenix Suns when he made six of nine shots and scored 14 points. After that game, James said he just hoped the team could be a bright spot for Beasley.
On Sunday night, Beasley was one for them.
"It's happy to have our brother back, see a smile on his face," James said. "The game of basketball's done so much for him and for him to be able to get away from whatever situation he's in, I know it's a bright spot for him. I just try to give him respect. I'm ready for him when he comes back, that's for sure, but it's all family time."
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In general, prestige houses can be found in South Qeynos and City of Freeport (South). A few exceptions such as the Thurgadin Grand Hall and some Magical Manors exist.
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BODY PARTS ARE ALL ALIGNED
WE HAVE THE ETERNITY TO SKEWER YOUR MEAT
1. Hello Chris, could you make a little introduction to MASADA?
MASADA was conceived in 2008 by myself, Chris Milewski, with the intention of not only creating aggressive music, but also something that involved a sort of uniqueness and actual thought. Shortly after, I was joined by renowned drummer Craig Smilowski (ex-IMMOLATION, ex-GOREAPHOBIA, RELLIK,) bassist Matt Dwyer (RELLIK,) and vocalist Cazz "The Black Lourde of Crucifixion" Grant (CRUCIFIER, ex-GRAND BELIAL'S KEY.) In November 2010, about 6 years or so after being written, the recording of 2 tracks finally commenced. After numerous added delays, the "Suffer Mental Decay" demo EP was finally finished and released on May 21, 2011... and here we stand.
2. I could say your music is at the border between quite old school American Death metal from the mid 90's and what once was called techno death (Techno for technical, not electronic)... Sometimes your demo feels like some French techno death bands I used to listen around 1994... How come you play this kind of music in 2011 when everyone wants to be so retro or so modern/ unlistenable? Maybe you realized being as old school as possible is not an end?
We don't intentionally try to sound "old school" or anything... we just play what comes natural to us! For instance, when I write the riffs, I just pick up my guitar and start playing. It's not on my mind to sound like anything. Having said that, we just play what we want... so on the flipside, if MASADA doesn't please bands or fans of the modern sound, that's fine with us!
3. If you had to pick a couple of bands from the following list, to grossly define how MASADA sounds, which ones would you choose? (I'm not necessarily talking about your influences, but those who could sounds close...) MORTA SKULD, old GOREAPHOBIA, REVENANT, ATHEIST, BRUTALITY, DEATH (Human/ Individual), early GORGUTS.
From your list, I'd say MASADA is musically most similar to ATHEIST, DEATH, and early GORGUTS but noooooowhere near as technical! In some reviews, we've also been compared to PESTILENCE and DEMILICH. Not a band bunch of bands to be compared to.
4. According to wikipedia, the word "Massada" has historical roots and was an Israeli fortress (Dating back to few years before the birth of Jesus Christ). Did you choose the name for this reason? Tell us more about the meaning this moniker has taken for you...
Masada was/is an ancient plateau-top fortress where hundreds of Jewish zealots committed mass suicide rather than becoming slaves to the Romans. It can be seen, rather hypocritically, as a great victory of pride... but we chose the name because it perfectly illustrates how brainwashed fools, in this case by religion, will ultimately come to an end, either mentally or physically, as a result of their stupidity.
5. Why was the first demo so short? Ok it can give a quite good idea of your genre, but it contains only two songs... There wasn't more music to be ready at this time, or you were quite low on recording budget?
I guess there are a few reasons. One reason the "Suffer Mental Decay" demo EP is only two tunes is that fact that much of those involved with MASADA are active in other bands as well as busy with family, work, and other projects in life... because of this, we really can't dedicate as much time as we'd like to practicing and recording. Another reason is that I swore to myself that I would get those two songs recorded. As anyone who knows me can attest, I've got a problem of writing a ton of material only to throw it away before recording. The two demo EP tracks were already quite old when we recorded them, maybe 6 or so years old, but they were finally recorded. Now hopefully the newest material won't take as long!
6. This first demo was offered for free to download on a couple of music websites. Would you say you have some trust in the filesharing systems and thought it would spread the word quite well, or didn't want to get involved too soon in the work it takes to recording a demo? (This said, are you quite satisfied with the way the Internet has spread your music? How are the feedbacks?)
Ahh, it's true... The modern world of technology is upon us so it was decided to offer the demo EP as a free download. It's easiest for us and cheapest for those who want it (it's free!) In fact, we encourage anyone and everyone download and share the tunes freely. We create this music for people to listen to... not to cash in and make money! Now... I personally prefer something tangible and I'm well aware that many other people feel the same way. So for that reason, we do also offer the demo EP on CDr for $5.
7. According to your biography, the two songs from this demo were written 6 years before the recording... We could wonder how the newer songs would sound. Can you describe what we could hear one day? Will there be little differences, or not?
As of December 2011, there are 3.5 new tunes written. Musically, they are a little more progressive, but don't be afraid -- any listener would be able to tell it's MASADA! I think the comparisons to ATHEIST, GORGUTS, PESTILENCE, etc. are still very much fitting.
8. MASADA was created by Chris Milewski in 2008, and two of the members (Drummer and bassist) also seem to be quite busy in the thrash metal band RELLIK. Would you say MASADA is the band of Craig, who would write most of the music, while other guys would be sessions musicians... Or does it happen a different way?
Basically, I started the idea of MASADA just with a few riffs, maybe 7 or so years ago but we didn't get moving as a band until around 2008. It's a peculiar beast I suppose... MASADA is my focus, while Craig and Matt focus on RELLIK and Cazz focuses on CRUCIFIER. I write all of the material, then when we can find the time, we all get together to go over it! For instance, right now Cazz has bringing a new CRUCIFIER lineup up to speed and RELLIK is currently finishing up recording new material. I'm working on the new MASADA tunes! Some day, we'll get them recorded.
9. The not very precise Metal-archives doesn't tell much about the past musical activities of Chris Milewski... Did you play in other metal bands before, and was something recorded? When did you discover metal, what led you to this kind of music, and what were your first Death metal reversed cardiac arrests?
I've played in some other metal bands in the past as well as taken part on some other recordings, but nothing of great importance. My main focus now is MASADA and that's what is important!
As for when I first discovered metal, I'll say around 1988 when I was about 6 years old. I'm the youngest in the band, so besides for some bands like METALLICA, KREATOR, HELLOWEEN, I basically missed the thrash metal wave and jumped right into the Death Metal scene! I lucked out because Frank from DETERIORATE used to run a Death Metal section at the Tower Records store by my house. I would go in there as a young kid and get IMMOLATION, GORGUTS, ASPHYX, MORPHEUS DESCENDS, UNLEASHED, PESTILENCE, CIANIDE, etc. tapes and CDs. I still remember The first CD I ever bought was "In the Eyes of Death" compliation... the second was IMMOLATION "Dawn of Possession." Tower Records carried all the good stuff! Well to me at least... Grind Core, Red Light, JL America, Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Peaceville, etc. (yeah, some of those labels were decent back then!) I remember the store used to carry some good shirts too! Unfortunately, I was just a kid so they were huge on young me. I ended up looking like I was wearing a Death Metal dress, hah!
Visual proof:
I also used to write to a lot of bands back then and I'd get a lot of flyers in return... that exposed me to many underground acts. And of course, I was too young at the time to go to shows, but The Cell Block, a local venue that hosted many killer shows ,was right down the road as well. Funny, because Craig, Matt, Cazz... they were playing shows there! Anyhow, the place burned down... afterwards, I went in there and found some goodies... I specifically remember finding a DEMENTED TED sticker of all things. Good memories!
10. A little question about your lyrics: Does "Toxic unreality" deal with hallucinogenic drugs or is it about the severe effects of pollution? Can you tell us more about the subjects of your texts?
I suppose the title "Toxic Unreality" can apply to hallucinogenic drugs and pollution, but it's actually about how the blinded masses of the world are brainwashed by the media and how their lives are ruled by the distorted false reality they see on television. The other track, "Suffer Mental Decay," deals with a similar theme -- it describes how mankind is blissfully ignorant and blind to the world around them. Just look around, it's not too difficult to see what I mean!
11. How is the metal scene in Usa? The band is located in Pennsylvania, would you say there's something like a cool metal scene (With some cool Death metal bands we might like to hear about, and hunt, and listen) or do you regret an epoch of unlight and burning underground vivacity?
MASADA is specifically from the Philadelphia area. While a whole slew of Death Metal bands came from PA, which is quite a large state, the immediate area around Philly had an great scene in the early 90s. Many death metal bands (both good and bad) came from the Philly area... CRUCIFIER, DETERIORATE, CEMETARY EARTH, AFTERBIRTH, NECROTION, HAZARAX, RELLIK, INSATANITY, MORGATORY, just to name a few... not to mention some great bands from the immediate area in NJ and DE. I'd say in the mid to late 90s, it really died down, but it seems to be picking up steam again. There are a number of bands from the area today but honestly, I can't even begin to talk about. It seems that the new wave of crusty black metal is picking up steam -- something I don't really follow. A shame... many of the old bands do not exist anymore, but at least CRUCIFIER and RELLIK are still around and kicking!
12. Which records did you listen to the most the last months, or weeks? Do you search and try many new records, or are you generally bound to your old albums' collection?
I'll admit, I am rather close-minded when it comes to what I listen to. I am definitely bound to the old stuff in my collection as far as metal goes! It's the stuff I grew up with -- nothing really sounds like that these days. Too bad that I don't like what has become of death metal, but I don't like the modern sound or retro sound. It's just not the same! Lately, I've been listening (in the car) to MORPHEUS DESCENDS, SADUS, ASTAROTH, MORGOTH, THERION, etc. but also stuff like URIAH HEEP, BLACK WIDOW, TYBURN TALL, CANNABIS INDIA, and SALEM MASS!
13. What should the listeners who still care about small bands expect from MASADA in the future? Tell us what we need to know, and feel free to conclude.
Firstly, I'd like to say thanks, G, for the interview and your continued support! It is greatly appreciated! To the rest, they can expect new material that'll hopefully continue to please their senses, For those interested... you can get updates, reviews, interviews, photos, etc. on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/masadadasam. You can download the "Suffer Mental Decay" demo EP for free at http://masada.bandcamp.com. Download it and spread it like the plague!
Web page: http://www.facebook.com/masadadasam