From the VRI website: "Our new Phantom Remote Control Unit is a 5" life saver! This small, lightweight, hand-held device controls your Phantom digital high-speed cameras as well as a providing a video monitor all in one package.
The RCU supports the entire high-speed imaging workflow. Set up the camera, trigger the shot, view the cine on the LCD screen, trim to the frames of interest, and save the result to a CineMag. Without ever touching the camera!
The 5" TFT touch screen technologyallows you to control a camera with just the tap of your finger. A scroll/jog dial gives you an alternate (and fast!) way to change many settings or to scrub through a recorded cine."
Hmmm.. seems like they've been inspired by the Weisscam ;) Seriously though, interfacing wirelessly for high speed recording makes a lot of sense and it's one the most useful features of the Weisscam. I've never been a huge fan of the Phantom control software and this to me seems like it will make the workflow faster and more intuitive. The unit will probably be expensive too and I don't predict it will be something thrown in with the package for nothing. It's not really a necessary accessory and "operator comfort" isn't production's highest priority so this may be a hard sell from a rental perspective. I REALLY hope to find one in the case on my next Phantom job though. Less cable. Less laptops. Less headaches. Sign me up.


Heroes of Faith: Joseph - 'Knowing that God is with you' — stn.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." When they had done so, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! 5 And now, do not be distressedand do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. 6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves,"they said.


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Tiger Woods and Mike Wise Cheated on People. Have You?
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"I am Tiger Woods," writes Mike Wise in a bracing column in today's Washington Post, "and I have poked fun at his travails because I use humor as camouflage." Not anymore.
With a history of writing awkward love letters to strapping male athletes, or comparing a dong broadcast on the Internet to a raisin up one's nose, Wise could easily have been responsible for a groaner of a "take" on the Tiger Woods situation. But the essay, in which he admits to his own improper dalliances, is raw and conflicted and pointedly honest.
Writing that hearing Woods' leaked voicemail brings him "old, awful feelings of shame, guilt, and humiliation," Wise refers to his own personal "crash site" and alludes to a long journey of self-discovery. He is not alone:
If Rick Pitino, Alex Rodriguez, David Letterman, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton and Mark Sanford are also Tiger Woods, so are many anonymous people who never played sports, hosted a TV show or ran for office.
And like the potentates and poseurs, they too probably cringe when they hear the voice mail begin, "Hey, it's Tiger," and wince when they read the explicit text messages between a panicked guy and one of his other women.
I know I did. It's a little too real. Haven't we all found ourselves on one side or another of that voicemail? Wise, in the column's most devastating graf, admits that he certainly has:
if I were to deal with the truth, if the world were to know the details of my sad, pathetic electronic communication with other women at one time in my life, the horrific embarrassment would not just send me into seclusion; it would send me off the ledge.
Wise notes that the nature of the industry is one in which "infidelity isn't merely condoned, it's strongly encouraged," and concludes by saying that "having known this hollowness, I can neither excoriate [Tiger Woods] nor exonerate him."
Maybe you can choose one. I think it's tougher than that.
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Ralph Maud's Prayer: Distilled | Poem — Mary Maillard
Ralph Maud via www.commonground.ca
A mappamundi of values is what we are after, / the satisfaction we need before we die. / It's why older people, even dying people, / read the paper avidly. / Shall we revise the prayer?
Ralph Maud, an old friend of novelist Keith Maillard and his wife, Mary Maillard, died on December 8, 2014. Ralph is best remembered as a scholar ahead of his time — an authority on Charles Olson, expert on Dylan Thomas, a Welsh Nationalist, a collector of northwest aboriginal mythology, and documentary film maker — but he also, as he was approaching death, considered that topic in a purely personal way, leaving behind an eight-page monograph entitled "Make My Way Plain." In the found poem that follows, Mary Maillard has attempted to distill the essence of Ralph's thoughts. Every word is Ralph's.
Poetry and Audience, edited by Ralph Maud
Hereford Mappa Mundi c.1285
Ralph Maud's Prayer: Distilled
Is this the way?
The complexities of being human
on the edge of chaos?
Faced with an edge-of-chaos problem,
I found a way out.
My father's innate reticence,
my mother's Celtic duplicity,
that spark of camaraderie and laughter
in the most dire circumstances?
Minted in the molecules,
repeated throughout our life,
we are always the next step.
Given matter, the rest follows.
In a materialistic world we get a sense
of making decisions for ourselves.
Hang onto that feeling;
it's where value lies.
We can be self-satisfied in our originality,
as we are modest before the fact of determinism:
creatures of medical science, laboratory animals,
we are deluded to think
that we can be known.
My subject is a prayer:
"Make my way plain."
To whom am I addressing this plea?
As an atheist, I have to say
that I have nobody in mind.
I find myself saying, "Thank you, Lord,"
once a day. After a successful bowel movement –
Breathing is, of course, quite as important,
so perhaps later I will bless my breaths.
Who will make my way plain, then?
Why, Jiminy Cricket, of course.
The mechanism for self examination and guidance
seems common to all humans.
I have seen stubbornness avoid such consultation,
rage obliterate conscience.
I have lived a sheltered life.
I have seen the wholly bad as an exception,
the stony face of unreason: "And if you disagree, you die."
I made my escape as soon as I could.
A mappamundi of values is what we are after,
the satisfaction we need before we die.
It's why older people, even dying people,
read the paper avidly.
Shall we revise the prayer?
"Make my way complicated?"
The mappamundi seems to be such
when we consult the abacus of the heart,
that tool for pinning down value,
our excitement is immense and rewarding.
Add goodwill and time to complexities –
that's what we mean by "making plain."
One works on one's own map
and contributes to the world map.
No, we haven't time to settle things properly.
Down in this eternity of the moment,
we have in us the vestiges of hope for heaven.
Our end in perfect blackness, materialistic determinism –
most of us cannot let in that kind of hopelessness.
We just can't.
"We just can't." There is the rock,
in spite of all our pathologies,
the rock on which we build.
We go on with our lives.
We can't do otherwise.
We would find our place in Zion.
We would make our own destiny.
We could not do otherwise.
I lived the archetype of the immigrant.
The implication is that one can escape.
William Saroyan's words still sing for me:
"If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man."
If there is a solution to "make my way plain,"
it will have something to do with
"the brotherhood of man."
The pilgrimage now reaches its end.
I am entangled in the end game.
Make my end plain.
I'm not quite there or I could not be writing.
What can I say hurriedly, for us, the dying?
The only sensible thing – when the line is crossed,
the nightmare should be short.
Joking and sociable to the end: I do not think so.
I am breathing with anxiety.
One wants to get out of life "with dignity,"
not waiting until life is unbearable.
One should be able to choose when enough is enough.
In principle, the way is perfectly plain
but the practicalities are elusive.
As one puts in the bookmark and turns out the light,
there is the feeling that at least tomorrow is assured,
since the world would not, surely, deny one the solution
to come with the next day's reading. There's also the fellow feeling
as we get used to the idea of death.
Lines distilled by Mary Maillard, January 3, 2015, from Ralph Maud, "Make My Way Plain," privately distributed, Vancouver, February, 2013.
Mary Maillard is an independent scholar and documentary editor from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her primary interests are in 19th century southern women and mixed race studies. She is the editor of the Skinner Family Papers and has written a monograph introducing three collections of southern antebellum coming-of-age letters, A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850 (2014). Her article, "'Faithfully Drawn from Real Life:' Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends," appeared in the July 2013 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and, in 2013/2014, she received an Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship in African American History from the Library Company of Philadelphia for her research on the letters of Louisa Jacobs and Annie Purvis to Eugenie Webb, 1879-1911. Mary has contributed biographical entries to blackpast.org, including Frank J. Webb, Julia Chinn, George Lowther, and Pierre and Juliette Toussaint.
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21 August 2017, 1:25pm
craig green's latest campaign explores the power of combined effort
Photographed by Dan Tobin Smith and styled by Robbie Spencer, the autumn/winter 17 campaign depicts several men becoming a single, unstoppable force on the ocean waves.
From last autumn's drones to spring's dancers in motion, Craig Green's painterly campaigns have a rare ability to transport the viewer to another world in an instant. "I think campaigns, like shows, should try to have a fantasy element -- both formats have their own limits and restrictions, but that is what makes them interesting," the designer explains over email. "I always like that a campaign gives you another way of communicating what the collection was about." For autumn/winter 17, it was about protecting his cult of dreamers from the imagined fear and harsh reality of the ocean. His shape-shifting signature collage of believers, fighters and followers evolved into mariners and submariners, appropriating the form and function of deep sea divers and lifeboat men.
Most critics left the front row with a sense that although consciously inspired by the watery great unknown, the collection was a response to the omnipresent atmosphere of dread that bedevils our days. "This was a coincidence, although I think it is almost impossible to make things that are not reactionary in some way to what is happening in the world or around you," he notes. "However, this was not inspired by or a direct message or comment about a particular thing, I think it's important for people to have their own interpretations of what they are seeing." We saw hope then and we see it again now.
While eight months have passed since the show, the global socio-political landscape is just as fear-filled and Craig Green's Dan Tobin Smith-shot, Robbie Spencer-styled campaign offers just as much hope. "It started with the idea of the symmetry of machinery, looking at images of many limbed gods and deities, that idea of people as a machine, in unison -- as a force," the designer explains. From Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man to multiple-armed Hindu deities, the five-part photo series sees several men become a single, unstoppable force. Synchronised limbs become cogs in a machine, that powers deep into the unknown. In each image this machine is depicted impacting water, a substance that not only connects all life on earth, but also as a key criterion of habitability elsewhere, the possibility of life beyond it. Hope.
"I have always tried to find a romantic way to look at things that are not obviously romantic," Green adds. "My work has always been about looking at communal ways for dress -- the workforce, groups or masses of people, in a romantic sense. Hopefully people see a beauty in the images, and the force of people in unison."
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The answer is yes. All computers have graphics cards whether they are integrated into the CPU, a separate GPU chip, or a dedicated card that is plugged into the motherboard. When most people think of graphics cards they think of the latter. When you hear someone say "I bought a new video card for my computer" or "I need a new graphics card to play Uncharted 8", they're talking about a dedicated GPU.
The biggest benefit of a dedicated GPU is performance. Not only does a dedicated graphics card have a sophisticated computer chip designed explicitly for the task of processing video, the GPU, but it also has dedicated RAM for the task (which is typically faster and better optimized for the task than your general system RAM). This increase in power benefits not only the obvious tasks (like playing video games) but also makes tasks like processing images in Photoshop smoother and faster.
In addition to radical performance increase, dedicated GPU cards also typically offer a wider and more modern variety of video ports than your motherboard. While your motherboard may only have a VGA and a DVI port, your dedicated GPU might have those ports plus an HDMI port or even duplicate ports (like two DVI ports, which allows you to easily hook up multiple monitors).
Sounds good, right? Way better performance, ports, ports, and more ports, what could be better? While all those things are awesome, there's no such thing as a free lunch. First and foremost, there's the matter of cost. A midrange GPU can run anywhere from $250-500, and cutting edge models can cost up to $1000 (though they're rarely worth the price to performance ratio they offer). If all you need is something simple to run two monitors, GPUs based off older designs will run you around $50-100.
So Do You Need a Dedicated GPU?
So now you know how a dedicated GPU compares to its integrated cousin, but when should you make the jump to a dedicated graphics card?
While the process of picking a specific graphics card over any other graphics card is fairly complex and you may spend quite a bit of time comparing stats and wringing your hands hoping you're getting the best possible deal, the process of deciding whether you need an dedicated GPU in the first place is pretty darn simple. Let's look at the two questions that really matter in the decision process.
Can Your Current Setup Handle the Games and Graphic-Centered Apps You Use?
The first and foremost reason people get a dedicated GPU is for gaming. You don't need a dedicated GPU for watching video (even razor sharp HD video). You don't need a dedicated GPU for email, word processing, or any Office suite type apps. You don't even need a GPU for playing older games, as today's integrated graphics are far better than the dedicated video cards of decades past. You do, however, need a dedicated GPU for playing calculation-intensive modern 3D titles in all their silky smooth glory.
Can Your Current Setup Support the Number of Monitors You Want?
Although most people buy a GPU for gaming, there's also a sizable (albeit much smaller) number of people who buy a dedicated graphics card in order to expand how many monitors their computer will support.
Without a dedicated graphics card, adding extra monitors to your computer is kind of a crapshoot. Some motherboards support using multiple video ports–e.g. the motherboard has a VGA and a DVI port and you can toggle a setting in the BIOS to use both of them–but most motherboards don't.
If you answered no to either of those questions, then a dedicated graphics card will likely solve your problems!


Here's a link to Ian's baccalaureate speech last night.
Ian did an amazing job. He has a future as an inspirational speaker. Thanks for sharing.
Loved the speech and I'm sure everyone there was inspired. Ian's message was just the right mix of humor and seriousness. Thanks for posting, I was blessed to have heard it.
congratulations ian! you gave a phenomenal speech! denisse and ian, you both are such an inspiration to me in so many ways. please keep telling your story and sharing what God has taught you through it!
Ian & Denisse, God has such great things in store for you. You have come through this great trial with such grace.


(New York Times) TOKYO — As Japan edged forward in its battle to contain the damage at its ravaged nuclear power plants on Saturday, the government said it had found higher than normal levels of radioactivity in spinach and milk at farms up to 90 miles away from the plants, the first confirmation that the unfolding nuclear crisis has affected the nation's food supply.
While officials played down the immediate risks to consumers, the findings further unsettled a nation worried about the long-term effects of the hobbled reactors.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, with help from the Japan Self-Defense Force, police officers and firefighters, continued efforts to cool the damaged reactors on Saturday to try to stave off a full-scale fuel meltdown and contain the fallout. The latest plan involved running a mile-long electrical transmission line to Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to try to restore power to its cooling system.
About 500 workers from the utility connected the power line on Saturday. They were checking the cooling system, which has been disabled since the earthquake and tsunami hit more than a week ago, and hope to restart it on Sunday.
Restoring power at the plant could provide a glimmer of hope after days of increasingly dire news that now includes contaminated food.
Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secretary, said that spinach and milk were the only products found to have abnormally high radiation levels. The level of radioactivity found in the spinach would, if consumed for a year, equal the radiation received in a single CAT scan, he said, while that detected in milk would amount to just a fraction of a CAT scan.
Still, Fukushima Prefecture asked all dairy farms within 18 miles of the nuclear plant on Saturday to halt all milk shipments. Officials also halted shipments of spinach from the entire prefecture.
The milk with the elevated radiation levels was found in Fukushima Prefecture on farms about 19 miles from the nuclear plants. The contaminated spinach was found one prefecture to the south, in Ibaraki Prefecture, on farms 60 to 90 miles south of the plants.
Food safety inspectors said the iodine-131 in the tested milk was up to five times the level the government deems safe, and the spinach had levels more than seven times the safe level. The spinach also contained slightly higher than allowable amounts of cesium-137.
Minuscule amounts of radioactive iodine were also detected in the water supply in Tokyo and its five surrounding prefectures. In Tokyo, about 170 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the level was less than 1 percent of that considered dangerous by the government. In Fukushima city, about 50 miles from the power plant, the levels were still below half of the legal limit.
The iodine levels are well beyond what the Food and Drug Administration in the United States considers a cause for concern. But experts say Japan's reassurances about food safety were probably accurate.
Dr. Harold M. Swartz, a professor of medicine at Dartmouth who studies radiation exposure in people, said that the contamination levels were low and that the government's advice was "probably reasonable." But, he added, because people are so afraid of radiation, they are likely to avoid these foods altogether.
That judgment was shared by Katsuko Sato, 76, who was shopping at a supermarket in central Tokyo on Saturday evening. She said she would stop buying spinach and, after watching Mr. Edano's news conference, she called her family and friends to urge them not to, either.
"I'm not going to believe the government because I don't think only spinach from Ibaraki will be affected," she said.
A handful of vegetable-shop owners in Tokyo said they were concerned about the report, but continued to sell vegetables from Fukushima and Ibaraki because they had not been told to stop.
Dr. Swartz said people consuming milk and produce, particularly children and pregnant women, should be taking potassium iodide, which saturates the thyroid gland with nonradioactive iodine, and prevents it from taking in the radioactive form. Children and fetuses have the highest risk of thyroid cancer from exposure to radioactive iodine.
The Japanese authorities recommended Wednesday that people fleeing the 12-mile-radius evacuation zone start taking iodine pills.
Dr. Swartz said the radiation levels detected so far were still far lower than those at Chernobyl, the nuclear plant that exploded in Ukraine in 1986 and is still the world's worst nuclear accident. He said that in the United States food with similar levels of radiation would probably be taken off the market, but more for political and public relations reasons than for scientific or medical ones.
The Japanese government is considering conducting more comprehensive tests of agricultural products from areas farther from the damaged reactors to address public anxiety about the food supply, Mr. Edano said.
Health inspectors are still trying to determine whether any spinach had been shipped from the six farms in Ibaraki Prefecture, where the contaminated produce was found, said Taku Ohara, an official in the food safety division of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. The tests were conducted Saturday. No contaminated milk had been shipped from the farm where higher than normal radioactive levels were detected.
Mr. Ohara said Japan was particularly strict in determining what constituted safe radioactive levels. It is also fastidious in inspecting food imported from China and other countries. Leafy spinach is especially susceptible to absorbing radioactive material, he said.
Asparagus, cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes and other vegetables are also grown in Fukushima, but have not been found to be contaminated. But only a small number of farms have been tested because officials have been overwhelmed in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear crisis that followed, Mr. Ohara said.
Though land-poor Japan imports much of its fruit, grain and soybeans, 79 percent of the vegetables eaten here are grown domestically. Japan is the largest net importer of food in the world.
There have been no reports of contaminated fish or meat.
Many of the ports, fleets and processing facilities in Tohoku, the area most affected by the tsunami and nuclear crisis, were so badly damaged that no fish or seafood from there has reached Tsukiji market in central Tokyo, according to the market's general manager, Tsutomo Kosaka. The market handles 90 percent of the seafood for about 40 million consumers in the greater Tokyo area.
Japan's leading producers of premium beef, including the world-famous Kobe brand, said Saturday that they had not yet tested their cattle or feed. But they were nervous about the possible spread of radiation from Fukushima.
While only spinach and milk were found to have elevated radiation levels, some countries have been testing food imports from Japan since the day after the quake and tsunami. In Hong Kong, for instance, 216 Japanese products passed food quality screenings, including meat, fish, fruits and vegetables.
In Japan, consumers were also grappling with rolling blackouts ordered after damage to the reactors reduced the electricity supply in the greater Tokyo region.
At the Fukushima plant, temperatures outside the four damaged reactors were lower than expected, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said Saturday, raising hopes that the nuclear fuel could be kept cool by spraying the reactors with water, while technicians worked on restoring power to the cooling systems.
But Mr. Kitazawa was unable to confirm how hot it was inside the buildings, leaving open the possibility that nuclear fuel may still be overheating.
"Currently, we have a level of stabilization, but the situation remains volatile," said Mr. Edano, the cabinet secretary.
The National Police Agency said Saturday that there were nearly 7,200 confirmed deaths so far because of the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, and nearly 11,000 people remained missing. The authorities have said they expect the death toll to exceed 10,000.
Mark McDonald and Ayasa Aizawa contributed reporting from Tokyo, and Denise Grady from New York.


Round 1, Pick 8 (8): Vic Beasley, OLB, 6'3", 246 pounds, Clemson. Clemson's all-time sack leader, Beasley, of Adairsville, Ga., had 37 tackles, a team-high 21.5 tackles for loss, a team-high 12 sacks last season. He finished with 33 sacks in his career at Clemson, which he started as a running back.


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Q: Date Format in form page using Rails 4 with Haml I am using Rails 4.1.6 and Ruby 2.1.5 and for view I am using html.haml file.
In Form Page I want input date format should be in mm/dd/yyyy format.
For this in in config/locales/en.yml file i have:
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In _form.html.haml I have:
f.input :date_of_birth,:input_html =>{:format => :long}

The problem I have is it's not working. Any suggestions?

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Talks with President of Lebanon Michel Aoun
Vladimir Putin held talks at the Kremlin with President of the Lebanese Republic Michel Aoun, who is in Russia on an official visit.
The Kremlin, Moscow
The talks were attended on the Russian side by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Lavrov SergeiForeign Minister of Russia , Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov Ushakov YuryAide to the President and Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin Oreshkin MaximMinister of Economic Development . Attending on the Lebanese side were Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Gebran Bassil and Senior Presidential Aide Mirei Aoun al-Hashem.
Joint Statement on the Outcome of Negotiations between President of the Lebanese Republic Michel Aoun and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Further Developing and Strengthening the Relations of Friendship and Cooperation between Lebanon and Russia
Following the talks the two leaders adopted a Joint Statement on Further Developing and Strengthening the Relations of Friendship and Cooperation between Lebanon and Russia.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr President, friends and colleagues,
We are very happy to welcome you to Moscow.
Lebanon is our traditional longtime partner in the Middle East and North Africa. We maintain relations with the leaders of your country and representatives of different political forces and religions. We are happy to see you in Moscow both as the President of the country and a representative of the Christian community.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries. This country, the Soviet Union at that time, was one of the first to recognize Lebanon's independence.
Mr President, I would like to emphasise once again that we are happy to see you in our country. Welcome.
President of the Lebanese Republic Michel Aoun (retranslated): Mr President, thank you very much.
I would also like to note the long-term nature of our relations that are more than a hundred years old. Of course, there was an interval when they broke up, but we will work in the hope that they will only grow stronger at present and in the future.
We highly value the position of Russia, your stance in defence of religious minorities in the East. It goes without saying that we are living through hard times now and would therefore like to have your support.
We held a number of meetings with representatives from Russian business circles yesterday and today, and these meetings were very useful, We hope they will promote economic cooperation.
Regrettably, today we heard the news that the United States has recognised the Golan Heights as part of Israel. Naturally, this undermines the foundations and principles of the UN and international law since the founding of this organisation. This is the second time that we are seeing how one state simply takes away occupied territories in this region. This is certainly a source of serious concern for the countries that are in the direct vicinity of Israel. We hope a settlement to this problem will be found in the near future.
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Since '93 honours Michelle Escoffery and Trenton Harrison-Lewis at Black History Month event
October 27th 2022 at 7:00PM
Michelle Escoffery and Trenton Harrison-Lewis were honoured at the second annual Since '93 Black History Month dinner in London this week.
The Sony imprint, co-founded by Riki Bleau and Glyn Aikins, hosted the event at Stork in London, where guests included Aaron Hercules (First Access Entertainment), Afryea Henry-Fontaine (Motown UK), Austin Daboh (Atlantic), Fay Hoyte (EMI), Irene Agbontaen (TTYA), Jackie Davidson (JD Management), Komali Scott-Jones (Parlophone), Mel Rudder (Three Thirty Music), Rashid (Link Up TV), Shani Gonzales (Warner Chappell) and Taponeswa Mavunga (Sony Music UK).
Aikins and Bleau were joined by Since '93's Chloé Ameh.
Last year, the dinner honoured the work of Jackie Davidson and Darcus Beese, with Ivor Novello-winning singer and songwriter Escoffery and Harrison-Lewis, SVP, Warner Music Group and ADA being celebrated this year.
Escoffery sits on the board of directors for PRS For Music and the board of trustees for PRS Foundation. Harrison-Lewis, meanwhile, began his career in 1987 working with We Papa Girl Rappers before becoming MD of Rush Management Europe, working with the likes of Run DMC, LL Cool J, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Eric B and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest. He later joined Metropolis Music Management, where he worked with Amy Winehouse. He has recently co-managed Giggs, Ghetts, Sneakbo, Jesse James Solomon, and DJ Target.
Michelle and Trenton paved the way for us to be able to operate in the music business today
Glyn Aikins
Riki Bleau, co-president of Since '93, said: "At Since '93 we pride ourselves on investing in and promoting Black British music, lifestyle and culture across the globe. We can do this because of those who have paved the way before us. Michelle and Trenton are two inspirational figures who have enriched our industry at every level. It is our privilege to celebrate their careers with our peers at our second annual Black History Month dinner. We started the dinner to honour our legends and share their career journeys with the next generation of young executives and contributors to the culture."
Glyn Aikins, co-president of Since '93, said: "Tonight, we celebrate two legends who were inspirational to me personally. I heard about Trenton and his work with Lyor Cohen years before I actually met him, and I never knew such a thing was possible in the UK. With Michelle, I first met her when she was a member of the R&B group Truce, shortly before I got my first job working in PR. The label Truce was signed to were among the first clients I worked with back then. The whole point of the evening is to celebrate individuals like Michelle and Trenton, whose journey, stories and contributions paved the way for us to be able to operate in the music business today."
Pictured above: (L-R) Glyn Aikins, Michelle Escoffery, Trenton Harrison-Lewis and Riki Bleau
Since 93,
Michelle Escoffery,
Black History Month,
Trenton Harrison-Lewis
BRITs nominee Cat Burns talks TikTok, Go and navigating the music industry
Breaking the mould: Cat Burns
Cat Burns, FLO and Nia Archives shortlisted for BRITs Rising Star
PRS Members' Council reveal new chair & deputy chair, Michelle Escoffery re-appointed as president


This afternoon is set to be a special one for Tallaght Community School when some of their lucky students will be the first in Ireland to make radio contact with the International Space Station as it orbits the planet.
History will be made at 1.48 pm today when the local students make contact with Italian Astronaut Paulo Nespoli (pictured below) on board the ISS as it orbits the earth at 27,600km/h.
All 900 of the schools pupils will take part in the event and having studied up on the ISS they've been given an opportunity to further their knowledge by submitting questions to be selected.
The out of this world opportunity for TCS came about thanks to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station programme (ARISS).
ARISS is a global voluntary group that created a programme for utilising radio equipment on-board the ISS as a channel for further educating schools across the world on the work of the international space programme, life on-board the ISS, expeditions which astronauts are undertaking and amateur radio.
TCS has set up a temporary radio station on its grounds which includes an antenna and a two-way radio system enabling contact between the school and the ISS with students having a window of between six and 12 minutes to talk with Paulo Nespoli.
Another school, Gymnasium Räddningsgymnasiet based in Sando, Sweden, is also taking part today along with TCS and will be asking questions as well.
The contact should be audible over Western Europe.
Any amateur radio operators are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink.


National Highway 47 (NH 47) is an Indian National Highway entirely within the state of Tamil Nadu, Kerala.
In Tamil Nadu it covers 224 Km and in Kerala 416 Km.
The highway is maintained by National Highways Authority of India. National Highway 47 or (NH 47) is a National Highway that links the Salem to the town of Kanyakumari It runs for a distance of 640 km (400 mi).


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Q: Same scale for all the axes in Plot3D I can't find this in the documentation. How do you force the same scale for all the axes when making a 3D plot? There is the BoxRatios option, but this only changes the dimensions of the visible box with no regard to the actual scales of the axis.

A: Only BoxRatios will not solve your problem. You have to fix the PlotRange also. For example take 2(x^2+y^2)
Plot3D[2 (x^2 + y^2), {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, BoxRatios -> 1, FaceGrids -> All]

As you can see the unit along z direction is twice compared to x and y (that's why I choose 2 (x^2 + y^2), to make this point)
Now you fix the PlotRange
plrange = {-1, 1};
Plot3D[2 (x^2 + y^2), {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, BoxRatios -> 1,
 FaceGrids -> All, PlotRange -> {plrange, plrange, plrange + 1}]

And your units are same in all directions.


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Miasta na Haiti

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Georgia man charged with killing ex-wife's divorce lawyer, then torching office
A disgruntled Georgia man is charged with murder for allegedly gunning down his ex-wife's divorce attorney — and then setting the victim's law office on fire, according to reports.
Allen Tayeh, 65, is accused of confronting veteran divorce lawyer Doug Lewis inside his Lawrenceville office Wednesday and shooting him dead before lighting the blaze, according to a report by KENS-TV News.
Firefighters found the lawyer's body inside the building after dousing the flames.
"It's pretty brazen," Lawrenceville Police Lt. Jake Parker told the outlet of the heinous crime. "It's kind of out of the blue."
Parker said a witness led cops to Tayeh, who was still in the area when officers showed up to nab him.
"The suspect that was detained actually had injuries that were consistent with being in or near the fire," Parker said. "He had burns on the pants, singed hair.
"He did have a firearm on him, a revolver that had spent cartridges in the cylinders," the cop added. "And there were gas cans and an odor of gasoline around the area as well."
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Lewis represented Tayeh's wife when she filed for divorce last year, with the pair due in court next week, according to KENS.
Tayeh was charged with murder and arson in the case but has not made any statements to police about his possible motives, the outlet reported.
Meanwhile, members of the local legal community mourned Lewis's death.
"Doug was a consummate gentleman," local lawyer Phil McCurdy told KENS. "I've never heard him raise his voice. I never saw him lose his temper. I never saw him treat anyone except with respect.
"I don't know anyone who didn't respect him as a colleague, as a professional and as a human being," McCurdy added.
Lewis had practiced law in the city, which is about 30 miles outside of Atlanta, for about 30 years, the station said.
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Mitchell McKinney, director of the Political Communication Institute and his team developed a "how-to" guide to hosting debates and issue forums at the local level.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – With less than 50 days to the 2018 election, candidates in state and local districts are using digital, broadcast and print media to get their messages to potential voters. Although advertising plays an important role, for many voters during the election cycle, it's the face-to-face interactions that clinch their vote.
The Political Communication Institute at the University of Missouri has developed a "how-to" guide to hosting debates and issue forums at the local level. This guide, Engaging Your Community: A guide to hosting local debates and forums, provides insights on the main questions and issues related to organizing and planning these events.
To aid citizens and civic organizations in their efforts to organize events around topics of importance to the citizens of their communities, the PCI has developed the guide, which focuses on developing a budget, recruiting volunteers, publicizing the debate or forum, and tips for involving local media.
The guide can be found at the Political Communication Institute website here. The PCI is housed in the Department of Communication in the MU College of Arts and Science.


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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, Texas. There are one district and three individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. The district contains one individually listed property, one State Antiquities Landmark and several Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.

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Claire Manship
Claire Manship is an actor, singer, dancer from Northern Virginia, who currently resides in New York City. Her most recent credits include starring in Music Theatre Wichita's Hairspray, STAGES St. Louis' regional premiere of It Shoulda Been You and DreamWorks' Madagascar, Miss Saigon at Signature Theatre, Theatreworks USA's Click Clack Moo, and a staged reading of Austentatious with Philadelphia's 11th Hour Theatre Company. Claire has also produced multiple concert series in NYC, including The Ladies Who Lunch, benefitting Planned Parenthood of NYC, at Feinstein's/54 Below. She holds a BFA in Acting from Elon University, and has also trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. Claire loves hiking in Central Park, watching NBC and Netflix comedies, and baking cookies like there's no tomorrow.
Claire is represented by Craig Holzberg at Avalon Artists Group and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. You can hear Claire, and her co-host, Ian Brodsky, on their weekly podcast, The Thing That Happened This Week, on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and SoundCloud.
UPCOMING: Claire will be playing Princess Carmella in a staged reading of the new musical Bliss, at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, on Sunday, May 5th. Tickets can be reserved, here.
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What Does Become Of The Brokenhearted?
Last week me and my mate The Vorg were quaffing cold drinks in a groovy bar in Clapham, as one does, when we fell to discussing the late great singing voice of David Ruffin.
Ruffin was huge in the 1960s as the distinctive lead vocalist of The Temptations, but hubris and rather too much Bolivian marching powder got the better of him, and hacked off at being increasingly seen (by Ruffin at least) as his backing band, the other Temptations and their management team fired him.
After an acrimonious contractual tussle with Motown records, Ruffin embarked on a solo career which, patchy in parts, nevertheless involved the release of two or three of the finest soul records of the era.
He died of a drug overdose in 1991, aged just 50.
Strangely now, many of those people whose interest in 60s soul and pop is passing rather than, er, 'studious' seem not to have heard of him.
"Was he related to Jimmy Ruffin?" they ask.
Well, er, yeah, he was his brother.
"Oh, right...I do like that 'What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted'".
The Vorg and I disagreed over which of the two songs I'm posting here was our favourite track.
I plumped for 'My Whole World Ended' (a song originally intended for The Tempts and I think one of my all time favourite Motown recordings); The Vorg's always had a thing for 'Walk Away From Love'...
But we could not have agreed more that this was a great voice, sadly missed.
David Ruffin - 'My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)' (1969)
David Ruffin - 'Walk Away From Love' (1975)
(By the way, nice to see a soul singer with glasses isn't it? Not forgetting Curtis Mayfield of course).
(Buy DR here)
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Shhh !
23 years ago when I was a student sharing a small terraced house in London's Turnpike Lane with a couple thousand cockroaches and a lot of flock wallpaper, I bought Miles Davis' In A Silent Way from the 'Record Tape & Video Exchange' in Notting Hill Gate. I liked Miles. I already had Kind Of Blue and Porgy And Bess. I had some Charlie Parker too! But this? I found it 'difficult'.
After a couple of days struggling with it, I took it back and swapped it (I don't even remember for what).
Yesterday I bought it for a fiver on remastered CD from Fopp Records, Cambridge Circus - The Best Record Store In Central London (Official!).
Now I am loving every inch of it.
I guess it's like my Dad said to me when I grimaced taking a sip of his Teacher's whisky at fifteen years of age... 'Some things are an acquired taste my son...'
I like whisky now too.
Maybe one day I'll be old enough to appreciate everything that's good...
Miles Davis - 'In A Silent Way' (1969) (Buy)
[PS: this edit is from Miles' Best Of: as cognoscenti will know, the full version tips without gap into 'It's About That Time' and is 19 mins long; but I don't think my bandwidth allowance is up to that.]
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I haven't heard the rest of the album, so am prepared to accept that Mr Toad may be justified in his rather impressively bilious rant about producer Mark Ronson's covers project, but I have to say that I find this track, at least, to be rather bloody marvellous.
And I don't even like The Zutons original. Or The Zutons much at all, come to that.
I do however, love La Winehouse.
And though you couldn't move on the blogosphere without tripping over posts from Back To Black (buy) a few months ago, all the zeitgeisty types responsible have moved on to cut a new edge somewhere else now.
Meanwhile in my distinctly unzeitgeisty and today slightly Eeyore-esque hollow, I still have the album on rotation and this further collaboration with its producer is a very nice little adjunct, ta very much.
Mark Ronson (feat. Amy Winehouse) - 'Valerie' (2007)
Nothing Less Than Brilliant - still
There is a great interview with the legendary and very lovely Sandie Shaw in yesterday's Observer Music Monthly in which she reflects on winning the Eurovision Song Contest forty years ago with 'Puppet On A String', a song she hated then and has hated ever since.
"A few years ago I started my website, as I thought it was something I could play with and it's the first time I've felt at home since the Sixties, because you can communicate directly with your audience. I'd moaned to Howard Jones [Eighties pop star/producer], an old friend of mine, about 'Puppet' and it was his idea to re-record it, to cure me. He just made me sing it in a different way. I know it sounds strange, but it's been like therapy. I'm at peace with it now"
Sandie Shaw - 'Puppet's Got A Brand New String' (2007)
The track is available free from Sandie's excellent self-managed site - and she's promising to post still more material there soon in continued celebration of her sixtieth year.
I can't think of many other living 60s pop stars who've been cool for four decades, can you?
Buy Sandie's records here.
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His missus is getting all the plaudits at the moment, and deservedly so - and of course he's an established dance music producer, DJ and record label owner now, but something in the air this morning, a whiff of melancholy in an overcast moment, makes me want to play these songs from the days when Ben Watt was 21, an investment of 99p got you Pillows & Prayers, and North Marine Drive was playing in my best friend's rented room in Whalley Range.
It was after punk and it was after post-punk and as someone said at the time it was 'our generation's quiet music'.
Excuse me, but I think I might have to have a little cry now.
Ben Watt 'On Box Hill' (1983)
Ben Watt 'Some Things Don't Matter' (1983)
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Early Dawning, Sunday Morning
The Velvet Underground - 'Sunday Morning' (1966)
Get The Funk Back In Here!
This week three tracks from psychedelic soul/jazz/funk/pop pioneer genius (and son of blues guitarist Johnny) Shuggie Otis , who blazed a totally original musical trail for himself in the early-mid 70s, as composer, arranger, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (piano, synth, bass, drums, drum machine programming, vibes, lead and rhythm guitar) - a trail not picked up successfully by anybody again until the arrival of Prince a decade later.
The Shuggie song you will know if you know any at all will be 'Strawberry Letter 23', a candypopfunk confection taken Top 40 in the UK and to number 1 in the US in 1977 by The Brothers Johnson and featured twenty years later on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. The cover's good, but the original has a kind of tie-dyed innocence it's hard to better.
The album to get is Inspiration Information (1974), re-released a few years ago with extra tracks from 1971's Freedom Flight on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label (buy it).
Frequently defying categorisation - but prepare yourself for extended free and mellow jazz workouts, lush orchestrations, electro-funk and proto-synth pop - this is music far, far ahead of its time, and it seems to me that this man is long overdue the credit and acclaim he deserves.
(PS: the first ten seconds of the first track below are the best theme music for the best Starsky & Hutch episode you never saw...).
Shuggie Otis - 'Ice Cold Daydream'
Shuggie Otis - 'Sparkle City'
Shuggie Otis - 'Strawberry Letter 23'
Nice. Enjoy your weekend.
Leaks - A Morality Tale
Hard gigging unsigned band give away demo CDs at concerts that enthusiastic fans upload and share. Few fans become many fans, as more and more hear the MP3s, go to the gigs, tell their friends - and momentum gathers. Gigs grow and grow. Surviving UK Famous Music Weekly weighs in, loudly endorsing band, balance is tipped. Band release album featuring tracks fans already own for free - they buy them all again anyhow. Band now huge. Even broadsheet journos and fortysomething fathers of two (wotcha!) know who they are, and own their records. Brilliantly, success does NOT go to band's head. Band focuses on more hard gigging, writing, and recording much anticipated second album ('Second Coming or Morning Glory?' asks Famous Music Weekly...).
Album tracks are widely leaked on blogosphere.
But this time the lawyers are watching....
Have we forgotten something somewhere Mr Man?
This is, I think, rather brilliant - more 'love it from the first time you hear it' than the other tracks I've heard, and so probably the next single.
I shall be posting this, my dears, for 48 hours only.
To encourage you, needless to say, to buy the album. Like you wouldn't!
Arctic Monkeys - 'Flourescent Adolescent' (2007)
PS: Working too hard this week - but hope to be back for some Friday Funk, and then all things shall be well. Missing you already x.
"Hello Again On Another Monday Morning"
UK dance/electronica duo Nick Franglin and Fred Deakin, working as Lemon Jelly, have produced some of the most original recordings of the last six or seven years, interweaving witty vocal samples, unlikely 'found' musical sources (70s soft rock, children's nursery rhymes) and frequently hilarious 'live' spoken word contributions from actors (William Shatner!), with their own crunchy ambient sounds to deliver a quirky, psychedelic and somehow very English spin on a genre too often characterised by bland muzak.
I first heard this track in a perfect setting - watching a big orange ball of a sun melt steadily into San Antonio Bay to DJ Bruno Lepretre's sunset session at the Cafe Del Mar, Ibiza. *sigh*. It
really doesn't get much better than that.
It took me a while to track it down - all I had to go on was the Chicago sample, and though I already knew and loved Lemon Jelly's stuff, this 'B' side (to 'Perfect Weather For Ducks') had until then passed me by.
Anyway, here it is, in all its AOR-istic glory.
All donations to fund a return trip to Ibiza this summer gratefully received ; )
Lemon Jelly - 'Soft' (2003)
Buy Lemon Jelly here.
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Breakfast With Shaft
Morning! How are you today?
Bit bleary-eyed? Overdid the tequila last night?
Or maybe you're just fine - you slept well, the sun's shining, there's a whole day ahead of you, no place in particular you have to be...?
Either way, Mr. Hayes has a tune for you.
Isaac Hayes - 'Early Sunday Morning' (1971)
From Shaft OST (buy).
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My Life As A Ghost
So....I have had a Nice Eostre Break and Time With The Family and largely as predicted, the sun has shone. Which it did NOT when I was a kid, I can tell you. Easter Bank Holiday Monday? Long car journeys to 'beauty spots', hard boiled eggs and luncheon meat sandwiches, thermos of tea (Mother), winter jumpers, rain. A traffic jam on the way back.
All very Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop, in fact.
This holiday, however, I Have Been Mostly Listening To...well, lots of Field Mice actually, because Colin via JC set me off on a trip from 'Let's Kiss And Make Up' (ex-blog and eponymous track) to lots of emusic downloads to wondering how, given My Vintage And Tendencies, especially circa 1989-91, I had not heard these genius! music makers before (so, genuinely, thanks a million Colin/JC and goodness me, I love this blogosphere thing) ....BUT, also Tanya Donelly who I have been loving long time (Throwing Muses, Belly, etc) but whose 2004 album (great title) Whiskey Tango Ghosts I heard for the first time last week and have been PLAYING TO DEATH ever since.
It is marvellous: heartfelt, latenight, sharp and spooky - piano and acoustic guitary: lovely.
So, some tasters to encourage you to (and you really should) buy...
Tanya Donelly - 'Butterfly Thing'
Tanya Donelly - 'My Life As A Ghost'
While we're at it - her stepsister's new one is worth a listen too...
Down At The Lido They Welcome You
Sunny days, lighter evenings, charcoal burning everywhere - but we live in England baby and it's only April, so we know it won't last.
Still, it's cocktail hour in London and something about The Dan is right for the mood.
A quintessential track this, I think - that lyric 'In the night you hide from the madman you're longing to be/But it all comes out on the inside/Eventually'....
And they could afford to leave songs like this off albums.
Such talent.
And I could go on about it and them and try to convert those of you who mistakedly believe that they represent the worst of 1970s FM AOR by extolling their considerable genius, but you know what? I'd really rather just play the music.
Steely Dan - 'Here At The Western World' (1976)
Buy Steely Dan here.
Eostre's Parade
The lady in the picture is Eostre, the ancient Northern European goddess associated with the dawn, spring and fertility. Often depicted with eggs (new life!) and rabbits - or more correctly, hares - (procreation! prodigious fertility!) she graced our festivals of the Spring Equinox, and then like so many other symbols of our once close connection with the Earth and our celebration of its turning, she had her holiday ripped off and co-opted by the Christian church, and was forgotten. Now only a version of her name remains...
I shall be remembering Eostre this weekend - and no doubt imbibing invigorating liquor in her honour in the traditional manner.
I'll also be playing this...
Patti Smith Group - 'Easter' (1978) (buy here)
...and looking forward very much to seeing the artist in question at Camden's legendary Roundhouse on 17th May.
And if the sun really does shine, and all is vernal, I might dream of still warmer days and sunsets to come, and go, frankly, more than a bit Balearic...
A Man Called Adam - 'Easter Song (Cafe Del Mar mix)' (2004) (buy on this).
Enjoy your weekend - we'll be back in a few days' time.
But Why On Earth Should I Moan?
It looked (briefly) in London yesterday like we would be basking this whole pre-Easter week in warm, quasi-Mediterranean sunshine (18c!), but I see the old April grey is back with us this morning. *sigh*
Still, the happy anticipation of an extended Bank Holiday weekend and a temporary respite from work is still tangible...and it'll only take the sun to return for the good citizens of this fair city to spill once more onto the pavements and terraces outside the evening pubs and bars, and all shall be well again.
Which brings us to this song, which I found on emusic and couldn't resist. Not so much a cover as a complete re-invention, leaving only the barest bones of the original intact.
Lovely though, as I hope you'll agree.
Joyce (& Banda Maluca) - 'A Hard Day's Night' (2003)
(From Just A Little Bit Crazy - available here)
David Shire - 'Manhattan Skyline' (1977) from Saturday Night Fever OST (buy)
John Barry - 'Nocturnal New York' (1998) from The Beyondness Of Things (buy)


Brad Wyble, Charles Folk, Mary Potter; Attentional capture by images that match a conceptual target set. Journal of Vision 2012;12(9):939. doi: 10.1167/12.9.939.
It is well established that stimuli can capture attention if they possess a target defining feature such as color or motion. The present study explored whether images belonging to a conceptually specified target category, such as Sports equipment can also capture attention. There were 29 different categories, which were used to create 80 trials for each subject. Each subject saw each target image only once during the experiment. In a task involving central RSVP of images and peripheral distractor images (see figure 2), a potent capture effect was found for distractor images containing category relevant versus category irrelevant information. The timing of this capture effect matched that of simpler features from Folk Leber & Egeth (2002), with strong capture when distractors appeared 200ms prior to the target, and weak capture when presented simultaneously with it. A subsequent experiment confirmed that this capture effect is spatially specific. These data suggest that attentional control settings can extend beyond simple features to conceptual categories with novel exemplars.


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A tailwind has flattened the little rise on Broad Street and pushed the early evening's storm out ahead of me. The pavement passes sibilant under my wheels but is not so wet it splatters my legs. All around me rises the smell of cold water on hot asphalt. I'm a little late getting home, got out of the office slower than I'd planned, but nothing I can't make up if I take the quickest way, if I go to Fifth Street and turn straight up the hill.
The climb is maybe half a mile, insistent but never steep. I can manage it in a couple minutes without sweating through my shirt on a cool day, in three or four if the weather is otherwise and I need for some reason to arrive home dry and presentable.
I don't go that way. Instead, I turn before I get to Fifth. I take Seventh, climb for a block on a barely perceptible grade then cut into an alley that leads to another alley, and as I pass the pigeon coop back there, I nod to those racers, wondering as always if they can sense we are in some sense kindred.
I detour again, this time just half a block uphill, before turning onto the dead-end street that hosts a home gone so cluttered and thicketed that its ruination has achieved elegance. I wonder over that, too, for a few pedal strokes, how it is possible to fall so far you rise and why I so much admire this quality. Then I am on the footpath through the bushes, then scrabbling across the chunky gravel of the railroad bed before I emerge onto Sixth and turn uphill once more, this time past one of the two purple houses on this street.
I'm going to be late, for sure. But instead of feeling rushed, I feel a rush—of affinity for these streets and their odd attractions, and from the sensuous aspect of the road surface on this evening, and as well from the working of my body and bicycle, the simple and often ignored idea that I am propelling the machine that propels me.
I almost never take the short way home. I traverse the hill, and not to avoid sweating or because I don't like to climb. It's because I like to ride. I like to, in the fall, burst through piles of leaves raked to the curbs. In the winter I like to try to negotiate the lake of ice glaciated out onto the road from the drainpipe of the monastery. I like to take the extra time to see if the aging dog who jumps up in the bay window to bark me away from his property is still there to do so. I like cutting through the parking lot of the church and sometimes thinking about the two funerals I've attended there, and sometimes thinking about the traveling carnival that sets up there—how when she was eight or nine my shy daughter amazed me by belting out Pat Benatar at the karaoke tent or how, last year, in the beer garden I ran into a couple riding friends who weren't getting out much and who, as the night and drink and my stories about the road wore on, turned from defiant about their busy schedules to something so close to melancholy I left to refill a pitcher and did not return because, after years of being where they were headed, I was finally on my way back.
I turn onto my street, right where I had when I'd walked home that night. I get out of the saddle and hammer the pedals, not to save time, but for the pure pleasure of knowing I am almost home. In all my life, I have never wanted nor been able to get directly where I want to go, and the bicycle has abetted me in this sidelong ambition. Riding has shaped me in ways that have nothing to do with with physical prowess or ecological benefits. I became a cyclist—instead of just being a racer or a commuter or a guy trying to lose some weight—by taking the long way, which seems to me the only way. And to keep on being one, I need to stay on that same route. Or else, just for the hell of it, try the next turn I come to.


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November General Meeting –Greg Pahl on Community Power
The November general meeting of the Local Clean Energy Alliance featured Greg Pahl, author of Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects. Greg has written numerous books and articles on energy and has been involved in environmental issues for over 30 years.
Greg gave an engaging presentation on local clean energy projects to an audience of 25 people. He emphasized the need for community involvement, given that the government is not doing enough to respond to climate change. And he noted that communities are a natural fit for these projects, because unlike corporations, whose goal is profit, communities are motivated by serving the public good.
Community power projects are generally smaller than other energy projects, but they differ in far more than just size. Though they come in many flavors, they share these principles:
Community ownership and benefit
Renewable, local, distributed power
Adaptive resilience
Conservation first
And they bring a community many advantages, because they:
Create new jobs and business opportunities
Stabilize energy production and prices
Expand the tax base and generate income
Keep more dollars in the local community
Get people involved in their community and encourage new connections among community members
Greg discussed some examples of community energy projects focused on not just solar and wind but also other renewables such as biomass and geothermal. And he described how some municipalities have used a mix of renewables to achieve impressive results. Wildpoldsried in Germany, for example, produces 300% more energy than the town needs, which has led to it becoming a center of environmental tourism. In the United States, Gainesville, Florida stands out as a model for what a municipality can achieve with renewables.
As inspiring as these examples were, the lively discussion following Greg's presentation focused on the challenges of making community energy projects happen. Notable among these has been opposition from utilities. Communities themselves may initially have a NIMBY attitude, but they can usually be won over when they see the benefits of clean energy and realize that the drawbacks are much more minor than they'd feared. Financing is always a hurdle, and community energy banks can be a good option to help with that. Financing options may also require a loan guarantee, so it's important to look into that.
There's no getting around the fact that it takes time, persistence, and determination to be successful with a community energy project. Greg's advice was to assemble a dedicated group to work on a project, and to start small. One small project can soon lead to others as community members see the benefits firsthand. And showing that a model works can lead to it being replicated elsewhere.
November's General Meeting write-up was submitted by Rosana Francescato. She has also written a review of Greg Pahl's book, Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects.


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Thoughts on RPs
, April 8th, 2012 at 01:26 PM (2084 Views)
I remember seeing something like this said before awhile back, but I'm just now really starting to see it for myself. A believe what was said went along the lines of "RPs aren't what they used to be." Granted I wasn't a member of the old BL, I did lurk and I kind of remember the situation. Basically, there really weren't that many (I think the only active ones were Sun's Cafe, Fate/Regalia, and Tsukuyomi Gakuen) and when a new one did come out (or was proposed), it was a pretty big deal.
Now it seems that RPs come out as frequently as fanfiction and most RPs we have now seem to die young or simply don't get developed. It's kind of sad really. With so many different people here on BL, there are a variety of interesting ideas to see and a lot of works I'd like to see expanded, but it's just not happening as much as I would have hoped.
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's simply time problems. But at the very least I'd kind of like to know if a project isn't going to continue.
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SeiKeo - April 8th, 2012 02:26 PM
It's not just you. I'd say our RPs end up having two issues. First, we tend towards grandepic kinds of RP plots: big, sweeping, save the world, that kind of stuff. The problem with these is pretty inherent: they're just massive, and running something like that is immensely difficult. Naturally, that kind of thing also leads to player counts being higher, and that either overworks the GM or leads to dual GMing, which has all its own problems...
So there's that. And then there's momentum. We also like detailed RPs: do every conversation verbatim, do battles blow by blow, long posts... But since we do that, we end up always stretching out the opening portion of RPs, and when combined with post rates, this often means people get tired of nothing significant happening before the meat of the RP becomes evident.
Five_X - April 8th, 2012 03:30 PM
*coughEXTRAcough* No harm meant, Leo, just messing with ya. :P
Which reminds me: I ought to update SoL RP. And Sei should post in it!
Sei - April 8th, 2012 04:54 PM
I'll post.
Once you update. :P
@Leo
I agree with you, for the most part.
Dual GMing, to me, is problematic because, in most cases, you end up with a person with a lot of "power" who isn't really involved in the making of the work itself. I've seen a decent number of RPs spiral downwards because of GMs getting bored and/or abusing this power to entertain themselves or "add something" to the work. :/
Now, I don't think it's a bad thing, but I think the respective GMs need to have a lot of compatibility in order to work together effectively. Otherwise you'll end up with conflicts of interests or a respectful GM who's basically just a buffed player.
And of course posting speeds will always be a problem, but you can't make people do anything. Not unless you want to antagonize them anyways.
Dark Pulse - April 8th, 2012 05:47 PM
You're also forgetting the problem of people playing important characters just totally up and disappearing. Fate/Heaven's Gate kind of couldn't progress, in multiple ways, due to a certain poster's utter, stubborn inability to actually get their character's actions in, which sucked.
Perhaps some regulation of RPs is in order, in the sense of "sign up only if you think you'll be able to get this in on a timely manner," with consequences if you don't, up to and including removal from the RP (especially if there's someone who wants to take over the role) if that's what it takes.
Mike1984 - April 8th, 2012 08:06 PM
Well, people failing to post regularly is not exactly uncommon in an RP. As I recall, Heaven's Gate had a substantial number of people who were slow to post.
As for "regulation" of the RP (in that sense, anyway), surely that's up to the GM. If they think people are being too slow, then they can impose "consequences" accordingly. It shouldn't be up to the mods to deal with such things. Also, sometimes it's not plausible to simply "remove" people from the RP, and certainly not to replace them (Heaven's Gate was an example of that).
Nah, you don't need mod regulation for slow posters, because we just know who the slow posters are anyways and quietly shun them. :3
Heaven's Cage, however, is getting back into the groove. :P
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The Rage in Placid Lake
August 28, 2003 — 10.00am
Written and directed by Tony McNamara
Rated M
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The rage is what's wrong with Placid Lake. He's a person, not a place - a curly headed, long-faced Australian schoolboy (played by musician Ben Lee) whose only defence against life's outrages is a fast mouth and a stout heart.
The film works hard to make you care for him, but it is sometimes a struggle. In his first appearance as a little boy (played by Jordan Brooking), his mother sends him into the schoolyard in a dress to challenge the other children's preconceived notions of sexuality. They beat the stuffing out of him.
He's rescued by Gemma (Eleeza Hooker), a very brainy child who likes to eat crayons. They become best friends, further cementing their isolation from the mainstream.
As he grows up the beatings get worse: three school toughs, Bull, Lachie and Angus (Toby Schmitz, Nathaniel Dean and Stephen James King), use him as a daily punching bag. The teachers ignore this bullying. His hippie parents, Doug and Sylvia (Garry McDonald and Miranda Richardson), are so selfish and slogan-happy that you wonder he hasn't taken to them with a kitchen knife.
They're so unparental they ask him to arbitrate on their arguments about sex. Placid throws a glass of orange juice in his father's face at breakfast to see if he can jolt his passivity, but all Doug can manage is: "That hurts me deeply."
For doing things like this, Placid isn't easy to love. His rage gets diverted to subtle forms of cruelty, especially towards his parents. It also makes him very mouthy, like he's arrogant. When he walks into a room of his peers, you know he doesn't think they are.
The arrogance might be characterisation, or it might be casting. It's hard to tell, because Lee, in his first movie, doesn't vary much. Placid goes through many changes - indeed, it's about his search for meaning - but Lee doesn't evince these changes in a physical way. He just proceeds with a faint smirk, as if amused at the bizarre way mere mortals behave. No wonder Placid gets beaten up.
Tony McNamara adapted the script from his own play, The Cafe Latte Kid, and the script has its moments. McNamara has a talent for playful absurdity, but he enjoys his own writing too much.
The film plays like an endless string of gag lines and that can be exhausting because the gags sometimes overrule characterisation. McNamara needed to kill some of his darlings. An example is the way Rose Byrne, who plays Gemma at 19, has to deliver a succession of sexual jokes that she (the actor) has trouble believing.
Gemma aches to be free of her father's great expectations for her science career. "Maybe I'm a hard-drinking skank who likes to put out," she declares. The line drops with a thud. It plays like naughty words for cheap laughs and there's a lot more where that came from.
Sex is one of the film's murkier undercurrents, in fact. All of the female characters are sexually defined, in a way that the men are not, and with a certain disgust. Placid walks in on his mother having oral sex with a woman in one scene.
When he joins an insurance company in his quest to become normal, he meets a ball-busting vamp (Saskia Smith), who invites him to have sex with her in the stationery room. When he declines, she resorts to a hand down her skirt, while at her desk. This may be all for laughs, but it's not really funny - there's too much hidden rage behind it.
That's true of the movie overall - McNamara struggles to find the right tone. He's mad as hell about a lot of things, and the film has plenty of ideas about what's wrong with Australia, but they might be too near the surface and too scary for McNamara to be serious about. Like Placid, he hides behind wisecracks, which makes the film feel too slight.
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In September, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC Bank and US Bancorp all began having issues with their customer websites. Intermittent outages and delays were reported and officials from each company scrambled to fix the issues and assure customers that the websites would soon be running as normal.
Senator Joe Lieberman a cosponsor of the CyberSecurity Act of 2012.
According to an ABC News report, Iran has launched a new website that provides the addresses of provincial offices, appeals for tips and requests anti-American essays. The report says that two days after the website was launched, Heidar Moslehi, Iran's Intelligence Minister, claimed that Iran's secret services have the upper hand in the Web war with the West, saying: "The intelligence apparatus confronts enemy measures in the cyber front."
U.S. officials had also placed blame for a massive cyberattack on the computer systems at the Saudi Arabia owned company Aramco and a natural gas company in Qatar squarely on Iranian hackers in August. The assault, known as Shamoon, involved a computer routine that replaced critical system files with an image of a burning U.S. flag, as well as replacing important data files with "garbage data".
Defense Department Secretary Leon Panetta told attendees at the Business Executives for National Security meeting that officials are aware that cyber attackers are probing critical infrastructure networks in the U.S., targeting the computer control systems that operate chemical, electricity, water plants and transportation throughout the United States.
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On Friday, Panetta said he believes the cyberthreat from Iran has grown. The Associated Press quoted him as saying: Iran has "undertaken a concerted effort to use cyberspace to its advantage."
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The AP report also states the Obama administration knows who launched the cyberattacks against the Gulf companies and that it was a "state actor".
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Panetta also made it very clear on Thursday that the U.S. military is ready to retaliate if it believes the nation is threatened by a cyberattack. He also made it clear that the United States would consider a pre-emptive strike according to News Day.
In August, a Senate Republican filibuster blocked the passing of a bill aimed at increasing the cybersecurity of the United States. The bill, which has been one of the Obama administration's top national security priorities, would have established cybersecurity standards for the computer systems that oversee the country's critical infrastructure that Obama had called for. After the bill failed to pass, White House released a statement calling the outcome "a profound disappointment," according to a New York Times report.
Senator Lieberman, along with ranking Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee member Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), had worked on trying to pass cybersecurity legislation for the past year.
Republican Arizona Senator John McCain opposed the bill saying it would be too burdensome for corporations. Lieberman and Collins attempted to win over McCain and other republicans by making the standards optional, but their efforts were rejected.
The New York Times quoted Senator Collins as telling Congress: "We often hear from members on both sides of the aisle, but particularly Republican members, that we need to be listening more to generals on the ground. Listen to the generals who had responsibility in this area [who told Congress] over and over again that the nation was not prepared for a cyberattack."


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