Some of you might have wondered what Chris Peterson's new project would be after he left Front Line Assembly. We can now reveal that he and his pal Craig Huxtable (also involved with FLA and Noise Unit, as well as his own excellent project Landscape Body Machine) have been silently working on a new project called Ohm. The sound is a mix of ambient, dance and old school industrial with that Vancouver vibe we all love.
- I hope its the record people who like the Vancouver sound have been waiting for. It sounds like the West Coast but it really is different. It sounds like Chris and I meeting halfway.
- Chris and I started talking about making this record over 10 years ago. Originally I was going to be much more involved in the last Noise Unit album but at that time my life went through some big changes and I chose to leave Vancouver so that procrastinated things. But we always worked so well together. The sessions we had writing "Illicit Dreams" were amazing, magical even. We recognized that we had this great flow together as writer and producer, even if those lines between us get blurred sometimes.
He says he's more comfortable as a writer and performer.
- And Chris is more comfortable as an engineer and producer so we work without stepping on each others toes. For 8 years we talked about it a lot but again, timing. Then in July 2011, I was taking an Landscape Body Machine hiatus. And Chris had just released the last Decree album and was taking a step back from FLA, we both realized that the timing was finally right.
- I live in Victoria and Chris is in Vancouver so we have only recorded a handful of sessions in person. We've been transferring files back and forth and talking on the phone a lot.
Craig will handle vocal duties in Ohm, which is a first for him.
- I drew the short straw, haha. It's a different comfort level for me since I haven't released very much music with my voice on it. Don't get me wrong, I can sing but with Landscape Body Machine I always chose not to – or to heavily process my voice.
When the album is out, they're itching to get out on the road with "a stage full of toys", and hope to come over to Europe.
- As much as Chris and I love the studio, we are performers at heart and can't wait to give fans of both of our music something new and exciting.
They still have some songs to finish and Chris has just started mixing the tracks, so we're looking at a release next year. Check back with Release for more info and sounds when we get it.


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Filippo Caruso , né le  à Casole Bruzio et mort le  à Rome, est un général italien de l'arme des carabiniers commandant du Fronte clandestino di resistenza dei carabinieri dit « Banda Caruso ».

Biographie
Filippo Caruso est né à Casole Bruzio dans la province de Cosenza le 24 août 1884. Il appartient à une famille bourgeoise à tradition militaire et il s'inscrit à l'Académie militaire Modène.
Il participe à la Guerre italo-turque (1911-1912), en 1914 il rejoint l'arme des carabiniers et participe à la Première Guerre mondiale où il est décoré de deux médailles de bronze à la valeur militaire et promu capitaine.

Une fois la guerre terminée il obtient une laurea de droit et sert en tant qu'officier des carabiniers en divers endroits d'Italie.
En janvier 1942, il est nommé général de brigade et en mars 1943 il est mis à la retraite.

Le 8 septembre 1943, date de divulgation de l'Armistice de Cassibile et de la fuite du roi Victor-Emmanuel III de Rome, Filippo Caruso  officiellement à la retraite fonde le Fronte Clandestino di Resistenza dei Carabinieri (connu aussi sous le nom « Banda Caruso » ). Il organise l'arme des carabiniers afin de mener la lutte antifasciste dans les localités occupées par les troupes allemandes.

Le 30 mai 1944 il est arrêté et enfermé dans la prison des SS, via Tasso, résiste aux tortures mais réussit à s'échapper.

Il reprend le commandement de l'organisation résistante en organisant les structures territoriales des carabiniers au fur et à mesure que les territoires italiens sont libérés.

Filippo Caruso continue son activité comme général de division jusqu'en 1957.

Il meurt à Rome le 12 septembre 1979 et est enterré au Cimetière communal monumental de Campo Verano.

Distinctions
 Deux médailles de bronze à la valeur militaire.
 Médaille d'or à la valeur militaire.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Friedrich Andrae, La Wehrmacht in Italia, ed. Riuniti
 Ugo Finetti, La resistenza cancellata, Ares 2003
 Giorgio Pisanò, Storia della Guerra Civile in Italia, CED, 1964, thome I
 Mario Avagliano, Gabriele Le Moli, Muoio innocente. Lettere di caduti della Resistenza a Roma, Mursia, 1999
 Mario Avagliano, Roma alla macchia. Personaggi e vicende della Resistenza, Avagliano Editore, 1997
 Alessandro Portelli, L'ordine è già stato eseguito, Donzelli, 1999
 Pierangelo Maurizio, Via Rasella, cinquant'anni di menzogne, Maurizio Edizioni, Rome, 1996 (II ed.)

Articles connexes
 Massacre des Fosses ardéatines
 Résistance romaine
 Défense manquée de Rome
 Fronte militare clandestino
 Fronte clandestino di resistenza dei carabinieri

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Naissance dans la province de Cosenza
Naissance en août 1884
Histoire de l'Italie au XXe siècle
Militaire italien
Résistant italien
Décès en septembre 1979
Décès à 95 ans
Décès à Rome
Militaire italien de la Première Guerre mondiale
Militaire italien de la guerre italo-turque
Personnalité inhumée au Campo Verano

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Félicie Hervieu, née Marie Félicité Bridoux le  à Chémery-sur-Bar et morte le  à Montgon, est une personnalité française proche du mouvement de la démocratie chrétienne, qui a mis en place dans la ville de Sedan plusieurs innovations sociales.

Remettant en cause les « vertus » de la charité, elle est surtout connue pour avoir expérimenté sur le terrain de nouveaux modes d'assistance aux familles ouvrières soumises à des conditions de vie très dures. Elle a ainsi créé les premiers jardins ouvriers en France, même si le terme même de jardin ouvrier a été imaginé par le docteur Lancry, et si cette idée a été mise en exergue auprès de l'opinion publique et du monde politique par  l'abbé Lemire.

Biographie

Ses origines
Marie-Félicité Bridoux est née en  à Chémery-sur-Bar. Ce village à 13 kilomètres de Sedan compte à l'époque plus de 750 habitants, le double pratiquement de sa population un siècle plus tard. C'est un bourg à la fois rural et industriel, avec des exploitations agricoles mais aussi une brasserie, des carrières de pierres et une entreprise textile, la filature Poursain, dans un grand bâtiment sur 3 niveaux. Les personnes qui travaillent à la filature participent bien souvent à des travaux agricoles ponctuellement, et  chaque famille a son jardin.

Son père est ébéniste et sa mère travaille également, comme sage-femme.  Elle-même veut faire des études de médecine, mais cette profession est encore fermée aux femmes. Elle devient sage-femme comme sa mère. À 19 ans, elle épouse le  Honoré Désiré Hervieu, de 12 ans plus âgé qu'elle, né à Lalonde, en Haute-Normandie. Il est «montreur de nouveautés», mais s'établit à Sedan pour y fonder une manufacture textile. Le couple n'appartient pas encore à la haute bourgeoisie ardennaise : leurs témoins de mariage sont un employé de banque, un employé de fabrique, un commis et un garde-éclusier. Les années qui suivent leur permettent de concrétiser à la fois leur projet d'entreprise et une famille, avec sept enfants, quatre garçons, nés successivement en 1860, 1862 (décédé jeune), 1871 et 1876, et trois filles nées en 1865, 1868 et 1879. Pour autant, il semble que Félicie Hervieu ait continué à exercer comme sage-femme une bonne partie des années 1860 tout en secondant son mari : ainsi dans les actes de naissance de ses enfants, elle n'est dite sans profession qu'à partir de 1868.

Son mari décède en 1896. Elle aide progressivement ses enfants à prendre en main la gestion de l'entreprise. Provisoirement à la tête de la société, elle se sent d'autant plus concernée par les conditions de vie de ses employés et de leur famille.

Ses réalisations

En 1889, elle désespère de trouver une solution pour une famille de dix personnes, qui bénéficie d'aides financières de sa part depuis un certain temps, mais qui n'arrive pas revenir à une situation financière plus sereine. Elle imagine alors un mécanisme les encourageant à épargner : elle s'engage à leur verser  chaque mois six francs à la Caisse d'épargne, si eux, de leur côté, versent trois francs dans la même période. Hésitants, ils finissent par accepter cet abondement conditionnel sur leur épargne qui leur permet de la tripler, et au bout de l'année ils possèdent cent huit francs. Elle les incite alors à louer un jardin, et à le cultiver. Après une forte réticence, le terrain est finalement loué : ils le travaillent, parents et enfants, «sans entrain, puis avec plaisir, puis avec ardeur», et tirent de cette production à la fois un complément alimentaire et un bénéfice, en revendant le surplus. La famille ainsi aidée se met à l'abri de la misère, de façon un peu plus pérenne.

L'initiative l'encourage à créer une association, L'Œuvre pour la reconstitution de la famille, pour étendre à plus de personnes des modes d'assistance qui passent par l'incitation à l'épargne, la prise en charge de crèche, la mise à disposition de jardins  et de la formation. Les idées forces de Félicie Hervieu sont de s'appuyer sur la structure familiale et de substituer à l'aumône des aides aidant réellement chaque famille à retrouver une autonomie, une confiance en elle et une fierté. Le comité à la tête de l'association est composée uniquement de femmes, mais réussit à obtenir le support et le concours des pouvoirs publics. Le directeur général de l'Assistance publique de Paris les encourage, ainsi que le député des Ardennes (de centre gauche) et ancien maire de Sedan, Auguste Philippoteaux. Concernant les jardins, qui ne s'appellent pas encore jardins ouvriers, les ressources de l'association lui permettent au printemps 1893 de mettre à disposition de 27 familles une superficie totale de . La surface est accrue d'année en année et en 1898, 125 familles bénéficient de parcelles.

L'idée d'espaces mis à dispositions des familles avait été imaginé également par un médecin et pédagogue, Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber, en Allemagne, dans un esprit initialement différent, mais il est peu probable que cette expérience allemande ait été connu de Félicie Hervieu. Celle-ci s'emploie à diffuser ses propositions et son expérience. Elle anime des conférences, participe à des expositions et rédige des fascicules, dont l'Appel aux mères de France en 1891, et l'Appel aux pères et mères des classes laborieuses en 1892, y mêlant une présentation de ses réalisations très concrètes et des idées plus utopiques. En 1893, elle fait parvenir à un curé et député du Nord, l'abbé Lemire, fraîchement élu, un de ses fascicules. Celui-ci le transmet à un de ses amis, le docteur Lancry, qui trouve que cette publication mélange des choses essentielles avec des détails trop minutieux, mais synthétise quelques idées intéressantes pour le député. C'est ce docteur Lancry qui trouve ce terme de jardin ouvrier après s'être rendu à Sedan à la rencontre de Félicie Hervieu. Le  de cette année 1895, un article du journal Le Temps, en première page, intitulé «Une forme nouvelle d'assistance par le travail», est consacré aux réalisations sociales de Félicie Hervieu dont les jardins ouvriers. Cet article attire l'attention d'un jésuite de Saint-Étienne, le père Volpette, qui est séduit également par l'idée et qui la met en œuvre dans ce département de la Loire.

Le contexte social et politique

Ces années 1890 sont déterminantes dans la vie politique française. C'est la fin du boulangisme, ce rassemblement éclectique, autour du général Boulanger, de républicains révisionnistes, de bonapartistes et de monarchistes désireux de renverser la République. C'est l'affirmation du choix du régime républicain en France. C'est à gauche l'émergence de partis ouvrier, mais aussi dans les entreprises la création de syndicats, avec la présence dans les Ardennes d'un Jean-Baptiste Clément pour mettre en place ces organisations de salariés.

Outre la présence de Jean-Baptiste Clément, le climat social est tendu dans le Nord des Ardennes, en pays sedanais comme dans la vallée de la Meuse. Les conditions ouvrières sont dures en cette fin du  avec un capitalisme naissant, un droit du travail embryonnaire et des mouvements de grèves dans l'industrie textile et métallurgique.

En 1891 a été publiée par le pape Léon XIII l'encyclique Rerum novarum, qui condamne « la misère et la pauvreté qui pèsent injustement sur la majeure partie de la classe ouvrière » tout autant que le « socialisme athée ». L'année suivante, ce même pape encourage les catholiques français, dans une autre encyclique, Au milieu des sollicitudes, publiée exceptionnellement en français, à se rallier clairement à la République. Il trace ainsi une ligne directrice à la frange modérée des catholiques, et donne un signe d'encouragement au mouvement démocrate-chrétien. Félicie Hervieu, ainsi que l'abbé Lemire, sont proches de cette mouvance des démocrates-chrétiens, critiquée à la fois par les catholiques les plus conservateurs et par les mouvements ouvriers. Ces derniers voient dans leurs actions sociales une forme de paternalisme patronal.

Dans les Ardennes, les actions sociales de Félicie Hervieu sont soutenues par l'Union démocratique des Ardennes (UDA), animée notamment par l'industriel Léon Harmel et regroupant les militants démocrates chrétiens du département, et leur périodique, La Vérité Sociale, un hebdomadaire paraissant le samedi. Un autre industriel, Adolphe Clément, apporte également son soutien .

Retrait
Mais le développement des jardins ouvriers, associé à des rentrées d'argent aléatoires,  une relation désormais tendue avec le maire de Sedan, Auguste Phillipoteaux fils, et la faillite en parallèle de l'entreprise de textile familiale, viennent à bout des forces de Félicie Hervieu. Elle démissionne du comité qui gère les jardins, et une nouvelle organisation est mise en place, sans elle, pour pérenniser cette réalisation sociale.

Il semble que Félicie Hervieu préfère dès lors quitter la ville de Sedan. Ses correspondances avec l'Académie de Médecine font apparaître deux adresses, l'une à Mélimé, commune de Montgon, et l'autre à Montcornet (Aisne), où une de ses filles était institutrice.

Elle est décédée à Montgon le .

Hommages
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This week's Completing Him Challenge is about prayer. On Courtney's site she lists 30 things we should pray about daily for our husbands this week. These include things like his work, his fear, his purpose, and his wife. That is actually first on the list, lol!
Also, we are supposed to ask him specifically what he would like us to pray for that day. I pray for my husband, but I've never thought to ask him how I could pray for him. So, I hope that will be helpful for him to know I really care enough to pray for his specific situation.
If you would like to learn more about the Challenge, please visit Women Living Well.
Hooray! I am so thankful you are joining this challenge!! Keep on praying! May God bless your marriage and home!
Checking out Courtney at Women Living Well. Thank you for sharing this. Please stop by Seeking Grace for a visit. I live in NC.
I heard a woman say this a few years ago, to pray for our husbands. It really is a powerful thing and our husbands face chalenges daily when out in the work force, so praying for their heart and focus to stay on Christ can be so beneficial for them and us wives! Thanks for posting this!


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People pay for that caliber of poetry. Finding them is the hard part. If you do, I have a few to peddle.
If I find a market, I'll holler atcha.
Been there done that. I love it when a poem doesn't just fit, but works, and I know how. Good show.
I just wish it all wasn't so wearying.
Doom, a poem as a working puzzle. I like that.
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Heather Maloney
The town of Northampton, Mass., is a creative hub from way back, attracting the type who make and share art in a scene more hippie than hipster. There are plenty of indie musicians in that Berkshire town, but few if any songwriters better than Heather Maloney.
The thirtysomething New Jersey native lists a range of rock, pop, and country music as her influences, the likes of Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, and Sheryl Crow. But you don't have to listen long to hear folk roots in her melodies, arrangements, and singing style – Irish roots in particular. No surprise that the stops on her current tour include New York's Irish Arts Center and a few other shamrock-lined venues.
Classical music informs her creations, too, obvious in her vocal control, her imaginative melodies, and her use of dynamics and phrasing. In fact, she was studying to be an opera singer when she veered to the opposite path: she moved to a Buddhist meditation center, where she lived for much of three years, often under a vow of silence. The silence must have spoken to her clearly; since then her mind has been flooded with lyrics and music of her own.
Maloney's first album, self-released when she had just left the retreat and moved to Northampton, was Cozy Razor's Edge (2009). This is the work of a bright musical being still defining itself. The title song features yodel-like experimentation with her voice and self-conscious diction – she's a big Alanis Morissette fan — none of which she held onto as she matured as a singer.
But the underlying strength and confidence of her singing is an indication of her potential. And the lyrics are intelligent and thoughtful, with compelling imagery: "Meet me on the edge of this moment / you bring stillness, I'll bring movement…"
In 2011 she released Time and Pocket Change, which gradually gained glowing critical attention as reviewers took notice of this new-on-the-scene talent.
The opening track, "Fifty Lines," shows off all that's best about Maloney both as composer and performer. It's a tribute to the muse, addressing inspiration as if it were a sort of ghost inhabiting the people and things of everyday life. She, the songwriter, is ready to receive whatever messages from the creative beyond that might be coming her way: "My cells are spirit soldiers waiting in formation."
Besides the huge pitch range in this song, it's worth noticing Maloney's ornamentation – quick melismas very different from the popular wandering-wailing style used to ruin melodies on American Idol and The Voice (and which, for reasons that elude me, always win massive applause). These ornaments are tight and controlled, in a distinctly Irish style:
In 2012 Maloney signed with Signature Sounds indie record company in Northampton, which is still her label today. As labels tend to do with new artists, they had her start over, so to speak, with an eponymous album. Heather Maloney, released in 2013, has one particularly striking trait: the influence of country music (I'm talking old-timey, golden age of Nashville kind of thing) on the arrangements and delivery. Here's the thigh-slappin' song "Hey Broken":
The country tinges bleed through on the slower numbers, too. The mountain harmonies and long, nasal notes in "Darlene" show off the power and focus of Maloney's voice. But the lyric content is right out of '90s brainy, sensitive indie rock (by which I mean the genre, not the type of label distribution) by women like Jewel and Ani DiFranco. Then again, song-portraits of women in tough circumstances have some solid roots in the country and folk tradition, too.
For 2014's six-song EP, Woodstock, Maloney collaborated with the indie folk band Darlingside, also based in Western Massachusetts. Good musicians all, for my money their star is mandolin player Auyon Mukharji, who gets to shine both as soloist and as counterpoint on the track "Roadside Lily." Maloney's meter-defying poetry, stretching over line breaks, moves the song beyond standard folky fare:
Good songwriters don't shy away from the hard topics. On the album Making Me Break (2015), Maloney shows she can deal with more than vague vignettes about human sadness. "Involuntary" is a detailed, vivid take on the heartache of PTSD from the point of view of a man suffering from the affliction and his grieving wife. Again, note the Irish-inspired ornamentation.
Maloney's newest release is the EP Just Enough Sun (2018), which bubbles over with energy and motion. The provocatively titled "Don't Be a Pansy" is written in second-person, admonishing somebody who's afraid to show a softer side. But it's done with sarcasm: "Don't be moved, don't be touched, don't be tender. Don't ever surrender. And whatever is feminine, don't let it in." Maloney demonstrates her ability to use melody for emotional purposes with the sweeping phrases the chorus that plunge to the very bottom of her vocal range.
This is a composer who knows her gift did not develop in a vacuum. I always admire an artist who not only acknowledges her influences but goes out of her way to do them honor. Maloney has recorded many songs by her heroes, including this stunning cover of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" that makes it sound like a 200-year-old Ozark Mountains tune:
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The user interface of modern smart TVs can include some advertisements similar to those on the internet or in a mobile app. The Sony A1E does not include any, and it also has a feature for limiting ads in third-party applications.
Excellent for dark rooms
The Sony A1E performs exceptionally well in dark environments. Its ability to produce absolute and perfect blacks means the reproduction of dark highlights and scenes in movies will look great — this is further improved when there's no light around the TV as it allows the blacks to stand out more. This makes it great for watching all sorts of movies in a cinema-like setting, particularly movies with many black highlights/scenes where this is immediately noticeable even to undiscerning viewers (e.g. Interstellar).
Extremely low motion blur
Because the Sony A1E has an OLED panel, it has near-perfect pixel response time; the motion blur is virtually non-existent at sub-1ms, which means this TV will have no issues with displaying extremely fast-moving objects — they will look smooth without any blur or lag.
Decent for gaming
Input lag is one of the most important factors when considering a TV for gaming — it's representative of how fast the TV can display the image after receiving the input. The Sony A1E has ~30-40ms of input lag, which is decent enough for most gamers, but competitive gamers might find this lacking.
Dark scenes are perfectly reproduced
The Sony A1E can handle dark scenes very well thanks to its OLED panel, which gives it infinite contrast ratios — it can reproduce dark scenes perfectly because of this.
The picture quality of the Sony A1E does not suffer from much deterioration when viewed from other angles. The brightness will decrease with deviations in viewing angles, but the black levels seem to be maintained perfectly.
Excellent for watching sports
The Sony A1E's versatility is top-notch. The motion blur (sub-1ms) along with great overall color uniformity makes it an excellent choice for sports.
Great color reproduction
The color gamut of a TV refers to the range of colors the display can reproduce — the wider the color gamut, the more colors it can display, and the better the overall picture quality will be. This is extremely important for HDR content because it requires a much wider color gamut than SDR content. The Sony A1E has no issues with accurately reproducing the colors necessary for true HDR.
Perfect for HDR content
The B7A is the perfect choice for HDR content. On top of its exceptional picture quality with perfectly deep blacks, it has everything essential to an excellent HDR experience: an OLED panel, wide color gamut, and high peak HDR brightness levels.
Shadow details are perfect and highlights are really stunning, making for an immersive experience. The OLED panel can manipulate pixels individually, which means it has control over every tiny bit of the picture.
The panel can also reproduce the colors necessary for true HDR, and these colors will really pop thanks to its high peak brightness level of ~700 nits.
Great at handling reflections
The B7A is great at handling reflections. It can fight glare pretty well in bright environments, thanks to its anti-reflective coating on the panel.
Interface is intuitive and user-friendly
The B7A runs on the webOS smart platform, known for its intuitive and fully customizable UI. It's built around a Launch Bar that provides quick and easy access to the TV's apps, settings, and inputs. This can be customized and re-organized to the user's liking.
The B7A looks good from almost any angle thanks to its OLED panel, making it a great choice if you usually watch the TV with large groups of people.
Its viewing angle is wide enough for a group of audience to experience more or less similar picture quality when watching from multiple angles off the center of the screen. The black levels and brightness only starts degrading at ≥75°, which means the picture quality will stay roughly the same no matter which angle the screen is viewed from.
The B7A can reproduce a really broad range of colors that are crucial for HDR, which also means it has zero issues with SDR colors.
It's capable of reproducing ~70% of the standard colors for 4K HDR, the Rec. 2020 colorspace. This is one of the highest in the 4K TVs market.
It can also display these colors at different brightness levels accurately that conveys much more HDR details than its direct competitors can.
Extremely versatile
Apart from games, the B7A is great for movies and sports. Its top-notch picture quality, combined with the features it offers, makes it perform really well across different kinds of use cases.
Movies look excellent thanks to the exceptional picture quality, and it's also a great pick for watching sports because the motion blur is non-existent and the panel is really uniform.
It has near-perfect pixel response time of ~1.0ms, resulting in virtually no motion blur, so fast-moving objects like football don't leave any trails on the screen. The panel is also uniform enough that it has no issues with displaying large, same-color objects on screen, like football fields.
While the B7A can seem rather expensive, the picture quality and features it offers is top-of-the-line and can't be beaten. The performance easily outclasses all other TVs in this price bracket.
Suitable as a computer monitor
The B7A can display clear and crisp images from a computer thanks to its full 4:4:4 color support. Because of this, text or shapes with clear, hard edges won't be blurry.
Excellent at handling dynamic content
The B7A can display extremely fast-moving objects smoothly without any blur or lag, thanks to its OLED panel that has near-perfect pixel response time of ~1.0ms.
Excellent for gaming
The B7A is excellent for gaming thanks to its really low input lag and near-perfect pixel response time that gives it virtually no motion blur.
It's perfect for all types of games, even fast-paced action games. The experience will be really responsive and fluid. Players will have no issues keeping their actions in sync with what's on the display thanks to the really low input lag of ~20ms, and fast-moving objects won't leave any trails on the screen because the panel has a response time of ~1.0ms - it can fully change its pixels color in that tiny amount of time.
Remote is well-designed
The B7A comes with LG's Magic Remote, touted for its easy-to-use design.
It works similarly to a Nintendo Wii remote where the on-screen cursor follows the remote's movement, making it easy to navigate the UI and select menu items.
The remote also has a built-in microphone for the voice command feature, which also supports content searching with voice input.
Excellent for HDR gaming
The B7A's input lag remains low at ~20ms even when gaming in 4K @ 60Hz + HDR, making for an really immersive and responsive HDR gaming experience.
Smart platform has great ecosystem of apps
The B7A runs on the webOS smart platform. It has a great ecosystem of apps, ranging from media streaming services (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, etc.) to third-party apps. Support for these apps are also first-class with up-to-date features and good performance; for instance, the YouTube app supports 360-degree video playback.
Exceptional picture quality
The B7A's picture quality is top-of-the-line. It has an OLED panel that gives it infinite contrast ratio, excellent screen uniformity, high peak brightness, wide viewing angle, and great handling of reflections.
Thanks to that, it can reproduce blacks perfectly and the uniformity is top-notch - they're truly dark and even, because the OLED panel has the ability to manipulate pixels individually.
Colors really shine and look true-to-life, thanks to the peak brightness levels peak of ~400 nits for SDR & ~700 nits for HDR.
The picture quality also doesn't suffer from much deterioration when viewed from any angle because the panel has a really wide viewing angle. It's also capable of maintaining the same picture quality in bright environments, thanks to its high peak brightness levels and great handling of reflections.
Suffers from image retention issues
The main drawback of OLED panels are image retention issues with static images — pixels on the panel gets burned in when the picture doesn't change for extended periods of time. Noteworthily, the static image doesn't have to be whole like a full wallpaper on the TV; it can happen with content that has a static image anywhere on the screen (e.g. the logo of some TV channels).
As the Sony A1E has an OLED panel, it unfortunately suffers from this problem. There might be some retainment of artifacts for ~10 minutes when this happens, and it usually goes away after watching other content without static images. It's worth noting that while this issue is present, the Sony A1E reportedly handles this pretty well — most users report the artifacts going away only ~5minutes of playing normal content.
Lacks support for Dolby Vision
The Sony A1E can currently only play HDR10 content. It does not support Dolby Vision.
Might be hard to access inputs when mounted to a wall
The Sony A1E is extremely thin and it has a reflective finish on the back. After mounting it to a wall, the inputs might be hard to access and because of the reflective finish, it can pick up fingerprints/smudges when attempting to access the inputs (which also becomes hard to clean because of how thin it is).
May require some color calibration out of the box
Out of the box, the B7A's white balance might look slightly off to some viewer, so a brief calibration might be required if you notice it. Fortunately, all the optimal color settings are available on the internet and isn't hard to find.
Interface has ads
The B7A's interface includes ads that can't be removed - there's no option to disable it. Ads on this TV can be really annoying when compared to other smart TVs because they're almost everywhere. There are video ads in LG's Content Store, apps menu, and even voice search results.
Below average sound quality
The sound quality of the B7A's built-in speakers is below average. It can't get very loud with the max volume peaking at ~85db, and sound quality it offers does not match the picture quality.
The main drawback of OLED panels are image retention issues with static images - pixels on the panel gets burned in when the picture doesn't change for extended periods of time. This usually happens with content that has a static image anywhere on the screen, like the logo of TV channels.
As the B7A has an OLED panel, it unfortunately suffers from this problem. There might be some retainment of artifacts for ~15 minutes when this happens, and it usually goes away after watching other content without static images.
There are some cases where normal content won't cut it, which usually happens when the static image has been there for more than some hours. Fortunately, the B7A has a "Pixel Refresher" feature that can recalibrate the screen, which should get rid of any remaining artifacts.
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After eight sailors were injured aboard the aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower March 18 after equipment malfunctioned during a landing attempt, four were still being hospitalized today, officials from Naval Air Force Atlantic said.
The mishap occurred when one of the ship's arresting gear cables parted as an E-2C "Hawkeye" aircraft attempted to land. It's not clear what led to the mishap.
As of Monday, three sailors remained at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia in stable condition, COMNAVAIRLANT spokesman Cmdr. Mike Kafka said in a news release. One more sailor was being treated at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, and was also listed in stable condition. Two of the injured sailors had already been treated and released, Kafka said.
"All remaining hospitalized patients are resting comfortably and some are expected to be released soon," he said in the release.
Two sailors suffered injuries that did not require hospitalization, and were treated aboard the carrier in the ship's medical department, Kafka said. One is being held for observation, he said, and the other has already been cleared for light duty.
The nature of the sailors' injuries has not been released, and they have not been identified by the Navy.
An aircraft mishap board is aboard the Eisenhower to investigate the cause of the mishap, Kafka said.
The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, which is preparing for a deployment later this summer, resumed flight operations March 20.


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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Mar. 22, 2019: Haitians in the U.S. Diaspora are weighing in on the ongoing strife in their homeland even as the country's Parliament on Monday triggered another crisis by voting to oust the prime minister after only six months on the job.
The vote comes on the heels of weeks of renewed protests in the French Caribbean island nation over the alleged misuse of funds from the PetroCaribe agreement with Venezuela. Protests were so violent that several nations, including the US and Canada, issued 'do not travel' warnings while several were killed.
Billyne Francois, a South Florida-based, 23-year-old Haitian-American CEO, poet and on-air radio host, feels the root of the problem in Haiti lies in a lack of real leadership.
She also feels strongly that there needs to be more investment in the nation of Haiti and the laying of a stronger foundation for Haitians to build on.
Semline Delva, 25, a Haitian-American program coordinator of Leadership and Civic Engagement at Kennesaw State University, agrees somewhat but feels the key is education.
If the Haitian government provides access to free, quality education to those who want to learn, this will give the people the leadership skills and experience needed to have leaders who can initiate positive change to improve the overall infrastructure of Haiti, Delva told News Americas.
She agrees with Francois that Haiti also needs to hire its own talent. "Haiti needs to buy back their resources, and … hire people from Haiti, instead of relying on other resources," Delva said.
Mira Leon, a 20-year-old recent college graduate from Florida Atlantic University, who was raised in Haiti before moving to the U.S., feels personally connected to what is occurring in her home country.
She feels that Haitians in Haiti are suffering and because they feel like they are not being heard or cared for and continue to retaliate the only way they know how – taking to the streets in protest.
But as the Diaspora watches in frustration, Haiti, a country of almost 11 million continues to spiral between constant leadership changes, protests, natural disasters and ongoing allegations of corruption in leadership. And despite having a viable tourist industry and with millions in aid and remittance pouring in annually, Haiti remains one of the world's poorest countries and the poorest in the Americas region, with a GDP per capita at PPP US$1,200, a debt burden of 2.762 billion and with rising poverty, poor infrastructure, lack of health care and lack of education.
So what's the solution? Perhaps as Francois states, it lies with the Haitian people who already have the kind of mindset in place that will help them achieve success. All that is missing now is someone in a position of leadership who knows how to invest in the nation of Haiti, lay a strong foundation and then build off of it.
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