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THE HISTORY OF MUSIC VIDEOS…
Music videos have been around a lot longer than you think. If you were to watch Ken Burns recent Jazz series on HBO for instance you would have seen many filmed performances of the jazz greats doing their thing. These are simply early music videos – though now we view them as wonderful archival moments of great artists that are dead or unable to perform anymore.
By the 1950's and 1960's film companies, realising the great potential in rock n' roll and pop music, started making movies based partly or completely around the popular stars of the day, e.g. Elvis and the Beatles. These films were fairly cheap to make and made shed-loads of money for the studios. If you look at the opening sequence of the Beatles A Hard Days Night you'll see what is simply a wonderful music video shot in black and white.
In Britain in the 1960's the BBC (British TV station) would sometimes take artists to the beach or to a roof-top to shoot them performing their latest hit simply to make their weekly show Top Of The Pops more interesting than just having a bunch of bands miming in the studio. By the 70's artists had started making clips (or 'Pop Promos') for individual songs as promotional tools themselves – the best example being the video for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody which was totally groundbreaking in its day and was instrumental in making the song a massive hit in the UK. By the time Bohemian Rhapsody had been at number one for 9 weeks everyone was cashing in on the fad. (Useful rock video trivia – Bo Rap was directed by Bruce Gower and reputedly cost 4,500 pounds, about $7,000, to make.)
Meanwhile in the States artists were clamouring to appear on a variety of TV shows such as Shindig, Don Kirshner's Rock Show, Midnight Special and Soul Train which gave them an opportunity to tout their wares. However despite the obvious difference that there were more shows to appear on the bands either appeared and mimed or simply played live – to my knowledge nobody was consciously trying to match imagery with sound.
Up to this point bands had been able to promote their latest release in three basic ways: radio-play, TV appearances and touring. The latter two meant shipping the band around the world and this was becoming extremely costly. With record markets opening up all over the world and simultaneous trans-global releases becoming the norm it was virtually impossible for a band to appear onstage or on TV in the same week in New York, London, Sydney and Hamburg which the simultaneous record releases required so pop promos started filling the gap: it's cheaper to send a video tape to Australia than five musicians and a road manager. By the late 70's these pop promos were mostly shot on video tape and consequently came to be called music videos. In Britain, where the pop music charts moved much faster than in the US, videos became an essential promotional tool and every band had to have one so that when MTV started at midnight on August 1st 1981* many more British acts had videos than American ones. Consequently Duran Duran, The Thompson Twins, Culture Club and many other British bands with stacks of videos in the vault, suddenly had huge success in the States and filled the charts while the US acts and labels busily tried to catch up. John Taylor (bassist for Duran Duran), interviewed by VH-1 for a retrospective of 1981, went so far as to observe that the band would watch their success in various markets explode within weeks of MTV opening in that market.
Why did MTV start? The early 80's were the hay-day of the cable boom, everyone in the US was starting to get a cable box fitted to their TV and there were many new channels appearing and someone saw a way to make cash out of all those music vids. Even better the record labels gave MTV the vids to use for FREE (and still do) so the channel had to pay nothing for its programming – all it needed was three VJ's, one camera, a small studio and some editing equipment and voila: a TV channel was born. The rest is history.
Useful dates…
1895 The first camera /projection systems are invented independently in France (Auguste & Louis Lumiere), Germany (Max & Emile Skaldanowsky) and England (Robert Paul).
1927 The Jazz Singer – first popular motion picture with sound starring Al Jolson
1933 Flying Down to Rio – first Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers flic
1935 Gold Diggers of 1935 – first Busby Berkley picture
1936 1st TV Broadcast in London
1939 Wizard of Oz
1941 Las Vegas Nights – Frank Sinatras First Movie (as singer in Tommy Dorsey Band)
1956 Love Me Tender – 1st Elvis movie
1956 Rock Around The Clock – starring Bill Haley, Platters, Alan Freed
1963 Ready Steady Go – inflential British weekly TV show debuts
1964 Hard Days Night – Beatles 1st movie
1964 Shindig! – US TV show debuts
1964 Top Of The Pops – UK TV Show with performances by all current pop acts makes its debut – Still on the air 40 years later!
1967 All You Need Is Love – The Beatles appear on ?Our World? which is broadcast to 26 countries simultaneously
1971 Soul Train debuts in USA
1973 Don Kirshners Rock Concert debuts
1973 Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack
1975 Bohemian Rhapsody – highly influential Queen video gets first airing
1975 Tommy – starring Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton
1981 (August 1st) MTV starts
1985 (January 1st) VH-1 starts
1985 Live-Aid
2005 Videos debut on i-Tunes and Cell phones
2005 New Coldplay single comes in at #2 – Ringtone in at #1
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BAND AND LABEL…
Let's talk about how a band gets signed and how they conduct their business with a label as they strive to sell themselves and their music around the world. Obviously this is a very generalised view of how things might work out but will help us understand how videos get made.
EARLY DAYS AND THE FIRST ALBUM
1) Five guys get together in your home town and start a band.
2) They play gigs, make some demos and start to collect a following. Either word gets around about how good they are or they send their demos to their favourite labels.
3) Around this time they meet someone who wants to become their manager – he's from their home town too.
4) One day an A&R person (it stands for Artist & Repertoire but basically means talent scout) sees a gig or hears the demo and wants to sign the band.
5) The band signs a deal which is 'worth millions.' In reality it will certainly cost millions but the band will get but a fraction of the money. The dollars will go towards tour costs, wages, recording costs, picture sessions, hotels…and videos.
6) After some months of hard work the album is completed.
7) The Label Boss presides over a Marketing Meeting attended by the A&R guy, a Marketing Person, A Promotions Person (radio & TV play), a Press person and a Video Commisioner. At this meeting they talk about how they will market the band, what are the selling points of the record, pick a single and figure out how to promote it. You'd think the manager and the band would have some involvement in this meeting – but don't bank on it!
8) The Video commisioner, having taken notes at the Marketing Meeting, sends out the track to a bunch of video directors. She selects a treatment and takes it back to the Label Boss, A&R guy and Marketing Person who discuss its merits and request some changes.
9) Band show up to the video shoot having never read the concept! Video is completed.
10) After three videos of varying success the band sells half a million albums and gigs constantly for a year. The only person in the band making any serious cash is the songwriter – though his royalties probably haven't arrived yet. The label inform the band they're in the hole for about two million bucks.
THE SECOND ALBUM
11) While taking a month off the road to write new songs the band break up with their first manager – he's too small time for them and they sign with some heavyweight guy who's managed five multi-platinum selling bands.
12) While they record the new album the new manager goes to all the heads of department at the label (especially the Video Comissioner) and explains that things will be different this time around. The band will be consulted about the videos.
13) The A&R guy picks a single in the studio and the Video Commisioner sends out the track to video directors. The band hate all the treatments.
14) After The band complain to their manager they get their way and speak with some of the video directors themselves and new treatments arrive. They pick one they like but it's going to cost more money than the label wants to spend. The manager goes to the Label Boss and successfully blags more money.
15) The band shoot the video using their favourite treatment. They love the director, they love the video.
16) The video's a hit.
17) They make two more videos with their director and both are hits.
18) The second album has sold five million albums and the band have been on the road around the world for 18 months. They're now headlining and starting to get some serious cash from the gig money but are stunned to discover that the cost of marketing their albums, making videos etc. and the huge debt acrued by their first album only means that after 4 years of hard work there's about $800,000 profit. The manager skims his 20% off the top leaving the five band members with $128,000 each before tax. By the time they've paid tax they've got enough for a holiday, a new Range Rover and the deposit for a condo in the valley. Meanwhile the guy who writes the band's songs is a millionaire. (These figures are largely inspired guesswork -if someone out there thinks they know better – please let me know).
THIRD ALBUM
19) The band are now crucial to the label's financial well-being. The label adjust their whole business plan for the year around the arrival of the band's next album and the manager has renogiated the band's deal with the label. At this stage the band report directly to the Label Boss and get pretty much whatever they want. The A&R guy has been head-hunted away by another label – just as well because he'd have less control over the band's career now anyway.
20) The band's manager goes directly to the band's favourite video director who comes up with a concept. The Video Commisioner knows nothing about this until a demand arrives from the director's production company asking for a cheque so shooting can start.
21) On the set of the video the band play lip-service to the Video Commisioner who's now largely responsible for making sure the band's limos arrive on time to pick them up in the morning.
22) The next two videos are made in the same way and do well on MTV.
23) The band are now a major touring attraction. All that footage from the road is pulled together by an editor who worked on some of their recent videos to make the 'On The Road' video that will remind people what a huge and important act they have become.
24) A final single is released from the album. The guitar player wants to direct it – everyone at the label rolls their eyeballs and insist that the editor who did such a great job on the On The Road video is hired as a co-director. In the Marketing Meeting everyone from the label figures it's the last video off the album anyway so if it sucks no big deal. By now the lead singer is in the papers every day because he's hanging out with some hot movie starlet. The guy who writes the songs has houses in New York, LA, that town you all come from and is looking at a time share in Maui. While he's learning how to fly his Lear Jet the bass player and drummer are buying three bedroom houses in Woodland Hills and starting to feel very upset.
FOURTH ALBUM
25) The band agree to split all royalties equally and continue (U2) or the songwriter says, "Sod off!" and fires the jealous and miserable band mates (Oasis).
26) Anything could happen now. Perhaps a) The guitar player now thinks he's a genius and co-directs the next video. It goes way over budget and the video stiffs. Possibly b) the band have learned their lesson and hate videos because they cost so much and let the label back in to do the grunt work. Feasibly c) The band's next single is from a movie soundtrack and, though they erroneously and reasonably think it's all about them, it's all about the movie studio picking shots form the movie and the band are just standing somewhere miming.
Eventually one member of the band will become a bona fide star (e.g. Ozzy, Gwen Stefani, Sting, Fred Durst) while their four school-mates, who've been like family and stuck with him through thick and thin, become impoverished has-beens who periodically reform to do re-union shows to make the dollars to pay off those staggering alimony payments to that hot model they met and married somewhere around step 11.
VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANIES.
Generally speaking most video companies are run by a visionary who wants to make their living turning unknown film students into people with names like David Fincher or Michael Bay. Usually most production companies have both a Video and a Commercial division.
While we're here to talk about videos it's useful to note that traditionally commercials have a) bigger budgets and b) the Production company gets a bigger mark-up from commercials – i.e. they getter a bigger share of a larger pie. In case you're not good at Maths this is good news. The consequence is that videos are a training ground for directors to move up to commercials and then on to features or whatever it is they want to do.
The Video division of a Production Company will probably have three full time staff:
This person runs the department and, when it looks like a job will happen, supervises the drawing up of the first budget or bid. When the budget comes in too high (See Chapter 2 step 14) the E.P. will then start horse trading with the Video Commisioner from the label and they try and reduce the budget. On the day of the shoot the E.P. might also help the Line Producer make some hard decisions about where to spend the money. In planning for the future the E.P. will review new Directors' reels and decide, with advice from the sales rep, who they should have on their roster.
SALES REP.
This person's job is to hustle all the labels and managers (See Chapter 2) and find out where the new jobs are coming from. The Rep then sends out reels of the company's directors and lobbies them to be considered for work.
This person is the heart of the department and picks up all the slack, deals with the stroppy directors, makes great coffee and gives good phone call.
Once a job is awarded the following free-lancers get a call:
Usually just called the Producer this person probably works with the Director on a regular basis and turns the Executive Producer's version of the budget into reality. The Producer has probably already been consulted during the bid. The Producer keeps an eye on every aspect of a job and reports to the Executive Producer if something is going amiss or over budget.
The P.M. is the person who actually gets on the phone and starts hiring crew members – D.P.s, Grips, Gaffers, Catering etc. This person is probably the hardest worked member of the crew.
The PAs do everything else. This is the entry level position of the crew. A good PA becomes a PM and then a Producer and then maybe an Exec Producer. Some PAs want to become directors. Some actually make it.
WRITING CONCEPTS
So, we've established that bands need videos and that videos get made once a director has written a treatment or a concept. But why do you need a concept, how do you write one and what makes a good one?
1) IT'S HOW YOU GET A JOB
It's an essay writing contest, you might be up against 10 other people.
2) IDEAS ARE WHAT SEPARATE YOU FROM THE REST OF THE PACK YOU WILL SPEND 50% OF YOUR YEAR WRITING CONCEPTS
Doing the job, and showing what you've got only occurs after you've secured the gig.
3) IT'S THE SCRIPT FOR THE DIRECTOR
You might be able to busk it on the day, but in the long run, if it's not in the script it won't be in the film. Coming up with ideas on the set will be too late, Yes you may be inspired on the day, but cannot always rely on that.
4) IT'S THE SCRIPT FOR EVERYONE ON SET
The Camera department, the art department and everyone else will refer to your concept, written weeks ago as their blueprint!
5) IT WILL BECOME PART OF THE CONTRACT
HOW DO YOU GET TO WRITE?
1) HUSTLE! Your rep or you hustles: The label / Managers /Artists (See Chapter 2 and 3)
2) RECEIVE CD
3) ASK QUESTIONS: When? Where? How Much? What Do You Want? What Don't You Want? Speak to the band.
WHICH ACTS SHOULD YOU WRITE FOR?
1) ARTISTS YOU KNOW?
2) ARTISTS YOU?VE NEVER HEARD OF?
3) ARTISTS YOU LIKE?
4) ARTISTS YOU DON?T LIKE?
5) ALL OF THE ABOVE!
…SO NOW YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE A CONCEPT
1) PERFORMANCE VIDEO
E.G. Evenflow (Pearl Jam), Party Hard (Andrew W.K.)
2) TOTAL CONCEPT VIDEO
E.G. Sabotage (Beastie Boys), Tool Videos
3) STORY VIDEO
E.G. Thriller (Michael Jackson),
4) GAG VIDEO
E.G. Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel), Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)
5) FILM CLIP VIDEO
E.G. Chad Kroeger (Hero – Spiderman)
6) DANCE VIDEO
E.G. Baby One More Time (Britney Spears) Praise You (Fatboy Slim)
HYBRIDS:
E.G. Seven Nation Army (White Stripes) Performance with Gag
THE PEOPLE TO PLEASE
1) THE ARTIST / BAND
2) THE ARTIST'S MANAGER
3) THE VIDEO PERSON AT THE LABEL
4) THE A&R PERSON AT THE LABEL
5) THE HEAD PERSON AT THE LABEL
6) THE FILM PEOPLE: THE MUSIC SUPERVISOR / THE PRODUCERS & EXEC. PRODUCERS / THE DIRECTOR / THE FILM DISTRIBUTOR & MARKETING (Only applies to Soundtrack video).
7) YOURSELF
1) DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU'RE GOING TO SHOOT IT?
2) IS IT POSSIBLE WITHIN THE BUDGET?
3) IS IT RIGHT FOR THE ARTIST?
4) IS IT RIGHT FOR MTV – IS IT BROADCASTABLE?
5) IS IT RIGHT FOR YOU?
6) IS IT BORING – HAS IT BEEN DONE BEFORE?
7) IS IT YOUR BEST IDEA?
HOW TO COME UP WITH IDEAS
1) LISTEN TO THE LYRICS (Beware ? ideas can be limited -see addendum.)
2) BRAINSTORMING
3) PICK A FAVOURITE IDEA AND MAKE IT WORK (keep a list of ideas)
4) WRITE DOWN ANYTHING – EVEN IF IT'S TO GET THE BAD IDEAS OUT OF YOUR HEAD
5) LOOK AT PICTURES, FILMS, BOOKS
WRITING YOUR CONCEPT
1) PRESENTATION – spelling, grammar!
2) MAKE IT EASY TO UNDERSTAND
3) …BUT BE CONCISE
4) DON'T BE VAGUE – leads to misunderstandings.
5) DON'T BE SYCOPHANTIC – No-one likes a weasel.
6) DON'T SECOND GUESS THE ARTIST / CLIENT – Go with what you believe.
7) MEAN EVERY WORD YOU SAY – You would do anything to shoot this idea.
8) INCLUDE PICTURE REFERENCES WHERE POSSIBLE
1) SUBMIT
2) REWRITE (They like your reel but what they really wanted was?)
3) BUDGET
4) REWRITE AGAIN (Budget's too high)
5) WAIT!
Want to read some concepts? HIT CONCEPTUAL ICON ON THE LEFT And find concepts for:
Guns 'N Roses
N'Sync & Gloria Estefan
Savage Garden
HIT DICK-FUQ ICON
And find more questions answered about concepts especially
A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A9, A19,
T1, T2
SONG BREAKDOWN
THE SHOOT – DEPARTMENTAL BREAKDOWNS
DIRECTORS AND A.D.s
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
POST EFFECTS
SOUND ENHANCEMENT / MIXING
LIMITED THEMES
I'm often aksed why videos seem to be about the same things over and over again. Girls, boys, cars, money, raves, gigs etc. Well of course the easy answer is that most videos are aimed at a teen audience and teens don't want to know about poverty in the world today or environmental mechanics. Teens want fun, sex, music, laughs, thrills and more sex.
For us video directors writing a concept is often about turning the words of the song into potential images. At the simplest level you could argue that most people in bands are guys and most guys are fixated on the same things – women, how to get them into bed and then what happens afterwards. Ergo most songs are about women or love and therefore most videos are about the same thing. Of course this is a gross simplification – some bands have never ever recorded a love song and some bands are all female. However I have directed over 260 videos and one day I noticed the same titles kept appearing over and over again in various forms.
So for your enjoyment below is a list of some of the similar song titles I have DIRECTED over the years – please note this is not a list of the other 700+ titles I WROTE on. (You can probably think of other songs with similar titles too). Do you see any themes developing here?
Fire, Houses and Love…
Playing With Fire, House Of Fire, House Of Love, House Of Broken Love, Spy In The House Of Love, Highway Of Love, Love Around The World, Love will Lead You Back, Love Kills, Love Don?t Give No Reason, Bring Me Your Love, Long Way To Love, Waiting For your Love, Sunshine Of Your Love, Save Your Love, Give Love A Chance, To Be Able To Love, Out Of Love, Outta Love, In It For Love, Don?t Say You Love Me, As Long As You Love Me,
Loving and stopping loving…
I Can?t Get Next To You, I Can?t Stop Loving You, Can?t Stop Loving You, Can?t Stop Falling Into Love, Falling Into Love, I Think I?m In Love With You, I Wanna Make Love To You, I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You, I Wanna Be With You, I Want You, Here For You,
Love And Money, For The Love Of Money,
The Real Me, Real To Me, Everything To Me, Me Myself And I (Jive Jones), Me Myself And I (Vitamin C)
For You, Here For You, With You, Just Like You,
You Got It, You Got What It Takes.
One Night, Still Of The Night, Give Me Tonight, Make It Last All Night, All Night Long, Another Night
Time, Time Won?t Let Me, It?s Been A Long Time, Only Time Will Tell,
Don?t Chain My Heart, Faces Of The Heart, Secrets Of The Heart, This Lonely Heart, Lonely Beat Of My Heart, Deep Inside My Heart, Only My Heart Talking, Searching For My Heart, Straight For The Heart, Shooting From My Heart, Music Of My Heart, Two Hearts, Heart Of Every Girl
Tell Me (Nick Kamen), Tell Me (Go West), Tell Me (Mel C)
(All different songs by the way).
Once Bitten Twice Shy (Vesta Williams), Once Bitten Twice Shy (Great White).
(Completely different songs).
Angel (Angela Winbush), Angel (The Corrs), The Angel Song, When The Angels Sing, Angel Mine
Heaven, Heaven In A Back Seat, Show Me Heaven,
Pamela, Diane, Adrienne, Jimmy, Dave,
Poison, Shot Of Poison,
Far Away, So Far Away, Gone Away, Don't Go Away, Run Away, Walk Away
Reason to…
Believe, I Believe
Thanks for reading…Good luck. ©. Nigel Dick 2004


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LP2 / SIDE B – 1. The Florida Airport Tape, 2. Once Upon A Time, 3. King Kong, 4. Dickie's Such An Asshole, 5. Cosmic Debris
Warren Zevon's Greatest Hits (According To Judd Apatow) [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Judd Apatow (producer/director of Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Bridesmaids, and many more) celebrates Warren Zevon's life with a yearly tribute at the Largo in Los Angeles, featuring performances by Zevon's friends. For this curated release, he selected tracks from his favorite albums as well as a bonus track, "Something Bad Happened to a Clown" by Taylor Goldsmith and Blake Mills from the March 2016 Largo Show.
Needy Girl [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
The first vinyl release for their massive 2003 single.
1. Needy Girl (Zdar Dub) 2. Needy Girl (Paper Faces Remix) 3. Needy Girl (Album Version)
1. Needy Girl (Lifelike Remix) 2. Needy Girl (Bloc Party Remix) 3. Needy Girl (Instrumental)
Gold Afternoon Fix [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
First-ever vinyl reissue of the 1990 album from the beloved Australian band. Gold vinyl.
Pharaoh; Metropolis; Terra Nova Cain; City; Russian Autumn Heart; Essence; You're Still Beautiful; Disappointment; Transient; Fading Away; Grind
City Morgue Vol 2: As Good As Dead [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Hikari-Ultra/Republic Records duo City Morgue debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart and in the top 20 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart with their latest album CITY MORGUE VOL 2: AS GOOD AS DEAD. The pair—SosMula and ZillaKami—launch a full-scale infiltration of both the rock and hip-hop marketplace with this culture-splitting album. Limited edition Record Store Day LP pressed on red & white splattered vinyl. First time the album will be available in the physical market.
SIDE A –
1. NECK BRACE, 2. INFERIOR, 3. DRAINO (feat. Denzel Curry), 4. THE GIVE UP, 5. THRESH, 6. SPLINTER, 7. MINIMIZYA, 8. THE BALLOONS
SIDE B –
1. SOUL BURN, 2. 16 TOES, 3. WOAH, 4. DIRTNAP, 5. C4, 6. BABYWIPES, 7. MOUTHGUARD, 8. SCREAMING AT THE RAIN, 9. PEELING SCABS
Live from the Apollo Theatre Glasgow Feb 19.1982 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Classic performance from Alice Cooper recorded live at The Apollo theatre Glasgow, Scotland, Feb 19, 1982 on his Special Forces Tour. This recording is largely unreleased: only three tracks-- "Who Do You Think We Are", "Under My Wheels" and "Model Citizen" were previously released as 12" B-sides in 1982, and have not been available since.
1. Who Do You Think We Are* 2. Model Citizen* 3. Go to Hell 4. Guilty 5. I'm Eighteen 6. Cold Ethyl 7. Only Women Bleed 8. No More Mr. Nice Guy 9. Clones (We're All) 10. Under My Wheels* 11. I Never Cry 12. 7 and 7 Is 13. Grim Facts 14. Pain 15. Billion Dollar Babies 16. Generation Landslide 17. Who Do You Think We Are 18. Schools Out. (*previously released)
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine explores the publication's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years after publishing its first issue, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.
Dandy Warhols and Bebe Buell
Femme Fatale [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Dandy Warhols cover The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale", with Bebe Buell on vocals for a new studio recording. B-side is a new acoustic recording of the band's single ''Killing Me".
The cover art for the 7'' features Bebe and Nico from back in the 70's.
"Femme Fatale" b/w "Killing Me"
La Cruzada [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Alejandro Escovedo's critically acclaimed album The Crossing with the vocals recorded in Spanish, pressed on red, white and green striped double vinyl.
1. Andare 2. Footsteps In the Shadows 3. Texas Is My Mother 4. Teenage Luggage 5. Something Blue 6. Outlaw For You 7. Amor 8. Puro 9. Waiting For Me 10. How Many Times 11. Cherry Blossom Rain 12. Sonica USA 13. Rio Navidad 14. Silver City 15. Fury and Fire 16. Flying 17. MC Overload 18. The Crossing
The Fly Record Live [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Compiled from recordings from their 20th anniversary tour in 2018, this RSD 2020 exclusive is a never-before-released live version of their first self-titled album, and marks the first release of live Eve 6 music.
1 "How Much Longer" 2 "Inside Out" 3 "Leech" 4 "Showered" 5 "Open Road Song" 6 "Jesus Nitelite" 7 "Superhero Girl" 8 "Tongue Tied" 9 "Saturday Night" 10 "There's A Face" 11 "Small Town Trap"
The Fleshtones
Face Of The Screaming Werewolf [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Legendary garage rockers The Fleshtones have been pumping out hits for over four decades, earning them the honor of being "America's Garage Rock Band." They're one of the final remaining original CBGB bands, they've played on Andy Warhol's short-lived MTV show while Sir Ian McKellen read Shakespeare over their jamming, and were the last band to publicly perform at the World Trade Center's Windows on the World. However, what's most incredible about The Fleshtones is that they're putting out some of their best music forty years into their career, as evidenced by their new album Face of the Screaming Werewolf. Featuring soon-to-be-hits done in the inimitable Fleshtones style, such as "Alex Trebek," "Spilling Blood at the Rock & Roll Show," and their cover of the Stones' classic "Child of the Moon."
1. Face of the Screaming Werewolf, 2. Alex Trebek, 3. Spilling Blood (at the Rock & Roll Show), 4. Child of the Moon, 5. Manpower Debut, 6. Swinging Planet X, 7. You Gotta Love, Love, 8. Violet Crumble, Cherry Ripe, 9. Waiting on a Girl, 10. The Show Is Over, 11. Somerset Morning
The Frumpies
Frumpie One Piece / Frumpies Forever [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
The original Frumpie One Piece release was only on CD. It was a collection of tracks previously released over five 7" singles, from a Bikini Kill-related band who were conceived as a singles project. This vinyl release includes the songs from the CD as well as the one 7 inch that was released after the collection (Frumpies Forever 7"). The personnel of this band was 3/4 of Bikini Kill (Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, Billy Karren), plus 1/3 of Bratmobile (Molly Neuman), and they were sometimes joined by Michelle Mae, who went on to be in The Make-Up and Weird War. The Frumpies were formed in Washington DC during the same 1991 summer that birthed the first Riot Grrrl zines and meetings, which the Frumpies dubbed Revolution Summer.
1 Malice And Discontent 2 I Just Wanna Puke On The Stereo 3 Do You Wanna Donuts 4 Baby Plays For Pritty 5 Alien Summer 6 Fuck Kitty 7 Giveaway Pile 8 Weird Machine 9 Intertube Tomorrow 10 Be Good 11 Whatshisname Hearts The Frumpies 12 She's A Real Cutie Pie 13 Safety First 14 Weary Ingenues And Snotty Brats 15 Duvet Ta 16 Fake Antagonism Rules, Okay 17 Tommy Slich 18 Deliberate Indifference 19 Planet What 20 Fuck Yr. Frumpies 21 Eunuch Nights 22 Of Ever And Now On 23 You'll See 24 Wrong Way Round
7":
Side A: Frumpies Forever / Don't Wanna Go Home
Side B: Turn off the Faucet/ Tell Me
Cleveland Calling [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Recovered from the depths of the Rory Gallagher archive comes 'Cleveland Calling' a previously unreleased radio session recorded at WNCR in Cleveland on August 7th,1972. This intimate 8-song acoustic session and interview with DJ Carolyn Thomas was found on a small 7" reel and will be released for the first time for Record Store Day 2020.
1. Pistol Slapper Blues 2. Don't Know Where I'm Going 3. Gypsy Woman 4. Out Of My Mind
1. The Cuckoo 2. Bankers Blues 3. Should've Learned My Lesson 4. Blow Wind Blow
Born 2 Rap [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Born Jayceon Terrell Taylor, two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum Compton rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and entrepreneur The Game locked down a place in the pantheon alongside greats of both coasts with a combination of bar-for-bar bravado, provocative observation, hard-hitting hooks, and sharp introspection. And now the prolific rapper returns with his ninth album, fittingly titled Born 2 Rap. Pressed on Red, White and Blue triple vinyl for Record Store Day, marking the album's vinyl debut.
Intro. City of Sin (feat. Ed Sheehan), 1. No Smoke (feat. Travis Barker & Miguel), 2. Five Hundred Dollar Candles (feat. Dom Kennedy), 3. The Light, 4. Carmen Electra (feat. Mozzy, Osbe Chill & TOBi)
5. Dead Homies (feat. Red Café), 6. Gold Daytonas (feat. Dom Kennedy), 7. West Side, 8. 40 Ounce Love (feat. Just Liv)
9. Gucci Flip Flops, 10. Born 2 Rap, 11. Welcome Home (feat. Nipsey Hussle), 12. Interlude. Help Me (feat. Sly)
13. I Didn't Wanna Write This Song (feat. Marsha Ambrosius), 14. The Code (feat. 21 Savage), 15. Stay Down (feat. Bryson Tiller), 16. Hug The Block
Side E
17. Ask For Me, 18. Stainless (feat. Anderson .Paak), 19. Gangstas Make The Girls Go Wild (feat. Chris Brown), 20. Blood Thicker Than Water (feat. Trey Songz)
Side F
21. Rewind II, 22. One Life (feat. J Stone & Masego), 23. Cross On Jesus Back (feat. D Smoke), 24. Roadside (feat. Ed Sheeran)
Dexter Gordon Quartet
Live In Châteauvallon - 1978 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
1978 was a banner year for Dexter Gordon. Maxine Gordon (then Gregg) had started to manage his career and proved to be a one-woman tour de force. In signing with Columbia boosted his career. He moved to New York, forming and grooming his own band all at age 52! The wonderful quartet included George Cables on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Eddie Gladden on drums. This November 1978 concert at the Châteauvallon Jazz Festival highlights Dexter's joyous and fiery mood, peppering his solos with outrageous quotes from other songs.
Pressed on 180-gram vinyl for the first time.
SIDE A – Tangerine
SIDE B – More Than You Know
Please Forgive Me 2020 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
1. "Please Forgive Me" 2. "Please Forgive Me (Live Solo Version)" 3. "Please Forgive Me (Paul Hartnoll Remix)" 4. "Please Forgive Me (Bin Liner Remix)"
Official Bootleg Collection Vol 2 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Following last year's Humble Pie Official Bootleg Collection Volume 1 double LP comes the Official Bootleg Collection Volume 2, curating rare and previously (officially) unreleased live shows that were illicitly recorded between 1971 and 1981.
Emerging from the remnants of The Small Faces, Humble Pie formed in 1969 when guitarist and vocalist Steve Marriott joined forces with Peter Frampton, drummer Jerry Shirley and bassist Greg Ridley, and began their ascent to conquering the theatres and then arenas of North America, culminating in 1972's double live Performance: Rockin' The Filmore album. Frampton left in 1971 for a highly successful solo career, replaced by Colosseum's Clem Clempson, and it was this line-up that was captured in New York in 1971, at one of Clem's first shows with the Pie. The extemporisations of Performance: Rockin' The Filmore became the basis for much of Humble Pie's live repertoire for the remainder of the 1970s, but this 1971 New York show does include their unique take on Eddie Cochran's 'C'mon Everybody' and 'I Wonder' from the soon to be released Smokin' LP.
Side Two finds the Pie backed up by the soulful vocals of The Blackberries--Venetta Fields, Clydie King & Billie Barnum==who appear on "Oh La-De-Da", '" Don't Need No Doctor" and "30 Days In The Hole."
Humble Pie split in 1975 following their Street Rats LP, but not before Side Three's Philadelphia show on March 15, 1975, featuring 'Four Day Creep' and 'I Don't Need No Doctor'.
The Pie would eventually reform for 1980's "On To Victory" comeback record, this time with a line-up featuring Bobby Tench from the Jeff Beck Group on guitar and vocals and bassist Anthony "Sooty" Jones.
Side Four from Privates Club, N.Y.C. on March 25, 1981 features the epic 23 minute take of '30 Days in the Hole' / 'I Walk on Gilded Splinters'.
Housed in a gatefold sleeve, with plenty of rare memorabilia, the booklet features an essay based on new interviews with Pie drummer Jerry Shirley.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC N.Y.C.: DECEMBER 3, 1971
1. FOUR DAY CREEP, 2. C'MON EVERYBODY, 3. THE FIXER, 4. I WONDER
Steve Marriott: Guitar & Vocals / Jerry Shirley: Drums
Clem Clempson: Guitar / Greg Ridley: Bass
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, LONDON, BIBA WITH THE BLACKBERRIES: NOVEMBER 30, 1973
1. OH LA-DE-DA, 2. I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR, 3. 30 DAYS IN THE HOLE
The Blackberries:
Venetta Fields / Clydie King / Billie Barnum
SIDE THREE
PHILADELPHIA: MARCH 15, 1975
1. FOUR DAY CREEP, 2. STONE COLD FEVER, 3. C'MON EVERYBODY, 4. I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR
PRIVATES CLUB, N.Y.C.: MARCH 25, 1981
1. 30 DAYS IN THE HOLE / I WALK ON GILDED SPLINTERS
Bobby Tench: Guitar & Vocals
Anthony "Sooty" Jones: Bass & Vocals
Take You On A Ride [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Infectious Grooves, the funk metal supergroup led by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir, is back! Take You On A Ride (EP) features three unreleased tracks from 1995 along with their first newly recorded song in years. Infectious Grooves features bassist Robert Trujillo (Metallica), drummer Brooks Wackerman (Avenged Sevenfold), Dean Pleasants (Suicidal Tendencies), and other veteran players. The EP comes on 12" transparent orange vinyl, mastered at 45RPM, exclusively for Record Store Day 2020.
"Funny Farm"/ "Payback's A Bitch"/ "What Goes Up" / "Take You On A Ride"
9 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Lil' Kim's first new album in fifteen years features Rick Ross, Musiq Soulchild, Rich The Kid, City Girls, and O.T. Genesis and now it's been pressed on sky blue vinyl.
1. Pray For Me (feat. Rick Ross & Musiq Soulchild), 2. Bag, 3. Catch My Wave (feat. Rich The Kid), 4. Go Awff, 5. Too Bad
1. You Are Not Alone, 2. Found You (feat. City Girls & O.T. Genasis), 3. Auto Blanco, 4. Jet Fuel, 5. Spicy (feat. Fabolous)
Metroland (Music and Songs From The Film) [RSD Drops Aug 2020]
Aside from Knopfler's silky score, the album contains tracks from Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Francoise Hardy, The Stranglers, Hot Chocolate and Django Reinhardt.
"…nicely evokes the picture's wistful, nostalgic atmosphere." -All Music
Limited Edition - Pressed on clear vinyl
Love Tractor
60 Degrees And Sunny [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Athens, Georgia instrumental college rock staples Love Tractor return with their original line up to rework early tracks for this RSD 7" with help from Doug Stanley & Joe Rowe of the Glands, Bill Berry of R.E.M., and with David Barbe and Jeff Calder holding down the studio. Two reworked originals to lead into their full catalog reissue series that kicks off in mid-2020.
"60 Degrees and Sunny" / "FEST-ivals"
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
Real LIVE! Vol. 1 [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
When headbanger historians look back on the important heavy metal and hard rock bands that were active during the '70s, Mahogany Rush's name doesn't come up nearly as often as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kiss, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Blue Öyster Cult or Aerosmith -- and that is regrettable because Frank Marino led one of the '70s' most exciting hard rock/metal outfits. Mahogany Rush is, without question, underrated. Marino's refusal to change with the times is just as well -- he is great at what he does, and the singer/guitarist is as inspired on original material as he is on performances of the Zombies' "She's Not There" and two Hendrix classics: "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" and "Red House."
Recorded live at Club Soda in Montreal, Canada on September 8, 2001.
First time on vinyl. Embossed deluxe gatefold with live photos and enhanced liner notes.
1. Voodoo Chile, 2. Something's Comin' Our Way (Excerpt), 3. He's Calling (Part 1)
1. He's Calling (Part 2), 2. Red House
1. Guitar Prelude to a Hero, 2. Stories of a Hero, 3. Poppy (Part 1)
1. Poppy (Part 2), 2. She's Not There, 3. Crossroads, 4. She's Not There (Return), 5. Poppy (Return) 1
Mingus Ah Um Redux [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
DOUBLE LP HOUSED IN A GATEFOLD JACKET
2ND LP CONTAINS TRACKS NEVER BEFORE RELEASED ON VINYL
Mingus Ah Um, the artist's 1959 debut for Columbia is one of the most consequential albums in jazz or any other genre. The release is part of the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", "Boogie Stomp Shuffle", "Open Letter To The Duke"… the release is packed with classics and is a best-selling release to this day.
For Record Store Day 2020 Get On Down presents Ah Um Redux, the full Ah Um record as you know and love it with a second LP featuring alternate takes from the session previously unreleased on vinyl.
A Side
1. Better Git It In Your Soul 2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 3. Boogie Stop Shuffle 4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors 5. Open Letter To Duke
B Side
1. Bird Calls 2. Fables Of Faubus 3. Pussy Cat Dues 4. Jelly Roll
C Side
1. Pedal Point Blues 2. GG Train 3. Girl Of My Dreams
D Side
1. Bird Calls (Alternate Take) 2. Better Git It In Your Soul (Alternate Take) 3. Jelly Roll (Alternate Take)
I Melt With You [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
New Vinyl: $1798.00 Buy
Modern English's most beloved song, in two versions, along with songs from the band's 2016 album in a special RSD 2020 release featuring brand new reimagined artwork from original 4AD/Modern English designer Vaughan Oliver.
1. "I Melt With You (Single Version)" 2. "I Melt With You (Single Version)" 3. "Not My Leader" 4. "Moonbeam"
Hugo Montenegro
Hugo in Wonder-Land [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
"You have taken what I write, play, and sing about to an even higher level of expression. "
-Stevie Wonder
Hugo Montenegro was a prolific composer and orchestra leader, best known for crafting dynamic film and television soundtracks throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to original compositions, the New York native also recorded many unique interpretations of contemporary work by other artists. In 1974, Montenegro released Hugo In Wonder-Land, his take on the catalog of music icon Stevie Wonder. The album is entirely instrumental, offering a brand new perspective on Wonder's acclaimed originals. Montenegro's lush arrangements and Moog-heavy electronic elements make for a genre-bending classic that Stevie Wonder himself has championed. After years out of print, Hugo In Wonder-Land is now back on limited-edition vinyl.
"Living For The City"/"Too High"/"Superstition"/"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"/"My Cherie Amour"/"Higher Ground"/"Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing"/"Shoo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo-Da-Day"/"You've Got It Bad, Girl"/"All In Love Is Fair"
Avalon (Original Motion Picture Score) [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
First time on vinyl in decades.
"One of the best, most movingly evocative scores in Randy Newman's long movie career… " -All Music
"Warm-hearted and moving, this is one of the most treasured items in my film music collection." -Movie Wave
"…one of the finest in Newman's canon." -Movie Music UK
Limited Edition Pressed on custom blue vinyl
The Natural [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
Back on vinyl for the first time in decades.
One of the 100 Scores Of All Time - Movie Music UK
"...one of the most defining, effective, and memorable sports scores of all time." -Filmtracks
Pressed on aqua blue vinyl.
Daniel Pemberton & Samuel Sim
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - The Crystal Chamber [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
A truly special two-sided picture disc featuring imagery unavailable elsewhere - one side features the cover art and the other, the floor of the Dark Crystal's chamber: a circle of 18 arcane symbols, one for each of the urSkeks that came to Thra during the first Great Conjunction.
Composer Daniel Pemberton reveals: "I wanted the music to be as magical as Thra itself – organic, imperfect, strange, mystical, otherworldly and wonderful. I wanted to create new sounds that felt like they came from the world itself, as well as using thematic large scale orchestral elements to bring an emotion to the journey of the characters.
There are two Dark Crystal picture discs being released for Record Store Day, with completely different track listings.
The 10 episode prequel to the groundbreaking 1982 fan favorite The Dark Crystal stars Taron Egerton, Star Wars' Mark Hamill, Harry Potter's Helena Bonham-Carter, Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander and Outlander's Caitriona Balfe.
1. The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance – Daniel Pemberton 2. Another World, Another Time – Daniel Pemberton 3. Story Of The Dark Crystal – Daniel Pemberton 4. Rian + Mira Dreamfast – Daniel Pemberton 5. Aughra Awakes – Daniel Pemberton 6. The Crystal Chamber – Daniel Pemberton 7. Essence Draining – Daniel Pemberton
1. What Lies At The Dream's End – Daniel Pemberton 2. Together We Fight – Daniel Pemberton 3. The Blue Flames Part 1 – Daniel Pemberton 4. Deet In The Woods – Samuel Sim 5. Speak For The Dead – Daniel Pemberton 6. Brea And The Library – Samuel Sim 7. Her Light Faded – Daniel Pemberton
Record Safari
Record Safari [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
New DVD: $16.98 Buy
Since its discovery over 100 years ago, the vinyl record has revolutionized the way people hear and feel recorded music. Vinyl records are Alex Rodriguez's drug, and he's turned his addiction into a career. Running the Glass House record store and curating the on-site record store at the Coachella Music Festival, Alex spends weeks on the road, digging in crates across America, swapping stories with fellow collectors, musicians, enthusiasts and producers. Record Safari follows his travels, giving us an intimate inside look into the world of record collecting.
Featuring interviews with Pete Rock, Lenny Kaye, DJ Monalisa Murray, Oliver Wang, Valerie Calano, Slug and Ant from Atmosphere, Sheila Burgel, Steven Blush, Rebecca Birmingham, Jamison Harvey aka DJ Prestige, Kevin Patrick, and many more, the film explores the many reasons people become vinyl enthusiasts. Is it just a hobby or something deeper and more meaningful? What explains vinyl's steady popularity in the age of streaming? Alex explores these and many more questions throughout the journey he takes with friends new and old.
Record Safari is a film for music lovers, and will reignite their passion for physical media. Tag along for the journey as Alex travels far and wide, searching high and low for these very sought-after pieces of plastic.
Hate It When You Leave / Key To The Highway [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
This red vinyl 7" single features the rare Keith Richards track "Key To The Highway" which only ever saw release on the Japanese version of the album Main Offender, along with that album's classic "Hate It When You Leave."
"Hate It When You Leave" b/w "Key To The Highway"
Metamorphosis UK [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
The first official Rolling Stones' rarities collection, Metamorphosis, was originally released in June 1975 to try to outwit the bootleggers. The release combines legendary outtakes and rarities as well as the wealth of demos that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards composed for other artists, which were subsequently re-recorded by the Stones themselves. The collection includes an orchestrated version of "Out Of Time," recently featured in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The Record Store Day 2020 limited edition of the UK version of Metamorphosis will be released on hunter green vinyl and includes a full color exclusive iron-on t-shirt transfer of the album artwork, which alludes to Franz Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis," the story of a man who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect.
1. Out Of Time 2. Don't Lie to Me 3. Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind 4. Each and Every Day of the Year 5. Heart of Stone 6. I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys 7. (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City 8. We're Wastin' Time 9. Try a Little Harder
1. I Don't Know Why 2. If You Let Me 3. Jiving Sister Fanny 4. Downtown Suzie 5. Family 6. Memo from Turner 7. I'm Going Down
Royal Horses
A Modern Man's Way To Improve [RSD Drops Oct 2020]
The much-anticipated, full-length debut album from Royal Horses, a South Mississippi-based Americana trio, featuring ten original songs recorded in New Orleans. Music critic Mik Davis has called the album a "stunning first chapter for the powerful trio." Released exclusively on 180g audiophile vinyl, each purchase comes with a free digital download that is not otherwise available on traditional music streaming sites. THIS TITLE IS CHAMPIONED BY T-BONES RECORDS & CAFÉ IN HATTIESBURG MS. IT'S AVAILABLE TO ALL STORES BUT WILL MOST LIKELY BE FOUND IN THAT REGION.
1). Bottom of the Chart, 2). A Modern Man's Way to Improve, 3). Valley of the New, 4). Who Do You Know?, 5). There She Walks, 6). Leave a Light, 7). Call it War, 8). Rattlesnake Smoking a Cigarette, 9). Ruby Do, 10). BLD

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Christmas should be one of the deepest and most meaningful times of the year. It is the celebration of God's ultimate, self-giving intervention into human history.
It was during a Christmas Eve service last year that I heard this hymn sung. It is located in our hymnal with communion songs, and yet it is really about God taking on human flesh for us and for our salvation. The hymn is appropriate as a celebration of God's in-carn-ation—God's enfleshment.
In the midst of gifts, parties and decorations, my prayer for all of us is that we find the deepest possible Christmas celebration. We should know as fully as possible that God loves us, that God invites us to be Christ's disciples and that God seeks a world filled with peace and good will toward all.
Many of us will experience conflicts in our families, difficulties in our jobs, financial pressures and other difficulties of life. We also will experience the love of our families, blessings in our work and many good things in our lives.
In the midst of life's highs and lows, a deep relationship with the sacrificial love of God will guide us, sustain us, support us and empower us to be God's people on earth.
May you have a deeply blessed Christmas!


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Yes, I agree, or at least think, it's weird, but I'm not entirely displeased.
The presidential election this year pits one Yalie against another.
Normally this fact would be of no interest to me. I care little about the so-called Ivy League. It's merely an athletic conference, after all, one to which my attention gravitates only because my uncle, Uncle Chris, is a Harvard man, and because the University of Pennsylvania is just down the road. Princeton isn't far from Philadelphia either.
But as you may know, the mascot at Yale University is a bulldog.
I need to select one bulldog or the other.
Easy choice. Not even close.


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Maine Voices: Internet privacy law is a good first step, but much more needs to be done
Protecting Mainers online calls for regulating websites, social media platforms and data brokers, not just internet service providers.
By Elena PerrelloSpecial to the Press Herald
EDDINGTON — Americans spend most of their days consuming media. The internet is more than just a facet of modern society – it's an unavoidable part of everyday life. Students use search engines to complete homework, video chats bring children into their grandparents' homes from miles away and businesses rely on social media to reach their customers. However, the many conveniences provided by the internet have not come without a price tag. The threats to our online privacy and personal data are growing and without protections in place, we are all potentially vulnerable.
This year, Maine passed a bill that will help protect the privacy of Mainers. L.D. 946, An Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Customer Information, was meant to solve Maine's privacy problems, but it did not address all facets of online privacy.
Elena Perrello of Eddington recently retired after working as school counselor for Regional School Unit 63 (Eddington, Holden and Holbrook) for 28 years.
As someone who was a Maine school counselor for nearly 30 years, I know firsthand the importance of protecting our privacy on all forums. The current law places restrictions on internet service providers but does nothing to protect Mainers everywhere they travel online. It exempts the websites, social media platforms and data brokers that place our data most at risk.
Take Facebook, for example – last year, it was discovered that Cambridge Analytica manipulated Facebook data without users' permission, gaining access to the personal information of 87 million people. Following this scandal, Facebook faced another privacy breach, resulting in nearly 50 million Facebook accounts being hacked. This year hasn't been any easier for the company, and the Federal Trade Commission imposed a historic $5 billion fine as a result of the social media platform's misconduct.
Only 15 percent of Americans agree that Facebook securely protects its customers' personal information and data, according to an Axios + The Harris Poll survey, and the social media platform scored in the bottom 10 for both ethics and trust. Given the endless privacy controversy that surrounds Facebook and its peers in Silicon Valley, it doesn't make sense that they were excluded from Maine's privacy law.
Our legislators may have meant well in theory when crafting this law, but in practice, the law requires consumers to tackle a patchwork of complex agreements dependent on what sites they visit on the internet. By applying restrictions only on certain sites but leaving out everywhere else Mainers travel online, consumers are left in the dark about where they are, and are not, protected. Privacy disclosures should be simple and uniform across the entire internet ecosystem.
In addition to uniformity, transparency is also critical when it comes to online data practices. We deserve to know what information is being collected and where it's being shared or sold so we can make informed decisions about what websites or platforms we choose to frequent.
Most Americans believe that the threat to personal privacy online is a crisis. The legislation passed this year is a good first step in protecting Mainers, but more needs to be done. Luckily, our lawmakers still have the chance to amend this law before its implementation next July. I am confident they will provide Mainers the privacy protections we deserve.
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31 Body Slam 85 15 100% Has a 30% chance to paralyze the target.
38 Amnesia -- 20 -- Raises the user's Special Defense by two stages.
45 Hydro Pump 120 5 80% Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.
Black 2 Its skin is so thin, its internal organs are visible. It has trouble walking on its newly grown feet.
Diamond Its skin is so thin, its internal organs are visible. It has trouble walking on its newly grown feet.
HeartGold Because it is inept at walking on its newly grown legs, it always swims around in water.
SoulSilver The direction of its belly spiral differs by area. The equator is thought to have an effect on this.
Ruby POLIWAG has a very thin skin. It is possible to see the Pokemon's spiral innards right through the skin.
Despite its thinness, however, the skin is also very flexible. Even sharp fangs bounce right off it.
FireRed Its slick black skin is thin and damp. A part of its internal organs can be seen through the skin as a spiral pattern.
LeafGreen Its newly grown legs prevent it from walking well. It appears to prefer swimming over walking.
legs, it always swims around in water.
Silver The direction of its belly spiral differs by area.
The equator is thought to have an effect on this.
through the skin. It looks clearer after it eats.
appears to prefer swimming than trying to stand.
area. It is more adept at swimming than walking.


It's no surprise that India and Indonesia are among the worst-hit Asian currencies this year when you look at their foreign debt exposure and the level of reserves they have to cover that.
[MANILA] It's no surprise that India and Indonesia are among the worst-hit Asian currencies this year when you look at their foreign debt exposure and the level of reserves they have to cover that.
Moody's Investors Service's external vulnerability index - which is the ratio of short-term debt, maturing long-term debt and non-resident deposits over one year calculated as a proportion of reserves - puts Indonesia at 51 per cent and India at 74 per cent.
Malaysia and the Philippines are the odd ones out: the ringgit has gained this year even though Malaysia is among the most debt risky in Asia, while the Philippines has low foreign exposure but a currency that's the second worst-performer in Asia, down almost 5 per cent against the US dollar.
Tighter global financial conditions is making it more expensive to refinance foreign debt and adds to pressure on currencies. In some countries, including Indonesia and the Philippines, yields have risen, Moody's said.
However, the extent of depreciation and more generally, tightening in financing conditions, is nowhere similar in magnitude compared with the taper tantrum in 2013, it said.


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What I Know Now
If you could send a letter back through time to your younger self, what would the letter say?
In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and insights they wish they had had when they were younger.
Today show correspondent Ann Curry writes to herself as a rookie reporter in her first job, telling herself not to change so much to fit in, urging her young self, "It is time to be bold about who you really are." Country music superstar Lee Ann Womack reflects on the stressed-out year spent recording her first album and encourages her younger self to enjoy the moment, not just the end result. And Maya Angelou, leaving home at seventeen with a newborn baby in her arms, assures herself she will succeed on her own, even if she does return home every now and then.
These remarkable women are joined by Madeleine Albright, Queen Noor of Jordan, Cokie Roberts, Naomi Wolf, Eileen Fisher, Jane Kaczmarek, Olympia Dukakis, Macy Gray, and many others. Their letters contain rare glimpses into the personal lives of extraordinary women and powerful wisdom that readers will treasure.


George Kiorpelidis is a marketing consultant and is currently serving as the Marketing Director of Small Business Marketing Formula. For over 25 years he has been helping small and medium sized companies reach their sales and marketing objectives. George is also an award winning public speaker and is the Vice President of two Toastmasters clubs. He also volunteers his time to assist young entrepreneurs through the Montreal English School Board.
Vous lisez actuellement Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur l'utilisation des média sociaux, mais ne savez pas qui demander à Cercle de formations et réseautage communautaire.


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DR LEI CAI, DR NIVES BOTICA REDMAYNE, PROFESSOR FAWZI LASWAD AND DR WARWICK STENT - School of Accountancy
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New Zealand's civil war
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Theatre for social change
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Financial literacy development in Timor-Leste
Using a strategic approach to increase the economic prosperity of Timor-Leste, the South-East Asian nation's government called upon Massey University for assistance in developing a national financial literacy strategy.
Lifting student achievement in mathematics
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Most funding related to diabetes now goes into its management, but new research could help predict and prevent the development of the condition and its complications.
Designer ice cream
Creating novel food ingredients that enhance existing food products with a side benefit of trimming waistlines is one of the many interesting challenges taken on by food technologists at Massey University.
High-performance honey
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Brittle bones, fractures and chronic pain are suffered by many ageing women. Specialised nutrition and functional foods could mean reduced reliance on traditional pharmaceutical medications.
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Applying with precision
Returns from sheep and cattle farming of New Zealand's hill country are increasingly marginal, so the government is looking to precision or satellite agriculture to boost productivity and revenue.
Financial reports are a mandatory part of conducting business in New Zealand, but how useful are they to those who work with them?
In 2015, New Zealand's External Reporting Board (XRB), an independent Crown entity responsible for the country's financial reporting strategy and standard setting, commissioned a team from Massey University's School of Accountancy to undertake research into the usefulness of the financial reports produced by New Zealand-listed companies.
Information Needs of Users of New Zealand Capital Markets Entity Reports was published in March 2016. Since then, results from this research have featured in the National Business Review and on Scoop, as well as internationally on the IASPlus global accounting news website.
Our study provides insights into whether financial statements meet user needs and what additional improvements users are seeking.
PROFESSOR FAWZI LASWAD
Professor Fawzi Laswad, Dr Warwick Stent, Dr Nives Botica Redmayne and Dr Lei Cai found financial reports are a well-used and trusted source of information for shareholders, professional advisors, creditors and regulators in New Zealand. Seventy-nine per cent of respondents used financial reports in making decisions, and most users were satisfied with the quality of the information.
"General-purpose financial reports are prepared to meet the information needs of external users," Professor Laswad says. "Our study provides insights into whether financial statements meet user needs and what additional improvements users are seeking.
"Often financial reports are perceived as compliance documents, and anecdotal evidence suggests they are not useful and not used. Our findings certainly show that users use and rely on financial reports when making decisions."
All components of financial reports were perceived, on balance, to be useful. In general, respondents ranked the statement of profit and loss and the statement of financial position as the two most useful categories, while the statement of changes in equity was considered to be least useful. Only a quarter of respondents indicated that financial statements contained information that was not useful.
The team developed an online questionnaire that attracted 145 respondents. The questionnaire explored the usefulness of financial statements and the other sources of information used in making decisions. To gain a deeper understanding of users' information needs, 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with investors, lenders, intermediaries and regulators.
"We were able to survey the users and ask them their views and perceptions of whether the information provided in financial statements meets their needs," Professor Laswad says. "Users are generally satisfied with the quality of information provided, but are looking for more."
Changes suggested
Suggested improvements to financial reports included more detailed information about the entity, such as its strategies, risks, prospects and forecasts; simplified language; and standardising the presentation to enable easier comparison between companies. Users also sought five-year summaries, key performance indicators, dashboard reporting and sustainability information, plus broader context around performance.
Until the Massey study there had been little research relevant to user needs in New Zealand since the 1970s, and none of this type since New Zealand's adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards in 2007.
"In this climate of increased accountability, companies have really had to step up and change their financial reporting to be in line with international standards and to respond to user demands," XRB Chief Executive Warren Allen says. "The research we commissioned shows that the hard work has been worthwhile: reports are being valued by users. However, there is still room for improvement."
The team also reviewed international research on user information needs and found New Zealand users are very similar to their international counterparts.
"The research confirms a lot of what we already suspected," Mr Allen says. "It is good to see that these reports are read and valued, and for many users they are the most important source of corporate information. This research will help companies that want to improve their stakeholder communications to understand their key areas of focus."
The School of Accountancy is working on a second report for the XRB — on the information needs of users of financial reports produced by entities that have no public accountability. The new research will also look at the assurance needs of those entities.
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Finally a long awaited comprehensive book has been published by the man who the Iranian regime holds responsible for revealing its clandestine nuclear program to the world.
In his book, "The Iran Threat," he reveals new details on Iran's meddling in Iraq and its broader goals for the future of the Middle East. This is the most authoritative account to date of the looming threat Iran poses to the United States and the Gulf region.
With his access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in terror attacks to his impact on Iran's weapons program.
Good evening. Tonight in Iraq, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of the global war on terror -- and our safety here at home. The new strategy I outline tonight will change America's course in Iraq, and help us succeed in the fight against terror.
Stop Fundamentalism, January 14, 2007 - Following the announcement of the change in American strategy in Iraq by President George W. Bush, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "It was expected that after they had noticed their mistakes, they move to correct their illegal and un-ethical actions. Unfortunately, it seems that the process of making wrongful decisions continues."
The new strategy realizes Iran's activity in Iraq after the American lead war there as unproductive and that Iran has been trying to flare up sectarian war in that country in order to make American forces to leave the country and gain hegemony in the region.
Ahmadinejad who was speaking at his cabinet meeting, continued, "Any policy that fails to consider the people of Iraq, will fail even if it is presented in a new packaging and new words."
Stop Fundamentalism, January 13 - Mullahs' seem quite surprised about the change in the policy as if they never expected such change.
A spokesman from the mullahs' foreign ministry said Friday, "The increase in American military forces can help spread instability and insecurity in Iraq and will not help solve the problems in that country."
The spokesman expressed concern over the placement of patriot missiles in the region as the US president announced.


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Full Moon Features: Wolf Blood (1925)
This month marks a major milestone for werewolf movie fans since December 16th was the 90th anniversary of the release of the 1925 silent Wolf Blood, which is the earliest extant werewolf-related feature on record. This is, of course, not to say it's been given the deluxe restoration treatment. To date, its only DVD release has been through the budget label Alpha Video, which included it as a bonus feature on its release of F.W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle in 2008. Within a year, Kino came to The Haunted Castle's rescue with a restored authorized edition, but Wolf Blood still languishes and, like a lot of films in the public domain, can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube.
Subtitled "A tale of the forest" (because evidently the filmmakers didn't want to go for the "tail" pun), Wolf Blood is set deep in the Canadian wilderness where a bitter rivalry between competing logging companies has fatal consequences. Caught up in the conflict is the Ford Logging Company's new field boss Dick Bannister (George Chesebro, co-director with Bruce Mitchell), who quickly gets fed up with his men getting shot at per the orders of Consolidated Lumber's underhanded owner Jules Deveroux (Roy Watson), who hires half-breed bootlegger Jacques Lebeq (Milburn Morante) to do the job. Dick calls in the boss, society dame Edith Ford (Marguerite Clayton), and she brings along her fiancé Eugene Horton (Ray Hanford), a doctor whose surgical skills come in handy when Dick has a run-in with Deveroux and requires a blood transfusion.
It's a while before it comes to that, though, and in fact on the day Edith arrives at the camp Dick is felled by a tree but somehow suffers no ill effects, which already makes him out to be some kind of a superman. Even a superman can be overpowered when outnumbered, though, and after one of Deveroux's men brains him with a rock he's left to die in the woods, where he's menaced by some of the least threatening wolves ever put on the screen. (I suppose they're distant cousins of the lone hyena masquerading as a werewolf in Murnau's Nosferatu.) Luckily, Eugene happens upon him and is able to keep him alive with the blood of a she-wolf, but there are complications when Lebeq starts spreading the rumor that he's now half wolf and the superstitious lumberjacks start to shun him.
Even Eugene follows suit, telling Edith, who has since become smitten with him, that "the blood through his brain will change his whole character — his mentality — his desires — his whole life!" This, coupled with Dick's vague memories of the "weird tales of the Loup Garou of the Far North," makes him suspect himself when Deveroux turns up dead one morning with his throat torn out. He then heeds the call of the "phantom pack," following their photo-negatives to the edge of Wolfs Head Rock, but Edith pulls him back at the last minute. Seems there's a non-supernatural explanation after all, which is mildly disappointing, but it's still preferable to, say, She-Wolf of London, the 70th anniversary of which no one will be celebrating next year.
Craig J. Clark	Dec. 24th 2015
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Richard Eriksson is among many other things, the administrator of the Vancouver Transit Flickr Group and documents things in exhaustively wonderful detail, such as his walks along the SkyTrain Expo Line. He blogs at Just A Gwai Lo.
Visiting the Vancouver City Centre station as part of the open house today (my set on Flickr), I was shocked with the visual reminder of something I knew already: that trains would not be nearly as long as the existing SkyTrain systems. Roomier, as Jim Pick notes, but shorter. The stations constrain the size of the trains to the two car trains, where on the Expo Line and Millennium Line, 6 car trains can fit snugly, as we found out last winter. The dirty trains and security guards killing me with kindness, asking me in a friendly way where I was going when I just wanted a picture of the tunnel, dispel any enthusiasm I might have had for Canada Line and rail in general in the Lower Mainland.
Longish articles in The Walrus and The Tyee by Monte Paulsen detail how Canada missed its chance for a culture where rail transportation co-exists as a first-class citizen in our supposedly modern nation. The humming and hawing about a second train from Vancouver to Seattle illustrates how various levels of government don't want this anywhere near their electoral constituencies. The recent "cancellation" of the Evergreen Line further puts to rest any claim that the Lower Mainland at its various levels of government is serious about rail. For this fan of rail transportation (I bought the Microsoft Train Simulator game at the height of the popularity of first-person shooter Half Life: Counterstrike) I have to ask myself: do I wait for Vancouver and its surroundings to seriously commit to rail as a viable mode of transportation around and inside the city, or do I move to a metropolitan area that is already serious?
Thanks to Karen for letting me write on her blog. I know she's passionate about this city and its public transit system, and it comes through on her transit blog TransLinked. I love this city and its buses, trolleys, passenger ferries and yes, its various trains, including the often overlooked and underrated (and popular!) West Coast Express. I've even gone so far as to take a trip out to Port Moody for no other reason than to ride Vancouver's commuter rail. In my capacity as administrator of the Vancouver Transit group on Flickr, I want to document and show my respect and awe for TransLink's network of transportation methods, and I want the city and its environs to seriously consider streetcar, elevated and below grade rail as well as extensions of the WCE. I'm looking forward to what comes out of Vancouver's demonstration streetcar project during the Olympics, and see it as the right step towards a serious approach to mass transit in the city proper and the Metro Vancouver region. I don't have any other signs of this, however with the Canada Line and other proposed extensions to SkyTrain.
This entry was written by Richard Eriksson, posted on July 25, 2009 at 6:50 pm, filed under Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network and tagged bcrail, commute, evergreen line, rail, skytrain, translink, transportation, vancouver. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Just checking in. Hope everything is going well.
keep on keepin on as they say!
I have to ask myself: do I wait for Vancouver and its surroundings to seriously commit to rail as a viable mode of transportation around and inside the city, or do I move to a metropolitan area that is already serious?
Are you serious that availability of transportation modes will dictate where you live?
It's a consideration. The odds of my owning a car in my lifetime are extremely slim, and I'd like to live in places other than Vancouver in that lifetime. There are cities on my list that, if I were to move there, I'd find living arrangements close to a major rail system that feeds into my place of employ, or to the cultural centre of town. I grew up 2 blocks away from train tracks on an active railroad, so much of my love for rail has its roots in nostalgia. I'm not convinced that one mode is better than any other, because they all have their benefits and costs. I like rail because of how it feels to ride it, how it sounds, what the trains look like, and so on. My quality of life depends on how much I enjoy it, and when going from one place to another, I get there either by bike or transit. If it's transit and I have the choice, I'd like to go by rail. (I've often gone out of my way just to take SkyTrain.) I love Vancouver and want to stay here: it's the perfect size, most of my social network is here, low crime and beautiful surroundings and a fairly healthy economy for the industry I'm in, etc. A missing piece, though, of the puzzle is a seriousness towards rail transportation for people. That's one aspect of the region, if I could, I would change.
I would just like to give my 2 cents because I have my feelings for Translink, SkyTrain, the bus network, SeaBus and everything our transit network has to offer. I often stop transit officals and drivers etc in their tracks with what I know about our system.
One of those things being the fact Vancouver has the longest Rapid transit rail system on the planet, and if that doesn't make this city serious about rail transit, then I'm sorry I have to say you are a True Vancouverite; you have massively-insanely high standards comparable to none. I know this because I know myself, and I was born in this city, I was born in the heart of Downtown! I have pretty damn high standards, but it's Vancouver that brings it out in us. This is the most livable city in the world, the most beautiful city in the world and regardless of how "serious" our Transit authority is about "rail transit", the city wasn't voted the best transit system in North America for nothing …wait that was almost 15 years ago! Now it's 10 times what it was then, if they voted now, We win. Hands down.
I'm sorry but I completely disagree with the statement "Vancouver is not serious about rail". I can go on, but I feel I've made my point. I'll look out for any replies.


According to the rumors; this year iOS 8 the update probably includes many exciting new features. Recently Apple released the iOS 7.1 update and so corrected several small errors in the previous iOS 7 Owners of an aged iPhone 4 look forward to the update, because it provides a noticeable speed boost.
As soon as iOS 7.1 released there start the discussions about its successor. Already In the internet numerous rumors about iOS 8 appeared, many of which highlight features that the fan community already for iOS 7.1 the much-discussed about "Health Book". The app collects apparently fitness values of the user, which it receives from co-processor of the iPhone 5S (M7) and the planned Apple iWatch SmartWatch.
Due to various errors in their own maps application, in 2012 Apple earned a bad name; and Apple is working hard to remove the stain. For the next big maps update, Apple has apparently done a lot. The Apple wants to integrate Maps - initially for large cities in the U.S., then internationally.
Various acquisitions from third parties (Embark, HopStop, WifiSLAM, and Locationary) were reaffirmed by Apple. Apple's new listing CarPlay is certainly part of iOS 8. A report in the Wall Street Journal claimed Apple is working on a new mobile payment system that not only apps can buy songs and other things from the App Store.
Apple apparently wants to establish a service that allows shopping for physical goods. To protect user the Apple introduced with the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor Touch ID. The last major design update came in mid-September 2013; iOS 7 whether and to what extent the language assistant Siri finds an update, is still unknown. When iOS 8 comes, however, is clear for the fans that there is an update that too most probably in the autumn of this year.
While walking or driving and in doubt about any location, Maps could prove to be helpful in finding the way to any destination. Maps help to navigate your way around any location providing all the details to arrive at the desired destination. Apple Maps app has been providing quality experience giving users access to different modes of relevant interest with regards to tourism, traffic or weather, wherein individuals can switch on the modes related to the situation for a custom map of their choice. Apple has plans in upgrading and making major improvements to its Maps app in iOS 8 with its focus, less on interface improvement and more on enhancement to the application for reliability and accuracy.
It responds to input directed to features in displaying information related to the feature and tapping or clicking on highways indicates the location of the service along the highway. Moreover, tapping two points on the map also provides available routes between them together with relevant data for each route which is computed and displayed to the user. Apple has developed a chip to improve its Maps app with the introduction of its new M7 motion co-processor in the iPhone 5s mentioning that `M7 knows when you're walking running or driving'. The Map relates between driving to walking, turn by turn navigation and if one is in a vehicle or on foot it can easily tell Maps if driving at 100mph on a road. Besides, this, according to 9to5Mac.com, it also helps a person to locate the car parked automatically, if the location is known and users can now expect enhanced data with clear labeling together with a range of new features from its forthcoming version of Apple Maps.
In addition to this, Apple has also added public transit capabilities to the app enabling users to locate directions while using train, bus or subway transit though initial public transit information would be available in major cities only but will make headway to other municipalities over a period of time. Maps provide directions, interactive 3D views with amazing flyover features, all in a vector based interface which can be scaled or zoomed with ease. Maps helps to navigate your way to the desired destination with turn by turn spoken indication and as one approaches a turn, it speaks direction enabling the driver especially at the time of driving to keep their eyes on the road turning the screen into a 3D perspective on the road ahead.
If the user enters a turn, the viewing angle also changes providing them with the direction to proceed and should they miss a turn, Maps automatically provide reroutes with updates on ETA along with signs and arrows to guide them in the right direction. It also provides information on how long it may take to get there even when the screen is in locked mode. With the help of Map, one can get real time traffic information, with calculation of ETA, details on what could be causing a backup indicating major incidents or temporary slowdown with alternative routes to save time. Apple plans to make more progress on iOS's version of Maps with more points of interest making navigation to the locations much easier to the users. Check at Macmyth for more information and updates related to technology.
Is it really possible to recover back the data from your memory card, it you have formatted it? The answer is yes. It often happens when someone carelessly or accidently deletes some of the photos or videos or any data from your memory card that means a lot to you. But now you need not to be sad if something like this happens. We have a great solution to your problem. Get ready and download the memory card recovery software today.
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A few days after the revelation of a major security bug iOS and Mac OS, it is the turn of the GNU / Linux to be covered by a major fault GnuTLS. GnuTLS, the library implementation of security protocols SSL, TLS and DTLS most commonly used on GNU / Linux, is a victim of a fault of any magnitude that it easily ineffective in protection, several U.S. sites reported to Ars Technica.
A worse than go to fail discovered on Mac OS and iOS, and Apple recently patched bug. Particularly it affects at least 200 packets of free or open source software, including GNU / Linux Red Hat (RHEL, Fedora), Canonical (Ubuntu and derivatives) or Debian. In addition to implementing within distributions, we could note that various mail clients and applications are potentially subject to risk.
In fact, any software based on GnuTLS to integrate functionality on the SSL and TLS protocols can hit. The management of certain GnuTLS errors when checking the type X509 certificates. It would bring incorrect certificates validated by the system. According to Red Hat, an attacker could use the flaw to create a certificate that would be accepted as valid by GnuTLS to a site chosen by the attacker. The bug is present since at least 2005 in the library.
Many errors are related to requests "go to cleanup", which increases the apparent similarity with the flaw affecting Apple systems. But its complexity arises primarily from the impact that many lines of code, says Ars Technica. GnuTLS developers required to upgrade to the 3.2.12 release. This does not fix the bug for now, the discoveries made following an audit requested by Red Hat has not shown all their ramifications. You may expect hear again about this major flaw soon.


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Film Review: Pegasus 飞驰人生 (2019) - China
June 23, 2019 • Andrew Chan • Netflix • Pegasus
Pegasus 飞驰人生 (2019) - China
The best parts of this inspiring sport drama is the likability of the characters that blends in 90s Hong Kong movies with Hollywood "Rocky" comeback charm to complete a rounded display of suitable emotions. Superstar blogger, car rally driver and filmmaker Han Han makes his third film and probably his most commercial yet. In turn we get a film that does not challenge conventions, but nor does it slip into the problematic patriotic category with a coming of age and against the odds sports drama in the good old fashioned way.
Headlining the fading former rally racing national champion played strongly by comedic actor Shen Teng. Teng manages to laugh, sing, joke, cry and struggle thru like the rest of us, with a tad of cockiness that makes him easily likeable hero to root for. His key rival in the film is not a villain (played with stoic pride by Huang Jingyu) and that's provide the film's cutting edge. Teng's counterpart and key supporters in his route to comeback comes in the form of Zheng Yin, whose makes a memorable turn.
All in all, "Pegasus" manages to be an enjoyable ride all the way till the questionable finale. It's the journey that counts and not the destination as director Han Han goes commercial rather than commentary. There are highlights of the social commentary when Shen Teng alludes to higher rise buildings soon to overshadow his old rooftop view. However, these are far and in between with the focus squarely on the come back story and with the "Rocky" in full force in the backdrop, "Pegasus" succeeds to the finish line.