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Victor Griffin's In-Graved (S/T)
April 14, 2013 by deckard cain in Reviews and tagged Death metal, doom metal, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Victor Griffin's In-Graved
Today we have Jayaprakash Sathyamurty covering the self-titled album from Victor Griffin's In-Graved released via Svart Records.
1. Digital Critic
2. What If…
3. Late For An Early Grave
4. Fading Flower
5. Thorn In The Flesh
7. Love Song For The Dying
8. Never Surrender
It was no big surprise when Victor Griffin walked out on Pentagram (again) after the Last Rites kinda-reunion album. Pentagram's central figure and visionary, frontman Bobby Liebling has never been an easy person to work with, by all accounts, and it's unlikely that the classic line-up of Liebling, Hasselvander, Griffin and Swaney will ever play together again for any extended period of time. More surprising was Victor Griffin's decision to pull up stakes and disband his long-running act, Place Of Skulls. Your ability to appreciate or ignore that band's frequently faith-influenced lyrics (Griffin isn't just a high priest of the heavy guitar; he's also a devout Christian) may vary, but the music was always right on target: heavy, dark and distinctly doomy. Nonetheless, Griffin has decided to make a fresh start with a new band, albeit one with many familiar conspirators on board, at least in the studio. These include drummer Pete Campbell, former Trouble bassist Jeff Olson on organ and a smorgasboard of bassists who've played with bands like 50 Watt Shaman, Goatsnake, Acid King and of course Pentagram.
So what makes this band different from Place Of Skulls? Perhaps not all that much; for one thing, I've heard that a couple of these songs have been in Griffin's kitty for more than two decades, so it isn't like everything here has been created totally from scratch. Such considerations fade away as the thunderous grooves of 'Digital Critic' stride into contention. The tone is thick and juicy – vintage Griffin – and the riffs are everything you'd expect from one of the most legendary hard rock/doom metal guitarists in the scene. Griffin's vocals are assured and powerful, making Bobby Liebling only the third best vocalist of the classic Pentagram line-up. The song is apparently a screed against, er, online critics (like me!), but any faint sense of persecution is rendered insignificant as Griffin unleashes a swirling, hypnotic multi-tracked lead with a fiendishly groovy backing rhythm. 'What If…' is a more stately number, where Griffin's warm, rich melodies are ably backed by Olson's organ. 'Late For An Early Grave' would make a great fit on any vintage Pentagram album, and is a brilliant showcase for Griffin's lead skills. Whether or not you share or even tolerate Griffin's faith, it fuelled some very soulful songs on Place Of Skulls and this trend continues with the more downtempo track 'Fading Flower'. An implacable, lead-footed riff surges like a force of nature, embellished with striving organ chords. Griffin's vocals are passionate and his soloing is, in a word, divine. Best of all, that morose, melancholy aura you'd quite rightly expect from a doom song is never far away. 'Thorn in the Flesh' would have sounded equally in place on a Pentagram album or one by Place Of Skulls, but it's all good, at least we have a band and an album to listen to an excellent recording of an excellent song. The organ adds another layer of drama to some of Griffin's rhythmic breaks in the song. The next song is something of a coup – a cover of the early Jethro Tull single, 'Teacher', that somehow sounds like it's been filtered through desert rock. I never thought Tull's hard rock/metal Grammy was all that undeserved. There's always been a central core of heaviness running through their music, and it is great hearing Griffin do his stuff with this track. 'Love Song For The Dying' is the album's epic. A thunderous intro dwindles to a sustained organ note before a grinding, lugubrious riff steps in. Griffin's vocals are dramatic and tuneful. The band is in fine form, pacing themselves through the changes. There are effective organ and guitar solos, but the focus is on the grooves and the lyrics. The song is a massive, brilliant downer, and maybe that's why Griffin chooses to end the album with a Detroit-style uptempo rocker called 'Never Surrender'. I understand the impulse, but frankly this song feels a bit slight after the majesty of 'Love Song For The Dying'.
The album is very well produced, with the caveat that the organ sits rather low in the mix. Just a few notches higher and the music would have preserved its guitar-first focus but which just that little extra bit of texture. Still, it's Griffin's band and he calls the shots. I'm not complaining, and neither will you.
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(NEW YORK, NY) January 21, 2014 —The 11th Annual Games for Change Festival will take place from April 22-24, 2014 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T (TFF). In addition, the Games for Change Arcade, which is open to the public, will be held at the TFF Family Festival Street Fair, taking place on Saturday, April 26. Hosted and created by Games for Change, a non-profit that catalyzes social impact through digital games, the Games for Change Festival is the largest gaming event in New York City, and the leading international event uniting game creators with others who believe in the positive social impact of games. Over the years, the festival has played host to speakers ranging from Vice President Al Gore to the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
TFF is among the best-known film festivals in the world, supporting and promoting both emerging and established directors to reach the broadest possible audience. Viewing gaming as an extension of storytelling, TFF featured the blockbuster crime video game "L.A. Noire," in 2011, and more recently, TFF premiered thirty-five minutes of the interactive action-adventure game "Beyond: Two Souls" in 2013.
"Tribeca recognizes the transformative power of gaming that goes far beyond traditional entertainment value of games. The impact and integration has been spreading rapidly across virtually all domains. Of particular interest is how gaming for the social good has scaled-- from education to health care from conflict resolution to religion," said Craig Hatkoff, Co-Founder, TFF. He continued: "By partnering with Games for Change, we hope to bring together the most cutting-edge creators of games, educators, and the world's greatest story-tellers. Together, they will create the latest innovations in gaming for the social good to even wider audiences. We look forward to further expanding our relationship with Games for Change in the future."
Other Games for Change program highlights from this year's festival include: the Annual Games for Change Awards, the Games for Change Showcase at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, as well as the aforementioned Games for Change Arcade (open to the public).
The Games for Change Festival will host the fifth edition of The Annual Games for Change Awards, which are designed to celebrate the year's best "games for change." Award nominees are submitted by game developers and a blue ribbon jury selects recipients in the following categories: Most Significant Impact; Most Innovative; Best Gameplay; Game of the Year. Finalists will be announced at the end of March, and the awards will be presented on the evening of April 23rd.
The costs for the three-day festival pass (plus processing fees) are $499 for general tickets; $399 for non-profits and government employees; and $100 for students. A 20% early bird discount is available until February 21.
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How Jeff Goldblum went viral thanks to Jurassic Park: "There was nothing sexy going on"
By Michael Kennedy On Oct 22, 2021
Few Hollywood actors have enjoyed the longevity that American actor Jeff Goldblum has. But for the somewhat weird (and that's in the best sense of the word) eccentric and unique personality he seems to exude in his interviews, you would have believed that Goldblum only starred in these parallel, independent films. But Jeff did everything. In fact, he's best known for his appearances on big blockbusters like the Jurassic Park franchise, Independence Day: Resurgence, and Marvel Film Thor Ragnarok.
A seasoned pianist, Jeff has his own jazz band called Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, who released their first album, The Capitol Studio Sessions, three years ago. He has also appeared in the television world on popular shows such as Law & Order and Will and Grace. For the latter, he had also landed an Emmy nomination.
But even after all these years, Goldblum could be the most sensational on the internet thanks to a hugely popular meme that shows him barely shirtless from Steven Spielberg director Jurassic Park. Yes this one. You may have come across this many times on social media. In fact, the meme got so hot that Goldblum was asked about it in interviews as well. In an interview with IGN three years ago, the actor opened the sequence in his signature style. A wild wave of his hand to represent the shirt unbuttoning, Goldblum told the location they shot was supposed to represent Costa Rica, and he had just been petted by a dinosaur on the screen. As a result, his character lay shirtless on a table while his wound was examined.
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"I forget if it was Steven (Spielberg, the filmmaker) or if it was just me (laughs). I think it was a natural sweat. I think I suffered manfully and that is the story. (Contrary to popular belief) there wasn't anything sexy going on there and it still can't be, but they made this funko-pop doll with me and my shirt, yeah, "the actor said lightly.
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I think the scan was not as bold, givng better saturation so I`sd like to see that frame. But this is extrememly good.
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Brexit could open the door to a lower VAT rate for Northern Ireland's hospitality industry, the head of the Hotels Federation here has claimed.
Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe announced as part of the Republic's Budget that it will increase the VAT for bars and hotels from 9% to 13.5% in January.
Although the 9% rate for hospitality was introduced in 2011, adjustments date back to 1986 when the rate for hotels was cut from 18% to 10% and on restaurant meals from 23% to 10%.
The reductions have led to arguments from the hospitality industry on this side of the border that VAT for the sector should be reduced from 20% to prevent a loss of trade to the Republic.
Northern Ireland Hotels Federation boss Janice Gault said that while EU rules around taxation currently prevent the UK from altering VAT in one region, things could change following Brexit.
"Brexit affords an opportunity to alter this, which we hope Government will act upon," Ms Gault said.
"Whilst the 9% rate was the lowest level to date, the industry south of the border has benefited from a reduced VAT rate for over 30 years.
"This approach has provided a solid operating base for an industry, which contributes in the region of €9bn to the Republic of Ireland's economy."
Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster said the new 6.5% differential still represented "a huge gap", reinforcing the need to cut tourism VAT here.
"The latest independent research shows that more than 12,000 jobs would be created across accommodation, visitor attractions and food if the VAT rate was cut to 5%," he added.
"This would create a sustained positive impression on the economy."
DUP MP Sammy Wilson claimed the difference in VAT represented "a live and real problem, which is crippling trade".
"How can the sector here be expected to compete when the UK Government continues to tie the hands of the sector behind its back on this issue as the Republic pushes on?" Mr Wilson said.
Mr Donohoe said that the new 13.5% rate would raise €466m in extra taxes.
Some €587m of investment was also announced for the ports of Dublin, Cork and Shannon Foynes.
Brian McGrath of Foyle Port said while he was encouraged for the the industry, it "put into sharp focus the need for investment in ports in Northern Ireland to match the proposed development of our southern counterparts".
Yesterday's announcement by the Finance Minister also confirmed that the Republic will retain its 12.5% corporation tax rate.


Congratulations!!!! The West End Tavern has been awarded a Cask Marque Accreditation. This is awarded after a pub and cellar are inspected and the quality of the cask beers served is found to be of a very high standard.
Sean has worked very hard to improve the cellar and is proud to serve a 'great pint'. Real Ales are becoming more and more popular and there is now a Cask Finder App which will let you know about the pubs local to you serving real ales as well as tasting notes for most ales.


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Breda Dennehy-Willis (born 3 February 1970) is an Irish long-distance runner. She competed in the women's 5000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Her daughter, Roisin Willis, u20 World Champion 800 meters 1:59.13 Gold medal relay 4x400 meters was an American based High School athlete who qualified for the 2021 US Olympic trials in the 800m.

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I get a lot of questions about my hair and how I've gotten it it to the blonde that it is, so today I'm going to show you my hair transformation that took yearrrrs and how I've been keeping it healthy along the way.
My hair is naturally BLACK BLACK BLACK!
When I decided I wanted to go blonde, I didn't take the risk of getting it done cheap! I've heard too many nightmare stories of orange, brassy hair and I know how hard it is to get asian hair to a white/blonde. So I reached out @guy_tang about 5 years ago (when he was still taking appointments) and his work did not dissapoint. After 10 hours in the chair I finally had the pearl-blonde ombre I always dreamed of.
I saw Guy once every 6 months to retouch my ombre. That's what I loved about it in the first place. The maintenance is easy and over the next 5 years I stuck with this hairstyle.
UNTIL RECENTLY!!! I took the plunge and went FULL blonde root to tip! Another TWO x 10 hour sessions in the chair, color correcting the dimension that was in my hair from the ombre. You can imagine the time and skill it took to bleach out my roots and crown of head while not touching the already blonde pieces at the bottom- so that it doesn't break off. Thankfully @araako is SO GOOD at what she does and nailed it.
Here's a collagen-infused juice I've been obsessed with recently as it's been warming up in LA! No juicer required (just a blender).
Blend all the ingredients and enjoy immediately :) If you're sensitive to pulp you could strain!
Every blondes' bff! I keep purple shampoo on hand for when I want to brighten up the color and tone from yellow to white in between dyes. The one I use is Fanola No Yellow shampoo. Do note that it only works if you have blonde yellow hair and won't work on brassy/orange tones.
Right after I wash my hair and get out of the shower, I'll pat my hair dry super gently and add a quarter size amount of Oribe Supershine light moisturizing cream and Playa Ritual Hair oil on the ends. This is an ESSENTIAL step I never miss, because if I do, my hair will most likely not be as soft and cooperative the next day.
There you have it babes, I hope you found this post helpful!


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Q: Installing python through company Firewall (Spyder and Python) I have win7 with Python 3.8.5 installed. I use Spyder. I am trying to install Keras but standards precedures does'nt work for me due to Company firewall. My company computer is very sensitive. So, how do I install Keras from Spyder behind company firewall?
I tried following these steps
https://www.educative.io/edpresso/how-to-install-keras-in-anaconda
There must be a way where I can download some files and copy those to my computer?
compuyrt information

A: here are my recommendation for the same:

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*Open your own computer which has windows installed on it and you have no firewall restrictions on it.

*run the following command in any empty directory
pip download tensorflow keras -d .

*copy that same folder to company computer using a usb

*from there enter the following commands in copied directory
pip install tensorflow keras --no-index --find-links=.
please consider that here are the following possiblities but are less likely to happen:

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*company computer is a different architecture computer (you need to make sure that your and company computer are both the same architecture)

*company computer does not support (AVX instruction set)

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Jillybean
We're big fans of puntastic names and Jillybean is a nice pun on the breeder MzJill Genetics and the fact that this strain tastes rather like a well-known brand of sweets. The parent strains are Orange Velvet and Space Queen.
Although Jillybean is technically Sativa dominant (albeit only just at 60%), it has a fairly moderate THC level of between 15% and 18%. This is still quite enough to deal with a wide range of medical conditions. It's also worth noting that although this is probably the sort of THC level you'd expect from a modern Indica dominant, Jillybean is genuinely a shrunk-to-fit Sativa-dominant, rather than an Indica in disguise. In other words, the head high is full of the bubbly euphoria you'd expect from Sativas and packed with inspiration and motivation. It's rather milder than many other Sativas/Sativa dominants, partly because of the moderate THC and partly because the Indica genetics do act to keep it all grounded. Having said that, there's only about 1% CBD and although this would generally be enough to deliver a very deep, couch-locking, body stone in a strain with a higher level of Indica genetics, with Jillybean, the Sativa genes make everything a bit lighter, but still very relaxing. All in all, therefore, this is a strain you can use at any time of day, although you will need to be careful to allow sufficient recovery time before undertaking anything complicated.
Indoors, Jillybean needs around 9 to 10 weeks of flowering time, but will stay relatively compact, i.e. in the region of about 0.75M and will deliver a crop of about 250g/M2. Outdoors, it will be ready around the end of September, may grow and bit taller and will deliver a crop of about 350g per plant. While these yields may not sound impressive on their own, they are actually pretty good for such a compact plant. Jillybean will grow perfectly happily outdoors in a warm, dry and sunny climate, but is equally well suited to growing indoors, where its compact stature is generally a distinct advantage. We've classed this strain as being moderately difficult to grow partly because it's a photoperiod strain and partly because its indoor grow time is on the longer side, by modern standards. It does, however, have good resistance to mould, diseases and pests.
When it comes to flavour, Jillybean is just full of tropical fruit goodness with particularly strong notes of oranges and citrus. This is reflected in the aroma which also has notes of mango.
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Genetics:
Orange Velvet x Space Queen
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Jillybean, 3.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating


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Academy members are responsible for reviewing concurrent session proposals submitted for SCUP's annual conference. Here's an overview of how concurrent proposals are selected for the annual conference.
Each fall, SCUP invites all of the current academy members (about 90 people) to continue on as a reviewer for the concurrent sessions submitted in October. Some academy members have reviewed for over 10 years, and all members bring a wealth of perspective and knowledge to the review process.
New volunteers are also added to the Academy membership each year to cover attrition, fill the expected number of volunteers we need for the review process, and to add additional viewpoints.
While everybody brings a unique perspective, all volunteers go through reviewer training to ensure consistency in how they approach the review process.
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Annual conference proposals are always due October 1, 11:59 ET. Immediately following the deadline, the concurrent session proposals are forwarded electronically to the four academy conveners. They read them all, and assign each one a single content tag. Then, the conveners gather on a conference call and come to consensus on the final tag assigned to each proposal.
While proposals frequently span several content areas, the tagging helps group proposals that share a similar primary focus, so that reviewers can read all proposals submitted in that topical area.
The content tags are used to assign proposals to reviewers. SCUP staff assign proposals to academy members for review by matching their areas of expertise and interest with corresponding proposal content tags.
Each academy member is assigned a manageable 8-12 proposals to read and review, but can read all proposals within the content tags they have been assigned. Each proposal has a minimum of four reviewers. Teams reviewing each group of proposals frequently represent a variety of higher education planning backgrounds.
Assigned proposals are sent electronically to reviewers around the second weekend of October. They have three weekends to complete and submit an online review form for each proposal.
Review scores and comments are sent to the four academy conveners to read prior to the conference program selection meeting in early November.
Both review scores and comments aid the committee in building a conference program that represents a balance of topics and content that will appeal to the diverse interests of SCUP's constituency, but they also look for emerging topics, and opportunities to bring fresh viewpoints into the program.
The acceptance rate for submitted concurrent sessions averages about 26%. While there will always be more good proposals than room for on the program, submissions are also considered for articles for SCUP's scholarly journal, webcasts, or presentations at other SCUP conferences.
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Q: Scraping  with Nokogiri I'm a noob to web scraping and Ruby.
I'm using rails and I'm trying to scrape the last price at the top of the page of vaultofsatoshi.com. I came across this tutorial at: http://hunterpowers.com/data-scraping-and-more-with-ruby-nokogiri-sinatra-and-heroku/ however I'm unsure how to adapt it to this scenario. I want to retrieve the price here: 716.68571000. It seems like I can just use the unique value of  to get the value but I don't know how to implement this exactly.
To clarify, I do not need the trailing zeroes and the website is at https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/
Your help would be appreciated!

A: Although my previous attempt didn't work, here is a way to do it. Just call the API with relevant parameters.  I still couldn't figure out why I cant get the value I see on the screen :-).
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require 'json'
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doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/ticker_data.php? \
         order_currency=BTC&payment_currency=CAD"))

doc = JSON.parse(doc)  #=> {..., "max_price"=>"721.00000000"...}
doc["max_price"]       #=> "721.00000000"


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My Universal credit monthly payment is £729.48. This arrives in my current account on the nineteenth of every month or the workday that precedes that date, should it happen to fall on a weekend. In return for receiving this I am required to attend two job centres - one standard classic "Job Centre" - or so it would appear from the outside - and one private sector service called PeoplePlus which is owned by a business entity named StandGuide. The Job Centre is part of the governmental Department for Work and Pensions, while PeoplePlus is funded by a collection of bodies including the European Union and The Skills Funding Agency.
This is my total income for the month. Out of it, I pay £411.66 in monthly rent to Bracken House via Sterling Properties. I pay £30 in council tax which is made up of £20 in arrears to a debt collection agency called Jacobs that is fond of bailiff-styled MUST PAY NOW letters fashioned primarily in red ink which I find quite amusing though I'm sure they are designed to scare people into sleepless nights. And I'm sure it succeeds.
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I manage to combine my mobile phone, landline and fibre connection down to a total cost of around £50 per month. I pay a whacking £39 a month to Aviva for home contents insurance yet I consider it well worth the peace of mind. I have a handful of small payments going out which include Netflix (£7.49), Amazon Prime (£5.99), Apple iCloud data storage (£1.58), union membership (£2.17), an incoming and outgoing telephone call recording phone app (£3.79) political party membership (£2.00), and the water utilities bill (£10). In total these amount to £33.02 making my sum total of expenses, as mentioned above, work out at £563.68.
This leaves me with £165.80 for the calendar month which comes out at £5.45 per day.
Now, although I don't smoke or drink alcohol, or care to eat out or buy new clothes or even watch television - which is a good job since I'd have to buy a TV license - I am human and I do need to eat food and use things that are powered by electricity. OK. Maybe the electricity is a bit showy. I'm pretty sure they'll be some guy in a doorway in Soho reading these words on the eBook software of a stolen Nokia phone that he charges up in Starbucks when nobody is looking and a family of eight grouped into a tight huddle in an Indian slum tin hut reading this off a solar-powered lap-top bought with a micro-loan which will take thirty years to pay back in cash and buffalo milk - both these audiences shaking their heads and tutting (actually I believe the Indians would be nodding their heads - which is a charming cultural inflection that oft amuses me) and thinking "Electricity! Tah. Sheer decadence you big western Dandy Boy". Well, the Soho person might be western but I'm sure he or she would find a suitable pejorative that makes reference to my sheltered housing status.
Also, I don't have a washing machine so I do need the odd spare couple of quid for the laundry and to wash things in the kitchen sink. (Cue the Indians "What's wrong with the Ganges, man!"). Electricity in Briar Hill is on a meter with a plastic key that you take down to the off license on the corner and top up with cash. The hardware and general heating infrastructure in the building are not modern enough for what is known as a SmartMeter to be installed - which enables customers to manage their account online. The system suits me, however, since I soon realised that it is the best way to minimise my spend. I've perfected the art of letting the meter run down to about 14 pence (a couple of light switch flicks away from power-out - definitely not a stove burn. Forget heating the water.) By keeping a vigilant eye on the meter I found that I can micro-manage savings into my lifestyle that you haven't even heard of. Well, maybe your parents and grandparents have post-war and war-time austerity tales to regale you with - but otherwise - you can't imagine.
Add to this that I do not use the heaters - even in winter. I just put extra layers of clothes on - and I've got the monthly electric bill down to £25 a month. This chiefly consists of heating the water, using the stove and running my desktop computer and related hardware.
I'm good with food. I'm a bit of a health freak so besides running about sixty miles a month I like to eat a primarily sugar-free diet. I have no microwave oven or freezer and my fridge is tiny. Like a portable camper van edition. My food bill comes in at about £100 a month.
So add these into the maths and I'm now down to £40.80 per month remaining - or - £1.34 per day.
If you ever wonder why people who have been long-term unemployed appear a little scruffy around the edges - perhaps unshaven and with holes in their shoes and lacking social confidence because they haven't been out even to a coffee shop let alone a pub or restaurant - for months or years nor ever travelled on a bus or train or been able to buy anyone they care for as much as a birthday card - ever - I hope I'm solving the mystery for you.
Fortunately, I have Mum. Mum is a pensioner and not flush but she's the kindest person in the world who would give me her last penny - and often does - and she pays for my monthly gym membership and covers my food bills such that the hundreds of pounds that frees up enables me to buy a few books, catch a movie, enjoy a coffee each morning in a local cafe - that kind of thing.
But take me out of the equation for a moment because this is not my tale of woe - I am one of the lucky ones. One of the survivors. Just imagine how most people go to pieces, financially, socially and psychologically, in the mid to long-term under these conditions. Think how you would deal with it. Imagine the sense of shame that we as a society casually stack up at the door of these poor people - making them feel like they are not worth the life that is taking place all around of them.
Most people don't have guardian angel mums like me.


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Innovation in Farming: No Longer a 'Top-Down' Approach
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ANALYSIS - Fine examples of the rewards that can be reaped when farmers and scientists work together to solve problems were put in the spotlight at a conference in the UK this week, reports Jackie Linden.
A conference held at Stoneleigh Park last week explored how farmers can find out about better ways of working and how links can be made between farming, research institutions and commercial companies to make progress in tackling today's challenges in food production.
That need has never been more urgent with the human population forecast to reach eight billion by 2030 and a 50 per cent increase required in food production by that date – forecasts made by the UK's chief scientific adviser, Dr John Beddington, in his 2009 report which coined the term 'a perfect storm' for the growing demand for food globally at a time of climate change.
Jointly organised by the EU's Animal Task Force and Innovation for Agriculture in the UK and sponsored by Devenish Nutrition, the theme of the Innovative Farming conference was 'How can farming contribute to innovative research?'
Sourcing Innovative Ideas
The head of Innovation for Agriculture (IFA), David Garner, said that the idea of researchers informing farmers about new developments became outdated when changes to UK government policy led research institutes to focus on basic research, leaving industry to fund applied research and disseminate the results.
He explained that the UK's deteriorating position in farming output over the following years was partly down to the fragmentation of research efforts, and that his organisation was set up to reconnect farming and research and enabling these groups to learn from each other.
Mr Gardner cited the examples of declining soil fertility and blackgrass, a weed which has proved hard to control. Farmers are using their experience to try different arable practices to tackle these issues and passing on their experience to scientists, who are looking into the possible reasons why they worked – or did not – and how the successful approaches could be refined.
Another important function of the IFA is to ensure that other interested farmers can easily find out the results of this collaborative research through conferences and workshops as well as on-line.
Chairman of the conference, Jan Venneman, is vice-president of the Animal Task Force (ATF), which was set up in 2011 as a European public-private platform for researchers, farmers and industry to promote a sustainable and competitive animal production sector in the EU. Covering the whole animal production chain, it aims to foster knowledge and innovation throughout the region.
ATF's theme for 2015 is 'Precision Animal Farming', he explained. This will cover a range of topics from feeding, health, housing and breeding to agricultural technology and data management.
Delivering Sustainable Agriculture
As a farmer and scientist as well as Director of Agriculture for Devenish Nutrition, Dr John Gilliland has all-round view of sustainability in agriculture.
He is aiming to make his farming system resilient to climate change so that it can contribute to future food security, stressing that this must start with profitability.
As a farmer, sustainability means delivering food and energy security, improving diversity and water quality and adapting to and mitigating climate change but also, profitability now and for the next generation, he said.
Dr Gilliland showed that the application of research can deliver benefits to the environment as well as improved productivity. Progress in genetic selection, for example, has greatly improved the performance of broilers and growing pigs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26 and 20 per cent, respectively, since 1988.
Using an example from his company, DeviGuard is a nutritional answer to the disease, Post-weaning Multisystemic Wasting syndrome (PMWS), which improves pig growth after viral infection. Treated pigs are healthier, have higher slaughter weights, make more profit and produce lower GHG emissions per kilo of meat produced, he said.
Finally, he expressed his frustration at legislators, who sometimes penalise the innovators of new techniques by not allowing them to claim financial support offered to later adopters and whose rules may be overly prescriptive to the point of being contrary to their original aims.
Importance of Communication
In his comments on future challenges, Dr Gilliland highlighted the vital importance of communication in the transfer of knowledge, stressing that the message needs to be clear and delivered to the right target audience in the right way.
This view was confirmed by most of the other speakers. One, however, offered a different view, however.
Richard Matson of Twemlows Stud Farm invested £100,000 of his own money in a project with the University of Liverpool to develop new techniques to overcome fertility problems in horses. Understandably, he said he does not wish to disseminate the results to his competitors.
Case Study: Innovations in laying hen welfare
One enthusiastic supporter of the collaboration of scientists with agriculture is poultry farmer, David Brass of Lakes Free Range Egg Company.
He sees innovation as an opportunity, as he said: "Innovations can get you into the top 10 per cent and there is always profit in the business when you are doing well."
His successes include working with scientists at the Food Animal Initiative (FAI) and his leading customer on the benefits of planting trees in the range for his hens, which included better use of the outside area by the birds, improved performance and higher productivity.
Stressing the need for farmer engagement and open and honest working, Mr Brass said he has also worked together with scientists on projects investigating smothering, red mite control, end-of-lay egg quality and managing hens without beak-trimming.
Case Study: Modern Dutch poultry building design
On a special visit from the Netherlands, egg farmer Willy Derks described his innovative hen house, the Rondel. Housing 30,000 hens, it is one of two designs from the University of
Wageningen resulting from discussions with many stakeholders to meet the needs of the birds, farmers, workers, consumers and the environment.
The ideas of the Rondel were picked up, developed and marketed by the Venco Group and his house, built in 2012, is the third house in the country. Now with his third flock, Mr Derks said he is very satisfied with all aspects of the system.


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In the first episode of Ted Lasso, the title character played by Jason Sudeikis tapes a poster above the entrance to his office. It reads simply, "Believe." The character is a small-town American football coach hired to lead a British soccer club, which Sudeikis describes as "Mr. Rogers meets John Wooden." The problem is that Coach Lasso knows nothing about soccer and was intentionally hired by the clubs nefarious owner to tank the team. Undeterred by the challenges, he perseveres to spread optimism and hope.
In the story of the spies from this week's parashah, Sh'lach L'cha, we find the Torah's version of Ted Lasso. Moses sends 12 men, one from each tribe, to scout the land of Canaan. They are tasked with finding out how many people live in the land, if the soil was rich for farming, and if their towns were fortified. After 40 days, the men return downtrodden.
Though the land is flowing with milk, honey, and enormous clusters of grapes that take two people to carry, the spies deliver Moses and the Israelites a grim picture: The land is full of inhabitants, some so large they make the spies look like grasshoppers. Their cities are fortified and there is no chance the wandering Israelites can make the land their home. At this news, the people weep loudly, railing against Moses: "If only we had died in the land of Egypt" (Numbers 14:2)
However, one spy had a different experience. "Caleb hushed the people before Moses and said, 'Let us, by all means, go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it'" (Numbers 13:30). Caleb's optimism and confidence stood in stark contrast to the cynicism of the other spies. While they expressed reservations and fear, Caleb expressed hope and faith. The text tells us that Caleb has a ruach acheret – a different spirit – that appears influential. A few verses after Caleb exudes positivity, another spy, Joshua, joins in and implores the Israelites to have faith. The 15th-century commentator Isaac Abarbanel teaches that while Joshua had a prophetic spirit that would later inscribe him in the canon, Caleb "had merely a human spirit." Caleb, like Ted Lasso, was just a can-do guy.
Yet the story of Caleb and Ted Lasso is not only about their gift of optimism; it is that they made choices. Caleb, like Ted, could have been weighed down by cynics but instead chose to spread light rather than darkness. Caleb, like Ted, could have kept silent in the face of such negativity but instead chose to speak up. Caleb, like Ted, could have let the despondent undermine their faith but instead chose to believe in themselves, the people around them, and in things unraveling in the way that they were meant to unravel.
As Coach Lasso sets up his office in that first episode, he hangs a few iconic sports photos whose subjects inspire him: Muhammad Ali towering over Sonny Liston, the "Miracle on Ice" at the 1980 Winter Olympics, Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson, Coach Jim Valvano winning the 1983 NCAA Tournament. These moments embody the ruach acheret (different spirit) of Caleb: Muhammad Ali speaking out against the war in Vietnam and losing his boxing license; a group of amateur American hockey players beating the professional Soviet Union team; heavy underdog Douglas knocking out Tyson; the unbridled optimism of Coach Jimmy V facing down a deadly cancer diagnosis to implore the world, "Don't give up. Don't ever give up." These figures became legends because of the spirit they brought to the moment, a choice we are all capable of making in moments big and small.
Though we might not always have the positive disposition of Ted Lasso or the boundless courage of Caleb to offer hope in the face of adversity, we do control what we say and how we act. We can hold grudges and be petty or we can forgive. We can let challenges stop us in our tracks or we can find a way to persevere. We can spread kindness and hopefulness or we can drag others down.
When we find ourselves at a crossroads and faced with a choice, Caleb and Ted Lasso both teach us to believe in ourselves, in others, and in the possibility that things might just work out for the best.
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1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium. Add onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Stir in cumin and coriander.
2. Raise heat to high and stir in peanut butter. Cook, stirring constantly, until peanut butter darkens to a deep golden brown color, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in canned pumpkin, then chicken broth. Add pumpkin and chickpeas and simmer until pumpkin is tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Season with lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
3. Serve in bowls topped with mint, pomegranate and a drizzle of olive oil.
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Interesting question
Posted on January 16, 2023 by Joe
Can Your Android Phone Be Tracked When It's Turned Off?
As technology advances, debates continue to arise over geographical tracking. Today, cell service providers, internet service providers, and other parties can track your location through your devices, including your smartphone.
But if you have an Android phone, what happens when it's turned off? Can your location still be tracked?
I wrote a significate portion of the code used for "Location Services" on Windows Phone 7. I understand as much as almost anyone on obtaining location information from the phone side of things. Obtaining location from the carrier side is different, but I can make some intelligent speculation about that.
The basics of what I read in the article above is true:
When you turn your phone off, you're temporarily deactivating all of its functions, including wireless communication. By cutting this off, your phone cannot be tracked via cell tower triangulation or GPS. The only location that can be discerned using these methods is that which was last shown before the device was turned off.
So, the general answer is no, your phone cannot be tracked when switched off.
They go on to say:
But this has been called into question numerous times.
There have been talks of certain authorities still being able to track your phone when turned off. For example, various reports have come out over the years claiming that the NSA (National Security Agency) can track a turned-off device. For example, Slate published a piece in 2013 discussing the NSA's alleged tracking of phones, as briefly mentioned in a Washington Post story.
In the same piece, Slate mentioned that in 2006, it was reported that the FBI had "deployed spyware to infect suspects' mobile phones and record data even when they were turned off". A CNET post was referred to here as the source. It is not known if the NSA is truly capable of tracking phones while turned off, but the reports mentioned seem to indicate that this is the case to some extent.
From the referenced Washington Post article:
By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this "The Find," and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit.
This is a very interesting claim.
It was in about 2010 through 2011 I was writing the location services code for Windows Phone 7. Had I read the Washington Post article from a half dozen years earlier I would have given it something like a 25% chance of being correct. That assessment would have been unchanged today except for another data point.
I recently I talked to someone who told me, "I know for a fact that GCHQ can track phones even if they are turned off." This was not someone who received their electrical engineering degree out of a tin-foil hat. It was someone who I have a lot of respect for as an electrical engineer.
That conversation and the article above which I stumbled across has caused me to reevaluate my position on this claim. I have given the problem some thought. With the right equipment, I can imagine some plausible ways this might be possible.
Here are some hints:
The power button is not a mechanical power switch. It is similar to other mechanical buttons on the phone. There is at least some portion of the electronics "alive" enough to recognize the switch has been pressed.
Your credit cards, smart car keys, passport, shoplifted merchandise, automatic road toll cards, and company ID badges can all be identified at varying distances.
Plan appropriately.
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divemedic on January 16, 2023 at 7:18 pm said:
That is why I tell people who are paranoid of things like IoT devices that they are overlooking things like their cell phone.
For that reason, I have Faraday bags in each of my vehicles and in my home. I also have a mechanical switch that I can use that instantly shuts off all Internet and Cable to my house. I call it a "privacy switch."
Richard on January 17, 2023 at 4:22 am said:
It is not a challenge to figure out where your IoT devices are-in your home or car. The problem with them is not tracking but hacking to eavesdrop or take control of something. Simplest fix is don't have them. Some of us old farts remember how to use a light switch. Cars are actually a bigger problem because of all the electronic crap built into them.
As for phones, it is faraday bags for the win. Still working on the protocols as to whether to use them all the time or only when I am engaged in some legal activity that may be outlawed in the future.
RFID shielding on wallets may provide some protection but I have not seen any reports on that.
Carl Bussjaeger on January 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm said:
I think the easiest way to do it would be a malware app that hijacks the on/off button to MIMIC the off condition: blacked out screen, rejects user inputs, until the user turrns the phone back "on."
That's one reason I refused to get a smart phone until quite recently, as all I could find have integral batteries that can't be casually removed (as I would do with my older phones).
And I rarely carry my phone with me anyway, except when I'm expecting a specific need to use it. It mostly stays at home. Anyone calling me unexpectedly can leave a message, just like the good old days.
Rolf on January 16, 2023 at 11:07 pm said:
The "never really off" because of a software rather than a hardware switch is an easy one.
But it also depends on how actively they are trying. If you look into the history of radar, and radar-detection, jamming, and radar-detector-detectors, etc., they did some amazing things even way back in WWII. Anything electron that is not entire powered down or properly shielded will change a radio signal in some way. If they are really looking for an anomaly, they are mostly likely able to find it. These days, anyone NOT carrying a smart-phone I'd imagine they automatically put on the "suspicious activity" list.
markm on January 22, 2023 at 1:57 pm said:
All a reflection off a turned-off device will tell you is that there is a transmitter/receiver device in the area. It's probably possible to build a library of signal signatures and identify the model of the turned-off device, but it's not going to be unique to an individual cell-phone. To identify the individual, it has to transmit the ID code, and it has to be _on_ to do that.
If you are the only one with a key to a room that carries a particular model of cell-phone, it would be possible to design a device that tells that you were in that room with your phone turned off, assuming no one breaks in. I cannot think of a reason to buy that device – even if someone designed it and placed it in mass production.
OTOH, if they can install malware that intercepts the software off button and fakes turning off, they could be monitoring everywhere you take that phone and the only sign you'll see is the battery goes down while it's "off".
It's also possible that your phone was designed for remote turn-on via a wireless signal. I can't imagine why they'd do that, but if you want to be paranoid, maybe there's a top secret government requirement… All the circuits I know that do this require a trickle of power from the battery to keep the switch circuit alive, but one of my friends in grade school 60 years ago played with a receiver that was powered by the AM radio broadcast signal – a crystal radio. Imagine a top-secret government requirement to build that into each cell-phone!
It's possible, but I can't see getting it manufactured without the factory engineers noticing that there's something extra on the circuit board, and eventually the secret would leak.
Magus on January 17, 2023 at 6:21 am said:
"Short" press or "long" press of the power button to turn off the device? Makes a difference.
I have an Amazon Fire tablet I keep in the library to use when I'm on the throne. I normally just press the power button on it when done (short press).
I was on my router's management page and noticed three wireless devices connected. Hmmmm goes me…. I've got a laptop turned on and a DirecTV receiver using wireless, what's this third device only named * ?
To make a short story even longer, I checked every device in my house and finally discovered it was the Amazon Fire tablet which I had turned "off" with the power button (short press). As an experiment, to power it off, I held down the power button until a menu popped up with a "power off device" option which I pressed. The anomalous * device disappeared from my router's wireless connected devices.
Just because you think a device is off doesn't make it so. With a soft power button like on a cell phone, you have no idea what is still running in the background after you've "turned off" your device.
Archer on January 17, 2023 at 2:42 pm said:
I think of the "short press" as a "screen off" or "sleep", and the "long press" as a "" (as much as the power can BE turned off).
I've had to check my router's connected devices and been surprised how many there really are at any given time. All the family's phones, laptops, tablets, media players, and game consoles … plus those of any friends or extended family who are over … plus a printer and a couple other IoT convenience items we've allowed (not many — zero Alexa or Nest devices). It all adds up; we rarely have fewer than a dozen devices connected.
I've found Amazon Fire devices, especially, are kind of creepy. First, they don't always indicate they're on and connected; unlike most phones, if the battery dies and you plug it in, it won't just charge while "off" — it powers itself fully on once it's above about 3% charge. Second, even while "off", unless the battery is discharged, they will still periodically "check in" with the router and be visible for a moment, then disconnect again (read: unless the battery is dead, they're never fully off).
Finally, computers and phones will usually identify themselves to the router: computers will transmit their host name; iPhones will ID themselves as iPhones; Android phones, depending on make/model, will either show their host name (which might default to their model number), or at least say "Android phone" or "Android tablet". Fire tablets in my experience don't do this; they usually display their MAC address, with no indication what type of device they are. I only recognize our Fire tablets because I've specifically named them in router settings, but that's on the router end, not the tablet.
Any one of those behaviors by itself would be a quirk, but all together, as I said, it's kind of creepy.
We've experimented with "Wake on LAN" on computers at work.
The gist: A network-connected computer is powered off. It's "off enough" that it won't respond to normal pings, but the NIC (Network Interface Card) is "on enough" to listen for a specific command, upon which the NIC will trigger the normal boot up sequence.
I could absolutely see this with cell phones. As long as the battery has power, the wireless NIC-equivalent chip is "on enough" to wake up the phone even when powered off. I could even see it being sophisticated enough for a "partial wake-up" that activates some systems — say, location services (to track you), the microphone (to listen to you), or Bluetooth/wifi (to see who else is near you) — while still appearing to be powered off.
The solution would be to either remove the battery (the phone would need power to receive and act on a wake-up ping) and/or block the network signal. Increasingly, modern smartphones contain internal, non-user-serviceable batteries, so the latter is your second-best bet.
Your best bet is to simply not have your phone with you when you go anywhere or do anything to which someone, now or in the future, might take offense.
Joe on January 17, 2023 at 1:18 pm said:
Excellent assessment.
Bear Claw Chris Lapp on January 20, 2023 at 11:37 am said:
So Joe should we hold it against you for our location. ha ha just kidding


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Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John (1973)
"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is the opening track on the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. The first part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral. This first half segues into "Love Lies Bleeding".
Category: '70s #1 Hits, 1973, Classic Rock, Elton John, Lite Rock, Pop, Rock/Pop
Sad Songs (Say So Much) by Elton John (1984)
"Sad Songs (Say So Much)" is a song by Elton John and is the closing track on the 1984 album Breaking Hearts. It reached #7 on the UK chart and #5 on the U.S. chart. The lyrics describe how it sometimes helps for someone who is feeling sad, or who has lost a partner, to listen to old radio blues classics. In the years since its issue, radio airplay has been modest compared with some of John's other 1980s singles.
Crocodile Rock by Elton John (1973)
"Crocodile Rock" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in summer 1972 at the Château d'Hérouville studio in France (it was listed as "Strawberry Studios" in the album's credits), where John and his team had previously recorded the Honky Château album. It was released on 27 October 1972 in the UK and 20 November 1972 in the U.S., as a pre-release single from his forthcoming 1973 album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, and became his first U.S. number-one single, reaching the top spot on 3 February 1973, and stayed there for three weeks.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John (1973)
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is a ballad performed by musician Elton John and the title track on his 1973 album. The song's music was composed by John, while the lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. Its musical style and production was heavily influenced by 1970s soft rock. It was widely praised by critics, and some critics have named it John's best song.
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Time) by Elton John (1972)
"Rocket Man" (officially titled "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and originally performed by Elton John. The song first appeared on Elton John's 1972 album Honky Château and became a hit single.
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) by Elton John (1982)
"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" is a song composed and performed by English musician Elton John, with lyrics by longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. It originally appeared on John's 1982 album Jump Up!. The song is a tribute to John Lennon, who had been assassinated 18 months earlier.
Elton John - Mama Can't Buy You Love on Greatest Hits 1976-1986 (1979)
"Mama Can't Buy You Love" is a hit single for British singer/songwriter Elton John from the EP The Thom Bell Sessions. The song was written by LeRoy Bell and Casey James (of Bell and James fame). Bowing at number 69 on the Hot 100 on 9 June 1979, the track became John's first US top ten hit in almost three years when it peaked at number 9 on 25 August 1979. "Mama Can't Buy You Love" also spent one week at number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In the US, it was certified gold on 17 August 1979 by the RIAA.
The chord structure of the opening instrumental of "Mama Can't Buy You Love" bears a strong resemblance to the chord structure of the opening instrumental of Ronnie Dyson's "One Man Band (Plays All Alone)" (after the site's short instrumental section). According to the Hot 100, Thom Bell produced both records.
Heels Of The Wind by Elton John
Elton's Song by Elton John
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Category: '70s #1 Hits, 1979, Elton John
Elton John and Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart from the album Elton John's Greatest Hits, Volume II (1977)
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It was written by Elton John with Bernie Taupin under the pseudonyms "Ann Orson" and "Carte Blanche" (a pun on the expression "an horse and cart, blanche"), respectively, and intended as an affectionate pastiche of the Motown style, notably the various duets recorded by Marvin Gaye and singers such as Tammi Terrell and Kim Weston. It is not to be confused with the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song of the same title recorded in 1965 by Dionne Warwick for the album Here I Am.
John and Taupin originally intended to record the song with Dusty Springfield, but ultimately withdrew the offer; Dusty's partner Sue Cameron later said this was because she was too ill at the time.
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was the first No. 1 single in the UK for both John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid 1976. John would not enjoy a solo British chart-topper until "Sacrifice" in 1990. It also became his sixth No. 1 single in the US, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks and spent one week on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1976. In the U.S. it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. After this duet with Dee, John failed to have another #1 single, without sharing the top song with other credited artists, until his 1997 smash Candle In The Wind 1997. This 21-year "Kiki jinx" included two intervening #1 hits in America for John: "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends in 1986; and, a 1992 re-make of John's "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with George Michael credited as a duet.
Category: '70s #1 Hits, 1977, Elton John, Elton John and Kiki Dee
Elton John - Bennie And The Jets - On Here And There Album (1974)
"Bennie and the Jets" (also titled as "Benny and the Jets") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song is written in the key of G major and first appeared on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album in 1973. "Bennie and the Jets" has been one of John's most popular songs and was performed during John's appearance at Live Aid. The track is spelled Benny on the sleeve of the single and in the track listing of the album, but Bennie on the album vinyl disc label.
"Bennie and the Jets" was featured on side one of the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, and Elton John was set against releasing it as a single, believing it would fail. Radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, began heavy airplay of the song and it became the #1 song in Detroit. This attention caused other American and Canadian Top 40 stations to add it to their playlists as well and as a result, the song peaked at #1 on the US singles chart in 1974. In the US, it was certified Gold on 8 April 1974 and Platinum on 13 September 1975 by the RIAA, and had sold 2.8 million copies by August 1976.
"Bennie and the Jets" was also John's first Top 40 hit on what at the time was called the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, where it peaked at #15, the highest position out of the three of his singles which reached that chart. The acceptance of "Bennie" on R&B radio helped land John, a huge soul music fan, a guest appearance on the 17 May 1975 edition of Soul Train, where he played "Bennie and the Jets" and "Philadelphia Freedom". In Canada, it held the #1 spot on the RPM national singles chart for two weeks (13–20 April), becoming his first #1 single of 1974 and his fourth overall.


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The Empire of the Air
Robert Lloyd September 15, 1999
A friend of mine, asked once what he wanted out of life, replied, "I want to be entertained." This was an amusing thing to say, but he wasn't kidding, and he wasn't alone. After a long day under the fluorescent lights, many if not most of us would rather be entertained than entertain ourselves (or anyone else), and are happy enough to pick and choose from whatever's on the menu. ("I'll have an hour of Ally McBeal, with half an hour of Jeopardy! to start, and a side of Moesha.") Questioning the why and wherefore of what's available is just more work — a hassle! — and pointless in any practical sense. Which is why the big, the huge, the epochal news that — subject to the now-usual FCC rubber-stamping and a couple of other low hurdles — CBS and Viacom will become one sprawling entity in what Viacom accurately calls the "largest media transaction ever" won't have given most of us more than a moment's pause; few will have paused at all.
Should you care? Should you quail? If all you want is your MTV, don't worry, baby. There will still be "entertainment," still be television, even on that day when every network, every channel, every publisher and Web site, whatever its superficial coloration, is in corporate terms identical — a day not so very far off, perhaps, given the rage for deregulation up on the Palatine (a rage often described as an "atmosphere," as if, like the weather, there were nothing possible to do about it). "Our union will be king," declared Viacom's sprightly 76-year-old chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone, who, speaking of kings, will personally hold two-thirds of the new entity's voting stock, and who plans to "control the company forever." "My objective is that every American will be touched in some way by a Viacom product every day of their lives," he said on another occasion, and with a megacorp that includes Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, CBS, UPN, the MTV Networks (including Nickelodeon and TVLand), Showtime, Blockbuster Video, Simon & Schuster, SonicNet.com, Famous Music Publishing (with copyrights ranging from "Thanks for the Memory" to "Army of Me"), 34 television and five times as many radio stations, five theme parks and all the Richard Scarry merchandise you could possibly imagine, to hardly render a full accounting, this is not impossible. Empire is not too strong a word. Alexander the Great was no stranger to vertical integration.
There are things to be said for a well-run empire — better roads, fewer brigands, something else probably. But the most benevolent, least visible dictatorship is still basically coercive, and I find it interesting, though not surprising — notwithstanding Viacom's whimsical aside that "the merger should also serve the public interest by helping to sustain the continued vitality of free and universal broadcasting" — that the happy talk from the prospective partners revolves not around what good effect this merger may have on the quality or diversity of their product, but rather on the number of commercials they can attach to it, and the number of people they can sell it to. What Redstone and Mel Karmazin, his little friend at CBS, are building for their stockholders and themselves is a Giant Advertising Machine, designed not only to sell the soap and automobiles and beer of other giant machines, but, with cross-promotions and collaborations and come-ons disguised as content, to continually magnify itself, until, ideally, it occupies your entire field of vision. (The bigger they are, the bigger they get.) Granted, the newspaper whose ink is this minute staining your fingers is another such machine, albeit a small and simple one; it exists at least as much to sell you irrigated colons, movie tickets and phone sex as it does to critique the culture and influence your vote. But the pot's no less black for having that pointed out by the kettle. You are a target; you have been colonized. Soylent Green is people, the Matrix is now. Well may you ask: Who is the consumer and who the consumed?
Allen Funt died. The man who, with Candid Camera, made voyeurism acceptable and taught the world that "It's fun to laugh at yourself It's a tonic tried and true It's fun to look at yourself As other people do," Funt was the spiritual father not only of America's Funniest Home Videos (CC without the middleman) but of 2020 hidden-camera sting ops, the Rodney King tape and everything else on television that shows or purports to show "real people" in extraordinary circumstances. Like Ralph Edwards and Art Linkletter, he was an impresario of the hoi polloi, of the might-be-anyone, life-size individual; and indeed, TV, for all that it is overwhelmingly the private reserve of men like Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner, is at the same time more than any other medium the People's. The people are all over it, all day — on its quiz programs, its dating games, its "courtroom" and complaint shows, on Cops and Jerry Springer and The Real World. Not that the people necessarily profit by it: If Candid Camera laughed with its victims, the current run of tabloid and talk shows implies a nation of nutjobs, while series TV, to the extent it bothers with them at all, largely reduces those who live between the coasts, outside the cities and below the middle class to Hazzard Dukes, Deputy Fifes and Waitress Flos.
It is left to documentarians to amplify the less strident small voices. PBS, HBO and its cousin Cinemax are the most welcoming venues for such films as Stephen Ives and Michael Kantor's charming Cornerstone (airing on the splinter channel HBO Signature), in which a few dozen ordinary citizens, solid and soiled, recruited from a dozen American very small small towns become actors and crew in the Cornerstone Theater Company's 10,000-mile pro-am tour of a multicultural Americanized musical version of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The film is a kind of kindlier, real-life Waiting for Guffman that recalls also Jonathan Demme's community-theater comedy Who Am I This Time? and any movie in which a show is put on in a barn; but it also touches upon — one might say eavesdrops upon — matters of race, class, sex, love, age, faith, family, ambition and responsibility: the world in a chartered bus. The film focuses on three players: a 42-year-old West Virginia waitress and mother; a young ex-con from Mississippi; and a North Dakota laborer with a drinking problem. These descriptions will have perhaps started (even finished) a picture in your mind. But none of them are that simple; they are, like anyone, deep, slippery and surprising.
"I guess I just want people to know me," says Wanda Daniels, the West Virginian, "that I have something to stand up and be proud for . . . to let people see that I'm not just a dumb waitress or a dizzy blonde . . . and I guess to prove something to myself. I don't know what." Whether or not you buy the Cornerstone company's central tenet that Everyone Is an Artist — although, even here, not everyone is a star — the film makes a good case for art as a fulcrum of social empowerment, cross-cultural understanding and, especially, as personal opportunity: a lens to see the world, a mirror to see oneself in it, a light by which to be seen.


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Pedro Sola was branded classist for statements about Edomex: "The misfortune of CDMX"
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Two "Los Barbas" gang members involved in extorsions and drug dealing were arrested in Tlalnepantla, Edomex
Pedro Sola spoke about the budget of a European festival and caught the attention of the director of TV Azteca (Photo: Instagram/@tiopedritosola)
the show host Peter Alone was involved in controversy because he pointed out that one of the main "misfortunes" of the country's capital is adjoining him Mexico state. Given this, hundreds of users of social networks they branded him classist.
It was through his official account Twitter that the driver of windowing assured that the proximity of Edomex harms Mexico City. Given the large amount of criticism it received, Sola decided to remove said publication from her profile, however, netizens were able to save the post.
"For whatever reason I had to come to Perinorte, a shopping center located at the end of the world and today I realized, again, that the misfortune of the CDMX is the proximity and adjoining with the State of Mexico", wrote the show host during the afternoon of Saturday, January 22.
They branded the driver of Ventaneando as classist (Photo: Twitter/@pedrosola)
"So classist, derogatory and irresponsible your comment", "how bad you read yourself with that expression", "stop making a fool of yourself", "has no cure", "just as you depend on other states", "here you also have an audience for your program", "the classism of a man who speaks from his privilegewhich does not allow him to see beyond", "think before you write", "the people of this state travel two hours to work to provide their services to the people of CDMX", are just some of the comments that Pedro Solas received on said social network.
The classism that exists in the country has been a topic addressed by various personalities in the entertainment industrysuch is the case of the actor Tenoch Huertawho has constantly shown the negative comments he has received around this topic.
In his latest publications, the protagonist of Narcos: Mexico has denounced a large number of publications which they wanted to damage their moral integrity.
It is worth mentioning that it is not the first time that Sola has been in controversy for a comment that she has made on social networks. At the beginning of the month, the driver pointed out their disagreement with the way Sinaloans drive their cars.
Tenoch Huerta has positioned himself as one of the main actors in the struggle against racism and classism in the country (Photo: EFE/Press) (EFEI0499/)
"Here in Mazatlan, while the blonder and more elegant the women are and drive luxury cars or trucks, the more poorly educated they are to drive, what schools have their parents sent them to? Certainly some where they were not given civility and civility, "he expressed.
Likewise, in mid-2021 the artist traveled to the aforementioned city and criticized the conditions in which the entity's airport was found.
"Everything is so precarious in Mexico that you arrive at an airport in a tourist destination like Mazatlan and they take you off the plane to the middle of the runway and you walk between the parked planes and on a broken pavement to get to the terminal, a sad reality that we live in, "the driver wrote at the time.
Pedro Sola criticized the women of Mazatlan who drive (Photo: Twitter @pedrosola)
This caused all kinds of ridicule on the part of the network community and many pointed it out for not knowing the situation in which many places in the country find themselves.
"Can you wait in the US while we get to the first world Don @pedrosola? Serious question: did you realize the precarious situation until now or in PRI or PAN times was it not worth criticizing? "said a tweeter about Pedro Sola's opinion.
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One of my previous jobs was at Onionmap as the Director of Engineering. Titles mean crap. I don't even know what it means to be a "director". A more accurate job title would have been "systems architect"… but whatever.
Onionmap was actually pretty cool. They provided interactive maps of major cities (33 to be exact). Unlike google maps, they were 3 dimensional visual/artistic renderings representing the city and its major landmarks. In other words, they're tourist maps. The maps are skewed, exaggerated while landmarks are enlarged and unsightly objects such as parking lots are non-existant.
Prior to my arrival, Onionmap hired many different engineers. Besides talking a big game at meetings, they provided no real work (sort of like politicians). Meeting after meeting, they would sweet-talk everyone else into confidence. At the end of the day, they did absolutely nothing. Another thing these previous "engineers" had in common was that they all believed that it was impossible to geocode the skewed maps. In other words, these maps could never be used with GPS data nor pinpoint exact addresses.
When I joined the Onionmap team, I was obsessed with geocoding these maps.
A couple months into it, I've tested out several different theories… Pulled out my old trigonometry books… Tried all sorts of weird things with angle measurements, etc. They weren't working. I cleared my head and tried to think simple. I truly believe true engineering is about simplicity. I realized I was onto something with y-intercepts. Yes… going way back in Math. Then I got it. Before the 3rd month of my employment, I had figured it out and wrote the engine. I presented it to the company and they asked me to do a write-up immediately so they can file it for patent. Patent? Okay.
You'll notice the inventors are listed as me, Jonathan Lee (my cool project manager), and a guy named Young Kim. Mind you, Young Kim is a douchebag that lives in Korea that did absolutely nothing to contribute to this. He's a self proclaimed "CTO", but he has absolutely NO knowledge of anything remotely technical. Because of this guy, I wasted MUCH time building onionmap versions 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. No joke. Two years of working at Onionmap, I built 7 different versions of the site and NONE of it was released. That's how you demoralize your engineer. Just saying. Anyways, here is the write-up submitted for patent.


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Themes: Urban Fantasy
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"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family. "
-Jim Butcher
When fantasy leaves the confines of older periods of history it starts to linger into the modern day. From the world of the penny dreadful was awakened a love of horror, blood, and mystery. Bram Stoker's Dracula could perhaps be considered part of a new genre that refocused the knowledge of folklore and legend into a setting for modern audiences. Over time this genre took on its own trends and to this day it is still synonymous with Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches. But, instead of being a world where magic hides in plain sight of ordinary denizens, it hides usually behind a cloak of mundanity. Many call this genre Supernatural, I prefer the term Urban Fantasy.
While many modern stories of supernatural creatures take place across a multitude of settings and terrains, it is the cityscape which has garnered the greatest impact. When Lestate reigns supreme in the world of Anne Rice's vampire's he did so in the lands of Paris and later Los Angeles. Magic is cast, and it melds itself with the fantastical, but often with darker tones and with greater cost.
Be Wary Traveler
Urban fantasy is one of those Genre's that likes things such as ancient conspiracies, eldritch dying gods, and mad sorcerers. Many figures throughout the Urban Fantasy scape have come to mine older elements of cultural and historical events to create their own personal mythologies. One of the predominant concepts is the "Masquerade" the veil of life that is held over the normal people. Mortals are often not in the know about supernatural creatures and are in fact many times seen as prey or cattle. The popular roleplay game Vampire: The Masquerade which likely created the idea itself. Urban Fantasy thus is at its core heavily implied to exist on the notion of secrecy. In a few works is magick widespread and well known.
Because people are not overtly aware of what "goes bump in the night" they are often described as being naive or disbelieving. Many modern horror films play along with the "Occult" nature of the Supernatural and the fear attached to the dark impulses of the genre. Others who delve deeper into the mysteries of the world often find their perceptions change. Madness is a key often played up by Horror, and it is not at all a trait unheard in Urban Fantasy itself. Mystery and conspiracy are the bread and butter of Urban Fantasy and it is when both are ventured deep that the darkness bites back.
Adult VS Young Adult
Paranormal stories often found in Urban Fantasy change their name and their guise when they are written in different forms. Romance novels always spin them as "Paranormal Romance" and when they are placed within the Young Adult "genre" the story changes yet again. What is more interesting about the crossover is how the Genre adapts to the different categories while still keying its core elements. Adult novels are often written from a first person point of view, and often involved protagonists who are involved or are connected to law enforcement. Many protagonists in major novels such as Anita Blake, or the Rachel Morgan series are female. The central characters of Hellboy are neither human, and many are male or Female on the other hand. But what is key in both cases is a desire to hunt, investigate, and discover the sources of the supernatural in their respective universes.
Young adult sources are often quite different with respect to their protagonists. In many cases, the main characters gain their powers and are often inexperienced or lack any awareness of the supernatural world. The Mortal Instrument series sees titular character Clara Fray discovers her paranormal abilities after encountering supernatural entities. The focus of most Young Adult Urban Fantasy is discovery and coming into one's own. Here the characters are not exactly hunting or being thrown into the supernatural as much as they are exploring it themselves.
Both categories of the genre often feature an undercurrent of romance or relationship tension between primary characters. This becomes all the more evident when the genre when it gets compared to its romantic counterpart of Paranormal Romance. Author, Jeannie Holmes provides a definition between the two as:
The two share 90% of their genre DNA. However, the main differences are this: Urban fantasy focuses on an issue outside of a romantic relationship between two characters. Paranormal romance focuses on a romantic relationship between two characters and how outside forces affect that relationship. The best litmus test to determine if a story is urban fantasy or paranormal romance is to ask the following question: 'If the romance between Character A and Character B were removed, would the plot still stand as a viable storyline?' If the answer is 'yes,' chances are good it's urban fantasy. If the answer is 'no,' it's most likely paranormal romance.
Magic In The Modern World
No matter how you spin it, the urban modernity of our world is the setting that writers and authors use to create their worlds. Urban Fantasy is by its very definition a fantastical setting that drifts between what is real and what is magical. From that conspiracy, mystery, and outright danger filter through a world often inhabited by monsters, faeries, and wizards. How that world is then interpreted while existing in the confines of the concrete jungle .


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Give Back Tahoe: Truckee Tahoe Swim Team works to create fun for youth
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The 2015-16 Truckee Tahoe Swim Team.
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TRUCKEe, Calif. — Two Truckee Tahoe Swim Team athletes have qualified to compete at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals in December. Under the direction of TTST's new head coach, Cyrus Crews, more swimmers have qualified for national-level meets than ever before.
One of those qualifiers is Brittney Straw, a Truckee High senior. Brittney has achieved progressively faster times this year, especially in her signature event, the 200 meter breastroke. Qualifying for Junior Nationals is based solely on time, and at the recent Far Western Championships, which is an elite level meet that brings together competitors from across the country, Canada and Mexico, Brittney swam a blazing fast 200 breast, which earned her a second-place finish overall and a spot at Junior Nationals. Brittney will begin her collegiate career this fall, swimming for UC Santa Barbara.
The other qualifier is Cooper DeRyk. Cooper uses his 6-foot, 6-inch frame to his advantage in sprint distance events, and he has qualified in the 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle and 100 meter butterfly. Cooper is a sophomore and looking forward to a fast swimming career throughout high school and beyond.
TTST was a participant in the TTCF Give Back Tahoe Campaign during the month of December and raised nearly $3,000 for its National Team. The funds raised will be used to help offset travel and coaching costs for National Team swimmers, which will enable all qualified athletes to participate regardless of any economic challenges.
TTST is a nonprofit program that strives to create a fun, competitive environment while helping swimmers build confidence, self-discipline, and integrity to prepare them for success in life's endeavors. TTST welcomes all swimmers to the pool in the back of Truckee High School. In September, the team will move to the new aquatic center in the Truckee Recreation Building. Visit http://www.truckeeswim.com.
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