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LIU Staff Protests Lockout on First Day of Classes Amid Contract Stalemate
By Alexandra Leon | September 7, 2016 5:03pm
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Carrying signs reading "Let Us Teach" and marching before a giant inflatable rat, unionized professors at Long Island University rallied on the first day of classes after being locked out of the school last week when their contract with the administration expired.
Students and other supporters joined faculty members Wednesday at LIU's Downtown Brooklyn campus in protest of the lockout, which began Friday night.
The union, the LIU Faculty Federation, is trying to negotiate for a new, three-year contract that would increase wages for professors, making the minimum salary at the Brooklyn campus equal to that of the one at its Post campus on Long Island.
Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo joined faculty members during the protest.
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As part of the administration's latest offer, salaries for professors at the Brooklyn campus would be on par with salaries at the Post campus after five years, the union said. On average, LIU Brooklyn professors earn about $10,000 less annually than those at the Post campus, the union said.
The offer also includes the loss of seniority payments and office hours, as well as a reduced workload, for adjunct professors, who teach the majority of classes at LIU Brooklyn.
On Tuesday, union members rejected the administration's latest offer by a vote of 226 to 10, according to the union. The faculty senate then voted 135 to 10 for no confidence in President Kimberly R. Cline and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeffrey Kane.
Now, faculty members have been left without salaries and health benefits, and other staff members from LIU's Brooklyn and Post campuses are taking over teaching duties.
"I think what they did is inconceivable and they completely disregarded our position, they completely disregarded the students," said philosophy professor Maksim Vak, 53.
French and Spanish professor Carole Maccotta, 48, emphasized that the professors are not on strike but instead trying to negotiate a new contract to be able to get back to the classroom.
"We've been working hard all our life, all summer to prepare for back to school," Maccotta said. "We want to be back in the classroom. We have the students' best interests in mind always."
A 24-year-old speech pathology student said she worries about the long-term effects of the lockout.
"If the professors aren't qualified and we lose our accreditation then my degree will mean nothing," said Lauren S., who declined to provide her last name. "All I want to do is continue my education, and to me that doesn't mean going and sitting in a class with a placeholder professor."
Professor Tempii Champion, chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders department, said the lockout has left her department missing two key components needed for accreditation by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: professors with Ph.D.s and a program director.
"Our accrediting body says we need to have a program director, but right now our program director is out on the street," Champion said.
Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo joined protesters in support of the teacher's union, saying a university is nothing without its faculty.
"Today you have been given the greatest insult and slap in the face to your entire existence — to be locked out of the institution that you have helped to build, that you have helped to cultivate," Cumbo said. "Our young people should not have to come to school and see their faculty out on the street like riff-raff. You deserve better and they deserve better."
The school said it was forced to bring in replacement teachers after five out of the last six contract negotiations with the faculty union ended in strike votes.
"In the interest of providing stability for students and remain[ing] steadfast in our commitment to tuition affordability, the University was forced to develop a contingency plan — bringing in a qualified and temporary teaching staff to ensure classes could start as scheduled," said university Vice President Gale Haynes in a statement.
"It's disappointing that the LIUFF has rejected a contract offer that the University believes is generous and highly competitive. The University will continue to bargain in good faith, with the goal of welcoming its valued Faculty back to the classroom upon timely resolution of the contract."
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When Your Supervisor Is Accused of Research Misconduct
Early career researchers face unique challenges when a senior collaborator becomes embroiled in allegations of scientific malpractice.
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Following an internship with The Scientist in 2017, Katarina has been happily freelancing for a number of publications, covering everything from climate change to oncology.
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Evolutionary ecologist Kate Laskowski didn't have a good start to her new faculty position at the University of California, Davis. She was just a few months in when, late last year, she received an email from a researcher who had some concerns about a study she had coauthored in 2016 with the prolific McMaster University spider biologist Jonathan Pruitt.
As a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and later a postdoc at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany, Laskowski had collaborated with Pruitt on a study of spider social behavior. The email noted that the raw data collected in Pruitt's lab, then at the University of California, Santa Barbara, contained odd duplicate values in the columns of a spreadsheet that documented behavioral differences among individual spiders. After combing through the data herself, Laskowski ultimately came to the conclusion that the data, and the study based on them, weren't trustworthy, and requested earlier this year that the American Naturalist retract the paper. She'd go on to retract another two, both of which she'd coauthored with Pruitt.
These studies—which supported the hypothesis that the behaviors of individual spiders are influenced by social interactions—would be the first of several of Pruitt's papers to come under scrutiny from scientific journals, in a series of retractions and expressions of concern that has rattled the animal behavior research community and affected numerous collaborators, including many students and early-career researchers. "I'm in my first year of . . . my dream job," Laskowski tells The Scientist. "I've been so excited to set up new projects, and then I've had to spend the past four months dealing with all of these old papers that I thought I was over and done with."
You could see how this could be traumatic for a student.
—Russell Tracy, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
McMaster University's investigation into Pruitt's publications is ongoing, and conclusions have yet to be drawn about whether the data oddities are accidental or due to manipulation. (Speaking to Science in January, Pruitt implied the issues were due to data mismanagement.) Yet the ensuing conversation within the scientific community has raised the question of what happens to early-career researchers when their senior collaborators or supervisors are accused, or worse, found guilty of research misconduct.
Through no fault of their own, many graduate students and postdocs end up as collateral damage in such situations, says Wanda Jones, associate director of research integrity at the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), which oversees institutional investigations into scientific misconduct. Among the 30 or so investigations for which the ORI returns a finding of misconduct each year, around 40 percent conclude that principal investigators (PIs) were the ones responsible, while the rest point the finger at students, technicians, and other staff, Jones says. In a given year, dozens of young researchers may find their research projects in jeopardy, or have to scramble to find new positions when their labs shut down—a challenge made particularly difficult by the retractions that often accompany misconduct allegations.
"There may be tremendous misfortune that plays out among the postdocs, among the grad students, among the staff of the principal investigator found to have committed research misconduct," Jones says.
A loss of trust in science
The most immediate impact on early-career researchers affected by a misconduct scandal is often psychological, Jones notes—from worries about one's scientific reputation and career prospects, to a crisis of trust in collaboration and in science as a whole. "You could see how this could be traumatic for a student," says Russell Tracy, a biochemist at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. "They may just decide that they want to do something else with their life and not do this anymore."
That's what Mary Ann Allen first thought in 2006 when she and five other graduate students discovered that their supervisor, biologist Elizabeth Goodwin at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, had falsified results on grant applications. The students ended up turning Goodwin in to the university administration, in an agonizing ordeal that they described to Science later that year. The university's subsequent verdict that Goodwin had committed fraud led Allen to conclude that data fabrication was likely a lot more common in the scientific community than she had presumed. "When that happened—and this is true for almost everybody I've talked to who's been in one of these situations—you come to the conclusion that the majority of science is falsified," she says.
Allen's reflexive reaction was to consider quitting grad school. But when she reached out to a researcher at another institution to ask for a reference to pursue a computer science degree, he gently encouraged her to continue in science, she recalls. "I've come back from that now because I've worked with a lot of labs who work hard to get their research," she says. "But at that moment . . . it [was] the idea that you don't trust science anymore." As for Allen's fellow students, three of them left graduate school before completing their PhDs, although The Scientist was unable to reach them to ascertain if that was because of the experience with Goodwin.
The search for new labs, funding
Allegations of misconduct against a PI raise complex logistical challenges in addition to existential ones for the people working in his or her lab. If a PI's position is terminated, students have to find new scientific homes—although often, universities try to relocate students to new laboratories within the institution, notes Alexander Runko, the director of ORI's division of investigative oversight.
In the case of Goodwin's lab, the thesis committees of the two students aside from Allen who decided to continue graduate school helped find new labs for them, Allen recalls. One of the students had to adopt a new research project, while the second insisted on continuing the research she had pursued under Goodwin's supervision. Allen herself found a position in a new lab through a postdoc she knew. She ended up switching from studying genetic sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans to researching RNA modulation, "a field I had been interested in anyway," she recalls. In all three cases, the transition added years to the students' PhD programs, although all eventually graduated.
Staying in science can get particularly complicated when student visas, scholarships, or funding are tied to a particular investigator, Jones notes—although again, universities usually try to help where they can. Allen's and her fellow grad students' funding had been in Goodwin's name, and when Goodwin was found guilty, the University of Wisconsin returned the sum to the federal government. Ultimately, the School of Medicine and Public Health came up with some funds to support the group, Allen recalls. The University of Ulm in Germany did something similar for graduate students who had been working in the lab of Friedhelm Herrmann and Marion Brach, two cancer researchers accused of data manipulation in 2000 (although both denied guilt). Eberhard Hildt, who raised the alarm about the scandal when he was a postdoc in their lab, tells The Scientist that the university stepped in to replace the lost financial support.
The practical problems don't end when students or postdocs are ready to leave the institution. Applying to positions elsewhere can be fraught for those coming from a lab whose reputation has been tainted by fraud allegations, even when they aren't embroiled in the scandal themselves, Hildt notes. "It's kind of a catastrophe because they are coming from a lab that is famous for scientific misconduct, and this is not the best reference," he says. In 1997, when Hildt was growing suspicious over Hermann's and Brach's research practices, he confided in a former supervisor who had overseen his PhD thesis. That person not only supported Hildt in blowing the whistle, but also provided references for new job applications, says Hildt, now an investigator at the Paul Ehrlich Institute near Frankfurt.
Retractions and reputation concerns
Neither Hildt nor Allen had published research with their supervisors. But others have found themselves in situations where data manipulated or fabricated by senior collaborators have made their way into joint publications that end up getting retracted, creating unique challenges for young researchers whose careers are just getting off the ground. "It's terrifying in some cases when stuff that you've contributed to, that you believe in, is now being retracted," says Katharine White, a chemical biologist at the University of Notre Dame Harper Cancer Research Institute in Indiana. White witnessed a case of misconduct as a grad student at MIT, where a senior postdoc had falsified data—although White wasn't involved in any of the postdoc's papers. "PIs [often] manage to survive it. I don't know if a lot of graduate students who are caught up in it survive it."
Lost publications were a major concern for junior members of the lab of Eric Poehlman, an obesity and aging researcher at the University of Vermont who in 2005 pleaded guilty to charges of data fabrication in studies and grant applications. After losing several manuscripts to retractions, Poehlman's postdocs suddenly had little to show for more than a year's worth of research.
I was of course afraid that [it] could end up with me being fired from my job.
—An anonymous researcher whose supervisor was accused of misconduct
Worried about how the loss would affect future applications for new positions and grants, the University of Vermont's Tracy, then the senior associate dean for research and academic affairs at the school, got together with other senior faculty to advise the postdocs on how to explain the situation in their CVs and in grant proposals. He also wrote letters to grant officials at the National Institutes of Health "to let them know that it's unfortunate, but a lot of their hard work isn't being represented in their bio sketches because of the malfeasance of Dr. Poehlman," he recalls. "What impact those letters had I don't know, but we felt as an institution it was part of our job to help our young investigators build their careers."
Retractions related to misconduct allegations can affect researchers years after the papers themselves are published. In 2009, a European researcher, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the issue, was a few years into a job at a biotech firm when a paper they had coauthored as a PhD student with the Danish neuroscientist Milena Penkowa was retracted. On top of the "painful" experience of having to comb through raw data collected seven years earlier in order to assist an investigation into Penkowa's research practices—and to clear their own name—the anonymous researcher says they worried that the retraction would prompt the University of Copenhagen to invalidate their PhD thesis because the study had formed a key part of it. The researcher also feared that the widely publicized investigation—which resulted in a "blatant forgery" charge for Penkowa (later overturned on appeal)—would influence their employers. "I was of course afraid that [it] could end up with me being fired from my job because they then wouldn't trust in me," the researcher recalls.
Fortunately, their former PhD supervisor took action to ensure that their thesis wasn't affected by the process, and the researcher was able to reassure their employers that they hadn't played a role in the suspect part of the retracted paper. Nevertheless, when they apply to new positions, they only display their "top five" publications, the researcher says, because they don't want potential employers to immediately associate them with Milena Penkowa.
Positive consequences from addressing misconduct
Despite the obstacles they create for everyone involved, misconduct investigations and the conversations they inspire can spur positive change, not least at the institutions that handle such situations. For instance, in the wake of the investigations into Goodwin's actions, the University of Wisconsin–Madison introduced an official policy to help relocate students to new laboratories and secure funding should similar situations with other PIs arise in the future. When Allen started a faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder, she helped the institution set up a similar policy.
For the young researchers themselves, coming face-to-face with alleged or proven scientific misconduct can be transformative, making them more-diligent scientists and educators. Laskowski, for instance, now gives any data collected as part of her research a full "strip search" during analysis, though she will continue to trust her collaborators, she says. And Hildt tries to encourage his students to be open-minded about the outcome of experiments and to avoid mindsets that could lead to data fabrication. White and Allen say they've instated similar practices.
Even people who aren't involved in the affected labs can learn from watching incidents unfold from afar. Alexandra McInturf, a PhD candidate studying animal behavior at the University of California, Davis, says the ongoing Pruitt investigations have made her reflect on the publish-or-perish mindset of academia—a thought process she documented in a widely praised blog article back in February. "I hope this Pruitt data debacle, for whatever reason it was caused, sparks a lot of really good momentum in the future to create better science, even if it's at a slower pace," she tells The Scientist.
Allen, who now teaches a class on responsible research conduct alongside her courses on RNA's roles in disease at Boulder, says that this desire to create a better community is common among people affected by the issues surrounding scientific misconduct. "If you stay in science, which not everybody does, you champion good science."
What to do if your supervisor is suspected of research misconduct
If the suspicions are your own, let someone know: The Office for Research Integrity (ORI) advises people to contact the ORI, institutional research integrity officers, journal editors where publications are concerned, and funding agencies for grant applications. Often, anonymous complaints are possible "if [whistleblowers] have a fear of retaliation," says the ORI's Alexander Runko.
Shore up professional connections: Find other senior researchers at your institution whom you trust—thesis advisory committee members or department chairs,
for example—who can vouch for you, write references, and offer guidance, says Mary Ann Allen, an RNA biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. "I know networking is hard," she says, "but that really helps more than anything in these situations."
Read your institution's policies: Many institutions have policies to protect whistleblowers, and sometimes to help students find new positions. "Make sure that you understand what your institution is supposed to be doing for you," says Russell Tracy, a biochemist at the University of Vermont.
Be transparent: If you've lost papers to retractions, or have publication gaps, you can explain why and highlight your role in retracted papers in your CV or on funding applications, notes Katharine White, a cancer biologist at the University of Notre Dame. "People respond to people that can talk knowledgeably and confidently about their results."
Talk about it: Kate Laskowski of the University of California, Davis, recommends speaking with a licensed counselor, friends, or other affected students. "Seek out as much support as you can from other people."
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There are more than 1,500 restaurants in the area of Mexico City known as Delegación Cuauhtémoc, an expanse that encompasses the downtown region of the metropolis. A team of researchers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Ambientalis Environmental Consulting set out to find if waste cooking oil—the part of cooking oil that's left unsuitable for human consumption by the deep frying process—might instead be suitable as the raw material for biofuel used by public transit in the bustling city.
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Woman has first 'grow your own' knee transplant
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Last updated at 22:00 26 November 2006
A woman with a damaged knee has become the first Briton to have a revolutionary 'grow your own' cartilage transplant that offers hope for thousands for injured sports enthusiasts.
The treatment uses a 3D implant grown with the patient's own healthy cells which is glued into the damaged knee cartilage.
Unlike existing cartilage repair systems which take months to grow, it takes just two weeks to get enough cells for the operation.
They are sent off to a laboratory overseas and seeded into a platform which becomes ready for use within 11 to 15 days.
Patients can be walking normally in six to 12 weeks after surgery - and ready for a new sporting life, say surgeons.
Teacher Shivaun McGuckin, 38, is the first Briton to receive the implant on the NHS as part of a nationwide study after her knee 'locked' while bending down.
Conventional cartilage repair failed and she faced bone grafting before doctors could have attempted to repair her worn out cartilage.
But after having the treatment last week she is well on the road to recovery.
Doctors believe the technique could help around half of young patients who find themselves battling osteoarthritis and cartilage damage.
People aged between 20 and 50 are prime candidates for the new technique, known as the CaReS cartilage regeneration system, which has been used to treat around 1,000 patients worldwide.
Mother of two Mrs McGuckin had increasing difficulty doing everyday activities and had stopped doing exercise because of the pain caused by her injury.
Mrs McGuckin, who lives near Maesteg, south Wales, with husband Damien and sons Tadhg (correct) aged 10 and Conn, aged six, first realised the extent of the damage when she had to pull out of training for her first marathon.
She said "The cartilage had gone down to the bone and taken some bone with it.
"It was increasingly painful, I couldn't run around after the children and I need to be active for my job.
"I've always been sporty,running, playing rugby and hockey, and going to the gym. I was training hard for the marathon but a month beforehand the pain was too much' she added.
She feared having to wait for a knee replacement as doctors normally postpone such major surgery until patients reach their mid 40s and older.
"I'm still young and I didn't want to be getting slower and slower, and then my knee locked into the bent position and I had to have something done."
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Amit Chandratreya of Neath and Port Talbot Hospital, is among the specialists trained to use the new technique.
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Other methods of cartilage transplantation using the patient's own cells from a healthy part of the cartilage take longer, he said.
"Previously it took three to six months to get the implant back, which is only a 2D version. It's a flat implant that has to be stitched in place to repair the defect in the cartilage.
"The CareS system is the first 3D implant so it fits the shape of the defect leaving no gaps and we simply glue it into place.
"It has a special membrane that is ready for use within about two weeks of the patient's cells being sent away.
"They are grown into a bigger supply within the matrix in the laboratory and it's sent back to us. The operation takes about an hour and after a few days the patient can leave hospital for rehabilitation at home.
"It's still experimental and a study is now underway in this country but there are good results from other countries where it has been in use for some time.
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Elektrik Underground from The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Japan
Posted by Peer Saer on January 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM
The men behind Defunct Taperecorder Unincorporated find the following review extreme lengthy. But lengthy things we like! And ... we give Jopie a second chance to consider a more compact version! Mr. Drijfzand has meanwhile completed another version in the Dutch language, for a broader audience.
Review by Jopie Drijfzand
A year has passed since the previous end of the year Elektrik Underground compilation came around on vinyl. The new release comes in CD format only. The release date of the albums from the Elektrik Underground series is always on 31st December. The artists are selected and invited by Nico Selen, the man behind the Dutch Enschede based Motok label. Motok is for a large part Nico's outlet for his own analogue sound projects ranging from minimal pop, electronic minimal music, ambient industrial music to experimental music and related styles. In chronological order these Various Artists end of the year productions have appeared since 2007. Says the label boss: 'My intention is to transform the series Elektrik Underground in a sort of yearly 'newsletter' with experimental electronic music. EU13 is the second step in that direction. EU12 was the first step. My purpose is to diminish the obscurity of the invited sound sculptors.'
On the EU13 CD Nico the label boss is present as E.M.M., Ilo [in cooperation with Freiband], O.R.D.U.C [with Peer Saer], and NoNotes. Nico's Ilo and Frans de Waard's Freiband have joined work for the recently released CD Bits and Pieces. In a way they are long standing collaborators. Peer Saer is another long time occasional partner. Ooy has worked on a Motok album with Ilo in 2012, and some other teamwork. Masato Ooyama from Japan, the man behind Ooy is best known for the work he did with the last reformed legendary Kluster formation. Electric Bongo, Martin Hoogeboom, LGM45 and MaSe, have appeared on other Motok releases. Artists who are new on the Motok label are: Johni-7 from Russia, German ORiFiCE, Pythagora from Sweden and René Baptist Huysmans. Unless explicitely stated, the projects are based in The Netherlands.
A challenging album with four clusters of four tracks in the idioms of electro, minimal, ambient and noise. 'There is a silence of one second between each track, except between track 4 and 5, 8 and 9, and 12 and 13: these tracks are seperated with 8 seconds of silence. In that way four sides of a double LP are audible', says the Motok man.
The compilation kicks off in the first cluster with the album's title track EU13 by E.M.M. (Electronic Minimal Music) the studio solo project of composer Selen. A tight moving sound pallet reminding the German godfathers of 70's synthesiser and sequenser futurists. Second comes an artist I haven't heard before: Johni-7 . He is an artist from Tobolsk, Russia. He comes with an electro kind of groovy sound and atmospheric intervals in a track named Puttu. Something that can be played for the dancefloor. And music it is without challenging any bounderies of sound. Electric Bongo hooks up perfectly with Punch City playing in some sort of well thought and worked out minimal pop idiom. I think I hear primarily analogue synthesiser sounds. LGM45 plays a slow piece without percusion named Cardboard Birds. Birds I hear indeed between the bass and humming lines. 'This is the project of Easy Skywaker, and comes from the Feedback Records stable', says the Motok man. Never heard any sounds before from this project. Worth listening for sure. The shortest track on this album ending with more silence as switching from side A to side B from a double LP album.
The second cluster begins with a track called Colony Two by Martin Hoogeboom, quite a name who was active with rock oriented sounds at the well-known Dutch live venues in the 80's. His recent work - as far as I am able to oversee is ambient and minimal oriented. And Martin does a very good job at this, which also applies to Colony 2. I can't leave behind associations with Jon Hassell's Fourth World musical concept. Ooy comes forward with a fascinating abstract piece, one of the longer album pieces and remains interesting till the sounds decay in silence. Peer Saer treats the listener with another abstract and elusive electronic piece which ends with some surprising guitar strumming. It is a fragment from a much longer track entitled Vuurtoren. Another fragment has been released on the German Attenuation Circuit label and other cuts were aired by radio programmes A Duck in a Tree and Sadayatana. Freiband + –Ilo play (Slow) Fade Out. 'This is a new piece', says the label boss. 'It is a work by E.M.M., processed by Freiband, restructured by Freiband.' In my ears these are warm and also abstract sounds. They round off the second cluster, which I characterize as totally abstract and lacking any percussion. Again ending with more silence before the following track, as switching from a double LP album's side B to C.
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MaSe opens the third cluster with a track named Ddf2 which is as cryptic as the name of the artist. Electro percussion and sinister sythesized bass lines expressing hardly a common sound language resulting in an estranged sound picture which somehow fit together. I understand he is a newcomer in the field of electronic music. ORiFiCE is an experimental electronic noise project from Burkhard Jaeger based in Germany. He follows with a piece named Slumber II which proves to me the beauty of noise. 'I aim to present the whole range of possibilities of noise as a field of creative research', says the artist. Pythagora, which is Dan Henry Pålsson from Malmö, Sweden, ensues with Senses and Illusions. Skinny empirical sounds in the good meaning of words. René Baptist Huysmans comes next with an intriguing imaginary collage or composition he named Kurgan (https://soundcloud.com/rbhuysmans/kurgan-2013). He is a collager or composer of experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music, and part of the collective MuizManz. 'My musical taste as well as my urge to create a new piece seems to be propelled by a desire for an all enveloping musical shape. My favorite percussion instruments turn out to be trains in stations, my favorite ensemble are construction workers at a site. A train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin can be a six-hour-symphony', says René. Eight seconds of silence before moving on from the imaginary double album's side C tot D,.
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O.R.D.U.C. (One-o-seventh Royal Dutch Undergroud Company) opens the fourth and final cluster with a minimal pop tune. The track is called Shifting Times. As a guest Peer Saer appears on acoustic guitar. If I remember well this is one of the few instrumental pieces circulating from this project. NoNotes plays Echoes. It sure keeps this compilation interesting!. Experimental as all other tracks from NoNotes. The project stands for what its name suggests: music without the use of notes. Industrial soundscapes. NoNotes uses synthesizers, a guitar and effects. The members are: Martin Selen (Synthesizer) and Nico Selen (Guitar, Synthesizers and Effects). The second to last track of the album is once more E.M.M. with a track called Rukh (Delta Cygni). It nicely introduces the horizon of the album's end. The track comes from the Cygnus album by E.M.M., portraying stars from the constellation Cygnus. Ilo + Freiband close the selection presented on the EU13 CD with an appropriate track called Shut Down. Good altering electronic minimalism. Actually this is a work of E.M.M., processed by Freiband, restructured by Ilo, as it has been released on the collaboration album of Ilo and Freiband: Bits & Pieces. From A, B, C to D: closing down.
01. E.M.M.: "EU13" 4:20
02. Johni-7: "Puttu" 5:53
03. Electric Bongo: "Punch City" 4:40
04. LGM45: "Cardboard Birds" 2:12
05. Martin Hoogeboom: "Colony Two" 3:15
06. Ooy: "Kemuy06" 5:56
07. Peer Saer: "Vuurtoren" (Fragment) 4:36
08. Freiband + –Ilo: "(Slow) Fade Out" 5:25
09. MaSe: "Ddf2" 2:09
10. ORiFiCE: "Slumber II" 4:08
11. Pythagora: "Senses And Illusions" 5:14
12. René Baptist Huysmans: "Kurgan" 5:59
13. O.R.D.U.C.: "Shifting Times" 3:47
14. NoNotes: "Echoes" 4:55
15. E.M.M.: "Rukh" (Delta Cygni) 4:31
16. Ilo + Freiband: "Shut Down" 4:16
This daring CD contains sixteen instrumental tracks. Says the Motok man: 'The playing field for EU14 will be more focused on song structures in experimental electronic music.' For now Jopie says: 'Give EU13 your [h]ear. Maybe with a beer at the beginning of the year'.
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by Steve Gierhart | Mar 11, 2018 | Elliot Schubert | 0 comments
The Time of Our Lives: Memories and Fantasies of a Blissful Nonagenarian by Elliot Schubert is published!
The Ardent Writer Press welcomes ninety-four year old author Elliot Schubert. It's not often a publishing house has the opportunity and pleasure of publishing a first work of a nonagenarian author. We're tickled pink! And so happy for Mr. Schubert. Be sure and read this warm introduction from his son, Ken Schubert, another author in the Schubert family. Then take time to read the excerpted reviews below. They include one from founding USATODAY cultural critic and cover story writer, Nancy Malitz. Elliot's author page is also running at AWP.
Amazon Link to Print and EBook Editions of The Time of Our Lives is HERE
From son and author, Ken Schubert:
AFTER MY DAD took early retirement in 1983 to fulfill my mom's lifelong dream of living in California, he turned his creative energies and professional writing skills to chronicling a life that spanned the experiences of late nineteenth century refugees from Eastern Europe, the Depression, the Second World War, the Golden Age of the Fifties and Sixties, and the looming clouds of the Seventies and Eighties. With my dad's prodigious memory and eye for detail, the stories gradually evolved from pure recollection to finely crafted allegories of the human condition. His singular intuitive ability to connect various events lent a unique and intricate texture to the stories.
The present collection reflects the blend of truth and fantasy that is pivotal to my dad's persona. Some of the stories have only a passing relationship to reality. He and my mom really did leave their beloved cockatiel behind as described in "The Bird and I" and "Nice N' Easy," but they dealt with its subsequent despondency in less drastic ways. "The Jordans," a morality tale of sex and religion, stems from my dad's reveries after intimate lunchtime revelations by a colleague. "The Miracle of St. Peter's," a parable on a similar theme, came to my dad as he was visiting the basilica in Rome. "The Inheritance" is an alternate take on his aunt, who lived to the age of one hundred and was a rock of stability in a talented but mercurial family. "Barnaby's Grandson" is a whimsical look at my dad's longing for second-generation progeny.
The events of our lives transform the past, and the role of storytelling, whatever its measure of objective truth, is to heighten our awareness of eternity in the fleeting perceptions of daily experience. I hope that this collection will brighten and deepen your days in that very special way.
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"Anyone who grew up in the suburban backyards of the Fifties and Sixties will resonate to the storytelling of Elliot Schubert. Now 94, Schubert has published a collection of 30 whimsical tales spun from those memories. They celebrate his working-class roots and voracious love of learning, while painting a luminous picture of the century that nurtured the hopes and dreams of America's burgeoning middle class."
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Pallas Gates McCorquodale, Foreword Reviews/Clarion Review
"…an insightful collection of 30 short stories that chronicle the joy, sorrow, and wisdom that surround a near-century's lifespan… This entertaining collection mixes the somber and the sweet. While most of the stories are gilded by Schubert's personal reminiscence, their heart and humor embody endearing and universal qualities."
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Diane Donovan, Editor, California Bookwatch, in Midwest Book Review
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Jerry Greenspan, Poet, Founder of Coronado Scribes, Coronado, California
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"Afternoon Delight" is an absolutely delightful little film. It was hugely overlooked in 2013, as there were so many other great films. It's real, smart, and darkly comedic. The premise is completely intriguing, as it immerses the audience fully throughout it's rather short runtime. Though the plot is often predictable, the cast provides enough charisma, and charm to keep viewers engaged. "Afternoon Delight" is a simple film; nothing to figure out, and nothing to speculate. You get what you see on screen. But with these characters, and the realistic dialogue, "Afternoon Delight" provides a sad, though often funny look into the effects of loneliness, and the pursuit for self assurance.
★★★★ review by Kurdt on Letterboxd
Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight seems to have gotten some poor reviews (though not on Letterboxd thankfully) but I feel that's due to people going in with totally the wrong expectations. Judging by the title, the marketing and even the casting, the film seems like it's a laugh-a-minute comedy in the vein of Bridesmaids. That could not be further from the truth. While there are some laughs and some genuine hilarious moments, this is quite a dark drama peppered with some comedy. Afternoon Delight studies the midlife crisis, only unusually from a women's perspective. Kathryn Hahn's Rachel has a great life with a husband, a young son, a great house, but she feels she's in a rut. After no sex with her husband for six months, she takes him and a few friends to a strip club to spice it up a bit. That's where they meet Juno Temple's McKenna.
Rachel's relationship with McKenna is the glue that holds this film together, and it's pulled off extremely well by two great actresses. Their friendship never stays in one place, is always moving since neither of them seems to know exactly what they want from life. They try to accommodate and fix each other as the relationship ebbs and flows. It's a great clash of styles and while you always have the feeling it's not going to end well, you enjoy it while it lasts. The film hinges on Rachel having to discover (or re-discover) her place in the world after a hectic few years, and McKenna's reckless lifestyle means she is pushed right into the deep end and has to tread water while everything starts crashing around her. The great supporting cast (including an excellent Josh Radnor as her husband) all have interesting, well developed characters to sink their teeth into and that's a credit to Soloway's excellent script which always feels very natural.
The best and probably most surprising aspect of the film is it's darkness. Throughout, there is always an aspect of dark undertones hovering around the film despite the bright lighting and smooth camera work. One brilliant 15 minute or so scene in the final third of the film cranks the dark tones up big time as we see the true state of Rachel's crisis come to the surface while at the same time McKenna wreaks some havoc. That's what sets Afternoon Delight apart from other similar films - it isn't afraid to show the dark side of it's seemingly 'normal' characters and shine a light on how even the people with the supposedly easiest lives have just as many troubles and fears as the rest of mankind.
★★★½ review by Natasha C. on Letterboxd
You know what? I kinda liked it, its better than I thought!
★★★★ review by Danny Baldwin on Letterboxd
Undeniably overstuffed and over-reliant on visual punctuation, but Soloway's incapacity for understatement makes the nature of her achievement—both a comedy about and sympathetic portrayal of upper-class Angeleno existence—all the more miraculous. It's also refreshing to see a movie with such a flair for the dramatic take on an ultimately optimistic worldview, given that drama inherently veers toward the brooding. Kathryn Hahn is aces; it sure took long enough for her to be provided a vehicle she could really drive.
★★★★ review by bella on Letterboxd
Major love to any film that parallels the lives of offbeat, imperfect women and builds a narrative off their growing and changing dynamic.
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Coronavirus: Ithaca restaurant owners concerned about sales decrease from students leaving
Matt Steecker
Ithaca Journal
Local restaurants have already noticed a decrease in customers and sales because of concerns related to the coronavirus.
With Cornell University announcing a three-week suspension of classes and ordering students to remain at home after spring break and study remotely, local restaurants will most likely notice an even sharper decreases in sales. Ithaca College students will also move to online classes following their return to spring break.
Cornell students spend at least $4 million a week in Ithaca and Tompkins County on goods and services, and contribute $221 million to the local economy each year, according to the university.
As the customer base for goods and services shrinks, many businesses may continue to struggle, including restaurants.
"Business has been slowing down," said Dean Zervos, a co-owner of Simeon's On the Commons. "It's not as it should be and this week will be a big sign of how it will be. Hockey's being canceled ... everything's being canceled. The only thing I'm concerned about is people cancelling things too far out. To cancel everything for the whole year is ridiculous."
More:Coronavirus in NY: Cornell University students will study remotely after spring break
More:Loss of Cornell students during coronavirus pandemic could cost Ithaca, Tompkins $4M a week
However, Zervos, whose two kids are in college, said he understands what the educational institutions are doing.
He also said he prefers other policies certain institutions are taking, like evaluating the return to on-campus instruction on a weekly basis instead of long-term cancellations.
A decreasing customer base is not the only thing Zervos and other business owners have had on their mind.
A new state order created in the wake of the coronavirus is requiring public places to not be filled by more than half of their capacity.
"We are removing tables and giving people more room in between tables," Zervos said. "We are abiding by that."
Other businesses have been affected by concerns related to the coronavirus as well.
"I can tell there is a difference in the amount of volume compared to same time last year," said Dmitry Serebryany, who co-owns Waffle Frolic with his wife. "It's about a 25 percent decrease, but it's hard to tell since little time has passed."
Serebryany and his crew have taken a serious approach to the viral pandemic.
"We're definitely concerned for our customers' safety as well as our employees," Serebryany said. "We're doing our best sanitizing daily. We're trying to do best we can do as far as we're concerned."
While the business is already noticing the community's concerns about the health implications of the disease, soon the restaurant could also be experiencing the harsh economic impact the virus could have on the community when Cornell students leave.
"We will be in a really tough spot. We are trying to do the best we can to prepare and get ahead," Serebryany said. "We want to urge everyone out in Ithaca to shop locally. It will be tough for everyone."
During a phone interview on Friday morning, Zaw Winn, owner of Oishii Bowl, a restaurant serving Japanese ramen and rice bowls in Collegetown, said he has noticed just a slight decrease in business.
However, like others in his industry, Winn is concerned by what the near future without Cornell students could hold.
"It will be really bad for us. I really worry about it because our rent is high up here. We have to make money to pay rent," Winn said. "I'm kind of lost. I don't know what to say. I'm worried about students leaving and I don't know what to do."
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Q: How to fine tune TCP performance on Linux with a 10Gb fiber connection We have 2 Red Hat servers that are dedicated for customer speedtest. They both use 10Gb fiber connections and sit on 10Gb links. All network gear in between these servers fully support 10Gb/s. Using Iperf or Iperf3 the best I can get is around 6.67Gb/s. That being said, one server is in production (customers are hitting it) and the other server is online but not being used. (we are using it for testing atm) The 6.67Gb/s is also one way, I should mention. We'll call these server A and server B.
When server A acts as the iperf server, we get the 6.67Gb/s speeds. When server A acts as the client to server B it can only push about 20Mb/s.
What I have done:
So far the only thing I have done is increase the TX/RX buffers on both server to their max. One was set to 512 the other 453. (RX only, TX was already maxed out) so here is that that looks like on both after the update:
Server A:
Ring parameters for em1:
Pre-set maximums:
RX:     4096
RX Mini:    0
RX Jumbo:   0
TX:     4096
Current hardware settings:
RX:     4096
RX Mini:    0
RX Jumbo:   0
TX:     4096

Server B:
Ring parameters for p1p1:
Pre-set maximums:
RX:     4078
RX Mini:    0
RX Jumbo:   0
TX:     4078
Current hardware settings:
RX:     4078
RX Mini:    0
RX Jumbo:   0
TX:     4078

NICS look like this:
Server A:
ixgbe 0000:01:00.0: em1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX

Serer B:
bnx2x 0000:05:00.0: p1p1: NIC Link is Up, 10000 Mbps full duplex,     Flow control: ON - receive & transmit

Server A ethtool stats:
 rx_errors: 0
 tx_errors: 0
 rx_over_errors: 0
 rx_crc_errors: 0
 rx_frame_errors: 0
 rx_fifo_errors: 0
 rx_missed_errors: 0
 tx_aborted_errors: 0
 tx_carrier_errors: 0
 tx_fifo_errors: 0
 tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
 rx_long_length_errors: 0
 rx_short_length_errors: 0
 rx_csum_offload_errors: 123049

 Server B ethtool stats:
 [0]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [0]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [1]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [1]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [2]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [2]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [3]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [3]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [4]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [4]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [5]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [5]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [6]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [6]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 [7]: rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 [7]: rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 rx_error_bytes: 0
 rx_crc_errors: 0
 rx_align_errors: 0
 rx_phy_ip_err_discards: 0
 rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
 tx_error_bytes: 0
 tx_mac_errors: 0
 tx_carrier_errors: 0
 tx_deferred: 0
 recoverable_errors: 0
 unrecoverable_errors: 0

Potential issue: Server A has tons of rx_csum_offload_errors. Server A is the one on production and I can't help but think that CPU interrupts may be an underlying factor here and whats causing the errors I see.
cat /proc/interrupts from Server A:
122:   54938283          0          0          0          0            0          0          0          0          0          0          0            0          0          0          0          0          0          0           0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-  TxRx-0
123:   51653771          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-1
124:   52277181          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-2
125:   51823314          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-3
126:   57975011          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-4
127:   52333500          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-5
128:   51899210          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-6
129:   61106425          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-7
130:   51774758          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-8
131:   52476407          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-9
132:   53331215          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      em1-TxRx-10
133:   52135886          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0

Would disabling rx-checksumming help if this is what the issue may be? Also I see no CPU interrupts on the server that's not in production, which makes sense, since its NIC is not needing CPU time.
Server A:
 ethtool -k em1
Features for em1:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
tx-checksum-ipv4: on
tx-checksum-unneeded: off
tx-checksum-ip-generic: off
tx-checksum-ipv6: on
tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: on [fixed]
tx-checksum-sctp: on [fixed]
scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
tx-tcp-segmentation: on
tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off
tx-tcp6-segmentation: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: off [fixed]
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: on
rx-vlan-offload: on
tx-vlan-offload: on
ntuple-filters: off
receive-hashing: on
highdma: on [fixed]
rx-vlan-filter: on [fixed]
vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
tx-lockless: off [fixed]
netns-local: off [fixed]
tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
tx-fcoe-segmentation: on [fixed]
tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]
fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
loopback: off [fixed]

Other than using jumbo frames, which is not possible because our network gear does not support them, what else can I do or check to provide me with the most optimal TCP performance for my 10Gb network? The 6.67Gb/s is not that bad I guess taking into consideration that one of the servers is in production and my hypothesis about the CPU interrupts the NIC is generating. But the 20Mb/s speed in the other direction on a 10Gb link is simply not acceptable. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Server A specs:
x64 24v CPU
32GB RAM
RHEL 6.7
Server B Specs:
x64 16v CPU
16GB ram
RHEL 6.7

A: In Linux/Intel I would use following methodology for performance analysis:
Hardware:

*

*turbostat
Look for C/P states for cores, frequencies, number of SMIs. [1]

*cpufreq-info
Look for current driver, frequencies, and governor.

*atop
Look for interrupt distribution across cores
Look for context switches, interrupts.

*ethtool
-S for stats, look for errors, drops, overruns, missed interrupts, etc
-k for offloads, enable GRO/GSO, rss(/rps/rfs)/xps
-g for ring sizes, increase
-c for interrupt coalescing

Kernel:

*

*/proc/net/softirq[2] and /proc/interrupts[3]
Again, distribution, missed, delayed interrupts, (optional) NUMA-affinity

*perf top
Look where kernel/benchmark spends its time.

*iptables
Look if there are rules (if any) that may affect performance.

*netstat -s, netstat -m, /proc/net/*
Look for error counters and buffer counts

*sysctl / grub
So much to tweak here. Try increasing hashtable sizes, playing with memory buffers, congestion control, and other knobs.

In your case your main problem is interrupt distribution across the cores, so fixing it will be your best corse of action.
PS. Do not forget that in those kinds of benchmarks kernel and driver/firmware versions play a significant role.
PPS. You probably want to install the newest ixgbe driver from Intel[4]. Do not forget to read README there and examine scripts directory. It has lots of performance-related tips.
[0] Intel also has nice docs about scaling network performance
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
[1] You can pin your processor to a specific C-state:
https://gist.github.com/SaveTheRbtz/f5e8d1ca7b55b6a7897b
[2] You can analyze that data with:
https://gist.github.com/SaveTheRbtz/172b2e2eb3cbd96b598d
[3] You can set affinity with:
https://gist.github.com/SaveTheRbtz/8875474
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/ixgbe%20stable/

A: Are the servers of the same specs (make and model)? Have you made any sysctl.conf changes?
You should enable irqbalance because your interrupts are only occurring on CPU0.
If you aren't using a tuned profile with EL6, you should choose one that's close to your workload, according to the schedule here.

A: Speed 6 Gb/s is ok, if you run only one instance of iperf, as it's limited to single CPU core. Two processes simultaneously should give you expected 10Gb/s.
The problem with 20Mb/s in one direction looks like driver/firmware/hardware incompatibility issue.
I suggest you to try the following troubleshooting steps:
Your NICs have dual ports, so first, try loopback speed tests on both NICs. It can help you to localize the problem: on server A or on server B.
 2. Change patch cords.
 3. Try new drivers.
 4. Upgrade firmware.
 5. Change NICs)

A: I would try disabling LRO ( Large Receive Offload )... I'd guess you have one with it turned on, and one with it turned off.
It's NIC / driver dependent, but in general, when we see that in our environment, we know we missed one, and go disable LRO

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Music history on auction
By MiNDFOOD, Photography by Reuters	| November 5, 2014
James Brown red sequin cape used by Brown in performances from 1960-1970s is pictured on display along with other items from music artists at Julien's Auctions for the upcoming "Icons & Idols: Rock n Roll" auction in Beverly Hills
Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auction, poses with headpiece and sunglasses worn by Lady Gaga for a fashion spread in Harper's Bazaar magazine, at Julien's Auctions
Jackets and shirts worn by Michael Jackson are pictured on display at Julien's Auctions for the upcoming "Icons & Idols: Rock n Roll" auction in Beverly Hills
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Maxfield leather jacket owned by Miles Davis is pictured on display at Julien's Auctions for the upcoming "Icons & Idols: Rock n Roll" auction in Beverly Hills
Sapphire blue velvet catsuit and multicolor ensemble worn by Whitney Houston is pictured on display at Julien's Auctions for the upcoming "Icons & Idols: Rock n Roll" auction in Beverly Hills
"Material Girl" gown worn by Madonna in her music video is pictured at Julien's Auctions for the upcoming "Icons & Idols: Rock n Roll" auction in Beverly Hills
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YOUR MARRIAGE! It's the topic for the entire week upcoming, on the blog.
Not married? Awesome. Because several of the posts will be about your possible FUTURE marriage! I aim to prepare you.
Specifically, we'll be unpacking the topic of priorities that lead to a successful marriage. I'm going to ask some powerful questions and make some eyebrow raising statements!
Never have I been more passionate about this. It's one reason I'm so excited to be away with my husband this coming week.
Today, Larry and I leave for the 25th anniversary cruise we've had planned for a year. When we planned this trip, we weren't aware that the church would be doing something special for us back in June, (on our actual anniversary week) and sending us away for a few days to Club Med, but I'm kinda glad that we didn't know. I didn't realize then how much I'd need to get away right now. What a God-send.
I am so thankful for God's grace in giving me strength thus far, as well as provision that makes this getaway possible.
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Dom Deshawn Weathers the Storm on Tale of Two Seasons
The underground rapper chronicles struggle and perseverance through the fall and winter of his hometown Columbus, Ohio.
Written By Tomas Miriti Pacheco
| March 31, 2022 - 11:29 am
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Dom Deshawn's latest album Tale of Two Seasons captures the almost helpless feeling of passing through the seasons, undergoing a change that you can't control but is happening all around you. Like last September's Maintainin', the project emerges from the Columbus rapper–born Dominique Mattox–processing personal struggles within the larger global catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic. Deshawn captures this still-new struggle with isolation through the process of moving from fall to winter, with recent struggles of heartbreak and loneliness giving way to new opportunities for growth.
Through the candor of his verses and the visual sharpness of his music videos, Deshawn's music reflects on the many seasons of his own creative journey. Deshawn started rapping at age 18 after music overtook a prior dream of attending art school. He released his debut A Work in Progress in 2011. Though he would drop with some regularity for several years, reaching new highs in streaming numbers with 2014's Before Sunset, after the project's release the artist went on a three-year hiatus that was broken by 2017's AfterhOurz. The making of Tale of Two Seasons was itself a transitional process–originally intended for release in fall 2021 under the new title of A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream, the project was extended through the winter for the addition of new tracks and features, resulting in the name change.
The debut single for Tale of Two Seasons, "Autumn Prologue," is a redux of some of the issues chronicled throughout Maintainin': Deshawn laments his breakup the previous year and the disorienting consequences of the pandemic. On top of that, he shares feelings of grief and paranoia surrounding the hospitalization of his father and grandmother: "Mortality has been heavy on my mind/Will a nigga have regrets, when it is my time?"
The video for "Autumn Prologue"— co-directed by Deshawn and Columbus director, producer, and editor Ted Cadillac– tracks Deshawn down a leaf-cluttered avenue as he raps and mimes through his thoughts. The visual highlights his reflective style, the stream-of-consciousness verses that move steadily towards the positive, and is well suited to the cool, bright flute that carries the melody in New Jersey producer Dre Rodner's instrumental.
Throughout the EP, Deshawn enlists a spread of Ohioan artists to capture the unique blues and pleasures of the cold, overcast half of the Midwestern year. "Stargazing" features vocalist Miir, intoning alongside Deshawn as he turns to the sky in despair–"asking God why, why should I try/cause everybody dies/"–only to find solace in the people around him– "then I realize that love really keeps me alive." Producers Satele, whose debut single "I'll Show You" was released on March 16, and Randall Thomas combine for the haunting "Nightmare on High Street." Rappers bwiselive and Pink Siifu–who grew up in Cincinnati–give hypnotizing features on "That Feeling (11/1)" and "Septemba."
As the project nears its close, the warm, even upbeat instrumentals of its opening tracks fade into the chilling keys and lamenting vocal sample of "Bitter Solstice." The song finds Deshawn right where he started, in the raw loss of his breakup, "going through some things/seasonal depression/I need to maintain." However, by the closer "Winter Epilogue," it's clear he intends to do just that. There is no darkness Dom Deshawn encounters in his verses that he cannot peel a silver lining from or tunnel through to the light.
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