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Bryan Williams
Bryan Williams is research director of the Psychical Research Foundation based in Carrollton, Texas, USA. He is the author of parapsychology monographs including Psychic Phenomena and the Brain: Exploring the Neuropsychology of Psi (2015). His research focuses on exploring field-like influences on the behaviour of random number generators.
Out-of-body Experiences
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Poltergeist Cases
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Bryan Williams studied cognitive psychology at the University of New Mexico.In 2008, he took up a research position at the Psychical Research Foundation (PRF), which was established in 1961 with an endowment to the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory for research into the survival of consciousness question. The PRF enjoyed a productive period under the leadership of Danish-born parapsychologist William Roll, whom Williams later succeeded as research director.1
In the early twentieth century, physician Duncan MacDougall weighed terminally ill hospital patients at the moment of their decease, to try to discover a weight change indicative of a 'soul'. He claimed to find an average weight loss of 21 grams among six individuals, although alternative explanations such as bodily excretions are likely.2 The PRF has tried to conduct similar research with out-of-body experients under tighter conditions employing a more sensitive balancing system;3 however, it has proved hard to find experients who are able to reliably detect remote perceptual targets. 4
Research conducted at the PRF5 and elsewhere6 found EEG correlations with improved psi scoring, principally increased alpha wave expression. Following this, a pilot study was conducted in 2013 with a 64-year old psychic claimant who attempted clairvoyant and PK tests while his brain wave activity was monitored using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). In alignment with previous research, Williams found increased alpha activity during the more successful PK sessions, indicating that a relaxed state of mind is psi conducive,7 although substantive conclusions are discouraged owing to the limited number of test sessions, the extremely small effect sizes, and lack of opportunities to follow up with the individual concerned. 8
The PRF investigates potential poltergeist cases in the nearby area of New Mexico, continuing extensive work in this field by William Roll. The cases are evaluated according to four criteria: authenticity, psychological factors, physical factors and parapsychological aspects.9
Raymond Moody10 investigated the psychological and therapeutic effects of entering a psychomanteum – a dimly-lit enclave in which a person is asked to stare at a tilted mirror in order to elicit an altered state of consciousness. To continue this research, Williams is seeking funding to probe for physical changes in the immediate environment and explore psychological correlates.11
High-profile research in recent years has focused on the possible influence of collective consciousness on the behaviour of random number generators, notably Roger Nelson's Global Consciousness Project.12 Williams is conducting similar exploratory process-oriented investigations, motivated to amass a sizeable database which will inform future confirmatory studies. Examples follow.
Williams's analysis of eighteen years of television charity events (telephons) showed a suggestively significant downward trend in the behaviour of RNGs spread across the US, belonging to the GCP and his own RNG in Albuquerque (p = 0.049).13
Williams probed for collective consciousness influence on thirteen RNGs situated in relative proximity to ninety synchronized ghost hunts in several continents. Overall deviation was suggestive but not significant (p = 0.08).14
Williams combined his RNG data with that of twelve US RNGs from the Global Consciousness Project for five solar eclipse events and found a suggestive but non-significant trend (after removing one null outcome).15
Williams produces high-quality material introducing readers to the rich findings of parapsychology that includes poltergeist phenomena,16 ESP and the brain,17 18 and reviewing evidence for psi in the ganzfeld.19 He actively rebuts online articles and blog posts by sceptics hostile to parapsychological research.20 21
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MacDougall, D. (1907). Hypothesis concerning soul substance together with experimental evidence of the existence of such substance. American Medicine 13, 240-243.
Morris, R. L., Roll, W. G., Klein, J., & Wheeler, G. (1972). EEG patterns and ESP results in forced-choice experiments with Lalsingh Harribance. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 66, 253-268.
Moody, R. A. (1992). Family reunions: Visionary encounters with the departed in a modern-day psychomanteum. Journal of Near-Death Studies11, 83-121. Also see Moody, R. with Perry, P. (1993). Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones. New York: Villard Books.
Roll, W. G. & Persinger, M. A. (2001). Investigations of poltergeists and haunts: A review and interpretation. In J. Houran & R. Lange (eds.) Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (123-163). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Williams, B. J. (2011). Exploring the psychic brain: On neuroscience and psi phenomena. Australian Journal of Parapsychology 11, 154-192.
Williams, B. J. (2015). Empirical examinations of the reported abilities of a psychic claimant: A review of experiments and explorations with Sean Harribance. In D. Broderick & B. Goertzel (eds.) Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports (pp. 102-137). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.
1. https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/about
2. MacDougall (1907).
3. https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/obe-detection-studies
4. Williams (January 2020): personal communication.
5. Williams (2015).
6. Morris, et al. (1972).
7. Williams (2013). https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/brain-studies
9. Roll and Persinger (2001).
10. Moody (1992).
11. Williams (2019). https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/psychomanteum
12. http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
13. Williams (2018). https://www.facebook.com/notes/bryan-j-williams/field-rng-exploration-stand-up-to-cancer-2018-other-us-multi-network-benefit-tel/10155605499762050/
14. Williams (2017). https://www.facebook.com/notes/bryan-j-williams/field-rng-prediction-national-ghost-hunting-day-2017/10154825600107050/
15. Williams (2017). https://www.facebook.com/notes/bryan-j-williams/field-rng-exploration-result-2017-solar-eclipse/10154729022422050/
16. https://www.academia.edu/1307179/Poltergeist_Phenomena_A_Primer_on_Parapsychological_Research_and_Perspectives
17. https://www.academia.edu/19971876/Extrasensory_Perception_and_the_Brain_Hemispheres_Where_Does_the_Issue_Stand_Now
18. Williams (2010).
19. https://www.academia.edu/19971601/Revisiting_the_Ganzfeld_ESP_Debate_A_Basic_Review_and_Assessment
20. https://www.facebook.com/notes/bryan-j-williams/is-the-ganzfeld-esp-database-really-that-contentious-a-commentary-on-a-recent-sk/10155892729782050/
21. https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/33/jse_33
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Last updated: 23rd January 2020
Duggan, M. (2020). 'Bryan Williams'. Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research. <https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/bryan-williams>. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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Shy Glizzy
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Shy Glizzy is a very popular American rapper. He is from Washington D.C. Shy Glizzy started his career at a very tender age. His age was thirteen. He has been able to launch various mixtapes since the year 2011. Among the mix, tapes include Law, Law 2, Young Jefe, and Law 3. His childhood was not very smooth and is usually reflected in most of his songs.
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Shy Glizzy was born in the year 1992 on December 12th. His birth name was Marquis Amonte King. He was brought up by his mother and grandmother. He grew with his young brother. His younger brother is a rapper, and he goes by the name 3 Glizzy. Shy Glizzy's father got murdered when he was only nineteen years old.
He formed a rap group called Glizzy Gang. That was in his early twenties. This group did comprise rappers 'Plies', 'Ant,' 'Snipe,' and 'Quetta.' The group has had an outstanding career being able to release various songs together. Shy Glizzy did not complete his high school studies. It is because police arrested him, and he faced charges of being in possession of drugs, illegal gun ownership, and theft. He achieved his GED while still in Prison.
Being born on 12 December 1992, Shy Glizzy is 29 years old as of today's date 21st January 2022. His height is 1.73 m tall, and his weight is 70 kg.
He began his career by releasing his first mixtape by the name 'No Brainer.' That was done in January 2011. The mixtape had 13 interesting tracks. It had lyrics that were very interesting. Among the tracks that were contained in the mixtape included 'Suck Me With N Hands,' '4 My Town', 'Ball Out,' and 'White and Metal.' The reception of the album was so good that it encouraged him to release another mixtape before the end of the same year. The mixtape was dubbed 'Streets Hottest Youngin'. The mixtape had fourteen tracks, and it features other artists such as Young RichieP, Match, Mayo, and Future.
The following year that is in 2012, he was able to release his second mixtape. The mixtape was dubbed 'Law.' His third album was released in collaboration with Jose Guapo. The mixtape was dubbed 'Fxck Rap.' He continued to work hard with the main aim of making a name for himself in the rap industry. He launched 'Law 2' mixtape that received a warm reception. It featured artists like Starlito, Migos, Kevin Gates, among many others.
In the year 2014, he released his album that made a name for him, 'Young Jefe.' Later, he went on to release various mixtapes that received a warm reception. Among the mixtapes includes 'Law 3: Now or Never'. His album did perform very well, with some getting high ratings in different charts.
Shy Glizzy has been able to receive various nominations. Among the nominations that he has received include O Music Awards in the category of Make a Band Famous and the prestigious Grammy Award in the category Best Rap/Sung Performance. His songs and albums have had a very high rating.
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As of January 2022, Shy Glizzy's net worth is estimated to be over $300 thousand. This net worth has come from his successful career music. Also, he gets a massive chunk of money from sponsorship and featuring in various ads. He has had good sales in the albums that he has released. Like for instance, It is estimated that he was able to receive more than $127 thousand from the sale of the album and songs in the year 2015/16. By being a celeb, he earns money by endorsing various brands.
Shy Glizzy is beyond any reasonable doubt, a talented musician. Despite Shy Glizzy not being signed to any label, he has continued to show how hard work combined with talent can propel you to greater heights.

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(inaccurate English transliteration of the Chinese Kung Hang), the European name for the Chinese Kung Hang merchant guild, which existed from the early 18th century to the 1840's.
The Western powers that traded with the Qing empire under the "Canton system," for example, did not send tribute to the Qing imperial throne (with rare and contested exceptions) and their interactions with the Qing were not managed by the Board of Rites (traditionally assumed to manage all tributary relations) but by the cohong merchants in Canton itself.
Chiefly managed by the Cohong, or Chinese merchants deputized by the Qing court, Canton was relatively open to competition among its multiple foreign factors.
Moreover, profits were hit by the graft and corruption built into a system dominated by a guild of Chinese merchants known as the Hong or Cohong and the Collector of Customs himself, the all-powerful Hoppo, one of whom owned the palace that provided the Coutts Bank wallpaper.


This summer has been great, hot but great, kicked off this summer with the Exodus youth band from Vineville United Methodist Church's tour Exodus 2k14. One of the churchs we sang at was my old church in Boca Raton named Cason UMC, and I one night I was there and went to dinner with family and friends where I met Orange County Choppers Paul SR.
After the tour I was home for four days then I flew to Bermuda, my favorite resturant in Bermuda was called Lido and it was at our hotel. After spending a few days in Bermuda we ventured downtown and passed a Masonic Temple so of course I had to Have Mom, Dad, Connor and Calen walk back up the hill with me to take my picture on the front steps. while we were in Bermuda we went on a ferry cruise and saw a little cove under a house that pirates used to like to hideout in to avoid capture.
After we left Bermuda we were home for a few days before we went to Amelia Island Florida for vacation. While at the Beach we Celebrated Grandads birthday(July 1st) and Calens Birthday(July 2nd). On Calens Birthday we all participated in a Surfing Lesson(Cameron,Connor,Calen,Riley Anderson & I). I never fell once while surfing and it was myfirst time, Our friends Macy Meeks and Sarah Farriba drove down from Macon Ga and Arrived after lunch, we opened presents at various times throughout the day as more people showed up including Francine, Dave, Carson & Isabella.
On a side note on July 3rd we got a visit from Steve Kupcha & family! And me and dad took them out on the boat just as a storm was coming in.


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Sources: Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign
By Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz, Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 9:23 PM EDT, Fri April 21, 2017
Sources: Russia tried infiltrating Trump camp
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The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried to use Trump advisers, including Carter Page, to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials.
The new information adds to the emerging picture of how the Russians tried to influence the 2016 election, not only through email hacks and propaganda but also by trying to infiltrate the Trump orbit. The intelligence led to an investigation into the coordination of Trump's campaign associates and the Russians.
These officials made clear they don't know whether Page was aware the Russians may have been using him. Because of the way Russian spy services operate, Page could have unknowingly talked with Russian agents.
Page disputes the idea he has ever collected intelligence for the Russians, saying he helped the US intelligence community. "My assumption throughout the last 26 years I've been going there has always been that any Russian person might share information with the Russian government … as I have similarly done with the CIA, the FBI and other government agencies in the past."
But the intelligence suggests Russia tried to infiltrate the inner-workings of the Trump campaign by using backdoor channels to communicate with people in the Trump orbit, US officials say.
Page is one of several Trump advisers US and European intelligence found to be in contact with Russian officials and other Russians known to Western intelligence during the campaign, according to multiple US officials.
The scope and frequency of those contacts raised the interest of US intelligence agencies.
The FBI and CIA declined to comment on Page's statement.
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Who's who in Trump-Russia saga
In 2013, Page had meetings with a Russian man who turned out to be a spy, according to federal prosecutors. Page denied knowing that the man, Victor Podobnyy, was secretly a Russian operative living in New York.
As CNN first reported, Carter Page's speech critical of US policy against Russia in July 2016 at a prominent Moscow university drew the attention of the FBI and raised concerns he had been compromised by Russian intelligence, according to US officials. They also feared that Russian operatives maintained contact with him both in the United States and Russia, US officials say.
His conversations with suspected Russian operatives are being examined as part of a large intelligence-gathering operation by the FBI and other US agencies that was set up to probe Russia's interference in the election. The officials would not say what the conversations were about.
How Page's name became associated with the campaign is a reflection of how minimal the Trump operation was last year, as establishment national security figures avoided an association with the insurgent operation.
As Trump prepared to meet with The Washington Post editorial page in March 2016, the campaign was under pressure to name national security advisers. Staffers produced a list of names for Trump to refer to, according to a US official close to the campaign. Trump mentioned Page, in part because he had a Ph.D. listed next to his name, the official said.
Trump had never met Page. Sam Clovis, co-chairman of the campaign, helped gather the names that the candidate used.
Campaign officials say there's no indication Page ever attended any national security meetings at Trump Tower. They insisted he played a junior role and was not an influential figure.
But in a letter Page wrote to the House Intelligence committee offering to testify, Page describes more interactions with the campaign.
"For your information, I have frequently dined in Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Cafe, had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower, attended events and spent many hours in campaign headquarters on the fifth floor last year."
A US official with close ties to the campaign says Page's claim he spent time on the fifth floor is meaningless since the campaign no longer used that floor starting in early July. The official also says the places he listed as visiting are public spaces visited by millions of people a year.
The FBI had Page on their radar for at least four years, according to court documents and US officials.
The bureau also knew about Page from its 2013 investigation into a Russian spy ring in New York. One of the spies was taped saying he tried to recruit Page, and Page admitted meeting him. But Page says he didn't share anything sensitive and didn't know he was talking to a spy.
He also traveled to Russia frequently and interacted with officials that the FBI was concerned were acting on behalf of the government.
His trip to Russia in July 2016 revived the FBI's interest, when he delivered a lecture at a graduation ceremony for the New Economic School. The university opened after the fall of the Soviet Union and is ranked as one of the best universities for economics in Russia. Former President Barack Obama gave a speech there during his first official trip to Russia in 2009.
But Page's lecture sounded different than what would be expected from most Americans. He parroted Kremlin talking points by chastising the West for prolonging "Cold War tendencies."
"Ironically, Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change," he said, adding that US foreign policy toward Russia was "condescending" and "hostile."
Page stressed to the audience that he was there as a private citizen and not a Trump surrogate. But a spokesman for the school told CNN that Page's ties to Trump helped secure the invitation.
"The organizing committee for the commencement last year thought that he was a colorful and interesting character," said Denis Klimentov, a spokesman for the New Economic School. "It was partially supported by the fact that The Washington Post, the newspaper, back in the spring of 2016, cited Carter as one of Mr. Trump's foreign policy advisors."
Page maintains that he only met with "scholars and professors" during his July trip. Klimentov said that the New Economic School didn't arrange any meetings on Page's behalf.
"Physically and technically, frankly speaking, I don't think he had any time for that, he was with the school pretty much during most of the day, both days, and the remaining half of the day that he was in Moscow," Klimentov said.
But a former Obama administration official briefed on Russia's meddling in the election says Russians who work at prominent think tanks, universities and businesses often play an informal intelligence role.
"There are very few agencies of any kind that don't have some sort of intelligence or counterintelligence role," the official told CNN. "If you run an organization in Russia government, you will now have a role in that. It's the explicit mission of Russian government agencies."
Shortly after Page returned to the US, he and other Trump advisers headed to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention. On the sidelines of a convention-related event, Page and other Trump advisers, including JD Gordon and Jeff Sessions, met with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.
Two months after Page's trip, the FBI sought and received a warrant from the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to monitor Page's communications.
When he returned to Moscow in December 2016, after Trump won the election, Russian state-run media widely covered and promoted his trip, including RT and Sputnik, which have been identified by the US intelligence community as tools for the Kremlin's propaganda.
RT published stories on all three days of Page's trip. Sputnik published an 800-word roundup of the presentation and press conference he gave at the state-run news agency's headquarters. The RT affiliate Ruptly quickly published the full video of his second presentation and press conference.
That speech was given under the auspices of the Russian government: The event was held at the headquarters of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, a state-run media company created in 2013 by an official decree from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Not only did Russian state-run media cover the trip, but a prominent government-run think tank involved in election-meddling efforts put out a press release heralding Page's visit.
The leader of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studie, Leonid Reshetnikov, painted Page as an influential adviser to Trump and said his visit could help improve US-Russian relations.
"It's quite possible that Trump's advisor is a pragmatist and a realist," Reshetnikov said, according to a translation of his comments in Russian. "This is probably not an ordinary visit. He has probably received some instructions from the President-elect. I don't think that meetings at the highest level will take place, but (the possibility) cannot be excluded."
Reuters reported this week that the group was involved in Russia's efforts to interfere in the US election. The organization sent recommendations to top Kremlin leaders with plans of how to use its propaganda machine to help Trump and undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The FBI and other US agencies have been combing through information obtained through that FISA as part of its ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia.
Intelligence analysts and FBI investigators who analyzed various strands of intelligence from human sources to electronic and financial records have found signs of possible collusion between the campaign and Russian officials. But there is not enough evidence to show that crimes were committed, US officials say.
Part of the problem for investigators has been that they lost their opportunity to conduct the investigation in secret after several leaks last year revealed FBI was looking at people close to the Trump campaign. After those reports, people that the US was monitoring changed their behavior, which made it more difficult for US officials to monitor them.
This story has been updated to reflect additional reporting on Page's role during the campaign.


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Q: Total energy for 2 charged particles feeling their potentials: Problem with a factor of 2 Say we have charge $Q_1$ and charge $Q_2$, both exerting a potential $V_1$ and $V_2$ respectively, at a separation $r$.
The interaction energy is $\displaystyle\frac{Q_1 Q_2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 r}$.
The energy is also $qV$ in general, shouldn't it be $Q_1 V_2 + Q_2 V_1$ here, ending up with a factor of $2$ to the expression above?

A: The energy of a system isn't the sum of the individual energies, ie. energy is not extensive in general. The energy of the system is the energy required to create this system out of nothing. To do it, you can bring the first charge from nowhere to its position: it cost you nothing, since there is no potential at that time in space, except the potential it creates. No, you can bring the second charge, from infinity to its position: it costs you $Q_2 V_1(r) = \frac{Q_1Q_2}{4\pi\epsilon_0 r}$.
In general, you can show that for any given $Q_1,\dots,Q_n$ charges, then the energy of the system is
$$ E = \frac{1}{2}\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n} Q_iV_i$$
where $V_i$ is the potential created at the position of $Q_i$ by all the other charges. To do this, consider the result true with $n$ charges, and show that it is still true with $n+1$ charges.

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First Time Taking Acid
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Repost from old blog, 3/28/2008 I remember feeling unready. It was my senior year of high school, many of my out-of-town friends had tripped, and they announced that they were coming into town in a few hours, bringing blotter, and we were all going to trip together.
N– had the house to herself that night, a Friday. When everybody got there they had already dropped, so we took ours. First thing I remember is that my friend Neil, always the provocateur, brought along a movie, and we watched this as the acid took hold: "The Miracle Worker." One clear image: Helen Keller's father leaning into the crib, realizing that the baby was deaf and blind, and screaming into its face. Oh my God.
I went outside. It was night, but there seemed to be light everywhere, shifting over the yards and houses of the neighborhood in sheeting, nebulous patterns. Matt was on the back porch, having a bad trip, his eyes wide and nervous.
Mike was eating party mix, that all-purpose concoction of mini-Melba toast, cheese crackers, pretzels, peanuts, whatever else. "You know why they call it Party Mix?" he said. "Cause when you're at a party, you don't give a fuck what you're eating."
Dan was in the dark bathroom, alone. Someone went in to see what he was up to. "Nothing," he said, sitting on the side of the tub and looking nervous, like he was trying to cover something up. "What's going on?" they said again, and looked behind him. He'd knocked over a candle, and spilled glorious ribbons of red wax all over the white porcelain.
I remember being distinctly creeped out by The Prodigy's "Breathe" video. Who wouldnt've been?
In the morning we took a tour of Blairsville, my rural town. Somebody wanted to go to Bolivar Falls. Julie hated the idea; had been there a thousand times. "Everybody always wants to go there, and it's this huge long walk up a hill and it's not even that great anyway." But we went still; to a little waterfall and swimming hole deep in the woods. Neil looked around at graffiti'd rocks, trash on the ground. "It's exactly like I thought it would be," he said. Nobody wanted to jump in; Neil eventually did, though, out of principle.
Next we went to the abandoned mental hospital. We found an old silo filled with water on which was a layer of fluorescent green algae. "This would be a perfect place to hide a body," Matt said. He never forgot about that silo, and when I told him years later that it had been torn down, he was sad.
I had been recruited to drive. On the way out of the field I backed into Eric's car. No damage, just a scare. Oh well.
We went to the park and waded in the stream. God, where didn't we go? I felt like we'd lived for days in the space of one night. At some point it had to end. I didn't feel changed from the experience, like everyone said I would. I hadn't had any huge insights. I felt like I'd taken a drug and that was that.


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BPREVIEW: Imagine Dragons @ Genting Arena 24.02.18
By birminghamreview on February 13, 2018 in BPreviews, BR Content
Words by Eleanor Sutcliffe
Imagine Dragons will be performing at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on Saturday the 24th February, with support from Grouplove and K. Flay.
Set times are yet to be confirmed, with tickets currently priced from £41.58 (plus booking fee) – as presented by Live Nation UK. For direct gig details, including venue information and online ticket sales, click here.
It's a busy time for Imagine Dragons. Following the release of their third studio album, Evolve, they announced a world tour in support – so a full diary for the Las Vegas alt/pop rockers, but sweet relief for their fans who had been waiting patiently for new material after the band announced a self-imposed hiatus for 2016.
Was it worth the wait? Despite going platinum in America, peaking at No2 on the Billboard 200 and No1 on the Top Rock charts, and hitting Top 10s across Europe – including No3 on the Official UK Charts, Evolve has received mixed reviews from critics on both sides of the pond.
But their new album title is rather fitting for the alternative rock band who first stormed to international success back in 2012. Their debut album Night Visions, was released and took over the rock charts across the world, sneaking it way into the Top 10s in the UK, USA, Australia and Canada to name a few.
Birthed from this album was the track 'Radioactive', which became the genre's best selling track of 2013 and was coined by Rolling Stones magazine as 'The biggest rock hit of the year'. After scooping the award for Billboard's Best Breakout Band of 2013, it soon became clear that the only way was up for the dynamic Las Vegas quartet.
Evolve, whatever publication you're reading, is the band's third top five album stateside, and it's not hard to see why Imagine Dragons have enjoyed such continued success. Their music is a tactical mix or rock and electronic production, wrapped up and presented with astounding live performances – grabbing and building an audience from a cross section of genres.
It's heavy enough to please even the most hardcore of alternative rock fans, but can still be found playing in many more bars and clubs with a pop tinge that takes it comfortably into the mainstream. Drawing influences from bands such as Nirvana, Arcade Fire and Muse, Imagine Dragons are always a breath of fresh air.
'Whatever It Takes' – Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons come to the Genting Arena on Saturday 24th February, with support from Grouplove and K Flay – as presented by Live Nation UK. For direct gig info, including venue details and online ticket sales, visit www.gentingarena.co.uk/whats-on/imagine-dragons
For more on Imagine Dragons, visit www.imaginedragonsmusic.com
For more on Grouplove, visit www.grouplovemusic.com
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Xcel Energy announces that it will submit an application to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to install pioneering gasification technology at the Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, Wis. to allow it to generate electricity from biomass in all three operating units of this once coal-fired power plant. When complete, the Bay Front Power Plant will be the largest biomass-fueled power plant in the Midwest and one of the largest in the United States.
In 1979, the Bay Front Power Plant became the first investor-owned utility plant in the U.S. to burn waste wood to generate electricity. Since then, the two 23-megawatt biomass units of the plant have burned nearly four million tons of waste wood to make power. Bay Front is unique in that it has been retrofitted to be a "flex fuel" plant capable of burning multiple fuels in its three boilers.
Currently, only two of the three operating units use biomass as their primary fuel to generate electricity. This innovative project will convert the existing 30-megawatt coal-fired unit to biomass gasification technology allowing the plant to use 100 percent biomass in all three boilers. This is the first time biomass gasification technology will be used to convert a coal-fired boiler at an existing base-load power plant. The project is expected to cost $55-$70 million.
In this process, biomass (waste wood) reacts with a controlled amount of oxygen at high temperatures to create a gas mixture called synthetic gas ("syngas") that is then used as a fuel in the boiler. By converting the biomass to gas, the resulting fuel is much cleaner and has far fewer emissions than coal.
When complete and operational, the project will reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides by 50 percent, sulfur dioxides by more than 85 percent and particulate matter by 90 percent. In addition, displacing coal with sustainably harvested biomass will also reduce net carbon dioxide emissions, contributing to the state of Wisconsin's goals.
In 2006, Xcel Energy funded a study with the Energy Center of Wisconsin to investigate the amount of biomass that could be removed from Wisconsin's forests to support sustainable energy resources and any associated environmental impacts. The study concluded that area forests within a 50-mile radius of the Bay Front Power Plant could support additional biomass removal without adverse impacts to the local ecosystem. Dedicated biomass energy plantations could ultimately provide a portion of the plant's increased biomass needs, with additional benefits from carbon sequestration.
Xcel Energy has been a long-time leader in providing renewable energy from local sources to the citizens of Wisconsin. This biomass initiative continues that tradition. - Michael Vickerman, executive director, RENEW Wisconsin.
The Bay Front Power Plant is also an economic engine for communities in northern Wisconsin. Through its purchases of waste wood and related services, the plant has a $20 million annual economic impact on a six-county region around Ashland. Area officials expect that support to increase as the plant purchases more waste wood from area contractors.
In 2005, Ashland became the second city in Wisconsin to become an "eco-municipality" and adopt the community development principles of sustainability. "Eco-municipality" communities strive to unite an economic and ecological balance in a common development strategy based on an area's natural resources, environmental values, commercial and industrial structure, and local lifestyles.
Contingent upon final approval by the Xcel Energy Board of Directors, the company expects to file an application with the PSCW later this fall. Following all state regulatory approvals, engineering, design and construction work is expected to begin in 2010 and the unit could be operational in late 2012.
Xcel Energy is a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with regulated operations in eight Western and Midwestern states. Xcel Energy provides a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.3 million electricity customers and 1.8 million natural gas customers through its regulated operating companies. Company headquarters are located in Minneapolis.


The field of interior design is always changing. Not so long ago, you had to go to a formal design or art school in order to learn the field. Today students can attend almost any college or university and major in interior design.
Professional interior designers today must be licensed by the industry in order to practice their trade. Much like an architect, they must undergo intensive study and testing before even being allowed to take any licensing testing. The NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design Qualification), requires all testers to have a combination of six years of work experience, two years of schooling plus four years of work experience, or four years in a FIDER accredited university or college plus two years of work experience in order to qualify. This intensive procedure ensures that trade licensing helps to create responsible, educated designers.
At minimum, student designers should look for a college or university that is FIDER accredited and works towards a bachelor's degree – required for commercial work. However, most high-end designers also obtain a master's degree or a doctorate in design.
What kind of classes should would-be designers consider? AutoCAD by AutoDesk, is an excellent computer aided drafting course. Those with some experience and knowledge of this software program can command a higher starting rate than those who have not taken the time to learn anything about it.
Business classes, as well as a variety of marketing courses are also a plus that many students do not consider. Interior design is 90% networking, marketing, selling, and knowing the right people; 7% paperwork and 3% design.
Some professional designer's even suggest taking an acting class or two to help you learn how to make better sales pitches.
Art classes too can help you be better prepared when taking with clients. People are visual and you'll have a better shot at convincing a new client of your ideas if you can sketch them. Also consider taking an art, furniture and antique history class. They all come in to play every day in the design industry.
One important aspect of your new career that design school can help make clear is what area of interior design you will find most successful and rewarding. They're many different fields to enter in the design profession. There are residential interior designers who sole purpose is to serve homeowners, and there are commercial interior designers who work on offices, restaurants, banks, malls, hotels, and on and on. Within each of these specialties, you could have a project manager heading up the entire project or a draftsperson or even a product sales representative.
Some designers decide that they'd rather own or operate a drapery workroom or fabric warehouse, a design firm, be a partner in a firm, a painter, wallpaper hanger, carpet layer … or any of a hundred other design specialists! How you extremely use your designer's education is really up to you, your interest, and your talent level.
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Le passage de la Duée est une voie située dans le quartier Saint-Fargeau du  de Paris.

Situation et accès
Le passage de la Duée est une voie publique situé dans le  de Paris. Il débute au 15-17, rue de la Duée et se termine 26-28, rue Pixérécourt.

Le passage de la Duée est desservi à proximité par la ligne  à la station Saint-Fargeau et par la ligne  à la station Télégraphe, ainsi que par les lignes de bus .

Origine du nom
Son nom provient de sa proximité avec la rue de la Duée. La « duée » est une ancienne appellation définissant une source jaillissante.

Historique
Cette voie, ancienne « ruelle Mazagran », devenue « passage de la Duée » par un arrêté du , est longtemps en concurrence pour le titre de voie la plus étroite de la ville, avec le sentier des Merisiers dans le  et la rue du Chat-qui-Pêche dans le , avec une largeur d'environ .

À partir de 1970, la partie la plus large de la voie est en partie démolie. Le second tronçon, note l'historien de Paris Jacques Hillairet à la même époque, .

Des travaux de restructuration menés dans les années 2000 modifient profondément le tracé et la largeur du passage, portée à plusieurs mètres. L'escalier est également élargi.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire
 À son angle avec la rue Pixérécourt  est créé en 2013.

Notes et références

Annexe

Article connexe
 Liste des voies du  arrondissement de Paris

Duee (passage)
Voie principalement piétonne de Paris

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CRIMEFEST COMPETITION TIME
Thanks to CrimeFest we have either one pair or two single FULL Weekend Passes to give away for this year's CimeFest held in Bristol, UK 14-17 May.
Accommodation and travel IS NOT included.
Answer this simple question: Who will Lee Child be interviewing at this year's CrimeFest?
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Send your answer, with full contact details to CRIMEFEST
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The Petrona Award 2015
Six high-quality crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the shortlist for the 2015 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, which is announced today.
THE HUMMINGBIRD by Kati Hiekkapelto tr. David Hackston (Arcadia Books; Finland)
THE HUNTING DOGS by Jørn Lier Horst tr. Anne Bruce (Sandstone Press; Norway)
REYKJAVIK NIGHTS by Arnaldur Indriðason tr. Victoria Cribb (Harvill Secker; Iceland)
THE HUMAN FLIES by Hans Olav Lahlum tr. Kari Dickson (Mantle; Norway)
FALLING FREELY, AS IF IN A DREAM by Leif G W Persson tr. Paul Norlen (Doubleday; Sweden)
THE SILENCE OF THE SEA by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir tr. Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton; Iceland)
The winning title will be announced at the annual international crime fiction event CrimeFest, held in Bristol 14-17 May 2015. The award will be presented by the Godmother of modern Scandinavian crime fiction, Maj Sjöwall, co-author with Per Wahlöö of the Martin Beck series.
The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.
Leading Scandinavian crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw said "The Petrona Award goes from strength to strength, with both winners and shortlisted authors representing the very finest in the Nordic Noir genre; I'm pleased to be involved."
More information about the judges and the judges' comments on why these books were chosen can be found on the Petrona Award website.
Labels: Arnaldur Indriðason, Barry Forshaw, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Crimefest, Euro Crime, Hans Olav Lahlum, Karen Meek, Leif G W Persson, Maj Sjöwall, Petrona Award, Sarah Ward, Scandinavian, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
'Love & Crime' at St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Weekend
The 22nd Mystery & Crime Weekend at
St Hilda's College, Oxford, 14th-16th August 2015
This year's conference is dedicated to the
memory of P.D. James
Ann Cleeves is our Conference Guest of Honour and
Andrew Taylor will be chairing the conference
Friday 14th August
6.45pm RECEPTION
7.30pm THE CONFERENCE DINNER
Speaker: Simon Brett
Saturday 15th August
8.00 - 9.00am BREAKFAST
9.10am Welcome: Kate Charles
9.20 – 10.50am
Ayo Onatade
Crimes of Passion: Detecting Couples – the Light and Dark Side of Love & Crime
'Heavier than broken hearts': the romance of the lone detective
10.50 - 11.20am COFFEE BREAK
11.20 - 12.50pm
Natasha Cooper
The Dark Side of Love
Len Tyler
Revenge: When it all turns sour
12.50 - 1.50pm LUNCH
2.00 - 3.30pm
Ann Granger
Reader, I murdered him
Nicola Upson
Devices and Desires: the tangent of love in English crime fiction
3.30 – 4.00pm TEA BREAK
Love: the perfect motive for murder
The Usefulness of Hatred
5.45 – 6.30pm SIGNING SESSION FOR ALL AUTHORS
7.15pm DRINKS: followed by the DINNER at 7.45pm
Speaker: Alan Bradley
Sunday 16th August
9.15 - 11.15am Free Time: Punting, Church, Bookstore, Walks, Relax!
11.20 - 11.50am COFFEE
11. 50 - 12.50pm Conference Lecture by our Guest of Honour: Ann Cleeves
Love in Amsterdam: Nicholas Freeling, Sex and Sentimentality
1.00 - 2.10pm LUNCH
2.15 – 3.45pm
Love of Money: The Root of all Evil
Jo Hines
Deadlier than the Mother?
3.45pm CLOSING REMARKS
4.00pm TEA
THE BOOKSTORE
The bookstore, provided by Blackwell's, situated in the Foyer of the JdP Building, will be open continuously throughout the weekend. They aim to have as many of the speakers' books as possible and of the other crime-writers attending the conference.
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Labels: Alan Bradley, Alison Joseph, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Frances Fyfield, Kate Charles, Len Tyler, Natasha Cooper, Nicola Upson, St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Conference, Val McDermid
James Carol in conversation with Faber editor Katherine Armstrong
Today finds Faber Editor Katherine Armstrong in conversation with author James Carol whose third book in the Jefferson Winter series has just been released.
Katherine Armstrong: Many readers might be surprised to learn that you're not actually American. What drew you to the US and why did you create a character from there?
James Carol: I guess my love affair with America started when I was a kid. Turn on the TV and there it was, this land of infinite possibilities. Yes, I was viewing it through Hollywood's rose-tinted lens, but for a child stuck out in the middle of nowhere that didn't matter. All that mattered was that I could escape for a while.
From the word go Winter had to be American. He's supposed to be the best profiler in the business, so it made sense that he worked at Quantico. Also, being American ties in neatly with the idea that his father is a serial killer. There are believed to be almost a hundred serial killers active in the US at any one time. When you factor that in, it becomes easier to believe that there's a kid out there living a suburban life, completely unaware that his father is a murderer.
KA: How did you go about creating the character of Jefferson Winter? He's super-intelligent but slightly arrogant, a loner who loves music, expensive whisky, coffee and cigarettes - how much of you is there in him, if any?!
JC: The great thing about Winter is that it gives me the opportunity to live vicariously. I gave up smoking years ago, I'm pretty much teetotal, and my days of drinking a gallon of coffee a day are long gone. Yes I miss all those things, but getting Winter to do them for me is so much healthier!
Music is another matter. That's still very much a part of my life. Winter uses music to balance out the dark aspects of his existence, and I can relate to that. Then there's his belief that there's a parallel universe where he's playing keyboards at Madison Square Gardens. In my alternate reality I'm playing guitar at Wembley.
KA: PREY explores the dark side of family life. The nature versus nurture debate of child-rearing. Is this a subject that you were particularly interested in, and if so, could you tell us why?
JC: My daughter is six, my son three, so this is a question that keeps me awake at nights.
For better or worse our families shape us, particularly during those early years. As a parent you have a responsibility to do the best for your kids. You're never going to get it right all the time. The best you can hope for is that you get things right more often than you get it wrong.
Problems occur when the balance tips too far towards the negative. That's when people end up broken. Inside every monster you're going to find a damaged child. Why do people do the things they do? How much is down to nature and how much is nurture? Personally, I don't believe it's a black and white situation; it's a continuum rather than a set of absolutes. If there's a theme that runs through the Winter books, then I guess that's it.
KA: There are a lot of female characters in your books. Do you find it difficult to write about women? How do you avoid stereotypes?
JC: When it comes to characters I run an equal opportunities policy. I don't care if they're male or female, I don't care what colour they are or how old they are, I treat them all the same. I like to give my characters space to be themselves. Even with my antagonists I try not to be judgemental. The thing to bear in mind is that nobody is totally good or totally evil. We all fall in the grey area somewhere in-between. People are people. Some are good, some bad, but all are unique.
KA: You often choose gruesome subjects for your books - lobotomising in BROKEN DOLLS; being burned alive in WATCH ME - yet you don't sensationalise what happens to the victims. How would you respond to the genres critics who suggest that the violence in crime novels is glorified?
JC: One thing that crime books do is provide a safe environment for readers to try and make sense of the senseless. The sad truth is that violent things happen in the world all the time. Every second of every day, people are suffering in unimaginable ways. However the one thing I know for certain is that whatever I dream up won't compare to reality. Not even close.
I recently watched a documentary about the holocaust and it was the most horrific thing I've ever seen. Bodies lying discarded on the ground like trash; bodies being picked up and dumped in pits the size of a football field; bodies frozen like statues; bodies decomposing. I had to keep reminding myself that this really happened. Ironically, if this had never happened and I'd used it as the subject of a story, it would be rejected as implausible; I'd be accused of sensationalism. But it did happen. This was as real as it's ever going to get
So, do we turn away from the violence? Do we stick our heads in the sand and pretend that it doesn't exist? If we do that will all the bad things in the world magically disappear? Unfortunately the answer is no. The only way that humanity can progress is by learning from the mistakes of the past, and the only way to do that is by examining and understanding what has gone before.
KA: Which writers inspire you and why?
JC: My top three writers are Stephen King , Lee Child and Jodi Picoult. At first glance this seems like an odd grouping. Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll find plenty of similarities. First and foremost all three are storytellers. They grab the reader by throat, drag them into whatever tale they're telling, and don't let go until the final full stop. Secondly, they create these amazing characters that come striding off the page, fully formed and as alive as you and me. Thirdly they really care about what they do. All three are incredibly gifted writers, but they don't rest on their laurels. You get the sense that they want each book to be better than the last. Finally, they write books that entertain millions of people. To touch so many lives, even just for a short time, is an amazing thing to be able to do.
KA: What next for Jefferson Winter?
JC: Winter's got another busy year coming up. PREY has just been released and I'm currently working on the second draft of 15 MINUTES (Jefferson Winter 4). This time Winter is in Berlin where he's hunting a serial killer who terrorises his victims by bringing them face to face with their worst fears. This will be released in February 2016, but don't worry there will be another instalment of the Jefferson Winter Chronicles between now and then … maybe even two.
PREY by James Carol is out now (Faber & Faber, £7.99)
Has Jefferson Winter finally met his match?
Six years ago a young married couple were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Upstate New York. Local police arrested a suspect who later committed suicide. But what if the police got it wrong? Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious female psychopath as she sets him a challenge: find out what really happened six years ago. The clock is ticking and, as Winter is about to find out, the endgame is everything . . .
More information about James Carol can be found on his website. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter @JamesCarolBooks
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Nick Mullens (4) was 25-for-45 passing for 260 yards with one touchdown and one interception in Sunday's game against the Washington Football Team. (Chris Victorio | Special to the S.F. Examiner).
49ers hopes get slimmer after 23-15 Washington Football team victory Sunday
Gideon Rubin
A foghorn blows when the "home" team scores a touchdown at State Farm Stadium.
They may not get much fog in the sprawling Phoenix suburbs, but the San Francisco 49ers are doing what they can to create a sense of familiarity in this unfamiliar land.
Forced into football exile amid a coronavirus health order with a team decimated by injuries, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan acknowledged his team's situation has become "a little bit unusual" after a dispiriting 23-15 loss to the Washington Football team Sunday.
"It's been different, but I think it's been different for the whole league, so I'm not going to sit here and try to throw a pity party," Shanahan said. "It's been different for everybody but a combination of things have been a little bit unusual."
San Francisco quarterback Nick Mullens was 25-for-45 passing for 260 yards with one touchdown and one interception as the 49ers (5-8) lost for the fifth time in six games.
To make matters worse, they lost two additional players to injuries. San Francisco has 15 players on injured reserve, the most in the NFL, including three of their best players; quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (high ankle sprain) and tight end George Kittle (foot fracture) could return later this season. Defensive lineman Nick Bosa (torn ACL) is out for the season.
San Francisco receiver Deebo Samuel left the game after suffering a hamstring injury on the game's first play, and linebacker Fred Warner left the game with a concussion in the third quarter.
"It's really not that frustrating, it's unfortunate," 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman said. "You can't control injuries; all you can control is your attitude and your effort and that's what we're bringing every week."
The 49ers will need their best effort if they have any chance of making the playoffs as an 8-8 team by winning out their last three regular season games.
They travel to Dallas to play the Cowboys on Sunday and then return to Arizona, where they'll play the Cardinals as the road team on the field they've called home the last two weeks.
San Francisco is scheduled to be the home team when it wraps up its season on Jan. 3 against the Seattle Seahawks, but it seems unlikely that they'll play at Levi's Stadium that soon considering Santa Clara County's hawkish stance on health orders, especially considering the rise in coronavirus cases.
There was an acknowledgement that the 49ers aren't going anywhere if they don't play a cleaner game offensively.
San Francisco committed three turnovers that led to 17 points on Sunday.
"It's disappointing. In this league teams are too good to win when you're giving them the ball," 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams said. "We won't beat anybody on our schedule if we keep giving the ball away like we have these last few games."
Washington (6-7) scored two defensive touchdowns to move into first place in the NFC East with its fourth straight win.
San Francisco led 7-0 when Jeff Wilson Jr.'s scoring run from the 1 late in the first quarter capped a seven-play 57-yarrd drive.
Washington took a 13-7 lead into the intermission when Chase Young returned a Mullens fumble 47 yards.
"I was trying to find my outlet and I was trying to get the ball to the outlet before the defender got there," Mullens said. "I was trying to protect the ball and I can't make that crucial mistake."
Washington extended its lead to 23-7 on the last play of the third quarter on Karmen Curl's 76-yard interception return.
Mullens brought San Francisco to within 23-15 with just over 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter on a scoring pass to Kyle Jusczyk from the 6 and then a two-point conversion completion to Kendrick Bourne.
Shanahan said he considered pulling Mullens after the interception and had backup C. J. Beathard warming up but elected to keep Mullens in after he engineered a scoring drive on his next possession.
He didn't put all blame on Mullens, noting "I thought we had a number of more drops than we usually have and then I thought we struggled with some big penalties too."
The team's offensive blunders overshadowed a solid performance by its defense.
San Francisco's defense held Washington to 206 yards of total offense and three field goals, one of which was set up by a fumble.
"We have our offense's back, no matter the situation," defensive lineman Kerry Hyder said.
"It's a team game and it's not always going to be perfect. Our job is to play good defense and when we have the opportunity that's what we're going to do."
San Francisco got the ball back at their own 48 with 2:40 left in the game, but Mullens' 22-yard completion to Bourne on a third-and-two from the Washington 44 with just under two minutes left was called back for offensive holding, stalling the last 49ers drive.
Former San Francisco quarterback Alex Smith left the game late in the first half with a calf injury. He's scheduled to undergo an MRI Monday.
The 36-year-old, who the 49ers selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft, was playing against his former team for just the second team since he was dealt to Kansas City during the Colin Kaepernick era.
Smith has emerged as arguably one of the NFL's greatest comeback stories in years, leading resurgent Washington into playoff contention after suffering a spiral compound fracture in 2018 that was thought to be career-ending.
He completed 8 of 19 attempts for 57 yards with one interception.
Notes: San Francisco CB K'Wuan Williams missed his sixth straight game with a high ankle sprain and CB Emmanuel Moseley missed second straight game with hamstring injury. … Garoppolo and Kittle are with the team in Arizona rehabbing but will "not return anytime soon," Shanahan told reporters last week.
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Esther (Greek)
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Hebrews
Dinah Is Raped
1Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women who lived nearby. 2She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her. 3But Shechem was attracted to Dinah, so he told her how much he loved her. 4Shechem even asked his father to arrange for him to marry her.
5Meanwhile, Jacob heard what had happened. But his sons were out in the fields with the cattle, so he did not do anything at the time. 6Hamor arrived at Jacob's home 7just as Jacob's sons were coming in from work. When they learned that their sister had been raped, they became furiously angry, because nothing is more disgraceful than rape, and it must not be tolerated.
8Hamor said to Jacob and his sons:
My son Shechem really loves Dinah. Please let him marry her. 9Why don't you start letting your families marry into our families and ours marry into yours? 10You can share this land with us. Move freely about until you find the property you want; then buy it and settle down here.
11Shechem added, "Do this favor for me, and I'll give whatever you want. 12Ask anything, no matter how expensive. I'll do anything, just let me marry Dinah."
13Jacob's sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what had happened to their sister. 14So they tricked them by saying:
You're not circumcised!#34.14 You're not circumcised: Israelite boys were circumcised when they were eight days old, and no uncircumcised man could be part of the people of Israel. It would be a disgrace for us to let you marry Dinah now. 15But we will let you marry her, if you and the other men in your tribe agree to be circumcised. 16Then your families can marry into ours, and ours can marry into yours, and we can live together like one nation. 17But if you don't agree to be circumcised, we'll take Dinah and leave this place.
18Hamor and Shechem liked what was said. 19Shechem was the most respected person in his family, and he was so in love with Dinah that he hurried off to get everything done. 20The two men met with the other leaders of their city and told them:
21These people really are friendly. Why not let them move freely about until they find the property they want? There's enough land here for them and for us. Then our families can marry into theirs, and theirs can marry into ours.
22We have to do only one thing before they will agree to stay here and become one nation with us. Our men will have to be circumcised just like theirs. 23Just think! We'll get their property, as well as their flocks and herds. All we have to do is to agree, and they will live here with us.
24Every grown man followed this advice and got circumcised.
Dinah's Brothers Take Revenge
25Three days later the men who had been circumcised were still weak from pain. So Simeon and Levi,#34.25 Simeon and Levi: Dinah's full brothers. two of Dinah's brothers, attacked with their swords and killed every man in the town, 26including Hamor and Shechem. Then they took Dinah and left. 27Jacob's other sons came and took everything they wanted. All this was done because of the horrible thing that had happened to their sister. 28They took sheep, goats, donkeys, and everything else that was in the town or the countryside. 29After taking everything of value from the houses, they dragged away the wives and children of their victims.
30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Look what you've done! Now I'm in real trouble with the Canaanites and Perizzites who live around here. There aren't many of us, and if they attack, they'll kill everyone in my household."
31They answered, "Was it right to let our own sister be treated that way?"
Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)
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Dinah Defiled
1Leah's daughter#Gn 30:21 Dinah, whom Leah bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area. 2When Shechem — son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region's chieftain — saw her, he took her and raped her. 3He became infatuated with Jacob's daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.#34:3 Lit spoke to her heart 4"Get me this girl as a wife,"#Jdg 14:2 he told his father.
5Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned. 6Meanwhile, Shechem's father Hamor came to speak with Jacob. 7Jacob's sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob's daughter,#Dt 22:20–30; Jdg 20:6; 2Sm 13:12 and such a thing should not be done.
8Hamor said to Jacob's sons, "My son Shechem has his heart set on your#34:8 The Hb word for your is pl, showing that Hamor is speaking to Jacob and his sons. daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 9Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 10Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it."
11Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Grant me this favor,#34:11 Lit "May I find favor in your eyes and I'll give you whatever you say. 12Demand of me a high compensation#34:12 Or bride-price, or betrothal present and gift; I'll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife!"
13But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. 14"We cannot do this thing," they said to them. "Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. 15We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.#Gn 17:23–27 16Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people. 17But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."
18Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. 19The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father's family. 20So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city#Ru 4:1; 2Sm 15:2 and spoke to the men of their city.
21"These men are peaceful toward us," they said. "Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let's take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them. 22But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are. 23Won't their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let's agree with them, and they will live with us."
24All the men#Gn 23:10 who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised. 25On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi,#Gn 49:5–7 Dinah's brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away. 27Jacob's sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled. 28They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29They captured all their possessions, dependents, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.
30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me,#Jos 7:25 making me odious to the inhabitants of the land,#Ex 5:21; 1Sm 13:4; 2Sm 10:6 the Canaanites and the Perizzites.#Gn 13:7; 34:2 We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."#Gn 46:26–27; Dt 4:27; 1Ch 16:19; Ps 105:12
31But they answered, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"
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EAST OF LYRA: ΙΝΤΕRVIEW WITH LEE PAYNE
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LEE PAYNE INTERVIEW
First of all I would like to welcome you on Metalzone Hellas.
Thank you my friend it is an honor. Greece has some of the most loyal and dedicated metal fans in the world and it is my spiritual home. I was always fascinated with Greek mythology as a school kid, it fired up my imagination and inspired me in my music writing constantly. I love the land of immortals we have played some of my favorite live shows there too!
Tell us some things about how the whole idea of East of Lyra started. Why a record now in this style and not some years ago?
The starting point for the progressive rock project was a Cloven Hoof song called "Starship Sentinel "off the "Opening Ritual EP". The first band line up were great fans of Rush as I was, so I decided to write a song influenced by Geddy, Alex and Neil but still keeping within the confines of our trademark sound. I knew the guys would love the track and it would lend contrast to the EP so we played it live on stage throughout our early years. There was a great temptation to write further songs in this style but my vision for Cloven Hoof was to remain an out and out aggressive yet epic metal band. We were pioneers of power metal I guess due to our speed and complicated song structures.
Over the years I had accumulated many song ideas that suited a prog rock band so I saved them till the opportunity presented itself. For the past few years I had been working in a studio back in England called vault studios. Chris Dando and Ben Fitzharris were the owners of the place and they were fantastic producers and engineers. All the recent Cloven Hoof albums were recorded there so I had a great relationship working with those guys.
Dando has a great voice and played keyboards like a genius so it got me thinking about the possibility of working on a prog rock band together. Ben played great guitar so we had the nucleus of a band there and then. A superb drummer called Mark Harris Bristow was recruited by Dando to join the band and he was a human metronome. Bristow was so good I had to get him to join Cloven Hoof also, now all we needed was a killer lead guitarist.
Ash Baker came highly recommended so we tried him out and he blew us all away with his soaring lead guitar and crunchy riffing style. Ash too impressed me so much that i knew he had to be in Cloven Hoof full time too. Mr Baker is amazing live and his stage craft and high energy performance wowed the audiences across the USA earlier this year. So there you have it… East of Lyra was born!
How do you see the album now? Is there something you would like to change?
The more I hear the album the more I like it in fact so there is nothing really I would change. Musicians always obsess about production and are never usually satisfied but it is all subjective really. Taste in what you like at the time is transient so it is no good harping on about production sensibilities we could of changed this etc. I am very proud of the album and every time I listen to it I pick up a new part I never noticed before because it is so layered. The musical textures and dynamics are great so I love it and I think a lot of prog rock fans will get off on it big time.
Can you tell us about the lyrics or the story behind "Siren Song", "Wings of Freedom" and "Shadowlands"? What are these songs talking about?
Those songs are part of a concept piece that takes up most of side one on the vinyl release of the album. It will be available sometime later this year with a gatefold sleeve. The tracks "Siren Song", "Wings of Freedom" and "Shadowlands" deal with the story of the Marie Celeste and gives our imaginative take on explaining what happened to the entire ship's crew who disappeared without a trace.
The synopsis is the vessel set out from New York harbor on a voyage to the Azores but it hit a sudden storm that appeared from nowhere. The ship became becalmed and floated about in a Sargasso Sea then a mysterious fog appeared. Suddenly the sailors realized they were in a ships graveyard stranded with vessels from ancient times. Sirens then called to them and they could not resist there lure as they dived into the water.
It turned out this was a trap as a gigantic starship burst forth from the water and beamed the humans aboard. It then sped off into space as the powerless Mariners gazed out of the windows at the fragile Earth they were leaving behind.
The star ship took them to a far off world in a distant galaxy ruled by a race of warrior Amazonian type women. The genetic strain was dying out so in order to save the aliens from extinction they had abducted males from other planets to add to their gene pool. However the sailors from Earth did not mate with these beings, they were fed into machines that showed them a fictitious virtual reality world while they drained there life force and DNA.
The males that were substandard to requirements were taken back to their respective worlds when the next raiding mission arose. Then the trick of the tail at the end of the album is when one of the sailors provides an account of his adventure and no one believes him.
Although the story of the Marie Celeste is factual we have just given our imaginative take on explaining what happened to the entire ship's crew who disappeared without a trace. It is not what we believe actually happened of course. The clue is in the title, this is a work of Science FICTION.
How do you think the fans of Cloven Hoof will react to East of Lyra?
The progressive rock idiom gives us a blank canvas to paint on. Hoof's style is now well defined and the bandwidth of metal has certain parameters that are established. To go beyond what the genre requires you are in danger of alienating fans, so Lyra being a whole new separate entity infuses us with a whole new creative freedom.
Cloven Hoof has released concept albums of course like "Dominator" which focused on the dangers of genetic engineering. But it has a very heavy aggressive delivery. East of Lyra's approach is multi layered and more pastoral at times. There is greater light and shade to the various musical passages and there are some very strange time signatures inherent in our work. Lots of 7/8 and unorthodox soundscapes are explored. Like twin horns on the same goat Hoof and Lyra have similarities but the overall delivery is very different. Cloven Hoof are heavy metal to the bone and East of Lyra is an unashamed Progressive rock band. If you like Rush and Yes then check the album out, you will love it.
What are your expectations regarding the debut of East of Lyra? Any plans for a tour-concerts, second album, etc.?
We hope to do a few live shows next year to fit around Cloven Hoof's hectic touring and recording schedule. We have already agreed to do a charity show for Brian Mear and his worthy cause Mear fest. We will make our debut for him at a special prog rock festival he is organizing. Other shows are on the cards of course and various people are working on them to fit in with our busy diary.
If people like the new album then there will be another Lyra album in the pipeline. There is a wealth of material to draw on so we are confident we can release a few albums if the demand is there. I certainly hope so because the East of Lyra project is very exciting.
How do you see the general progressive rock scene nowadays? Can this genre attract new/younger fans or is it a style only for a nostalgic older audience?
The cool thing about prog rock is that the audience is from all ages, it has no age restrictions. The main reason is young or old musical taste is subjective. Fans of rock and metal do not follow fashions they make their own minds up about what is good or not. No hype from the music press can influence them so they cannot be controlled or dictated to. The scene itself never changes much because the fans have such open minds. As long as the music is imaginative and played with musical dexterity and conviction then that is all that is required.
Could the progressive style of East of Lyra be mixed with the classic heavy metal sound of Cloven Hoof? Is this something that has crossed your mind or do you consider the two bands completely different? Or could you for example imagine Chris Dando singing for Cloven Hoof?
Dando is a great singer but his voice is too pure for Cloven Hoof. Metal needs an aggressive rougher gravel voice style delivery. Chris has the range and operatic qualities of course and his harmony vocals are brilliant. Prog and metal are chalk and cheese really both styles are played with power and passion and have great light and shade qualities to the music. The main difference is Prog is more layered with pastoral soundscapes while metal is more aggressive and abrasive.
I have always had a duel passion for true Metal and Progressive rock all my life. When I was a kid my idols on Bass were Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath) and Chris Squire (Yes) in equal measure. I suppose that duality has shaped my writing within Cloven Hoof to some extent that is why we were not just a straight forward metal band. Our power and aggression are metal but the music has epic time changes and lyrical depth that are associated with prog rock. "The Gates of Gehenna" song is the perfect example of this. The song progression dispenses with the verse, chorus, verse chorus, solo then end chorus infinitum. Instead it is a series of musical movements that tell a story of someone selling there soul to the devil. I treat many songs like mini movie scenarios set within a heavy metal framework. It gives great depth to our compositions and someone called our music thinking men's metal… I like that definition a lot!
That said when I got the opportunity to record a solo project I wanted to explore the prog rock idiom in further detail. it would be pointless to make a straight ahead metal album as Cloven Hoof fulfils all my heavy metal musical aspirations.
Allow us to ask some things about Cloven Hoof. In what stage is the band right now? Any plans for a new record perhaps? Anything new with regard to the band?
The band just completed a new album called "Age of steel" and it is a total killer. Pure Steel records will be releasing it next year and we can't wait for you to hear it.
We are very excited about the forthcoming release of a live hi-definition video and CD release too. It will be a box set and was recorded at the Bang your head festival in Germany. There were 20 cameras at the show and we played one of the best sets of our career. I just heard the sound recordings and it sounds fantastic!
Warts and all it captures the band live magic for all time. We will include bonus live out takes we did in the rehearsal studio before the US tour last year. Someone just miked us up in the rehearsal room to see what it would sound like. Wow we really sounded super tight and heavy. The fans are in for a treat when it comes out in late March or early August 2020.
How do you see now the "Resist or Serve" and "Who Mourns for the Morning Star?" LPs? How do you feel about them? What feedback did you get from the old fans?
The most important album we have made to date is the "Who Mourns for the Morning Star" opus. It featured a new Anglo American line up comprised of George Call / Lead vocals, Danny White / Drums, Luke Hatton / Guitar, Chris Coss / Guitar and yours truly / bass. WMFTMS was a life changing record. The opus was incredibly well received by old and new fans alike getting 10 / 10 reviews. It enabled Cloven Hoof to tour the USA for the first time as headliners coast to coast. We had to do back to back tours playing 70 dates at a time without a day off due to popular demand. It was real road warrior stuff. I think W.M.F.T.M.S was our best album to date, but just wait till the new one… the age of steel!
Many fans seem to miss the "Dominator" and "A Sultan's Ransom" era. Is the expectation of a Cloven Hoof album in that style and sound realistic, or the idea is to present something different with Cloven Hoof?
It is no point living in nostalgia and resting on your laurels. A band has to keep reaching and break new ground or die. Hoof always gets better and improves with each release. Sure we have a well-defined bandwidth and an epic style of our own but you can always give it a new twist. I like the aforementioned albums a lot and am very proud of them but I like the new songs more. There would be no point continuing if I didn't.
Many fans daydream the return of Russ North. How are your relations these days? Do you see him returning to the band at some point in the future, just for an album or a thematic tour, to perform the entire "A Sultan's Ransom" for instance, or is this something impossible?
No there is no chance whatsoever I'm afraid. Russ had very serious problems with alcohol addiction sadly. He simply gave up music and had no interest in being in a band due to insurmountable personal problems. I still look back with affection on the old days and wish him well. We have left a great musical legacy of working together that his unfortunate condition will not diminish. The fans still can hear him on the fantastic albums and remember him that way.
If East of Lyra gained great success, would you put aside Cloven Hoof, or vice-versa?
No I would never give up Cloven Hoof under any circumstances. East of Lyra is a solo project that can fit in between any Cloven Hoof tours with ease. I feel I am very lucky to be able to explore my musical creativity to the fullest and work with such fantastic musicians and people. Prog and Metal is my passion and I have devoted my life to it. I can ask for nothing more.
Which bands (from the progressive rock/metal scene or rock/metal scene in general) would you imagine to cover which songs from the debut of East of Lyra? And similarly, which songs would you like to cover from which bands?
Good question but I think it would be too presumptuous of me to name bands who should cover our songs. However I will deal with the second part of the request easily…
Heart of the Sunrise – Yes
Return of the Giant Hogweed – Genesis
Minstrel in the Gallery – Jethro Tull
Flying Teapot - Gong
Thank you very much for your time! If you want to add something you can do it now.
Best wishes to Metalzone and thank you for giving me the opportunity to spread the word about East of Lyra. I am very excited by the project because I have been wanting to make an album like this for 35 years… better late than never!
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