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In ALL, FEATURES by McKenzie Prillaman October 21, 2020
Portuguese fibre artist Vanessa Barragão creates stunning underwater seascape tapestries that carry a message about the environment. Armed with latch and crochet hooks, discarded yarn scraps, and visions of the sea, she handmakes immense pieces that often center around coral reefs. Now, her environmental artwork has stolen the spotlight around the world.
We last spoke with Barragão in early 2019. Since then, she has been busy crafting more tapestries and moving her studio to her hometown, the root of her artistic and environmental passions.
Coral Garden by Vanessa Barragão, Domotex 2019 installation. Photo credit: Studio Vanessa Barragão.
Barragão's love of fibre art was passed down to her at a young age. "I started learning this with my grandmothers when I was a kid," she recalls. "They taught me how to crochet, and this was the first technique I learned."
Her fascination with the sea also began in childhood. Growing up in the coastal city of Albufeira, Portugal, she spent much of her time splashing in the water and playing on the sandy shore. Barragão also remembers traveling with her parents to the Caribbean Sea, where she first encountered coral reefs. She was struck by their impressive beauty. However, on subsequent trips back, she noticed the reefs' declining colour and biodiversity. Those memories of the sea and the fragile life it supports lingered in her mind.
Her passions for both art and the sea traveled with her to university, where she studied fashion design and crafted clothing collections inspired by the water. There, she also learned more techniques to make her own textiles and clothes. However, early in her career, she grasped the unsustainable nature of the textile industry.
Living Coral by Vanessa Barragão, Onefifteen exhibition. Photo credit: onefifteen初衣食午.
"When I started this project, I was working at a rug factory, and I realized how much trash they create," Barragão says. "I decided to start using [the trash] because I saw how many things that were good. Good yarns were going to the garbage."
Now, she has connections with several factories that give her leftover yarn and deadstock materials. "They are happy, and I am happy as well," she says, explaining the mutually beneficial arrangement.
With her works, Barragão hopes to raise awareness about pollution and climate change, which she describes as "a big killer of the sea." She uses ancestral textile practices, including latch hook, crochet, hand-tuft, embroidery, weaving, and macramé, to create her works, which usually feature coral reefs and related habitats and lifeforms.
Barragão says that many people who view her work have never seen coral reefs and have little understanding of undersea environments. "Many times, people don't understand why [the corals] are white in the pieces. They just think because it's nice or because it fits better in their houses. But no, there is a message," she explains. The beautiful white corals portrayed in Barragão's tapestries represent bleached corals that died from polluted and rapidly warming waters.
Bleached Coral by Vanessa Barragão. Photo credit: Studio Vanessa Barragão.
By using art to present how human actions harm coral reefs, fish, plants, and other species, she hopes to change how people think about the environment and, ultimately, their behaviours. "Art is a good way to show [the effects] and to…make people think about these kinds of things and change their habits," says Barragão.
In the past year, she has created numerous new tapestries. Her favourite is the Botanical Tapestry, which is her largest recent work and took five months to complete. This piece, which represents a world map and features threatened plant species and corals, is now prominently displayed in London, England's Heathrow Airport. Other highlights include her works being featured at Onefifteen in Taiwan, the Domotex trade fair in Germany, and the Super Bowl in the United States.
Botanical Tapestry by Vanessa Barragão, Kew Gardens and Heathrow Airport partnership celebration. Photo credit: Kew Gardens and Heathrow Airport.
One of this year's biggest changes for Barragão was moving back to her hometown of Albufeira. "Here, I have more quality of life," she says. "Everything is better here. The [studio] space is better [than where I was]. It's really close to the sea."
Another benefit is that her family resides in the town. Many of her family members, including her sister, mother, aunt, and grandparents, are part of her studio and help with management and production.
"My grandmothers are the ones who are creating the crochet that I apply on my pieces," Barragão explains. "They are the ones who introduced me to the handmade techniques, so I think it's great. They are very happy to be helping me."
Life Flow Coral by Vanessa Barragão, Dyeing House Gallery art residency. Photo credit: Agnese Morganti.
Overall, Barragão's artwork reflects her values of family, sustainability, and creativity. She takes great care in explaining her how her eco-friendly handmade techniques and use of recycled materials benefit both the environment and her artistic practice.
"Sometimes we don't need to have money to create something because we have everything around us. We just need to be creative."
For more by Vanessa Barragão, visit her website, Instagram, or Facebook.
CREATORS – Bonnie Peterson
CREATORS – Vanessa Barragão
CREATORS – ANGELA MCQUILLAN


If you're looking for yet another reason to justify the importance of an active, thoughtful social media presence, here's one: social media can improve your search ranking.
You've probably already noticed this correlation—yet it's probably more widespread than you realized. LinkedIn profiles, for example, tend to appear high in search results, underscoring the importance of creating a complete, keyword-rich profile. Twitter profiles and tweets also tend to have higher search visibility, too. And Google +1s are an effective way to not only improve visibility, but also boost credibility.
Tweeting content helps it get indexed faster, cutting indexation time by 50%.
High levels of social activity give search engines important triggers that you're authentic and valuable—and that makes your domain will rank higher in results.
Shares help trigger the freshness portion of Google's search algorithm, which means more shares can bump up your ranking.
One key takeaway? Make your content easy to share. Install sharing buttons on your website and blog. Keep your tweets under 120 characters so that they can be easily retweeted. And while you're enabling easy sharing of your content (or your client's), don't forget to return the favor. Social media is very much a two-way street, so take time to share other blog posts, videos, photos, articles, etc. that you find interesting. After all, simply broadcasting content isn't engagement, and if you can't keep your online audience interested and involved, your social presence will suffer—and so will your SEO.
Keep this caveat in mind: effective social media marketing won't single-handedly make your website an SEO juggernaut. Instead, think of social media as one part of a larger SEO equation—albeit an undoubtedly important one. When combined with tools like an optimized website and regularly updated content, social media can help extend your digital reach and bring even more value to your overall digital marketing strategy.
Have you noticed a correlation between your social activity and SEO? I'd love to hear about your experience.
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Two former GB amateur standouts suffered losses at the weekend. Britain's first ever world amateur champion Frankie Gavin was dropped and stopped by a marauding Sam Eggington in Birmingham. It was the third loss of Gavin's pro career, so the idea that his amateur exploits meant little in the paid game was not a new one. He displayed exceptional shot selection and timing, but his lack of power and conditioning meant Eggington, the bigger man, could walk him down and dictate the pace. For all his class and amateur pedigree, Gavin could not hold off the relentless Eggington, who put in an inspired performance.
On the undercard Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo was stunned by Craig Cunningham. Boxing against his first 'live' opponent, Ogogo had no answers to the questions southpaw Cunningham was asking. He was dropped in the second and always second best in the exchanges. Halfway through the eighth he was pulled out by his corner after complaining about blurred vision. It was absolutely the right call, though the loss was another example of just how different professional boxing is to the amateur game.
However up in Scotland another amateur standout, Josh Taylor, put in a phenomenal performance to stop Dave Ryan and win the Commonwealth super-lightweight title – in just his seventh pro outing. The unbeaten Scot dazzled in front of the Edinburgh crowd and did to Ryan what no one has done before him. It was, on paper, a major step up for Taylor but all it did was bring out even more ability in him. The finishing shots were world class and prior to the stoppage it was one-way traffic. With an 100 per cent KO ratio, Taylor looks set to be a big star for Scotland and could be walking onto the world stage within a couple of years.
We'd been waiting a year for Eggington-Gavin after it was postponed in 2015, and it was worth the wait. With local pride on the line, the two Birmingham lads went hell for leather from the get-go. Eggington's aggressive style forced Gavin to engage in a firefight. Hurt at several points, Frankie had no choice but to bite down on his gumshield and trade with Eggington, and it made for some breathtaking action in the sixth round, which could be the round of the year. Both men displayed stern chins and unwavering bravery as they put on an absolute treat for their home fans.
Cunningham, another Brummie, showed how dangerous he can be against Ogogo while Kal Yafai set up his WBA world super-flyweight title shot with a destructive win over Johnson Tellez.
The boxing world has been waiting for days to hear what the WBA's decision will be over their heavyweight title. Everyone – outside of Lucas Browne's team – wants them to sanction the mooted Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko superfight, but they keep delaying their decision.
Klitschko should not be placing so much value on a title he has previously held, especially if it means walking away from a mammoth payday and a blockbuster event against former sparring partner Joshua. The WBA should also not take so long in making their decision. Klitschko was set to box Tyson Fury for their title anyway, and having it involved in a unification fight with IBF champ Joshua is not exactly against their rules. However a unified champion does mean they can milk less money out of their trinket, which is bad news for anyone wanting Joshua-Klitschko.
Their delayed decision leaves the division in a state of flux as contenders like Browne and David Haye wait to confirm their next moves. Things looked so promising when Fury blew the division wide open last November, but now the waters are muddier than ever.
Aside from the action and the heavyweight carnival, Carl Frampton popped up to announce that he will rematch Leo Santa Cruz. The pair were engaged in one of the fights of the year a few months ago, when Frampton outpointed Leo to lift the WBA featherweight title and become Northern Ireland's first ever two-weight world champion.
It looks like they will meet in Las Vegas in January – huge news for both. In stark contrast to the heavyweight troubles, the rematch looks like it was made with relative ease. It's another five star matchup for the Ulsterman, who beat Scott Quigg earlier this year.
Should he cement his position as one of the finest fighters on the planet with another win over Santa Cruz, Frampton will look to more huge fights at featherweight – and, perhaps, beyond.


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Home Culture Art & Design Kent Monkman solo show to open in Toronto in August
Kent Monkman solo show to open in Toronto in August
Miss Chief's Praying Hands runs for a month at Project Gallery on Dundas East
by Olivia Bednar
Samuel Engelking
Kent Monkman, the Cree artist known for epic paintings depicting themes of sexuality, colonization and Indigenous experience, has announced a solo exhibition in Toronto called Miss Chief's Praying Hands.
Miss Chief – or Miss Chief Eagle Testickle – is Monkman's gender-fluid alter-ego who makes appearances in many of his works, uprooting preconceived notions of Indigenous people while wearing Louboutin heels.
The show, which opens at Project Gallery (1210 Dundas East) on August 2, will mainly feature works from Monkman's series The Rendezvous, which portrays revelrous interactions between Indigenous people and European settlers in the early to mid-19th century in North America.
Miss Chief is "the gender variance that was present in traditional Indigenous cultures across North America when the settlers arrived," Monkman said in a statement on the show's Facebook page. "She embodies the flawed and playful trickster spirit to tease out the truths behind life's painful twists and turns. She is central to my work, reversing the gaze and representing an empowered antidote to colonized sexuality."
Monkman is one of the country's most well-known living painters. His solo exhibition Shame And Prejudice: A Story Of Resilience at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto last year was hugely successful. The works featured in the exhibition dug into Canada's brutal treatment of Indigenous people and were presented alongside a selection of historical paintings and artifacts.
One of the paintings from the show appeared on the cover of NOW and we later named the exhibition our number one on our best art of the year list. He also debuted the monumental painting Two Ships last September at 6 Degrees Citizen Space.
Miss Chief's Praying Hands runs to September 1 at Project Gallery. The opening reception takes place on August 2 from 6-9pm. Visit the gallery's website for more info.
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Meet the athletes who dominated indoors this winter.
Victor's Mike Bayley lost his coach to cancer. He honored him with the best race of his life.
AGR Track and Field Athlete of the Year Mike Bayley overcame tragedy to win a state title in the 55 hurdles.
Announcing the All-Greater Rochester team, including Athlete of the Year Michael Bayley.
Meet the players who dominated on the hardwood this winter.
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Subversion Trials of Two Democracy Activists End without Verdicts
Subversion Of State Power
Democratic And Political Reform
In two separate proceedings today in a Hangzhou court that lasted about two-and-a-half-hours each, longtime democracy activists Chen Shuqing (陈树庆) and Lü Gengsong (吕耿松), members of the China Democracy Party's Zhejiang Committee, were tried for "subversion of state power." Both have been imprisoned before, but this charge is the heaviest that either has faced thus far, and carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Both Chen and Lü pled not guilty and the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court announced that it would deliver its verdicts on a separate day.
Lü was detained on July 7, 2014, and formally arrested on August 13, reportedly for publishing essays online critical of the Chinese government.
Chen was detained on September 11, 2014, and formally arrested in October, following a joint statement he signed urging the release of detained individuals and an account he published about Lü being denied access to a lawyer while in detention.
Chen's trial took place in the morning, and Lü's in the afternoon. The wives of both defendants each attended their husband's trial.
Zhang Donghong (张东红), Chen's wife, said that in his defense statement in court, Chen stressed that the promotion of democracy is not a crime, and the rights to freedom of thought, speech, and association are protected by the Chinese Constitution. Zhang added that she had not seen her husband in more than a year, and that he appeared to have aged and become thinner than before.
Wang Xue'e (汪雪娥), Lü's wife, said that the judge interrupted Lü before he could finish reading his defense statement. She said Lü's spirit seemed good.
Chen had previously served a four-year sentence for "inciting subversion of state power," in connection with his role in organizing the China Democracy Party's Zhejiang Committee and articles he wrote calling for democratic reform. He was released in September 2010 and soon resumed his activism. In November of that year, he was among six individuals who applied to the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau for a permit to hold a demonstration to call for democratic reform.
Chen was a participant in the 1989 student movement, and began his pro-democracy activism in 1995. He became involved in the preparatory work for organizing the China Democracy Party in 1998, for which involvement he was detained for four months in 1999.
Lü had also served four years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power." Following his release on August 23, 2011, he was subjected to one year of deprivation of political rights, and endured numerous searches in his home. Beginning in February 2014 up until his detention in July, the authorities restricted Lü's movement and put his home under round-the-clock surveillance.
Lü, a native of Hangzhou, had taught at a special training school for public security officers, but was dismissed in 1993 because of his pro-democracy activities. He subsequently supported himself as a free-lance writer. He is the author of the History of Corruption in the Communist Party of China (中共贪官污吏), published in Hong Kong (2000), as well as a number of articles on corruption, organized crime, and related topics. Lü has also reported on the sentencing of rights activists, and has frequently voiced support for the protection of ordinary people's rights.
HRIC Resources
Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested, October 22, 2014
Another Zhejiang Democracy Activist in Custody for "Subversion," September 15, 2014
Zhejiang Activist Lü Gengsong Arrested for "Subversion of State Power," August 13, 2014
Lü Gengsong's lawyer denied access to client, July 18, 2014
Lü Gengsong Criminally Detained on Suspicion of "Subversion of State Power," July 8, 2014
Statement on the criminal detention of Hu Shigen, Gao Yu, Xu Youyu, Hao Jian, Pu Zhiqiang, Wu Bin (Xiucai Jianghu), Liu Di and other citizens, May 8, 2014
Lawyers Protest Persecution on Unprecedented Scale, December 16, 2013
A Protest against Zhejiang Police College's Political Persecution and Violation of My Rights as a Citizen, April 10, 2012
Writer Lü Gengsong Released from Prison; Refuses Conditions of Deprivation of Political Rights, August 24, 2011
Application for a Permit to Hold a Demonstration to Assert Rights and Call for Political Reform, November 30, 2010
Two Zhejiang Democracy Activists Released after Serving Sentences on "Subversion" and "Inciting Subversion" Charges, September 13, 2010
Writer Lü Gengsong's Sentence Upheld, April 16, 2008
Lü Gengsong's Appeal Ruling, April 7, 2008
Families of Lü Gengsong and He Depu Appeal to National People's Congress, March 3, 2008
Lü Gengsong's Trial Verdict, February 5, 2008
Ching Cheong's Release Sends Mixed Message, February 05, 2008
Writer Lü Gengsong's Trial Held Today, January 22, 2008
Writer Lü Gengsong Indicted, January 11, 2008
Lü Gengsong's Case Transferred to Procuratorate, November 9, 2007
HRIC Protests Detention of Writer Lü Gengsong, August 27, 2007


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Q: Bootstrap popover - move it to the left/right side I want to relocate my bootstrap popover in the left side, i.e. I want to move the whole popover in the left side, while the white arrow would stay in one place.
I would like to have the effect which is on google.com website, when you click blue icon you see popover but its content is relocated while the white arrow is located under the user.
I know that I can use something like this:
.popover {
    top:0 !important;
    margin-top:10px;
}

Unfortunately, it relocates the whole popover altogether with white arrow.
What I have now (popover is on the right side and there's no place between screen edge and my popover)

What I want to have (small distance between popover and monitor's edge):

A:
"I want to change the position of content of this popover so that this
  arrow will be placed further on the left"

When the popover is shown the arrow position is calculated in Tooltip.prototype.replaceArrow based on width/height and placement. You can force a specific position with this CSS :
.popover .arrow {
    left: 90px !important; /* or 45% etc */
}

But that will affect all popovers. Popovers is injected and removed to and from the DOM, and there is by default no way to target visible popovers individually. If you want to style the arrow on a specific popover, a workaround is to hook into the shown.bs.popover event, detect which popover that is being shown, and style the arrow for that popover if needed. Example :
.on('shown.bs.popover', function() {
    var $popover = $('.popover')[0];
    switch ($(this).attr('id')) {
        case 'a' : $popover.find('.arrow').css('left', '10px');break;
        case 'b' : $popover.find('.arrow').css('left', '40%');break;
        case 'c' : $popover.find('.arrow').css('left', '180px');break;
        default : break;
    }
})

To get this to work, there must be only one popover shown at a time (see fiddle). It can be worked out with multiple visible popovers also, but then we need to add some HTML to the popover content.
see demo -> http://jsfiddle.net/uteatyyz/

A: As what I have understood so far, you want to achieve the popover to the left of the button.
Please check this Plunker Link

HTML Code:

  <div class="pull-right">
    <button type="button" mypopover data-placement="left" title="title">Click here</button>
  </div>

Angular Code:

    var options = {
        content: popOverContent,
        placement: "bottom",
        html: true,
        date: scope.date,
        trigger: 'focus'
    };

I have edited the answer as per the images that you have shown.
If this is not is answer, then please comment below.
Regards D.

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As A Matter Of Fact, It's All Dark
Bryan Cockfield
While the dark side of the moon wasn't seen by humans until the middle of the 20th century, that side of the moon isn't always dark, just hidden from view of Earth by a quirk of gravity. The more appropriate name for the other half of the moon is the "far side", but while it gets just as much sunshine as the near side does it is dark to one thing in particular: man-made radio waves. That, along with the lack of an atmosphere and ionosphere on the moon, makes it a perfect place for a new telescope.
This telescope isn't like something you'd set up in your back yard, either. It's more similar to the Aricebo Observatory in Puerto Rico which uses natural topography to help form the telescope. The proposed telescope on the far side of the moon would use a robot to deploy a net along a fairly large crater to act as a parabolic dish, while another robot would suspend the receiver above the crater. The large size is necessary for viewing deep into space, but is also because of the low-frequency radio signals they hope to capture.
Building a dish like this on the moon is sure to be no easy task, especially since remote control on the far side of the moon is difficult for precisely the reasons that make this a good location for a telescope. But with an appropriate amount of funding and some sufficiently autonomous robots it should be possible. Plus, you never know what you'll find when looking deep into space.
Posted in Radio HacksTagged astronomy, dark side, far side, moon, nasa, observatory, radio, telescope
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41 thoughts on "As A Matter Of Fact, It's All Dark"
Ry Yelcho says:
You would need a satellite in lunar synchronous orbit that would see the telescope and earth at the same time. The Chinese did this with their far side rover.
Col. Panek says:
That, or a lot of storage on both the telescope and satellite? …. Well, maybe not. Do the processing onsite, and send the results downstairs.
Turns out that for this kind of thing, what you want is an all-sky telescope, so while you can do some processing on site, you really do need to send everything back to Earth. You don't know, in advance, when "interesting things" might happen that you want to look at. And a lot of radio astronomy requires integrating over long periods of time, to "average out" the noise and detect very small sources.
I just remembered, I have a hard drive somewhere with a bunch of data from Arecibo from ten years ago. It takes up 30 GB. They can schlurp up a lot of bits.
Maybe somebody out there is calling CQ DX.
30GB felt like a lot more data 10 or 20 years ago than it does now.
Steven Clark says:
Maybe L4/5 instead of orbit? I remember reading that the moon is kinda lumpy in density and orbits tend to decay quickly from changing gravity.
That's because the aliens inside the Moon often move their heavy equipment around.
Hirudinea says:
The moon aliens don't move their heavy equipment themselves, they hire illegal aliens to do it for them.
They need to build a wall to keep the moon mexicans out.. lol
Is this why they're called "lunatic"?
Or, run a fiber to the near side?
Then again a lot of the AT&T Long Line towers are available.
B*)
gipetto says:
fiber would be vulnerable to a meteorite strike. I guess you could use a network of solar powered laser repeater towers if you didn't want rfi at all.
nexein says:
The moons surface doesn't really get peppered with meteors all that often.Something like 3000kg is known to impact the moons 38 million square km surface every year.You'd have to have lottery winning odds that some of that would land on your cable. Then you'd have to win it again that the impact had enough energy to do anything if it didn't land directly on top of your cable, theres no atmosphere so its not like there would be a blast wave just a shower of rocks and dust, Whatever you put on the moon has to withstand sub zero temperatures and 100+c temperatures so it will probably be buried and have a substantial heat shield and a meteorstrike nearby isn't going to be hot enough for long enough to do anything.
Most meteorites are pretty small, a lot of its just a little bigger than dust and the average big one might be 20-30 grams. You'd need 50 kilos travelling at 100 thousand km to make a hole maybe 30 meters wide but between the Sun and Jupiter our part of the solar system just doesn't have that many objects like this relative to the size of the area.
punkdigerati says:
Isn't that a problem for the dish itself as well?
Koolkev says:
I'm a fiber technician. If it's cut I'll go. If they need a fiber spliced, it's easier to train me to be an astronaut, than to train an astronaut to splice fiber…
Just joking friends…..
Jim Oss says:
Good one, Koolkev. Prize winner.
Elliot Williams says:
Ø says:
Having terminated fiber strands into connectors for modems in people's houses with cutting edge equipment (10 years ago), I'd actually be inclined to agree somewhat unironically.
It's like surgery except you're not getting paid enough to do it, and even the equipment requires babysitting and frequent calibration.
dm0 says:
And you don't wanna miss a thing…
mrsimicsak says:
Can you splice while wearing really thick gloves?
kc8rwr says:
Or… build a base next to the dish and send the astronomers to the scope.
There are always going to be bandwidth limitations in a link back to Earth.
You need a satellite, yes. "Lunar synchronous orbit" is a bit restrictive (depending on how you define 'lunar synchronous', I guess). A large enough polar (in the Earth-Moon plane) halo orbit about Earth-Moon L2 works fine.
NASA's planned Gateway could act as a relay.
Otherwise you could always just store-and-forward data if they're not in view at the same time.
Turns out that people are working on this. For one thing, you really only need to think about low frequencies (<50 MHz), because for higher frequencies, existing telescopes on Earth work better. Earth based telescopes are easier to maintain, repair, and communicate with (running fiber to somewhere in the desert is a lot easier than a optical or RF link to the Moon).
The problem with low frequencies on Earth is that the ionosphere blocks the signals, and of course, there's lots of RFI.
At low frequencies, you don't need a big dish like Arecibo or FAST. Instead, you want it to look more like LWA (http://www.phys.unm.edu/~lwa/abouthome.html) or MWA (http://www.mwatelescope.org/) or LOFAR (http://www.lofar.org/)
There's a proposed mission to put a 10km radio telescope with 128 antennas on the far side of the Moon, called FARSIDE, oddly enough. https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/farside-final-report/
Shorter white paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.05407.pdf
Being able to observe spectrum that we were never able to observe from Earth would be great. I can certainly imagine why that would be the first priority if building a radio telescope on the moon. Don't forget though, even at frequencies to which our atmosphere is transparent an antenna on the far side of the moon still has the advantage of being completely shielded from terrestrial interference.
Chris Jefferies says:
The word 'dark' didn't originally mean an absence of light, it simply meant 'hidden'. We still sometimes use it this way even today. One example is the 'dark web' consisting of web sites that are hidden from normal browsers. So when people first spoke about 'the dark side of the Moon' they simply meant the hidden side.
tomás zerolo says:
As the Moon is tidal-locked, a lunar synchronous orbit is, in fact a (Earth-Moon) Lagrange point.
I saw the typo " Aricebo Observatory" and parsed it as "A rice bowl Observatory". Just about lost my keyboard to the coffee snort there.
No, it is the Chinese who are building the rice bowl observatory.
B^)
" Building a dish like this on the moon is sure to be no easy task, especially since remote control on the far side of the moon is difficult for precisely the reasons that make this a good location for a telescope. "
Oh, come on. Based on the quality of woodworking hacks we see here, there must be a way to install it front the wrong side or something…
Am I the only one that thinks of a death star by seeing that?
https://i.imgur.com/FXI48lh.gif
Adobe/Cloudflare hater says:
re: punkdigerati remark. "Isn't that a problem for the dish itself as well?"
Don't forget about the "pitchback" capabilities of a net.
Going to try to linking a comment in this page formatting, one last frigging time.
How do we get the net there, easily?
Easily, yes.
Comedicles says:
The far side gets more total sunlight than the near side. There are no eclipses.
I knew I could rely on the HaD community to point this out.
Old Guy says:
Of course there are eclipses. You'd just have to be outside lunar orbit to see them. We call them "full moons".
I think that is just Lunar midnight for the far side. The Earth can never block sunlight for the far side.
While we're there, fetch two more craters a few km apart, put oversized Roombas inside and let them clean it up (crushing debris, redepositing and leveling it), bake with some lasers. drop a coat or two of reflective crap, polish it up. Dig a well in the center for focus point while building construction to hold secondary mirror … decade or two later … wait for Earth eclipse and see what we can see with those big eyes.
Jii says:
LCRT: Lunar Cow Radio Telescope
Professor Zurkowitz regretted sleeping through the abbreviation class.
Yeah, i'm not that funny, so sue me.
starhawk says:
Somehow this little gem seems appropriate here. No idea about any sort of history, origins, etc — can't find any info whatsoever on song or band, TBH. Pandora fed it to me randomly one afternoon. Have to say it's hilariously cute. It sounds kind of like a story Calvin (of Bill Watterson's imagination) would tell his Dad as to why he wasn't in school that day, when he was really careening through the woods with Hobbes in his little red wagon… ;)
The Bluetones — "The King of Outer Space"
Le Roux Bodenstein liked KELPIE: Subtractive Synth for Keyboard Controllers.


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My brother has this Deathly Hallows locket which he proudly shows off to anyone remotely interested. And for some reason the logo of this new fragrance website All Good Scents looks very similar. I know I know they aren't same but for for some reason its equally mysterious! If any of you is into signs and symbols then do lemme know what it means! Anyhoo I have two of their premium fragrances up for review today. One is a very girly EDP called Love and Joy while Urbane Nights is a woody manly perfume.
All Good Scents Claims: Much like musical notes make up a song fragrance notes are necessary to make a perfume. Overall, there are three note scales that when blended together create the perfume's fragrant accord. All Good Scents has based its LOGO on this pertinent allegory of the perfume world- The Perfume Pyramid.
Top Notes: (Within 5 minutes) The initial whiff, the first few seconds of the perfume. The top notes of a fragrance are generally the lightest of all the notes. They are recognized immediately upon application of the perfume. Common fragrance top notes include citrus (lemon, orange zest, bergamot), light fruits (grapefruit, berries) and herbs (clary sage, lavender).
Heart Notes: (6 to 8 hours) The heart notes, make an appearance once the top notes evaporate. A perfume's heart is often a smooth combination of floral or fruit tones. Common fragrance heart notes include geranium, rose, lemongrass, ylang ylang, lavender, neroli and jasmine.
Base Notes: (8+ hours) The base notes are the final fragrance notes that appear once the top & heart notes have evaporated. These often, rich notes linger on the skin for hours after the heart notes have dissipated. Common fragrance base notes include cedar wood, sandalwood, vanilla, amber, patchouli, oak moss and musk.
Love & Joy For the Free Spirit: Indulge yourself in a quaint symphony of flowers. For your blossoming youth and free spirit, celebrate 'YOU' with this elegant fragrance. Mixed with soft freshness, eternal youth, and the divine feminine that is YOU. Love & Joy- celebrate life, celebrate 'YOU'.
The packaging is ombre yellow which looks very girly on the dresser. It has got top notes of Litchi which is very new for me. Litchi! After setting for a bit it smells of roses and magnolia. The base notes are powdery and musky. Although it has a generous blend of flowers, it smells more fruity than floral on me. It lasts for 6-8 hours on me. If you like sweet smelling fragrances then you would like this one a lot.
Make your presence felt long after you've left a room, with this stylish, sensual and rich fragrance. With a scent so exotic and long lasting, you can dance with the stars, till the sun comes out. Urbane Nights- for you to enjoy; and be enjoyed!
The packaging is matte black which I totally adore. Looks very mysterious. Its out and out a woody men's scent and I totally dig it. I don't know why I dig manly scents a lot! You can smell peppermint as soon as you spray it and it settles into something spicy after some time. Out of the two I like this one more. It lasts around 5-6 hours on me which is good at this price point.
All Good Scents gives free shipping in India. Also they have this ScentBox where one can get upto 3 tester samples delivered at home to try for Rs.55 per tester. Overall All Good Scents has got a wide variety of daily as well as premium perfumes. If I am not wrong then this is the first fragrance website in India. Lemme know if there are others as well, would love to try.


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Steve McQueen's Cars of Thomas Crown Affair 1968
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I watched the movie, enjoyed it, especially the cars. Here's the source article.
Rob's Car Movie Review: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A review of the 1968 bank heist thriller, The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen, Faye…
The 68 NART Ferrari.
Rare 1968 Ferrari from The Thomas Crown Affair Crosses the Auction Block
Built by Enzo Ferrari and Sergio Scaglietti, this drop-top tourer could sell for over $26 million….
McQueen's one of two Mulliner built 1967 Rolls Royce Fixed Head Coupes.
Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Fixed Head Coupé in "The Thomas Crown Affair"
McQueen's '65 Caddy
McQueen's Corvair powered Manx buggy.
Exclusive: Missing dune buggy from Steve McQueen's 'The Thomas Crown Affair' reappears as it undergoes...
Both turn 50 this year.
The getaway '67 Country Squire.
Ford Country Squire in "The Thomas Crown Affair"


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It's not hard to understand why any landscape photographer would choose to work in Dorset as it is one of the UK's most photogenic destinations. Competition is tough though – not only have you got several world-class pros living in the vicinity, such as David Noton, but Dorset's favourite destinations attract a lot of photographers throughout the year. None of this deterred Stephen Banks, aka DorsetScouser, a talented 25-year-old and Vanguard Professional who specialises in the milky way in landscapes, in addition to creating time lapses.
Turning out in the middle of the night to shoot the milky way in amazing Dorset landscapes sounds glamorous, but it's hard work and cold, so Stephen very much relies on his gear. "I am a big fan of the Vanguard Alta Sky 51D Backpack. It swallows all the gear I need for a night shoot, including my laptop," he explains. "If there is something I need quickly, like batteries or lenses I can easily find it, without worrying about leaving stuff at home as there isn't enough room.
Stephen turned his time lapse images into videos which were well received on YouTube, but have been hard to monetise. There is a growing demand for his still images of the Dorset night sky, however, in the form of calendars and prints. "I get a customers in cities who don't see the kind of skies we get down here, so they love the images. You get the odd cynic who thinks the scenes are Photoshopped, but while I have to do some editing, the final images are definitely not fake or comped together." Stephen has printed 1500 copies of his 2018 calendar and they have all sold out.
Other challenges include the good old British weather, which can change throughout the night. "Ideal conditions are a clear night, without clouds or much humidity," Stephen says. Other photographers attracted to beauty spots at night can get in the way too, especially if they have bright torches, but Stephen has worked out good locations and times of year to avoid the crowds.


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Q: Mechanical Turk File Upload I'm trying to test file uploads on Mechanical Turk.
I'm calling the GetFileUploadURL service and my query string looks something like this:
Operation=GetFileUploadURL&AssignmentId=XXX&Signature=XXX&Version=2008-08-02&AWSAccessKeyId=XXX&Timestamp=2009-07-11T18%3A33%3A03-04%3A00&QuestionIdentifier=smiley&HITId=XXX&Service=AWSMechanicalTurkRequester

My HIT HTML looks like this

Draw me a smily face.

Save it as a PNG

Image must be 64x64

Be Creative

<input type="file" name="smiley" value="" />

I'm getting an error back that "The value \"null\" is not valid for the parameter QuestionIdentifier" even though I am passing the QuestionIdentifier in.
I'm guessing that my HIT HTML is not the most ideal and that I'm missing something that would have made this a lot easier. Could I have written something other than <input type="file" name="smiley" value="" /> or improved it in some way that this web service call would be easier? I'm really not sure what I was supposed to pass in my GetFileUploadURL call for QuestionIdentifier and I assumed that "smiley" would work.
edit: I know that its supposed to be smiley base upon the results I see when I call GetAssignmentsForHIT.
Any ideas? Why does it think its null? Does order matter when passing parameters to this service?

A: From the API documentation:

The GetFileUploadURL operation
  generates and returns a temporary URL.
  You use the temporary URL to retrieve
  a file uploaded by a Worker as an
  answer to a FileUploadAnswer question
  for a HIT. For information about the
  FileUploadAnswer answer, see
  QuestionForm.

So this method is for retrieving files that have already been uploaded. It sounds as though you are trying to perform the upload with this method which is incorrect. As the documentation says, see QuestionForm and the details on FileUploadAnswerto find out how the upload should work


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The City of New Albany's local government is proposing a renovation and demolition project to the current low-income housing options. The New Albany Housing Authority has expressed interest in high performing energy buildings for the new designs, but few plans have been produced for the project. The large-scale project has the opportunity to greatly benefit the entire city of New Albany, as well as providing environmental implications to the local and global community. New Albany is a suburban town located in the south central point of Indiana, bordering the urban area of Louisville, KY and only separated by the Ohio River. New Albany is a city with a population of roughly 35,000 peoples who primarily work the urban areas within and surrounding New Albany. Low-income housing and sustainable design are closely linked due to the nature of living conditions and budgeting low-income families face. The difference in energy and utility costs between a poor and high performing building for a low-income family could alter their financial burdens and bring them out of low-income status over time. Low-income families traditionally are forced to live in housing that is poorly cared for and constructed, creating a variety of health issues and reduces the quality of life for those who are already in crisis situations. Introducing sustainable housing to low-income families is critical to the City of New Albany as over 500 housing units are going to be demolished and redesigned to better improve the quality of life for the affected population. Proposed design strategies to be tested focus of cost effective strategies as well as the law of diminishing return. Primarily the strategies tested will be orientation, daylight, ventilation, insulation, shading, infrastructure upgrades, and geometries. The proposed geometries to be tested alongside the base case unit are as follows: single unit, duplex units, row housing units, and multistory units. The aim of this study is to test and create proven results to suggest for building design guidelines on the basis of energy performance and cost affordability and effectiveness. From this study, the efficiencies of three tiered strategies were found and tested against the differing geometries. The row-housing unit had the best initial, baseline performance and when all tiers of strategies were applied the resulting energy consumption was at 10,000 kWh equating to roughly $1,080 annually. This drastically lower cost would allow for low-income families to create change in their life and improve their overall quality of life.


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VICE's Worst 50 Albums of 2013
The quality of popular music continues to plummet farther down the toilet bowl. All we can do on the way down is point out stinkers when we hear them, so here's a handy guide to 50 pieces of sonic lemur shit released (or reissued) in the past year.
by VICE Staff
Dec 19 2013, 3:15pm
[See also: VICE's Top 50 Albums of 2013]
We live in a very uncritical artistic climate. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the nauseating world of music criticism. I've worked in this industry for a little while, and there's a prevailing sentiment that music critics who don't have anything nice to say shouldn't say anything at all, and that it's more important to shine a light on the good in the world than call bullshit when you hear it. This is compounded by musicians, who are tiny babies who can't take the slightest criticism, opting for a fantasy world where they've never made a bad song in their entire pointless careers.
This may sound like a non-sequitor, but here's a fun thought experiment a friend taught me—try to think of the most popular song in the country right now. Go ahead, try. You can't do it, can you? That's because, as 2013 rounds to a close, no one ever has to listen to anything they don't want to. We're encouraged to build a dumb little sonic cocoon, an insulated baby-bubble filled with all the perfect little albums and singles we can fit on our mobile devices. And when we don't need to rely on broadcasters like MTV or Power 105.1 for our new music, it becomes harder and harder to figure out what the hell we're supposed to rebel against. And I'm mad about it, dammit!
Anyway, there's not much anyone can do about this stuff. If I had to venture a guess, I'd imagine the quality of popular music will continue to plummet farther and farther down the toilet. All we can do on the way down is point out a stinker when we hear one, so here's a handy guide to 50 pieces of sonic lemur shit released (or reissued) in the past year.
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (Deluxe Reissue Edition)
ShopRadioCast
A few weeks back, alcohol told my brain it'd be funny to make this Album of the Month, and right now I'm all about reevaluating shit I used to hate and realizing what an idiot I was. (To put things into perspective, I used to hate Nirvana.) Anyway, I was hoping that listening to this record after 12 years of avoidance would age it like a truffle rustled from the fertile soil of Montferrat by pigs bred solely for this purpose. Unfortunately the experience was more like spraying André Sparkling Strawberry on a pile of burning hair.
BENJAMIN SHAPIRO
Love Lust Faith + Dreams
Virgin/EMI
Last month, someone in digital marketing tried to "intro" me to a flack on 30 Seconds to Mars's PR team. He wanted to discuss "potential opps." In other words, VICE is looking for some bright and fresh faces in our marketing department. Résumés can be sent to careers@vice.com.
BONES JUSTICE
Wonderous Bughouse
The guy in this band appears to be roughly 15 years old, which is so annoying it might just give me shingles. When super young people are ambitious, doesn't it make you want to hit them in the face with a piece of driftwood? Youth is for eating snacks and getting fat, or, if you're a terrible person, making babies while acquiring incurable STDs. Teenagers are NOT supposed to make music that literally sounds like nothing that you will ever remember past the amount of time it takes to eat a microwaved taquito. Congrats on being ambitious, young man, but maybe take it easy for a bit and try again when you've lived a little and have been disappointed a whole lot. You'll have a lot more stuff to say.
INDIAN BUMMER
I really hate this. I don't know what Bad Religion is thinking, but there's no such thing as God. All this music and culture are distractions from the very real horror of human violence and depravity that squirms like a bed of writhing snakes under society's civil veneer. Law and order is a collective dream we can awaken from at any time. Soon there will come a day when the poor and downtrodden will no longer be placated with food stamps; instead they will sup on your entrails and blood, boiling your premature babies in a cauldron of bullion and duck fat. You're dialing 911, but I have different numbers: 9mm, 12 gauge, and AR-15. It's gonna make The Turner Diaries look like The Wizard of Oz.
BRADLEY "DIRTBOMB" BANKS
Necrocracy
I like thrashy, splatter-oriented deathgrind as much as the next guy, but I'm partial to bands like Blue Holocaust or early Regurgitate who at least had the sense of purpose to pitch-shift their vocals and degrade their recordings to the point where entire records sound like a flailing high-pressure vomit hose spraying inside a BDSM dungeon… forever. Exhumed came close on that one split with Hemdale, but by now they're basically the Steely Dan of gore, the singer doesn't sound like Butterball anymore, and you can probably fine-tune your sound system to this polished garbage.
BSHAP
YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN
Our music site Noisey really likes these guys, but man, things must be straight-up apocalyptic in post-Grimes Montreal if you have to play Sino-Indian prog in Noh costumes just to get a publicist. Guess we have a difference of opinion here, and you know what they say about opinions: they're like terrible bands these days, everyone's got one.
SLEUTH "JUICY" LOOSELY
Pass The Ringo
Loglady
Oh, I see, you named your album Pass the Ringo because you audibly have theeeee BIGGEST boner for the Beatles and it's so sensitive that even the very most distant glimmer of a bowl cut creates a creamy explosion in the front of your pants, right? I'm thinking that maybe you could have saved a shit ton of money on publicists and whatever else went into making this album, if you'd, instead, invested in a therapist. Or a girlfriend. Or personality lessons. I don't like you.
HEY SALLY
As of late, Arbutus Records has been behind a lot of really incredible artists in Montreal. This album is the inevitable bummer. It's the musical equivalent of seeing a box with air holes under the Christmas tree and opening it to find nothing but a handful of toilet paper crumblies that Grimes brushed out of the folds of her vagina lips and surrounding muff.
GIRL REPORTER
Innovative Leisure
The press release for this record mentions Los Angeles about 54 times, which is about 54 times too many (AY-OH!). But seriously though, it's all about how they live in LA, signed to a great LA label, record in LA at the singer's home studio, how they've played FYF Fest a bunch of times (in, you guessed it, LA), and they're just crazy about the scene out there. Cool! Go choke on an avocado, fuck-os. This record has no teeth, and that's probably because they live in… LA. Don't get me wrong, the weather's great, but the only people I like there have already lived and succeeded in New York for a substantial period of time. Those who haven't and think it's so great: I invite you to come out east and get shanked in the face when you take too long fixing your coffee at the milk-and-sugar station.
WILE E. CHODEY
Every few years, Iggy Pop makes a new record, and it gets promoted. So he goes and plays shows, and then it's promptly forgotten. This one's good but doesn't break that pattern. A lot of these songs are really fun, but none of them have any sort of progression. Mostly they just begin and then repeat the same thing until the song's over. Ultimately, this record doesn't compare favorably with the Stooges' early records, i.e., the greatest rock records ever made. If I were rude I'd say, yes, they sound ready to die.
BUTT TOWN
Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Did you know Franz Ferdinand's fourth album was a dub version of their third album? Did you know they even had four albums? Unbeknownst to those of us who aren't teenagers from Glasgow, the Franzes have apparently been engaged in some soul-searching over the past decade. Aside from being an annoying throw to Buddhism, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is an angsty account of the band's struggle with (you guessed it) mediocrity. There are a few tolerable songs, but the rest are obnoxious, and there's a track called "Treason! Animals." Pass, and then pass some gas.
GAVRILO PRINCIP
MATT PRYOR
Wrist Slitter
Matt Pryor is the guy from the Get Up Kids, and this record is called Wrist Slitter. Low-hanging fruit, I know, so I'm just going to take the high road and say this album does not, in fact, make me want to slit my wrists. It kind of just sounds like another Get Up Kids record, which just makes me want to cut up this CD so I can stab the members of said band in the larynx so their creative afterbirth can't hurt anyone else.
Wrongdoers
Back in my desperate college days, I used to snort amphetamines and sleep with a girl who just loved Norma Jean. I remember her well because she was cool with having sex in front of her roommate, and she had a big Tony Montana-style scar on her face from a car accident that she'd try to hide (unsuccessfully) with makeup. The first night we hooked up, she made me sleep on the couch because her "real boyfriend" was coming over early in the morning and she didn't want him to get the wrong idea. To this day, anytime someone mentions the band Norma Jean, I can picture the gobs of sweat that used to collect around her scar when she was about to come. It's a memory I've been trying to erase for years. So this sad face is more for me than the band.
CAPTAIN QUEEFHEART
Come on. You really want VICE's honest review of a Miley Cyrus album? Let's cut to the chase: another review of Bangerz as phoned-in genero-pop. Defensive, sanctimonious contestation that review is more focused on Miley's private cum public life than an "actually pretty OK pop album." Rebuttal that just because someone can shamelessly throw enough money around to fart out a few undeniable hits doesn't mean they deserve accolades. Abrupt, defensive outro citing the entire review as folly in and of itself. Smug self-satisfaction. There. Was that as good for you as it was for me? My tongue is turned sideways, wedged firmly in the crevice of a confused tween. Does that help?
LOU PEARLMAN'S PUBIC WIG
Look. I'm a girl who likes to put her face on other girls' faces and crotches. Does it even matter what I think about this album or if I actually listened to it? Sorry, Quin twins—I can't hear you over my girlfriend's inner thighs pressed against my ears.
BABY DOMME
COMPLICATED UNIVERSAL CUM
Hello Exit Harmony
You know, I realize some bands think that including the word "cum" in their name is an easy way to get people to listen their music. But if I could offer these convoluted spermatozoa a lesson, it would be this: It's a major letdown when you name yourself after jism and your music is so self-absorbed and jagoffy that it completely subtracts from its initial jizzy intent. Guys, soothing horn and 70s "space rock" have never made anyone come, ever. This was proved 40 years ago. Time to move on.
MIC RIPZ
The One Inch Punch
Dead People Ink
If you're a white rapper, you'd better have a "thing." Eminem's is that he is a terrible, fucked-up person. Bubba Sparxxx's is that he is a redneck. El-P is pretty concerned about aliens descending from space and taking us over. I guess this MiC RipZ's shtick is that he totally sucks ass? Doesn't seem like a good move to me, but what do I know?
MIKE CHECK
English Little League
I love the part in A Charlie Brown Christmas when Schroeder is trying to play "Jingle Bells" on his piano for Lucy, and she's like, "Nein, nein. Ich meine, 'Jingle Bells.' Sie wissen, 'Deck the Halls,' und so weiter. Sie verstehen gar nicht." It's so damn funny because they are all the same (obviously), but she prefers the stripped-down, no-frills version, which, yeah, is the best. And it's somewhat ironic because Lucy, like most of the other Peanuts characters, is informed by the status quo: the more money you have, and things you can buy at Christmas, the better. Her love for the atonal, minimal version of "Jingle Bells," however, casts her in a Marxist light and, I think, reinforces how much of a pussy Charlie Brown is. Anyway, that's what this album made me think of.
DREAD MORTIMER
Anticon
Listen up, Baths dude. Your lyrics sound like Robert Smith's seventh-grade diary. "Where is God when you hate him most?" She's probably stabbing herself in her God-dick for boning the earth's vagina and creating your species. (What, you didn't know the Almighty is a hermaphrodite?) Are you sure you want to be asking her questions like that? Because the truth is that she's probably just avoiding you, wishing she could snag the instrumentals from this album—the ones that don't involve you scat-singing—and sell that shit on eBay for a bag of weed.
TONY BARMAN
Nihjgt Feelings
Hey, oOoOO. It's me, Christian. Listen, I think you guys should really consider changing your name. The thing about language is that, most of the time, it's meant to be used as communication verbally, not to look cool in an instant-message conversation. When the people around me at the public library asked me what I was listening to at such a high volume, it was kind of awkward to look back at them, a dead look in my eyes, and simply say, "OoOooOOooh" (extra Os added for effect), mimicking a broken ambulance siren. It didn't help that your music sounds like something Buffalo Bill would listen to if his sex dungeon were in a Bushwick railroad apartment in 2007. Just a thought. Thanks!
CHRISTIAN STORM
Taking a page out of the Mitt Romney Guide to Indie Rock (a future New York Times bestseller), the Young Republicans Club has done it once again with another sterile-sounding album made out of genetically modified cauliflower and goose-liver-pâté farts. Here is where I would embed that clip of George W. Bush attempting to "get down" with African dancers at a malaria-awareness event, but I guess this flimsy paper stuff is made by Apple and doesn't support Flash or some bullshit like that.
Permanent Signal
Since your hard drive is already busting with illegally downloaded movies, illegally downloaded software, illegally downloaded video games, whatever results from searching "sloppy" on xHamster, and selfies, it'd be irresponsible for me to recommend you waste two minutes of your life stealing this. There are swirly distant atmospherics and a trumpet every now and then, so I guess it's mellow indie rock that's likable enough, but it's not worth disk space that'd be put to far better use with a pirated copy of Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies. Oh, and another thing I've always wanted to say in print: Secretly Canadian secretly stinks. Except for early Scout Niblett, of course—Emma, we met backstage at the Knitting Factory once. Let's tango.
ZOLOFT EMOTICON
The Beauty In All
If, after listening to this record, you can overcome the immediate and overwhelming desire to drop an elbow straight into Oddisee's eye socket so that next time he doesn't try quite as hard, you might find that this is one of the most winning and rewarding underground hip-hop albums you've heard in the current fiscal quarter. ("Q3" if you're lame—ad guys, you realize that's like saying "LOL" out loud, right?) Still, this motherfucker is one of the most beat-up-able bipeds to ever get stuffed into a locker, so at the end of the day I can't in good conscience recommend his music in any form, and I've gotten a lot of black eyes from a lot of jocks.
GORGE CATANDAS
I remember sitting on a plush couch at a Cut Copy concert in 2005. I was about 20 years old, I'd been treating my body like a landfill for weeks, and I'm pretty sure I had a "dime piece" on each arm. I vaguely remember the frosty chill of the raspberry vodka in my hand, and the suppleness of kangaroo leather against the nape of my neck. Now I'm sitting in an office listening to a song actually, literally called "Walking in the Sky" off an album actually, literally called Free Your Mind, and you should really see my face right now. Just take one look at my goddamn fucking face.
ZARDOZ
Live at Brixton
You know when an idea or concept is so foreign to you that you can't wrap your head around it, no matter how hard you try? Like the fact that they call traffic lights "robots" in South Africa? Well, in that respect, Mastodon are Canadian milk in a bag. They're so milk-in-a-bag you start to wonder if it's all a big joke and everyone who downloaded this 97-minute performance is lying to themselves. Think about all the beautiful simpletons who attended this show in hopes of being canonized among their fellow man on a rock 'n' roll album for all eternity. Then think about their greatest common denominator: the ability to be sold the same fucking album for ten years straight.
RONNY J. HOLMES
The Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil, Vol. 1-6
Heavy On The Grind
E-40 was spawned from a time I like to call the Era of the Microsoft Zune (a.k.a. the late 90s/early 2000s) and has somehow managed to keep persuading people to give him money to make unmemorable music. The one thing he got correct is the realization that the days when a rapper was supposed to release one perfect album every couple of years are as dead as Eazy-E, which I guess is why he's taken to annually releasing triple albums with 45 songs on them. It's not like they're completely awful or anything, but this record has a standard deviation of approximately zilch minus nil. If the E-40 of the 90s could have invented a time machine instead of coining indispensible phrases like "Captain Save a Hoe," he'd zap into the future and Tase his own ball bag.
A THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD MAN
KRTS
Project: Mooncircle
Dear Berlin,
America would like to apologize for the following: flooding you with deadbeat "artists," turning Berghain into Disneyland, snorting all your good speed, and all the American knob-diddlers who've decided your city is where every DJ needsto be. Like this guy, who was so touched by your beauty while riding the U-Bahn after raving for 14 hours, he decided to cut an entire EP about his super unique, awesome expat experience. Actually, let's be real. It's your fault for handing out visas like supermarket coupons.
DORK BREATH
My Baby and Me EP
It's impossible to find records to review for December because PR flacks don't let bands put stuff out around the holidays because pedantic music critics are too busy focusing on year-end lists to give a single whitehead on an ass pimple about new records. So last month, when an email popped into my inbox with this album (which was made by the old drummer from the Starlight Girls), I was elated. Great, I thought. A record to review! I always sorta liked the Starlight Girls, and I've done too many bad reviews in this issue. So I put some Tiger Balm on my neck, threw this EP on, and immediately realized that nostalgic doo-wop is the sonic equivalent of a reverse colon explosion. On the bright side, I did come up with this joke that isn't funny: I just farted in from the starlight, and boy is my asshole tired.
Tales of a Grass Widow
Coco. Rosie. Have a seat, you two. There's something I've been meaning to talk to you about. No, it's not the smell; I know you're on a crustacean-and-kale colon cleanse, you've told me a million times already. This is about your new album. Spoken-word pseudoraps? Beatboxing? Rosie, you're still doing that psychotic demonic-baby-voice thing? I thought we went over this! "Don't sign CocoRosie to City Slang," they told me. "They're not even good weird. They're justweird weird." Look, I took a big chance on you guys, and I really didn't want things to go this way, but you've left me no choice—I'm going to need you to hand over your City Slang corporate Etsy credit card. And your corporate CSA membership pass. And your corporate vegan-certified pleather flog-and-harness set. Oh, you busked for those? Well, then you can keep them, I guess.
HALEY TRILLIAMS
SMALL BLACK
Limits of Desire
Although I'm a tiny little baby inside a teenager's womb who's too young to remember chillwave personally, my friend's older brother and one of his golfing buddies are always sipping mai tais by the hotel Jacuzzi and talking wistfully about those hazy, nostalgic ice-cold wavy days of yore. In particular they were into this band called Small Black—one of the few in the "movement" (seriously, it's in the liner notes) to brandish the genre's tag with pride, even going so far as to print it alongside a hashtag (#tag) at the bottom of all their tote bags, which are then attached to a tag with a separate hashtag (#bag… lying about all of this, BTW). And now the almighty Black is back with a reunion tour and comeback album! Unfortunately after getting hyped up over all the tags and bags, I have to report that these guys are really showing their age.
JAYDEN LOGAN MASON IX
Graveface
Wow! An album of Nina Simone covers that obliterates all the profound and nuanced vocal work that makes me love Nina Simone, sucking her songs into a frilly vortex of Jamie Stewart's depression profiteering! I haven't thought about Xiu Xiu since high school ("I love the valley, OH!"), but I honestly thought this guy would be in jail by now for declaring jihad on fun.
BARNEY STAHL
Back To Land
While I listened to this album, I made a mental list of the dumb things that it reminded me of. Fast-forward to an hour before deadline, and since truly being capital-F Funny is harder than fisting a pigeon, I decided to cut out the middleman and present the list to you, unedited: the fake band from a commercial for dick pills played through a cheap reverb amp; a much more boring version of the Brian Jonestown Massacre with less money for drugs and gear; a weak, shitty fart on weak, shitty acid.
CHJRISTIAN STJORM
Live at Rome Olympic Stadium
There is no band on earth that thinks they're more important and culturally significant than Muse, the poor man's version of the poor man's Radiohead (Coldplay). Yes, that's correct: I am claiming, in writing, that Coldplay is better than another band, even though the superior band is led by a man who's currently wearing a jacket with no fewer than seven front pockets and probably at least three epaulets and isn't Michael Jackson.
GRACE HALEY
THEIR/THEY'RE/THERE
Polyvinyl/Topshelf
I like the various Kinsella family bands as much as the next guy with horn-rimmed glasses, but it's rare that you find a band name so horrific that it reflexively puckers up your anus, siphons feces out of your lower intestine, and the shit geyser somehow makes its way up your throat and is ejected out of your nose and ears. In other words, I didn't listen to this, and neither should you.
JACOB VOORHEES
No Love Deep Web
Death Grips are like that psycho girl you dated in college who was the first person to ever tongue your butthole. It felt better than being on ketamine in space, but it came with the price of explaining to your parents why the nice girl you've been spending so much time with puked in their imitation Mycenaean vase. The Grips felt like life-changers when they dropped, but by now, we're kinda over it and are ready to date erudite women who are sweet and do yoga and shit.
JAWN F. KENNEDY
Trouble Will Find Me
When is Father's Day? Shit. I always forget. I don't want to tell my daughter what to get me, but that new compact disc by the National would be perfect to pop into the Highlander (limited-edition midnight slate, and had to drive all the way to Philly to get it with heated seats). I've got a handful of Match.com dates lined up all the way to Sin City, and if she buys me it, I'll be able to drive around these fine, unassuming 36–48-year-old women I meet each and every week and play this "CD my daughter just got me" to "see what it sounds like." Then, all casual, I'll drop in, "Did I mention that my daughter works at a hip youth-media company in Brooklyn with a show on HBO?" Then I'm going to get fucking laid.
Y. R. DADDY
RCA/Dine Alone
I am 17, driving in my mother's Jeep Grand Cherokee, windows down, as I play "The Middle," feeling a little weird that I am relating so much to a song addressed to a "little girl." I am 22, a recent college graduate, very broke, attending a "pop-punk-themed" night at a bar, singing along to "The Middle" while some guy fingerbangs a girl in the booth next to me. I am 26, writing snarky record reviews that it is highly possible no one actually reads, racing to send an email back to my editor to get dibs on reviewing this record and then immediately questioning many aspects of my life. It took some time, little girl, but I think the Jimmy Eat World ride has finally reached the station and it's time to get the fuck off.
Petra Goes to the Movies
There's this thing happening now, where kids have to find new sounds and music rebellious enough to shock a generation of parents with Black Flag and Wu-Tang records on their shelves. Going up to your room and thoughtfully blasting an album that sounds like your eighth grade drama teacher singing in the shower will just about do it.
DOB BOYLE
Mom + Pop
Remember that time Smith Westerns' stage collapsed and killed a guy? And then the Smith Westerns guy tweeted bitchily about how their stage collapsed and almost broke one of their amps or something like that? Anyways, fuck this dick-jerkingly boring band and their roadkill cocktail of shitty twee, shitty classic rock, and shitty shoegaze. I thought we agreed like four years ago to stop letting horseshit like this get made. What gives, America?
EMILY DICKENSON
Self-Titled
People used to get all mad at Avril Lavigne because she didn't know who the Sex Pistols were, but seriously, who cares? I can't think of many things that are more punk than not knowing who the Sex Pistols were, and frankly, "punk rock" isn't even a real thing. All I'm saying is that there are way better reasons to hate (or love, depending on your point of view) her, and one of them is the number she did on her ex-husband, that dude from Sum 41. Have you seen him recently? He looks like Richard Dreyfuss's bloated corpse weeks after he was shot trying to escape a death camp, which makes her the Goebbels of the third floor of the mall.
VINNIE VANNUCCI
THE BLOW
Kanine
When I was a teenager, I was this weird art lesbian in a small farming town who became very good at the internet during those early, lonely days. One of my crushes passed Poor Aim: Love Songs to me, and it did that life-changey thing that music used to do to us when we were teenagers. But this self-titled album is all growed-up and super annoying. No warmth or tiny, secret vibes. I guess that girl is in a long-term relationship now or something. It's chill, though. And remember, kids: all love dies eventually.
LINDSPEE LEONARDEE
Gravitas
I had a cool TA in college who helped reframe the way I thought about the world. He convinced me to express my disgust regarding the vague political issues I didn't quite understand, like fracking, to anyone who would listen. In hindsight, I realize that guy only seemed smart because I was such a fumbling dickweed. I think I speak for all hip-hop fans when I say that Talib Kweli is the rapper version of that TA.
ART POPE
WOODEN WAND
Blood Oaths of The New Blues
Imagine that barfy face is you, dropping chunks with cameras recording your every spew in 360 degrees like The Matrix. But instead of being a person barfing in a movie scene that somebody slowed down, the lethargic and time-lagged manner in which you barfed is just how it came out. So, like, you started out saying, "I think I'm gonna throw up," and then you started to puke and it took 40 minutes. You were just stuck there going, "Oh man, this is gross, this is gross. I'm barfing, oh man, oh jeez. When's it going to stop?" I imagine there'd be waves where for a little while you're like, "OK, I'm OK, I can do this, I'm OK," and then all of a sudden you get intensely re-grossed out until you realize that you've already been puking forever and it's impossible to get more grossed out because what are you going to do? Puke because you're puking while slo-mo puking? On the bright side, your neck would get really sore and after a while you'd just start playing Words with Friends. This album is like that except the barf is the vocals kicking in after you had accordions for dinner last night.
NU MONIE LOVE
OK, so do you actually like listening to Austra? Or do you just like the idea of listening to Austra? Yeah, that's what I thought.
SUNOVA WITCH
John Paul Pitts (allegedly) throws women to the ground, pins them down by climbing on top of them, and shoves his fingers in their mouth, but his real crime is continuing to squeeze generic bullshit out of 2009's buzzy surf-pop trend. Just kidding. His real crime is (allegedly) assaulting women.
CRISTOF BRAUN
Paracosm
Come along with Washed Out on his five-album plan to transform his body into all four members of Coldplay with limbs that only know Peter Gabriel covers! It's a brave venture, and I'm sure surgically quartering himself (Chris Martin is the left leg, obviously) will be painful and involve lots of rehabilitation. But at least we get to watch the operation happen in real time while ignoring this new record, which shifts from wobbly cassette hiss (which wasn't even mildly interesting in 2008, no matter what they tell you) to utterly neutered smeary pap that would befit a hedge-fund manager's Citi Bike ride to one of the three California Pizza Kitchens near his work to pick up a Barbeque Chicken Flatbread Chancho or whatever the fuck pieces of garbage are eating these days.
Complete list of Kanye West's collaborators on Yeezus: Daft Punk, Rick Rubin, Chief Keef, Bon Iver, Kid Cudi, Arca, Young Chop, King Louie, Travis Scott, Hudson Mohawke, Mike Dean, Papa John, Johnny DiGiornio, Speedy Domino, Francois Pizza Hut, Lexus Sbarro, Little Caesar. The joke here is pizza. Also, this album blows.
KANYE VEST
If I were a big-time record-label executive, I'd have a biiiiiig desk and a cool old creaky leather chair. And if Cults came in to pitch me their demo, I wouldn't get all starstruck. No way. I'd pour myself a tall, cool seltzer with ice while my secretary ushered them in. Then I'd lean toward them and take a sip from my drink. I'd sigh and say, "Listen up, gang! Your melodies are top dog! But the girl in the band stinks, and she's got a voice like an old orangutan. Drop her like a bag of bananas!" Then there'd be a moment of sad silence and after that, Cults would get all mad at me, talk about how they played ATP when Portishead curated, and how they got a Pitchfork Best New Music. I'd just laugh and shake my head. Then I'd take a big swig of seltzer and write, NASALLY CHICK VOCALS TOO ANNOYING in red magic marker across their demo before scooting them out of my office so I could snort drugs off my midcentury teak desk and call up a bunch of escorts who I wouldn't be able to get it up for.
DON RORITOR
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE
Yes, It's True
In the introduction to his Kickstarter-campaign video (I am SO sick of starting music reviews with this sentence), Tim DeLaughter explains, "Polyphonic Spree was born out of a personal vision of a sound in my head that I had to make real." Whatever that sound was, it compelled him to develop a cult so violently repugnant that it makes plunging knives into Sharon Tate's pregnant belly over and over and over seem like a victimless crime.
ROMAN SLOWMANKSI
Pure Heroine
Have you ever pissed on your belt? I do it at least two times a year and it doesn't exactly make me proud of myself. There are a lot of dumb things girls don't know about male sex parts, and I say that because my policy, whether you realize it or not, is to only write reviews for women. Another one is this thing that happens after you have sex. Sometimes dried jizz collects on your dickhole, and when you try to pee the next morning, your urine stream hits the cum barrier and splits in half, spraying wee-wee all over the wallpaper in your girlfriend's mom's bathroom. Then you realize you also pissed all over the fresh towels, and that's a major pain in the ass. Now that that's out of the way, time for some real talk: Fuck you for making this weird little shrew the must-hear breakout dark horse hit of the year.
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Alicia Witt cops 'Law & Order: CI' role
Publié dans USA Today le 16/07/07.
NEW YORK (AP) — Add Alicia Witt to the Law & Order lineup.
The 31-year-old actress, whose previous TV credits include Cybill, has joined the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, it was announced Monday.
Witt will play police detective Nola Falacci, who will be partnered with detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth). She'll be a temporary replacement for Julianne Nicholson, who is on maternity leave.
Witt costarred with Cybill Shepherd on the CBS sitcom Cybill for three years. The series ended in 1998. Her films include The Upside of Anger and Two Weeks Notice.
Original episodes of Criminal Intent this coming season will air first on cable's USA network and then later, with no date yet specified, on NBC. CI reruns have ranked among USA's most popular shows.
When it announced its fall schedule in the spring, NBC explained that it had room only for two of the three Law & Order series. It brought back the highest-rated, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the original Law & Order. The CI episodes that will run first on USA would be a midseason replacement, the network said.
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