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IJM Interns/Fellows: Top Ten Moments From 2014
IJM teams around the world are celebrating the end of a very big year. To recap, we asked some of our interns and fellows to share ten moments they'll never forget:
1. Sharing Harriet's incredible story.
EMILY, UGANDA: When I met Harriet and her children, they were entering a new season of hope. IJM had built her family a new home, her tormentors had been convicted, and she had been granted the right to remain on her land.
The photo of me with Harriet and her family was taken a few months after the judgment was given, at which time I was given the opportunity to sit down with Harriet and listen to her story.
The reason this day was so significant for me was not only because I was able to see firsthand the incredible results of IJM's work, but particularly because of the things that Harriet said that will forever be in the forefront of my mind when I think about how impactful the work of IJM is—not just in transforming systems, but in eternally impacting individual lives.
At the end of her story she was overflowing with gratitude for IJM and she said, "For the first time in my life I have joy. I feel that God is finally on my side. I feel that God is fighting for me through IJM."
2. Starring in a Ugandan music video.
EMILY, UGANDA: One late night I was at a deserted hotel restaurant with a few fellow interns and other friends. We were approached by a man who asked if we wanted to be extras in a music video. I readily agreed, assuming that no one would ever see this video and that it would make for a good story regardless of what happened.
What I thought would be a 10-minute shoot turned into at least a half hour of my friends and I dancing with a Ugandan pop singer and her back-up singer/dancers over and over to her latest single.
We found out after the fact that she was one of Uganda's most popular pop stars, and then were shocked (and pretty thrilled) when we found the completed music video uploaded on YouTube a few weeks later with over 2,000 hits after only a few days. Best part—we were featured in the entire thing. Who knew my back-up dancing career would take off in Uganda?
3. Hearing about our first rescue operation.
BONNIE, INDIA: I believed in the mission of IJM with all my heart long before I joined IJM Delhi as a Communications Fellow. I spoke passionately of it to my church, my friends, my family. After a little more than a month working in the office, sorting files, trying to figure out my new job, get housing issues settled, I didn't believe in it any less.
But the wonder of working for IJM—pinch me, is it true?—had turned into the routine of an office job. Then a meeting was called. And I sat holding my breath as my boss described the risks of the upcoming operation to those who were going, safety protocols, and who was in charge if she should be… incapacitated.
I remembered in that moment why I wanted to do whatever I could to support these brave friends. For the next three days those of us in the office gathered periodically to pray as our team travelled to a distant state and brought 117 people out of captivity.
When the team returned I heard the stories of the people rescued, and tears filled my eyes. That's why typing a report matters. That's why I'm here.
4. Riding on a toy train.
BONNIE, INDIA: The narrow-gauge train wound through the mountains to Shimla, rimming deep valleys filled with sunlight and cloud. Cool air through the open windows ruffled out hair and rhythms of laughter and meditative silence flowed to the beat of the train on the track.
The visioning retreat with my team was valuable, and we came back with a new vision statement and strategies for the year ahead.
But there was something in those hours on the train together as a team, immersed in beauty and motion, that was at once solemn and joyful, and knit us together in a way more valuable yet.
5. Attending a graduation ceremony in Bolivia.
MOISES & PAULA, BOLIVIA: We got to attend IJM Bolivia's graduation ceremony for children finishing their therapy with our team. It was a joyous occasion, celebrating with the survivors who had completed their aftercare programs and reflecting on what God has accomplished in each of their lives. Parents were given the opportunity to tell us how our work at IJM matters and truly is a blessing in their lives.
That same day a 25-year conviction was handed down in the case of Marcela,* who was present, celebrating her restoration. The news gave hope and faith to the other parents at the event to persevere with the long judicial process.
At the end of the event, Marcela's mother asked for a picture with all of us and our names so that she could continue praying for us and our work. This is a picture of our team with Marcela and her mother yelling "¡Justicia!"
6. Scaling a glacier named for beef jerky.
HSU-ANN, BOLIVIA: How many interns can say they scaled a glacier during their time with IJM?
At the Bolivia field office, a two-hour drive followed by a two-hour hike will get you to over 5250m above sea level atop a mountain called Charquini— named after beef jerky for its appearance.
The stunning views give glory to our God as much His justice work does. Here's just one of many awe-inducing pictures.
7. Celebrating justice with ice cream sundaes.
KRYSTLE, PHILIPPINES: November was a month of successes for IJM Cebu: our team had two successful rescue operations (9 women and girls rescued!) and eight convictions in cases of trafficking.
One of these convictions involved the owner of the first establishment IJM Cebu helped shut down back in 2009. To celebrate, our Field Office Director (pictured here) set up a sundae bar in our conference room and served us ice cream.
8. Eating a partially developed duck egg.
KRYSTLE, PHILIPPINES: A Filipino delicacy is 'balut'—fertilized (partially developed) duck egg. One of our coworkers surprised us (all of the news staff and interns) by bringing in a batch of balut.
With much fanfare from the team, we ate/choked down the eggs (feathers, beaks and all). It was terrible but hilarious, and we became real Filipinos that day.
9. Connecting with college students in Uganda.
HANNAH, UGANDA: I became involved with IJM my freshmen year at Auburn University, so I was thrilled to work with students from the IJM campus chapter at Uganda Christian University during my internship. The chapter members regularly assist IJM Kampala by preaching sermons on biblical justice and offering legal aid in churches.
This picture was taken earlier this year when they hosted a "Justice Week" on their campus, which offered a variety of events to support IJM Kampala's work.
Working with these students caused me to reminisce about my days with the Auburn IJM chapter and fueled my desire to see our generation lead the fight for justice around the world.
10. Taking a trip of a lifetime.
HANNAH, UGANDA: A few days off work for Ugandan national holidays turned into the experience of a lifetime.
My roommates and I spontaneously took a trip to South Africa, meeting a former IJM HQ intern to explore Cape Town's exquisite topography. This adventure took place early in our internships, so my roommates and I bonded and made memories that we frequently referenced throughout the rest of our time together in the field.
This picture captures everything I love about our Cape Town trip: vast, beautiful scenery, epic memories, and the two girls with whom I'd share my life in Uganda.
Change your world: Learn about IJM's internships and fellowships around the world.
Robert's Story
Robert* was about eight years old when a man named Kaku* came to his family's home and promised to enroll him in school. Hoping for a better future,...
Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC)
Aaron's story
Aaron* was just two years old when he was rescued from an unthinkable crime in the Philippines. He and other children had been sexually abused by one...
Madhesh's Story
His family was enslaved at a rock quarry in India for 24 years, and Madhesh started working beside them at only 5 years old. He remembers long days...
Kashi's Story
Kashi* was only 5 years old when she was taken from her family and sold into forced labor for a wealthy family in Kolkata, India. Confused and alone,...


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WINNER 2021 » Poster Session » Access to Justice for the Underserved Communities During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Sulistyowati Irianto, Dyah Wirastri, and Yvonne Kezia D. Nafi
Access to healthcare services is strongly correlated to the ability of policy makers to identify who the most vulnerable groups in society are. Unfortunately, while the government produces an abundance of information related to the Covid-19 outbreak in Indonesia, there are indications that it insufficiently takes the social-humanities sciences' perspective into account. Until now, the government's approach relies too much on the economic recovery and administrative side of health care, as the eligibility of persons to Covid-19 programs is made dependent on their legal identity and administrative residence. The problem is that the most vulnerable, the undocumented ones, often do not all have identity cards, while others live in a different city, district, or province than the one registered on their ID. These underserved and vulnerable groups include the poorest city dwellers, the residence of river banks, migrant workers with no fixed employment, undocumented persons, or those without registered domicile at the place they live in. These groups lack voice and are therefore almost non-existent in policies – including policies of health care service and social-economic safety net. This study aims to analyse the accessibility of various government programs for handling the pandemic, especially the vaccination program, health care and safety net program, for the most vulnerable groups, including women-headed households. Through data collection, we will obtain an overview which will enable us to conduct an analysis of community access and responses to government Covid-19 programs, the perceived impacts and effectiveness of these programs to reach vulnerable groups, as well as collective and private initiatives that can be an inspiration for multidisciplinary policy development, from legal, social and cultural perspectives. The results of this study will produce academic texts and policy briefs containing proposals and recommendations for the government about how to increasing accessibility of Covid-19 programs for vulnerable groups.
Prof. Sulistyowati Irianto

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
package httputil

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"testing"

	"github.com/github/git-lfs/errutil"
)

func TestSuccessStatus(t *testing.T) {
	for _, status := range []int{200, 201, 202} {
		res := &http.Response{StatusCode: status}
		if err := handleResponse(res, nil); err != nil {
			t.Errorf("Unexpected error for HTTP %d: %s", status, err.Error())
		}
	}
}

func TestErrorStatusWithCustomMessage(t *testing.T) {
	u, err := url.Parse("https://lfs-server.com/objects/oid")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}

	statuses := map[int]string{
		400: "not panic",
		401: "not panic",
		403: "not panic",
		404: "not panic",
		405: "not panic",
		406: "not panic",
		429: "not panic",
		500: "panic",
		501: "not panic",
		503: "panic",
		504: "panic",
		509: "not panic",
	}

	for status, panicMsg := range statuses {
		cliErr := &ClientError{
			Message: fmt.Sprintf("custom error for %d", status),
		}

		by, err := json.Marshal(cliErr)
		if err != nil {
			t.Errorf("Error building json for status %d: %s", status, err)
			continue
		}

		res := &http.Response{
			StatusCode: status,
			Header:     make(http.Header),
			Body:       ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(by)),
			Request:    &http.Request{URL: u},
		}
		res.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/vnd.git-lfs+json; charset=utf-8")

		err = handleResponse(res, nil)
		if err == nil {
			t.Errorf("No error from HTTP %d", status)
			continue
		}

		expected := fmt.Sprintf("custom error for %d", status)
		if actual := err.Error(); actual != expected {
			t.Errorf("Expected for HTTP %d:\n%s\nACTUAL:\n%s", status, expected, actual)
			continue
		}

		if errutil.IsFatalError(err) == (panicMsg != "panic") {
			t.Errorf("Error for HTTP %d should %s", status, panicMsg)
			continue
		}
	}
}

func TestErrorStatusWithDefaultMessage(t *testing.T) {
	rawurl := "https://lfs-server.com/objects/oid"
	u, err := url.Parse(rawurl)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}

	statuses := map[int][]string{
		400: {defaultErrors[400], "not panic"},
		401: {defaultErrors[401], "not panic"},
		403: {defaultErrors[401], "not panic"},
		404: {defaultErrors[404], "not panic"},
		405: {defaultErrors[400] + " from HTTP 405", "not panic"},
		406: {defaultErrors[400] + " from HTTP 406", "not panic"},
		429: {defaultErrors[400] + " from HTTP 429", "not panic"},
		500: {defaultErrors[500], "panic"},
		501: {defaultErrors[500] + " from HTTP 501", "not panic"},
		503: {defaultErrors[500] + " from HTTP 503", "panic"},
		504: {defaultErrors[500] + " from HTTP 504", "panic"},
		509: {defaultErrors[500] + " from HTTP 509", "not panic"},
	}

	for status, results := range statuses {
		cliErr := &ClientError{
			Message: fmt.Sprintf("custom error for %d", status),
		}

		by, err := json.Marshal(cliErr)
		if err != nil {
			t.Errorf("Error building json for status %d: %s", status, err)
			continue
		}

		res := &http.Response{
			StatusCode: status,
			Header:     make(http.Header),
			Body:       ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(by)),
			Request:    &http.Request{URL: u},
		}

		// purposely wrong content type so it falls back to default
		res.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/vnd.git-lfs+json2")

		err = handleResponse(res, nil)
		if err == nil {
			t.Errorf("No error from HTTP %d", status)
			continue
		}

		expected := fmt.Sprintf(results[0], rawurl)

		if actual := err.Error(); actual != expected {
			t.Errorf("Expected for HTTP %d:\n%s\nACTUAL:\n%s", status, expected, actual)
			continue
		}

		if errutil.IsFatalError(err) == (results[1] != "panic") {
			t.Errorf("Error for HTTP %d should %s", status, results[1])
			continue
		}
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Another company attracts VC funding for AI technologies that help enterprises mount effective defenses against today's complex cybersecurity threats.
Seattle-based Versive, a threat detection technology vendor, announced this week that it had raised $12.7 million in a round of funding that attracted investments from Goldman Sachs, Formation 8, Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital. To date, the company has hauled in $54.7 million.
The firm's product, Versive Security Engine, employs artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to hone in on critical threats to networks and the data contained within them. CEO Joseph Polverari described the product as "an intelligent, automated threat-hunting solution, built on Versive's award-winning, enterprise-scale artificial intelligence platform," in a May 11 blog post.
"The Versive Security Engine was developed specifically to help cybersecurity practitioners effectively harness the power of AI to detect, identify, and mitigate advanced adversaries in ways not previously possible," continued Polverari.
Earlier this month, the company announced a strategic partnership with big data and machine learning specialist Cloudera.
The companies plan to combine Versive's AI technology and Cloudera's analytics and machine learning capabilities to create an automated adversary detection solution, the companies said on Aug. 8. "Using the Cloudera platform, Apache Spot's open-data models, and the Versive Security Engine, enterprises can detect attackers that would be unseen with other approaches," said Sam Heywood, director of Cloudera Cybersecurity Strategy, in a statement.
AI and cybersecurity is becoming an irresistible combination for the venture capital community.
Last month, Bricata raised $8 million in a Series A round of financing. The startup uses AI and machine learning technologies in its intrusion detection and prevention solution and its content-aware alerting features that enable IT security teams to quickly gauge the threats it encounters, thereby allowing them to focus their efforts more effectively.
Also in July, Darktrace revealed it had raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Based in the U.K. with offices in San Francisco, the company's Enterprise Immune System uses machine learning algorithms to uncover suspicious behaviors and other signs of network attacks in real-time.
In June, while taking the wraps off its AI-enabled risk-detection solution, San Jose, Calif.-based Balbix announced it had attracted $8.6 million in investments from venture capital firm Mayfield. The firm is headed by CEO Gaurav Banga, former chief executive of virtualization security specialist Bromium. The Balbix platform provides predictive risk analytics, showing results as a heatmap that points IT security teams to areas that may need shoring up.


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figure

params.Fs=50;
params.pad=2;

[mspectrumCXGCaMP6(:,1),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSGCaMP6(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXGCaMP6(:,2),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSGCaMP6_2(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXGCaMP6(:,3),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSGCaMP6_3(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXGCaMP6(:,4),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSGCaMP6_4(:,8)),params);
params.Fs=200;
SpectrumGCaMP6=mean(mspectrumCXGCaMP6,2);
plot_vector(SpectrumGCaMP6,f,'l')
hold on
[mspectrumCXArcLight(:,1),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSArclight_2(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXArcLight(:,2),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSArclight_3(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXArcLight(:,3),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSArclight_4(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXArcLight(:,4),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSArclight_5(:,8)),params);
[mspectrumCXArcLight(:,5),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TSArclight_6(:,8)),params);
SpectrumArclight=mean(mspectrumCXArcLight,2);

figure
plot_vector(SpectrumArclight,f,'l')

params.Fs=200;
[mspectrumCXcontrol(:,1),f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TScontrol(:,8)),params);
figure
plot_vector(mspectrumCXcontrol,f,'l')
params.Fs=100;
[mspectrumCXcontrol2,f]=mtspectrumc(diff(TScontrol_2(500:end,8)),params);
figure
plot_vector(mspectrumCXcontrol2,f,'l')


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Fabrication of monolithic microstructures from polyaniline nanofibers
B. Shedd, C. O. Baker, M. J. Heller, R. B. Kaner, H. T. Hahn
Knight Cancer Institute
Due to the expanding research efforts in the field of nanomanufacturing, more techniques are being developed for the manipulation and directed deposition of nanomaterials into functional device platforms. Electrophoretic deposition has been a reliable method for ordering and aligning 0-D (spherical) and 1-D (fibers and wires) nanomaterials, but to date this technique has not been used as a method of bottom-up fabrication for larger coherent microstructures. The end products are either single element devices or non-coherent films and patterns. The work reported herein describes the fabrication of monolithic microstructures from nanofibers of the conducting polymer, polyaniline. Electrophoretic deposition techniques are used to pattern the nanofibers and through a subsequent flash-welding process the nanofiber mat can be bound together into a coherent monolithic porous structure retaining much of the morphology of non-coherent fiber networks. Applications for these structures are also discussed.
Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2009.03.012
Electrophoretic deposition
Nanofiber
Thin film deposition
10.1016/j.mseb.2009.03.012
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Shedd, B., Baker, C. O., Heller, M. J., Kaner, R. B., & Hahn, H. T. (2009). Fabrication of monolithic microstructures from polyaniline nanofibers. Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology, 162(2), 111-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2009.03.012
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In: Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology, Vol. 162, No. 2, 25.05.2009, p. 111-115.
Shedd, B, Baker, CO, Heller, MJ, Kaner, RB & Hahn, HT 2009, 'Fabrication of monolithic microstructures from polyaniline nanofibers', Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology, vol. 162, no. 2, pp. 111-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2009.03.012
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text:
Board Changes at IC Federal CU
FITCHBURG, Mass. -- IC Federal Credit Union has elected a new board chairman and vice chairman.
By Myriam DiGiovanni | August 05, 2008 at 08:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
FITCHBURG, Mass. — IC Federal Credit Union has elected a new board chairman and vice chairman.


time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
time stays not the fool's leisure.
time is life and when the idle man kills time, he kills himself.
time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost.
time cannot be won again.
time is , time was , and time is past.
time lost can not be recalled.
time flies like an arrow , and time lost never returns.
time tries friends as fire tries gold.
time brings the truth to light.
time and chance reveal all secrets.
time consecrates: what is gray with age becomes religion.


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text:
Flamingo research shows birds use one-legged stance to relax
By By Renay San Miguel May 24, 2017
Holly Korschun
hkorsch@emory.edu
When it comes to Big Questions About Birds, here's one that rivals those about chickens crossing roads and that whole chicken-and-egg quandary: Why do flamingos stand on one leg?
"Anytime I go to the zoo, I always hear a kid ask why or how they do that," says Young-Hui Chang, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech who studies locomotion in animals from both a neurological and a biomechanical lens. "It's a natural question."
Because science has yet to provide a definitive answer, Chang and fellow researcher Lena Ting investigated how flamingos are able to stand and sleep on one leg so easily for so long. Ting is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech who studies balance control in humans and mammals.
Their findings, published this week in Biology Letters, suggest a reason that differs from most previous suggestions: it's about reducing muscular effort.
Potential applications stretch from better robotics, orthopedic braces, and artificial limbs, to more focused treatments for neurological or balance problems.
But Chang argues that simply providing clarity to long-standing questions about long-standing flamingos has great value as well.
"There's something to be said for just scientific curiosity and learning how nature works," he says. Flamingos aren't the only birds that stand on one leg, he adds, but "the extreme example is the flamingo. It's precisely from these extreme examples in nature where you can really gain a lot of insight."
A firmer foundation for flamingos
Surprisingly, Chang says, given how long the question about flamingos has been around, "there hasn't been a whole lot of research done." Others have suggested that the birds engage in this behavior to avoid muscle fatigue or to conserve body heat.
Chang and Ting studied live birds at the Zoo Atlanta flock, one of the largest breeding flocks of Chilean flamingos in the U.S. They also used two cadaver birds from the Birmingham Zoo and flamingo skeletons from the University of California at Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology.
Zoo Atlanta and Georgia Tech Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) approved all procedures using live animals. No animal was killed or harmed for the purposes of the study.
Their research shows that a "passively engaged gravitational stay apparatus" helps the birds support their weight and maintain balance while on one reed-thin leg. The bird's specialized anatomy, clever posture, and gravity combine to give the flamingo this ability, which does not involve bones locking into position. Chang says it's more like a hammock or sling than a lock, but it does require the unique anatomy of flamingos.
"The biomechanics are such that when they stand on one leg, they become very stable and are able to maintain that posture without activating muscle," Ting says. "If they deviate from that posture to two legs, that no longer holds. It's very posture-specific, a one-legged posture that can support their body weight."
The "passively engaged" part of the flamingo's gravitational stay apparatus is exactly as it sounds: It requires minuscule, if any, active muscular or nerve control, Chang adds.
Those who marvel at a large, fluffy pink lump of flamingo body held up by one slender leg may be surprised to learn that the "joint" in the middle of that leg is actually an ankle, not a knee. "Most people don't realize that knee and hip joints are not actually in view in most birds," Chang says. "They're near the body, kind of behind the wing. The flamingo thigh is almost perfectly horizontal."
All that contributes to biomechanics that might actually require greater muscular effort if not for the flamingo's ability to "stay" in a pose, which flamingos can get out of easily in flight-or-fight situations.
Giving robots - and people – stronger legs to stand on
A one-legged standing test, actually termed a "flamingo test," is used to diagnose human balance disorders with the help of pressure plates, instruments that measure balance, force, and other data. Humans are usually more than willing to stand on pressure plates. But flamingos? They tend to squawk at things foreign in their environment.
"The zoo didn't want us to interact with the adult flamingos because they don't handle change in their environment very well," Ting says. But zoo workers could handle juvenile flamingos and placed them near the plates after they were fed, hoping that postprandial sleepiness would yield measurable data.
The cadaver birds actually provided a eureka moment for Chang. After putting one into the one-legged pose, "I don't know what made me do it, but I just kind of grabbed the leg and picked it up," he says. The bird maintained its posture. "Here we have a non-living animal able to stand on one leg. Obviously, if it's not alive, then the muscles are not activated."
Can flamingo biomechanics help treat human movement and balance disorders?
"If we know how much is passive mechanics and how much the nervous system has to control, it puts researchers in a better position to treat people," Chang says. Flamingo biomechanics can mean better wearable artificial limbs and longer battery life for stability supports.
Robots could also benefit. Getting robots to balance can be difficult; sensing the environment and making adjustments is how they currently do it. "But if you design the biomechanics of a robot in the right way, not so much sensing but a sort of feedback control," Ting says, "then they would have this passive ability, and they would be more robust in uncertain environments."
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School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech
Young-Hui Chang
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Anyone who has been around me long enough (like my sisters and Hubby) know that one of my favorite items to wear is a crisp white button up shirt. When I'm too lazy to be creative with my wardrobe or don't have a lot of time to plan my outfit, the easiest thing for me to grab and put on are my white button up tops. I have about several different types of white button up shirts in my closet and Hubby always graciously rises to the occasion to iron my tops (What else are husbands for?? hehehe).
I usually pair my white button up tops with skinny jeans and heels or black pants and loafers. You can pretty much wear anything with a white button up top and do you know what the best part about that is? IT'S SO CHEAP! I bought a white button up from Cotton On for $3 (Yes, It was on clearance.. don't judge me... lol).
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TNPC presents… The 100 GREATEST COMPILATIONS OF ALL-TIME
137. IF'N – fIREHOSE (1987)
136. BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN – OUT OF SEASON (2002)
TNPC presents… SEVEN & SEVEN IS: THE GREATEST 100 TRACKS OF OVER 7 MINUTES DURATION
135. PLUSH – MORE YOU BECOMES YOU (1998)
TNPC presents The 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE 21st CENTURY
TNPC presents…THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS MADE BETWEEN 1986-99
TNPC presents… THE GREATEST ALBUMS MADE BETWEEN 1974-85
TNPC presents… The 100 GREATEST ALBUMS made before 1974
134. SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN (1967)
133. SETTING SONS – THE JAM (1979)
132. THE VERY SPECIAL WORLD OF LEE HAZLEWOOD (1966)
131. JOE GIBBS & THE PROFESSIONALS – AFRICAN DUB ALL-MIGHTY CHAPTER 3 (1978)
130. THE ROLLING STONES – BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (1967)
129. JOHN & BEVERLEY MARTYN – STORMBRINGER! (1970)
128. MILTON NASCIMENTO / LO BORGES – CLUBE DA ESQUINA (1972)
127. POSITION NORMAL- STOP YOUR NONSENSE (1999)
126. COLOSSAL YOUTH – YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS (1980)
125. THE LILAC TIME (1987)
124. MY BLOODY VALENTINE- ISN'T ANYTHING (1988)
123. ISAAC HAYES – BLACK MOSES (1971)
122. AR KANE – SIXTY NINE (1988)
121. CALENTURE – THE TRIFFIDS (1987)
120. GENE CLARK – WHITE LIGHT (1971)
119. NICO – THE MARBLE INDEX (1969)
118. CRAIG DAVIES – LIKE NARCISSUS (1988) Guest Contributor: Edgar Breau (Simply Saucer)
117. PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND – EAST-WEST (1966) Guest Contributor: Rick Brown (The Misunderstood)
116. THE MISUNDERSTOOD- BEFORE THE DREAM FADED (1982*)
115. BABY'S GOT A GUN – ONLY ONES (1980)
114. NEIL YOUNG (1969)
113. ORANGE JUICE – TEXAS FEVER (1984)
112. BANDSTAND – FAMILY (1972)
111. ROY ORBISON – ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS (1972*)
110. HARTLEY C. WHITE – RUN THE GAUNTLET (1991) Guest Contributor: Chris Cohen
109. BRIAN ENO & HAROLD BUDD – AMBIENT 2: THE PLATEAUX OF MIRROR (1980)
108. FOXBASE ALPHA – SAINT ETIENNE (1991)
107. HÜSKER DÜ – CANDY APPLE GREY (1986)
106. VERGOGNA SCHIFOSI – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK by ENNIO MORRICONE (1969)
105. COLD SUN – DARK SHADOWS (1970*)
104. CALIFORNIA – AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB (1988)
103. AL GREEN – AL GREEN… IS LOVE (1975)
102. THE BLUE ORCHIDS – THE GREATEST HIT (MONEY MOUNTAIN) (1982)
101. CHRIS COHEN – OVERGROWN PATH (2012) Guest Contributor: Gerry Love (Teenage Fanclub)
100. Various – THE SOUNDTRACK TO OUR LIVES…
99. KAREN DALTON – IT'S SO HARD TO TELL WHO'S GOING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST (1969)
98. GYRATE – PYLON (1980)
97. FAUST – THE FAUST TAPES (1973) (Guest Contributor: Rolo McGinty)
96. TEENAGE FANCLUB – A CATHOLIC EDUCATION (1990) / (A) SONGS FROM NORTHERN BRITAIN (1997)
95. ATLAS SOUND – LOGOS (2009)
94. GLORIA – SHADOWS OF KNIGHT (1966)
93. TEN NORTHERN SOUL GEMS (Guest Contributor: Stuart Cosgrove)
92. GOLDIE – TIMELESS (1995)
91. DISCO INFERNO – THE 5 EPs (2011*)
90. MARY MARGARET O'HARA – MISS AMERICA (1988)
89. SIMPLY SAUCER – CYBORGS REVISITED (1989*)
88. NEU! – NEU! '75 (1975)
Special Feature: TNPC interviews MICHAEL ROTHER
87. THE AFFECTIONATE PUNCH – ASSOCIATES (1980)
Special Feature: 'THE FIXER' – TNPC interviews DAVID THOMAS (PERE UBU) for Shindig! Magazine
86. BEACH HOUSE – DEVOTION (2008)
85. NEXT – THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND (1973) Guest Contributor: Robert King (Scars)
84. PUBLIC IMAGE – PUBLIC IMAGE (single, 1978) Guest Contributor: Tim Sommer (Hugo Largo / NY Observer)
83. SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – THE SCREAM (1978) – Guest Contributor: Johny Brown (Band of Holy Joy)/(A) KALEIDOSCOPE (1980)
82. DAVID BOWIE – BLACKSTAR (2016) – Guest Contributor: Paul Haig
81. FRANK SINATRA – WATERTOWN (1970) – Guest Contributor: Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas)
80. JAMMY SMEARS – IVOR CUTLER (1976)
79. SUN RA & HIS INTERGALACTIC INFINITY ARKESTRA – DISCIPLINE 27-II (1973)
78. SCARS – AUTHOR! AUTHOR! (1981) – Guest Contributor: Rolo McGinty (The Woodentops)
77. THE BEES – EVERY STEP'S A YES (2010)
76. THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – PRAYERS ON FIRE (1981)
75. THE HIGH LLAMAS – GIDEON GAYE (1994) / (A) HAWAII (1996)
74. THE UPSETTERS – RETURN OF THE SUPER APE (1978)
73. MAGAZINE – REAL LIFE (1978) / (A) THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP (1980)
72. MANUEL GÖTTSCHING – E2-E4 (1984)
71. RANDY NEWMAN – RANDY NEWMAN (1968)
70. ANNETTE PEACOCK – I'M THE ONE (1972)
69. JULEE CRUISE – FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT (1989)
68. THE GUN CLUB – MIAMI (1982)
67. SPRING HILL FAIR – GO-BETWEENS (1984)
66. ROXY MUSIC- FOR YOUR PLEASURE (1973) Guest Contributor – Paul Haig (Josef K)
65. LAURA NYRO – NEW YORK TENDABERRY (1969)
64. T. REX – RIDE A WHITE SWAN (1972) Guest Contributor – Johny Brown (Band of Holy Joy)
63. BO DIDDLEY – BO DIDDLEY (1958) Guest Contributor Tim Sommer (Hugo Largo / NY Observer)
62. HOWLING BELLS – HOWLING BELLS (2006)
61. JUDY HENSKE & JERRY YESTER – FAREWELL ALDEBARAN (1969)
60. CLUSTER – ZUCKERZEIT (1974)
59. EMPIRES AND DANCE – SIMPLE MINDS (1980)
58. MICHAEL JON FINK – I HEAR IT IN THE RAIN (2001) – Guest Contributor: Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele)
57. SUICIDE – A WAY OF LIFE (1988)
56. FELA KUTI – ZOMBIE (1977)
55. DO THE COLLAPSE – GUIDED BY VOICES (1999)
54. THE BEACH BOYS – SUNFLOWER (1970)
53. TELSTAR PONIES – IN THE SPACE OF A FEW MINUTES
52. A BELL IS A CUP – UNTIL IT IS STRUCK – WIRE (1988)
51. SPACEMEN 3 – RECURRING (1991)
50. LIVE – BURNING SPEAR (1977)
49. CAT POWER – YOU ARE FREE (2003)
48. CARL CRAIG – APPLIED RHYTHMIC TECHNOLOGY 3 EP (1993) / (A) UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE – WORLD 2 WORLD EP (1992)
47. MILES DAVIS – ON THE CORNER (1972)
46. BARAFUNDLE – GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI (1997)
45. VAN MORRISON – VEEDON FLEECE (1974)
44. SANDINISTA! – THE CLASH (1980)
43. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND – LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY (1970)
42. MONSTER MOVIE – CAN (1969)
41. PERE UBU – TERMINAL TOWER (comp. 1985)
40. BLACK VINYL SHOES – SHOES (1977)
39. ULTRA VIVID SCENE – ULTRA VIVID SCENE (1988)
38. THE IMPRESSIONS – THIS IS MY COUNTRY (1968) / (A) CURTIS MAYFIELD – CURTIS (1970)
37. AGAINST NATURE – FATIMA MANSIONS (1989)
36. JOSEF K – SORRY FOR LAUGHING (1981*)
35. SWAGGER – BLUE AEROPLANES (1990)
34. MERCURY REV – YERSELF IS STEAM (1991)
33. HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS – BAVARIAN FRUIT BREAD (2001)
32. FUNKADELIC – MAGGOT BRAIN (1971)
31. THE RAINCOATS – ODYSHAPE (1981)
30. PROPAGANDA – SPARKS (1974)
29. TIM BUCKLEY – STARSAILOR (1970)
28. CROSSING THE RED SEA WITH THE ADVERTS – THE ADVERTS (1978)
27. GRIZZLY BEAR – YELLOW HOUSE (2006) / (A) VECKATIMEST (2009)
26. REPRODUCTION – THE HUMAN LEAGUE (1979)
25. BOARDS OF CANADA – IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OUT IN THE COUNTRY [EP] (2000)
24. PEARLS BEFORE SWINE – BALAKLAVA (1968)
23. CRAZY RHYTHMS – THE FEELIES (1980)
22. THE FALL – DRAGNET (1979) / (A) THE FALL – SLATES (1981)
21. ECHO & AND THE BUNNYMEN – HEAVEN UP HERE (1981)
20. MATT JOHNSON – BURNING BLUE SOUL (1981)
19. THE CONGOS – HEART OF THE CONGOS (1977)
18. SONIC YOUTH – SISTER (1987)
17. PHAROAH SANDERS – KARMA (1969)
16. COCKNEY REBEL – PSYCHOMODO (1974)
15. COCTEAU TWINS – TREASURE (1984) / (A) COCTEAU TWINS – BLUE BELL KNOLL (1988)
14. DADAWAH – PEACE & LOVE (1974)
13. THE WOODENTOPS – LIVE HYPNOBEAT LIVE (1987)
12. THE DISTRACTIONS – NOBODY'S PERFECT (1980)
11. THE CHILLS – SUBMARINE BELLS (1990)
10. THE BAND OF HOLY JOY – MORE TALES FROM THE CITY (1987)
9. THE CLIENTELE – SUBURBAN LIGHT (2000)
8. IT'S TIME FOR JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS (1986)
7. ROBERT WYATT – ROCK BOTTOM (1974)
6. GRANT HART – INTOLERANCE (1989)
5. BRIDGET ST. JOHN – ASK ME NO QUESTIONS (1970)
4. KRAFTWERK – AUTOBAHN (1974)
3. THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND – FORTY FOUR (1984)
2. GIRLS AT OUR BEST – PLEASURE (1981)
1. HUGO LARGO – METTLE (1989)
Spiral Scratch
Greatest Records, Post-Punk, Punk Rock
REAL LIFE – MAGAZINE (1978)
Like history as a whole, the chronology of music is not a neat, compact narrative. However much some might try to corral it all into tidy, reductive processions of cause and effect, it's far too multi-layered, unscripted, complex and, in truth, messy, to be so easily, glibly packaged into received wisdom. Did Buddy Holly's death and Elvis' draft really lead directly to the neutering and ocean-level dilution of rock 'n' roll? Was the Beatles' vertiginous take-off in America truly the result of a bereft and bewildered nation looking to assuage its grief over its slain leader? And can anyone really definitively call New Rose the first British punk single, as if genre can be as precisely prescribed as geography?
Near the head of this parade of assertions, which marches along the main thoroughfares, bypassing the blind alleys, cul-de-sacs and branch roads which lead to equally captivating destinations, is the notion that the Pistols' gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in June, 1976 directly unleashed the ferment that would pour forth from the city for the best part of two decades. Without question, it was a catalyst, but in the literal, chemical definition of accelerating something happening independently. The proof is that the event – an alternative to an evening's viewing which included Des O'Connor Entertains and Winner Takes All with Jimmy Tarbuck – was organised by two Mancunian minds which had been fizzing with original but hard to fulfil ideas for some time – Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley of the slowly but resolutely burgeoning Buzzcocks.
Shelley had already been exploring electronics for a number of years – his composition Sky Yen, recorded in 1974, resembled a loop of the ZX Spectrum programme he would later include on his solo album XL1 – while ultra-literate humanities student and Dylan fan Devoto (ne Trafford, a name too Mancunially loaded to keep in that city for long) would soon be honing one of the sharpest and most original lyrical styles in music.
After Buzzcocks recorded the groundbreaking and still astounding Spiral Scratch right at the end of '76, Devoto was out before British punk had even got its Docs on. He already found it had become "aesthetically ugly;" while it wouldn't be truly straitjacketed until the lamentable arrival of oi!, he was right to be plotting a way out before expectations became too rigid and the horizons of some barely spanned from thumb to forefinger.
His response was Magazine, who announced themselves with Shot By Both Sides, not so much a single as a manifesto, broiling with as much energy as any of its peers but voicing cold war anxiety in a manner which reminded you that these weren't just pat, flip cliches – if somebody flips a switch, that's it, for all of us. This, you feel, is what Devoto is getting at when he declaims: "I was shocked to find what was allowed;" no one had ever sounded as sardonic as this – not Dylan, not Reed, not even the Rotten rapidly turning back into Lydon – and you can hear his mouth crumple into a virulent grin at the end of every line. But the shock is not the synthetic outrage of a middle-market tabloid reader. It's that of someone with a conscience, a moral centre, unable to take in what they see, when "They all sound the same when they scream," like the creatures at the end of Animal Farm looking from pig to man and man to pig, by now indistiguishable.
Magazine and Buzzcocks actually took closer paths than is often acknowledged – behind the beguiling melodies and ambiguous love songs, the latter were continually messing with texture, rhythm, noise, the Can influence always just a micron below the surface, and Shot By Both Sides was the gene Devoto left behind. With Shelley's lyrics, it became Lipstick for Buzzcocks, ushering in a small but significant post-punk strand of joint custody songs (also Read It In Books by the Bunnymen/Teardrop Explodes, Adventures Close To Home by the Raincoats/Slits, Sister Midnight by Iggy/Red Money by Bowie and Our Lips Are Sealed by the Go-Gos/Fun Boy Three.
The keyboards are barely audible on Shot By Both Sides but, beneath the fingers of Dave Formula, they would be what most immediately set Magazine apart from most of their contemporaries – apart from Ultravox!, hardly any others dared to commit such a technoflash transgression. Compared with the concert-piano level synths by then being deployed by Bowie and Kraftwerk, Formula's are harpsichords and spinets but like those instruments, they radiate extraordinary beauty, like the Heath Robinson glories of Eno's non-musician adventures in Roxy Music or the HG Wells future visions of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Simple Minds' Jim Kerr – a Magazine fan from the start who would later have the effrontery to purloin the title of Real Life for his own band's worst album – once declared that, Devoto excepted, they were "wallies…dullheads, completely unaware of the greatness they were part of." Well, he met them, I didn't, but it seems an extraordinarily harsh judgement on Formula, a former R & B musician whose youthful imagination had been fired by Yuri Gagarin's trade union-brokered 1961 visit to Manchester; on bassist Barry Adamson, who would go on to be the heartbeat of darkness on the Bad Seeds' most unforgiving adventures and to legitimise almost single-handedly the whole dubious enterprise of imaginary film soundtracks (his reward being to get to soundtrack actual films by Carl Colpaert and David Lynch), and on the late John McGeoch, born in Greenock – not 20 miles from where I'm writing – who approached the guitar in the way a brutalist architect might approach bricks, not setting out to make something beautiful and making few concessions to accepted notions of beauty but frequently achieving it anyway.
Take Definitive Gaze, one of the most assured and self-possessed openers in history. Adamson pursues the melody, a vigorous funk figure trapped in proto-video game Pong, while drummer Martin Jackson displays as much flair for tension and release as any chops-wielding session pro, pocketing the odd rimshot when nobody's looking, and Formula combines freeform discordant piano flourishes with suitably spooky synth (I once put this song on a tape for an obsessive Cure fan who, disappointingly, found no trace of the influence on his heroes, instead hearing only the theme from Scooby Doo). McGeoch plays only what he needs to play – not a note more or less – and Devoto describes an all-seeing eye which appears to be more curse than gift ("Clarity has reared its ugly head again…Now I'm lost in shock/ Your face fits perfectly").
He takes a similarly skewed view of affairs of the heart on Burst and Parade, the songs which once closed each side. On the former, McGeogh takes Hendrix's The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp as a tuning fork but heads off in a very different direction, creating a claustrophobic and clenched setting for one of Devoto's finest anti-love songs ("Once you had this promise/On the tip of your tongue/Needless to say/It went on too long). Despite the title (as in "burst into flames") it's compressed, a big crunch waiting to happen as Devoto repeats "You will forget yourself in my happiness," like the incantation of a contract hypnotist – all as taut and coiled as Television's Torn Curtain.
Parade is mellower, more refined, with elegant piano by Formula, frissons of wah-wah by McGeoch and a striding rhythm box underpinning Jackson's tympani-like thunderclaps. But it's still Howard Devoto out front and he sounds no more comfortable than before, still refusing to bow to sentimentality ("Sometimes I forget that we're supposed to be in love/Sometimes I forget my position) offering yet more claustrophobia, this time shackled to paranoia ("It's so hot in here/What are they trying to hatch?") and proposing desperate courage as a solution ("We must not be frail – we must watch). It's the fate of all slow and stylish songs to be labelled ballads but it would be an outright misnomer for songs as fraught and gripping as these – if you can think of a better word, let me know.
The fleet and the florid combine in Motorcade, where early languour yields to a pace almost beyond human capacity and McGeoch triumphs again, building on a well-worn siren sound by twisting it into unidentifiable shapes. It seems to allude to the Kennedy assassination but it may be too obvious – and where does the bathos of "The man at the centre of the motorcade/Has learned to tie his boots" fit in? Still, no one ever got right to the root of Oswald's motive, so enigmatic images of "a snake in the closet" and the choice between coffee and tea are yet more layers on an unfathomable puzzle.
Magazine were never more brilliantly brash than on The Light Pours Out Of Me – come to think of it, not many others have been. Its rhythm could keep a city's lights on if played on a loop and McGeoch takes a familiar glam riff out of its platform heel into a glass slipper. Formula's synths are again sparingly used but the space left by their absence creates a canyon for Devoto to descend "like an insect/Up and down the walls." He's still accepting no commissions from Hallmark – "It jerks out of me like blood/In this still life/Heart beats up love-" and we're back to full Buzzcocks circle, with the last line escaping from its earlier appearance on the sleeve of Spiral Scratch. There are more thrilling, elemental, force-of-nature songs than The Light Pours Out Of Me – but not many.
Unfortunately, many of those in awe of Magazine missed the opportunity to make their own magic from their influence. Magazine inspired Simple Minds at their best but were powerless to prevent them sinking to their worst. Mick Hucknall is said to have been a regular at their early gigs. Marti Pellow once averred that, early on, Wet Wet Wet wanted to be Magazine – Magazine, a band of potency and dexterity, utterly devoid of clumsiness, smarm or schmaltz – what happened? I guess it's just real life but you can always turn to Real Life instead (PG).
THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP (1980) "I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin / My irritability keeps me alive and kicking." (A Song From Under The Floorboards.')
One might surmise from his recordings that life for Howard Devoto was a cruel joke. Love meanwhile was a pointless charade, a game played by fools. There's a 1980 Australian TV interview with him (sporting a Nietzsche baseball cap) larking around in a laundrette – where he discusses 'superior hygiene' and 'ulterior cleanliness' as well as his imaginary Ni-etz-sche Removal & Trucking business venture. Devoto cultivated the image of irascible bugger, someone to rival Mark E Smith or John Lydon for ultra-contrariness, Scott Walker or Eno for inscrutable mystique. What is more interesting about the interview is Devoto's response to being questioned about his decision to leave The Buzzcocks in order to form Magazine. He attributes that to his 'revolutionary idea that one could play slow songs'. If Magazine harnessed some of the fizz and fury of punk, they also recognised in its mediocre uniformity, something stultifying rather than liberating. Without question, Howard would rather have been Bowie than Strummer, and Magazine likewise Can, Roxy or Ubu instead of The Pistols.
"You could do me a favour/Do whatever you want to/I will let you hurt me/Because I know it hurts you/It hurts you." Devoto snarls with trademark acridity on the wonderfully odd 'I'm A Party', which while featuring a slightly extraneous jazz break, unfurls to reveal Dave Formula's filmic synth and John McGeoch's nervy guitar lines. McGeoch was one of the great under-rated lead guitarists; he often sounded like he was working in his own little bubble, nowhere more than here, surreptitiously stitching out taut geometric patterns redolent of a column of ants scratching out a new colony. Or listen to him virtually ignite his fretboard on the magnificent speed-fuelled 'Philadelphia'. Here is Magazine in all its glory – Barry Adamson's throbbing bass bubbling like a pregnant geyser, Formula's shrieking keyboard wizardry and Devoto's rueful witticisms: 'Everything'd be just fine/If I had the right pastime/I'd've been Raskolnikov/But mother nature ripped me off…' Glorious stuff.
In some ways the flamboyance and range of the music is utterly at odds with the bleak cynicism of the lyrics. And Devoto makes true on his promise to play some slow ones, these offering a sharp contrast to their more convulsive companions. The stately piano and soulful backing vocals on 'You Never Knew Me' sound warmer, but Devoto's lyrics remain implacably acerbic ('Thank God that I don't love you/All of that's behind me now/Still seems to be above you'), rivalling Dylan at his sardonic '65 peak; while elsewhere he confesses to his own (masochistic?) weakness and compulsion: 'But I still turn to love, I want to burn again.'
That dark sense of humour is accompanied by both political observation ('Model Worker' envisages the moral quandary of the Soviet proletarian who dares to dream of a better future: 'I'm sick of working on the land/I wanna work with machines and look handsome.') and an incisive eye for detail: 'We drank from cups on standard issue/Sofas under scaffolding/Informed sources said we were seen/By observers it's a meeting.' (from 'Sweetheart Contract' – a genuinely classic single).
One can as easily imagine Devoto firing the band and taking himself off in a huff to record the whole thing on an acoustic guitar. Then he might have delivered a rival to 'Sister Lovers' or 'Blood On The Tracks'. But as he says himself: "I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it" so thankfully Magazine's audience was gifted with songs like 'Stuck', a squelching stinging funk conundrum which comes across as something like a post-punk Weather Report and is quite magnificent.
If their brilliant debut 'Real Life' had a bold, metallic and expansive sound, Magazine's follow up, 'Secondhand Daylight' was dense, feverish and – on the colour spectrum – undoubtedly grey. With Martin Hannett – having recently applied the finishing touches to 'Closer' by Manchester's more celebrated musical sons – at the mixing desk, 'The Correct Use Of Soap' successfully managed to add a layer of polish to proceedings, but the album's claustrophobic sound and misanthropic soul gave new meaning to the old cliche 'all that glitters is not gold'. It sounds as thrillingly vibrant today as ever and stands unparalleled as a gallery of lavish but caustic portraits, a repository of glistening miserabilism. (JJ)
PS. 'I've got a good face for memories':
The first critics poll of greatest albums I remember (and still my favourite list of this kind by miles), was the MME's (100) Greatest Records Ever Made, published in November 1985. It was the first time I had ever bought an issue of the NME, and I in my innocence immediately took the contents of its poll as gospel, seeing in it the definitive selection of the essential albums every serious music fan should own. It was a marvellously flawed collection, by turns intriguing (only one Stones, no Sgt. Pepper), eclectic (plenty of jazz, blues, reggae and soul alongside a plethora of post-punk) and bewildering (no Can, Byrds or Fall, while 'Mad Not Mad' at no. 55 today looks simply bizarre). To the best of my knowledge, it is the only such list ever to feature The Correct Use Of Soap, a mere five years young at the time.* I built my record collection around that list, beginning with the low/mid-price albums which had the coolest sleeves and graduating on to the more expensive ones afterwards. It was an education of sorts. I eventually got round to buying The Correct Use Of Soap, fittingly from Virgin Records, in January 1987, proudly clutching to my chest its glitzy post-modernist sleeve alongside another purchase I made that day, Sly & The Family Stone's star-spangled 'There's A Riot Goin' On'. My abiding memory of that evening is hearing two very different but equally blistering versions of Sly's 'Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again' which to my complete surprise, appeared on both albums.
*[Sounds magazine retorted with their own Top 100 and that one featured Real Life, but as it had four Alice Cooper albums in there, I figured the NME probably had it right. No harm to Alice Cooper, but four!?]
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Poll: Levine, undecideds top Democratic governor race
George Bennett
gbennett@pbpost.com
Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, who has spent about $10 million on a TV advertising campaign since November, has opened up a big lead in the race for Florida's Democratic nomination for governor, a new poll says.
But Levine is in a virtual tie with "undecided" in the new poll by Democratic firm SEA Polling and Strategic Design, suggesting there's plenty of room for other candidates to improve.
Levine gets 32 percent support among likely Democratic voters with 31 percent undecided. Former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, who began her TV campaign Wednesday, gets 16 percent and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum 11 percent in the survey.
Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene, who filed candidate papers last week, gets 4 percent support in the new poll while Winter Park businessman Chris King gets 6 percent.
The poll of 600 voters, conducted Sunday through Thursday, has a 4 percent margin of error. Pollster Tom Eldon said the survey was commissioned by a group of Democrats interested in the race but not tied to any campaign.
"When you have one campaign spending money for a sustained period of time, basically statewide, it doesn't surprise me" that Levine has taken the lead, Eldon said.
"Undecided is basically tied for first place still," Eldon said. "There's a lot of people who haven't engaged in this race."


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Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2011 Day 4: Sunday October 23, 2011
Day 4 at Toronto After Dark Film Festival was the second of the back to back 4 screening days and wow, it felt like a long one but it's all worth it as it started and ending with big bangs and audience pleasing films from the dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People and the dark romance/drama vampire flick Midnight Son which I have been waiting ages to watch. Not only am I glad that the film has shown now because I got to see it and it was awesome, but the additional perk is that I don't have to sit through any more sparkly vampire jokes for all the non-Twi-Fans, or Twi-Haters at the fest. I swear, I feel a little lonely being the only Twi-Fan at the fest - I understand people having different tastes but gee whiz there are enough parades to enjoy without raining on others. I must write about that one day. But for now, it's time to look at the awesome selection of films from comedy to sci fi to vampire and a horror anthology to round it all off.
Rather watch than read? Check out my Day 4 Vlog! See also videos from festival Intros and Q&A's over at the Movie Moxie Facebook FanPage.
Toronto After Dark Film Festival programmer Christian Burgess introduces Some Guy Who Kills People
Some Guy Who Kills People
Dir: Jack Perez
Cast: Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black, Leo Fitzpatrick
I absolutely loved Some Guy Who Kills People, which the title alone cracks me up but the film itself was a delightful surprize and easily won over the crowd with the very direct comedy that finds that beautiful happy spot where you don't think they could really go as far as they do, but they do, and it works very well. The film follows an ice cream parlour worker who an underdog in a lot of ways, was picked on by everyone from fellow high schoolers to his very own mother (through a in a fantastic performance by Karen Black), and now in his mid-30's has almost appears to have almost no ambition or drive. When his fellow non-friend classmates begin to appear brutally murdered, it's clear that there is some unfinished business going one. It's amazing that with all that anger and vengeance, that the film is a fantastic comedy that tackles love and relationships on multiple levels. The story itself is fantastic but it's the ensemble cast that escalates this film to be absolutely phenomenal. Every single performance is noteworthy from Kevin Corrigan as our going nowhere protagonist to Karen Black as his brutally honest and always battering him mother, to the Sheriff played by Barry Bostwick who had me in stitches, even the youngest member of the cast could also compete on the same level of excellence. I really wasn't expecting much walking in, but Some Guy Who Kills People will be one of the films that will certainly be a stand out of this year's festival. I can't wait for more people to see it, it's beautifully dark, brilliantly written and superbly acting. I loved it & I highly recommend it!
See the Some Guy Who Kills People Official Facebook Page, Trailer, IMDb Page
The Weight of Emptiness
Dir: Alain Fournier
Canada, 13 minutes
The Weight of Emptiness is a haunting short film that dances around concepts of acceptance and love while providing a truly spooky atmosphere that leaves the audience unnerved but also caring for the characters. I love this kind of storytelling, very visual and emotional with deep performances that resonate very strongly into the hearts of the audience. Beautiful.
Love director William Eubank with Toronto After Dark Film Festival Director & Founder Adam Lopez
Writer/Dir: William Eubank - feature film directorial debut
Cast: Gunner Wright
Love was definitely the film the across-the-board response when I asked people what they were most looking forward to, myself included as I'm always excited to see the science fiction selections each year at the festival. Love has an interesting take threading through timelines from history as well as the current or possible future bridging them through the concept of connectedness and non-connectedness from war to space travel. I was intrigued by the concept and blown away by the visuals but I found it a challenge to connect with our protagonist, which feels oddly intentional as it increases his isolation and loneliness to tragic proportions. I actually felt like I was contributing to that loneliness, which is part of the point and makes it very experiential film but it also made me feel sad. I was extremely impressed by the film visually with the space station setter and was blown away by the civil war recreations which so far are the most beautiful moments I've seen at the festival this year so far. I really wanted to love Love, and certainly felt like it got across the power and importance of love but was very much from perspective of the absence of it. The tragic emotions read strongly and leave haunting impressions for the viewer to question and ponder about the things to come.
See more at Love's Official Film Site, Trailer, IMDb Page
The Theatre Bizarre
Directors: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini and Richard Stanley
Cast: Udo Kier, Tom Savini, Kaniehtiio Horn, Virginia Newcomb
USA/France/Canada
I'm going to keep this one brief as I've come to realize I'm not a huge fan of anthology films and with 7 separate stories in this anthology the one that really made an impression was The Accident, which was a very true-to-life feel of a mother/daughter discussion on death and what happens when people die and very sensitively goes through different questions that kids are likely to ask like why, how and who does it happen to. I really loved the gentle but honest tone to this short which had an often chilling atmosphere and a fantastic open landscape that mirrored the vastness of the world and how our understanding of it and moments in it can be so small in comparison to the whole. Speaking of comparison, it was very tonally different that the other shorts in the anthology which often went to dark, visceral gory gooey visuals, demented themes and with a dash of nudity. Personally it's not my thing, but it definitely plays it's own tune specifically to certain horror themes and fans.
See more about The Theatre Bizarre at the films Official Facebook Page, Trailer, IMDb Page
Theatre Bizarre directors Karim Hussain and Douglas Buck with Toronto After Dark Film Festival Director & Founder Adam Lopez
Midnight Son
Writer/Dir: Scott Leberecht
Cast: Zak Kilberg, Tracey Walter, Arlen Escarpeta, Larry Cedar
I've been literally dreaming to see Midnight Son since I first heard about it and saw the trailer months ago, but didn't actually think I would get to see it on the big - let alone in the awesomeness of a festival setting with filmmakers & actor in attendance. Wow, that was really special. I'm a huge vampire film fan and I loved how Midnight Son is a dark vampire drama that uses the confusion of change paired with the idea of wanting to both hide and share your darker side. How it shows the possible transition from being withdrawn and isolated to reaching out and chancing inclusion, and all the awkwardness, fear, hope and regret along the way. A beautifully complex human drama with intellectually presents questions or morality but the essence of the viewing experience is in actuality a deeply emotional one as you feel for and connect to the characters. I was extremely impressed with the performances, especially with Zak Kilberg who is our protagonist Jacob who displays a powerful range while suffering through this confusion transition of darkness that feels so at odds with his gentle nature. Midnight Son is a beautiful and complex film that I absolutely adored and that I highly and widely recommend, as I'm sure it can be enjoyed by vampire film fan and is a welcome and unique edition to the genre.
See more about Midnight Son at their Official Film Site, Trailer, IMDb Page
Midnight Son producer Matt Compton, actor Zak Kilberg, director Scott Leberecht and Toronto After Dark programmer Stephen Landry
The 6th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival runs for 8 Nights of Horror, Sci-Fi, Action and Cult Movies at the Toronto Underground Cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from October 20-27, 2011.
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The Irish Jurist, Band 10
Irish Jurist .
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE. ROYAL
(Incorporated A.D. 1720, by Charter of George the First.)
CORBET AND ARMSTRONG,
Agents and Stock Brokers, No. 5, COLLEGE-GREEN, DUBLIN. Fire, Life, and Marine Assurances on liberal terms. Life Assurances with, or without, participation in Profits. Divisions of Profits every Five Years. Any sum up to £16.000 insurable on the same Life. A liberal participation in Profits, with exemption from the liabilities of partnership
The Reversionary Bonus has averaged nearly two per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 43 per cent. upon the Premiums paid. It is believed that no other old established company, affording to the Irish public the accommodation of local agencies, has maintained during the same period a rate of Bonus equal to this.
The Expenses of Management, being divided between the different branches, are spread over a larger amount of business than that transacted by any other ofice. The charge upon each Policy is thereby reduced to a sum so small as to account for the magnitude of the Bonus which has been declared, and to afford a probability that a similar rate will be sustained at future divisions.
This Corporation affords to the Assured a liberal participation in Profits, with exemption from the liabilities of partnership;-a rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock :- the advantages of modern practice, with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a Century and a half. Tables of rates and all other information, may be had on application
to CORBET AND ARMSTRONG, Agents and Stock Brokera, No. 6, College-green, Dublin.
Capital £2,000,000, in 100,000 Shares of £20 each.
Trustees :
John Shaw Leigh, Esq. ; John Naylor, Esq.
Directors, &c., in Liverpool:
Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman; J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., M.P
and Ralph Brocklebank, Esq., Deputy Chairmen.
FIRE BRANCH
Annual Premiums £130,000, exceeding almost every Once in the
Losses Promptly and Liberally Paid.
Security of a Large Capital actually paid up.
IMPORTANT TO THE PROPRIETORS OF CORN AND
OATMEAL MILLS.
Risks of this description accepted on a most liberal scale of ratos
LIFE BRANCH.
Stamps on Policies not Charged. Forfeiture of Policy cannot take place from unintentional mistakes.
Medical Fees Paid-Moderate Premiums.
Large Bonus declared 1855,
Amounting to £2 per Cent, per Annum on the sum Assured, being on
Ages from Twenty to Forty, Eighty per Cent. on the Premium.
Periods of Division:
Every Five Years, from 31st December in each year.
PERCY M. DOVE, Actuary and Manager.
A. M'NEILE, 34 WESTMORELAND-ST., Agent.
The risb Jurist
unexe
his judgment said that, under these circum-
stances, " the execution creditor in this
had the property of his debtor bound in the
hands of the sheriff before the statute passed, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 1, 1857.
and consequently a right to have them for the purpose of his execution; and we are all of opinion that we ought not to presume an intention in the
Legislature to strip him of that right, unless they A QUESTION of considerable importance upon the declare such intention in express terms ;" and construction of the "Act to amend the Laws of Baron Martin observed, that the prospective or England and Ireland affecting Trade and Com
retrospective effect of statutes was much consimerce" (19 & 20 Vict. c. 97), to the provisions of dered by this court in Moon v. Durden (2 Exch. which we have already drawn the attention of 22), and the majority of the bench in that case our readers (2 Ir. Jur. N. S. 134)has been re
gave it as their opinion that courts ought not to cently under the consideration of three courts of
give a retrospective effect to a statute, unless they justice in England-two being courts of law, the
are compelled by its language to do so." other of equity--and arose as follows:-By the first section of the statute referred to above, it is
In these views we entirely concur. The injusenacted " that no writ of fieri facias, or other writ tice of passing a law affecting the acts of parties of execution, and no attachment against the goods committed under a belief that they would be dealt of any debtor, shall prejudice the title of a pur- with according to the existing law, is too manifest chaser for value before an actual seizure, unless to require comment; but another court has, upon the purchaser has, at the time of his purchase, a question arising for decision under the fourteenth notice that the writ of attachment was
section, decided differently. The case to which we cuted in the hands of the sheriff." In the first refer is that of Thompson v. Waithman (2 Jur. N.S. of these cases, Williams v. Smith (3 Jur. N. S. 1080 ; S. C. 3 Drew, 628). The facts of that case 1082), it appeared in evidence that after the fieri were these. A and B, as partners, made a joint facias had been lodged with the sheriff, but before promissory note ; and after the death of A, B, the it was executed, the plaintiff, with knowledge of surviving partner, and also the executor of A, conthe existence of the writ, though not of the sum le
tinued for more than six years to pay interest on viable thereby, purchased cattle—the goods of which the note, when the holder of the note required the right to the property was in question—from the the sum due thereon to be paid out of the estate execution debtor. These transactions took place
of A; and upon this state of facts it was held, before the passing of the "Mercantile Law Amend that the payments were made by B, in his capament Act." The sheriff having seized, a claim was
city of partner, and, as such, being within the made by the purchaser; and the sheriff having terms of the fourteenth section, the claim against obtained an interpleader order, an issue was di
A was bound. rected, in which the purchaser was the plaintiff ; The fourteenth section enacts, that "where there and upon the trial a verdict was found for the pur- shall be two or more joint co-contractors, or cochaser. On a motion to set aside this verdict, the debtors, whether bound or liable jointly, or only questions were-whether the goods were conclu- jointly and severally, or executors or administrasively bound by the delivery of the writ to the tors of any contractor, no such co-contractor or cosheriff, as the statute, having subsequently come debtor, executor, or administrator shall lose the into operation, had no retrospective effect; and, benefits of the said enactments (21 Jac. I. c. 16, secondly, that the knowledge in the plaintiff of the s, 3; the 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 42, s. 3, and the 16 & writ being in the hands of the sheriff, brought 17 Vict. c. 113, s. 20), or any of them, so as to him within the statute, if it were applicable. be chargeable in respect or by reason only of payThe court having decided that the statute had ment of any principal, interest, or other money, by not a retrospective effect, did not give any opinion any other or others of such co-contractors, or coupon the second question. Pollock, C. B., in debtors, executors, or administrators." And upon
that section Sir R. J. Kindersley held, that the pay. menced his action within six years after becoming ment made was as partner, and, in his judgment, said, at large, and that the causes of action accrued, " It is said the language of this section is future, and the imprisonment occurred, before the passing and this is true with respect to the operation of of the Mercantile Law Amendment Act." The the Act; but there is nothing future with reference case of Thompson v. Waithman was referred to in to the payment of principal or interest by the co- argument, but not that of Williams v. Smith. In contractor. It is simply this, that where there giving judgment, Lord Campbell, C.J., said, shall exist a case of co-contracturs or executors, "With respect to the Statute of Limitations, I am of then the executor or co-contractor shall not lose the opinion that, as this action has been commenced benefit of the statute by reason of any payments since the passing of the statute (19 & 20 Vic., by the co-executor or co-contractor;" and in answer 97), the plaintiff's imprisonment is no answer to to the argument that the Legislature would not the plea. I think that the natural construction of intend to do so unjust an act as to take away the section 10 is, that in any action brought after the benefits to which the parties were entitled, by an passing of the Act, no plaintiff should be able to ex post facto operation, the learned Vice-Chancellor rely upon the disabilities there mentioned, by way said, " that the decisions (prior to the passing of of excuse for not having commenced his action the above statute) whether the payments by a co-within the limited period. Thus the Act has an contractor would deprive the other contractors of immediate effect upon actions subsequently comthe benefit of the statute of James, were divided ; menced, but not a retrospective effect. The statute and, therefore, no injustice could be done in this applies to past as well as to future transactions." cuse." With the greatest respect for the opinion The other judges concurred, and Erle, J., said, he of the learned Vice-Chancellor, we cannot help considered the decision in Thompson v. Waithman feeling that the foregoing reasoning is not well-precisely analogous to that before the court. This founded. If the statute have a retrospective decision is directly opposed to that in Williams v. operation, it should affect all cases within its Smith, and, as far as the balance of authority will provisions, whether the decisions affecting such effect future decisions, is in favor of the retrospeccases be conflicting or otherwise; and whether tive operation of the statute. there be hardship or not in the particular case
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DIVISION OF PROFITS. A very large portion of the Profits is allocated periodically to the Assured on the principle of a TONTINE. Divisions have already
taken place at five periods, viz.—1835, 1840, 1845, 1850, and 1855. The following are examples :
The following cases, taken from the Books of the Company The following cases will further illustrate the benefits of the will tend to illustrate the system :
system with reference more particularly to participation in
the Profits:On 21st MAY, 1856, C. D. died, aged 30, having effected an as- On 26th FEBRUARY, 1856, G. H. died, aged 51. He effected an surance on his life for £200 on 9th July, 1855, when he was in Assurance on bis life in 1829 for
£999 0 0 excellent health. His payment to the Company was £5:1:2. And there was added by the Company from the
924 0 0 On 6th NOVEMBER, 1856, A. G. died, at the age of 26, having
Making the Sum paid £1923 0 0 effected an Assurance of £1000 on the 15th November, 1855, when in good bealth. Only one Premium of £23: 4: 2 wag
On 6th NOVEMBER, 1856, died T. D., aged 81. He effected an paid to the Company.
Assurance on his life in 1826 for
£800 0 0 And there was added by the Company from the Profits
876 0 0 These cases show how complete and satisfactory such a provision is from the moment of a Policy being effected.
Making the sum paid £1676 0 0 The Share of Profits attaching to a Policy may be applied to increase the Sam Assured, or the valuo may be received in Cash, or
be applied to reduce the Annual Premiums.
General Statement of the Company's Business from 1846 to 1856.
Number of Proposals for Assurances made to the Directors. 10,490
Number of Assurance of Policies issued, exclusive of Annuities and } 8,390
Sums proposed for Assurance
£6,001,741 4 8
Sums in Policies issued
4,787,301 18 i
Business for the year ending 15th Nov. 1856.
Number of Proposals for Assurance made to the Directors
Number of Assurance Policies issued, exclusive of Annuity and?
£669,801 6 7
516,361 6 7
Premiums on New Policies, exclusive of Single Payments : 16,769 3 4
Annual Revenue at 15th November, 1856
254,484 10 8
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Dr. Aryn Wilder serves San Diego Zoo Global as a Researcher in Conservation Genetics. Her research uses next generation DNA sequencing technology to gain insight into critical genomic information that allows us to more effectively target conservation strategies, ameliorate population declines, and avoid species extinction. She has an extensive background in genomics and bioinformatics, applying these tools to understand how species adapt to local conditions, how individuals move and spread pathogens across the landscape, and how natural populations rapidly evolve and rebound in response to new pressures.
At the Institute, Aryn is developing projects aimed at identifying and mitigating the genomic factors that leave species vulnerable to decline and extinction, with the goal of ultimately identifying species most at risk and targeting management to alleviate these factors. She is also working to optimize the processing of genome-wide DNA sequence data to accurately estimate relatedness among individuals, which in turn will improve breeding recommendations for zoo populations.
Aryn earned her masters degree in Zoology from Colorado State University, focusing her research on the dynamics of plague outbreaks in prairie dogs, and her doctorate in Biology from Boston University, where she studied the spread of white-nose syndrome in bats. She went on to complete a postdoc at Boston University, examining evolution of bat populations following the introduction of white-nose syndrome, and a postdoc at Cornell University, where she studied local adaptation and rapid adaptation of fish in response to fisheries. Her goal is to apply this experience to the conservation of the planet's biodiversity. Given changing environmental conditions and mounting pressure for species to rapidly adapt, understanding the genomic characteristics that influence the adaptive potential of populations is more important than ever, as is our ability to use this information to protect and promote the viability of imperiled species.