Fears and Phobias come in many forms…fear of flying, fear of needles, fear of insects, vertigo, emetophobia (fear of being sick), claustrophobia and agoraphobia to name a few.
Anybody who has experienced phobia will recognize it as an intense fear or aversion to something…an object, a person or a situation…which overwhelms and frequently immobilizes us.
Often it appears that the response is irrational because we know logically that the thing we are afraid of cannot really cause us any harm.
At the root of phobia is our natural instinct for self-preservation…to keep us safe and away from danger. This is one of our strongest and most fundamental instincts and when triggered appropriately it is an essential survival tool.
Our perception of danger is predominantly a learned behaviour. As children we are warned not to touch things that are hot or sharp, to check that the road is clear before we cross and not to approach stray animals etc. If we are reminded often enough of these things we learn to take care and watch out automatically. These are sensible precautions and fall within the range of normal behaviour that we all experience.
The irrational fear or phobia takes this to a different level by incorporating an element of intense emotion that is so strong that it provokes the 'fight or flight' response…causing us to take avoiding action to protect ourselves. Frequently there is an 'initiating event', a life experience where we have felt genuinely threatened or at risk and experienced that intense emotion in full.
For example, one of our clients, whilst experiencing a particularly turbulent flight and landing, genuinely thought the aircraft was going to crash and that he would be killed. The intense panic he experienced stayed with him and made him anxious about taking future flights.
This illustrates one of the key elements in a phobia – the panic we experience becomes associated with the specific event. Our unconscious minds have both the experience and the associated emotional state stored away in memory for future reference. Consequently, when we are presented with a similar set of circumstances in the future…for example another aircraft flight…our unconscious mind, in self- preservation mode, quickly remind us of what happened last time…often triggering the 'fight or flight' response again and reinforcing our perception of danger.
What happens next depends upon the individual. Responses can range from avoiding the circumstances, facing them squarely or perhaps, taking some form of medication to deal with the panic symptoms.
I have found that the most effective solution to working with and resolving phobias is to 'unlearn' the association of the emotional response with the 'initiating event' and to associate positive responses with it. We use a form of treatment known as Eye Movement Therapy (BLAST) to bring about this change.
With this technique the client follows the movement of a pen in front of their eyes whilst recalling the experience of the initiating event. The combination of eye movement stimulation and recollection allows the memory to be safely recalled and the emotional content to be processed effectively. Clients can work very quickly with this technique, often needing only one or two sessions to clear a phobia.
To find out more about the process involved and to see whether it is appropriate for you why not take advantage of our Free Initial Consultation and I will be delighted to explain how it works.


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Hillsboro's school board unanimously approved a 2-year agreement to allow Peabody-Burns high schoolers to participate in Hillsboro's softball program.
Superintendent Max Heinrichs' contract was extended through June 2021. Custodian Vickie Huxman announced her retirement after 12 years at the middle school, which will take effect Feb. 1.
Eighth graders designed orthopedic braces for people with multiple sclerosis, two of which were shown to board members. The braces were made through the STEM program Project Lead the Way.


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Storms across southern England brought down trees, caused flash floods, and made travelling extremely difficult.
Mick said: 'I want to thank the ASLEF members, the train drivers, who went the extra mile today to get into work today and made sure that, once Network Rail had cleared the tracks - and I understand that takes time - and it was safe to run the trains then our drivers were there to get Britain moving again.
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Ziff Davis and IDG Confirm that Branch Office Centralization is Creating Challenges for 95 Percent of Large Enterprises
Independent research by Computerworld, InfoWorld, and Ziff Davis Research reveal dissatisfaction with application response time, security concerns and a significant rise in non-TCP traffic
Mountain View, Calif. – Nov. 3, 2005 – Silver Peak Systems (www.silver-peak.com), a developer of enterprise-class network acceleration appliances, today announced the results of three separate surveys of IT executives, conducted in conjunction with Computerworld , InfoWorld and Ziff Davis Media publications. A common trend emerged from these separate surveys: 95 percent of all CIOs and IT managers experienced one or more challenges as they attempted to centralize servers and deliver applications over a Wide Area Network (WAN) to users in branch offices. Slow application response times and reduced user productivity were the most common problems cited by the survey respondents. Controlling IT costs, security and compliance were cited as the major drivers for the move towards centralization. Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming video and other non-TCP traffic was highlighted by the respondents as the fastest growing applications, which present unique application delivery challenges to distributed enterprises.
Over 1,100 individuals participated in the surveys, which were individually managed by Computerworld , Infoworld , and Ziff Davis Media. Questions were sent to qualified ITinfluencers within each publication's reader base, and data were gathered and tabulated independently by the respective publications. Respondents spanned a wide spectrum of industries, including manufacturing, technology, education, healthcare, financial services, transportation and utilities. Respondent companies had, on average, over 200 offices and over 1,000 employees.
A Clear Mandate for Server Centralization
Confirming the drive toward centralizing servers in branch offices, only 13 percent of respondents in one survey viewed the deployment of local servers in branch offices as a viable option going forward. As further evidence, a full 86 percent of respondents indicated that they have taken actions in the last 12 months to facilitate branch office sever centralization. The most common steps have included upgrades to networking and security equipment (e.g., routers and firewalls) and increases to WAN bandwidth.
Enterprises Feeling the Pain
Interestingly, over 80 percent of surveyed enterprises have not been satisfied with the results of these actions and plan to make additional investments to address application delivery challenges over the next 18 months. Many enterprises are unsure where exactly future investments will be made, but a noticeable increase was observed in those respondents citing compression, Quality of Service (QoS) and WAN optimization as anticipated areas of future concentration (25 percent).
"It is clear that the vast majority of enterprises wants to centralize branch office infrastructure, but are not satisfied with conventional solutions for doing so," Arun Taneja, founder Taneja Group. "The most successful companies are those that take a strategic approach to application delivery. They are making infrastructure investments that work across all WAN links, across all applications, and fundamentally change the very way that traffic is sent across the WAN."
As further evidence of the pain enterprises are experiencing, a majority of enterprises surveyed indicated that they could justify past and future investments in infrastructure upgrades based solely on improvements in application availability and reliability, and the increased user productivity that goes along with it. Given these overwhelming benefits, only 1 in 5 respondents indicated that a detailed Return on Investment (ROI) analysis was required to justify these expenditures to upper management.
Growth in VoIP and Video Drive New Requirements for Application Acceleration Equipment
Also of interest throughout the reports was a common theme pertaining to the types of applications deployed in distributed enterprises. On average, 27 percent of enterprise WAN traffic is not using the Transport Control Protocol (TCP), which is a big departure from expectations as many people tend to believe that TCP accounts for the vast majority of enterprise WAN traffic. The most common non-TCP applications observed in these surveys include voice (VoIP), streaming video, NFS, and proprietary applications, which use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) instead of TCP. VoIP and steaming video is particularly important, as almost 15 percent of the enterprises surveyed cited plans to roll out new instances of these applications in the next year and a half.
"UDP is a not-so-hidden secret in enterprise networks," said Jim Metzler, vice president at Ashton, Metzler & Associates. "It is becoming more and more prevalent as voice and video continue to evolve in the enterprise, making it increasingly difficult to deploy TCP-only solutions for enterprise application delivery. This application mix also underscores the need for QoS over the WAN to ensure that all applications are delivered reliably."
About the Surveys
In August 2005, Computerworld , Infoworld , and Ziff Davis Media each individually invited their own IT influencer audiences to participate in a short survey on the challenges companies are facing with respect to application delivery. The goal of the surveys was to better understand the challenges that large enterprises (500 or more employees) face related to application delivery to distributed locations. The surveys were commissioned by Silver Peak Systems, Inc., but data was gathered and tabulated independently by the respective publications.
To obtain a copy of the complete survey results, please visit www.silver-peak.com/infocenter .
Silver Peak enables enterprises to centralize branch office infrastructure and improve application performance across a Wide Area Network (WAN). The company pioneered Local Instance Networking, a technology that reduces "server sprawl" and achieves exceptional acceleration for all applications, including bulk TCP applications, file transfer services, real-time applications like Citrix, media applications and VoIP in an application transparent manner.
Silver Peak's NX Series appliances use Network Memory™ to eliminate the transfer of redundant information over the WAN to deliver a secure, LAN-like experience for distributed applications. It is the only solution to operate at the network layer, providing scalability and performance enhancements across all enterprise applications through a combination of local information storage, advanced data fingerprinting, data reduction, compression, Quality of Service (QoS), and latency/loss mitigation.
Silver Peak is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit http://www.silver-peak.com.


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Electric Arcing Sparked Monday's Metro Incident. And It Happens More Often Than You Might Expect.
The kind of electrical accident that started a fatal Green Line failure happens an average of twice per month.
Written by Benjamin Freed
| Published on January 13, 2015
Photograph courtesy of Jonathan Rogers.
Metro, which rarely inspires much public confidence on normal days, will be picked apart in the coming weeks and months after an incident Monday near the L'Enfant Plaza station left one passenger dead and more than 80 others hospitalized when a Green Line train stalled in a tunnel and filled with smoke.
While the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is deferring to federal regulators on the investigation into what happened yesterday, the immediate cause—electric arcing—is something the transit system has dealt with before, and without deadly consequences. Arcing is the result of a plasma discharge, and actually happens fairly often on Metro, according to a 2013 report, but rarely with any serious consequences.
Metro got a scare about electric arcing back on January 30, 2013, when a segment of the Green Line near Anacostia lost power after an insulator supporting the electrified third rail experienced electric arcing, causing several trains to shut down and spewing a cloud of smoke. Like yesterday, the 2013 incident happened right at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, sending commuters into a tailspin. Also like yesterday, passengers aboard a train several hundred feet away from the nearest platform "self-evacuated" and navigated their way through darkened tunnels.
While Metro applauded the perfomance of most of its personnel that day, the transit agency's follow-up report still showed several failures. While passengers on one of the stalled trains commended its operator for keeping people calm and informed, many riders from the other complained about being stuck in the literal and figurative dark during their ordeal. As many as 150 of them eventually got off the train themselves and walked back before officials could reach them, more than an hour after the power went out. The report also noted that arcing insulators occur an average of twice per month.
So why was yesterday's emergency so much worse? That won't come out until the National Transporation Safety Board completes its investigation, but the immediate evidence is unsettling. Besides the frequency of electric arcs, Metro also experienced a sharp increase in the number of smoke- and fire-related incidents between 2013 and 2014, NBC4 reported last July. There are about 100,000 insulators spread across 117 miles of track, and many of them need replacing; Metro put out a request for proposals last February for bidders to replace as many as 35,000 of them over a five-year period.
Yesterday's scene resulted in the first passenger fatality since the 2009 Red Line crash near Fort Totten that killed eight riders and one train operator. And Monday's incident shared some elements of that grisly event. Some of the cars on the smoke-filled train that was stuck about 1,100 feet from the L'Enfant Plaza platform were 1000-series stock, the oldest in the system's inventory and equipment that the NTSB demanded Metro rid itself of after the Red Line disaster. When the NTSB files a report on Metro's latest accident, there may be yet another citation about an outmoded fleet.
Metro was supposed to start rolling out its newest cars, the technologically advanced 7000 series, by this month. But safety inspectors representing DC, Maryland, and Virginia recently faulted the transit agency on its safety inspection protocols, potentially delaying the rollout and leaving Metro passengers riding old rail cars on tracks in need of repair.
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Once I was given this new price of $45 per month, I knocked off an additional $10 per month by buying a router and cable modem instead of renting them. They planned on renting me a cable modem at $5 per month, and charging me another $5 per month for a router. Instead, I was able to add to my savings just by asking the question about rental fees, a point you will get sick of hearing about if you keep reading my guides.
FilmStruck ($6.99/mo, $10.99/mo., $99/yr.): A cinephile's paradise, this service offers a range of classic, independent and foreign films from around the world, including (at the higher-tier subscription) most of what's been released by the boutique home video company the Criterion Collection. (Lower tier subscriptions include a rotating selection.) FilmStruck, which is developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies, has been adding hundreds of classic titles since February from the Warner Archive, which until recently had its own streaming service. Tons of Old Hollywood favorites like "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane" and "Rebel Without a Cause" are now available on FilmStruck as result. What's more, its home page is one of the best-curated, best-updated of any streaming site.
If you mean DirecTV Now, it's a very solid service. I do like it a lot. And as stated above, it will be a big contender in 2017, especially if they start streaming in 4K as promised. I haven't decided whether I'm sticking with PS Vue after my rate increases. I'm leaning toward switching to YouTube TV, but have another month to decide before my monthly rate increases.
If you don't feel like paying exorbitant cable or satellite fees, but still crave the sweet pablum of basic cable programming, you can always try a cable-replacement service. These online streaming subscriptions deliver live (and on-demand) channels over the internet, and while they're not cheap, they're not as hellaciously expensive as traditional cable or satellite fees. If streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video aren't enough for you, read on to find out how you can reintroduce live TV into your home without signing your life away to an onerous cable contract.
Now there are some things about Tablo TV I need to get used to. When I bring up the app on the Roku box, I oddly have to remind it every time which Tablo TV box I'm tapping -- even though I only have one. And when I go to watch live TV, it takes a good 20-to-25 seconds to load each channel. This makes channel surfing rather impossible, especially when I have to return to the Live TV menu first before selecting another channel. And I've also had several scheduled recordings not record because the reception was too weak, according to the error message. As I mentioned, that's a problem with our home and not Tablo.
Just because you subscribe to cable or satellite doesn't mean you have to use the provided set-top box. In an effort to become part of the cord-cutting landscape, many of the major cable and satellite providers, who double as internet service providers, let users subscribe and then access all programing via apps rather than the cable box or even the tuner in the TV.
Sony PS4 (starting at $299.99) / Microsoft XBox ($299 to $499): One of the biggest unexpected players in this space has been the major video game console companies. The Sony PS4 and Xbox One X are state-of-the-art in terms of their streaming capabilities, and they're even creating their own services that attempt to serve the same functions as traditional cable TV. (More on that later.) The Xbox One S, Microsoft's previous model, was still for sale as of August 2018, at $200 less than the One X. Click here to compare the two on the Xbox website.
If you're looking for the channel packages that offer the most variety, we'd highly recommend DIRECTV. This provider's diverse plans and extra perks will satisfy all of your TV needs. Whether you want movie channels, prime-time sports networks, or a library of 10,000 on-demand titles, DIRECTV has it all. You'll also have access to one of the largest selections of HD channels on the market, so you can watch all your shows in crystal clear quality.
The dirty secret about internet-based TV services is that they are far more profitable for the pay-TV industry than their traditional lines of business. U nlike video, high-speed internet is growing. Leichtman estimates that the largest cable and telephone providers had 455,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in the most recent quarter compared, topping the 235,000 gain from a year earlier.
You may need to check with your internet provider before you decide to switch to streaming only options and see what kind of usage limits they enforce. A friend of mine just got burned when he suddenly found out his ISP didn't appreciate the bandwidth usage and cut off his service for the month after he streamed 10 hours or so of video. He had to ride out the rest of month with no cable and no internet.
Cable TV is widely available to U.S. residents, so it's a very popular option. This connection transmits information via an electric current that travels through copper cables buried underground. If cable TV is available in your area, the installation process should be pretty painless, as the infrastructure is already in place. Cable television is a great option for those that don't want to commit to long-term contracts. Some providers like Spectrum offer "no contract" options, but when a contract is required, it's typically shorter than those required for satellite TV. Cable TV plans tend to be more expensive than satellite, and the HD quality isn't as good. However, many providers let you bundle TV with high-speed cable internet to save on your monthly bill!
CableTV.com makes it easy to pick an Internet and TV service provider in Dallas. We have the scoop on Internet and TV provider options in Dallas, TX, including product reviews and prices for packages available in your area. With all that information readily available, you can quickly compare your options and determine which Internet and TV services fit your needs and your budget.
Lots of people choose satellite TV because you can choose from a wider variety of shows and options than you can with cable TV. Again, plans with a lot of channels, features, and variety are more likely to be expensive. However, there are some cases in which you might really want a specific channel that a cable provider won't have. For example, if you are from New York but you live in California, it might be easier to get Giants games with a satellite TV service than with a cable service.
We split our cable bill with our renter, but I think my wife and I are ready to get rid of it once she moves out (likely this Summer). There's just too many cord-cutting options. I think we'll get the $20/month Sling TV subscription, Netflix, and an HD antenna and be good to go. That's just $30/month and no need to play games with the cable company (I'm sick of their crap!). And with Sling we'd even have ESPN, one of the last reasons people even consider keeping cable anymore (sports!).
Most of the time, it's not difficult to find deals on TV packages. Common deals providers offer include discounts on services, Visa® Prepaid Cards and free premium channels. Though most deals are advertised on providers' websites, it's a good idea to call and ask a sales representative if there are any additional deals not offered online. Remember, some deals are exclusive to the company's website and might not be honored if you order service over the phone.
Setting this up was easy, too. We bought an inexpensive antenna at a local store that was on sale and simply attached a coax cable to the back of that antenna (the cable came with the antenna) to the cable port on the back of our television, then simply went into the menu on our television and scanned for channels. It found around 30 of them, and they come in crystal clear in about 480p – not high resolution, but good enough, especially on a smaller television. Once the antenna is set up and running, the programming is completely free.
At present, the leading cable TV service providers in the country deliver more than hundreds of HD channels to about 60 million homes in the country. In addition, most of the cable TV providers also offer high-speed internet and home phone services alongside. Customers also enjoy the luxury of double bundling or triple bundling these services, which in turn helps them to save a huge sum of money in the end.
Amazon's library of top-notch original TV series is fairly thin (although it does have the award-winning "Transparent," and the excellent police procedural "Bosch"), and it includes a paltry catalog of older shows. (It does offer some older HBO series like "Boardwalk Empire" and "Eastbound & Down" at no extra charge; recent seasons of your favorite shows are often available, but cost extra.) On the flipside, Amazon business has been very active lately in producing, buying and distributing top-shelf movies — including the Oscar-winning "Manchester by the Sea." Also, Prime makes it very easy to expand your options by adding subscriptions to premium cable channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz as part of its Amazon Channels service. The service is aiming to be a one-stop shop for cord-cutters, offering a basic service with a variety of customized channels, some of which (like Acorn TV, Brown Sugar and Shudder) aren't available to cable subscribers.
If your favorite part of cable is watching movies, cutting the cord might just maximize your bliss. Much like cable on-demand services, you can rent many of the latest releases on iTunes or Amazon for about $5 apiece. HBO also carries a wide selection of recent movies, and Netflix has a large back catalogue of films (though titles will appear and disappear somewhat randomly).
Maybe having a streaming subscription that delivers all of the content over the internet is your "cut the cord" solution. There are definitely some advantages to going with one of these services over traditional cable beyond just taking the actual cable that runs into your house out of the equation. And chief among these advantages is the lack of a contract, so you can turn them on one month and turn them off the next.
You also don't need to fill tied to a particular day and time. There's a couple of good solutions for recording live television. The TiVo Bolt includes the ability to record live television from an antenna, but you will still need to pay TiVo's $15 a month subscription. Tablo offers a cheaper solution, but it is still $5 a month. Last, there is Channel Master, which doesn't have a monthly subscription.
If you want—or need—to see a significant number of your local teams' games, I'm going to stop right here. This is one area where streaming services can't yet fully deliver. Local games are generally exclusive to regional sports networks, and you'll still need cable for that. There's also the issue of some online services being a little more unstable than die-hard fans might like. Dish's Sling TV failed for many customers during this weekend's NCAA Final Four action, leading the company to issue an apology.
PlayStation Vue is a streaming service similar to Sling TV, offering channels like AMC, TBS, Syfy and much more. However, this service starts at $39.99 per month. Check out this comparison of Sling TV Channels vs. PS Vue for the difference in each services channel lineup. You don't need a PlayStation gaming console to use the service either. While the service is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, you can also use the service with Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Google Chromecast, Android, iPad, and iPhone. Check out my review of PlayStation Vue for more details.
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Let's get caught up on the full story of our use of cable television over the last several years. We've always been a one-television household with just a single TV that resides in our family room. I rarely watch it aside from the occasional live event, on family movie night, or when Sarah and I are cuddled under a blanket binge-watching something.
Our view: If you've got a good $50- to $60-a-month internet plan and can add an antenna for local channels and maybe a Netflix or a Hulu, you will pay less. But many of us have TV/internet bundles that raise the price of internet if we drop TV. That's what happened with me and Frontier, when the company said my $35 monthly internet charge would double to $70 if I ditched cable.
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During the 1980s, United States regulations not unlike public, educational, and government access (PEG) created the beginning of cable-originated live television programming. As cable penetration increased, numerous cable-only TV stations were launched, many with their own news bureaus that could provide more immediate and more localized content than that provided by the nearest network newscast.
Maybe you first heard the term whispered in hushed corridors at work or in a back-alley near your house, but now there's no escaping the fact that "cord cutting" has gone mainstream. And it's no wonder why. The monthly cost of cable TV in this country now averages more than ever before: a whopping $123 per household. But thanks to à la carte streaming services and the disruptive technology that's taken over the living room in recent years, it's easier than ever to save serious cash. Cancel your cable subscription, and join the growing ranks of cord-cutters streaming their shows.
One thing is for sure: A number of Tampa Bay residents have moved away from cable, and many are interested in exploring that option. The Tampa Bay Times asked readers to reach out about their experience with cutting the cord, and received around 100 responses. The most-cited reasons for making the leap were dissatisfaction with a cable provider and cost.
Aside from those streaming behemoths, an increasing number of cable channels have launched their own independent services. HBO Now is at the high-end of this category, but many stations offer the ability to stream their shows for free, albeit with a few commercial breaks. And then there's Dish Network's newly launched Sling TV service, which streams a variety of live cable channels, including ESPN, for $20 per month.
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On a Nightwalk with Beatmaker Peter Bark
On June 11, Peter Bark released "Nightwalk" on Bandcamp. The hip-hop sound designer and beatmaker already filled the dozen with his newest album. While Peter likes to keep his music alias separated from his real life, he gives some insight on his musical travels in this interview executed by email.
Peter Bark is working in a recording studio (not really surprising) in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn while growing up in central Jersey. Peter is a really productive dude. Twelve albums in less than eight years speak for itself. Same in this interview: To every question, he replied within minutes.
Peter, you released your first album on Bandcamp in December 2012. Did you play music before that? And how did you get into playing music in the first place?
I started producing music in 2010, because I was really into dubstep and wanted to learn how to make it, haha. I didn't play any instruments before that but always had an interest. The stuff I have out is only a fraction of what I've made. I've got hundreds of beats in my back catalog. I've released probably 15 other albums that I've taken down for one reason or another. People who've been following me since the beginning might have them downloaded though.
On Bandcamp, you released only albums, on SoundCloud you have mostly single tracks. Do you have an album in mind when you are recording? What meaning has the concept of albums to you? What importance has SoundCloud to you?
I mainly use SoundCloud for loosies or tracks that I don't think fit into the album I'm working on. My albums usually represent a period in my life. I make music almost every day, and I'll get a feeling that a track is the start of a new album, or fits with the album I'm working on. I get a feeling when I feel the project is done, too. Hard to explain haha.
Do you have visuals / a story in mind when you record a song? From the beginning, or does it evolve?
Not really to be honest. It happens unconsciously. When I finish the song, it will remind me of events or places though.
On Bandcamp, you "sell" your albums for "name your price." How are your experiences with that?
I prefer to do it that way. I want as many people to have access to my music as possible. If someone wants it bad enough they're going to find a way to rip it off of soundcloud or whatever anyway! I'm super thankful for all the people who pay, it's nice to know that they care enough to go above and beyond.
Do you also sell or share your beats with a rapper/singer, or are they meant to be as they are?
I'm always happy to let people use my beats. There are a bunch of tracks on SoundCloud and YouTube that are people rapping over my stuff. I've produced a bunch of beats for one of my best friends who goes by Crown Stark over the last eight years. Recently I've been working with a few artists, so there will be some collaborations coming out shortly.
Do we find your music on other platforms, too?
Only Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube in the past. This new project will be on all streaming services though.
What gear and tools do you use for recording, mixing and mastering?
I make most of my beats in Maschine. I love the workflow. As far as outboard gear goes, I use a couple of sp-404s, a kaoss pad, a bolsa bass, and few of the Roland boutique synths. As far as softsynths… I love massive, omnisphere, and FM8. Plugins – I'm really into fabfilter's eq, multiband compressor, limiter, and saturator, native instrument's guitar rig and replika. I like recording my own percussion and ambiance too, which I use a Tascam handheld recorder for.
How did you learn the techniques of what you're doing? And how much did you spend on equipment?
A lot of trial and error to be honest haha. Since I've started making music, probably spent a few grand on equipment.
Did you ever play live? Any plans to do so?
I actually never have. I'm open to the idea though.
To finish off: Do you have any plans for the new future you want to share with us?
Working on my next project, working with a few artists, and trying to break into doing more sound design work.
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Throwback Thursday: Centennial Celebration 2020 + Elk at Potter Park
Posted on January 7, 2021 by Peter Sculli
Elk at Potter Park
During the 2020 centennial year, elk returned to Potter Park. As one of the zoo's first notable species, the elk is a wonderful symbol of Potter Park's growth and success, and we're happy to have them back.
In 1918 and 1919, Potter Park was still in its early stages, with a small but growing collection of animals. Soon thereafter, an elk was a transferred from Lansing's Moores Park (which had acquired a number of the animals from former mayor James M. Turner's estate, now under city ownership). This was seemingly connected to Potter Park's acquisition of "zoo" status—an achievement bolstered by the city's provision of permanent zoo buildings in 1920. Due to these significant events, 1920 is accepted to be the zoo's founding year. Elk could be found at Potter Park in each decade following until the 2000s.
The new elk arrived at the zoo in February 2020, and reside in the old moose exhibit. There are three adults, including one male (Emmett) and two females (Sadge and Belle). They were born in 2018, 2016, and 2015 respectively. The three have now been at Potter Park for almost a year.
Belle gave birth to female Nina on May 20, 2020, and Sadge to male Mason on June 5, 2020. Both females were pregnant when they arrived, and the fathers' identities are unknown to us (neither one is Emmet). The calves have since grown nicely, shedding their spotted fur and taking on their adult coloration (though both are still smaller than the adults). The group interacts as a herd and spends much of their time in close proximity.
Due to of the constraints of COVID-19, the zoo scaled back its 2020 centennial celebration plans and focused instead on engaging the community and recounting zoo history in a fun and accessible way. This was accomplished via social media and blog postings, along with the zoo's new walking tour installation.
You can still:
Visit Potter Park and take the self-guided centennial tour. The twenty-one numbered signs follow a one-way route around the zoo.
Follow weekly social media posts and share your experiences.
Check website blogs at potterparkzoo.org for more on our history. If you have a story about Potter Park Zoo, go to "Contact Us," look for the "What is your message regarding?" drop-down menu to find "Story Submission for Zoo Centennial."
When conditions allow, we hope to revisit our original centennial plans and engage with the community head-on. Until then, we'll continue showcasing our role as a modern zoo and rallying support for our efforts however possible. Follow us on social media or check the website for updates in the months ahead.
Do you have a story about elk at the zoo or the centennial? Share your story. Click here and in the drop-down on this page that says "What is your message regarding?" and select "Story Submissions for Zoo Centennial." Please include the decade or general time frame that applies to your story.


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One Of These 11 Will Win The 2015 PGA Championship
If ever a player were due to win a major it's the 27-year-old Australian, who rebounded from his rough U.S. Open Sunday and an agonizingly close performance at St. Andrews to win the RBC Canadian Open. In his first-ever PGA Championship in 2010, Day finished T-10 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 74. He has since logged a T-8 in 2013 at Oak Hill and a T-15 last year at Valhalla. With power at a premium in Wisconsin, Day is the no-brainer favorite to finally win a major.
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Even though the Old Course should have been to his liking, Watson's aversion to golf outside of the United States continued last month in St. Andrews. Back on home soil, Bubba is returning to the site where he first truly contended for a major title, losing to Martin Kaymer in a three-hole aggregate playoff in 2010. Combine the good memories of a final-round 68 to get in that playoff with recent solid play at the RBC Canadian (plus confidence from having two green jackets in his Augusta National locker), and only Bubba-being-Bubba can stop him from winning.
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The British Open champ missed the 2010 PGA playoff by a stroke, ending up T-3 at Whistling Straits. When his inside-120 yards game is on and the fairways are running just enough to give him sneaky power off the tee, Johnson can keep up with the long bombers. Throw in his affinity for playing in front of Midwest crowds, and a second major in 2015 would not surprise one bit.
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The winner of the year's first two majors has no track record at Whistling Straits but has played his share of Pete Dye courses. After a weekend scouting trip before the WGC-Bridgestone, he should have his "lines" picked out. It's surreal to consider Spieth didn't have his best ball-striking at Chambers Bay and still won, then took better ball-striking to St. Andrews but missed a playoff by a stroke due to a so-so putting performance. The ability to hang around when not playing his best may be his most impressive trait, making it hard to see the 22-year-old anywhere but near the top of the 2015 PGA leader board.
Sure the specter of the heartbreaking final-hole two-shot penalty that dropped him from a playoff to T-5 in 2010 lingers. But Johnson will have put that melodrama behind him by Thursday and should pick up where he left off last time he was in Kohler. His biggest admirers are still mystified by a third-round 75 at St. Andrews that took him from looking like a runaway winner to also-ran. He has two other top-10s in the PGA, not that anyone remembers anything beyond the fiasco at Whistling Straits's 18th hole.
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Lefty's week at the British Open was a tragicomic series of brutal lipouts and strategic mistakes (driving into Swilcan Burn!), which will have the 2005 PGA champion . . . feeling confident? At least that's the vibe he gave reporters soon after hitting a drive into the Old Course Hotel on his 71st hole at St. Andrews. Winless since the 2013 British Open, Mickelson has seen his putting is better of late and has second-place finishes at the this year's Masters and last year's PGA to remind him one hot week is all that's needed to return to the winner's circle. Oh, and a final-round 67 at Whistling Straits left him T-12 in 2010. Look out for the wise, patient golfer who can still overpower a course.
The perennial contender just finished off a nice trip to the Scottish and British Opens, though he did seem to get the worst of the draw at St. Andrews. Kuchar can look forward to returning to Whistling Straits, where he was the first- and second-round leader before finishing T-10 due to a lackluster weekend (73-72). That was his best finish in a PGA and only top-10. He's desperately overdue to win a major and knows his clock is ticking.
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The Englishman can't be pleased with his T-74 at St. Andrews after contending there five years ago. But as he did in 2010, Casey will arrive in Wisconsin with confidence. A T-12 at Whistling Straits last time around won't be forgotten by the 38-year-old, who has newfound stability in his personal life and the same awesome tee-to-fringe game. He also figures to be better rested this August thanks to his full focus on PGA Tour play instead of splitting time between tours. Now, he just needs to get a few more putts to drop (140th in PGA Tour strokes gained/putting).
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Early in the 2010 PGA at Whistling Straits, Furyk seemed destined to capture his second major. But a disastrous final-round 77 dropped him to T-24. With six top-10s in the PGA, including a second in 2013 and T-5 last year at Valhalla, this is a perfect spot for long-awaited major championship No. 2.
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One of the world's best ball-strikers missed the cut at Whistling Straits in 2010 and has been trying of late to sort out his putting. Rose revealed at the recent Quicken Loans National that putting coach David Orr spotted a setup issue that left his shoulders closed at address. A Saturday 65 at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club backed up the theory that that was the problem. Throw in a win earlier this year on a Pete Dye course (TPC Louisiana at the Zurich Classic), and the Englishman should be feeling better headed to Wisconsin.
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Five years ago this little-known 22-year-old missed the cut in his first PGA Championship. Rounds of 74-74 gave Willett his first taste of major golf, and now the Englishman returns having contended last month at St. Andrews (T-6). He's won three times on the European Tour, including the Omega European Masters just a week after his fine St. Andrews run. Ranked 24th in the world, Willett would be England's other Olympics representative alongside Rose if the Games were held now. He exudes the confidence of someone ready to make a late season charge up the world rankings.
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45 Calvert St., Annapolis, Maryland, July 2014. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
The Department of Budget and Management was established in 1996. Its origins, however, date to 1916, when, by constitutional amendment, Maryland became the first state to adopt the executive budget system (Chapter 159, Acts of 1916, ratified Nov. 7, 1916). Under this system, primary responsibility for the budget of State government is assigned to the Governor. During the nineteenth century, government agencies, private institutions, and citizens all submitted requests for appropriations directly to the General Assembly, a piecemeal approach which made fiscal planning difficult. No government agency coordinated the review of government revenues and expenditures to assure a balanced State budget. In 1900, the Board of State Aid and Charities was formed to examine certain requests for appropriations and make recommendations to the General Assembly. By 1902, the office of State Auditor was authorized to review expenditures of several State agencies. Yet, not until the executive budget system of 1916 was accountability for the whole State budget assigned to one office.
Department of Budget and Procurement. Under the executive budget system, the Governor is required to analyze the needs of State agencies and balance expenditures against anticipated revenues. To assist the Governor in preparing the budget and to consolidate State purchasing and budgetary functions, the Department of Budget and Procurement formed in 1939. At that time, the Central Purchasing Bureau, created in 1920, became part of the Department of Budget and Procurement (Chapter 184, Acts of 1920; Chapter 64, Acts of 1939).
Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning. The Department of Budget and Procurement reorganized as the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning in 1969 (Chapter 78, Acts of 1969). The Purchasing Bureau, formerly under the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning, moved to the Department of General Services in 1970 (Chapter 97, Acts of 1970). Over the years, additional responsibilities were delegated to the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning. The General Administration Program of the Board of Public Works was transferred to the Department by Executive Order in September 1981 and then reassigned to the Board in 1994 (Chapter 750, Acts of 1994). The Office of Capital Budgeting of the Department of Planning was assigned to the Department in 1989 and renamed in 1990 as the Division of Capital Budgeting. In 1994, the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program of the Department of Personnel transferred to the Department (Chapter 107, Acts of 1994). Oversight of State information technology also was assigned to the Department in 1994 (Chapter 493, Acts of 1994).
Department of Personnel. Origins of the Department of Personnel date to 1920 when the Merit System was established for employees of State government. The Merit System was formed to attract well qualified people to government service and end the political patronage by which government positions had been filled in the nineteenth century. In 1920, the office of State Employment Commissioner was created to administer the Merit System (Chapter 41, Acts of 1920). The Commissioner in 1922 was renamed Commissioner of State Employment and Registration. In 1922, the Commissioner of State Employment and Registration became head of the Department of State Employment and Registration (Chapter 29, Acts of 1922). The Commissioner of State Employment and Registration also chaired the State Employees' Standard Salary Board, formed in 1941 (Chapter 395, Acts of 1941). In 1953, the Commissioner was renamed the State Commissioner of Personnel (Chapter 310, Acts of 1953). The Department of Personnel superseded the Commissioner of Personnel in 1970 (Chapter 99, Acts of 1970). In 1996, the Department of Personnel was abolished and its functions assigned to the Department of Budget and Management.
Department of Budget and Management. In 1996, the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning reformed as the Department of Budget and Management to administer functions formerly assigned to the Department of Personnel, and the Telecommunications Division of the Department of General Services (Chapter 349, Acts of 1996). At that time, the Office of Information Technology was created within the Department. In July 2008, the Office reformed as the Department of Information Technology (Chapter 9, Acts of 2008).
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Hundreds of Israelis participated Saturday in the weekly "March of Shame" against alleged corruption by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. This is the ninth week in a row the rally has been held in Tel Aviv, after initially taking place for almost a year outside the house of Israel's attorney general, who protesters claim is shielding Netanyahu from police investigations.
Additional protests were reported in the north in Haifa, Afula and even Rosh Pina. Some protesters also continued to demonstrate outside the attorney general's home in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva.
Elik Ron, a former police command, spoke in Tel Aviv and said that "Netanyahu knows how deep he's in. I only hope that he'll soon be caught in law enforcement's net" and face justice.
Also planning to attend the Tel Aviv rally was a group of supporters of the boycott Israel movement. This is not the first time the small group planned to attend and in the past they have scuffled with protesters who rejected their message and pushed them out of the main march.


A prolific editor of several books on music published in Gajarati, Hindi and English, R.C. Mehta (b. 1918) established The Indian Musicological Society in 1970. He has been a follower of the Kirana gharana and worked at the All India Radio for nine years. He retired from the M.S. University of Baroda as Principal of the College of Indian Music, Dance and Dramatics. He has received several awards from prestigious non-government organizations and has been awarded Emeritus Fellowship by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of India.


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China said on Wednesday (July 22) the United States had abruptly told it to close its consulate in the city of Houston, a move that Beijing said it strongly condemns, threatening retaliation.
The United States gave the Chinese side a deadline of three days to close the mission in the Texas city, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
"The unilateral closure of China's Consulate General in Houston within a short period of time is an unprecedented escalation of its recent actions against China," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a regular news briefing.
Wang added that the consulate was operating normally but did not respond to questions about U.S. media reports in Houston on Tuesday (July 21) night that documents were being burned in a courtyard at the consulate.
Houston police told FOX 26 that staff there were burning documents because they are being evicted from the building on Friday (July 24) afternoon.
Relations between the United States and China have deteriorated significantly since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the beginning of the year.


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China closes zoo where tiger was killed
China has closed an understaffed zoo where a rare Siberian tiger was found beheaded and skinned last week and where seven tigers died in the last four years, state media reported Wednesday.
Forestry and police officials in Yichang city in Hubei province, where the zoo is located, issued a directive closing the zoo and ordering it to take a range of measures to improve animal security and living conditions, the government's Xinhua News Agency said.
The order came after wildlife officials gave details of the seven deaths after the bodies of two stillborn Bengal tiger cubs were found over the weekend in a refrigerator at the Three Gorges Forest Wild Animal World in Yichang, Xinhua said.
Three tigers died of starvation in December 2003, and after that another four died of sickness or fight wounds, the report said.
Xinhua quoted Cao Guangyi, spokesman for the Yichang Forestry Bureau in Hubei province, as telling a news conference that the hides and bones of six of the tigers had been preserved in the zoo and that the other was at a research institute.
Last week, a female Siberian tiger was found dead at the zoo, with her skin, head and legs missing. Police are looking for the killers.
Tiger skins are sold on the black market in China, and tiger parts are used in traditional medicines.
Siberian tigers, also known as Amur tigers, are among the world's 10 most endangered species. They live in northeast China and the Russian Far East. Only 400 are thought to live in the wild.
There was no indication of foul play in the deaths of the cubs, who were stillborn on Nov. 28, but the forestry bureau said the zoo failed to follow regulations for disposing of animal bodies.
The 5-year-old, 40-hectare (100-acre) zoo has more than 100 species of animals, including 15 tigers, five bears, six African lions, two wolves, 60 monkeys and some birds, according to Xinhua.
But it has only five employees who handle animal breeding, management and ticket sales, it said.
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We invite artists to submit their artwork for consideration for future shows.
Rock Solid XIX - This annual stone sculpture exhibit, since 2000, showcases stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists. We are also looking for 2-D works that display the beautiful qualities of stone.
Studio Place Arts uses its second and third floor space for solo and small group shows. We encourage artists to submit a proposal to SPA for consideration of such a show in 2020. Please send SPA: A brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show, a CD or DVD with 8-12 images of representative work (please label this information carefully with the name, media, size, price and date of your work).
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As Father's Day specials go, it was hardly stirring. But it was very Trumpian. © (YouTube) President Trump is interviewed by his son Donald Trump Jr. for his streaming online show, "Triggered." (YouTube)
Donald Trump Jr., interviewing President Trump on his online talk show Thursday night, debuted a new campaign ad that absurdly claims that Osama Bin Laden — who U.S. forces killed in 2011 — had endorsed Joe Biden for president.
"That's your Father's Day present," son said to father. "Congratulations."
The president nodded as if he had just won a medium-priced set of steak knives. So went his first interview on "Triggered," which appears on an online "newscast" channel from the president's reelection campaign that attempts to mimic a cable news network.
If Trump owned a media company, which advisors say he discussed when he believed he would lose the 2016 election, it might look something like "Team Trump Online," the current production. And if he or his family start one after he leaves the White House, this could be the pilot.
"This is the warm-up act," said Frank Sesno, a former CNN anchor and the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. "There's nothing he would like more than to throw his name on a channel, a digital brand."
Not only is the campaign able to test an audience and gather valuable data from supporters for a future product. Trump doesn't have to pay for it.
"Being able to do all these things for your image on somebody else's dime does suggest that Donald Trump is a master of the art of the deal," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, who has researched and written about media and politics for decades.
Biden, also hoping to reach supporters during the coronavirus shutdown, has a podcast called "Here's the Deal" and appears at times on YouTube. But the Trump channel is on almost nightly, while Biden's shows are intermittent.
At times, the Trump channel resembles Trump-friendly media like Fox News or the more conspiratorial One America News Network. It relies on hosts who amplify Trump's tweets, denigrate the national media, and ignore or explain away facts that challenge the president's falsehoods.
But the content on Trump TV is purer, if a bit clunkier, than even on avowedly pro-Trump OANN. And the hosts are closer to Trump's inner circle.
They include Donald Jr., his girlfriend and former Fox host Kimberly Guilfoyle, the president's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and a small group of campaign officials and surrogates in the tight-knit Trump family troupe.
Among them are Corey Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign manager who is an outside advisor in the 2020 campaign; Mercedes Schlapp, a conservative activist who worked as a White House communications advisor; and Katrina Pierson, the campaign's most prominent Black spokesperson.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a question about whether the online channel might fit into Trump's future plans, or how he might use personal data gathered about supporters who sign up to watch.
Campaign officials said the shows, most of which debuted in April and May, draw an average audience of more than 1 million views on multiple digital platforms. Public Facebook data confirm that many of the shows have drawn audiences near or above 1 million.
The campaign would not say how long each viewer spends on a program, meaning some viewers may watch only a brief segment.
Some shows on the channel are geared toward military veterans, moms or other targeted voter groups such as Catholics, Evangelicals, Latinos and "Black Voices for Trump." Many of the hosts shift across programs.
"The Right View," is a kind of mirror image of "The View," the popular ABC daytime talk show hosted by women, which many Trump supporters revile for its liberal sensibility and harsh criticism of the administration. © (YouTube) Clockwise from top left: Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Katrina Pierson and Mercedes Schlapp on their program. (YouTube)
"Wednesday just got better because the ladies are live, discussing the hottest topics of the week with you," Lara Trump says at the top of "The Right View," which features a clip of Father Frank Pavone, another Trump booster, declaring that he sees "the evidence of the Holy Spirit working in the president."
But unlike "The View," which has one conservative panelist to spark tension and debate, "The Right View" hosts never disagree as they review current events.
In a recent episode, they took turns blaming Biden "for the dangerous 'Defund the Police' movement." The former vice president has specifically rejected calls to defund police, proposing a ban on chokeholds and other reforms since police were charged with killing George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis, on May 25.
"Imagine what we would live in in Biden's America — with open borders, no police and 'CornPop' on the radio," Pierson said from a living room set with a fireplace.
"CornPop" refers to a story Biden has told about his confrontation, and subsequent reconciliation, with a Black gang leader who had that nickname in the 1960s.
Lara Trump laughed, and Guilfoyle, on a separate screen, smiled and said she can't get "CornPop" out of her head.
"It's tasty," Schlapp chimed in.
After more denouncing Biden, the panel played a clip of the ABC version of "The View" hosts interviewing Sen. Kamala Harris (D-San Francisco), which provided an opportunity for more patter and criticism.
Trump Jr.'s show, "Triggered," is more guest-dependent and more macho in tone. It gives a weekly platform to the Trump son who many see as the most likely heir to his father's political brand.
In a recent episode, Trump Jr. complained to former NFL running back Herschel Walker that the Trump family is unfairly attacked as racist.
"I've been called every name in the book. I'm racist. I'm an anti-Semite, whatever happens to be the narrative of the day they can sort of throw that at my family," Trump Jr. said.
He then recounted his family's friendship with Walker, who played for his father's team, the New Jersey Generals, in the early 1980s in the now defunct U.S. Football League.
"We joked once sort of about it, which was like, back in the day, people don't know this, I was probably 6 years old when I traveled with your family to Disney World," Trump Jr. told Walker.
"If my father's racist, he probably wasn't going to let his son, his blond bowl-cut [son], hang out with — you know — an African American man, totally alone, for a week at a time in Disney World," he added.
Walker responded by recalling a trip they took to the Bronx Zoo.
It's unclear if these shows boost support for Trump's reelection campaign, or even if they will keep airing once Trump accelerates his rally schedule.
If Trump loses to Biden in November, he may be too angry to start a news network, according to an outside advisor who was involved in the 2016 discussions involving a potential Trump TV operation.
The advisor, who requested anonymity to discuss a topic that involves Trump profiting from politics, said that in 2016 that Trump's advisors were "amazed" that Fox News, which they saw as impure in its fealty to Trump's brand of nationalism, had no serious competition on the right.
Fox's loyalty, the advisor said, "was to establishment [Republican National Committee] views rather than our nationalistic world view."
Barry Bennett, another veteran of Trump's 2016 campaign, said Trump or Donald Jr. will have competition if they try to start a news company aimed at Trump's fervent base.
"There will be several," he predicted, noting that the cost of production and delivery has dropped in the digital era.
Some competition could come from the celebrities that Trump helped create.
"Diamond and Silk, they're not going anywhere," Bennett said, referring to a pair of Trump supporters known for their own digital content. "They've got huge followings."


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Diaspora by Greg Egan
a review by TC , in the genre(s) Science Fiction . Book published by Gollancz in 1997
Diaspora is a science fiction novel by the Australian author Greg Egan.
About a thousand years in our future an entity is born. Not of man and woman , but as an orphan of Konishi Polis. A Polis is a virtual reality society, where a group of computerbased intelligences are living. There are several Polis around the world, living side by side with the "Fleshers" (Homo Sapient descendants still in biological form) and the Gleisners (it's never made quite clear, but probably human brains in robot bodies). Well, not exactly side by side, but most of them in the same solar system and capable of communication when and if they want to.
But like I said: An entity is born – the first chapters tell the story of how a non-biological intelligence evolves and gains self awareness. The discovery of otherness, the first stumbling interactions with the external environment, gaining of self awareness – all really interesting stuff. What Egan is doing is giving us background for the rest of the story – most of the characters in this books are Polis citizens and it's important to understand the way they work psychologically as well as to understand how their environment work.
I'm aware of the fact that I say this every time I review a book by Egan, but that doesn't make it any less true: Egan constant amazes me and there can't be any doubt in my mind, currently, Egan is the best when it comes to hard science fiction. Nobody else comes close. Diaspora is split in to eight parts and each of them contains a new idea and a new direction for the story.
Each of these ideas would have been good enough to be the basis for its own books, but Egan manages to cram a handful of amazing ideas in to this one book. First Egan invents his new theories about the basic structures of our universe and then he reinvents them. Then he goes somewhere else. What makes a binary star system collapse six million years before the predicted time? Will we be able to travel by worm hole to other star systems? Where did the aliens go?
Egan manages to hold on to his characters and keep them alive in the middle of all these ideas, but he does loose touch with his ideas a couple of times. Or maybe it's just me – there are a couple of passages where universes with more dimensions than this one are discussed and ... I simply can't contain them in my brain. What mostly happens is that I get the idea that things are fairly complex, but that's it. I'm good at logic and abstract thinking, but this leaves me totally stumped. Anyway, it isn't that important – you'll be able to understand the story and enjoy the great ideas in the book even if you doesn't understand all of it. I know I did!
Review by bon
Oh what the hell have I gotten into..This book is a mathematician's wet dream with all of it's virtual worlds dipping and climbing themselves to act out formulas that exist in software space/programs.
There's the Polis citizens who are all software "beings" with he and her replaced with ve and ver. They are generated by the Polis mind seed, a sophisticated program set mainly in the solar system and originally under Siberia. When someone wants to create a new citizen, a couple?, they merge codes.
Ok then there's the orphans who are citizens made as explorers which the main characer is.
Then there's the Fleshers, people who didn't get downloaded into software and enjoy physical senses. You just need the intordus program and pop, youre a little ball full of the personality downloaded.
Then the Gleisner, androids with software heads who spend time going anywhere since time doesn't matter to them. One guy hangs out on the moon running programs. Others carve up a comet to keep it away from the earth.
Easy enough right? No. Not for me anyhew. The Glossary in the back kept me up with some of the things in here. I was still a fish getting flushed down a toilet with a manual on sewage repair system with an order to fix the planet.
Although this book was a task and a half I still enjoyed the read!!! This guy doesn't care if you are not following, someone like R. Sawyer would take time to turn around and say over the shoulder "hey buddy, you following me?", this guy Egan doesn't hold back. He assumes you are some kinda smartie pants like him..... Egan kept the brain at peaks like he's blowing up your head balloon ways and letting out a little air once in a while thru a nostril. You understand the neutron? It will help.... Sample paragraph: The macrosphere's four-dimensional standard fiber yielded a much smaller set of fundamental particles than the ordinary universe's six dimensional one. In place of six flavors of quarks and six flavors of leptons there was just one of each, plus their antiparticles. There were gluons, gravitons, and photons, but no W or Z bosons, since they mediated the process of quarks changing flavor. Three quarks or three antiquarks together formed a charged nucleon or antinucleon, similar to an ordinary proton or antiproton, and the sole lepton and its antiparticle were much like an electron and positron, but there was no combination of quarks analogous to a neutron.
Glob almighty get me some aspirin. The whole book isn't like that but the mighty brain Egan goes hither and thither into the wormholes of his own mind that I just need to take notes if I read this thing again. It's just plain nasty to the feeble minded types like me. It may be a while before I pick up another one of his books, this one is a killer.
Written on 8th October 2002 by TC.
Axiomatic
Permutation City
Schild's Ladder
Teranesia
Jerry Cornelius: His Life and Times
The Cassini Division
The Human Division
The New York Trilogy
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Truth and Fear
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
The Ion Raider
A Memory Called Empire
Author: Greg Egan
Format reviewed: Paperback


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WASHINGTON — President Obama urged the nation's top financial regulators on Monday to move faster on new rules for Wall Street, telling them in a private White House meeting that they must work to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
Aides said Mr. Obama also told the regulators that the United States needed a more simplified and certain system of financing housing. The president recently endorsed proposals to reduce the government's role in providing mortgages.
Administration officials and some lawmakers have expressed frustration that critical parts of Mr. Obama's overhaul of the financial system, which was voted into law three years ago and is known as the Dodd-Frank act, remain unenforced as an alphabet soup of federal agencies wrangle over how to adopt it.
In particular, top presidential aides have highlighted the failure in putting the Volcker Rule into effect. It would prohibit banks from risking institutional money in certain speculative investments. Last month, Jacob Lew, the Treasury secretary, complained in a speech that the regulators were moving too slowly to confront the dangers of banks that are so large that governments cannot allow them to fail for fear of bringing down the economy.
"If we get to the end of this year, and cannot, with an honest straight face, say that we've ended 'too big to fail,' we're going to have to look at other options because the policy of Dodd-Frank and the policy of the administration is to end 'too big to fail,' " Mr. Lew said.
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The meeting on Monday was an attempt to raise those concerns directly with the agencies that are responsible for turning the law into reality. Among those in attendance were Mr. Lew; Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve; and top officials at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration.
Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Obama wanted to convey "the sense of urgency that he feels about getting these regulations under Wall Street reform implemented promptly."
"There are some important rules that have been put in place," he added. "More work needs to be done."
Congress passed Dodd-Frank in 2010 in response to the financial crisis of 2008. Since then, regulators have been working to turn the mammoth law into workable regulations, often in the face of opposition from lobbyists for banks that opposed the law.
Among the rules that have yet to be put into effect, according to Treasury Department officials, are enhanced prudential standards for banks and certain other institutions, capital and margin rules for derivatives, new mortgage disclosure regulations and the Volcker Rule. Treasury officials said they expected regulators to finish work in those areas by the end of the year.
As the banks have returned to profitability, the Obama administration has sounded increasingly impatient about the pace of bank regulation. Its desire to speed things up comes at what appears to be an opportune time. The fear that banks are too big, and could jeopardize the wider economy if they fail, is shared by people on both the left and right. Congress has introduced two bills in recent months that envision far more drastic overhauls than Dodd-Frank, both with bipartisan support.
"The politics are pretty good for the administration if they can do something on this," Nolan McCarty, a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton.
Some lawmakers also have expressed concern that the regulators are moving too slowly. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, and several other senators have proposed new laws that would reinstate a firewall between banks and investment firms like those in the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act.
Senators David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, and Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, have introduced separate legislation that would increase the amount of capital that the nation's biggest banks are required to carry.
"For too long, financial watchdogs were asleep on the job, allowing Wall Street megabanks to become too complex to manage and regulate and 'too big to fail,' " said a spokeswoman for Senator Brown.
She said Senator Brown was "hopeful that today's meeting will lead to progress in ensuring that taxpayers and our financial system are no longer threatened by 'too big to fail' banks."
The administration may also want to sound the right notes as the financial crisis's fifth anniversary approaches. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the event blamed for paralyzing the world financial system, occurred on Sept. 15, 2008. The fact that many rules have not been completed so long after Lehman's failure could be a source of embarrassment to the administration and regulators.
"They certainly don't want that story dominating things over the next couple of months," said Marcus Stanley, policy director of Americans for Financial Reform, a group that has called for stricter regulation of financial firms.


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Val has DNA test and finds nine half siblings, 23 half nieces and nephews
Photo: Val Taylor with her recently discovered half brother Trevor Davies.
By Mick Jensen
At the age of 78, Ruapuna resident Val Taylor has been connected to nine half siblings through DNA testing.
She has already met up with one of her "new" siblings and "may connect with the others in her own time".
Growing up in Canterbury, Val was told at the age of 15 that her dad Raymond Rice was not her biological father.
Although she knew her real father's name, Ralph Davies, she did not feel the need, nor did she try to contact him over the years.
"I asked my mum once about my real father, and she didn't want to talk about it and told me he was living in Christchurch and left it at that," said Val.
The journey of family discovery began late last year when granddaughter Amanda had her DNA tested through work.
Val's DNA was the same as Amanda's and also linked her to a newly found cousin Margaret, a genealogy enthusiast, who in turn linked her to a cousin called Trevor Davies.
"Trevor's DNA was a perfect match for mine and I discovered at that moment that I had a half brother.
"The surprise didn't stop there because I then found out that Trevor had eight siblings, three brothers and five sisters, and that now I have nine half siblings."
After opting to speak with Trevor, Val said she felt a connection and decided to meet up with him on neutral ground in Christchurch.
Trevor later came to Val's home at Ruapuna and met some of her family.
"Trevor and my son Brian have such similar features, it really is uncanny," said Val.
Val also learnt from Trevor that her biological father had been a fisherman, salesman and trained as a coppersmith, before his death in 1984.
She also found out that she has 23 half nieces and nephews around the country.
"DNA testing is not for everyone, and I understand that, but for me, it's been a revealing and positive experience.
"It has also offered some closure for the truth that I have hidden for many years."
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