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Protect & Serve: Goldstein Fights to End the War on Drugs
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Former law enforcement officer now works to promote cannabis legalization.
Mitchell Colbert
Diane Goldstein sits on the board of directors of Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP), a non-profit made up of current, and former, law enforcement officers (LEOs) who now oppose the drug war. While these judges, prosecutors, cops and all manner of LEOs once protected and served the interests of the drug war, they are now actively working to end it.
Goldstein is a 21-year veteran of law enforcement who retired as the first female lieutenant of the police department in Redondo Beach, California. She spoke to Cannabis Now about why she became a police officer, what prompted her to join LEAP and what she sees down the road towards legalization. For LEAP, legalization isn't just about cannabis, the organization wants all drugs sensibly controlled and regulated. LEAP opposes the policy of prohibition itself because it is more harmful than the drugs it exists to prohibit.
What originally made you want to enter law enforcement?
Law enforcement was supposed to be a part time gig for me, what I really wanted to be was an attorney. At the time, I was waitressing at a restaurant where a lot of LEOs came in to eat. I needed more benefits than waitressing provided so I made the switch. We had a much different view of law enforcement back then than we do now. Sure, we may have had some fear of them, but unless we were doing something bad they were pretty much just an ancillary parent figure who understood that "kids do stupid things, but they shouldn't go to jail for them." For me, it was about giving back to the community.
What were your views on pot while you were an officer?
Pot should not be criminalized but I had a job to do, though I had a wide degree of discretion in how I did it. I've always felt marijuana was a substance safer than alcohol, but I also felt it shouldn't be used by kids, just like alcohol or tobacco. I used in high school, and I was open about that when I was hired as a LEO and it almost prevented me from getting the job. This was an early example for me on how the collateral consequences of our drug laws could be harmful.
After more than 20 years in law enforcement, you switched sides in the drug war and now you are a member of LEAP. What made you make such a major shift?
National drug policy should be based on one thing only, and that is public health. We need harm reduction, such as LEOs carrying Naloxone for heroin overdoses. I believe that our drug laws are beginning to change and law enforcers are starting to slowly shift how they view drugs. With cannabis, the big issue is that LEOs still treat cannabis like plutonium instead of the agricultural commodity it is.
I was very close to my older brother, who suffered from mental health issues. At a young age, he started smoking, drinking and using illicit substances. We didn't know at the time but he was bipolar and he was self-medicating for that. I witnessed his journey through the mental health and criminal justice systems and its impact on our family. A year or so before I retired in 2004, he moved in with my husband and I. Things improved when he was living with us and I got to see firsthand how race, class, addiction and mental illness intersect with the drug war. While he was living with us, he was arrested along with his girlfriend, and he was jailed for three months. His public defender proved that the police lied on the probable cause needed to search the room where they were staying and got him released. Unfortunately, he died from an accidental overdose in 2007. The grief caused by his death helped to fuel my activism.
In 2010, Proposition 19 got onto the ballot in California and that connected me to LEAP. I saw a debate between Judge Jim Gray and a police chief over Prop 19, and Judge Gray introduced me to Neill Franklin, our executive director. My involvement with LEAP began with marijuana but has evolved into total criminal justice reform. One of the failures of the drug war is the damage it has caused to community relations. The drug war changed LEOs from being peace officers who worked collaboratively with citizens, into drug warriors. The policy of prohibition has contributed to death, disease and addiction while fueling violence and corruption, not just in America but throughout the world.
Do you have anything you would like to add?
It is amazing how big of an impact women are having on this industry, especially in positions of leadership. I am most proud of my work with women's advocacy and business groups, namely Moms United, they are a group of women who have lost children or family members to the drug war and now speak out about the dangers they see in prohibition. Women are bringing consensus building to the conversation, it's not just advocacy but capitalism with a consciousness.
When it comes to marijuana, while I sometimes find the regulatory models troubling, activists need to work with legislatures to make our voices are heard. I oppose CBD-only legislation because it continues to criminalize people and while not providing safe access to patients who need whole-plant medicine.
For me, this is a social justice and human rights issue and it is time to get law enforcement and the criminal justice system out of it. LEAP is not just a drug policy organization but a human rights organization, because drug policy, human rights and social justice are all intertwined.
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Anthropologists on business? Five testimonies from Spain, Argentina and Peru
Published on 11 October, 2018 in Analysis by Sergio Morales Inga
Co-author: Oswaldo Morales Tristán
PhD in International Studies from Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies from the University of Waseda, Japan. MBA from ESAN. Master's Degree in Economics and Regulation of Public Services from the University of Barcelona. Master in Business Law and Lawyer from the University of Lima. Director of Distance Education at ESAN and Professor in the Administration area. Currently, he studies organizational culture and work climate in companies from different sectors and is a proponent of the importance of culture as a determining factor in the strategy of companies.
Translated by: Florencia Belloni
The appearance of organizational anthropology
Professionally established at the early 20th century and knew as the Total Science of Man, Anthropology is the study of human beings. Owing to the complexity of its object, it has many branches: Political Anthropology, Economical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Educational Anthropology, among others. One of those branches is Organizational Anthropology.
Organizational Anthropology is not a recent invention. At the same time that the first anthropologists explored exotic societies (16th – 19th centuries), different large-cap companies – such as the British East India Company – employed them because of their in-depth knowledge of the sociocultural environment. However, it was only in the 1920's, during the famous project Western Electric, leaded by industrial psychologist George Elton Mayo (named "the father of the human relations theory"), that Organizational Anthropology was set as a professional specialty. In that project, anthropologists like Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and William Lloyd Warner took part.
On the first half of the 20th century, Organizational Anthropology was expanded by means of the constitution of professional societies dedicated to research and consultancy – Society of Applied Anthropology (1941), Anthropological Club (1941, Harvard University), Committee on Human Relations in Industry (1943, University of Chicago), Social Research Cooperation Company (1946) -. Such organizations systematized anthropological knowledge, making possible to establish the first scientific journal of organizational behavior, named Human organization (1942), as well as the first book which was entitled Organizational behavior, published by William Foote Whyte in 1969.
As its name says, Organizational Anthropology is not different from Organizational Psychology, because it is also developed within several organizations (companies, schools, universities, institutions, governments). However, it is characterized by a particular ethnographic approach based on deep observations, a panoramic overview and constant comparison exercises. In this regard, we can define Organizational Anthropology as such specialty of Anthropology focused on the study of human organizations. Theoretically speaking, it is the matrix from where anthropological applications nowadays knew emerged. Some of them are knew as Corporate Anthropology or Business Anthropology.
From organizational anthropology to business anthropology
Since mid-20th century, Organizational Anthropology has been branched in several subspecialties, such as Corporate Anthropology or the Anthropology of Consumption. Such development had allowed a strong presence in areas such as advertising (De Waal Malefyt & Morais, 2012), marketing (Orozco, 2016), industrial design (Vinkhuyzen & Cefkin, 2016), technological innovation (Flichy, 2007), consumer behavior (Martin & Woodside, 2017), user experience (Reyero, 2018), community relations (Cochrane, 2017), conflict management (Avruch, 2007), human management (Hansen & Lee, 2009), international business (Herrera, 2015), social responsibility (Dolan & Rajak, 2016) or organizational culture (Jordan, 1994).
At the same time, scientific production have been expanded through journals such as Human organization (1942), Human relations (1947), Practicing anthropology (1979), Anthropology of work review (1980), Ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings (2005), International journal of business anthropology (2010), Journal of business anthropology (2012) or the Journal of organizational anthropology (2012), and books such as Inside organizations (2001) by David Gellner and Eric Hirsch, Business Anthropology (2012) by Ann Jordan, A handbook of practicing anthropology (2013) by Riall Nolan, Handbook of anthropology in business (2014) by Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland or Antropología de la empresa (2016) by Sergio López.
Such development had generated that media such as Forbes, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times or Business Insider had dedicated some lines to this specialty. Thanks to this impact, names as the ones of Marietta Baba, Melisa Cefkin, Andrea Simon, D. Douglas Caulkins, Christian Madsbjerg, Michael Henderson, Gillian Tett, Robert Tian, Brian Moeran, Christina Garsten or Barbara Czarniawska were important references on this subject. In Spanish language, even though the works are lesser than in English, Ángel Aguirre Baztán and Sergio López have contributed greatly with their works.
Beyond the first world, there is a growing anthropological work in countries like Argentina, Colombia, México, Chile or Peru, that already, pays off. That said, it is possible to find specialists that, by doing academic research or applied work, carry out anthropological works on business environments.
Anthropology in the face of a changing world
Currently, we live in an ever-changing world that affects the development and management of the organization. However, for the Anthropology that ever-changing world is its natural niche. According to Fabián García Nicora, Head of the Human Resources degree at the University of Morón, who has a MA in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires, and is also the director of the consultancy firm García Nicora,, the core of Anthropology lies in its methodology, which is able of apprehend the most dramatic social changes:
"In a world that every time it is more accelerated in terms of transformation, I felt that the knowledge I had at that point was not enough. I needed to explain results and behaviors beyond the traditional methods; I needed to recover or seize other level of language towards the interior of the organizations, and what I did not want to seize was more MBA. Anthropology allowed me to give another look, other approach; its added value relays on that oneself have more resources to explain behaviors that, in my opinion, the traditional literature cannot reach to explain. The important thing with Anthropology is that allowed me to explain and understand. Without the Anthropology I can keep with the anecdote; with the Anthropology I keep the meaning."
From organizational ethnography…
Ethnography is a description technique based on deep and systematical observations, and its goal is to comprehend how an organization works. Perhaps the most representative landmark was the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, who in 1914, lived together with the inhabitants of the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) for two years, to study the kula ceremony. Currently, thanks to the Ethnography's holism, the Anthropology recognizes that cultural diversity not only exists outside companies (in the form of segmented consumers), but also inside the company (in the form of structures, hierarchies, areas, habits, leadership styles or experiences). For Anthropology, every organization is, at the same time, a set of micro organizations or subcultures that compete for hegemony. Because of that, it is no casual that, apart from academia, the greatest employer of anthropologists at a global scale, during the whole history of the discipline, is the US government (Fiske, 2008), followed only by Microsoft. If thanks to Ethnography, anthropologists can understand cultural systems, thanks to the so-called organizational ethnography (Carneiro da Cunha & Saidel Ribeiro, 2010), we can give a better appreciation of our organization. For Antonio Espinoza, Anthropologist from the National University of San Marcos, MA in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability from the Centrum Católica Business School and Head of Social Management of GyM, Anthropology is capable of understand the functioning of an organizational system thanks to Ethnography:
"I learnt to appreciate Ethnography, to start working this approach of relations, of systems, and that surprised me. When I communicate with other areas, I realize that they do not handle it. Everything is too specialized and compartmentalized. Nobody goes from one side to the other. And companies, processes are totally concatenated. There are companies that pay lots of money to a trainer, for him/her to tell you something, that us, as students of Anthropology were always told: everything is part of a system. Ideas that are part of the education of an anthropologist are sold as great training courses for companies. I think that the success that many anthropologists have achieved here owes to see things as a system. I think that the anthropologist identifies systems very easily; that complexity, that position, that structure, processes. That is its value."
… to the consumption ethnography.
As well as with the organizational ethnographers, if Malinowski lived together for 2 years in the Trobriand Islands to understand kula, nowadays, the anthropologist specialized in consumption observe consumer trends, by living together with them. Thanks to that approach, companies like Xerox, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, BeerCo, Adidas, Lego, Nissan, Netflix, Coca-Cola, Accenture, Novo Nordisk o Pfizer have enormously grown by closely understand the needs of their users. To this respect, the role of ReD Associates – a strategy consultant that uses anthropological methods – have been fundamental. Otherwise, it was because of disobeying the recommendations of the anthropologist Tricia Wang, that Nokia ceased to be the giant of mobile communications from one day to the next. According Pablo Mondragón, Anthropologist from the University of Granada and Head of Antropología 2.0, the anthropology of consumption pays its attention towards the persona, before to pay it to the product:
"It changes a lot when the goal of business is the person than when the goal is the product. What Anthropology on the field can do is precisely that: shift the idea of the product – the "product centrism" – to focus the attention on the client. This is something that us, as anthropologist, are suitable for, because of our training and our capacity of empathy, not only because of methods and techniques, but also for the genetics of the discipline that we have."
The real power of culture.
One of the most popular definitions of Anthropology, is the one that defines it as the "science of culture", because of the explanatory nature that this concept gave it: beyond its personality features, people act according to its culture. Whereas the Anthropology highlight the organizational significance of culture, at the end of the 19th century, Psychology discovered it by mid 20th century, and business management only during the 1980s.
Nowadays many companies drain their accounts for the sake of a solid organizational culture or in favor of the so-called cultural fit, but only the Anthropology recognizes the real power of culture: it is not a psychological variable nor a set of administrative values, but the nature itself of an organization. What makes it be more than a set of grouped individuals. From this approach, items like social responsibility, internal communication or work environment are only phenomena of that culture. While many companies reduce the management of organizational culture to holding bimonthly company events or tedious integration dynamics, only the most competitive companies at a global scale have been capable of integrate culture to its organizational structure, thanks to departments of innovation and development comprised by anthropologists (Microsoft, Intel, Google). For Anthropology, culture is not something you have, but something you are. According to Christian Virrueta, anthropologist and MA is Social Politics with mention in Social Project Management from the National University of San Marcos, MBA from Centrum Católica Business School and Head of Institutional Relations for a hydrocarbons company in Peru, the wealth of Anthropology it is on its nature:
"Anthropology gives an opportunity of knowledge, of shared learning that makes questions and questions itself. What a company names as 'continuous improvement' is on the chip of the anthropologist: to look, to look oneself, to cross-examine, to be self-critical and go to the epistemology itself. I think that what have given the Anthropology a very powerful added value in a company. In this scenario, if there is a great difference with other professionals – civil engineer, manager, economist – we have more tools on hand to interpret what is going on in a company. What awaits anthropologists is a very hard work at a human resources level, especially now with the 'millennial culture'. There are like three or four very different cultures competing and that is a pretty diverse breeding ground. When you stop to observe, you understand why some things work and why other do not. That is little studied. You know it exists. But, determine how things connect is work more suitable for an anthropologist than for a psychologist."
¿Anthropological skills?
The key of the silent success of anthropologists on business environments not only relays on their particular profiles, but also on their skills. Because wherever they are, is a key part to rethink the used strategy. Either on marketing, institutional relations, social responsibility or in staff selection, the anthropologist will know how to adequate thanks to its particular skills. Taking into consideration that the whole issue of a business it is on how to self-organize their elements (individuals, roles, functions, departments, structures, etc.) to satisfy the need of consumers, will exist any relation between the Anthropology' comprehension capacity and business success? For Nicolás Ortiz, MA in Anthropology from the National University of San Marcos, professor at Peruvian University of Applied Sciences and ESAN Graduate School of Business, and Head of Etnomarketing, the Anthropology is superlative:
"Anthropology is a tool, a chip, a way of seeing things. It is and should be a way of thinking and a way of operating; something that everyone should incorporate. It is a transversality. What does imply this? Relativistic thinking, new information generation, a clearly inclusive logic either for human resources, marketing or to manage groups. It is a knowledge of being there not only for research, given the qualities of an anthropologist, but also to develop in a certain context with social intelligence, being on the top of a hill or in an exclusive space. There is no way that an anthropologist do not know how to be there and not only theoretically; there is no way that he/she do not have the social codes to move in any given situation. And that is key in a business."
The goal of Applied Anthropology in businesses is to bridge the gap between the knowledge generated by means of the cultural analysis of the environment where people live and the proper characteristics of organizations. Trying to generate a language proper to managers and directors allowing them to see that there are multiple realities, but also shared cultural patterns by different social groups within a geographic area or inside an organization, is the main task of this type of Anthropology.
Having more than a century of specialization, how can we (re)boost the development of Anthropology on business environments? Considering the value of the testimonials presented here, we would add: avoiding stereotypes that limit the professional development, generating a change in business culture for the sake of work diversity, to stop having psychologist underemployed in functions they were not trained for and admitting that, once and for all, that people as well as organizations inhabit rich cultural environments.
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"Beatrice possesses an old soul that belies her twenty years, and more than a touch of genius" Gramophone, January 2014
Twenty-two year-old Beatrice Rana has shaken the international classical music world already and aroused admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences in many countries.
In June 2013, she won Silver (2nd Prize) and the Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn competition, bringing her to yet a new level in her already very promising career. She had attracted international attention at 18, winning 1st Prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International competition in 2011.
Beatrice is in demand as soloist for concert series and festivals throughout the world, such as Zurich's Tonhalle, Vienna's Konzerthaus, Verbier Festival, London's Wigmore Hall, Washington DC's Kennedy Center, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Ferrara Musica, Paris Auditorium du Louvre, La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Radio-France Festival in Montpellier, Portland Piano Festival, Lied Center of Kansas, Milan's Società dei Concerti, Lanaudière Festival, Toronto Summer Music, the Vancouver Recital Society, La Folle Journée in Nantes. In August 2015, she made her Verbier Festival recital debut, standing in for Mikhail Pletnev.
A guest of several orchestras internationally, Beatrice has engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa-Cecilia, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the RAI Symphony Torino, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane, the Filharmonica della Scala, the Maggio Musicale, with conductors including Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Jun Märkl, Leonard Slatkin, Trevor Pinnock, Fabien Gabel, Fayçal Karoui, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Andrès Orozco-Estrada, Susanna Mälkki, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi and Zubin Mehta.
Beatrice Rana was selected in 2014 to perform at the International Music Festival of the Orpheum Foundation for advancement of Young Soloists at Zurich's Tonhalle, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta.
A recipient of an impressive number of first prizes in national and international piano competitions, such as the Muzio Clementi Competition, International Piano Competition of the Republic of San Marino and Bang&Olufsen PianoRAMA Competition, Beatrice was selected in 2010 among 60 participants as one of the six pianists competing for the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize, attended a prestigious masterclass with Arie Vardi, with whom she now studies in Hannover.
Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Beatrice Rana made her debuts as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 9, performing Bach Concerto in F minor. Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her Piano Degree at the age of sixteen with top marks, laude and honorable mention under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. During her studies, she was awarded at the age of twelve the prestigious scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research for her great and very precocious musical talent. At the same time she attended masterclasses in Italy, France and United States with artists such as M. Beroff, A. Ciccolini, A. Jasinski, F. J. Thioillier, E. Virsaladze.
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Kvelertak – Meir
It seems the career trajectory of Norway's Kvelertak can be compared it some ways to Rammstein, albeit with a currently quicker ascent, at least in the UK – having caught the eye with their debut self-titled record, a curious blend of black metal-tinged hardcore and classic rock, generating much discussion, despite the inherent lack of English or even German in their lyrical content. For certain it didn't harm their true black metal forefathers who regularly sung in their native tongue, though their sound was in polar opposite to the mainstream in their desperate attempts to remain close to their origins. Kvelertak recognise those ancestral links but seem to embellish the party aesthetic of rock n' roll and a hardcore intensity.
There's nothing much different on album number two, 'Meir' (simply meaning 'more' in English), with every lyric still sung in their primary language, and the odd whiff of a cry of 'sellouts!' now they're a Roadrunner band in the majority of the world. A disappointing sign of the times, you might well say, but if only that were actually true. What's going on here is largely, literally more of what 'Kvelertak' offered. But like the greats so often do, they don't change what isn't broken. And so 'Meir' should just be enjoyed for what it is – a band revelling in their influences and having a damned good time doing so too. The black metal influence is prevalent in flashes particularly early doors and again later on the thrilling 'Nekrokosmos', but there's a party vibe seemingly finding freedom in their sound too, particularly on tracks like the thoroughly anthemic 'Evig Vandrar', the Bronx-meets-Turbonegro groove of 'Bruane Brenn' and the truly stadium worthy 'Tordenbrak', with a riff that AC/DC would be proud of. How ironic, given that 'Tordenbrak' is Norse for the word 'thunder'.
There's no mistaking that Kvelertak still herald their Viking ancestors and indeed their Norwegian musical forefathers greatly, but the animal inside them it seems is always willing to turn loose. And hence, we are given a band for whom second album syndrome is a curse word that ought to be flushed down the toilet along with the other nonsensical terms this industry throws up. Sure the purists might balk and only the curios would constantly try to decipher every word they're screaming, but Kvelertak's name is growing with rapturous aplomb. These fair voyagers are likely to light fires and raise a beer in the sky numerous times before 'meir' becomes 'mindre'.
Kvelertak – Bruane Brenn
Buy 'Meir' here
Posted in Album Reviews.	Tagged Black Metal; Hardcore Punk; Kvelertak; Norway, PC, Roadrunner, Rock
Killswitch Engage – Disarm the Descent
Disarm the Descent
Back in 2003, when Killswitch Engage dropped 'Alive or Just Breathing', it marked the dawning of what some described as the NWOAHM – the New Wave of American Heavy Metal – as bands such as KsE, Lamb of God, Chimaira, God Forbid and more surged forth into mainstream consciousness and helped to recover the genre from the precipice of nu-metal. While most of the bands of that time haven't managed to sustain the momentum from that surge, Killswitch have remained up there at the top, despite losing then vocalist Jesse Leach. With Howard Jones at the fore, they still managed to shift records and build an astounding fanbase. Yet personally, I found Killswitch Engage becoming staler with every record, as they moved further away, it seemed, from the sound that won them their original admirers, becoming more and more formulaic in structure and sound. I personally didn't find anything memorable about their second self-titled record at all.
Yet Leach's return to the band after ten years away marks something of a watershed moment, a new dawn etc. for the band, and I certainly hoped 'Disarm the Descent' would recapture some of the fighting spirit of the band that seemed to have been lost in recent years. It does just that and more in spades. Leach has not been quiet over the last ten years, having plenty time to develop his vocals on last year's Times of Grace album (with KsE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz) and prior to that with the criminally underrated Seemless. His vocals are markedly stronger than they were back on 'AoJB', and while only time will tell whether this album will produce anthems the size of 'Life to Lifeless', 'My Last Serenade' et al, you can't argue they haven't tried. Musically, this is the most intense Killswitch have been for a while, particularly on tracks like 'The Hell In Me' and 'A New Awakening', the latter of which Leach counts in with an aggressive '1, 2, 3, 4!' which alone is sure to liven up any future circle pits, itself providing an extra level of intensity to the song. The more melodic side has been reupped as well – 'You Don't Bleed For Me' and 'A Tribute to the Fallen' are all worthy singalongs but by no means guilty for doing so, each brewing with thunderous beats. Sure, they can't resist digging out the metal lighter anthem in 'Always', but its far from turgid and to be honest, it sticks with me more than Killswitch have in recent years, in a good way.
Even if you threw the towel in on this band years ago, now is the best time to start rediscovering them, just as with Leach on board, the band seem to have rediscovered their best form, mucking around far less and really getting their teeth into the shred. As my tastes expanded I seemed to enjoy the relative simplicity of metalcore less and less, but its undisputed flagbearers have shown there's still a fire inside the veterans of the NWOAHM charge. For all the hype Roadrunner pump into their releases, 'Disarm the Descent' pays it back gratitiously, and then some.
Killswitch Engage – In Due Time
Buy 'Disarm the Descent' here
Posted in Album Reviews.	Tagged Killswitch Engage, Metalcore, PC, Roadrunner, US
King Diamond – No Presents for Christmas
What I would give to see this as Christmas number one in the UK, rather than letting the winner of a fading reality singing competition butcher another pop or rock song. I know my isn't going to come true, as the sheeple probably think King Diamond is another playing card and not the dark overlord of all things great about metal. Of all the alternative Christmas songs, this is surely one of the best.
Roadrunner Records have rereleased Diamond's first solo song officially, twenty-seven years after initially being released. Come on folks, let's try and get something going. It's a long shot but if we can get this song into the Top 40 on Sunday, wouldn't that be great for a laugh, if just for this week?
Posted in Christmas, Downloads.	Tagged Denmark, Heavy Metal, King Diamond, PC, Roadrunner
Gojira – L'Enfant Sauvage
L'Enfant Sauvage
It feels like such a long time since Gojira released 'The Way of All Flesh', the 2009 album that cemented the French death-metallers reputation as true metal heavyweights following the monstrous 'From Mars to Sirius'. Three years isn't the longest between albums for any band – in fact it's not unusual – but with Gojira it has felt like an eternity, with only the promise of the 'Sea Shepherd' EP for the charity of the same name still in the works, having been announced seemingly ages ago, and the live 'The Flesh Alive' DVD as something to tide Gojira fans the world over in anticipation of their new release. Then they signed to Roadrunner, things sped up a little and here we are, with their new album 'L'Enfant Sauvage'.
The most noticeable difference between their latest work and their predecessors appears to be a shift towards vocal-driven harmonies rather than the bludgeoning riff patterns that we've become accustomed to setting their tone. 'Liquid Fire' is one example, released as a single for this album and it shows too, possessing a chorus that switches between gruff and clean spoken vocals. At times 'L'Enfant Sauvage' feels less dynamic that its predecessors, in the riff department at least – towards the end there's an unfamiliar feeling of drag, particularly 'The Fall', by which time it really begins to feel like by-numbers metal. There's still times when they deliver earth-shattering grooved aggression with their usual aplomb, such as on 'The Axe', which has one hell of a pulsating twin-pedal chugging groove that Gojira have become well known for, and the proverbial battering ram of 'Planned Obsolescence'.
Gojira – Planned Obsolescence
Ultimately 'L'Enfant Sauvage' is a difficult one to surmise. Did I enjoy it? Mostly. Did it have some truly explosive sections where I wanted to go ape? Yes it did. Is it a letdown? Hmmm…considering how Gojira have been lorded since 'From Mars to Sirius' and 'The Way of All Flesh' dropped, you'd have to say yes. I don't feel as though that, as good as some of the tracks are, there's anything half as explosive as on previous albums. 'The Way of All Flesh' had marauding technical numbers like 'Oroborus', and the raw power of 'All The Tears' or 'Adoration for None'. 'From Mars to Sirius' had 'In The Wilderness', 'From the Sky', to name a couple. Remember, for a death metal band, Gojira aren't exactly about riff salad – and 'L'Enfant Sauvage' in particular features a lot of simple riffs that often threaten to blend into one big soufflé, but for some great shifts in tempo and verve from drummer Mario Duplantier.
If I had to choose between this record or any of Gojira's previous works, I'd probably plump for one of the older records at least 90% of the time. That's not to say it's a bad record. Or that's it's necessarily their worst. 'L'Enfant Sauvage' is still a damn good metal album and better than a lot of what you'll probably hear this year, but it isn't immediate – it will take some of you a few listens to grow into it and indeed, some of you might well be doing similar chin-stroking to me when deciding how to sum up this album. Anticipation's a bitch, isn't it?
Buy 'L'Enfant Sauvage' here
Posted in Album Reviews.	Tagged Death Metal, France, Gojira, PC, Progressive, Roadrunner


Sunset Printers is a third-generation family-owned printing company that works with some big-deal clients (Kate Spade, Saks, and Ralph Lauren - to name a few) - but their old website didn't showcase their amazing history or incredible work. It wasn't mobile-friendly, required clunky plugins, was tough to navigate, and didn't have enough content. We came up with a clean, modern design to feature their services and guided them through the process of writing content to tell their story. The end result is a fully responsive website that is easy to navigate and showcases their impressive portfolio!


What comes after the Mueller report?
Mueller — who has already charged 34 people and three Russian companies with crimes in connection with the probe — is not recommending any further indictments, according to the Associated Press.
What has the White House said about the report?
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he wants his legal team to see the report before it is released to the public, the Associated Press reported.
Amid speculation that the report would be released soon, Trump had ramped up his criticism of the Mueller investigation this week, casting doubt on its findings and questioning Mueller's decision to submit a written report at all.
How have members of Congress responded?
The Democratic leaders of six House committees — New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, California Rep. Adam Schiff, California Rep. Maxine Waters, Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal and New York Rep. Eliot Engel — released a joint statement Friday, calling for the Justice Department to release the entire report to the public due to "profound public interest" in Mueller's findings.
"After nearly two years of investigation — accompanied by two years of unprecedented attacks on the integrity of the investigation by President Trump — the public and Congress are entitled to know what the Special Counsel has found," they said in the statement.
"To be clear, if the Special Counsel has reason to believe that the President has engaged in criminal or other serious misconduct, then the Justice Department has an obligation not to conceal such information," the statement said.
Other Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, also called for the report to be released in full as soon as possible.


We face our obstacles and do something with them.We will discover that they are not half of difficult to believe that they were.Norman Vincent Peale while we remain in this dimension, knowing the opportunity of life that has bequeathed to us, we must bear in mind that other passers-by as us have bequeathed us, so consider what us manifiesan, determine its scope and everything that can help us towards our growth. In this opportunity we have selected some contributions that contain important messages inviting you to be considerdos to be taken into account. To do so, have been considered the following reflections that we share with ellector interested in their personal growth and spiritual related that their content favors him in his awakening and motivate him to always be attentive in their actions while remains in this dimension. Contributions to be considered if you want to contact with innocence, that lives within you, takes note of the characteristics of the infant, this alert. you wonder, this insurance that is desired on this earth, feel that it lives in peace perfect for eternity. I am faced with the task of today with faith in myself and confidence in the Supreme Law of evolution of the spirit: today we are that yesterday weren't: tomorrow will be what we are not today.
The enthusiasm not only encourages who experiences it, but it is highly contagious. If you believe in something you need to defend, you have a project that you want to move forward or you are working by doing something that will benefit others, you will surely find people will want to join your efforts. Fortunately there is no vaccine for the enthusiasm! If everyone learn to enjoy every little thing we do on a daily basis, we us happier and more satisfied with ourselves. Read more here: Carrier. When the clouds don't let you see the brightness of the Sun, apartalasPues, in other words, will not manage to see the stars but the darkness of the nocheCuando can not sleep every night suenSolo met those who have them when someone you fails without more, do not you detengasnunca will lose you, if not life it shall remind you when you have a good friend conservaloes the best regalola greater fortune you can have, since this will never fail you, and not to forget, every day you wake up give thanks for what you have, not by what was left behind.Only in this way, you can achieve that inner peace so desired, yours, and what is best, yours.


Do you love caving and caves?
The campsite Domaine de Labeiller is located in the middle of remarkable sites that you can visit during your family holidays. These grottoes are filled with stories of 'prehistoric men' to the geological movements that date back thousands of years. Our campsite is the ideal starting point to go for these walks and excursions, an ideal educational stay that will delight your children.
A 29ha site in the heart of a unique wooded area in the world - near the Labeiller Campsite - which offers an exciting approach to the Palaeolithic ornate cave of Pont-d'Arc, known as the Chauvet cave discovered in 1994 located in Vallon-Pont -Arc Ardèche that has never been open to the public. The cave of Pont d'Arc is a perfect reconstruction of the original, which has a thousand paintings and engravings dating back more than 36,000 years. Guaranteed thrill during the visit of this place so impressive that we forget that we are in a replica with details like the humidity, the smells and the temperature of the original cave!
The cave has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2014. In addition to the cave you can discover the prehistoric world in the Aurignacian Gallery, an 800 m² cultural space dedicated to understanding the human beings who lived here 36,000 years ago. Activities for children and their parents are planned in summer.
Close to the Labeiller area, a place of rare beauty awaits you! The magical cave of Salamandre is located in the middle of a garrigue very preserved and offers to you with a lighting that highlights the magic of this place. You can choose between a guided tour with passionate speleologists, backstage exploration with a sports course, abseiling or even ... a balloon trip within the grotto! A visit to make absolutely family!
The cave of Salamandre is accessible by the municipality of Méjannes-le-Clap.


Call for input on "Issues included in the annotated agenda and related annexes of the eighty-eighth meeting of the CDM Executive Board" (22 to 28 February 2016, 24:00 GMT) - DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1 March!
The call for inputs from stakeholders on the "Issues included in the annotated agenda and related annexes of the eighty-eighth meeting of the CDM Executive Board" was open from 22 to 1 March 2016 (24:00 GMT).
The inputs received will be considered by the Board at the start of its eighty-eighth meeting to be held in Bonn, Germany from 7 to 11 March 2016.


Does Olive Oil Go Bad? - Does It Go Bad?
So you've bought a bottle of olive oil, used it once and put it in a cupboard only to forget about it minutes later. Next time you needed oil you used the usual cooking oil. A year later, you found that bottle while cleaning up. It was an expensive bottle, so you would rather not throw it out. Does olive oil go bad?
Or maybe you received a bottle of high-quality EVOO as a birthday gift almost two years ago. It still sits in the pantry unused, and you start to wonder if it's still good enough to use. It's already nearing the date on the label, so you feel like time is running out and you need to either start using it right away or toss it out.
If you're in a similar situation and would like to learn more about storage, shelf life, and going bad of olive oil, read on.
Storing olive oil is no different from storing other oils, like canola or grapeseed oil. That means you should keep it in a cool and dark place, away from sunlight and sources of heat. The pantry or the cellar is the best choice for long term storage.
Once you open the bottle, remember to seal it tightly when not in use. Access to fresh air causes oxidation, and that results in the oil going rancid. The pantry isn't the most practical place to store opened olive oil. That means you probably should keep it in a cupboard in the kitchen, so it's within arm's reach. Please note that all the requirements regarding storage conditions stay true for an opened bottle. So that cupboard shouldn't be near the stove, and you definitely shouldn't let the oil sit on the counter. In either case, the oil will degrade in quality within a few months.
There's also the question of whether or not you should refrigerate EVOO. The best answer I can come up with is: refrigeration is not required, but it doesn't hurt. Please note that olive oil will become cloudy when chilled in the fridge. That process is not harmful, and the consistency will get back to normal once the liquid reaches room temperature.
Once more tip when it comes to storing EVOO. If you've bought a large container of olive oil, transfer some of the fat to a small dark bottle. You can keep that bottle in the kitchen, so it's easy to grab it when needed. The large container should go to a dark and cool place, and you should open it only to refill your handy bottle. This way the EVOO in the big container will retain its quality for much longer.
Olive oil, like other oils, has a fairly long shelf life. For starters, each bottle comes with a best-by date, which is an estimate of how long, at the very least, the product will retain freshness. Of course, like with almost all products that come with a best-by date, the oil will remain at good quality for longer. That's true provided that you follow the storage guidelines outlined earlier. How long past the date on the label will the EVOO be good? It's impossible to say, as it depends on both storage methods and the quality of the oil itself. So a more expensive bottle from a reputable brand will likely keep its freshness for longer. 3 to 6 months past the best-by date should be a fairly safe estimate.
Once you open the bottle, the oxidation process speeds up a bit thanks to access to fresh air. For best quality, you should try to finish the bottle within a year, but it should stay okay for up to 18 months.
Please note that all the periods above are estimates. Sometimes the oil will go rancid even quicker, other times it will stay fresh for even longer.
How To Tell If Olive Oil Is Bad?
Like other oils, olive oil usually doesn't go bad in a way it's unsafe to eat. Of course, if you notice any signs that make you question if it's still edible, you should discard it. Such signs include the presence of mold near the seal, discoloration, change of consistency, or an off smell. As mentioned, these are highly unlikely to happen, but if either one of them happens, just throw out the bottle.
What's much more likely to happen is that the oil goes rancid. The first thing you should know is that rancid olive oil isn't unsafe to eat. It's only of worse quality, basically. If you were to scour the Internet to learn about signs of rancid olive oil, you would find the answers are all over the place. Some people talk about a stale smell or taste, other point out subtle taste differences. Generally, it's not that easy to tell the difference between rancid olive oil and a fresh one. The differences are quite subtle, and it's often not clear if the oil is rancid or not. Especially if you never consumed fresh, high-quality EVOO. In fact, many of us prefer the rancid version, as we're more accustomed to the taste. If you're interested in reading more about this phenomenon, check out this article on FiveThirtyEight. In short, if you notice that your olive oil is rancid, it's up to you whether you continue using it or discard it.
I just ruined an entire kettle of this wonder winter soup because of bad olive oil.


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Q: Alternative ways of using dynamic values in creating composite index for queries in Firestore DB I am having a hard time thinking about what static value to put in a query for my online voting application. What I want to happen is that every voter can see list of candidates on their screens but later removed from the list when they already voted the selected candidate. With this concept in mind, I have constructed a query like this:
FirebaseUser user = mAuth.getCurrentUser();
    String voterID = user.getUid();
    Query query = notebookRef.orderBy("posOrder").orderBy("candidateFullName").whereEqualTo("Voters." + voterID, false);

    FirestoreRecyclerOptions<VoterCandidateItem> options = new FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<VoterCandidateItem>()
            .setQuery(query, VoterCandidateItem.class)
            .build();

    adapter = new VoterCandidateAdapter(options);

    recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.candidateList);
    recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
    recyclerView.setItemAnimator(null);

Now, using the query, the logcat recommends creating a composite index for this query to make it work, and this is what the Firebase Console showed me:

The problem in creating this composite index is that it will only display the list for the current user who has the UID of TNn7J...J33, and this is not allowed in creating a working composite index.
Here is the screenshot of my Firestore DB to get some of my idea for the application:

If there is a way or a workaround on this problem I am facing, please do drop your answers. Thank you.

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Manchester United are set to sign Victor Lindelof in the incoming transfer window, but the signing of the rock solid 22-year-old centre-back has been delayed due to economical issues between Benfica and Lindelof's previous club Vasteras.
The Swedish club demand a solidarity subsidy, which is a sum previously agreed by the two clubs and that Benfica must transfer to Vesteras as the player grew up in their academy. According to A Bola Benfica owe Vesteras € 250.000, but the Portuguese club are reluctant to pay that fee to Lindelof's first club.
This misunderstanding between the two clubs is delaying the arrival of Lindelof at Manchester United even if the Premier League giants have already reached economic agreements with both the player and his club.
The fee demanded by Vesteras is not too high especially because Lindelof is set to move to the Old Trafford for a transfer fee in the region of € 40 million. The 22-year-old defender's arrival has been delayed, but is not in danger of collapse.


Hancock administration launches independent "Public Integrity Division" to reform Denver Sheriff Department - Denverite, the Denver site!
The mayor is enlisting the help of a marijuana skeptic and a 12-year FBI veteran.
Dec. 13, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
The Denver Department of Safety will run an independent investigative force to handle complaints against the Denver Sheriff Department, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Thursday.
The move, which follows the deaths of Marvin Booker and Michael Lee Marshall, who were in custody, takes internal investigations out of the the sheriff's office. Dubbed the Public Integrity Division, the team's job will be to investigate complaints against the department, whether they come from members of the public or internally, from employees.
A recent case involving two high-ranking leaders led played a role in the unit's creation, according to a press release.
About 20 employees — civilians, not deputies — will make up the team, which should kick into gear in the spring or early summer of next year.
"It is a vital step towards enhancing public employee confidence in the sheriff department's complaint process," Hancock said at a morning press conference.
Complaints take 239 days to resolve on average, according to safety department Executive Director Troy Riggs.
Eric Williams, hired in may as Riggs' second in command, will lead the division. He's a former special investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The city hired Bob Troyer, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado under the Trump administration, as a consultant to help form the division. Troyer has vocally criticized Colorado's marijuana policies in the past.


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Preetham Mallikarjuna Rejoins Simulmedia, Inc as Chief Product Officer
Mar 7, 2018 Press Releases
To Direct VAMOS Advanced TV Software Offering Now Unbundled from Simulmedia's Audience Network
NEW YORK (March 7, 2018) Simulmedia, the leader in data optimized national TV campaigns that deliver superior performance for major brands, today announced that Preetham Mallikarjuna has rejoined the company in the newly created position of Chief Product Officer. Mr. Mallikarjuna rejoins Simulmedia, Inc. from ESPN, where he had been Linear Ad Product Lead. He previously worked for Simulmedia from 2012 to 2016, rising to Senior Vice President of Product Strategy.
Reporting to Simulmedia CEO Dave Morgan, Mr. Mallikarjuna (Mull-y-car-juna) will direct the unbundling of the company's proprietary Video Advertising Marketing Operating System (VAMOS) - the most powerful advertising platform ever built for TV - from Simulmedia's Audience Network. Marketers, agencies, TV media owners and distributors no longer have to buy media from Simulmedia to take advantage of the platform's benefits. Instead, they can use VAMOS to plan, execute, measure and optimize outcomes-based TV campaigns with their own media and own brand data.
"No one in the world is better qualified to lead the product organization than Preetham," says Mr. Morgan. "He has history here, having created the vision and roadmap for a standalone VAMOS when we first contemplated it as a software-as-a-service offering. He also sees where the market is going and therefore knows how to evolve VAMOS so that it will continue to empower those who are responsible for their companies' TV efforts."
"Buying TV ads on an audience and outcome basis has been too hard. Agencies don't have the technology. Existing TV systems are too blunt and siloed to plan, measure or optimize it," says Mr. Mallikarjuna. "The offerings that do exist are seller-defined, don't handle custom audiences, and lack the capacity for buyers or sellers to translate their audience segments into a common instruction sets. Further, none of the digital marketing clouds, DMPs or DSPs work for linear TV yet. VAMOS changes all that. It is the only platform where audiences and audience data, campaigns, and outcomes all come together, linking to digital and CRM enterprise systems and helping TV advertisers to overcome audience fragmentation and drive velocity for their business."
Until March 2016, Mr. Mallikarjuna served as Senior Vice President of Product Strategy responsible for leading the Product Management team and turning Simulmedia's product vision into reality.
Prior to joining Simulmedia in 2012, he was an Associate at Goldman Sachs, working in the Data Management & Analytics group in Global Investment Research. Earlier, Mr. Mallikarjuna served as Director of Operations for an investigations boutique, OmniWatchIntelligence Services, which was acquired by Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, Inc. He began his career as a programmer in Sales and Trading Technology at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Mallikarjuna holds a bachelor of science in Information Systems and Finance from New York University.
Simulmedia (www.simulmedia.com) is a New York based technology company that guarantees the data-targeted national TV campaigns it runs for brands and agencies will produce more new customers and higher sales than conventionally planned and targeted campaigns. Powered by the company's patented VAMOS data-driven predictive analytic platform, Simulmedia's Performance TV® delivers more effective national TV ad campaigns at massive scale for dozens of top marketers like Clorox, The Home Depot and Choice Hotels. Using advanced TV data targeting, Simulmedia reaches a higher percentage of any brand's target audience - or prospects - and guarantees a better ROI than any other linear TV solution in the world.
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Pink in any shade Jil Sander and Elsa Schiprellia had pastel pink at their shows, Pucci had more of a beige tone pink, Carolina Herrera had a berry pink.
Think the TV show "the Tudors" with embroidery, black & gold, velvet and ornate details. Over the top Jewels and embellishments were spotted at brands such as Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton and Prada. While gilded print was popular featured by designers such as Ferragamo, Balmain, Versace, Ralph Laurent, Oscar Del La Renta and Jason Wu.
Labels: Proenza Schouler, Celine, Jil Sander, Reed Krakoff, Maison Martin Margiela, Max Mara, Derek Lam, Bottega Veneta, Brood, Michael Kors.
Tailored suit pants, jackets, waist coats and pinstriped print.
Jackets and furs featured multiple blocks of colour in favour of print.


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New to home video: 'Get Hard,' 'The Gunman,' 'While We're Young' and 'Danny Collins'
Sean Penn plays an assassin who is hunted for the secrets that he harbors in "The Gunman."
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The new home video releases for June 30 include …
2½ stars out of four
Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content and language, some graphic nudity and drug material
Starring: Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell
Written and directed by: Etan Cohen (first feature film)
The scoop: Will Ferrell plays a millionaire who is sentenced to prison after a fraud conviction. Devastated, he hires the only black man he knows, Darnell (Kevin Hart), to prepare him for lockup. The only trouble is Darnell is as squeaky clean as they come. Hart and Ferrell are charismatic actors and the premise is funny, but the execution is hit-and-miss.
3 stars out of four
Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality
Starring: Sean Penn and Javier Bardem
Directed by: Pierre Morel ("Taken")
The scoop: A former assassin (Sean Penn) finds himself hunted by dangerous men afraid of the dark secrets that he harbors. Moviegoers have seen similar things in the past, but the film is still engaging thanks to solid pacing and a nice performance by Penn.
Rated R for language
Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin and Adam Horovitz
Written and directed by: Noah Baumbach ("Frances Ha," "The Squid and the Whale")
The scoop: The story of a middle-aged couple (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) who try to recapture their youth by hanging out with a much-younger couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). The subject matter is enticing and the cast is remarkably talented.
DANNY COLLINS
Rated R for language, drug use and some nudity
Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer
Written and directed by: Dan Fogelman (first feature film)
The scoop: An aging rock musician takes stock of his career and tries to reinvent himself after receiving an undelivered letter that John Lennon wrote to him at the beginning of his career. Al Pacino isn't completely believable as a superstar singer, but the movie's dramatic arc is surprisingly engaging.
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Video Verdict: 'Amour,' 'Epic'
Jean-Louis Trintignant, front, and Emmanuelle Riva star in "Amour." The drama was nominated for five awards and won best foreign language film at the most recent Oscar ceremony.
This week's major home video releases include an exciting animated movie and the drama that won best foreign language film at this year's Oscar celebration.
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Video Verdict: 'Olympus Has Fallen,' 'The Big Wedding'
Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton star in "The Big Wedding."
This week's biggest home video releases have a lot of star power, but they are unfortunately light in more important areas.
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Snapshot Reviews: 'Fast & Furious 6' and 'Epic'
"Fast & Furious 6" makes its way into theaters today (May 24).
I'm introducing a new feature here at ForrestHartman.com: Snapshot reviews. Please note that I will still write long-form critiques for my Video Verdict column. These are designed to give readers a quick assessment of new movies. Hopefully you find them useful and fun.
Story: Dominic Toretto and his crew team with U.S. agent Hobbs in order to capture a dangerous mercenary who is at skilled at motorized hijackings as they used to be. Sweetening the pot is the apparent appearance of Dom's longtime love, Letty, a woman the whole crew thought was dead.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Gina Carano.
Directed by: Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow," "Fast Five")
Bottom line: The plotting is ridiculous and the dialogue is melodramatic, but the stunts are as good as they get.
Story: Animated film about a teen girl who discovers a tiny world of forest creatures engaged in a constant battle between good and evil. When she is magically transported into their world, she goes on a fantastic adventure.
Voice cast features: Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Beyonce, Chris O'Dowd, Pitbull, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz and Jason Sudeikis
Directed by: Chris Wedge ("Ice Age," "Robots")
Bottom line: Beautiful 3-D animation coupled with a compelling story. The fantastic writing, and Wedge's excellent execution, make this the best animated movie since "Rise of the Guardians."
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Video Verdict: 'Man on a Ledge,' 'Gone,' 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
Sam Worthington pushes himself to the limit in "Man on a Ledge."
Two thrillers from Summit Entertainment anchor this week's home video releases.
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Video Verdict: 'Drive,' 'The Thing,' 'The Big Year,' 'In Time,' 'Dream House'
Carey Mulligan, left, and Ryan Gosling star in the thriller "Drive."
This week's major home video releases include the prequel to a classic horror film, a science-fiction drama starring Justin Timberlake and a gritty thriller featuring Ryan Gosling.
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Video Verdict: 'Battle Los Angeles,' 'Hall Pass,' 'Red Riding Hood,' 'Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son'
Amanda Seyfried plays Valerie in "Red Riding Hood," a modernization of the classic fairy tale.
This week's major home video releases include two mainstream comedies, an update of a classic fairy tale and a science-fiction thriller starring Aaron Eckhart.
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Kylee Peña – Post Production Pro
Film and television post production expert located in Los Angeles
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Dispatches from PyeongChang: Editing the Olympics (Part 5)
Posted on February 22, 2018 by Kylee Peña
Growing up, I was always glued to the Summer or Winter Olympics. And as a young and ambitious video nerd, I wondered what went into the incredible number of visual stories being told. Luckily I crossed paths with editor Mike Api who is currently in PyeongChang, South Korea, freelancing for NBC in his second Olympic Games. Mike's "unit" is in the "Control C/Graphics Ingest" unit — that is, the department that cuts promos, sponsorship enhancements, and a few athletic features (or in other words, packages and profiles).
Mike is sending me periodic dispatches from PyeongChang, where he's on day 15 in a row (or day 16, time zones are confusing) of editing the Olympics. This is the fifth installment — check out part one to get started on his journey.
What role does music play in the editing you're doing? Are you selecting it, is it provided, are you assigned edits that use more prolific music or is it something that's used a lot? OR are you not using a lot of music at all for the stuff you're sending to affiliates?
The Olympics has a very distinct orchestral score that's instantly recognizable, but that's not really what we go for when we're cutting our pieces. There's definitely a time and place to use the huge epic tracks with the pounding drums and 60-piece orchestra, but if you use that all the time it starts to get boring. The big soaring John Williams stuff is mainly to set the atmosphere for the live broadcast and then maybe some end-of-Games recaps or epic montages, but for promos and features the score can be all over the map genre-wise. This time in particular, we're making a concerted effort to freshen it up and experiment with more upbeat modern stuff as opposed to the typical "Olympics" music and I think the results have been pretty cool. We have access to a ton of music libraries to pull from. We'll do a few pop songs each Games but it's mainly library stuff.
At this point you've been away from home for several weeks, and you're in double digit number of days working 12 hour shifts in a row. How do you maintain a level of creative inspiration to keep going? Do you ever hit a wall when working with this, or is that just not possible?
Sometimes it can be tough to stay fresh creatively but it helps that there are new sports each day, so you're usually looking at new angles of new people in new places, doing new (crazy) things. It can be a challenge for events like figure skating and skiing that happen every day, but you reference the previous day's work and try to do something a little different, or improve upon what you've been doing. It helps you stay sane instead of just plugging in the same formula day-in day-out.
Beyond that, I'm always inspired by the people I work with and am constantly absorbing new tricks and techniques. It's fun to watch each other's stuff and see how we're all turning the same footage into drastically different pieces. We often do the whole "where'd you get THAT shot!?" or "have you seen THIS one?" routine like the nerds we are.
You can get super close to the track.
I think you can easily hit a wall physically more so than creatively. Like any edit job, you're making hundreds if not thousands of decisions every day and there's always more to do. It can be really taxing mentally. Somewhere around Day 10 or 11 the schedule starts to catch up to you. By that point the Games are in full swing, you're cranking on pieces every day, maybe you've crashed a few last minute pieces or some you were really proud of were killed because the featured athlete got hurt. But everyone's in it together, supporting one another and keeping the energy flowing. Once you get past Day 10 it starts to move pretty quickly. I'm writing this on Day 15 and can't believe we're almost done. It feels like I've been here forever but at the same time the Games themselves flew by.
Are there any special pieces that are generally prepared for the end of the Olympics? Or does that change?
There are a number of annual ending pieces and they're the most anticipated cuts aside from the grand Olympic open (which is cut by longtime NBC veteran Phil Parrish). Everyone's got some kind of end-of-Games recap or lookback to do, plus there is the credit rollout to cut. We have so many credits that our rollout is about ten and a half minutes long. The big headlining end piece is called Remember The Titans and it airs right before the credit rollout plays. It's a piece we do every Olympics of the very best of the best, most epic shots and intimate moments, heartbreak, emotional victories, and the Olympic spirit. Everybody pulls selects throughout the whole month and it's really special when you finally see it all compiled together with the Titans score. We'll all gather together on Sunday to watch the finished cut. It's a great culmination of everyone's work (and some fantastic editing by the brilliant Josh Glaser).
OBS HD cameras along the track in the sliding center
Can you talk about going to see some of the events, like alpine skiing and skeleton? How was it different than what you saw in Rio?
I'm a little biased because I love the winter sports more than the summer sports, but the atmosphere at the events I saw was unbelievable. Alpine skiing is terrifying because of the sheer speed at which they hurl themselves down the mountain. It's completely insane. Skeleton was particularly cool because as fast as they look on television, you can't imagine how fast they whiz by you in person. I remember thinking to myself, "oh, these guys are out of their damn minds too." You can literally blink and miss them. That said, it does look like a lot of fun to careen down an ice flume like a superhero. We walked down the length of the track and stopped at the last big turn before the finish line to watch South Korea's Yun Sungbin (the guy with the Iron Man helmet) win gold amongst a sea of Koreans, which was incredible. Seeing the home team win gold and everybody going crazy is a really special experience.
You said you're coloring in the edit, out of curiosity are you doing any QC for picture and sound levels or is that a separate department that legalizes stuff?
We QC everything ourselves and take it really seriously. Everything that gets delivered first gets sent to our EVS supervisor, where he and usually the editor plus one or two other people will all watch the piece down before pushing it to the servers. Whoever receives the cut on the other side will also give it a QC pass before it's finally cleared for air. From the outset, we have really specific standards as far as audio levels, video levels, and the entire export process so it's pretty clear what we need to be delivering.
Logo wall inside the IBC
Have you personally developed any Olympic traditions aside from pin trading now that you've got the majority of two of them down?
(Does eating like an animal count as a tradition?) You can learn a lot about a culture by diving into their cuisine, which is why I like to house as much of it as I possibly can. I loved the food in Rio and lovvvvve the food here in Korea. You could put an old sneaker in front of me and I'd eat it if it had gochujang (Korean red chili paste) on it.
Aside from pins, a lot of people get a postcard stamped on the day of Opening Ceremony. It's a pretty unique little souvenir to have something with these specific Olympic postmarks on them. The last thing I need in my house is more stuff, but since they don't take up any space I might make this a new tradition of mine.
Opening ceremony post mark
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According to a new research finding Preoperative weight loss in Bariatric Surgery leads to better postoperative outcomes .Dr. Hutcheon and associates have demonstrated that in case of patients losing at least 8 percent of excess weight just one month before the procedure there is enhancement in ability to shed even more pounds in the year following surgery.The findings of new study have been published ahead of print as an "article in press" on the website of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons .
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Editorial – If God had Workers Who
God has waited long for a company of united sanctified people through whom He can finish His work. Are we ready to carry out the great work of preparation in which we must all engage?
The New Testament Church
Who decides who is going to be a church member? Is it the pope who has the keys? If it is not the pope, is it the church board? Can they decide? What about the church body? Can we decide whose name is written in heaven and whose is not?
By Marshall Grosboll
Unity and the Waymarks
When you start forsaking present truth, you lose the unity. That is why we have confusion now, and we will never, never have unity again until we come back and stand on present truth.
The Call to the Sleeping Virgins
In the parable, the ten virgins had lamps, but only five of them have the saving oil with which to keep their lamps burning. This represents the condition of the Church.
By Danny Vierra
Are You Ready for the Time of Trouble?
Those who exercise but little faith now, are in the greatest danger of falling under the power of satanic delusions... even if they endure the test, they will be plunged into deeper distress and anguish in the time of trouble, because they have never made it a habit to trust in God.
By John Osborne
Scriptural Basis Of Communion
As we partake of the emblems He has given us, He wants us to look forward with rejoicing to that time, believing that through His grace, we have been forgiven and cleansed.
By Mike Thompson
New? Movement
In every moral crisis within the church, when the majority have followed after error, leading those who choose to be faithful to the truth to separate from them, there has been unity of understanding as to what constitutes the church of Christ.
By Bob Vun Kannon
The Last Crusade
Satan realized that it was impossible to maintain his control of the people while they had the Holy Scriptures, because they would be able to discern his deceptions and withstand his power.
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The First Trailer Is Here For MAFS Season 7 And It's As Dramatic As You'd Expect
By Olivia Esveld
Feel that? It's the feeling of that massive MAFS shaped hole in our lives slowly but surely closing up!
Overnight the hit reality TV show Married At First Sight released the first trailer for season seven and it's just as dramatic as you'd expect it to be.
The teaser gives us a glimpse at the men and women who will meet the possible loves of their life for the very first time at the end of the aisle.
We begin in a mystical looking forest, looking dark and damp and with fog rolling through – a sort of symbol for the love life's of the contestants before entering the experiment.
Our brides and grooms walk through the forest, in slow motion of course, as Billie Eilish and Khalid's Lovely plays in the background and we hear small quotes from the contestants.
"I feel scared and alone," says one bride as she walks into the "tunnel of love".
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Then suddenly the whole mood changes. The tunnel is transformed with hundreds of twinkly lights. As our brides and grooms meet in the middle, they share their first kiss that's so magical they actually lift up into the air. We're not joking.
"Love will rise," the screen reads as our couple floats off into the night.
Married at First Sight season 7 will hit our screens sometime in early 2020, although no date has been set yet.
Check out the trailer for yourself above!
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But what about the bathroom?
First is the water heater that takes up a lot of room. Then again, a bunch of pipes everywhere.
We decided long ago that we were going to redo all water lines before finishing the basement, just did not plan on doing it this year. But after discovering that our duct vents for the furnace are not the right size and water lines are in the way to resize them. We decided to get a bid on redoing all our water lines inside the house and out.
Normally we would call a couple of different plumbers but we have a plumber that we really like and we feel like his prices are really good. So we called him to come give us a bid. For him to redo everything inside and move somethings around (washing machine, water heater, and water softener) this would be about $1,600. Then for him to redo the outside water line (from the meter to the house), add a new stop & waste value for the sprinklers, and add a freeze proof faucet to the house, he would charge $1,650. So for him to do everything it would cost us about $3,250. We thought this bid was going to be double what it was. To us at this price, we decided it was worth him doing all the work, especially outside.
But before he could come redo and move the washing machine water lines, we needed to build a wall for it to go on. So I got to work filling in all the cracks in the foundation to waterproof the wall better (post coming soon). Then I painted some Drylock onto the wall (see how we did this before, here). SIDE NOTE: I liked the Drylock better than the Behr paint I used before. After the paint dried, we were ready to build our very first wall. Now because this was our first wall ever, I am not going to give a tutorial but stay tuned for how we built a closet wall in our basement. We finished the wall just in time for the plumber to come the next day. Please note that we only built half of the wall because there was a bunch of plumbing in the way, needed to be removed first.
For day one, the plumber started in the inside of the house (it was raining outside). He removed all the old pipe within a couple of hours then started on adding new PEX pipe (PEX pipe is cheaper than copper). After him working for 8 hours, we had all new water lines inside the house and water back on.
The next day was outside day. He started digging around our sprinklers with a shovel. We were a little worried about the placement of the sprinkler values and hoped that the old pipe would be able to be pulled out (only if it did not break!). If the pipe broke we would have to cut the sprinkler and probably remove the sidewalk, NOT what we wanted.
After digging out around our sprinklers, he pulled out the big digger and started digging down to the pipe.
At this point, he cut the old pipe and sledge hammered it back into the house about 5-8 inches. He did this because our pipe was to close to the wall inside the basement, needed extra pipe to connect the new pipe to pull through. He then attached the new pipe (blue) to the old pipe and pulled it through.
SIDE NOTE: The old pipe did not break, YAY! It did look something like this. In a couple more years, we would have had a different turn out.
Once the plumber pulled out the new pipe, he finished digging with the big machine. But now problem number 2, our light pole went right over our water line, plus our old stop & waste and faucet were located inside the box. So we had to remove it. But before the plumber came, I had to disconnect all the electrical wires going to the light pole. Which I did the day before he came. Eric and his helper also removed all the bricks surrounding the light pole before.
Now something the original owners of the home liked was cement and we were wondering how much was used to cement this guy in. Here is the process of removing the light pole.
Anyways back to the plumbing, after removing the light pole the plumber could now finish the water line and fill everything in. Here is what we where left with.
The soil will compact down more over time but I think it does not look to bad. We just need to get some sod for where the light pole was.
We also got a faucet added to the side of our house, no more worrying about that freezing and it does not leak like the old one! And that was the 2 day process of us redoing our water lines inside and out of our home. Here is our home today about a month later.
Does anyone else need to replace a main water line?
PS. The grass is looking better and better everyday!


Nefertiti will always be known as the final all-acoustic record made by Miles Davis' classic second quintet. A thematic bookend to the preceding Sorcerer, the 1967 set shares much in common with its equally nuanced predecessor yet deviates by way of its focus on rhythm and exploratory soundscapes.
As he does on Sorcerer, Davis again cedes all compositional duties to his all-star band mates and focuses on his trumpet. Familiar albeit slightly dissonant, rooted in hard bop yet signaling the onset of fusion, the songs are grounded in inquisitive interplay and subconscious impressionism. Nefertiti reveals fresh devices and new directions every time you visit its cerebral worlds. And while each musician is given ample room to solo, the effort stands as an example of groupthink in that no individual stands out or shows off. The groundbreaking title track – during which the horn section recurrently repeats the melody as drummer Tony Williams and bassist Ron Carter improvise, thus inverting the conventional sense of a rhythm section – shines as a textbook example of such chemistry and unity.