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by Dan Gjelten | November 21, 2012 · 10:35 am
November 21 – Thanks (702)
Within the circles of our lives
we dance the circles of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon
within the circles of the seasons,
the circles of our reasons
within the cycles of the moon.
Again, again we come and go,
changed, changing. Hands
join, unjoin in love and fear,
grief and joy. The circles turn,
each giving into each, into all.
Only music keeps us here,
each by all the others held.
In the hold of hands and eyes
we turn in pairs, that joining
joining each to all again.
And then we turn aside, alone,
out of the sunlight gone
into the darker circles of return.
Today, Great River Radio will offer a pre-Thanksgiving cornucopia of music, songs that will "keep us here, each by all the others held." I know this is a busy day for many, as we prepare for family get-togethers tomorrow, family reunions, repeating traditions that have gone on for years, all the cycles of our lives playing out again. Bobby Womack will kick off the show with today's river song and then we'll hear from Bat For Lashes, The Civil Wars, Sweden's El Perro Del Mar and The Raveonettes. We've got new local music from Haley Bonar and Ben Kyle, as well as from Joshua James and Los Angeles band Lavender Diamond. We'll wind up GRR with some music about giving thanks.
Tune in this afternoon, or later on the blog. Maybe as you are doing your cyber shopping this weekend – that might be a good time to listen!
Deep River-Bobby Womack
Tracks in the Snow-The Civil Wars
Walk On By-El Perro Del Mar
All Your Gold-Bat For Lashes
A Perfect Place-The Raveonettes
Bad Reputation-Haley Bonar
The Turf-Ben Kyle
I'm Not Waiting Anymore-Field Report
Everybody's Heart's Breaking Now-Lavender Diamond
Ghost in the Town-Joshua James
Ghost (Live from Laurel Canyon)-Ingrid Michaelson
Help-Cloud Cult
We're Alright Now-John Hiatt
Turn Me On-Meshell Ndegeocello
Long Way Home-Tom Waits
Thanks for the Joy-Ruthie Foster
Thankful N' Thoughtful-Bettye LaVette
Thanksgiving-Mary Gauthier
What a Wonderful World-Stacey Kent
Amazing Grace-Shelby Lynne
Tagged as Bat for Lashes, Ben Kyle, Bettye Lavette, Bobby Womack, Cloud Cult, El Perro del Mar, Field Report, Haley Bonar, Ingrid Michaelson, John Hiatt, Joshua James, Lavender Diamond, Mary Gauthier, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ruthie Foster, Shelby Lynne, Stacey Kent, The Civil Wars, The Raveonettes, Tom Waits
by bcbrown | May 18, 2011 · 7:58 am
May 18 – Five Years of River Songs
The river to the ocean goes,
a fortune for the undertow.
None of this is going my way.
There is nothing left to throw
of Ginger, lemon, indigo,
coriander stem and rose of hay.
Strength and courage overrides
the privileged and weary eyes
of river poet search naivete.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
All of this is coming your way .
"Find The River" – R.E.M.
As humans, we are taught early in life to gauge success with tangible tools of measurement – grades, height, wealth, etc. But these measurements rarely take into account the intangible – emotions, happiness, satisfaction, love and friendship. Even music sets a structure of time, rhythm and beat. But the very best music makes us feel something else, something transcendent and beautiful. Today marks the end of the 5th season of Great River Radio. On our best days, we hope you discovered a song or two that made your heart swoon or allowed you to be lost in the moment – if just for a minute or two – during a busy day.
The constant, reliable flow of a river can also conjure up feelings of solace and grace, transporting us to places unexpected. But this spring we are again reminded that rivers can devastate and destroy, too. Perhaps, that is why so many artists are drawn to the river metaphor. Rivers represent a life cycle – often unpredictable – of birth, baptism, life, death and rebirth. Rivers run deep symbolism. For the last five years we have started most of our shows with a "river song." Not surprisingly, we have had many wonderful songs to choose from. So, to celebrate the close of our fifth year, Great River Radio is pleased to present a very special afternoon of river songs.
Today you will hear deep south river songs by Bessie Smith, Aaron Neville and The Bottle Rockets. Great River Radio favorites Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Uncle Tupelo, Cloud Cult and The Decemberists will offer their take on the river song. And we'll have river tracks from such diverse artists as Los Lobos, Brian Eno, Mavis Staples, Carrie Rodriguez, Robert Johnson and Richard Thompson. An eclectic mix to be sure. But would you expect anything less from the Great River Radio music staff?
As always, we are grateful that so many of you are able to tune into Great River Radio – either live or via the website. Please take a moment to join us today for our final show of the season. And have a great summer!
Peace … like a river.
Brian and Dan
Going Down To The River-Fred McDowell
Backwater Blues-Bessie Smith
Louisiana 1927-Aaron Neville
Get Down River-The Bottle Rockets
A River Runs Through It-Mark Isham
Especially Me-Low
I Follow Rivers-Lykke Li
By This River-Brian Eno
Big River-Johnny Cash
Big Sun Falling In The River-Richard Thompson
Green River-M. Ward
Down On The Riverbed-Los Lobos
High Water-Uncle Tupelo
Down By The Water-The Decemberists
Find The River-REM
Wide River To Cross-Carrie Rodriguez
River Knows Your Name-John Hiatt
Black River-Amos Lee
Harlem River Blues-Justin Townes Earle
Travelling Riverside Blues-Robert Johnson
Many Rivers To Cross-The Walkmen
Ballad Of Easy Rider-The Byrds
Watching The River Flow-Bob Dylan
When Water Comes To Life-Cloud Cult
Tagged as Amos Lee, Arron Neville, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Carrie Rodriguez, Cloud Cult, John Hiatt, Johnny Cash, Justin Townes Earle, Kasey Chambers, Los Lobos, Low, Lykke Li, M. Ward, Mark Isham, Mavis Staples, Modest Mouse, R.E.M., Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Sarah Lee Guthrie, The Bottle Rockets, The Decemberists, The Walkmen, Uncle Tupelo
by bcbrown | October 27, 2010 · 7:28 am
Oct. 27 – Everything is Broken
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Broken cutters, broken saws
Broken buckles, broken laws
Broken bodies, broken bones
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin'
Everything is broken
Do you ever get into one of those ruts where everything you own starts to break down? A broken fan belt on your car is suddenly followed by a broken dishwasher. A few days later you discover a hole in your roof and a broken juice glass tucked behind the couch. Finger nails split as winter nears and knees start to ache. Spirits break.
Broken things tend to collect like steel shards to a magnet. How do we disrupt – or break – that cycle of brokenness? Well, if you're Great River Radio, you ward off the "broken vibe" with music – Delta Blues, sultry ballads, gospel and indie pop. There are hundreds of songs that try to heal the broken, and we've culled some of the best for our show today – tunes from Broken Bells, Girls, Jordan Zevon, Jeremy Messersmith and R.L. Burnside.
We'll also have some excellent new music you're not going to want to miss from Lloyd Cole, Rogue Valley, Drive-By Truckers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Jens Lekman and Badly Drawn Boy. And how about a rare cut from The Rolling Stones' newly remastered "Exile on Main Street" release? We'll spend a little time talking about the recent Sufjan Stevens concert. How do you feel about his recent release, "The Age of Adz"? Seeing Sufjan live might change your perspective.
You might be asking yourself, "Guys, how can you fit so much music into 90 minutes?!" Well, we won't deny that there's a lot of music magic involved. The Great River Radio staff prides itself on delivering almost too much content to consume in one sitting. Are you ready to listen?
Following the River-The Rolling Stones
Not Turn Away-The Revivalists
Vesuvius-Sufjan Stevens
Simple Girl-Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr
Birthday Boy-Drive By Truckers
The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love-Jens Lekman
From Above-Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
Wide Eyes-Local Natives
Too Many Miracles-Badly Drawn Boy
Something Is Broken-John Hiatt
Breakable-Ingrid Michaelson
Heartbreaker-Girls
Like A Broken Record-Lloyd Cole
October-Broken Bells
Broken-Gorillaz
Studebaker-Jordan Zevon
Breaking Down-Jeremy Messersmith
Everything Is Broken-R. L. Burnside
Will The Circle Be Unbroken-Delaney and Bonnie and Friends
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Tagged as Badly Drawn Boy, Broken Bells, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Drive-By Truckers, Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Jens Lekman, Jeremy, John Hiatt, Jordan Zevon, Lloyd Cole, Local Natives, R.L. Burnside, Rogue Valley, Sufjan Stevens, The Revivalists, The Rolling Stones
Oct. 20 – Outlaws and Desperados
Cause ladies love outlaws
Like babies love stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
Outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul
Ladies Love Outlaws (Lee Clayton)
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen
Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie)
Today Great River Radio devotes an entire show to outlaws, whose bad behavior seems to have inspired the many songs in blues, country and rock and roll that take murder, robbery and incarceration as their subject. Many outlaws have been romanticized and glorified over time as Robin Hoods, while others both horrify and fascinate us and the artists among us. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate's killing spree in Nebraska in 1958 inspired at least four movies and Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska."
Furthermore, there is a whole category of country music identified as "outlaw country," characterized most notably by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, who were, in some cases, outlaws in every sense of the word. Is there something about music that attracts bad boys and girls? We'll explore that possibility today on GRR, with songs from those outlaws, as well as Woody Guthrie, Joe Ely, The Clash, Warren Zevon, John Hiatt and, for some gender balance, Bettye Lavette and Fiona Apple.
Join Great River Radio today at 4:15 p.m. (CST) for 90 minutes of great music and occasionally thoughtful conversation. Or listen later via our show archive.
Ladies Love Outlaws-Waylon Jennings
Pancho and Lefty-Willie Nelson
San Quentin-Johnny Cash
Cops and Robbers-Bo Diddley
Tennessee Plates-John Hiatt
The Road Goes On Forever-Joe Ely
King's Highway-Joe Henry
King of the Jailhouse-Aimee Mann
Criminal-Fiona Apple
Before the Money Came-Bettye LaVette
Bad Reputation-Joan Jett
All Hands on the Bad One-Sleater Kinney
Frank and Jesse James-Warren Zevon
Jesse James-Bruce Springsteen
Outlaw Blues-The Morning Benders
Pretty Boy Floyd-Bob Dylan
Nebraska-Bruce Springsteen
I Fought the Law and the Law Won-The Clash
Tagged as Aimee Mann, Bettye LeVette, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Joan Jett, John Hiatt, Johnny Cash, Sleater-Kinney, The Byrds, The Clash, The Morning Blenders, Warren Zevon, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
by bcbrown | September 22, 2010 · 12:51 pm
Sept. 22 – Harvest Moon
Here on this river
On a course for keeps
After all these years
We're still here
This river runs deep
(Sonny Landreth)
The harvest moon will occur tomorrow (September 23) and often this autumn moon seems to be bigger, brighter and more colorful than all the other full moons of the year. We won't get into the science of that phenomenon, but suffice it to say this is a romantic and beautiful season in the temperate zones and the northland. The skies are bluer, the nights are cool, and the maple leaves outside our windows are now flaming reds and yellows and oranges. Some think this the best time of the year in Minnesota.
Living by the river gives us a particularly wonderful perspective on the ending of summer and the beginning of autumn. We watch the leaves of the trees in the Mississippi gorge change a bit every day, reflected on the water, and we know that this will not last long, and that within weeks, as the turning of the leaves comes to an end, and they fall to the ground, we will soon see snow coming out of gray clouds overhead.
But wait! It is still September and at Great River Radio, freshly into season five, we are still working through some the new music that has come out in the summer months – we are, in fact, harvesting the great songs that have been growing and sweetening over the summer. This week, we have new music from Amos Lee, The Black Ryder, Ryan Bingham, Admiral Radley, our own Roma di Luna, the long awaited Band of Joy disc from Robert Plant, as well as a few songs devoted to moons and harvest.
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This River-Sonny Landreth
All to All-Broken Social Scene
All That We See-The Black Ryder
Dancing Barefoot-Allison Moorer
Silver Rider-Robert Plant
Listen-Amos Lee
The Poet-Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses
Harvest Time-The Clientele
The Field-Mason Jennings
West of the Fields-REM
Fruits of My Labor-Lucinda Williams
The Moonlight Is Ours-Roma di Luna
Shine On Harvest Moon-Betty Carter
Like Rock and Roll and the Radio-Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs
Take It Down-John Hiatt
California-Rufus Wainwright
I Heart California-Admiral Radley
California Stars-Billy Bragg and Wilco
Cold War-Janelle Monae
Every Time I Eat Vegetables I Think of You-Ramones
Tagged as Admiral Radley, Allison Moorer, Amos Lee, Betty Carter, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Broken Social Scene, Janelle Monáe, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Mason Jennings, R.E.M., Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs, Robert Plant, Roma di Luna, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses, Sonny Landreth, The Band, The Black Ryder, The Clientele
by bcbrown | March 23, 2010 · 8:53 am
March 23 – Awakening
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– "The Waking" (Theodore Roethke)
Are you wide awake? Have you recovered from losing an hour of sleep in our "spring ahead"? In a different sense, are you aware of the world waking up around you? Have you seen green shoots rising through dead leaves in your yard? How about that river? It's waking up and rising, too. The experience of seeing the world again after you (or it) has slept can be a wonderful and also somewhat strange one.
Today on Great River Radio, we are going to explore the concept of wakefulness. Here is a tip on a word you might hear this afternoon: hypnagogia – that state between sleep and wakefulness – the dreamy area we pass through on the way into and out of sleep. As you probably know, we often free associate on our themes on GRR and that will be true for the first hour today when Dan will be playing out tunes from The Bottle Rockets, The Dropkick Murphys, Cloud Cult, two Elvises and new music from John Hiatt and the Danger Mouse/James Mercer (Shins) project called The Broken Bells.
In hour two, Brian will be trying out a new concept – call it a concept album, call it a rock opera – in which he'll be telling a story through song – from awake to hypnagogia to sleep to confusion to…well, you'll have to tune in to see how it ends. We'll be playing that set of songs straight through without interruption. This should be interesting.
Finally, we'll close the show with a set of tunes in tribute to Alex Chilton who passed away last week.
This is going to be a special show – we hope you can join us this afternoon, or listen later on the blog.
Listen live at http://www.stthomas.edu/ustclubs/kust/KUSTLive.html
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Dirty Water-Dropkick Murphys
July Flame-Laura Veirs
Movin' On-John Hiatt
While You Were Sleeping-Elvis Perkins
Sleepless Nights-Elvis Costello
Walking Blues-Robert Johnson
If You Were To Wake Up-Lyle Lovett
I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life-Richard Thompson
Hypnagogic Song Cycle
The Wake Up Song-The Submarines
Please Wake Me Up-Tom Waits
Awake My Soul-Mumford & Sons
Wake Up-Arcade Fire
Wake Up Dead Man-Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Flash Delirium-MGMT
Woke Up Near Chelsea-Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
When You Wake Up Feeling Old-Wilco
Hazelton-Justin Vernon
One Day When the Weather is Warm-Joe Henry
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream-Johnny Cash
On A Good Day-Joanna Newsom
A Day In The Life-The Beatles
Alex Chilton – R.I.P.
Alex Chilton-The Replacements
The Letter-The Box Tops
September Gurls-Big Star
Tagged as Arcade Fire, Awake My Soul, Big Star, Broken Bells, Cloud Cult, Dropkick Murphys, Elvis Costello, Elvis Perkins, Joanna Newsom, Joe Henry, John Hiatt, Johnny Cash, Justin Vernon, Laura Veirs, Lyle Lovett, MGMT, Mumford & Sons, Richard Thompson, Robert Johnson, Scala & Kolacny Borthers, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Beatles, The Bottle Rockets, The Box Tops, The Replacements, The Submarines, Tom Waits, Wilco


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The war to preserve the union
You're to be forgiven if you happen to momentarily confuse what's going on with protesters fighting for freedom half a world away, in North Africa and the Middle East, and another such battle going on, in the state of Wisconsin. Citizens thronging the streets, opposing the prevailing power structure, demanding to have their voices heard — that much has been interchangeable.
But the battle being waged between pro-union groups and ordinary people and the state's new Republican governor, Scott Walker, is a thing apart. Hanging in the balance in Wisconsin is a fundamental American workers' right. Some have characterized the battle for collective bargaining under way in Wisconsin as nothing less than the opening conservative shot against the breadth and force of the union in America.
In case you forgot, someone named MMFlint recently tweeted a history lesson: "Wisconsin gave us the 8-hr day, unemployment insur, workers comp -- so many great ideas came from Wis."
MMFlint's right, of course, and that thoughtful tweet might well be just another random observation from somebody in the Twitterverse.
Until you find out that MMFLint is the author, Oscar-winning filmmaker and top-rank social provocateur Michael Moore of Flint, Mich.
And until you think about what's at stake in Wisconsin.
You know the back story: Walker is seeking to advance a "budget repair" bill that would balance the state's $3.6 billion deficit in part by stripping the rights of about 170,000 public-service employees to collective bargaining for wages and other benefits. For about two weeks now, with the tribal energy of something straight outta Woodstock, state workers have gathered at the Capitol in Madison to protest the bill, which can't advance to law because of a quorum required in the state Senate.
Fourteen Democratic state senators have hit the road, literally, laying low at a secret undisclosed location in Illinois, stopping the bill in its tracks with their absence. (This strategy was adopted successfully by state House Democrats in a Texas redistricting case in 2003, and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2004.)
Walker's insisted that busting the unions in his state wasn't the intent of the bill, an assertion mightily undercut when Walker got p'wned last week by a blogger pretending to be David Koch, one of the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. In Walker's very cordial conversation with the fake Koch, Walker revealed talks with other governors considering the same strategy — and by extension, let slip the outlines of a broad strategy to use Wisconsin as a kind of legislative test lab for an experiment in the dismantling of public employee collective bargaining rights across the country.
Even after that fake-Koch revelation, one that any self-respecting politician would be embarrassed by, Walker's been moving forward on his budget repair bill, a piece of legislation that could adversely affect union contributions from members of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, founded in Madison in 1936), SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and the state's Education Association Council, the state teachers union that has injected more than $10 million into Democratic state races over the previous decade, according to msnbc's Michael Isikoff.
Walker's apparent plan — to wait for the protesters' outrage to cool down to something more politically manageable — hasn't worked out. With every day the protests have held in strength and numbers, and attracted the attention of the media.
The hubris of trying to do this in any state — to ram through an agenda like this, to dismantle such a foundational part of the labor history of this nation — would have been bad enough.
To try and pull this off in the state that essentially birthed the idea of collective bargaining was an act of brazen political arrogance, even for the archest conservatives in the GOP.
Walker's hold-the-line strategy reflects sizable blunders. It starts with a misreading of the history of the state he presumes to lead, and the importance of that history to the people he presumes to lead.
Collective bargaining had its beginning in Wisconsin. In 1911, partly due to the efforts of the ardent progressive Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette, the state was first in the nation to enact workers compensation laws, requiring employers to provide medical coverage, compensation for death or injury on the job. In 1932, the state (again first in the nation) enacted unemployment compensation.
The state approved Section 111.70, the nation's first comprehensive collective bargaining laws for public employees, in 1959. The laws gave public employees the right of collective bargaining; it also required municipalities, school districts and the state's university system to bargain with those workers for wages and other benefits.
It didn't come cheap. Battles with employers occurred throughout the 1940's, in three instances resulting in yearlong strikes forced by employer intransigence. It was through dogged persistence that the unions held the line and maintained their role in the state of Wisconsin.
Considering the deep weave of the union experience in the state's history, it shouldn't have come as a surprise — to Gov. Walker or anyone else — that public-sector workers would dig in their heels the way they have. The fact that he didn't see this coming shows how short-sighted his strategy really is. How can a governor be so tone-deaf to his own state's historical legacy?
His second miscalculation stems from the first: misunderstanding where some of his presumed supporters' loyalties truly lie. The fact that public safety unions — police, state troopers, corrections officers and firefighters — are exempt from the bill's collective bargaining restrictions might not hold up in the long term. At least that seems to be an emerging suspicion.
There's thinking among some in Wisconsin that the current insulation of their unions could fail, as Walker makes them the next group of state workers to lose collective bargaining in the name of "budget repair" — that Walker's plan may ultimately echo the distillation of the fear of conquest, and an historically-based fatalism: They've come for me today, they'll be back for you tomorrow.
That may begin to explain the increasing appearance of law enforcement professionals in the rotunda of the Capitol. That happened on Saturday, when hundreds of off-duty police officers and deputies joined the protesters' ranks.
That would explain why Cord Buckner, a Wausau detective, told the Stevens Point Journal: "The aggregate effect on public employees will affect police unions eventually."
Republicans outside Wisconsin are more than a little nervous about Walker's move. Indiana's Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels suggested in a recent statement that the GOP is hardly of one mind on the Wisconsin situation.
"Even the smallest minority, and that's what we've heard in the last couple of days, has every right to express the strength of its views, and I salute those who did."
Even New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republicans' pugnacious darling of the moment, said he is "ready to embrace the collective bargaining solution."
They're smart to do that. It hasn't escaped their attention that the epicenter of events in Wisconsin, and the ripples of tribute protests throughout the country in recent days, bear a broad, deeply populist element. They form the same imprecise but sturdy conjunction of emotions that, stripped to its essence, became the building blocks for … wait for it … the Tea Party.
The unionists' cause may have a similar velocity into the national political discourse in 2012. And more: The Tea Party's Astroturf origins are nothing like what's happening in Wisconsin — quite possibly the seeds for a progressive grassroots movement of union members and those sympathetic to union principles; one whose energy would rival the Tea Party on the right; a movement whose solidarity with the nation's labor history would give it a populist foundation the Tea Party never had.
Walker is set to release his two-year spending plan on Tuesday, a plan that, among other things, proposes a slashing of education aid by about $900 million, or 9 percent. Walker has already warned he'll start issuing layoff notices to state workers as soon as this week if the budget repair bill isn't passed. The beatings will continue, it seems, until morale improves.
Walker's supporters have betrayed a certain smugness about the outcome of this standoff. Speaking of their governor (in office all of eight weeks), they purr with confidence: "Hey, elections have consequences."
So does an ignorance of history.
Image credits: Walker: via The Huffington Post. LaFollette: Library of Congress. This post distills historical information from the Wisconsin Labor History Society.
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Galway and Dublin named top two friendliest cities in all of Europe
IF YOU'VE ever visited these two cities, you'll know this is well deserved...
Galway has been named the friendliest city in Europe-- followed in second place by Ireland's capital, Dublin.
International travel magazine Condé Nast readers voted for the two Irish cities as being the friendliest in Europe, bringing a much-needed boost and sense of pride to Ireland as it re-enters lockdown.
Dublin has been named the second-most friendly city in Europe, behind Galway
The influential magazine, revealing the top 10 friendliest cities in Europe, said "Europe's best cities are often judged on their ancient history, intricate architecture, unrivalled art scenes or amazing restaurants..."
But, "sometimes what makes a place so great are its people"-- and that's where Ireland comes in top.
The top 10 friendliest cities in Europe, according to Condé Nast, are as follows:
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Galway is often recognised as being a fantastic city to visit-- earlier this year, it was named among the top holiday destinations for 2020 in an official Ryanair list.
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Of course, 2020 didn't turn out to be a year for travelling in the end, but Galway has previously been named the best destination for 'foodies' by BBC Good Food Magazine,and as one of the very best cities in the world by Lonely Planet.
Notably, Cork did not get a mention in this year's list, despite being named the most friendly city in Ireland-- and the 3rd friendliest in the world--by Condé Nast in 2018.
You can check out the full list on the Condé Nast website here...
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Back in April, Harris County Commissioners Court voted to start a pilot public defenders office, contingent on getting a $4.4 million grant from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense to help cover costs. That initial effort was subsequently criticized for being inadequate, and the TFID gave the county 30 days to improve its grant application. That has been done, and Commissioners Court is trying again.
The county's previous version of the application received criticism from academics, local ministers, defense advocacy groups and the local state senator who authored the law authorizing the creation of public defender offices in Texas counties. Among the criticisms were that not enough judges planned to participate, that the office would not serve high-level felony defendants and that the office was subject to control by the judiciary and Commissioners Court.
Originally, 11 of 22 district court judges had volunteered to use a public defender on felony trial cases and only three agreed to the new office's use on appellate cases. Now, 20 judges have bought in on felony trials and 18 on appeals.
To protect the public defender from meddling by Commissioners Court or the judiciary, an independent oversight board would be established for the office. Judges, attorneys, indigent defense groups, the county attorney and Commissioners Court all would get to make appointments to the board.
In the original application, public defenders would represent felony defendants accused only of low-level crimes such as possession of small amounts of drugs. The revamped proposal would have the public defender take on more serious felony trials. The plan also continues to provide for juvenile, appeals and mental health cases.
The county is also only asking for $4.1 million now, and there were some other changes made as well. It looks like they took the feedback they got seriously, and kudos to them for that. We'll see how it goes from here.
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I did not install CCleaner, but it keeps scanning my PC. Is it a kind of malware?
CC Cleaner is dubbed as an optimization utility, which is supposed to remove potentially unwanted system files, corrupted Windows Registry keys, temporary files, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, and other useless data, which take up free space and diminish system's performance.
Although CC Cleaner pretends to be a useful system's optimizer, it has been classified as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). Security experts detected this utility dispersed under various freeware installers. In other words, its developers exploit 'bundling' distribution technique to prompt people install it accidentally. Besides, the functioning of the CC Cleaner scanner is highly questionable. Specialists analyzed this cleaner and found out that it recognized random or neutral system files as potentially unwanted, medium or highly severe. On top of that, to repair the detected issues, the user will be asked to purchase a full license of this PUP, but such decision is NOT recommended as you will only lose money for a useless piece of software. Therefore, we would strongly recommend you to uninstall CC Cleaner without a delay.
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Find CC Cleaner, click it, and select End Task.
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Close the window that you are currently seeing. Then press Windows key + R.
Type CC-Cleaner and wait while the search results are being prepared.
If any files are found, delete all of them.
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Hollywood's fascination for revulsion stretches further and beyond the human realm. They have created bad guys who creep into your dreams and slash your intestines, throw magic spells, pounce on you with their fangs exposed, eat you as meals and sometimes multiply. We remember them here on this post with much awe and wariness.
Played by Robert Englund and Jackie Earle Haley.
Kids Beware! This scary looking bad boy waits for you till you are asleep. While you are snoring merrily, he quietly creeps into your dreams and bam-his long razor claw slashes your intestines. No big deal, huh? Wait till you see this disfigured dream stalker throw that grisly grin at you, right before he, well, kills you. Freddy Krueger was lovelorn as a child. As a reprisal act, he took to torturing little kids in their sleep and became that serial child killing monster. He was born of a human mother but the methods he uses to kill his victims certainly seem non-human. Freddy uses anything and everything he can 'dream up' to torment his prey before finally skewering them on his razor-fingered glove.
Feel like taking a nap, eh? Go ahead. Just don't tell us that we didn't warn you!
Her chubby cheeks and cute smile would have made her a teacher's pet any other day. I honestly feel like singing 'It's not your fault' to her like Phoebe Buffay sings to her smelly cat. The poor girl was possessed by Satan himself (like stepping into adolescence wasn't enough trouble already). Next we see her screaming and swearing bearing horrendous scar marks on her pretty face. Not just that, she can turn her head 360 degrees, her eyes go awry and she levitates in the middle of the night. Don't even get me started on her throaty voice, just thinking of it gives me the willies!
Another innocent face with pure evil in the heart! Damien Thorn is the Antichrist and the son of the Devil, destined to bring the apocalypse. He has the 666 birthmark to prove it. What makes him so petrifying is probably his gumption to push his mother off a balcony, making her lose her unborn child, all in cold blood. You never know when the innocent gaze of a toddler turns into a menacing stare that could actually make lightning strike and concrete fall on your head! Better stay out of his way. Besides, he is protected by wolves!
We should probably thank her for making the witch costume a trend during Halloween. The Wicked Witch of West is fiercely intimidating and you certainly don't want to be stuck with her inside an elevator. She is jealous, hateful and like The Joker from The Dark Knight, is hell bent on causing chaos. She's got some malevolent magical tricks up her sleeve and has a bandwagon of minions to delegate her wicked acts. Her speciality is torturing harmless animals and scaring lost little girls.
In the magical realm exists another devilish being. We call him "You-Know-Who", "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" or "the Dark Lord" for even the mention of his name maybe catastrophic. Lord Voldemort is the arch nemesis of the courageous good will ambassador Harry Potter. Lord Voldemort's quest is to gain ultimate power by killing Harry Harry Potter since he was born and the latter always manages to escape his fatal yet futile attempts.
It isn't Signoury Weaver alone that he torments. This baddie takes an entire space ship crew down, killing them one at a time. The titular Alien in the movie Alien is enormous and causes trouble of gigantic proportions. It is from the beyond and the malignant creature simply makes your blood freeze with fear. Hats of to Signoury Weaver for taking down the vicious, virtually unbeatable alien on her own!
Toothy is cute? That holds true for Bugs Bunny not for this toothy predator that basically eats human. Why? Well, because human blood titillates his sense of smell and taste. We are his staple food precisely. When Bruce the shark, pops out of the water...God save the world. This gigantic shark's basic instincts made people scared of water and waves for a long time. Go to the beach, end up being Happy Meal for a shark!
More teeth on their way- this time they're actually fangs. Dracula? Yeah you wish! No folks this is your neighbourhood canine. Cujo is an offspring of Stephen King's vivid imagination. He is your average lovable pet dog transformed into a vicious killing machine with an insatiable need for blood. We see his nose getting wetter and gallons of saliva dripping down his tongue as he pounces on humans and tears of their flesh. Cujo is a nightmare, especially when you are awake. Want to adopt a pet puppy? Make sure it is properly vaccinated.
Another Lord, they call him Lord Vader or Darth Vader. This masked baddie is evil personified. Worse he is dark, disciplined and quite intelligent too which makes him all the more perilous. Vader's signature black helmet, echo-box breathing and portent-of-doom musical theme made him the #1 super villain after Dracula.There is a little explanation where we get to see why he is the way he is. We realized there was so much more to the guy in the walking coffin, and when he dies, one can't help but grab a tissue. Now that is a great villain.
Simply love the way he says "Hello Mr. Anderson". He is suave, sophisticated and there are so many of them.. Agent Smith is a rogue program, resurfacing in various spots all over The Matrix without being controlled by the machines. He despises human beings, thinks they are parasitic and is out there to destroy them all. As he grows his number making every one he touches a clone of himself, he almost manages to bring an apocalypse till he was stopped by Mr Anderson or Neo, the white knight. His Men in Black attire, composure and brilliant sarcastic speeches make him an echelon of manovalence.


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Die Tour in Europa wurde auf Januar gesetzt und es wird noch einige Shows im Mai 2010 geben. Vonda erzählt von Ihren Auftritten in der Show "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" and sagt, dass Sie noch weitere Termine bei Oprah und Good Morning America hat.
Hier gehts zum Orginalbeitrag
Und hier ist der Orginalbeitrag:
Hi everyone! (everyone who is reading this...)
So, as you may have noticed, we have some big changes to the schedule. I am aware that we still have an announcement for the European dates. The tour has officially been pushed back to January. We didn't have enough time to book and promote the tour properly with the release of the new Best of Ally McBeal CD and with the DVD box set that is coming out next week in the U.S.
I know that some of you are very disappointed, as was I when we had to push the tour, and I once again apologize for the inconvenience. I talked with my agent today, and this is what we are thinking: We will be coming to Europe in late January for about four weeks, then heading home to rest for about three weeks, then back for about six more weeks in the middle of March. This way, we'll be able to go everywhere in Europe and the U.K. We already have a preliminary schedule for the tour, but I don't want to post it until we confirm the dates. It is on the way, I promise! My estimation is that it will be wrapped up within the next three weeks.
Following the Euro tours, we have a few shows in the States in May. I'll post those tomorrow. I know that BB King's is in there... in New York City, but I can't remember the date! We are discussing a possible Asian tour in late May, or June.
Also, well... I'll tell you later. It's sort of a secret...I will tell you soon.
We played a really fun gig in Boston last weekend for the Brigham Women's Community Hospital. It was a benefit, and they raised $1,040,000!!! Isn't that fantastic? They serve the under-served. I felt so honored to be part of the event. We played lots of R&B cover tunes, and people danced the whole time!
Tomorrow I will be filming another episode of Tracey Ullman's State of the Union. Last year I was on with Julia Fordham, my pal, and we were characters from one of those polygamist cults. We looked hot.
I've been doing lots of interviews for the upcoming release... mostly online media so far, but we will be doing some of that national T.V. stuff soon. Will keep you posted. We may do Oprah, or Good Morning America. (sort of low-profile, underground stuff..)
Welp, that's the news from lovely Los Angeles, California. How are YOU? As I always say, can't wait to get out on the road again!
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One's as good as this do not come along very often and there was a fair bit of competition to get hold of this from a Peugeot Main Dealership in Lancashire. As soon as I spotted it I was determined to get it.
Take a look at its MOT History record – it is spot-on. I have sold a good few of these cars and without exception customers have been delighted with them. They appeal not only to first time drivers but also some of my older customers who might not be as agile as they once were and find the fact these sit that little bit higher than most hatch-backs are 5 doors and have good boot space – a real benefit.
I accept they may not have the "badge appeal" of the VW's or the Toyota's but they are around 40% cheaper and that for me makes them great value for money. With this mileage – number of owners and condition inside and out I doubt I will find too many more like this.
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Every year Ontario government publishes its annual Sunshine List of public sector servants, which includes nurses, teachers, police officers, and firefighters, with six-figure salaries. In University of Guelph, 888 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $132,744,097.47 in 2017.
Topping the list for University of Guelph was President and Vice-Chancellor Franco Vaccarino who brought home $423,648.06 in 2017.
Following Franco Vaccarino was Past Provost and Vice-President, Academic Maureen Mancuso, who had annual earnings of $318,956.12. Provost and Vice-President, Academic Charlotte Yates made $299,024.52, Professor, Director and Canada Research Chair Paul Hebert made $274,734.74 and Vice-President, External Daniel Atlin round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $264,144.48 for the University of Guelph 2018 Sunshine List.
Among the 888 University of Guelph's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 107 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 356 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 378 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 40 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 5 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 2 received over $300,000 at University of Guelph.


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Q: Unity custom shader second pass not executing I have a shader that should do two passes that will render the back one front once. See the shader code below:
Shader "Custom/Geometry/Wireframe"
{
    Properties
    {
        _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
        [PowerSlider(3.0)]
        _WireframeVal ("Wireframe width", Range(0., 0.34)) = 0.05
        _FrontColor ("Front color", color) = (1., 1., 1., 1.)
        _BackColor ("Back color", color) = (1., 1., 1., 1.)
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }

        Pass
        {
            Cull Back
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag
            #pragma geometry geom
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct v2g {
                float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
            };

            struct g2f {
                float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                float3 bary : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            v2g vert(appdata_base v) {
                v2g o;
                o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                return o;
            }

            [maxvertexcount(3)]
            void geom(triangle v2g IN[3], inout TriangleStream<g2f> triStream) {
                g2f o;
                o.pos = IN[0].pos;
                o.bary = float3(1., 0., 0.);
                triStream.Append(o);
                o.pos = IN[1].pos;
                o.bary = float3(0., 0., 1.);
                triStream.Append(o);
                o.pos = IN[2].pos;
                o.bary = float3(0., 1., 0.);
                triStream.Append(o);
            }

            float _WireframeVal;
            fixed4 _FrontColor;

            fixed4 frag(g2f i) : SV_Target {
            if(!any(bool3(i.bary.x < _WireframeVal, i.bary.y < _WireframeVal, i.bary.z < _WireframeVal)))
                 discard;

                return _FrontColor;
            }

            ENDCG
        }

        Pass
        {
            Cull Front
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag
            #pragma geometry geom
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct v2g {
                float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
            };

            struct g2f {
                float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                float3 bary : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            v2g vert(appdata_base v) {
                v2g o;
                o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                return o;
            }

            [maxvertexcount(3)]
            void geom(triangle v2g IN[3], inout TriangleStream<g2f> triStream) {
                g2f o;
                o.pos = IN[0].pos;
                o.bary = float3(1., 0., 0.);
                triStream.Append(o);
                o.pos = IN[1].pos;
                o.bary = float3(0., 0., 1.);
                triStream.Append(o);
                o.pos = IN[2].pos;
                o.bary = float3(0., 1., 0.);
                triStream.Append(o);
            }

            float _WireframeVal;
            fixed4 _BackColor;

            fixed4 frag(g2f i) : SV_Target {
            if(!any(bool3(i.bary.x < _WireframeVal, i.bary.y < _WireframeVal, i.bary.z < _WireframeVal)))
                 discard;

                return _BackColor;
            }

            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

But the problem i am having is the fact that the second pass in the code is never executing. Because when i set the color for the back -pass That color never becomes visible in the on the mesh the shader (material) is applied to.
Also if i swap the passes so that the back-pass comes before the front-pass the opposite problem occurs.
EDIT
See here a picture of the front of the mesh with the material applied and a picture from the back of the same mesh with material:
Front:

Back:

This is my very first time trying to make such a shader so all help is very much appreaciated!

A: remove this bracket
Shader "Custom/Geometry/Wireframe"

{<<<<<<<<<<<<
    Properties
    {

this made it work for me
unfortunately there is no auto complete for shaders, so its easy to miss errors like this, but your code gave me the following errors in the editor:
Parse error: syntax error unexpected '{' 3 (extra bracket on line three)
shader is not supported on this gpu ( caused by syntax error)
removing that bracket clears up the problem!
Shader "Custom/NewSurfaceShader"
{

        Properties
        {
            _MainTex("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
            [PowerSlider(3.0)]
            _WireframeVal("Wireframe width", Range(0., 0.34)) = 0.05
            _FrontColor("Front color", color) = (1., 1., 1., 1.)
            _BackColor("Back color", color) = (1., 1., 1., 1.)
        }
            SubShader
            {
                Tags { "RenderType" = "Opaque" }

                Pass
                {
                    Cull Back
                    CGPROGRAM
                    #pragma vertex vert
                    #pragma fragment frag
                    #pragma geometry geom
                    #include "UnityCG.cginc"

                    struct v2g {
                        float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                    };

                    struct g2f {
                        float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                        float3 bary : TEXCOORD0;
                    };

                    v2g vert(appdata_base v) {
                        v2g o;
                        o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                        return o;
                    }

                    [maxvertexcount(3)]
                    void geom(triangle v2g IN[3], inout TriangleStream<g2f> triStream) {
                        g2f o;
                        o.pos = IN[0].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(1., 0., 0.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                        o.pos = IN[1].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(0., 0., 1.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                        o.pos = IN[2].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(0., 1., 0.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                    }

                    float _WireframeVal;
                    fixed4 _FrontColor;

                    fixed4 frag(g2f i) : SV_Target {
                    if (!any(bool3(i.bary.x < _WireframeVal, i.bary.y < _WireframeVal, i.bary.z < _WireframeVal)))
                         discard;

                        return _FrontColor;
                    }

                    ENDCG
                }

                Pass
                {
                    Cull Front
                    CGPROGRAM
                    #pragma vertex vert
                    #pragma fragment frag
                    #pragma geometry geom
                    #include "UnityCG.cginc"

                    struct v2g {
                        float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                    };

                    struct g2f {
                        float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
                        float3 bary : TEXCOORD0;
                    };

                    v2g vert(appdata_base v) {
                        v2g o;
                        o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                        return o;
                    }

                    [maxvertexcount(3)]
                    void geom(triangle v2g IN[3], inout TriangleStream<g2f> triStream) {
                        g2f o;
                        o.pos = IN[0].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(1., 0., 0.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                        o.pos = IN[1].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(0., 0., 1.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                        o.pos = IN[2].pos;
                        o.bary = float3(0., 1., 0.);
                        triStream.Append(o);
                    }

                    float _WireframeVal;
                    fixed4 _BackColor;

                    fixed4 frag(g2f i) : SV_Target {
                    if (!any(bool3(i.bary.x < _WireframeVal, i.bary.y < _WireframeVal, i.bary.z < _WireframeVal)))
                         discard;

                        return _BackColor;
                    }

                    ENDCG
                }
            }
    }

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How the year 2022 ended the American unipolar era
Timur Fomenko, RT, December 31, 2022 — The post-Cold War world had long been crumbling, and after this year, it's finally gone.
The year 2022 is coming to an end. It has been a year which has significant consequences for the future of global geopolitics, and will be remembered as such in the history books.
Specifically, it marked the closing of three decades of American unipolarity, which had begun with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and forced through a new multipolar world consisting of numerous competing great powers.
When the USSR fell in 1991, the US entered a period of unprecedented dominance whereby it finalized its position as the global hegemon. Its political, economic, and military power was unparalleled, and as such it had free rein to shape the global order to its liking. It is no surprise that in this period, the US did not pursue 'great power competition' but actively vested itself in scores of regime-change operations across every continent as it sought to implement what George H.W. Bush described as "the new world order."
This included wars in Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria to name but a few. Likewise, it was able to use its undisputed power over institutions such as the United Nations to pile sanctions on smaller countries who defied its will, such as Iran and North Korea. Owing to the hubris of its Cold War victory in the belief in the inevitability of its ideology, or 'the end of history', the US during this period did not seek to counter states such as Russia or China precisely because it believed, at least initially, that these states were on a pre-determined path to westernization and liberalization. As such, the US actively promoted globalization through free trade and investment, perceiving them as a vehicle for its own values.
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Fast forward to 2022, and the last remnants of these premature hopes have been swept away. Although long in the making, the past 12 months marked the ultimate consolidation of a new geopolitical era. Russia's military operation in Ukraine proved to be a decisive turning point, which represented the final break from the world established by the fall of the USSR. The main catalyst of this shift was the US itself, which no longer liked what the globalization it was once championing, was now providing. That being the depletion of its hegemony through the resurgence of rival states which did not reform to its liking (Russia and China).
Seeing the rise of these countries, which had through America's own approval integrated themselves within the global economy and prospered, but not adopted the American values as anticipated, the US veered back towards great power competition and began to provoke geopolitical conflict with a view to reasserting control over its wayward allies. This became extremely obvious in the foreign policy of the Biden administration, which sought to take an uncompromising approach to the expansion of NATO (igniting the conflict in Ukraine), while also aggressively accelerating attempts to contain China through the creation of new alliance systems such as AUKUS and escalating tensions over the Taiwan Strait.
These actions by America have changed the world. While the average Westerner, deceived by the mainstream media discourse, blames Putin, the reality is the US is the one that has actively dismantled the post-Cold War 1991 international order precisely because it believes it now comes at the expense of American power. Part of this is the effort to actively 'roll back' globalization. By creating geopolitical conflict, the US strives to reassert its military influence whilst forcing its allies to decouple from the targeted enemy country, even if that comes at a great expense to that ally's economy. The US has sought to rip up energy markets with Russia, so European countries are forced to buy American gas instead. Likewise, it is bulldozing the entire semiconductor supply chain while forcibly rebuilding it around itself in a bid to isolate China. In doing so, it aims to destroy the integration of certain regions, such as Russia with Europe, China with Asia.
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The implications of these actions are huge. As the US tries to reclaim its hegemony, other countries are subsequently forced to increase their national capabilities and strategic autonomy to prevent themselves from being dominated. This has created new arms races, new technology races, and also the expansion of blocs alternate to the West, such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and more. Whether the US likes it or not, this is the reality of the multipolarity it sought to prevent in the first place. The world now increasingly resembles what it looked like before 1914, or worse, before 1939, where there are not just two rival great powers, but a plethora of nations scrambling for influence. While the US strives to maintain its hegemony, it faces off against the challengers of China and Russia, but there are other rising powers too, including India and Indonesia.
As such, the year 2022 will stand as a definitive moment of change. The post-1991 world, although long fluttering, is finally gone. The new world is an increasingly uncertain arena of geopolitical conflict, making it less stable, less certain, and more divided than at any point since the end of the Second World War. This isn't a new Cold War as such, it's a new great game.


I took Eli to see his first real concert last night - Rise Against at the Masonic in San Francisco. It was a great show and we had a fantastic time. Going to the show had been Eli's idea - he got on to the band and really liked them, and found out they were coming to SF.
For a long time, I have been writing entries here partly for my dad... I guess it was an alternative to emailing him updates about the kids.. or maybe a lazy way of letting him know what was going on while serving my own purpose of creating an external repository of memories.
He died today. I went to visit him a couple of weeks ago, after he'd gotten sick, but before he got too sick and went into the hospital. When I saw him, he was already the victim of brain tumors, and had difficulty talking. It hit him fast - a month before that, he'd been planning a visit to California. I wish he'd got to have that visit.
I wish I could make him better, have bought him some more time, but if he had to go anyway, then I wish he could have had that visit. I wish he could've seen his grandkids, and my kids could've seen him, one more time.
I watched a drum core video with him, and I think he liked that.
And today he's gone, and I find myself being introspective, kind of soul searching, looking around to see what regrets are lurking, and feeling confused, and lonely, and wrestling with the sense of loss.
May has been a busy month with our Boy Scout Troop. We went to Pinnacles National Park where we pulled weeds then hiked over the peaks on Saturday (beautiful and amazing landscape - the boys agreed with me that it was like a scene out of Lord of the Rings) and went through the caves on Sunday. The boys really liked the caves; several of them said, "This is the best hike ever!"
The weekend after that, we went to Angel Island where we helped with a bunch of stuff (led by a park employee and two college girls - a few of the boys were fairly aware of the college girls) during the day and hiked to the top of the island at night. The next day we hiked around the island and enjoyed all the amazing scenery - everything from old military buildings to the Golden Gate Bridge to the San Francisco Skyline to the old gun batteries. About 3/4 of the way around, the clouds were rolling in and lightning struck close enough to us that we heard it Zap! It startled the heck out of us and I had to look around to make sure everyone was okay - it was that close. But the island was gorgeous.
I recently bought a $60 short surfboard ("fish" style) from Costco last week and tried it out at 6am this morning. It was (as predicted) much harder to catch waves but I managed to get one good ride (and a few not so good), so that was reasonably satisfying... though on a longboard I would have caught many. It's a fun change, but I like the dependability of the longboards.
The quarter just finished and Eli just finished up "Vo-Tech" - basically a kind of modernized shop class, which he absolutely loved. He had one project to choose a design, then sand blast that design into a piece of glass and mount it in a frame that he was pretty excited about. Problem was, there was no place for him to keep the glass at school, so the first piece broke. The teacher gave him a second piece, which Eli tried to leave at school, but it disappeared. He got a third piece, but it broke too... he was kind of upset / disappointed about the whole thing. He brought some frame pieces home (wood that he had cut and routered himself) and I suggested we could go to Tap Plastics and he could make something with it. So, on Saturday we drove over to Tap Plastics. On the way there, Ben was kind of iffy about it, and I said, "you guys will like this place, it's cool". Ben said, "how cool is it? On a scale of one to ten?". I told him, "Mmmm, about a six". So Ben turns to Eli and says, "that means to us it's probably a three".
Anyways, we get there and start looking around at stuff. Ben says, "Maybe it's a four or a five". And a little later he asks what score I had given it and at that point agrees that it's probably a six.
Then Eli and I look at some pre-cut cheap Plexiglas pieces for awhile, and eventually see the sign that says "custom cut plastic starting at $1" so we go to the counter which is manned by this old guy (grandfatherly age, at least). On first glance, you can't tell whether the guy will be all business, or whether he's the friendly helpful type.
So he asks what we need, and I tell him, and we look at two different thicknesses trying to decide which to order. He measures them with his tape measure and agrees that probably the second thinnest will fit in the groove in Eli's frame. So he enters the order in the computer and I ask him how much it will be. He says, $3.42. I say that's pretty cheap and I'm sure we can handle that. He jokes now that it's per piece and the real charge is $6.84 - but he's just kidding.
So we look around for a few minutes at more stuff and then our order is ready. The old guy measures it with his tape measure to confirm the size and I thank him. Then he asks, "don't you want to try it out and see if it fits" (in the frame). I say I think it's ok, but start messing with the pieces anyway. It looks like they're too thick. The guys says maybe we should get a one piece of the thinner stock, and I'm sort of procrastinating messing with it, and he goes in the back and asks the guy to cut a piece of the thin stuff. This takes all of about a minute and the old guy brings it out. Using one piece of the thicker stuff and one piece of the thinner stuff, it's a good fit. I ask the guy how much we owe him for the thin piece and he says don't worry about it and tell's Eli good luck with his project. Pretty cool.
Well the boys are back to school and that's going well. We had a family camping trip over Labor Day weekend and had fun - friends joined us Saturday for boogie boarding and volleyball in beautiful sunny weather, but Sunday we were fogged in all day and we took it pretty easy. Eli found a ton of sand dollars on Sunday and had a great time doing it.
Today, Eli, Ben, Maizy, and I went Geocaching around (never quite made it into) Almaden Quicksilver Park today and had a total blast. Poor Ben has a cold and was tired and hot, but he still had fun finding some caches. We stumbled upon the Quicksilver Mining Museum (didn't even know it existed, but we drove by it and stopped) and had fun there. The museum was cool and the docent/interpreter was very friendly, plus there was a cache right outside the parking lot. We stopped and found a few other easily accessible caches, and at one point we turned around in a driveway next to a beautiful horse. I think Maizy and the horse would've like to have played together - she looked at him and just wagged her tail like crazy. Afterwards we got In-and-Out Burger.


You can find introductory/tutorial material through the respective web sites.
P.A. Burrough and R.A. McDonnell, Principles of Geographic Information Systems. Oxford University Press. Chapter 5 and 6.
The first two books can be borrowed without asking (but please leave a note), and should otherwise be on my desk at RvE, 5th floor.
The EU has set two PM10 (particulates, particulate matter, Feinstaub) limits: (a) find out which, (b) how do these limits change on 01.01.2010?, (c) are these limits obtained by linear aggregation or by non-linear aggregation over single (e.g. 10 minute) measured values.
Why does the Frankfurter Algemeine article only mention one of the two limits?
How can the Bayerische Verwaltungsgerichthof find out whether the EU limit is exceeded for the house of the person who started this case?
For 27 out of 29 the BW monitoring stations the limit was exceeded. Can we conclude that in 93% of Baden-Württemberg the PM10 limit is exceeded?
Where can we find the PM measurements for all of Europe?
How can local authorities list the areas where a limit is exceeded?
Before permission is given to build e.g. roads or buildings, one has to prove that it will not result in the exceedence of a PM limit. How would you do this?
On 23.10.07, 12-14h: go through the first 6 chapters (up to "lists and data frames") of An Introduction to R: go to the R home page, click Manuals under Documentation, and open the Introduction. You can copy and paste commands to an R session, started in the CIP pool.
30.10.07 course material: finish the R introductory material, then go carefully through these exercises (html, pdf).
20.11.07: go through section 6 of the course. If you don't finish it, do it at home, before 27.11.07 (when we will discuss the exercises).
27.11.07: go through section 7 and 8 of the course. If you don't finish it, do it at home, before 4.12.07 (when we will discuss the exercises). If you get stuck somewhere, let me know.
4.12.07: you'll find more and new exercises. Try them!
11.12.07: we'll go through older exercises.
A test is planned on 30 Jan 2007, 10:00-12:00, and will cover the material treated in the lectures and exercises. The questions will not be of the kind "how do I do this with R", but rather refer to the modelling itself.
The assignment will be a written report of max 5 pages (regular fonts/margins/page size, including figures and/or tables) on a modelling exercise you set up yourself. It should include an introduction, a central research question, a description of the data, a description of the analysis and the results, and concluding remarks answering the central research question. It is allowed to do the research in couples, but the written report should be made individual. It should be handed in the latest two weeks before end of Semester Ferien (exact date/time will follow). German is allowed, English is encouraged.
The final mark will be computed from both exercise and test (equally weighted, but both need to be passed).


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Author: Coe Ramsey
On October 11, 2018, the President signed the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (H.R. 1551). After years of calls for reform to music licensing by virtually all interests in the music industry, the MMA ushers in significant changes to the Copyright Act.
Among other things, the MMA creates a new entity—the Mechanical Licensing Collective—to "modernize" and administer the compulsory mechanical licensing process for interactive streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. It is crucial that musicians, in particular independent songwriters, understand the changes, the critical deadlines, and the new processes in the MMA to protect their rights to unclaimed and future royalties.
The following are the key changes created by the MMA:
Continue reading "Music Law 101: What Musicians Should (And Need!) To Know About The Music Modernization Act"
In our previous posts in our Music Law 101 series, we have covered the basics of copyright law, including the scope of copyright protection, copyright ownership, the exclusive rights of copyright, the duration of copyright protection, transfers and termination of copyrights, and copyright infringement and fair use. In this post, we continue on the topic of copyright law and discuss common music licenses.
Like any other property, music copyrights and the individual exclusive rights thereof, can be transferred, sold, licensed, and divided among several owners. In general, to use recorded copyrighted music, you will need permission from both the musical work owner (typically a publisher) and the sound recording owner (typically a record company). Note, however, if you re-record a song (instead of using a pre-recorded version), permission generally is only required from the musical work owner (since you are not using someone else's sound recording).
Following are descriptions of common music licenses:
Continue reading "Music Law 101: Common Music Licenses"
Music Law 101: Copyright Infringement and Fair Use
As we have previously discussed, the owner of the copyright in a work has certain exclusive rights in that work. Anyone who violates the exclusive rights of the copyright owner is an infringer of that copyright.
To establish copyright infringement, you must establish that you own a valid copyright in the work and that:
The work has been copied; and
The copy is "substantially similar" to the protectable elements of the original work.
Continue reading "Music Law 101: Copyright Infringement and Fair Use"
Music Law 101: Transfer of Copyright and Termination
As we have previously discussed, a copyright is first owned by its author (whether individually or on a "work made for hire" basis). Like with any other property, the author can transfer ownership of a copyright (in whole or in part as a fractional portion) to another person or party. However, copyright law has specific rules governing such transfers. Continue reading "Music Law 101: Transfer of Copyright and Termination"
Music Law 101: How Long Does Copyright Protection Last?
Once a copyright is created, protection generally lasts for 70 years after the death of the author and in some cases 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. That's a long time! After that time, the copyright protection ceases and the underlying work becomes public domain.
More specifically, the term of copyright under the Copyright Act depends on when the work was created, as follows:
Works Created on or After January 1, 1978: These works are protected for 70 years after the death of the individual author. Where there are two or more individual authors (see our earlier post on authorship and ownership), the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author's death. For "works made for hire," the term of protection is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever date is earlier.
Works Created Before but Published or Registered After January 1, 1978: The copyright term in these works is generally computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978, provided that in no case would the term of such copyright expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or after that date, the term will not expire before December 31, 2047.
Works Created and Published or Registered Before January 1, 1978: These works are generally protected for 75 years from the date the work was published with a copyright notice or on the date of the registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. For such pre-1978 copyrights still subsisting on October 27, 1998, Congress extended the term by 20 years, providing for a total term of protection of 95 years.
Continue reading "Music Law 101: How Long Does Copyright Protection Last?"
Music Law 101: What Rights Does A Copyright Owner Have?
So you've already written and recorded a song and determined who owns it, but now what can you as an owner do with it? What rights in the song do you have, that no one else does?
The owner of the copyright in a work has certain exclusive rights in that work, rights that no one else but the owner has, including the rights to:
Reproduce/copy the work;
Adapt and prepare derivative works based on the work;
Distribute copies of the work;
Perform or display a musical work publicly; and
Perform a sound recording publicly by digital audio transmissions.
Continue reading "Music Law 101: What Rights Does A Copyright Owner Have?"
What Every Band Needs To Know
Last week, Brooks Pierce participated in CD Baby's DIY Musician Conference in Nashville. We hosted legal clinics, served as mentors, gave out free copies of our Musician's Legal Handbook, and presented a legal workshop on band agreements.
Our legal workshop covered important legal issues for bands to consider. Here' s a description of our presentation:
Music Law 101: What Every Band Needs to Know
Most bands don't begin their musical journeys expecting to have disputes. But good bands do go bad, and disputes over songs, band names, finances, and other creative and business matters occur regularly. Brooks Pierce attorneys Coe W. Ramsey, Thomas Varnum and Amanda Whorton will discuss important legal issues for band members to consider, including ownership of the band's songs and recordings, protection and use of the band's name, rights to band income, partnerships and accounting claims, whether your band should incorporate, determining who are the "members" of your band, and whether you should have a formal band agreement among the band members and with side musicians. This insightful and relevant workshop will cover copyright law, trademark law, contract law, partnership and corporate law, and other relevant laws to help your band gain the tools it needs to avoid messy legal disputes down the road.
Copies of the slides from our presentation are available here.
Music Law 101: Who Owns the Copyright in a Song?
After your band has written and recorded a song, who actually owns the song? This simple question does not necessarily have a simple answer. How many people were involved in the writing process? Were there other people involved in the recording process? Did you hire a producer? Did you use other background vocalists or musicians in the studio? Did you use "work made for hire" agreements with individuals involved in the process? Do you have a band agreement? The answers to these and other important questions help determine who actually owns the copyrights in any given song. Continue reading "Music Law 101: Who Owns the Copyright in a Song?"
Music Law 101: Protect Your Music, Protect Yourself
We are pleased to introduce a new blog series. Music Law 101 will be a recurring bi-weekly series consisting of posts covering a wide variety of legal topics relevant to artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, and others in the music industry. Topics will include information on copyright law, trademark law, the right of publicity, laws relating to agents and managers, and music contract law.
With the Music Law 101 series, we intend to break down legal jargon to make the concepts useful to you as you create, perform, and distribute music. We want to help you Protect Your Music and Protect Yourself.
What Does Copyright Law Protect?
Copyright law can be confusing. This inaugural post provides an introduction to copyright law for musicians and addresses the often misunderstood issue of what exactly copyright law protects. Continue reading "Music Law 101: Protect Your Music, Protect Yourself"
Second Circuit Affirms "Fractional Licensing" Decision
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the ASCAP and BMI antitrust consent decrees do not prohibit "fractional licensing" of songs. Fractional licensing means that if there are non-ASCAP or non-BMI songwriters who have partial rights in a particular song, ASCAP and BMI can license only the fraction of the song attributable to the ASCAP or BMI songwriters. The other fractional interests of the song would have to be licensed elsewhere (for example, from SESAC or GMR).
Particularly with the recent advent of Global Music Rights (GMR), music licensees (such as broadcasters, websites, restaurants, bars, retail establishments, fitness clubs, and etc.) are concerned that the ruling could lead to additional performance rights licensing organizations ("PROs"), and in turn higher collective licensing fees (and exposure to potential copyright infringement claims to the extent such additional licenses are not secured).
It's too early to tell what the practical effect of this ruling may be in the music licensing marketplace.


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require 'openssl'

class Destination
  WEATHER_URL = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather"
  INSTAGRAM_URL = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/search"
  INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID = "954787f7f2b6464b98dbb73fb2492523"
  PANORAMIO_URL = "http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php"

  attr_accessor :city, :cityCode, :country, :countryCode, :lat, :lng

  def initialize(city: nil, cityCode: nil, country: nil, countryCode: nil, lat: nil, lng: nil)
    @city = city
    @cityCode = cityCode
    @country = country
    @countryCode = countryCode
    @lat = lat
    @lng = lng
  end

  def get_weather
    jsonData = nil
    begin
      httpClient = HTTPClient.new
      data = httpClient.get_content(WEATHER_URL, { "lat" => @lat,  "lon" => @lng })
      jsonData = JSON.parse data
      rescue HTTPClient::BadResponseError => e
      rescue HTTPClient::TimeoutError => e
    end
    return jsonData
  end

  def get_cityname_en
    city = City.find_by(city_jp: @city)
    ap city
    if city.nil?
      city = City.newInstanceByAbroadApi(@cityCode)
    end
    cityname = city.city_en.gsub(" ", "").split(".")[0]
    if cityname == "*"
      # ABRoad APIで英語都市名が未登録の場合は、日本語都市名を返す
      # (後続処理でエラーが発生しないように)
      return get_cityname_jp
    end
    return cityname
  end

  def get_cityname_jp
    return @city.split(/\s*((|\()\s*/)[0].delete("・").delete(" ").delete(" ")
  end

  def get_instagram_photos
    jsonData = nil
    begin
      httpClient = HTTPClient.new
      data = httpClient.get_content(INSTAGRAM_URL, {
        "lat" => @lat,
        "lng" => @lng,
        "client_id" => INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID
      })
      jsonData = JSON.parse data
    end
    return jsonData['data']
  end

  def get_panoramio_photos
    Rails.logger.debug("Get Panoramio...")
    @delta = 0.1
    @latf = @lat.to_f
    @lngf = @lng.to_f
    jsonData = nil
    begin
      httpClient = HTTPClient.new
      data = httpClient.get_content(PANORAMIO_URL, {
        "set" => "public",
        "from" => "0",
        "to" => "10",
        "miny" => @latf - @delta,
        "minx" => @lngf - @delta,
        "maxy" => @latf + @delta,
        "maxx" => @lngf + @delta,
        "size" => "original",
        "mapfilter" => "true",
      })
      jsonData = JSON.parse data
      rescue HTTPClient::BadResponseError => e
      rescue HTTPClient::TimeoutError => e
    end
    Rails.logger.debug("Get Panoramio finished!")
    return jsonData["photos"]
  end
end

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Q: How can I set/get Session if using vertx's WebApiServiceGen? I'm using vertx 4.2.0 and I have implemented @WebApiServiceGen successfully. However, I want to get/set Session but I see that there are ServiceRequest and ServiceResponse. Is there any way to customize or get/set Session ?

A: ServiceRequest contains part of the data available in RoutingContext, because a RoutingContext object cannot be sent over the bus.
If you need extra data from the session, configure a extraPayloadMapper.
See The ServiceRequest data object section in docs.


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3 Ways to Create a Calendar in Google Sheets
The best employees, teams, and companies have one thing in common—organization. For decades, business school professors have studied the most efficient ways to organize a business to maximize profits and resources.
To-do lists, task trackers, and Gantt charts are all digital versions of century-old tools for getting work done. But the oldest of all the tools we use is by far the calendar. Calendars have essentially existed for as long as we have.
And even thousands of years ago, the calendar's purpose was largely the same as it is today—to keep everyone on the same page.
So whether you're tracking a solar equinox, or just trying to launch a campaign before Q4, a calendar is one of the best ways to organize your efforts. There are thousands of different calendars out there, but for this tutorial, we're going to focus on three ways to create a calendar in Google Sheets.
A Google Sheets calendar allows you to make it fully customizable, unlike Google Calendar. But just in case, we'll explore how you can sync this calendar with Gcal if necessary.
Here are three ways to get started: doing it yourself with a blank Google Sheet, using the template gallery, and finally a Google Doc.
Calendars are useful for organizing events, tracking tasks, and just staying organized. The main benefit of building your calendar in Google Sheets is that it's easy to create, customize, and update.
Method #1: Google Sheets DIY
For starters, let's create a new Google Sheet, and add the days of the week to the top row using the =today() formula.
Next, we'll format row two to allow us to add more information to each cell to keep track of our events and to-dos.
Once you've inserted the date in cell A1, you can format the rest of the days of the week by adding +1 to the formula (=today()+1). Once you've added days of the week to every other row for the next four rows. Next, format the date in whatever combination makes the most sense to you.
Since we've set up our calendar based on the current date, it will always be up to date and always show you the next thirty days. The last step to making this calendar super functional is to add borders and alternating colors to make it easier to see the information that matters most.
In the example above, I've also deleted unnecessary rows and columns to make it easier to see my most important information at a glance.
Method #2: Start with a Template
Building a Google Calendar in Sheets is an easy-to-follow process, but an even easier way of creating a calendar in Google Sheets is to visit the template library.
Google's prebuilt sheets templates are a great way to kickstart any project. With dozens of calendar templates preconfigured, all you have to do is click on the one you like the most and you've got a fully customizable calendar in Google Sheets.
Method #3: Google Sheets + Zapier
The final method of creating a calendar isn't 100% in Google Sheets, but it does require a Google Sheet to set up. Let's start with a blank Google Sheet. Next, add columns for your calendar events including:
Each row of your spreadsheet will represent a different calendar event. We'll add some dummy data in order to test our setup. When we're finished this spreadsheet will be synced with our Google Calendar to automatically add new rows in the spreadsheet as events in Google Calendar. The best part about this setup is that it will use your existing Google Calendar and sync with all the other Google products like Gmail.
Open up Zapier and select the orange Make a Zap button in the top right-hand corner. Next, select Google Sheets as the App and New Spreadsheet Row as the Trigger Event.
It'll ask you to connect to a Google Sheets account. Hit continue and then connect your spreadsheet and worksheet.
Once that's completed you'll need to select Google Calendar as the App and Create Detailed Event as the Trigger Event for step 2.
Zapier will ask you which calendar account you'd like to add events to for this Zap. Once that's selected you're ready to start adding the calendar event details.
Keep in mind that each row in our Google Sheet is a new calendar event. So we will be adding column headers in Zapier that will dynamically add information from each new row into a new calendar event. Zapier connects to your Google Sheet and pulls in the column headers as event details for you to add to each section. Once you've added the required fields, we're ready to test the results.
After hitting continue, you'll be prompted to Test & Review or Test & Continue. We'll select Test & Review.
Zapier should've sent a test event to your connected Google Calendar. If everything looks correct on the event, then you can turn this Zap on and every time you add a row to your Google Sheet it will create a new calendar invite.
Being able to schedule business meetings from a new row in a spreadsheet is a useful automation, but it's just the beginning. Zapier and Google Sheets are powerful tools together, but when you combine them with a workflow automation platform like Hivewire, it unlocks new possibilities. For example you could schedule appointments automatically for your team based on new jobs, and text an automated reminder to each team member. You could track your team's progress automatically and get notified as soon as they've finished each task.
Workflow automation isn't a passing a fad or just another buzzword, it's how business is getting done today. New tools like Hivewire are helping businesses get work done by getting rid of manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what will grow their business and let everything else happen automatically.
What is a low-code platform?
The Benefits of a Visual Workflow Builder


For the first example I chose the 12th century Islamic pitcher (58.1.6) illustrated below to demonstrate how an object can often be lit with one primary light source while reflectors act as secondary light sources providing fill and detail lighting.
Pitcher with inscription, Near East, probably Persia, 1000-1199. 58.1.6.
This pitcher was originally almost colorless, but the surface has weathered to a metallic, iridescent crust. (To learn about weathering, a phenomenon common in archaeological glasses, read this article.) With direct lighting from multiple light sources, an object like this can quickly become a mess of confusing reflections and iridescent color. My challenge was to show the metallic surface and subtle iridescence without losing detail in the Kufic inscription and other surface elements.
To begin, I positioned one light overhead and slightly in front of the object. Notice how the highlight reflection on the front is overly bright and harsh, the rest of the object is underexposed, and the inscription is illegible.
Here, I mounted a piece of diffusion material on an arm to soften the intense reflection. You can see the diffusion at the top of the frame (the overhead light is not visible in this image). The small piece of diffusion is just enough to soften the reflection. As the next sequence of images shows, it is important the rest of the overhead light is not blocked so it can be used by the reflectors to bounce light back toward the object.
Next, I placed reflector cards with a satin surface called "Florentine" to light the sides of the object and start to define the edges and surface detail.
Two more satin finish reflectors fill in the front.
Next, a small reflector lights the foot and lower part of the body.
Finally, two taller satin reflectors provide broader fill and even out the lighting on the body and neck.
For illustration purposes, I pulled the camera back from the object for this sequence of images so the entire setup could be captured in the frame. When the camera is in the original position all the reflectors are outside of the field of view.
The left image shows the object with only the single overhead light, while the right image shows the final effect after all the reflectors have been placed. All shutter and aperture settings on the camera are exactly the same.
In the first example, I used the cards to reflect light onto the surface of the object. I used reflectors in a quite different way with this Blaschka model of Porpita mediterranea (L.59.3.2015) illustrated below.
Blaschka Nr. 216, Porpita mediterranea, Leopold and Rudolf Blashka, Dresden, Germany, 1885. Lent by Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. RL.59.3.2015.
In this case, I wanted to capture the delicate translucence and transparency of the glass and also emulate the way the actual creature would look under water where the light is less directional. The Blaschkas were masters at creating delicate translucency and implied movement in their models of marine invertebrates, and I wanted to be sure to capture those properties.
The main light is well behind the object and is diffused and flagged so that it barely grazes the top surface of the object. The shiny reflectors are being used to transmit reflected light through the object, emphasizing its translucence. The tall white cards on the sides provide a softer fill light in contrast to the more intense light from the shiny reflector cards.
The first two examples demonstrate how reflectors can be used to reflect light toward or through a glass object. In the third example, an 18th century Dutch goblet (79.3.993), the reflectors are used as elements that reflect in the glass itself.
Because glass is reflective, the shiny reflector cards can be positioned so that, from the camera's perspective, they show up us linear reflections in the glass along the edges of the bowl of the goblet.
These details show the bowl of the goblet with and without reflector cards. In this case, the effect is intentionally very subtle. Notice the goblet on the right has delicate linear highlight reflections along the outer edges that allow them to be more clearly defined so they stand out cleanly from the dark background.
These examples have shown just a few different ways reflectors can be used in glass photography. In fact, it is rare that we have a setup that does not use some kind of reflector card because they are so useful and effective. Glass interacts with its surroundings in ways unlike virtually any other material—reflecting, transmitting, and refracting light—and reflector cards are excellent tools to manipulate the lit environment to better capture great images of glass.
fortuitous timing of perfect info…Thank You very much!
Thank you so much. It is most generous of you to share your knowledge.
Very well done Andy. Excellent explanation and examples of reflectors in use.
Very, very educational but explained in simple terms. Thank you.
A huge help and very clear. Thanks, Andy.


In the previous wonderful system, you had the List properties function, that would enable us to order the lists according to our needs. Please bring back this great feature.
Thanks for sharing this idea, Lucia!