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The Music Tapes
The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle playing 'Cabinet of Wonders' after book tour
The paperback edition of Danielle's Universal Harvester is just out. Meanwhile this week's edition of the "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats" podcast features The Music Tapes' Julian Koster covering "Jeff Davis Country Blues"
The Music Tapes taking 'The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air)' on tour
Neutral Milk Hotel member Julian Koster's band The Music Tapes often go on very unique tours. Their latest is the 'The Orbiting Human Circus (of The Air) featuring The Music Tapes' tour...
Merge 25 fest full lineup: Teenage Fanclub, David Kilgour, Mikal Cronin, Mount Moriah, Imperial Teen & more added
Teenage Fanclub @ Williamsburg Waterfront, 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As mentioned a couple times, Merge Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, culminating in the Merge 25 festival in Carrboro, NC from July 23 - 26...
The Music Tapes doing a week of free, final Traveling Imaginary shows in NYC before Neutral Milk Hotel tour
The Music Tapes in Chicago in 2011 (more by John Yinging) Julian Koster's The Music Tapes project had been doing their Traveling Imaginary tour this year, and they've now announced that they'll do one final (and f...
Jeff Mangum on tour; some Northeast dates postponed due to weather (Hartford included)
As mentioned, Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum is on a tour now with The Music Tapes and Tall Firs which passed through New York for shows this past week in Clinton (2/14) and Poughkeepsie (2/15)...
The Music Tapes released an LP, touring in 2013 (with and without Jeff Mangum)
The Music Tapes, the project of Elephant 6 collective member Julian Koster (ex-Neutral Milk Hotel), released their newest album, Mary's Voice, this past September via Merge...
watch Elephant 6 members pay tribute to Bill Doss @ 40 Watt
A memorial service for Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss, who passed away on July 30, went down at the 40 Watt in Athens on August 4th. Friends and family, like Jeff Mangum, Julian Koster, Robert Schneider, Bryan Poole, Jason NeSmith, Derek Almstead, and Eric Harris, gathered to tell stories and perform songs in tribute to their Elephant 6 brother...
Jeff Mangum begins BAM run w/ the Music Tapes tonight, auctioning off art & tix to 1 show (info & updated tour dates)
Jeff Mangum kicks off his sold out three-night run at BAM with The Music Tapes tonight (1/19). The Brooklyn shows are part of a longer tour for the two Neutral Milk Hotel bandmates...
Julian Koster out caroling again
Julian Koster spreads holiday cheer and offends his audience at once Business idea! Flight cases for "singing saws". Worst case scenario: you will probably have at least one customer in Julian Koster (The Music Tapes), who will need a way to protect his instruments from the elements while on the road as part of his annual Holiday Caroling Tour...
The Olivia Tremor Control & The Music Tapes played Le Poisson Rouge, now streaming online
The metronome at an earlier show on the tour (more by Tim Griffin) Given the number of reunion tours that have come through over the past few years, it can be hard to keep track of just who's together and who's defunct for good...


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namespace amber {
namespace vulkan {

struct VulkanPtrs {
#include "vk-wrappers-1-0.h"  // NOLINT(build/include)
#include "vk-wrappers-1-1.h"  // NOLINT(build/include)
};

/// Wrapper around a Vulkan Device object.
class Device {
 public:
  Device(VkInstance instance,
         VkPhysicalDevice physical_device,
         uint32_t queue_family_index,
         VkDevice device,
         VkQueue queue);
  virtual ~Device();

  Result Initialize(PFN_vkGetInstanceProcAddr getInstanceProcAddr,
                    Delegate* delegate,
                    const std::vector<std::string>& required_features,
                    const std::vector<std::string>& required_device_extensions,
                    const VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures& available_features,
                    const VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR& available_features2,
                    const std::vector<std::string>& available_extensions);

  /// Returns true if |format| and the |buffer|s buffer type combination is
  /// supported by the physical device.
  bool IsFormatSupportedByPhysicalDevice(const Format& format, BufferType type);

  VkDevice GetVkDevice() const { return device_; }
  VkQueue GetVkQueue() const { return queue_; }
  VkFormat GetVkFormat(const Format& format) const;

  uint32_t GetQueueFamilyIndex() const { return queue_family_index_; }
  uint32_t GetMaxPushConstants() const;

  /// Returns true if the given |descriptor_set| is within the bounds of
  /// this device.
  bool IsDescriptorSetInBounds(uint32_t descriptor_set) const;

  /// Returns true if the memory at |memory_type_index| has |flags| set.
  virtual bool HasMemoryFlags(uint32_t memory_type_index,
                              const VkMemoryPropertyFlags flags) const;
  /// Returns true if the memory at |memory_type_index| is host accessible.
  bool IsMemoryHostAccessible(uint32_t memory_type_index) const;
  /// Returns true if the memory at |memory_type_index| is host coherent.
  bool IsMemoryHostCoherent(uint32_t memory_type_index) const;

  /// Returns the pointers to the Vulkan API methods.
  virtual const VulkanPtrs* GetPtrs() const { return &ptrs_; }

  /// Returns true if the required subgroup size is supported for given stage
  bool IsRequiredSubgroupSizeSupported(
      const ShaderType type,
      const uint32_t required_subgroup_size) const;
  /// Returns the minimum required subgroup size or 0 if subgroup size control
  /// is not supported.
  uint32_t GetMinSubgroupSize() const;
  /// Returns the maximum required subgroup size or 0 if subgroup size control
  /// is not supported.
  uint32_t GetMaxSubgroupSize() const;

 private:
  Result LoadVulkanPointers(PFN_vkGetInstanceProcAddr, Delegate* delegate);
  bool SupportsApiVersion(uint32_t major, uint32_t minor, uint32_t patch);

  VkInstance instance_ = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
  VkPhysicalDevice physical_device_ = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
  VkPhysicalDeviceProperties physical_device_properties_;
  VkPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties physical_memory_properties_;
  VkPhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlPropertiesEXT
      subgroup_size_control_properties_;
  VkDevice device_ = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
  VkQueue queue_ = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
  uint32_t queue_family_index_ = 0;

  VulkanPtrs ptrs_;
};

}  // namespace vulkan
}  // namespace amber

#endif  // SRC_VULKAN_DEVICE_H_

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I confess I was taken aback by the level of… restraint in the new Five Finger Death Punch album, and not in a good way. But after listening to it a few times, "Got Your Six" has grown on me. The more melodic approach I, at first, saw as shallow is actually a refinement process.
The band's respect for the USA army is well known so I was surprised that it took them so long to name an album after a military expression. And given its strong meaning, it's also natural that "Got Your Six", the opening track, is one of those songs that you immediately identify as Five Finger Death Punch's when you first hear it. The punching beat (no pun intended), the fluid guitars… somewhat less aggressive than usual, but it still has the band's trademark sound all over it.
"Jekyll And Hyde" is intense rather than brisk, the drums in the chorus almost like a hypnotic mantra and the "oyoyo!" a clear invitation to sing-along. It was on the next track, "Wash It All Away", that the doubt started to bite, as I found the chorus way too much pop-ish. The main riff is quite melodic too, but in a way that will win you over immediately. The catchiness of the chorus eventually triumphs and you realize how good this song actually is, but it takes a while. Pretty much the same with "Question Everything", where somberness and heaviness take turns as the leading role of the melody. Once again, not really an edgy song, but very well written. And the acoustic solo is stellar!
You'll find plenty of edginess on "No Sudden Movement" though, so it's not like they dismissed the fast lane completely. And the cranking guitars on both "Meet My Maker" and "Hell To Pay" bear that dear ol' feisty spirit of 5FDP – not to mention "Boots And Blood", an ode to the F word. It's only "Ain't My Last Dance" and the ballad "My Nemesis" that I'm still struggling with, both being somewhat too average for my taste (and the sudden change of pace in the chorus of the first doesn't feel right to me). The other ballad, "Digging My Own Grave", may not be exactly spectacular, but the seductiveness of its melody will linger in your ears.
"Got Your Six" is definitely Five Finger Death Punch's more polished album so far and that's why one might be skeptical. But give it a couple of tries and you'll see how toning down the rage isn't that bad after all.
A little less than four months after the release of volume 1, volume 2 came and conquered.
The overall sound is thicker, the beats more straight-forward and the guitars fuller – as "Here To Die" and "Let This Go" best illustrate. Jason Hook and Zoltan Bathory let their fingers dance more loosely throughout this album, without getting overzealous about elaborate patterns, which I'm personally thankful for – guitar virtuosos have become such a cliché that they're just too boring.
The ballads are also more enthralling, deeper. Starting with "Battle Born", which made it to single. The life on the road is always a delicate subject that both artists and fans fall for. And when it's put in such a heartfelt way, lyrical and musical wise, like "Battle Born" is, then it's a guaranteed hit.
Then, preceded by a somewhat melancholic instrumental piece called ""The Agony Of Regret", there's a more sophisticated version of "Cold" – a dark song originally by Black Blood Orchestra, which is a project of Ivan Moody and therefore I don't think it's accurate to say this is a cover. 5FDP revamped it with a piano and alternative lyrics and the outcome is emotionally stunning.
The real cover, also a smooth tune, comes in the form of "House Of The Rising Sun", that traditional folk song that The Animals made famous in 1964 and so many bands have covered ever since. But it seems that this was the first song that Zoltan learned how to play on the guitar, so the number of previous versions didn't mean a thing. Replacing "New Orleans" by "Sin City", Ivan sings with his deepest tone and that alone makes it all worth it.
Also regarding the vocal performance, I must call your attention to "Cradle To The Grave", where the insertion of a harsher second voice in some key-verses boosts the power of an already strong track.
Volume 1 may sound catchier and have all those guests embellishing its work, but volume 2 deserves nothing less than the same 5-star stamp.
Last night, metal legend Rob Halford, frontman for Judas Priest, surprised fans as he jumped on stage to join Five Finger Death Punch for a performance of their song Lift Me Up at the LG Arena in Birmingham. Halford is featured on the studio version of Lift Me Up, which appears on the first installment of Five Finger Death Punch's masterwork titled The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, released in July.
The band wrapped up their European arena tour with Avenged Sevenfold last night and finish the year in Russia with four headline shows. They kick off 2014 at Florida's ShipRocked in January, before heading over to Australia for the Soundwave Festival.
"The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell – vol. 2" (read our review of vol.1 here) will be released on November 18th, but a career-spanning compilation album is now exclusively available with the 250th special edition of Metal Hammer.
After the release of "The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Vol. 1" (review here), Las Vegas-based Five Finger Death Punch have now announced that volume 2 will hit the stores on the 19th of November. The new single "Battleborn" is already getting radio airplay and whoever pre-orders the album on iTunes (standard or deluxe edition), gets an instant download of it.


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'Waiting' has just begun for Tony winner Glover
Tony Award winner John Glover is now staring on Broadway with John Goodman and Nathan Lane Samuel Beckett's mast...
John Glover, Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane and John Goodman in "Waiting for Godot" on Broadway
This week four of the most famous names on Broadway, including Tony award winner John Glover, will tackle the central roles of mysterious Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's darkly funny drama "Waiting for Godot." How times have changed
In the early 50s, a man who looked like a tramp appeared in the London offices of the legendary British actor Sir John Gielgud holding a black bag. From the bag he produced a script that he quietly asked Sir John to consider producing.
Then he took off, without another word, probably back to a homeless shelter, Sir John told himself.
The man was Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and the script he delivered was "Waiting for Godot," his masterpiece, now widely considered the greatest play of the 20th century.
But Sir John read it and decided it was total rubbish. Worse, he warned all of his famous actor friends not to touch it with a barge pole, and they took his advice.
Now today, Beckett's play is one of the most renowned Irish works in history.
The story itself is easy to describe. In the first act two men wait on a country road by a tree and nothing much happens. In the second act they do the same thing. Unlike in most plays, though, it's what doesn't happen that drives the play.
When Tony Award winning actor John Glover was asked to play the character Lucky he was terrified of the part and said no.
Throughout Beckett's play Lucky remains silent, until suddenly he bursts forth with such a dam burst of words that the speech goes on for three pages. It's a profoundly challenging role, and Glover was understandably nervous of it.
"I was terrified of this part," Glover told IrishCentral.com "I never understood it. I told my agent not to get me involved. I knew about that mad three page long speech, which has no punctuation at all, and I thought, I can't do that!"
But Glover's agent was having none of it; you'd be a fool to pass it up, he said. Eventually he persuaded Glover to accept. And in rehearsals Glover was surprised to find himself thinking of his own father as he tackled the role.
"My father, toward the end of his life, had some kind of dementia or Alzheimer's, and what I'm finding is that I feel like I'm playing my father now toward the end of his life. My dad just stopped making sense," he recalls.
"He couldn't make himself understood because his mind turned into a jumble. And I find that that's what's happening to the man I'm playing as Beckett wrote him."
Glover's father was aware of things but he couldn't make himself understood. He tried to write his name but his signature, Glover says, looked like a brain full of cobwebs.
"It was an image that I carried with me. As I tried to tackle that speech it became a web of words about death and the body fading and the world being destroyed, which were very real possibilities at the time when Beckett wrote it, and still are."
Glover, who is now 61, still wakes up every morning and goes for a three-mile hike, followed by oatmeal at the kitchen table, and then he starts learning lines.
"I made copies of the speech and I tried to structure it and group it in my own way. And of course it's amazing to work with the other actors. This is the third play I've done with Nathan Lane (the two time Tony winner).
"He came to rehearsals with the whole text by heart. He had read everything there was to be read about his part. He's known he would be performing this role for a long time and you'll be amazed by how good he is. He's dug deep."
In Irish productions of the play, Beckett the humorist emerges far more frequently than when his work is tackled by other nations. The rhythm of the language and the howls of protest at injustice that occur throughout the show hit their mark much more often when the Irish perform it than in the reverential museum piece productions of the play that regularly get trotted out in Germany, England and America.
Glover agrees, but his production has an ace up its sleeve.
"Nathan Lane is a master comedian and he knows that so much of Beckett's imagination was interested in vaudeville. Beckett loved Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and all those physical comedians and Nathan has accessed all that. We've previewed now for a week and a half and to hear the peals of laughter from the audience is delightful. John Goodman is also pitch perfect. I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised," he says.
As for the show, Glover would prefer if audiences come to the theater knowing nothing about what they are about to see.
"I've spoken to students who watched it on a Saturday afternoon matinee – they rented a bus and about 40 or 50 of them showed up with their faculty," Glover says.
"One of them said, 'I was so surprised when I saw it. It's really a very human, funny, funny play.' So I think the less people know about it the more they'll enjoy it. "The show is playing at the legendary old Studio 54 and every night I just sit on the steps offstage and listen to the play while I waiting to go on. What Beckett's written is just a joy to listen to and to hear the audiences roar with laughter is great too; I'm just in pig heaven with it really."
"Waiting for Godot" is playing at Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street in New York. For tickets call 212-541-8457.
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History of the beloved "Song for Ireland"
LISTEN: Irish actor Michael Mellamphy sits down with Irish Stew Podcast

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Q: How to remove element from array if values matched? If i find values in object i want to delete those values from array.
What would be the best solution to accompolished this task ?
ctrl.js
  var selectedOwners = [];
            $scope.deleteOwner = function(dataItem){
                var workerKey;
                var fullName;
                angular.forEach(selectedOwners,function(val,index){
                  workerKey = val.workerKey;
                  fullName = val.fullName;
                })
                if(dataItem.workeyKey === workerKey || dataItem.fullName === fullName){
                  selectedOwners.splice(workerKey,fullName);
                }
            }

Array and Object
Array  selectedOwners = [{"fullName":"Johnson, Rocio","workerKey":3506},{"fullName":"Johnson, John S.","workerKey":571},{"fullName":"Johnson, Camille A.","workerKey":1368}]

Object {
    "workerKey": 3506,
    "fullName": "Johnson, Rocio",
}

A: Should be as simple as this:
var selectedOwners = [{
    "fullName": "Johnson, Rocio",
    "workerKey": 3506
}, {
    "fullName": "Johnson, John S.",
    "workerKey": 571
}, {
    "fullName": "Johnson, Camille A.",
    "workerKey": 1368
}];

var obj = {
    "workerKey": 3506,
    "fullName": "Johnson, Rocio",
};

for (var i = 0; i < selectedOwners.length; i++) {
    if (selectedOwners[i].workerKey === obj.workerKey) {
        selectedOwners.splice(i, 1);
        break;
    }
}

Keep in mind the for loop assumes that the workerKey is unique in the array. That's is why we only need to compare on the workerKey property only and we also break out of the for loop after find a match.
Here's the loop if the workerKey is not unique:
for (var i = 0; i < selectedOwners.length; i++) {
    if (selectedOwners[i].workerKey === obj.workerKey &&
        selectedOwners[i].fullName === obj.fullName) {
        selectedOwners.splice(i, 1);

        // we need to decrement i by one because
        // we just removed an element from the array
        i--;
    }
}

A: Use indexOf to get the position for the splice;
Since you're passing the object as dataItem you can do as follow:
$scope.deleteOwner = function(dataItem){
    selectedOwners.splice(indexOf(dataItem), 1);
}

A: You could use lodash _.remove which is very simple
_.remove(selectedOwners , {
          "fullName": "Johnson, Rocio",
          "workerKey": 3506    //where condition
     });

A: You might use grep function, like below:
$scope.deleteOwner = function(dataItem){
            selectedOwners = $.grep(selectedOwners, function(value) {
                return value.workerKey != dataItem.workerKey
                     && value.fullName!= dataItem.fullName;
            });
        }

A: I think the best idea is to use just the filter array's method. No external JS dependencies.
var selectedOwners = [{"fullName":"Johnson, Rocio","workerKey":3506},{"fullName":"Johnson, John S.","workerKey":571},{"fullName":"Johnson, Camille A.","workerKey":1368}]
var item = {
    "workerKey": 3506,
    "fullName": "Johnson, Rocio",
}

var resultArray = selectedOwners.filter(function(i){
   return !(i.fullname == item.fullname && i.workerKey == item.workerKey)
});

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Security and checkpoints at the entrances to the museum have been strengthened as part of the Vigipirate scheme on high alert.
- Suitcases, travel bags and rucksacks larger than A3 are prohibited.
- Bags and other personal items will be inspected when you enter the Museum.
This 1, 2, 3 or 7-day concept offers unlimited transport at a low price (bus, sea bus, passeur or bike) and a visit to at least one partner site at a preferential rate (Aquarium, the Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Musée des automates et des modèles réduits, Musée Maritime, the Tours de La Rochelle, guided tour of the City Hall).


On June 15 a panel of federal judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will meet in Honolulu to hear oral arguments that are likely to result in the most important environmental legal decision of our time.
The hearing involves recent Federal District Court decisions that took the draconian step of intervening to invalidate public safety laws in three different Hawaii counties. The laws had been passed to protect the basic civil rights of citizens to a safe environment by regulating the toxic pesticides that are being sprayed on hundreds of experimental GMO test sites across the islands.
If these rulings are not overturned by the Appellate or Supreme Court, then the precedent set by an activist Hawaii Federal District Court on behalf of the six largest agrochemical companies on earth could create the environmental equivalent of a Citizens United decision.
Progressive Source, my small public interest communications company, has created the animated two minute video below, as well as this Change.org petition, which can be signed on the upper right of this page (and linked to and shared here), to build public awareness of what I call the Monsanto Doctrine–before it is too late to stop it.
Simply put, the Monsanto Doctrine is the right of agrochemical corporations to spray unlimited quantities of industrial poisons regardless of any local law passed to protect human or environmental safety. If it is upheld by the federal Appeals Court, then local governments around the country will be rendered powerless to protect its citizens' basic civil right to health and safety.
The Hawaii District Court decisions to be reviewed on June 15 blocked important, prudent public safety laws passed in Maui, Kauai and Hawaii counties from taking effect. They were based upon the ominous legal finding that the very power of the counties to make these laws was supposedly "preempted" by the superior power of either the State or Federal Departments of Agriculture, despite the facts that neither agency has ever tested the safety of the pesticides being used in Hawaii.
In this, and in accepting preemptive powers from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration (which have also never independently tested the long term impact of GMO food, Roundup or other pesticides on human beings), the federal judiciary is being used as an instrument to hijack local democracy.
The Monsanto Doctrine means that the federal agencies that were established by Congress to protect citizen health and environmental safety have been reinvented as legal shields to protect the world's most toxic agrochemical companies from the authority of local government to provide that very protection to its citizens.
By invalidating three separate Hawaii County laws providing citizens with the basic civil rights of a safe environment, the District Court has ruled that the Federal and State agencies created to protect people can now be used to protect corporations from people.
These rulings are based upon the finding that Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow Chemical, BASF, Dupont and Bayer, multinational corporations which sell tens of billions of dollars of pesticides each year, would, according to the federal court, "suffer irreparable harm" from curtailing their operations to comply with local laws.
This Monsanto Doctrine of pre-emption convinced the Federal District to invalidate poplar common sense safety laws passed by County legislators in Kauai and Hawaii County, as well as a GMO Moratorium ballot initiative passed by the citizens of Maui during the November 2014 election.
Maui's ballot initiative called for a moratorium on the production of GMO seed crops until they had been independently tested and proven safe. Although such tests are something that the federal EPA, DOA, and FDA have all failed to ever do, the federal court took the historic step of prohibiting Maui's government from certifying the vote or implementing its new moratorium law.
In cases involving the islands of Kauai and Hawaii a federal judge struck down local government laws that would have required buffer zones to prevent pesticide spraying near schools, and open air genetic engineering experiments that were seen as threatening to local organic agriculture.
Hooser created Kauai's Bill 2491 a few years ago in response to concerns about illnesses in the community from the more than 300 annual field tests conducted on the island by Syngenta, Dow, Dupont, Pioneer and BASF. "Doctors who had delivered babies were saying they believed we had 10 times the national rate of certain heart defects on the West Side of Kauai," he explained. "Kids were getting sick in the schools, sea urchins dying in the ocean. So we drafted a bill that required disclosure (of which pesticides were used) and modest buffer zones of 500 feet between pesticide spraying and schools, hospitals and homes. And rather than comply with our law that we passed democratically in our community, they took us to court.
The Ninth circuit Appellate decision to uphold or overturn the Federal District Court in Hawaii may have global implications. That's because a Monsanto Doctrine victory could be applied by pesticide multinationals to secretly negotiated international trade agreements like NAFTA, the TPP and TPIP. Such challenges to common sense regulation by the agrochemical giants would be decided by secret industry-selected tribunals, who would have unappealable authority to impose rigged GMO and pesticide "safety" findings upon entire nations. With zero transparency, these tribunals could levy fines of billions of dollars in imaginary "lost income" for toxic polluters whose imaginary corporate rights are infringed upon by common sense public safety regulations.


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The Pure Pop Radio Interview: Dan Pavelich's Lost Hits of the 80's Now Found
Dan Pavelich
(If Dan Pavelich, music critic at the Kenosha (Wisconsin) News and creator of the sweet comic strip Just Say Uncle, were a big top performer, he'd be the guy who, in clear defiance of all of the laws of physics, is happily juggling a bushelful of brightly colored balls through the air, never dropping a single one.
Through the years, Dan has been juggling quite a few balls in the air, many of them musical in nature. In addition to his writing and cartooning duties, he has been the rhythm guitarist in the Bradburys, and the producer of three volumes of the much-loved Hi-Fi Christmas Party series of CDs, benefiting research on Von Willebrands Disease being conducted at the Blood Center in Milwaukee. Dan's 2014 solo project, released under the clever and catchy name The Click Beetles, produced a fun album called Wake Up to Music!
This year, Dan remembered songs he liked from the 1980s and decided to whip up an album's worth of original numbers that paid homage to that decade. Hooking up with musician friends who could help him bring his ideas to life, he created fictional bands to make his songs come alive (like Frampton, kinda sorta).
Lost Hits of the 80's plays like the fun soundtrack to a movie about a decade that produced good songs, and, it must be said, lots of big hair. Imagined groups, such as Atari Hand Cramp, Pest Control, and Asmatics UK, are brought to life with the help of such talented collaborators as Pop 4's Andrea Perry, Lisa Mychols and the Well Wishers' Jeff Shelton; highlights of the record include Redd Roxx's poppy "No Regret," sung by the Waking Hours' Tom Richards; the steady, rocking "Camera Shy" by the Vaporizers; and the Images' slowed down, impassioned take on the Romantics' "Talking in Your Sleep," the only cover on the album.
Below, Dan talks exclusively to Pure Pop Radio about his inspiration for Lost Hits of the 80's. Lost Hits of the 80's is available from CD Baby, Kool Kat Musik, JAM Recordings, and Amazon, and is highly recommended. You can win one of three signed copies of Lost Hits of the 80's by clicking here or on the link at the bottom of this page.)
Dan Pavelich: Last summer, my local theater ran a series of classic '80s movies, and for the first time since the '80s, I was able to see them on the big screen. I wasn't prepared for the way that reliving my youth would affect me. It sounds cliche, but I really felt like a kid again. The music, especially, knocked me out in a way that it hadn't in years. For the first time since the '80s (high school for me was '82-'85), I didn't hear the music as simple pieces of nostalgia. Underneath the electronic drums, synths and chorused guitars, I heard really great songs. Frustrated that most "Best of the '80s" CDs available had the same song selection, I opted to write new ones, in the spirit and style of the decade.
It soon became clear that because each song was so drastically different in style, I couldn't release [the album] under just one name. I'd have to pretend that each tune was done by a separate band, which would explain the wide variety. I asked some of my favorite singers and musicians to help out, and everyone said "Yes." Several commented that they'd always wanted to do a period project like this, but never had the time or resources.
My recording career began in 1985, when I, along with Bradburys drummer John Goodman, released a vinyl 45 under the name the Images. Unfortunately, recording was incredibly expensive then, as it was years before home recording was common and affordable. Most of the songs I wrote during the '80s went unrecorded because of that. Now that I have a home studio, though, I'm no longer held back by $50-and-up hourly studio rates.
I don't think I've ever had more fun recording than I did with Lost Hits of the '80s. I spent many hours searching for just the right keyboard patches and drum sounds, but it all went by in the blink of an eye. I'll be the first to admit that it's purely a vanity project. I had no expectations that there was even an audience for it, beyond the folks who sang and played on it. I always wanted to record a full album in the '80s, and at the very least, now I can finally check that off my list.
Pure Pop Radio: What kind of mindset did you have to adopt to make the songs you wrote for this album sound authentic? Or was your aim to bridge the gap between the sound of '80s music and what's current?
Dan Pavelich: I think I have to give credit for a lot of the authenticity to my Roland Fantom synth. It's jam-packed with sounds from the great Juno and Jupiter synths of the '80s. You just hear those sounds and it puts you in the mood! I wasn't aiming to sound current at all. For once, I just went in whatever direction seemed to be the most fun, without worrying about how I would sell it or promote it. It was purely for my own enjoyment.
Pure Pop Radio: Did you have specific, actual '80s bands in mind while writing and recording these songs? Did you ever think, "Oh, that should sound like–"?
Dan Pavelich: I tried really hard not to do that, because I didn't want to just copy any particular band's sound. I wanted the songs and the fake bands to stand on their own, as individual songs from the era. The comparisons are inevitable, though, since it's impossible to use the same sounds that Greg Hawkes used in the Cars and not have people think it sounds like them. I'm most pleased when listeners are a little confused and say things like, "This reminds me of a band, but I can't think of the song, but that drum sound sounds familiar…," but they can't put their finger on it.
Pure Pop Radio: How did you pick certain singers and players to record these songs? Were there specific attributes that certain people had that lent themselves to them?
Dan Pavelich: At first, I tracked all of the songs with my own vocals, and it just didn't feel right. I can do a couple of different things with my voice to mix it up, but there just wasn't enough overall variety. It just didn't make sense for all of these different bands to have the same singer. Luckily, I happen to know a lot of my favorite singers, so I just started asking them to do it. It's pretty thrilling to hear people like Lisa Mychols, Jamie Hoover and Andrea Perry sing my songs. Everyone exceeded my expectations.
Two of my favorite moments are the guitar solos by John Scholvin on "I Don't Miss You (Ghost Be Gone)" and Grant June on "Digital Wave." They both nailed that '80s rock style in a way that I never could have.
Pure Pop Radio: The band names you came up with are creative and could easily have existed in the '80s. Atari Hand Cramp, Pest Control, Crab Rangoons and Broken China are evocative of the era in which they were supposed to exist. Was it easy to come up with these names? Were there names you ultimately rejected because they either sounded too authentic or possibly not authentic enough?
Dan Pavelich: It was really difficult to come up with the names. Initially, I started with a list of about 50, and started Googling them. Most were already taken! With the names, the fun part for me is seeing someone pick up the disc and look at the track order on the back. Atari Hand Cramp and Crab Rangoons both always get a laugh! That's kind of the point here, to have fun and reminisce in a positive way.
Pure Pop Radio: The only cover on the album is of the Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep." What was it about this song that called out to be included on the album, and were there other songs you considered tackling?
Dan Pavelich: Remember on the original Star Trek, how they'd validate a futuristic reference by lumping it in with others that are well-known? They'd say something like, "He's a brilliant thinker…like Confuscious, Einstein, or Bleepo, from Magneto 8." I was doing the same thing, but to a lesser extent. Also, I've always loved that song, but heard it in my head as being slow and slinky. It's a little darker that way. I sent a copy to Wally from the Romantics to hear his opinion, but I haven't heard back yet. I hope he likes it. There were tons of other '80s songs that I thought about doing, but this one was the only one I thought I could switch up a little.
Pure Pop Radio: Are you thinking about other decades to recreate on future releases?
Dan Pavelich: I'd still like to do another '80s project, this time letting the guest artists contribute their own tunes. I think that would be really interesting. Several of the people involved with Lost Hits told me that they'd been wanting to do something similar for years, so I think there's some interest there to go a little further. Next up for me is a second Click Beetles album, and I strongly suspect that elements of this '80s experiment will be creeping into that!
(Thanks to Dan Pavelich for talking to us about Lost Hits of the 80's. Once again, the album is available at CD Baby, Kool Kat Musik, JAM Recordings, and Amazon, and is highly recommended. You can also win one of three signed copies of Lost Hits of the 80's by entering our exclusive contest; click here to enter.)
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Allomengea vidua (L. Koch, 1879)
Size: Female ? mm; male ? mm.
Genus: Allomengea Strand, 1912. Characters of genus: Small to medium-sized spiders with European species ranging from 2.9-5.6 mm in body length (van Helsdingen 1974). Carapace not modified in males. Eyes subequal with anterior medials slightly smaller than the others. Chelicerae with well-developed stridulating ridges. Abdomen with or without a pattern. Legs long and thin. Femora without spines, tibia with several spines including ventral ones, metatarsi I and II with one ventral spine only (occasionally none), metatarsi III and IV with more numerous spines. Tm I 0.65-0.80. Metatarsi IV with a trichobothrium (A. scopigera has several trichobothria in addition to principal one). The males of the genus are easily recognized by the palp, which is armed with a bunch of stout spines arising from the tip of a horn-like projection of the cymbium. Epigyne is formed as a small to large more or less triangular sclerotized projection depending on species.
Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859 (Line Weaving Spiders). Characters of family: The linyphiids belong to the group of ecribellate spider families having 8 eyes and 3 tarsal claws. The eyes are arranged in 2 rows of 4, usually heterogeneous in size with the anterior medials smaller than the rest. Frequently, the eyes are ringed with black, this being most noticeable in species with lighter coloured carapaces such as many species of the Linyphiinae subfamily. Some species adapted to dark habitats have the eyes much reduced, sometimes being very minute in size or only evidenced by pale markings under the integument (e.g. Porrhomma rosenhauri). The carapace is highly variable especially in the smaller species belonging to the Erigoninae subfamily. Males of this large subfamily frequently have the frontal region modified into strangely formed lobes or bear other types of protuberances some of which may have tufts of hairs. Some species have the carapace punctured with pits (see images of Lophomma punctatum). The males may also have sulci (grooves) running backwards from the posterior eyes. The chelicerae do not possess a lateral condyle (boss at base of chelicer). The outer side of the chelicerae have horizontal stridulating ridges visible in many species. Such ridges only occur scattered in other spider families (see for example images of ridges in Metellina stridulans of the Tetragnathidae). The labium is strongly rebordered as in the Nesticidae, Araneidae, and Tetragnathidae. The endites are usually parallel. Legs are slender and provided with spines. The number of spines on the legs is an important character for species identification when this is undertaken using the stereomicroscope. The abdomen is nearly always longer than wide sometimes with a pattern (Linyphiinae in particular) and sometimes mainly uniformly coloured, very often blackish (Erigoninae in particular). Some species posses an abdominal scutum as for example some members of the Ceratinella genus. The epigynes are variable, sometimes simple as in the Erigoninae or provided with a scapus as often seen in the Linyphiinae. The male palp often possesses an U-shaped paracymbium. The family was earlier divided in to two subfamilies, which sometimes were elevated to family status: the Linyphiidae and Erigonidae (also known as Micryphantidae). The Linyphiidae was characterized by not having tibial apophyses on the male palp, by having a claw on the female palp in most species, and by having two dorsal spines on tibia IV or if only one spine present there was one short spine on metatarsi I and II. The Erigonidae was characterized by having at least one tibial apophyses on the male palp, by lacking a claw on the female palp, and by having just a single dorsal spine on tibia IV and with the metatarsi spineless, or all spines lacking altogether. However, the family is now divided in to seven subfamilies, the Dubiaraneinae, Erigoninae, Ipainae, Linyphiinae, Micronetinae, Mynogleninae, and Stemonyphantinae. Consult recent literature or Wikipedia for lists of subfamily genera. See also Linyphiid Spiders Of The World by Andrei Tanasevitch and LinyGen: Linyphioid Genera of the World (Pimoidae and Linyphiidae) by Gustavo Hormiga, Dimitar Dimitrov, Jeremy A. Miller and Fernando Alvarez-Padilla.


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I've never listened to a podcast, but I do sometimes still read blogs.
Yes, that's true for most people, and blog posts are certainly easier to find in a search engine. That will likely not change.
However, I (at least personally) enjoy being a podcaster; the guy behind the mic. And with podcasts now being in Google Play Music, the potential audience is growing.


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Schedule in place for Kaljulaid's temporary relocation to Narva
President Kersti Kaljulaid in Narva in January 2018. Source: Sergei Stepanov
President Kersti Kaljulaid will relocate to the Northeastern Estonian city of Narva for the last week of August and first week of September, and again for the second and fourth weeks of November.
Details regarding Kaljulaid's schedule were confirmed to ERR by Public Relations Adviser to the President Taavi Linnamäe.
Late last December, Kaljulaid announced that she would move her office to Narva for one month this fall, and use the Open Space theatre complex being built on the property of the former Baltijets Factory as her office.
While it was initially scheduled to be completed by mid-November, the theatre complex will not be ready until 1 December, and so it is not yet clear where exactly in Narva the president will work.
With this temporary relocation to Narva, Kaljulaid wants to demonstrate the presence of the Estonian community and society in Narva, as well as the fact that the city is a valued part of the country.
Editor: Aili Vahtla
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Gallery: President Kaljulaid visits Narva on street name-change mission
Alar Karis' presidential inauguration takes place in Tallinn next Monday
President Kersti Kaljulaid starting first work week in Narva on Tuesday
Kaljulaid to work at University of Tartu Narva College while in town
Kaljulaid, President's Office to relocate to Narva for one month next fall
President Kaljulaid: Ida-Viru County not hostile, Russian, downtrodden


Should you happen to hold a European bank account, then this review about how to buy BTC with SEPA transfer would be of value to you. The guide is designed as to provide solutions and answers to most important aspects of the SEPA deposit method, guiding you through the process of transferring funds to various exchange accounts.
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Go to Coinbase or check out our top 100 bitcoin exchanges list.
Register an account and confirm your identity if needed.
Select Accounts on the left side of the Coinbase dashboard page.
Select the Deposit button at the top-right.
Use the information displayed to initiate a SEPA transfer in euros from your bank account.
Get your bitcoins: transfer usually takes from 1 to 3 business days.
Create a Coinbase account and download iOS or Android app.
Enter the amount in bitcoins (BTC) that you wish to buy.
Select the bitcoin wallet you want to deposit into.
Select your preferred payment method (credit/debit card or bank account).
Review your order and tap Buy bitcoin.
make sure send deposits denominated in EUR only.
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is an EU-based transfer system used by traders that are located in the EU-zone. The project is accepted by various European bitcoin exchanges that offer their services to investors that are located in 34 countries, 28 EU States, 3 that have signed EEA agreement and additional three countries (the UK, Monaco, San Marino, and Switzerland).
The SEPA bank transfer is conducted with EUR currency and the transaction costs are known to be low compared to other purchase methods. To buy bitcoin with SEPA wire transfer, in most cases brokers would require of its clients to fully verify their accounts (scanned ID and utility bill, verified bank account, email, and phone). Traders from other regions of the world could also use the SEPA transfer if they have a bank account based in Europe.
In this section, various exchanges will be presented in terms of their pros, cons, fees and regional availability. These exchanges might service other areas outside of Europe but keep in mind that you can use SEPA only through European banks and with EUR as a currency.
Based in the UK, CoinCorner bitcoin exchangers offers a wide variety of purchase methods, SEPA transfer included for European investors. The transaction fees stand at 1% for using a bank wire to deposit money into the platform, while full verification is needed to be able to buy bitcoins with SEPA.
a large number of purchase methods accepted.
1% transaction fees considered as slightly high compared to other brokers.
Being one of the largest global bitcoin exchanges, Kraken offers SEPA transfers as a payment method for bitcoins at small transaction fees for European customers. Takers would be charged 0.25% (0.1% with large trading volumes) and 0% for makers should the selling trade be large enough.
Interesting fact about the broker is that other regions and methods are also present, so clients from US, Canada, Japan and the UK could use other transfer variants.
known for high level of security.
difficult interface for first-time users.
Considered to be the largest bitcoin provider, Coinbase offers SEPA transfers for all European countries except in Germany. The SEPA transfer for deposit money is for free, while you would be charged 0.15 EUR should you wish to withdraw funds to your bank account.
verification needed for higher purchasing limits.
If you are using PayPal to purchase bitcoins, you probably heard of VirWox, one of the rare brokers who offer the service to traders. The exchange is not strictly a bitcoin provider, as its main business is sales of Second Life Lindens (SLLs), used in a virtual world called "Second Life".
The bitcoins could be purchased indirectly, through SEPA deposit into the website and purchase of SLLs. Through SLLs, traders would swap the virtual currency with BTCs. SEPA transfers are free but swapping the currencies costs 3.9%.
Limitations are based on the days passed since the first successful deposit.
large purchase limitations after 90 days.
As BitPanda is based in Austria, an EU member, the SEPA transfers take between a day and two business days. The method could be used if the verification process is completed fully, with your email, phone, ID and webcam verifications done.
The transaction fees have not been presented separately and are rather part of the bitcoin price.
transaction fees are hidden in BTC price.
The US-based itBit exchange offers limited purchase methods, SEPA included for the clients that live outside of the America. The bank transfers do not carry any fees and the transaction fee stands at 0.2%. ID verification is needed for those customers that are based in Europe.
Limitations are based on the verification limits and European investors, in order to get BTC in the first place, would get an allowance for 350 bitcoins since the verification would need to be fully completed.
large amounts of BTC available.
the website is oriented towards experienced traders, not user-friendly for beginners.
Based in the UK, Coinfloor offers two types of services, the exchange brokerage of BTCs and P2P platforms for its clients. The brokerage offers a unique bitcoin storage service, called Coinfloor Vault, where the cryptocurrencies could be stashed without a fear of hacking incidents due to the higher level of protection installed.
The transaction fees for SEPA transfers range between 0.38% and 0.34% depending on the trade volume.
Coinfloor market uses only GBP.
In 2014, CEX.io has added SEPA as a purchase method for European traders, with low 0.2% fee for purchasing BTC and 0.5 EUR for withdrawing BTC from the online account. The limitations are high if the verification process is completed fully. The minimum purchase amount, on the other hands, stands at 200 EUR.
BTC availability and support for all SEPA countries.
GBP purchases lack BTC quantities.
Based in Hong Kong, Gatecoin cryptocurrency broker specializes in BTC and altcoins trading transactions, servicing over 40 countries. The SEPA deposit is for free, while trading fees vary from 0.35% to 0.15%, depending on the volume traded. The limitations depend on verification level achieved, with basic verification granting a maximum of $50,000 while certified (the highest level) of verification has no purchase limitations.
SEPA transfers are done for free.
was hacked in the past.
Cubits is a British broker that specializes in bitcoin trade with a wide range of accepted currencies, EUR included. The transactions through SEPA bank transfer are free though 0.9% trading fee is imposed on trader purchasing BTC. The purchase limitations depend on the location of the trader and on the verification process, in terms of verified email, phone, ID and utilities.
a wide range of currencies and method of payment accepted.
verification needed for BTC purchases.
Considered as one of the biggest BTC brokers in the world and 4th largest bitcoin exchange in China, LakeBTC offers bitcoins through SEPA transfers (many other methods and countries are available as well) for European investors. The trading fee stands at 0.2%, while SEPA transfers are processed without any additional fees. The SEPA deposits are available through verification of ID while no limitations are set by traders.
large choice of BTC-fiat currency trading pairs.
even with verification, scams do happen.
Based in Switzerland, Bity offers online bitcoin trading, as well as ATM machine service. Those that wish privacy could purchase BTC at the ATM, while SEPA transfers require ID verification prior to purchase. Standard verification would grant you 1,000 EUR daily and 4,000 on yearly basis.
large limitations if verification is completed with ID and utility documents.
fees are hidden in the BTC price.
A European exchange, the Anycoin Direct specializes in bitcoin trade through various purchase methods, SEPA transfer included for bank EUR transactions. The limitations are based on days registered, growing with the durability of the account. The verification process is required to be finalized in order to purchase bitcoins.
intensive verification is needed (ID and video call).
Coinfinity is yet another European bitcoin exchange broker who offers ATM machine and online purchase of BTC. The website offers SOFORT and SEPA transfers for Austrian traders, as well as bitcoin consulting services for investors. The verification is needed with ID and proof of address confirmed prior to the purchase transaction.
fast transfer (less than a day) of BTC through SEPA.
fees are hidden in BTC price.
This is a very interesting BTC broker. Based in Bulgaria, the owners are yet to reveal themselves while the exchange has been functioning for quite some time. BTC-e operates as a P2P platform, with various traders using different purchase methods to buy bitcoins. The fees stand at 1% and verification, as is the case in many other P2P marketplaces, depend on the trader. Use caution with this trader when stashing BTC and funds into the website as owners might close operations, resulting in you losing all of your assets.
competitive BTC pricing from different traders.
scams are possible due to various unverified traders selling bitcoins.
Being one of the world's largest bitcoin providers, Bitstamp offers BTC purchases through SEPA transfer for a fee of 0.25%, with the possibility of the transaction being even cheaper with a higher amount of bought volumes. The limitations are set by verification process, thus higher limits would require ID and proof of address, both scanned.
high level of BTC liquidity.
verification needed for higher limits and purchase through SEPA.
Connected with Coinbase, GDAX offers bitcoins to European and American traders through various purchase methods. The SEPA method could be used for a fee of 0.25%, costs that could go as low as 0.1% if the trading volume increases.
connected with Coinbase for additional security.
withdrawing BTC only available for verified bitcoin wallets.
The ANXPRO is yet another bitcoin exchange that is based in Hong Cong, serving a wide range of countries, European ones as well. The SEPA transfer here is also accepted with fees at the value of 0.5% + 20 EUR. Verification is a must should trader wish to buy bitcoins from this broker.
high liquidity of BTCs in both USD and EUR.
additional 0.6% or 0.3% are charged as maker and taker fees.
Available in 32 countries, the Swedish broker Safello offers SEPA transfers for European traders at a dynamic fee, which is hidden in BTC price. The limitations are determined per user, mostly depending on location and verification level.
dynamic fees, hidden in BTC price.
The HappyCoins exchanger targets European traders by offering SEPA transfers for a fee of 8.5%. Depending on the verification level, the traders could have high limits for BTC purchasing.
for small purchases, verification not needed.
SEPA transfers could take up to 3 business days if not verified.
One of the most famous bitcoin P2P platforms, LocalBitcoins has traders buying and selling BTC all over the world. The SEPA transfer is available by listing out traders that accept the method in Europe. The fees stand at 1% while there is no limit to how many BTC you wish to get.
the possibility of purchasing BTC at a low price.
very little offers for larger quantities of bitcoins.
The Bitcoin.de exchange is one of the biggest European P2P platforms at a fee of 1% for using SEPA transfer as payment method. The limitations vary according to the verification level achieved within the site.
issues with scammers as with other P2P.
In this tutorial, we will show you how easy it is to purchase bitcoins using SEPA transfer through a step-by-step guide.
The first step would be to open register an account with a chosen exchange and verify the needed documents (ID and address).
Once verified, log in and go to the buy page and choose SEPA transfer as a method of deposit.
Then, simply wire the money to the requested account.
Although very cheap to use when purchasing bitcoins, SEPA transfers are available only if you have an account in a European bank. Most exchanges would require you to fully verify your account, while only P2P platforms could be used if you wish to maintain privacy. Take care as P2P marketplaces are filled with scammers.
Should you have any question concerning SEPA transfer that has not been covered by this guide, feel free to contact us at BitcoinBestBuy.


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Die Sun-1 war die erste Reihe von Unixbasierten Servern und Workstations der Firma Sun Microsystems.

Die Sun-1 wurde von Andreas von Bechtolsheim während seiner Zeit an der Stanford University entwickelt. Da er keine Firma fand, die diesen Rechner in Lizenz bauen wollte, entschloss er sich mit Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy und Bill Joy die Firma Sun zu gründen, deren erstes Produkt die Sun-1 wurde. Der erste Prototyp wurde am 24. Februar 1982 vorgestellt, ab Mai/Juni erfolgte dann die Auslieferung.

Als Prozessor kam ein mit 10 MHz getakteter Motorola 68000, später auch ein Motorola 68010, zum Einsatz. Ursprünglich verfügte die Sun-1 über 256 KB Hauptspeicher, der später auf 1 MB erweitert wurde. Ein maximaler Speicherausbau auf 2 MB war möglich. Als Bussystem kam der von Intel entwickelte Multibus zum Einsatz. Der 17"-Monitor war zusammen mit der Hauptplatine in einem Gehäuse verbaut.

Als Betriebssystem wurde eine Portierung von Version 7 Unix der Firma UniSoft verwendet. Auf den Modellen mit Prozessoren vom Typ 68010 konnte alternativ auch SunOS verwendet werden.

Der Sun-1 folgten mit der Sun-2 und Sun-3 noch zwei weitere Workstation-Familien, die ebenfalls Prozessoren aus Motorolas 68000er-Familie verwendeten, erst mit der Sun-4 kam eine Workstation mit dem von Sun entwickelten SPARC-Prozessor auf den Markt.

Weblinks

 Online Sun Information Archive: Sun-1

Mikrocomputer
Sun Microsystems

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Le nom fox-terrier (de l'anglais fox, signifiant renard) se réfère, en réalité, à deux  races de chiens : le fox-terrier à poil lisse (smooth fox terrier en anglais) et le fox-terrier à poil dur (wire fox terrier en anglais). Au , ils étaient utilisés lors de la chasse au renard pour sortir les renards de leurs terriers (d'où son nom), facilitant ainsi la tâche du chasseur qui l'accompagnait. Son pelage est hypoallergène.

Origine

Son origine remonte environ au , où la race fut créée en Angleterre, probablement par croisement entre des beagles, foxhounds et teckels. Cette race était principalement utilisée afin d'aider à la chasse du renard. Sans ce chien, cette chasse échouait lorsque le renard atteignait son terrier. Mais la petite taille du fox-terrier lui permettait d'aller déloger sa proie au fond de son trou. Le fox-terrier devait passer des épreuves pour se montrer apte à accompagner l'homme dans cette activité :

 il devait avoir la même rapidité que les chiens courants ;
 il devait être assez petit pour aller chercher le renard au fond de sa tanière ;
 il devait être assez robuste et rusé pour pouvoir affronter sa proie, car le renard pouvait très bien se retourner et choisir le combat.

Le fox-terrier est l'une des races de terriers les plus anciennes. Le terme « terrier » était générique jusqu'à la dernière partie du , et se rapportait à un groupe de chiens de type et de taille variable qui ont été sélectionnés pour la chasse. Le premier fox-terrier était un chien appelé le foiler ou vieux foiler, enregistré par la CIRCA en 1875, et la race a ainsi continué le processus d'étalonnage. L'amélioration des types de races a mené à l'attribution des nouveaux noms que l'on retrouve de nos jours. La race s'est stabilisée autour de quelques caractéristiques : taille moyenne, pelage tricolore, museau allongé, petites oreilles en forme de V retombant en avant, pattes fines et développées.

Races

Il existe deux races de fox-terrier : le fox-terrier à poil lisse et le fox-terrier à poil dur. Ils n'ont été élevés indépendamment en Angleterre qu'à partir de la fin du . Ces deux races de terriers sont pourtant très semblables, la seule différence notable étant le pelage : le fox terrier à poil lisse a donc le poil plat et le fox-terrier à poil dur un pelage plus long avec une texture dense et raide.

Caractère
Le fox-terrier est petit par sa taille, mais sa vélocité, son agilité et sa mâchoire allongée aux crocs très acérés pour sa taille lui permettent de tenir tête à des chiens de plus grande taille. Pour cette raison et son port de tête haut, le fox-terrier passe souvent pour prétentieux. En réalité, le fox-terrier est vif, intelligent et adaptable. Il est volontiers joueur, mais saura aussi veiller sur les enfants, avec qui il est très gentil. S'il est bien sociabilisé, le fox-terrier peut s'entendre facilement avec d'autres chiens. Très exigeant vis-à-vis de son maître, il supporte peu d'être enfermé ou mis en laisse. Il peut faire un bon gardien. Son éducation doit être positive. Le fox-terrier ne se laissera pas faire si on est brutal avec lui. Le laxisme comme le rapport de force sont déconseillés. Ils peuvent être obéissants mais ils sont confiants et sûrs d'eux. Il faut leur procurer un exercice quotidien suffisant afin de garantir leur équilibre physique et mental.

Toilettage

L'épilation est très suggérée, mais les poils du fox-terrier peuvent aussi être tondus, bien que le poil perde souvent de ses couleurs et ait tendance à friser. Pour le fox terrier à poil lisse, il n'est pas nécessaire de toiletter le pelage. Toutefois, il est conseillé de brosser celui-ci afin qu'il ne tombe pas en permanence.

Dans la littérature
 Milou (Hergé, Les Aventures de Tintin)   accompagnateur de son maître Tintin
 Montmorency (Jerome K. Jerome, Trois hommes dans un bateau)
 Yaguaï (Horacio Quiroga, Contes d'amour de folie et de mort)
 Bob (Agatha Christie, Témoin muet)
 D'Artagnan (Robert Belfiore, série Les écrans de brume)

Race de chien
Groupe des terriers
Chien de chasse
Race de chien originaire du Royaume-Uni
Race de chien lupoïde
Chien d'agrément et de compagnie


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Poorly-educated worst off in economic crisis
Achieving higher education pays off (Photo: Lawrence OP)
By Honor Mahony
Brussels, 25. Jun 2013, 23:54
People with good quality education have weathered the economic crisis much better than those with only basic qualifications, a new study published on Tuesday (25 June) shows.
The report by the OECD - a Paris-based think tank - says that "educational attainment has a huge impact on employability, and the crisis has strengthened this impact even further."
Between 2008 and 2011, the unemployment rate for low-skilled people increased by almost 3.8 percentage points, while it increased by only 1.5 percentage points for their highly educated counterparts, says the study covering 34 countries, including 21 EU states.
"The economic crisis is dramatically amplifying the value of good education," said the OECD's Andreas Schleicher, presenting the report.
Schleicher noted that there was "remarkably little change" between the unemployment rates among highly qualified people in the four years, except in countries hit exceptionally hard by the crisis including, Greece, Ireland and Spain.
"People with poor qualifications are paying the price for much of the crisis," he added.
In Estonia, there was a 17.6 percent increase in unemployment among 24-34 years olds without a secondary education. In Greece, it was 15 percent. It also went up in Ireland (21.5%) and Spain (16%).
Germany, Austria and Luxembourg bucked the trend by recording a drop in unemployment among low-skilled young people, something the report largely attributes to vocational training.
Meanwhile, the OECD expert used the report's finding to make the case for spending public money on education.
Once people graduate from university they generally become high-earners, meaning they pay more in taxes and social contributions.
But despite the benefits of quality education, the report shows that per-student expenditure on education is going down in most EU countries.
The European Commission's own data shows Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania and Slovakia are the biggest culprits, spending relatively low amounts on education and on a downward trend.
The UK and Poland top the EU countries in terms of getting people into high education, while Germany, Denmark, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic are "very strong" on advanced research education, said Schleicher.
Meanwhile, teachers in EU countries earn on average 77 and 89 percent of what people of similar educational standard earn in other jobs.
"Teachers in Europe don't have a high social recognition," said Schleicher, questioning recent trends to spend money on making class-sizes smaller rather than on raising teacher wages.
In a boost for Europe, which has made tackling early-school leaving and increasing tertiary qualifications among its economic goals for 2020, Schleicher noted that "Europe now matches US qualification levels."
"If you look among older people - 55 to 64 years - Europe was still 25 percentage points behind the United States in terms of people with baseline education. But Europe has raised its game now," he said.
Europe is also doing better at attracted international students seeing its "market share" rising from 37 percent in 2008 to 40 percent in 2011. The US market share - while still the biggest - shrunk in 2011.
But such benefits and improvements may be short-lived. From a "Western perspective" Europe is doing comparatively well, but things look different once China is brought into the equation.
"By the year 2020, China will have twice the number of highly-educated kids as the US and Europe have kids," noted Schleicher.
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This Section is divided into a brief discussion of (1) the present theories regarding the genesis of muscle fatigue and the different types of muscle fatigue, and (2) a review of the various tests available with the potential to detect the development of fatigue in normal subjects and patients.


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Notice of Annual General Meeting in Fabege AB (publ) – CORRECTION
Please note that there was an error in the notice of participation sent on the 22 February 2011.
Shareholders of Fabege AB (publ) are hereby notified of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on Wednesday, 30 March 2011, at 4 pm in the auditorium at Norra Latin, Drottninggatan 71 B, Stockholm, Sweden. Registration for the AGM begins at 3.00 pm.
Notice of participation
Participation in the AGM is limited to shareholders who are both listed in the register of shareholders maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB (formerly VPC AB) on Thursday, 24 March 2011, and who notify Fabege of their intention to attend, and the attendance of any advisors, no later than at 4.00 pm on Thursday, 24 March 2011. Notice of participation at the AGM may be submitted in one of the following ways:
• In writing to Fabege AB (publ), "Fabeges Årsstämma", Box 7839, SE-103 98 Stockholm, Sweden
• By telephoning +46 8 402 90 68
• Via the Internet at www.fabege.se
When giving notice of participation, the shareholder shall state his or her name, personal ID/corporate registration number, address and telephone number, their shareholding in Fabege and the names of any advisors they wish to attend. Shareholders with shares registered in the name of a trustee must, in order to be entitled to participate in the AGM, temporarily re-register their shares in their own names. Such temporary re-registration must be executed by Thursday, 24 March 2011. To ensure that this is completed in time, shareholders are advised to notify their trustees to request temporary re-registration well in advance of this date. Shareholders who are represented by proxy shall issue a power of attorney to be enclosed with the notice of participation, along with any registration certificates or other proof of authorisation.
Proposed agenda
1. Opening of the Meeting.
2. Election of Chairman for the Meeting.
3. Preparation and approval of voting list.
4. Approval of the agenda.
5. Election of one or two persons to verify the minutes.
6. Determination of whether the Meeting has been duly convened.
7. Presentation of the Annual Report and the Auditors' Report, as well as the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Consolidated Auditor's Report.
8. Resolutions regarding
a) the adoption of the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet as well as the Consolidated Profit and Loss Account and Consolidated Balance Sheet,
b) the allocation of the Company's profit in accordance with the adopted Balance Sheet,
c) discharge from liability of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, and
d) record date, should the Meeting decide on dividend payment.
9. Resolution on amendment of the Articles of Association.
10. Resolution on the number of Directors and, in this connection, a presentation by the Nominating Committee of its work.
11. Determination of remuneration to the Board of Directors and auditors.
12. Election of Board members and Chairman of the Board.
13. Resolution on guidelines for the procedure for appointing the Nominating Committee.
14. Resolution on principles for remuneration of Company management.
15. Resolution authorising the Board of Directors to acquire own shares and transfer such treasury shares to other parties.
16. Other items.
17. Closing of the meeting.
The Board of Directors' motions
Item 8 b) and 8 d) – Dividend and record date
The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM decide to approve a dividend of SEK 3 per share for 2010.
The proposed record date for payment of the dividend is 4 April 2011. Should the shareholders attending the AGM approve the said motion, the dividend is scheduled to be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB on 7 April 2011.
Item 9 – Resolutions on amendment of the Articles of Association
Due to the Nomination Committee's proposal concerning Members of the Board, it is proposed that the maximum permissible number of Members of the Board be increased to nine, rather than the current number of eight, which requires an amendment of Article 6 of the Articles of Association. The Board of Directors also proposes that the proceedings for sending the official notification of the AGM be simplified, that auditors be elected annually and that a resolution be made concerning principles for remuneration of senior executives, which require amendments of Articles 9 and 10 of the company's Articles of Association. The reasons for proposing these motions are due to regulations in the Swedish Companies Act. The motions entail that the company's Articles of Association be amended as follows:
Article 6 The Board of Directors shall comprise no fewer than four and no more than eight nine Directors.
Article 8. Motion concerning the number of Board of Directors, and wherever appropriate, auditors and deputy auditors
Article 9. Determination of fee to be paid to Directors and auditors
Article 10. Election of Board members and Chairman of the Board
Article 11. Wherever appropriate, election of auditors and deputy auditors
Article 12. Resolution concerning guidelines for remuneration of senior executives
Article 13. Other items that the Meeting is obligated to address in accordance with the Swedish Companies Act or the Articles of Association.
Article 10 Official notification of a general shareholders meeting is to take the form of an announcement in Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and on the company's website. Information confirming that the official notification has been sent is to be provided in an advertisement in Svenska Dagbladet.
Item 14 – Principles for remuneration of company management
Company management is defined as the Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives. All members of the Board with the exception of the CEO are responsible for preparing a draft statement of principles governing remuneration and other terms of employment for company management, and for preparing decisions on the CEO's remuneration and other terms of employment.
The Board's motions concerning principles for remuneration and other terms of employment for management are as follows:
Remuneration should be market-based and competitive, and reflect responsibilities and performance that are in the interest of the shareholders. Fixed salary should be reviewed annually. In addition to fixed salary, remuneration may be paid for target-related performance. Such remuneration shall depend on the extent to which pre-defined targets have been achieved within the framework of the company's activities. The targets comprise financial as well as non-financial criteria. Any remuneration in addition to the fixed salary shall be subject to a ceiling and related to the fixed salary. Variable remuneration is limited to a maximum of three (3) monthly salaries. In the event of full target achievement, the variable remuneration paid to management may not exceed a total annual cost for the company of SEK 2.5m (excluding social security contributions), based on the current number of senior executives. Any other benefits shall constitute only a limited part of the total remuneration.
The company has a profit-sharing fund covering all employees of the company. Allocations to the profit-sharing fund should be based on the achieved return on equity and be subject to a ceiling of one (1) base amount per year per employee.
The retirement age is 65. Pension benefits should be equivalent to the ITP supplementary pension plan for salaried employees in industry and commerce, or be contribution-based with a maximum contribution of 35 per cent of pensionable salary. Termination salary and severance pay must not exceed 24 months in total.
Item 15 – Authorisation for the acquisition and transfer of treasury shares
The Board of Directors proposes that the Meeting authorize the Board, for a period ending no later than at the next AGM, to acquire shares in the company and transfer these shares to other parties. Share buybacks are subject to a limit of 10 per cent of the total number of shares outstanding at any time and must be made on the Naqsdaq OMX Stockholm. The right to transfer shares is subject to a limit of 10 per cent of all outstanding shares at any time. Disapplying the pre-emptive rights of existing shareholders, such transfer may be made to third parties in connection with the acquisition of property or businesses, but not on the Naqsdaq OMX Stockholm. Payment for transferred shares may only be made in cash, in kind, by means of offsetting of debt or in another manner subject to terms and conditions. The authorisation is designed to enable the company to continuously adapt its capital requirements and thereby improve shareholder value, and to enable the transfer of shares as a means of funding the acquisition of property or businesses using shares owned by the company (treasury shares) as payment.
Resolutions proposed by the Nominating Committee
Items 2, 10, 11, 12, 13 - election of Chairman for the AGM, resolutions on the number of Directors etc. and on the remuneration of Directors and auditors, the election of a Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board, resolution on guidelines for appointing the Nominating Committee.
In accordance with the principles adopted at the 2010 AGM of Fabege, the following persons have been appointed to the Nominating Committee: Anders Silverbåge (Brinova Fastigheter AB), Erik Törnberg (Investment AB Öresund), Gustaf Colliander (Cohen & Steers) and Thomas Ehlin (Nordea Fonder). Anders Silverbåge has served as the Committee's chairman. The four owner representatives jointly represent about 30.7 per cent of the votes in Fabege.
The Nominating Committee proposes that the 2011 Annual General Meeting resolve:
• to elect Erik Paulsson as chairman of the AGM,
• to appoint nine Directors with no deputies,
• to re-elect the Directors Göte Dahlin, Oscar Engelbert, Christian Hermelin, Märtha Josefsson, Pär Nuder, Mats Qviberg, Erik Paulsson and Svante Paulsson,
• to elect Eva Eriksson as a new Director,
• to re-elect Erik Paulson as Chairman of the Board,
• to approve the payment of Director fees in a total amount of SEK 2,755,000, representing an increase of SEK 330,000 to be divided as follows: SEK 400,000 to the Chairman of the Board, SEK 200,000 to each non-executive Director, SEK 835,000 to Erik Paulsson as a separate fee for assisting senior management on two projects and SEK 120,000 for work in the Audit Committee,
• to approve the payment of auditors' fees in accordance with the approved invoices, and
• a minor amendment of the principles for appointing a Nominating Committee for the 2012 AGM: that the Nominating Committee primarily consist of representatives of each of the four largest shareholders. If a shareholder wishes to refrain from a place, the place on the committee shall be offered to the next-largest shareholder. Should a material change occur in the composition of the four largest shareholders, it is also proposed that the new shareholder be offered a place on the Committee either by changing the Committee's composition or by increasing the number of members on the Nomination Committee. In other respects, unchanged principles are proposed, meaning that the Nomination Committee's composition must be disclosed no later than six months before the AGM and that the member representing the largest shareholder be appointed Chairman.
More information about the proposed Directors is available on the company's website, www.fabege.se.
Shareholders' entitlement to request information
Shareholders are entitled to request information concerning conditions that could impact on assessments of an item on the agenda and conditions that could impact on assessments of the company's financial position. The Board of Directors and the CEO must disclose such information assuming that the Board is of the opinion that this is possible without it causing material damage to the company. The disclosure obligation also applies to the company's relationships with other Group companies, the consolidated financial statements and such conditions described above that concern subsidiaries.
At the time of issuing this AGM notice, there were 165,391,572 shares and votes in the company. Of these, 2,411,488 are treasury shares owned by the company, which cannot be represented at the AGM. The Annual Report, Audit Report and a complete set of proposals for the resolutions and a reasoned opinion pursuant to the Companies Act, including audit statements and power of attorney forms, will be available from the company's office no later than 7 March 2011, and sent to shareholders that have requested this, stating their postal address. The documents will also be made available on the company's website, www.fabege.se. The Board of Directors' statement pursuant to Chapter 18, Section 4 of the Companies Act (2005:551) relating to the dividend proposal is included in the Directors' Report. The Company's Annual Report will be distributed in March to those shareholders who have stated that they wish to receive financial information from the Company.
Stockholm, February 2011
Christian Hermelin, CEO, phone +46 (0)8-555 148 25, +46 (0)733-87 18 25
Åsa Bergström, Executive Vice President and CFO, phone +46 (0)8-555 148 29, +46 (0)706-66 13 80
Annette Kaunitz, Director of Communications, phone +46 (0)8-555 148 20, +46 (0)708-390337
This constitutes information that Fabege AB (publ) may be legally obliged to publish under the Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was released for publication at 5:30 pm (CET) on 24 February 2011.
Fabege AB (publ) is one of Sweden's leading property companies focusing on commercial premises and owns properties with a carrying amount of SEK 27.0bn. The property portfolio, which is concentrated in the Stockholm region, has an annualised rental value of SEK 2.1bn and a lettable area of 1.1m sqm. Fabege's shares are listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, Large Cap segment.


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Brazil Health Regulator Anvisa Approves Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine Trial
Anvisa's approval comes after Brazil surpassed 1.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, as per the Health Ministry data, the second-worst outbreak after the US
By IBTimes APAC Desk
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Anvisa, the health regulator of Brazil on Friday approved the critical trials of a potential coronavirus or COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac, as per an official gazette publication.
The study, which was first announced on June 11, is led by the Instituto Butantan, a research center funded by the state of Sao Paulo. The agreement with Sinovac includes not only the trials but also the transference of technology to produce the potential vaccine locally. On June 29, Sao Paulo state Governor Joao Doria said 9,000 volunteers have already been registered to test the vaccine against COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Trials will be conducted by 12 research centers in six Brazilian states: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Brasilia, Rio Grande do Sul and Parana, according to Doria. Anvisa's approval comes after Brazil surpassed 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to Health Ministry data, the second-worst outbreak after the United States. The number of deaths rose by 1,290 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 63,174, the data showed.
The deadly virus outbreak has created a major stir around the world in recent times claiming the lives of more than 525,000 people worldwide and infected over 11 million people globally in over 170 countries.
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