If you want to fully engage learners with video content, add captions. Captioning video creates accessible content for individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired. Captions are also important for anyone working in a noisy environment. Captions add another dimension to video content, making a richer learning experience for students who have specific neurological processing problems, non-native speakers, adults working toward basic literacy, and children learning to read.
The following list includes the different types of captioning. Not all types of captioning fulfill all accessibility requirements.
. Using closed captions is optional. Users can turn them on or off with their video player or other controls. Closed captions for video on television are read by a decoder that is part of the hardware of all television sets sold in the United States. Closed captions for video on the web are read by a media player if it supports closed captions. Not all versions of media players support closed captions. Closed captions are not part of the actual video stream and exist in a separate text stream.
Users who want to access closed captions need to understand how to turn them on from their televisions or media players. Include instructions for users in your course.
Open Captions: Video that is accessed on the web can use open captions to provide on-screen text. Open captions are always displayed because they are part of the video stream. Open captions are not subject to different media player features. Users do not have to know how to turn the captions on. A disadvantage of open captions is that if the video is compressed, there can be a loss of quality and readability. They can also be distracting to some users.
Audio Description: Adding a written description of sound effects such as "floor creaking" or "glass shattering" provides a richer experience for viewers. Audio descriptions are part of open or closed captions. They can fill in missing information a narrator fails to provide. For example, if a narrator says, "As you can see, the three main points support the conclusion," but doesn't say what those three main points are, audio description provides the missing information in the captions.
The easiest way to avoid requiring audio description in the example is to have a storyboard that the narrator follows that details visual information out loud.
Real-time Captions: Taking place during a synchronous event such as streaming video or a Blackboard Collaborate session, real-time captioning, sometimes referred to as real-time text, is a transcription service similar to TDD/TTY for telephones. Transcription services are separate from Blackboard Learn. There is usually a cost for the service and the service needs to be arranged in advance of the event.
Subtitles: Translating just dialog and not including sound effects or other description, subtitles assume that viewers can see and hear. Only spoken dialog is captioned and often translated into a different language.
The easiest and fastest way to add captioned content to your course is to locate videos that already have captions. A relatively small percentage of videos are captioned, but you can locate them by filtering your search. In YouTube, enter your search term and then add a comma followed by cc. For example, when searching for captioned videos on MOOCs, type "MOOC, cc" in the search box.
iTunes and Hulu have filters to help you locate videos that have captions. Just because a video has captions doesn't make the actual content any better or worse than uncaptioned videos. Before adding a captioned video to your course, play it all the way through to ensure the captions are accurate and the content is what you are expecting.
You can caption any videos that you own, meaning you uploaded them to your YouTube™ account. YouTube's automatic captioning service provides a solid start to captioning your videos.
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Beit Doqu is a small agricultural village of approximately 2,000 inhabitants, nestled among terraced hills and scenic valleys adjacent to Jerusalem. The village used to enjoy prosperity owing to its agricultural export to the Gulf states and its close proximity to Jerusalem, where many villagers worked. However, due to the Israeli closure policy in the West Bank that began in the mid-1990s, the village economy has gradually been strangulated. The severe restrictions on movement have impeded exports and access to jobs. In addition, over the last few years, the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements, road network and the Separation Wall have completely encircled Beit Doqu along with other agricultural villages in the area. This has resulted in the loss of a large area of agricultural land – a vital source of livelihood – and further impeded villagers' ability to reach the workplace, schools and medical services for the villagers.
Beit Doqu Development Society is a nonprofit charitable organization established in 1988 by a group of active young people in the village of Beit Doqu. It is a public institution for every citizen of the village and provides cultural, social, agricultural, and health services in the community. The Society's main goals are to create new job opportunities, assist in the development of local infrastructure, and work in the field of the childhood development. It also aims to enhance the status and role of women through the Women's Center, established in 1996. The Society has 355 members and serves more than 700 youth, women, and farmers of the village.
Sunbula began the jewelry-making project at Beit Doqu Development Society in the fall of 2010. Sunbula's designers taught the traditional jewelry designs of the region, such as Islamic styles and arabesque. The women were also trained in beading techniques and basic metal work, including cutting, sawing, melding, and polishing. The jewelry is made with semi-precious stones and metal, using both traditional and modern designs.
The project today provides an income-generation opportunity for the young women in the village while helping to preserve the traditional artisan heritage of Palestine.
The Society also runs the food production, turning the village's abundant harvest into a variety of processed food, such as tomato sauce, fruit jams, relishes, and pickles. They are the customer favorites at the farmers' market in Sunbula's garden every spring and summer.


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Q: High CPU usage by 'svchost.exe' and 'coreServiceShell.exe' I am having a laptop running on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. Since past few days, my laptop is facing a serious problem. Whenever I connect to Internet, either svchost.exe or coreServiceShell.exe or both hog the CPU. The coreServiceShell.exe consumes a lot of RAM also.

Going into the details, I found that high CPU usage of svchost.exe is caused by Network Location Awareness service.

And the high CPU usage of coreServiceShell.exe is caused by Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2012.

That kind'a makes me think that Trend Micro may be the root of the problem.
After further testing, I found that if I use IE or Firefox to browse the Internet, immediately after connecting to Internet, things are normal. See

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But if I use Google Chrome, the coreServiceShell.exe hogs both CPU and RAM.

At this point, if I disconnect the Internet, the CPU and RAM usage by coreServiceShell.exe continues to be high till I close the Chrome. Also, when I close the Chrome, while Internet is connected, svchost.exe continues to hog CPU but coreServiceShell.exe leaves the race.

That makes think that Chrome is the root of the problem, but again, tracing coreServiceShell.exe takes me back to Trend Micro Internet Security. Stopping the Protection by the Trend Micro Internet Security doesn't help either (I am not able to stop its services though).
I have updated the Chrome, but no help.
I just can't figure out who is the culprit. I can't do without the Google Chrome (of course, by not using it) because of its immensely useful and indispensable features both during browsing and development. Secondly, I can't uninstall the Trend Micro Internet security Suite since it still has few months before it expires and is proving me reliable protection.
What could be the cause of the problem and what can I do to resolve this?
Thanks in advance

A: On researching further, I found somewhere that that culprit may be the hosts file in Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. I opened the hosts file and found that its size was about 1.2 MB with few thousand entries, instead of just about 1KB file. Whenever I connected to Internet, the servicehost.exe process looked up the file, which was unusually large. I removed all the entries in hosts below the default ones, and amazingly, the problem was solved.
Another thing that I found was that such entries are written to the file by Spybot SnD. And in fact, I had scanned my laptop several times in a month or so to remove frequent Spyware infections, which used to block the Internet on the laptop. That justifies the point.
That eventually leads to the conclusion that both the anti-viruses I had installed were not doing enough to stop the Spyware. Then I switch to Norton Internet Security, removed Spybot SnD. Now, I am not having any problem since about two-and-a-half months.
Conclusion, when suffering from such a problem, clear your hosts file and use some "Reliable" Internet Security suite.

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Veraval Junction railway station is a railway station in the city of Veraval, Gujarat. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways. Veraval Junction is "A" category station of Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway zone.

It is located at 7 m above sea level and has five platforms. As of 2016, a single diesel broad-gauge railway line exists. Fourteen  trains halt, seven trains originate and eight trains terminate at this station. Diu Airport is 64 km away.

Major trains

The following trains start from Veraval Junction railway station:

 22991/92 Bandra Terminus–Veraval Superfast Express
 19569/70 Rajkot–Veraval Express
 16333/34 Thiruvananthapuram Veraval Express
 11087/88 Veraval–Pune Express
 19319/20 Veraval–Indore Mahamana Express
 22957/58 Somnath Superfast Express
 19217/18 Saurashtra Janta Express

The following trains halt at Veraval Junction railway station:

 11465/66 Somnath–Jabalpur Express (via Bina)
 11463/64 Somnath–Jabalpur Express (via Itarsi)
 19119/20 Ahmedabad–Somnath Intercity Express
 19251/52 Somnath–Okha Express

References

Railway stations in Gir Somnath district
Bhavnagar railway division
Railway junction stations in Gujarat
Transport in Veraval

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Teslagrad – Switch Review – What About The Game?
Teslagrad. A game that's been out a while, released on multiple platforms since its initial 2013 release. It even had a physical release on the Nintendo Wii U, that's how much it's been around. Despite that, this is actually my first time playing it. I wasn't particularly looking forward to it, I never am with ports of older titles that have been on everything, but I am without a doubt, very happy I chose to review Teslagrad.
Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle platform game, a genre that was almost unanimous with indie games of the past decade, although falling slightly behind to Roguelikes now. Games of this type generally come and go, but there's a reason Teslagrad has stuck around. It's really quite lovely.
It's not the most complicated of games. It's simplicity is exemplified by its story, of which there is no dialogue at all. Everything is told visually and the history of the land and why it is what it is, is told via puppet shows at various points of the game. All you need to know is that you are a young boy escaping some bad guys and you end up in a tower filled with weird puzzles and powers.
The world of Teslagrad has a strong affinity with electricity and magnetism. Indeed most of the power ups you collect use this theme. The first one you'll get is the Magnet Glove which you can use to change the charge from blue to red or vice versa. This make up the meat of the game, at least it seemed so to me, as you make blocks or platforms attract or repel from each other depending on colour. As you may know from school science classes, opposites attract while the same colour will repel. Each of the colour punches are designated to a different button as you'd expect. It actually took me a fair while to get to grips with which was which and at the beginning I must admit that I often just spammed either of them to see which one worked at solving it.
Then you'll end up with the teleportation boots which let you teleport a metre or two in front of you, avoiding obstacles in between. In all honesty, I found this to be the most fun part of the game since it made the, sometimes heavy, platforming sections a lot of fun as you breeze through cages, walls, electrical beams and so on. It also gives you that extra reach to get places you couldn't quite get to before with the normal jump. It's also used rather inventively in boss fights too.
Later you acquire a magnetic hood allows you to charge yourself with either magnetic colour so you can attach yourself or repel yourself away from things. It's rather fun. Then finally you get a staff which can be used to defend yourself and charge magnets.
It's not a lot of stuff, nowhere near the expansive upgrades a big budget game would have to offer but I like that it keeps it basic to match to short run time, as well as truly milking the four things it gives you in just about every way.
Teslagrad is a non-linear game with elements of Metroid thrown in. Once you've entered the tower and gained your first power, you're welcome to tackle it in a few different ways. Then once you gain more abilities the tower opens up for you even more. Despite the non-linearity, the game guides you pretty well as to where is next to go or where to explore.
It's mostly a very gentile experience. While the puzzles and platforming don't treat you like an imbecile, you'll probably complete them without too much issue. It's just the perfect difficulty in this regard. The difficulty comes from the boss battles. These are the definition of a difficulty spike. There aren't a lot of bosses but when you face one, you'll know it. I actually like them, don't get me wrong, but most of them I had to try multiple times to defeat, especially the bloody bird which I had to do more than a couple of times. It did get slightly frustrating in these parts, but they were few and far between.
Outside of just completing the main part of the game, there are loads of scrolls to collect; 36, in fact. These are often well hidden or in precarious positions and you'll need to go out of your way to collect them for sure. What do they do? Well, you need a minimum of such to progress at a point which is slightly annoying, so you'll definitely want to pick them up if you see them. As far as collecting them all, you'll get a special ending, although for me, not necessary.
I think Teslagrad looks really lovely. While the environments are really nice and hand drawn, it's the characters that really stand out to me. I don't know what it is, but they just look so adorable. The main character pops off the screen so much, it actually reminds of Paper Mario for some reason, which is always a high compliment.
Overall, Teslagrad is a lovely little puzzle-platformer for your Nintendo Switch. It's a game that's been around the block a little since its initial release, but there's a reason for that. It's a charming quality title that deserves to be played. If you've own it before then there's no real reason to go back, but first timers may find the home console/portability option the best option to experience Teslagrad, an experience worth having. Sure the boss battles, while a nice part of the game, can be a little too difficult and frustrating at times, the awesome platforming and puzzles will have you hooked right from the start.
Game provided by Rain Games.


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1). The box from Australia is kept in which of the following floor?
2). How many boxes are kept between Russia box and New Zealand box?
3). Which of the following country box kept in 3rd position?
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5). Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group?
None of the flats above Devi's floor is vacant.
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Auburn police: Man arrested for assaulting teen at Placer High School
Officer, school staff suffered minor injuries restraining William Kirkland
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William Kirkland (Dec. 10, 2015)
SOURCE: Auburn Police Department
An Auburn man was arrested Wednesday for physically assaulting his 15-year-old stepson at Placer High School, the Auburn Police Department said.William Kirkland, 49, walked into the school's office Monday unnoticed, grabbed the teen and started hitting him, according to authorities.An Auburn police officer and school staff rushed to protect the teen, attempting to stop Kirkland. After he was stopped, Kirkland left the campus.The officer and school staff suffered minor to moderate injuries from the assault. The officer was called to the school to assist staff with a student.Kirkland was booked into the Placer County Jail on charges of battery on a peace officer, resisting an executive office and child abuse, police said. His bail was set at $25,000.
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William Kirkland, 49, walked into the school's office Monday unnoticed, grabbed the teen and started hitting him, according to authorities.
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What Is Spend Analysis? (Plus Types, Benefits And Sources)
By Indeed Editorial Team
The Indeed Editorial Team comprises a diverse and talented team of writers, researchers and subject matter experts equipped with Indeed's data and insights to deliver useful tips to help guide your career journey.
Many organisations perform analyses to determine their business health. One analysis they can perform is a spend analysis. Understanding what this analysis is can help you increase your accounting skills and determine optimal decisions for an organisation. In this article, we discuss what spend analysis is, list types of this analysis, examine its benefits and describe the sources you can use to perform this analysis.
A spend analysis is an evaluation of a company's spending to reduce costs and increase operational efficiency. Business leaders and accountants perform this type of analysis to manage procurement, the purchasing of goods and services for business purposes and sourcing high-quality and reliable suppliers. In this analysis, companies examine costs for:
Professional labour
Specifically, this analysis is the collection, organisation and assessment of data. Studying quantitative and qualitative data can be an excellent way for a business to improve processes and achieve fiscal success. Companies typically use software to gather information about purchasing history, spending trends, contract terms and performance levels. They want to make sure that they are getting sufficient value for the money they spend, improving buying power, taking advantage of savings opportunities, managing financial risks properly and spending money responsibly. They also want to build lasting and productive relationships with vendors. Spending analysis techniques vary based on an organisation's structure and needs.
Related: 11 Important Accounting Concepts And What They Mean
Analysis Types
Performing multiple types of analysis can allow for a more thorough decision-making process. There are many types of this analysis that companies can use to focus on particular components of the spending process, including:
Tail-spend analysis
Tail-end, long-tail or low-value spend refers to a company's purchases that are small, infrequent and often occur outside of a contract. Typically, they make up about 20% of a company's spending. Business leaders who focus on tracking, examining and managing tail-end spending can streamline their internal processes and save money in the long term.
Related: What Is Zero-Based Budgeting? (Advantages And How To Create)
This kind of analysis enables companies to assess the amount of money that goes to various suppliers and to find the most critical vendors that support the business operations. Upon doing this, business leaders can focus their efforts on building key vendor relationships and negotiating and improving compliance with important contracts. This helps both organisations progress in the industry.
Related: What Is A Business Cycle? (Definition And Important Stages)
Category analysis
When conducting this kind of examination, business leaders divide spending into segments and prioritise transactions. By using category analysis, companies can identify which areas are the most strategically valuable to business operations. This information supports resource allocation and other high-level business decisions.
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Item analysis
Companies can perform this kind of assessment to analyse expenditures for particular items and classifying individual purchases based on reason, department and supplier. Conducting item analysis can help a company identify spend leakage, such as maverick spending, and ensure purchasing consistency. This can also help an organisation minimise random expenses and develop accurate reporting procedures.
Payment term analysis
This kind of evaluation has as its focus all of a company's payment practices, and business leaders use it to find payment techniques that can lead to discounts or generate revenue from interest rates. For example, depending on the vendor contract, early payments may mean lower costs, but they also may mean less interest spent on capital. Similarly, later payments can increase costs and create more interest spent on capital.
Related: 11 Data Analysis Tools (Including Tips For Choosing One)
Contract analysis
Contract analysis highlights a business's contracts and contract terms with vendors. Businesses use it to ensure agreements have the best, most profitable structures. A large part of this type of investigation is making sure that all parties are complying with contract regulations and that buyers are purchasing from the right suppliers.
Related: 9 Commonly Accepted Accounting Principles
Analysis Benefits
Collecting and assessing data can be the first step in improving business systems. Here are some examples of benefits this analysis can provide:
Inform business decisions: Looking at the critical indicators of a business's success can help an organisation make the best decisions for increasing revenue and trust with its clients. For example, identifying the total cost of raw goods for an organisation can help it make its processes more efficient by limiting waste.
Save money: Using this analysis encourages business leaders to identify critical indicators of success and look at other factors within the company that generate and lose money. For example, a company may find that it is losing a significant amount of money because its inventory is too large and take steps to reduce it.
Unify business teams: This type of analysis can encourage better communication between departments and teams within an organisation. For example, a production team and accounting team can address the needs of each other directly, leading to more efficiency in the organisation.
Manage supply chain risk: Identifying whether supply chains are efficient can help an organisation find less expensive options for supplies. For example, a company that produces steel products may have options for where it sources raw steel, and choose the option that has a better history of delivering the correct amount of goods.
Optimise relationships with vendors: Working with vendors to ensure accurate records can help organisations create a better professional relationships with the other.
Develop performance goals and benchmarks: Organisations can use this analysis to create better goals for departments, teams and professionals within the organisation. For example, a company can create SMART goals to help the whole organisation grow successfully.
Related: What Are The Functions Of Accounting? (Definition And Types)
Analysis Sources
Sources of this analysis are the places where employees can find spending-related information. Those who conduct analyses examine data from a variety of sources to gain a comprehensive idea of a company's purchasing behaviour. Here are some typical sources of an analysis:
Enterprise resource planning systems: These systems are software a business can use to organise and manage daily operational activities, including accounting, procurement, contract compliance, supply chain operations, risk management and project management. They typically comprise a central database that gathers information from various departments.
Spend analytics software: This kind of software has a particular focus on increasing spending visibility, collecting purchasing data and supporting executive decision-making. Using computer technology to find spending patterns makes the process easier, quicker and more accurate, and employees can spend their valuable time on more complex, unique tasks.
Accounting records: Many organisations can use their own accounting records to find the data they need for this type of analysis. You can use the cash flow statement, the balance sheet and the income statement.
Purchase orders: Purchase orders are documents in which a buyer places an order to purchase a product or service for delivery. Typically, a seller then returns an invoice that defines the price or amount a buyer owes for the goods or services, establishes the date by which the buyer has to pay, outlines the delivery date and includes other contract terms.
Risk analysis statements: Risk analysis statements are detailed descriptions of the potential outcomes of a company's purchasing decisions, including the extent to which certain choices can help a business reach objectives. Investing in particular areas comes with financial risk, and companies can investigate this when analysing and planning their spending.
Credit rating reports: A credit rating is a quantitative evaluation of an individual's creditworthiness or the likelihood that they can pay back their loan, performed by a credit reporting agency. As credit scores are based in part on a company's spending and purchase behaviour, business leaders can study credit performance to understand the effects of the previous spending.
External data: Other organisations may also collect data on the behalf of an organisation or keep records for industry use. This can help both organisations ensure their records are accurate and build an effective professional relationship between two organisations.
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Explaining Support for Trump in the White Working Class: Race vs. Economics
By Alan I. AbramowitzIn: 2020 PresidentPosted April 12, 2018
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Data from the Pew Research Center show that six months into Donald Trump's presidency, the gap between whites with and without college degrees in opinions of the president was enormous. Non-college whites were far more likely to approve of Trump's performance than white college graduates.
— This gap appears to have little or nothing to do with differences between the economic circumstances of these two groups. While whites without college degrees did experience far more economic distress than those with college degrees, economic distress itself appeared to have little relationship with opinions of Trump.
— The main explanation for the class divide in opinions of Trump among whites appeared to be differing views on race relations. White college graduates were much more likely than whites without college degrees to hold liberal views on the significance of racial discrimination, and opinions on the significance of racial discrimination were strongly related to opinions of Trump's performance. Racial attitudes, not economics, appears to be the main factor producing strong support for Trump among members of the white working class.
Trump and the white working class
It has been almost 18 months since the 2018 presidential election, but pundits and scholars continue to debate how President Donald Trump pulled off one of the most shocking upsets in recent political history. There is general agreement on one point — Trump's strong appeal to white-working class voters was crucial to his success, especially in swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. However, there continues to be strong disagreement about why the class divide among whites was even larger in 2016 than in other recent elections.
Analysts have suggested two major explanations for Trump's strong appeal to the white working class: economic distress and racial/ethnic resentment. According to the economic distress theory, Trump's appeal was based mainly on his promises to address problems such as stagnant wages, foreign competition, and the loss of manufacturing jobs. In contrast, according to the racial/ethnic resentment theory, Trump's appeal to the white working class was based primarily on his use of explicit messages invoking resentment and fear of racial minorities and immigrants.
In this article, I examine support for Donald Trump among the white working class some six months into his presidency. Using data from a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center during June and July of 2017, I show that after six months in office, Trump continued to receive strong support among members of the white working class. In addition, the data indicate that racial/ethnic resentment was much more important than economic distress in explaining support for Trump.
Table 1: The class divide in white opinions of Trump
Source: 2017 Pew Typology Survey
Table 1 compares approval of Trump's performance as president among white citizens with and without college degrees. The results show that among the nearly two-thirds of whites who were not college graduates — the group we are referring to as the white working class — Trump's approval rating was some 23 percentage points higher than among the approximately one-third of whites who were college graduates. These results indicate that the sharp class divide in support for Trump among white voters that was evident on Election Day was just as strong six months into his presidency.
Table 2: Economic situation of whites by education
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump frequently commented on economic problems that disproportionately affected working-class Americans, including stagnant wages and the loss of jobs in manufacturing and mining, blaming these problems on trade agreements such as NAFTA and competition from immigrants. The data in Table 2 from the 2017 Pew survey show that six months into Trump's presidency, whites without college degrees continued to experience considerably greater economic distress than whites with college degrees. Their incomes were substantially lower, and they were much less likely to believe that they could live off their savings for any extended period.
Table 3. Opinion on racial discrimination among whites by education
The data from the 2017 Pew survey show that in addition to greater economic distress, whites without college degrees also held far more conservative attitudes on racial issues than white college graduates. This can be seen very clearly in Table 3. While the large majority of white college graduates viewed racial discrimination as the main obstacle to black advancement in American society, more than two-thirds of whites without college degrees felt that blacks were "mostly responsible for their own condition." However, after controlling for education, whites' views on racial discrimination were unrelated to their economic situation. Lower-income whites were no more likely to blame blacks for their inability to get ahead.
Figure 1. Approval of Trump by family income among college and non-college whites
The data from the 2017 Pew survey also demonstrate that support for Trump was unrelated to economic distress among either college-educated or non-college whites. This can be seen in Figure 1. In fact, among non-college whites, approval of Trump's job performance was greatest among those in the highest income category and lowest among those in the lowest income category. Moreover, controlling for family income did not reduce the gap in Trump approval between whites with and without college degrees. At every income level, those without college degrees were much more likely to approve of Trump's performance than those with college degrees.
Figure 2. Approval of Trump by racial conservatism among college and non-college whites
In sharp contrast with the findings in Figure 1, the data in Figure 2 show that racial conservatism — that is, believing that blacks not getting ahead have no one to blame but themselves — was strongly related to support for Trump among both college and non-college whites. Furthermore, controlling for racial outlook largely eliminates the gap in Trump approval between college and non-college whites. Among both racial liberals and racial conservatives, those without college degrees were only slightly more likely to approve of Trump's job performance than those with college degrees.
Data from a Pew Research Center survey conducted during June and July of 2017 show that six months into Donald Trump's presidency, the gap between whites with and without college degrees in opinions of the president was enormous. Non-college whites were far more likely to approve of Trump's performance than white college graduates.
However, this gap appears to have little or nothing to do with differences between the economic circumstances of these two groups. While whites without college degrees did experience far more economic distress than those with college degrees, economic distress itself appeared to have little relationship with opinions of Trump. Instead, the main explanation for the class divide in opinions of Trump among whites appeared to be differing views on race relations. White college graduates were much more likely than whites without college degrees to hold liberal views on the significance of racial discrimination in American society and opinions on the significance of racial discrimination were strongly related to opinions of Trump's performance. Racial attitudes, not economics, appears to be the main factor producing strong support for Trump among members of the white working class.
Alan I. Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Chair in Political Science at Emory University and a senior columnist with Sabato's Crystal Ball. His new book, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump, is scheduled for release this June by Yale University Press.
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Cypress Tavern will Close Sunday, April 30
March 21, 2017 May 1, 2017 / Jackie Sayet
After four years of making dining a little more special on the other side of the mainland tracks, Michael and The Genuine Hospitality Group have decided to close Cypress Tavern. The American Grill & Cocktail Bar will serve its final dinner service on Sunday, April 30. The restaurant will remain open as a venue for private events. Book special lunches, dinners and more with that Cypress touch through Michael Schwartz Events at its new website michaelschwartzevents.com.
Opened in March 2013 as The Cypress Room to immediate national and local acclaim, the restaurant was committed to celebrating an expression of fine dining the way it was meant to be, through the lens of Old Florida. With Frog's Legs and Wood Roasted Bone Marrow whisked off the pass and smiles in the intimate, chandelier-studded dining room, warm hospitality reigned and mindfulness of the guest experience expressed itself in attention to detail and special touches at the mahogany bar. Enjoying recognition on Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants List and 3 1/2 stars from the Miami Herald, The Cypress Room was a beloved favorite and "hidden gem" for those in the know who appreciated its vivid expression of spirit and sense of place, a nod to the past that sparked innovation and creativity in the kitchen — always balanced and stemming from respect of the classics — during its tenure on the outskirts of the Design District.
Eater National's Bill Addison referred to The Cypress Room's "odd, wonderful formality" as not taking itself too seriously in 2014, something the restaurant further embraced when it was reborn as Cypress Tavern in the fall of 2015.
"It's never easy to close the book on a project you feel genuinely proud of, but our lease term is ending, and it's time to move on," Michael explains. "I owe so much to the teams over the years that have nurtured this place and contributed to it becoming so much more than we ever could have imagined. I'm humbled by the support we have received over the years from our guests. No decision like this is ever easy, but for us, it's the right one.
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It is/was a great place to dine and work. I'm truly sad to hear the news.
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Thanks eddy. We share your sentiments. Missing you and Stef.
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Interview with Twisted Pixel Games
By Brad Gallaway on September 6, 2008 in Blogs
The post-PAX love continues as I'll be featuring a series of interviews with the developers of games from the show that caught my eye. First up is my chat with Frank Wilson, CTO and Engineer at Twisted Pixel Games, and one of the people behind the upcoming XBLA title, The Maw.
Thanks very much for taking the time for this interview, Frank.
To start, what can you tell us about Twisted Pixel? The background given for the twelve members listed are quite rich and diverse. How did Twisted Pixel come to be?
Around the time when the Xbox 360 was released, Michael Wilford, Josh Bear, and I saw an opportunity that we were looking for….the chance for a small group of developers to make games for consoles via Xbox Live Arcade. So, we started Twisted Pixel with the goal of making really high quality titles for download.
In the back row from the left of the photo are Sean Riley, Sean Conway, and me (Frank Wilson). In the front row from the left of the photo are Allen Danklefson, Michael Wilford, Mike Henry, John Bodek, and Josh Bear
We all come from a retail game development background so we are very familiar with the time and effort it takes to make quality retail games. A majority of the downloadable games that you see on consoles these days are things like puzzle games or retro titles or other small scale development efforts. While there is certainly a place for those types of games, we feel like one of the areas that is greatly lacking is larger scale more polished games that are like retail games. This is something that we aimed to create with The Maw.
So, once we got The Maw approved for development on Xbox Live Arcade, we were able to hire several of our friends who were behind our cause and also had significant retail game development experience.
Your site states that you're about creative gameplay and impressive presentation. What sort of niche are you aiming to fill with regard to what's already out there? What does Twisted Pixel bring to the table?
Well we don't necessarily want to be "the company that does platformers" or "the company that does puzzle games" or "the company that does sports games". We have ideas for games of all genres, so one of the most important things to us is ensuring that our games have a high production value. We want people to be able to have fun watching others play our game as well as playing it themselves.
What we really want to be is "the company that does quality character-driven games". Aside from making a game look pretty and have fun gameplay, we feel that having expressive characters really adds to the fun of playing and watching any game. We have lots of ideas for characters as well as the ability to give them great personality through animation and technology.
For as small as Twisted Pixel is, we have a lot of experience under our belts. Six of the team members on The Maw have over 5 years of experience in the games industry, so we certainly have the knowledge, ability, and experience to make quality products.
You say that you do contract work, and you've listed NBA Ballers: Chosen One and Blitz: The League 2 as projects. What role did Twisted Pixel play in helping to develop those games?
Primarily this has been engineering tasks, though we are open to design and art contract work as well. Obviously we don't have much control over the design of games that we do contract work for, but we put as much effort into the quality of the areas that we implement as we do with our own projects. On Ballers, we implemented the new story mode, some new gameplay features, as well as the save game and certification code modules for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. On Blitz, we implemented several features in training mode and campaign mode including their challenge and reward systems.
Since The Maw is your first original game as a studio, what was the process like getting your own IP off the ground?
Coming up with the idea itself wasn't that hard. We have some really creative people here like Josh Bear (CCO), Sean Riley (design lead on The Maw), and Dave Leung (art director) so we have no shortage of great ideas. The challenge comes in selecting which of our ideas we want to pitch. So, when we decided to pitch The Maw, we actually had three different games that we were pitching around. Some contacts of ours at Microsoft showed more interest in The Maw than the other two, so we decided to take about a month to build a quick demo of what the game would be. We then submitted it to the XBLA approval committee and they approved it.
From my time with it at the recent PAX, The Maw sports an unusually high level of graphic polish and clearly stands out as being more than the "typical" small-scale game available for download. Really, it seems almost like a full-scale action-platformer of sorts. How large is The Maw team proper, how long did it take to put it together, and how does it compare in terms of size to other XBLA games?
I'm glad you noticed the level of polish and the scale of the game compared with other downloadable games. While we were at PAX, there were many people who didn't realize it was a downloadable game until we told them. That tells me that we're achieving our goals. Making the game stand out and have a really high level of quality is something that we strive for as a company.
We have a larger team than most XBLA development teams, but I'm sure you'll agree that it is pretty small based on what we have accomplished with The Maw. The Maw team members include Dave Leung (lead artist), Sean Riley (lead designer/gameplay programming), Mike Henry (gameplay programming), John Bodek (IT/programming), Sean Conway (level designer), Josh Bear (creative director/designer), Michael Wilford (production/programming), and me (engine programming). So, that's 8 people total, many of which bounced between roles and some who were also doing work on other projects too during development of The Maw not to mention that Josh Bear, Michael Wilford, and I were also trying to manage the company and get more work at the same time.
The team worked for roughly 8 to 9 months on the project rolling people on and off as appropriate.
The Maw has as many features and the polish level of a full-scale action-puzzle-platformer. It takes roughly 5 hours to complete the game on your first time through or even longer if you are a completionist. There are over 800 animations in the game, 25 music tracks, over 1000 sound effects, over 150 character and object models, as well as countless other stats that I could throw at you. These numbers rival many retail games on the market today and certainly surpass most if not all of the current games available for download on game consoles.
The download size of The Maw is about 128MB which is super small considering the amount of content in the game. From the very beginning, we put an emphasis on getting as much content as possible into as little space as possible.
The Maw's aesthetic is bright and colorful, almost Disney-esque in some ways. What were the influences or inspirations behind it, and how did the game itself come about?
Although we all contributed to the design of The Maw, the game itself is mostly a brainchild of Josh Bear, Dave Leung, and Sean Riley. The Maw has many inspirations such as all of Pixar's movies, A Boy and His Blob, Mario, Katamari Damacy, Wild 9, and countless others.
Virtually every game we've ever played contributes to what we decided to put or not put in the game. The bright and vibrant world lends itself to the feel of the game. It works together with the animations and personality of all of the characters to make the world seem like a happy place even in not so happy circumstances. Not making the world bright and colorful would have given the game a whole different feel which wouldn't be right for The Maw.
The original idea for the game came about when Josh and Dave were thinking about how cool it would be to have to lead another character around on a leash, but without having direct control over the character being led. The eating naturally followed from that as a purpose for leading the character around. Growing naturally follows from eating, and the rate at which Maw grows just makes the game more fun and adds some style and variability to the puzzles.
Acquiring powers to help solve puzzles is a staple in platformers and happened to fit in well with the design of the game. Though some of The Maw's powers are familiar, we came up with several new powers which aren't typical. We strived to add variety to every level of the game so you get new experiences throughout the game instead of feeling like you're always doing the same thing. Because we wanted the game to be fun and not cause a lot of frustration, we also decided that there would be no death. If you make a mistake in the game, you at most have a small temporary set back and you never have to replay areas over and over to try to get through them.
Do you plan on keeping your IPs with the download format for the time being, or do you have plans to go standard retail?
We feel like the future of games is in digital distribution. The idea of getting the games we want to make to consumers with as few middlemen as possible is very appealing to us. It's like buying produce from a small produce stand instead of buying it from a giant grocery store that has shipped it halfway across the country. It's just cheaper and usually better quality because it hasn't had to go through as much to get to you.
We would like for all of our future titles to be available for download, however we understand that this just doesn't work for some people so we'd be willing to put our games out in a standard retail format too if the opportunity arises so that as many people as possible can enjoy our games.
Is the maw currently slated only for XBLA, or are there any plans for any of the other downoad services?
During PAX we got a lot of requests for other versions from fans, and the PAX 10 competition has generated some interest amongst publishers. So we are certainly interested, but Xbox LIVE Arcade is currently the only announced platform.
The silhouettes shown on the Twisted Pixel site for your new IP appear to be an angel and a devil, rendered in a cartoonish style. Any chance you can tell us something about it?
This is one of the original ideas that we made a demo for prior to developing The Maw. It's a much smaller scale game than The Maw, but it's something that has a lot of personality and production value. We're currently reworking it a bit for a different platform than we originally made the demo while we're working on getting some other new ideas up and running, so it will be some time before anything is revealed about this game.
Finally, this question is something of a tradition at GameCritics, as well as at my own blog: Games as art? Are they now? Will they ever be?
Of course games are art. Anything that takes as much time, effort, and creativity as making a game has to be considered art. I don't even know how to defend that because it's so obvious to me.
Now that's the kind of answer that makes sense to me.
Infinite thanks to Frank Wilson of Twisted Pixel Games for the interview, congratulations to the whole team on a game that looks absolutely fantastic, and keep your eyes peeled for The Maw, coming to Xbox Live Arcade soon.
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The wind is a surly mistress. If there is one thing I have learned kitesurfing and paragliding, it is that we are the cult of the wind, much like surfers are the cult of the wave. And, like the wave, the wind is her own creature--her ebb and flow is incalculable, yet her call is unyielding. Sometimes we are lucky enough to hear her call when her seductive song is in our favor, other times we hear the call to the unobtainable, but always we are at her mercy. Today, I had the fortune of hearing her call twice. The first time, I was unready; the second I won her favor.
I had planned on kitesurfing with Mad Dog today, but the wind was just not there for it. So, I was up early to get ahead of the curve, and made a break for it. I arrived on launch with plenty of company. Thom, Alex, Louise, Doug, Jim, Scot, and others (Canadian visitors--don't know who) were on the hike with me for the morning shift. We launched into a nice northerly wind that had weird little lift bands, but we all made the best of it and climbed to a happy 1600-1800 ft. We were all working to get the lift to cross the bay (except Alex, he had already crossed with Scot). When a nice little cloud street came waltzing into the bay--I went from 1900 to 2200 or so and knew that this was going to be THE time to cross--I had been patient and the lift followed. So, with Alex and Scot already across, and the cloudsuck on, I lined up behind Thom and proceeded to head across the bay for the second time in my career.
Man, it's the little things in life that get you! As I proceeded across the bay in great lift, I came to realize that my speed-bar kick-line was very securely attached through both of my leg straps and my connecting strap--I had checked my speed-bar on launch, then proceeded to connect my harness very neatly over my speed-bar strap--AWESOME. "So," I thought to myself, "self, what are you gonna do?" I proceeded to disconnect my left leg strap. I figured that I could work my way across my harness disconnecting the speed-bar lines and still make it across the bay--a quick THWACK while I was otherwise engaged with my left leg strap convinced me that I really did not want to have my hands off the controls and be disconnected to my harness--call me old fashioned, but I did not want any of it!
"So," I thought to my self, "self, what are you gonna do?" I proceeded to push my center A's in order to simulate speed-bar and to penetrate my now disintegrating line in an attempt to follow Thom--this SEEMED to work for a little while--about the time I thought I should just turn back; I was rewarded with another slight THWACK. This time I was pushing my A's and in lieu of a front collapse, I decided to turn back. Thom had made it across the bay, but he was low and out of the lift band and he was turning back--LOW. I had no idea where Jim was, and our Canadian visitor was just launching. Doug, in the meantime had been busily climbing out and was preparing for his own bay crossing.
I made a hasty retreat back to the main ridge at Kahana, but realized that I was too deep, so I decided to make for the beach--thanks for everyone who came on the radio to let me know! So, a nice elevator landing later, and I was on the beach. A short while after I landed, Louise landed also--just about the time that Mad Dog was launching. Mad Dog made a quick bay crossing then he was called to work--Louise and I headed to Kua Loa to retrieve Thom and Maui Doug. Both of them had had an awesome early morning flight and had decided to land at Kua Loa--Congrats guys!
Louise and I picked up Thom and Doug, and were met by Donna and SkyMai--Mai was hoping for a tandem--if there is one person on the planet more itching to fly than me it is Sky! Another 40 lbs or so and she will be the terror of the skies--start eating ice cream now SkyMai! After we got the band back together, we met up with Joey and Jeff at 7-11 (you know for all the essentials--spam musubi, chips, tuna, and egg salad--don't fly downwind of this group). We all had a quick bite and then headed to Kahana for the afternoon session.
The afternoon session was looking pretty good--winds at 16 degrees at 9-12 mph. Joey, Thom, Louise, Maui, and I all headed up for more. Joey had me pumped up for a bay crossing, and Louise had me pumped up because she was soo happy to be flying in Hawaii (I think we take it for granted). So, we arrived on launch to find Matt volunteering to be the wind dummy. Matt had a good launch and then proceeded to make it look easy as he steadily climbed above the horn. After Matt, we launched in succession--Louise, Joey, Maui Doug, Me. Thom, and Jeff (Bon Bon came later, as well as Brendt, and Hillbilly--don't know the details of your flights).
Once up, I made some work of scratching around--there was lift, but nothing that wanted to take us higher than 1600-1800 or so...after an extended routine of dancing with everyone above the Rhino Horn, I decided to go for it! I left the Rhino Horn at 1658 ft and arrived at the edge of the far side of Kahana at 768 ft six minutes later. I was seriously debating turning back to the beach; but I decided to tuck in to see if there was any lift (figured I could hit Swanzy's if I had too). Over the next ten minutes, I had walked the ridge to 1973 ft--NICE! I spent the next 20 minutes or so working the large bowl in front of Ka'a'awa gaining a max altitude of 2443 ft according to my gps. Joey and Jeff soon joined me and we made a game of playing with the coudsuck--at one point, Joey was way out front, Jeff was behind him, and I was coming in behind Jeff in a nice cloudstreet--after I hit 380+ fpm hands-up I pulled big-ears and half speed-bar to keep from being sucked over the back. I followed Joey and Jeff to the Kua Loa ridge, and then we turned for home. Joey kept me safe on the way back watching my penetration across the venturi that is Kua Loa--Thanks!
As we tracked back, I could see Bon Bon and Louise having a nice flight over Kahana. My gps died on the return trip, but I flew back to the Rhino Horn and had a few spiral/big ears trips over the bay. As I went in to land, I realized that I was coming in hot--as they say "everything but the dismount!" I knew I was coming in hot, so I sort of fluffed in on my rear--WHAT A WAY to end such a great flight--oh well--it was torpedo time anyhow!
Nice article Duck! Sure was a great flight. I love that Garmin site for viewing your tracks.
I can see many new titles coming from this pilot "Duck Migration" "Duck Around The Corner" Oh and you landing "Duck Droppings".
Got to love that Sport 4.
Great Story Duck made my morning coffee.
Thanks for another great read, Duck. I am glad you went back up for a second try! It was a textbook bay crossing day (remember that combination of 22 degrees and 9 mph - that's when you call in sick). I'd love to know who all got across by the end of the day - before I left at 2:30 there were seven: me, Scot, Maui, Mad Dog, Jim, Thom, and BC Marty.
Thanks man it was great flying with you! The Garmin site is pretty excellent--I like the ability to review what happened objectively.
Thanks Alex. I might be sick a lot in the future. I think I feel Dengue Fever coming on.
As always its was great flying with you Doug--wish I could have made the flight with you and Thom.


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Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – organizacja naukowców sceptycznych co do teorii wpływu człowieka na globalne zmiany klimatu. W jej skład wchodzą fizycy, geolodzy, klimatolodzy i chemicy m.in. ze Stanów Zjednoczonych, Australii, Indii, Niemiec, Norwegii, Szwecji, Kanady, Danii, Rosji, Wielkiej Brytanii i Estonii.

NIPCC została zorganizowana po spotkaniu w Wiedniu 2007. Jej pomysłodawcą był Fred Singer.

Raport 2008
W marcu 2008 zespół opublikował podsumowanie raportu, którego celem jest niezależne zbadanie literatury naukowej i ocena przyczyn zmian klimatu, nie publikując jednak samego raportu. W podsumowaniu raportu zawarte są krytyczne uwagi w stosunku do Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We wstępie autorzy stwierdzają, że innym powodem, że raporty IPCC nie są wiarygodne jest naiwna wiara polityków, że artykuły publikowane w recenzowanych czasopismach są autorytatywne. Rozdziały podsumowania raportu maja następujące tytuły: (1) jaki jest przyczynek działalności ludzi do efektu globalnego ocieplenia, (2) ocieplenie jest powodowane naturalnymi przyczynami, (3) modele klimatu nie są wiarygodne, (4) poziom wód oceanicznych przypuszczalnie się nie zmieni, (5) czy gazy cieplarniane ogrzewają ocean?, (6) co wiemy o atmosferycznym dwutlenku węgla, (7) efekt emisji dwutlenku węgla nie jest oczywisty, (8) ekonomiczne efekty umiarkowanego ocieplenia będą dodatnie. Jednym z autorów podsumowania raportu NIPCC w marcu 2008 jest Zbigniew Jaworowski. Sam Panel kontynuował publicystykę Freda Singera.

Raport 2009
W maju 2009 roku rozesłano pocztą elektroniczną zaktualizowany raport "Zmiany klimatu - rozważone na nowo". Raport składa się z 9 sekcji: Globalne modele klimatu i ich ograniczenia, Powody sprzężeń zwrotnych i wpływ radiacyjny, Obserwacje: pomiary temperatury, Obserwacje: Lodowce, lód, opady, poziom oceanu, Zmiany promieniowania słonecznego i cykle klimatyczne, Obserwacje: Zjawiska ekstremalne, Biologiczne efekty wzrostu koncentracji dwutlenku węgla, Wymieranie gatunków, Wpływ na zdrowie ludzi.

W Rozdział 1.1 (Modele i przewidywania) zawiera komentarze oparte na wywiadach kanadyjskiego dziennikarza Lawrence Solomona ze Zbigniewem Jaworowskim, Freemanem Dysonem, Richardem Lindzenem, Hendrikiem Tennekesem, Richardem Tolem, oraz Antonino Zichichi.

Przypisy

Zobacz też
 The Great Global Warming Swindle (artykuł zawiera opis podobnych argumentów co w raporcie NIPCC z marca 2008)

Linki zewnętrzne
 Global Warming Petiton Project

Zmiany klimatu


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SPIRALARMS Announces "Revivalution Tour 2012" – Direct Support from ZED, SWERVER to Open
October 17, 2012 Nick
Heavy rockers SPIRALARMS rose from the ashes of millennial bands Systematic, Forbidden and Manmade God. This sextet has one mission. That mission is to uplift today's music scene by bringing true heavy melodic rock to the forefront. To help accomplish that task, the band has announced a six day tour of California (and Reno, NV) that will take place throughout the month of November.
Directly supporting SPIRALARMS will be California rock n' rollers ZED and alt-rockers SWERVER will open each show. See directly below for all current tour dates and learn more about the tour at www.facebook.com/Revivalutiontour.
"REVIVALUTION TOUR 2012"
SPIRAL ARMS W/ SWERVER and ZED
11/8 – West Hollywood, CA @ Whisky A Go Go
11/9 – Merced, CA @ Star Club
11/10 – San Jose, CA @ Blank Club
11/15 – Reno, NV @ Jub Jubs Thirst Parlor
11/16 – South Lake Tahoe, CA @ Whiskey Dicks
11/17 – Cotati, CA @ Spancky's
About the bands:
SPIRALARMS
Friends since the age of 15, Tim Narducci (Lead Vocals) and Craig Locicero (Lead Guitar) bonded over their love of heavy metal and hard rock music. Although the two remained friends throughout the years, they both went their separate ways and started bands of their own. After years of playing with their respective bands, the two friends contacted each other and decided it was time to start playing music together again, and in 2004 SPIRALARMS was born. Rounding out SPIRALARMS is Cornbread (Bass/Vocals), who had recorded and toured the US and Europe extensively with the band Vicious Rumors, Brad Barth (Keyboards), Anthony Traslavina (Guitars) and Ron Reeden (Drums).
Last, the band is no stranger to the road. With multiple West Coast tours, a U.S. tour in 2010, the band is comfortable with the hard work of touring to build a core audience. SPIRALARMS has also been active playing out live supporting such acts as Black Label Society, MSG, Kill Devil Hill, and performing at Graspop 2007 with Iron Maiden. The band is currently finishing their new album, Freedom, set to be released soon.
San Francisco Bay Area's ZED takes it cues from the greats like Zeppelin, Sabbath and AC/DC, but combines them with their contemporary musical influences such as Clutch, Rage Against the Machine and Queens of the Stone Age, creating a mixture that is new, yet familiar. ZED is Pete Sattari (Guitar/Vox), Rich Harris (Drums), Greg Lopez (Guitar), and Mark Aceves (Bass).
In April 2010, ZED released their first full-length album, The Invitation, which they had been brewing in the studio for over a year. The Invitation has a hard driving, aggressive sound but with solid groove that can't be ignored. In June of 2012, ZED entered Sonic Room Studios with SPIRALARMS' Tim Narducci engineering and producing their follow up to The Invitation. Word on the street? It's their best work to date. The album is due this fall and will be included in their set during the Revivalution tour.
SWERVER
San Jose, CA veteran band SWERVER consists of Jimmy Arceneaux (Guitar/Vox), Dan Lawson (Drums) and Stevie Loveless (Bass). The band has been known to deliver heavy riffs, wrapped in memorable hooks, all served up with a slightly darker tone than their contemporaries. Tapping into heavy topics such as depression, racism, and various addictions, SWERVER reaches out to the fans who listen to music, rather than those who just hear it.
For more information on these bands, please visit:
www.spiralarms.com
www.facebook.com/spiralarmsband
www.zedisded.com
www.facebook.com/zedrocknow
www.facebook.com/swervermusic
www.reverbnation.com/swerver
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