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The backlash over a directive that Kentucky high schools should not conduct postgame handshakes has included district officials saying they won't follow it and a lawmaker who is calling for change.Kentucky's athletic sanctioning body issued a "directive" on Tuesday that told high schools not to conduct postgame handshakes in all sports following more than two dozen physical confrontations the past three years.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Kentucky High School Athletic Association Commissioner Julian Tackett issued another clarification of the directive on Wednesday, describing it as a recommendation."It was my responsibility to ensure clarity," Tackett wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "In haste to get the information out, the normal expected quality control steps were not executed to ensure such clarity. For that, I apologize to our member schools."At least three schools, including the state's two largest, said they plan to continue postgame handshakes."Teaching our students to win and lose graciously are life lessons that we hope and expect coaches to embrace," Jefferson County Assistant Superintendent Kirk Lattimore said in a memo Wednesday to principals and athletic directors. "Ask coaches to remember that very few of our students will be college and professional athletes. However, ALL of them need to be able to demonstrate character at crucial times."A similar message was sent around to Fayette County schools."For now, we will continue to shake hands," said district athletic director Don Adkins. "As athletes, we should learn to lose with a little bit of dignity and a little bit of class and we should learn to win with a little bit of dignity and a little bit of class."Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Steve Riggs of Louisville said he plans to pre-file a bill to remove the KHSAA's authority to fine schools and athletic personnel.Tackett had said that member schools or coaches that engage in unsportsmanlike behavior would be fined and penalized."When the General Assembly created the KHSSA, it did so to help foster pride, athletics and school spirit in Kentucky - not to create a government agency out creating fines out of thin air," Riggs said. "My legislation is going to reiterate and clarify this fact and hopefully remind the KHSSA to focus on its mission of high school athletics."
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The backlash over a directive that Kentucky high schools should not conduct postgame handshakes has included district officials saying they won't follow it and a lawmaker who is calling for change.
Kentucky's athletic sanctioning body issued a "directive" on Tuesday that told high schools not to conduct postgame handshakes in all sports following more than two dozen physical confrontations the past three years.
Ky. players say they will shake hands after games
KHSAA commissioner: No ban on postgame handshakes
Kentucky high schools told no postgame handshakes
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Kentucky High School Athletic Association Commissioner Julian Tackett issued another clarification of the directive on Wednesday, describing it as a recommendation.
"It was my responsibility to ensure clarity," Tackett wrote in a blog post Wednesday. "In haste to get the information out, the normal expected quality control steps were not executed to ensure such clarity. For that, I apologize to our member schools."
At least three schools, including the state's two largest, said they plan to continue postgame handshakes.
"Teaching our students to win and lose graciously are life lessons that we hope and expect coaches to embrace," Jefferson County Assistant Superintendent Kirk Lattimore said in a memo Wednesday to principals and athletic directors. "Ask coaches to remember that very few of our students will be college and professional athletes. However, ALL of them need to be able to demonstrate character at crucial times."
A similar message was sent around to Fayette County schools.
"For now, we will continue to shake hands," said district athletic director Don Adkins. "As athletes, we should learn to lose with a little bit of dignity and a little bit of class and we should learn to win with a little bit of dignity and a little bit of class."
Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Steve Riggs of Louisville said he plans to pre-file a bill to remove the KHSAA's authority to fine schools and athletic personnel.
Tackett had said that member schools or coaches that engage in unsportsmanlike behavior would be fined and penalized.
"When the General Assembly created the KHSSA, it did so to help foster pride, athletics and school spirit in Kentucky - not to create a government agency out creating fines out of thin air," Riggs said. "My legislation is going to reiterate and clarify this fact and hopefully remind the KHSSA to focus on its mission of high school athletics."


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The defender has fond memories of the last time Swindon took on the Blades at Bramall Lane and declares that the squad are looking forward to their trip to Yorkshire.
"It (the Play-Off semi-final) was exciting," he told the official website. "We got a great result. The lads are looking forward to it. The atmosphere is going to be fanatastic so it's a great opportunity to go and showcase what we can do.
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The Brunettes were one of the most popular acts on local student radio in the early years of the new millennium and they seemed destined for international success when they signed to US label Sub Pop in 2006.
Instead, they toured relentlessly but never quite reached the tipping point needed to make a sustainable career out of music. The band ended in 2010, leaving behind four albums, four EPs, and an audience of fans across the world.
Jonathan Bree was nine years old when his older cousin, Mark Lyons, decided to teach him an instrument so he'd have someone to play music with at family gatherings. Bree's fingers proved too small for guitar and bass, so he took up the drums instead. By age 12, he was playing at The Gluepot with his cousin's newly established band, The Plaster Saints.
It wasn't long before Bree was more excited to sit by the radio and find out whether the band had made the 95bFM Top 10 than he was by anything he learnt at school, and he recalls his mother wasn't impressed.
"There was a big drama about where my future was heading – hanging out at bars at 12, trying to look like Robert Smith and thinking I was really cool in my goth band. So I was sent to live with my father in Australia. Attending a private boys' school to try and straighten me out from my dreams of signing to Flying Nun was the plan. Instead, we moved to Byron Bay where my father basically started up a cult. We moved into a large events centre there and after everyone was told to stop eating to raise their vibrations so they could board the mothership, I left home at fourteen and started a succession of terrible high school bands."
After a few years, Bree returned to New Zealand and quickly joined Lyons' new group, The Nudie Suits, this time on bass. Bree soon left the Nudie Suits and enlisted his three flatmates to form his own group, The Brunettes, and they began playing small-scale gigs at parties and cafes including The Temple in Queen St and Roasted Addiction in Kingsland.
The beginning is nearly the end
The Brunettes began in earnest when Bree first met Heather Mansfield, whose own group, Yoko, were supporting the Nudie Suits. She was the perfect musical collaborator – a multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, clarinet), strong singer, and someone who was able to turn Bree's ideas for the group's image into something more stylish and captivating.
Bree had a strong interest in the orchestrated pop music of producers such as Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and Lee Hazlewood, but his first collaborations with Mansfield took the band in a different direction. "When I first started working with Heather, she played a Juno keyboard and we were doing new wave synth-pop inspired by The Cars and Blondie. Then we somehow made friends with Celia Mancini from King Loser and they were just in the process of breaking up so we bought her Yamaha organ and our music moved further in the direction of sixties pop."
Bree's early experiences in professional studios were disappointing so he borrowed his cousin's cassette 4-track and began teaching himself to record. This led to the Mars Loves Venus EP (1998), released on cassette and lathe-cut 7" vinyl. He also learnt some painful lessons in those early days of recording:
Bree realised he would have to record the entire Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks album – something he had been recording for years – again.
"I got it into my head that if I recorded tracks onto tape then transferred them to DAT then I could later take them all into a digital studio and pull out all the files. Instead of losing quality by bouncing them onto one track on the cassette, that would mean I could combine them into an end result that was sonically less degraded. But what I didn't realise was that tape actually stretches and is very susceptible to changes in the motor speed. So I had an extremely terrible moment when we finished recording what might have been our first album, we went into a studio and put all the DAT tracks together and within one bar, they all began going out of time."
In short, Bree realised he would have to record the entire Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks album – something he had been recording for years – again.
It was around this time that Bree was working six days a week at Auckland record store Marbecks so he could save up and buy gear for the band. Bree and Mansfield's personal relationship was at a tense point, they were no longer functioning as a couple.
The combined stress on Bree's shoulders pushed him to his lowest ebb: "I guess for me I never had any backup plan or safety net. I'd been living on my own since I was 14 and had decided to be a musician. I didn't graduate from high school or go to university and I didn't have a plan B."
Every good band needs a manager
Thankfully soon after this, a ray of light entered Bree and Mansfield's life in the form of Melinda Olykan. "She heard a 4-track demo of the song 'Talk to Jesus' that was on bFM and contacted us to get a copy of it. She told me that she worked as a booking agent for the St James theatre so I asked her to manage us – she was reluctant, but I was very persistent! Then I found out she was religious and I became paranoid that she thought we were as well. I started telling people not to swear when we had band meetings and keep it ambiguous about whether we believed in god or not because I didn't want her to lose interest. Thankfully, it was eventually established that it wasn't why she was helping us out."
The Brunettes gained a more solid line-up with the addition of drummer Kari Hammond and bassist Mike Hall (previously the lead singer of hardcore band, Balance). Hammond owned a 16-track reel-to-reel recorder and this allowed the band to resume work on their first album.
Bree had by this time re-recorded sessions for their debut album in his apartment in St Kevin's Arcade but was struck with a problem. He didn't have access to a mixing desk that was large enough to hear all 16 tracks at one time. However, he got talking to another local musician, Scott Mannion (from Polaar and Plasticene) who said he had an early home version of Pro Tools that Bree could use.
Lil Chief Records
After struggling to find a label to release The Brunettes' debut album, Bree joined with Mannion to release it themselves. "Scott and I decided we would start Lil' Chief Records, which would also give us better control over how we were marketed. Our friend Lawrence Mikkelsen also helped us get it off the ground and he's been a great supporter of the label since then.
"We were on the eve of releasing the album when Neil Finn contacted us. After all the disappointments of the past few years, it was great to have one of the heroes of New Zealand music see merit in what we were doing. A year earlier, Heather had given him a copy of the album at the [APRA] Silver Scroll awards [where The Brunettes performed 'Sophie' by Goodshirt], but Neil hadn't listened to it until he was watching Liam on a TV show and happened to see our video for 'Moon In June Stuff'. After they played the video, the hosts discussed how we funded it ourselves and kinda took the mickey by handing around a hat to collect money for us. I guess Neil saw all this, he remembered that he had our album and ended up liking it. He decided to help us out and within a couple of weeks, we suddenly had a contract with EMI."
The resulting album, Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks (2002) became a joint release between EMI and Lil' Chief Records.
The resulting album, Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks (2002) became a joint release between EMI and Lil' Chief Records. The album release show at Bob Bar in DeBretts on June 28, 2002, was accompanied with the release of a colouring book that showed images of the band.
Olykan's position at the St James allowed them to book the foyer area of the Westend Theatre for a couple of shows. On one occasion, they played inside the Westend itself and showed 1960s black-and-white films on the large screen, before appearing with a string trio at the front of cinema-seated rows of fans.
Bree found it refreshing to break away from the limitations of the local scene: "There was a seventies rock revival taking place, which in my mind was itself a healthy backlash to the techno dance music scene that was at its nasty peak. Indie pop felt like it didn't exist in this country at the time, and that made us feel like we had to go overseas from the start. Our videos and press shots were very cutesy and played up on the duo dynamic. I did originally want the Brunettes to be more of a band, but eventually decided to play up on our point of difference by promoting ourselves as a duo."
Another reason for presenting The Brunettes as a duo was that the band were turning over band members every year or so, with the same frustrating regularity that The Chills had also faced in their first decade of existence. Mike Hall left to join Pluto and Dimmer, so was replaced by the more rock-orientated Gerald Stuart. Then long-time drummer Kari Hammond left to join Boxcar Guitars (and later, The Bloody Souls) and was replaced by Nick Harte. Fortunately, the band did make one particularly useful semi-permanent addition over this period – James Milne (Lawrence Arabia) joined on guitar and keyboards.
The overseas gamble
Olykan believed that the band's best chance of achieving success was to move to London, so she arranged an initial trip for the band with a run of shows in Australia on the way. Bree knew it was a big gamble:
"When we left, the only show we had was a support slot with The Datsuns at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. The New Zealand dollar was only worth 29p so our savings only gave us enough money to last six weeks. But once we were there, Milly managed to get us a support slot with The Postal Service, which just happened to mean we played in front of Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips and Jonathan Poneman who owned Sub Pop Records. Jenny Lewis was in The Postal Service for that tour, so that's also how we first met her. Still, we were pretty deflated when we got home and felt like we'd spent all our money with little to show for it. That's when a lot of bands break up I suppose. I hadn't even heard the word 'twee' until we got to London. James Milne informed me that twee was not a good tag. I always wanted to feel that there was more depth to what we were doing, but we often got pigeonholed as some cutesy, bubble-gum group. We cultivated that image to begin with, but it really became annoying."
More departures greeted their return home – Harte left to form The Shocking Pinks and Stuart joined Deja Voodoo. In the meantime, Bree's co-label-owner, Scott Mannion, had been approached by 19-year-old drummer, Ryan McPhun, who wanted to join Mannion's new group The Tokey Tones. Instead, Bree was the one to respond to McPhun's email and the young drummer ended up joining The Brunettes with only a week to learn their songs before heading over to play the Meredith Music Festival and other dates in Australia (Milne took up bass duties).
Bree had already decided that for the next album, he wanted to take a more band-centred approach and had begun work on tracks supplied by Harte and Milne. "I still had a strong aesthetic in mind, so it wasn't much of a democracy, but I definitely wanted more band involvement. I had such a like-minded line-up of musicians that I thought it was possible, but just having a single song on an album once a year isn't going to be enough if you're a prolific songwriter like James Milne or Nick Harte. Then Nick left, so we dropped his song before it was even finished."
The album, Mars Loves Venus (2004), also featured a composition written solely by Mansfield ('These Things Take Time') and she also took over the lead vocal on Milne's contribution ('You Beautiful Militant'). Bree's own songwriting had reached a new level of sharpness, stretching from the driving indie rock of 'Polyester Meets Acetate' through to the wry ballad, 'Your Heart Dies', which features the immortal lyric, "I could be as faithful as a sea horse, and if you were a marine biologist, you'd know how tender that line was."
The album was picked up by Reverberation in Australia (the label owned by Russell "Rusty" Hopkinson, the drummer from You Am I) and The Brunettes began touring regularly across the Tasman. Bree also focused on growing the band's local audience by creating "The Brunettes Orchestrette" – an extended version of the group that often reached up to a dozen members (hitting its high point with a 20-piece line-up for a performance at the Big Day Out).
The breakthrough
Jonathan Poneman from Sub Pop had stayed in touch with The Brunettes and visited New Zealand repeatedly, even bringing the entire staff of Sub Pop down to the South Island for a company retreat. Poneman expressed interest in the idea of promoting Lil' Chief Records as the heart of a rebirth of indie-pop in New Zealand (essentially taking the same approach he'd taken a decade earlier with Sub Pop in Seattle, during the era of grunge).
Melinda Olykan had since quit as the band's manager and moved to London, but when she was given the job of promoting a New Zealand tour by Sub Pop group The Shins, she arranged for The Brunettes to play support. It soon struck Bree that this was going to be a major turning point:
"Directly after our show with them, they asked us to open throughout their upcoming six-week North American tour. If there was ever a magic moment where your career takes off, that night was it for us. Of course, it's always more gradual than what you see in a music biopic, but I remember going home feeling pretty happy, even though my girlfriend wasn't. Though what came next was four weeks of complete headache, heartache and stress. First, we had to work out who would join us for the tour – we had to pretty much kick out half the band. Heather and I had to sort out visas for everyone and cranked up huge debt on our credit cards to make it work. It was the most stressful, but most exciting time of my career. Sub Pop helped with getting our visas and arranging our back catalogue to be pressed so we had it to sell as merch. We didn't sign with them straight away, but that's when we started working with them."
Up to the last minute, the band was under incredible stress. They had slimmed down from a 14-piece to a seven-piece but with an additional soundman James Dansey, a tour manager and their instruments (including a cello), it was a very cozy tour van. Fortunately, Olykan signed back on as the group's manager at this point – in fact, Jonathan Poneman agreed to personally help cover the band's flight costs with the condition that she was involved with planning the trip. Nonetheless, Olykan was faced with a daunting task: "After airfares were paid for, we could afford to hire a van but little else – we were sleeping on people's floors. We ran out of money on the way to the first support show in Minneapolis, but we made more money in merch that night than I had budgeted for the entire tour – so the short version is that the merch income was what kept us afloat for the rest of the tour."
Mansfield's role in the group was crucial at this point and she stood out as the star of their live shows.
Mansfield's role in the group was crucial at this point and she stood out as the star of their live shows. She proved remarkably astute at winning over each new audience with her strong onstage charisma and her knack for a good gimmick – for example, introducing members of the band by using the sixties novelty song 'The Name Game' or starting dancing competitions in the audience with CDs by the band as prizes.
The tour provided a remarkable launchpad for The Brunettes, with audiences of 2,000 to 5,000 per night. Bree found that their previous meeting with Jenny Lewis also came into play. "We managed to jump on a Rilo Kiley tour immediately after The Shins one finished, so we returned to a lot of the same cities. By that stage, the audience began to recognise us – at one show, some fans had the letters of our trumpet player's name spelt out on their shirts! Harry [Cundy] was a big hit on that tour. It was funny because his first night in the band had actually been that show at the King Arms supporting The Shins. His only music background before that was playing the trumpet at high school. By the end, he was playing the trumpet onstage with Rilo Kiley and going with Heather to parties where he met Joan Baez, Sean Penn, and the drummer from Metallica. He was a popular man by the end of 2005!"
High times, low times
Bree stayed on in LA and New York, but the excitement of living as a musician was tempered by new stresses. "There was never a time when the momentum felt more aggressive, but internally things started falling apart almost straight away. Looking back I realise that if we'd managed to stay together with a more stable line-up and become more successful then I probably would've turned out to be a much bigger arsehole than what I am now, so I've got to be thankful for that. I was turning into a bit of an egomaniac. There was far too much cocaine in the mix for rational decision making from my end. I perhaps should have gone home after those tours ended but I actually lived in the States for another six months. I guess I just wanted to stay in America a little longer ... chasing the dream.
"The band was at a peak of sorts but at the same time, there was no band. While everyone at home probably thought everything was going great for us, I was essentially homeless. At one point I had been house-sitting for a member of Rilo Kiley in LA but after realising I'd overstayed my welcome I started sleeping in a local cemetery where Sam Cooke was buried. Milly [Melinda Olykan] was horrified so she transferred a few hundred dollars into my account so I could get a shitty motel room in Pasadena until something else could be arranged. In New York, I went through a bad patch where I was sleeping on a concrete floor in a Brooklyn basement. Cats down there would piss on me every night. I remember at some point just crying because I lost my girlfriend, couldn't sleep, had badly bruised hips and smelled like cat piss."
A major obstacle for the band at this point was the sudden departure of both Ryan McPhun (who left to pursue his own group, The Ruby Suns) and James Milne (who started Lawrence Arabia and The Reduction Agents). Bree admits that it was unfortunate timing. "They were certainly two friends I found it very easy to work with – I could bring a very rough new composition to the group and we'd work it out as a band because whatever everyone played was always going to be great. Songs like 'B.A.B.Y' and 'Mary-Kate & Ashley' came about that way."
The overseas onslaught
More tours followed. Stu Kett (from The Situations) joined on drums for an Australian tour supporting The Shins, along with Sjionel Timu (The Coolies) on bass and William Cotton on guitar and saxophone. Kett left before their next tour (through the US, supporting Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) and the drum seat was taken by Jamie Power from Melbourne group The Raylenes, who'd not only supported The Brunettes in Australia but written a song that was an ode to Heather Mansfield.
Bree later came to suspect that they'd ended up spending too much time on touring, at the expense of releasing new material.
Bree later came to suspect that they'd ended up spending too much time on touring, at the expense of releasing new material. "By the time we released a new album, it was two years since The Shins tour. The initial interest had subsided, even at Sub Pop to some degree. Our first US single release with Sub Pop was 'Her Hairagami Set' and we also made a music video, but their response to it was – 'we can't shop this, it's too close to Columbine'. I couldn't understand why a label like Sub Pop would be so uneasy about it, especially in a world where there are shows like South Park and Family Guy. Why would they be so sensitive about a video that shows a puppet taking a hairdryer to school to attack someone's hairstyle? It wasn't graphic so I wasn't impressed by what felt like censorship of our first US single. Funnily enough, YouTube picked it up by chance from Lil' Chief Records channel and featured it on their main page. It got over 300,000 views in a month, which is nothing these days but seemed like a lot at the time."
Structure and Cosmetics (2007) shed some of the cutesy aspects of previous releases by pushing the lively rhythm section playing of McPhun and Milne to the fore and showed that the band's music was moving in a darker direction on tracks like 'Credit Card Mail Order' and the album's title track. Ed Cake acted as a co-producer and co-wrote the track, 'Stereo'. The album received a good reaction overseas, receiving a 7.3 on Pitchfork and spurring a reviewer at the NME to write: "The Brunettes have just moved the musical bar so high that unless giraffes master the Moog pretty darn soon, everyone's just going to have to give up hope." It also led to Heather and Jonathan appearing in an eight-page photo-shoot for Bust Magazine.
The band had finally reached the level where they could undertake their own headlining tour of the US, UK, Europe, and Australia, with a new line-up that included Stephen Hart (guitar, bass), Hayden Eastmond-Mein (saxophone, bass) and John Parker (drums).
In 2008, another tour was planned but only Parker remained from the previous line-up, so three new members were added: Edward Castelow (Dictaphone Blues) on bass and guitar, Chelsea Nikkel on saxophone and synths, and the writer of this piece, Gareth Shute, on guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone. The band were booked in to do all Laneway Festivals in Australia and then support slots with Broken Social Scene and Shout Out Louds in the UK and Europe, then another tour with Beirut in America. But a day before the band were set to leave, Sub Pop tried to pull the plug on the tour, suggesting Bree focus on recording the next album instead. When the band decided to head off regardless, it caused a further discord with their US label.
In the meantime, the band's new single 'Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth (B.A.B.Y)' had been picked up for a television ad promoting the forthcoming season of popular drama show, Hollyoaks. As soon as the band arrived in the UK, Bree began to see the potential opportunity that had been missed.
"When we were doing the support slots in the UK it seemed everyone knew that song, but not that we were the band that played it. I found it frustrating that no label support seemed to be capitalising on both our touring and the free promotion through that particular licence. I might sound like a spoiled brat but as a band, we were throwing everything at touring and promotion. It had cost many relationships and so it started to become more important that those sacrifices weren't for nothing. When you begin to realise not even the label you signed with two years beforehand had your back, it was depressing."
Arranging the tour was Olykan's final involvement with the group and she left soon after to focus on work that could actually pay her bills. Before working with The Brunettes, Melinda Olykan had managed The Strange Loves (Flying Nun, 1990) and The Peter Stuyvesant Hit List (1999-2001). She continued to live in London after parting ways with The Brunettes and went on to produce an Italian Classical Music Festival for a few years that featured artists including Sophia Loren, Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins and Sting. As a result of a nice connection with Redford, she ended up launching and producing his annual Sundance London Film and Music Festival. She is on the board of the Country Music Association (which produces Europe's only Country Music Festival Franchise "Country to Country") and works full-time at The O2 (London) as Festivals and Events Director.
A final album, a final tour
Due to time pressure, Bree ended up working on the band's next album, Paper Dolls (2009) whilst in the back of the tour van and this necessitated a move towards sample-based production, adding an electronic edge to the band's sound.
Bree was hopeful that Paper Dolls might mark a new phase for the group, but instead, it became their final chapter. "We finally got a line-up together that seemed long-lasting – Heather was a lot happier on the road because she had her husband in the band [New York musician, Andrew Thompson] and I was a lot happier because I had my girlfriend Chelsea [Nikkel] with me. Plus we had John, who'd been in the band for a few years. But in the usual seesaw manner of our career, that's when things fell apart behind the scenes. 2009 was hands down the worst year ever. We had to turn down a big US tour due to financial problems and tax issues. Then once we got the money together and actually paid for flights and visas to get the band back to the US to be part of a Sub Pop showcase at South-by-Southwest, they told us two days out from us flying to Texas that they didn't want to release Paper Dolls and immediately dropped us from the showcase. Incredibly bad timing.
"We ended up finding a new manager and organising a self-release and flew the band members to New York (flights had already been booked and paid for months before) to begin a US tour in March of 2009. But our new manager, through another series of tragic events, had a crippling mental breakdown only a few days after we arrived. Unfortunately that only happened after he'd already convinced us to sever ties with our previous booking agent, publicists and distributors, all these people we'd worked with in the past so he could bring on board his new team of people. Essentially the person pulling all the strings just dropped off the radar on the eve of us landing. At the last minute, we begged Ben Goldberg (the manager of Beirut) to help us out and he kindly agreed. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the same week he signed The Breeders. He was managing three 'B' bands and we were definitely the third 'B' on that list! So we got passed onto his two interns, one of whom happened to be Sharon Van Etten, the musician. She was great and helped get our Paper Dolls album out in the US. However, our tour that was due to start in March had to be pushed back and the whole band was stuck in New York for six months purging money before eventually securing a dismal co-headlining tour with Throw Me The Statue. When we got home, Heather and I both knew that it was time to call it quits."
After a few final shows in New Zealand and Australia to help pay off some bad debts, the band quietly broke up.
After a few final shows in New Zealand and Australia to help pay off some bad debts, the band quietly broke up. Mansfield moved back to New York and Bree began recording music for television. He also decided it was time for him to support the music of his partner, Chelsea Nikkel since she'd toured for years in his band. As a result, he became a member of the Princess Chelsea touring band and also appeared on one of her most popular tracks, 'The Cigarette Duet'. The accompanying music video he made for the song went on to become a viral hit – racking up around 20 million views on YouTube.
Bree eventually started his own solo career, releasing three albums and having a viral hit of his own with 'You're So Cool' (over 13 million Youtube views). Yet he shunned the limelight and took to wearing a mask in his videos and for live shows. "Chelsea started encouraging me to put stuff out. So I put The Primrose Path [2013] up online for free when we were halfway through a Princess Chelsea tour overseas. Perhaps once you hear the story of The Brunettes, you know why I'm so over the music industry. That's why I very rarely do any self-promotion and interviews about my solo work – it just feels like part of an industry that already came close to killing my love of music. It just means too much to me to cheapen it too much.
"Being in The Brunettes led to me playing in front of thousands of people all over the globe. I got to see so much of the world. That was the real highlight, especially for me to be able to do that without any education – I didn't even finish high school! I got to do it because I had Heather always there with me – she never left. It was always us together doing it. Milly was also there for most of the band's life and when she was on board, she was always very selfless – she did so much for no pay to help us get where we were going. Even after all the drama, I've got that to be grateful for."
The final Brunettes album, Paper Dolls, released in October 2009
Brunettes manager Melinda Olykan with James-Mercer from The Shins
Jonathan Bree's June 2013 solo album The Primrose Path, released as a free download via Bandcamp
A radio station recording session in Atlanta, with the final Brunettes lineup - Andrew Thompson, Heather Mansfield, John Parker, Jonathan Bree and Chelsea Nikkel
James Milne and Heather Mansfield at Grey Lynn Festival, 2004
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth (B.A.B.Y)
The Brunettes in Paris, 2008
The Brunettes' Boyracer EP from May 2003
Jonathan Bree - You're So Cool (2017)
The Brunettes recreate the cover of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
A Brunettes poster in Spain in 2008
The Brunettes in Milwaukee with The Shins in 2005
The Brunettes- If You Were Alien
The Brunettes - Red Rollerskates
The Brunettes - Small Town Crew
The Brunettes - Heather Mansfield and Jonathan Bree
A flyer for The Brunettes' 2003 Back To The Future show, which included Jonathan pretending to hurt his hand and being replaced by Liam Finn, as in the movie
The "Librarian shot" – Heather Mansfield and Jonathan Bree, 2006
The Brunettes Orchestrette at Grey Lynn Festival, 2004
Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield
Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield relax in style
The Brunettes at Solar Culture in Arizona
The Red Rollerskates EP was released in August 2009, the title track being a taster for the Paper Dolls album. The other tracks on the EP were not on the album.
The Brunettes' Heather Mansfield with a brass section, Live at Helen's, April 2003. On saxophone is Eamonn Deverall, on trumpet Richard Cotman; both played with One Million Dollars.
A Brunettes publicity shot – noir styled.
When Ice Met Cream, The Brunettes' EP from April 2005
The image used on the cover of 2007's Structure & Cosmetics album
The July 2004 album Mars Loves Venus
The June 2002 Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks album was released on Lil' Chief Records, via the multi-national EMI after Neil Finn put the duo in touch with the company
The Brunettes - Your Heart Dies (Radio NZ, 2009)
Heather Mansfield and Jonathan Bree being taught some moves by drummer, John Parker
The Brunettes - Her Hairagami Set
The Brunettes - Loopy Loopy Love (live)
Brunettes manager Melinda Olykan in the midst of a US tour
Lil' Chief Records
Scott Mannion helped Bree gain an all-encompassing 1960s reverb sound for Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks (2002) – the pair went to Mannion's workplace at Auckland University and blasted the album in a large auditorium, then recaptured the room sound with a microphone before mixing it with the original track to get a good balance.
The original DAT tape sessions for the Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks album (first recording sessions) still exist and due to technology available now could probably be put into time digitally for a completely different version of the album.
In addition to the core members, The Brunettes Orchestrette players included Bronwyn Robertson (violin), Edmund Cake (vocals), Tamasin Taylor (violin), Dionne Taylor (lap steel), Scott Mannion (keyboards, Omnichord), Mark Lyons (guitar), Jade Farley (Theremin) and Lawrence Mikkelsen (sitar).
Reverberation
Etch n Sketch
Jonathan Bree - vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard
Heather Mansfield - vocals, keyboards, clarinet, xylophone, glockenspiel, percussion
Mark Anderson - drums, glockenspiel
Marcus Sellwood - bass, guitar
Cameron Rowe - keyboards
Andy Baxter - drums
Simon Rycroft - bass
Mike Hall - bass, double bass
Kari Hammond - drums
James Milne - guitar, bass, keyboard
Gerald Stuart - bass
Nick Harte - drums
Ryan McPhun - drums
Harry Cundy - trumpet, banjo, percussion, keyboards
Amee Robinson - saxophone, percussion
Tosh Ahkit - saxophone, cello, percussion
Stu Kett - drums
Sjionel Timu - bass
Jamie Power - drums
Will Cotton - guitar, saxophone
Peter Smith - bass
Stephen Hart - guitar, saxophone
Hayden Eastmond-Mein - saxophone, guitar, bass
John Parker - drums
Chelsea Nikkel - keyboards, saxophone, percussion
Edward Castelow - guitar, bass
Gareth Shute - bass, guitar, trumpet, valve trombone
Andrew Thompson - bass, guitar
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Earle Bryan Combs (* 14. Mai 1899 in Pebworth, Kentucky; † 21. Juli 1976 in Richmond, Kentucky) war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler in der Major League Baseball. Sein Spitzname war The Kentucky Colonel.

Biografie
Bis zum Jahre 1924 verlief die Karriere von Combs in den Minor Leagues, hauptsächlich in seinem Heimatstaat Kentucky. Dann folgte der Aufstieg in die Major League bei den New York Yankees, dem einzigen MLB-Team seiner Karriere. Ab 1925 zeigte Combs außergewöhnlich erfolgreiche Leistungen, kam aber neben den absoluten Superstars wie Babe Ruth oder Lou Gehrig nicht in das Rampenlicht. 1927 führte er die American League mit 231 Hits an, dieser Teamrekord hatte Bestand, bis Don Mattingly ihn 1986 übertreffen konnte. Auch auf seiner Verteidigerposition im Centerfield waren seine Leistungen hervorragend.

Nach einem Schädelbruch, den er sich bei einer Kollision mit dem Außenfeldzaun 1934 zugezogen hatte, endete seine Karriere bereits im Alter von 36 Jahren. 1935 versuchte er noch ein Comeback, aber im Wissen, dass die Yankees für die nächste Saison mit Joe DiMaggio planten, beendete er seine Spielerkarriere endgültig.

Combs übernahm Coaching-Aufgaben bei den Yankees, später auch bei den St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies und den Boston Red Sox.

Das Veterans Committee wählte Combs 1970 in die Baseball Hall of Fame.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address Tuesday, but U.S. defense officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply biding their time until the Americans leave the battlefield as planned.
The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Gen. Joseph Votel, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that of the 34,000 square miles of territory that IS once held, it now controls less than 20 square miles.
"It is important to understand that even though this territory has been reclaimed, the fight against ISIS and violent extremists is not over and our mission has not changed," Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Votel said there are now between 1,000 and 1,500 IS fighters in the small area they still control in the southern part of the Euphrates River Valley near the Iraqi border. The remainder, he said, have "dispersed" and "gone to ground," suggesting they retain the potential to return.


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St. John's (Shrewsbury) Wins a Thriller Against Wakefield
By Joe Fantozzi (@joe_fantozzi35)
Shrewsbury, Mass. - Host St. John's (Shrewsbury) won a chippy affair against visiting Wakefield Monday, overcoming an early deficit to steal the game in the final 35 seconds and prevail 8-7.
"We just have to show up to the games on the schedule," senior Ben Scharf said. "Once we got comfortable out there, we started to click."
The Warriors opened up the scoring when senior Bobby Keegan's shot found the back of the net. St. John's was over-extending on defense, which allowed for the Warriors to have the upper hand early. Sophomore Mason Burns also took advantage to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead early.
Wakefield racked up two penalties, putting the Warriors down tow men for the final minute of the period. Captain Jack Donahue broke the ice for the Pioneers by scoring from atop the crease and cutting the deficit to one goal.
The Warriors then jumped back on the attack.
Robert Guida and Booby Keegan netted two early shots. Carrying a three goal lead, Wakefield had all the momentum going through the middle and offensive side of the field. Sophomore Owen Boss came through for the Pioneers and scored his first in the game. Alec Dawson had a nifty backwards shot which cut the lead to just one goal. Senior captain Ryan Fitzpatrick had a buzzer beater that gave the Warriors a one goal advantage heading into the second half.
The Pioneer attack really showed up in the third quarter. Owen Boss scored twice, giving him a hat trick on the day, while Jack Donahue scored his second of the day to give the Pioneers their first lead at 6-5.
They came close to losing the lead, but as final minute was ticking off the scoreboard, sophomore Tim Licroix broke a 7-7 tie and gave the Pioneers the lead with 35 seconds left in the game. The Pioneers defense then shut down the Warriors to secure the win.
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People affected by disabilities face emargination and prejudice in their daily lives, which rise exponentially when they start looking for a job. Oftentimes, companies hire them without having the correct understanding of their necessities and capabilities.
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ThisAbility is an innovative recruiting platform that, through ICF method and video CVs, allows people with disabilities to better express their abilities. Alongside the support provided to the candidates, ThisAbility will also support companies throughout the full pre and post hiring process, with the purpose of changing the perception about disability from a barrier to an added value inside a company.
By the end of May 2018, the team of Enactus Unicatt started the pilot phase of the project by recruiting 7 people. After delivering a training session to the recruited candidates, the video CV were created and shared with ThisAbility's partner companies. Thus giving both new hope to beneficiaries and their families, and a new positive perspective to hiring companies.


Jefferson County and PLA have agreed to a settlement regarding timber harvesting within the Port Ludlow Master Planned Resort. Here are links to a copy of the settlement agreement [link] and to the county's press release about the settlement [link].
PLVC will host a community-wide informational meeting at the Bay Club from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, January 4.
Representatives of the county and PLA will be present to describe and explain the settlement agreement and to address any questions or concerns about its future implementation.


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You have a high school student that has mostly coped with primary school, but now you are finding they cannot keep up with the curriculum? This is a common situation we see in our SpeechNet Speech Pathology & Learning Centre clinic. It can relate back to the higher expectations on a student's language skills in this new school setting.
Children with expressive language disorders that may have had sufficient supports in primary school to get through and to continue learning, may now find high school a completely different matter. Typically supports are less one on one in high school settings and expectations to be independent learners is higher!
Foundation expressive language skills (both written and spoken) are typically in place before a student enters high school. However expressive language skill development is far from complete. Expectations are placed on students to integrate knowledge learnt in the past and to rapidly learn more and more vocabulary (history, geography, new maths terms and concepts, science etc and etc).
A review of language skills as children enter high school is often called for as new or different language areas need to be drawn upon.
Difficulties in language skills are often not even considered in the high school years when students begin to fall behind. It can be thought that they are just being "lazy" or that adolescents have kicked in and they have developed a "who cares?" attitude. Sometimes these "behaviours" have in fact underlying language difficulties that do not present until the "pressures" of high school come into play.
If you have a high school student that is showing behavioural or academic concerns, a speech pathologist experienced in working with high school age children can conduct language assessments to determine if there are any undetected language gaps or problems.
Contact SpeechNet Speech Pathology for more information as to what an assessment may entail.Speech Pathology support is different to that provided by tutors. We investigate underlying issues rather than "getting them through" the next test or assignment.
Links Between Unidentified Language Skill Problems in High School and Criminal Activity.
Hopkins et al (2017) in their recent study examined the association between language, ability to maintain discourse (conversation) and adolescents becoming Young Offenders in the court systems. The study found that as language performance increased, the probability of being a non-offender significantly increased.
A statistically significant positive association found between language and offending behaviour was higher than other factors considered. This highlights the important role of language in understanding offending behaviour. Interestingly there were no difference found on language performance between male and female young offenders.
Young Offenders displayed high incidences of Developmental Language difficulties in their language and expository discourse abilities despite having not received any speech and language intervention prior to their involvement in this study. This suggests that the language difficulties were largely not detected but may have significantly impact on the negative path these young people had taken!
The study concluded that professionals in education, health and social care and youth justice should be made aware of the language needs of both young offenders and children with emotional behavioural difficulties, and these language needs should be identified and targeted as early as possible to enable them to be effective communicators who can engage effectively in their communities and achieve new learning.


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Robert Fenton Gregory, II, 55, of Kansas City, Missouri passed July 17, 2022 at North Kansas City Hospital from natural causes. Graveside services will be held at 11am, Friday, September 16, 2022 at Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Higginsville, Missouri. Memorial contributions may be made to the Wounded Warriors Project DONATION LINK
Robert was born July 6, 1967 in Kansas City, Missouri to Robert and Janet Gregory. He graduated from DeSoto High School in 1985. After high school, he served four years in the United States Army, two years of which he spent in Germany. He was an avid fisher, enjoyed weight lifting and was a talented artist and woodworker.
Robert was preceded in death by his father, Robert F. Gregory. Survivors include his mother Janet Kent; sister Angela Wilkey and brother Charles Gregory.
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I am so sorry for your loss, there are no words. Praying for peace for all of you.
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Q: Using UTF-8 characters directly I've tried with:
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I got the error as  Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence.
Please help how to print the character ì directly, I'm using MikTeX V2.9, LaTeX, dvips, and PS2PDF

A: Your posted code runs without error (try copying it back from your question to a new file) but is more complicated than needed, you do not need inputenc or \DeclareUnicodeCharacter or \
(also as mentioned by others in comments you have a typo in the hex value for ì but that will not make an error)
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
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\begin{document}

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The error you show means your file is not in UTF-8, most likely, given the script you are using ISO 8859-1 (latin1) so you could add
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

But better would be to save the file as UTF-8 (most editors can do this).
We can not check your encoding as the act of pasting the text to this site converts it to UTF-8, so it is always UTF-8 here.

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Tilda Swinton pranks Timothée Chalamet during The French Dispatch Cannes standing ovation — WATCH
Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images
Zac Efron and Dylan Efron 'break' grandpa out of nursing home — WATCH
The French Dispatch Cannes Film Festival premiere was a star-studded one with its stars Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Stephen Park, and Benicio Del Toro all hitting the red carpet.
At sweet one moment on the red carpet, Chalamet (rocking a silver metallic Tom Ford suit) rested his head on Tilda Swinton's shoulder. Will she ever wash that shoulder again?
Tilda Swinton and Timothée Chalamet attends the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images)
The Wes Anderson film earned one of the biggest standing ovations so far at the 74th edition of Cannes. The applause continued for nine minutes for Anderson.
In a Twitter video shared by Variety's executive editor Ramin Setoodeh, Tilda pretends to clap Chalamet on the back, but actually tapes a piece of paper to his back and then proceeds to make sure he turns around. Well done, Tilda, well done.
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Look at what Tilda Swinton did to Timothee Chalamet during 'The French Dispatch' standing ovation. #Cannes2021 pic.twitter.com/MNmkzdUktA
— Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) July 12, 2021
Timothée Chalamet and The French Dispatch at Cannes 2021
Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody attend the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Timothée Chalamet attends the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Kering)
Timothée Chalamet and Bill Murray attend the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Timothée Chalamet attends the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images)
Benicio del Toro, Wes Anderson, Timothée Chalamet, Alexandre Desplat, Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson attend the "The French Dispatch" screening during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
French-Us actor Timothee Chalamet, French-Algerian actress Lyna Khoudri, Us director Wes Anderson, British actress Tilda Swinton, Us actor Bill Murray, Us actor Benicio Del Toro and French music composer Alexandre Desplat pose as they arrive for the screening of the film "The French Dispatch" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 12, 2021. (Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
British actress Tilda Swinton, French-Us actor Timothee Chalamet and Us director Wes Anderson pose as they arrive for the screening of the film "The French Dispatch" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 12, 2021. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
Adrien Brody Benicio Del Toro Bill Murray Cannes Film Festival Owen Wilson Photos Stephen Park The French Dispatch Tilda Swinton Timothee Chalamet Video Wes Anderson
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Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage
27 April 2015 by Ievgen Voropai
Wiki Loves Earth features exceptional photos of national resources from around the world, such as this image of Aiguamolls de l'Empordà, Spain — which was selected as one of last year's winners. Photo by Mikipons, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
On May 1st, Wiki Loves Earth 2015 will start an international photo contest about our natural heritage. This event is organized by the Wikimedia community, with the help of its Ukrainian and Polish chapters. Many national contests will be hosted as well, coordinated by local volunteers.
Wiki Loves Earth was conceived in 2012, and it was implemented for the first time in Ukraine, where the first contest was held from April 15 to May 15, 2013. It was inspired by the success of Wiki Loves Monuments, with a goal to run a similar contest for natural monuments.
This is the third year for this competition. Watch this video to learn more about the 2014 event, when 16 different countries participated: Algeria, Andorra and Catalan areas, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Macedonia, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Syria,Tunisia, Uruguay, Ukraine — and many more, who joined forces to share their natural monuments with the world!
Wiki Loves Earth 2014 slides, with more information about the contest's winning images. Slides by Mykola Kozlenko, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
View the full report from last year's international jury, which explains the selection process and includes comments from jury members. A gallery of the 10 winning photos is included at the end of this blog post.
Wiki Loves Earth is still growing and spreading all over the world. We are really happy there is such a big interest in this project. WLE is becoming an active public movement and is now viewed not only as a competition, but also as a prestigious way to tell about your country and the beauty of its natural resources. National committees for Wiki Loves Earth 2015 will launch new channels for users to stay in touch and get regular updates. We invite you to follow these pages and groups, so you can won't miss some of the most interesting, thrilling and significant photos of 2015.
This photo contest is not only a great opportunity to showcase the charms of nature, but also a chance to draw public attention to environmental issues. Together, we can create a worldwide knowledge base about our natural heritage and the challenges it faces. With your help, Wiki Loves Earth will fill in blind spots on a map — and will highlight unknown places and sights. Wiki Loves Earth covers not only sites of national importance, but also areas protected at a regional level — and the widest variety of natural sites possible: forests, parks, gardens, rocks, caves and other protected sites within the participating countries. Together, we can raise awareness about these natural resources and help protect them.
Anyone can take part in the competition; however, registration on Wikimedia Commons is required. To participate in the contest, check our competition list, find an item or place you are familiar with, then submit a picture you have taken (past or present), and upload it to Wikimedia Commons between May 1 and May 31, 2015.
Ievgen Voropai, Project coordinator, Wiki Loves Earth 2015
Wiki Loves Earth 2014/Top 10 Winners
View of Carpathian National Park from Hoverla. Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Вид з Говерли на Карпатський національний парк. Карпатський національний природний парк, Івано-Франківська область.
Photo by Balkhovitin, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
"1 green.svg" by Amakuha, CC0 1.0.
Serra e pico Dedo de Deus no Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos.
Горная цепь и пик Деду-де-Деус в Национальном парке Серра-дус-Органус.
Photo by Carlos Perez Couto, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mukri bog in the october morning mist. Mukri maastikukaitseala. Hommik rabas.
Photo by Amadvr, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. ee.
Mount Shaan-Kaya in Clouds. Yalta Natural Reserve,
Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Шаан-Кая у хмарах. Ялтинський
гірсько-лісовий природний заповідник, АР Крим.
Photo by Александр Черных, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peak Krcin, part of the Mavrovo National Park. Високо на Крчин, дел од Националниот парк «Маврово».
Photo by MartinDimitrievski, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheep in Drents-Friese Wold National Park, Netherlands.
Schapen op het Aekingerzand.
Photo by Uberprutser, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. nl.
Peninsula. Novyi Svit Sanctuary, coastal aquatic system between Novyi Svit and Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Заказник «Новий Світ», Крим.
Photo by Vian, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Morning Palette. Zuivskyi Regional Landscape Park, Donetsk Oblast.
«Ранкова палітра». Регіональний ландшафтний парк «Зуївський», Донецька область.
Barrage bechloul Haïzer à Bouira.
Photo by Chettouh Nabil, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cascade de Aïn Legradj à Bordj Bou Arreredj.
"Destination 10.png" by Seloloving, Public Domain
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I joined this program, great program wiki 😀
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Processo Sol-gel ou pectização refere-se a qualquer rota de síntese de materiais onde num determinado
momento ocorre uma transição do sistema sol para um sistema gel. É uma técnica amplamente utilizada síntese de materiais para obtenção de materiais inorgânicos ou híbridos orgânico-inorgânicos. As reações de hidrólise e condensação do precursor permitem a formação de partículas de tamanho coloidal (sol) e posterior formação da rede tridimensional (gel)

São utilizados principalmente para a fabricação de materiais (geralmente óxidos de metal). A solução coloidal (sol) funciona como o precursor para uma rede integrada (gel) de partículas discretas ou de polímeros de rede. Precursores típicos são alcóxidos de metais e sais de metais (tais como cloretos, nitratos e acetatos), que são submetidas a várias formas de reações de hidrólise e de policondensação.

Vantagens
As grandes vantagens deste processo são seu custo reduzido em relação a processos convencionais (no caso de matrizes vítreas) e possibilidade de produção de novos materiais como :
Concentradores de luminescências solares;
Sensores bio-químicos;
Lasers sólidos ajustáveis na faixa do espectro visível;
Materiais para a óptica linear e não-linear;

Sol e Gel
Sol é uma dispersão de partículas coloidais (dimensão entre 1 e 100 nm) estável em um fluido, enquanto gel é um sistema formado pela estrutura rígida de partículas coloidais (gel coloidal) ou de cadeias poliméricas (gel polimérico) que imobiliza a fase líquida nos seus interstícios.

Classificação
O processo de sol-gel pode ser classificado dependendo da natureza do precursor inorgânico utilizado:
Sais (cloretos, nitratos, sulfetos, etc.) e ;
Alcóxidos.

Polimerização
A reação de polimerização sol-gel pode ser dividida em duas etapas básicas:

Hidrólise do grupo alcóxido com a formação de grupos reativos do tipo silanol. Exemplo:

Si(OR)4 + 3H2O -> Si(OR)(OH)3 + 3ROH

Condensação do grupo silanol, a qual leva inicialmente à formação do sol e, eventualmente, ao gel. Exemplo:

=Si-OH + HO-Si= -> =Si-O-Si= + H2O

ou

=Si-OR + HO-Si= -> =Si-O-Si= + ROH

Fabricação de materiais sensores
O processo de sol-gel pode ser usado para produzir materiais sensores facilmente analisáveis. São de fácil
fabricação, possuem projeto de síntese flexível e suas enzimas ocluídas na matriz de sol-gel mantem sua respectiva atividade catalítica.

Filmes finos de óxidos metálicos
O processo sol-gel permite a fabricação de filmes finos de óxidos de metais de transição sobre diferentes tipos de substratos e facilitam o estudo de propriedades eletroquímicas e suas potencialidades de aplicação. Óxidos de zircônio e titânio tem sido muito estudados. Eletrodos de grandes dimensões podem ser fabricados usando-se a técnica de "dip-coating", como por exemplo na produção de janelas eletrocrômicas.

Híbridos orgânicos-inorgânicos
Materiais híbridos oferecem a oportunidade de combinar de forma sinérgica as propriedades físico-químicas inerentes de seus constituintes e permitem obter novas propriedades resultantes da combinação de seus componentes, devido ao tamanho reduzido dos domínios que os compõem.

Esse nível altamente reduzido de dispersão é obtido pela formação de uma rede polimérica inorgânica por reações de gelificação a baixas temperaturas para transição de líquidos em sólidos. Os reagentes precursores desses componentes orgânico-inorgânico são geralmente alcóxidos de silício ou de metais como alumínio, titânio ou zircônio inicialmente dissolvidos em um líquido. No decorrer do processo, as reações de gelificação levam à formação de um estado sol, que se caracteriza por apresentar oligômeros que formarão cadeias de dimensões coloidais e partículas primárias dispersas. A evolução desse processo forma o estado gel que apresenta conectividade entre as unidades de dimensões coloidais, formando uma rede tridimensional, entrelaçada macroscopicamente observável.

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Counter-revolution in Burkina Faso
Africa Theater
France in Africa
Gen. Gilbert Diendere, a longtime right-hand man to ousted president Blaise Compaore and head of his presidential guard, seized power from Burkina Faso's transitional government on Sept. 17—sparking street protests in the capital Ouagadougou in which three were killed. The following day, the new junta—calling itself the National Council for Democracy—released interim president Michel Kafando, in a bid to quell protests. But prime minister Isaac Zida remains in custody. The US and France have condemned the coup, but both have critical security interests in the country, and have worked closely with Gen. Diendere for years. Burkina Faso serves as a rear base for regional counterterrorism operations and contributes troops to both the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali and the US-led Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership. (CSM, BBC News, Sept. 18; Afrique Jet, Sept. 17)
The coup follows a controversy over the interim government barring the former foreign minister and former sports minister from running in elections which were scheduled for October. They were barred on the grounds that they had backed ex-president Compaore's failed bid to cling to power during last October's popular revolution. Compaore was driven from power by street protests after he tried to change the constitution to allow him to extend his 27-year rule. The new elections were supposed return the country to democratic rule after a year-long transition. (News24, France, Sept. 11)
Lines drawn in Burkina Faso
Submitted by WW4 Report on Wed, 09/23/2015 - 00:43
Burkina Faso's coup leader, Gen Gilbert Diendere, defied an ultimatum from army leaders to step down, and pledged that his forces will retaliate if attacked. The army has ordered anti-coup protesters in the capital, Ouagadougou, to return home, amid fears of fighting.
The European Union has called on the presidential guard to immediately lay down their weapons to avoid bloodshed. (BBC News)
Efforts by the West African organization ECOWAS to mediate have broken down. On Sept. 20, dozens of coup supporters storm the hotel where the mediators are staying. But the opponents of the coup rejected the deal as too generous to Diendere. The mediators proposed Kafando returns as interim president, along with an amnesty for the putschists. They called for general elections be held by Nov. 22, with participation by pro-Compaore candidates.Civil society groups that helped topple Compaore, in particular the Balai Citoyen (Civic Broom) movement, called the deal "shameful." (AFP)


I was reading an article recently about how some of the sterilization requirements in factory farms actually encourage more damaging infections which then led me to think about antibiotic resistant strains of diseases popping up due to overuse of antibiotics. This finally led me to think about similarities in computer security.
Since I started officially working in security around 1996 a number of us have suffered from a Cassandra complex; providing warnings and gloomy predictions, which have usually come true, and being generally ignored. Now, over a decade later, it's too late to do some of what we should have done back then. Everything is owned. We have to retrofit now instead of building security in from the ground up. Its MUCH more expensive and difficult today than if we would have started then.
That the industry has tried hard to solve the low hanging 80% attacks is obvious from looking at the "solutions" that are provided such as IDS, AV, Firewalls, failure logging, scan-exploit-report penetration tests etc. These have done a decent job of stopping scans, worms and mass malware for the most part and have failed miserably at stopping the remaining 20%. So why is this a problem? 80% is pretty good right?
Will gather intelligence against you to gain an edge in negotiations, legislation, bids, etc.
So what we have effectively done is build an environment where all target hosts are uniformly the same, and ensure that the only "germs" who can get in are the ones who we can't detect, can't stop and can't deal with. Superbugs.
Whats worse is the more we get compromised and hurt by the 20% the more money and resources we throw at trying to solve the 80% and the more we put our head in the sand about the attackers that really want to hurt us and are good at doing it. We've pushed the motivated attackers way from using the easy to deal with techniques towards the ones we can't solve very well and are very expensive.
Start throwing money and resources at the 20% problem. PCI is not going to do it. Compliance pen tests are not going to do it. Researching virtualizing every process, location aware document formats, degradation of service for anomalous connections, better intelligence, data sharing and correlation, in short making it increasingly expensive for the sophisticated attacker is what we should be looking at.
We have to stop popping antibiotics and figure out how to cut out the flesh eating bacteria.
IT standardisation reduces costs and increases efficiency and often creates stronger controls, e.g. everyone in AD has to change password every 30 days.
It just may leave more money for security.
Yeh thats the line I always here from corp security people, and you do definitely have a point. It comes down to your particular business needs. You can standardize in enclaves rather than across the whole enterprise. Scientists can be standardized one way while HR staff another, and execs a third. However every fortune 100/500 I've penetrated who was flat across everything I've taken over completely in ~2days or less. Every one I've attacked that had mixed and segregated business units took me much longer and was more likely to detect me. Security may not be everyone's #1 business priority, and that's a valid risk assessment to make.