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I Kissed A Girl & I Liked It - Raising A Daughter In Different Times
The pics in this article are of my two kids. That being said, you might want to listen to this song, I Kissed A Girl by Katie Perry, if you're unfamiliar with it, before continuing with this post.
(Edit: The May 2008 was removed from YouTube, so here's another, if it ceases to work, try another on the 'net.)
I was pulling groceries out the back of my mini-van this weekend when my 12 year old daughter, Casie, yelled from the front seat, "Mom! How ya like this song?"
I could only hear the music and voice quality when I answered, "Sounds great!"
"I never heard words like this," she said excitedly. "What do you think?"
"Can't hear them from back here," I replied. "Come give me a hand."
"Ma, listen, she's singing she kissed a girl and she liked it."
Uh-huh, I thought. I said, "We'll listen to it on YouTube or Napster once we get in the house."
And we did. The words were a shocker and damn, I thought I was shock-proof by now. Great voice, catchy tune, and the kind of beat that makes you wanna dance. But the message, oh the message!
"Whaddya think, Mom?", she asked me, smiling. Smiling!
"I don't know yet, Casie," I answered honestly. "I'll have to think about it. What do you think of the words?"
"I don't know," she said.
"Do they make you want to kiss a girl?"
Her face frowned up. "Nooo..."
At the same time, I wonder. Kids are adventurous and don't always tell the truth about these things. The lyrics makes it sound innocent, inconsequential, and acceptable for any straight girl or young woman to cross the line into bisexuality. It hasn't even been out that long but she told me it's already at the top of the charts.
I entertain the idea that this song - and the copycat versions to come - will influence the thinking of the next generation of girls, much like Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the White House in the 90s made oral sex among teens acceptable. After Bill and Monica's behavior was publicized 24/7 in the news, all the therapists in our office heard more stories from our adolescent clients having oral sex. What used to be a very private act was downgraded to being no more important than a kiss between casual friends.
I have always had a strong belief that gender orientation is biologically programmed in us and we can no more force attraction to a specific gender than we can shift comfortably to being right-handed if we're lefties or vice versa.
As I listen again to this song and read the words on the video, I recall an all-girl sleepover party my daughter went to last summer. At 11, she was innocent enough to tell me everything.
"Ma, we were giving each other back massages, but one girl gave us butt massages."
"Butt massages?"
"Yeah," she answered. "I got one too. It felt good."
I took a deep breath, and right or wrong, gave a push for the straight life. I said, "It'll feel a lot better when a boyfriend gives you one, when you get much older."
I hope I'm right that she's straight, because if her gender orientation is otherwise, my words could heap needless guilt and confusion on her.
"Trust me on this," I added. "If you are straight, and I really think you are, it will feel wonderful when a guy you really like or love does that, and a whole lot more great stuff to your body. Letting girls mess around with you now could confuse you, so until then, please don't let a girl touch you like that again, okay?"
She nodded and asked, "Is that girl bad?"
"Bad? No," I said. "She may have had someone do that to her and she liked it, so she did that to y'all... she probably doesn't know any better. Doesn't sound like any of you did. At any rate, don't be mean and bad mouth her. Gossip is a terrible thing. She may be straight, or one day she may not, but either way, she doesn't deserve to be mistreated."
In my family, there are damn few secrets and we talk about everything. I told my son in front of my daughter.
"That's some gay shit," he said loudly. "A butt massage! Damn."
Then he shook his head, smiling, as he visualized this. Casie giggled too.
"Xavier, you mean you never had a butt massage by one of you're homeboys at a pajama party?", I said jokingly.
"Hell no!", he yelled. "Casie, don't let no girl do that shit to you."
I knew his macho ass would say something like this. It was really interesting to watch my then 18 year old son take the role of a father to his little sister, and say in clear and decisive terms that this behavior was unacceptable.
I couldn't do it the way he did out of the slim fear that one day Casie could wake up and be a lesbian, and I didn't want to F up her head just in case that happens, as I've seen the pain it's caused others.
At the same time, I was glad he took the tough, black and white no gray areas role he did. I don't want her to be a bigot, but I also don't want her to embrace an anything goes, hedonistic lifestyle where she's straight, but if it feels good, does whatevah with anyone, particularly if she's had too much to drink at a party - which is what happened in the song, I Kissed A Girl, which normalizes that kind of lifestyle.
I mentioned the massage incident to a male relative and asked him if thought I handled the situation well. He's an evangelical Christian, but also a social worker. He was aghast. I wasn't terribly surprised.
"No! It wasn't enough! You should report this to the mother of the girl who had the sleepover! And we've got to have a long talk with Casie that this is evil and not God's way. It's a sin, and she has to know this."
"That's a bit heavy-handed, dontcha think? I mean, let's be honest. Kids do experiment, and what if she does turn out as a lesbian one day? She doesn't need all that baggage. It might also make her homophobic and a bigot."
He thought some kind of Biblical perspective and reinforcement was needed. I lied and said I'd think about it. Actually, I thought about homosexuality decades ago and concluded that God wouldn't have been so cruel as to make 5 or 10% of the population gay if he didn't intend them to be like that. I'm not ignorant to the biblical passages forbidding it, but how does anyone really know that the person who wrote them wasn't just sticking in his homophobic opinion?
In the end, I recall the words of man whom I once worked for. He said, "The water seeks it's own level." In other words, she will be what she will be, and aggressively or unconsciously, seek out people like herself.
I can only hope that my guidance influences her to postpone sexual activity until she's mature enough to at least know what her orientation is and not become confused by the anything goes barrage of messages... or become a bigot... or recklessly promiscuous in this hedonistic, materialistic world. I told her this.
"You are beautiful," I also tell her, "inside and out. Hang on to that."
She smiles, and it's the one thing I'm 99.9% sure she will always be.
Posted by Kit (Keep It Trill) at 4:57 PM
I liked your article and found it refreshingly honest. Parenting is a balancing act. Come on too strong and they'll clam up, and if you're too lenient they'll run wild. I wish more parents would teach their kids to be kind and open minded and at the same time, have their own standards.
Yes, she does look beautiful, and so do the other two! Great portraits!
I agree that the balancing act you're doing here as a parent is impressive. If I'm reading it right, I'm also impressed by how you own up to your own homophobic feelings. I was relieved to read of your acceptance of the possibility that your kids might be homosexual.
There's a gray area there that I think is good to be in, between confining a child's sexuality too tightly and encouraging its freedom too strongly (encouraging, as you said, an attitude of "anything goes"). Starkly black/white, good/bad thinking is easier in a way, but it's also just too simple, and sometimes of course destructive.
Kit (Keep It Trill) June 2, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Thanks Macon. For the record, I don't perceive myself as being homophobic; I just strongly prefer she'll be straight AND not promiscuous no matter what her gender orientation because life is hard for the teen whose 'different'. She's seeing that now in her friends, and the gay ones are a source of teasing and gossip. She's very respectful of others as I am, as this is how I have taught her to be. If Mother Nature has different plans for her sexual orientation, she knows I'll love and stand by her for eternity.
Just a note, gender orientation would be how she views herself as either female or male. I think the word you're looking for is sexual orientation? :) This was a nice read, I wish my own mother had the foresight to been so understanding about the possibility of having a non-straight child
Kit (Keep It Trill) June 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Thanks for the tip, CS - I always used the words gender and sexual interchangeably with the word orientation. Thank you too for the compliment. I've seen how destructive harsh parental condemnation is on teens in my practice. These kids are miserable and some were suicidal. I swore I'd never do that to mine.
Ô... July 24, 2008 at 6:55 AM
Hi Kit,
Great post. You mentioned that people are biologically programmed to be homosexuals, then in another of your posts (''Please don't cut my arm off''), you stated that education and upbringing could be the cause of homosexuality. So, I don't really know what to think...
Kit (Keep It Trill) July 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM
O, thanks. Yeah, I do believe that the sexual orientation of some gays are determined in utero. What I said in the other article is a quote from my father. He believed that more homosexuals are made than born.
I've met an extraordinary number of adults who were:
a) molested by a same sex much older kid or adult as children,
b) had an usual amount of same sex sexual play with other kids as kids,
c) had mothers who were bipolar
d) had one or both parents and or a high number of older brothers who were emotionally and/or physically abusive to them.
Although no one has yet to 'prove' anything yet, I think some were born this way, and others made. As for the percentage, I don't know.
BTW, I don't think 'education' pushes a kid in one direction or the other. We see this through religion and/or moral training (such as when my son told my daughter "don't let no girl do that to you; that shit ain't cool", but it only serves, in my view, to send homosexual behavior underground and in the closet if it exists.
I people have occasional bisexual experiences and impulses in their lives but are inherently straight. Pre-teens and teens can get a little confused over whether this makes the gay.
This is why I gently encouraged my preference - the straight lifestyle - over the gay one, with my daughter.
At the same time, I left her an escape exit, so to speak, so if she does determine she's a lesbian one day, she'll know I love and accept her and doesn't have to run around feeling guilty and hiding in the closet.
Brown Sugar September 2, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Well I kissed a girl and I liked it. Hell, I might kiss one again and I'm definitely straight.
SFall November 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM
I have been exploring your blog. I am really enjoying it. The whole issue of sexual orientation has become such a challenge for parents and teens. And as a therapist, I have found an increase in girls claiming to be lesbians. It is disproportionate to the population. Often these girls, as you mentioned, have come from abusive homes with absent fathers and mentally ill mothers. This is not to say that some lesbians are not born. I agree with your assessment that some homosexuals are, indeed, born that way. But the media has created an anything goes campaign and it is messing with the identity of a lot of young girls. They end up experimenting and then develop a reputation and end up foreclosing on a fraudulent identity. I recall the Clinton oral sex years. I was working with at risk youth and all of a sudden it was oral sex parties everywhere. Now its cool to be gay which means that kids are starting to define their friendships in sexual terms much earlier than they used to. It is sad that they would sexualize their same sex friendships. I have some friends from High School to this day. If we had turned it into something sexual, our friendship could not have lasted. Your kids are lucky to have you. But there are so many kids who don't have strong parents who recognize teachable moments.
Kit (Keep It Trill) November 16, 2009 at 10:13 PM
SFall, I'm delighted you left a comment on an older post; don't get many of those which is too bad since much of the stuff I write about is fairly timeless.
This upcoming generation of teens is a doozy. Bisexuality is so wide spread in the middle and high schools in my area that I've pondered what happened that is so dramatic that it altered the biological sexual orientation of so many adolescents?
I'm not yet certain if that's even the right question...
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I haven't posted since summer 2010, and comment moderation has been on for a very long time.
My old blogger friends (you know who you are) are welcome to email me.
I can be reached at:
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Let's start with a brain teaser to set the stage for questioning our assumptions.
One day a man visits a church and asks to speak with the priest. He asks the priest for proof that God exists. The priest takes him to a painting depicting a group of sailors, safely washed up on the shore following a shipwreck.
The priest tells the story of the sailors' harrowing adventure. He explains that the sailors prayed faithfully to God and that God heard their prayers and delivered them safely to the shore.
This is well and good as a story of faith. But what about all the other sailors who have prayed to God, and yet still died? Who painted them?
Are there other factors that might be at play?
When we look for answers, it's natural to automatically consider only the evidence that is easily available. In this case, we know that the sailors prayed to God. God listened. The sailors survived.
What we fail to do, is look for less obvious factors.
Does God only rescue sailors that pray faithfully? Surely other sailors that have died, also prayed to God? If their prayers didn't work, perhaps this means that something other than faith is also at play?
If our goal is to replicate success, we also need to look at what sets the success stories apart from the failures. We want to know what the survivors did differently from those that did not. We want to know what not to do, what mistakes to avoid.
In my experience, this is a key problem in the application of agile. Agile is often presented as the correct path; after all lots of successful projects use it. But what about the projects that failed, did they use Agile, or did they not implement Agile correctly? Or maybe Agile is not actually that big a factor in the success of the project?
Welcome to the history of what is wrong with Agile.
Consider this, a select group of Fortune 500 companies, including several technology leaders decides to conduct an experiment. They hand pick some people from across their organization to complete a very ambitious task. A task of an order of magnitude different from anything they'd previously attempted and with an aggressive deadline.
Question 1: How many do you think succeeded?
Answer 1: Most of them.
Question 2: If your team followed the same practices and processes that worked for these teams do you think your team would succeed?
In 1986, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published a paper in the Harvard Business Review titled the "The New New Product Development Game." In this paper, Takeuchi and Nonaka tell the story of businesses that conduct experiments with their personnel and processes to innovate new ways to conduct product development. The paper introduces several revolutionary ideas and terms, which most notably developed the practices that we now know as agile (and scrum).
The experiments, run by large companies and designed for product development (not explicitly intended for software development), addressed common challenges of the time regarding delays and waste in traditional methods of production. At the root of the problem, the companies saw the need for product development teams to deliver more efficiently.
The experiment and accompanying analysis focused on a cross-section of American and Japanese companies, including Honda, Epson, and Hewlett-Packard. To maintain their competitive edge each of these companies wished to rapidly and efficiently develop new products. The paper looks at commonalities in the production and management processes that arose across each company's experiment.
These commonalities coalesced into a style of product development and management that Takeuchi and Nonaka compared to the rugby scrum. They characterized this "scrum" process with a set of 6 holistic activities. When taken individually, these activities may appear insignificant and may even be ineffective. However, when they occur together as part of cross-functional teams, they resulted in a highly effective product development process.
And, organizational transfer of learning.
What is worth noting, is what is NOT pointed out in great detail.
For instance that the companies hand-picked these teams out of a large pool of, most likely, above average talent. These were not random samples, they were not even companies converting their process, these were experiments with teams inside of companies. The companies also never bet the farm on these projects, they were large, but if they failed the company would likely not go under.
If we implement agile, will we be guaranteed success?
First, it is important to note that all the teams discussed in the paper delivered positive results. This means that Takeuchi and Nonaka did not have the opportunity to learn from failed projects. As there were no failures in the data set, they did not have the opportunity to compare failures with successes, to see what might have separated the successes from failures.
Accordingly, it is important to consider that the results of the study, while highly influential and primarily positive, can easily deceive you into believing that if your company implements the agile process, you are guaranteed to be blessed with success.
After years in the field, I think it is vitally important to point out that success with an agile implementation is not necessarily guaranteed. I've seen too many project managers, team leads, and entire teams banging their heads up against brick walls, trying to figure out why agile just does not work for their people or their company. You, unlike the experiments, have a random set of people that you start with, and agile might not be suited for them.
To simplify this logical question; if all marbles are round, are all round things marbles? The study shows that these successful projects implemented these practices, it did not claim these practices brought success.
What is better: selecting the right people or the right processes for the people you have?
Consider that your company may not have access to the same resources available to the companies in this original experiment. These experiments took place in large companies with significant resources to invest. Resources to invest in their people. Resources to invest in training. Resources to invest in processes. Resources to cover any losses.
At the outset, it looks like the companies profiled by Takeuchi and Nonaka took big gambles that paid off as a result of the processes they implemented. However, it is very important to realize that they, in fact, took very strategic and minimal risk, because they made sure to select the best people, and did not risk any of their existing units. They spun up an isolated experiment at an arm's length.
If you look at it this way, consider that most large multinational companies already have above average people, and then they cherry pick the best suited for the job. This is not your local pick-up rugby team, but rather a professional league. As large companies with broad resources, the strategic risks they took may not be realistic for your average small or medium-sized organization.
The companies profiled selected teams that they could confidently send to the Olympics or World Cup. How many of us have Olympians and all-star players on our teams? And even if we have one or two, do we have enough to complete a team? Generally, no.
The Jigsaw Puzzle: If one piece is missing, it will never feel complete.
Takeuchi and Nonaka further compare the characteristics of their scrum method to that of a jigsaw puzzle. They acknowledge that a single piece of the puzzle or a missing piece mean that your project will likely fail. You need all the pieces for the process to work. They neglect to emphasize that this also means that you need the right people to correctly assemble the puzzle.
In other words, the solution to the puzzle is not only the six jigsaw puzzle pieces, but it is also your people. These "soft merits" mean that if your people are not able to share responsibility and cooperate, focus, take the initiative, develop diverse skills and so on, they aren't the right people for an agile implementation.
If you don't have all the pieces, you can't complete the puzzle. And if you don't have the right people, you can't put the pieces together in the right order. Again, you might be round, but you might not be a marble.
As with any custom software development project, the people who implement are key to your project's success. Implementing agile changes the dynamics of how teams communicate and work. It changes the roles and expectations of all aspects of your project from executive management to human resources and budgeting.
Agile may work wonders for one company or team, but that success doesn't mean that it will work wonders for YOUR team. Especially if all stakeholders do not understand the implications and needs of the process or they lack the appropriate aptitudes and skills.
In other words, if these methods don't work for your people, don't beat up yourself or everyone else. Instead, focus on finding a method that works for you and for your people.
Maybe you have done the training, received the certifications, and theoretically "everyone" is on board. And yet, your company has yet to see Allstar success. Are you the problem? Is it executive management? Is it your team? What is wrong?
I cannot overemphasize that the answer is as simple as the people you have. Consider that the problem is unrealistic expectations. The assumption when using agile and scrum is that it is the best way to do development, but what if it is not the best way for you?
If you don't have the right people or the right resources to implement agile development correctly, then you should probably do something else. At the same time, don't hesitate to take the parts of agile that work for you.


That sort of thing. Please do not use this as an attack on anyone. Have fun... and lets see what kinds of bans we get.
I ban myself for bringing the Ban thread here.
Banned because I mostly remember the STO one, and its going strong.
Banned for leaving out an apostrophe. And failing to correct the mistake even after SIX MONTHS.
That's like, HALF A YEAR.
Or it would be, if not for the fact that a year is 365 days and 365 CANNOT BE DIVIDED IN HALF.
Which is kind of interesting, since everyone believes that 6 months is equal to half a year, but that theory evidently falls apart when you realize that 365 ISN'T DIVISIBLE BY 6 EITHER.
Indivisibility by 6 isn't exclusive to 365 by the way, there's another number that cannot be divided into 6 parts, I like to call it TWENTY ONE.
What relevance is 21, you ask? Well, numerically speaking it's ONE OF THE DAYS OF JANUARY WE HAVE YET TO REACH THIS YEAR.
It's special, because THERE ARE ONLY SEVENTEEN DAYS LIKE IT.
When you recall that there are 365 days this year, you then realize that a mere 17 make up a piddly fraction of 1/21.47058823529411, which makes these coming days PRETTY DAMN SPECIAL.
Hey Garyn, I hear you say, obviously 1/21.47058823529411 is pretty damn special, but what's so special about the 1/17 fraction that twenty one is? Well, it's because IT WAS THE ONLY NUMBER I'D PRINTED OUT IN THE ENGLISH ALPHABET RATHER THAN ARABIC NUMERALS.
Banned for reminding me this thread exists.
Banned for forgetting this thread exists.


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Q: S2S Issue Google Cloud VPN and Cisco ASA 5545 I'm using Google Cloud VPN gateway and attempting to connect to a CISCO ASA 5545 device on a 3rd party premise. It's a static route setup and the Cisco router is using IKE v1 only.
I have this problem where from the logs, I could see connection is established, then it says scheduling rekeying immediately after, then received INVALID_ID_INFORMATION error notify, then received DELETE for IKE_SA vpn_[PEER IP] then deleting IKE_SA vpn_[PEER IP] between [VPN PUBLIC IP]...[PEER IP]. This continues to repeat in the log.
Obviously there are configuration mismathces; the on-premise client wants me to change the encryption to AES-256 or 3des because "the device does not support AES 128". Is it even possible to change the encryption for Google Cloud VPN once you've chosen to use IKEv1?
According to the documentation https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpn/advanced, IKEv1 uses aes-cbc-128 encryption, is it possible to change that to aes-256? Is it possible to make the on-premise device work with aes-128?

A: Using static route and IKEv1 posed significant restrictions but that was what the 3rd party peer would support. The most significant being I could not use multi-cidr blocks and was limited to aes-128 for encryption.
After looking up some of the errors in the log, including INVALID_ID_INFORMATION, I found references that suggested the encryption on the ASA device was not matching. I looked this up in the manual and discovered there was aes as an option, which was really aes-128. Once this was resolved on the peer device, I got another INVALID HASH ID in the log.
Checking the status of the connection in gcloud turned out to be very useful https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpn/creating-vpns. The UI gives little information in this regard:
gcloud compute --project [PROJECT_ID] vpn-tunnels describe tunnel1 --region us-central1

This gave the following useful output:
Please verify that the network range and the remote network IP ranges of the tunnel match the configured IP ranges on the peer device.

The last part was kind of easy; after matching the cidr blocks defined on the peer device in the cloud vpn tunnel's local-traffic selector, the tunnel came up.
So to answer some of the questions: is it possible to change the encryption setting on cloud vpn? No
Is it possible to make the on-premise Cisco 5545 device work with aes-128? Yes.

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Just after Christmas I purchased a group of unsexed Australorps chicks. No ideas on their ages, but they were all pretty young. We figured out a couple of weeks ago that one was probably a rooster (larger comb and emerging wattles were a give away, even for a greenhorn!) but I was told it would be months before he would start crowing.
This morning he found his voice. Admittedly it is a young voice, but shows promise of becoming a good strong one! However, I am well within the city limits in Toowoomba. So, if I wish him to survive he needs to find a new home. Quickly.
Is anyone nearby able to look after a young Australorps chicken just reaching puberty? His colour seems wonderful, black interspersed with white. Sorry, but being new to keeping chooks, I'm clueless as to his official colour!
File comment: Definitely has his rooster look going!
File comment: Okay, blurry, but loved how he was checking out the camera!


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Q: Apex lines executed in the wrong order I have a list of accounts which I cycle through and get the distance between two UK postcodes provided.
the relevant part is this:
integer count = 0;

for(Account a: currentRecords){
    system.Debug('count: ' + count);
    system.debug('Account1: ' + currentAccount.BillingPostalCode);
    system.debug('Account2: ' + a.BillingPostalCode);
    system.debug('distance: ' + getter('SE26 4BB','se6 2nl'));
    count += 1;
}

This does not produce the results in the order expected.

As you can see they aren't firing in the right order.
When I run this code:
integer count = 0;

for(Account a: currentRecords){
    system.Debug('count: ' + count);
    system.debug('Account1: ' + currentAccount.BillingPostalCode);
    system.debug('Account2: ' + a.BillingPostalCode);
    //system.debug('distance: ' + getter('SE26 4BB','se6 2nl'));
    count += 1;
}

I get the order i'd expect:

I'll leave the 'getter' functions code below if that is any help but it is going fundamentally against my understanding of programming.
public double getter(String pCode1, String pCode2){

    Http httpProtocol = new Http();
    HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest();
    String endpoint;
    request.setMethod('GET');
    Double lat1;
    Double lon1;
    Double lat2;
    Double lon2;
    String JSONresponse;

    endpoint = 'https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/' + pCode1;
    request.setEndPoint(endpoint);
    HttpResponse response = httpProtocol.send(request);

    JSONresponse = response.getBody();
    JSONParser parser = JSON.createParser(JSONresponse);

    while (parser.nextToken() != null) {
        if ((parser.getCurrentToken() == JSONToken.FIELD_NAME)){
            String fieldName = parser.getText();
            parser.nextToken();
            if(fieldName == 'latitude') {
                lat1 = decimal.valueOf(parser.getText());
            }
            else if(fieldName == 'longitude') {
                lon1 = decimal.valueOf(parser.getText());
            }
        }
    }

    endpoint = 'https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/' + pCode2;
    request.setEndPoint(endpoint);
    response = httpProtocol.send(request);

    JSONresponse = response.getBody();
    parser = JSON.createParser(JSONresponse);

    while (parser.nextToken() != null) {
        if ((parser.getCurrentToken() == JSONToken.FIELD_NAME)){
            String fieldName = parser.getText();
            parser.nextToken();
            if(fieldName == 'latitude') {
                lat2 = decimal.valueOf(parser.getText());
            }
            else if(fieldName == 'longitude') {
                lon2 = decimal.valueOf(parser.getText());
            }
        }
    }
    double distance;
    if(lat2 != 9999 && lon2 != 9999){
        distance = haversine(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2);
    }
    else {
        distance = 9999;
    }

    lat2 = 9999;
    lon2 = 9999;

    return distance;
}

public double toRadians(double val){
    double newVal = val * Math.PI / 180;
    return newVal;
}

public double haversine(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
    double newVal;

    double R = 6371000;
    double la1 = toRadians(lat1);
    double la2 = toRadians(lat2);
    double deltaLat = toRadians(lat2-lat1);
    double deltaLon = toRadians(lon2-lon1);

    double a = Math.sin(deltaLat/2) * Math.sin(deltaLat/2) + Math.cos(la1) * Math.cos(la2) * Math.sin(deltaLon/2) * Math.sin(deltaLon/2);

    double c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));

    newVal = (Math.round(R*c/16.09344))/100.00;
    return newVal;

}


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<?php
namespace Ayamel\ApiBundle\Logging;

use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;

/**
 * Log all API requests to Mongo AFTER the response has been sent.
 *
 * @package AyamelApiBundle
 * @author Evan Villemez
 */
class LogSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface
{
    private $container;
    private $logMessage = false;

    public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    public static function getSubscribedEvents()
    {
        return array(
            'ac.webservice.request' => array('onApiRequest'),
            'ac.webservice.exception' => array('onApiException'),
            'ac.webservice.response' => array('onApiResponse'),
            'ac.webservice.terminate' => array('onApiTerminate')
        );
    }

    public function onApiRequest($e)
    {
        $req = $e->getRequest();

        $this->start = isset($GLOBALS['__start']) ? $GLOBALS['__start'] : microtime(true);

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School menus are on a three week rota.
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Texas continues to be one of the 10 worst states for kids based on the 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report shows Texas ranking 41st out of the 50 states
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Closing Thoughts on HB 3, the Big School Finance Bill
As lawmakers prepare to vote, CPPP offers these final thoughts As soon as tonight, lawmakers are poised to approve major school finance reforms that CPPP supports on the whole. House Bill 3 is a step forward on public education, and we appreciate
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Today the Texas House Public Education Committee approved an updated version (Committee Substitute) of House Bill 3, one of the big school finance bills lawmakers are considering this legislative session. CPPP continues to support this important proposal as it moves
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Texans Who Can't Pay Student Loans Shouldn't Lose Professional Licenses
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Q: SQL regex works the wrong way I'm trying to build a SQL statement to retrieve user names in the following order

*

*at first, return the names that start with Arabic letter, then the names that start with English letters, then the names that start with special characters.

*then sort each of the three groups in ascending order.

This is my code:
SELECT `name` FROM `user`
order by case when substring(name,1,1) like 'N[أ-ي]' then 1
              when substring(name,1,1) like '[a-zA-Z]' then 2
              else 3
              end
        ,name

The problem is that the case part always returns 3, and so the statement sorts the names in the default order(special chars first, then English letters then Arabic letters). What is the problem in my query?

A: You need to use regex, not like... (because you use regular expression)
SELECT `name` FROM `user`
order by case when substring(name,1,1) regexp 'N[أ-ي]' then 1
              when substring(name,1,1) regexp '[a-zA-Z]' then 2
              else 3
              end
        ,name

Reference: MySQL CASE statement and REGEXP


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"Baseball, Maestro, Please", 1944
Seventy-five years ago, in the summer of 1944, the Milwaukee Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Ball League were involved in a most unusual promotion. The ballclub paired with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in a series of "double-headers", classical music concerts with baseball games.
The brainchild of league founder Philip K. Wrigley, ably abetted by Chicks general manager Eddie Stumpf, these concerts were created in the hope of drawing attention to the league. And in that respect, at least, they were phenomenally successful.
The promotion was noticed by none other than Time magazine, in its issue dated July 31, 1944.
The Sport section begins on page 40 of the magazine; this is the first article in that section.
The transcript gives us a peek into the league, at least this one person's impression:
S P O R T
Baseball, Maestro, Please
"Music and baseball don't mix ordinarily but women and music mix."
Thus promoter Eddie Stumpf, after one of the strangest double-headers in baseball history. At Milwaukee's Borchert Field, General Manager Stumpf's Milwaukee Chicks had met their Minneapolis rivals in the All-American Girls Professional Ball League after a one-hour prelude of classical music (Grieg's Heart Wounds, Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Défunte, etc.) by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Hot dog and pop sales came to a hushed pause during the concert. Shushed by indignantly reverent ushers, the fidgety fans sat in silence, stretched their voices in relief after the sacred ceremony of music. Philip Knight Wrigley, backer of the League and chief matchmaker in its marriage to music, was solemnly enthusiastic. He has long been eager to try any scheme, however undignified, which might promote his Midwestern softball carnival.
Model Upbringing. When Wrigley thought up the Girls League last year, he was dead set on having it feminine as well as female. Screening out tomboy candidates, he hired Beautician Helena Rubenstein to give the survivors chic. But she never quite succeeded.
Neither did the League. Only four teams played last year: the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches, South Bend Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Comets. In a 108-game schedule, they drew some 200,000 fans and a $125,000 gate, but wound up $75,000 in the hole.
This year conditioning was supervised by a former Powers model, Ruth Tiffany, who runs a Chicago charm studio. Assisted by the League's public-relations director, Gertrude Hendricks, who once taught the construction of form-fit corsets, she cajoled some 120 candidates through a fortnight of spring training on 1) conversation techniques, 2) etiquette, 3) posture, 4) dress, 5) make-up and hair-do for the outdoor girl, 6) how to attract the right kind of man as against the wolf. Before hitting the road, the players pledged themselves not to smoke in public or appear in bars, arranged to stop in private homes instead of hotels.
Bouncing Box Office. The first results were sensational. With Milwaukee and Minneapolis added to the roster, box-office takes for the opening games were 300 to 900% higher than last year. But by the time the diamond darlings reached the halfway mark last week, season attendance was slumping close to last year's average.
It seemed unlikely to be boosted any higher by Wrigley's idea of mixing bats and batons. Only 659 people attended last week' double-header, first of a series of four. Sporting and musical experts agreed that some ball fans might be converted into music lovers, but that the reverse possibilities were dubious.
This presumably went to press before the league gave up on the Minneapolis market, or our unnamed critic would have mentioned it.
Well, I guess all publicity is good publicity. Even even it did come with a dose of sexist Time snark.
Labels: 1940s, AAGPBL
On This Day - "About the Girls"
On This Day - "Want to Laugh at a Millionaire?"
On This Day - "The Tying Run 'Squeezes' Home"
On This Day - "Girls Give Up at Minneapolis"
On This Day - "Lakers Pound Out 5-4 Win Over Chick...
1949 Ticket Stub
Today in 1944 - "The Music of the Spheres"
On This Day - the Chicks Wow 'Em at Wrigley
On This Day - "The Twain Shall Meet"
On Pins and Needles
On This Day - "Girls Will Play, With Music"
"Stars and Strikes Forever", 1944
On This Day - "Goshawhimmity if I Don't Get Some H...
On This Day - the Schnitts Go Over .500
On This Day - Shirley Davis "Fails As 'Thief'"


goals To convert our waste-minded culture and attitudes to a resource-efficient ethic.
To maximize sustainable uses of natural resources and to eliminate solid waste generation.
To convert our waste-minded culture and attitudes to a resource-efficient ethic.
A. The San Francisco population has been educated about the value of natural resources and motivated to reduce their consumption and disposal.
A-1. Public education programs have been expanded -- targeting students, residents, workers, and visitors -- demonstrating the value of natural resources and instilling a resource-efficient ethic.
A-a. Continue working with homeowner associations, neighborhood groups, building managers, and recycling providers to encourage residents to recycle.
A-b. Increase the use of hands-on environmental education in schools to promote the value of natural resources and the need for waste prevention and recycling.
A-c. Expand �shop environmentally� programs to increase consumer awareness about resource-efficient products and packaging.
A-d. Develop waste reduction training and education programs for businesses.
A-e. Educate visitors about San Francisco�s recycling programs.
A-f. Advertise and promote the successes of city-wide efforts to reduce disposal and increase waste reduction and recycling.
A-g. Promote community-based programs that recycle materials, provide jobs for disadvantaged individuals, and educate residents about waste prevention.
A-h. Educate designers, architects, and contractors about resource-efficient design and building for reuse and recyclability.
A-i. Increase the use of multi-lingual educational and promotional materials that focus on waste reduction.
B. Per-capita waste generation has been reduced by 100%.
B-1. Per-capita waste generation has been reduced by 50%.
B-2. 85% of households participate in a recycling program.
B-a. Increase and publicize incentives to encourage residential participation in recycling and waste-reduction programs.
B-b. Promote home composting and develop convenient composting options for apartment dwellers.
B-c. Encourage involvement in community-based composting projects such as community gardens.
C. All San Francisco businesses and institutions have eliminated solid waste generation.
C-1. 75% of San Francisco businesses and institutions participate in a recycling program.
C-2. The use of reusable products and packaging has increased.
C-a. Increase and publicize incentives to encourage commercial participation in recycling and waste-reduction programs.
C-b. Create a refuse rate structure that encourages commercial recycling and waste reduction.
C-c. Coordinate promotional and outreach messages and technical assistance to businesses.
C-d. Gather and publicize success stories on how much money local businesses and institutions have saved by systematically implementing recycling and waste-reduction programs.
Offering free technical assistance, such as audits of businesses� waste streams.
C-f. Encourage suppliers to ship goods in returnable packaging.
C-g. Organize a summit between manufacturers, recyclers, and materials suppliers to discuss ways to incorporate �design for recycling� into product development.
C-h. Update The Bay Area Green Pages and promote environmentally friendly businesses.
C-i. Increase use of diaper services at institutional settings (such as hospitals and clinics).
C-J. Require newspaper and magazine distributors with public boxes to recycle over-issue publications.
C-k. Develop an educational program focused on fast-food packaging alternatives.
C-l. Develop procurement policies that require minimal packaging, and reusable and returnable packaging.
C-m. Develop green purchasing criteria and distribute it to businesses and institutions.
D. City government is a model of resource efficiency and it lobbies, coordinates, and leads others to achieve sustainability.
D-1. City government purchases only paper products with an average of 50% post-consumer recycled content.
D-2. City government diverts 60% of its current waste generation.
D-3. City government has increased the promotion of the City�s accomplishments to the community.
D-4. All City departments participate in a recycling program.
D-a. Pass a resolution that calls on the City to be a model of waste reduction and recycling.
D-b. Develop specifications for products that contain at least 50% post-consumer recycled content.
D-c. Create financial incentives for departments that recycle and reduce waste, including a system whereby disposal cost savings are passed through to individual departments.
D-d. Develop a tracking system for city departments to document and quantify waste reduction.
D-e. Increase internal and external publicity and promotion of San Francisco�s accomplishments in the areas of recycling, waste reduction, and recycled-product purchasing through a multi-media educational campaign.
D-f. Systematically incorporate attentiveness to recycling, waste reduction, and purchase of recycled or reused products into job descriptions and performance evaluations.
D-g. Organize meetings of department leaders to promote sharing of information about department accomplishments.
E. Litter and illegal dumping have been eliminated in San Francisco.
E-1. The volume of litter generated and materials illegally dumped in San Francisco has been reduced by 50%.
E-a. Increase the enforcement of litter and illegal dumping laws.
E-b. Increase the penalties for illegal dumping, particularly of hazardous materials.
E-c. Increase the number and visibility of public trash receptacles, and increase collection frequency.
E-d. Require litter clean-up programs for public institutions and properties.
E-e. Continue school-sponsored neighborhood clean-up events.
E-f. Create a hot-line for reports of illegal dumping.
E-g. Create a reward program for those reporting illegal dumping (where the dumping is ultimately prosecuted).
E-h. Expand Clean San Francisco campaigns into several languages.
E-i. Expand promotions of the existing �free neighborhood cleanup� program.
E-j. Reduce litter and other negative environmental impacts from trucks transporting materials to and from the City�s transfer station and other large material processing facilities; consider less-polluting alternatives to diesel recycling and refuse-hauling trucks.
F. San Francisco maintains a diverse and competitive reuse, repair, and recycling infrastructure (That is, more materials are reprocessed and more methods are used to collect them and restore them to a useful condition).
F-1. The diversity of options for recovering materials has increased and systems have been created that make it easier to recycle.
F-1-a. Expand the variety of materials accepted for curbside recycling.
F-1-b. Ensure access by all neighborhoods to full-service recycling and reuse centers.
F-1-c. Allow small businesses to participate in the residential curbside recycling collection program.
F-1-d. Increase the availability of recycling in apartment buildings.
F-1-e. Increase salvage operations at the City�s transfer station, including salvage of materials collected by the neighborhood cleanup program.
F-1-f. Provide incentives and/or subsidies for collection and processing of low-value recyclable and/or reusable materials when viable markets for these materials exist.
F-1-g. Promote and/or expand local and statewide waste exchanges.
F-1-h. Install beverage-container recycling receptacles on or next to every public trash bin (if an appropriate design can be identified).
F-2. The legal and regulatory environment promotes maximum source reduction and recovery of materials.
F-2-a. Utilize progressive enforcement measures (education, warnings, citations) to ensure that recyclable materials are not placed in the garbage. Enforce compliance with city requirements regarding waste reduction and recycling.
F-2-b. Create refuse collection and disposal rate structures and recycling fee structures that encourage waste reduction, recycling, composting and reuse.
F-2-c. Provide the City�s Refuse Rate Board with the authority to regulate commercial refuse collection rates (since there is a de facto exclusive commercial refuse collection franchise).
Financing recycling program costs through refuse collection rates.
F-2-e. Consider incentives for permitted refuse haulers to reduce the tonnage of material landfilled, including linking profit margins to reductions in tonnage of material landfilled.
F-2-g. Consider removing legal impediments in local regulations that restrict competition among commercial recycling service providers.
F-2-h. Encourage standardized permitting and land application regulations for organic materials, including treated sewage sludge, at the state level.
F-2-i. Consider requirements for retail outlets to accept packaging materials from consumers for recycling.
F-2-j. Lobby to include reusable containers in California�s beverage-container deposit law.
F-2-k. Mandate collection of recyclables as well as garbage if economic incentives and education programs fail to achieve diversion goals.
F-3. The number, use, and awareness of repair facilities has increased.
F-3-a. Provide funding and technical support to reuse and repair businesses.
F-3-b. Develop more jobs-skills training opportunities in repair businesses, especially for disadvantaged individuals, perhaps through high school or community college trade programs.
F-3-c. Invest in development of new recycling/reuse technology (market development).
F-4. The recovery of organic materials has increased.
F-4-a. Develop commercial-sector food-waste recovery programs.
F-4-b. Expand promotions of edible food recovery and redistribution programs.
F-4-c. Develop a residential yard-waste collection program.
F-4-d. Educate and provide financial incentives for landscaping contractors and other generators to recover organic material.
F-4-e. Pursue direct land application and/or co-composting of treated sewage sludge for use in soil recovery projects and other agricultural uses.
F-4-f. Support development of a statewide organics market.
G. The San Francisco economy employs sustainable uses of paper and other materials.
G-1. Paper purchases have decreased and the portion of those purchases that contain recycled material has increased.
G-1-a. Develop a demonstration project highlighting ways to achieve a paper-efficient office.
G-1-b. Educate businesses about the availability, costs, and benefits of using recycled and alternative-fiber paper.
G-1-c. Increase the City�s minimum-content requirements for recycled paper and institute options for alternative-fiber paper purchasing and use.
G-1-d. Require City contractors to use recycled-content paper and other recycled products in work provided to the City.
G-1-e. Create incentives for retailers to aggressively market recycled-content products.
G-1-f. Continue recycled-products vendor fairs.
G-1-g. Consider lobbying for increased postal rates for bulk mail to decrease junk mail; consider lobbying to give residents and businesses the option of blocking receipt of certain types of third-class mail.
G-1-h. Consider restrictions on hand-delivered advertising left on residential and commercial doorsteps.
G-2. An infrastructure that preserves the highest value of recovered paper and other materials has been created.
G-2-a. Promote the value of source separation to generators of waste-paper and other discards.
G-2-b. Include non-profit organizations (such as sheltered workshops) in material-processing programs to upgrade recycled materials to their highest and best use.
H. Only resource-efficient building practices are used in San Francisco (including for construction, demolition, and rehabilitation).
H-1. The salvage and reuse of construction and demolition materials has increased.


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Track Of The Day: Hunger Moon – 'Honey'
'Honey' is the latest single from alt pop duo Hunger Moon, and we're loving its beautiful harmonies, accompanying keys and touching lyrics.
Written in the days after hearing about the death of Keith Flint from The Prodigy, 'Honey' deals with the subject of male suicide; a call to arms for listeners to talk to each other and check up on those around them. At Get In Her Ears we cannot echo that more, with rising rates of isolation, loneliness and mental health, we all need to look out for each other. The act of checking in with a friend can go so much further than we often realise.
'Honey' is out now. Hear more from Hunger Moon via Soundcloud.
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Guest Blog: SONA
Our latest guest blog feature comes from Sona, an Armenian DIY musician based in South East London. In conjunction with the recent release of her Pity Party record, Sona writes here about her experiences living in London as a foreigner and the impact that has had on her music….
24th June 2016. The day Brexit was announced. Britain divided into two, with hate crimes soaring within the first few days. And, tragically, my 20th birthday. A heaviness plagued the air, infecting the otherwise sweet summery breeze and smell of various lemon-flavoured drinks. Two years later, I began to truly realise how these events, and other experiences I had since moving to London, had affected me.
There are so many layers to being Armenian or an immigrant – I don't want to declare anything I'm about as whole or concrete, and my experience won't be the same as someone else's. The fact that I pass as white gave me a degree of privilege from the discriminatory crimes resulting from Brexit, but I was still subconsciously ashamed of being Armenian in public. An irrational yet rational fear of being undermined, scrutinised, and my ancient language being mocked explicitly or behind my back. I came from an unapologetic and loud Armenian household, to somewhere, where self-expression and emotions were regarded as uncomfortable or only available when intoxicated – somewhere where docility was praised.
Being foreign isn't new to me – I grew up in Prague -, but in a cosmopolitan city like London, my otherness was pushed to new levels. London is so diverse, yet so segregated at the same time, and the narrative around culture or race is still taboo. It was hard to find people who actively wanted to engage with my culture/foreignness and weren't uncomfortable around it, which consequently made me fixate on what it meant to me. I started writing and recording music that reflected my culture shock.
Months later, as I scrambled for ideas for a university project, I realised I could merge what I love doing, which was recording music, with academia. What attracted me to DIY recording was its availability and portability. It's evolution over time with DAWs and modern interfaces allowed me to craft all layers from scratch and witness their progress. Digitisation meant I could delete and restart and work at any pace. I found the basis of my analysis – the effect of current DIY recording technology on songwriting. As I researched, a time obscured in my memory by fruitless trips to the library and endless bagels, I came across "The Temporary Autonomous Zone" by Hakim Bey, a piece of writing about DIY culture that resonated with me. Bey claimed that the act of creative self-expression by minorities created a temporary autonomous zone; a literal or metaphorical space "like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerrilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it".
Soon, these songs became a coping mechanism against the disillusionment and isolation I felt whilst living as an immigrant in the UK. In my bedroom in Deptford, I was creating my own temporary autonomous zone, where instead of the British government and Queensbray estate agents, I was in charge. Whether consciously or subconsciously, minorities are constantly trying to create safe spaces for themselves in the virtual, in public spaces, or simply within their homes. Therefore, I chose to keep each recording imperfection – to document that space within the interstitial, to transport the listener to my most vulnerable and intimate space. I experimented with temporality, with the shortness of the songs, as a response to the fast-paced listening and recording culture of our time – our processes are non-linear, fractured, and immediate, transcending any notion of form or time. It was also an homage to the small everyday moments of my life that had their roots in my otherness. I felt strangely liberated by my self-imposed time and volume limits and it was my small rebellion of self-expression that I didn't feel confident vocalising in real life.
In April 2018, after decades of extreme corruption and unspeakable crimes by the government, Armenia underwent a peaceful political revolution, overturning the previously authoritarian regime. Watching these events unfold from somewhere, where Armenia is either associated with the Kardashians or completely unheard of, was excruciating. I wanted to release this project to transcend us from popular discourse and contribute to my culture the best way I knew how. In a way, I regret sharing this as I feel that the beauty of music lies in our own personal connections. To say my whole project is about my cultural identity would be false – it was just the backdrop to what I was writing about. I invite personal connections, but I hope this gives my audience, whoever they are, some insight into what it represents to me.
Huge thanks to Sona for writing for us. You can check out her music via Bandcamp.
WATCH: Amaal – 'Coming and Going'
Amaal is Somali-Canadian artist Amaal Nuux who has returned to music following much time spent on her activist work as the Goodwill Ambassador for Somalia Women and Children. In her music, she draws influence from both her personal life experiences and her travels.
We're loving the video of her latest single 'Coming and Going'. It is quite the silky lustrous number, taken from her upcoming debut EP set for release this summer. Speaking on the track's inspiration, Amaal shared: "'Coming And Going' was inspired by a relationship that had no defining status. I think a lot of us have been in situations where we should leave but it feels so good to stay."
We cannot urge you enough to go check her out.
'Coming and Going' is out now. You can find more from Amaal on Instagram – Twitter – Facebook
WATCH: YALI – 'Why Do Flowers Mean Love?'
YALI is a 24 year old singer-songwriter, pianist and producer from Israel. Her experimental style combines influences from Classical music, Jazz, and Electro-pop.
Latest single 'Why Do Flowers Mean Love?' constructs and deconstructs the artist's portrait; an audio-driven collage of effects, glitches, artifacts and distortions reflect on the YALI's background story and feelings, while writing and recording the track. Of the track, YALI explains:
"The glitch itself is the effect nature brings back to the digital perfection, forcing small errors and imperfections on all streams of data around us. Its complete randomness and chaotic action makes each glitch unique when created and embeds within the final visual content we consume so regularly everywhere around us. Making the final stage of delivery to spectators "damaged" with no way to control or avoid it."
Watch the new video for 'Why Do Flowers Mean Love?' here:
You can find out more about YALI through Facebook and Instagram.
Music & Production by Yali Blankstein. Mix by Roy Avital. Add. production by Stav Tell. Mastering by Jordan Schultz. Video Production by Phenomena Labs. Video Director Tom Uziel. Video Art by Ronen Tanchum. Makeup by Denise Ayelen Kohon. Thanks to: Ilya Marcus, Amit Einy, Tomer Rousso, Oded Granot, Shuz.
Introducing Interview: Pixel Grip
Already a known quantity in Chicago for their live shows and dance parties, Pixel Grip have now put out their first LP Heavy Handed. Energetic, dark synth-pop grooves with deep analog synth zones, in their words "menacing". We had a quick chat with the trio to hear their thoughts on their hometown, moving away from the constraints of genre and the confidence of extended repetition.
Welcome to Get In Her Ears! Can you tell us a bit about how Pixel Grip started?
R: Hi, thank you! The three of us went to the same high school and bonded over liking electronic music despite the uninspired atmosphere of our hometown. The three of us independently tried to pursue music with other bands and it took us a while to get in a room together, but now we're inseparable.
You're based in Chicago, unarguably the birthplace of house music – what's the current scene like? Do you feel supported by other artists and the wider music community?
R: It's true that Chicago is the birthplace of house and has a flourishing electronic music scene. I just still don't know where we fit in. We kind of feel like outsiders here; we don't really fit in with the dark wave or goth scene, we don't fit in the club scene. We've just been playing our set on venue and festival stages and hoping people like it.
We are loving your track 'Plastic Enemies', which we've played on the radio show and love the video, can you tell us a bit more about the track?
R: 'Plastic Enemies' is a moody song with a powerful bass-line and heavenly chords. Me and Jon developed the structure of the song very quickly through improvisation, and Jon produced his heart out on the track. The lyrics are inspired by falling in love with a straight girl.
Your debut LP Heavy Handed feels like it draws from a number of musical genres – how would you describe the record?
R: I find myself less interested in the idea of "genre" more and more every day. Our goal in the creative process is to write a good song. A song with movement and power and expression. When we are working together we like to riff on energy that's dark or funky – something that makes you bang your head or do stank face. There's also songs on the album that pause from the dancing to reflect or emote.
What is your creative process like, do you work together or separately?
R: We do both. Jon works really well on his own when he produces the tracks. When we are songwriting we try everything: generally, we create concepts through improvising with each other, but a few tracks on the album were produced around a crude demo I made by myself.
You're known for your live shows and dance parties in Chicago – can you describe them for us?
J: Something we love about playing live is our ability to transform recorded material into something new and unpredictable. We get to use new instruments, unique sounds, stunts, anything really. We used to DJ more often in Chicago, but lately it has been more exciting to apply those mixing skills into a full band set. I think the biggest takeaway is the confidence of extended repetition.
Plans to come to the UK anytime soon?
J: Yes! Want to help us get some UK shows…?!
What's the rest of 2019 got in store for Pixel Grip?
J: Start writing the second album! Also, we hope to be on the road as much as possible, maybe even more than what's possible.
Finally, as we're a new music focused site, are there any other new/upcoming bands or artists you'd suggest we check out?
J: Definitely check out Sports Boyfriend, Cameron Traxxx, and Ariel Zetina. Those are just a few of our favourite Chicago musicians.
Huge thanks to Pixel Grip for answering our questions! Heavy Handed, the debut LP from Pixel Grip, is out now.
Introducing Interview: Pi Ja Ma
If you haven't yet heard of Pi Ja Ma think dreamy Parisian alt-pop with a heavy helping of humour and sixties sparkle. Having racked up several million of streams from their debut EP, we caught up with Axel and Pauline to talk about their debut album Nice To Meet U, their gig at Rough Trade East and what motivates their records.
Welcome to Get In Her Ears! Can you tell us a bit about how Pi Ja Ma started?
Axel: We met each other on the internet in 2015 – I saw a video on YouTube where Pauline was singing a cover of the velvet underground 'Femme Fatale'. I tried to contact her via email and then we met. I played her some songs and we talked a lot about our lives and laughed and drank a lot of teas. We immediately connected. Then everything happened very fast; we've recorded a few songs that we loved and sent them to a small label called Bleepmachine, we decided to work together for our first EP Radio Girl to see what happened… Reactions were great so we started to play live, then we signed a licence deal with a bigger label (Cinq 7 / Wagram Music) to release the album Nice To Meet U.
As a visual and DIY artist can you tell us about the interaction of your illustrations and art with the music that you have created – do they lean on each other or do you find one takes the lead in the creative process?
Pauline: Music and illustration make a beautiful couple – they are very different but are both an animal way to express yourself. I couldn't choose between these two. Drawing was easier for me at first but then I began to sing, and it was also very natural doing that everyday. I like to think about the full project with music, drawings, videos etc…
You debut album Nice To Meet U came out last year to a great reception, with your music being described as "evolving fantasies and nostalgic daydreams, encouraging the listener to step back in time to the 1960s" – how would you describe the record?
Pauline: It was very easy making this record with Axel. Just after we met, we spent a lot of time talking and making jokes. We were inspired by the same artists like The Beach Boys and Mac Demarco. We had a lot of fun, I hope it will be the same for the second album!
This record talk about simple topics like shitty love stories and feeling weird in your own family. It contains a lot of positive vibes and people tell me that it makes them happy so I feel like we've succeeded in what we set out to do!
We loved your tracks 'Vertigo' and 'I Hate U', which we've played on the radio show, and love the videos -can you tell us a bit more about the videos and how they link together?
Pauline: Every time we finish a song, I have images in my head. I try to explain my story to a director and then we make the video together. I like to add drawings and animations to videos because it's a part of me I can directly put in the reality of the images.
The story begins, I'm in the skin of a sad man who's trying to let it go and act crazy in the street. He meets his double, a guy who represents a rock'n roll version of him. At the end of the video he's back in his normal life, drinking whisky and watching TV, and then the second video begins and I'm in the skin of a vintage pop star who's gonna go crazy in her way too. Both songs are talking about the same topic, which is difficult break ups and moments when you feel crazy and just want to "tout foutre en l'air".
Can you tell us a bit more about the evolution of your music from your Radio Girl EP to Nice To Meet U?
Axel: Well it was the same process for the EP and the album. I was recording songs at home, then I would send them to Pauline, and if she'd like it (which happened most of the time luckily) we started to talk about it and what we would like to talk about. At the beginning, I was writing the lyrics alone translating our discussion into lyrics, but more and more we started to write together. Production-wise we kept the same process that worked on the first EP, which is making most of the things at home, to keep our own sound. Apart from drums, and strings, everything was homemade. That's what we like, to keep it simple.
Your music covers a variety of topics including gender, youth, isolation and failed love with a gentle intensity mixed together with humour – does that reflect your general outlook on life and response to cultural experiences and societal pressures?
Yes. That's a pretty good sum up of our philosophy. It's great feeling that people can understand that, just listening to our music.
You're currently on tour and have just played both Rough Trade East and the Southbank Centre (two iconic London venues) – how were they?
Axel: Rough trade east was great! People were so kind with us, and the gig was fun. That place is amazing, it's inspiring. I would love to work in that shop, I'm sure I would get many ideas from all the great music they play most of the time.
Pauline: I'm always very well surprised by the warm welcome English people give us everytime we come to England, it's a great feeling when people can understand each one of your words, even the jokes between the songs. Even walking down the streets in London feels amazing, because of the open-minded way of life there. I mean, what people wear, the way they are smiling much more than French people, and how they organise more cultural activities in the heart of the city.
You've previously played London including The Moth Club in East London how have you found the reception this time?
Moth club was one of our first gigs, and we were quite shy back then, now we improvise much more and feel more confident and it makes the show greater!
What's the rest of 2019 got in store for Pi Ja Ma?
As we're touring, we're thinking a lot about our second record. We get constantly inspired by what we see, who we meet, and what we're listening to. We already have a few songs and can't wait to do more.
We love Halo Maud who's a friend of ours, and who helped write a few lyrics on the album. Her music is great and she's signed to a British label (Heavenly Records). You should check her out. Also, you should check Musique Chienne, Pauline's latest crush is Creatures, who we saw at Old Blue Last just after our gig at Rough Trade East.
Nice To Meet U is out now.
Track Of The Day: Zoey Lily – 'I Wish I Had A Heart'
Following the release of last year's 2thousand&8teen collection, London based alt-pop artist, and personal fave, Zoey Lily releases her latest single 'I Wish I Had A Heart'.
Zoey explains that the track is about "feeling stuck in your own skin and being unable to deal with the outside world and everything that is expected from you in society, so you'd rather hide away and basically stop living so no one can judge you anymore."
The single is out now and we've got two tickets to give away for Zoey's headline show at The Waiting Room on April 25th – to be in with a chance to win tweet us your favourite heart emoji and the word WIN to @getinherears.
Written and arranged by Zoey, and co-produced by Grace Carter's drummer Toby Horton and mixed by James Kenosha.
Listen to 'I Wish I Had A Heart' below.
We caught up with Melbourne artist Sui Zhen to discuss some of the music that has influenced her the most in our latest 'Five Favourites' feature: https://getinherears.com/2019/07/15/five-favourites-shi-zhen/ . . As she found it difficult to pick just five songs, we also put together a little playlist of all her faves (with loads of fantastic choices!): https://getinherears.com/2019/07/15/five-favourites-shi-zhen/ . . . . #suizhen #newmusic #womeninmusic #melbourne #fivefavourites #musicblog #femalepromoter #eurythmics #bjork #cocteautwins #thecranberries #mondaymotivation #nowplaying #playlist #musicmonday #annielennox
Friday at The Finsbury was pretty special! . . 💜 We're taking a break from gigs in August (first month off in nearly 3 years!)... But we will back in September with total faves Chorusgirl (who actually played our first ever gig at The Finsbury!), and support from Tape Runs Out, Adults & Swimsuit Competition 💜 . . Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/416838638863605/?ti=ia . . . #livemusic #womeninmusic #getinherears #getinherearslive #lgbtq #nonbinary #safespace #femalepromoter #diypromoter #diybands #newmusic #mondaymotivation #londongigs #freegig #indiepop
We're still gushing over what a dream of a night we had on Friday - thanks to all four fantastic bands and everyone who made it down! . . 📸 @jonmophotography - more photos & words: https://getinherears.com/2019/07/14/get-in-her-ears-live-the-finsbury-w-witching-waves-12-07-19/ . . . . #livemusic #getinherearslive #gigphotography #femalepromoter #diypromoter #diybands #safespace #womeninmusic #lgbtq #nonbinary #postpunk #indiepop #lofi #womenwhorock #womxn #sundayvibes #musicblog #genderbalance #queer #queerfriendly
Was fantastic to have Witching Waves headline with their energy-fuelled post punk last night 💫 . . 📸 @jonmophotography . . . #livemusic #newmusic #getinherearslive #postpunk #womeninmusic #womenwhorock #gigphotography #lgbtq #safespace #femalepromoter #diybands #saturdayfeels #goodvibesonly