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Digital Album Review: Stupid Cosmonaut – 'Proxima'
I was hugely disappointed, when I heard about the demise of the band Formes – their, "headfuck of psych vibes rubbing up against extreme metal influence played from a jazz fanatics mindset", heralded a unique band, who seemed to buck every conceivable trend. At the time, I commented that, "the phoenix will rise again", and rise it has!
Reassuringly, "Stupid Cosmonaut are a Manchester-based pseudonymous musical entity consisting of Sam Read and Steven McNamara amongst others, experimenting with electronic, ambient and psychedelic soundscapes." Steven was one-third of Formes and brings with him, an unnerving ability to evoke euphoria and dysphoria in equal measure – the inherent beauty in Stupid Cosmonaut's debut single, 'Salvia' still affects me to the point of exuberant tears, with each and every listen.
October 21, 2016by Chromaticism
Album Review: Paradise Range – 'P.I.K.A.'
Back in December, wow has it really been 10 months already, I wrote about Paradise Range's hauntingly beautiful, epiphany to Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, and their EP 'Songs for Edie S.'
Paradise Range return to the fray with their second full length album 'P.I.K.A.' – echoing the band's clarion call, that PROFESSIONALIZATION IS KILLING ART…
Album Review: Slomatics – 'Future Echo Returns'
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As Slomatics' guitarist Chris Couzens will attest, the perfect curry is a labour of time lovingly lavished, which, when combined with diligent preparation, shall bring forth it's just rewards…
I first encountered the sleeve artwork for Slomatics' previous vinyl foray, 'Estron' somewhere around the tail-end of 2014 – following a tip-off from my long suffering hairdresser Norah, who as it turns out, is a mutual friend of Slomatics' drummer and vocalist, Marty Harvey.
The transcendent artwork by Tony Roberts, captivated and whisked me back to a youth, spent pouring over the pages of sci-fi fantastical landscapes, penned by Chris Foss and Roger Dean.
September 1, 2016by Chromaticism
Album Review, Box Set, New Release, Vinyl
Album Review: The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – 'Symbol Box'
"Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a box set, and for my sins, Cardinal Fuzz gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice collection, and when it was over, I wanted another one"…
Please forgive my paraphrasing of this classic line, but what can you do when you have a game-changing release to contend with?!? Such has been my absolute immersion in all things The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, that though my soul tells me my initial contact, "seems a thousand centuries ago", cold hard logic suggests it was actually with the release of the 2nd press of 'Pathfinder', around the tail end of 2014. All thanks to the Cardinal himself, Dave Cambridge.
July 8, 2016by Chromaticism
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Album Review: Casa del Mirto – 'Recover'
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Casa del Mirto was founded in 2005 by Marco Ricci, serving as vehicle of choice, for his varied musical forays.
"I used to write music for clubs and discos, but at the end I got tired of it. I always liked chamber music, intimate and introspective. So I felt the need to create something that one could listen also with a headset, giving shape to songs rather than tunes to dance at. Now CdM is an outfit that I am happier to wear, without It I would feel naked. "Casa del Mirto" means "Home of myrtle". Myrtle is a plant often used for spirits. It's actually hard to find where I live, but I really liked the name. Now, after 2 years I think it is a cacophonic name, but it's the only one I got! So I don't think about it and I drink the liquor."
2016 sees the self-release of 'Recover', a further exploration of "the music of friends", which Goethe described as a "rational conversation", threading inspirational motifs, to their bejewelled, melodic responses.
June 7, 2016by Chromaticism


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Top 5 identity and access management challenges of 2021 and how to overcome them
Why attend this webinar?
According to predictions made by Gartner and Forrester on IT management trends post-COVID-19, managing identities could get more challenging in 2021.
Unprecedented disruptions caused by the pandemic forced organizations to prioritize service availability over security. As a result, many organizations have inadvertently paved the way for cybercriminals to exploit security loopholes.
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Tech Mahindra is an entity of the Mahindra Group that has more than 200,000 employees in over hundred countries around the world. Tech Mahindra creates technology that connects the world and offers customer-specific IT experiences. The company is worth USD4.7 billion and helps more than 900 global customers including the Fortune 500 companies. Tech Mahindra is ruling among the Fab 50 companies in Asia.
Established in the year 1986 as a merger between British Telecom and Mahindra & Mahindra, it emerged to be one of the best technology outsourcing firm. In the beginning, British Telecom had a stake worth 30% in the venture. In the year 2010, British Telecom sold 5.5% of its stake to Mahindra & Mahindra, and the deal was sealed at Rs.451 crore. In the year 2012, British Telecom sold around 14.1% of their stake to various investors for about Rs.1,395 crore. The remaining 9.1% stake was sold by the telecom giant which amounted to 11.6 million shares to other investors earning a total gross cash amount of Rs.1,011.4 crore. With this sale, British Telecom exited from Tech Mahindra.
In the year 1995, Tech Mahindra incorporated its office in the UK and in 2001, they expanded business operations in Germany. Till that time, Mahindra and British Telecom were mostly into telecom software. After the acquisition of Axes Technologies, the venture took-off. In 2009, Tech Mahindra acquired Satyam Computers and became a significant player in the IT industry of India.
Mr. Mahindra's tenure as the Chairman has witnessed the group touch new heights internationally as well as domestically across vital sectors such as automobiles, aerospace, IT and agriculture. The group has also spread through acquisitions of Satyam Computer Services, Reva Electric Car, Ssangyong Motors, Peugeot Motorcycles, Holiday Club Resorts, and Pininfarina SPA. Mr. Mahindra has served many essential entities, nationally and internationally. He has been listed in the Fortune Magazine's list of 50 Greatest Leaders of the world in 2014 and Barron's List of Top 30 CEOs worldwide (2016). He has also been the recipient of "Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability Best Transformational Leader Award" in the year 2012. A forceful advocate of culture and arts, Mr. Mahindra, was appointed as the 'Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour' by the President of the French Republic in 2016.
Mr. Gurnani possesses extensive experience in acquisitions, start-ups, mergers, turnarounds, and business development. He led the group's remarkable journey that resulted in one of the most significant turnarounds in the history of corporations in India-the merger and acquisition of Satyam. In a career that spans more than 35 glorious years, he has held several positions of leadership. He was awarded the 'Entrepreneur of the Year (Manager)' by Ernst and Young, 'India Business Leader of the Year' by CNBC Asia, 'IT Person of the Year' by Dataquest in 2013 and 'CEO of the Year' by Business Standard in 2014. He is a strong advocate of child education and has founded an NGO that works towards promoting education for more than 140 underprivileged children in India.
Stocks of Tech Mahindra Limited can be bought and sold on any of the two stock exchanges, namely, National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). It is a part of the benchmark market indices in India- S&P BSE and NIFTY. In addition to this, Tech Mahindra is also a part of BSE-100, BSE-200, and S&P CNX 500.
The company's revenue went up during this quarter by 2.9% as a leading European company in the manufacturing sector chose Tech Mahindra to be their partner in the digital transformation to manage their end-to-end IT solutions and services.
A significant health care giant in the US chose the company to reinvent customer experience and improve productivity by offering complete end-user field support and service desk.
Tech Mahindra was chosen by a leading European online digital telco to transform its application portfolio. The company will help them with flexibility and security using its cloud-based options.
A leading information and communication technology from Japan has selected Tech Mahindra to handle its sales force implementation service.
Tech Mahindra joined hands with Toshiba Digital Solutions to aim at the smart factory market. These two entities are going to come together to channel their manufacturing heritage, expertise in domains, and their customer base to develop the market for smart factory jointly.
The company acquired a stake worth 9.93% from Westbridge Ventures, in Comviva Technologies Limited, and 22.14% from the Bharti Group.
Tech Mahindra joined hands with Gao Feng Advisory Company to launch the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab in Shanghai. This lab will operate in the spheres of futuristic digital technologies that includes areas like Smart Process Automation, Image Recognition & Processing, AI Chatbot Services, and Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.
The company received the FICCI CSR Award for skill development, education, and livelihood for SMART (Skills-for-market Training program). It also bagged the Sarojini Trilok Nath NAB Award for the Best CSR work in disability.
The opening price of the shares of Tech Mahindra was at Rs.501.10 in January while the closing rate was Rs.602.95.
In February 2017, the share price of Tech Mahindra opened at Rs.612.55 while by the end of the month, the price went up slightly and closed at Rs. 612.65.
Why Investing in Tech-Mahindra May Be a Good Idea?
With acquisitions like that of the UK-based company, Bio Agency and the US-based entity, CJS Solutions, Tech Mahindra has proven to be a company with significant business goals in place.
Tech Mahindra is venturing into new avenues like artificial intelligence (AI). Hence, it proves that the company is open to trying out new ventures.
It has been chosen by significant pharma giants and information and communication technology firms to handle their sales force implementation service.


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Over a 40-year career, Norm Cates has aided many health club operators through his advocacy with IHRSA and his examination of the industry with Club Insider.
A Man of Many Hats: Through CourtSouth, IHRSA and Club Insider, Norm Cates Has Devoted a Lifetime To the Club Industry
From club owner-operator to association organizer to media publisher, Norm Cates has helped shape the modern health club industry for more than four decades through sheer ambition and a passion for public service. He will be honored at 8:45 a.m. on Oct. 5 during the Club Industry Show, held Oct. 4-6 at the Hilton Chicago.
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If one is to tell the story of how Norm Cates helped revolutionize the health club industry, there is only one logical starting point: the 1973 oil embargo.
It was a cooler-than-usual October in North Central Georgia, and Cates was beside himself. A world away, the Yom Kippur War was raging, and OPEC was playing gasoline hardball with the United States. Per-barrel oil prices doubled, tripled and eventually quadrupled. Shockwaves fired off in every direction, even rattling the U.S. airline industry.
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Cates, a then-27-year-old Southern Airways pilot, was among 40 new aviators who were handed a 4-year layoff. It was an abrupt ending to a journey that had been years in the making. Aviation is in Cates' DNA. His father was a B-17 gunner in World War II's Pacific Theater, and Cates grew up as a proper Air Force brat, bouncing from base to base, city to city. (Or as Cates, ever extroverted, tells it with a laugh: "I never met a stranger.")
Except Cates was now a stranger to even himself. If he wasn't a pilot, who was he?
A certified public accountant named Ray Irwin held the answer. During Cates' layoff, the two men met incidentally while waiting for a racquetball court at their Atlanta apartment complex. Irwin was property-savvy and had hatched a business plan to open his own racquetball club in the city. Cates liked the idea. It was the height of U.S. racquetball craze, and Cates needed reliable income. More importantly, he needed a purpose.
In 1976, Cates and his partners—Irwin, Rich Boggs and Fred Streck—launched CourtSouth, a racquetball-club company that was among the first of its kind in the American Southeast. Cates, the once-unlikely club owner-operator, found himself knee-deep in a young but rapidly expanding industry.
Forty-one years later, he remains one of the industry's greatest patrons, and one of its most influential leaders. For Cates, this year's Club Industry Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, CourtSouth was only the beginning of a long and storied career—one that is intertwined with the maturation of the very industry itself.
A New Calling
The oil crisis came and went, and Southern Airways eventually called Cates back to work. But things had changed. He was now a successful racquetball club operator, whose first facility attracted 5,000 members in its first 90 days of business.
In a pivotal moment, Cates resigned without remorse from his job at Southern Airways (which later became Delta Air Lines).
"It turned out, I had just made up my mind," he said. "I wanted to stick with what we were creating. I resigned because I thought I could have more enjoyment with [the club business] if I stayed with it. I could have made a quarter-of-a-million dollars [a year] as an airline pilot. But one of the things I learned—money's not the only thing that life's about."
With CourtSouth, Cates and his partners felt like they were "steering their own ship." If they were going to be successful, it would be because they had made the right moves. If they failed, it would be because they hadn't. These notions of freedom and responsibility took Cates back to his years as an offensive lineman at North Carolina State University, where he was a First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference and Honorable Mention All-American.
Even though Cates was as an All-New York State football player in high school, he had been told he was physically too small to find success in Division I college football. For the young athlete, this was a challenge, not a deterrent. Cates' high school coach had taught him that the harder you hit, the better your chance is of winning the game. In other words, sheer intensity and passion will determine your successes or failures—in football and in life. Cates saw the club business in the same light.
"We ended up being successful in the club business," Cates said. "We made a dent in the marketplace in Atlanta because we created a new product mix that wasn't really there until we got started."
In 1976, Ray Irwin, Norm Cates, Fred Streck and Rich Boggs (shown left to right) founded CourtSouth, an Atlanta-area racquetball-club company that was among the first of its kind in the American Southeast.
By today's standards, the clubs were simple facilities—courts, spas, locker rooms. But for years they served a growing demand and were noteworthy for being among the first of their kind in the country.
"One important thing they did—they licensed the [CourtSouth] name and some systems and expertise so people could create clubs in other areas with background and assistance but without Norm's team having to be on site full-time," Rick Caro, president of consulting company Management Vision and longtime friend and associate of Cates, said.
The partners expanded to nine locations before splitting the business in May 1981. The men left club-by-club ownership to fate, electing to draw names from a hat. The upside: Cates drew Lenox, the newest and, rent-wise, cheapest club in the lot, located in Atlanta's bustling Buckhead district. The downside: The greater racquetball club business was dying.
By the end of the decade, many once-thriving clubs were struggling to attract and retain members. Financially, it was disaster, prompting many clubs to close. (An old, pessimistic industry age went: "Racquetball is easy to learn and easier to forget.")
Cates, however, was not so willing to wave a white flag.
An Industry Takes Shape
In 1980, Cates was elected president of the National Court Club Association (NCCA), an organization that served racquetball club owners. He also had ties to the National Tennis Association (NTA), of which Rick Caro, a fellow NCCA board member, was president.
The then-fledgling fitness industry lacked the infrastructure it has today—trade shows, media outlets and robust associations. The NCCA and NTA conventions and trade shows were among the only forums in which club owners and operators could gather and exchange ideas. It was a beautiful thing, Cates said. Strategies were fleshed out. Trials were scrutinized, and triumphs were celebrated. Most importantly, the best ideas floated; the weakest sank.
The meetings helped birth the multi-use club concept—a remedy to Cates' problems in Atlanta where his club had 16 courts. It was a simple but progressive idea—converting courts into exercise spaces—which many NTA clubs had already begun to implement.
"I ended up hiring a crew, and we got in there and tore down 12 racquetball courts with me personally swinging the sledge hammer every y for two weeks and with my team of workers hauling the busted cinder block walls out piece by piece in buckets." Cates said. "Three weeks later, we were converting those 12 former racquetball courts into aerobics studios, an expanded Nautilus space and free weight rooms. I also put in 30 Lifecycles and 30 more Lifecycles in my Downtown Athletic Club."
Cates knew better than anyone that operating a club could, at times, feel like living on an island. Although he was quickly realizing that formalized associations could not only support club solutions, but could also create a real community of like-minded entrepreneurs.
That year, 1980, Cates announced to the NCCA membership his goal to double the association's club membership from 400 clubs to 800 clubs by the end of his term. It was an ambitious endeavor that caught the attention of Caro.
Caro was concerned that neither the NCCA nor the NTA were reporting strong membership growth. The boards' efforts were also becoming redundant. So he approached Cates with the idea to merge both groups into a single association that would also serve the growing number of non-court club operators.
At least four nights a week for a stretch of six months, Cates and Caro discussed this dream association over the phone. With Johnny Carson playing quietly in the background, they would talk logistics, memberships and big-picture goals.
Caro organized an exploratory meeting in Chicago in late 1980, where Cates introduced their concept to five key industry players: Todd Pulis, Peter Donahue, Jennifer Michell Wayt, the now-late Curt Beusman and the now-late Dale Dibble. Everyone was in agreement.
Weeks later, the seven colleagues met at Caro's New York City office, where they named and christened the new group: the International Racquet Sports Association, or IRSA. (An "H" for Health was added to the acronym in 1994, making it the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association.) On the spot, the founders wrote bylaws, outlined the first trade show and strategized how they would formally wind-down and combine elements of the two existing associations.
Norm Cates has been a friend and contemporary of Rick Caro (far left) since 1980, when the two men (pictured here with Joe Moore) first conceptualized the International Racquet Sports Association, or IRSA.
The pillars of IRSA were as follows: to provide education for club operators, to support club memberships worldwide, to support regional associations and to produce a trade show. These had been the basic tenets of all of those late-night conversations.
Early on, the "IRSA Seven" also tapped John McCarthy as executive director and Chuck Leve as director of associate members.
Most symbolically, the group elected Cates to be IRSA's first president, serving for the 1981-1982 fiscal year. In theory, it provided organizational continuity. The ex-Air Force brat had become a familiar face and name to many. Cates is gregarious by nature, never hesitant to walk right up, shake a hand and say hello. ("I don't make friends; I make life relationships," Cates said.) This quality made him an effective club operator and a respected association leader.
"Norm always worked well with partners," Caro said. "Some people are classic individual entrepreneurs, but Norm was always comfortable in a cooperative environment, one where he worked with others. He was always a committed guy. That may come from team sports.
"More importantly, he's someone who once he gets down a path, that's the path," Caro continued. "There's no alternative. He's so committed he's going to find a way to put a flashlight through a tunnel and hopefully find the end. There is no obstacle he won't overcome once he's down the path. … Following through, meeting deadlines, finding ways to succeed when ad dollars were limited—this drives him further down the path."
Shifting Responsibilities
By 1993, Cates was stretched thin. Not only was he still involved with his clubs and associations, but he now had a young son, Justin, and he and his wife, Ilena, were opening an antique store in Roswell, a suburb of Atlanta. After much deliberation, Cates devised a plan to combine the two most important aspects of his life by starting the industry publication Club Insider.
The monthly tabloid was Cates' solution. He could work from home and spend quality time with Justin, while still serving the fitness industry with the business-to-business-style publication.
Cates shipped 2,500 copies of the 12-page inaugural issue to the 1993 Club Industry Show, where he estimates he gave away 2,300.
"All we wanted to do was help everybody in our industry, both sides of the bunch, do better," Cates said of Club Insider, which has since published 284 issues in 24 years. "It's the theme of my life—football, U.S. Air Force jet instructor pilot, airline pilot. Everything has gone back to the need of working hard to get better."
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When Norm Cates' wife, Ilena, began operating an antique store in Roswell, Georgia, in 1993, Cates decided to become a stay-at-home dad to their son, Justin. To ensure he could continue to serve the health club industry, Cates founded monthly tabloid Club Insider.
Club Insider is not an ordinary journal. It's true to its name. The voice and style reflect the man behind the pages. Cates writes to the reader as if they're "sitting together in a bar drinking a sarsaparilla," he said.
One of the monthly's staples is a column titled "Norm's Notes," where Cates calls the good, the bad and the ugly as he sees it. He regularly uses the platform to spotlight unsung heroes in the industry.
"He's exactly who he says he is," Caro said. "No filter. He wears his heart on his sleeve. And he's not been afraid to take hard stances where he felt others had hurt the industry. His publication is aimed at the little guy."
The fitness industry aside, Club Insider proved to be more than a stay-at-home-dad job. It turned into a bonafide father-son business. Since the 1990s, Justin has graduated from envelope-stuffer to president and assistant publisher. He even outlined the future of Club Insider's business model in his 2007 University of Georgia business college senior thesis project.
"Justin is the finest partner and son any father could possibly hope for," Cates said, "and he, too, has been making Club Insider better and better and better."
The publication and the industry it covers have been integral parts of Justin's life for as long as his memory serves. He can recall spending early mornings in his d's clubs, drying and folding towels and making sure the pools' chlorination levels were just right. He remembers playing with LEGOs while his dad, seated nearby, pecked away at the next issue of Club Insider.
"You can have all the passion in the world, but if you don't have the focus to execute it, it doesn't come to fruition," Justin said. "[When I was a kid], we focused on vocabulary every week. I would have 25 words, and my dad would have me sit on the couch and recite every definition and word spelling over and over."
"You [have] to have focus and a hard work ethic," Justin said, "and if anybody knows that it's my dad, no matter what he's doing."
Despite having fallen into the fitness industry by pure chance, Cates' passion for his work is boundless. When asked to speak about his career, he is overcome with emotion. Cates describes it as a "true love story," and one that is far from over.
"My love for this industry comes across every time [an associate] is with me," Cates said. "It's a relationship thing, and I don't know how to put it into words. There are people in our industry—if you need help, and I've got to get in my car and drive nine or 10 hours to get there, I'm going to be there the next day."
If Cates' reputation doesn't precede him, Justin said you can learn everything about the man by watching him walk across a trade show floor. (Cates' signature cowboy hat gives him away in any crowd.)
"He can't go 10 feet without being stopped," Justin said. "Everyone wants to greet him and shake his hand, and he has something nice to say to them all. He's one of the kindest and most charitable people I know, and he's not making millions of dollars doing what he does. Simply because of his passion, he truly has made a difference for clubs and the communities they're serving."
"He's a big old teddy bear at the end of the day," Justin said.
Since launching in 1993, Club Insider has published 284 issues, in which Norm Cates calls the good, the bad and the ugly of the health club industry as he sees it.
Caro said Cates, at his core, is a people person. It shows in Cates' great attention to the little things, such as customer service and employee training. He loves connecting with others and laying down roots, Caro said, perhaps because he was constantly moving as a kid. It was a hectic lifestyle, but it also helped him develop socially and emotionally in ways few people do.
"Norm always wanted to be grounded, and he has found that in our industry," Caro said. "He's lived in the same house for 20-plus years now. He has his exercise routine. He goes for routine walks by the river. Norm has a very established concept of how to organize a life."
Cates' humility and hustle harken back to his first job as a newspaper delivery boy in the ninth grade. If earning a paycheck meant waking up at 5 a.m. and hopping on a motor scooter, that's exactly what he would demand of himself.
"I never had a moment when I thought I was not going to flat-out succeed," Cates said. "I've lived my life that way. I also attribute it to my experiences in football. You've got a choice: You're going to get your ass whooped, or you're going to whoop ass. Unfortunately, that's how life is. But the choice is up to you."
Cates remains energized by the continued growth and diversification of the health and health club industry. At the same time, he is wary of the many challenges its practitioners face, especially for independent club operators, who must navigate in a world saturated with studios and chain health clubs.
In the 1970s and 1980s, independent club owners were more of the driving force in the industry than they are today, Cates said. Independent club operators, who often are married couples, put their entire lives on the line with their club business, working hard to make it as good as it can be. But, he admitted, whether a club is independently owned or not, its operators must have a rock-solid fountion in customer service if they are to succeed in the long term.
Cates learned some of his greatest lessons from former Mr. America bodybuilder and independent health club owner Red Lerille (the recipient of the 2011 Club Industry Lifetime Achievement Award), who always emphasized customer-service basics. Say "hi" and "bye." Commit members' names to memory. To club operators, Cates asks: "Are you relationship people or numbers people?"
Cates credits part of his entrepreneurial spirit to Caro, whom he often calls "the industry's best friend."
"I invite you to try to find anybody who could reach the threshold of having helped as many people as Rick Caro has helped," Cates said.
Though he is reluctant to admit as much, Cates has also helped many club operators through his advocacy with IHRSA and his examination of the industry with Club Insider.
"After they put me in a vase and I've gone to the Promised Land, I want to be known as a person who truly gave a serious hoot and as a person whose passion on this earth was to help people in this industry get better," Cates said. "Because that's it. Period. I'm not trying to fool anybody."
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This project took a collective view of the technology required to be self sufficient in food from an Urban property less than 1/3 acre. We looked at practical systems and solutions such as Seed saving, Breeding animals for food and Structures such as Chicken Tractors. These could all be considered appropriate tools and technology for achieving the objective.
We also looked at food preservation and we heard from Bridget White from Wild for Fermentation who took us through practical solutions for fermenting food for nutrition and storage.
By looking at the energy levels in food we recognised that it may be an appropriate measure for looking at the ability to achieve food independence on an urban property.
The importance of physical activity in overall health is important and we looked at the level of activity that can be achieved in the daily activities of growing your own food.
With the examples used achieving total food independence on 1/3 acre for a family of 2 adults and 2 children would be difficult. However, this does highlight that this is not due to limited capacity of the property but from the limited number of the chosen example fruits and vegetables to achieve the daily energy requirements.
There is further research to do on this – with more emphasis on working systems and additional technologies and systems for increasing production. It is also worth exploring whether kilojoules and available energy is the best measure for achieving the objective.


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I can't see it, it appears to be in Korean.
wow, that is frickin' brilliant! There probably gonna make a lot of money.
I'd rather use a good tape deck-->good a/d coverters (something, BTW, which I've been meaning to do for the last five years...back up all my cassette rough mixes etc).
I'm not anonymous. I'm discrete.
I have no need for it (good Sony component deck here, decent A/D/A) but I love that it fits in a drive bay! Too, too cool.
first off, the link is messed up - should be PlusDeck.
part of me loves the idea of it, but it's probly way overpriced.
i usually just put my old silver Technics deck into a pair of inputs on my Layla24.
It'd be a lot cooler if you could save MP3's to CASSETTE... that would be groundbreaking.
swelle wrote: It'd be a lot cooler if you could save MP3's to CASSETTE... that would be groundbreaking.
"You can record all output sounds from your computer like MP3s or internet broadcasts onto cassette tapes. You can easily listen to recorded tapes on your portable cassette players, car stereo, home audios, etc. Listen to recorded internet streams in you car."
Yeah! Sign me up for a boatload of 64Mbps MP3s recorded onto a dime-store normal bias C120. Hee hee.


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Emilia Romagna
Latest update: 5 March 2022
Occupying an area north of the Apennine mountains and much of the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna is rich in every sense: from its prosperous cities to its famed cuisine.
It stretches from the Adriatic Coast in the east, to regional borders with Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria and Tuscany to the west. To its north is Veneto while Marche and tiny San Marino lie to the south.
At the centre of life in the region, its capital Bologna is one of the oldest seats of learning in Europe and a treasure trove of culture.
Comacchio, Emilia Romagna
Vigoleno, Emilia Romagna
Cesenatico, Emilia Romagna
Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna, Emilia Romagna
Bologna, Emilia Romagna
Dozza, Emilia Romagna
Things to see in Emilia Romagna
To understand Emilia-Romagna one must first explain that it consists of two historical regions combined to make one. The Romans built the Via Emilia road in 187 BC and the route that it took from Rimini on the coast to Piacenza in a north-westerly direction, still exists today in the form of the modern A1 motorway, also known as the Autostrada del Sole. Using the motorway as a rough guide, we can divide the region from a point just to the east of Bologna: everything to the east belongs to Romagna and the remaining territory to the west is Emilia.
The main cities and towns of Romagna include Rimini: the most popular seaside resort in Italy, famed for its huge expanse of beach and fairly raucous nightlife. Along the same stretch of coast are some other holiday favourites including the seaside towns of Riccione and Cesenatico where you can also see a display of beautiful ships and their colourful sails.
To the north of Rimini, further along the coast you eventually reach the city of Ravenna. Some of the most iconic images of Emilia-Romagna come from Ravenna which was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire. During that period between 402 and 476 AD, it gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, where grand churches were decorated in Byzantine style. Those Byzantine creations, typically mosaics, are still in evidence throughout the city, something for which it is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Among the greatest treasures still to be found in the city are the Basilica di San Vitale and the Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe.
Forlì-Cesena is one of nine provinces in Emilia-Romagna, an amalgam of the two cities that form its name. Both cities offer beautiful medieval centres and rows of multi-coloured buildings in the typical style of the region. Along with the town of Faenza, they complete the main residential areas of Romagna.
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia Romagna and belongs to the Emilia half of the region. The city is famed for its cuisine; it's home to a number of pasta dishes including lasagne and tortellini, but strangely not to "Spaghetti Bolognese" which has never existed in Bologna where instead, the locals eat Tagliatelle al Ragù. Apart from its culinary delights, Bologna is known for its miles of porticoes that help form covered medieval walkways, there are also two huge towers, slightly wonky, that you can climb for the best vantage points and for views down to the Basilica di San Petronio, the sixth largest church in Europe.
Culinary excellence is by no means restricted to Bologna however. The region has some of the finest historic cities in Italy including Modena, Reggio Emilia and Parma, each of which can bring to the table its own famous food. Modena is another UNESCO World Heritage Site due its cathedral and historic centre but also the place where balsamic vinegar was invented and still produced today. Another city, Parma, can also boast historic buildings including its Cathedral and Baptistery, but is known throughout the world as the home of Parma Ham, or prosciutto di Parma in Italian. Last but not least: Reggio Emilia is where the famous parmesan cheese (parmigiano-reggiano) comes from, a distinction it shares with Parma and other towns in the vicinity.
Continuing within the realms of Emilia, the city of Ferrara is considered one of the jewels of the renaissance. Wide boulevards and elegant piazzas vie for position with the imposing Castello Estense, a huge castle that stands proud in the town centre. Ferrara and its Po Delta is another UNESCO World Heritage Site, pertaining in part to the Po Delta wetlands just east of the city.
Both modern and historical culture have some important roots in Emilia-Romagna. Favourite Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was from a little town called Le Roncole, close to Busseto. The composer gained the epithet "Bear of Busseto", and the town's name is now inextricably-linked with his. Opera fans will find a great deal of interest in the town where regular theatrical productions and festivals take place at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi.
In more recent times, Emilia-Romagna has become synonymous with mechanical speed and elegance. Just south of Modena, the town of Maranello is famed as the home of Ferrari with a huge museum for the many fans to visit. If Ferrari wasn't enough, the names Lamborghini, Maserati and Ducati can also all call Emilia-Romagna their home.
Apart from the major cities and smaller towns mentioned above, there are dozens of other fascinating sights within the region. The towns of Brisighella, Fontanellato, Castell'Arquato and Bobbio are all beautifully-preserved examples of medieval town-building, while the smaller town of Dozza has been transformed by the incredible murals that cover it from top to toe. Further historical sites of interest in Emilia-Romagna include Pomposa Abbey with its own dazzling mosaics, and the city of Piacenza with its beautiful cathedral.
Although strictly-speaking it doesn't come under the auspices of Emilia-Romagna, the Principality of San Marino is a country in its own right but occupies an area to the south of the region, on the border with Marche. San Marino's main town sits in a commanding position on a hilltop and offers a wonderful day out exploring its castle and medieval centre. If time allows, a short diversion from San Marino to the little hill town of San Leo makes a lot of sense and provides an interesting contrast.
Emilia-Romagna has two international airports: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport which serves the capital, and Rimini & San Marino Airport which serves the coastal area and southern portion of the region. All of the major cities are easily-accessible by rail with train stations usually located in the city centres. Everywhere else is linked by buses, but to access some of the hillier areas, a car is advisable.
Regional capital: Bologna
Population: 4,438,937 (source: ISTAT 1 January 2022)
Size: 22,466 km²
Provinces: 9
Highlights: Bologna, Ravenna, Modena, Parma, Ferrara, Dozza
Metropolitan City of Bologna
Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
Ferrara Province
Pomposa Abbey, Ferrara Province
Rocca San Casciano, Forlì-Cesena
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Carpi, Modena Province
Parma Province
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Bobbio, Piacenza Province
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Brisighella, Ravenna Province
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Creo worked closely with BioMarin and Gensler to develop an outdoor amenity space for their newly renovated Grab n' Go cafe project in their Bel Marin Keys Novato campus. The design includes capturing space from 7 existing parking stalls and relocating them to make space for a gracious outdoor amenity patio The patio includes new low water use planting, cafe style seating, lounge furnishings, picnic tables, a new cedar and steel fence, lighting and relocated electrical charging stations. This project is currently under construction. Project role: Creo is responsible for the landscape architectural scope for this project.


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AARP the Magazine Celebrates Country Music With June/July Cover [Exclusive Premiere]
Billy Dukes Published: May 31, 2022
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Vince Gill, Shania Twain, Ronnie Dunn and Willie Nelson are just a few of the country music legends filling up the cover of the new issue of AARP the Magazine. Inside, readers will find heartfelt expressions from Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Zac Brown and more, each writing about singular qualities that make America great.
Beneath the cover — debuting for Taste of Country readers first through this exclusive premiere — there's also a long look at a "Changing Nashville." Kane Brown helps lead a conversation about how the format is growing to become more inclusive, admitting there is still progress to be made.
"I hope that by the time my daughter is a little older, she sees herself when she looks at all areas of entertainment, including country music," Brown shares.
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Dozens of artists and celebrity fans pull together to celebrate country music and America during the special July 4 issue. Rodney Crowell, Martina McBride, Lee Greenwood, Lee Ann Womack and Clint Black are a few more artists featured. Wynonna Judd rounds out a scene that reflects the American heartland on a bright summer day.
The June/July issue of AARP is available in homes today, and through the AARP the Magazine website. Readers will also find journalist and historian Peter Cooper's selection of country songs assembled to foster understanding of America and its people. A "How Well Do You Know Country Music?" quiz puts a period on the multi-page feature. A knowledge of classic song lyrics from the 1940s to now will do you well.
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Everyone should know these 38 famous country songs by heart. Here is a list of the most popular country songs of all time.
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Eco-Life
Christine Lacayo
A Future Without Coral, Inspired by the Documentary Chasing Coral
We are currently at the beginning of a global massive coral collapse and the majority of humanity is completely oblivious to it. Why does this matter? Because 25% of marine life directly depends on coral colonies, about a billion people depend on that marine life as their main source of protein, more and more medicine is being made with the cancer healing properties coral carry, coral reefs protect our shorelines from typhoons and cyclones- they act as natural barriers. Let's take a look at what happens when these natural barriers disappear.
Over the past few months we have been living through hurricane after hurricane in the Caribbean and Atlantic waters.
Hurricane Harvey pounded Texas in August. While Irma was among one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded with maximum of 298 kph (185 mph) completely flattening Caribbean islands Antigua and Barbuda, St. Martin/Saint Maarten, St. Barthemely, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Anguilla, the British and US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, where it continued on towards the Bahamas, and US mainland in September leaving behind massive destruction, causalities, and years ahead of repairs.
Hurricane Katia later formed in the Gulf of Mexico striking Mexico hard and Jose followed suit right behind Irma in the eastern Atlantic. Hurricane Maria followed on 18 September completely leveling and destroying Caribbean island Dominica. Tropical Storm Nate, which later turned into a Hurricane and made landfall on the US, caused massive devastation in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Heavy rains, landslides, and floods collapsing roads, pieces of land crumbling from the saturation of water, destroyed bridges and houses carried away with the floods were all a sad reality with Nate. In Costa Rica, where I live, around 400,000 people are still without running water and thousands sleeping in shelters.
NOAA's GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma, center, in the Caribbean Sea; Tropical Storm Jose, right, in the Atlantic Ocean; and Tropical Storm Katia in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 8, 2017. (Photo by NASA/NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images)
Hurricanes feed off of warm water temperatures and winds. Irma grew in power because sea temperatures where the hurricane formed, were around 29°C (85°F), ideal temperatures for fueling hurricane growth. Our waters are experiencing unnatural peaks in warming due to our current lifestyles and this is only the beginning.
After these numerous devastating hurricanes, further research has proven that coral reefs play a significant role in reducing storm surges during extreme weather events. In the past 250 years, we have lost over half of Florida's 579 km-long (360 mile) Florida Reef Tract and it is estimated that less than 10% of Florida reefs contain living coral. With Hurricane Irma estimated at causing over $200 billion in damage, protecting and preserving our coral reef ecosystems has a direct impact on our economy (Chelsea Harvey, The Washington Post).
A coral is an animal made up of millions of tiny polyps, circular mouths surrounded by tentacles. These polyps are made up of micro-algae, which synthesize inside the coral to create food to feed the coral system. Corals are extremely sensitive to touch and water temperatures. Increasing the temperatures of the sea by just 2°C can cause what is called coral bleaching. Coral bleaching occurs when the tiny micro-algae living inside the coral loses its ability to feed its host. The coral senses that it has something inside of it that does not function, its natural reaction is to try to get rid of it. Just as your body tries to fight off antibodies when you're sick. As the coral expulses the micro-algae, what is left behind if the transparent white cell. The coral then begins to starve, turning white or bleaching exposing its skeleton.
Image taken from www.chasingcoral.com
According to research from the documentary Chasing Coral, the first massive coral bleaching occurred in 1997-1998, the second in 2010, and the third in 2015. We were experiencing massive heat waves around the planet, killing off all coral and leaving behind a coral graveyard. These heat waves are a direct result of climate change driven by emitting carbon into our atmosphere. 93% of heat trapped in our atmosphere is going into the ocean. Humanity is the direct cause of this global coral collapse and we are oblivious to it. The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, an expanse of about 2,000km (1,242 miles- the length of the entire eastern US coast) and the largest living ecosystem in the world, has lost 29% of its coral (Chasing Coral).
Corals are similar to our trees in forests; they are the foundation for entire ocean ecosystems. Without them, we cannot survive and we will continue to see more and more deadly destruction along our coasts if we don't change our habits and wake up to our reality. We need to make a the shift to clean energy, reduce our energy consumption, support clean jobs, and join local actions, we still have time and we cannot give up.
To watch the film, host a screening, learn more about coral bleaching, and find out ways to make changes towards a cooler planet go to: http://www.chasingcoral.com/#film
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FWAA expresses hope for safe return of Maisel's missing son
by Ken • Member News
Thoughts and prayers from the FWAA go out to member Ivan Maisel and his family during a difficult time following the disappearance of Ivan and Meg's son Max in Rochester, N.Y. Max was a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and we hope for his safe return.
Click here to read the original story in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
Click here for an update from USA Today on Friday.
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President's column: Introducing Lee Barfknecht
by Ken • President's Column • Tags: FWAA, Lee Barfknecht
OMAHA — Now that college football's minuscule catch-your-breath season is upon us — the short break between national signing day and the start of spring practice — it's time to introduce myself as your new president of the Football Writers Association of America.
And I do mean "your'' president because I view this as a service position.
FWAA 2015 President Lee Barfknecht.
This sport we find so fascinating/maddening/energizing gets bigger and (mostly) better every year. Coming off the first College Football Playoff, attention and interest is as high as I can recall in my 35 years with this product.
(Don't forget a hearty round of applause for Bill Hancock, Gine Lehe and all those from CFP who made "North Texas 2015" a rousing success.)
The FWAA, under the strong guidance of executive director Steve Richardson, is set up to honor those who deserve a pat on the back, talk discreetly to those we think could do things better and in general pay attention to this sport's operations in a way to help all members do their best.
I'm a newspaper guy — who in the next two weeks has "continuing education'' meetings on video streaming, Twitter and Internet radio — but am well aware our membership includes all types of folks associated with college football.
We will look at issues that arise without fear or favor, but with respect.
The relationship between beat people and coaches is a two-way street. The relationship between news gatherers and athletic departments is a two-way street. Sometimes, swords are crossed. It's the nature of the business. Our goal, though, is to find common-sense solutions for any problems that come up.
We need input from both sides of the fence, and accurate information on which to pursue any necessary conflict resolution. And don't forget to include good news and "atta-boys,'' too. The celebration of good work is something our business too often neglects.


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What would you do to survive? Young Gordon Van Zandt valued duty and loyalty to country above all, so after 9/11, he dropped out of college and joined the Marine Corps. This idealism vanished one fateful day in a war-torn city in Iraq. Ten years later, he is still struggling with the ghosts of his past when a new reality is thrust upon him and his family: North America, Europe and the Far East have all suffered a devastating Super-EMP attack, which causes catastrophic damage to the nation's power grid and essential infrastructures. Everything from cell phones to cars to computers cease to function, putting society at a standstill. With civilization in chaos, Gordon must fight for the limited and fast dwindling resources. He knows survival requires action and cooperation with his neighbors, but as the days wear on, so does all sense of civility within his community—and so he must make some of the most difficult decisions of his life in order to ensure his family's safety. For readers of Going Home by A. American, Lights Out by David Crawford, Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and One Second After by William Forstchen.
Sie weiß, wie alles endet ... Ein Sommer mit biblischer Hitze und zerstörerischen Stürmen. Psychotherapeutin Gabrielle bekommt es mit einer unheimlichen Patientin zu tun: Die 16-jährige Bethany hat ihre Mutter grausam umgebracht. Bethany ist gewalttätig, manipulativ – und sie behauptet, Naturkatastrophen vorhersehen zu können. Gabrielle stuft das zunächst als Symptom ihrer psychischen Erkrankung ein. Doch dann treten genau die Unglücksfälle ein, die das Mädchen prophezeit hat. Steht tatsächlich eine Katastrophe bevor, die eine vom Konsumwahn verblendete Menschheit in den Abgrund stürzen wird?
Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia, to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions. This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coverage of the varieties of approaches and responses to the concept of utopia in the past, present, and even the future. In particular, the volume now includes feminist writings and work by authors of color, and contends with current concerns, such as the exploration of the ecological ideals of Utopia. Furthermore, Claeys and Sargent highlight twenty-first century trends and popular narrative explorations of Utopias through the genres of young adult dystopias, survivalist dystopias, and non-print utopias. Covering a range of original theories of utopianism and revealing the nuances and concerns of writers across history as they attempt to envision different, ideal societies, The Utopia Reader is an essential resource for anyone who envisions a better future.


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USA: Nike Brand Marketing to Be Managed Regionally
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) today announced that Ellen Turner, vice president and chief marketing officer, is leaving the company, effective May 1. Turner, 39, joined Nike at the end of November last year. There are no immediate plans to fill the global CMO position."The realization that our brand marketing activities are best managed and executed at the regional and country level, coupled with Ellen's desire to return to Los Angeles, led us to mutually agree to part company. We wish her well," said Nike Chairman and CEO Philip H. Knight.Turner joined Nike from Kinkos where she was CMO for two years. Prior to that she was vice president of brand and creative services for The Limited Inc.'s 12 retail divisions and 5,700 stores. She also has served in brand-building, marketing and sales leadership positions at Cadbury-Schweppes and Pepsico's Taco Bell and Frito-Lay divisions.
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) today announced that Ellen Turner, vice president and chief marketing officer, is leaving the company, effective May 1. Turner, 39, joined Nike at the end of November last year. There are no immediate plans to fill the global CMO position."The realization that our brand marketing activities are best managed and executed at the regional and country level, coupled with Ellen's desire to return to Los Angeles, led us to mutually agree to part company. We wish her well," said Nike Chairman and CEO Philip H. Knight.Turner joined Nike from Kinkos where she was CMO for two years. Prior to that she was vice president of brand and creative services for The Limited Inc.'s 12 retail divisions and 5,700 stores. She also has served in brand-building, marketing and sales leadership positions at Cadbury-Schweppes and Pepsico's Taco Bell and Frito-Lay divisions.
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Application materials are due on or before February 28, 2019.


If you bought a house or started investing in stocks and bonds in the late 1970s or early '80s, you probably did pretty well. At the time interest rates were high; at their peak in October 1981, the average home mortgage rate was 18.5 percent. High interest rates tend to push down the value of the underlying asset. So while interest payments on homes may have been exorbitant, the principle was relatively small.


Diary of a Dreamer is an exciting new collaborative production combining dance, drama, comedy music, art and spoken word. The production incorporates both improvised material and audience interaction to take its viewers on an exciting journey of experiences and emotions.
Diary of a Dreamer premiered in April 2018 after a successful research and development stage and will be next performed at Unveiling Arts Festival in London in July. The Diary of a Dreamer company are very excited to keep developing this production and eventually tour the show both nationally and internationally.


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Taylor Swift Goes Punk Rock For 'I Knew You Were Trouble' Video
Singer kicks country to the curb during video shoot in Los Angeles.
Jocelyn Vena 11/19/2012
Taylor Swift may have kicked it old-school for her masquerade-themed 2012 American Music Awards performance of "I Knew You Were Trouble," but it seems the video for the dubstep track will keep its feet firmly placed in the now.
Swift was spotted on the set for the music video on Sunday, not long after she hit the awards show. She was photographed in L.A. rocking short hair with pink ombre ends and blunt bangs. Keeping the punk look going, she was also wearing cut-off shorts, a leather jacket and Converse kicks. In photos taken on set, she's even snuggling up with a guy, presumably her hipster bad boy love interest, on a balcony.
No word yet on when it will drop, but it would mark her third visual off her chart-topping album, Red, following-up the one-take party that was the "We Are Never Ever Get Back Together" and the Paris-set romantic stroll of "Begin Again."
Like with "We Are Never Ever Get Back Together," Swift worked with Max Martin and Shellback on the country-tinged dance track about her love affair with a bad boy. Sonically it strays a bit from Swift's country-pop sound.
"I brought in this chorus to Max Martin and Shellback and just kind of played it for them, and it was just piano/vocal, and I was like, 'At the end of the chorus, I want it to just explode,' and it ended up having a little bit of a flare to it that is reminiscent of dubstep," Swift said about the song last month. "It's very subtle, but I'm really excited because it actually sounds like the intensity of that emotion that I wrote about."
She further explained how it fits in with the rest of her album. She added, "This album is interesting because each song stands on its own. It's this patchwork quilt of different sounds and different emotions, and I don't think anything on the record sounds like 'Never Ever,' and I'm really happy about that because each song is its own approach to what that particular emotion sounds like, and it's a really, really different record from anything else I've ever done before."


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Q: Facebook PHP API - redirect user when they deny permission I have a Facebook app in my page's tab. When a user goes to it they are asked for permission to access their basic profile data and friends list. If a user clicks "cancel" on the permissions dialog they are redirected back to my app. It creates an infinite loop, which Facebook detects and displays a message that the app is not conforming to Facebook policies. I learned that the redirect_uri is the same whether or not the user accepts or denies permissions. I am looking for a way to detect that a user has denied (clicked "cancel") and redirect them somewhere else to avoid the infinite loop. I'm trying to make sense of Facebook's documentation but its just all over the place :(
Here is some of my code...
$loginUrl   = $facebook->getLoginUrl(array(
"redirect_uri"=>"https://www.facebook.com/pages/".$truepageid."/".$truepageid."?sk=app_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

if ($user) {
  try {
    // Proceed knowing you have a logged in user who's authenticated.
    $user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');
  } catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
    //you should use error_log($e); instead of printing the info on browser
    d($e);  // d is a debug function defined at the end of this file
    $user = null;

  }
}

if (!$user) {
    echo "<script type='text/javascript'>top.location.href = '$loginUrl';</script>";
    exit;
}

A: You should get a the error_reason GET-Param in the return uri containing some info like 'user_denied' which you could query to prevent the infinite Loop
if (isset($_GET['error_reason']) && $_GET['error_reason'] == 'user_denied') {
    // dont redirect to login page
}
else
{
    // redirect to fb-login
}

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Philadelphia's Big Banks Subject of Two New Books
By Julia Rapp
Published: 5:16 am EST January 17, 2023 Published: January 17, 2023 Updated: 3:15 pm EST January 13, 2023
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The building formerly owned by Philadelphia National Bank.
Philadelphia's big banks, including Girard and Fidelity, Provident and PSFS, and PNB and First Pennsylvania, thrived for generations and founded factories, transportation, and trade in the region, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
But all of them vanished in the merger craze of the 1980s and 1990s, with many employees losing their jobs in Center City amid mass layoffs that followed. These days the biggest bank left in the metro area is WSFS, which managed to grow in the vacuum created by the passing of the big leaders.
Now, the history of these banks is the subject of two new books: "A Banker's Journey" by Charles Coltman III and "From Failing to Phenomenal" by Marvin "Skip" Schoenhals.
Coltman, a former CoreStates bank executive, writes about his adventures as a young PNB agent working in Asia, his rise in the ranks, and a credit culture he believes has been stripped by rigid regulators focused on the Wall Street mega-banks.
Meanwhile, Schoenhals' book, co-written with Brittany Kriegstein, recalls the near-failure and rescue of WSFS from the early 1990s' savings-and-loan crisis.
Read more about the books in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Enjoy the rare opportunity to visit Grandfather Mountain outside of regular operating hours and see a sunset from the top of the mountain. Your event ticket includes an entire day's access to Grandfather Mountain, with regular park hours being 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trails close at 4 p.m. at 5 p.m., all sunset eventgoers should head to the top of the mountain.
Sunset is at 6:31 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2023. Due to safety regulations, eventgoers are only permitted to view the sunset from the Swinging Bridge area. The Top Shop gift shop and restrooms will be accessible during the event. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring flashlights/headlamps and wear heavy winter jackets, hats, gloves and rubber-soled shoes.
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring flashlights/headlamps and wear heavy winter jackets, hats, gloves and rubber-soled shoes. All Sunset at the Swinging Bridge participants will need to exit the park's gates by 7:15 p.m. A picture-perfect sunset, unfortunately, cannot be guaranteed.
There are no event ticket discounts for folks who do not want to access the park during regular park hours. This event is limited to 150 guests. If the event is sold out, a waiting list will be available.
Ticket Sales begin below at 10 a.m. on February 6, 2023:
Adult: $40
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The majority of Grandfather Mountain events generally sell out and have a waiting list. If you cannot attend this event, please let us know. Full refunds will be given to individuals who reach out by Fri., March 3. This allows time for individuals on the waiting list to make accommodations to attend the event. To cancel your registration, email mailto:judi@grandfather.com or call 828-733-2013, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
If Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation cancels the event due to inclement weather, full refunds will be given. If GMSF has to cancel the event, an announcement will be made by noon the day before (March 10).
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Q: How do I use an integer across multiple classes/views I am making an app where the user can select 1 of 7 different ball colors to play as. Each color I have assigned an id of 1-7 as integers. The ball selection screen and the actual game screen are 2 separate classes and view controllers. What I want to do is create an int called "BallColor" and then whenever the user clicks the button corresponding to the color then BallColor is equal to the id of that color. Then I need that number transferred over to my games class so it will check against my if statements to know which is the correct ball the user wants to play as. I have tried 5 different method and been researching this for about 6 hours straight and cannot find a good tutorial on how it should be done correctly. Can anyone please help me?? I don't want to give up tonight, but I have no other resources to check. Any help at all would be appreciated!

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A: When the user taps on the buttons that determines the color, you can set that integer through NSUserDefaults easily.

-(IBAction) blueColorSelected {
                                     // The integer you set here is the color
  [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:1 forKey:@"BallColor"];

  // Send the user to the other view you mentioned

}

Then, anywhere in your other view, you can retrieve the value you just stored. Simply use the following code wherever necessary
ballColor = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey@"BallColor"];
NSUserDefaults also retains its data even after you close the app (so you should use this to save any high scores)


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Rojcewicz, Stephen: "The Night Became Emily"
The Night Became Emily
Stephen Rojcewicz, University of Maryland
Emily Dickinson wrote "The Crickets sang" as a letter-poem to Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson in the 1860s. Almost all printings, including the Manuscript Books and the Variorum edition, end with the line: "And so the Night became." Manuscripts in the electronic Emily Dickinson's Correspondences, however, indicate that versions of the poem do not end with a period after the words "the Night became," but with a dash and then the word "Emily." This clause can thus be construed as "And so the Night became Emily."
Most readings of this poem tend to narrow the work to a description of nature's ceasing its murmuring with the coming of night, with little attention to multidimensionality, and ignoring the presence of Emily. Based on the manuscripts, Emily is identifying herself with the singing of the crickets, with Night, and with the activities of the night, including the erotic raptures of the "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" Not only is Dickinson alluding to the nineteenth-century metaphor of night as a nourishing wellspring for female vigor and to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's being nurtured by the dark, but she now becomes the nourishing night for other poets. By representing herself as the crickets who sang, Emily alludes to Shakespeare's use of "The crickets sing" in Cymbeline, where Iachimo says these words while secretly hidden as a spy in Imogen's (Innogen's) chamber, giving rise to a narrative that involves sexuality, danger and female-to-male gender disguise. Matthew Lewis used these identical lines as the epigraph to a chapter of the 1794 novel The Monk, again dealing with sexuality, violence and female-to-male gender disguise. Dickinson's comparing herself to the coming of the night suggests that her poems will also reflect sexuality, danger and gender flexibility.
Emily's poems, however, are as multi-dimensional as the night. Associating twilight and evening with the crickets' gentleness, she hopes to influence the poetry of others with her own gentleness, "vastness," "wisdom," and "peace."
Beyond any particular nuance or suggested interpretation, however, is the imperative for scholars to use the multiple manuscript versions in any comprehensive review of this poem. Most of all, studying the manuscripts gives us back Emily as a person, both as she understood herself and as she hoped to influence and to be understood by the recipients and readers of the poem.
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For Annie Martin the generative act exists at the thresholds of materiality and perception. She lingers in the ephemeral, taking notice of its minutia – the scanning movement of light across the surface of a page, or the incidental soundscape of a surrounding area – with these immaterial substances she creates artworks that allow for slower, deeper contemplation. Events such as marks, sounds, and actions are distanced from their original context through abstraction or repetition, creating a meditative space where an observer may embed narrative or meaning.
adoration, a multi-channel sound and painting installation, sees Martin elaborate on this practice while reflecting on notions of the sacred. Where does sacred experience re-emerge in a secular, materialist world? Can the particular qualities of the sacred be evoked in secular spaces? As in previous work, Martin employs Pierre Schaffer's notion of the acousmatic – hearing sound obscured from its original source. In adoration, this source material comes from medieval composer, writer, mystic, and abbess, Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard was noted for receiving visions; she can be considered a conduit for the intangible, a body translating knowledge from a sacred realm. The figure of Hildegard represents an analogous impulse for Martin, whose artistic practice has honed her sensory and perceptual acuity, in order to make tangible the underlying phenomena embedded in matter and site.
Imagining the space of the gallery infused with, and opened by sound, Martin distils the tones extracted from chants by Hildegard and uses this palette to invoke an extended moment of presence. In considering vocal sounds as immaterial substance within the installation, the ontological status of sound is brought to our attention. Is sound a material? Is a sound a thing? In adoration, Martin imagines painting the space itself with arising and dissolving lines of song.
Twelve paintings also line the gallery walls, their abstract visual planes drawing on phrases and themes within Hildegard's oeuvre. Mirroring the body in scale and composition, their physicality punctuates the flowing texture of sound within the gallery. Akin to altars or shrines, they stand in service to the meditative or devotional act. In the tradition of abstract painting they evoke a higher state of consciousness, yet in adoration they also provide a sense of grounding, a place for the body in a space opened and transformed by sound.
Annie Martin's practice traverses installation, sound, painting, drawing, textile, and performance. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada, and internationally. Martin received her MFA from Concordia University in 1994. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Lethbridge.
Vocal material in adoration was developed in collaboration with Janet Youngdahl, Soprano; translations of texts by Erin Moure; and generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts, OBORO, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. This exhibition is organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and curated by Christina Cuthbertson. Additional funding provided by The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the City of Lethbridge.
adoration (the sky is singing), 2017.


The challenges facing Veterans, including serving military and RCMP members, both while serving and after release, are widespread and have uniquely developed through the roles and responsibilities they take on while in service. Research into health conditions related to serving military personnel and veterans has been lacking in Canada for some time and is needed to keep pace with a changing demographic of service personnel and the situations that they are called into. Research is also needed in the areas of diagnosis, treatment, management and of illness and disabilities and the long-term impact of prescribed treatment of options.
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Government must undertake research into mefloquine and its side effects and ensure those who were given the drug are aware of the potential side effects and receive the proper diagnosis and care they deserve. Department of National Defence must immediately cease the use of mefloquine for Canada's serving men and women while this issue is under investigation.
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Cost Factors are the most typical deterrent – the main disadvantage for most of us is the quantity of the first investment essential to buying and installing one of these simple systems so you'll have a solar power home. Some solar arrays cost $25,000 or even more, with respect to the size of the house and annual consumption earnings. Regardless of the need to power a person's home by using solar power, some people or families just not have the budget and sources to pay for it. Furthermore, it will set you back more to buy and use a solar energy system in comparison as to the other technologies employing non-renewable fuels would cost.
Significant space is needed for installation – another one of the leading drawbacks to solar homes is the quantity of area that's needed to create the machine up. You are able to solve this problem by mounting solar sections for your roof, however that will diminish your roof's appearance. Residing in densely overpopulated metropolitan areas carries by using it the problem of inadequate space for installation. Either there is not enough room to set up the machine or even the costs to produce it are terrible.
Wasted energy is typical – a lot of energy is usually wasted when residing in solar-powered homes. The power must be changed into Alternating Electric Current (AC) but Solar cells are only able to produce Household Power (Electricity). The conversion factor from Electricity to AC is produced by inverters hooked towards the grid which often leads to a power loss factor which is between 4% and 12%.
Ineffectiveness during evening – the sun's energy are only able to be produced during daylight hrs so days which are overcast and wet will witness a substantial stop by the efficiency degree of solar homes. Solar cells could be totally ineffective once the sun does not shine. Essentially, which means that that massive investment known to like a solar power array can not be used during evening hrs.
Current pollution levels are an indirect solar power disadvantage – ironically, the pollution produced from using non-renewable fuels pollute the climate and works as a huge disadvantage creating solar power homes. Heat and sunlight are significantly reduced in smoggier areas since it reduces efficiency amounts of a solar panel's wattage output.


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Home News N Cape municipality accused of neglecting, abandoning residents
N Cape municipality accused of neglecting, abandoning residents
"I am told that the water tanks placed here by the local government are filthy and unhygienic, and that they aren't filled according to the municipality's own schedule"
THE DA has accused the Dawid Kruiper Municipality in Upington of neglecting and abandoning residents in the Dakota informal settlement after the local authority apparently failed to supply basic services to more than
2 000 residents in the area.
The remarks were made by DA interim leader John Steenhuisen on Friday during the party's Real State of the Nation tour.
Steenhuisen accused the municipality and governing party of failing to meet the basic needs of the community.
"When I was first told that a settlement of over 2 000 people had to survive without a single water tap, I thought that something had gotten lost in translation, or that this was some kind of exaggeration. I could not believe that thousands of people living in one of the hottest and driest parts of the country had no piped water. An entire informal settlement that has been here for eight years with no running water at all. This is a shameful indictment of the local government elected to serve this community," said Steenhuisen.
He added that the water tanks supplied to the community were not up to standard.
"I am told that the water tanks placed here by the local government are filthy and unhygienic, and that they aren't filled according to the municipality's own schedule. This is meant to happen twice a week, but residents are lucky if they get water once a week."
Steenhuisen said that attempts by his party to bring water to the community were dismissed by the governing party.
"Several years ago councillor Flip van der Steen tabled a motion to have 25 taps installed in Dakota at a cost of R70 000. Predictably, this motion was opposed by council and they chose instead to carry on paying R250 000 to bring in the water by truck."
Steenhuisen said that the lack of piped water is not the only challenge that the community is forced to live with.
"This is also a place where bucket toilets can still be found, despite continual promises to eradicate them. Just recently this municipality had to return
R22 million earmarked for the eradication of bucket toilets because it had failed to spend the money."
The spokesperson for Dawid Kruiper Municipality, Patrick Williams, said that the local authority is in the process of installing water taps in the area.
"This process (installing water taps in the Dakota area) will start soon. The project is funded with our own funds. The taps will replace the JoJo tanks that were placed in the area. As far as water availability to Dakota is concerned, we dispatch water trucks to the area on a regular basis. We have 78 JoJo tanks that are supposed to be filled up in the municipal area. We acknowledge the complaints of the unhygienic condition of the tanks and are attending to it. Like in all other municipalities there are budgetary constraints and we experience breakdowns with our trucks now and then," said Williams.
He denied claims that the municipality had returned money which was allocated for the eradication of bucket toilets.
"The funds of R22 million that was made reference to were never paid over to the municipality. The Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation re-allocated the funding to another municipality. This was an indirect grant that is administered by the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation," Williams said.
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2014 Highlights - Top 10 Releases
As 2014 draws to a close, we're taking a look back at our favourite releases (THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED). Label work with UKEM Records and HELL'S HAMMER DISTRIBUTION has meant that we've not had alot of time to review every release, hence there are quite alot of titles missing from our list, we will get to them next year hopefully! This top 10 are in no particular order, but we will highlight the 'ALBUM OF 2014" that we do feel was the strongest album that we reviewed.
Congnizanze - Inquisition
"Musically there's a touch of Atheist, and again Cynic, to their sound. However, the brutal and guttural death metal vocals really set them aside from such bands. Four tracks of technical and brutal death metal; this is a highly impressive introduction to the band. The standard these guys have set is very high and it would be fair to say you'd be hard pushed to find a brutal death metal band in the UK playing to such a standard. Comes very highly recommended."
Arrogant Destruktor - Hate Legions Ride
"As mentioned earlier, there is simplicity to the band's sound which is actually their strength and gives each song its catchiness and appeal. Old school influenced black metal, played from the (blackened) heart with no fuss or complication, 'Hate Legions Ride' is something truly unique in the UK black metal underground and this demo stands the band in good stead to hopefully move onto bigger and better things, should they decide that's what they want - comes very highly recommended".
Merciless Terror - Vile Extinction
"Whilst it lacks somewhat for variety, we all know that bands like Merciless Terror don't play to be varied and whimsical, they play to destroy and tracks like "Hateful Abomination" and the crushingly heavy "Process of Eradication" do just that. From start to finish this album is dominant, plain and simple"
Foetal Juice - Big Trouble In Little Vagina
"Foetal Juice are one of those bands that really appeal and fans of death metal, punk or grind will all find something to enjoy in the five tracks on offer, although I feel the death metallers will be the ones to really lap this up! If Foetal Juice reined back the punk/grind elements and concentrated slightly more on the brutal death metal, then they would certainly be an extremely potent force to be reckoned with. That said, this is a massively enjoyable e.p. which shows off the bands talents brilliantly, death metal with a sense of humour is hard to pull off, but these four lads from Bury do it very well. Now, lets see a full length please! Comes well recommended".
Seprevation - Consumed
"Song writing too is of a high level despite the majority of the music on offer being fast, hard and chaotic! Catchier tracks such as "Sarcophagal Chamber" (Sarcofago will be so proud) keep the album fresh and lively even into its middle stages and on the whole the album is of a superb quality throughout and never wavers in its aim for filthy, old school brutality".
Sleipnir - Oats Sworn In Mead And Blood
"It's only every so often that an album of such brilliance really takes you to another level when listening to it, but that's exactly what happens with 'Oaths Sworn In Blood And Mead'. It quite literally draws you in and takes you on a journey you probably weren't expecting. Sleipnir really have created an album a cut above the rest, certainly in terms of UK releases, if not the genre as a whole. Massive in both terms of length and atmosphere, it's another fine example of UK extreme metal at the top of its game and this release comes as highly recommended as possible and is a cd you must own if you're a fan of Viking Metal - to not own it is an absolute travesty!
Morlich - Tempest
"Morlich has created an extremely effective black metal e.p full of harsh atmospheres and emotions which really does grab your attention from the outset. Many an hour has obviously been spent in the practice room as the whole release is extremely well played, sounding tight, fresh and extremely professional. If you haven't heard this band before, they really are worth checking out. The band is currently looking for a label to release this on and their wait shouldn't be too long based on what is heard here! Keyboard heavy atmospheric black metal with a real uniqueness, 'Tempest' comes very highly recommended".
Dystopian Wrath - Dystopian Wrath
" For a debut release, Dystopian Wrath are setting the standard very high indeed, such is the brilliance that this e,p oozes throughout each and every song. The musicianship, arrangements and compositions are flawless, as is the production (bar a slightly 'clicky' drum sound, but that's a minor niggle) which helps to create the morbid, monstrous and pain etched atmospheres. Another prime example of a young UK band at the very top of their game, showing the rest "how it's done" through their brand of elite black/death metal. If you haven't checked these guys out, then it's about time you did as this release comes very highly recommended".
Bloodshot Dawn - Demons
"It's very difficult to find fault with anything on this album. Bloodshot Dawn have really spent time getting to grips with making excellent music. They are a good example of 'practice makes perfect'. In short, this is an absolute must for fans of Melodic Death Metal".
Eastern Front - Descent Into Genocide
"Eastern Front have taken all these individual ingredients and mixed them perfectly into an ice cold barrage of devastatingly effective black metal. For me, this is the best album of 2014 to surface from UK underground scene so far, such is it's brilliance, originality and effectiveness to really punish throughout. It's an absolute 'must have' and there aren't too many bands going to be able to top this at all".
Some absolutely storming releases and its been hard picking the top ten as we have had to leave out some other amazing releases, especially from FED TO THE BOARS, THE KING IS BLIND, DE PROFUNDIS, ORANGE GOBLIN.
A great year for extreme metal in the UK, here's hoping that 2014 will be even better, there are some great releases on the horizon.
***UKEM ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2014**
(that we have reviewed)
Quite an easy decision in the end, the quality shown on this album was amazing, and a huge improvement on their debut offering, so we give it to:
Well deserved indeed!!!
Finally, a huge thanks to everyone that has supported UKEM through its 4 years of existence, the support is hugely appreciated. Onwards and upwards!!
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