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Glenn to be Guest at Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Session at NYU
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Re: Glenn to be Guest at Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Session at NYU
This is fascinating reading. HH, you have done an awesome job with your notes!
I particularly like that Glenn was so respectful to both Randy and Felder. (Did Bernie get any mention?).
Wish I'd been there to see Nancy's face at the origin of Steely Dan's name.
Interesting comment about Felder's songs not having space for lyrics. All I can think of is that maybe they built a certain momentum that lyrics would interrupt... but then, Joe's warm-up lick turned into LITFL. Maybe because it was shorter?
Could they have picked up parts of Felder's compositions and dropped them into the middle of something else, as a guitar solo? Or would that just not have worked... (I know we can't really answer the question, I'm just speculating here!).
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This is really very interesting! Thanks guys for getting it all down so completely!
I would have loved to have heard Glenn tell all this in person!
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Windeagle
This is fascinating reading. Thanks for all your hard work, HH and Soda!
Henley Honey
From this point on in the lecture, it was very difficult to hear the questions, but you can kind of tell what was being asked from Glenn's answers.
He was asked about the impact of Hotel California -- how it was used as a metaphor for the lifestyle.
Glenn talked about HC being their second concept album. How it could have been called Tales from the Dark Side or The Underbelly of Fame.
"We were writing about ourselves. We were rich and famous and we were dealing with how it's not all its cracked up to be. Where is the meaning here? What was fluff? What didn't mean anything?" He talked about how if he wrote something & Don like it, then he thought everyone else would like it too.
In the same vein, he was asked if he was surprised that all this "overlay meaning" appeared. Glenn said: "God yes. Televangelists would be on and they'd hold open the fold out of HC -- it was sort of our Sgt. Pepper -- we'd gathered a whole bunch of wierd people and people we knew in a hotel lobby and they'd go up and point to a shadow of a woman up in the balcony and say -- this woman is a satanist, she is a devil worshiper, a witch. It was just some girl we'd said to dress in black and stand over there. But that song is the perfect example of letting your audience's imagination bring the meaning to the song. So it means what it does to you."
They went back to the discussion of Cover Songs. They played a portion of the Gypsy King's version of HC. Glenn said: "That was good" and did a little chair dance to the mexican/raggae beat.
Then they played a long portion of a truly horrific cover of HC by Nancy Sinatra. (Horrific is my word -- not Glenn's -- but he seemed to cringe as well.)
Glenn was asked about the periods of time after HC where they didn't release a record and if writer's block was an issue.
He replied: "Certainly. I would never trade the experience of having HC as a huge selling album and then going in and trying to make a record after that. As Bob Dylan said 'They deceived me into thinking I had something to protect'. That's basically what happened."
He talked about how Saturday Night Fever & Rumours both outsold HC that year, but that eventually HC probably surpassed them in sales.
"When we went into the studio to record The Long Run we were pretty uptight about just how great everything had to be now. I wish at the time we could have taken a little bit more of a European view of our career where things happen in peaks and valleys but we were sort of in this arc going up. It was like how do we beat ourselves? How do we do better? The LR was a difficult record to make and it took a long time."
He talked about how he truly loved some songs on the album - in particular the song they wrote for Timothy. "It took a long time and part of the reason too is that words are not a replenishable resource. We had already used the moon, the sky, the wind, the desert, the ocean, the sea, the night, the stars. We sort of used all that stuff up in our songs and then what do we do next?"
He mentioned that the title track -- The Long Run was one of his favorites and that is was a R&B song. He mentioned ICTYW, HT and a song they wrote for a hollywood producer - The King of Hollywood. He also talked about Those Shoes being the only song he'd ever heard with two guitar talk boxes playing together.
Again, I could not hear the question, but they started discussing Timothy and his "pure voice". Glenn mentioned how Timothy had played in Poco and they sang kind of "happy, happy tunes" and how the Eagles were "really not into happy". He said Tim had a great falsetto voice like Smokey Robinson and that they should write something like an Al Green song for him. "So that's how that started. I went to the piano -- like I'm gonna do now -- and this will be bad cause it's in Timothy's key (D major 7)."
Glenn starts playing and singing ICTYW. (I think VA and Soda sighed simultaneously.)
He was asked about how the Eagles didn't do "happy" but how they still got emotions "melancholy pathos" into their songs. Glenn said: "I just think bittersweet is way more interesting that just sweet. I think there needs to be a little tension. It just makes the story you're telling in the song more interesting, so that was something Don and I always had in our minds." He used Wasted Time as an example. How its the story of a love relationship that is struggling. BOML - same thing and uses the line "That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud that we could never rise above."
as another example of melancholy pathos.
We are getting near the end of the lecture, but there will be one more (maybe two) transcriptions to come . . . . .
Last edited by Henley Honey; 10-28-2011 at 11:05 AM.
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Just spent the last 1/2 hour or so in this thread and all I can say is WOW!!!! HH & Soda, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
Going on the record here, knew about Steely Dan's origin. We (especially hubby) are big Steely Dan fans. I've always gotten a kick out of it because I figured there were lots of people out there that were clueless to that unless you were a fan. And of course whenever we listen to The Royal Scam album by Steely Dan and hear Everything You Did, hubby sings that line really loud at me. Heaven knows, my neighbors have heard a lot of Eagles from our house.
And if I'm not mistaken, on the Eagles Greatest Hits or Best Of album, isn't it in the liner notes somewhere how the "stab it with the Steely knives" being because of Steely Dan? Will have to double check when I get a chance.
And on the "gushing about Don". I just don't see it as that way at all. I see it as more he's simply stating facts and how he sees it. I don't want to offend anyone, but I think he's pretty much on the money on it all.
On that note, wouldn't it be interesting tho to have the exact same conversation with Don and hear his take on the same subjects?
He sings it high, he plays it low
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HH - And you didn't sigh??
The key was too high for him, but he still sounded great. Of course, I'm just a bit biased.
I think what's coming next, if I remember correctly, he talks about how they wrote the song. If I were a songwriter, I'm not sure if I'd find this discussion helpful or frustrating. All in all, his approach to songwriting was different with every song, it seems. Sometimes the title could come first and he'd write a song to match it. Sometimes a chord progression would interest him and he'd write some music and let Don handle the lyrics. Sometimes he'd set out to write a certain type of song. Sometimes he sat down at a piano and things flowed from his fingers, and sometimes he struggled with that. If I were a budding songwriter, I'd be happy to hear that it can word regardless of your approach, but I'd also want to hear a more methodical approach. I guess songwriting is like other art forms...it just happens as it's meant to happen. And really, that was the point he was trying to get across the entire evening. Don't push it, don't force it, keep it honest, and put yourself into it.
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I'll try to add a little more while HH takes a break!
IMHO, they spent way too long playing that crappy Nancy Sinatra cover. You know, I couldn't help but notice that they didn't play a clip from an Eagles song GLENN sang one time! We heard clips from Desperado, OOTN, LITFL, and HC. Now, I can only surmise this is because Glenn thinks that those are the Eagles' best songs and he wanted those highlighted but still, I was kind of bummed. At least we got to hear him sing ICTYW and, of course, IYWN.
He identified the "King of Hollywood" - apparently it was about a producer named Robert Evans. I had never heard that before!
One thing that cracked me up about when Glenn was describing Timothy's days in Poco - he started singing a bit from Poco's "Hoe Down" - "Going to a hoe down! Kick up your heels! Woo-hoo!" Glenn sounded freaking hilarious trying to imitate them.
To get more into detail as to how ICTYW was written.... he said that he came up with the opening chords on the piano and Don came up with the opening lyrics pretty much off the cuff. As far as how Glenn sounded - he actually did pretty good despite the fact that it was so high. I was indeed sighing, not cringing, lol.
The interviewer complimented Glenn's guitar solo, calling it "wonderful," and Glenn told the tale about how he usually wound up playing lead guitar on the bass player's songs. He said that both Felder and Joe had tried playing lead on ICTYW but "they just didn't seem to play what I ended up playing, which was very melodic..." He then quickly added, as if afraid he were come off as bragging, "I'm not saying it because I played it, but it's a very melodic, memorable guitar solo. You can sing along to it, just like you can sing along to the rest of the song."
After talking about bittersweet songs and BOML, the interviewer commented that many people thought BOML was a great love song. [Me, Nancy, I'm sitting there thinking, "Who are these people and do they not understand lines like 'We both see it slipping away'? Um, BOML is so obviously NOT a love song!"] But back to Glenn, lol.
Glenn added that BOML was quasi-autobiographical. "Don and I were in the Eagles, and we were trying to have girlfriends, and the Eagles were more important than the girlfriends, and it put a strain on relationships. We just wrote about that. But we didn't write about it just for us; we wrote about it in a way that other people could relate to. Someone once told me that people didn't just listen to the Eagles; they did things to the Eagles. They broke up with their girlfriend, they got the nerve to walk across the room and ask somebody to dance, they got in a car and had a fandango and drove all the way across the United States smoking dope and listening to Hotel California...." [folks in the audience were laughing at this] "...which I took as a great compliment. And people have said that to me, too. Like, 'I was in the hospital undergoing surgery and I heard this song...' and those sort of things. And I think that's a good testimony to the songs."
Always in our hearts, Never forgotten
Next was a part I really appreciated as a professor of literature, and that was Glenn talking about the value of reading to songwriting. The interviewer stated, "I know you are an avid reader."
Glenn replied, "Yes, and so is Don, and I think that is something I learned from Joni Mitchell. She was an avid reader and I met her around the time we were doing the third Eagles album, and she wrote words and taught me to write words. The best way to be a wordsmith is to be reading all the time. I don't think that that means you have to read just poetry. You can read stories; you can read a lot of things."
The interviewer then asked him about the importance of doing research for songs, and if he had rode out into the desert to write songs about the desert, etc., and introduced himself to new experiences in order to "shake it up."
Glenn agreed. "Yeah, I think that's really important. You have to keep feeding yourself, nourishing your mind. What else are you going to talk about?"
At this point, the guy read two questions from the audience. I was a bit disappointed that they only read two as there were many questions submitted, but I guess it was a time thing. Still, if they had spent less time playing Nancy Sinatra, maybe they would've had more time to read questions from the audience!
At any rate, the first question was: "What do you do if your lyrics and chords feel cliche? How do you get off that plateau?"
Glenn seemed a bit puzzled by this question. His answer: "Well, you don't use those!" That got some laughs. He continued, "That's a great thing about songwriting and it's a great thing about making records. It's not oil painting, where if you went to some color you screwed up the sky and now you have to throw the whole canvas away. This is songwriting! I mean, if you stay up all night and write some stuff, and you think it's great, and you wake up the next morning and it's bad, you throw it away. You say, 'Yeah, I wasn't very good last night. I thought that was great, but it sucked.' And then you just move on."
He continued, "I've taught a songwriting class at UCLA about fifteen years ago; I've done some speaking about songwriting this year as well. The one thing you can't teach anyone is how to be clever, and the best songwriters are SO clever. James Taylor is SO clever. Paul Simon is SO clever. The way they can spin a tale... write a catchy tune. To be clever is a certain talent and I'm not sure how you can educate, I'm not sure how you can teach that."
He came up with an example of not-so-clever vs. clever: "'My baby left me, I'm all alone, I sure am blue.' Now, that's not as interesting as 'An empty glass, an ashtray, a lonely room' - that's more interesting, but it's the same story. Again, it's about spinning a tale, casting a little intrigue out there. I mean, is there anything more interesting than the intro of Phil Collins' 'In the Air Tonight'? That intro comes on, and just the chords, and the dark pad, and you're hooked, you're there. It's not always the lyrics, sometimes it's the mood, but the whole idea is to draw people in. It has to be interesting. It can't just be slop. Like I said, if you find yourself writing cliches or hating the chords that you've written, well, then you keep working and find some good chords. You find another way to do these things. You just keep working."
Instead of going to another question, the interviewer asked Glenn to talk about his "rules" of songwriting, especially his most important "rule" which was "Be Honest."
[Note from Nancy: I found this part to be the more revelatory of the evening.]
Glenn replied, "Somebody once asked me in an interview back in 1973 why I was in the music business, and I looked her in the eye and said, 'For sex and drugs.'' [audience laughs] "But it was only because I felt that that person didn't deserve to know the truth. That's not why I was really in the music business.... which was because I had something inside of me that wanted to get out. I wanted to make people feel good. I wanted to communicate. Music goes so far beyond the spoken word. I was just watching the George Harrison documentary on HBO and Robbie Shankard (?) was saying, 'Music transcends all the speeches you can give about God and religion... it's a feeling; it's a language unto itself.'
"The one thing I know about the Eagles and the one thing I know about myself is... whether you like the Eagles or you think we're pretentious country-rock snobs or whatever you feel, we have never spent a dishonest moment on stage, or in the studio, or sitting in my living room with two legal pads, Don and I staring at each other going, 'What do we do?' It's not something that I strive for; it's just the way we are. We have to be honest. And I think these things show through. I really believe we're transparent. I really believe that if you see somebody walk onstage and say, 'Geez, it's really great to be here tonight, ladies and gentleman! I wanna sing you a song that I really love. I wrote this a long time ago - originally it was called Brandy but Clive Davis told me to change it to Mandy, I really love this'... which he did...or so he says he did. But, you know, people can tell if you don't want to be there. People can tell if you're insincere. People can tell if you're fakin' it, if you're just going through the motions.
"And it's about your reputation. It's about something you have that you don't want to soil. You want that to be part of who you are. Bob Dylan.. honesty. The Beatles... honesty. They're not trying to fool anybody. They're just doing what they do because they love it. I think that comes across; I really do."
His final bit was simply introducing IYWN. He told a story which he first mentioned briefly once back in 2007, and that was that the guy in the song was dying. Specifically, he said:
"This song is very long and it has four chords. This song is very interesting to me... speaking of 'hidden, deeper meanings'... I was writing to Jack Tempchin, and I said to him. 'I've got a title. I've always wanted to write a song called It's Your World Now.' And so he said, 'Yeah, that's cool, that's a good title.' So then, a couple weeks later, he called me up and said, 'I've started some lyrics for It's Your World Now. You want to get together?' I said, 'Yeah!' So he sent me some lyrics and basically, on the surface, this is a song about a guy who comes to visit a friend, or a girlfriend, or a lover, and they spend the day together, and then he's got to go. The truth of the matter is, the guy in the song is dying... and I've never told anybody 'til just now." Then he went into the song and, despite a couple minor blips, it was magnificent.
And with that song, the lecture was over. He said his goodbyes, blowing a kiss to Cindy on the way out.
What a great evening!
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Q: How can I prevent TFS associating work items with a build? I'm trying to set up automatic notifications for our test team so that they're told when they're ready to test a user story.
The notifications are currently firing when the "Fixed In" build for the work item changes.
Our nightly build deploys to a staging server. I want this build to update the "Fixed In" build.
In addition, we have a gated checkin build. I do not want this to update the "Fixed In" build.
I tried changing the "Associate Changesets and Work Items" property in the build definition to "false", but the gated checkin is still being associated with (and updating the "Fixed in" build of) work items.
How can I prevent my gated checkin from being associated with work items?
Is there another smarter way to automatically notify the test team when a work item is ready for testing (as opposed to just having been checked in)?

A: We have a similar set up, with 'private' builds being fired when developers check in in the DEV branch, and 'integration' builds that are actually the ones that are relevant to the test team.
Both 'private' and 'integration' builds derive from the same build process template, but are different build definitions.
We have constructed in the build solution a custom activity "Types.cs" (basically a simple enum):
namespace BuildTasks.Activities
{
    public enum QATypes
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        Integration,
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}

This is passed as possible values of an build argument we have added named 'BuildType':
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This appears now as a configurable build definition parameter:
We obviously enter 'Private' or 'Integration' in each definition accordingly.
In the final steps of our process, we check on the value of this param & depending on it we send (or not) an email to a QA alias.
It might be possible to organize a similar implementation to meet your needs.

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Sightseeing Vilnius Lithuania video is presented by Vilnius Tourism Information Center (http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/en/). Click "Show more" to read TOP Vilnius attractions list: Vilnius sights & places to see are presented on a Google map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212677680697389403687.00047e3de97d6fdcbca66&msa=0&ll=54.687923,25.193882&spn=0.059535,0.136299 Walk in Vilnius Old Town, one of the largest surviving medieval Old Towns in Northern Europe. Covering an area of 360 ha, you can see a very big diversity of architectural styles, it's a mix since more than one century. You also are going to see some unmissable places. 1. Vilnius Town Hall is located in the very centre of the city, in the Town Hall Square. The history of it began in the XVth century. It is mentioned for the first time in 1432. When Vilnius city got it's city rights in 1387 it had to build an administrative office. According to some XVIth century sources, at first Vilnius Town Hall was that of gothic style and had a tower. However, it suffered from fires and invaders so was rebuilt several times. In 1799 Laurynas Gucevičius designed it in neoclassical style and it remained unchanged since then. 2. Vilnius Cathedral: a full name of which is Vilnius Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislav and St. Vladislav, is located below Gediminas Castle in the centre of Vilnius city and it is the most spectaculous masterpeace of classicism style in the capital of Lithuania. Moreover, it is also a historical heritage. 3. Gedimino Tower & The Hill of three Crosses: Whatever where you are in the city you can't miss them, they're one of the most stunning view of the old city center. Gedimino tower it's the only survival part of the Gedimino Castle. From this tower you can admire the panoramic view. Nowadays, there is a museum inside the tower. It's a symbol reminding the torture of seven Franciscan monks. 3. Church of St. Johns / Vilnius University, founded in 1579 is composed of 13 courtyards with 13 buildings, each consisting of several blocks, as well as the Church of St. Johns. In 1985 Vilnius University was awarded European Gold Medal for the protection of monuments. You can see the architectural styles : Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism. This University is one of the oldest and most famous establishments of higher education in Eastern and Central Europe. // 4. St John's Church: Integrated into composition of Vilnius University, it's one of the most impressive baroque churches in Vilnius. It serves as a pray house, a Museum of Science and a place for solemnities and concerts. It is possible to visit the main hall of the church, but also get down to it`s basement, as well as climb into its` loft. 5. St Anne's Church: It will definitely leave an impression for anyone. It is said that Napoleon Bonaparte, while visiting Vilnius during the Franco-Russian War in 1812, was so impressed by this church that he loudly expressed his emotions by saying that if he could, he would take St. Anne's Church with him to Paris in his own palm. At first, this church was built with wood in 1394, later, wood was replaced by bricks. Having survived to the present day without changing for over 500 years, St Anne's Church is now a symbol of Vilnius. 6. Užupis district. The artistic and wacky district of Vilnius city. You can't miss the mermaid who is going to welcome you when you cross the bridge. After trying to count the locks covering this one, you are going to meet the Official symbol of the Independence of Uzipisians: The Angel (is held here since 1992). Walk around and have a stop front of the Uzupis Constitution (Paupio street). 7. The Television Tower: After this long walking day, you can enjoy having a dinner to the 55th floor of the Television Tower. There is the "Milky Way" restaurant which turns slowly to permit you to enjoy the panoramic view during the sunset for example. This tower is also use to do some [.....] 21litas the entrance free. You can go there in taxi or in bus [10, Sausio 13-osios, Vilnius]. It's open daily from 10 a.m until 10 p.m 8. Europos Parkas: The European park 30 km outside of Vilnius. It's a huge open-air contemporary museum, covering 55 hectares of forests. You can see there more than 100 works of art carried by international artists. The most popular is the monument representing the center of Europe, built by Mr. Gintaras Karosas. 25 Ltl the entrance fee. 9. Pūčkoriai Path & Belmontas: You will meet is a beautifully big, 65 metres high and 260 metres wide steep hill, covered with forests and Vilnia river in the bottom. Beautiful path for tourists, wishing to discover still green hills around Vilnius, which Vilnius city is famous of.. Hotel Vilnius Europolis (http://www.europolis.lt/) takes part in promoting this movie.
Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas; other names exist) is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. It is the largest university in Lithuania.
The university was founded in 1579 as the Jesuit Academy (College) of Vilnius by Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, Stephen Báthory. It was the third oldest university (after the Cracow Academy and the Albertina) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the aftermath of the Third Partition of Poland (1795) and the November Uprising (1830–1831), the university was closed down and suspended its operation until 1919. In the aftermath of World War I the university saw failed attempts to restart it by Lithuania (December 1918) and invading Soviet forces (March 1919). It finally resumed operations as Stefan Batory University in Poland (August 1919), a period followed by another Soviet occupation in 1920, and the less than two-years of the Republic of Central Lithuania, incorporated into Poland in 1922.
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Chris Butler
In Music Reviews
Got It Togehter!
Future Fossil/Smog Veil Records
Got it Togehter! is a collection of tunes Chris Butler recorded over the years. The oldest tunes date form his days with Tin Huey and The Waitresses, with the most recent being brand new. What holds everything together is Butler's penchant for playing with odd sounds, warped song structure and off kilter perspectives.
If this were a college essay, Butler's thesis statement would be the opening track, "Physics". Chris asserts, "Reality never applied to me, never did and never will." If that's true, then all the weird sounds and scenarios that follow make perfect sense. So a song about not wanting to be a parent with a rhythm track provided by a sonogram ("Mommy Glow") shouldn't be seen as unusual. Songs for Guys turns out to be tune about a female bass player who "doesn't write songs for guys, her words are like walls that keep me outside." The thing is, Chris has an intellectual crush on this bass player. He really wants to understand her and where she's coming from. He even likes her graphic designer boyfriend.
"Awake" shares the awkward situation of going to funeral for someone you don't think you know that well and finding out they considered you their best friend. Chris makes the situation even more awkward by trying to pick up the deceased's girlfriend.
As someone who likes to travel as much as my finances allow, I appreciate the situation described in "Dromomania (Wind in My Shoes)". Locals and a seasoned trekker make fun of the tourist trying to "go native." "Aches for Gauguin, barely makes Gilligan." And the whores at the hotel bar sing, "oh novice castaway. Oh passport stamp marooned, but you've got a back to go back to." The tune is dedicated to Bruce Chatwin, the author of the book, Song Lines. Check out the book sometime.
The final song of the vinyl edition deals with aging gracefully. Well, maybe not gracefully, but not giving up. "Better Than I Ever Was" is a fun, upbeat pop song. "All of the dumb things that I've ever done, now just add up to who I've become. And all the bad breaks I've ever had, now count as wisdom, and it didn't screw me up that bad." It's a pretty good pep song for old farts like … me.
The CD version of Got It Togehter! has two bonus tracks from Butler's achieves. "Touch of Grey" was written before the Grateful Dead song of the some name. It's an acoustic tune telling his grandfather's story. "Curious Girl" is a synth pop tune recorded back in the '90s with George Gilmore of Tall Lonesome Pines on lead vocals. It might have been a hit for someone back in the day. It's probably the most "normal" song on the disc. It's like the after diner mint at the end of an adventurous banquet.
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The Waitresses
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Body & Soul (Self released). Review by Kyrby Raine.
Hold on Hope EP (TVT). Review by James Mann
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Caveat Emptor (Slap A Ham). Review by Andrew Chadwick
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Thirty years and still fighting the good fight. Rob Walsh talks to Sweet Honey in the Rock and finds that the message still lives.
Fionn Regan
100 Acres Of Sycamore (Heavenly Music ). Review by Carl F Gauze.
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Neal Smith (Part II)
Drums, drums, drums! In this second part of Gail Worley's interview with Neal Smith, we find out about the unofficial drum museum, Neal's Platinum God album, and exactly why he got into real estate.
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Standing on a barrier fence overlooking the throngs of people afterSidney Crosby and the Stanley Cup bypassed him during Friday's parade,a middle-aged man sporting a No. 87 Penguins jersey began yelling"unbelievable" as he videotaped the adoring crowd with his camera.
Standing on a barrier fence overlooking the throngs of people after Sidney Crosby and the Stanley Cup bypassed him during Friday's parade, a middle-aged man sporting a No. 87 Penguins jersey began yelling "unbelievable" as he videotaped the adoring crowd with his camera.
Yes, Cup fever had taken over and they had Sid the Kid to thank for it.
For young and old, Crosby next to the Cup was what everyone had come to see. And while some had to wait longer than others to capture the moment, depending upon where they stood on the parade route, it seemed well worth the wait for everyone.
"There it is. There it is," a youngster yelled to his father as Crosby made his way into the parking lot at Cole Harbour Place with Lord Stanley's mug next to him.
It seemed like every second person in the crowd of thousands was wearing something Crosby related – whether it was a T-shirt, hat or a No. 87 jersey.
Some, like 16-year-old Ryan Wilson of Oxford, took things a step further. He, along with his friend, was draped in a Nova Scotia flag and has his face painted with the Penguin team colours.
"It was great," Wilson said of seeing the "king of hockey" with the Cup.
The Oxford Regional High School student also left impressed with Crosby's speech to the crowd as the Pittsburgh Penguins captain paid tribute to all who helped make his Cup dream possible.


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» Art and social articulation: communication of the difference
» Excess and wealth in the artis's books. A bookshelf of my own library. Complexity as a method: from the artist's book to the new dimensions of serialized art
Excess and wealth in the artis's books. A bookshelf of my own library. Complexity as a method: from the artist's book to the new dimensions of serialized art
Art, social impact and commitment is the title of a paper with Dr. Fine Arts and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Granada and multidisciplinary artist Isidro López- Aparicio, inaugurated the seminar Friday Art and social articulation : Communication from the difference in the Faculty of Fine Arts Pontevedra. The conference in which López- Aparicio recounted his experience as curator Artifariti , International Art Encounters and Human Rights in Western Sahara , which develop annually in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf , marked the beginning of a seminar devoted to the study of the capabilities of the art in the field of education and culture . This initiative forms part of the program Art as hypothesis Beacon project under the Campus del Mar, from a series of actions which are intended to promote a bilateral relationship between Fine Arts and University will be deployed precisely because it places art in its relationship with other disciplines in the critical discussion of so-called knowledge societies. End of the lecture: Excess and wealth in the artis's books. A bookshelf of my own library. Complete lecture: Complexity as a method: from the artist's book to the new dimensions of serialized art
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Artist and professor of Fine Arts, University of Vigo
Mr. Leszek Brogowski
Professor and researcher within the research group Arts: pratiques et poétiques, Université de Rennes
Ms. Silvia García
Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Vigo, University of Vigo
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About ParkNews
Coord expands across North America
The company doubles its curb coverage as more cities embrace digital curb management with the goal of supporting over 100 cities across the globe by 2022.
Ride-hail, online shopping deliveries, food delivery services, e-bikes, e-scooters, the pending advent of autonomous vehicles — you name it — we are experiencing an influx of innovative mobility options where our streets are continuously filled with new ways for people and goods to move around our cities. With more innovation, however, comes more demand for curb space both in scope and scale. Companies like Lyft, Bird and Amazon, have all changed the way we use our curbs, no longer making it just a place to leave our car as we run errands. Instead, the curb has become a prime piece of real estate for residents, businesses and public services alike.
Yet, as the demand for curb space increases, so too does the need to digitize the curb to ensure that city streets are more productive starting with the curb.
With more vehicles vying to enter the transportation ecosystem, we're seeing crowding streets, increased traffic, more vehicle emissions and longer commutes. By embracing the digital curb, cities can help reduce congestion and improve land use on the street level with better informed policy changes, regulation, and compliance along the curb. By leveraging curb data and supporting new mobility options into existing transit systems, cities can identify new avenues for revenue as transportation methods evolve―such as variable pricing, scooter or bike parking, or even minute-by-minute parking for ride-hail or loading zones.
The digital curb provides the opportunity to improve constituent satisfaction by creating curbsides that are more predictable for users, dynamic in their functions, and more productive by serving more people. With the support of our engineering firm partners and municipalities, Coord is happy to announce that we have added five new cities to our platform, made available through the Coord API and Coord Toolkit: Austin, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington DC.
Welcome to the Curb Life
Until recently, most city planners and officials have only had classic surveying wheels, manual labor and dated binders full of miles of curb information to help inform their planning. While less costly than traditional surveys, GPS and vehicle-based camera systems couldn't capture the level of detail required to accurately create the digital curb. We changed the game by finding a balance between speed and accuracy with our Surveyor app, which is included in the Coord Toolkit, designed for cities to innovate their curb management. By leveraging augmented reality, Coord users can quickly and easily collect assets along the curb to produce a detailed and accurate map of the underlying curb rules and regulations.
The initial cities included in the Coord API were San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Now, we are quickly expanding across North America by adding five new major cities to our API―tracking to our goal of supporting over 100 cities across the globe by 2022.
Here's a deeper look:
In Austin, we partnered early on with engineering firm Kimley-Horn to survey Downtown Austin, the Seaholm District, Rainey Street, parts of East Cesar Chavez and Holly. There are 79 curb miles in the Coord API, but field collectors walked a total of 214 curb miles to make that happen (all surveys are double coverage for data accuracy) and collected 10,000+ assets along the way . Read more about the survey experience in Kenny's Curb Diaries highlighting the uniqueness that Austin brings.
In Miami & Miami Beach, Kimley-Horn rose to the occasion for our biggest survey of the lot, a total of 161 curb miles! They covered the areas of Wynwood, Brickell, Downtown Miami, South Beach, Lummus, Flamingo, and Miami Beach's City Center. The field collectors managed to capture over 14,000 assets across the colorful streets of Miami.
In Philadelphia, field collectors from AECOM walked the streets of Center City, Rittenhouse Square, South Street, Logan Square and University City to capture over 100 miles of curb in 7 days. This team of five collectors walked 245 curb miles (again, double coverage for data accuracy) to capture over 17,000 curb assets in the home of the Liberty Bell.
In San Diego, Coord was selected by the City of San Diego through a competitive process to participate in the 2019 Startup in Residence (STIR) program. We collaborated with Kimley-Horn to capture nearly 90 miles of curbs and approximately 19,000 curb assets across Cortez Hill, Downtown San Diego, East Village, Gaslamp, Little Italy and the Marina. Not to mention, the team of four field collectors did this in just seven days.
In Washington D.C, we worked with Walker Consultants to capture the data in tourist-heavy spots like the National Mall and Dupont Circle. We also captured data for Downtown D.C., Logan Circle, the Navy Yard, Penn Quarter, U Street and The Wharf. The team of field collectors walked over 270 miles across these neighborhoods, surveying 96 miles of curb and capturing approximately 20,000 curb assets.
Over the course of a few weeks, Coord and our partners managed to cover a lot of ground: over 500 miles of curbs and 80K curb assets were surveyed across Austin, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington D.C. If you'd like to see the results of these surveys visualized, you can explore the data in Curb Explorer on our website.
Today, all of this information is accessible to Coord subscribers through the Coord Toolkit or the Coord API. Our partners, who managed the respective data collections, have released a subset of asset data for each of the cities into Open Curbs for non-commercial use by researchers, local agencies, mobility companies or anyone else in the community.
The areas include:
Austin: East 6th Street entertainment district
Miami: Wynwood
Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Square
San Diego: Little Italy
Washington D.C.: U Street Corridor
Want to be next? Bring the digital curb to your city
We're on a mission to make cities more livable for everyone by making streets more productive, starting with the curb. If you are a city agency or transportation provider and want to bring the digital curb to your city or just let us know what you think, drop us a line at partners@coord.co to 'get ahead of the curb'.
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Where can you find an electric meter bank mounted 10 meters above ground? Only in the Philippines.
Driving passed by these electric meter banks, I could not help myself but asked, is this a Filipino Engineer creativity? Or just an absurd method of customizing the requirements of a customer.
These electric meter banks are used to supply electricity to informal settlers communities where electric power pilferage and illegal connections are very common. Also, these areas are prone to flooding. Elevating the electric meters above flood level is required. This is only in the Philippines.


The people who killed five men in Leeds may still be walking the streets.
West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team secures dozens of murder convictions each year, but there are a handful of high-profile cases which remain unsolved.
The individuals who killed Adam Chadwick, Richard Clarke, Mark McCall, Leonard Farrar and Frank Birley have never been brought to justice.
A distinct lack of witnesses who are willing to give evidence in court have hindered the police investigations and in some of these cases, the investigators have been met with a wall of silence.
The detectives and the families of the victims have not given up, and they live in hope that one day someone will come forward with information that could lead to a conviction.
But until then, these crimes will remain unsolved and the killers will continue to evade justice.
The 20-year-old was shot in the head on the doorstep of his sister's home in Clifton Mount, Harehills, on June 24 in 2008.
The father-of-one was shot at point blank range by intruders who were trying to get into his sister's home and he is thought to have been the victim of mistaken identity.
Mr Chadwick was shot the day after his daughter Ruby's third birthday, and he died in hospital on June 26.
Despite numerous appeals from his family and police, and the offer of a £10,000 reward for information, the killers have never been found.
His family are convinced that someone in the community has information that could help to identify his killers.
Speaking last year, his mother Jackie said: "We need answers and we need the people responsible to be caught so we can have some quality of life again.
"We know that will be without Adam but we will have the memories we have made with him for twenty years, and those memories are the most important thing to us.
"I want anyone who does know who was involved to search their conscience and ask, if they have got kids of their own, how would they feel if this was their child?
In the early hours of July 29 in 2004, someone walked into Mr Clarke's home in Moorland Avenue, Hyde Park, while he was sleeping next to his girlfriend.
The intruder put a 12-bore shotgun to his 32-year-old victim's head and pulled the trigger before fleeing.
Police say there were no signs of a forced entry and Mr Clarke's girlfriend, who had taken a sleeping tablet, insists she slept through the execution.
Detectives interviewed the victim's family and more than 300 people living in Hyde Park while carrying house-to-house enquiries, to try and identify the killer, but they have never been found.
Mr Clarke, who was described by one senior police officer as 'no angel' due to his connections to well-known violent criminals, was murdered less than a month after he was released from prison.
It was also revealed that two weeks before his death, Mr Clarke had travelled to Halifax to fire a gun at a car containing three men, including someone who was due to give evidence at the upcoming trial of Chaudry Fiaz Hussain.
A court heard how the defendant had hired Mr Clarke to intimidate witnesses.
The father-of-three was shot three times while walking through an alleyway in Pudsey with his girlfriend on November 13 in 2003.
The killer had been waiting for him with a shotgun, in a red Volkswagen Golf.
The 37-year-old victim, who lived in Meanwood, was a notorious figure in the criminal underworld and police believe he was targeted as part of a dispute over drugs and money, but their investigation was hampered by a wall of silence.
The 71-year-old was found dead on May 4 in 2002, in the hallway of his home in Cardinal Road, Beeston.
The retired merchant navy captain had been repeatedly stabbed in what police described as a sustained attack.
Despite a lengthy investigation and numerous appeals for information from police and Mr Farrar's family, the killer has never been found.
The 34-year-old, who was also known as Frank Gatt, died in hospital after he was gunned down in Meanwood on April 14 in 2000.
He was shot in the head just six months after he was released from a 14-year prison sentence for carrying out an armed robbery and taking hostages at a Blackpool jewellers.
According to various reports, he was trying to re-establish himself in the criminal underworld and police believe he was accidentally shot by an accomplice.
Witnesses said shortly after the shooting, they saw an armed man in a balaclava, who was clearly in an 'agitated state', run from the scene of the incident.
Police believe that man was responsible for Mr Birley's death, but he has never been found.
A 17-year-old boy was also found nearby with a gunshot wound, but he survived.
That was the fifth shooting incident in Leeds, in just five weeks, and they were all believed to be part of an ongoing dispute over territory.


Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention Returns!
A few weeks have passed since SCGC 2017. We've had some time to reflect on the success of the event, and we have got a few things to share with you.
SCGC2017 – saw us move to a new bigger venue that really helped to get more people into the convention at one time, meaning that the 1000+ attendees were granted quicker access with little to no queues throughout the day.
We saw an increase in trader space too, with 33% more stalls than we had at the Volcano theatre in 2016. These were both returning traders and a great mix of new traders to offer a much wider choice for all our visitors.
Another new feature of SCGC2017 was the guests that we had in attendance. Dylan Teague, The Etherington Brothers, Conor Boyle, Steve Lockley, and Dyfrig Griffiths.
We also expanded the range of activities on offer with GAME attending with a range of consoles and VR for people to try out free of charge and TCG tournaments. On top of these activities we also saw the return of Esdevium Games who were running taster sessions for a number of table top games, the Swansea Comics Collective wall comic, a full program of panels, the Cosplay competition, and live music from the amazing Jollyboat.
Taking all of that in to account and to thank you for the continued support that you guys have shown us we thought that we'd surprise you with an announcement!
Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention will return once again to the Brangwyn Hall in 2018! So mark off your diaries as you'll be busy on the 5th of May 2018!
Thank you to The Art of SoK for another awesome gamer barbarian piece!
So here it is! Our official video from this year's event! POW!
Thanks to Miles at Arc Fire Productions for the splendid job filming, editing, sweating, bleeding and tearing up. Thanks to Lydia, our producer, and Jack and Catie our presenters!
If you spot yourself, or anyone you know, let us know by liking and sharing!


You probably thought that bankruptcy was something that affected other people. You had a good job, you paid all your bills on time. You even had a little bit of money left over each month to go and have fun with. Then the bottom fell out. You got sick, lost your job or had to file for divorce. Now you're facing financial ruin. You can't pay your bills and the creditors are calling non-stop. They may have even started calling your employer or your friends and family. If this sounds familiar, there are some things you need to know before you file for bankruptcy.
If you've decided that bankruptcy is your only solution, you're going to need an attorney. While there are legal proceedings that you can take care of without an attorney, bankruptcy is not one of them. Failing to fill the paperwork out properly, or missing a deadline could result in your case being denied. Don't take chances with your financial future. Hire a bankruptcy attorney to handle your case.
You'll have to go to court, at least once. Before you panic, you should know that it will be a brief meeting. This is where your creditors have an opportunity to state their claim against you. In most cases, creditors don't show up. The judge will ask you questions and you'll be done. If you've hired an attorney, they'll be there to represent you.
Before your bankruptcy can be discharged, you'll need to take two classes. The pre-petition class will make sure you've done everything you can to avoid bankruptcy. The post-petition class will help you learn ways to better manage your money so you can avoid bankruptcy in the future.
If you thought that bankruptcy would erase all your debt, you may be wrong. Some types of debt cannot be discharged through bankruptcy proceedings. If you have the following debts, you will be required to continue paying them.
Once your bankruptcy is discharged, it will remain on your credit report for the next 10 years. During that time, you can begin rebuilding your credit. One way to begin rebuilding your credit is to apply for a secured credit card. With a secured credit card, your credit limit is established by the money you'll place in a savings account. Once you've made a pre-determined number of timely payments, your secured card can be upgraded to an unsecured card. Once your bankruptcy has been removed from your credit report, you'll have the fresh start you need.
If you've fallen on to hard financial times, it might be time for you to consider bankruptcy. Talk to your attorney about the options that are available to you.


Barrie Keeffe is a famous Dramatist from England, he/she is 73 years old and still alive, born October 31, 1945.
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 1 quotes who is written / told by Barrie.
"I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre"


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Q: Prove that $f(z)=Arg (z)$ is not analytic on $D^*$ Define $D^*=\mathbb{C} \backslash \lbrace z \in \mathbb{C}:Re(z) \leq 0, Im(z)=0 \rbrace$. Prove that $f(z)=Arg (z)$ is not analytic on $D^*$
My proof is as follow:
Let $Arg(z)= \theta$. Then the function becomes $f(r,\theta)=\theta$. By using CR-equation in polar form, we obtain $ru_r=0=v_{\theta}$ and $u_{\theta}=1 \neq 0=-rv_r$. Hence, $f$ is not differentiable, which implies not analytic.
Is my proof correct?

A: Your proof is fine, but here is one that does not require the polar form of the CR equations.
$\arg(z)$ is constant on each radial line. If it were analytic, it's derivative would need to be zero on each radial line. If the zeroes of an analytic function have a limit point, the function must be $0$. This means that $\arg(z)$ would be constant, which is not so.

A: This function is real-valued and non-constant, thus it is not analytic.
This is due to the fact that a real-valued analytic function is constant, which in turn, is an implication of Cauchy-Riemann equations.

A: That's a perfectly good method.  If you can use the CR-equation in polar form, that seems like the quickest and most sensible way to solve the problem.


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Colorectal Cancer: New Screening Guidelines and Treatments
Rises in colorectal cancer in younger people have resulted in a new screening age recommendation from 50 to 45.
Colorectal Cancer: What is it?
Colorectal cancer is a cancer that starts in either your colon or your rectum—parts of your large intestine that make up the lower digestive tract.
According to the American Cancer Society, excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the U.S. Unfortunately, there's not a definite way to prevent colorectal cancer, however, it is possible to lower your risk by maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here are a few tips:
Eat lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
Limit red and processed meats.
Maintain a healthy weight.
Avoid smoking or abusing alcohol.
Talk to your provider about when to get screened—colorectal cancer almost always develops from precancerous polyps (abnormal growths) in the colon or rectum. Screening tests can find precancerous polyps, so they can be removed before they turn into cancer. Screening tests can also find colorectal cancer early—when treatment works best. Examples of screening methods include a visual exam, such as a colonoscopy, or a stool-based test.
The Current State of Colorectal Cancer
Although colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the U.S., cases in older patients have decreased since the mid-1980s, mainly thanks to screening and early detection. So, when should you get screened? As of early 2022, the American Cancer Society updated its recommendation for the colonoscopy screening age to be lowered from 50 to 45.
"Unfortunately, we are seeing an increase in colorectal cancer in younger people," says Ian Paquette, MD, colorectal surgeon at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and Chief of the Division of colon and rectal surgery at the UC College of Medicine. "This has led to a change in the screening guidelines to receive a screening colonoscopy."
This new screening age recommendation applies to every person in the United States, yet the rise in cases seems to be specific to certain regions.
"There are certain pockets where we're seeing above-average increases, which includes Southern Ohio and Kentucky," Jordan Kharofa, MD, radiation oncologist at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and associate professor in the department of radiation oncology at the UC College of Medicine, notes.
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Q: stop video when close modal? I am facing an issue with my modal with video, when i close the modal the video is still playing on the background i haven't any clue.
Can someone help me out here to stop video from playing when i close the modal?
my js

here is the video part

    X CLOSE

HOW IT WORKS?

      <video width="100%" controls>
        <source src="vdo.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
        <source src="vdo.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
        Your browser does not support the video tag.
      </video>

thanks

A: When you close the modal select the video element and call pause() on it.
function PopUp(hideOrshow) {
  if (hideOrshow == 'hide') {
    document.getElementById('popup-wrapper').style.display = "none";
    document.querySelector('video').pause(); // add this
  }
  else {
    document.getElementById('popup-wrapper').removeAttribute('style');
  }
}

Also note that given hideOrShow only has two states it would make more sense to use a boolean value.


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Q: Sum of dot products How to transform 100 of 8 element vectors into 10 16 element vectors using 1000 different (8,16) weight matrices? Each of the 10 output vectors is a sum of 100 dot products:
A = np.random.randn(100,8)
W = np.random.randn(1000,8,16)
B = []

for i in range(10):
  sum = np.zeros((1,16))
  for j in range(100):
    sum += np.dot(A[j], W[i*100+j])
  B.append(sum)
B = np.asarray(B)     #B.shape=(10,16)

Is there a function in Numpy or TensorFlow for that? I looked at dot, tensordot, einsum, and matmul in Numpy, and I'm still not sure which one is the right option.
EDIT: I just realized that I actually want to produce an intermediate result before summing dot products: (100,8)x(10,100,8,16) -> (10,100,16).
I'm guessing this could be done with reshaping (100,8) to (1,100,1,8) and (1000,8,16) to (10,100,8,16), and doing np.einsum('ijkl,ijlm->ijm', A, B)  But I'm not sure if it will broadcast 1 to 10 correctly.
Per @Divakar comment, np.einsum('jk,ijkl->ijl', V, W.reshape(10,100,8,16)) does the trick.

A: In one line, it's
B1 = np.einsum('ij,ikjl', A, np.reshape(W, (100, 10, 8, 16), order='F'))

Test it with np.allclose(B.squeeze(), B1) where you need .squeeze because your B has an extra dimension of size 1.
Explanation: your W has ugly shape, its first dimension of size 1000 should really be separated in 10 blocks of size 100 (as you in effect do with index manipulation in a loop). This is what reshape is for. The Fortran-style order is needed because we want to take out elements of W by changing the first index the fastest.
After that it's straightforward Einstein summation: over j to have matrix multiplication, over i to add 100 results.

A: You can use tensor based multiplication, np.tensordot -
def tensordot_app(A, W):
    m,n,r = W.shape
    Wr = W.reshape(-1,A.shape[0],n,r)
    return np.tensordot(A,Wr, axes=((0,1),(1,2)))

Related post to understand tensordot.
Runtime test -
In [62]: A = np.random.randn(100,8)
    ...: W = np.random.randn(1000,8,16)

In [63]: %%timeit
    ...: B = []
    ...: for i in range(10):
    ...:   sum = np.zeros((1,16))
    ...:   for j in range(100):
    ...:     sum += np.dot(A[j], W[i*100+j])
    ...:   B.append(sum)
    ...: B = np.asarray(B)     #B.shape=(10,16)
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.81 ms per loop

# Other post's einsum soln
In [64]: %timeit np.einsum('ij,ikjl',A,np.reshape(W,(100,10,8,16), order='F'))
10000 loops, best of 3: 83.4 µs per loop

# Other post's einsum soln without fortran re-ordering
In [65]: %timeit np.einsum('jk,ijkl', A, np.reshape(W, (10, 100, 8, 16)))
10000 loops, best of 3: 83.3 µs per loop

In [66]: %timeit tensordot_app(A, W)
10000 loops, best of 3: 193 µs per loop


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by Rafael Amador
In recent years, due largely in part to the push for environmental sustainability, the demand for recycled gold has been increasing among jewelry designers, manufacturers and retailers. With growing interest in 100% recycled gold, metals companies have changed their practices to now supply customers with gold from recycled sources such as jewelry manufacturing by-products like sweeps and polishing dust, as well as from jewelry scrap. However, due to the recent gold rush of 2020 among other factors, the supply of recycled material seems to be diminishing as less and less scrap gold is being purchased by local retail shops.
The jewelry industry has never been eager to accept change or adapt to market influences. Driven more by trends and the need for expediency when it comes to manufacturing, the current drive for recycled gold is getting more traction than previous industry changes. So why the push for 100% recycled gold?
Effects on the Environment
One of the greatest downfalls of mining is the environmental impact on the area. When it comes to mining for metals, the process often requires drilling or digging deep into the ground as well as the use of explosives and harmful chemicals. The terrain that is affected by mining takes decades to recover and often times are left desolate and barren, with no attempts made to remedy the disrupted landscape.
Some mining companies have made an effort to esthetically improve the footprint left behind after mining specific areas. Select companies in the Amazon region of South America plant trees that are able to grow in these conditions such as Hevea brasiliensis – the tree from which rubber is extracted. The trees thrive in disturbed areas which is why mining companies in countries like Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia use them to try and replenish the areas they have mined.
In Bolivia, the impact on water sources has been severe. The Poopó and Uru Uru lakes, part of the Lake Titicaca water system, dried up completely in 2015. This was caused largely in part to mining operations in the area that diverted rivers and ultimately affected the quality of the water. Over 200 species of wildlife and plants were affected by this degradation of the lakes. Birds that would migrate south found a home in these bodies of water including the largest concentration of flamingos in the high Andean region of South America.
The lakes' water levels have begun to improve with the heavy rainfall in the area, but it will be years before they are completely recovered. The local indigenous people, the Uru Murato, were historically fishermen, but with the lakes drying up they have been forced to migrate to work in local salt mines.
Serious Health Concerns
More often than is acknowledged, the contamination from harmful chemicals used in mining such as mercury and sodium cyanide, seeps deep into the soil reaching underground aquifers that supply water to neighboring communities. The health consequences are detrimental and can lead to severe health issues including, but not limited to, cancer and eventual death.
Sodium cyanide solution is commonly used to extract gold from ore. There are two methods used: heap leaching and vat leaching. With heap leaching, the cyanide solution is sprayed over huge heaps of crushed ore as it is spread out over giant collection pads dissolving the gold and absorbing it into the solution. The collection pad absorbs the solution that has captured the gold. This process is repeated until the ore has been completely stripped of gold.
In vat (or tank) leaching, the ore and cyanide solution are mixed in large tanks. This typically is a more controlled method and spills are less common, however the waste product is stored behind large dams (tailing impoundments) which can and often fail catastrophically – contaminating the surrounding areas.
The mining industry claims cyanide is relatively safe because it breaks down rapidly in surface water. Unfortunately, the compound that cyanide breaks down into can be quite harmful. This compound finds its way into drinking water aquifers and can cause major health issues. Many residents living near mining sites have been forced to move away abandoning properties that were in their families for generations to avoid the health conditions related to mining contamination. As more and more areas are plundered, the long-lasting effects are devastating not only to the environment but to the people who live near these sites.
Criminal Activities & Financial Crimes
One of the biggest concerns when it comes to mines is directly tied to financial crimes. Money laundering has been a major issue with the trafficking of gold from mines in certain regions of Latin America as well as East and Central Africa. Illegally obtained gold is mixed in with legally mined gold by melting it together to mask its origin. Criminal networks such as drug cartels, terrorists and armed groups utilize this method of laundering to fund their illegal operations.
The exploitation of human labor in many regions also causes grave concern. In these regions, especially indigenous areas, children are often put to work in mines. The work day at a gold mine isn't the 9-5 we're used to here in the United States. Miners, including these enslaved children, often begin working before the sun rises and work full days and into the night to extract as much gold as possible each day. Though they are extracting a valuable mineral, the pay is negligible or at subsistence levels.
Solutions for the Jewelry Industry
Metals companies have begun adapting their processes to ensure the gold being sold to the jewelry industry comes from recycled gold. To ensure this is in fact happening, organizations such as the Scientific Certification Systems (SCS – Global) have launched programs to ensure that metals being supplied originate from recycled materials. Other companies, such as the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), audit companies to certify the appropriate protocols are being followed to ensure manufacturers they are being supplied with responsibly sourced gold for their production. The RBA (formerly EICC), through their Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) conducts annual audits on suppliers from the metals industry to ensure responsible sourcing of various minerals in their supply chain. (www.responsiblebusiness.org/initiatives/rmi)
Identifying suppliers that can ensure 100% recycled gold is paramount for companies that seek to claim their jewelry collections are made with responsibly sourced gold. But how can you know for sure the gold you are buying is in fact from recycled sources? Many refiners and metals companies continue to purchase and process mined gold. Though they are separating their production lines to help isolate the recycled gold from any mined gold, the risk of cross-contamination is always a real possibility.
Many of the jewelry industry giants have turned to metals suppliers that only process and refine jewelry scrap such as United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. (United). Founded in 1988, United has always declined to accept or process any mining materials at their facility in Alden, New York. United has been assessed as a Conformant Gold Refiner by the Responsible Minerals Initiative and is in compliance with the RMAP (Responsible Minerals Assurance Program) as a "Conflict-Free" smelter in gold. Their policies ensure that all of the gold processed and refined at United comes from jewelry manufacturing byproducts and scrap gold jewelry from retailers and pawnshops allowing them to certify, with absolute certainty, that the gold they sell to jewelry manufacturers comes from conflict-free sources. United has also been certified by SCS Global that its fine gold and silver originate from 100% recycled sources.
At UPMR's analytical laboratory, extensive testing is done to identify the elements in the gold samples from every lot ensuring no evidence of mining material is detected. Lead (Pb), Chrome (Cr), Iron (Fe), Mercury (Hg) and Arsenic (As) are often identified in mining materials and can be detected utilizing the standard X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis. The benefit of the XRF analysis is its expediency in a rapid test that allows you to identify the minerals in the sample. Not every XRF machine is programmed to identify these elements as standards are needed to program these devices to properly function. The XRF machines at United's lab are programmed with hundreds of standards to ensure accuracy in identifying the elements in the samples being analyzed.
Beryllium (Be) cannot be identified through X-ray, but can be detected utilizing an ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) analysis. An ICP analysis is a destructive analytical method used to detect and measure elements in chemical samples to a parts-per-million level of accuracy. Extremely small traces of metals can be detected using this equipment. The process is based on the ionization of a sample by an extremely hot plasma, usually made from argon gas. It has the ability to identify many more elements in a sample than the standard XRF analysis.
United's Commitment
Working with the SCS and the RBA/RMI, United has paved the way for this niche business model focused on recycling that works for the jewelry industry, ensuring responsible sourcing and 100% Recycled Gold. United's unique operation caters to the jewelry industry offering precious metal refining services, a vast catalog of jewelry products, an impressive Research & Development facility and Analytical Laboratory, and the highest level in customer service for jewelers and manufacturers alike.
The team at United consisting of executive management, customer account management professionals and compliance personnel work with customers on an ongoing basis to ensure they are conformant with the policies set forth by United. Customers who send in melted materials from regions of the world identified as high risk or CAHRAs (Conflict Affected and High-Risk Areas) are required to document and photograph the jewelry scrap on a scale before melt as well as the bar on the scale after being melted. Video of the melting process is often requested to ensure compliance and to verify that the gold received does in fact come from jewelry sources and is not mixed with mining material.
Because United supplies metals to some of the industry's largest manufacturers who are also conformant with responsible sourcing and environmental certifications and policies, United is certified by numerous organizations such as:
Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC): Code of Practices
The RJC – COP provides the guidelines which define the criteria for the ethical, social, human rights, and environmental standards for responsible business practices throughout the jewelry supply chain. United has held this certification since 2016. This certification indicates an assurance to United's customers and business partners that we conduct our business in a responsible and ethical manner.
Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI – RMAP)
The RMI defines the standard for smelters and refiners that participate in the RMAP (Responsible Minerals Assurance Program). The RMI conducts testing to their standard to warrant that United conducts its due-diligence in accordance with internationally recognized frameworks, most notably, the OECD Minerals Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains – Supplement on Gold (Annex II). United has been determined to be a Conformant Gold Smelter – and is in compliance with the RMAP standards (or that of its predecessor, the EICC – GeSI) since 2014.
SCS: Global Services
SCS Global is a third-party certification, verification and validation service. United's fine gold and silver has been certified as being from 100% Recycled Sources. United has held this certification since 2012.
To learn more about United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. and their commitment to the environment, the jewelry industry and their promise to provide 100% Recycled Gold from jewelry scrap and manufacturing byproducts, visit their newly redesigned website at www.UnitedPMR.com or call 800-999-FINE (3463).
Rafael Amador
Rafael Amador is the Director of Marketing & Communications at United Precious Metal Refining. He joined United PMR in 2010 after having been a refining customer for five years as the general manager of a gold buying operation in South Florida. Rafael currently handles United's jewelry and pawn customers in Florida and California, works with pawn customers nationally and leads United's international efforts in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.


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Pierre-Richard Dick: the creative impulse
"Charismatic", "hard working", "visionary": all those who knew the veterinarian doctor Pierre-Richard Dick evoke an extraordinary personality. Exceptional qualities that our founder would bring to animal health and to a formidable human adventure.
From his birth in Alsace in 1937, the only son of a small construction materials contractor, to his premature disappearance at sea in 1992, Pierre-Richard Dick would meet an atypical fate.
A character of hardened steel
Pierre-Richard Dick's extraordinary strength of character was rooted in a childhood replete with hardships. In 1940, the loss of his father following injuries to the forehead during World War II left him orphaned and a ward of the State at just three years of age. That same year, his mother is forced to surrender the family home to German troops in Saverne, Alsace. She would raise her son alone, first in Dijon, then in Africa. At 11 years old, in the family sawmill in Schirmeck, Pierre-Richard Dick's ankle is crushed by a logging truck. Another severe blow from which he would once again recover, after nine months of forced immobilization. Even going so far as to travel a thousand miles on foot across the Mauritanian Desert a decade later, during his military service with the Spahis! It was in the face of adversity that Pierre-Richard Dick built a foundation of values that would form a creed for his entire life.
Entrepreneur and builder
In 1961, fresh out of the Maisons-Alfort school, the young veterinary doctor Pierre-Richard Dick decided to take his training further by taking a course in microbiology at the Pasteur Institute. There he acquires the knowledge that will guide him on the path to our first vaccines. At 26 years old, he joins Ronchèse, the oldest biology laboratory in Nice. His diligence quickly earns him a promotion as research director. A brilliant career opens up for him at a laboratory with undisputed professionalism. But Dr. Dick's ambitions are entirely different. An entrepreneur at heart, the young man sees further: what he dreamed of basically was to create his own laboratory and discover new medicines to combat animal diseases that were at the time hardly or poorly treated.
The origin of Virbac's great adventure, a spark: the summer 1965 meeting between Pierre-Richard Dick and Max Rombi, who would remain his associate until the beginning of the '80s. Six years his elder, Max Rombi had a small veterinary clinic in Nice. The two future co-founders, who shared loads of ideas and extraordinary intuition, immediately form a duo whose synergy was the miracle that brought Virbac to life. It was Pierre-Richard Dick who gave the decisive impetus: in the fall of 1967, he leaves the comfort of his position at Ronchèse to create a research laboratory: Virbac was born. In parallel, he opens a veterinarian clinic in the Cap 3000 shopping center, a first in France! For two years, he will use the income from his practice to finance the first purchase of raw materials and development of the first medicines. In 1970, he sells the clinic to devote 100% of his time to Virbac.
Ambition and intuition: an explosive mix
Who could believe, in January 1968, that the modest laboratory created in a small three-room apartment in Nice would, more than 50 years later, rank among the ten largest veterinary laboratories in the world? When preparing antibiotic powders for local veterinarians, did young Pierre-Richard Dick have a hunch of the path he is going to take? His strategic choices were visionary from the start, in any case. As early as 1969, he intended, well before other laboratories, to help provide better care for companion animals, even when the food producing animals market was still a dominant market. At the urging of its CEO, the laboratory set its sights internationally at an early stage. Third inspired choice: that of innovation driven by the tangible needs of veterinarians, far from the rationale of basic research that he had known up until then. The foundation for long-term success had been laid. A solid foundation on which our teams tirelessly capitalize to sustain a company steeped in human values, with a desire to harness innovation in order to address animal health issues.
Pierre-Richard Dick was and would forever remain a workaholic. He slept very little: three to four hours a night. And demonstrated an insatiable curiosity. He never stopped reading, researching, travelling, and meeting frequently with people, documenting all his observations and ideas in the small notebook that he always had on him. How many times would his employees find a page of his notebook or a scientific article published in other regions on their desk, with a suggestion from him to delve into the subject! For the veterinary doctor, knowledge and curiosity, which are at the root of innovation, as well as audacity and risk-taking, are the foundation of the greatest collective successes. These are the cardinal points of the Virbac spirit that our teams continue to espouse today.
Four dates for a unique destiny
1961: a graduate of the Maisons-Alfort veterinary school, Pierre-Richard Dick joins the Pasteur Institute to complete his training in virology and bacteriology.
1968: Virbac, act one. The pharmaceutical company dedicated to veterinary products is set up in a small three-room apartment in Nice.
1985: at the urging of its founder, Virbac starts to trade on the Secondary Market of the Paris Stock Exchange.
1992: Pierre-Richard Dick dies at sea at the age of 55.
Campsite in Mauritania: towards the end of the '50s, after his veterinary studies, doctor Pierre-Richard Dick travels more than a thousand kilometers in the desert as part of his military service. He uncovers a budding talent for leadership that will become his strength later in life.
Pierre-Richard Dick speaks to a gathering of veterinarians and Virbac employees at a reception at the Nice City Hall at the beginning of the '80s.
Pierre-Richard Dick at the helm of his boat during the Swan Cup in 1982. Doctor Dick, his wife and their four children could often be found on board the family boat, sharing simple pleasures. It is at his side that his son, Jean-Pierre, discovers sailing, the pleasures and sensations of the regatta. It was also an opportunity to bond with his father.