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True Blue Crew: Take A Look At Tat Beauty!
Connie Marshall-Rautenberg | Applying Skeleton Crew Tattoo
Connie Marshal Rautenberg can be considered either the sixth or seventh member of Skeleton Crew depending on which configuration of the band you discuss. Over the years Skeleton Crew has performed at a select few weddings that has earned the band the additional honor of "Wedding Band!"
When we were asked to perform at our "Harmony Partner's" wedding to a great guy and great musician no less, Art Rautenberg, we were honored. But we were totally not prepared for the surprise Connie had in store for us!
Connie has been true blue Crew since day one and our legacy owes a large part to her incredible efforts on our behalf. So I guess it really shouldn't have come to much of a surprise when Connie revealed underneath her wedding dress the glorious-to-behold Skeleton Crew tattoo emblazoned on her ankle!
Connie was gracious to supply us with photographs of her getting tattooed along with some pictures of the band performing "Siren Song" and "Faith" at her and Art's wedding held at the stately Detroit Athletic Club. A splendid time was had by all!
Tags Bands, Events, Music, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search, Tattoo, wedding band, weddings
Categories Art, Bands, Tattoo
Learning, Coincidence & Reconnection: Skeleton Crew Live at the Wagon Wheel by Steve Schultz
December 19, 2009 //
Learning, coincidence and reconnection. Sometimes a unique series of events come together to produce lasting memories. If you're lucky, you actually get to see how these events continue to connect and expand into even more unique remembrances. And sometimes these recurrences excite suppressed yearnings.
Learning So it's another Friday morning, I'm an AV engineer at GTN/CSG and checking the entertainment section in the newspaper before actually doing any real work. Jim McFarlin writes that a new local band called Skeleton Crew is playing tonight at the Wagon Wheel in Troy. This band is made up of some musicians that I have previously run sound for. Jim calls their music "power acoustic". Geez, it's been at least 4 years since I've seen Chris Badynee (ex- Cadillac Kidz bassist/songwriter), Russ Epker (ex- BSA guitarist) and Bill Pilipchuk (ex- BSA vocalist/songwriter). Maybe I'll go. Ah, I don't know…. Well, Darlene (my wife) probably won't want to go since she has to get up early for work.……Ah, I don't know, after all, it's just the Wagon Wheel. Never ran sound there, it's not exactly a rock joint. Large painting of Diamond Jim Brady on the outside. Oh well, better get some work done…….
Later that day, I run into Gary Pillon, the godfather of remote audio, playing with this weird microphone. He says it's a prototype stereo sound pressure mic from Crown® called a SASS-P MKII® (Stereo Ambient Sampling System). This updated mic hasn't yet been released (its serial number is 0003), and he tells that he's been testing it out on classical music and choirs. He says it works great for getting that live acoustic sound of the room. Crown® has loaned it to him to try, all they want is informative feedback, and maybe some sample recordings.
What the hell, if you don't ask, you don't get. "Hey Gary, how's about I try it out on a bunch of local rockers doing an acoustic gig tonight?" "Sure", says the big man, "you can also use my new portable (TCD-D3) Sony® DAT recorder and some headphones. Just take some notes and bring it all back Monday."
It's 5 o'clock and I'm outta there. I roll home eat dinner, play with Chelsea, our 2 year old daughter and chat with Darlene, my again pregnant wife. After they both go to bed, I play around with the gear for awhile, then get ready to go to the show.
When I get to the club, the place is jam packed and the boys (Bill Pilipchuk, Scott Christy, Dan Hess, Chris Badynee, and Russ Epker) have already started. It must be 85 degrees and 90% humidity in the place. Humidity has a small, but measurable effect on sound speed (causing it to increase by about 0.1%-0.6%). Nothing like a hot, sweaty, smoky, dimly lit crowded club- this is my idea of a perfect combo for any show. It's what Dave Rat calls the Thermodynamics of a Rock Show.
Their front of house (FOH) engineer, John Wysk, a fellow soundman in the Detroit scene for Toby Redd, and I have worked many a show together. His mix is perfect and the place is getting more crowded by the minute. I see many friends have arrived to cheer the boys on. In between songs, and after I buy him a beer, I tell John about the portable recording gear in my car and ask if it's ok to give it a shot. "Go for it, man. Better get a spot quick, looks like the room's gonna be too tight to move soon." I tell the giant Bouncer I'll be right back, just need to get some stuff in my car for the band.
I grab the gear, return to the entrance. Man, must be 40 people in line waiting to get in. Screw it, I push my way to the front carrying the gear. As soon as I get one foot in the door, the same Bouncer places his huge hand on my chest, stopping me dead in my tracks. Listen, 155lbs of a long hair soundman ain't nothin' next to a 250lb ex- linebacker.
"The place is too full, you'll have to wait in line with the rest."
"What the f… I just told you I was going to my car to get some recording gear."
"It's too packed, and the owner just told me not to let anyone else in until some people leave."
"Dude, I just left, and now I'm coming back. Christ, don't you remember me. It's not like there's anybody else with a handlebar moustache that just left to get some audio gear out of his car."
"Sorry man, I can't do anything about that, right now. You're gonna hafta wait like–" Just then, the song ends. Again, if you don't ask… (Holding up the gear) "John! Hey John!" Wysk nods to the Bouncer, who concedes (not without crap from everyone else waiting in line).
I setup as quick as I can. The mic is on a stand (thanks Gary!) about 40' Stage Right of the band and 6' from the floor. I set levels on the DAT and cross my fingers cause the headphones aren't loud enough to really monitor with. The boys rip through 4 tunes (In Another Life; Don't Look Back; One Last Chance; Since I Met You) before taking a break. Geez, I thought Bill's voice was going to plunge the recording into digital overload on "One Last Chance". That dude sure has some pipes! Good thing I was visually monitoring levels. And who the hell thought of covering a Hermione Gingold tune? Brilliant! It's a good thing it wasn't "The Borgias Are Having an Orgy".
Holy Crap! Now that I'm not so focused on the recording, I realize that the place is about 100 degrees with 100% humidity and about to burst at the seams. I'm in the middle of a human car wash, without any protection for myself and the gear, and if I don't move to some place safe, I could really be in trouble.
I move the gear next to John's FOH console, buy him another beer, and promise not to get in his way. The mic is now 55' from the stage, about 5' from the back wall, and 6' from the floor. Not exactly ideal, but at least it's a drunk proof zone (I hope). The boys come back on for their last set. The place is so packed that Bill announces to the people still waiting in line that he will come outside and sing if they don't let everyone in. The boys and the audience are thoroughly enjoying and playfully interacting with each other. I cross my fingers that the Crown® mic is doing its job. Everything is going smooth for 4 more tunes (Sentimental; Siren Song; Sea of Jealousy; We Ought to Know Better), when the batteries start to poop out as Chris begins to do "God Loves George Jones." Thank God I'm not in the middle of the audience as I struggle to get the dead Duracell's replaced, just in time to catch the end of the tune. Dang it! Shoulda checked the voltage levels before leaving the house. Fresh batteries allow me to continue as the boys pull out another 4 to close. (Excuse Me Sir; Paper Promises; Cry Myself Dry; Freedom On Your Mind).
At the end of the show, the boys go into the crowd to meet & greet. Rich Nelson from BSA and I try to listen to the playback, but the noise floor in the club has to be 90dB. If I push the monitoring level too high on the DAT, it sounds distorted. John makes me promise to get him a copy. Hopefully I can come through. I try listening via headphones on the way home, but the nuances of the recording are lost in the car road noise and my tinnitus. Man, have I just wasted my time, and dented my rep? Oh well, it was a memorable night either way. I'll just hafta wait until Monday to give the tape a listen at the GTN studio with Gary.
That Monday afternoon I hookup with Gary. We give an initial listen, but he has other work pressing, so I leave a few blank cassettes for him to make copies. The next day (October 8th – for the significance of this date, read on), I pickup the cassette copies. The quality is pretty good, except for the area where the batteries died. The mic captures the essence of sitting in the audience better than anything else I've ever used. We both agree that the mic seems to work best from the first position. He asks if he can submit examples of the tunes to Crown®. I fill out the mic position info, attach it to a cassette copy of a few of the tunes, then sent it on its way. A few weeks later I received a copy of the Crown® SASS Demo CD as a thank you for my input. Gary went on to design a surround sound rig using two SASS-P MKII® mics, and Crown® gave him two free mics for his help. He still uses them to this day. I've used this mic to do a 3 day national college marching band competition, as well as some High School marching band recordings. Worked great every time!
Fast forward a few weeks later. Skelton Crew has another gig, so I drop off a cassette copy to John, buy him a couple of beers, and stay to enjoy the show with my lovely wife Darlene. A few months later, I get a call from Skeleton Crew asking if I can run sound for them. In 1992, I was slowly removing myself from the scene, only working gigs for special friends. Chelsea, our two year old daughter was my main focus, and our second daughter Hailee was on her way.
"John's not available. Can you work the next few gigs? And, oh by the way, we now have a drummer."
"Sure, why not. But, are you sure? I mean, I don't exactly have a light touch and I might tend to Rock it up a bit more, especially now that you have a drummer."
"We trust you. Please help."
So I did. Filled in for John for about 6 gigs. It was a blast, but I really had to work to control my volume and keep a 'light touch'. The boys were handling the dynamics well enough by themselves, and adding anything major really took away from their 'feel'. Back then my mix was about punch, shock & awe – with vocals always wet & on top. Every once and awhile Darlene & I would go to see them when John mixed. I always thought John did a better job than me, a 'more refined' touch. Some soundmen just fit well with certain bands. Me, I always seemed to do best with power pocket drummers and interesting lead singers (Rhythm Corps, Via Satellite, Cadillac Kidz, the Roommates). And with Adrenalin, I could vibrate the prosthetic leg of their follow spot man Tony V every time (and that was with the guitar leads, not just the kick drum).
Reconnection After the birth of our second daughter, Hailee, I was completely out of the Rock n Roll business – focusing more on TV & recording studio design. Chris called me one day to let me know that Skeleton Crew was competing on Star Search. They almost made it to win it all too. It still makes me smile to see the YouTube video of these local boys beating out "Girl Tyme", Beyonce's precursor to Destiny's Child. What a trip!
Learning Over the next decade and a half , besides being a Dad, I've changing careers multiple times (from TV design, to supervising a creative advertising department, to photographer, to 3D virtual reality room display design, to PMI certified project manager). Now I'm a musical playwright. Somewhere along the line I even managed to get a Top Secret security clearance (but if I tell you about it, I might have to kill you after I answer). In between all this I've sporadically done my fair share of audio gigs. Just lucky I guess. After working with Skeleton Crew, I'd leaned toward more listening and understanding what not to do in a mix, instead of what I could add. Every time I did a jazz group or church gig, I'd do my best to let the artists shine through, without trying to add too much of my own signature. Twice, I had the honor of doing sound for Kem just before he was signed at Motown, this is one artist that works best with the 'light touch' approach I learned with Skeleton Crew.
Reconnection. Throughout the years, I always kept in touch with Chris Badynee, occasionally checking out his shows under his alter ego Bogdon Vasquaf. Darlene and I watched his daughter do a soft-shoe while his band played jug music to accompany her. I even took Hailee and her bass playing boyfriend to a gig where he was demonstrating his box bass. I feel it's important to connect with and support people who continue to pursue their dreams, especially when they've occasionally dropped their passions so that they could take time out to be a parent.
When I did my first interview with Encore Michigan about my playwrights group trying to get something going locally by holding open staged readings of our plays, Chris was the first to post it on Facebook. Because of the positive response from many of the musicians I had worked with, and constant pressure from Darlene and my daughters, I succumbed to the world of social networking. Low and behold, if I didn't reconnect with other Detroit musical souls, including Bill Pilipchuk. I found out that he and the Skeleton Crew boys decided to get back together to record at Harmonie Park Studios for the Christmas in Detroit CD to benefit S.A.Y. Detroit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to programs for the homeless. This charity is founded by local wunderkind Mitch Albom. Darlene just finished reading his latest book 'Have a Little Faith'. Bill tells me that the song they are recording is called 'Faith' and they were adding Pastor Henry's choir (featured in Mitch's book) to the end of the song. Coincidences?
I've been slowly digitizing all my old live show cassettes, so I decide to transfer the Wagon Wheel show next. While I'm cueing up the cassette, I decided to use the tune 'One Last Chance' for a level check (remembering the peaks Bill hit with his voice that night). Darlene was listening, and commented that she'd forgotten how good Bill's voice was. This is one dude who, as they say in the theatre, can really "hit the back wall". When I emailed Bill to see if he would be interested in a digital copy of the Wagon Wheel concert, you could feel beaming excitement pour through his response. Seems his wife Susan has practically worn out her cassette copy of the show. The craziest thing is that Bill's email to me was on October 8th – yep, boys & girls, 18 years to the date when I got my first copies of the Wagon Wheel recording from Gary P. Coincidence? As Albert Einstein said "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." These types of events always make me push further, just to see what dreams may come.
Reconnection. The following Monday I call Bill to see if I can drop off a CD copy on my way to my monthly playwrights meeting in Ferndale. I arrive at his brownstone near Lola's Salon a few minutes late. I get to meet his beautiful wife Susan, and we catch up quickly.
Bill mentions he's been retired from singing since the late 1990's, and never really intended to go back, but after he forwarded the tune 'Faith' to Brian Pastoria and, with some heavy persuasion (never, ever discount Brian Pastoria's enthusiasm), he decided to reconnect with the boys to give it a go. He recounted this story about a person who is in Pastor Henry's choir that was at a crossroads in their life until they were given the lyrics to 'Faith'. Coincidence?
Says Bill – "…In fact not too long ago this individual was sleeping in a box next to Harmonie Park Studios, and also used to party too much at Lola's Midtown Tavern." (another supposed coincidence? I think not.). "Of all my music experiences, this songs' effect on this person meant more to me than anything."
Images of concern, restless ideas, passion flow out and surround our 60 minute reconnection.
"…I've had an idea for a musical, but I just do know whether I have enough time"…."So email me your thoughts and let's see what happens…"
"Dude, you're a little rusty, I'm a little rusty." – We ask our friends to get the oil can, and apply.
Learning, coincidence and reconnection. As Bill shows me around iContact Designs impeccably appointed brownstone they call their workspace, I'm impressed with his openness and passion for his work; but I sense an underlying yearning for balance between the impact of the Detroit economy, the ability to stay the course, and a sense of restrained dreams within. I'm reminded of the tough times in 1980's early Detroit, which bred musically like minded souls to band together to make sense of the poor economy through music. Somewhere, along the path, we all took slight detours away from our desires in order to suppress disappointment, yet, have a little faith, fire doesn't fade away. These recurring episodes ignite smoldering passions that eventually awaken as closed away memories catch fire. As we mature, events manifest revealing when it's time to move. We need to seize these opportunities, because we might just have one last chance, one last chance to be drawn toward these moments of truth, discovering from each event, and reconnecting like trumpeting souls as they occur.
-Steve Schultz
Tags acoustic, Bands, Christmas in Detroit, Destiny's Child, Ed McMahon, Events, Faith, gigs, live perfomance, Music, Skeleton Crew, Star Search
Categories Art, Bands, Live Music, Music
Skeleton Crew® | Christmas in Detroit 3 | "Faith"
The recording sessions for "Faith," Skeleton Crew's contribution to the Christmas in Detroit 3 project, began on 09/09/09. There was a palpable energy and vibe in the air that was felt by everyone involved.
We had the pleasure of working with Grammy Award winning record producer, Mark Pastoria, and Pastor Henry Covington who brought in the choir we incorporated for backing vocals on the "Faith" recording. Pastor Henry is featured in Mitch Albom's new book, "Have a Little Faith." The choir was both inspirational and perfect for this song; they weren't professional singers, but a group made up of diverse individuals who in some way or another ran into varying degrees of hard luck in their lives. These beautiful individuals, with the help of Pastor Henry and others, have managed to turn their lives around for the better. They have gone on to help and inspire others.
It was during the subsequent recording session to record this choir of hope that we had the pleasure of enjoying a break from recording to talk to one of the choir members. During our conversation about the overall recording experience, the topic returned to the song "Faith" and its meaning.
It was at this moment that the individual we were speaking with offered to share a story that moved us deeply and one we will never forget. The choir member revealed that there was a time in the not-so-distant past where they had slept in a cardboard box outside of the very recording studio in which we were working.
This candid individual lived to party and often frequented Lola's, the nightclub that occupied the first floor of the building that housed Harmony Park Studios, located in the newly revitalized Harmonie Park area of Detroit. This person eventually dug down deep for the courage and pulled themselves up and got their life moving in a positive direction through the help of people like Pastor Henry and others.
Then came the point in our conversation where this individual told us that they were about to leave the mission that helped them get their life in order and where they worked helping others. This person did not share with us whether they were leaving to become the denizen of despair they fought so hard to conquer or if they were leaving to pursue other opportunities.
It was at the time the choir member was about to announce their departure from the mission when Brian, the talented choir director, handed this person the lyrics to our song, "Faith." They had not heard a note of the music nor had they ever heard of the band Skeleton Crew before. The choir member told us that immediately after reading the lyrics they were so moved they changed their mind and decided right then and there not to leave. The lyrics moved this person so much they felt this was their reason to stay on at the mission and continue helping others. Speechless and holding back tears we thanked this individual for sharing their very personal story with us.
The reward for writing and recording "Faith" has exceeded even our greatest expectations. To have a song like "Faith" or something you've created affect someone so much to the point it alters their life course and steers them in a positive direction is priceless and worth every effort in its production.
Skeleton Crew would like to thank Brian and Mark Pastoria for generously inviting us to participate in this incredible musical journey. We would also like to thank our engineer Alan and everyone at Harmonie Park Studios for making this one of the most memorable recording experiences of our career. Here's to working together again soon and Merry Christmas to all!
peace & love ~Skeleton Crew®
PS: Help the homeless in Detroit and enjoy some great music by purchasing Christmas in Detroit 3 at http://www.christmasindetroit.org.
Tags acoustic, Bands, Beth Hart, Beyonce, Christmas in Detroit, Christmas songs, Ed McMahon, Justin Timberlake, Music, My Brutha's Keepa, S.A.Y. Detroit!, Skeleton Crew, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search
Categories Art, Bands, Music
Skeleton Crew® "Digital Downloads" Now available from Amazon.com and Nimbit.com!
A resounding thanks to all our fans who have inquired of late as to where and how they can purchase Skeleton Crew® music. Yes, there are a few vintage "pre-historic…dig! "enhanced CD's" available on Ebay and Half.com, but if you're in dire need of instant "skeletal gratification" you're in luck!
Digital downloads of our landmark debut album, "pre-historic…dig!" are now available from Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/Skeleton-Crew/e/B002NV0FFO/ref=sr_tc_2_0
or from our Nimbit Music Store at: http://www.nimbitmusic.com/skeletoncrew
If you're a member of our Facebook Fan Page you will notice a "MyStore" Tab at top of our Fan Page. Click on the "MyStore" Tab and you have instant access to our Nimbit MP3 Store where you can download individual songs or entire albums. Our EP "Under The Watersign" was never released to the public and has only been made available now as "Digital Downloads" from Amazon.com and Nimbit.
Skeleton Crew® has plans for an exciting reemergence in 2010 with our new single, "Faith," recorded for the Christmas in Detroit 3 Project. In addition, look for a new album of original material and some surprise recorded releases, too!
And don't forget: Much of the music we released is available for listening for free either on our Facebook Fan Page or on our MySpace page or Amazon.com Store sites. We can't thank everyone enough for your love and support! Here's to a very harmonious 2010!
Tags acoustic, Album Cover Art, Bands, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Ed McMahon, entertainment, Music, Recordings, Skeleton Crew, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search
Categories Albom Cover Art, Art, Bands, Music
Skeleton Crew® | Star Search Revisited | Episode One: The First Show
Welcome to the first episode in our Star Search Revisited Series. We'll follow our heroes throughout their journey both on TV and behind the scenes in search of stardom and the $100,000.00 prize!
The summer of '92 marked an incredible period of growth and evolution for Skeleton Crew®. We had many great gigs including The Palace of Auburn Hills SummerFest and some choice opening act opportunities at the DTE Energy Music Theater (then named, Pine Knob Music Theatre) and more.
The fall of '92 brought on more surprises in the form of an invitation to audition for the television talent show, Star Search (the precursor to American Idol). Star Search was a huge hit at the time and during its years on the air.
Somehow (I'll fill in the details when I have the time to ask some questions), noted record executive, Dick Williams, got a hold of a pre-release copy of our debut album, "Pre-Historic…Dig!," which we just finished recording during the summer with our producer, Gary Spaniola, for his Baltic Records label. The next thing you know, one of Star Search's talent producers, Marylyn Fisher, contacted us to schedule an audition.
I must admit, at first, there was much trepidation if we should do the show or not. We decided to do the audition figuring if we were selected to appear on the show we would decide then what we wanted to do. Well, we were chosen and we did decide to perform on Star Search.
We were informed that we had two minutes to perform each song to a pre-recorded backing track while the vocals were performed live during taping of the show. Rather than edit existing song tracks to conform to the two minute constraint, we went back into Seller Sound studio to re-arrange and record two minute versions of the songs we chose to perform on the show.
Two shows were taped on a scheduled taping day. Often we were up at 7 am for an 8:30 sound check and the first taping would begin around 10:30 or 11. Break for lunch and back for an afternoon taping at 1:30 or 2. People visiting Disney World had the opportunity to view a taping of a television show at the park and the crowds were enthusiastic.
We were given round trip airfare from Detroit to Orlando, Florida where Star Search was taped at Walt Disney World. Beautiful accommodations at The Port Orleans on our first trip down and Dixie Landings for the subsequent two return trips. Each band member also received $30.00 per diem for food and expenses per day. The entire process for Star Search '93 took place between September and October 1992. Star Search '93 aired in January of 1993.
Some of the acts that went on to fame and fortune that appeared with Skeleton Crew® on Star Search '93 included: a young cowboy named Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé who performed with the precursor to Destiny's Child – Girl Tyme [Skeleton Crew has the unique distinction of forever being a footnote in the career of Beyoncé as "the band of scary musicians that beat her on Star Search with a four-star performance.], an incredible singer and Star Search female vocalist champ, Beth Hart, and Star Search winning comedian Don MacMillan, who went on to work for McDonald's Hamburgers as Mac Tonight.
We hope you enjoy revisiting our appearances on Star Search. We will follow the series over the next few weeks much like they were originally aired. We'll also be uploading photos and video of the proceedings that went on behind the scenes in an effort to recreate the fun and excitement we experienced during this magical time in our history. Stay tuned for more!
Tags acoustic, Bands, Ed McMahon, live perfomance, Music, Skeleton Crew, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search
Categories Art, Live Music, Music
Skeleton Crew® "Cabaret at The Ritz" by Brad Shaw
September 3, 2009 //
Skeleton Crew® Cabaret at The Ritz by Brad Shaw | Chris & Russ
Aah…Cabaret at The Ritz! This type of staging had never before been attempted, let alone executed, at The Ritz Nightclub in Roseville, Michigan. We wanted to make the 2,000 seat club feel more intimate so we thought: "how about bringing the audience up on stage with us?"
We ran the idea by our dear friend Connie Marshall, who happened to be events coordinator for the Palace of Auburn Hills and DTE Energy Music Theatre. She loved it and said she could help.
The next thing you know Connie had brought in a lovely assortment of artificial trees to augment the stage. We placed several cocktail tables and chairs about the stage and instructed the waitresses to come up on stage during our performance to serve the lucky patrons that received seats on stage. It was the most unique performance Skeleton Crew® had ever endeavored at The Ritz. A splendid time was had by all.
Tags acoustic, Bands, entertainment, Events, live perfomance, Music, Photography, Skeleton Crew, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search
Skeleton Crew® Bassist Speaks To Inventors Council of Michigan!
Thursday Sept 10 because i get to speak to the Inventors Council of Michigan http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.inventorscouncil.org/
this is gonna be COOL… i'll bring my first prototype to compare how different it is since i've been selling it. The bass is very different today due to customer demand, retailer demand, and the industry suggestions.
I've gone thru 5 major design changes/improvements AFTER my product was on the retail shelves! I'm really going to press the fact that these inventors MUST get their product ideas into the market so that the market can make practical improvements that the inventors simply dont see.
anyway, i'm very excited. Rob Rosinski will accompany me on guitar.
Skeleton Crew® bassist and inventor of the Bogdon Box Basss, Chris Badynee, will speak Thursday Sept 10, 2009 to the Inventors Council of Michigan http://www.inventorscouncil.org/.
"This is gonna be COOL…" said bassist and inventor, Chris Badynee. "I'll bring my first prototype to compare how different it is since I've been selling it. The bass is very different today due to customer demand, retailer demand, and the industry suggestions. I've gone through five major design changes/improvements after my product was on the retail shelves! I'm really going to press the fact that these inventors MUST get their product ideas into the market so that the market can make practical improvements that the inventors simply dont see. Anyway, I'm very excited. Rob Rosinski will accompany me on guitar."
The Bogdon Box Bass is The World's First Mass Produced Cardboard Bass Guitar. More information o teh Bogdon Box Bass is avaiable at: http://www.edencompanies.com/bogdon/
Tags Bands, cardboard, innovation, invention, live perfomance, Music, Musical Instruments, Skeleton Crew, Skeleton Crew®, Star Search
Categories Art, innovation, invention, Live Music, Music
Skeleton Crew® Record Release Party Photos | Gem Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
August 12, 2009 //
Prior to the band's national record label debut on Intersound Records in 1996, pre-historic…dig! was released on our producer's (Gary Spaniola) independent label, Baltic Records. Susan Murphy, who's company Lip Service Communications handled public relations for the band and coordinated the album cover design, graciously paid for and hosted the record release party at the gloriously restored Gem Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
Two hundred invited guests, celebrities and media were treated to two hours of an open bar and an extended performance by the band in celebration of their debut recording. A splendid time was had by all and nobody wanted to go home! The band forever extends its gratitude to Susan Murphy and Lip Service Communications for their support and generosity.
We've upload a splendid batch of photos from that eventful night on our Facebook Fan Page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skeleton-CrewR/105081395867?ref=ts
Njoy!
Tags Album Cover Art, Bands, entertainment, innovation, live perfomance, Skeleton Crew®
Artist Julio Pallone Speaks On: "The Making of The Cover Art for Pre-Historic…Dig!"
August 7, 2009 //
Pre-Historic..Dig! Album Cover Image by Julio Pallone
Artist | Julio Pallone
In 1994, William Pilipchuk invited me to create an image for the cover of his latest musical project. I had seen Skeleton Crew perform the year before at a small club in downtown Pontiac.
Without prior knowledge of their music, I wasn't expecting much. But the performance I witnessed that night made a deep and lasting impression on me. By the end of the show, I was a fan.
William already had the concept of "unearthing the buried remains of the band." The problem was that I'm a photographer and not an illustrator. An idea of this sort would require more than a simple snapshot. This was, after all, the pre-digital era. Fortunately, I had been experimenting for years with compositing photos using a masking technique I devised.
The main obstacle was in getting the required images onto film. Clothing wouldn't work with the concept so each band member would have to be photographed naked. This was outside of my prior experience and comfort zone and most likely theirs as well. But to my surprise, our common goal of creating a masterpiece album overcame any inhibitions.
That done, I then chose a background onto which the figures would be superimposed. A landscape shot taken in Arizona worked well. But the results looked too clean and fresh to be "prehistoric." The solution was to overlay the image with a spray painted texture. The photograph was then turned over to Claire Edwards for the graphic design.
Pre-Historic..Dig! Album Inner Sleeve & CD Image by Julio Pallone
Tags Album Cover Art, Art, Bands, innovation, Julio Pallone, Photo Art, Photography, Skeleton Crew®


Turns out that Nate and I will be celebrating our anniversary on Easter about once every decade! That's right! Nate and I just had our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It was a magical day. After breakfasts in bed [to our surprise, we both planned on doing that for each other! Haha! We worked it out!], serenading on the guitar [I practiced so long and hard, but I barely got through the first verse before the water works started!! I'm such a sap. Nate had to sing it with me], a picnic up in the mountains, Easter Bunny deliveries [He DOES still deliver to adults, however, only to those who are madly in love], a fabulous Easter dinner with the fam, and then returning home to a relaxing night of massages and a fun romantic comedy… we could call it one of our best days ever.
Turns out Baby Nate isn't camera shy at all. Uncle Nate distracted him while we finished preparing dinner!
Ken & Jen - Sounds PERFECT, you young lovers! Now keep that romance going; it's still appreciated even when you become our age.


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Quantum Marketing
Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow's Consumers
by Raja Rajamannar
Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing Officer of Mastercard, shares breakthrough, frontier strategies to navigate the challenges marketers face to thrive in a modern business world that is changing with unprecedented speed and disruption.
As technology has continually evolved in the last several decades, marketing has had to change with it, evolving through four significant stages that build on the strategies and tools of the previous era. What happens next in the fifth stage, or Fifth Paradigm, will not be an evolution, but a revolution. Almost everything about how marketing is done today, including the very notion of a brand itself, will require a complete re-imagination.
As Chief Marketing Officer of Mastercard—one of the world's most recognizable and decorated brands—Raja Rajamannar shares the forward-thinking ways all businesses must rethink their entire marketing landscape to remain relevant and be successful.
Readers will:
Understand the evolution of marketing and how to be at the forefront of future change.
Get clarity on the right marketing strategies and tactics to pursue amidst an ever-evolving industry.
Achieve breakthroughs in innovative thinking in order to compete in modern business.
Gain perspective from top marketers across industries.
Quantum Marketing is for all business people who seek to understand how rapidly marketing is evolving, what some of the smartest people in the discipline are doing to get ready for this dramatic shift, and what the new world will look like for companies, consumers, and society at large as the race to develop revolutionary marketing strategies reaches a whole new level.
For as long as I have known Raja, he has been consistently pushing the boundaries of marketing to drive business results. His book will help executives of all kinds reimagine marketing.
Quantum Marketing provides inspiration for an exciting future of disruption in the field and sheds light on the value marketing brings in driving business in this era of transformation. Wherever you are in your marketing journey, this is a must-read.
Any marketer who wants to build brands that stand the test of time in the post digital age requires a balanced approach to marketing where science rules and storytelling amplifies. Raja is a true polymath who has struck the right balance.
'Raja does a brilliant job showing how to reimagine and reframe marketing by combining the power of creativity with predictive sciences and breakthrough technologies to drive business growth. Quantum Marketing is a must-read for all C-Suite executives.'
'Quantum Marketing serves as a call to arms for marketing transformation made inevitable by technology breakthroughs and shifts in cultural expectations. This book is for anyone who wants to understand where marketing is going and how to harness these inevitable changes.'
Imprint: HarperCollins Leadership
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Category 1 : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General
Category 2 : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Advertising & Promotion
Category 3 : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior
Category 4 : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Sales & Selling / General
Raja Rajamannar
Raja Rajamannar is a globally recognized marketer, an innovative thinker, a transformational business leader, and a highly successful brand builder. Starting as a marketing trainee, he worked his way up through different companies, industries, and geographies around the world to become the global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Mastercard, which he has built into an iconic brand that is now rated amongst the top twelve brands globally. He was named Global Marketer of the Year by the World Federation of Advertisers, as Forbes Top 5 World's Most Influential CMOs, Business Insider's 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World, Ad Week's Top 10 Most Tech Savvy CMOs in the World, Billboard's 2018 Top Branding Power Player, and Campaign Power 100, and he is an inductee into The CMO Club Hall of Fame. He was elected as the President of the World Federation of Advertisers and is also on the board of directors of PPL Corporation (a Fortune 500 company).

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Gilda Barabino at the City College of New York and Vicki Magley at the University of Connecticut will discuss the National Academies' recently released study on sexual harassment of women in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine, specifically looking at how it affects recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in these fields.
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) offers this documentary video series that spotlights local organizations across the US advancing health equity for their communities by addressing environmental, social, economic, and structural challenges that may impact residents' health. The videos show that, while challenges are numerous, progress is possible when community members, organizations, funders, and policy makers work together to drive local-level solutions.
This Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable will discuss Breakout Labs, a revolving fund and program within the Thiel Foundation that uses philanthropy to support early-stage, deep technology companies across the United States.
Part one explores film clips from the documentary, "From the Ashes," to introduce the health, community, and environmental problems associated with production and use of coal. In Part II, a panel of experts will discuss what is driving change in the electric power system and how the overall production and transmission of power is evolving. Watch live on Monday, April 30 at 9:30 am.
Representatives from industry, academia, and the federal government will gather for two panel discussions on "Cybersecurity – Challenges for the Engineering Profession and Society" and "Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation's Electricity System." The webcast will begin at 8:15 AM EDT.
Join us for LinkEngineering's upcoming webinars: Engineering Basics for PreK-12 Educators on April 17, and Playful Learning - Making Engineering Fun on May 1.
Women's health research is about more than investigating conditions and diseases that only or mostly affect women. Janine Clayton, MD, NIH Associate Director for Research on Women's Health and Director, Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), will discuss ORWH's vision for women's health research in 2018 and beyond.
Do you work? This webinar's for you!
Tom Mitchell at Carnegie Mellon and Erik Brynjolfsson at MIT will discuss the technological advances that can create enormous economic and other benefits but can also lead to significant changes for workers.
The 2017 symposium covered four topic areas: Machines That Teach Themselves, Energy Strategies to Power Our Future, Unraveling the Complexity of the Brain, and Megatall Buildings and Other Future Places of Work.
Researchers at the Wyss Institute, Harvard SEAS, and MIT CSAIL have developed a novel design approach for origami-inspired artificial muscles, capable of lifting 1000x its own weight.
This webcast on inspiring novel collaborations and building capacity will explore ways to build capacity for and foster the use of evidence-based strategies for engaging the public with science and ensuring its appropriate use.
Find out about the committee's work and discussion document that outlines sets of competencies and core educational elements at the master's and Ph.D. levels, then register for the next meeting by scrolling down the page.
Tune in for the webcast beginning on July 19 of the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), which aims to spark global collaborations that lead to innovative ways of addressing critically important engineering challenges and inspiring the next generation of change makers.


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"The word superbike gets thrown around willy-nilly these days but the Italian brand Bianchi's Specialissima deserves that title. The frame is a piece of art with exquisite hand-painted details and a weight that none can sniff at 780g! With this crazy weight and beautiful craftsmanship you still have a bike packed with the latest in compliance and power transfer. With the countervail Anti Vibration technology developed by NASA to aid anti-vibration and increased compliant you really do get a frame that is at the forefront of bike design.
This bike excels when it starts to get steep kick on the pedals and the bike skips on effortlessly it is as equally as stable on the other side.
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At 780gr*, Bianchi Specialissima frame changes the game in the ultralight frame category thanks to the use of MSC's patented Countervail® integrated vibration cancelling system for cycling, developed for NASA by Materials Sciences Corporation. The new Bianchi's Countervail® ultralight carbon formula is specifically tuned to smooth out the inherent nervousness of ultralight frames.
Excellent traction and stability at high speeds make Bianchi's Specialissima ideal tackling different types of surfaces during fast accelerations and super high-speed corners when maximum power and control are essential.
With Bianchi's Specialissima debuts the new edition of Celeste Bianchi color. Its name is CK16. The frame is recognizable for it minimal design and is also available in natural carbon matt with CK16 glossy paint logos.
The relevant feature of the Specialissima is the proven Racing Geometry made in Bianchi. The chassis guarantees optimal bike fitting and a riding position for the most efficient power transmission. The frame is available in 7 sizes from 47 to 61cm.
Specialissima uses an ultralight and rigid monocoque carbon frame (HM fibers) with Countervail® material. PressFit 86.5x41mm is the choice for the bottom bracket area while seat post diameter is 27.2mm.Tapered headtube 1.1/8">1.4" for rigidity improvement and weight reduction. Frontal head tube area inspired by the super aero AquilaCV's profiles. Internal cable routing with double compatibility mechanical and electronic Eps/Di2 shifting.
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Q: What is this extra partition that has appeared suddenly in macOS and how to delete it? macOS BigSur 11.2.3 (20D91) / MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) has suddenly generated a new 22GB partition. I noticed this yesterday when 22GB suddenly disappeared and I started to receive low disk space warnings. It seems to me this partition is for some update that possibly has gone wrong?
I have upgraded Big Sur as soon as it was available so that is some time ago. This partition is more recent. A week ago I partiotioned some USB drives and this partition did not show up back then. Also I did reinstall XCode recently but it worked fine.
I cant remove it from he minus sign. Should I boot from network and delete this or will deleting it create problems? Is there a "correct way" to fix this?

A: This is quite normal under BigSur and it is not a partition, but a snapshot of your drive. E.g. mine looks quite similar:

There is nothing you need to worry about and you should not try to delete it. This exact layout has been also discussed in Apple Forums, on MacRumors and on reddit.
To quote from reddit (user "Advanced_Path"):

Big Sur changes the way how updates are done. Now that the System volume is basically immutable, the way an update is done is with APFS snapshots. The system takes a snapshot of the base volume, updates the necessary file and from that moment forward, it boots from that snapshot.

Furher, I can recommend this article.

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Mayer Brown represented MacLean-Fogg Company on the sale of its Presswerk Krefeld affiliate to HANNOVER Finanz as new equity investor and majority shareholder as part of a management buy-out. The sale is subject to approval by the antitrust authorities. The purchase price was not disclosed.
The above mentioned sale was linked to two asset deals of PWK IBEX GmbH, a Presswerk Krefeld affiliate, where the company acquired the businesses of Gebrüder Kunze GmbH and IBEX Automotive GmbH from insolvency. It was a comprehensive challenge to combine all three transactions and to integrate the contracts within a short time frame which ended in a joint merger control notification.
MacLean-Fogg Company is a global consortium in the automobile and power utility sector. Founded in 1925, the company operates 40 manufacturing facilities and has more than 4,000 employees worldwide. The headquarters is located in Mundelein, Illinois, USA.
Presswerk Krefeld (PWK) is a leading provider of high-tech-linkage and suspension components for the automobile industry. Since 2004 PWK was a legally independent subsidiary of MacLean-Fogg Company.
Mayer Brown has represented MacLean-Fogg for many years in Germany, among others already on the purchase of PWK.
The Mayer Brown team included partner Dr. Marco Wilhelm (lead, Corporate & Securities, Frankfurt), Dr. Jens Peter Schmidt (Antitrust, Brussels), counsel Dr. Malte Richter as well as associate Stefanie Skoruppa (both Corporate & Securities, Frankfurt).


Can you provide a link to the installation video that is referenced on the product page? I couldn't find it on your website.
Looking to purchase. How do we move forward?
I want in too. Just checked the GT3Tek site and it doesn't reflect the price shown above. Let us know how to order.
When Joel was running these specials, a quick call to him was all it took. I don't know if GT3TEK is doing it differently now or not, but their number is listed above.
As for videos, try searching GT3TEK installation on youtube.
Joel was much better at timely response and customer service for sure.
Our installation videos can be sean at www.youtube .com search PORSCHE GT3TEK 993 SPLITTER INSTALLATION or you can call us at (619) 690-5081 or email us at [email protected] for a faster answer. We apologize for the delay on answering your questions Joel was our full time forum guy. Emailing us is the fastest way to answer your questions.
Has your fit/finish improved? Maybe not on these, but the rockers and the wings are reported here to require a lot of finesse. I'd do new splitters, but not if they're littered with aggravation.
Yes, I've bought aftermarket body parts for other vehicles, I'm aware they all need massaging.
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In a Medical First, Pumpkin Soup And a Side of Squash Caused These Women to Lose Their Hair
MIKE MCRAE
Take note, kids; next time pumpkins or squash is on the menu, ask your parents how they'd feel if it made you lose your hair.
According to a recent case study two women experienced alopecia just weeks after downing a meal made from bitter varieties of these two vegetables.
The surprising effects have never been seen before, so are clearly extremely rare. Still, it's a far better excuse than "I couldn't fit in another bite".
Dermatologist Philippe Assouly from Saint Louis Hospital in France traced the cause of spontaneous hair loss in two women back to cucurbit poisoning, in one case from a pumpkin soup and another from a side dish of squash.
Keep in mind, these aren't just typical vegetables you'd pick up in most grocers.
Most garden variety members of the cucurbit family, which include pumpkins, cucumber, zucchini, and squash, have been selected over time to have the barest amounts of a bitter compound called cucurbitacin.
Ancestors of the vegetable evolved the chemical to dissuade herbivores from chowing down, but clearly there will always be some people who fail to get the message.
It's not uncommon for those who have acquired a taste for bitter flavours (or simply don't notice them) to include such gourds in soups and other consumables. Concentration of cucurbitacin can increase in homegrown varieties if the plant has not had enough water, or accidentally cross pollinated by your friendly neighbourhood pollinators.
Unfortunately, cucurbitacin does more than abuse your taste buds – it's known to be toxic in doses that are small enough to fit on a plate.
Online gardening blogs are full of words of wisdom describing the "stomach cramps, diarrhoea ... and a pounding heart" that can come with eating too much of these drought-stressed or hybridised cucurbit.
Hey, it's not like the plant isn't doing its best to warn you.
While medical reports of cucurbitacin poisoning typically describe bad things coming out both ends, none have so far included trichorrhexis nodosa – a change to the structure of hair shafts that causes them to snap off.
That make this case study a new addition for the medical books.
Assouly notes that in both cases the patients experienced digestive problems shortly after eating bitter tasting cucurbits in the form of a soup or as a side dish.
In the case of the side dish, other dinner party guests turned down their helpings of the vegetable on account of its taste, which only added to the dermatologist's suspicions.
Similarly, other family members of the second subject apparently weren't a fan of the soup, so turned it down in favour of something less toxic.
The patients' nausea and diarrhoea reportedly eased up after a period of around 24 hours, but that wasn't the end of their woes.
Within several weeks, both women found they were losing hair on their scalp and from other parts of their bodies.
Even months later, some of the regrowth was still showing signs of breaking off at a weakening 2 to 6 centimetres (about an inch or two) from the base of the hair's shaft.
The case study doesn't say whether the two subjects eventually recovered, so we can only hope it's a temporary effect.
But Assouly is convinced that he knows what caused it.
"Acquired trichorrhexis nodosa supports the diagnosis, with the length of the hair that grew after poisoning matching the length of the new hair growth," the dermatologist writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association report.
There's no word on what the mechanism might be behind this form of alopecia, so it could be worth researchers digging deeper.
The take home message for the rest of us is to pay attention to those bitter notes in your home-grown pumpkins, just in case they're producing a little too much toxin after cross-pollinating with a wild cousin.
If your stomach doesn't thank you for it, your head just might.
This research was published in in JAMA Dermatology.


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Free games: here are the titles of April 2021 for each platform
In this new article we will talk about the many free games offered in April by the various monthly subscription services and beyond
Welcome back once again to our monthly column dedicated to video games available for free. Every month, thanks to some subscription services and company initiatives, so many titles are given away.
With all these free video games however there is always a risk of not being able to redeem someone in time. For this reason we have decided to write this article, in which we will tell you about the many free games offered in April by the various monthly subscription services and more.
Ready at any time
Many of the games we will talk about in this article will be free throughout April, but others will only during a certain period. For this reason, we recommend that you redeem the titles that interest you as soon as possible, so as to avoid unpleasant situations.
Also we remind you once again that to download most of the free games we will tell you about you will need to have the right subscription. Fortunately, however, many of these services have a free trial period which in some cases you can use to redeem the games that interest you.
PlayStation Plus - The free games of April 2021
As always, we start our list with the PlayStation Plus, the subscription service of Sony. As you know by now, the PlayStation Plus offers many advantages, such as the ability to play online on PS4 / PS5 and to load saves in the cloud, but it also allows you to redeem three free titles per month. Here are the free games available in April with the service:
Oddworld: Soulstorm (PS5)
Also this month Sony's offer does not disappoint at all, offering to fans 3 very good titles. If you have a PS4 then you can choose whether to face hordes of the undead in the fun FPS Zombie Army 4: Dead War or experience the compelling story of Deacon St. John in Days Gone, one of the most underrated PS4 exclusives. If, on the other hand, you are one of the lucky owners of a PS5 then you can get your hands on Oddworld: Soulstorm, the last chapter of the very strange saga Oddworld Inhabitants.
Also remember that, without having any type of subscription, this month you can also redeem many other free games thanks to the initiative Play at Home. The following titles are currently available: Abzu, Subnautica, Enter The Gungeon, Rez Infinite, The Witness, Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Moss, Thumper e Paper Beast. Above all, starting from April 20 you can even get your hands on the Complete Edition of Horizon Zero Dawn! In short, this month Sony has just decided to expand the backlog of many players.
Xbox Live Gold - The free games of April 2021
Now it's up toXbox Live Gold, the counterpart Microsoft of the PlayStation Plus. The games we will talk about are part of the program Games with Gold and are updated on a monthly basis. Be careful though, because some of these titles will be available only for some platforms and during specific periods. Here is the list of Games with Gold flanked by the platform and the period in which they will be available:
Dark Void (April 1-15 for Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S)
Vikings Wolves of Midgard (April 1st to April 30th for Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S)
Hard Corps Uprising (April 16-30 for Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S)
Truck Racing Championship (April 15 to May 16 for Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S)
Gold again this month it doesn't seem to affect the players very much. Among the titles on the list the ones that stand out most are certainly Dark Void, a frantic third person shooter, Truck Racing Championship, a racing game where you have to drive huge guys truck race. But if you are an old school gamer then you will appreciate it too Hard Corps Uprising, a frantic Run n' Gun belonging to the series Contra, Vikings Wolves of Midgard, for an GDR action set in the world of Norse mythology.
Xbox Game Pass - The free games of April 2021
We still stay at Microsoft to talk aboutXbox Game Pass. At the moment the stock of titles of the service is very large and, on a monthly basis, is enriched with new games. Usually several quality titles arrive every month and also this time the company was not far behind. Here is the list of new free games added to the service in April alongside the platform and the period in which they will be available:
GTA 5 (available from 8 April for consoles and xCloud)
Zombie Army 4: Dead War (available from 8 April for PC, console and xCloud)
Disneyland Adventures (available April 8 for xCloud)
Rush: Disney Pixar Adventure (available April 8 for xCloud)
NHL 21 (available from April 12 for consoles)
Rain on Your Parade (available from April 15th for PC, console and xCloud)
Pathway (available April 15th for PC)
MLB The Show 21 (available from April 20 for consoles and xCloud)
Of all the titles available this month, the one that stands out most certainly is GTA 5. Despite being years since its release, the title of Rockstar Games still continues to have an extraordinary success and certainly many gamers will be thrilled to have it on the Game Pass. Plus, if you are a lover of sports games, for sure you will be very happy for adding NHL 21 e MLB The Show 21, two excellent exponents of the genre.
PlayStation Now - The free games of April 2021
Let's now move on to cloud gaming with the PlayStation Now, the streaming gaming service created by Sony. At the moment the PlayStation Now boasts a very large stock portfolio and every month is always enriched with so much new. Also, most of the games available for PS4 they can also be downloaded, thus offering the possibility to play them even to those who do not have an excellent connection. Here is the list of free games added to the service in April:
Now usually offers a lot of quality titles every month, but in April it has really outdone itself. This time in fact players can have fun with Marvel's Avengers, an action adventure with a strong online component set in the Marvel universe, or Borderlands 3, One of the best looter shooter on the square. Plus many gamers will for sure appreciate it too The Long Dark, a great survival set in the snow-capped mountains.
Google Stadia Pro - The free games of April 2021
Let's talk now about Stadia, the Google streaming gaming platform. Although a subscription is not required to use Stadia, with the pro subscription you will have additional benefits, including many new titles every month. The new free games available in April are:
Resident Evil 7 Gold Edition
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated
Pikuniku
This time, too, Google's offer is more than valid. Obviously the most important title on the list is Resident Evil 7, an exceptional survival horror in the first person branded Capcom, but the other games are not bad at all. For example if you love action JRPG for sure you will appreciate Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, while if you prefer i platform we suggest you give the game a chance SpongeBob. Also, if you know how to appreciate puzzle games as well lead to the absurd, we advise you to try Pikuniku.
Humble Choice - April 2021 Free Games
Now let's see what titles are offered to us this month by the service Humble Choice by Humble Bundle. Subscribers to this service have the option to redeem every month, depending on the type of subscription, 3 or 9 games. In addition, as usual you will also have access to a huge one collection of DRM-free titles that you can download and play forever. Here are the free games available in April:
Sniper ghost warrior contracts
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break
In Other Waters
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The salty dog
Even among the April choices there are many interesting titles, but the ones we recommend the most are F1 2020, Shenmue III, Remothered: Broken Porcelain e Popup Dungeon. Also, if you appreciate gods particularly immersive titles, we suggest you take a look at the two Images (although they should be played on smartphones for the best experience).
Twitch Prime - Free Games for April 2021
Finally, we conclude our article as usual with the titles of Twitch Prime, Amazon's subscription service. Usually the platform always offers a lot of free games and even in April we were not disappointed with the quantity. here are the Giochi 6 available for free with this month's subscription:
Before I Forget
Aces of the Luftwaffe – Squadron
Also this month Twitch offers its subscribers gods not bad titles. If you love to play in multiplayer with friends for sure you will appreciate it very much Move or Die e Moving Out, but there are also titles suitable for those who prefer to play singleplayer. Eg The Escapist is a fun pixel art title in which you will have to try to escape from prison, whereas The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is one turn-based strategy set in the universe of the cult series of the same name.
Never forget the Epic Games Store
Thanks to this article you now know where to easily find most of the free games available in April. Our guide ends here, but if you're interested in really getting all the free games of the month, don't forget check out the Epic Games Store every Thursday. Fortunately, you can stay up to date on all the titles offered by this store thanks to the many dedicated articles on our site.
If you are interested in staying up to date with all the news on the world of video games and much more, then keep following us here on techigames. Furthermore, in case you want to buy some of these games at an advantageous price, we suggest you take a look at the many offers on Instant Gaming.
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PAUL WILKINSON MEMORIAL FELLOW APPOINTED
The Airey Neave Trust and CSTPV are delighted to announce that Dr Kacper Rekawek, a graduate of Queen's University Belfast, has been awarded the Paul Wilkinson Memorial Fellowship for 2013.
Kacper is an analyst in the security programme of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and also teaches Contemporary Counterterrorism at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. For the duration of the Fellowship, Kacper will be affiliated to CSTPV.
Sponsored by the Airey Neave Trust in memory of the late Professor Paul Wilkinson CBE, Kacper's research ("Steady as She Goes?" Is No Counterterrorism Effectively The Best Counterterrorism?) looks at how, by the end of 2001, the symbolic beginning of the "global war on terror", most state actors found themselves under pressure to participate in the global counterterrorism effort. This often entailed not only participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but also counterterrorism activities on the domestic front. Kacper's research will focus on countries that had been relatively unconcerned with terrorism prior to 2001 and aims to establish whether a correlation exists between countering terrorism in previously "safe" countries and exposure to a more robust terrorist threat. It will thus answer the question of whether counterterrorism has brought more terrorism to a given country, and if perhaps a lack of reactive and externally inspired counterterrorism is in fact the best possible policy of a government that has never before faced a robust terrorism threat.
Kacper's other main research areas inculde international terrorism and terrorist organisations. He is also the author of the first comparative analysis of the Irish Republican Army's factions (Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics: Comparative Study of the Official and Provisional IRA), which was published by Routledge in the Political Violence series in 2011. Kacper is also Director of the next year's NATO Advanced Research Workshop ("The Perseverance of Terrosim: Focus on Leaders"), which will take place in Belgrade, Serbia in April 2013.
The Professor Paul Wilkinson CBE Memorial Fellowship
Date: 9 July 2012
The Trust is delighted to announce that it is sponsoring a fellowship in memory of the late Professor Paul Wilkinson CBE, for research to be pursued into the causes of or repsonses to terrorism. The fellowship will be for the amount of £10,000, to sponsor someone to pursue research during the calendar year 2013, and with the researcher being affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Research in the field of cyber-terrorism may be of particular interest. Applications should be sent electronically to Gillian Duncan (gm39@st-andrews.ac.uk), by 31 August 2012, and should consist of the following: a 500-word statement regarding the focus, nature and aims of the research; a curriculum vitae; and references from two academic referees. The successful application will be chosen on the basis of the academic record of the applicant, the feasibility and importance of the research, and the strength of the referees' endorsement.
In May the Trustees announced the creation of the Professor Paul Wilkinson Memorial Fellowship which will the awarded this year to fund research on terrorism causes or responses. Candidates will be selected by Professor RIchard English, the Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews.
EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM IN 2020: AN EXPLORATION OF FUTURE SCENARIOS AND TRENDS
This consultation at St George's House, Windsor Castle, will look in detail at emerging trends in extremism and terrorism over the next five to ten years and the implications for the security of the UK. It will be chaired by Sir David Omand and has been generously sponsored by the Airey Neave Trust and Airwave.
SPONSORSHIP OF DR ALEX BRAITHWAITE
The Trust continues to sponsor Dr Alex Braithwaite of UCL whose research project is entitled "The Territorial Motivations of Terrorist Organisations"


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Her repertoire includes bawdy songs, sea shanties, rebel songs, lovely airs, and her own songwriting. Her originals are often influenced by Irish music, with depth and variety, from profound to playful. She accompanies herself on her acoustic Taylor guitar, mostly finger-picking.
In 2011 Marilyn moved from her home in High Prairie, Washington, and winks as she tells us her car was picked up during a snow and windstorm and carried southward until it was dropped in Sebastopol, California. Since her arrival she's been playing with Celtic fiddler, Francis Small, and recently they have added lively percussionist, Ann Chambers to form Wild Green.
Between her solo performances and those with Francis and Ann, she jumped into the local music scene with her songwriting, performing at the Clear Heart Gallery, Sebastopol Gallery, Coffee Catz, Holy Cow, Infusions, Jasper O'Farrell's, the Glaser Center and more.
She was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist in the Olympia-based trio, Metcalf, McKeegan & O'Malley. She performed in the Portland Irish bands, Sheer Audacity and Brigid's Fire, and sang in the acappella all-woman sea shanty group, Broadside. She also teamed up with fellow songwriter, Karl Smiley of Summit, Oregon, performing originals, Celtic, blues, and American folk.
Marilyn has written music reviews for the northwest's Victory Review, and an international magazine, Reed & Chanter. Her poetry and short stories have been published in several anthologies. She has been inspired to write many new songs since moving to Sonoma County, having been drawn to the area for its ecological consciousness and abundant acoustic music.
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Framed in raw oak
Maria says of her series of new exhibition: "The Golden Room is a metaphor for a mental space that stores an archive of memorable or imaginary places and the emotions associated with them. This is a jewellery box from which I carefully take out images and place them in the light. That's why the rich palette of works is reminiscent of precious stones – emerald, ruby, amber.
The paintings are inhabited by female characters who are each in a state of deep thought, as if they are not really here but somewhere in between. Self-portraits rhyme with portraits of my twin sister and our history recorded in photographs, like multiplying in the mirror with imaginary characters. There is a sort of unsettling stillness to works, a type of peaceful meditativeness, where figures make an imperceptible journey in elusory spaces.
I aim to create works that are both lyrical, powerful, and deceptively simple. For this I use laconic composition in which immersive space captures the figure. In this series the distinction between water, forest or room space becomes irrelevant. The empty landscape and the sunlit room are equally poetic and precious to me. Subdued, as if suspended, painting is derived from a sense of the dramatic. Often composition of works appears rich and agile, but then calm in their dense asceticism never losing their energetic feeling.
By creating a collection of images, I strive for the crystallisation of the moment. My goal is not to lock in a state or situation, but rather to convey the fragility and fluidity of its every facet. These works reflect many references – images from family photos, visual impressions from walks and watched films, fleeting charm with light and colour. I would like these paintings to be perceived as open, like poetry, where the image created by the author is only a guiding thread for the reader, but its endpoint is not defined. Through fluid figurative painting, I propose not escapism, but a journey."
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A Flash of the Possible
By Howard Zinn • The Progressive • January 1, 2000
In the year 1919, when the city of Seattle was brought to a halt by a general strike-beginning with 35,000 shipyard workers demanding a wage increase-the mayor reflected on its significance:
"True there were no flashing guns, no bombs, no killings. Revolution . . . doesn't need violence. The general strike, as practiced in Seattle, is of itself the weapon of revolution, all the more dangerous because quiet. To succeed, it must suspend everything, stop the entire life stream of a community….That is to say, it puts the government out of operation. And that is all there is to revolt-no matter how achieved."
What happened in Seattle recently was not as large an event as the general strike of 1919. But it showed how apparently powerless people-if they unite in large numbers-can stop the machinery of government and commerce. In an era when the power of government, and of multinational corporations, is overwhelming, it is instructive to get even a hint of how fragile that power is when confronted by organized, determined citizens.
When the civil rights activists of the South in the early sixties put into practice the principle they called "Nonviolent Direct Action," they were able to make heretofore invincible power yield. What happened recently in Seattle was another working out of that principle.
Let's face it: Many of us-even old veterans of social movements-had begun to feel helpless as we observed the frightening consolidation of control by the interests of capital, the giant corporations merging, the American military machine grown to monstrous proportions. But we were forgetting certain fundamental facts about power: that the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, that the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products.
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.
Note how General Motors and Ford had to surrender to the strikers of the thirties, how black children marching in Birmingham in 1963 pushed Congress into passing a Civil Rights Act, how the U.S. government, carrying on a war in Vietnam, had to reconsider in the face of draft resistance and desertions en masse, how a garbage workers' strike in New York immobilized a great city, how the threat of a boycott against Texaco for racist policies brought immediate concessions.
The Seattle protests, even if only a gleam of possibility in the disheartening dark of our time, should cause us to recall basic principles of power and powerlessness, so easily forgotten as the flood of media nonsense washes over the history of social movements.
It has been discouraging to watch the control of information in this country get tighter and tighter as megacorporations have taken over television and radio stations, newspapers, even book publishing. And yet, we saw in Seattle that when tens of thousands of men and women fill the streets and halt the normal flow of business and march with colorful banners and giant puppets and an infectious enthusiasm, they can break through the barriers of the corporate media and excite the attention of people all over the country and around the world.
Of course, the television cameras rushed to cover the fires (many actually produced by the police with their exploding tear gas bombs) and the broken windows. The term "anarchist" was used to describe the perpetrators, by journalists ignorant-as were the window-smashers themselves-of the philosophy of anarchism. But it was not lost on viewers that the vast majority of people marching through the streets were angry, even obstructive, but peaceful-yes, nonviolent direct action.
In Seattle, the demonstrators were grappling with impossibly complex economic issues-globalization, protectionism, export trade, intellectual properties-issues the most sophisticated experts have had a hard time explaining. But through all of that complexity, a certain diamond-hard idea shone through: that the schemes of well-dressed men of finance and government gathering in ornate halls were dangerous to the health and lives of working people all over the world. Thousands in the streets, representing millions, showed their determination to resist these schemes.
In one crucial way, it was a turning point in the history of the movements of recent decades-a departure from the single-issue focus of the Seabrook occupation of 1977, the nuclear freeze rally in Central Park in 1982, and the gatherings in Washington for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978, for lesbian and gay rights in 1993, for the Million Man March in 1995, and for the Stand for Children in 1996. This time, the union movement was at the center. The issue of class-rich and poor, here and all over the globe-bound everyone together.
It was, at the least, a flash of the possible. It recalled the prophecy of A. Philip Randolph in November of 1963, speaking to an AFL-CIO convention shortly after the civil rights march brought 200,000 people, black and white, to the nation's capital. Randolph told the delegates: "The Negro's protest today is but the first rumbling of the underclass. As the Negro has taken to the streets, so will the unemployed of all races take to the streets."
There will be more rumblings to come.
Published in The Progressive • January 1, 2000
Category: Tags: Activist, Essays and Speeches, Possibility, The Progressive
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Ticats extend QB Dane Evans through 2021
Adam Gagnon, CFL.ca
HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Tuesday the football club has signed international quarterback Dane Evans to a contract extension through the 2021 Canadian Football League season.
Evans, 25, dressed in all 18 regular season games for the Tiger-Cats in 2018, completing 26-of-42 pass attempts (61.9%) for 383 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, while adding 12 carries for 34 yards. Both his CFL playing debut and first CFL start came against the Alouettes last season on August 3 in Montreal and November 3 in Hamilton, respectively. Evans spent the final month of the 2017 season on the Tiger-Cats practice roster after attending training camp with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles.
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Q: sqlalchemy.exc.ArgumentError: Mapper mapped class could not assemble any primary key columns for mapped table 'users' I am trying to connect my database. But I couldn't.
My error:

sqlalchemy.exc.ArgumentError: Mapper mapped class User->users could
  not assemble any primary key columns for mapped table 'users'

Help me guys! here is my code:
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.base import UUID
from sqlalchemy import text

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'postgresql://postgres:test@localhost/test'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
db.UUID = UUID
#User table
class User(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    usr_id = db.Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), primary_key=True, server_default=text("uuid_generate_v4()")),
    usr_name = db.Column(db.String, nullable=False),
    usr_email = db.Column(db.String, nullable=False),
    usr_pass =  db.Column(db.String, nullable=False)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<User(name='%s', email='%s')>" % (self.usr_name, self.usr_email)

usr = User()

usr.usr_name = "Nyamkhuu"
usr.usr_email = "info@info.com"
usr.usr_pass = "123"

db.session.add(usr)
db.sesion.commit()

usrs = User.query.all()

for urr in usrs:
    print(urr)

Here is my table structure:
create table users (
    usr_id    uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4(),
    usr_name  varchar NOT NULL,
    usr_email varchar NOT NULL,
    usr_pass  varchar NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY(usr_id)
);

A: Remove each comma , in your class User, like below :
class User(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    usr_id = db.Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), primary_key=True, server_default=text("uuid_generate_v4()"))
    usr_name = db.Column(db.String, nullable=False)
    usr_email = db.Column(db.String, nullable=False)
    usr_pass =  db.Column(db.String, nullable=False)

    def __repr__(self):
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