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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - This is not a press release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety. It is provided on behalf of the Department of Justice - Northern District of Iowa as a result of the Division of Criminal Investigation's participation in this case.
A man who robbed and murdered his drug dealer was convicted by a jury today after a nine-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
Matthew Barrett Robbins, age 48, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was convicted of robbery affecting interstate commerce, conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce, and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in murder. The verdict was returned this morning following more than nine hours of jury deliberations.
The jury found that Robbins and others planned to rob a local drug dealer, and then robbed the dealer on May 31, 2014. The jury also found that Robbins used a firearm during the robbery, and that the firearm was fired, killing the victim.
"Matthew Robbins used a gun to steal drugs and money," said Acting United States Attorney Sean R. Berry. "Robbins's actions resulted in the death of the man he robbed. Today's verdict holds him accountable for that death. This verdict was made possible by the extraordinary cooperation and hard work of more than a dozen law enforcement agencies."
Sentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Robbins remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing. Robbins faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a $750,000 fine, and 11 years' of supervised release following any imprisonment.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Lisa C. Williams and Emily K. Nydle and was investigated by the Marion Police Department, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, the Linn County Sheriff's Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Cedar Rapids Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Iowa City Police Department, the United States Marshals Service, the Davenport Police Department, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, the Benton County Sheriff's Office, the Cedar County Sheriff's Office, the Madison County Sheriff's Office, and the Daytona Beach Shores Florida Police Department. Assistance was also provided by the Waypoint Services Survivor's Program in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 19-cr-53.


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The ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Award were announced back on March 19th but the field will be narrowed down to the "Hobey Hat Trick" this coming Thursday April 2nd. Here now are my own personal top 5, they'll be different choices from many people I'm sure and there's no guarantee that even one of my five will be in the Hat Trick let alone the eventual 2009 Hobey Baker winner. I'd be interested to hear from those of you who are able to follow NCAA hockey more than we can up here, you tell us who the favorites should be.
Before I begin, here's a bit of the criteria that is considered by the 25-member selection committee: "Strength of character on and off the ice", "displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game", "sportsmanship", and "Scholastic achievements". Keeping those in mind...
5. Colin Wilson - Boston University
He's one of the most talented players in college hockey and has the individual stats and awards to prove it. He was drafted 7th overall by Nashville at the 2008 NHL Draft and there was a lot of talk that he would skip the rest of his college career and jump straight to the NHL. He chose instead to return for his sophomore season and went on to lead the Terriers in scoring with 52 points in 41 games... so far. He's picked up a bunch of individual Hockey East accolades and scpred 3 points in a 5-2 Bean Pot Final victory. His charity work revolves around 'Autism Speaks' and his major is History.
Wilson was a guest on The Pipeline Show in May of 2008.
Downside: No mention of scholastic achievement.
4. Viktor Stalberg - Vermont Catamounts
As far as I know, the Hobey Baker Award has never been one by a European player (wrong! see comments). Stalberg hails from Sweden and was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 6th round back in 2006. He's wrapping up his junior season at Vermont and he was very productive this year scoring 24 goals and 45 points. Like Wilson, his season isn't quite done yet so he's got a chance to pad his stats and maybe capture a National Title in the process. Academically he's got a 3.6 GPA as a Business Administration major. I find it impressive that an import can succeed so well both at the rink and in the classroom.
Downside: No mention of charity work.
3. Chad Johnson - Alaska Fairbanks
The only goalie to make my list is also the only Canadian. The former AJHL goalie was drafted by Pittsburgh in the 5th round of the 2006 draft and has now completed his NCAA career. Johnson recently signed with the Penguins. On the ice, Johnson's .939 save percentage was tops in the country and he had a 1.69 GAA and 6 shutouts to go along with it. The fact that his record is 14-14-5, coupled with those impressive stats, suggests a quality netminder on a team with little defence. Away from the rink Johnson volunteers with Habitat For Humanity.
Downside: No mention of scholastic achievements.
2. Matt Gilroy - Boston University
I'll admit I'm a sucker for an emotional story and Matt Gilroy's telling of why he wears #97 in honor of his deceased little brother... well it had me going. He's riding an ironman streak of +140 games and has the distinction of being the first player in Hockey East to be named a First Team player three times. Talk about character, this is a guy who paid his own way this year after the program gave his scholarship away because they were positive he was turning pro last summer! His charity work includes Autism Speaks and volunteer work at a Long Island summer basketball league.
Gilroy was a guest on The Pipeline Show on March 24th.
1. Jacques Lamoureux - U.S. Air Force Academy
Like Gilroy, Lamoureux has a captivating back story as well. Long story short - he was deemed mentally unfit to join the military a few years ago as he fought inner demons that nearly led to his suicide. With help from family and his own inner will, Lamoureux has not only taken control of his personal life but he's giving back by visiting schools and speaking to kids about suicide and ways to survive life's problems. On the ice he's one of NCAA hockey's leading scorers with 53 points in 41 games - after missing a year because of a transfer from Northern Michigan! His family is drenched in hockey from his father, his twin sisters to his brothers including Jean-Philippe who was up for the Hobey last year as goalie for North Dakota.
Lamoureux was a guest on The Pipeline Show this past November 18th.
Downside: No mention of scholastic achievements aside from "completion of Combat Survival Training".
(photos courtesy: Boston University, Alaska-Fairbanks, Air Force, Vermont, USCHO.com)
Labels: Gilroy (Matt), Hobey Baker Award, Johnson (Chad), Lamoureux (Jacques), NCAA, Stalberg (Viktor), Wilson (Colin)
Eetu Huisman said...
Peter Sejna won Hobey Baker in 2003, so Stålberg wouldn't be the first European to do so.
thanks... for some reason when I went through the list I went right over the name and didn't clue in that Sejna wasn't American.

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Mr Hugh Linaker (1872 – 1938) is regarded as a horticultural pioneer. His career, working in local and state government extended from 1889 to 1938.
He worked in Ballarat East (1889 – 1901) and Ararat (1901 – 1912) as the Curator of Parks and Gardens before working with the Victorian state government (1912 – 1937) as Landscape Gardener, Department of Mental Hygiene, earlier named, Lunacy Department / Hospital for the Insane.
Dr. W Ernest Jones (Victoria's first Inspector General for the Insane), lobbied strongly for the appointment of a landscape gardener to be based at Mont Park. Dr. Springthorpe, Sir John Monash (war hero, engineer and chairman of the State Electricity Commission) and William Calder (chairman of the Country Roads Board) all supported the benefit of horticulture, espousing that labour in landscape was 'curative work'; the environment becoming part of the treatment for tuberculosis and lunacy. Linaker was the first landscape gardener appointee.
Hugh Linaker is circled on the top row second from the left
Due to the recognition of his horticultural knowledge, 'his ability to design, cultivate nursery stock and most importantly build the schemes using economic methods', Linaker was supported by influential figures throughout his career, despite his lack of recognized academic credentials. He was also skilled in managing unskilled, conscripted workers on his projects. The farms, orchards and vegetable gardens of the asylums were developed to supply the mental institutions and provide excess produce for sale to other organizations as well as work/treatment for the patients.
16th AustralianGeneral (Military)Hospital, later known as the Mont Park Chronic wards. Courtesy Alice Broadhurst Collection- YPL
Not only did he design the grounds and gardens of every mental asylum in the State, commencing with designing the landscapes for Ararat Asylum, he also designed the Ararat Botanical Gardens, later called the Alexandra Gardens, Ballarat Asylum, Mont Park and environs. Mont Park opened in 1912 and by the following year, cricket, tennis and croquet facilities had been established under the auspices of Linaker. Linaker also designed the surrounds of the Yarra Bend and Kew Asylums which were to be turned into a national park to create a 'Thousand Acre Parkland Scheme' (1926). Other projects included the landscaping of Aradale Asylum, Buchan Caves, Maroondah Reservoir Park, May Day Hills/Beechworth Asylum and Sunbury Asylum.
Alexander Gardens memorial to Hugh Linaker
His advisory services were sought by many country municipalities for their public parks and gardens and as a member of the committee of the Tree Planters' Association he was keenly interested in tree-planting projects on main highways. Linaker also appears to have had private commissions from influential people, notably Burnham Beeches, Sherbrooke for Alfred Nicholas. Plants from the Mont Park nursery were used as 'commodities to be traded with other organizations' for materials and other items required for the works.
In 1922 Linaker drew up plans for entrance gates at the Waiora Road entrance, under instruction from Dr. Ernest Jones and in 1929 he facilitated (by donation from philanthropist and pharmacist George Nicholas) ornamental gates for the Plenty Road entrance. These gates were possibly designed by Linaker and installed but have since been demolished and lost.
In 1923, Yallourn was set up to be a model town and the street planting and parks were designed by Linaker. There was also an ambitious plan to complete plantations between Geelong and Melbourne in time for the centenary celebrations (1934) and Linaker was appointed to supervise the Melbourne end but these were never completed. He also worked for the Penal Department (from 1918) and Geelong Grammar School among other commissions.
Linaker's most significant projects were the Shrine environs and the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden at the King's Domain. Linaker's plans for new Shrine and Domain plantings were fiercely criticized by the press because he was not under the jurisdiction of the MCC Curator or the MCC Parks and Gardens Committee. His contribution of the Pioneer Women's Garden (1934) and other areas of the Domain remain. He was also employed to support works in 'connection with unemployment relief schemes by various authorities'.
Linaker, who was regarded by experts as probably the leading landscape gardener in Victoria, died at his home in Burwood Road, Hawthorn. Mr. Linaker, who had been ill for a week, was aged 66 years. A water pond, located in the Alexandra Gardens, Ararat commemorates Hugh Linaker's work.
His whole working career he requested numerous times for his expertise to be acknowledged and to be remunerated appropriately. He wished to become the State Horticultural Director but the position was never created. In August 1933 he was made State Superintendent Parks and Gardens. While his title changed, his duties did not.
Throughout his career, Linaker lobbied for and eventually gained increased status and professional recognition. He was one of the 'improvers' who "believed the environment was capable of transforming the health and behaviour of people."
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Australian Garden History, Vol. 20 No. 4 April/May/June 2009
Farms and gardens in Victorian Mental Health Institutions https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/11536
Hugh Linaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Linaker
Hugh Linaker http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/architecture/display/30072-hugh-linaker
Hugh Linaker's Cottage
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/64420 Victorian Heritage Database Report
Hugh Linaker Obituary https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12505905
Kew Cottages history https://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/domain/1832710-ironic-iconic-institutions/
Linakers' Grave https://billiongraves.com/grave/Hugh-Linaker/13786395
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden https://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/domain/1823262-a-violet-begets-violence/
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This story is part of a monthlong series of guests posts by AIA New York that feature Archtober Building of the Day tours. See the full 2017 schedule here. In today's Building of the Day tour, Archtober viewed the new offices of iHeart Media in Midtown. Designed by Architecture + Information (A+I) in association with creative consultants Beneville Studios, the space houses the corporate headquarters of iHeart Media over three floors. From A+I, Todd Stodolski, Senior Associate; Tony Moon, Architect; and Jara Mira, Project Manager, joined Michael Beneville, Founder and Principal, and Kyle Hoy, Design Manager at Beneville Studios, to lead the tour. First, Beneville and the A+I team gave an overview of iHeart Media's history and the context for the new office. iHeart Media is the largest radio station owner in the United States. iHeart's predecessor, Clear Channel Communications, was founded in San Antonio in 1972 and expanded over the next 30 years to include not only radio stations but other forms of mass media assets, notably billboards and live concerts. Beneville described CEO Bob Pittman's deep faith in radio as a medium, and his belief that, were radio invented today, it would be seen as a groundbreaking technology. It was this belief that led Pittman to rebrand Clear Channel as iHeartMedia in 2014. A+I and Beneville Studios were tasked with creating a flexible, open office space that would convey the excitement of working for and with iHeartMedia. Moreover, the design themes used in the headquarters would be copied at iHeart corporate and broadcasting offices throughout the country, meaning elements had to feel as natural in Peoria or Phoenix as in New York. And the most important directive for the 75,000-square-foot space came from Pittman: "I want visitors to walk through the door and say, 'Who the #*%! are these people?' and I want them to get it within five seconds.'" The main entrance, on the middle floor of three, amply fulfills his vision. In the corridor leading from the elevator to the offices, motion sensors trigger lights in iHeart's colors of red and white, and speakers play randomly chosen live content from iHeart's stations across the country. An average office entrance it is not. The barrage of audio-visual information continues inside. The heart of the space is a cut connecting all three levels around a massive screen which plays footage from iHeart events and seating steps. This space is used to present office-wide policies to all New York employees, but has also host mini-concerts from the likes of Alicia Keys. Behind this light, airy space is the dark, intense Promotional Porthole, a conference room with screens and other fixtures that play video and sound as well as emit fragrances. The three floors of the office all house different parts of the iHeart staff. The top floor is for employees of the audio-visual groups, the middle floor is for Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, one of the country's largest owners of billboards and hoardings, and the bottom floor contains boardrooms and executive offices. The offices are bright and airy, primarily white with flashes of red and blue. The previous offices were very traditional, and there was some concern about the transition to a new space. The main feedback the designers have received is that they could have gone even further in replacing individual glassed-in and cubicle offices with open plan meeting spaces and "phone booth" meeting pods. Many initiatives at iHeartMedia involve multiple teams, and having a common space to meet is essential. Additionally, market managers from across the country meet with executives in New York once a month, so there is a strong ebb and flow in the office population, requiring spaces that can grow or shrink as needed. Within this complex context, A+I and Beneville Studios have conveyed in spatial terms the excitement iHeartMedia generates across its many media platforms. Join us tomorrow at 56 Leonard Street.
To tackle the challenge of making four floors of a windowless 1970s data center reflect the contemporary culture of Square, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson organized the company's headquarters around a central collaborative space punctuated by a library, a coffee bar, and a gallery—anchored by a monumental amphitheater staircase that itself functions as a flexible venue for a variety of activities. Custom white tables further enhance the stair's visual appeal while encouraging dynamic use. The concept's clean lines and predominantly white interiors reflect Square's brand at both aesthetic and functional levels, successfully transforming the space while highlighting the company's core values to create a refined, seamless experience.
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This is the eleventh in a series of guests posts that feature Archtober Building of the Day tours! Horizon Media 75 Varick Street New York, NY This afternoon, we set our sights on Horizon Media, the fastest growing, privately owned media company in the United States. In 2010, it began construction on what is now a stunning, progressive workspace that unites over 1,000 employees in a single office building in downtown Manhattan. A+I's Phil Ward and Kate Thatcher took us into the 250,000-square-foot- space, leading us through what felt like the most sunlit, well-connected office maze I've ever seen. The company covers three floors at 75 Varick Street. A+I is currently collaborating with them on the fifth phase of the project that will expand the office across the 11th and 12th floors. Though the office is inside a landmarked art deco structure, Horizon's space looks anything but its real age. From the visitor's entrance on the 16th floor, a giant LED screen guides visitors into an open space full of natural light. To the left, an internal open staircase is cut out diagonally, connecting three floors of the office. Visitors will immediately see that giant windows line each floor, providing sweeping views of the Hudson, Tribeca, and Soho. It's clear that access to daylight, along with an emphasis on wood paneling, polished concrete, live plantings, and orange accents, are incorporated into every detail of the office's design. Designer Phil Ward described the building as a dream subject for renovation. Once a pre-war printing press, its sturdy concrete skeleton was able to hold the weight of their creative construction. At one point during the tour, Kate Thatcher asked the group: "What does a modern office space need in a building built 100 years ago?" The answer is technological mobility and connectivity. Horizon operates on transparency and accessibility in a 21st-century media world and their office space reflects that. A+I used the industrial feel of the space to their advantage by creating a clean, seamless office that utilizes glass encasings, white cubicles, and techy conference rooms to suggest openness and creative collaboration amongst employees. While there are individual desks, people can also make calls in phone booths, bring their laptops to small couches, meet in groups on the outdoor terrace, or in even in "the dunes," a multi-purpose space on the bottom floor with extra seating and a pantry area. Horizon also boasts a game room, a company gym, a theater and a giant fish tank (a special request by CEO Bill Koenigsberg). The new office design has inspired major change in the company culture, according to leadership. Not only are employees encouraged to get up and move throughout the work day—I don't recall a single elevator outside of the visitor's entrance—but Horizon also strongly promotes the democratization of office amenities and a flexible workspace. While all the employees are not literally seated on the same floor, the company as a whole aims to be on the same level. About the author: Sydney Franklin is a content producer at the NYC Department of Design and Construction. She recently graduated from Syracuse University with a master's degree in architectural journalism.


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I just recently found you all and am working my way through these Literary Roadhouse podcasts and also the Bradbury Challenge ones. I enjoy them both for different reasons. Thank you for both casts. If I had more time, I'm sure I would get hooked on the Bookclub also. But between two of your awesome podcasts, I already have more than enough food for thought for the time being! I do have to work and eat and sleep, you know. I mean that in the best possible way! Anyhow, just wanted to comment and thank you for these discussions.
I think I enjoyed it more because I saw a whole "conspiracy theory", and thought that's what the DR story was there, kind of a back story. Junot was giving us some clues to find this out, and that was intriguing for me.This is what I got from all the baby drama: Elvis' baby girl with his wife is not his either! When Junior sees the boy in DR and realizes Elvis is not the father, he starts to think about it, and encourages him to get a DNA test. Elvis was willing to accept the boy, even knowing he was not the father because "he always wanted a boy". He hoped that the wife was going to accept it, but if he had taken the boy back with him, the wife was going to know it was not his boy, because he was not the girl's father either. In fact Elvis can't have children. The Clues in the story is the description of Elvis injuries and when the wife says, "no more baby this oven is closed." Latin women typically don't "close the oven" after just one kid. Junior was protecting Elvis because he knew taking the boy back would have destroyed the marriage and destroy Elvis. The guy's "manhood" is very important in Latin culture. On the other hand Junior's girlfriend's baby was really Junior's baby. She knows junior was not ready to be a father, but she had no choice but to depend on his support because she had no one else to turn to. Her very traditional family was not going to be ok with her having a baby by herself. When the Kenyan boyfriend comes back, she saw an opportunity. She knew that he would do the "right thing" and marry her, because of his own traditional values. This was the only way she could face her family, and have them accept the baby.
I really enjoyed the story, it was told using the street language of a bilingual society, when your native language is not English. In this case it was Spanish, and from personal experience it is normal for the people who are fluent in two tongues to use the simplest word of the either language during a conversation… a constant back and forth between the two.
I was a bit surprised how weak he actually was as a person, and used his sexual escapades as a way to show his manhood. Seriously; someone comes to my apartment, takes over the place, and kicks me out of my own bed… I DON'T THINK SO!!! Baby mama or no baby mama.
The only thing I did not like in the story were his constant physical ailments. Whatever he got into was stopped by a physical malady… he should change his name to Helen Keller. I also found the ending to be very open ended, almost like a setup for a second story.
Overall I give it a four.
I love the perspective you give it as a Latin-Caribbean man. Like I said on the podcast, I think letting him off the hook because "well his culture can be like this" is too easy. He could have gravitated to the men within his culture who aren't players, but he didn't, and that says a lot.
Did you feel like the injuries were timed to distract from his worst moments? Like he'd treat a women horribly, and then, bam, next scene we're seeing him in physical pain.
I didn't think about that aspect of how his ailments were all after mistreatment of a woman, but it does tie in.
One thing that did occur to me this morning was how in this story he created his own solar system, with his ex being the star, and all of his sexual escapades are the planets that are orbiting the star. No matter what planet he is in at that time, he is always looking at his ex.
Well, considering that Yunior's mistreatment of women is an omnipresent thing, then ever single injury and sniffle is after, during, and before the mistreatment of a woman (or two). Zing?
I like the visual in the solar system metaphor.
2 Bradberries. This story did not do it for me on so many levels.
I laughed when Maya said she scrolled ahead to see how long it was, because I did the same thing! LOL. Several times. Ugh.
I'm only going to say that parts of this story did, for a moment, draw me in – and I was not aware of READING the story – but then it quickly lost me, big time.
I read the story first then watched the video. Certainly listening to everyone delve into it, thoroughly discussing everything, helped me see sides to it that I would not have, which is why I'm really loving this show. It has me reading stuff I would never read, seeing sides to things I would not see, thus contemplating new things.
In retrospect, having heard and considered what everyone talked about and pointed out, I would give this story 3 Retroberries. Heh-heh.
Your retorberries made me laugh in public. Now the café thinks I'm insane lol. Thank you for the huge compliment. I was hoping the podcast would expand my own reading, so it's wonderful to hear that it is doing the same thing for listeners. Next weeks story has me really exited. I haven't read much from South American authors and reading the wiki for Jorge Borges was fascinating.
What a great comment! It made my heart grow three sizes too big.
You say the story didn't hold your interest. I'm curious to know if it was the writing, like with Maya and Kenechi, or the story, like with Gerald and I? Or was it both? Haha, it could be both!
Not sure if I should tally your Bradberries or retroberries. Which would you prefer?
I watched the podcast on youtube and I found myself yelling at the screen of my ipad lol. Sometimes agreeing, sometimes, disagreeing, and sometimes answering the host's question. I really liked the story, not at first, at first it felt like "meh". In the beginning of the story, I felt I had an advantage. In the first paragraph I even heard the voice of the story teller with a very heavy Dominican accent, which I though was unfair, and it would be very difficult for someone that it's not familiar with the colloquialism to follow the story, but I agree with Maya that the language and the tone changed right after that, I did not hear the accent anymore.
Given the fact that the discussion lasted for more than 45 minutes, I was surprised at the low scores. Everyone had something to say about the point of view, the language, the tone, the content, and other underlying themes, such as culture, class, and racism in the story. This is what a good story does, therefore I give it a 5.
I told Anais you weren't gonna be happy with my rating lmao. The story did prompt a lot of interesting discussion but anytime I get the urge to skim while reading a short story, I will dock it points regardless of how much I like the author or how interesting the ideas are. The urge to skim in a fatal flaw because it causes people to put the story down and not finish thereby missing the very ideas the writer is wanting to explore. Truthfully, if I hadn't been on the podcast, I might not have finished the story. If something had pulled me through the story, I probably would have given it a five.
Regardless of experience and genre, keeping your audiences attention is foremost to me. whether that is through character, language, construction or plot. Given how patient I am with slow building character based stories, I should never have the urge to skim a story that is only a few thousand words long. I love Diaz as a speaker though and the themes in his stories are themes that need explored. So, I am going to read a few more Junot Diaz stories before I make up my mind about him as a writer.


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Syfy Greenlights Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians'
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Fans of Lev Grossman's The Magicians will have something to cheer about as Syfy has announced the greenlight for a television adaptation of the book series.
The Magicians stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year, Aquarius) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real – and poses grave danger to humanity. Stella Maeve (Chicago P.D.), Hale Appleman (Teeth), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie) and Summer Bishil (Towelhead, Lucky 7) also star in this one hour drama.
"The Magicians pilot beautifully delivers a world filled with wonder, fantasy and intrigue," said Dave Howe, President, Syfy. "We can't wait to delve deeper into the lives of Quentin and his college friends, as they struggle with the enormity of their burgeoning powers – and unleash them upon the world."
"Ever since 'The Magicians' was published I've wanted to see this story on screen," said Lev Grossman. "The people, the school, the other worlds, the magic. I'm so thrilled that it's finally happening, and I'm beyond thrilled that we found the right people to do it. Get ready; you've never seen anything like this."
John McNamara (Aquarius) and Sera Gamble (Supernatural), writers of the pilot, will serve as executive producers.
The twelve episode season will begin shooting in Vancouver in July.
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Kazak Spin Doctors Explain Police Shootings
First they imposed news blackout, then they devised alternative narrative for bloodshed.
By Almaz Rysaliev
Police encircle journalists in Shetpe, where one man died after police used live fire on protestors on December 17. (Photo courtesy of Respublika news site http://www.respublika-kz.info/)
The authorities have mounted a strong defence of the police's actions. . (Photo courtesy of Respublika news site http://www.respublika-kz.info/)
By blocking access to information about the shootings in the western town of Janaozen and putting out its own line on what happened, the Kazak government has left its citizens with little awareness of the truth.
Officials say 14 people, most of them protesters, were killed when police opened fire on crowds in central Janaozen on December 16. Some 70 people were detained. Another man died in the nearby village of Shetpe the following day when police opened fire on a smaller protest. Close to 100 people were injured in the two incidents.
A state of emergency was imposed in Janaozen and will last until January 5.
Tensions have been simmering in the town for months as oil industry workers went on strike and continued to protest after their company sacked them. (See Kazakstan's Unhappy Oil Workers and Reprisals Merely Anger Protesting Kazak Oil Workers.) What began as an industrial dispute has grown into a political confrontation, crystallised by the authorities' use of force against the demonstrators.
Rights activists, media representatives and political analysts have told IWPR about an information blackout followed by a deliberate campaign to portray the protesters as violent troublemakers.
Andrei Grishin, a staff member of the Kazakstan Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, described how the government tried to control the flow of information from the start.
"On the first day [December 16], the information blockade was total – there was no access to Twitter, the website of Socialist Resistance [workers' movement], the first to break the news, was blocked and still is, and so was the site of the independent news agency Guljan.org," he said.
"The authorities initially reacted by trying to stem the spread of information. But then they realised it would be difficult to conceal what was happening in Janaozen. Now they are trying to be ahead of the game - to be the first to put out information, and ensure it follows the angle they want reported. They've allowed journalists from independent media into the previously isolated, but only under their control."
Karagandy-based political analyst Sergei Rasov described an information-management plan that he believed was already in place for such an eventuality.
"The first reports appeared on the internet. When events unfolded on December 16, [Kazakstan] Independence Day, many media outlets weren't at work," he said. "There were initial reports of mass unrest, bloodshed, and shooting in Janaozen. But then all the channels of information on the internet were cut. Minute by minute, more and more information sites were blocked. Only Facebook remained. All the local TV channels showed programmes about the [independence] celebrations."
It soon became impossible to get accurate information from Janaozen itself as telecommunications went down.
"The authorities acted promptly. There was probably a set of measures activated on orders from above," Rasov said. "I think this information blockade plan was prepared in advance, in anticipation of a repeat of the Arab Spring here, to prevent the public accessing information about what was happening."
While other news sources were shut out, Rasov said, the presidential office, the government and the police appeared to act in concert to manage public opinion by justifying the police's actions and shifting all the blame to the protesters.
"As a result, the following picture has been put out – a group of brainwashed, drunk and drug-addled hooligans were engaged in disorder and attacked the police, took away their service weapons and started shooting peaceful citizens. And when the police saw this happening they started shooting with intent to hit people," he said.
Sanat Urnaliev, a correspondent for the newspaper Uralskaya Nedelya in the Uralsk region, also in western Kazakstan, agreed that the main news source for most people was the pro-government media, engaged in portraying the violence as the work of "destructive, disorderly elements".
"What's more, none of these journalists is trying to look at the roots of the problems – the seven-month strike, the arrests, and the prosecution of trade union leaders and activists," he said.
Tatiana Trubacheva, editor of the opposition newspaper Golos Respubliki, told IWPR that the website of its online version, Respublika.kz.info, had been hacked.
Rasov said the information blockade was continuing,
"Although the authorities say they're trying to restore [mobile] communications and internet access, everything is just the same as it's been from the outset."
Almaz Rysaliev is IWPR editor in Kazakstan.
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2021 budget implementation gets two months extension at the senate
***Adeyemi says scarcity of diesel cause for non-completion of projects
The Senate on Tuesday extended implementation of the 2021 Appropriation Act from 31st March to 31st May, 2022.
The scarcity of diesel they said affected some of the capital projects captured in the 2021 budget as most of the earthmoving equipments could not be deployed to site.
The extension got the upper legislative chamber's approval following the consideration of a bill to Amend the 2021 Appropriation Act.
The Senate before considering the bill suspended Rule 78(1) of the Senate Standing Orders 2022 (as amended), to enable the upper chamber to expeditiously introduce and pass the bill.
The bill was read on Tuesday for the first, second and third time after the suspension of Rule 78(1).
The bill was sponsored by the Senate Leader, Senator Yayah Abdullahi (Kebbi North).
Leading debate on the bill, Senator Abdullahi, recalled that prior Appropriation Acts in the past were passed mid-year, with their implementation usually extended to the following year.
The lawmaker, noted that in previous Appropriation Acts, these extensions were usually covered by a Clause, in line with the provisions of Section 318 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that the Act runs for a period of 12 months, starting from the date it comes into effect.
He, however, observed on the contrary that Clause 12 of the provisions of Section 318 of the Constitution provides that the 12 month period starts from the 1st day of January to 31st day of December, 2021.
He recalled that the 2022 Appropriation Act was amended to extend the implementation year from 31st December, 2021 to 31st March, 2022.
Senator Abdullahi, explained that the extension of the budget period became imperative in view of the need to complete ongoing projects nearing completion.
He said, "As you are aware, the 2021 Virement of the aggregate sum of N276 billion was approved for several MDAs by the National Assembly in December, 2021 along with 100 percent release of the 2021 Capital Budget of the MDAs.
"A significant portion of the releases to the MDAs has been utilized following the extension to 31st March, 2022.
"In view of the critical importance of some key projects nearing completion, it is expedient to grant further extension of the expiration clause to avoid compounding the problem of abandoned projects given that some of the projects were not provided for in the 2022 budget hence the need to extend the implementation year form 31 March, 2022 to 31st May, 2022."
Senator representing Kogi West while supporting the bill said, "When President Muhammadu Buhari came to power he did what was unusual by going ahead to complete projects inherited. In essence this government believes that projects must be completed. "All the major projects that this administration inherited they are actually completing them so it is going to be out of place if we allow projects to be abandoned .
"More importantly why this amendment is desired is to ensure that those projects that were captured in 2021 budget are completed.
"Why this is so is the fact that in the last 2 to 3 months we had crises of diesel which is the main fuel for most earthmoving equipments, so many projects are at very slow stage of completion because diesel is not available, where it is available it is adulterated.
The lawmaker said he had visited a number of sites and saw that many earth moving equipments were abandoned so I think it is desirable we extend the 2021 appropriation so that all the projects would be completed.
According to him by so doing we will be improving the socio economic development of our nation and put smiles on the faces of Nigerians who will be working there
The bill to amend the 2021 Appropriation Act was, thereafter, passed sequel to its consideration by the Committee on Supply.
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"Attitudinal Healing is based on the principle that it is not other people or situations that cause us distress. Rather, it is our own thoughts and attitudes that are responsible for our distress, and the actions we take as a result of those thoughts and attitudes can hurt us. Healing results when we concentrate on changing our own attitudes rather than trying to change the attitudes of others. Thus, the goal of Attitudinal Healing is self-healing in the face of each life challenge. Attitudinal Healing is not a religion, nor is it religious. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith at all are welcome to participate." – from Love Is Letting Go Of Fear by Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., 2005 edition.
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The essence of Attitudinal Healing is learning to release all thoughts from our minds except love thoughts. It is correcting the misperception that we are separate from each other and that others are attacking us. It is relinquishing the need to analyze, interpret, and evaluate our relationships. Attitudinal Healing is simply seeing others as extending love or as being fearful and asking for love. It is letting go of fear and guilt and choosing to see everyone, including ourselves, as innocent. Attitudinal Healing occurs when we make the decision to teach only love.


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The World According to...
Feb 13–Mar 23, 2019
"Don't we need people who can see things from different points of view? Lots of artists, and all kinds of artists, they look at life from another angle."
Feb 13 – Mar 23, 2019
Tues – Sat, 10 AM – 6 PM
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
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Bringing together a formidable group of artists, from historical to contemporary figures, the works in this exhibition reflect a singular vision that examines life from another angle. With works in painting, sculpture, video and photography, each frame, each gesture, reveals an extraordinary vision of the ordinary—those things that go unnoticed, and those that can only be discovered with a simple shift in perspective.
In 1961, Susan Sontag recalled Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of "cosmophagy," or the idea of "devouring of the world by consciousness," as an explanation for the singularity of artistic vision that is unique among us. Taking that idea as inspiration, the exhibition points to the rich and poetic territory that exists between memories, images, and dreams. The artists in this show operate as interpreters of our complex visual world filled with screens, digital images, photographs, artworks, and the landscape itself.
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (2-22), 1982, oil on canvasboard, 16" × 20" (40.6 cm × 50.8 cm) © Thomas Nozkowski
A tension between abstraction and figuration is also present throughout the exhibition as materials and reference points are transformed, baring only traces of the original sources of inspiration. Thomas Nozkowski's paintings draw from personal experience: objects, ideas, books, places, and, more often than not, his reverent walks through nature. Expanding the possibility of landscape painting and the physical presence of an abstract form with each negotiation of the picture plane, Nozkowski's paintings offer a view of the world that is both rooted in the subjective terrain of experience and an otherworldly space of art and vision.
Arlene Shechet, Living in the Castle, 2016, glazed ceramic, hardwood, 63" × 26" × 16-1/2" (160 cm × 66 cm × 41.9 cm) © Arlene Shechet
Arlene Shechet's bulbous stacked sculptures use clay, wood, steel, and color to offer a view of the world that is full of possibility and simultaneously coming together. Three works from Alfred Stieglitz's series, Equivalents (1925–34) depict the night sky and bring clouds into the realm of abstraction. Similarly, a series of watercolor paintings by Koo Jeong A explore color and form in a meditation on the natural world. The jewel-like enigmatic images in fact picture a constellation of basalt rocks that are a continuation of the artist's installation of geological formations in the DMZ, a protected conservation wetland between North and South Korea.
Katherine Bradford, Brothers, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 80" × 68" (203.2 cm × 172.7 cm) © Katherine Bradford
Figuration as transformation is present in the dreamlike visionary worlds of three painters: Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Katherine Bradford, and Leidy Churchman. In Bradford's paintings, monumental figures in hues of purple, orange, and pink transform a bodily presence into an auratic object—embraced, hovering, and occupying the subjective space of memory with enigmatic energy. Similarly, Churchman's diverse paintings—here exemplified in the surreal floating image of Faultless Aspect (2017) and the large, text-based work Nontheistic Dharma: Norms in a Nutshell (2016)—suggest a relationship with the spiritual world that is grounded in lived experience. Dupuy Spencer's new paintings, created especially for this exhibition, expound on these themes, referring to the transcendence of iconographic paintings in images that push and pull between the present and a distant vision.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is David Hockney's Seven Yorkshire Landscapes (2011), an 18 screen video installation shown here for the first time in New York, in which eighteen cameras, fixed to Hockney's car, recorded drives through the pastoral landscape of Yorkshire. The myriad and shifting perspectives of a journey through the verdant countryside displayed in this multi-screen grid articulates the wonder of seeing things from different points of view. For Hockney, these multiple perspectives "force the eye to scan, and it is impossible to see everything at once… [It] gives back the choice to the viewer, and hence…brings about possibilities for new narratives."
Installation view, The World According to..., Feb 13 – Mar 23, 2019, Pace Gallery, New York © David Hockney; Thomas Nozkowski; Arlene Shechet
New York — The World According to..., Feb 13–Mar 23, 2019


Korea's Defense Ministry on Thursday released five photos of a low-altitude flyby by a Japanese patrol plane near a Korean warship a day earlier, an act which its spokesman called "a clear provocation" of Seoul.
According to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Japanese P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft flew at an altitude of 60 to 70 meters (196 to 229 feet) above the water past South Korea's Daejoyoung destroyer only 540 meters away in international waters off the southwestern coast of the peninsula.
Based on intelligence released by the Korean military, this is the third such flyby by Japanese planes this month, with previous cases occurring off the coast of Ulsan on Jan. 18 and off the coast of Jeju Island on Tuesday.
In all three incidents, the planes buzzed by at an altitude of 60 to 70 meters or less.
Suh added that if such acts continue, Korea's armed forces would react according to its military protocol - an implication that an aggressive response could lie in store in the event of a recurrence.
But adding fuel to the controversy is that the plane flew in patterns commonly regarded as highly threatening by air forces. According to Korean military intelligence, the plane approached the Daejoyoung from its rear and flew alongside the ship from its starboard side before finally making a circle above the ship's bow and flying off.
Flying alongside a military ship is generally regarded as preparation for a missile strike - verboten in international military protocol during peacetime.
Seoul was originally mulling release of video footage of the maneuver filmed with a handheld camcorder on the Korean warship, but resolved to "act with restraint" by holding back the video footage for now. This newest irritant to Korea-Japan relations comes just over a month after Tokyo lodged complaints with Seoul over a Korean destroyer's alleged locking-on of its fire-control radar on a Japanese patrol plane over international waters in the East Sea last Dec. 20.
Seoul said it was, in fact, the Japanese P-1 plane that had posed a threat to its Gwanggaeto the Great warship by flying at a 150 meter altitude, based on footage released by the Japanese Defense Ministry.
In talks held between the two countries in Singapore on Jan. 14 to resolve the spat over the radar, Tokyo's delegates insisted that 150 meters was the international minimum standard for a low-altitude flyby and argued that its plane's actions on Dec. 20 were not in the wrong.
This month's flybys, however, seem to violate the very benchmark set by Japan's own negotiators.
Some defense analysts in Seoul say the recent flybys are deliberate actions on Tokyo's part to protest the radar dispute, about which it said it would no longer consult Seoul. Others have said Japan is trying to deflect attention from the radar dispute altogether by building a new row since it does not appear to have further evidence to back up its claims on the issue.


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2 Stars☆☆☆☆
Review by Brian Eggert September 3, 2016
Luke Scott
Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Yeoh, Brian Cox, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Morgan has a lot in common with dozens of science-fiction stories but doesn't have any innovative ideas of its own. The film marks the directorial debut of Luke Scott, who understudied as second unit director on Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and The Martian (2015) for his father, Ridley Scott. The elder Scott serves as producer on this relatively low-budgeted ($8 million) picture, which boasts slick production design and an even more impressive roster of character actors. The proceedings start interestingly enough but quickly descend into predictable territory, playing like a cheap version of Ridley's own Blade Runner (1982).
The screenplay by Seth Owen falls somewhere between Splice (2010) and last year's Ex Machina, both of which involve a group of scientists who set out to engineer a new life-form, only to realize they're just playing Frankenstein. Played by Anya Taylor-Joy (from The Witch), Morgan, unusually bright and human-like, was engineered from artificial DNA and born in a high-tech lab. After just five years, the creation now looks like a young woman, its every waking moment overseen by a group of scientists, none of whom have left their surroundings in years. Most of them project parental feelings for Morgan, even after "she" removes the eye of an unsuspecting scientist (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
The corporation funding the Morgan experiment responds to the attack by sending risk-management consultant Lee Weathers (Kate Mara) to assess Morgan, as well as supervise a psychological exam. Lee coolly injects herself into the family of scientists, each of them deeply invested in and protective of Morgan: Rose Leslie plays an emotionally fragile behaviorist, Toby Jones is a proud chief scientist, Boyd Holbrook is the flirtatious chef, and Michelle Yeoh receives the name "mother" from Morgan. Vinette Robinson, Chris Sullivan, and Michael Yare also appear on staff. They're all waiting for a psychologist to arrive and determine Morgan's future. All the while, Lee watches and doesn't say much.
There's a lot of build-up to the interview between Morgan and the irascible psychologist Dr. Shapiro (Paul Giamatti), because it determines Morgan's future, but also because Lee carries a curious tension. The resulting exchange lacks much psychological depth; instead, Shapiro pushes Morgan to incite a reaction, as though he forgot why he was there in the first place. Once she reacts, Morgan turns into another film altogether. The smart setup leading to a slasher conclusion reminded me of the structure of Hollow Man (2000), the way Morgan just starts killing people off for no reason whatsoever. Rather than explore the many sci-fi concepts behind the film's promising first half, the first-time director purveys a bloodbath with a few tense bouts of hand-to-hand combat.
A question lingers with the viewer until the final scenes: What was the purpose of creating Morgan in the first place? Vague references to the company's other experiments with artificially created beings hint that other trials have been successful, whereas others have ended in bloodshed. The final twist is predictable, but ultimately empty since the filmmakers have somehow made an otherwise amazing ensemble cast seem dull and uninteresting. Morgan doesn't have much to do either, even though her character seems ripe for a study like Hanna (2011) or the aforementioned Ex Machina. Add another half-hour onto this 92-minute thriller and it could have developed each of these characters and left us concerned about their fates.
Most of the audience will be smarter than Morgan. Without really trying, I guessed the twist within the first few moments. So will you. Even so, a good film will remain engaging despite the obviousness of the plot. But Scott's reliance on mindless action and techno music à la Jason Bourne in the second half feels like a gross mismanagement of tone, particularly after getting settled in with the fine cast. Actors like Leigh, Jones, Giamatti, Yeoh, and a brief appearance by Brian Cox feel shamefully wasted, while Mara spends most of her screen time jerking her head to keep those pesky bangs out of her eyes. It's all very forgettable in a disappointing way. (For a better film by Ridley Scott's offspring, seek out Jordan Scott's Cracks from 2011.)
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Kandace Springs - My Name Is Sheba
My Name Is Sheba...
is the original album by singer/songwriter Kandace Springs, and the soundtrack to the podcast of the same name. The extraordinary music of Kandace's debut effort is the foundation for the fictional story, written by Monroe Jones.
My Name Is Sheba, the album, was co-produced by Jones and the legendary singer/songwriter, Scat Springs, Kandace's father, who passed away in December, 2021.
My Name Is Sheba, and the music of Kandace Springs is available at Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you access music.
MF Doom - Doomsday - Silver Cover
Repress alert!
This special edition 2xLP package comes housed in an exclusive jacket featuring DOOM's infamous metal mask icon embossed out of a metallic silver foil.
Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD (his first group)'s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF DOOM and the Rap world is better for it.
This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol' Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, "Rhymes Like Dimes," Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting 'only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.'
"Who You Think I Am?" features DOOM's crew M.onster I.sland C.zars, while on "?" he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more
intentionally weird twists on "Tick, Tick..." where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. The comic-book themed skits, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial Rap universe, Operation Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy.
Pre-order here
John Patton - Soul Connection
One of the most influential and underground Hammond organists of the 1960's was "Big" John Patton as he was then known. If it was the groove that you wanted Patton was your Man and he made several albums for the legendary Blue Note label, many of which went on to sell for eye watering prices. As his style went out of favor, some of the recordings never saw the light of day until almost 20 years later and at the same time Patton slipped into the background. He resurfaced in the 1980s and went into the studio. Among his albums Soul Connection, originally released in 1983 on Nilva Records has now been re-released on what many consider to be the Re-Issue Label of these times; Jazz Room Records.
Patton had a strong band with him on this record. Avant Garde trombonist Grachan Moncur III fits in just nicely with some funky lines and solo's. Acid jazz Guitar Hero Melvin Sparks rides in the all important funk grooves but the revelation has to be saxophonist Grant Reed, who you may know from the Jazz Room Release of "Shamek Farrah & Folks" and who was a mainstay of the Mongo Santamaria set up. Jazz Exile Alvin Queen has been part of the sound set ups of Junior Mance, Stanley Turrentine and Charles Tolliver, among others.
The whole album sounds as if it was laid down in a Rudy Van Gelder session in the mid 60's and then languished in a vault somewhere, waiting until the fan base had returned. That time is now, this is a Funky Organ Groove with a Spiritual Soul Swing!
Steve Kuhn
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Every time we walk into a record store digging for music we look for something different, something that satisfies our emotional demand in that moment.
There are some records that turn out to be important only in the worst moments of our life; the thrill of a rare vinyl record that we have always been looking for, in which the liner notes that tell us the story of that night, of that recording, of those days creating an arrangement.
But there are also records that tell us nothing; records without liner notes or information, those records that bring us unexpected reflections by great masters of music who spent themselves on a friend who hasn't published much and who deserves more.
There are the sudden goodbyes, wordless love songs and poignant words that everyone hears but the one person who should listen to them never will. What if there was a disc that contains all of these?
When we met Steve Kuhn, he told us a story that can only be told to a brief traveling companion, someone who will get off after a few stops and will never be seen again. So it was that Steve opened his heart without anyone asking, like a memory fished out from the distant past, awakened by a smell, a sound, or the vision of a record cover.
We are delighted to have the opportunity to tell this story, a tale never told until now. 50 years from that day it was recorded, it's a record that keeps all its emotional power intact, undimmed by half a century.
Together, we will retrace the most intimate of records from an elegant, intellectual and romantic musician, who will excite you, but not as you would expect.
Not cheap, but worthwhile. PRe-order here
Jonny Tobin - Together
After releasing the full-length "Weekends" in 2020 (released via Wicked Wax in Amsterdam), a string of singles, collaborative projects, and EPs in 2021, Jonny Tobin releases another full-length solo album "Together" to kick off 2022. Facing isolation and loneliness (as many people in the world did throughout 2020), the album is a collection of tracks that Jonny made to channel negative feelings into something hopeful and forward-looking.
While the album was created without any other collaborators, many of the tracks on the album relate back to an experience that personally inspired Jonny, or to a connection with someone else. "Take Your Time" was an evolution of a Masego remix contest submission from the summer of 2020 (while Jonny didn't win the contest, he received a memorable shoutout from Masego on Instagram). On "What I Didn't Do", Jonny features a clip from friend and fellow musician William Chernoff speaking about unrealized potential and some of the negative self-talk that can hold people back. "Vivid Dreams" also features vocals by way of a chopped lead vocal from the Jonny Tobin-produced track "Mars" by Janette King. Closing off the album is the introspective track "Leonidus", which was born out of a beat Jonny created for Loop Sessions, a monthly beatmakers hang. The track expanded into a tribute to Jonny's friend Leonidus Edwards who passed away suddenly in 2021.
"Together" represents Jonny's response to all the tragedy, despair, and grief of the past 2 years - holding space for those emotions but also seeking to provide glimmers of optimism with an almost playful delight, as the compositions encapsulate his bright outlook on the world.
Dave Pike Set - Jazz for the Jet Set
Available again!
With his 1966 debut for Atlantic, jazz vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Pike and an all-star lineup produced a perfect blend of jazz, Latin, soul and R&B that stands the test of time. Produced by Pike's frequent collaborator Herbie Mann, Jazz for the Jet Set featured a young Herbie Hancock on organ (an instrument he rarely played again), Clark Terry on trumpet, Billy Butler on guitar, Grady Tate on drums, and many other talented musicians. From an artistic perspective, the album marked a pivotal time in Pike's career, where he began to move away from straight ahead jazz and forge a relationship with soul music, Latin rhythms, pop arrangements and more experimental styles. With this official re-issue courtesy of Nature Sounds, Jazz For The Jet Set is now back on limited-edition vinyl while supplies last.
Praise Poems 8 - A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s
After 6 years and 7 volumes, the Tramp Records crew invites you to join them on yet another enlightening journey into soulful Jazz, Folk and Funk from the 1970s.
This 8th volume contains nineteen Jazz, Soul and Folk nuggets from between the late 1960s and the late 1970s. One of the many highlights is the opening track by Bobby Cole which is most likely one of the finest independently produced vocal jazz recordings ever put on wax. So true. Oscar Brown Jr. and Mark Murphy sends its regards. But that's just the beginning. Praise Poems Vol.8 covers a wide selection of genres, from big band jazz (Helmut Pistor's Big Rock Jazz Band and Germany's own Ladykiller) to psych-pop (Portraits in Sound, Harve and Charee and Allison & Shaffer), from folk-rock (Flash, Garndarf and the incredible Fang Buzbee) to AOR (The Menagerie and Penn Central), completing the set with a handful of melancholic folk beauties, most notably Hans Hass Jr.'s mind-blowing "Welche Farbe hat der Wind".
Very few compilation series' release as many as eight volumes and those that get that far often start to run out of quality music or meander too far from their original artistic direction. That certainly is not the case with the "Praise Poems" series which leaps from strength-to-strength as our team of compilers and researchers continue to unearth lost and often overlooked music from an era long gone. Many of these records were released in small quantities as private pressings or by small regional labels. Obviously, those labels neither had the budget, expertise, nor options to promote their releases in a sweeping way. Therefore the majority of these artists failed to find the wider audience their music so richly deserved.
Soichi Terada - Asakusa Light
Back in 2015, Japanese deep house pioneer Soichi Terada stepped back into the limelight courtesy of Sounds From The Far East, a Rush Hour-released, Hunee curated retrospective of material released on his Far East Recording label in the 1990s and early 2000s. Buoyed by the positive response and renewed interest in his work, Terada went back into studio to record his first new album of house music for over 25 years, Asakusa Light.
Developed over 18 months, Terada tried to recreate the mental and physical processes that led to the creation of his acclaimed earlier work. Those familiar with Terada's celebrated, dancefloor-focused sound of the 1990s – a vibrant, atmospheric, and emotive take on deep house powered by the twin attractions of groove and melody – will find much to enjoy on Asakusa Light.
"I tried to recall my feelings 30 years ago, but when I tried it, I found it super difficult," he explains. "I didn't even know what I thought about myself five years ago, and the mental metabolic cycle seems to be faster than I thought. I tried different methods, including digging up my old MIDI data and composing by remembering old experiences. With the help of Rush Hour, I found some of the light from my heart that I had 30 years ago. I nicknamed the light I found in my heart, 'Asakusa Light'."
Produced using the very same synthesizers and drum machines that powered his 1990s work, the album is a joyous, colourful and life-affirming collection of timeless house music that not only recalls Terada's own impeccable back catalogue, but also that of similarly celebrated contemporaries such as the Burrell Brothers or Ben Cenac (Dream 2 Science, Sha-Lor).
Terada, who has spent much of the last two decades writing video game music, has always had a gift for combining warm, undulating synthesizer basslines and perfectly programmed machine drums with stirring chords, smile-inducing melodies and mellow musical flourishes. It's this immersive, sun-kissed and tuneful trademark style that takes centre stage on Asakusa Light, an album for the ages.
The set begins with the alien-sounding chords, soft-touch percussion and dawn-friendly warmth of 'Silent Chord' and ends on a high via the bouncing string stabs, starlight chords and thickset grooves of 'Blinker'; in between, you'll find a deluge of effortlessly feelgood music that's the aural equivalent of a dopamine rush at sunrise.
There are subtle variations aplenty throughout the album – see the 8-bit lead lines and pulsing electronic textures of 'Takusambient', the vintage Tony Humphries flex of 'Diving Into Minds' and the effortlessly funky 'Marimbau' – but it's the uniquely atmospheric, vivid and tactile nature of Terada's loved-up sound that resonates. After well over 30 years in house music, the light in his heart is shining brighter than ever.
The Diasonics - Origin of Forms
Record Kicks presents "Origin of Forms" the vibrant debut album by Moscow funk band The Diasonics, a mix of cinematic funk, instrumental hip-hop and soviet psychedelia.
Record Kicks is proud to present the mesmerizing psychedelic universe of The Diasonics. "Origin of Forms" is the startling debut full-length by the Muscovite band, coming out on January 28 2022 on ltd edition LP, CD and Digital. The album is anticipated by the instrumental soul single "Gurami", released on limited edition 45 vinyl and digital.
Welcome to "hussar funk", that's how The Diasonics call their music: a style that blends infectious deep funk instrumentals, East European flavours, hip-hop rhythms and psychedelia. Firmly rooted in the late 60s and early 70s, their debut album "Origin of Forms" was recorded on an 8-channel Japanese tape recorder Otari MX-5050 MK III at The Diasonics HQ's Magnetone Studio in Moscow and was mixed by Henry Jenkins (The Cactus Channel / Karate Boogaloo) in Melbourne. All the band's influences are well reflected in the heavy cinematic sound of the 12 tracks of their debut LP. From the Eastern funk atmosphere of tracks such as "Almandine" and "Salmanazar" to the trip-hoppish solid groove of "Spiders" and "Andromeda"; from the 70s heavy cinematic moods of "Origin" and "Affair", to instrumental soul gems such as "Kayana" and "Balance", "Origin of Forms" has the power to hypnotize you, captivating you from start to finish. Built on dope funk (in the truest sense), supplemented by raw soul and deep wicked Eastern grooves, the 40+ minutes of "Origin Of Forms" can either plunge the listener into a comfortable melancholy, or cause themunstoppabledance impulses.
The Diasonics are one of the latest additions to the Russian instrumental funk scene. The band was only formed in 2019 and it's made of five young and seriously talented Muscovite musicians: Anton Moskvin (drums), Maxim Brusov (bass guitar), Anton Katyrin (percussions), Daniil Lutsenko (electric guitar) and Kamil Gzizov (keyboards). In just a couple of years the band has amassed a cult following, releasing a shower of ten celebrated singles and various in-demand 45 vinyl records on funk labels such as Funk Night Records and Mocambo Records.
Lance Ferguson's Rare Groove Spectrum Vol. 2
Rare Groove Spectrum Vol. 2 is another solid collection of re-works and re-imaginings taking in a broad range of classic tracks, traversing jazz funk rarities, balearic digs, latin groovers and more. Backed by a stellar group of Melbourne musicians including members of The Bamboos & Menagerie, Lance continues the tradition of creating "live re-edits" demonstrated on the initial volume - all pulled off with an inimitable style and playfulness, though always with an obvious love for the foundations.
As Lance says: "Some of these versions can almost be looked at as DJ re-edits, sometimes we're extending what may be a really short track into something longer, or teasing out the elements in a song that really make it work on a dance-floor. It's essentially what someone does with a club re-edit, except we went the extra step and re-recorded the whole thing with a live band"
From Carly Simon through to Mongo Santamaria via Marcos Valle and Pat Metheny - and following the championing of Rare Groove Spectrum Vol. 1 by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Craig Charles, Jazz FM and more - this second volume of Lance Ferguson's Rare Groove Spectrum is sure to hit the sweet spot.
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Technically not the same as PX from Jerez, but actually very similar in texture, compared with Malaga for example – this one's from Montilla-Moriles but prepared in a similar way (extensive oak ageing) to the Jerez type. Really complex, rich and thick. Deep, dark brown, but brick red-brown rather than golden-brown. Thick and intensely concentrated. Hint of cloves, cinnamon, toasted brioche spread with caramel (!), raisins, toasted walnuts, and above all coffee-cream. Soft and rich mouthfeel, but which starts with slightly acidic grip round the edges of the tongue. Then fills with spicy – rather than intensely-sweet flavour – caramel and black-treacle bitter / spicy-sweet. Good flavour with a long spice then cream-caramel finish. Very enjoyable. Over ice-cream too.


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Q: Custom Model Binder not updating I've been working on an MVC project that has a complex model with several nested classes, and one class has another class nested in it. I can get all of the other complex types to update correctly, but this last one never updates correctly. I've made sure to register its custom model binder, which gets executed and returns an object with the proper values assigned to its properties, but the original model never gets updated.
I've snipped out everything that works, leaving my structure only below:
Classes
public class Case
{
    public Case()
    {
        PersonOfConcern = new Person();
    }

    public Person PersonOfConcern { get; set; }
}

[ModelBinder(typeof(PersonModelBinder))]
public class Person
{
    public Person()
    {
        NameOfPerson = new ProperName();
    }

    public ProperName NameOfPerson { get; set; }
}

[TypeConverter(typeof(ProperNameConverter))]
public class ProperName : IComparable, IEquatable<string>
{
    public ProperName()
        : this(string.Empty)
    { }

    public ProperName(string fullName)
    {
        /* snip */
    }

    public string FullName { get; set; }
}

Model Binder
public class PersonModelBinder : DefaultModelBinder
{
    public override object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
    {
        if (bindingContext.ModelType == typeof(Person))
        {
            HttpRequestBase request = controllerContext.HttpContext.Request;
            string prefix = bindingContext.ModelName + ".";

            if (request.Form.AllKeys.Contains(prefix + "NameOfPerson"))
            {
                return new Person()
                {
                    NameOfPerson = new ProperName(request.Form.Get(prefix + "NameOfPerson"))
                };
            }
        }

        return base.BindModel(controllerContext, bindingContext);
    }
}

Controller
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection)
{
    if (CurrentUser.HasAccess)
    {
        Case item = _caseData.Get(id);

        if (TryUpdateModel(item, "Case", new string[] { /* other properties removed */ }, new string[] { "PersonOfConcern" })
            && TryUpdateModel(item.PersonOfConcern, "Case.PersonOfConcern"))
        {
            // ... Save here.
        }
    }
}

I'm at my wits' end. The PersonModelBinder gets executed and returns the correct set of values, but the model never gets updated. What am I missing here?

A: i think you should add it in global asax on Application_Start
 ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(PersonModelBinder ), new PersonModelBinder ());

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Unlike a human baby, a goat kid is born without antibodies. Goat kids obtain antibodies from colostrum. You read more about colostrum and its alternatives in this blog.
Gut flora consists of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of different types of bacteria that contribute to the growth, development and immunity of the animal.
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