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ETDPub was initialized designed as a lightweight Electronic Thesis and Disseration system. Data entry is written in XForms and powered by the [Orbeon XForms](http://www.orbeon.com) engine. Metadata are encoded in MODS, and the metadata and document files are indexed into Apache Solr for access in a public user interface that contains basic faceted search functionality. As part of the Mellon/NEH Open Humanities Book project, it has been extended to support the publication of TEI ebooks, in addition to the serialization of TEI into RDF, EPUB 3.0.1, and, most recently, Crossref's XML medata model. When ORCIDs have been connected to ebook or ETD authors/editors, the document metadata can be published to Crossref in order to mint a DOI.

ETDPub can optionally be connected to a SPARQL endpoint, which allows digital library content to be made available through accompanying digital archive frameworks, like [xEAC](https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC).

This framework is the backbone of the American Numismatic Society [Digital Library](http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/)

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* Geographical names: [Geonames](http://www.geonames.org), [Pleiades](http://pleiades.stoa.org), [Getty TGN](http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/)
* Temporal subjects: [Getty AAT](http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/)
* Topical subjects: [LCSH](http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects)

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Michael Doster was among the first to come to my mind when putting the concept of this blog together, admittedly because he played bass in B.B. King's band for 17-years. As B.B.'s health started declining and we received news that he entered hospice, I began digging a bit deeper into his music and watched some past performances I hadn't seen before. Many of them had Mike playing on stage and are just incredible. I felt this was a fitting time to feature Mike and share his incredible story of playing with an international musical icon as well as other well-known and critically acclaimed musicians.
Mike's primary instrument is bass, but he was taught a bit of piano by his mother and aunt and also plays guitar. He started playing double bass in the Woodmont Elementary School Orchestra in 4th grade and picked up an electric bass while attending junior high at Peabody Demonstration School and West End Middle School. Mike also played double bass in the Nashville Youth Symphony during high school while attending Hillsboro High School and earned a scholarship to the Blair School of Music as well.
The first paid gig that Mike ever had was at age 15 playing with the Hogan Road Baptist Church Choir. In 1978, he met B.B. King's nephew, Walter King, and played with him in the Jazz Ensemble while attending Tennessee State University and in other venues around Nashville, including the Bambu Lounge on Jefferson Street. In 1982, Mike began playing and assisted with the production of Grammy Award-winning gospel music singer and television show host, Dr. Bobby Jones. (On a side note, I had the honor of attending this year's Tennessee Governor's Arts Awards where Dr. Bobby Jones was honored along with B.B. King and other great artists. It was a wonderful evening that I will remember always.)
While performing with Dr. Jones, Walter called Mike and asked if he'd be interested in playing with B.B. King. Mike recalls that he thought Walter was pulling his leg, but Walter was serious and asked if Mike could be in Indianapolis the next night. Mike was both excited and nervous and got himself together and flew to Indianapolis to meet B.B. King at the Beef and Board Dinner Theater. Both B.B. and his son Willie had seen Mike play bass on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show. Willie asked his dad, "What do you think of that new bass player?" B.B. replied, "Well, if he can play gospel, he ought to be able to play the blues". Mike rode with B.B. and the band to Texas and finally two weeks later B.B. let him play at Rockefeller's in Houston. Walter told Mike that if he could survive a bus ride with B.B. King's band that he probably could make it. The next night in Dallas, B.B. asked him, "Do you want a job? I'll give you a job if you want a job." Mike thought he was dreaming. Always the professional, B.B. told Mike that if he ever let him go, he'd give him two-week's notice and if Mike ever left, he asked Mike to also give him a two-week's notice. Mike shook hands with B.B. and played with him for the next 17-years in his band.
B.B. King sometimes played 300+ nights a years and stayed on the road quite a bit. Mike toured world-wide and performed on the Grammy winning albums, "Live at San Quentin" (MCA 1988), "Blues on the Bayou" (MCA 1998), "Makin' Love is Good For You" (MCA 2000) and "A Christmas Celebration of Hope" (MCA 2001). He also performed with B.B. King on the television shows, "B.B. King and Friends" (HBO 1987), "The Cosby Show" (NBC 1990) and "Jazz Central" (BET 1999). Mike appeared with B.B. in the films "Next of Kin" (Lorimar 1989) and "Heart and Souls" (Universal 1993). Mike had to leave the band on account of health issues, but B.B. provided health insurance for his band and that saved Mike. He even kept Mike on retainer while he recovered and also helped him with tuition when he went back to Tennessee State University to finish his degree. "B.B. King was a humble, generous and loving person," Mike recalls.
Mike went on to perform on the WLAC-AM 1510 radio show "Legally Speaking", which was broadcast over 32 states. He later met Tony Gerber from the Cotton Blossom Band through renowned music artist, Aashid Himmons, founder of the band Afrikan Dreamland. Tony was doing some spots on the Mando Blues Show with Radio Free Nashville and asked if Mike would like to play with them. Mike is on their album "Soulshining". The Nashville Bridge honored "Soulshining" as one of the best releases of 2014 along with Justin Townes Earle, Ray Price, Ricky Skaggs and Jack White.
Currently, you can catch Mike playing with Gil Gann at the B.B. King Blues Club on 2nd Avenue and Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar in Printer's Alley. Mike also plays with the TSU Wesley Foundation Community Big Band with fellow B.B. King Band member and trumpeter Stanley Abernathy (also a Donelson neighbor).
Mike has lived in Donelson for 20 years and chose to call this home because it's peaceful, family friendly and convenient to just about everywhere. I hope you enjoy this selection of amazing music from Mike's incredible career!
Every Day I Have the Blues (Live at San Quentin) – (written by Memphis Slim, performed by B.B. King)
Joe Cool (from Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown!) – (written by Desiree Goyette and Vince Guaraldi, performed by B.B. King)
Ain't Nobody Like My Baby – (written and performed by B.B. King)
Actions Speak Louder Than Words – (written and performed by B.B. King)
What You Bet – (written by Robert Taylor and George Williams, performed by B.B. King)
Merry Christmas, Baby – (written by Page Cavanaugh and Jack Smalley, performed by B. B. King)
Shake It Up And Go – (written and performed by B.B. King)
If That Ain't It I Quit – (written and performed by B.B. King)
In The Here And Now – (written and performed by Tracy Nelson)
I Was A Burden – (written and performed by Danny Flowers)
Voices in Outer Bass – (written by Tony Gerber, Mason Stevens and Michael Doster, performed by Cotton Blossom Band)
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Jeff has called Nashville home since 1998, moving here to complete his music degree at Middle Tennessee State University. He went on to complete his MBA in Technology Management from the Nashville campus of University of Phoenix, located in Donelson. Jeff was a first-time homebuyer in Donelson Hills in 2002 and soon became involved in his neighborhood and community.
Jeff was born in Buffalo, New York. Jeff's Dad retired from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel while stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia after serving 20 years of Active and more than 11 years of Reserve service in Buffalo, NY, St Louis, MO and Atlanta, GA. Jeff's parents are happily retired in Marietta, GA and enjoy the warmer weather. His dad was President of the Georgia Department of the Reserve Officer's Association and both he and his Mom stay involved in their neighborhood, civic organizations, and church. Jeff has one son, Joey, who attends Meigs Middle Magnet School.
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Camponotus universitatis — вид муравьёв рода  из подсемейства формицины (Formicidae). Социальный паразит. Редкий вид, включённый в Красный список угрожаемых видов МСОП (The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) в категорию уязвимые виды (VU).

Распространение
Западная Палеарктика: Албания, Болгария, Испания, Италия, Турция, Франция, Швейцария.

Описание
Муравьи среднего размера (менее 1 см). Основная окраска тела коричневого цвета. Проподеум без эпинотальных шипиков или зубцов. Стебелёк между грудкой и брюшком состоит из одного членика (петиолюс), несущего вертикальную чешуйку. Социальный паразит в гнёздах муравьёв Camponotus aethiops и Camponotus pilicornis. .
Первый и долгое время единственный социальный паразит в составе крупнейшего муравьиного рода Camponotus (второй предположительно паразитический вид Camponotus ruseni был описан в 2012 году из Турции).

Систематика
Вид был впервые описан в 1890 году швейцарским мирмекологом Огюстом Форелем (по рабочим особям из Франции), в 1914 году он поместил его в состав подрода Myrmoturba. В 1925 году итальянский мирмеколог Карл Эмери включил вид в состав подрода Tanaemyrmex. Половые особи (матки и самцы) были описаны спустя столетие, в 1992 году, группой испанских энтомологов

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Ссылки
 Camponotus Carpenter Ants на eol.org

Кампонотусы
Насекомые Евразии
Животные, описанные в 1890 году
Гнездовые паразиты
Таксоны, описанные Огюстом Форелем

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A few questions or things I noticed.
-The random starting towns seem not even close to similar power level, some have Jackals and White worms in the sewers, some Copperhead snakes and masses of Redweed.
Kadath - Not really a town since it doesn't have any buildings in it. It's also full of really hard monsters. Kadath is likely to be the last place you go, since the dungeon under it is the hardest one in the game. Obviously, you never start in Kadath (and in most games you won't visit it either).
Ulthar & Nir - Each of these has a seven level sewer under it with a fixed boss at the bottom. They also both have themed enemies (Nir has more humans, Ulthar has more animals). This makes them harder than the normal sewers, so you need to be careful in them.
Dylath-Leen - Has a five level sewer, but it's at a difficulty of +1 meaning that each level is effectively one level "deeper" when it comes to monsters, treasure, traps, and everything else. Obviously this makes it trickier for a starting character on their first couple of dives.
Inganok, Ilek-Vad, Hlanth - These are your average towns with normal five-level sewers under them.
Celephais - The sewer under this town is normal, but only has three levels instead of the normal five.
As well as the difference in sewers, the different towns each have a different selection of buildings in them. Nir, for example, has very few shops, and as such it's also excluded (as well as Kadath) when the game is choosing a starting town for you.
So where you start can be good or bad, but all the starting towns are survivable if you're careful.
Stepped into one dungeon, just outside town, Shelob's tower, and was ganged up by a couple Giant Spiders, it was short and unpleasant, lol.
Yeah, I wouldn't enter Shelob's Tower until higher level. Even the first level of the tower is the equivalent of level 14 of a "typical" dungeon.
Try using the map ('M') on the surface. It will show you the whole wilderness, with all the towns and dungeons marked (although which dungeon is which isn't identified until you visit them).
Each dungeon has three values listed: 'Levels', 'Difficulty', and 'Quests'.
'Levels' shows you how many levels (floors) the dungeon has.
'Difficulty' shows you the relative offset of the dungeon. Basically this is added to the level number when determining things like monsters, treasure, etc. For example if a dungeon has a difficulty of 10 then the first level of that dungeon is generated and played as if it were level 11. The second level as if it were level 12, and so forth.
'Quests' shows you how many quest levels there are in the dungeon. You win the game by completing all the quests in all the dungeons. There are always 50 quests in the game, with 24 of them being fixed (including one on the final level of each dungeon except for the smaller town sewers) and the other 26 being randomly generated.
Many of the dungeons have biases towards a certain type of creature too. These aren't told to you, but should be obvious (for example Shelob's Lair has a bias towards spiders, and The Necropolis has a bias towards undead).
You'll note that as well as the game not telling you which dungeon is which, it also doesn't tell you the difficulty or size of any of the dungeons. You can find this out by visiting them (entering the first level will tell you the difficulty; reaching the last level will tell you the size) or from Scrolls of Rumour. Scrolls of Rumour will always give you information about a dungeon or about a quest, and will always give you new information if possible; so it's worth reading them (and, in my opinion, worth buying them to read if you see them in the shops).
A good clue to the difficulty of a dungeon, by the way, is the difficulty of the monsters on the surface. Normal wilderness areas are the equivalent of dungeon level two (and have a bias towards animals). The wilderness areas above dungeons have monsters of a level equivalent to half the dungeon's difficulty, and have a bias that is the same as the dungeon's bias. So if you are at all worried by the monsters on the surface near a dungeon, it's a good sign that you're too low level to survive the dungeon itself.
-Dungeon level is displayed as "lvl 1+0" what does the plus portion refer to?
It's the difficulty of the dungeon. So for example, if you enter the sewer under Hlanth it will say "1+0" because the first level of that sewer is "level one" difficulty, but if you enter the sewer under Dylath-Leen it will say "1+1" meaning that you're effectively on "dungeon level two" even though you're only on the top level of that dungeon.
-A message appeared "SM: 111%" is this important? relevant?
That is the speed indicator. Instead of "Fast +10" or "Slow -20" or whatever, it actually tells you exactly how fast you're going. "SM: 111%" means that you're moving slightly slowly (you were probably overburdened) and each move you make will take 111% of a turn to take. If it said "FM:90%" it would mean that you were moving quickly and each move would only take 90% of a turn to make.
-Archery. Bows are rare, Arrows in town almost nonexistent. Arrows break, A LOT, 14 out of 18 shots broke against floating eyes, clear ickys/worms and such. Is Ranged combat practical?
I'm not sure, to be honest. I rarely play archers, so I never know whether they're underpowered or I'm just bad at playing them!
-The HP randomizer on leveling seems a little extreme, 4 one level, 17 the next.
Hit points aren't actually "rolled" per-se. The way it works is that let's say you're a Human Priest, and therefore get 1d12 hit points per level.
What the game actually does is give you maximum hit points at first level (12 in this case) and then distribute the other rollable values as evenly as possible amongst the other 49 levels (favouring higher values when there's not an even split).
Those other forty nine "rolls" are then shuffled and distributed in advance to the forty nine levels above first.
So you may be lucky by getting some high "rolls" early on when it matters more and getting lower "rolls" later when you've such a high Con bonus that it no longer matters, or you may be unlucky and get a bunch of low "rolls" early on. But either way, you'll end up with the same total hit points by the time you get to 50th level.
The L/D/Q seemed fairly obvious. Nice to know the map identifies after you enter, otherwise it looked fairly useless.
Nice to know how HP 'rolls' works.
Tried a Ranger, restarted until starting town had bow and arrows. Longbow +0/+0, 23 arrows 1d4. Level 1 of Celephais sewer. 18 shots, 14 arrow breakages. 75-80% breakage rate makes them rather meh. The character had a Bow/Thrown: 128% if that affects anything.
Oh boy, cthulhu?? Do want !!
I've just looked in the code, and arrow breakage is a flat 50% chance, so it looks like you got a string of unlucky rolls there.
I'd not played Cthangband before, and just came across this release the other day. I've played Angband and ZAngband a bunch. So far I'm liking Cthangband and having fun with it, but I think I ran into a couple things that might be bugs (they might just be my misunderstanding, though).
First, I had come across 30 Rounded Pebbles (+4, +1). I was only level 3 or so, and had been given them by a god upon levelling up. Not being a sling user, I figured it would be some nice cash. Went to the shop and they offered me 540 gold. I thought that was marvelous, so accepted. But then noticed I only had 265 or so gold total. I checked the message log and it said I told the 30 pebbles for 18 gold. 18 * 30 = 540, the value I had seen. I don't know exactly how much I actually received, but it was obviously substantially less. My charisma is pretty low, so maybe I got what my charisma deserved but it displayed something higher incorrectly? Really not sure what happened, it was just confusing.
Second, I ventured out of the town of Ignarok. I headed north toward the 'home of the gods' place, not knowing what it was. I made it there, found trolls that would easily kill me if spooked. So I read a scroll of word of recall. Recalled into the sewers underneath Ignarok. Relieved, I poked around a bit then took stairs back up. I emerged into.... Ignarok? But not? The game says I am in Ignarok. The map says I am in Ignarok. The mobs are town mobs from Ignarok. But... it is just an empty box like the 'home of the gods' I had come from. No shops, etc. Pretty sure this one is a bug even if I'm not confident of the recall mechanics.
Oh, and is there any possibility of getting some settings in the future? I really prefer to not have the display center on the character, and usually play with the extended ascii characters that use the shaded blocks rather than octothorpes for the walls and such. No big deal if not, I was just surprised at there not being any real settings at all after coming from ZAngband and similar that have lots of settings. I know documentation is no fun, but like someone else in this thread I got the 'SM: 111%' notification and was completely mystified. I still don't know what 'SM' could possibly stand for, though I did figure out it has to do with being over-encumbered. I still haven't figured out why I keep getting told "You suddenly feel almost lonely."
Since it's been such a huge re-write, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are some new bugs I've introduced and not found/fixed yet.
Yep - found and fixed, thanks. It was offering the correct total price for the bundle of items sold together, but only actually giving you the money for one item.
Until there's a new release, the work-around is to either sell them individually or just not care because it's pretty insignificant amounts of money.
Yep. Also a bug - this one was a bit of an obscure one. It only happens when you have recalled from town A to dungeon B, when dungeon B is underneath town C, and then exited dungeon B via the stairs rather than by recalling back out.
It would get confused, and although it tells you that you are in town C (and, in fact, you are in town C) when it generates the town level it gives you the shops for town A.
The work-around for this one until it is fixed is to simply exit the town by walking out of it (rather than going back downstairs), and then immediately walk back in. That should re-set things and it will no longer be confused.
Oh, and is there any possibility of getting some settings in the future? I really prefer to not have the display center on the character, and usually play with the extended ascii characters that use the shaded blocks rather than octothorpes for the walls and such. No big deal if not, I was just surprised at there not being any real settings at all after coming from ZAngband and similar that have lots of settings.
One of the things I did before switching from C to C# was to simplify everything by taking out the six(!) pages of options and all the conditional code that they required, making everything much simpler to convert.
I might toy with putting the blocky wall graphics back in, although to be honest I quite like the "pure" ASCII look.
I know documentation is no fun, but like someone else in this thread I got the 'SM: 111%' notification and was completely mystified. I still don't know what 'SM' could possibly stand for, though I did figure out it has to do with being over-encumbered.
"SM" stands for "Slow Movement", and "FM" stands for "Fast Movement". "SM: 111%" means that you're moving more slowly so each move takes 110% of a turn.
I still haven't figured out why I keep getting told "You suddenly feel almost lonely."
You've been given a mutation. If you check your mutation list ('J' for the journal, then 'm' for mutations) you'll see - possibly amongst others - "You sometimes cause nearby creatures to vanish". This means that occasionally all the nearby monsters will be banished. The "You suddenly feel almost lonely." message is what it says each time that happens.
There are ninety six mutations that you can get in total, and unlike spells or powers they don't actually have names (well, they do in the code, but there's nowhere player-facing in which they're named).
Thirty two of them are passive mutations that change your stats or give you resistances or vulnerabilities or whatever.
Thirty two of them are activatable mutations that you access with 'P' along with your racial power (if any) if you want to use them.
Thirty two of them are random mutations that mostly go off on their own at random times making something happen. There are a few exceptions here, since one of these goes off when you go up a level and five of them occasionally go off when you make an attack.
The problem is that the graphics system I'm using is Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). It's not the best, but it's native to C# without needing additional libraries and it's much, much faster than actual Console code - and also has the advantage of using both hardware acceleration and OpenType to display fonts, so it's crystal clear at any resolution.
That's great for standard ASCII display, but due to the way WPF works I've got the display split into a grid of 80x25 cells, each of which holds a single character. The issue is that the cells are based on the screen size, and they therefore don't quite match the aspect ratio of a single character.
Normally, you don't notice. The background colour for all characters is black, and the gaps between the cells are black, so if there's a pixel or so space between characters in one direction or the other you don't see it. Similarly, if there's a slight overlap you don't notice because none of the glyphs for the characters reaches the very edges of the cell.
Unfortunately, when you try to use extended characters that fill the whole character space - such as the blocks used for walls - the occasional one-pixel gaps (and occasional one-pixel overlaps) are very apparent and make the screen display look awful.
So at some point I may change the display system to a new one (I was originally thinking of using Unity and going full-graphics), but until then we're stuck with '#'s for walls rather than blocks.
Firstly, thanks for the release Dean - it has been fun so far. Playing with a golem chosen one.
A couple of bugs I've noticed.
Shooting speed on a launcher changes the Attack Speed display rather than the Shot Speed line.
A rod of detection only seems to detect traps and doors/stairs.
Armour of Yith gets a rBase and a stealth bonus, but no additional resistance. Armour of resistance seems to get an extra resistance.
How is damage calculated for melee and missiles? The damage display looks different to what I would expect.
A feature request - please allow floor item selection. This is really annoying for pickup and identification.
Some quick method of moving between known towns would be nice too. Gets tedious once you are past the early levels.
Speaking of identification, Vanilla style runeid would be a nice alternative.
Yep - it's accidentally printing the shoioting speed on the wrong line, which overprints the attack speed. I've fixed that now.
Fixed. It was a bug in the logic in the "DetectAll()" function.
It was supposed to "or" together the results of all the detection functions in turn and return if any of them detected anything. When converting from C to C# I'd used the wrong operators, and the compiler was "helpfully" optimising it by stopping after the first function in the chain that returned true, since there was "no need" to call the others as it knew by that point what the return value would be.
I've changed the logic to make sure it explicitly calls all the detect functions and doesn't allow the expression evaluation to be short-circuited.
Yes. They both get the basic four resists (Fire, Electric, Acid, Cold), then "of Resistance" has a chance of also resisting Poison and "of Yith" also gives you a bonus to stealth.
That's not a bug. It's just how the two items work.
The base damage for a weapon is XdY where X and Y are based on the weapon type, and then your various plusses are added. That's not changed.
I had a look at the display code, and found a bug in it - your damage bonus wasn't being multiplied.
So if you did 2d5+8 damage and had three attacks per round it would say "6d5+8" rather than "6d5+24" for your damage per round.
Also, don't forget that because of the way the speed system works "attacks per round" is subjective. having "Attacks per round: 4" doesn't actually mean that a single attempt to attack an enemy will take a round and will hit them four times. What it actually means is that a single attempt to attack an enemy will only hit them once, but will take 25% of a round. So if you're alternating between moving, attacking, and casting spells then in any given "round" the actual number of attacks you make will vary.
It should already allow that. I'll look into it.
I've been toying with the idea, but I haven't yet come up with a solution I like. I don't want to make it too simple to bypass the wilderness.
Don't forget that Word of Recall can be used to cross the wilderness if you plan it (it's easier once you've bought a house, but possible before).
I've not seen that system. How does it work?
- OK - this just wasn't what I was expecting where elvenkind always got a high resistance.
- Great - I wasn't sure if it was deliberate or not.
- Some actions allow selection, but default pickup and identify don't.
- True, one system used by the Cheng branches is to be able to pay to teleport to a town, but only ones you have visited overland. I'd say having to make a payment in a town to have it added to the list would work.
- Each item property is associated with a rune. Once you have identified a rune, you know it on all future items. Curses are also associated with a rune. The other changes were to allow identification by use, and also making magic identification fairly rare and expensive. Each identify only identifies 1 random property of an item.
It means that identification can be a challenge early but becomes a non-issue later when "too much junk" tends to become the main problem.


Police in Ocala need your help to solve a mindless crime that occurred at an Ocala learning center.
The Sylvan Learning Center located at 3231 SE Maricamp Rd was found burglarized Tuesday morning by an employee arriving for work around 7:15 a.m. The burglary had apparently taken place in the middle of the night.
The employee arrived to find a window of the building broken out at which time the employee exited the building and called police.
Items taken during the burglary are a total value of $15,420 and include: 25 iPads, a Neat-Receipt Scanner, and a small amount of petty cash.
At this time it is unknown as to who committed the crime, therefore OPD needs your help in solving this crime.
Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to call the Ocala Police Department at (352) 369-7000. You may remain anonymous if you choose to do so.


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INCIDENT: ASL Airlines 737-400 Has No Way To Trim!
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 2, 2021 | News | 5 comments
The crew of an ASL Airlines Boeing 737-400 freighter faced a difficult landing, unable to trim their aircraft electrically OR manually.
The incident happened earlier this year, in July. But the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) released its interim report in September. It involves ASL flight AG-2382, from Leipzig (EDDP) to Cologne (EDDK) in Germany. This was a short positioning flight, on the 7th of July between the two German airports.
A different 737-400 belonging to the airline. Photo: Anna Zvereva, CC BY-SA 2.0
The ASL Airlines crew took off just after 6 pm local, and levelled off their 737-400 at FL280. However, they soon noted that the autopilot could not maintain altitude, entering a shallow descent. So they switched off the autopilot and tried trimming the aircraft. They quickly established that it was impossible to do so, either electrically with the buttons on their yokes, or manually, using the trim wheels.
Checking their indications, the ASL Airlines crew saw that the trim remained at -4.0 units (nose down). The two pilots referred to the relevant checklist, which directed them to use the stabilizer trim cutout switches. Afterwards, the crew chose to continue to their destination under manual flight control.
The horizontal stabilizer forward control system of a 737-400. Image: Boeing via BFU
ASL Airlines Crew, Taking Turns On Their 737-400
Originally, the First Officer was pilot-flying (PF), with the Captain being pilot-monitoring. However, the out-of-trim condition of the 737-400 meant that the ASL Airlines crew decided to take turns on the controls. They did not declare an emergency, however, as they approached Cologne they informed ATC that they had flight control problems. Also, they requested and got a long (15nm) final.
During the approach, the pilot-flying requested Flaps 1, which wasn't an issue. But as the plane slowed further and the PF requested Flaps 5, his colleague found that he couldn't move the lever to that position. The ASL Airlines crew then referred to the Trailing Edge Flaps Up Landing QRH checklist for their 737-400.
The chain sprockets (three in total) without the chain. Photo: BFU
Both crew members decided on a landing speed of 158 KIAS. They subsequently managed to land without further incident, at 19:23 local time. Then after parking, the crew contacted ASL Airlines maintenance personnel about the issue they had with their 737-400. What maintenance found, was that a chain that would link the cockpit trim controls to the horizontal stabilizer trim system, wasn't in place!
The Missing Link (literally)
Crews found the chain and a connector link, loose in the forward equipment compartment. Later, investigators learned that two weeks earlier, ASL Airlines had sent in the 737-400 for scheduled maintenance, to a contracted MRO. This work included checking the structure for cracks. And to do that, it was necessary to disassemble part of the cockpit, including the stabilizer forward control mechanism.
The likely problem cause: the locking chain link and its pins, without locking pins at the ends (left image). Photo: BFU
Crews had performed a series of function checks after this work, which was successful. However, the problem appears to be the securing of the chain-link connection. The report into this ASL Airlines 737-400 incident isn't final yet. However, it seems likely that the locking devices on the chain connector link were missing or not installed properly. So the pins slipped gradually, eventually coming loose.
However, this interim report isn't clear on why the crew couldn't move the flaps lever to the Flaps 5 position. It would be possible for the aircraft to be too out of trim when the flaps went beyond a certain value. But as it stands, the report seems to suggest that the problem was with the flaps lever itself.
The whole chain and its connecting link (right). Photo: BFU
In any case, the ASL Airlines crew managed to handle their 737-400 successfully. The final report on the incident should be interesting, when it comes.
For the Interim report, go HERE.
Spyros Georgilidakis
Spyros Georgilidakis has degrees in Business Enterprise and Management. He has 14 years of experience in the hospitality and travel industries, along with a passion for all-things-aviation and travel logistics. He is also an experienced writer and editor for on-line publications, and a licensed professional drone pilot.
William on October 3, 2021 at 7:53 pm
Gee it looks like a bicycle chain.
J Smith on October 4, 2021 at 9:24 am
Wait, these guys had a flight control issue, and they choose to continue to their destination and do not declare an emergency?! What the hell? Why on earth would you not declare an emergency and land at the nearest suitable airport?! The reluctance to declare an emergency/pan/mayday is baffling.
Spyros Georgilidakis on October 4, 2021 at 10:36 am
In all likelihood, it didn't matter. The clue here is the cruise altitude, FL280. The distance between Cologne and Leipzig in Germany (as the crow flies, VFR) is about 230 miles. By the time they realized they had a trim problem and had gone through their checklists, they were probably halfway there already and nearing top of descent. I should have pointed that out in the article, actually.
jj raffter on October 17, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Please note the author of the article has made an assumption regarding the maintenance performed prior to this incident. The interim report does not state that the maintenance was performed by an ASL Airlines crew simply that there had been maintenance performed.
The maintenance referred to in this report was not completed by ASL but by a third party MRO located in Poland.
Spyros Georgilidakis on October 17, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Thank you for the information, and the catch. I've amended the article accordingly.


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Eli Lilly and Co.'s request for more than $30 million in tax breaks on $400 million in construction projects and improvements to existing operations downtown has cleared a hurdle with the city's Metropolitan Development Commission.
The Commission granted preliminary approval Wednesday afternoon on Lilly's two 10-year tax abatement requests totaling $30.6 million. A public hearing and final consideration are now scheduled for May 1.
Over the last several months, the pharmaceuticals giant has rolled out plans for a manufacturing plant southwest of downtown Indianapolis where the firm will manufacture cartridges for insulin.
Construction is already under way for the 164,000-square-foot plant on South Harding Street, adjoining Lilly's existing manufacturing complex known as Lilly Technology Center.
Lilly's investment in the project is estimated at $320 million. In addition, it is planning a new inspection facility that will add another 30,000 square feet to the project, plus renovations to existing buildings on the Lilly Technology Center campus and to the Lilly Corporate Center. In total, Lilly's investment is expected to reach $400 million.
MDC staff opined in a report to the commission that the project would not be economically feasible without the tax abatement.
The staff report states that the new investments will allow Lilly to retain 175 local employees, who will earn an average of $30.94 an hour. A company spokesman has said that the project would involve a combination of existing employees and new workers.
Over the 10-year abatement period, Lilly still would pay $25.4 million in taxes. After that, it would pay about $5.2 million in taxes annually related to the projects.


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G. Corwin Stoppel, rector and mystery novelist
Urban St. | September 6, 2016 | Articles | 1 Comment
Rev. G. Corwin Stoppel
Photo: David Hoekman
By David Hoekman
The Rev. G. Corwin Stoppel is the longtime rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Saugatuck — and a mystery novelist.
Stoppel's self-published novel, The Great Saugatuck Murder Mystery, was released in May.
For 26 years, Stoppel has served as the rector of All Saints', writing sermons and making pastoral visits.
"In many ways, Saugatuck and All Saints' are still in the 19th century," Stoppel said. "I say that in a positive way, because of the gentleness and care in the way people look after each other."
The Great Saugatuck Murder Mystery is available at Saugatuck Drug Store, It is What It Is, the Star of Saugatuck and Amazon.com.
Off the job
Stoppel is married to Pat Dewey, a professional artist who is involved with Ox-Bow School of Art, at the Saugatuck campus.
He said he often accompanies his "partner in mystery" to Ox-Bow. While there, the genial white-haired cleric came up with the idea for a murder mystery novel set in the 1920s, when Saugatuck was the Paris of the Midwest. While the story flows from Stoppel's imagination, he included actual locations, like the long-gone Big Pavilion.
"Frankly, I just had fun with it," Stoppel said about writing the mystery.
Writing fiction and a weekly column for The Commercial Record newspaper is a hobby for Stoppel.
"I'm keeping my day job," he said.
For Stoppel, the actual writing of The Great Saugatuck Murder Mystery was the hardest part of the project. "The plot was easy enough and the characters were easy," he said. "Staying with it to the end was the challenge."
Stoppel also enjoys gardening and has been known to play the accordion, oboe and bagpipe.
Stoppel loves Saugatuck's people, its walkable nature and its visual art and music offerings. Earlier this year he received Saugatuck's 2016 Tony Vettori Citizen of the Year award.
"I really believe a day away from Saugatuck is a day wasted," he said. n
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Archives Photograph Collection - "Centennial Commencement decendants visit the historical marker at Seminary Square"
The building in the distance (at center) is probably the west end of Bloomington High School which was located at the southwest corner of Second Street and Walnut - the location of Seminary Park today (2014). This image appears in the July 1929 edition of the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly.
NOTE: The names written on the backs of two prints were combined the best we could while putting together the list of names found here. If you believe there are any discrepancies, or if you can add middle names or full maiden names then please contact the Curator of Photographs. (Back Row, L to R) Frederick Dodds Rose (great-grandson of IU President Andrew Wylie); I. H. Coffin (grand-nephew of William H. Stockwell - Class of 1830); Dr. Fred A. Hummer (grand-nephew of Michael Hummer - Class of 1830); Mrs. Emma Tucker (grand-daughter of James Wilson Dunn - Class of 1830); Curtis B. Rollins (son of James S. Rollins - Class of 1830); Mrs. David Walter Bell (Alicia); Mrs. Fred Rose; Mrs. L. F. Rose (Margaret Dodds); Charles Harris; David Walter Bell (grandson of IU President Andrew Wylie); Mrs. Ewing (Margaret Irwin Bell); Edmund Ewing; Mrs. Charles O. Harris (Mary - grand-daughter of IU President Andrew Wylie); Mrs. Harry Axtell (Jane Wylie - grand-daughter of IU President Andrew Wylie); C. B. Rollins, Jr.; Mrs. Sentney (Madeline "Lena" Wylie - grand-daughter of IU President Andrew Wylie); Harry Axtell. (Front Row, L to R) Stuart Rose, Madeline S. Wylie, Andrew R. Wylie.


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The Rich, Orangey Amer Your Winter Cocktails Deserve
Here are three winter-friendly drinks we love, from the vibrant and fruit-forward, to the sparkling and dynamic, to the deeper, darker nightcap.
By Carey Jones and John D. McCarthy
Carey Jones
If you've ventured into the cocktail world, odds are you're familiar with the bitter Italian liqueurs called amari. But less familiar still, even to well-versed mixologists, are the French versions known as amer. They're worth seeking out, especially as one of our very favorites—Bigallet China-China Amer—is ideal for complex, satisfying winter cocktails. (No need for the whole mouthful of names; China-China will do for our purposes.)
Like other liqueurs of its ilk, China-China has bitter and sweet elements, but it's on the more accessible end of the spectrum. Orange takes front and center, as the liqueur is made with both sweet and bitter oranges. It's strong on the caramel, rich and substantial, with other spices and aromatics—cinchona bark, clove, gentian—bringing in earthy undertones and real complexity. And, up at 40% ABV, it packs a punch, enough to act as a starring ingredient in cocktails in its own right.
Easy: Sparkling China-China
This bubbly drink isn't a spritz, exactly—it's too rich and hearty for that—but perhaps we'll call it a winter spritz. Together, the orange notes of China-China and the sparkling wine keep it bright and drinkable, while the caramel character of the amer pairs with rich sweet vermouth. A crowd-pleaser, coming together in seconds, and a great aperitif for a big winter feast.
Instructions: In a wine glass with ice, combine 1.5 ounces of China-China, an ounce of sweet vermouth, and three ounces of sparkling wine. Add a dash of orange bitters, too, and stir briefly. Garnish with a half-moon slice of orange.
Intermediate: China-China & Rum
If you're an Old Fashioned fan, and looking for a stiff nightcap, here's a drink for you: a great dark rum paired with orangey, bittersweet China-China. Bitters add further depth and character. Substantial, complex, and once you've got the bottle, dead simple.
Instructions: In a mixing glass with ice, combine two ounces of dark rum (we're using Mount Gay Black Barrel), half an ounce of China-China, half an ounce of simple syrup, two dashes of Angostura bitters, and a dash of orange bitters. Stir until very well-chilled, then strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a long orange twist, twisted over the surface of the drink to spray its citrus oils all over.
Advanced: Cognac & Pear
Pear and orange is a flavor combination that works perfectly for winter, and in looking for a spirit to pair with the two, we're reaching for rich, sophisticated Cognac. No need to splurge on a pricey, older XO Cognac here; any VSOP will do nicely. The result has pleasant, layered fruit flavors without becoming sweet or cloying; let's call it a dessert drink for those without a sweet tooth.
Instructions: In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle (that is, smash up) ¼ of a medium Bosc pear, until well-muddled. Add 1.5 ounces of VSOP Cognac, half an ounce of China-China, half an ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, half an ounce of simple syrup, and two dashes of Angostura bitters, along with ice. Shake until very well-chilled, then double-strain into a large rocks glass with fresh ice. Top with two ounces of club soda and stir briefly. Garnish with pear slices, fanned out over the surface, and/or a few short paper straws.


While working on this feature of Austrian photographer/designer Marion Luttenberger, I had to adopt a mantra: "I will not post every single image from her portfolio, I will not post every single…" It's been a struggle—Marion has such a kickass portfolio that shows her strengths in portraiture, interiors, food, art direction, styling, etc. etc.
The composition and color on this series is so perfect it gives me the chills.
Pasta dough that looks like a landscape—this shot is pretty special.
There is plenty more to see on Marion's site, including an on-going series (Self Portrade) where she trades portrait shots for a shared experience. Such a great idea—beautiful portraits for a friend, interesting subject matter for the photographer.


CITIZEN ROSEBUD/red label. This month we've put together some of our favorite vintage for an exclusive Fall collection, now for sale in our Etsy shop. We'll be listing a curated selection of our very best and season ready vintage garments, just for women.
appreciate and wear beautiful and timeless vintage clothing.
This month, we're calling it "BLUE OCTOBER", and we posted sneak peeks on our Facebook page- you can see it here: http://bit.ly/CRVblueoct. And since the month is nearly over, why not seize the day and check it out now? We've put a little sale on, so you can get 15% off store-wide until October 31st.
CITIZEN/eBay. Don't worry- we're still got loads of stuff ready to go on eBay, where we'll put loads of vintage and pre-loved clothing for men and women, as well as a growing collection of housewares.
You can always shop our Ebay listings at citizens-of-rosebud.com.
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Interview: YT
https://unitedreggae.com/articles/n1160/112512/interview-yt
By Angus Taylor on Sunday, November 25, 2012 - Comment
"I believe a very small percentage of rich people control the world who don't really care about the rest of us"
These days non-Jamaican reggae and dancehall emcees are many. But few adoptees demonstrate the lyrical dexterity and versatility of Ipswich, England's YT. The man born Mark Hull is a 25 year veteran of the music having started chanting on sounds in 1987. However it was in the new century that he began to make his mark, impressing the famously tough crowds at Sting 2004, and then causing waves with his Cham do-over England Story and reaction to the July 7th bombings Wicked Act. As a result he only started recording albums relatively late in his journey. When much of contemporary street culture's response to political and economic strife is to dress up and party, the always socially conscious YT's third album 'Revolution Time' is his most outspoken to date. In this feature length revealing interview, Angus Taylor found out why...
How did you get into reggae? Was it playing in your house growing up or did you seek it out?
I found it by accident really. My earliest memories are hearing it round a friend's house. I used to play football with him on the park, his parents were Jamaican. I was nine or ten. I wasn't even into music at that point, just football and kids stuff. Growing up I just found myself drawn into it. When I started to get into music, I was into ska, two tone stuff and I got into reggae through that. I just got into the patois from the music and because when my mates reached their teens it became cool for them to talk patois for certain things. So I just picked it up like that really.
I found reggae by accident really
How big a Caribbean community is there in Ipswich? And how big an influence were sound tapes for you?
It's had a West Indian community since the 50s. We had a few big foundries and quite a lot of industry here so a lot of people settled here to work. So it is actually quite a big Caribbean community but it's quite isolated because there are no more that are near. There was a good scene in Ipswich at the time but sound tapes have been a massive influence on me. They still are. I'm in the process of rebuilding my collection on MP3.
Which emcees, artists, sounds and people really captured your imagination back then?
I'd have to say Saxon and all their emcees. Levi and Tippa are my favourite. Yellowman and Fathead, I had an album that was Lee's Unlimited Vs Peoples' Choice and that was Ringo, Toyan on Greensleeves. I knew every word on that, backwards. That's how I learned. I could sort of chat those lyrics and when I started doing that to my mates they lost their minds. They couldn't believe how well I could reproduce that, and then I got into the vibe of writing my own. I tell you who I should mention because they're very relevant: Musical Youth! I was bang in to that and that was huge at the time. That was quite an inspirational story in itself because they were kids and I was a similar age. I chatted all their lyrics.
The white emcee Dominic, was he someone you were aware of when you were growing up?
Not at that point. I became aware of Dominic much later, around '87 when I started actually chatting on the sound. I remember seeing his name on the back of a Super Power 12", I think Shabba was on the other side, and then obviously Favor Boy George was one of the sides of that. I'd seen the name and then someone told me he was white, I didn't even realise.
Tell me how you first stepped onto a sound and first took the mic.
I'd been doing it since I was 12 or 13, like I said I used to chat other people's lyrics. We'd get stoned and start messing around and when we'd be in a group someone would go "Mark, do a bit, do a bit, show them lot what you can do!" I done a few tapes round people's houses, chatting on their stereo or whatever and recording it. There was a guy from Ipswich called Floyd, we made a tape round his house. He was chatting for Ashanti at the time, he saw me in the dance in '87 and he was like "Come and chat on the sound". I had zero stage presence, I just stood there like a rabbit in the headlights and sort of spat this lyric, and that was it, the place went mad! Then I was addicted to it.
Ipswich has quite a big Caribbean community but it's quite isolated
When did you get your YT name?
Pretty much then, that night. I didn't really have a name at the time, I don't think. They were calling me Whitey Don for a while until somewhere in the early 90s we ran into someone with the same name and then I changed it to YT.
How did you come to cut your first recording?
My first recording was done here in Ipswich with a guy called Pat Alexander, he had a label called Eastern Records. He used to work with local artists. We had a band here that was very big in the 80s called Jah Warriors. By then they started to disband but Pat was recording a lot of them separately as artists. I went round his yard and that's where I did my first bit of voicing. He put a single out with me in about '88 or '89. I've got it here somewhere on acetate, it's called Stop Pedalling, Stop Pedalling Cocaine and Heroin.
How did it pick up from there?
I loved doing it but during the day I went from various jobs, being a petty criminal, all kinds of stuff. I didn't take it seriously until about '89 when I was chatting on Ashanti and had got a nice name for myself round East Anglia, sometimes in London. I went to London with a sound called Stylee Media. They came here to clash with Ashanti, they heard me and they were like "We want you to come and chat on our sound in London". And when I did that it was the next level, the reaction I got, so I thought "Hang on a minute, I could actually do this"
And is this what you mean when you sing Reggae Music Save Mi Life?
Out of my group of friends I was one of the only ones that didn't end up in prison or mixed up in drugs. So that is exactly what I mean. It gave me something else to do. I was really heavily involved with the sound. I was one of the first ones there to help with the sound set-up, I was one of the last ones there lifting the set. I was bang into doing it. It gave me something other than running around dealing, which is what my peer group were doing at the time.
Reggae gave me something other than running around dealing, which is what my peer group were doing at the time
In the length of career you've had a lot of reggae artists have done hundreds of albums. Are you happy with three albums or was your progress slow?
Very slow. My first album was 2006, so someone said to me "You've done three albums over 20-odd years", which is true sort of, but I've actually done three albums in six years because the first was in 2006. A lot of it was struggling to get recognised. A lot of it's coming from Ipswich as well, you're not surrounded by the right people who would encourage you and help you understand that you've actually got potential to be big in this, that you could do this for a living. I'd do it and then I'd get sidetracked and have to do stuff to make money to live. I had my first daughter in 1990, so I've had responsibilities and couldn't just go off and live the dream.
Tell me about playing at Sting in 2004.
By 2003 I was totally engrossed in making my career happen. I went to Jamaica the first time in '99 and I went several times between then and 2004. By 2004 it was organised by Tubby Reds, who's one of the heads of Redsquare Crew, Spragga Benz's crew. He'd organised for me to get a run on Sting and when I got there my face was on the poster, people were actually recognising me in the street as "That's that whitebread what's on the Sting poster". That was definitely a turning point for me. I must have been there like a week or two beforehand and I was showing everyone my tunes and the worst reaction I got in the lead up to Sting was "Wow, I hope that's not what you're going to Sting with!" The man would go " It's all about the entrance with Sting. You need to go on there with a badman tune", "You need to go on there with a girl tune", "You need to go on there with a ganja tune". I'd never done badman tunes, never been my thing. They were all basically spinning my head out in the run up to Sting and making me more nervous.
Is it true you had second thoughts about going on?
(laughs) When I got there, it must have been after 8 and it was really quite empty, a huge place, they were still sort of tuning up the sound. They were like "There's two more artists and then you're on" so I'd be on in like 10 minutes. I was like "Wow, I didn't really come here for this. You know what? Take me off the list". I proper got the hump about it. All my friends were cussing me going "Nah, how can you do that? You've got a chance to go on Sting. You can't do that!" People were phoning me from England going "Nah man, you can't do that. You have to do something". In the end I stayed in the crowd for a couple of hours and at about half 10 I said "Let me go back round there and see if they'll give me another chance". Someone had dropped out and the woman said "You can go on right now". I didn't have no time to think about it, which probably saved me in a way. So I just did, I went for it and it worked out brilliant. Wicked reaction.
People can get a bad reaction at Sting.
This was the year after was the big drama with Kartel and Ninja Man on stage. That Sting ended with a big shower of bottles on stage, people got killed in the stampede. By this time the Drop Leaf rhythm had come out and this whole generation of Rasta artists had started to bust up: Fantan Mojah, Turbulence, I-Wayne, that's the first time I saw Queen Ifrica,... like Rasta Sting really.
Tell me a bit about your lyric writing process. Do you write anything down?
I write it down. Not so much nowadays! I use a dictaphone now more for ideas but I've started to wonder if that's took away from my writing in a way, because it makes me lazy. With the dictaphone I end up having 200 ideas and never finishing them. You sit down with a pen and paper you actually finish, you write the verses out and you get it properly done. So what I try and do now is put the idea down on the dictaphone, the melody and the basic idea of the lyric and then sit down and pen it out.
Some European emcees have a very limited number of topics that they'll talk about: "I love weed", "I love reggae", "Kill your sound" and that's it.
When I was listening to Saxon when I first heard Coughing Up Fire, when Levi goes "Yo, last week when I cussed Maggie Thatcher..." that kind of touched me. You can talk about things, you don't like and things other people don't like that people can relate to about their life. Professor Nuts, he'll talk about ordinary, everyday things but in a funny way. That sticks with you and I think that's important. If you can say something that people can relate to, that people can feel, that's going to be a stronger lyric than just the generic "I love weed" and "Kill your sound" and swagger or whatever it is at the moment.
If you can say something that people can relate to, that people can feel, that's going to be a stronger lyric than just the generic "I love weed" and "Kill your sound"
Tell me a bit about how you came up with England Story.
I'd been toying with the idea of doing a tune about English sound systems, I think I'd started it in Paris. We were talking about it and I started to put it together and it just built from there. When I went to Jamaica Cham Tune was killing it, so I came back here and I wrote the tune. I thought I kind of needed to be said as well. At that time it was a real lull as far as UK artists were concerned, it was really disappointing to see a lot of our leading icons had gone and done other music to the exclusion of reggae. Fair enough you go and do jungle, but you still do reggae tunes. There was a whole generation of people who didn't even realise how relevant we were in the reggae and dancehall scene. I spoke to a lot of people about it and got their opinions because it was a hard one, you've only got so many lines and you can't mention everybody. And I got cussed obviously!
It's like these people who try to write a book about reggae or make a film about it. If you make it too definitive, if you say "This is the story of...this" then everyone you don't mention is going to get really annoyed!
(laughs) Exactly, exactly! To be fair you could never tell the whole story. I don't even know the whole story. I just told it from my point of view. I wasn't talking about the sounds like Duke Alloy and all those guys from the 60s who started it over here. That's outside of my field of knowledge. It might not have been totally accurate but it was honest! (laughs)
David Rodigan still plays a special of it. How important was his support?
Huge, absolutely huge. Rodigan was part of the consultation team that helped me write it. I'd done a rough demo and I was saying "I can't press this on record. Dave Kelly and them are going to go nuts". But he was like "No, no, no, you can do it but this is the way you're going to do it. You're going to word it on the label that you're doing it as a tribute paying respect to Baby Cham and Dave Kelly". He really helped me through it. He supported it from day one and his dubplate has been a huge help to me (laughs).
Let's talk a bit about your new album. You've always done political songs like Wicked Act, Born Inna Babylon but they're like social commentary from street level. This album seems like you're looking at the bigger picture. Did you feel like you were being let off the leash a bit in terms of the topics you were talking about on this album?
I hadn't even thought of it like that. The whole concept of Revolution Time, as a tune and an album after, was that what was happening at the time with the Occupy movement, and in Egypt and Tunisia, people have had enough really. So I did think it had to be a bit broader rather than just speaking about it from a street level, as you say. Born Inna Babylon was the start of that. I found that I was getting encouragement from a new sort of audience, revolutionaries and protest sort of people. They liked that I was saying it from my perspective. That sort of encouraged me, and it's stuff that I believe so it's easy to write in that way. You have to temper it as well so it doesn't become some boring protest thing.
Spragga Benz is on the album. One thing I noticed following him on Twitter is that he's quite political and class conscious - he often quotes from leaders and political comedians.
I think increasingly so. Spragga lost his son three years ago. His son was murdered by the police in Jamaica. To my knowledge no-one got found guilty of it, and when it came to court the guns had disappeared. It was, dare I say, a classic corrupt thing that happens in Jamaica, I'm afraid. I think Spragga turned Rasta in the early 2000s anyway, so after what's happened to his son, I think he will make it his mission in life to fight against that.
And tell me a bit about your long-standing connection with Joe Lickshot.
I've always been a fan! Not just him, there was Jackie Knockshot as well. Even over here, I remember we played a sound called Gemini from Luton and there was a guy called Jumbomouth who used to do something along those lines. It's a unique reggae sound system thing, where they pull up the music and this guy chats some madness! I've always been a fan and it worked so well on the first album and people were like "You've got to do it again!" on the second album. So it seemed almost rude not to do it on the third album as well (laughs).
You mentioned the Occupy movement. You and Solo Banton appeared at the St Paul's encampment. How did you get involved?
My friend Nicole has to take a lot of credit for that. By then I'd written Revolution Time and we'd had a lot of conversations in the lead up to it. So when Occupy happened in Wall Street and then London she phoned to me saying "Have you seen it? Have you seen what's going on? You should go and play there!" She got in touch with them for me and that was it. When I told Solo about it he didn't hesitate for a second. They loved it man, they loved it.
Also on the album you talk about conspiracy theories. What so-called conspiracy theories do you hold with?
Haha! You haven't got time! If I disappear after this is issued it's your fault Angus! I believe politics is just like a fraud. What goes on behind the scenes is nothing to do with politics. What actually controls our life and what changes everything that's happening in our world is nothing to do with politics. Politicians are... not even puppets, they're just a sideshow to distract you from what's actually happening. I believe that a very small percentage of rich people do control the world who don't really care about the rest of us. I do believe in the 99%. Someone told me that years ago that 1% of the population own 90% of the wealth in this country. I don't know if that's a conspiracy theory. It's just a fact.
Do you for example think that September the 11th was an inside job? Do you think the Bilderberg Group are involved in occult practices or any of that?
I am careful because I do think that some people can become over the top, but I do believe there's some truth in it. I do think that the Bilderberg Group exists, or if not by that name I do think that organisations like that exist and actually play a major role in how the world has to live. I don't think 9/11 was what they say it was, there's too much evidence otherwise to be honest. What about you?
(laughs) I'm too busy doing reggae interviews and typing them up to have opinions on things like that! What news sources do you trust to form your opinions?
You have to look at all of it. One of my friends said listening to the BBC is like listening to enemy transmissions. I listen to it across the board, the mainstream news, stuff that people send me on the internet. People know that I think in this way so they send me stuff. I'm not into all of it. I see the hypocrisy in both ends of it.
When I was practicing lyrics, if you could chat Smiley Culture's lyrics you had skills!
Finally I want ask you about your tune Tribute To Smiley Culture with Mr Williamz. How big was Smiley for you? In terms of his death in police custody, do you think that the truth is yet to come out?
I should have mentioned him earlier. Police Officer came out when I was leaving school, and we were allowed to bring records in on the last day. I was there with Police Officer, Cockney Translation and Coughing Up Fire and they were all looking at me like I was a complete nut job. When I was practicing lyrics, if you could chat Smiley's lyrics you had skills! It's a bit clichéd, but he crossed a lot of bridges because he brought the English accent into it. I'm scared the truth will never come out. It's back to the same thing we were talking about. Nothing ever gets done. What that did uncover was how many deaths there have been in custody and zero police convictions out of hundreds of murders. To be fair, if you break down the story that we're expected to believe, it's a little bit ludicrous, a little bit farcical. If you've ever had experience with the police... without going into major depth about it, if you've got a major court case coming up for drugs and they've come to your house early in the morning and they let you leave the room, out of sight, to make a cup of tea... unheard of. Basically, no, I think the truth is yet to come out but I suspect that we'll never fully know.
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It all seemed so simple. I wanted to install my trusty copy of Groove Agent 3 on a new Mac OS Lion box. The license is on my eLicenser already. So it should just be a quick insert-DVD-and-install job.
I've been using Groove Agent for years now. My version 3 DVD was an upgrade disk from the original version 1. If you run that DVD's installer it says you have to have version 1 installed to upgrade. That seems fair enough.
Except you can't install Version 1 on Lion; it is an old PPC application, and Lion doesn't support Rosetta any more.
It's a deadly circle; I now legitimately own some (not inexpensive) software that I can't install. Pete is not a happy bunny.
I sent a tech support email through my Steinberg account. Not with much hope, I have to admit.
That was ages ago. What do you think happened?
Yup, you're right. Not even got a "we've got your message and it's in a queue" reply.
Thanks, Steinberg. Thanks a bunch.
The Groove Agent 3 support site has a few update installers available (which, naturally, need the full program installed first to be able to update).
There is also a new "full installer" for the Mac to replace the DVD's installer for first-time users. This shows great promise.
Once downloaded, I run the installer. "Insert the Content DVD" it asks (impolitely). OK, again this is fair enough. The content is enormous, and is on the DVD already so I shouldn't need to download that again. It also proves that I own the product I'm installing.
I insert my Groove Agent 3 DVD into the machine. The installer doesn't recognise it. No message. No hint. No continue button. It just sits there.
Of course, it's looking for the "Groove Agent Installation DVD" not the "Groove Agent Update Installation DVD". Swines.
Being a techie I wonder. I wonder how rubbish they really are... Is the installer just looking for a DVD called a certain name?
ln -s "/Volumes/Groove Agent Update DVD" "/Volumes/Groove Agent DVD"
The installer runs, it copies over the content from the DVD and there's my Groove Agent 3 sitting there, ready to run.
I fire up Cubase, pull in the virtual instrument, and a window pops up asking me to locate the content files. That's the content that the installer just installed. Into a standard place. Didn't it think to look there itself? Sheesh.
That's OK, I'll just use the file browser dialogue that appears to load it. Except that the content is automatically installed into "/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Groove Agent".
Notice that first bit. Yes, "/Library". The folder that Apple now HIDES from users in Lion so they can't fry in innards of their OS. I physically can't navigate to the content. Genius.
The trick, of course, is to launch Finder, open the "Go" menu, and hold down the Command key. At this point "Library" magically appears in the middle of the menu's list of places you can go to. Select that folder. Navigate to the right directory in the Finder window that appears, and then drag the target directory into the patiently waiting application's file open dialogue.
But that's it, I now definitely have Groove Agent 3 installed and running.
Of course, I have a clue what's going on inside my computer, and was able to engineer this solution based on my experience and a selection of educated guesses. Goodness only knows what the average user would be able to make of this situation.
It seems that every time I want to sit down an use my computer to make music, the computer wants some love, wants its nappy changed, or wants feeding first.
New driver required! Update available! Incompatibility detected!
Technology really can get in the way of being creative.
Hi Pete - not being a techie but having the same issues I've read your blog with undivided attention.
Any more hints from your side to deal with that problem will be warmly welcomed!
Thanks to all you guys out there sharing those vital knowledge about music and computers.
Let me know what you've tried to change, and what doesn't save. Then I might have a useful hint!
Where can i fin this?
an what do i do with it?
Sorry This is not easy for me, exactly how do i do it, i tried to write it in the terminal but i don't know exactly what signs and i should write is " meant to be written in? is it an L or a big i in the beginning, is it a empty stroke between?
Sorry i am no programmer , i just want to make my favorite drum program to work in osx lion.
It works,like magic, i just manually put the files at their places ( as SL) and started Cubase...there it is!
Thanks though for inspiring me to continue trying.
Just f.y.i., in any file dialog you can hit shift-command-g to bring up the "Go to..." dialog and type whatever you want. No need to go to the Finder for that.
Firstly, Pete Goodliffe, let me buy you a beer or make a donation to your site!! I purchased a copy of GA3 solely on your blog info and, in the end, got GA3 up and running on my MPB OS X 10.7.
However, this VST2 instrument is not visible in Cubase 6, only the VST3 instruments, so I am using the stand alone GA3, and ReWire to connect to Cubase 6. Of course, the standalone will only run once the latest update from Steinberg is applied.
If anyone has insight into this VST instrument issue, I would appreciate a response.
I'm glad this is useful!
Just to let you know that the GA3 VST works fine in Cubase 6. No problems at all here. I suggest you check what path it installed to, and that your Cubase VST settings are set to look there.
It might be worth verifying that GA3 works ok in another host (Reaper, or something). Perhaps the VST didn't install properly, which is why you can only use the standalone?
Any idea of how to get it all happening in OX10.8.2? I've got GA3 up as a standalone at last... and opening in rewire mode. Though not usable as as soon as I go to GA3 it stops playing!
Why oh why won't Steinberg support GA3? It's a FANTASTIC bit of software that I use on absolutely every bit of music I make.
Sorry, not needed to reinstall like this for 10.8 yet. I would have imagined that it'd just need the same trick.
Have you taken the latest updates from http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/vst/grooveagent3_product/grooveagent3_system.html ?


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Player ratings are always a hot topic of discussion in any sports game, and this is no different for NBA 2K19. In our complete NBA 2K19 play ratings guide, we'll be putting together a full list of the best NBA 2K19 players in the entire game, so you know who stands head and shoulders above the rest.
If you instead need guides to any additional areas of the latest iteration of NBA 2K, you'll want to head over to our complete NBA 2K19 guides hub. It's on this page that you'll find all the various beginner's tips and tricks, as well as a complete walkthrough of all the changes that 2K has made to the shooting and dribbling mechanics for this year's release.
Keep in mind that the player ratings we've listed out below were all accurate at the beginning of the 2018/19 NBA season. Should any of the ratings below change over the course of the season, we'll be sure to update the list below, straight away.
LeBron James (LA Lakers) - 98 Overall.
Kevin Durant (Golden State Warriors) - 97 Overall.
James Harden (Houston Rockets) - 96 Overall.
Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) - 95 Overall.
Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans) - 94 Overall.
Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) - 94 Overall.
Kawhi Leonard (Toronto Raptors) - 94 Overall.
Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder) - 93 Overall.
Kyrie Irving (Boston Celtics) - 93 Overall.
Karl-Anthony Towns (Minnesota Timberwolves) - 91 Overall.
Interestingly enough, there's not a single player in the base version of NBA 2K19 with a 99 overall rating to their name. If we had to make an educated guess, we'd put money on LeBron getting to the 99 overall mark at some point during the 2018/19 NBA season, so keep an eye on this guide for whenever player ratings change.
As with last year's NBA title, the All-Time players have returned. You're going to be seeing these players in some challenges in the MyTeam mode, and you might be coming up against some of these players in the All-Time team.
Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) - 99 Overall.
LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers) - 99 Overall.
LeBron James (Miami Heat) - 99 Overall.
Magic Johnson (LA Lakers) - 99 Overall.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (LA Lakers) - 99 Overall.
Kobe Bryant (LA Lakers) - 98 Overall.
Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs) - 98 Overall.
Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) - 98 Overall.
Shaquille O'Neal (LA Lakers) - 98 Overall.
Bill Russell (Boston Celtics) - 98 Overall.
Chris Paul (Houston Rockets) - 90 Overall.
Damian Lillard (Portland Trailblazers) - 90 Overall.
John Wall (Washington Wizards) - 89 Overall.
Kemba Walker (Charlotte Hornets) - 86 Overall.
Jrue Holiday (New Orleans Pelicans) - 85 Overall.
Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors) - 85 Overall.
Goran Dragic (Miami Heat) - 84 Overall.
DeMar DeRozan (San Antonio Spurs) - 89 Overall.
Jimmy Butler (Minnesota Timberwolves) - 89 Overall.
Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors) - 89 Overall.
Victor Oladipo (Indiana Pacers) - 88 Overall.
Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards) - 87 Overall.
C.J. McCollum (Portland Trailblazers) - 87 Overall.
Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns) - 87 Overall.
Donovan Mitchell (Utah Jazz) - 87 Overall.
Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics) - 84 Overall.
Paul George (Oklahoma City Thunder) - 89 Overall.
Gordon Hayward (Boston Celtics) - 88 Overall.
Ben Simmons (Philadelphia 76ers) - 87 Overall.
Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics) - 87 Overall.
Brandon Ingram (LA Lakers) - 82 Overall.
Harrison Barnes (Dallas Mavericks) - 82 Overall.
Kristapz Porzingis (New York Knicks) - 88 Overall.
LaMarcus Aldridge (San Antonio Spurs) - 88 Overall.
Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors) - 87 Overall.
Blake Griffin (Detroit Pistons) - 86 Overall.
Kevin Love (Cleveland Cavaliers) - 86 Overall.
Aaron Gordon (Orlando Magic) - 82 Overall.
Lauri Markkanen (Chicago Bulls) - 82 Overall.
Paul Millsap (Denver Nuggets) - 82 Overall.
Tobias Harris (LA Clippers) - 82 Overall.
DeMarcus Cousins (Golden State Warriors) - 90 Overall.
Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) - 90 Overall.
Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) - 89 Overall.
Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons) - 87 Overall.
Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz) - 87 Overall.
Al Horford (Boston Celtics) - 86 Overall.
DeAndre Jordan (Dallas Mavericks) - 86 Overall.
Hassan Whiteside (Miami Heat) - 85 Overall.
Marc Gasol (Memphis Grizzlies) - 85 Overall.
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