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If you need a phone, but your budget is tight, who you're gonna call? No, the Ghostbusters won't be of much help in this kind of situation. Verizon, on the other hand, might have a thing or two to offer.
Thanks to a tipster of ours, we now know that Big Red will be adding a couple of basic phones to its lineup. The LG Cosmos 3 and LG Revere 2 are both present on the carrier's rebate form, which leads us to believe that the two will hit the shelves pretty soon.
LG Cosmos 3 and LG Revere 2 coming to Verizon
Unfortunately, we don't have any further information about the two handsets. What we think is pretty safe to say, however, is that both of them will be dirt cheap. Also, chances are that the LG Cosmos 3 will be a side-slider with a full QWERTY keyboard, just like the Cosmos 2. As for the LG Revere 2, that's likely to be a flip phone, following in the footsteps of its predecessor.
The LG Revere 2 and Cosmos 2 have yet to be announced officially by Verizon, but chances are that's going to happen in the very near future. Keep an eye out for them in case you're looking for a back-up phone, a handset for your 8-year old kid, or just something that's as cheap as possible.
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Economic valuation of product features
Greg Allenby
Jeff Brazell
John Howell
Peter Rossi
Peter E. Rossi
We develop a market-based paradigm to value the enhancement or addition of features to a product. We define the market value of a product or feature enhancement as the change in the equilibrium profits that would prevail with and without the enhancement. In order to compute changes in equilibrium profits, a valid demand system must be constructed to value the feature. The demand system must be supplemented by information on competitive offerings and cost. In many situations, demand data is either not available or not informative with respect to demand for a product feature. Conjoint methods can be used to construct the demand system via a set of designed survey-based experiments. We illustrate our methods using data on the demand for digital cameras and demonstrate how the profits-based metric provides very different answers than the standard welfare or Willingness-To-Pay calculations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Greg Allenby & Jeff Brazell & John Howell & Peter Rossi, 2014. "Economic valuation of product features," Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 421-456, December.
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The two parties have agreed to work together, preventing the Tories, who are the biggest party, from leading the council
David TooleyLocal Democracy Reporter
The 'progressive alliance' of Labour and the Lib Dems is now in control of Milton Keynes Council
The Lib Dem and Labour parties in Milton Keynes have agreed a new deal which will see them share power on the council.
The Conservatives won the most seats at last week's election, but fell short of securing enough to guarantee a majority, leaving the council in no overall control.
The Lib Dems say the Tories were not willing to make a deal with them, so have agreed to form a new 'progressive alliance' with Labour.
Lib Dem leader Cllr Robin Bradburn, said: "Since last week's elections we have held good-natured and constructive talks with both Labour and the Conservatives, and two things became clear.
"Firstly, we believe all parties should work together as closely as possible whilst we recover from the pandemic.
"Secondly, the council should represent as many of the voters in Milton Keynes as possible.
"For those reasons, the Liberal Democrats think a ground-breaking Progressive Alliance is the way forward, and only one party was willing to work together – Labour."
"From our talk with the Conservatives, it became clear their aim was to run the council alone, and they were not willing to work together.
"The Conservatives do not have a majority, and they received the minority of votes when compared to the combined Liberal Democrat and Labour vote."
Together the parties easily cross the 29 seats they need to have a majority on the 57-seat council.
Labour's 19 seats and the Lib Dems' 13 are more than enough to outvote the Conservatives' 24, and the one independent who has pledged his "family" loyalties to them.
Members of Milton Keynes' 'Progressive Alliance'
Since the election the Conservatives, who are now the largest party and took seats off both their opponents, have been pressing their case for power.
But Labour council leader, Cllr Pete Marland said: "We've listened to people on the doorstep and know that residents want a fresh start as we come out of the pandemic.
"The Progressive Alliance will change the way we do things. It is putting people above politics and providing hope for the future.
"United we will be bolder and faster in delivering an economic recovery, reducing child poverty, getting the basics right and making Milton Keynes the greenest city in the world."
Tory leader Cllr Alex Walker vowed to keep the heat on their new opponents in advance of next year's local elections when they could themselves become the majority party and take control.
Cllr Walker said: "On Thursday last week Milton Keynes residents gave us their support to deliver on our plan to get MK back on track.
"Labour and the Lib Dems lost seats in their heartlands and we had our best election in MK ever.
"The arrogance from the Labour and Lib Dem councillors – even after being resoundingly rejected at the ballot box – is mind boggling. They have created a coalition of complacency.
"To those voters who overwhelmingly supported our message and plan, I'm sorry. But we will step up our campaign and together work towards a Conservative majority in May next year."
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To meet with the pink calls for Maliki to demand that Kuwait took him out of Chapter VII during his visit to it
BAGHDAD (Iba) .. Called on the MP for the coalition in Iraq to meet with the pink Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to call Kuwait directed from Chapter VII during his visit to it on the fourteenth of this month, because it is the main cause of non-completion of the sovereignty of Iraq. stressed and pink in a statement received by the independent press (Iba) a copy of the need to be outstanding issues between Iraq and Kuwait at the top of threads to be included in the Arab summit, especially Chapter VII, as one of the most important outstanding issues between the two countries. called to discuss issue of waiver of Kuwait for compensation is still paid by Iraq to it, as well as the demarcation of the border, as well as for inquiry about the repeated arrests of fishermen Iraqis, stressing the need to be Kuwaiti workers in Iraq out of its crises, not overwhelmed with some issues. She pointed out: the need to be represented by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during his visit to Kuwait, all shades of the Iraqi people, not to be a visit to Party one, without asking the opinion of the other blocs and solutions, so there are no any reactions or problems about the visit. noted that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will visit Kuwait on the fourteenth of this month. (end)
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Capella Granata
The Capella Granata was only completed in the autumn of 2013 and is an architectural treasure in the Zillertal mountains. It was designed by the Swiss star architect Mario Botta and consists of a wooden frame structure on which weathering steel sheets are attached to the outside. These form the shape of a mineral that is particularly common in Zillertal, a garnet. The chapel is clad with local larch wood inside. Special light effects are created by the dome and two windows in the shape of a cross in the façade. Zillertal garnet inlays can also be found in the walnut altar that was designed by the artist Markus Thurner from Maurach am Achensee. The chapel is dedicated to the blessed Engelbert Kolland. You can reach the Capella Granata by the Finkenberg Almbahn lift. It's just a fiveminute walk up to the chapel from the Penkenjoch top station. However, there is also a pleasant mountain bike ride that leads right past the chapel. Most of the difference in altitude is covered by taking the Penkenbahn lift and then it is a comfortable half-hour bike ride on a simple gravel path on the plateau.
An interview with the architect of the chapel: Mario Botta
Personal details: Mario Botta was born in Ticino (CH) on 1st April 1943. He started his apprenticeship as a draughtsman in Lugano at the age of 15. After attending the Liceo Artistico in Milan he started his architecture studies in Venice, which he completed in 1969. He founded his own architecture firm in Lugano in the same year. Botta is the most important representative of the famous "Ticino school". He mainly designs buildings in his home country and in neighbouring Northern Italy. However, there are also buildings in the USA, China and South Korea in the meantime.
A gemstone in the Zillertal mountains Going by the size of his office Mario Botta is not that big but going by the importance of his buildings he is one of the greats among the architects of this world. The first building that the 70-year old has built in Austria has been standing on the Penken since last summer: the Capella Granata. We spoke to the star architect. The chapel has the special shape of a Zillertal mineral, the garnet.
Why did you choose steel and wood as the building materials?
The idea was to base the shape on that of the natural garnet and to make it the theme of this chapel. This was realised using the materials steel and wood. The strict mathematically reproducible geometry of this structure is supposed to represent the strict contrast between the rationality of people and free organic nature. Such a pure shape, this kind of gemstone at the top of a mountain, is also an opportunity to illustrate the connection between heaven and earth. The structure is connected to the earth's crust by gravity but it is surrounded by the endlessness of the universe and the beautiful nature of the Zillertal.
Was it something extraordinary for you to build at this altitude and in this setting?
Seen purely technically it was all about building this geometrical structure out of twelve equal-sized panels at this altitude. However, we were also thinking about a light wood construction inside as a contrast to the hard Corten steel which is harsh and wind and rain repellent. A soft core with a hard shell you might say. Like a nut. It was about playing with these two emotions. Seemingly impenetrable from the outside. But once you are inside you discover a sweet, soft fruit.
What else could you imagine building in Zillertal?
I really like the valley as the elements of nature, the mountains, are very present. And these mountains actually already form a space, a building, built by nature. I find an incredible strength here. I really value that. I don't have any specific ideas for a building as the architect does not choose the theme. The architect is an instrument of society and does what society desires. It may be a chapel or a hotel. However, it was a really wonderful experience and a challenge to work here.
Source: Zillertal Magazin, Summer 2014


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Posted in Comics, FILM with tags Arnold Drake, Barbara Wilkins, Byron Sanders, Deadman, Decasia, Doom Patrol, Ferdy on Film, For the Love of Film The Film Preservation Blogathon, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jack Curtis, Martin Kosleck, Prometheus, Radley Metzger, The Flesh Eaters on May 13, 2015 by dcairns
THE FLESH EATERS seemed like the best film for me to write about for the Film Preservation Blogathon, whose theme this year is science fiction. Obviously METROPOLIS, that ever-lengthening classic, would make a lot of sense too, but somebody's probably already thought of that. But THE FLESH EATERS is an obscure monster movie in which the monster is played by neg scratches. Put it on a double feature with DECASIA, in which a man engages in a boxing match with an all-consuming blob of nitrate decomposition. But the silvery, wriggling scratch-monsters here are much too tough to punch out with a padded glove — they go boring into people's legs in gory insert shots that are genuinely disturbing, despite the seemingly primitive nature of the effects work. I mean, OUCH.
The movie gains huge cult credibility by starring Martin Kosleck, the man who sculpted Rondo Hatton in HOUSE OF HORROR and the screen's silkiest Dr.. Goebbels. By this time, he seems to have had a little eye tuck which accentuates his feline/feminine qualities and adds even more unsettling ambiguity to his persona.
The movie, unusually well covered for a B-picture (mostly shooting in the open air must have made the filming go quick) is dynamically edited by Radley Metzger, the favourite pornographer of all right-thinking cinephiles (Russ Meyer being more of a cartoonist than an eroticist).
Speaking of cartoons, the script, which trafficks in soapy stereotypes and jut-jawed confrontations, is by Arnold Drake, comic book writer and creator of The Doom Patrol (in their Grant Morrison incarnation, my favourite funnybook thing ever). The Doom Patrol were freakish superheroes who were all multiply-disabled as much as they were hyper-powered, which suggests a slightly wacky and agreeable perspective, and that off-kilter feeling prevails here too. He also created Deadman, the funniest/stupidest name for a superhero ever, and the original Guardians of the Galaxy. Drake also seems to have storyboarded this flick, so that one-shot director Jack Curtis, otherwise best known as a voice actor, consistently delivers exciting and punchy compositions far more dynamic that anything usually seen in Z-list B-pictures from bottom-feeding indie production companies.
Opening shot is a succulent flesh feast, a lithe bikini girl laid out like a banquet, in combination with the title seemingly inviting the audience to consider cannibalism. She's soon skeletonized along with her obnoxious boyfriend, washing up later as a fully articulated set of science lab bones clutching a bikini top (the movie is totally silly but somehow preserves its own strange dignity).
Soap opera: a broke pilot takes a job flying a drunken movie star and her nurse/PA, unwisely trying to dodge a tropical storm — they wind up on an island inhabited only by nasty Kosleck and his weird man-eating sea-spawn, the results of a Nazi experiment he uncovered after the war. Rather refreshingly, Kosleck isn't himself a Nazi — he's a German-American employed by the US to investigate Nazi science — having found the ultimate weapon, he now hopes to make his fortune selling the blighters to the highest bidder.
Barbara Wilkins' balconette bra is the film's strongest supporting player.
The bickering crew are eventually joined by another character, Omar the beatnik on his raft, a yammering chowderhead whose role is to delight us by dieing horribly, eaten alive from the inside out. Kosleck feeding him flesh eaters seems to anticipates Michael Fassbender's entirely unmotivated poisoning of a crewmember in PROMETHEUS, while a guy who rides to the rescue on a speedboat only to immediately get his face eaten reminds me of Scatman Crothers abortive mercy mission in THE SHINING.
The effects work is consistently ambitious and inventive. The most epic shot tries to suggest that the whole sea is glittering with the silvery worms, which it does simply by filming sunlight reflecting on the water's surface. Not so much a special effect as an attempt at brainwashing, telling us that the commonplace sight we see is something else — Raul Ruiz would be proud of that. Landscape as bricolage. When Kosleck electrocutes the ocean as part of his crazy masterplan, we get one giant monster, the least satisfying thing in the film because obviously it has to be a Cormaneqsque monster costume, waving an action figure in its left tendril. But there's one further insane flourish: to kill the thingy, stalwart Byron Sanders injects human blood into its eye, and Curtis films this action from INSIDE THE EYE.
Blob-monster puppets inspire affectionate nostalgia rather than terror. But those scratches… those can really fuck you up, especially if you're a film lover.
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Citizens of Decasia
Posted in FILM with tags Bill Morrison, Decasia, For the Love of Film The Film Preservation Blogathon on February 17, 2010 by dcairns
Bill Morrison's DECASIA is a wonderful thing, to me anyway — a kind of thaumaturgical travelogue of an unknown, unknowable kingdom, a melting world of nitrate decomposition. Morrison's film, which belongs to that form which, perhaps fittingly, has no satisfactory name — call it avant-garde, experimental, non-narrative or abstract — and is composed of extracts from various silent-era films, both drama and documentary, which are in the advanced stages of decay.
Parts of DECASIA remind me of a strange, abstract nightmare I had recurrently as a child — some vast annihilating force was coming to destroy the world — it started at the top of our garden and rolled towards our house, engulfing or obliterating everything before it. But what was it? I woke in terror, but quite unable to identify the source of the fear.
Perhaps TIME? Perhaps these images fascinate because they are a photochemical analogue of our own eventual extinction?
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Intertitle of the Week: The Decalcomaniac
Posted in FILM, literature, Painting with tags Andres Serrano, Bill Morrison, Boris Karloff, Decasia, Europe After the Rain, Light is Calling, Max Ernst, Piss Christ, Rakph Steadman, The Bells, The Mesmerist, Turner on May 3, 2009 by dcairns
This image comes from THE MESMERIST, a short film by Bill "DECASIA" Morrison, which takes a sequence from a silent film, THE BELLS, and isolates it, slowing it down to allow us to appreciate the terrifying beauty of the nitrate decomposition that's eating the print alive. Imagine that white flicking and sparking all over the frame, while the image itself warps and billows as if projected on a sheet somebody's pummeling from behind.
Fortunately, better prints of THE BELLS exist, so I'll be able to check out this early appearance by Boris Karloff as a Caligari-esque fairground hypnotist. It's his first vaguely horror-movie role. I'm also interested because the film is based on a story by Erckman and Chatrian, whose work I researched when I was making my movie CLARIMONDE, which was based on a story by Hanns Heinz Ewers, but also drew on related work by Theophile Gautier and the writing team of E & C, who were a sort of conjoined latterday ETA Hoffman, only not so brilliant.
Morrison's other film from THE BELLS is called LIGHT IS CALLING, and it's even lovelier and more tragic.
I was wondering what these images reminded me of — experimental films send my thoughts flitting about, whereas narrative works tether my brain to the unfolding events — and I thought of Max Ernst's painting Europe After the Rain, a sort of apocalyptic vista of psychedelic distortion, created by a technique Ernst called decalcomania: you've probably used the approach at nursery school without hearing the big word. Simply paint one sheet of paper thickly with different hues, press another on top of it, then peel them apart, to create beautiful abstract patterns.
And of course, that's how Morrison's work is created too. As the nitrate stock deteriorates, the surface turns to jam, and the whole reel gets gummed up. As the film is unspooled, the celluloid strips aways from itself, exactly like those sheets of paper when you were four, and with similar results. THE BELLS peeled.
The way the sepia tinting oozes like marmalade and assumes myriad hues made me think of a print by Turner of ships at sea that hung framed in our house when I was a kid, a golden mist through which shapes loomed in abstracted outline. Equally, I was reminded of Andres Serrano's ludicrously controversial work, Piss Christ, in which an image of the Crucifixion glows dimly through obscuring golden clouds of urine.
I also thought of Ralph Steadman's Paranoids, Polaroid images mutilated with a blunt instrument as the image is still developing, squashing and stretching facial features to turn likenesses into unlikenesses, actualité caricatures. I was never able to get that to work, although I did have my Polaroid taken by a ghost once. Beat that, Steadman.


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Гальванізм у біології — скорочення м'яза, стимульованого електричним струмом. У фізиці та хімії це виникнення електричного струму внаслідок хімічної реакції, як правило, між двома речовинами з різною електронегативністю.

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Ефект названо на честь Луїджі Гальвані, який досліджував вплив електрики на розчленованих тварин протягом 1780—1790-х років. Коли під час розчленування в лабораторії скальпель Гальвані торкнувся тіла жаби, він побачив, що м'язи в ногах жаби смикаються. Гальвані називав це явище тваринною електрикою, вважаючи, що він виявив особливу форму електрики. Багатьох цікавило, що буде якщо пропустити струм через труп людини. І першим, хто зважився на це, став небіж Гальвані — Джованні Альдіні. Цього ж року він вирушив у поїздку Європою, під час якої пропонував публіці своє витончене видовище.

18 січня 1803 року в Лондоні відбулась його найвидатніша демонстрація, а саме гальванічні екзерсиси з купленим тілом повішеного вбивці. Він під'єднував полюси 120-вольтового акумулятора до тіла страченого вбивці . Коли Альдіні помістив дроти на рот і вухо, м'язи щелепи починали сіпатися, і обличчя вбивці корчилося в гримасі болю. Ліве око відкривалося, ніби хотіло подивитися на свого мучителя. Газета London Times писала: «необізнаній частині публіки могло здатися, що нещасний ось-ось оживе». The Newgate Calendar описує те, що сталося під час використання гальванічного процесу на тілі:
«На першому застосуванні процесу на обличчі, щелепи померлого злочинця затремтіли, і прилеглі до нього м'язи жахливо спотворились, і одне око фактично відкрилось. У наступній частині процесу права рука піднялась і стиснулась, а ноги і стегна були приведені в рух.»

Сучасність
Сучасне застосування електрики в організмі людини для медичної діагностики та лікування називають електрофізіологією, термін гальванізм використовують тільки в історичному контексті.

Посилання
 David Ames Wells, The science of common things: a familiar explanation of the first principles of physical science. For schools, families, and young students., Publisher Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, 1859, 323 pages
 «AIM25 text-only browsing: Royal College of Surgeons of England: Aldini, Giovanni: Notebook ». Aim25.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
 «Early Nineteenth century electrochemistry ». Retrieved 21 October 2010.
 The Newgate Calendar — George Foster Executed at Newgate , 18th of January, 1803, for the Murder of his Wife and Child, by drowning them in the Paddington Canal; with a Curious Account of Galvanic Experiments on his Body

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Businesses think using sustainably sourced wood and paper is more expensive, but makes staff and customers happier, a WWF study has found. But data is lacking on what deforestation-free really means for the bottom line.
The use of sustainably sourced forestry products is good business for retailers, despite the perception that it costs more and does not help win market share, a report from environmental group Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has suggested.
In a study of 54 retailers from 20 countries launched last week, more than half said they think that using sustainable forest products would mean larger operational costs, but 80 per cent said sustainable sourcing boosts brand reputation. Some 70 per cent said their staff are happier, and 60 per cent saw a bump in customer satisfaction and stakeholder engagement thanks to sustainable sourcing practices.
Only three of the companies featured in the report, titled Retailers' Business Case for Responsible Sourcing Study, were headquartered in Asia Pacific. But more than 80 per cent of the firms polled sell wood products in APAC, and 60 per cent source wood from the region.
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Another example highlighted in the study was Migros, a Swiss retailer, which reported a 30 per cent lift in sales of sustainably sourced products between 2012 and 2015. The report suggested that Migros customers expect to see responsibly produced products on the shelves.
The study did not measure the impact of responsible sourcing on a company's bottom line, because of a lack of available data.
WWF suggested that companies should be more transparent about how responsible sourcing is affecting their balance sheets.
Though the growing number of public deforestation-free commitments made by companies is "encouraging," the report cautioned that progress has been "too gradual".
Most commitments are not time-bound, and two-thirds of them do not publically report quantifiable progress, WWF pointed out.
British homeware retailer Kingfisher uses 96 per cent of its wood from sustainable sources, and aims to lift that ratio to 100 per cent. But no timeframe is given to reach this target in the company's sustainability report.
But Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer which uses 1 per cent of all commercially harvested wood, has said that by 2020 it will plant at least as many trees as it uses to make products through its Forest Positive scheme, and quadruple the volume of wood it buys from certified sources.
Do Asian companies care less about responsible sourcing?
Responsible wood and paper sourcing has to date been more of a strategic focus for Western multinationals, and there are differences in the perceived benefits of responsible sourcing for global and local brands in Asia, the NGO told Eco-Business.
Because of their international reach and visibility, global brands that operate in Asia are usually subject to higher civil society scrutiny than a local Asian brand, said Karen Mo, senior specialist, research and development, forest, WWF.
The report emerges one month after the world's third largest pulp and paper firm, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), welcomed the news that FSC had approved a plan to re-engage with the agribusiness giant.
If APP is eventually re-certified by FSC - which severed ties with the firm 10 years ago because of destructive forestry practices - the company would be able to more credibly claim to its customers that its products are responsibly sourced.


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A new report from ESPN talks about food safety at all sporting stadiums. Whether it be NFL, NBA, NHL, or MLB. Of course the first thing I do is click on Dallas to see where we rank. Not good news, American Airlines has the third most food safety violations in ALL of the stadiums ranked. I've never had any complaints, but now I will think twice about getting food when I go.
The arena had 65 areas to inspect, but 54 of those had what they call high safety food violations. Which could potentially kill or get people extremely sick. The three major ones were bugs present at a bar area, contaminated ice machines and moldy food being found in the kitchen.
How about over in Arlington? The Cowboys rank in the middle for food safety violations in the NFL. With it being a much bigger venue, they had 319 total areas to inspect. 149 of those had high food safety violations. Inspectors noticed a chef was sweating profusely while cooking over people's food. Live cockroaches at one food stand and sushi was being kept at a warmer temperature before it should be served to people.
Looks like we have a trend here in North Texas. Globe Life Park in Arlington ranks the third highest for food safety violations in all of MLB. Live cockroaches found at one food stand, bird poop was present in a food handling area, and a horrible odor as one inspector called it was coming from the drain lines. Globe Life Park had 156 areas inspected, 111 of those had a high food safety violation.
I am aware that no one will ever have a 100% pass on a food safety violations. They will always find something. It's just not good to see the stadiums I frequent the most near the top of these lists. Check out the full ESPN story for all the info. With the Stars sharing American Airlines Center, it puts them as the worst in the NHL for food safety violations.


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European Commission establishes a new Performance Review Body for air navigation services
Article d'actualité2 juin 2017Direction générale de la mobilité et des transports
Following the call launched in December 2016 the European Commission appointed the members of the new Performance Review Body (PRB) of the Single European Sky as of 1 June 2017. Based on her outstanding application, background and experience, the Director-General of DG MOVE asked Ms Regula Dettling-Ott to assume the role of the chair.
The members of the PRB are:
Mr Laurent Barthelemy
Ms Magdalena Jaworska
Mr Andrew Knill
Mr Antero Lahtinen
Mr Hans-Martin Niemeier
Mr Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus
Ms Rosa Arnaldo Valdes
Mr Daniel Weder (Appointment takes effect on 1 July 2017)
The PRB assists the Commission in the performance and economic regulation of monopoly air navigation service providers in the European Union and Switzerland by providing independent advice and expertise to improve the performance of air navigation in Europe in the key areas of safety, capacity, environment and cost-efficiency.
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) No 2016/2296 of 16 December 2016 sets up the independent group of experts designated as Performance Review Body (PRB) of the Single European Sky.
During the selection of the candidates the Commission took into account the factors listed in the Annex to the Decision, notably to ensure that the members of the future PRB ensure balanced representation of competence and expertise for all key performance areas, as well as of gender and geographical origin and business continuity.
The new PRB will start its activities during the month of June 2017.
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Murray blown away by Nadal
The match was played in extremely windy conditions, with gusts of 40mph, and the British number one struggled with all parts of his game. He was broken twice in each set as world number one Nadal eased to his second title of the year following January's Australian Open success.
The 21-year-old said: "I'd like to congratulate Rafa. He definitely deserved to win. He played great in difficult conditions."
He added: "I haven't played in conditions as windy as that for quite a long time. Rafa dealt with it very well. He hit the ball cleaner and just seemed to get himself in better positions than I did.
"You don't necessarily want to be doing a whole lot of defending and running. You want to be in the best position possible to hit each ball, and I wasn't. That's why he managed to dictate most of the points.
"But I've had a great start to the year and hopefully I can keep it going."
Indeed, for Murray there were plenty of consolations; a third ATP Tour final of the season after victories in Doha and Rotterdam and plenty of ranking points to up the pressure on world number three Novak Djokovic.
Looking ahead to next week's Masters Series event in Miami, Murray added: "I got a lot of matches that I wasn't necessarily expecting, so going into Miami I'm better prepared than I thought.
"Obviously, this was not my best day but I'll definitely get over it because I'm guessing I'm not going to play in those conditions each week."
Nadal's victory ensured Murray's winning run against him ended at two, and the Spaniard was delighted to rack up a sixth career success over the Scot, claiming: "Andy was the only top player who I didn't beat this year so it was important."


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This week's iPad list is big on the "get organized" side, but don't worry–there's a fun fishing game for those times you feel like taking a break from responsibility.
Despite my insistence to the contrary, my app-buying budget keeps growing and growing. And my finger hovered over the "buy" button for OmniFocus for iPad forever. It's hard to say if it's worth the $40 I spent, but it is the easiest organizational app I've tried. Tasks are easily added to the Inbox as they pop into my head, and it is simple to go back later and assign contexts, due dates, etc., or to just take care of them right from the Inbox. Focusing on the stuff that is important right now takes just a tap. Add locations on a map and view your tasks in a way that makes it easy to schedule errands, and also add pictures or voice notes. The "Forecast" view allows me to look at what's coming up due this week. OmniFocus gets out of your way and allows you to be as detailed or as simple as suits your style.
Personal trainers aren't cheap. Grab Fitness Library for iPad and have a veritable encyclopedia of exercises to target specific areas of your body. Organized by target area and equipment, Fitness Library allows you to easily find the exercise you want or need. Each page features a couple paragraphs about the exercise, photographs illustrating the right and wrong way to do the excercise, as well as detailed instructions. Diagrams showing targeted muscles, as well as tips, are also included. Also featured are a slew of different routines. Fitness Library for iPad is essentially a fitness book translated to the device, and it would benefit from including video of the exercises being performed, or at least a built-in tracker that will let you record the exercises you've performed. But its solid and exhaustive content is well presented.
FLUD needs a little work, but I've included it here because it has tremendous potential and is the latest in a rush of visual news and feed readers that make it easier for us to share what we're interested in with others in our social networks. View feeds as thumbnails, favorite them or post to your Facebook wall (the app needs Twitter sharing, too). FLUD includes a bunch of big-name featured feeds and you can add your own—but you'll only be able to use FLUD to keep track of 30, and searching for a feed gives some not-so-accurate results. Attention FLUD developers: tighten this baby up so I don't regret including it here!
I'm probably a little heavy on the organize-your-stuff apps in this list, but Rocket Project for iPad deserves a mention, not least because it is the only app I've seen, ever, that allows you to delegate tasks to someone else via email. Once they've received the task, they can easily add it to Rocket Project on their own device, and notify you that they've accepted the task (or not, if they choose to decline). Delegated tasks are easily tracked, and Rocket Project lets you set reminders, alerts you if the delegated task is overdue, and lets you poke the person who's behind on their task.
You don't have to be a fisherman to enjoy playing i Fishing HD, although you do have to have the patience of a fisherman. Drive your boat to a good fishin' hole and cast your line. If you get a bite, tilt the iPad to "set the hook" and then, if you're lucky, reel in a nice fish. Earn money and win tournaments, just like the pros.


Past Events: Negotiating Brexit: What do our negotiating partners want?
The UK's departure from the EU will have far-reaching consequences for its European neighbours and the EU institutions, as well as the UK itself. This important project will examine the approaches taken by the governments of the remaining member states (EU27), the EU institutions, and the UK to the Article 50 negotiations and to the negotiations concerning the UK's future relationship with the EU.
The team will work closely with the 'UK in a Changing Europe', a programme funded by the ESRC to provide independent and expert analysis to decision makers, stakeholders, the media, and the general public.
The project is led by Professor Hussein Kassim, University of East Anglia, and Dr Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey.
The list of correspondents can be found here.


PARIS, FRANCE--(Marketwired - Jun 19, 2017) - PARIS INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW - Esterline Corporation (www.esterline.com) (NYSE: ESL), a leading global specialty manufacturer primarily serving the aerospace and defense markets, is pleased to announce the award of a contract from Airbus Helicopters to supply its CMC Electronics brand Integrated Helicopter Solution for the upgrade of the German Armed Forces' CH-53GS/GE Sea Stallion helicopters. The upgrade features the Esterline CMC Electronics CMA-9000 Flight Management System and the Esterline MFD-3068 Smart Multi-Function Display which will address obsolescence and enhance the CH-53GS/GE's capabilities by providing a flexible, modernized cockpit with improved civil navigation features.
Michel Potvin, President, Esterline Avionics Systems, said: "The German Armed Forces were looking for a cost-effective way to extend the life of their Sea Stallion fleet and we are delighted that the CH-53GS/GE helicopters will benefit from the extensive navigation and radio management capabilities of our CMA-9000 FMS as well as from our latest generation of smart multi-function displays. Our Integrated Helicopter Solutions are highly flexible, allowing for multiple levels of modernization, from a minor upgrade to a full avionics suite. Our goal is to optimize situational awareness for our commercial and military customers and ensure their mission success."
The CMA-9000 is a field-proven, highly integrated and flexible solution that is optimized for helicopter operations. It provides flight management and multi-sensor navigation throughout all phases of flight, radio management and many specialized functions that help reduce pilot workload during mission-critical applications such as Search and Rescue (SAR) and offshore operations. The CMA-9000 supports both military and civil navigation modes, with compliance to the latest standards for Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) approaches, including Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV). The integrated radio management system offers savings in terms of size, weight, power and cost on the helicopter. Night Vision Goggle (NVG) capability enables night-time operations for police, SAR and Emergency Medical Service operators, making the CMA-9000 suitable for a wide range of helicopter applications.
The third-generation MFD-3068 smart display is designed as an open architecture platform, featuring next- generation MOSArt™ (Modular Open System Architecture) middleware built with non-proprietary industry standards for the partitioning of applications (ARINC 653) and the latest in Multi-Core Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS). The display is complemented by Esterline supplied software applications (PFD, Navigation, etc.), customer supplied applications or both. With an optical quality second to none, the display offers true 8-bit colour rendition with optical performance stabilized over its design life-time and its extended operating temperature envelope (+70C continuous). Its next-generation Light Emitting Diode (LED) illumination system supports multi-mode operations (day / night / NVIS) and provides up to 275 fL of illumination in day mode.
Esterline Avionics Systems (www.esterline.com/avionicssystems) has achieved an international reputation for innovation and excellence in the design and manufacture of advanced displays and CMC Electronics brand products for the military and commercial aviation markets. The company's focus is on delivering innovative cockpit systems integration, avionics and display solutions to its customers worldwide.


The rules and collective agreements in place.
Once the cycle's schedule is ready, it will be subject to many changes such as unforeseen events, absences and last-minute modifications. One must also control the special requests. Timesphere has been conceived to simplify your life at each of these levels.
All this while observing the rules and collective agreements in place.
A common situation is when a firefighter wishes to swap a work shift with a colleague, all he has to do is to submit his request through Timesphere. The system will first verify that the colleague in question owns the proper qualifications. Once confirmed, it will then send it to him. Upon reception, the colleague will answer through the system and in the event that he accepts, a final approval request gets forwarded to their supervisor.
Should the supervisor approve it, the changes will automatically be made to the schedules and a transaction record will be created within the periodic report for future references.
Record their presence and fill their entire timesheet.
Phone calls are no longer necessary, firefighters receive a fast response (ex: by SMS messaging) and the changes are shown in the overall schedule immediately upon approval.
Timesphere employee scheduling software can easily integrate and exchange information with your existing systems, enabling seamless implementation and more precisely targeted planning and scheduling.
Timesphere can interact bi-directionally with your pay systems, HR, ERP and many others.
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Timesphere was born out of a desire to help businesses meet their employee scheduling challenges with a solution that could truly fit all businesses, be scalable, simple to integrate, and combine performance with world-class security. What truly sets us apart, an attentive ear awaits you at every touchpoint.


I love these types of arguments but frankly I wish there were more specimens available to address these ongoing debates. It's getting tiresome hearing this wrangling about this single find. The discovery of Homo floresiensis could be one of the great stories in human evolution and hopefully we'll know more once the original research team gets back to the caves in Flores and to the other islands. Hard to believe, but their work was halted by the Indonesian government at one point further adding fuel to this mess.


Given that I was perfectly on time last month with getting this post to you, obviously that meant this month I would leave it until a good way into December. But that's okay, because you know what? I'm still very excited about all the books we're getting in December and I want to make sure YOU also have all of these on your wishlist!
As usual, this is a list of December 2018 book releases and I am excited about. It is not a definitive list, apologies. This is definitely the shortest of these posts I've done. There are not a million billion books coming out this month that grabbed me, but nonetheless, buckle up and get ready!
This is an epic fantasy story that follows the story of a girl who is taken to a realm of mystery and magic where she unexpectedly falls in love with the Crown Prince of the Empire. This sets in motion an ancient prophecy that sparked a disastrous war and now our MC holds the fate of her two worlds in her hands. I'm so interested it's not even funny.
First of all, THAT COVER. I could definitely lie and say that's not why I picked this one . . . but it is. Okay so in this one time is currency and rich people live foreeeveer because they tax the poor people so much. And our MC is not happy about this, in fact, she frequently stomps her food in disgust. Anyway, stuff happens and the MC has to go back to 'Everless' and her decisions end up having the power to change the fate of time itself.
In this story, our MC hunts for relics in the ruins left by mysterious Ancestors. In particular, she searches for Elements that power humanity's technology, including navigation through hyperspace. She also has an incurable, fatal disease and is racing against the clock to find what she seeks to leave a legacy for her partner. Heck yeah, I'm down for this.
I've seen a bunch of hype over this. Our MC is kicked out of an elite space station academy . . . within 24-hours of getting into it. He's sent to Earth but before he can go, a terrorist group attacks the academy! Oh no! He becomes of three sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonisation . . . and the perfect scapegoat. So now they're on the run and have a goal to spread the truth about what really happened. I'm sort of expecting The Martian vibes here – like another Mark Watney but things go even more wrong.
Eighteenth century London where porcelain is the most important thing EVER because it's a 'seductive commodity'. Truth be told, I didn't need to read more than that because I'm a shallow reader and that sounds out there. But our MC is a female artist who no-one pays any attention to because she's female and she gets an offer to go to Venice for a masterclass sort of thing and I LOVE VENICE (it just gets better!!) and yes. 'Industrial espionage' was the nail in the coffin to me wanting this badly.
A NEW DIANE SETTERFIELD BOOK! I'm so excited. I love this woman's books so much. Anyway! A dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames . . . #SOLD. Seriously? Who needs more of a description than that? Okay, but there *is* more. A stranger suddenly brings in the corpse of a child, hours later she returns to life. But actually, that's all we're given. A suggestion of magic but otherwise you gotta read to find out. EEP!
Is sounds amazing 😱 her other book, The Thirteenth Tale, is one of my favourite mysteries ever. Highly recommend!
Okay!! I will check it out, thank you!!
I am so ready for Once Upon a River! That cover!!!! I am first in line on hold at my library, so once it comes in I will drop everything to read it! The Thirteenth Tale is one of my favorite books, so I cannot wait to read this one. Did you read her last book? It had pretty negative reviews, so I skipped it, but I have HIGH hopes for this one.


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Jean-Baptiste Isabey (11 April 1767 – 18 April 1855) was a French painter born at Nancy.

He was a successful artist, both under the First Empire and to the diplomats of the Congress of Vienna.

Life
At the age of nineteen, after some lessons from Dumont, miniature painter to Marie Antoinette, he became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Employed at Versailles on portraits of the dukes of Angoulême and Berry, he was given a commission by the queen, which opens the long list of those he received from successive French rulers until his death in 1855.

Patronized by Josephine and Napoleon Bonaparte, he arranged the ceremonies of their coronation and prepared drawings for the publication intended as its official commemoration, a work for which he was paid by Louis XVIII, whose portrait (engraved by Debucourt) he executed in 1814. Although Isabey did homage to Napoleon on his return from Elba, he continued to enjoy the favour of the Restoration, and took part in arrangements for the coronation of Charles X.

The July Monarchy conferred on him an important post in connection with the royal collections, and Napoleon III granted him a pension, and the cross of commander of the Legion of Honor. Review of Troops by the First Consul was one of his most important compositions, and Isabey's Boat – a charming drawing of himself and family-produced at a time when he was much occupied with lithography – had an immense success at the Salon of 1820 (engraved, Landon, Annales, i. 125). His portrait of Napoleon at Malmaison is held to be the best ever executed, and even his tiny head of the king of Rome, painted for a breast-pin, is distinguished by a decision and breadth that show the hand of a master.

A biography of Isabey was published by Edmond Taigny in 1859, and Charles Lenormant's article, written for Michaud's Biog. Univ., is founded on facts furnished by Isabey's family.

His son, Eugène, also became a well known painter.

References

Sources

Basily-Callimaki, Eva de, Mme, J.B. Isabey: sa vie, son temps, 1767-1855: Suivi du Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravee par et d'apres Isabey

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18th-century French painters
French male painters
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MSU students recognized for wood-structure design achievements
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State architecture majors are recent winners of the highest national honors presented in a design competition sponsored by the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association.
University seniors Omkar H. Prabhu, a native of Mumbai, India, and Curtis M. Reed of Montgomery, Alabama, took first- and second-place, respectively, in the organization's Sustainable Versatility Design Awards challenge.
The judges' vote was unanimous for Prabhu, whose award was accompanied by a $1,500 cash prize. Reed's came with $750. Prabhu traveled to Newport, Rhode Island, earlier this semester to personally accept his award during NELMA's annual meeting.
MSU was among more than 20 institutions throughout the U.S. whose students submitted design proposals for the intense and demanding competition.
Both students are at the School of Architecture's downtown Jackson center, completing the fifth and final year in MSU's College of Architecture, Art and Design's architecture program—the only one of its kind in the Magnolia State.
Founded in 1933 and based in Cumberland, Maine, NELMA is the non-profit trade organization representing the softwood lumber industry throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. For more, see www.nelma.org.
The NELMA competition brief "called for the redesign of each applicant's architecture school by utilizing innovative timber technologies and sustainable practices," said Jacob A. Gines.
Prabhu and Reed's winning designs were adaptations of work completed last year in the architecture school's TIMB(R) Studio that the MSU assistant professor leads.
"The winning design proposals from Omkar and Curtis ambitiously demonstrate the potential that mass timber buildings have to positively contribute to the skylines of our cities in a way that is sustainable, responsible and beautiful. The School of Architecture is excited to be at the forefront of the mass timber movement," Gines said.
TIMB(R) is the acronym for Timber Innovations for Mississippi Buildings Reimagined. Open to fourth-year architecture majors, the campus-based studio was supported by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc., an internationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to responsible forest management, along with the Mississippi Forestry Association and Weyerhaeuser Co. through its SFI Conservation and Community Partnership Grants Program.
Last year, both students also won significant design recognitions. Prabhu became the fourth MSU architecture major named an Undergraduate Research Fellow of the Method Studio, a Utah-based architectural design firm. For Reed, it was the top $500 TIMB(R)-sponsored prize for most innovative uses of interior and exterior wood technologies in the design of an architecture studio.
For more about the MSU College of Architecture, Art and Design and its School of Architecture, visit, respectively, www.caad.msstate.edu/caad/home.php and www.caad.msstate.edu/sarc/home.php. Gines may be reached at jgines@caad.msstate.edu or 662-325-0094.
MSU is Mississippi's leading university, also available online at www.msstate.edu.
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On invisible villains, with an excerpt from The Dying Prince
Click here to follow the progress of The Dying Prince, Book Two of the Phoenix series.
This week in The Dying Prince, I wrote an important scene in which one of the characters is able to get closer to their mysterious enemy--the Forbidden--than any one else has gotten so far. I needed to reveal enough to give the story a little more momentum--more questions, more chills--but not enough to blow all the secrets in Book Two that should be discovered throughout Books Three, Four, and Five.
I began to write the scene with the appearance of a nebulous figure:
Then, in the center of the floor, an indistinct figure appeared, wavering like cloud in a breeze, with the form of a man but the features invisible. Every time [my character] sought to distinguish features, clarity eluded him, in the same way that a star diminished when looked at directly.
I thought it was a sufficiently sinister description for my main villain, and happily continued the scene. As soon as my villain began to talk, however, the scene just tanked. He just began to feel like the normal cliche villain. He was so much more interesting when he was silent and invisible.
And that's when I had an idea. I rewrote the entire scene, but this time, my villain was not even present. In his place, I wrote of a ragged man--ordinary in appearance and uncouth in speech. As the scene unraveled, it became clear that this man was not the villain. He was merely an emissary of the true villain.
Suddenly, the scene worked. I believe it is for two main reasons:
The villain remains completely anonymous.
We do not know anything about his form or appearance. We do not even have his manner of speech by which to judge him. He remains completely blank, the thing hidden at the edges of the story, making war from a distance. Or perhaps he is closer than one would imagine... An invisible villain leaves many possibilities.
For more on my philosophy about invisible villains, read Dr. Fiction's Interview with the Invisible Man.
Information about the villain is subjective.
All we know about the villain is based on what his emissary chooses to say. Is he telling us everything? Or is he holding back some information?
It is also limited by what the emissary himself knows. Does he know everything about his master's will? Is the villain's will, as expressed by the emissary, really his intentions, or is it just a ploy to keep all the good guys looking in one direction while he strikes from another direction? What is truth--and what is trap?
An excerpt from The Dying Prince
I can't include an excerpt the scene in question without giving away a major plot point, so... sorry! But as my peace offering, I give you another scene in which the companions learn how to use the longsword. If you want to know who the characters are, read about them here, in "The Soundtrack of the Moonstone."
Edric began to teach his companions how to draw from the scabbard. Rory, it seemed, already had a great deal of practice, sweeping the blade from the scabbard with one fluid movement and thrusting exuberantly at the air. Tascu watching him coldly, but mimicked his movements exactly.
Once the draw was satisfactory, Edric began the lessons.
"Do not look at the sword," he warned his brother-in-law. "Trann, keep your eyes up."
"But if I cannot see the sword..."
"You can see the sword. Your eye sees a great deal that it does not look at directly. Watch my eyes only. Look, we will practice with no swords. Fiasa, stand behind Trann. Trann, I am trying to push past you to your wife. Block me. Move as I move. You are slow, Trann. Relax and let your instincts take over. Good! Much better. Quicker now!"
"Ow!"
"My feet are part of my body too, Trann. Do not let me trip you again."
Once back on his feet, Trann scrambled to block Edric, sweat beading on his pale forehead, all of his movements coalescing into a single goal: Do not let Edric past. At one point, as Edric feinted to one side, then reached beyond Trann toward Fiasa, Trann whirled sharply and wrapped his long fingers around Edric's arm. "You won't touch her, you beast!"
Then Trann blinked and muttered, "I... I'm sorry. I must have gotten a little excited."
Edric pulled back and laughed until he leaned weakly against the wall. Fiasa laughed as well, and the gaiety of the company increased their confidence.
What literary villains creep you out the most? Why do you think they give you the heebie-jeebies? Share in the comments below!


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Description: EasyUAE is the OS4 native ReAction GUI directly integrated in E-UAE 0.8.29+. It provides easy access to all configuration options of E-UAE.
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Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular is een videospel uit 1988, met in de hoofdrol de stripfiguur Snoopy uit de stripserie Peanuts. Het spel is ontwikkeld door Kotobuki System Co., Ltd en uitgebracht door Kemco voor de Nintendo Entertainment System.

Creatie
Het spel is in feite een aangepaste versie van een Japans spel met in de hoofdrol Donald Duck en andere Disneypersonages. Omdat Capcom de rechten op de Disneypersonages bezat voor computerspellen, besloot Kemco om het spel voor de Amerikaanse markt aan te passen met de Peanuts-personages in de hoofdrol. De evenementen in het spel zijn onveranderd gebleven.

Gameplay
Het spel bestaat uit zes minigames, waarin de speler het als Snoopy opneemt tegen andere personages uit Peanuts in een reeks sporten.

Sack Race: hierin neemt Snoopy het op tegen Spike in een race zaklopen.
Boot Throwing: een spel gelijk aan kogelslingeren, maar dan met een oude laars in plaats van een kogel.
Pogo: hierin moet de speler met een springstok over obstakels springen.
Overboard: de speler en een computergestuurde tegenstander vechten het uit in een boot, waabij ze elkaar overboord proberen te gooien.
Pile of Pizza: de speler moet met een stapel pizza's naar de finish rennen zonder de stapel te laten vallen.
River Jump: de speler moet de overkant van een rivier halen middels polsstokhoogspringen.

Computerspel uit 1988
Sportspel
Nintendo Entertainment System-spel


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The Return of the MC
By Claire McTaggart
Just when it seemed that hip hop's up-and-coming class of rappers was one gimmick short of a grand marketing scheme, an unlikely candidate has stepped up to reclaim the title of the emcee. At first it's hard to imagine where Joell Ortiz, an overweight, un-jeweled, unpolished, Puerto Rican from Greenpoint might
fit into the line-up of hard-bodied rappers. But, while those dominating the SoundScans have been preoccupied with rims and chains and beef DVDs, Ortiz emerged one day and did something completely out of the ordinary: He made a solid hip-hop album.
The Brick (Bodega Chronicles)—his first studio project to materialize out of a series of mixtapes and battles—has no likable hooks, no banging beats, not even any tricky wordplay, but it just may be the album New York hip-hop-heads have been waiting for. In an era where the only visible signs of a movement to resurrect that Big Apple swagger are the "comeback" albums from vets such as Ghostface, Jigga, and Nas, Ortiz wants to prove to anyone who will listen that he is worthy of picking up the torch.
His first single, "Hip-Hop," stumbles upon those of us caught red-handed doing the motorcycle dance, and reminds us that rap music has a deep history and still plays a powerful role in our urban communities. As if we had forgotten how, "Hip Hop" may start making people feel good about music again. With no flashy 808s or sped-up samples, Ortiz spends a moment on some real-talk, asking his listeners,
Yo do me a favor? Accidentally step on your white sunglasses. We don't wear those over here—this is hip-hop. This is Carhart jackets, Timberland boots unlaced. This is Champion hoodies, chicken wings, and French fries, R.I.P. pieces on the handball court. This is us still fighting police brutality. This is hip-hop!
Sound vaguely familiar? When it seemed nineties rap music had become a mirage of shiny suits and special effects, it took gangsta rap to snap back to the reality of what was going on in the streets. It took KRS-One, Tupac, Nas, and every other street reporter to return hip-hop to its roots. In this sense, Ortiz stands apart from his peers as a student of history, unafraid to call someone's bluff, but more likely to lead by example. Songs like "Brooklyn," "Caught Up," and "Modern Day Slavery," which feature cameos ranging from the legendary Big Daddy Kane to political underground star Immortal Technique, returned the traps of hustling and growing up in the projects.
While writing rhymes about the ghetto is nothing novel, Ortiz offers a modern commentary that is more complex and realistic than any of the made-for-radio drug anthems glorifying the lifestyle. In "Brooklyn" Ortiz remembers,
Stash getting low, bills never over, your ass getting low, you can't chill in the Copa. Drink after drink, and you still feel sober, the grind on your mind, you can't think straight, but they can't know, so you front like everything's great.
While the lackluster wordplay may underwhelm some critics, the honesty and raw emotions that characterize Ortiz's stories—the paranoia, the self-doubt, the hypocrisies—give him a vulnerable authenticity that is reminiscent of the late B.I.G.
The moral complexities Ortiz battles with throughout The Brick unfold like a private journal, entirely avoiding the overused formula of the "ashy-to-classy" street-hustler tributes. This is primarily because the Joell Ortiz you meet in the first song is the same character that signs out in his last bars. He never plays the victim or the pimp, the drug lord or the thug, but instead goes for exactly what he is: a Latino MC struggling to tell his side of the story for the sake of good hip-hop.
And he stays true to his all-too-human style of rhyming. Some of Ortiz's most self-conscious, unabashed confessions about his flaws and regrets come in "125 (Finale)," the last song on the album and the fourth part in the "125 Grams" series that serves as the foundation of The Brick. In the same straightforward flow that Ortiz rhymes with throughout the album, he admits,
I'm really losing my drive to do this music. If it don't happen after this I'm through with it. Twenty-five, still live in my mom's crib. Two kids, ever heard the saying "so smart that you're stupid"? That's me, 14 and change on my SATs, and I chose the projects over college—what a fuck-up!
You won't see Ortiz brag about drug money or get-rich schemes. Instead, he breaks down how a smart and athletic kid can end up losing control. How the son of a junkie can end up dealing the same drugs his mother was hooked on. Ortiz's self-proclaimed "just a fan with a deal" approach to rhyming makes The Brick a refreshing return to what has been missing in hip-hop lately: accessibility. When most rappers are "making it rain" in the strip club, or "throwin' Ds" on their Cadillacs, it's good to know there is still room for an MC to speak directly to his community about real issues that concern it.
Lucky for Ortiz, he had a demo fall into the hands of legendary rapper/producer/label-owner Dr. Dre, who immediately signed him to Aftermath Records, which, for an underground rapper like Ortiz, just may be the hip-hop equivalent of winning the lottery. Even more surprising is that Dre liked Ortiz's album enough to let him release it with a distribution deal from Koch records.
Part of the enchantment of The Brick that has won it both street and commercial buzz in such a short time is the unique guest list. Ortiz features tracks with an assortment of lyrically respected rappers ranging from Styles P and Ras Kass to Maino, Big Noyd, and La Bruja. The hand-selected collabos work for the most part, largely because the bulk of them, like Ortiz, are New York MCs who have made a name through the mixtape and battle circuit.
Ironically, the biggest disappointment of the album is the collaboration with Grammy-winner and pop R&B star Akon. While Ortiz and Akon both have strong ties to the hustler-turned-entrepreneur crew Block Royal, "Keep on Callin'" falls victim to the catchy–sing-song-–hook syndrome characteristic of the crossover hits and club-bangers Ortiz criticizes in the first place.
The Brick (Bodega Chronicles) is packed full of Brooklyn borough pride, neighborhood shout-outs, and references to Manhattan clubs and Block Royal members, but Ortiz pays the greatest homage to his fellow Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Hispanics in the anthem "Latino." The song, interspersed with Spanish slang, is an ode to all Latino culture, but more specifically his New York Puerto Rican upbringing:
The dope they sold by the Bodega, where y'all call it dope we call it the "Manteca." We don't look for Lotto numbers in the newspaper, we play it right over the counter by the Now-n-Laters. Sit down on milk crates and play dominoes, Capicu! Slam 'em down and tell 'em adios.
With lines like those, Ortiz embraces all aspects of his culture (delicious food, gorgeous women, guns, welfare, pregnancy, etc.) and acknowledges that while they are not all positive, there is a pride that goes along with being Latino that others should take the time to acknowledge.
While "Latino," like "Brooklyn," "Night in my P's," and "BQE," tells the up-and-down story of growing up in a poor black and Hispanic neighborhood in project housing, it serves a deeper role by shedding light on the often-overlooked fact that Puerto Ricans and Latinos have been a vital part of hip-hop since its birth in the late seventies. It wasn't until Big Pun took over the airwaves that proper respect was finally given to Puerto Ricans in hip-hop, but since his death there has been a void when it comes to Latinos getting airplay and major record deals.
It seems appropriate now that, as a classic Brooklyn MC and the favorite to bring back that missing New York flavor to hip-hop, Ortiz represents for both blacks and Latinos. After all, lest we forget, hip-hop started out as the voice of urban culture, of the minorities standing up to be heard, of the underdogs.
Joell Ortiz is not the world's best or wittiest lyricist, and he does not have much in the name of witty wordplay. His flow can be repetitive, and there are
no jaw-dropping rhymes potent enough to need rewinding. He is not a young Rakim, Big L, or even Big Pun. But what he does have that trumps all else is a knowledge of where hip-hop came from and where it needs to go. He is solid and has all the fundamentals, and most importantly, the heart and soul of an MC.
There is no question that Papoose can write a witty line, that Jae Hood can rip a freestyle, or that Mims can make anything sound catchy, but when it comes down to passion and raw skills, none of them rhyme like they truly care about the integrity of hip-hop music. That alone may prove Joell Ortiz to be the most important emcee to emerge from the '07 class, and at least the hungriest.
The Brick (Bodega Chronicles) is not an instant classic, but it's a turn in the right direction. It's a chance to bring hip-hop back home.
Claire McTaggart
CLAIRE MCTAGGART is a writer based in Crown Heights.
Class Act: Warren's Triangulation
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
NOV 2019 | Field Notes
On August 15, 2018, a little over three months before she would form an exploratory committee for the Democratic presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren issued a press release announcing new legislation. The Accountable Capitalism Act, a hilarious contradiction in terms, promised to "eliminate skewed market incentives" and return America to an era when corporations and workers "did well together.
The Class Struggle in France
by Charles Reeve and Jean-Luc Sahagian, translated by Janet Koenig
FEB 2019 | Field Notes
The movement turns both towards the past, when animated by despair, fear about social security and the desire to withdraw into oneself, and toward the future, when motivated by a profound critique of income inequality and class.
The Return of Tom Doyle
By Jessica Holmes
OCT 2019 | ArtSeen
The Return of Tom Doyle signals an attempt to resurrect the career of a sculptor who in reality never really "disappeared," but who remained blasé through most of his life to the vagaries of the art world.
Why Does Class Matter?
By Peter St. Clair
JUNE 2018 | Field Notes
Does class matter? Steve Fraser answers with a "Duh" in the introduction to his new book, Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion.
A New Spin on an Old Tradition
By Marie Carter
From Brooklyn to Bourbon Street
The Time? Antiquated. The View? Awesome.
By Matthew L. Levy
Maison d'Ordure
By Liz Maestri
The Habitat of the Human Freak
By Brian Childs
Visions of Coney Island
By An Xiao
Brooklyn No More
The "Greening" of New York City
By Richard Wells
Inside Kashmir
By Justine Hardy
Coca Adds Life to the Bolivian Economy
By Caitlin Esch
Bringing the War Home
By B. Colby Hamilton
RANT RHAPSODY: Girl, Lightly Medicated
By Katherine Sharpe
Docs in Sight: A Spring Festival Doc Roundup
By Williams Cole and Pamela Grossman
James Beck, Gadfly (1930-2007)
Letter from Germany:It's Not About Representation, It's About Production Interview with Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack
By Clare Carolin
Letter from Iran
Robert Ryman with Phong Bui
Brian O' Doherty with Phong Bui
Letter from China
Brooklyn Dispatches
Jim Lee Altamont
Nicolas Carone Sculpture
Larry Miller Homage to Nam June Paik
By Warren Fry
Trouble and the B-Keepers You Are Here: A Maze
Melissa Pokorny there/there
Comic Abstraction
By Ben La Rocco
The Male Gaze
William Powhida This Is A Work Of Fiction
Brandon Lattu 4 Models
Shana Moulton Whispering Pines
By Jen Schwarting
Katherine Bradford By Life & By Land, Recent Paintings
China Blue, Carol Salmanson
By Jill Conner
Gregory Amenoff Facing North
Kristen Schiele Gothicolor
Reuben Kadish's Holocaust Sculpture
Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman Will Barnet: Recent Work
Carroll Dunham
Abby Leigh The Eye is the First Circle
Nicholas Krushenick
Eric Holzman Drawings, 1990–2007
Poetry Roundup
Mamapalooza: Marjorie Tesser with Cassandra Neyenesch
Fiction Lyrically Feral
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Nonfiction Peace Long Ago
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Nonfiction Looking for Utopia
Nonfiction No Pain, No Game(space)
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Nonfiction Hitchens in Love
Literature Wordplay
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How I Got Here, I Can't Recall
Yam Sacs and Unicorn Sounds:
(Arcade) Fire and Brimstone at the United Palace
Because we said so
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Ohad Naharin with Susan Yung
Michael Helland's The Dress Up Show
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The Medievalist and the Minimalist
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Chameckilerners Exit at the Kitchen
More Freedom and More Shocking
Easy. Good. Pick One.
Let the Punishment Begin
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Herzog: (Non)Fiction
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Saving Their Tales
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Having Their Cake, and Meaning It Too
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BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD
By Trish Harnetiaux
So Many Players
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The Conception of Despair
By Evan Harris
By Daniels Parseliti
the man who ate himself
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from Poem Noir
By Doug Nufer
from Hyper glossia
By Stacy Szymaszek
The Beast with Two Backs