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Dr. Nicholas Savidov says a aquafoods could produced up to 300 cucumbers a year for a family.
Kevin Libin, National Post · Dec. 7, 2009 | Last Updated: Aug. 7, 2010 3:22 PM ET
South of Alberta's Badlands, where rainfall averages are lower than parts of Ethiopia, Nicholas Savidov's self-contained ecosystem has grown literally tons of fish, vegetables and fruit, for years, all with hardly adding any water.
Since 2001, explains Dr. Savidov, lead plant physiologist and biochemist at this provincial crop diversification lab, he's recycled the same water, over and over, through jumbo vats, throbbing with hundreds of tilapia fish, out to an adjacent water table as big as a small backyard, where grids of aquaponic crops nourish on nutrients from the composted fish waste, and then back to the fish, where it returns clean and oxygenated.
"Just one square metre," of this operation, he says, "gives you more yield than in one acre of land." The equipment pays for itself from food sales. All it requires is a little power, and fish food.
The all-in-one food-making contraption could one day feed humans in poor regions where water and potent agricultural materials are not always easy to come by.
"That's an ideal system for a developing country," Dr. Savidov says, pointing to a refrigerator-sized version he says might cost as little as $1,000. "[It] will produce up to 300 cucumbers a year.… A system like that can supply a family with fresh vegetables and with vitamins and also with protein" from the dozens of fish, he says.
While Western environmentalists lionize unrefined, organic farms, one of the best ways to protect our environment is by spreading 21st century farming technology and corporate agricultural products. Food production that truly sustains the planet is the very stuff that the eco-priests decry: fish farms, genetically modified foods, and farms relying more, not less, on corporate-made chemicals.
"Intensive agricultural production is the key," says Patrick Moore, co-founder and former Canadian president of Greenpeace, now chairman of Vancouver-based communications firm Greenspirit Strategies. "It's simple arithmetic: the more food you grow per acre, the less natural world you have to clear to do it."
The late Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution that modernized farming, ending frequent famines, in India and Asia, illustrated it this way: in 1990, America produced 596 million tons of crops. Had it stuck with 1960 methods of farming, it would have needed 460 million more acres than in 1960, of fertile land. Only, there wasn't 460 million more acres of good-quality land, so it would have been millions more yet, of poorer quality land.
"We would have moved into marginal grazing areas and plowed up things that wouldn't be productive in the long run. We would have had to move into rolling mountainous country and chop down our forests," he once told Reason Magazine. With advances in agriculture, farmers instead doubled output in 30 years, using 25-million fewer acres. Mr. Borlaug, in addition to being credited for saving a billion lives by introducing fertilizers, pesticides, and seed genetics to Latin America and Asia (he won a Nobel peace prize for it,) spared millions of hectares of forests from being razed for farmland.
At November's UN World Summit on Food Security, economists estimated that the world must double current food output by 2050 to feed a population of 9-billion, many increasingly demanding Western-quality diets.
For developing countries, using farming methods circa 1860, never mind 1960, this means more than doubling farmland. Antiquated farming methods are the number one factor destroying forests. Sustenance agriculture -- Third World farmers typically farm an acre or less -- caused up to 45% of deforestation between 2000 and 2005. Africa was responsible for 50% of the world's deforestation between 1990 and 2000, compared to Asia's meager 4% contribution.
"What Borlaug and the Green Revolution did was very positive for the environment, because a lot of land and forest were left untouched," says Per Pinstrup-Andersen, professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy at Cornell University. But in Africa, he says, such destruction is worsening, as primitive farming methods, and fertilizer deficiencies, degrade soil of nutrients. "The erosion gets worse, and it's a downward spiral," as farmers abandon exhausted fields for new land, says Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute.
Both men believe that modern technology already offers the means to sate global appetites now and in 40 years, without devastating oceans or forests. But using it requires ignoring environmental NGOs, and letting the beneficial products of private industry play a bigger role. David Suzuki rhapsodizes about Cuba's "sustainable" archaic ox-ploughed farms, but that country imports 85% of its food.
An hour or so up the road from Dr. Savidov's laboratories, John Tremblay, president of Alternative Agriculture Technology, breeds shrimp in two huge tanks in a barn in the middle of cattle country. He's just getting started. When he's fully scaled up, he estimates an enclosed shrimp farm on an acre of land will produce 60,000 lbs of food yearly -- a 30 times greater yield than a typical acre of soybeans. "We went from being labelled shrimp farmers to being sustainable food production specialists," Mr. Tremblay says. "If a guy can grow shrimp in Alberta then we can do it almost anywhere."
Pound for pound, acre for acre, fish farms output more food, with fewer inputs and emissions, than land farms, without ravaging oceans or clearing land. "What most people don't realize is that fish are so much more efficient at converting into food," says Mr. Moore: their cold blood and not having to fight gravity makes seafood emit less than half the greenhouse gases of equivalent amounts of land-based meat.
Just as man evolved from hunter-gatherer to domesticating livestock, it only makes sense to evolve our seafood cultivation, says Sebastian Belle, president of the Maine Aquaculture Association. Sea conservation groups say bottom-trawling is devastating millions of miles of aquatic ecosystems. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates over 70% of fish species are either maximally exploited or depleted.
While wild fishing declines, aquaculture is flourishing; accounting now for 42% of seafood production, it is expected to exceed 50% in the next decade, according to the Worldwatch Institute. But environmental groups are arguably the biggest political obstacles to its expansion, pressuring governments and consumers to resist it by claiming that fish farms are unhealthy or contaminate wild species. No such risks have ever been substantiated, Mr. Moore notes. What's astonishing, he says, is that organizations claiming to care about ocean life are, essentially, pushing to keep us straining sea life, hunting fish, like buffalo, to near extinction, rather than sustainably growing our own.
Last month, scientists at the Genome Center at St. Louis' Washington University announced a breakthrough with potential to alter the fate of billions: they decoded the genetics of corn.
Corn, or maize, is the most common crop on the planet. The ability to artificially tinker with its genetics "make it easier to breed new varieties of corn that produce higher yields or are more tolerant to extreme heat, drought, or other conditions," explained the centre's director, Richard Wilson.
Monsanto is already engineering drought-tolerant breeds. Corn tailor-made for the most challenging growing conditions could bring bumper crops to perennially under-nourished African regions. Only, as things stand, it won't: Genetically modified (GM) crops are not legal most everywhere in Africa.
If there is anywhere desperate for better crops, it is Africa, where grain yields per acre, according to the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, are one-fifth that of those in Europe and the United States.
As Western harvests improve, Africa's are shrinking: the World Resources Institute reported in 2006 that, per capita, African farms produced 19% less in 2005 than in 1970. Where the typical farmer devotes at least 90% of her small plot of land to simply feeding her family, the growth in Africa's population, expected to nearly double by 2050 to 1.7-billion, will, without modern, high-yield agriculture techniques, mean vast wilderness lost to crude farms.
With access to engineered seeds, fertilizer and pesticides, the Center for Global Food Issues calculates Africa can produce twice the food as it does now. Yet, so degraded is that region's soil that the UN's Institute for Natural Resources predicts that using current methods, there could be only enough arable land by 2025 to grow food sufficient for 25% of Africans.
The West shoulders blame for this fiasco. Left-wing groups launched campaigns against the Green Revolution, opposing everything from its synthetic, commercial pesticides and fertilizers to the cultural cleansing of native farming traditions. Mr. Borlaug's nervous sponsors, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the World Bank, cancelled his African project funding.
Until the mid-1990s, some African governments were preparing to introduce the same genetically modified, pest-resistant, high-yield crops Americans and Canadians were adopting, when, again, environmental NGOs interfered, campaigning against what they branded Frankenfoods.
"Fifteen years after the first genetically-modified food has been commercialized and eaten in the United States, there isn't a single person that has been sick. There is not a single person that has died. There's been no environmental catastrophes," Mr. Pinstrup-Andersen says.
Still, the European Union's bans on GM imports, and Africa's reliance on EU aid, makes it too economically risky for most African nations to try GM -- a sin of the well-fed West against the starving that Robert Paarlberg calls "an imperialism of rich tastes." He is the author of Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept out of Africa.
Redirecting Africa from a dustbowl destiny to one of limited deforestation and increasing food output is no simple affair. When Mr. Borlaug finally located funding from Japanese benefactors to try his advances in sub-Saharan Africa -- work that continues with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates, and the Howard Buffet Foundations -- he found ways to double yields, but only in developed areas: lack of transportation and irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa added unique complications. The cost of transporting a tonne of goods one kilometre in Africa averages as much US$0.14, compared to a $0.03 average in other developing regions, the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa reported in November. It concluded that US$50-billion annual spending on road, water and power is necessary over the next decade to bring Sub-Saharan Africa into the 21st century — still cheaper than the Copenhagen climate treaty's estimated cost to participating nations, which now tops US$300-billion a year.
Western funds, or loans, to deliver modern farming methods and materials to slash-and-burn regions is not only more likely to dramatically cut atmospheric carbon levels and preserve vital ecosystems than empty international emission pledges, it has actually been proven to work. If eco-conscious Westerners won't redirect money from untested global cap-and-trade schemes and "green" funds to stop the spread of destructive farming, at the very least the West can push to reverse the bans we prompted on the GM crops that must be part of the solution. While we're at it, we can shut down campaigns against chemically intensive agriculture and fish farms. And if, in the process, we end up not just helping the planet, but saving millions of lives, even better.


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Houston, Texas (CNN) -- The doctor currently in charge of Gabrielle Giffords' neurological recovery, the man who's had his very hands in Giffords' brain, was once mistaken for a kung fu expert.
It was 1972, and the second-graders at Ed Smith Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, didn't quite know what to make of Dong Kim, the boy who'd just arrived from Korea.
"There were probably not that many Asian people there at that time, so a lot of the kids just assumed I knew kung fu," Kim remembered, laughing. "I got some notoriety out of that. I knew nothing about kung fu, but I could kind of fake it and impress people, or at least impress other 7-year olds."
That boy grew up to be chairman of the director of the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center. Giffords came under his care last week when she was transferred to Texas from the University Medical Center in Arizona.
On Monday, Kim removed a drain from Giffords' brain, which had been placed there to remove excess fluid.
Kim, whose father was studying library science at Syracuse University, recalls his early days in the United States sitting in a classroom not understanding anything "a little anxiety-provoking, but I felt pretty comfortable." He enjoyed math from the beginning, since the numbers made sense, and within the year, he learned English.
"I do think that the immigrant experience is quite a strong one," he said. "I remember growing up feeling strongly that my parents had come here for me and my sister. I remember them commenting over and over again what a great country this was and how we're lucky to be here. I think that kind of instills in you that you're getting this real opportunity and you should try to take advantage of it."
Kim's family later moved to Southern California, and he received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University.
Medicine was not his first love.
"At 18 or 19, I was trying to write the great American novel, but I would stare at the page for an hour and half and get two sentences out, so that's not good," he said, laughing. "What I wrote didn't read well, even to me."
By his junior year at Stanford, Kim had taken an interest in medicine, and he received his medical degree from the University of California-San Francisco. Within a few years of finishing his residency, he arrived at one of his chosen fields of research, the genetics of brain aneurysms, a condition in which a blood vessel bulges out and can later rupture and bleed, causing a stroke.
His interest lay partly in his own family history. Three of his four grandparents died of brain hemorrhages, or bleeding in the brain, as did his 37-year-old uncle, a surgeon who Kim says was kidnapped by the North Koreans.
Kim and his team discovered several genes related to aneurysms. He had his parents tested, and both were negative.
Another area of research involves using stem cells from a patient's skin to treat spinal cord injuries. The treatments they developed have allowed paralyzed rats to walk again, and they hope to begin studies in humans in the next two to three years.
Kim says his favorite part of his work is when a patient returns to his office after undergoing a traumatic illness, such as a brain injury, stroke or tumor.
"When I first meet a new patient with a new problem, it's tough for everybody. They're upset. I'm worried about them. I feel for what they're going through, and it's the best thing to get them through it," he says.
The hardest part of his job is when things don't go so well. Sometimes, for example, he has a patient with cancer, and there are few treatments.
Or "even worse," he said, is when a patient has a surgical complication.
"No matter who you are, a few times a year, that happens, and the thought that you did something, even though you were trying to help them, and things didn't go well, is very, very difficult," he says. "But nobody's perfect, and you can't have a 100% success rate."
As for his most famous patient, Kim has very little to say aside from a few comments at news conferences. At a recent interview with CNN, a public relations representative from his hospital interrupted whenever a question was asked about Giffords.
When asked whether he couldn't speak because the hospital had limited him or because Giffords' family had asked him not to, he laughed.
"I don't know if I can comment on not commenting," he said.
"It would be dishonest if I said (treating Giffords) wasn't different, because there's all this scrutiny. Everybody's calling," he added. "Certainly, that heightens the situation."
But he knows that doing anything different for her, breaking with regular protocol, would be a mistake.
"I think the best way to handle it is in the mechanics of care of the patient is to do everything the same," he said. "I think you can potentially get into trouble when you try to start doing things differently or making exceptions."


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Would you like to get some more teaching experience? The Open University (the UK's largest distance-learning University) would like to offer Cambridge postdocs the opportunity to gain experience tutoring on their courses. They can offer:
- Flexible teaching opportunities to suit your workload and preferences
- The chance to support students from a diverse range of backgrounds
- Training and support to teach through a variety of media, which is becoming increasingly valued on the academic job market.
Come along and find out more about what is on offer, and how you can get involved. Jane Jones, Associate Dean at the Open University, will lead the session, which will include input from former Cambridge postdocs who have taken up this experience.
Bring along your favorite/local dish to share (max. 2 portions) and enjoy all kinds of food from all around the world!
In December 2019, the University of Cambridge officially signed the new Researcher Development Concordat. The 'Concordat' sets out a series of responsibilities and working practices designed to create a healthy and supportive culture for research, and to increase the appeal and sustainability of research careers in the UK.
The new Concordat is structured in to three principles: Environment & culture, employment and professional & career development. Within each principle there are obligations for institutions, managers of researchers and researchers themselves, and, for the first time, funders of research.
At this open meeting, Liz Simmonds, chair of the University's Concordat Working Group, will present further detail about the Concordat and its likely benefits and implications, and will update on progress of the working group towards an institutional implementation plan. This will be followed by a Q&A session.
The Concordat will have an impact across the whole institution, and so this session will be useful for academic staff, research staff, and professional services staff who support postdocs.
Postdocs are invited to an interactive and engaging discussion with the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. This is a rare opportunity to have a conversation with someone who has successfully navigated the worlds of academia and industry.
An official welcome from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPdA), there will be a brief interactive presentations from the Careers Service and Personal and Professional Development (PPD) whose principal role is to support the University's research staff.
An official welcome from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPdA). This event consists of two sessions so as to give postdocs an opportunity of attending either a morning OR an afternoon session as best suits. Both sessions will include brief interactive presentations from the OPdA, Careers Service and Personal and Professional Development (PPD) whose principal role is to support the University's research staff.
Introductory forum on Impact, specifically user engagement, focused on enhancing awareness of media relations, public engagement and policy engagement.
Please note this is now a virtual session.
Have you ever faced any issues related to authorship within your research group or making a submission to a journal?
- Who gets to be an author?
- How do you start a conversation on authorship with your research team?
- What approaches can be used to resolve an authorship problem?
- How are mistakes handled in a published paper?
- In what circumstances will a paper be retracted from a journal?
Using case studies and group discussion, this course will explore best practice from how authorship of a paper is decided to managing the challenges that can arise when working with publishers or editors. Discussions will include 'grey areas', common issues and pitfalls, and you will be given the opportunity to share your experiences and perspectives.
This talk will take place on Friday 27th September at 13:00 in room AG03b Exams hall, Student Services Centre
Topics covered:
- Mission and values of the University
- Principles informing governance at Cambridge
- Overview of governance bodies
- Senior University offices and officers
- Key governance bodies: Regent House, Council, General Board, Board of Scrutiny
- Key governance resources: Statutes and Ordinances, Reporter, Governance hub
If you have recently started peer reviewing, or are ready to get involved, the OSC invites you to this unmissable session, where you will pick up tips and best practices from PLOS, publishers of the world's largest multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal.
This session provides valuable career advice to science postdocs from the speaker's own experience, expressed with a good deal of humour.
Postdoctoral Researchers are typically employed on relatively short-term contracts, and are funded by so-called 'soft money' to carry out a specific project for a PI. This creates an immediate tension. The specific project will have research objectives and deliverables that must be met to satisfy whoever is funding the work, and the PI will be assessed on whether these goals have been met. However, a postdoctoral researcher will often have their own research interests and also career objectives. A really successful postdoctoral project is one in which everyone's goals are met. The talk will cover a little about Dr Flewitt's own experience of this process from the perspective of both sides and try and draw out some general thoughts for discussion.
Following the UK government's announcement of a 'new' visa route, known as the Global Talent Visa, Graeme Ross, the University's Head of Immigration for staff members, will conduct a presentation on what this means for postdocs and how to apply for this visa. There will also be a short presentation on other relevant visa routes, such as dependant visas and Indefinite Leave to Remain/Settlement, and an opportunity to ask questions about other immigration matters.
GSK, the science-led global healthcare company, is running a forum for networking and sharing information about what unique skills postdocs have, by virtue of their roles, and how these are mutually beneficial.
Please note this session is now running as a virtual/online session. Joining instructions will be emailed closer to the time.
People love stories. They entertain, they help us to remember. This short interactive session is aimed at researchers looking to improve the effectiveness of their communication. It will introduce the importance of working out who your audience is and what they want to know. It will also explore how storytelling is as relevant to research communication as it is to fairy tales. We all have to communicate our research and ideas, why not do it through stories?
The session will be delivered by the Academic Director for STEM, Institute of Continuing Education.
Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
Once you have booked a provisional place on this course, you will need to email the organiser Dr Rahuman Sheriff, sheriff AT ebi.ac.uk with your CV and cover-letter explaining why you would like to participate, with "MOL-workshop" in the subject line by 18th September 2019.
Computer models are increasingly used by researchers as well as pharmaceutical industry to investigate molecular mechanisms disease initiation, progression and therapy. Systems modelling of biochemical pathways deregulated in disease condition offers mechanistic insights into the pathology; helps to elucidate mechanisms behind dug action and predict dose required for treatment and thereby greatly facilitates fundamental research and drug discovery. Such modelling requires background in both molecular biology and mathematics.
This workshop will train postdocs from life science and mathematics to communicate and work together to learn to build and analyse computational models using user-friendly open source software. Participant will explore selected computational models from a recent publication, freely available in BioModels repository (www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/).
Lourdes Cucurull-Sanchez PhD Director, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology GSK Medicines Research Centre, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2NY, UK
Prof. Jasmin Fisher PhD, FRSB Professor of Computational Biology UCL Cancer Institute Faculty of Medical Sciences, Paul O'Gorman Building 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6DD
Alfonso Martinez Arias PhD Professor of Developmental Mechanick Department of Genetics University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EH
Rahuman Sheriff PhD, Thawfeek Varusai PhD and Krishna Tiwari EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
Learn how to sell your research to the media. You will pick up some tips on best media practice and how to spark interest in your specialism.
This seminar, facilitated by the Head of Research Information at the Research Strategy Office, outlines online tools that can be used to enhance networking and online presence. The software overview includes Symplectic Elements (a publication retrieval tool and Research Information Management System), Altmetrics (a social media analysis tool) and Research Professional (a funding information database).
Join the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs [OPdA] at their flagship Postdoc Centre @ Eddington for lunch with the Head of OPdA, Karina Prasad, and Assistant Head, Liz Simmonds. Over lunch, Karina and Liz will give a brief overview of the OPdA and how it can support you in your role. This will include the OPdA's current initiatives, work on the Concordat, and other areas with a connection to HR and support for postdocs. There will also be an opportunity to have your questions answered.
Do you know what to look out for when choosing an Open Access publisher or a data repository?
It's important to get these decisions right to be at the forefront of the trend towards Open Research, ensuring that you build a strong profile and embrace the changes that are expected from researchers.
Practicing Open Research will help you to:
- Be cited more often
- Secure grants
- Spark collaborations
- Make your findings more reproducible
In this session, you will learn about:
- The State Pension system in the UK
- Private Pensions in the UK
- The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)
The session will be delivered by Head of Pensions at the University of Cambridge, and there will be ample opportunity for asking questions.
Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
The next event on 'Postdocs' Work and Family Life Seminar Series' will be a panel session about how academics improve their wellbeing and productivity with hobbies and interests.
A recent report indicated that; 'In large-scale surveys, UK higher education staff have reported worse wellbeing than staff in other types of employment (including education, and health and social work) in the areas of work demands, change management, the support provided by managers and clarity about one's role.'*
Elena Pavlenko and Amber Ruigrok will be sharing their own mental health challenges as academics and their strategies for coping.
Please register your interest in this well-being event and feel free to bring your lunch. Coffee/tea will be available.
- Guthrie, Susan, Catherine A. Lichten, Janna Van Belle, Sarah Ball, Anna Knack, and Joanna Hofman, Understanding mental health in the research environment: A Rapid Evidence Assessment. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2022.html.
A must-attend virtual session with information tailored to postdocs in Cambridge, whether University-based or employed by Colleges or Research Institutions.
At this event, you will be given information about:
- Your contract
- Professional development and the Careers Service
- How to connect to the wider postdoc community at Cambridge
You will also meet representatives from various University services who may be helpful to you while you are working in Cambridge.
Philip Guildford, Director of Research for the Department of Engineering will offer a unique perspective on the life of postdocs during this engaging interactive session.


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This hysterically funny downright crime thriller is full of action. Super fast paced that it is, I was able to finish it at one go – enjoying the few hours of my otherwise mundane Friday night.
Stephanie Plum, our beloved sloppy/inept bounty hunter has to hunt down Evelyn and her daughter. After having divorced her husband Steven, Evelyn had taken child custody by using her mother's house for collateral in the bond. Now that she has disappeared, her absence on the day of the hearing will make her mother lose the house. Steph, of course, has to help out.
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Joe and Ranger are by her side to protect her. But our brave-heart has to undergo her share of thrill.
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Wasn't the new Dancing With The Stars "An Epic Event" superhero promo a winner? I loved it. Well, now Entertainment Weekly has some footage of Kym Johnson and Joey Fatone behind the scenes while shooting it. It's hilarious. Check it out in a new video here. Note how the new promo was shot "over three very hot August days on the backlot of CBS Radford's "NY Street."


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The Home Secretary's revamped anti-terrorism strategy, Prevent, may include moves to blacklist some internet pages and websites.
The policy is due for release this afternoon but copies of the Prevent strategy have already been seen by the Times, which said more will be spent on countering extremism online.
AOL is already advertising Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline when certain terms and keywords are searched for. Which should help us all rest easy in our beds.
Doctors will also be trained to spot patients likely to become future terrorists. The BMA has objected that this is a breach of patient confidentiality and more importantly that "doctors cannot look into the future and say how someone might behave".
Apart from paying AOL for some search adverts, it is not clear how serious the mooted internet controls are.
A specialist police unit has removed 156 pieces of material in the last 15 months, the Times reports.
The Home Office press office was unable to respond ahead of the announcement in Parliament and was not hopeful of the availability of a spokesperson to explain technically how the censorship would work.
The Internet Watch Foundation is usually rolled out as an example of how a blacklist can work successfully. It told us that its success depends on its very tight remit of child sexual abuse images and that this was unlikely to change in the immediate future.
The Beeb has a free report on the Times article if you're not a subscriber.
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In the 1996 children's PC game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, Jeff Goldblum played an inappropriately sultry Lord of the Vampires. Watch as the one and only Brundlefly seduces the game's pre-teen protagonist with a sensual dance.
How did Goldblum get wrapped up in these shenanigans? In this making-of featurette, Steven Spielberg, a producer on the project (and Goldblum's director in Jurassic Park), is seen extolling the wonders of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books (whatever, I was a Christopher Pike fan myself). Also, rewind that YouTube video to see Isabella Rossellini mugging it up as "Lady Cadaver." Neither of these scenes would be entirely out of place in Blue Velvet.
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The Moto G 2nd Generation is the first smartphone in its class to offer a 5-inch HD display. Enjoy music and videos on this brilliant display that gives you sharp quality all the time. The phone is also protected with Corning Gorilla Glass which gives you extra protection from everyday scratches and scrapes.
Experience the clarity of a full stereo sound as the Moto G features two speakers on the front of the phone. Whether it is your music or videos, the phone will play your media in full stereo sound.
The Moto G 2nd Generation phone comes with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and advanced graphics that let you switch back and forth between applications with ease.
Go an entire day without having to recharge your phone thanks to the Moto G's 2070 mAh battery.
The Moto G 2nd generation incorporates Android's 4.4 KitKat operating system. The operating system is integrated with the phone's user interface, allowing you to get a smooth smartphone experience.
The Moto G 2nd Generation is fitted with an 8MP primary camera and 2MP secondary camera. Touch anywhere to take a shot, capture panoramic pictures and record high-definition videos with your Moto G.
The Moto G 2nd Generation is designed with curvy edges which fits comfortably in your hand or pockets. The phone also features a water resistant coating which protects the phone from the inside out. Take a call wherever you are, even if there's a bit of rain.
Transferring contacts, videos and photos to your phone is made simpler, thanks to Motorola's Migrate feature. You can now quickly transfer all your important data to your new phone within minutes.
In case you are in any trouble, you can use the Motorola Alert which lets your friends and family know where you are and if you need assistance. The alert will send your location or a text to your contacts and will also sound an alarm in case of emergency.
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Apart from intrinsic properties of neurons, network properties are also an important source of neural oscillation. Neurons are locally connected, forming small clusters that are called neural ensembles. Certain network structures promote oscillatory activity at specific frequencies. This is determined by the type of neurons, i.e. excitatory or inhibitory neurons, time delays and the coupling function. Central pattern generators are a well-known example of neural networks that can endogenously produce rhythmic patterned outputs. Neural synchronization is the process by which the activity of two or more neurons or neural ensembles tend to oscillate with a repeating sequence of relative phase angles. Mathematically, neural ensembles can be considered weakly coupled oscillators, a type of system that readily allows for synchronized oscillatory activity.[1][2]
Synchronized activity of a large number of neurons results in electromagnetic fields that can be measured outside the scalp with electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography. Using these techniques, synchronized neural activity have been observed throughout the central nervous system and during various tasks. Neural synchronization can be modulated by task constraints, such as attention, and is thought to play a role in feature binding,[3] neuronal communication,[4] and motor coordination.[5]
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Connections between different brain structures, for instance the thalamus and the cortex, can form loops that support oscillatory activity. Oscillations recorded from multiple cortical areas can become synchronized and form a large-scale network, whose dynamics and functional connectivity can be studied by means of spectral analysis and Granger causality measures.[6] Coherent activity of large-scale brain activity might form dynamic links between brain areas required for the integration of distributed information.[7]
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- ↑ Pikovsky A, Rosenblum M, Kurths J (2001). Synchronization: a universal concept in nonlinear sciences, Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Haken H (1996). Principles of brain functioning, Springer.
- ↑ Singer W (1993). Synchronization of cortical activity and its putative role in information processing and learning. Annu Rev Physiol 55: 349–374.
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- ↑ Varela F, Lachaux JP, Rodriguez E, Martinerie J (2001). The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration. Nat Rev Neurosci 2 (4): 229–239.


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High Point, N.C.- UMBC senior attackman Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) matched his career high with five goals and sophomore linemate Nate Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) added a career-best four scores, but the Retrievers dropped a 17-15 shootout to host High Point at Vert Stadium.
UMBC slipped 3-3 on the season and 0-2 on the road. High Point (6-2) won its sixth consecutive game and all of victories have come by three goals or less.
The Retrievers trailed, 10-7, at the half and managed to cut the deficit to one goal on three occasions, including twice in the fourth quarter. With the Panthers leading, 14-11, sophomore Jack Gannon (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Sachem North) scored his eighth goal of the year at the 11:35 mark of the fourth quarter and 51 seconds later, fed Gregoire for another UMBC tally to cut the deficit to 14-13.
The teams exchanged goals, with senior defender Matt Reeping (Frederick, Md./St. John's Prep) again bringing the visitors to within 15-14 as he scored his first career goal with 5:02 remaining. UMBC won the ensuing draw and put two shots on goal in short order, but Panther netminder Austin Geisler made a pair of saves to deny the Retrievers the tying score.
High Point's Matt Thistle scored two goals in a 14-second span to restore the hosts' lead to 17-14 with 2:30 remaining. UMBC sophomore midfielder Pat Young (Ewing, N.J./Christchurch School) would counter with an extra-man goal with 43 seconds remaining, but UMBC could not capture the final draw of the contest and suffered the narrow defeat.
Young added three goals and two assists for UMBC, while Gannon tallied a goal and added a team season-high four helpers.
Michael Leclair led all scorers with four goals and three assists, while Thistle contributed three goals and three helpers for High Point.
UMBC took leads of 3-1 and 4-2 in the first quarter as Lewnes and Gregoire scored twice in the opening period. But HPU scored five times in a span of 4:08 to take a 7-4 lead at the 12:18 mark of the second quarter. The Panthers led by as many as four goals at 9-5, but goals by Lewnes and Young in the final 1:17 of the stanza shaved the deficit to 9-7. But High Point took momentum into the break as face-off specialist Jamie Piluso won a man-down draw and scored with 11 seconds to play in the half to give the hosts a 10-7 halftime edge.
High Point outshot UMBC, 39-32, and won the battles of ground balls, 42-36, and face-offs, 20-14. Both Geisler and UMBC freshman netminder Connor Gordon(Bourne, Mass./Tabor Acad.) came up with 12 saves for their respective teams. Nine of Geisler's stops came in the second half.
UMBC returns to Baltimore and continues its stretch of five games in 15 days with a Tuesday evening contest at Towson.
Notes: Gregoire also recorded five goals versus Richmond on March 1 and leads the team with 18 through six games this season… He now has 10 career games with three or more goals scored… Gordon made double-digit saves for the sixth straight game, but finished under 50 percent in save percentage for the first time in his brief career… Gannon, who tallied a single assist as a freshman, now has eight goals and a team-high 10 assists in 2014… In addition to Reeping's first career goal, JR D Ian Gray (Scottsdale, Ariz./Chaparral) also notched the first of his career.


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Buddy Bell talks about Terry Doyle in Mark Gonzales' article:
"It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain," Bell wrote in an email. "This guy epitomizes that. We have liked him from the beginning, and I don't think there is anyone who can figure out why he was such a late-rounder. He knew how to pitch when he got here. It's probably because he just doesn't profile as a major leaguer."
Doyle on school and teaching:
If Doyle had not been selected to pitch for the Mesa Solar Sox in the AFL, he likely would have returned to his hometown of Warwick, R.I., to teach.
"My whole life I've been a good student," said Doyle, who graduated from Boston College. "I've always enjoyed school. I had a lot of respect for my coaches, who are teachers.
"It's just a sport instead of a subject. I've always had lot of respect for my coaches and teachers because they do a lot of work, and it's almost selfless work. Having all these people help is unbelievable."
It sure is a lot of work and selfless work. And some people think the problem with today's schools is with the teachers. No, the problem is the ever-increasing child poverty rates.
As a student-teacher, Doyle instructed algebra, algebra II and pre-calculus classes. As a substitute teacher, Doyle rotates through Warwick's three high schools and four junior highs.
"If I go to regular teaching, I would like to have those more advanced calculus classes just because they're more entertaining for me than regular algebra," Doyle said.
A numbers guy! Cool! Very Cool!
Other White Sox links:
- J.J. looks if the Sox are going to trade A.J. Pierzynski.
- James looks on the Kenny Williams school of rebuilding.
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Every Friday night, starting at 8:50 (yes, they have crazy start times here in France) channel 4 shows usually one or two episodes of Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie's Belgian detective in England). They show the ones with David Suchet as Hercule. The original series in English, but it has all been dubbed into French. So there is a Belgian speaking English that has been dubbed into French. We usually pick up a pizza, which is usually 4 Fromages. It is rare that both of us make it through the entire first episode. One or both of us is usually passed out on the couch by the intermission, so around 9:15. I usually wake up and stumble off to bed around 10, Alain sleeps/watches longer. There aren't too many episodes, so we have watched some several times. It doesn't really matter though, as I can never remember what happened having never made it through. I have read every single Agatha Christie book, so sometimes I have a vague clue as to what will happen. The quality of the episodes (audio, image) is often not that great- very static-y. We have the choice of being able to hear it but not see it on one channel or see it but not hear it on another channel. Hercule Poirot is on at other times, such as Sunday afternoons, but we usually forget or are somewhere else at that time (that somewhere else being 95% of the time Alain's family for visiting and eating).
Last week they didn't have it on because they had Miss Europe 2006 Beauty Pageant. It was quite amusing. It was held in Kiev, Ukraine, and was organized by France. Who were the final two contestants? Miss Ukraine and Miss France. I don't believe it! What a co-in-ki-dink! The judges said "Oh, we can't decide. It is a tie." They finally voted a second time and Miss France won. I personally did not believe that she was that bright or good-looking. And all the women had the same nose, I swear. There was also a lingerie portion of the show, which was a European addition I am sure. (take a good look at the noses below. You'll see what I mean.)
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HA. I always say the same thing about "the nose job nose". I don't understand why there seems top be only 1 nose that everyone gets. Can't they make the nose fit the person?
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V. Stiviano, the companion of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, was attacked by two men in Manhattan Sunday evening, her lawyer confirmed to NBC News.
Stiviano was leaving a restaurant when two men approached her and "punched her on the right side of her face several times," Stiviano's lawyer, Mac Nehorary, told NBC News.
Celebrity website RadarOnline.com originally reported the story. According to the website, Stiviano, who has described herself as black and Mexican, was attacked by two white men who hit her and yelled racial slurs at her.
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"The story is true," Nehorary said to NBC News of the RadarOnline.com report.
Last month, Stiviano was also the target of an apparent burglary attempt.
Stiviano gained notoriety after a recorded conversation between her and Sterling was posted online by TMZ Sports in which Sterling can be heard criticizing Stiviano about bringing black friends to Clippers games. He was also heard chastising her for posting a photo on Instagram with Magic Johnson.
On Friday, Sterling filed a lawsuit seeking $1 billion in damages from the NBA after being forced to relinquish control of team.
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FOOD- THE DISH- Mountain cusine: Brix challenges Pantops palates
Considering how many people now live around the Pantops area, Dish has always found it surprising how little fine dining there is east of Free Bridge. While there's plenty of fast food, other chains like Appleby's and Topeka Steak House, and better-than-average standouts like Tip Top, Guadalajara, and Sticks, the really aren't any upscale dining experiences to be had.
Karen Laetare hopes to change that.
Two years ago, Laetare opened the Brix Terrace Café next to the Hallmark store in the Pantops Shopping Plaza, where she began serving her Mediterranean/California-style food (bruschetta, paninis, antipasti platters), as well as her homemade Italian pastries, with remarkable success.
For eight years before that, she ran the Brix Market near Ashlawn, and was tagged last year by the folks at Monticello to run the café in their new $55 million, 42,000-sq.-ft. visitor's center. But the ventures all have one thing in common:
"We've never done dinner before," says Laetare, announcing her plans to start serving it at Brix Terrace Café from Wednesday to Saturday, complete with white linens and candles.
Laetare says she had hoped there would be more fine dining options around Pantops by now, considering all the development nearby, but it appears she got tired of waiting.
"We'll be emphasizing a more healthy, Mediterranean diet," she says, "no butter, no cream, just fresh, healthy food that won't be too expensive either."
Indeed, Laetare, like all restaurant owners these days, knows that folks are reining in their restaurant spending, but she's trying to strike a happy balance.
"It's sad to me, I know people are having to eat cheaper food these days," she says. "But so much of what you find at fast-food places is so bad for you. For a few dollars more, you can eat so much healthier."
Laetare says she surprised her staff recently by showing up for dinner at Brix ("To keep my kitchen staff on their toes," she jokes), and says she spent about $50 for a dinner for two on a Saturday night.
"That's not bad," she says. "We also have a wine wall where we sell bottles for $11."
If the response is good, Laetare says she'll expand dinner to six days a week, but for now she's just testing the fine-dining waters on Pantops.
Oh, and for all you Pantops visitors with a sweet tooth, Laetare says she's going to start serving Italian gelato at the end of the month.
Meanwhile, her Monticello visitor's center gig appears to be blossoming. "They were slammed last weekend," she says, "and the Washington Post just did a full-page spread on the new center. So we're gearing up for the April 15 grand opening up there."
Dress up and eat brunch
Still searching for a place to have Easter Brunch? Well, you've got plenty of options. Brassiere Montiel on Commonwealth Drive is serving à la carte Easter Brunch until 3pm; Veritas Vineyards is having a four-course, wine-paired affair for $60 per person all inclusive; the Old Mill Room at the Boar's Head Inn is serving up a "lavish" brunch and inviting the Easter Bunny to host an egg hunt; the Clifton Inn has a limited à la carte menu including three appetizers, three main courses, and three desserts, with a special kids menu; and over at Keswick Hall they're having a massive buffet-style brunch with chefs manning "action" stations where'll they'll create your entrée on the spot. The Shebeen, Ivy Inn, and the Silver Thatch Inn are also hosting Easter brunches.
Legal challenge
Several law firms in town, including Hunton & Williams, LeClairRyan, and McGuireWoods, have issued a challenge to their litigious brethren in an attempt to collect food and raise money for the hungry. Dubbed the Legal Food Frenzy, the challenge was created by The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network, and is now in its third year.
Basically, the firm that makes the most non-perishable food donations and donates the most money to the Central Virginia Food Bank wins. Apparently, an award ceremony will take place in front of the Free Speech Wall on the Downtown Mall, though no date for that has been scheduled. Firms can sign up online at cvfb.org.
Last year, the food bank reports that over 12.6 million pounds of food was handed out to people in need, and that 36 percent of it went to children living in poverty. So come on, all you legal eagles, put your food and your money where the hungry's mouths are. And hurry! The contest ends this week.
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Last time I ate lunch at Brix Terrace Cafe, the food was good but the refrigeration or ac units roared intrusively throughout the meal. I hope this has been fixed for dinner service.
At least there weren't any lions roaring intrusively throughout your meal. Man, I hate when you go into a restaurant, and there's a pride of lions intrusively roaring at you!
The Hook just deleted all of my comments under the heading "Watch The Obama Deception", except this one in the dark blue surrounded by a grey-blue trim comment section. Sounds like somebody doesn't want you to watch The Obama Deception. Too late, fluoride-brain - they already did!
We live on Pantops, and we were so excited about trying Brix! Then we went to try. We stood at the counter, while the girl who was working the counter stood at the kitchen window. And looked at us, and refused to come over. I was embarrassed, and a little embarrassed for her. Then, she looked over at us, and loud enough for us to hear, she started saying to the cook that she was wanting to close early. This was a full 2 hours before the door said they closed. I have worked in the service industry, so I am rarely moved to complain, but we will NEVER go back. We finally walked out, a solid ten minutes later, without ever being greeted or helped. The food may be wonderful, but to be deliberately ignored by the staff is just too much.


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Erasure Poem [1]
Find a text that is completely unrelated to what you normally read—a how-to manual, a 1950s interior design book, an old encyclopedia, a white paper on social media— and use it as the source of an erasure poem. Read through several pages and underline words and phrases that appeal to you and that relate to each other. Using a marker or Wite-Out, begin to delete the words around those you underlined, leaving words and phrases that you might want to use. Keep deleting the extra language, working to construct poetic lines with the words you've chosen to keep.


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The emergence of many low-cost, off-the shelf boards supporting embedded Linux (or BSD) opens a wealth of possibilities for the hacker willing to expand her horizons to the possibilities of hardware tinkering.
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl and Shell Script over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source (synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy source (leveraging a Geiger tube's measurement of natural background radiation).
The sample designs provide an entertaining introduction to the skills needed to design basic embedded systems, and their unavoidable BIOS and operating system underpinnings.
Aimed to medium-to-advanced Administrators, and Developers not shying away from the gory details of how Linux works behind the scenes. Come play, it is fun on the hardware side!
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I thought the talk was good, but it was unclear that he was going to talk about time measurement. It would have been good for that to be more clearly explained.
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Reluctant though he may be, Jason Molina has been hailed as one of the pivotal figures in Alt. Country, since the term was cut free from its associations with the No Depression scene, and those 80s and 90s rock bands as much influenced by the ragged glory of Neil Young, The Stones, and the Velvets, as they were by the outlaw mystique of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Gram Parsons. Maybe Molina doesn't want to go down in the same ship as a whole bunch of people casting around for an identity in the rootless 21st century, should there ever be a backlash… and maybe it's because he's far too immersed in the old, old music behind all of the above (Williams included). That's not to say there's anything wrong with ironic appropriations of Country's metaphors and arrangements, when urban folk use them as masks to speak the truth, but if you want to understand why music should be bound up with a particular place you've lived and loved (and maybe hated), Molina could be the best guide.
If the Alt Country tag has stuck fast, you could say it's Will Oldham's fault, since he put out that first Songs:Ohia single, and John Peel put it on air (as he did for Palace Brothers). Splitting hairs, the debut album has more of a hillbilly feel to it, with its high, keening vocals; plus, the lack of harmonies, or picking on the guitar, aligns Songs:Ohia with an earlier tradition than most variants of Country as we know it. When Molina collaborated with members of Arab Strap and Appendix Out (for The Lioness and Ghost Tropic), he converged with a late-90s vogue for using drum-machines and synths that linked him with Palace Music (Arise, Therefore), Smog, and Sparklehorse, but the resemblance was more coincidence than "scene". None were "modernizing" the genre so much as exploiting the mechanically repetitious character of their instruments to imbue their songs with a sense of fatal inevitability, and the cyclic rhythm of work and the seasons. In the hands of Linkous and Callahan, programming often has the wistful charm of children's toys, but with Molina, repetition conveys the subtle dread that the heart is just a machine for pumping blood.
Recording his masterful Didn't It Rain (2002) with Jim and Jennie Benford from the Pinetop Seven might have re-aligned Molina with "Alt Folk" (a stone's throw from Alt Country), but by being true to himself, Molina inadvertently raises some questions about whether being true to a genre (and its imaginary rules) actually hinders other artists; enjoining them to a naïve recital of clichés about steers and pickups and good ole boys, so as to be accepted by an un-discerning audience. As much a "Dark Night of the Soul" as Ghost Tropic, Molina's later visions of the city (from Didn't It Rain, onwards) are astonishingly powerful, but it's recognizably a rusting industrial city in the post-industrial age. It's partly the City of his youth, partly the City of Red Night. Sure, "Country" was defined throughout the 20th century in opposition to hip, fashionable, urban, culturally-mixed genres, but as a songwriter, Molina seems unique (or very, very rare) in his ability to distinguish the Cosmopolis familiar to most of us (with its streets paved with silicon from discarded computers), and speak for the working man in those country-towns that grew to city-size, before they were discarded in their own way. As a lyricist, rather than a novelist, Molina leaves enough space for the listener to imagine themselves in that drudgery, that emptiness… making sense of those mythic signs and portents… seeing that the Country of the old Country singers never went away.
Apocalypse, Now: Trials and Errors & What Comes after the Blues
It wasn't until the advent of Magnolia Electric Co – a three-guitar band with long-term associate Mike Brenner on dobro and lap steel – that the music really started sounding like Neil Young and Crazy Horse; that's to say, like Alt Country, through and through. Perhaps so as not to scare anyone off, the album titled Magnolia Electric Co. (2003) was released under the old band name (see the DiS Profile of Songs:Ohia from 2008, for this and the sublime solo album, Pyramid Electric Co.). The first official release under the new name was therefore a limited edition live album, Trials & Errors (2005). There may have been a sense of wariness in the title, and the centrepiece was the same as Didn't It Rain ('Ring the Bell' and 'Cross the Road, Molina') – a mythic encounter at the crossroads, as guitars and cellos heave and saw around the latterday pilgrim. Nonetheless, there's more new material (by length) than any previous release, and the title's anything but an in-joke about a difficult recording process. In Molina's case, every (artistic) trial is just that – a struggle for the truth, under threat of sentencing and conviction – whilst errors really are a matter of wandering from the path, into a ghost-haunted wilderness.
With its apocalyptic triad closing the set ('Leave the City', 'The Last Three Human Words', 'The Big Beast'), the album pushes Christian elements even further into the spotlight, but whereas the Christ of Magnolia Electric Co. (2003) was a lonely figure doing good in a spiritually bankrupt world (a world of trucks and trains, implicitly), the Sacrificial Drama here begins in a pagan fashion, with humanity absent, or on its way out:
All the way down Gospel Street
A dead bird was hauling an ivory box
Back from Redemption…
and he just buried the last chance we got
All the way down Locust Street
A black ox was hauling a white willow box
Back from Oblivion…
he just dug up the last chance we got
You can climb to the top of the wall
and look down on it all
and never tell what you saw
The last three human words
were the same as the first three were
Every single night I think it's almost over
this mess we're in
Every single night I hear the great beast howling
Wouldn't you like to see the whole place in ruins?
Instead of all the things they keep doing in our name
Ah, "the things they keep doing in our name" – this is 2005, remember. It's clear who's on trial, No? Politics aside, as a genre-piece, it's significant how many obvious borrowings there are from older artists, making Trials & Errors the boldest declaration of Molina's allegiance to a tradition of jeremiads in American literature, poetry, and music. Breaking the listener in gently, the album's mood is set by lines snuck in from 'Out on the Weekend' and 'Lay Lady Lay' (Neil Young and Bob Dylan, respectively). These come across as an evocation of the musical golden age that was the late-1960s, rather than a particular comment on the songs themselves. The final track, however, takes its refrain from Neil Young's notorious Tonight's the Night. At the climax of the song, Molina hollers: "Every single night I hear the big beast howling… TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! TONIGHT'S THE… NIGHT!" The lyric's a variation on the 'hellhound on my trail' / 'black-eyed dog' metaphors of classic blues, but coupled with the guitars, these distorted vocals suggest the scream of jet engines, moments before impact. Maybe that's reading too much in, but Molina had already painted a collision on the cover of 'The Grey Tower' / 'Black Link to Fire Link' single, from 2002. Unlike the shadows slinking after so many bluesmen, Molina's bete noire is more than an image of solitude and personal, private depression: the violence of the music, and the force of the vocal make it clear the war is out there, in the world, as much as it's in here, in the cage of the singer's mind. If there's any guilt, it comes from being able to do little more than witness what's going on.
Close on the heels of Trials & Errors, What Comes After the Blues (also 2005) felt like a deliberate attempt to depict the world as UN-miraculous, but still worth living in. Briefly, this is the geographically-isolated working-class world of Molina's childhood and adolescence. Lyrically, the album's less detailed, the metaphors scarce – the album's partly about a kind of masculinity that precludes anything smacking of fantasy or whimsy. Having explored the perilous, wolf-infested forests of his subconscious for years, it's as if Molina came up against a cold, stern, male-archetype who said "You know what else has wolves in it? Children's stories." Across the album, the city sucks the characters souls out… and pushes them out on the road… but the recurrent symbol of the 'north star' is a lyrical and musical emblem of hope, and something beyond all this: Molina re-working and re-working Hank Williams' country song to stand for the artist's faith that there's something above it all.
Well-received by the critics, What Comes After the Blues divided many hardcore fans with its mannered performance. Without an audience to feed off, and the chemistry that comes from two or more idiosyncratic songwriters interacting, it's smooth-edged, mid-tempo, country-blues. The opening bars of 'The Dark Don't Hide It' growl and scratch and rip… and then subside, as lapsteel comes to dominate the album's texture. The songs that had previously been released ('Dark Don't Hide It' and 'Leave the City'), sound almost polite, by comparison.
Of the songs that shine out, 'Hard to Love a Man' (as in: "hard to love a man like you / goodbye was half the words you knew") is a break-through in Molina's songwriting. The song faces up to an emotionally absent father, and although he's discreet about specific charges, the eerie sound of the mellotron conveys some impression of how deserted and bewildered he feels. Near the end, accompanied only by a minimal strum and tapping on the guitar's body, 'Hammer Down' invokes Woody Guthrie as well as John Henry so as to bring one song-cycle to an end: "hammer down / heaven bound / I saw the light / in the old grey town". In a poignant, confessional move, Molina announces: "Sometimes I forget / how I've always been sick / and I don't have the will to keep fighting it"; the flipside of this sorrow is that rare ability to see the Kingdom of Heaven right around you: "I think the stars / are just the neon lights / shining through the dancefloor / shining through the dancefloor… / of Heaven, on a Saturday night / I saw the light…" It's a gorgeous moment. Elsewhere, Molina continues with his personification of The Blues as his hunter, or adversary. Like Jandek on his own contemporaneous records, Molina suggests that he's fighting the Blues itself.
The album that restored every devotee's faith in Molina's genius was his bold experiment in spontaneous writing and recording: one day spent in a room 'with a single bulb burning overhead.' Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (2006) pulled everything together: every archetypal image, and every trusty chord progression. This might sound like laziness, but the art was in the re-arrangement, and in any case proved that Molina owned his images. In some places, a single chorus or hook was all that a song's emotional impetus could manage before collapsing: the unexpectedly yelled line, "Pain in my heart / finally made it's way out of my head…!" startling the listener with its defiant wrenching away from the allure of despair. On the last two tracks, Molina revisited the chugging drum-machines and groaning organs of the Ghost / Protection Spells / Ghost Tropic album-cycle; arguably, surpassing them, as he sets sail on the voyage you don't come back from. It's a stark album, but it's a consoling album – the prefatory note spelling out that some breeds of depression don't die easy, or ever, which God knows someone needs to say. Think of the first time you heard Thom Yorke's The Eraser (2006), and the realization that maybe a songwriter you thought you knew had actually been putting on a brave face for their band (or feeding off them), and for all that they spoke to you before, they'd been sparing you the worst.
Fading Trails, The Sojourner Box-Set, Josephine
In a similar vein to What Comes After the Blues, and with a similar sequence (from country-rock songs to solo-acoustic), MECo put out Fading Trails just before Let Me Go… (both 2006). The album was actually a taster for The Sojourner Box Set (2007), collecting four different recording sessions: solo, with MECo, and with a new ensemble of musicians recruited for the sake of a fresh collaboration.
This has been a long piece on Magnolia Electric Co, focusing a lot on how the apocalyptic threat of The War on Terror could be so well captured by an artist already developing his own mythic language... maybe not the best place to do justice to the most recent material. The forthcoming review of Josephine (due July 20th 2009) will touch on these later albums, and the move back to the personal, to a world with more people and places, more lovingly pictured than ever before. A world that just might last.
The title track from Josephine is available here


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"Spiderman 4," which has been slowly imploding with script problems, casting issues and release date drama, is officially dead in the water.
Director Sam Raimi, feeling he couldn't realistically meet Sony's 2011 release date, has pulled out of the project triggering Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal and Columbia Pictures president Matt Tolmach to scrap everything.
Rather than find a new director, they've decided to take a page from J.J. Abrams' playbook and reboot the franchise from scratch with a new director and cast in 2010. That means even getting a new Spidey.
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While some are mourning the loss mightily, we were never convinced of Tobey Maguire's merits as Spiderman and, as the series wore on, Raimi's exuberance for the property seemed exhausted. A fresh take might be just what the films needed.


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[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Affirmative no further furnishing is needed
I believe we are completed, dig
We all in agreement on the wallpaper
Happy with the color scheme, welcome to the crib
A two family Habitat For Humanity
With a view of where the insanity live
My vida loca was built like Bob Vila via God
He architected, I arted what I harbored, Jimmy Carter
From Chicago's west side, finish my construction now
We hold the coming like contracepts
I'm conscious, 'cept the cons I kept
With conversations held with the Satan on my shoulder
Which lead to steps that kept me looking over the shoulder
Like chauffeurs, where my angels at
Painful yet Mary I ain't Jerry Garcia, ma
Here but I'm grateful, chuuch!
[Hook: Gemini]
We just might be OK, after all
Sun gone shine, on this day
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
It's finna get heavy as heaven
I am Atlas at this manage to balance
Massive masses pull my back with out tilting my glasses
This was not pilfered from passages of OG's, this is so me
Ask us many mention little homie, little bony
But the rhymes is fat, in fact
Just like a Rochester customer
God bless the mothers and younger brothers of hustlers
Cause she don't wan' sob at his wake
But he want to follow in his steps
Bang his hat, learn his shakes
Master his swagger in the bathroom mirror
Cop a Chevy, steady mob in his place
Chyeah! it's just the problems we face
Look his moms in her face and promise he's straight
[Hook: Gemini]
We just might be OK, after all
Sun gone shine, on this day
[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
Then he leaves the house that love built that
HUD renovated that section 8 pays for
Well let's pray for em, let the beat play for em
Put his struggles on display for em
Cause he gotta go and face the drama
With a different face from the one that he use
To face his momma, if you look close you'll see
It consist of a smile that hurts, an ice grill, and a trace of trauma
Little bit of his father, another criterion
That's no different from a young Liberian
Who let the delirium weary him, living in the inner city
Out of his mind, liria reconcilia
I'm cool, I don't foretell best
I ain't nicest MC, I ain't Cornel West
I am Cornel Westside, Chi-town Guevara
Malcolm eXorcise the demons, gangsta leaning
He traded in his kufi for a New Era
Chose a 44 over a mortarboard
I ain't a credited institute graduate, I ain't from Nazareth
My conception wasn't immaculate, I ain't master no calculus
A good addition to the rap audience
I back flipped on the mattress they slept on me on
Whaddown Joe, knowing is half the battle
Fighting temptation, have an apple
Shakes the snakes, pimp the system
Let's get into it, tabernacle
[Hook: Gemini]
We just might be OK, after all
Sun gone shine, on this day
This is Track 3 from Lupe Fiasco's debut album entitled: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
The title of the album refers to the various Food and Liquor stores in Chicago neighborhoods (Lupe is from Chicago). It also refers to the "constant tug of war between good (food) and evil (liquor)". The title is a philosophy that Fiasco believes about human nature.
On April 30th 2015, Lupe released a music video for "Just Might Be OK" consisting of a video montage of Chicago locals. It culminates with scenes from protests that took place in Chicago in response to the non-indictment of police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who used a chokehold on Eric Garner while trying to arrest him. Garner died as a result of his injuries.
At the time of the video's release, massive protests continued in Baltimore, in relation to the death of Freddie Gray – a black man who died while in police custody.


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