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Re: backfeeding. Please, pretty please, with a cherry on top, don't. Just don't.
I'm not licensed for current carrying wiring, but I am comfortable with the science, and do have professional experience with data wiring, several types of audio, and some endpoint telecom stuff. The theory crosses over completely, even if the installation codes don't at all.
Given a suitable ground, all you need to carry current is one wire. See earth-return systems. Main breakers do not disconnect the neutral; therefore you have the one wire. Not all installations bond the neutral and ground at the panel and even if it does, residential ground rods often make a lousy connection to the earth. So, don't count on the neutral being electrically clamped to ground. Think of it as essentially hot; it can become actually hot under some non-fault conditions; not full voltage, but enough to bite.
Something often missed about electric circuits is that, in any series circuit, the current is identical throughout the circuit at any given time. Or, in layman's terms, what goes in must come out. If you're drawing 20A at 240V, there's 20A coming through each pole of the breaker. If you're drawing 10A at 120V, there is 10A going through the hot and 10A going through the neutral. It isn't just waste or spill being sent down the neutral; it's not like a pipe delivering electricity to you. It's more like sticking your hand into a river. If it wasn't all flowing past you, there'd be no pressure on your hand.
Consider the circuit again with that in mind.
Generator sends +/- 120 into the panel, some of which goes straight through as 240V, some lesser amount coming back along the neutral as 120V. Neutral is therefore no longer at ground potential, to some greater or lesser degree. However, neutral is touching someone else's loop and able to exchange electrons with it.
Imagine a stream running within inches of the mighty mississip. Now imagine the river drying up, to simulate the power outage. Now knock down the separating wall, and observe insignificant, but nonzero, amounts of the stream leaking out into the riverbed.
Now, restore the river, and stand the hell back. What just happened to your generator and anyone standing near it?
Clearly, this doesn't happen every time someone does this, but it can if conditions line up right.
If you really must use the house wiring to supply your key appliances from a generator, here's my suggestion. It probably isn't code, but I'm perfectly comfortable asserting that it's safer than what you're doing.
Install a small main-lug subpanel next to your existing main breaker panel. Move all those key circuits over to it.
Instead of hard-wiring the subpanel, connect it via a 3-wire-plus-ground plug and receptacle to the main breaker panel. Also connect a hardwired ground between the two. (BUT NOT NEUTRAL!)
Then, when the power goes out, fire up the generator, drag its extension cord down to the basement, and plug the whole subpanel into it.
Then, when the power comes back on, there's absolutely no cross connections and no safety hazard. Stop the generator, plug the subpanel back into its dedicated outlet, and close its feeder breaker in the main panel.
Let's describe this as "specialty manual transfer switch, at the end of your arm." All organic, fully green technology.
Guys, if that idea is in any way actually viable, please modify for code compliance...
Nothing because I'm not connected to the grid. You can't get any more positively, verifiably UN-connected than to pull the meter.Now, restore the river, and stand the hell back. What just happened to your generator and anyone standing near it?
Romeo and Atlanta, MI
DonL, I would certainly assume so, but I can't claim to know the code.
I wouldn't necessarily assume the ground conductor goes to the pole, though. I've never seen more than three where the pole lines hit the house around here, although my MH uses a four-conductor connector to a ground rod next to a multi-meter mast. However, if one is going to use in-house wiring AT ALL then the ground conductor has to be accounted for. It'll be bonded to the panel and, hopefully, to a ground rod right outside or to the footings' rebar or both.
Does one really drive a ground rod in when using a portable generator? I've never seen anyone bother... and it seems to me, better off using the house's ground rod than none at all.
I don't see a problem with the mains neutral being bonded to the same ground rod via the panel, though. There will only be current present during fault conditions, so the neutral won't be seeing a potential. Just to drive it in again, I do see a problem with putting steady potential on that same point in the panel via the in-house neutral conductor, which is why backfeeding without a true mains disconnect is always stupid.
Come to think of it, that same MH connector would be suitable for what I suggested, and you wouldn't need to hardwire ground, assuming the generator really does have its own ground rod.
That may be true if the Voltage is high enough, but for 120 or 240 VAC , It will not work in any earth resistance that we have in the USA. For HV distribution it works fine, but a loose Transformer ground can kill you.
A couple ohms of resistance makes a big difference on low voltage like 240 VAC.
Ground is for safety to provide a path to trip the breaker or fuse or help bleed off induced voltage from a storm. The fact that neutral is bonded to ground is a useful thing, but is not required except for that safety issue (which is big, though). If your loads are balanced, any current in the neutral line back to the transformer is minimal to nothing, but in a 110vac circuit, it is whatever is coming out of the hot lead, at least until it gets back to the panel. So, while neutral may have a low voltage to ground, it still can carry a lot of current and this is potentially dangerous.
Once repaired HV power supplies while in the Army...the filament voltage was only 5vdc, but since the cathode might have been at 5K volts, it couldn't actually be 5vdc to ground or things would arc and burn up...it was 4,995vdc to ground. It all depends on what your reference point is...
Point of all this is that the neutral can and often does have current running through it and it is not insignificant. Mess with things, get a loose connection, or take things off, and rearrange them, and it can be very dangerous. The fact we take these things for granted is where you can get sloppy, and create a very bad situation. The codes are written for those 'what if' situations, to try to keep people safe. Messing with them can put not only you, but your property and others in mortal danger. If you don't know what you are doing, or can't do it per code, you probably should not be doing it.
Jim DeBruycker
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I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and got the same error. My video card drivers are up to date.
Please note that the Angry Birds app is not written or developed by Intel. The Angry Birds app is developed by Rovio (http://www.rovio.com/). Intel provides the Intel AppUp(SM) center for customers to download apps to run on their netbooks or PCs, and for developers to sell or distribute their apps such as Rovio does with Angry Birds. However, Intel does not have access to the software code for apps and cannot make changes to the app, fix problems with the app, or enhance the app. If the app is not running and you would like to troubleshoot an app issue, please contact the app developer. For Angry Birds, you can contact the Rovio support team by sending an email to email@example.com
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Same for me too. Exact same error message.
I had the same problem but I have figured out the issue on my own. I am using WinXP and this is what I had to do:
Sorry, we just provide the software, check with the vendor is not an acceptable response for an app store. I could have gone to Rovio to download this in the first place. Your value added is convenience, and having my very first download not work on two seperate machines, with the response being not our problem, eliminates that. You don't have the advantage of a captive market like iOS, Windows Phone, Android. Nothing here to keep me interested, sorry. AppUp is gone
There are some known issues and solutions for Angry Birds that we have posted at http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-6074. Can you provide more information on the issues you are having?
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I'm having the same problem too. Opengl 2 is not supported in Angry Birds. This is how it goes:
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1. Downloaded the latest version of Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver and installed.
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Dogs and cats are popular pets, so it only makes sense that they pop up in video games from time to time.
In our list below, we look at some of the cooler cats in video games. Some play the hero while others want you as their next meal. The ten cats below are undoubtedly better than the ones we keep at home – and they don't leave hairballs on the floor.
Any and all tigers – Far Cry 3
Nothing feels better than scoping out an enemy outpost in the latest Far Cry game only to watch a tiger nonchalantly walk into the area and proceed to imperiously use every gun-toting enemy as a chew toy. Nothing feels worse than having one sneak up on you and snag your arm in its maw as you scope out said outpost.
Felicia – Darkstalkers series
This cat character may very well be a sneaky bakeneko, or supernatural cat able to change form, but the fighter from Capcom's Darkstalkers series is one of the developer's most popular characters. She's instantly recognizable with her cat-like features and flowing blue hair, and has even appeared in other Capcom games.
Cait Sith – Final Fantasy VII
Cait Sith isn't a real cat. He's a robotic fortunetelling cat riding on a robotic moogle that's being controlled by someone who works for one of the game's antagonists, Shinra Electric Power Company. Interestingly enough, that's one of the simpler plot points in Final Fantasy VII, and isn't as crazy as Cat Sith from Scottish folklore.
Barioth – Monster Hunter series
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Blinx – Blinx: The Time Sweeper and Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
I don't know what's weirder: The fact that Blinx is a janitor, or that he battles monsters bent on controlling the flow of time. Have you ever had a cat? They leave hair everywhere and are extremely lazy, making Blinx an anomaly in the feline world.
[Next up: A cat with a taste for alcohol and one that sprouts wings]


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The best thing we did on our trip to this ancient town was visit the Roman and Etruscan ruins located just off the square. The Romans built a theatre there as well as some baths and the remains of these works are there to drink in under the Tuscan skies. It is almost unfathomable that these things were built more than a thousand years before the Renaissance. There are substantial ruins from the Etruscans as well here on this site and they date back several hundred years before the Romans. Attached to this outdoor archeological park is a museum that houses many of the archeological findings from the area. It is fascinating to see how developed these ancient people were.
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1775: The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that will become Tucson, Ariz.
1833: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, is born in North Bend, Ohio.
1858: Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1866: President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1882: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow. The song is best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes, and brass fanfare finale.
1890: H. P. Lovecraft, the author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction, is born in Providence, R.I. Lovecraft, seen here in 1915, is best known for his "Cthulhu Mythos" story cycle and the "Necronomicon," a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore.
1912: William Booth, the preacher who founded The Salvation Army in 1865, dies at age 83 in London, England.
1914: Pope Pius X, the head of the Catholic Church since Aug. 4, 1903, dies of a heart attack at age 79 in Vatican City. Born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto in Riese, Italy (then the Austrian Empire), Pius was known for promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology, rejecting more modern interpretations of Catholic doctrine. He also was the first to publish the Code of Canon Law, which collected the laws of the church into one volume for the first time. After his death, he became the first pope since Pius V, who was pope in the mid-1500s, to be canonized as a saint.
1920: The National Football League is founded at a car dealership in Canton, Ohio. It was originally called the American Professional Football Conference and featured teams from the Ohio League.
1923: Country singer Jim Reeves is born in Galloway, Texas. Some of Reeves' best known hits include "Four Walls," "He'll Have to Go," "Billy Bayou" and "Welcome to My World."
1931: Boxing promoter Don King is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1935: Congressman Ron Paul, who ran for U.S. president in 1988, 2008 and 2012, is born in Pittsburgh, Pa.
1938: Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hits his 23rd career grand slam, setting a major-leage baseball record that still stands today. However, fellow Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez tied the mark on June 12, 2012.
1940: In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish-born Soviet agent Ramón Mercader on the orders of Joseph Stalin. He would die the next day.
1940: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
1942: Singer-songwriter and actor Isaac Hayes ("Theme from Shaft," "South Park") is born in Covington, Tenn. Hayes is seen here performing at the International Amphitheater in Chicago at the 1973 PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) Black Expo.
1945: Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers becomes the youngest player to hit a home run in a major-league baseball game. Brown was 17 years, eight months and 14 days old at the time.
1946: Connie Chung, the journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC, is born in Washington, D.C.
1948: Robert Plant, best known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, is born in West Bromwich, England.
1954: Weatherman, actor and author Al Roker, best known for being the weather anchor on NBC's "Today" show, is born in Queens, N.Y.
1956: Actress Joan Allen, best known for movies such as "Nixon," "The Ice Storm," "Pleasantville" and "The Bourne Supremacy," is born in Rochelle, Ill. Allen has earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for "Nixon" and "The Crucible," and for Best Actress for "The Contender" (pictured).
1958: Film director and screenwriter David O. Russell, best known for the movies "Flirting with Disaster," "Three Kings," "I Heart Huckabees," "The Fighter" and "Silver Linings Playbook," is born in New York City. Russell received Academy Award nominations for directing "The Fighter" and "Silver Linings Playbook" and was also nominated for an Oscar for the latter's screenplay.
1970: Fred Durst, best known as the singer-songwriter for heavy metal band Limp Bizkit, is born in Gastonia, N.C. He's also worked as a film director, first in 2007 with the independent film "The Education of Charlie Banks" and again in 2008 with the Ice Cube-starring "The Longshots."
1973: The Rolling Stones release "Angie." The song would go right to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and reach No. 5 on the UK singles chart.
1974: Actress Amy Adams, best known for movies like "Enchanted," "The Fighter," "The Muppets" and "Man of Steel," is born in Vicenza, Italy. Adams has earned Oscar nominations for her roles in "Junebug," "Doubt," "The Fighter" and "The Master."
1975: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. It eventually became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission, and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of six years and 116 days until that record was broken by the Opportunity Rover on May 19, 2010.
1977: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space.
1983: Actor Andrew Garfield, best known for his role in "The Social Network" and for playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man," is born in Los Angeles, Calif. While he was born in America, Garfield was raised in Surrey, England.
1986: In Edmond, Okla., U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 of his co-workers, killing 14 of them, and then commits suicide. The incident is credited with inspiring the American phrase "going postal." Pictured is a memorial at the site of the shooting.
1988: Firefighting continues in Yellowstone National Park, with the wildfires burning so much ground and producing such thick black smoke that the day is labeled "Black Saturday." The fires were part of a series of nearly 250 wildfires that burned through the park starting in June. On Sept. 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history.
1992: Actress and singer Demi Lovato, whose hit songs include "Here We Go Again," "Skyscraper," "Give Your Heart a Break" and "Heart Attack," is born in Albuquerque, N.M.
1998: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2007: Leona Helmsley, a hotel operator and real estate investor, dies from congestive heart failure at age 87 in Greenwich, Conn. She was known for her flamboyant personality and tyrannical behavior -- earning her the nickname "Queen of Mean" -- and was convicted of federal income tax evasion in 1989.
2008: Gene Upshaw, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the executive director of the National Football League Players' Association, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 63 in Lake Tahoe, Calif. Upshaw, who won two Super Bowl titles in his 15 seasons as a guard for the Oakland Raiders, had served as executive director of the NFLPA since 1983. During his tenure, he oversaw a player strike, several antitrust lawsuits, and the collective bargaining agreement of 1993.
2012: Comedian/actress Phyllis Diller dies at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. Diller's career as a stand-up comic, which she started at age 37, skyrocketed in the 1960s, partly because of her many appearances with Bob Hope on his television specials, USO tours and three movies. She became a pop culture icon for her disparaging jokes about her looks, her cooking and her fictitious husband "Fang." She wore a blonde fright wig, held a long cigarette holder as a prop and laughed with a loud cackle.
2013: Author Elmore Leonard, best known for his westerns and crime novels, several of which have been turned into movies and TV shows, dies at age 87 in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., of complications from a stroke suffered three weeks earlier. Among his most well-known books are "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight," "3:10 to Yuma," "Rum Punch" (the basis for Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown") and "Pronto," which introduced the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the central figure in the FX television series "Justified."


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M-Track offers ultra-low latency monitoring of the input signal—either through the speakers or via headphones. The monitor mix knob adjusts the balance between the direct inputs and the playback from your computer software. In addition, the input signal(s) can be monitored in stereo or mono using the convenient Stereo/Mono switch. This makes it easy to record new parts or add parts to an existing composition. The Headphone output offers its own level control.
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In addition to the two audio channels, M-Track also support 16 channels of MIDI data and timing information. The MIDI In and MIDI out jack are compatible with all MIDI equipment.
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Retailers may want to take a hard look at online sharing site Pinterest if they aren't already doing so.
Evidence continues to suggests that the social media website is a good way to generate customer leads. That's certainly is the experience Wayfair, an ecommerce company that sells home furnishings, is having.
Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah said his company has found that customers that come to its website from Pinterest have a 70 percent larger ticket overall than those that come from other social media sites.
"The social channel has a higher average order size," Shah told CNBC. He suspects that when customers come to Wayfair from social media sites they are already "inspired" to make a purchase.
He suspects that shoppers referred to Wayfair from Pinterest buy more because they may have already formed an emotional connection to the product compared with other shoppers.
"It's about the pictures," he said. "You have decided you like it before you know what it costs. The more you decide you love it, the more you are going to be willing to stretch to buy it."
Shah said Pinterest is "exploding," with traffic coming from Pinterest growing substantially in the first two months of the year, and he expects it to continue to ramp up in the months ahead.
Studies have shown that there is still plenty of room for Pinterest to grow. Online price comparison website PriceGrabberdid a survey of 4,851 U.S. online consumers between March 13 and 26 and found that 58 percent of consumers are not yet on Pinterest, and about a third didn't even know that it was.
But even this study suggests that retailers should watch the site closely. About 21 percent of those surveyed by PriceGrabber who had Pinterest accounts had purchased a product strictly after seeing it on Pinterest.
Of course, the strategy may work better for certain categories than for others. Pricegrabber asked which types of products the consumers were buying, and it broke down like this: 33 percent said food and cooking; 32 percent said fashion and clothing; 30 percent said home decorating, and 26 percent said crafts.
This suggests it may be a more effective strategy for companies such as Williams-Sonoma , Kraft and Nordstrom's than for those in other retail sectors.
Companies are still feeling their way around the site, and experimenting with different strategies. For example, Wayfair will make Pinterest boards showing how some products fit together, which is a good way for shoppers to get decorating ideas.
But the company also has boards that focus more on decorating tips in general and are less overtly product-focused.
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When it comes to skincare and makeup, I believe that the secret to a successful transition from one season to another already lies within your makeup bag. As a professional makeup artist, it's my job to know the hottest trends while maintaining a budget for myself and my clients. Going from summer to fall is a snap if you can manage to utilize what you have before buying more.
Around mid-July, I begin mixing deeper, richer colors with brighter shades. With a mixing palette, I blend together wet products like lipsticks and glosses; eye shadows and blushes get married on the back of my hand. Together, my creations bloom into gorgeous medium hues still bright enough for a summer picnic and demure enough for the cool breeze that's on its way. Creating my own colors keeps me away from the trend trap of purchasing every new collection marketed at the beginning of each season. Take the time to study the trends before you buy them. Many times you already have the very same colors.
Below are my five flawless tips for a successful transition into fall gorgeousness:
- Prepping my skin once or twice a week during summer's dog days with Queen Helene's Mint Julep Natural Facial Scrub leaves it clean, fresh and dead skin free. After a few treatments, any color applied afterwards is truly vibrant and holds magnificently. http://www.queenhelene.com
- Shorter days, heavier clothing and harsher winds: sounds like a job for a macho moisturizer. The last days of summer call for something stronger and thicker, like Lulu Blossom's day cream, a rich emollient loaded with a natural sunscreen, vitamins, antioxidants and minerals that replenish the skin. I apply it in at least two layers, paying special attention to the corners of my nose, mouth, eyes, eyelids, and underneath my chin. My skin is fully hydrated without the clogged pores and oiliness that heavier moisturizers are sometimes known for. http://lulublossom.com/store
- Foundation in the summer? Heck no! But who am I to judge? My dewy complexion is compliments of this Midwest humidity; however, for special occasions, I wear Lancôme's Photogenic Teint Optim'age liquid foundation dabbed sparingly with a sponge. The seasonal glow is perfect for the warm weather. For fuller coverage, I apply the same liquid foundation first, then generously stipple MAC's Studio Fix's powder foundation with a fat, all-over brush for a smooth, matte, velvety appearance, appropriate for the season ahead. http://www.lancome.com http://www.maccosmetics.com
- May through July, Copper Penny was my basic staple this year. It's a heavenly golden-bronzed eye shadow from my Mally Beauty collection swept loosely across my lids. A light dusting of peachy pink blush on the apples of my cheeks and a minimal dusting of highlighter along my cheekbones and nose from Mally's Shimmer Shape and Glow kit brought the sun to my face. Lip recipe? A neutral liner as a base topped with corals and peaches, like MAC's Big Kiss and Buxom's Cherry Flip. By the end of July, I transformed the look for fall by applying black or dark brown eyeliner on my top lids; winged if I'm feeling really sexy. Bronze Cube, a chocolate color from my Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess kit applied in a "V" shape to the outer corners and creases of my eyes blended upward. Turquoise blue is applied underneath the chocolate crease and halfway into the lid, then Gold Nugget is applied to the inner corners of my eyes. Two to three coats of mascara to the top lashes to finish. For vampy lips, the recipe includes a tasty lip balm, Mally's Perfect Prep lip primer, Mally's Evercolor Shaping Lip liner in Neutral Red (blended inward with a rounded lip brush), then Mally's Neutral Red Satin lipstick to the top lip, only blotting twice to coat the bottom lip. Clean mistakes with a Q-tip. http://www.mallybeauty.com/face
- Lastly, the ever-so-popular contouring effect: For my chunky, fat face, definition comes by applying the contouring powder inside the Shimmer, Shape and Glow Kit down the hollows of my cheeks then blended outward toward my ears.
Hard to believe but this transformation takes no more than 10 minutes!
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ThinkFun®, Inc., the world's leading developer of addictively fun games that sharpen your mind, will bring Kickstarter sensation Robot Turtles™, the board game for little programmers, to the market in concert with national movements supporting code literacy and STEM education. ThinkFun is internationally known for Laser Maze™, Rush Hour® and Zingo!®.
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Robot Turtles is the most backed board game in Kickstarter history and teaches kids as young as four how to program before they even learn to read. Widely available this June for $24.99, ThinkFun is launching pre-orders today at ThinkFun.com/robotturtles in anticipation of high demand. Pre-orders will include a free Special Edition Expansion Pack that doubles game play and features new challenges, game tokens and accessories.
"Last month, President Obama came out in support of Code.org's Hour of Code, saying, 'Don't just buy a new video game. Make one.' We couldn't agree more," said Bill Ritchie, ThinkFun President and Co-Founder. "Until Robot Turtles, a screen-free option for teaching code to the critical preschool age group did not exist. This game sneakily teaches programming basics amid silly family fun."
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ThinkFun's passion for code literacy is rooted in its co-founder's family, with Bill's brother Dennis Ritchie considered by many to be the greatest coder of all time. Dennis Ritchie was awarded the National Medal of Technology for creating the C programming language and co-creating the UNIX operating system. ThinkFun hails Robot Turtles as a tribute to Dennis Ritchie, who died in 2011. "Robot Turtles is an important first step in ThinkFun's commitment to code literacy," continued Bill Ritchie. "My brother Dennis would have loved it!"
Robot Turtles is inspired by Logo, an educational programming language designed in the 1960s, remembered fondly for its turtle graphics. In bringing Robot Turtles to the market, ThinkFun is collaborating with game inventor Dan Shapiro, a self-proclaimed Geek Dad who wanted to give his four-year-old twins what he feels is the single greatest superpower – the skill of programming. His 2013 Kickstarter campaign to raise $25,000 and produce 1,000 games made history when it raised $630,000 and shipped 25,000 games. With players calling the game a "big hit," "great educational tool," "sheer genius," "10 stars!" and "very simple," Robot Turtles has proven entertaining, educational and a boon to early childhood critical thinking skills – a perfect fit with ThinkFun's mission to change the world through play.
Robot Turtles Role Reversal – Kids Boss the Grown Ups!
Kids ages four to eight play the game with a grown up, using Code Cards and Bug Cards to program their Robot Turtle to reach its matching jewel. As you advance, the game incorporates obstacles like Ice Walls and more complex Code Cards like lasers. Best part? Kids have all the control, acting as programmers to control the parent, who becomes the computer. As kids create code, parents respond with goofy beeps, bops and zaps, eliciting shrieking delight and belly laughs. Robot Turtles is played with one adult and up to four kids.
To pre-order Robot Turtles with the free Special Edition Expansion Pack, watch a video and soak up game play, please visit ThinkFun.com/robotturtles.
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More change orders approved for SF Intermediate School
The new South Fayette Intermediate School building is on track for its Aug. 10 grand opening. According to Superintendent Dr. Bille Rondinelli, the district received occupancy permits for the building on July 22, which was the projected substantial-completion date.
At its July 24 voting meeting, the school board approved three change orders for the new building, including a $2,940 change order to delete a sliding grille door and add two overhead grilles in the cafeteria, as well as $449 to raise sprinkler piping for coiling doors at the cafeteria entrance. Also, a $3,493 change order to add gas valves at the main gas line in the school's mechanical room was approved.
An open house for the new school will be held 9 a.m. Aug. 10.
The board also approved new configurations for the elementary, intermediate and middle schools for next year. The elementary school will house students from grades K-2, the intermediate school will house grades 3-5, and the middle school will house grades 6-8. The high school will remain grades 9-12.
Also, the district has found a purchaser for the trailers used at the elementary school, as the trailers will no longer be needed with the addition of the new school. Grimm Trailer Sales of Enon Valley should be finished hauling away the trailers by the end of July, at no cost to the district.
In other business at the meeting, the board approved lunch prices for the 2013-14 school year. The prices will remain the same as last year and are as follows: Regular meals will be $2 at the elementary school and $2.20 at the intermediate, middle and high schools. Regular staff or adult meals will be $2.95. Premium meals will be $2.40 at the elementary school, and $2.50 at the intermediate, middle and high schools. Premium meals for adults or staffers will be $3.25.
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To the Editor: Although I could have done without the "pathological," believe it or not, a part of me is glad that, in her review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev, Anne Applebaum refers to "Navasky's pathological inability to believe that there really were Soviet spies in America." The reason: It gives me a second shot at correcting an egregious New Republicerror. The last time a New Republic writer misstated my position on the fact of Soviet spies in America, it was Martin Peretz ("Red Dusk: The Rosenberg Bombshell,"
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Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev (Yale University Press, 637 pp., $35) If one were trying to define the lowest point in the long and venerable tradition of American anti-communism, surely it came in 2003, with the publication of Ann Coulter's Treason.


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Remember how our parents would teach us rules when we were young? Rules like not playing in the street or not playing with matches. Remember how sometimes the rules seemed like a burden, like our parents must have invented them to keep us from doing the things we really wanted to do—the things we thought would make us happy? As we grow up we learn how important these rules are, how we could have been seriously injured or even killed if we had not obeyed.
Like our parents growing up, God gives us commandments to help keep us focused on what is most important and how to stay safe. All of His guidance is meant to keep us safe, help us stay close to Him and, in the end, to give us more freedom and happiness.
The word "commandment" might make us think of the Ten Commandments—a list of "Thou Shalt Nots"—God does not only tell us what we should not do, but He also tells us what we should do. His greatest hope is for our eternal happiness, so we can be sure that His commandments are not restrictive rules, but they are divine guidance meant to protect us from harm and lead us to better ways of living.
Our obedience to God's commandments comes from our desire to show our love for Him, for our fellow human beings, and for ourselves. While Jesus Christ was on earth, a man asked him, "Which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus replied,
Jesus Christ teaches us in these few lines that at the heart of all these "do's and don'ts" is a focus on loving God and loving the people around us. As we think about the commandments listed below, it helps to consider how each of them relates to these two foundational commandments.
Anyone can pray, anywhere and at any time. Whether we're kneeling, sitting or standing, praying out loud or silently, praying in groups or by ourselves, God will hear and answer us. Prayer is so easy and so simple we might not appreciate what a privilege it is. It is a direct line of communication with our Heavenly Father who wants to help us with all of our problems and questions. Though He may not always answer right away or in a way we expect, we believe the scriptures when they say, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" (Matthew 7:7).
We are commanded to pray often because the more we speak with God; the more open we will be to His guidance through the challenges we face. This is an example of how the blessings of the commandment far outweigh the effort they require.
Most scripture was written more than a thousand years ago, so it can be hard to imagine how reading them can help us here and now. But since God's wisdom is timeless, we can read the scriptures and apply their lessons to our own lives. Maybe we get a promotion at work that we are excited about but also nervous we won't be able to fulfill. This might seem like a purely secular anxiety—one for which we would not be able to find help in the scriptures—but the account of God calling Enoch to prophesy might help us deal with our fear. After God asked him to command the wicked people around him to repent, Enoch humbly asks, "Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad [ … ]; for I am slow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant?" The Lord reassures Enoch, saying, Moses 6:31-32
Enoch does what the Lord commands and becomes an eloquent prophet, helping his people change their hearts. His trial teaches us that God will help us develop the ability to do things we didn't know we could, as long as we use our faith in Him.
The commandment to study the scriptures is much like the commandment to pray often. God wants us to read His words because they help us know His will, and following God's will is always in our best interest. The scriptures contain the things God has revealed to His children through prophets.
In this day and age, Sunday has started to feel like any other day. Many of us have to work, and after that we try to get everything else done that we didn't get done on Saturday. It seems like the weekend feels busier than the rest of the week. But Sunday, or the Sabbath, is a time to worship God and to give us a rest from our day-to-day obligations. After creating the earth in six days, God set the seventh aside as a day of rest and remembrance. On Sunday we can spend time with friends and family, visit the sick or lonely, spend extra time studying the scriptures and go to Church. At Church we sing, pray, and discuss the gospel with the other members of the congregation and we also take the sacrament in remembrance of the Savior. At Church Mormons participate in the sacrament by eating bread and drinking water that was prepared to symbolize the body and blood of Jesus Christ. We can take that time to meditate on how Jesus Christ can help us and think about how we can better keep the covenants we have made with Him.
Besides giving us a rest from the stresses of the workweek, keeping the Sabbath day holy shows respect for God and reminds us to slow down our busy lives to give thanks to our Creator. Sunday is a day to look forward to, one when we get to enjoy the things that really matter.
One of the purposes of baptism is to symbolically wash away our sins, but even Jesus Christ, who lived a perfect life, was baptized. Jesus was baptized because it is a commandment and he wanted to provide a perfect example of obedience to Heavenly Father's divine guidance.
The ordinances of baptism and confirmation are a way for us to show that we are willing to take the name of Jesus Christ upon us, which means to become Christians and do our best to always live accordingly. First, we are baptized by being lowered under water and raised back up by a person who has authority from God to do so. This action symbolizes Jesus Christ's death, burial, and resurrection, and it also represents the end of our old lives and beginning a new life as His disciples. After we are baptized, a person with authority puts his hands on our heads, gives us the right to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirms us members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Have you ever heard one person tell one side of a story, then heard another person tell the opposite side, and both versions sound true? With so many people and opinions competing for our attention, how do we decide what to believe? To help us know His will—to help us figure out what is true—God calls prophets and apostles to act as His spokesmen. A prophet is a faithful, righteous man chosen by God to speak for Him here on earth. Apostles are prophets chosen by God to be special witnesses of Jesus Christ and His divinity. In order to speak for God, prophets and apostles must have the priesthood, or divine authority, required for such a holy responsibility.
God has called prophets throughout history. In the Bible we read about prophets like Adam, Abraham, Moses, Paul and many others. We believe that God has also called prophets to lead us today. Joseph Smith was the first prophet called in the current dispensation, or generation, of the Church, and there has been a prophet on the earth ever since. The man called to speak for God and lead His church today is named Thomas S. Monson.
By asking us to follow the prophets, God is really asking us to stay close to Him, just like when he asks us to pray often and read the scriptures. Listening to the prophets helps us learn or re-learn what we need to do to accept Jesus Christ's Atonement and become worthy of all the blessings God wants to give us. God promises that those who follow the prophets "are heirs of the kingdom of God" (Mosiah 15:11).
After Moses led the children of Israel out of captivity, he went to the top of Mount Sinai and spoke with God. When Moses came back down the mountain, he had Ten Commandments the Lord had revealed to him engraved on stone tablets. We follow those commandments today, thousands of years later.
The power of procreation is a sacred part of God's plan. It's an expression of love and allows husband and wife to create life. God has commanded that this power and privilege of a sexual relationship only exist between a man and woman who are legally married. This commandment is called the law of chastity. It requires abstinence from sex before marriage and complete fidelity and loyalty to our spouses after marriage. God expects us to keep our thoughts clean and be modest in our dress, speech, and actions (Matthew 5:27–28). We must also avoid viewing pornography and engaging in homosexual relations.
We understand that the principles of the law of chastity set The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart and may sound strict to the rest of the world, yet great blessings of peace, self-respect, and self-control come from obeying this commandment.
The things we do and don't consume are some of the most visible markers of our faith, and they come from our belief that our bodies are precious gifts from God. We believe He has given us guidance about how best to take care of them. He revealed a law of health, called the Word of Wisdom, to Joseph Smith in 1833. The Word of Wisdom prohibits the drinking of alcohol, coffee and tea, and the use of tobacco. It also implies that we not use illegal drugs or abuse prescription drugs.
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love these guys! has anybody seen the 'i wonder' instrumental around? i know i've heard it on their show, ill blu at their symphonic best
Also I would very much like a definitive list of everything that's out there in standalone MP3 format, remixes included.
maybe a few missing?:
remixes:3-2-1 - bring it backaaliyah - rock the boatcheryl cole - parachutecraig david - one more liedonae'o - watching her move (& instrumental)dj sava - i like the trumpetfunky dee - are you gonna bang doe?h two o ft. zoe - pink lovehot chip - i feel better & instrumentalkc - r.a.v.e.kris bayer - heartbreaker (& instrumental)lloyd - all around the worldmj cole - gotta have itmpho - boxes n locksplatnum - trippinroll deep - good timesroll deep - green lightsabrina washington - OMGshontelle - battle cryshystie - pull it (& instrumental)steve hoang - no coming backsuncycle ft. movado - no moreyoung nate - i wonder
solo productions:meltdown epbellion / dragon poptime to get nastyblu magicdotstar - stick up (& instrumental)hoodzee - riderprincess nyah - big boys (& instrumental)princess nyah - frontline (& remix ft coldsteps & instrumental)princess nyah - hooligans (& remix ft griminal & ghetts)princess nyah - i will be there remix ft coldstepsshanique - take it low
― lucas pine, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ill Blu - Say YesIll Blu - Roll With Me ft. SpeShillDotstar - Stick Up (Remix)
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
love ill blu but some of those new tracks are a bit too heavy on the attitude. sounds like theyre trying to get the dubstep crowd on board. i dont mean this in a cruel way, but its like funky that caspa might play (and caspa used to be good, before anyone says anything).
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 21:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
when you and jimitheexploder go on your honeymoon can it please be somewhere far away and for a very long time? thanks in advance.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
maybe jimi and i and you and tim can make it a couples weekend? only if you promise not to be a cunt though. thanks in advance.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ill Blu are ace always thought it.
p.s. I'll happily go on a hunny moon, if anyone is paying I'm skint and need a holiday. Thanx.
thanx for the shout out rtc I fee lat home now ilm goons are calling me out yay!
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
ooh, as if i could afford that little minx.
seriously titch i really don't understand how you can be so wrong and bad about the new stuff, it is plainly some of the most exciting music in donkeys. i'm struggling thinking what else to say here!
― r|t|c, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only thing I'd say about the new bits is that sometimes its a bit ott and dramatic. Not really in a bad way, I'm splitting hairs really. I've just got to be in the mood for it, they've always had that dramatic edge to them but they're really pushing it to the extream at times now and its a bit much and doesn't get the killer raw rolling groove I dig from funky going as much as older bits. They push more and more epic moments into tracks and its cool but I miss that groove a bit unless I'm in turbo drama mode. They still kill it and are some of the best producers around in the scene right now.
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
erm where did i say it wasnt good? of course its exciting. just think a few of them were surprisingly 'tudey. and i stand by what i said that if caspa (or d1 even) was playing funky, i can imagine this would be *totally* up their street. its got a lot of shared qualities. i know you guys think that ill blu must live in a bubble and wouldnt pay dubstep guys any mind but hello, theyve been on numbers, hyperdub... its not out of the question to think that they might be thinking it might be cool/nice to do something a bit outside their usual box. or that gasp, it might have just rubbed off on them a bit. yes i know it could of course be inadvertent influence from old house tracks but i dunno, dubstep is so unignorable these days, eg - when they did that mix on 1xtra, it was on (unless im mistaken) of all things mistajams 'daily dose of dubstep'!
jimi, life is all downhill once you fail to get rtcs stamp of approval.
ps - that deep teknologi track around 80 mins on that recent rinse show is stupidly good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
jimi, OTM
if they ramp up this angle too far, itll be close to funky in the wobble zone
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
or at the very least, they will be doing a roska
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
i still don't know what there is to bitch about - you're prattling on about dubstep as if invoking it however vaguely has any bearing to anyone on the material's excellence. i've already said a few times actually that ill blu are outgrowing the scene to an extent, but that isn't to say that their tracks have become indigestible in funky terms either; there's never not been a space for this kind of tuffness in the "genre" and if anything the issue as far as there is one currently is whether dj's are articulating it as fully as they could be doing. otherwise you could chide a million funky classics for not singularly encapsulating funky's groove as it were - that's not how it's ever worked.
i suspect the fact that these new tunes have only cropped up in their own barnstormer sets so far has put a distorting emphasis on you lads' view of the bigger picture.
― r|t|c, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
The categorical error here is thinking that ott drama and a rolling groove are somehow mutually exclusive. I can't see how the new material can be faulted from the second perspective. The caspa comparison might make sense if the kineticism of the tunes was falling away and the whole point of the tunes was the drop. In the absence of that happening the comparison is simply trying to tie negative associations around muscularity and drama. You could as easily reference hyper-on experience, total science, black strobe or Danny weed. Each of these would have misleading implications. Analogy isn't destiny.
Quite aside from the fact that their new tunes are no more ott than "time to get nasty" from late 2008 or the "bring it back remix" from 2009. If this was going to cause them to jump the shark it would have happened by now.
Everybody knows and complains about the fact that I'm sensitively attuned to funky producers straying from the one true path. Obv I'd be the first to call out Ill Blu if that actually looked likely.
But it's not as simple as "does this tune sound like dubstep yes/no", when producers fall off it's much more about a dramatic reduction in vibe and (in particular) a self-conscious distancing from their own most pleasurable and cheesy tricks and tactics. Whereas this is the precise thing that Ill Blu are so good at finding new ways to develop.
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah your last point is a good one rtc - "meltdown" and "chelt" make more sense as funky tunes in the context of a typical funky dj set. And everyone plays them, so I don't get a sense that people within the scene feel alienated by the duo's direction.
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is why i love ilx
― just sayin, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh wait no it's just a banger, my bad
― r|t|c, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I wouldn't say that drama and groove are exclusive no. I just don't get as much groove from the newer bits as I did before. They're still shit hot at drum programing but the tracks go off on one in other departments and distract from it a bit at times. Time To Get Nasty is pretty ott but its not reaching the hights of bits in the Master Jam set in that department, it swings back into tight hard hitting grooves pretty quick after the big builds. Its not synth rush after build after synth rush... I'm still on board with them I just woudln't be that fussed about hearing their music in one big chunk, it works better broken up and used as a massive dramatic peak. Nowt wrong with that. They pretty much only make anthems, which are always better used sparingly for me, they have more impact then.
― jimitheexploder, Sunday, 10 April 2011 00:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
nice! loved the mistajam mix when i downloaded it a couple months ago, ill start digging my way through their other new stuff
― k3vin k., Sunday, 10 April 2011 01:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Building on this discussion, I'd say that arguably Ill Blu takes Caspa-esque dubstep's banger mentality and does it properly, that is: bangers that are for dancing rather than just (head)banging.
And in truth "Bhangra Knights" actually is a dubstep tune, or at any rate close to it, but again: if Caspa actually sounded like (or rather, as good as) this I could totally get on board with yobstep.
I should clarify that my statement on the funky house sceptics thread to the effect that Ill Blu's occasional similarities to dubstep felt inadvertent wasn't meant to suggest that they don't know or like or are influenced by dubstep, but rather that if I had to guess at what they were really reacting to it would be "Pon De Floor" et. al but with the raviness intensified - that is the thread that seems to unite "Bhangra Knights", "Dirty Monkey", "Warp Speed" and "Get Freaky With You". That brings them close to dubstep at times and I'm sure they're well aware of that, but it doesn't feel like an aesthetic they're making a concerted effort to embrace.
Certainly Ill Blu's weakest tracks are their sparer non-dramatic efforts (e.g. "Dragon Pop") so if it's a choice between them veering towards Caspa or them veering towards Scratcha DVA or Mala, I think I'll actually take the former.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 April 2011 10:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
I <3 Dragon Pop the bassline is awsome. I've had it in my head since I fist heard it. Such a quality bump to it. Plus it sounds massive on a nice club soundsystem.
― jimitheexploder, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
ive yet to hear them going more towards mala/dva territory (mala and scratcha dont occupy the same sort of space anyway) so that seems like a false binary to me. the idea of their dramatic stuff vs dragon pop stuff is pointless, as they do both really well, without it sounding like a concession to anyone. ie dragon pop is too funky/percussive for dubstep. dubstep does bongos/percussive stuff but its never very groove-ful. its stiff. the main difference id say is just that their tracks have gotten 'bigger', 'better' produced, whereas the old tracks mostly in general were minimal rollers, and spare, more like grime. they seem to be making more complex (lots of big synth lines, more changes it seems, esp compared to something like that redlight tune posted above, which is a total banger, but a lot more stripped down compared to meltdown etc) stuff now, at the same time as theyre getting more intense and harder, almost abrasive. but then as for timelines, who knows, meltdown is about two years old.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 11 April 2011 15:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
that seems like a false binary to me. the idea of their dramatic stuff vs dragon pop stuff is pointless, as they do both really well, without it sounding like a concession to anyone.
You and jimi started this false binary in the first place by contrasting drama with rhythm. Of course it's a false binary, that was my entire fucking point.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 April 2011 21:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
they do both really well, without it sounding like a concession to anyone. ie dragon pop is too funky/percussive for dubstep. dubstep does bongos/percussive stuff but its never very groove-ful. its stiff.
You were the one criticising me upthread for denying that they've gone dubstep.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 April 2011 21:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
the binary i was talking about was the choice of them going into dmz or caspa mode. i was never talking about dragon pop being concessionary, or at least, displaying an awareness of dubstep, it was the newer tracks, and a particular sort of dubstep aesthetic which i seem to hear there, ie dominating/maximal inyerface synth blasts. i never really considered DP being a response to dubstep dominance, even though it does nail the hyperdub aesthetic pretty well.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 11 April 2011 23:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
so when it's a direction you do like it's a false binary but a direction you don't like it's a real one?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Tinchy only you could turn a thread about the most banging shit in the entire world into this kind of tedious handwringing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 08:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
had a listen to the rinse fm mix while running today (lol the only time i listen to dj mixes now, slightly older man's compartmentalised life etc) and really liked it. tho i was more into the first hour with the vocal stuff than the second hour or so. lots of it is so refreshing tho, just raw energetic dance music with no piousness going on.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Haha, in that case you should just hang out on the funky house skeptics thread ronan.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
The first track, carnao's "get out", is a longtime favorite of mine - reminds me of mark bell's "woman cry" and the like.
Finally released on that EP rtc linked to upthread.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
for the bird, for the geezer, introductory funky listener, wicked selecta:
ILL BLU 29th MARCH
Carnao Beats ft Teeboy & Kadey - Get OutDakar - I've Got That Feeling??Barber Bizzle ft Miss Fire - Do You Feel The Same (Remix)Funky Twinz ft Angel J - SmileRoska ft Nikki - EnergyChang-Sam - Don't Hold BackIll Blu - Blu Magic
----- 30 minsIll Blu ft Shanique - Say YesBassjackers & Apster - Klambu (Seany B Refix)Miss Fire - 004FHDJ Mystery - Room 101Fingaprint - Night Time (DVA's Hi Emotions Remix)LR Groove - ?Ill Blu - CheltDJ Eastwood - Oh YeahShay & Sinista - Big Up YaselfDVA - Flute Tune
----- 60 minsIll Blu - Time To Get NastyA1 Bassline - Shock HeadedIll Blu - Get Freaky With You??Ill Blu - MonstaChampion - Undisputed - SunglassesJ Bevin - Zulu ??
----- 90 minsIll Blu - Funerealness Toddska - Gal From EnglandIll Blu - Good Time (Version)Ill Blu - Alrite Mate Bassboy & Marcus Nasty - Next FunkyIll Blu - ?DJ Naughty ft Miss Fire - It's YouBlack Coffee ft Bucie - SupermanTeedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Perempay n Dee Remix)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Excellent work.
Ill Blu - Funerealness
Do we agree this is them? It doesn't seem as obviously Ill Blu as with, say, "Get Freaky With You". OTOH I couldn't guess at who else it might be.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Damn r|t|c! Thanks for the tracklist. This might be the best set I've heard this year so far.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha really..? i was just thinking this is the same 7/10 set they always play on a tuesday! it's not like they're really putting their backs into it.
(seem to recall there was one particular ill blu show a few months ago i thought was notably good, and i believe i said so on the funky thread at the time. unfortunately though if i havent already lost it then i won't have access to to for a while, so if anyone would care to oblige...?)
a funky 7/10 is obv better than most of all yalls infinities though so i'm glad people are enjoying it whatever!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
it certainly takes shape a little differently than usual but the orchestration at very least is surely unmistakeable. i just can't imagine otherwise. the other thing in favour of it is i think if we'd first heard 'alrite mate' uncredited we'd have had a harder time guessing that was them than this.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Perhaps an overstatement, but I've found it far more exciting than a lot of my other go-to shows lately (Marcus, Smoove Kriminal, etc.), It feels nice, rough, and dirty. A lot of other sets have tended to go a more sophisticated route lately, it seems. I don't like the edges worn off of my funky.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
not saying it's remotely on the same level but did you ever hear this other bit of inflationesque drama btw? think handy andy on the other place has also mentioned it. i was thinking mixed over something that rolls it could be a thing. (xp)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
can't remember if i mightnt have just been feeling charitable but i quite enjoyed the last marcus show (with depeo); hard to pick out an outstanding radio set this year though i agree.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
11th january ill blu set was the one i highlighted if anyone's got that
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
That Illmana track is lovely. It's not quite "Kiss You", but those strings and flourishes are amazing. I've got to say I love the bassline folks producing this stuff.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is true. "Bhangra Knights" and "Do That" too probably. They seem to be branching in more different directions than before.
Notwithstanding its recognisable Ill Blu-ness, "Get Freaky With You" is notable for switching up its rhythmic attack several times, like "we have so many beats." There's the stuttery first breakdown, the breakbeaty second breakdown and the snare-overload third breakdown. I can't think of another recent track that is so generous rhythmically.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
'chelt' too i think was quite an unexamined departure for them, despite it having been accepted without question.
as you say though, there's a implacable ease in their turning the screw every which way that belies titchy's fingerpointing, not to mention a variety that makes a mockery of any simple reduction to "dubstep".
in fairness to the little fella however, as absorptive as funky is in itself there is perhaps value yet in loosely trying to corrall whatever vibe it is it's picking up: a kind of mistajamified urban brit frankendance beyond (and largely uninterested in) the crippled ring-the-alarm horizons of dubstep, hyperdub, future garage, factmusic et al. a world of mike delinquent remixes, d double e on dnb, and the crown prince maverick sabre. (was dizzie really as reactive as first seemed with tongue n cheek?)
btw tim i was flabbergasted to find that you'd already just had the exact same dubstep argument from this thread back in january re britney? you bloody love it you slag.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
told you it was just a regular set didnt i!
ILL BLU 12th MARCH
Carnao Beats ft Teeboy & Kadey - Get Out?? [¡levantate! (what is this thing anyway, it's great?)]Murdz 86 - No GlitchesDJ Eastwood - Oh YeahBassboy & Marcus Nasty - Next FunkyDVA - Flute Tune Chang-Sam - Don't Hold BackCooly G - ?
----- 30 minsLil Silva - Cheese & BunDJ Mystery - Room 101Fuzzy Logik ft Myshy - PlaygroundBassboy & Marcus Nasty - Stamp?? [46']Ill Blu - Get Freaky With YouMr Tickle - Citrus OxideToddska - Gal From England
----- 60 minsSP ft Rosita - Right SideIll Blu - [mind's gone blank]DJ Q ft Louise Williams - OverRoska - ?Ill Blu - CheltFunkystepz - ? [new!]Ill Blu - MonstaSelah ft Donaeo - Out My HouseFunky Twinz ft Angel J - Smile
----- 90 minsIll Blu ft Shanique - Take It LowLil Silva - ? [slyly incorporating the 'good life' sound...]Ill Blu - MeltdownA1 Bassline - Shock HeadedGuGu - RockAByeBabyIll Blu - Alrite MateRoska ft Nikki - EnergyMiss Fire - CrazyEncore - Wind Up (Ill Blu Remix)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
I was gonna namecheck frankendance!
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
who knows about maverick sabre? is anyone in the world really ready to discuss maverick sabre? i think i'm ready to discuss maverick sabre.
in particular i would like to hear the views of a local garda regarding this preposterous pikey.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
Tell me about him/her/them.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
i saw an awful maverick sabre vid on youtube, awful song too. that's about all i can say.
― nultybutnice (whatever), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
― r|t|c
here : http://www.mediafire.com/?2mosm2htqj95hhe
OMG! 'get freaky with you' is such a banger. best funky track of the year, so far? most likely.
― rusty_allen, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm starting to think so!
― Tim F, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
a kind of mistajamified urban brit frankendance
This sound is going to be huge but it already overlaps with Rusko and Chase & Status and people as well though doesn't it? Might have been what Tinchy was blindly fumbling towards at to an extent.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yes I agree - but I think you need to be at least neutral on the idea of "weirdly tuff mersh electro-house" in the abstract to approach it that way.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Um... hypothetically already found it.
cos they have the "answer" already
can I say this is particularly OTM
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
bloody addictiveYES
― record-collection rave (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm really digging these new IB tracks, and I don't think Sneakbo makes 'Zim Zimma' at all- the production on that one is massive on it's own, as an instrumental it would have fit in with the rest of the Mista Jam set of theirs just fine.
― Astrochimp32, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Been a bit ambivalent about the lurch towards techno seriousness that Ill Blu seem to have taken on their own stuff most recently (e.g. their new single), so it's nice to discover that "419" on this radio set is a marvelous piece of bubbly vocal house:
― Tim F, Monday, 15 October 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
so ill blu have signed to island and have reworked a five year old uk funky track for the first singlehttp://soundcloud.com/illblu/blu-magic-ft-max-marshall
apparently the new stuff is influenced by "the musicality of Artful Dodger and Wookie, the bass weight of Shy FX, the sampler's ear of people like DJ Premier, the soul of Teedra Moses and the future shock production of legendary US R&B producers like Rodney Jerkins and The Neptunes"
sounds promising...my fave recentish ill blu thing is still this though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQN_2TuK44Y
― Benny B, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:27 (1 week ago) Permalink


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The Partners are currently engaged in many effective methods for achieving the goals, and seek to increase our effectiveness through more systemic approaches, shared learning and resources, a focus on common outcomes and measures, and evaluation of practices.


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