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My favorites so far: DJ Koze - DJ-Kicks Jamie xx - In Colour Dave DK - Val Maira Purity Ring - Another Eternity Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys Fort Romeau - Insides Nick Hoppner - Folk Bjork - Vulnicura ALSO - ALSO Anthony Naples - Body Pill BOOF - The Hydrangeas Whisper George Fitzgerald - Fading Love Howling - Sacred Ground Jon Hopkins - Late Night Tales Jupiter Jax - Visions Passion Pit - Kindred Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Art Department - Fabric 82 Scuba - Claustrophobia Biggest disappointment for me is Hot Chip. I looooooove them, but for some reason, I really don't like Why Make Sense? at all. 2015 needs new music from Robyn and M83. I'm super excited for Maceo Plex's new album Solar.
June 22, 2015
The 50 Best Albums Of 2015 So Far
I love Adore. I actually love a significant amount of the Machina albums too. Zeitgeist was pretty soul-crushing. I had zero expectations for Oceania, and found it to be a really strong comeback that actually made me rediscover my love for this band (along with the amazing reissues), and two years later I'm still revisiting it often. After a few listens, I'm super happy with Monuments. It feels lean, and immediate in a way no SP release has, and I'm really liking this side of them. I can't imagine what it's like to be an artist living in the shadow of a trifecta of albums of the likes of Gish/Siamese Dream/MCIS, and Billy has taken a ton of shit from fans and haters alike with regards to his post 90s output, but goddamn... he still puts out some great tunes. I'm kinda done defending my love for SP. Haters gonna hate and whatever and yeah SP aren't going to top their godlike 90s albums but fucking hell they are still great in my book.
December 3, 2014
Premature Evaluation: The Smashing Pumpkins
Monuments To An Elegy
That 1st paragraph pretty much nails it; there's so much good, diverse music out there. Pretty much anyone who pays attention to music outside of the mainstream could curate a list of top albums from their own personal taste and it would hard to argue. I've missed a lot of the commonly agreed upon top 'indie' releases, so i'm looking forward to digging into some of the albums on the list and from the comments. Here are my top releases of the year, mostly from the electronic spectrum: Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again Royksopp - The Inevitable End Burial - Rival Dealer Aphex Twin - Syro Caribou - Our Love Taylor Swift - 1989 (This album is pop perfection. The bonus tracks are better than most pop stars' lead singles) Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence FKA twigs - LP1 Honorables: Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers Call Super - Suzi Ecto Clark - Clark Duck Sauce - Quack (easily the year's most fun album) Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep Frank & Tony - You Go Girl Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited Head High - Megatrap John Barera & Will Martin - Graceless The Juan MacLean - In a Dream Kalipo - Yaruto Kiasmos - Kiasmos Lone - Reality Testing Manual Tur - Es Cub Martyn - The Air Between Words Max Cooper - Human Moodymann - Moodymann Mr. Twin Sister - Mr. Twin Sister Objekt - Flatland Second Storey - Double Divide Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (yep, it's been out 5 minutes and I love it.) Steffi - Power of Anonymity Todd Terje - It's Album Time Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl Soundtrack Tycho - Awake Wen - Signals DJ Mixes: Danny Tenaglia - Balance Move D - Fabric 74 Prins Thomas - Rainbow Disco Club Ryan Elliott - Panorama Bar 06 Kolsch - Balance
December 3, 2014
The 50 Best Albums Of 2014
Yes, This! I would add Tegan & Sara to this list. 1989 is giving me some serious Heartthrob vibes, which is a very good thing. Love this album, not sorry bout it.
October 28, 2014
Premature Evaluation: Taylor Swift
I'm so glad I have Stereogum to inform me about popular Top 40 music... I have no idea how I would ever hear about it otherwise!
October 22, 2014
Taylor Swift – "Welcome To New York"
It's a new Smashing Pumpkins song... Quick, whoever hates it first is the coolest guy in the room!
October 20, 2014
The Smashing Pumpkins – "Being Beige"
I know nothing about Sun Kil Moon, but I'm really fucking over this guy blowing up my newsfeed every goddamn day. Shut the fuck up Sun Kil Moon.
October 10, 2014
Mark Kozelek, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
Love this... really can't wait to hear this album!
October 10, 2014
Röyksopp – "Sordid Affair"
I would definitely put Syro above Chosen Lords. It might even be #3 for me. And seeing that we're including Chosen Lords, Caustic Window, and Polygon Window, I would've included Classics as well, probably around #5.
October 10, 2014
Aphex Twin Albums From Worst To Best
I would say that the lyrics are part of what makes it work so well. On one hand, they do feel vacuous and superficial, to the point where it feels like the song is a tongue-in-cheek parody of all the typical pop/dance songs with lyrics about having fun/dancing all night/ hands in the air like you just don't care/ and other fill in the blank cliche crap. Then the killer bridge comes along and it changes the entire focus of the song. It works for me, but then again I also don't put much value on pop song lyrics.
June 24, 2014
Vote For The Song Of The Summer 2014
First things first: My vote is for Do It Again. In my opinion, it's by far the go-to, hand-in-the-air, ecstatic electro pop jam of the summer. I've heard it every time I've gone out in the past month and a half, and it definitely has mainstream crossover appeal; I just heard it at the gym for the first time last week (which, considering what is usually played at the gym, is both awesome and terrifying). Also, it's Royksopp and Robyn, and they are both cool as fuck. Second, there seems to be a lot of bellyaching over the inclusions for voting, vs the songs that got lots of upvotes in the shortlist post. I'm not trying to knock anyone's preferences, or defend for that matter some of the inclusions in the poll (bc yes, I think some are pretty terrible), but let's just try to remember that we are picking the Song of the Summer, and not our Favorite Song of the Year So Far. The criteria for those are pretty different. Like I said, I'm not trying to knock anyone's taste, but just for example, how could Real Estate's Talking Backwards be the Song of the Summer? Nothing about it (to me) says summertime. Sure, it's a good song. But it's not what I want to hear at a BBQ, or at the beach, or in a car with the windows down. It's perfectly fine, but it's not going to define summer 2014. I mean, to me it's just a nice, if somewhat emotionally bland, indie pop song that kinda sounds like it could've been on the Garden State soundtrack from 10 years ago. I feel that same criticism can be applied to Future Islands as well. It's a pretty good song. Nothing about it says Summer to me at all. That said, there were some glaring exclusions on the poll though, like Caribou for example. But even it had been included, my vote is still Do It Again. Cuz it's a fucking JAM.
June 24, 2014
Vote For The Song Of The Summer 2014
Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
June 16, 2014
Let's Shortlist The Song Of The Summer 2014
Early contender for track of the summer... love it!
April 23, 2014
Röyksopp & Robyn – "Do It Again" & "Every Little Thing"
One of the best albums of last year... so unbelievable underrated. p4k really shit the bed on this one.
February 23, 2014
Cut Copy – "We Are Explorers" Video
Chills. and tears. goddamn this is fantastic.
December 11, 2013
Stream Burial
Rival Dealer
Boards of Canada is my #1 for the year, followed closely by Cut Copy, Arcade Fire, Chvrches, Disclosure, Daft Punk, and Vampire Weekend. My other favorites not included here are: Sigur Ros (one of their best ever), Darkside, James Blake, DJ Koze, Special Request, Moderat, Mikal Cronin, Machinedrum, Fuck Buttons, After Dark 2, Gold Panda, Classixx, and Bonobo. A ton of great DJ mixes this year too: Fabric mixes by Sandwell District and Cassy, Sasha's Involv3r, and the DJ-Kicks series was on fire this year with Maceo-Plex, John Talabot, and Breach
December 6, 2013
The 50 Best Albums Of 2013
What the fuck does this even mean? Have fun at dinner.
October 26, 2013
Premature Evaluation: Arcade Fire
I thought the Hidden Track was supposed to open the album? I have it as track 0 on disc 1... which perfectly flows into Reflektor (if you wish to listen to it) and also bookends the album nicely with the Supersymmetry outro. I think it's funny when people knock down albums a notch or two for having tracks like these. It's like, it's a hidden track and an outro... they're pretty easily avoidable if you don't want to hear them, but add a cool atmospheric 'journey' feel to the listening experience if you listen to the album in its entirety. I love Reflektor. Loooooove it. It's so great. But as great as it is, I think I love Cut Copy even more. It's like all of the sex all at once. It's that orgasmic. A psychedelic old-school rave/house album inspired by Screamadelica? Yes please. Yes Yes Yesssssss.
October 26, 2013
Premature Evaluation: Arcade Fire
Good fucking lord I can't even deal with how great this album is.
October 25, 2013
Stream Cut Copy
Free Your Mind
Garbage - Version 2.0: A Hammering in My Head --> Push It. There's a pause between Shirley's purring voice saying "on the bullet train from tokyo, to los angeleese" and the soft crush of 'Push It's" opening bar that might the most perfect half-second of silence ever.
September 10, 2013
Reflections On "Reflektor"
This is such an awesome late-in-the-year surprise... I really thought Arcade Fire was going to be the last "big" album release before 2014. Judging from the singles, they are both going to be two of my favorites of the year... I really love the disco direction AF has taken and the psychedelic house vibes of these two Cut Copy jams. Can't wait!
September 10, 2013
Cut Copy – "Free Your Mind"
Hiiiiii. So. I *despise* linkwhoring in the comments sections of popular blogs... so I will refrain from doing so. BUT. If you want to hear my new dj mix, which is two hours of summery disco JAMS, including the Stereogum song of the summer, you could go find it through the link in my profile. I made it specifically for drinking by the pool or on a rooftop. Enjoy! (if you want to, or whatever)
July 2, 2013
Here's Your Song Of The Summer 2013
It might be their bright-shiny-newness, but BoC and Disclosure have jumped right to the top of my list so far... Tomorrow's Harvest is everything I could've hoped for; good lord it is a gorgeous and complex album. Haven't put a whole lot of thought into rankings, but here goes my faves of the year so far: 1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 2. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 3. Disclosure - Settle 4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the Weekend 5. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob 6. Phoenix - Bankrupt! 7. Locked Groove - Heritage EP 8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me 9. Classixx - Hanging Gardens 10. Bonobo - The North Borders 11. James Blake - Overgrown 12. Mano Le Tough - Changing Days I know DJ mixes don't usually make these lists but there's been some great ones so far: Maceo Plex's DJ Kicks, Francois K's Master Series, and Sandwell District's Fabric mix are all pretty stellar. Loving After Dark 2 as well. I still need to hear Dungeonesse and Jon Hopkins, and I'm still getting into the new Bibio , Mount Kimbie, and Baths albums (was kinda put off by Baths on first listen though, and didn't think it was nearly as good as Cerulean). All in all, its been a pretty great year so far. :) PS- fb login ain't workin for me either.
June 4, 2013
Stereogum's Top 25 Albums Of 2013 So Far
I think it's also worth pointing out that the vast majority of criticism towards this album (not just here, but all over the internet) is focusing on the hype, personal expectations, "daft punk vs EDM," and what the album is apparently "missing." Its kinda sad, because the production, arrangement, and mixing on this album is phenomenal; this is definitely one of the best sounding albums I've heard in while. I mean, it sounds like BUTTAH. What I've always loved about electronic music was how talented producers perfectly sculpt and manicure sounds and create atmospheric worlds for your brain to swim in. I always wanted electronic music to be more popular, and that's what has bugged me most about the whole EDM/Dubstep movement: obviously the music has become derivative and formulaic, but the biggest reason I don't like is that it sounds like fucking shit. It's like getting fucked in the ear by screeching synths, hissing white noise, and irritating bass squelches. It has all the subtlety of jackhammer. Another reason why I'm liking RAM more and more: every single sound on it- the guitar plucks, the snare hits, the synthesizer tones- sound rich and luscious. It's obvious that the duo when to painstaking measure to create this album. This is quite the counterpoint to not only EDM, but also their own Human After All, which was recorded in only two weeks (and definitely sounds like it was).
May 16, 2013
Premature Evaluation: Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
1st Listen: What?? 2nd Listen: Hmm... 3rd Listen: Ohhhhhh. 4th Listen: YES. Screw the hype and your expectations. Appreciate the album for what it is, don't measure it against what it isnt'. I'll admit, it felt really uneven and kinda forgettable (aside from the standouts) the first time around... but now I'm looooving it, especially the slow robo-jams. Game of Love, Beyond, and Fragments of Time felt like muzak at first, but damn they are JAMS. It's official, I think I (mostly) love this album. Still iffy about Pharrell, and can't help but think Justin Timberlake would've been better on those tracks.
May 15, 2013
Premature Evaluation: Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Four semi-decent Knife tunes surrounded by a whole lot of irritating noise and aimless noodling. Weren't these experiments painful enough to sit through on Tomorrow in a Year? Not going to sugar coat it- I'm kind of hating this album.
April 2, 2013
The Knife
Shaking The Habitual
Comment Party
I don't necessarily mind streaming services, but I do feel like it narrows the listenership to a specific type of demographic / listening behavior- people whose jobs have them in front of screen all day, with multiple tabs open, etc. While, yes, this is certainly a sizeable portion of the population, I like my music mobile and with me, not tethering me to a laptop, that type of listening is so passive. But perhaps I'm just a caveman with my ipod classic and my meticulously organized playlists.
February 28, 2013
Stereogum Monthly Mix: February 2013
My favorite film of the year, by faaaar, was Cloud Atlas. And while I know it isn't perfect and it's a little too 'out there' I was still hoping it would at least get some technical noms- editing and cinematography, maybe even adapted screenplay. Blah. Also, No Holy Motors. Blah. I can't even bring myself to see half of the films nominated. Like, I'm bored just looking at Lincoln... and it's obviously going to win everything. Secretly hoping for an upset by Beasts of the Southern Wild. If you haven't see it, that movie will rip. out. your. heart. So good.
January 10, 2013
The 2013 Academy Awards Nominees
I'm not trying to keep some line between the underground and pop music out of some kind of "pedantic loyalty to genre names." I understand how crossover functions; mainstream radio has been mining "underground" dance scenes for decades, long before Madonna took vogueing out of the drag balls and put on pop radio under the notion that 'it doesn't matter if you're black or white, if you're a boy or a girl." One could argue over the negative effects this has on the underground music scenes. Purists tend to feel that this exploitation cheapens the genre; the underground supplies the seed of creativity, which them blooms into a larger cultural awareness through crossover into the mainstream, and subsequently rots after the genre becomes distilled to the point of cliche (see: dubstep after 2010) and the mainstream moves on to the next big thing. While this is certainly an issue, I actually think that bringing pop elements into dance music, and vice versa, regardless of the 'underground' vs. 'mainstream' posturing is largely mutually beneficial. I want the artist I love to be more popular, and I want the music I love to reach a wider audience. It would just be really great if genres could crossover into the mainstream without the sacrifice in quality that inevitably happens (at least from my perspective). But that's the double-edged sword with popularity; in order to achieve widespread appeal, the elements of the genre become simplistic, derivative, and while these sound may sound new to a wider audience, they sound banal and uninspired to listeners such as myself. So no, I don't have a problem that this list includes songs that fall under 'radio-friendly' territory, or have reached mass appeal, or whatever. My problem with this list is that it appears to have been cobbled together with little to no regard for taste, musicality, dynamics, or any other discerning aspects that deem a track "good" vs. "bad." I have no doubt that this list is 30 tracks that you enjoy. However, a good portion of them fall into derivative pop music (Rihanna) and cheap sounding, recycled ghetto-tech dancehall beats with obnoxiously triggered vocal samples. And since you've included these tracks in a top 30 of the year list, while missing a lot of great tracks, that were actually very popular, from artists like Bicep, Rustie, Alunageorge, Actress, Andres, Daphni, Christian Loffler, Voices from the Lake, Scuba, Ejeca... (I could go on... ) well, it just makes your claim that you "revisited every nook and cranny of the year in dance music" seem slightly dubious.
January 3, 2013
The Top 30 Electronic Dance Tracks Of 2012
Royksopp told some Russian website that fans can expect a new album in 2013. They just released a new song too.
December 27, 2012
The 50 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2013
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I went out to Russia in 1991 – still just the Soviet Union – certain that anyone who had not fought against, or stood up in some way against the regime was a collaborator. I went out partly to understand how a society of collaborators, collaborators on a mass scale, a scale of many millions – how it could exist. What was the mind of a collaborator like? How did they square their personal principles with what was happening around them? How did they excuse their failure to condemn the evil acts of the regime and their continuing participation in the structures set up by that regime – all essential to its continuing existence?
Little did I see that our collaborators here are far more dangerous; in some ways more despicable, because they are not even held in train by fear, or by the much more arduous daily struggle for existence faced by those in Russia and the former communist bloc.
Our collaborators lead lives of unbounded comfort and luxury compared with the enormous mass of people around the world. Our collaborators are well-educated, secure in the knowledge that speaking out will not (in general) land them behind bars, let alone behind bars somewhere in Siberia. Our collaborators do not just sit and suffer under an ignominious regime – they support its business, advertise it, do its propaganda for it; and they benefit from its crimes.
Just imagine if in the last 4 years, the British Government had rained down bombs on hundreds of English towns, shot up British leisure centres, supermarkets, offices and businesses with tank shells tipped with depleted uranium; imagine if the British police had forced its way into thousands of quiet English homes and dragged the residents to be tortured in a prison camp outside Reading. Imagine if 2 years ago we had laid siege to Birmingham and that the town was now a ghost town: no electricity, no running water; food supplies critically low, and hospitals lacking basic medicines; residents kept in and non-residents kept out. Imagine if we had by this means managed to eliminate, remove, murder over a million upstanding British citizens. Imagine if 4 million more had had to escape to France to save what was left of their miserable lives.
Of course the British government would be careful never to do such a thing: the British government has always been supremely good at doing its dirty business far away from British shores – and the British people supremely good at averting their gaze, not least because we benefit from dirty business. We export our human rights violations, because we suspect that British citizens might not put up with over here, what we do in other countries of the world.
But it is only racism which makes it any more acceptable to do it to Iraqis (or Afghanis) than to upstanding British citizens. And it is only willful ignorance that allows us to continue to enjoy our privileged position, rather than using every means at our disposal to stop the killing machine.
So our collaborators are those who have the intelligence and the opportunity to know – but who choose to remain in ignorance. They are those who know, but manage to put it from their mind while they build themselves up and show themselves off; and they are those who use their leisure and intelligence to beautify their lives, their bodies and their minds still further, rather than address the hideous crimes inflicted by their government on other human beings.
The British countryside is littered with placards announcing: 'Fight Prejudice, Fight the Ban'.
'Fight Prejudice', perhaps, against Iraqis, whose lives and country we have allowed our government to destroy? Fight Prejudice against Muslims, against whom the right wing press is conducting a none-too subtle campaign? Or maybe we should fight the prejudice which sees nothing wrong with malnourished children round the world producing fashion garments for us to wear – because, of course, we could never ask upstanding British children to do that.
But no! The prejudice and ban the privileged classes in Britain have to fight is that which has made fox-hunting illegal; that which brought 1 million people into the centre of London to demonstrate. Those are the human rights battles our privileged collaborators think it important to fight. They fight them because the ban concerns them and their lifestyle. But while they continue that lifestyle and fail to fight the real prejudice in our society – Iraq burns.

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text: Here are four fashion illustrations from an 1897 issue of Ladies Home Journal. The wasp waistline of the time is particularly evident in the upper left and lower right illustrations. The first illustration on the lower left is a bit more forward-looking with its "pigeon" bustline, hinting at what would come in the next few years.


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The company had posted a net profit of Rs 44.04 crore during the same period of previous fiscal, Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd (SPARC) said in a statement.
Total income of the company declined to Rs 42.57 crore during the first quarter, as compared to Rs 71.83 crore in the same period of previous fiscal.
The company's expenses during the quarter rose by 78.43 per cent to Rs 48.16 crore in the first quarter, as against Rs 26.99 crore during the same period of previous fiscal.
SPARC was demerged from Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd as a research and drug discovery company in 2007.


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Cape Town – Their sporting obituaries were written before they had even begun their tenures. Too young, their critics cried. Others were concerned with their lack of top-level coaching experience, and there were those who bluntly stated "not good enough".
But halfway through the 2011-12 domestic season, and here we have Paul Adams (Cape Cobras) and Geoff Toyana (Highveld Lions) at the top of domestic cricket's wave, about to lead their respective teams into a faceoff today at the Wanderers for the 1-Day Cup crown.
They will be making history in South African cricket too. It will be the first time that two franchise teams will be contesting a final with two black coaches at the helm – a fact Cricket South Africa will surely be proud of.
Beyond that, though, the duo have earned the respect of not only the cricketing public, but most importantly, that of the players under their tutorship. We caught up with both men this week in the build-up to tonight's final to find out a little more about what makes them tick ...
Paul Adams
Age: 35
Nickname: Gogga
High school: Plumstead High
Tests: 45
Wickets: 134
Best Bowling: 7/128
Twitter: @PaulAdams39
Favourite quote: "Action is the foundational key to sucess" by Picasso
Geoffrey Toyana
Age: 38
Nickname: Geoff
High school: Orlando High
First-Class matches: 84
Runs: 3 037
Highest Score: 113
Twitter: @Geoff_Cricket
Favourite quote: "The more you sweat at practice, the less you bleed in battle"
1 What is your coaching motto that you live by?
Adams: I always try to look for the solution. In doing so, you create a performance-enhancing environment. For me, it's all about concentrating on the positives.
Toyana: Enjoyment. That's my number one. I understand that it is a professional environment, and the importance of winning trophies for a franchise, but sometimes, so much energy and emphasis is ploughed into that that teams lose focus, and the reason why we are playing this game is because we love it. So, enjoyment is a key factor, and that filters through to positive cricket.
2 Have you been surprised by the amount of success you have achieved this early in your coaching career?
Adams: I feel I haven't achieved anything yet. There are still many ups and downs to experience this season and ahead. Of course, it's a positive that we have put ourselves in a position to win a trophy tonight, but we haven't done it yet. The Sunfoil Series still has a long way to run, and there's the Twenty20s to come. The important thing for me is that we are preparing well to give ourselves the best opportunity to succeed.
Toyana: To be completely honest with you, I've been very surprised. Before my appointment, and Gogi's (Adams) actually, I read so much negative press about how young and inexperienced we were. But I decided just to get stuck in and not concentrate on those things, and reaching the Champions League T20 final at the beginning of the season gave us, as a group, a lot of confidence that we can succeed. We are in another final now, and that's a positive, but we also know there were some down days, but as a group, I think we're prepared for that now.
3 Are you more of a motivator or a task-master?
Adams: I think you need a balance of both to be a successful coach. Find the right areas between the two. You can't be going around shouting all the time in the dressing room, but at the same time, there are times when professional cricket requires you to be stern. Likewise, there are also times when you need to lighten things up a bit through positivity.
Toyana: (Laughs) I am definitely not a task-master. I would like to view myself as a motivator. I've never been one to get all excited about things. There are guys in this Lions side that I've played with and against for a long time, so it would be silly for me to start barking orders at them.
4 How much do you lean on the senior players within your team for advice?
Adams: Very much. I'd like to think we've created a culture where everybody is confident enough to express their opinions. We've created a forum where vigorous discussions are held in terms of gameplans and strategies. I think that creates a mutual respect for each other within the team. Ultimately, though, the decision-making does lie with myself and captain Justin Ontong, after we've gathered all the information.
Toyana: Like I said earlier, I've played with many of the guys, so I value their opinions greatly. In the past, there was a culture of "me me me" here, and a big part of what I wanted to achieve was to transform that mindset. I wanted to give guys like Neil McKenzie and Zander de Bruyn greater responsibility in terms of mentoring young players like Quinton de Kock, who can hopefully benefit from playing with stalwarts like them.
5 Are there any other coaches who have a played a pivotal role in your development?
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LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FreshDirect today announced that the Board of Directors has unanimously named Jason Ackerman, FreshDirect founder and CFO, as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Jim Manzi, Chairman, said: "Jason Ackerman is the right person to lead FreshDirect into its next phase of growth. Jason is a proven leader with a combination of financial and operational expertise and a deep understanding of all aspects of the business. He has been a driving force behind FreshDirect's unique business model and is highly respected within our organization. As a senior leader, he has helped develop and deliver on FreshDirect's growth strategy, most recently with our new investment and partnership with Morrisons. With this appointment, FreshDirect is better positioned for the future than ever before."
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The intended use of RAID and LVM?
Using: Linux server 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 19:52:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have two identical 2 TB eSata external harddisks. Until recently I had them configured as a RAID-1 array. I find that resyncing takes a lot of time, reducing availability too much.
Question: is it good idea to split the disks into 4 partitions of 500GB and use LVM to make them appear as 1 again?
The idea is to reduce syncing time to 1/4-th but I might be over-designing here. How likely is it that only 1 partition would need resyncing? Is there a significant performance-penalty when combining RAID and LVM? Is there a simpler solution? How about using inotify to automatically back-up essential changes?
Looking forward to your ideas.
Dirk Jan Spits.
Not following what you mean by resyncing - are you referring to restoring data onto a corrupt device?
Having the drives configured as a RAID 1 array is actually quite a good idea as it will increase your read speed since the data is contained on both drives - and you have double the IOPS available for reads.
Conversely; write speed will be adversely affected since both drives need to be written.
I don't follow what you mean by splitting into 4 partitions and then using LVM to combine again. When you install the OS, you can create 4 LVM Physical Volumes (PVs) OR partition these as "ordinary" non-LVM partitions.
If you do the latter (that is normal ext3/ext4 partitions); you cannot use LVM to "combine" these - you can only add physical volumes to volume groups; and logical volumes can only be created from volume groups.
Coming back to your "re-syncing"; if you're using RAID; I'm 100% sure that you can't synchronize on a parition level via a HW RAID controller - I also doubt SW raid would allow you to do this though I could be wrong.
You would usually synchronize the entire disk in the case of corruption/loss of data.
Perhaps you could explain a bit more clearly what you're trying to achieve and I can try to assist further.
Thanks for your reply, Yas.
I really, really, really tried to present my problem in a clear an concise way - in the hope of generating a lot of feedback - but from your questions I surmise I failed bitterly...
The OS is installed on an internal drive. The two disks I am configuring are external, for storage only.
Resynchronisation is actually the term the SW RAID itself uses for the process that follows the creation of an array or the detection of a problem, e.g. after one of the cables got loose or a power outage.
These things have happened and the resync took more than 12 hours.
What I'm trying to do is to protect a bunch of files. First step was to centralize the lot from several desktops and laptops and make them available through the network. This helped to create awareness of the size, the importance and value of the data and called for extra security measures. Off-site backup is one of them, using mirrored storage is another.
After a previous RAID1 array actually suffered a hardware failure, I discovered spares were not available and that particular model of disks is no longer sold. So we bought two shiny new disks,... But the shear size of them is now posing a problem in the reduced availability due to very long running maintenance operations. I'm shooting myself in the foot because this quickly reduces the user's enthusiasm for central storage.
Guides, HowTo's and man-pages do not answer questions like mine.
So one approach to this problem I have is to break up the 2 TB into 4 partitions of 500 GB hoping to reduce the offline-time to a couple of hours. The smaller size of the partitions should reduce the time needed for syncing/formatting etc. Of course the chunk size of 500 GB is a trivial one but that's where LVM might help by joining the PV again into one logical volume.
At least, that was the plan.
Cheers, DJ
Hey DJ,
The reason your rebuild is taking so long is due to the sheer size of the drive combined with the speed of the drive (I'm assuming you're using a 7200 rpm SCSI disk?).
If you have the funds a hardware RAID controller may also be a good idea as it will be quicker in rebuilding a failed drive.
Actually, you can use fdisk partitions as RAID members. I've done it myself whilst practicing on a single disk machine.
Ditto LVM.
I've even built LVM on top of RAID on 1 disk; again just to practice the cmds.
In the real world however, RAID is usually there to protect against a disk failure. If a disk fails, all partitions are suspect or worse.
Not forgetting you've only got one set of R/W heads per physical disk.
Using RAID 5 with a hot spare is recommended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
To get faster re-syncs, use faster disks & check the bandwidth on the controller.
LVM is designed (primarily) to allow you to keep adding disks to a pool at random times in the future. These constitute a pool of space, which you can slice n dice with VGs & LVs, but does NOT provide any redundancy, unlike RAID.
2 different concepts.
Off-site backups enable you to recover from file deletions/corruptions & worse.
(Assuming you have a cycle of backups & notice before all become corrupted.)
Thanks guys,
If you don't mind I would like to continue this discussion under the assumption that I'm not able or willing to change the hardware situation. Also, I'm well aware of the theoretical differences between RAID, Backup and LVM. At the moment I have an off-site backup and a functioning file server. I also have the two new disks and am searching for the optimal way to deploy them. I was consciously steering away from the backup issue. Maybe we can draw that back into the equation later on.
So, we've established that it is possible to build a SW RAID array based on partitions. If you would split two disks and build an array on two halves you would still be able to use the two remaining halves for normal storage. If one of the drives physically and permanently breaks down the RAID part is saved the data on the normal partition is lost. However, temporary failures exist too. They can break the equivalence of the two devices and cause the md-drive to resynchronize. In fact, it takes a lot of time to analyze the differences. A resync actually can propagate errors onto the disk that had the best state! In this kind of scenario's RAID is actually performing worse than a normal backup, I would say.
But, I'm assuming that during repair the data on normal partitions is not touched. Am I right?
So, if you can classify the data into two classes of availability i.e. "high: RAID" and "normal: backup" that would be a good solution, would you agree?
On top of that, you could abstract-away the (size of the) normal partitions by putting them in an LVM group.
Is this a case of over-engineering?
As ever, interested in your thoughts.
A logical error is when for some reason your data becomes out of sync or it becomes corrupt for some reason. In this scenario; doing a sync between drives will result in both drives becoming corrupt; since RAID has propagated the error onto both drives. The thing is that RAID is meant to provide redundancy against physical disk failure and not really against logical errors. Thus for critical data you'd need to have both RAID as well as some sort of offsite backup.
This is common practice in for example, enterprise Oracle Database deployments; wherein RAID is used at the primary site; and also RMAN backups being shipped somewhere offsite (or sometimes onsite) to cater for logical errors.
You could split the disks half RAID, half un-RAIDed, but be aware that a problem on one 'half' can affect the other half, as per your example.
Twice as much effort to recover.
Also, controlling the performance of the physical disk is now twice as hard.
In fact, I've never heard of anyone doing it for real ie on a serious server.
Normally, I'd put the most important stuff (usually DB or Web server for example) on RAID, and all the other 'stuff' on normal disks, if you want to minimize use of RAID ie num of allocated disks.
Similarly, you can put LVM on top of RAID, but consider the complications when it breaks (and it will sooner or later). You now have to take both LVM and RAID issues into acct during recovery.
I'm not saying don't do it, just plan ahead and test, test & test again your recovery procedures.
You are going to document all this aren't you?
Thanks again.
chrism01: You could split the disks half RAID, half un-RAIDed, but be aware that a problem on one 'half' can affect the other half, as per your example.
How? In what way do failures (logical only, as we have determined that the physical case is trivial) on one partition influence the availability (e.g. time to restore) of the others? I don't see that. Which example are you referring to? Ah, the twelve hour rebuild. Yes, but that why I started this discussion. By splitting large disks into smaller partitions you improve the availability of data (1) on RAID partitions by shortening the time needed for rebuilds (2) on partitions protected by backups only by removing the penalty for using RAID for data that doesn't need it in the first place.
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Certainly a physical failure will require the recovery of both areas. By not splitting disks down the middle you only have one thing to worry about (per disk). Depending on your business, you may even be able to limp along (basic service) on just the non-broken areas for a short time.
At the logical level, you are sharing the perfomance across 2 'apps', so you can't optimize for one. This may or may not be an issue eg if you get a runaway or overload on on 'side' of the disk, it affects the perf of the other 'side'.
Eg if you had a corruption on the RAID & had to re-sync, that load could affect the whole physical disk, depending on how the RAID & HW drivers work.
There's really no exact answer; you just need to consider what works best for you, taking into acct that everything breaks sooner or later & for a business server, that usually means a monetary loss.
It may make sense to split the disks, especially if you've only got a few and you need to use every byte of space with max efficiency.
Greetings. I've enjoyed following this thread. Please allow me to ask two questions to help me to better follow this thread.
Does it take equal or less time to resync four 500 MB RAID partitions on two disks compared to the time it takes to resync one 2TB RAID partition on two disks?
In the case of having four 500 MB partitions, after a power failure to the hard drives (whether by a power outage or loose cable), would all four partitions have to be resynced with their corresponding partitions on the second disk or just one/two?
Hi again to all.
btncix: Comparison of resync-times between 1 x 2TB versus 4 x 500GB?
I can only answer the question in part. I verified that time is proportional to the size of the partition. However, (at least on my machine) a resync of two partitions on the same disk is _not_ executed parallel. The second manually triggered sync is started but waits for the first to finish. I do not know if other HW setups exist that would allow the resync processes to run in parallel.
Of course, if all logical errors would lead to a resync of all partitions there would be no gain in splitting the volume into smaller partitions. However, I don't see why that would be so. Each (couple of) physical partitions is managed as a single virtual device, completely independent of any or all other arrays on the same disks. Each RAID array monitors its own internal state and takes action if something goes awry. Logical errors or in-balances are caused by (pending) write-operations at the time of failure. An array that was mounted read-only (for the sake of argument) would never suffer any such damage. Would you agree?
btncix: ...a power failure to the hard drives (whether by a power outage or loose cable)...
Mind you, I noticed a misunderstanding in your question; the cables we were talking about earlier on in this discussion are data cables, not power cables. The point here being that a power outage probably hits both physical disks at the same time but a faulty data-connection hits only one, precisely causing the kind of problems we are discussing here.
I would like to add that I see a fresh relevance in this discussion. This might be a problem with existing technology that only recently _could_ come to light.
1) Developments in price and performance suddenly increase the number of these large devices being in-use and configuring SW RAID has become a lot more user-friendly leading to an increase in the installed-base
2) With new standards like USB 3.0 and external-SATA there are more data-cables lying around and more separately powered devices, giving both more potential points of failure and more of these particular type of failures.
3) There is one brand (the one I bought of course) that ships their disks with an environmental-friendly tristate On/Off/Auto switch. The later setting intended to reduce power consumption by switching the drive off if there is no traffic for a certain amount of time. (Kids, do not try this at home!)
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Seepage: The effect of climate denial on the scientific community
The article "Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community" just appeared in Global Environmental Change. The article is authored by me and Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson.
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We initiate our argument with the known fact that vested interests and political agents have long opposed political or regulatory action in response to climate change by appealing to scientific uncertainty. We know from earlier work that uncertainty is no cause for inaction—on the contrary, greater scientific uncertainty should make us worry more, not less, about the potential consequences of climate change. Alas, those actual scientific implications are often inverted in public discourse where uncertainty often invites wishful thinking and hence inaction. In this new article, we examine the effect of contrarian talking points that arise out of uncertainty on the scientific community itself. We show that although scientists are trained in dealing with uncertainty, there are several psychological and cognitive reasons why scientists may nevertheless be susceptible to uncertainty-based argumentation, even when scientists recognize those arguments as false and are actively rebutting them.
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What meta tags are available?
Meta tags provide a means of adding extra information about your HTML document. This is information that either your browser might be able to make use of or typically to provide additional information to search engines.
There are two types of meta tags:
<meta name="tag" content="data">
<meta http-equiv="tag" content="data">
Information provided by
http-equiv is passed to the browser before
it receives the rest of the document. It provides information that could therefore
affect how the browser handles the document. Both styles of meta tags must be positioned
within the head of the document (i.e. between the
<head> and
</head> tags).
META NAME tags
|Meta name tag
|The name of the author of the page.
|Allows a copyright statement to be embedded.
|A short description of the page. Used by search engines as a summary
description of the page.
It is generally recommended to keep the meta-description to no more than 150 characters, anything longer risks it being truncated by a search engine. However the exact length limit will vary between search engines.
If you need to include double quotes in the description then escape them, for example:
<meta name="description" content="A "cool"
gives the description:
A "cool" tip
|The name of the tool used to create the page. (Unsure how useful this is to web-authors.)
|Used by search engines to index the page. Use to specify keywords of relevance to the page.
|Gives instructions to web-robots (also called web-bots). Be aware that
the web-bot is free to ignore it! The
CONTENT portion should
be a comma separated list of one or more of the following:
For example to prevent a page from being indexed:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
these tags can be combined so, for example, to prevent a page from being indexed and any links followed:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
In addition there are some robots options which are recognised only by specific search engines. The following (by its nature) may not be complete:
In addition to the above set of "standard" meta name tags, there are some which are recognised only by specific search engine bots. The following list may is not complete but does include the most significant bots:
|Meta name tag
|Used by
|Use the same settings as for name="robots", but applied only to the google-bot.
|Use the same settings as for name="robots", but applied only to the Yahoo bot - which is called "Slurp"..
|MSN, Live Search, Bing
|Use the same settings as for name="robots", but applied only to the Microsoft Msn-Bot, which in turn feeds into MSN, Live Search and Bing.
There are also some meta tags which are recognised by many mobile devices:
|Meta name tag
|Specifies the intended size when viewing on a mobile device.
Orignally created by Apple for the mobile Safari browser, it has now
been widely adopted as the de-facto standard.
|Supported by some Windows mobile browsers. The content specifies the
width of the browser window. For example:
<meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320">
|Supported by BlackBerry browser.
<meta name="HandHeldFriendly" content="true">
Specifies that the content is optimised for mobile devices. For those devices that support viewport, this is similar in effect to:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
Default is "false".
HTTP-EQUIV tags
HTTP-EQUIV tags that are not recognised (i.e. supported) by the browser will be silently ignored (i.e. the viewer will not see an error). So you can use HTTP-EQUIV tags safely without worrying too much whether a given browser will support them.
|Meta name tag
|Specifies the character encoding scheme used for the document. A semicolon
(;) can be used to combine values.
Typical values:
|For caching purposes this states when the document expires.
Web robots may delete expired documents from their indexes or may schedule
a revisit. The format is:
content="Weekday, DD MMM YYYY HH:MM:SS TIMEZONE"
For example: "Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:00:00 GMT"
An invalid value (such as 0) denotes 'now', forcing a check on each visit.
|Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later only.
Specifies how the page should appear to replace the previous page in the browser.
For a summary of the transitions available see: http://www.jansfreeware.com/articles/ie-page-transitions.html.
The Microsoft documentation on page transitions can be viewed at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532847(VS.85).aspx, but be aware that this concentrates on applying transitions to styles.
|Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later only.
Specifies how the page should appear to disappear when the browser moves on to another page. Otherwise the options are the same as for Page-Enter.
|There is only one pragma directive:
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
This requests that the page not be cached locally by the browser.
|Tells the browser to wait a specified number of seconds
before loading a new page.
For example to reload the current page after five minutes:
To load a different page after 5 seconds:
content="5; url=http://www.cryer.co.uk/index.htm"
Related Bits
The meta and http-equiv tags are case insensitive, so it does not matter whether these tags are written in upper or lower case, so:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
could equally be written as:
The exception is when using XHTML rather than HTML. With XHTML all tags should be in lower case - see below.
When using XHTML rather than HTML the meta and http-equiv tags should be self closing and must be lower case.
So whilst in HTML you might use:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
The equivalent in XHTML would be:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
note the "
/>" at the end of the tag instead of HTML's "
Other Links
- http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/
- http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robots-meta.html
- http://bookofzeus.com/articles/quick-guide-to-mobile-devices-meta-tags/ - Custom meta tags supported on mobile devices.
If you find any omissions from this list please e-mail the author.


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Life is good.
I sit here this morning recovering from a long hard weekend of second shooting an 8 hour wedding, catching up on the mountain bike race I missed yesterday, and getting excited about everything that I have to do today. It's summertime, baby, and life is good.
The weekend started with a ride with a friend of mine who is recovering from a knee injury. She has ridden bikes for a very long time and has amazing skill. Too see her on a bike even after almost a year off is inspiring. She just flows. It's like the bike is a part of her and it works with her every movement. I love riding with her because it makes me better, even on her 'recovery days' (which, I should warn that even on a 'recovery ride' she is still one of the fastest riders I know and could whup my behind if she wanted to). Bikes are awesome. I haven't found a person yet I don't love riding with and who doesn't teach me something. Awesome way to start the day.
As for the wedding, hard work, yes. But it was a blast. The bride and groom were amazing, the location was to die for (seriously, there were dinosaur bones! This girl carnivore was ecstatic!) but most of all – the couple was SO in love. That was a privilege to be a part of. Oh, and they partied like it was 1999.
Another bright beautiful Sunday followed up with some more off site adventures, trials on charcoal grilling, and just the general continuation of positive vibes. I have a lot of ideas brewing, cool things happening and tons I want to write about! Time to make some time for this old blog and bring you guys some tasty food while I'm at it!
- 1/2 cup red marina sauce or tomato puree
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 small onion, finely minced
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbs olive oil, divided
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 zucchini
- 1 large red pepper, carefully cored and seasoned
- handful fresh thyme
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Spoon the tomato sauce in a baking dish or pan and combine the garlic, onion, 1 tbs olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and smooth out.
Cut the edges from the veggies and using a mandolin (and safety skills) slice the veggies into thin rounds.
Artfully arrange the veggies, slightly overlapping one another in a pattern in your prepared pan starting at the outer edges and working your way in. (Pro tip! I used an upside down spoon, leaning against the edge of the pan, to prop everything into to place. Made those last few layers super easy to snuggle in).
Drizzle remaining olive oil over top. Season with salt, pepper and thyme. Cover the dish with parchment paper or aluminum foil and bake 45 to 50 minutes, until tomato sauce is bubbling around the edges.
Let cool 5 minutes and serve.
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So, Tyler said Earl was back. And here's an Earl song we haven't heard before. The "Earl" Twitter account linked to terttlefer, where this song can be found. It's still unclear if Earl is actually back, if Tyler is behind all this, or if it's some combination of the two. There are many possible scenarios, but Odd Future being straightforward about this wouldn't be very Odd Future-ish. So, take this how you will, but Earl's "aaand I'm back" at the end of this song is pretty strong indication.
Earl Sweatshirt – "Home"
UPDATE: Tyler's latest tweets. Possibly referring to Earl's mom? But I'm not even going to try to speculate.


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ACT Announces June Events
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's Mainstage brings Lewis Black's comedy to the stage just in time for wedding season.
ACT also hosts its first ever "Live Music Month" with Seattle favorites The Love Markets, Cordaviva, and Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers playing in the Bullitt Cabaret on three separate nights. The Central Heating will continue to focus on fostering new works by local artists. A new play reading in The Construction Zone and productions from AZEOTROPE and Boundless Arts Performance Collective finish off a well-rounded month of stimulating theatre and entertaining performances.
The following events take place in June 2012, are on sale now at www.acttheatre.org or (206) 292-7676. Listed events are available with the ACTPass – ACT's monthly membership of just $25 per month:
One Slight Hitch, Falls Theatre
Live Music Month
-The Love Markets, Bullitt Cabaret
-Cordaviva, Bullitt Cabaret
-Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers, Bullitt Cabaret
Sarah Was Here, Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space
Jesus Hopped the A Train, Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space
The Construction Zone- The House That Jack Built, Eulalie Scandiuzzi Space
Nightclub Gentlemen, Bullitt Cabaret


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Follow-Up Column enables due date flags similar to Microsoft® Outlook® follow-up functionality. Applying of flags
to the list item allows adding of visual reminder in a natural way. Such feature releases from necessity of keeping
in mind routine things like "What I have to do today" or "What I will need to finish in next two weeks".
The component derives from Date and Time column behavior so you can filter and sort values in this column by standard
Follow-Up column includes several flags with dates, such as Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Next Week or can be associated
with custom date:
Main purpose of Follow-Up Column component is items flagging with due date option (messages, meeting request,
tasks, events, etc). Follow-Up Column is useful for great Outlook experience enhanced by integration with SharePoint
From New/Edit Item form user can select one of predefined follow-up flags or set custom due date.
View Item form shows selected flag and/or date with text according to column settings.
List View shows flags and/or dates with text according to column settings.
These settings change displaying mode for list view and view item form.
1. Show status image(flag) checkbox controls showing flag image;
2. Show description as radiobutton list allows selection of displaying mode for status text and date format;
Before installation, please, check that your target server meets
Follow-Up Column
system requirements.
Also, it is recommended to install ArtfulBits License
Manager before (if it is not installed).
Follow-Up Column
installation package from ArtfulBits website, unpack the file, and run Setup.exe:
You must be a SharePoint Farm Administrator for successful installation. Also "Windows SharePoint Administration"
and "Windows SharePoint Timer" should be running on the server:
After system check is finished, click "Next".
After reading License Agreement, click "Accept" and go to next step.
Select one or more web applications and click "Next".
Wait for install to succeed, click "Next" for deployment status details.
Follow-Up Column
uses Per-Farm License Model (each license is bound to single SharePoint Farm ID). For more details about licensing
models please visit License Agreement.
Product works in unlicensed mode for three days from the moment of installation.
In this mode all the product features are unlocked same way as with trial license.
After these three days either trial license or full license should be entered for product to function.
After ArtfulBits License Manager is installed, go to the SharePoint Central Administration page:
Choose "Operations".
Click on "ArtfulBits License Manager":
Click on "ArtfulBits License Manager":
This page shows all ArtfulBits installed products and their license statuses.
Click on product name to view license details.
If product is not licensed you can click "Enter License" link and enter license key (trial or full) into textbox.
For upgrading product edition click "Convert License" and enter new license of target product edition.
Pressing "Activate" button will verify the key and in case of verification success license status will be updated.
Note: in trial or unlicensed mode all product features are available for evaluation.
This way you will be able to try each and every feature available in the product line
which will give you good understanding of what feature set will be necessary for you and
it will be easier to come up with the decision which product edition should be purchased.
After trial period expiration full license should be purchased which will determine product edition and available (unlocked) feature set.
Special link informing about product expiration is shown in SharePoint pages, where ArtfulBits component is used
if product is using trial license or such license is "Expired" or no license is provided at all.
Clicking on this link will redirect to product license status details page.
In SharePoint Site collection feature list, activate ArtfulBits
Follow-Up Column
feature (if deactivated):
Process of updating
Follow-Up Column
is pretty straightforward - just download latest installation package and execute
Setup.exe from it. After system check completes, select an "Upgrade" option and then follow setup wizard instructions.
Execute Setup.exe from your installation package. On the Repair and Remove section, select Remove radio
button and click "Next", the
Follow-Up Column
will be uninstalled. Or select "Repair" - to repair the
Follow-Up Column
How to get my "FarmID" value?
NOTE: By clicking on "Click here to get license" link you will be redirected
to "Get Trial License" page with auto-filled FarmID
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
How to convert ArtfulBits column to standard SharePoint column and back?
ArtfulBits column can be converted from an existing SharePoint Column and can be converted to the standard SharePoint Column.
How to enable Datasheet view support?
To enable Datasheet view mode support, make sure that ArtfulBits Column site collection feature is activated.
For DateTime, Progress, Category and Follow-Up columns editing in Datasheet is enabled by default.
To enable column editing for Parent Selector, Cross-Site Lookup and Cascaded Lookup do the following:
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culture="neutral" />
How to upgrade ArtfulBits SharePoint product to newer version?
NOTE: Upgrade operation is safe and doesn't affect on existing user data.
Is ArtfulBits SharePoint product update free of charge?
How to check if AJAX is installed on a server?
Which Lookup Column do I need?
Note: FullPack is not required if you already have installed or download ArtfulBits License Manager.


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Featured News
ITS has prepared a document and worksheet to assist you with planning your computer and related technology requests as you put together your 2011-2012 fiscal year budgets.
Throughout this summer, ITS will continue to work on implementing the print management solution in the student labs. This effort supports the sustainability goals of the college. Lab and Library users will begin to see changes starting next week!
Due to changes in Apple's product line, we find it necessary to make some changes to the standard Macintosh platform for the Technology Renewal Program. We will be moving from the iMac desktop computer to the Mac Mini as the standard Macintosh platform in the program.
In our on-going efforts to explore cost-saving opportunities, we regularly evaluate the systems considered for inclusion in the Technology Renewal Program. The iMac is now considered by Apple Computer to be its standard desktop office system, while the MacPro has been positioned as their high-end graphics and video editing workstation. The iMac is a better fit, both fiscally and objectively, with the goals and purpose of Technology Renewal.


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How in the heck do you have 5.1 surround inside a pair of headphones? Seriously, to me it just seems entirely too unlikely. I think that in reality that it is simulated, but that is just me.
Got 5.1 audio? If you don't, then you're missing out on a truly immersive experience in games and movies. Sometimes a 5.1 audio surround sound setup can consist of six speakers: three fronts, two sides, and one in the back. The problem is that many of us have PCs in places where it's just not practical to string up speakers around our PC fortress. This is especially a problem in LAN gaming, when even desktop speakers are a hassle to lug around. Headphones, in this case and in many others, are a popular alternative to get decent audio for little hassle. [Read the rest]


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Each week, Terror Cult strives to enlighten your brain and enhance your palate by delving into the disgusting depths of a single, isolated facet of the horror genre. Often dismissed as silly, mindless diversionary entertainment, horror cinema in fact boasts a proud and diverse heritage, and its contributions to the art of film are many and varied. This week, Terror Cult highlights the early cinematic offerings of the German Expressionist movement, which gave birth to some of the very first feature-length horror movies ever made.
The German Expressionist movement took place near the start of the 20th century, encompassing all forms of creative expression from painting to architecture to experimental dance. Conveniently, it also coincided with the international rise in popularity of feature filmmaking, meaning that just as cinema technology was beginning to come into its own, Germany was developing a cross-medium propensity for a highly dramatic, intense, and surreal visual sensibility that bled over into the emerging medium with unique and visually striking results. German Expressionist cinema remains one of the most distinctive and influential film movements of the silent era. Because of its tendency to emphasize dark, twisted psychological realities, and to incorporate horrifying and fantastical themes, many of the subgenre's most notable examples have become recognized as the earliest feature-length horror films ever made.
While Russian cinema was developing a seminal emphasis on editing and montage, and American film slowly matured into the starry-eyed glamour factory it would ultimately become during the sound era, German cinema underscored artistic flourish, stark and powerful cinematography, and evocative set design to produce movies that were deeply bone-chilling, provocatively violent, and often sexually taboo. This stylistic approach was tailor made for stories of fantasy, terror, social chaos, and spiritual desecration. The emotional power of these films would prove heavily influential for American filmmakers – directors like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau have been cited as direct inspiration for the film noir movement of the 1940s, as well as for more traditionally genre-affiliated offerings like the Universal Monster films of the 1920s – 1950s.
A lot of German silents haven't aged well, but many of them are still surprisingly watchable, particularly ones by directors like Murnau and Lang who had a clear vision and knew what they were doing. Expressionist cinema was unfortunately short-lived, and dissipated fairly quickly with the dawn of sound. Its most memorable entries, however, deserve recognition not only for their pioneering artistry, but for helping to give birth to the modern horror genre as we know it today.
The Student of Prague (1913)
Student of Prague's longest surviving iteration is only 41 minutes long, but a big chunk of its original footage was lost or destroyed, so it's pretty widely assumed that the movie was originally feature-length.Student of Prague is therefore very probably the first feature-length horror movie ever made, a distinction more often publicly attributed to Robert Weine's 1919 surrealist feature The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Student of Prague's plot, like many early films dealing with the daemonic, involves a pact with Satan that goes awry and results in spiritual and worldly ruin for its protagonist. The film is plodding and jerky by today's standards, but its story influences would clearly resonate with later genre filmmakers such as Murnau, whose depraved, Gothic interpretation of Faust incorporated similar themes. Student of Prague was remade in 1926 by German screenwriter and occasional director Henrik Galeen, whose interpretation was far more technically bold and emotionally nuanced than this original attempt.
The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)
The third in a series of films based on ancient Jewish legend (the first two of which, unfortunately, are lost), The Golem: How He Came Into the World tells the story of a Jewish Rabbi who uses black magic to create a hulking monster out of mud and clay. Hoping to defend his people from the hostilities of the surrounding community, the Rabbi's plan backfires when the monster escapes his control and starts running amok through the village. The Golem's distorted and surrealistic sets, designed by painter and architect Hanz Poelzig, are typical of the expressionist period, seeming to pulse with strange undulations as the characters move through them. The film's story bears many striking similarities to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and even moreso to Universal's iconic sound adaptation of Shelley's novel, released nearly a decade later.
Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Nosferatu is an unofficial and unauthorized re-imagining of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, which cemented the popular Western vampire archetype. In Murnau's Nosferatu, the aristocratic bloodsucker is named Count Orlok, and is portrayed with memorably eerie intensity by Max Schreck. Nosferatu's script was penned by Henrik Galeen, one of the most influential screenwriters of the German Expressionist period, who was also responsible for The Golem, and the 1926 remake of Student of Prague. Like Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu has aged well, and still has the ability to unnerve and unhinge, particularly thanks to Schreck's ruthless, penetrating rendering of the title villain.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Caligari is without a doubt the single most compelling and influential film to come out of the German silent era. It has often been referred to as the first feature-length horror movie, and although that description isn't entirely accurate, it's definitely the most fully realized and emotionally affecting genre film made prior to the 1920s, and one of the most accomplished and psychologically devastating films of the entire silent era. The movie is told in flashback, related by a mental patient suffered from paranoid delusions, and his perceptions are reflected in the film's highly stylized sets and lighting, replete with topsy-turvy, off-kilter framing effects, and foreboding lattice-works of light and shadow. Caligari's spiky, angular sets and gaunt, hollow-eyed antagonist have haunted generations of viewers for nearly an entire century, making it one of the most entertaining and terrifying movies of the early silent era.
Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis is more often categorized as early science fiction than horror, but its dystopian of a future society characterized by rigid class divisions and disrupted by the arrival of intelligent robotics technology places it squarely within the paranoid realm of the horror film as well. Like Caligari, the influence of Metropolis is immeasurable – it has influenced genre filmmakers for decades, and has been adapted into a stage musical and a Japanese manga. It's also been periodically reissued with fresh original scores by a host of different musicians, most famously by Italian electronica pioneer Giorgio Morodor.
Waxworks (1924)
One of the earliest anthology-style films, incorporating several short vignettes under the banner of a framing narrative, Waxworks tells the story of a writer hired to invent backstories for several figures in a sideshow wax museum. Waxworks was scripted by Henrik Galeen, and was directed by Paul Leni, who would go on to direct the iconic American horror film The Cat and the Canary a few years later.
Faust (1926)
Adapted from the epic German morality play of the same title, Faust was a later entry for Murnau, and was in fact the last of his films to be produced in Germany before his career-defining move to Hollywood in 1927. Like Student of Prague, Faust tells the story of a daemonic pact (in this case with Mephisto, Satan's unholy representative) resulting in eventual chaos and spiritual desecration for everyone involved. Murnau was a talented filmmaker, and aside from a few poorly timed sequences, Faust still plays well and is shockingly entertaining considering its age. Packed full of disturbing imagery, from scores of open-sored plague victims, to the bastions of Hell riding on horseback through stormy cloudscapes, Faust is simultaneously a religious melodrama, and a lurid excursion into the unspeakably grotesque.
Follow Devon Ashby at @DevAshby and return next week for another pulse-pounding, mouthwatering installment of Terror Cult!