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Electronic Music Culture
An Examination of
Presented by Brandon Clute
A Brief History
Schools of Thought
Emergence of RAVE & Club Culture
What's in a RAVE?
Media Representation in
The Past
Political Backlash
The Modern Electronic Music Culture
Integration into Mainstream Culture
Video Example:
Current Policy
Future Predictions
The RAVE Act Continues...
Music Festivals
Radio / Pop Culture Music
Marketing E.g. Commercials
Movie Soundtracks
Bar / Club Scene
Video Games E.g. DJ Hero
The Expanse of Electronic Music
Meshing of "in"
and "out" groups.
Surveys &
Ultra Music Festival (UMF)
Gender Representation & Technology
A Deeper Analysis: Female Objectification
Female DJs / Performers
Future Possibilities
The Bifurcation of a Culture
Counter Ideas of Significance
Popular Culture
A Critique on Mainstream Electronic Music Culture
Female Objectification
Cultural Appropriation
Seeming Ignorance of Roots & Change of Significance
DJ Culture: The Story of The Disk Jockey
The History of Dance
DJs Through The Ages
Forgotten Beginnings
What The Modern Culture Does Right
Electric Forces
Forms of Dance
Commonly Known:
Melbourne Shuffle
Jump Style
Finger Tutting
Popping/Locking/Slides & Glides/Body Waves/
The Changing Role of The "DJ"
Entry Level Midi Controllers
Numark Mixtrack Pro II
A large market has emerged for entry-level to advanced compact controllers
"Club Standard"
Shambhala, 2014
Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), 2014
Defqon. 1, 2013
Tomorrowland, 2013
Qlimax, 2012
Production Value
EDM Trend List
What is "EDM"?
Modern Media Perception
The Dismantling of the RAVE in Production
Current Artist Example: Minilogue
The dismantling of the RAVE through cultural change
How EDM works. . .
Daleri - Epic Mashleg (16 song drops, 1 minute)
You've Heard It Before
To create a better future, you must first understand the past.
Darude - Sandstorm
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue / Move Your Body
The Prodigy - Firestarter / Smack my Bitch Up
Cosmic Gate - Exploration of Space
DJ Mangoo - Eurodancer
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Vengaboys - We Like to Party
Alice DJ - Better Off Alone
The Scatman - Scatman John
Faithless - Insomnia
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger / One More Time
Moby - Honey / Porcelain / Southside
Some Classics
Creating Sound
Radical Audio Video Experience
Rave as Escape
Growing Illegailty
The Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act
RAVE Culture in Popular Culture
RAVE Culture in the Mainstream Media (MSM)
Rave as Religion
Rave Philosophy/Ethos
"Barbara Bradby noted that moving into DJing and/or producing was an arduous process for women because they were 'equated with sexuality, the body, emotion and nature in dance music, while men have been assigned to the realm of culture, technology, language'." - Beyond The Dance Floor
The Portrayal of Women in Today's Scene
& Cultural Appropriation
Portrayal of Women (continued)
Youtube's Home
"Rave Booty" & "Raver Girl" phenomenon
A few examples of female objectification:
Event Promotion
Dancers (Gogo & Other)
Documentation Focus
Music Videos
Event Marketing
What does a DJ do?
Expanding on Performance
As production value increased at events, the awe factor and "radical" part of RAVE is diminished.
Integration of Live Production & Improvisation
Off-board Effects
Use of Non-Traditional DJ Hardware E.g. Synthesizers, Drum Machines Various Midi-Controllers
Daft Punk Started It All?
April 29th, 2006 - Coachella Music Festival
"Recently, with the rise of club culture as a commercial force, the DJ's image as a maverick artist has been turned into a marketing tool, and he (or she...) has been squeezed into the tried and trusted 'rock star' model..." - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
DJ as Superstar
EDM is a term for the current mainstream trend of electronic music. Thus, what is considered EDM is always changing.
It does not encapsulate all of electronic music, contrary to popular belief.
2010/11 - Dubstep
2012/13 - Bigroom House
2013/14 - Trap
2014/15 - Future / Deep House
Earliest Beginnings
In the quest of inventing the telephone, the first experiments were made with the electrical transmissions of sound. Philip Reis developed the first "Telephone" in 1861, which gave way to many other sound transmission devices.
Gaining Ground
Thaddeus Cahill (1867-1934)
"[to] generate music electrically with tones of good quality and great power and with perfect musical expression, and to distribute music electrically generated by what we may term 'original electrical generation' from a central station to translating instruments located at different points."
The Telharmonium
"Teleharmonic Music"
The Futurism Movement
"Beauty exists only in struggle..."
Futurism had a fascination with technology, machinery, and defying the status quo.
The Electronics Age
Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)
"Our musical alphabet must be enriched...I refuse to limit myself to sounds that have already been heard...What I am looking for is new mechanical mediums which will lend themselves to every expression of thought and keep up with thought."
Poème électronique
Premiered at the World's Fair in 1958
(English Translation: "Electronic Poem")
The Arrival of New Instruments
[around 1920]
Recording Technology
Magnetic Tape Recorder
Musique concrète
l'objet sonore - The Sound Object is the driving force behind the piece
Pierre Schaeffer
Elektronische Musik
"electronic music" - Focus on pure electronic mediums
Northwest German Broadcasting (NWDR) in Cologne then to West German Broadcasting (WDR)
The Modular Synthesizer, Invented 1959-1960
From Shamanism to Religious Worship
"The Disk Jockey is simply the latest reincarnation of an ancient role." - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Nothern Soul
Hip Hop
By Genre
Playing the records heard by the masses.
As a performer.
Acid House
Political Economic Structure
Using the freedom of raving to escape the current societal structure.
Simply get out for the weekend.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Acid House shows began to spring up. What began as a very underground, and small counter-culture, sprung into massive events.
Sunrise & Back to the Future - 1989 Dance Music Festival
A Growing Trend
Dance Compilation
Educational Bias
The Agony of Ecstasy
"Every time you let your kid go out to that club, you're really taking your child's life in your hands. Because when these kids are going out to clubs, they're not going there to dance, they're not going to have a few drinks, that's not what they're there for. They go for the drugs."
1. Ecstasy & Other Designer Drugs: Junior Drug Awareness
3. Nothing to Rave About
Movern Collar (film) - Depreciates Culture
Human Traffic (film), A Midsummer Night's Rave (film) - Alienates true members of the culture
Ecstasy Club (novel), Party Monster (film), and Better Living Through Circuitry (documentary) - Alienates Mainstream Crowd
"Dancing is Political Stupid.
You think you're just having fun, but when you're on the dance floor, you're rejecting the rules and responsibilities of your daytime life, questioning the values that make you wait for the bus and smile at the boss every morning. Dance in a club and you are rebelling for a while. Your escape might come in a pill, a smoke, some beers. Or the music might be enough. Your escape might be from yourself. You're dancing with hundreds, maybe thousands of people; you're no longer just an individual. A dance floor is about collective action, making you an active participant, a vital component. You're creating the event, not just consuming it - the spectacle doesn't exist without you. " (Brewster and Broughton, p390)
Raving for Revival:
A Spiritual Exploration of the Rave
The Summer of Rave 1989 (BBC Documentary, 2006)
A rave's ultimate goal is to achieve ecstasy; a euphoria of the mind.
Peace Love Unity Respect
Create Interconnectedness
Foster Safe Environment
From the Wixáritari indigenous peoples of Mexico, to the Bwiti community found in west Africa, there are five pivotal commonalities between many spiritualistic cultures:
1. Preparation
In each of the cultures there is a time of preparation for the celebration which involves specific ritualistic activities.
Rave Culture: Costume, Kandi, Ingestion of drugs.
2. Ritual Space and Time
For dance music, like many of these spiritual entheogenic festivities, the activity of a rave is typically at night.
Different rooms with different DJs to achieve ecstasy how one prefers. Venue away from general Public.
3. Music And Dance
- Spiritual themes, especially in psychedelic genres and old-school electronic music
Repetitive rhythmic structure - a function in itself to create an ideal state of ecstasy when combined with visual and tactile stimuli.
- "Everybody, even the bar staff of the back of the bar would've been moving. Moving to this beat. And I've never seen rhythm and movement saturate buildings and human beings the way acid house did. It's never happened before."
(Anthony Wilson, owner of Haçienda Nightclub)
4. Pharmacological Aspects
Drugs: ecstasy, lsd, etc.
(No alcohol in old days)
5. Social Relations
A rave is a place of connectedness often equal to the levels of many other spiritual cultures.
The Significance of The DJ
"Because DJs select and present as well as create music, they have been described as 'curators' of 'galleries of sound"
(Rietveld, 1993)
"Djs also function as guides to an unfamiliar and powerfully charged synaesthetic realm and in this sense have been described as 'electronic shamans' "
(Bull, 1997)
The ability to drive participants to the state of 'ecstasy' is part of the DJs craft. DJs are ultimately responsible for the group's consciousness and experience at a rave as 'they create the state of mind and the buzz for everybody in the room
(Interviewed 25 year old male) (St John, p154)
Neural Tuning
The ability to train one's nerves to react in a specific way when exposed to stimulus of a certain type.
"I have a childhood friend who doesn't take drugs, doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't rave. I know him very well but he doesn't know me very well. He knows me in a way, but there's a whole aspect of emotions and experience that he has no idea I have."
(24 year old male) (St John, p154-159)
Ecstasy: Not a drug, a state of mind.
Its current language discourages legitimate "EDM" concert and festival organizers from enacting common sense safety measures to protect their patrons. Providing free water and air-conditioned rooms, and allowing drug education and harm reduction services inside their events would save lives. Yet many event organizers are afraid that these actions could be seen as encouraging drug use and therefore subject them to criminal prosecution under the RAVE Act.
Improving in ways as it becomes more mainstream, perhaps, but still stigmatized.
Through my survey responses and personal experience within the culture, it is apparent it's roots are largely unknown.
Elimination of Barrier Between Performer & Crowd
Blending & Growth of Genres
Change in Public Perception Over Time
Going Back Underground?
Learn from the past and better educate the future so that we...
...can better react to things coming & respect those before us.
"Is rave simply about the dissipation of utopian energies into to void, or does the idealism it catalyzes spill over into and transform ordinary life?"
(Reynolds 1999:10) (St John, p85)
Thank You
Bibliography (Incomplete)
All The Rave, Dateline, NBC: National Broadcasting Company, 2000
BBC 2, E is for Ecstasy, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992, 31 min.
Beeler, Stan. Dance, Drugs, and Escape: The Club Scene in Literature, Film, and Television Since the Late 1980s.. McFarland & Company, Inc.. 2007
Benedict, Ruth, Patterns of Culture (New York: Mentor Books, 1960). http://www.webref.org/sociology/d/dionysian.htm
Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1985.
Better Living Through Circuitry. Directed By John Reiss. Seventh Art, 1999.
Brewster, Bill, and Frank Broughton. Last Night a DJ Saved my Life. London: Headline, 2000.
D.A.R.E, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, http://www.dare.org/
Feinstein, Danny, Ramsay, Colin, The Rise of EDM, Oct. 2012, Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal, http://www.thembj.org/2012/10/the-rise-of-edm/
Grammys, American National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for Achievement, http://www.grammy.com/news/and-the-grammy-went-to-skrillex-0
House, Chelsea, Junior Drug Awareness: Ecstasy & Other Designer Drugs, 2000, Chelsea House Publishers,
Hunt, Geoffrey, Moloney, Molly, Evans, Kristen, Youth, Drugs, & Nightlife, 2010.
It's All Gone Pete Tong, Dowse, Michael, 2004, film.
Jordan, T. Jordan, Hoeckel, Summer Forest, Jason, A. Jordan, Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene, 2000, Watson-Guptill Publications
Mikelberg, Amanda, August 20th, 2011, The Illegal Cure for Cancer:Study says club drug ecstasy may hold cure for cancer, The NY daily News
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Redhead, Steve. Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture. Avebury, 1993.
Rushkoff, Douglas. Ecstasy Club. New York: Riverhead, 1997.
St John, Grahm, Rave & Religion, 2004, Routledge, USA & Canada
The Agony of Ecstasy. Charles C. Stuart, and Ginny Weissman, A&E Investigative Reports, Dec. 4th, 2000, film.
The Summer of Rave:1989, BBC, 2006, film
Beynd The Dance Floor. Rebekah Farrugia. Intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago USA. 2012
Last Night A J Saved My Life. Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton. Grove Press, New York. 1999.
Electronic & Experimental Music. Thom Holmes.Routledge, UK. 2008
Playing With Something That Runs. Mark Butler. Oxford University Press, NY. 2014.
Stage Design
Eric Prydz: Epic Amon Tobin: ISAM 2.0
Electronic Music Genre List (Incomplete)
LivenessIn Electronic Music Performance
Electronic performances are done with such improvisation and technicality that any recorded work is transformed into something new. Something that they make, in the moment, during a performance.
-Drill and bass
-Liquid funk
-2-step garage
-Future garage
-Speed garage
-4x4 garage
-UK funky
-Game Boy music
Introduction to Synthesis
"Raves have historically been referred to as grass-roots organized, anti-establishment and unlicensed all night dance parties, featuring electronically-produced dance music" - A 'Rave' Review
Radical Audio Video Experience
The Use of Authenticity
Social Organization
P.L.U.R. (Peace, Love, Unity, Respect)
D.I.Y. Culture
Diversity of Musical Genre (tied with Ethos)
Identity Markers
Norms & Behaviors
Baggy track/parachute pant
Pro-rave / anti-establishment messages on clothing
Sneakers/ Trainers (comfortable)
Neon Color Palette
Rave Props ("consistent with celebration of a childlike existence that embraces a utopian society")
Danced Individually (in sync with others)
Collective Identity
Did Not Value Sexual Courting
"symbols, including such things as language, style, props, gestures/mannerisms, even body shape and size, which demarcate what a collective stands for. "
Political Deviance
Political Message of Apathy
Goal of Escapism
Not Bound by Class
Response to Thatcherism/ Reagan / Capitalist Society
-Creating alternate world that opposed mainstream culture
In The Beginning
A Photo Tour
Left: "Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, is rocking the Hollywood Palladium at the height of his 'Rockafella Skank' period in 1998."
Right: "Legendary DJ Frankie Bones is the man who was probably most responsible for transplanting raves from the UK to the US. Here he steals the show at the L.A. 1999 New Years Eve rave 'Together As One' at the L.A. Sports Arena."
Credit to Michael Tullbert
"The great DJ/producer Richie Hawtin during his Plastikman era, at the Shrine Expo Hall in L.A., 1999."
"Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method, live at the Hollywood Palladium, 1998."
"On the left, The Chemical Brothers, during a cover shoot for Insider magazine. The right picture is of John Digweed at the Viper Room. Johnny Depp's old club actually hosted a great house music night for three years, believe it or not."
"On the left, DJ Mick Cole of the Bud Brothers provides the music, which could produce an effect within one's head quite similar to what you see in this photograph. If the conditions were right and it really was all good, sometimes truly wonderful, even spiritual experiences occurred on the dance floor. To the right is my interpretation of one of those transcendent moments."
Left: "In this shot, an earlier sandstorm has blown itself out, and everyone is quite happy about that. I shot this with Kodak EIR color infra-red film, which is why everyone looks blue even though they're in the middle of the desert."
Right: "This was shot at 'Dune 4', the last of the great California desert raves of the 1990s. Held out in the middle of nowhere near the CA/AZ border, this party was buffeted by a sandstorm for hours before the sun came up and thousands emerged from the safety of their tents, re-energized and ready to keep partying well into the morning hours."
"On the left is what I think is one of my most iconic rave shots. I used Kodak EIR color infra-red film, which produced the huge color shift that turned the trees scarlet. The bold primary colors make the image almost look like a lithograph in a way. It was shot in the mountains north of L.A. at about 7:00 in a 1998 morning. On the right, is a good example of the dynamic atmosphere one could enjoy in their own personal space at a rave. I took this one at the old Magic Wednesdays club on Hollywood Boulevard."
"Narnia 1997, one of the best of the mountain raves in and around Los Angeles near the end of the decade."
"Deep inside the ancient Alexandria Hotel, a rave called 'OZ' takes place. Meanwhile, the outside world has no clue as to the aural ecstasy that is taking place right under their noses."
"New years eve '99 at the L.A. Sports Arena. What a way to ring in the new millennium!"
'Electric Daisy Carnival',... in 2001, the crowd is already approaching the size of arena concerts. DJ Mars is behind the decks."
"The Toy Ladies were the rave-era fashionistas, before the term was even coined. The scene was filled with lots of eclectic D-I-Y raver fashion like this, mainly because you couldn't find anything remotely like it in almost any of the stores."
"Club Kids were a group of outrageous partygoers that collected infamy in New York during the 'Party Monster' era. These are L.A. club kids at a party called "The Love Festival", sporting the same attitude as their East coast counterparts."
The Club Kids - NYC
Michael Alig
James St James
The Pair Together
Group Photograph with many of the NYC 'Club Kids,' signed by Michael Alig.
Not Exclusive
Breakbeat / Breaks
Drum N Bass (DnB)
Electronic Rock
Electronica/ Electronika
Intelligent Dance Music (IDM)
Post Disco
Video Game
-Ambient dub
-Industrial ambient
-Dark ambient
-Drone music
-Acid breaks
-Baltimore club
-Big beat
-Broken beat
-Florida breaks
-Miami breaks
-Jersey club
-Nu skool breaks
-Cosmic disco
-Disco polo
-Euro disco
-Italo disco
-Space disco
-Acid jazz
-Flamenco chill
-Ethnic electronica
-New-age music
-Trip hop
-Freestyle (Electro)
-Dirty Electro
-Acousmatic music
-Musique concrète
-Alternative dance
-Dark wave
-Ethereal wave
-New rave
-Space rock
-Breakbeat hardcore
-Bouncy techno
-Digital hardcore
-Hardcore techno
-Happy Hardcore
-Melbourne bounce
-Rave music/Rave
-UK hardcore
-Lento violento
-Bubblegum dance
-Italo dance
-Acid house
-Ambient house
-Balearic beat
-Chicago house
-Deep House
-Diva house/ Handbag house
-Dream house
-Electro house
--Big Room
-Dutch house
-Fidget house
-Euro house
-French house
-Funky house
-Future house
-Future Jungle
-Acid techno
-Detroit techno
-Dub techno
-Minimal techno
-Techno brega
-Acid trance
-Dream trance
-Goa trance
-Hard trance
-Ibiza trance
-Psychedelic trance
-Dark psytrance
-Psychedelic trance
--Full on
-Progressive trance
-Tech trance
-Uplifting trance
-Vocal trance
-Melodic trance
-Classic trance
-Epic trance
-Game Boy music
-Garage house
-Ghetto house
-Ghetto tech
-Glitch house
-Hard house
-UK hard house
--Hard bounce
-UK hard house
--Hard dance
-Hard NRG
-Nu NRG
-Hip house
-Italo house
-Nu jazz/ jazz house
-Latin house
-Microhouse/ Minimal house
-New beat
-Outsider house
-Progressive house
-Electro Swing/ Swing house
-Tech house
-Tribal house
-Tropical house
-Witch house/ Drag
-Industrial music
-Grindcore/ Cybergrind
-Dark electro
-Electronic body music
-Future pop
-Industrial metal
-Industrial rock
-Neue deutsche härte
-Power Electronics
-Death industrial
-Power noise
Advanced Midi Controllers
Ableton Push 2
NI Maschine Mk2
N. Launchpad Pro
Modular Midi Controllers
NI Kontrol X1, Z1, F1
A&H Xone K2
DJTT Midi Fighter 3D & Midi Fighter Twister
Prophet 6 Synthesizer
Boss Pedals
Roland TR8
Physical Hardware
Four parts per track.
Able to be controlled individually.
Can apply FX to each segment individually.
Can mix parts of one track with parts of another.
NI Kontrol S8
The Decline of RAVE Culture
Social Organization
A far more shallow version that what once existed.
Disappearance of D.I.Y. Culture
Primarily Corporate Based
Many Single Genre Concert-Like Events
Rise of "Bro" Wear
More Revealing Attire and Focus on Sex Appeal For Many
Lack of Deviance
Emergence of Provocative Dancing
More Individualistic Atmosphere in Most Circumstances
Sexual Courting Prevalence
Identity Markers
Norms & Behaviors
The Decline of RAVE Culture Continued...
Then Vs. Now
Political Deviance
The Decline of RAVE Culture Continued...
Lack of Political Signigance
Most Now Attend As They Would Any Concert
Local Example
Pirates of The Puget Sound 10
March 5th, 2016
30 Stills taken in first 1/2
3 shots of appropriation in video.
EDM does to electronic music what pop music does to other genres:
-Focus on Profit > Quality
-Disservice to the fans.
The term's continued misuse perpetuates anignorance of the culture as a whole.
EDM: A Problem
Arguably the most expressive form of music on behalf of the listeners:
-Variety of Dances, Clothing, etc.
The Healing Power of Electronic Music
Culture of Acceptance
The Positives
Moving Forward
Call to Action
Educate Self & Others
Take Good Aspects of Old & New
Create A New, Desired Culture
Strive For Progressive Policy
Combat Misrepresentation
A synthesizer, in it's most basic form, is a sound generation device.
1950s Early Electronic Synthesizer
First computer generated song recording is believed to be from 1951, and is of "Baa BaaBlack Sheep."
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
An instruction protocol used to make computers, instruments, and hardware talk with one another.
Thought up in 1981, presented to public in 1983.
"The act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece."
Ex. Sample Packs
Not Really.
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The Chicago Tribune unwittingly shows why ID should be taught in schools
A general briefing on how Intelligent Design evolved appears in the Chicago Tribune today, with the usual missing core to the story, which is what the content of this theory is supposed to be, beyond its simple claim.
Determined to drive a "wedge" into the tree trunk of "scientific materialism," it said, "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialistic worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
The prime engine propelling the dissemination of ID is the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank whose $4 million budget is heavily funded by conservative Christian donors. Discovery's Center for Science & Culture, which used to be the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, laid out its goals in a 1999 fundraising document called "The Wedge Strategy."
Determined to drive a "wedge" into the tree trunk of "scientific materialism," it said, "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialistic worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
Chicago Tribune
Evolution of intelligent design
By Lisa Anderson Tribune national correspondent Sun Oct 30, 9:40 AM ET
Fictional presidential candidate Matt Santos on NBC's "The West Wing" recently discussed it, as did real-life President
George Bush in the White House, not to mention "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, more than three dozen Nobel laureates and numerous school boards across the country.
A decade ago most Americans had never heard of intelligent design, or ID. But, in the last year, the term has surfaced repeatedly in politics, media and education as the rallying point for religious conservatives in the culture war over the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Although polls show about half of Americans still don't recognize the expression, the background and meaning of ID are focal points of a landmark 1st Amendment case unfolding here in Pennsylvania's capital.
A very old phrase that gained new currency about a decade ago, ID presents itself as an alternative scientific theory to evolution. It posits that some aspects of the natural world that are not yet explained by Darwin suggest design by an unnamed intelligent agent.
The prime engine propelling the dissemination of ID is the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank whose $4 million budget is heavily funded by conservative Christian donors. Discovery's Center for Science & Culture, which used to be the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, laid out its goals in a 1999 fundraising document called "The Wedge Strategy."
Determined to drive a "wedge" into the tree trunk of "scientific materialism," it said, "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialistic worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
John West, associate director of the Center for Science & Culture, pointed out that the wedge proposal was a plan, not a scholarly document.
"That document was about more than intelligent design. It was about the larger cultural context and the anti-religious agenda of some people in the name of science," he said.
Indeed, the document went beyond the scientific debate, extending the argument into the world of politics. It equated Darwin with Karl Marx and others whom it described as viewing humans not as "spiritual beings but as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces and whose behavior and very thoughts were dictated by the unbending forces of biology, chemistry and environment."
This materialistic conception "eventually infected virtually every area of our culture, from politics and economics to literature and art," the document said.
The Center for Science & Culture's five-year plan, much of which already has been achieved, called for funding research fellows at major universities, publishing numerous articles and books on ID, generating significant media coverage and getting 10 states to include ID in science curricula.
Discovery says it doesn't want schools to mandate the teaching of ID, but to "teach the controversy."
Most scientists say there is no controversy.
Pennsylvania is the first state to see ID included in a school district's curriculum, but Ohio and Minnesota and at least one district in New Mexico include critical analysis of evolution in their science standards. Kansas is expected to do so this fall. More than 24 state and local authorities have considered similar changes to their science curricula over the last year, according to the National Center for Science Education, a California-based non-profit group dedicated to defending the teaching of evolution in public schools.
A week ago, intelligent design made its European debut in Prague, Czech Republic, at an international scientific conference drawing some 700 people from Europe, Africa and the U.S., according to The Associated Press. Many who spoke at "Darwin and Design: A Challenge for 21st Century Science" were from the Discovery Institute, including Stephen Meyer, the Cambridge University-educated director of the Center for Science & Culture.
Of the Discovery Institute's strategy, Jerry Coyne, a professor in the ecology and evolution department at the University of Chicago, said, "They're smart people, in general, with respectable academic positions and degrees. . . . It's their media savvy, combined with their money. And they have learned a lot of lessons from the old creationists, that is to be much less evangelical."
Critics call theory `Neo-Creo'
Because ID makes no mention of the Bible or the divine, some critics call it "Neo-Creo," that is, a new version of creationism's adherence to the Genesis account of creation.
They view its secular language as a tactic to skirt the Supreme Court's 1987 decision finding creationism a religious belief and banning it from public school classrooms as a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.
Proponents of ID particularly criticize the mechanisms of random mutation and natural selection, by which all life, including humans, evolved from a common ancestor over some 4billion years, according to Darwin's theory, which most scientists laud as the cornerstone of modern biology.
Every major U.S. scientific organization and the aforementioned group of Nobelists dismiss ID and say there is no credible controversy over evolution. They consider ID a new bottle with a high-tech label for the old wine of natural theology, creationism and scientific creationism, serial concepts based to some degree on the biblical account of creation.
ID is "creationism in a cheap tuxedo," according to Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Kansas Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Not so, said William Dembski, a Discovery fellow and leading ID proponent, who directs the Center for Science and Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.
"Creationism was consciously trying to model the science on a certain interpretation of Genesis. You don't have anything like that in intelligent design," said Dembski, who holds doctorates in mathematics from the University of Chicago and in philosophy from the University of Illinois and a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.
`Watchmaker' argument
Long before evolution, creationism or ID, there was natural theology, a popular concept based on reason and observation rather than Scripture.
In his 1802 book "Natural Theology," British theologian and philosopher William Paley made his famous "watchmaker" argument. Paley said that if one stumbled across a watch, one rationally would conclude it was designed. So, too, he said, one can look at aspects of nature and infer that they had a designer and that the designer is God.
But after Darwin's 1859 publication of "On the Origin of Species," Dembski said, "The sense that you needed a watchmaker disappeared. The watch could put itself together."
More than a century later, Richard Dawkins, Oxford University's Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, played on Paley's analogy to champion evolution in his 1986 book, "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design."
After Darwin's publication, the term "creationism" arose in opposition to the popularity of so-called Darwinism. It asserted the biblical account of creation. But creationism suffered damaging ridicule after Tennessee's Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.
Eventually, it morphed into "scientific creationism." Henry Morris, founder of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego, advanced the concept. It makes scientific claims for the six-day creation account in Genesis, an Earth age of less than 10,000 years, the simultaneous creation of all things, Noah's global flood and the non-evolutionary creation of humans.
Scientific creationism points to gaps in the fossil record, geological evidence of the effects of global flood and examples in nature that give the appearance of design, such as the human eye, as refutation of evolution. It has many supporters: In a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 53 percent of adults surveyed said "God created humans in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it." And polls consistently show a majority of Americans favor teaching both evolution and creationism.
But after the Supreme Court ruling in 1987, creationism couldn't be taught in public schools.
And it was around that time that the current ID movement began to emerge. It uses a term attributed to British philosopher Ferdinand C.S. Schiller. In his 1903 book "Humanism," he wrote, "It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design."
Whether ID is a scientific theory or a religious belief is at the heart of the 1st Amendment case Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District in central Pennsylvania, the apparent inspiration for "The West Wing" script earlier this month.
Parents of Dover students sued the district and school board over a requirement that 9th-grade biology students be informed of ID as a scientific alternative to evolution. The parents, who claim that ID is creationism in disguise, contend that such a requirement is religiously motivated, thus violating the constitutional separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's ban on creationism in public schools.
Attorneys for the school district argue ID is not a religious belief but a valid scientific theory and that the school district intended only to expose students to views critical of and differing from evolution. The case, in its sixth week, may influence how biology is taught in public schools around the country.
It mentions all the usual suspects, including William Dembski, who is a remarkable phenomenon in his own right. A charming and resourceful debater, he has a degree on mathematics and one in philosophy, yet seems to us oddly incapable of understanding the emptiness of his own speculations on this topic, for which he has become a leading spokesman.
The empty vessel at the center of this and every other story about Intelligent Design is the absence of any theory of ID ie any ramifications of ID beyond the simple claim that any mystery about evolution which concrete evidence or plausible theory hasn't yet explained must be attributed to the hand of God, or whatever intelligence is imagined as lending a hand to the design of bacteria with propeller propulsion and other currently inexplicable jumps in complexity.
But what does this amount to, if it is accepted? A simple statement of a single claim, with no further ramifications other than the list of puzzles it claims to "solve".
As we have noted in a previous post, it is hard to see why it would be a problem to teach this claim to the innocent pupils of the public school system, since it would take all of five minutes or less, depending on whether one included the story of how it came about that such non-explanatory explanation ever achieved the status of something worth teaching. This would be of great practical benefit to the kids in letting them know how foolish and empty headed even those with a mathematics degree and a philosophy degree can be.
But there is another obvious lesson in this we believe which might be worth teaching. And that is how religious thinking of any kind survives and prospers only because it is exempt from the usual demand made upon the stock of knowledge about the external world that man passes along from one generation to the next, and that is the demand that its credibility be established by objective measurement and some kind of evidence other than the credulity of its proponents.
In this case we are being asked to believe without any evidence of any positive, substantial kind at all that there is a supernatural intelligence at work helping evolution along. The only evidence for this suggestion is negative ie that there are missing links in evolutionary history and at the moment no one has a better explanation for them.
This is nothing more than the primitive impulse of the brain to prefer an explanation of any kind rather than not to have any explanation at all, a human characteristic now fairly well established by neuroscientists such as Michael S. Gazzaniga of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as he notes in his recent book, The Ethical Brain (Dana Press, 2005),
Certainly Dembski, the chief philosophical apologist for ID, is plausible and intellectually entertaining for a short while when he appears on stage to embroider the simple claim with all kinds of convoluted logical justifications without any real content we can discern, as he demonstrated very well at Columbia a few months ago. Perhaps because of the fear that academics have of discussing things in plain and simple terms, he often gets the better of his opponents in this kind of Jesuitical discussion, possibly because they are embarrassed to use overly reductionist arguments.
But the plain and simple fact is that if the ID claims he advances are accepted for the sake of argument there is really nothing left for him to say. For there is no theory of Intelligent Design. It is simply a claim without any substance to discuss.
This is what is so foolish about the inability of his opponents to dispense with his claim with a few well chosen references to the absolute necessity of logic and evidence, and the lack of it in this case. What is absurd is the fact that the claim is religious and faith based, by definition. in that it lacks any positive, substantial evidence whatsoever, and this at once disqualifies it from any scientific discussion, and they should be able to point this out and bring the debate to an instant close.
After all, if a group arose of the opinion that there were little green men living hidden in the craters of the moon but to date unseen in NASA's explorations, would scientific critics be confounded by their inability to prove the negative?
But instead, of course, they face the paralyzing dilemma that confounds all who attempt to reason with the religious, and that is that their opponents do not share the vital premise that logic and evidence are the foundation of all credible claims about the external world, and subjective faith is emotionally significant but irrelevant to all truth seeking about the outside world of nature.
The fudging of this distinction between objective external natural reality and subjective internal human reality is the fundamental confusion that allows the ID proponents to gain a foothold in discussions that would otherwise ignore them, it seems to us. This is the mistake which allows the religious impulse to confound the clarity of scientific sense.
This error is the flawed basis of the supposed growing overlap between religion and science that is being pushed by so many groups in America today, from the ID gang to the religious right to the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia, and many other institutions which constantly hold seminars and conferences on this trendy idea, seeking to expand common ground between science and religion.
Seems to us with cosmologist Stephen Weinberg that on the contrary there is no common ground whatsoever between science and religion and there never will be, because science in inherently objective and religion is inherently subjective, and never the twain shall meet. Religious oil does not mix with the pure water of science.
In fact, there is substantial danger in allowing the religious impulse anywhere near science. The egregious consequences of doing so are seen every day in the realm of HIV?AIDS and its supposed science, where the faithful beliefs of the vast majority in the ideology taught by the authorities are entirely contradicted by the best scientific reviews which reject them totally on the basis of reason and evidence.
But of course in life as in science reason and evidence are not responsible for many of the beliefs held by the world, and certainly not the religious beliefs which hold the most powerful sway over the emotions of most people.
Reason, evidence and measurement are the life blood of the sciences, yet as frightening and alien as Satan himself to the religious.
This is why, perhaps paradoxically, we would welcome the teaching of Intelligent Design in the schools. Nothing is more likely to teach the pupils more quickly the difference between vacuity and content, sense and absense, evidence and unprovable belief than setting the two views side by side.
And the fact that the intellectually sophisticated can overlook the difference, if sufficiently driven emotionally to do so, would be a priceless lesson for all pupils.
After all, what have we right now as a result of never putting the fighting cocks of science and religion into a pit in every school?
This degree of common fantasy:
In a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 53 percent of adults surveyed said "God created humans in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it."
On the other hand…..
And polls consistently show a majority of Americans favor teaching both evolution and creationism.
Well, there we are. Maybe that majority is right, though for reasons it doesn't suspect.
Let's take them at their word, and teach creationism in schools. Then, when it pops like a beautiful soap bubble after a minute or less as the teacher runs out of things to say about it, we shall see the pupils learn a lesson about the contrast between vacuous fantasy versus rich experiential fact which they might never otherwise be taught so fast and well.


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With the UFC's biggest Pay-Per-View draw, Georges St. Pierre announcing he would be vacating the title and stepping away from the sport, it made me wonder; just how valuable to the UFC was he?
Below I have gathered information about just how much money GSP made the UFC. Note that for the sake of simplicity, every buy from a GSP headlined or co-headlined PPV is included. Details in the methodology.
The best estimates have the UFC receiving around 60% of the gross income from Pay-Per-View buys, which works out at roughly $30 per event, on average. I have only included fights with GSP as the main event or featured co-main event (e.g UFC 58, UFC 100). Co-Main events are marked with a *.
Note that all buyrates are best estimates provided by industry analysts, and are not confirmed by the UFC.
The methodology is only intended to demonstrate the income (not profit) generated by events GSP headlined or co-headlined. It is unable to account for how much of a buyrate the other fights on the card accounted for (as doing so is impossible). It is also unable to account for how much GSP made the UFC in other ways such as merchandising, DVD sales, promotional appearances, etc. Take the figure provided as a rough number, not an exact accounting.
UFC 50 Gate: n/a Buyrate: 40,000 PPV Income: $1,200,000
UFC 58 Gate: $1,758,450 Buyrate: 300,000 PPV Income: $9,000,000*
UFC 65: Gate: $2,138,020 Buyrate: 500,000 PPV Income: $15,000,000
UFC 69: Gate: $3,817,200 Buyrate: 400,000 PPV Income: $12,000,000
UFC 74: Gate: $3,307,000 Buyrate: 520,000 PPV Income: $15,600,000*
UFC 79: Gate: $4,994,000 Buyrate: 750,000 PPV Income: $22,500,000
UFC 83: Gate: $5,100,000 Buyrate: 530,000 PPV Income: $15,900,000
UFC 87: Gate: $2,252,000 Buyrate: 625,000 PPV Income: $18,750,000
UFC 94: Gate: $4,290,020 Buyrate: 920,000 PPV Income: $27,600,000
UFC 100: Gate: $5,128,490 Buyrate: 1,600,000 PPV Income: $48,000,000*
UFC 111: Gate: $4,000,000 Buyrate: 770,000 PPV Income: $23,100,000
UFC 124: Gate: $4,600,000 Buyrate: 800,000 PPV Income: $24,000,000
UFC 129: Gate: $12,075,000 Buyrate 800,000 PPV Income: $24,000,000
UFC 154: Gate: $3,143,000 Buyrate 700,000 PPV Income: $21,000,000
UFC 158: Gate: $3,710,000 Buyrate 950,000 PPV income: $28,500,000
UFC 167: Gate: $5,759,250 Buyrate N/A**
**UFC 167 buyrate estimates were not available at the time of writing, sadly. They likely add another $20,000,000 or so to the total.
Total Gate Income: $66,072,430
Total PPV Income: $306,150,000 + around $20m estimated from UFC 167.
Total income: $372,222,430 + around $20m estimated from UFC 167.
The figures above don't take ancillary income such as merchandising and DVD sales etc into account as there are no reliable estimates publicly available.
All told, GSP made the UFC almost $400 million during his time there, making him their biggest moneymaker of all time. In recent times he has been their most successful PPV star, averaging around 800,000 buys per fight since 2011. His closest contemporary, Anderson Silva, averaged around 600,000 buys per fight, or $6,000,000 less per event.
His departure will undoubtedly hurt the UFC's bottom line in the short term, but if he returns in a year or two, it's likely he will draw as much or more for his return bouts as he has been recently.


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Didn't know where to put this, but if its in the wrong place, feel free to move it.
Ok, my problem started earlier today, when i loaded up my game online and it started freezing and Google chrome started having minor crashes.
I then opened task manager to find out what was wrong, and saw Java and also the DVD i was watching at the time through windows media player had jumped to over 200 in the memory box.
I am currently running Malwarebytes and superadblocker checking for Malware and Viruses, So far nothing has come up.
I will post a couple of screen-shots to help you in finding my problem.
Got the DVD running now and its skipping, disc is in fully working order, never happened before. Also tried running the game and posted some screen-shots.
EDIT: Added Malwarebytes log for those of you who know how to read it. Also added a screenie of svchost.exe, that seems oddly high if I'm not mistaken, and im also worried about the amount of them.
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Yes, several times in fact.
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...Just stop. Memory is not your problem. Oooo its 200 MB of usage big deal.
What you completely missed, Super Ad Blocker Application. In all of your screen shots, its using CPU and taking up the most of your RAM. Dun dun dun. I wonder what happens with it constantly taking slices of CPU when you run other CPU bound task, hmmm.
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Sorry to burst your bubble Logicearth, its not super ad blocker, i had that running at the time to check for viruses and Malware. I can post another screenshot if you like.
As you can see, no super ad blocker. And i know for a fact java doesnt take up 4gb of RAM and lag like hell with one window open.
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Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
Running an online game most likely is eating CPU cycles with Java, it's not real light weight. It may well use all the RAM you can throw at it.
The svchost.exe you see are normal and host (run) many system services and programs. If I counted right you had 12, here's mine with 14.
To see what they do, type resmon in the Start search box and tap enter. Go to overview tab, scroll to the various svchost.exe entries and check the box in front. Below expand the Dick, Memory, and Network pane to see what is running.
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WH Spokesman Can't Produce Any Evidence that Obama has Ever Been Skeet Shooting
Somebody's going to need to break out the Photoshop. Over the weekend, President Obama claimed to be a fan and participant of skeet shooting. Though there are literally thousands of photographs of the president all over the Internet, doing everything from snacking on a snow cone to wading in the surf to meeting with foreign leaders, there are no photos or video available of him ever shooting skeet.
Today, the White House spokesman was asked about this. He didn't have an answer.
The obvious explanation is that "I go skeet shooting" is yet another Obama invention intended to make him Just Like Us. A lie, in other words. So it's heartening to see the White House press corps ask about it in a chuckling manner, and being satisfied with getting a non-answer from Carney.


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News from the camp of the 2011 winner of Big Brother Africa TV reality show, Karen Igho, shows that she may be quitting alcohol soon.
In the early hours of Tuesday, Igho Tweeted this: "Dr said no more drinking for me because of my ulcer."
She followed the tweet with, "I love my life so health comes first."
As expected, her fans immediately took it upon themselves to encourage her. "Doc's right mama B! We need you alive o," one of them Tweeted.
Another noted, "Health is wealth. So if doctor says Don't, please comply. We love u."
Another said, "Health, they say, is wealth, Queen K".
While Igho's fans may have given their comments casually, the fact remains that theirs are some of the best advice she could ever get.
It is common knowledge that many celebrities take more alcohol than food, the same reason why so many blossoming careers have hit the rocks.
There have also been unconfirmed reports that some of the ghastly accidents that the entertainment industry has witnessed over time were traced to the use of alcohol.
A few years ago, an ex-beauty queen and Nollywood actress made headline when she was sentenced to five years imprisonment for manslaughter, following the death of a man she hit with her car. She was said to have been drunk at the time of the accident.
Besides, heavy alcohol use has been linked to several ailments. Reports also indicate that the late rapper, Olaitan Olaonipekun, popularly called Dagrin, might have been drunk the night he had a tragic accident in Mushin, Lagos. There are several other artistes and celebrities who are also victims of terminal diseases, by virtue of their heavy alcohol consumption.
While the 'drinking' trend is not limited to artistes and celebrities alone, recent studies show that moderate use of alcohol may have a beneficial effect on the coronary system. For healthy people, one drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men can be seen as the maximum amount of alcohol consumption to be considered moderate.
The amount of alcohol that a person can drink safely depends on genetics, age, sex, weight and family history. Reports further show that with moderate drinking, the liver can process alcohol fairly safely. But heavy drinking overtaxes the liver, resulting in serious consequences.
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text: Hi Gabor, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:41:38AM -0800, Edward Buck wrote: > >>If it's a frequently used feature, it wasn't available until sarge. >>Woody did not behave this way (I checked). > > Huh? > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 3.0 > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search hpcc.sztaki.hu lpds.sztaki.hu sztaki.hu > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > $ ping rs2.lvs > PING rs2.lvs.sztaki.hu (18.104.22.168): 56 data bytes > ... > > It is definitely available in Woody. I'm using it regularly. Your test does not say much regarding this bug because it's not a question of whether the search domains are checked eventually. It's a question of the order in which queries are done. When you ping 'rs2.lvs', the order of queries (according to the documentation) is that rs2.lvs is checked as rs2.lvs. (note the ending dot) FIRST because it does not contain "fewer than ndots dots (default is 1)". If it cannot be found in DNS, then the search domains are checked. Your test merely confirms that at some point, the search domains are checked. The bug I'm reporting here is that rs2.lvs is NOT checked as rs2.lvs(.) first but rather as rs2.lvs.search.domains first. The order is important and is the cause of the extraneous lookups. In any case, I can't speak to 'ping' functionality as I never tested that. I tested only telnet and postfix. And the bug only matters in the context of postfix. If you do a 'strace telnet mx1.hotmail.com 25' on a woody machine, you'll see that it works according to the documentation. Sarge does not. I can forward you more strace output if it will help. Maybe all my woody machines are weird. I don't know. But as I said, this functionality is new with sarge. >>Also, this "new" feature >>completely breaks software that doesn't expect this feature, since >>postfix, telnet and others are doing WAY more DNS queries than they >>should. Depending on how many search domains are listed and how many >>caching nameservers are listed, in my case (2 search domains and 2 >>nameservers) I count at least 4 unnecessary queries. That's very bad. > > Well, why do you have any search domains then? It is for human > convenience only, and a mail server usually does not have regular user > accounts so no need for such convenience features. You're right. It is for user convenience sake and I've temporarily removed the search lines on these machines. But the convenience will still be missed by those who administer these machines. Even a busy mail server with few shell accounts need regular logins from sysadmins for maintenance work. The problem here is that regardless of whether the feature is needed or not, it used to work as documented. Now it does not. And those who have come to depend on that documentation and previous behavior have to deal with process changes (and code changes!) that they did not expect, not to mention significant changes to system load on affected machines. If this functionality is intentional (as you seem to imply), then please update the documentation to reflect that. The 'search' section of the man page for resolv.conf is very explicit on this subject. If I'm reading it incorrectly, please let me know how I am. Regards, Ed


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Chef Bobby's mini wellington recipe
This recipe comes courtesy of Chef Bobby Nahra, president of Lakeland Banquet and Event Centre in St. Clair Shores. For more information, visit www.lakelandbanquets.com.
Mini Beef Wellingtons
12 ounces frozen puff pastry, preferably all butter, thawed
1/2 cup Boursin cheese about a half of a puck
1 pound trimmed beef tenderloin, cut into 1/2 -inch cubes
8 ounces of wild mushroom blend
¼ stick of butter
Salt and pepper
1 large egg, lightly beaten
Parchment Paper sheets
Cookie sheets
1. Preheat the oven to 400°. On a lightly floured sheet of parchment paper, roll out the puff pastry to a 7 1/2-by-15-inch rectangle, about 1/8 inch thick. Cut the pastry into 1 1/2-inch squares. Add butter to hot skillet and sauté mushrooms, season with salt and fresh cracked pepper. Sauté until they nicely wilted. Drain and strain juice from the sautéed mushrooms and place in the refrigerator to cool down.
2. Spoon a 1/4 teaspoon of the Boursin and place a couple of mushroom pieces in the center of each pastry square. Season the beef with salt and pepper and set a cube on each pastry square. You can also sauté the beef tenderloin for a couple of minutes for a more well done temperature. Fold the pastry over the beef, neatly tucking in the corners. Arrange the pastries seam side down on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper. The recipe can be prepared to this point and frozen for up to 1 week.
3. Lightly brush each pastry with the beaten egg. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown. Let cool slightly, then transfer to a platter and serve.
4. You can take the above recipe and stage inside mini muffin pans too.
Chef Bobbys ham
1 bag dark brown sugar
1 1 teaspoon clove
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 tablespoon of Jamaican jerk seasoning
1 Cup of orange juice
1 can of Coca-Cola
1 cup Michigan Honey
1/2 stick unsalted butter.
Add all ingredients into sauté pan and simmer incorporate meltdown set aside.
Bake spiral ham for 35 minutes covered at 350°
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Marvel fans rejoice - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4 is almost upon us ! The series will launch on September 20th, moving to a later timeslot of 10.00pm, and the first episode, "Ghost", will introduce us to a whole new Marvel superhero! In the run-up to the premier, ABC have given us not one, but two new looks at #GhostRider, ahead of his #MCU debut. Check out the new trailer:
This has been supported by an exclusive look at the character's car and costume - and it's our first glimpse of that skull on fire. As fans of Robbie Reyes's character will know, it's a remarkably faithful recreation of the character's look in the comics!
The trailer is short and succinct, and that's only a single image - but together, they give us a good idea of what to expect. So what can we anticipate from Ghost Rider in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4?
1. Ghost Rider Is Still at the Center of Marvel's Marketing
We first heard rumors of Ghost Rider in the run-up to SDCC 2016, and his appearance in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was one of Marvel's biggest announcements. Even this late in the game, though, Marvel's marketing for Season 4 is purely focused in on Ghost Rider.
That's pretty surprising. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has a lot of plots to pick up even without this new supernatural character: you've got the ongoing story of the Inhumans, the mysterious new status quo for S.H.I.E.L.D., a mysterious experiment involving android Life Model Decoys, and Chloe Bennett's Quake on the run for as-yet-unknown reasons. As important as all of these plots will be, Marvel is clearly convinced that the main hook for Season 4 is simple: Ghost Rider.
They're probably right. Although Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has gradually been embracing the superhero world, this is a radical change in the show's approach to the super-powered characters of the MCU. We're about to see Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. unveil a new version of an already well-established superhero, and that's pretty exciting.
2. Although This is Robbie Reyes's Ghost Rider, He's Been Changed a Bit...
In the comics, a number of characters have taken up the identity of Ghost Rider - most famously, a stunt rider called Johnny Blaze. The Ghost Rider of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., though, is a lesser-known character named Robbie Reyes. Whereas most Ghost Riders acquired their powers by making a deal with the Devil, Robbie got his by being killed next to a car that was haunted by the spirit of a murderer named Eli Morrow. Because he doesn't share the same origin as the other Ghost Riders, his powers have been subtly different.
In terms of look and feel, Gabriel Luna couldn't possibly portray Robbie Reyes's Ghost Rider any more accurately. He has the right look, he's wearing a faithful reproduction of the character's costume, and he's even driving the same car. This trailer, though, explicitly reveals that something's been changed.
The opening sentence is a hint that Robbie Reyes's Ghost Rider has a power known as the Penance Stare. Whenever the guilty lock eyes with the Ghost Rider, their soul will be seared with all the pain and suffering they've made others endure. Here's the catch: in the comics, that power's never been possessed by Robbie Reyes. Marvel has been quite open about redesigning the character for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and it looks as though they've gone with the classic powerset. This is unlikely to annoy too many fans (Robbie's too recent a character), but adds an interesting twist to the question of how much studios and TV series should adapt comic book characters.
3. Ghost Rider Has Been Active for Some Time!
The first two words of this teaser are really important.
"They say..."
Clearly, the Ghost Rider of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been active for some time - long enough for word of his actions to get around. It seems likely that Chloe Bennett's Quake will come looking for him, and it's pretty certain the two will clash at first.
Ghost Rider will technically be the second time Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has embraced magic; sorcery got a nod in Season 1. This time, though, his mystic origin will take over the drive of the show, just in time for Doctor Strange - which, of course, will formally add magic to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The exciting thing about all this, though, is that we have no idea how long Ghost Rider has been active. His magic may have been at work for weeks, months, or even years. Magic is certainly being carefully embedded into the wider MCU.
See also:
- Hellfire and Brimstone - Everything You Need to Know About Ghost Rider!
- Who is Robbie Reyes's Ghost Rider?
- Our First Look at Ghost Rider on 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Exceptionally Faithful to the Comics!
All in all, this latest video just gives us more reason to be excited for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4! There are a huge number of plots that need to be developed as part of Season 4, but Ghost Rider stands head and shoulders above the rest. This should be one Hell of a ride!
Are you excited to meet the new Ghost Rider? Let me know in the comments!


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A proud sponsor of the Dragonslayer Walk for three years running, Peter O'Neil and his wife Peggy came to Portland from Boulder, Colorado ten years ago, and now live in the Irvington neighborhood. He's a Realtor with Realty Trust Group where he has grown a successful real estate business working with both buyers and sellers all over the Portland Metro Area. He's built a reputation for being a knowledgeable and thorough guide through the buying and selling process and for always putting his clients' needs first.
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It was actually real estate that led O'Neil to the Sarcoma Foundation and its Dragonslayer Walk. One of his favorite buyers is an OHSU doctor with a special focus on Sarcoma. His strong respect for her and the work she does made it more than easy to say yes when she suggested he become a Dragonslayer sponsor. "I've sponsored Dragonslayer for three years now, and I have been blown away by the courage, the strength and the determination of all the people involved. The patients, families, medical personnel, staff and volunteers are all extraordinary people committed to this cause," O'Neil says. He is particularly moved by the support NWSF provides the patients and their families. "You go out to the Dragonslayer Walk and you see all these happy, giving people and you hurt for their losses and you celebrate their victories. And you just wish you could do more."
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And I hope you are all checking out the Small Blog Meet!! It is for all of us out here in blog land with fewer than 50 followers. If you haven't been there yet, you should. It's what this blogging community thing is all about!
Hi Erin. Had wondered where you were. Are you feeling ok?
Pinterest is my downfall so I dare not go there too often! I can't believe it 's only 3 weeks til christams and I haven't made any of the stuff I was going to either. 3 quilts in 3 weeks will be a breeze ;) Nothing better than a deadline to get your bottom into gear!
I promise you I can feel the deadline! Hopefully I can get things finished enough to be able to give, even if they're not perfectly perfectly finished.
I'm fine, don't worry about me. :-) Will be back into it and have some makes this week, I hope.
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Hi Erin. The holidays have really cut into my sewing time also! But, I've done a lot of "thinking" about what to sew once I have the chance.....maybe today. I found you through the small blog meet...such a wonderful way to "see" others!ReplyDelete
Hi Nina! Welcome :-) I love the Small Blog Meet. It's the best idea ever!
As far as this thinking time business - it's defiantely a neccessary part of the quilting process :-)
Pinterest - the death of finishing projects! lol I've been strong and not joined yet. Do plenty of looking around though...ReplyDelete
I did really well at not joining for ages and then I wanted to see ONE thing... Now I'm addicted. So many gorgeous quilts/blocks/inspirations...Delete
!!! and I thought my 'to do' list for Christmas was bad !!! Good luck and enjoy your day :)ReplyDelete
lol. We're probably all as bad as each other. I'm just reading the wrong blogs - the ones with all the fancy finishes!
It's not over til Christmas Eve, right!
Ahhhhh!!! Erin!!! I fell the same as you - so much to do... I think if you find your quilting mojo you can totally bang out those quilts. Thanks for posting about the small blog meet - off to check it out.ReplyDelete
It's all about the mojo isn't it! Right I will make it my mission for tonight and the weekend to mojo it up and get sewing!Delete
Good luck in getting your quilts made in the next 3 weeks!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Karen. Fingers crossed my mojo comes back soon! :-)
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