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Forget starting a fire or setting up a tent, that's what matches and motels were made for, amirite? Now video games, that's what the Boy Scouts are all about. Except you can't actually earn a merit badge in video games, only a belt loop and pin. FLAIR I NEED MORE FLAIR.
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Philips has also unveiled several new docks for iOS devices. The first is the TwinPlay, which allows users to split streamed video content to two people when traveling long distances. It connects to an in-car charging port and comes with two screens, either in 7 or 9 inches. The Twin Play is available now for $169.99 for the 7-inch model and $199.99 for the 9-inch model and work with 30-pin iDevices, although the iPad can't fit in the cup cradle. Party Machine Dock In partnership with Algoriddim, the creators of hit app djay, Philips is releasing the Party Machine dock. You can hook up two iPod Touches or iPhones to turnstyle-docks and, using the djay app, you can mix the music as a DJ with traditional DJ-ing equipment would. The dock also has channel faders that allow you to fade in between the two iPods, all while built-in lights sync to the music you're playing. It's set to retail this month for $349.99 and is compatible with iPods and iPhones with 30-pin connectors. Lightning versions will be available in the future at some point.Article Link: Philips Announces New Line of App-Enabled Docks and Accessories |
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Thanks Philips for taking my idea of a baby monitor built w/ a smartphone as main monitoring device. I was working on it but meh.. time to move on to another idea. Honestly, surprised that it has taken this long for a company to get w/ it and make a smartphone based monitor that's not just a "webcam". If you're a parent you understand that a webcam can work but isn't optimal.
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I'm not sure whats worse. The lack of Lightning support or that ugly 'Party Machine Dock'.
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Out of Range?
And what happens when the In Range goes out of range? I would think this item would only be useful if it explodes like 007's car once someone runs away with your wallet.
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Wait up... So the accessories are designed for the iPhone 5, yet they use the 30pin connector
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The first two products have been available in Apple stores for ages (perhaps slightly different versions though).
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Is the party machine dock from Cybetron?
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That some scary looking .... stuff
it gonna girls screaming , the wrong way
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The baby monitor sounds like it is nice and simple device of people who don't want to do a lot of configuring.
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Useful but pricey accessories.
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Dj machine will bomb !!! guess it will be total right off for phillips !
---------- the monitor is about the only thing that looks useful. Bought a baby monitor years ago cost 200$ this would have been a better useful solution as the monitor i bought is useless now and gets bad recepition ! and really always did !
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I use my old iPhone4 as a CCD camera for this reason, but I still think I will be getting one of the Phillips cameras, if the price is low enough. (yes I am hoping for a price drop)
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Author | Mohamed, Sherif Ali Mohtady; Ali, Tauha Hussain |
Publication Title | Rethinking and Revitalizing Construction Safety, Health, Environment and Quality |
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"This is our f-ing city! And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong! Thank you," Ortiz said on the PA system as thousands of fans cheered him on.
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Evaluation of Office-Based Sheathed Flexible Nasopharyngoscopy
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The processing of standard flexible nasopharyngoscopes is a time-consuming and costly process. The goal of this study is to determine the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of sheathed flexible endoscope in an office setting.
Condition | Intervention |
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases |
Device: Endosheath |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) |
Official Title: | Evaluation of Office-Based Sheathed Flexible Nasopharyngoscopy: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
Further study details as provided by University of Alberta:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Patient pain and discomfort [ Time Frame: 1 hour ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Patient Pain and Discomfort i. Patient's reported level of pain based on International Association for the Study of Pain definitions of pain on a 100-mm Visual Analogue Scale ii. Patient's reported level of discomfort on a 100-mm Visual Analogue Scale
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Physician and staff satisfaction [ Time Frame: 1 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Physician and support staff satisfaction with easy and efficiency of sheathed scopes.
- Optical quality [ Time Frame: 1 hour ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Image quality of flexible endoscopy with or without endosheath.
Estimated Enrollment: | 76 |
Study Start Date: | September 2012 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | September 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
No Intervention: Traditional flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopy
No sheath procedure
Active Comparator: Sheath flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopy
Flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopy using endosheath
Device: Endosheath
Flexible sheathed nasopharyngolaryngoscopy
Detailed Description:
Methods: Randomized, single-blinded, controlled trial
Setting: Office practice of two academic otolaryngologists at a community hospital.
Primary Outcomes: Patient pain and discomfort, Optical quality
Secondary Outcomes: Physician and nursing staff satisfaction
Comparison: No-sheath flexible nasopharyngoscopy versus sheathed flexible nasopharyngoscopy
Ages Eligible for Study: | 17 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients presenting to the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery service with complaints warranting flexible endoscopy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known sinonasal masses or nasal polyposis
- Unable to complete VAS surveys
- Significant septal deviation
- Unable to tolerate in-office flexible nasopharyngoscopy
- Patients who refuse consent
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01669278
Contact: Dr. Allan Ho, MD | (780)435-7113 |
Canada, Alberta | |
University of Alberta | Not yet recruiting |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6H 2H7 | |
Contact: Dr. Allan Ho, MD (780) 435-7113 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Alberta
Principal Investigator: | Dr. Allan Ho | University of Alberta |
More Information
No publications provided
Keywords provided by University of Alberta:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 10, 2014
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | University of Alberta |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01669278 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | UA-Endo001 |
Study First Received: | August 7, 2012 |
Last Updated: | August 17, 2012 |
Health Authority: | Canada: Health Canada |
Keywords provided by University of Alberta:
sheath flexible endoscopy otolaryngology office |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 10, 2014


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My interests include fieldwork, typology, morphology, communicative/information structure, cognitive linguistics, and Native American languages, particularly Salishan and the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. I am currently working on a project funded by the SSHRC to document Upper Necaxa Totonac, a previously undescribed language spoken in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State in Mexico. At present it has only around 3,400 speakers and is being learned with less and less frequency by children. Our aim is to produce a dictionary, grammatical sketch, and text collection in an effort to document and, hopefully, revitalize this seriously threatened language.
Publications on Totonac
(to appear). with Cecil H. Brown and Søren Wichmann. Chitimacha: A Mesoamericalanguage in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics. (accepted Sept. 2013)
(2013). Argument quantification and qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Zhenya Antić, Charles B. Chang, Clare S. Sandy, and Maziar Toosarvandani (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session of Languages of Mexico and Central America, 17–27. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.
(2012). edited with Paulette Levy. Las lenguas totonacas y tepehuas: Textos y otros materiales para su estudio. Mexico City: UNAM Press.
(2012). Totonaco de Río Necaxa. In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), Las lenguas totonacas y tepehuas: Materias para su estudio, 185–257. Mexico City: UNAM Press.
(2012). Apéndice: Tablas de morfología comparativa. In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), Las lenguas totonacas y tepehuas: Materias para su estudio, 587–596. Mexico City: UNAM Press. (English translation)
(2011). with Cecil H. Brown, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann. Totozoquean. International Journal of American Linguistics 77, 323–372. (Slideshow)
(2011). Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(2011). with Igor A. Mel'čuk. Morphological phrasemes and Totonacan verbal morphology. Linguistics 49, 175–228.
(2011). Lexical, quasi-inflectional, and inflectional compounding in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Alexandra Aikhenvald & Pieter Muysken (eds.), Multi-verb Constructions: A view from the Americas, 63–106. Leiden: Brill.
(2009). with Yvonne Lam. Language loss and linguistic suicide: A case study from the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico. In Sarah Cummins, Brigit Janoski, and Patricia A. Shaw (eds.), All the Things You Are: A Festschrift for Jack Chambers, 5–16. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
(2008). Ideophones, adverbs, and predicate qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac. International Journal of American Linguistics 74, 1–46. (Slideshow)
(2008). Variable ordering of affixes in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Seok Koon Chin and Hude Fusheini (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, 29–38. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
(2007). Sorting out grammatical relations in multi-object constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Ms, University of Alberta.
(2006). Control of agreement in multi-object constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Atsushi Fujimori & Maria Amelia Reis Silva (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
(2006). The emergence of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Robert Kirchner (ed.), University of Alberta Working Papers in Linguistics 1.
(2004). A Grammatical Sketch of Upper Necaxa Totonac. LINCOM: Europa.
(2003). Person-hierarchies and the origin of asymmetries in Totonac verbal paradigms. Linguistica Atlantica 23, 1–33.
(2000). The syntax, semantics, and typology of adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Linguistic Typology 4, 213–250.
(2001). Primer vocabulario práctico del idioma totonaco del Río Necaxa. (First practical Upper Necaxa Totonac vocabulary.) Edmonton: University of Alberta. (185pp)
I am also working on two volumes of interlinearized texts and a grammar of the Salishan language Lushootseed, which I began under the guidance of the late Thom Hess, based on materials he collected. The language, which is severely endangered, is one of the better documented languages in the family and has two good dictionaries as well as several excellent collections of unparsed texts, but relatively little grammatical work has been done beyond a pair of pedagogical grammars.
Publications on Salishan languages
(2013). Uni-directional flexibility and the noun–verb distinction in Lushootseed. In Jan Rijkhoff and Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: A typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech, 185–220. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2010). with Thom Hess. Two syəyəhub from Harry Moses. In David Beck (ed.), A Festschrift for Thomas M. Hess on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, 1–56. Bellingham, WA: Whatcom Museum Publications.
(2010). Communicative Structure in Lushootseed syntax: Thematicity and Focalization. In José Camacho, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, and Liliana Sánchez (eds.), Information structure in languages of the Americas, 41–65. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(2009). A taxonomy and typology of Lushootseed valency-increasing suffixes. International Journal of American Linguistics 75, 533–569.
(2009). Thematicity in Lushootseed syntax. In David Beck, Kim Gerdes, Jasmina Milićević, and Alain Polguère (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory, 55–64. Montreal: OLST.
(2007). with David Bennett. Extending the Prosodic Hierarchy: Evidence from Lushootseed narrative. Northwest Journal of Linguistics 1, 1–34.
(2000). Nominalization as complementation in Bella Coola and Lushootseed. In Kaoru Horie (ed.), Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives, 121–147. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
(2000). Unitariness of Participant and Event in the Bella Coola (Nuxalk) Middle Voice. International Journal of American Linguistics 66, 218–56.
(2000). Semantic agents, syntactic subjects, and discourse topics: How to locate Lushootseed sentences in space and time. Studies in Language 24:2, 277–317.
(1999). Words and prosodic phrasing in Lushootseed narrative. In T. Alan Hall & Ursula Kleinhenz (eds.), Studies on the Phonological Word, 23–46. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
(1997). Rheme, Theme, and communicative structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola. In Leo Wanner (ed.), Recent in Trends Meaning-Text Theory, 93–135. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
(1996). Transitivity and causation in Lushootseed morphology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 41, 109–140.
My doctoral dissertation, The typology of parts-of-speech systems: The markedness of adjectives [New York: Routledge. 2002], lays the foundations of a theory of lexical classes, which at once accounts for the cross-linguistic markedness of adjectives and shows how parts of speech are a product of the interface between semantic and syntactic structures.
Publications on lexical classes
(to appear). Uni-directional flexibility and the noun–verb distinction in Lushootseed. In Jan Rijkhoff and Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: A typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2006). Review of Aikhenvald & Dixon, Adjective classes: A cross-linguistic typology. Functions of Language 13(1), 111–118.
(2005). Lexicalization of morphologically complex expressions. Presented at the 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. (July 17–23)
(2004). Prototypical conceptual types and typological variation in parts-of-speech systems. Presented to the Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Languages, University of Alberta.
(2003). Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech. In G. Casad & G. Palmer (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages: Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, 135–56. Berlin: Mouton.
(2000). Typological variation of the adjectival class: Markedness and iconicity at the semantics/syntax interface. Ms., University of Alberta.
My other interests include language contact, grammatical diffusion, and areal typology. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of grammatical diffusion found in a Sprachbund or residual zone, an area where large numbers of languages—frequently genetically unrelated or only distantly related to one another—have co-existed for centuries without wholesale language shift or replacement of local languages by a socio-economically more powerful neighbour.
Publications on grammatical diffusion
(2009). Blurring boundaries: Phrase-level inflection and word-level syntax in the Pacific Northwest. Paper presented at a joint session of the LSA and SSILA. January 10, San Francisco.
(2002). Tsimshianic from a Central Northwest areal perspective: I. In S. Gessner & S. Oh (eds.), ICSNL XXXV: The 37th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 35–60. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
(2000). Bella Coola and North Wakashan: Convergence and diversity in the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. D. G. Gilbers, J. Nerbonne, & J. Schaeken (eds.), Languages in Contact. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Vol. 28, 37–53. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(2000). Grammatical convergence and the genesis of diversity in the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. Anthropological Linguistics 42(2), 1–67.
(1997). Mosan III: A problem of remote common proximity. In Papers for the 32nd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 22–46. Port Angeles, Washington.
In addition, I've put together a few pointers for students on formatting manuscripts and getting ready for conferences. These include tips on how to format interlinearized data and do things like in-text citations. Enjoy!


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The mansion at 1730 E. Superior St. in Duluth used by the Human Development Center will be sold next month and become the first non-hospital birthing center in northern Minnesota.By: Candace Renalls, Duluth News Tribune
The mansion at 1730 E. Superior St. in Duluth used by the Human Development Center will be sold next month and become the first non-hospital birthing center in northern Minnesota.
"It's going to be a real asset to the community," said Beth Wentzlaff, the CMRA broker handling the sale. "We have midwives around. But not where patients can come to them. And it's cozy. The building is absolutely gorgeous inside."
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With recent city approval to use the mansion as a birth center, the sale can now move forward.
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The center is already seeing patients with due dates of Sept. 15 or beyond at a temporary location downtown.
The Human Development Center, which bought the 6,000-square-foot house in 2006, serves residents with mental health issues. In recent years, it has used the building to house its administrative offices, Harmony Club drop-in center and the club's Palace Diner, offering lunches to the public for a nominal fee.
The nonprofit put the mansion up for sale last summer to reduce costs because of funding cuts. Staff said the building no longer fit its needs. If sold, staff offices and programs at the site would be moved to its other locations in Duluth, they said.
Wentzlaff noted that the Human Development Center had invested more than $270,000 in improvements to the building, including a new roof resembling the original clay tile roof, a new boiler, air conditioning, windows and wiring.
The mansion was built in 1909 by Joseph Sellwood, one of the city's early elite who made his fortune in iron ore and was president of three banks when he died in 1914. The house was a wedding gift for one of his daughters.
As soon as the sale closes, Morning Star will start interior renovations, creating first-floor clinic rooms and a classroom. But most of the work will be upstairs where the former bedrooms will be converted into three birthing suites with private bathrooms that will include birth tubs for pain management, relaxation and water births.
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Holy cow! Paste just named Japandroids' "The House That Heaven Built" the #1 song of 2012! AMAZING!!! If you haven't heard the track, check it out above. It appears on the band's album Celebration Rock (which also landed the #8 spot on Paste's Top 50 Albums of 2012 list). Check out both lists at the links below.
Attention all artists & designers: Japandroids need your help! The band is heading out for a US tour this fall and they're looking for a new T-shirt design. Here's where YOU come in!
The band is hosting a design contest for the new shirt. The winning design will be picked by the band and the winner will receive 2 tickets to any upcoming US show, a meet-and-greet with Brian and Dave, vinyl or CD copies of Post-Nothing & Celebration Rock, plus one of the new shirts!
Check out the contest here: http://www.japandroids.com/contest
Good luck!
Rolling Stone recently posted thier Top 10 Coolest Summer Albums of All Time list and Japandroids made the cut at #10 with their new album, Celebration Rock! Nedless to say, WE'RE PUMPED! Other bands/artist that appear on the list include The Beatles, Prince, Al Green and more! Follow the link below to check it out.
In case you missed Japandroids' New Years Eve shows in Chicago, ALARM magazine was behind the scenes with the band to tell us how it went down. The article takes an intimate look at Japandroids' pre-show ritual, a nostalgic look back at their first show--4 years and 1 day earlier--and what it takes to make a timeless record. Click the link below to read the article over at ALARM.
Year-end favorites lists are rolling in left and right, and it's great to see the critical acclaim keeps coming for Japandroids. The band's "Younger Us," the A Side to the second release of their 7" series, was named Pitchfork's #42 best song of the year. The 7" series was the band's way of giving back to fans, so they could hear new material without having to wait until a proper album came out. Click the link below to see Pitchfork's top 50.
Did you miss Japandroids the last time they blew up your city? Well, the next best thing is to watch them rock out on Last Call With Carson Daly tonight! The Vancouver duo are making their second appearance on Last Call with a performance of "Art Czars": the first single from their critically acclaimed 7" singles series. Make sure to catch the television debut of "Art Czars" on Last Call tonight at 1:35am EST (12:35 CST), or be sure to set your DVRs. If you miss the performance tonight, it will be available for streaming on Carson Daly's website very soon.
In other news, Heavenward Grand Prix, the latest installment in the Japandroids 7" series, is out today! Art Czars has already sold out, so grab Heavenward Grand Prix before it inevitably follows suit. Click the link below to purchase Heavenward Grand Prix.
In between shows with A Place to Bury Strangers, Japandroids' Brian King sat down with the Village Voice to discuss "chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs," how their singles series is a chance to showcase songs they were either too broke or too busy to record, and spill their guts about puking before Siren Music Festival.
Japandroids' new single "Heavenward Grand Prix" is featured on NME's Top Ten Free Downloads this week! If you haven't had a chance to check out the song, head on over to NME by clicking the link below.
Heavenward Grand Prix is #3 of the 5-part 7" series to be released this year. This one's limited to 2000 copies on clear vinyl + instant MP3. Be sure and pre-order because these things are going fast!
Boy is it chilly in here! It's time to get your cave-wave on my friends...yeah, I said it, and I don't feel bad about it either! Vancouver-based Teen Daze just recorded a pretty fantastic version of Japandroids' "Wet Hair." So chill out, grab a Pabst, cut your pants into shorts, purchase a few lucky strikes off your friend, and listen to this cover by clicking the link below.
Here's a good weekend treat for you. Absolute Punk is hosting a contest where you can win a test pressing of Japandroids' first 7", Art Czars, along with a full art copy of their latest 7", Younger Us. Check it out by clicking the link below.
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Here's some great footage of Japandroids performing "The Boys Are Leaving Town" at this year's Hillside Festival in Guelph, ON. The droids are still out on the road, so be sure to check the TOUR PAGE to see if they'll be in your city. Chances are they will!
2 down, 3 more to go! Japandroids' Younger Us 7" is out now on clear vinyl and can be purchased through our online store or at your favorite local record shop.
Younger Us is the 2nd installment of the 5-part 7" series devised by the band as a way to give something back to fans. Since the band has been touring for so long, they haven't had a chance to record a follow up to 2009's critically acclaimed Post-Nothing. These five 7"s each have a track from the Post-Nothing sessions along with a cover on the B-side. Younger Us (limited to 2500 copies) features the title track on the A-side along with a cover of X's "Sex and Dying in High Society" on the B-side.
If you want to try and score a copy for free, head on over to You Aint No Picasso where you can enter to win a copy of Younger Us along with a test pressing of Art Czars, the first 7" in the series. Otherwise, click the link below to purchase your copy.
I'm just kidding. I've never seen Japandroids use a cowbell before. But they ARE featured in the latest issue of Cowbell Magazine. Jess Harvel wrote a great article about the band's relentless touring schedule with a few quotes from guitarist/vocalist Brian King, such as this one - "We have a band motto - to play every show like it's the last one we're ever going to get to play." Click the link below to check out the article.
Shoes are sweet. Especially Saucony shoes because they're offering a FREE "Perfect Pairs" digital 45 download featuring Japandroids & Best Coast. It's only being offered for a limited time, so click the link below to check it out.
Sometimes it's cool to be a dirtbag. And if you're a journalist, it's even cooler! Japandroids got a chance to sit down with the website Dirtbag Journalism to talk about how the band got where they are today. Check out the article by clicking the link below.
Great news! Japandroids' Post-Nothing was nominated for the JUNO Awards "Best Alternative Album" category! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS! To see the other nominees, click the link below!
With all these year ends lists popping up, Ragged Words decided to give the artists a platform of their own to voice their top albums of the decade. 4 Polyvinyl artists including Japandroids, Headlights, of Montreal, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin all contributed 10 albums of the decade that they think you should know about. Check out each band's list along with the comprehensive top 50 by clicking the links below.
2009 was a good year for Japandroids. Their debut full-length Post-Nothing, was well received by outlets around the world and is now appearing on tons of year-end lists including #15 on Pitchfork, #8 in The Canadian Press, #16 on SPIN, #2 on Exclaim!, #39 on NME, #14 in Magnet, #25 on The Onion A.V Club, #9 in Chicago Tribune, and more. Check out what everyone has to say as they recap 2009 by clicking the links below.
After just getting back from their UK tour with A Place to Bury Strangers, Japandroids are back on the road with Surfer Blood here in the states. A few blogs and notable publications like the San Francisco Bay Gaurdian have recently done features, interviews, and reviews of the band's latest US shows. Click the links below to check out them out.


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"There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates." - James Russell Lowell
19 November 2011
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One of the beauties of my frequent trips to Key West and St. Augustine is the menagerie of amazing individuals that cross my crooked path. I love meeting interesting people - especially those who have skill sets that I can only dream of. While touring the back of the house at the Green Parrot Bar with my partner John Vagnoni, I noticed a fairly large piece of artwork of a sculptured skull & crossbones mounted on a square of driftwood in our walk-in storage shed. The pirate motif was creatively accented by a flintlock pistol and doubloons. Obviously, it drew my attention. John started laughing as soon as I pointed to the piece. He said he knew I would dig it and began to describe its origin. The creator is an artist named David Wegman, who has numerous cool artworks scattered throughout the bar and is one of the three artists painting the new shutters at the GP store. John was chuckling and said that David had molded the skull and crossbones from the real bones of one of his buddies who was buried at sea somewhere in the Caribbean and magically washed up on land. The body was reclaimed by his buddies... after some means of identification, and buried in a makeshift grave after another celebratory sendoff. But a short time later, nature again brought the bones to the island's surface after a storm. This time, leaving nothing to Mother Nature, they decided to take the majority of their friend home. Ha!
Since John informed me that Mr. Jolly Roger (or whoever's bones they were) was for sale, I had to meet David and confirm this crazy story.
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09 November 2011
This blog post also appeared on PC's Drake Expedition Blog.
My erratic, highly energized, enjoyable life after the Drake Expedition is exactly the same as it was before my trip to Portobello, Panama--except that during my frequent passages through the Philadelphia airport, strangers, including TSA personnel, will ask, "Pat did you find the body yet?" It used to be: "When you coming back to the Sixers?" Ha! You've got to love Philly folks. Speaking of the NBA, yesterday CNN.com ran the article, Former NBA team owner on his passion for dead pirates. The article was based on an entertaining interview I had with Emily Smith from CNN London regarding the Drake Expedition and our historic discovery of Drake's two scuttled ships.
But the perspective that came across loud and clear was my firm belief that you should take action on your passion, even if others think your passion is off-the-wall.
16 October 2011
Imagine pursuing your lifelong piratical obsession by attempting to locate the body of your most favorite pirate of all time. The man who has been dead since January 28, 1596. The man who torched the ground of St. Augustine, where you built the world's most outrageous pirate museum. The man who plundered Spain's New World empire, escaped the hangman's noose, and was knighted for his courageous adventures. I know the idea sounds impossible. But then again, so did the dream of a trainer becoming the owner of a professional sports franchise. To read the rest and follow Pat's adventure to find Drake and his ships in Portobello, Panana, check out PC's Drake Expedition.
21 September 2011
The following blog post is an excerpt from my article that appeared on September 21, 2011, on Today Books before my appearance on The Today Show, from 9 a.m. EST, Thursday, September 22. Read the entire article HERE.
Pirates were by no means nice guys: they tortured captives and slay crews that resisted attack. But then again, civilization as we know it operated under different rules way back when. During the Golden Age of Piracy (1680-1730), life for the common man was a daily struggle to simply survive against government or merchant ship tyranny, cruelty, and barely-existent wages. Under punishing and dangerous conditions, starving workers made one piece of eight (roughly 7 shillings) per month! Piracy offered escape from a difficult and painfully disparate life. Piracy was a democratic undertaking; pirates voted on most major decisions, including who would be their captain, where to sail next and if to attack another vessel. They also got their fair share of loot, whereas merchant ship captains often took 15 times more than their crews.
Pirates had the first form of disability insurance: If they lost an arm or a leg in battle, they were handsomely compensated, and if they were killed, their families sometimes received payments, too. Pirate ships also had rules called Articles or the Code of Conduct that had to be signed by every crew member. These rules included no smoking below decks after sunset, lights out by eight, no women or boys aboard and no gambling, which often led to fights. Barbarians? Not these guys. In the beginning, colonies like England and France hired private sailors to raid and destroy the ships, forts, and townships of their enemies to undermine trade and seize cargo that would help feed their people and aid their nation's economies. With official backing from their government, these privateers and buccaneers were considered heroes in their own country. But with one stroke of a pen on a treaty parchment, sailors who continued to do what they did best for mother country were labeled "pirates." Thankfully, American colonists traded with pirates, striking a blow against Britain in a power struggle that culminated in the American Revolution. PIRATES WERE JUST MISUNDERSTOOD. How? Read the rest on The Today Books website!
19 September 2011
In January 1596, two ships of the famous privateer/pirate Sir Francis Drake, the Elizabeth and Delight, were lost off Portobelo, Panama. Somewhere they rest not far from their owner. And Pat Croce wants them found!
I just finished taking typhoid fever pills--a day on followed by a day off for the past week as directed during an unusual medical consultation. At the suggestion of my personal doc, Brad Fenton, I made an appointment at University of Pennsylvania's Division of Travel Medicine to get the necessary inoculation required to travel to the harbor of Portobello in Panama. No one told me that I would end up being a Petri dish!
I got vaccination shots for yellow fever, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and tetanus. I also got a prescription for malaria pills that I had to take before, during, and after my latest adventure. During the "voodoo" visit, the practitioner told me that the malaria pills would prevent infected mosquitoes from sharing their disease with me and that they only bite at night. During the day, other insects transmit some bone-crushing disease or something crazy like that.
OK, give me whatever you're selling.
She smiled, held up a bottle with a spray nozzle attached to the top, and told me to spray all my clothes with this repellant before I pack them in my suitcase. But do it outside because it stinks. Sounds serious!After an hour of me imitating a pin cushion and her warning me of rabid dogs, snake bites, and the Central American version of Montezuma's Revenge, I went home, sharpened my scuba knife and drank a heaping helping of rum, the best pirate medicine! More to come on my Drake Expedition.
The photo above is of an aedes aegytpi mosquito from la-ventana.com
07 September 2011
Pat Croce, a pirate born 300 years too late and author of The Pirate Handbook, guest posted on the Chronicle Books blog this week. Read on for devastating weapons and notorious.Leave a comment on the Chronicle Books blog letting them know who your favorite swashbuckling pirate is. They'll randomly select a commenter on Tuesday, September 13th, to receive a copy of The Pirate Handbook. Good luck!Pirates are only as strong and effective as their weaponry.
01 September 2011
Although we believed for some time that the remains of the shipwreck discovered at Beaufort Inlet, N.C. by my buddy Phil Masters in 1996 was the notorious Blackbeard's, it wasn't until yesterday that archaeologists confirmed the historic discovery.The 300-ton, 40-gun pirate flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, was originally a French slave ship named the La Concorde when she was captured by Benjamin Hornigold near the island of Martinique. Hornigold awarded the beauty to one of his most courageous crew members, Edward Teach. And the rest is history!The long-term debate over the true identity of Blackbeard's ship was because there was no precise identification. No name tag! Whereas explorer Barry Clifford's discovery of pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy's Whydah in 1984 was easily confirmed by the discovery of the ship's bell, QAR had a bell dated 1705, but no name. (FYI, most pirate ships were stolen and renamed, so the ship's bell didn't always reflect the name of the pirate vessel.)Years ago, Phil introduced me to David Moore, archaeologist and curator at the North Carolina Maritime Museum. No one, and I mean no one, knows more about Blackbeard than David. (Obviously, we're kindred spirits.)
Get more info about the N.C. Maritime Museum's Blackbeard exhibit
And David has always believed the find to be Blackbeard's flagship. Why? The location. The number of cannons found. The size of the anchors. The age of the artifacts. And the fact that there is no historical evidence of any other large vessel like QAR in the neighborhood!
Read the National Geographic article: Blackbeard's ship confirmed off North Carolina
15 August 2011
I love big dreamers.
And the only thing better than a person with an amazing dream is a person who does the impossible to achieve that dream. Last week, I had the rare opportunity to experience my buddy's dream with the dreamer himself!
It took over a dozen years, thousands of sleepless hours, millions of dollars, tons of supporters, and endless lobbying to make Joe Weatherby's dream come true.
08 August 2011
I had a meeting in Washington, D.C. this week. No, it had nothing to do with the debacle over our country's debt ceiling. But it had everything to do with raising my ceiling for exploration!
Australian explorer Mike McDowell was scheduled to attend a board meeting for one of his companies, Adventure Space, which sends people who can afford a multiple-million dollar seat into space.Mike and I have been corresponding for several months because one of his other companies has a joint venture with a Panamanian company that owns the concession or exploratory rights for an area I want to explore.
Need I say that piratical history and artifacts are involved?
Over a California Cab and an Australian Shiraz, I interrogated Mike on his evolution into a world-class explorer. It was like interviewing professional athletes on the NBA on NBC show again.I was amazed to learn that his first gig after college was in Antarctica, where he has a company that leads expeditions. Mike has visited over 140 countries, working tours in Brazil (to pay his way) to developing business interests, that also include sending people to the depths of the world's oceans in Russian Mir submarines.
I felt like my visiting incredible sites, like the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal, was nothing compared to his adventurous pursuits.I asked Mike the secret to his success in the world of exploration. His answer: I'm willing to walk through the door. Wow!How many of us dream great dreams and plan great plans and see great opportunities, but are not willing to get up and walk through the door? You never know what's behind that door or how many other doors are ajar behind that door, if you don't take the first step through the door.BTW, you know I wouldn't have left that enjoyable evening without asking Mike to allow me to walk through my chosen door with him! And the answer was, "Yes!"
Photo of the Blackness of Space at 100,000 ft. from the Oklahoma State University Astro Project courtesy Adventure Space.
21 July 2011
Who doesn't love a surprise? Today, for me, was Christmas in July.
I've been working with a maritime researcher in London named Trevor. Trevor combs The National Archives, British Library, National Maritime Museum, public records, and a handful of university libraries for rare nuggets of information gleaned from centuries-old data, for an adventure/expedition I'd like to undertake.
I can't share details or some other pirate freak might attempt to beat me to the plunder! But here's more on the surprise...
06 July 2011
Anyone who knows me knows I have a strong fascination with pirates. More like fanaticism some would say. But I wouldn't say all pirates. I'm talking 16th to early 18th century pirates.
Starting in 1567 with my favorite "privateer" Sir Francis Drake's first excursion to New Spain (Mexico), to the "buccaneer" Sir Henry Morgan' s amazing escape after plundering Maricaibo, to the relative end of the Golden Age of Piracy in 1722 with the death of the "pirate" Black Bart Roberts, and the adventures of all "rogues" in-between, these Brethren of the Coast have provided me with memorable lessons in history, geography, and science, not to mention management, negotiation, and entrepreneurship.
21 June 2011
June 21, 2011
Four years ago today, I was in Haiti pursuing an elusive dream that we now hope is within our reach.
This week, Bob Cembrola and I spoke once again about our mutual interest in finding and salvaging the remains of Captain Henry Morgan's flagship, the 34-gun HMS Oxford, off of Haitian waters.
10 June 2011
June 10, 2011
I want to thank everyone who attended my Blackbeard book signing at the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum. (See gallery HERE.)
My enthusiastic staff set the stage under a brilliant Florida sun in the museum's courtyard, under a decorated tent where I was bookended by Captain Mayhem and Blackbeard himself. Our pirates not only looked the part, they also made sure all attendees - young and old - felt they were with the real deal. (They had to be hot as hell in their full attire!)
I chose Blackbeard as the first in a series on six famous pirates I plan to write. The histories, as in Blackbeard, will be thoroughly researched and extremely accurate, although I do take creative license with dialogue and inserting "kid" scenes to add to entertainment value.
Right now I'm working on book #2 on Sir Francis Drake. These two guys are my favorite historical characters. One demonstrates the definitive pirate lifestyle and the use of psychological warfare well before his time. And the other was a stone-cold navigational hero, achieved mostly through piratical pursuits. It's truly amazing what Drake accomplished in the 16th century... and the plunder he amassed!
22 May 2011
May 23, 2011
The month of May brings to mind two historical pirate events that helped change history:
During the week of May 22nd in 1718, the notorious Blackbeard, with his pirate flotilla of four ships and about 400 crew members, blockaded the colonial town of Charleston (Charles Towne), South Carolina. This ballsy move marked the very beginning of the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. (I visited the harbor in Charleston last week; if only the waters could talk.)
Before Blackbeard terrorized Charleston, colonials along the eastern seaboard embraced the chance to purchase pirates' contraband. But when shipping was halted briefly during this week, Blackbeard became Public Enemy #1 and British Royal Navy vessels were engaged in the hunt.
The other event occurred 310 years ago on May 23rd at Execution Dock in England...
12 May 2011
May 12, 2011
What a wild lunch!
Yesterday my executive director, Cindy Stavely, and I had the opportunity to dine with Jim Sinclair, an acclaimed marine archaeologist, and Keith Webb, a very successful historic shipwreck explorer. The stories these adventurers shared with us should be on National Geographic or the History Channel!
Keith operates Blue Water Ventures and has loaned the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum several hundred pearls that he recovered from the Spanish wreck of the Santa Margarita. The museum's Shipwreck Island exhibition continues to swell with rare treasures, but what Keith brought to lunch yesterday makes the pearls look like my grandkids' marbles!
Henry Every was a pirate's pirate.
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"Walking the Plank" is a Hollywood myth. Pirates were more likely to throw men overboard, hang them from the yardarms, or keelhaul them.
Every Pirate Captain established a set of rules called the "Articles." Every member of the crew signed articles of piracy over a boarding axe prior to setting sail - symbolic to the oath the pirate just promised his fellow sailors.
"Davy Jones' Locker" is a nautical term dating back to the 1700s. Davy Jones was sailor slang for the Devil, who resided at the bottom of the sea. So to send someone to Davy Jones' Locker meant killing the person.
Pirates burying their treasure were an exception, not the rule. They didn't expect to live very long and usually spent their share of the plunder on liquor, games of chance, and women.
The Sloop was fast, agile, and had a shallow draft. Her size could be as large as 100 tons. She was generally rigged with a large mainsail which was attached to a spar above, to the mast on its foremost edge, and to a long boom below. She could sort additional sails both square and lateen-rigged. She was used mainly in the Caribbean and Atlantic. Today's sailing Yacht is essentially a sloop.
The flintlock pistols were a pirate's favorite weapon for boarding a ship. Because of its size, they were able to carry multiple pistols on their person.
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I have no idea why I love this one so much. It's so adorable, snails are cute. (: Faving this one.
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When we found shells in Key West, we had to check to make sure there was nothing living inside of them, and we put them all in a bag.. Then later, when we were rinsing the shells off, we found a little crab body. It made me want to cry. D:
You make drawing seem so easy, and on flash as well! I am in love with the color scheme in this; the jade and azure look beautiful together. I especially like how you had drawn the snail on the plant. Its shell looks nice. 5/5 hearts and favorites.
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