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Cheap, backwards-compatible PCIe 4.0 on track for
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Re: Those 10" runs
I'm still sceptical, all the other consumer-level standards seem to have stranded on 10 GT/s or less (USB: 5 GT/s (10 GT/s in version 3.1), SATA: 6 GT/s, GDDR5: 7 GT/s, Display Port: 5.4 GT/s (8.1 GT/s in the upcoming version 1.3), HDMI: 6 GT/s, Thunderbolt: 10 GT/s). All over the line they are fighting physics, and physics seem to be winning.
SATA now has a standard where a single cable fit in two plugs, thus doubling the data rate without having to deal with too high transfer rates. They have also partially outsourced the electrical part of the specification to PCIe, thus upgrading from 6 GT/s to 8 GT/s without having to admit that they couldn't make it faster on their own anyway.
USB used to increase the transfer rate around tenfold for each release, realising that there is no way to hit 50 GT/s they opted for just doubling last time around to hit 10 GT/s, a year after the standard was release there are still no USB 3.1 products available for sale, so it remains to be seen if it will actually be as cheap as promised.
Display Port shifted from doubling transfer rate with the previous version to only provide a 50% increase with version 1.3, 10.8 GT/s seemingly wasn't deemed a realistic target.
Thunderbolt, being the only 10 GT/s product that is actually available, turned out too expensive to be used much by anyone but Apple. As far as I understand those 10 GT/s is a big part of the reason.
GDDR5, while being standardised for up to 7 GT/s, has seen most use in the 4 to 6 GT/s range, high speed memory controllers are so expensive that there is often better economy in more slower lanes, despite a markedly increased number of chip pins and corresponding board complexity.
All this combined lead to the question: How the **** can anyone think that they can just jump to 16 GT/s without incurring a prohibitively high cost?
Entangled matter the next big thing in qubits
Beam me up, Scotty
Is it just me, or has there been some inflation to the term teleportation?
Report says Cisco offloading Linksys
Re: Good
Ditto here, Cisco effectively became the company who replaced an already meagre 4 MB memory chip with a 2 MB chip in order to save the skin of a quarter per unit sold.
They could have built a quality consumer brand simply by investing in proper programming and not dumping the hardware to the very lowest level, the Cisco name would have helped selling the story.
Apple granted patent for ebook page-turning
Something good from the patent system
Prior art? Inventive step? Who cares, if Apple can actually enforce this they will have done the world a favour in making punishable what rightfully should be so. Making an application to make my perfectly good computer imitate an outdated and inferior technical solution for displaying text is simply not cool.
/Off to paint wooden spokes on the wheels of my car.
Gartner has its head in the clouds - and its numbers are WRONG
Unrounding numbers
All the other faults aside, it's funny how all the numbers generated by the survey "unround" to fractions with divisors no greater than 9. Providing so many digits in the result that the last ones are practically random is a common way of making the numbers seem significant. Upping that to so many digits that the last ones are clearly not random does however tend to spoil the illusion.
Zynga plays BLAME GAME with Facebook as stock tanks 40%
Re: Captive Users
Of course people are going to stick to their Facebook accounts for quite a while, if nothing else because they have made it their login token for quite a few other sites. The problem is, Zuck 'n' Zyng doesn't make any money unless people actually use their respective main services. As the Facebook fanaticism begin to wear off Facebook could easily find themselves in a situation where the number of users continue to rise, but the overall usage drops as other forms of communication dig into the market share.
Ballmer shoots down Microsoft breakup advice
RE:Double-digit growth
I believe you talk about relative growth. Beyond my guess that the currency is dollars my interpretation is exactly what the sentence in the article says. Now, it seems that someone has a context specific convention of misusing the term growth, therefore to avoid confusion it would be prudent to not use it in ambiguous sentences.
By the way, nothing is measured in percent, it is not a unit, it is just a shorthand sign for a multiplication factor of 0,01. Which makes the sentence even more strange, not only does the reader have to interpret growth as relative growth, the quantification also assumes a specific numeric representation without even providing an actual number.
Double-digit growth
Wow, somewhere between $10 and $99 extra relative to the year before. Even to the rest of us that is ... really not a lot.
We're searching for life, Jim, but not as we know it
Expect the unexpected
If we ever find alien life somewhere in the universe there is only one thing that is certain, it will not be what we expect it to be. There is no reason to believe that their biochemistry will be any exception to this.
Points to Isaac Asimov for suggesting some non-hydro-carbon-oxygen life-platform candidates, but he probably missed the majority of candidates.
We are barely able to understand how our own biochemistry works, we simply haven't got the means to rule out anything but the most rudimentary static environments as options for life.
The only thing that hydro-carbon-oxygen has got going is that our statistical material (an impressive 1 sample) suggest that it is relatively more likely that hydro-carbon-oxygen environments has a high chance of developing life than other environments.
I think this a case where a little knowledge might be more dangerous than no knowledge, for all we know, it could be that hydro-carbon-oxygen actually has a much lower chance of spawning life than some other environments, and we just got lucky.
Ten... mono laser printers
Paper cost saving
"It also has an Eco button in front of its 16 x 2 LCD display, which saves three quarters of your paper costs"
That is nothing short of impressive, I mean, saving power and toner can be hard, but making a printer eat less paper while producing the same prints must have taken some true ingenuity.
Uncrackable quantum crypto undermined by new attack
Traditional encryption schemes still work fine. While the quantum-thing may be broken, the good news is that it was a completely redundant technology in the first place.
Boffin melds quantum processor with quantum RAM
1 billion states please
It all sounds exciting, but after getting a few more facts from the press release I'm able to stay in my chair.
"The quantum integrated circuit includes two quantum bits (qubits), a quantum communication bus, two bits of quantum memory, and a resetting register comprising a simple quantum computer."
So this isn't really a computer, it has got a whooping 2 bits of memory, meaning that it can actually only hold 4 different states. The mathematicians working with quantum computers gladly assume that they can get an indefinite number of different states. The actual experiments seem to stick to single digit numbers. If quantum computing is to have a future someone needs to show that they can hold a large number of concurrent states in a quantum system.
But +1 for building a steampunk prop and claiming that it is a computer. That image really deserves to be shown in a higher resolution:
Here lies
Death by overflow
short life;
while( ++life ) {
enjoy( life );
iPad maker to replace 1 million staff with robots
1 Worker != 1 Robot
The numbers don't add up, in the very worst case a single small cheap robot might do the work of 1 human, but humans don't work all day long (not even those employed at Foxconn), so 1.2M people will only do around 400000 "full time" jobs. On top of that not every human can be replaced, and a lot of the robots in an automated production will do the job of several humans.
So unless they also plan a massive increase of production capacity there is no way the numbers of this story adds up.
Quantum crypto felled by 'Perfect Eavesdropper' exploit
Actually there are already commercial products for performing quantum cryptography. But, well, an idea doesn't stop being silly just because someone does it.
Re: What I don't get...
First of all, it's asymmetric systems that use public and private keys, symmetric systems use just a single key, and everyone has to keep that key secret.
As I also explain in my other post, you get to buy some expensive equipment and roll out a fibre instead of just exchanging a small piece of data.
The primary advantage is that sounds and is complicated, which make a lot of people think it is also safe.
Have solution - need problem
The really funny thing about quantum "cryptography" is that a traditional symmetric cipher does the same job. On top of that the quantum thing requires a dedicated end-to-end fibre, making it expensive and inflexible. For a cipher all you have to do is exchange a key once (the systems can then renegotiate that key periodically so that knowing the original key won't be sufficient for an attack).
One just have to stay away from the minimalist design cipher systems. You don't want a system that use the least possible amount of CPU time per bit transferred, as such a system will invariably be based on what you could call a mathematical single point of failure. (Unfortunately the minimalist systems are quite popular, since: Oh no, we would have to put a $8 CPU instead of a $5 CPU in our wireless router if it has to run a heavy encryption algorithm.)
Play.com pummelled over purported piracy permissiveness
I get the same stuff, ~2 mails per week, fortunately Gmail takes care of it. All they have achieved so far is that I cancelled the second half of my order.
Not minding laws, what kind of gain would they expect pissing off customers this way? Morons.
Duke Nukem publisher parts company with flacks over Twitter gaffe
Public relations
Maybe The Redner Group should hire a professional PR firm to help them regain the faith of their customers.
If you accidentally drop a nuke on yourself, better call someone who has a fire extinguisher.
WTF is... 4K x 2K?
Re: Get me some decent codecs before you roll 4K
At 0.1 bits per pixel you'd get 5 hours of 4K video on a 50 GB dual layer disk. x264 will produce excellent quality at 0.1 bpp if only given enough time. The most extreme encoding I have ever seen was at 0.035 bpp, I could spot a few small artefacts here and there, but mostly it was sharp HD video.
The point being, given proper encoding blu-rays are way oversized for storing a single 2 hour 1080p movie.
Sony reveals slim PS3, drops price
"Sony's trimmed-down PS3 will include a 120GB HDD in a package approximately two-thirds smaller and lighter than the original 60GB PS3 model. Power consumption has also been cut by two-thirds courtesy the console's redesigned processors, cooling unit and power supply."
Could you rephrase these poor sentences in English? As it is, it's impossible to tell whether it in each case it is two thirds that has been cut, or two thirds that remain.
XML flaws threaten 'enormous' array of apps
Vague article
The original article is here: http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
It's longer, but it's just as vague. Apparently this is as to not disclose any information that could be used by hackers, but this feat also makes the article pretty useless to anyone else.
I find it quite hard to believe that major open source XML libraries should be susceptible to simple overflow attacks. That they may pass on garbled information rather than returning an error in case of a bad XML file could probably happen. Thus theoretically an otherwise safe application could be compromised because of the parser returning data that it should not be able to return. But realistically, in most cases you would have to perform some sort of data validation beyond what the parser does, that should set potentially dangerous data straight.
The closest thing that I can come to a conclusion on this matter: There is probably loads of vulnerable applications out there that can be attacked through an XML file, but I doubt that the parsers have a lot to do with it, even if they are flawed.
Boffins: Ordinary lightbulbs can be made efficient, cheaply
Well, a 40% energy saving ain't going to make light bulbs anywhere near as efficient as the lowpower tech.
By the way, what happens if you laserburn a part of the wolfram thread in a lightbulb to make that part thinner? The burned spot shines brighter, but the rest of the thread goes slightly darker, so overall you get slightly less light at slightly less power draw, though the difference in power draw may be too small to notice without high precision equipment.
I'm not making any accusations, I'm just stating what the expected result of burning the wolfram thread in a light bulb using a high energy laser would be.
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In The Giant Gila Monster, most of the plot is given over to a group of hot-rod enthusiasts, headed by nice-guy Chase Winstead (Don
Sullivan), who sometimes breaks into song. Before long, the titular gila monster, which is just that -- a real gila monster -- is lumbering about
on miniaturized sets terrorizing the community, killing at random, knocking over trains and barns, and in general making a nuisance of
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In the vast wastelands, the Gila Monster roams.
Elsewhere at the soda shop, let the socks be hoppin'. The teens head off to the drive-in. So that's what they're calling it now…
Pat's father, the missing teen boy, chews out the Sheriff to find his missing boy.
Sheriff stops by the gas station and talks with Chase and asks about Pat.
TOO DARK TO SEE ensues. The Gila Monster gets some guys.
At a car crash, they find the car is stolen. Chase finds some suitcase and cigarettes around.
Later, Chase consoles his distraught girlfriend, Lisa.
A drunk guy, Steamroller Smith, crashes his car after seeing the Gila Monster. Chase hauls the car to the station and is told about the
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he gives Chase his business card. Steamroller is a rock DJ.
Sheriff asks Chase to help him search for missing kids. During the search, Lisa is getting nervous. The Gila Monster is roaming
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That night, Compton is driving down the road. However, he wrecks when spotting the Gila Monster. Cue the explosion.
Chase's house, mom surprises him. His little sister finally has got her leg braces. The musical assault of Chase's ukulele
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Heading out to the wreck, they find strange skid-marks like around the other wrecks.
Chase is planning a party with Steamroller.
Williams, the old drunk, is driving.
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Sock-hop, the dance ensues.
Pat's Dad accuses Sheriff of covering for Chase.
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Model building destruction ensues. The Sheriff goes for help. Chases heads off to the gas station. Sheriff deputizes Williams to keep
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Shrews doesn't fit, they used dogs with carpet to stand in for the shrews.
Giant monster and teenagers but not in the Blob way. We only have the adult who doesn't trust the teens especially, Chase our
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which was slightly less obvious than a 15 foot statue of George Washington glowing fluorescent pink.
Does every movie need to be too dark to see? OK, only true low budget movies need to be too dark to see. Unfortunately, this movie
does have to keep the audience from seeing a Gila Monster crawl around models that would be less impressive than some Lincoln logs for
a building with a Tonka truck.
How does a movie about a giant lizard terrorizing seem dull? When, you're stealing almost entirely from the Bert I Gordon special
effects such as the Beginning of the End special effects. At least the Gila Monster
wasn't crawling on any postcards of Chicago. A Gila Monster walking over models isn't exactly impressive or on par with anything Ray
Harryhausen ever did. Unfortunately, when that is the best compliment for a movie, there is suffering.
Never in my life did I imagine I'd be writing about ukelelees for free. But never mock them. After all, Tiny Tim was definitely the most
baddest hardcore totally Airwolf ukelelee player that ever existed. Though listening to Chase singing about mushrooms with his instrumental
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Unfortunately, keeping track of how many drunk drivers were in this movie is slightly hard to calculate than the number of drugs Keith
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Five Unconventional Pro Wildlife Photography Tips
A significant portion of the work I did during my recent trip to Namibia was wildlife photography, a favorite genre of mine. While doing some research on the wildlife of Africa, and Namibia in particular, I was struck by how boring most of images really were – apathetic, dumb-looking animal staring blankly into the camera, bird on a stick, etc. As a result, I strived to come up with unique interpretations of these species we've all seen so many times and know so well. I came up with five unconventional tips – some less conventional than others but still concepts to keep my images from being boring like the others. Now I'm sharing them with you.
The examples here are not all African wildlife, obviously. I'm still trying to wrap up some writing and administrative duties before I can really begin processing most of the images from that trip. In the meantime, enjoy.
1. Use Back and Side lighting
Most wildlife shooters and photography instructors opt for front lighting when encountering wildlife. "Point your shadow at the subject" is their mantra since they can be sure that in this way, the bird or animal will be evenly illuminated. In other words, it's easy. I'm not saying that shooting with the sun at your back is a bad thing; I do it all the time. But limiting yourself to only this option certainly is a bad habit.
Side lighting can reveal texture and add depth to an image while backlighting is incredibly dramatic, if not conventional.
2. Long Exposures
Animals on the move and birds in flight present great opportunities for slow shutter speeds and camera panning. Freezing action shots with fast shutter speeds has its place, but sometimes its better to just go with the flow! Start with 1/15 second and experiment from there.
3. Go wide. Show the environment
When shooting wildlife, the photographer's initial impulse is to use the longest lens in the bag and go in as tight on the subject as possible. Resist this urge and try a wider perspective instead. Show some of the animal's environment and surroundings, which helps tell more of a story about the place and species you're photographing.
4. Show behavior and interaction
Too many wildlife images show a static image of an animal or bird looking directly into the camera. Boring, boring, boring. Showing how these animals interact with one another, play, mate, or hunt for food is much more interesting. That instant is akin to Cartier-Bresson's decisive moment. Don't be content with a boring wildlife portrait. Wait for something special to happen and then be ready!
5. Use elements of visual design
Employ the same compositional tools for wildlife as you do for other genres of photography. Wildlife photography is sometimes fast-paced and you don't have time to think things through completely but still try to think abstractly about shapes, lines, balance, and flow and let go of the literal. Your wildlife images will have a much greater visual impact as a result.
Next week I'll begin sharing many other images from Namibia so stay tuned.
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June 13, 2013 5 Comments
12 for '12: The Year's Best
It's that time of year, once again, when we look back at the year that was and weigh our accomplishments. Well, you always hope that there are accomplishments worthy of looking back on. If nothing else, there's always weighing the regrets.
Anyway, last year I posted my favorite images from 2011 – Eleven for '11. Naturally, this year it's 12 for '12. They are all favorites of mine for a reason, although the reasons may not be so obvious to everyone else. Nonetheless, I'll try to give some insight. So here they are listed in chronological order, starting this past January.
Just another brutal day in paradise, I posted earlier in the year. I think what I liked best about this image is that it was completely secluded. I didn't have to clone out a single human.
One of my favorite things about this image is that it was taken from a very popular vantage point in Yosemite National Park. Still I was able to come away with something unique and original, thanks to the thickening fog in the valley.
The location, the light, and the effort to get there (I led three of my clients who opted for the backcountry extension to the Patagonia workshop up this steep, ice-covered trail to be here by sunrise) were all factors in this image making the cut.
The low-angled light sweeping over the textured sandstone, the dynamic leading lines, the cloud movement during this 30-second exposure make this a clear favorite of mine. I don't practice many black and white conversions but I was surprised to find two in my favorites for 2012.
I love night photography and Arches National Park is one of my favorite places to "do it in the dark." Ok, shameless plug here: Night photography, Arches National Park, November 6-9, 2013. Thanks for listening.
Amazing sunset. Paris, France. What else is there to say?
Persistance. I waited four nights in order to get light that I was looking for at this location. I was prepared for a 5th, if necessary.
The Decisive Moment, as Henri Cartier-Bresson might describe this image. This is only one image frame in an entire sequence I posted back in September: Life and Death in Katmai.
If I had a "home" national park, the Smokies would be it. This image captures the essence of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park perhaps better than any other I have taken in the past dozen years or so.
Rain, rain, and more rain with some impenetrable fog and gloomy skies – but for a brief 40-seconds of optimism. And I was ready.
This is as much sun and light as you will get in northern Iceland in December. But oh what lovely light it is…
I had never seen the northern lights before, despite two previous summer trips to Iceland and two summer trips to Alaska. The aurora is what brought me to Iceland in the depths of winter and I was not disappointed.
Thanks for sharing 2012 with me.
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Cheer Up, It's Friday
TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT FRIDAY (Feel free to add to the list in the comments section)
1) Friday Im in Love – The Cure
2) Black Friday – Steely Dan
3) Friday on my Mind – David Bowie
4) Friday – Phish
5) Get 'Em Out by Friday – Genesis
6) It's Finally Friday – George Jones
7) Good Mourning/Black Friday – Megadeath
8) One February Friday – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
9) Friday Night Fever – George Straight
10) Freaky Friday – Aqua
I began this as a little game and I was shocked at the lack of quality songs about this most celebrated day of the week. I could recall so few, in fact, that I had to Mister Google many of the songs you see listed. I thought country music would make a much better showing with the whole take this job and shove it – weekend's here – honkey tonk theme that so many songs of this genre espouse. Jimmy Buffet is conspicuously absent as well, unless I'm missing something obvious.
It's curious that there are many more quality songs about Monday than Friday. I can think of 4 or 5 good tunes right off the top of my head, without even too much thought. It could explain why good art and music often express the artist's sadness, sorrow, depression, the blues, heartbreak, etc. better than their happy times. We're a strange mammal indeed.
Happy Friday, everyone!
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October 19, 2012 5 Comments
Image Roundup from Katmai, Alaska
Well, it's been just over a week since I've arrived home from Alaska and I've finally sorted out and edited most of my brown bear images from Katmai National Park and Preserve. Bears are some of my favorite creatures on Earth and I love spending time and photographing them whenever possible. It was a magical five days in Katmai and I certainly need to thank some of those responsible for making it a great success.
First, Katmai Adventure Lodge was a great host and lodge. Please do check them out if you ever plan on visiting the area for bear viewing, photography, or fishing. Second, Chris Omer was a first rate, professional bear guide. We really couldn't have lucked out any better with KAL assigning Chris to our group. Third, thanks to my students for making this a most enjoyable trip to the Alaskan wilderness. Fourth, a big thanks goes out to LensRentals for the complimentary use of some awesome telephoto lenses, including the new Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM.
Now, on to the photos! In case you missed it, I posted a sequence called Life and Death in Katmai last week. Check it out if you haven't already seen it. The following are not necessarily the best images from the trip, but they are a good sample of what we experienced in Katmai.
On the last morning of our photography tour, I had our group experiment with longer shutter speeds while panning the camera.
Here is an impressive stare down by a very large, very wet Katmai brown bear. It's one of my favorites, not only because of the eye-to-eye glare, but the streaming water droplets as he/she just emerges from the river.
At nearly every stop we made, there was a gracious welcoming party. This is the greeting we received after landing near the mouth of Margot Creek.
A challenge? No, probably just trying to get a better look at the group of strange creatures on the opposite side of the river. Despite having a reputation for bad eyesite, a bear's vision is actually equivalent to that of humans.
These bears possess an impressive array of skills: speed, power, agility, coordination, and dexterity. Catching a wild salmon in a river or stream of any size and depth is much more difficult than it looks. I know. I tried it!
The role that tremendous salmon runs have on Katmai's entire ecosystem cannot be overstated. Nearly everything, directly or indirectly, depends on their arrival from the sea – and their death – every summer.
As I said earlier, this is harder than it looks. It doesn't always come off as graceful, but more often than not, they emerge from the water victorious.
Moraine Creek, deep in Katmai's wilderness, is bear heaven. At one point, I could count 14 bears along the river, at one time, while standing in this very spot.
This is one of biggest bears I saw all week. Despite its immense size and power, his fishing techniques were effortless and carried out with surgical precision. Between shooting the occasional image, I just watched with awe as he caught and ate one salmon after another for hours.
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Life and Death in Katmai
This chase, among many others like it, was an honor to witness and a tremendous thrill to photograph and share with others. That's Katmai, the very best bear viewing in the world. Enjoy.
This series of images was taken on Moraine Creek, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM with tripod.
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Remember those kids or groups of classmates you'd just as soon not have to pass by when you were growing up. What they were doing – bullying, whether we called it that or not – is as bad, if not worse, these days. Local columnist Deidra Jackson takes on bullying to show that it's something we have to tackle head on. (January 5, 2012, Page 4)
Raising kids – neither easy nor inexpensive
Did you realize it will take about a quarter of a million dollars to raise a child born into a middle income family in 2010 to the age of 17? Editor Don Whitten takes a closer look at raising children after seeing those figures from the USDA. (July 13, 2011, Page 4)
Road to closing the achievement gap
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Saturday, the 27th of December, 1656.
Terry's Estate.
Publick Debts.
Woollen Manufactures.
Kingston upon Hull Petition.
Petition from Sheeles, &c.
Sedgmore Improvement.
Whaley's, &c. Estate.
Punishment of Naylor.
Leave of Absence.
Private Petitions.
Leave of Absence.
Letter from Protector.
COLONEL Rous reports Amendments to the Bill
for enabling Judith Terry, and Elizabeth Terry,
Daughters of Thomas Terry Esquire, to join with their
Father in Making of Leases for One-and-twenty Years,
of several Copyhold Estates, held of the Manor of StokeNewington, in the County of Middlesex: Which were
twice read; and, upon the Question, assented unto.
Ordered, That this Bill, so amended, be ingrossed.
Ordered, That the Committee for Publick Faith have
Power to send for Persons, Papers, Witnesses, Records.
The humble Petition of several Merchants, Clothiers,
and others, free Denizens of the County of Devon, and
City of Exon, in the Behalf of Themselves, and many
Thousands concerned in the Manufactures of Wool, was
this Day read.
Ordered, That this Petition be referred to the Committee for Trade.
The Petition of the Mayor and Merchants of the City
of York, the Mayor and Merchants of Kingston upon Hull,
and the Wardens and Brethren of the Trinity-House there,
was this Day read.
The humble Petition of the Saltmakers of the South
and North Sheeles, Sunderland, and Bleeth, was this Day
Ordered, That this Petition be referred to Committee
for Trade.
A Bill for the Division and Improving the Moor called
Sedgmore, otherwise King's Sedgemore, in the County of
Somersett, was this Day read the First time:
And the Question being put, That this Bill shall be
read the Second time;
It passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That this Bill be rejected.
A Bill for settling Henry Whaley and Erasmus Smyth
in their Lands in Ireland, in lieu of other Lands fallen to
them by Lot, was this Day read the Third time.
A Clause, ingrossed in Parchment, was tendered to this
Bill in these Words; viz. "And be it further enacted, by
the Authority aforesaid, That the Manor-House, Town,
and Lands, of Portumna above-mentioned, with all the
Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, and also the Park of Portumna aforesaid, with all the
Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging; together with Four thousand Acres of profitable
Land, Irish Measure, of the Rebels, Delinquents, and
Papists, Lands, which are not formerly disposed of; and
lie most convenient and adjacent to the said Manor, Towns,
and Lands, of Portumna; be, and are hereby vested in,
and settled upon the Lord Henry Cromwell, now Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland; to have and
to hold unto him the said Lord Henry Cromwell, his Heirs
and Assigns for ever, to the only Use, Benefit, and Behoof, of him, his Heirs and Assigns for ever; to be holden
of his Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his Successors, for ever, in free and common Soccage; as of the
Castle of Dublyn; for and in Consideration of his many
good and faithful Services; and for and in full Satisfaction of all such Part of his Arrears, both for his Service
in England and Ireland, for which he hath as yet had no
Satisfaction; any Clause or Matter in this present, Act or
any former Act or Ordinance, contained to the contrary
in any-wise notwithstanding. And be it further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That his Highness the Lord
Protector's Council now in Ireland, or any Three or more
of them, or other the chief Governor or Governors of
Ireland, for the time being, and the Council there, or any
Three or more of them, are hereby authorized and required forthwith to put the said Lord Henry Cromwell
into the quiet and peaceable Possession of the said ManorHouse, Town, and Park; and also forthwith to cause the
said Four thousand Acres of Land, Irish Measure, as aforesaid, to be surveyed; and to cause a Survey thereof to be
returned into the Court of Exchequer there, to remain of
Record; and thereupon to put the said Lord Henry
Cromwell into the peaceable and quiet Possession of the
said Four thousand Acres of Land as aforesaid:" Which
was read the First time; and, upon the Question,
ordered to be read the Second Time.
And was read the Second time, accordingly; and, upon
the Question, ordered to be Part of this Bill.
The Clause was read the Third time.
Ordered, That the Word "Develyn" be made "Dublin."
Resolved, That these Words, "Four thousand" shall
be made "Six thousand."
Resolved, That the Word "Portumney" be made
And the said Bill, with the said Clause, so amended,
being put to the Question, passed.
Ordered, That the Lord Protector's Consent be desired
to this Bill.
The House according to former Order, resumed the
Debate Yesterday adjourned.
The Question being propounded, That the further
Punishment of James Naylor shall be respited till this
Day Sevennight;
The House was divided.
The Yeas went forth.
So it passed with the Negative.
Resolved, That Mr. Edward Nevile have Leave to go
into the Country for a Month.
Resolved, That Mr. Blaney shall have Leave to go
into the Country.
Resolved, That the Day for private Petitions be
Wednesday next.
Resolved, That Major-General Howard and Mr.
Swinton have Leave to go into the Country.
Resolved, That the House be adjourned till Tuesday
Morning, Eight of the Clock.
Resolved, That the further Debate upon his Highness'
Letter be adjourned till on Tuesday Morning next.
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After Felix Perez homered for the Louisville Bats to give them a 1-0 in the top of the third inning, the Rochester Red Wings showed some offensive muscle of their own in the bottom half of the inning. The Red Wings sent ten men to the plate, got seven hits, and scored four runs to help power themselves to a 5-3 win over the Bats.
The Red Wings took the four game series from the Bats. It is the Red Wings first four-game series win of the season and their first home series victory against the Bats since 2004.
The Bats fell to 13-30 on the season. That gives them the worst record in all of Triple-A baseball. The next closest are the Pacific Coast League's Tucson Padres, who have a record of 13-28.
Louisville starter Jeff Francis had another rough outing, giving up four runs on eight hits over five innings of work. In four starts in the month of May, Francis is 0-3 with a 5.84 ERA. Francis has given up at least eight hits in all four of his May starts.
Perez had a good game for the Bats as he went 3-for-4. His homer in the third was his first of the season. Cody Puckett also continued to impress. He went 1-for-3 with a walk and was stellar defensively in left field.
The Bats had an opportunity in the ninth to tie the game. Trailing 5-3, Perez singled and Puckett walked to lead off the ninth, bringing the tying run to the plate. Kristopher Negron, who was pinch hitting for Danny Dorn, grounded into a fielder's choice to move Perez to third. Perez would score on Miguel Rojas' sacrifice fly. That brought up Dioner Navarro, who grounded out on the first pitch he saw to end the game.
The Bats travel to Lehigh Valley Saturday to begin a four game series before an off day next Wednesday. Sean Gallagher (2-3, 6.08 ERA) will be on the mound for the Bats against Austin Hyatt (2-3, 4.10 ERA). It is a rematch of the game one of the double header the teams played on May 14, a game in which the Bats won 5-1. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35.
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Summer has just gotten started, but if your kids are anything like mine, the b-word has already been uttered at least once. Keep the kids from getting bored with one of the dozens of activities in these three fun new books (one of which was written by local mom-bloggers) that are packed with good ideas.101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! (Page Street Publishing, $19.99) was penned by two bloggers from Fort Worth, Holly Homer and Rachel Miller. Both are moms with three and six kids, respectively, and they used their collective experiences to fill the book with activities for all ages. The book includes everything from simple arts-and-crafts projects to games, experiments and boredom busters. Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors(Roost Books, $21.95) is by Rachelle Doorley, an art educator, blogger and mom to preschoolers. Her blog and the book are packed with creative ideas for the under-6 crowd, though many will appeal to older kids. The concept of tinkering is at the heart of each project: doing something hands-on to explore the world with the senses. Sections include setting up your workspace, art experiences, building activities and messy recipes. Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments (Adams Media, $18.99) was written by a writer and stay-at-home dad whose daughter was always asking the perennial kid question: Why? The book is filled with hands-on science activities that kids can do alone or with adult supervision (depending on age). Topics include chemistry, biology, physics and earth science, and include age-appropriate explanations.
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We chatted by email recently with Holly Homer, co-author of 101 Kids Activities, about her book, her blog and keeping kids busy.
How did your blog, Kids Activities Blog, end up becoming a book?
Having a book published was never something I expected! Rachel and I have been blogging for years and love the community that has grown around Kids Activities Blog. When I received an email last spring from Page Street, I just assumed it was another spam email until I Googled it. I found a lovely article about Page Street in the Wall Street Journal and returned the email as quickly as possible! We feel so blessed that Page Street found us through our blog.
What are some of your favorite things to do with your own kids in the summer?
We both adore open-ended activities and letting kids create their own idea of fun. So what might start out as a simple outdoor sidewalk paint project might end up with the kids designing their own miniature golf course, or a few sheets in the living room are transformed into a tent city when it is too hot to go outside. One of the things the book has taught us is that our own kids like to flip through it for play inspiration.
What tips do you have for summer fun on a budget?
There is no reason to spend money on kid entertainment! Open your kitchen junk drawer or repurpose things you already have around the house. I have a closet full of scrap book supplies that now are devoted to kids' crafts. Upcycling egg cartons, toilet paper tubes and paper plates into artistic endeavors can keep kids playing for hours.
How do you plan activities that appeal to kids in a wide age range?
One of the things we noticed was that most activity and craft books were for a certain age level, but that is not how families play. Between the two of us, we have ages 2-13, which is why each of our activities has modifications for younger and older kids. We think it is important for families to have fun together! Sometimes the older kids may be helping the younger ones, but sometimes a game can be altered a bit so that it is a level playing field.
How do you balance fun playtime with necessities like chores and work?
I have noticed in my own home that if we devote some time to play, it makes it easier to get the kids on board for chores. Finding ways to make work playful can also get toys picked up and rooms cleaned faster and with less resistance.
What's your number one suggestion for making this the "bestest, funnest" summer ever?
I think that parents often get stuck thinking play is only for kids, but when they jump into the action it pays off in family bonding and stress relief! Trying to sneak a little extra play in each day this summer will definitely make it the "bestest, funnest" ever!
— Keri Houchin
Bird zip line
String (length depends on where you want the zip line)
1. To make the bird, fold a piece of paper in half lengthwise and trace out the profile of a flying bird on one half with the fold at the top. Cut along the pencil lines. Decorate the bird. Open the bird and tape a straw along the inside fold.
2. To make the zip line, stretch between two secure anchor spots where string can be attached. It should be at a height that kids can easily reach. Thread a bird onto each string before tying the second attachment.
3. Kids can "throw" the birds down the string to make them fly. Multiple zip lines can be set up next to each other for bird races.
Modifications for younger kids:
Placing the string at kid-sized level will have younger participants running up and down the string holding the bird.
Modifications for older kids:
Have older kids design a bird that is bottom-heavy and then split the underside of the straw so that the bird can be unattached from the string without untying. Then challenge older kids to create a zip line course for their bird to fly.
— from '101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!'
Oh, goop, what messy and mesmerizing fun you are. Goop has the strangest consistency — it's liquid one moment and solid the next. Children love it, and adults who have never experienced it will marvel at its texture. You've been warned!
12 to 16 ounces cornstarch
Sensory tub
1 to 11/2 cups water (start with 1 cup and add as you go if needed)
Toys for playing, scooping, and filling, such as spoons and little bowls
Food coloring (optional)
Big storage container or water table
Note: To make good goop, you need a ratio of 2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water. Rather than present my girls with goop that's ready to go, I like to involve them in the process of making it. It's not only fun, but it helps them learn about the separate properties of cornstarch and water and what happens when they're combined.
1. Start by pouring the cornstarch into the middle of the tub. Feel it, squeeze it, sift it through your fingers, and talk about the texture. Next, pour in half the water and mix it with a spoon or your hand. How does it feel? Add the rest of the water and continue mixing. Again, talk about the texture.
2. Once this exploration has run its course, introduce a couple spoons or mixing tools to scoop, stir, and mix the goop. If you're feeling brave, invite your child to walk barefoot through the goop. As a last step, invite your child to squeeze in a couple drops of food coloring. Stir it in, spin it around in swirls, and enjoy your colorful goop.
— from 'Tinkerlab'
Rainbow water stacks
In a dense liquid, all the particles that make up the liquid are packed together tightly, forming a liquid that is more solid and capable of supporting liquids that are less dense, or that have particles that are more loosely packed together.
The sugar water stacks should float on top of each other, because the densest water, the one with the most sugar, sinks to the bottom while the least dense water, the one without any sugar, floats on top of the other layers. If your rainbow stacks don't look quite like a rainbow but rather resemble an oozing brown sludge (don't worry; it happens), try tinkering with how much sugar you add to each glass. And also make sure you pour the liquids in super, super slowly. Give each layer a few minutes to settle before adding the next color.
A clear bottle. Or vase. Or clear tube of some sort. You get the idea: something big enough to hold a lot of liquid.
Measuring spoons and glass
Four glasses
Food dye
Sugar (Lots!)
1. Your lab partner can pretty much do all this. It's just a lot of measuring and pouring. Take your four glasses and have your lab partner fill each of them with 1/2 cup water.
2. Now, add green dye to one glass of water and add 6 tablespoons of sugar, stirring until it is dissolved, and then set aside. Take your second glass and dye water blue, adding 4 tablespoons of sugar and stirring. Take your third glass and dye water red, adding 2 tablespoons of sugar. Take your last glass, dye water yellow, and don't add any sugar.
3. Now pour the green water (the water with the most amount of sugar) into your bottle first. Then, take your blue water — the one with 4 tablespoons of sugar — and very, very slowly pour the water into your bottle, being sure the blue water touches the side of your bottle. If you'd like, you can pour over a spoon as well to help spread out the liquid. Repeat the same process, first with your red water and then with the yellow water.
4. At this point, you should have a miniature, muddled-looking rainbow of color in your bottle, as the water floats on top of the color below it. If, however, you're having trouble with this, try tinkering with the amount of sugar you use. More sugar will create denser liquid, so try messing with the amounts to make a rainbow stack to your liking.
— from 'Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments'
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Bachata at the Fringe
Two Years Ago, Baltimore Lost Its Biggest Booster of Latin Music--So Where Does The Hispanic Community Go For Ritmo?
It's Tuesday night in the studios of WEAA (88.9 FM), Morgan State University's public radio station, and Guillermo Brown, the friendly faced host of Fiesta Musical, the city's only Latin-music radio program, is behind the boards. On-air by phone is Izzy Sanabria, an influential New York salsa impresario who in the 1970s was a member of the legendary group Fania.
"I just want to say hello to the people in Baltimore and let them know they should support what you're doing," Sanabria tells Brown. "There's not a lot of people who are doing what you're doing . . . keeping the music alive, really playing the old-school music."
Brown laughs, thanks Sanabria for taking the time to chat, and allows him to put in a plug for his magazine, Salsa, before hanging up and putting on an Eddie Palmieri record. But Brown seems to know that Sanabria is right--especially in Baltimore, keeping Latin music alive is an uphill battle.
As of last year, according to U.S. Census data, there were about 15,000 Hispanics in the city, but some, including Urbanite magazine and the nonprofit Education Based Latino Outreach, have estimated the population closer to 55,000, including undocumented immigrants. Anyway, a brief walk down Broadway in Fells Point or Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown makes it clear that the Latino population is growing. Taquerias, boutiques advertising ropa vaquero and first communion dresses, and bodegas offering cheap phone cards and international money orders have sprung up like wildflowers to replace vacant storefronts or businesses long since closed by the area's original German and Polish immigrant population.
But in Baltimore, finding live Latin music is getting harder rather than easier. It's telling that Fiesta Musical is half in English, half in Spanish, yet claims to be "la voz de la communidad"--the voice of the community. Baltimore has just a handful of clubs--Latin Palace, Babalu Grill, Havana Club--that host Latin dance nights, and only one venue that hosts live music, the 13th Floor at the Belvedere. The yearly LatinoFest, held in Patterson Park and emceed by Brown, drew more than 14,000 paying adults this year to see Eddie Palmieri, the famous Puerto Rican bandleader, and Hermanos Flores, a Salvadoran orchestra, but very few local acts. On Broadway, Latin Palace draws a trendy--and mostly white--crowd to its weekend salsa-dancing classes, and serves paella to the reggaeton clubbing crowd, but rarely hosts live acts. Where, in this growing ethnic community, are the musicians?
"The problem with Baltimore is they just don't get it yet," says Patrick Albán, guitarist and leader of Noche Latina, one of perhaps three bands that perform Latin music in Baltimore regularly. "In Washington, everyone is so much more open."
Albán, 48, moved to Baltimore in 1977 from his home country of Ecuador and taught himself English by watching soap operas. As a child, he entered a church song contest in the city of Guayquíl, not far from his native Quito.
"You were supposed to enter with two songs," he says. "I entered with [a traditional] song I knew everyone liked and one that I wrote the night before. The one I wrote got first place, and the tried and true song came in last."
So started a career of songwriting and performing that brought Albán to Maryland to live near his cousins and study classical guitar for a year at the Peabody Institute. Over the years, Albán has supported himself gigging in Washington and once a month at the 13th Floor, as well as running a variety of businesses, including a sporting goods store and a hair salon. He now lives in Essex, where he says he loves being by the water and cruising in his power boat.
About a month ago, he started booking bands and doing sound work for the 13th Floor, which has staunchly maintained a Latin Night on Saturdays for the past few years. On a recent Saturday night, Albán mixed the levels for Rumba Club, a Baltimore-Washington area institution for more than 20 years stocked with musicians who live mostly in the Washington suburbs, plus a few who teach jazz at Peabody, and which played a set of Latin-jazz standards that would have felt at home in a Havana casino circa 1950.
Noche Latina's latest album, Ojos Verdes, released by Albán's own label, Gabi Records, is a polished, energetic record that features Juan "Cheito" Quiñones and Edwin Bonilla, both members of Gloria Estefan's Miami Sound Machine. Like many American Latin bands, Noche Latina forgoes loyalty to any single genre of music and records salsa, Cuban folk music, and amorphous original songs flavored by South American cumbia rhythms. Albán ignores his own advice and front-loads the record with all-too-familiar covers (the Gipsy Kings' "Bamboleo," Buena Vista Social Club's "Candela") instead of his own tunes, such as "Mi Ecuador" and the title track, which are both excellent songs.
Albán theorizes that the dormant local options for live music probably have something to do with the fact that most of the new arrivals to Baltimore are from Mexico, El Salvador, and the Caribbean, and don't have the roots or the disposable income of the more established Latino communities around Washington.
"The Latino community [in Washington] can afford to go out and spend money," he says. "People around here, they love their bachata"-- the romantic pop music of rural Dominican Republic that is also popular in Central America--"and I just can't do that." The style is one that Albán doesn't have an interest in playing, nor does its audience, in general, have the money to go to clubs to hear it.
Everywhere in Baltimore, if you talk about Latin music, the conversation inevitably touches on José Ruíz, the founder and original host of WEAA's Fiesta Musical, who passed away in 2006. Ruíz was a Lower East Side Nuyorican who fell in love with a girl from Dundalk, whom he met in New York's Washington Square in 1977.
The couple moved to Baltimore shortly after, and Ruíz became the sort of mover and shaker that every community needs. He founded LatinoFest, the two-day ethnic festival in Patterson Park, in 1980 to benefit his nonprofit, Education Based Latino Outreach, which serves Hispanic children through the city school system. Under Martin O'Malley's administration, he headed the Mayor's Office for Hispanic Affairs and served as a liaison between the city and the community. The whole time, music was an important part of his plan to serve the Latino community.
"José was really, really excited about music," his widow, Claire Hollister-Ruíz, says. "He wanted to keep Latin music out in public so it wasn't just in clubs and inaccessible."
Hollister-Ruíz says Latin music in Baltimore has faltered because of a lack of venues and because of a demographic shift. In the 1970s and '80s, Baltimore's Hispanics were Puerto Ricans, but now they are largely Central Americans.
"[Ruíz] was not into bachata music--he was a salsero to the max--but he knew the demographics," Hollister-Ruíz says. Because of Baltimore's strong Central American Latino population, bachata is where the interest is. "[Radio] is how Latin music is going to continue to be heard. You've got to have radio."
Ra%uFFFDl Molina says he always wanted to appear on Ruíz's radio show but never got the chance. Molina is a percussionist, singer, and Colombian immigrant who lives in the heavily Latino portion of Highlandtown, near the Enoch Pratt Free Library branch on South Conkling Street.
He came to Baltimore five years ago following his friend of 25 years, Ángel "Angelito" Macias, a blind pianist whom he used to gig with in Bogotá. For the last year, both men, who are in their mid-50s, have played in a band called Latin Swing, a four-piece specializing in Colombian cumbia, Latin jazz, and Cuban folk music; they perform later this month at the 13th Floor.
"Aquí tiene bastante vinculo de la vida nocturna," Macias says over coffee at a Mount Vernon café. In America "you have a good connection to nightlife."
In Colombia, both men gigged regularly, accompanying big-ticket acts like Celia Cruz, until the government enacted curfew laws that severely restricted the earning potential of working musicians. In America, they have found not only better paychecks but also an active club scene in the region, but, still, primarily Washington.
"For me, I like playing for Americans, because they appreciate you as a talent," Molina says, also in Spanish (neither speaks English). "Generally, we use the word `versatility.' . . . We apply ourselves to all genres of music--jazz, folk music, Colombian music, merengue, salsa."
Their demo CD has five tracks that showcase Macias' strident piano playing, full of neat jazz flourishes that must cover half the keyboard. "Bilongo," a Cuban son song, is driven by forceful piano rhythms and Molina's tasteful tapping of a conga drum, and "Pollera," a cumbia, is more subdued, floating gracefully below Molina's throaty, high-baritone singing.
Without José Ruíz to oil the gears of the community, talented acts like Macias and Molina get lost in the mix. Both are brilliant musicians and have played with talented professionals, but they have to hold down day jobs--Molina selling windshield wipers for an auto-parts wholesaler and Macias teaching private music lessons--to make ends meet.
"No one person could do everything that [Ruíz] did," Guillermo Brown says. "He wanted people who like that music to be able to hear it. . . . He was a figure that just about everyone in the Latino community knew. He was present in so many areas."
As for Brown, he pegs his hopes to Latino children now growing up in Baltimore. "At LatinoFest this year . . . there should have been a high-octane lane for strollers," he says. "I think a lot of parents want children to know: This is your culture, this is your music. . . . It's really a key element to having a vibrant community." H
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The International Space Orchestra
World first orchestra composed of Space Scientists from NASA Ames Research Center and SETI Institute
The International Space Orchestra
See more pictures on Bruce Sterling's Flickr
See teaser on the International Space Orchestra Vimeo
The International Space Orchestra (ISO) is a team of space scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Life), Singularity University, and the International Space University. In the summer of 2012 in California, ISO performed Ground Control: An Opera in Space composed by a team including:
_ Blur and Gorillaz frontman DAMON ALBARN with BOBBY WOMACK and producer Richard Russell, arranged by GORILLAZ Musical Director MIKE SMITH
_ Japanese superstar and Otamatone inventor, MAYWA DENKI
_ Featuring original music by PENGUIN CAFE's ARTHUR JEFFES
_With lyrics by science fiction author BRUCE STERLING and writer JASMINA TESANOVIC
_ Musical director: Two time Grammy-Award winner EVAN PRICE.
A project directed, produced and created by designer Nelly Ben Hayoun.
ISO members includes NASA Flight Director, Rusty Hunt, performing the role of Eagle, a Capcom (triangle), and NASA center Deputy Director (Lewis Braxton performing the gong) and a NASA astronaut (Yvonne Cagle: percussion).
ISO's first performance took place in front of the World largest windtunnel 80x 120 foot in NASA Ames Research Center on September 6th 2012 (see Teaser here) and its second in San Jose during the ZERO1 Biennial (North America's most significant showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology). In addition, public talks by leading NASA and SETI scientists were curated, giving insights into missions that inspired the musical composition. These included presentations by
Jacob Cohen,
Chief Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Roger Hunter,
Kepler Mission Manager, NASA Ames Research Center
Gerry Harp,
Director of SETI Research
Rusty Hunt,
Flight Director LCROSS and LADEE, NASA Ames Research Center
John Cumbers,
Synthetic Biology Progam, NASA Ames Research Center
Ground Control: An Opera in Space was recorded at Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas' studio, where Star Wars was developed.
In January 2013, the International Space Orchestra feature film had its world premiere at the prestigious Rotterdam International Film Festival and then started a world tour. ISO extends the notion of the `design' in terms of scope, scale, and methods of engagement towards architecture, installations, environments, social system, performances, experiences and narratives, as events. See more about the film here
In May 2013, the International Space Orchestra performed at the San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, in front of 2,700 people with singer BECK. They got a standing ovation for their live performance.
As well as being an unconventional public space outreach event, ISO also acts as an experiential and hybrid interdisciplinary research environment in which space scientists and engineers were invited to implement, deconstruct, perform, sing, mix, modify, and design musical acts in control rooms, acting as a provocation to imagine and human relationships with science and technology and the way in which they can relate to our creative needs.
The International Space Orchestra record is to be sent in space on 5th August, lifting off from Japan on board of a payload for the International Space Station, two satellites ran by the company Nanosatisfi will play the ISO recordings.
Full credit and team on www.groundcontrol-opera.com
The International Space Orchestra's music has been composed and arranged by:
* GROUND- CONTROL: A Neil Armstrong Tribute, an Opera in 3 acts, co-written by LCROSS and LADEE Flight Director Rusty Hunt and Nelly Ben Hayoun based on the Apollo 11 transcripts, arranged by EVAN PRICE (World Premiere)
* The Bravest Man In The Universe: music and lyrics by DAMON ALBARN, BOBBY WOMACK, HAROLD PAYNE and RICHARD RUSSELL. Arranged by MIKE SMITH for the International Space Orchestra
* Wow Signal – 1420 Fanfare PENGUIN CAFE, ARTHUR JEFFES (World Premiere)
* Auraura Choralis, PENGUIN CAFE, ARTHUR JEFFES (World Premiere)
* Kimi Wa Epuron, Boku Wa Pantaron , MAYWA DENKI, Nobumichi Tosa, arranged by Satoru Wono for the International Space Orchestra
* The Kepler Aria, Trad music arranged by Evan Price for the International Space Orchestra, lyrics by BRUCE STERLING and JASMINA TESANOVIC
The International Space Orchestra, Ground-control: An Opera in Space is being performed by:
+ Dr Pete Worden, Head of NASA Ames Research Center- Gong
+ Jacob Cohen, Chief scientist, NASA Ames Research Center- Gong
+ Rusty Hunt, NASA Flight Director LCROSS Lunar Impactor, NASA Ames Research Center- Saxophone
+ Barbara Jo Navarro, Asst. Chief, Flight Systems Implementation Branch at NASA Ames Research Center- Trumpet
+ Yvonne Cagle, NASA Astronaut, NASA Ames Research Center- Bass Drum and triangle
+ Gregory D Paulson, ARC-P, Universities Space Research Association-Trombone
+ Mary Paulson, Gregory N. Paulson's mother-Flute and Piccolo
+ Ralph Bach, Analyst at NASA Ames Research Center, Aviation and Aerospace- Trumpet
+ Frank Caradonna, Aeronautical engineer, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Jazz Band- Piano
+ Robert 'Bob' Crow, Retired, NASA Ames Jazz Band- Saxophone
+ Matthew J Daigle,Research Computer Scientist Intelligent Systems Division NASA Ames Research Center- Guitar
+ Paul K Davis, Instrument Development Technical Group, NASA Ames Research Center- Viola and violin
+Johnathan.W.Conley, NASA Ames research Center-Percussion
+ Larry Farnsley, Electrical Engineer, NASA Ames Jazz Band- String and electric bass
+ Theodore Garbeff,Research engineer at the experimental fluid physics branch, NASA Ames Research Center- Violin
+ Elisabeth B Gee Giessler, Google Employee- Violin
+ Michael A. K. Gross, Software and systems engineer for SOFIA, NASA Ames- Trombone
+ Lukas Gruendler,Research Assistant at SETI Institute- Trombone
+ Vanessa Kuroda, Code RE Electronics Engineer, LADEE Communications, NASA Ames- Piano
+ Matthew Linton,IT Security Specialist at NASA Ames Research Center- Cello
+ Gregory Lindsay,NASA Ames Jazz Band- Drums
+ Rodney Martin,Computer engineer, Intelligent Data Understanding (IDU) Group, NASA Ames Research Center- Percussion and triangle
+ Veronica Phillips,Technical writer, Stinger Gaffarian Technologies, Inc-Clarinet
+ Annette Rodrigues,Former associate director for Center Operations at NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Bluegrass Band- Ukulele
+ David P Roland,Optics Engineer, Telescope Technologist-Dobro and ukulele
+ Peter J Robinson,Computer Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center- Bassoon
+ Arthur Schwartz,Retired, founder and ex-officio member of the Air and Space Education Foundation- French Horn
+ Michael A Wilson,NASA Ames Astrobiology Institute- Saxophone
+ Janice Bishop, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute- clarinet
+ Scott Poll, Intelligent Systems Division. NASA Ames Research Center- violin
+ Aileen Aniciete, Administrative Assistant Intern, NASA Ames Research Center
+ Leighton Anunciacion, Technology Partnerships Division, Deltha-Critique. NASA Ames Research Center
+ Karen Bradford, Chief of Staff, NASA Ames Research Center
+ Craig D Burkhard, Micro 6 Project Advisor, NASA Ames Research Center
+ John Cumbers, Synthetic Biology Program, NASA Ames Research Center
+ Zhenzhen Cumbers, John Cumbers' daughter
+ Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, VP, Operations, Singularity University
+ Aleta Hayes, Lecturer, Stanford, and NASA Ames collaborator
+ Michaela Herman, Web developer, NASA Ames Research Center
+ Sarah Hobart, LADEE, Software and Space Systems manager NASA Ames Research Center
+ Geoffrey Lee, Project Manager, NASA Research Park
+ Derek Love, Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, NASA Ames Research Center
+ Laura Shawnee, Education Specialist at NASA Ames Research Center
+ Marianne Ryan, Director of Leadership & Engagement at Singularity University
+ Jasmina Tesanovic, ISO Librettist
+ Ellen Schwartz, Arthur Schwartz's daughter
+ Jonathan Knowles, Design Chair, Singularity University
Director and Camera: Nelly Ben Hayoun
Camera operator: Karna Sigurðardóttir and Viktor Sebastian
Sound Mixer supervisor: Alan Chang
Camera Assistant: Gregory Singer
Camera Assistant(Flying Couscous Party): Finn Liss
Editing: Bob Weisz
Ways-Means film crew:
Shooter/camera crew director – Sebastian Pardo
Producer – Lana Kim
Director of Photography – Autumn Durald
Shooter – Matthew Miller
Shooter – Jeff Webster
Production Assistant – Stephen Pagano
Sound Recordist: Anthony Enns
Shooter: Jeff J Webster
Sound Engineer / Mixer Jiwoo Han
Production Assistant: Dylan DiMaggio
ISO Graphics
Web Design: Studio Myers
International Space Orchestra vinyl cover artwork: Phil Lee
ISO Catalogue and Invites: Martin Schapiro
International Space Orchestra logo and ISO Logo Patch, Graphic Design by David Benque
First mission Patch design by Timothy Gagnon and Jorge Cartes
Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio Graphic Designer: Maria-Inès Chevallier
Neil Berrett and Nelly Ben Hayoun
Skywalker Sound:
Leslie Ann Jones
Phil Benson


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EPB reports 24,000 homes and businesses without power, saying the heavy snowfall is weighing down branches on power lines.
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