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Last Wednesday and Thursday, I attended two talks, both at lunchtime, at and arranged by the Adam Smith Institute. No event links because information about the first talk has already vanished from the ASI website, and information about the second hasn't yet but presumably soon will.
On Wednesday, Russ Roberts talked about how to do libertarianism. I agreed with pretty much everything he said, having long ago written very similar things, in particular in this. Guy Herbert talked, on Thursday, about the Human Rights Act 1998. He is, with qualifications and hesitations, for it. He told me afterwards that the text of his talk will be available on line very soon, so I'll try to add a link later to this posting, at the bottom. If I fail, perhaps a commenter could remind me. (LATER: Actually, I'll add the link to the text (as Samizdata) here.)
At the talk given by Russ Roberts I forgot to take any pictures. But at the talk given by Guy Herbert yesterday, I remembered. This was the right way round to remember and forget. There are many fine pictures of Russ Roberts on line, far fewer of Guy Herbert.
Here is one of the better ones I took of Guy:
And here, on the left, is another one that I liked:
On the right there is the explanation of the picture on the left. I took it through the gap at the top of the empty chair in front of me. No, I do not know who David Penfold is. I'm guessing he is the David Penfold mentioned as something to do with this.
The audience for the Russ Roberts talk was packed into the small room it was given in. The Guy Herbert talk, in the same room, was less well attended, hence that empty chair in front of me. But that's because its subject matter was less of an ASI core concern. It was about things outside the free market comfort zone. Which is good. That sends out a signal. We don't only operate inside our comfort zone. There is a bigger, wider world out there. We think about that also.
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Yes, dezeen (Dezeen?) continues to be a favourite wwwspot for me. Here are some recent dezeen postings that got my attention, for this or that reason.
First, news that there will be a viewing platform on top of the Walkie Talkie:
The Walkie Talkie Skygarden has yet to open and will, I'm sure, come with a catchier name. But already it is in obvious competition with the Shard – pricey versus free, ascetic steel and glass versus sylvan repose, supreme height versus not being able to see the Walkie Talkie. ...
Very droll. The original was about how you couldn't see the National Theatre from the National Theatre. But me, I am warming to the Walkie Talkie, and I don't just mean I'm standing under it and being fried. I especially like how it looks from a distance. The point being: it looks like the Walkie Talkie. Not just some anonymous rectangular London lump, no, that particular Big Thing. Yes it is not properly beautiful. But neither is London. Besides which, anything that just might compete down the price of going to the top of the Shard has my vote. I'll definitely make my way up there, as soon as they'll let me
Next up, isn't fun when someone hitherto impeccably cool suddenly turns into Grumpy Old Man:
Speaking to Dezeen, the 85-year-old English designer said tech products like the iPhone and Apple Watch were turning people into zombies, adding: "I've got a certain cynicism of Apple and their motives. It's a bit of a monster."
"It's a game they're playing and it's an absolutely straightforward, commercial, ruthless game, and it's dressed up nicely because they've got some talented people in their employ," he said.
Grange, who was knighted in 2013 for services to design, believes that the tech giant has successfully turned Modernism into "good commerce", using aesthetics to dress up a self-perpetuating product cycle.
"There are probably few companies around now that absolutely answer the prospect that Modernism is good commerce," he said. ...
Modernism is good commerce? Can't have that.
… "They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter."
"Almost" there means "not". (See also: essentially, basically, fundamentally, etc. etc. etc.) Because actually, you get plenty of choice about whether to buy Apple stuff or not. Apart from one rather nice keyboard, I never have.
People always talk about the behemoths of capitalism like this, just as they are starting their long slide down into moderate size and moderate success, into business as usual. How do I know Apple is now at the top of that slide? Easy, they are building a custom-designed headquarters. It absolutely yells: from now on, all Apple-persons will talk to each other and keep everyone else out. And what they will be talking about, to an appalling degree, will be their own living arrangements inside this huge circular corporate burial chamber. They're doomed, I tell you, doomed. Someone tell Sir Grumpy (above) that he can relax.
Next: what a driverless car might look like. Not. But, it looks very pretty. The basic point, that driverless cars will in the longer run utterly transform the look of the outdoors is, I think, a very good one. Maybe that is how some of them will look.
I really do not like the way this floating bikeway along the River Thames looks, in the pictures there. At the very least, I say, find a way to avoid having those obtrusive shapes above the level of the track, which makes it look like an infinitely extended item of tasteless garden furniture. I get it, that crap is there to enable it to float up and down on the tide. Well, find another way to do that.
Next, some excellent photos of the High Line, in New York. I especially like the distant aerial view of it curving its way over the Rail Yards, with the spontaneous architectural order of Manhattan's towers in the background.
I do like this rectangular block of a house, but with one end lifted up. Usually the rectangular block houses featured at dezeen are impeccably, terminally tedious. But this one, I like. Apart from the fact that whenever the damn architect called round, you'd have to tidy up all your domestic crap all over everywhere, and turn the place back into the dreary corporate office it resembles in the photos. What is it with architects not wanting homes to look, inside, like homes, but instead like some kind of dystopian hell with nothing in it besides a wooden floor?
Here are some impeccably, terminally tedious rectangular type houses, in Japan. To me, by far, by several hundred miles, the most interesting thing about these photos of them is the amazing amount of electrical crap in the sky over the street outside. If I was photoing in Japan, I would be all over that. More Japanese sky clutter here, in photos of another impeccably, terminally tedious block house with an interior that also looked like a corporate office reception area when the photos were taken.
Google drones. Spooky.
A weird footbridge in Paddington.
Parisian blocks become wavey.
Finally what with this being Friday, some black cats with bronze bollocks. I kid you not.
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Yes, I love it when that happens:
Congratulations to Jackie D for capturing it.
Spent the whole day fretting about not enough people coming to my Last Friday of the Month meeting this evening. Richard Carey would, I knew, be fine, but would the number of listeners be insultingly small? Happily, two people showed up who hadn't emailed that they were coming, and the room was, if not full, at least not embarrassingly empty.
Better yet, I also fixed my speaker for next month, which I had also been fretting about. Priya Dutta, who attended this evening, will be speaking about Education, libertarianism and similar things. The Gove reforms, the various attempts to set up cheap new free enterprise schools of various sorts, that kind of thing. She is a teacher, so this is bound to be good. I'll say more as I learn more.
Too tired to expand on what Richard said (about English Republicanism and its influence in the American colonies and later the USA), other than that in the brackets is what it was about and that it was very interesting. But since this is Friday, here is news of Cats on Kickstarters, and of Catstarter , which I think is a book, or maybe a blog. Also cat related: Ceiling Netanyahu is watching you tunnel.
I've started reading Virginia Postrel's The Future and Its Enemies, years after everyone else who has read it. I haven't got very far yet, but I am delighted to discover that one of the Enemies that Postrel takes several cracks at is John Gray, that being a link to a crack that I took at Gray at Samizdata a while back.
And I see that Postrel, like me, does not confine herself to analysing and criticising Gray's arguments, but notes also the cheapness of the tricks that Gray often uses to present his arguments.
What disguises the trickery, at least in the eyes of Gray and his followers, is the air of profundity that is regarded as being attached to the process of foreseeing doom and disaster. In truth, incoherent pessimism is no more profound than incoherent optimism, which is to say, not profound at all.
Says Postrel (p. 9):
Although they represent a minority position, reactionary ideas have tremendous cultural vitality. Reactionaries speak directly to the most salient aspects of contemporary life: technological change, commercial fluidity, biological transformation, changing social roles, cultural mixing, international trade, and instant communication. They see these changes as critically important, and, as the old Natinoal Review motto had it, they are determined to "stand athwart history, yelling, 'Stop!'" Merely by acknowledging the dynamism of contemporary life, reactionaries win points for insight. And in the eyes of more conventional thinkers, denouncing change makes them seem wise.
Seem. Amen. I'm still proud of this in my piece about Gray, which makes that same point about the seeming wisdom of being a grump rather than a booster:
He trades relentlessly on that shallowest of aesthetic clichés, that misery is more artistic than happiness, that any old rubbish with a sad ending is artistically superior to anything with a happy ending no matter how brilliantly done, that music in a minor key is automatically more significant than anything in C major.
There are plenty more Gray references in Postrel's book, if the Index is anything to go by and it surely is. My immediate future is bright.
I get google emails whenever "3D printing" is mentioned at all prominently on the www, and the latest one definitely got my attention. It linked to a story about a guy who has been 3D printing in his garden.
A building contractor living in Minnesota has developed his own 3D printer which can print concrete directly from CAD design software, and he has used it to 3D-print a castle in his back garden.
Here is how that looks:
Calling that a "castle", as this story does, is a bit of a stretch. At the moment, if this is anything to go by, open-air and architectural 3D printing seems to have all the deft elegance and aesthetic flexibility of a dot matrix printer. But the equivalents of laser printers, and then (what we have now) cheap laser printers, and cheap colour printers, will surely soon be with us. And in due course the building trade will become something completely different, and hence buildings will too.
Yet another reason why I would love to remain alive for another century, just to see how this kind of stuff develops.
In England, this guy would either have failed to get planning permission for this erection, or else he would now be being told to take it down, for having failed to get planning permission.
My latest last Friday of the month meeting was this evening. Thank you Simon Gibbs, and all else who attended. Excellent talk and an excellent evening.
But I spent all day fretting about the meeting instead of doing anything for here, and now that it's over I don't want to say something stupid about the meeting. I'd rather think about that some more and talk sense about it.
So here, instead of proper blogging, are some cat links that I like. Google "cats" and of course you get a ton of stuff. These few were my favourites.
Cats in the movies.
Florida Man Holds Gun to Cat's Head and Posts Picture to Facebook. The www is not amused.
Monkeys fear big cats less, eat more, with humans around.
Feisty feline saves boy from bullies. But, there is no video, so not as good as this.
And for those who share my interest in American politics, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Senate Democrats of meowing like kitty cats and enabling President Barack Obama to enact lawless executive actions like no other president before him. I wouldn't choose cats are a metaphor for lack of independence.
And see also the cat wheel linked to by David Thompson.
Know what's the perfect crime? Murdering a jury. You can't get a fair trial because any jury will be biased against you.
It's Frank J. The J stands for Jenius.
I just came across this video, here, again, which has had many hits on Youtube. Like millions of others, I like it a lot. It's Louis C.K., complaining about people who complain about modern life and all its wondrous new gadgetry. I was going to stick the video here, but it wouldn't fit. (Anyone know how to make it 500 wide instead of 560? Maybe I should redesign my blog wider.) But follow that link and scroll down a bit to where it says: "- it's very funny"; and then, in white on black at the top of the video: "+Everthing's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy". And then click and enjoy.
Part of why improved gadgets don't automatically make us happy is that everyone gets to have a go on them, but what really makes a lot of us happy is improved relative status. New gadgets create a different world, in which we may as likely as not be demoted in status, below others who understand the new gadgets better.
There is also the particular genius of the gadgeteers to be considered, compared to our own ungenii. New gadgets can make many of us feel like savages, out of our depth in a world of wonders, less capable (because utterly incapable of producing such a wondrous gadget), rather than more capable (through possessing the gadget).
In the article linked to, there is speculation that old people are more easily pleased, by things. I certainly enjoy digital photography, as all regulars here will know, and you obviously enjoy that or you'd not be a regular. I also enjoy typing verbiage into my magic machine and this magic blog. Perhaps a reason why these things please me so much is that I am old, and had been waiting for such things to be possible for such a very, very long time. For decades, I fretted about my inability to make pictures without fuss and write stuff without fuss, and show both to other people whenever I felt like it, again without fuss. Now I can do these things. Any envy I feel towards the people who contrived these wonder is dwarfed by the pleasure I get in doing these things, finally. I know, I've been showing off my pictures and babbling away at various blogs for well over a decade. But like I say, I'm old, and more than a decade is nothing to how long I spent waiting for these things to be possible, all the while not even knowing if they ever would be. I had become used to knowing that these things might never happen, which means that I still can't quite believe that they have happened, which means that they still make me happy.
One of my favourite computer functions is Screen Capture. For years, I didn't know how to do this. How is "prt sc" screen capture? I used to just photo the screen. Then I got told, and more to the point, told at a time just before I found many uses for this procedure, and as a result, I actually got it fixed in my head.
So it is that I am able to capture fleeting moments like this one:
That was the passage of play that turned the game England's way, today, on day one of the test match at Headingley. Sri Lanka went from 228-5 and motoring to 229-9, in nine balls. In among all this, Broad got a hat trick, but didn't even realise and had to be told! There was then a little last wicket stand and they got to over 250, but the big damage had been done.
Here is another interesting moment, which is the moment when they show me all the guys who worked on Adobe Photoshop, while I am loading Adobe Photoshop.
But, the trouble is, when I do a Screen Capture while that is happening, it doesn't work. What gets captured is the moment when Adobe Photoshop is finally loaded. Until then, I guess my computer is too busy loading Photoshop to do a Screen Capture. Either all that, or else I just wasn't doing it right, as is entirely possible.
But instead of obsessing about what I might or might not be doing wrong, I instead simply photographed the moment, just like old times:
The reason I wanted to photo this was all the Indian names, in among the occasional regular American ones. Interesting. Where are they all based, I wonder? I'm guessing somewhere in the USA, but what do I know? Adobe seems to have a lot of places where they could be. And of course, if something like Adobe doesn't know how to plug a global network of co-workers together, who does? From where I sit, these Indian guys could be anywhere. Even so, like I say, interesting.
A lot of the Americans I read on the Internet say that Obama is destroying America, and he seems to be doing as much as he can along these lines. But there is a lot of ruin in a country, and a lot of ruin in American. This screen shot suggests that at least parts of the good old American upward economic mobility ladder are working just fine.
I know what you're thinking. This is a tricycle:
That's not a tricycle.
This is a tricycle:
Photoed by me in an alleyway off Lower Marsh, this afternoon.
These are also tricycles
Blog and learn.
I like to browse through Jonathan Gewirtz's photos from time to time, and on my latest browse I came across this photo, of a brightly lit building in Urban Florida. Miami? Don't know, and it doesn't matter.
What particularly got my attention was the fact that Gewirtz included in the picture: his own shadow.
I have taken the liberty of reproducing this detail here. "Copyright ©2011 Jonathan Gewirtz" is what it says just before saying "jonathangewirtz.com", but I trust my little except does not break any rules. (Rules often being the point of copyright violations, I'm guessing. Maybe this particular copyright violation, on its own, would not be a problem, but once the line is crossed, by anyone ...) If Gewirtz wants this little piece of his work removed, he has only to say and it will be removed forthwith.
Okay, with that out of the way, the point that I want to make here is that I suspect that this thing of including your own shadow in pictures is a practice that has filtered upwards to the Real Photographers like Jonathan Gewirtz, from us digital amateurs.
Your own shadow in the picture often starts as a mistake, but then you think: well, okay, that's my shadow, but what's so wrong with that? I was standing there, with the sun behind me. I mean, did you think this wasn't a photograph, and that someone standing there throwing a shadow into the picture wasn't even there? Did you think that God took the picture? Cameras gobble up whatever they see in that moment, and in this moment, for instance, my shadow was part of what it saw. Often, the shadow is all there is, and very amusing it is too.
The crux of the matter is, I think, who the picture is for and what the point of it is. Is it for someone else, someone paying? Is perhaps a happy couple being photographed on their wedding day? In which case, they are the point, not the photographer. Likewise if the point is to photo this dish of salad, or that house interior, or this beloved pet or that sports team, well, the Real Photographer is not being paid to insert himself into the scene, and he will be careful not to.
But if, on the other hand, you are a snapper who is just having a bit of fun, then why shouldn't you, the snapper, also become your own snappee?
But the thing is, when Real Photographers are out having fun, the way Jonathan Gewirtz presumably is when taking photos in Miami or wherever, just because he likes to, they are liable to take their ingrained Real Photographer habits of self-effacement with them. So, interesting that Gewirtz did not do this, at any rate not this time.
I'll end with a slice out of one of these photos:
The crooked forefinger being mine.
Old car factories had a harmful impact on the environment, releasing toxic chemicals into the air, land and water. But it wasn't all ugly. Oddly enough, one of the by-products of car production was Fordite, also known as Detroit agate. The colorful layered objects take their name from agate stones for their visual resemblance. But instead of forming from microscopically crystallized silica over millions of years, Fordite was formed from layers of paint over several tens of years. Back in the day, old automobile paint would drip onto the metal racks that transported cars through the paint shop and into the oven. The paint was hardened to a rock-like state thanks to high heats from the baking process. As the urban legend goes, plant workers would take pieces home in their lunch pails as a souvenir for their wife or kids.
Since then, car production has modernized and Fordite has been rendered a relic of the past. Artisans have been using the colorful material for jewelry but it's not a stretch to imagine a future when these pieces sit behind glass in a museum. The colors can also be used to judge how old they are because car paint was subject to different trends. In the 1940s cars were mostly black or brown enamel while the 1960s ushered in an age of colorful lacquers.
Something tells me the 3D printers will have something to contribute to processes like this. I tried googling "fordite 3d printing" but all I got were lots of pieces about each but, so far as I could see, none about both. Give it time.
Regulars here, or for that matter there, will know that I have for many years now been at enthusiastic fan of the French historian and social scientist Emmanuel Todd. In recent years, this enthusiasm has at last started to become a bit more widespread.
Two of the world's most important Todd-enthusiasts are now James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus. Quite a while ago now, they sent me an email flagging up a piece they had contributed to Hungarian Review, which contains some interesting biography about Todd, and about how his own particular family history contributed towards making him into the historian of the world that he later became.
Todd developed this grand theory, about how literacy triggers particular sorts of political upheavals in particular places, depending on Family Structure, and then when the political dust has settled fuels economic development, But what got Todd thinking about all this?
According to Bennett and Lotus, the starting point was: How Come The French Communists Are Doing So Badly And Never Seem To Do Any Better No Matter What They Try?
He was the product of an extended family of French Communist Party activists and journalists, and grew up hearing his father and relatives arguing around the kitchen table. Anglo-Americans had tended to regard the French Communist Party of that era as formidable, successful, and continually on the verge of seizing power. From the inside, Todd grew up hearing his family lament the eternal failure and futility of the Party. (He left the orthodox Communist movement quite early, and in fact was one of the first scholars to predict, in 1976, the coming collapse of the Soviet system.) For some reason, the Party was well established in certain regions, and completely without support in most others. The Socialists were dominant in others, and it was noticed that the same social classes would tend to support either Socialists or Communists, depending on the region, but never split between the two, and when they failed to support the one, would not switch to the other, preferring alternative parties. In other parts of France, neither party had a foothold, and the same social classes that supported either Socialists or Communists in their stronghold regions supported entirely different, and not particularly Marxist, parties. The reason for this split was constantly debated in Todd's family circle, but no possible explanation seemed to hold water. It was a great mystery.
Once Todd began studies at Cambridge, and encountered what we are calling the Continuity School, he began developing a social analysis that perfectly predicted the voting patterns that had been such a mystery in his family's kitchen debates. France is far from homogenous, and in fact is a patchwork of quite different cultures and family systems. When Todd saw the distribution of the various family systems of France, as established by inheritance rules and customs, he saw at once that both the Communist and Socialist electoral strongholds corresponded to the areas dominated by two distinct family systems. Where other systems prevailed, neither the Communists nor the Socialists could gain any real foothold.
You can see how Todd was perfectly primed to generalise the principle from France, and then England, to the entire world.
In the course of my Todd readings and meanderings, I probably was told (perhaps by Todd himself in his book about French politics (which I have long possessed (and which I see you can now get second hand for £2.81 (in English)))) that Todd had been raised by baffled and frustrated Communists. But I had not really taken it in.
I see cat faces on bags:
On the left, in Trafalgar Square. On the right in a shop window, somewhere or other.
I see Hello Kitty continuing its conquest of the world:
On the left: Patriotic Kitty, both an English Nationalist and a British Unionist. (Hello Kitty is patriotic everywhere.) On the right: Hello Kitty colonises one of my local supermarkets. Today shower gel, tomorrow, who knows? One day, there will be Hello Kitty versions of everything.
And now I see this vast cat face on the outside of a building site at the top end of Victoria Street:
Note the surveillance camera right in front of it. Those things are also now everywhere.
This huge cat face was what got me noticing that Victoria Masterplan.
Apparently the cat face is an art installation. Scroll down here if you doubt me:
A bold new art installation has landed here at Nova, Victoria. The enigmatic gaze of a 37ft tall black cat will become the new landmark to greet people as they arrive in SW1. Taking up residence on site, the portrait is the first European commission by American artist, Marlo Pascual. The chic black cat occupies the Victoria Street facade of our four storey site cabins, converting a disheartening grey slab into the most stimulating of canvases.
The untitled installation kicks off a series of iconic and non-conformist art projects that will unfold at Nova, Victoria on its journey to becoming the most forward-thinking and aspirational place to work, live, eat, drink, shop and enjoy in London's West End.
So, people, nice big photos of cat faces are now iconic and non-conformist. Modern Art eat your heart out.
(See also the bit where a discussion about "THE FUTURE OF LONDON DINNING" is advertised.)
All of which pales into insignificance beside what has undoubtedly been the week's biggest cat news, which concerned an amazing YouTube video of a cat attacking a dog. This story is now everywhere. The dog was doing serious damage to the youngest son of the family, and was about to do even more serious damage than that. But the dog reckoned without Tara the Cat, who launched what looked like a suicide bomber attack on the dog, which not surprisingly caused the dog to retreat. Tara behaved exactly as if the small boy was one of her kittens.
Cats are complained about for being like perfectly evolved parasites on humans. We feed them, stroke them, put a warm roof over their heads, buy anything with cat faces on it, and in return they do pretty much nothing.
Tara, on the other hand, has surely repaid any debts she ever owed.


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INDIANAPOLIS – Ed Carpenter waited a whole year to see his Indianapolis 500 dream come crashing down yet again.
Then he let everyone know how he angry he was about it.
The Indianapolis native and pole-sitter shouted at James Hinchcliffe on the track, chided him on national television for making an "amateur move" and then said he considered punching Hinchcliffe in the face after a late crash involving Townsend Bell took out both drivers Sunday.
"Not a smart move. It wrecked both of our races," Carpenter said. "I told him if he didn't have a concussion last week that I would have punched him in the face."
The tense ride to the infield medical center stood in stark contrast to the playful digs the two drivers tossed around at a news conference when Hinchcliffe was finally cleared to drive May 15. Hinchcliffe was injured during the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis when a piece of debris hit him in the head May 10. After qualifying first and second May 18, they celebrated together on the podium, too.
But on Sunday, the usually subdued Carpenter was irate even as Hinchcliffe acknowledged he was at least partly to blame.
"Probably my fault, probably Townsend's fault and certainly not Ed's fault," Hinchcliffe said.
That was little solace to Carpenter, who had become Indy's first back-to-back pole winner since Helio Castroneves in 2009 and 2010. Last year, Carpenter's car didn't perform as well as he'd hoped and he wound up 10th. He came back this year with a car he thought was better.
Carpenter led 26 laps and consistently ran in the top five most of the day – until Hinchcliffe hit him from the inside and sent both cars hard into the SAFER barrier.
"You've got to go for it," Hinchcliffe explained. "I actually don't think Townsend knew it was three wide. Like I said, I was the last guy there, so I've got to accept some of the blame."
There was one other way Carpenter could have avoided the disastrous finish. When the leaders pitted on lap 170, eventual winner Ryan Hunter-Reay beat Carpenter onto the track by about 0.5 seconds. Had Carpenter been first out, he would have been safely in front of the melee and perhaps on his way to Victory Lane.
Instead, Carpenter went from second to 27th, Hinchcliffe dropped from fourth to 28th and Bell went from third to 25th after a crash on lap 191 brought out the red flag.

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High on Fire Announce North American TourPosted in Whathaveyou on July 31st, 2014 by H.P. Taskmaster
Presumably this is the tour during which High on Fire will shake off the stage rust from writing their new album. I'm not sure if they've recorded yet, but 2012's De Vermis Mysteriis (review here) was tracked with Kurt Ballou, and he's in Salem, MA, so starting off in Cambridge coming out of the studio would make sense. Either way, it seems fair to expect a new song or two will work its way into the set as they make their run across the country with stops off at the Hopscotch Music Festival and Motörhead's Motörboat cruise, which one can only assume they will promptly sink.
Whether they're road-testing new material or taking it out for a victory lap, High on Fire are an unremitting stage act, so anytime they're coming through town, that's where you want to be. But you already know that.
Fresh off the PR wire:
HIGH ON FIRE Announces North American Tour Dates
Uber-Power Trio to Headline First-Ever Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour; Locked in to Perform at Both 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival and Motörhead's Motörboat Rock Cruise
Herculean hard rock heavyweights HIGH ON FIRE have announced summer tour dates. The globally celebrated heavy metal pioneers will kick off the must-see live performances on August 12 in Cambridge, MA as headliners of the inaugural Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour. The just-announced run will continue with stops in Toronto (Aug. 14), Brooklyn (Aug. 15), Los Angeles (Aug. 19) and San Francisco (Aug. 20). Tickets for the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour are free (see below for ticketing links) and the jaunt will coincide with Converse Rubber Tracks "pop-up" recording studios in each city, providing opportunities for emerging artists to unleash their creative spirit.
Additionally, HIGH ON FIRE will appear among the featured acts at the 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival, set to take place September 4-6 in Raleigh, NC. HIGH ON FIRE, who feature guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz, will headline the Lincoln Theater on Saturday, Sept. 6 as part of the festival, with Witch Mountain, Subrosa and Demon Eye opening the evening's festivities. HIGH ON FIRE will showcase at Hopscotch alongside fellow headliners Mastodon, St. Vincent, Sun Kil Moon, The War on Drugs and more. For full details, visit HopscotchMusicFest.com.
Finally, HIGH ON FIRE will take its audio annihilation to the sea as part of the inceptive Motörhead's Motörboat. Described as "the ultimate music festival cruise vacation", the seafaring soiree will set sail September 22-26 from Miami, FL aboard a Carnival Cruise ship, christened as "The Loudest Boat In The Wörld". Joining HIGH ON FIRE will be Motörhead (natch), Megadeth, Anthrax, Zakk Wylde, DOWN, Testament and more. Visit MotorheadCruise.com for full details.
HIGH ON FIRE North American tour dates:
** = Converse Rubber Tracks Tour presents HIGH ON FIRE
# = Blackest supports
% = Arctic supports
August 12 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair ** #
August 14 Toronto, ON Adelaide Hall ** #
August 15 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg ** #
August 19 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex ** %
August 20 San Francisco, CA The Chapel ** %
September 6 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Festival (w/ Mastodon, Sun Kil Moon, St. Vincent, Valient Thorr, etc.)
September 19 Tampa, FL The Orpheum
September 20 Miami, FL Grand Central
September 21 Orlando, FL Will's Pub ?
September 22 THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN as part of Motörhead's Motörboat (w/ Megadeth, Anthrax, DOWN, etc.)
September 27 Portland, OR Dantes
HIGH ON FIRE have begun work on their new, as-yet-untitled studio album. The group has convened for strategic writing sessions in both New Orleans, LA and Oakland, CA, with early reports indicating the band's new material to be both "epic" and "sonically huge". A 2015 tentative release date via eOne Music is expected for the new LP, the follow-up to 2012's De Vermis Mysteriis.
"Everyone is asking what the new High on Fire music sounds like," says Des Kensel. "Chew on some mescaline and listen to side B of Sabbath's "Master of Reality" backwards at 78 RPM and it might give you an idea."


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The Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation celebrates its eighth anniversary on Thursday. The group offers support and training to Latino businesses in Omaha.
Many of the 400 Latino-owned businesses the MLCDC supports are along South 24th Street. The organization has a simple mission, to help Latinos run successful businesses and bring jobs and economic growth to their community.
They train, in Spanish, about business plans, finding loans and grants and understanding marketing and markets. The businesses range from restaurants to construction companies and auto body shops to craft shops. Also, a growing list of child care centers like one started by Aleyda Toscano in her home two years ago that continues to grow.
MLCDC President Marta Londono-Mejia says businesses like Toscano's help promote growth in the Latino community. "These women are making the difference, not only making a difference with the children, but with the jobs that they have created, but to educate the future generations of children is very important."
Anyone just starting out can use this information:
-Write out a clear business plan. Put your dreams on paper.
-Go to a bank, ask questions and look for loans.
-Make sure there's a market for what you're selling.
-Find employees that have the skills needed to make and sell the product.
The Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation's eighth anniversary celebration goes from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday at its office near South 24th and N streets.


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Kris Smith was the lucky man in the middle of Jennifer Hawkins and Rebecca Judd at the Melbourne Cup when they joined forces for Myer today. Kris looked smart in a suit by Arthur Galan AG while Rebecca chose a very colourful, printed creation by Nicola Finetti and accessorised with a headpiece by Kerrie Stanley. Kris and Rebecca teamed up for the Myer Fashions on the Field launch last Thursday and often hit the runway to model racewear for the department store, though it seems like Rebecca's role with Myer may change in the future. Weigh in on all the Melbourne Cup style with our fashion and beauty polls, and stay tuned for more from the big day!
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LGL leukemia is a relatively rare, malignant blood disease of the mature T-cells and, in many cases, it is related to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The pathogenetic mechanism of the disease has been unknown and it has previously been unclear if the disease is an overreaction of the normal defense system or a malignant hematological disease.
One of the key symptoms of LGL disease is a low count of white blood cells (neutrophils), which may predispose the patients to life-threatening infections.
It was discovered that patients suffering from LGL leukemia have a mutation in the STAT3 gene in a very restricted SH2 area, which has a key effect on the function of the gene. This is not an inherited gene mutation but a so-called acquired mutation. The cause for the mutation is not known, but probably chronic viral infection or some other long-term antigen exposure can be predisposing factors. The STAT3 gene plays a key role in many cell signaling pathways.
After the finding, the prevalence of the mutation in LGL patients was verified using a larger patient group (77 patients) in cooperation with research groups at the Ohio (Prof. Maciejewski) and Pennsylvania (Prof. Loughran) Universities. It was discovered that 40% of all LGL patients present with the STAT3 mutation.
In the future, this result can be utilized in diagnosing the disease and possibly also in treatment, since the first STAT3 inhibitors are already undergoing early clinical trials. In addition, the research discovered that those LGL patients who had a mutation in the STAT3 gene were also more likely to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Hence, the research group intends to clarify next if patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis can be found with similar gene mutations. If such mutations were to be found this would introduce new opportunities to the pathogenetic mechanisms of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
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Is there a flat Smart Lipo price or do you pay per area? Does the amount of fat you have taken out affect the cost of SmartLipo?
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Smart lipo cost in Miami
Seems none of the answers address the question. "How much does Smart Lipo cost?"
Since I've been using the Smart Lipo from its' initial FDA approval in Dec. of 2006, having done over 1500 cases of Smart Lipo, seeing the new generations of each Smart Lipo advance I will answer the question on costs.
I charge per area with a set up fee. I also do most (90%) of my Smart Lipos under local + deep sedation or LMA general anesthesia. The set up fees include the Smart lipo fiber, staff, supplies, anesthesia fees, girdles. This set up fee runs $800 to $1200 depending on the time of surgery. Than I charge per area either $500, if small, to $1000, if larger.
For example: a Complete abdomen (upper + lower or over 8 grids) is 2 areas at $1000 each or $2000. Plus hips (1 area) + back (1 area) = another $2000. Plus set up of $800. Gives a total of $4800. In this example I would liposuction out 2 to 3 liters of melted fat, as a second part to the operation. This resolves the free fatty acids issue.
Post operative lymphatic massages are a separate fee of 5 sessions for $375 to $500.
I hope this gives the questioners an outlook to the fees.
I also after reading the posting responses much give a thanks to Dr Petti in LA for a very detailed description of Smart Lipo. Though not exactly how I do it, her description is very informative.
Thanks for reading.
Smartlipo surgeon's fees for fat melting
Smartlipo is laser-assisted liposuction. The Smartlipo MULTIPLEX (MPX) utilizes a blend of 2 laser wavelengths that have different qualities and functions in terms of both fat melting and skin tightening. I have been performing Smartlipo for over 1 year and the results have been very satisfying for both the patients and for me. There have been 2 upgrades in the computer technology of Smartlipo since my purchase of the Smartlipo machine. The upgrades have permitted the use of more energy, a blend of 2 laser wavelenghts for more effective melting of the fat and more directed and precise treatment patterns for skin tightening.
In my practice, when I perform Smartlipo MPX, the first Phase of every Smartlipo procedure involves melting the fat with a special blend of the 2 laser wavelenghts (after infiltration of tumescent salt water solution with Lidocaine as the anesthetic and epinephrine as the vasoconstricting agent to decreasing bleeding and bruising). The second Phase of the Smartlipo procedure involves very specific skin tightening using 5 x 5 cm grids over areas where the skin requires tightening. The skin is heated to temperatures that cause skin to tighten through interactions with dermal collagen. This is what separates Smartlipo from other methods of liposuction.
The fiberoptic cable that permits the laser light to specifically heat the fatty tissues, is changed to wavelenghts of light that heat the dermis and the amount of heat delivered is not only measured, but the heat rise in the skin is also measured directly in the cable. This temperature elevation in the dermis is what assist the skin shrinkage, and it is important that the temperature guidelines be closely monitored throughout the procedure, not only to get an improved outcome over tradtional and other types of liposuction, but also to prevent over-heating of the skin.
This second phase is what takes time, and not all Smartlipo surgeons take the time to effect the result of skin tightening. I focus on this, as I want my patients to have the best chance possible for skin tightening, since this has always been the rate-limiting step in liposuction, since its inception decades ago. I perform the skin tightening portion of the procedure methodically and scientifically, recording temperatures in each section of the grid pattern.
This is why in my practice, Smartlipo has a higher base cost, as it takes longer and uses technology based on specific laser effects on fatty tissue and skin. Higher technology in any field, has higher price tags. It costs more to fly in a high speed jetliner, like a Concord, than an airbus. The very good news is that Smartlipo uses a very thin fiberoptic cable that is almost imperceptible in terms of being "felt" by the patient, so 1 or 2 anatomical areas of the body, for instance, the common combinations of abdomen and hips, the arms and underarm area, the back and flanks, can be treated under local anesthesia.
Therefore, the operating room charges are much less than liposuction under general anesthesia. There is a saving her in terms of the OR fee. If patients want to have more than 2 large areas of liposuction, then general anesthesia is required, as the amount of lidocaine needed will surpass the safe dosage limits for the patient's weight. Anesthesiology fees and higher operating room fees are associated with large volume liposuction of larger areas or combined anatomical areas being done in a single operation.
I base the Smartlipo fees under local anesthesia, on the number of anatomic areas, usually 2, and also the amount of fat that requires treatment and the amount of skin that requires tightening.
Patients are under the impression that Smartlipo in less expensive in terms of the surgeon's fee, however, if a surgeon, like me, focuses a large portion of the procedure on skin tightening in a gird pattern to get the best outcome using the best technology, then the cost may be higher. An individual that has less fat, needs a smaller area of tightening and therefore the OR time may have a lower cost than a patient that has more fat in the 2 anatomic areas, as the fat melting and skin tightening will take longer.
I hope this is a good explanatiion for the potential patient who is considering Smartlipo, so that they understand that there is a price for the laser technology (it is not a gimmick and there is science backing the results of Smartlipo), and the increased time that I spend on heating the skin after melting the fat, to effect skin tightening. The skin tightening portion of the Smartlipo procedure- to be effective takes time -and I am willing to spend the time for the patient to try to give them the best outcome, using what I have found to be the best technology in my liposuction experience of over 20 years.
"$martLipo" machine costs about $100,000
I posted an answer on RealSelf.com 14 months ago, reviewing "Cool Lipo and Smart Lipo from a surgeon's view." In this answer, I reviewed the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery scientific journal article noted in Dr. Brzowski's article, and appreciate his pointing out his take on this as well. Interestingly, this answer received 20 votes of "helpful" out of 23.
In terms of cost, these fancy "machines" that doctors use commonly go for around 100K, and the SmartLipo machines are in this range. The money to pay for this comes from fees charged to the patient. So, a physician has no choice but to hope that such a machine drives in a lot more business, or else the only way to make up the cost is purely through higher fees. I have taken care of patients that have had burns requiring surgical procedures to repair from these "better" technologies of laser lipolysis and ultrasonic liposuction.
Bottom Line: Judge for yourself. There are numerous patient reports on this website, both pro and con, regarding SmartLipo and other technologies. In my mind, the public does seem to have a love affair with anything that says or rhymes with "Laser." But try to get beyond the marketing stuff as best you can. RealSelf.com is a valuable tool to help you do just that. Hope this helps.
Web reference: http://www.ColoradoPlasticSurgery.com
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SmartLipo is a gimmick. Don't go for it.
Hi! I don't know a single board certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan who uses SmartLipo. So you can draw your own conclusions. It does not produce better results and it is more expensive than tumescent liposuction. In general, avoid any operation tnat has a brand name or a catchy title.
As with all operations, it is the surgeon and not the machine that produces the result. Go to a plastic surgeon and ask to see a lot of before and after pictures.
Cost of Smart Lipo (or any lipo procedure) varies
The price for any liposuction will vary depending on the area and the amount of time required to perform the procedure.
I perform quite a lot of liposuction, but I do not perform SmartLipo and I have no plans to incorporate this procedure into my practice. I have seen absolutely no published medical studies that show any advantage of Smart Lipo to traditional liposuction, but there is a possibility of addtional complications with "Smart Lipo."
When selecting a physician to perform liposuction, be sure to look for a board certified plastic surgeon with admitting privileges to a local hospital. As crazy as this sounds, most physicians performing liposuction are not board certified plastic surgeons, and in many cases, the doctors have absolutely no formal surgical training whatsoever. For some, a weekend course may be the extent of their training.
Even if a physician performs surgery in an accredited O.R. rather than a hospital, hospital admitting privileges are imperative. Be safe, and take your time researching your doctor. Start by asking if they are certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Web reference: http://www.michaellawmd.com
How Much Does Smart Lipo Cost?
Hi, we have the SmartLipo Triplex in both our Tampa and Orlando offices. There are many answers for and against the technology. I would just like to say that the most important thing is the doctor performing the surgery. You can have the best technology in the world but if it is not used correctly, you are not going to get good results.
The benefits of SmartLipo is that it makes it easier to remove the fat, decreases the amount fo bleeding and bruising and stimulates the collagen to improve skin tightening. The Triplex has the advantage over previous version in that the 1440 wavelength is the most specific wavelength for fat and also procduces the least amount of thermal energy, thus decreasing the chance of burns.
I perform all my SmartLipo under local anesthesia with oral sedation. Patients do great. When patients want a lot of areas done, we usually break it up over 2 days. This way it can still be done under local anesthesia and avoid the risks of general anesthesia.
As far as pricing goes, we charge $3500 for one area. We offer discount packages for multiple areas.
I charge for time spent in the procedure.
I charge my patients based on the time that I will spend in the procedure. I think this is the most equitable way to charge for all patients. I have a lot of patients that are personal trainers and just need small areas treated and that should be billed differently than some of my other patients that have larger amounts of fat that need removal even if it is in the same anatomic area.
My charges are also based on whether you will need general anesthesia (typically much larger, more extensive cases) or whether you will need only local numbing medicine in my procedure room.
Regional differences in cost are also common. Utah typically has much lower overhead costs and therefore lower procedure fees. That's one of the reasons why Utah has become a plastic surgery "tourist attraction".
How much does Smartlipo cost?
I have been using Smartlipo MPX and Triplex since early 2009, over three years now. Having accumulated a great deal of experience, I find that the latest technical developments using the 1440 wavelength and the Cellulaze SideLase fibers have resulted in excellent outcomes for my patients.
For example, a woman with some loose skin of the abdomen, a common condition, will not get any skin tightening with tradition liposuction. Using the SmartlipoTriplex with the ThermaGuide, heat can be applied to shrink the skin. The ThermaGuide allows the precise application of heat to the under-surface of the skin since the laser computer registers the instantaneous skin temperature and can be programmed to shut off slightly above the therapeutic range, usually 45-47 degrees Centigrade.
There is a new upgrade to the Smartlipo Triplex, the Cellulaze, used in the long-term treatment of cellulite. Using the Cellulaze side-firing fiber, even more precision in the application of heat is possible, with the same built-in safety features. The SideLase fiber is directional, allowing heat to be directed primarily to the under-surface of the skin. At the end of a Smartlipo Triplex procedure, the subdermal skin temperature can be methodically elevated to 45-47 degrees. Skin contraction continues for six months, according to the Cellulaze studies, and should be the same when applied to other areas.
These latest devices are not the same as the old Smartlipo that any doctor could buy. The Cellulaze is being sold only to board-certified plastic surgeons. In the hands of an experienced board-certified plastic surgeons, using ThermaGuide, the chance of experiencing a thermal injury or burn, should be extremely small.
When used for body contouring, the most important factor is the skill of the surgeon. I think that Smarlipo Triplex adds an excellent tool in the hands of a board-certified plastic surgeon. Having twenty years of experience with traditional, vaser ultrasonic and Smartlipo Triplex assisted liposuction, I would say the each is effective in good hands and each has particular applications.
Smartlipo Triplex and Cellulaze procedures are very well tolerated in the office operating room with oral sedation and no need, in my hands, for any IV or inhalation anesthesia. The patients are comfortable during the procedure and are able to get up and go home with a responsible adult after the procedure.
Because of the multiple steps required, marking, prepping, draping, infiltration of tumescent anesthesia, application of laser energy to the deep and superficial fat layers, removal of the liquefied fat with special non-traumatic cannulas, and then skin heating, this is a tedious and somewhat involved process. It is relatively expensive in terms of time and resources, including the very expensive laser equipment.
We price Smartlipo by area and how much fat will be removed, since larger areas take longer. However, even small abdomens require all the steps enumerated above and require special care to bring out the underlying anatomy, retain normal skin thickness and tighten the skin. Current pricing as of July, 2012, starts at 4500 for one area, e.g. abdomen, inner or outer thighs, and 6,500 for an area or equivalent to all around the abdomen, waist and flanks. Included is a Cosmetassure cosmetic insurance policy that we purchase for every patient undergoing a covered cosmetic procedure such as liposuction.
Cellulaze treatment for cellulite is 4000 for the first area, bilaterally, then 2500 for each additional area. Treating cellulite all around the thighs is usually three areas, so patient cost is between 4000 and 9,000.
Web reference: http://www.enhanced-you.com/cellulaze-anti-cellulite-treatment/
Smart Liposuction cost can vary
Smart liposuction is not for everyone but if you are a good candidate the cost can vary from state to state. In our cosmetic center, the cost ranges from $2000 for the first area and then $500 for each additional area. We have the newest laser for smart liposuction and have become one of their teaching centers. The procedure does take slightly longer then traditional liposuction but the recovery can be a little easier on the patient.
Web reference: http://www.smartlipoalabama.com/
Smart Lipo cost: Fees for any procedure can vary widely
There are many factors that come into play when having liposuction. One factor includes whether the surgeon is a board certified surgeon, or even a a surgeon for that matter. It can also depend on whether liposuction (such as power assisted liposuction or vaser) are going to be performed along with the procedure. Try to get several opinions from several board certified plastic surgeons who are members of ASAPS prior to making your decision. Good luck.
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