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MusiColor Music Player Review! Oh, technology, why do you make all sorts of cool things possible after I'm too old to play with all your new inventions? Case in point, the MusiColor player by Delta Creative, which brings together two of my absolute favorite kid activities in one technologically advanced bundle. This is not one of those "why didn't I think of that?" products, and instead occupies an entirely different category, the "how on earth did anyone think of that?" products. The MusiColor is a turntable styled player with a rotating base and an arm that reads the music discs. Just like the toy record players of my youth, the MusiColor player can captivate kids for hours and really allow their appreciation of music to develop at a young age. Even cooler is that the MusiColor plays children's tunes through the built-in speakers at the push of a button in your choice of piano, horn or violin notes, which can even be switched back and forth mid-tune so your Mozart can really get creative. But, that's not even the coolest part. The "discs" that the MusiColor is playing are what makes this product Rave worthy, and why this was our top pick of presents for our 4 year old nephew this last Christmas. Instead of plastic or vinyl records as played on the record players of old, this little music player reads colored sheets that your little one has created, making this one of the most innovative children's products we've seen in a long time. So, here's the basics of how the MusiColor works: Your little artist colors by number (or, letter, as the case may be) on the coloring discs using the included Music Note Markers, taking care to match the music note pens with the correct lettered object. After your artist is finished, you then pop the colored disc onto the MusiColor player, turn the turntable on and press play. And that's when our friend technology steps in, allowing the MusiColor turntable arm to "read" the colored discs and play back one of 14 popular children's songs based on the colors your artist has rendered. While the technical aspects of the MusiColor are a complete mystery to me, what is clear is that this is going to be a huge hit with kids aged 4 and up. While my four year old nephew made a few minor mistakes in the color by letter introduction, he actually was able to create some recognizable (while not perfect) renditions of the popular tunes, and had a blast doing it. The two different colors of "C" note pens was a bit confusing to him, but it made for a great opportunity to explain keys and octaves (and yes, I'm fairly certain he still thinks I'm crazy). While an older child might have taken more away from the lesson, he got the basic idea that following directions carefully and coloring inside the lines can make for some beautiful results. As much fun as the pre-printed color by letter discs are, I am so excited by the inclusion of the 5 Create-A-Song discs so kids can really experiment with music and actually learn the basics of composing. While your little one's musical masterpiece may be more of a work in progress, every minute spent composing is a learning experience, and one that very few toys can replicate. Every wrong note is another chance to learn the basics of musical composition, and every right note is proof that play can sometimes lead to unexpected results… and in this case, rockin' tunes. Get the PTPA winning Musicolor at Delta Creative for $49.99. http://deltacreative.com/ Watch a YouTube video of the MusiColor in action


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Erik Pieters' first Barclays Premier League goal secured a 1-0 win for Stoke City as they condemned Newcastle United to a fourth straight defeat.
The Dutchman found the net when his overhit cross from the edge of area looped over the head of Tim Krul just before the break. Peter Crouch could have extended the lead, spurning a flurry of headed chances, while Dan Gosling wasted Newcastle's best opening early on.
The result continues Stoke's impressive run at home, where they are unbeaten in the past six matches. Newcastle came into Saturday's game in poor form, having conceded 11 goals in a run of three consecutive defeats. It is a far cry from their position after a 5-1 victory over Mark Hughes' side in December, when Newcastle moved up to sixth and just three points adrift of a UEFA Champions League berth.
Alan Pardew's men were almost behind inside 10 minutes at the Britannia Stadium. A teasing cross from Marko Arnautovic found Crouch inside the six-yard box but the striker's header hit a post. Newcastle have only managed one league goal without absent striker Loic Remy in the starting line-up this season, but the visitors were handed a great chance to improve on that record two minutes later, when a Shola Ameobi flick-on found Gosling inside the area. But for the former Everton man could only divert his effort over the bar.
Newcastle began to look more comfortable in possession, with both Ameobi and Papiss Cisse causing problems. But the hosts responded after 26 minutes, when Arnautovic teed up Steven N'Zonzi and then Peter Odemwingie two minutes later, but neither could hit the target.
Stoke were rewarded for their efforts three minutes before the break as Pieters' lofted cross from the left eluded everyone, floating over the head of Netherlands team-mate Krul and into the net.
Arnautovic continued to provide a threat to the visitors and found Crouch again just after half-time, only for the towering striker to loop his header over the bar. Crouch had another great opportunity just after the hour, getting ahead of Mike Williamson before heading Geoff Cameron's cross straight at Krul.
Adam Armstrong and Hatem Ben Arfa were thrown on for the visitors as they looked to unlock a resolute home defence, but Stoke remained the better side. Arnautovic raced away once again down the left 15 minutes from time, before squaring to substitute Charlie Adam, who skewed his shot wide.
Vurnon Anita headed over for Newcastle late on after good work from Ameobi as the visitors searched for an equaliser, but Stoke held on to move to within three points of Pardew's charges.
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The cloud, in theory, is supposed to help make the lives of IT professionals in schools a little bit easier. Assuming all of the privacy issues are addressed, does the practice support the theory?
According to Larry Steinke, technology director Saint Francis High School, it does. The private co-educational, college-preparatory school in Mountain View, CA, has approximately 1,700 students, more than 100 faculty members, and only two IT staff people. Overwhelmed by the need to support multiple devices accessing e-mail, documents, and Internet, in addition to all of the usual network duties in a school, Saint Francis turned to the cloud for help.
In addition to moving away from an on-site system backup, the school is leveraging other cloud resources to manage access to data via the cloud. Expensive yet essential resources--such as disaster recovery--are coming down in price and improving accessibility for school IT staff, Steinke said. As a result, Steinke said, his staff has more time, and everyone is getting better service.
Margo Pierce: What promoted your decision to move to cloud storage, and why did you choose the service providers you chose?
Larry Steinke: We have chosen various cloud service providers based upon their demonstrated ability to meet our objectives for data storage, reliability, compatibility, and cost. With respect to disaster recovery, cloud storage also removes many of the issues related to hardware and software compatibility. We can also review and recover backup files from a central location without the need to find tapes or compatible tape drives.
Pierce: You are using the cloud for e-mail, Web services, directory services, cross-platform support, databases, business office support, teacher files, and student files. Are there any other services you use that are leveraging the cloud?
Steinke: Those are all primarily the applications and data we store using the cloud. Remote file access has greatly benefited from our inclusion [of] cloud services. Both hosted and private [on-site] cloud solutions have opened collaborative opportunities that simply were not possible due to costs or complexity in the past.
Pierce: What are the top benefits you get from using the cloud for data storage and services?
Steinke: Key features we see through the use of a cloud-based data protection solution include:
Pierce: Have there been any surprises?
Steinke: We were pleased to learn that some cloud solutions come with robust online monitoring and reporting tools, which make managing the data relatively simple.
For example, with Zetta we have a one-stop view of all of our backup targets and their status. And, if there ever is a problem, I get an e-mail right away from the system, and the Zetta.net tech support is already on it to help. Each of the cloud providers employ specialists that are experts in storage and server maintenance. Using these solutions is, in effect, similar to hiring additional system administrators to assist our day-to-day operations.
Pierce: Hop up on the soap box so that you can share anything you like about cloud storage.
Steinke: When it comes to managing data for an educational organization, you have many different "customers" to serve. And each has a different level of technology skill and knowledge. Especially if you have students using computer labs where important files and work can easily become lost--and are needed right away at finals time. Having a reliable data protection strategy that is easy and effortless to manage makes everyone more successful.
It's also a huge relief to know that all your data is protected in case of a natural disaster. Having a cloud-based solution for storage and backup gives me the peace of mind knowing that our school's data is reliably protected and easy to recover at any time--whether it's a single file or entire servers.
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Uproar over student newspaper's politically incorrect Trayvon Martin cartoon
Eisner, a scholarship student who grew up near Houston, explained: "I feel the news should be unbiased. And in the retelling of this particular event, I felt that that was not the case. My story compared this situation to yellow journalism in the past, where aspects of news stories were blown out of proportion with the intention of selling papers and enticing emotions."
In its apology, on the other hand, The Daily Texan noted that Eisner had been fired, and it explained that "the decision to run the cartoon showed a failure in judgment on the part of the editorial board. We have engaged in meaningful dialogue with many people who shared their concerns and outrage with us."
Unless you've been living completely isolated and cut off from the civilized world testing out your doomsday bunker for the last few weeks you undoubtedly have found yourself inundated with news, opinion, and commentary on the Trayvon Martin shooting. In a nutshell, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer was keeping an eye on a possibly suspicious black male, was then possibly viciously attacked by said male for doing so, and then in a possible act of self-defense shot and killed his possible attacker.
For the month and a half since then whites, law enforcement, government, and about any authority figure except President Obama (who in effect informed us that he possibly might have had a son who might have had a passing resemblance to and worn a hoodie like the now deceased Mr. Martin and possibly suffered his same fate), has been lambasted for not immediately making a rush to judgment and locking up a very unlucky Mr. Zimmerman in the stockade for possibly defending himself from his possible attacker.
The threatened public lynching of Zimmerman has now been moved from outside the court of law to within it as the basically previously exonerated defender of life and limb has now been charged with 2nd degree murder. One can only suppose the bloodlust of the mob must be fulfilled even in the modern age. It's an amazing thing to watch as the media-driven frenzy has continually stoked the fire of racial hate and strife across the land for weeks on end.
As the above article points out, what may or may not have been a simple case of self-defense, or the panicky overreaction of a scared man, has now not only taken on the cloak of a racial incident but is swiftly drifting into the ideological realm as well. Daring to not immediately swallow the official media and 'progressive' line that an innocent, skittle-eating, happy-go-lucky kid was simply gunned down in cold blood for 'walking while black' can now result in public consequences and punishments as Miss Eisner found out the hard way.
Good for her for merely pointing out the obvious and for those who are standing up for her. One of the great lies of liberalism is that it encourages independent thinking, free speech, and racial reconciliation. The exact opposite is reality and the tried and true tactics of speech suppression, forced conformity, and racial tension are being played out before our eyes in an orchestrated and coordinated manner.
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Camels Win Conroy Division Championship February 20, 2014 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The Connecticut College men's squash team has won the Conroy Division Championship. Under the direction of Head Coach Barry Ward, and bolstered by the leadership of co-captains Hunter Bolling (Wilmington, Del.) and Mike Coscarelli (West Hartford, Conn.), the Camels (14-12) closed out their season with a five-match winning streak to win their flight and finish 25th in the Country. [read more]
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Sluder Leads Camels to Shutout Victories Against Northeastern & Haverford January 20, 2014 SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.--The Connecticut College men's squash team posted shutout victories against Northeastern University and Haverford College in a 2-2 weekend of action in Western Massachusetts. [read more]
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The last time I had a chance to see Andy Falkous live was in 2004, when Mclusky were touring to support The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire. I had my tickets in-hand and my friend and fellow TMT-er Paul Bower visiting from out of town, only to discover Bower's underage ass wasn't 21 enough to get into the venue. Of course, Mclusky disintegrated less than a year later, and ever since I've been plagued with regret over that (in hindsight) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So long story short, Future of the Left's show at Bottom Lounge came with a fair share of emotional baggage.
{Team Band} was just wrapping up as I arrived. The group stumbled through a few slices of mostly straightforward guitar pop like a drunken wedding band, but they earned my affection by closing with an impromptu cover of The Misfits' "Where Eagles Dare." Singer/guitar player Lauren Larson of Austin's {Ume} took the stage looking like she'd just clocked out from an American Eagle shoot, but her band's punk-injected rock 'n' roll spoke for itself. Larson's breathy delivery turned to sandpaper at all the right moments, the flailing frontwoman transforming into a blur of hair during every guitar solo.
Impressive as {Future of the Left}'s musicianship was, it was almost overshadowed by their razor-sharp stage banter. Even a cursory glance at his lyrics will clue you in to the fact that Andy Falkous is a pretty funny guy, but he and singer/bass player Kelson Mathias riffed effortlessly off one another between songs for 5 minutes at a time. The band even fed on the negative energy coming from the crowd, at times inviting audience members to hurl insults at them. When one frustrated concert-goer accused the band of diluting their set with "stand-up," Falkous sympathized with his apparent confusion, saying it was like watching a porno where "you tune in for some hardcore gang-banging and they've gone and added a post-modern twist."
Their set borrowed about equally from 2008's Curses and this year's Travels. They chainsawed through misanthropic gems like "Arming Eritrea" and "Manchasm" with giddy abandon. Falkous's animal roar may have taken front-and-center in most songs, but I was absolutely blown away by Mathias. His vocals tend to disappear into the background on the records, but this guy was hitting notes on Friday that I have never heard a dude hit. Future of the Left ended the night with a shambolic performance of "Cloak the Dagger" that degenerated into a hairball of raw noise. In between whammying with a drumstick and playing a discordant keyboard solo, Falkous could be found disassembling Jack Egglestone's kit while the hapless drummer struggled to keep playing, and all the while Matthias hurled himself into the crowd, occasionally chanting the lyrics to "Wanna Be Startin Somethin." It was a magnificent way to say goodnight.
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I didn't really know what to expect from this show. I mainly wondered if I'd see Karin Dreijer Andersson, or if she would conceal herself in a manner similar to her performances as one-half of The Knife. Also, what would the music from her self-titled debut as Fever Ray sound like in a live setting? And: Would there be lasers?
There were indeed lasers, and that was some cool shit, let me tell you. Chilly flood lights and numerous old-fashioned lamps, triggered to switch on and off with the beat of the music, provided additional lighting. The setup made it possible to catch glimpses of Andersson and her band without being able to discern what exactly was happening onstage. Only during "When I Grow Up" did the audience get a fully illuminated look at the whole group, which resembled a scene from a pagan ritual -- the band in costumes, brandishing spears, and Andersson in a dark robe with an enormous collar, hands twitching with energy and eyes never fully focused.
All this provided an excellent frame for the music, which rarely diverged from how it sounds on Fever Ray. Live drumming and guitar effects added the texture necessary for the music to outdo the light show, and amplification increased the intensity of the beats to a bone-shaking degree. We heard the entire album; no encore, and no words from the band. I felt throughout the set that we might all be dispatched to some foreign land presided over by the mysterious figures onstage and live out our days listening to the eerie, unsettling noises resounding through the room. It seemed a fitting sentiment for a show that could have taken place in San Francisco, an ice palace, or outer space.
The Smith Westerns / Knight School / Fake Male Voice (Tunde from TV on the Radio) / mi-gu + Sean Lennon & Yuka Honda
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Bruar Falls last Friday bore witness to two essential aspects of CMJ: the overexposure and instant ubiquity borne of industry hype, and how the circus-like nature of the festival can actually cause people to inadvertently overlook bills with high-profile artists.
The afternoon show allowed for a demonstration of the second phenomenon. The normally-a-two-piece {mi-gu} took the opportunity to expand to a four piece, featuring Sean Lennon and Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda. The first half of the set, precisely choreographed psychedelic blues from main members Yuko Araki and Hirotaka Shimizu, was pleasant, but Shimizu's pinch harmonics played right into a terrible stereotype of Japanese music -- formal precision over emotional expression. With the addition of Lennon and Honda, though, the set became more varied, gaining energy and momentum. By the time Lennon had ripped off an unexpectedly raw and blistering guitar solo, mi-gu had convinced me there was some real substance behind their formal perfection and new age spirituality.
TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Gerard Smith, performing as {Fake Male Voice}, proceeded to set up with little fanfare. While Gerard manned a sampler, keyboard, and a host of pedals to produce minimal beats, Tunde sat calmly in chair, sang, and turned some knobs. The results were somewhere in between usual TVOTR fare and electro-acoustic improvisation. While there wasn't much to grab onto in the gradual ebb and flow of vocal delay without solid song structures, the set was short, sweet, and proved that Tunde can entertain adequately with a bare minimum of resources.
The evening show kicked off with Brooklyn's premiere indie pop trio, {Knight School} (full disclosure: I played music in the past with one of the band members). A Knight School set, and this one was no exception, is a pretty good encapsulation of what Brooklyn is about right now, so it's surprising that CMJ's hordes weren't as rabid about their show as some others. While some of their songs tended to blend together, standouts like "Meathead Hurricane" and "Pregnant Again" highlighted their tip-top songwriting chops and understated black humor. When they hit on all cylinders, their chemistry and sound were the sort that hipsters drool over.
{The Smith Westerns} (pictured) are another story. They're a band with good songs, a good look, tons of shows ahead of them, and maybe not adequate perspective or experience to deal with it all. Their show at Bruar Falls was smack in the middle of a three-day, seven-set CMJ run, and lead singer Cullen Omori seemed to be caught in the whirlwind. He still led the band through their T-Rex-inspired garage rock with an admirable lack of sweat, but -- unsurprising for a man of his tender age -- his stage persona needs some work. With the bar as packed as I'd ever seen it, comments about the crowd's "modest applause" unfortunately won't ingratiate the band to anyone.
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The Almighty Defenders / Neon Indian / Cale Parks
Root Studios; Brooklyn NY
Maybe it was the open bar. Or maybe everyone was just too weary of industrial posturing by Saturday of CMJ week to spend another night trying to make networking fun. In any case, this show, put together through the unlikely partnership of a men's clothing store, a party promotion juggernaut, and a nondescript photo studio somehow managed to put forward a great lineup and an atmosphere devoid of pretension, one that thankfully wasn't overly saturated in commercial tomfoolery.
The evening began with {Cale Parks} and his newly assembled three-piece band. Perhaps unsurprising in light of his past work as a percussionist with Aloha and Joan of Arc, his solo act was heavy on things that you hit. It brought to mind both the synthetic side of Yeasayer and the organic side of Depeche Mode, and alternating between electronic and acoustic drums, Parks showed an attention to texture that gave away his classical training. While not exactly dance music, the songs were solicitous of dance and, despite forays into the sorts of dark territory that are part and parcel of a Depeche Mode comparison, set a lighthearted tone.
Consciously or not, {Neon Indian} adopted the same jovial atmosphere as they took the stage. Like Parks, Neon Indian's Alan Palomo has only recently put together a full band to carry his work into a live setting, and while Park's band were no slouches visually or musically, Palomo's band looked pitch-perfect and sounded equally polished. While their record contains moments of funky effervescence, the straight-up Prince biting of their live show is something else. And, between the guitarist's flowing locks and keyboardist's impeccable strapless dress and coiffure, they not only sound like the New Power Generation, they even sort of look like them. Makes you wonder why anyone bothered coining a phrase like "glo-fi" to describe Neon Indian. Are we that disenchanted with funk, pop, and R&B?
As great as Neon Indian may have been, though, expectations were even higher for a rare appearance from the Black Lips/King Khan/BBQ Show gospel rave up that an {Almighty Defenders} performance promised. While the "will this particle accelerator cause a black hole" energy of a Lips show was diluted slightly, the meeting of minds produced a kinetic and oddly serious performance. Not that what these guys do on stage isn't usually serious, as in "serious violence" or "serious drinking," but this was surprising. Donning ecclesiastical robes, the juxtaposition of attire against Khan's shark tooth necklace, Cole Alexander's pederast mustache and Ian St. Pe's gold grill, was comical. But as the Motown-meets-psycho-blues tunes gave way to a genuinely affecting impression of fire-and-brimstone preaching from Joe Bradley -- complete with actual Bible -- I wondered if the religious angle wasn't so much a joke as another way to point at ecstatic chaos.
Cymbals Eat Guitars / Real Estate / I Was King / Deastro / Ungdomskulen
Santos Party House; New York, NY
I decided a long time ago that I wasn't going to waste my time at New York's annual Clusterfuck Music Junket. The long lines, the short sets, the corporate shill, the smell of rotting ambition, the aging industry dudes drooling over teenage girl singers… it just isn't my scene. But, against my better judgment, I broke my rule this year because, well, I really like Deastro (pictured) and kept missing opportunities to see Randolph Chabot and company live.
Luckily, the place didn't fill up to Corporate Masturbation Jubilee levels until late in the evening, and I arrived at the Øya Festival and Oh My Rockness showcase early enough to avoid the hysteria. The unlikely duo of Norwegian musikkfestival and New York concert listings site made for some unexpected transitions, but also a good deal of variety.
The first band I caught was Ungdomskulen, an impossibly sparkly Norwegian trio who could seriously shred. There were sequins, spandex and attitude for miles, backed up by some appropriately '80s hair metal-derived riffs. Ungdomskulen were certainly the most charismatic showmen of the night, though I can't imagine the fun of their performances entirely translating on record.
Deastro was up next. A recent lineup change has left Chabot -- on guitar -- with a single bassist, leaving the rest of the beats to the laptop. While I had been hoping to hear more of my favorite tracks from this year's epically fun Moondagger, it was encouraging to find Deastro performing a slew of new material. The unfamiliar songs sounded a bit darker – in fact, Chabot seemed to be channeling Ian Curtis at times. Then again, the menacingly dominant synth and drum machine parts could also have been due to an over-amplified computer, which also, unfortunately, all but drowned out the guitar and bass.
I stayed for a bit of Oslo's I Was King, a sweet '90s-indie rip-off whose newest album boasts collaborations with Sufjan Stevens and Danielson's Daniel Smith. (Hmm, do I smell a Christian?) There was nothing wrong with the band – their music was entirely pleasant – but they weren't wowing me, either, so I crept downstairs to the second stage, a few songs in, to wait for New York buzz band du jour Real Estate. The group was in the midst of about 85 Consensual Music Jerkoff performances, and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. Unfortunately, the basement stage was about half an hour behind schedule, and I had to haul ass back upstairs for Cymbals Eat Guitars before they played a single note. And did I mention that somewhere along the way I dropped my wallet? More on that later.
Back upstairs, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the band that put the "rock" back in "indie," was tearing it up, as usual. Barely legal frontman Joseph D'Agostino seemed to have matured out of a good deal of grimacing awkwardness in the 5 months since I last saw him perform. Although the band's headlining set was criminally short, they managed to fit in a new track or two, along with favorites like "Wind Phoenix."
Real Estate were still playing to a packed crowd downstairs by the time I left, but I decided to forgo the madness and head home… well, until I got to the subway and realized I was missing my wallet. A few minutes later, I was back in that goddamn basement, having a minor panic attack while my friend/photographer chatted up every security guard and bartender in the place before recovering my wallet. (By the way, if the person who returned it is reading this: Thanks, man. You didn't even steal my cash!) I probably wasn't listening carefully enough to Real Estate while all of this was going on to give you an accurate review. But, hey, for what it's worth, they sounded pretty sweet to me.
Butthole Surfers / Melvins / Psychic Ills
Regency Ballroom; San Francisco, CA
Gibby Haynes was born in 1957, Buzz Osborne in 1964. Melvins and Butthole Surfers were both formed in the early 80s, and so I was not surprised when upon encountering a friend after the show back in Oakland, they asked if these rockers have to use walkers now. Clearly, they are not that old, but judging by my perception of the crowd, which was practically drenched in tattoo ink, the median age had to be in the "could-be-my-parents" range. All this is offered only to help set the context for my enjoyment of this show, being that I was and still remain essentially a newcomer to the music and legacy of both the Melvins and the Butthole Surfers.
The Regency is a fancy-pants, large and historic venue on the fringe of San Francisco's Tenderloin district. To attend a gnarly, stinky, loud and base rock show at such a classy venue is already enough of a mind-fuck. It didn't take long for me to realize that this crowd was on a lot of drugs, getting wasted (puke on hardwood), and desiringrock. So I wonder if there wasn't a bit of collective disappointment over the underwhelming performance of the openers, Psychic Ills. A New York City band, Psychic Ills had been playing the role of openers for this BS tour, which the Melvins joined for three California dates. Psychic Ills brought a monochrome, plodding psychedelic texture to the room, dominated by some tribal drumming and underscored by vocals that resembled constipated moaning. There are certainly better psyche-rock bands that could hold down the privilege of opening for the Butthole Surfers, and my eavesdropping confirmed that I was not alone in this assessment. At least two different pot-bellied comic-store owner types were overheard mentioning the same thing. When Psychic Ills was done, a subdued yay from the crowd seemed more in relief than appreciation, and then anticipation heightened.
The Melvins picked up another drummer (Coady Willis) a couple years back, and I will say that in the live context, it is an amazingly well-thought out move. The idea is that the drummers will act as mirror images, and they were synched up to an astonishing degree. I have never experienced sludge so thick, metal so anaerobic and raw. The attack was ferocious, and the tempo changes, moving back and forth between dense and sparse, were exceuted with perfect timing. Not a moment was wasted, and even the most primeval portions blazed and roared under the mayhem of the crowd. Having seen the Melvins, all of their offshoots seem a little underwhelming, now and forever, including sunn 0))), Boris, and Earth.
After an incredible ~40 minute set, there was a quick break dominated by the theme song to The Price is Right blasting through the PA on repeat. Then the Butthole Surfers took the stage, and judging by the crowd reaction, most people had come to see the Surfers. Three huge video projection screens loomed behind the four-piece incarnation, with Gibby Haynes front and center. I had heard and read about the seizure inducing Butthole Surfers' sets, but perhaps they have toned it down slightly. Only slightly though, because between the three screens, I found it hard to focus on the band themselves. The videos being shown were some of the most grotesque, horny, and amazing clips I've seen in a while, and I've seen some pretty gruesome shit on film here recently. There were equal parts horror and pornography, being shown in a somewhat sloppy, yet simply entertaining fashion.
The set was custom-made for those washing their brains is soporific prescription drugs, or alternately, letting your heart race and palms sweat underneath a warm blanket of cocaine and whisky. Simply put, the Butthole Surfers I observered seemed to be the drug fiend's best friend of a show. Whatever your pleasure, watching the Surfers is equal parts video overdose and psychedelic rock for misanthropes and sociopaths. Despite my positive appraisal, I found myself needing to leave about 3/4 of the way through, partially because I needed to catch the transit, and partially because I was way too sober to stick around.
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SUNY Downstate on Thursday stopped receiving ambulances at the financially strapped Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, a day after a judge ruled the hospital must maintain its staffing. NY1's Vivian Lee filed the following report.
Long Island College Hospital was off limits to ambulances Thursday morning, as SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which runs the hospital, said it was no longer in a position to treat emergency cases brought in by paramedics. The ambulance diversions began at 6 a.m.
"They have to go to hospitals that are further away, and that's dangerous," said Adam Viars, an EMT.
SUNY Downstate has been trying to shut down the hospital, known as LICH, for months, saying it's losing millions of dollars a year.
A SUNY spokesman said the chief medical officer at LICH decided that what he called an "exodus" of medical staff jeopardized patient care. He didn't provide numbers, and many members of the staff disputed that characterization of their readiness to take patients.
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The ambulance diversion began even after a state supreme court judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, directing LICH to keep staffing levels up. It followed an earlier order from the same judge to stop all action to shut LICH down.
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Romain Grosjean's Canadian GP weekend went from bad to worse when the penaly-hit driver could only manage 19th in qualifying.
Racing around a wet Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Saturday afternoon, lap times were not only dependent on when a driver was on track but also what obstacles were in their path.
And for Grosjean there were several.
Traffic in the form of a Caterham cost him dearly while a late yellow flag in Q1 meant he was unable to improve on his 1:25.716.
Throw in his ten-place grid penalty incurred in Monaco and the Lotus driver will be starting Sunday's Canadian GP from the back of the grid.
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Big Brother Internet Feed Backs CBS Into Apologetic Corner
This may be some kind of network TV reality record: the 15th season of Big Brother debuted June 26 and on July 2, CBS started apologizing for it.
Or more accurately, apologizing for the 24/7 four-camera subscriber feed available at CBS.com. Per Kate Aurthur of BuzzFeed, Philiana Ng of The Hollywood Reporter and others, the Tiffany network is officially distancing itself from racist, sexist and homophobic statements made by several cast members through the Internet.
The CBS "we do not condone" statement also reminds of the power of reality TV bloggers. Constant monitoring of the Internet live feed by sites like Daily Hamsterwatch and Reality Blurred helped force the network's hand. From the latter website:
GinaMarie said that, because of her income level, she receives "n*gger insurance" (she whispered the n-word, so it's possible she said the version that ends with "a"). She whispered it to both Nick and Andy, neither of whom challenged her.


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What a pleasure it is to see an artist develop, mature, and produce his best album yet – and, even better, for Baskaru! After 14 years of activity as a composer, Mathias Delplanque has refined his art to the point where, at age 39, he delivers a true masterpiece called Chutes.
After several years spent creating highly conceptualized sound installations and electroacoustic compositions (Ma chambre quand je n'y suis pas being one of many highlights), Delplanque has designed for himself a work station that allows him to step away from a studio's logic to record, transform, edit and mix sound sources all at once in a live setting. Using real objects, instrument samples and computer, he spontaneously builds aural gems that hide a frantic level of activity under their occasionally serene looks. And that frenzy is not fake, since all the tracks on this album are edited from live solo performances (recorded between 2010 and 2012), with no overdubs.
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Histories of Lived Experience
August 8, 2014 § 14 Comments
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Earlier today I delivered a talk on ethology, ecology, and aesthetics as part of a panel on Cosmopolitics at the International Big History Conference held in San Rafael, CA. I am posting my talk below, which you can also find in .pdf form here.
Histories of Lived Experience: Intertwining Ethology, Ecology, And Aesthetics
Adam Robbert, San Francisco, CA
Paper presented at the International Big History Conference, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA, August 8.
What is the significance of meaning in Big History? There is a great diversity of opinion on this issue. For example, Eric Chaisson, one of the original board members of the IBHA, holds that Big History must let go of concepts such as intentionality, subjectivity, and, presumably, meaning, in order to understand evolution objectively.[1] Conversely, the focus of my talk is that an understanding of meaning is necessary for an understanding of evolution at its most fundamental level. A central claim of my talk is that we have to understand that which is meaningful to organisms if ever we hope to comprehend the history of evolution on Earth. My talk thus offers a non-anthropocentric and aesthetic account of meaning in the context of geological history. Ecology from this view is an ongoing entanglement of meanings, concerns, and decisions, and it marks the space where the division between matter and meaning breaks down. « Read the rest of this entry »
Blind Brain Theory and Enactivism: In Dialogue With R. Scott Bakker
June 11, 2014 § 7 Comments
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Last week I posted a short essay on the question of meaning, style, and aesthetics in the ecological theories of Alva Noë and Jacob von Uexküll. The post resulted in a long and in-depth discussion with science fiction novelist and central architect of the Blind Brain Theory (BBT) of cognition, R. Scott Bakker. Our conversation waded through multiple topics including phenomenology, the limits of transcendental arguments, enactivism, eliminativism, meaning, aesthetics, pluralism, intentionality, first-person experience, and more. So impressed was I with Bakker's adept ability to wade through the issues — across disciplines, perspectives, and controversies — despite my protests that I felt it worth excerpting our dialogue as a record of the exchange and as a resource for others interested in these debates. Whatever your views on the philosophy of mind, Bakker's unique position is one you should familiarize yourself with — if only, like me, so that you can find better ways to dispute its unsettling consequences. To provide a little context to the dialogue I am re-stating my central claim and concluding paragraph from the earlier post: « Read the rest of this entry »
Big History and Cosmopolitics
April 16, 2014 § 6 Comments
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I'll be speaking with some of the usual suspects at the International Big History Association Conference this August at Dominican University in San Rafael, California. Our Panel description and abstracts can be found below.
Panel Title: Cosmopolitics and the Big Journey: Resolving Nature-Culture Dualisms
Abstract: In its research and teaching programs, Big History facilitates the integration of human and natural history into a multidimensional collective history. There is still much work that remains to be done to articulate collective history without falling back into longstanding dualisms that separate humans from nature. Along those lines, Big History can benefit from a dialogical encounter with others who are oriented toward overcoming the human/nature dualism, including those involved in the Journey of the Universe project and, in a very different vein, philosophers like Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, and others associated with a theoretical movement called "cosmopolitics," which aims to overcome the separation between the natural world (kosmos) and the constitution of human civilization (politikos). Initially developed by Stengers following her work with Ilya Prigogine, cosmopolitics aims to articulate a collective history that affirms the intertwining of human societies with the evolutionary unfolding of the cosmos. Cosmopolitics draws more explicitly than Big History on philosophical concepts useful for overcoming the dualisms separating a realm of humans (subjects, values) from a realm of nature (objects, facts), including concepts associated with process philosophy (Alfred North Whitehead), philosophical biology (Jakob von Uexküll), and French post-structuralist philosophy (Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida). This panel introduces the idea of cosmopolitics and situates it in relationship to similar approaches to collective history (e.g., Big History, Journey of the Universe), drawing particular attention to the importance of accounting for the axiological dimensions (e.g., ethics, aesthetics, and spirituality) of our collective history. « Read the rest of this entry »
Whitehead, Kant, and Sloterdijk: A Renewed Geocentrism
March 2, 2014 § 8 Comments
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Yesterday, as I was listening to Melanie Sehgal's lecture on Whitehead's metaphysics as situated metaphysics, I was reminded of two passages in Whitehead's work that have stuck out to me ever since reading them. The first is the oft-quoted airplane analogy Whitehead gives in Process and Reality to describe his mode of speculative thinking. Through this analogy, Whitehead suggests speculative thinking always takes flight from a given location — a context, a historical epoch, a field of concerns, etc. — and then, from this atmospheric perspective, the speculative philosopher attempts to give, in Whitehead's own words, "a coherent, logical, and necessary system of general ideas" that are also "applicable" and "adequate" to every element of our experience. In other words, for Whitehead, speculative philosophy's method is a practice of thought wherein one starts with experience, ascends as though in an airplane to the height of generality — away from the structure of particular experience to the structure of experience in general — and then lands once again back into the particularity of experience. « Read the rest of this entry »
Geocentric Media Ecology
October 14, 2013 § 21 Comments
Media theorist Jussi Parikka has a very interesting essay published in The Atlantic on the geology of media. The essay is part of the ongoing series of "Object Lessons" edited by Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg. In the essay Parikka draws our attention to the relations between media technologies and geological elements — for example, to the copper, gold, lead, mercury, palladium, and silver deposits that are transformed into the components of electronic devices. By foregrounding the relationship between material resources and communication technologies, Parikka's essay offers an important commentary on the geopolitics of media. While this is certainly a worthwhile call to attention, the second half of the essay continues into equally important, though less explored, terrain. On the communicative agency of the Earth Parikka writes
Ecology and Time
September 17, 2013 § 3 Comments
Cognitive ethology is the study of animal minds, and it provides essential insights into the ontology of ecosystems—most recently in regards to the relation between ecology and time. Throughout history, human beings have been captivated by animal minds. We have, for example, writings from Plutarch, Hippocrates, and Pythagoras musing on the nature and status of animals. In the case of Pythagoras, many of these writings date back to c. 530 BCE; however, given that we know humans have lived in deliberate multispecies societies for at least 100,000 years (as is the case with human-canine relations, which have existed for almost as long as the human species itself has), it is uncontroversial to claim that humans have been speculating on the nature of nonhumans for at least as long, and certainly much longer than the philosophers of ancient Greece. « Read the rest of this entry »


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Directions: Hwy 281 to Bitters, get onto Starcrest until you come to Jones-Maltsberger. Follow Jones-Maltsberger until you come to McAllister Park entrance on your right.
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Hwy 281, crossover to Redland Road. Follow until 4-way stop, turn right onto Jones-Maltsberger and follow until you come to park entrance on your left.
Trail Information: McAllister Park is a park for any occasion. There is camping, running/biking trails, and baseball, soccer, and frisbee fields. As far as running is concerned, there are many pavillions for breaks, rally points, etc You can run on roads through sports fields, or take the paved paths through beautiful woods (be careful though, there are many others on the trails also). For trail runners there are many trails to follow but don't get lost. :)
Miscellaneous: Tons of places to eat outside the park, or you can plan a post-run picnic at any of the picnic tables along the forest trails.
A driving range is set up along the trails edge, excellent for relaxation after your long runs.
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Test GDB for each new repository commit and report any regressions for it. Test also regressions for user-provided patches.
Regressions get detected by running the thorough GDB testsuite and (a bit fuzzy) comparison of its results against the previous build results. (optional, can be done by the GDB team)
- Make builds more reliable e.g add local git mirror to avoid git timeouts
- Move all native builds to cross builds.
- Add new operating systems like windows, freebsd, openbsd
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- Run tests for available targets and store results in a database
- Write a script which detects regressions
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Compatibility is required with GDB repository in both CVS and GIT.
Support various provided (as rpms, distros or upstream repository branches/tags) GCC versions for building GDB and its testing workload.
Support multiple testing hosts with various architectures. Beaker test system integration must not be required for x86* but it should be supported to be able to cover also other arches.
Support running tests inside various kinds of virtualized hosts. Either mock (=chroot) or the full KVM virtual host. (It may be just provided by Beaker, interfaced probably by libvirt.)
Support running multi-host testsuite using gdbserver (remote GDB backend).
Properly report kernel crashes of hosts under the test. Associate the kernel crash reports with the GDB workload under test.
(optional) Integration with Fedora/RHEL mock (OS distribution provisioning) and the rpm packaging to test also new Fedora/RHEL builds with it.
(optional) Besides GDB to regression test also binutils.
Supporting other features of existing buildbot solutions.
Analyze existing buildbot solutions, we could just deploy one of them:
Mozilla http://buildbot.net ,
GCC testing http://gcc.gnu.org/testing
- a bot in use for GDB in Red Hat by Jan Kratochvil:
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A Bourbon man suffered serious bodily injuries when he struck a parked vehicle, as his van crested a hill near Cuba on Feb. 13.
John L. Messex, 37, was flown by helicopter to Mercy Hospital in St. Louis for his injuries last week, when his 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager struck the rear of a 2006 Ford F350 truck on Highway P, seven miles north of Cuba. The accident took place as Messex came over a hill and ran into the back of the truck, which was unoccupied at the time.
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Daily walking has been shown to reduce visceral adipose tissue (fat around the belly) and improve insulin sensitivity. The 10,000 steps is a concept begun in Japan more than 30 years ago and it's now spreading across the United States as a target level for daily exercise. All you need to get started is a pedometer to track your steps. You can purchase a basic model at any sports store for less than $20. Clip it firmly to your belt or waistband and you're ready to go.
Walking 10,000 steps is the approximate equivalent of walking five miles, though the distance covered depends on the length of your stride. If you don't already walk this much on a regular basis, you will need to work up to this goal slowly to avoid injury. If you have any concerns about your joints (ankles, knees, or hips), discuss your exercise plans with your physician.
Proper footwear is essential. You may want to use shoes with gel or air midsoles and wear polyester or blend (cotton–polyester) socks to prevent blisters and keep your feet dry.
Begin your program by establishing a baseline. Wear your pedometer and keep track of the number of steps you walk on a typical day. At the end of the first week, take the highest number of steps you have walked on any given day and use that number of steps as your initial daily step goal.
After you're comfortable with your initial daily step goal, add 500 steps to it and make that your goal for the next week. Keep increasing until you reach your goal of 10,000 steps a day.
You may enjoy walking outside in nice weather, but a treadmill or mall-walking are good alternatives too.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Meyers, Bruce Anthony firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-07282008-075020 Document Title A study on the bacteria of dog bite wounds in dogs and their susceptibility to antimicrobials Degree MMedVet(Surgery) Small Animal Surgery Department Companion Animal Clinical Studies Supervisor
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Date 2008-04-24 Availability unrestricted AbstractTo investigate the bacterial composition of infected and non-infected dog bite wounds (DBW), a prospective study was performed on dogs with various grades of bite wounds presenting at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, and a nearby animal shelter. Fifty dogs with bite wounds inflicted within the previous 72 hours were selected. This represented 104 wounds. Wounds were clinically graded according to severity. Swabs were collected from all wounds for bacterial culture and cytology. Infection was diagnosed if 2 of the following 3 criteria were met: macroscopic purulence, microscopic presence of phagocytosed bacteria, or pyrexia. Non-infected wounds were either classed as sterile (established by culture) or contaminated (culture positive but bacteria not phagocytosed on cytology). To determine the origin of the bacteria, swabs were collected from the skin near the wounds and gingiva of 15 bite victims. All swabs were cultured aerobically and anaerobically and all aerobic cultures were evaluated for antimicrobial susceptibility using the Kirby Bauer disk diffusion test.
The victims were predominately male, uncastrated, small-breed dogs. Of the 104 wounds studied, 21 were judged to be infected and 83 non-infected. Infected wounds were significantly more likely to culture positive (Fisher's exact test: p = 0.02). Sixteen per cent of wounds did not culture bacteria, 67% grew aerobes only, 1% anaerobes only and 67% a mixture of aerobes and anaerobes. A total of 213 isolates were cultured representing a mean of 2 isolates per wound. Of the aerobe species cultured, 22%, 19% and 17% belonged to the genera of Pasteurella, Streptococcus and Staphylococcus respectively. The species of Pasteurella multocida (66%) and Staphylococcus intermedius (70%) were predominant. Pasteurella canis and pyogenic streptococci were common in infected wounds, whereas Bacillus spp., Actinomyces spp. and oral streptococci were usually found in contaminated wounds. Three anaerobic genera were cultured, namely, Prevotella, Clostridium and Peptostreptococcus, and were usually associated with wounds with dead space. This study also describes the first documented case of Capnocytophaga canimorsus in an infected dog bite wound.
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