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Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall | |
Part of the Third Reich | |
Western coast of Europe and Scandinavia | |
The Atlantic Wall, shown in yellow
Type | Defensive fortification |
Site information | |
Controlled by | Nazi Germany |
Open to the public |
Yes |
Condition | Partially demolished, mostly intact |
Site history | |
Built | 1942–1944 |
In use | 1942–1945 |
Materials | Concrete Wood Steel Other materials |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Events | D-Day |
Garrison information | |
Past commanders |
Erwin Rommel (1943–44) |
Occupants | Wehrmacht |
The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1945 along the western coast of Europe and Scandinavia as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britain.[1]
Today, the ruins of the wall exist in all of the nations where the wall was built, although many structures have fallen into the ocean or have been demolished over the years. While in the immediate years after the war there was little interest in preserving these structures, there have been recent movements to preserve the remaining structures in order to preserve the memory of what existed during the war.[2]
On 23 March 1942 Führer Directive Number 40 called for the official creation of the Atlantic Wall. After the St. Nazaire Raid, on 13 April 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered naval and submarine bases to be heavily defended. Fortifications remained concentrated around ports until late in 1943 when defences were increased in other areas.[3]
Organisation Todt, which had designed the Siegfried Line (Westwall) along the Franco-German border, was the chief engineering group responsible for the design and construction of the wall's major fortifications. Thousands of forced laborers were impressed to construct these permanent fortifications along the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts facing the English Channel.
Early in 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was assigned to improve the Wall's defences. Rommel believed the existing coastal fortifications were entirely inadequate and he immediately began strengthening them. Under his direction, a string of reinforced concrete pillboxes was built along the beaches, or sometimes slightly inland, to house machine guns, antitank guns and light artillery. Mines and antitank obstacles were planted on the beaches themselves and underwater obstacles and mines were placed in waters just off shore.[4] The intent was to destroy the Allied landing craft before they could unload.
By the time of the invasion, the Germans had laid almost six million mines in northern France. More gun emplacements and minefields extended inland, along roads leading away from the beaches. In likely landing spots for gliders and parachutists, the Germans emplaced slanted poles with sharpened tops, which the troops called Rommelspargel ("Rommel's asparagus"). Low-lying river and estuarine areas were permanently flooded, as well.
Rommel firmly believed that Germany would inevitably be defeated unless the invasion could be stopped at the beach.[citation needed]
Although the defensive wall was never completed, the Wall's existence has served to explain away concerns of the Soviet Union as to why the Second Front was not opened until 6 June 1944 (less than a year before the end of the war in Europe). The Wall primarily consisted of batteries, bunkers, and minefields, which during 1942–1944, stretched from the French-Spanish border to Norway (Festung Norwegen). Many bunkers still exist, for example near Scheveningen, Den Haag, Katwijk and in Normandy. In Oostende, Belgium the public may visit a well-preserved part of the defences. That section consists of emplacements of the "Saltzwedel neu battery" and the "Stützpunkt Bensberg", consisting of several men's quarters and the necessary facilities. These constructions were used by a unit of German military engineers (Pionierstab) who were in charge of bunker construction.
The Channel Islands were heavily fortified, particularly the island of Alderney which is closest to Britain. Hitler had decreed that 1/12th of the steel and concrete used in the Atlantic Wall go to the Channel Islands, because of the propaganda value of controlling British territory.[5] The Channel Islands were some of the most densely fortified areas in Europe with a host of Hohlgangsanlage tunnels, Casemates and Coastal artillery positions. Mountbatten commented: "Each island is a veritable fortress, the assault against which cannot be contemplated unless the defences are neutralised, or reduced to a very considerable extent by prior action." Despite the mooting of Operation Constellation et al., the Allies bypassed the islands and did not try to liberate them when they invaded Normandy. The islands' German garrisons did not surrender until 9 May 1945 – one day after the German armed forces on the mainland. The German garrison on Alderney did not surrender until 16 May. Because the German garrison surrendered peacefully the Channel Islands are host to some of the best preserved Atlantic Wall sites.
Walcheren Island was considered to be the "strongest concentration of defences the Nazis had ever constructed."[6]
The Atlantic Wall was not a single organisation except in the administration of its building. Militarily it was divided into eight commands:[7]
- Norway Army Command
- Forces Commander in Denmark
- German Bight Command
- Wehrmacht Netherlands Command
- Armee Oberkommando 15 (15th Army zone)
- Armee Oberkommando 7 (7th Army zone)
- Armee Oberkommando 1 (1st Army zone)
- Armee Oberkommando 19 (19th Army zone)
Many major ports and positions were made part of the Atlantic Wall and received heavy fortifications. Hitler ordered them all to fight to the end[8] and some of them remained in German hands until the unconditional surrender of Axis Forces on 8 May 1945. Several of the port fortresses were resupplied by submarine after being surrounded by Allied forces. The defenders of these positions included Foreign soldiers and SS troops. [9]
Location | Commander | Garrison | Details of battle | Surrender | Allied use |
Scheldt | General von Zangen | 90,000 | Battle of the Scheldt | 8 November 1944 | |
Zeebrugge | General Eberding | 14,000 | Held as part of the Scheldt Fortress denying access to the Port of Antwerp. Fighting started in Early October 1944 | 1 November 1944 | First shipment to Antwerp 28 November 1944. Eighty-five days after its capture.[10] |
Ostend | – | – | No resistance given, port not heavily damaged | – | – |
Dunkirk | Admiral Friedrich Frisius | 12,000 | Port isolated on 13 September 1944, Allied siege of Dunkirk | 8 May 1945 | Surrendered after the conflict. |
Calais/Cap Gris-Nez | Lt Colonel Schroeder | 7,500 in Calais | Batteries at Cap Gris-Nez surrendered a few days earlier. Port heavily damaged. Operation Undergo | 30 September | Returned to service late November 1944 |
Boulogne | General Heim | 10,000 | Operation Wellhit | 22 September 1944 | British opened the port again in October |
Le Havre | Colonel Wildermuth | 14,000 | Operation Astonia | 12 September 1944 | Put back into action in October 1944 |
Cherbourg | General von Schlieben | 47,000 men in whole Cotentin Peninsula | Port wrecked by demolitions. Hitler refused to allow demolitions earlier in the year. Battle of Cherbourg | 27 June 1944 majority of strong points surrendered | Put back into use by Americans. Limited use by the middle of August |
Saint-Malo/Dinard | Colonel von Aulock | 12,000+ men including paratroopers and SS | Port wrecked by demolitions. 300 men on the fortified island of Cézembre held out till 2 September 1944. The island controlled the approaches to the port | 17 August 1944. | Out of use for whole campaign |
Alderney | Commandant Oberst Schwalm, Maximilian List and others | Used for concentration camps and one of the most heavily defended fortresses on the Atlantic Wall | 16 May 1945 | Surrendered a week after the official Nazi Surrender | |
Jersey | 11,500 (in 1941)[11] | No resistance given during liberation | 9 May 1945 | Surrendered upon the arrival of HMS Beagle in St Helier | |
Brest | General Ramcke | 38,000+ men including the 2nd Parachute Division | Fighting began on 25 August 1944. Port was completely demolished. Battle for Brest | 19 September 1944 | – |
Lorient | General Fahrmbacher | 25,000 | Besieged since 12 August | 10 May 1945 | Not captured during the conflict |
St. Nazaire | General Junck | 35,000 | Besieged since 27 August | 11 May 1945 | Not captured during the conflict |
La Rochelle/La Pallice | Admiral Schirlitz | 11,500 | Allied siege of La Rochelle | 9 May 1945 | Surrendered after the conflict |
Royan | Admiral Michahelles | 5,000 | 17 April 1945 | Surrendered after the conflict | |
Le Verdon-sur-Mer | Colonel Otto Prahl | 3,500 | 20 April 1945 | Surrendered after the conflict | |
Channel Islands | General von Schmettow, Admiral Hüffmeier | 28,500 | Occupation of the Channel Islands | 9 May 1945 | Surrendered after the conflict |
In France, immediately after the war, there was little interest in preserving the wall due to the negative memories associated with the Nazi occupation. Recently, there has been renewed interest in preserving the wall, following the example of organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In France, many of the beach fortifications have fallen onto the beach or are underwater, while the ones further inland are still mainly existent due to their location.[2]
See also[edit]
- Atlantic Wall Open Air Museum
- British anti-invasion preparations of World War II
- Czechoslovak border fortifications
- Hankley Common
- Maginot line
- Nordstern
- Siegfried Line
- ^ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
- ^ a b Schofield, Hugh (12 September 2011). "Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Should France preserve it?". BBC. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ Kaufmann J. E.; Kaufmann, H. W.; Jurga, Robert M. (2003). Fortress Third Reich: German Fortifications and Defense Systems in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. pp. 196-197. ISBN 0-306-81239-8
- ^ Historical Division War Department (1945). "Chapter 2, Assault Plan". Omaha Beachhead. American Forces in Action. United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 24 November 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- ^ Cruickshank, Charles (1975). The German Occupation of the Channel Islands. London: Guernsey Press Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-902550-02-0.
- ^ Williams, Jeffery (1988). The Long Left Flank. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-880-1.
- ^ "Complexes" (in Dutch). Vanderweel.info. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ Whitaker, W. Denis; Whitaker, Shelagh (1984). Tug of War: The Canadian Victory that Opened Antwerp. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing. ISBN 0-7737-2034-0
- ^ Kaufmann J. E.; Kaufmann, H. W.; Jurga, Robert M. (2003). Fortress Third Reich: German Fortifications and Defense Systems in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-306-81239-8
- ^ Hastings, M. Armageddon p158, Macmillan, London 2004
- ^ "Jersey - My Island - History - German Occupation". BBC. 1 July 1940. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
German Publication (PhD) in military history
- Dr. Thorsten Heber: Der Atlantikwall 1940–1945. Band I Die Befestigung der Küsten West- und Nordeuropas im Spannungsfeld nationalsozialistischer Kriegführung und Ideologie. 564 Seiten, 157 Bildtafeln mit 535 Abb. BoD 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2979-6.
- Dr. Thorsten Heber: Der Atlantikwall 1940–1945. Band II Die Invasion – Die Atlantikfestungen 1944/45 – Der Atlantikwall in Deutschland, Dänemark, Norwegen – Kompendium Regelbauten. 504 Seiten, 196 Bildtafeln mit 670 Abb. BoD 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-2980-2.
Further reading[edit]
- Kauffmann, J.E. and Jurga, Robert M. Fortress Europe: European Fortifications of World War II, Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 0-306-81174-X
External links[edit]
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- Bunkerinfo.nl - Bunkers, Info, Locations and More
- AtlantikWall.co.uk
- AtlantikWall.dk
- The defences of the Atlantikwall at Omaha Beach
- Atlantikwall.fr
- Atlantikwall.net
- The Atlantikwall in Denmark
- Bunkertypes, maps, museums and others
- The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum
- Britannica Online
- Museumscenter Hanstholm
- Kristiansand Cannon Museum
- Vara Battery (Kristiansand, Norway)
- Fortress Alderney
- Information site about the Atlantikwall in the Netherlands, Haagse Bunker Ploeg
- Atlantikwall Museum Noordwijk, Site about the Atlantikwall Museum Noordwijk in the Netherlands
- Information about the open air museum in Ostend, Belgium.
- Festung Europa : Bunkers in the Atlantikwall
- Places of interest for the war tourist along Hitlers Atlantic Wall in Denmark and Norway (English)
- Fortifications in Denmark and Europe through a thousand years (Danish)
- The Atlantic Wall in North Brittany (Bretagne Nord), France. Shore & Beach, 2004, 72:4 10–12
- {http://www.musee-grand-bunker.com Ouistreham Normandy France Atlantikwall museum ]
- Atlantic Wall
- German World War II defensive lines
- World War II sites of Nazi Germany
- World War II sites in Belgium
- World War II sites in France
- World War II sites in the Netherlands
- World War II sites in the Channel Islands
- Walls
- Coastal fortifications
- Nazi architecture
- Buildings and structures in Alderney
- Operation Overlord
- German occupation of Jersey during World War II


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Tomorrow's trash day, tonight was a smorgasbord. Half a corned beef special with a few home fries, half a cheesesteak--both from our dinner at the diner last night. As well as: pulled chicken, onions and peppers, scalloped potatoes--leftover from having company for lunch on Sunday. Told DH to help himself, that whatever was left was going out.
Sue, your lunch sounds so good, but I bet those noodles weren't as good as the ones you make! Wish I had your BLT!
Glenda, that's the weather we've been having except today it rained really hard. So much lightning and thunder it zapped our TV. We have cable/computer/phone all in one and the other two are fine. Called Brighthouse. He put me through the hoops and said it was our box and they'd be out in the morning between 8-10. We don't watch much anyway.
Azzalea, are you all moved now and DH has retired? Now starts the best part of your lives. Enjoy! I wouldn't dare tempt Harry with all those good things with the threat of them being thrown out. He'd eat them all just to "waste not". He was a depression baby!
Tonight was sister's night at the Home where my special needs sister lives. We each take our own food, usually from drive thrus or leftovers. We take turns bringing fast food to Annie. The one to bring hers in today brought chicken strips with fries, texas toast and gravy from DQ, along with root beer. I wasn't very hungry so just got a McDs fish sandwich and drank water.
Patti--yes, and thanks for asking. We've been here about a month, DH retired just last Thurs. So we're really enjoying our leisure (ha--we're really cleaning up after that horrid derecho last week, getting unpacked and organized). It's so nice and quiet to be living in the country, instead of in the Phila suburbs!


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Electronic Arts and DICE have started off their viral marketing campaign for Battlefield 4 by releasing three new teaser trailers!
What a weekend of news it's been on the Battlefield 4 front! Over this past weekend, Electronic Arts and DICE began releasing some sneak peeks at their upcoming Battlefield 4 shooter – set to be officially announced tomorrow at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It's also worth noting that EA has stated we'll get to see actual in-game footage on March 27th, so stay tuned for that as well.
In the meantime, part of the viral marketing campaign was to get as many users to log on to the official Battlefield 4 website – the more who logged on, the more stuff they would show off. It looks like enough people signed in because we have three teaser trailers for Battlefield 4 to show off – Air, Land, and Sea! You can check them all out below. Enjoy!
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Matthew Herbert is a prolific and accomplished musician, artist and writer whose range of works extends from numerous albums (including the much-celebrated bodily functions) to Ivor Novello nominated film scores (life in a day) as well as music for Broadway, TV, games and radio. He has performed all round the world from the Sydney opera house, to the Hollywood Bowl and created installations, plays and opera.
He has remixed iconic artists including Quincy Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, and Ennio Morricone and worked over a number of years with musical acts as diverse as Bjork and Dizzee Rascal. He has produced other artists such as Roisin Murphy, The Invisible, Micachu and Merz and released some of these works alongside others on his own label – Accidental Records. Other collaborators include chef Heston Blumenthal, playwright Caryl Churchill and writer Will Self but he is most known for working with sound, turning ordinary or so called found sound in to electronic music. His most celebrated work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and beyond. He is relaunching an online Museum of Sound and is the creative director of the new Radiophonic Workshop. His debut play as a writer/director opened at the national theatre in 2013 as well as a new opera for the royal opera house in 2014. He is an honorary fellow at the University of Kent. His new album The Shakes is out in 2015 as well as his debut as a writer and director for TV.
MATTHEW HERBERT BIOGRAPHY BY DAVID STUBBS (July 2012)
"When everything I read politically and watch and hear has been absorbed, there comes a point where you must feel it viscerally. Otherwise you are closed to the horrors of it and thus closed to the possibility of action, closed to the idea that you could make a difference or could have prevented the outcome. This internalising of the struggle, the friction, the melancholy I feel should be at the emotional core of the work. After all, I am making music and not writing a newspaper article. But with the invention of the sampler, I can now explicitly root my work in the literal, critical present. I can describe the real in the frame of the imaginary."
Matthew Herbert makes music out of sound. Specific sounds. Simple as that seems, it is a practice that was only possibly as a result of one of the most radical and transformative inventions of the 20th century – that of magnetic tape. Once that was introduced into the field of recording, music could be sourced from the entire sonic world, recontextualised, reshaped. The possibility now existed to make anything out of anything.
Composers like Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen explored the technology excitedly in the 1950s but it wasn't until the sampler came along that it was taken up in popular music, and only then, all too often, to steal or reference rare drum loops or obscure black music. Not for Matthew Herbert. He is uniquely positioned in modern music having dedicated his career to creating architectural pieces made entirely of specifically sought sounds, which function not just as conceptual art but as pop music. His work is extreme in the trouble he takes and highly political (particularly the politics of consumption and globalisation) yet it is also lucid and accessible, with liner notes and live demonstration offering walk-through guidance that is entertaining, amusing even, yet soberly informative. Whereas other sound artists seek refuge in vagueness and vapid obscurity, Matthew Herbert's work is deeply conscientious, purposeful and unmistakeable. As such, he is among the most prominent practitioners in his field.
He is also highly versatile. For someone so uncompromising in his attitude towards music and its making, for someone so unafraid to shun the sort of political engagement other, more timid artists consider a commercial turn-off, Matthew Herbert has been extraordinarily successful in an extraordinary variety of fields. He is both overall head and A&R man for the not accidentally named Accidental Records, which he founded in 2000. He has also acted as a producer for the label, working with, among others, the Mercury-nominated The Invisible on their superb, self-titled debut. His other label and production credits include Roisin Murphy, Micachu, Merz, Hejira and Rowdy Superstar. He has scored more than ten feature films, notably Kevin Macdonald/Ridley scott's 2011 film Life in a Day for which he received a prestigious Ivor Novello nomination, writing for full, 80 piece orchestras in some instances as well as making the soundtrack from sounds sent to him by the public . He has worked in other media too – scoring ballet, fashion shows, tv programmes and theatre – his music has been presented at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, on Broadway and the Almeida. His collaborators have ranged from the playwright Caryl Churchill to purveyor of radical cuisine Heston Blumenthal. Whether performing or Djing, he has played all over the world, including venues as diverse as the Sydney Opera House, Hollywood Bowl, Berghain in Berlin and Trafalger Square. He has remixed over 200 different artists ranging from Qunicy Jones to Serge Gainsbourg, REM to long time collaborator Bjork. There aren't many artists can say they have been both sampled by late hip hop hero J Dilla and had a major motion picture named after one of their songs- Cafe de Flore. Furthermore, he is currently Creative Director of the newly reformed Radiophonic Workshop, once home to cult figures like Delia Derbyshire, which in the 1960s, working on BBC sound effects did so much to popularise by stealth, the techniques of musique concrète
In 2010, he was invited by classical label Deutsche Grammophon to rework a piece of his choice. He opted for Mahler's Tenth Symphony. To the untutored ear, his treatment of the work might sound like an act of musique concrete vandalism. However, it's a scrupulous application of Herbert's principle of restoring context to art, particularly apposite in the case of Mahler, whose work was raided and inadvertently popularised by a Castrol GTX TV advert. Travelling to Mahler's writing cabin in Italy and grave in Vienna to make the microphone recordings which augment his version, this "recomposition" is preoccupied with mortality as well as reality – this was Mahler's final symphony, unfinished at the time of his death in 1910. Recordings were also made inside and backstage at a crematorium as well as in a coffin fitted with an ipod and car speakers – a playlist for music in the afterlife.
If there is a key to Herbert's success, it is his singularity. There has been shimmering, velvet sweet House. There has been musique concrete. There has been sampling. There has been polemical, protest pop. However, there has only ever been one Matthew Herbert. His body of work is unique in collapsing the walls between pleasure and the political, between the realms of created sound and reality as it is experienced and suffered, between the drily conceptual and the warmly immersive. To his occasional despair, only Matthew Herbert does what he does.
To those new to his work, a Matthew Herbert album might initially feel like it belongs recognisably in the realms of dance and electronica – regular rhythms, seductive layers of Techno fabric, diva vocals, no atonal blasts of avant garde noise to drive away the nervous. However, closer inspection reveals a layered mass of idiosyncratic quirks, distinguishing it from the majority of electronic music and all its regular presets. Closer reading will reveal that these details are the result of what is to some a bewilderingly laborious process of sample collection. No snatches of sci-fi dialogue or tenth hand breakbeats for Herbert. Nor will vaguely suggestive sound effects do – as he explains himself, in the context of Plat Du Jour (2005), if he wants to make a point about the uk apple industry, then apples, of a specific type, scrunched by human teeth, must be integrated into the sonic weave. "If my track was about the out of season availability of apples and I just used any old apple without considering where I bought it or where it was grown, my point becomes invalid."
He has ventured covertly with microphones into the Houses Of Parliament, captured the sound of rolling tanks driving over picnics, abattoirs, commercial chicken farms and arms fairs. However, despite the ugly provenance of his source material, it also lends his music a singularly delicious tang, properly enhances its desirability as an object of consumption – it isn't designed merely to be stood back and admired but also to engage and revel in physically. "I can have my artistic cake and eat it," as Herbert himself puts it. And so can we. But to be attracted to the music is to be brought up close to the means of its production.
A trained musician from a young age, Matthew Herbert studied at Exeter University, where he became acquainted with aleatoric methods, that is to say, the role of chance in music making. Hearing Steve Reich's 1966 piece "Come Out" proved a particular moment of epiphany. Reich took a snatch of a recording phrase from one Daniel Hamm, a boy involved in the Harlem riots of 1964. Replaying the snippet on tape machines slightly out of sync, splitting the loop into two, then four, then eight, the phrase "Come out" yields a giddying array of effects that wouldn't sound out of place on a contemporary minimal Techno cut – the phrase is eventually unrecognisable yet its passion is undimmed, indeed multiplied like the broomsticks cut up in vain by the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Herbert appreciated how using such found sounds could amount to more than an academic exercise but "engage with the friction of its time".
Herbert himself began recording under the name of Wishmountain, conceived while at Exeter University, exploring concrete methods on such everyday objects as pepper pots, video cassettes, crisp packets. Not unlike the Dadaists, Herbert was looking for ways to commandeer these unassuming, everyday objects into his sound. Wishmountain recordings would be derived from eight different recordings of a single object, using a sampler and sequencer. He would then make a point of exposing this process onstage, to make a simple but effective demonstration of the inseparability of music and life. Strangely, the regular, elastic sounds he produced proved quite user-friendly and resulted in a meeting with the dance duo Global Communication, with whom he briefly worked. Over the next few years, Herbert would split into various personae. "My heart was well and truly in the the more experimental Wishmountain music," he says. But then there was also Doctor Rockit ("like a playful diary") and Herbert ("like an indulgence").
The series of EPs produced under the Herbert moniker would be brought together on the album 100lbs. Herbert would later distance himself from this early work, in that he felt a little too deeply implicated in the hedonistic club scene of the time but primarily because he had sampled other people's music, for which he would later be repentant. "I feel like it is a betrayal of what I really believed to be the right thing to do at the time. I was seduced and shaped in part by people and assumptions around me." Yet formally, 100lbs feels very much a Herbert album, on tracks like "Desire" and "Thinking Of You", self-consciously assembled, precisely weighted, sleek, sending micro-fragments showering and skittering across its own, silvery surfaces yet plumbing Moog House depths. "Friday They Dance", meanwhile, show an arch detachment from the nightclub vibe, the scene in which this music was notionally supposed to take its place. These early records even became a blueprint for genres such as Minimal and Microhouse.
Aesthetic and political concerns are key to Herbert's work and he is keen to downplay the personal – however, the death of someone close to him in 1994 affected him profoundly. For someone whose work is about making unlikely but undeniable connections with the outside world, his bereavement brought with it the experience of solitude, an equally undeniable human condition. "This death was the impetus to push on with my music. It's the silent powerplant at the heart of my work."
In 1998, Herbert released Around The House. Despite sharing the methodology of San Francisco avant garde duo Matmos, it's a beautifully carpeted album, a Deep House masterpiece, luxurious and fabricated to an exquisite standard. Dani Siciliano's dreamlike, Diva vocals add to the dazed, blissful reverie engendered by tracks like "So Now" and "We Still Have (The Music)". But this is not an album that "puts out". A sense of interiority prevails. The music, drawn typically from samples of domestic objects, is self-contained. There's a feeling of perfect suspense – Around The House shimmers, hovers and hums, neither tearing up the floor nor tearing off the roof. There is a disquieting sense of personal isolation amid the velvet folds of the album's self absorption.
2001′s Bodily Functions takes the idea of interiority still further. Its sounds are derived not from the house but from the very body itself, sounds sampled from the teeth, the bones, the eyes, even (in the form of laser surgery), all of which scratches against a more expansive, jazzier feel. But this is studied jazz, not merely an excuse to get loose and loungey. In many parts of the world it is considered a classic modern album with sales to match.
By now, the bones of the conceptual were more conspicuous and pointed beneath the flesh of Herbert's sound. In 2000, he had issued his Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (Incorporating the Manifesto of Mistakes), whose various points railed against all of the shortcuts afforded by modern, mechanised recording (drum machines, lifting other people's beats) and the stifling paradigm of studio presets. The very act of issuing such a manifesto, often compared to filmmaker Lars Von Trier's Dogme 95, sets Herbert apart from his more ideologically and conceptually taciturn contemporaries, who prefer to remain mute on such matters, merely present themselves as high-profile conduits for the "flow" of their sounds, rather than explain and justify themselves.
"It was entirely sudden," says Herbert of the urge to set down the manifesto. "It was an exciting realisation – that the artistic agenda in electronic music was there for the taking. I don't mean that in an arrogant way, but in a practical way. There has never been any magazine or place for people to talk about music in the way I was brought up to talk about art, literature, film etc. In creating art, there are certain fundamental principles underlying each work, exhibition or gallery. What is this work about? why does it exist now? why use these materials? what is the intended effect? To this day, that kind of basic questioning about the role of music doesn't exist in the visible mainstream, and rarely even on campus. Consequently I am left to my own devices, free to set the tone of discussion, free to drive the narrative and free to push further on in to uncharted territory. It's a thrilling position to be in. I'm surprised others didn't do it first."
2003′s Goodbye Swingtime represented a confounding left turn for those who regarded Herbert as a mere housenik. The word "jazz" has always been vaguely bandied on the fringes of dance music but never applied with this sort of capability. Herbert's classical musical training, a hitherto discreet aspect of his performances, was in full evidence as he assembled a full Big Band including four trumpets, four trombones and five saxes, whose orchestrations were then computer manipulated by Herbert. The Big Band format was a refreshing new mode of practice. "I came face to face with all those things so charmingly absent from much of dance music – nuanced harmony, acoustic texture, human feel, risk. Like most bedroom producers I had become a petty tyrant. I was in control of so many decisions it was easy to become a dictator, closed to the possibility of your own fallibility and limits. The big band is a perfect expression of the opposite of this – everyone has to do their bit and pull together otherwise it simply doesn't work."
The distantly Stan Kenton-ish air of the album, its ostensible neo-swing jollity might seem a deliberately ironic counterpoint to the album's ingrained political content ('the backbone of the album is political literature", state the sleevenotes), with paperbacks of Noam Chomsky and Stephen Zunes physically used as percussive sound matter on the album. However, there is something inherently communitarian and political about the very idea of a Big Band, as Charlie Haden had previously demonstrated with his Liberation Orchestra. "Terry Eagleton describes an ideal society as running as if in a jazz band – each with their own part to play but free to improvise within a certain framework. That rang true. It is a humbling and exhilarating thing to play in a band that size where all the noise generated is acoustically rather than through amplification. The politics of it are explicit in this organisation of musicians for me so it is a natural place to express socially conscious ideas. What better way to articulate protest than with others?" Herbert made further investigations with the Big Band on 2008′s There's Me And There's You, in which form and content once again collapsed into one, a new torch vocal presence was introduced to the world in the form of Eska Mtungwazi, while an accompanying statement, with signatures from the participating musicians, pressed for the idea that music be more than merely "the soundtrack to over-consumption." It also utilized a noise choir of 70 people, gathered together in the foyer of the British Museum to scrape condoms along the flaw, blow over empty water bottles or cut up specially made credit cards.
After the relatively placid 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century saw a recoiling of political indignation, in revulsion at the bellicose excesses of the Bush and Blair administrations, and the dominance of pathologically greedy corporations in an increasingly polarised and resources-starved world. Herbert never made any apology for addressing these issues directly in his music, rather than zoning them out as so many of his contemporaries were wont to do. In 2001, under his Radio Boy moniker, he released the freely downloadable Mechanics Of Destruction, on which the consumer detritus wrought by a range of big brands is recycled and reused musically, including a copy of The Sun, Kraft processed cheese slices, two oil drums and a bottle of brake fluid. The titles read like an accusatory roll call; "The GM Food Chain", "Gap", "Oil", Henry Kissinger".
On 2005′s Plat Du Jour, the theme is food, and the politics of its distribution and consumption. On tracks like "The truncated life of a modern industrialised chicken" and "Nigella, Tony, George And Me", the chain of connection between politics, celebrity and battery farming was explicitly established, while Herbert's angled, sample-laden music began to feel like a giant, mechanical, pleasure-dispensing contraption, a strangely joyful listening experience yet jutting with reminders of cruelty and injustice. This was "processed" music in the best sense, with a website, www.platdujour.co.uk, acting as an important adjunct to the album. There you can read about his recording of 3500 people biting an apple at the same time or the sound of 25,000 chickens hatching simultaneously.
Accompanied by a live show in which (in keeping with his 2000 manifesto) a chef on stage was a component, Herbert acquired new levels of commercial success, in tandem with being an increasingly in-demand collaborator forging alliances with artists such as Arto Lindsay and Jamie Lidell. This success was further consolidated with 2008′s Scale, on which Herbert dispensed with liner notes but was still more inventive and audacious and politically pointed in his sound sources, which included someone vomiting outside a Trade Arms fair, drums recorded in a hot air balloon, at 100mph and underground. All of this in an upbeat musical context of silvery disco flourishes, chugging House beats, warm torch vocals and orchestration – all of Herbert's strengths brought fully to play on one album.
Between 2009 and 2011, Herbert released the One series, a trilogy of albums which revealed both his range and meticulous conceptual precision. First came One One, in which Herbert, against all of his own instincts, creates a song cycle based around his immediate world, playing all the instruments and even singing. Even as he embarked on the exercise, he baulked at what he felt was the cosy solipsism of the singer/songwriter way. "It's maybe why I sing so quietly," he explains. "I was a little embarrassed. It's the most conservative and straightforward thing I've ever done. I kept thinking about the relationship between the confessional and the public sphere – you know, how can you be doing stuff like this when you know what's happening in Syria?" And yet, it's Herbert's very misgivings that make One One such a fine record – his subdued vocal delivery and his abashed mood actually enhance these songs, provide a subtle, intangible framework for their introspection. Herbert has always prided himself on putting himself in uncomfortable places artistically, and, as ever, it pays off on One One.
This was followed by One Club, in which Herbert travelled to a familiar gigging haunt, the Robert Johnson nightclub in Frankfurt. Here, he persuaded the club's friendly patrons to supply him with sample material, asking them to stamp, shake coins, whistle up or down according to whether they were straight or gay, and co-perform songs written for the occasion. The results were then processed, to provide a fascinating, uniquely sculpted document of the club experience, which, again, this being a journey into the unknown, turned out not to be quite what Herbert had anticipated. "I remember thinking, " wow, what a racket. The air conditioning alone was so loud that the whole thing took on industrial qualities." The end results, as harnessed, chopped up and re-orchestrated by Herbert, do have a disquieting, seething quality, like some piece of machinery wheezing away systematically yet to no apparent purpose. "It often occurs to me, given how many millions of people go clubbing every weekend, that that energy, or at least some of that energy, doesn't cohere into some sort of political movement – that it all dissipates."
Finally, One Pig, perhaps Herbert's most remarkable and challenging sonic foray into the politics of consumption. The album follows the life, death and ultimate fate on a dinner plate of a single animal. Herbert spent several months on a farm collating the necessary sounds, from its eerily quiet birth, to the noisy trauma of feeding time, to its removal and solitary, shuffling last journey to the abbatoir, alone in a trailer. The pig was eventually cooked by several reknowned chefs including Fergus Henderson and Jason Atherton at a small event including the unveiling of a new instrument made by Henry Dagg that used the pig's blood to generate pitch. Some of the album's more benign and functional sounds have a grim provenance – the dropping of the pig's head on to the butcher's table, for example, is eventually processed into a bounding bass drum. In a sense, the most "political" aspect of the album is in what it cannot record – the actual slaughter of the pig, since Herbert was refused permission to do so. He refers to the "veil of secrecy" in which the environment of animal processing is shrouded, despite its being such a huge industry. "Again, the point ends up being that I have no rights in the situation. This idea of "choice" as a consumer is nonsense. These huge companies have all the power – and I'm being asked to put this in my body." Despite the meticulous attention to detail and arms-length documentary approach, the project was condemned by PETA who seemed to equate listening in to this pig's life as tantamount to torture.
2012, and Herbert is as multiply busy as ever. As well as finishing up his work with Bjork on her Biophilia record and maintaining side projects "which keep me present and visible", he is determined to "go as far as I can with sound, wherever it takes me.". He's just reacquired the rights to Bodily Functions and Scale, which will be enjoying a reissue, as well as his earliest Wishmountain recordings, to which he plans to add a new album called simply Tesco. Then, another project close to his heart, the Museum Of Soundwww.museumofsound.com, dedicated to offering a much-needed sound archive to sit alongside the plethora of archives of video and photography prevalent elsewhere. "It's designed to be a place where, for example, you can go and listen to the sound of 1982. Where else can you do that?" The visitor/listener themselves will be able to interact with the site also. "One of the great things about sound is that you can experience things simultaneously – you could never watch 10,000 YouTube videos at the same time but you could listen to, say, 10,000 apples being eaten at the same time, or a million people closing doors all at once." Herbert is convinced that as a species, even at our stage of evolution, we are "very clumsy listeners. We have mostly been listening to recordings of speech and music. Visually, from cave painting onwards, we're more versatile and adept at "looking" by comparison." The Museum Of Sound is intended as a corrective to that.
Finally, there is what could be considered an addition to the "One" series – a new album derived entirely from a single, sample source – war photographer Sebastian Meyer's recording of being bombed by one of Gaddafi's planes during the Libyan conflict. "It's just ten seconds long, and the bombing itself is absolutely terrifying," says Herbert. "But after an hour of atomising, deconstructing, doing everything possible to this piece of sound, will it still sound so scary? It's about walking this path between listening and engaging." Music has this capacity, historically, to take you somewhere abstract, or other." It's Herbert's mission to snap us out of that complacent drift. Once again, in this work, the medium, the music, the matter, the message will be inseparable. "my work is about putting the context back. There's a stripping away of context in music and that's always dangerous. Absence of context is the prerequisite for a certain kind of Fascist state."
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How does this drug work?
Nilutamide is a part of the general group of drugs called hormone antagonists. Antagonists block the effect of a hormone. Nilutamide blocks the action of androgens (male hormones, such as testosterone.) When you take this drug, cancer cells that depend on testosterone are no longer able to grow.
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Tell your doctor…
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When: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 27.
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For 10 years, women have been fighting heart disease individually and together as part of the Go Red for Women movement. More than 627,000 women's lives have been saved, but the fight is far from over.
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Chicagoland women are invited to take control of their heart health at the Go Red for Women Community Expo from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave.
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If you haven't heard of it, then see if for yourself.
On April 15th, you will have a rare experience of seeing the moon turn red!
That's right the the total lunar eclipse will be visible for everyone in the United States to see that night, if the weather permits obviously.
Mark you calendars, I already have and make sure to camp out on your front porch or backyard, because around 1:00 a.m. mountain time or 2:00a.m central time, the moon will turn a dark pink or a light red color as the earth moves in between the moon and the sun.
Good news is this phenomenon will last about 78 minutes from the start of when the earth begins to cast a shadow on the moon to when the moon turns this amazing pink/red color.
If you are wondering, "wait a minute, if the earth is casting a shadow on the moon, how is it supposed to turn colors?"
For starters, you are right.
The shadow of Earth will completely cover the moon, but remember that the earth isn't big enough to cover the sun even at that distance.
So the areas that aren't cover will produce a red glow around the earth, and that red light scatters, causing the moon to appear red.
Amazing isn't it?!
I myself find outer space pretty intriguing. Although this topic isn't really weather related, it is worth mentioning.
And for all you star gazers out there, you will really appreciate this fact.
We will have a total of 4 lunar eclipses that will be seen in the United States from now until 2015. Meaning every six months there will be a lunar eclipse. This phenomenon is called a Tetrad.
The next one is set to take place Oct 8, 2014. The ones in 2015 are scheduled for April 4,2015 and Sept 28,2015.
This phenomenon, the four eclipses in a row is not common at all!
A Tetrad is so uncommon that between 1600-1900, there were no Tetrads recorded!
No matter what my work schedule looks like I will definitely make it a point to not miss out on this amazing opportunity of being part of the Tetrad and witnessing a Pink Full Moon for the first time!


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Should we interrupt the natural way of evolution ? If there is life on the planet do get to run tests or collect them? Did we have visitors when we were evolving ?
Should we interrupt the natural way of evolution ? If there is life on the planet do get to run tests or collect them? Did we have visitors when we were evolving ?
Depends on if you agree with panspermia or not (look it up on Wikipedia).
Personally, I think that if you object to disrupting evolution, then don't take medicine, don't go to doctors, don't use anything made out of metal (after all, you're destroying micro-ecosystems in the ores that are melted down that are going through evolution), don't use fire... Oh, and don't eat: every time you consume a plant, animal, or micro-organism with unique mutations that can contribute to the evolution of the species.
Yes, finding life on Mars would be awesome, and lead (potentially) to huge medical and biotech advances, but let's not go overboard here.
First i hope we find life out there.And if we find it we must study it.And maybe the earth form of life couldn't interact with martian one so both can live beside.
Your assuming there is life on mar's and that if there is it is it is still evolving. Unfortunatly that;s not likely to be the case. MAr's is a dead world. It's core has stopped turning, it's planetary engine is stalling out. If there ever was life there and somehow it has managed to cling on in some crevis, then it is stuck without hope of escaping the inveitable entrophy that will someday turn Mar's into a frozen husk. The only real hope it has of a radical change in circumstance that may allow it an opertunity to evolve into something more complex is us. Other wise it's just going to stay under it's rock not daring to crawl out as conditions around it slowly get less and less capable of suporting any form of life.
I think the question is more like 'How much we will and what are the implications?'
We sent rovers and landers already that disturbed the air and surface but how is that different from a meteorite. Well its possible that some microorganisms from earth survived with all the sterilization and harsh of space travel and reentry. Now will they be still be alive and able to proliferate - hard to tell. I don't know of any experiment done to test this scenario but sounds like a common sense one to me.
When the first humans will arrive on Mars there will be no doubt about contaminating Mars with life from Earth. What will be the effect on any possible Mars life it is hard to tell. Maybe only life that survived is deep underground and we will probably not reach majority of those habitats ever. Also if life on Mars is carbon based it will be easier to interact with one coming from Earth but if its not then I guess chances of 'bothering' each other drops. Few human self contained outposts will hardly make any major impact on Mars biosphere anyway. On Earth air and water cycle is the wide spread main factor of global effects on biosphere but you don't have that on Mars especially if they are isolated islands underground.
When we will start the terraforming process then the story changes radically.
When there is life on Mars, will it even have an evolution ?
Mars is not like Earth and even here, we are the only species sadly
to say are able to bring everything to an end maybe on mars, too.
BUT we are also the Only species is able to secure Life itself, of every
Species we know, in Comic Nature.
So I would say we should find the right balance of Moral between ...
Saving the Life of another species vs we are saving Life as itself´
in the 1st place. We still do not know, if Life is something common
in our universe, this is still a mathematic calculation of probabilities & theory.
To find Life on another planet would be a great discovery even if it will be only
bacterias or microorganisms they might be very different from ours so we can learn a lot of them, also this would be the proof that life find its way in our universe and we will find more life out there.
I will give you a positive point, because we should not forget to question our selfs in our advance morally, in history we did a lot of time question our selfs when it was much to late.
I sure hope that we discover extant life on Mars so that this becomes a real question. That would be awesome.


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January 2010, Fleet Financials - Feature
by Glen Sokolis
Your company has worked hard to get the right fleet fuel program in place. You have picked the right fleet fuel card provider, and you may have negotiated and set up some discounts with your fuel providers. However, the fuel management task has only just begun.
Companies often neglect to monitor their fleet fuel programs following the original set-up. Some companies do review fuel transactions or exception reports. However, do they review all reports, check for duplicate transactions, or confirm discounts are applied properly? Many companies cannot perform this level of scrutiny because they lack the time or tools to check.
How should companies audit fleet fuel invoices?
Audits Require Time & Data
Staff time and access to relevant data are the first elements in a successful fuel purchase auditing system.
A few tips to facilitate this process include:
Fuel price data is available through Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), data transmission service company DTN, or other pricing sources published daily at a local level. Broader-range indices, such as the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), Department of Energy (DOE), and the American Automobile Association (AAA), provide national fuel pricing.
While these national services offer a big picture view of fuel prices, they can also obscure the various price differentials distinguishing one area from another. Local indices provide more accurate fuel price data.
These services are not cheap to purchase, but they are essential to a successful fuel program review.
Calculating Vendor Margins
The basic data required for a fuel program review is price per gallon for each fuel transaction. Next, the federal, state, county, and local taxes are subtracted from the price per gallon numbers. A tax guide can provide a resource for such data.
The price per gallon less taxes calculation provides fuel cost only. Comprising that fuel cost are the fuel itself and vendor-charged margins. To determine the vendor margin, fleet fuel transaction costs are compared with same-day OPIS or DTN pricing for the relevant geographic area.
Fleet managers can monitor fuel margin numbers to determine if they match or closely approach vendor-negotiated fuel price deals. If the numbers do not agree, it's time to investigate.
Detecting Duplicates
Duplicate transactions are another fuel program invoice issue to track. These errors occur more frequently than commonly realized. When hundreds of thousands of transactions are produced each day, mistakes happen. If invoices are not monitored carefully, a fleet manager can miss duplicate transactions, and there's a good chance the fleet fuel card provider won't catch the mistakes as well.
Guidelines in monitoring fuel reports include:
Implement Checks & Balances
Fuel is among fleet's top five expenses, and hundreds to tens of thousands of transactions happen each month as part of a fuel program. Successful programs require a good checks-and-balances system. One of the best checks is performing monthly fleet fuel audits of the fleet management operation.
A fleet might have trucks fueling off-road equipment or reefer units, putting all that volume on the same transaction. One fleet fuel card for each truck, equipment, reefer, small tank, etc., is recommended to accurately capture every drop of fuel and where it went.
Accurate records of where the fuel is used are critical. If on-road fuel is used in an off-road application, as much as 50 cents per gallon or more in extra, unnecessary taxes could be spent. In other words, fuel tax should be paid when fuel is purchased, but accurate recordkeeping allows fleets to file for a tax refund with the federal and state government. Those 50 cents per gallon can add up quickly.
Another critical benefit of accurate recordkeeping is the ability to spot incidents of theft. Most companies would downplay the possibility employees would steal from them. However, the national rate for theft is 1.5 percent of a company's fuel budget on overall fuel purchases. That rate rises to more than 3 percent when dealing with a fleet of gasoline-powered vehicles. The more controls in place, the greater the control over one of fleet's top expenses.
Giving Money Away
An old expression holds that what isn't inspected is not respected. By neglecting to perform daily fuel management audits on fleet fuel purchases, companies could be literally giving money away.
Most often, fuel invoice errors are not the result of unethical business practices or nefarious individual actions. Generally, errors are the result of an incorrect account set-up or account change. If invoice numbers are not audited, they look like what they are - simple numbers. However, when fleet managers "peel back" the first "layer" and take a deeper look, comparing the numbers to a benchmark, the figures become numbers with a purpose.
Fuel Management Tips
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