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Koch Mandates to Cut Education Spending Spread Like a Cancer
The Koch brothers' philosophy of the consolidation of wealth by the few is spreading like a cancer. Just look at how their hand-picked governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker - who received massive financial backing from the Kochs - is now being touted in the corporate media as a Republican contender for president in 2016.
Walker, who never graduated from college (leaving Marquette University in Milwaukee for mysterious reasons), has mercilessly attacked education in Wisconsin - starting with the teachers unions and recently extending to the University of Wisconsin.
On February 22, Kevin O'Marah wrote in a Forbes op-ed:
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut $300M from the budget of the University of Wisconsin and, if he has his way, will alter its mission from a "search for truth" to "meeting the state's workforce needs." These steps are so fantastically at odds with what the business community, economy and state need from its public university system that no synonym for 'stupid' is too strong.
It should be no surprise then that the newly inaugurated governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner - a darling of the 1% - is metastasizing the Koch brothers' attack on an educated public
Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loans
Hell No, We Won't Go --1967
No Way, We Won't Pay --2015
Fifty years ago students burned their draft cards to protest an immoral war against the people of Vietnam. Today it's a different kind of war, immoral in another way, waged against young Americans of approximately the same age, and threatening them in a manner that endangers not their lives but their livelihoods.
There are at least four good reasons why America's young adults - and their parents - should take up the fight against financial firms who are holding high-interest student loans that total more than the nation's credit card debt, and more than the total income of the poorer half of America.
Plastic Smog: Microplastics Invade Our Oceans
journal Plos One, estimates 269,000 tons of plastic from 5.25 trillion particles, but more alarming than that is it's mostly microplastic (>92 percent in our study) and most of the plastic in the ocean is likely not on the sea surface.The idea that there are "patches" of trash in the oceans is a myth created 15 years ago that should be abandoned in favor of "plastic smog," like massive clouds of microplastics that emanate out of the five subtropical gyres. My recent publication in the
Recent research has shown microplastics in ice cores, across the seafloor, vertically throughout the ocean and on every beach worldwide. The little stuff is everywhere.
If you follow the life of plastic in the oceans, as we have done for 50,000 miles since 2009, you find the large items leaving coastlines in droves, then it rapidly shreds as it migrates toward the calmer waters of the subtropical gyres where sunlight, waves and nibbling fish rip it to micro-size particles smaller than a grain of rice. Microplastic then flow through the bodies of billions of organisms, making their way out of the gyres to deeper currents, and ultimately the seafloor. That's the end-life of plastic.
Visualize the problem as "plastic smog" much like the way you can look up and visualize clouds of air pollution over cities. It's very similar. We solved the air pollution problem by stopping the source with better emission controls on cars and power plants. There were people that suggested sucking air pollution out of the sky, but because people could look up and see the problem they understood that only stopping the source would work. The exact same logic applies to microplastic pollution in the world's oceans. Because there are only a handful of scientists that understand ocean plastic pollution, and the public largely relies on the media for information, there's an unusual amount of attention given to ideas to suck up plastic from the sea.
The United State's Terrorist Legacy of Lynching
The United States has some atoning to do when it comes to terrorism. After all, the history of the US is founded on the terrorizing and near annihilation of Native Americans.
Professor Edward E. Baptist makes the case in a recent book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism,that the US relied on slavery - including Northern textile and other industries - to boost the nation into an economic power in the years before the Civil War. Can there be a more sinister form of terrorism than the theft, brutalization and "ownership" of human lives to secure a profit?
One could also argue that bombs, drone killings, endless wars for natural resources and hegemony using advanced lethal technology are forms of contemporary economic terrorism.
Recently, a particularly heinous form of terrorism related to slavery and racism - lynching - has been the subject of a study that indicates that the practice was more widespread than previously thought.
Brazenly Deranged Right-Wing Christian Organization Nails Itself to Its Own Cross
By recently unveiling its "Bigotry Map," which exposes "Anti-Christian Bigotry in America," the American Family Association, apparently tired of being monitored, tracked, and vilified, has decided to turn the tables on "anti-Christian bigots" in the United States, and do some tracking of its own.
On its website, a newly developed interactive map of the United States is marked by symbols identifying "groups and organizations that openly display bigotry toward the Christian faith." You can do a state-by-state search to discover which of these groups reside in your neck of the woods.
The symbols designate whether the group identified is part of the "Homosexual Agenda" – "Advocates for the legalization and promotion of same-sex marriage and viciously attacks Christians who exercise their First Amendment right to voice support for God's plan for marriage as between one man and one woman -- is out-and-out "Anti-Christian" – "Actively engages in the complete eradication of the Christian faith from society, government and private commerce. These groups file lawsuits and use intimidation to silence any reference to Christianity from the public square" -- is "Atheist" – "Does not believe in God and is critical of those who express their faith in public" – or "Humanist" – "Believes critical thinking and physical evidence are the sole basis for beliefs. Humanists believe science triumphs faith in issues of morality and decision-making."
The website also singles out four organizations, two of which deal directly with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues. They are the Human Rights Campaign; GLSEN; the Freedom From Religion Foundation; and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has been a particular thorn in the side of the AFA ever since the SPLC labeled the AFA a hate group.
Inclement Weather Postpones Execution in Georgia, as if It Were a Baseball Game
CNN trumpeted the news: "Weather threat postpones Georgia's first execution of a woman in 70 years."
The use of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment was meant to make killing in the name of the state more palatable.After all, the image of someone bound to a gurney sighing before dying makes taking someone's life seem a lot more "humane" - on a visual level - than the image of a dangling body kicking and jerking during a hanging, or smoke and fire coming from a condemned person's head during an electrocution, or blood spurting from a body after death by a firing squad.
Of course, there have been several "botched" lethal injection executions in which the deaths have been prolonged and grueling. One cause of this: Since it is increasingly difficult to procure lethal injection drugs, some eager-to-execute states have been using "untested" combinations of drugs that sometimes have horrific results. According to a 2014 article on the website Cerca,
After recently running out of supplies of pentobarbital, some states have obtained the lethal injection drug from compound pharmacies or are experimenting with untested drug combos.
Pharmaceutical companies worldwide have boycotted the sale of drugs used for executions to U.S. prison systems in recent years. Alternatives like the gas chamber or electric chair would be problematic for states and could "raise the spectacle" level, according to death penalty expert Richard Dieter.
Compounding pharmacies aren't subject to FDA regulation, raising concerns about drug contamination. Lawyers for inmates allege pentobarbital can cause a possibly painful and prolonged death. Several states, including Georgia, have enacted secrecy laws around the origins of their lethal drugs.
Peace Behind Barbed Wire: The Far Side of Fear
As media ownership converges and technology "unites" us, the concept of national identity grows ever easier to exploit — and therefore, I fear, increasingly, and dangerously, simplistic.
This is the war on terror. This is the war on crime. They march on, despite the magnitude of their failures. They march on . . . because America is tough. America is exceptional.
If our news and mass-entertainment outlets valued complexity and expansion of the national IQ, we wouldn't go to war. We'd be building our lives on the far side of fear and the far side of cynicism, which is the only place where peace is possible.
It's not like we aren't doing that anyway, to a certain extent. But it only becomes news when visionary journalists — peace journalists — declare that it is, which is why, every year for the last seven years now, I have written about and celebrated Chicago's Peace on Earth Film Festival, which showcases extraordinary films that step beyond the simplistic myth of good vs. evil, us vs. them. This year the festival is scheduled for March 19-22 at the Chicago Cultural Center; as always, it's free of charge.
"I was a thief, I was a manipulator, I was a con. I had lost all contact with my heart."
So it is in this context that I reflect on the words of Lisandro Martinez, quoted above, and the words of a dozen other prisoners and ex-prisoners at Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, Texas, who were among the participants in a class at the prison run by volunteers and called, of all things, Inner Peace. It almost doesn't sound possible — a class like this at a place where we corral bad guys, "offenders," criminals — much less that it could be effective.
Teens Sue Government for Failing to Address Climate Change for Future Generations
Many young people feel they have too much at stake to wait for our leaders to get their act together and take meaningful action on climate change. In the words of one young climate activist, Alec Loorz, we need to demand our political leaders "govern as if our future matters." With their future at stake, many youth have taken their case to the courts in the hopes that the judiciary will require the legislature to take action.
"We are all in imminent danger," Loorz, who founded the nonprofit Kids vs. Global Warming, told Outside Magazine. "Scientists have said we have 10 years to make changes if we want to stabilize the climate by 2100—and that was back in 2005 … We care more about money and power than we do about future generations. The judicial system is the only branch of government not bought out by corporate interests."
On Bill Moyer's show last month, Mary Christina Wood, law professor at the University of Oregon and author of Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age, explains what is being called the "Children's Climate Crusade."
All Rudy Giuliani Loves Is Himself - and a Dangerous Mythical Notion of the United States
At BuzzFlash, we have long been critical of many of the key neoliberal policies of the Obama administration. The white House's positions on foreign policy and Wall Street, for example, have always embodied the consensus conventional wisdom of the duopoly - and that is not an expression of praise.
There are, of course, some relative differences between Obama and the GOP on several issues, such as the environment, the social safety net, job creation and a few social justice issues - but in large part, the gap is more of an intra-party dispute rather than an inter-party conflict. However, during the two terms of the Obama administration, the white Republican leaders, media and base have biliously attacked Obama and relentlessly impugned his "love of country." This has occurred despite Obama's aggressive support of the military-industrial-surveillance complex and the current financial system.
Of course, most readers of this commentary are aware that just a short while ago, Rudy Giuliani - a man inexorably in love with himself - told an audience of one-percenters in New York that, in essence, Obama is a traitor to the United States. Of all people, Fox's Megan Kelly's challenged Giuliani on air - and Giuliani responded by launching even more lacerating attacks on Obama's loyalty to the US (stating that he and his ancestors were associated with communists). Here is Giuliani's original statement at an NYC dinner honoring Wisconsin Governor Scott (Koch Brothers) Walker, as posted on FOX:
I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn't love you and he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.
Kelly repeatedly pressed Giuliani if he stood by the accusation, which he did at that time. At one point Giuliani cut to the heart of the matter:
I don't hear from him [Obama] what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are.
Giuliani is praising three white Democratic presidents, while lacerating Obama over the mythical notion of "American exceptionalism." At the heart of the notion of "American exceptionalism," of course, is the idea that the US was divinely chosen to be led by white Christians and to extend its empire of ruling elite values throughout the world.
Landmark Federal Court Decision: Will It Speed Diablo Nuke's Demise?
California's Diablo Canyon nukes.New revelations about earthquake dangers have shaken the future of
In a rare move, Washington DC's Federal U.S. Court of Appeals will hear a landmark challenge to their continued operation.
The suit says Diablo's owners illegally conspired with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken seismic standards. "This is a big victory," says Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth. "The public has a right to know what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric won't admit—hundreds of thousands of people are put at immediate risk by earthquake danger at Diablo Canyon."
Diablo is also vulnerable on state and federal water quality regulations, economic concerns and more. Citizen activism has also shut operating reactors at Humboldt, Rancho Seco and San Onofre. Proposed projects have been cancelled at Bodega Bay and Bakersfield.
California's two remaining reactors are surrounded by more than a dozen seismic fault lines. The Shoreline fault runs within 600-700 yards of the Diablo cores, which also sit just 45 miles from the massive San Andreas fault—half Fukushima's distance from the epicenter of the quake that destroyed it.


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Artist: Deathnite
Concept: Arashi
This dragon's true power awakens when strong winds occur, the dragon will open its mouth and vacuums all of the strong winds through his body.
Once Arashi has enough wind stored up in his body, he releases everything at once and creates tornado's by twisting his 2 tails around the released air.
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Artist: scorge
Concept: Sandstorm Dragon
Mischievous, and quite large, the Sandstorm dragons roam the deserts of the world, looking to stir up trouble and perhaps grab a meal in all the confusion and dust. It's super tough exterior and elongated wingspan allow these dragons to fly through sandstorms with ease, their small eyes and iron jaw capable of closing and withstanding the blast of natures fury, while special glands under their ear flaps enable them to collect and spit sand at supersonic rates.
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Artist: Orm Irian
Concept: Storm Dragon
The dragon harvests electricity through its tail. It can use this saved energy to attack other creatures or just for the fun of doing so. The dragon has no arms/legs, so usually it lives in the air (preferably in a storm) or in the water.
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Concept: Storm Dragon
This dragon has neither the strength to hunt nor fly until the air becomes heavily ionized. At this point, it can suspend itself. Since it often precedes the visible thunderstorm, it is considered a sign of bad omen to many. Soldiers, however, consider it to be a sign of luck in battle. They call it "Indra's Wyrm".
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Artist: Seth-D-Forbes
Concept: Storm Dragon
During thunderstorms these dragons fly into the skies to charge themselves with energy from lighting that they then use to ignite a gas they produce inside of themselves allowing them to go burn down the countryside.
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Artist: ded
Concept: Sandwich fox dragon
one upon a time there was a great wizard who liked to eat sandwich. one day while eating sandwich, he realized that the breads are gone stale. too stingy to throw it away, he changed it into a creature, the first storm dragon. unfortunately his design is quite lame, so the dragon, instead of causing storm, is depend on storm. no storm, no life. because the dragons has no organs (creatures made from baconless sandwich), they have certain urge to stuff animals between their two loaves of skins instead of eating them. that's explain why some animals like cows or fishes or frogs fall from the sky during or after storm.
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December 30th, 2012 #8
Artist: Thalion
Concept: Perfuris
It is said that this creature collects energy from storms.
Perfuris is living inside huge storm clouds, it can not be seen from the ground, so there is many legends about it's appearance.
It has many names in ancient times, most popular was "Storm Bringer".
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December 30th, 2012 #9
Artist: Benedikt
Concept: Storm Dragon
Contrary to popular belief, Storm Dragons neither bring storms, nor are they malevolent creatures. Intelligent and living in seclusion, these beasts are rarely ever spotted. Despite their reputation and in contrast to most of their fire-breathing bethren, they are completely harmless and gentle creatures. The only energy they need to sustain their life is harnessed from storms, a feat they accomplish by absorbing the energy set free in lightning with their huge horns. The absence of teeth or claws is a clear indication for their harmless nature.
December 30th, 2012 #10
Artist : JonathanSevigny
Concept : Storm Dragon
Stormbringers are misnamed by the local population for they only get out of their caves when storms occurs. Their height varies between four and five meters and their lenght between ten and twelve meters. Living in a very rough and dry land, Stormbringers only get out once a year for their mating period, lasting one month. They use their horns to canalise lightnings and turn them into energy, making their scales glows. The more they glow, the more females are attracted. If two dragons wants the same female, they can use stored energy to throw strong lightning bolts and breath to their foes. Because mother nature is unpredictable, it happens that storms occurs in the dry season, waking the Stormbringers. Stories says that entire village and cities has been destroyed during these unexpected storms.
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January 2nd, 2013 #11
Artist: defecticon001
Concept: Stellasaur
These dragons collect and form balls of energy during electric storms brought on by volcanic ash clouds. They then drop it on nearby villages in an attempt to eradicate humans, who pose a serious threat to their kind during the thousands of years between eruptions when they are without powers.
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January 2nd, 2013 #12
Artist: Tchuk
Concept: Storm Wyrm
The storm dragons are worshiped throughout various provinces, but whilst some cultures spin tales of their benevolence and intellect, others regard them as ill omens, bringing storms more dangerous than at any other time.
Keeping aloft through the use of air sacs and feeding directly off the lightning filtered through their bodies these beasts can be seen and heard from miles away, but during their time of rest are heard to float peacefully upon the ocean waves.
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January 2nd, 2013 #13
Artist: Warburton
Concept: Kalsimar the storm dragon
Lock your doors, hide your children, a storms coming and it's not gonna be pretty.
January 3rd, 2013 #14
Artist: Hexokinase
Concept: Baltiq - Thunderbolt Dragon
The Baltiq are a rare species of dragon that are seldom sighted. Juveniles thrive in the deep sea, feeding on smaller aquatic life. As they mature, the Baltiq's trademark 4 wings fully develop. At this stage, the Baltiq are terrestrial hunters residing on remote islands. Without the hindlegs common in their dragon ancestors, the Baltiq are undulating surface crawlers throughout most of their days - save the coming of gale force winds. At this point the Baltiq become much more mobile, and aggressive as well. With supporting winds, the Baltiq's wings are capable of transporting its massive body through the skies. The Baltiq's bones are able to conduct and store atmospheric static electricity, which is then manifests as the ability to charge and throw wicked thunderbolts.
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Poll is up! No cuts this week.
Hard time deciding between scorge and ded. In the end I went for ded, I really like the split-in-two design, really original concept, with nice execution.
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January 3rd, 2013 #16
I ended up voting for Thalion myself, I was caught between Thalion and Ded, just because both were such interesting designs. But in the end I think the colours of Thalion won me over.
Also, Scorge, love the idea that you didn't stray into the idea of a normal raining/lightning storm like everyone else. Was very tempted to vote for you also!
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January 3rd, 2013 #17
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January 4th, 2013 #18
Deathnite accidentally voted for himself and asked his vote to be transferred to Tchuk, this has been done, which should explain the slight discrepancy in the voting stats.
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Happy 2015 to all…so much to report. As you can maybe tell from the lack of updates I've either been Home Depot picking up last minute stuff for studio or locked in there trying to get it all up and running. Happy to report that Level One Sound (yes, it will be the new name….new site coming soon!) is officially up and running! Had a "soft launch" in December and hit the ground running this new year. Pics, updates and more coming soon. Thanks for all your support thus far!
2015 – LEVEL ONE SOUND January 21, 2015 Adrian
SUMMER PART 2 UPDATE August 16, 2014 Adrian
So I'm kind of still on and off tour, studio's still being built after some serious demo and construction, but I'm still trying to stay working – Electric Peanut Butter Co. VOL. 1 is IN THE CAN! Expect it this fall (Oct/Nov 2014) on Ubiquity Records. Making music with my man Shawn Lee is one of my favorite things to do, as the follow up to last year's VOL. 2, which was what we were calling "soft psych", we decided to go all out with the fuzz and the heavy sounds, stay tuned for a preview, I promise you'll dig it!
The Austin Chronicle recently did a profile piece on me…check it out here.
Bobby Patterson's "I Got More Soul", which I was honored to mix, is out now! Pick it up and learn more here!
Brownout debuted the first video off the BROWN SABBATH album. Check out this video for "Hand of Doom" (featuring Alex Maas of the Black Angles), directed by the homies at Onion Creek Productions.
Spanish Gold also debuted the video for "Day Drinkin", our second video off of "South of Nowhere", this one was directed by another homie, the incomporable Frank Weysos of The Hawks.
Golden Dawn Arkestra, Spanish Gold, more May 30, 2014 Adrian
On the road with Spanish Gold a bit this summer, then with Brownout, but I'm rolling with a small portable recording rig, and Shawn Lee and I are halfway through our second Electric Peanut Butter Co. album and I'm hoping we'll be done by the time my tours are over! I don't play, kid. Spanish Gold's debut record is out now! Pick it up at your favorite record store (the vinyl looks dope) or Itunes or Amazon! Brownout's Brown Sabbath record coming this June, stay tuned for more info.
Packed up the studio for a rebuild over the summer so output will be sparse (still rolling with small setup as I pointed out) and will be hitting some friends' studios whenever possible but for the most part, lights are out at LOS until early Fall. Stay tuned for an update on that, it will be bigger and badder when all is said and done. I'm super stoked about it.
Managed to sneak out the final mixes for Golden Dawn Arkestra's debut record before the shutdown, check for it soon. They just released the first single for Afropocalypse, it's fuzzy, funky, psyched out and heavy. Check it:
Also got a little time in to track 4 new jams with Como Las Movies at Lechehouse studios, more info soon. Have a good summer, I'll be posting occasional updates from the road.
Spring 2014 part II April 22, 2014 Adrian
Noisey has premiered a song off Brownout's upcoming Brown Sabbath album – "Hand of Doom" features Alex Maas from The Black Angels…stream it below! Single and digital release mid-May, full length record mid-June on Ubiquity Records.
Spanish Gold's debut single came out for Record Store Day…peep the B side here, a cover of The Ghetto Brothers' 1971 classic "There is Something in my Heart":
And GQ recently premiered another Spanish Gold single, "Day Drinkin." Dig! Our debut full length "South of Nowhere" is out May 27th. Info and tour dates here.
Recently had the pleasure of producing a Red Bull Soundclash studio session for a collaboration between Natalia Clavier and AJ Davila (of Puerto Rico's Davila 666). We recorded a song from start to finish in a day at the Red Bull Studios in LA. It was a blast, I've worked with Natalia quite a bit now but had never worked with AJ and his band Terror/Amor…these dudes/dudettes were rad and the song will be out through the Red Bull network asap. Pics from the session below:
In other bits, Austin homegirl Gina Chavez is killin it with her new record…I played guitar on a couple of cuts, check it out! Did a remix for another Austin homie Ryan Camp, recorded at my friend Keith's Karmakaze studio, featuring awesome cast of folks on it. Mixing the Golden Dawn Arkestra record and getting close to home with it and FINALLY…FINALLY…finishing Dan Dyer's album I produced and engineered. Fresh for 2014….you suckaaaaaaaaaas.
Spring 2014 Update March 29, 2014 Adrian
Lots cooking around here lately…Brownout has wrapped up our BROWN SABBATH album, coming out early summer on Ubiquity Records. The album was recorded mainly at Cacophony Recorders by Erik Wofford, a few overdubs at Level One and Lechehouse studios and was mixed by Colin Dupuis at Easy Eye Sound. It's vicious…watch out for a single and some teasers very soon!
Spanish Gold's debut 7″ single will be out for Record Store Day April 2014. It features our lead single "Out on the Street" and on the B Side is a cover of The Ghetto Brothers' "There is Something in my Heart"…look out for it then and in the meantime stream "Out on the Street."
Check out some other AQ/Level One production for old ATX bros Como Las Movies. Their Tex-Mex sonidero meets rock sound is finally out for the world via two videos they released. Check them out here..
Austin afro psych rock collective Golden Dawn Arkestra doubled their recent Kickstarter goal and are close to finishing their debut EP. I co-produced along with the band and the stuff is lush, rugged and very cosmic. They will be hitting your walkmans, jeeps and solar and lunar soundsystems later this spring. Stay tuned for more updates on this. Recently had the dudes from Leopold and His Fiction in the studio to cut a couple of new songs, good old fashioned rock and roll with a Motown influence. In other news, finally wrapping up (after a temporary shelving) Dan Dyer's new album, mixes are in progress and very close to being done!
Spanish Gold – Out on the Street February 25, 2014 Adrian
Cover of The Temptations' "I Need You" February 13, 2014 Adrian
Had the pleasure of recording a cover of one of my favorite, most slept on Temptations songs ever – "I Need You" off of the "1990" (saying 1990 sounds hilarious) album. Produced and recorded by yours truly, featuring the Grupo Fantasma/Brownout horns, John Speice on drums, myself on errything else. Vocals were handled by the the lovely Tameca Jones and my country soul brother, Dan Dyer.
It was recorded as promo for the upcoming fundraiser for Austin's amazing SIMS Foundation. The night is called "Heart of the City: A Celebration of Soul"..I'm MD'ing the concert…I try to keep updates here studio related so read more about it here.
And dig the jam…stream it or for $1 know that your money went to a great cause.
AQ + Shawn Lee = Electric Peanut Butter Co. October 10, 2013 Adrian
Three years ago at SXSW in Austin I finally got the chance to meet one of my heroes from across the pond, Mr. Shawn Lee. We were both artists on Ubiquity Records at the time and the idea was quickly kicked around for a collaboration record. We flirted with the idea for a couple of years but having our schedules line up was close to impossible, prolific doesn't even begin to describe he of the Tiger Mask. Fall of 2012 the planets aligned and we began trading ideas via email. About a month later we had a record in the can. It was to be "soft psych", "folky" but as funky and psychedelic as ever….it was made in the true spirit of modern collaboration, by emailing parts back and forth in "real time"….so we present to you our debut album TRANS-ATLANTIC PSYCH CLASSICS VOL. 1, out Tuesday Oct. 29th on Ubiquity! Shawn and I played every instrument on this and Shawn handled the vocal duties. Stream the entire record here:
End of Summer Jams September 23, 2013 Adrian
Feeling the first cool breeze in Austin this morning while gearing up for the Fall. In between a busy month as guitarist for hire and Brownout's wildly ambitious residency at Frank in Austin, TX, been hammering away at some really cool music.
In what could be a dream collaboration, we recorded a few new Ocote Soul Sounds songs with mutli-instrumentalist/producer Quantic (Will Holland) at LOS and a few more are on the way soon. Expect a 7″ single by year's end if not a whole EP as well…..sheeeit, we might mess around a crank out a full length.
I'm 75% done mixing a record for legendary Dallas, TX soul singer/radio DJ Bobby Patterson featuring Austin's The Disciples, produced by Zach Ernst. Great timeless soul music featuring some good friends and a living legend – yes, seguro que hell yes.
Also wrapping up co-producing/mixing for DC transplants Bone, Fur and Feathers. Some of my favorite stuff I've worked on in a minute. An EP should be done this month and ready to hit your eardrums this fall. Random LOS tidbits: recorded the Grupo Fantasma horns for John McCauley and the awesome Deer Tick for their new record "Negativity" (out 9/24/13) produced by Steve Berlin.
Introducing Spanish Gold August 24, 2013 Adrian
A little over a year ago, old Laredo homie Dante Schwebel (ex-Hacienda, City and Colour) and I cut some demos at my studio for some songs he was writing. Fast forward to fall 2012 and Dante, myself and Patrick Hallahan (My Morning Jacket) bring the songs to life at Easy Eye Studios in Nashville. Three cities and four studios later (Lalaland Louisville, Public Hi Fi and Big Orange in Austin), we have a full length record and a killer band. Introducing SPANISH GOLD…..stay tuned….


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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
During my childhood, we were tought by our parents and teachers to treat all older women as mothers and younger women as sisters. We were tought to believe that women, just like men, are created in the image of God, and hence must be treated with love, dignity and respect they rightfully deserve. Those life lessons from childhood still remain close to my heart, regardless of time, place or society that I live in. I do hope that we will continue to teach the same precious lessons to our children even today, so that they will always see and treat every woman with respect and dignity, throughout their lives - as their own mother or sister or daughter, as God's divine image, and not as an object of desire to be ogled and fantasized about. In my view, real men treat women with dignity and respect - always!
Duty without love is deplorable.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!
Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.
Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high.
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
Even if no one can love and be wise at the same time, but they can flirt and be wise at the same time.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others
Even unconditional love has its conditions.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Every beat of your heart sends the message of love over the boundary of infinite time.
Every child deserves a home and love. Period.
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Every human is obliged to love i.e. we all are indebted to love all the humankind and as well to be grateful for love that is shown to us.
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Every issue or matter has an option or rather you do have an option. Yes! you heard me right. You can choose either life or death, hard work or laziness, success or failure, riches or poverty, excellence or mediocrity, grace or disgrace, forgiveness or unforgivingness, righteousness or unrighteousness, covetousness or contentedness, morality or immorality, patience or impatience, fame or obscurity, peace or war, wisdom or foolishness, strenght or weakness, knowledge or ignorance, understanding or misunderstanding, respect or disrespect, literacy or illiteracy, kindness or unkindess, unity or disunity, hopefulness or hopelessness, construction or destruction, salvation or damnation, encouragement or discouragement, greatness or commonness, fastness or dullness, hell or heaven, light or darkness, God or satan, increase or decrease, appreciation or depreciation, gratitude or ingratitude, humility or pride, loyalty or disloyalty, gentleness or ungentleness, love or hatred, faithfulness or unfaithfulness, generosity or stinginess, fidelity or infidelity, honesty or dishonesty, courage or cowardice, happiness or unhappiness, compassion or cruelty, Godliness or ungodliness, justice or injustice. However, all of the above illustrations evidently shows that, you have the willpower to choose either the positive or the negative aspect of every issue or matter in life. As well, the world is in your oyster i.e. you are in a position to choose or enjoy a broad range of opportunities/options. But, I urge you as usual. Dare to choose the positive aspect of anything rather than the negative aspect of it. Even if/when you are in dilemma.


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In a close and surprising vote that affirmed a conservative direction for the Roman Catholic Church in America, the nation's bishops elected Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York as their president on Tuesday, for the first time failing to elevate the vice president to the president's post.
The vote cements Archbishop Dolan's leadership of the American church. He is already the prelate of the nation's most visible diocese, is comfortable in the news media spotlight and was selected by the Vatican to help conduct an investigation of the church in Ireland, which has been devastated by the sexual abuse scandal.
The bishops passed over their vice president, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, a prelate who represents the more liberal "social justice" tradition of the American church and is known for advocating dialogue between Catholic liberals and traditionalists. Archbishop Dolan is a moderate conservative who is willing to put his affable and outgoing demeanor in service of a more assertively confrontational approach to the church's critics.
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Like any catastrophe, the Gulf oil disaster laid bare the shortcomings of those charged with responding. One of these is the disconnect between government and academia, which came through loud and clear at a conference earlier today.
USF physical oceanographer Bob Weisberg is the go-to guy for all things loop current. This summer, as fears of oil washing up the East Coast persisted, he was quoted by media outlets around the world. But for some reason, the US Coast Guard wonât sit on an expert panel with Weisberg or anyone on his team. He said they even tried to tell them to stop their work.
âWe, actually, were visited. No, not me, but my unit was actually visited, on a couple of occasions, by the coast guard, telling us to bug out.â
Today Weisberg gave a presentation on the oil disaster response at a meeting of the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida. Though he was sharing a panel with two state officials, he plainly said he was not thrilled with the governmentâs response effort.
âI have to admit, up front⦠that Iâve lost a lot of faith in both my federal government and my state government, in responding to crisis.â
Weisberg said he and his colleagues began researching the effects of the well blowout immediately out of professional responsibility. For example, he said, USF deployed surface drifters, which study ocean currents, before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had.
âNOAA got into the current kind of late. You know, they woke up one day and kind of said, 'Oh, we got to do this.' But, the academic scientists had already done it. Again, Iâm not saying this to be nasty, but we didnât have the best response possible, from the federal government.â
As Weisberg plainly stated his criticisms, the commissioners, many of whom are elected officials at state and local levels, seemed to squirm in their seats. After Weisbergâs presentation, State Sen. Mike Bennett, a Republican from Sarasota, sternly told Weisberg to remember who funds his work. Weisberg said being honest shouldnât cost somebody their job.
Lee Edmiston is Director of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. He told the commission the response was sluggish at first, but itâs all about lessons learned.
âOne of the struggles, early on with this response, was the federalized response. You have a responsible party. It took a while for me to really comprehend what that meant. Normally, when we have an emergency response in the state of Florida, for instance, a hurricane, the emergency operations center is there to support the counties. They listen to the counties, what they need, and provide the assistance they need. Thisâ¦was done in the sense that it was almost like planting a vacuum.â
Despite the tension, the commissioners agreed that responding to disasters on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon blowout requires input from all sectors. Former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker chairs the commission. He said a little conflict can be healthy.
âI think an open dialogue is a great thing; an open, honest dialogue by all parties. Thatâs why we invite all the public to give comments, if they want to, the commission members as well as the speakers to give comments. I think you have to do that, or you canât get to where you want to go. If you donât have a discussion, sometimes a little friction occurs. You know, being mayor of a city for nine years, Iâve had a little experience with friction and that process, but I think ultimately, it results in a better product.â
Before the well blowout, the Collins Center for Public Policy produced a report for the Century Commission on the safety of offshore drilling. This was done at the request of Senate President Jeff Atwater. Baker said the commission is seeking input from those charged with responding to the disaster to add to whatâs in the report.
âHow do we look at what weâve learned from this incident combined with the oil study that actually, the Collins Center did for us before this incident occurred? What can we make recommendations to the legislature and the governor, from a policy perspective?â
The Century Commissionâs stated goal is to promote environmental, social, and economic sustainability in Florida. Baker said the impacts of the well blowout are a vital piece of the puzzle.
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Over 16 years, I develop applications using different languages (Basic, C, Pascal, Forth, Assembler) and technologies. Last 8 years mainly use OOP - Delphi and Unify Team Developer (with different versions of SQL). Design and implement "internal" (DB structure, intermodules interfaces etc.) and "external" (GUI, reports) parts. I also have some experience with C++, UML and theoretical knowledge about Java.
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I am a professional software developer. I work in this field for more than ten years. During my career I developed a set of desktop and web applications. At the moment I completed a major project and for that reason I am looking for work new project. I will be glad to start to work with you. I am able design and implement such things as architecture, security, data access layer, db structure, bussiness layer, caching and much more. Also I have good experience in SOA. WCF SOAP an d WCF REST I can work with both without any problems. Please contact me if you need any help of experienced programmer.
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I believe that freelancing is the best way to gather experience and improve one's skills, while giving the most flexibility to both workers and employers. I have developed in Delphi (versions 5,6,7 to XE6), C++, PHP, SQL and others. Over 4 years, I was responsible for managing computer and paper based examinations at the British Council in Bulgaria and writing software for the above. This has taught me the importance of keeping to schedules and deadlines, team-working and communication. As a Computer Science graduate, I have very good knowledge of computer systems, OS, networking concepts, information security, etc. I also have some experience with GPS, Garmin products, Google Earth/Maps and cartography.
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Russia - Last active: 1 day ago - Tests: 4
I am 42 years old, my total programming experience is more than 20 years. Programming has been my only source of income all these years. I have an experience in ASM, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, but my favourite language is Pascal. Delphi programming experience last 14 years (Deplhi 3 was my first IDE). More than 30 finished projects since 2000 on Delphi in a different areas of life : - supervisory control and data acquisition software - checkers game software - gambling machines (including 3D graphics) sotfware - www parsers, bots, checkers e.t.c. - databases (MySQL)
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Initiative and dedicated engineer with "stop talking, start doing" attitude. Hire true expert who will listen to your needs. I am passionate working with interesting people and building elegant solutions. No fixed price offers please.
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I am an experienced software developer with over 8 years in the industry. Use to working in both a team and individual work environment under deadline constraints. High responsibility and capacity for self-development. SUMMARY: ✔ C# and DotNet Framework desktop application developing. ✔ Delphi and Firebird (Database Server) client-server application developing. ✔ Developing Delphi components, classes and DLL. ✔ Firebird (Database Server) architecture, administration, tuning and developing SP, UDF. ✔ Strong understanding of OOP principles and unit testing. ✔ Full software life cycle - design, development, testing and maintenance. ✔ Deep knowleadge of retail bussiness, financial reports (balance sheet, income statement) and ratios. TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages: Delphi/Pascal, C#. Basic knowledge of Java, C/C++, HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript. IDE: Delphi 5-7, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, XE3; MS Visual Studio 2005-2010; IBExpert 2007-2009; SharpDevelop 3, 4; NetBeans 6 (for Java 2ME); Eclipse 3 (for Java 2ME); Nokia Series 40 5th Edition SDK. Little experience in MS Visual Studio 6 (C++); LCC-Win32; Borland C++Builder 6. Databases: Firebird 1.5, 2.0, 2.5. Little experience in MySQL 4.0, 5.0; MS SQL Server 2005, 2008. Frameworks and technologies: DotNet 2.0, 3.5, 4.0; ASP 2.0, 3.5, 4.0; Java 2ME, JMUnit 1.2. NUnit 2.5. Little experience in DirectX 8, 9; OpenGL 2.0. Drupal 5; WordPress 3. Components: Microsoft Chart Controls, SourceGrid 4; NPOI 1.2.3; DtpDocuments 2.8; Graphics32 1.8.3; DevExpress Bars Suite 5 for Delphi; DevExpress Quantum Grid Suite 5 for Delphi; Alpha Controls 7-8; RX Library 2.7; TMS Component Pack 4; Tee Chart Pro 7; Jedi VCL for Delphi 3.45; EurekaLog 6-7. Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 98/XP/7. Little experience in Ubuntu 7. Software: Tortoise SVN 1.7; InnoSetup 5; Help and Manual 3.0; StarUML 5; DatabaseComparer 3.2. Macromedia HomeSite 5.5; TopStyle 3. Adobe Photoshop 7 - CS6; Paint.NET 3.5; 3DS Studio Max 6 - 2009; SolidWorks 2012. Knowledge of the most popular antiviruses, system utilities and etc. Hardware: Simens ES75 GSM modem (programming through COM-port using AT commands); CAS BW-150 digital scales (data reading through COM-port). Basic knowledge of the Intel/AMD compatible PC and its hardware parts, their setup and troubleshooting. Special skills: MS Word and MS Excel COM automation. RS-232 (COM-port) programming.
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We are a small company from Argentina. Over the years we successfully developed high-quality applications and services for customers in different countries (Argentina, USA, Germany, Philippines) We have a very highly skilled staff, which allow us to cover a wide range of areas of expertise, including: - Linux (in particular embedded systems based on Linux) - Python / Django - Delphi (10+ years of experience, we have developed several complex graphical components) - GIS based applications (google maps, google earth, mapserver) - SMS solutions (thru gateways or GSM modems) - .NET, Visual Studio plugins - Java, Eclipse plugins - PHP, HTML, ExtJS, JQuery, Propel - UML, software architecture, object oriented design and programming.
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Ukraine - Last active: 3 days ago - Tests: 5 - Portfolio: 8
Senior Software Engineer • Over 12 years of professional experience • Desktop applications (Microsoft Windows) • Complex multi-tier applications & enterprise solutions • .NET 4.0, C#, WCF, WPF, LINQ • Database design, SQL, MS SQL Server (T-SQL), ADO.NET, Entity Framework • Delphi XE4, 3rd-party components (FastReport, JCL, JVCL, DevExpress, TMS)
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Indonesia - Last active: 24 days ago - Tests: 12 - Portfolio: 5
In the past 8 years I have been assisting people that I worked with, making small applications to make their work easier, and I want to extend my self to assist others in making their work easier. And since i'm quite good with accounting combined with software development background, I believe that these skills would greatly assist on business related application. Hope that I can assist you in building your business.
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China - Last active: 1 month ago - Tests: 8 - Portfolio: 9
Over the last 10 years, I have developed many enterprise level business applications using Html, Flex, J2EE, Resin/Tomcat, IBM WebSphere/Bea Weblogic, Oracle/MySQL for medium/large companies and medium businesses in Oil & Gas industry.My main customers are PetroChina,Sinopec,Haier. (NOTE:These experiences are not included in my "Portfolio" section, Because they are deployed in enterprise's internal environment and invisible to public) My personal interests are making desktop application using C#,Delphi,VB.I have developed many productions, Some of them can be found in my "Portfolio" section. I also provide English to Chinese translation services and Software/Website localization services. As a professional person, Supply best services to employer is my duty, And customer satisfaction is my eternal pursue.And i also believe "Cooperative Relationship" will better than "Employment Relation". "Good communication is the foundation of a successful project".


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I make this so often I have it memorized, it's one of our favorites (and it's awesome leftover mixed with pesto penne and fish from the grill, just mix it all together and let it sit in fridge). Am making tomorrow with garden tomatoes, not cherries, anybody tried that? So far I have made only with cherry tomatoes as called for...
I really anticipated liking this a lot. But it just fell flat...even after standing a couple of hours. The flavors just did not mesh at all.
Surprising and delightful!
Amazing - Amazing summer salad! I usually make a traditional tomato and cucumber salad with balsamic vinegar but this one is not going into the rotation. Check out my blog for pics! http://randomactsoffood.blogspot.com/
This was a fresh, interesting way to use part of my mountain of cherry tomatoes. My lemons were very tart, next time I would only include the segments from one lemon, and reduce the sugar to 2 teaspoons.
Wasn't sure reading this recipe if this would be too tart, but it turned out to be a great summer treat. The flavors were very bright and interesting and a perfect pairing with grilled fish. Definately a keeper!
A flavor combination I'd never encountered. Fresh and interesting, though I didn't fall in love with this dish.
Delicious and different. My only watchout would be to handle the lemon segments with kid gloves - mine got a bit messy prior to serving. I'll definitely make this again.
When I intially tasted this it was still pretty sour. But by the time I served it, wow!! Terrific. Even better the next day. Next time I will make it the morning before my dinner to give it a chance to marinate a little more. Highly recommend this.
Surprisingly declicous. A nice change.


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This video zooms into the area containing a sample of dwarf galaxies studied to unlock secrets of star formation in the early Universe.
Hiding amongst these thousands of galaxies are faint dwarf galaxies in the early Universe, between two and six billion years after the Big Bang, an important time period when most of the stars in our Universe were formed. Some of these galaxies are undergoing starbursts and have been studied by astronomers to deduce their contribution to star formation in this crucial era of the Universe's history.
The image is part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), and shows only one section that the survey covered.
Credit: NASA / ESA
Topics: Extragalactic astronomy, Galaxy, Astronomy, Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, Starburst galaxy, Dwarf galaxy, Physical cosmology


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Victoria \v(i)-cto-ria, vic-toria\ as a girl's name is pronounced vic-TOR-ee-ah. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Victoria is "victory". Feminine of Victor. Victoria was a goddess who smiled on the ancient Roman people for many centuries. Early Christians adopted the name, probably due to Saint Paul's praise of "God, which giveth us the victory". Royal associations from 19th-century England's Queen Victoria and the four-syllable pronunciation give Victoria an air of dignity, formality and distinction. Victoria's short forms and nicknames are very informal by contrast. See also Latoya. Actress Victoria Principal.
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There is 1 masculine form of Victoria: Victor.
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November 26, 2012 - Vital prevalence data for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema) is now available at the state level for the whole nation.
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November 8, 2012 - Findings published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show mixed news—while the overall number of adult cigarette smokers has declined since 2005, the rate of decline has slowed since 2000. The American Lung Association is pleased the number of adult cigarette smokers continues to move in the right direction, but the slow rate of this decline can and must be improved upon.
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Leonardo DiCaprio urges Antarctic ocean sanctuary
SYDNEY—Leonardo DiCaprio urged a high-level Antarctic conservation meeting in Australia Tuesday to approve a sweeping Southern Ocean marine sanctuary to protect thousands of polar species.
The Hollywood star wrote an email to supporters of activist group Avaaz calling for a "people-powered surge" in favour of the sanctuary, which is headlining talks at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
The key theme of the 2012 CCAMLR summit, which officially opened in Hobart on Tuesday, is the establishment of a representative system of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean as proposed by Australia, France and the EU.
The region is home to big populations of penguins, seals and whales found nowhere else on Earth, and also has unique seafloor features that nurture early links in the food chain, according to environmental groups.
DiCaprio said most countries backed a marine haven off East Antarctica which, if approved in the size being advocated by green groups, would be the world's largest ocean sanctuary sprawling over an area twice the size of India.
"But Russia, South Korea and a few others are threatening to vote it down so they can plunder these seas now that others have been fished to death," he said, advocating an online petition with more than 842,000 signatures.
"The whales and penguins can't speak for themselves, so it's up to us to defend them. Let's change negotiators' minds with a massive wave of public pressure."
Made up of 24 countries and the European Union, CCAMLR was established in 1982 with the goal of conserving marine life in the face of rising demands to exploit krill, a shrimp-like creature which is an important source of food for species in the Antarctic.
The Commission permits fishing provided it is carried out "in a sustainable manner and takes account of the effects of fishing on other components of the ecosystem".
DiCaprio said climate change was already reducing many creatures' habitats and industrial fishing would further reduce their chances of survival, urging against dilution or delay of the sanctuary proposals currently before CCAMLR.
"The future of the Southern Ocean is in our hands," said the star of the movie "Titanic", which is based on the ship which hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage in 1912.
"Let's unleash a massive surge of global pressure and ensure governments don't put profits before our planet."
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Category: Main Dish | Serves: 6
Nutrition Information:Calories: 313
Protein: 14 g
Carbs: 62 g
Fat: 2 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Sodium: 467 mg
Fiber: 7 g
Medium sized pasta mixes well with veggies such as the asparagus, red bell peppers and white beans in this recipe.
|Cook and drain pasta according to package instructions.
|While pasta is cooking, spray a 4-quart Dutch oven with low-fat cooking spray and heat over medium-high heat. Cook red bell pepper, asparagus, onion and garlic about 6 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
|Add tomatoes, broth, and rosemary to vegetable mixture and stir until blended.
|Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for about 3 minutes.
|Stir in spinach and cannellini beans and simmer until spinach is wilted.
|Toss vegetable mixture with the cooked pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese as desired.
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