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The City, County and Local Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, chaired by Rep. Will Bond, D-Jacksonville, finally will hold a hearing this morning on a bill that will curtail the power of the Central Arkansas Water utility to protect the regions water supply by condemning land on the slopes above its shores.
Deltic Timber Corp., which wants to build a luxury subdivision overlooking Lake Maumelle, got the bill through the Senate in near record time before House Speaker Bill Stovall thwarted its pell-mell passage through the House. Word early this week is that the companys phalanx of lobbyists has lined up votes to pass the bill if it reaches the House floor but is a vote or two shy of getting it out of the committee.
If you take the state daily paper, youve seen the full-page advertisements explaining how safe and pure the water will be when Deltic finishes the sprawling development called The Ridges at Nowlin Creek. Modern technology and strict rules will prevent builders and homeowners from polluting the lake, the ads say.
The company will have as many hired authorities as it needs today to persuade people that the water that will be sucked into the intake valve down the slopes from the subdivision will be absolutely pristine.
Experts from the state Health Department and from a Massachusetts consulting firm say its not so, that the stormwater containment planned by Deltic is not suitable for the rocky slopes.
The water company that is all of us, the water users will have to build expensive plants to cleanse Maumelle water, now some of the purest in the United States.
Lets assume that Deltic is right and that it can control forever the runoff from the 220 homes and other structures on the ridges by regulating the fertilizer and other chemical applications. It would take a sizable police force to enforce it, but maybe Deltic could somehow extend its control once the land is in the possession of private homeowners. What about the next developer across the valley, and the next and the next? The water company could not exercise eminent domain to stop anyone else.
Central Arkansas taxpayers spent a fortune building this pristine lake in the wilderness above the metropolitan area so that they could be assured of pure water for a century. Now one corporation wants to exploit, for its own profit, the gorgeous scenery created by the publics investment.
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A Womban's Right to Birth Childbirth Education Workshop
Brandi Shamsid-Deen of Womban's Right
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM - Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
A Womban's Right to Birth is what I'm all about! That's why I'm excited to finally be able to offer you my amazing Childbirth Education Series. These workshops are offered as a 6-week series, 4-week series or a 2-day weekend intensive. I also offer private classes if that better suits your personality and time frame. I aim to provide you with the knowledge and understanding to guide you through your pregnancy and birth experiences either at your planned Home Birth, Hospital Birth or Birth Center Birth. Whichever the setting, you will have all of the tools that you will need to allow you to not fear the process of birth, understand the changes that your body is going through, help you stay mindful and relaxed, and to make informed decisions during this wonderful rite of passage!
A 6 Week Series will Include, but is not limited to…
²Discussions on being mindful throughout your pregnancy
²Incorporating a healthy diet and exercise
²Envisioning the birth that you desire
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²Life after baby
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A little bit about me…I am Brandi Shamsid-Deen. I am a DONA trained Doula, Birth Coach, Childbirth Educator and Student Midwife studying under sought after Birth in the Tradition TM Midwife, Sarahn Henderson. I make any and all things dealing with birth my business and thus created Womban's Right to aid in empowering mothers while guiding them along their birthing journey. I believe that all mothers need and deserve care and nurturing throughout their pregnancies and especially during labor and birth. They deserve the chance to trust their bodies and the RIGHT to have their best birth. I currently hold certifications in Neonatal Resuscitation and Infant/Child/Adult CPR. I am also a member of Lamaze, ICTC (International Center for Traditional Childbearing), DONA (Doula's of North America), MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) and GMA (Georgia Midwifery Association).


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I'd like to congratulate the obtuse blink mongerers at Tokyo Flash for finally releasing a watch the time-telling of which does not require its wearer to be some kind of frakkin' Cylon. The new Galaxy watch is housed in a polished silver case and features one of the most straightforward time-reading mechanisms on their site: twelve yellow bars swoop around the face clockwise, lighting up to denote hours. Nestled inside that circle, eleven red bars denote five minute increments, while four green bars indicate single minutes.
I love it. Hey, I could actually read time with this thing without first having to Google up some absurd LED cryptogram! The Galaxy is on sale now for about $133.
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It would be like midnight 'til we'd be able to bust out a guitar and drums.
Just listen to the new batch of "sensible pundits" as they start to beat the drums about what we should do to Iran.
But, like a traditional shaman, Coltrane clearly believed that the drums served as a springboard to a higher order of engagement.
The drinking water problem for Santa Fe Springs was cleaned up after 2,700 drums of waste and contaminated soil were removed.
In front of the booths, drums were beaten and instruments played in bewildering discord.
My little children, ye may beat your drums and make war on him.
As the door opened Michael could hear some one singing in a subdued voice and many feet tapping like drums in time with the music.
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Haabunai and Song of the Nightingale brought forth the drums.
1540s, probably from Middle Dutch tromme "drum," common Germanic (cf. German Trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma), probably of imitative origin. Not common before 1570s. Slightly older, and more common at first, was drumslade, apparently from Dutch or Low German trommelslag. Machinery sense attested from 1740, from similarity of shape.
1570s, from drum (n.). To drum (up) business, etc., is American English 1839, from the old way of drawing a crowd.
1570s, from drum (n.). To drum (up) business, etc., is American English 1839, from the old way of drawing a crowd.
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Due to the unique situation of 3 Professional Clubs located within one London Borough, Hammersmith & Fulham, a joint study support programmme was developed in partnership with Fulham FC and Chelsea FC education centres. Participants were given the opportunity to attend after school study support sessions are all 3 clubs. Activities at each club focused on a different area of the National Curriculum: Numeracy, Literacy, ICT.


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Ketamine, an anesthetic and illicit party drug, is emerging as a fast-acting antidepressant
For 20 years Joan* quietly suffered from an unrelenting desire to commit suicide. She held down a job as a special-education teacher and helped care for her family in the northeastern U.S. Yet day after day she struggled through a crushing depression and felt neither joy nor pleasure. Except for the stream of psychiatrists recommending different antidepression treatments—all of which failed to provide relief—Joan kept her condition private. She says it was the fear of hurting her students or abandoning her father that kept her alive. "I really don't know how I survived," she says.


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A month-long strike against the United Jewish Federation of Metrowest in East Orange, New Jersey, by 150 union workers has been ended by agreement on a new two-year contract. Howard Charish, Federation executive vice president, said the offices of the Federation and its affected agencies maintained services throughout the strike, which began September 17 and ended October 22, by use of managerial personnel.
Dora Fligel, chairperson of the union, Local 215, District Council 1707 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the new two-year contract provided for a salary increase of six percent for each year, or at least $13 per week more, for non-pro-fessionals — clerical and maintenance workers.
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Thrush is another great Etsy shop with lovely midcentury cocktail dresses and goodies like this 1960s Absinthe party dress.
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Who doesn't enjoy a fresh martini during their picnic or outdoor adventure? This is great for picnics, camping, Burning Man, birthday parties, you name it. It holds two bottles of spirits in an insulated compartment to keep them c... Who doesn't enjoy a fresh martini during their picnic or outdoor adventure? This is great for picnics, camping, Burning Man, birthday parties, you name it. It holds two bottles of spirits in an insulated compartment to keep them cool. Then, the mahogany colored case comes with two cocktail glasses, two napkins, cocktail spray bottle, a stainless steel cocktail shaker, jigger, ice tongs, strainer, spoon/fork stirrer, two Martini picks and a removable shoulder strap. Just don't forget the ice! What a fantastic time you could have with this.
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Get an update on changes of the IACR web-page here. For questions, contact newsletter (at) iacr.org. You can also receive updates via:
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Further sources to find out about changes are CryptoDB, ePrint RSS, ePrint Web, Event calender (iCal).
The department has research groups within "Algorithms and Data Structures", "Data-Intensive Systems", "Cryptography and Security", "Mathematical Computer Science", "Logics and Semantics", "Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction", "Computer-Mediated Activity", "Use, Design and Innovation", "Programming Languages", "Computer Graphics and Image Processing" and "Bioinformatics". In addition, we want to build competences within "Software Engineering / Multicore/ Systems", "Machine Learning / Data Mining" and "Quantum Informatics".
Applicants are expected to have several years of experience at the assistant professor level. They must document a strong record of original research and have teaching experience at undergraduate/graduate level.
The department has a staff of 140 people including 28 full and associate professors, 5 assistant professors, 25 PostDocs and 65 PhD students. The number of students is approximately 1,000.
Please apply online at http://www.au.dk/en/job/nat/academicpositions/ before August 15, 2013.
The PhD studentship is funded by an ERC Starting Grant on Efficient Cryptographic Arguments and Proofs with a starting date around October 1st, 2013 and a duration of 4 years. The studentship will provide a tax-free annual stipend of £19,790, however, ERC funding does not cover student fees (currently £4,200 for UK/EU students and £19,250 for Overseas students).
University College London is one of Europe\\\'s highest ranked universities and has recently been recognized by the EPSRC and GCHQ as one of UK\\\'s Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. The Computer Science Department is one of the largest in the UK and is located at UCL\\\'s main campus in the centre of London.
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For a new project which addresses the problem of secure handling of personal data and privacy in many-core architectures, we proposes a Post Doc position to work on secure-by-design crypto-processor embedded in many-core architecture. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding Ph.D. in computer science or electrical engineering. Strong knowledge in digital system (VHDL, SystemC) design would be appreciated.
The Post-Doc position will start in January 2014, it is funded for 12 month extendable to 36 month.
To apply please send your detailed CV, motivation for applying (1 page) and names of at least two people who can provide reference letters (email).
The group has two faculty members (Ivan Damgard and Jesper Buus Nielsen), 3 postdocs and 8 PhD students. We can offer an active and welcoming research environment with good possibilities for travels and inviting guests. We usually offer 1-year contracts with an option for prolonging by a year.
In this paper, we provide impossibility results on projecting bilinear pairings in a prime-order group setting. More precisely, we specify the lower bounds of
1. the image size of a projecting asymmetric bilinear pairing
2. the image size of a projecting symmetric bilinear pairing
3. the computational cost for a projecting asymmetric bilinear pairing
4. the computational cost for a projecting symmetric bilinear pairing
in a prime-order group setting naturally induced from the $k$-linear assumption, where the computational cost means the number of generic operations.
Our lower bounds regarding a projecting asymmetric bilinear pairing are tight, i.e., it is impossible to construct a more efficient projecting asymmetric bilinear pairing than the constructions of Groth-Sahai and Freeman. However, our lower bounds regarding a projecting symmetric bilinear pairing differ from Groth and Sahai\'s results regarding a symmetric bilinear pairing; We fill these gaps by constructing projecting symmetric bilinear pairings.
In addition, on the basis of the proposed symmetric bilinear pairings, we construct more efficient instantiations of cryptosystems that essentially use the projecting symmetric bilinear pairings in a modular fashion. Example applications include new instantiations of the Boneh-Goh-Nissim cryptosystem, the Groth-Sahai non-interactive proof system, and Seo-Cheon round optimal blind signatures proven secure under the DLIN assumption. These new instantiations are more efficient than the previous ones, which are also provably secure under the DLIN assumption. These applications are of independent interest.
rights over a tag from a current owner to a new owner in a secure
and private way. Recently, Kapoor and Piramuthu have proposed two
schemes which overcome most of the security weaknesses detected in
previously published protocols. Still, this paper reviews that
work and points out that such schemes still present some practical
and security issues. In particular, they do not manage to
guarantee the privacy of the new owner without the presence of a
Trusted Third Party, and we find that the assumed communication
model is not suitable for many practical scenarios. We then
propose here a lightweight protocol that can be used in a wider
range of applications, and which incorporates recently defined
security properties such as Tag Assurance, Undeniable Ownership
Transfer, Current Ownership Proof and Owner Initiation. Finally,
this protocol is complemented with a proposed Key Change Protocol,
based on noisy tags, which provides privacy to the new owner
without either resorting to a Trusted Third Party or assuming an
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Consequently, the sovereign state entrusts the city with large powers to borrow money and to tax, not only as the state's financial agent, but in addition, in its own behalf; to exercise such financial powers to the end and purpose that the acts of the city with regard to public welfare shall actually enlarge the scope of individual opportunity.
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Pitt-PSU renew for a day
There's only one place left in the state where you can find Pitt and Penn State football players engaged in competition, and it's not Heinz Field or Beaver Stadium.
It's the Chestnut Ridge Golf Resort & Conference Center in Blairsville.
That is where approximately 50 former players and coaches -- familiar names such as Tony Dorsett, Shane Conlan, Johnny Majors, Eric Ravotti and Jerry Sandusky -- gathered Tuesday for the second annual Pitt-PSU Golf Challenge and raised $120,000 for children's charities.
And that is where yours truly raised a familiar question: Will these schools ever play football again?
The topic has been beaten beyond recognition, but doesn't deserve to die. There is no good reason why such a historic, natural rivalry shouldn't be revived. It's maddening to look at the teams' non-conference schedules and see The Citadel, Youngstown State, Akron, Toledo, Central Florida and Temple, but not each other.
I realize Penn State needs as many home games as possible to help fund 30-some sports, but it could surely find a way to work Pitt back into its schedule, even if Pitt continues to refuse -- rightfully -- to play two of every three games at Beaver Stadium.
I also realize Pitt has more to gain in reviving the 96-year-old series, which was discontinued in 2000 for the second time in seven years. There are no plans to renew.
"I'd love to see it come back," former Penn State linebacker Mike Zordich said. "If you ask a lot of guys here, they'd say the same."
At this point, it's useless to assign blame, though most of it clearly rests with Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who never got over the fact that Pitt joined the Big East basketball conference in 1982 instead of joining him in an all-sports Eastern conference.
Pitt hasn't avoided pettiness, either, packaging tickets to the 2000 game at Three Rivers Stadium with a Temple game and thus jacking up the price for Penn State fans.
None of that matters now. What matters is finding a solution. Here's an easy one: The state legislature should force the schools to play each other.
"The legislature could do that, seeing as both schools enjoy getting money from the state," said Walt Bielich, who played offensive line at Pitt half a century ago and now is the executive director of the Pitt Varsity Letter Club.
"I think the state should get involved," Zordich said.
Obviously, lawmakers have more important things to worry about -- like whether to give themselves a pay raise -- but they've concerned themselves with less important issues, too.
This is, after all, the same state that has a law which prohibits singing in the bathtub.
Majors knows of one state legislature that forced the renewal of a college football rivalry.
"When I was at Iowa State, Iowa wouldn't play us because we were the underdogs and didn't have any tradition," he said.
In stepped state senator Bill Reichardt, who'd been a star player at Iowa. He sponsored a bill to resume the series, which was dormant from 1934-77. It is alive and well today.
"I think this state is missing a lot in terms of keeping our resources within it," Majors said. "Pitt-Penn State is good for the state. It's good for the people."
Certainly, it's better than Pitt-Toledo or Penn State-Temple.


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Travel Search Site Hipmunk Raises $20M; Valuation Not 'Silly'
Travel search site Hipmunk Inc. has raised a $20 million growth round from Oak Investment Partners and existing investors.
Like larger competitors Skyscanner Ltd., TripAdvisor Inc. and Priceline.com Inc.'s Kayak, Hipmunk allows travelers to search for flights and hotel rooms and earns a commission on traffic it sends to aggregators like Orbitz and Expedia.
The Series C infusion pushes total outside backing to $40 million for the four-year-old company.
"It was a medium-sized valuation," Hipmunk co-founder and Chief Executive Adam Goldstein said, declining to provide a number. "Some silly things can happen when you optimize for valuation."
Mr. Goldstein said he targeted a select few venture firms with experience helping consumer travel companies scale.
Oak Investment Partners, which previously backed Kayak, impressed him, and he personally clicked with General Partner Ren Rile. Mr. Riley joins Hipmunk's board.
The round will be used to hire another two dozen employees, mostly engineers, during the next 12 months. Plans also call for developing across multiple desktop and mobile platforms and striking partnerships. Mr. Goldstein declined to elaborate.
He confirmed the entire $20 million would go to the company and not to provide liquidity to early employees or shareholders.
Existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, Ignition Partners and unnamed individual investors also participated.
Based in San Francisco, Hipmunk currently employs 43.
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ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré found himself exuberantly mobbed by hundreds of small children this morning, as he assisted in the inauguration of a new Digital Classroom at the Ricardo Flores Magón primary school in the colonia of Santa Eduwiges, just a few minutes from Guadalajara Expo centre.
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A daffodil on my bathroom windowsill. The antique glass perfume and cosmetic jars belonged to my gran.
antique daffodil flower glass micklyn perfume bottles still life translucent transparent yellow
Beautiful presentation – i love the treatment :-)
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Your set-up is always so impeccable Micklyn! Love the various levels of translucency here!
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A gorgeous exercise in translucency! Beautiful :-)
I like that, Geoffrey, exercise in translucency. I think I'll make that the title! Thanks!
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POLICY Every approved academic course at Georgia Perimeter College must have an official Common Course Outline. Throughout the college all faculty teaching a course should adhere to the Common Course Outline.
PROCEDURE The following procedure describes the development and use of a Common Course Outline:
A. The appropriate course curriculum committee will develop and approve Common Course Outlines for each course for which it is responsible. Approval of Common Course Outlines for all new courses requires approval by the faculty senate, per GPC Policy 303.0105, Curriculum and Academic Policy Proposals. Any changes in the common course outline necessitating a catalog change, such as credit hours, course title, or course description, require approval by the faculty senate.
B. A Common Course Outline should include the following information:
I. Course Abbreviation
II. Credit Hours
III. Course Title
IV. Prerequisites and Co-requisites
V. Catalog Description
VI. Expected Educational Results
a. course
b. general
VII. Course Content*
VIII. Assessment of Expected Educational Results*
a. course grade
b. department assessment
c. use of assessment findings
IX. Date (Common Course Outline submitted or updated)
C. The course curriculum committee will review and update all Common Course Outlines as necessary.
D. The college believes in the academic value of giving final exams that are comprehensive in nature; however, the college also values the discretion of the faculty member to determine appropriate assessment methods. The departments on each campus and/or individual instructors will construct a detailed syllabus based on the Common Course Outline for implementation in each class.
*The Common Course Outline offers only a schematic description of the course content and assessment material. Campus departments and/or individual instructors should elaborate upon and enhance these sections in their syllabi. At the beginning of each term, faculty members must submit their syllabi for approval to the department head and/or the discipline coordinating dean. The sequencing of topics as well as all readings and other assignments designed to assist the student in accomplishing course objectives are left to the discretion of the campus department and/or the individual instructor as long as these components adhere to the Common Course Outline.
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Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Chairman of the House Budget Committee thinks now is the time to reform the federal government because it is full of waste, abuse and duplication and other assorted problems that must be rooted out. Representative John Kasich (R-OH) vowed that the Budget Committee will renew its work in reforming government programs.
Chairman John Kasich (R-OH) told a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday, "If you don't think we can cut two, three, four, five percent out of each one of these (government) agencies, departments and bureaus, you've been in Washington too long. You've got about a $1.6 trillion dollar yearly budget. We have 760 education programs spread across 39 agencies which cost more than 100 billion a year. Isn't it possible to save some money out of all of that?"
The former presidential candidate cited the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for having too many programs. "There are 340 programs in HUD," Kasich said, "and the GAO (General Accounting Office) estimates that for every $18 that's spent, at least one dollar is wasted. Couldn't you attempt to reform Housing and Urban Development?"
Kasich also criticized HUD for its inefficiency. "There is not a more confusing, complicated and convoluted operation in the government than HUD. That represents a greater long term potential for scandal than the S and L (Savings and Loan Crisis during the 1980's) crisis. We need to reform HUD. We need to make hard choices in HUD before they are forced upon us."
Salaries of federal government workers were another object of Kasich's wrath. "There's $53 billion dollars in non-defense salaries, " Kasich said. Although the congressman said he currently does not have a proposal on how to deal with worker salaries.
Kasich also accused President Clinton of "whining" about foreign aid. "We don't even know how many billions of dollars were ripped off in Russia. They ripped off a billion in Bosnia. And that's frankly the way Americans understand foreign aid. We give them money, they steal it, and then we give them more. Americans want us to reform these programs."
"We sent $10 billion dollars to Russia. You think that's a good investment?" asked Kasich. "You want to send some of your money over there. The fact is, we know that most of that money has been ripped off. "
Kasich sees no need for the government to raise taxes. "Raising taxes is the craziest thing I have heard around here (Washington) with revenues as high as they've been since World War II. The President is going to probably propose a tobacco tax increase to pay for all his programs."
The congressman, who is not running for reelection next year, predicts there eventually will be an across the board cut in government programs in order to save Social Security. He called for passage of a bill being introduced by Reps. Joe Barton (R-TX) and David McIntosh (R-IN) that will guarantee that Social Security surpluses are not used to finance other government spending.


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Black horehound contains chemicals that affect the brain. These chemicals affect the brain similarly to some medications used for Parkinson's disease. Taking black horehound with these medications might increase the effects and side effects of some medications used for Parkinson's disease.
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The verdict is out. With the Tamil movie making earth-shattering business at the Box Office, Ajith Kumar starrer Arrambam has been declared a superhit. If you go by the first weekend collections, the film, more or less, is all set to break major records at the collection centres in the coming days. The success has made the producer and Thala fans happy.
It has been a very important movie for Ajith Kumar as his last movie Billa 2 was blasted for its content and was given poor ratings by critics and general audience. Released with gigantic expectations, Arrambam could not have expected better ratings from critics as they heaped praises on the Tamil movie.
On the opening day, Arrambam made stunning collections as it raked in Rs 8 crore plus at the Box Office in Tamil Nadu. The following day, it managed to get above 95% occupancy in the state. The weekend collections were no different and the movie went on to make wonderful business witnessing 100% occupancy in Chennai.
The situation is same in international arena as Arrambam has been well-received by audience in the UK and US. So, the success has made industry insiders to take some lessons from it.
What's working for Arrambam at Box office? Find it on the slideshow...
Ajith Star Power
Ask any industry observer they will point out one factor - Ajith Kumar. The star power of Thala is evident with his Arrambam getting thunderous response at the Box Office in the first weekend. It is his charisma that is attracting audience.
Good WOM
No matter who is in the cast, without getting good word-of-mouth (WOM), a movie will not survive long in theatres. Arrambam got positive words from audience. Especially, regular audience, other than Ajith fans, were impressed with the movie. It will help the film to make good business at the Box Office.
Ajith Fans
Well, we should not forget the contribution of die-hard fans of Ajith Kumar as they actively spread positive words about Arrambam. The success story will be incomplete without mentioning their efforts to set trends on social networking sites.
Festival Time
The timing of a movie release will have a huge impact on its collections. Ajith Kumar's Arrambam is the clear example for it as the festival time played a crucial role in its success at the Box Office. The turn out will be high during holidays.
The factors mentioned earlier might pull the crowd for a certain time, but the fate of the movie will be decided by the strength of the content. If the movie is good, it will have a long run at theatres, else it will cease to exit in no time. Even it is true in Arrambam's case.
The Plus Points Of Arrambam
Ajith's stylish avatars, his acting, storyline and background score are the highlights of Arrambam.
Apart from Ajith Kumar, Nayantara, Arya and Taapsee have played key roles in Arrambam. Mahesh Manjrekar, Kishore and Atul Kulkarni are in the supporting cast.


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Girl Talk: I Quit My Job
As long as I can remember, I haven't liked change. I preferred to be unhappy or uncomfortable in routine rather than try something new because I was scared or didn't know the outcome.
In 2009, after two years in non-profit media, rather than look for something new that put my journalism degree to use, I jumped at the chance of a promotion within the company.
Fast forward to 2011, and I was deeply unhappy with my position in Development.
I thought I would love my job. From the job description, it appeared to be a shift from customer and membership service to strategy, revenue growth, and program development. I thought to myself, Okay, this isn't radio production but maybe I'll enjoy fundraising. I haven't tried it before. Besides, the pay raise and the challenge will be nice.
Unfortunately, the job was neither interesting nor challenging. I spent the majority of my time doing customer service with paying members over the phone or on e-mail. It was mostly stuff like basic membership questions, change in payment method, or a complaint about how long it took to get a freebee. When I wasn't doing that, I was sending out emails asking people to update their payment information so we could collect their monthly donations, and compiling reports on revenue, new membership, and retention strategies. During pledge drives, I was expected to do all that, with a 200 percent increase in phone and e-mail volume.
I decided to stick it out because I loved my co-workers and the organization. At the heart of it, I was afraid of starting at the bottom in a new career with a pay cut. I was 30 years old, in a serious relationship, and had a mortgage to pay. I told myself I couldn't live off an entry-level salary again.
For months I tried to "fake it 'till I made it." I put on a happy face, smiled, and pretended liked I cared when I was on the phone with members. If I got assigned a new project, I acted like I gave a shit. Any time I had to work with numbers and a spreadsheet, I was happy to be off the phone.
I told myself it was going to be OK, that I could hold on for just a couple more months. But one morning in June, I hit my breaking point. After my morning meeting, I sat crying at my desk, and felt like I was suffocating. That night, I went to my parents' house for dinner and broke down when my dad answered the door. I spent an hour sobbing about how deeply unhappy I was at work. Then my mother, the pragmatist-who-loves-stability said three words that surprised me: "You should quit."
"What?" I gasped. "I don't have a job, or enough in savings. I need health insurance!"
"You'll be OK. You can temp, or baby-sit. You're not going to be homeless on the street, and we can help with COBRA."
Later that night, when I sobbed more to my fiancée, she agreed with my parents.
Ten days later, I resigned. After I told my boss, "I'm leaving," I was thrilled; I felt giddy, and like I could breathe normally again. I had taken a risk and decided to change. Soon, a revelation came to me, I should move to Amsterdam with my fiancée Carrie.* She had quit her job as a social worker last summer to focus on comedy writing and to make ends meet she was babysitting full-time. One of the families, a pair of academics, was going to start their year-long sabbatical in Amsterdam and offered to take Carrie with them so she could continue to look after their infant son. A few days after I quit my job, I realized I could go to Amsterdam too.
The week after I left my job, I started meeting with temporary agencies. The first woman I met with, Shelly* said, "Why did you quit?"
"It wasn't for me, and I needed a change."
"No, why did you quit?" she pressed. "In this economy? Not many people would do that."
Then, I met with Lisa*.
"Why did you quit?"
"It wasn't a good fit for me."
"You quit in this economy?" she asked, baffled. Okay, so what are you interested in?"
For the first time I didn't feel so okay, and a bit judged. I started to freak out. What if I don't find a temp job before I leave for Amsterdam? What if I don't have the money? How will I spend my time?
I didn't end up getting any temp work in July, and spent the month living off the money I got from my unused vacation days. In August, I was a nanny for a friend's baby. I ended up having a really fun summer with my four weeks of work. I saw friends, went to restaurants, and the movies. When I was with the baby I walked all over Brooklyn and sat in cafes sipping iced coffee during her naps.
By September, I had added a few hundred dollars to my savings account, booked my place ticket, and was off to Amsterdam. My first week was hard due to terrible jet lag and rainy weather. All I wanted was to stay warm in bed and sleep the days away. Carrie urged me to get out, despite the gloomy weather, and explore. Two weeks later, I was in love with Amsterdam.
Now I know my way around the city have acquired a very basic Dutch vocabulary. I can sleep until 11 a.m., or get up at 8 a.m. I can get stoned in a coffee shop, or drink lattes in a café. I can stroll along the canals, or walk in the lush parks. Incidentally, I am broke. I managed to spend all of my savings and the cash gift my parents gave me in one month. I've woken up in the middle of the night in a panic because I am low on funds, and initially cried about not being able to save more. My fiancée is out of money too. But, we are happy. I'm living off my credit card, and she's living off any extra baby-sitting hours. We don't have jobs to go back to in New York, and I have just enough money to cover our mortgage when we return.
This is the best decision for change I've made since I went to graduate school five years ago. I found that I am able to live off of $13 a day, write again, and feel happy. I have no regrets, not even over the loss of paycheck and cheap health insurance. Quitting one's job can be done. It's not a lavish lifestyle, but I am getting by and learning to live with less. I don't go out to eat or to the movies, and pack lunches daily. I carry enough cash to cover a cup of coffee, a tram ticket, and museum entry. I know when I get back I can be a nanny, or temp until I find a job that I want, which I like.
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TI is jet-lagged out of his discombobulated skull...but am happy to report that the Givenchy couture moment had the even the skeptical kids buzzing, spinning and rippling after the show..Here are some fast highlights :
...Tischi 's handmaidens Lara Stone, Maria Carla and Lakshmi back in full effect rocking an Middle Eastern theme with note perfect control.
...Iris with YET another new crop...an even more severe pageboy that reinvigorates the way you look at her face. ..Cheekbones like geometry profiling flawless couture cutting
...Visual motifs from the men's shows finding a gorgeous follow through in this couture collection as in ..the harem style pants..the gold jewelry (those rings on the fingers) climaxing with the crown of studs on Maria Carla's head. TI is mad for that move because the consistency of line on that body of ideas makes that men's collection all the more collectible.
Our beloved "Spooky Beauty", Stasya making her runway debut at Look 3.
Tischi leashing in his recent body of codes visual to render his most controlled, cohesive and ironically, emotionally soaring show yet. (...The music like a call to prayer...) Like it or not, this is the imagery this designer believes in and he is true to his faith.
The jaw dropping opening by Supreme score....Antonella....
Which goes to say that the House Of Givenchy wants its moment and is coming for it with unflinching purpose.


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I keep a reflective practice teaching blog at Circles and Tangents. I use git in my regular workflow these days, and my teaching materials are among my GitHub projects. I can be found at Google Plus, where I mostly discuss teaching, mathematics, and technology (especially Sage). And sometimes I pop up on Twitter.
As an educator, I am interested in inquiry based learning, standards based assessment, and the role technology can play in learning mathematics.
My teaching duties center on geometry classes and mentoring undergraduate research projects.More about my teaching
I am most interested in differential geometry, dynamical systems, and Lie groups. The best problems involve a mix of all three.
I have also worked in the scholarship of teaching and learning, combinatorics, and mathematical biology.More about my scholarship
I am a Project NExT fellow and an active member of both the Mathematical Association of America and the Academy of Inquiry Based Learning. I am a member of the American Mathematical Society.
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INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN AND RECORDING WORLD - September 1981
Pages 6 & 7
The Complete Music Magazine
Any real working musician knows that music is a universal language. The more an instrumentalist or composer matures, the more aware they become of music's essential unity. People try to dichotomize things and pit white music against black music, rock against funk, jazz against classical, western against eastern - everyone has their own personal preferences, of course, but the differences between styles and forms are more imagined than real.
Here at International Musician & Recording World we take our logo "The Complete Music Magazine" very seriously. Whether it's recording work or live performances, from the moment a sound is picked up by a microphone, run through a mixing board, put down on tape (or pumped through a PA), channeled through signal processors and mastered - until it ends up on somebody's home stereo - IM&RW presents the total picture so that our readers are fully prepared to do it themselves or simply to enjoy hearing it. We let you know how to make it happen on stage, what equipment to use, and why. Whether you're an aspiring amateur or a seasoned professional, IM&RE will broaden your perspective and help you get closer, even closer, to that elusive personal sound.
Speaking of elusive, it took some doing, but writer Roy Trakin was finally able to get Debbie Harry, Chris Stein (Blondie), Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (Chic) to take time out from their hectic recording work to discuss their collaboration, and we think you'll be surprised by their perspective on the black/white cultural-musical crossover (not to mention Chris Stein's blunt assesment that Edwards, Rodgers and their drummer Tony Thompson are 'the black Cream').
Pages 30, 31, 32, 35, 37
Debbie Harry
The Chic Demon Meets the Blondie Monster, in which two black cats from Brooklyn (one an r&b smoothie, the other a stone rock and jazz improviser) hook up with a hamesha Jewish juy and a once-bleach blonde-now-dirty-brown-haired milk-fed goyeshe, goil from Joisey to conquer the pop world. Nile & Bernie & Chris & Debbie or the thirst for new musical frontiers makes for strange bedfellows, ne c'est pas, mom amie? The story of Deborah Harry's first solo album, Koo Koo, is truly the stuff of movies. Disco producers formerly renowned for their ability to fuel comebacks with "dreaded" dance productions (see Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis) make a record with the first lady and man of post-punk-pop, who are known to dabble in precisely those areas of black music where said producers have their strengths (see #1 reggae and rap pop hits, "The Tide Is High" and "Rapture").
The album itself, of course, completely overturns expectations. Instead of an LP strong on funk and R&B influences, Koo-Koo shows that both sides profited equally. While Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (along with Chic drummer Tony
Thompson) provide a welcome instrumental precision to Deborah Harry's music, Chris Stein and Debbie encourage the Chic-sters to hone their normally repetitive songwriting down to structured pop gems. In short, the perfect collaboration, creating a hybrid that is neither black nor white, rock not R&B, disco nor punk, modern nor traditional.
According to Chic's bassist Edwards, "A rock'n'roll guitarist would not play the way Nile plays. Nile can play rock'n'roll, but he still has a unique approach to it."
Songs like Harry/Stein's "Chrome", from the new album, illustrate his point perfectly. In the midst of a psychedelic meditation on the malleability of appearances by Debbie, Nile's snaking, fluent guitar makes an ostensibly rock'n'roll solo suddenly sound unfamiliar by the ease with which it's played.
"When we first started out," recalls Nile, "We would play covers note-for-note, just like on the record. That's how we got so good. Hey, if you want to do a Thom Bell piece that includes fifty instruments with just four, the bass-player's gonna have to cover some melody. He's gotta play some shit."
"That's how I learned to arrange for a small band," adds Bernard.
It was in those cover bands that Bernard and Nile were forced to play in front of all kinds of audiences, performing all kinds of music.
"The reason why we get along so well with Debbie and Chris is because what we do is something that they've been doing and something they like to do," enthuses the boyish guitarist.
"Play with different kinds of musicians."
"We used to get a lot of flack because people didn't know whether we were white or black," remembers Bernard. "We've always thought that's why we've been successful. We must go against the grain. If we didn't, we'd turn into just another R&B band, or black guys trying to be a rock'n'roll group."
By now, you will have seen KooKoo's controversial Hans R. Giger cover with four acupuncture spikes realistically piercing Deborah Harry's closely-cropped visage. Could this be some conscious attempt to de-glamorize Ms. Harry's image? Or is it just meant to poke holes in her face, the symbol of her appeal?
"Debbie is so balanced, it's unbelievable," marvels Edwards. "I was shocked. The image she projects is that of the original flaky blonde, but she's a real business woman. We saw that right away."
Probably the track that will most surprise listeners is the knockout Edwards/Rodgers torch song, "Now I Know You Know," solidly in the tradition of Chic ballads like "At Last I Am Free." Debbie's voice, bereft of the compression, EQ'ing and phasing used in Blondie, soars to totally unexpected peaks, with an awesome display of high range. Not quite all the way there, but heart makes up for any technical defects.
"Vocally, we really brought her out front," agrees Bernard. "It's not a band production; it's a female vocalist's first album."
"She paid us a heavy compliment when she heard this ballad we wrote for Teddy Pendergrass, who happens to share the same manager with Debbie," says Nile. "She came to us and asked if we could write her a song like that. That's how we got involved."
"And we thought to ourselves, 'Debbie, sing a ballad?'" Bernard rolls his eyes skyward. "But, most of the people we told about it thought it was a really great idea. For Nile and I, it was the exposure. For Debbie, it was something new, something different. She told us she loved our work and wanted to sing on some of our music. And she sounded real sincere. She just didn't want to keep doing what was expected of her. She's real aware of what's going on.
"People just can't believe that we can play rock'n'roll. Someone was listening to the record the other day and admiring the guitar solos. 'Is that Chris Stein?' They refuse to accept the fact that Nile can play guitar like that. 'But that's rock'n'roll solo'. Hey, when I first met Nile, that was all he was playing...
"Earth, Wind & Fire did it. Sly did it. A lot of groups that could attract a cross-over following are making mistakes. Lakeside appeals to a black audience because they do a black show and they think black. A lot of white people think all black people do is dance, slap five and jive, y'know."
Throughout the conversation, Nile is a bundle of nervous energy, often strumming his guitar to make a point. Suddenly, he stops practicing the break in-between "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Polythene Pam." "Deborah Harry is the first artist we've ever produced who was on top when we did her," he says. "Everyone else was on a comeback. Hell, Sister Sledge owed the company a million dollars when they came to us."
"We said, 'You own them a million dollars, they won't even give us seven grand!!'. We couldn't believe it." Bernard's lusty chortle reverberates through the studio. The proverbial last laugh is his.
"The Man from Mars" stopped eating cars and eating bars, And now he only eats guitars" Deborah Harry, "Rapture".
"If a bunch of spacemen or aliens landed down here - and they were green and slimy - believe me, blacks and whites who hated each other are all of a sudden gonna look real good to one another. That's where it's at."
Deborah Harry, 7/4/81
Debbie's let her trademark peroxide-blonde hair grow out to its natural mousey brown. She and Chris are propped up on their bed answering questions about Debbie's new solo album. The record seems a conscious attempt to get out from under the Blondie image, freeing its members to pursue their own individual projects.
"We did want to cut down a little on the exploitation end of it," admits the bespectacled Stein, ever the gentleman/scholar. "I don't like the merchandising and all that crap, like t-shirts. We don't want it to get out of hand."
I wondered if "Chrome's" reference to "changing colors like chameleons had anything to do with Debbie feeling she was more than just the sum of her images. Or whether it was literally about changing the shade of her hair...
"Maybe so. I hadn't thought of it like that," Deborah looked puzzled. "To me, it's a fantasy based on the book, Music For Chameleons."
Was she bothered at being tied to the media figure "Blondie," always written about by the press?
"I don't think what's in the papers has anything to do with Blondie," insists Debbie. "What I dislike in the analyses is that people analyse me the way they see me, not from being objective, and saying, this is what's there. Blondie is a part of me, just like it's a part of everybody that's in it and it's like a cartoon, kitsch thing on pop. I'm not trying to get rid of Blondie.
"True criticism should be a reportage on what the event is, a definition and then a critique from a personal point-of-view. Today, it's all opinion and you don't get the true picture of what it is a person's talking about. You only get the view through the critic's eyes."
Certainly much of Deborah Harry's intrigue, though, arose out of her elusiveness and fill-in-the-blanks mystery. She couldn't blame people for filling that area of intrigue with their own subjective feelings and fantasies.
"I'm an actress," states Debbie. "It's part of my job, to entertain people. That's what it's all about, I guess. To let people have an area where they can express that. Even if it is through another person. That's why people interpret lyrics so differently."
"I think everybody has the potential to be Debbie or like Debbie, but they just aren't aware of it," philosophizes Stein.
Indeed, the first track on the album, "Jump, Jump," instantaneously invents a new dance with its invitation to "walk like me." Fellow Devos Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerry Casale, along with a barking dog, man the b.g. vocals in this pogo'er, which is closer to Akron than the New York of Chic. "The Jam Is Moving" is more to the point, one of the LP's unabashedly political tomes about the CIA investigating "rock hip-hopping in the basement." Nile begins to tip his solid guitar hand while Debbie screeches and squeals adorably. "Surrender" was penned by Nile and Berbard, but its chunky backbeat and pop melodies would make it not out-of-place on a Blondie album. The unexpected thing about Koo-Koo is that Harry & Stein ended up influencing Chic just as much as Chic affected Debbie and Chris.
"Well, I think that's probably why we were able to get together in the first place," says Debbie. "We were both heading to similar places. They were heading toward rock, in their own way, and we were heading toward disco - r'n'b in our own way. And we met somewhere in the middle. I think it's the general trend right now. To cross-over, I mean."
Still, with songs like the reggae dub tune, "Innercity Spillover" or the call-and-response "Military Rap," where Debbie plays Sgt. Carter to Fonzi Thornton's Comer Pyle ("I can't heeeeear you"), aren't Harry and Stein opening themselves up to charges of dilettantism?
"What white person knows what 'red card' is?," responds Stein, citing "Innercity Spillover's" reference to the three-card-monte game popularized by New York City hustlers. "We're speaking the genuine language of the street rather than commenting on it. The story about the brick falling on the girl's head (from "Innercity Spillover") is true. It was in the news and Debbie picked up on it. I see it as a 'Tokyo Rose' type thing - it's both a statement on it and an incitement. I think it's good coming from us. People should wake up."
Did they think that white rock audiences would ever fully accept black music?
"Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with music," argues Debbie. "It's racial."
"When black people are accepted, their music will be more accepted" says Chris. "In fact, the music is more accepted than the people right now. 'It wasn't Debbie and Chris' collaboration with Chic just a modern case of the "white man's burden?"
"I hope not," answers Stein. "If anything, I think they'll be accused of being too white. I think the music will speak for itself, though. I found that, after a while, I began to feel black people were superior, especially when Nile and Bernard got into their riffs about whites. All they do is tell race jokes and carry on when we tried to get into serious conversations. I grew up in Brooklyn with a lot of black kids. To me, there's no distinction at all."
Bernard and Nile said producing Debbie was their gateway to pop acceptance.
"By the same token, these guys are some of the best pure players in the business on any level, yet they remain undiscovered in the white rock market," says Stein. "Now, they'll have a record out that'll freak all the people out. And I've known it since I first heard 'Le Freak.'"
"People don't even know Bernard and Nile play instruments," adds Deborah. "They think Chic is made up of studio musicians. These guys are the black Cream."
What unique quality did they capture in Debbie Harry's voice that other producers were unable to get?
"It's a combination of things. Each producer goes for different values," says Debbie. "Nile and Bernard did not treat my voice like it is on Blondie records. This is very simple, straight-forward - what I sound like in concert."
Going along with that unadorned quality in the vocals, aren't the new albums' lyrical concerns similarly direct?
"Yeah, I'm not in character," she finally admits.
We walk out the door onto the steaming mid-summer New York City pavement, cruising down a bustling Eighth Avenue through the crowded theater district. With her newly-brown hair insistently falling over her face, Debbie is just another traipsing New Yorker, gratefully melting into the masses, going unrecognized by everyone. In a sense, Deborah Harry is just an ordinary girl, with her own good days and bad days, strengths and vulnerabilities, dreams and disappointments, likes and dislikes.
"Debbie has a universal identification," is the way Chris puts it.
Debbie sees it another way. "A lot of people used to tell me they thought I was European. Until I opened my mouth. Then they knew I was an American."
Independence Day, 1981. Will American pop be similarly freed from its limited boundaries? Can whites and blacks co-exist peacefully. In "Oasis," Deborah Harry insists she knows the answer:
"We know it's an expression/
A silly little phrase/
Not the doorbell/
Not a bird call/
Of course.
Roy Trakin
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With limited wind throughout the 101st Chicago to Mackinac race, many would consider it ordinary. Except perhaps the nine-member crew on Zoom, who made it extraordinary, by winning the Chicago Mackinac Trophy with a corrected time 55:09.53.
It was very satisfying, said skipper Mike Newman. It was a strange feeling. All we did was sail the boat. There was no heavy weather, no big winds to battle, no shifts to play with. We just went up the lake and, Oh ya, we won. It was just a good sail with a plan.
In fact, their direction decided the race. It wasnt the road less traveled, but the route no one took, which enabled Zoom to move efficiently and effectively ahead of their competition. We looked at the weather for several days before hand and thought if there was a good sea breeze wed go up the Wisconsin shore, said Newman. If there wasnt, wed go toward Michigan. We were surprised more boats didnt go that way. We had a nice steady wind of 7-11 knots. There were holes for an hour or two especially Saturday night.
At dusk just off Green Bay, Zoom went east across the lake to Michigan. They came in between North Manitou and South Fox Island Monday at 0900 and tacked up the Straits behind a northeast wind. We had no idea where the rest of the boats were until mid-day Monday [before getting an internet signal] when we hit Grays Reef, said Newman, who skippered the 39-foot Farr design with George Miz and Pete Dreher. When we saw there were a few 70s behind us, we thought we had an opportunity to win the whole thing, said Miz.
With wind on the east side of the Mackinac Bridge, Newman tacked three times before the finish line at 2011. Monday night they celebrated with their wives and friends at the Pink Pony. Once Zoom docked in the harbor, her sailors found they were the only small boat there. Checking at the tent they saw there wasnt a corrected time yet.
The crew retired at 0200, with Larry Kerner keeping guard on the boat. We went to bed on the assumption we won, said Miz.
By Wednesday morning it was official. It didnt look good leaving the coast, said Newman, an electrical engineer who owns a software company, Contech Systems Inc., in Palos, Illinois. We just kept moving the boat fast and had a great crew; they never got down. We made Grays Reef and everyone else was slowly around the Manitou Islands.
To win you absolutely need a contribution from everyone, said Miz. Skippering is a challenge in concentration. We had flawless sail changes and we took the right route.
It was also a first for Bruce Geffen captain of Nice Pair in the Multihull Division. Stuck in the Manitous, Geffen made his move to the shore. We listened to the weather Monday afternoon and they said the wind would clock east, said Geffen. We wanted to get to the shoreline as quick as possible. The wind carried us through Traverse Bay. We made up 30 miles on our competition.
We hit Grays Reef and we were five miles offshore. We tacked and shot right through Grays Reef doing 15 knots. Most of the competition was at Beaver Island. The winds came east and we sailed on a beat through the Straits to the finish with four of the crew sound asleep.
That was at 0130. Tuesday morning. But Nice Pair didnt slow down as they headed to Port Huron for their Race to Mackinac July 25. We won our division last year and were second overall, but this is our first time winning the multihull; theres nothing like it, said Geffen, who has done 20 Macs, 10 on Nice Pair. Were first in the second century of the Mac Race. When we got to Port Huron, we passed a bottle around and took a nip. There were a lot of congratulatory hugs.


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Gang of Ducks only came into existence in 2012, but at their 10th release they're the most stylistically cohesive label around, championing rough-hewn, sinister takes on dance music from the likes of Shape Worship, Vaghe Stelle and My Panda Shall Fly. Their latest release, the debut LP from Milan producer Haf Haf, is their stongest yet; more than any other, it lives up to the label's promise of being "primitive", presenting "bad painting challenging the definition of good painting", as Haf Haf's synth lines and distorted vocal samples writhe like mutant bodies on a bed of scratchy techno and hip hop beats. Mashing glitchy rap samples with basement pulses to create the overall effect of the party heard drunkenly from the smoking area, the album breaks every rule of form to present a messy, outrageous "bad painting" – and yet it sucks you into its world like a masterpiece.
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The Dandy Warhols have calmed down - slightly - and turned to '80s pop icons Duran Duran for inspiration, writes Dave Simpson.
Zia McCabe, the Dandy Warhols' elfin keyboard player, is explaining how the band liven up hotel nights.
"We do this thing where we drop our pants and start running," she beams, sweetly. "It's usually when we've been drinking all day, maybe started off on white wine and ended up on port or margaritas. You find someone loitering alone on one of the hotel floors, go up to that person and suddenly drop 'em, then make a dash for it with your pants around your ankles. We did it in Portugal quite recently. We were screaming."
As Warhols stories go, this one's rather tame. The band (motto: "Do anything you want unless somebody tells you not to") has a reputation as one of rock's wildest outfits. Their press file bulges with tales of reprobate behaviour: gigs played stark naked, consumption of narcotic substances, and even the innocent-looking McCabe indulging in internet chats about "butt-f---ing".
On record, it has been a similar tale of ups and downs, although the band's retro/remodel chic - once described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the most exhilarating '60s-into-'90s excursion yet attempted by an American band" - is credited with paving the way for the Strokes and the White Stripes.
The 1998 smash Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth (written about frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor's former girlfriend) appalled many with the blase line "Heroin is so passe". However, the Warhols' last album, 2000's Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, was dead in the water until the fabulous, Jumping Jack Flash-riffed, hippy-spoofing Bohemian Like You rode to world-wide glory on the back of a Vodafone advert. The album then sold 225,000 copies in the UK alone.
Now they're back with Welcome to the Monkey House, which unveils a more electronic sound, rooted in the '80s rather than '70s.
Another Warhols motto is: "Make great records and don't sound like you're trying too hard."
The band are in a rapidly emptying eatery in London and, as expected, chaos surrounds them. One of the first things McCabe says - or shrieks - is "A bumblebee just flew into my belly button!", while Taylor-Taylor amuses himself by saying increasingly outrageous things to the blushing Hungarian waitress. He's a curious figure - Oscar Wilde meets an Andy Warhol superstar with a punk-rock haircut, a coiffure he inflicted on himself the day after Joe Strummer died.
But, strangely, rock's most notorious debauchees look incredibly healthy - new toned physiques, eggs Benedict and mineral water. Popularity seems to have brought (gulp) personal discipline.
"We were crazy but we've calmed down. Abso-f---ing-lutely!" says Taylor-Taylor, with a mixture of camp and understatement.
"We got sick of being sick," adds drummer Brent DeBoer. "From now on, it's excess in moderation."
They say the stories have always been enormously exaggerated. They reputedly blew their album advance on booze and drugs, although they now insist most of it went on studio costs as they had to scrap an entire album: 1997's unreleased Black Album, which had been made on drugs. They subsequently returned to the studio to make the mischievously titled Dandy Warhols Come Down.
McCabe hints at backbiting and rumour and would particularly like to make clear that she did not sleep with the record label Capitol's president to get the band signed.
"What sometimes happens is that journalists ask us lots of questions and then one or two about sex or drugs," sighs DeBoer, whom the rest of the band call "Fathead" on account of his voluminous Afro. "Then the one answer about someone turning up at Pete's (Peter Holmstrom, the guitarist) on acid or something becomes the whole interview."
However, the Warhols - whose notoriety was sealed when McCabe was photographed taking her top off at an early London gig - have certainly not been slow to embellish their own myth.
Whatever, the Dandy Warhols myth has certainly helped in marketing their art, but as "Fathead" laments, in a rare moment of vulnerability: "It would be nice to start being known for our music."
Their fan base ("225,000 semi-freaks") may be surprised to learn that the new album has been mostly produced by Nick Rhodes, the make-up-wearing, bleach-bonced keyboard player from Duran Duran. Does this mean that, for all their previous pastiches, songs called Lou Weed and their outrageous behaviour, the Warhols have been secret Duranies all along?
"He is!" The band point at guitarist Peter Holmstrom, whose blond dye-job and immaculate new make-up are clearly inspired by Rhodes.
"We were just looking at Planet Earth, the video," adds Taylor-Taylor, "and thought, 'Oh my God, listen to that. Do you think he (Rhodes) still has those keyboards? Yep. Do you think he knows how to use 'em? Yep. Let's do it!"
Rhodes and Duran bandmate Simon Le Bon (who sings on the album's scintillating funk shimmer, Plan A) have been Warhols fans for a while, and they all bonded - and hung out - over a shared love of Bowie and the Velvet Underground.
In fact, Welcome to the Monkey House showcases a new depth to the Warhols - if playfully disguised - with themes that Taylor-Taylor describes as "self-loathing, salvation, redemption, self-doubt, forgiveness, temperance and fear".
The title track contains the curious images of Britpop and litigation and depicts the scenario of Michael Jackson dying while the Warhols are covering the Beatles' song Blackbird.
"It's about the '90s," explains Taylor-Taylor. "People did bad things like sue each other. Now we're dropping bombs again.
"In the '90s, it would freak me out that no one would know the Beatles song Blackbird. Now I have much bigger things to worry about." Seconds later, Taylor-Taylor is describing George Bush as a "crazy murdering sociopath who doesn't relate to real people". Either they have grown up very quickly, or there has always been more behind the cartoon image of the Dandy Warhols.
Because so much attention has been focused on the myth, little is known about what the Warhols really think and feel.
Even less is known about their personal lives. In their home town of Portland, Oregon - where they came together in 1994 "looking for like-minded souls into T Rex and Galaxie 500" - they are virtually unknown, the result of a policy of non-cooperation with the local press. "We want to have a normal life," says Taylor-Taylor.
In fact, their personal lives are almost unremarkable. Both Holmstrom and McCabe recently got married.
Meanwhile, after a succession of "the type of girls you shouldn't take seriously" (three of whom have "run off" with, respectively, various members of Guns 'n' Roses, Alice in Chains and Hole), Taylor-Taylor has found stability - if greater physical exertions - with a yoga instructor. McCabe is reported to have grown up on a "wild hippy commune", although she reveals that she and her mother only spent some time there: the bulk of her childhood was idyllic, life in the countryside.
For the past few months - since the Vodafone cheque came in - they've been building a Warhol Factory-like installation dubbed the Odditorium, which stretches a quarter of a block, contains a DVD room, movie theatre, rehearsal rooms and lounges and will function as an "arts community" for Warhols and local artists, many of whom worked on it for free. It's difficult to imagine any other modern band that would commit to such an undertaking.
"It's totally tripped out," smiles Taylor-Taylor. "There's corrugated metal and red lights and a wall painted like the desert . . . It's the ultimate Factory! But it isn't 20-foot rolls of copper being urinated on by junkies . . . although that would be fun, too."
Still, having fun seems to be the essence of the band's survival and underlines everything they do, whether it's ripping up tracks in the studio, getting naked, fooling around at our photo shoot ("I don't normally stand over the drummer's head in a miniskirt," says McCabe), or making "sophisticated statements" in their music.
Just for old time's sake, McCabe has one last shock. Asked about the band's plans for the evening, she grins wickedly, then says: "An early night for me. And before that, I'm going to hit the gym!"
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The Dandy Warhols play tomorrow with Even at the Hi Fi Bar. Welcome to the Monkey House is on Capitol.
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Sharknado 2 has gone above and WAY beyond!
The sequel to SYFY's shark disaster franchise premiered last Thursday to 3.9 MILLION viewers! This makes it officially the MOST WATCHED original SYFY movie E V E R!
The original Sharknado only drew in 1.6 million, so that's a HUGE JUMP!
When will it air again you ask? Sharknado will air TOMORROW at 5 p.m. ET and Sharknado 2 will air at 7 p.m. – it's a Sharknado weekend. Don't miss this epic record breaking SYFY original!
OH and BTW, Tara Reid is now saying that she was kidding when she said that a Sharknado could really happen. Keepin' it real girl.