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Peking Opera in Germany
The Show Must Go On
While Peking opera fans in China have shriveled in number over the past few decades, the art form has received a warm reception in foreign countries like Germany, giving experts hope the tradition can be revived on the domestic stage
Bolstering trade and clearing the country's skies were not the only items on the agenda of this year's Two Sessions, the annual meetings of China's top legislature and highest political advisory body. Also on the list, amongst others, was Peking opera.
As China establishes closer relations with other international players, cultural exchanges, especially those steeped in tradition, have become a hot topic at the yearly conferences.
During the March sessions held in Beijing, renowned Peking opera performers Mei Baojiu and Yang Chi, who spoke at the meetings, once again voiced concerns about the development of Peking opera, warning that the traditional art form is suffering a decline in interest in China, despite signs of popularity overseas.
Wu Xingtang, former second secretary of the cultural section of the Chinese embassy in Germany, recently wrote an article for NewsChina's Chinese edition about a Peking opera troupe's 1981 debut in Germany, exploring how and why the traditional Chinese opera was so well received in a Western country. The disparity between reactions at home and abroad may indicate that Peking opera can still charm new audiences in the modern era and deserves to be passed on to future generations, something many Chinese nationals hope will come to pass.
'Exporting' Culture
A cultural icon that occupies a spot on UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage" list, Peking opera first arrived on a foreign stage in 1891, when then well-known Peking opera performer Zhang Guixuan introduced the art form to Japan. It later took its place in the global arts world when famous Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang went on a global tour in the 1920s and '30s. This kind of cultural exchange, however, practically stopped altogether as the world descended into war.
According to Wu Xingtang, the new Chinese government that was created in 1949 did not "export" any traditional Chinese culture to Western countries until it established diplomatic relations with them in the 1970s. Frequent cultural exchanges with Germany specifically began in 1979, the year that China became more accessible under its new policy of Reform and Opening-up. When the World Theater Festival (Theater der Welt) first launched in 1981 in Germany's Cologne, China sent a Peking opera troupe to attend, with Wu serving as one of the trip organizers.
"A German friend of mine recommended we go to the opera festival, which companies from many European countries, the birthplaces of the world's classic and modern operas, would attend," Wu wrote. "As many European people seemed to enjoy traditional Chinese culture, we believed that it would be a good chance to promote Peking opera overseas."
Based on a 1979 agreement signed by China's Ministry of Culture and Germany's foreign ministry, Peking opera was set to be launched in Germany as a commercial endeavor, with the Chinese side footing the bill for the performers' plane tickets and daily expenses and the Germans bearing all other costs.
Besides the theater festival, the Germans also planned a 14-day tour in seven cities to boost ticket sales, a schedule so tight that it scared off two of the three Peking opera troupes that had intended to join. When the Chinese side finally settled their list of performers and programs after rounds of discussions, it was too late to book a Cologne theater. Thus, Peking opera's first official performance in Germany took place at the city's local stadium.
In April 1981, the China National Peking Opera Company, the last company standing, sent three members to Germany to prepare for the coming tour. They brought photos of Peking opera performances with them to use for marketing purposes. Although the pictures were grainy because of China's lack of high-quality cameras at the time, the German side transformed them into eye-catching posters, printed with a simple slogan: "Here comes the Peking opera!"
Wu originally worried that the slogan was too plain to attract an audience, but his German counterparts assured him that simplicity was the way to go. Sure enough, every performance during the Chinese troupe's three-day stint in Cologne was sold out. Crowds filled the 2,700-seat stadium every night.
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Wu said the Peking opera troupe prepared three different programs packed with selected scenes from both martial and domestic operas. (Martial operas typically depict powerful emperors and wise officials fighting off treacherous foes, while their counterparts concentrate on romance, family drama and even the spiritual realm.) Interestingly, the stadium, chosen as a last resort, ended up contributing to the performances' lively atmosphere by making audience members feel free to cheer and applaud at will instead of waiting for the austere fall of a curtain. The performance was so in demand that hundreds of latecomers crowded around the gate inquiring about extra tickets. Although the German organizers did not want to let them in, Wu revealed that he surreptitiously opened a side door and allowed some people to watch from backstage.
This Peking opera fervor continued throughout the seven-city tour, even in the smaller cities, like Lower Saxony's Hildesheim. The director of Hildesheim's local theater told Wu that the show's tickets sold out rapidly and the theater had to add temporary seats to accommodate more audience members. Even the mayor told Wu that he would like to help finance the performance.
Unlike the crowd in Cologne, most of the theatergoers in Hildesheim were older and took opera very seriously. They dressed formally, the men in dark suits and the women bedecked with jewels, just as they did when attending classic European operas. At the end of the night, the performers basked in repeated curtain calls.
While touring in Böblingen, a town neighboring Stuttgart, the home of Mercedes-Benz headquarters, the luxury car company invited the Chinese opera troupe to visit its factory base. Mercedes-Benz also quietly sponsored the group's Böblingen performance, keeping its name off of the posters and other promotional materials. According to Wu, many German enterprises consider supporting cultural activities part of their company culture.
Same Tune
One of the scenes the troupe performed was from Farewell My Concubine, a classic story that later became part of the famous novel and film of the same name. The opera takes place after the fall of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), when the warlord Xiang Yu suffered a debilitating defeat at the hands of his enemy Liu Bang, and it ends with his favorite concubine cutting her own throat in front of him. The actor who portrayed Xiang Yu, Yuan Shihai, recalled audience members' enthusiasm for the shows throughout the 14-day circuit. After each performance, viewers and journalists always swarmed him, even before he could take off his costume and remove his make-up. He took advantage of these moments to ask many Germans about their thoughts on Peking opera.
"Some audience members said that they liked martial plays a lot, because of the excitement and remarkable kung fu, but more said that they were moved by the singing, since it was similar to [that of European] operas," Yuan said. "A person from a Sino-German cultural association told me that Farewell My Concubine was one of his favorites. The historical Chinese story includes a hero and a beauty, along with marvelous singing and beautiful dancing. These [aspects] are what attract people to European operas."
The Chinese troupe added translated subtitles and a brief introduction of the lead roles in each of the performances to make the show more accessible to German audiences. "Similar to Western opera, Peking opera should be appreciated with ears and hearts," Yuan said. "I was very happy to hear that some German patrons were interested in watching Peking operas in their entirety [rather than just selected highlights from different shows]."
Passing it Down
The idea that Peking opera could act as an ambassador for Chinese culture existed well before this German trip, however. In fact, during a 1935 tour of the Soviet Union, Mei Lanfang, one of the most famous opera performers of the 20th century, stated that "the barriers between Peking and foreign operas could be broken." Former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai supported this sentiment. Yuan Shihai revealed that Zhou once met with him and two other Peking opera performers in 1974, hoping to devise a way for Peking opera to test the waters abroad. "Don't worry about foreigners not understanding Peking opera," Yuan recalled Zhou saying. "It is just like European opera."
According to Yuan, their 1981 performances in Germany were actually a trial run as China looked into exporting Peking opera for the first time in decades. It was an undeniable success. In the following decades, Peking opera gained mounting popularity overseas, with many Peking opera associations or clubs popping up in Germany, the US, the Netherlands and more. Seemingly every time China sent Peking opera troupes overseas, local media reported packed theaters and shows ending to thunderous applause. In June 2013, for example, several thousand Germans gathered in an open square in the small town of Dietfurt to watch the Nanjing Peking Opera Troupe, even though it was a rainy day. More recently, a lecture in Frankfurt given by Yang Chi, a Peking opera performer and apprentice of Yuan Shihai, attracted several hundred locals.
In sharp contrast, enthusiasm for Peking opera has dwindled domestically, much like Western operas in their home countries. Members of the opera world like Yang Chi have attributed this to "a lack of new audiences" and "a lack of new elements to attract more market share."
Experts believe that unlike foreign audiences, who feel like everything Chinese is fresh and exotic, youth in China are all too familiar with the ancient stories portrayed on operatic stages and find the performances boring and outdated. Master performers Mei Baojiu and Yang Chi said they believe this can be fixed through education and promotion. That is why both opera legends advocated bringing Peking opera into elementary and middle schools.
"Peking opera reached new heights after the Cultural Revolution [1966-1976] because there were still many people interested in traditional operas. However, it began to decline starting in the 1990s, when the Reform and Opening-up policy flooded China with more and more forms of entertainment," Song Yan, head of Fenglei Peking Opera Troupe, told Sanlian Lifeweek magazine. "As people are turning to modern entertainment, Peking opera still idles on the government dime and has no clear idea of how to reform."
In a 2014 interview with the magazine Shanghai Artist, German opera composer Karsten Gundermann, who also collaborates on traditional Chinese operas, said that Western operas have not been immune to these same modern-day ailments, but he was confident that both Peking and Western operas can enchant audiences once again by reinventing performance methods.
"In the modern era, we have to learn to promote traditional operas in new, modern ways, such as creating new stories [and] building new stars," he said.
China is already making an effort in this regard. In March 2014, for example, China's National Center for the Performing Arts debuted a filmed rendition of the China-set Italian opera Turandot in movie theaters and received a satisfactory box office take. Reinventing the opera like this may be helpful in passing down the tradition to future generations. As Gundermann said, in citing an old German saying: "We should pass on the fire of traditional culture, rather than the ashes."
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"These ants simply do not walk," Dr. Wehner said. "They sprint." The ants can run a distance that corresponds to 100 of their body lengths per second, an ability that no other animal is known to match. During these spectacular sprints, the ants even hold their breath to conserve every drop of precious body moisture.
The silver ants are social insects and even burst out of their hole all together, but each then goes off alone to find food. The ants scavenge dead and dying creatures on the desert floor, only occasionally taking a healthy prey like a helpless caterpillar or two. Since carcasses tend to be scattered widely and unpredictably, the ants have no need to lay chemical scent trails for their fellows to follow, as most of other ant species do. Instead, they hunt alone, feverishly crisscrossing the sands until they find a prey and can head for home.
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DULUTH, Ga.— At 11 P.M., or 1 A.M. on the many nights she must work overtime, Allison McClure stops at her mother's house to retrieve her 3-year-old daughter, Mia, take her home and put her back to bed. Then she packs Mia's bag for nursery school, does the ironing, cleans house and takes a shower. "I'm in bed by 3 or 4," she said during her 9-to-9:30 P.M. "lunch" break at a mail processing center.
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Occupational-health experts find that shift work exacts a toll beyond just losing sleep. Years of research, assembled in a recent study of shift work and health by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, show that shift workers typically suffer from insomnia and chronic fatigue. They have more trouble with their health and dispositions than other workers, more marital problems, more strains rearing children.
Night workers, the study says, complain inordinately of gastrointestinal disorders, including peptic ulcers. It says that pregnant shift workers, according to some limited research, suffer more miscarriages, premature births and lower birth weights than women who work regular hours.
The Congressional study says the health effects of shift work become more acute with age, raising concern about the baby-boom generation, which is now the largest part of the work force and whose oldest members are approaching 50. Timothy H. Monk, director of a University of Pittsburgh program that studies workers' hours, said he wondered how employers will manage with older, less malleable workers, "when they don't have enough young people to shuffle."
Many foreign governments regulate shift work, but in the United States, neither the Government nor the institutions that support workplace regulation, like labor unions and advocacy groups, have fully addressed the issue. Grogginess Can Be Deadly
In the interest of public safety, Federal agencies regulate shift work in public transportation and in a few other areas, like operating nuclear power plants, where a groggy employee can endanger a community. But no one protects the community when a groggy employee hits the road for home.
For many people, shift work is all they can find. But for others, it holds some advantages. It permits couples with young children, for example, to hold two jobs, with one working while the other is home.
Night work also often pays more than day work in the same job. In addition to base pay of about $10 to $16 an hour, postal workers get a 10 percent bonus for hours they work between 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. The Workplace Dazzling Light In Sea of Dark


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Joseph Raymond "Tailgunner Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a member of the U.S. Senate who temporarily cashed in on the Second Red Scare by screeching hysterically about "Reds under the bed," thus placing all criticism of communism under a pall of disgrace.
Early biography[edit]
McCarthy would always say his allegations "fit a pattern," so it's fair to ask what sort of pattern his biography fit.
McCarthy was a circuit (trial) court judge in Wisconsin when World War II broke out. He joined the Marines because he thought this branch of the service would be most helpful to him in a future political career. After the war he returned to sit as a judge and took to wearing his uniform on the bench. He also had developed a strong professional relationship with Joseph Kennedy, and actually visited the Hyanisport family home, the (in)famous Kennedy Compound, several times throughout his career, leading to son Bobby being appointed to the House Un-American Activities Committee.[1]
When he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1946, he adopted the slogan "Congress Needs a Tailgunner," falsely claiming to have served in such capacity (McCarthy had been an intelligence officer who had flown along on some less dangerous missions as an observer and had fired the tail guns of the planes he was in several times).[2] McCarthy defeated Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., the three-term Senator and son of the progressive icon in the Republican primary and then went on to defeat his Democratic opponent.
McCarthy's career as America's self-appointed ultra patriot got off to a strange start by defending German soldiers on trial for the Malmedy Massacre. During the Battle of the Bulge, a German SS unit massacred 84 American prisoners of war; in 1946, 73 German officers and enlisted men involved were convicted of war crimes. McCarthy claimed that the soldiers didn't receive a fair trial and spent several months attacking the prosecutors as biased, the witnesses as liars and the investigators, probably Jewish.[3] This performance only embarrassed McCarthy, who decided to find a trendier issue than defending Nazis.
Wheeling speech[edit]
McCarthy first came to wider public attention after he gave a speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 9, 1950. The topic of his speech was Communism. He was opposed to it.
McCarthy started off his speech by contrasting the Soviet Union with the "Christian West." Most importantly, fourteen days prior, Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury for lying about spying for the USSR and passing documents to a borderline-lunatic named Whittaker Chambers, who had been an editor at Time before apparently having some sort of breakdown because of his closeted homosexuality and going all Jesus. The country had been watching for months as it was proved that Alger Hiss was a spy, but also that a Congressman known as Richard Nixon was willing to make American democracy itself seem like it was under attack from something so insanely terrible in breadth and scope that everyone was ready to make like the Boston Tea Party. It was the kind of speech that the Junior Senator from Wisconsin was expected to give to a Republican Women's Club, and the audience was foaming-at-the-lips.
First, there was bad news. America was "losing":
""Six years ago, ... there was within the Soviet orbit, 180,000,000 people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side there were in the world at that time, roughly 1,625,000,000 people. Today, only six years later, there are 800,000,000 people under the absolute domination of Soviet Russia—an increase of over 400 percent. On our side, the figure has shrunk to around 500,000,000. In other words, in less than six years, the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor to eight to five against us.
How could this happen? McCarthy had the answer:
""As one of our outstanding historical figures once said, "When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within."
Who were these "enemies from within?"
""The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores ... but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate, or members of minority groups who have been traitorous to this Nation, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest Nation on earth has had to offer ... the finest homes, the finest college education and the finest jobs in government we can give.
Then McCarthy got specific:
""This is glaringly true in the State Department. There the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been most traitorous...I have here in my hand a list of 205...a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department...
Subsequent events[edit]
McCarthy repeated his accusations several times, garnering considerable public attention, but the number of names on the list kept changing. He claimed at various times that there were 87, 51, or 10 Communists in the State Department,[4] but never actually proved a single case thereof.[5][4]
His excesses later caught up with him in 1954 and he was given a smack on the head (censure by the Senate); the John Birch Society refused to admit that he had been wrong about any of it and subsequently began claiming that President Dwight Eisenhower was a communist agent who had been elected for the sole purpose of discrediting McCarthy. This was one of the factors that prompted saner conservatives, such as William F. Buckley (who had earlier written a defense of McCarthy, McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning) and Russell Kirk, to distance themselves from the society.[6]
McCarthy died in 1957 from hepatitis, probably exacerbated by his alcohol addiction. He was 48 years old.
Venona project and attempted rehabilitation of reputation[edit]
In 1943, the governments of the US and UK collaborated on a project decrypting Soviet diplomatic cables known as Venona. In 1995, the documents were made publicly available.[7] The decrypted cables provided a smoking gun for instances of Soviet espionage, such as in the case of the "atomic spies" Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.[8] They also provided further evidence for the guilt of Alger Hiss.[9] However, McCarthy had nothing to do with either of these cases. Alger Hiss was called before, and perjured himself in front of, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where his chief tormentor was Richard Nixon. The Rosenbergs were brought before a grand jury by the U.S. Justice Department, a part of the Truman Administration, which McCarthy was accusing of being soft on Communism. The extent of Soviet espionage and infiltration is still a matter of debate.[10]
While the cases of figures such as the Rosenbergs and Hiss were once causes célèbres on the left and right (for differing reasons, of course), they are now largely used by those of a more wingnut bent in service of attempting to rehabilitate McCarthy's reputation. Glenn Beck[11] and Ann Coulter,[12] for example, have defended McCarthy as an all-American hero. Conservative writer M. Stanton Evans published a book-length apologia for McCarthy in 2007, entitled Blacklisted by History,[13] which was predictably praised by Coulter and other right-wingers.
While the Venona papers have demonstrated that Soviet espionage did indeed occur, the more obvious conclusion to be drawn from this is that, by crying wolf so many times, McCarthy's demagoguery was a hindrance to rooting out Soviet spies. Other than Mary Jane Keeney,[14] none of McCarthy's unhinged accusations were substantiated.[5]
McCarthy's epitaph was perhaps pronounced at the infamous Army-McCarthy hearings by Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch who asked of him, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"[15]
See also[edit]
- McCarthyism
- The Manchurian Candidate, the best take on McCarthy out there.
External links[edit]
- Tailgunner Joe's Twitter page
- http://www.conservapedia.com/Joseph_McCarthy According to Conservapedia, McCarthy is a hero who fought the evil commies and slandered by the evil leftist liberal Democrats
- ↑ Emile de Antonio, Point of Order (documentary film).
- ↑ Reeves, Thomas C., Tail Gunner Joe: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Marine Corps, Wisconsin Magazine Of History. Volume: 62 /Issue: 4 (1978-1979), pp. 307-8.
- ↑ David Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, pp. 76-77
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 This Day in History: McCarthy Says Communists Are in State Department, history.com, retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cold War-McCarthyism, globalsecurity.org, retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ↑ Buckley, William F. Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me. Commentary: March 2008.
- ↑ VENONA project homepage, National Security Agency
- ↑ Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies, PBS Nova
- ↑ The VENONA Files and the Alger Hiss Case, Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- ↑ Chapter One: The Soviet Espionage Threat, excerpt from Athan Theoharis' Chasing Spies.
- ↑ Glenn Beck Misses Joe McCarthy, Salon
- ↑ Does Ann Coulter Know What She's Talking About? History News Network
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
- ↑ The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage, Rosalee McReynolds, Louise S. Robbins, Greenwood Publishing Group, March 2009.
- ↑ "Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings, History Matters, George Mason University


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Read the tech press and you are all but guaranteed to see headlines like: Big Data will solve this. Big Data will solve that. Big Data is the hot thing. You have to have Big Data.
Indeed, Big Data is so ubiquitous that it's understandable when people think they know what it means, even if they don't. All you have to do is parse the simple, two-word term and it's clear what's being talked about is a huge pile of information, right?
Big Data is the process, not the numbers. It's the ability to analyze any kind of information to yield robust, repeatable, actionable insights. Given the confusion there's no surprise that a lot of people don't understand how to use it.
There's a misperception that the best process is to gather all your information, put it in all into one stack, and run analysis programs which spit out insights. When this naïve approach fails, people begin to think of Big Data as a money pit. A recent survey of C-suite executives by Actian found that 77 percent feel their big data and analytics deployments fail to live up to their expectations.
They're right to feel that way. If you take a data-first approach, you've almost certainly spent way more money than you need to for a system that is capable of doing anything and everything. But the fact is you don't need to do anything and everything. You need to answer a question. There is something you need to know but don't; that's why you're seeking a Big Data solution. Once you have the question, you build the minimum infrastructure needed to answer it. Going about it any other way is looking for a needle in a haystack when you don't even know what a needle looks like.
Here is the #1 thing to remember about Big Data: The question is the answer. You start with one big question and then refine, refine, refine until you have a question that perfectly articulates your biggest challenge and is going to tell you exactly what you need to know. Then and only then should you examine all your different data sets and utilize all your Big Data tools. Assess to see which ones are useful and which aren't. This will minimize the amount of data you need to analyze and the size of the system you need to do it.
So before you use Big Data, you need Big Question. Figuring out Big Question goes well beyond the usual analyst's skill set. It requires intimate and thorough knowledge of the business. Because while it's nice for data scientists to be able to analyze all that data, you really need to think about where that's going to get you.
Here are three guidelines for finding Big Question and building a successful Big Data initiative:
- Pick a good use case. Identify a well-defined problem that the analytics team already understands. It should be one with new, unstructured, and semi-structured data sources that couldn't be included in previous analysis.
- Prioritize which data you include in your analysis. Importing, cleaning, and organizing data sources isn't easy (or cheap), so don't try to use every possible source of data. Start with data you already understand, then sparingly add additional sources to enrich your analysis.
- Measure your results. Quantifiable outcomes are essential if you are going to determine whether you've succeeded. There is often an unrealistic expectation that valuable insights will just suddenly appear from Big Data. If they don't, the project may be judged a failure, even though it has provided real improvements on a meaningful metric. That's why you need to define key metrics in advance and measure them before and after the project.
Do that and you'll know what your needle looks like, where to look for it, and whether or not you found it.


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A Tee is more than a Tee, within a few steps you have your very own bankrobber disguise....!!!
A Tee is more than a Tee, within a few steps you have your very own bankrobber disguise....!!!
I like the idea but I think it's too small. Maybe if they were larger and spaced out all over the shirt similar to the 'Rubber Band Gun' shirt it would work better.
Try it with a collared shirt it's funny.
oh it looks like a ninja disguise ! i like it !
terrorist disguise
woulda been funnier if you named it Creativi-tee.
Weird placement, hard to see. Good art though, and cool idea.
I think I've seen this idea in a magazine somewhere... ReadyMade?
yeah... already someone did this! still good concept
this is ill. jihad like a mother!5+
Center this on the torso. And then make it available to everyone on myspace. It will sell out in an hour max.
yes it was in readymade! cheaters get 0!
Pretty tight, I'd go with the black & white, no doubt.
so thats how you do it.
i just saw a better version of this shirt at hot topic. :-/
haha i can't tell if he's ninja or KKK
seen it before..
Shirt ninja!!!
this is already a t-shirt.
they sell it at hottopic.
im guessing that hot topic is some kind of clothing store?
This would be an awesome shirt.
Oh, that's right, it's because it already is =)
I love it! $5
I haven't seen the other artwork your talking about before i made the illustrations myself and I haven't copied the idea because I've never seen it before.......but if you say so...!
i saw this on ninja.com
i used to do that! fuckin ace! :)
nice one
lmao. this is brilliant.
zomg. do it. DO IT.
but in the middle.pfft. no one can see the awesomeness on the bottom.


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Greetings to all members of The Demonic Horde! Some of you have just heard us for the first time, others have been with us since the start, but we're truly grateful for all of your support - YOU RAWK!
So, we've just had the digital release of 'The Demonic Chronicles Vol. II' and the response from reviewers and fans alike has been overwhelmingly positive. Massive thanks to all of you who have streamed, downloaded and shared tracks so far!
The Demonic Chronicles trilogy is the story of how Lucifer sends five demons up 'to the surface' to win back souls who have given up the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. The demons then go and possess the bodies of suitably evil individuals, then go about their mission via the medium of heavy metal. This part of the story is covered in 'The Demonic Chronicles Vol. I.'
Once they have physical bodies, The Demons run amok, causing havoc and general chaos. Many of their victims end up psychologically scarred for life, others are believed to be insane when they try to tell people what they've witnessed and others...well, check out the video for 'Murdercycle' and you'll see what happens to them! All of this is covered in 'Vol. II.'
And Volume III? We can't tell you TOO much about that yet, but check out the special narrative bonus track, 'Angelic Assassins' on our Twitmusic page or on the 'Chronicles II' CD (when it's available) and you'll get a big clue about what happens in the final part of the trilogy!
What we CAN tell you about Volume III is that, unlike Vol. I & II, we aren't using drop B tuning and have moved to standard concert pitch. This might sound a bit of a radical move to some of you, however let us assure you that the new tracks we have in the pipeline are just as heavy as the songs on the first two CDs. We can also promise some genuine, Old School, fists in the air, epic tracks, some of which are already coming together.
When Vol. III is released depends largely on what happens behind the scenes. There are some interesting opportunities opening up and, ideally, we won't be self-releasing the last part of the trilogy...
In the meantime, we really hope you enjoy Volume II and, if you want to ask us any questions about anything to do with the Demons, you can hit us up on our Reverb Nation profile, Facebook and Twitter (@demonsofficial).
That's all for now, so have a kickass weekend and thanks for reading!
Greetings, Demons!
Just a few short weeks to go before we release our debut mini-album (it's too long to be classed as an EP)! As some of you know, our stage look and persona is based on five different, but equally evil, characters we have created and, like any good horror baddy, they all have back stories.
So, what are the stories and how did the Demons come into being? Well, here are those stories and it's exclusive to you guys that have taken the time to read them!
Track 1 - Unleash the Demons
Aghast at dance acts headlining metal festivals and key emissaries turning their backs on drink, drugs and sex, Satan decides it's time to take action. He calls forth 5 of his demons to go and win back as many souls as possible by any means possible...
Track 2 - 100 Year Crime Spree II
The Bass Demon reanimated the corpse of Chicago gangster Machine Gun Skelly (no, that's not a typo), one of the evillest, nastiest bastards to walk the earth in the last 150 years. This track tells of just a few of Machine Gun's heinous acts during his 100 Year Crime Spree.
Track 3 - Tombstone Cowboy
It's the 1800's in the Wild West, and one individual is wilder than the rest. Having made a pact with the Devil to protect him in return for harvesting souls, the Tombstone Cowboy proceeds to do whatever and whoever, whenever he wants. Unfortunately, the Sheriff in El Paso has different views. The partially decomposed corpse of the Tombstone Cowboy is where the Vocal and Guitar Demon made his home.
Track 4 - Watch Your Back
They call him 'The Butcher' because of his passion for sexy time with women that can't reject him and his awkward habit of keeping certain parts as mementos. The Butcher is the only living human that was taken over by a demon, in this case, the Drum Demon
Track 5 - Digital Death
Disgusted at how humans smell, feel, taste and gradually die from the moment they are born, the Tech Demon chose to wrap his amorphous forms in robes rather than have to touch a human body. Realising that he could channel his evil across any kind of power or data network, Digital Death proceeded to kill his victims - from the inside...
Track 6 - Psycho Wing I & II
Satan tried to steal Psycho's soul when he was a baby, but his inherent goodness always kept full evil at bay. Yes, he killed his parents and a few others but it's not like he had any say in the matter. Finally, the Second Guitar Demon finds a home as Psycho is fried in the electric chair, free at last to embrace his darker side.
Track 7 - 100 Year Crime Spree I (narrative bonus track)
This is purely a bit of fun, a radio-play style re-enactment of the last moments of Machine Gun Skelly's life.
So, now you know what lies behind our evil little band! 'The Demonic Chronicles Vol. I' is released Halloween 2012 on CD and digitally everywhere and we hope you enjoy hearing the full, unabridged thing in it's entirety!
Stay evil,
D.O.O.M \m/ \m/
For the last year and a half the Demons have been content with playing covers,but now for the first time since forming we have decided to write some of our own arse kicking tunes,we have three songs well under way.watch this space
Work is well underway on our first original track,we are all very excited about this
All is quiet on gigmass eve,the Demons are relaxing in this cold cold weather(well it is very hot where we come from)


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Absolute Power – David Baldacci
Absolute Power
Author : David Baldacci
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Release : January 1, 2010
Genre : Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with…Absolute Power.
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Can the President get away with murder? The fictional answer to this question results in a fast-paced page turner that combines political intrigue with gritty, hard-boiled suspense –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Hey Guys,
I'm hitting my head here, I have the query working perfectly in the MySQL GUI and from the console, but in my php code the exact query seems to omit the Order By Directive.
SELECT * FROM tblPressArticles ORDER BY FIELD(tblPressArticles.MonthName,'December','November','October','September',
The MonthName is stored as a VarChar...maybe that's it?
PHP Code is:
$query2="SELECT * FROM tblPressArticles ORDER BY FIELD(tblPressArticles.MonthName,'December','November','October','September','
Then I just throw it in a normal loop to extract
while($noticia = mysql_fetch_array($result2))
I Do not see how executing the script from PHP ignores the Order By field...
I'd hate to have to manipulate the results manually in loops ect when it can be done in MySQL Direct.
Any Idea's guys?? Thanks :->
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'version_compile_machine', 'x86'
'version_compile_os', 'Win64'
Jun 27, 2012 at 2:36 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Just to be sure, print out the final value of $query2 to know how it is resolving.
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Jun 27, 2012 at 2:36 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Just to be sure, print out the final value of $query2 to know how it is resolving.
Jun 27, 2012 at 2:38 UTC
Hey mate,
I've copied the the value of $query2 direct and pasted it into MySQL GUI and the cli and it worked without issue, lol.
Here is it too:
SELECT * FROM tblPressArticles ORDER BY FIELD(tblPressArticles.MonthName,'December','November','October','September',
Jun 27, 2012 at 3:35 UTC
It'll probably be faster on the MySQL side if you make a Month field that's the number of month and ORDER BY nmonth ASC -- it's a schema change but faster. Also consider LIMIT
Jun 27, 2012 at 9:47 UTC
I figured it out, I've changed it to be a DATE Value, I mean at the end of the year it's will display next years January at the bottom by design so I need to store the year as well.
I am using a jQuery plugin called DataTables (very very great plugin) and found that on initialization it auto aorts the table by ACS or DESC automatically.
It doesn't help that the data I am putting in the column is not the exact value of the mysql column I Convert the DATE to June - 12 for eg, so again it is all out of wack.
So, in the DataTable ctor I switched the bsort to false; "bSort": false,
Thusly disabling any auto sort and keeping in line with the sql statement and the interpreted values are in the correct order :->
Hope that helps if anyone else stumbles upon this.
Crazy times!!!
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I'm building a DC motor right now.
It's a tedious project, you need to wind a bunch of wire around some nails, then put it all together on a board. I look forward to hooking it up tremendously. It will be so satisfying. It's cool when you see how something is supposed to work, then actually verify that it works how it's supposed to.
Last week I got to derive the equations for impedence matching, then verify them in the lab. Super simple experiment, and the derivations weren't too bad if you have a decent calculus background. We graphed our results and compared them with our theoretical results, and for some reason it's just super exciting to me when you see how close your equations match with reality.
The same thing goes for programming. Instead of working out theoretical problems on paper, you get to put symbols into your computer to get it to do things. Once you learn a few things you really start to see the possibilities for what could be accomplished, even if you can't get there yet.
All this to say that if you have the ability to take some quantitative science classes in your schooling I would highly recommend it. Even if you aren't a math person, there are plenty of classes that don't require calculus. It might be hard, but it is worth it to learn a little bit of the magic that makes the world work. It's important to actually see how science works, and the best way to do that is to verify it for yourself. Once you start seeing some results, it gives you more confidence in how it all goes together.
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Click Clack Moo Cows That Type - A model for peaceful resistance
Sometimes I like to analyze the media we provide to our kids. See this post for more of that action.
We recently got a copy of Click Clack Moo, and Gabe likes us to read it to him at least once a day. It's a silly story about some cows who find a typewriter. They use it to demand blankets for themselves and the hens. The Cows and Hens go on strike, refusing to produce, until the farmer gives in, trading them blankets in exchange for the cows giving up the typewriter. There is a twist at the end, and the ducks end up with the typewriter, demanding a diving board for their swimming pond.
In reality, this story is somewhat of a parable. Farmer Brown, as the old white man in charge of the farm, represents the status quo holding down the working class (the animals on the farm). Imagine his surprise at the cows getting ahold of a typewriter! They now have a voice, and begin challenging the powers that be. Much like the 19th century women who were relegated to the sphere of domesticity and prevented from speaking in the public sphere on account of their biology, the cows can only speak moo, and thus are not offered a seat at the table as to how the farm is run. The typewriter gives them an outlet, and represents the power of the oppressed to refuse to be ignored.
Not surprisingly, the cows begin demanding their rights. When the farmer refuses them even basic material comforts, they respond with the only tool they have available, withholding production. The chickens join in, forming a unified group against the dominating power. The farmer is incredulous. "You are cows and chickens, I demand milk and eggs!" he responds. The powerful use cultural structures to keep the oppressed from questioning the nature of their oppression. The caste system in India, or the biblical justifications used by southern slave-holders, rest on the idea that certain groups of people are destined to fulfill certain roles. The cows aren't valued as persons, only as a means of supplying the farmer.
In a deal with the devil, the cows and chickens agree to give up their voice in exchange for their comfort. Once again they will do the farmers bidding and stop questioning, so long as they have blankets to keep them warm at night. In making this deal without the consent of the other groups that aided the cows in their struggle, they betray their cause as a whole.
In the end the ducks, who recognize the power of words and who gained no advantage from the cow's betrayal, took the power for themselves. Instead of serving as mediators to the deal, they secretly steal the typewriter and begin issuing their own demands. Thus the struggle continues, and those in power begin to be held accountable for their actions towards those that they govern.
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