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Monday, June 19th, 2017 at 2:17 pm - Whipping
Quick pre-holiday blogpost when I should be packing. A couple of things in the past few days.
Firstly, I tried to help out in a small way on the LibDem campaign to hold the Parliamentary seat of Southport. In spite of hundreds of hours of canvassing (mostly knocking on doors of people their database said were supporters) their being demoted to third from first place came as a complete surprise on the night. It seems no one, including me, had thought to look up the polling estimates that looked like this:
I put a lot of the failure down to the assumptions embedded into their expensive Obama-campaign based software ngpvan where its fundamental error is expressed in its selling pitch at minute 0:38 thus:
Campaign tech 101:
The Key to a Successful Campaign depends on ONE THING:
Your Supporters
No no no no NO!!!
The key to a successful business may depend on one thing: your customers.
But the key to a successful campaign within our could-not-be-more-shitty first past the post electoral system depends on one thing:
That no one else gets more votes than you!
The massive canvassing and leafletting effort may have added a few hundred votes onto the outcome, which would have made a difference had it been close. But afterwards it is important therefore to subtract those votes back off the final tally when estimating next time how far you have to go to win it. Unfortunately, this control variable is usually forgotten from the equation.
If we had a decent proportional representation electoral system, then maybe your own supporters would matter equally, and the national party would run some kind of franchise system around the country where they gave us a target of how many votes we were expected to get given the local circumstances. In the same way that a Mercedes dealer in Kent should have a higher sales target than one in West Wales.
Speaking of which, I then went to the vote count in Liverpool, where it was quite depressing to watch as the Green Party vote dropped by 80% and tens of thousands of votes were piled on to the majorities of our wretched pack of Merseyside Labour MPs who have spent the last two years fighting against Corbyn and all of his popular policies by the Corbyn surge.
As an example, take my own warmongering MP Louise Ellman, who is head of the Transport Select Committee which produced a report as recently as February 2017
Riverside MP Louise Ellman has said the Government's management of the railways is "not fit for purpose."
The chairman of the transport select committee said passengers and the general public are running out of patience with rail companies thanks to poor performances, rising fares, overcrowding and late-running services – and has now called for an independent review.
Her committee reported: "The current model fails to deliver for passengers, to drive industry efficiencies, promote competition, reduce the taxpayer subsidy or transfer financial risk to the private sector."
Yet when pressed by the news presenter on the radio at the time, she flat out refused to consider renationalization as an option whatsoever, even though this is now on the Corbyn Labour Party Manifesto and most members of the public approves of it.
These New Labour ideological capitalist clowns had 13 years to fully renationalize the railways when they were in government. After a series of huge train crashes caused by cost cutting and maladministration of the engineering and then a total bankruptcy, they took ownership of the tracks — only because they couldn't find any other company whom they could bribe to own it. On the other hand, the railway franchises keep being bunged back into the private sector over and over again at great expense, when they could easily be rolled back into the public sector and managed efficiently as the contracts lapse. But allowing this as an option proves that it could have been done 10 years ago, and that they are complete dimwits — which they totally are. Rather than get with the program, they far prefer to waste our time, spend our money and lose elections that admit that it's possible for this policy to change.
Meanwhile in the Microshaft Word Department
I came up with a nifty idea to scrape the comments tagged into a Word document and output them formatted in an excel spreadsheet.
While looking around for the tech to do this (OMG Powershell is shite) I discovered this gem:
3 effective methods to extract comments from a word document
Each of the three methods takes about 12 steps and generally you wind up with the content in some XPS file in a format you don't want where you have to do as much cut-and-pasting as if you did it to each of the comments individually.
The article ends with this fine summary:
File Loss Happens All the Time
To sum up, in this article, we discussed 3 methods to extract comments. Yet two of them involves saving file in other formats. This operation definitely increases the risk of damaging files. So when it happens, you need to recover Word doc with a specialized tool.
You can't believe how anyone puts up with this. Mind-boggling. It's like watching treatment for blood loss with leeches.
Then I went to Tailbridge on Saturday when it was too sunny and flew around for 3 hours along a short 500m of ridge not getting more than 150m off the deck until I got sick.
Monday, February 27th, 2017 at 7:13 pm - Machining, Whipping
For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the sophistication of, in particular, time series data analysis is adversely impacted by the use of the Excel spreadsheet program. More recently I have discovered exactly how it is an irreparably deficient application and I am convinced that its use should be abolished from all non-small business accounting applications (ie everything except what it was originally intended for).
Hitherto I did not attach much importance to this view, owing to the fact that it is considered an anti-Microsoft bias as well as a "lost cause" because "everyone uses it". However, on learning the existence of a large body of signal processing theory which is all but inaccessible to users of Excel due to its fundamental nature, I submit my observations for consideration below.
My first remark is that if data scientists don't know about the benefits and substantial applications of multi-source data combinations, Kalman filters and seasonal adjustments reliant on the autoregressive-moving-average model, they are missing an important part of their job and are deferring the implementations of these concepts to mere "estimation by eye" from the graphs.
My second remark is that when external software exists that can be used to, say, calculate and compensate for the seasonal adjustment, it generally requires the data to be submitted in a time series format, and this requires a great deal of preparation of the spreadsheet data. Thus the appearance of being able to open up and immediately (and supposedly do) work with the spreadsheet data within seconds is deceptive, because there is now a longer route for the data to move it back out in a form to be processed and re-imported back into the spreadsheet for familiar viewing.
Let us consider a couple of time-series data sets. For example, the monthly national GDP and the employment statistics, or imagine one minute intervals of temperature and electricity use in a building.
What elements of the data are required to perform any useful processes on it, beyond simply the production of visual graphs?
For time series data (which a great proportion of data can be described as being), the existence of a reliable datetime value is paramount. Excel may in theory have a datetime cell type, but it is not visibly distinguishable from an unstructured string type with its ambiguous American and English date orderings. As such, it cannot be consistently used because improper use does generate an unignorable error (eg anything in column A must be in this datetime form or you can't save the file).
Furthermore, just the datetime is not enough, because there are time series intervals (for example, monthly or quarterly data) and these cannot always be approximated by a single time point. By convention quarterly intervals can either be represented by the end of the quarter (eg sales results) or the start of the quarter (eg sales targets) but both need to be boxed into the same entity in any subsequent regression model.
Finally, when you have different data series from different data sources they usually work to different sample rates, so you cannot represent them adequately as a single row per time sample. This would apply to the power use for the heating system which is provided every minute, when the average outdoor temperature is recorded daily.
Accordingly, the primary dimension of the data points, the datetimes, are problematical. But what of the data point values, the measured quantities? If they are each recorded into a single spreadsheet cell we will invariably be lacking an associated standard deviation/confidence interval for them. The standard deviation is an crucial input to the Kalman filter for the determination of the weight applied to each individual measure.
Take the example of the monthly political polling data prior to an election. These are often supplied by different agencies and almost always come with a confidence interval that depends on the size of sample so we know to take less notice of a poll which defies the steady trend when it has a wide margin of error. But then if there are more polls with the same wide margin of error that are also in line with that new trend, the best guess of the trend will be pulled in the new direction as much as it would have been by one very good accurate poll with a narrow margin of error. This balancing of the estimations from the aggregation of the location and accuracy of the measures is optimized by the Kalman filter, and should not be done by eye from the charts themselves merely because it can't easily be applied in Excel and we're too lazy to convert our working platform to something where it could have been easily applied.
And this brings me to the final point about Excel, which apparently can do anything because it can run programmed macros. Really? Who can honestly think, if they have every stopped to consider it, that it is a good idea to co-mingle software with data? You might as well nail your vinyl record onto the record player and then parcel-tape it into a heavy cardboard box to prevent interchangeability.
The co-mingling of data and code with no reliable means of disconnection leads to dangerous and ridiculous practices, such as copying the data into and out of the spreadsheet by hand just to access the service of the macros.
Come on folks. If you're going to call yourself data scientists, you cannot rely on a single tool that prevents you from applying the last fifty years of data science know-how optimally and productively — and then rely on its inadequacy as an excuse to not challenge yourself to learn and master the amazing mathematical technology that would have been at your disposal had you not chosen ignorance over education.
We have got to get beyond the pointless issue of formatting data into "machine readable form" for the mere purpose of making graphs for visual titillation, and get to grips with actual intelligence and effective control theory.
There is, for example, nothing smart about having to control a car with a human looking out through a window for white lines on the tarmac and the traffic lights on the verge in order to move the steering wheel and pedals in response. Smart is getting the data to feed-back directly into a computer that controls these motions optimally while you sit back in awe having merely specified the destination. But if someone out there building the tech has dared to embed a copy of Excel within the process chain between the sensor acquisition and the motor control actuators, then we are doomed.
Thanks to the famous Go to considered harmful letter of 1968. There was a heated debate about it, and 30 years later it was unconscionable that programming languages could even be conceived of to include a goto statement. Kids these days probably don't even know what one is.
But just think about all that programming wasted and how much further on we could have been without the inclusion of that single statement which caused so much unnecessary expense and buggy code throughout the years, and then imagine how much damage is being caused by inappropriate use of this inadequate data non-analysis tool up to now and for the next 20 years before it too finally gets buried in the ash-can of history and people don't even remember that we ever used it in the first place.
This has been the moment of truth.
Good day.
Friday, November 18th, 2016 at 11:23 pm - Science Fiction, Whipping
Well, it happened. Donald Trump got elected. And into the hard vacuum of his political philosophy, he's sucked in all kinds of plague carrying rats.
Rats like Myron Ebell.
People ask me if I am going to restart my proxy blog for Ebell, which I wrote from 2004 to 2011, called The Myron Ebell Climate chronicling his part in the suicide of the human species.
But there's no point.
Not only is it too late, but everyone else is covering this walking cancer now.
Where were you folks when it mattered? Back in 2004 I said we should run a proxy blog for each one of these think-tank bastards and form a shadow network for this corporate funded disinformation infrastructure. It was required to correct the reputations of these monsters who were constantly popping up on the TV and in the newspapers carrying out lies and damaging all of society. It would have been easy. They're slippery pricks, but one could systematically keep their record alive to make sure some of it sticks.
Friday, June 17th, 2016 at 12:03 pm - Whipping
I went to the International Festival for Business down at the Liverpool docks to see a presentation on the funding competition for 3D printing by InnovateUK yesterday.
I was quickly trapped in a dark room full of suits as the Government man painstakingly powerpointed his way through the process by which they were going to hand over several millions of pounds to the sorts of respectable businessmen who ultimately don't give a damn if the technology can be made to work productively or not, because the underlying purpose of their job titles is to extract financial profits for themselves as the primary objective.
That is the very definition of a respectable businessman these days. It's not ever defined as someone with the character to manage and inspire the teams of technologists who would have the capability to deliver the technology, or a preparedness to use finance in the service of these ends rather than as an excuse to impose inefficient and ineffective research and development methods onto any program they control.
Back in the old days when the Government wanted some new technology developed, like nuclear weapons, space travel or machine tools, people sought out and spoke to the engineers who were ultimately going to have to do the job, and then designed programs around the necessity of organizing these engineers to get it done as efficiently as possible.
If their one idea is that people like me have to be subserviently employed under a contract to deliver closed source software for the know-nothing suits they've deliberately empowered to curate this technology by virtue of proving them the grants, then it's going to be a disappointment.
I walked out to the main hall where FW de Klerk was being introduced prior to his speech.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 at 4:22 pm - Whipping
I met my first Leave Europe supporter yesterday, but didn't have enough time to quiz them. But they referred me to Boris Johnson's speech in Manchester as an explanation.
I listened to it all.
Boris banged on about those nasty EU regulations infiltrating every part of the nation:
"They can't tell us what sort of trains we can run, can they?
"Oh yes they can!
"Oh yes they can!
"The EU Commission told us that by 10 Nov 2018 we must create a rail freight corridor to Glasgow and Felixstowe, which means that Network Rail can be legally obliged to accept rail freight trains in place of passenger trains.
"Of course our excellent transport minister spotted this insanity, with the west coast main line full to capacity. If we had more freight trains, fewer passenger trains, there would me more overcrowding and higher fares. So he wrote a fierce letter to the Commission complaining that they were circumventing requirements, bending the rules, and of competence creep aka sticking their nose into something that wasn't their business. But the Commission told him to 'go and jump in a lake.'
"So we took them to the European Court of Justice, and what did the Court of Justice say? They told us 'allez vous plonger dans un lac.' They ruled on that occasion as they have done in 80 per cent of the cases in which Britain has been involved – they rules against us."
Now these are the days when the world is interconnected, and we have a Channel Tunnel, and roads that are utterly chockablock with a hundred thousand fat diesel trucks that can freely drive onto the motorways in enormous numbers.
In the meantime it's practically impossible to arrange for a zero-carbon electric train to haul heavy steel products direct from the steel mills on the Clyde to the construction sites in Barcelona because of the amazing national railway bureaucracies along the way.
It takes years of painstaking systematic work to identify and address these problems, like those articulated in a Select Committee report from 2005:
Many of our witnesses told us that getting rail freight through France was very difficult. The significance of this problem is greater because France's geographical position means that international rail freight to and from Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula travels through France. We were therefore encouraged by Mr Hilbrecht's confirmation that Europorte 2, a subsidiary of Eurotunnel, had received a licence and a safety certificate to operate in France…
The French two-part tariff system was also said to be a particular barrier to open access and fair competition within France. Mr Hilbrecht was happy "to say that we have achieved agreement with France . . . . They agree that it (the two-part tariff system) should be changed". Unfortunately the French government claim that because of the public service contracts with regions they cannot do so before 1 January 2006. This two-part tariff system needs to be abolished. We hope that the Commission will ensure that the French government abolish it as soon as possible.
The last problem that we identified is the least tangible, but is nevertheless an important challenge facing the rail freight industry. The evidence we received led us to believe that the rail industry in general, and in particular the rail infrastructure managers, have inadequate incentives to win new traffic. We recognise that, for political reasons, rail passengers are given priority over the movement of rail freight. This appears to have resulted in an institutional framework within the rail industry in which there is little incentive to increase and improve rail freight.
Whatever the cause of this lack of commercialism and competitive performance, it has to be overcome if the rail freight industry is to revive and achieve its potential.
But Boris doesn't give a toss about this if he can make people laugh at his stupid jokes.
He'll say all EU directives and ECJ rulings are about Brussels bureaucrats meddling in everything with their crappy regulations, when these ones are about unpicking the thicket of stultifying regulations and prohibitive monopoly rules that make it impossible run trains across national borders.
You have to pass laws to repeal laws, and fight hard to get rid of bureaucracy.
Anti-democratic? Never mind that each one of these directives is examined, amended and passed by a European Parliament that gets elected every five years where every vote counts equally, so that when the Green Party gets 6.7% of the votes, it gets 6.7% of the seats — unlike in the utterly screwed up system in the UK that gives disproportionate representative power to tosswits like Boris to tell us like it isn't.
Yes, I mentioned that steel industry, the jewel in the crown of Britain's awe-inspiring industrial revolution of the 19th century. You remember how a private corporation in one of our former British empire colonies bought it in its entirety for small change ten years ago and then shut the whole thing down last week? How humiliating is that?
So much for the Commonwealth Dream, eh? I don't see Britain owning any comparable assets in foreign lands, other than a few seedy tax havens.
This should have been a seminal moment in our nation's self-image.
But it isn't because our political feelings have become pathologically detached from reality.
Apparently the EU tried to save the steel industry by putting tariffs on Chinese impots, but this effort was blocked by the UK government because our policy is to toady up to everything the Chinese want no matter what the cost.
That's because the country that built the first commercial nuclear power station in the world in 1956 needs that Chinese finance to pay French engineers to consider building a new one — at a cost not quite as high as the International Space Station.
It's not going to fly. And it doesn't include the cost of taking it down, let alone in time for the sea levels to rise and wash the resulting radioactive sludge inland to Bristol and all along the North Devon coast with the tides.
Isn't it curious the highest profile proponents of the Britain to Leave Europe are also climate change denialists? Once you have one delusion of supremacy, it's easy to get more.
As Professor Danny Dorling pointed out:
The UK is not a typical country in Europe. If we were more typical I would have more patience with those who suggest that we could leave and our lives would improve. But in many ways we're a poorly performing affluent country. This poor performance has little to do with the EU, and a lot to do with us, and our legacy of having had an Empire. From the Suez crisis right through to the Panama papers, there's a series of embarrassments that have occurred and, in a way, this referendum is just another one of those embarrassments.
Some people have a fantasy (enjoyed by the majority of the Brexit group, particularly the Cabinet ministers) that if we were to leave we would become 'Great' again. We could become the richest country in the world again, and our EU membership is why we are not 'Great'.
And, so, because a lot of sensible people are sick and tired of arguing with these total idiots, we feel like letting them have what they desire, and getting us out of Europe. And then the Europeans are not going to help us with driving our trains, cars, people, money, goods or anything else across our the borders and into their lands. Things will pretty quickly stop working and go south.
And these politicians who sold us this knackered bill of goods will absolutely own it. We're going to have to finally learn the hard way how Not-Great we are. It'll be good in the long run — if there was a long run — for us to have a more realistic perspective about who we are. After all, losing their big wars seems to have done a power of good to the standard of living of the people in Germany and Japan.
In the end none of this matters one little bit. We are arguing about these petty matters when we should be freaked out by the fact that the near-term human extinction has become inevitable.
At some point everyone will learn that we are nothing more than ten billion monkeys farting around on one lonely planet with made-up borders. We've used our big brains just enough to fuck things up royally, but we just cannot be arsed to turn it up another notch to avert disaster, can we?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 at 1:24 pm - Whipping 1 Comment »
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal — Emma Goldman.
So, if you want people to vote, they have to believe that it can change something.
The Labour Party is undergoing a sudden and spectacular revolution with hundreds of thousands of people signing up on the belief their vote will make a difference when they elect Jeremy Corbyn. No one saw this coming.
Just one month ago the former leader Tony Blair said that anyone who supported Corbyn should get a heart transplant.
Funnily enough, Blair only became party leader (and, by default, Prime Minister) because John Smith had a heart attack and died. Blair was then stupid enough to believe that he was there because of his awesomely crappy policies that caused so many people to quit the Labour Party he had to fund his 2005 election by selling seats in the House of Lords.
Voting in Scotland in a referendum was going to make a difference, and the turn-out there was massive.
But in the wider country there continues to be a problem with General Election where necessary change is not coming about and people are getting screwed.
Young people don't vote because they know it doesn't make a difference. The system is too skewed. The old people in the rural constituencies reliably root for the Tories and provide their base. The Tories return the favour by redistributing the wealth from the youth to their elders on a massive scale through rising house prices, tuition fees (after this older generation got educated for free), historically low wages, a rising retirement age, a declining pension (which doesn't effect the current generation of pensioners), expensive public transport while car driving becomes cheaper, cuts in inheritance tax (how old are the "kids" when they actually get the money?), and huge bank bailouts to protect the savings of those with hundreds of thousands of pounds on deposit.
Thursday, April 30th, 2015 at 10:13 am - Whipping
I've not been doing as much as I should regarding this General Election. A few leaflet rounds, one canvassing session. After attempting (and failing) to contribute code to the Election Leaflet website, I've been handed the job of reading through hundreds of election leaflets each morning to look for anything interesting, which I report by entering it into a google excel spreadsheet. Urgh. But it's my duty. Takes hours, and I'm going crazy with it.
Top issues are: NHS more funds, HS2 abolished, Green belt protected, increasing recycling, cutting carbon use, and opposing those ineffective flickering noisy windfarms that clutter up the countryside when we need more flood defences that aren't going to work due to rising sea levels, you dumb-dumbs.
Basically, this election should be cancelled for lack of interest. I've driven from one end of the country to the other, from Land's End to Liverpool, then to Newcastle and back to Liverpool, and there are approximately zero election posters of any kind (plus or minus less than 5) in gardens, on walls and billboards. Even the news media is bored to the extent that it barely makes it into the first half of the news hour each day. There is nothing to say.
Now I'm going camping in a field in Southeast Wales to get humiliated and intimidated at a HG competition for the next few days so I'll miss whatever comes about internetwise. Be back on Wednesday night in time for the 5am leaflet drop on election day and the count (unless I can avoid it). The real fact is that it's only the votes that count on the day. Nothing else matters.
Sunday, April 5th, 2015 at 7:26 pm - Kayak Dive, Whipping
I've washed up on the annual Easter university diving trip, though my heart's not in it. There's a long period of stable weather forecasted, which should mean the silt will have time to settle out of the water ready for when the novices to get good enough to come out to more exciting locations.
snakelocks anemone encrusted wreckage in Sennen Cove
It's a bit of a rehash: I've done them all before in previous years in better conditions, with Becka by kayak back in 2010. I'm too tired at the end of the day to do any of the hacking I'd hoped for, so I'm marking time. Maybe I should go to the pub more often and not try to make best use of my time all the time.
Curiously, that last time in Cornwall (but one) also coincided with a General Election campaign, and I remember a big Conservative Party poster in a farmer's field at the end of the lane. There isn't one there this year. Either the land-owner is not so keen on Cameron this time, or he can't be bothered, or he's sold up to a new owner, or who knows? It's another metric that could have been noted and cross-correlated over the years if we really had the data. For the life of me, I don't know why these posters never became a substrate for some time-limited concentrated geocaching game. Geocaching happens on a lot sillier things, and this could have been like tracking down sightings of rare wild animals.
Fish approach between the boulders and kelp
Meanwhile, the serious programmers are making hay with the ElectionLeaflets.org site and Parliamentary candidates CVs.
Watching them discuss stuff I realize I'm totally lost in the last century in terms of the technology. It's a full time job just keeping up. (And in the large software company I briefly worked for, nobody seemed to be employed to keep up, so they didn't.) Nowadays I don't know much more than the difference between JPEGs and PNGs.
Other projects are pinging up around the net, such as VoteForPolicies.org where they blogged their technical case study like so:
We are using the RabbitMQ messaging system, our queue server is run by CloudAMPQ (Big Bunny instance, dedicated server)…
Our worker servers also live behind an ELB but don't have auto-scaling enabled; we manually manage the amount of instances based on the size of our queues, we can check using the RabbitMQ management console…
All of our MySQL queries are handled by the Doctrine ORM and written using the Doctrine QueryBuilder. These doctrine queries are also cached in Redis as SQL…
Our application is based on Symfony 2.6.* standard edition.
For Redis we use the SncRedisBundle. For RabbitMQ interactions we are using the RabbitMqBundle.
We're using the DoctrineMigrationsBundle for database migrations and the data-fixtures and AliceBundle for database fixtures.
Our CI tool Jenkins runs all of our tests and triggers a new capistrano deployment if they pass.
Is it me, or does it feel like I'm in the world of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reading about how to build a Globular Cluster Information Hyperdrive?
And this, all in the name of electing Members of Parliament, an institution whose daily procedures were already antiquated back in the Victorian era.
Once the process of governance starts getting anywhere near state of the art web technology, it's going to be awesome.
Or it will be a whole lot worse. You never know.
As the human debacle around the science of climate change has proved, this tech is equally good at spreading knowledge and intelligence or ignorance and stupidity. It's our choice as to what we want from it.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015 at 6:08 pm - Whipping
I'm doing a lot of politics stuff running up to the general election, but I don't feel like blogging about it much.
Actually, I'm not doing that much. What's happening is that all the work I did ten years ago is finally being put into use today by other people, resulting in an event such as this fine rant from the LibDem MP in Bristol West:
To claim, as the website Public Whip does, that I 'voted very strongly for selling England's state owned forests' is misleading in the extreme. I have never voted in favour of selling forest land – I voted against two poorly worded and hyperbolic motions submitted by the Labour Party.
I never believed I'd see the day where MPs would have to answer for the things they voted for in Parliament. Anyway, there's that and electionleaflets.org and Francis's Candidate CVs project gathering steam. What a difference five years of internet technology advancement and greater generational awareness can make.
Meanwhile, I was in Bristol for a few days helping a friend with some DIY, because I want to put this kind of laminate floor down in our kitchen on top of some real insulation:
Then I did some painting before getting relieved of my duties for spreading paint all up the paint brush handle.
I spent the night on the Blorenge, then flew at lunch time completely alone for two hours until I suddenly got dumped down in the bottom landing field in Abergaveny. Nobody took any notice of my death spiral down to the ground; just kept walking their dogs. I am still working hard to process the data into something meaningful — if this is possible.
An invite went out for a surf on the Dee Bore on Saturday morning. I thought it might be special, being the day after a partial solar eclipse, but it was a damp squib and most of us lost the wave within a few hundred metres.
On Sunday I tried to fly on The Gyrne, but there was no wind and few thermals, so I went off on a long cycle round Lake Vyrnwy with my friend.
The land-scape round these parts is ever so crinkly.
Monday, November 10th, 2014 at 10:39 am - Whipping
It was an expensive London and Cambridge weekend for me and Becka (£99.20 return train ticket each), but the chance to get home on Sunday night directly from the middle of London to the middle of Liverpool in under three hours without needing to be awake beat the plan of car shuttling onto a local train via some backstreet parking spot in St Albans to avoid driving to the centre of London.
You win some, you lose some.
I got a motion for electionleaflets.org to be done properly accepted by the members at the UnlockDemocracy AGM on Saturday. This has the potential to get some professionalism on the situation in time for the next election.
Then I spent 36 hours working and sleeping in the basement of the National Audit Office at the Accountability Hack 2014 on a my project, with Becka getting predictably very bored at times.
The purpose of the project was to learn how to use PDF.js, which Francis told me about the day before.
I thought I had a good chance with it (being as it is completely practical and could be implemented by the Public Accounts Committee right away), but it did not even get an honourable mention. That honour went to Richard whose Parliamentary Bill analyser disclosed how many goats would need to be skinned to print out the Act, among other things. For more details, see my blogpost from six years ago: The vellum has got to go.
We met Rob for dinner who had a brain machine on the bookshelf, which Becka was very taken with. I can tell you that someone will be learning how to solder in the next couple of weeks, because that is the only way they are going to get one of their own.


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ALTHOUGH not a particularly well known fact, women have been participating in sport for a very long time and yet for so many people it may seem as if it has only just been invented.
Indeed, some people think of it as a new phenomenon that can be traced back perhaps only as far as the 70s, but that's not really the case.
I attended an exhibition at Glasgow's Six Foot Gallery entitled The First Ladies of Football earlier this week. The exhibition is documenting the history of women's football and believe it or not, women have been playing football for some time. In fact, they can date it as far back as 1895.
This particular exhibition, which is the brainchild of Stuart Gibbs, was debuted at the Hampden Football Museum in 2012, before being further developed in association with Dumfries Museum into A Game for Girls, which opened at the Annan Museum during the summer of 2015.
Stuart told me that in the past, the history of woman's football was a rather under-researched subject, but believes that there has been a revolution in the subject with more of the game's background being uncovered. As the women's game is steadily progressing, our understanding of the game's heritage is also starting to catch up.
One of the most interesting finds is the discovery that Emma Clarke, born in 1875 in Liverpool, who is the first recorded black woman footballer, played in Scotland.
She toured Scotland as part of the British Ladies Club in 1895 and again in 1896, which clearly shows that women participating in football created a welcoming environment for all, even as far back as the 1890s.
We have our own history makers in football in Scotland. Rose Reilly, Elsie Cook and Edna Nellis are the top three for me and they blazed the trail for women to play football many years ago.
Rose in particular made the headlines by playing for the Italian national team in the first, sometimes referred to as the "unofficial"
World Cup.
In fact, Rose was the team captain and scored in the 3–1 win over West Germany in the northern Italian town of Caorle.
She then led her naturalised country into the World Cup Final in 1983 when they beat the USA 3-1 in front of 90,000 people in Peking, now known as Beijing.
Add to that the eight Serie A titles she earned with AC Milan, as well as two golden boot awards, and I am sure you will agree with me, Rose was indeed a history maker.
Elsie, on the other hand, made her mark on the domestic game and she was the inaugural secretary of the Scottish Women's Football Association, as well as managing the Scotland team, whilst all the time, and even now, still insisting that women players should be afforded the same opportunities, rights and respect as their male counterparts.
However, if you ask Elsie what her biggest achievement was, she would tell you a kiss from Pele in 1966 when he was in Troon before Brazil played Scotland in a World Cup warm-up match, and in return she gave him a tartan "see you Jimmy" hat!
Edna Nellis passed away just last year at 62 years of age, and her story is no less inspiring, as both Rose and her shared the journey to France and then Italy to play professional football together at Stade de Reims in France and AC Milan in Serie A in the early 1970s; she was a trailblazer.
This exhibition got me thinking that today, with the many changes and advances of women in sport, we are creating history at an amazing speed, and also on a regular basis, and we have to ensure that it is well documented.
I am positive that in 20 years' time, people will be looking back in wonder at the struggle many women had just to participate in sport, never mind gaining parity, and the achievements of women such as Rose, Elsie and Edna will be even more admirable.
There is still a lot of gaps in the history of the beautiful game for women, and I can only hope that this is something which will be rectified with both time and patience.

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Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 - Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards 2014, 14-16 age category - July 2013 Book of the Month - Winner of the Waterstones prize for new and emerging talent 2013 Award-winning author Annabel Pitcher's new teen novel is a taut and dramatic adventure with a deep yearning at its heart. Ketchup Clouds vividly captures the terrifying roller coaster of emotion that envelopes Zoe when she gets caught in a tragic love triangle between two brothers. Zoe's heart races for the mysterious Aaron but, despite his seeming keenness, he already has a girlfiend. And then there is younger brother Max, unattached and very keen on Zoe. How can Zoe manage her own feelings without hurting the boys especially when she's also coping with puzzling dramas at home?
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Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a criminal, Stuart Harris, locked up on death row in Texas. Like Zoe, Stuart is no stranger to secrets. Or lies. Or murder.
Full of heartache yet humour, Zoe tells her secret through a story in the only way she can - in letters to the man in prison in America. Armed with a pen, Zoe takes a deep breath, eats a jam sandwich, and begins her tale of love and betrayal. From the author of the award-winning My Sister Lives on a Mantelpiece this is a novel that will really make you think.
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In Ketchup Clouds, Annabel Pitcher perfectly captures a teenage voice harbouring a guilty and devastating secret as Zoe writes letters to a death row prisoner and slowly reveals the sequence of events that led up to the terrible act she believes she has committed. The letters offer an honest, moving and at times humourous insight into Zoe's life, including her family, first love and friendships, ensuring this book will have wide appeal. -- Vanessa Lewis, The Book Nook THE BOOKSELLER
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The Psychrolutes marcidus was recently deemed the ugliest animal in the world, but there are good reasons behind his unappealing exterior; NPR's new boss, Paul G. Haaga, is a GOP donor and was a mutual fund industry lobbyist; meanwhile, corporations are using flash mobs for marketing schemes. These discoveries and more below.
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Boost Your Mind: Mindfulness for young adults during and after cancer treatment
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Location: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium
Collaboration: Katleen Van der Gucht (coordinator), Inge De Leeuw (trainer), Edel Maex & Jen Bertels (supervision)
The origin of mindfulness lies with Buddhism. During the late 70s Jon Kabat-Zinn has given a scientific status to mindfulness in the U.S. when he applied it to people with mainly physical and stress-related complaints. The program, in which he incorporated mindfulness, was called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). John Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as follows: "Pay attention, be very focused in the here and now, and not judgmental." You're with your full attention in the here and now, you're completely open to your experiences without judging whether that is a good or bad thing to do. During the 90s the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was developed by Teasdale, Segal, and Williams. This program was designed to avoid relapse of depression in people who had already suffered from several depressions in the past.
The philosophy of mindfulness comes down to the fact that worrying about the past and the future, is making us much more unhappy than we should be. Through a mindfulness training you learn to adopt a different attitude towards your thoughts and feelings. You will learn skills to notice initial negative feelings and thoughts in time, and to observe without engaging fully, as those are mere thoughts that come and go. The result is that negative thoughts disappear much faster and that you will worry less.
Mindfulness for young adults
The positive effects of mindfulness training in adults have been demonstrated repeatedly, both in healthy subjects and in clinical groups, for example in adult cancer patients . Following a mindfulness training helps to improve quality of life, reduce stress, anxiety and depressing feelings. Yet, are these effects equally observed in young adults?
In recent years, more research has been carried out on the effects of such training for young adults and the results are promising. A study in more than 400 adolescents in Flemish schools reveals that young adults who had followed the mindfulness training scored better on a psychological level, and that these improvements were visible to even 6 months after the end of the training sessions. Furthermore, mindfulness was not only helping to prevent mental health problems but also had a curative effect in reducing psychological problems.
Why did we choose this project?
Many adolescent and young adult cancer (AYAC) survivors experience emotional distress, which often tends to become worse years after cancer treatment has ended. Approximately one-third experience clinical levels, most commonly in the forms of depression, anxiety, or stress. However, the psychosocial needs of these patients remain largely unmet. Research with AYAC survivors focusing on symptom management after treatment has ended, is scarce, and more age-appropriate interventions are needed.
The aim of the project
The aim of our study was to examine the feasibility and potential efficacy of Mind-Based Intervention (MBI) for AYAC survivors and to understand the processes underlying the potential benefits. It was hypothesized that MBI would
(1) Improve quality of life and reduce emotional distress (symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress);
(2) Reduce underlying cognitive vulnerability factors;
(3) Improve mindfulness skills.
How did we approach the problem?
Participants were AYAC survivors, aged 14-24, who had completed acute medical treatment. A two-baseline, post and follow-up within-subjects design was used. Each participant completed two baseline assessments, followed by an 8-week mindfulness-based intervention. The primary outcome variables were emotional distress and quality of life. Secondary outcomes were cognitive vulnerability factors and mindfulness skills.
What did we find?
At three months follow-up MBI was associated with
1) A large and significant reduction in emotional distress and improvement in quality of life,
2) A large and significant reduction in negative attitudes toward self (i.e. a cognitive vulnerability factor)
3) A large and significant improvement in mindfulness skills. The change in mindfulness skills mediated the change in emotional distress.
Scientific publication 'Van der Gucht, K.; et al. A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults After Cancer Treatment: Effects on Quality of Life, Emotional Distress, and Cognitive Vulnerability. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 2016 Dec 21. (abstract only)
Based on the project results, our message to patients
MBI is a promising approach to treat emotional distress and to improve quality of life in AYAC survivors. Further research using randomized controlled trials is needed to generalize these findings.


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Atlanta, Georgia (PressExposure) April 08, 2013 -- Tulix Systems, the innovation leader in managed CDN and multi-screen services, today announced that it has launched a completely redesigned corporate website today. Found at http://www.tulix.com, the new focus of the site showcases the main core focus of the Tulix business model, streaming applications and services, content delivery and colocation/hosting services. The website will also be the place where potential clients can find Tulix' latest offering and pricing specials.
"Tulix Systems has come a long way in the almost 20 years it has been in existence" said company CEO Dr. George Bokuchava. "We have always prided ourselves as being able to provide comprehensive and affordable solutions in most areas of IT. We still can but over the last five years our main focus has been building the best network possible for content delivery as well as defining our colocation and hosting offering as a provider of more than just standard space, basic bandwidth, power and air conditioning. We provide 3 separate and distinct networks based upon the needs of our clients" Bokuchava continued.
The release of our newly designed and focused corporate website is timed to the start of The NAB Show in Las Vegas this week. "2 key Tulix personnel will be present and available for consultations and meeting regarding our full range of applications and services. Dr. Nino Doijashvili and George Khvitia are in Las Vegas and available to discuss options and solutions for organizations looking to monetize their content through delivery to multiple screens, devices and platforms. We are experts in this arena" Dr. Bokuchava proudly concluded.
Tulix Systems, located in Atlanta, GA, provides peerless CDN services to the major Tier 1 backbone providers as well as to over one hundred national and regional providers. Combined with high-powered streaming and routing optimization, Tulix Systems CDN Content Streaming Cloud⢠services are optimum for live streaming and which this quality carries over to all levels including on-demand services. Tulix Systems add-on ancillary services include single stream encoding for multiple devices, time shifting, virtual DVR as well as authorized device application development for PC, iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Android and Roku. Tulix Systems CDN services and applications meet the needs of conventional pay-tv operators, virtual multi-service operators and all classes of media companies. Tulix Systems was founded by George Bokuchava and Nino Doijashvili, both PhDs with extensive experience in the Internet technology and application development. With an 18-year track record of providing diverse web and hosting solutions, Tulix Systems delivers cost effective and future proof solutions to clients worldwide. To make an appointment to speak to Tulix Systems can be reached at Tulix.com and 404-584-5035.


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enjoyed this, but was sad to see that it was on the very last page where probably nobody bothers to check. I've been listening to a lot of the stuff with the high scores in the "indie" section and am just amazed by how some of it got up there while this isn't even given a chance.
As for criticism, i think i would have liked to hear more harmonies between the man and woman, rather than the two of you singing octaves together. Or maybe if harmonies were added to certain parts along with the octaves, but this is just my small opinion.
Moon shine
Rated 3 / 5 stars
reminiscent of....
closing time by semisonic, and maybe a little too reminiscent. don't worry, i'm not trying to put your composition down. but this kind of thing just happens all the time with extreme subconscious influences in music, and i thought you should be aware of it.
considering the chord progression is nearly identical to "closing time" isn't so bad. but it's the melody that's far too similar, even if it is double time, and the notes aren't eeeeexactly in the same order. likewise, the melody would not be the problem if it wasn't behind this chord progression. it's the combination of the two that makes for the sound that is all too much like the semisonic song. as a form of advice, you could change the melody, or the chord progression, OR make either/ both of the two with different rythmic patters and accents.
i was really interested that you made this in powertab though. didn't know people were using that program in this way.
i do hope this was helpful and not looked at as a bash. keep doin' what yer doin'.
Thanks for the review!
I haven't even heard of closing time or semisonic until now; I'll go check it out.
EDIT: after listening to it, I now see what you mean. I actually have never heard it before, so sorry that it sounds similar.


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Carlton recruit treated for testicular cancer
Carlton has confirmed recruit Sam Rowe has been diagnosed with stage one testicular cancer.
The club said the tumour has been removed and 24-year-old Rowe will undergo chemotherapy for six weeks.
The Blues say after treatment Rowe, yet to play an AFL game, will be able to resume his career with Carlton.
Rowe was drafted by Carlton at pick 44 in the 2011 AFL Draft.
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The acquisition could help GM sell to customers with damaged credit ratings or who want to lease a car. GM officials called the purchase a "building block" on the road to an initial public offering, which could happen later this year.
Grassley expressed concern that GM paid a 24 percent premium for the loan company, "meaning that GM managed to pay over $800 million more for the company than it was worth in the public markets just a few days ago."
GM will use funds from some of the $30 billion in cash on hand, according to GM officials.
"Over the long run, will the acquisition of AmeriCredit at the price paid by GM increase the likelihood that the American taxpayer will recover more of its money from GM than currently estimated?" Grassley asked in the letter. "At a minimum, the American people deserve to know whether GM conducted an analysis of this acquisition with the best interests of the taxpayer in mind."
GM received $49.5 billion in government loans, and the Treasury owns 61 percent of the automaker. GM has announced plans to sell the government-owned stock and go public again as a way to pay back its debt with the federal government, possibly later this year.


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Antique Victorian 19C shaped upholstered needlepoint ottoman or blanket box.
This ottoman is full of age, charm and character. So rare with concave sides.
The upholstery is old, worn and faded, with marks. Internally it is very tatty, but externally it has that very old charm about it.
A very rare find.
No significant woodworm.
Overall maximum dimensions: 47.5cmL x 45cmW x 39cmH.
Historic knocks, marks, cracks, scratches, wear, imperfections, repairs and alterations, as is always the way and to be expected with genuine antique furniture. We have not inspected beneath the upholstery. Probably had feet originally.
Stock No. 3802.
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Man Who Never Made Over $12/Hour In His Life, Worth Half a Million [VIDEO]
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The sultan of seething commentary and mixtape gargantuan DJ Kay Slay is well into his debut LP, The Street Sweeper Vol. 1. Last April, when Slay signed his record deal, he promised a dream-team roster on the project, and it looks like he's going to deliver.
Slay has been piecing together his debut and releasing dribs and drabs of it in his incessant mixtape street donations via "50 Shot Ya," by 50 Cent and "They Wanna Know," by Sauce Money.
According to Eric Knicks, the A&R rep on the project, among the cuts Slay has in the can is a track from the LOX and a joint effort with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah. A collaboration with Fabolous and Faith Evans is also planned, as is a meeting of the Joes Fat Joe and the smooth-out balladeer Joe.
The Street Sweeper Vol. 1 is tentatively scheduled for a late summer release.


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The Navajo Nation had to fork over $1.25 million in tribal funds for a defunct egg farm, and an audit completed March 7 confirmed the tribe will probably never see the money again, reported The Farmington Daily Times.
"It is somewhat water under the bridge," LoRenzo Bates, chairman of the Navajo Nation Council Budget and Finance Committee, told The Daily Times. "At the end of the day, the Navajo Nation is out $1.2 million."
Diné Poultry Products Inc. had secured a $3 million loan from the Native American Bank, using tribal money as collateral, approved by the Navajo Nation Council's Budget and Finance Committee in December 2005. The proposed $12.2 million egg farm on the New Mexico side of the reservation broke ground off U.S. 550 in the Huerfano Chapter. The egg farm was a joint economic venture for the Nageezi and Huerfano chapters, stated The Daily Times.
The company never produced an egg, shut down and defaulted on the loan. The tribe was left to compensate $1.25 million, the amount of money Diné Poultry Products Inc. spent. The Native American Bank demanded collateral in December 2008, and the tribe repaid $1.25 million from the Navajo Dam Escrow Account, a fund established between the Navajo Nation and the city of Farmington.
"This was the Navajo people's money," Nageezi Chapter President Ervin Chavez told The Daily Times. "It makes you wonder if the tribe is going to get some of this money back."
The audit by the Navajo Nation Office of the Auditor General called the company's expenses "questionable," stated The Daily Times . "We noted that about 50 percent was expended for professional services by consultants including a key consultant that was paid $565,000," an executive summary of the report stated. "The DPPI board also paid itself over $341,000 as reimbursements, wages and stipends."
Established as a for-profit corporation in 2004, Dine Poultry Products marketed the company to produce more than 145 million table eggs each year. Company owners from the two tribal communities were gearing to distribute the eggs to federal government entities in the western U.S., The Daily Times said.


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It's hard to believe, but Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known globally by her first name alone, first emerged in Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s.
Since then, she's achieved massive success as singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer and model ... we leave anything out?
Oh right, she's going to be on The Voice Season 4!
Those hips of hers absolutely do not lie, and they recently helped her achieve her greatest moment of all: Shakira gave birth to a baby boy in January!
She and footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique just became parents for the first time (no, it's not a hoax). Expect that little guy to have some amazing genes.


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Study Abroad: Photo Contest
Did you study abroad in the past year? Did you take AMAZING pictures with your camera or phone? Then now's your chance to share those and enter to win in Walton's Study Abroad Photo Contest. Anyone currently enrolled at the University of Arkansas can enter.
Photo Categories
We have 5 different categories for you to enter in with a winner chosen in each category:
- #Cultures
- #LocalPeople
- #Places
- #Historic
- #HogsAbroad
A flag from the country you studied abroad in will be awarded for 1st place in each category!
We would love to share your experience for future Razorbacks to see and inspire others to go abroad too!
Important Dates
- February 14th - start submitting your photos! (Two per contestant)
- March 5th - Last day to submit your photos!
- March 6th - Follow @Walton_StudyAbroad and start voting on your favorite photos
Photo contest Rules
- Submit your photo and information to email@example.com to be entered into the contest.
- You must include the category name of which you want to submit your photo to in the Email. (Ex: #Cultures, #LocalPeople, #Places, #Historic, #HogsAbroad) (If entering into #HogsAbroad make sure you are representing the razorbacks in some type of way. Ex: Calling the Hogs, Razorback apparel etc.)
- Also provide a short description about your photo.
- Give us your name, the country you studied abroad in, your major, and your class level (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior)
- You must have studied abroad between January 2016 and January 2017
- You can enter in a max of two pictures but they must be in different categories.
- Follow the @Walton_StudyAbroad on Instagram
Pictures submitted will be posted on the @Walton_StudyAbroad Instagram account. There will be three finalist photos, (Two pictures in each category with the most likes, and another photo from each category chosen by the Recruitment Coordinator). The three pictures from each category will then be sent to a panel of faculty members that will chose a first, second, and third place winner.
- First place in each category will receive a flag from the country they studied abroad in along with their photo posted on the wall next to WCOB 343.
- Second and Third place winners will also have their photo posted on the wall next to WCOB 343.
- Editor-selected comments will be published.
- No abusive material, personal attacks, profanity, spam or material of a similar nature will be considered for publication.
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Austin, TX 78701
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip
November 25 - January 7, 2018
"The Open Road explores the photographic road trip as a genre and America as an imaginative resource, presenting the stories of photographers for whom the American road was muse." The show features more than 100 images created from the 1950s to today.
Shahzia Sikander: SpiNN (III)
September 2 - November 26, 2017
SpiNN (III) is an animated video by Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander. "The video is rooted in traditional Persian miniature painting, which the artist learned in her native Pakistan before immigrating to the United States in the early 1990s."
Dancing with Death
September 2 - November 26, 2017
Dancing with Death features works on paper that explore the theme of death.
Vincent Valdez: The City
July 22 - December 30, 2018
A show of Vincent Valdez's two The City paintings. The works were recently acquired by the Blanton. For more information, go here.
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Giant
An exhibition featuring Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler's recent film Giant. In the film, "Hubbard and Birchler present a decaying movie set just outside of Marfa, Texas,...Read More
Surabhi Saraf: FOLD
"In the projected video, FOLD (2010), a grid of twelve-by-eight frames captures the Indian-born, San Francisco-based artist Surabhi Saraf in jeans and a white shirt...Read More
Piranesi's Rome
A show featuring more than forty prints by artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The exhibition also features large-scale maps of Rome, books, and plaster casts of architectural fragments.
Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
An exhibition of 91 Indian paintings from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection at the San Diego Museum of Art. Many of the images in the show...Read More
Perspectives: Javier Téllez
Artist Javier Téllez speaks about his work and his video Letter on the Blind, which is currently on view at the Blanton.
Blanton Block Party
A community festival celebrating the Blanton's newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries. The event features family activities, music, food, and tours of the museum. During the...Read More
Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser
A survey of works by Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian. The show draws from ten bodies of work by the artist and includes video, photography, sculpture, sound art,...Read More
Warhol By the Book
Warhol By the Book is a comprehensive examination of Andy Warhol's extensive work in books. The show will feature jacket covers, illustrations, drawings, screen prints, paintings,...Read More
SoundSpace: In Memoriam
A day of performances celebrating the life and music of David Bowie, Prince, Pierre Boulez, Tony Conrad, Ethan Frederick Greene, and others.
Xu Bing: Book from the Sky
An exhibition of the installation Book from the Sky by Chinese artist Xu Bing. "The installation will transform 1,500 square feet of the museum's galleries into an...Read More
Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography
An exhibition of Peruvian photography from 1968 to 2015. Fixing Shadows explores the influence of photographers including Fernando La Rosa, Mariella Agois, Carlos Domínguez, Milagros de la Torre, Pablo Hare, and others....Read More
The Museum Studies Symposium: Native American Cultures and Contemporary Museum Practice
A symposium bringing together three scholars who are experts on "the complicated issues surrounding Native American artifacts in today's museum practice."
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s
An exhibition surveying art made in the US between 1989 and 2001. The show is organized around three principal themes: "the so-called "identity politics" debates;...Read More
A Conversation with Ed Ruscha & Dave Hickey
A conversation between artist Ed Ruscha and critic Dave Hickey. For more information, go here.
Goya: Mad Reason
An exhibition of prints by Francisco Goya. The show features works from his many series, including Los desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), La tauromaquia,...Read More
The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece
An exhibition of The Crusader Bible, an illustrated manuscript known for its lively color illustrations. It was likely created around 1250 and traveled from Paris to...Read More
Fair Trade Trunk Show
"Handmade goods will be offered, including jewelry, clothing and seasonal decorations, created by women whose lives are empowered by the Fair Trade Federation. Vendors include...Read More
Ellsworth Kelly Panel Discussion
A panel discussion with Gavin Delahunty (Dallas Museum of Art), Tricia Y. Paik (Indianapolis Musuem Of Art), Carter Foster (Whitney Museum of American Art), and Richard...Read More
Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978
An exhibition showcasing Latin American modern domestic design. The Blanton's presentation of this exhibition will include paintings from the period. Designers featured in the exhibition include: Sergio...Read More
Third Thursday
A day featuring yoga (12PM), a talk on Natalie Frank's depictions of The Brothers Grimm (6:30PM), a Spanish language tour of the museum (6:30PM), and a slow...Read More
SoundSpace: Deep Listening
A sound program that celebrates composer Pauline Oliveros' concept of Deep Listening. Performers include Saxophonist Joe McPhee, Heloise Gold, and others.
Donald Moffett
An exhibition of works by Donald Moffett that are within the Blanton's collection. Featuring eight works – including a suite of eighteen drawings, the Blanton hold...Read More
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm
An exhibition of more than 30 gouache and pastel drawings by artist Natalie Frank, a New York-based Austin native. Frank has created feminist reimaginings of...Read More
Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World
An exhibition of approximately eighty paintings by Realist-Impressionist painter Francisco Oller (1833–1917) and contemporaries including Cézanne, Monet, Pissarro, and others.
SoundSpace: Musical Outsiders
A music event featuring works from outside the mainstream, including Molly Emerman performing player piano works by Conlon Nancarrow; a screening of the documentary "Conlon...Read More
Okay Mountain: Roadside Attractions
This installation by Austin artist collective Okay Mountain playfully mocks the brochure stands found in hotel lobbies and tourist centers with 100 different irreverent and...Read More
Wildly Strange: The Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
An exhibition of photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, including his acclaimed "Romances" made in the late-1950s and 60s (masked figures set against deteriorating Southern landscapes)...Read More
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs relating to the struggle for civil rights. Includes works by Barkley...Read More
SoundSpace: Free Music and Community
Simultaneous performances throughout the Blanton's galleries by musicians known for their creativity and spontaneity: the Bel Cuore Saxophone Quartet; Adam Rudolph and his Go: Organic Orchestra;...Read More
Marjorie Schwarzer
Marjorie Schwarzer, museum historian, presents her research on contemporary museum practices in the United Arab Emirates.
James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash)
An immersive exhibition of works by virtuosic draftsman James Drake. Committing to draw every day for two years, he devised a system that resulted in...Read More
La línea continua
The Blanton unveils 70 works from the Judy and Charles Tate Collection of Latin American art, which was given to the university earlier this year.


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USC Events & Foundation Nightclub Present
SUBstance Wednesdays: Downlink
Wed, March 22, 2017
Doors: 10:00 pm / Show: 10:00 pm (event ends at 2:00 am)Foundation Nightclub
This event is 21 and over
Limited VIP Tables Available. For info visit: http://www.foundation-nightclub.com/about-vip/
If tickets are not sold out, tickets will also be available at the door beginning at 9pm. Ticket prices will be higher at the door.https://foundation.ticketfly.com/event/1445515/
A name firmly cemented in the hearts and minds of the bass music community. He is respected the world over as a producer of the highest quality dance floor bangers. He has had numerous #1 hits on Beatport and has released music with major labels like Rottun, OWSLA and Mau5trap. He has helped mix an album for the legendary nu-metal band Korn. He has toured the planet far and wide, leaving a wake of awe-struck audiences in his path. To see him live is to witness one of the tightest technical DJ's in the game. His 3 deck live mixing and infectious stage energy light up venues turning crowds on their heads time after time. Expect lightning fast mixing on a journey through a wide variety of bass music. All tempos are fair game as long as its underground vibes and dirty bass. 2013 was a huge year for Downlink. Along with homies Excision and KJ Sawka, he gave rise to bass music supergroup Destroid, a whole different kind of live experience altogether. You really have to see it live to fully grasp the scope and intensity of the show. Also in 2013, Downlink launched his brand new record label, Uplink Audio. This will be a place where he will showcase his own music as well as a wide variety of other high grade material. Downlink is not one to be pigeon-holed and is constantly on a quest to evolve and refine his sound. With this in mind, one thing will always remain constant - a pure unadulterated heavy listening experience…
Venue Information:
Foundation Nightclub
2218 Western Ave
Seattle, WA, 98121
Foundation Nightclub
2218 Western Ave
Seattle, WA, 98121


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The Man at the Window Trailer (2009)
06 June 2009 Drama, Action, Comedy 96 mins
Alexander Dronov, the actor, didn't have many success in his life. But despite all the troubles he has an important life mission - he's the man at the window.
Watch the official The Man at the Window 2009 trailer in HD below or find more The Man at the Window videos on Vidimovie.


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From St. Charles to St. Louis County, and out to Belleville, Ill., local school districts and police departments are taking extra precautions after so-called 'creepy clown' threats.
Over the weekend, social media threats circulated, naming specific schools and threatening violence against students and teachers.
They appear to be connected to the national trend of creepy clown threats and sightings.
The cop cars on campus at Lawson Elementary School in Florissant, and other area schools, are on clown watch.
But this so-called 'creepy clown hoax' is no laughing matter.
"To me it's sick. That's all I got to say. Sick," said Crystal Elam, who had trouble getting her second and fifth graders to go to school today.
"They thought that somebody was going to come into the school and do something to them," said Elam.
Facebook and Instagram threats spread like wildfire over the weekend, suggesting people dressed up like clowns were planning violence at specific schools.
It's seemingly tied to the national fad, reports of clown sightings and threats.
Although there's no known violence attributed to them, Florissant Police, along with other metro police departments and school districts are on high alert.
"Not only do we have officers inside the schools but we're having regular patrols outside the schools as well," said Officer Craig DeHart, with Florissant Police.
So far, authorities say they're not aware of any clown sightings locally.
Some school officials believe the threats could just be copy-cat kids trying to disrupt school. Whatever the case, police must respond.
"We could definitely be using our resources to do something else other than having the extra patrol in the schools and then keeping an eye out for people running around in clown outfits," said DeHart.
Meanwhile, Elam, got her kids to school with a special lunch and, "we prayed first before we left our house".
Five on Your Side wanted to know what parents should say to their young children who may be afraid to go to school now.
A counselor for the Ferguson-Florissant District tells us children respond to the emotions of the adults around them, so parents should speak calmly to their kids about the issue, limit the details and reassure them school is a safe place.


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