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1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording of the new album?
Thomas: Sure thing, and thanks for doing this interview! The recordings were actually finished over a year ago, and since then, Johnny left the band. He founded the band with me, but the pressure of live shows wasn't for him, which is perfectly fine, he contributed a huge deal to our sound, and the album, so a great time to pass the torch.
We had a short time with a guy called Jonathan, but he didn't have the time in the end. Lars joined, completing the line-up yet again, and we couldn't be happier. So it's been turbulent. Been doing a lot of writing in that time too, getting some material ready for when we enter the studio again.
2.You have a new album coming out in July, can you tell us a little bit more about the musical direction the band has taken with the new album and also how it differ from the ep and demo you had released a few years back?
T: The ep was basically slam death metal, which we've ventured away from. We've basically continued the sound from our 2011 demo, but with more coherent songwriting, and maybe a bit more fleshed out experimental side. We have a big influence from Gorguts, Ulcerate, Immolation and such with the use of dissonance, but also brutal shit like Gorgasm and Defeated Sanity. Our goal is to make death metal that is both brutal and intense, but with experimental and atmospheric edges, using a broad plate of influences.
3.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer release and also how would you describe your progress as song writers over the years?
T: The title "The Dismal Ascension" describes the lyrical themes pretty accurately. We've departed from gore themes, which has been done to death, and better than we ever could. We focus on the darkest corners of the human mind, misanthropic themes and dystopian futures. The final four songs on the album form a lyrical whole, that decribes an individuals ascension through rejection of human compassion and morals, to a higher state of being.
4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Defilementory'?
T: It's an inside joke from way back when we had a different vocalist. "To defile" was his way of describing getting laid, which gave him the idea of calling us "Defiler". We thought that was kinda boring though, so I came up with "Defilementory" as a place, where defilement takes place. It kinda relates more to the old lyric style of misogynist splattergore we started out with, but it's a fun word.
5.What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance?
T: Two years ago, we opened for Gorguts in Copenhagen, which was huge for us, and a great show all around, but in my opinion, our best shows have been the two latest ones with Lars in the line-up, where everything fell into place.
Our performance is meant to be dark, powerful and intense with the music in focus. We use a lot of fog, and dim the lights a bit for darkness, and our presences, headbanging, interacting with the crowd etc, for power. Between tracks, I don't say much, since it kind of ruins the mood. We have some dark foreboding ambience instead, to keep the dark and brutal feeling. A lot of brutal bands rely on humor between the songs, which kinda "apologises" for the music. We don't do that.
6.Do you have any touring or show plans once the new album is released?
T: We have something planned in Denmark this coming fall. If that turns out to be a success, we'll hopefully do some shows in Germany. We'd love to play some shows in the rest of Scandinavia as well, going out to the neighboring countries.
7.The album is going to be released on Torture Music Records, can you tell us a little bit more about this label?
T: It's a brand new label, our album being their third release. It's run from Germany, by just one guy, but he has a lot of distro contacts around the globe. In the death metal scene, online distributors are your best bet for getting your shit out there, aside from playing shows everywhere and having some free streams. He gave us an awesome deal, and has been great to work with. Check his deals out, they're insanely cheap if you're into buying cds!
8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of brutal death metal?
T: We've gotten some great response, from a lot of places, both American and European response, as well as people from Indonesia, they're crazy about BDM over there it seems! The album was mixed in Canada by Hugues Deslauriers who also promoted us a bit there, bringing in some great response as well. Most of all, we just need to get our name out there, since the response is generally very positive.
9.What is going on with the other bands or projects these days that some of the other band members are a part of?
T: Richardt and Lars both play in Abscission, which is more in the blackened death style. They are in the works with a new ep, which should kick ass, check 'em out! Simon plays in the 80's style speed metal band Encyrcle where he gets to play all the Yngwie style shred he wants to. Their debut album is on the way. Richardt and I also play in the black/death chaos band, Apparatus. We are recording our debut album soon.
10.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
T: Since Lars joined, we've had a joint vision of taking the atmospheric parts further, and experimenting more. We will add more clean parts, as well as dissonance, some small bits of black metal influence here and there, and some more grind-ish parts. Some of the songs will be very long, some just short bursts of intensity. Working with the atmosphere and dynamics makes the heavy parts even more punishing.
11.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
T: To name some bands, Gorguts, Ulcerate and Immolation would probably be the biggest influences, along with Suffocation as the go-to source of brutality. We all love stuff like experimental black metal like Deathspell Omega and Dodecahedron as well.
I am a big fan of classical music, for a source of absolute musical expression. Some of my favorite composers are Debussy, Shostakovich, Wagner and Schoenberg. Other than that, we all love Toto and Level 42.
12.What are some of your non musical interests?
T: I study musicology, so music is basically a constant in my life. I waste my time on video games from time to time. Books and nature are also big interests. I think I can speak for all of us when praising good beer from smaller breweries.
13.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?
T: Thanks for having us!
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The CastTHE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA, written and directed by Lewis John Carlino, based on the novel by Yukio Mishima; produced by by Martin Poll; music by John Mandel; distributed by Avco Embassy Pictures. At the Coronet Theater. Running time: 105 minutes. This movie has been rated R.Anne Osborne . . . . . Sarah MilesJim Cameron . . . . . Kris KristoffersonJonathan Osborne . . . . . Jonathan KahnMrs. Palmer . . . . . Margo CunninghamChief . . . . . Earl RhodesContinue reading the main story

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Eve Mazzarella, 34, San Diego, California, Steven Grimm, 49, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Melissa Beecroft, 32, Las Vegas, Nevada, three former real estate industry professionals, were sentenced to federal prison terms for their involvement in a Las Vegas mortgage fraud scheme that caused over $52 million in losses to federally-insured banks.
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Grimm and Mazarrella engaged in approximately 450 straw buyer transactions involving approximately 227 properties with a total purchase price of over $107 million. Grimm and Mazzarella defaulted on mortgage payments on many of the loans which caused the properties to go into foreclosure. Almost all of the 227 properties purchased by the defendants are in default causing losses to the banks estimated at more than $52 million.
Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, announced the sentences.
"Over 200 Las Vegas properties valued at over $107 million were fraudulently purchased in this case," said U.S. Attorney Bogden. "The losses to the banks were over $52 million. This is the greatest number of properties and largest loss amount of any mortgage fraud case charged in Nevada. Ms. Mazzarella, Mr. Grimm, and Ms. Beecroft, will now join the over 140 other persons who have been convicted of mortgage fraud offenses in Nevada over the last four years and are serving time in federal prison."
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It was a hoax. He was lion about it.ClavAnother wrote:What happened to the guy with the cheeta??? Ps, don't look back dude!!
ClavAnother wrote:Yeah, the guy that used to be in the Big Bird suit for years was invited to print the earth in a space shuttle to get kids interested in space. I think they ended up deciding that the suit was too big for the shuttle and he didn't go, so they had a teacher go instead.
So I guess he had to live the rest of his life thinking about how he would have died, but also that she did instead. Heavy stuff.
There's a documentary about him that's kind of cool.
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how does the village win?
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It is anonymous both ways.
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Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has been fighting Mexican drug cartel boss Tomas Bidarte for some time, but things truly took a bad turn at the end of Craig Johnson's last Longmire book, "Western Star." Longmire's beloved daughter, Cady, was kidnapped by Bidarte and is hidden in a remote village in northern Mexico.
The evil drug lord threatens to auction her off to the highest bidder.
Longmire, who of course must save her, doesn't get much help from the American government, nor the Mexican one and must go alone to rescue her. Well, almost alone, with his American Indian sidekick, Henry Standing Bear, and Vic staying behind in Wyoming …
Move the scene to an old bar in Juarez, where supposedly, the margarita was invented …
Johnson immediately begins to introduce a cast of characters. The Seer is a humpback man with no legs, who has a driver in a big, pink Mary Kay Cadillac …
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Estante del Diablo, Shelf of the Devil, is the destination village, where the captive Cady is held, and Longmire is warned to trust nobody at all!
Johnson's sense of humor underlies his storytelling although the landscape is grim and characters are violent … a bit too grim for this reader as an introduction to this popular series — "Depth of Winter" is No. 14, but I haven't read the earlier books.
The village, when Longmire finds it, is a really awful, ugly place — the contrast of a sort of festival happening makes it seem even worse.
Of course, our hero is captured and more characters appear on the scene. Johnson really writes well as he keeps one in the moment, wherever Longmire is, as he gets near to his daughter and starts figuring out a plan … A reader can smell the village, feel the heat and see the worn buildings, including the one where Cady is imprisoned.
One can't be alive and reading in the West and remain unaware of this legendary sheriff-and the related TV series. I will try an earlier story next.
When Douglas County Libraries brought Johnson here to speak recently, I was thoroughly engaged. He said he often starts a book with inspiration from a newspaper article in his massive file of clippings. "You're looking at an `executive creative consultant,'" he said with a happy grin. Dispatches by sheriff's deputies are also a good source of stories.
A look at early reviews finds fans who disagree with his choice to wander from Wyoming and the sheriff's home territory. When he spoke at Lone Tree, he reminisced fondly about his American Indian friends, who live near his ranch in Wyoming. ("I say Indian," he declared.) "But, these are my friends and neighbors—where is the tension? Hollywood relies on tension!" So he set out for dangerous northern Mexican cartel country with Longmire — which provides plenty of tension and still more characters and storylines.
"Do you ever write something that makes you laugh?," he was asked in a following Q&A session. "If it doesn't make me laugh, it won't make you laugh," he responded. And there are indeed funny parts in "Depth of Winter," despite the desperate circumstances.
Suspend the logic and roll with Johnson as he leads Longmire in and out of one dangerous situation after another. Watch a master storyteller at work as he reassembles the puzzle pieces …
And picture this story on film eventually — it would seem to be a natural.
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We have hit peak fitness fandom. What began with the odd juice cleanse and yoga retreat is now a media swarm of exotic "superfoods", nonsensical detoxing and daft workouts. At first it was exciting but now, to be frank, it's getting little bit boring. I am fed up of being told that I ought to look like a supermodel– no amount of training is going to get me VS standard.
Alas, we have lost our way on the fitness front– exercise is supposed to be about feeling good, but now it is the opposite. Go to one of London's It classes, and you'll know what I mean– "The models swear by it," they say, and then you turn up, clad in holey leggings and a crinkled top and end up panting like some sort of grunting pig amongst impossibly elegant gazelles (Gisele/Gazelle - see what I did there?) How that's ever going to make you feel good, I have no idea.
Sometimes I am tempted to throw in the gym towel, but it's the post-exercise endorphins that make it all worthwhile. Exercising ought to be fun, so ignore the celebrity trainers telling you what is wrong and right, and just do what you love. You have to take it all with a pinch of salt... Or spirulina, if that's your bag.
On the topic of good time fitness, I bring you FRAME's dance classes. Fresh from the ultra hip Shoreditch studio – the one that bangs out dance beats as you walk under the bridge towards Shoreditch High Street– the hour long sessions are so much fun, you hardly feel like you're exercising.
Inspired by music videos, the classes begin with a high impact warm-up before progressing to the step-by-step routine. Each and every session is as fun as the last, with a changing weekly theme to keep things fresh. I stepped in for Prohibition Era Gangsters (not a natural fit), but the week before was all about The Pussycat Dolls.
Don't worry if you can't dance to save yourself– the class is not intended to be taken too seriously. This ain't no Strictly, nobody's judging you, it's just about letting go and building up your confidence and coordination. If you're shy I'd suggest trying it out with a friend, but going solo is every bit as enjoyable.
The class isn't too strenuous, but I reckon you get as much out as you put in. If you really go for it, giving it all the necessary 'tude and not letting you hands hang there like Mr. Burns (guilty as charged) then you are likely to feel it a deeper workout. Initially I felt I could keep going for another few hours, but the following day my muscles were aching quite a bit from all that shimmying. It's official: I was having too much fun to feel the burn.
Also on the cards are 80s aerobics and ballet barre, but for now I can't see past this one. For me, it's all about nostalgia– dancing is one of my favourite things in the world, and I can't thank FRAME enough for turning it into an effective workout.
I may not be S Club standard just yet, but I am one step closer (to heaven baby.)*
Classes are £12.00, available to book online here.
*If you don't get this reference then you are too young to be reading my blog. Go and enjoy your youth while your body can still cope with two nights out in a row.


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Another outfit and the Super Eagles are again the fashion icons of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria showed off their styles in the photo shoot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Gernot Rohr's team have been crowned as the fashion kings of the tournament after an amazing reactions to the team official jerseys and their travel outfit native attires which brought about a lot of praise on social media.
Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi and his teammates continued in the same fashion in their photoshoot for the tournament.
The FIFA World Cup account posted a selected pictures of the Super Eagles on their official Twitter account.
Mikel, Alex Iwobi, Chidozie Awaziem and Odion Ighalo all featured in post showing off different styles in the photoshoot.
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Ammo Grrrll returns with a very special welcome: WELCOME TO PLANET DIVERSITY: AS SEEN ON TV! She writes:
We didn't get T.V. until I was 12, and except for sports, I just never really took to it. Mr. Ammo Grrrll makes up for it, though. Either the T.V. is on or he's not home. Oh, some programming is decent; but, I find most commercials since the retirement of the E-Trade babies unbearable. And would die happy if I never heard about erectile dysfunction again. Or puzzled over the bizarre outdoor twin bathtubs. What part of that looks sexy? Do they have bunkbeds, too?
When I was a kid, a deodorant commercial couldn't even show the human armpit, which was considered unseemly. They showed statues, specifically, the Venus de Milo, who didn't have arms, much less an offensive odor. Now there's a blonde British babe prattling on about how erectile dysfunction happens to all men sometimes when they're with their "honey."
During the World Series, I saw a commercial featuring a young black homeowner who was extremely fond of his Dodge Dart. His neighbor, a cretinous white guy, kept trying to scratch his lovely new car with garden tools. The jerk's motivation for this is a mystery. My African-American neighbor owns a nice Mercedes. Should I approach his car with a leaf-blower or pruning tool, I would expect to get shot. And deserve it. He is retired military.
As obnoxious and unrealistic as this Dodge commercial is – and, yes, I GET that it's supposed to be edgy and humorous (Lololol!) – here's the point: Never on this earth will you see the reverse in a commercial. On Planet Diversity, no white homeowner will ever be accosted by a tool-bearing black guy trying to harm his car. Ever.
Neither will any commercial for a home security system feature a crew of black home invaders. All the homeowner has to worry about on Planet Diversity is a plague of ugly white criminals in hoodies. To portray any black man as a criminal in a commercial would automatically be racist. With hell to pay from the Dynamic Duo of Rabble-Rousin' Reverends.
Pay real attention to the commercials for just one night instead of making a sandwich. You will quickly notice there is an heirarchy of correctness for commercials on Planet Diversity.
There is equality of one sort: Married men of all races are hen-pecked morons whose wives are much smarter and more attractive. The pathetic idiots never know what cereal to eat or which laxative to use. It's a miracle they can dress themselves and locate their jobs.
Black people are always cooler, smarter, and hipper than white people in commercials. Any doofus will be white. The guy with the "wrong" phone or computer will be white and uncool. Black people can be cutely wacky, like the football player who gets excited when his number comes up at the deli. But they can never be stupid, bad, ugly, or subservient.
Asians do not exist except very rarely as part of the wallpaper in a crowd scene and identifiable Jews do not exist at all. Any women who are "acting stupidly", will also be unattractive. An example is "Helen" the bad dancer at the high school dance where JJ Watt appears. But in most ad "storylines", women will be thin, pretty, and in charge.
Children of all races are smarter than adults, but particularly their fathers. Father not only no longer knows "best"; he knows next to nothing. He is lectured by his offspring about phones, computers, cars, and his own investments. Without kids to tell him what's what, he would be probably be homeless. Once again, played for humor, but part of the relentless assault on everything male, traditional, or authoritative. Government is Big Daddy, Sugar Daddy, and Baby Daddy now; no need for any real flesh-and-blood fathers.
No matter how many other tribal subgroups are featured in the future, straight white men will still be the idiots and bad guys, so embrace it, my brothers. And don't even get me started on the portrayal of Christians in network programming. It's a national disgrace and would not be tolerated with any other religion, including wiccans or practitioners of voodoo.


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Spoiler: It seems the message Cyrus received contained a warning about Colophon. Why, if he knew it had to happen that way, did Cyrus include this warning? Doesn't he risk unravelling the time loop that way?
Spoiler: Good question on Cyrus' message. You see in my head there is a causal loop in there - the message will arrive distorted and broken because it has to, and already has. He cannot add in information to break the loop because if he had, he already would have. The message will always be received in broken phrases and everything has to play out as it did because it already has. He is his own cause and his own effect a circle it time, the snake that eats its own tail and all that. There are some interesting side issues about free will and determinism but I must admit I gleefully skip passed those while grinning.
Also, in my head the message is not a warning, or a summons, it was a confession of what he has done and why - a chunk of which is in the quote at the start. I actually wrote out the whole confession/message and then broke it into bits so that I was being consistent. The broken fragments of it are just interpreted by Cyrus as a summons or warning.
John French wrote:@Shadowhawk: For now I think I am going to have to gracefully dodge those questions.
See how graceful that was... Yeah, I know not graceful at all.
@Sarah: Yeah we should totally have gone with the hotdogs. And the mustard, let's not forget the mustard.
Spoiler: Polux surprised me. I mean, the Crimson Fists are those guys whose hat is never, ever giving up... And here we have their prototype, and the first thing he does in his story, is give up. It is interesting how that serves as a rallying point for him, something that now makes him fight on in the memory of the consequences of it, but it was a surprise.
And even more of a surprise was Sigismund's revelation. Bastard. How could he do that? And another thing robbed from Rogal Dorn - you really have to be mean to him all the time, right? Now I'm more than ever convinced he commits suicide in the end.
Spoiler: And what is the deal with Navarra at the end? I know he is a character introduced in the Card Game and that has him alive at the Siege of Terra... But... Well, it is difficult to think of a situation less likely to ever get out alive from... Will we see more about him?
Spoiler: Its not a good time for the Imperial Fists on any level. In a lot of ways its the moment that starts to remake them into the Legion that goes into the Iron Cage, and then produces two chapters as different as the Black Templars and the Crimson Fists. What they have to go through in the Heresy changes them. From the moment Garro tells Dorn about Horus' betrayal they start to change. They are reforged in suffering if you like. To me that's one of the things I love about the Imperial Fists; they will bear what others cannot, but that stone like strength has a price.
But yes, poor Dorn. He is my favourite Primarch, and I love where he is going in the Heresy, but can't see it getting much brighter for him for a while.
Spoiler: Ah yes, Navarra. I can't say too much, but his fate is going to be resolved... soon . He might not make it to Terra though...
Spoiler: Poor Navarra.
teessider wrote:Just finished reading Crimson Fist, awesome story by the way, really enjoyed it! The ending got me wondering though, where Polux ends up, is it Ultramar, Istvaan or somewhere that hasnt been mentioned yet? And will you be visiting him again in the future?
Spoiler: You are a cruel man sir, the ending of the story was the final knife in the chest. They would have won.... They. Would. Have. Won.
The Fists have taken yet another blow, and they don't even realise how close they came.
John French wrote:Sorry for the delayed reply. Been busy with... things, and... stuff.
Yes, I do seem to be rather mean to both Legion and Primarch, but its not because I like to kick them; it's just because of the path they are on in the story. I love them though, they are a legion which is both stubborn to the point of suicidal self sacrifice, and the embodiment of focused fury. To be honest they are almost my favourite Legion even though (ironically, given the stories in Shadows of Treachery) I have a Night Lords army army and have been a devoted fan of the VIIIth for the last 18 years...
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|On the set of racing boat scene in Indochine. Robert Raymer at left with Siggi and friend on the footbridge that the French built.
|Robert Raymer with actress Linh Dan Pham
|Linh Dan Pham took this black and white photo of Siggi and me and sent me the photo from the Netherlands
In Indochine, I had also been in the racing boat scene, which was set in Parit, Perak, a place I knew well, since it was one kilometer from my former mother-in-law's house.
The French constructed a footbridge, made from solid timber, painted white with three evenly-spaced peaked, blue roofs, linking the town to the islet in the middle of the Perak River. They also constructed a matching gazebo on the islet and a dock for the racing shells. The race was between a French Navy crew led by actor Vincent Perez and a group of Indochinese plantation workers employed by the character portrayed by Catherine Deneuve, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
On the day of the filming, the current was swift, and during one of the takes, the eight-oared racing shells (brought to Malaysia from Hong Kong) got too close and collided. For several tense moments, since they had no back¬ups, everyone watched in silence as the various experts and consultants checked out the damage.
In order to take close-ups of the rowers and the race itself, the movie camera had to be mounted onto a pair of sturdy rubber rafts that had been strapped together. Not only did the rafts have to support all of the heavy equipment but also the director, Regis Warnier and several technicians needed to make the shooting a success.
Meanwhile members of Saigon's high society, portrayed by expats from Kuala Lumpur, Butterworth, and Penang, myself included, were dressed in period costumes from the 1930's – suspenders, hats, vests, seer¬sucker suits or navy uniforms – watched the race from the bridge, cheering the rowers on to victory.
During the filming I became close friends with the actress Linh Dan Pham, and later we danced together at a Bastille Day party in Ipoh.
-excerpt from "Parit - A French Legacy", Tropical Affairs: Episodes of an Expat's Life in Malaysia
*Here is a link to another Indochine post about the Christmas Party scene. In the future, if the interest is there, I'm considering posting both complete articles
**Looks like I have another French connection. Lovers and Strangers Revisited, my collection of short stories set in Malaysia, has been translated into French by Éditions GOPE!
*Update, the 20th anniversary of Lovers and Strangers Revisited, my collection of short stories set in Malaysia
**Update: Book orders for Trois autres Malaisie. E-book orders. Or recommend it to your friends, especially those who would like to know more about Malaysia or have an interest in Southeast Asia.
Here's a link to the intro and excerpts, and to four reviews of Trois Autres Malaisie in eurasie.net, Malaisie.org, easyvoyage.com, and Petit Futé mag.
***Here's an update to the French blog about Trois autres Malaisie and my meeting the French translator Jerome Bouchaud in Kuching, and my involvement in a French documentary for Arte (June 2017) on The Sensual Malaysia of Somerset Maugham.
Here are links to some of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:
Ivy Ngeow author of Cry of the Flying Rhino, winner of the 2016 Proverse Prize.
Golda Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.
Preeta Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day.
Chuah Guat Eng, author of Echoes of Silence and Days of Change.
Five part Maugham and Me series
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Released in March of 2006, Band of Horses' debut Everything All the Time made good on the promise hinted at in their early shows and demos. The band went from early shows opening for friends Iron & Wine, to playing on The Late Show with David Letterman by July, and being nominated as one of ten finalists (along with Joanna Newsom, Beirut, Tom Waits, and, the eventual winner, Cat Power) for the Shortlist Music Prize for that same year. And the record was well-received critically, with celebratory press in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, Harp, Billboard, Pitchfork, Magnet, NME, Uncut, and a slew of others. Not a bad place to start.
For a lot of reasons, Cease to Begin is the perfect title for this new record. Not only do the songs themselves weave this theme through the record, but stopping and starting anew is also a reflection of the past year and a half for Band of Horses. Though they worked with producer Phil Ek again, as they did on Everything All the Time, much has changed between the fairly recent then and now. There have been band members who have come and gone, including Mat Brooke, who left the band to pursue other interests and his own band. For core members Ben Bridwell, Rob Hampton and Creighton Barrett, there has been a move from Seattle, WA to Mt. Pleasant, SC, a relocation that had been planned for some time so that they could all be closer to their families. And, close friends and family have come and gone some far too early. Necessarily shot through with these experiences, the songs on Cease to Begin are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the last record.
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DURHAM � The regular optimism that accompanies the first week of the college football season is, as always, present again with Duke.
Maybe even more than usual this time.
�I�ve been here four years,� redshirt junior quarterback Anthony Boone said Tuesday. �Right now, we�re at a higher level than we were last year.�
That might bode well for the Blue Devils, who open the season Saturday against visiting North Carolina Central.
Even with a game-week depth chart that shows newcomers in spots � namely redshirt freshman Corbin McCarthy as a starting safety and true freshmen Breon Borders, Bryan Fields, Deondre Singleton, Chris Holmes as second-string defensive backs � the foundation is sturdy coming off Duke�s first bowl appearance in 18 years.
�We�re more advanced in our schemes and our understanding of our plays,� offensive guard Dave Harding said. �The coaches can go more in-depth.�
Senior cornerback Ross Cockrell said a somewhat youthful secondary is up to speed. That was a signal that the Blue Devils are capable of reaching a preferred level of play.
�The sign of that is how quickly we picked up the defense,� Cockrell said. �That learning curve is smaller. You can tell by the number of young guys we have in the defensive backfield.�
Cockrell said the team�s young players added to the competition throughout the team.
Coach David Cutcliffe said there are obvious signs of improvement, pointing out the team looks more physically imposing and the players have more size across the board. That has led to other encouraging areas.
�Confidence and playing faster,� Cutcliffe said. �I�ve seen that confidence.�
Much of the encouraging tone developed because of last year�s six-win season.
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Cybersecurity executive order targets two common attack vectors
Last week's Presidential order takes aim at software vulnerabilities and compromised credentials
Last week, the Administration released an Executive Order (EO) on "Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure."
There are important elements within this order that will help address two of the most common attack vectors: lost, stolen or weak passwords or credentials and software vulnerabilities.
Within the EO, Federal Agencies will be immediately required to use the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The Framework provides guidance to agencies and organizations for reducing cybersecurity risks. The guidance touches many areas of IT and operations, including emphasis on stronger identity and access management (IAM) and authentication, which helps address attacks targeted at compromised credentials.
Here are a few reasons why IAM should be a focus for agencies (and businesses):
In addition, the EO cites a second common attack vector — software vulnerabilities – as being among the highest cybersecurity risks faced by executive departments and agencies. Whether they're known vulnerabilities which simply go unpatched – as we've seen in the recent ransomware attack – or weaknesses exploited by zero-day attacks, the software that is at the heart of our critical infrastructure is a favorite target for attack.
The best way to combat this vulnerability is a complete change in how software has been developed. Historically, security has often been an afterthought for developers who primarily are focused on delivering features and functionality. Security was often bolted on after the application was deployed. Web application security is a perfect example – applications were deployed, but security and access control wasn't added until after deployment.
Security needs to be built into the development process and baked into every aspect of application architecture, design, development and deployment.
With 90 percent of security incidents resulting from exploits against defects in software, addressing this issue could have a significant impact on cybersecurity and our critical infrastructure. CA has jumped into the application security market with its recent acquisition of Veracode, a leader in securing the world's software.
We know the only way to minimize attacks on application vulnerabilities is to fully integrate application security into the software development lifecycle. Modern paradigms like DevSecOps shift security left, bringing it into the development process sooner.
The executive order is a solid step towards improving cybersecurity for both the federal government and critical infrastructure. CA looks forward to working with both government and private sector entities in adopting the best practices outlined in the Framework, and in addressing known and unknown vulnerabilities in code.


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Ennistymon Community Hospital is a two-storey building dating back to the 1840s when it opened as a workhouse.
For decades the building was used as a hospital until it became a residential centre for older people in 1976.
There are places for 27 residents providing long, short-term and palliative care.
Accommodation for residents is on the ground floor and consists of one eight-bedded room, one seven-bedded room, three twin-rooms, one four-bedded room and one single room.
None of these bedrooms have en suite facilities.
The centre has its own bus provided from fundraising by 'The
Friends of Ennistymon'.
The bus is used to transport day-care attendees to and from the centre and is also used for residents' trips and outings.
Ennistymon Community Hospital is set in large landscaped gardens.
The building is wheelchair accessible with ramps provided at all entrances. Parking is available in several car parking areas.
Ennistymon Community Hospital is located about 2 km outside the town of Ennistymon
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http://hiqa.ie/social-care/find-a-centre/nursing-homes/ennistymon-community-hospitalTo get further information from HIQA:
Call the advice line: 021 240 9660
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For further information on Irish Nursing Homes in Ireland feel free to check out the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) website.The address is http://www.hiqa.ie
Below are some links relevant to the nursing home and the healthcare sectors.
- The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament
- Multiple Sclerosis Ireland
- Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
- National Council on Ageing and Older People
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By Alex Wallenwein
13th of October 2008
Why is gold dropping right now when anyone in their sane mind would expect it to rise? The simple answer to this question is, "because Comex-gold isn't gold" – and because it deceptively pretends to be 'the' price-setter for real gold.
Gold is gold, paper is paper, and "Comex gold" is nothing but paper masquerading as gold while simultaneously pretending to be the price-setting medium for actual gold in the world. Now, finally, Comex-gold is in the process of being unmasked.
The real supply and demand determinants for Comex gold are not actual gold investors but fund managers . Fund managers are inextricably intertwined with the world of contract-based credit instruments. They use bet on Comex gold contracts to hedge their other (currently horrendously losing) bets with something they all, in their in-bred belief in paper markets, believe will 'go up' in value while everything else is going down.
However, these very same fund managers and their paper-bound investment psychology are the exclusive reason why Comex gold is dropping in these times when everyone (including fund managers) expects gold to rise. As already stated, though, and as they now finally realize to their own dismay, Comex-gold just isn't gold – and that causes even further selling.
Two Losing Bets, Compounded
Fund managers' other bets are losing money fast, now, so they need to raise cash to keep up the overall value of their respective funds, so they can earn their management bonuses and avoid getting booted for lack of relative performance. Guess what they cash in on? The very same Comex paper-gold they mistakenly bought as a 'hedge', of course.
Meanwhile, real investors in real gold are enjoying their shopping spree – except that the spree turned into a treasure hunt as the shelves and display cases of gold dealers look more and more like the supermarket shelves in the old Soviet Union – bare.
This is the only 'bare-market' in real gold the world will see for a long, long time to come.
With this split, this disconnect, between Comex illusion and gold reality, one thing or the other will have to give, and it won't be physical gold that gives.
The system built up around the reputation of Comex-gold as being a price-setting mechanism for real gold plays right into the hands of the financial establishment. The establishment depends for its (now increasingly meager) existence on the illusion that gold "isn't living up to its promise" as a real inflation and disaster hedge. The implication, of course, is that investors might as well stay in the computer blip and paper world.
As the Comex gold price illusion drops, many retail investors are still persuaded to keep their money circulating in the paper world, and that ultimately feeds the system. Of course, by now that 'feeding' mechanism looks more like life-support, but try and unhook someone who is on life-support. The results are dramatic, inevitable, immediate – and final.
Yet, even on life-support, the system is deteriorating at a catastrophic pace. It would be hilarious to watch if it wasn't for the fact that we are all depending on this phony system for our real-life support. Without credit freely circulating through the commercial paper universe, for example, grocery stores won't have food on their shelves, there won't be gas a the gas station, and your bank will be shut. Cash doesn't transfer very well without the bank settlement process.
That's the problem.
Centralized Mayhem
Our economy has become too centralized. Everything has to travel over long distances, so face to face cash-transactions will not be able to keep the system alive. There is much to be said for localized, decentralized distribution systems, which in essence involve many different and varied local economies rather than one large and uniform one. For arms-length cash transactions to be able to sustain an economy, economic activity needs to be localized, i.e., decentralized,
The same thing goes for politics, of course. That's why the framers of the Constitution gave us a de-centralized federal system with little power at the center and much of it spread out to the states. That system can develop its own evils, as we have seen during the days of slavery, but we are now seeing that centralizing and controlling everything from the federal level is not really the answer, and rather magnifies evil on an aggregate level.
And now, in the face of all this abundant evil, the G7 crackpots have the audacity to suggest that we need to centralize power even more and come up with 'global solutions.' Yet, globalization was the very reason our profligate lending and spending habits here in the US spread around the globe so fast. True to their form therefore, politicians and so-called leaders are now using the bad situation that they created as an excuse for persuading us to give them the added power they need to make it even worse!
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and former EU president, let the cat out of the bag last Thursday when he blurted out (God bless his soul for being such a loose cannon!) that the G7 want to shut down the markets this coming week while they figure out how to deal with the crisis. That cat was very quickly stuffed back down his throat as he was forced, only an hour later, to retract his statement by saying he just repeated what he had "heard on the radio."
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A sow with a first (spring) cub. Bother were very flighty. At one point, the cub ran into the tall grass and it took the nervous mother 20 to 30 seconds to relocate her progeny.
During our stay at Geographic Harbour, we spotted one sow with a first year (spring) cub, both of which were quite flighty. The sow had large, white fringed ears and her cub looked very healthy (it was quite chubby!). The first time we saw them, they made a brief appearance at the river when four or five other big bears were around. Their stay was brief, being cut short when the nervous cub was startled and dashed into the tall grass. Mother gave chase and after 20 to 30 anxious seconds was able to relocate her frightened offspring. The pair disappeared after that, apparently in search of safer pastures in which to feed.
On our last day at Katmai, this sow and her cub reappeared. The mother's desire to increase her nutrient intake apparently overcame her concern about exposing her cub to conspecifics. The mother succeeded in catching a few fish, with the cub trailing right behind her (this includes venturing into the rapid moving water in the center of the stream). The cub also ate some its mother's catch. It is sad to think that this tubby little bear has about a 40 % chance of surviving to adulthood.
Ginger Bear - a young bear, possibly chased off early from its mother. This is one of many pink salmon this little bear was able to capture.On our second day at Geographic, we observed a small bear that cautiously made its way to the river. It appeared to be a young bear – possibly a runty three-year old. We speculated that it may have been run off by its mother prematurely or possibly it had somehow lost its maternal parent? It came to the river to fish and was successful in its efforts. Rather than eating it near the stream bank, the little bear grabbed its salmon by the tail and sought solitude in the tall grass. When fishing, it was very aware of its larger ursid neighbors, no doubt cognizant of its greater vulnerability because of its small size. This bear had a very distinct appearance – it was rather skinny and had large ears (it almost had a fox-like look about it). We dubbed it Ginger Bear because of its lighter pelage. We were to encounter ginger bear on a couple of occasions (more on this bear later).


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To enhance the opportunities, Government of Republic of Indonesia made Batam and Bintan as Free Trade Zone (FTZ). FTZ gives a lot of beneficial economic policy for business entities to support easy operations, such as free Value Added Tax (VAT). Thus it draws Oil & Gas, shipyard, fabricators, heavy machineries and electronics industry to invest in this strategic island.
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It's National Volunteer Week and we're celebrating all week long. Our therapeutic programs rely heavily on volunteer assistance. We have a wonderful team of people who come through our doors each week, helping us provide these programs at no cost to the community. We couldn't do what we do without our volunteers!
To all of our volunteers, past and present, we send our heartfelt thanks to each of you. MAHALO!
If you'd like to join the Therapeutic Riding Program as a volunteer, join us on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from 1:45-4:45 p.m. for our quarterly Volunteer Training Day. Contact us online or call Sarah at 808-572-9129 to sign up.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Junior Maritime Museum Trip
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Wow......you lot had heaps of fun and did heaps of learning. I can see you were clever scientists designing tinfoil boats. Did you all manage to get them to float?ReplyDelete
Hey.....that playground looks like an awesome place to visit. Did Miss Lane behave?
It looks like you had a great day Room 3! How many of your tinfoil boats floated? There are some big boats down at the Viaduct aren't there? I will look forward to reading some of your writing about the day. Remember to bring some writing to my office, I need some wonderful examples of work for my wall!ReplyDelete
was that so fun room 3ReplyDelete
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wow what a wonderful time you must of had.Hope you had lots of fun by ofaReplyDelete
Hi Room 3, My name is Izzy, the Museum looks like so much fun!ReplyDelete
I'v been to the Museum before, just like you guys!
I'v been to the Museum about 4 times How many times have you been?
Thanks for sharing these awesome pictures with me!
It looks like you had a super fun time on your trip Room Three. I'm sure you have done some writing about this - would someone come to the office on Monday to share their wonderful writing with me please? I'll look forward to seeing you.ReplyDelete


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BPS staff have released the next workplan for the group of issues to be analyzed under the Regulatory Improvement Code Amendment Pacakage or RICAP for short. The RICAP 7 workplan is a list of 44 issues that staff will research over the next several months. Simlar to past RICAPs, the subject matter of the items in RICAP 7 is diverse and covers a wide variety of sections in the City's zoning code. While most items are technical fixes to the code to improve clarity and readability, some items may have a minor effect on exisiting policy. These include issues involving processes for minor changes following design review approval, restricting concurrent pre-application with land use submittals, clarifying the definition of household living uses as related to disabled individuals, evaluating height measurement methodologies, and clarifying the Ladd's Addition District Street Tree Guidelines
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I picked up this cup holder from a garage sale the other day. I knew that I had already had one displaying some of my vintage coffee cups in my kitchen so I wanted to think up another use for this. I decided to paint it pink, one of my favorite colors lately, and decided to display some of my jewelry on it. It makes a great holder for displaying some of your favorite pieces and those pieces that you might wear more frequently that you don't feel like digging for!! Have a great day!!
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Leeds-based writer June Taylor (flash fiction author and YA/New Adult novelist) discusses the frightening experience of writing about Krampus, tells us when she finally felt able to say 'I am a writer!' and insists that counting isn't her strong point.
Follow June on Twitter @joonLT . June also tweets for Script Yorkshire @ScriptYorkshire
June reading 'When Krampus Comes' at the UK Krampus Crackers launch.
If you had to describe yourself and your writing in fifty words or less, what would you say?
I'm a writer from Leeds and very proud of my Yorkshire heritage. Like many writers, I need to write. Some days I wish I didn't, but most days I'm glad that I can. I write mainly novels, but also plays and flash fiction. My novels are YA/New Adult crossovers. I'm interested in characters on the edge of themselves or on the edge of belonging. I'm particularly obsessed with mothers and daughters at the moment. I think you need a good plot but it's the psychology between the characters that makes it interesting.
(That's more than fifty words, sorry. I'm hopeless at counting.)
What made you get involved with the Krampus Crackers project and what inspired your story?
I love Tiny Owl Workshop and was involved in their Halloween flash fiction napkins a couple of years ago. They do some really innovative things. So when Vicky put the Krampus Cracker call out I couldn't resist. And flash fiction is a great way of finding your way into bigger stories and characters. I often use it as a warm-up exercise. However, I have to confess that with my Victorian Krampus story I was totally led by Krampus himself. Really I was just his typist. It was a rather frightening experience. Then, when I was recruited as an elf to assemble the crackers I think I incurred the most paper cuts out of all the elves. It was horrific. You just don't mess with Krampus.
What are you working on at the moment? Can you give us a sentence from your work in progress?
I'm working on my second book, 'Two Summers', a psychological page-turner told from a mother-daughter perspective. My agent is currently trying to sell it (see next question).
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves." I didn't write this sentence, André Gide did. But it sums it up pretty well and I was told to put a clever quote on the first page.
What's your proudest writing achievement so far?
In 2011, I was runner-up in the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition with my YA novel, 'Lovely me Lovely You'. I got my picture in The Times newspaper and everything! It made me feel like a proper writer and able to say, finally, without shame or mumbling into my sleeve: "I AM A WRITER." It also convinced family and friends that perhaps I'm not barking up the wrong tree after all – just a very tall one with some rather precarious branches. Anyway, I got a literary agent off the back of that success but – familiar story – although the book nearly found a major publisher, it didn't in the end. I now have a new agent, the fabulous Shelley Instone, whose aim it is to champion Northern writers. I'm proud to be associated with Shelley. We're a good team.
Which novel or poem etc. do you wish you'd written, and why?
Which poem …? Poetry generally doesn't do it for me if I'm honest, unless it makes me feel something right away. If I have to search hard for its meaning then it loses its magic. I'd love to be able to write poetry/lyrics like Leonard Cohen. Music and poetry, that's when it works best for me, I suppose. Or when it has some real relevance, like Simon Armitage's 'Black Roses: the killing of Sophie Lancaster', which is an incredibly powerful use of poetry that conveys the tragic waste of a young life.
Which novel …? Perhaps a cliché in one sense, but I'd love to have written 'Catcher in the Rye', or 'The Bell Jar'. I'd like to write a 'best-friend' book that connects with young people and stays with them through life.
Which screenplay …? 'Thelma and Louise.'
Which radio drama …? 'Under Milk Wood.'
Which stage play …? Anything by Shakespeare I suppose would make me look good.
If you could only have three books to read for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Well, at the risk of sounding pretentious I think Proust's 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu' because it would keep me going for life. I've only read one volume and there are seven to get through. (I'm assuming this counts as one choice though). Then also 'Kes', a book I never tire of reading. Third choice, maybe my book of fairytales I had as a child. I don't have it any more but there were stories from all over the world in it, as well as the more well-known ones, and the illustrations were magical. It was massive. My chubby little fingers couldn't turn the pages fast enough. But if that was never to be found again then maybe something else from my childhood, like 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Alice in Wonderland'. Or 'Daddy-Long-Legs'. Or 'L-Shaped Room'… That's actually more than three books, isn't it? Told you I'm not very good at counting. Oh well, I'd try and smuggle the extra ones into my carrier bag.
Who said anything about a carrier bag? (I made that bit up actually. I'm good at that).
Thanks June. I hope you got some enjoyment out of the Krampus Crackers experience. 🙂


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Category Archives: Gardening
An Introduction
I try to live my life based on three Principles:
- Do no harm (physical, emotional, mental)
- Do everything with Integrity and Honesty
- Find and follow your Bliss and do it with Joy (as long as it doesn't violate #1 or #2)
Prior to the Spring/Summer of 2013, I was not sure what would fill Principle #3 for me. There are many things that I greatly enjoy, and that fill my life with Joy. Some of those include:
- My family
- Reading
- Writing
- Learning
- Tai Chi
However, even though I greatly enjoy all these items, and they all bring me extreme Happiness, I did not consider any of them my Bliss. Perhaps I should explain what I mean when I say "Follow your Bliss". To put it simply, it means: Follow your purpose, your passion, that message you have deep inside your Heart. Follow your Heart, the reason you are here. After minimally planning and growing a fairly successful garden in 2013, I realized I now knew what my Bliss truly is: Gardening.
I found so much Joy in all aspects of gardening. The planning, the planting, the growing and caring for the plants, and the harvesting and enjoying the fruits (literally) of my labor. It was so much fun, and so much work. However, it is work I greatly looked forward too. I would come home every day from work, and the first thing I wanted to do was to remove my shoes and socks and go outside to walk in the garden; to have "Garden Time", as I started calling it. I loved seeing the plants growing larger and larger. Watching them produce wonderfully healthy food for my family and I to eat was amazing. Introducing my daughter (she turned 5 in July) to gardening was a treat. She loved helping me plant, and when it came time to harvest, she would be out there everyday, with me, finding produce to pick. She would get very excited every time she saw a red tomato, or a Pole bean that was ready. She really loved pulling up carrots and radishes out of the ground. She also greatly enjoyed eating many of the veggies we harvested.
This blog will expand on all of this and so much more. I will be using it to share my Joy with any who choose to read it, and I look forward to hearing any feedback from those that do.
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Sustain & develop tourism
Interaction between tourism students and those practising and teaching the subject is vital, if tourism has to reach the stakeholders. But is that happening?
An interaction between industry professionals and students of tourism is all the more important if the subject under discussion is as important as 'Empowering Communities for Inclusive Tourism Development,' which was the theme of the 4th International Conference On Sustainable Destination Excellence, organised by the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SHTM), University of Jammu, on March 3 and 4, 2017.
"What added to the value of the meet was the presence of delegates from as many as eight countries, apart from scholars, students and researchers from several parts of the country. Over a 100 papers were presented, which will be published in a book form," said Prof. Parikshat Singh Manhas, Director, SHTM, and Conference Convener.
There were 10 tracks during the technical sessions, where subjects ranged from case studies, social transformation, and entrepreneurial opportunities to human and social issues in tourism. The most interesting part of the meet was the presentations, heard in rapt attention by the students, of delegates from Hungary, Taiwan, Israel, Kazakhstan, among others, who added a fresh perspective to how the sustainable issues are handled in their respective countries.
Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Tourism Priya Sethi set the ball rolling, as it were, by pointing out that a proper way to analyse sustainable tourism is to scrutinize how it can meet the needs of the host population in improving the standards of living in short and long term. Making tourism work for sustainable development was vital, she said.
Farooq Shah, Secretary Tourism, Jammu and Kashmir Government, said it was important to see how tourism was changing and how fragile natural resources were. Interestingly, Kashmiri politician Sajjad Lone, spoke of the supply side, saying that infrastructure has to be developed and the tourists given options and choices to see destinations.