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We already made orders for materials except for solar panels.
We will ship the first batch in September 2015. Second batch will be shipped in October or Novermber 2015.
Solar Paper is the world's smallest 2,5W, 5W, 7.5W, 10W solar chargers. When it is sunny it can charge an iPhone 6 in about 2.5 hours. It has the similar charging speed as a wall charger.
We have the world's top technology making highly efficient solar panels. It means that it can generate more energy than any other solar panels that have the same size.
There will be one USB port instead of two. It is for more stable and efficient PCB board design.
While the volume of competitor's solar charger is 16.5cm x 22.9cm x 3.8cm and weight is 460g, Volume of Solar Paper's is 9cm x 19cm x 1.1cm and weight is 120g. It is only 13% of the volume and 26% of the weight of the competitor's solar charger.
Do not be afraid of shadows anymore!
What will happen when solar panels are covered by shadows or receive low intensity sun light? It will simply stop charging because it doesn't receive enough sun light to generate the power. Conventional solar chargers require you to re-plug the cable at these conditions. It can be very annoying if you have to watch and re-plug it all the time. Solar Paper has technology for this problem. It is programed to automatically reset when it has enough sun light. With this auto-reset feature, it will generate power more in an efficient and stable way.
Backers from our previous solar project, Solarade, suggested us to have a feature that shows the power generating condition. Because generating power is affected by weather conditions, users wanted to know whether the charger is working fine or not at certain weather conditions. With Solar Paper, we would like to offer even a greater feature. Solar paper has LCD that shows the exact load current (the amount of electrical current passed from a power source to the device that is receiving the power) that Solar Paper is generating. Now users can check the exact power amount and understand better about the solar energy.
We would not put LCD if we are not confident about our technology and our product. We can display the power output so you will see that we did not falsely advertise our capability.
Not all solar panels have electricnodes on their backside. Among three solar panels of 7.5W Solar Paper, solar panel in the middle is the one with electricnodes. Among four solar panels of 10W Solar Paper, two solar panels in the middle are the ones with electricnodes.
We already made orders for materials except for solar panels.
We will ship the first batch in September 2015. Second batch will be shipped in October or Novermber 2015.
Solar Paper has four types of output. I would like to explain an easy way to find the most suitable Solar Paper for you.
First, check the output of devices' wall charger. If it is 5W (5V,1A. iPhone 3,4,5,6, Galaxy S1,2,3, note1 and etc.) and the place you live always have strong intensity of sun light, 5W Solar Paper will be good enough to charge your smart phones at the same charging speed as a wall charger. But if you live in a place with weak sun light and lots of fog, then I would recommend 7.5W, which will charge devices well even on a cloudy day. 10W is even better, but it also costs more. So for 5W devices, 5W or 7.5W Solar Paper is ideal.
If the output of devices' wall charger is higher than 10W (5V,2A, iPhone 6+, galaxy S4,5,6), I would like to recommend you to use 7.5W in a strong sun light condition. It will charge devices slightly slower than a wall charger, but will still have a decent speed. So 7.5W is a cost effective choice. If you want faster charging speed or if you do not get much sun, 10W Solar Paper is good for an iPad or a Galaxy tab.
For devices that are not smart devices such as flash light, Bluetooth speaker, external battery and etc., you can use any of Solar Paper from 2.5W to 10W. Charging speed can be faster with higher W Solar Paper.
There are differences between smart devices and other regular devices. Regular devices such as an external battery accept even low currents while smart devices don't. For example, I used 5W Solar Paper for my iPhone6 (output of its wall charger is 5W). It will charge fine on a sunny day. But if I use it on a very cloudy day or near sunset time, Solar Paper might generate output that is lower than 250mA. In this case, an iPhone will refuse to accept the power and will stop charging. The message, "This accessory may not be supported," will pop up. In order to avoid this issue, I recommend 7.5W. If the message constantly pops up, because of the weak sun light, charge an external battery first. Then, charge smart devices later on using the external battery that has been charged.
Mission of YOLK:
After the following success of the Solarade, I established a solar company and named it YOLK. It reflects our desire to supply solar energy to electronic devices as yolk does to the fetuses. Our mission isto bring this wonderful green technology to more people. I wish YOLK can be a bridge between solar energy and people, including not only campers and hikers or early adopters but many others who face battery problems in their everyday lives. I believe that solar technology can relieve the battery problem we face and contribute to making the world greener.
YOLK is a solar company specialized in high quality solar modules and panels. While we produce our own products like Solarade(2014) and Solar Paper(2015). We also supplied customized solar modules on client's demands. Solar modules are mainly used for iot & ict devices.
After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with BFA emphasis in design object, I have created nolla design studio to continue doing what I love and do best: making things. After the first solar charger project, Solarade, I was attracted by the synergy of technology and design. So I founded a solar charger company, YOLK. YOLK is a small company for now, but this team has the world's top solar techonology and a vision to spread this wonderful green technology to everyone's daily life. You will find the most innovative and advanced solar products at YOLK.
Sam Lim has been working in power industry for over 18 years and solar industry for 7 years. He has numerous patents and a wide arrange of experiences with developing power products.
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I came in around January and gave them my resume, they seemed interested but since it was so slow, they would only give me 1 shift a week, they said things will pick up in spring. I looked for other jobs. I just got a call last week, asking if I was still interested in a position there. I had a quick interview and was offered the position immediately
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Dr. Dishell is very nice, and worked with me with pricing which was awesome. The only negative thing I would say is that I told him that I didn't want my nose to look piggy or my already large nostrils to look even larger... unfortunately both are the case. I'm looking into revision
Dr. Dishell did my surgery in 1992! I would recommend him to everyone! His work speaks for itself and his staff was amazing back then. Thank you Dr. Dishell I've enjoyed everyday with my "new nose" and the fact that I've never ever had an issue to this day with it speaks volumes!
Dr. Dishell is absolutely amazing. He has done rhinoplasties on my mother, aunt, and cousin. Immediately, I went to him when I decided I wanted my nose done, too. I love the outcome! He really does listen to what you want to see in post-surgery and takes in your insight. My sister is also going to him in the future after she saw such amazing results. He's the best of the best.
Amazing results. I was so worried after the surgery about whether I'd done the right thing or picked the right doctor but now I LOVE my new nose!! It looks great and naturally smaller. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
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UNC suspends CBs Mike Hughes and M.J. Stewart
The North Carolina Tar Heels have suspended cornerbacks Mike Hughes and M.J. Stewart indefinitely from football activities for violating team rules, the UNC Athletic Department said in a statement Thursday.
The suspension is related to an Oct. 4 incident that occurred in Chapel Hill.
"We have been aware of this situation since the night of the altercation and have been working closely with the University and Chapel Hill Police to gather relevant information," said head coach Larry Fedora. "We hold our players to a high standard and M.J. and Mike will face the consequences for their involvement."
Hughes, a freshman, and Stewart, a sophomore, will not play in the the team's game against Wake Forest on Saturday.
Stewart has 20 tackles and three interceptions over five games this season and Hughes has recorded three tackles with the Tar Heels this season.
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MUSKEGON, MI -- The Michigan Department of Corrections has appointed Sherry Burt, a former Muskegon Heights resident, to be warden of the soon-to-reopen Muskegon Correctional Facility.
Burt's appointment takes effect Sept. 30, the estimated reopening time for the prison at 2400 S. Sheridan.
She is currently warden of Cooper Street Correctional Facility and Special Alternative Incarceration in Jackson, where she has been assigned for the last 15 years. She has been a warden since 1989.
Burt is a graduate of Western Michigan University and Muskegon Heights High School, where she was the 1970 class president.
She joined the department in 1975 as a corrections officer after earning a bachelor's degree in social work.
The state last month announced it will reopen the prison, closed in May 2011, by Oct. 1. The reopening will mean 210 jobs and $22.4 million in direct state spending per year coming into Muskegon, officials said.
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Stanford linebacker Shayne Skov received a pair of honors after his dominant performance in the Cardinal's 26-20 upset win over Oregon. In addition to earning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week, Skov was named the Bronco Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week.
Skov was one of several Stanford players that impressed in the win.
"Obviously Shayne Skov was awesome," Shaw said. "I thought Henry Anderson in his first game back was really impressive. It may not have showed up in the stats but Josh Mauro caused a lot of problems inside. Whenever a linebacker plays great it usually means the guys up front are playing well keeping offensive linemen playing off of them. I thought our front played extremely well."
"Guys who nobody really talks about, our corners (also stood out). Our corners played really well. They wanted to take a couple of shots but our guys didn't let that happen, made the quarterback hold the ball and made him scrambled a couple of times because guys weren't open down the field. It got a little crazy late and they made some plays but I thought for most of the game our secondary played extremely well. Offensively, Ryan Hewitt. It doesn't show up in the stats but I thought he played a really good game also. It was going to be a downhill, physical game and he did really well."
Stanford emerged from the Oregon game mostly healthy. Tyler Gaffney, who carried the ball 45 times, should be ready to go for USC, though Stanford won't push him too hard in practice this week.
"We'll take it easy on him to a certain degree," Shaw said. "We have a good group of backs and we'll rotate guys through. That was something that was completely unintentional when we started the game but it became that way. He's good with it. I think it did take him a good 48 hours to recover but he'll be ready to go."
Meanwhile, the health of wide receiver Devon Cajuste, who saw only a limited number of snaps against Oregon, continues to improve.
"Devon was great today," Shaw said after practice on Wednesday. "Probably about his best day of practice. He had to leave early for a class but running fast, making all the cuts."
Conrad Ukropina will likely handle kickoff duties against USC, but Jordan Williamson will be expected to handle field goals for the second straight game.
"It's nice to know that he made it through the game as a field goal kicker doing well," Shaw said. "That field goal block was not on him. I think that ball was going in. It was a heck of a play by their guy. I think he's going to be fine going forward just probably not ready for kickoffs. Maybe not the rest of the year until we get to the postseason, but we'll see."
Added Shaw on Wednesday: "(Jordan is) still not going to kick off, I don't believe, but he feels really good."
Anderson's successful return provided a major boost to Stanford's injury-riddled defensive line, which lost Ben Gardner for the season to an injury, and has also been without reserve Ikenna Nwafor since the Washington State game.
Despite Anderson's lengthy absence, Shaw wasn't surprised at how effective the redshirt junior defensive end was in his first game in nearly eight weeks.
"We have a pretty rigorous program to get guys back and we've been pretty consistent to when guys come back to play they're back to play for the most part," Shaw said. "I watched one of his workouts during the bye week that they put him through and it was impressive to see him change direction, to see him still play low, to push a sled and still have that power and explosion. And then to hear from the weight room guys that he was back squatting exactly what he squatted before the injury (was also encouraging). So the power was there. We saw the speed and explosion and athleticism on the grass and then the first couple of days of practice was him feeling it out and then going full speed. We saw that he still had it. Last question was conditioning. How many plays could he play? I don't know the exact number but when he played he played well."
Practicing during the bye week and in the days leading up to Nov. 7 helped Anderson feel comfortable in his return.
"I gained some confidence from the week of practice we had before the game," Anderson said. "The bye week helped out a little bit. We had a couple of practices so I could kind of knock the rust off. And then our usual game week also helped a little bit kind of getting back into it. I was a little nervous going out there full speed having to tackle guys but after the first drive or two it felt pretty normal."
In addition to sidelining him for much of the season, there's a chance Anderson's injury could impact his decision on whether to return to Stanford for a fifth year.
"You look at him and he's a Sunday player," Shaw said. "I think the injury probably stopped any thought of him possibly going pro this year, which he never talked about anyway, but he's a difference maker. When he's healthy, to be 6-foot-6 plus and 295 and that athletic and play low, there are not a lot of guys on the planet built like that."
Anderson downplayed his upcoming draft decision.
"I haven't really thought about it," Anderson said. "I thought about it briefly with my parents a little bit before the season but I really wasn't going to think about it too much until after the season was over. And I'm being honest with it, I really haven't thought about it too much."
"For a while I've been thinking about coming back for a fifth year just because I didn't really think I'd be a real high pick in the NFL, but I know there's been chatter about me possibly leaving. I really haven't thought about it that much."
Though he only completed 54 percent of his passes and threw for 103 yards, Kevin Hogan ran for a career-high 57 yards and notched his highest QBR of the season in Stanford's win over Oregon.
"He played well," Shaw said. "He played very decisive. I think it's partially him pushing himself. He knows he hasn't played great in the last month or so and he played really, really well. Played really smart. Was very decisive. When he threw it he threw it accurately. When he ran he ran physically. He ran forward and got positive yards. I think it was a really, really good complete game from him."
Count David Shaw as one impressed by USC's resurgence.
"I'm kind of shocked that they're not ranked in the top-25," Shaw said. "I don't know if anyone has played as well as they have really in the last month of the season."
Though the Trojans' fortunes have taken a turn for the better since the dismissal of Lane Kiffin, USC hasn't made many drastic schematic adjustments since Ed Orgeron took over the program.
"Not a lot of changes," Shaw said. "Some subtle changes defensively, some subtle changes offensively. I think the biggest thing offensively is that they're playing better on the offensive line this year than they were last year. They're healthier. They started off the year running the ball extremely well and now that both receivers are back healthy and they've settled on a quarterback the second half of the year, they've been throwing the ball better. Now you have a team that depending on who's healthy has two or three really good running backs, a steady offensive line, two explosive receivers and a quarterback that's playing well in the scheme. That leads to being more productive on the offensive side. They've gone from being productive to being explosive again."
Trojan quarterback Cody Kessler has been nearly flawless in the month of November. Kessler has completed 31 of 38 passes for 417 yards and three touchdowns (against one interception) in wins over USC and Oregon State.
"It's been good to see him get settled," Shaw said. "We liked him in high school. It's good to see him get back to being comfortable and playing with some confidence and getting those receivers back. He's a good athlete so he can get out of trouble, throws a good deep ball, and those guys are going and getting it. It's been good to see him start to play like the guy that all of us thought he was going to be when we came out of high school."
Running back Javorius Allen's emergence has coincided with Kessler's strong play. Allen has surpassed the 100-yard rushing mark in each of USC's last two games. He scored three touchdowns and averaged 8.3 yards per carry against Oregon State and added two scores on a 22.5 yards per carry average against Cal.
"He's got really good vision and he's very decisive with his cuts," Shaw said. "He doesn't dance around. He's sees it and he goes and he hits. When you tackle him he falls forward for three or four yards. He gets on the sideline and doesn't just step out of bounds, he gets a couple more yards. He's a good, tough runner."
With the now-healthy Marqise Lee and Nelson Agholor at receiver complementing Kessler and the Trojans' running game, USC has no shortage of offensive weapons.
"They're solid," Henry Anderson said. "The quarterback is a good game manager. They've got some really talented running backs. They've kind of shuffled around the offensive line a little bit from last year and put guys in good spots to succeed on the offensive line. Their offense is doing well and obviously Marqise Lee is back and playing really well. It's going to be tough to spot them but we have to execute when we get out there."
First-year Trojan defensive coordinator Clancy Pendegrast has been the architect of one of the country's best statistical defenses. USC is ranked No. 19 in the nation in points allowed per contest. The Trojans are particularly stout against the run; opponents average only 3.6 yards per carry against USC.
"They have a really good defensive scheme and outside of one year at Cal, I think Clancy's defenses have always been in the top couple of the conference, if not No. 1 periodically, against the run and total defense," Shaw said. "It's not surprising but we're going to have to be probably more diverse than we were a week ago and more balanced, I'll say."
Shaw thinks that USC's run defense has some things in common with Stanford's
"I would say they have some similarities to us," Shaw said. "Great scheme and great players. They're very stout up front, very strong up front. I think their front four is playing extremely well. They get in the backfield, which always disrupts the running game. They're good at getting off blocks. I think those are the big things."
Stanford's players were given the day off on Friday and Sunday after defeating Oregon. The Cardinal did some light running on Saturday and a light practice on Monday before resuming their regular practice schedule on Tuesday.
Shaw compared one of Stanford's redshirt freshmen defensive linemen to Henry Anderson.
"The two big things with Henry because henry is so tall is that he had to get a lot of stronger and he had to play a lot lower," Shaw said. "Jordan Watkins is going through that right now where he's learning to play lower and need to get him a little bit stronger. I think Jordan's going to be a really good football player also."
Don't expect Shaw to shed many tears when college football moves from the BCS to a playoff format. If anything, Shaw would like to see to an eight-team playoff. Additionally, Shaw thinks each league should play the same number of conference games. Currently, the Pac-12 and Big-12 play nine conference games while the SEC, ACC and Big-10 play only eight.
"I say make everybody travel the same road," Shaw said.
According to linebacker Shayne Skov, Stanford's players weren't trying to make any sort of profound social statement by wearing nerd glasses in the post-Oregon press conference.
"We like to have fun," Skov said. "I wouldn't look into too much.
Skov said that some ex-players were wearing the glasses on the sideline during the game, and that the current players somehow acquired them before the press conference.


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Google Fiber (Nasdaq: GOOG) will launch its 1-Gig Internet and subscription video service in Provo, Utah, in October, according to a video the city of Provo posted on YouTube last week.
Taking a shot at incumbent Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) without naming the company, the video implies that the speed of cable broadband is like the power of a garden hose compared to a fire hose. It opens with a man wearing a sash emblazoned with the word "broadband" filling up his backyard pool with a garden hose. In the next scene, a fire truck with a license plate that reads "Provo Fiber 1" fills up the pool in a matter of seconds using its fire hoses.
Google struck a deal in April to acquire iProvo, a municipal broadband network that Provo launched in 2006. Rather than build its fiber network from scratch in Provo, Google is upgrading Provo's network to launch Google Fiber.
While Google officials have said the 1-gig service would launch in Provo by the end of the year, the company hasn't yet announced an official launch date. It's likely the Internet giant will announce individual "fiberhoods" where Google Fiber will be available initially.
Comcast has already slashed its prices in Provo in advance of the Google Fiber launch. In August, the MSO began pitching a $120 monthly subscription bundle that includes video, voice and its 105 Mbps Internet service.
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Housing permits rise in Raleigh area
Posted March 19, 2013
Raleigh was just ranked the fastest growing city in the United States by Forbes Magazine. This accolade helps to solidify the fact that we are well positioned for long-term growth. Not only are we a well-diversified business region, but also our numbers indicate that we have enjoyed a 47.8 percent population growth rate since 2000.
The January report out from the North Carolina Department of Commerce indicates that the state's unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in December. The US unemployment rate currently stands at 7.7 percent.
Housing starts and permits enjoyed nice gains on Tuesday. According to the latest report from the commerce department housing starts in February rose 0.8 percent. Permits for new construction rose 4.6 percent in February as well providing us with the fastest growth rate since June 2008.
Mortgage rates have once again become the beneficiary of international unrest. Bond prices were up again on Tuesday helping to lower the 10-year yield to 1.89 before settling at 1.90 for the day. We have enjoyed a nice rally in the mortgage space over the past couple of days. We receive Fed comments tomorrow afternoon so be aware of potential mortgage rate volatility depending on the Fed's rhetoric.


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On-the-Job Specific Training and Efficient Screening
Employment relationships are governed by short-term incomplete contracts and typically involve on-the-job screening and firm-specific training. This article studies a dynamic employment relationship with these features and identifies a potential conflict between the employer's twin objectives to screen and train the worker: when the training technology is quite productive, the employer may have to sacrifice from worker performance during the screening process. The article thus offers an explanation for why firms may invest suboptimally on training, which complements the standard "inappropriable rents" explanation based on ex post mobility of young employees. Copyright 2000 by University of Chicago Press.
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Emma Watson to graduate from Brown University
"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is graduating from Brown University.
The 24-year-old British actress is due to graduate this month from the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, with a degree in English literature.
Watson started at Brown in 2009. Along the way, she spent time studying at England's Oxford University and keeping up her film career.
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Mo. House Democrats ban smoking in their offices
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Missouri House Democrats have decided to prohibit smoking in their offices and plan to seek broader smoking restrictions at the state Capitol.
Two years ago, the House voted to prohibit smoking in a gallery reserved for members in the back of the chamber but rejected an effort to ban smoking in offices.
The Democrats said Thursday they plan to seek a prohibition on smoking for all areas of the Capitol controlled by the House.
In 2011 many pointed out that the Capitol was the only state-owned building where you could still light up and question its effects on school children who tour the building and those with breathing problems.
Lawmakers who voted to continue allowing smoking in 2011said that a total smoking ban at the Capitol would be an intrusion on personal liberty.
One justification given for allowing lawmakers to smoke in their offices is that they and their staffers work long days and it would impose a hardship to make them go that long without smoking.
In November 2010 Jefferson City voters passed a smoking ban in the Capital City.
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Anderson: Psi Division #1
Matt Smith, Carl Critchlow,
(regular cover to Anderson: Psi Division #1 by Matt Haley; header image at the top from variant cover by Mimi Yoon)
IDW continues their welcome cross-Atlantic collaboration with 2000 AD with another new series, this time featuring one of the most famous female characters to emerge from the house of Tharg, Cassandra Anderson, the Psi-Judge who was originally created to help Judge Dredd in his fight against Judge Death, but who rapidly became to popular to be left in the limbo state that story put her into, going on to be one of 2000 AD's most popular characters across the decades, with numerous outings, both solo and in the pages of the Dredd strip. For this new solo IDW outing our favourite Psi (Psi Division is a special rank of judges with various mental powers who deal with many odd cases regular Judges simply don't have the abilities to face) written by no less than Matt Smith, current editor of 2000 AD and therefore right hand man to Uncle Tharg, so you know we have a writer who is more than familiar with the character, paired up with a Brit favourite, Carl Critchlow on art duties. Away from his fantasy and SF illustrations and his own much loved Thrud the Barbarian series Critchlow has drawn numerous 2000 AD strips over the years, so again we're in experience hands here.
So with those very experienced creators the question is, how does Anderson's solo debut for North American publisher IDW work? It's always hard to tell from a first issue, really, but I'd have to say on the whole, yes, it works pretty darn well. We start with a flashback to a couple driving hurriedly to hospital, wife heavily pregnant, baby on the way, while it looks like another Block War is raging nearby, Mega City One blocks going up in flames. For a brief moment it looks like they too will becomes victims of this violent conflagration, but mysteriously, somehow the threat is negated and they are too busy getting to hospital to give birth to think more about it. The child, as you can probably guess, is Cassandra Anderson…
Flash forward a couple of decades to Anderson as an adult, resting after some exhausting work when she's woken by a psi-flash in her dream, a premonition of a heist at a major Mega City museum. Such flashes are not always accurate but, by the book she calls in a report and leaves it to the regular street judges… Except the dream troubles her and she finds herself dressed and back on the streets heading to the museum, to find out her vision was accurate, there is a heist, but it's a very specific one, a highly professional team of raiders after one special item from an exhibit of artefacts from the Cursed Earth, the atomic wasteland that is all that is left of what used to be America, that lies between the mega cities now.
And these very professional raiders have a very powerful psi of their own with them…
Quite why thieves would ignore all the other expensive exhibits for one item, and why they would come backed up by a powerful psi is a mystery that can't be left, and the head of Psi Division tasks Anderson with following it up, on a trail which takes her first to Texas City, then out into the Cursed Earth in the company of a TC Psi Judge (a specialist in psychogeography, making her a remarkable tracker) to the Alabama Morass. Clearly this is far more than the theft of a valuable museum piece and Smith drops tantalising hints of a wider conspiracy to be unveiled and that flashback to her birth and her own lack of memories of her parents may be more than childhood memories being clouded by time (after all, she was enrolled as a Psi-Judge cadet at the age of five, no wonder she remembers little of her parents… Or is there more it?).
It's always good to see Carl drawing Mega City characters again, and his art here worked very well for this old 2000 AD veteran reader. His depiction of Anderson I especially enjoyed – Cass is a very powerful character, she's always been both strong and vulnerable at the same time, more human than Dredd can be, and Smith's script and Critchlow's art makes this aspect of her quite clear. Critchlow's art is very much his own style, but there are some lovely hints in there to classic Dredd artists too, with a few scenes – a full-length picture of Anderson for instance – showing what looked to me like a nod to Mick McMahon in a few places. I was also pleased Critchlow didn't overly sexualise Anderson – none of the provocatively low-zipped, cleavage revealing uniform top or exaggerated figure that some artists have used with Anderson before; she's not tantalising eye candy, she's the powerful lead character. And his depiction of Texas City (naturally with the giant "Walk Tall" statue) very much reminded me of McMahon's depiction of TC many decades ago in Dredd, a nice touch I thought. Both clearly have a handle on Anderson, and use her more complex character here to give us a more human perspective on Mega City One than Dredd himself can usually be allowed to do.
I'm intrigued to see where this goes next and if those flashbacks to childhood will play any part in how her character in this solo series develops. And of course, it's always good to see Anderson getting into the spotlight again.


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That was essentially Alejandro Moreno's recent message to the younger players on Philadelphia Union. Through 10 games, the Union stand at 2-7-1. Through 10 games, the club has shown improvement in virtually every area.
With game No. 11 looming June 27 against Seattle Sounders FC in the much-anticipated debut of PPL Park, Moreno realizes what's at stake. And not just with this game.
"This is such a long season and you have to maintain your training and your preparation, both mentally and physically," Moreno said. "For the players who have been here before, we know there's much ahead of us. The season is long and you have to be ready."
The 30-year-old forward is a veteran of eight Major League Soccer seasons before this one as well as time spent playing for the Venezuelan National Team.
Moreno's experience can certainly help those who are going through this marathon for the first time. Add in the fact that the club played eight of its first 10 league games on the road, and the task is even harder.
"I've told the guys to go one day at a time since we started in preseason training," Moreno said. "This game is hard physically and mentally because of the travel and tough places to play. I think we have been through such a tough part of our schedule. It's never going to get easier, but being at home will help. For rookies and the younger players, they're getting hands-on experience. I think it will make the entire club better."
Moreno scored a combined 13 goals for Columbus over the past two seasons, but he's looking for his first tally this season despite leading the club with five assists.
He believes that day will come.
"Sebastien (Le Toux) has been fantastic and so has Danny (Mwanga) in his rookie season," Moreno said. "I've had some chances. I think I'll get plenty more chances. Really, I want to win. If I get a few goals here and there, that's great. I want to win games. That's what is most important to me."
The next chance to win will come on June 27 with a sold-out crowd yelling and screaming at PPL Park.
Ten Down, Long Season to Go
Ten games down, a whole lot more to go.
"I'm really looking forward to this game," Moreno said. "The bottom line is winning, and I think the guys will be rested and anxious to play well in front of our home fans."


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Europe animal feed additive demand is expected to reach USD 5,809.7 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 4% from 2014 to 2020. Germany was the largest European market, accounting for close to 10% of regional additive demand in 2012
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Amino acids such as lysine, methionine, tryptophan and threonine emerged as the leading product segment, accounting for 31.2% of total market revenue in 2012. Amino acids are essential for the growth of animals, especially swine and poultry. Industrial lysine also has advantages over its natural substitute (soybean) which has been driving the global market. Amino acids were followed by antibiotics which accounted for 26.8% of total market revenue in 2012. Antibiotics have been banned in the U.S. and in Europe, and are expected to witness demand primarily from unregulated markets, especially in Asia and Latin America. Feed acidifiers are expected to be the fastest growing products in the overall market, at an estimated CAGR of 6.4% from 2014 to 2020.
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Asia Pacific emerged as the leading market for animal feed additives and accounted for 32.6% of total market revenue in 2012. Along with being the largest market, Asia Pacific is also expected to be the fastest growing market for animal feed additives at an estimated CAGR of 4.2% from 2014 to 2020. Increasing domestic demand, coupled with burgeoning meat trade, especially in China and India is expected to drive the Asian feed additive demand over the next six years.
Europe animal feed additive demand is expected to reach USD 5,809.7 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 4% from 2014 to 2020. Germany was the largest European market, accounting for close to 10% of regional additive demand in 2012.
The global animal feed additive market is highly concentrated, with the top four companies including DSM, BASF, Evonik and Danisco. The top four companies accounted for over 60% share of the global animal feed additives market in 2012. Some of the other companies operating in the global market include Elanco, Novozymes, Kemin Industries, Novus International and Cargill among others.
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By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — China and India are already among the globe's heavyweights when it comes to influencing the commodities markets, but their power to sway the direction of oil, gold and cotton, among others, is only going to strengthen, providing further fuel for market volatility.
"China and India have been the catalyst for the super cycle in commodities since 1999 in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis," said Phil Flynn, a senior analyst at futures brokerage PFGBest. "While there may be some challenges economically in the short run, their long-term prospects for demand growth are still there."
So far this month, growing concerns about an economic slowdown in China fueled weakness in industrial metals and oil. In India, confusion over an export ban shook up the price of cotton and new government taxes on gold prompted many jewelers to close up shop in protest, sending gold prices lower on demand worries.
'It is easy to envision a situation where a particular commodity melts down following a headline that may or may not be accurate. That is a concern.'
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A big threat to commodities is the "new reliance on headlines by investment traders," said Darin Newsom, a senior analyst at Telvent DTN.
On Tuesday, as concerns about a slowdown in China flared and Indian gold jewelers extended a nationwide strike, gold futures dropped more than $20 an ounce, or 1.2% and oil futures /quotes/zigman/80066644/delayed CLK2 +0.18% sank more than $2 a barrel, or 2.3%. Read about Tuesday's metals trading session.
"Old-time market players knew not to believe or trade off everything they saw regarding China," Newsom said. "But most of those folks are gone in this day and age of computerized, algorithm-based trade," which can be based on immediate reaction to headlines.
"China is at the heart of demand for most commodities, so putting focus there is understandable," he said. But it "does leave the sector, as a whole, vulnerable if major problems develop."
And "given the situation that has developed, it is easy to envision a situation where a particular commodity melts down following a headline that may or may not be accurate. That is a concern," he said.
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For commodity traders and investors, determining the accuracy and guessing the impact of any given headline is certainly a challenge.
Global commodity prices are "affected by Indian and Chinese government policies," said Chintan Karnani, chief analyst at Insignia Consultants in New Delhi, who personally trades soft-commodity futures in India.
India rattled the global cotton markets when the country, the world's second biggest exporter of the commodity behind the United States, announced a ban on cotton exports on March 5, prompting a one-day rally in cotton prices that gave way to a five-session drop. In the days that followed, the government reportedly said it rolled back the ban, then said no new export permits would be issued. Read about the cotton ban confusion.
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China's policies are no exception. "It has been tough trying to inject either China's import intentions or India's export policy into a true supply/demand evaluation as to where the price of cotton should be," said Mike Stevens, a Louisiana-based cotton analyst.
China has been "an enormous buyer, but mostly to rebuild their strategic stock pile and not for consumption, so this muddies the water for fundamental analysis [which] look to supply and demand to justify price discovery," he said.
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An overflow crowd turned out Saturday morning at the San Rafael Community Center to vent about a new local energy authority who they fear will raise their rates.
The Marin Energy Authority will compete with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. as an energy retailer in Marin with the aim of cutting the emission of greenhouse gases by boosting renewable energy use.
But a vast majority of the more than 200 who crammed into the center and out its doors saw problems with the plan.
"This is the most pernicious action I have ever seen," said an outraged Bob Adams of San Rafael, who turned out for the event, sponsored by the Common Sense Coalition, which is supported by PG&E. "You have government asserting itself into the free market system."
The clean energy initiative is a program of the Marin Energy Authority. The authority is a group consisting of the county of Marin, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, San Anselmo, Fairfax and Belvedere.
Residents in those jurisdictions will be enrolled in the program automatically unless they opt out. Most residential customers will not be enrolled into the program until the second phase, which is scheduled to occur 12 to 18 months after the beginning of phase one this year.
"There is no provision for any sort of local renewables in their plan," said former San Rafael Assemblyman Joe Nation, who hosted Saturday's meeting.
Nation said the forum aimed to inform customers about perceived problems with the new authority, which has been approved by the county's Board of Supervisors.
"PG&E believes they have a responsibility to let people know that there are risks if they stay with the MEA," he said.
Stan Hulett, who served on the California Public Utilities Commission from 1986 to 1991 and was the agency's president from in 1987 and 1988, was critical of the clean energy plan as he spoke to the gathering.
"The proposal will do nothing but raise your rates," Hulett said , adding he believes the renewable energy needed to make a system truly green is decades away.
"It will expose you to very severe financial problems in the future. The MEA will no work in my opinion," he said.
Others noted PG&E is working toward securing more renewable energy and that there isn't a need to form another bureaucracy to manage energy in the county.
"You have to be an expert to handle these facilities and PG&E has that experience," said San Anselmo resident John Hanley "Every taxpayer in this room knows they are trying to pull a sham over us."
Not all were against the MEA plan. Outside of the community center, some held up signs reading: "If MEA Is Such A Risk, Why is PG&E Spending $35 Million to Stop It?"
"We are clearly such a competitive threat and they know it is going to succeed," said Megan Matson of the group Main Street Moms, based in Olema. "Why else would they spend $35 million to kill these type of movements statewide?"
PG&E has aggressively fought to kill the clean energy initiative. The investor-owned utility has spent $6.5 million to launch an initiative on the June 8 ballot that would require any local government that wants to become an electricity retailer to secure approval of two-thirds of their voters first. PG&E managers have informed company shareholders that they plan to spend a total of $25 million to $35 million backing Proposition 16.
"It's battleground Marin," Matson said.
Contact Mark Prado via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
Editor's note: Comments on this story were turmed off because posters were impersonating individuals in the story.


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On April 29, at approximately 12:30 pm, Lafayette Police received reports of a purse snatching on a parking lot in the 3800 block of Ambassador Caffery Parkway.
The victim, a 34 year old female, had just exited her vehicle when she felt someone tap her on the shoulder. A male voice instructed her to "Give me that". The suspect, a black male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, forcefully pulled the victim's purse from her and ran north. The suspect, who was accompanied by another black male wearing a white muscle shirt, ran to a convenience store and climbed into a vehicle.
The two suspects along with three other black males fled the area in the vehicle. The suspect's vehicle is a gold older model Honda Accord with a sunroof and missing the front bumper. The victim received minor injuries during the incident.
Lafayette Police are asking anyone with information about the purse snatching or the identity of the suspect(s) to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.


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Garton's first industrial techno release. Taking an orchestral aesthetic and punk attitude Garton delivers a relentless narrative through happy hard core favourites and psy-trance mania – extreme fusion or mash-up?
Format: Digital download
Release date: 12/2004
Price: AUD $10.00
Produced, arranged, programmed and performed by Andrew Garton.
Samples cut by DJC and Garton.
Special thanks to Russell Guy for supporting the use of samples from What's Rangoon to You is Grafton to me, courtesy of the psychedelicatessen.
I just listened to Headlock! excellent nose bleed techno! really great…. loved the Led ZEP song, totally cool beats and noises.
Ollie Olsen
This afternoon I received a call from none other than Russell Guy himself. He'd been online and ran a search on "What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me" and found this site where his work is credited on Headlock.
I was waiting for him to have a go at me for not trying hard enough to clear these samples when he congratulated me, saying that work like mine helps to keep the piece alive. I told him that the final release of the work will go out on a Creative commons Licence which he was happy with as he said, had he made a commercial release of the piece it would never have sustained the life it has now.
Russell, thanks… it's wonderful to know that such attitudes were at the heart of your work, and how could it not when you suggested all those years ago that politicians would do well to spend some time in "inner-space". Travel well…
Andrew Garton


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"On that same [video] set, I had to wear a short, tight dress. I had some downtime, so I sat in one of the rooms where the food was set up. Soon one guy came in and then another. Within a few minutes, fifteen guys were surrounding me, and I was trapped. I felt like a specimen in a museum. I didn't want to get up because I knew if I did, they would start making a fuss over my ass. I kept thinking, 'I'm sitting here with these guys ogling, trying to touch my leg and arm, trying to see what kind of girl I am, see if they can run a train on me.' I was so terrified of getting up. The dress was so short and my shoes were so high, I was afraid to even uncross my legs. Eventually a crewmember came in and regulated the situation; he could see how terrified I was about even moving an inch. It all lasted about ten minutes."
51; Melyssa Ford, "Calendar Girl" (fromNaked)
". . . Master Hendrick would invite the spectators to examine me to assure themselves nothing was fake. Some of them accepted the invitation by touching my backside or searching for evidence of padding. One pinched me, another walked around me, a gentleman poked me with his cane, a lady used her parasol to ascertain that all was 'natural.' Master Hendrick sometimes used a long piece of bamboo to prod me around or move me forward or backwards. But worst of all, the laughter raucous, lewd, predatory, and hate-filled never stopped. It erupted at the slightest excuse, a stumbling foot, a tear, an epithet from a spectator, the shrill whistles and catcalls of the gallery."
51; Barbara Chase-Riboud, Hottentot Venus
Her ample bosom is barely contained by the bejeweled black satin bustier. She stretches its straps down past her wide, curvaceous hips, her full, round thighs beginning where the skimpiest of bejeweled black satin thongs ends. Her head is cocked to the side, she slyly peers out from the corner of her eye, lips moist, not quite smiling. Is it a dare? An invitation? A humble testimony to the work of God, genes, and personal trainers? A not-so-humble one?
This is Melyssa Ford in all her glory, on the cover of XXL Presents Eye Candy, a semi-annual spin-off of the popular rap publication. Eye Candy is a blowout of a regular XXL feature spotlighting attractive young women in cheesecake outfits and poses (this issue of the magazine's spine carries the truth-in-advertising appellation "T&A ETC."). Most of the women spotlighted in the "Eye Candy" section can be seen to fuller effect in your average rap video, gyrating about as the love interest / sex interest / obligatory female jiggling various body parts. Eye Candy, the magazine, is devoted to the hottest such starlets, known to the world politely as "video vixens" and derisively as "video hos". Ford takes pride of place on the cover as the most polished and accomplished of them all, down to the what else? stunning centerfold shot.
You can also find her on the cover of Black Men Swimsuit Extra, another spin-off pub devoted to babes in bikinis (Black Men being the parent mag). Except that Ford ain't wearing a bikini on the cover: only a wide-brimmed hat, a necklace, and a strategically draped arm. And this is no ordinary cheesecake book; this issue is devoted to Ford herself, her background, her plans for the future, her calendar shoot in Jamaica, the DVD of said shoot, her zodiac sign, and so on.
Now, one look at the undeniably gorgeous Ms. Ford would explain why people think she can sell magazines. But there's a bit more to the story than that. Once upon a time, Ford was studying forensic psychology at York University in her native Canada when she was discovered by rap video director, Little X. After that first taste of the biz, she moved to New York City, working under the table as a bartender while learning the industry ropes. She went on to appear in some high-profile videos (Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin", Mystikal's "Shake Ya Ass", Usher's "Yeah"), where her 34-20-38 frame earned her the nickname "Jessica Rabbit", after she of the animated "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way" fame. Ford parlayed that notoriety into a gig hosting the celebrity magazine show BET Style, a relationship advice column for Smooth magazine, and enough clout to call her own shots (what she will and won't do, wear, portray, etc.) for appearances in videos.
Ford's contemporaries on the video starlet A-list include Ki Toy Johnson, Esther Baxter (who earned her nickname after starring in the video for Petey Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek"), and the sensuously named Buffie the Body. Although their backgrounds and life stories are radically different, these women tend to all have relatively slender waists and bodacious backsides. That is no coincidence. The black female rear end has long been a subject of fantasy, desire, celebration, and questions concerning ownership. The bulging booty as gold standard of black female beauty became virtually axiomatic within hip-hop with 1992's "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect (MCA) and, more famously, "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot (Def American), which attempted to make the black woman's fuller-than-white-women butt a signifier of racial pride (and, to a certain measure, succeeded wildly).
Aside from rap videos, the only places you're likely to see these women are in strip clubs (where lots of rappers apparently enjoy spending spare time and money), and in the pages of the aforementioned XXL and Black Men, plus their competitors King and Smooth (which has its own spin-off Smooth Girl). Just as the granddaddy Players, the hip-hop leaning Fish-n-Chips, and various other titles exist in a racially parallel porn universe from Playboy and Penthouse, so do these black laddie publications chronicle women hardly ever seen in Maxim and FHM (now there are laddie mags for those who like their cheesecake with Latino and Asian flavorings another sign, apparently, of their emerging consumer clout).
Women getting this sort of notoriety for not much more than their sex appeal is a somewhat new phenomenon in the annals of black pop culture. It's not that there have never been attractive women in our entertainment, and it's not that there have never been black pin-up girls (the "Beauty of the Week" in Jet, anyone?). But for all the loving, playful and sassy representations of sashaying hips and fine brown frames in our song, dance, and art, you'd be hard-pressed to name a lot of black women through the years who earned renown strictly for the fullness of their curves.
Soul Style: Black Women Redefining the Color of Fashion by Duane Thomas (Universe, 2000)
Duane Thomas' Soul Style: Black Women Redefining the Color of Fashion (Universe, 2000) is a breathless valentine to a century's worth of attitude, boldness, and beauty. From Josephine Baker to Lil' Kim, Thomas and his various collaborators lift up the accomplishments and meanings of virtually every major black female star from the 20th century. But while there's no denying the sexiness dripping from many of the photos Soulstyle collects (for example, Halle Berry in a softly clinging knit robe), not a single image not even Josephine Baker posing nude resembles any model's spread in a modern day laddie mag. In Thomas' depiction of beautiful black women, you won't see anyone on all fours in an art-directed "come hither big boy" pose, cleavage heaving towards the camera. You won't see anyone shot from behind as she demurely gazes into the distance, the reader's eye free to travel down to her thong-clad bottom. There is one picture of a woman using her arms to shield her bare breasts, but it seems to declare, "Here's an artsy shot from my modeling portfolio," not "I'm topless on the beach—let's play!"
If it were just the discreetly marketed magazine, calendar, or DVD where such images were available, it would be a slightly lesser deal (though no less bothersome for many). But the pervasiveness of rap videos stringing together shot after shot of such women shaking what their mommas gave them became too much to ignore. Having a scantily clad honey or six in the video became de rigueur, just like shots of the entourage making gang signs and rented luxury cars. Such images all but drowned out any other representation of women in rap videos, especially considering the relative paucity of female rappers that can command big budgets for videos (and the even skimpier number of women directing videos, developing artists' marketing plans, or deciding what gets added to the TV rotation and what doesn't). Of course, the fact that these videos often illustrate songs that refer to women as "bitches" and "hos" hardly helps matters.
It got so bad that BET, the network that relies on black pop videos for much of its programming, relegated the raunchiest of them to BET Uncut, airing at 3AM away from the reach of the youngest, most impressionable minds (at least, those such minds without VCRs or Tivo). One of the most notorious Uncut favorites was Nelly's "Tip Drill" video, which featured various shots of men swiping credit cards down a woman's butt crack. Needless to say, folks felt emboldened by the cordoning-off of territory for soft-core porn with a funky beat, and started making videos specifically for broadcast on Uncut.
And the phenomenon shows signs of crossing over into the mainstream. Witness a recent Amp'd Mobile commercial. In it, a guy standing on a bus is playing with some device, when he commands two guys in the back to start fighting; they comply. He then tells some guy with a boombox to crank up some old funk tune; up comes the beat. Then he turns to a black woman and commands, "You, shake your junk". She gets up, grabs the pole that's conveniently right there, and turns the bus into a stripper's workout room, shaking her prodigious junk for all it's worth (and I'll argue that only until pornified rap videos became commonplace did a whole lot of people know this colloquial meaning of "junk").
It's hard to isolate the more troubling part of this brief scene: is it that a white man can command a black woman to "shake your junk" as though neither of them had ever left the strip club (or worse, the plantation), or that she does it without complaint? At least she keeps her clothes on. Then again, this is a 30-second ad for a mass-market product, not an offering from Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang Twins or some other strip club-influenced rap act, and I don't think the spot would have passed prime time muster had our girl been wearing a thong.
Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans (Amistad, 2005)
Then there's Superhead. Even after writing Confessions of a Video Vixen (Amistad, 2005), Karrine Steffans is probably still better known by that most dubious nickname, one I have no real desire to learn how she acquired. Confessions reads like an episode of Behind the Music: abused teenager runs away from broken home, gets discovered working in strip club by one-time hot rapper, ends up making lots of videos and screwing half of the industry, parlays fame from both into movie work. Predictably for this sort of tale, Steffans finds herself strung out, broke, and disconnected form her own child before finally trying to get it together by writing a tell-all book (the only thing missing was a spreadsheet comparing her partners' cock lengths) and announcing that she trademarked "Superhead" after learning that the name is actually a compliment in the UK. Not surprisingly, the book made the best-seller lists.
In an August 2005 interview on AllHipHop.com, Ford denounced Steffans' book. "Her motivation for doing videos was for a stepping stone to become bigger in the entertainment industry [and] to be promiscuous," Ford said. "The fact that her story is being sensationalized right now sends a real bad message to little girls."
Fair enough, but it's easily argued that Ford herself isn't much better with her video and magazine appearances. In fact, that actually happened in a conference last April on feminism and hip-hop at the University of Chicago. Ford was one of the featured panelists, and attempted to explain the measure of control over her image and work conditions she's able to demand. None of that impressed those scholars and activists in attendance, who called her a whore and pretty much blamed her for degrading black womanhood and the entire community.
Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts by Akiba Solomon and Ayana Byrd (Penguin, 2005)
Ford spells out her position in "Calendar Girl", her contribution to Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts (Penguin, 2005). It's a collection of musings, edited by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon, about black women relating to their bodies; the good, the bad, and what they may have perceived to be the ugly. There are celebrities, just plain folk, young women, older women, skinny women, shapely women, and Ford, talking about what she's been able to create for herself:
"I am the highest-paid video girl to date. I've endured all the snide comments and ignorant remarks from people who presume to know me because I'm on their television screens and in the pages of their magazines. But I'm not the promiscuous twit I'm often mistaken for. I am a businesswoman who has used videos to launch a multimedia career. My product is me.
"Besides being the lead girl in hip-hop and R&B videos, I am a sex columnist for a men's magazine. I star in my own DVD. I've hosted television shows, and I've produced my own calendar, which I sell on the Internet. My job is to sell fantasy and perfection. When the cameras go on, I detach myself and play the sexy vixen who will turn a nigga out."
But if she hadn't gotten the message before, perhaps her reception from a room full of black feminists helped dropped the hint. She can maintain all day and night that she's the one in control of those sexy images, but her detractors have a problem with the images existing at all, whether or not she's making money from them. Essence magazine, the tentpole of the black womanhood community, launched a jeremiad last year against sexism in hip-hop music and videos. Its ongoing "Take Back the Music" campaign seeks to open a discussion of the broader effects of degrading images of black women, and especially young black girls. There are many difficult issues involved, and there is by no means consensus among sistas as to whether these images are harmful in the first place. But without a constructive look at them, they'll surely continue unabated.
Students at Spelman College took matters into their own hands in 2004, rejecting Nelly's charitable largesse because of that infamous "Tip Drill" video. He and his charitable foundation had planned to hold a bone-marrow drive at the venerable black women's institution, but the sistas there, and some brothas at nearby Morehouse College, would have none of his presence there, and Nelly cancelled the event. They understood the importance of raising awareness about bone marrow donation, especially in communities of color, but that didn't outweigh their outrage over his lascivious video.
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Renowned female vocalist Liv Kristine (LEAVES' EYES, ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY) recently spoke to Metal Temple magazine's Michael Dalakos while promoting the new LEAVES' EYES release, "Vinland Saga". Liv spoke about a number of topics, including her upcoming second solo album that is going to be released via Roadrunner Records. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow:Metal Temple: [There are] rumors [that you will] be releasing a second solo album. What can you tell us about this? Liv Kristine: "Yes, it is true, there will be a second solo album. It will be released around autumn. I signed a record deal with Roadrunner Records. A dream came true for me since I had a lot of trouble with my first company. I had to fight for my rights in the court. I was really sad when I realized that some people wanted to put the dollar sign on my forehead. I don't want to be a Barbie Doll in the music industry. I want to write my own lyrics, be part of the recording process..." Metal Temple: Can we assume it will be in the same vein as your first solo attempt?
Liv Kristine: "Yes. This CD will follow the steps of the first album. It will be quite atmospheric and dark, but I can tell you that I collaborated with other producers like Peter Tägtgren [PAIN, HYPOCRISY], so expect some very interesting combinations of music! There will be some up tempo songs for the album." Metal Temple: With your previous band [THEATRE OF TRAGEDY] you have managed pretty much to bring a revolution to the heavy metal community. Do you think that you can achieve something equally great with your current band [LEAVES' EYES]? Generally how difficult is it to sound original today? Liv Kristine: "I think it is very difficult to sound different, to achieve your own sound so people can understand what a band is playing after listening for a couple of seconds. Most bands today try to adopt elements from their favorite bands and if they are lucky enough to blend them with some elements of their own hoping for a personal sound. When you run a band like ATROCITY or LEAVES' EYES it is very difficult to stick to your sound when many bands try to sound like you. Personally I believe that the best thing one band can do is to stick to its sound and be as much original as possible. You must try to develop your sound at one level but never forget where you come from. "That was the main problem with THEATRE OF TRAGEDY. They have created a very personal sound. There was a dramatic difference between 'Aegis' and 'Musique'. They didn't want to have any connection with their past. For example their singer was interested mostly in EMINEM (!!!), so the band had a break with their past and started working on totally different material. This was very difficult for me. I will never try something like this with LEAVES' EYES." Read the entire interview with Liv Kristine at this location.


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Keep children safe on Halloween
With costumes, eerie decorations and, of course, lots of candy, Halloween is usually a fun time for children.
Here are some tips for staying safe on Halloween, courtesy of the National Fire Protection Association and the National Crime Prevention Council:
* Make sure costumes don't have billowing or long trailing fabric. Also make sure the material isn't one that will easily ignite if it comes into contact with heat or flame.
* Keep flammable decorations, such as dried flowers, cornstalks and crepe paper, away from all open flames and heat sources, including light bulbs and heaters.
* It is safest to use a flashlight or battery-operated candles in a jack-o'lantern. If you use a real candle, make sure children are watched at all times when candles are lit.
* Remember to keep exits clear of decorations so nothing blocks escape routes.
* Parents should be familiar with homes and occupants on their child's trick-or-treat route. Parents may register for free at AlertID.com, enter their addresses and instantly see an easy-to-read map showing sex offenders residing or working in the vicinity. AlertID.com offers many other free resources to improve safety as well.
* Children should wear reflective tape on their costumes and carry flashlights or glow sticks when trick-or-treating during evening hours.
* Drivers should be wary of trick-or-treaters walking the streets on Halloween.
* Trick-or-treaters should only approach homes that are well-lit, both inside and out. Instruct children never to enter a home without parental permission.
* Children should always trick-or-treat under the supervision of a trusted adult or teenager.
* In the event they are grabbed by a stranger, instruct children to yell "This person is trying to take me!" or "This is not my mother/father!" and to resist by pulling, walking or running away.
* Younger children should always be accompanied all the way to the door of the home when trick-or-treating.
Have a safe, fun Halloween.
(Editorials are the opinion of Jamestown Sun management and the newspaper's editorial board)