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Having recently been to Austria (again) and inevitably but nevertheless unpremeditatedly stumbled upon an earthly remnant of the famed Sissi, Franz Joseph's bohemian Empress, in the form of a palace called Kaiservilla, my fascination with her legend instantly rekindled. Thus I ended up buying yet another biography depicting the bizarre destiny of the much idolized monarch whose blazing icon still lingers over the lore-inspired part of our collective memory quite as if time would not attempt diminishing such rarefied a charm – although perhaps time in itself shares not half the merits for its transcendence in the detriment of intensive propaganda which doubtlessly enhances the Austrian economy with its touristic value. So, out of a melange of eagerness and spontaneous, exceptional magnanimity, I made my pecuniary contribution by purchasing Sophie Zavadill's "Elisabeth, Empress of Austria" and Jean des Cars' "Sissi, Empress of Austria" (do note I'm aware of the phenomenal difference between these two exceedingly dissimilar titles), managing to devour them in a bit under 2 days.
Here's one delicious fragment to justify my enthusiasm and concomitantly provide an insight in Sissi's complex personality:
'During a carnival she and Ida Ferenczy attended a masked ball in secret. It was the Redoute, which is still held annually in the grand ballroom of the Hofburg. The emperor knew nothing of his wife's escapade. She also deceived her servants by having herself undressed as usual, going to bed, and pretending to sleep – just as in a novel. When her servants had withdrawn, Ida Ferenczy slipped into her room with the fancy-dress costume, a magnificent yellow domino made of heavy brocade. Ida also brought the empress a red blonde wig and mask with long black tassels to completely cover her face. Ida wore a red domino and was also masked- as is still the custom at the Redoute.
'The two slipped into the hall and at first only watched the goings-on from the the balcony. Elisabeth was fascinated. She had been to every sort of functioning by then but never to a masked ball. When she became tired of looking, the empress selected from the crownd a young man who was obviously without an escort. Ida brought him, a government employee in his late twenties, to the masked empress, who spent the rest of the evening in the company of this Fritz Pacher. She questioned him about politics, asked whether he was satisfied with the government, inquired what he thought of the empress and finally spoke about her favorite poet, Heinrich Heine. She flirted with the young man but could not be moved to lift her mask by a centimeter. The ball of the yellow domino was followed by a series of letters between the blonde "Gabrielle" and Pacher. These letters have survived and confirm the fairy-tale story.
"More than ten years later, Elisabeth wrote a poem called "Long, long ago: the song of the yellow domino".'
("Elisabeth, Empress of Austria" by Sophie Zavadill)
A Gallery of Beauties
June 17, 2013
Everybody at a certain point harbors the desire or curiosity or simple, sheer interest to gather a collection of various things in diverse quantities, some parameters more eccentric than others. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, commonly nicknamed "Sissi", a character to whom Madame has dedicated a plethora of posts, had her own phenomenal assortment which put together a considerable number of photos immortalizing the most beauteous women of the age. But I already wrote about it here. Yet what I didn't know at the time when that account of her oddities was given and subsequently learned to be a crucial factor in explaining her peculiar idea of a collection refers to the strikingly similar propensity for putting together images of beautiful ladies which dominated the life of Sissi's uncle, King Ludwig I o Bavaria. No longer content with getting most of the pulchritudinous grand dames of the time in his bed for fleeting moments of passion, the monarch who is (in)famous for abdicating the throne following a tempestuous scandal involving his mistress, Lola Montez, determined to forever own the marvelous physical charm of these resplendent females. And thus took shape the Gallery of Beauties, the original inspiration for Empress Elisabeth's identically themed albums.
This chamber, wholly dedicated to the celebration of corporal attractiveness, exhibits a selection of 36 portraits ordered by Ludwig between 1827 and 1850. They were all commissioned to have the same size so as to perfectly fit in the allocated space and all feature the enchanting profiles of mid 19th century women coming from sundry social backgrounds like the German aristocracy or the European middle-class. This way, characters who otherwise never spoke in real life were forced by circumstance to keep each other company while hanging on the walls of the King's gallery of visual splendor inside Nymphenburg Palace. So Ludwig's sister, Sophie (between brackets: the mother of Emperor Franz of Austria, Sissi's husband), rested alongside such notorious figures as English aristocrat Jane Digby, actress Charlotte von Hagn (a former concubine to Franz Liszt) and, inevitably, Lola Montez, quite an outrageous arrangement, given the epoch. Sort of like compelling Whistler's Mother to face Courbet's "Origin of the World" non-stop.
Don't you just fancy having a place resembling this?
The Dangerous Liaisons of Bernini
May 26, 2013
Love triangles and promiscuity seldom flourished so exquisitely than at the Papal Court in Rome up to about 3-400 years ago. As some "The Borgias" fans might've already noticed, Vatican city was quite a den of lavish sins back in the days of Michelangelo and didn't stop being one until long after Bernini's days, which is why the following episode of his life should not come as a surprise.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the preeminent protege of the Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VII, like all reputed artists, had some apprentices to do his less important commissions in exchange for advice and guidance. And these anonymous apprentices, emphasizing one in particular, had wives. Female presences to whose charms the great sculptor could not frequently resist.
One such ravishing woman by law reserved for a single husband, was Constanza Piccolomini Bonarelli, spouse of Matteo Bonarelli and licentious lover of Bernini.
So much was he enamored with her that, to fully convey his passionate sentiments, Gian Lorenzo produces the above bust, a Constanza he could caress in marble, the immortal, unwithering variant of his beloved. It was the zenith of their affection.
And soon they'd reach their nadir… one terrible way too.
Since Constanza was unfaithful to her hubby, cheating came natural to her and not long after her storming affair with Bernini commenced, she found herself involved with a second paramour, none other than Gian Lorenzo's younger brother, Luigi.
Alas, a naturally suspicious Bernini soon felt her betrayal and thought a most basic scheme to catch the two in flagrant delicto: he simply announced his going to the countryside to tend to some business, insidiously expecting the couple to make a wrong move… which didn't let itself waited.
Luigi, unconscious of any danger, immediately visited a lonely Constanza yearning for consolation to be "welcomed" by a furious Bernini who almost beat him to death.
Amusingly (or tragically, depending on your point of view), this telenovela-like story didn't stop here, but to continue it and learn the climax of the whole affair, I recommend the following documentary:
Italian Murderess: she was doing it right!
April 8, 2013
Perhaps because I have sadistic velleities or just an eccentric appetite for slightly scandalous deeds which delight me to such extent that I quite managed to become addicted, whenever I'm in need of spicy historical records I turn to Italy, whose patrimony of mischievous figures, rich criminals and lascivious damsels never ceases to quench my thirst. I don't know if it has anything to do with living in the Boot and having mainly depraved popes, but they definitely put mediatized characters like bloody Elizabeth Bathory to shame. Think Lucrezia Borgia– she could do more than kill helpless maidens and bathe in their blood to gain eternal youth (Naomi Campbell seems to have repeatedly attempted to test it unsuccessfully -boo, humdrum human rights disapprove- which means it isn't so astounding).
Italians, on the other hand, have a certain something, a natural flair seasoned with one ravishing vice inherited as specific trait from their fiery ancestors, the Borgias, Orsinis, Medicis, Sforza and so on, unlike the French who were rather subverted by vanity, a particular section of generally named "vice" Italy's inhabitants had (though I assume they still have) galore. It's suffice to say this enchants me (it does).
Returning to the main topic, to satisfy my perpetual desideratum for anecdotes I frequently resort to evidences from Rome, Florence or Napoli, the main gathering nests of the wealthy and infamous. Yesterday, to enlarge my research area, I was reading Staley's "Lords and Ladies of the Italian Lakes", a highly vibrant compilation of rumors and stories set in the vividly painted Lombardy Lakeland (rival to England's similarly called region) and just stumbled across a single-paragraph biography of Adeliza de Borgomanero. Profession: part-time murderess, nothing unusual, in fact, for the gloomy Middle Ages, but still juicy and only good to savor today.
Adeliza de Borgomanero's half-legend, pretty sad in the end, follows an interesting row of events and rumors embroidered around her numerous intriguing habits, culminating in her premature death.
She was born circa 1350 in a family of minor nobles, enough to secure her the proper background for marrying a local count from Val d'Ossola region, elder and boorish, I assume, yet without documented evidence. We can scarcely imagine how the wedding might have been due to the complete lack of reports, but let me tell you it was ensued by a hearty feast and inexorably grand if we judge by the period's traditions.
At any rate, Adeliza, the sinful child, couldn't refrain her congenital iniquity and did a thing or two (again, unaccounted by history) apparently inappropriate because old, tedious hubby exiled the young girl to a remote Bellagio castle, situated in the vicinity of Lake Como (which will be a faithful accomplice to her atrocities).
Wrong move if he had any intention of rehabilitating his wife since it barely exonerated Adeliza, point from where she, officially discharged of marital duties, began to knock together her own personal court. For a graceful lady, with a small fortune (money speak, after all) at her complete disposition, I bet it wasn't such a laborious job.
Lovers were definitely not missing from the jolly assembly and, as she gave the impression of having a weakness for both tall, muscular men or more romantic, effeminate boys (exclusively gallant ones), soldiers and troubadours surrounded her castle. With them began the actual gossip about her disputable morals.
Countess Adeliza was said, inspired by Quenn Giovanna II of Napoli (who had promiscuous affairs with much younger men she then compelled to take their lives, threw over the balcony in the sea, assassinate, etc) to have demanded her paramours to commit suicide post the consumption of their sexual revels. The brave fools who refused obeying her desire were not much luckier: a servant was charged with dropping them through steel racked oubliettes in the lake below (remember I mentioned Como Lake's implication in the murders) and none survived.
Either way, let's remark she was a delicate lady who didn't like to dirty her hands so those crimes were more probably made to prove her authority, her sovereignity over men (the thing women wand most, by Adeliza's contemporary, Geoffrey Chaucer) and less to satisfy a devilish thirst of blood.
But she became a vampire-siren figure in the popular lore nonetheless, living in a metaphorical (or not?) charnel house.
More original than slaughtering your servants, right?
Adeliza passed away inexplicably at only 20 years of age, in 1370, leaving practically nothing historians can list apart from the legends. And what beautiful legends.
Parties of the Past Century (IV)
April 7, 2013
The pas week has been a hectic ping-pong with several events I had to squeeze in my program and diligently prepare, though I cannot complain for taking part in any of them since they are direct fruits of either my work or my resolute desires across the last few years.
I've been invited to make a visit to the town residence of the Royal House of Romania and been (briefly) received by Princess Marguerite, I've had to pull through an essay meant to be my entry for quite a promising contest then finish the editing of my novel novella ("Vicious") to be able to publish it in time and handled its launch concomitantly with that of my author blog. This, plus a couple of other troubles.
No wonder the "Parties of the Past Century" series has yet to be completed.
However, here's the next roaring social gathering which brought together most of the era's elite:
Le Bal du Siecle
The Mexican multimillionaire Charles Beistegui, a professed eccentric also known as the modern "Count of Monte Cristo", was the host to the most lavish, flamboyant and altogether magnificent masked ball ever given in honor of the old aristocratic times. His Venice Palazzo Labia, a splendid 17th century residence, was put to its use glamorously and costly decorated to fit the magnitude of the event Charles promised to be the assembly of the century.
Luxurious rococo gowns of rich materials were displayed with a profusion of jewels and thus the elegantly adorned guests could only be distinguished from the likewise decor by the mere barrier of movement. Famed names such as Orson Welles, the Aga Khan, Barbara Hutton, Dali, Gene Tierny or Jacqueline de Ribes relished the extraordinary parade of refinement, the presence of exotic black people with their peculiar animals (camels included), the amazing atmosphere.
It was an evening of perpetual wonder, the sort wars exclusively can impel one to organize just for the most humane need of forgetting one's misery.
Parties of the Past Century (III)
March 11, 2013
Le Bal Black & White
1966: Truman Capote, prodigious writer much celebrated on his mother-continent, throws a party that instantly has him conquer the lavish high society worldwide, a ball whose promise of superlatives makes invitations paramount concerns of elites across both America and Europe (no wonder he gathered 5 thousand friends but gained 15 thousand enemies when anyone known as someone vied for a possibility to attend).
The New York Plaza Hotel, meticulously decorated, reaches its zenith.
After a period of seclusion dedicated to laborious preparations, Capote returns with repetitive "I'm beside myself! Beside myself!" to take it over and welcome the masqued guests nevertheless recognized by the photographs galore who fenced in the red carpet.
Glittering names as those of Frank Sinatra, Cecil Beaton, Mia Farrow, Jacqueline de Ribes, Oscar de la Renta, Marlene Dietrich, Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Vivien Leigh, Shirley MacLaine,Baroness Cecile de Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Mr and Mrs John Steinbeck, Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams and even the expatriated Duke and Duchess of Windsor figured on the privileged guest list. It was indeed the egocentric celebration of a silver age, a kaleidoscope of savory juxtapositions of class, titles, secular manners and social status to garrison the last remnants of decadence.
Half the Hall of Fame and Best Dressed list attended Capote's hubristic feast in the most mesmerizing costumes possible (note: I'm far from resorting to hyperbole for that depiction)…
If in Truman's shoes, is there anyone you would've coveted to see there but was not, caught in various circumstances, able to come?
Parties of the Past Century (II)
February 16, 2013
Le Bal du Palais d'Hiver
It just so happened that I stumbled across an incredibly posh and surprisingly well composed series of five episodes on the most exquisite XXth century parties I'm going to use as a main support for my own sequence, just to baffle a bit the monotony this blog has, alas, succumbed to.
So without further (and obviously unnecessary) introductory lines, behold the first sample.
As if anticipating the ensuing horrors of the Russian Revolution, Tzar Nicholas II, knowingly the last Romanov ever to sit on his rightful throne, and Empress Alexandra, whose demeanor, like her mother in law, I've always disapproved of, threw the most dazzling party at the Palais d'Hiver.
Parties of the Past Century (I)
February 9, 2013
The Surrealist Ball
How splendiferously eccentric can a mid-late 20th century ball get?
Apparently, the Rothschilds forward their answer through a flamboyant surrealist party of oddities galore, as anticipated in the picture above, which gives gives an accurate account of just what unusual looks they could conceive. The Rothschilds being the banker family that honorably took over Croesus' reputation in modern days. Surrealism- the inter-bellum artistic current prizing the chaotic, fantastical absurd. Think Dali (who not coincidentally was a guest).
Now, another participant at the mentioned gathering, Baron Alexis de Redé, extensively describes all one would love to know about the whole 'a tad ludicrous' event:
'On 12 December 1972, Marie-Hélène gave her Surrealist Ball at Ferriéres. This time the guests were asked to come in black tie and long dresses with Surrealist heads.[ The year before, 1971, the Rothschilds were hosts to a glorious Proust Ball assembling more than half the international elite] The invitation was printed with reversed writing on a blue and cloudy sky, inspired by a painting by Magritte. To decipher the card, it had to be held to a mirror.'
'For the evening the chateau was floodlit with moving orange lights to give the impression that it was on fire. The staircase inside was lined by footmen dressed as cats that appeared to have fallen asleep in a variety of staged poses.'
'Guests had to pass throught a kind of labyrinth of Hell, made of black ribbons to look like cobwebs. The occasional cat appeared to rescue the guests and lead them to the tapestry salon. Here they were greeted by Guy with a hat to resemble a still-life on a platter, and by Marie-Hélène wearing the head of a giant weeping tears made of diamonds.'
'Marie Hélène proved that she had the flare and imagination to create something unique and worthwhile. None of this was created by charm alone. It needed a degree of ruthless determination. She attended to every minute detail of style in her life and also in her entertaining. She was a great hostess with all the qualities. She loved parties and people. She was forever in quest of new talent and new figures to entertain from the world of the arts, literature, dance and haute couture. She mixed them with the more established set of Paris society. Everyone was intrigued. Marie-Hélène's parties took on such importance that one social figure threatened to commit suicide unless she was invited…'
'It is not possible to repeat such things now for many reasons. But it is fascinanting to look back and to remember these occasions, which dominated our thoughts and plans to such an extent for so many months. I am happy that I took part in so many, and happy that I gave some myself.'
And with this verdict, reminiscent of Proust although much less highfalutin, ends our attendee's account of the soiree which, lush and exuberant in spirit, inaugurates a "Parties of the Past Century" series.
Things you didn't know about the Empress
December 24, 2012
Of course I'm referring to Sissi the Empress, whose 175th birthday (she would've been terrified by the prospect of ugliness this age implies) we celebrate today, on Christmas Eve (Happy Holidays to you all!). Not for nothing she was called Eugénie, after the obscure patron Sainte Eugénie, commemorated on 24 December.
Between cleaning the last corner of my already ultra-sterilized flat and venturing to decorate the Christmas tree alongside a totally amateurish brother, I decided to take a moment of respite and celebrate my favorite 19th century Empress. Also, since the 'Quote Monday" has been off for a while, why not revive it with a thematic excerpt from Sissi's diary to compensate the shortness of the post?
She was aware they believed her insane and actually pronounced it out loud, publicly, though I'm momentarily unable to recall the exact circumstances which lead to her uttering such audacious a line. Certainly no previous Austrian monarch ever attempted a similar bravery in facing the court. A true eccentric, this woman, and a brave one at that.
She was so interestingly dynamic I believe it's nearly impossible not to least feel the most malnourished affinity for her and to support my conviction, here are some things I bet you didn't know about our Sissi (and neither suspected):
- She admired gorgeous women perhaps as much as men did, with the exception that she only, exclusively, solely accepted the company of this particular category, and even had a picture album to count her preferences (over 100 samples, which numbered beauties from Lola Montes and Maria Sophia of Bavaria to unconventional Amelie Gautreau). To complete it, the Empress wrote the Austrian ambassadors across Europe to send her photographs of charming ladies in their vicinity, causing amusing scandals regarding the purpose of the collection.
- She had an anchor tattoo on her shoulder to express a love for sailing never to diminish for as long as she lived. Husband Franz was reportedly displeased by the daring.
- When catching a sea storm, she often had her attendants tie her to a fixed chair on the main deck, claiming she imitates Ulysses due to the magnetic attraction waves exerted on her… Imagine what terrible coercion subdued the ones who abode her whim but responded before the Emperor if any unfortunate incident took place.
- To avoid fulfilling her marital duties in the detriment of much desirable traveling, Sissi encouraged Franz's sexual affairs, especially the long-term relationship with actress Katharina Schratt, whose reputation she always protected. Rumors of their friendship enabled Kat to continue the liaison for over 30 years, as a faithful mistress and friend to the miserable Emperor.
Wasn't hers a titillating life?
A Model for Reynolds and Wharton
December 18, 2012
Beauty is omnipotent. Beauty, striking or delicate (or both), lissom and cunning and sinuous in the conquering of hearts, is thus quite a stimulus for the visual senses whose function, when by its appearance employed, seems to reduce itself to that of a mere messenger of titillations. Beauty is that which can impress the most obtuse perceptiveness and with these being said, I should conclude my introductory definition, sliding to the subject: Joanna Lloyd, picture above. (Between brackets, pure serendipity lead me to her as,though of yore acquainted with Joshua Reynold's aristocratic portraits depicting haughty dames and gents of the London Season scene,it was not until I read the "House of mirth" that I met his beauteous Mrs. Lloyd. And ironically enough, I wouldn't have ever saw the lady in question if it weren't for Wharton's laudatory description within the novel…)
Now, she might not be considered exactly a stunner after today's standards but the woman undoubtedly had a gorgeous profile and overall a certain charm about her gracious self. She's highly refined.
Needless to add I, hunter of all things beautiful, just had to comply with my impulse and dig up her life. Surely I couldn't refrain making use of such fine a serendipitous 'discovery' . Plus, don't you have a greater experience of a thing's immortalized fairness once you learn, explicitly, there was blood flowing under that epidermis?I tend to think people are getting too impersonal (from reasons I won't take time enumerating) and the sort of insertion into one's life I'm proposing could bring back some warm, colorful interest. Canvas is one enduring substitute of flesh, how about this?
Anyway, returning to the topic, the following are the disappointingly few facts I managed to gather (believe it or not, if you haven't heard of Joanna Lloyd, Google almost hasn't either):
-she was the third daughter and coheir of John Leigh Esq. of Northcote House, Isle of Wight…
-who married, at a thin age, a Richard Bennett Lloyd from an important American family…
-moving together on the other side of the Ocean, in Maryland (there's actually a Maryland Historical Magazine which gives a plentiful account of her life there yet cannot be found online).
-shortly before embarking for the U.S. (1775-6), she had her portrait painted by the fashionable Reynolds, who allegedly praised her attractiveness (also much appreciated, albeit not without scorn, at the Lloyds' new home). This is the exquisite work Wharton's character in the "House of mirth" replicates.
-the spring of the 1788's saw her widowed and promptly remarried to a handsome Francis Love Beckford (1764-1838), (announced by the 3rd edition of "New Lady's Magazine or Polite and Entertaining Companion for the fair sex").
-naturally, she returned to British soil and from this part any information reminiscent of her earthly life passed out of my reach.
The Reynolds remains, though. Does it intrigue you as it appears to intrigue me? Why yes, why no?


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You know, at some point I'm going to just admit I'm not sure where to look when it comes to finding consistent black metal recommendations. I mean, I try to keep my ear to the ground, but for multiple years in a row now I feel like whenever I find a record that's more on the atmospheric side of the genre it's damn near a miracle, and thus wind up covering a lot less than I'd otherwise like.
But in this case it looks like I'm not quite as behind as expected - and I was a little stunned how many Patreon votes this got once I added it - so let's talk about Fen. They're an English black metal act that started in the mid-2000s, straddling the line with progressive metal and post-rock and drawing more than a few comparisons to Wolves In The Throne Room and Agalloch. They play on the more nakedly melancholic side of the spectrum in comparison with the soaring power of acts like Saor or Panopticon, more moody and bleak, but there's different shades of that, some that get into thicker, muddier textures that seethe off of subtle rumblings of bass, while later cuts on records like Carrion Skies get a little more ethereal and spacious, looking to pull the listener deeper into the seething darkness. That's not saying they're all atmospherics - Fen is certainly capable of ramping up the riffs - but in revisiting their back catalog I did find myself wishing a little that they would crank up the texture or intensity a bit to match their frontman's distinctive howl, maybe push the dynamics a little harder. Still, that's nitpicking across four pretty distinct records, taking an established compositional structure and refining and expanding it with each release. And considering their production has only gotten sharper and I was in the mood for some black metal comfortable pushing into new territory, I decided to check out their newest record Winter - how is it?
Well, it looks like we're starting early this year with absolutely killer black metal records, because Fen delivered again with Winter. In fact, I'll go further - while this album does mostly stick with the established atmospheric black metal sound that Fen brings forward, the more listens I gave this shows a record that's more diverse, more furious, more textured, and more progressive than I think they've ever delivered, likely on par with their best and certainly one of the best albums I've heard thus far in 2017. And what I find thrilling is that of the black metal records I've loved since I started my exploration of the genre, they all have showcased a different sound and progression. Panopticon was transcendent and meditative in its epic sweep; Saor fused its soaring power with tremendous Celtic melodies; and Fen... well, if you're looking for a record that still seethes with the best of them while bringing in elements of post-rock, progressive metal, and even thrash and doom, they definitely deliver.
And I want to start talking about the production and instrumentation - with this album we have six songs, each comfortably over ten minutes to give us Fen's longest album to date, and to keep each of these songs diverse and interesting enough, with well-executed transitions and swell, that's almost a Herculean task. And for a bit, I was worried that Fen would default to a comfortable formula on the opening track 'Pathway' - I dug the buildup to the thicker groove in the drums against the rattling tremolo picking in the distance, especially courtesy of a thicker, grimy bass groove, but as the song ebbed back, I was thinking that this album would default to Fen's typical ebb and flow... and then the groove switched and locked into a much heavier, thicker fuzz, I realized I was in for a much more diverse ride than I expected. And that's one of the things I love about this album - you're going to get your blastbeats and furious tremolo riffs at all manners of depth and hollowness, but then the band will switch things up with remarkable precision and timing. The syncopated progression of the drums and bass that breaks up the guitar melody on 'Penance' before the frankly ridiculous bass solos and twisted interlocking riffs, how the guitars and drums blur against 'Fear' before a major chord shift for the final solo, the heavier weight and thicker chop of the groove on 'Internment' that feels part doom metal, part thrash that ends on a tremendous melancholic solo, the phenomenal balance of the post-rock melody and pummeling riff on 'Death', and then on 'Sight', before the flattened roar of the blast-beats explode back especially in the furious kickdrums, the opening post-rock segment is borderline ambient with what sound like hints a guitar tone blurred to sound like a saxophone, it really is beautiful. I'm almost a little at a loss to describe issues with this production - the layers are so well-balanced, the grooves have such grimy, wiry muscle, the transitions are so well-handled, and across its runtime it never feels like it's wasting the audience's time - it's black metal that feels as grim and gruesome and heavy as its content and writing, but also knows enough to explode and soar, especially for its finale moments.
And the writing... by the Nine Hells, I don't often comment much on black metal lyrics, but I need to give props to the poetry on display here. For one, there's a story that's being told - a mysterious protagonist struggles through a wasteland fen filled with corpses to confront a desiccated stone cathedral, where a single statue that remains undefiled sears into his soul the waste and failures of his life. And thus, after leaving he falls to die in agonizingly slow fashion, returning to the frozen earth from whence he came in order to set his soul free from corrupted, ruined flesh so it might soar beyond human comprehension. So yeah, if you want to boil it down to basics its very much the story of someone - or something - dying in slow motion in a corpse-filled swamp in the shadow of an abandoned church, but it's the details that give it weight and power. The poetry is rife with details of flesh and blood, macabre in its detail but always seeming to highlight how the rotting consumption of time will be transcended, mortal bodies returning to be consumed and give back to the earth for renewal. Death is always inevitable on this record, it's making peace with what it means for this condemned soul that's what matters, acceptance of that endpoint as the consciousness departs. And again, I'm not doing justice to the language used here - it's visceral and plenty graphic on some songs, but never to directly shock, clinical in its twisted detail but with a flow and precision that captures something primal without being base, it really is stunning.
So what about this record doesn't work? Well, honestly I'm struggling to pick out a weak track outside of slightly weaker moments, but there are a few. Both 'Interment' and 'Death' could probably serve to switch up their more frenetic black metal segments a little more, add a little more melody to the upper end, as some of the lead guitar lines can feel a bit underserved. And for as much as I like the vocals from our frontman and his impressive ability to switch from guttural growls to full-fledged screaming to even more progressive clean singing, I do think there could afford to be a little more consistency in the vocal arrangements - sometimes there can be transitions from one style to the other without warning, and it doesn't always flatter the flow of the song. And while, unsurprisingly, I'm a little more forgiving of clean vocals than most, I do think they could have been sung in a slightly lower register, in order to better match the grinding snarl of the grooves and riffs on this record.
But beyond that... again, this is one hell of a black metal project. Fearlessly diverse and progressive without losing organic swell and power, amazingly well-produced in its layering and transitions, and writing that really does showcase a level of beauty in decay I haven't heard on a metal project in years, this is getting a 9/10 from me and the highest of my recommendations. Folks, I know black metal isn't for everyone - and this more than most, given how thunderously visceral it can get - but if you're a fan, you definitely need to hear this record yesterday, it's definitely a blizzard maelstrom worth braving.

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We at Digicorp agree with this phrase "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy" and we firmly believe that creating the right social environment for employees is just as important as keeping productivity high. So we plan numerous events round the year.
Recently, we participated in a talent show organised by GESIA, a state level association of IT and Electronics companies. While participation gave us a great sense of accomplishment and an immense opportunity of learning, it also came in with a lot of challenges.
Let me share the biggest challenges we faced.
To get 6 participants on board
For participation, we required minimum 6 and maximum 12 people to qualify as a team. I announced the event company-wide and 8 of our employees showed their willingness to participate and perform a dance number. I arranged for a choreographer to help them prepare a dance-form. Choreographer arrived, first practice session happened, and 3 participants gave up for different reasons. And on the top of it, one did not perform well. The count was down to 5 including an average performer. Wearing the hat of a People Manager at Digicorp, I tried to convince the other 3 who gave up, but my efforts were in vain. And finally I had to jump in to fulfill the eligibility criteria and that too with the leadership label attached to it, by default.
Striking a balance between work output and practice sessions
At Digicorp , we are expected to give average 40 hours of throughput every week, which comes to 8 hours a day.
Our dance team comprised of 2 Product Designers, 2 Developers, a Social Media Strategist and myself from the HR department. So we planned our practice sessions in the morning before the office hours to not disturb our daily work schedule. But the practice sessions lasted longer and started affecting our work schedule. Again 2 hours of exhaustive practice plus 8 hours of work output was becoming difficult for each one of us to cope up with. And on the other hand, our Product Managers started raising concerns for the obvious reason.
However, we did not give up, we tried and planned our day effectively, took minimal breaks and somehow managed to take our managers into confidence that work won't be affected.
Auditions cleared, suggestions received but no choreographer to help
And it was time for auditions, there were 14 teams in all. We were all decked out in our performance costumes, and prepared to give our best. And YES, we did it, we cleared the auditions. I am out of words to describe that feeling of accomplishment and being on cloud9.
Next day, the association had planned for an interactive session with the judge, for receiving tips and suggestions on our performances. We got our dose, and there were a few improvements to be made. I spoke to our choreographer on the improvements, but she had her own views, unfortunately a lot different from what the judge suggested. Finally she backed out. Pressure started building up as we were left with just 5 days to make all the necessary improvements in our dance, arrange for the props and new costumes and on the top of it, a new choreographer.
I didn't want these disappointments to become a reason of our distraction. So I browsed through my contact-list, made a few calls and managed to get another decent choreographer and we moved ahead.
Keeping the tempo up
It wasn't over but, one of our team member caught high fever and another got an ankle sprain due to overexertion. And all this happened just 3 days before the Grand Finale. Our situation reminded me of a similar plot in a famous bollywood movie "Jab we met" wherein Geet (Kareena Kapoor) says – 'babaji ab is raat me aur koi excitement mat dena, boring bana do jee is raat ko bas'. (God, please now make this night boring, no room for any excitement.)
But that urge to win and the desire to reach our full potential did not let our tempo down. In spite of all the odds, we practised and we practised more.
Arranging for the props
As per the suggestions received from the judge, we planned to perform a shadow dance for making a dhamakedar (grand) entry.
We needed a similar structure and that too 3 in number, for 3 girls.
We desperately needed a carpenter to make such wooden structure. We also got one, but this time, the overall cost of creating this structure came really high and looked unreasonable for our one-time use. Again I was landed in a tension building phase.
I couldn't agree more to the saying, "A will finds a way", one of our office boy approached saying he can build a similar sturdy structure with PVC pipes and that too within our budget. He turned out to be a real messiah for us.
Have a look at the final structure:
Finale Day
Lots of confusion, team nervous and anxious both to perform with new edits, new props and new costumes. There was fear, anxiety, nervousness to perform live in front of huge audience, but at the same time we all were determined to put our best foot forward.
Rehearsals were planned on the same day, we were to rehearse at the actual venue in the afternoon with finale planned in the evening. There were a series of instructions to be given to the light man for creating that perfect shadow light and also the lights to be cued in particular order as per the performance, also to that sound manager for special effects. Managing the props and creating the shadow-structure at the venue too required a lot of coordination.
Thankfully I got help from the upper management and it really helped to move things along. I was then able to let go of my TO DO list and slow down in my present.
My biggest takeaways after the event
- I did not focus on pre-planning and organizing. Pre-planning would have helped me to expand my focus and organize and turn it into something worthwhile.
- I learnt that no matter how much time you spend on planning your event, something will inevitably go wrong. But Instead of stressing, you should embrace it.
- The most important, I realized that one is a very small number for achieving greatness, instead Teamwork makes the dream work.
- IF you're one of THE Participant, try to avoid being the co-ordinator on the day of the event. We need helping hands and minds of other people as well to achieve success.
Alas, we did not win, but ours was the most energetic performance of the night. Check out:


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Fashion-savvy consumers have shopped their closets bare and are slowly heading back to the mall to revamp their wardrobe with the latest trends — but they're not spending on just anything.
Instead, fashion shoppers are abandoning basics and looking for unique, stylish items, and stores that break the recessionary trend of playing it safe will reap the rewards, analysts said.
"While it may seem counterintuitive, taking calculated fashion risks by offering new styles that [the consumer] doesn't already own will in the end be the more successful strategy," said Christine Chen, retail analyst at Needham & Co., in a research note.
This was evidenced in the most recent round of retail sales reports. Stores such as Urban Outfitters and Aeropostale , which analysts have commended for taking small style risks, posted same-store sales gains of 9 percent and 10 percent respectively.
Guess , which is among Needham's top sector picks, has also shown initiative in new fashions. Paired with lean inventories — which Citigroup analyst Deborah Weinswig said help to create a frenzy for products — the retailer should also outpace its competitors, Chen said.
On the flipside, companies that have failed to produce innovative inventory, such as Abercrombie and Fitch and Bebe , will continue to lag behind the retail recovery, analysts said. Missing out on trends is especially detrimental for teen retailers like Abercrombie, as its target demographic shops more frequently, adapts trends quicker and is more recession-resistant, Chen said.
"Bebe is shell-shocked," said Eric Beder, retail analyst at Brean Murray, Carret & Co. "[Abercrombie has] just lost their way in the economy, and they have to really go back to what's core for them and what worked when the fashion-driven customer came to them."
Consumers will likely continue to gravitate toward jewelry and shoes, as they can update an outfit for less, Beder said. He predicts dresses will be big sellers again in spring, while denim will continue to evolve and perform well.
And as shoppers move away from minimalism and start to feel better about themselves and the economy, Weinswig predicts items with vibrant colors and sequins, along with chunky jewelry, to be big trends.
"It's becoming much more product specific as opposed to price tag," she said.
Although fashion-driven shoppers are less influenced by price tags, Bill Taubman, chief operating officer for premium mall operator Taubman Centers , said shoppers have responded well to luxury brands like Tiffany and Coach offering products at lower opening price points.
Coach's Poppy line, which retails for about 10 to 15 percent less than a typical handbag, helped the retailer post positive North American same-store sales for the first time in more than a year on Wednesday.
"She's looking to maintain the image and exclusivity she's used to, she just wants to find a way to make it more affordable at times," Taubman said.
Similarly, membership at online luxury discounter Beyond The Rack increased by 120,000 in the month of December, which accounts for nearly 25 percent of its total members. The company's revenue is also growing at a rate of about 50 percent a month, CEO Yona Shtern said.
Fashion consumers tend to lead traditional shoppers, and are often seen as an early sign of an economic turnaround, Beder said. He expects fashion to start making its comeback in the spring, but said the true test will be when new inventory is introduced in the fall.
Taubman sounded a similar note, saying that although "there's no question" that shoppers are carrying more bags at the company's malls, the picture becomes fuzzier as holiday sales taper off.
Many are looking to New York's Fashion Week in February for signs of innovative fall trends, which are needed to excite consumers and persuade them to spend.
"No one's declaring victory, [but] business clearly is improving versus where we were in the middle of 2009," he said.
More from Consumer Nation:
- Want to Know How Tiffany's Sales Will Fare? Watch the Market
- Consumers Spending Again Despite Weak Jobs
- Deprivation & Consumers: Is There a Case for Renewed Spending?
- Winning Retail Stocks for 2010: Senior Analysts
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There's been some discussion among the lay followers as to how best respond to WPP's expulsion of Ajahn Brahm, and their failure to recognize or support women's renunciate aspirations. A petition has been raised, and some have called for a boycott of monasteries that oppose bhikkhuni ordination.
I'd like to inform this debate by reference to a comparable situation that occured in the famous crisis at Kosambi. The events are told in the tenth chapter of the Pali Vinaya Khandhakas. Here I'll just give a summary.
A serious split developed among the monks at Kosambi. Originally precipitated by a trivial dispute – whether it was allowable to leave water in the dipper in the bathroom – it rapidly escalated, hinting at underlying personal tensions. The Buddha attempted to resolve the dispute, but failed and left to go on retreat. Eventually, the lay people got sick of the monks arguing. They refused to pay respects to the monks and would not offer them any alms. Only when this happened did the monks decide to solve the problem. They left Kosambi and went to see the Buddha at Savatthi.
When they arrived, Ven Sariputta and other senior monks asked the Buddha how they should act. He said, 'You should stand fast by the Dhamma.' (yathā dhammo tathā tiṭṭhāhi). When Sariputta asked what the Dhamma was, the Buddha responded with '18 points'.
A teacher of non-Dhamma is one who:
teaches non-Dhamma as Dhamma and vice versa;
teaches non-Vinaya as Vinaya and vice versa;
teaches what was not spoken by the Buddha as being spoken by the Buddha, and vice versa;
teaches what was not practiced by the Buddha as being practiced by the Buddha, and vice versa;
teaches what was not laid down as a Vinaya rule by the Buddha as if it were laid down by the Buddha, and vice versa;
teaches what is no offence as an offence, and vice versa;
teaches a slight offence as a serious offence, and vice versa;
teaches a resolvable offence as unresolvable, and vice versa;
teaches a corrupt offence as not corrupt, and vice versa.
A teacher of Dhamma teaches the opposite of all these.
Then Mahapajapati came to the Buddha and asked him how the bhikkhunis should act regarding the divisive monks. The Buddha said she should listen to Dhamma from both sides, and follow the views of those monks who speak Dhamma. The duties that the bhikkhunis are to expect from the bhikkhus (such as assisting in ordinations) should be sought from those who are speakers of Dhamma.
Then Anathapindika and Visakha, the lay supporters, came to see the Buddha with the same question. He said, 'You should give offerings to both sides, and listen to Dhamma from both sides, but you should follow the views of the monks who are speakers of Dhamma.'
The Buddha also said to Sariputta that separate lodgings should be assigned for the quarreling monks, and that requisites should be distributed equally. In other words, there is to be no punitive measures among the Sangha in terms of lodgings or material gains.
After this, the quarreling monks realized their mistake, confessed it, and the matter was resolved.
There are a number of interesting features of this little story. First of all, the Buddha does not say, 'Be nice to everyone and try to conciliate both sides.' He says the monks should stick by the Dhamma. And the Dhamma is not merely a general sense of being harmonious, but specifically the Buddha's teachings and practices.
Elsewhere in the Vinaya, the course that goes against the Dhamma and Vinaya is said to be the 'Dark Side'. I kid you not, the Pali is kaṇhapakkha.
It is remarkable how much trust the Buddha had in human nature. He doesn't tell people, 'This lot are right and these are wrong.' He gives the guidelines, and asks them to make their own judgments. There's no room here for 'bad faith', for pretending that there is something virtuous about blindly following traditions.
It's also interesting to note the role of the lay people. It is only their boycott that forces the monks to do anything. Even the Buddha couldn't wield this kind of power! That boycott is something the Buddha does not comment on (at least in this version). He does not praise it, but he certainly does not criticize it.
Later, when the lay people ask for his advice, he recommends that they give offerings to both sides. But notice that when he gives that advice, the situation has already changed. The two sides have decided they need to resolve the problem, and even though it is not over yet, they have traveled to Savatthi to seek a resolution. The boycott of the Kosambi laypeople had already done its job. In this situation, there is no point to further pursuing the boycott.
For the lay people who wish to help create change in the Sangha, heed this lesson! If the Sangha is sincere, acknowledges the problem, and is actively seeking to redress it, your support is required – with discernment.
It is up to you to decide whether this applies in our situation. Consider carefully the 18 points, and if you aren't confident to make up your mind with this framework, ask and inquire. Even Sariputta asked the Buddha, 'What is the Dhamma here?'
If you find that there is a denial of the problem, a refusal to engage, a persistence in the same behaviours that caused the problem in the first place, then it is irrational to think that conciliation will lead to any improvement. In such cases, please remember that, despite everything that the Sangha hierarchy might suggest, it is you who have the power. Where the Buddha failed, you can succeed.


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Animal Science
Six More Farms Hit by Bird Flu in France –The Poultry Site
The H5N8 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been found in several different locations in France in the past week.
Important food safety tips for pets owners at Christmas – SPCA Auckland
It may be unknown that common treats and snacks we humans enjoy as part of our holiday celebration including avocado, macadamia nuts, ham, grapes and raisins can cause internal damage and in serious cases lead to death.
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Integrating Environmental Monitoring into Your Environmental Controls Program – The Acheson Group
Both environmental monitoring and environmental control are critical in today's preventive approach to food safety. But what, exactly, is the difference?
Half of antibiotic resistant Salmonella cases from 4 serotypes – Food Safety News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new estimates of the incidence of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella infections in the United States, putting the burden at about 6,200 cases annually.
Ag Research: USDA Announces $5M in Funds for Smart Tech Innovations – AG FAX
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently announced the availability of up to $5 million for research to strengthen the science behind the next generation of internet-connected agricultural implements and resources through the Cyber Physical Systems program.
South American soybean progress – Morning Ag Clips
Farmers down in Argentina continue to make progress with planting soybeans but the pace is still behind average. By mid-December, it is reported than only about 58% of the crop has been planted so far.
More than 40 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath lotion in Siberian city – Washington Post
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in a Siberian city after at least 41 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking a bath oil they hoped would give them the same buzz as booze.
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Can you believe it's been over 10 years since the first iPhone launched? June 29, 2007. It really has revolutionised the industry. There are now plenty of smartphone handsets out there for you to choose from and it is said that 36 percent of the world's population now owns a smartphone of some kind.
Every few months, a new handset crashes through into market place promising eager fans an ever increasing slew of features to help make our lives easier. Every vendor has its own app store that allows owners to download the latest, greatest add-ons. But there's a common theme - most of these mobile applications have been created with the sole intention of making its developer money.
So what about you? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to make some easy cash without learning the art of development? If so, then maybe it's time to start looking at apps that can actually make YOU some money. If you're an Android user, take a look at our money making apps for Android. If you're an iPhone user, read on…
1) Earning Perks
Perk is one of the most popular mobile rewards programs available on iOS and Android. The premise is simple - download the free app and then use it to earn points when you shop, search, watch videos and share stuff with your friends. When you have enough points, redeem them for rewards such as cash, gift cards or airline miles.
Perk Shopping is becoming increasingly popular with brands who are looking to market their products to new audiences. The website claims to have more than 3,000 stores listed in the Perk Shopping app and you can shop and find coupons from brands including Target, Macy's, Best Buy, Groupon and more.
And you're not just limited to shopping. You can also download Perk rewards apps for search (Perk Search) and video watching (Perk TV).
2) Become a Field Agent
Want to become the James Bond of field research? Cool. Unholster your iPhone and download the Field Agent App. Once you've created an account and logged in, you can browse a list of 'jobs' which need to be completed. To give you an example, a given task might include capturing a photo and the price of a specific item in a nearby store. Unlike Mr Bond, you get the choice of missions and the 'Map View' can be used to ensure you don't have to travel far.
Not up for a little spy work? No problem. If you like something a little more sedate then why not fill out one of the many surveys presented in Field Agent. Easy work accompanied by the clink of pennies in the piggy bank.
Each job you complete pays between $3 and $12 and can be withdrawn via your Paypal account.
One tip: once you accept your task you have two hours to complete it. Get cracking!
3) Get Paid To Shop And Eat
I love food. Really, I do. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard about Easy Shift, an app that pays you for, amongst other things, eating.
Like Field Agent, the app creators, a company called Quri, pay money in return for market research. Yes, it's more spy work, but think of it as ensuring prices are kept low. Payments for each 'Shift' you complete vary and, like Field Agent, you can withdraw money through your Paypal account, normally within 48 hours of a task being completed.
The time limits for each piece of work vary. Some may be open for hours, others for far less time. However, there is a reservation limit that prevents you from re-reserving a Shift if you don't complete it in time.


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Available on plans: Pro, Business, Enterprise
Cluvio offers powerful options for embedding of full dashboards or individual reports on websites or within web applications to support wide range of scenarios:
- simply make any dashboard part of your website (Pro or Business plan)
- embed dashboard with different sets of filters applied (Business plan)
- embed dashboard with values specific for a logged-in user of your web application (Business plan)
In all of these cases, whether the embedded dashboard is interactive or not, it is live, and always displays the current data or any changes made to the dashboard (i.e. behaves the same way as viewer accessing the dashboard inside the regular Cluvio account).
Here is a rundown of possible embedding options, in increased level of complexity / functionality:
1. Simple non-interactive dashboard embedding (Pro or Business plan)
The basic embedding is accomplished by creating a sharing link and using the embed code (which you can see by clicking on the Embed link of the sharing link in Cluvio) like the following:
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen
width="100%" src="https://dashboards.cluvio.com/dashboards/jvre-px0w-p1z2/shared?sharingToken=1c1d9827-bbd6-4d08-af81-2f68baacd81d"
The iframe contains a link to the sharing link with the same set of options supported either on the sharing link itself or the iframe src URL parameters. Via the options you can fine tune the behavior of the embedded dashboard (toolbar, dark/light mode, grid behavior, etc.).
To share a single report, just add the
to the iframe src URL, e.g. like this:
You can see these embeds in action at our website.
2. Embedding a non-interactive dashboard with different filters applied (Business plan)
With the Business plan, you can make use of the sharing link with parameters to create different sharing links for the same dashboard and use those as embeds. In this case, you could, for instance, create a set of sharing links for each of your customers and render them depending on which of your customers is logged in.
Note: Although this approach is straightforward to setup, it can become hard to manage with more than a handful of links, so see #3 and #8 below for an approach that uses single sharing link but still allows to have the dashboard display data customized for the user accessing it.
3. Passing in filters via url parameters (Business plan)
The Business plan also allows to change the filters on sharing link by passing URL parameters. This would not make the dashboard interactive for the user via the UI, but would allow to render non-interactive dashboard with different filters applies.
Note that the user who has access to the sharing link can also make these URL parameter modifications himself, so this is not a full implementation of separating access to different users (as below covered in #6, #7, #8)
Here are details on the possible URL parameters:
value type: String
possible values: minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year
value type: String
possible values:
- absolute timerange as 2 unix timestamps separated with tilde (e.g. 1483228800~1485907199), either side of the timerange missing would have the before/after meaning - i.e. "~1485907199" means before Jan/31 2017
- relative timerange as 2 values separated with
- Last: <number><unit> - e.g. 7_days
- This: this_<unit> - e.g. this_day
- Previous: previous_<unit> - e.g. previous_month
value type: Object that maps filter variable to array of string values:
{ <filter_variable>: ["value1", "value2"] }
in the URL this object is stringified and URL encoded via encodeURIComponent function
All of these can be seen in the regular dashboard URL, so for instance for this dashboard link with modified filters:
if you run in your console:
you will see that the encoded value is a stringified JSON object:
4. Embedding interactive dashboard (Business plan)
With the Business plan, the embedded dashboard/report can have the same full interactive filter bar as regular dashboard. You can see an example here.
By default this option is only available for sharing links that are secured via additional sharingSecret token to make sure you have access to the interactive dashboard under full control. To enable this for any of your regular sharing links, please contact our support.
5. Embedding interactive dashboard with your own controls for interactivity (Business plan)
There are many use-cases for embedded analytics that require showing different dashboards, reports or applying filters based on changes in your web application. This can be accomplished easily by replacing the iframe with a different link (different sharing token or changing the URL parameters as in #3). But if you have a SPA (single-page application), you can achieve much better and fluid results by driving the iframe using postMessages instead of replacing the iframes (which always causes it to completely reload). Using postMessages, you can:
- smoothly switch between full-screen (within the iframe) reports on the dashboard
- change any filters of the dashboard/report
- change other parameters of the embedded dashboard/report
You can see an example of some of these on our sample Tickit application here: https://tickit.cluvio.com, with the source code being available on Github (coming soon).
The View By filter on top of the page works exactly this way - these are controls within your application that trigger Javascript postMessage to the embedded iframe:
function changeParam(param, value) {
var message = { params: {} };
message.params[param] = value;
document.getElementById("embed-1").contentWindow.postMessage(JSON.stringify(message), '*');

Week

Month

Quarter

Year

The available messages are:
- { action: 'downloadImage' }
- { action: 'downloadImage' , params: { reportId: 'abcd-efgh-1234' }}
- { action: 'downloadPDF' }
- { action: 'downloadPDF', params: { reportId: 'abcd-efgh-1234' }}
- { action: 'downloadExcel' }
- { action: 'switchReport', params: { reportId: '' }}
- { action: 'applyFilters', params: { aggregation: '', timerange: '', filters: '' }}
6. Further securing of embeds or sharing links (Business plan)
If you turn on the 'Requires secret' flag for a sharing link, the dashboard will now require an additional URL parameter sharingSecret, which is a JWT token you have to generate on your backend. This enhances the security of the sharing link and allows you to generate short-lived links on-the-fly to have access under full control.
The JWT token is a hash encoded with the secret for your account (you can get it in the Secrets section on the Organization admin page) with the following basic attributes:
"sharing_token": "<sharing_token value from the sharing link>",
"exp": "<expiration unix timestamp"
Both sharing_token and expiration are required to be present.
The JWT library is available for most programming languages, but always make sure to generate the token on backend, never in browser.
Here is an example code in Ruby/Rails to generate the sharingSecret value:
require 'JWT'
hash = {
sharing_token: 'fc77dd26-1b9d-417d-9489-518bc4ab7431', # value from sharing link
exp: (Time.now + 10.years).to_i # should be short
secret='d880b5e74cea82a4e8998ae0e8775176fb440a4569eb097505f7e08e555b17b5aad78b5fa1f47acd1fbfbd876631dfdd' # value from Organization settings
JWT.encode(hash, secret)
Running this produces this value:
And when used in a sharing link, the full URL is:
7. Embedding interactive dashboards with only subset of filters interactive (Business plan)
There are several use-cases where it is important to render a dashboard where the user is prevented from tampering with the filters and see data that he should not have access to:
- secure non-interactive dashboards shown to different users/clients/etc.
- secure interactive dashboards where only some of the filters are interactive/changeable by the user
Building on the secured sharing links (#6), we can achieve both of these, by passing an additional parameter to the JWT token:
fixed_parameters: { param1: value1, param2: [ value2, value 3 ] }
Here are couple fully working examples:
hash = {
sharing_token: 'fc77dd26-1b9d-417d-9489-518bc4ab7431', # value from sharing link
exp: (Time.now + 10.years).to_i, # should be short,
fixed_parameters: {
aggregation: 'month',
countries: ['Germany']
Result dashboard - Germany by month
hash = {
sharing_token: 'fc77dd26-1b9d-417d-9489-518bc4ab7431', # value from sharing link
exp: (Time.now + 10.years).to_i, # should be short,
fixed_parameters: {
aggregation: 'quarter',
day_of_week: [1,2,3],
countries: ['Canada', 'United States']
Result: US and Canada by quarter, with only Monday and Tuesday flights
Note: The value of each of the fixed_parameters keys for custom filters can be either a single value or an array of values.
8. Embedding dashboard for logged-in users (Business plan)
Building on #7, it is now easy to build dashboard based on logged in users.
You can use something like user_id, project_id, user_email, etc to identify what the user should see and then add this to the WHERE clause of your report queries:
SELECT SUM(price) from sales WHERE {salesrep_id=user_id}
and when generating the JWT token, fix the user_id filter to the value of the logged-in user:
hash = {
sharing_token: '<token>',
exp: (Time.now + 1.hour).to_i,
fixed_parameters: {
user_id: [<logged-in user id>]
With sharingSecret generated from this, all of the queries with
{salesrep_id=user_id} in the WHERE clauses will be restricted to the passed in user_id


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Helping others is heartfelt.
Being able to help others by buying comic books … WIN!
Where does this wonderful exchange take place?
I first heard about this event, at the "Toys on the Hudson" show. I didn't know anything about it, but show organizer Spiro Ballas was extremely proud and couldn't wait to give me all the details:
"Super Hero's for Hospice is a fundraising show to help Barnabas Health Hospice in New Jersey. It's a simple idea because I sold boxes of old comics of mine. I heard the donate cars for kids commercial, and thought, 'if people are willing to donate cars, maybe they'll donate comics'. I got the okay to start it five-year-ago, and it's been blossoming ever since."
Not sure on what hospice care is, or if they actually raise any money? Here's Spiro with more info…
"Hospice care is end of life care. When someone, or a family, has used all of their options to fight a disease/illness, we come in and help comfort the patient/family towards the end. Before the show, we have collected just above $40,000. After today, we should have an additional $6,000."
This isn't a cookie cutter show either.
In one huge conference room sits long boxes after long boxes. Think I'm over exaggerating? Look at the pictures; they had so many that they flooded into the hallway. A few workers believe they had over 500 boxes. They had so many that they could only estimate the books.
These books are all tax write offs.
So you won't need to haggle with anyone. They're $1 bin books. There's something for everyone.
Sounds like something you would like to be a part of? Spiro says you can: "People can donate by simply getting in touch with me via phone/email. They can drop them off at our office. If they need to be picked up, we can arrange to have that done. All donations are tax write offs. We are a non-profit agency."
It was an ocean of $1 books. Depending on the quantity of comics you picked up, the price went down.
These aren't cruddy books either. We're talking about big runs in great condition.
Parent and showgoer Matt Moses loves the show for some very specific reasons, "They have great stuff here. I read a lot of alternate and underground stuff, and they have a fantastic selection for my kids."
My favorite aspect of the show, which also happens to be what takes the most time, is the organization. All the books were in order by company - title - and by number. It was extremely easy to find books. Having this at any show, is a godsend.
You might be wondering how good these books truly are. I understand your concern. After all, the quality of these books may influence you on spending your afternoon to get to a show.
I promise you...you won't be disappointed.
The best way to explain the quality of this show is through the other comic vendors.
No, they weren't selling books, but buying mass quantities to fill the bins of their stores.
Think about that.
They're buying so many books for less than a dollar, and reselling them in their store for a whole lot more!
That says a lot!!!
I'm now fully prepared to bring my wish-list of books and going to town at the next show.
So do your daily good deed, and channel your inner geek, by buying some comic books at Super Heroes for Hospice.


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Thomas Newton (David Bowie) comes to Earth in an effort to save his home of Anthea. But his superior intellect and morality is subsumed under humanity's materialism and the pleasures of the flesh. Roeg's adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1963 novel is a masterpiece of photography, editing and casting, crowned by David Bowie in the middle of his cocaine addiction as the detached androgynous alien. A science-fiction classic of ideas, short on explosions but overflowing with emotion.


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Davis Phinney Foundation cyclist with Parkinson's finds hope in Ride the Rockies
CRESTED BUTTE — Carl Ames still remembers what his doctor told him in 2008 when he diagnosed him with Parkinson's Disease.
"I remember I was told it wasn't a death sentence — it was more of a life sentence," said Ames, an operations manger for a trucking company who lives in Phoenix and was diagnosed in 2008. "It was awesome to know that as many chronic illnesses as you can deal with, this is one that you can live with. You don't have it hanging over your head."
His attitude is indicative of those found renewed hope in cycling for the Davis Phinney Foundation, represented here at Ride the Rockies with a 30-member team that includes seven patients with Parkinson's riding the route.
Ames' symptoms are typical of patients Parkinson's, a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the lack of dopamine production in the brain: His movement is stiff. When he walks, his arms don't swing. He struggles to get out of chairs and off the ground. Even just walking a few feet from the tent where we're talking to get a bite to eat can be a challenge. He suffers often with pain and easily gets distracted. Typing and texting are difficult. So what about riding a bike 464 miles over seven days with more than 31,000 feet of elevation gain?
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Creator: Rivera-Batiz, Luis and Romer, Paul Michael, 1955- Series: Modeling North American economic integration Abstract:
In a world with two similar, developed economies, economic integration can cause a permanent increase in the worldwide rate of growth. Starting from a position of isolations, closer integration can be achieved by increasing trade in goods or by increasing flows of ideas. We consider two models with different specifications of the research and development sector that is the source of growth. Either form of integration can increase the long-run rate of growth if it encourages the worldwide exploitation of increasing returns to scale in the research and development sector.
Soggetto: F15 - Economic Integration, F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies, and O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Creator: Laitner, John Series: Productivity and the industrial revolution Abstract:
This paper presents a model in which a country's average propensity to save tends to rise endogenously over time. The paper uses a two-sector neoclassical framework to model the transition from agriculture to manufacturing which typically accompanies economic development. Key assumptions are that only the agricultural sector uses land and a simple version of Engel's law. When a country's income per capita is low, agricultural consumption is important; consequently, land is valuable and capital gains on it may account for most wealth accumulation, making the NIPA APS appear low. If exogenous technological progress raises incomes over time, Engel's law shifts demand to manufactured goods. Then land's importance in portfolios relative to reproducible capital diminishes and the measured average propensity to save can rise.
Parola chiave: Growth, Manufacturing, and Economic growth Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models and O14 - Economic development - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and service industries ; Choice of technology
Creator: Caselli, Francesco, 1966- and Coleman, Wilbur John Series: Productivity and the industrial revolution Abstract:
The process by which per capita income in the South converged to northern levels is intimately related to the structural transformation of the U.S. economy. We find that empirically most of the southern gains are attributable to the nation-wide convergence of agricultural wages to non-agricultural wages, and the faster rate of transition of the Southern labor force from agricultural to non-agricultural jobs. Similar results describe the Mid-West's catch up to the North-East (but not the relative experience of the West). To explain these observations, we construct a model in which the South (Mid-West) has a comparative advantage in producing unskilled-labor intensive agricultural goods. Thus, it starts with a disproportionate share of the unskilled labor force and lower per capita incomes. Over time, declining education/training costs induce an increasing proportion of the labor force to move out of the (unskilled) agricultural sector and into the (skilled) non-agricultural sector. The decline in the agricultural labor force leads to an increase in relative agricultural wages. Both effects benefit the South (Mid-West) disproportionately since it has more agricultural workers. The model successfully matches the quantitative features of the U.S. structural transformation and regional convergence, as well as several other stylized facts on U.S. economic growth in the last century. The model does not rely on frictions on factor mobility, since in our empirical work we find this channel to be less important than the compositional effects the model emphasizes.
Parola chiave: Regional economies, Agricultural and non-agricultural workers, Skill acquisition, Regional convergence, and Structural transformation Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models, O18 - Economic development - Regional, urban, and rural analyses, and O14 - Economic development - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and service industries ; Choice of technology
Creator: Chang, Roberto Series: Conference on economics and politics Abstract:
This paper examines the determination of the rate of growth in an economy in which two political parties, each representing a different social class, negotiate the magnitude and allocation of taxes. Taxes may increase growth if they finance public services, but reduce growth when used to redistribute income between classes. The different social classes have different preferences about growth and redistribution. The resulting conflict is resolved through the tax negotiations between the political parties. I use the model to obtain empirical predictions and policy lessons about the relationship between economic growth and income inequality. In particular, I show that, although differences in growth rates across countries may be negatively related to income inequality, redistributing wealth does not enhance growth.
Soggetto: D72 - Analysis of collective decision-making - Models of political processes : Rent-seeking, elections, legislatures, and voting behavior and O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Creator: Bertola, Giuseppe Series: Economic growth and development Abstract:
This paper proposes a model of diversifiable uncertainty, irreversible investment decisions, and endogenous growth. The detailed microeconomic structure of the model makes it possible to study the. general equilibrium effects of obstacles to labor mobility, due to institutional as well as technological features of the economy. Labor mobility costs reduce private returns to investment, and the resulting slower rate of endogenous growth unambiguously lowers a representative individual's welfare. Turnover costs can have positive effects on full employment equilibrium wages when all external effects are disregarded: this may help explain why policy and institutions often tend to decrease labor mobility in reality, rather than to enhance it. Lower flexibility, however, reduces the growth rate of wages in endogenous growth equilibrium, with negative welfare effects even for agents who own only labor.
Soggetto: E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution, E24 - Macroeconomics : Consumption, saving, production, employment, and investment - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational income distribution ; Aggregate human capital, and O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Creator: Azariadis, Costas and Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David), 1954-2002 Series: Finance, fluctuations, and development Abstract:
We study a variant of the one-sector neoclassical growth model of Diamond in which capital investment must be credit financed, and an adverse selection problem appears in loan markets. The result is that the unfettered operation of credit markets leads to a one-dimensional indeterminacy of equilibrium. Many equilibria display economic fluctuations which do not vanish asymptotically; such equilibria are characterized by transitions between a Walrasian regime in which the adverse selection problem does not matter, and a regime of credit rationing in which it does. Moreover, for some configurations of parameters, all equilibria display such transitions for two reasons. One, the banking system imposes ceilings on credit when the economy expands and floors when it contracts because the quality of public information about the applicant pool of potential borrowers is negatively correlated with the demand for credit. Two, depositors believe that returns on bank deposits will be low (or high): these beliefs lead them to transfer savings out of (into) the banking system and into less (more) productive uses. The associated disintermediation (or its opposite) causes banks to contract (expand) credit. The result is a set of equilibrium interest rates on loans that validate depositors' original beliefs. We investigate the existence of perfect foresight equilibria displaying periodic (possibly asymmetric) cycles that consist of m periods of expansion followed by n periods of contraction, and propose an algorithm that detects all such cycles.
Parola chiave: Equilibrium, Business cycles, Credit markets, and Interest rates Soggetto: E51 - Monetary policy, central banking, and the supply of money and credit - Money supply ; Credit ; Money multipliers, E32 - Prices, business fluctuations, and cycles - Business fluctuations ; Cycles, O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models, and E44 - Money and interest rates - Financial markets and the macroeconomy
Creator: Krusell, Per and Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor Series: Conference on economics and politics Abstract:
Some economic policies and regulations seem to have only one purpose: to prevent technological development and economic growth from occurring. In this paper, we attempt to rationalize such policies as outcomes of voting equilibria. In our environment, some agents will be worse off if the economy grows, since their skills are complementary to resources that can be allocated to growth-stimulating activities. In the absence of arrangements where votes are traded, we show that for some initial skill distributions, the economy may stagnate due to growth-preventing policies. Different initial skill distributions, however, lead to voting outcomes and policies in support of technological development, and to persistent economic growth. In making our argument formally, we use a dynamic model with induced heterogeneity in agents' skills. In their voting decisions, agents compare how they will be affected under each policy alternative, and then vote for the policy that maximizes their welfare.
Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models and O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Creator: Backus, David, Kehoe, Patrick J., and Kehoe, Timothy Jerome, 1953- Series: Modeling North American economic integration Abstract:
We look for the scale effects on growth predicted by some theories of trade and growth based on dynamic returns to scale at the national or industry level. The increasing returns can arise from learning by doing, investment in human capital, research and development, or development of new products. We find some evidence of a relation between growth rates and the measures of scale implied by the learning by doing theory, especially total manufacturing. With respect to human capital, there is some evidence of a relation between growth rates and per capita measures of inputs into the human capital accumulation process, but little evidence of a relation with the scale of inputs. There is also little evidence that growth rates are related to measures of inputs into R&D. We find, however, that growth rates are related to measures of intra-industry trade, particularly when we control for scale of industry.
Parola chiave: External effects, Intra-industry trade, Specialization indexes, Increasing returns to scale, Learning by doing, Research and development, Human capital, and International trade Soggetto: F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies and O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Creator: Chari, V. V. and Hopenhayn, Hugo Andres Series: Models of economic growth and development Abstract:
We present a model of vintage human capital. The economy exhibits exogenous deterministic technological change. Technology requires skills that are specific to the vintage. A stationary competitive equilibrium is defined and shown to exist and be unique, as well as Pareto optimal. The stationary equilibrium is characterized by an endogenous distribution of skilled workers across vintages. The distribution is shown to be single peaked, and under general conditions there is a lag between the time when a technology appears and the peak of its usage, what is known as diffusion. An increase in the rate of exogenous technological charge shirts the distribution of human capital to more recent vintages and increases the relative wage of the unskilled workers in each vintage.
Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models, J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity, and O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Creator: Chari, V. V., Kehoe, Patrick J., and McGrattan, Ellen R. Series: Joint committee on business and financial analysis Abstract:
This paper proposes a simple method for guiding researchers in developing quantitative models of economic fluctuations. We show that a large class of models, including models with various frictions, are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time varying wedges that, at least on face value, look like time-varying productivity, labor taxes, and capital income taxes. We label the time varying wedges as efficiency wedges, labor wedges, and investment wedges. We use data to measure these wedges and then feed them back into the prototype growth model. We then assess the fraction of fluctuations accounted for by these wedges during the great depressions of the 1930s in the United States, Germany, and Canada. We find that the efficiency and labor wedges in combination account for essentially all of the declines and subsequent recoveries. Investment wedge plays at best a minor role.
Parola chiave: Business cycle, Cycle, Economic fluctuations, Fluctuation, and Growth Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models, O47 - Economic growth and aggregate productivity - Measurement of economic growth ; Aggregate productivity ; Cross-country output convergence, and E32 - Prices, business fluctuations, and cycles - Business fluctuations ; Cycles
Creator: Parente, Stephen L. and Prescott, Edward C. Series: Economic growth and development Abstract:
Technology change is modeled as the result of decisions of individuals and groups of individuals to adopt more advanced technologies. The structure is calibrated to the U.S. and postwar Japan growth experiences. Using this calibrated structure we explore how large the disparity in the effective tax rates on the returns to adopting technologies must be to account for the huge observed disparity in per capita income across countries. We find that this disparity is not implausibly large.
Soggetto: O33 - Technological change ; Research and development - Technological change : Choices and consequences ; Diffusion processes and O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Creator: Segerstrom, Paul Stephen, 1957- Series: Economic growth and development Abstract:
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of economic growth. The model has a steady state equilibrium in which some firms devote resources to discovering qualitatively improved products and other firms devote resources to copying these products. Rates of both innovation and imitation are endogenously determined based on the outcomes of R&D races between firms. Innovation subsidies are shown to unambiguously promote economic growth. Welfare is only enhanced however if the steady state intensity of innovative effort exceeds a critical level.
Soggetto: O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models and O31 - Technological change ; Research and development - Innovation and invention : Processes and incentives


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An electrical fitter plans, installs, and maintains wiring at levels from private homes to power stations. People must undergo training before starting careers in electrical fitting. Depending on the nation, this may involve an apprenticeship for a period of up to four years, followed by a certification exam to confirm competency with electrical wiring and related matters. Rates of pay depend on where the person works and whether she has any special certifications.
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My wanted to be an electrician from the time he was ten years old. He was always taking electronic toys apart and putting them back together. Anything to do with electricity fascinated him.
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He now works full-time as an electrical fitter with my uncle. My brother is going to take over the business soon. It has provided a nice income for his family and he is doing what he loves to do.
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