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Disney could pull an ultra-pro PR move here if they wanted. Send them a check for some insignificant amount (in Disney terms) to help offset the production costs. Maybe like $1000, probably less than some Disney exec spends on their expense account in a day for "business lunch meetings". Include a letter giving them your permission to put on the show. More importantly, in that letter include some wording like "we welcome criticism and the opportunity to improve" or "maybe some of these criticisms are valid, and we'll be taking them into consideration". Then, this is the important part (from a corporate perspective), do nothing.
Cost to the company is basically nothing. You gain some goodwill from some of the people who shared the same criticisms because now they believe you're working on changing. They may even believe they see changes where there are none. You've also planted the idea (or perhaps, further implanted the idea) that people need to seek your permission to engage in fair-use usages of your company's works.
It looks like Fluke has already reached out to SparkFun.
Poverty is the result.
Poor morals are the cause.
... something to do with the Telecom Industry putting money in the pockets of those we've elected to represent us.
If you were in Ryan Lanza's position right now, I'd hope you'd be more concerned about the fact that your brother killed your mother, a bunch of other innocent people, and himself rather than being concerned with filing law suits
What if one of the people he goes after turns out to be a minor? If we agree that he's being "abusive" by going after all these people, and one of them is a "child", could you argue that no defamation took place because he is, in fact, involved in a "child abuse scandal"?
There are a lot of my countrymen who are truly ignorant about the French. They have no clue how bad ass the French Resistance was in WWII, or even worse, the fact that we may not have won the Revolutionary War without them. I don't think Tim is one of those people. It was a joke, chill.
FYI, hoplophobe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobe) is the term often used. And yeah, it does seem that way based on several articles I've read.
By the time I read the article, the comments it had when the page loaded, and got my comment typed and submitted, things had already gotten a little out of hand.
Unfortunately, many of my compatriots get fired up enough about this stuff that they jump immediately to the "hey douchenozzle, get your facts straight you idiot!" phase and skip the "oh hey, you might not know this, and I just want to make sure you have all the facts" phase. Its understandable (again, that cNet headline was just too intentionally ignorant and incendiary) but regrettable. Just as with the IP law debates, I think we'd all be better off if all sides approached things in a more polite, respectful, logic, and truthful manner.
I think what we gun folks often take issue with is the same issue many of us here have with the copyright debate: specific words have specific meanings, and misusing them, even unintentionally, only serves to muddy the waters and make it harder to have meaningful discussion. Much like copyright infringement is not theft, the firearm this guy received is not an assault rifle. You definitely did better than the cNet article, where it was referred to as a "high definition murder weapon", and I can't fault you for not knowing the specifics when that detail wasn't that important to the point. However, I think we can both agree that it makes sense to point out such mistakes to people so that they have the facts going forward.
As for the "military-grade" part, just some info for anyone who might be curious why that might matter to non-crazy people purchasing firearms: if I'm going to drop $1000+ for a gun, I want to be sure that it is high quality and will last (especially when I'm bad about keeping it clean). The fact that something meets the standards of the military and may even be pretty much the same firearm our men and women trust their lives with every day speaks a lot to the quality of the gun. Arguments about *actual* quality and reliability of said weapons are a matter for discussion somewhere other than TechDirt. :P
An assault rifle, such as an AR-15, is designed for blasting away at someone you can barely see, at a range of, say, two hundred yards.
I have nothing useful to add to the conversation, but I want to say that I'm totally stoked that something I said once ended up on Urban Dictionary. Clearly it only happened because I was just some random guy on the internet commenting on a blog post, and it would never work for someone who was already well known, but its exciting nonetheless.
And on the other end, some of the best movies and tv DO need, and make heavy, relevant use of, music. Imagine Star Wars with all the music removed. The impact and feel of many scenes would be vastly different without the musical score. Perhaps it wouldn't make a difference to someone who is seeing it for the first time, but all of us who have seen it with music would certainly miss the emotional impact that the music is there to help impart. That, I believe, was the point here. The music played an important role in the impact of the show, and its removal is a loss for our common culture.
Copyright is law, and piracy is breaking copyright law, or do you disagree with that? You said the greedy pirates are ruining it for those who only pirate a little, which sounded similar to the view we tend to have of speeding - that is, you shouldn't do it, but everyone does, so just don't do it too much or too fast and understand that there will be reasonable repercussions if you are caught.
Also, I'm not sure what cause I gave you to jump straight to insults when I'm just trying to engage in reasoned discussion with you. I'm not surprised, mind you, because I've seen many of your other posts turn out the same way. I just hoped that maybe this time you could be civil with someone who was being civil towards you. Lesson learned, I suppose.
I wish that you pirates weren't so greedy, because you've ruined it for everyone who only filches a little
So you're saying it is ok to break the law, as long as you only do it a little? Sounds kind of like speeding, to me at least. We have a system of dealing with that, and it involves giving the offender a reasonable fine and generally requires proof that they actually broke the law (let's skip the debate about accuracy of measuring devices, speed cameras, and such for now). We also don't usually punish the car manufacturers and road builders/maintainers when someone uses their cars/roads to speed and we rarely place requirements on them to ensure that people can't speed. I think, then, that it would be logical and reasonable to expect something similar to work on the "information superhighway" as what works for the real highway.
What channels have commercials? I listen to Liquid Metal every day for about an hour and a half (45 mins each way to and from work) and the only things resembling commercials are the "you're listening to liquid metal on sirius/xm" every 5 songs or so.
You're right, copyright infringement and murder are INCREDIBLY SIMILAR! And since the solution to stop infringement seems to be "skip the legal system, I say they infringed so they automatically lose their hosting, domain names, etc" the same solution will clearly work with murder. We're going to save millions in court costs! What method of execution would you prefer when I notify the authorities that you may have murdered 77 people?
I think a decent portion of the people who would even consider buying an Anthrax album chose not to do so because of Joey Belladonna, not piracy.
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Level3 is a backbone provider, as are AT&T, Verizon, and other major communications companies.
I've been out of the ISP world for a many years now, but here's how I remember things:
Let's say you want to connect to awesomewebsite.com. They're hosted at a facility that has a connection provided by Level3. Your ISP is AT&T. You pay AT&T so that your connection can bounce around inside their network (both backbone and non-backbone). When your connection leaves their backbone and hits Level3 the costs are now covered by the people on their side (the hosting company, who passes the cost on to the website owner). The backbone providers don't charge each other (as far as I remember) because they'd both just charge each other the same amount and each end up owing nothing.
The road analogy does, sort of, work here. Take a road that is maintained by the counties it is in and crosses county lines. Taxes collected in county A cover their side of the road, taxes in county B cover their side, and no one (yet?) thinks people traveling from A to B should have to pay taxes on both sides just because they drove down the road.


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UC San Diego has admitted a record number of freshman for the fall 2013 term — an 8.1 increase over a year ago — including more low-income students, more students of color and students with higher GPAs.
While the UC system admissions also are a record, up 3.2 percent from 2012, there are fewer California residents and 3,915 more out of state and international students than a year ago.
UC San Diego admitted more students in each of those category.
The admission rate for Californians who applied to UC universities fell from 65.8 percent in 2012 to 60.6 percent due to a surge of applications and 1,356 fewer residents being admitted.
That is the lowest rate since 2009, a number driven by funding concerns, said Michael Treviño, UC's director of undergraduate admissions. UC has stepped up its efforts to recruit nonresident students. They pay about $23,000 more in tuition and fees than residents.
"The number of California residents we admit is driven by how much funding we have from the state," he said.
UC San Diego admitted 24,792 freshmen to the university, including 1,050 more California residents than last fall, 621 more international students and 162 from other states.
They have until May 1 to say whether they will attend the school.
Because applicants from outside California traditionally decline UCSD admission offers at a higher rate than Californians, officials expect total campus enrollment of nonresidents to remain at 12 percent in fall 2013, said university spokeswoman Christine Clark.
UC San Diego admitted 36.8 percent of those who applied.
"The makeup of this year's new freshmen represents one of UC San Diego's most ethnically, geographically and socioeconomically diverse classes to date," Mae Brown, UC San Diego's assistant vice chancellor of admissions, said in a statement.
Compared to a year ago, officials said they admitted 8.6 percent more low-income students and 20.2 percent more students who are the first in their family to attend college. Virtually all ethnic groups experienced increases, with the largest among Mexican Americans (17.5 percent) and African Americans (12.5 percent).
That reflects the campus's push to providing access and opportunity to students from diverse backgrounds. UC San Diego's undergraduate population in the fall of 2011 included 2 percent African American, 10 percent Mexican American, 23 percent Caucasian and 44 percent Asian.
The average high school GPA for the incoming freshmen was 4.11, up from 4.07 last year.
Of the students who were admitted for the fall of 2013, more than 52 percent were female. The most popular majors chosen were biology, economics, electrical and computer engineering, chemistry and math.
"The academic accomplishments of this year's admitted class are incredibly impressive," UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said in a statement.
UC officials stressed that the numbers released Thursday were preliminary and will change as students finalize their decisions.
Under the California Master Plan, students in the top 9 percent of the state or in their local high school qualify for guaranteed admission and will be offered a spot at one of the campuses, Treviño said.
He said more than 10,000 students who did not get into their top choice universities have been placed in a referral pool and will be offered a spot at another, less-selective UC campus, such as UC Merced.


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You planted a maple seedling that grew into a tree.
You planted a maple seedling that grew into a tree.
It gives you shade, beauty and helps the environment, but in order to keep giving, your tree needs to be healthy and protected.
"Trees stay healthier when they are regularly trimmed," said Christopher Huge, co-owner of Integrity Tree Service in Sciota.
Homeowners need to pay careful attention to trees surrounding their home, Huge said. "Dead branches, crossing branches and diseased and dying branches need to be removed."
Before you start any kind of pruning job, you need to have the proper tools, according to the Penn State Extension. Tools include: pruning shears, lopping shears, hedge shears, hand saws and pole saws.
Before you begin any work on trees and shrubs in your yard — whether they were planted that day or many years prior — Huge said to look around. If the tree or shrub stands close to wires — either overhead or next to the tree or shrub — he recommends calling a professional.
You need to identify what wires are electric and what voltage they are.
"Normally the electric wires are the highest, but why take a chance?" Huge said.
The Penn State Extension website recommends pruning in late winter and early spring when it is easier to see the shape of the tree and the branch patterns without the foliage. Once the tree has buds opening into leaves, wait until the leaves are full grown.
Flowering fruit trees should be pruned immediately after flowering. This allows a tree to develop flower buds for the next spring.
Even when the tree is first planted, it needs to be pruned in order to control its growth and to help develop its shape, said Steve Nordmark, Integrity Tree Service's other owner.
Pruning at this point means cutting the odd or dead shoots as well as dead leaves.
Pruning and cutting lower branches from small trees can be handled by anyone, as long as he or she has the proper tools and some knowledge about how trees grow, Huge said.
In the 1990s, Dr. Alex Shigo, a former chief scientist and pioneering project leader for the U.S. Forest Service, developed a new method of pruning trees.
Prior, trees were trimmed by using the topping (cutting the top part), tipping (cutting longer branches on the sides) or roundover (shaping for appearance) method.
"The only problem is all those methods require making numerous cuts," Nordmark said.
Shigo's concept is called 90-3-90. "What it stands for is, 90 percent of the time, three branches can be removed to provide 90 percent of the clearance," Huge said.
People get so angry at the power company when workers trim lines because it looks like the trimmer just took a big chunk out of the tree's middle, he said.
Both Huge and Nordmark agreed that the new method is much better for the tree because using the old method with lots of cuts means the tree usually succumbs to dehydration and disease.
"Every spot where a cut was made, the limbs would scar over and the tree couldn't absorb moisture or nutrients through the scarred spots," Huge said.
It's OK to trim a smaller tree that is not under or next to power lines, but anything bigger than that should be handled by a certified professional with experience.
When hiring someone, just because they tell you they are a professional isn't enough, Nordmark said. "Ask if them they have insurance and have been ACRT certified. If not, they legally can't work any closer than 10 feet of electric power lines," he said.
ACRT, based in Akron, Ohio, provides vocational training at entry and advanced levels of the technical expertise and scientific basis for professional tree care. Skills taught include climbing, pruning, roping and rigging, chain-saw operations, tree identification, safety and tree removal.
You should also ask for references, Huge said.
Huge said the best solution for anyone who wants to plant trees that would grow under or near power lines is to follow utility company guidelines for trees compatible with utility wires.
The Penn State Extension design concept of trees compatible with utility lines is called "the right tree in the right place."
"It means when a tree has to be planted under a power line, it needs to be one that will not grow taller than 20 to 30 feet," Huge said.
According to the concept, medium-size trees — up to 45 feet at maturity level — can be planted near utility lines if they are offset at least 15 feet from the nearest wire.
If you aren't sure, Normark said to contact your local utility.
Other offices that can assist a homeowner are the Penn State Cooperative Extension office and Pennsylvania District Forestry office.
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Build The Truce displays at IWM North and IWM London are based on interviews with real people. They have lived and worked in the aftermath of violent conflict from Kosovo and Northern Ireland to Iraq, El Salvador, and Sierra Leone. Civilians, ex-paramilitaries, peace builders, medics and researchers share their stories and their views on truce, and its potential to unite – or divide.
In these original interview clips, they introduce themselves and their experiences of life as war comes to an end – and new struggles for peace begin.
You can watch more material from these interviews at the Build The Truce displays in IWM London and in IWM North, and we will keep adding more links to Truce interviewees between now and the end of the month.


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Lachlan brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 1472 Designs von 311 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
99designs is the upcoming evolution of the SitePoint Design Contests, and as is only fitting we are holding a design contest for our new logo. The logo must fit in with the designs for the new site. We are looking for a fresh, simple logo and are offering a prize of $1,000, and we are guaranteeing that a winner will be selected and paid.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
As described more fully in my blog post on the development blog, SitePoint Design Contests are growing into a new company, 99designs. As is only fitting, we are holding a design contest for our new logo.
The prize is $1,000, and we are guaranteeing that a winner will be picked and the prize will be awarded. We are expecting a large number of entries, so please be patient with us whilst we provide feedback, although we will pretty quickly remove any entries we are not interested in so you know if you are on the right track or not.
We have a website design which we want to incorporate the logo into, these are two screenshots showing element placement, color, layout, etc. It is critical that any design submissions work with the concepts we have provided. I repeat, designs that do not fit in the designated space won't even be considered.
- Front page design
- Contest listing designWhat we are looking for:
- Impact. A striking, catchy logo that fits with the concepts in the mockups
- Simplicity. Think beyond web 2.0, more magazine layout.
- Meaning. Think about what 99designs means, community, design, competition.Things to note:
- 99designs has a lowercase "d", .com should NOT be included in the design
- Entries must not contain copyrighted elements
- Any non-web safe fonts used must be listed, and once again must not infringe anyone's copyrights
- We are looking for quality, not quantity. Please wait for feedback before submitting a large number of variations.
- The logo can not in any shape or form resemble the SitePoint logoAs a final note, I look very favorably on designers who are prepared to talk a bit about the meaning of a design. Describe what you have done, how you think it fits in with the design concepts we have and your thought processes. I am far more likely to give designers who do this in-depth feedback.
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With Apple largely expected to unveil two new iPhone models this fall -- one with a 4.7-inch screen and the other with a 5.5-inch screen -- an obvious question looms: just how does Apple plan on pricing these devices?
Historically, Apple has remained beholden to pricing new iPhone models at a base price of $199 and charging more for more memory. With two different-sized iPhone models on the horizon, it remains to be seen how Apple handles its traditionally simple pricing matrix.
Commenting on the matter, analyst Tavis McCourt of Raymond James recently opined that Apple may price the 5.5-inch iPhone model $100 higher than the 4.7-inch model. While only Apple executives at this point are privy to that type of information, survey data amassed by McCourt suggests that consumers would be willing to pay the extra $100 for the larger device.
MarketWatch reports on McCourt's recent analyst report:
"Our June consumer survey points to continued growth in the willingness of iPhone users to pay $100 more for a bigger screened iPhone, with now a full one-third of survey respondents willing to pay a $100 premium," he added.
In fact, he added, "data seems to suggest meaningful demand for a larger screen, which should logically mean the iPhone 6-cycle will be strong for upgrade sales, which combined with modest contribution from wearables should cause a modest acceleration in revenue growth in fiscal 2015."
And speaking of the iPhone 6, Gforgames earlier today published a report claiming that the 5.5-inch iPhone model will be the only one graced with a sapphire screen. The 4.7-inch model will continue to sport Gorilla Glass.
With Apple purportedly releasing two new iPhone models this year, not to mention two larger-screened models, it stands to reason that this may be one of the biggest iPhone upgrade cycles we've seen yet.


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The unique collection of galleries and museums on Berlin Museum Island, with its five temple-like buildings, houses treasures from 6,000 years of human history. Elevated to UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999, and located in Berlin's historical centre, the complex is the centrepiece of the city's museum network and is Europe's largest cultural investment project.
The Scottish historian John Strang once wrote that it would take several days to see all of the many thousands of artistic treasures housed in the Berlin museum. That was at a time when there was just one museum on this island in the river Spree: the Museum of the Ancient World, built in 1830 to designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the first public museum in Prussia. Then followed the New Museum in 1859, the Old National Gallery in 1876, the Bode Museum in 1904 and the Pergamon Museum in 1930. The buildings on Berlin Museum Island house mainly 19th century art and the archaeological collections, which contain such treasures as the Ishtar Gate, the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus, the bust of Nefertiti and the Berlin Gold Hat from the Bronze Age. Post-reunification, the collections that had been dispersed between East and West Berlin were gradually reunited. Objects that been put into storage elsewhere as a result of war damage were also restored to their original places in the museums. The New Museum, for example, had been left as a ruin for around 60 years until it was restored and rebuilt by British star architect David Chipperfield. A new building, the James Simon Gallery, will soon serve as the main entrance to the entire Museum Island. An archaeological promenade will link the various museums and galleries both spatially and thematically as well as providing an extraordinary panorama of cultures from around the world.
Opening times
Pergamon Museum (Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art, Museum of the Ancient Near East), the New Museum (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, and the Museum of Prehistory and Early History):
Monday to Sunday 10am to 6pm, Thursday till 8pm
From Autumn 2014, the Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum is to be closed to the public for approx. five years.
Museum of the Ancient World, Bode Museum (Sculpture Collection, Museum of Byzantine Art and Numismatic Collection) and Old National Gallery:
Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm, Thursday until 8pm
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Top artists and designers from every facet of the industry rely on the Brazil rendering engine for their most demanding work.
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Off to Mexico!
Salt & Silver, two young men from Hamburg, passionate surfers and street-food fans, are on a journey exploring the culinary side of sunny Mexico. Read all about their adventures on their travel blog for Lufthansa Magazin
In 2014 they had already dropped everything they were doing to embark on a 12-month trip through South and Central America. The result: a book called Travel, Surf, Cook (coming out in English in April). It soon became clear to Johannes Riffelmacher and Thomas Kosikowski that they had to go back and spend more time. Now, Lufthansa Magazin is joining them on a three-month trip to Mexico. The result of that trip will be a brand new cookbook: Tacos, Tequila, Tattoos.
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Aspen Heights Workers Still Not Getting Paid
COLUMBIA - Friday marked a deadline for when R-Energy LLC and Aspen Heights was supposed to strike a deal that would put an end to controversy surrounding a group of unpaid workers. But both companies told KOMU Friday an official deal hadn't been reached.
Aspen Heights said it has talked with workers and has information on how much they are owed. On Jan. 30 Tom Partin of Aspen Heights told KOMU the company planned to figure things out by Feb. 8. He said the company is 80 percent finished and has reached six of seven subcontractors under R-Energy.
Tony Barder, president and owner of R-Energy LLC, said Aspen Heights told him Friday that he'll have to wait until Monday, Feb. 11 until they can determine when the workers will be paid.
R-Energy LLC hired a group of men from several states to build at a Columbia student housing construction site. But the men said they were told their work was done the week of Jan. 20 when Aspen Heights terminated its contract with R-Energy due to what it called performance issues. The men said they had worked at the site for more than a month and have received little to none of the money they had been promised. The men said their projected payday has continued to change over the past month.
Barder said he's been trying to work with Aspen Heights to get his workers paid. Barder said he has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars out of his own pocket to pay workers. Barder said some workers risked losing their homes and couldn't put food on their families' tables because they hadn't been paid.
However, Stuart Watkins, public relations director for Aspen Heights, said Aspen Heights isn't responsible for the problem. Watkins said Aspen Heights asked R-Energy to give them a list of workers along with how much each individual is owed, and then it would pay the workers.
On Jan. 25 a group of about three dozen fired workers showed up at the building site to demand pay. There was a police officer on site and the men were asked to leave the property. After waiting for hours, an Aspen Heights employee told the group they could come into the site one by one to talk to Aspen Heights officials.
The men said Aspen Heights officials offered them $500 to buy gas in order to get home, but that was all.


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The purpose of the Communications Advisory Council (CAC) is to advise the Marketing and Communications staff on strategies to strengthen relationships among students, parents, staff and the community.
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The Communications Advisory Council (CAC) serves as a forum for discussion, sharing perspectives, providing feedback and exploring new and better ways to meet the communications needs of our internal and external audiences.
The council is currently comprised of residents of Robbinsdale Area Schools, staff, and two school board members. We are actively recruiting members for the Communications Advisory Council. A background in marketing or communications is nice, but not required! What you need more than anything else is to voice your opinion on what we can do to improve communications with families and communities!
If you are interested in becoming a member of CAC, please contact Jodi Fiedler, Marketing and Communications Specialist, at email@example.com.


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Matt Logering is a member of the second Entrepreneur Scholars cohort. He graduated in 2007 from St. John's University with a management information systems major. He is currently employed at Accenture Consulting and based in Minneapolis.
During his college years Matt was the President of the SIFE club, a member of the Management club, as well as working as a computer science teaching assistance. Matt enjoys working with computers and in the summer before his Junior year he started his own business called "Computer Cleansweep" which kept him busy summers and weekends. Matt is a recipient of the Petters Scholarship and worked as an intern with Petters Corporation during the 2006 summer.
In the spring of 2006, Matt and two other Entrepreneur Scholars formed a new business venture called Your College Memories that is creating ceramic replicas of college campus buildings. Their first is the chapel on the campus of the College of Saint Benedict. Those can be ordered at www.yourcollegememories.com. Matt believes in working hard at what he is passionate about and never giving up his dreams.


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This art-infused science program addresses earth science standards as students learn about the hydrologic cycle (water cycle), and its effect on cloud formation and weather. Students will also learn to identify different types of clouds, including cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus and stratus clouds, with help from artworks in the museum's collection. In addition, students discover that artists were meticulous observers, and weather systems centuries ago were very similar to what we experience today. Discussion includes the water cycle, cloud formation, temperature and precipitation. There is also an optional "Cloud in a Bottle" interactivity during the program.
Program Format:
- Introduction to the hydrologic cycle (water cycle) and explanation of the Water Cycle Worksheet the students fill out during the lesson.
- Discussion of Evaporation/Transpiration, Condensation, and Precipitation with examples included in museum artwork.
- Optional movement activity where the students simulate the movements of water molecules.
- Discussion of Accumulation, the final stage of the water cycle.
- Discussion of cloud types (i.e. stratus, cumulus, cirrus, etc.) with examples included in museum artwork, and explanation of the Cloud Identification Chart the students will fill out.
- Explore the effects of air pressure and temperature on weather.
- Optional "Cloud in a Bottle" interactivity.
- Students will understand the water cycle.
- Students will understand how density of air affects weather.
- Students will understand weather changes due to pressure and temperature.
- Students will understand clouds consist of water vapor or ice crystals, depending on their altitude and other physical conditions.
- Students will understand different types of clouds are associated with different weather conditions, so visible changes in clouds alert one to oncoming weather systems.
- Students will understand cloud types, and their weather systems, have followed consistent patterns for centuries, as documented by both photography and by artwork that predates photography.


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I received the following letter from Mychal Nemetchek, which I am posting below.
I am a young woman struggling with my christian faith. There are so many troubling issues portrayed in the Bible such as God commanding the Israelites of the Old Testament to murder entire nations, the harsh punishments called for for disobeying such laws as a married couple not being allowed to have sex while she is menstruating, and most definitely the blatant inequality of the sexes. For me, finding answers to these questions have been a matter of keeping or losing my faith. I have found it very difficult to reconcile my ideas of a loving god with these issues.
I am encouraged that religious thinkers like Rollston are coming out as supporters of gender equality (while some stay back in the dark ages and hold to the greatly offensive position the Bible portrays of women and their value). I also find it comforting that these thinkers are able to reconcile their 21st century belief in gender equality with their christianity. If they can do it, perhaps there is a way.
So many christians sweep these issues under the rug. And honestly, if I hadn't been able to find people who were willing to face up to these difficult topics and discuss them openly without trying to gloss them over (as I encountered with my pastors and teachers) I would likely not be able to call myself a christian right now.
So I want to say thank-you to Rollston, along with many other open, open-minded, non-defensive christian thinkers. Thank-you for finding a way to understand God and the Bible that provides a way for progressives to accept Christ, accept God, without having to give up their progressive values.
Thank you so much.
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I've been playing with Go recently; writing a little REST server that will do some stuff on hitting various end points. So far so copy-and-paste-from-Stack-Overflow. The issue is that, while my application works, I know at a visceral level that it sucks. I'm using
go run to test it, and everything is lumped into one file. As an experienced developer I know this is bad – and it's going to get worse.
And herein lies the problem. Architecturally I know what I should be doing, but as a Go newbie I don't know if I should be splitting my file into many files in the
main package, or splitting it into lots of little single file libraries, or something else entirely. I've picked up the syntax of the language, but the paradigms and idiosyncrasies are still, for the most part, unknown to me.
Remove the architectural knowledge that a few decades bashing away at various languages has given me and what you're left with is a program that compiles, runs and does some nifty stuff – so it must be good, right? Look at me, I'm a Go developer!
I'm all for teaching people about how computers work, and the fundamentals of programming them, but lets not kid ourselves that we're raising a generation of software engineers. There's a world of difference between barfing a small, toy project into existence and writing performant, fault tolerant, scalable software that can drive business. Seriously, if I'd presented what I wrote yesterday as some production code I'd fire me. And yet too many people out there don't know that they don't know how to be a software developer.
Sadly, I have no idea what the solution is. Computers are fairly ubiquitous, learning to code is easy, and putting together need little programs that, on the surface of it, look impressive, is reasonably trivial. A good parallel would be the game 'go'. It's trivial to pick up and learn, but takes a lifetime to master.
Now, do I know any friendly Go developers who would be willing to give a gentle code review of some truly awful code? Now that I've learned Go I need to learn Go.


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Christine Macel is Chief Curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in 2017 she is also curating the world's biggest art event, the Venice Biennale. Her maxim for the long-running festival: Go for it – for artistic radicalism.
It happens just once in a decade: the grand art tour. The years ending in the number seven are always the ones when Europe's major art happenings come together in a single summer. The most important art show in public space, the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster, Germany, which is held only once in ten years; documenta, the biggest art show in the world, which takes place every five years and in 2017 celebrates for the first time two locations and openings, in Kassel, Germany, and in Athens, Greece; then there's Art Basel, the most prestigious show date for the art market, and finally, the loveliest and oldest of all art festivals, the Venice Biennale. You could use up your whole summer, erm, annual leave on this superlative collection.
For the Venetian voyage of discovery into contemporary art alone – along the gravel paths of the superb Giardini exhibition park, through the long halls of the ancient shipyard, Arsenale, and to the many extra exhibitions tucked away in the narrow streets of the lagoon city – you will need five days of hard walking to see everything. That's what Macel tells us. But the curator of the 57th edition of the biennial art festival that began in 1893 also adds with a laugh: "But of course, you don't have to see everything!" She knows as well as every other regular visitor to this idyllically situated and Aperol spritz-soaked art festival that even the most hard-nosed art fans end up exhausted by the thousands of artworks on show in the main exhibition, in the 85 national pavilions and the many and varied collateral events dotted around the city.
Macel, 48, could be described as the Lara Croft of artist hunting. She is a beautiful, fashionably dressed and very purposeful Frenchwoman with strikingly large eyes, "who travels constantly in search of art." This originality seeker had only six months in which to find – while continuing to fulfill her responsibilities as Chief Curator at the Centre Pompidou – the 120 artists for the main exhibition at the Biennale. To compare: A team of 45 experts has spent three years finding and working with the 150 participants for documenta 2017.
And yet Macel originally had no intention of ever working, and certainly not as much as she does. She began studying art history in the late 1980s. "I would have loved to do nothing but study my whole life long," she says. However, being born into a family of professional musician grandparents, a teacher mother and an architect father, Macel was clearly destined for a cultural profession. Born and raised in Paris, she even had her first encounter with the futuristic art container that is the Centre Pompidou and her main workplace today, when she was still in primary school. In January 1977, the day after her eighth birthday, her parents took her along to the opening of the then highly controversial art palace, where exploding pianos, naked giants and other weird things she got to see there shocked her.
In retrospect, that childhood amazement proved to be an incredibly productive shock, especially as the Centre Pompidou has been drawn like a magnet to Macel's biography ever since. The professor who influenced her most during her studies, Bernard Blistène, came from there and as director of the entire cultural complex, he has now been Macel's boss for the past three years. At 31, after gaining her first professional experience at the Ministry of Culture and as a teacher at the Louvre school, she was appointed chief curator at France's most famous museum of contemporary art. Because that job did not provide enough work to keep her busy, this tireless treasure hunter whose day apparently has more hours than other people's also writes for art magazines, organizes seminars, sits on juries and selection committees, and regularly takes on guest curatorships outside of her vast prime place of employment.
"Setting a theme seems unnecessary, both for the artists and for me," Macel explains, "I don't want to misappropriate the artists' statements. I simply want to create the space they need for their work." Nevertheless, Macel refutes the suspicion that her title, Viva Arte Viva, is an invitation to indulge in self-sufficient artistic activity along the lines of "art for art's sake." "If I make my central focus the artists' universe, then it reflects all of the things that artists concern themselves with, including politics." Without pausing for breath, she energetically continues to explain her take on art: "The way I see it, art cannot save the world. That's what the Modernists dreamed, but it didn't work out. I see art as the place in which you can reinvent the world. It's a place for freedom, not for change."
Art is the place where you can reinvent the world.
And that is how she already came to make her mark on the Venice Biennale. In 2007, she curated a glass maze by Éric Duyckaert in the Belgian pavilion, and then in 2013, when France and Germany switched national pavilions, Macel showed a work by the Albanian artist Anri Sala inside the monumental NS architecture of the Germany building: videos of hands playing Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, which the composer wrote in 1932 for war veteran amputee Paul Wittgenstein, brother of Ludwig Wittgenstein, as an antimilitarist work.
Despite such subtly political undertones, which the artists of her biennale also share, this elegant intellectual's concept basically still speaks the spirited language of childlike amazement. Quite unlike the competition at documenta, which focuses strongly on political theories and content, Macel's biennale is titled "Viva Arte Viva" and devoted to presenting individual "artist universes." Behaving as though she were their biggest fan and not the boss of the whole enterprise, Macel does all she can to help the participants achieve the best possible showcase for their work – and in contravention of the Biennale's wish and tradition, even refuses to name a specific theme for her exhibition.
So for her universe of art, Macel created a "journey" that goes from "self" to "speculative things." Following the national pavilions' concept, she organized her program in nine so-called "Trans-Pavilions," to which she gave connecting, rather than dividing, names. The journey begins with Community and continues via a pavilion for artists and books on the subject of time and eternity. In each of these rooms, she places a mix of artists of different generations and prominence, while paying little attention to the fashionably new and the glamour of the art world normally associated with the six-month summer festival on the Grand Canal with its many yachts, champagne receptions and expensive wardrobes. "Sometimes the newest is an 80-year-old artist," says Macel with a grin.
The originality seekers will still get their money's worth since 103 of Macel's 120 chosen artists have never before been seen at the Biennale. Living – and also some deceased – world stars, such as Ólafur Elíasson, Kiki Smith, Ernesto Neto and Franz West come together with permanent guests of the international exhibition, such as Kader Attia, Gabriel Orozco, Philippe Parreno and Anri Sala, and also with new names seizing their opportunity to prove their originality at a major event.
Asked about the criteria she applied to her selection, Macel becomes momentarily brusque. "Criteria is not the right word. I follow my feeling of resonance between works and artists. That's what a curator does." She looks for utopias, for the "spirituality of daily life," but she is also concerned with fear: "We have to learn to articulate the fears present in our societies. Artists are fairly aware of this need." The world of art is generally a criticism of our lifestyle, "that has everyone thinking primarily about themselves," Macel asserts, her expression serious. Art has the power to fight the all-pervading belief in efficiency and the obsession with material possessions; to challenge the cult of individualism. "Artists open up to another vision, a space for sharing and generosity."
Even if at such words, you may get the feeling that this humane art visionary's ideal may perhaps not be entirely realistic, but rather an echo of her great love of artists, but there's also an appealing pathos to the stubbornly passionate curator's belief. In Macel's book, artists are the avant-garde or perception, thought and emotions, philosophers at the very least, if not conjurers. And the hectic society of outward appearances really doesn't have all too many of those, after all.
In the end, our French expedition guide has another surprising statement to make about artists, at least if you consider how much she does: "We are born and raised in order to work. And when we are physically worn out, we receive a little money to tide us over until death comes. Isn't that the most stupid way to live? Artists and authors, musicians, too, even scientists, people who decide to live their life with a certain intensity, show us how a life worth living could be."
Christine Macel is probably able to say this with such conviction because she doesn't see her excessive workload in the cause of art as such, but as the fulfillment of her life's dream of constantly studying interesting things. The intensity she puts into ensuring the Venice visitors recognize the value of free artistic life promises a Biennale that will amaze visitors – as Macel herself was once amazed at the opening of the Centre Pompidou.
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Perspex Portafilter
Back in the day, James Hoffman happened to mention the infamous "perspex portafilter" experiment. This was a legendary experiment conducted by La Spaziale, where a transparent portafilter was constructed in order to be able to visually analyze the extraction of espresso.
James' big "mistake" (one might say) was to tell the world that he had seen the video.
My big "mistake" (in the same vein) was to back James publicly when it came to what he had observed in the video.
Suffice it to say that many folks in coffee were somewhere between skeptical and belittling in their responses. This actually got to the point where many believed (based upon the insistence of various really loud voices within the community) that James had simply lied about seeing the video.
This was largely the result of two facts.
First - the video showed extraction occurring in a manner which flew in the face of some "common wisdom" within the coffee world. And that threatened certain "experts" in espresso.
Second - La Spaziale refused to share the video with the world.
Well..... Guess what....
I'm confident James is going to take the high road and be quite gracious about this. I, on the other hand, am not so nice of a person.
To everyone on coffeed.com and on home-barista.com who talked shit about the existence of this video.... to everyone who either claimed or implied that James was lying about its existence....
You know how to reach James. You don't need to apologize to me. But you sure as fuck do need to apologize to him.
And I have to ask.... how does if feel to be so fucking wrong all the time?
3 comments:
- Nick said...
Who on Coffeed.com "talked shit about the existence of this video?" I couldn't recall so I did a search and couldn't find any such evidence. I don't doubt it on H-B.com, but I can't find it there either.
- onocoffee said...
I was there back in the day of that website, and I probably was one of the loudly critical voices, but I have no recollection of the perspex portafilter or the controversy surrounding it. That was so long ago, back in a day when our knowledge and arrogance about that knowledge was so... robust.
That said, I still don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at or how the video trumps whatever has been said. Water pressurizes the chamber, there's some turbulence, it settles and then there's some turbulence at the end of the shot.
I do wonder how this would look with an updosed pf - say 21 to 23 grams?
And I further wonder if anyone can bring such a clear portafilter to market - that would be trick, especially with LEDs...!
- Will H said...
Maybe this is what he's referring to?
"The evidence against puck expansion is a sighting of one video of a perspex PF. I like and trust James Hoffmann, but that's not the point; if God and a panel of Nobel prize winners had given a sworn deposition that they saw the video too, it would not count as evidence either. Millions of people saw Starwars, but that's not evidence for the Force.
Let me put it this way, in the credulity championships, flat earthers, conspiracy theorists, and ufoers take silver; the perspex pf takes gold."


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Oh My Love are a little brand that have been on my radar for a while, ever since I bought this dress a few months back. I'm not overly familiar with the brand but they do have a Topshop Concession on Oxford Street and an online store. They offered me my pick of their recent drop, so I picked this camisole dress in a dog tooth print. It is a print I've never really worn before I as far as I can remember. It's not one that appeals to me all that much, however this has changed my mind somewhat. So, I may have a new pattern to add to my wardrobe. I also like that it's monochrome so slips seamlessly into my existing wardrobe. I layered it over a quiled t-shirt as it was too cold to wear alone (says she who has her legs out!) and also wore a nice over sized blazer. I'm still taking my own outfit photos in my garden, this one didn't take as long as the previous one. Baby steps!
My weekend plans have fallen through due to a family issue, but I'm hopefully heading over to the Youtube Space at some point this weekend to do some Halloween stuff. Other than that my weekend is looking pretty lazy, which I'm really looking forward to. I've also done a new vlog on my other channel which you can check out here. It's another Game Of Thrones one, eek!


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Ariana Grande Covers Billboard + Claims She Was a 'Dark and Deranged' Kidby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
Ariana Grande has come a long way since her childhood in Boca Raton, Fla. For one, she's now a huge pop star with a handful of chart-toppers under her belt. For another, her mom no longer thinks her famous daughter will grow up to be a murderer. Er, what?
"There was a stage, when I was 3 or 4, where my mom thought I might grow up to be a serial killer," she told Billboard when she was interviewed for her August cover, adding that she was "dark and deranged" as a kid. "I always wanted to have skeleton face paint on or be wearing a Freddy Krueger mask, and I would carry a hockey stick around. I was like a mini-Helena Bonham Carter."
Though she still describes herself as "the most sardonic person you've ever met," nowadays she's more of a mix between her idol Madonna and her oft-compared fellow power-vocalist Mariah Carey.
Like Madonna, the 'Problem' singer sports a red string tied around her wrist as part of her practice of Kabbalism. "As a fellow Kabbalist, I know how hard it is to exercise those tools in your everyday life," she said. "Especially in a world where everything is so egocentric and all you do is talk about yourself and promote yourself."
Aside from her spirituality, she also admires Madonna for — well, pretty much everything! "She is strength, she is freedom, she is wisdom beyond anybody's comprehension." And if they ever recorded a song together? "My heart would stop," Ariana declared.
As for the Mariah comparisons, the 21-year-old embraced them at a young age. A friend of Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Records, sent him links to YouTube videos of Ariana covering Mariah and Whitney Houston songs. "I remember when I first came to L.A. to meet my managers," Ariana recalled, "I was like, 'I want to make an R&B album.' They were like, 'Um, that's a helluva goal! Who is going to buy a 14-year-old's R&B album?!'"
The singer got her wish at the age of 20 with the release of her '90s R&B-influenced debut album 'Yours Truly.' A follow-up album, 'My Everything,' will drop later this month. Of course, neither LP came easily! Ariana keeps a grueling schedule for herself. "I'm a micromanaging workhorse," she confessed. "Absolutely an obsessive-compulsive workaholic."
Whatever her method, it's clearly working! 'My Everything' will be released in full on Monday, Aug. 25.
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After calling the 2010 Games in Vancouver the worst Olympics ever, The Guardian in London has requested that a Vancouverite return the favour.
"We are too big a country to be embarrassed by it," said Indian press attache Harpal Singh Bedi after folks realized that the woman in the turquoise pants marching in the opening ceremony alongside the Indian athletes wasn't supposed to be there. "It should be an embarrassment for the hosts, not for India."
And oh, was it. How, exactly, did she get out there? Was she standing in the corner, minding her own business, when someone grabbed her and said, "How did you get separated from the group? It's your turn! Go! Go! Go!"
That might be it. But while she may have looked like the rest of the athletes, she was hardly dressed like them, her bold attire clashing extravagantly amidst India's yellow and navy blue parade. Now, this seems like the sort of thing that would raise a red flag, but not so in this case, as the woman marched ahead of India's flag-bearer Sushil Kumar in a bright red hoody like she was an actual red flag.
Somehow, the London organizers failed to notice this. Granted, when you take one look at the pink and purple uniforms they've forced their volunteers to wear — which make the unlucky victims look less like Olympic staff and more like the henchmen of some comic book supervillain, right down to the way the bustline is accentuated in women by the pink chest pattern — it's not surprising that no one would even look twice at a lady in trousers most turquoise. This is a nation that chose magenta as a "way-finding" colour, which is apt because it certainly signifies the moment the graphic design firm lost its way. It's quite believable that the London organizers suffer from the severest form of colour blindness on Earth.
But letting a non-athlete march with India's team was hardly Britain's only offence as host country (and really, since badminton is an event, non-athletes march with countries all the time). Four days into the Games, you'd think Rudyard Kipling had been put in charge of welcoming Eastern countries.
There was the mixup with the sign greeting Arabic-speaking tourists at the airport. "Welcome to London," it was supposed to say. "BLAAAAARRGGHH!" It said instead. (Okay, it was actually "NODNOLOTEMOCLEW," but you can't mince words when no words are present.)
But that's a minor toe stub compared to the blunder on the pitch, when the North Korea women's soccer team was greeted by the wrong flag — nay, the wrongest flag possible — before their opening match. There is, I would remind London, a great difference between North and South Korea, and the implication that "once you've seen one Korea, you've seen 'em all" isn't going to fly (especially among Chick Corea fans). For an hour, the North Koreans refused to take the field, presumably as they struggled to come to grips with the fact that South Korea existed.
The London Games remain an eyesore. (As I write this, my vision is being afflicted by a wide shot of the bubblegum pink gymnastics arena.) But there's a far cry between staging the ugliest Olympics on record and staging an Olympics full of offensive blunders, and London appears determined to bridge that gap.


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Confession Tuesday on Wednesday-- The Crazy Poets Edition (aka the NO LIST Edition)
Dear Reader,
If you're not a poet, you couldn't care less about this post. Or could you? I always forget...
You wouldn't even need to address this post because it's about poetry and seriously, besides mimes and opera singers, we're a small group.
In the last couple days there have been lists made about poets. "Movers and shakers." "Influential poets." And these lists have been shared...as if they *mean* something.
Here's the deal, people on the lists love that they are on the list and people not on the list feel bad about themselves.
In reality-- lists suck.
People make lists to show they are "in" (or want to be "in") or know the right people.
People make lists because they want to feel important.
But in reality, it brings us back to an "us" and "them" world, when really it is "us" and "us."
So I'm making a list and we're all included because-- guess what Einstein-- poets are poets are poets and poetry is for everyone and not an elite group.
And if you're writing poetry, consider yourself a "mover or a shaker" (whatever the eff that means) or consider yourself "influential" in poetry, because your neighbor and her neighbor are reading poetry at night because you mentioned you wrote poems and they are not watching the Kardashians or Breaking Bad or not caring what the poets are doing.
Dear Reader,
So you can see I am somewhat, a little, a tad bit, annoyed that there are many of us writing poetry and someone is making a list without your name on it.
And that sucks.
In the real world, no one knows how much you are doing or how you are sharing poetry, or writing poetry, or dedicating yourself to your art or anything.
The lists are created based on appearances.
I know a thousand poets who live and die for poetry and weren't on a list this week. Does that mean they don't matter?
No. They matter.
What it means is that people aren't paying attention. What is means is that you live in a small town, or you're an introvert, or quiet, or you don't announce everything you do. or that life doesn't have to be a list with your name on it. It means you don't live near where said-listmaker lives or you haven't blogged about yourself lately.
I confess I am tired of lists.
Lists of influential poets or any list with my name on it or not, means nothing.
List suck.
What matters if you care about what you are doing or writing or that your art is something that matters to you.
I'm tired of people being neglected.
I'm tired of seeing a list and realizing that half of the frigging country isn't on it. And "frigging" is an understatement.
Understand, people will always try to put you into a group-- don't let them. Be the narwhal. Be the meteor across the sky, so fast and sparkly, no one can catch you when someone says, "Look."
Some of the most beautiful things are seen only by a few people.
That doesn't mean they aren't important.
This doesn't mean you aren't important.
I'm writing a list with your name on it.
When you're not on a list, it just means that some people weren't paying attention. And that's their problem, not yours. You? You just keep writing.
And that's their fault, not the fault in our stars. (Did you see how I did that?)
Relax, baby. Things will all work out.
I'm making a list and you're all included.
~ Kells
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Rendez-vous avec Ricardo Villalobos
Formulas for the Dancefloor
Stephanie Kale - 27 février 2008
by Stephanie Kale
Ricardo Villalobos brought his search for perfection in club music to Montreal's Metropolis this past March 1st for the 5th annual all-night party Nuit Électronik. Also playing a set at Nuit Électronik was fellow Chilean-German Dandy Jack, who will be featured in these pages in the coming weeks. Early in the morning, the two also came together to bring the shape-shifting rhythms of Ric Y Martin. We here at MUTEKMAG took the opportunity to talk to Villalobos about his life, his music, and his passions.
Villalobos says that in his music he constantly strives for the right balance of rhythm and melody. His spacious and wandering rhythmic patterns undoubtedly define a signature sound in the world of modern house music. Born in Chile but raised in Germany, Villalobos has a distinct musical lineage: he's cultivated a distinct sound of fairly straight-forward tech-house but infused and softened it by exploring syncopated and beach-y Latin rhythms.
Villalobos' childhood was steeped in music and mathematics. His father is a mathematician, and Villalobos says that his influence has led him to view music like the "mathematics of feeling." In addition to a few family members that have a passion for playing music, Ricardo's family tree also includes the famous Chilean political folk singer Violeta Parra.
At ten years old, he started to play various percussive instruments, like the congas and bongos. From this young age, he started to witness the powerful influence that music can have over people, particularly its ability to capture their imagination and totally immerse the listener in rhythmic spaces. He says that his childhood memories of long percussion sessions that induced people to dance for hours on end was the first breath into his lifelong quest to find the perfect formula for the rhythms and melodies that make modern club dance floors tick.
How has having a baby last year changed your life?
Personally, it has changed everything. All my views, theories, and all of my contexts in life now refer to this little creature, this little one. It's really amazing. But it doesn't mean that my dedication to the party, to dancing, and to club music has changed. Questions of existing or not existing come into the game now, but it's more or less the same. I have one weekend free every month, but I'm still DJing like crazy. But I don't think I'm influenced by making more commercial music to be able to earn more money for my child. I'm still doing the same thing in my studio, still searching for the same club music, to find the perfect club tracks. This is the idea behind all of my work. I dedicate my whole time for finding or inventing a cool club track.
Talk a bit about your latest single "Enfants" and the full length Sei Es Drum.
"Enfants" was made one day before my baby was born. I was searching for children's music, like music by children or music with children singing. I heard Christian Vander's "La Sorcière" from a children's anniversary concert from 1995 dedicated to the French group Magma. When I heard the first track on the CD, "Baba Yaga La Sorcière," I thought, 'Wow, this is incredible.' I started to play around with it, and I found that I made a little tool out of it. I gave it to some friends, so only about five DJs had it. But it was promoted so much by these five people that other people soon wanted it. It wasn't meant to come out, it was meant to be for my friends and myself to have a little secret weapon in our CD cases or something like that. The idea is that anyone can mix whatever track into this track because it doesn't have too much melody, tones or harmony inside. You have a very powerful tool, so you can put whatever bass drum on it, and it works.
And Sei Es Drum is the vinyl-version for the mixed CD I did last September for Fabric. It was the consequence of this mix, but for the vinyl-lovers.
What is the idea behind the Fabric mix?
Fabric 36 is basically an imagination of sound and music, something like a live house music, or minimal house – I don't know exactly how to call it. It was more or less a dedication to this room in Fabric, Room One, which has an incredible sound system.
But generally, there's no big intention behind my production, other than the never-ending search to find or invent the perfect club track. It's like a playground, like playing LEGO. It's a game of off-beat. The track "Andruic & Japan" was inspired by Japanese Kodo drums, but it has no metronome going from the beginning to the end, so it's changing a lot. I was just playing around with this change combined with a thing that is going straight. But all kinds of percussions inspire me. It's like a universal language understandable from every culture.
How did you decide to do a mixed CD for Fabric using only your own tracks?
For me, I'm producing all the time so why should I not do a mixed CD using only my own tracks. I didn't want to do a 'normal' mixed CD that requires licensing tracks from other labels, because most of the time you have to make so many compromises. Many of the labels are no longer in existence, or the people that run them have moved around making it difficult to get permission to use the tracks.
I spent one and a half years composing these tracks. Of course, in between, I was making tracks that are much more heady or dominated by a particular sound and not so much by the musical content. But after that time, I had all these tracks that sounded like they belonged together. So, I mixed them and then gave them to the Fabric people.
As for the way I released these singles as a mixed CD and then on vinyl, the intention was not to find the biggest form of distribution of my tracks. It was more or less that I didn't want to do a normal mixed CD.
What do you see the future of club music to be?
At the moment, I'm really thinking a lot about soundscapes and little sequences like five or seven minutes long.
But, in general, I think the music needs to be equalized on the dance floor. It has to have equalization between melodies and rhythm, between nice sensations and nice memories during the set of a DJ combined with new sound. But most importantly, the bass needs to carry the dancer all the time in a very nice way. In the last two or three years, there have been a lot of boring sets because there's been this minimal definition and this minimal hype. That means that many people thought that it's cool to play super heady and boring music without any idea inside. They didn't realize that it's boring. In the past two years, some DJs have realized that it's necessary to play house in between. Not all the time, but just to get the girls back to the dance floor because so many of them disappeared after so much minimalism. So this is what's happening at the moment. It's a mixture between this minimal thing and more house-y tones.
MUTEK is staying near what's happening in the vanguard – to the new ideas in electronic music. For me, there is a future in MUTEK because it's staying in contact with these ideas. I hope is continues to get funding and support. I hope the people in Montreal understand that MUTEK is a very valuable to have in their town. It's one of the most important electronic music festivals in the world.
What can you say about your upcoming performance at Nuit Électronik?
Well, playing with Martin is always full of surprises, and I try to react to those surprises as best as I can. But I can't really say what will happen that night because the future is not yet here.


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Detroiters go to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor to finish out Kwame Kilpatrick's unfinished second term—and then they'll get ready to do it all over again.
The prize for the winner is a city in distress. Crime is up; schools are down; and unemployment is at 20 percent. Last year, the Detroit Lions made macabre sports history by turning in a 0-16 season. Chrysler is going into bankruptcy, selling a 20 percent stake to Italian auto giant Fiat—which now has its eye on General Motors' European division. Outsiders are buying up foreclosed lots in Detroit for pennies on the dollar, and in the wake of his city hall sex scandal, Kilpatrick, once hailed as the hip-hop mayor, might have 99 problems—but jail is no longer one of them.
So which hometown hero will Detroiters call on?
Ten years ago, Eminem crystallized Detroit's blue-collar lament, rapping that he was "tired of not drivin' a BM" and "tired of not workin' at GM." But he only diagnoses, he doesn't treat.
What about Suzanne de Passe? The one-time Berry Gordy henchwoman and mastermind behind the greatest-ever rendition of "Billie Jean" could be the right woman for the job if for no other reason than that de Passe once cast Vanessa L. Williams to portray her on screen. That kind of chutzpah might be the only cure for what ails Detroit.
But for Motor City voters, Tuesday's election is going to be like taking a multiple choice test after studying for an essay exam. Detroit's woes come packaged with all the extras, while the city's leadership options are all base models:
A. Ken Cockerel Jr.
He's the Hillary Clinton in this race—the son of the late Ken Cockerel Sr., a revered figure in Detroit politics. As the sitting city council president, Cockerel was elevated to acting mayor as a result of Kilpatrick's departure. Generally regarded as solid but unspectacular, Cockerel, who placed second in the primary, is backed by organized labor and Congressman John Conyers.
B. Dave Bing
He's the Arnold Schwarzenegger in the race. The former Detroit Pistons star and steel-manufacturing executive has pledged to serve only one full term. He's endorsed by the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and Jesse Jackson—but Bing doesn't actually live in Detroit proper and doesn't have government experience.
C. All of the Above
If Bing, who narrowly won the primaries, prevails, then the city gets both men. Cockerel will return to the city council presidency, and Bing, accustomed to the flexibility of the private sector, will be forced to work with Cockerel to overhaul the city's bureaucracy.
D. None of the Above
Despite bypassing an expensive special election to fill a council seat in 2004, Detroit's city council approved the special election this time at a cost of an additional $3 million to taxpayers, rather than wait until November. The result is that Bing, Cockerel and anyone else can get right back in the game. Tuesday's winner only has three months to get a firm grip on the wheel before facing the voters again in an August primary. It's not exactly a formula for taking partisan politics out of municipal (ahem) affairs.
Cockerel's move to sell Detroit's Cobo Center to a tri-county management authority became the campaign's signature issue, even though both remaining candidates support the sale: It's symbolic of long-standing tensions between overwhelmingly black Detroit and its largely white suburbs. The city council defeated the proposal, citing a potential loss of jobs and tax revenue for the city; even though Cobo siphons Detroit's general fund, and the biggest event held at the aging facility is the North American International Auto Show—the annual coming-out party for a withering industry.
Council member and mayoral primary contender Kwame Kenyatta summed up his vote for the convention-center sale in a Detroit Free Press op-ed thusly: Hanging on to Cobo "will not improve the quality of life in Detroit's neighborhoods."
Detroit was one of the first major cities to turn to the post-civil rights era generation for a chief executive, but the unraveling of Kilpatrick's administration only exacerbated the city's problems. After this election is over, Detroit will still be missing the Cory Booker (Newark), Kevin Johnson (Sacramento) or Adrian Fenty (Washington, D.C.) it needs to refurbish both the engine and exterior of what remains proudly the blackest city in America.
One day, Detroit may get a mayor who can run an American classic on alternative fuels. This time around, the answer is probably "D," none of the above.
David Swerdlick is a regular contributor to The Root.
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Teens and college-age young adults are more likely to have a read a book than their slightly older adult counterparts (25-29) according to a recent study.
About 80 percent of Americans aged 16 to 29 read a book in the past year, but out of all age groups those 18-24 and 16-17 have the highest percentage of all age groups, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The next highest rate of reading is the age group 30-39. The study was based on a phone survey of 2,986 people aged 16 and older from Nov. 16 to Dec. 21, 2011.
Younger readers are also most likely to have visited or checked out a library book or e-book, the study said. Those 16 to 17 also reported the highest library usage, 72 percent versus the average of 56 percent. The late teens' library usage outdistanced the next highest-use age group, ages 40-49, by 13 percent.
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Among those who read e-books, those under 30 were more likely to read an e-book on their phones (41 percent) versus a computer (55 percent.) E-readers fared worse with Kindle only garnering 23 percent and a tablet 16 percent. Younger readers also read magazines and newspapers as e-content.
So that brings us to the following thought -- when is Facebook going to have content online? It already has music and photos galore, but why not add some e-books and content and keep its readers from never leaving? Perhaps some day it will, but until then, its younger readers will head to a library for a couple of hours.


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Recently the mayor of Cortez, Dan Porter, recognized the only existing Junior Catholic Daughters Court in Colorado for their ongoing community outreach and service to the Church. At an installation Mass held for the new members and elected officers, Porter proclaimed Feb. 16 as National Junior Catholic Daughters Day in Cortez.
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is one of the oldest and largest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas. It was founded in 1903 under the motto of "Unity and Charity" and today has 1,250 courts in 45 states across the country, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
The junior court in Cortez was founded in 2008 under the advisement of the Catholic Daughters as Junior Catholic Daughters Sacred Heart Court No. 1606. Members of the group include Catholic girls from 6 to 18n years of age. It is currently standing as the only existing Junior Catholic Daughters court in the state of Colorado.
Installations are held annually to initiate any new members and re-elected officers into the court. An installation Mass was held this year on Feb. 16, which Porter attended. Officiating the Mass was the Rev. Pat Valdez, and Rev. Salvador Cisneros. Presiding the initiation was Catholic Daughters Regent, Mary Sparks and State Representative, Mary Helen Ganir.
Before the installation, officers paused to consider what it meant to be elected officers of the Junior Catholic Daughters Court. Then, they pledged their love, work and thoughts to God, promising to do good for all of the court. According to the principles of the JCDA bylaws, true members "will strive to be good Christians and citizens." This includes a willingness to cooperate and do her part in the community, accepting her responsibility to serve others generously, and making sacrifices to preserve Christian ideals.
Over the past six years, the members have been working not only within the Montelores Catholic community, including Catholic parishes from Cortez, Mancos, Dolores, Dove Creek and Rico, but have also been serving the city of Cortez.
"It is our mission to be able to help others and impact the community," stated Co-president Rachel Zetts. "I think Blessed Mother Teresa described it best when she said, 'We can do no great things, only small things with great love.'"
JCDA members began reaching out to the community in 2008 with a program called "Backpacks for Kids." This involved filling backpacks with nonperishable foods and distributing them to students in the surrounding school systems who otherwise wouldn't have access to food over the weekends. Recently they have conducted parish wide food drives during the holidays. The donations are made into baskets which are given to families in the four corners area who otherwise would not be able to prepare a meal for the holiday. The Junior Catholic Daughters have also begun visiting the Vista Grande nursing home once a month; painting residents' nails, helping them hand out Halloween candy, assisting them in filling out Christmas cards to loved ones and connecting with them in many other ways.
"It's encouraging to see founding members now transiting off to college while new elementary-age members are becoming actively involved," parishioner Lucita Zetts said while reflecting on how the group has grown in the past six years. "I am very grateful to see a group of young ladies like this. They do wonderful work in the community, especially in the nursing home. They are an inspiration to everyone, young and old, and give us hope for the future of the Church."