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This week, the Federal Reserve dropped two bombshells—the news that from 2007 to 2010 household wealth dropped 39% to a level last seen in 1992 and the smaller but perhaps more fraught headline that median income fell 8% in those three years.
The fall of median family net worth to $77,300 from $126,400 is mostly a real estate phenomenon; homeowners certainly feel less wealthy and the statistic reminds Americans that happy days have yet to return.
But the slide in income reflects that fact that Americans remain financially pinched with less to spend, and reduced incomes have a depressing economic effect: When the policeman lessens the frequency of dentist visits, the dentist will buy fewer baseball tickets or have less wealth for his financial advisor to manage.
Politicians will doubtless spin the vanishing wealth in predictable ways. Conservatives will say the president's policies have been calamitous; liberals will note the timeframe 2007 to 2010 includes the administration of the president's predecessor, whose policies they hold responsible. The former generally want to see tax reduction, expanded trade and deregulation while the latter generally favor income redistribution and government programs targeted to middle-class and poor Americans.
But let's try and put politics aside and examine principles that may help in evaluating proposed policy fixes. The debate in economics often comes down to whether to pursue efficiency or equity. Advocates of equity, or fairness, think the efficiency crowd is heartless, while those most focused on the efficient use of resources think their opponents are dimwits for not understanding that inefficiency shrinks the pie that is to be carved up and shared.
The fact is that both sides are correct, and the art of economic policy is understanding which to emphasize at different historical moments. To give some extreme examples, I recall a friend in college arguing in favor of the death penalty—not because someone who has taken a life deserves to lose his own and not because he felt it had a deterrent effect, but because it was "inefficient" to spend so much in tax dollars on the maintenance of criminals.
I have little as little sympathy for criminals as most people do, but I suspect most people will agree with me that decisions over life and death should be made on the basis of principles of justice rather than economic efficiency grounds.
Another college-era story (that was a long time ago!) illustrates the trouble with misdirected compassion. The liberal college town I lived in had a strict rent-control regime. When I left the dorm and had to find an apartment of my own, I quickly discovered that the "cheap" rent did not help me solve my housing problem. There was very little availability, since older, wealthier people often stayed in the apartments until they died, and when vacancies occurred apartment managers were taking money under the table. So the wealthiest students could afford an apartment with "cheap" rent, while the less fortunate lived in more distant towns, resulting in longer commutes and higher rents.
So here's the key to the art of policymaking: the central element in economic decisions should be human relationships. In an extreme efficiency environment, the economically powerful will exploit the economically vulnerable. Think orphans working at looms all day, with a little bit of gruel to eat.
In an extreme equity environment, the wealth of productive members of society is confiscated. Think farmers hording their crops, and not growing any more, while the peasants starve.
Again, eschewing politics, but looking at the human dimension of American's sliding income, it seems clear to me that the single greatest problem today is the persistently high unemployment rate, which hovered at 8.2% in the most recent employment report. The unemployed are losing income, independence and a sense of self-worth, and adding pressure to strained government and family budgets.
The party or politician that can, through efficiency or equity, convince Americans there is a path to alleviating this grave social ill, will likely prevail in November's elections. But it is entirely possible that neither presidential candidate will make that case persuasively and the election will be decided on other issues. And that would indeed be an indictment of economics, the dismal science, when creative thinking in this field is needed more than ever.

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Aslan turned to them and said: "You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be." Lucy said, "We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often."
"No fear of that," said Aslan. "Have you not guessed?" Their hearts leaped, and a wild hope rose within them. "There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. "Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands— dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."
And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
From The Last Battle
Compiled in A Year with Aslan
The Last Battle. Copyright © 1956 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1984 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © 2010 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Extracts taken from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1950-1956. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Open Music Archive initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, is a collaborative project to source, digitise, and distribute out of copyright music recordings.
Open Music Archive Projects is a forum for related projects.
- 1 Struggle in Jerash, Makan
- 2 Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York
- 3 Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art, London
- 4 Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm
- 5 Artists Film Club - ICA London
- 6 LuckyPDF TV Autoitalia Live
- 7 Catalogue screening at SLG
- 8 The Brilliant and The Dark Live
- 9 Parallel Anthology - Whitechapel Late
- 10 Superdeluxe@Artspace Film Programme - 17th Biennale of Sydney
- 11 Outlet - Beaconsfield
- 12 Struggle in Jerash - Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
- 13 Berlin Documentary Forum
- 14 PARADE: public modes of assembly and forms of address
- 15 LOOP Barcelona
- 16 Parallel Anthology - 17th Biennale of Sydney
- 17 The Brilliant and The Dark - The Women's Library
- 18 Struggle In Jerash - Gasworks London
- 19 Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico
- 20 Free/Slow University of Warsaw
- 21 Ghost Trace Stellar
- 22 Felix's Machines
- 23 Open Music Archive Outlet, London
- 24 This is not a gateway
- 25 Free-to-air CD
- 26 Nought To Sixty, ICA
- 27 Loose Booty, Zurich
- 28 Disclosures II: The Middle Ages, Laxton
- 29 Freebooter, The London Festival of Architecture
- 30 Photosocial, The Photographers' Gallery
- 31 Electronic Music Festival, Amman
- 32 Disclosures, London
- 33 Clips, Blips and Loops #2, Geneva
- 34 Loose Booty, London
- 35 Screen Tests - The Bigger Picture, Manchester
- 36 Who Makes And Owns Your Work, Stockholm
- 37 Free-to-air (Cornerhouse, Manchester)
- 38 Previous Projects
- 39 Future Projects
Struggle in Jerash, Makan
We're going to be screening, discussing and distributing Struggle in Jerash at Makan
Wednesday 21 September 2011
This event is supported by MIRIAD and the European Cultural Foundation
Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York
Struggle in Jerash will be screened as part of:
Film screenings and Conversations
Saturday, September 10, 2011, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Free event
Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art, London
Open Music Archive
Recorded: Thursday 17th March 2011 (18:30 – 20:30)
Broadcast: scheduled for 2021
We were invited by Sean Dockray to contribute to his Public Monument. We produced a future public domain radio programme – projecting forward a selection of out-of-copyright archive music and recordings currently controlled under copyrights due to expire by the time of broadcast in the year 2021.
In 2011 in the UK, the term of copyright in a musical composition is limited to the life of the author plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited to 50 years from the date of recording. Once this bundle of proprietary rights expires, a music recording enters the public domain and is held in common. The legal frameworks, which define the limits of the public domain, are by no means fixed. The future of the public domain is precarious – the field of culture is increasingly colonised for private interests as proprietors of intellectual property continually lobby for the extension of their control.
Pre-release optimistically opens up a future channel for public domain material beyond individual proprietary and commercial interests – a truly free broadcast for an imminent public domain.
The Pre-release radio programme was presented by Dan Scott
Part of SHADOWBOXING
Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm
Struggle In Jerash will be screened at:
Tempo Documentary Festival
Friday 11 March 18:00 – 19:20 Victoria 7
We are also contributing to the event Reality is Fiction:
Read more about Struggle In Jerash at Catalogue Magazine
Artists Film Club - ICA London
Artists Film Club - The Brilliant and The Dark
Institute of Contemporary Arts
2 December 2010
Screening and Discussion 7:30 pm
Eileen Simpson and Ben White present their new short video work The Brilliant and the Dark, a restaging of a 1969 cantata for women's voices of the same name. Following a discussion with the artists and choir leader Deborah Coughlin (chaired by curator Anna Colin), the radically remixed cantata will be performed live by the extraordinary 22-piece women's choir Gaggle.
Free, Book for the Screening, Discussion and Live Performance (limited capacity) or only for the Live Performance
The Brilliant and the Dark live performance supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Live cc licensed recording coming soon
LuckyPDF TV Autoitalia Live
Running from the 9th October 2010 and broadcasting for 5 consecutive Saturdays at 5pm, Auto-Italia was transformed into a fully functioning independent TV studio.
We contributed to the last episode broadcast live Saturday 12th November:
Through re-enactment and lip-synching, Open Music Archive present a series of musical vignettes structured around public domain recordings from 1920s blues and jazz to 1960s soul via 1930s dance band crooners.
Al Bowlly's 1936 newsreel appearance is scrambled (You've Got What Gets Me reversed and flipped as Me Gets What Got You've) and Vaughn De Leath's 1927 crooning of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is melodically de-saturated and retroactively mutated by a 1960s monotone female Elvis.
Auto-Italia South East, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, London SE15 6NJ
Catalogue screening at SLG
The Brilliant and The Dark video screening as part of:
Catalogue presents Film screening and Tatiana Trouvé in conversation
6 October 2010, 7pm, Free
South London Gallery
To celebrate its first anniversary, Franco-British online contemporary art magazine Catalogue presents a special evening comprising a screening of films by artists featured in the magazine during its first year of publication, as well as a rare opportunity for a limited audience to hear Tatiana Trouvé in conversation with an invited speaker.
The Brilliant and The Dark Live
Thursday 23 September
Eileen Simpson and Ben White have invited the extraordinary 22 piece women's choir Gaggle to reinterpret The Brilliant and the Dark, a 1969 cantata for women's voices and to perform it live at The Women's Library.
In addition they have asked vocalist Ellen Southern to create a new copyleft remix score, which will be performed with live band and singers on the same night.
All will be accompanied by an exclusive DJ set created by Eileen Simpson that celebrates music produced by women, gleaned from The Women's Library
The Women's Library
£6 / £4 concessions
This event is part of Out of the Archives curated by Anna Colin
Out of the Archives runs until 2 October 2010 at The Women's Library.
25 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT
Opening hours:
Free entry
For the exhibition we negotiated with copyright owners music publishers Josef Weinberger for permission to use elements from the work and invited the all-women choir Gaggle to remix the music and lyrics of the original composition for a new music video. Filmed on location in The Women's Library exhibition hall, the video re-animates the 1969 performance through restaging situations – from the backstage preparations, to choreographed moments in the live event – which are documented in photographs held in the Library's collection. The performers are seen in new costumes referencing the originals and amidst remade props.
Parallel Anthology - Whitechapel Late
Friday 30 July, 8pm
Whitechapel Gallery
An evening of music inspired by musicologist, record collector and artist Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright - from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. For this event musicians and producers have been invited to perform covers and remixes of Parallel Anthology for a night of plugged and unplugged performances.
Live Parallel Anthology sets by:
Leafcutter John
Plus Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft DJ set
Free Parallel Anthology source CD gift will be presented on entry.
Superdeluxe@Artspace Film Programme - 17th Biennale of Sydney
Struggle in Jerash screening:
Sunday, 25 July
Outlet - Beaconsfield
Distributing direct to the public, the temporary outlet makes available the out-of-copyright and copyleft material from Open Music Archive.
Listen, browse, burn and take away . . .
Sunday 18 July 2-8 pm
Part of the SpaceShip Earth freecycling party.
Struggle in Jerash - Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
Screening of Struggle in Jerash - a film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White
June 30, 2010
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
Berlin Documentary Forum
We're contributing to:
Berlin Documentary Forum # 1
02.06.2010 - 06.06.2010
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The BERLIN DOCUMENTARY FORUM is a new programmatic initiative at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is an interdisciplinary festival showcasing visual, audiovisual and performative works from all over the world. It is also the first festival to stage a forum that debates the contemporary documentary as a politically committed form of representation.
Curator Eduardo Thomas presents a selection of contemporary experimental documentaries – all shown as German premieres. The program brings together films recently made in South America, the Middle East and Asia. The discussions with the filmmakers depart from previously dominant notions such as 'authorship', 'authority' and 'authenticity'.
"Struggle In Jerash" with Eduardo Thomas, Eileen Simpson, and Ben White
PARADE: public modes of assembly and forms of address
We are contributing to PARADE: public modes of assembly and forms of address
Friday 21 may
Saturday 22 May
Sunday 23 may
Parade is at:
LOOP Barcelona
Struggle in Jerash is showing as part of LOOP Barcelona
Saturday the 22nd of May
London Seen will be launched at this year's edition of LOOP and functions as an exploration into moving-image practices on London's contemporary art scene; prolific in exhibition formats, interactions and challenges to conventional circuits. The project brings to Barcelona platforms and exhibition spaces which reflect innovative engagement with and display of video and film. Gathering different types of sites for display, production, distribution and/or archiving of moving-image works, London Seen project aims to generate a reflection around the specific treatment of video and film, by bringing together the participant's practices and trajectories.
Parallel Anthology - 17th Biennale of Sydney
Saturday, 15 May
Join Eileen Simpson and Ben White for an evening of free music launching their Parallel Anthology project inspired by musicologist and artist Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Simpson and White have collected parallel public domain versions of the anthology recordings not closed down by copyright; from non-attributed folk versions, to commercial recordings whose proprietary interests have expired. The evening will feature a free CD giveaway and a DJ set featuring Parallel Anthology tracks, recordings from their Open Music Archive and new copyleft remixes, covers and versions made with a range of collaborators.
We're also contributing to the Opening Week Forum:
Saturday 15 May
Session II : 1 pm
Dr Gerald McMaster, Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Megan Tamati-Quennell
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Brilliant and The Dark - The Women's Library
We are contributing to Out of the Archives exhibition at:
The Women's Library
12 May - 2 October 2010
The Women's Library exhibitions are open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm, with a late evening opening on Thursday until 8.00pm.
curated by Anna Colin
Struggle In Jerash - Gasworks London
I Want to See / Struggle in Jerash
16th April 2010 - 30th May 2010
As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets.
Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, film makers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan's public domain.
The result is Struggle In Jerash – a project convened around a lost 1957 Jordanian feature film of the same name, which fell out-of-copyright the year of the artists' residency, and is used as a catalyst to explore value and meaning in archival material.
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico
Struggle In Jerash has been selected to be screened as part of Ambulante Documentary Film Festival 2010
The festival tours to Mexico City, Metepec - Toluca, Cuernavaca, Leon, Puebla, Morelia, San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Monterrey, Tijuana, Xalapa and Guadalajara between Feb 12 - May 6
Panel discussion: "Copyright, intellectual property and public goods"
Screening with Q&A session
Open Music Archive DJ set
Injerto programme curated by Eduardo Thomas
Read more about Struggle In Jerash at Catalogue Magazine
Free/Slow University of Warsaw
11th December 2009
Eileen and Ben will talk about Open Music Archive as part of OUR WAY, BY THE WAY NEW STRATEGIES FOR CULTURE
followed by an out-of-copyright/copyleft DJ set at Wspaniały Nowy Świat (former Nowy Świat cafe), ul. Nowy Świat 63 Warsaw
Conference "Our Way, by the Way. New Strategies for Culture" took place in the Warsaw University Library between the 11th and the 13th of December 2009. Lectures and discussions were dedicated to the issues of alternative strategies for independent culture and its possible transformations
Ghost Trace Stellar
Friday 17th July 2009
Ghost Trace Stellar
Organised by Polytechnic & Kate Sweeney. Part of the Polytechnic ecologies programme
We're working with Polytechnic to develop an evening of free music at Star and Shadow, an open volunteer-run social space and Cinema in Newcastle. We're inviting bands, musicians, producers and DJs to perform covers, versions, remixes or interpretations of the 1920s and 30s out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the Open Music Archive. A series of live plugged and unplugged performances will be recorded and licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike, generating a new resource - free for use and reuse in the future.
The event opens up a temporary channel for music, exchange and discussion that operates beyond individual proprietary and commercial interests.
Felix's Machines
Friday 19 December 2008
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines. This is followed by a performance of new compositions made in collaboration with Felix Thorn for Felix's Machines, and assembled from out-of-copyright material for the player piano.
FREE GIFT: a copyleft licensed CD featuring the new compositions and source files will be given away on the night.
Map: download a PDF
Open Music Archive Outlet, London
22nd November - 14th December 2008
Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White set up the first temporary outlet for their Open Music Archive. Distributing direct to the public, the outlet makes available the out-of-copyright and copyleft material from the archive on CDs, CDRs, and vinyl. Featuring new live recordings from Serafina Steer, Hest, Magic Arm, Sisters of Transistors, Per Ahlund and Mathias Josefson (Fylkingen), MC Strategy (Broke 'n' English); studio recordings by Homelife Duo, Liz Green, Sundowner; clips, blips and loops sampled mechanical music boxes; and 1920s and 30s archive source recordings by Leroy Carr, Virginia Liston, Cleo Brown and Honey Hill and more. . .
Visitors to the outlet can browse, listen and take away the music. The CDs and records are available in exchange for a suggested donation and all material is out-of-copyright or copyleft - free for use and reuse in the future.
The outlet is set up in collaboration with designer Ismini Adami.
This is not a gateway
Open Music Archive DJ set at:
This is not a gateway festival launch
Free-to-air CD
Free-to-Air CD containing 14 copyleft covers, versions and remixes of the out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall & folk from the Open Music Archive. Featuring Magic Arm, Homelife, Sisters of Transistors and more....
Send a donation of £5 and we'll post you a copy of the CD
Nought To Sixty, ICA
Monday 29 September 2008 8 - 10 pm
Institute of Contemporary Arts
out-of-copyright archive jazz / blues / music hall & folk
part of Nought to Sixty curated by Mark Sladen and Richard Birkett
Loose Booty, Zurich
Loose Booty at K3 - Project Space
opening 27th September with Open Music Archive DJ set 7pm till late
Disclosures II: The Middle Ages, Laxton
Saturday 6 September 2008
For Disclosures II, Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) use Declose, the vinyl battle tool created for Disclosures I, to make music for a party in the barn.
Declose is a copyleft licensed 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from out of copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the Open Music Archive
Declose was made in collaboration with music producers from the burntprogress community.
Download the Declose record or request your free copy of the vinyl from: email@example.com
Freebooter, The London Festival of Architecture
FREEBOOTER: an evening of free music
exploring public territory in a peninsula haunted by pirates and bootleggers.
Saturday 28th June
at: The Pilot Inn, 68 River Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London, SE10
presenting reclaimed lost treasures:
Funktion-One sound system
The Declose vinyl will be available on the night in exchange for a donation.
part of The London Festival of Architecture
Project Manager: Heidi Pedersen
Photosocial [4]
See new photography with music, debate and diversion.
The next in an ongoing series of bar nights will include a debate on The Amateur vs the Professional as well as a projection of Screen Tests by Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson and Ben White.
Free, spaces limited, so come along early!
Electronic Music Festival, Amman
Outdoor screening of Screen Tests, and Dragline with live musical accompaniment by Ben White. The music, which has been sourced from out-of-copyright early 20th Century 78rpm records will be manipulated in real-time.
100LIVE Electronic Music Festival 2008
Saturday, 17th May 08 at 4:00pm
Disclosures, London
For Disclosures Eileen Simpson & Ben White create Declose, a project to create a copyleft licensed 12" vinyl scratch tool containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright blues, jazz and folk housed in the Open Music Archive.
The artists promote collaboration and seek to explore its significance and value for creative production. For Declose they invite producers and members of the burntprogress community to create new remix tracks, short vocal snippets, percussive noises, samples, breaks and beats - made entirely from the out-of-copyright music in the Open Music Archive - to make up the battle vinyl.
Declose Launch Event:
Featuring scratch routines, live experiments and improvisation using the Declose vinyl by:
Collection Society
The Declose vinyl will be available on the night in exchange for a donation.
Clips, Blips and Loops #2, Geneva
For Clips, Blips and Loops #2, we are inviting producers, musicians and DJs to contribute to the collection of free source tools available here. This is an extension of a project developed in Stockholm, November 2007. In February 2008 all of the tools will be gathered together to produce a CD that will be freely distributed at a public performance at an event in Geneva on 13th March.
Loose Booty, London
Loose Booty
Alexandre Bianchini, Jeff McMillan, Sylvie Rodriguez, Pascal Rousson, Guy Sherwin, Eileen Simpson and Ben White
For Loose Booty, a new exhibition by Pearl Projects, Eileen Simpson & Ben White have brought together a number of different cover versions of Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, originally written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith of Chicago (d. 1929). The various out-of-copyright versions, including those by Bing Crosby and Honey Hill, and a new track made entirely from the out-of-copyright elements, are to be burned on CDs and given away for free at the exhibition as a way of disseminating materials that are in the public domain.
Vegas Gallery
After Party - featuring Open Music Archive out-of-copyright/copyleft laptop and DJ set
Downloads here
STOP.MOVE Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6
Screen Tests - The Bigger Picture, Manchester
See Screen Tests and Broadcast Times on The Big Screen Manchester from 12th Jan - 1st Feb 2008.
Screen Tests - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White
Broadcast Times - Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White
Who Makes And Owns Your Work, Stockholm
Time: 17 November 2007 12.00 - 01.00
In an attempt to cross the boundaries of idea and practice, Iaspis and Konstfack initiated a project on production, distribution and ownership of cultural matter and artistic knowledge starting in December 2006. On 17th November 2007 the project will open itself up by letting the gathered knowledge be combined with that of invited guests, in an event aiming at an in-depth look on the making and owning of contemporary culture.
Free-to-air (Cornerhouse, Manchester)
From 15-25th July 2007 Open Music Archive will be resident at Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts.
For two weeks Eileen Simpson & Ben White will be producing a series of live events and programmes for a temporary FM radio station broadcasting across Manchester. (106.5FM)
We're inviting bands and musicians to respond to the rare out-of-copyright folk, blues, and jazz from the Open Music Archive; to work with forgotten lyrics, chords, melodies and beats, and to make new cover versions of forgotten tracks.
For two weeks the gallery will host live plugged and unplugged performances and one-off broadcasts by Manchester's finest upcoming and established bands and musicians.


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Underground Cinema Awards 2015 – Winners
Nov 28th
Pictured above are David Munro and Neil Byrne, just after receiving their awards for "Best Score" at the Underground Cinema Awards 2015 for the short animated film "Deadly", which was written and directed by Aidan McAteer in association with The Irish Film Board, RTE, The Arts Council and Kavaleer Productions.
"Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn't care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old lady named Bridie…" Featuring the very unique voices of Oscar winning actress Brenda Fricker and multi award winner Peter Coonan. You can watch the trailer for Deadly here:


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will maintain the pace of its program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows, but offered a slightly more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market.
The brighter view of the economy could be a hint that the Fed is moving closer to reducing its stimulus. But the statement issued after the Fed's two-day policy meeting gave no indication of when that might happen.
In the statement, the Fed says economy is growing moderately. And for the first time said the "downside risks to the outlook" had diminished since fall.
The Fed says it will keep buying $85 billion a month in bonds until the outlook for the job market improves substantially. The bond purchases are intended to lower long-term interest rates to encourage borrowing, spending and investing.
The central bank also said that it would maintain its plan to keep short-term rates at record lows at least until unemployment reaches 6.5 percent.
The Fed also said that inflation was running below its 2 percent long-run objective, but noted that temporary factors were partly the reason.
Investors reacted initially by selling both stocks and bonds. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 77 points shortly after the statement came out; minutes earlier, it had been down just 16.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note shot up to 2.27 percent from 2.21 percent just before the statement came out.
The Fed also released its latest economic projections on Wednesday, which predicted that unemployment will fall a little faster this year, to 7.2 percent or 7.3 percent at the end of 2013 from 7.6 percent now. It thinks the rate will be between 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent by the end of 2014, better than its previous projection of 6.7 percent to 7 percent.
It said inflation could run as low as 0.8 percent this year. But the Fed predicts it will pick up next year to between 1.4 percent and 2 percent.
The statement was approved on a 10-2 vote. James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, objected for the first time this year, saying he wanted a stronger commitment from the Fed to keep inflation from falling too low.
Esther George objected for the fourth time this year, again voicing concerns about inflation rising too quickly.
Ultra-low rates have helped fuel a housing comeback, support economic growth, drive stocks to record highs and restore the wealth America lost to the recession.
Financial markets have been gyrating in the four weeks since Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the Fed might scale back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within "the next few meetings"— earlier than many had assumed.
Bernanke cautioned that the Fed would slow its support only if it felt confident the job market would show sustained improvement. And he also told lawmakers that the Fed must take care not to prematurely reduce its stimulus for the still-subpar economy.
The Fed announced after its September meeting that it would purchase $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary. And in December, the Fed expanded the program to $85 billion a month, adding $45 billion a month in Treasury bond purchases. The Treasury purchases replaced an expiring bond-purchase program.
Job growth picked up after the Fed announced the latest round of bond purchases. Since October, the economy has added an average of 196,500 jobs a month, up from 157,000 a month in the previous eight months.
Last month, the U.S. economy added a solid 175,000 jobs. But the unemployment rate is still high at 7.6 percent. Economists tend to regard the job market as healthy when unemployment is between 5 percent and 6 percent.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1680 - 1734
Historical Period:
The 18th Century
Richard Cantillon, Irish born but living in Paris as a young man, from circumstances became a banker/broker there, and moved in influential, educated social circles. Intrigue, murder, posthumous plagiarism, citations by Adam Smith, rediscovery by William Stanley Jevons a century later, and a stunning work on entrepreneurial risk, money, foreign exchange, and banking from the 1700s, are all pieces of the continuing puzzle that surrounds him. [For more information about Cantillon please see our sister website Econlib.]


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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Wagner: SIEGFRIED
|Band 4
Act I: Hammer Song excerpt: "Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede, mein Hammer"..."Der frohen Funken [wie freu' ich mich]"
Andreas Dippel (t), Siegfried (?)
Albert Reiss (t), Mime (?)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra--
Walter Damrosch (?)
March 4 (matinee), 1902 (?)
[Glackens 91, undated: "Sounds like Jean. Much clearer than any other of his and audible almost, all the way through." Despite the lack of any documentation, this cylinder was issued by the IRCC, on both 78 and LP, with an ascription to Jean De Reszke and Von Hübbenet. Our dating and ascription are conjectural; there is no diplomatic evidence, and no matching speed elsewhere among the Siegfried recordings. If Band 2 is Anthes and 1901 is again ruled out on the basis of sound quality, the possibilities are: Dippel on March 4 (matinee), 1902, or Burgstaller on February 14 (matinee) or February 24, 1903 (all with Reiss as Mime and--except for the 1902 performance led by Damrosch--with Hertz conducting; see the list under Band 2). At the suggestion of John Stratton, we have adopted the Dippel ascription.]
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New 'way: Vehicle raises eyebrows
"Hey, wait a second! What is that thing?"
That's the cry as John Carden zips past on his brand new "toy," Charlottesville's first Segway Human Transporter, and Carden says he's enjoying the attention.
"It really loosens people's inhibitions," he laughs.
Carden first saw the $4,000 electric vehicle while visiting a Brookstone store in Florida about a month ago. He says he wanted one right off the bat.
"You're just gliding," he beams. "It feels like flying."
Following a friend's advice, Carden held off for a month, but on Friday, March 26, still jonesin' for the two-wheeled, 83-pound contraption, he went ahead and ordered it. It arrived less than a week later, on Wednesday, March 31.
Sure it's fun, but is it legal to ride on Charlottesville's pedestrian-only areas?
"I don't know," shrugs Carden, who says he was stopped by a "very nice" policewoman on the Downtown Mall. "She wasn't sure," he says, "but thought that since it's a vehicle, I shouldn't be riding it on the Mall."
That officer isn't the only one in the dark about the Segway.
"I guess that would require me to do research with the City attorney," says Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo, who had not yet seen or heard about Carden's Segway.
Mayor Maurice Cox, a vocal proponent of alternative transportation, says he believes the Segway should be allowed in pedestrian areas– at least until it becomes a problem.
"Whether it's the rickshaw, Vespa [scooter], yellow bikes," says Cox, "the idea is to give people as many alternatives to the automobile as possible."
And since the Segway is designed as a pedestrian alternative that can be used indoors, Cox believes it may have "a legitimate claim to be used in a pedestrian-only environment."
Both Cox and fellow city councilor Kevin Lynch say that while one Segway almost certainly is not problematic, if the trend catches on, new laws might have to be considered.
"We try to regulate as little as possible," says Lynch. "It's only when something becomes a problem that we step in and act."
The key, Lynch says, is how well one is able to control the Segway.
Not a problem, says Carden, thanks to the unusual and futuristic technology the machine employs.
The Segway was designed by inventor Dean Kamen, and prior to its unveiling in December, 2001, was referred to as "Ginger" to increase the machine's mystique. Using multiple gyroscopes to emulate human balance, two independent electric motors, and wheels that allow a turn-radius no-wider than the vehicle's footprint, the Segway– which looks more like a push mower than a scooter– is unlike any other form of locomotion currently available.
It's not Kamen's first unusual invention. He's won awards for his body of work, which in addition to the Segway includes the IBOT, a robotic wheelchair that can go up and down stairs and allows the user to ride at eye level with nondisabled individuals.
The accessibility and ease of use of his inventions is part of Kamen's success, though there have been some bumps in the road, so to speak. George Bush famously fell off the Segway while out for a roll with his family. Carden says the malfunction that sent Bush flying has since been fixed with a warning system for low battery power, and this reporter had no such problems while testing Carden's Segway.
The Segway is turned on with one of three "thumbprint" keys pressed into a circle on the console. Each key represents a different level of use. A beginner key sets the Segway to a less-sensitive, slower level (the one used by this reporter). An intermediate key allows slightly faster sidewalk travel, and the advanced key allows users to zip along at 11 mph. A single charge, according to the company website, allows travel of between 10 and 15 miles, and costs approximately 10 cents. To drive the Segway, the rider simply leans forward or backward, and twists the handles to turn.
Simple enough, but what are the downsides?
Colin Dougherty, co-owner of the Vespa dealership on Preston Avenue, says the high price point should be considered. At $4,000 to $4,500 depending on the model, the Segway is comparable to the most expensive Vespa scooters, which can be ridden on the open road and get 40-50 miles to the gallon. Dougherty's dealership offers electric scooters which can travel on city roads at speeds up to 23 miles per hour for just $1,000, a quarter the cost of a Segway.
Segway reps did not return the Hook's calls by press time, but John Daniels, Brookstone's Richmond area manager, says the price isn't holding people back. He wouldn't reveal exact sales figures, but claims "They're doing well– interest seems to be high." In addition to Brookstone stores, Segways can be purchased through Amazon.com or the Segway website.
Though he thinks "they're cool," Lee Marracini, owner of Angelo jewelry store on the Downtown Mall, says price isn't the only problem with the Segway.
"I thought I might be the first one on the Downtown Mall to have one," he says, until he put a little more thought into it.
"What our country needs more than anything else," he says, "is to walk more."
Carden says he considered that, but decided he'll still get plenty of exercise: He runs regularly, and when not in a rush, walks to work from his downtown home. The Segway, he says, simply allows faster pedestrianism– without the sweat– for those times when he doesn't want to drive but can't take the time for a standard-speed stroll.
"I might take it to Barracks Road," he says.
Whether the Segway becomes standard transportation fare in Charlottesville remains to be seen, but Carden has no regrets about his pricey purchase.
"Sometimes I feel like a complete geek," he says, but "it's fun to be excited about something again."
John Carden has a new toy, the Segway Human Transporter.


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Three years ago on Rays Index the Rays unveiled their plans for a new waterfront stadium and also announced the signing of Troy Percival. Overall, not the most productive day in franchise history.
The Rays Officially Unveil Plans For New Stadium On St. Pete Waterfront [Rays Index]
Rays Agree To Contract With Free Agent Troy Percival [Rays Index]


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This message preached on September 13, 2015 at Foothills Community Church is part of a series of messages entitled, "More Than A Story."
In 1 Samuel we read of a unique friendship; a friendship between David and Jonathan. Two men that experienced an immediate and special bond that when looked at closely models for us the kind of friendship that God desires for us to experience.
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As a referee in mixed martial arts for over a decade, "Big" John gave his thoughts on the recent controversy revolving around Vaselinegate with Georges St. Pierre and B.J. Penn:
It has been a problem for a long time. It is one that we [referees] have addressed before. As much as people want to make of it; I don't ever want to suggest that the performance by GSP in that fight was aided by Vaseline....that is ridiculous! His performance was not based at all by having Vaseline on him. He beat B.J. Penn soundly and because of the mistake by someone in his corner people try to make it a bigger deal than it really was. We stopped allowing fighters to have their corner men apply Vaseline to them in the locker-room because we did find that some people were applying it to areas that were illegal. You have commissioners in the back that work both MMA and Boxing matches and sometimes those lines get crossed because there are some differences between the two that sometimes get overlooked. So that is why the fighters get there pre-fight Vaseline at the cage now. This allows the referee or an inspector to watch the cut-man or cornerman when it is applied. Even now though there are times that Vaseline still ends up on a fighter's back by accident. I don't think it was intentional or an attempt to cheat but I agree it should have been stopped by the inspector and checked to make sure who ever was applying the Vaseline to GSP's face didn't touch him anywhere else. I think the situation was handled well and it wasn't like they were rubbing handfuls of Vaseline all over his chest and back. I think it has been blown out of proportion and that it didn't have any effect on the fight. The new rules established by the UFC should stop these incidents from occurring in the future but there is still going to be the chance that the cut-man accidentally touches the fighter somewhere other than his face. Its just human error and not cheating. As far as B.J. goes, I am sure he is upset that it happened but I highly doubt he is going to use that as an excuse for why he lost the fight.
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Jean-Jacques Dordain
Jean-Jacques Dordain was the sixth Director General of ESA, serving from 2003 to 2015.
Main achievements
He was reappointed twice to the position by the ESA Council. When he joined ESA in 1986, he was appointed Head of the newly set-up Department for the Promotion and Utilisation of the International Space Station. In 1993, he became Associate Director for Strategy Planning and International Policy, then in 1999 he took the position of Director of Strategy and Technical Assessment. In 2001, he became Director of Launchers, and was appointed Director General in July 2003.
Mr Dordain was born in Lille in 1946. He graduated in engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1969 (the year Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon), and began his scientific career in 1970 in the field of propulsion and rocket boosters at the French National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research (ONERA). From 1976 to 1983, he was the Coordinator of Space Activities at ONERA until he was appointed Director of Fundamental Physics. During this period he was among the first five French astronaut candidates to be selected by CNES for the ESA Spacelab 1 programme.
Throughout his career Mr Dordain has taught in several prestigious positions. He was Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Ecole Centrale de Paris, 1972–78, and also Professor of Rocket Propulsion at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (sup'Aero) in Toulouse, 1972–82.
From 1977 to 1993, he was Associated Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique and, from 1975 to 1995, he was Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). Since 2003, he has been lecturer at La Sapienza University in Rome and Honorary Professor at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria, and at the University of Liège, Belgium.
In 1997, he was invited to be the Executive Secretary of the Evaluation Committee of the Japanese space agency NASDA.
Mr Dordain was awarded the honours of Officer of the French Légion d'Honneur and the Ordre National du Mérite. He was awarded the Order of Friendship by the Russian Federation, the title of Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and the Officer's Cross (Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse) in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the title of Commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands.
Mr Dordain is a Member of the French Académie des Technologies, an Associate Member of the Belgian Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux Arts. He is also a Member of the Air and Space Academy (France); the International Academy of Astronautics and the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France. He has honorary functions as Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation and Chancellor of the International Space University.
While at the helm of ESA, Mr Dordain has presided over a long string of successful Ariane launches carrying important space science missions, such as the Rosetta comet chaser (2004) and the Herschel and Planck cosmic explorers (2009). In addition, a number of key Earth Observation satellites have been put into orbit providing unique data to the scientific communities for understanding and monitoring Earth's environment and climate change, such as GOCE (2009) to study the Earth's gravity field, SMOS (2009) to investigate the soil moisture and ocean salinity and Cryosat (2010) to study floating ice in the polar oceans and ice sheets. Proba-V (for Vegetation), a miniaturised satellite to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet, was launched on a Vega launcher in early 2013.
In the area of Human Spaceflight and Microgravity, after the launch of the Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station in 2008, four Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) docked automatically at the Station, the last three with only a one-year interval.
The first launch of Soyuz from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (October 2011) and the maiden flight of the Vega small launcher (February 2012) are also listed among the main recent achievements.
A growing and ever changing ESA
Since 2003, ESA has grown from 15 to 20 European Member States and has welcomed six new countries as European Cooperating States. All other EU countries not yet members of ESA may attend the ESA Council as observers.
Mr Dordain has nurtured ESA's relationship with the European Union and its institutions. Within the ESA/EU framework agreement established in 2004, ESA and the European Commission have drawn up a European Space Policy as a common political framework for space activities in Europe. ESA is managing the technical development of the EU's two space programmes: Galileo for satellite navigation, now with four operational satellites in orbit after the two precursors test satellites GIOVE-A and -B, and Copernicus for a global monitoring of the environment and security, with the first satellite of the Sentinels family (Sentinel-1A) to be launched on a Soyuz from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in early 2014.
Mr Dordain has been instrumental in sealing several Public–Private Partnerships with industry and commercial operators. Remarkable examples are the Hylas-1 broadband telecommunications satellite (2010) with Avanti Communications; the Alphasat high-power telecommunications platform (mid 2013) with CNES and Inmarsat; the European Small GEO geostationary platform for telecommunication missions with Hispasat (slated for end 2014/early 2015) and the European Data Relay System(also scheduled for 2015) for high-speed data services with Astrium and Eutelsat.
Mr Dordain has also started creating links, both programmatic and political, with the security and defence world with the creation of the Structured Dialogue on Space and Security, which brings together the EU Council, the European Commission, the European Defence Agency (EDA) and ESA. An administrative arrangement with EDA was concluded in June 2011.
Enhanced international cooperation
Mr Dordain's leadership has enabled ESA to consolidate and enhance several international partnerships. On the NASA side, he has been key in ensuring the extension of the International Space Station's operational life to 2020, an extension which on the European side was accompanied by the recruitment of six new astronauts in 2009. This cooperation goes now beyond the Space Station to cover future space exploration: in November 2012, ministers in charge of space gave the green light for Europe to provide the service module of NASA's new Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle to the Moon and beyond.
On the Russian side, Mr Dordain promoted the launching of Soyuz from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and the cooperation on the ExoMars mission to Mars (2016–18). He fostered and developed cooperation with Japan, especially in planetary exploration with the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and through the EarthCare Earth Explorer mission. He also increased ESA's efforts to establish cooperation with China, especially in space science.


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Arrow #3
The first time in print for these digital first adventures, based on the CW TV show!
In this action-packed issue, The Arrow continues his crusade against the underworld of Starling City!
But Oliver's resolve is tested as his secret identity puts him at odds with those closest to him...


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September 09, 2007
Cool Recent Art, Pt. 1
//NA// I've been coming across all kinds of interesting artwork lately:
- Shout at the devil: Brian Dettmer has sculpted a skull using melted heavy metal cassette tapes. Rockin' like Dokken. [Via]
- Andrew Huff points out Michael Levy's gut-busting Deep Fried Liberty (see details). I want to see Lou Dobbs suck one of these down on air while supplying "the facts, not fear."
- What if people walked around with their names floating above them, World of Warcraft-style? Aram Bartholl & Evan Roth give it a shot. [Via]
- Jethro Haynes creates rather amazing shoe art. Here's a particular fave. [Via]
- The book Dictator Style catalogs the design tastes of colorful despots–what PJ O'Rourke calls "felony interior decorating." [Via]
- The Want/Need glass reminds the user to sip, not guzzle. [Via]
- I found myself enjoying an NYT slideshow covering new architecture in the Netherlands. Unfortunately it concluded with the line, "Mr. Neutelings and Mr. Riedijk have fashioned a serious critique of a world saturated in advertising, and marketing images, and reaffirmed architecture's heroic stature, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff"–making me want to throw up a little in my mouth. The accompanying article thankfully bypasses the pedantic crap.
- On a less pretentious note, peep this Dutch satellite dish-pimping.
- Canon may be taking its time in revving the 5D, but in the meantime, can I interest you in a sewn felt Pentax? [Via]
- An uncredited YouTube vid shows the faces of women in Western art morphing into one another. [Via]
- D*Face subverts a simple pole with Missile Strike. [Via]


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Jon Stewart's spot on the entertainment/political/news spectrum – is he a comedian or an activist? – shifted to a new level of ambiguity just before Christmas when the White House lauded him for championing a stalled bill intended to help ailing 9/11 responders.
As Stewart returns Monday night to start his 13th year on "The Daily Show," he faces new questions about whether can he pull off being both a comic and an advocate – even for an issue where opposition defied reason – and whether his success will embolden him to tackle new, perhaps less clear-cut causes.
Since replacing Craig Kilborn in 1999, Stewart has transformed from a news riffer to a comic commentator to a biting watchdog of politicians and journalists who not only points out the lack of sanity, but, in keeping with the spirit of his October rally in Washington, now actively tries to restore it.
U.S. & World
On his Dec. 16 show, Stewart's last before taking a holiday break, he shamed the GOP for blocking a measure supporting as nonpartisan a cause as we have in this politically polarized time. But he may have come down even harder the major news media for what he deemed a lack of coverage of the Zadroga Bill – noting that Al Jazeera ran a 22-minute report about the measure.
"Our networks were scooped with a sympathetic Zadroga Bill story by the same network that Osama bin Laden sends his mix tapes to," Stewart said in disbelief. "This is insane!"
He then trod one big step further by interviewing four 9/11 responders, letting them tell their stories in an segment packed with emotion, facts and just enough tasteful humor to remind the audience that "The Daily Show," ostensibly, is a comedy program.
Stewart's risk paid off on at least couple of levels: the interviews made for some powerful TV. The show also seemed to spur action – or at least notch attention. The New York Times noted that Stewart's show apparently kick-started the cable news machine. The White House praised Stewart, even if doing so inadvertently exposed the Obama Administration's own inability to smash the Republican logjam.
"If there's the ability for that to sort of break through in our political environment, there's a good chance that he can help do that," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on Dec. 21. "I think he has put the awareness around this legislation. He's put that awareness into what you guys cover each day, and I think that's good."
The Zadroga Bill passed the next day.
It's hard – no, pretty much impossible – to argue against the country's duty to care for the genuine heroes who lost their own health in the rescue effort at Ground Zero. And it seems almost disrespectful to even place a discussion of a comedian's future anywhere near that context.
Still, Stewart boldly made himself a player in the fight for the bill's passage – drawing attention not only to the worthy cause, but to the expanding role and influence he's carving out for himself in the once lonely confines of late-night cable TV.
His pre-election Rally to Restore Sanity, paired with his Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive, may have been intended as a shot at partisanship, but the event itself was a political act. We're still not sure what to make of Colbert's surreal testimony before Congress last year – delivered as his conservative blowhard character – in support of a bill to help migrant farm workers.
It's a more dangerous game in some ways for Stewart, who doesn't have a character to deliver his jabs through, leaving him exposed. For all his comic attacks on pandering cable news blather, both from the left and right, there's a danger by taking sides at the expense of comedy he could become what he mocks. But there's little doubt that the evolution of our best providers of daily, late-night political satire makes for compelling viewing.
We'll be tuning in Monday night to see how Stewart addresses the passage of the Zadroga Bill. Meanwhile, check out clips from the landmark Dec. 16 "Daily Show" installment, as well as Stewart's debut, on Jan. 11, 1999, which harkens back to a simpler time when all we had to worry about was the impeachment of then-President Clinton:
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Calcarina sp. ---Class: Rotaliata Subclass: Rotaliina Order: Rotaliida Family: Calcarinidae
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found on the beach Great Barrier Reef Australia exact locality unknown
Geological Time: recent Holocene Quaternary
Raw material provided by Family Meyer
in the collection of Karl-Otto Bock
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the specimens are placed by Karl-Otto Bock and photographed by Georg Wawczyniak
The identification is based upon:
Renema, W., 2003: Larger foraminifera on reefs around Bali (Indonesia) Zool. Verh. Leiden 345, 31.x.2003: 337-366 30 pp. Plate n.a., Fig.
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The gameplay of Patchworkz is addictive and the presentation is top-notch. Wellgames has included a near-endless variety of designs and patterns, and if the graphics aren't exactly soft and quilt-like, they are at least crisp and attractive. The cheery dink dink dink of correctly placed patches is sonic comfort food, like a bottomless bag of jelly beans.Read More
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Pretty much all of Wellgames' games loop eventually. It's just that most of them have 80-100 levels, and with that profile-dropping bug you can take days to see all the levels. (The profile bug was a source of immense frustration to me as I attempted to beat one of their other games last month. It kept dropping me about 5 levels from completion -- in a 120 level game.)
'Tis broken. Safari's Activity window informs me that http://patchworkz.fizzlebot.com/music.mp3 is 404. The game stops loading there.
dstrosy: No, it's Flash. You'll see this for yourself if you right-click on the game.
Oh, man...
I've been criticizing games here on JIG when I thought a game deserved negative remarks. But now, I guess, it's time to criticize myself - I'm really retarded sometimes... It took me like 5 levels to discover I'm actually playing against someone :DDDDD Forget that at the start of each level it talks about some opponent, forget that on the right side it shows how the opp progresses - I simply failed to notice :DDDD Yes, madames and messieurs, I can be THAT stupid :D
What luck this doesn't at all affect gameplay. And I like this game. Not hillarious, not one I'll keep coming back, but sure entertains me for a while.
All the "opponent" means is that if you can finish first, you get bonus points and the other person doesn't. I can beat the other people at times, but at others I just assume I get paired up with the people who play it constantly enough to remember instantly where everything goes on nearly any given quilt.
Otherwise a really nice game, but I really dislike the scoring and the competition element.
It's kind of hard to relax playing the game, when it's constantly reminding you how much faster you could have done everything and how your opponent did just that.
But I dislike competitive playing in just about any game.
I like competition and everything, but something's fishy in patchwork.
I thought it was a tiny bit uncanny that I get beat almost every time even though I do play quite fast, but not until one oponnent finished a level with like 16 small pieces in 4 (yes, 4!) seconds did I suspect foul play. I mean, seriously, 4 seconds? Noone can click and drag that fast, let alone have time to think where each part should go.
I don't find it sad that people resort to cheating in an online quilt-making game, but the fact that there's apparently so many of them is downright scary.
Got to level 71 where the difficulty level jumped up an order of magnitude. To make matters worse, the tiniest squares did not stay where I put them on the board, but jumped to a "correct" spot nearby - even if there was already a piece there. Please tell me someone has figured out why this happens or a way to get it to stop! I have played too many levels to quit this close to the end!!!
(The game lulls you into addiction very pleasantly)
This game is fantastic! However, I have two....okay three main complaints.
1. Some of those on-line players are ridiculous! There is no way that some of those levels can be done that quickly.
2. It hasn't saved my level progress once, so every time I go back I have to start over. Grrr.
3. mr_physics, I feel your pain with 71!! I made it past it just letting them snap- it will let you finish without some of them correct (at least it did me). 72 doesn't get any better - my eyes and wrist were so shot after 71 that I couldn't do it.
Other then those (mostly minor) inconveniences, this is a great game! very fun and addictive.
Well, don't care too much for the game, it's fun at first, but I wouldn't say "addictive." And I did want to let you know that you misspelled "multiplayer" in the tag menu above, thus breaking the link (sort of - it does show you all of the "mutliplayer" games, though ;).
[Edit: Thanks! Fixed. :) -Jay]
I'm going to agree with everyone else about the multiplayer angle. I'm a competitive type, so when I find myself thinking I've done really well only to look up at the other player and realize they finished a long time ago... well, the game stops being so fun and starts feeling like a never-ending round of "Look how much you suck compared to everyone else!" Then I get frustrated and turn the thing off.
More satisfying for me would be a single-player mode where you earned your bonus by completing the level within a challenging-but-manageable timeframe, or by completing the level with all the pieces in the perfect place (i.e. I've noticed that in some levels you can win by jamming pieces together that don't make the ideal pattern but nevertheless fit in the slots, leaving you with a cluster of blue triangles all lumped together or something like that). It would save on loading times, too, not to have to connect to the server and find another player to play against (If there really are other players. After a while I started to find it suspicious that there would ALWAYS be another person waiting for me who was just about to begin the same level I was, no matter how few players there might be on the server at the moment.)
Also, I'm the obsessive-compulsive type who likes to go back and replay a level repeatedly to try to improve my highscore. This game only lets you go straight forward to the end, which I find mildly frustrating.
A further observation: Occasionally the game will insist I have a piece in the wrong place, even if it is of the correct shape and color, forcing me to locate another identical piece and swap them. There was one level where there were five red squares arranged in a pattern and I had to figure out which one went where by a process of trial and error, because even though they were all exactly the same the computer would only allow for them to be in one place only. Naturally, the other player never had this problem.
This is not to say I'm not having fun with the game, but... it needs work!
I've played Wellgames in the past (using Z instead of S is a bit tired, but it's their gimmick, so be it) and am used to the "opponent" setup.
To avoid a lag in wait/playing time (say if real opponents are unavailable immediately) their "server" probably uses AI opponents.
I don't think I played against a real person even once in this game. The AI is far too fast and precise to be believable.
Offer an option to play against AI, real players, or a mix of both. Offer an option to reduce the skill level of the AI (I feel like a dunce).
After getting beat the 10th time in a row by the "Opponent" in seconds flat, I quit the game out of frustration.
Granted my hands shake a bit, and I'm not too swift with the mouse, I can't believe that EVERYONE ELSE is capable of finishing in 4 to 6 seconds EVERYTIME.
C'mon Wellgames, make it fun and competitive, but give me a chance.
i, too, am thoroughly addicted to this game.
And i have also noticed the problems discussed by others: the seemingly fake, lightning-quick opponents, the lack of bonuses for putting colors in their correct orientations, the teeny tiny pieces in later levels overlapping and causing huge headaches, etc.
That being said, i haven't enjoyed a game this much in ages. My mom was a quilter, and there is something very creative yet mathematical at work here, which stimulates both sides of the brain.
About the "opponents": i mean, i just do my best to ignore them. At first i was very score-oriented, but now i try and just "play with heart" ;), by which i mean putting colored pieces in their correct, symmetrical positions, instead of rushing through simply to beat the other player (AKA around here as "playing to win" :P). In fact, there are times when the opponents are actually extremely *slow*, and lumping same colors together, which looks wrong- and which convinces me that they must be a real person, struggling along; otherwise why wouldn't it just do it perfectly if it were programmed? Hm. In any case, i do also add my voice to the single-player option, even though i doubt it will ever happen. :)
About the overlapping tiny pieces: I don't think there is really an "answer" to this one... you just have to hold the pieces off to one side, at a distance that you have discovered through trial and error, and try and fill them in in an orderly fashion, row by row. That way you can take stock of every blank square; and make sure to watch each piece when it falls in to see that it does, in fact, end up in the right place. Tedious, yes, but it can be done well with practice! (My boyfriend has suggested that it is perhaps better to throw them all in the correct general vicinity, and then place them at the end, to "get in the zone", as it were, instead of stressing over them within precious game time :))
In a way i was bummed when the levels cycled, because i had been looking forward to the ten-minute long scrutiny sessions (yes, i'm more than a little OC, you might say! :P), and instead got the simple ten-piecers. But in another way, it was a huge relief.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me, though, was today, when for the third time the game seemed to lose my saved data and i was hit with that awful intro music. Rar!
Probably a good thing, though- it was eating into all of my free time, anyway ;)
Sorry for the extra long post!
Cheers, and happy playing.
Hey people!
OK, I am up to 172 and there is still no end in sight. As somebody wrote - the game loops. It looped again at 160, so my guess is there are 80 levels that will repeat indefinately.
Up to 1336770 points at the moment :)
Hint for people who get frustrated: You can just "park" pieces in a corner of the game - that has the advantage that the next pieces are shown and you can figure out later where your parked ones go. Also: There are two different sounds for placement. The sound for a correct placement is a wee bit lower than for an incorrect one.
Happy patchworking :) (and I don't even like quilts...)
It's back! :) http://patchworkz.fizzlebot.com
Hey, I'm using a Mac and had no problems with it. The site I am using also saved my game, even after being offline for several weeks. I am playing it on http://www.bigfishgames.com Really addictive and a lot of fun, I noticed at level 110 that it went back to being really easy again, I'm guessing it is on a 100 level loop.
I am not happy with the changes they made to this game...for one thing, where's the music? I loved the mellow vibe it gave. And I am not happy with the new pictures, either...I preferred the old quilt patterns. That was part of the appeal of this game to me, seeing the type of quilt blocks that my grandmother and mother-in-law would piece together from scraps of fabric. While I still enjoy the puzzle aspect, I'm not at all happy with the game overall. Instead of "fixing" it, they BROKE it, as far as I'm concerned. Wish I could play it the old way...
Just a note that Patchworkz at wellgames is up and running. http://wellgames.com/free_online/patchworkz/
There are a lot of computer opponents, and the quilts have somehow become standardized into inexplicable patterns (clown warning!), but the thrill of multiplayer does indeed seem to be back.
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Condition Record/Sleeve : Mint / Seal
Label : Studio Lam
Genre : Molam
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1. Sao Sakit Mae
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5. Diew Phin Rotfai Kwamreo Soong
6. Lam San Disco
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