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sury wrote:Now that you mentioned Mars, here are the shots from the Valley of Mars. I think the locals misunderstood the word "Mars" as "marte" and also call it Death Valley or Valley of the dead. NASA test drove their Mars rover here, they said.
I found this very interesting. Stumbled upon it in the Valley of Mars. Spiral pattern of parched earth.
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An Acer employee and a stockbroker have been arrested in Taiwan amid investigations into insider trading, which allegedly took place before the company announced its losses last year.
Henry Wang, spokesperson for the Taiwanese PC maker, was detained by local authorities who added that 10 suspects in total were identified including six others who were arrested and released on bail, according to a Bloomberg report Wednesday. Another had agreed to be a prosecution witness upon questioning, said Lee Hai-Lung, a spokesperson for the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office.
He said the suspects had profited NT$5 million (US$164,424) from exploiting information detailing the company's third-quarter 2013 losses before it was due to publicly announce the numbers. If found guilty, they face a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and fine of up to NT$200 million, Lee said.
Acer shares dipped to a 12-year low on November 6, a day after it reported a worse-than-expected loss of NT$13.1 billion (US$430.79 million) and the resignation of its former CEO J.T Wang. The dismal numbers prompted the company to slash its workforce by 7 percent and it appointed Jason Chen as its new CEO the following month .
According to Lee, Taiwan's market regulator Financial Supervisory Commission spotted stock trading irregularities before Acer was due to announce its third-quarter 2013 earnings and reported the findings to the authorities.
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Row 1: The Intellijel Row
- I used to think it was sort of funny that so many people build up system from one manufacturer's modules - until I build a few mix-and-match systems. Not always great. You get used to one modulation curve or tuning 'throw', and everything else starts to feel wrong. And one of things I'm getting from this system is how important feel is. So yeah, a row made mostly of Intellijel bits.
- The non-Intellijel stuff are the following: The LAMP-1 (which is too cool for working in the late evening), Analogue Solutions SH-NZ sample and hold noise (which has a crazy quirk I've come to depend upon) and the Div6 Filtare SEIII, which has become one of my favorite filters.
- I used to have a Dixie II+ in here, but I couldn't stand the switches. Octave switches work on a 5U oscillator, but somehow seem completely wrong in Eurorack. That, plus the fact that my Dixie II oscillators do a lot of duty as LFOs, means that the non-plus version hit the sweet spot for me.
- The Rubicon oscillator is sort of my midnight playground right now. Half of it is (seemingly) unknowable, and the other half just works properly. This is a lot of real estate to hand over for a single oscillator, but that through-zero FM really does have a unique sound.
- I've got a uMod in there right now, but I'm tempted to put the uFold back in there. Or maybe the uFade and something else. But there is a lot of depth to the uMod that I've not dug into yet, so maybe I keep it around for future exploration.
- I tried a Polaris filter in this row, but I thought it sounded horrible. I'm sure I'll get beat up for saying this, but... Intellijel is fantastic at making oscillators, VCA's, envelopes, and everything else, but I have never liked their filters. Not a one. The Filtare fits into this system so perfectly that I couldn't begin to consider anything else right now.
- I know that the ADSR envelopes make this a little east-coasty, but I don't have to use 'em, and the Maths is right underneith, and it's nice to have ADSR's sometimes (for - sigh - techno night in my basement).
- The uVCA is the best VCA anyone has made, hands-down. That's one I'd get in a fistfight over.
Row 2: The Make Noise Row
- And this is what most people think of when they think "I'm gonna get me a modular system." But maybe there's a good reason for this - like the fact that it really does kick ass? The only non-MN stuff in this row is the Ijel multiple and an O'Tool scope module. The multiple is part of my Master Layout Plan (I like it when the cables do sort of an X pattern on the face of the modular), and the scope is the most important playing live tool in my toolbox - when it is hard to hear, I can get an idea of what is going on by watching the scope, and when it isn't making any sound, I can figure things out by scoping parts of the patches. That scope has bailed me out during dozens of gigs.
- I know I crapped on the MMG in an earlier post. For most cases, I maintain that stance. However, following a DPO, it just sounds right. And the loose-ish knobs that MN uses really make for some excellent performance-twiddling.
- The Moddemix is another reason I might drop the uMod in the row above. It really does sound great as a ring mod/AM module.
- I think that I could work with a modular made completely of Maths modules. I love that thing more than I can tell. The ultimate do-everything module that actually makes you want to do everything, it is like have a Swiss Army Knife that was actually a best-in-class knife, best-in-class bottle opener and BIC fish hook remover. It defines awesome for me.
- The DPO is such a great thing, but I hate tuning it - and keeping it in tune. Using those leetle trimmers for fine tuning (over an octave!) is not my idea of fun. I seldom do melodics on the DPO because of this.
Row 3: Soup-to-Nuts
- This is the row where I put stuff that I neeeeeeed. The Yarns is the best possible MIDI interface for me. Love it! And the Rosie is the best outbound level+mixer combo I've used. In the middle are a bunch of gotta-haves: the A-185-2, which lets me do groovy pitch modulation without losing my 1v/Oct scaling. The Synovatron for control mixing, and the ArdCore with my custom quantizer/recorder/looper patch - I've gotta have it for live performance. The 4ms PEG is the anchor piece here, and something I use in almost every patch.
- I didn't mention the AD Dub Jr. delay. I've got issue with those guys - a hurt-ass thing from over a decade ago. Nevertheless, this is the delay that features voltage inputs where I need 'em, so I'm gonna use it.
- I had to use the Gray Scale panel for the PEG. I tried not doing it, but the clown colors really got under my skin. Believe me, it's hard enough having a black panel for that Rosie; I'm not putting up with blue and red! I like my Eurorack silver, my 5U black and my steaks medium well...
- Similar with the faceplate of the Ardcore.
- Why waste so much space with the CV Tools? I've tried, believe me. I've replaced it with an Invy several times - but the way that this thing is laid out, combined with the exceptionally clear and accurate LED metering, caused me to come running back every time I tried replacing it. So it stays.
- The ArdCore expander may have to go, because I've got a Monome module that I'm dying to mount permanently in the modular. Right now it gets swapped in as-needed, and I really depend on the expander giving me clear status on the complexity of the sequence that I've recorded into the ArdCore. So I don't know - I'm going to have to sleep on this for another 6 months. Maybe I should get one of those little cases for my Monome set...?


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What role do the media play in deepening democracy in East Africa?
Over 200 media owners, CEOs, government officials, publishers and journalists came together at the Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam on 14 and 15 May 2015 to discuss this salient question in a series of roundtable discussions and speeches. During the Summit's opening ceremony, Dr Richard Sezibera, the Secretary General of the EAC, expressed his concern regarding the ongoing crisis in Burundi and called upon all actors to "protect freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the lives and property of the fourth estate".
Later the same evening, the 4th EAC-EABC Media Awards honoured the work of journalists from EAC Partner States. Nine out of seventeen award winners in a total of 23 categories were alumni of previous media training courses organised by the EAC in cooperation with the EAC-German Cooperation Programme implemented by GIZ. The prizes were awarded by the EAC Secretary General, the EABC Chairman Felix Mosha and the event's Guest of Honour, Dr Reginald Mengi.
As part of the award ceremony, the German Ambassador to Tanzania and the EAC, Mr Egon Kochanke, launched the EAC Media Scholarship Fund which will be co-financed by German development cooperation through KfW Development Bank. The fund shall enable talented students from EAC Partner States to enroll at the Aga Khan University School of Media and Communications (AKU-GSMC) in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr Wolfgang Solzbacher, Director of KfW Dar es Salaam office, further outlined plans to grant 14 million Euros in financial support to the AKU-GSMC.
As part of the newly launched Scholarship Fund, the EAC will nominate five 'EAC Scholars' – one from each Partner State – to enrol in Master's programmes or one of the School's Professional Development Short Courses.
The EAC Media Scholarship Fund aims to both increase diversity among the AKU-GSMC's student body and to strengthen the media sector in East Africa, because "only an educated and informed population can actively participate in decision-making processes in society", as the German Ambassador stated during the gala dinner. In this vein, the funding and training of media professionals – journalists in particular – who will scrutinize political processes and inform the general public, is a promising approach to boost the media's role in deepening democracy in the region.


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Cool Stuff: Retro Up Posters
Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Correction: Apparently Eric Tan did not create all these posters, I was wrong in that assumption. He created "Journey into the Wild" (with the dogs), Craig Foster did the SAA South American Air (with the Lama), Erik Evans did the "Paradise Falls" (with the bird), and Paul Conrad did the five remaining posters.
To celebrate the November 10th DVD & Blu-ray Combo pack release of Pixar's Up, Disney has released high resolution copies of Eric Tan's awesome retro posters which were created during the development of the film for inspiration, and were hung in Pixar Animation Studios during production.
We've featured many of artist Eric Tan's creations in past Cool Stuff columns: we've spotlighted his work for past Pixar productions, X-Men, LOST , among other things. Tan has been creating a series of posters for the Indiana Jones film series. You can see his Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom posters in our linked Cool Stuff articles. Check out the Up posters after the jump, and click on the images to enlarge.
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March 2015
M. E. Uribe
I am undergraduate student at Vassar College where I enjoy the joys of a liberal arts education (aka not following a specific path). I was born in Bogotá, Colombia and lived there until I was sixteen when I moved to the DC suburbs. I love dogs, modernist classical music, dancing, and 'stewing'. Poetry previously published in Poetry Quarterly, Danse Macabre, Right Hand Pointing and other small school journals.
Salsa in the Park
Move with ease
like trees in the summer
softly moved by a breeze
enamoured to the groove of salsa.
We'll be professional dancers
if our eyes stay locked with a padlock.
You smile like kids in a fountain
who don't mind getting wet.
Let's extend this moment with a quilt
and cuddle with it for the rest of the summer.
In dreams I translate
my life into words again
and again. But when
I look at them they begin
to disassemble
and spill and pour all over
till the page is white.
Looking at a Fire at Night
Fire burns the most red in the winter,
suspended pieces of burnt leaves
float with the smoke, unsure of where to go.
Dry logs crack as air bubbles pierce
the mist; restless souls released
into the atmosphere.
I Wish You Were Here
The sunlight waltzes through the treetops
which compose a backdrop
around a green field covered in dandelions
and suspected specks of white.
why bother? you aren't here,
words won't be enough
well, there are things
that can't be described.
In the Heart of the Woods
It's quite quiet out here–
rain pats the tarp
like minimalist music–
branches whistle like pipe organs
as the wind plays through them–
a creek streams in constancy
through thirsty rocks–
this is Silence–
nothing really breathes
though things are quite alive–
the city is far–
it feels like I'm the only one
in these woods
for miles–
I hear a plane thrash
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I'm never far enough.
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Cosigners and Cosigner Release – What You Need to KnowDecember 27, 2018
As more millennials are stepping into experienced job roles and making more money than we were a few years ago, cosigner release is becoming a popular topic. You may have seen a letter in the mail from your student loan servicer or heard from others that they were able to release a parent or relative from cosigner duties. But what does this mean?
Updated June 11, 2020
What are the responsibilities of a cosigner?
A common misconception about cosigning a loan is that you'll be the sole responsible party for the loan. Being a cosigner means that you and the student taking out the student loan are jointly responsible for paying the balance of the loan. In the event that the borrower is not able to pay, the cosigner becomes the focus of repayment efforts by the loan holder or servicer. If the borrower is unable to make payments because of a disability, the loans might be forgiven. There are some special cases like this where the cosigner won't have to pay, but in general, being a cosigner is a long-term commitment that can't be eliminated except through payoff, release, or extenuating circumstances.
How does cosigning affect credit?
Before asking a friend or family member to take on the responsibilities of a cosigner it's important to understand how that will affect their credit. Since a cosigner and borrower share the responsibility of a loan, it appears on both of their credit reports. If loan payments are made on time and the borrower is in good standing, then the cosigner will also benefit from the good credit. If the loan has late payments or does into delinquency, this will negatively affect the cosigner's credit. In addition to affecting the credit score of the cosigner, they may become limited as to the amount of credit available to them. Before asking someone to be a cosigner verify they are not looking to have any large amounts of credit like a mortgage, credit card, or car loan.
When do I not need a cosigner?
Students do not need cosigners to qualify for Federal loans like a Stafford or Direct Loan, but it can improve the chances of being approved. It's very common for students who apply for private loans to add a cosigner to get the amount that they need and a typically qualify for a much better rate than they could get on their own.
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Cosigner release is when the person who cosigned on a loan for you is taken off of the agreement and no longer considered partially responsible for the loan. This makes the borrower solely responsible for the remaining amount of the loan. Some student loan refinancing lenders don't offer cosigner release.
When student loans are granted, they are provided based on your cosigner's credit and the borrower's credit. In traditional cosigner releases the terms of the loan would remain the same as when the borrower took out the loan with the cosigner on it. The only difference with the cosigner release is the cosigner is being removed. When they allow you to release your cosigner depends on the company, if it is offered at all.
Most companies that offer cosigner release allow you to do so, once you've made two consecutive years of payments on time. Others may have longer terms for on-time payments before they allow you to apply for release. If you haven't been making the full payment, that might eliminate your eligibility to release your cosigner. The release also has to be initiated by the borrower and can't be requested through the servicer by the cosigner.
Not all companies offer cosigner releases. As we mentioned earlier some since loans are originated to include that cosigner, just removing them can be tough. That's why many companies don't offer cosigner releases but don't stress. If you choose to refinance a loan with a cosigner but then decide You'd like to remove that cosigner, there are other options available to you.
Will refinancing my student loan release my cosigner?
People often ask, "What if I just refinance my loan without the cosigner on it. Is it the same as a cosigner release?" Refinancing student loans is not the same thing as getting a cosigner release. Before we go into greater detail it's important to understand that very few loans are refinanced with a cosigner.
If you are in a position to refinance and qualify, then you don't need a cosigner to make the new loan possible. There are some exceptions, but during refinancing, you'd be able to check with the servicer to see what terms you could get on your own and then go from there. Most companies that refinance student loan debt will allow you to add a cosigner if you do not qualify on your own, but the cosigner will need to submit some information. If you choose to set up a new refinanced loan without the cosigner, it releases them from the obligation of the former loan.
You may be asking "Is there another way that a cosigner can be removed from a loan without utilizing a cosigner release?" well the answer is yes. Aside from utilizing a cosigner release or refinancing the loan without the cosigner, the borrower or cosigner can pay off the debt. Once the debt is paid off both parties are no longer responsible for the debt.
Before you ask someone to cosign on a loan, consider these things and be sure that they are okay with the responsibility. Make sure that you as a borrower have an understanding and a plan for paying back that debt. If you don't think that you can pay back the debt or are uncertain of how you will pay off the debt you should not involve a cosigner.
Most students ask their parents to cosign, but frequently have another relative help them by cosigning to get a loan. Know that cosigner release might be possible later, but don't count on it, and check with the financial institution that holds your loans about cosigner release. You might be able to let mom or dad off the hook by refinancing or paying the debt down in full.
Related >> Will Adding a Cosigner Save You Money When Refinancing Student Loans?


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Toy Story, released November 22, 1995, reflects more than nine years of creative and technical achievements. The film received tremendous critical acclaim and became the highest grossing film of 1995, generating $362 million in worldwide box office receipts. Toy Story's director and Pixar's executive vice president of creative, John Lasseter, received a Special Achievement Academy Award® for his "inspired leadership of the Pixar Toy Story team resulting in the first feature-length computer animated film." Pixar has since released A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. The six films combined have grossed more than $3 billion in worldwide box office receipts, and Pixar now has six of the top grossing animated films of all time. Toy Story 2, at the time of release, broke numerous opening weekend records all over the world and won a Golden Globe award for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy in 1999. In 2001, Pixar released the Academy Award®-winning Monsters, Inc., which reached over $100 million at the domestic box office in just 9 days, faster than any animated film in history at the time of its release. Monsters, Inc.'s opening-weekend gross of $62.6 million marked the largest 3-day opening ever for an animated film, the largest 3-day opening in the history of The Walt Disney Studios, the largest 3-day opening in the history of Pixar Animation Studios, and the sixth-largest opening in industry history - records that Monsters, Inc. held until the release of Finding Nemo. On May 30, 2003, Pixar released Finding Nemo which broke every one of Monsters, Inc.'s opening weekend box office records that had been set only 18-months earlier. Finding Nemo generated $865 million at the global box office and received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film.
Finding Nemo was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing and Best Music Score. The film received the Oscar® for Best Animated Feature Film. The film also received a nomination for the 2003 Golden Globe for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy.
Monsters, Inc. composer Randy Newman took home the Oscar® for Best Song ("If I Didn't Have You"). Monsters, Inc. also received three Academy Award® nominations: Best Animated Feature Film, Best Sound Editing, and Best Score.
Toy Story 2 was honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with a Golden Globe for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. The film was also chosen as Best Animated Feature by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. And composer Randy Newman garnered a Golden Globe nomination as well as Academy Award® nomination for the Toy Story 2 score.
A Bug's Life was chosen as Favorite Family Film by the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards in 1999. Also in 1999, composer Randy Newman won a Grammy for his score on A Bug's Life (Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media) and was nominated for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for A Bug's Life.
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At the animation industry's Annie Awards in 1996, Toy Story ran away with all eight top motion-picture honors, winning every Annie Award category in which it was nominated. In addition to winning an award for Best Animated Feature, Pixar also received recognition for: Directing, which went to Toy Story director John Lasseter; Producing, awarded to Ralph Guggenheim and Bonnie Arnold; Writing, received by Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sololow; Production Design, awarded to Ralph Eggleston; Animation, which went to Pete Doctor; and Music, awarded to Randy Newman. Pixar Animation Studios also received a special technical achievement award for the extraordinary advances in three-dimensional, computer-generated animation showcased in Toy Story. The Annie Awards are sponsored by the International Society for Animated Films.
For more than fifteen years, Pixar's creative and technical teams have worked closely to produce short films and television commercials using three-dimensional computer animation while continually developing their creative expertise and proprietary technology. In 1986, Pixar's first short film, Luxo Jr., received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Short Film. In 1988, Pixar's short film Tin Toy received an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film, and in 1997, Geri's Game received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film. Geri's Game was the first film to incorporate the studio's technology for creating more realistic-looking skin and cloth. In 2002, Pixar's For the Birds received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film, Most recently in 2003 Mike's New Car was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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City are prepared to walk away from Sanchez because arsenal want £35m no way would I pay more than £20m for Walcott if Sanchez is worth £35m
That's a huge swing. We were 1/8 yesterday evening and the rest nowhere.
We will eventually pay for all of this short-term bullshit. Worse than we are already.And yes, I'm aware that I'm a miserable cunt.
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Focused on the Mission
By: Rick Boxx
July 23, 2015
Early on, Jesus' healing ministry was exploding. As he served person-after-person with his Spirit-filled healing power, the word spread quickly.
By morning the growing crowds were desperate to find Jesus so that they too might be healed. Jesus, however, had different plans.
In Luke 4 we read, "When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them. But He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose."
Jesus was doing a good work, yet He knew He had a much greater purpose to fulfill. Even a servant leader must decline good offers at times to remain mission-focused.
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Ever walk past a group of giggling teens at the mall? Have you pushed yourself through the sour odors of an inner city street? What about that strange van idling at your local park with its loud music? Or the skateboarders and hipster rockers with their pierced faces and menacing stares? If you've had any exposure to youth culture today, you've likely seen the serious side effects of America's new crop of hardcore marijuana.
No, this is not the drug of the 1960s. Today's reefer madness is 10 to 50 times more potent than what the hippies used to "tune in, turn on and freak out" a generation ago. Laced with methamphetamines and hallucinogens, this harsh new narcotic is sold like candy at high school bus stops.
And kids today can't get enough of it…
The devastation of pot addiction is abundantly clear, yet most Americans are in utter denial. We have over 6 million 18- to 24-year olds who are neither employed nor in college. What do they spend their time doing? They're either eating junk food or watching junk television. Is it any surprise Doritos and cartoons have reached epic levels of popularity in our hometowns today? Not to mention our big city ghettoes, where crime has reach cataclysmic proportions…
And as the "greatest generation" ages, will these millennials ever contribute enough to keep our health care and pensions solvent? Clearly, they're too zonked out on the giggle ganja to care.
Innocence Lost, Socialism Found
Instead of fighting back against this deadly epidemic with stricter drug laws, corrupt politicians are allowing so-called "medical marijuana" to be decriminalized in some leftwing states. Ever more offensive, Colorado has made recreational pot abuse legal. The short-term view is that new taxes from the sale of these illicit cigarettes will cover the costs of Obama's countless social programs. Yet the irony is that pot pushes people into welfare and healthcare, thereby making them even more enslaved to the liberal agenda.
Recently, several media outlets reported that North Korea is shilling high quality meth in America. The popularity of this particular Mexican drug comes on the heels of cable television programs like Breaking Bad, which glorified addiction and the fantasy of drug dealing. For marijuana, it's far worse. We have countless shows, from Weeds to The Workaholics, that make pot addiction appear to be a legitimate lifestyle choice for young Americans. Despite all the medical evidence, the liberal media seems wholly invested in corrupting our children with the evil weed.
100% Pure and 100% Wrong
The holy grail among drug "scientists" is to create a 100% pure marijuana dose. Rumors in law enforcement circles suggest that the Latinos have come very close, but that the most potent batches may actually originate in the Middle East and Asia. This super pot is a combination of synthetic and organic compounds. With common brand names such as "Blueberry Yum Yum" or "Blackberry Kush," the evidence indicates this new pot may actually be blue in color (not the traditional green or brown). The "high" has been described like a rocket launch of crack cocaine at the cruising speed of "bath salts." The atheist and addicted of this country are just too morally weak to resist such a temptation.
As purity reaches nearly 100% and terrorist nations like North Korea and Pakistan look to join the marijuana game, one has to ask what the larger agenda is here. Clearly the result is that America's teens and twentysomethings have become pathetic and lazy. Their test scores are criminally low and the Chinese can best us with basic geometry (just wait until they kung fu the Federal Reserve by dumping U.S. bonds on the open market). Add to this, high school sports teams are suffering as more and more young people opt for videogames rather than real life competition. Clearly, our youths are embracing a wide range of deadly choices, including radical atheism, homosexuality and vegetarianism. So, is this intentional?
For the liberal elite, an alliance with North Korean and Pakistani drug cartels is a natural fit. Both groups seek to undermine our nation's military. Both seek to weaken our patriotism. By enslaving our young people to Obama's current agenda, a future of national socialism is all but assured. The evidence visible right before our eyes — if and when we care to look — proves that marijuana is addicting Americans to a lifestyle of abject failure.
The next time you pass a group of rebellious young people, take a good, hard look. Notice the greasy facial hair and elaborate hats. Look at their baggy "sagger" clothing and "swag" swagger. Check out their attitude of arrogance and laziness — an outward display of Obama's own personality if there ever was one. Are these kids really the best hope America has to offer? As long as hardcore marijuana is riddling their brains with holes and hopelessness, we are all truly doomed.


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Loan modifications may reduce the interest rate, but extend the duration of loan; these types of modifications may end up costing the borrower more money in the long run.


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ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (APP): The government of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed Tuesday an agreement of Japanese Yen 404 million (US$ 4 million) grant for procurement of 3.9 million doses of the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and associated items; sufficient to vaccinate 3.3 million children between 4 to 23 months of age.
The latest grant under "the Project for the Control and Eradication of Poliomyelitis" will support in the highest risk districts of the polio virus in Pakistan.
Speaking at signing ceremony, Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, Prime Minister Focal Person for Polio Eradication said, "The current polio virus picture for Pakistan is the best ever seen.
We are most definitely at a crossroad now – we are close but we will need everyone's commitment to reach our goal.
I take this opportunity to extend the appreciation and gratitude to government of Japan for its unwavering support to Pakistan's effort to reach every missed child, and to end polio forever".
Takashi Kurai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Pakistan was optimistic about headway in polio control.
"We are hopeful that the use of IPV in vaccination campaigns will ensure any emerging immunity gap among the new born and other children younger than two years in areas that continue to harbour the polio virus is quickly closed", the Japanese Ambassador said.
Yasuhiro Tojo, Chief Representative, JICA in Pakistan said "There has been real progress in reducing the number of new infections in Pakistan.
Now is the time to make the final push to eradicate polio. "We hope this investment will ensure future generations will no longer have their lives blighted by this crippling disease".
Cristian Munduate, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Pakistan said, "Japan is a time-honored and trusted supporter of the children of Pakistan.
UNICEF is thankful to Government and people of Japan for their generous contributions to Pakistan Polio Programme. This grant represents a major commitment by Japan to the health of children in Pakistan", she said.
Pakistan is making significant progress in the fight against polio.
Last year, Pakistan achieved an 82% reduction in the number of children paralyzed by polio down to 54 cases compared to 306 in 2014.
During the current year Pakistan has shown further improvement by bringing down the number of cases from 45 in November 2015 to 18 so far in 2016.


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Three students: dead.
Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace.
Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, "the girl of nowhere."
Kaitlyn's diary, discovered in the ruins of Elmbridge High, reveals the thoughts of a disturbed mind. Its charred pages tell a sinister version of events that took place that tragic night, and the girl of nowhere is caught in the center of it all. But many claim Kaitlyn doesn't exist, and in a way, she doesn't – because she is the alter ego of Carly Johnson.
Carly gets the day. Kaitlyn has the night. It's during the night that a mystery surrounding the Dead House unravels and a dark, twisted magic ruins the lives of each student that dares touch it.
I had a bit of trouble getting into this book but, wow, once in…. So many questions – what happened to their parents, who is the girl, where is Juliet, what is the incident…. But no I am not going to answer any of them for you, you will just have to read the book yourself. Yes, this book sucked me in but midway through the "witchcraft/voodoo" stuff did get a little tedious and I had the Shyan figured out long before Kaitlyn did. That being said I still wanted to know all the answers to my many questions so I kept reading, and I did get answers. So if you like books that are a little twisted this one is for you.


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|"Boi vento" (Ox wind), by Rita Loureiro
Image source: http://animaelibri.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/arte-rita-loureiro.html
There is a mysterious illustration on the cover of the 1984 English translation of Mário de Andrade's book "Macunaíma" (1928):
Image source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1099648.Macuna_ma
The artwork is by Rita Loureiro (not to be confused with the Brazilian actress of the same name).
What struck me is the alien feeling of it. It does not look to me like what a European artist might do, and one senses some informed, intuitive connection with the weird subject.
It's not easy to find much about Loureiro on the Web, at least not in English, but this site gives a few biographical details: http://animaelibri.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/arte-rita-loureiro.html.
According to this, she was born in 1952 in the old rubber plantation town of Manaus, a city in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest (Amazonas Region). [Manaus may ring a bell with you: it's where an Irish fortune-seeker carried a steamship over the mountains, as in the film "Fitzcarraldo."] Loureiro moved to Rio de Janeiro to begin her career as an artist but (if I understand correctly) returned to the rainforest region to develop her art and understanding of the aboriginals/first peoples.
It seems she produced a number of illustrations for "Macunaíma", which don't appear in the English translation and as yet I haven't established exactly which edition (this limited edition from 1984? or this?) of this seminal Brazilian work does contain them, though here are a couple:
|Image source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/119978777556191067/
There is more of her work to be found here, at the Itaú Cultural centre in São Paulo:
|Desfoliante Naranja (1983) [Orange defoliant] Image citation
|Boi Floresta (1982) [Ox Forest] Image citation
|A Dança da Morte (1989) [The dance of Death] Image citation
|Carta Pras Icamabias (1981) [Letter to the Amazons - illustration for "Macunaíma"] Image citation
To me, it seems that an overarching theme or approach is seeing humans in a context full of meaning, whether social, natural or cultural-religious-magical, a turning away from the modern "homeless mind" and entirely in keeping with Andrade's disgusted view of São Paulo as seen through Macunaíma's forest-bred eyes.
This photo of Pinacoteca do Estado is courtesy of TripAdvisor
See reviews (2015 - 2017) of the gallery in Manaus here:
That's not to make the savages into hygienised Walt Disney characters; one of Andrade's chapters describes a macumba rite involving nudity, unbridled sex and uninhibited violence against a female temporarily possessed by a demon so that Macunaíma can by proxy inflict his revenge on a rival. Macumba is an umbrella term for a group of religious-magical syntheses - local, African and Christian - see https://www.britannica.com/topic/Macumba.
The Galeria do Largo in her home town of Manaus has a web page on her from her 2006 exhibition there, which also lists some of her previous shows. One of these was "Boi Tema" (Ox Theme) in 1984 and after, turned into a book in 1987. The ox is celebrated in various ways across Brazil, in death-and-rebirth rituals known as the Bumba-meu-boi. A 2004 guide to Barcelona says that in Brazil, the celebration has its roots in nineteenth century cattle farming there, though of course the ox has ritual significance in many other places in the world; but the same guide refers to a Bantu festival centred around an ox named Geroa; I had thought that the Bantu were in South or South-West Africa but it seems they originated in the angle of west Africa by modern day Nigeria/Cameroon; so quite possibly one of the roots of Bumba-meu-boi springs from the cultural complex transmitted to South America via the West African slave trade.
|O Boi, a Morte do Verde e a Represa (1984) [The ox, the death of the green land, and the dam] Image citation
Like Andrade, then, Rita Loureiro's art is a transmission of the old world's voice to the new and rootless incomers.


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Is Women's Work Finally Done?
Britain is nonetheless witnessing the steady rise of a collection of youthful female challengers who might just catch the attention of American ears before the year is out.
Joss Stone
Women in British popular music have enjoyed an uneven history. If we set aside a few fêted '60s figures � Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black; that strident new waver Siouxsie Sioux and literate fantasist Kate Bush during the '70s, the androgynous vigour of Annie Lennox in the '80s and the headline-seizing endeavours of the Spice Girls at the end of the '90s � the impact of female players on the rock 'n' roll stage, this side of the Atlantic, has been fleetingly evident but still all too modest.
The States, meanwhile, has not only provided numerous female stars with a global reach � Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton and Madonna all come to mind � but also a sizeable coterie of women singer-songwriters who have determinedly fought their corner in the patriarchal world of popular music. Furthermore, Joni Mitchell (Canadian, of course), then Patti Smith, were role models for a generation of female musicians even if neither was ever explicitly committed to the cause of women per se. Without their active examples, it's hard to see how the guerrilla underground of the Riot Grrrls, with creative descendants as diverse as Courtney Love and Ani DiFranco, or the less confrontational strategies of the Lilith Fair co-operative, would ever have had the self-belief to take their stand and make their mark.
Significantly though, by the end of the last millennium, women had established a power base in the business that was quite impossible to ignore. Sales figures, that most useful of barometers for industry accountants, proved as much with seven out of the top 10 sellers during the final decade of the century identified as female. From Alanis Morissette to Whitney Houston, Shania Twain to Mariah Carey, not to mention Madonna and the Spice Girls, music with a sisterly twist was proving extremely good for the labels.
But, to return to where we came in, women performers from the UK have, in broad terms, struggled to make such a significant imprint. Leaving aside the freakish pop operatics of Charlotte Church, the most impressive performer has been Dido, in part through her link-up with Eminem when he was at the height of his commercial curve. Church has managed to sell heavily both in her homeland and the US over the last couple of years, yet her achievement is plainly the exception rather than the rule.
However, recent months have suggested that if we are not about to parade a battalion of unbeatable talents to challenge the present incumbents � whether it be Norah Jones and her soulful stylings, the jazz inflections of Diana Krall, or the country musings of Lucinda Williams � Britain is nonetheless witnessing the steady rise of a collection of youthful challengers who might just catch the attention of American ears before the year is out.
Katie Melua, a 19-year-old whose professional parents left Georgia, formerly of the USSR, to come to Britain when she was still a child, has already enjoyed several weeks at the top of the UK album chart with her debut release Call Off the Search. Melua gathers a balanced mixture of covers and originals � some her own but most by a veteran composer of the British pop scene, Mike Batt � and delivers a breathy blend of blues, jazz, and soul in a style that marries assured vocal technique with an endearing freshness.
In contrast Amy Winehouse, at 20, is a feisty and plain-speaking Londoner whose upfront views on men, love, and sexuality have quickly garnered press coverage. It comes as scant surprise that her premiere set goes under the appropriate title of Frank. If Melua's collection has a strong under-note of innocence, Winehouse's worldly vision is rampantly and quite raunchily conveyed. When a first CD set in that familiar singer-songwriter tradition sports a parental warning sticker, you know not to expect the usual fey, fragile fare that tends to dominate the genre.
Completing the line-up is the babe of the trio, delivering perhaps the most surprising story of all. Joss Stone, at a tender 16 and from Devon in the West of England � a beautiful rural corner but an "Arkansas" or a "Wisconsin" in terms of its isolation from the main highway � has emerged, virtually overnight, as a potentially world class R&B singer with her record The Soul Sessions. Having won a middle-of-the-road television talent show as a 12-year-old, she was speedily whisked to Memphis to record in the cradle of American soul and her first recording relies heavily on some of the lesser-known known tunes from the Stax back catalogue. Yet she has made some tasty and less predictable choices, too, switching the gender emphasis on her version of the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Boy" to creditable effect.
Stone's American adventure recalls a similar odyssey when Dusty Springfield was taken to the same Tennessean city in 1968 in a bid to prove a white singer could take on black songs. Several decades on, in an age where ethnic ambiguity is almost the norm rather than the curiosity on the entertainment frontline, there has been less furore about the cultural crossover and much more attention paid to this new vocalist's wafer-thin experience: can, some critics have wondered, an adolescent truly sing the blues? I think she passes the test.
Three fledgling songbirds hardly represent a resurgent summer for British women, but this trio may just buck recent trends which have seen record companies track a promising girl singer, spend some promotional cash, and see their efforts succeed artistically but fail at the harsh commercial end. Beth Orton, Kathryn Williams, Gemma Hayes, Carina Round . . . just some of the rolling roster of potential talents who haven't quite clicked here or elsewhere.
Of this fresh trio, Melua and Stone might be regarded as capable stylists, able to breathe life into old songs or other writers' work, yet Winehouse strikes me as the one most likely to leave a enduring impression. She pens most of her material, delivers it confidently in a range of voices, slipping comfortably from sultry jazz to contemporary soul, and will most likely graduate to the lower reaches of the American circuit before too long. With a Midler-like sassiness here and a flavour of Erykah Badu's sophistication there, she oozes poise and personality and actually makes you smile with some of her comic touches. In short, she could quite possibly be the one sitting opposite David Letterman in the months that follow.


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Sometimes we see happiness as a whole that should never be imperfect or fragmented. When we're kids we're prepared to be happy. As we grow up we assign certain emotions to acts, often going from one extreme to the other and not realizing there's a balance in life; a way that
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Shell's security spending in 2008: mapped
The oil watchdog Platform recently reported on the vast sums Shell spends on security to protect its property and workers. Here's a map of how the $343m spent by Shell worldwide on security in 2008 breaks down. You can see the full leaked data set in this zip file here. Let us know what you think to Shell's activities and this data in the comments.


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In 2000, Carrey re-teamed with the Farrelly Brothers (who had directed him in Dumb & Dumber) in their comedy, Me, Myself and Irene, about a state trooper with multiple personalities who romances a woman played by Renťe Zellweger. The film grossed $24 million dollars on its opening weekend and $90 million by the end of its domestic run. Carrey has since continued to appear in successful comedies as well as more dramatic roles. His performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) earned high praise from critics, who once again incorrectly predicted that Carrey would receive an Oscar nomination, although the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and co-star Kate Winslet received a nomination for her performance. (Again, Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance, his sixth.)
In 2003, Carrey re-teamed with Tom Shadyac for the financially successful comedy Bruce Almighty. Earning over $242 million in the U.S. and over $484 million worldwide, this film became the second highest grossing live-action comedy of all time.


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World Wide Technology, Inc.
World Wide Technology, Inc.
World Wide Technology, Inc., was the bold name that Dave Steward gave his start-up company of five people located in 4000 square feet of office space. Dave founded the company in August 1990 and reached out for help from the SBA on February 2, 1992. Today, WWT is a leading Systems Integrator that provides technology solutions to customers around the world.
He attributes a great deal of his success to SBA's St. Louis District Office. Steward says he walked into the SBA office when he applied for SBA's 8(a) program and stated that he would have $15 million in sales in the first year. SBA employees challenged him to reach those goals and he has long since surpassed them.
WWT now employs 1,381 people in 48 states and six countries--South Korea, Singapore, China, Germany, Brazil and Mexico. Sales now exceed $3.4 billion.
Steward attributes WWT's growth to getting help in the right place at the right time. He describes the company as "flexible, innovative, with an entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to raise the bar in brining technical solutions and value that go above and beyond."


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BMW's i3 green car was bestowed with the Automotive Interiors Expo Award 2013 for the Production Interior Vehicle Design of the Year. This was the third edition of these awards that recognises innovative concepts and solutions in the field of interior design. The ceremony was held in Stuttgart, on June 24.
The leather in the BMW i3 features the wet-green OBE tanning agent developed and patented by German, company Wet-green Natural Leather Solutions and is a plant-based concentrate produced from an aqueous olive leaf extract. The active tanning agents are the same ones present in some natural cosmetic articles and in extra virgin olive oil.
The wet-green OBE tanning agent is also free of metals and any chemically synthetic reactive tanning agents and is produced by a select number of German tanners including Heller-Leder, Hewa-Leder, Leder Reinhardt and Sohre Leder.
During the ceremony in Stuttgart the most important role was how the interior of the i3 was designed but also by the materials that were used in its making. Looking for a complete eco-friendly approach, BMW wanted to use components that did not harm the environment.
Therefore, renewable raw and recycled materials were used as well as wood and leather surfaces, treated using only environmentally sound methods such as wet-green. The colour palette was also designed to give a soothing and relaxed feel to the cabin.
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Living in the Lehigh Valley, it's easy to take clean air and water for granted. Many of us who are longtime residents can remember when that was not the case. Our state has made tremendous progress over the last half century to put a stop to the pollution that harmed the health of our communities and families.
But President Trump wants to turn back the clock to the dirty old days and slash federal funding for environmental protections by 31 percent. It is up to lawmakers like our own U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent to make sure that does not happen.
The Environmental Protection Agency's mission — to protect human health and the environment — is straightforward and essential. It strives to protect children suffering from asthma through its clean air safeguards, to keep infants from developing health complications caused by exposure to toxic mercury pollution or lead, and to hold criminal polluters accountable for cleaning up dangerously polluted radioactive and chemical sites that threaten our communities.
All of that is threatened by Trump's proposed budget cuts. Right now, federal funding accounts for about one-third of the budget of the state Department of Environmental Protection, which is charged with upholding Pennsylvanians' "right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the environment," as guaranteed in our state's Constitution.
The implications for families in the Lehigh Valley could be severe. It could cripple the ability of the state to adequately inspect public drinking water systems to detect lead and other toxic pollutants. That could put as many as 10.7 million water customers in Pennsylvania at risk, according to DEP. The cuts to clean water protections would also mean fewer inspections of sewage treatment plants and more industrial waste discharges into rivers and streams.
The Trump plan also calls for a $332 million cut to the Superfund program, which handles major cleanup at landfills and abandoned industrial sites that have polluted their surrounding communities with toxins. With 127 Superfund sites at various stages of cleanup in Pennsylvania, including at least eight in the Lehigh Valley, there is no doubt such a cut would compromise community protections from hazardous pollutants.
Efforts to encourage cleanup and reuse of abandoned and underused industrial sites will also be stalled by Trump's proposed cuts. The Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. is using a grant from the EPA Brownfield Program to fund cleanup of contaminated properties and redevelop them to boost local business expansion and create jobs. Funding for similar public-private opportunities would be slashed.
The impact on Pennsylvanians would be profound. All federal funding for Chesapeake Bay cleanup, which includes support for Pennsylvania farmers and municipal water systems, would be eliminated. The popular Energy Star program, which helps consumers — from families to small businesses to local schools — improve their energy efficiency and save money, likewise will be gutted.
It is important to note that EPA has a long way to go to protect every American from pollution. There are more than 1.7 million Pennsylvanians with asthma or chronic respiratory diseases, including 260,000 children with asthma, according to the American Lung Association. Stronger safeguards to minimize dangerous air pollution are vital and cost-effective. They reduce emergency room visits and other medical treatment resulting from asthma attacks. The Trump budget would cut clean air funding by 24 percent, jeopardizing the health of children and the elderly.
Ever since President Nixon created the EPA in the early 1970s, our country and state have made tremendous progress in improving our environment and our quality of life.
Trump's EPA budget cuts, meanwhile, are an assault on protections for families, communities, and the public's health. The fact that it would be implemented by his hand-picked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — who has made a political career out of suing the EPA, serving as a mouthpiece for industries that want to weaken environmental and public health safeguards, and ignoring science by denying climate change — makes the proposal even more alarming.
Congress, and only Congress, can stop this train wreck of a budget. The health of our environment and our citizens should not be politicized. Rep. Dent leads a group of moderate legislators who have articulated a goal of cooperative and effective governance. By opposing these EPA cuts, Dent and the entire Pennsylvania delegation can stand up for all Pennsylvania's citizens and support their goals of clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment for their families and their future.
Andrea Wittchen of Lower Saucon Township is co-founder of iSpring Associates, a sustainability consulting firm based in the Lehigh Valley.


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Coal-fired power could be considerably cleaner
A new report by the American Lung Association, entitled "Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants", documents a range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants and the urgent need to clean them up to protect public health. The report also discusses the technologies that are available for dramatically cutting these emissions – technologies that are commercially available and proven to work.
"It's time that we end the 'toxic loophole' that has allowed coal-burning power plants to operate without any federal limits on emissions of mercury, arsenic, dioxin, acid gases such as hydrogen chloride and other dangerous pollutants," said Charles D. Connor, president and CEO of the American Lung Association.
Source: American Lung Association press release, 8 March 2011.


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A few minutes ago, I noticed a new infected email landing in my inbox. The body of the email said:
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That's pretty normal / boring stuff — and so was the attached ZIP file, which contained a run-of-the-mill sample of a well-known virus family.
However, what grabbed my attention was the footer of the email, which said:
Please consider your environmental responsibility, do not take print out of e-mail & attachments, until you actually need this - Save paper.
Now this is hilarious, isn't it? This must be the first eco-friendly computer virus in the world. A sound indication that the world is going green – and so are the malware authors.
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Templeton Outerwear FW17/18 Preview
Retail Buyers Guide: Staff Sales Handbook: Men's Outerwear 17/18
Brand: Templeton
Category: Unisex Outerwear
What's the overall theme behind your 2017/18 outerwear?
We are still in a developing process of tightening the balancing act between the "BlackSnowHabited" street rider and backcountry freestyle riders. We want to offer products fitting any rider's choice and add a healthy portion of fun and function. We have those three fits on our plate for the season. We also tried to bring a bit more over from where we are, to show where our influences come from. More little stylish items that represent the brand better make it more attractive and tell a story between our roots and a current state of mind that's not always ignorable.
From where do you take your inspiration? What other brands, designers, artists or collectives do you follow and who influences the style of your brand?
It's mostly the essence of all pieces of brands we ever owned, the music we listened to while wearing it, the people we hung out with/or liked from magazines or videos, some classic some new. If you want some names: Spare, early Analog, Cappel, AntiHero, early Volcom, Prada, Supreme, Homies Wonderland Burberry, Fuct, Dogpile, Nick Cave, Bowie, Chilli Peppers, Suicidal, Jane's Addiction, Karl Lagerfeld and this girl Ivuss on Instagram.
What are the two most important products in your 2017/18 range?
It's our KillTedJacket and our WulfPant. The Multi Jacket is a combination of everything important to us at Templeton. Fun, function, attitude and style. If those Pillars are not combined in one product…then we need to work on it, or it's simply not a Templeton product.
The KillTedJacket keeps its unique design, which ensures you stay warm and dry, plus the jacket shows attitude because of the materials used, a decent back print and of course the words written inside. The zip-off sleeves and zip-off hood makes it stand out and useful for more mountain fun.
The 2016/17 WulfPant has more than it ever had. Is that cool? I dunno, but this pant needed to move on! Not just because of the name. We put it on a frozen shelf and asked the princess of long underwear what to do and she said: "Make the fit more relaxed, make it more waterproof and breathable, add more and different vent – zippers for hiking and more bagginess if you open them and I'll leave the rest up to you boys, because I trust you!"
The result is a backcountry-pant that looks like you just fell off a Hobo-wagon. Great success.
What percentage of your outerwear is sold online Vs in store? What's the best way to connect with customers who buy via both of these channels?
At TempletonOuterwear it's a mix of 20% online to 55% in store to 20% out of the trunk. The rest is for team riders, us or it stays in stock. Hmmm, the best way? We try to make a remarkable connection with our customers through our product and the way we design/promote/pack/send it out. It's a big focus to personalize the product to the max even before somebody opens the foil. For both online and in store customers we introduced the "BlackSnowHabits-Club" where "fans" can participate and get discounts – a nice card, advantages, extra fun…and a special feeling for the brand. It's like shares without actual shares. We share a vibe and shake hands with the people that like our brand. Just to get a bit closer to them. Of course we still party and visit shops with our band "Harem" to play and promote the Templeton vibe. You know what's important too? Answering every f***ing mail, message or sponsor me questions…honestly. Stay classy and succeed in the long term.
Are your price points going up or down?
Up! Like in that Russ Meyer movie…we are going Up! But not "over the top" and just a little on a few items, and it makes sense because our product is getting better and better. And I want my insurance back.
What new fits / silhouettes are coming next year?
We were inspired by our Templeton Posse where some dudes ride in their jogging pants and sweater hoodies.
So we worked out a water resist version. There is no better material than decent soft-shell with 10K waterproofing and breathability. Compared with unique design on the pants, specials at the hoody and innovative jacket to pant interface you get a combination that is so comfortable you will never leave them behind again.
In general: Pants are a bit more baggy (but not stupidly baggy), a utility-sweater-facemask-fashion-function-feel-good-bastard in three colours/materials, an 80's like pullover-jacket in a softshell/neoprene material mix. Plus the "HoboPant", a snowboard pant for all you comfort-lovers with an elastic waistband and elastic leg openings. Visually this pant is a mix between a boardshort and a sweatpant. We still use beltloops though…critically taped seams and cowboy pockets in the front finish up your new daily partner perfectly.
What's new in colours / prints?
2018 is thyme green, cyan and our own Jackson Pollock – flecktarn Camo. Black is still beautiful.
Any played-out trends that your brand is moving away from?
I would love to move away from Coach Jackets, but…we don't. We don't play with skinny pants anymore…that shit's perfect for nightlife or going to the Aquarium. It affects the monkey in you and retards your style in the air or on a rail to a zero level. Sad but true.
BASE LAYER FOCUS: Do you do baselayers? What's happening here, what's your base layer strategy next year? Please let us know your tech innovations, materials, colours and price points.
We started to work on some middle layers. Recently I remembered that fleece is simply the best when helping out on a Farm lately, so…we are going to do a fleece-thing. It's the Utility-Bastard I mentioned earlier in this Q&A. We combined a Sweatshirt-facemask-everyday-for everything-shirt, best for wearing it alone or onioning it up under a jacket. Style and function is getting unreal here. Like in Vaude's technical Jeans Jacket or Whiteout's Danny Larsen Leather Jacket years ago. We keep the colour aspect classy with black and our own Camouflage we photographed from nature's face during the season changes. Price points are not too high…we want this product to be a good friend and not an expensive hooker.
A original functional underwear garment is not yet in focus…we still work on perfecting the performance of our outerwear products