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Bloc Party – An English band credited with revolutionizing the 'alternative dance' movement.
Intimacy – The Band's opus album, critically acclaimed and a commercial success.
Remix - A new or modified audio recording.
Add all three together, and you have one hell of a listening experience!
Bloc Party seem to be boldly devoted to the rather difficult endeavor of merging the guitar heavy sounds of modern post-punk and the futuristic sounds of the London rave scene. So, in that way, a remix album is quite surely the logical conclusion to the bands earlier flirtations with electronic music.
Some critics and purists will claim that this is a simply an attempt to reuse old material for commercial gain; however let it be known that the remixes found on this album are without exception of an extremely high calibre. From stripped-down edgy darkness, to pulsating bass lines, to almost euphoric triumph: It truly is an ideal melding of man and (drum) machine.
It's the complete smooth and streamlined flow of the album, a rather subtle maneuvering through a range of dance-based styles, which makes Intimacy Remixed a success. Like most critically acclaimed dance-based albums, the over-all whole is substantially better than the individual parts. For all its distortion, synth beats and drum-loops, the feeling that this is a Bloc Party album rarely dissipates, and the sense of utter dance-floor elation never stops growing.


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Winterhaven Abby is a 4th Edition based campaign setting. This is my first time running a game, although I have been a player since 2nd edition. Not much here yet, mainly just the characters that our adventurers have thus far encountered as well as the first entry in the Adventure Log detailing their exploits, but more will be added as the story continues to flesh itself out.


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Update: ZenPayroll is now known as Gusto. They changed their name and added more features, including Payroll, Benefits, Compliance, Workers Comp, integration with accounting tools such as FreshBooks, Zero, and QuickBooks. There are other features as well, making them a one-stop shop for many small businesses. I'm still a happy user, and recommend them without reservation! You can learn more at the Gusto website.
At the end of last year, I was contacted by my state tax office. I don't know about you, but I don't like receiving letters from any tax office, unless it has to do with a refund! Unfortunately, this letter wasn't about a refund. It seems the state wanted to be paid more frequently.
For the last few years, I had been running quarterly payroll. This is a common way for small businesses and sole proprietors to pay themselves. It takes less book keeping and generally costs less money than running monthly payroll. For some reason, my state decided they wanted me to start paying myself (read: them) monthly.
That presented a problem for me, as it would increase my payroll expenses. I had been using PayChex since I started paying myself a salary several years ago. I didn't have any problems using PayChex. But after contacting them about moving to monthly payroll, I realized my payroll expenses would increase fairly substantially. So I did what most entrepreneurs would do – I looked for alternatives. I found several nice options, but decided to use Gusto as my payroll provider. 3 months in, I'm very pleased with the move. Not only do I save a lot of money (more than 50% per year), but the process is even easier than it was with PayChex (which was already fairly easy).
What Gusto Offers:
Gusto offers most features required to track your payroll, including profiles for salaried employees, hourly workers and contractors, vacation time & sick days, tracking pre-tax payments and deductions (401k and other retirement contributions, HSA accounts, health insurance, etc.), reimbursements, and more.
When ZenPayroll launched, they weren't a full-service benefits company. They can track and process payments for your retirement plans and health insurance (as far as payroll and taxes go), but they don't actually offer those services in-house like some of the larger companies that specialize in payroll and benefits. That said, part of the reason ZenParoll rebranded as Gusto was because they began offering more than just payroll. Benefits, compliance and other HR features are systematically being added to their services. So be sure to visit their website to see which services they offer now, and whether it makes sense to use Gusto for all your HR needs.
Setting up Payroll with Gusto:
Don't let the "15 minute" setup claim fool you. It will take you longer than 15 minutes to set up your payroll, even if you are experienced and have all your documentation in front of you. The process should take about 30 minutes to set up a profile for the first person, depending on how well-versed you are with payroll forms, whether you have all your information handy, etc. It takes a little less time to set up additional employees, and there is a cool feature which allows individuals to set up their own profile (important for security, since you can set up direct deposit through Gusto, which is how I set up my payroll). They allow each user to have their own profile within the company profile, so each user has access to his or her records, can change direct deposit information, etc. They also offer bank-level security, so your data is secure and encrypted. Need more security? They offer two-level authentication so no one can get in if your password is compromised.
Everything is Automated
Once you get your system set up, you receive an email right before your payroll is due. Simply log in, verify everything is correct, click a button or two or three, and payroll is done. It's that easy. From there, Gusto deducts the payroll funds from your checking or savings account, direct deposits the payroll into your employee's bank account, and sends the taxes to the appropriate places (state, federal, unemployment, and anything else you have designated). The first quarter just ended and Gusto automatically filed the 941 forms with the IRS, and the Unemployment Insurance forms with my state. They do this each quarter, and kick out the W-2s at the end of the year. W-2s are included in the pricing, which is something many other payroll providers charge extra for.
Running Your Payroll
Running payroll is as simple as it gets. I receive an email once a month reminding me that payroll needs to be run. I log in to my Gusto account, click the "Run Payroll" button, and verify nothing has changed. Click the verify button, and it's done. Then I download the pay stubs. The entire process takes 3-5 minutes. And again, all the ancillary paperwork and taxes are taken care of for me.
Pricing – Transparent & Easy to Understand
The pricing is what intrigued me the most, as it was less expensive than almost any other payroll provider I could find, and less than half the price of many payroll providers. There pricing is very basic, as you can see:
The Gusto website features a slider you can use to quickly determine how much you would pay for your entire business. The example above uses 5 employees, but you can easily see what it is for fewer or more employees. There are also no hidden fees, extras, or gotchas.
Gusto uses a simple and easy to use pricing structure, and one that appeal to many small businesses. To put this in perspective, I was paying $130 every quarter with PayChex, which comes out to $520 per year. But I also had to pay a quarterly charge of $10 to have my payroll stubs mailed to me, and an annual $90 fee for my W-2 forms to be mailed to me. Last year I spent around $640 on my payroll (and my payroll expenses were set to increase this year with the transition from quarterly to monthly!). Changing my payroll provider to ZenPayroll (now Gusto) saved me well over $240 compared to what I paid when I used PayChex (and even more than it would have been, since I had to move to a monthly payroll, which costs more than quarterly payroll).
*The savings was actually even greater, because Gusto is offering 2 months free at the time of this writing, saving me over $300 compared to what I spent last year.
Downsides to Gusto
I joined Gusto (then known as ZenPayroll) when there were still in the startup phase. I was a little hesitant at first to go with a startup, primarily because you never know how long startups will be around. But I saw that (then) ZenPayroll had recently received a large round of funding, and I also realized this space is ripe for disruption. There are a few major players that charge a lot of money for basic payroll services. This is fine for large corporations that need a service that will run payroll and package it with 401k plans, health insurance, HR services, and other benefits management.
But there are many small businesses like mine that don't need those added services. Why pay for all the overhead when I only need to run payroll for myself and my wife? I think there is a large enough market to support them as they continue to grow.
So what are the downsides? Gusto isn't a full-service HR benefits provider like some of the other payroll providers. This is a benefit for me, because I can receive excellent payroll service without having to worry about paying additional overhead for services I don't need and won't use. But this could be a different story for other small businesses.
That said, Gusto is adding new features and levels of coverage. My guess is that it won't be long before they offer full benefits packages in all states. And based on what I've seen so far, it looks like they will be able to do so at a substantially lower price point than some of the major payroll and benefits service providers. This is a win for small businesses!
Is Gusto a Good Fit for Your Business?
That depends on the size of your business, what services you need, how much you are currently paying, and other factors. For me, it was a great move. I get to save a few hundred dollars on payroll each year, and the process is simple, and worry-free. I'm happy with the move.
If you have a small business, I encourage you to check out some alternatives to your current payroll provider. You may be able to save a lot of money in the long run!
You can learn more and even get a free trial at Gusto.com.


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CF And Effects of Drugs Mixed Ex Vivo With Sputum for Mucolytic Treatment
a study on Cystic Fibrosis Fibrosis
- Eligibility
- for people ages 18-65 (full criteria)
- Healthy Volunteers
- healthy people welcome
- Location
- at San Francisco, California
- Dates
- study startedestimated completion:
- Principal Investigator
- John Fahy
The investigators will collect samples of sputum from healthy volunteers and patients with cystic fibrosis for the purpose of: a) purifying airway mucins for plate-based binding studies and; b) assessment of the effects of carbohydrates on the rheologic properties of the sputum. This study has two hypotheses: 1. Lectins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Aspergillus fumigatus bind to airway mucins in a fucose-dependent manner, and this binding can be inhibited by fucosyl glycomimetic compounds. 2. Fucosyl glycomimetics will compete with Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin (PA-IIL) and Aspergillus fumigatus lectin (AFL) and disrupt lectin-driven mucin cross-linking in CF sputum.
Official Title
CF And Effects of Drugs Mixed Ex Vivo With Sputum for Mucolytic Treatment to Lung Mucin
Pseudomonas lung infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality occurring in multiple clinical settings. Patients with cystic fibrosis have lung colonization with Pseudomonas from an early age, and overwhelming pseudomonal lung infection is the most common cause of death in these patients. In addition, Pseudomonas pneumonia is common in immunocompromised patients and in patients intubated for management of respiratory failure. Particularly worrisome is the increasing frequency of P. aeruginosa isolates that are resistant to all or most currently available antibiotics. The mechanism of virulence of P. aeruginosa includes soluble lectins that recognize host oligosaccharides on mucins and the cell glycocalyx. P. aeruginosa has two soluble lectins - LecA, also known as PA-IL and LecB, also known as PA-IIL. PA-IL binds galactose and PA-IIL binds fucose. Notably, PA-IIL binds the fucose containing Lewis a oligosaccharide with very high affinity and the role of PA-IIL in biofilm formation is shown by the absence of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas mutants lacking PA-IIL and by the efficacy of multivalent fucosyl-peptide dendrimers in preventing and disrupting Pseudomonas biofilm formation. D-galactose and L-fucose have been successfully used to treat P. aeruginosa infection in a case report, which hints at the potential for glycomimetic therapy in CF. These monosaccharides are weak inhibitors of PA-IIL, however, and multivalent glycomimetics will be needed for more effective inhibition.
Aspergillus fumigatusinfection is responsible for the majority of human and animal aspergillosis disease, even though air sampling studies show that its conidia usually comprise only a small percentage of total airborne fungal challenge. It is both a primary and opportunistic pathogen, and it is particularly troublesome for patients with cystic fibrosis. It causes multiple lung diseases, includingchronic pulmonary aspergillosis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Aspergillomas also occur in patients with cavitary lung diseases. Together, these diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality, and available treatments are suboptimal. Most patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis require antifungal therapy for many months or years, many experience significant drug side effects, and some experience drug resistance. Patients with either allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) or severe asthma with fungal sensitization can improve with itraconazole treatment, but relapses are common, and itraconazole affects corticosteroid metabolism and has the potential to worsen steroid side effects. ABPA requires long-term treatment because Aspergillus airway colonization is difficult to eradicate and quickly recurs when treatment is stopped. Immunocompromised patients are especially vulnerable to invasive aspergillosis where the mortality rate is often 50%, even with antifungal treatment. Clearly, therefore, new treatment approaches are needed for lung diseases caused by A. fumigatus, and we are proposing an approach based on prevention of binding to airway mucins. Adherence of A. fumigatus conidia to host tissues has been the subject of extensive research, but little attention has been directed to Aspergillus/mucin interactions, a surprising deficiency given the role mucins play in airway biology.
This study is an ex-vivo study in which we will collect samples of sputum from healthy volunteers and patients with cystic fibrosis for the purpose of: a) purifying airway mucins for plate-based binding studies and; b) ex-vivo assessment of the effects of carbohydrates on the rheologic properties of the sputum.
Cystic Fibrosis Cystic Fibrosis, Healthy Fibrosis Expectorants
You can join if…
Open to people ages 18-65
- Healthy control subjects:
- Age 18-65
- No history of lung disease
- Cystic fibrosis subjects:
- Age 18-65
- No history of lung disease other than cystic fibrosis
- Diagnosis of CF if sweat chloride values > 60 mM on two separate pilocarpine iontophoresis sweat tests and/or two allelic CF-producing mutations in genetic analysis
You CAN'T join if...
- Use of recreational drugs within 30 days prior to enrollment
- Use of tobacco within 30 days prior to enrollment, or > 10 pack-year tobacco history
- Pregnant or lactating females
- University of California, San Francisco accepting new patients
San Francisco California 94143 United States
- Status
- accepting new patients
- Start Date
- Completion Date
- (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Links
- Airway Clinical Research Center website
- Lead Scientist
- John Fahy
- Study Type
- Observational
- Last Updated
- May 31, 2018
Frequently Asked Questions
Please contact me about this study
We will not share your information with anyone other than the team in charge of this study. Submitting your contact information does not obligate you to participate in research.
Thank you!
The study team should get back to you in a few business days.
You will also receive an email with next steps. Check your junk/spam folder if needed.
If you do not hear from the study team, please call 888-689-8273 and tell them you're interested in study number NCT01533636.


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What's up on the sports calendar for the week ahead:
Baltimore at Denver, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Channel 4:
N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Channel 4:
Green Bay at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m., Channel 11:
Oakland at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. Channel 2:
We found out back in March that the NFL didn't get its way, and the defending Super Bowl champion Ravens wouldn't be opening the 2013 season at home, breaking a long-held tradition (going back to 2002). The reason: There's a scheduling conflict with those who are already locked into filling the shared parking lot to attend the Baltimore Orioles' home game on that Thursday. Well played by Denver to offer up its domain and play host to the embittered Ravens. But be careful what you wish for. The NFL has seemed to also irk the locals by marketing this "Kickoff Game" with large banners around the Broncos' stadium of Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco (not far from the one of Denver quarterback Peyton Manning).
Broncos fans have greeted the Flacco signage visible along Interstate 25 with car horns and screaming. One local TV sportscaster did a piece where he drew a Sharpie mustache on a Flacco banner that appeared in downtown Denver. "Who in Denver wants to drive to work in the morning and see a reminder of Joe Flacco?" asked The Denver Post's Mike Klis. "I know it's a unique situation where the defending Super Bowl champ opens on the road. But no circumstance will change the fact Denver belongs to the Broncos." Maybe they just have a hard time forgetting that it was Flacco who killed any Super Bowl hopes for the AFC's top-seeded Broncos. His 70-yard rainbow TD to Jacoby Jones to tie their Jan. 12 divisional playoff game with 31 seconds remaining set the stage for a 38-35 double OT win by the Ravens. At least those with Time Warner Cable in Baltimore have no fear of a blackout, and the Ravens fans are actually coming to grips with not being able to celebrate the way other teams have been afforded. Consider this twitter response from a ticket holder as published in the Baltimore Sun: "Now that I know the NFL celebrates opening wknd by putting Flacco MVP posters all over Denver, I'm not as upset about opening on the road."
MLB: DODGERS at COLORADO, 1 p.m., Channel 9:
Clayton Kershaw, scheduled to pitch the day-time opener of this series on Labor Day, didn't labor much in his previous two victories at Coors Field this season. He's given up three runs in 14 innings with 13 strike outs as the Dodgers won both, including Kershaw's 8-0 complete-game triumph on July 2.
The series continues:
Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Channel 9
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., Channel 9
MLB: ANGELS vs. TAMPA BAY, Angel Stadium, 6 p.m., FSW:
The Angels somehow took two of three against the Rays in Tampa last week proving Mike Scioscia's superiority over Joe Madden. Something to look forward to as the series ends: The Angels will induct Bobby Knoop into their team Hall of Fame.
The series continues:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 7 p.m., FSW
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Florida State at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m., ESPN:
Not Monday Night Football, but an incredible simulation.
WNBA: SPARKS at MINNESOTA, 5 p.m., TWC SportsNet:
As the Sparks attempt to catch these Lynx to become the top seed in the Western Conference, they're amidst a four-game, seven-day road trip.
Also this week:
Sparks at Atlanta, 3 p.m., Monday
Sparks at Tulsa, 5 p.m. Friday, TWC Sports
MLB: DODGERS at CINCINNATI, 4 p.m., Prime:
Chances are pretty good Yasiel Puig doesn't slide into home plate if he hits another game-winning homer against the Reds (mostly because the Reds would eventually get their final at-bat). Cincinnati actually hasn't been able to seek any retaliation against Puig's antics, which capped the Dodgers winning three of four from the Reds at Dodger Stadium from July 25-28. His homer in the bottom of the 10th gave the Dodgers a 1-0 win in the last game of that series.
The series continues:
Saturday, 10 a.m., Channel 11
Sunday, 5 p.m., ESPN
MLB: ANGELS vs. TEXAS, Angel Stadium, 7 p.m., FSW:
These two still have four more to play to close out the regular season, and the AL West leading Rangers surely look forward to that. Yu Darvish, who has two of his 12 wins this season against the Angels, will miss this series.
The series continues:
Saturday, 6 p.m., FSW
Sunday, 12:30 p.m., FSW
HORSE RACING: Fairplex in Pomona, opening day, 1 p.m. first post:
With the Del Mar meet finishing up Wednesday, the L.A. County Fair rolls into motion at the five-eighths mile oval through Sept. 22. Wednesday's events start at 4 p.m. and the track is dark Monday and Tuesday.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Wake Forest at Boston College, 5 p.m., ESPN:
The B.C. Eagles come to L.A. next week. Watch and learn.
USC vs. WASHINGTON STATE, Coliseum, 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1:
The Trojans' path to the 2012 Sun Bowl surely came about because they avoided the wrath of Mike Leach's Cougars last year with the new unbalanced Pac-12 schedule. Oh, not this time. Whether it's Wittek, Kessler or some walkon who emerges as the quarterback during a closed practice in the meantime, after the opening victory at Hawaii proved there needs to be more Marquis Lee. WSU didn't have such a cushy opener – the Cougars were at Auburn for Week 1.
Other key games today:
Florida at Miami, 9 a.m., ESPN
South Carolina at Georgia, 1:30 p.m., ESPN
Oregon at Virginia, 12:30 p.m., Channel 7
Texas at BYU, 4 p.m., ESPN2
Notre Dame at Michigan, 5 p.m., ESPN
Hawaii at Oregon State, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Network
San Jose State at Stanford, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Network
Arizona at UNLV, 7:30 p.m., CBS Sports Net
MLS: GALAXY vs. COLORADO, Stub Hub Center, 7:30 p.m., TWC Sports Net
SOCCER: WORLD CUP QUALYFING: U.S. at Costa Rica, 7 p.m. beIN SPORTS:
Landon Donovan and Omar Gonzalez are back with Team America for something far more important. "The Costa Rica game is the biggest game in 2013 for all of us because we want to win there," said coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "We want to qualify as soon as possible for the World Cup in Brazil." Back in March, the U.S. team outlasted a deluge of snow and wind to outlast Costa Rica 1-0 in Colorado on Clint Dempsey's goal. This is a precursor to a U.S.-Mexico match on Sept. 10 in Columbus, Ohio.
34th AMERICA'S CUP FINAL, in San Francisco, Oracle Team USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand, opening races, 1 p.m., Channel 4:
It's still the first to nine wins in a best-of-17 series – one that the MLB may consider to do some day – that can run until Sept. 22. The controversial safety issues concerning the AC72 catamarans used will likely draw a lot more attention during the course of the event as well.
Day 2 is Sunday with two more races, 1 p.m., Channel 4.
TENNIS: U.S. OPEN, in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., women's final, 1:30 p.m., Channel 2:
It all funnels into the storyline: Not only will Serena Williams be around to defend her title, but what might she be wearing, at whom may she be swearing at, and how daring will the weatherman be in predicting nice sunny skies over Arthur Ashe Stadium?
Women's semifinals: 9:30 a.m. Friday, Channel 2
Men's semifinals: 9 a.m. Saturday, Channel 2 (men's final is on Monday, Sept. 9)


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Skip to comments.June Payrolls +195K Much Higher Than Expected (7.6%); Underemployment Rate Soars To 14.3%
Posted on 07/05/2013 5:36:41 AM PDT by Perdogg
So much for any doubts about a September taper: with the street expecting a 165K NFP number for June, the actual print of 195K following an upward revised May print of 195K as well, means the September flow fade is now virtually assured. The Unemployment Rate stayed at 7.6% despite expectations of a drop to 7.5%, although the real action was in the underemployment rate which exploded from 13.8% to 14.3%.
From the report:
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 in June, in line with the average monthly gain of 182,000 over the prior 12 months. In June, job growth occurred in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, health care, and financial activities. (See table B-1.)
Leisure and hospital ity added 75,000 jobs in June. Monthly job growth in this industry has averaged 55,000 thus far in 2013, almost twice the average gain of 30,000 per month in 2012. Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places continued to expand, increasing by 52,000 in June. Employment in the amusements, gambling, and recreation industry also continued to trend up in June (+19,000).
Employment in professional and business services rose by 53,000 in June. Job gains occurred in management and technical consulting services (+8,000) and in computer systems design and related services (+7,000). Employment continued to trend up in temporary help services (+10,000). Over the past year, professional and business services has added 624,000 jobs.
Retail trade employment increased by 37,000 in June. Within retail trade, employment increased by 9,000 in building material and garden supply stores and by 8,000 in motor vehicle and parts dealers. Employment in wholesale trade continued to trend up (+11,000).
Health care continued to add jobs in June, with a gain of 20,000. Within the industry, employment continued to trend up in ambulatory health care services (+13,000). A gain of 5,000 jobs in hospitals followed a loss of 8,000 jobs in May.
Employment in financial activities rose by 17,000 in June, with most of the increase occurring in credit intermediation (+6,000) and in insurance carriers and related activities (+6,000).
Federal government employment continued to trend down in June (-5,000) and has declined by 65,000 over the past 12 months.
Employment in most other major industries, including mining and logging, construction, manufacturing, and transportation and warehousing, showed little change in June.
The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged in June at 34.5 hours. In manufacturing, the workweek increased by 0.1 hour to 40.9 hours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.3 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.7 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)
In June, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 10 cents to $24.01. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 51 cents, or 2.2 percent. In June, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 5 cents to $20.14. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised from +149,000 to +199,000, and the change for May was revised from +175,000 to +195,000. With these revisions, employment gains in April and May combined were 70,000 higher than previously reported.
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Overall a positive report. U6 increasing is commensurate with the uptick in labor force participation rate. I will post some charts when FRED updates the data :-)
Yes, and I should mention the +70,000 net revisions to April and May— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) July 5, 2013
I wonder how much of these jobs are part of the hospitality industry???
Leisure and hospital ity added 75,000 jobs in June
Only under Obama is 7.6% considered good.
Employment in most other major industries, including mining and logging, construction, manufacturing, and transportation and warehousing, showed little change in June.*********
That's the problem with this report. Disposable incomes based on the first quarters numbers and since are falling at about 9% per year. That's horrendous.
The average workweek is contracting and and there are no jobs in heavy industry which are the jobs that pay. Welcome to the fast food recovery.
@JimPethokoukis - But using Goldman Sachs estimates that subtract demographics, 9.1% rate is more in the ballpark
Try this link for BLS:
Well I'm in IT and there are jobs in the IT field..
Many of the new jobs were part time. The number of Americans who said they were working part-time but would prefer full-time work jumped 322,000 to 8.2 million. That's the most in eight months.
And you wonder why Obama just threw Obamacare under the bus?
Isn't 200,000 considered the break-even point?
Do you live in India?.............
Nope.. I live in Illinois.. It depends on the skills that you have.. I seem to have the right skills.
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Let's Look at Cheese Being Cheesy
Cheese is one my favorite foods. It comes in so many flavors and textures that there are new cheeses to be tried everyday. But sometimes you just want the hot ooey gooey kind. What is it about cheese that stretches that makes it so much more appealing? Check out these dishes where cheese is the star and does it thing like a rockstar.
1. I always knew something was missing from my meatballs
2. Breakfast cheese
3. Everyone's favorite
4. Of course pizza
5. Mac and cheese (with bacon of course)
6. Cheese fries
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M tunnel turntable allow the operator place the product on the turntable with the pallet jack. The high quality of components used ensure the high quality.
Technical Data
Max load size(mm) 1100mm x 1200mm (L X W)
Max load height(mm) 2400mm
Capacity: 25-35 Loads/hr based on load
Turntable diameter 1650mm
Turntable Height 85mm
Turntable weight capacity 1200kg
Turntable speed 3-12rpm
Machine weight 700kg
Electrics 220V 50HZ 1Phase
Power 1.5kw
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Dec. 25 is only four days away, but Fred Magel of Oak Park, Ill., is convinced 'tis not the season for ''Xmas.''
To Mr. Magel, Xmas should never be in season - and for 12 years he has petitioned the nation's businesses to keep the ''Christ'' in Christmas.
Gradually, he says, the crusade is being won. Signs, advertisements, and greeting cards inscribed ''Merry Xmas'' are now so uncommon that ''they have become collectors' items,'' he says.
He says he opposes Xmas because the 24th letter of the alphabet has unpleasant connotations in America. He cites X-rated movies, the signature of an illiterate, and the ''unknown'' in an algebraic equation. Even worse, Magel says , '' 'X marks the spot' where the gangster killed the victim.''
These associations have distorted any religious symbolism X may have had in ancient times, he says. Although X is the first letter of the Greek spelling of Christ, ''your average American schoolchild, or average adult for that matter, doesn't know it,'' he says.
A retired vice-president of United Film in Kansas City, Mo., Magel says he travels frequently, stopping to make a pitch for Christmas at retail stores along his way. He says he has persuaded florists, department store managers, and even T-shirt designers to spell it out.
Xmas ''doesn't look that nice, aesthetically,'' agrees John Dinardo, spokesman for Hallmark, the nation's top greeting card company. Hallmark, along with two other major card companies, has never used the abbreviation, ''except on a few humorous or contemporary-style cards,'' Mr. Dinardo says.
K-Mart Corporation also always uses the longer spelling in advertisements for its stores, says spokesman Susan McKelbey. ''There's been a firm rule on that for about 30 years,'' she says.
Among the few places where Xmas still appears are the classified advertisments, where brevity is critical, and homemade signs at local Christmas-tree lots, Magel says.
He says supporters of the campaign, including syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers, have sent letters to thank him for his efforts. Although he rings up a substantial phone bill during the year, Magel says he doesn't mind. ''The result in the heart and in the spirit is nice.''


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Ammo Grrrll is thinking ABOUT LAST MONDAY…She writes:
My candidate did not win in Iowa. Who was that, you ask breathlessly?
Donco Cruzabee, that's who. I want someone with Ted Cruz's brains and debating skills, with the youthful good looks and inspiring backstory of Marco Rubio, the genial warmth and personality of Mike Huckabee, and the cojones, minus the gratuitous rudeness, of Donald Trump.
As I read the many many postmortems and comments on Power Line and several other sites, here are some of my more or less random observations:
ONE. As astute and always-respectful commenter, Deborah Brown has said we are going to have to resign ourselves to an IMPERFECT candidate. There is no perfect candidate who can satisfy every voter, or even every conservative voter. There is no Donco Cruzabee, and if there were someone would find out that in 3rd grade he pulled a girl's pigtails and the NYT would run a 72-pt headline, "Cruzabee Has History of Sexual Assault." That's because:
TWO. These elections turn on idiotic minutiae that are blown more out of proportion than the old Barbie Doll's measurements. In a nation with crushing debt, foreign policy disasters, a vanishing middle class, the shredding of the Constitution, do we really have the luxury of caring whether Mitt Romney teased someone when he was 14? Or that someone drank too much water during a debate or even, God forbid, forgot his third point? Hell, I forget what I was going to say sometimes mid-sentence. For that matter, going back a few years, what possible difference did it make that Adlai Stevenson had a hole in his shoe? Are we all daft? When polled, we all say we want the candidates to have a "vision," to tell us what they are going to do, and we all hate the negativity. But we don't. That's why the oppo researchers are going great guns right now to inform us that this guy's great-great-grandfather wrote a private letter in which was found a racist word, and that in 1972 that guy called up "Information" for numbers he could have looked up in the phone book.
THREE. What's up with all the name-calling, my fellow Americans? Good grief! How trippingly on the tongue come shouts of "RINO!" and "Establishment!" and "Brown Shirts!" and then the truly juvenile insults like "retard." Why not just go full "doody-head" and "poopy-pants"? Are we not grown-ups? I am going to severely paraphrase a wonderful 25-year-old joke told by terrific standup comic Emo Phillips. I hope he remembers that I once reviewed him for a Twin Cities newspaper and gave his comedy album a rave and doesn't mind that I now "quote" the gist of his joke from memory.
He tells a kind of shaggy dog tale about meeting a Little John-like character mid-way through crossing a bridge and a standoff ensues. The man announces, "I am a Christian," and he replies, "Yes! So am I." The man says, "I am a Protestant," and he replies, "Great! So am I!" The man says, "I am a Lutheran!" and he agrees, "So am I!" The man says, "I am from the Missouri Synod!" and he says, "Me, too!" He says, "I attend St. Stevens on Oak Street," and the man says, "Die, Heretic!"
We have all been toiling in the vineyards of left-wing cultural domination for a long time. My friends and colleagues on Power Line, particularly Scott and John, have been in the trenches in Minnesota, arguably "the belly of the beast," for a decade or two. It would be laughable, if it were not both erroneous and depressing, to see the vitriol hurled at them for being insufficiently able to grasp the charms of Trump or the "treachery" of Rubio. They certainly do not need me to defend them. But why, when we all here have so much in common and the stakes are so high, do we allow ourselves to say "Die, Heretic!" to someone who has a slightly different perspective?
I do not believe that much will change even with a Republican win in 2016, even with a veto-proof Congress. "Lucy" has pulled the football away from me for too many times to believe in miracles. And Government, in general is a sclerotic behemoth that cannot be moved. My core issues are border control, Second Amendment rights, First Amendment rights, and pro-Israel/anti-terrorism foreign policy.
Donald Trump looked very attractive to me on these issues. Nobody hates Political Correctness more than I do. But is childish rudeness the same as fighting PC speech? Is it yugely smart to make insinuations about a newswoman's period or to call a brave and brilliant conservative like Michelle Malkin (who, by the way, has to hire full-time bodyguards for her children so numerous are the death threats) "born stupid"?
Nevertheless, unlike some, I WILL vote for Trump if he is our standard-bearer. I will also vote for Cruz, Rubio, Carly, or even Christie. I will vote for almost anyone against Hillary or Bernie or, for that matter, Gun Grabber-in-Chief, Bloomberg. I initially preferred Rick Perry, but for whatever reasons, he faded fast. This is a long slog. And very very important. Let's try to keep it as convivial as we can. Except for you crapweasel, neocon, neonazi, RINO-loving, douchebag Heretics who support that other guy.


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Dr. Cristina S. Schmalisch, LICSW
Cristina Sorrentino Schmalisch received her PhD in cognitive science from MIT in 1998 and worked as a research scientist for 4 years at New York University and Stanford University. Her research explored how children think about and name individuals and how they understand number. Over the years of working as a researcher, she found that she enjoyed interacting with children and their parents more than engaging in the nuts and bolts of doing research. She decided to pursue training as a psychotherapist and resonated to a set of ideas about mental health, such as considering the whole person and not just their disorder, and considering the person within a greater context, that includes the spiritual. Social work provided the breadth and depth Cristina sought and so she enrolled in the MSW program at Boston University and graduated in 2005.
During her studies, Cristina interned at the Cambridge Court Clinic and worked with adolescents and their families, providing assessment to the juvenile court and group treatment to court-involved adolescent girls. She later interned at the Danielsen Institute where she received intensive training in psychodynamic treatment with adults and first learned to incorporate the spiritual into psychotherapy.
Cristina held the position of Project Director of the Compulsive Hoarding Project at the BU School of Social Work upon for two and a half years. Her supervisor was Dean Gail Steketee, an international expert on obsessive compulsive disorder and hoarding. Cristina received intensive training in assessment of mental health disorders and in cognitive and behavioral therapy. She provided individual and group treatment for hoarding to adult clients. She also oversaw all aspects of two research studies on compulsive hoarding and its treatment, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. While at BU, Cristina taught research methods to MSW students, gave talks about compulsive hoarding in the community, and trained therapists in cognitive behavioral treatment for hoarding. She has published an article on group treatment for hoarding in Cognitive and Behavioral Practice with Drs. Christiana Bratiotis and Jordana Muroff. She also co-authored, The Hoarding Handbook: A Guide for Human Service Professionals, with Dr. Bratiotis and Dean Steketee, published by Oxford University Press.
In addition to expertise in hoarding, Cristina has in-depth training in understanding and treating trauma, including training with Dr. Dan Hughes on attachment-focused therapy. Cristina also has experience treating addictions, having worked as a full-time clinician in addictions at North Suffolk Mental Health Association from January 2008 until August 2009. During that time, she provided both individual and group treatment to clients aged 18-60.
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Armando Testa, founded in 1946, says it will fold some of Edv's operations into Testaweb, the company's homegrown Internet advertising subsidiary.
The 40-employee Edv was one of the first Italian agencies to specialize in Internet-based advertising. It was founded in 1997.
"With the union of these two companies, we feel we can offer a unique and complete service," Armando Testa President Marco Testa says. "With the Internet, having an idea is not enough. A company has to know how to develop the software necessary to use the idea online. Starting today, we can do all of that internally."
The acquisition is the second in as many months for the Milan-based agency. In January, Armando Testa acquired 51% ownership in Bologna-based rival Max Information.
Armando Testa is the largest ad agency in Italy in terms of revenue.
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I am an avid tea drinker.
From the health benefits, to the fact that I am usually cold, tea is the perfect pick-me-up. I love the process of making tea as well– boiling the water, selecting the tea I'm in the mood for, and the first sip, after it's steeped for the perfect amount of time, just makes me happy. (My friends also laugh because rather than microwave my tea water, I boil it in my cute green tea kettle, but it's more sophisticated and part of the process!)
I know I am a creature of habit, but I want to push myself to step out of my comfort zone and try different teas. Starting a tea of the month will encourage variation in my tea drinking.
For September, I have selected the first mix from Teavana that I fell in love with called the Blueberry Kona Pop Tea Blend.
It blends Blueberry Bliss Rooibos tea with Pineapple Kona Pop herbal tea–and it is spectacular! The addition of Teavana's German Rock Sugar makes it out of this world. The blend is delicious both hot and cold and for me it's been able to replace lemonade and other juices that I've tried to cut down on.
To go with the tea, I decided to make tea-shaped cookies. It was a fun (and messy!) project with my daughter this past weekend.
We went the semi-home made route and used the Krusteaz sugar cookie mix from Costco. (I get everything I can from that store…you know that !)
My husband was kind enough to make the dough earlier in the day.
I added the blue food coloring–I couldn't help it!
All done!
[I'm having trouble editing my pictures, so my daughter's orange ring and the salt shaker in the top left corner are really bugging me–lesson 1001 in learning to let go of the small things.]
stay inspired, cherish the journey, and sip your tea!


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"For twelve weeks this city is ours." Illuminated annually across the brick walls of Manchester's Store Street, this slogan is as linguistically commanding as the series is of its city's nightlife. For the Warehouse Project's 2016 series, they return once again to their spiritual home under Piccadilly Station with a mammoth roster of artists, pushing the definition of 'dance music' even further into abstraction. Seasoned alumni Drumcode, Bugged Out! and Feel My Bicep have brought together some of 4/4's finest, and heavyweights such as Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Cox, Nina Kraviz and Jeff Mills lie atop line-ups rich in techno's more underground names. For more bass-ier flavours, Rodigan's Ram Jam, Kurupt FM's Champagne Steam Rooms and a DJ EZ-curated Saturday night piece together the likes of garage, jungle, and drum n bass, whilst a new addition Curated By Skepta places us in the hands of grime's prolific figurehead. Aside from the usual Friday and Saturday night slots, The Old Granada studios hosts DJ Shadow, alongside performances from Moderat, Fatboy Slim and Hot Since 82 at The Albert Hall.
For more information on the 2016 calendar, click here. If you're overwhelmed with choice, here's our selection of 5 gems of this Warehouse Project season.
Orlagh Dooley aka OR:LA mixes music to lose yourself to. She's the co-owner and resident at Meine Nacht, a club night that resides in secret Liverpool locations and has hosted the likes of Florian Kupfer, Mall Grab and Kornel Kovacs. OR:LA's innovative flair has caught the attention of the likes of Ministry of Sound, Crack Magazine and Thump, who titled her as "one of the most underrated DJs on the UK circuit." Her mixes are utterly uncategorisable, bravely switching from garage and jungle tempos to smooth jazz breaks, and strung together with deep, dubbed basslines and mesmerising drum patterns.
Mosaic- Sat 26 November // Feel My Bicep- Sat 10 December
Tokyo-born, UK-raised and Berlin-residing TJ Hertz, aka Objekt, possesses a uniquely individual sound. Whilst his production-style remains rooted in the dubstep cuts of his first 2011 release Objekt #1, Hertz's electronic soundscapes have evolved into glitchy, spliced techno. His forward-thinking and technically brilliant 2014 debut album Flatlands encapsulates this dual tone, presenting a bold, experimental sound palette laden in both his dubstep and techno influences. As for his sets, expect such experimental and intricate productions neatly intertwined with deeply rhythmic techno.
WHP vs The Hydra - Fri 16 December
Amy Becker
At only 22 years of age, London-born Amy Becker has achieved a remarkable amount. Now a regular host on Radar Radio and curator of burgeoning club night Acrylic, Becker's first Daily Dose Mix for BBC 1Xtra's Mistajam in 2013 seems like a far distant memory. Blending genres such as hip-hop, garage, reggaeton and house, Becker's sets seamlessly create refreshingly diverse and bold sounds. An indisputable emerging young talent, Amy Becker is sure to bring raw energy to the Store Street warehouse.
The Ape Birthday – Fri 11 Novemeber
Denis Sulta
Denis Sulta abruptly caught the attention of the UK's electronic music scene last summer with the release of It's Only Real. Unleashing a surging techno melody over a stuttering drum loop, the hypnotic Numbers' release identified Sulta as one of Glasgow's latest exciting young DJs. With impressive performances at festivals such as Farr and Tramlines this summer, alongside his contribution to Jackmaster's recent DJ Kicks compilation in the form of the euphoric MSNJ, the young Glaswegian producer has not disappointed. Fusing eclectic house and soul selections with his own infectious beats, Sulta's sets are as equally unpredictable as they are thrilling.
Jackmaster & Numbers Presents Mastermix – Sat 5 November
Throwing Shade
Throwing Shade is the awe-inspiringly multitalented DJ, producer and radio host from London. When she's not holding it down on the NTS airwaves - in her meticulously researched show that delves into every musical style on the globe - she's making crisp, chopped up electro productions, with her EP House of Silk finding its home on Ninja Tune. You can be sure to expect the unexpected as she takes to the Warehouse this October.
Ninja Tune - Fri 28 October
Soup Kitchen
1) Unouzbeck & Venturi - Mumbai Disco Sensation
Dekmantel massively expanded their offering of pre-festival activities, with a host of lectures, movie screenings and exclusive sets ushering in the 2017s festivities. For those of us a bit less energetic, a free BBQ at Tolhuistuin across the river in Amsterdam Noord overseen by rising British DJ Palms Trax was perfect. This wonky Indian banger had people rising out of their bean bags and sauntering to the dancefloor to use up what energy they had left.
2) Liem – If Only
Moodymann's masterful selecting at the Greenhouse (perhaps one of the coolest festival stages ever) set the tone for the weekend. This effortlessly smooth beat fit Moodymann perfectly, who started sharing out his rider with the crowd as the track was tickling the eardrums.
3) Midland - Final Credits
Whilst it can be guaranteed that this track has been played at every single festival on the circuit this summer, hearing the man himself unload it on the main stage was spine-tingling.
4) Andrés - New For U
DJ Koze was one who played this soulful Andrés cut, and at least 3 other DJ's did the same, firmly trapping this ear worm inside my head in the process… It still hasn't left.
5) Kerri Chandler – On My Way
Palms Trax perfectly gauged the mood for the slightly fatigued Sunday crowd. He managed to raise the energy back up in what proved to be one of the festival's best sets with his disco soaked sounds drawing one of the biggest crowds of the weekend. This track was one of many highlights.
6) Agua Re – Holy Dance (Large Sound Mix)
Young Marco nearly blew the roof off the Boiler Room stage with this track. Its combination of euphoric melody and light as a feather beats worked the crowd into a serious groove.
7) Zogo – Afrika
Motor City Drum ensemble dropped this gem towards the tail end of phenomenal headline set on Sunday. This was posted so many times on Facebook's Identification of Music group that the man himself had to respond to identify it. Turns out that it's such a rare slice of African disco that it's not even on Youtube. Repress in order?
Words: Matt Staite
Images: Desiré van den Berg
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For being one of the most eccentric and genuinely odd rappers alive, Young Thug is somehow also one of the most visible. He's a perpetual source of musical fascination through his always-on social media presence, constantly teasing new music from a seemingly infinite cache of unclassifiable hits. The ever-looming prospect of his debut album Hy!£UN35 (pronounced "hi-tunes") paired with the ferocious pace of his output otherwise has slowly begun to appear as an exercise in breaking down traditionally held ideas about what constitutes an official release in an age of Spotify and SoundCloud. His ferocious pace makes it easy to forget that his breakout mixtape, Barter 6, dropped in April of 2015, not even a year and a half ago. His latest, No, My Name is Jeffery, released on August 26th after two weeks of delays, is the next station in Thug's development towards his proper long-play debut. It's his boldest post-Barter 6 release yet, showing us the clearest picture to-date of what we can expect from Thug once he begins fashioning albums outside of the mixtape mould.
By the time that day comes Young Thug as we know him may be no more. As he announced on Travis Scott's Beats 1 ".wav" radio show, he has changed his name to "Jeffery"--his name on his birth certificate--originally only for a week. But now it appears the new name might be here for good. "I never had a street mentality," Thug explains to Scott, "I always had a Michael Jackson mentality." It's an unorthodox move this far along into his career, no doubt, but one that seems to capitalize on his larger mainstream ambitions. "Ain't no Young Thug songs on here," Thug comments in the same interview. "The whole album is straight crossover." With Jeffery Thug is coming more into his own, closer to the place he wants to be at by the time HyTunes arrives, and it shows the extent to which Thug's massive output since Barter 6 has already altered the mainstream landscape, making his pop ambitions as clear as ever.
During the time Jeffery was postponed due to cover art disagreements Thug released his first proper single from the album, Elton. A week later, when the album finally dropped, the track was revealed as the album closer, but now appearing under a different name, Pop Man. It's undoubtedly the standout track on the tape and, at six minutes long, one of Thug's longest and most compositionally diverse tracks to date. It's a Wheezy and Cassius Jay beat - the former responsible for many of Thug's biggest hits over the past year - and it sounds like a perfect blend of Barter 6's moody, atmospheric production and Thug's more recent pop-oriented work. The bass tones are supersized and fluid, progressing with a range reminiscent of Metro Boomin's most identifiable Future beats; a touch of marimba introduces the song's basic chord structure, providing a vaguely Caribbean flavour to the track, certain to bring comfort to anyone who has listened to the radio this past summer and witnessed the sudden dancehall phase infecting the charts; Thug intersperses the background with an array of mouth sounds that are instantly recognizable as his own brand of strange; and Jean parries Thug's excess-to-the-point-of-incomprehence lyrics with a plea to reconsider his lustful desires before dropping his voice down a whole octave to contribute a couple of stylized bars that float around the stripped-down, bass-heavy beat. It all amounts to somewhat of a pop-rap ballad. But, perhaps most interesting of all, a day after he drops the album, Thug changes the name of the track to Kanye West.
Perhaps the two really are synonymous to Thug. Kanye is a Pop Man for a post-pop generation. It's just now beginning to become clear how much of recent Ye is taking cues from the Young Thug playbook. Ye's stated his admiration explicitly over Twitter, invited Thug to be in his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show (where he also debuted Slime Season 3 stand out, With Them), christened Thug a modern day Bob Marley, and expressed a desire to release a Ye x Thug collaborative album. It almost feels tongue-in-cheek then when Thug renames the song Kanye West, in part because it's so reminiscent of Ye's appropriation of the mixtape model to cast a net over his ever-increasing erratic behaviour in recent months across all mediums, but also because it serves as a reminder that, as far as captivating an audience through volatile behaviour and unpredictability, no one does it better than Young Thug himself.
The lead-up to the release of Jeffery, still technically the latest "commercial mixtape" in Thug's seemingly endless run of releases before his ever-in-the-works debut album, gave the impression that it would be his biggest release since Barter 6. And all publicity and self-promotion aside, it sounds like Thug's most major production since Barter 6 broke him onto the scene. Jeffery plays like logical product to come at the end of three Slime Season albums: it's nine tracks that together display a cohesion and understanding of form that Thug seemed to be working towards throughout the course of the Slime Season tapes.
The opener Wyclef Jean begins with guitar chords establishing a slow, steady off-beat rhythm. Perhaps it's a nod to Kanye's Bob Marley christening, but it sounds uncomfortably close to a pop-rap instrumental, as if there's an equal chance of Wiz Khalifa hopping on the beat as there is Thug or any of his abrasive ATL brethren--such as Young Scooter, Yak Gotti, or Duke--that have become familiar features on much of his output. It's nothing like the London on da Track beats that helped cement Thug's style on Barter 6. But, yet again, somehow Thug's idiosyncratic understanding of flow belies the banalities of the beat, injecting it with a pulse of intricately positioned ad-libs and swoons, until the track sounds like nothing else in either established camps; not pop, not rap, nor is quite pop-rap, but rather Thug's projection of how these genres sound to him.
That seems to be Thug's M.O. guiding him through his transformation to a bona fide pop star on Jeffery: he builds his way through the pre-established conventions of his idols and their respective genres to imagine them recast in his own mold. Future Swag, for example, is a finely crafted Future tribute song that never makes a single reference to Future himself. Everything about the track projects a Future aura, from the Kill Bill sample that has become a Future-Metro Boomin production staple, to the dark-yet-radiant synth use, to Thug's syrup-soaked flow. Or there's the track RiRi, a Rihanna tribute with tangential-at-best lyrical relation to Rihanna that so ingeniously pulls emotional resonance out of a chorus through repetition of the word "work" that it becomes clear that Thug's pop tributes are not directed at communicating lyrically his indebtedness to his idols, but at transforming each of their sonic templates to show the intensity he has to offer while operating in their register.
"Beyonce got an everywhere swag," Thug comments in the same Beats 1 interview with Scott. "I got an everywhere swag." If Thug achieves the sort of universal appeal that his comment suggests, he may be among the most aesthetically polarising rappers to ever do so. Since his I Came From Nothing mixtapes Thug has separated himself apart from the milieu of the Billboard-rap-pack through incoherence, unpredictability, and near unintelligibility--a far cry from the paradigms that a tradition of defiant, forthright, and melodic lyricism in hip-hop has taught us to expect from our rap stars. So, it's no wonder that Jeffery bolsters its appeal to radio play by featuring some of his most polished and manicured beats to date. Far from the dark atmospherics of Barter 6 and much of his Slime Season work, Jeffery is clean and bright, at times to a fault. It seems almost too appropriate to discover that the production behind nearly half of the tracks on Jeffery goes to relative newcomers "Billboard Hitmakers". According to their website (one of very few sources of information about them) CEO Big John got his start making music with Akon and Wyclef Jean, and given the appearance of the latter on the mixtape perhaps it's not entirely surprising to see them show up in the production notes. Outside of RiRi, undoubtedly one of the best on the album, their beats can come across as too clean for their own good, almost anodyne at times, which might just be a product of their stated mission to make hits across all genres, capable of appearing underneath the name of any artist in vogue on the Billboard charts. When asked which artist, dead or alive, he would most like to work with Big John responded, to no surprise, Michael Jackson, the king of pop himself.
In November of 2015, directly in the wake of the first two Slime Season tapes, longtime audio engineer Alex Tumay remarked that the work he's doing with Thug is aimed at bridging the gap between the Thug of "Danny Glover" and Rich Gang and the Thug of mass appeal, radio hits, and Hy!£UN35. Now, nearing a year to the date, "Jeffery"--the artist formerly known as Young Thug--and Jeffery--his most major release since then--beg the question: if Thug joins the ranks of Drake and Kanye West, if he turns his "orphans", (the word 300 Entertainment boss Lyor Cohen recently used to decry Thug's mixtape model approach to releasing music) into chart-topping singles played with the regularity of a Panda, Work or One Dance, would it be all that strange? How much of Young Thug will persist under the guise of Jeffery, when newfound stardom forces him to conform to the restrictions of an industry model?
For that, No, My Name is Jeffery provides only a small glimpse. Hy!£UN35 may arrive like a pop-rap messiah on the Billboard charts when it finally drops, but for now, while Thug continues to further refine his image through the mixtape model, the album remains an idea. So, for the time being, we will have to wait and listen to how effectively Thug can persuade the industry of his pop potential through releasing projects with the spectre of a major label debut looming in the near distance and hope that, when the day finally does arrive, Thug will be too intricately formed for the industry to change him.
Words: Andrew Ward
'Escape' or 'escapism' appears to have much currency within the increasingly saturated British festival market; though ultimately the basis for any festival weekend, the term is easily and often thrown around, attached onto everything from the mighty Glastonbury to Jamie Oliver's The Big Feastival. Gottwood, too, has attracted this label. But nestled on an island off another island in North West Wales, this weekend felt so far removed from the rain-drenched and heaving crowds of Parklife and Field Day across the border.
It had immediately promised a lot - a weighty, wide-ranging and at some parts unknown DJ-heavy line-up, curatorial control from labels and collectives such as Stamp the Wax, Tief, and Percolate, and a beautiful woodland setting to get lost into. And, it delivered. Under a canopy of leaves adorned with lights, the decorative assembled stages became wholly embedded into the flesh of the Georgian country house and estate; crowds snaked around art installations and stages and, like a stream opening up into an estuary, poured out into the open lakeside nucleus of the site. Here, daytime truly thrived. Following the throngs of crowds around the liquid centrepiece, Move D's annually popular Disco Set held things down in the distance, whilst the smooth and soulful jazz-inflected house of lakeside Cassio Kohl bled into a woozy mix of DJ Mujava's Township Funk.
Perhaps its this constant, collective drifting of people (a clientele with a firm average age of early twenties) which makes Gottwood feel so special, well delivered and cohesive, that when one small stage's crowd overspilled and forced you out there was something ready to be discovered but a short walk away. Gravitating in and around the lake, peeling off into stages nestled all over the estate, Gottwood is best enjoyed aimlessly. Tumbling into the Trigon on Saturday night - a stage held together by wooden triangular pylons meeting in the middle - you could find yourself in the hands of Newcastle and London based Jaunt> Records. Though initially drawn in by the syncopated techno of Ostgut Ton's Virginia it was DJ Deep who followed, opening with ghetto house pioneer Parris Mitchel's Rubber Jazz Band spliced over heavier techno rhythms, that proved a highlight of the weekend.
It was a festival full of - for want of a better word - 'moments'. Be it Axel Bowman closing with Small Town Boy, or Ben UFO b2b Craig Richards sending off the festival piano-smashes of Four Tet's Pinnacles, the genuine collective enthusiasm from those in attendance (all with 'family' stitched into their wristbands) really and truly contributed to this sense of escapism. And perhaps this is all one can ask for. Aided by the warm weather, the gorgeous faraway surroundings and the carefully balanced size of the crowd, Gottwood stands a cut above the rest in truly removing you from normality.
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Mitch McConnell: 30 Million Uninsured Americans Is "Not The Issue"
The Senate Minority Leader was asked by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday what he'd do for the 30 million uninsured.
McConnell at first dodged the question, instead launching into a litany of complaints about the law. He repeated the debunked claim that it would cut $500 billion from Medicare. Asked the question again by Wallace, McConnell actually laughed, and said he'd "get to it in a minute," before claiming the best thing we can do for the health system overall is to get rid of the law and all of its "cuts" to health providers. He labeled Obamacare a "monstrosity" and vowed that there would not be a "2,700 page" Republican reform bill.
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Merci America Boxcar photograph album, 1949 | State Archives Catalog
Title: Merci America Boxcar photograph album, 1949
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Scope and Contents: The photograph album includes black and white 8x10 photographs of the "Merci America" boxcar (also known as the Gratitude or Friendship Train) which came to Rhode Island, February 8, 1949. The photographs show views of Governor John O. Pastore at the throttle of the boxcar, speeches, the reception and other activities connected with the event. Includes views of the Rhode Island State House (including Dome), Providence City Hall, and gifts sent by France.
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About Glenn Dickey
Glenn Dickey was with the Chronicle until 2005 and is now writing for the SF Examiner. Prior to the Chronicle, he was sports editor of the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian. He is a June, 1958 graduate of UC Berkeley.
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The portion of Aqidah (Islamic creed/faith) that the scholars agree is Fard 'Ain (i.e., obligatory upon Every Muslim man and woman).
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Let's face it: Most businesses are complex. Because of the daunting scope, when business managers are called upon to analyze data in search of the next pricing and discounting targets, they often rely on aggregated data.
Therein lies the rub. The problem with aggregated data is that, once the numbers are all neatly rolled up, they often hide opportunities that exist at the micro-market level. That's because aggregation is based on averages, and averages can be misleading.
We call it the "Flaw of Averages." In the real world, it can play out this way:
A major auto manufacturer was giving customers cash back at $2,000 per vehicle. On average, this was appropriate, but when Revenue Analytics was tasked with taking a deeper analytical look at the micro market, we found something alarming.
In San Jose, a discount of at least $3,000 was required to get customers into the showroom. In Tulsa, $1,000 was sufficient incentive, and anything more was an unnecessary rebate. In Orlando, it was $1,500 and, in Hartford, $2,500.
The flaw of averages was at work. We helped turn around the situation by creating a system by which the auto manufacturer could target discounts with greater precision. As a result, the manufacturer generated hundreds of millions of dollars more in incremental sales in certain markets, and saved hundreds of millions in cash incentives in other markets.
The power of precision defeats the flaw of averages. All companies – no matter how complex – need to remember is that:
- Customer demand data must be at the micro-market level.
- Overly aggregated data glosses over hidden opportunities.
- The "average" customer does not exist.