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Over the years, I've discovered that the best bets for finding forgotten bookmarks are old Bibles and dictionaries. I purchased this leatherbound beauty yesterday; a man from Connecticut was passing through and had a small pile of books rescued from a damp church basement. There were bits and pieces in each of the books he brought in, but this 1889 Swedish-language Bible had some real beauties:
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COLUMBIA - When a $55 million medical complex opens its doors in Bluffton, it may do so, in part, with the help of Chinese investors who wanted green cards.
Or if not Chinese entrepreneurs, perhaps capital from South Korea, India, Canada, Iran or elsewhere.
PACE Healthcare Commons is trying to raise capital through a program administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to stimulate the U.S. economy.
The idea is simple: A foreign investor chips in capital. The U.S. government rewards him with permanent U.S. resident status.
CEO Brian Cain said he is contracting with the Atlantic Regional Center for Foreign Investment, LLC, in Durham, N.C., an organization approved by the federal government, to find a foreign investor for the Bluffton medical complex.
Under the EB-5 immigrant investor program, which Congress approved as a pilot in the early 1990s, 10,000 immigrant visas are up for grabs every year to entrepreneurs who qualify. A foreign entrepreneur may also bring a spouse and their unmarried children who are no older than 21.
But to earn a green card, the EB-5 program requires a foreign entrepreneur to chip in $500,000 to $1,000,000 to support an American enterprise. The investment must also create or preserve at least 10 jobs.
In an interview Thursday, Cain said he had once wondered if he would have to go to China to pitch the project.
"You have to find the right regional center that likes your project and wants to do it, and then they have the experience," he said, noting that both the project and the prospective investors are vigorously vetted.
Cain said there was no discernible drawback to participating in the federal program.
"It's becoming more and more prevalent because of the difficulty of raising money," he said. "You're giving up one green card for $500,000 and for 10 jobs."
PACE Healthcare plans to build a 120-bed, non-Medicaid nursing facility,with a 10-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital, a 32-bed long term acute care hospital and a 22-bed geriatric psychiatric hospital. Project leaders have acquired four certificates of need from the state health agency, which are awarded on a strictly regulated basis for health system expansions. Construction is expected to begin at the beginning of next year.
It is expected to create at least 325 full-time jobs with an average salary of $48,000, according to an estimate PACE Healthcare submitted to DHEC. The total cost for all four components is about $55 million, according to project summary.
Cain declined to give specific details about the capital but said about a quarter of the funds are expected to come from foreign investors.
At a board meeting of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control in March, one board member, Kenyon Wells, was surprised by Cain's explanation of the foreign investor role and sought assurance that the project wasn't intended to benefit outsiders to the exclusion of South Carolinians.
"Would you agree this is a totally new concept?" said Wells, a Lexington businessman, who is the president of a distributor of medical supplies and cardiac devices.
On Thursday Cain again stressed the benefits.
"There are no tax ramifications," he noted.
South Carolina and other states commonly offer tax breaks to companies as an incentive to expand or move to the state.
"This is actual money coming into the country," said Cain. "This will affect the entire community. Almost all the people we hire will be local, and by local, I mean local local."
It's not clear how many new commercial enterprises in South Carolina were built through the program.
The Carolina Center for Foreign Investment, the Palmetto State's only federally approved center, in Greenville, declined to provide a list of projects in the state. But an official said $10 million was raised in the 2010-2011 period, and the latest project was an investment in Proterra, which manufactures zero-emissions buses in Greenville.
Federal data show an increasing volume of entrepreneurial interest from abroad.
In 2007 there were 861 applications, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security
The numbers have grown since then, with nearly 4,000 applicants in the last fiscal year. Of that, 2,969 immigrant investors from China petitioned to help fund American projects. That number made up 74 percent of the 3,967 petitions that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received that year.
Decisions were made on 1,050 of them during that year, 116 of which were denied. The rest are being adjudicated, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. The agency did not have figures immediately available by state.

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I have been a member of Narcotics Anonymous for 24 years and have stayed clean for that time. I have always had problems with the need for a Higher Power. My question is how do you (as an atheist) reconcile the implicit need for a Higher Power (often referred to in the literature as god or the god of your understanding). Are there any people out there who have applied atheist thinking to the 12 steps and have an easy practical way of understanding and applying that process to life.
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I'll second the idea that 12-step recovery's primary value is as a support and discussion group. Interacting with others engaged in the same thing encourages you to to stay engaged with that thing, no matter what the 'thing' is.
On the 'higher power' note, as an atheist I see a 'higher power' as anything that you cannot change or control, or that you have surrendered your ability to change or control to. Obviously, it covers a lot of ground. When I was actively alcoholic, my 'higher power' was clearly alcohol. 12-step recovery simply encouraged me to reconcile myself to the idea that my attempts to manage or control my drinking were not working. It is possible that I might learn to drink in moderation, but clearly the way I react to being intoxicated makes that essentially unworkable for me. The risks of attempting it far outweigh any benefits I might receive from being able to partake in alcohol, and I understand this through dozens of attempts and the results of those attempts.
On the nature of a 'higher power', yes, theistic 12-step members see a higher power as a sentient, literally existing deity of some sort that gives sobriety with conscious intent to people who surrender themselves to him, her, or it. It is clear to me that a higher power need not have any such quality. When alcohol was my higher power, it clearly defined my life and its power showed in my life clearly. A great real-world example of a higher power that runs human lives without literally existing would be money. Our lives are largely defined by it, but it has no will or avatar and its value and influence are entirely arbitrary. It would also make a pretty crappy higher power for an addict to identify with, as its qualities have nothing to do with whether or not one is addicted to anything. But I find it is a good illustration of what I mean.
I'll stop typing before this becomes a book...
It is interesting what is said about money which also applies to alcohol, food and to the life of the internet under some conditions. There is an un-hearable to the ears, but experiencable communication that this life is set to as a result of their location and movement (place and composition) when there is something to be understood about it completely. Life that becomes addicted belongs to an area of life that will always do nothing different related to how they are understanding a continuously aware experience with movement and communication. Life that becomes addicted eventually will know about it completely and then the life of money, alcohol, food, internet that some call "A separating god" will no longer use itself with someone in a way that results in changes to how they are understanding, experiencing, doing and saying.
It is not applicable to name the area of life (one field of being is okay as one way to describe) that is providing a continuous communication and experience. Within what is a continuous orientation and a continuous experience, life that I am describing here can eat, drink, use themselves with money, etc without the experience of non appreciated consequences. What can be called a return to things that were experienced as addictive when they are caused interesting and able to be had in your environment is able to be done when there are no more "teaks" being placed to your nervous system (there are a variety of ways this is experienced including aware internal dialogue and changes to circulatory rhythm) telling you to go over to another interest area united for your continuable understanding.
"...implicit need for a higher power"?
How about 'requirement for reliance on a higher power'? Does that make more sense?
@Adrienne, I was hoping someone would bring this perspective.
I don't want to discount Ken's experience - serious kudos for your success, Ken! But I sort of think you could have done it without this particular group.
I spent quite a bit of time looking at these programs when a family member was required to attend. And the thing that really bothered me (in addition to the dreadful success rates) was the feeling that the program and/or higher power get all the credit and none of the blame. It's the classic christian line of reasoning - if you pray to resist temptation but fail anyway, you just weren't praying hard enough. But if through sheer willpower you make it, they seem to claim some part (or all) of your success.
I'm sure the support group thing is helpful for some. But for others, the constant repetition that "I am a blank-oholic (insert your disease here)" makes that their sole identity. Sure, people have things they struggle with. And some of those things impact every area of their life. But no matter what, you are more than your struggle or your disease or your social status or whatever. Maybe it's a little too Stuart Smalley - but I do think there's more value in repeating "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonnit people like me!"
On a different but related note, there's interesting research being done around the effect of sharing our goals with other people. Turns out, people who share their goals with others may actually have lower success rates. There's some brain chemical thing produced when you have a goal and you make steps toward it. For example, you make a goal to start working out, so on day one, you go to the gym. Brain says - well done! and pumps out some good juice. And this provides a sense of completion of the goal. Thing is, you get the same good juice just by telling a friend about your goal and getting a pat on the back from them. Weird, no?
I bring this up because I wonder if the low success rates of these programs is because it's the group therapy that actually impedes the participants from meeting their goals. I'd be really interested to hear others' views on this.
I was in al-anon and it helped for a while. Then I hit the same road block. For a while, I tried imagining the higher power as Wisdom, sometimes found in the literature, meetings, and small personal insights. That worked alright but it was awful 'meta' and a bit 'woo,' to boot. I got turned off by the 'personalities' at meetings and also by their insistance of talking about Gawd and holding prayers at the end...it was very alienating. I haven't been in a long time.
If you haven't dealt with it in 24 years, and you're still sober, maybe you're working the program well enough. I don't know. I always felt like a slacker. Never got past Step Three. I always wanted to get more out of it and give more, but I couldn't 'turn over' my problems to my vague concept of Wisdom. No way! LOL.
I am also involved with NA, and have always had a problem with the whole god thing that is inherent(needless to say bias view point) in the literature. I do use a "power greater than", and that would be the principals contained in the steps, but they can only be a "power greater than" through my application of those principals in my life. That is the basic premise of the program, the application of the principals found in the steps, and you dont need a god to do so. Right now, I am addressing the fellowships pusillanimous stance on the choice that we are told we have a freedom to choose what works best for us as individuals. Im in communitcation with world services and Im working towards having that freedom more readily available.
I will post the outcome of my efforts.
I hope I have helped you Ken.
Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Thomas Jefferson
I've been a clean and sober member of NA for 12+ years. I came into the program agnostic, went to school, studied psychology, physiology, became atheist at 5 years clean, worked in the field... I can tell you that "God" has nothing to do with changing patterns. To put it in a nutshell, it's the repeated pattern of positive non-destructive behavior when the amygdala part of the brain is experiencing fight or flight that builds new neuropathways of response. It doesn't really matter if you blame God or Satan or just go to meetings every time you feel like getting drunk or high. As long as you do that regularly for at least 18 months to 2 years, that neuro-response mechanism toward healthier choices will be naturally intuitive.
Just like they say in AA - "We will intuitively know how to handle problems that used to baffle us". There should be an add-on at the end that reads, "But, not for about a year and a half".
Like I have said in my earlier post, the underlinning basis of the NA program is the application of principles in ones life, by doing that, you do address some of those psychological factors that you are refering to Matt. I have never had the illusion of a belief in a god of some type or another, so I find I am more open to the idea of a principle centered life. I am a Satanist(Mondern). My whole way of life has been centered that way to an extent, until I gave the NA program a chance, the thing I was missing, was proper application.Which I am proficient in now. And I continue to learn new and intresting ways to apply such principles to my life through different applications of said principles.
Dear Folks:
I started writing a 12 step program for nerds once, but never finished it. A few suggestions:
a) I am powerless to be normal and need the help of other nerds to seek 'normality'.
b) I must appologize to everyone I might have insulted for being dimwited, or because they can not invert a 10th order matrix.
c) I promise to never learn Klingon....LOL
I just read the book "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey about recovering from years of horrendous addiction without the 12 Steps. Amazing book. And congratulations to you, by the way.


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Skip to comments.Pre-loaded hydrogen fuel an engineering answer for efficiency, ease and safety
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Pre-loaded hydrogen fuel an engineering answer for efficiency, ease and safety
. Pre-loaded hydrogen fuel an engineering answer for efficiency, ease and safety
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Multiple independent labs are racing to produce a commercial product based on the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect (FPHE), most working quietly in their labs. But since the public demonstration of Andrea Rossis E-Cat in January 2011, weve witnessed on the global theater the grueling process of actualizing a revolutionary technology.
Early prototype E-Cat had external hydrogen tank for fuel. It has been amazing to watch. A thermal generator based on nickel-hydrogen exothermic reactions, E-Cat design changes have been guided by efforts to make an efficient, easy-to-use, and safe commercial product.
The earliest prototypes were fueled by hydrogen gas from a canister connected to the unit. For obvious reasons, the danger of hydrogen tanks in a domestic environment present a problem, and having the fuel pre-loaded inside the new E-Cat HT removes a huge liability.
But a pre-loaded fuel cartridge also makes a compact device easy to use.
Previous announcements have set the life for a single charge at six months, after which time the contents can be recycled and a new one installed. As this first generation of new-energy technology filters out to the public, we can expect much longer life-cycles in the future.
How is this fuel pre-loaded into the less-than-a-gram nickel-powder mixture? The answer is proprietary at the moment. But what is possible?
Perhaps a material that absorbs hydrogen and then releases it slowly is used. Metallic-hydrides can do exactly that. Could there be amongst the nickel-powder another transition metal that serves this function?
While we wait to see whats next for the E-Cat, there are others in the field that have discovered the pre-loaded reactor benefits, each having different designs.
Pre-loaded solid wire works to make heat
SEM image of treated Celani wire by MFMP. Francesco Celani used a pre-loaded wire for his live demonstrations last year at ICCF-17 and NIWeek 2012. A very different design than Rossis, this solid-cathode type cell is being reproduced by the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project as an open-source enterprise with step-by-step activity documented and available online.
The group showed the results of loading hydrogen in their wire and how it affected resistivity and temperature. Stunning scanning electron microscope (SEM) images reveal close-up views of the metal and its bumpy surface.
Separating loading from activation for Pd-D systems solved by pre-loading
Pre-loading of hydrogen has also benefited palladium-deuterium (Pd-D) systems, helping to hasten initiation of the reaction, which can sometimes take weeks or even months to begin. Waiting so long for a reaction to occur makes data acquisition burdensome, and discoveries difficult.
Ideally, multiple cells would run at the same time, allowing several variables to be monitored and determined simultaneously. At one point, Drs. Fleischmann and Pons were running up to 32 cells, an expensive and still time-dependent undertaking.
SRI International experimented with pre-loading of hydrogen in fine wires as described in Calorimetric Studies of the Destructive Stimulation of Palladium and Nickel Fine Wires [.pdf]. From the paper, a description of how they did it:
SRI electrolytic cell with pre-loaded cathode. 1. Loading. When Pd wires were used as a substrate or as test objects these were pre-loaded electrolytically with either H or D in low molarity SrSO4 electrolytes (50μM) using procedures developed previously at SRI [8] and elsewhere [9].
2. Sealing. The atomic loading of H or D can be sealed inside the Pd lattice for extended periods (several hours or days) with the addition of very small concentrations of Hg2SO4 to the SrSO4 electrolyte and continued cathodic electrolysis [8,9]. The deposited Hg at monolayer coverage is a highly effective poison for hydrogen atom recombination, effectively preventing= desorption by inhibiting molecule formation.
The outcome?
The results show clearly that excess energy is generated both from Pd and Ni wires loaded either with deuterium or natural hydrogen5. However, data from Pd/D codeposited onto highly loaded Pd wires (solid triangles) sit on top of the plot, indicating that this category of wires generates the most excess heat. Interestingly, the Ni codeposited system also yields significant amounts of excess heat.
Pre-loaded NANOR devices can be electrically driven
Separating the long loading times from the activation of the reaction was achieved by Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy, Inc. with his nano-composite ZrO2-PdNi-D cell that is pre-loaded with hydrogen fuel creating a reproducible active nanostructured cold fusion/lattice-assisted nuclear reaction (CF/LANR) quantum electronic device.
In the paper Energy Gain From Preloaded ZrO2-PdNi-D Nanostructured CF/LANR Quantum Electronic Components [.pdf] by Mitchell Swartz, Gayle Verner, and Jeffrey Tolleson, the authors write:
The importance is they enable LANR devices and their integrated systems to now be fabricated, transported, and then activated. They are the future of clean, efficient energy production.
A sixth-generation NANOR was publicly demonstrated in the office of Dr. Peter Hagelstein on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 2012 IAP Cold Fusion 101 course, operating from January 30 to mid-May. Swartz also described the technology in the 2013 IAP short course captured on video by Jeremy Rys.
Designed to run at low-power due to safety considerations for a multi-month demonstration on a public campus, over several weeks, the CF/LANR quantum device demonstrated more reproducible, controllable, energy gain which ranged generally from 5 to 16 [14.1 while the course was ongoing].
With the core smaller than 2 centimeters containing less than a gram of active material, this device produced LANR excess power density more than 19,500 watts/kilogram of nanostructured material.
From the paper, Swartz describes the proprietary self-contained CF/LANR quantum electronic component, called a two terminal NANOR-type of LANR device:
The NANOR represents the pre-loaded core of the reactor. At LANRs nanostructured material core is an isotope of hydrogen, usually deuterons, which are tightly packed (highly loaded) into the binary metals, alloys, or in this case, nanostructured compounds, containing palladium or nickel, loaded by an applied electric field or elevated gas pressure which supply deuterons from heavy water or gaseous deuterium.
Loaded are isotopes of hydrogen -protons, protium, deuterons, deuterium, and hydrogenated organic compounds, deuterated organic compounds, D2, H2, deuterides and hydrides. Precisely for these NANOR-type LANR devices, the fuel for the nanostructured material in the core, is deuterium.
The preloaded nanostructured material is placed into the hermetically sealed enclosure which is specially designed to withstand pressure, minimize contamination, enable lock on of wires connecting to it. The enclosure is tightly fit with the electrodes.
Described in the paper, the production of the preloaded core material involves preparation, production, proprietary pretreatment, loading, post-loading treatment, activation, and then adding the final structural elements, including holder and electrodes.
Fig. 2 Series II and III two terminal NANOR-type devices containing active ZrO2-PdNiD nanostructured material at their core.
Very pure materials are also required. Contamination remains a major problem, with excess heat potentially devastatingly quenched, the paper states.
The ratios of the NANORs composite elements are in the range of Zr (~60-70%), Ni (0-30%), and Pd (0-30%) by weight, with the weights being before the oxidation step, and several later additional preparation steps. The additional D2 and H2 yield loadings (ratio to Pd) of up to more than 130% D/Pd.
After several bakes, eventually an oxidized zirconia surrounds, encapsulates, and separates the NiPd alloy into 7-10 nm sized ferromagnetic nanostructured islands located and dispersed within the electrically insulating zirconia dielectric.
Each nanostructured island acts as a short circuit elements during electrical discharge. These allow deuterons to form a hyperdense state in each island, where the deuterons are able to be sufficiently close together.
The latest Series VI NANORs have had energy gains beyond 30.
More than basic science, its an engineering development
Pre-loaded core reactors have a decreased size, decreased response time, improved and dual diagnostics, and increased total output energy density.
They are compact, portable and durable. Suitable for small power needs, they can respond on-demand with scalable power.
Its a ragged course to a next-generation clean energy technology. Even as the science is still uncertain, the new pre-loaded hydrogen reactors are an engineering development that brings us closer to that goal.
The Cold Fusion/LENR Ping List
"The earliest prototypes were fueled by hydrogen gas from a canister connected to the unit. For obvious reasons, the danger of hydrogen tanks in a domestic environment present a problem, and having the fuel pre-loaded inside the new E-Cat HT removes a huge liability. "
Remember me asking if hydrogen was being used as a fuel ?
game changing
Cold fusion theater is a lot more accurate than cold fusion science.
You again? How's that man crush coming along?
Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.
If it's a chemical reaction, the energy densities are 10X those of the best chemical available. Hydrogen is among the best, being used as fuel in the space shuttle.
If the "report" on Rossi's latest magic show is trustworthy, which it isn't.
Maybe one of these days a lurker will actually consider what you post on these threads to be something worth following up. Maybe someday.
Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.
this guy has been stalling and stringing you along for over 3 years.
You are turning into a cultist.
Horse manure. I didn't post any articles focused on Rossi for more than a year, until his device was independently tested.
so it took you only a year to warm up to the same con that was exposed as a fraud earlier
Has cold fusion been proven yet?
I thought you were going to take the Mods advice and just ignore him? You seem to be a bit of a wanker too!
But most of them mentioned Rossi.
until his device was independently tested.
It still hasn't been independently tested.
Irrelevant to this thread, Rossi is a long time con artist
mentioned Rossi? That's the standard? What a bunch of anti-science horse manure.
Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.
oh sorry
Who are you? Another lurker emerging from the shadows to throw in some kind of anti-science zinger and then get back to lurking?
Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.
No, the device was independently tested.
Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.
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Knee CosyDecember 17, 2011 at 12:13 pm | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 9 Comments
Tags: aches, arthritis, cold, flare, flare-up, joint pain, knee, knee cosy, pain, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), rheumatology, stiffness, stress, warm, weather
Oh crumbs – it's snowing! You may remember that in my previous post I was winging about the cold the other day; well, it's colder.
Yesterday the journey home was worse than I ever. I had a hectic day at work but I felt fine (if a little stressed) … and then I left the office to go home.
The moment my left knee found itself outside it started to complain, and the complaints got louder as I drove, to the point where I knew I wasn't able to concentrate a hundred percent on my driving. Not good!
Although I get the 'traditional' sore and achy hands and feet of RA, the worst affected thing has always been my left knee, and if I have a flare that's usually where it starts. This is the first year I've really noticed the cold affecting it though.
I've been trying to think of a way to keep that knee warm, specifically while driving. A lap blanket (Afghan in the US I believe) wouldn't be safe, as it might slip into the foot-well and get tangled with my driving foot. (Fortunately, considering the sate of the left knee, I drive an automatic!)
I've decided the solution might be a 'knee cosy'! I'm not quite sure yet how it would work. Perhaps a combination of a sports-style knee protector and a pouch that could incorporate one of those gel reusable hand-warmer type things?
I'm disappointed, but not surprised, to discover I'm not the first person (by a long, long way) to think up the neat 'knee cosy' moniker, but people are using it as a name for lap blankets, not for my cunning plan. I may have to make this my Christmas craft project!
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GREENSBORO � The rumor began floating around from the day Syracuse and Pittsburgh were announced as new members of the ACC last year. Friday, for the first time, a high-ranking league official acknowledged the probability that a future ACC tournament will be held in New York City.
What is perhaps more troubling for Duke, though, is that Kelly was not on the court from the 5:47 to 1:01 marks of the second half.
According to coach Mike Krzyzewski, it was a byproduct of both Kelly recovering from the right foot injury and how Maryland stacked up.
�And Ryan � look, he�s back but he�s not in the shape that he would be normally,� Krzyzewski said. �So we have to try to match them and we were playing catch up the whole time.�
Kelly wound up with eight points on 3-for-11 shooting. He missed all six of his shots from behind the arc and pulled in three rebounds.
BAD TREND IN GREENSBORO: Duke lost in the Greensboro Coliseum for the second straight time, going back to last season�s defeat at the hands of Lehigh in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
For Seth Curry, Friday night�s defeat was enough to deal with in its own right aside from thinking about last season�s debacle.
�We�re frustrated enough (Friday),� Curry said. �Last season was behind us, nobody was thinking about that on this team.�
It�s also the first time in 10 games that Duke has lost an ACC Tournament game in Greensboro, dating back to the semifinals of the 2004 tournament.


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A BlankTV Premiere Presentation:
Aaron's Agony - "Freedom"
The video for "Freedom" follows the band as they wander, lost and confused, looking for a way out of the weird, dark, place they find themselves in. Not quite reality, not quite a dream, the video captures the feeling of being trapped, and the need to be free. Together, they stand against the darkness and opression, driving away the darkness. With the light flooding in, they are finally free of their dark prison.
Aaron's Agony formed in Italy in 2008. The band entered Westlink Studio in Pisa to record their debut album "Lost Inside Myself". The album was produced by Alessandro Paolucci, mixed by Alessandro Sportelli, and mastered by Alan Douches (A Day To Remember, Atreyu and many others) at West West Side Studio in New York. At the same time, Aaron's Agony signed with German label Antstreet Records. The 12 track album was released on March 7th 2011 with distribution by New Music Distribution in northern Europe and by Andromeda Distribution in Italy. In April 2011 the band filmed their first official video "Is It The Real Beginnin'?" directed, edited and produced by Giuseppe Platania. The video debuted May 2nd 2011 on BlankTV.
Following a series of gigs closing out the year, Aaron's Agony went to work on new material. They are looking for new sounds and new ways to express themselves at their very best. In March the band entered the Fusix Studio in Settimo Torinese (Torino) to record 2 brand new songs produced by Andrea Fusini. They also shot the video for Freedom, which was directed, edited and produced by Ludovico Galletti & Sami Schinaia. The band are currently working on several new songs, and you can expect the next EP in early 2013!
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Hi guys and gals,
Dropped a post in WoW forums regarding my WoW retirement. Going to stick with WAR for now.
Don't know if any of you guys will be playing any time soon. I'll not join another guild as of yet in hopes that at some point soon we'll have the SSX back up. Then I can carry on the fight until you guys hit level 80 in WoW and head back over 8D
Hope to see some of you about,
P.S. 'Catchthis' and 'Boobsnblades' transfered over OK, but sure enough, the name 'Beer' was taken on the new server. Henceforth 'Beer' is known as 'Girvan' (Celtic for 'little one')


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Women's track members head to NCAA outdoor championships
Grayce Selig, Lucia Capano to represent Judges in three events at Ohio Wesleyan
Two members of the Brandeis University women's track and field team will be headed to the NCAA Division III Outdoor championships at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, on May 26 through May 28. Seniors Grayce Selig of Narberth, Pa., and Lucia Capano of Manchester, N.H., will represent the Judges in three different events.
Selig will be making her fifth appearance at an NCAA Division III championship and be searching for her fourth, and possibly fifth, All-America honors. Selig has qualified for the championships in the 1,500-meter run and the 5,000-meter run. She is ranked eighth in the nation in the 1,500 with a time of 4:30.62, an event in which she will try to better her fourth-place finish from the 2010 NCAA outdoor championships. Selig has also qualified for the first time in the 5,000-meters, currently ranking 15th with a time of 17:13.11. She qualified for nationals in the 5K at the Penn Relays the first time she had ever run the race.
Capano will be competing at nationals for the first time in the triple jump, though this is the third time she has qualified for the event. She enters the meet seeded 19th with a season- and lifetime-best distance of 11.64 meters, achieved at the Brown Springtime Invitational.
Selig will take to the track for the 1,500-meter preliminaries on Thursday, May 26, at 7 p.m. Capano's triple jump takes place Friday, May 27, at 5:20 p.m. The 1,500 finals are Saturday, May 28, at 2 p.m., while the 5,000-meters is the final individual event at 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, followed only by the 4x400-meter relay.
Complete coverage of the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field championships can be found at Ohio Wesleyan University's NCAA page..
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Seib & Wessel: Tricky Situation in Syria
WSJ's Adam Entous says there remain a lot of concerns in Washington about the expanding U.S. role in Syria, even as the U.S. moves forward with arming rebels. A core issue: Will the U.S. have to keep raising the ante?
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Special Illinois license plates featuring Barack Obama have set a record, and officials expect sales to keep going strong.
Illinois sold more than 1,800 of the Obama license plates during a 60-day period this spring. The secretary of state's office said the previous record was 800 plates featuring the Illinois Police Association.
The plates were official but temporary. They expired April 17, but the state is still selling them solely as memorabilia.
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Federer rallies past Istomin at Swiss Indoors
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Roger Federer rallied past Denis Istomin 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of the Swiss Indoors on Wednesday.
Federer conceded a set for the first time in five matches against the 48th-ranked Istomin, and rallied from 0-40 down in his first service game in the third.
The seventh-ranked Federer converted his first match point with an angled backhand volley. He's looking for a strong finish to the most difficult season of his career.
Federer's chances of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals in London improved when Richard Gasquet lost 6-4, 6-2 to fellow Frenchman Michael Llodra in a first-round match.
Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina eased past Swiss wild card Henri Laaksonen, 6-4, 6-4. Sixth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan lost 6-1, 6-2 to Ivan Dodig of Croatia.
In other matches, Paul-Henri Mathieu of France beat Denis Kudla of the United States 6-4, 7-5, and Canadian Vasek Pospisil won 6-4, 6-4 against Robin Haase of the Netherlands.
Eighth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov beat Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3. The Bulgarian is on course to meet Federer in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Federer's struggles with back injuries and unheralded opponents since March have meant he hasn't secured a place in the eight-man London final next month.
Gasquet's defeat, after Stanislas Wawrinka's first-round exit Tuesday, strengthened Federer's hold on the sixth qualifying position.
Still, home fans were silenced when Istomin broke Federer's serve in the fifth game before serving out the set.
Federer needed a single break, in the sixth game, to even the match. He also asked the chair umpire to reject balls he thought were too soft for play.
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SportsFan wrote:Expressing some interests, and saying you want to come back are 2 different things.
I also remember after the 2004 NFL Draft Madden said taking Big Ben was a bad choice..LMAO
The guy is a moron, I remember about 5 years ago he was trying to get out of Pittsburgh, whatever happened to that? I wish he would leave.
I am also 100% sure Kovie didn't call Madden and tell him anything. I would also be sure Kovie probably doesn't even know Madden.
Once again, more opinions.
And you are sure Kovalev doesn't even know Madden? I'm sure that your not sure about that.


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Avery Point grads appreciate their 'moment in the spotlight'
Groton - Michael Muehe will be the first to admit that he enrolled at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point four years ago looking for the fast track to Storrs.
Muehe thought the college experience was about getting lost in the crowd. The local campus had a student body smaller than the one at than Robert E. Fitch High School, where he had just graduated.
"I came in looking to get out. But once I finished a semester, I was looking for a way to stay," Muehe said. "It was the connections I made. Our teachers seem to have a really great investment in our success."
Muehe was among 65 UConn graduates honored Friday before a crowd of about 400 during a special graduation celebration at Avery Point.
Campus Director Michael Alfultis said Muehe has a story shared by other graduates. The small campus and highly accessible faculty make for personal connections.
Undergraduate students earned degrees in one or more of the four majors offered at the campus: American studies, English, marine sciences and maritime studies. A host of adult students, including active duty military, earned a bachelor's degree in general studies.
Students donned regalia and processed as they would in any other graduation ceremony, the difference being that their diplomas will be conferred this weekend during commencement in Storrs.
On Friday, graduates received certificates and what Alfultis called the "personal touch of a moment in the spotlight," in which department heads said a few words about each and every student.
Muehe graduated with "rock star" status, according to American studies faculty coordinator Matthew McKenzie, "earning more degrees than a superior court justice." Muehe is going on to study ocean and coastal law at Roger Williams University.
The crowd learned a little something about everyone.
Rachel Piette of Groton earned a bachelor's degree in English in three years and is working full-time as a ballroom dance instructor, one of her dreams.
Cassandra Devney of West Suffield is the first student in school history to earn a double major in maritime studies and marine sciences.
As for the adult students, often with families and full-time jobs, department coordinator Nancy Steemburg said the general studies degree "illustrates the power of persistence."
Among adult students was former U.S. Marine Timothy Rykowski, a full-time Norwich police officer who found time to take classes and earn the second-highest grade point average in the class, securing a spot on the Alpha Sigma Lambda national honor society.
Also graduating is Mark Sebastian of North Stonington, who received a cheer for being the first in his family to earn a college degree. Kathryn Conway of New London, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, yoga teacher and honor society member, is headed to Alaska and a graduate degree in counseling.
"You will always have a home here at Avery Point," Alfultis told graduates.
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For reasons I haven't figured out yet, X is making a massive log file in /var/log (Xorg.0.log) that quickly fills up whatever filesystem it's mounted on. The temporary workaround is theoretically deleting this log file to free up space... however, when I do this, the filesystem still says it's full!
Is there a 'recycle bin' feature I might be missing?
I'm giving OpenBSD a go courtesy a LiveCD (MarBSD).
Here's the outputs of df and mount for reference:
$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on root_device 660M 660M 0B 100% / mfs:3019 7.7M 114K 7.2M 2% /tmp mfs:27037 63.2M 63.2M -3.2M 105% /var mfs:28467 9.3M 6.0M 2.8M 68% /etc mfs:9803 15.0M 11.0K 14.3M 0% /root mfs:22785 2.3M 32.0K 2.1M 1% /dev mfs:29244 25.2M 23.3M 633K 97% /binmfs mfs:7970 326M 226M 83.8M 73% /usr/local mfs:21696 96.8M 72.0M 19.9M 78% /home $ mount root_device on / type cd9660 (local, read-only) mfs:3019 on /tmp type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=16384 512-blocks) mfs:27037 on /var type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=135000 512-blocks) mfs:28467 on /etc type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=20000 512-blocks) mfs:9803 on /root type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=32000 512-blocks) mfs:22785 on /dev type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=5200 512-blocks) mfs:29244 on /binmfs type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=54000 512-blocks) mfs:7970 on /usr/local type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=691200 512-blocks) mfs:21696 on /home type mfs (asynchronous, local, size=204800 512-blocks)
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This is the first time I heard about MarBSD. Initially I thought you made a typo and meant MirBSD
I have no idea why X keeps adding entries to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.. Maybe you could contact the MarBSD liveCD creator and report the issue to him.
Alternatively you could try the LiveCD of of our forum member jggimi. Be aware that this CD is based in OpenBSD 5.0, while OpenBSD 5.2 is about to be released on November 1st.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
The /var/log filesystem is probably filling up because some process is writing log entries over and over and over.
This can happen not only on OpenBSD but on any BSD or Linux or Unix like system.
Look at the /var directory and try to figure out what is being written:
cd /var
ls -altr
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ls -altr
The use something like the "tail" command to look at the end of the log files that are, for example to look at the last lines of the messages file:
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Yesterday I completed two reports of last Friday's look-up research trip to the National Archives at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. I had previously done such work for several clients, and found they enjoyed hearing about the process of ordering and viewing their ancestor's files. Here are segments from those reports:
Here's how the day went on Friday, 8 April 2011:
I snagged a 1 hour car ride from our home in Alexandria, Virginia to the main entrance of the National Archives I building, entering on the Pennsylvania Avenue side. (The mall side, shown in the photo above, is for tourists who wish to view the Constitution and Declaration of Independence). Checking in as a researcher requires going through metal detection screening and presenting one's NARA Researcher card at the sign-in desk. My camera was inspected, and a new Equipment Receipt was issued to permit my carrying it further into the facility. These expire every 90 days, and it was time for this one to be renewed. The contents of all bags and backpacks are subject to search and for that reason I always travel light.
Non-essentials like hats and coats are kept in lockers near the restrooms on the main floor. I always clip the locker key to the flash drive lanyard around my neck. See: http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/washington/researcher-info.html#orientation I already have a NARA Researcher Card, so no need for the orientation procedure.
I went directly to the reading room where I used the print-out of emails to complete the form requesting military pension files. [...] I made the 11am pull time, which meant I could anticipate delivery of the files within 60-90 minutes. I filled up the intervening time ordering federal land records, my new focus record group at this time. My goal is to learn more about them.
To enter #203 the Textual Reading Room (I call it "original documents reading room") one takes the elevator upstairs. One must show his NARA Researcher Card, and is permitted only a few papers, a camera, laptop and scanner. In the olden days they could ask you to remove excess jewelery as people used to file down a ring just to cut out a presidential signature on a pre-Andrew Jackson land record. I am told it was half-way during his administration that they realized the president should authorize an assistant to sign all those federal land transactions. Before I could go to a workstation, I had to have each of the pages I brought with me inspected and stamped by an employee. This expedites leaving, as those documents are clearly not stolen, as the stamp on arrival indicates. I usually print those "notes" like your email in bright orange paper, for me to easily distinguish them from other papers in my workspace.
Once checked-in to the room, I located a vacant workspace, one of 4 to a table (two facing two) divided by a 4-inch high frame on three sides so my pages wouldn't fall into the workspace of my neighbor. At all times, one's workspace is clearly visible to the 4-6 employees who pace around the room watching researchers.
I placed my notes to claim my space, and then went in an adjoining room where pension files are distributed to researchers. Often there is a line, but there were only two other researchers ahead of me, so my wait for your ancestor's file wasn't long. I had to sign a copy of my request form with date/time/initials stating I had received the file. On return of the file, I sign similarly.
Arriving back to my workstation, I opened the file to determine it was the correct one. I had to wait about 15 minutes until a friend completed her work at NARA's camera copy stand before I could proceed. I used the NARA copy stand to hold my trusty Cannon PowerShot A630 (without flash). By default my camera saves images in .jpg format. You will find the Picasa folder has those original .jpg files and the same images in .tiff format, much better for cropping purposes. This afternoon, I used PaintShop Pro X3 Version 13 and did the conversions in a single batch. I am providing both sets in case the PaintShop Pro hiccuped.
See photo at upper right of my workspace. "A" shows man working at the camera copy stand, "B" shows the glass panel separating workspaces on a table, and "C" shows a sample Hollinger box with multiple homestead files folded twice and filed vertically. The laminated "One Box One Folder" card is a place holder for a file I've removed from the box.
I also make a point of photographing "D" label on the box, with "E" some identification of the related ancestors name. This facilitates source citations that are made after leaving the Archives.
On leaving the Textual Reading Room, my papers were inspected and placed in a locked green zippered bag, now standard fare for all researchers. My Researcher ID Card was scanned. I think the process is streamlined. Now our photocopy expenses are added to that Researcher Card, so one is not juggling 2 or more cards at a time.
I retrieved my personal items from the locker room, and waited in line for about 45 minutes while others ahead of me had their "green bags" opened, and other items inspected. Security is tighter than ever, but no worries. This was a productive day, I took the Metro home and survived rush hour.
My policy is to set the camera once, and not keep adjusting to accommodate the size of a page from your ancestor's file. If I did that, each page would appear the same size as the others, where clearly they are not. However, one should crop the messy grey/black grid copy stand table from the final image of the docs before attaching them to each ancestor in one's genealogy software.
You will notice I have several duplicate shots, where I thought at the time I might be able to focus better, but I can barely tell the difference. I trust you will remove the unnecessary duplicates. [DearREADERS, I'd do all the cropping and duplicate removal, but then this client would be paying me for that additional time.]
I make a point of photographing every side of a document that has writing on it. If the back is blank, I didn't copy it.
Some pages were old-style onion skin copies of typed letters, where the onion skin is actually shrinking. I used a white piece of paper in the background to attempt to bring the lettering into view.
Items in Civil War Pension files are usually no longer bound to the file folder across the top, and so the pages get "rearranged" by "helpful" researchers. This is in stark contrast to some of the federal homestead files that I've worked with where two three-inch brads hold the pages in place like a 20th century "Acco" clip would have done. In the case of the land files I've accessed, they are found bound to the folder, and one must ask a NARA staffer to remove all brads, straight pins and staples for photocopying or digitizing. Not so with an ancestor's pension file.
When NARA sent you the "complete file" I am not sure if you received color scanned images or photocopies, the latter striping everything down to black and white. I particularly like the color pics of these documents. You see the "aging" of the pages from use when they were kept in a folded vertical file system of old.
As I mentioned in an earlier email to my client, if the widow makes a claim, the paperwork goes in the same file with the soldier's pension file. With two separate numbers, it makes it seem like there would be two separate folders.
His ancestor's file had a form on 3 of the 4 pages, and was signed on what is numbered "page 6 of deposition a" but since I copied every page except blank sides of pages, and remembering that I didn't skip any pages in the file, the pages are just out of order. Hopefully the client can piece these together from the pages in the rest of the file. [DearREADERS, remember, Ol' Myrt's work assignment was to do the look up, not to analyze the file.]
What I've learned from a Desert Land Claim file is that the usual "yearly proof" reports must be sent in by witnesses and the applicant, same as with federal homestead files I've studied. Then a final declaration of the applicant precedes the transfer of land. Pay close attention to the yearly witnesses affidavits. I've seen sons-in-law swearing out such reports distinguishing the applicant from another in the area by a similar name but no relation.
It was also apparently necessary to advertise in the local newspaper and provide proof of that publication as part of the final papers for processing of the desert land claim. Some of the other files I searched had to have a signature from the local railroad if there was an easement to take into consideration.
During NARA's review of your ancestor's file, they found several items marked "classified" and called for authority to permit me to digitize the pages. I mentioned the documents were for a federal land act of 1877 finalized in 1922. They made a few phone calls, and after about 15 minutes, they asked that I include a small slip of paper with "DECLASSIFIED " and the date, initials and authority with each image marked classified. When I went through the file one category of declassified documents was a blueprint map of the land indicating waterways. So keep an eye out for that tiny slip of paper on top of the images.
|Russell L. Ingle entry, Desert Land Claim 877756, US Land Office, Le Grande Oregon District. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Record Group 49. Loose Papers. [Detail of declassification status on a blueprint map.]
My task was to provide digital images of every page from the file, and trust my clients will download these pics within the next week or so, that I may clear my Picasa space for the next project. The work I spent digitizing each ancestor's file took about 90 minutes including the ordering of the file, camera copy stand work and 1/9th of the travel time. (I found work on 8 other files.)
My task was to provide digital images of every page from the file, and trust my clients will download these pics within the next week or so, that I may clear my Picasa space for the next project. The work I spent digitizing each ancestor's file took about 90 minutes including the ordering of the file, camera copy stand work and 1/9th of the travel time. (I found work on 8 other files.)
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.


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The music made by Thomas Wesley Pentz, better known by his stage name, Diplo, is one part club-music mashup and one part pop music forecast. In 2009, he took bubblin' — a syncopated house style born in the clubs of Holland — as inspiration and collaborated with fellow DJ Switch, his partner in the group Major Lazer, to make the dance-floor hit "Pon de Floor." But he wasn't done with the bubblin' sound yet. In 2011, he used that song as basis for "Run the World (Girls)," a single by the pop star Beyonce. Over the last few years, Diplo has made a name for himself as a tastemaker, traveling the world in search of interesting sounds and making them popular.
On his latest release, the Express Yourself EP, Diplo explores styles from two old port cities: New Orleans and Washington, D.C. In a conversation with NPR's Audie Cornish, he describes the title track as his "dip into doing a bounce record," referring to the electronic version of hip-hop that originated in New Orleans nearly 20 years ago. "Express Yourself" features the genre's trademark call and response vocals — supplied by New Orleans singer Nicky Da B. On "Set It Off," Diplo references Washington, D.C.'s latest dance-floor mongrel, moombahton. "Set It Off" supplements moombahton's blend of European house and Latin American reggaeton with, as he puts it, a "pop chord progression" and a cappella "vocal stabs."
Some have leveled the criticism that Diplo is only a middleman — that time and again, he hijacks a sound from a culture or a place and, in pushing it toward the mainstream, becomes the face of it. "I think that's been an argument and a controversy for me since I started, since before I had any press," he says. "I never thought I would be producing Beyonce or Usher or No Doubt."
He says that he aims to act as a link between musicians in niche genres and casual listeners. "I want to let people hear this music. I want people to listen to something like 'Express Yourself' and just dance to it — not have to think about why it's interesting or what it is. I want it just to reach them immediately. So that's always my goal — to make music that can reach people."
Despite his rising fame, and the fact that he's become a spokesman for more obscure musicians, Diplo says that the relationships he's cultivated with artists from around the globe best represent who he is. "You're not going to find an artist that I've ever collaborated with that has some kind of [negative] feelings about me," he says. "That's what I care about — the people that I work with, and representing them, and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world."
So what will Beyonce's next chart-topper sound like? Diplo says we should look out for what he calls "Tribal," a style made by a few musicians in Monterrey, Mexico, that mixes African and Mesoamerican sounds with "cheesy techno riffs." You can hear his explanation of the sound below.
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Audie Cornish.
The typical album by the DJ known as Diplo is part club music mash-up, part pop music forecast. Case in point...
CORNISH: That's a style known as bubblin', born in the clubs of Holland. When Diplo heard it, he took the sound as inspiration and added other flavors to make this club single.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Pon de floor.
CORNISH: But he wasn't done yet. He then took that single's DNA and used it to produce a hit song for pop superstar Beyonce.
BEYONCE: (Singing) Who run the world? Girls. Who run this motha? Girls. Who run this motha? Girls. Who run this motha? Girls.
CORNISH: Over the last few years, Diplo has made a name for himself as a tastemaker, traveling the world in search of interesting sounds and helping to make them popular. His latest collection of songs is called "Express Yourself." And when he visited our New York studios, we got to ask, how does he find this stuff?
DIPLO: Most times, the promoters that bring me to places like Baltimore or Texas, you know, wherever I might go, they'd be like, oh, I want to show what we have here. This is what we're doing here because I was always that guy that was, you know, the purveyor of the interesting sounds and the weird stuff that that was in the different corners of the country. And I expanded that into, like, going to places like Brazil and looking at music or Argentina or China or Japan, wherever it is. I'm just fascinated by the local music scenes for sure.
As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know? I'm really influenced by what overall is out there and how exciting it could be to introduce these kind of sounds to different people.
CORNISH: This latest release features the sound of New Orleans' bounce music...
DIPLO: Right.
CORNISH: ...which has been around for a little while, and it sort of has a call-and-response element to it. Can you describe what this music sounds like and what drew you to it?
DIPLO: Bounce music has been around for 20 years. When it first came out, it was New Orleans' take on hip-hop. It was very electronic. They were always sampled, 808 drums. It's, like you said, call and response in a way you have like an emcee-host saying something, and it's usually for a live performance. They'll play like a backing track, and they'll scream and hype the crowd up.
CORNISH: This song we're listening to is called...
DIPLO: Yeah.
CORNISH: ..."Express Yourself," and it features the artist Nicky Da B. Listen to a little bit of it.
NICKY DA B: (Singing) Get you, get you, get you, get you, get low now. Express yourself, express yourself, express yourself, express yourself, express yourself, release and go, attack the floor and work it low. Express yourself, release and go, attack the floor, just get low.
DIPLO: When I started making this song, I wanted to use like a dubstep synths, just like this wa, wa-wa-wa-wa, which is - it sounds like a guitar, and I just kind of put in there as a choppy, grimy sound. And I wanted to make something that sounds really electric and crazy, and I sampled this, and then I started to build a beat around it.
B: (Singing) Get you, get you, get you, get you, get low now.
DIPLO: When I recorded Nicky Da B, his vocals, in my friend's bedroom, it didn't have a beat. I just had a tempo, like a clap. So you have to clap. It's like...
DIPLO: Bounce music always has a clap. Throughout the whole record, it's on the one beat. And I recorded him doing all these vocals. He just screamed for 10 minutes over just the clap.
B: (Singing) With your legs spread wide and your head down low. (Unintelligible)
DIPLO: Took me like a week to go through all the vocals and find like a coherent song in it. And the hook express yourself, you just kind of do it out there. I'm like, wow, this is great. It's a perfect hook.
B: (Singing) Express yourself, release and go, attack the floor and work it low. Express yourself, release and go, attack the floor and work it low. Express yourself, release and go...
CORNISH: I've seen you described as a DJ, as a curator, also as a middleman, that essentially...
DIPLO: Right.
CORNISH: ...you carry these sounds from these places to top 40 artists like Beyonce or No Doubt. What do you describe your work as? I mean, how do you feel about that label?
DIPLO: You know, I never thought I would be producing like Beyonce or Usher or No Doubt. You know, I don't know. I just - I guess, I've been kind of the guy that's out there looking for the music. I want to let people hear this music. I want people to, like, listen to something like "Express Yourself" and just dance to it, not have to think about why it's interesting or what it is. I want it just to reach them immediately.
CORNISH: So what is it like for you when people level this criticism that you are crossing that line between sampling and taking or somehow taking things from these cultures and becoming the face of it?
DIPLO: I think, you know, that's been an argument and a controversy for me since I started, since before I had any press. You know, there are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
CORNISH: Advantages, you mean compared...
DIPLO: Yeah.
CORNISH: ...to the artists who you encounter?
DIPLO: Exactly. Like if I go to Brazil and I'm working with a Brazilian artist, a lot of these young kids from the favelas, they don't even think about leaving the favela, let alone going outside of Brazil or going to do a show somewhere. You know, getting visas for artists in Brazil was such a big challenge for me when I first started touring with a lot of the guys. It's even apparent in Jamaica. When I worked with a lot of Jamaican artists, a lot of these guys aren't able to travel outside of Jamaica. The focus shifts on me because I'm the kind of - an easy guy to write about, and I'm also an easy target for some criticism.
But, you know, I've just been making music. I've been positive. You're not going to find an artist that I've ever collaborated with that has some kind of feelings about me, you know? That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
CORNISH: Is there another song on the album that you can give us a sort of breakdown of the elements of?
DIPLO: So another record called "Set It Off" that's on there, the genre music is called moombahton and sort of...
CORNISH: And explain where moombahton comes from and what it is.
DIPLO: Moombahton is a genre music that this kid, Dave Nada, from D.C. started, and Dave started slowing down house records. He kind of made them sound more like reggaeton records because the Dutch house records had a sort of reggae backbeat behind them. They're more like (makes sounds). So Dave started slowing down these records for fun and putting a little a capella bits on it. That was like three years ago. And in three years, I feel like there's just been thousands of songs that come out that are under the umbrella of a moombahton.
And it might - this is me trying to do something with a little bit of pop chord progression and little vocal stabs in, and then it drops into a beat that's moombahton, which is sort of like a kick on the one, boom, boom, boom, and the snare on the kind of reggaeton backbeat, (makes sounds).
DIPLO: And it's always got electronic elements and sample vocals and - within three years.
CORNISH: And I think I can hear your influence in the chord progression. There's something familiar.
DIPLO: Yeah. I mean, I'm always...
CORNISH: Like there's actually something that makes me think of "In Your Eyes," Peter Gabriel...
DIPLO: Yes.
CORNISH: Is that what's rising up in the background?
DIPLO: Yeah. It's - "In Your Eyes" was definitely in this song somewhere.
DIPLO: It's funny. You got that.
CORNISH: Well, Diplo, thank you so much for talking with us and especially explaining the music. It really - it was really fascinating.
DIPLO: Thank you for having me.
CORNISH: Diplo, his latest E.P. is called "Express Yourself." I asked him what the next big sound will be. You can hear his answer at npr.org.
BLOCK: This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Counselor, The (US - BD RA)
Jonathan watches McCarthy and Scott collaborate at last... and it's weird...
A savvy lawyer (Fassbender) known for doing the right thing for the wrong people decides to put his connections to the test by diving into a treacherous drug deal for some quick cash. But the Counselor soon learns that having it all could mean losing everything. (From the Fox synopsis)
It isn't the "Double X" Blood Meridian adaptation that Ridley Scott wanted to make, but he is finally collaborating with Cormac McCarthy, and on McCarthy's first screenplay. There's a recipe here for something interesting. Things start off simply enough. Michael Fassbender is The Counselor. That is the only name we ever know him by. He's in love with Laura (Penelope Cruz) and wishes to marry her. He wants to make some fast money so he gets involved in a drug business that he feels has little risk for him. He is never getting his hands dirty, everything is handled through connections. Of course this backfires, and things gradually spin out of control as the players involved find themselves in danger.
When you boil The Counselor down to it, the message of the movie is simple: don't do bad things, or bad things will happen to you. It doesn't get much more complicated than that, but Cormac McCarthy's screenplay might trick you into thinking there is more going on. Every character talks cryptically and has a philosophy to share about every situation. It is enough to drive some people crazy, but I found appeal in just how weird the overall result is. Among the many bizarre qualities there are CGI cheetahs, septic tanks, ridiculous beheading devices, and someone.. violates a car. This is a really strange movie.
The majority of the runtime is spent observing conversations between The Counselor and his connections to the drug world. There's a wide cast of characters, and on their own each of these little conversation pieces would make a good short film. Brad Pitt's Westray is one of the connections. He's a southern man who seems to have already been involved in some deals that have went south. His weirdest partner is Reiner (Javier Bardem upping his weird hairstyle count). His fake tan and spiked hair make him look like an absolute joke, and Bardem seems to be having a blast hamming it up as a drug lord. Then there is Cameron Diaz as the enigmatic Malkina. She's Reiner's eccentric lover and the complete opposite of Cruz's Laura. Most of the cast is doing quality work, but Diaz feels miscast. I had difficulty buying her in the bad girl role, and the shifting unidentifiable accents didn't help. She reportedly dubbed many of her lines in post, which could explain the inconsistency.
This is a movie built almost entirely on vagueness. Every character carries this unexplained mystique and, as previously mentioned, talks like a philosopher. It can get a bit exhausting. This material can work really well at times, like when an old cartel lectures the Counselor on the reality of his situation. It is less effective when just moments later, a poor bartender articulates the same point. All these scenes of talking are broken up occasionally with punctuated scenes of violence and mayhem. Cormac McCarthy seems to have a thing for weird weapons (think No Country for Old Men and you get to see another one in all its awful detail here. The tension ratchets up significantly when the Counselor's deal finally goes south, and I can safely say I was never bored. It all doesn't add up to a very significant whole, but this movie is such an oddity that I can't help but like it anyway. It's something only Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy could've made together.
A quick note about the extended cut: Sadly I do not have the time to do a full comparison between cuts, and it has been a while since I viewed the theatrical version. That said, this longer cut left a better impression on me. This is no Kingdom of Heaven where the movie is completely transformed. If you made up your mind about The Counselor from the theatrical version, it isn't likely to change with the added material.
Fox's 1080p transfer of The Counselor is as good as you can hope for. I was surprised to find that it was shot on the Red One camera. I would've guessed this was an Arri Alexa from the look of the film. Scott's direction is slick and many scenes feel like they have their own color palettes. The opening scenes where Malkina watches a cheetah chase its prey have a seriously strong yellow filter to them, but most of the movie has a very natural look to it. Outdoor scenes are both bright and overcast at different times. Indoor scenes look natural too, but Scott finds interesting architecture and visuals to keep the image interesting. Detail is very strong. I was often able to make out the stitching in some of the finer suits these drug businessmen wear. The most visually striking mashups of color come from Reiner's ridiculous wardrobe. The interior of his house is also colorful and alluring in this strong transfer. Contrast feels spot on, with darker areas of the picture remaining strong but never crushing. Artefacts are not an issue.
Even though The Counselor is 90% talking heads, Ridley Scott knows how to put out a polished product. This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is busy. Most often the surround channels are used to disperse Daniel Pemberton's subtly effective score. There's plenty of footage of vehicles on the movie. From a crawling septic truck to a motorcycle speeding through the desert, these vehicles move around the sound mix and are appropriately loud. So is the gunfire in one cartel shoot out. As bullets pelt a truck you hear the noise echoing through the room. The dialogue is all clearly recorded and perfectly easy to interpret, but there are subs on both the theatrical and extended versions if you want them. This is a well crafted piece of sound mixing that is far more lively and dynamic than the material calls for.
Features start on the theatrical cut disc with Viral Pieces: Uncut (HD, 07:29) is a set of surreal viral marketing clips that were made for the film. There are three. The first features Laura speaking with a business man about marriage. The second has Counselor buying lingerie, and the third shows Malkina and Reiner first meeting at a gas station. The only other extras on this disc are a set of Theatrical Trailers and TV Spots.
On the extended disc is an interesting feature called Truth of the Situation: Making the Counselor. This is similar to that Maximum Movie Mode you see on some WB titles. It plays the extended cut of The Counselor with a Ridley Scott commentary over it, then from time to time the movie will transition away into a making-of segment with cast/director/writer interviews. Scott, McCarthy, and the primary cast members all weigh in on various themes and aspects of the production. With it all tied together, the full running time is 217 minutes. I'm starting to understand the extended cut running time typo that came with the Blu-ray announcement.
Sadly, there is no way to watch the movie with Scott's commentary outside of this special feature. I thought maybe it would be included as a separate audio track if I just played the extended cut, but it's not. So if you want the full commentary in one sitting you are going to have to buckle up for the 217 minute ride or employ the fast-forward button every few minutes. The featurettes embedded in this option can be viewed individually through the special features section of the main menu. Despite the commentary restrictions, it is nice to see a movie that did poorly at the domestic box office get this kind of treatment on Blu-ray.
Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy have collaborated at last, and the result is something so strange only these auteurs could've created it. I realize I'm in a minority by liking this movie. The frequent morality speeches and scattershot narrative will be an understandable turn off for many, but there is enough intriguing material and expert craftsmanship on hand here for me to make a cautious recommendation. Fox's Blu-ray release is top notch in the AV department, and the Truth of the Situation special feature delivers a lot of good bonus content for Ridley Scott fans.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Jonathan Hogberg
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I liked this one a lot. It's not perfect, but as you said, it's too damn strange to not like. Cameron Diaz isn't ideal for the role, but I enjoy seeing her try to give her best, and with that one specific scene I'm willing to let go all the small things.
Also, Ridley Scott once again gifts us Spoiler with one —if not two— of the most exciting deaths in film history.
Also, Ridley Scott once again gifts us Spoiler with one —if not two— of the most exciting deaths in film history.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 11th February 2014
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Theatrical: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, English Descriptive Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital Spanish 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 French - Extended: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: Theatrical: English SDH, Spanish - Extended: English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras: Theatrical and Extended Unrated Versions, Viral Pieces: Uncut, Truth of the Situation: Making the Counselor
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz
Genre: Crime, Drama and Thriller
Length: 117 minutes
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NEW YORK — Any momentum gained from a long night of negotiations between the NHL and the players' association seemed to have been lost Thursday when the sides remained mostly apart.
A meeting that commissioner Gary Bettman said would begin at 10 a.m. didn't start until several hours later, and then ended quickly.
That one hour of talks centered on the reporting of hockey-related revenues by teams, and both sides signing off on the figures at the end of the fiscal year. The problem was resolved.
An NHL spokesman announced shortly before 9 p.m. that federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh was still working with the sides, but they would not get back to the bargaining table before Friday morning.
The players' association didn't immediately comment.
The key issues that are still threatening the hockey season weren't addressed early in the day, but a small group of players and other union staff returned to the NHL office shortly before 6 p.m., to hold another meeting regarding the contentious pension plan. That wrapped up about two hours later.
Union head Donald Fehr didn't take part in either of the two sessions Thursday.
The players' association held a conference call at 5 p.m. to discuss starting another vote among union membership that would give the executive board the power to invoke a disclaimer of interest and dissolve the union.
Members gave overwhelmingly approval last month, but the union declined to disclaim before a self-imposed deadline Wednesday night. It wasn't immediately known when a new authorization would expire. Players are expected to have 48 hours to vote, as opposed to the five days they were given the first time.
With the lockout in its 110th day, both sides understand the urgency to save a shortened season. They have several key issues to work out — pensions and salary cap limits, among them.
Bettman has said a deal needs to be in place by next week so a 48-game season can begin Jan. 19. All games through Jan. 14 along with the All-Star game have been canceled, claiming more than 50 percent of the original schedule.
The sides met in small groups throughout the day Wednesday. They held a full bargaining session with a federal mediator at night that lasted nearly five hours and ended about 1 a.m. Thursday.
The biggest detail to emerge was that Fehr remained as union executive director after players passed on their first chance to declare a disclaimer that would turn the union into a trade association. The disclaimer would allow individual players to file antitrust lawsuits against the NHL.
Fehr wouldn't address the issue Wednesday, calling it an "internal matter," but added that the players were keeping all options open.
"The word disclaimer has yet to be uttered to us by the players' association," Bettman said Wednesday. "It's not that it gets filed anywhere with a court or the NLRB. When you disclaim interest as a union, you notify the other side. We have not been notified and it's never been discussed, so there has been no disclaimer."
NHL, union talks stall after night of promise
NEW YORK — Any momentum gained from a long night of negotiations between the NHL and the players' association seemed to have been lost Thursday when the sides remained mostly apart.