There's obvious advantages of fitting a reversing camera to your motorhome. However, the thought of running cables the entire length of your vehicle may put you off. Let me introduce you to the Garmin BackUp camera. This is a clever bit of kit that wirelessly transmits live images from reversing camera to your corresponding Garmin Sat Nav screen.
I first looked into fitting a reversing camera after my insurer told me I could reduce my motorhome premium by approximately £60 per year if I had one. This won't be the case for all insurers but it is worth asking. After I found the most competitive premium I asked what else could be done to reduce it. With all the normal security upgrades fulfilled, the next biggest saving was made by installing a reversing camera.
Lets face it campervans are small spaces jam packed with fittings and fixtures. Finding a sensible cable run throughout the entire length of your motorhome could potentially be a very involved and time consuming job. It also usually means fitting another screen on the dashboard. Most of us use sat-nav units, so the idea of this screen doubling as my reversing display instantly appealed.
The Garmin 'BackUp' reversing camera is sold in two different kit forms. Be careful, a lot of merchants don't make the difference clear between either kit. There's an 'additional camera' kit available which includes the camera, transmitter and the mount, fittings and wiring. The other is the 'full Kit' with all of the aforementioned plus the BC30 receiver lead.
If you already have a Garmin Sat Nav, check to see if it has a 'Back Up' camera function. Garmins website shows 67 compatible units. Next, check if the 12v power lead is the BC30 power lead with the integrated camera receiver. If you already have the BC30 power/receiver lead then you'll only need to purchase the 'additional Back Up camera kit'. If not, buy the 'full kit' as the receiver lead separately costs an eye-watering £63!
Some vehicles don't provide a constant minimum voltage, in this case fit a relay.
You can wire your camera two ways. If you want your camera display only when you put your vehicle in reverse then you'll need to take power from your reverse lights. You can also power your camera with a constant power feed, this will then need you to manually select your camera from your sat-nav screen when you want rear view to be displayed. I chose to wire into my reverse light feed, just in case having to select the camera manually didn't satisfy my insurers conditions.
Locate reversing bulb and trace the wires from it.
For the time being use the cameras number plate mount to position it and temporarily plug the camera cable into the transmitter around the door. This will allow you to test the whole system.
Once your happy the transmitter has power and it's signal is being received and displayed you're ready to start drilling holes!
Drill hole behind number plate and run cable for camera.
When happy with positions fix off with self tapping screws.
A cable grommet cut in half makes a good packer for the number plate screws to allow for the cable behind.
With your ignition on and in reverse the camera can be adjusted and checked. The camera bracket allows a good degree of adjustment, once happy with your displays view, tighten the two side bolts.
From your satnav you can decide whether your display shows parameter guide lines or not. If so, the guides can be adjusted so they are parallel. Simply park tight to a straight road curb and set your guide lines parallel to it.
I installed my Garmin BackUp camera almost five months ago (at time of writing) and it's performed perfectly. I've had no issues with it, the image has been crystal clear at all times and the display switches from satnav to reverse view quickly. Installation is as easy as a wireless system should be, the camera is discreet and no need for a dedicated monitor is a real plus for me. Highly recommended all round.
Thanks for the really clear article. Based on this I have just added a Garmin SatNav plus reversing camera to our AutoCruise Select. I had been considering a wired system – but disadvantages were: Trying to route and connect through the entire length of the van; Having only Reversing camera when, for a bit more money, could add a SatNav system (there isn't one on the Autocruise).
Camera attached to high level brake light meant only drilling needed was through the plastic "lens" of the light. All cable routing after that was internal. Even the Transmitter is hidden behind an upper internal ply panel – it has a clear "line of site" to receiver on front dash. The van is 6.4m long so transmission distance is approx 5.5 m. Image is good. RESULT!
Sounds perfect. It has been completely reliable for us. I have heard of reversing aids being effected by towbar electrics but I've just installed one and seem to have got away with it. Another positive for the Garmin backup system?
Glad the article was of use.
Thanks for the original article Pete and for James' advice about just drilling the rear light.
Have recently fitted a Garmin BC30 to an x290 Fiat Ducato.
Works with my existing simple Garmin DriveSmart 50 satnav.
Chose to have have permanent power so can switch to rear view at any time.
Also nice that satnav goes to rear view each time ignition is turned on.
Removed the 3rd brake light by unscrewing the 2 screws from outside the vehicle and disconnecting the wiring.
This exposed the x290 factory fitted 3 pin camera power connector.
Fixed the transmitter in the correct orientation through the rear light hole using duct tape rather than the supplied 3M VHB pad.
In the warm, drilled a 9mm hole through the red lens and silver reflector.
Fed the camera cable through the hole.
Fixed the camera bracket to the light lens using 3M VHB pad (not supplied).
Sealed round camera cable with an offcut of 3M VHB.
Refitted the light with the camera connected to the transmitter.
All working. Tidy solution. Adequate picture.


The Program in Open Innovation has replaced the Center for Open Innovation at UC Berkeley. It's still headed by Henry Chesbrough (with Solomon Darwin holding the reins during his globetrotting) at the same location with the same website, but apparently it's now bigger and better than ever.
The fall speaker series starts next week. The sessions will be held at the Haas School of Business on Mondays 2-4 p.m. with two speakers per session. As always, visitors are welcome — I know I've met some interesting people at these sessions.
With my move to Southern California, this may be the first time I've been unable to make it, but I look forward to the YouTube videos. Note: updated with last-minute substitution of October 10 speaker.
At #AOM2011 on Monday, I was reminded that the first OI session at Academy was the 2004 PDW that Hank Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeke organized in New Orleans. Within 48 hours, I had expressions of interest for the academic book (both by authors and publishers) that the three of us then published with Oxford in 2006, with chapters that were also excerpted in the 2005 Showcase Symposium that I organized and chaired in Honolulu.
This week in San Antonio, I attended 2½ OI sessions (late to one) as well as a crowdsourcing session and some other sessions in innovation and entrepreneurship.
The first of those sessions — and the only panel discussion — was held Monday morning at 8am (6am PDT, ugh). Organized by Dries Faems and Alberto Di Minin, it was (appropriately enough) entitled "Organizing Open Innovation: Combining Value Creation and Value Appropriation." Repeating from the initial 2004 OI session were Wim and I (Chesbrough is overseas) as well as two all-Italian teams.
It's difficult to synthesize a 90 minute session in a blog entry — although discussant Juan Alcacer of HBS did a great job. But if anything held the papers together, it was this focus on value creation vs. (or with) value capture.
The dynamic duo of Italian innovation research, Andrea Prencipe and Stefano Brusoni, presented their conceptual paper about innovation coupling that attempts to answer the question: when is it best to be open and when is it best to be closed. The closed story is fortunately similar to those we've seen in proprietary platform research for years: firms promulgate proprietary platforms early in a technological regime when their end to end coordination is highly valued. (Prencipe/Brusoni call this "responsive").
The two middle papers were empirical ones. Bruno Cassiman and Giovanni Valentini did a large-N study following up on the Cassiman and Veuglers (2006) Belgian CIS study. After selecting only firms that are innovation active, they they compared the innovation performance of firms that bought innovation (inbound OI), sold innovation (outbound OI), both or neither.
Following directly from Chesbrough (2007), the prediction would be the firms that do both would be the most successful: reducing their costs and incrementally increasing their revenues.
Alas, that's not what happened — according to their econometrics thus far. With various controls and outcome measures — most about new products divided by some control — the buy/sell were consistently the worst. In at least one formulation, the buy-only and sell-only cases were twice as efficient as the other two cases.
We all scratched our heads over this one. As Cassiman noted, there is a theoretical (and well understood) complementarity of make vs. buy, but perhaps not of sell vs. buy. Some people wondered whether it's a short-term effect: that over time such firms will be more successful.
Or it could be another manifestation of the finding of Dries Faems and colleagues (2010) that OI can raise costs more than revenues. Certainly the presumption of rationality does mean we expect firms to accurately estimate a priori the returns from a hybrid strategy, particularly early in a new bandwagon like OI.
As I sat there, I worried strongly about the endogeneity of the buy/sell decision — not from a methodological standpoint, but a theoretical one. (Easy for me to say, since I don't try to do carefully controlled large-N econometric studies). Like other small countries, almost all the local companies are SMEs. We know that there is great variation among SMEs — some really good companies and some really struggling ones. Without having a better sense of why firms are pursuing (this unusual) strategy, I'd be cautious about trying to interpret the finding.
Wim has gone from a big firm SMJ-kinda guy to focusing on OI in SMEs. Of course, the first paper on this subject was van de Vrande, de Jong, Vanhaverbeke and de Rochemont (2009).
He gave us a taste of his in-depth study of OI in 10 small and young(ish) companies — but only a taste as he tried to cram a 45 minute talk into 15 minutes. His paper also keyed of Chesbrough (2007), in this case on the centrality of the business model.
He claimed his study was of low-tech OI but several of the examples were very high-tech approaches in low-tech industries. Exhibit A was Quilts of Denmark, using rocket science to make a better quilt. QOD collaborated with Outlast to leverage NASA-licensed material to make Temprakon, a quilt that was warmer for cold bodies and cooler for warm bodies.
Three of the most interesting observations were confirming observations about SME strategy and showing their direct application to OI SME strategy. First, OI collaboration between firms depends on strong individual-level ties. Second, cooperation is easiest between two companies of the same size — i.e. the small firms have trouble working with larger firms.
Finally, the OI-practicing SMEs don't have some grand a priori strategy, but instead are pursuing a discovery-driven growth strategy (cf. McGrath & MacMillan, 1995).
The central motivation of the paper was the analysis of Simcoe (2006) on the inherent OI tradeoffs of value creation vs. value capture: not just that they are traded off, but that firms care about the product of the two, i.e. the total profit. Related arguments were made by West 2003 (in control vs. adoption) and West & O'Mahony 2008 (control vs. collaboration).
I got some very useful feedback at the session. I'll be blogging more about this paper in a future article.
I had read Juan Alcacer but never met him. Far from being an open innovation advocate, he nonetheless was a great discussant — and not just because he liked my paper or that we both joked about Google's announcement that morning of the Motorola purchase.
He saw all of the papers saying something about fundamental principles of open innovation — particularly the Cassiman presentation, which was testing a central tenet of OI. I was linking OI to strategy and competition, while Prencipe was examining the antecedents of OI. Wim has wonderfully rich and multi-dimensional data about how open innovation works in small companies.
This was a great session. The value was not just the people in the front of the room, but the great group of people in the room — all the top OI minds in Texas this week.
It was enough for me to tell my wife that it's worth coming back to AOM next year — despite their price gouging strategy. (Alas, the rest of the conference was downhill from there).
Chesbrough, Henry. 2007. "Why companies should have open business models," MIT Sloan Management Review, 48 (2): 22-28.
McGrath, Rita Gunther and Ian C. MacMillan. 1995. "Discovery-Driven Planning," Harvard Business Review, July-August, pp. 44-54.
Simcoe, Tim. 2006. "Open Standards and Intellectual Property Rights," in Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 161-183.
Over the weekend, I flew to Johannesburg, South Africa for a conference on open source software hosted by the School of Business and Economic Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). I was invited to give the opening keynote, and spoke about my current study integrating prior work on open IT strategies. (More on that later).
The conference featured both local and international speakers; the former were a mixture of faculty, few graduate students and one practitioner.
One interesting panel had an argument (between two friends) over conflicting IP goals of South African government policy. IT consultant Derek Keats complained that a 2008 Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act (a more centralized twist on Bayh-Dole) would make it difficult or impossible for SA academic researchers to give away IP to open source projects.
Among the international speakers, Sebastian von Engelhardt of Friedrich-Schiller-University talked about his 2009 survey of 6,000 German software developers and IT consultants. He worried that those that used OSS might have a harder time getting capital or growing than those that developed proprietary software, but generally found the two types were similar except that the OSS firms tended to be smaller and younger.
Not all the papers were about open source software. Alessandro Rossi of University of Trento summarized a series of papers on how Wikipedia activity changes after an article is tagged as having a major problem. For example, if a WikiSimple article is tagged as having readability problems, the readability quickly goes up — but the rate of other changes goes down.
Marcel Bogers (@bogers) summarized antecedents to open innovation in prior research such as evolutionary economics, transaction cost economics, social network theory and the resource-based view. My personal favorite was a paper by Maradona Gatara on mobile crowdsourcing in Kenya.
The workshop closed with the big gun — economist Richard Langlois of U. Conn. Summarizing a forthcoming book chapter, he noted the dramatic parallels between early radio and early PCs: assembly was cheap while the components were valuable, hobbyists played an important role, the business quickly shifted to the importance of software.
The main difference is that during World War I, the US nationalized radio patents to facilitate ship-to-shore communication, and then spun them off after the war to create the Radio Corporation of America.
Disputing The Electronic Century by the late Alfred Chandler, Langlois concluded that the large RCA R&D labs were not a spur to innovation but a drag on innovation — because RCA wasted its resources trying to find new areas rather than improve existing technologies. Vertical integration and control by RCA (and Columbia) prevented the sort of modular innovation that became commonplace in the PC industry.


secondly, because of our ignorance of these traditions, we replace them with so called practice traditions which lack rigour and truth and are often used in ways that ignore the philosophical, cultural and spiritual sources of these practices.
Any practice is not a space of 'knowing'. In Indian tradition, practice as knowing was a structured approach that had deliberate and specific relationships between practice and text and between practice and other ways of knowing including implicit aspects such as presence and relationship between teacher and student. Each of these components contributed to the enabling of 'knowing' in these practices. The text was, as my teacher said, a signpost, and not the comprehensive source of that practice.
When I studied dance with my teacher, recitation of the Natya Sastra (the text on Indian dance theatre) was not part of the process. However, when I did read the text many years into my discipleship with him, I found that it was very familiar because through my practice I already 'knew' the text. I also realised there was far more to the practice than the text could ever encapsulate.
The fact that texts cannot contain the practice is inevitable in a tradition which is founded upon the principle that the purpose of these practices is freedom from the chitta (mind and material reality) and all of its domains which includes words/language. Practice, whether dance, yoga or music, was explicitly intended to create states of being that would expand experience beyond chitta or mind-based knowing. These experiences were not meant to be compliant with known paradigms which could be described through language/words. Therefore the texts were only one of the enablers of the practice, along with many other equally, or even more, important enablers, such as embodied knowing of the teacher.
Centralising textual knowing is the play of maya and the mind. We are caught in the comfort zone of control as we master texts, analyse them and finally conclude that enlightenment is intellectual mastery. This is chitta's delight for we appease every drive of the mind to stay within paradigms of mastery, competence, self-aggrandisement and validation in the maya or material domain. Surrender to practice, the ability to recognise the simple, quiet and humble spaces of doing, the courage to give up on the mastery paradigm and the insight to 'see' practice traditions—these are not chitta-friendly spaces and, for that very reason, the spaces of expansion and transformation.


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The driver in the deadly limo crash was a 'reliable employee,' company says
Posted 5:16 PM, October 9, 2018, by Doug Stewart
The limo driver in the deadly crash in upstate New York was a "great driver" and longtime employee of Prestige Limousine, the company's attorney said Tuesday.
Authorities say the driver did not have the proper license and that the vehicle had failed a recent inspection. But lawyer Lee Kindlon said the Prestige owner thought the driver had a proper license.
The company checked with the Department of Motor Vehicles "a number of different times and they had been told that he did," Kindlon said.
Authorities identified the driver as Scott T. Lisinicchia, 53, of Lake George, New York.
Kindlon called him a "very reliable employee and a great driver."
Lisinicchia was among the 20 people who died in the wreck Saturday in Schoharie, New York, about 25 miles south of Amsterdam. Authorities have released the names of the 17 passengers, who rented the limo for a birthday party, and two pedestrians killed in the crash, along with the driver's identity.
For reasons still unknown, the limo plowed through a stop sign and crashed into a parked SUV, causing the deadliest US transportation accident in almost a decade. Federal, state and local investigators flooded Schoharie to try to understand what happened.
Prestige is looking into the Lisinicchia's history as part of an internal investigation, Kindlon said. The company is collecting maintenance records, driver logs and ownership records and intends to turn them over to authorities, he added.
Texts expressed concern before crash
Thousands gathered Monday night for a candlelight vigil in Amsterdam, a city of 17,000 that was home to many of those killed. Beneath a 12-foot bronze statue of a mother and child near a pedestrian bridge, they prayed for strength and observed a moment of silence before a singer led the group in "Amazing Grace."
Lawmakers at the vigil promised to help find answers to the questions surrounding Saturday's crash. "I've always known it be a loving community," US Rep. Paul Tonko said. "As I gather with you this evening, I see it manifested in a very powerful expression."
Monday's vigil began hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the modified limo involved in the fatal crash wasn't supposed to be on the road and that the driver "did not have the appropriate driver's license to be operating that vehicle."
"We don't know the cause of the accident, if it was a vehicle malfunction, if it was a driver malfunction (or) a driver error," Cuomo said.
At least one victim seemed worried about the condition of the limo, according to text messages shared with The New York Times.
The recently married Erin Vertucci McGowan sent a text message to her friend and maid of honor saying that their party bus had broken down on the way to celebrate a friend's birthday. They had rented a stretch limo to pick them up, the newspaper reported. She did not know where they had procured the vehicle, she texted.
"The motor is making everyone deaf," McGowan said in one text, according to the Times.
In another, she wrote, "When we get to brewery we will all b deaf."
Victims identified
Before the disaster, the 17 birthday party guests in the limo — including newlyweds, young couples and four sisters –were headed to an upstate New York brewery. Authorities released their names Tuesday:
Axel J. Steenburg, 29, Amsterdam, NY
Richard M. Steenburg, 34, Johnstown, NY
Amy L. Steenburg, 29, Amsterdam, NY
Allison King, 31, Ballston Spa, NY
Mary E. Dyson, 33, Watertown, NY
Robert J. Dyson, 34, Watertown, NY
Abigail M. Jackson, 34, Amsterdam, NY
Matthew W. Coons, 27, Johnstown, NY
Savannah D. Bursese, 24, Johnstown, NY
Patrick K. Cushing, 31, Troy, NY
Amanda D. Halse, 26, Fort Ann, NY
Erin R. McGowan, 34, Amsterdam, NY
Shane T. McGowan, 30, Amsterdam, NY
Amanda Rivenburg, 29, Colonie, NY
Adam G. Jackson, 34, Amsterdam, NY
The pedestrians were identified as Rachael K. Cavosie, 30, of Waterford and Michael C. Ukaj, 34 of Johnstown.
Failed inspection
The birthday party guests were riding in a 2001 Ford Excursion that was converted into a limousine. After-market modifications can affect a vehicle's structural integrity and safety, said Peter Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.
As more details emerge about the apparent broken rules, investigators also are looking into whether the unusual structure of the limo may have contributed to this mass tragedy.
The company bought the Excursion already modified "just a couple of years ago," its lawyer said.
US Department of Transportation records shows that the limo company, Prestige Limousine Chauffeur Service of Gansevoort, New York, has two drivers and three vehicles. Its vehicles were inspected five times in the last two years, and the company has had four vehicles taken out of service.
Company's vehicles off the road
The limo company said in a statement Monday that it was conducting "a detailed internal investigation to determine the cause of the accident and the steps we can take in order to prevent future accidents."
The company has met with federal and state investigators and plans to do so again, the statement said. It has taken its fleet off the road, it said
Cuomo said officials are working on a cease-and-desist order to keep Prestige Limousine's automobiles from operating until the investigation is over.
The company's owner, Shahed Hussain, is currently in Pakistan, State Police Maj. Robert Patnaude said. State police seized three of the company's vehicles in addition to the modified limo involved in the crash, Patnaude said.
Prestige's lawyer said that Hussain travels back and forth to Pakistan frequently, but currently has health issues. Kindlon said Hussain "wanted everybody to know that if, in fact, he's needed here, he is ready and able to come back whenever they need him."
NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said investigators are working to learn the vehicle's speed at the time of the crash, more about the driver's state, whether all 19 seats in the limo had lap-shoulder belts and whether the passengers were wearing them, which is not required by law.
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When it comes to perception here is a true story. The top hat was designed and first worn by John Hetherington, a London men's tailor, in the 1840s. It was evident from the very beginning that the top hat was no ordinary hat. The first time that Hetherington wore the hat in public, women screamed and fainted, horses panicked and crowds gathered. It caused an uproar which led to his arrest and subsequent fine of fifty pounds, a fortune in those days. A law was also passed forbidding the wearing of the top hat in public on the grounds that it frightened people of a timid disposition.


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Akshay Kumar pens adorable birthday wish for wife Twinkle Khanna
By Asian News International
The 'Tashan' star hopped on to Instagram and shared a photograph in which the 'Mela' star and Kumar are seen enjoying a cycle ride, amid lush green flora.
Mumbai: By sharing a picture from an exotic location, megastar Akshay Kumar on Tuesday penned an adorable birthday wish for wife Twinkle Khanna.
In the picture, Akshay and Twinkle are seen casually dressed, and the snap seems to be captured amid a morning cycling session.
The 'Blue' star penned down an adorable wish for his beloved wife and noted, "Here's to another year of questionable life decisions. But I'm so glad I get to make all of them with you. (red heart emoticon) Happy birthday Tina."
A post shared by Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar)
Celebrity followers including Bhumi Pednekar and more than 6 lakh fans liked the post within 25 minutes of being posted on the photo-sharing platform.
In awe of the lovable picture, fans left red heart and heart-shaped eyes emoticons over the post.
Born on 29 December 1973, Twinkle is the daughter of iconic actor Rajesh Khanna and his wife Dimple Kapadia.
Akshay and Twinkle got married on January 17, 2001, the duo has been married for nearly two decades now.
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The I.D. are a new U.K. based four piece post-punk- influenced indie-rock act with members hailing from Switzerland, Ireland and the U.K.
"Age Anti Age" is the first taste of The I.D. and what a brilliant track it is. Imagine a cross between "Jenny Was A Friend of Mine" by The Killers "Unconditional" by The Bravery and you'll have "Age Anti Age".
Beginning with just a jangly guitar and vocal, the song's dark and introverted verse quickly transforms via the introduction of a killer funky bass line and up-tempo disco-beat. The bass line single handedly gives the verse an edge and a groove, steering away from what appeared to a darker and drearier path. Listen for the pre-chorus at 0:45 – 0:58 where the bass and drums interlock to create a "gallop" in anticipation for the chorus.
And yes folks, it's all about the chorus. Just wait for it. When it hits, you'll be wrapped up in a nostalgic glow, transported to a festival field where the sun will just be doing down, you'll raise your beer high, grab hold of your mates and sing at the top of your lungs to what might just be one of the best choruses all year.
The song has all the qualities that made The Killers track "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine" so brilliant; funky bass, danceable beats, tasteful shimmering guitar textures, and an incredible vocal hook.
At only 2:56, "Age Anti Age" more than certainly whets the appetite. Turn it up loud and repeat. Then repeat again. And again.
"Age Anti Age" will be available via iTunes on 29 October, 2012.
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Now, the requirement came like all the dns that we are maintaining should be only allowed with https.
Example: tempserver.com is dns that is pointed to this public lb and which inturn will be connected with the tomcat application.
So, below is my config file.
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        client_max_body_size 100M;
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Now If i trigger http://tempserver.get.com it is redirecting properly to https://tempserver.get.com
This is fine. But If I pass any paramemter like http://tempserver.get.com/tempserver
it is accepting http connection and redirection is not happening.
So, what can be done here? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

A: The preferred pattern to do HTTP to HTTPS redirect is as follows:
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You need to remove listen 80; and the if statement from your current configuration when using this.

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SEE THE ISSUES FACED BY ARSENAL THAT IS MAKING THEM LOSE GAMES
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Things is getting out of hand and Arsenal is looking like a team that is not ready for any spot in Europe nor any spot in the top ten of the premier league table. Fourteen (14) round of games have come and gone and the gunners have only managed only 14 points in the premier league and sit 15th on the table. The gunners have lost their last Six home games in the league and have managed just a point in their last four games which ultimately means Arsenal is on the verge of getting their worst start to a premier league season in their history.
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Mikel Arteta who is the manager is also having his job on the line as things is not getting an inch better weeks after weeks. What could be the issue with the gunners?
Creativity is zero: When it comes to holding play, Arsenal is good at it but getting the ball into the right place is the issue and that is where creativity comes in as the likes of Xhaka and Ceballos is not doing any creative job in the midfield. According to stats this season, the gunners have just 14 goals and have a total of 32 shots on target which makes them 18th on the list of teams with the most shot on target as well as 65 chances created in the league but guess what? They are 20th on this list again which comprises of Sheffield United, Brighton and co.
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Creativity is the major problem with the Arsenal team so as to have the likes of Aubameyang and Lacazette on the ball more. Defensively, the gunners are good which makes them the team with the best defensive record at some point this season but not presently.
Winning games comes from scoring lots of goals but when it comes to that, Arsenal is poor as they have just 10 all season. Recall that the gunners have just two goals in the league all through the month of November one from penalty the other from open play which was scored by a defender in Gabriel. Where are the strikers?
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This summarizes all the poor form of Arsenal so far this season which gives rise to fans calling for Ozil back in the squad as well as getting a new player in the next transfer window come January.
What else do you think is the issue with the gunners this season?
What should the coach do?
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This is J.'s 16th annual Readers' Choice issue, and in many ways it feels like "Bittersweet 16." The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on our lives and our livelihoods, but the creativity and ingenuity of this community has led to many adaptations by our organizations and businesses. Whoever thought we would find so many ways to commemorate special times virtually? Online gatherings for parties, graduations, b'nai mitzvahs, weddings, and even funerals have become commonplace, and many synagogues have been livestreaming Torah study as well as Shabbat and holiday services with great success.
Taking note of these changes necessitated by the shelter-in-place orders, we have this year added a new Readers' Choice category — the virtual gala! So many of our community organizations depend on their annual galas as their No. 1 fundraising event for the year, and many of them take place in the spring. The lockdown forced everyone to pivot: All three of our winners in this new category were deep in the throes of planning their annual galas when the shelter-in-place orders put the kibosh on in-person events. The Jewish Community Relations Council, whose gala was slated for March 11, was one of the first to go virtual. Congregation B'nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek and Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto also suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; truly an event planner's worst nightmare! But all somehow managed to be successful, bringing in those urgently needed donations, as you can read on page 25.
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David Caston is the founder and CEO of Impact Healthcare Solutions. David holds the position of CEO of Reeves Memorial Medical Center, where he has served since November of 2013. Prior to establishing Impact Healthcare Solutions, David served in a variety of administrative positions including Vice President of Clinical Services at Lincoln General Hospital, and for three years as the Assistant CEO of Northern Louisiana Medical Center. In that capacity he was responsible for eight hospital departments, the hospital physician network, physician recruitment, and overall operations of the hospital. David also spent five years in senior level management positions with the VA Hospital in Birmingham where he served on numerous national and regional committees. With extensive senior level healthcare experience in both hospital and physician practice operations, David brings a great understanding of the healthcare industry. He has recruited physicians and also opened clinics throughout the years and understands what it takes for them to be successful.
David holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana Tech University in Business while also playing collegiate golf for two years. He is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Medical Group Management Association.
David is native of Louisiana and is very active within the community of Ruston. David's board memberships include Ashlar Medical, the American Association of Medical Administrators in Alabama, the Louisiana Tech University Alumni Association, and for three years on the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. In 2009, David was elected to serve as the Vice Chair of Economic Development for the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. David serves as a deacon of his church, as chairman of the Missions Committee, and has played an active role in developing mission opportunities for church members.
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'At Nature's Pace: Two Artists Journeys' Features Artists Kathie Lovett & Kelly Slater
Artworks by Kathie Lovett
Situated in the beautiful White Mountains, in the midst of 200 acres of exuberant gardens and woodland paths designed by the renowned Olmstead brothers, the Adair Country Inn & Restaurant is an ideal setting to showcase the paintings of two artists whose recent work reflects their keen observation of the natural world. And this exhibit takes place during our colorful fall foliage season, giving guests another reason to visit the inn and see the artists' work.
"At Nature's Pace: Two Artists Journeys" features paintings by Kathie Lovett and Kelly Slater. The exhibit, running from Friday, September 11 through Columbus Day, Monday, October 12.
Kathie's and Kelly's vibrant, earth-inspired artwork was shaped in response to observing nature's slower pace. Following nature's rhythms allowed the artists to observe, appreciate and depict nature more fully in the pieces they created.
For this show, Adair joined with WREN (Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network) at 2013 Main Street in Bethlehem, one of our partners in the new Arts at Adair series that will include all types of art throughout the months ahead, including painting, music, photography and more.
At the close of "At Nature's Place" at WREN, the artists' paintings moved to Adair and will be on display in the Inn's inviting living room and other public spaces.
Franconia, NH artist Kathie Lovett began exploring studio arts 15 years ago following ownership of an independent bookstore. Working in acrylic and oil layers, Kathie's paintings reveal the energy of the forest, water and wildlife. Nature, says Kathie, "cracks and sparkles, hides and shows, speeds and slows, and charges direction," much as she does. At the core of her current exploration is an "observation of the magic that lies outside."
'Justice North' by Kathie Lovett
"What is image without story?" Kathie asks. "My work builds a relationship between conceptual content and the paint that lies on the surface. At Nature's Pace is a succession of observations and musings in picture form." Adair, she notes, is a match for this show as it is surrounded by the constructed pastoral landscape created by artists of another sort, the Olmstead brothers, landscape artists who were also intrigued by the forms and rhythms of the magical world outside.
Kathie is a director of Arts4NH, and is interested in how arts promote healthy communities. She was instrumental in the siting for this year's Franconia ArtWalk, where 20 sculptures are displayed in a beautiful outdoor setting. As a master gardener she received a grant to assist with the local Adaptive Sports program "Garden Buddies." She is a longtime member of WREN.
Artworks by Kelly Slater
During the past few years, Saugus, MA artist Kelly Slater has focused her attention on "becoming intimately acquainted with a few locales - especially with certain trees within these special places... seeking to reconnect with both the rhythm and the spiritual sustenance of nature." Using predominantly watercolors and water-soluble ink, she "captures the essence of her favorite trees, animals and places."
'Night Orchard' by Kelly Slater
"My current work is focused on just a few very special locales in the Northeast - and the Bethlehem area is one of them," says Kelly. "My husband and I have been vacationing in Bethlehem and surrounding towns for many years now, and I never fail to be inspired by the beauty of the rugged and dramatic landscape. Many thanks to the Adair for their strong support of arts in the North Country."
Kelly is a self-taught artist whose work has been exhibited in solo, group and juried shows in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and is in private collections in Boston, New York City, and the Berkshires, Brookline, Rockport and Cambridge, all in Massachusetts. She is the 2016 winner of the Berta Golahny Award, Cambridge Center for Adult Education. A founding member of the Cambridge-based artist collaborative "Banter Arts," Kelly is also a member of the Monotype Guild of New England, the Provincetown Art Association and WREN. She has been selected for several artist residencies, and frequently presents workshops on monotype printing.
The artists will engage in a conversation about each other's work beginning at 4 p.m. on September 18 and 19. Kathie will be live at the Adair and Kelly will link in via ZOOM from her home studio in Saugus, MA.
Reservations are encouraged for the free meet and greet events. To reserve a spot live at the Adair, or to receive information to connect virtually on ZOOM, please call Adair at (603) 444-2600.
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The wave of anti-graft protests in India possibly reflects the sense among many Indians that the corruption problem is becoming worse, according to a new Gallup poll. In 2010, almost half (47%) said the level of corruption in India was higher than it was five years earlier, while 27% said it was about the same, the poll released by the noted US public opinion agency on Monday revealed.
The groundswell of public support for social activist Anna Hazare and the anti-corruption movement shows Indians recognize that the problem is endemic in their society, the poll suggested. In response to the 2010 poll, 78% of Indians said corruption is widespread within the Indian government, and 71% said it is widespread within businesses in India. Asked whether they thought the government was doing enough to fight corruption, more than one-third of Indians (35%) said yes, while half (50%) said no. Unemployed Indians were particularly likely to feel the government was not doing enough to fight corruption, with nearly two-thirds (65%) responding that way. Unemployed Indians were also among the most likely to say they recently found themselves in a situation in which they needed to pay a bribe. Bribery remains widespread in Indian society; about one in five Indians (21%) overall said they had faced a situation in the past 12 months in which a bribe was required to solve a problem. Among the country's unemployed, however, the figure rises to 43% — an indicator that those seeking welfare and job services are among the most vulnerable.
Survey results reveal Indians do not believe the problem is getting any better and many have had to deal with corruption personally. However, the likelihood that systemic change can be implemented largely depends on whether Indians' underlying dissatisfaction produces sustained public pressure for reform, Gallup said. Gallup said results are based on face-to-face interviews with 6,000 adults, per survey wave. It put the maximum margin of sampling error at ±1.7 percentage points.


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Home / Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: an unbridgeable chasm - Murray Bookchin
2. Individualist Anarchism and Reaction
To be sure, ideological individualism did not fade away altogether during this period of sweeping social unrest. A sizable reservoir of individualist anarchists, especially in the Anglo-American world, were nourished by the ideas of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, as well as Stirner himself. Home-grown individualists with varying degrees of commitment to libertarian views littered the anarchist horizon. In practice, anarcho-individualism attracted precisely individuals, from Benjamin Tucker in the United States, an adherent of a quaint version of free competition, to Federica Montseny in Spain, who often honored her Stirnerite beliefs in the breach. Despite their avowals of an anarchocommunist ideology, Nietzscheans like Emma Goldman remained cheek to jowl in spirit with individualists.
Hardly any anarcho-individualists exercised an influence on the emerging working class. They expressed their opposition in uniquely personal forms, especially in fiery tracts, outrageous behavior, and aberrant lifestyles in the cultural ghettos of fin de si?cle New York, Paris, and London. As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ('free love') and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.
It was in times of severe social repression and deadening social quiescence that individualist anarchists came to the foreground of libertarian activity -- and then primarily as terrorists. In France, Spain, and the United States, individualistic anarchists committed acts of terrorism that gave anarchism its reputation as a violently sinister conspiracy. Those who became terrorists were less often libertarian socialists or communists than desperate men and women who used weapons and explosives to protest the injustices and philistinism of their time, putatively in the name of 'propaganda of the deed.' Most often, however, individualist anarchism expressed itself in culturally defiant behavior. It came to prominence in anarchism precisely to the degree that anarchists lost their connection with a viable public sphere.
Today's reactionary social context greatly explains the emergence of a phenomenon in Euro-American anarchism that cannot be ignored: the spread of individualist anarchism. In a time when even respectable forms of socialism are in pell-mell retreat from principles that might in any way be construed as radical, issues of lifestyle are once again supplanting social action and revolutionary politics in anarchism. In the traditionally individualist-liberal United States and Britain, the 1990s are awash in self-styled anarchists who -- their flamboyant radical rhetoric aside -- are cultivating a latter-day anarcho-individualism that I will call lifestyle anarchism. Its preoccupations with the ego and its uniqueness and its polymorphous concepts of resistance are steadily eroding the socialistic character of the libertarian tradition. No less than Marxism and other socialisms, anarchism can be profoundly influenced by the bourgeois environment it professes to oppose, with the result that the growing 'inwardness' and narcissism of the yuppie generation have left their mark upon many avowed radicals. Ad hoc adventurism, personal bravura, an aversion to theory oddly akin to the antirational biases of postmodernism, celebrations of theoretical incoherence (pluralism), a basically apolitical and anti-organizational commitment to imagination, desire, and ecstasy, and an intensely self-oriented enchantment of everyday life, reflect the toll that social reaction has taken on Euro-American anarchism over the past two decades.
During the 1970s, writes Katinka Matson, the compiler of a compendium of techniques for personal psychological development, there occurred 'a remarkable change in the way we perceive ourselves in the world. The 1960s,' she continues, 'saw a preoccupation with political activism, Vietnam, ecology, be-ins, communes, drugs, etc. Today we are turning inward: we are looking for personal definition, personal improvement, personal achievement, and personal enlightenment.'[4] Matson's noxious little bestiary, compiled for Psychology Today magazine, covers every technique from acupuncture to the I Ching, from est to zone therapy. In retrospect, she might well have included lifestyle anarchism in her compendium of inward-looking soporifics, most of which foster ideas of individual autonomy rather than social freedom. Psychotherapy in all its mutations cultivates an inwardly directed 'self' that seeks autonomy in a quiescent psychological condition of emotional self-sufficiency -- not the socially involved self denoted by freedom. In lifestyle anarchism as in psychotherapy, the ego is counterposed to the collective; the self, to society; the personal, to the communal.
The ego -- more precisely, its incarnation in various lifestyles -- has become an id&eacuatae; fixe for many post-1960s anarchists, who are losing contact with the need for an organized, collectivistic, programmatic opposition to the existing social order. Invertebrate 'protests,' directionless escapades, self-assertions, and a very personal 'recolonization' of everyday life parallel the psychotherapeutic, New Age, self-oriented lifestyles of bored baby boomers and members of Generation X. Today, what passes for anarchism in America and increasingly in Europe is little more than an introspective personalism that denigrates responsible social commitment; an encounter group variously renamed a 'collective' or an 'affinity group'; a state of mind that arrogantly derides structure, organization, and public involvement; and a playground for juvenile antics.
Consciously or not, many lifestyle anarchists articulate Michel Foucault's approach of 'personal insurrection' rather than social revolution, premised as it is on an ambiguous and cosmic critique of power as such rather than on a demand for the institutionalized empowerment of the oppressed in popular assemblies, councils, and/or confederations. To the extent that this trend rules out the real possibility of social revolution -- either as an 'impossibility' or as an 'imaginary' -- it vitiates socialistic or communistic anarchism in a fundamental sense. Indeed, Foucault fosters a perspective that 'resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power. . . . Hence there is no single [read: universal] locus of great Refusal, no soul of revolt, source of all rebellions, or pure law of the revolutionary.' Caught as we all are in the ubiquitous embrace of a power so cosmic that, Foucault's overstatements and equivocations aside, resistance becomes entirely polymorphous, we drift futilely between the 'solitary' and the 'rampant.'[5] His meandering ideas come down to the notion that resistance must necessarily be a guerrilla war that is always present -- and that is inevitably defeated.
Lifestyle, like individualist, anarchism bears a disdain for theory, with mystical, and primitivistic filiations that are generally too vague, intuitional, and even antirational to analyze directly. They are more properly symptoms than causes of the general drift toward a sanctification of the self as a refuge from the existing social malaise. Nonetheless, largely personalistic anarchisms still have certain muddy theoretical premises that lend themselves to critical examination.
Their ideological pedigree is basically liberal, grounded in the myth of the fully autonomous individual whose claims to self-sovereignty are validated by axiomatic 'natural rights,' 'intrinsic worth,' or, on a more sophisticated level, an intuited Kantian transcendental ego that is generative of all knowable reality. These traditional views surface in Max Stirner's 'I' or ego, which shares with existentialism a tendency to absorb all of reality into itself, as if the universe turned on the choices of the self-oriented individual.
More recent works on lifestyle anarchism generally sidestep Stirner's sovereign, all-encompassing 'I,' albeit retaining its egocentric emphasis, and tend toward existentialism, recycled Situationism, Buddhism, Taoism, antirationalism, and primitivism -- or, quite ecumenically, all of them in various permutations. Their commonalities, as we shall see, are redolent of a prelapsarian return to an original, often diffuse, and even petulantly infantile ego that ostensibly precedes history, civilization, and a sophisticated technology -- possibly language itself -- and they have nourished more than one reactionary political ideology over the past century.
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Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: an unbridgeable chasm - Murray Bookchin
1. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism
3. Autonomy or Freedom
4. Anarchism as Chaos
5. Mystical and Irrationalist Anarchism
6. Against Technology and Civilisation
7. Mystifying the Primitive
8. Evaluating Lifestyle Anarchism
9. Towards a Democratic Communalism
Jan 6 2010 11:46
I was surprised to read:
Despite their avowals of an anarchocommunist ideology, Nietzscheans like Emma Goldman remained cheek to jowl in spirit with individualists.
Because Goldman wrote:
There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs: the one the receptacle of a precious life essence, the other the repository of the element that keeps the essence pure and strong. The individual is the heart of society, conserving the essence of social life; society is the lungs which are distributing the element to keep the life essence--that is, the individual--pure and strong.
echeneida
Bookchin called her an avowed anarchocommunist, and you quoted one such avowal. I'm not sure what your point is.
adicalra
In agreement with Bookchin's description of tendencies towards an introspective personalism within the lifestyle or individualist anarchist circles, and others too. But even on an existentialist level, they would be incorrect if they were to look for a 'self' in authentic Buddhism since there isn't one to find anyway. It's a fitting riposte to those who believe there is no such thing as society,
I feel Individualism is something that should be jettisoned as Anarchism matures and becomes more cogent and resolute.To fetichise individualism culminates in an atavistic Stirnerism and the falsehood of anti collectivism.
It is a balance between individual consciousness and collective responsibility that gives Anarchism it's strength but as history and the present shows an over emphasis on the individual is regressive and pseudo Anarchism dominates resulting in lifestylism and impotence.
Anarchism is irrelevant to many people today because it has not clearly defined itself in a class context hence the hangers on who adopt the term but have nothing to do with the origins of Anarchism as taught by advocates of class struggle.
This has stymied the growth of Libertarianism and the fact we have to emphasise the term "class struggle Anarchism" says it all because Anarchism without class analysis is not Anarchism at all.
DesecrateConformity
It seems to me that Bookchin is being unnecessarily scathing towards individualists. And Bookchin's and the rest of the traditional social anarchists' "arguments" are all far too contingent on emotional appeals for me. Mutualists, Individualist Anarchists, and Green Anarchists (not Social Ecologists) know where the real problems are. Social Anarchists all pretty much baldy assert that the current industrialist paradigm is a result of free markets, which is certainly not true. The fact of the matter is that industrialists and capitalists are often state-backed, and without the state, a more decentralized mode of production would emerge, where each man owns the product of his/her labor (because mutualists embrace the Classical LTV), and the abhorrent industrial-age capitalists would be eradicated.
And yet even in the wee anarchist ghetto, you'd struggle to name an individualist group going. What are they doing with all these answers to the real problems, keeping them to themselves?


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Home Star Scene Star Scene: Phil Campbell ~ MOTÖRHEAD, PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS
November 12, 2020Mary Boukouvalas
Phil Campbell's scene is "in his head". The legendary guitarist of MOTÖRHEAD and of Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons states: "My scene is couch potato laziness right now. With a hint of professional dog walker as well. Nothing bizarre, nothing bizarre… Not at my age. I stopped drinking. So I try and avoid them places. So I make my scene in my head."
Wise words from Campbell as he reminisces about the last time MOTÖRHEAD were in Australia, with Motley Crue: "The party in the hotel foyer, it was after the last gig. They wouldn't let me play the hotel piano. So I threw a wine glass, it bounced off a pillar, and it flung stuff into the pond, and I killed two Koi carp. Then I was marched up into the elevator by two, seven-foot bouncers. And I woke up with the biggest hang over you could ever imagine."
"That's all you're getting," Campbell adds with a laugh.
Nowadays, Campbell's scene is less dramatic but not less interesting. The Covid-19 outbreak, along with its restrictions, may have stopped the touring but did not stop the creativity and the recording of new music. Campbell states: "We're okay. I'm still doing recordings for friends and people ask me because we've got our own studio and that. It's just a lack of gigs for everyone, for the road crews and for everyone. It's just affected the whole world really, so the quicker this gets sorted out the better for all concerned. At least we've managed to come out with a killer album this year, 13 brand new songs. So, it hasn't been an entire washout of a year for us. I'm really proud of this album, and the songs are amazing. The production is massive on it."
Recorded and engineered during lockdown by guitarist and Campbell's son Todd Campbell. Pride is evident as Campbell states: "He's been producing bands for 15 years. He didn't want to do the first album. He decided to do this one. He knows our playing, and he knows what tones I like more than anyone. He's the perfect choice. He did my solo record last year as well."
"Then of course, early March, mid-March all hell broke loose with the lockdown. We went in the studio one of us at a time or whatever was needed. It was totally distanced and we used different rooms. We weren't rushed so we made the album we wanted to make. There were no deadlines or anything particularly. We were lucky. Yeah, it turned out great. When we had the rough songs done, we'd send it all over to Neil [Starr] for a few weeks to listen to. And then when Neil was ready then he went in the studio and did his magic on them."
Campbell sometimes has "ideas for subject matter" but leaves the lyrics to Neil. Destroyed was in fact one of Campbell's. He states: "We wanted to write something in a different key actually. We had a lot of songs in similar keys at one point. So I went in my kitchen and slashed about on the guitar one afternoon. Then we took that one down to the studio and recorded that. Bit of punk, something a bit different. Yeah, it's one of my favourites, that one. It's a great bass riff it starts off with, and that sets up the entire song. And Neil did some great melodies, chorus, and the verses on that and really catchy. And yeah, it's a different groove, a bit more Pink Floyd than punk. It's a good way to fade the album out I think."
As for touring Australia, the band has been "in talks". Campbell states: "Dane went on a holiday but his brothers have never been down there. Neil has been there. Neil did one of the festivals down there, but it'd be great to take the band down and do some shows. And then we'd go to Japan after that- that's what bands normally do. Australia and Japan, and then go home for a big rest. That'd be great. Australia has some really hardcore rock fans. They don't suffer fools gladly with rock music."
Campbell concludes: "It'd be great to come down there sooner rather than later. And keep flying the flag for the Bastard Sons."
A great flag to fly.
Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons featuring legendary MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell release their new album 'We're The Bastards' via Nuclear Blast on 13th November.
Pre-order your copy of We're The Bastards on iTunes here:
https://music.apple.com/au/album/were-the-bastards/1527218240
Pre-save the album on all digital streaming platforms here:
http://nblast.de/PhilCampbellATBSpreS
Postscript: Anyone who is a MOTÖRHEAD fan remembers the first time they heard one of their songs. Campbell was forthcoming with their song ;Ramones', first introduced to me by my brother. He stated, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we wrote that in the style of ZZ Top actually. Then we just set it up… the music. Yeah, I came up with a thing… Yeah, it was like half the speed, like ZZ top. But then Lem said, 'Ah, it's a bit slow so let's double-speed it'. Put some lyrics on top, and that's how it came about."
As for the "double-speed" whilst playing live, Campbell states: "It varies each night, and then sometimes it gets ridiculously fast and everyone's shouting under each other, 'You're playing too fast' and they say, 'No, I'm not' because it's like a comedy show on some nights."
The band also launched the sale of an exclusive band shirt last week to help their crew financially through the COVID-19 crisis. Their statement:
"We've just released a We're the Bastards crew t shirt where all the profits will go towards our amazing and extremely hard working road crew during this tough time with no live touring."
Get your shirt here: https://philcampbell.myshopify.com/
The band's drummer Dane Campbell has used his time during the pandemic to start his own podcast called 'Drum For The Song' which is available from all the usual outlets and YouTube. There are already many episodes featuring great drummers like Matt Sorum, Nigel Glockler, Mark Richardson, Moose Thomas and more. Find it here on Spotify and on Youtube.
The tracklist reads as follows:
1. We're The Bastards
3. Promises Are Poison
4. Born To Roam
6. Bite My Tongue
7. Desert Song
8. Keep Your Jacket On
9. Lie To Me
10. Riding Straight To Hell
11. Hate Machine
12. Destroyed
13. Waves
Bonus tracks [limited digipak]:
14. Big Mouth (Live)
15. Freak Show (Live)
16. Dark Days (Live)
17. Rock 'n' Roll (Live)
Formed in the aftermath of MOTÖRHEAD's dissolution, following the death of Lemmy Kilmister in 2016, PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS were always going to draw a crowd at any discerning rock or metal festival. Led by one of the genre's most respected guitarists and completed by his sons Todd (guitar), Tyla (bass) and Dane (drums) and powerhouse frontman Neil Starr, the band emerged onto the 2017 touring circuit powered by a huge amount of good will, a smattering of MOTÖRHEAD covers and a handful of new songs that crackled with passion and swagger. Landing themselves a prestigious support slot on GUNS N' ROSES 2017 summer stadium run, the BASTARD SONS hit the ground running.
Fast forward to 2020 and, just like everyone else, PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS had to cancel a lot of carefully-laid plans when the global pandemic descended on us all. But as if to confirm their absolute dedication to blowing people's heads off with thunderous rock'n'roll, the band refused to cancel plans to record a follow-up to their widely lauded debut. Recorded and engineered during lockdown by guitarist Todd Campbell, the second BASTARD SONS album may be just the tonic people need right now. It's called We're The Bastards and it's bigger, better and even more raucously uplifting than its predecessor. In fact, it's the sound of a great band hitting their stride and buzzing with confidence.
PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS are:
Phil Campbell | Guitar
Todd Campbell | Guitar
Tyla Campbell | Bass
Dane Campbell | Drums
Neil Starr | Vocals
PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS online:
http://www.philcampbell.net/
https://www.nuclearblast.de/pcatbs
https://www.facebook.com/PhilCampbellATBS/
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons
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Common Names: Arabian tang, majestic tang, Red Sea clown surgeonfish, sohal surgeonfish, sohal tang, soho tang, zebra tang, etc.
Taxonomic Troubles: Originally described as Chaetodon sohal. May also be found misidentified as Acanthurus carinatus, Aspisurus sohar, and Ctenodon ruppelii, as well as various misspellings of these.
Size: 40 cm (16 inches).
Preferred Water Chemistry: Tropical marine. Since this is a Red Sea endemic, it is best to keep the specific gravity high and stable—aim for 1.025.
Difficulty: An uncharacteristically hardy tang. Usually considered reef safe.
Feeding: An omnivore, but most of the diet should be algae-based. Description: Overall bluish white with black horizontal stripes. The fins are dark, and the scalpel-like peduncle spine (which gives all surgeons or doctorfish their common name) is orange.
Breeding: This species has not been bred in captivity, and the difficulty of maintaining more than one specimen in a tank will remain a major stumbling block.
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OSM pledges to build opportunities for female seafarers
"A diverse workforce is a strong workforce," says OSM Maritime's CEO Bjørn Tore Larsen.
In his first week in the new role of OSM Maritime CEO, Bjørn Tore Larsen has outlined his vision for greater female participation in the maritime industry, particularly with regards to vessel crews. Larsen, the founder and Chairman of the global ship management company, believes a healthier gender balance will help shipping in the quest for long-term success and commercial sustainability.
OSM is a world leader in the ship management segment, with over 500 vessels in the fleet, approximately 30 office locations and some 11,000 expert seafarers. As a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) the company is focused on supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including that of Gender Equality (SDG 5).
There is, Larsen says in connection with the International Women's Day on March 8, much to be done to achieve that objective.
Strength in diversity
"There is a global shortage of qualified seafarers with the broad competency needed to help guide this industry on the optimal path forwards," he comments. "We need to attract bright young people with the right skills, both practical and digital, to support an industry that remains at the vanguard of world trade. And women are absolutely central to that.
"A diverse workforce is a strong workforce – offering a range of experiences, perspectives and talents – so the lack of female crew is an issue the industry needs to address. That spans from the recruitment process (being open to and actively encouraging female applications), through to company cultures, and the conditions and attitudes on board. At OSM we're working to attract new female colleagues and celebrate the success of the ones we already have. I'd encourage the rest of the industry to do the same."
The right balance
The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) estimate that only 2% of crew in the world fleet are female, with 94% of those working on either cruise or passenger ships. OSM is targeting the ambitious goal of increasing its female crew ratio to 5% across its core sectors (tankers, bulkers and offshore). The firm already has a majority of 62% of its office positions filled by female staff.
"This isn't just a question of doing right by society, but also one of providing both the best working environment for our colleagues and optimal services to our growing client base," Larsen notes. "Balanced workforces offer strength in depth and, as has been proven over the years, instil better morale and job satisfaction. In short, increased female participation in maritime is a clear 'win-win'!"
Building success
The OSM CEO believes Vivian Maia provides a typical example of how females can forge successful careers within the industry. Maia joined OSM in 2011 after graduating from the Merchant Marine Officers School in Rio de Janeiro and spending two years as a Deck Officer with Maersk. She then helped the, at the time, recently formed OSM Brazil set up operations in the country, recruiting, hiring and planning for crew members on the vessels Dan Swift and Deep Sea. Maia is now responsible for crewing a FPSO managed by OSM in Brazil.
"It's been an exciting and fulfilling journey," she comments, "working both on- and offshore and helping to establish OSM in what is now a key market. I can't recommend this industry enough for those that are ambitious, passionate and driven by achieving results and delivering excellent service. I'm proud of how my career has developed so far and excited about what lies ahead."
OSM will now be looking to raise awareness of opportunities for female crew in the run up to, and following, the IMO World Maritime Day on 26 September. The theme for the day is 'Empowering Women in the Maritime Community'.


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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourages hospitals to review their results from its "dry run" test of a new claims-based outcome measure for the inpatient quality reporting program in fiscal year 2018. Hospital-specific reports on the measure, "excess days in acute care after hospitalization for heart failure," are available through Oct. 7 at QualityNet. Questions about the measure may be emailed to cmsedacmeasures@yale.edu. CMS also will present the measure's methodology and answer questions during a Sept. 22 call for hospitals, quality improvement networks and other stakeholders. For more on the National Provider Call and to register, click here.


The Scottish Highlands and islands ought to have identified one of the top parts in the world for travellers in 2019.
Lonely Planet has revealed that the region has been listed among its top 10 "Best in Travel" destinations.
Featuring fifth on the listing, the steer describes the Highlands and islands as "one of the wildest, least inhabited and most scenic parts of Europe".
It commits special mention to the North Coast 500 operating route, the North East 250 and the Snow Roads.
The Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2019 is a highly-anticipated annual collection of the most wonderful travelling destinations, tendencies, pilgrimages and suffers to have in the year ahead.
It also reveals the top 10 parts, countries, metropolis and best importance regions to visit in 2019.
Piedmont in Italy, best knows we being dwelling to Leonardo Da Vinci, topped the "Best in Travel" list, followed by the Catskills in the USA, Northern Peru and the Red Centre in Australia.
Claiming fifth region, the Scottish Highlands and islands were commended for their "innovative and fast-developing" accommodation sector, ranging from purpose-built campervan parking spots, to designer cottages simulated on ancient buildings.
Tom Hall, Lonely Planet's editorial director, said: "The wild landscapes of Scotland's Highlands and islands offer the ultimate flee and inspecting the region's remote areas is now easier than ever thanks to impressive developments in accommodation.
Also highlighted in the four pages dedicated to the region, the North Coast 500 pushing route which has been in comparison with the U'Ss Route 66.
Stretching more than 500 miles, it was developed as a style of delivering tourists to disguised specific regions of the Highlands and passing economic benefits to struggling communities.
The route has attracted 29, 000 more visitors to the Highlands since its launch in 2015.
The distillery experience was also praised by Lonely Planet.
With over 20 distilleries opening in Scotland in the last two years, whisky is suffering a boom not envisioned since the 1890 s.
Malcolm Roughead, VisitScotland chief executive, said he was "thrilled, though not entirely surprised" to watch the Highlands and islands build the prestigious list.
"This stunning part of Scotland punches well above its load on the international stage as a thriving vacation destination for people from both across the globe and the UK, " he added.
Highland Council leader, Margaret Davidson, said being selected as one of Lonely Planet's top fields was a "splendid accolade".
Scotland's Tourism Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "It's marvelous to insure the Highlands and islands receive recognition for its breath-taking scenery, history and heritage.
Lonely Planet named Sri Lanka the number one country to visit in 2019, whilst Copenhagen in Denmark was named "capital of cool" as the best metropolitan to visit in the year ahead.


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Nearly 4,500 killed in Syria during Ramadan: NGO
A general view shows damaged buildings caused by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, eastern Syria, August 7, 2013. (REUTERS)
Published Thursday, August 08, 2013
At least 4,420 people were killed in Syria violence during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, some two thirds of them fighters on both sides, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Compared with August last year, when the majority of the dead were civilians, there were fewer people killed this Ramadan, when most of the dead were combatants.
"More than 4,420 people were killed over the past month," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Of the total, 1,386 were civilians, 64 defectors who joined the rebels and 1,172 civilians who had taken up arms on the opposition side.
Of the civilians killed, 302 were children, said the watchdog.
A further 485 were foreign jihadists who joined the rebels, the Observatory said.
Another 1,010 of the dead were loyalist troops, while 211 were members of the pro-regime paramilitary National Defence Force, it said.
Ninety-two others remained unidentified.
"What we see is that the majority of those killed were fighters," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The toll contrasts sharply with last August's, which had been the deadliest month in Syria's conflict until then.
In August 2012, 5,440 people were killed, among them 4,114 civilians.
But as the revolt has grown increasingly militarised, and as the battle lines have changed, the nature of the conflict has shifted.
"Civilians have fled formerly populated areas that have become battlefields, for areas firmly under either the regime, the opposition or the Kurds," said Abdel Rahman.
Parts of the north are now in Kurdish hands, others in the north and east are under rebel control and much of the centre is in army hands.
"Civilians are constantly on the move, looking for areas that are uncontestedly under a power that they can identify with and feel safe under," Abdel Rahman added.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's war, the United Nations says, and millions more have been displaced.


Minarets, wearing of crosses, niqabs – how are things changing in relation to religious expression here in London and across Europe?
The Faith & Public Policy Forum seminars are always good value.
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A new study outlines broad lessons for how this transition could be replicated elsewhere.The energy transition pays for itself (if you factor in the costs of air pollution). The total estimated cost of the Nordic energy transition is roughly $357 billion more than business as usual, which comes to a total of less than 1 percent of cumulative GDP between now and 2050. Almost all of these costs will be offset by fuel savings. Even the external costs associated with the health impacts of air pollution alone in the Nordic countries (about $9 to $14 billion annually) are roughly equal to the additional investment needed to achieve a carbon neutral scenario.


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Alumnus Returns Home
by Nikole Gianopoulos
University of West Georgia alumnus and ESPN SportsCenter anchor Todd Grisham recently returned home to have a discussion with current UWG students.
Students actively listened while Todd shared stories of his past and explained how his mistakes during his college years and internships helped shape his current career as an ESPN anchor.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Todd was educated at Wingate University on a soccer scholarship, but later transferred to University of West Georgia, where he earned his mass communications degree.
"I liked West Georgia because of the small class sizes and because I could really get hands-on experience with the teachers," he said.
Todd began his career in the television industry with KTVO in Ottumwa, Iowa, where he worked for 18 months. He then transferred to KOLD-TV, where he became a sportscaster for five years. In 2004, he joined WWE as an announcer. Currently, Todd is an anchor on ESPN SportsCenter. He is also the host/blow-by-blow announcer for ESPN's iconic boxing program "Friday Night Fights."
During his talk, Todd compared UWG to other universities by emphasizing how UWG gives students more "freedom to cover the stories that they want, when they want, and beat their own path."
He went on to talk about one of his strongest skills, which is being able to block out all noise and distractions when he is on air. An example where Todd has to apply this skill the most is at wrestling matches, where the crowd is chanting and shouting while he is broadcasting live.
"I always knew that I wanted to do some kind of describing the action," Todd said, mentioning that you have to start from the bottom and work your way up.
During his time at UWG, Todd was heavily involved with the campus television news station, UTV13. His time at the station is what made him realize that he enjoyed working in front of the camera and that he wanted a career in the communications field.
He concluded his talk by leaving students with these final words: "In order to make it in television, you need a lot of luck, a lot of friends, and a little bit of skill."