Wtih a ample amount of mounding -- made by the massive quanity of rock that had to be blasted out of the ground -- the land itself is quite dramatic. There are a lot of forced carries, depending on what teeing area you use, and that can lead to a lot of lost balls if one isn't careful (or a long-drive champ). There is a definite emphasis on accuracy, as all the different angles Dye sets up through the use of mounding, hazards and trees, makes course management a necessity to break 100 from the back tees, even for the most skilled golfer.
Description: With very good reason, a lot of locals like to call it "The Public Golfer's Shinnecock," and, design-wise, that's a fair assessment. The holes, like Shinnecock, are not flamboyant or wild; just simple, straightforward golf holes that offer what the land has put in front of you. The natural grasses that surround Montauk Downs -- which have been revitalized in recent years with the ongoing (terrific) renovations -- immediately draw to mind many of the courses just west of Montauk that have reveled in fame for about a century. Although not quite of the championship caliber of any of those tracks -- in reality, almost no courses in the world can equal them -- Montauk Downs has a fantastic setting and a absolutely wonderful mix of golf holes.
Built on rolling, open terrain, the difficulty of most tee shots does not come with fairway bunkers, of which there are only a few. The goal of most tee shots (as is always the case) is getting yourself in the proper position for an approach, as well as avoiding the mature rough, which has a tendency to swallow golf balls whole. Most of the greens are elevated, well-bunkered, quite undulating and come in a variety of sizes and shapes. There are also a handful of inland water hazards, which make for some very interesting hole designs and nerve-wracking approaches. And with a minimal amount of trees (though way more than anything of those historic grounds west) the wind can really blow off the Atlantic or Block Island Sound, making the yardage of 6,976 yards misleadingly short.


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Japanese: an alternative pronunciation of the name Nagata, also pronounced Choda by some families. All three versions are found in eastern Japan. Polish: topographic name from osada 'settlement', 'colony'.
Where is the Osada family from?
You can see how Osada families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Osada family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Canada between 1880 and 1920. The most Osada families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1880 there were 2 Osada families living in Florida. This was 100% of all the recorded Osada's in the USA. Florida had the highest population of Osada families in 1880.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Osada surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Osada ancestors do for a living?
In 1880, the most common Osada occupation in the USA was Shoemaker. 100% of Osada's were Shoemakers.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Osada ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Osada family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Osada. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Osada census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Osada. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the USA, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
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You've only scratched the surface of Osada family history.
What is the average Osada lifespan?
Between 1962 and 2002, in the United States, Osada life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1986, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Osada in 1962 was 82, and 90 in 2002.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Osada ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


The best way to accomplish ministry is as a team. God designed the church to function interdependently so teamwork only makes sense.
To do ministry God's way, we must follow His design for the Body of Christ which includes interdependence. That's what ministry teamwork is about. Doing ministry God's way leads to the growth of the Body so it only makes sense that we intentionally work to enhance team building within our churches and ministries.
When we make it our goal to get on page with God and please Him (Col. 1:10) rather than promoting personal agendas to please ourselves, we are better able to serve interdependently, as a team, with one another.
As we get to know, understand, and accept one another on the team (Rom. 15:7), we are better able to function from a place of true fellowship.
When we focus on who team members are, and not just on what they do, it helps us to be better able to deal with issues that arise "for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matt. 12:34) and the heart "is the wellspring of life" (Prov. 4:23).
As we become more and more of a true team, functioning interdependently with everyone doing their part, we tend to find ourselves getting beyond mere programming, planning projects, or accomplishing tasks. We focus on true ministry with fellow team members and those we serve.
Whether on an official ministry team or believers working alongside of each other without being termed a ministry team, we all need to learn teamwork and team building if we're going to do ministry God's way.
Ministry teamwork is about following God's design for the Body of Christ to function interdependently with each member doing his/her part.
Body Life: What is It?
For true interdependence, team leaders must serve among, as servants and shepherds, to guide and encourage, not from a position of superiority.
Each and every team member, no matter what their gifts, abilities, or responsibilities, must be seen as valuable so everyone's participation matters.
These verses remind us that it isn't just about the task we have to complete as a team but the relationships we have with one another.
Working on the same goal, or purpose, doesn't make us one. As the above verses suggest, we're to be one in spirit as well as purpose. So, even when we disagree, we can still be encouraged. Even when our idea is set aside, we can be comforted. How is that possible? We find our common ground in the Lord, united with Christ. We protect our commonality by exercising His love. We have fellowship with one another because we're in fellowship with the Spirit. With all of that in place, we can experience unity out of diversity — being one in spirit and purpose.
If we try to find common ground in our own opinions or ideas, our diversity could get in the way. Rather, together, as a team, we seek God's wisdom, His solution. We make getting on page with God more important than pushing our personal agendas.
So much can go wrong when a group of people with different personalities, learning styles, backgrounds, and opinions try to work together. If we're going to be like-minded and of one spirit and purpose, we must find fellowship with one another in the Lord and the grace He extends.
If we rely on the goodness of people in order to work well together, our diversity will get us in trouble. To overlook each other's idiosyncrasies and work through conflict, we need to fall back on God's love and forgiveness, His grace. When we do, we'll find the tenderness and compassion to work with people we might not normally be drawn toward as friends.
If fellowship must be rooted in the common ground and common grace that can only be found in what we all share in our Lord, then our meetings need to include time to focus on Him, not just the task at hand.
Do we take time to pray together?
Do we use God's Word as our filter for making decisions?
Do we point each other to His character and ways as the grid through we function?
One way we can do that is to have a short devotional time together. You could keep it casual by having team members share something God taught them from His Word since you last met. Or, members could take turns coming prepared to lead this time with Scripture they believe would be encouraging or relevant to the task at hand. You might work through a study together but must remember not to get so caught up in it that you become a Bible study group rather than a ministry team with a mission to accomplish.
The Ministry Worker's Devotional: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God could be a tool to use with a ministry team that centers on the very character and nature of God as the resources we need for effective ministry.
Whether we use devotionals or not in our meetings, the basis for our fellowship must consistently and regularly be remembered and reinforced. That could be done through spontaneous moments of prayer, especially when we find ourselves at an impasse. It could happen by purposefully asking the right kinds of questions as we flow through our agenda, ones that challenge us to consider if what we're planning and doing lines up with God and His Word.
To remedy attacks on the church for being too "worldly" or "business-like" in how it functions, some have re-labeled what they do. For example, . . .
The terminology might "sound" less worldly or business-like but have the activities themselves changed to be more godly or biblical-like? Using the same examples, . . .
What one calls a job description could line up more with God's design and desires for ministry than what someone else re-labeled a ministry description.
A ministry description or team can be mired in just as worldly or business-like organizational structure as a job description or committee.
Name changes can be good if they truly depict what is happening. However, if you change the label but not the reason for its existence or the way it functions, all you have is a name change. We need to get beyond labels to truly being the Church God calls us to be. We need ask why something isn't working and first address those issues. Questions we might ask regarding the same examples already used could be . . .
What is it about your job descriptions that doesn't promote a ministry mindset?
What is it about your committees that isn't conducive to a unified advancement toward the common good and growth of the Body?
Once you resolve those issues, then you might want to consider a name change to better reflect what you do.
The examples used in this post are only two of many ways we as a church try to repackage the same old thing. But, since I used them as examples, let me point you to some articles that might help in these areas.
Job Descriptions Reflect God's Heart for the Church?
Job Descriptions Reflect a Need for God's Power?
As with a physical body, the Body of Christ must work together interdependently, as a team, to function with the kind of unity described in the above verses.
Functioning like a team does not happen automatically just because we are Christians, part of His Church. Team members need certain qualities built within them that help them truly engage in such fellowship. Consequently, team leaders must promote these qualities. But, what will it take for team leaders to turn into team builders?
While providing practical ideas is always good, team leaders need to be reminded of the tools they already have constantly available to them — the cross of Jesus which brings us together into one body, the Word which instructs us on how to live within God's design, and the Spirit who enables us.
Jesus' example of servanthood is the best pattern we will ever have for functioning as a team (Jn. 13:3-15; Phil. 2:1-11). When we learn such selflessness, willing to lay aside our rights for the good of others, then we too can be an example. We will be able to say, as the Apostle Paul said, "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (1 Cor. 11:1).
Knowing the tools it will take for us to be the Body God intends us to be and having good examples of it doesn't always translate into living it out. We need to have such a trust in God that His ways are always right and that He is great enough and powerful enough to change us and those we serve, that it moves us to action.
Sometimes it helps to be able to interact with someone in whom God has developed the qualities essential to teamwork. We can learn from their experiences but also from their heart.
Don't assume the team will be unified and accepting of each other's differences but rather provide pre-team training of what it takes to be on a team as well as continued trust-building exercises.
Don't expect people to merely attend meetings and give occasional input but rather truly give them authority to do their parts.
Don't let self-centered attitudes fester but rather point to the attitude and servant heart of Jesus as the standard for the team.
Don't forget the big picture and get lost in all the details but rather promote the development of perspective and an expectancy toward what God will do for the whole.
When team leaders fulfill these responsibilities, it tends to build the qualities needed in team members to work as a unified group.


Nigeria's house of representatives ad-hoc committee probing a 30 billion dollar financial transactions by the niger delta power holding has expressed disappointed over what it described as the company's failure to account for a one point nine billion shareholding investment in the company.
The committee requested for the details of the shareholding, which were not reflected in any of its annual returns, but got no concrete response.
From the documents submitted to the committee, the share holding strength of the niger delta power holding company has remained at one million units since it was incorporated in 2005, contrary to the documents from the corporate affairs commission obtained by the committee which shows two billion units share holding strength.
The committee has therefore ordered the power holding company to reconcile the difference within a week.
The committee wants the Niger delta power holding company to justify the money government has so far spent on power.
The committee has asked the auditor general of the federation to brief members on the status of the audit done on the company.


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March 21 (Reuters) - A Michigan woman pleaded guilty on Monday to a scheme in which she and her husband used their medical cadaver business to sell infected body parts to unwitting medical and dental students, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Rathburn, 56, of the Detroit suburb of Grosse Point Park admitted selling human remains she claimed were disease-free, but which had tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis B, the U.S. Attorney's Office in eastern Michigan said in a statement.
Prosecutors said Rathburn and her husband, Arthur Rathburn, ran a company called International Biological, Inc. that would sell or rent human remains to medical and dental students.
Prosecutors said the couple would purchase diseased specimens from suppliers at a discount and misrepresent the remains to maximize profit, defrauding customers and exposing them to infection.
An attorney for Rathburn did not immediately return a call for comment.
The couple was indicted in January and Elizabeth Rathburn was charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to a police officer, FBI spokeswoman Jill Washburn said.
She reached a deal with prosecutors that had her plead guilty to wire fraud and is set to be sentenced on July 18, according to the attorney's office.
Arthur Rathburn was also charged with transporting hazardous materials and making false statements. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to begin trial on April 5, court records show.
The January indictment alleged that Arthur Rathburn would dismember the cadavers with chainsaws and other non-standard autopsy devices, and would stack human heads directly on top of each other.
In one instance, Rathburn was charged with shipping the head of a person who died from sepsis and pneumonia among seven other severed heads on a Delta Cargo flight. The heads were stuffed in trash bags inside coolers that also contained pools of human blood, according to the indictment.
Attorneys for Arthur Rathburn did not immediately return calls for comment.
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We've lost track of how many times the beneficiary of a life insurance policy was told their claim was contestable, only to find out through our investigation that it wasn't. It's one reason we've been able to deliver over $50 million of claim benefits to our clients.
Contestability, of course, is the difference between getting an automatic, no-questions-asked claim payout versus having to wait months for the insurer to look for ways to deny the claim. The contestability of a life insurance policy is found in the Incontestability clause of a policy and is a contractual right of the issuing insurer.
The contestability period is measured from some starting date, and for 2 years thereafter. Of course, the question is, 'when does the contestability period starting date begin?' Is it the day the application was signed? Is it the day the first premium was paid? Or, is it based on a different day completely?
Many of the mistakes we've uncovered in regard to contestability – like insurers telling a beneficiary their death claim is contestable when, in fact, it isn't – are due to the insurance company not looking at the policy when a claim is made. Instead, they just looked at the Issue Date they have recorded in their computer records.
But, computer records are usually summaries or bits and pieces of a larger document. For life insurance policies, computer records aren't inclusive of the entire policy. They tend to have very little detail and a deeper look is often needed.
Here we've taken a closer look and identified some of the more common items that cause confusion in determining whether a death claim is or isn't contestable.
Issue Date: This is the date that the underwriter has satisfied his requirements and the insurer accepts the insured as a policyholder. In some policies the Issue Date will be before the Policy Date and in other policies it will be after. If this is the date the insurer is basing contestability on, then it can't conflict with any policy language indicating the contestability period is based on premiums.Effective Date: This is most often the date after the policy has been approved and the first premium has been paid. Where complications can arise is when the first premium is paid before the policy is issued or when a 1035 exchange is included with the application. For example, when the client signs the application and the agent takes a check, he or she is binding the policy. The binding date may take precedent and become the date the contestability period begins. Or, the Effective Date can be well before a premium is paid. Confused? Yes, the Effective Date varies a great deal from policy to policy, but it's a critical item for determining contestability.
Policy Date: This is sometimes the same as the Effective Date, but sometimes it's not. And, the Policy Date can have conditions like, 'we must receive your premium for the policy to become effective'. The Policy Date is probably different than the Issue Date. And, very likely the Policy Date is different than the date the first premium was paid. What the Policy Date usually refers to is when the next change in charges occurs or when the next premium is due.
The date that determines when a claim's contestability period ends is going to be different than another person's date because each policy has different language. It's not always the same for every company or even the same for every policy issued by the same company. Each policy needs be looked at individually to determine which date starts the contestability period.
Backdating a life insurance application (which is a questionable practice) is when the insured accepts a Policy Date that is prior to the date the application was signed. It's a confusing concept and is further confused when measuring the contestability of a life insurance claim. Someone would accept a backdated policy thinking they will have lower fees for their policy. This may or may not be true, but the reason it's important for a death claim is it could mean the difference between a contestable and an incontestable claim.
Most beneficiaries have no idea if the policy they're making a claim on was backdated or how to even identify backdating. The question of if a policy has been backdated and how that impacts contestability should be determined by a professional.
When you have an in-force policy and you add death benefit to it, you've completed a death benefit increase. The standard practice in the life insurance industry is to keep the same policy, the same policy number and simply add more death benefit. When a claim is filed only the amount of death benefit that was added within the past two years should be contestable, not the entire policy. The language of the benefit increase, as well as the paperwork that caused the increase, must be reviewed and evaluated to get the correct contestability date.
To add more confusion and possibility for mistakes there's also the exchange date. When an insured starts with one policy – let's say a term insurance policy – and exchanges it for a different type of policy with the same company, they've completed an exchange.
Each company has their own rules about what this constitutes regarding contestability. Some companies use the date of the original policy. Other companies use the date of the new policy. The language of the offer to exchange, as well as the paperwork that was completed, must be evaluated to get the correct contestability date.
Any form of payment of a premium before the policy is approved can be binding and start the contestability period. Many life insurance policies are sold with the cash value of an old policy transferring into a new policy. This of course is known as a 1035 Exchange. The policyowner signs a form accepting this event and it's usually done at the same time the new application is completed.
Even though the new policy hasn't been approved yet, the papers accepting the transfer of cash value is a form of premium. It binds the new policy. Under this scenario the new policy may have a starting date for contestability before the approval date. The same can be true of submitting a check or credit card charge with an application.
Most life insurance policies have a 31-day reinstatement period. This is the time the policyowner has to catch-up on late premiums without losing their coverage. The lapse period is different than the pre-lapse period. Pre-lapse is 31 days immediately after the premium was due. Lapse is 31 days after pre-lapse. If the past-due premium is paid in this 62-day time-period, there's no change to the contestability period.
However, if premiums aren't paid then the policy will lapse. If the policy is reinstated after 62 days, a new contestability period will begin. The important question is not when did the policy lapse, but what efforts did the policyowner make to keep the policy in effect? This can make all the difference between a claim being contestable or incontestable.
What's the big deal about a life insurance claim being contestable?
The day that a life insurance policy passes the contestability period, any claim made for the death benefit must be paid immediately by the insurer. On the other hand, a claim made against a policy that has even one more day of contestability will be inspected for any possible reason the insurer can use to deny the claim.
The reasons an insurer can use to deny a claim include misstatements of: finances, arrests, drug use, tobacco use and, the most common, medical history.
Claims that aren't contestable don't get investigated. Claims that aren't contestable get paid in 30 days. Claims that aren't contestable don't get denied.
When beneficiaries of your clients have death claims to file, don't just assume they're not contestable. If the end of contestability is close to the date of death, check and double-check whether their claim is subject to review or should be paid immediately.
Stephen C. Burgess is the President of the Center for Life Insurance Disputes. The Center for Life Insurance Disputes represents beneficiaries of denied life insurance and accidental death insurance claims.


Even though we have a Product Roadmap published on our website: http://www.control-cube.com/roadmap.html, We still highly value your feedback and take it into consideration and in many cases modify our priorities.
So please let us what you want and we will work on getting it done.
Smaller logo might be nice, currently it takes up a large portion of the screen along with the rest of the header. It's nice to have the weather forecast shown but perhaps not at the expense of other data that's useful.
Bought control cube and it's very nice interface and quite responsive..
Works great with vera and lighting.
For lighting, would like to see 2 features..
- a cover page like Simplewave that shows the "status" of items in the house...ex/ 12/24 lights on or something like that. Easy to let me know at a glance if and how many lights are on.
- to piggy back on that feature, maybe highlight the room that has a light on in the "room tab" on the left. Again, make it very easy and quick for the user to know what's on and where.
Nest however is having a little difficulties. I'd like to see the ability to set the temperature (cool/heat) in a much better way. Right now, when you tap on the climate icon, it displays the current temp but not what it is set at. Then you have a +/- to change the set temp, but they start at 0 instead of the current set temp. Once I start tapping +/-, after about 3 taps, I get an error message "No Connection".
So far, I would not suggest anyone get this app.
@rtaxerxes: Sorry mate, plex is not on our agenda for integration any time soon. Plus the link you posted does not contain any API information about that system.
The details are in this post (https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/84037-plex-http-api/?p=539847), but more details are here (https://code.google.com/p/plex-api/w/list). Plex is a fork of XBMC, so I would assume it would be the same or similar.
Perhaps an option to change the port so it could work with Plex.
In Control Cube 2.8. XBMC is now controlled via port 8080. But I use JSON RPC rather than the basic HTTP command which that forum post you linked to shows.
Quick googling shows that plea does support JSON rpc. I honestly have never tried plex. Can you try and check if port 8080 works on the latest Control Cube? or Is it fixed at port 32400 as per that post?
You should really try Plex, they have ported it to just about everything (Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi, NAS, etc) and it has a server client setup so the media server can sit on a NAS or server and everything becomes a client.
I believe the JSON port on Plex is 3005 for the Plex Home Theater client. Port 32400 is for the server. I managed to change the port 3005 to 8080 in the guisettings.xml file and it does work! So perhaps you could add a Plex option working off port 3005?
Any plans to implement home, away, night, vacation modes from UI7?
They are main features of the smarthome and would be nice to have.
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Thanks for the comment and for using Control Cube. I will put your request on our pipeline.
Meanwhile, Are you able to run these modes from Luup code on a scene? As a temp solution you can create 4 scenes (home/away/night/vacation) and this way you can control them from control cube. Of course the more native and obvious solution would be to support them directly through the app.
Thanks! Good to hear. I am not sure about running them from a scene. I will have a look at it when I get the chance.
Yes I do a lot of professional setups. But almost all my setups are in large luxury homes that can have anywhere from 5-12 Vera's in 1 house. So for us, the home and away mode in one Vera serves no functional purpose since it would need to span multiple Vera's and you would need to combine multiple scenes across multiple Vera's to achieve the home or away modes.
So for example, if we want to create an "away" button that turns off all the lighting and closes all the curtains, we would set up a scene on 1 vera (call it away scene) and put in luup code that would run other scenes like "all off" on Vera's 2,3,4,5,6....etc.
Thanks for that, hadiesper. As of now I have just setup scenes for those four scenarios, and put them in a "room" called "Main screen" which we always have the wall mounted iPad in the hall showing. The official Vera app also supports iPad now since the latest version a few days back, and it has the mode buttons on the main screen (called dashboard), but Control Cube looks SO much better!
However since mounting the iPad in wall always connected to power and always on, I have noticed that the weather and time in app does not update until I switch room. Weather updates when using the update-button, but the time does not. I would really appreciate if you could look into that.
Another thing that is annoying is while configuring the system there is always a lot of changes, testing, new devices, new scenes. Control Cube does not update until I clear the database and readds the Z-Wave Controller, but then all the section configuration is lost, and I have to setup all the floors and add each room to correct floor every time. Any chance an update or "re-add" function could be added? Or have I misunderstood anything?


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[*]KodeDaemon (David Stetz) who contributed SD card enhancements to support 4GB SDHC cards (8GB+ cards may work...but not tested).
[*]CW2 who contributed his I2C "repeated start bit" enhancements.
[/list]WARNING: This firmware is pre-release firmware. It may temporarily cause your Netduino to cease functioning properly. If this firmware does not work for you, you will likely need to erase your Netduino completely and re-flash the production v4.1.0.6 bootloader using Atmel SAM-BA tools (on a 32-bit Windows installation) and the production v4.1.0.6 firmware using MFDeploy.
With that warning out of the way, we've added the first two new features to the Netduino: SD/FAT16/FAT32 support and variable bit SPI. We have also added support for "repeated start bit" I2C and some debugger enhancements.
If you're an early adopter and would like to help us test and refine these new features, this beta release may be for you.
4. Card detect feature enables RemovableMedia.Insert and RemovableMedia.Eject events.
1. Download and unzip the attached file to a directory on your computer.
4. Plug your Netduino into your PC using a Micro USB cable. If your Netduino does not connect successfully, try plugging the USB cable into your Netduino first...and then your PC.
5. In the Device section at top, select USB instead of Serial. Your Netduino should appear in the drop-down; if not, select it.
6. Click "Browse..." and select the unzipped files from step #1 (ER_CONFIG and ER_FLASH).
7. Press "Deploy". It will take a few minutes to update your Netduino.
This firmware includes support for SD cards and System.IO filesystem support.
Both the MountSD(...) and Unmount(...) features are fully implemented.
You will need to manually add the SecretLabs.NETMF.IO assembly as a reference in your project to use the SD feature. You will also need to add the System.IO assembly.
Community member KodeDaemon has graciously contributed enhancements to the SD implementation to support some MicroSDHC cards (4GB+). This feature is new and has not been extensively tested. Please post here with the make and model of your SDHC card if it works (or if it doesn't work). Please make sure it is formatted as FAT32.
1. Add the attached ExtendedSpiConfiguration.cs class to your project.
2. Instead of creating a SPI.Configuration instance, use ExtendedSpiConfiguration. It is a subclass of SPI.Configuration and can be used in its place.
3. In the ExtendedSpiConfiguration constructor, you can provide the number of bits per transfer (data bits) as the final paramter.
To use the enhanced I2C capabilities, we've posted a set of easy-to-use functions in another thread.
Please note that we will be including the final version of these new classes in the Netduino v4.1.1 SDK--so you will not need to add them manually. Also, we may change the names of classes, methods, etc.
Some Netduino Plus users may want to disable its Ethernet feature to free up codespace and RAM. You can now do this.
2. Use SAM-BA to flash the Netduino bootloader (TinyBooterDecompress.bin from the zip file, first post of this thread).
Your Netduino Plus will now automatically mount your MicroSD cards just like normal. Plus you'll have a full 128KB of codespace and 62+ KB of RAM.
8GB works? Woot! That's great!
I'll see if we can get a 16GB Sandisk card and a 32GB Sandisk card and see if we can get those sizes working too. I was only expecting to be able to get limited 4GB cards working--so what Kode has put together here is superb.
Glad to hear that. The 16GB is of another brand, that could be the issue. Nice feature though, SDHC support!
Chris, it doesn't look like calling StreamWriter.Flush is writing to the SD card.
Does FileStream.Flush push the data to the card?
It's possible that there's a disconnect between the two in .NET MF. If so, we'll dig into it and ping Microsoft to see if we can get it fixed (either in beta Netduino firmware...or in .NET MF 4.2).
FileStream.Flush is not pushing data to the card as well. But if I call them both then data is flushed to the card.
Thank you very much for this additional info. We have assigned bug #74 to this issue.
Do you happen to have a small project (perhaps a dozen lines of code?) that reproduces this issue? Also, what sort of shield are you using...or is this on a Netduino Plus?
This is a standard Netduino and I am using the Futurlec SD/MMC Mini Board.
Unfortunately I am away from my code at the moment but basically I have a class with the FileStream and StreamWriter declared at the class level and every second or so I make a call to a method that writes a line to the StreamWriter and calls the flush methods. I call first the StreamWriter then the FileStream and that seems to put it on the SD. If I called one or the other nothing would be written to the SD.
I discovered an issue with firmware v4.1.1 Beta 1 using various SD card types. See below.
The SD card reader used in all tests was a Futurlec SD/MMC Mini Board, identical to Ryan Mick's above. I also tested the cards with an AdaFruit microSD card reader and got the same results.
Do you happen to know where we can buy a SanDisk 64MB Transflash card like the one you have? Or perhaps we could arrange a temporary swap for a larger card?
Could you also reflash your Netduino with the v4.1.1 alpha 7 firmware and verify that the card still works there (if you haven't done so)?
The code changes should not affect smaller cards, but it's possible (and apparently affecting you).
Hey Chris, Sure, I can test this on a netduino running v4.1.1.a7 to validate the regression. I'll let you know what I find shortly. I can also send you the card for further testing. Just let me know where to send it... Cheers, -Fabien.
Sure, I can test this on a netduino running v4.1.1.a7 to validate the regression. I'll let you know what I find shortly.
I also tested with a Dane/Elec 512 MB SD card which worked fine.
I will test on a friend's netduino running 4.1.1.a7 on Wednesday and will report my findings here. In any event, it may still be interesting to figure out why the micro TransFlash doesn't work (there's literally no difference between a TransFlash and a microSD card).
I've been experiencing too many weird SD card-related issues with Beta 1 to continue working with it and I had to revert back to Alpha 7.
For instance, the basic piece of code in my post above started throwing CLR_E_NOT_SUPPORTED exceptions all of a sudden after deploying various projects for regression testing. After re-flashing the netduino to Alpha 7, it works fine and things have been stable again.
Am I the only person to have reported this?


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National Academy of Sciences Issues Landmark Statement on the Therapeutic Value of Medical Cannabis
Cannabidiol (CBD) Can Reduce the Risk of Relapse Among Alcohol and Cocaine Addicts
The Truth About Hemp (And Why Big Business Doesn't Want You to Know It)
WATCH: Drug War Addicted Cops Attack Innocent Man for Rolling a Joint in a State With LEGAL Weed
Today's Medical Doctors Get Virtually Zero Nutrition Instruction in Medical School – a Steep Price to Pay for Most of Their Patients
The report should be considered a win for those advocating for the legalization of cannabis-based therapeutic medicines and remedies, as well as a rejection of the DEA's classification of cannabis and cannabis extracts as substances devoid of medical benefit.
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by Alex Pietrowski
In 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States issued a long-awaited decision on the medical benefits of cannabis, and instead of validating what millions of people already know to be true about this healing plant, the DEA chose to keep intact the 1970 designation of cannabis as a schedule I substance, a drug which has, as they claim, no medical benefit.
Furthermore, in an even more egregious affront to justice and common sense, in December of 2016, the DEA made an overnight decision to create a new classification of schedule I drugs for cannabis extracts in order to stop the sale and consumption of CBD oil, a non-psychoactive derivative of cannabis which is known to have many health benefits.
These decisions contradict hundreds of studies, an abundance of medically verified success stories, and countless pieces of anecdotal evidence that cannabis in fact has wide-ranging medical value.
Seen as preposterous to those who support legalization, these rulings appear to be rooted in the status quo tyranny of the drug war and prison industrial complex, two monolithic cash cows which bring immense profit to those who persecute others for recreational and medical use of a plant. Now, however, this DEA's attitude towards cannabis should come under even more scrutiny and criticism, as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has just released a press release which supports the claims that cannabis has therapeutic benefits.
"… the lack of any aggregated knowledge of cannabis-related health effects has led to uncertainty about what, if any, are the harms or benefits from its use. We conducted an in-depth and broad review of the most recent research to establish firmly what the science says and to highlight areas that still need further examination. As laws and policies continue to change, research must also."
In the groundbreaking report released this week entitled The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research (2017), the NAS issued a comprehensive, researched-backed statement on the validity of medical marijuana, including pros and cons, outlining its clinical effectiveness.
"The report states that there is conclusive evidence that marijuana can be used as a medicine. The report did not find clinical evidence for all conditions marijuana treatment is often associated with, but it recognizes its efficacy for treating many medical conditions such as "chronic pain in adults…chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms."" [Source]
Speaking on the significance of a statement such as this coming from such an authoriative scientific body as the NAS, Deputy Director of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, Michael Collins said:
"This report is vindication for all the many researchers, patients and healthcare providers who have long understood the benefits of medical marijuana. To have such a thorough review of the evidence conclude that there are benefits to medical marijuana should boost the case for federal reform. It also underlines how out of touch the DEA and other marijuana reform opponents are when they claim otherwise." [Source]
Key findings in the NAS report of particular interest to advocates of legalization include the following:
Cannabis has significant therapeutic benefit in the treatment of chronic pain, for spasms caused by multiple-sclerosis, and in the reduction of discomfort for chemotherapy and radiation treatment patients.
Smoking cannabis does not increase the risk for cancers often associated with tobacco use.
The NAS report does not appear to show favoritism in its findings, duly noting and reporting evidence of both the positive and negative aspects of chronic cannabis usage, which includes the increased risk of mental health issues and psychosocial issues due to overuse. However, the report should be considered a win for those advocating for the legalization of cannabis-based therapeutic medicines and remedies, as well as a rejection of the DEA's classification of cannabis and cannabis extracts as substances devoid of medical benefit.
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« Lions Club to formally dedicate all-access park
Practice safety when trick-or-treating »
Reminder: Weekend events, bridge work coming up
Trick or treat booths and games will be set up around the Biloxi Town Green Saturday afternoon beginning at 5:30, with an outdoor airing of the novie "Ghostbusters" planned for dusk. Those attending are encouraged to bring a canned food item, which will be donated to the Salvation Army food pantry.
For more informtaion on the Main Street-sponsored event, click here.
Also on Saturday, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Biloxi Lions Club will formally dedicate the new all-access playground area at Lopez Park on Benachi Avenue just south of Howard Avenue.
Members of the Lions Club will be on hand during the dedication to serve free food and drinks. For more about the park project, click here.
Work planned on Popp's Ferry Bridge Tuesday and Wednesday
Motorists traveling the Popp's Ferry Bridge on Tuesday and Wednesday nights will experience traffic slowdowns as repairs are made to the grade at the span of the two-lane bridge.
The city's Public Works Department plans to limit traffic to one lane from 8 p.m. to as late as midnight both nights. The bridge will accommodate vehicular and marine traffic during the work, but motorists are advised to expect slowdowns.
Biloxi Police will be on hand to keep traffic moving safely.
(An earlier release inocrrectly said the work would be on Monday and Tuesday.)
'City Desk' on the issues
This week's "City Desk" webcast includes updates on Caillavet Street progress, published reports involving Harrah's plans in Biloxi, and Friday night's cermeony honoring Biloxi public safety personnel.
To listen to the program, click here.


Here is a bad drawing of the tuffest pushup there is: I call it the super pushup. It works the whole front side, including muscles you didn't know you had. It works the stabilizer muscles between the chest and abs, popularly called the "core".
Use a pair of stools to put your feet on. Or, you can put your feet on a swiss ball. And, that could be easier to do barefoot. A pair of cheap basketballs can be used to put your hands on. The entire move is unstable, and this instability creates enormous amount of work for your chest, abs, and core, delivering maximum benefits in minimum time. Start with your feet and then mount onto your hands, and get started. Start with a few, and work up.
To go to the next level, put a small training sandbag at your side. Kneel down with the balls in place. Put the sandbag on your back between your shoulder blades. Do the pushups.
To progress up to the super pushup, first do pushups with either your hands on basketballs and your feet on the floor or your feet on a swiss ball and your hands on the floor. Progress up to what I call the super pushup, which is hands on basketballs, and feet on 8" stools. From there try mounting up for ultra pushups with the feet on a swiss ball.
You get the idea. Adjust rounds and reps as needed.


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Miss Sarah DODD (c.1850–1930)
St Giles section: Row 23, Grave F26½
Sarah Dodd was the sister of
Mrs Mary Ann Sweatman, née Dodd,
who lies with her husband William Sweatman in the adjoining grave:
Row 23, Grave F26½
SARAH DODD
BELOVED SISTER OF
MARY ANN SWEATMAN
WHO ENTERED INTO REST JUNE 6TH 1930
"PEACE, PERFECT PEACE"
Sarah Dodd was born in Market Drayton, Shropshire in about 1850 (her age fluctuates in the censuses).
By the time of the 1881 census she had come to Oxford to live with her older sister, Mrs Mary Ann Sweatman and her husband William, and she remained in Oxford for the rest of her life. Her age in that census is given as 25, but she was probably about 30. She lived with the Sweatmans first at 134 Walton Street, then at 48 Wellington Square, and finally at 80 St Bernard's Road.
Sarah probably moved to 98 Southmoor Road to live with her nephew Frederick Sweatman and his family following the death of her sister Mary Ann in August 1922. She died there in 1930, and was buried in an adjoining grave:
† Miss Sarah Dodd died at 98 Southmoor Road at the age of 79 on 6 June 1930 and was buried at St Sepulchre's Cemetery on 10 June (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles's Church).
Her effects came to £328 2s. 1d., and probate was granted to her nephew Frederick


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Creative Diversions: A Healthy Way to Recharge or a Sneaky Path to Self-Sabotage?
If you're looking to build a career as a full-time writer, you need to hone a laser-like focus. When I was building my business, I would wake up an hour early to write before work and then spend another eight or nine hours in front of my laptop. I wrote on the weekends. Sometimes I edited on lunch breaks. It was a grueling period in my life, but it allowed me to leave my 9-to-5 to pursue my writing full time.
To this day I write at a relatively fast pace. I publish a new book every four to five months, and I've maintained this rhythm for years. But sometimes my Inner Artist taps me on the shoulder and whispers that she'd like to work on something else — a story in an unrelated genre perhaps or a blog for writers.
Sometimes, I can appease her with my daily expressive writing. Other times, she needs more: a full-blown creative diversion.
A creative diversion is any creative pursuit unrelated to your current work in progress. It could be launching a new website, writing a weird little short story, learning the art of watercolors — you name it. For myself, I apply this label to any form of creative work that doesn't have the potential to make me money (at least in the short term).
1. An opportunity to recharge. It doesn't matter how much you love your genre — writing in the same niche or in the same series day after day can get old. A creative diversion is a great way to maintain creative enthusiasm and take a more active mental break. Between books four and five of my second dystopian series, I took a few months off to write a little police procedural/murder mystery in the flavor of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." My novella didn't sell, but it was an invigorating creative vacation that allowed me to re-charge for the next book in my series.
2. A growth opportunity. Taking a break to write in a new genre or try out a different style of writing allows us to flex our creative muscles. It's a growth opportunity that can prevent us from getting stuck in the same old patterns of writing. I find that when I'm trying to break into a different genre or pursue a different creative medium altogether, I find interesting new ways to express myself that I wouldn't have found otherwise.
It can be tricky to justify a creative diversion outside of writing, but these pursuits also offer us a chance to learn important new skills that could add depth to our work. You may not understand how playing the ukulele or taking up podcasting could help your fiction, but you may be surprised. We don't always know how our personal experiences and specialized knowledge may enrich our writing. The fact that I once wrote a character who plays the ukulele reassures me that no creative pursuit is ever a waste of time.
3. A chance to keep the spark alive. Maintaining a long writing career requires that we nurture our creativity. Just like any relationship, it's not enough to just go through the motions on a daily basis. We have to keep the passion alive. That means courting our creativity, doing nice things for our Inner Artist, and trying new things to keep the relationship fresh and exciting. Sometimes "fresh and exciting" doesn't make money, but it does bring long-term creative satisfaction.
And, of course, they are FUN! That should be reason enough. How can life be worth living if we don't allow ourselves to do the things that bring us joy? I know that taking a few minutes to play my ukulele or write a poem enriches my life. And I value that above all else. Sometimes, creative diversions are just good for the soul, and we NEED them to feel fully human.
But when do creative diversions veer into the territory of procrastination and self-sabotage?
You find yourself bouncing from one project to another and never completing any of them.
You consistently have three or more projects in progress at once.
You experience crippling anxiety any time you think about putting your work out into the world. This is usually the time you start a new creative project.
You never return to your old projects.
You turn to a creative diversion whenever you feel blocked mid-project.
2. Ask yourself: Is this a burning desire or a fleeting impulse? Quite often, being a creative is like being a dog that sees a squirrel and immediately becomes distracted. We move through the world with open eyes and open hearts, so it's easy for us to get excited at the prospect of a new creative project.
A couple years ago, my husband was frequently out of town for work, and I was left home alone. One day I had this burning urge to play the ukulele, so I went out and bought one on impulse. When he returned I'd already mastered several songs. (I still love my ukulele to this day.) Then, this past summer, I became obsessed with the idea of analog photography. I went on Craigslist, bought a camera, and I have yet to develop my first roll of film. I've noticed that I frequently disappear down a Craiglist/eBay rabbit hole when my husband goes away because I get bored. Now I like to sit with a desire for at least a week to see if it's just an impulse or a true burning desire.
3. Only succumb to creative diversions between projects. If you frequently become distracted by other pursuits and struggle to finish any of your projects, you may need to create a rule that you are only allowed creative diversions after you have finished a major project like a novel. I like to tackle new writing projects between books, especially if I'm in the middle of a long series. At the end of December, I published book three in a six-book sci-fi series, so I felt it was a good time to tackle a nonfiction project that had been burning in my heart. I gave myself a month to work on it, and I was able to dive into book four with renewed enthusiasm.
Creative diversions can be a wonderful way to keep our passion for writing alive. They can help us rejuvenate between big projects and grow as writers and humans. Most importantly, they are the stuff LIFE is made of — art and music and crafternoons! But like any diversion (like shopping or partying), creative diversions can become destructive if we use them as a way to bypass our emotions. We may not break the bank writing our moody screenplay or need to get our stomach pumped after a night of macramé, but these side projects can veer into self-sabotage if we allow them to get in the way of our most important creative work.
To avoid derailing our progress, we must learn to recognize our own patterns of procrastination and avoidance. That way, we can indulge without guilt in the things that bring us joy.
Do you have any big creative diversions? What are they, and do you think they're a help or a hindrance?


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FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) – Bullying by a brother or sister in childhood can have lasting effects, threatening mental health in the teen years, new British research suggests.
Researchers found that mental health was affected whether one was the bully or the victim.
"Of particular note was the finding that even those who bullied their siblings, but weren't bullied themselves [i.e. the bullies] had poorer mental health outcomes years later," said lead author Umar Toseeb, from the University of York.
Toseeb and his colleagues analyzed data for 17,000 teens to determine the impact of sibling bullying.
Participants were part of the U.K.-based Millennium Cohort Study started in the early 2000s. While young people completed questionnaires about sibling bullying at ages 11 and 14 and on their own mental health at age 17, their parents also answered questions about their child's mental health at those ages.
The research team found that as the frequency of bullying increased in early to middle adolescence, the severity of mental health problems in late teens also increased.
"Whilst sibling bullying has previously been linked to poor mental health outcomes, it was not known whether there is a relationship between the persistence of sibling bullying and the severity of mental health outcome, in the longer term," Toseeb said in a university news release.
"We comprehensively investigated a whole range of mental health outcomes, which included measures of both positive [well-being and self-esteem] and negative [symptoms of psychological distress] mental health," he added.
Being a victim of sibling bullying, the perpetrator, or both had a long-term effect on both positive and negative late teenage mental health, the researchers found.
The study noted that adolescence is a particularly vulnerable period for the deterioration of mental health. Sibling relationships can contribute to developing those issues.
Researchers suggested that prevention strategies and clinical interventions that reduce sibling bullying in early adolescence might improve mental health outcomes in the later teen years.
The findings were published Sept. 29 in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
The University of Pennsylvania has more about teen mental health.
SOURCE: University of York, news release, Sept. 29, 2021
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Amitabh and his Everlasting Light
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After his critically acclaimed Let's Talk, Ram Madhvani is back with a 30-min documentary on Amitabh Bachchan titled 'Everlasting light' - a literal translation of AB's name. The documentary was originally made for the New York Film Festival in April as a preamble to Bachchan retrospective. The documentary is mainly targeted at the international audiences who do not know Amitabh Bachchan. The documentary has international voices like Salman Rushdie, Suketu Mehta and Shashi Tharoor speaking on the Bollywood superstar. The documentary speaks of Bachchan's career in films, his political stint, comebacks and Bofors through his own perspective. The documentary also features Bachchan reciting his father Harivanshrai Bachchan's poetry and speaking at length on his father, his school and college days. The Bachchans did not interfere in the making and did not ask for a single change, informs Madhvani. This folk tale form of documentary was highly appreciated by the New York film festival director Richard Pena and the Bachchans.
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HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES Release New Single "The Boogieman Surprise"
Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 20, 2019
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Fresh off a triumphant seven-city North America tour this week, which included a stop at the famous Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES have unveiled the brand new song "The Boogieman Surprise". At the aforementioned L.A. performance, Steven Tyler, the Aerosmith frontman and long-time musical partner of Joe Perry, turned up for a guest appearance, as did Marilyn Manson. Johnny Depp took lead vocals on Bowie's "Heroes" and the "world's most expensive bar band," as proclaimed by Alice Cooper, delivered a live master class of rock 'n' roll, which included their newest track "The Boogieman Surprise."
The song has been part of the band's live set since the 2018 world tour and is a highlight of every Hollywood Vampires live show. Written by the band, it features the undeniable chemistry between rock and roll royalty Perry, Hollywood superstar Depp and shock rock icon Cooper. A laid back groove, grinding guitars, and smooth strings create an epic, ominous, outsider anthem with Cooper's vocal sounding as fierce as ever. Their stage telepathy is showcased in the accompanying live video, filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2018.
WATCH THE LIVE VIDEO TO "THE BOOGIEMAN SURPRISE" HERE:
LISTEN TO "THE BOOGIEMAN SURPRISE" HERE.
"Rise", the band's 2nd album, is some of the purest, unapologetic and most enjoyable rock and roll of the year, made by masters of the craft and true fans of the form.
Unlike their 2015 debut record, the new album "Rise" consists mainly of original material, written by the band. There are however, in the spirit of the Vampires' original mission, three covers of songs originally written and recorded by some fellow rockers who died far too young: an intimate and intense version of David Bowie's "Heroes", again beautifully performed on record by Johnny Depp; the late Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died," and Johnny Thunder's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory," sung by Joe Perry.
Produced by Tommy Henriksen and the Hollywood Vampires, "Rise" is set to the most anticipated rock albums of 2019 will be released on June 21st, 2019 on earMUSIC as CD Digipak, 2LP+Download and Digital.
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE: https://HollywoodVampires.lnk.to/Rise
THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES: New Album "Rise" Out June 21st
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THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES return with new music from their explosive second album, "Rise". Rock and roll royalty Joe Perry, Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp and shock rock icon Alice Cooper join forces once again for the unmissable rock album of 2019.
Seconds into the opening track "I Want My Now," it's clear this supergroup has created something special – the chemistry between the individuals is unmistakeable when they come together on stage or in the recording studio. Forget the star-studded lineup's individual reputations, "Rise" is some of the purest, unapologetic and most enjoyable rock and roll of the year, made by masters of the craft and true fans of the form.
Unlike their 2015 debut record, the new album "Rise" consists mainly of original material, written by the band. There are however, in the spirit of the Vampires' original mission, three covers of songs originally written and recorded by some fellow rockers who died far too young: an intimate and intense version of David Bowie's "Heroes", beautifully performed by Johnny Depp; the late Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died," and Johnny Thunder's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory," sung by Joe Perry. Raucous rock anthems like "The Boogieman Surprise" and "Who's Laughing Now" (the first single from the new album), capture the natural, raw, celebratory attitude of Hollywood Vampires displayed in their rowdy shows around the world. But the album shows off their range as well with tracks like "We Gotta Rise" – a tongue-in-cheek politics song in the the tradition of Alice's "Elected" – to the psychedelic gothic epic of "Mr. Spider."
"'Rise' is not only a totally different animal than the first Vampires album, it is unique to anything I've ever been a part of. I approached it very differently than I usually do when working on an album. Each of us; Joe, Johnny, Tommy and myself have written songs on this album. What is different though is that I didn't try to change any songs to be more "Alice-like." Because each of us has different influences, the sound of this album is very cool. I think that with this album, we are establishing what the Vampires' sound really is, whereas with the first album we were more tipping our hats to our fallen rock n roll brothers." – Alice Cooper
"'Rise' came from pure creative energy, which is just like playing live with the Vampires. The record showcases everyone doing what they do best without anyone looking over our shoulders. There was no pressure or deadlines, allowing us to write and record an album that is one of the freest and most honest sounding records I've been part of. I can't wait to perform some of these tunes live for our fans." – Joe Perry
earMUSIC, the global independent rock label of Edel Germany GmbH, is proud to announce the worldwide signing of Hollywood Vampires. Following the release of Alice Cooper's 2017 studio album "Paranormal" on earMUSIC, his best chart-performing work in decades, the label is proud to welcome the band to their family.
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO TO "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW" HERE:
LISTEN TO "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW" HERE!
Produced by Tommy Henriksen and the Hollywood Vampires, "Rise" will be released on June 21st, 2019 on earMUSIC as CD Digipak, 2LP+Download and Digital.
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE!
1. I Want My Now
2. Good People Are Hard To Find
3. Who's Laughing Now
4. How The Glass Fell
5. The Boogieman Surprise
6. Welcome To Bushwackers (feat. Jeff Beck & John Waters)
7. The Wrong Bandage
8. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
9. Git From Round Me
11. A Pitiful Beauty
12. New Threat
13. Mr. Spider
14. We Gotta Rise
15. People Who Died
16. Congratulations
The Hollywood Vampires who previously performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Rock In Rio and the 2016 Grammy Awards in addition to hugely successful U.S. and EU/UK tours last year, will embark on a seven-date U.S. West Coast tour in May.
THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES ON TOUR:
5/10 – The Joint – Las Vegas, NV
5/11 – Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
5/12 – Warfield Theatre – San Francisco, CA
5/14 – The Fillmore – Denver, CO
5/16 – Sandia Resort – Albuquerque, NM
5/17 – Talking Stick Casino – Scottsdale, AZ
5/18 – Fantasy Springs Resort Casino – Indio, CA
JOE PERRY: Returns To HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES After Collapse
Posted by aliblackdiamond on July 22, 2016
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AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry will rejoin supergroup THE HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES on tour tonight (July 22nd) following the health scare that sent him to hospital during a show earlier this month, according to teamrock.com.
He was seen to struggle during the performance in New York on July 10, then staggered off stage, where he collapsed and was stretchered out by emergency staff.
While the cause has not been officially provided, unconfirmed reports say he was suffering from dehydration and exhaustion, and was ordered by doctors to rest.
A brief Facebook statement says: "Joe will rejoin The Hollywood Vampires July 22. Catch the tour before it ends."
Four days remain on the trip, led by Alice Cooper and also featuring Johnny Depp, Matt Sorum and Robert DeLeo.
Tickets here: http://www.hollywoodvampires.com/tour
July 22 Rohnert Park, CA Weill Hall
July 23 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
July 24 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery
July 25 CA Paso Robles, CA Mid State Fair
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JOE PERRY: Collapses During HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES Show
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During the HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES' July 10th show at the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk, guitarist Joe Perry (Aerosmith) reportedly left the stage two songs into the band's set and collapsed, reported Bravewords.com. The footage below shows Perry struggling to play before leaving the stage and the EMT's rushing to help. The show continued without him.
Page Six is now reporting that Perry suffered a cardiac arrest at approximately 9:30pm and was taken to Coney Island Hospital. He is listed in stable condition.
Hollywood Vampires frontman and shock rock legend Alice Cooper later posted the following message:
"Thanks to everyone asking about our brother @JoePerry. He is stable right now, with family & is under the best care"
Thanks to everyone asking about our brother @JoePerry. He is stable right now, with family & is under the best care https://t.co/oxCRUqRAk6—
Alice Cooper (@RealAliceCooper) July 11, 2016
Following their wildly successful concerts at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, in front of 100,000 screaming fans at the Rock In Rio festival, and their spectacular worldwide television debut on the 2016 Grammy Awards reaching a global audience of almost 25 million people, fans worldwide demanded more. Hollywood Vampires – Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp – always deliver and arranged their schedules to give their fans what they want.
Joining the Hollywood Vampires on tour are modern day Vampires Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses/The Cult) on drums, Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) on bass, Tommy Henriksen (Alice Cooper) on guitar, and Bruce Witkin (The Kids) on piano, percussion and guitar. For tickets, visit this location.
"Here is a gang of friends who came together really by chance and over the last year we were finally able to wrangle our schedules and the energy just fell into place. Playing with this line up is like a dream come true. After seeing the reaction at Rock in Rio in front of 100,000 fans, I know this band is going to tear the house down. Hell, I would want to be in the audience to see us rip it up." – Joe Perry
A super-group comprised of rock royalty and a Hollywood superstar, the Vampires will hit the stage offering fans a non-stop, energetic rock concert like no other, performing their new single "Bad As I Am" from their new deluxe album, as well as renditions of popular classics including "My Generation," "Whole Lotta Love," and a "School's Out"/"Another Brick in the Wall" medley.
Hollywood Vampires released a new digital deluxe version of their self-titled album. This expanded version includes three additional songs, including one original and two rocking covers. The deluxe version includes the scorching new single "Bad As I Am" an original song penned by Johnny Depp, Tommy Henriksen, and Bruce Witkin and features Matt Sorum, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Johnny Depp. Also included is "I'm A Boy," a Who original, that was only available as a Japanese bonus track. "7 and 7 Is" is an unreleased track from the album sessions and is the classic song by the legendary Los Angeles band Love, a Vampires special pick and one that Alice covered on his 1981 solo album, Special Forces.
In 1969 on the Sunset Strip at a club called the Rainbow Bar & Grill, the Hollywood Vampires were born in the upstairs bar. It was a gathering place for the rock stars living in or passing through L.A. "To join the club, one simply had to out drink all of the members," says Alice Cooper, a founding member of the original Vampires.
Cooper and good friend Johnny Depp got together and decided the spirit of the Hollywood Vampires should live again (minus the drinking). Cooper and Depp were joined by Joe Perry, who is an old friend of both, and the recording began: a tribute to the original Hollywood Vampires. An environment was born for great artists to hang, laugh and play together.
12 – Kettering, OH – Fraze Pavilion
13 – Mt. Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
14 – Cadott, WI – Rock Fest
16 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
18 – Fargo, ND – Scheels Arena
22 – Rohnert Park, CA – Weill Hall
23 – Jacksonville, OR – Britt Pavilion
24 – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
25 – Paso Robles, CA – Mid State Fair
HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES – Feat. Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper And Joe Perry – Announce First Live Dates
Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 12, 2015
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According to Rollingstone.com, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, the supergroup featuring Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, have announced their first live dates, set for next month. Rounding out the lineup will be former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum, both of whom also play in the supergroup Velvet Revolver.
The name HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES references a loose collective of rockers, including Cooper, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon, who got together in the early Seventies and drink on the Sunset Strip at the Rainbow. Cooper's crew – which is issuing its debut album, Hollywood Vampires, on September 11th – plans on keeping true to its moniker's origins.
The first Hollywood Vampires concerts will take place at the fabled Sunset Strip outpost the Roxy on September 16th and 17th. It will be the group's only U.S. show. Cooper guitarist Tommy Henriksen will also be playing at the show as will bassist Bruce Witkin, who played with Depp in a band called the Kids. Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday via Ticketfly.
The group has also planned an appearance in Brazil on September 24th as part of the Rock in Rio festival. Prior to that show, the band will be meeting with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to help fit 150 people in need with hearing aids and bring some of the fans to the show so they can hear music for the first time.
As for the Vampires' music, the crew plays a mix of cover songs by members of the original Hollywood vampires, including the Who's "My Generation," the Doors' "Five to One" and "Break on Through," Nilsson's "Jump Into the Fire," Lennon's "Cold Turkey" and Jimi Hendrix's "Manic Depression," among others, along with some original tunes. Their debut album will feature a number of notable special guests, including Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Slash, Joe Walsh and AC/DC's Brian Johnson. Video of the group's star-studded recording sessions can be seen here, with artist proceeds from the album going to the charity MusiCares.
AEROSMITH: Joe Perry's Rock Your World BBQ Sauce Available For Order
Posted by aliblackdiamond on September 27, 2013
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AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry's Rock Your World BBQ Sauce is now available to order at this location.
A description reads: Original BBQ Sauce 100% ALL Natural, sweet smokey taste will kick your taste buds up to 11. With a 19 oz. bottle, you will have plenty to slather on your favorite foods. Use it on everything from burgers to ribs and make every BBQ as exciting as a concert!
Ingredients: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Sugar, Vinegar, Molasses, Brown Sugar, Salt, Garlic, Onion, Tamarind, Xanthan Gum, Spices, Natural Hickory and Mesquite Flavor, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Citric Acid (naturally occurring).


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House Passes Bill To Raise The Federal Minimum Wage To $15
The Raise the Wage Act would gradually bring the federal minimum wage up from $7.25 to $15 by 2025. But it's not expected to become law.
The House has passed a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage.
On Thursday, lawmakers voted 231-199 to approve the Raise the Wage Act, which would gradually bring the federal minimum wage up from $7.25 to $15 by 2025.
Only three Republicans voted in favor of the legislation. And in its current form, the bill's chances of passing in the GOP-controlled Senate are slim to none. Still, proponents of the "Fight for $15" movement are applauding the House vote as a major victory.
"We're going to continue to stand up for working families, middle-class folks, senior citizens, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, and fight for the people," Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said.
According to data compiled by the Congressional Budget Office, the Raise the Wage Act could put more money in the pockets of as many as 27 million American workers and lift 1.3 million people out of poverty.
But that might come at a price — the CBO says 1.3 million workers could lose their jobs as a result of the legislation.
Additional reporting from Newsy affiliate CNN.
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Audio Drama Review – Dredge Runners by Alec Worley
An article by Andrew "Kenji" Smith Books Reviews October 12, 2020 0
This review contains mild, general spoilers for the audio drama.
Reviewing an audio drama is a tricky thing. Unlike a full novel or even short story, there is very little content that can be discussed without essentially retelling the entire story seconhand. I've been a fan of Black Library's audio dramas on and off since I got into the hobby, and most of them run around the 45 – 60 minute mark, with some longer pieces, such as the Celestine and Greyfax Sexual Tension Buddycop Story, Our Martyred Lady, weighing in at a ponderous 5 hours. Generally, audio dramas have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it in; the single commute to work, a single miniature painting session, a workout (Personally, I think Brian Blessed's confused screaming as Gotrek might distract from my squat form, but you do you). These stories are also burdened with a somewhat awkward reality: not many people will listen to them (Even Blessed's Gotrek has seen a printed version of the script and a novel sequel), implying that unless it's in print, Black Library says it doesn't matter, which is not a great implication for getting people to pay you money for an experience.
But oh, what an experience it can be, when it works.
Audio dramas are fairly niche; they combine stage play performance with audio-visual techniques, and in many cases feels extremely old-fashioned, harkening back to a period of media before visual media dominated the non-literary landscape. This is perhaps further removed from non-English audiences, as most modern audio dramas (not in the form of narrative podcasts, anyway, but closely related) feel as if they come exclusively from England, following in the steps of Dr. Who and other franchises that seek ways to reach their audience through the airwaves. Whenever I've talked to people about them, I've never actually met anyone who had listened to a Warhammer audio drama, and many of them seemed to assume I was talking about audio books, not dramas, which was somewhat disappointing. Unlike an audio book, which usually features a singular narrator playing all roles and without sound effects, audio dramas provide everything but the visuals to the listener, letting details fill in as our brains process the dialogue and sounds flooding into our ears. Sadly, the other issue is that not all audio dramas are, well, good. In fact, many of them aren't even bad, but just mediocre; small, condensed narratives that don't really do anything or produce anything of interest. Two of the first I ever listened to, Eye of Night and Hand of Darkness, I found the stories fairly flat and uninteresting, despite the absolutely "star-studded" main casts including Inquisitor Greyfax, the Visarch, and Yvraine. The acting was hammy (in the bad way), the plots jumbled and rushed (both featured conclusions so sudden that I was left wondering if there was something wrong with the CDs I'd bought), and details were either non-existent or dumped in huge expository monologues. The fact that I stuck through audio dramas and continued to enjoy them, then, perhaps says more about me than it does Black Library, but I will say that there are very good, very fun audio dramas out there… and Dredge Runners is one of the best.
Billed as a "Baggit and Clodde Audio Drama," Alec Worley's Dredge Runners is my second favorite audio drama, losing out only to Our Martyred Lady, and frankly, if Dredge Runners were longer, it would probably have taken the top spot. The Warhammer Crime label has been some of the most entertaining fiction Black Library has put out in a while, freed in a lot of ways from the need to cram Space Marines and product placement into every possible nook and cranny of a story. Dredge Runners takes this even further, featuring two characters who barely even have models to represent them (Baggit, a Ratling, and Clodde, an Ogryn), and a collection of co-starring characters that would require kitbashing to even approach. From a sales point of view, Dredge Runners is not going to put models in your hands, and for that reason, I actually sort of respect it more for how fun it ends up being.
The general premise is that in the hive city Varangantua (the same one featured in other Warhammer Crime stories, notably Bloodlines and Flesh and Steel), the Dredge contains the lowest of the low, an inescapable slum of poverty and desperation. Baggit and Clodde are ex-Astra Militarum, although why they're ex-AM and not dead is never explained, but listeners learn early on that Clodde is a particularly "astute" Ogryn thanks to accidentally being shot in the head by Baggit. Paul Putner's acting as Clodde really steals much of the show, as his ponderous and thoughtful monologues as the Ogryn, talking metaphysics and philosophy had me grinning from the sheer panache of his dialogue. Jon Rand's Baggit is similarly smooth, evoking a rogue Hobbit-esque scoundrel with a (wounded) heart of gold. For their credit, the rest of the voice crew do a good job, but no one steals the audio drama as much as the radio announcer, David Seddon–but we'll come back to him.
Baggit and Clodde find themselves at odds with just about everyone in this drama after a botched trade leaves them indebted to a dangerous ganger, only to have their "repayment" put them in the crosshairs of a seemingly saintly Preceptum. How they escape danger is half the fun, but suffice it to say the drama does at least let you know that they will indeed, as otherwise "A Baggit and Clodde Audio Drama" would be fairly weird. Although only having an hour to tell its story, Dredge Runners wastes very little of it, and I found the story avoided any low, dull points or expository dumps, perhaps due to the limited view of the protagonists: Baggit and Clodde aren't interested in knowing everything, so neither are we. In other audio dramas I've listened to, this has been the kiss of death for me, and Dredge Runners deftly avoids that pitfall, keeping the story focused and the narrative forward moving.
Surprise, it's Empathy!
When Baggit cried in frustration around the climax of the audio drama, I was so taken aback by it that I actually paused the audio for a moment. It wasn't exactly that the crying was out of place for the event, but it was more the immediate thought in my mind of "Did a male character in a Black Library story just show emotional vulnerability?". It is perhaps "controversial" but in many BL stories, characters express very few emotional states that are not "anger" or "aloof detachment", and there are a lot of ways in which the Warhammer product expresses certain unspoken normative behaviors. Hearing a character cry from the sheer frustration of being poor, stranded, and sinking under the weight of an oppressive lifestyle was, well, a 2020 mood, but also something I never really thought I'd read, let alone hear, in a BL product. It instantly made Baggit a more rounded character than many others who I read about for hundreds of pages, and in terms of audio dramas, instantly cemented this story as a favorite.
While the story doesn't dwell on this moment for long, it dwells on it enough to make it a significant turning point in the direction of the story. It also marks something that makes this drama very interesting from the perspective of a longtime fan of Warhammer lore: depictions of everyday life. There is not a single Space Marine, Commissar, Lord (well, one), or any other marquee personage in this entire drama. The best character, in all honesty, is the radio announcer that speaks during the prologue, midpoint, and epilogue of the drama. Playing the part of a radio propagandist, the announcer hams it up in the greatest way, selling Lho sticks to beaten Imperials, warning of reduced faith and work ethic, and calling on listeners to recite their litanies. Where there some sort of civilian level video game, you'd expect to hear this sort of commentary during quiet city moments or exploration segments in the background. The final announcement is perhaps the best, and I won't spoil it, but it felt like an amazing way to both end this drama and harken back to the radio dramas that these audio stories are descended from.
Discordant Noise
This drama is not without a few missteps, and one of the most grating is the use of sound effects to set the scene. While most of the time these are mood setters, a few times during this drama I found myself reaching for the volume on my stereo out of sheer, ear grating noise. I get it. Imperial slums are industrial nightmares. I don't need to hear it quite that authentically. The audio noise also drowned the dialogue at times, which seems like a mixing problem more than anything else, but just as the little touches in voice acting sucked me in, these little periods of audio disharmony pulled me right back out of it, fiddling with volume more than concentrating on what was happening.
Of course, this final complaint feels silly, but this just felt like a story that was beginning. This is the origin of Baggit and Clodde, but the sad reality is that it may take years before we ever see more of them. I'd love to have had this get a multi-disc release, perhaps one that recounted a few individual episodes, but the reality of these audio dramas is that they probably exist on a fairly shoestring budget, and their life and death is perhaps determined by sales than interest. Who knows; maybe, like with Blessed's Gotrek, we'll get a series of Baggit and Clodde novellas or full-length novels, but honestly I want to see more of these characters, more of Varangantua, and I specifically want to hear more of these things. These are the types of stories the audio dramas can excel at telling. I don't want to hear Space Marines talk to one another, I want to hear the struggles and daily life of Imperial citizens. I want to hear the indoctrination and propaganda that blares across their planet at all hours of the day; if there were ever a reason to listen to audio dramas, these are the reasons.
In the end, Dredge Runners is perhaps one of the best audio dramas I've heard from the Black Library selection, and if separated from the deluxeified, celebrity-laden dramas like Our Martyred Lady or Gotrek, the best audio drama I've ever listened to from Black Library in general. But I get it; audio dramas are cheesy. They aren't acted in a way that live-action or animated films can convey. They aren't as interactive as a video-game or a novel. But what they are is great exercises in the imagination, of hearing the world of Varangantua, of the 41st Milennium, come to life through your ears, rather than your eyes. Rather than wondering what paint recipe was used to make that miniature or whether that Space Marine is rendered to scale, audio dramas let listeners do the imagining in a universe that is almost entirely prescribed. What Baggit and Clodde, or Preceptum Savriel Sabbriatti and Tabidiah Kruger looked like in my mind will likely differ for anyone else. And in that sense, the audio drama is an absolute treat. But is it worth your money? Well, that's sometimes a harder question to answer.
Audio dramas run around the $13/€10 rate for mp3 files, but get considerably more if buying them physically on CD (which tend to have low, single print-runs from my experience). For that price, I believe Dredge Runners is well worth the price of admission, giving listeners an hour of enjoyment that's atmospheric, fun, and imaginative. So if you've never tried the Black Library audio drama range, and you love Warhammer 40k as a setting, and not just a game, then Dredge Runners is absolutely a bargain for an interesting, entertaining good time; whether it will become the first of many in the "Baggit and Clodde" line, who knows, but for now, I'm content to listen to this one a few more times as I work on my Necromunda models and consider Imperial life that isn't enshrined in power armor.
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