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This Year's Vimy Lecture Set Against Exhibit Featuring Elgin's Contribution in WWI
This year, the Elgin County Museum is featuring the centenary of WWI and Elgin's contribution to the war both at home and overseas. The current exhibition fills the museum space with archival photographs and displays on that theme. It made an especially appropriate backdrop to this year's Vimy Lecture, held annually on the anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917.
On Saturday, Ridgetown re-enactor Kent May portrayed some experiences from the life of Lance Sergeant Ellis Sifton, a Wallacetown native who died ninety-nine years ago on April 9th. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. May drew information from letters written by Sifton to his sisters between November 1914 and April 5th 1917.
May's presentation provided insight into Sifton's thoughts about his family, home and duties as a soldier. It revealed some of the experiences, simple pleasures and struggles of a young man who seemed to complain rarely and who was determined to do the honourable thing for his country. May acknowledged Jeff Booth's work in transposing and compiling Sifton's letters. (They can be found in a publication edited by Booth, "All is Well with Ellis Tonight".)
Re-enactor Kent May
Above: replica medals & info on Sifton (left); Sifton (right; click for entire photo, courtesy of Elgin County Archives)
Elgin County Contributions and Lives Lost
Sifton single-handedly removed a German machine emplacement at the cost of his own life at Vimy Ridge. 2,250 Elgin men and women served during the war. 400 hundred didn't return and the museum honours them with a Wall of Remembrance. Others are remembered through illustrated highlights of their experiences.
Elgin County Nursing Sisters
Also on hand Saturday was Tracy Gordon in nursing sister uniform, portraying a World War I Casualty Clearing Station nurse. The Stations were located at points near the front lines where the wounded received care on their way to a hospital.
"We had 23 nursing sisters come from Elgin County; three of them served in the 10th Stationary which was formed by the University of Western Ontario. We had another nineteen serve as voluntary aid attachment volunteers that also worked in England or France. Nine women from Elgin worked as nurses in one of several US units, one in a British unit, and one for the Red Cross.
Trench Cake
Tracy Gordon also provided Trench Cake for attendees on Saturday to try. With war-time rations, some foods were scarce, so this recipe contained no eggs. Trench Cake would frequently arrive in the packages from home for men overseas.
Socks for Soldiers and the Home Front
Yvonne Taylor and Gil Minty both took positions in the "Home Front" section of the exhibit on Saturday, to operate WWI era automatic knitting devices. The machines are front and centre in that section of the exhibit because sock making was an activity most women in Elgin County participated in during the course of the war, although most did not have the luxury of having an automatic knitter.
Socks were the subject of many thank-you letters sent by men at the front to groups back home; the exhibit includes a collection of them. One organization in Aylmer known as the Aylmer Travel Club spent a great deal of time knitting socks for the troops. One of the men, H.W. Cooper, was "adopted" by the group. They encouraged him to continue to send letters with sketches like the ones which appeared in his first letter back. He did so for almost two years. Four groups of the letters were reproduced in Mcleans and you can see reproductions of the articles.
In November of 1916, a Canadian soldier, Herbert W. Cooper received a pair of socks knitted by a member of the Aylmer Travel Club, a group of women who had decided to support the war by providing the men overseas with what were called "field comforts" – mostly knit wear of various kinds. The club's secretary, Miss Ella Lewis, had her name and the Travel Club's address stamped on tags and placed in each garment.
Cooper sent a two-page letter of thanks and included a self-portrait of himself writing the letter. Miss Lewis was enthralled and the club "adopted" Sgt. Cooper asking him to write occasionally with descriptions of life behind the lines.
Many of the sketches and letters he sent to Miss Lewis found their way through her to Thomas B. Costain, Editor of Maclean's, who produced four articles from them. Miss Lewis had the letters and sketches returned to her and held on to them for many years. They were donated to the Elgin County Museum in 1973 and were later transferred to the Archives.
There's plenty more to see and delve into at this exhibition, with many photos from the Elgin County Archives, background stories on the men and women who served, and more on the home front.
Above - Elgin County Museum Curator Michael Baker tried out the pump organ in the Home Front section previous to the exhibit opening (above left); some of the information at the exhibit relating to the war experiences of "Nipper" Scott.
Above - Area men who enlisted in St. Thomas soon after the outbreak of War. (Photo of the exhibit photo which is Courtesy of Elgin County Archives)
Thumbnail photo at top of article is a cropped version of a photo of Sifton from the Elgin County Archives. "Behind the Canadian Line" runs until July 30th. Included in the displays are over 30 original sketches by H.W. Cooper, as well as a number of paintings by Ross Osgoode, an artist from St. Thomas who served in the war. Elgin County Museum is located at 450 Sunset Dr, St. Thomas, 519-631-1460 ext.160; www.facebook.com/pages/Elgin-County-Museum/750866584990608.
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Sensor technology company Trolex has added two new detection modules as it looks to expand its presence in equipment supply for the tunnelling industry.
Humidity and temperature modules are now available for the Sentro-8 and Sentro-1 detection systems, to add to an existing array of sensors that include vibration, hazardous gas concentrations, pressure and proximity.
Sentro-8, the result of two years of development, can monitor all types of environmental conditions such as vibration, pressure and flow, and now temperature and humidity with the addition of the two new modules.
Additionally gases such as methane, oxygen and carbon monoxide can be monitored all in one integrated package. Sentro-8 is ready to be configured to meet gas detection and condition monitoring requirements without the need for complex investment in system design or the need for specialist back-up.
Sentro-1 employs similar new technology for standalone single gas safety, temperature and humidity monitoring in mining, tunnelling and industrial applications where robust equipment is essential in these adverse environments.
Trolex in one of the leaders in gas detection and environmental monitoring for the mining industry, but is looking to expand its presence in the tunnelling sector.
In the UK Trolex is supplying Costain with 13 Sentro-8 Sensorstations, complete with global alarm pushbuttons, for use during construction of the Brighton and Hove Waste Water Treatment Works 2.44m diameter supply tunnels. The project uses 13 Sentro-8 Sensorstations, each with 3 eModules monitoring H2S, CH4 and O2, O3 and O4. There are two spare channels in each of the Sentro-8's for future extension of the system if required. Along with the Sentro-8 stations Costain is using 13 CO2 infrared gas detectors and six air-flow sensors. All the information from these products is displayed on a PC and SCADA system in the control room.
The Sentro 8's are fitted on to the TBMs to monitor their performance and condition, as well as within the tunnel itself to ensure the environment is safe for personnel working inside.
Trolex also supplied Balfour Beatty with Sentro-8 detection technology during construction of the A3 Hindhead Tunnel.


Harold Dieterle is an American chef, best known as the winner of the first season of the Bravo television network's reality television series Top Chef. His signature dish is spicy duck meatballs.
Dieterle was a 1997 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. His professional career began at Della Femina in the Hamptons for two years. That was followed by three years at Red Bar and two years at 1770 House, both in New York City. For almost five years, he was a sous-chef at The Harrison restaurant in New York.
In October 2005, Dieterle competed in and won the first season of Top Chef. Following his win on the series, he left The Harrison in early 2006 to plan the opening of his own restaurant. His first restaurant, Perilla, opened in May 2007 in New York City. In 2010 he opened Kin Shop, a Thai restaurant.
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Mixtape: Fractured Air – "You Grow Closer"
"You Grow Closer" features: the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based independent music treasures A Hawk And A Hacksaw (Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost), who released their latest album "Forest Bathing" earlier this year via LM-Dupli-cation. Like every record made (or influenced) by the hands of Barnes and Trost, the results are nothing short of astounding. Also featuring other 2018 gems including: peerless songwriter Marissa Nadler's majestic "For My Crimes" (due for release this Autumn via Bella Union & Sacred Bones); world-renowned UK cellist Oliver Coates's scintillating "Shelley's On Zenn-La" full-length, his first for RVNG Intl which is scheduled for release on 7th September; Laurel Halo's "Raw Silk Uncut Wood" (Latency); Helena Hauff's "Qualm" (Ninja Tune); Steve Hauschildt's "Dissolvi" (Ghostly International).
Fractured Air – "You Grow Closer" – August 2018
01. Aretha Franklin – "You Grow Closer" (Checker, Chess)
02. Laurel Halo – "Mercury" (Latency Records)
03. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – "The Shepherd Dogs are Calling" (LM Dupli-cation)
04. Zazou Bikaye – "Mangungu" (Crammed Discs)
05. Talking Heads – "Houses In Motion" (Sire)
06. DJ Lilocox – "Vozes Ricas" (Principe)
07. Actress & LCO – "Hubble" (Ninja Tune)
08. Oliver Coates – "A Church" (RVNG Intl)
09. Helena Hauff – "It Was All Fields When I Was A Kid" (Ninja Tune)
10. Steve Hauschildt feat Julianna Barwick – "Saccade" (Ghostly)
11. Gang Gang Dance – "J-TREE" (4AD)
12. Tim Hecker – "I'm Transmitting Tonight" (Kranky)
13. Aïsha Devi – "DNA" (Houndstooth)
14. Caterina Barbieri – "Curve Sciolte" (Σ)
15. Colin Stetson – "Aftermath" (Hereditary OST) (Milan Records)
16. JOYFULTALK – "Monocult" (Constellation)
17. Exploded View – "Raven Raven" (Sacred Bones)
18. Szun Waves – "Constellation" (Leaf Label)
19. Brigid Mae Power – "Down on the Ground" (Tompkins Square)
20. Papa M – "Walt's" (Drag City)
21. Marissa Nadler – "For My Crimes" (Bella Union)
22. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – "The Magic Spring" (LM Dupli-cation)
23. John Jacob Niles – "I'm Goin' Away" (LM Dupli-cation)
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Mixtape: Tompkins Square Mix by Josh Rosenthal
The Tompkins Square label founder and Grammy-nominated producer Josh Rosenthal published his first book "The Record Store of the Mind" during 2016, a personal musical odyssey documenting Rosenthal's lifelong passion for music, as both an avid collector and obsessive listener. During 2015, Rosenthal's world-renowned label Tompkins Square (based in San Francisco, USA) celebrated it's ten year anniversary, having released records for such artists as William Tyler, Michael Chapman, Ryley Walker, Hiss Golden Messenger and James Blackshaw over the years, as well as re-issuing an extensive range of folk, old-time, gospel and American Primitive Guitar albums, including its ongoing "Imaginational Anthem" records, the acclaimed series focusing on acoustic guitar, particularly in the American Primitive vein. October 6th saw the release of Ireland's Brigid Mae Power's latest single "Don't Shut Me Up (Politely)", taken from her forthcoming LP "The Two Worlds", due for release on Tompkins Square in early 2018.
1) Shawn David McMillen – "Fuck Norfolk (For Max Ochs)"
I just wrapped up a mini-tour of the West Coast with two original Takoma Records guitarists, Max Ochs and Harry Taussig. They had never met, even though they were on the same Takoma sampler 50 years ago ! A few years back I released a digital EP, 'Hooray For Max Ochs', with folks paying tribute to Max. This one is by Texas artist Shawn McMillen who toured with Max and Christina Carter in 2006.
2) Peter Walker – "Hot Fusion"
I called Peter this morning to tell him it's Karen Dalton's 80th birthday today (July 19). He and Karen were very close. This track is from A Raga For Peter Walker, which featured the first new recordings by Peter in 40 years, plus tracks in tribute by Jack Rose, Thurston Moore and others.
3) Ben Reynolds – "England"
This is one of my favorite guitar tracks in our catalog. Ben went on to play in Trembling Bells.
4) Nathan Salsburg – "Bold Ruler's Joys"
Today is also Nathan Salsburg's birthday ! He once told me this track, which I asked him to do for Imaginational Anthem vol 3, was the "a-ha" moment when he decided to take himself seriously as a solo guitarist. Now look at him; collaborating with Joan Shelley, Bonnie Prince Billy and James Elkington. Might be the most technically proficient player on the acoustic scene. Can play in any style clean and pretty, but with soul too.
5) Richard Crandell – "Swallowtails"
For someone with the purest of hearts and zero career aspirations, Richard has actually built a great catalog – fine duo records, mbira records, a superb Christmas LP, and one stone classic – In The Flower of Our Youth, which we reissued on LP. Swallowtails is from a collection of 80s/90s recordings we just released as 'Then & Now' digitally. Flower is maybe my favorite rural road trip soundtrack. Try it !
6) Laurel Halo – "Blue Notion"
This one is from Remembering Mountains : Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton. Laurel Halo is someone I keep tabs on, an amazing artist. Her new album 'Dust' is ambitious and bold. Today would have been Karen's 80th, so this song gets a revisit.
7) A Broken Consort – "A Mercy Kill"
We released two albums by British composer Richard Skelton, who has recorded under many pseudonyms. He is a visual artist, musician and publisher of journals and poetry, many relating to nature. I've worked with many talented people, but Richard might be the only one who actually deserves to be called a "genius."
8) Hiss Golden Messenger – "Fennario"
Michael Taylor has moved on to big things since recording this track – signing with Merge and playing big festivals worldwide. But when I asked him to cover his favorite Michael Chapman song, I had no idea he'd bring so much to this faithful "Fennario" from MC's Wrecked Again LP. I mean everything, down to the gospel backing vocals. Everything a "tribute" should be – bringing a great song to life again. I bet even some of his fans haven't heard this one yet . . .
9) William Tyler – "Ponotoc"
This version is from the live WT CD we snuck into the Imaginational Anthem 1-5 box set. It's out of print and not available in any other form, so sort of a scoop here. Tompkins Square released Will's debut LP, Behold The Spirit, which has only grown in stature as a landmark LP.
10) Brigid Mae Power – "My Lagan Love"
B-side released last year digitally, new album in the works from this Irish songstress. I first heard this song via Van Morrison's Irish Heartbeat LP back in the 80's. Tompkins Square learned about Brigid from . . . Fractured Air . . . and are eternally grateful. We love her.
"Deep Cuts" Playlist by Josh Rosenthal (Tompkins Square)
01. Shawn David McMillen – "Fuck Norfolk (For Max Ochs)"
02. Peter Walker – "Hot Fusion"
03. Ben Reynolds – "England"
04. Nathan Salsburg – "Bold Ruler's Joys"
05. Richard Crandell – "Swallowtails"
06. Laurel Halo – "Blue Notion"
07. A Broken Consort – "A Mercy Kill"
08. Hiss Golden Messenger – "Fennario"
09. William Tyler – "Ponotoc"
10. Brigid Mae Power – "My Lagan Love"
Compiled by Josh Rosenthal, July 2017.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E08 | August mix
August's mixtape features a pair of tracks from This Is How We Fly's eagerly-anticipated second album "Foreign Fields", due for release on 15th September 2017. The four-piece comprise the renowned musicians: Petter Berndalen (drums), Nic Gareiss (percussive dance), Seán Mac Erlaine (clarinets, electronics) and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (hardanger d'amore fiddles). Hailing from Ireland, Sweden and USA, the quartet draw upon a rich tapestry of sounds and traditions, drawing upon the raw energy and rich dynamism of jazz and its true spirit of improvisation, together with traditional music's eternal affinity and appreciation for honing and perfecting one's craft. "Foreign Fields" is a joy to behold, its soul-stirring music navigates new sonic terrain while continually pushing its four composers to reach for new heights, forever onwards and upwards for this most inventive and mythical of bands.
UK producer James Holden's "The Inheritors" (Border Community, 2013) was one of this century's finest records, an album for modern times created by one of the most consistently innovative and singular artists making music today. With the announcement that it's long-awaited follow-up, "The Animal Spirits" (due for release on 3rd November once again via Holden's own Border Community label), it is bound to rise to the surface on many an end-of-year lists come December. The album (described as "synth-led folk-trance standards") features Holden's newly assembled group of "fellow travellers", James Holden & The Animal Spirits. The personnel comprises long-time collaborators Tom Page and Etienne Jaumet, as well as Marcus Hamblett, Liza Bec and Lascelle Gordon. The album's lead single, "Pass Through The Fire" has so far been unveiled, the track having been inspired by his 2014 trip to Morocco to work with late Gnawa music legend Maalem Mahmoud Guinia. James Holden was also recently added to the special guest curatorial program at this November's Le Guess Who? Festival at Utrecht, where he has invited such stellar musicians as Serbia's Mario Batkovic and Canada's Jerusalem In My Heart to his lineup.
August's mix also features new releases from: Julie Byrne's "Not Even Happiness" (Basin Rock); Four Tet's latest essential single for his Text imprint, "Planet"; Grouper's new track "Children" (taken from her "Ruins" album sessions); Rafael Anton Irisarri's mesmerising "The Shameless Years" (Umor Rex) and Hype Williams' "Rainbow Edition" (Big Dada Recordings).
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01. Psychic TV – "Just Drifting" (WEA, Some Bizzare)
02. Moor Mother – "Valley of Dry Bones" (Don Giovanni)
03. Mica Levi & Oliver Coates – "I'll Keep Going" (Slip)
04. Hype Williams – "#Blackcardsmatter" (Big Dada Recordings)
05. Lee Gamble – "Istian" (Hyperdub)
06. Rhythm & Sound with Cornel Campbell – "King In My Empire" (Soul Jazz)
07. Ken Parker – "My Whole World Is Falling Down" (Heartbeat)
08. This Is How We Fly – "Tí Mór" (Self-Released)
09. Laurel Halo – "Who Won?" (Hyperdub)
10. James Holden & The Animal Spirits – "Pass Through The Fire" (Border Community)
11. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – "To Follow And Lead" (Western Vinyl)
12. SAICOBAB – "Bx Ax Bx" (Thrill Jockey)
13. Snapped Ankles – "Hanging With The Moon" (The Leaf Label)
14. Ex Eye – "Xenolith; the Anvil" (Relapse)
15. Suicide – "Cheree" (Red Star)
16. Four Tet – "Planet" (Text)
17. Washed Out – "Down and Out" (Stones Throw)
18. Mariah – "Shinzo No Tobira" (Palto Flats, Columbia)
19. LCD Soundsystem – "tonite" (DFA, Columbia)
20. Severed Heads – "Dead Eyes Opened" (Dark Entries)
21. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – "Echoing Green" (Mexican Summer)
22. Rafael Anton Irisarri – "Sky Burial" (Umor Rex)
23. This Will Destroy You – "The Puritan" (Julianna Barwick Remix) (Suicide Squeeze)
24. Grouper – "Children" (Bandcamp)
25. Benoît Pioulard – "Rook" (Beacon Sound)
26. Julie Byrne – "Natural Blue" (Basin Rock, Ba Da Bing!)
27. This Is How We Fly – "Fjellvant" (Self-Released)
28. Do Make Say Think – "Shlomo's Son" (Constellation)
Compiled by Fractured Air, August 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
Tagged with Benoît Pioulard, Do Make Say Think, Ex Eye, Four Tet, Grouper, hype williams, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Julianna Barwick, Julie Byrne, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Ken Parker, Laurel Halo, LCD Soundsystem, Lee Gamble, Mariah, Mica Levi & Oliver Coates, Moor Mother, Psychic TV, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Rhythm & Sound with Cornel Campbell, SAICOBAB, Severed Heads, Snapped Ankles, Suicide, This Is How We Fly, This Will Destroy You, Washed Out
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E06 | June mix
June's mixtape features a first listen of "Golden Plover", Glasgow's finest Trembling Bells' stunning cover of the Bert Jansch song taken from his 1979 avian-themed classic "Avocet". The track is part of the special 4-track EP "Avocet Revisited", commissioned and issued by Fire Records' imprint Earth Recordings, featuring: Trembling Bells; Edwyn Collins and Carwyn Ellis; Modern Studies; Alasdair Roberts.
On "Golden Plover", Trembling Bells are joined by Callum Calderwood (violin), Rory Haye (vocals), Andrew Pattie (vocals) and Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson (12 string guitar). "Avocet Revisited" will be released by Earth Recordings on the 11th of August 2017.
One of the UK's finest indie bands The Clientele return with "Music for the Age of Miracles" (Merge Records) this Autumn, their first new album in seven years. Thus far the irresistible lead single "Lunar Days" has been unveiled, finding the beloved Alasdair MacLean-led band in typically impeccable form, effortlessly fusing a myriad of influences into miniature pop marvels like only they can.
June's mixtape also features new releases from: Ariel Pink's new single "Another Weekend", from the hugely anticipated forthcoming Mexican Summer album "Dedicated to Bobby Jameson"; Grizzly Bear's "Painted Ruins", one of 2017's most eagerly anticipated albums and follow-up to 2012's sonic marvel "Shields"; Renowned Irish contemporary classical collective Crash Ensemble release their glorious "Ghosts" album – featuring compositions written by Nico Muhly, Donnacha Dennehy and Valgeir Sigurðsson – which is released via Icelandic independent Bedroom Community.
http://www.blogotheque.net/2017/06/29/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s02e06-june-mix/
01. Virginia Woolf – "I. Mrs. Dalloway: Words" (Deutsche Grammophon)
02. The Beacon Sound Choir – "Can't Wrap My Head Around It" (First Terrace)
03. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister – "Neptune" (4AD)
04. Crash Ensemble – "Past Tundra" (Bedroom Community)
05. Fleet Foxes – "I Should See Memphis" (Nonesuch)
06. Trembling Bells – "Golden Plover" (Earth Recordings)
07. The Clientele – "Lunar Days" (Merge)
08. Bill MacKay – "Aster" (Drag City)
09. Ariel Pink – "Another Weekend" (Mexican Summer)
10. Justin Walter – "Red Cabin" (Kranky)
11. Chromatics – "Shadow" (Italians Do It Better)
12. Tobias Bernstrup – "27" (12" Version) (Dark Entries)
13. John Talabot – "Destiny" (Rave Dub Version) (Permanent Vacation)
14. Daphni – "Face to Face" (fabric)
15. Blondes – "KDM" (R&S)
16. Laurel Halo – "Moontalk" (Hyperdub)
17. Alice Coltrane – "Rama Guru" (Luaka Bop)
18. Belbury Poly – "The Geography" (Ghost Box)
19. BADBADNOTGOOD – "Lavender" (feat. KAYTRANADA & Snoop Dogg) [Nightfall Remix] (Innovative Leisure)
20. Grizzly Bear – "Three Rings" (RCA)
21. The Focus Group – "The Leaving" (Ghost Box)
22. Gorillaz – "Let Me Out" (feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha T) (Parlophone)
23. Aretha Franklin – "This Little Light of Mine" (Remember)
24. Philippe Hallais – "Hero (Theme)" (Modern Love)
25. Oliver Coates – "Peace" (Foom)
26. Radiohead – "I Promise" (XL Recordings)
27. Murcof & Vanessa Wagner – "Spiegel Im Spiegel" (InFiné)
Compiled by Fractured Air, June 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E05 | May mix
May's mixtape features selections from a pair of the year's most essential compilations: Alice Coltrane's "Turiyasangitananda" (Luaka Bop) and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' retrospective set "Lovely Creatures" (Mute).
"Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014" comprises a gorgeous meticulously assembled archive – spanning music, previously unseen photographs, memorabilia and extensive archival footage – of Cave's first three decades as frontman to the world's most revered and significant bands: The Bad Seeds. "Lovely Creatures" is compiled by Cave and founding Bad Seeds member Mick Harvey, with additional help from the current Bad Seeds. On the announcement of its release, Cave issued the following statement via his website:
"There are some people out there who just don't know where to start with The Bad Seeds. Others know the catalogue better than I do! This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making. That's a lot of songs. The songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours. Others are just too big and have too much history to leave out. And there are those that didn't make it, poor things. They are the ones you must discover by yourselves."
"World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda" is the spellbinding compilation of music made by the legendary composer, pianist and spiritualist Alice Coltrane with members of Sai Anantam Ashram in California during the eighties ad nineties. Much of the music here is culled from self-released tape cassettes released from the period. As Luaka Bop have said, the music from "Turiyasangitananda" is "inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul."
May's mixtape also features new releases from: A Hawk And A Hacksaw's Heather Trost who releases her sublime solo debut "Agistri" on June 2nd via LM Duplication; Animal Collective's "The Painters" EP (Domino); Stockholm-based electronic duo Roll The Dice's "Born To Ruin" (The New Black); "Wade In" by Julianna Barwick (part of the extensive "Our First 100 Days" benefit compilation); Wolfgang Voigt releases "Narkopop" via Kompakt, his latest ambient opus under his GAS guise and first for twenty years; Heather Woods Broderick's gorgeous new 7″ single "Home Winds" (recorded in response to the photographs of Benjamin Swett and published as a collaborative project between both artists by Planthouse Inc).
http://www.blogotheque.net/2017/05/31/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s02e05-may-mix/
01. Steve Reich – "Come Out" (excerpt) (Nonesuch)
02. Daniel Brandt – "Eternal Something" (Erased Tapes)
03. Forest Swords – "Panic" (Ninja Tune)
04. Roll The Dice – "Cannonball" (The New Black)
05. Everything Is Recorded – "Washed Up on the Shore" (feat. Obongjayar and Warren Ellis) (XL Recordings)
06. Dirty Three – "Furnace Skies" (Bella Union, Anchor & Hope)
07. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – "Tupelo" (Mute, BMG)
08. Tom Armstrong – "Thunder Clouds" (Tompkins Square)
09. Slowdive – "Sugar for the Pill" (Dead Oceans)
10. GAS – "Narkopop 5" (Kompakt)
11. Biosphere – "Black Mesa" (Biophon)
12. Mount Kimbie – "Marilyn" (feat. Micachu) (Warp)
13. Mamman Sani – "Samari Da Yan Matan" (Sahel Sounds)
14. Umoja – "707" (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
15. Molly Nilsson – "About Somebody" (Dark Skies Association / Night School)
16. Heather Trost – "Agina" (LM Duplication)
17. Lukács István & Burka Sándor – "Szállj Le Hattyú" (Hungaroton)
18. Carla dal Forno – "Fast Moving Cars" (Blackest Ever Black)
19. Laurel Halo – "Jelly" (Hyperdub)
20. Jlin – "Black Origami" (Planet Mu)
21. Alice Coltrane – "Om Rama" (Luaka Bop)
22. Shabazz Palaces – "Shine a Light" (feat. Thaddillac) (Sub Pop)
23. Bobe Gáspár Ernő és Zenekara – "Becskereki Pipagyújtó" (Hungaroton)
24. Animal Collective – "Man of Oil" (Domino)
25. Julianna Barwick – "Wade In" (Our First 100 Days, Bandcamp)
26. Heather Woods Broderick – "Home Winds" (Planthouse Inc, Yebo Music)
27. Saltland – "Forward Eyes II" (Constellation)
Compiled by Fractured Air, May 2017. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
Tagged with Alice Coltrane, Animal Collective, Biosphere, Bobe Gáspár Ernő és Zenekara, Carla dal Forno, Daniel Brandt, Dirty Three, Everything Is Recorded, Forest Swords, GAS, Heather Trost, Heather Woods Broderick, Jlin, Julianna Barwick, Laurel Halo, Mamman Sani, Molly Nilsson, Mount Kimbie, Roll The Dice, Saltland, Shabazz Palaces, Slowdive, Steve Reich, Tom Armstrong, Umoja
Mixtape: When Time Flies [A Fractured Air Mix]
When Time Flies [A Fractured Air Mix]
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/when-time-flies-a-fractured-air-mix/
01. David Allred 'When Time Flies' [Oscarson]
02. Beach House 'Levitation' [Bella Union/Sub Pop]
03. Air 'Empty House' ['The Virgin Suicides' OST / Virgin]
04. Laurel Halo 'Focus I' [Honest Jon's]
05. Arthur Russell 'This Is How We Walk On The Moon' [Audika]
06. Dawn of Midi 'Algol' [Erased Tapes]
07. The Bad Plus 'Never Stop' [EmArcy]
08. Sun Ra 'Plutonian Nights' [Strut]
09. Cheech & Chong 'Basketball Jones' ['Being There' OST]
10. Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman 'Lament For Philip Seymour Hoffman' [Beacon Sound]
11. Guillaume Roussel 'Meurtre du fou' ['La Connection' OST / Gaumont, Légende Films]
12. Symmetry 'Streets Of Fire' [Italians Do It Better]
13. Max Richter 'Lullaby' (feat. Robert Wyatt) [130701]
14. Julia Kent 'Heavy Eyes' [The Leaf Label]
15. Julia Holter 'Have You In My Wilderness' [Domino]
16. Harold Budd & John Foxx 'Adult' [All Saints]
17. The Band 'I Shall Be Released' [Capitol]
18. Georges Delerue 'Camille' ['Le Mépris' OST / EmArcy]
This mixtape will be our final post on Fractured Air. We'd both like to take this opportunity to thank each and every person who has helped or supported us in one way or another over the last 3½ years. It has been a real pleasure for us to have found ourselves in a position to be able to do our small part in helping promote the true wonder that is independent music. Most of all, we'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of our readers who helped us keep going as long as we did. Thank you.
Tagged with Air, Arthur Russell, Beach House, Cheech & Chong, David Allred, Dawn of Midi, Gabriel Saloman, Georges Delerue, Guillaume Roussel, Harold Budd, John Foxx, Julia Holter, Julia Kent, Laurel Halo, Max Richter, Peter Broderick, Sun Ra, Symmetry, The Bad Plus, The Band

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Johannes de Muris ( – 1344), or John of Murs, was a French mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist best known for treatises on the ars nova musical style, titled Ars nove musice.

Life and career
For a medieval person primarily known through his scholarly writing, it is highly unusual that Johannes de Muris' life can be traced enough to form a decently consistent biography. Born in Normandy, he is believed to have been related to Julian des Murs who was secretary to Charles V of France. The suggested birth year for Muris is based on a murder of a cleric on September 7, 1310, which Muris was allegedly a part of. Muris would have been at least 14 to assume the responsibility for the crime, suggesting his birth year to be sometime in the 1290s. He was convicted and banished to Cyprus for seven years for punishment. The aloof and haphazard movements of his life have been blamed on this early punishment.

By 1318 records indicate that Muris was living in Évreux although he was actively taking part in scholastic endeavors in Paris. An explicit of his writings indicate that he was a resident in the Collège de Sorbonne until around 1325. During this time it is believed that he travelled freely, making trips to the town of Bernay to observe the solar eclipse of 1321. However, the double monastery of Fontevraud Abbey was where he settled in March 1326. He remained associated with the institution until 1332 or 1333 when he returned to Évreux. Financial records in Muris' own hand from 1336 indicate that he took up residence in Paris in that year. In 1342 he was one of six canons of the collegiate church in Mézières-en-Brenne. In 1344, he was invited to Avignon by Pope Clement VI to participate in the calendar reform. The final date associated to Muris is 1345 in conjunction with the reforms that took place in Avignon.

Much of his writings were finished in the early decades of his life with a major gap in activity that can be filled with astronomical observations. Though his mathematical and astronomical writings – his most comprehensive being Quadripartitum numerorum from 1343 – were well regarded, influential, and transmitted in many manuscripts, his musical writings were more widely circulated. Muris wrote five treatises on music: Notitia artis musicae (1319–21), Compendium musicae practicae (c. 1322), Musica speculativa secundum Boetium (1323), Libellus cantus mensurabilis (c. 1340), and Ars contrapuncti (post 1340) (all dates are suggested dates by U. Michaels). Many of the surviving manuscripts of these treatises are from the 15th century and of Italian origin, suggesting his wide influence both geographical and temporal.

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1290 births
1355 deaths
Medieval French mathematicians
French musicians
French music theorists
14th-century French mathematicians
French male non-fiction writers
Medieval French astronomers
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William F. Jasper: Raping With Impunity: UN Leaders Ignore Rape, Sex Crimes of "Peacekeepers" in Haiti Again
Posted on January 1, 2020 by AmLib1	Leave a comment
by William F. Jasper
A new report on the crimes of UN "peacekeepers" in Haiti reveals how "girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated by peacekeepers and then, as one man put it, 'left in misery' to raise their children alone, often because the fathers are repatriated once the pregnancy becomes known."
The report, based on interviews with approximately 2,500 Haitians, was published on December 17 in The Conversation, a liberal-left collaborative effort of hundreds of academics and reporters funded by dozens of universities and globalist foundations (Ford, Carnegie, Gates, Sloan, Lilly). As The New American has been reporting for years, the UN's "peacekeeping" troops and police forces are infamous for carrying out atrocities — mass slaughter, torture, rape, child sex trafficking, pillaging — all over the world.
In addition, thanks to totally irresponsible supervision by UN officials, its peacekeepers caused a cholera epidemic that has already killed about 10,000 in the last several years and has infected hundreds of thousands of Haitians with the deadly disease. It is still killing around 1,000 Haitians per year. As outrageous as the heinous acts of the UN's "Blue Helmets" are, the repeated inaction, indifference, and cover-up by the UN's top officials is in many ways even more outrageous. Even worse than turning a blind eye to the criminal activities of those whom they have charge over, UN officials have repeatedly retaliated against heroic whistleblowers that have come forward to expose peacekeeper abuses.
The authors of the new report, Professor Sabine Lee of Britain's University of Birmingham and Susan Bartels of Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, together with their research team, interviewed 2,500 Haitians during the summer of 2017. They found hundreds of cases of sexual exploitation and abuse, but as in past incidents of rampant peacekeeper criminality — in Haiti, Mali, Congo, Ivory Coast, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Balkans, etc. — no one has been held to account.
The Lee-Bartels report is entitled "'They put a few coins in your hands to drop a baby in you' — 265 stories of Haitian children abandoned by UN fathers." "The UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) — the longest running mission by the organization in the country (2004-2017) — was originally mandated to assist local Haitian institutions in a context of political instability and organized crime," Lee and Bartels write. "Its mandate was then extended due to natural disasters, most notably an earthquake in 2010 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016, both of which added to the volatility of the political situation in the country. After 13 years of operation, MINUSTAH closed in October 2017, transitioning to the smaller UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH)."
"MINUSTAH is one of the most controversial UN missions ever," the authors note. "It has been the focus of extensive allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse. A shocking number of uniformed and non-uniformed peacekeeping personnel have been linked to human rights abuses including sexual exploitation, rape, and even unlawful deaths."
However, the UN deals with the recurring charges of brutality and sexual exploitation by simply delivering more pacifying rhetoric. "Let us declare in one voice: We will not tolerate anyone committing or condoning sexual exploitation and abuse. We will not let anyone cover up these crimes with the UN flag…. Let us make zero tolerance a reality," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, before a group of world leaders in 2017.
But, as the Associated Press noted shortly after the Guterres pledge quoted above, it was all sound and fury signifying nothing. "In March, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced new measures to tackle sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers and other personnel. But the proclamation had a depressingly familiar ring: More than a decade ago, the United Nations commissioned a report that promised to do much the same thing, yet most of the reforms never materialized," the AP story noted. "For a full two years after those promises were made, the children in Haiti were passed around from soldier to soldier. And in the years since, peacekeepers have been accused of sexual abuse the world over."
"We're From the UN; We're Here to Help You"
On its Web page promoting UN careers, the UN self-servingly proclaims: "Wherever help is needed and people are suffering you will find dedicated United Nations staff contributing their time, assistance and expertise to positively transform lives and make the world a safer and better place for this and future generations."
As the UN's atrocious record in country after country shows, such UN boasts are mendacious and hypocritical beyond measure. Contrary to the UN's claim that it has a "zero tolerance" policy regarding sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA in UN jargon), the reality is that the UN has given de facto immunity to its minions to rape and exploit with impunity. When peacekeeper violations become so blatant that even the pro-UN Fake News media start to demand some accountability, the UN simply sends the offending criminals home and recycles Blue Helmets in from one of its other operations around the world. While prattling endless platitudes about "the rule of law" and "justice for victims," the UN makes sure that its accused employees are whisked away from national jurisdictions where they might have to actually answer for their crimes.
As we reported in 2016, the UN's own field operations director at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights resigned in disgust over the UN's determined resistance to correcting the systemic peacekeeper abuse, as well as the retaliatory attitude of UN officialdom toward whistleblowers. That UN employee, Swedish national Anders Kompass, said the "complete impunity" for officials and the "lack of accountability" is so entrenched in the UN that it was "impossible" for him to continue working there.
Responding to the Lee-Bartels report, the UN, on December 19, issued a typical public-relations statement: "Sexual exploitation & abuse is unacceptable: it undermines the crucial trust between our personnel and the people we serve. Our partnership with Member States is bearing fruit to ensure accountability, justice & assistance for victims."
This vacuous statement is simply another indication that depending on the UN to police and regulate itself is a false hope. Expecting genuine reform at the UN — after decades of repeated promises of reform —is not only a delusion, but a dangerous, deadly delusion.
Alex Newman has been the point man for The New American over the past several years on UN peacekeeper abuses and atrocities. His stories (see the linked articles listed below) detail a staggering record of peacekeeper barbarism in Haiti and around the globe.
Citing Officials' "Impunity" on Child Sex Abuse, UN Whistleblower Quits
Sex Abuse by UN "Peace" Troops Becoming Global Scandal
UN "Peace" Forces in Haiti Prey on Civilians, Children
In Mali, Forces Backed by UN, France, and Obama Slaughter Civilians
UN Troops in Mali Slaughter Civilian Protesters
UN "Peacekeeping" Troops Face Scandals on Sex Crimes, Corruption
UN Troops Accused of Sex Crimes Worldwide
UN-Backed Troops Wreak Havoc in Africa
TNA: https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/34464-raping-with-impunity-un-leaders-ignore-rape-sex-crimes-of-peacekeepers-in-haiti-again
William F. Jasper is an American journalist and author, and a senior editor of The New American, and long-time member of the John Birch Society.
Jesse Lee Peterson: LATEST DEMOCRAT TO EXPLOIT THE POOR
Posted on May 9, 2019 by AmLib1	Leave a comment
Jesse Lee Peterson slams blacks who elect politicians based on race
by Jesse Lee Peterson
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh may be going to prison.
The 69-year-old liberal black Democrat is under investigation and facing corruption allegations after she received hundreds of thousands of dollars for her self-published "Healthy Holly" children's books from major health care companies with deep ties to the city of Baltimore.
Agents from the Baltimore FBI office and the IRS executed search warrants on Catherine Pugh's homes, city hall, her lawyer's office, and six other locations.
As reported by the Baltimore Sun, the University of Maryland Medical System spent $500,000 for 100,000 copies of Pugh's "Healthy Holly" book series in a no-bid arrangement while she sat on the system's board of directors. The University of Maryland Medical System is a private nonprofit that operates 13 hospitals and 150 other health facilities in Maryland.
That wasn't all. Pugh also had a similar deal with healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente between 2015 and 2018 while the company was trying to negotiate a contract with the city's spending panel to provide coverage to city employees. Afterwards, the panel approved a $48 million contract. The Baltimore Sun reported the mayor did not recuse herself from the vote despite the apparent conflict of interest.
Other charities and businesses in Baltimore also reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for "Healthy Holly" books. Mayor Pugh reportedly earned some $800,000 from sales! The arrangement was supposed to distribute books to low-income daycare centers and school libraries, but there's little evidence to show the books were delivered to classrooms. Pugh was getting paid, but it wasn't for the children's book.
Now, outraged Baltimore residents and city council members are demanding accountability and answers from the mayor. The Baltimore City Council (made up of Democrats) is united in calling for Catherine Pugh step down as mayor. Gov. Larry Hogan (a Republican) is also demanding that the embattled mayor resign.
"Now more than ever, Baltimore City needs strong and responsible leadership," Gov. Hogan said in a statement. "Mayor Pugh has lost the public trust. She is clearly not fit to lead."
So far, Catherine Pugh has refused to step down, and she has gone into hiding. In fact, the mayor has been on paid leave since April 1, citing a case of pneumonia.
Liberal black Democrats like Catherine Pugh assume power by campaigning on themes like "reform" and "economic opportunity" for depressed inner-city communities, but ultimately they are seeking power and wealth for themselves. They don't care about their constituents. These power-hungry black Democrats use their race and gender to get into office; and once elected, they use their position to steal and get rich.
If Catherine Pugh were white, she would be in jail right now! It is impossible for a white politician to commit the fraud Mayor Catherine Pugh is alleged to have perpetrated for years and still be free. I'm sure the only reason we are hearing about Pugh's corruption is because it's so egregious and blatant.
Order Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's book, "The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood."
There is a long list of Democrat mayors and politicians convicted of corruption, theft and fraud. Two of the most notorious black Democrats are Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit.
Black Democrats have a sense of entitlement. Black female Democrats are especially shameless and feel unassailable because they have been getting away with using their race and gender to do outrageous things, including blatant crimes. And when these no-good liberal Democrats are caught or questioned about their illegal and immoral activities, they immediately blame "racism" to quash and silence disapproval from the law and whites.
The last three mayors of Baltimore have all been liberal black female Democrats, and they have all been dreadful.
This is the second time in a decade that a Baltimore mayor has faced corruption allegations.
Mayor Shelia Dixon was forced to resign in 2010 after she was found guilty of embezzlement and theft.
Then there's Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the disgraced former mayor of Baltimore who sided with rioters against police after the death of drug dealer Freddie Gray in 2015. Rawlings-Blake and the incompetent State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby falsely led the public to believe that Gray was murdered by police. Blake and Mosby allowed Black Lives Matter activists to riot and loot businesses in the city. At the height of the riots, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told police to give black people room to destroy! In the end, charges were dropped against the police officers in the Freddie Gray case, but Rawlings-Blake and Mosby were never held accountable for what they did to the city. What a shame!
Most black Democrats are corrupt, and they seek political power in order to enrich themselves. It's not "racism" that has destroyed our inner cities – it's the Democrats, especially corrupt black Democrats.
It's time for blacks to stop electing politicians based on race and elect their representatives based on merit and character. That is the only way to ensure real change and end the corruption in these Democrat controlled hell-holes.
WND: https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/latest-democrat-to-exploit-the-poor/
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This month (March), I'll be donating all proceeds from the sales of my books to the Humane Society International fund to end dog meat trade. The biggest effort is focused on Yulin, China. Every year, on the summer solstice, this city engages in a barbaric "festival" that includes torturing, killing, and eating dogs and cats.
I won't include any links because the content is very disturbing and contains graphic images. However, Google "Yulin 2015" or check the #StopYulin2015 hashtag on Twitter if you want to find out more.
Spread awareness by sharing and tweeting this information.
Donate to the Humane Society International.
I don't have much faith in online petitions, but you can sign one at change.org (search for Yulin 2015). It requires little effort and no cost.
Hello - I'm one of the page admns. on the #StopYuLin2015 Facebook page, http://on.fb.me/1t1UxUR. Thank you so much for your generosity and helping to create awareness about this dreadful festival. You give the cats and dogs something g to smile about!


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Q: How do I select a row with most number of minimum values out of each column from a matrix in python? Suppose I have a 2D list named arr
arr=[[0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3],[0.4, 0.3, 0.6, 0.7],[0.3, 0.5, 0.9, 0.4]]

now I want to return a row with most number of minimum values when compared with each column, which in this case would be arr[0].
[0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3]

How do I do this using pure python or numpy ?

A: There is definitely cleaner solutions, but this works:
arr=[[0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3],[0.4, 0.3, 0.6, 0.7],[0.3, 0.5, 0.9, 0.4]]

#list of min count of each array
counts=[0] * len(arr)
#iterate over all values
for i in range (len(arr[0])):
  minwhere=0 #position min value
  val=arr[0][i] #current min value
  for j in range (1, len(arr)): #iterate over other arrays
    if val > arr[j][i]: #compare for min
      minwhere=j #update index array min
      val=arr[j][i] #update value min
  counts[minwhere]=counts[minwhere]+1 #add one to array with min

print (arr[counts.index(max(counts))]) #get arr with max number of min

A: For fixed number of elements per sub-list, we can use NumPy like so -
In [53]: arr[np.bincount(np.argmin(arr,axis=0)).argmax()]
Out[53]: [0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3]

Alternatively, we can also use SciPy to get the most count step, like so -
In [45]: from scipy import stats

In [46]: arr[stats.mode(np.argmin(arr,axis=0))[0][0]]
Out[46]: [0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.3]

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moving mountains: … and that's all she wrote.
… and that's all she wrote.
Aaaaand we're back. We finished off our mini tour of B.C., visiting family and friends who are so close that we consider them family.
We had a great quick stop in Vancouver and saw D and the kids, then headed up to Squamish where we barbecued, visited with the McJs, and checked out the new sea to sky gondola.
The incredible view from the top of the Sea to Sky gondola.
After that we drove the gorgeous Duthie Lake road to the Okanagan, and stayed with A, G and M in Vernon.
A, G and M at the end of their dock in Vernon.
And now we're home. It is a bit weird being back. After all the living we managed to cram into the last year, it is strange how little things have changed here. I guess maybe it is us that have changed, and it feels like the world should have changed with us. But it hasn't. In a way I suppose that is reassuring.
The rest of our summer will be spent catching up with everyone here. I have a few days before I go back to work, then I'll be full on, getting back up to speed. That is a bit intimidating, but I'm sure it won't take long to get back into the full swing of things.
I feel like I should write something profound now that we are home. I have thought a lot about this blog post. Would it be the last one, or would we try to keep going? Given how busy our lives tend to be with everyone in school and at work, at least for now, I have decided this will be the last post.
So what deep and emotionally satisfying thing can I say in closing? Frankly, I am at a loss. Did we learn some lasting life-lessons in the last year? Absolutely. But I'm not sure I feel comfortable trying to dispense them as some kind of new-found wisdom. If anything, I would hope this blog might serve to propel a reader or two out into the world on an exploit of their own, to gain their own personal insights and perspectives.
What I will say, though, is how grateful we are to be back here. We have seen a lot of places, and a lot of different lifestyles in the last year. We have seen unbelievable wealth, and unimagined poverty. Sometimes in the same country. That has made us more thankful for everything we have than we have ever been before.
We have seen beautiful places, but none to rival our daily surroundings. We have met phenomenal people, but haven't been anywhere that people are as happy, friendly, kind and supportive as they are right here.
The world we have seen is a great place to explore. But the home we have come back to is unparalleled, at least from what we have seen so far.
Our little corner of the world.
So if you have the inclination, why not get out there and explore a bit of the world yourself? If you find some deep meaning or profound lesson that you want to share, write us a comment at the end of this post. And if you are ever in our neighbourhood, drop us a line to let us know you're in town. We'd love to share a hike, a bike ride, or a ski run with you, and hear about your experiences, now that you know about ours.
Until our next adventure, though, that is all for now. Thanks for reading. We are glad you came along for the ride.
The end .... for now.
Good job guys. Sounds like you had an awesome adventure. I think the kids will remember this for a long time, and probably it will have changed them a bit more than you realize. I hope that some of our advice paid off as well! Best wishes until we see you again.
Thanks guys. The adventure was amazing. For us, though, with the kids at their current ages and stages, it was the right decision to come home ... at least for now. Your advice was priceless - helped us multiple times.
We will be watching your blog closely to see where you get and how things go. Wishing you easy sailing and tons of fun!
It turns out, you can go home again.


Using limewash creating that look 100 years old is easier than you might think.
Limewash, called "whitewash" in America, was originally used to help preserve the brick or stucco of a house. The added benefit of the limewash (besides its look) is that lime has antibacterial properties — helping prevent the spread of disease.
Lime wash also lets brick and stucco walls breathe, helping trapped moisture escape from the walls. In the midst of the Second World War, European cities applied limewash on walls and trees as a disinfecting solution. Hydrated lime is used as part of a whitewash, or limewash, mixture that's also applied to the bottom parts of trees in order to repel sunlight.
Limewash was the early predecessor to today's paint products. Many manufacturers offer the paint version of traditional whitewash, but nothing replaces the real thin — not only for its appearance but also for the health of the home.
I am from Europe. During spring in the small town I grew up in, my grandpa and I limewashed parts of his house. Usually white, the whitewash material was this creamy, white-putty-like substance. We mixed the ingredients with water and applied it with medium stiff brushes over the walls.
In the following article I will lay out key tips on how you can white wash your brick walls on a budget.
You can purchase bags of hydrated lime powder at your local feed store or landscaping nursery. Some hardware stores carry it, too.
If you wish to incorporate color into your limewash, add color dye to the lime and mix thoroughly. I use an old blender for this purpose, adding lime powder, water, and a bit of yellow integral concrete dye from Home Depot. I turn on the blender and give it a good mix, and then I pour it either into a container or straight to the painter's pan so I can roll it onto the brick wall. Otherwise, just put the lime powder, the water, (coloring dye if needed) and white cement and mix it up to a soupy sour cream consistency.
If the presence of exposed brick is a bit too overwhelming, you can remedy the situation by this "new" interior design trend called whitewashed brick walls.
How do you whitewash a brick wall?
Step one is preparation. As with any paint job, you'll need to cover your floor, move furniture, and apply painter's tape to all surfaces you wish to protect from paint.
Step two. To do the actual limewash, you'll need to apply a base coat on the brick wall. This can be achieved by rolling on some of the lime/water mixture on the walls evenly (albeit the first coat). This wash of lime gives an indulgent, fine, white appearance to your brick wall.
Step Three. Finally, mix the lime powder with adequate amounts of water (an old or cheap blender speeds up the process but is not necessary). On the left I included a picture of white Portland cement. Add equal amount to the water and lime powder. The white cement will help solidify the lime wash and make the lime and other ingredients harden.
Pour the substance into a painter's pan and either use a roller or a large color washing brush to apply a thicker coat on the wall. Use a circular motion. Try to create an old worn effect by dampening a sea sponge into the mix and removing some of the wash. To maximize the worn effect, stick pieces of duct tape on top of the fresh whitewash and peal them off quickly to create the worn effect.
Please note. I recommend you to lime wash the installed brick veneers before you grout the joints. That way the grout will not be lime washed and will give a better overall look to your brick walls.
If you are installing your new interior brick wall, check out our brick veneer installation guide here.
To create a truly authentic whitewash effect, apply the whitewash onto the brick wall before you add the grout. This creates a worn effect after the grout is filled and the mortar is brushed off. The best brick tile for a limewashed brick wall is clay brick like Chicago brick veneer. This brick type only absorbs the limewash nicely, but it also has an old-style look that corresponds well to the white washed brick design.
You can also incorporate other colors into your brick design. We often install concrete brick tiles or middle cut brick veneers for a whitewashed brick wall. The middle cut brick veneers are the most cost-effective clay brick option for a limewashed wall. Brick veneer prices start at $4.00/sft and end around the $6.00/sft mark for Chicago brick veneers.
You can opt for a white, slightly over-grouted style or choose a more traditional option of grey mortar. If you brush your freshly applied limewash, you'll get the desired worn effect.
Also, you can use a margin trowel to scrape parts of the lime wash off of the wall, thus creating the age old effect you are after.
Our company manufactures thin brick tiles and brick veneers in more than 18 colors.. Did you know you can have stunning white brick walls installed without any painting or whitewash needed? See the magic of our white thin brick veneers.
You don't necessarily need to white wash the whole brick wall. You can just smudge some parts of the interior brick wall with your lime wash. As picture above shows.
Things you'll need to complete the whitewash.
The owner of Morton Stones,LCC , wrote this article on whitewashing a brick wall. If you have a comment or a question you would like to share, please feel free to do so below. Thanks for reading.
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Rhode Island (5-15, 0-1 A-10) scored its only runs of the game in the top of the ninth, falling to VCU, 5-2, in the Atlantic 10 opener for both teams Friday night.
The Rams struggled to get the offense going, never sending more than four hitters to the plate until the ninth inning. There, Josh Brodeur led things off with a single to left. He later crossed the plate after three consecutive walks to Austin White, Jordan Powell and Jackson Coutts. After a VCU pitching change and back-to-back strikeouts, Kevin Heiss was issued a free pass to score White and make it a 5-2 game. That was as close as URI would get however, as Xavier Vargas grounded out to third to end the late rally.
VCU (14-8, 1-0 A-10) had taken a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth, and capitalized on three Rhode Island errors between the sixth and seventh innings to push the lead to 5-0 before Rhody eventually got on the board in the ninth.
Rhody finished with just five hits on the night – one each by senior Jordan Powell, redshirt junior Laurence Hill, sophomore Greg Cavaliere, redshirt freshman Josh Brodeur and freshman Austin White.
Brodeur and White scored both crossed the plate in the ninth inning, on RBI-walks by freshman Jackson Coutts and junior Kevin Heiss.
Redshirt senior Matt Murphy took the loss, allowing five runs (two earned) on nine hits over 6.2 innings. He struck out three and walked none.
Junior Mark Silvestri (1.0 IP) and sophomore Nick Robinson (0.1 IP) combined for an inning and a third of scoreless relief.
Rhode Island and VCU return to The Diamond for Game 2 of the series, Saturday at 2 p.m.


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Reading Rocks summer program kicks off in Billings
By: Jenny Fick
BILLINGS – Reading Rocks is a summer program aimed at increasing literacy, especially in lower-income areas.
The program takes place at Billings schools and parks. It kicked off Monday at Orchard Elementary.
"Reading Rocks is important because, one It usually piggy-backs off the school's free-lunch program, so we make sure that the kids have proper food and nutrition, and place to go that's safe where they can play," author Rodney Gottula said.
Guest story-tellers from around the region will visit, and read books aloud to the children.
Children can also read to, or have volunteers read with them.
"Get them outdoors in the fresh air and then reading at a young age so that they can hopefully find something that speaks to them," Gottula said.
Orchard students were lucky enough for their guest reader to be an actual author. Rod Gottula is the creator of a children's book, "Double, Not Half, encouraging readers to take pride in exactly who they are.
"My wife is Japanese, both of my kids are what would normally be termed half, so they were bilingual and bicultural, so that's what motivated me to write the book, for my kids," Gottula said.
"Being an educator here. I wanted to kind of include a Montana element to that and so the book features Billings on the back cover, and it kind of alludes to both the Crow and the Blackfeet, and the dual worlds that our native kids live in as well," Gottula said.
Gottulla's wife, Rie was on hand, writing each students name in Japanese style script.
"Japanese style top to bottom on those bookmarks so they'll have a little memory to go away with," Gottula said.
Each child also gets to choose their very own book to take home.
"Kids that have books in their lives, and even kids that have adult conversation in their lives, if you can talk to your kids, and speak to them like adults, expand their vocabulary, that makes kids a lot more school ready. And when they come to school ready to read, ready to learn, they're ahead of the gap all the way through high school into college," Gottula said.
Gently used or new books for the cause can be donated at the Lincoln Center.
Weekly Schedule for Reading Rocks (12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)
Mondays and Wednesdays in Castle Rock Park (West Wicks Lane)
Mondays at Orchard Elementary School (120 Jackson Street)
Tuesdays and Thursdays in Central Park (Central and 10th Street West)
Tuesdays and Thursdays in Pioneer Park (3rd Street West and Avenue D)
Wednesdays in Gorham Park (Houle Drive and Miles Avenue)


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We will always put our customers and community first
On Tuesday we published a blog post about the 404 to 301 plugin inserting ad links into page content that only search engines could see. This is a technique called cloaking and will incur a penalty from Google.
Since then we have received some criticism from the maintainers of the WordPress plugin repository for the way we handled this. We have also received some criticism from the community for victimizing a plugin author.
I'd like to share a few additional facts and then explain why I wholeheartedly stand by our decision to publish and the way we handled this.
The plugin inserted links to websites into page content that would only show up when Google or another search engine crawled the site.
The content was hidden to the site owner or anyone who did not visit the site with a search engine user-agent (browser identification string).
The plugin asked you for permission to do this by displaying terms of service that described exactly what it was intending to do. The 'cloaking' portion of the terms of service was at the end after a long copy of the GNU general public license that was included. It was below the fold in a scrolling element, so would not have been noticed by anyone who didn't scroll down. (See below for screenshot)
On further investigation the ad domain, which is wpcdn.io, serves up three things:
The Payday Loan content we already disclosed. (See below for content)
A link to an adult UK based escort service. (See below for censored screenshot and content).
A string of text that is somewhat unique: sdf98jhk (See below for content)
If you google the string of text it returns 8,620 results and these appear to be WordPress sites that have had content injected by this plugin and that content has been indexed by Google. Random checks confirm that these sites are running the affected plugin. This confirms over 8,000 sites at a minimum were affected.
Sadly if you google the adult domain that is being served, it appears to have infected many other websites including a school's site that is now serving adult content to Google. (See below for screenshot)
The ad domain was registered on January 14, 2016.
The plugin author's account was used to upload the changes.
We were alerted to this plugin by a customer and upon investigation found that their site was surreptitiously serving up blackhat SEO content.
This was not a vulnerability
This is not a security hole in a plugin that requires the usual 'responsible disclosure' to the plugin author. This was a plugin that had malware pre-installed by the author's account and was active on over 70,000 websites.
It was urgent that we notify the community and our customers about this so that they could immediately react and limit the damage.
The fact that the terms of service in the plugin actually ask for permission to engage in cloaking (see below for screenshot) indicated to us that this was done with the plugin author's blessing, rather than being a case where a plugin author's account was hacked. The exact wording from the ToS was:
"By clicking the button here below, you agree to the terms and conditions and give permission to place text links on your website when search engine crawlers access it."
We were under absolutely no obligation to look after the plugin author's interests when we discovered this because it wasn't a security hole that was accidentally written by the author. Someone had intentionally placed spam on a large chunk of the WordPress community's websites and was profiting from it. The terms of service indicated it was intentional.
We needed to react quickly and that's what we did.
How we handled this incident
On Tuesday this week Wordfence immediately notified our large security mailing list about the problem by posting on our blog and sending out an email linking to the post.
We also notified the plugins@wordpress.org email address about the issue.
We made no attempt to notify the author. Presumably he already knew he was doing bad things based on his terms of service.
What happened once we sent out the notification
We were criticized for our approach by the WordPress.org plugin repository maintainers. We were told we should have contacted the developer first. Then if they don't reply or we can't find out how to contact them, we should contact plugins@wordpress.org second. And only then should we post, preferably after something has been fixed.
I strongly disagree with this approach and stand by our actions because this was a plugin that had malware intentionally pre-installed by the author. Why notify the author that they've been discovered?
It seems more helpful to put the community in the driver's seat. Let them take immediate action to limit damage that has already been intentionally done to their websites and their Google reputation. And then worry about the plugin author's interests.
And so that's exactly what we did. We sent out an immediate notification to the community and included plugins@wordpress.org in that notification.
What has the plugin author done?
The plugin author now says that he has removed the malicious code as per his changelog. We have not independently verified this.
The author has posted a blog post which you can find here:
https://thefoxe.com/blog/404-to-301-plugin-detected-by-wordfence-here-is-what-actually-happened/
We are intentionally not linking to the post to avoid promoting his website.
The post starts by saying "There are people, making money from other's mistakes, instead of correcting them.".
We'd like to point out the author was making money by surreptitiously injecting spam links into website content and as a side effect, destroying those website's search engine rankings. How are we obligated to correct his greed and lack of morals?
He was "shocked" that he received negative reviews of his plugin. We'd like to point out that there may be justification for those reviews.
The author says "I found that the links and ads are being shown at the top of the page content instead of showing small credit text at very bottom, for crawlers.". This suggests he knew he was cloaking, was doing it intentionally and thinks the problem is that the ads appeared to regular browsers too (in addition to search engines). We'd like to suggest he read up on what cloaking is and why it's bad.
He blames another developer who isn't named, conflates security vulnerability with intentional malware, paints himself as the victim, accuses us of censoring his comments on our blog (we didn't) and claims we profited by demonizing him.
I created Wordfence because my own personal site was hacked by the Timthumb vulnerability back in 2012. I discovered the vulnerability which was a zero day, I wrote code that patched timthumb and then went on to lock myself in a room and code for 8 months straight to create Wordfence to help prevent this from happening to anyone else ever again.
Today, Wordfence is a team of more than 20 highly trained and qualified individuals that come from a wide range of sectors in the security profession and community. We provide a world-class firewall that is free for the community and open source. We invest heavily in providing additional free resources to help the community like our free WordPress security Learning Center and like the prolific free support we provide on the wordpress.org forums.
I know what it feels like to have someone intentionally install their own malicious code on your site and profit from that code. It hurts your livelihood and reputation and it was such an awful experience I've dedicated my career for the last 5 years to making sure that does not happen to anyone else.
That is what happened in this case.
In this case we were under no obligation to protect the plugin author's interests. We notified the community first and we did it loudly. My team and I stand by our actions and we will do it again if we discover anyone else intentionally installing malware on community or customer websites.
We will always put our customers and the community first.
I welcome your comments but I'd like to ask you for a favor: Please avoid any witch-hunting or personal attacks on any individuals involved in this, including the plugin author and anyone else associated with the plugin or this incident.
Mark Maunder – Wordfence founder/ceo.
The link to a UK based adult escort service that was being injected under certain conditions:
Censored screen capture of the home page of cityofescorts, an adult site injected into content by this plugin:
The payday loans content that was being injected under certain conditions. This affected our customer in the initial report and is how we discovered the issue:
The text "sdf98jhk" that was being injected under certain conditions and that allows you to find affected sites using a google search.
The section (once you scroll down) in the terms of service of the plugin that describe that the plugin will be cloaking content on your site.
Google results for the adult website that was being injected by this plugin. It looks like a schools website is now serving adult content to google and we haven't been able to confirm if this plugin is the culprit or it's other malicious code.
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Robust Conversation on Prayer Book Revision
Review by Calvin Lane
Issues in Prayer Book Revision, Volume 1
Edited by Robert W. Prichard
Church Publishing, pp. 260, $24.95
Conversations about prayer book revision have been happening for years within the Episcopal Church. Bishops have been talking. Theologians have been talking. Musicians have been talking. Clergy and lay alike have been talking. TLC, among other media outlets for Episcopalians, has featured several articles on the subject. The issues at hand vary: gendered language, communion without baptism, our baptismal ecclesiology, the congruence of our liturgy with our canons, the norm of scripture in our corporate worship, and the whole concept of common (i.e., recognizably uniform) prayer.
This collection of essays, edited by Robert Prichard, recently retired professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, appeared in a rather unusual window. General Convention 2015 set up General Convention 2018 for some decision-making about the possibility of prayer book revision; various options were developed by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, including the option of doing nothing.
The essays here were written on the eve of the 2018 General Convention but the volume itself appeared after the convention opted for what most would describe as a middle path, namely to work toward revision while memorializing the current 1979 Book of Common Prayer. That itself does not in any way mitigate the value of these articles. Moreover, there is still enough ambiguity about our future common prayer life (including what exactly "memorializing" means) that the conversation needs to continue with the kind of robust theological resources offered in this valuable collection.
The volume presents twelve relatively short but well-researched essays composed by nine scholars. Eight of them are clergy of the Episcopal Church, the ninth being a Lutheran. Eight, likewise, are current or former faculty of Episcopal seminaries, the ninth being an Episcopal priest currently earning a doctorate. These are diverse voices but what they (mostly) have in common is a three-fold skill set: deep experience within the Episcopal Church, an acumen for liturgical studies which draws on Biblical studies and history, and a knowledge of how we have, broadly speaking, engaged worship over the past two generations.
I would venture that such a three-fold skill set, representing ecclesial commitment, scholarship, and pastoral experience, needs to be present in every conversation about prayer book revision. Where one of those three is lacking, the conversation can go sideways. One of the strengths, though, is that these pieces are written in an accessible tone so that the gifts of these authors can reach non-specialists. In a church so committed to democratic decision-making, there is always the danger of conversations in silos, the phenomenon of talking past each other in our own balkanized ghettos in unfamiliar idioms. Then we're all surprised when the voting happens. These well-written essays work against that pitfall.
After Prichard's helpful introduction, the conversation begins with essays on principles. Nathan Jennings of the Seminary of the Southwest draws out four criteria from Anglican history for common prayer: that it is (1) grounded in scripture, (2) agreeable to the order of the early Christian church, (3) unifying to the church, and (4) edifying to the people. These have been the targets for previous revisionary efforts. Jennings is especially salutary in his advice that our prayers and rites should sound like scripture, like the God who speaks to us through scripture.
Prichard then dives into one of the most obvious and theologically important issues of revision, that of language. Writing as an accomplished historian and charitable theologian, he details the history of language choices in previous revisions of the prayer book. He considers the relevance of ecumenism, e.g., the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and the International Consultation on English Texts. He also discusses the divergent attempts toward balanced, inclusive, and expansive language. These have included the formula developed more than a generation ago of Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, a depersonalized and functionalist approach to God that echoes the ancient notion of modalism. On the other hand, there have been moves to add female imagery for God drawn from scripture and Christian history. Prichard offers a fine analysis not only of the recent history of liturgical change but also current philosophical scholarship on language.
Beyond these orienting essays, there are a host of specific topics to address and because of space only a few may be mentioned here. In treating the lectionary, Shawn Strout, the doctoral candidate, observes the steady move from simplicity to complexity and the toll it has taken on formation and a common Biblical diet.
Patrick Malloy, formerly of General Theological Seminary and now sub dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, offers a discussion of burial offices, encouraging the presence of the body to avoid a disembodied spiritualism and emphasize instead resurrection hope.
Drawing on current patristic scholarship, Yale's Bryan Spinks dispels an influential but inaccurate piece of liturgical history learned by so many in the second half of the 20th century, that is, the fallacy that the "Apostolic Tradition" was written by Bishop Hippolytus of Rome, c215. Given the influence of this tale when the 1979 book was formed, Spinks asks, quite reasonably, why that moment in Christian history should govern our current corporate prayer life.
VTS professor James Farwell's proposal about Buddhism and eastern religious philosophy helping us to connect the Incarnation and the Atonement was not entirely clear. However, Farwell offers a valuable reflection on the 1979 prayer book's move to expand our focus in the Eucharistic prayers from a narrow interest in Good Friday to the whole of God's mighty works in Christ, from Incarnation to his second coming in glory.
The essays collectively provide a careful reflection on where we are as a church with the current 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The assumption is that if we are to talk about revision, we must first recognize the revolution of the liturgical movement, and second, ask if we as a church have actually lived into its vision. That focus courses through the book, but nowhere as obviously as in the two connected essays contributed by Sewanee's James Turrell.
In both pieces Turrell focuses on baptism in the 1979 book. He charts the severing of the three-fold rite of baptism, hand-laying, and first communion during the middle ages and the attempted reunification in our current prayer book. He explains the goal of recovering catechesis not simply as absorbing ideas but as adopting a new way of living in the world. He discusses the prayer book's intention of a renewed emphasis on evangelism and the norming of adult baptism. He highlights how this baptismal theology is embedded throughout the whole of the '79 BCP.
Yet at every turn this revolution has met with only partial success. Over the past generation the Episcopal Church has not, Turrell explains, engaged in a widespread mission to the unchurched as the framers of the '79 book expected. Most baptisms are of infants; they are paraded around the church; baptism is seen as some sort of genetic inheritance; and godparents function as honorees rather than as mentors in the counter-cultural Christian life. The medieval pattern of confirmation, not as a reaffirmation of baptism but as the completion of initiation, is still prevalent.
As congregations, we are not widely reaffirming the baptismal covenant on the four baptismal feast days. Catechesis is a hoop one jumps through in her teenage years on the journey to civic adulthood rather than a deepening awareness of new life in Christ. And this is no wonder, as the resources for serious catechism are thin on the ground. "Most serious," Turrell writes, "is the practice of communion without baptism, which reflects a profound misunderstanding of the sacramental 'grammar' of the 1979 prayer book."
Borrowing from Farwell, Turrell observes that there have been varying speeds of reception for different parts of the '79 book: quick on weekly Eucharists, moderate on some aspects of baptism, and slow on the Holy Week liturgies that vividly express that same baptismal ecclesiology. One thinks here of the verdict made years ago by both Louis Weil and Neil Alexander, which seems still true today: The Episcopal Church has yet to live into the revolutionary vision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
The Episcopal Church needs to continue these conversations and every member needs to be attentive and informed. Liturgical change of any sort is not a straight timeline nor a foregone conclusion. My own diocese is hosting a conference featuring a genuine diversity of scholars on November 2 of this year at Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati (learn more at dsojubilate.org). Jubilate, which is open to anyone, is emphatically not meant to move us toward certain revisions as a fait accompli. Rather, much like this volume, it is to help us foster the kind of informed and theologically robust conversations that this book seeks to spark. It's promising that the book is designated Volume 1. We need more of this.
The Rev. Dr. Calvin Lane teaches for Nashotah House Theological Seminary and Wright State University, and is associate rector of St. George's Church, Dayton, Ohio.
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Ahead of this weekend's big game, Paramount Pictures has released a surprise trailer for an upcoming horror sequel, A Quiet Place 2.
Written and directed by John Krasinski and starring the return of Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe, A Quiet Place 2 arrives in theatres on May 20, 2020. The upcoming horror sequel also features newcomers, Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou.
Check out the official synopsis followed by the latest trailer, courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Are you looking forward to the Quiet Place sequel? What did you think of the first film? Let us know in the comments below.
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