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AOE & Range Templates
Publisher: Patrick Mitchell Johnston
by William W. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 11/25/2018 21:49:36
A nice-looking set of effect templates for tabletop RPGs. The templates print up nicely and are colorful, and a few paper size options are available. My only gripe is that some of the templates, like the 30' radius and 60' cone, are only available to print in the wide sized file, when both could have fit onto pages in the letter sized file. Overall a very good product for the price.
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5e Spell Scroll Cards
A solid set of spell scroll cards for D&D 5e with no frills and several printing options. They print up clear and easy to read. Each card is presented on a separate page, allowing you to print only the ones you need (using the multiple page feature on your printer). General rules for scrolls are presented on one side of each card, with the rules for the spell on the other. Overall a very solid and useful product.
5e Magical Item Cards
A solid set of magic item cards for D&D 5e with no frills and several printing options. They print up clear and easy to read. Each card is presented on a separate page, allowing you to print only the ones you need (use the multiple page feature on your printer). Overall a very solid and useful product.
Large Monster Block Card Form
A solid set of monster cards for D&D 5e with no frills and several printing options. They print up clear and easy to read. Each card is presented on a separate page, allowing you to print only the ones you need. Overall a very solid and useful product.
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Fantastic Locations: Fane of the Drow (3.5)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
(This review is for a print-on-demand copy of the book)
CONTENT - A solid set of four battle scenarios for four 4th level D&D 3.5 characters, set in the Underdark, and usable with both the RPG and the D&D Miniatures game. There's a small amount of background information and lore provided for each of the scenarios, and adventure hooks and further adventure suggestions for each of them as well. The NPCs are fleshed out well (Amandrucul is particularly nasty), and color text is well written. While it is short (17 pages), this product could open up a lot of opportunities for further adventures in the Underdark.
PRINT - The print-on-demand product is very good looking - the color cover is vibrant and not grainy, and the printing and artwork on the interior pages is clear even with the gray background graphics. The only issue with the print edition is the color maps, which look great, but do not come out to the proper scale for miniature use, and the binding prevents making color copies to scale up to the correct size. I'd recommend getting the PDF/print bundle and printing the map pages at a bigger scale in order to use them.
Rogues, Rivals & Renegades: The Krampus
Publisher: Vigilance Press
A great little M&M supplement for any GMs who want inspiration for a holiday themed game on the campy side. The character illustration and backstory are very good. I can already imagine this fellow kidnapping the mayor and holding him hostage (tied up in garland, no doubt) until someone can promise that there will be snow on Christmas Eve...
Holiday Heroes & Horrors
Publisher: Octopus Apocalypse
(Originally posted to the Contemporary Quixotist: http://quixotist.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/1d12-days-of-christmas-day-3-holiday-heroes-horrors/ )
The next goody under the angry treant stuck in the little pot in our living room is Holiday Heroes & Horrors, a holiday and arctic themed supplement for the Pathfinder RPG from the wonderfully named Octopus Apocalypse. Packed in the 18 pages are details of a new arctic region called "White Hell," rules for snow blindness, a new item, item quality, and item material, two new magic items, three new spells, two new races, and a bunch of new monsters to top it all off.
As with many holiday themed products, the material and illustrations are a bit whimsical, but if you're looking to bring some lighter fun to your Pathfinder games, then this would be three bucks well spent.
There Was A Dark, Dark House (FirstFable)
Publisher: FR Press
A wonderful Halloween-themed adventure for the excelled FirstFable RPG. This has the main elements of a well-written adventure for young people - options to help instead of fight, a non-linear story path, and opportunities for the players to shape the story in their own way. Pre-generated monster characters (ghost, vampire, werewolf, and zombie) are included, as well as rules for customizing each of these to make your own. The adventure itself is short (4 page sides) and an easy read, perfect for an impulse game when some young adventurers ask for something to do on the spot, and the end of the adventure includes a fill-in-the-blanks story to encourage players to recap their adventure with words and pictures.
Jester David's How-To Guide to Fantasy Worldbuilding
Publisher: 5 Minute Workday Publishing
A meaty, system-agnostic collection of methods and tips for worldbuilding, drawn from blog posts and feedback. I'm a sucker for any RPG product that helps improve the quality of play, and this one really delivers. In its 200 pages there are few illustrations and no gimmicks, just a whole lot of advice, ideas, and inspiration. This one is well worth the admission fee.
d30 Sandbox Companion
Publisher: New Big Dragon Games Unlimited
An impressive collection of inventive ideas for random generation, presented with an old-school look and charm. Just flipping through the book filled me with ideas for my next campaign ("Cult generator? Hmmm, maybe I should add a cult for them to encounter..."). and the adventure generators are fantastic for impromptu games. The premise may seem gimmicky but the execution isn't, and the author's true passion for OSR gaming really shows. I don't often give five stars for a product, but this one has definitely earned them.
At the Mountains of Madness - from the RPG & TableTop Audio Experts
Publisher: Ambient Environments
The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $1.99, the price is very reasonable.
The At the Mountains of Madness soundscape includes arctic wind, along with some spooky ambient music (some of it kind of backwards sounding, for greater effect). A very good mix of sound effects and evocative music. All of their soundscapes are very good, but this one actually made me start thinking about running something that I could use it in.
Foreign Marketplace - from the RPG & TableTop Audio Experts
The Foreign Marketplace soundscape includes a cacophany of shouting and chattering voices, coins jingling, animal noises (chickens, ducks, donkeys, and goats), blacksmithy sounds, shuffling feet, and much more. It's a great audio backdrop for most any marketplace scenario.
Land of the Giants - from the RPG & TableTop Audio Experts
Land of the Giants soundscape includes wind, native drums and other percussion, and some ambient background music. This track could be used for any outdoor scene that has grown tense and suspenseful (with or without the presence of giants).
The Hidden - from the RPG & TableTop Audio Experts
The Ambient Environments soundscapes are quality recordings that combine sound and music into an audio atmosphere for your storytelling games. Each track is ten minutes long, with no fade in/out at the start or end, making them perfect for continuous looping. While reviewing this series, I played each track in the background and often didn't notice when it had started over. The sound levels are compressed very well, which means that there will be very few distracting volume changes when you play these during a session. And at $.99, the price is very reasonable.
The Hidden features suspenseful ambient music, (thrumming bass, swelling strings, distant and echo-ey piano melodies) for those times when the party is on the verge of making a terrible discovery. It sounds like it comes straight from the soundtrack of a Hollywood thriller. Moss would definitely think this one is "ruddy mysterious."
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The 7MSN Ranch: Who's that sleeping in my bed?
I fall more in love with these two every time you post photos. They are just the cutest things. I want one!
That is just the funniest thing I have ever seen!!! Do Alan and George sleep like that a lot? I love Deets giving his opinion on things too!
Alan and George are so darling, thank you so much for your webpage, I enjoy it so much.
Well sure, why put your head in the dirt when you can have a cushy pillow. Like the look on Deets little puss too.
I love your blog. I check in often and I'm always amused.
What a little snooze-fest you had going on there! I'm glad everyone was comfortable!
Poor Deets...he needs a buddy to roll in the dirt with!! Cute photos.
those have got to be the sweetest pictures of long ears I ever did see.
You could produce bumper stickers with those pictures on them and the phrase, "Get off my *ss!"
That has to be the cutest thing I have EVER seen! I think Deets wanted to get some cuddling too!
Remind me to send them a Twister game this Xmas.... for sure.
I'm with Colleen. The more I see of them, the more I want my own George & Alan.
Critters. What do you do with them? This is pretty funny.
I just love how the hee haws just lay all over each other!
Just when I think those two couldn't be any cuter, they are !
Thank you for making my DAY !!!!!!
no way!! these guys are so CUTE!!!
OMG, how adorable is that!
That tops anything they've ever done so far.
I'm completely smitten. Damn. Now I'm going to have to add donkeys to my list of 'must have' animals.
What is with your animals and their tongues? Love the one with Deets sticking his out.
I never have a single day without George and Alan. From my first cup of coffee I look up and there they are, cavorting around on their calendar.
I wonder what we'd get if we added up all the smiles you have brought to people every day?
Linda...isn't it so very neat that donkeys don't have the fear of being eaten, like horses do? I am sure you are using a clever lens, but with donks you can just walk right up to them and take their picture. And get special ones like your last. A horse, or any horse I have owned, would be scrambling to his feet if I came too close with anything other than FOOD! Good job!
This definitely makes my Top 5 Cutest Things Ever! list. :D Thanks for sharing.
They are so stinkin' cute!!! Who knew burros cuddled with each other? Ok, maybe you did, but I didn't, lol.
Love the pictures!! I have five donkeys and never see any cuddling like that. Best pictures I have seen in a long time! Thanks!
They are just the cutest. They make me want to buy a huge piece of property and adopt a couple.
those two just warm my heart. they've made my day.
Alan and George looks adorable and friends! And Deets so cute too.


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Slope represents the rate of change of elevation for each digital elevation model (DEM) cell. It's the first derivative of a DEM.
By default, the slope appears as a grayscale image. You can add the Colormap function to specify a particular color scheme, or allow the person viewing the mosaic to modify the symbology with their own color scheme.
This Slope function uses an accelerated atan() function. It is six times faster, and the approximation error is always less than 0.3 degrees.
DEGREE—The inclination of slope is calculated in degrees. The values range from 0 to 90.
SCALED—The inclination of slope is calculated the same as DEGREE, but the z-factor is adjusted for scale. It uses the Pixel Size Power and Pixel Size Factor values, which account for the resolution changes (scale) as the viewer zooms in and out. This is recommended when using worldwide datasets—particularly when using slope as a surface for visualization.
PERCENT_RISE—The inclination of slope is output as percentage values. The values range from 0 to essentially infinity. A flat surface is 0 percent and a 45-degree surface is 100 percent, and as the surface becomes more vertical, the percent rise becomes increasingly larger.
If the units of measure for the z (elevation) units are the same as the x,y (linear) units, then the z-factor is 1.
If your data is in a projected coordinate system and your elevation and linear units of measure are different, you will need to define a z-factor to account for the difference.
If your data is using a geographic coordinate system (such as a DTED in GCS_WGS 84), where the linear units are in degrees and your elevation is in meters, use a conversion factor of 1, and the system will automatically convert your linear degrees to meters. If your elevation units are not in meters, use the Arithmetic function to convert your elevation to meters before using the Slope function.
Unchecked—Bilinear resampling will be applied uniformly to resample your slope. This is the default.
Checked—Bilinear resampling will be used within the slope, except along the edges of the rasters or beside pixels of NoData. These pixels will be populated with NoData, since it will reduce any sharp edge effects that may occur.


JUAN MATA is following David Silva.
First from Real Madrid to Valencia, then into the Spanish national team and then this summer to England to showcase his talent in the English Premier League.
The two little Spaniards are the creative inspirations for their teams. But it is David Silva who has been by far the most effective this season as he has orchestrated Manchester City's march to the top of the table.
City boss Roberto Mancini has given him the freedom to roam and the results have been impressive.
He has made more goal-scoring chances for teammates than any other player in the league, including eight assists – another record – and is very much the conductor of the band.
Mata, at 23, is two years younger than Silva and still learning to adapt to the pace and power of the English game in what has been a difficult season for Chelsea.
The two are competing for a place in the Spain team, along with Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas and the pressure is on to maintain their high standards for their clubs to get on the plane to Poland and Ukraine this summer.
Mata would do well to model his game on Silva's. Last night at Stamford Bridge, Silva was not at his influential best, but still did so many things right.
He is so difficult to mark. His movement as varied as it is constant. His passing equally so, seeking new angles to play the ball which is why City are such a threat going forward.
Mata stays in more disciplined – and predictable – channels on the left flank. To get the best out of him his manager Andre Villas-Boas will have to give him the freedom to roam like a traditional No10.
City are ripping up goal-scoring records this season. There are a number of reasons for that including the arrival of Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri, but the main one is the string-pulling of Silva.
Silva played no part in City's quick-fire opener after just two minutes with Aguero the creator and Mario Balotelli the destroyer.
But he was unlucky not to get a penalty when he was upended by Branislav Ivanovic shortly afterwards.
And he was equally unlucky when caught on the ankle by a late and high challenge by Raul Meireles. Minutes later Meireles hooked Chelsea level as City again showed they do have a soft underbelly – this is their eighth consecutive game in which they have failed to keep a clean sheet.
Ashley Cole acquitted himself quite well to the challenge of Silva, who tried to find easier pickings elsewhere on the pitch before he was replaced by Nigel de Jong after 75 minutes.
Mata has taken on the responsibility for taking Chelsea's free-kicks and set up Daniel Sturridge early in the second half only for the young striker to fire over.
When Silva did see the ball he used it wisely – with a mixture of short passes and the rapier-like through ball that has become his forte this season – and responded with a powerful run of his own, nut-megging Vincent Kompany with impudence that the City skipper repaid by scything him down. He went unpunished.
So Mata's job seemed done and Florent Malouda replaced him with six minutes left.


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La  membrana (o barriera) alveolo-capillare (anche detta emato-aerea) costituisce la superficie di scambio dei gas ed è situata nei polmoni a livello degli alveoli.

Struttura
Si compone dell'epitelio di rivestimento degli alveoli polmonari, pneumociti di tipo I (definite anche cellule alveolari squamose) e degli pneumociti di tipo II, delle membrane basali di alveoli e capillari polmonari, spesso unite tra loro, e dell'epitelio endoteliale.

Gli pneumociti di I tipo, sono gli elementi strutturali essenziali alla costituzione della barriera in quanto essi formano l'alveolo stesso (ne formano il 97%), che non presenta altra struttura di sostegno se non questo epitelio. L'epitelio costruito dagli pneumociti di I tipo è piatto monostratificato.

Gli pneumociti di tipo II sono cellule più grandi; essi secernono un agente surfattante componente dei corpi lamellari (inclusi citoplasmatici degli pneumociti II); questo surfattante è una sostanza tensioattiva che abbassa la tensione superficiale della parete alveolare permettendo i movimenti di contrazione ed espansione dovuti alla respirazione. Il capillare che giunge a queste strutture deriva dall'arteria polmonare ed è comune a due alveoli ed è costituito da endotelio e lamina basale, accollata all'epitelio formato dagli pneumociti, in modo da ridurre al minimo lo spazio che il gas deve attraversare per passare dall'ambiente "esterno" all'eritrocita.

La cosiddetta barriera "aria - sangue" è rappresentata quindi dalle zone in cui la parete alveolare è più sottile o addirittura assente.

Patologia
Il danneggiamento della barriera può verificarsi in seguito a un barotrauma polmonare, che può avere diverse cause, tra cui l'edema polmonare indotto dal nuoto o la ritenzione di gas respiratorio nei polmoni durante la depressurizzazione, durante la risalita da immersione subacquea o la perdita di pressione da un luogo pressurizzato. Le possibili conseguenze della rottura della barriera possono essere l'embolia gassosa e l'emottisi arteriosa.

Bibliografia

 Trattato italiano di medicina di laboratorio, seconda edizione. P. Boccato. Editore PICCIN, 1989. ISBN 9788829917877

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Temple Garner on Brunch, Business and Brilliant Service
by Alison Daly · February 29, 2016
Temple Garner is one of the men responsible for putting brunch on the map in Dublin. His restaurant San Lorenzo's on George's Street is renowned for its #BrunchofChampions and long queues winding down the street are a regular occurence. Although San Lorenzo's now do over 500 covers for brunch on any given weekend, the concept started a bit earlier.
Temple was the head chef in the Mermaid Café on Dame Street where he held a Michelin Bib Gourmand. His brunch offering there was hugely popular but after the Mermaid closed, the concept 'faded away'. Temple credits the revival of brunch to Geoff Nordell from the Whitefriar Grill. "Geoff brought it back to the mainstream and then we tagged on to him."
In the beginning, Temple didn't even want to do a brunch offering, preferring instead to do a 'chefy' lunch. When he changed the menu some regular lunchers were put out but Temple had seen the light. "We were never that busy but we had our regulars so when we changed it all round they were like, you ruined it. So I was like, I'm really sorry but we were doing 45 covers on a Sunday, now we're doing 280. We're very proud of it now and we're giving them something different. I really like the brunch food cause I'm a greedy fat bastard and brunch is for greedy fat bastards!"
The team in San Lorenzo's have a lot of fun with their brunch dishes, inventing unique and unusual dishes to satisfy the oddest of cravings. One dish Temple is particularly proud of is the Coco Pops Crunchy French Toast. "French toast, dip it in Coco Pops and fry it til it's crispy and serve it with salt caramelised bananas and peanut butter over the top. It's really good. It's so wrong but it's so right! We have a lot of fun with it."
It's hard to believe that someone with so much enthusiasm for brunch didn't want to serve it initially. After his successful launch of Dillinger's in Ranelagh, Temple opened San Lorenzo's in 2011 as a New York-Italian style eatery. He admits the restaurant has moved on from the original design. "When we opened first we didn't have any money so the interior was very recession. It looked like a shoestring place. So then eventually we got enough to do a refurb, this is all new, and people really like it. Nobody has said I can't believe you ruined your restaurant."
It isn't just the décor that has developed as Temple says he had to make changes to the wine list and the menus to give San Lorenzo's a commercial focus.
On George's Street, talking to real foodie types is great but it doesn't do anything for you on a Monday or a Tuesday night, you don't get busy by that. You need to appeal to a far broader spectrum. We haven't moved that far away from where we started but we've just got more mass appeal, we're just broader that's all. And people can recognise that.
The original menu was admittedly narrow, so Temple and the team have broadened it to make it accessible to Dublin diners and the crowd of tourists that walk by every day. He hopes the menu bridges the gap between simple tastes and a more discerning customer. "There's some very normal things here and not so normal things and that's kind of what you want. When you actually drill into it, there's good stuff like the tortellini with duck and black pudding, that's homemade tortellini. No restaurants do that. Very few people do that, go to the effort of making their own tortellini in house."
He doesn't regard this commercial focus as a compromise on his vision for the restaurant as the simple sounding dishes contain some great quality, often complicated ingredients and processes. Focusing solely on real foodie customers just doesn't work for this location so Temple has 'taken the edges off' his menu. "We're just using our heads to reach out to more people."
This commercial aspect is quite important for Temple as previous business endeavours have taken their toll on him financially. From 2004-2009 he was the chef/patron of the very successful Town Bar and Grill on Kildare Street which was one of the first casualties of the recession along with his other premises. As a result, Temple opened San Lorenzo's on a shoestring budget. "I didn't do anything wrong. They were fine businesses but if nobody's going to spend any money then you're screwed. I opened this place with €200 in the bank account. We opened on a Thursday and if we didn't do a good weekend then I genuinely could not pay the wages the following week."
That kind of pressure can create fears and doubts and hold people back but Temple maintained a positive yet realistic attitude throughout.
I'm kind of lucky, I don't do fear. You can't let yourself be undermined by fears and insecurities. You'd be foolish not to be afraid but basically don't give in to fear. I think you just look at the variables. If I do this, then this this and this is going to happen. Have faith in your own abilities to analyse a situation.
One might wonder why, after all he went through, Temple would open another restaurant but he maintains it was the only way to get the family out of their financial situation. The business is now very successful and has alleviated the family's debt. Temple says his kids are his constant motivation and the reason he works so hard. He wouldn't like to see them follow in his footsteps though. "I'd hate to see them go into the business cause it's a really tough business. It's just very difficult, you have to really really want to do it. You have to really like it and if the kids wanted it and had that in them to do it then of course I'd be very happy for them to go and do it."
For Temple, the main reason children aren't following their parents into the industry is that we don't have the food culture in Ireland that exists in other countries. "In France it's a family thing, they have that culture in France. We don't have it here because we don't have a food culture in Ireland, we never have. And it's born out of poverty. We've never had the luxury of being able to eat more than we could grow. Are we developing a foodie culture now? We're on the way."
The reluctance of young Irish people to get into the business according to Temple stems from antisocial hours and low rates of pay. He thinks that modern generations have become spoiled and won't put in the hours required for such a low wage. "In a way, and it's actually a Kevin Thornton theory, you do weed out all the people who shouldn't be in the business. That's one way of looking at it, you only get people that really want to be in it and maybe that's a good thing. Are you better off with a labour shortage but they're committed people? Or a full labour market but they're crap?"
Temple says the problem is that overheads in the industry force wages down but that's something he works against. He is investing in his team to keep them on board and it's obviously working. Head chef Chris has been with him for years and Temple is grateful to have a great cook on board. "I wouldn't describe myself as a chef, I'd describe myself more of a cook. Great chefs are like people like Thornton and all that crowd and good luck to them. The rest of us mere mortals try hard. But a good cook is very hard to find, somebody who makes food taste good. And Chris is just a great cook. He makes stuff taste good. It's simple as that."
When it comes to the front of house team, Temple strives to create a service that is authentic and genuine. He believes customers can tell when servers and an establishment have values and a strong customer service ethos. "We have a benchmark and we really try, and sometimes we fail, but everybody tries. Nobody can get it right all the time but we do try. We don't take it for granted, we don't take customers for granted at all. My job is to have the staff believe in what they're doing."
The passion that Temple has for great, genuine service needs to be evident in his team. He says it happens organically that you surround yourself with a team that share and reflect your values and priorities. Temple's main objective is making people happy. "We work hard and we don't take it for granted. One of my things is trying to exceed people's expectations with food and service and if you can do that you're doing well. Deliver more than they think they're going to get in terms of flavour or value or service, everything. For what they pay to what they get, they feel that they got more than what they paid for."
It all comes down to service, something Temple has always believed in.
I wanted to be a butler when I was growing up. It's the same kind of thing. When you start out, everyone just uses the phrase very casually, it's 'service' time. But it means at the service of the customer. We are in the service of people. Same with if you're a butler, their needs come before yours.
INTERVIEW BY ALISON DALY
Alison has been writing since she could hold a pen, which came in handy for her degree in English, Media and Cultural Studies. She has been working in media since graduating and is the latest features writer for TheTaste.
Writing for TheTaste allows her to combine her passion for the written word with her love of food and drink. Find her on Twitter @AliDalyo
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Fuzz Manta- The Stonewolf (Bilocation Records ARTIFACT 12)
What can I say. This double vinyl record by our local Copenhagen stoner-70s rock band Fuzz Manta just blew me completely away… Here is a band that was bold enough to take a major leap of faith with its fans and create a fantastic and unique piece of music that is unlike anything the band has done before.. Very fresh, exciting and gripping in nature.. The record starts off with the over 30 min Epic, Stonewolf track, which is split over sides A and B and in 7 parts. Queen of Sorrow starts the Stonewolf journey with a cool synthesizer line before the organ slowly fills the soundscape as the drum and bass keep a steady groove. When Freddy comes in with the guitar it reminds me a bit of the Faith Healer by the Sensational Alex Harvey band. Lene starts to sing after about 3 mins. Freddy plays some really spacey guitar all the way to when the sort of croaking toads ends and the beginning of the part II called The Seal, which starts with a cool organ (panned to the right) and a more hard rocking track kicks in, where they want you to go see the Stonewolf as the band go into psychedelic rock and Freddy rips it up! Man's Ache starts off with a cool riff and guitar and Jonas lays down the nice bass line while Pelle keeps the groove steady on the drums. Legend of the Stonewolf is the last part on side A and Freddy plays some psyched out guitar as this part starts. Intense track. Side B starts with Timewarp, and this track features an organ solo by Mogens (The Univerzals, Øresund Space Collective), who briefly played with the band in 201T different after the last intense and psychedelic track. Nice bluesy solo by Freddy. The Journey is a really trippy instrumental track with a lot of keyboards and synthesizer. The Epiloque closes out the amazing Stonewolf track… The next two sides feature 6 new tracks, only one had I heard before. Sooner or later starts things off, in a real riff rock track with a slow smooth groove and almost doomy riff at times and some nice guitar parts and the occasional organ and very psyched out section before the kind of Robin Trower like ending. Baby in Vain, is one the band had been playing live before they had an extended live break and is an uptempo track with an intense organ at times.. Clearly, a real rock and roll party track! Mindtcadet features some great bass lines and dynamics before getting quite psychedelic again with a cool wah guitar solo and strange synthesizer line each panned to the sides. Side D starts off with When I Sleep. This has a lot of really cool guitar parts and Lene's voice sounds amazing on this expressive track. Marble Queen starts with some spacey guitar stuff and develops from dreamy parts to a 70s Spanish prog movie music state and back.. Far out song.. but I liked it. Land of Sleep brings back the heavy rock and groove. This record is just fantastic. So many cool music elements and just cool song after cool song. Probably the best album from Denmark so far in 2014...
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Three Seasons- Grow (Transubstans/Headspin Records)
This is the 3rd record by the Swedish trio formed by singer and guitarist (he also plays the organ) Sartez. You might know his voice from the band Siena Root or Mouth of Clay. Anyway, this is his band and this nearly 50min record features 9 excellent songs from 4 to 10 mins in length. The record was recorded totally analog and sounds really great when you crank it up. The record opens with Which Way in a dark psychedelic fashion with some nice Spanish guitar and a slow build with some delay on the vocals and then it opens up to a very happy mood. Sartez sings wonderfully on this track and there is beautiful melodies on the guitar as well. Drowning is one of my favorites on the record with it's cool wah guitar, great use of the organ and the killer groove and great guitar solo… Amazing song… By the Book starts with a melodic bluesy guitar and a more relaxed feel. Tablas of Bahar is the longest track on the side at 7½ mins and it is an instrumental track with a lot of nice organ and guitar. The bass playing by Olie is really excellent as well. Christian is playing the drums and is rock solid as well. These guys plays awesome together and remember most of the tracks on this album developed out of jamming…. Anyway, at the middle break, you might think they were going to break into the old Joe Walsh song, Rocky Mountain Way but they don't! Another lovely song but without any tablas despite the title. Flip the record over now for Food for the Day. This is a pretty hard rocking track with some lyrical content about the state of the world. No Shame starts off slowly with just guitar, voice and organ before the main riff kicks in. Passionate singing.. this guy is amazing… There is a beautiful organ solo followed by a bluesy guitar solo. Home is Waiting is a mid paced blues rocker as well. The very passionate track, Familiar Song ends this great record with a long nearly 10mins jammed out track with long organ and guitar solos. Brilliant.. If you are a fan of Siena Root, you will probably also dig this.. This is probably the bands best record. Such excellent songs.
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Smash Fashion- Big Cat Love (Electric Pudding Recordings EPR717)
Smash Fashion is a totally new band and feature Johnny Depp's old band plus a few others like Roger Deering on guitar and vocals. The rest of the band is Tony Kinman (bass), Repo Kauppila (drums), and Lloyd Casson (lead guitar), so of which you might recognize from other bands….. a bloke named Nigel Mogg, plays bass on three of the tracks as well. Anyway, the CD features 12 tracks of high energy retro glam influences with a lot of attitude, clichés and rock and roll. The lyrical themes are quite funny, real life LA and catchy and I have to say many of the lyrics are quite cleaver like on Just a Kiss at the Starting Line (A love song!), Slam Glam, Blame it on the Brandy (drinking song) and Big Cat Love… Anyway, this is a fun rock and roll record but the band are not breaking any new ground. They have made a solid, fun, happy semi-commerical record with a lot of catchy songs. It's only Rock and Roll and I like it, attitude.. Check these cats out…..
http://www.smashfashionmusic.com
Paradise 9- Live at Onboard the Craft Festival 2013 DVD (Paradise 9, P9DVD0001)
Paradise 9 is a very cool psychedelic space rock band with punky edge that I have been following for a few years. I was lucky enough to see them in the UK a few years back and they are really cool people as well.. This DVD features 9 tracks of all original material. It is shot with 4-5 cameras and the video is quite clear. The lights are a bit too bright on the stage to really appreciate the visual projections but you get to see the band clearly. The songs are from the bands last few releases including all the tracks on the State of the nation EP but nothing from the Showtime CD (1999). My favourite song of the set is the brilliant Distant Dreams. I quite enjoyed this but I was not fond of the audio mix at all. During the first part of the show you can't really hear the lead guitar at all. The mix becomes better but it still sounds like a mix of video camera audio and soundboard mix. Fun to see the band in action.. Enjoy..
http://www.paradise9.net
Earthless meets Heavy Blanket- In a Dutch Haze (Roadburn Records RBR036)
This is a co-release with Roadburn Records and Outer Battery Records. This jam session with the rhythm section of earthless and J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr/Witch) and Graham Clise both on guitars… It was record on April 14th, 2012 on the main stage at Roadburn. This is basically one 50min jam split onto four sides. It features just high energy rock and roll with a lot of guitar masturbation. I am a huge fan of guitar solo and I complain if they are too short or not at all on bands records… but I have to say to much. It was fun to see live but here these guys are more or lessing soloing all the time and not always paying much attention to each other so it just sort of wears you out.. They bring it down a bit at the end of side B still totally in your face guitar. You have to be impressed with the lead guitar stamina for sure. If you want to blow your mind with some heavy guitar madness, go for this…..
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Q: OLS estimators for a linear log function So I am doing some linear log functions of the form
$Y_t=\beta_0 + \beta_1*log(t) + X_t$ where $X_t$ is white noise
I have been using R to do the least squares estimations and that easy enough to code in R but I have been looking for the equations/derivatioins of OLS estimators for $\hat\beta_0$ and  $\hat\beta_1$ but I cannot seem to find them on the internet.
I was hoping to find some resources on this and figured statsexchange could point me in the right direction...any help would be appreciated!

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Students from Primary, Secondary and Post-Secondary Institutions in the Georgetown area will attend the Service which begins at 9:30 this morning.
Minister Stevenson pointed to the importance of the protection of children from all forms of violence.
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Function of the larynx
The larynx is situated at the upper end of the trachea, connecting the lungs to the vocal tract. It has two main functions:
The first, and most important with respect to maintaining one's health status, is as a valve. Thus, during the act of swallowing the larynx is closed, thereby ensuring that food passes safely into the esophagus and down into the stomach, rather than entering the lungs.
The second function, and more important to the theme of this website, is as a source of sound to be used in speech.
Laryngeal cartilages
The larynx is constructed from nine cartilages. For the purpose of this discussion, however, we will restrict ourselves to a consideration of just three of these:
thyroid cartilage
cricoid cartilage
arytenoid cartilages
The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the laryngeal cartilages and forms the major chamber of the larynx. It is constructed from two relatively flat quadrilateral (four-sided) plates that are fused anteriorly in the midline along most of their length into a characteristic shield shape. The angle at which the plates join is different in males and females. In males it is about 90o and in females it is nearer 120o. This so-called thyroid angle is, therefore, more acute in men and it is consequently more noticeable as the Adam's Apple. Posteriorly each plate is extended both upwards and downwards into horns or cornu. The superior horns attach by ligaments to the hyoid bone, situated under the base of the tongue in the neck, and the inferior horns articulate with the cricoid cartilage beneath.
The cricoid cartilage, therefore, forms the base of the larynx. It is a complete ring of cartilage that extends upwards posteriorly to form a plate. The inferior horns of the thyroid cartilage sit on the cricoid cartilage at this posterior position. This articulation allows the cricoid cartilage to be tilted by an angle of up to 15o downwards and away from the lower anterior border of the thyroid cartilage. The cricoid cartilage is connected underneath to the upper trachea by the crico-tracheal ligament. We see, therefore, that both the thyroid cartilage and cricoid cartilages are individual cartilages (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Human Larynx (click for an enlarged image)
The third major cartilage construction in the larynx is actually a pair of cartilages known as the arytenoid cartilages. These are pyramid-shaped and they are situated on the upper posterior part of the cricoid cartilage. One is placed laterally to the left and one laterally to the right. The arytenoids can be moved in rotational and sliding movements that are used to control the movement of the attached vocal cords.
Vocal cords
Two muscles known as thyroarytenoid muscles attach the thyroid cartilage to the arytenoid cartilages. The lower portion of these muscles forms the true vocal cords.
True vocal cords
The vocal cords are approximately 17-22 mm long along their upper edge in adult males and about 11-16 mm long in adult females. In cross-section they are almost triangular in shape. Hence, a better term for them – and the one most likely to be used by speech therapists – is vocal folds, as 'cords' incorrectly suggests that they are each a long, slender, thin strand. [Sometimes 'vocal cords' is written as 'vocal chords' – the term vocal folds also, therefore, neatly avoids this confusion.]
The vocal folds are made of elastic tissue and are connected anteriorly to the inferior edge of the thyroid angle. Posteriorly the folds are connected to the anterior aspect of the arytenoid cartilages. Therefore, the anterior borders of the vocal folds are static, being fixed to the inner surface of the thyroid angle.
As the arytenoids are variously rotated, and slid backwards and forwards, the posterior borders of the vocal folds are either moved apart or moved close together. Air from the lungs passes upwards through the trachea and through the larynx.
If the vocal folds are held apart as the air passes through then the folds do not vibrate. In this position the vocal folds are said to be abducted and the space between the vocal folds is known as the glottis. When the folds are fully abducted the glottis may be up to 12 mm in width at its widest point.
In contrast, the vocal folds may be held together as the air passes through, in which case they will vibrate. The vocal folds are said to be adducted when they are held together (see Figure 2).
It is the vibration of the adducted vocal folds that creates the note on which many English speech sounds are produced. This is the human voice.
Phonation is the term given to the vocalization of the airstream by the vibration of the vocal folds. The resulting sound is said to be phonated (see Voice).
Figure 2. Abducted and Adducted Vocal Folds (click for an enlarged image)
As well as lateral movements that open or close the glottis, the action of the arytenoids and the tilting of the cricoid cartilage can also increase the tension along the length of the vocal folds. The ability to vary the tension of the folds is an important aid to varying the pitch of the voice (i.e. how high or low the note produced by the vibration of the vocal folds appears to be).
False vocal cords
Whereas the lower portion of the thyroarytenoid muscles form the true vocal cords, the superior portion forms the false vocal folds (false vocal cords).
Sometimes known as ventricular folds or vestibular folds, the false vocal folds do not usually play a part in phonation. However, they do close together to form a valve during swallowing. It is also thought that they function to lubricate the true vocal folds. Further, as they contain specialized immune response cells, they appear to play a part in protecting the vocal tract from invasion by infectious organisms (e.g. bacteria, fungi).
false vocal fold voice
If the false vocal folds are pressed together during normal speech this has the effect of obscuring the true vocal folds. The resulting voice can sound harsh and breathy, with a lowered pitch. If this pattern of voice production is used consistently this can lead to a so-called hyperfunctional voice disorder. Specifically, in this case, it is known as plica ventricularis (read more about voice disorders here).
Breathing Mechanism
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Adult-ing is not easy at all – Abiodun Kuforiji Nkwocha
Call me Biodun
When my friend's father died almost 2 years ago, I wrote a poem in his memory called 'The Landscape is changing'.
The clear picture of my childhood that included my parents, her parents, my aunts and uncles and our homes has never left. Sadly, a lot of our family members including my parents and her parents have all died. My childhood house still exists but with different occupants. Same as hers. The little dirt road that led from our estate to the closest market is now even narrower and more buildings seem to have been stuffed in between the old ones. The last time I walked down the road, no one recognized me. In the past, I knew the occupants of almost all the houses.
The market which was a small one with known faces dotting the railway track is now a big overcrowded one with no one familiar.
I drove to the church that my family had been a part of from the early 70s before I was born and I was a bit glad to see it had remained the same in the last, at least, 20 years. But no one I knew worked there any more. I was pleased, however, to recognize members of the congregation. But things were different too. The ushers were unfamiliar. A lot of the older people were no more and the bulk of the church were now families of my contemporaries. People from their 30s upwards. Those with small children when I was a teenager were now in their 50s and older.
When I was a child, I wondered how generations die off. I would try to imagine a hundred years against that moment. How did all the people go until there are a totally different set of people remaining? I know I was a weird child because I was 8 and thinking of life and death. And it wasn't as though people around me were dying every day. Things stayed the same for a very long time.
Then I hit 30. Parents got older. Dad was falling sick till he eventually passed on when I was 32. And then the domino effect kicked in. One by one we started burying parents. Then parents were retiring to either their villages or to personal houses away from places they had lived their whole lives. Those who lived in their personal houses eventually either sold off when parents moved/passed on or rented out because they the kids were starting their lives elsewhere.
And that is another thing.
I grew up in a family of 8 children. None is in our family home in Jos at this moment. 1 is in Abuja, 2 are in the United Kingdom, 1 is in USA, 1 is in Kaduna, 1 is in Abeokuta, I am in Lagos and the other 1 moves from place to place. We are scattered everywhere and we have not been in the same place, all of us together, for over 10years.
This thing that makes adulting hard is when you are literally taking over from the generation that raised you. When you are making decisions about who will care for an ailing parent, when you are processing estate issues. Even trying to safeguard their investments when your life is fully rooted elsewhere.
I recently had a breakfast date with 3 of my primary school classmates; we talked about past and present. One of us casually spoke about sending his father pocket money and being apprehensive when his dad calls because it may be a medical emergency or need for money. It was surreal.
I recall going through my father's documents one by one and seeing a part of him I had never seen before. He was a record keeper. My mother's bride price and list of things to bring he did not throw away in 40 years. There it was for us all to see. His bank statements and details of his earnings. It was really odd going from a child who knew nothing about the serious things that parents handle to handling their businesses.
The last leg care of ailing parents does things to the mental health of the kids caring for them. When you persuade them to take their drugs and they refuse like toddlers. Or when you even have to take care of their physical hygiene. It does things to you.
It is no wonder that middle age is really no fun.
One parent dies and then you start trying to fit your life around the surviving parent. You sort of understand why oyinbo have communities for the aged and old people homes. But this is alien here and I pray it does not catch on. It is a thing of honour to tend to a parent in the last leg of their lives.
So, the landscape has changed and suddenly we are the adults. My contemporaries are middle management inching towards top tier positions. Right at our heels are the generation that was just a blur of pinched kindergarten faces a while ago. They are now fully adults.
Time still stands stretching ahead of us deceptively. But when we travel, we take a bend, a curve and go uphill suddenly we will see that the end of the road is not far off.
The landscape stays still for a long time it seems. But a tree falls, a seed sprouts, hedges are trimmed and branches are hanging low with fruit. It is never truly standing still. The landscape changes till everything old is gone and everything is new.
Rest in peace Mrs Yemi Adebesin. Your spot does not lie empty; closed petals are stretching towards the sun perched on full bloom.
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Q: Tableau Action URL: field name needed twice to construct a valid link I've used worksheet URL actions in tableau before and they are Great!   But I have a case where to construct a valid link-  I need the field twice.
something like....
"http://wwwin-esstools-prd.cisco.com/pmt/emailfilters/EmailFilter.json/?&id=FIELD&queryObj={"conjunction":"and","expressions":[{"op":"equals","attr":"id","value":FIELD}],"preFilterQuery":"","name":"Advanced Filter"}"
where FIELD  is the field name I would like to use to properly construct the url.  I have tried using both the select and menu options-
both seem to be ignored by tableau.

A: FIELD needs to be surrounded by angle brackets. You can use the Insert menu on the URL action dialog panel to insert field names into your URL if you prefer, and thus avoid spelling errors. Or simply type the field name and brackets where you want them.


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(2) "Cartage carrier" means any person who undertakes to transport any class of property by motor vehicle for compensation when the transportation is performed wholly within an incorporated city or a commercial zone adjacent to an incorporated city.
(3) "Certificate" means an authority issued to a for-hire carrier under ORS 825.110 (Issuance, extension or transfer of certificate to carriers of household goods).
(4) "Combined weight" means the weight of the motor vehicle plus the weight of the maximum load which the applicant has declared such vehicle will carry. Any declared combined weight is subject to audit and approval by the Department of Transportation.
(5) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
(6) "Extreme miles" or "extreme mileage" means the total miles operated by a vehicle over the public highways, except the extra miles necessarily operated in traversing detours or temporary routes on account of road blockades in the state.
(8) "Household goods" means the personal effects or other property used or to be used in a dwelling but does not include property transported from a store or factory or property exclusively for office use.
(9) "Motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle and any such vehicle in combination with any trailing units, used or physically capable of being used upon any public highway in this state in the transportation of persons or property, except vehicles operating wholly on fixed rails or tracks and electric trolley buses. "Motor vehicle" includes overdimension vehicles or vehicles permitted excessive weights pursuant to a special authorization issued by a city, county or the Department of Transportation.
(10) "Permit" means an authority issued to a carrier under ORS 825.102 (Issuance of permits to intrastate for-hire carriers), 825.106 (Issuance of permits to carriers described in ORS 825.020), 825.108 (Issuance of permits to private carriers) or 825.127 (Permit for local cartage of household goods).
(11) "Private carrier" means any person who operates a motor vehicle over the public highways of this state for the purpose of transporting persons or property when the transportation is incidental to a primary business enterprise, other than transportation, in which such person is engaged.
(12) "Privilege taxes" means the weight-mile tax and fees prescribed in this chapter.
(13) "Property" includes, but is not limited to, permanent loads such as equipment, appliances, devices, or ballast that are attached to, carried on, or made a part of the vehicle and that are designed to serve some functional purpose.
(14) "Public highway" means every street, alley, road, highway and thoroughfare in this state used by the public or dedicated or appropriated to public use.
(15) "Transit-type motor vehicle" means any passenger-carrying vehicle that does not have a separate space for transporting baggage or express.


I'm tempted do go out and get one too! Keep us posted.
So far, I'm happy with the phone, but the Craigslist people are killing me. They have endless questions and I waited today for an hour on a guy that never showed up.
The good news is that I finished this blog post at Starbucks while waiting.


The performance we recieved when running the built-in benchmark suggested that Batman: Arkham Knight played well on mid-range to lower-end hardware and this simply wasn't what gamers have been reporting. Hoping to shine a light on the issue, we tested the most demanding aspect of the game (driving around in the Batmobile) using Fraps and here are the results.
Using the exact same setting when running the built-in benchmark we see a different story when driving the Batmobile around. There is a clear bottleneck at 1080p which limits all cards to between 30 and 34fps for the minimum frame rate. You won't often see just 3fps separating the R9 280X from the GTX 980 Ti when comparing minimum frame rates.
The averages weren't much better as the GTX 980 Ti was just 6fps faster than the R9 280X. There is clearly something in the game limiting performance when driving the Batmobile.
Still, it is important to note that all GPUs above delivered perfectly playable performance in Arkham Knight at 1080p.
Increasing the resolution to 1440p didn't have much of a negative impact on performance, certainly not as you would expect. Again the high-end GPUs are limited to around 30fps with an average of around 40fps.
At 4K we start to see a reduction in performance when comparing 1440p and 1080p. The GTX 980 Ti was still able to deliver playable performance while the GTX 980 started to feel laggy.


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When Palladio came to Cheshire – in the 1980s
Timothy Brittain-Catlin
The west side of Henbury Hall in Cheshire, designed by Julian Bicknell and built in 1986–87. Photo: © Val Corbett
A new and beautifully illustrated book on Henbury Hall by the architectural historian Jeremy Musson, full of wonderful photography, drawings, letters and portraits, raises the old question of the 'problem' building, the one that most writers and critics find hard to discuss. For Henbury, near Macclesfield in Cheshire, is the 1980s progeny of Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda outside Vicenza, and was designed for the late engineer and industrialist Sebastian de Ferranti by the young architect Julian Bicknell and based on a capriccio by Felix Kelly.
Henbury's dome, its cool buttery limestone facades, its tetrastyle porticoes and its landscaped setting, which includes a geometrical garden planted with olive trees and decorated with an artfully placed antique barley-sugar column and obelisk, suggest a literal translation of the Veneto to a very different landscape. But in fact the architectural detail of the house is English in character, especially internally, and this makes it all the more remarkable. The front door leads from ground level into a lower hall, rather than from the top of a grand flight of stairs into a first-floor saloon; after considerable experiment Bicknell and De Ferranti chose to link this hall to the upper storeys with a relatively small oval staircase that opens up unexpectedly to one side. This narrowing of the entrance route makes the revelation of the great central hall on the piano nobile all the more unexpected, and exciting. None of that has Palladian origins. Nor does the exceptionally fine detail of the Kentian overdoor carvings that adorn the house. The lift is Brighton-Pavilion Chinese; the top-most storey is Soaneian. The overall dimensions of the house are actually quite small, with corner rooms scarcely bigger than 15 square metres in area (Bicknell's working drawings are helpfully included in Musson's book), and even the central hall is less than five and half metres wide. So the effect within the house is intense, and the views when inside between doors and windows are immediate and rich. Decorated ceilings, such as Hazel Morgan's mural in the morning room, in which classical figures peer downwards through an oval frame, add a further dimension to the experience.
The south end of the hall, looking out to the park, which was landscaped in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Photo: © Cally Stockdale
What can be made of all this? Had Bicknell 'interpreted' Palladian architecture in the way deemed acceptable at the time, rather than drawing directly on authentic classical themes, the house would have looked like an amusing or eerie 1970s building. In fact De Ferranti had earlier invited John Taylor, of the large and successful commercial practice Chapman Taylor, to design him a villa, and what Taylor came up with was precisely one of these 'interpretations'. It was, like Taylor's own new castle in Wales, an interesting example of its kind. But De Ferranti wanted the real thing, and Bicknell, who had recently worked on and at Castle Howard, drew on Vanbrugh's Temple of the Four Winds as much as on Palladio himself to perfect his design.
Back in June Tanvir Hasan, the director of the London office of Donald Insall Associates, probably the world's leading conservation practice, hosted a public discussion in which I participated about the contemporary use of architectural style. One of our themes was that young designers in architecture schools are beginning to show an astonishing thirst for knowledge about how and why old buildings look the way they do, and for the detailed and technical terminology to describe them. Only now are the tutors in these schools beginning to respond to this, and it is mainly the younger ones who do. I was a student at the time Henbury was designed, and to say that discussion of that type of architecture was beyond the pale would be an understatement. In fact, any reference to any historical building at all was considered an outrage, and this in Cambridge, full of wonderful buildings of all periods. James Stevens Curl's recent Making Dystopia explains how the bizarre situation came about in which a small clique of modernists managed to effect a deathly grip on architecture schools worldwide that persisted for decades. This is not to say that architects should not experiment; it is to say that something was badly wrong with an educational curriculum full of prohibitions and taboos mostly invented more than half a century earlier.
This situation left critics and young architects without the vocabulary, let alone the historical knowledge, to assess a house like Henbury, which became a problem building. This line of thought was supported by the fact that much classical building at that time was debatable in terms of quality: it was enough for a critic to point at, say, a disappointing house by Quinlan Terry and announce 'I told you so'. However, for the most part one sees the significance of a point that Curl is making: the modernists with a grip on architectural education had limited design ability themselves, and kept returning the debate to one about intellectual concepts because it was only from there that they could dominate the discussion. A further problem was the conflation of historical reference with what was seen as mimicry: I don't remember hearing a single discussion during the 20 years from 1980 that distinguished the two.
At the end of a long period of researching and writing about Edwardian domestic architecture I have concluded that it was the high level of analysis in the professional and scholarly press of Tudor architecture, its components and its various historical and symbolic meanings, that generated buildings of the highest quality and absolutely of their own era. You should not have to be a conservative by nature or indeed particularly to like classical architecture to see that Henbury Hall is superbly designed and made, created by people who cared strongly about its references and details; and by definition it is at least as much a building of its time, almost four decades back, as any of the more critically fashionable houses of the period – if anyone can remember what those actually were.
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The good, the bad and the ugly – neoclassical architecture in modern times
It was the favoured architectural style of Stalin and the Nazis. What forms does classical revivalism take today?
Going concerns? The Victorian market halls of Horace Jones
Once feted for infrastructure projects in London, the architect is now better known for designing Tower Bridge and Leadenhall and Smithfield markets
'His writing was always alive to the deep pleasures of great buildings'
Remembering the critical insights and generous instincts of the writer and architect Charles Jencks (1939–2019)


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August 21, 2011 (917) 689-4009
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL ILLEGALLY SENTENCED TO
LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE!
FREE MUMIA NOW!
On August 13, 2012, without any notice and in violation of his constitutional rights and state law, Mumia Abu-Jamal was formally sentenced by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe to life imprisonment without parole. The impact of this illegal sentencing is to prevent a possible challenge to the slow death of life imprisonment. All sentences, including "mandatory" sentences, require a formal proceeding allowing the person to be sentenced the right to be heard and to challenge his sentence.
Mumia confirmed to his son Jamal and to attorney Rachel Wolkenstein during a visit with him on Sunday, August 19, 2012, that he had no prior knowledge of the re-sentencing. The record of this re-sentencing is contained in the official Court of Common Pleas Docket Sheet. In attempting to find out more details, Wolkenstein searched for the court file on August 20. But there is no file containing a record of this sentencing with the Criminal Division Court of Common Pleas Clerk. The information released so far by Elaine Rattliff, Deputy Clerk of Courts is that the sentencing followed a call from the Department of Corrections and further explanation awaits a call back from Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe.
Notably Judge Dembe is same judge who refused in 2001 to consider a legal challenge to "hanging judge" Albert Sabo's self-confessed racism and bias against Mumia during his trial and post-conviction appeals from 1995-1998. Court reporter Terri Mauer-Carter heard Sabo declare before the start of the trial, "I'm going to help them fry the n-----."
For thirty years Mumia was kept in solitary confinement on death row under a death sentence that was illegally and unconstitutionally imposed. Federal district court Judge William Yohn ruled in December 2001 that Judge Albert Sabo incorrectly and unconstitutionally instructed the jury in deciding on life or death. Despite this decision, Mumia was kept on death row, in solitary confinement for the next ten years, while the prosecution pursued two appeals in the Federal Court of Appeals and two attempts at U.S. Supreme Court rulings to uphold the death sentence. All that time, Mumia sat in solitary confinement. According to Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rappatour on Torture, solitary confinement for longer than 15 days is a form of torture! Mumia should be freed from prison, now!
This latest legal outrage comes nine months after the state conceded defeat in obtaining its desired "legal lynching" of Mumia. On December 8, 2011, Philadelphia District Attorney, Seth Williams—with the support of Maureen Faulkner, the Fraternal Order of Police and former District Attorney, Philadelphia Mayor and PA governor, Edward Rendell—announced that they were no longer seeking a death sentence for Mumia. This was their recognition that it was neither legally possible nor politically advantageous to hold a new sentencing hearing.
Mumia's 1982 trial contained violations of every single element of due process and a fair trial. But it began with framing an innocent man. Mumia was framed for a crime he did not commit. His crime in the eyes of the state is that he was and continues to be "the voice of the voiceless," a former spokesman for the Black Panther Party and continuing supporter of the MOVE organization.
In his first phone call from general population on January 28, 2012, Mumia relayed the following message to his wife, Wadiya Jamal: "My dear friends, brothers and sisters – I want to thank you for your real hard work and support. I am no longer on death row, no longer in the hole, I'm in population. This is only Part One and I thank you for the work you've done. But the struggle is for freedom!"
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US regulators say GE can dismantle Hudson PCB cleanup plant
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Federal regulators said Thursday they have no problem with General Electric dismantling a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant as six years of dredging wraps up, even though government advisers had asked to keep it in place while they assess results of the $2 billion cleanup.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) � Federal regulators said Thursday they have no problem with General Electric dismantling a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant as six years of dredging wraps up, even though government advisers had asked to keep it in place while they assess results of the $2 billion cleanup.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the company could use a new, temporary facility if additional dredging is required. The agency also said it doesn't see any agreement in sight for the Fairfield, Connecticut-based company to do more.
The Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees, a three-member group of government officials, had asked the EPA to delay dismantling the 100-acre "dewatering" plant as they assess progress cleaning up decades of PCB pollution from GE's capacitor plants in Hudson Falls and Fort Edward.
For decades until 1977, the plants released PCBs, a probable carcinogen that can cause other harm as well in humans.
In asking for the delay, the trustees wrote to the EPA that the river appears to be recovering more slowly than initially predicted and the possibility of future dredging shouldn't be foreclosed. With higher-than-expected concentrations of PCBs, it could take decades longer than expected before some fish can be safely eaten with greater frequency, they said.
The trustees are making assessments of the total harm done to the river's resources, which could lead to either a settlement with GE over the company's liability or to litigation.
But GE said Thursday that it is successfully completing the cleanup ordered by the EPA and no further dredging has been required.
"Within days, GE will finish removing the majority of PCBs from the Upper Hudson River in one of the largest and most successful cleanups ever undertaken in the United States," the company said of the Superfund project. "EPA has determined no further dredging is necessary because the dredging project is achieving the goals of protecting public health and the environment."
As part of the cleanup, about 310,000 pounds of the chemical were removed from the river in 2.75 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment, the EPA said. The project covered a 40-mile stretch of the river north of Albany. GE will now move on to cleaning floodplains along the river and the plant sites.
Two trustees � a representative from the federal Department of the Interior and another from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration � signed the letter; the trustee from the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation did not. The 2-1 split signaled disagreement over what will be required of GE in the future.
The EPA said it continues to meet with the trustees and will share data on environmental damage.


The "weeping palm" icon was hand-copied very much like the helmet motif on Herod The Great's 8-Prutot Piece (scroll down to the animated gif), only from a poor example.
This motif is only found in one other piece in antiquity, and that is on the coins of Coponius, who was Ambiblius' predecessor (6-9 AD) with slight variation.
I was able to find a good example of a worn specimen that illustrates exactly how similar these illustrations are.
Taking everything into account (as this motif is found on plates that contain repeated, stamped text as well), this yet another strong evidence of forgery/fakery as the iconography on the Codices continues to betray itself as a pastiche of disparate eras, crudely copied en-masse.


An exciting opportunity to join a national, growing company, who is now inviting applications for a Workshop Plant Fitter to based at their depot near Charlton. Salary up to £25k DOE, and overtime paid at an additional rate.
As the workshop plant fitter, you will be carrying out maintenance, services and repairs to a range of construction plant equipment such as rollers, dumpers and excavators.
You will be working within a team, based at one of their busiest depots.
You will complete all relevant paperwork.
To be successful, you will have previous experience a working as a workshop plant fitter, plant engineer, plant technician, or plant mechanic. You will hold an NVQ or City and Guilds qualification in plant maintenance or mechanical engineering. You will also have experience working on a wide range of plant manufacturers such as JCB, Volvo, CAT, Bomag and Kubota.
You would be working for a national, construction hire company who supply market leading plant machinery, making sure a professional and friendly service is always provided. Due to their ongoing success, they are seeking an experience workshop plant fitter to join their team, who is enthusiastic and is able to keep up with the demands of the company.


Install the large Rollumup into the utility channel of the awning tube, and leave it in there. The only Tie Down on the market that uses the wind to work. As the wind blows and tries to fill your awning fabric with air, the Rollumup Tie Down tightens the fabric not allowing the wind to do so. It works smart instead of hard. And since it tightens your fabric, it also works as a great awning deflapper, so it is actually 2 products in one. And it is extremely easy to hook up and disconnect. A great product for women, the elderly, and that young strong man that would rather spend his time relaxing instead of setting up.
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home April 2017 Medicine Today 2017; 18(4): 63-65
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To sign or not to sign. Dealing with requests for vaccination exemption
Frank H Beard, Nicholas Wood
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There are few valid reasons to sign an Immunisation Medical Exemption form. It is important that GPs understand what these are, and how to manage common vaccine concerns that may contribute to exemption requests.
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Anecdotal reports suggest that more parents are presenting to GPs requesting completion of an Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation Medical Exemption form since the Federal Government's 'no jab, no pay' policy was introduced on 1 January 2016. The no jab, no pay policy removed the ability for parents to register 'conscientious objections' to vaccination, which allowed them to be exempt from the requirement that their children be fully vaccinated to receive certain Federal Government family assistance payments. A new AIR Immunisation Medical Exemption form, which currently only GPs are able to complete, was also introduced on 1 January 2016 and is available online (https://www.humanservices.gov.au/health-professionals/forms/im011).
Immunisation is one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Valid immunisation exemptions are medical contraindication according to the Australian Immunisation Handbook guidelines and natural immunity to a disease.1 To ensure that children are not inappropriately denied the benefits of immunisation, it is important that GPs understand what the true medical contraindications are and what constitutes adequate evidence of natural immunity. It is also important that GPs understand how to recognise and manage common concerns, including those about adverse events after vaccination, that may contribute to parents' requests for completion of exemption forms. Practice points for GPs are listed in Box 1.
What are the true medical contraindications to vaccination?
The only true absolute contraindications to vaccination are anaphylaxis following a previous dose of the relevant vaccine (or any component of the relevant vaccine) and significant immunocompromise (for live attenuated vaccines only).1 A range of additional false contraindications are listed in the Australian Immunisation Handbook, including family history of adverse events after immunisation, past history of convulsions, neurological conditions and recent or imminent surgery.1
Children with acute febrile illness (temperature ≥38.5°C) should have vaccination temporarily deferred; however, an AIR Immunisation Medical Exemption form is not required for deferrals of this nature, which are likely to be of short duration. The provisions for temporary exemption are likely to be relevant only in the case of acute major medical illness when a child is hospitalised and clinically unstable, during pregnancy or when there is significant immunocompromise anticipated to be of short duration (for live attenuated vaccines only).
In general, most children who have had an adverse event following vaccination can be safely revaccinated. In some states, immunisation specialist services are available that can advise on whether a particular child requires any additional testing or precautions before receiving further vaccines (see Box 2 for contact details).
What evidence is required to be confident of natural immunity?
Identifying and managing concerns contributing to requests for vaccination exemption
Dr Beard is a Staff Specialist Public Health Physician at the National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable diseases (NCIRS), Sydney; and Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Dr Wood
SERIES EDITOR: Dr Chris Elliot BMed(Hons), FRACP, is General and Developmental Paediatrician, St George Hospital, Sydney; and Conjoint Lecturer, School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Sydney, NSW.
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Life-saving station did important work
Paige Locknane
Senior Gwinn High School MARESA intern at the Longyear Research Library Special to the Journal
The Marquette Life-Saving crew is pictured. Capt. Henry Cleary is in the front row, center. (Photo courtesy of the Marquette Regional History Center)
MARQUETTE — The first life-saving presence on the Great Lakes began with the Revenue Cutter Service in 1818, but it wasn't referred to as the Coast Guard until 1846. The Great Lakes didn't receive funding for life-saving efforts until 1854, and was run by volunteers until 1871. At that point in time, the U.S. Lifesaving Service and U.S. Lighthouse Service were still separate organizations.
From 1846 to 1875, Lake Superior merchants were guided by a few scattered lighthouses which served as warnings and navigation tools, but no life-saving capacity existed to save ship crews caught in storms near Marquette. During this period, over 100 people perished over the course of four accidents.
In 1847, the schooner Merchant disappeared between Keweenaw Point and the Soo with 14 people. 12 people drowned in a collision between the sidewheeler Illinois and the wooden schooner Oriole in 1862. The passenger sidewheeler Superior was destroyed in a gale off Pictured Rocks in 1863, taking 48 people to their deaths. In the same year, the passenger steamer "Sunbeam" capsized off Keweenaw Point, where 25 to 30 people drowned.
The rising number of shipwrecks on Lake Superior, in particular, a three-day-long storm in November 1886 where two boats became stuck on the reefs off the Chocolay River and another two were trapped just off Gaines' Rock, gave rise to a petition to build a life-saving station in Marquette.
Even though a group of local volunteers rescued all the men from these vessels, the area needed a dedicated and trained life-saving service. The station received Congressional approval in 1888, with construction beginning in 1890 and the station opening in 1891.
Though a lighthouse had been built in Marquette in 1853 and was manned until 1939, the addition of a life-saving service allowed safer travel along Lake Superior. Life-saving crews were known for their courage, ability, and commitment to the preservation of life, of which was particularly evident of the first Marquette life-saving crew.
The first captain was Capt. Henry Cleary as the station's keeper. He led a crew of eight surfmen known to be the finest on the Great Lakes. As the keeper, he kept track of over 300 separate items, including anchors, brooms, brushes, blankets, beach patrol lights, compasses, dishes, whip lines, boat drags, etc. His job also entailed recording wind direction, temperature, beach patrols, station conditions, the number and type of vessels passing by in the last 24 hours, and comments on wrecks and rescue training.
At the time, the crew used specially designed boats powered by muscle alone. They would row them out to the stranded vessel in distress no matter the weather conditions. The crew never asked if they were going to rescue someone. It was always a question of where.
Capt. Cleary and his crew were most widely known for the rescue of the steamer Charles J. Kershaw. The vessel became stuck on the Chocolay River reef. Though the Kershaw released its barges, which drifted to shore with many men floating to safety, over a dozen men still remained on the Kershaw itself. Cleary and his surfmen set out on their first trip to the Kershaw, and rescued nine men in their surf-boat.
On their second trip, four men were injured by a piece of wreckage, and one boat was destroyed. The surfmen took the remaining life-boat, enlisted volunteers to help and saved the last of the sailors. No one died, and the wreckage of the Kershaw can still be seen in the lake.
The Marquette station was the first to ever have a lifeboat with a gasoline engine, which was developed by Lake Shore Engine Works. Cleary and his men tested the motorized lifeboat on Lake Superior and were cleared to use it by the government. Eventually, all models in the service were based on the Marquette model.
When the crew was not out saving lives, the surfmen were practicing their skills, giving exhibitions and demonstrations to the public, taking care of equipment, and patrolling the beach for vessels in distress.
The crew attended over 1,300 ship accidents. One unnamed admiring sailor wrote, "Many a sailor on both steamer and schooner owes his life to the integrity of those lifesavers." During public demonstrations, Cleary and his men conducted life-saving drills, such as the popular beach drill and righting the lifeboat.
In 1893, Cleary and his men were sent to display their life-saving skills at the World's Fair in Chicago for being "the best on the lakes."
Cleary and his surfmen were paid $50 per month at the time. There were no pensions or financial aid for wounds or disabling injuries. Despite the lack of benefits, people vied for the job, and were proud to be a member of the service.
On Jan. 30, 1915, the U.S. Life Saving Service merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the U.S. Coast Guard. Though the name changed, the tradition remained in Marquette.
Today, our reliance on Lake Superior for transportation and trade has decreased, but commercial and recreational fishermen and boaters still take to the open waters, so the Coast Guard station in Marquette is still here. Its officers are on duty 365 days a year no matter what Lake Superior throws at them.
If you found this interesting, come hear some entertaining tales from Jack Deo Thursday night. Fish On! includes vintage photos, great fishing stories (some true!) on record fish, fish camps, Native and commercial fishing and fly fishing legends. This MRHC fundraiser is Thursday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m. at Kaufman Auditorium. Tickets are available in advance at the History Center, lower level $15/VIP balcony $20 or at the door for $5 more.
Bus to the past
EDITOR'S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in ...
LaJoie's (Jail)house in Negaunee
'They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot'
Marquette has rich art heritage
Blemhuber family was agricultural innovators


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Well, despite the urgency you probably feel, it would be sensible to spend some time examining the true viability of your business. Many people rush into their first business and live to regret it down the line. Important decisions made in haste tend to have implications. And while you shouldn't use that as an excuse not to get on and make your dream happen, there are five things you must do before you start your business.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean people will buy it. Or, just because you can do something doesn't mean people will pay enough or buy enough of it to make you a profit. There's nothing smart about working flat out running your business for no profit. You won't be an entrepreneur, instead just a busy fool.
Sometimes the gap in the market that you've spotted is there for a good reason. Maybe it's difficult to make money from it. That doesn't mean impossible – there are opportunities everywhere – but if the gap seems obvious, ask yourself why no-one else is capitalising on it. When you go looking, you may find a graveyard full of businesses that did what you intend to do, and failed.
Research can be as simple as talking to potential customers, spending a few hours on the internet, or acting as a potential customer and checking out the competition.
Your own research becomes even more valuable when it is backed up with solid information compiled by professional researchers. A quick search online will lead you to guides examining different industries and are an invaluable way to find out about industries you want to operate in, or even sell to. You can buy this information incredibly cheaply from some sources, like Scavenger.net.
On a different scale, Keynote reports are significantly more expensive but are one of the most comprehensive sources of business information you will find. They analyse existing markets, showing how the market leaders do it and what the future could hold. Best of all you don't have to pay several hundred pounds for them. Many main libraries hold copies you can view for free. Normally you will be allowed to photocopy a small number of pages from each report.
This is something you won't find in a report – will people buy what you have to offer? Many people that start in business do so because they're good at something and want to do it for themselves, rather than someone else. But just because they buy something from your former employer doesn't necessarily mean they will buy it from you.
To determine if there is demand, assess the size of the market (using the information reports) and the number of companies serving it. Then look at the existing offerings: is there an opportunity to be cheaper, more expensive, higher quality, lower quality?
Go back to step one and do your research to see if customers are there. Be brutal and remember that people bring nice to your face in the research phase won't necessarily turn into work when your business starts.
So, you've established there's demand in a growing market for your product. Well done; but now you need to determine if it's profitable. If the opening is to be the cheapest in the market, will your pricing allow room for profitability? If it's to be the highest quality, can you deliver the best product for a reasonable price?
Put together a budget for the first three years. It's easy to work out costs; but beware with your sales forecasts – most business people wildly over estimate the sales they think they will get. If anything, be pessimistic with your sales forecast… you'll enjoy being pleasantly surprised when your business performs better than you have anticipated.
If the figures don't stack up, don't ignore the message they are giving you. Figures don't lie, and you will have much more fun running a profitable business than one which turns over plenty, but doesn't leave any profit for you!
Even though it's probably one of the last things on your mind when you are getting your business off the ground, it's very important you think about your exit strategy before starting your business. This can drive everything you do in the years to come.
If you want to sell your business in five year's time, you must develop a business that thrives without you. If you want to sell to your management team, you must pick your key players carefully. Want to make a million? You will need to be able to scale the business up (while remembering that none of your employees will work as hard as you will).
Armed with the research and information you have already gathered, setting your five year plan will be a lot easier, and you will be ready to actually get started on your business.
That is really an informative article to read here. It would help the people thinking for starting a new business. Thanks for posting the article!


I manage scope, schedule and budget on web, application print and other design projects. But more that that I'm responsible for making sure that our team is empowered to do great work, which includes ensuring that we have open lines of communication and a good working relationship with our clients. I also manage to interject myself into the project in other ways in areas like strategy, user experience and others, where I feel I can make a positive impact given my background and experience.
A love of family, a sense of humor, a taste for good beer, and a lifelong love of the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs!
Favorite ODC moment so far?
ODC's participation in the annual Cross-Park Challenge where we went head-to-head against other design firms in feats of athletic - and not so athletic - competition. I've been fortunate to work on a number of cool projects for interesting clients in my first year at ODC, but spending the day having fun with everyone at the company outside in the sun, being active, and indulging my competitive streak is definitely a highlight.
First CD/Album you ever purchased?
The first album I ever bought on my own with my own money was By All Means necessary by Boogie Down Productions (on cassette).
Would you rather be able to teleport or travel through time?
Despite the gravity that Wrigley Field has, I'm going to say my neighborhood, Logan Square. I lived there for a few years almost fifteen years ago, and returned in 2009. It's been home ever since. I love the diversity of the people who live there, the ever-expanding options for dinner and drinks and just the overall feel of the neighborhood. It's a great place to live - and visit.


Fr. Tom writes: "Having commemorated the Passion and Death of Jesus during Holy Week, we celebrated on Easter Sunday Jesus' victory over death as manifested in the Resurrection. The liturgies for Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and Good Friday were the graced means of our entering deeply into the mystery of Christ suffering, and that participation in his suffering made Easter Sunday a jubilant celebration of Christ's triumph over evil. The liturgy inspired us and drew us into the mystery of the Resurrection, through the scriptural accounts of Jesus' appearances, through the ancient prayers of the liturgy, and through the jubilant hymns of praise that express the miraculous transformation that God has worked throughout the centuries in the lives of those who have given their lives to Jesus. We were inspired on Easter also by the witness of one another, as we proclaimed through our presence at mass that God makes a profound difference in our lives. The liturgy used our senses as well--the musical instruments and the blending of voices, the beauty of the decorations and the fragrance of the flowers making tangibly present for us God's goodness and love. God spoke to us, finally, in the beautiful spring day he gave us as a sign of his care and faithfulness. This Easter was certainly a gift from God to our parish, but many more gifts await us over the fifty days of the Easter season, from today's celebration of Divine Mercy, through the unfolding Scriptural accounts of God's miraculous action in the early Christian community, up to the celebration of Pentecost and our prayer that God continues his miraculous work here and now, in our own parish community. He is Risen, He is truly Risen!"


On Monday Night, September 19, at 6:00 PM US Representative Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) will host a US Service Academy Information Night. Representatives from the US Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy, and the US Coast Guard Academy will be present, along with representatives from Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. In addition to interacting with representatives from the academies, interested students and parents will have the opportunity to hear about the Congressional nomination process.
Rep. Palmer said that, "In order for a student to apply to attend a service academy, the student must receive a nomination from a Congressman, Senator, the Vice President or the President. The service academies include the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
On Monday Congressman Gary Palmer and US Service Academy representatives are inviting high school students and their parents in the 6th Congressional District who are interested in applying for a US Service Academy. The event will be at the Vestavia Hills City Hall at 1032 Montgomery Highway, Vestavia Hills, AL 35216 from 6:00-7:00PM.
In 2016, eleven students from the Sixth Congressional District received service academy appointments.
For more information on the application and nomination process for Alabama's Sixth Congressional District visit the district website.


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Limelight Magazine presents Adrian Belew (of King Crimsion)
Adrian Belew will bring his amazing Power Trio to the Narrows where the audience will get a rare chance to see him in an intimate setting. Few people in the music world are as diverse — and busy — as Belew. The vocalist/multi-instrumentalist is a solo artist, a longtime member of King Crimson and The Bears, and a prolific producer and special guest on others' recordings such as The Talking Heads, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Paul Simon, and most recently Nine Inch Nails. He is equally comfortable with progressive rock/avant-garde rock, pop, jazz, new wave, electronica, industrial and much more. Although Belew's guitar work is legendary, songwriting may very well be his greatest talent, and never has it been brought to a live setting better than now with Julie & Eric Slick on bass and drums respectively. The trio, who have been touring internationally together since July of 2006, recorded their live show for the album Side Four, which was released on November 20, 2007. This show, which is being sponsored by Limelight Magazine, features songs from Belew's many solo albums, spirited improvisation, King Crimson favorites, and special solo moments by Belew. For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com or call 508-493-9777.