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Shin Godzilla (Japanese title: Shin Gojira and formerly known as Godzilla Resurgence) is the 2016 Toho feature film revival of the Japanese monster film franchise after a 12 year absence. This time, Toho utilizes motion capture rendered into CGI to make a new design of Godzilla, inspired by the success of 2014 US remake. "Shin Godzilla" means "New Godzilla" when translated to English.
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Artist: Norah Jones
Title: The Fall
Label: Blue Note
Corporate Line: Norah has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits and Modest Mouse. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partners Jesse Harris & Richard Julian. Musicians include drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). The first single/video is for the album's lead track 'Chasing Pirates'.
1. Chasing Pirates – A Lovely song that isn't far from the Norah Jones that fans have come to know and love. If anything, its quite accessible for those who might hear Jones for the very first time. [9/10]
2. Even Though – Where as "Chasing Pirates" lived in the Norah Jones of old it was also sexy and available to all–this song is a bit less so. It's pretty–but can be a tad slow. [8/10]
3. Light As A Feather – Instead of that jazzy little singer, Jones sounds positively tough in an Aimee Mann sort of way. [7/10]
4. Young Blood – It doesn't seem to bode well that this song could be mistaken for a number of singers. It's missing something–a key ingrediant. Some cohesive piece that ties it into the rest of the album. [4/10]
5. I Wouldn't Need You – The husky voice and somber tone are back and its a place Jones should never leave. [6/10]
6. Waiting – Simple, maybe too simple. It's a barren song with a bit too much twinkling and too little of Jones' voice. [5/10]
7. It's Gonna Be -It's good to hear Jones get out of her comfort zone. Too bad she shot so far out of her zone that she overshot into something that sounds a bit uncomfortable. [5/10]
8. You've Ruined Me – Devoid of soul. Boring. [4/10]
9. Back To Manhattan – Jones finally finds her groove once again and sucks you back into her beautifully soulful voice. [7/10]
10. Stuck – This isn't as far out of her comfort zone as "Young Blood"–and doesn't sound nearly as confused or painful. However, the guitar solo could have been left somewhere far behind. [6/10]
11. December – Certainly a pretty track–but it's almost too slow. There is something nearly painful about how far Jones has to drag out each and every syllable. [6/10]
12. Tell Yer Mama – A bit too falsely southern for even Jones, who can seemingly slip-in-and-out of any skin. [6/10]
13. Man of the Hour – Jones may not be able to choose between "a vegan and a pothead" but she did choose a good song. It's sad that this was saved until last when it could have surely boosted up the middle of the album. It's proof positive that Jones still has such a strong jazz soul and that perhaps it was her biggest mistake stepping out of that. [8/10]
Frankly: Norah Jones is a great. But that doesn't mean every song she writes/sings is great. But Jones is always good for a handful of great tracks. "Chasing Pirates" and "Man of the Hour" stand out. The rest is mostly hit or miss. Unlike albums in Jones' past, "The Fall" isn't nearly cohesive enough. If only "The Fall" could have found a foothold in "Chasing Pirates."
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Q: How to specify which nodes in the feature map get applied with different filters/layers in Tensorflow For example, say I wanted to apply a 1D Convolution to FFT data and Raw time series data in the first layer (suppose the first 400 nodes, as an example), but use a simple feed forward network to some 1D Statistical features on the remaining, say 20 nodes. Then combine those outputs in the next layer.
I'm mostly used to just adding a layer which is able to interact with any node in the previous layer, which is why I'm confused here. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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One thing I forgot to add to the answer above, segments of the feature vector can be selected by taking a tf.slice of the input data, or by using similar slicing notation as you would in numpy arrays i.e Data = Input(shape...) first_10 = Data[:10]

A: This seems easiest with the functional API. You should be able to do something like
def model(input_shape):
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Ivanka Trump Fails To Get Around Court Order Watching Her Money
On September 21, 2022, the same day that the New York Attorney General's office filed its 220-page lawsuit against The Trump Organization, Trump laughably filed papers establishing "The Trump Organization II," (Not, "Manhattan Steamer Clams Co.," or something a little less obvious in purpose) in a naked attempt to set up a company into which he could dump assets, leaving a lawsuit against an empty shell. The move prompted the State to ask the judge to appoint a former federal court judge to approve or disapprove of major transfers of assets in or out of the company but not manage day-to-day business.
Ivanka Trump tried to carve out an exception for her to protect her personal assets. It didn't work. From The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Trump tried and failed last week to slink out of having a court-appointed monitor watch her financial moves, as New York prosecutors worry the Trump Organization and its executives may quietly try to relocate assets in anticipation of law enforcement action.
In private letters, Ivanka's attorneys tried to exclude her—and only her—from a New York state judge's order that laid out how the family company is going to be overseen in the coming months, this source said.
Despite Ivanka Trump's strong, last-minute plea to escape scrutiny, Justice Arthur F. Engoron was unmoved. The final order does not give her preferential treatment or even name her, meaning she too must abide by the rules.
Ivanka Trump is worth watching. Despite the fact that she's very much part of the Trump Organization and has done some of the company's shadiest deals (Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku in Azerbaijan, often said to be an obvious money laundering project), she and Jared Kushner also have far more money independently outside of the Trump Organization than the other "kids," Don Jr. and Eric, whose wealth seems tied solely to the Trump Organization.
Trump himself is the sole owner of the company. Ivanka's attorneys argued that she is not an employee, shareholder, or manager, nor does she have any other ties to the organization and hasn't since January 2017.
She was certainly an employee-agent prior to working in the White House. Despite the fact that it's Trump himself whose assets are most at risk (obviously), the kids could bear liability by their role as "agents" for the company, people with the apparent authority to enter and end deals, operating autonomously for the company. As such, they would be considered "jointly and severally liable" for any civil verdict handed down. "Jointly and severally liable" simply means that each person found liable is on the hook for the entire amount if everyone else is broke. It may sound unfair, but the law doesn't care.
Ivanka Trump might have real concerns that her father cannot cover the entire verdict against the organization himself, nor against him or the boys personally, and thus the entire amount left unaccounted for in the verdict could come out of Trump's personal funds if she was found to be acting on her own. Again, between her and Kushner, they have far more money at stake than anyone but Trump himself. It makes perfect sense for her to try to move money out and around.
It also makes perfect sense that the motion was denied. The case goes much further back than January of 2017. You will notice that Tiffany Trump is not named. There is a reason.
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Lighting up Durham, as Lumiere festival returns
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We're excited to announce that we're going to be a major partner of the tenth anniversary edition of Lumiere, when the UK's biggest light festival returns to Durham in November 2019.
We think we have much in common with Lumiere. It's inspiring, innovative, and exciting. It brings many visitors to Durham, makes a significant contribution to the economy, and helps raise the profile of our City and region nationally and internationally. So we're very proud to be a major partner.
What is Lumiere?
Lumiere Durham has become a landmark event in the cultural calendar of North East England and is recognised around the world as a "must-see" on the international light festival circuit.
Lumiere will return to illuminate Durham for a spectacular tenth anniversary edition from Thursday 14 – Sunday 17 November, 2019. Produced by arts charity Artichoke and commissioned by Durham County Council, with additional support from Arts Council England, ourselves and a host of other funders and supporters, the four-day festival will feature around 30 bespoke installations from internationally acclaimed artists.
How we're involved
We've supported Lumiere since it began in 2009. In 2017, we hosted several major installations. Cosmic Architecture was a light and sound installation featuring our Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, inspired by the world-leading cosmology and astronomy research that takes place in the Daniel Libeskind-designed building.
For the Birdstook visitors on a meditative and immersive journey through our Botanic Garden, with over 20 light and sound installations inspired by birds.
For 2019, we're making a major cash contribution and we're a major partner across cultural activity, volunteering and logistics.
Lumiere Durham 2019 will run from Thursday 14 – Sunday 17 November. It will be free to attend. Further details will be announced nearer the time. In the meantime, please visit the Lumiere website, where you can read more and sign up to receive updates.
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Halifax home to the most dangerous drivers? Maybe not
Social media posts regarding a recent study about Halifax drivers might reveal more than the study itself.
By Jeff Toth
January 13, 2016, 10:50 pm ADTLast Updated: January 15, 2016, 9:22 am
Halifax drivers, doing just fine. Jeff Toth
Despite what you might have seen, Halifax drivers are likely not the most dangerous in the country.
A recent news report titled "Halifax most dangerous Canadian city to drive in: study" amassed hundreds of shares and comments on social media.
Actually Aaron, it's "you're wrong." Jeff Toth
The study cited in the news report is the Safe Driving Study conducted by the insurance company, Allstate Canada.
However the study doesn't look at actual collisions, just claims for collisions. And those are only claims concerning Allstate customers. And the only provinces included in the study were Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Kevin Wilson, a representative for Allstate Insurance, said that their Safe Driving Study was, "more of an anecdotal study" intended to encourage conversations about safe driving practices.
A look at the study's data table shows that the collision rate in Ajax, Ont., was identical to Halifax's. But because they were tied, the cities were listed alphabetically and Halifax appeared in the lowest position.
The study might not prove Halifax drivers are Canada's worst, but according to academics, whether it's true or not, people would believe it.
Dalhousie psychology professor John Christie says a combination of two common mental mistakes are at work here.
The first is the availability heuristic, which is our tendency to base judgements on obvious examples that spring to mind.
Christie explained, "if you're driving home and someone cuts you off, […] you notice that and you remember it. And you feel that was an unsafe drive home, despite the fact that 99 per cent of the drivers didn't cut you off."
Rather than recalling the norm, "it's the unique things that stand out," says Christie.
Dalhousie professor Raymond Klein says the media contributes to our faulty thinking, "because crashes, disasters, etc. are newsworthy and the absence of such events is not."
The second mental pitfall here, is confirmation bias, which is the habit people have of noticing information that supports their beliefs and ignoring information that conflicts with it.
Klein says it's a feature of human nature that "we tend to want to see our ideas confirmed."
"Having the place where you normally drive every day come out at the bottom of a list for [safe] driving is something most people will agree to," says Christie.
He speculates that, "It pretty much wouldn't matter what city you made the story about, it would've drawn the same reaction."
Christie also points out that in comments that agreed with the news report, people criticized other Halifax drivers, but not one of them said, "yeah, I can believe that, I'm a terrible driver."
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For those of you that haven't been following the Loose Cannons podcast, their newest episode marks the entrance into Cannon Films' golden age – the eighties. Cannon's first project of the decade was Gabrielle Beaumont's The Godsend, for which I watched for today's edition of VHS Fridays.
After Alan (Malcolm Stoddard) & Kate (Cyd Hayman) find themselves caring for an abandoned baby, their family is visited by tragedy after tragedy. Could their adopted daughter be the cause?
So, there's really no way around it. This felt like a diluted knock-off of 1976's The Omen. While it is true the book by Bernard Taylor on which The Godsend was based came out that same year, it's difficult to deny that it wasn't influenced heavily by the Richard Donner classic. They both share many of the same beats, but The Godsend goes for subtlety over its more colourful counterpart, thus being noticeably less interesting as a result.
The movie begins almost instantly with a strange pregnant woman (Angela Pleasance, daughter of Donald) being invited into the unsuspecting family's home. Then, no sooner than you can say placenta, she's dropped a fetus and peaced out. Pleasance's performance was such I couldn't decide whether it was creepy or awkward. She had this weird thousand-yard stare and the way she moved around made me think at one point her character was supposed to be blind. Anyway, the couple seemed to be immediately on board with keeping this thing, even though they already had four (yes, FOUR) kids. And, that included two gingers and another baby. What a fucking nightmare! I mean, that is literally a horror movie right there, am I right? And that's even before "Bonnie" started knocking them off.
Angela Pleasance as The Strang-- Can you please stop looking at me like that??
So, the children started dying in mysterious ways and only the last daughter remained before the father started to clue in. The mother was completely blinded by love, despite her tripping over her daughter's doll – losing yet another child – and her husband left sterile from contracting the mumps (who knew that was a thing?) and continued to think everything was hunky-dory. Kate was really good at compartmentalizing grief, I'll give her that.
The father pretty much does everything short of killing his evil orphan, but she always seems to be in the right spot when anyone is precariously leaning over a high drop. I mean, seriously, after one or two of your siblings drop, you think you'd be a bit more wary of your surroundings.
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As a horror film, the subject matter was familiar, but sadly most of the bad stuff happened offscreen. We certainly don't get anything as ace as someone getting their head sheared off by a plate of glass, so the proceedings were rather less than. I will say, however, that the girls (Wilhelmina Green & Joanne Boorman) they got to play Bonnie at various ages could glower with the best of them.
I wouldn't put this in the upper echelon of killer kid movies, but it was still fairly well put together, and Alan's attempts to convince Kate their daughter was evil were pretty hilarious in a did-you-really-think-this-would-work kind of way.
I have a solution. Don't have kids. Problem solved. The End.
Labels: 80's horror, Killer Kids, Loose Cannons, UK Horror, VHS, VHS Fridays
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Are you finding bed bugs at home all of sudden this summer?
Cases of bed bug problems have been reported throughout California – these pesky bloodsuckers have spread across the United States very quickly in the past couple of years according to a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was discovered that California's three most densely populated cities also made it to the top 50-bed bug cities in America with Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland all ranking in the top ten. And you know what the scary thing about this is? The number of bed bug infestations in America are still on the rise! Dr. Dong Hwan Choe is an assistant professor of entomology at UC Riverside and his most recent study from 2014 discovered that 40% of all tenants and homeowners in California have had to deal with bed bugs at some point.
Bed bugs are generally considered an all year pest and but it has been observed by professionals that bed bug activity increases a lot during the warmer summer months. In the past couple of years, the summer months have come to be known as "the bed bug season".
It has been suggested that warmer temperatures, more movement and travel of people affect the rate of bed bug activity during the summer months. Unfortunately, California may still continue to see a rise in the overall bed bug activity.
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Leodamas is een geslacht van borstelwormen uit de familie van de Orbiniidae.

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 Leodamas acutissimus (Hartmann-Schröder, 1991)
 Leodamas agrestis (Nonato & Luna, 1970)
 Leodamas bathyalis Blake, 2020
 Leodamas brevithorax (Eibye-Jacobsen, 2002)
 Leodamas chevalieri (Fauvel, 1902)
 Leodamas cirratus (Ehlers, 1897)
 Leodamas cochleatus (Ehlers, 1900)
 Leodamas cylindrifer (Ehlers, 1904)
 Leodamas dendrocirris (Day, 1977)
 Leodamas dubius (Tebble, 1955)
 Leodamas fimbriatus (Hartman, 1957)
 Leodamas gracilis (Pillai, 1961)
 Leodamas hamatus Dean & Blake, 2015
 Leodamas hyphalos Blake, 2017
 Leodamas johnstonei (Day, 1934)
 Leodamas latum (Chamberlin, 1919)
 Leodamas maciolekae Blake, 2017
 Leodamas madagascariensis (Fauvel, 1919)
 Leodamas marginatus (Ehlers, 1897)
 Leodamas mazatlanensis (Fauchald, 1972)
 Leodamas minutus Lopez, Cladera & San Martín, 2003
 Leodamas orientalis (Gallardo, 1968)
 Leodamas perissobranchiatus Blake, 2017
 Leodamas playthoracicus Lopez, Cladera & San Martín, 2003
 Leodamas rubrus (Webster, 1879)
 Leodamas sinensis Sun, Sui & Li, 2018
 Leodamas texana (Maciolek & Holland, 1978)
 Leodamas thalassae (Amoureux, 1982)
 Leodamas treadwelli (Eisig, 1914)
 Leodamas tribulosus (Ehlers, 1897)
 Leodamas verax Kinberg, 1866

Taxon inquirendum
 Leodamas robustus (Kinberg, 1866)

Synoniemen
 Leodamas dubia (Tebble, 1955) => Leodamas dubius (Tebble, 1955)

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By law, your solicitor must give you information about your legal charges - the money you must pay them for their services. solicitors' charges include their fee and any money they pay to another person or an organisation for you.
Your solicitor must give you the information and must also write down and give you details of how they will charge you in your particular case.
You should read this information carefully. If you have any questions about your charges, ask your solicitor.
When you agree that a solicitor can act for you, for example in a court case or to sell your home, the solicitor must give you the details of your charges in writing as soon as possible.
how your charges will be worked out.
How does my solicitor work out my charges?
What can I do if I am not happy with my solicitor's charges?
A solicitor's professional fee must be reasonable for the work they have done. If you are unhappy with your solicitor's bill, contact your solicitor with your questions about your charges and try to agree on them.
have your bill taxed by a court official called a Taxing Master. This means they will look at your bill to assess and decide what charges you should pay. You can get an information leaflet from the Taxing Master's office, telephone (+353 1) 888 6321.
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Your solicitor's professional fee and other charges Litigation means taking a case through the courts. In litigation your solicitor's professional fee should be based on the work they have done for your case as well as the other factors listed earlier. Your solicitor's professional fee should not be based on a percentage or proportion (share) of any award or settlement money that you get from the other side in your court case. If your solicitor is dealing with a court case or other dispute for you, they must give you the following information.
details of any charges recovered from the other side.
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What happens if the costs I get are not enough to pay my solicitor's bill?
Your solicitor should tell you how much money the other side is prepared to pay. You can then choose to accept it and pay the difference, or to have your bill taxed, that is, assessed by a taxing master, who will decide what you should pay (see above). If the costs from the other side are not enough to pay your solicitor's bill, you are responsible for paying the rest of the money you owe your solicitor.
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If the costs you get from the other side are not enough to pay all your solicitor's bill, you might want your solicitor to use some money from your settlement or court award to make up the difference. Your solicitor must send you the bill before this is done. You will need to write and sign a letter for your solicitor allowing them to take any money from your settlement or to put your settlement cheque in their bank account.
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 * Requires the GC to be {@link module:Dota2.Dota2Client#event:ready|ready}.
 * @alias module:Dota2.Dota2Client#tipPlayer
 * @param {number} account_id - The Dota2 ID of the player you want to tip.
 * @param {external:Long} steam_id - The match ID for which you want to tip a player.
 * @param {number} steam_id - The event ID during which you want to tip a player.
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        "match_id": match_id,
        "event_id": event_id
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};

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 * @param {string} tipper_name - Name of the tipper
 * @param {number} recipient_account_id - Dota 2 account ID of the person who got tipped
 * @param {string} recipient_name - Name of the one who got tipped
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};
handlers[Dota2.schema.EDOTAGCMsg.k_EMsgClientToGCGiveTipResponse] = onTipResponse;

var onTipNotification = function onTipNotification(message) {
    var tipNotification = Dota2.schema.CMsgGCToClientTipNotification.decode(message);

    this.Logger.debug("Received tip notification " + tipNotification);
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Health professionals are constantly working on improvements because of ethical concerns that they face in their everyday lives. The relationship between a physician and a patient is often seen as a relationship with no errors or ethical concerns but that is not the case. There are constant adjustments that are made to ensure everyone is accounted for and treated in a humane manner. Although the health system focuses on accommodating for everyone, there are many times that adolescents suffer due to their inability to make their own decisions in a health setting. Adolescents do not have the ability to make their own decisions towards their health without parental or guardian consents and many times they also base their final decision on the bias opinions of their physician or parent/guardians. Some important key concepts to understand when analyzing this issue is what paternalism and autonomy means. Autonomy is when a person can freely make their own decisions and paternalism is when someone disregards a person's decision, and does not allow autonomy (Vaughn,71). It is important to realize that promoting adolescent autonomy at an early age allows adolescents to practice self-care and be well informed about medical procedures (Beacham & Deatrick, 2013). In order to prevent these issues from intervening with adolescents to make autonomous decisions there should be laws that are enforced without exceptions; exceptions leave a large margin for error. Parents and health care professionals are unethically practicing paternalism and not allowing adolescents to practice autonomy due to conformity, religion, and personal interest.
...y and start building their self-identify therefore we do not want such drastic things to interfere with who they really are. Adolescence is also the time period where they are obtaining the most information therefore being informed in detail will allow an adolescent to reach maturity in order to be capable of making autonomous decisions. The main two solutions for this issues to continue to be unethically practiced would be to enforce laws leaving no room for error and also training physicians in depth so that they do not spread their bias opinion to adolescents or their family. Parents and guardians also have to be informed about how neglecting their child can cause them to face legal actions and although physicians can also face legal liability, both should always choose to option(s) that benefit the patient. In unethical issues like this communication is crucial.


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by Mark S. Meritt • May 9, 2007 • 2 Comments
As I've begun to have a go at making a living as a musician and artist, I've thought at times about how difficult it seems for people who try this. So many struggling artists, starving artists, nobodies trying to become somebody, so little opportunity to make it into much more than a hobby, such small odds of really hitting the big time.
At some point, I realized something about this. It's just like Barnes and Noble, Borders, Home Depot, Lowes, Wal*Mart, Target, Stop and Shop and Hannaford coming into town and putting out of business the local mom and pop bookstores, hardware stories, grocery stores, general and department stores, etc., etc. It's the same old story, it just doesn't seem like it. With all of these situations, we get giant stores purveying huge selections of stuff at low prices. What does that have to do with people who hit the big time as musicians?
I'm going to focus on music, but this could really apply to anything, maybe something you want to do, so keep that in mind as you read this. For the sake of argument, let's look just at the business of recorded music — CDs and MP3 downloads and such.
According to various sources (like this and that), in the United States around 2003-2004, the average annual per capita spending on recorded music was, rounding off, about $45. Ballpark that again at 300 million people in the U.S. for total spending of about $13.5 billion.
That fairly modest amount per person supports every music sale made by U2 and Jay-Z and Christina Aguilera and Kenny Chesney and Michael Buble and every other huge music star you can think of. Plus every new copy sold of every old album by every other huge music star you've ever heard of. Plus every single these stars have ever done, old or new. Plus every album and single sold by less huge but still famous acts like Ben Folds and TV on the Radio and Diana Krall. Plus every album and single sold by everyone you've never heard of. All of it.
The U2s of the industry make gazillions. The Diana Kralls, who knows, but a plenty good living. There are probably some who get by. And most people who put something out probably barely sell any of it. It's a lot like the economy in general — a few big haves, a ton of have nots, and the expected gradations in between.
Now, for sure, many of these artists get extra income — often very signficant extra income — from live performances, royalties from radio airplay and use of their songs in TV and movies and elsewhere, etc. So the money from purchases of recorded music isn't at all the whole story. But imagine if it was. At all these levels from the rock gods to the nobodies, everyone would have that much less coming in, and there'd be even fewer actually making a living just from their music. How many would there be?
Let's play with some rough numbers. According 2002 U.S. Census figures, for the entire economic sector of musical groups and artists, there was about $4 billion in revenue, $1.25 billion of which was payroll for about 50,000 people. Obviously this isn't all for recorded music, and obviously the $13.5 billion spent on recorded music means a lot of money is going to distributors, retailers, etc., not to artists, and obviously not all artists are included in this 50,000 since many couldn't possibly justify putting themselves down as musical artists for the census. But take this 50,000, then, as a ridiculously high estimate. Probably the number of musical artists making any substantial money from that $13.5 billion in a given year is much smaller. 25,000? 10,000? 5,000? Well under 50,000, in any case.
But now think about this. There's a lot of talent out there. There are people every bit as talented as many of the most famous artists out there, or at least as talented as many of the less talented artists out there who have somehow found their way into making a plenty good living at music. And they are everywhere. There's a Springsteen type somewhere in your region, whatever your region is. A Celine Dion type. A B-52s type. And so on. They're out there. Could they all make it somehow? How many musical artists could really make a living if given the chance by the people around them?
Naturally, there would still be issues of manufacturing and distributing the recordings. But a lot of that would change if people were buying more locally. There'd be less markup needed for people and businesses to make money. There's no way to really estimate it, but let's just say, for the sake of argument, that $50,000 a year would be a pretty decent amount for an individual musical artist to get as their total income from making a living at recorded music and also having to cover all expenses. How many people, earning that much per year, could the U.S. afford? At $13.5 billion a year, a whopping 270,000 people.
Fine, the numbers are rough. Nothing is really accurate. There's live performances and royalties to consider. There are foreign acts who account for some of those domestic record sales. But I think the order of magnitude probably can't be denied. If the wealth was spread around, there could probably be anywhere from 10 to 100 times as many people making a living through recorded music.
Instead of everyone in the country having a Bruce Springsteen album, everyone would have an album by the Bruce Sprinsteen type from their region. Would it be as good as Springsteen? I suppose most probably wouldn't be quite as good. But would most be so much worse? There'd still be real competition. Only the people with real talent would make it in every niche. There would still be quality. But with people focused more locally, the playing field would be leveled a lot. We wouldn't all be competing with every world-renowned act out there. It wouldn't be a lottery jackpot to get rock star success, with very few acts achieving superstardom. There'd be less of a chance of getting filthy rich, but far more of a chance for far more people to really have a go at it. And people would still end up with basically the same variety in their music collections, the same variety of concert choices. There'd still be rock and pop and jazz and rap and country and everything else. We just wouldn't all know the same stuff. Would that be so bad?
Now imagine this. Keep the Springsteens and the U2s and the rest. What if only half of that $45 per person per year went to locals? Could we get 5 to 50 times as many people making a living at recorded music? How about taking just $9 of that $45, just one fifth, and putting it toward locals? How about on average everybody buy just a single CD per year from a local act, usually around this price for independent record sales or full albums from iTunes? Could we increase the number of people earning a living from music by 2 to 20 times? It's sort of unbelievable to think that this kind of thing might be possible with even a fairly small change.
And now add in the royalties and the live performances. Surely the figures would multiply several times.
And now think about everything other than music. Think about filmmaking. Live theatre. Painters. Sculptors. Writers. People who make handmade clothing and jewelry. Woodworkers.
Now think about where this started. Bookstores. Grocery stores. Hardware stories. So think about what's in between these and the artists. Almost anything you can think of, almost any line of work at all. This is why it's all the same thing.
Whether chain retailers or fast food restaurants or rock stars or whatever else, the more we all put our money toward the same places, the less likely people will be able to make a living doing the things they are really good at. The more we'll have to spend our lives doing things that aren't as fulfilling. The more we'll be subject to the whims of the relatively few who are providing the things we want.
The more we go local in whatever way, the more we all give each other the opportunity to share our real gifts with each other, the more variety there will be, and so on. If I felt like connecting this to big issues about economics and ecology, I could, because the connections are there to make and have been made by many before. But I think even just giving each other more opportunities to make a meaningful living doing things we enjoy is good enough reason to think this way.
On a more personal note:
I'd been planning to write this essay for a few months. Then, about a month ago, my buddy Howard Ditkoff and I decided to create, from scratch, a submission for the first American Idol songwriter contest. Over 25,000 submissions would end up being made, and they were going to pick only 20 for the public to vote on. That's pretty bad odds. But we went ahead.
We experimented by writing the song using Appreciative Inquiry, a positive change process that is central to the work of Emergent Associates, the coaching and consulting company Howard and I had founded. We ended up having a really interesting time writing the song. There were ups and downs, highs and lows, as might be expected trying to work from scratch from concept to final recording with vocals, with a deadline only two weeks after the contest was announced. We should have started last summer when they announced that there would be a contest this season! But we ended up with a song that we thought was pretty good — Our Whole Lives. Top 20 for the contest? Maybe not, I don't know, I'm biased. But it was worth having written, and worth submitting.
As soon as we submitted it, though, I started stressing over the contest. Gone was the enjoyment of the writing, the composing, the arranging the recording. Now, it was all dreams of winning and worrying about the low odds. No surprise, we weren't chosen. Maybe the song just wasn't as strong. Certainly the recording wasn't quite as good as the ones they chose. But I remember thinking, it's supposed to be about enjoying doing things we're good at, doing what we do because it's our calling, and that's that. Now, it was about becoming the American Idol Songwriter. The first winner of possibly the biggest songwriting contest ever. An instant star with a practically guaranteed number one hit and probable lifelong career as a songwriter.
The lottery jackpot!
The top of the high high hierarchy.
Sure, it would have been great to win, but it was somehow muddling up the whole experience. I ended up feeling like I wished I hadn't entered the contest at all, like I'd entered it for the wrong reasons. Hell, given the very nature of the contest, it seems like it would be impossible to enter it for any right reasons. Rather, if I could enter it and then let it go, without feeling that stress, then it would be fine to enter it. But obviously I couldn't do that. Not yet.
So I think all there is to do is to do my thing. Do it enough, enjoy it enough for what it is, find my way through that, and hopefully I'll get to a point where I can make a go at it, make a living at it, maybe even be able to enter contests like that and just see what happens and not worry about it.
And how's it going to happen? Maybe by people starting to decide that one or two CDs they buy each year could be from people who are just about as good as U2 and the Dixie Chicks and Outkast but a bit closer to home.
Here's hoping that you'll be back to buy some new music of mine when I put it out in the near future!
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2 comments for "Support Your Local Rock Star"
chris benjamin
Great post, Mark! I'm reading this book Soul and Soil by Alistair McIntosh, a Scottish activist. He talks about
how in the old days in the Hebrides (off the west of Scotland), folks would often sing their own tunes along with
the sound of weavers. When asked why folks don't do that anymore, one weaver explained that singing is embarrassing
now that they have TV – they just don't measure up. Another cost of celebrity culture, hierarchised. I have taken
to giving preferential treatment to local acts, seeing them live, buying their discs on-site. I still have my big-name
favourites, but I've discovered a lot of great music locally.
I couldn't agree with you more Mark. I want to hear your music. I know it has to be good because we all (all of us here in the neighborhood) enjoy the music that drifts from your windows in the mornings and weekends etc. — The evidence is clear- you have good taste in music. It's so exciting that local is becoming the ethical choice of the younger generation. I'm with that spirit, although I love my obscure foreign bands too. Maybe we can collaborate on some music?
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1The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah: 2"Go to the house of the Rech'abites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink." 3So I took Ja-azani'ah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazzini'ah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rech'abites. 4I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdali'ah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Ma-asei'ah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold. 5Then I set before the Rech'abites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine." 6But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jon'adab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons for ever; 7you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.' 8We have obeyed the voice of Jon'adab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 9and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed; 10but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that Jon'adab our father commanded us. 11But when Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chalde'ans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem."
12Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 13"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? says the Lord. 14The command which Jon'adab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept; and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me. 15I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, 'Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me. 16The sons of Jon'adab the son of Rechab have kept the command which their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me. 17Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered."
18But to the house of the Rech'abites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jon'adab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you, 19therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jon'adab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me."


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Targi Edukacyjne w Katowicach – cykliczna impreza edukacyjna dedykowana branży usług edukacyjnych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem szkolnictwa wyższego odbywająca się w Katowicach od 1998 roku, organizowana przez Fundację na Rzecz Wspierania Edukacji i Rozwoju Samorządności wśród Młodzieży VIRIBUS UNITIS.

Historia
Twórcami i organizatorami Targów Edukacyjnych w Katowicach są pracownicy Fundacji na Rzecz Wspierania Edukacji i Rozwoju Samorządności wśród Młodzieży VIRIBUS UNITIS – Alicja Syguła i Mateusz Matysiewicz. Pierwsza edycja Targów Edukacyjnych odbyła się w marcu 1998 roku w murach Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. Od 1999 roku siedzibą wydarzenia jest Hala Widowiskowo-Sportowa SPODEK..

Edycje:
 IX Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2007" – 6-7-8 marca 2007 r.
 X Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2008" – 4-5-6 marca 2008 r.
 XI Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2009" – 17-18-19 marca 2009 r.
 XII Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2010" – 16-17-18- marca 2010 r.
 XIII Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2011" – 8-9-10 marca 2011 r.
 XIV Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2012" – 27-28-29 marca 2012 r.
 XV Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2013" – 19-20-21 marca 2013 r.
 XVI Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2014" – 4-5-6 marca 2014 r.
 XVII Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2015" – 3-4-5 marca 2015 r.
 XVIII Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2016" – 8-9-10 marca 2016 r.
 XIX Ogólnopolskie Targi "Edukacja 2017" – 21-22-23 marca 2017 r.

Wystawcy
Corocznie Targi Edukacyjne w Katowicach goszczą w Spodku około 100 wystawców z Polski i zagranicy. Wystawcami Targów są uczelnie wyższe i placówki proponujące kształcenie pomaturalne i policealne, a także szkoły językowe, biura karier i inne instytucje wspierające edukację, które na stoiskach targowych przedstawiają swoje aktualne oferty edukacyjne. W gronie wystawców kolejnych edycji znajdowały się uczenie takie jak:
 Uniwersytet Jagielloński,
 Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu,
 Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie,
 Politechnika Wrocławska,
 Uniwersytet Wrocławski,
 Politechnika Łódzka,
 Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach,
 Uniwersytet Łódzki,
 Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach,
 Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach,
 Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu,
 Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki,
 Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach,
 Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie,
 Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu,
 Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie,
 Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie,
 Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie,
 Polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych w Warszawie,
 Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie,
 Politechnika Opolska,
 Politechnika Częstochowska,
 Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej,
 Akademia Morska w Szczecinie,
 Górnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa im. W. Korfantego w Katowicach,
 Akademia im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie,
 Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa we Wrocławiu,
 Krakowska Akademia im. A. Frycza Modrzewskiego,
 Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania Marketingowego i Jęz. Obcych w Katowicach,
 Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Szczecinie.
Katowickie Targi "Edukacja" goszczą również wystawców z zagranicy. W poprzednich edycjach były to uczelnie:
 University of Bedfordshire,
 University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt w Austrii,
 University of Huddersfield,
 University of Sunderland,
 Kaplan Holborn College & Kaplan Financial w Londynie,
 University of Bolton.

Odwiedzający
Od początku istnienia Targi odwiedziło ponad 300 000 maturzystów i studentów poszukujących aktualnych ofert kształcenia.  Wstęp na tereny targowe i wszystkie imprezy towarzyszące jest bezpłatny.

Imprezy towarzyszące
Targom towarzyszą  dodatkowe prezentacje, pokazy, wykłady, szkolenia dla uczniów i nauczycieli oraz inne wydarzenia o charakterze edukacyjnym i promocyjnym, m.in.:
 Salon Funduszy Europejskich – wykłady kierowane do młodzieży prezentujące możliwości korzystania z członkostwa Polski w Unii Europejskiej, funduszy kierowanych do uczniów, studentów i absolwentów szkół i uczelni państw członkowskich.
 Salon Edukacyjny – warsztaty i wykłady skierowane do młodzieży zorientowane wokół tematyki rozwoju ścieżki kariery zawodowej, planowania i skutecznej realizacji procesu kształcenia (m.in. spotkania z doradcami zawodowymi, trenerami i edukatorami).

Impreza odbywa się pod honorowym patronatem Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, Ministra Edukacji Narodowej, Marszałka Województwa Śląskiego, Śląskiego Kurator Oświaty, Prezydenta Miasta Katowice.

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Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona internetowa targów

Targi (wystawiennictwo)
Oświata w Katowicach


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One thing I really like about the C64 nowadays is that it is a quiet computer. No fans or similar, just wonderful! Unfortunately, the SCSI-HDD inside my CMD-HD is the opposite. When it is running, it sounds like an aeroplane. Being a curious programmer, I tried to get rid of this annoyance. I realised that I never use the 'Write protect' button. So, maybe I could abuse it to park/unpark my HDD?
Well, the forthcoming project might not be too useful for most of you. Nevertheless, it might give you an idea how the CMD-HD works and how to apply own patches to the CMD-HD-ROM. You never know when you might need that!
The patch itself is quite simple. Install a backpack to that point where the 'Write protect'-flag was toggled. From there, send the corresponding SCSI-jobcode to park/unpark the HD-mechanism. Finally go back to the standard procedure.
Enjoy and comments are welcome.
; Works in 64 and 128-mode!
cmp #'0'    ; "0" from OK-string?
cmp $f28a,x     ; present in ROM?
cmp $f28b,x         ; present in ROM?
cmp $f28c,x           ; present in ROM?
bpl next_rom     ; still one left?


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Mr. Sheen Goes to Haiti
After much talk in the past week about Charlie Sheen's ranting, the focus has now turned to his plans to join fellow actor Sean Penn in Haiti.
According to the article, "Sean Penn, who has tirelessly worked to bring attention and relief to the earthquake-stricken and impoverished country, invited old friend Charlie Sheen down to the island nation on Friday to lend a hand in the relief efforts."
"In a statement, Penn said: "I think his energies, intelligence and passion could be both of service and servicing to him, as it is to all who are touched by the struggle of the Haitian people.""
The full article is available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/05/charlie-sheen-going-to-haiti_n_831770.html
Old news, recurring theme: Caribbean Media Overlook Health Stories
Daniel Craig in drag for International Women's Day 2011


Join Jonathan Issacs, Sydney Leto and Aviad Haimi-Cohen for a special candlelight flow filled with movement and live music, followed by tea and sweets in The Center.
The evening's event will benefit Lava Mae, a San Francisco non-profit "delivering humanity one shower at a time" to the city's homeless population. Your participation and generosity will contribute to creating hygiene kits for the hundreds of people that Lava Mae provides showers to each week, helping to make our city cleaner, healthier and even more wildly beautiful.
The different ticket prices are our suggested donations, and include unlimited tea during the reception that follows class. Because our event is a fundraiser for Lava Mae, tickets start at $18, our lowest suggested donation, and grow in increments of 18 as well. In the Jewish tradition, 18 is the numerical value of the Hebrew word "chai" which means "life." We look forward to gathering with you and celebrating this amazing life!
For more information on Lava Mae, visit www.lavamae.org.


I recently acquired a copy of Michael Kenna's book Hokkaido by Nazraeli Press. I have to say that this book is at the moment the most beautifully published Photo Book (both in printing and packaging) that I currently own. The book features 84 photographs Kenna took in Hokkaido. The photographs are printed on a heavy, uncoated Japanese paper using special black inks and bound between two thin maple wooden boards with a cloth spine. The size of the book is abount 12 x 13″ and housed in a special slipcase. The book opens with an introduction by Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama whose own Hokkaido work was recently featured in one of my blog posts.
I first came across Kenna's work in 2005. I was at a stage where most of the Photo Books that I purchased or browsed through at the bookshops and libraries were the works of documentary photographers/photojournalists. I simply was not interested in landscape photography. I respected and admired the work of the great landscape photographers like Ansel Adams but as a photographer, landscape photography just did not seem like my kind of thing. I was more interested in people photography. I love black and white photographs and I remember coming across a copy of Kenna's Ratcliffe Power Station. The book featured a collection of 49 black and white photographs of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station located in Nottinghamshire, England. It really surprised me to find the photographs of an industrial Power Station to be extremely beautiful and haunting. I found myself studying the photographs in the book and was constantly drawn to Kenna's work thereafter. I thought to myself then that if I ever decided to take photographs of landscapes (whether natural or industrial), this would be the kind of look and feel or mood that I would like to achieve.
Fast forward to 2010 when I went to see an exhibition of Kenna's Japan work at the MIYANOMORI ART MUSEUM in Sapporo. Before this, I had only seen a couple of his Japan photographs so this was my first real introduction to seeing his Japan body of work. The original prints displayed were split up into 2 sections, those taken in Hokkaido and those taken in the other parts of Japan. My wife and I spent over an hour walking through the quiet gallery. The quietness and solitude of Kenna's photographs made the visit an extremely enjoyable one and I was really glad that we went out of our way to see it.
In Hokkaido, Kenna has used the sparse landscape of Hokkaido greatly to his advantage. Often shooting in harsh winter conditions, he has created beautiful, minimalistic, abstract photographs that exude the essence of the Hokkaido landscape. There is an excellent short documentary film, Michael Kenna's Hokkaido produced by The Joy of Giving Something on his website featuring him shooting in Hokkaido as well as talking about his approach to photography. Both the book and the documentary film are highly recommended.
I cannot exactly put my finger on it, but there is something really special about the Japanese landscape (especially in Hokkaido) that I have not encountered anywhere else in my travels. My ongoing Silent Japan body of work was my first foray into landscape photography and has to some degree been unconsciously influenced by Kenna's overall body of work but at the same time it is still inherently 'me'. I know during my visits to Japan, that initially, I did not consciously go with the intention of making landscape photographs. The Japanese landscape has just simply over time somehow drawn out the landscape photographer in me. Last year, at the end of my Silent Japan exhibition, a friend who had previously only seen my travel and documentary photography work, said to me, "After all these years, you are still taking the same kind of 'moody' images!". I took it as a compliment that though the subject changes (e.g. people vs nature), the style and mood of my photographs generally do not.
Japan continues to hold a special place in my heart and I hope that I will have many more opportunities to visit the land (especially in winter)!
Hokkaido is available from Amazon (US) and Amazon (UK).


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Oli Buckley
Lecturer, University of East Anglia.
Dr Oli Buckley is a Lecturer in the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Prior to his role at UEA Oli has worked at Cranfield University as part of Cranfield Defence and Security and at the University of Oxford's Cyber Security Centre.
He has current research projects that focus on trust, fairness and justice in algorithmic decision making and the perceptions of privacy, trust and disclosure to conversational agents.
Oli's other research interests include: the human-aspects of cyber security, behavioural biometrics, user identification and identity, understanding and detecting insider threats, security visualisation, data leakage and digital identity.
Reconstructing what you said: Text Inference using Smartphone Motion Hodges, D. & Buckley, O. 1 Apr 2019 In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.18, 4, p. 947-959
Deconstructing who you play: Character choice in Online Gaming Hodges, D. & Buckley, O. Aug 2018 In: Entertainment Computing. 27, p. 170-178 9
Behind the scenes: a cross-country study into third-party website referencing and the online advertising ecosystem Nurse, J. R. C. & Buckley, O. 2 Nov 2017 In: Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences. 7, 1, 40
Automated Insider Threat Detection System Using User and Role-Based Profile Assessment Legg, P. A., Buckley, O., Goldsmith, M. & Creese, S. Jun 2017 In: IEEE Systems Journal. 11, 2, p. 503-512 10 p.
Oli Buckley, Heather Shaw, Leon Reicherts, Richard Philpott, Mark Levine
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Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Author, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Illustrator . Welcome Rain $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-56649-157-0
Entering show business in medicine shows, speakeasies and tent shows of the 1920s, Lord Richard Buckley (1906–1960) became an emcee for 1930s walkathons and dance marathons, toured in USO shows, and made early 1950s appearances on Ed Sullivan's TV show and Steve Allen's Tonight! When the first Buckley records were released, listeners encountered the monologues of a gifted storyteller—a white Californian who moved with the regal bearing of a British aristocrat yet spoke like a black preacher rapping a jive jargon. Beyond his famous Bible interpretations, Buckley wailed on Shakespeare ("Hipsters, flipsters and finger-popping daddies, knock me your lobes...") and historical figures. Interest in this influential performer is certain to escalate with the publication of this huge compendium by Trager, author of Back Pages: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and co-host of an annual Buckley radio show. Trager has assembled a prismatic portrait by combining oral history, articles, reviews, liner notes, obituaries, critiques and biographical bits with Buckley's own monologues, still classic creations. Outstanding is a chapter analyzing Buckley's influence on the young Bob Dylan. The lengthy list of interview subjects includes hip humorists, actors, writers, singers, musicians and composers such as David Amram, who commented, "I think what Lord Buckley did was to see the poetry and genius and the majesty and the humor and the pathos of the African-American ethos and he used it combining Shakespeare and the Bible." Equally mesmerizing and entertaining is this massive assemblage, certain to be embraced by both longtime Buckley buffs and newcomers to His Lordship. Accompanying CD compilation unheard by PW. (Aug.)
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ICC's Next Top Prosecutor a Done Deal?
Mark Kersten
– Posted on September 3, 2011Posted in: International Criminal Court
It is increasingly likely that Fatou Bensouda will become the ICC's next top Prosecutor (Photo: VOA)
No suprise here, but as reported (apparently exclusively) by IntLawGrrls, the African Union (AU) has endorsed Fatou Bensouda as the ICC's next chief Prosecutor. They did so in an AU meeting in Ethiopia back in June:
"Ms. Fatou Bomm Bensouda of The Gambia as the sole African candidate for election to the post of Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC); in conformity with African Union procedures for consideration and determination of African candidatures within the international system. The elections are due to take place at the 10th Session of the Assembly of States Parties at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA, from 12 to 25 December 2011."
Bensouda was a virtual lock for the position. As I wrote back in June, there is little doubt that Bensouda, a previous legal advisor and trial lawyer at the ICTR and the current Deputy Prosecutor of the ICC, is the people's choice so far. Whether in London, Uganda or on the internet, Bensouda is the name on the tip of everyone's tongue when it comes to the ICC's next top prosecutor. She satisfies all the political criteria for the job.
Perhaps most importantly, Bensouda provides a degree of continuity and, judging by her professional demeanor, won't cause too much controversy or havoc at the Court (although some, like Dov Jacobs, argue that her continuity is a weakness, not strength). This is particularly important given the controversial tenure of the ICC's current Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. It is pretty obvious that the AU, and likely many other states, would prefer a secretary over a general as the ICC's chief Prosecutor.
That said, Bensouda's pedigree and experience suggest that if the AU's support for her was the result of a belief that may be more amenable to political pressure, I have a feeling that they will be mightily disappointed.
It will be particularly interesting to see how the African Union treats the Court if Bensouda becomes Prosecutor. Because of their overt and public endorsement of her, Bensouda will be, for better or worse, "Africa's Prosecutor".
The African Union is well known for criticizing the ICC. Most recently, their criticism has focussed specifically on Moreno-Ocampo. Earlier this year, Jean Ping, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, declared:
"We Africans and the African Union are not against the International Criminal Court. That should be clear. "We are against Ocampo who is rendering justice with double standards."
There remains a widespread sentiment that the ICC has targeted Africa unfairly and that this constitutes a double standard. While the African Union is far from being cohesive on this issue, this view is palpable amongst many of its member states. But what will they say when Bensouda is the Prosecutor? What will they complain about when the Prosecutor herself is African?
This summer, Bensouda addressed the issue of the ICC targeting Africans, evoking her origins:
"Anytime I hear this about ICC targeting Africa, ICC doing double justice, it saddens me, especially as an African woman, also knowing that these conflicts, most of these conflicts are happening on the continent of Africa. "We say that ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims. They are not from another continent. They are African victims and they are the ones who are suffering these crimes."
It is rather obvious that some African Union states simply view the "neocolonialist", "imperialist" "double standard" argument against the Court as their best defense; as rhetoric which achieves their goal in criticizing and undermining the Court but masking political agendas – including staying in power. These terms are remarkably salient on a continent which has historically experienced so much external intrusion. But such arguments will simply sound foolish when their choice for lead Prosecutor is heading the Office of the Prosecution. Indeed, what will happen when the AU challenges the Court over the arrest warrants of President Omar al-Bashir in Sudan or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya?
As an observer it would have been fun to see a hand full of top-flight candidates duke it out for the ICC's top job. With Bensouda's endorsement, it's hard to see any other candidates emerging as legitimate contenders. But we shouldn't be fooled by Bensouda. Just because she appears much more reserved and is much less infatuated with the media than Moreno-Ocampo, doesn't mean she won't stir the pot. Indeed, can you really be the chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and not cause controversy?
About Mark Kersten
Mark is a PhD student in International Relations at the London School of Economics who writes the noted blog Justice in Conflict. His work focuses on the nexus of international criminal justice and conflict resolution. Specifically, he is examining the effects of the ICC on peace processes and negotiations in northern Uganda and Libya.
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