text: Epic! That's the word that kept creeping up for those few who knew about Ocean Chief. Sadly, for far too long, there wasn't that many of 'em, as these Swedes were just too weird, with their repetitive brand of Viking-themed swampy doom, even though they featured former Dawn and Regurgitate drummer, Jocke Pettersson, on bass. To add insult to injury, besides minimal live activity, when their releases weren't criminally limited nature would get in the way – such as hurricane Katrina, which destroyed most of the re-release copies of their 'Oden Sessions' demo back in 2004! But according to guitar player and founding member Björn Andersson, also of Vanhelgd, it's all in the past now, as testified by the release of a new album ('Universums Härd') only a year after the previous one ('Sten'). "The 2000s were different in the sense that we were a three piece that rehearsed frequently," he admits. "In the early days, we used to smoke pot and just zone out without much thinking about arrangements or song length. But after the recording of our third full-length in 2009, we really felt something need to happen to keep the spirit alive, hence the addition of a second guitarist and a keyboard player." Asked to pinpoint what their whole concept is, Björn refers to the song 'Oden', particularly the phrase "Oden/Lord of bong/Lord of the universe", which captures their peculiar mix of "Scandinavian mythology, weed-indulged lyrics and space, although it remains open for interpretation." The new album, whose title can be translated as 'The Core Of The Universe', is said to be "very different", with only one track going beyond the ten-minute mark, lyrics only in Swedish and "more melodies and up-tempo parts", before adding; "But don't worry, we still obey the doom!"


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US: Florida politician resigns after $300 million scheme
Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned on Wednesday amid questions regarding her connection to a military veterans' charity at the center of a $300 million money laundering and racketeering scam, the office Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Wednesday. Officials on Tuesday arrested fifty-seven people connected to the charity, Allied Veterans of the World. Those arrested stand accused of funding extravagant lifestyles using money meant for veterans and their families.
Allied Veterans of the World operated gambling websites using virtual slot machines; the majority of proceeds from the gaming outfit were meant to go to charities aiding veterans and their families. Instead, executives spent the money lavishly on themselves, with the four main conspirators accused of pocketing a combined $90 million, according to a joint press release by law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation. The accused allegedly used a complex web of over 100 for-profit corporations, shell companies, and Internet cafes to conceal the true nature of the operation. Investigators estimate that no more than two percent of the proceeds from the gambling operation ever made it to any charities.
Two members of law enforcement, also arrested in connection with the scandal, are accused of making in excess of $500,000. The pair, who withdrew money on a weekly basis just under federal thresholds for mandatory flagging of transactions, are also charged with structuring transactions to evade reporting, the press release states.
The execution of the arrest warrants took place across 23 of Florida's 67 counties, as well as in five other US states. The joint law enforcement initiative against Allied Veterans of the World, code-named Operation "Reveal the Deal", began in 2009. The investigation involved three county sheriff's offices, Florida law enforcement officials, the US Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Secret Service. The agencies worked in partnership with the Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution and the United States Attorney's Office, according to a joint press release.
Carroll consulted for Allied Veterans in 2009-10 while a member of the Florida House of Representatives. She was questioned by Florida law enforcement on Wednesday but was not arrested.
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Q: Facebook Like/Unlike gives error message I am building an application which implements Facebook. Through this application I can like and comment on a post. I am fetching Home feeds for the logged in user. Now for Like operation I am using the graph API :
https://graph.facebook.com/POST_ID/likes?&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

with HTTPMethod: POST
Here, the POST_ID is the ID I am getting for each feed and the access token of the logged in user.
Now in most of the cases I can like the feed using this API. But some posts don't have Like Connections. How do I know which feed has a like connection & which does not.
Now coming to Unlike. For Unlike operation I am using the graph API :
https://graph.facebook.com/POST_ID/likes?&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

with HTTPMethod: DELETE
I can unlike some posts or feeds using this API. But for some I get an error message. In that case i am using for example:
This is the
POST_ID = 12345_67890. When I get error message for this I am using the 67890 as the POST_ID in this case & I am getting success to unlike a post/feed.
Again in using this 67890 as POST_ID gives error in some cases & in that case I am using OBJECT_ID if exists in the feed I am receiving. And I am getting true response in some cases.
But in rest of the cases I can't find any solution for Like & Unlike of a feed/post in Facebook.
Waiting for positive reply.

A: if you are using correct post_id of feed than it will never produce any error while liking/disliking post on facebook by following code
if do you want to like than change HTTPMethod to POST otherwise set DELETE for dislike. there is no need of accesstoken to call this api.if you are using so it will not produce any error
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Nvidia and Arm team up to make a wealth of IoT consumer devices substantially more intelligent, while the connected clothing market shows no signs of wearing out.
The big news this week from an internet of things (IoT) perspective was China-based iPhone supplier Foxconn announcing it was to acquire Belkin – one of the largest IoT device providers globally – for $866m.
Foxconn plans to establish a new smart home division combining Belkin's Linksys and Wemo businesses with its own IoT assets.
Two of the biggest processor giants in the business – Nvidia and Arm – announced this week that they are to enter a partnership to make it easier for chipmakers to embed deep-learning capabilities into their hardware.
According to TechCrunch, Arm will integrate Nvidia's open source Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) architecture into its recently announced Project Trillium hardware, allowing for artificial intelligence (AI) to be put into any smart device.
"Accelerating AI at the edge is critical in enabling Arm's vision of connecting a trillion IoT devices," said Rene Haas, EVP and president of the IP Group at Arm.
Myriota, a spin-out of the University of South Australia, has big plans to bring IoT into space, and now is one step closer to achieving its dream.
The company announced that it has secured $15m in Series A funding led by Australian VC firms Main Sequence Ventures and Blue Sky Venture Capital, and including Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Singtel Innov8 and Right Click Capital.
The lucrative deal makes it one of the largest made in the IoT-in-space sector so far.
Myriota plans to accelerate its growth by launching more satellites, delivering large-scale IoT deployments and expanding its global operations.
The expansion follows the recent announcement that Myriota will open a $2.7m IoT innovation lab.
"[IoT] has a major connectivity problem: hundreds of millions of devices that need to communicate but don't have cost-effective, battery-friendly networks to do so. Myriota solves this problem," said CEO Dr Alex Grant.
It seems wearables as we know them have had their day, with a new report released by Juniper Research showing that industry trends are now rapidly shifting towards actually making our clothing smart.
The report entitled Smart Wearables: Competitor Strategies, Opportunities & Forecasts 2018-2022 forecasts that the total smart wearables market will reach nearly 350m devices shipped and will be worth a total of $1bn by 2020.
Ranking the fastest-growing sectors, Juniper said connected clothing is expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 102pc, followed by smart glasses (98pc), smart jewellery (55pc), smart headphones (31pc) and smartwatches (31pc).
The massive growth in connected clothing is down to developments in conductive fabric, alongside smart sportswear from companies such as Sensoria, Lumo and Under Armour, the report said.
This sector will ship more than 7m connected clothing items by 2020, reaching nearly 30m in 2022.
The death of a pedestrian earlier this month involving an Uber autonomous car has put the brakes on the development of the technology for many companies, as lawmakers and advocates call for stricter regulations.
According to AFP (via Phys.org), Catherine Chase, president of the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety in the US, called for an overhaul of existing autonomous driving legislation as well as tougher standards from the federal government.
"Having some basic rules of the road that everyone follows will benefit everyone because if one company fails at ensuring safety, it will affect all companies and consumer support," she said.
She also criticised the message being put forward by auto companies that incidents caused by humans are a greater threat numerically to pedestrians than those involving AI.
When discussing the US Department of Transportation's role in issuing legislation, Chase said it had issued "only voluntary guidelines, which are toothless and result in companies handing in what are essentially glossy brochures for their vehicles".


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Criminal Dissent: Are Recent Tactics in Iowa Part of a Larger Bush Administration Effort to Punish Dissent?
by Bill Berkowitz
www.dissidentvoice.org
In the early 1970s, Guy Goodwin, a Special Prosecutor working for U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell -- who was soon to become a star player in President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal -- convened grand juries across the country to target radicals, anti-war activists, unions, and others. Goodwin, characterized by the Center for Constitutional Rights as the "grand inquisitor of the politically motivated grand jury," was a man on a mission.
Unlike thirty years ago, the convening of grand juries by John Ashcroft's Department of Justice is only one weapon in the administration's anti-dissent arsenal, Michael Avery, President of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) told TomPaine.com in a telephone interview.
"This administration is trying to criminalize dissent, characterize protesters as terrorists and trying to intimidate and marginalize those opposed to its policies," Avery said. It has opened the floodgates to all kinds of investigative activities and now "police agencies across the country are actively engaged in spying and compiling dossiers on citizens exercising their constitutional rights."
In early February, several decades after Goodwin's salad days, a federal judge in Iowa ordered officials at Drake University to turn over records about a mid-November anti-war forum held on its Des Moines campus. Subpoenas were also served on four activists who attended the forum and the University's chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild. The subpoena, which sought records identifying the officers of the Drake chapter in November 2003, the current location of any local offices, as well as agendas, "has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with intimidating lawful protestors and suppressing First Amendment freedom of expression and association," Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the Guild, pointed out in a Guild press release issued February 6.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Longstaff also issued an order prohibiting Drake employees from talking about the University's subpoena. Mark Smith, a lobbyist for the Washington-based American Association of University Professors, told the Associated Press that he was not familiar with any other similar situation where a U.S. university's records were subpoenaed. The case, he pointed out, has echoes of the "red squads" of the 1950s and campus clampdowns on Vietnam War protesters.
Within days of the Iowa grand jury story receiving national headlines, the Justice Department withdrew the subpoenas. Bruce Nestor, a Minneapolis attorney and past president of NLG who worked on the case, told TomPaine.com that it was the "tremendous response from across the political spectrum condemning the use of the grand jury," that got the subpoenas quashed.
"In the two years since 9/11, we have heard one refrain from the Justice Department every time the executive branch seeks to arrogate more power to itself: 'trust us, we're the government,'" Benjamin Stone, Executive Director of the Iowa ACLU, pointed out. "But, if it is going to be issuing secretive slapdash subpoenas and then rescinding them to save face, how can we trust that more expansive surveillance and investigative powers will be used properly?"
"It's really hard to tell what this means in a broader or policy sense for the Department of Justice," Nestor said. "Clearly the FBI memo reported by the New York Times in October, directed the joint terrorism task forces to compile info about political protesters. The actions of the U.S. attorney's office in Iowa appear to be consistent with the directive in that memo.
Whether that means that the Department of Justice intends to expand the use of the grand jury to investigate political protest movements is unclear. In this instance they clearly used the grand jury fore that purpose."
Nationwide police spying
While the convening of the grand jury in Iowa may have been a DOJ trial balloon or the actions of an overzealous U.S. attorney, Nestor believes it is part of "a pattern of events taking place across the country."
During the past year, police agencies across the country have not only been gathering information, but have used strong-armed tactics against peaceful political demonstrators. In early April, acting on warnings from the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC), the Oakland, California police department indiscriminately fired wooden slugs at and injured several of non-violent anti-war protesters -- and several non-protesting Port workers as well -- demonstrating at the Port of Oakland.
"You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that [protest]," CATIC spokesperson Mike Van Winkle said. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."
In Atlanta, the city's police department "routinely places under surveillance anti-war protesters and others exercising their free-speech rights to demonstrate," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. And in Los Angeles, the police department maintains files on anti-war protesters it deems capable of "a significant disruption of the public order." In Miami, the site of the recent police riot during the November demonstrations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, "police routinely videotape demonstrators and infiltrate rallies with plainclothes officers," Detective Joey Giordano of the Miami-Dade Police Department, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Last year, during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Paul Weyrich, widely recognized as one of the "founding fathers" of the Christian Right, suggested that either Tom Ridge, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, or Congress, launch a full-scale investigation behind the funding sources of what he termed the "neo-Communist" groups organizing the anti-war movement.
While no full-blown congressionally-sanctioned investigation of the peace movement has been initiated, local police departments in cooperation with regional FBI offices have taken it on their own to establish anti-war investigative units.
"This administration is using all sorts of tactics to marginalize dissenters," the NLG's Avery pointed out. "They've used pre-emptive strikes, police violence, and have resorted to penning off demonstrators in so-called free speech zones, so that when the president travels around the country people can't get within several blocks of him." As this time, Avery said he wasn't aware of other cases involving the convening of grand juries to go after dissenters.
The ACLU, however, pointed out in press release dated February 10 that "the Justice Department's decision to quash the [Iowa] subpoenas comes on the heels of reports... that U.S. Army Intelligence contacted organizers of a seminar at the University of Texas Law School at Austin on Sexism and Islam."
Local NLG members were asked by law enforcement officials to provide a list of conference attendees because persons under investigation had been present. The NLG is concerned that the University of Texas could be next in line for a Justice Department fishing expedition. In light of recent events at Drake they have every right to be wary.
Bill Berkowitz is a longtime observer of the conservative movement. His WorkingForChange.com column Conservative Watch documents the strategies, players, institutions, victories and defeats of the American Right.
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Not really in the funny or humorous category but definately very interesting. I knew I should have been a pilot!
Wow. Now that was pretty awesome!
Yeah that was pretty cool. The Blue Angels were here in SF Bay Area this weekend too bad I was in Napa and missed it.
I would have passed out on take off, forget the rest.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
I know ... but it just looks so "tame" on video. The g-forces have to be amazing!


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Oklahoma City Thunder's Raymond Felton, right, drives to the basket against Milwaukee Bucks' Tim Frazier during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Milwaukee.
Before Oklahoma City shed Carmelo Anthony's expiring contract last offseason, trading it to Atlanta for the services of Dennis Schroder, it had already signed Raymond Felton to an extension.
The season before, Felton had been one of the bright spots on a fairly dim Thunder bench.
Then, for most of this season, Felton was the 14-year veteran who'd signed a new deal, yet hardly played, seeing action in just 26 of the season's first 75 games.
Well, he played 25 seconds in Game 76, against Denver, yet the final six games of the regular season, he has played at least 10 minutes in each and 24 in the regular-season finale at Milwaukee.
The Thunder, of course, won five of those six games and it's become easy to imagine that this might have been OKC coach Billy Donovan's plan all along, saving the veteran for the most important time of the season.
The player whose time Felton has mostly taken is Abdel Nader, who had a run of seven straight games of contributing two or fewer field goals and one or zero assists to the Thunder's offensive cause prior to Felton's ascension.
Over the last six games of the regular season, Felton scored 28 points, dished 11 assists, turned the ball over only once and made 8 of 16 3-point attempts.
Also, over the last six games, Felton has carried a net plus-minus of plus 13 and had his biggest game in the one he saw the most action.
In 24 minutes at Milwaukee, he finished 4 of 8 from the field, all from 3-point land, finishing with 12 points, seven assists, four rebounds and a single turnover.
Felton, who Charlotte chose with the fifth selection in the 2005 draft out of North Carolina, is clearly well liked.
"He's a professional, regardless of if he's in the game, if he's playing or not," OKC forward Jerami Grant said. "On the bench, he's always cheering for us, he's always ready.
What's unclear moving into an opening-round playoff series against Portland is how deep Donovan's bench might be.
He spoke the last week of the regular season of a willingness to try anything, play anybody if it feels like the right move.
Still, most benches get shorter when the playoffs roll around.
If anything appears clear about Felton, whether the OKC bench is short or long, it's that the most senior member of the Thunder will have an on-court role.
Said Donovan, "I just have a lot of confidence and belief in him."
Horning is senior sports columnist for The Norman Transcript.


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Interview with Parasite Inc. – New masterpiece Dead And Alive!
It's been a long time to hear you about the new release since the successful official first album "Time Tears Down" was out. (Yeah, we, your early fans still want to clarify that "Parasite Inc." is the original first album.) Anyway, l'm totally blown away with the new album "Dead And Alive"! Even though it's a pre-final-mix version so far, it sounds total punchy and deep already. Could you tell me about the plan for the mastering process?
Kai: Yes we are currently waiting for the mastering which is done by Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. After the long work on the album we are really excited for the outcome.
The album title sounds like Schrödinger's Cat for me, haha... Joke aside, you guys kept silence about the new album for a long time. So, I can say you were almost dead, but you're going to come back to the scene with the killer second album. Yes, you are alive. Does the title actual point out about the band, or a summary of the album?
Kai: Haha, indeed. The album title relates to what we went through within the last years. There was always a lot of work behind the curtain and everything felt alive for us but to the outside there wasn't much happening and the more time passed by the more people started to wonder if there will be another album at all. In some moments I was even not sure by myself if we can make another album happen.
Phew, sounds tough but I'm happy with the fact that you made the killer new album! Well, you guys (Kai & Benni) are very talented artists for graphical design as well. You guys managed the amazing album art, right? How did you come up with the idea?
Kai: As for Time Tears Down, Benni was responsible for the artwork again and it took over 300 hours to render the artwork alone. I can't reveal it yet but the artwork will basically show a mechanical heart that stands for the band and it shows some elements that connect to the title "Dead and Alive".
Yeah, the art is absolutely professional and your fans will love it! As I mentioned above, the new album "Dead And Alive" blew me away with the non-stoppable killer 11 tracks including an intro and a cover song. I'd love to ask you track by track details. So why don't we start from the first track "Countershock"? The short intro is obviously connected to the epic album art with the sound effects and its title. Could you tell us the hidden meaning in the title once you told me a couple of days ago?
Kai: "Countershock" describes the process of an electric shock getting applied to the heart to terminate a disturbance of its rhythm. In relation to the artwork the track represents our idea to get our new album started after the long time of silence.
The second track "Once And For All" is totally appropriate for the first main song of the album. I can feel your rage, power and passion from the fast and punchy track. It could be a new flagship song for the band. Can you describe the song for the fans who are total eager for your new album?
Kai: "Once and For All" was the first song I wrote for the album. The first 1,5 years after the initial release of "Time Tears Down" were very stressful in several ways and on some points I got that feeling that I don't have the power anymore for being in a band. The song was meant to be a kickstarter to myself, to keep going and not giving up.
The metal fans who witnessed latest Parasite Inc's shows must know "This World" already. This song is one of my most favorites in the album with the heavy tone and the cool lyrics! Your buddies from Bloodspot joined the gang-shouts, right? How did you arrange the recording with them?
Kai: Oh, that was a spontaneous thing. They played at the Metal Christmas festival on Christmas 2017, so I just took the chance and asked them and it was awesome that they joined the session and contributed to that song.
What was on your mind when you were working on the ironic but cool lyrics?
Kai: Uh, I felt a lot of frustration and hate for some happenings and individuals in the world and then I recognized that my own feelings and thoughts basically didn't make any difference compared to these people. The conclusion was kinda that we, the crown of the evolution, are far away from behaving like that.
The track 4 is another in-your-face song: "Fall Of The Idealist". It's obvious that the whole album has stronger and heavier sound than the previous album and that is why I'm crazy about it! What did you want to tell via this song?
Kai: Fall Of The Idealist is a song about letting go of your ideals. Ideals can give you structure and help you going through the days. However, not all ideals are doing well to you and on some point you should reflect and rethink them.
Here we go with the fastest kickass track "Headfuck Rollercoaster"! I feel this one has the most typical Parasite Inc style and every PI fans would love it. In the chorus part, I even feel like 'Yeah, that's Parasite Bodom!', haha. What do you feel about the song?
Kai: Ha, great. Everyone who already had the chance to listen to it told me the same. Personally, I have a love hate relationship with the song. I like that pushing atmosphere but the opening riff always bothers me since it's difficult to play on my guitar. Need some extra rounds of practice with that one for sure.
You used many digital sci-fi sound effects like Transformers movies in the album. It boosts up your modern melodeath color and makes difference from "Time Tears Down". Why did you give that sprinkles to the album?
Kai: Oh we had these sounds already on Time Tears Down but we gave them more presence this time. It's fun to use effects and keyboard stuff and I like to spice up the songs with it.
Heaviness is a distinctive matter in the album for sure. "Flesh Decadence" is one of the great heavy and furious pieces. Why are you so angry all the time? Joke aside, I think you've been dealing with themes like 'degraded humanity' or 'machinery society' for your music. Could you tell us your thoughts about your anger in the lyrics?
Kai: Well, why is it okay to eat a cow or a cat but it's not okay to eat a human? At the end of the day it are all living creatures, with a beating heart, red blood and the wish to live and to exist, right? "Flesh Decadence" deals with the question about our ethical and cultural values and rules how we justify our meat consume.
Agree! And the next song "Red Wine Collider" is another favorite for me and I'm curious about the distinct title. "Collider" gives me some images of quantum mechanics, haha, but why red wine?
Kai: The origin of the name came with the song itself. It's an old ritual of me to get some inspiration for the lyrics with a glass of red wine while listening to the music. But with that song I got writing blockade and ended up having a couple of bottles somehow, haha. So the song worked as a "collider" to me in terms of my wine consume.
Comparing with typical Parasite Inc style, "Sunset Overdrive" sounds something new. It has positive and nostalgic vibe and I feel good with the mood. How do you feel about the song?
Kai: Sunset Overdrive is my favourite song on the album. After all the heavy stuff and especially after the more complex "Red Wine Collider" it was great to have a "no brainer" song without complex arrangements and just some light mood.
"Cold Silent Hell" just stands for headbangers for sure! I love it especially with the first and second verses because of the heaviness! You should add this song to your regular live set-list seriously. How about your opinion?
Kai: Agreed, the song has some heavy shit going on and a decent guitar battle. I'm excited to try it live with Dominik.
Here comes the Parasite Inc's new anthem "Dead And Alive"! This one should be played at live as well! The song is really exciting not only with the killer tune but also with the epic gang-shout by some of New Wave of German Metal buddies (Bloodspot, Soulbound, All Will Know and Burden Of Life)! Could you tell us any episode about the recording session?
Kai: Yeah, it was super chaotic and in hurry, haha. I remember that we scheduled the session around 12:00 a.m. the day after the Metal Christmas festival in Bielefeld. But I first didn't find the way and got late, then we couldn't get into the rehearsal room because no one of the Soulbound guys had a key to their own room and last but not least the guys from All Will Know were missing their band register and got late as well. So things went not as planned but we somehow made it and it was a lot of fun though. We are really happy that our friends contributed their time and voices to our new album. Thanks a lot guys!
Hahaha, sounds chaotic but great outcome! Well, to tell you the truth, I'm totally not familiar with the cover bonus track! (Unfortunately, I can't utter the title of the track so far though.) Is it a hit pop-song around 80's or 90's or so?
Kai: Oh it's actually a newer song that I found last year. I can't reveal much about it but it was pretty fun to do that cover and turn a 80s synth pop song into a punk metal number.
It seems 80's pop-culture is a trend these days for example "Ready Player One"(Spielberg's movie) or "Stranger Things"(TV drama). Did you get some influence from the trend for the album?
Kai: Yeah, seems like the 80's pop culture got some revival these days.
Though I didn't get any influence from what you mentioned. As you know I'm a kid of the 80's and my earliest memories are like watching cartoons and series from that time. So this was always was a part of me and even on Time Tears Down there are 80's metal influences and even movie based samples. At the time we finished Time Tears Down I was already playing around with that classical 80's synthesizers, so it's rather a natural process to us than a trend thing.
On the bonus track, I recognized Johnny from Soulbound did a great job with his bravery clean singing. And I remember once you gave your epic growls for "Neverland" on Soulbound's album "Myllennium". How was the reunion with Johnny?
Kai: Working with Johnny was a lot of fun. When I did the first demo for the bonus track I soon felt like that his vocals would be a perfect addition to our version of the song.
Your only one official music video "Pulse Of The Dead" from the previous album got a big success. Do you have any plan for a new clip from "Dead And Alive" so far?
Kai: Indeed we are planning on a new video or more. We have a bunch of ideas about at the moment we can't plan anything without knowing our budget for that.
Well, we should talk about a very important thing now –crowdfunding! What do you want from the financial project?
Kai: We've started a campaign for our new record on May 11th..Usually we are not that kind of band that asks their fans for help because we basically want to give and not to take. But with the goal to make "Dead and Alive" better than its predecessor we came to our financial limits and paying the entire production on our own became no option. So we decided to ask our fans for help to deliver them the new record in the best way possible.
Do you have any message to your fans who want to support Parasite Inc. through the crowdfunding?
Kai: Thanks a lot to everyone out there who has supported us so far. We feel totally proud and thankful to have such a supportive fan base and friends! The funding is running until June 10th, so if you missed that we are doing it, you can still help us here and get some specials in return: Parasite Inc Crowdfunding!
Okay, it's gonna be the final question. You guys will be back on stage at Summer Breeze Open Air this year, right? So, will it be the album release party for you?
Kai: Indeed "Dead and Alive" is going to be released on this year's Summer Breeze festival and we are happy to be able to celebrate it with a release show there. We are totally looking forward to that.
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December 4, 2016 • Kumi666
Short Interview with Parasite Inc. – Summer Breeze 2016 and the future
Hey, you guys have been quite silent these days, so I ask you about your highlights of the year so far and your upcoming activities. First of all, did you enjoy the show at Summer Breeze? How was the audience there?
Kai: Hell yeah, we did. In general the audience at Summer Breeze is always great and it was really fun to play for them. I only wish we would have had more time on stage.
Did you feel any difference between your on-stage experience at Summer Breeze 2010 for the first time and this time?
Kai: Hmm, compared to nowadays we were really not well prepared for that kind of stage - probably even for any kind of stage. There was a lot of chaos in the band and around the band at that time and chaos is truly not your friend when it comes to show preparations. I remembered that before I walked on the stage this year and it felt great to see how things have progressed.
I heard you played a new song "This World" for the first time at that time. Is it true? I'm curious about the reaction you got from the people there.
Kai: True it is: "This World" is one of the new songs and we played it live there for the first time. To be honest, I didn't check for any reactions but I guess they just listened to the song?
Did you have time to enjoy the fest as a metal fan? Any favorite show?
Kai: We had some schedule this year, so we missed some bands but I think everybody in the band managed to check his favorites. My personal highlights were Lost Society, Arch Enemy and Evil Invaders.
Funny story: I ran into Lost Society and took their stage picture. Since I'm not an actual photographer I simply added our logo to their stage picture that they used later for facebook. They will never know, hehe. You can check it out here: Lost Society Summer Breeze photo on facebook
Of course you also should check them live!
Do you have any plan to show us "This World" within a couple of months in any way? For example: a lyrics video.
Kai: Unfortunately, there is no such plan. I mean, we are working on a video for that but it won't be released before the next album.
Well, you played in Norway this year for the first time, didn't you? How was the trip to the land of mighty Vikings?
Kai: It was really awesome: Intense audience, great people all around and too much moonshine for me, haha. Good times!
Did the people there go crazy with your show?
Kai: Yes they did. We never had such an intense audience before. Big kudos to the people at Karmøygeddon!
As far as I know, "Time Tears Down" is still selling well and you have passionate fans from all over the world. How are you feeling about it?
Kai: The success is still kinda surreal to us for sure and we are still often surprised what our music moves for us and for the people. At the end of the day we just feel very thankful that it is so much appreciated.
So, time flies so quickly, we are all curious about your new record. Is everything going well with the song writing process so far?
Kai: It's annoyingly slow but beside that it's going well. The songs are growing step by step and to me they sound much more focused and intense with a tighter connection between music and lyrics. I'm pretty optimistic that people who dig Time Tears Down will also dig the new material.
How long should we be waiting for your new album? Sorry, it must be a nasty question for you, haha.
Kai: Does it count when I say "It's going to be released before Wintersun's Time II"? :P
Indeed it's a pretty nasty question and I get it almost every day these days. I'm currently at a point where I've become very hesitating with any predictions about a release date. We really want to make sure that we are as happy with the new stuff as we were when we did TTD and the last thing we will do for sure is to put something out that we are not satisfied with.
Anyway, don't you think it's about time for making a new official music video, do you? It's been a long time since you released "Pulse of The Dead" and the video got a big success for spreading the word about the band then.
Kai: You mean like before it's too late and we get old and crumpled? ;)
I don't think so. I even don't want to waste too much thoughts about it now. The most important thing is the music itself... everything else comes later.
Will you play at Metal Christmas, won't you? Could you tell us about the fest?
Kai: Yes, our last show for 2016 will be at Metal Christmas in Bielefeld alongside with Nothgard, Suidakra, Soulbound and a bunch of other bands. I'm really excited for it since I've never seen some of those bands live before and it's been a while since we had the chance to see our friends in Soulbound and All Will Know.
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July 4, 2016 • Kumi666
Don't miss Parasite Inc. at Summer Breeze 2016!
Our finest straight melodeathers Parasite Inc. are going to be back at Summer Breeze this year.
Here's some info about it. So, don't miss it!
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Summer Breeze 2015 Day 4 – Live Photo Report by Kai (Parasite Inc.)
Kai: The final day and I actually had a tight running order with Pripjat, Dust Bolt, Breakdown Of Sanity… and I just missed them all when I got hired as an "undercover beer server" for those two guys in the picture. So I started late on that day with the dudes from Hackneyed. Tobi (the preferred sound engineer of Hackneyed and also my band) packed their songs into a punchy and crisp sound! Good sound to a good show – did anyone expect something else?
When I reached to Cannibal Corpse the band had already started their set. The securities seriously had no easy job with the waves of incoming crowd surfers and the head banging people seriously had no easy job with keeping up to the merciless head banging of Corpsegrinder, haha. Hm, he has that big tummy actually just to keep a proportion to his neck, does he?
Exactly 10 years ago I have seen Dark Tranquility for the last time on Summer Breeze. Haha, those dudes have become pretty old… oh, wait…
Let's better continue with the next band: Nightwish. Once after the split with Tarja and the entering of Anette I lost my interest in that band, because I never could get much into Anette's voice in combination with the band. With Floor they got a powerful and versatile voice back to the band and I enjoyed almost every minute of that show with its huge sound and stage effects. Almost? Yes, because giving the audience almost 8 minutes of stupid outro music is just not sugoi! Or did I miss a point with that?
With the last canned tones of Nightwish and the beginning of the rain I went to my last band that was just perfect to end this final day with another wonderful sound robe: Ghost Brigade. Only 365 days until Summer Breeze 2016…
PS: So far announced for the next year are Sabaton, Subway To Sally, Korpiklaani, Exodus and Kärbholz... Looks like I am going to have a lot of beer pause beside Exodus!
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Kai: On that afternoon the buds from Necrotted had their show on the camel stage. I and Benni were joining them to film their show a bit (I suppose the video will be revealed later this year - If you want to see what they made out of the material you can follow them on Necrotted Facebook.
While I was just enjoying the brutal sound of Thy Art Is Murder the festival organization gave a warning for an incoming thunderstorm and since I was still carrying all my camera and PC gear with me I felt like it would be better to bring it to my car. As it turned out that was not a bad idea, because soon after I reached to my car the storm hit and the festival got stopped for around an hour.
As the rain was almost gone I continued with watching great shows of Suicide Silence and Ektomorf. Btw. obviously Ektomorf enjoyed their intense show so much that they just ignored any stage time rules and overran their stage time for around 7min.
Time for my personal festival headliner: Trivium! I think I missed the joke with an Iron Maiden song as an intro (even when it's Trivium). However, the band started with "Silence In the Snow" into an hour of their greatest hits – performed ridiculously tight and supported by a great light show and a lot of steam fountains! Awesome!
I can't say Matt's talking between the songs was really entertaining but it just reflected how overwhelmed the band itself was with the possibility to headline this event. Btw. did I already mention that they were insanely tight?
Despite the release of their new album, "Cradle Of Filth" surprised the audience with a simple backdrop from "Bitter Suits To Succubi" (wtf?) and started with Cthulu Dawn into a set that covered actually everything I was wishing to hear from them, hehe. Only the sound felt a bit disappointing but that's not uncommon for the pain stage.
Kai: Who the hell left the heater on 35°C? Maybe I should have waited 'til the evening before I try to get a Summer Breeze shirt. I had luck and "only" had to wait around 45 min at this time.
The handling of the official merchandise was a bit disappointing again. 40000 people on the festival and they make limited shirt editions to 333 piece? Some persons I talked to were even like "I won't get a shirt because I am just not willed to wait 2 hours in a line" … sounds not really economic to me. At least they split the band merchandise from the official merchandise – great!
However, after I got my shirt I started my band day with Rogash. We already shared the stage with them earlier that year and it was great to watch them playing without being busy with my own band.
The drum tech from Black Stone Cherry must be a good paid full time member of the band because without him the band never could make it past the first song for sure. Why? Because Mr. Young (drummer) was beating the drum kit so badly and messing up all the time with throwing sticks in the air that the tech was constantly running around to tighten screws, collecting lost sticks or even holding a microphone to the drummer's mouth. Anyway I enjoyed the performance and music of the band.
I've already seen Onkel Tom some weeks ago and now I was finally able to get my Sodom debut! Damn that was old school but punchy!
For the next band I was curious if people are now throwing beer mugs to the singer ;) From all the shows I have seen this year, John Coffey did the most sympathetic one. I couldn't really decide who had more fun with that show: The band or the audience?
After that I checked a bit Opeth just to feel vindicated again that progressive metal will just never ever be my kind of music. Beer pause.
Kreator is Kreator. I mean, you can't do anything wrong with Kreator: The show, the lights, the sound – The Thursday headliner did a seasoned yet great show. Amorphis finished that hot and dusty day for me.
All photos and videos at Summer Breeze 2015 Day 2 taken by Kai (Parasite Inc.)
Kai: October 2014 – Summer Breeze is over, my camera seems to be finally broken and the lineup for the next year looks like it won't be my taste at all... I guess I won't go there next year.
2015 – 12 August … It's a sunny afternoon and I'm on my way to the festival ground. The lineup is great, I got a new camera and a year without Summer Breeze is just like having no summer holidays.
So here we go with another fast personal report of the festival in 2015. Short side note: I try to do a bit less blabla so there's more room for pictures (which are probably more interesting than my words)
Kai: For the first time the campground already opened on Tuesday and it obviously helped to avoid some of the traffic jams – at least I didn't run into any bigger on this Wednesday afternoon. Overall you can find a lot of tiny improvements along the way to the stages: Separated footpaths for the people, more entrances to the stage area, a slightly grown camel stage and more…
I first wanted to wait for Deserted Fear with listening to Thränenkind but quickly skipped to Panzer at the T-stage. (Note to myself: Post black metal is not your kind of music).
In general the T-Stage had a great sound this year! Leaving my position at the Camel stage was not that good idea, though. After I was back from Panzer the whole area was crowded with people who were waiting to celebrate Deserted Fear. I never experienced so many people in front of the camel stage but Deserted Fear definitely deserved every ear for their (what I would call) "modern old-school death metal"!
Actually I'm not so into Sonic Syndicate but I totally enjoyed their live show! They sounded harder than on CD and started a good party with the crowd!
After that I was just walking around for a while, meeting with friends and enjoyed the lights of that tiny town from the main stage area. Day 1 over and out.
June 27, 2015 • Kumi666
Parasite Inc. – Interview about the play through video "In The Dark"
One of my beloved melodeath bands (and my most familiar support band) PARASITE INC. released their first play-through video "In The Dark" a couple of weeks ago after the big success of their very first official music video "The Pulse of the Dead". I had an interview with Kai from the band about the play-though video and their upcoming plan. He also showed me some outtake photos from the video shooting.
Hi, how've you been?
Kai: Pretty busy as always but fine, thanks.
Through the latest play-through video "In the Dark", I'm pretty happy to see that you are still fully active in the scene! And, this time, you are going to show us some outtake photos and some off-topic episodes about the video, right?
Kai: Yeah, at least that's the plan.
Okay, first, could you tell us about the location that you filmed it?
Kai: We filmed at the bar below our rehearsal room. The bar is well known among local musicians and the whole building is often "misused" for photo and video shoots. For example you can check out the latest music video from our colleagues of Skeleton Pit:
In those pics, I recognized there were two different locations. Could you give us any explanation about it?
Kai: Oh yes, we first wanted to shoot it at Stefan's living room to have a more comfy ambience but things didn't work out well and after we checked the (not so great) results we decided to do it again.
You guys look very relaxed in some pics. How many times did you do another take for that?
Kai: After our first try we didn't want to do it in hurry again and took a whole day for setting up everything. Since we only had a single camera we played the song a couple of times in the main angle and later filmed it additionally from different angles – you know, just tried a few things to see what would work and what not.
Did you use any special equipment for the shooting?
Kai: Nope, we just bought 2 additional lights to get a better lighting. We had a laptop connected to a stereo for the backing track and our ordinary gear - that was all then.
Did you feel nervous about the camera that filming up-close view of your guitar play especially the solo part?
Kai: As for me: Sure, haha. I'm not so into being filmed. I dunno about the other guys though.
There was the former guitarist Kevin at the shooting, right? Did he join to play there?
Kai: No no. He kinda belongs to the inventory of the bar and is often there and I only took some pictures of him for his personal purposes.
By the way, did you start writing new songs for the next album?
Kai: Yes, we are currently writing on new songs and preparing first steps for the next release. Everything is still in an early stage so I can't give you any further details about it yet.
Do you feel huge pressure for making another great album after the smashing success of "Time Tears Down"?
Kai: Hm, it's so-so. I think there's basically no feeling of pressure when it comes to the quality of new songs – we just do what we always did then. But seen by the matter of "time" there is surely some pressure because the challenge is to write the next album in a much shorter period of time. Anyway, at the end of the day it's all about the song and we'd never compromise a song over time.
Will you plan to release the new album next year?
Kai: We can't be more concrete about that yet but yes that's the plan.
Are you excited to play in Norway next year?
Kai: Of course, we're totally super excited to do that!
Could you tell us your upcoming live schedule?
Kai: Next we're going to have a show in Regensburg on 10th July and the day after we're going to play the only festival show this summer at the Sunstorm festival. There will be some more shows later that year but we mainly keep it rather quiet and just focus on the next release. (Btw: This time we won't promise to be faster than Wintersun with the release, haha).
I've just remembered the saying "Once bitten, twice shy" somehow, hahaha. Seriously I'm happy to hear that you already started writing new songs for a new album. Thanks a lot for your time for this interview!
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October 12, 2014 • Kumi666
Summer Breeze 2014 review by Kai (Parasite Inc.) – Day4
Bands bands bands bands and shitty weather - Summer Breeze 2014!
Day 4 – Metal Marathon
Saturday – I must admit that 4 days of rainy and cold festival weather can be exhausting and so I changed my plan a bit, skipped Callejon, Texas in July and some other bands and started late on that last day with Impaled Nazarene.
There are bands that need a huge stage set and sophisticated lights to make their show perfect. Impaled Nazarene is one of that bands where it works the other way around: It just wouldn't fit to their music. Luttinen (vocals) started the show with preaching and drinking beer but switched soon to whiskey to get his vocals in shape for the 14 songs of devastation that were hitting the T-Stage. I loved it!
Wintersun - Almost 10 years after their first show in Germany (also on Summer Breeze) they were finally back and it was great to see the huge steps they made with their show, especially with the sound and the perfection of playing. However with all that delay of Time 2 it felt almost like derision when they introduced The Way Of The Fire as a new song. I think I am going to check the band again in 2020 (after they finished building their studio palace in 2016 and releasing Time 2 in 2018, haha).
Speaking of time: Right after Wintersun it was time for me to finish Summer Breeze 2014 with the Saturday's headliner Heaven Shall Burn. Like Machine Head they awaited the fans with an impressive stage decoration and an awesome light show – inclusive huge fire and steam fountains. From the opener Counterweight to the encore Valhalla – HSB destroyed the whole place with a set of their greatest songs. Maybe you like their music or not but HSB are just an incredibly strong live force!
1. Counterweight
2. Land of the Upright Ones
4. Combat
5. Voice of the Voiceless
6. Hunters Will Be Hunted
7. The Martyrs' Blood
8. Behind a Wall of Silence
9. Godiva
10. Black Tears
11. Awoken - Endzeit
12. Die Stürme rufen Dich
13. Of No Avail
14. The Weapon They Fear
15. The Disease
16. Trespassing the Shores of Your World
17. Valhalla
In the end this was a hell of a festival – the weather sucked many times but the line-up was one of the best line-ups ever and it was fun to watch every single band. I only wish I had seen more of them - haha. Anyway, after Summer Breeze is before Summer Breeze. See you next year hopefully – cheers.
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September 28, 2014 • Kumi666
Day 3 – pink mud
Kai: Friday –Dark clouds, rain, mud and cold temperatures were welcome me on the festival ground. Most of the people didn't care about the rain at all but you could feel the mood is not the same without that sunny weather.
Okay not at the t-stage: Omnium Gatherum delivered some great moments to forget about the shitty weather and took the audience through an exciting set with their great songs like "new dynamic" or "the sonic sign".
Right after Omnium Gatherum I rushed over to the camel stage for the old school death band Wound. Actually I only wanted to check them out for some songs but since I like old school death metal I got stuck there and missed Primal Fear.
Next band should have been JBO but I decided to stay away after I saw them throwing pink dust bombs all over the area. And I don't like to wear pink. Machine Head must have been not happy about it as well because their stage set got covered with pink dust as well. Even the rain that started after their show couldn't wash away the pink color… to the joy of many pink colored people that had to wait for the next real shower.
My next band was Ignite which started under massive rain but made the sun shine for their fans with a lot of hits from the album "Our darkest days".
You know it is too much rain when the camera gets wet inside your jacket and so I decided to skip Gamma Ray for a rest and a quick stop at Annisokay.
Jesus, their singer looks like Jesus… with glasses. Okay I didn't like the Miley Cyrus Cover "Wrecking Ball" but their show was really great. Wall of death? Circle pit? They made it happen in front of the small camel stage.
August Burns Red entered the stage and for once on that day the sun came out to support their show with a red burning august sunset… what an atmosphere and what a 1st class metalcore show that found its climax with a huge audience choir at "Empire".
I can't say a lot about Carcass… again… I mean once I saw them at Wacken in 2008 and was disappointed with their "reunion" show. This time I was able to get more into it: Jeff made a lot of funny comments and tried to speak some words in German (which was probably as horrible as my English here but it was fun). I think I don't need to say anything about the hits?
After having a rest it was time for Machine Head. Gosh, I expected much but I even got more. From the stage to the music from the lights to the pyros: Machine Head gave 100% and hijacked the audience entirely with a catchy set. Latest when thousands of people sing along to "darkness within" you know that Machine are the perfect band to lead this festival.
...to be continued
Day 2 – good bands – bad bands
Kai: Thursday – hell that's going to be the best metal day ever! First band: The Unguided.
Okay forget about The Unguided… I missed it. Let's get over to the good stuff:
Of Mice And Men cancelled their appearance, so it was a pleasure to see Hackneyed instead of them on the Pain Stage. Hackneyed surely have not won the price for the best sound on that day but on the other hand, who needs the perfect sound when you can simply crush everything away with freakin' low ends and an agile appearance?
Kai: Next Band: Caliban. Circle pits, wall of death, flying people, flying shoes... the whole area was moving from the very first second to an excellent sound and show! Unfortunately I couldn't watch the show 'til the end because of one of my main acts this year: Arch Enemy.
Kai: And with Arch Enemy it's time for <Face palms round 2>: Who the hell placed them that early in the running order? The venue was definitely more packed than at the headliner later.
Just let that short video tell you everything you need to know:
Kai: It's been exactly 10 years since I have seen Equilibrium for the last time on Summer Breeze and a lot has changed in the band: The original line-up is almost gone and the feeling has changed from "viking honey wine" to "Bavaria beer party". However the music was still the same and the party was big as usual with their old and new hits.
Kai: Actually I was looking forward to Down but I decided to ignore them entirely and take some pictures of the venue instead. I seriously don't want to watch a band that blames the audience for being boring while the band itself is playing boring music and the singer is drunk on stage…
Kai: At least I had more time to enjoy God Dethro… I mean Winter Of Sin: The band around Henri Sattler is one of my latest death metal discoveries and a real sinister jewel. That was fun… death metal fun, hehe.
Kai: I skipped the awesome show of Behemoth for a better position at Children Of Bodom but honestly I had very mixed feelings with their appearance. First: A big "thumbs up" for the great sound and a sober band that smashed through a set packed with nothing but hits. Musically it was perfect for me and I enjoyed every single song but beside that everything had just that gigantic taste of routine and seen by the non-existent light-show and the non-existent stage set it even didn't feel right to have them as a headliner on the main stage.
Sure, in the end it's all about the music and possibly it's complaining on a high level but damn it, if you are one of the main acts on one of the biggest metal festivals in Germany you may please act as one.
Kai: So after their last song "in Your Face" I left the main stage with some mixed feelings about one of my favorite bands and quit day 2 with a bit Testament and Eskimo Callboy.
… to be continued.
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Here is the fabulous review of the incredible dream fest SUMMER BREEZE 2014 by Kai from PARASITE INC.! Since I knew the fest had such an amazing lineup including 3 gorgeous headlining bands: Children Of Bodom, Machine Head and Heaven Shall Burn, I was extremely curious about everything from the fest. Thanks so much Kai for his huge efforts for the review! So, let's start from the beginning!
Kai: Ladies and gentlemen, guess what? It's 2014! And guess what? My this year's Summer Breeze hvacation probably contained the best line up of bands since I visited the festival for the first time back in 2002.
I'm not that guy who's actually drinking a lot on festivals anymore. So I can remember more of the bands and write it down in another tiny report for you guys. So, enjoy some notes and impressions from Summer Breeze 2014!
Day 1 - Nuclear Blast Label Night
Kai: As usual, Day 1 belongs to Nuclear Blast and the renamed party tent that from now on is called "T-Stage" in memory of the late Michael Trengert who was one of the organizers of the festival.
So it's a rainy Wednesday afternoon when I reached right in time to the T-stage for Lost Society. From the shoes to the music the band is the full evil reincarnation of pure 80ies thrash metal mixed with some sweet guitar solos and an insanely agile performance. Awesome! If you have the chance to watch those guys live you better do.
Actually I only knew some videos before of the next band: Tenside! A very pleasant modern metal appearance and a fat sound started the party on the Camel stage. Who cares about rain with such a great band? Obviously no one because the area in front of the stage was already well visited.
Btw. it was awesome to see that the Camel stage well visited all the days and a lot of people joined the smaller bands there. Many bands were acting highly professional and sometimes you had to wonder how those bands could still only play on such a small stage. More about that later ;)
Tenside
A huge facepalm to the merchandise booth: Seriously, 35000 people and they can't manage a merchandise booth where you don't have to wait 2 fucking hours to get a shirt before it is even sold out on the official opening day? At least crowdsurfing wasn't necessary this year and it was less chaotic. Anyway I experienced not less people avoiding the merchandise booth because of the long waiting times.
Back to the bands: I should mention that somehow after Lost Society's appearance every band felt like acting in slow motion and so did Unleashed. The Swedish viking death metal forefathers were not running around like crazy on stage but finest death metal classics don't need an agile appearance… they just need to be smashed into the audience.
And here ends my first day. I was not that much prepared for the cold rainy weath and decided to safe my energy for the next days. Time to get my pants tightened and start the Summer Freeze.
... to be continued.


Brad Pitt filming in Bastrop?
We've been getting tons of emails from readers about an Angelina Jolie sighting in the town of Bastrop, TX (right outside of Austin).
Apparently, the pregnant star was at a local Wal-Mart with little Maddox.
We have a feeling this might be a case of spotting Bigfoot. Do you really think Momma Jolie will be going to Wal-Mart herself???
But… you never know. Brange do get around!
Update: Brad is supposedly staring to shoot a new film in the area.
Don't believe one optimistic word from any public figure about the economy or humanity in general. They are all part of the problem. Its like a game of Monopoly. In America, the richest 1% now hold 1/2 OF ALL UNITED STATES WEALTH. Unlike 'lesser' estimates, this includes all stocks, bonds, cash, and material assets held by America's richest 1%. Even that filthy pig Oprah acknowledged that it was at about 50% in 2006. Naturally, she put her own 'humanitarian' spin on it. Calling attention to her own 'good will'. WHAT A DISGUSTING HYPOCRITE SLOB. THE RICHEST 1% HAVE LITERALLY MADE WORLD PROSPERITY ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE. Don't fall for all of their 'humanitarian' CRAP. ITS A SHAM. THESE PEOPLE ARE CAUSING THE SAME PROBLEMS THEY PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT. Ask any professor of economics. Money does not grow on trees. The government can't just print up more on a whim. At any given time, there is a relative limit to the wealth within ANY economy of ANY size. So when too much wealth accumulates at the top, the middle class slip further into debt and the lower class further into poverty. A similar rule applies worldwide. The world's richest 1% now own over 40% of ALL WORLD WEALTH. This is EVEN AFTER you account for all of this 'good will' 'humanitarian' BS from celebrities and executives. ITS A SHAM. As they get richer and richer, less wealth is left circulating beneath them. This is the single greatest underlying cause for the current US recession. The middle class can no longer afford to sustain their share of the economy. Their wealth has been gradually transfered to the richest 1%. One way or another, we suffer because of their incredible greed. We are talking about TRILLIONS of dollars. Transfered FROM US TO THEM. Over a period of about 27 years. Thats Reaganomics for you. The wealth does not 'trickle down' as we were told it would. It just accumulates at the top. Shrinking the middle class and expanding the lower class. Causing a domino effect of socio-economic problems. But the rich will never stop. They will never settle for a reasonable share of ANYTHING. They will do whatever it takes to get even richer. Leaving even less of the pie for the other 99% of us to share. At the same time, they throw back a few tax deductable crumbs and call themselves 'humanitarians'. IT CAN'T WORK THIS WAY. This is going to end just like a game of Monopoly. The current US recession will drag on for years and lead into the worst US depression of all time. The richest 1% will live like royalty while the rest of us fight over jobs, food, and gasoline. Crime, poverty, and suicide will skyrocket. So don't fall for all of this PR CRAP from Hollywood, Pro Sports, and Wall Street PIGS. ITS A SHAM. Remember: They are filthy rich EVEN AFTER their tax deductable contributions. Greedy pigs. Now, we are headed for the worst economic and cultural crisis of all time. SEND A "THANK YOU" NOTE TO YOUR FAVORITE MILLIONAIRE. ITS THEIR FAULT. I'm not discounting other factors like China, sub-prime, or gas prices. But all of those factors combined still pale in comparison to that HUGE transfer of wealth to the rich. Anyway, those other factors are all related and further aggrivated because of GREED. If it weren't for the OBSCENE distribution of wealth within our country, there never would have been such a market for sub-prime to begin with. Which by the way, was another trick whipped up by greedy bankers and executives. IT MAKES THEM RICHER. The credit industry has been ENDORSED by people like Oprah, Ellen, Dr Phil, and many other celebrities. IT MAKES THEM RICHER. So don't fall for their 'humanitarian' BS. ITS A SHAM. NOTHING BUT TAX DEDUCTABLE PR CRAP. Bottom line: The richest 1% will soon tank the largest economy in the world. It will be like nothing we've ever seen before. and thats just the beginning. Greed will eventually tank every major economy in the world. Causing millions to suffer and die. Oprah, Angelina, Brad, Bono, and Bill are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem. EXTREME WEALTH HAS MADE WORLD PROSPERITY ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE. WITHOUT WORLD PROSPERITY, THERE WILL NEVER BE WORLD PEACE OR ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE. GREED KILLS. IT WILL BE OUR DOWNFALL. Of course, the rich will throw a fit and call me a madman. Of course, their ignorant fans will do the same. You have to expect that. But I speak the truth. If you don't believe me, then copy this entry and run it by any professor of economics or socio-economics. Then tell a friend. Call the local radio station. Re-post this entry or put it in your own words. Be one of the first to predict the worst economic and cultural crisis of all time and explain its cause. WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE.
…..I'm thinking about that whole bottle of sleeping pills sitting on my dresser. Wouldn't it be nice to pop one…..and then another…..and another…..until the disillusionment of my life is washed away?
Wait. What am I thinking? And miss a Brad Pitt sighting!?
I'll leave the doom and gloom to those who are clearly more qualified.


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Gombos Atila, a Romanian artist, based in Timisoara (a city located in the western side of Romania) approaches Low-Key photography to it's highest extent.
Combining the human figures which are "hidden", achromatic, while only some parts on the body are painted in red manages to suggest subtle social messages, in this case, a flawless human emotion: love and it's distortion.
This work has originated from the artist's sincere interest in people and their souls, their feelings and their nature, his own existence, his purpose.
"On the other hand, as a young man concerned with visual arts and professionally involved in them, I found with unpleasant surprise the degraded image status in the world of today. The status of the image in post-modernity is, paradoxically, almost outspoken.
The image has largely lost its character of representation (in relation to an original from which to claim it), suffering in this way a true ontological collapse. It began to count more and more only superficially, as a value of appearance and, as such, as an exchange value. If in the antiquity the image exerts a fascination on the viewer by what it represents (according to a privileged ontological status), postmodernity only gives us images that fascinate only in relation to the principle of their utility."
The solution seemed to us to be found at the confluence of these two very personal, but also significant, cultural, artistic and anthropological concerns. Although it is not proposed in this paper to test the metaphysical valences of the image (checking whether or not it may surprise a spiritual reality), we tested the possibility that, using an appropriate technique (the low-key photograph), the purely iconic value of the image (signifier or signal) regains a symbol value, thus opening a possible path to transcendence.
Choosing the technical way of photographing in the form of tryptic was not her fortuitous. First of all, it is known that the tryptic is an artistic rendering of the sacred pictorial art and consists of joining and bringing together three different hypostases of the same sacred symbol. Filling in three ways the three photographic hypostases linked together by a common theme creates a continuum of ideas suggesting the instability and fragility of evolution by transformation from one stage to the next, but also the involution or regression of stages consumed prematurely or insufficiently consolidated.
Secondly, introducing the novelty element by triplicate tripling is meant to emphasize not only the horizons of transformations but also their vertical dimension, which brings us back to the issue of spiritual evolution and transcendence.
Lastly, overlapping the three trips creates a grid, networking effect, giving the entire imaging ensemble a surplus of emotional strength and visual power effect, amplifying the impact on the viewer-interpreter.
Equally motivated and consequently well-grounded in the Work from our perspective, but with solid theoretical references, were the choice of the reference colors (red, black, blue) with which the models were painted (an iconic tradition on which we insisted in particular), then the persistence of the object of the camera on the face and hands (emphasizing the importance of these cadres in the history of the arts), the relation to the third and the third as true numerological mythologies, the choice of the low-key photographic type and the reconstruction of a spiritual destiny and metaphysical reverberations for the images proposed as an emblem of the precariousness, superficiality and the dramatism of the dissolution of sentimental-emotional bonds in the contemporary world.
Even if he does not propose solutions for this cultural-spiritual crisis, the present paper wants to be a loyalist columnist in the empathic and original way from the perspective of the chosen photographic techniques of this process that profoundly marks any man of the post-factual liquid society today.
"The Prisoner Inside Your Soul", by Atila Gombos, 2017
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Posted on January 4, 2021 by GARY BUDZAK
Death toll climbs to 65
DPHD reporting active cases at all-time high
By Gary Budzak - gbudzak@aimmediamidwest.com
The Delaware Public Health District's Dec. 29 Epidemic Intelligence Report contains this chart, which shows the percentage of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 by age group.
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According to the Delaware Public Health District's latest report, COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 65 Delaware County residents.
"We're saddened to release four more deaths have been reported to us," said the Delaware Public Health District in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. "We send our heartfelt condolences to all the families during this very difficult time."
Total cases have now exceeded more than 10,000, the health district noted Monday. The 10,006 total cases consist of 8,100 cases confirmed by testing and 1,906 people who are probable — exhibiting symptoms of the coronavirus but haven't been tested. The total cases were 9,705 on Dec. 30 and 9,393 a week ago.
Active cases are now at a record 2,095. The previous record was 2,013 a week ago. There are 43 people currently hospitalized and 170 total hospitalizations. There are 2,881 residents currently in isolation, up more than 100 since Dec. 30. Due to the high incidences, Delaware County remains on the red alert level.
On the positive side, there are 14,709 people in the county who have completed quarantine; and 7,806 people who are considered recovered, that is, those released from isolation.
The health district is currently vaccinating individuals in Phase 1A as identified by the Ohio Department of Health.
"No specific dates have been set for when those within the next phases can receive their vaccine," the DPHD said.
The Ohio Department of Health's coronavirus dashboard reported that Delaware County now has 11,912 cases of coronavirus. That's up nearly 700 from Dec. 30. The state is also reporting 160 hospitalizations and 67 deaths. The DPHD states the discrepancies in totals between it and the ODH are because the portions of Columbus, Dublin, and Westerville that are in Delaware County are being handled by either Columbus Public Health or Franklin County Public Health.
The ODH said neighboring Franklin County has the most cases of coronavirus in the state at 87,106, up more than 4,000 since Dec. 30. The most hospitalizations (4,609) and deaths (895) in Ohio are being reported in Cuyahoga County. However, all 88 counties in the state are reporting more than 500 cases and at least three deaths due to the coronavirus.
The ODH reports 727,423 cases of coronavirus in Ohio, up more than 36,000 since Dec. 30. There have been 39,112 hospitalizations (up more than a thousand from last week) and 9,143 deaths. There are 585,091 Ohioans who are presumed to have recovered from COVID-19.
There are 85.4 million people in the world who have contracted the infectious disease, the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center posted Monday. Globally, more than 1.8 million people have died from the pandemic.
The United States has passed the 20 million cases milestone, with 20,739,217 as of Monday afternoon. It also reports 210,479 new cases as of Monday. The United States leads the world not only in cases but in deaths with 352,620.
For more information on the pandemic, visit DelawareHealth.org/Covid-19, coronavirus.ohio.gov or cdc.gov/coronavirus, or www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019. The DGHD's 24/7 emergency line is 740-815-6518, and the ODH call center is 1-833-4ASK-ODH.
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Fan Club: painted fans in European art 2
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), Bathers (1889), oil, 71.5 × 37.5 cm, Zornsamlingarna, Mora, Sweden. Wikimedia Commons.
In the first of these two articles about European fine art painting on fans, I showed how, between 1874 and 1879, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro had started making these unusual works, and met with success when one was Pissarro's first painting to be sold to an American collector.
Carl Larsson (1853–1919), Rococo Idyll (1884), watercolour on paper, 18 x 60 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.
At that time, the struggling Swedish painter and illustrator Carl Larsson was in Paris. He must have seen some of Pissarro's painted fans, and as he was switching to his mature medium of watercolour, painted this superb Rococo Idyll, in 1884. At the left, an elegant Rococo gentleman – a recurrent figure in Larson's paintings at this time, and shown in the detail below – is sat at a table under a chestnut tree by a lake. It's autumn and the leaves in the foreground have already changed colour. In the misty distance is a couple in a rowing boat.
Carl Larsson (1853–1919), Rococo Idyll (detail) (1884), watercolour on paper, 18 x 60 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French Landscape after Cézanne (1885), gouache on canvas, dimensions not known, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wikimedia Commons.
Paul Gauguin also started painting fans. The earliest of these works that I've been able to find is this French Landscape after Cézanne from 1885, apparently painted in gouache on canvas. He has written a dedication to a friend, which was signed in Copenhagen. This dates the painting to the first half of that year, as in the June he moved back to Paris following an unsuccessful attempt to work as a tarpaulin salesman in Denmark. It's also unclear why he painted this landscape, which is far from being Danish, in the style of Cézanne.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French Landscape (1885), gouache on canvas, dimensions not known, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wikimedia Commons.
In the same year, Gauguin painted this fan with a far more conventional French Landscape. Whether this was intended as a contrast to that in the style of Cézanne isn't clear.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Basket of Flowers and Fruits (1886), gouache on silk, 26 x 56.8 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
The following year, probably after Gauguin had gone to live in Pont-Aven in Brittany, he painted this Basket of Flowers and Fruits (1886), returning to a more modern style which may again have been intended to recall that of Cézanne.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Little Cat at Bowl (1888), gouache on paper, 20 x 42.5 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
Gauguin's Little Cat at a Bowl from 1888 shows a kitten who has half-climbed into a bowl on a table, which is covered with a squared cloth. Next to it is a pile of dark green fruit, and below those what could be the rear end of a mouse, or another item of fruit.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Ondine III (1889), gouache and watercolour on paper, 12 x 38 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
Gauguin continued to paint fans well into the 1890s, it appears. His Ondine III from 1889 was painted between his break-up with Vincent van Gogh in Arles and preparations for his trip to Tahiti. It bears a dedication to a Doctor Paulin, and is the third in his series of paintings of this water nymph frolicking in the waves.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Arearea (Joyfulness) II (1894), gouache and watercolour on linen, 57.2 x 85.1 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Wikimedia Commons.
The last of Gauguin's painted fans which I have been able to locate was made following his return from Tahiti, when he continued to paint Tahitian motifs. Arearea (Joyfulness) II dates from 1894, two years after his original Arearea, and is an adaptation of its motif to the fan format.
A few other artists continued to paint fans too. The Swedish painter Anders Zorn perhaps inevitably chose this pair of Bathers in 1889, the year of his great success at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. This is one of the few fan paintings by major artists which bears the marks for folding and mounting in the slats of a real fan.
Charles Conder (1868-1909), untitled (c 1890), sanguine, dimensions and location unknown. Wikimedia Commons.
In about 1890, when he was studying in Europe, the Australian Impressionist Charles Conder painted this unusual fan in sanguine, a red hard pastel stick used to model tone in studies for finished works. This is pictured in an early biography of Conder, but I've been unable to discover anything more about it.
By the end of the nineteenth century, fan painting seems to have died out among major artists. My last example, though, comes from the little-known Anglo-French Symbolist painter Louis Welden Hawkins.
Louis Welden Hawkins (1849–1910), Fan (1905), gouache on paper, 22.8 × 28 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
Like Degas and Pissarro before him, at the start of the twentieth century Hawkins turned to making masks and fans in a bid to augment his family's income. These proved most popular at the World Exhibition of 1900, and is exemplified in this non-folding Fan from 1905. His art nouveau style was seen as very fashionable at the time.
Sadly, painted fans never seem to have regained the popularity which they enjoyed during the 1880s. For a brief period then, several major artists created some wonderful examples of this unusual type of painting.
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Deya is a 63-year-old, Bentley-driving preacher. The self-styled "Archbishop", who claims to perform healing miracles at his services across the UK, has raised millions in donations and tax breaks since his charity opened in 1997. The charitable status of his church has already been investigated twice, and he has been fighting extradition to Kenya for years. Allegations against Deya initially surfaced in the Kenyan media in 2004 and he has been wanted by Kenyan authorities since his arrest in the UK in 2006 to face allegations of child-trafficking. Police in Kenya allege that Deya's "miracle babies" are part of an international baby-snatching ring, connected to disappearances from hospitals in Nairobi.
Kenyan police allege that several children were sold to Deya by women living in slums in Nairobi. According to Radik Malinskow, who works for child-trafficking charity HAART in Kenya, poverty has a large part to play.
"Some of those woman have several children to feed and often they find it difficult to accommodate a new child," he told IRIN. "The poverty in the slums is very high. Women find it very difficult to cope with the lack of economical resources and some of them have to survive on one or two dollars a day."
Gilbert Deya Ministries describes itself as a Christian charity that aims to spread the word of God. Its website, which presents Deya as a visionary ordained by God, refutes the "negative publicity" surrounding Deya's "miracles" stating: "the truth remains he has never been found guilty by the court of law in the UK". In his 2003 book "Curses of Sexual Sins", Deya declares AIDS a curse, calls homosexuality an "abomination", suggests infertility may be caused by "generation curses", and tells the reader he can help them with "miracle babies". Despite the controversy surrounding the child-trafficking allegations and Deya's possible extradition, his ministries have raised more than £10 million ($12.98 million) in the UK over the past decade, some of it public money from British charity Gift Aid tax breaks.
Gilbert Deya Ministries, which is based in London, has a number of churches across the UK, as well as a branch in Belgium. Publications by Deya and his church say there are also branches in India, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Deya has published books, maintains an extensive social media presence, and at one point ran a TV channel carried by Sky. Billboards for his tour in August this year in Manchester, UK, promised "unusual miracles".
In 2014, Deya's ministries had an annual income of more than £864,000 (some $1.4 million at the time). About 90 percent of this came from donations. An analysis of the ministries' accounts on the Charity Commission website reveals "a cocktail of bad accounting", according to Joe Saxton from nfpSynergy, a consultancy firm for charities. Typically, 70 percent of a charity's spending is on "charitable activities", and about one or two percent on governance costs. But, according to Gilbert Deya Ministry's own accounts, it spent nothing on "charitable activities", and its governance costs for 2014 were around 30 percent of its income. "An awful lot of questions have come out of the accounts," said Saxton. "There are strange patterns of expenditure like writing off bad debts, and things that I can't think of a logical explanation for."
The Charity Commission's website reveal that Gilbert Deya Ministries was late filing its accounts two years in a row. For 2012, the charity provided the regulator with its accounts 453 days late. The previous year, the accounts were 152 days late. Alongside this, the "charitable activities" expenditure, compared to its governance and legal costs, has dropped significantly. Its most recent accounts, in 2014, declare that it spent £0 on "charitable activities" in that year. In August, the Charity Commission announced the latest investigation into Deya's operations, referring to issues related to "safeguarding" – a term used in connection with protection of children – whilst also raising concerns over the charity "selling olive oil to which it attributed healing qualities". It also said the trustees "have failed to report serious incidents to the commission and to provide adequate responses to the questions raised". Deya remains one of six trustees of the charity in the UK. Whilst the controversy surrounding Gilbert Deya Ministries persists, the charity continues to grow. Official land documents obtained by IRIN reveal that the charity made more than £3.8 million ($4.95 million) from the recent sale of its property in Peckham, London. It has since moved its headquarters to a Greater London suburb, Sutton. Posts on the Gilbert Deya Ministries Facebook page claim that the charity also purchased 3.54 hectares of land in Sutton, on which Deya says he aims to build a hotel and a petrol station.
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